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Korea to disband coast guards

President takes responsibility for ferry disaster

AFP, Seoul
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye took tearful responsibility yesterday for the mishandling of last month's Sewol ferry disaster, admitting many lives were unnecessarily lost and vowing to dismantle the national coastguard.
"The ultimate responsibility for the poor response to this accident lies with me," Park said in a televised address to the nation, during which she openly wept and twice bowed deeply in a display of contrition.
Park's popularity ratings have been hammered by the April 16
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disaster that claimed around 300 lives, most of them schoolchildren.
She has voiced regret several times, but yesterday's address was the first time she has explicitly accepted direct responsibility for what has become a defining moment of her presidency.
"As the president responsible for the lives and safety of South Koreans, I offer my sincere apology for all the suffering," she said.
Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won resigned last month over the disaster,
and while there have been few calls for Park to step down, she has been criticised for not displaying enough sympathy or remorse.
Towards the end of her 30-minute address, Park's voice choked with emotion and tears ran down her face as she described the heroic actions of some of the victims who died trying to save others.
She highlighted the failure of the coastguard's immediate response to the tragedy and acknowledged the complaints of the victims' relatives that many more lives might have been
saved.
"I have decided to dismantle the coastguard," she said, adding that its roles would be split between the police and a newly created ministry of national safety.
The 6,825-tonne Sewol was carrying 476 people when it capsized and sank off the southern coast on April 16. The confirmed death toll stands at 286, with 18 still unaccounted for.
Of those on board, 325 were children from a high school on an organised trip to the southern resort island ofjeju.