Activists hold a placard in the shape of a Christmas tree decorated with anti-war signs during a rally denouncing the South Korean government's decision to send its troops to Afghanistan and demanding the U.S.-North Korea Summit for making a peace treaty in the Korean Peninsula, near the U.S. embassy in Seoul December 15, 2009. The signs on the placard read, "The U.S.-North Korea Summit", "Making a peace treaty", "Objection of South Korean troop dispatch" and "Withdrawal of U.S. Forces in Korea".
REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)