Boy, 13, seized staging protest

A 13-YEAR-OLD American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea into a peace park was taken away by Chinese police after staging a brief protest near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

Jonathan Lee unfurled a sign saying “Peace treaty” and “Nuclear- free DMZ children’s peace forest” as he stood outside the Forbidden City.

A man, believed to be a plain-clothes officer, grabbed the teenager’s sign less than a minute later and waved away journalists who had been contacted by the boy’s family ahead of the event.

Jonathan and his mother, from Mississippi, were then escorted away by police.