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2008/02/03 10:47 KST
Drug-related arrests top 10,000 last year

   SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- The number of drug-related arrests in South Korea rose again sharply last year threatening the country's "drug-clean" status, the top prosecutors' office said Sunday.

Arrests increased by 38 percent from 7,711 in 2006 to 10,649 last year mainly due to the increase in methamphetamine and marijuana users, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office said in a news release.