A giant anti-U.S. President George W. Bush message apparently written in herbicide has appeared on the lawn of the UN Memorial Cemetery in Daeyeon-dong, Busan. The site is reportedly on the itinerary of visiting national leaders attending the APEC summit in November.

The office of the UN Memorial Cemetery said Thursday it notified Nambu Police Station on the morning of June 14 that someone had written "NO BUSH" in 10 m high letters on the lawn between the flags of nations participating in the Korean War and the graves.

The cemetery's office said it appeared the perpetrators used liquid herbicide to write the message, which was 50 m [165 ft] wide, with each line some 30 cm [12 in] thick. Given the scale, it must have taken several people with spraying tools to write it, the office said. The grass is being restored.

Police have sent samples of the herbicide to the National Institute of Scientific Investigation for analysis and are focusing their attention on local universities. The cemetery is the last resting place of some 2,300 foreign soldiers who fell during the Korean War.