Kouchner, who later met President Lee Myung-Bak and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan, also slammed North Korea's rights record and denounced its cooperation with Middle Eastern regimes on weapons of mass destruction.

A whole section of his electorate stayed away from the polls in the first round last Sunday, Perrineau said of Sarkozy.

Jeudi Noir would therefore like to see a tax on vacant properties to encourage landlords to put them on the rental market.