반도와 동북아평화를 위해 노력하는 사람들의 모습을 공유합니다. 우리들의 안전을 위해 소리치는 여성들과 어린이들, 시민활동가들의 목소리에 귀기울여 주세요.
김천 율곡동 어린이들이 3일 청와대를 직접 찾아 문재인 대통령에게 사드 철회 소원 편지와 그림을 전달했습니다.
김천 어린이들은 이날 오후 서울 청와대 인근 분수대 앞에서 사드철회 소원 편지를 통해 “제발 사드가 물러가게 해달라”라며 “촛불 집회 나가는 대신 집에서 가족과 함께 즐거운 시간도 많이 갖고 싶다”고 소망했습니다.
이어 "엄마 아빠가 이번 대통령 선거에서 문 대통령이 되면 사드가 물러난다고 했다"면서 "엄마 아빠의 믿음과 율곡동 주민들의 믿음이 꼭 이뤄지도록 해달라"고 밝혔습니다.
Dear Friend--kindly sharing with you a collection of pieces about the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia: stop militarization of Northeast Asia. Listen to the voices of women, children and citizen activists demanding human security!
Korea Peace Network
June 13. Off-Ramps to War: Paths to Building Peace with North Korea
Keynote speakers
William J. Perry, former US Secretary of Defense, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History, University of Chicago
https://pisa.elliott.gwu.edu/ramps-war-paths-building-peace-north-korea
Facebook event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/803479396476835/
Stop Militarization of East Asia, Stop Military Sex Slavery
1. S.Korean FM nominee meets WWII sex slavery victims ahead of confirmation hearing
The victims, mostly in their late 80s or higher, refused to receive any money from the unrepentant Japan, calling for a sincere apology from Abe and damages for the wartime crime against humanities. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/02/c_136335173.htm
2. NPR. Not All South Koreans Satisfied With Japan's Apology To 'Comfort Women'
"It was 1942 and I was only 15, running an errand for my parents [in our Korean hometown of Busan], when two Japanese men in uniform grabbed me by the arms and dragged me away," recalls Lee Ok-seon, now age 90. "That's how I became enslaved." She was sent to work in a brothel in a Japanese-occupied area of northeast China. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/30/529671510/not-all-south-koreans-satisfied-with-japans-apology-to-comfort-women
3. A home at last: Atlanta ‘Comfort Women’ statue is welcome in Brookhaven
“The Comfort Women tragedy is one the largest known cases of human and sexual trafficking in the 20th century. International human rights tribunals, United Nations groups and rapporteurs have all affirmed the history of the Comfort Women and that their fundamental human rights were violated,” said John Park, a Brookhaven City Councilman, in a statement…. “By establishing this memorial, we are raising awareness of the ongoing problems of sexual and human trafficking taking place in metro Atlanta and the world today,” Ernst said.
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/05/25/a-home-at-last-atlanta-comfort-women-statue-is.html
4. The Asia-Pacific Journal. Satoko Oka Norimatsu. The Emperor’s Army and Japan’s Discrimination against Okinawa
On April 28, 1952, when the San Francisco Peace Treaty took effect, it left Okinawa under U.S. military rule just as Hirohito had proposed. Sixty-five years later, while the U.S. military base concentration continued in Okinawa, a former Marine, then an employee of U.S. Air Force Kadena Base, sexually assaulted and killed a 20-year old Okinawan woman and abandoned her body in Onna Village. Coincidentally, the act occurred on April 28, the day Okinawans commemorate as “the Day of Humiliation,” as the Peace Treaty detached Okinawa while the rest of Japan enjoyed post-Occupation independence. On June 19, 2016, sixty-five thousand people gathered at Ounoyama Athletic Field in Naha, Okinawa to mourn the victim of the rape-murder mentioned above. One of the speakers Tamaki Ai, a university student and a young leader of the anti-base movement, called Japanese mainlanders “secondary perpetrators (of the crime),”８ meaning that the U.S. military presence in Okinawa was a primary cause of the crime but Japan, which allows the overwhelming concentration of bases in Okinawa, shared responsibility. It seemed to me that calling Japanese outside of Okinawa (meaning roughly 99% of the country’s population) secondary perpetrators was even too lenient toward the country whose democracy had failed to eliminate discrimination towards Okinawa for over forty years since its reversion to Japan in 1972. http://apjjf.org/2017/11/Norimatsu.html
Diplomacy NOW with North Korea!
What is clear is that we in the US have a responsibility to become better educated about US policy towards both Koreas, to support popular movements in South Korea that seek peaceful relations with North Korea and progress towards reunification, and to work for a US policy that promotes the demilitarization and normalization of US-North Korean relations. -- Martin Hart-Landsberg, Korea Policy Institute
5. Defense One. Bernadette Standler. May 9, 2017. Diplomacy with North Korea Can Work
So what should we learn from the Agreed Framework? First, diplomacy works. We made more headway in stopping North Korea’s nuclear program through diplomacy compared to our current strategy of sanctions, condemnations, and threats. Second, negotiations must have realistic, concrete goals. We are long past the point where we can easily denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Negotiations should have, at least initially, the more modest goal of freezing North Korea’s nuclear program. Finally, diplomacy requires patience, persistence, and follow-through. There is no doubt that negotiating with North Korea is an exhausting process. But abandoning our deals when we get frustrated doesn’t solve the problem; it takes us back to square one. If President Trump really wants to improve the situation on the Korean Peninsula, he must give diplomacy a serious chance. http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/05/diplomacy-north-korea-can-work/137690/
6. Korea Policy Institute (KPI). Martin Hart-Landsberg. The Need For A New US Foreign Policy Towards North Korea
The North has also tried to join the IMF and WB, but the US and Japan have blocked their membership. The North has also tried to set up free trade zones to attract foreign investment, but the US and Japan have worked to block that investment. So, it is not the North that is refusing to talk or broaden its engagement with the global economy; it is the US that seeks to keep North Korea isolated….So, why does US refuse direct negotiations and risk war? The most logical reason is that there are powerful forces opposing them. Sadly, the tension is useful to the US military industrial complex, which needs enemies to support the ongoing build-up of the military budget. The tension also allows the US military to maintain troops on the Asian mainland and forces in Japan. It also helps to isolate China and boost right-wing political tendencies in Japan and South Korea. And now, after decades of demonizing North Korea, it is difficult for the US political establishment to change course….What is clear is that we in the US have a responsibility to become better educated about US policy towards both Koreas, to support popular movements in South Korea that seek peaceful relations with North Korea and progress towards reunification, and to work for a US policy that promotes the demilitarization and normalization of US-North Korean relations. http://kpolicy.org/the-need-for-a-new-us-foreign-policy-towards-north-korea/
7. Korea Policy Institute. Simone Chun. The Korean Peninsula: Ground Zero for Armageddon?
Consider this fairly representative North Korean view offered by Kwang Yon So of Pyongyang’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace, during the Regional Peace Building conference in Hong Kong on June 10, 2010: “It is not us, but the United States which divided Korea and has posed a threat, including through nuclear arms as well as constant joint military exercises with the South. We are the victims. Should we not at least maintain the right to our sovereignty and the ability to defend ourselves?”
http://kpolicy.org/the-korean-peninsula-ground-zero-for-armageddon/
Korean Children’s Letter to President: Stop THAAD
8. Zoom in Korea. The U.S. Deployed Four Additional THAAD LAUNCHERS Without [President] Moon’s Knowledge
On May 30, however, Moon discovered that four additional launchers had made their way into the country without an official report. The South Korean Defense Ministry, with the backing of the U.S., had apparently approved the deployment of four additional launchers without Moon’s knowledge, much less an endorsement. Having all the necessary parts of the THAAD battery in the country makes it all the more difficult for the new administration to reverse the deployment and return the weapon system to the United States…. According to Article 38 of South Korea’s Military Criminal Act, reporting false military information is punishable by death or life in prison. http://www.zoominkorea.org/the-u-s-deployed-four-additional-thaad-launchers-without-moons-knowledge/
9. Gimcheon and Sosungri children’s letters to President Moon, Stop THAAD (in Korean)
http://worknworld.kctu.org/news/articleView.html?idxno=246006
http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/area/797409.html
Dear Mr. President,
Stop THAAD
Mina’s only wish is to be able to focus and study hard.
Gimcheon protest [against THAAD]
We would like to live in peace
No THAAD
Only Peace
The location of THAAD is only 7 km from my house.
I would like to study at a place without THAAD.
Gimcheon candlelight
Seongju candlelight
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