국민혈세로 “분단영구화” 韓정치인들

“62% of South Koreans optimistic about Trump-Kim summit

 

2차 북미 정상 회담을 코 앞에 두고 있습니다.

 

국민 혈세로 미국까지 와서 한반도 분단과 전쟁 상태의 영구화를 외친 나경원 의원등 한국 정치인들이 있습니다.

 

청산되어야 할 적폐 정신입니다.

 

100년전에도 그런 만용에 관대했다가 나라를 잃었습니다.

 

지금 우리가 필요한 것은 그런 과거로 돌아가는 비이성적인, 마지막 발악(發惡)이 아닌 미래를 향한 용기와 희망입니다.

 

그런 염원으로 문재인 대통령님의 2.8 독립 선언서 기념 트위트를 영문으로 번역해 봅니다.

 

100년전 일제 식민지하에서 동북아시아의 평화와 조선의 독립을 도쿄 심장부에서 외쳤던 2.8 독립선언서, 100년만에 찾아온 독립, 평화, 통일을 이룩하는데 반드시 필요한 정신입니다.

 

미국내 거대한 시민 평화 단체들이 우리와 함께 합니다.

 

우리손으로 우리의 역사를, 그리고 뜻을 함께 하는 미국 시민 단체와 함께, 우리 세대의 역사적인 사명을 완수합시다!

--시몬천 올림

 

 

 

 

 

“`Peace be to this house!’ In sending his disciples forth on mission, Jesus told them: “Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’

 

Pope Francis

 

https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/12/18/181218a.pdf

 

 

“62% of South Koreans optimistic about Trump-Kim summit”!

 

Dear Friend--an update and appeal for your help! The second U.S.-DPRK summit will be held at the end of this month in Vietnam--and so, I’m bringing attention to historic memories that can serve as an inspiration for us who work for peace and liberation. This week I begin with honoring 600 courageous Korean students in 1919 under colonization who changed the course of history in Northeast Asia. Imagine 600 young minds from a colonized nation who rose up and inspired hundreds and thousands of people under oppression, colonization, and militarism. Let us learn from their courage, and let us become a catalyst for peace!

 

 

1. "...with the last drop of their blood" Remarks of President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House on February 8, 2019. 문재인 대통령 2.8 독립선언을 기리며.

 

100년 전 오늘, 600여 명의 조선유학생들이 함박눈이 내리는 도쿄 조선YMCA회관에 모였습니다. 일본의 심장 한가운데에서 독립만세를 외쳤습니다. 이날 유학생들이 낭독한 ‘조선청년독립선언서’는 우리 독립운동의 화톳불을 밝히는 ‘불쏘시개’가 되었습니다...최후의 일인까지 열흘을 흘릴것...

 

On a snowy day one hundred years ago today, 600 Korean students studying in Japan gathered in the heart of Tokyo to demand independence for their homeland. The Independence Declaration delivered by these students served as a catalyst for the succeeding March 1st Korean Independence Movement. These brave young men and women came together to condemn the Japanese militarism and imperialism that had trampled the Korean nation's sovereignty, and to declare their commitment to fighting for their nation's independence with the last drop of their blood. It is in their memory that on this day we commemorate the February 8 Independence Declaration as a pivotal moment in the history of March 1st Independence Movement and the establishment of the Provisional Government. --President Moon’s tweet translated by Simone Chun

 

https://twitter.com/moonriver365/status/1093660683122561025

 

 

2. Feb. 8 Independent Declaration distributed worldwide in 4 languages

 

On Feb. 8 1919, nine years after Japan colonized Korea, about 600 Koreans who were studying in Tokyo issued the declaration, calling for Korea's independence and pledging to fight against Japanese colonial rule. They delivered the declaration to embassies of various countries in Tokyo, the Japanese media and the Japanese governor general of Korea. This sparked the March 1 Independence Movement in Korea and the establishment of the provisional government in Shanghai http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=263338

 

 

3. S. Koreans Commemorate Feb. 8 Independence Declaration in Tokyo.

 

"The February 8th Independence Declaration was an independence movement led by some 600 Korean students who took to the streets of Tokyo on February 8, 1919. The incident served as a forerunner to the March 1, 1919, Independence Movement in Korea.

 

http://koreabizwire.com/s-koreans-commemorate-feb-8-independence-declaration-in-tokyo/132154

 

 

4. The Korea Times. 62% of South Koreans optimistic about Trump-Kim summit.

 

Six in 10 South Koreans expect some substantial outcome from the second summit between North Korea and the United States, slated for Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam, a poll showed Monday… the optimistic view is prevalent among all supporters of liberal and moderate political parties and in all regions and age groups, excluding those in their 60s or older.

 

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/02/103_263421.html#.XGF0_OMIb5c.twitter

 

 

5. David Kim. Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula begins with a peace declaration. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

 

The central question isn’t whether Kim Jong Un is willing to give up his nuclear weapons. It’s whether the U.S. and North Korea can transform their relationship so Kim believes he can survive without nukes...Gen. Vincent Brooks, the former top US military official in South Korea, believes that Kim desires a new relationship with the United States and that North Korea is willing to give up its weapons to achieve it...The United States should take a leap of faith by offering a peace declaration in exchange for North Korea taking concrete and verifiable steps toward denuclearization. If both sides take these sorts of sequenced and parallel actions, they can create the good will and spirit of reciprocity necessary to move forward. As over two decades of diplomacy have shown, there is no linear path to–or guarantee of–of success. But an end-of-war declaration will set the trajectory for a formal peace treaty and help outline the path toward the ultimate goal of denuclearization. As US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified, as long as Kim regards his nuclear arsenal as “critical to regime survival” he won’t give it up. An end-of-war declaration may help convince him–and his regime–that he can.

 

https://thebulletin.org/2019/02/denuclearization-of-the-korean-peninsula-begins-with-a-peace-declaration/

 

 

6. Morton Halperin, Peter Hayes, Chung-in Moon, Thomas Pickering, Leon Sigal, Philip Yun, "BEYOND THE SECOND TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT: TIME FOR REALISTIC NEXT STEPS", NAPSNet Special Reports, February 01, 2019.

 

What would a comprehensive settlement look like? As set out in an earlier Nautilus Institute special report… it has six inter-locking essential elements:

 

1) Begin a three- or four-party peace process to replace the Korean Armistice with a peace declaration, committing to negotiate a peace treaty or to establish what the September 2005 Joint Statement refers to as a “peace regime.”

 

2) Declare non-hostility and move to normalize political and economic relations.

 

3) Gradually relax sanctions over time.

 

4)Provide humanitarian assistance to the DPRK and economic and energy aid, especially aid which benefits the whole region by completing many types of energy, telecom, logistics, transport, mobility, trading, financial networks that link the land-bridge from Eurasia to the ROK and Japan via North Korea.

 

5) Set up a Six Party Northeast Asia Security Council

 

6) Establish a nuclear weapons free-zone (NWFZ) in which to re-establish DPRK’s non-nuclear commitment in a legally binding manner that provides a framework to dismantle its nuclear facilities and weapons and to manage the nuclear threat in the region in a manner that treats all parties, including North Korea, on an equal basis.

 

https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/beyond-the-second-trump-kim-summit-time-for-realistic-next-steps/

 

 

7. Reunions of US-DPRK Divided Families: A Deliverable for the Second Trump-Kim Summit! The American Friends Service Committee has launched an urgent campaign asking President Trump to prioritize reunions between Korean Americans and their families in North Korea.

 

“Reuniting these families, then, would bring closure for hundreds or thousands of families regarding a cause that has received widespread international concern and support. Moreover, similar to the issue of repatriating US service member remains, achieving family reunions would address a critical humanitarian issue and foster a collaborative environment for diplomacy, while healing the wounds of war and improving relations between the US and DPRK. Therefore, we urge you to commit to reuniting these families in any agreement, statement, declaration or other joint communique signed by you and Chairman Kim as an outcome of the upcoming summit.”

 

 

8. Jina Kang. Time for US-North Korea Family Reunions. The Diplomat

 

In 2015, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution that “encourages North Korea to allow Korean Americans to meet with their family members from North Korea, and calls on North Korea to take concrete steps to build goodwill that is conducive to peace on the Korean Peninsula.” However, there has not been any progress for Korean American divided families whatsoever.

 

Kyung Joo Lee, who fled North Korea during the Korean War, is now 91 and living in Annandale, Virginia. He has spent every day praying that his four siblings are safe and surviving the hardships of North Korea. “In a way, it’s more comforting for me to not know and long for them, rather than receiving bad news and being in pain for them,” he said.

 

Time is running out for these elderly Korean Americans, like Mr. Lee. Many of them have almost given up hope that they might see their families before they die, but they still wish to know if their families are alive, and pray to see them one last time.https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/time-for-us-north-korea-family-reunions/

 

 

9. Kevin Martin. Building on Progress in 2018, Second Trump-Kim Summit Is Timely.

 

While critics were on solid ground for criticizing last June's Kim-Trump summit for being light on substance, it did bolster precious hope for peace for many Koreans and Korean-Americans.

 

Further security guarantees including a formal declaration of the end of the Korean War (to replace the supposedly temporary armistice in place since 1953), initiation of talks for a formal peace agreement and reduction of armed forces should be on the table, even if there is ongoing disagreement on a shared understanding of what “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” means. Progress on humanitarian aid, family reunifications and further repatriation of remains of U.S. soldiers who died in the Korean War, while not as splashy as complete disarmament by the North, matter greatly to many Koreans, Korean-Americans and those whose in the U.S. loved ones never returned from that awful war. These issues also need to be advanced as they are critical to the peace process.

 

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/02/09/building-progress-2018-second-trump-kim-summit-timely?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR1jVEds58Z3Bv82_3DCguICfgN_q0BKhrEFlBQvTJcR_MohXs85-aF1QsQ

 

 

The Korean Peace Network 2019 Advocacy Days March 13 & 14

 

 

Peace is Not an Awful Lot to Ask

 

Manifest Support for Peace and Diplomacy in Your Community February 26

 

as Trump and Kim meet in Vietnam

 

 

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#NorthKorea

#Diplomacy

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Please tell our American friends--especially members of US Congress: peace to be on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia!