Photos Fwd: Kunsan: “Stop the Budget for the Combat Air Show!”

Image Source: Reporter, Park Jae-Soon(icomn@icomn.net)
Chamsori_Jeonbuk Alternative Internet Media, Oct. 29, 2009

[Kunsan USFK Base] “Human-Killing Training is An Air Show?”
Kunsan (Gunsan) Civil Organizations, “Urge the Stop of the Budget Support for the Combat Show
by the United States Forces of Korea”

* The press interview was held in front of the City Hall, Kunsan on Oct. 28, 2009. The banner says:

Stop the Combat Show by the USFK (United States Forces of Korea) Bases
And Compile the Welfare Budget for the Regions Suffered by the USFK Bases!
-The Civil Council for Retaking Back of Our Lands in the Kunsan(Gunsan) USFK Base-

(* unofficial translation)

Image Source: Same as above

“Stop the Waste of the Bloody Tax
Residents’ Health Check=200,000,000 won [about $180,000]
Air Show= 4 billion won [about $3.6million]"
(* unofficial translation)

Image Source: Editorial Team (icomn@icomn.net),
Chamsori_Jeonbuk Alternative Internet Media, Oct. 4, 2008

[Kunsan USFK Base] “Are the Fighter Planes Tourism Goods?”
Urging the Stop of the “Air Show” for the Beautification of the Unilateral Activity
of the United States Forces of Korea.

* Below is the unofficial translation of the some parts in the article above.

__ The Civil Council for Retaking Back of Our Lands in the Kunsan(Gunsan) USFK Base (Executive Co-representative, Fr. Mun, Jung-Hyun) had a statement that “the Air shows were happening every year at the time when the most advanced killing fighter planes were brought in the Kunsan USFK base”… The Air Show is “being processed to beautify the unilateral activities of the United States who intends for the expansion of the bases of the United States Forces of Korea and for her domination strategy in the North East Asia”.

__The Civil Council stated that the damages by the explosive noise were tremendous because even the United States forces overseas were currently having the war exercise, gathering into the Chik-do bombing site(* do means island) from tens of times to hundreds of times a day.

__The Civil Council denounced that “The City of Kunsan beautifies the behavior of the United States Forces of Korea by making propaganda, through this Air Show that the Saemankeum reclamation land will be contributed to the prosperity of the Aerospace industry complex and the international tourism city for 500,000”. The Civil Council kicked out the claim saying that “It can never absolutely be imagined” to contribute to the international tourism city for 500,000 with the fighter planes with the explosive noise, without discerning of day and night, tens of times a day.

'Killed rabbits in hutches'

Image Source: Han Sun Nam, Wind in Peace(peacenomad@hanmail.net),

Chamsori_Jeonbuk Alternative Internet Media, Dec. 2, 2008

'[Kunsan USFK Base] “I Guessed Something Had Happened Yesterday..”
Baby Rabbits Who Were Recently Born in the Farms Near the Base, Again Killed in Group'

* Below is the unofficial translation of the some parts in the article above.

__The case of the deaths of the rabbits in cub is already fifth this time following the similar cases in January, February, July and October. As the precedent similar cases, they were killed this time because their mother rabbit that had brought forth the babies for the two days of yesterday and the day before yesterday
bit off about 90 babies in cub with teeth.

__ Mr. Lee Ho-Kyung saying, “Yesterday, the fighter planes flied with the especially uproarious noise”, emphasized the fighter plane noise was the direct cause of the deaths of the rabbits. Particularly yesterday (1st), the fighter plane noise was serious as to be continued after 10pm in the night.

__ Not only the death of the cub in the group is a problem. According to Mr. Lee Ho-Kyung, even though he copulated the total 20 number of the rabbits this time, only 13 numbers succeeded for pregnancy while the other seven could not be pregnant. The sterility rate reaches to 35%.

* Other Korean articles:

Kunsan branch, SPARK (Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea), Nov. 2, 2009

[10/31] 군산 전투기 에어쇼 반대 피켓팅, 1인 시위
군산 새만금 전시관 앞

[10/31] One Man Picketing Protest against the Air Show of the Fighter Planes,
In front of the Saemankeum Exhibition Hall, Kunsan


Kunsan branch, SPARK, Oct. 28, 2009

군산 전투기 에어쇼 반대 기자회견:
새만금 에어쇼 중단하라!
전투쇼 중단하고 고통받는 지역주민에게 복지예산 편성하라!

Press Interview against the Kunsan Air Show of the Fighter Planes:
Stop the Saemankeum Air Show!
Stop the Combat show, Compile the Welfare Budget for the Local Residents Suffered by It!


Chamsori_Jeonbuk Alternative Internet Media, Oct. 29, 2009

[속보] [미군기지] 에어쇼 폭음으로 토끼 집단폐사:
시민단체 '우려대로 소음피해만 주는 전투기 훈련쇼'
2009-10-29 11:38:26 박재순 기자(icomn@icomn.net)

[Urgent] [Kunsan USFK Base] Rabbits Killed in Group Due to the Explosive Noise in the Air Show:
Civil Organizations, “As Concerned, The Fighter Plane Training Show Only Contributes to the Noise Damage”
Oct. 29, 2009, by Reporter, Park Jae-Soon (icomn@icomn.net)


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