'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Text Fwd: [Korea Report] The Cheonan Controversy Continues

* Korea Report
July 10, 2010
The Cheonan Controversy Continues

Follow-up to: http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/06/text-fwd-scholars-call-for-end-to-pspd.htmlQuestions Raised on the Cheonan Incident Report

The Cheonan incident was discussed at the UN and resulted in a UN Security Council presidential statement that included both South and North Korea's positions on the incident and "calls for full adherence to the Korean Armistice Agreement and encourages the settlement of outstanding issues on the Korean peninsula by peaceful means to resume direct dialogue and negotiation through appropriate channels as early as possible, with a view to avoiding conflicts and averting escalation."

Prior to this, on June 10, the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), a major South Korean NGO, sent an open letter to the UN Security Council in which it raised questions concerning the contents of the official investigation report. This action, considered normal by UN-registered NGOs, raised ire in the South Korean foreign ministry and amongst ultra-conservatives in South Korea, who demonstrated in front of the PSPD office for several days -- even making threats to PSPD staff.

Scientists have been raising questions as well. Seung-Hun Lee, a Korean-born physicist at the University of Virginia and Jae-Jung Suh, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC (who also has a degree in physics) are questioning scientific validity of evidences set forth by the official investigative team and calls for further independent investigation. [The photo above shows a press conference by Lee and Suh on July 9 at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo.]

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* Related blog
http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/07/text-fwd-un-condemns-attack-on-cheonan.html
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Text Fwd: UN condemns attack on Cheonan

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/07/text-fwd-japan-focus-rush-to-judgment.html
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Text Fwd: [Japan Focus] Rush to Judgment: Inconsistencies in South Korea’s Cheonan Report

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/06/text-fwd-scholars-call-for-end-to-pspd.html
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Text Fwd: Scholars call for end to PSPD witch-hunt

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