Video & Some texts Fwd: [SPARK] The defense budget should be cut! 국방 예산 감축되어야

* Image source: same as the link

- The defense budget cut is the will of people who judged the [Lee Myung Bak government’s] hunting North Korea with the pretext of Cheonan ship [incident]!
- People-friendly welfare budget is a lie without cutting the wasteful defense budget!
- “Just society” without the cut of the illegal defense budget is a fair but empty phrase!
- It is time to reduce military budget not to build war power!
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Photos Fwd: [SPARK] The National Assembly should cut the defense budget and expand the public welfare budget!
국회는 국방 예산을 삭감하고 복지 예산을 늘려야
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* The SPARK uploaded the report on its recent Peace Disarmament rally on Oct. 26, 2010. You can see some photos and video, HERE. Some translated excerpts can be seen underneath the below video.
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관련 국문 기사는 여기를 가세요.
[평통사]106차 평화군축집회
국회는 국방예산 삭감하고 민생복지예산 확충에 나서라!
2010. 10. 26(화) 낮 12시/여의도 국회 국민은행 앞
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* Video source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea



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_ 평통사와 민주노총, 진보신당등이 국회 국민은행 앞에서 군비축소와 민생복지예산 확충을 촉구하는 106차 평화군축집회를 진행하였습니다.

_ Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea (SPARK), Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), and New Progressive Party, Democratic Labor party etc. held the 106th peace Disarmament rally that demanded the reduction of military budget and expansion of welfare budget, in front of the Kook-Min bank near the National Assembly, [on Oct. 26, 2010].

_ 10월 25일 부터 2011년도 국방예산에 대한 국회 심의가 시작됩니다. 2011년도 국방예산 요구안은 올해 29조 5,627억 보다 5.8%증액된 31조 2,795억입니다. 국방예산이 30조를 넘어선 것은 사상 처음입니다.

_ The National Assembly review on the 2011 defense budget began on Oct. 25. The 2011 defense budget proposes 31 trillion 279.5 billion won (* about $ 27 billion), that is 5.8 % increment from 29 trillion 562.7 billion (* about $ 25 billion), this year. It is for the first time that the ROK defense budget went over 30 trillion won.

_ 오혜란 평통사 평화군축팀 팀장은 “이명박 대통령이 예산안 시정연설에서 2011년도 예산안의 특징을 ‘공정사회’,‘서민희망/미래대비예산’이라고 주장했는데, 이는 말뿐이다. 방위비분담금 중 연합방위력증강사업비의 경우는 예산편성의 법적근거가 없는데도 312억원이나 편성되었다.

_ Oh Hye-Ran, director of Peace Disarmament said, “Even though Lee Myung-Bak government claimed that the 2011 budget featured ‘just society,’ ‘hope and future-readiness for citizen,’ they are only words. The budget for the Combined Defense Improvement Project (CDIP) among the defense-sharing budget, was estimated even as 31.2 billion won (* about $27 million), even if it has no legal basis.

_최창준 민주노동당 자주평화통일위원장은….지금은 MD, PSI참여 국방비 인상등 전쟁을 준비하는 것이 아니라 금강산 관광 재개, 대북 쌀지원, 하나로 건강보험등 평화와 복지에 예산을 사용해야한다."

_Choi, Chang-Joon, Chairman of the Self-reliance, Peace & Unification Committee, Democratic Labor Party said… “Now is not the time to prepare war such as increment of the defense budget by joining MD & PSI, but the time to use the budget for peace & welfare such as the resumption of the Geumgang Mt. trip [in N.K], rice support for N. Korea and Hanaro health care.

-안병순 공무원 노조 교육위원장은…[이명박] 파탄의 위기를 국민적 분노로 연결시켜 전쟁비용예산은 계속 감축시켜 평화유지비용으로, 서민복지비용으로 전환시켜야 한다."

- Ahn Byung-Soon, Education Director of the government workers’ union said, “ We should connect the crisis of Lee Myung-Bak government to people’s rage, continuously reduce the war cost budget and [convert it] to peace maintenance cost and commons’ welfare budget.

_조승현 부장은 "확산탄과 대인지뢰는 국제적으로 모두 금지되어있는 무기로써 그 피해대상이 대부분 민간인이다라는 공통점을 가지고 있다. 대인지뢰에 경우 2000년도 이후에 47명이 민간인이 죽거나 다쳤다.'세계에서 가장 넓은 지뢰밭의 고향' 이라는 말은 미국 도시사전 사이트에 KOREA를 넣으면 첫 줄에 나오는 문구다. 한반도가 확산탄과 대인지뢰에 의해서 대량으로 피해를 입을수 있는 지역이다."

_Cho Seung-Hyun, staff of the Peace Disarmament team said, “The Cluster Bomb Unit(CBU) and anti-personal mine is all internationally prohibited and have the common character that the targets of their damage are mostly civilians. In case of anti-personal mine, 47 civilians were killed or wounded since 2000. ‘The home of the largest mine field in the world,’ is the phrase that comes in the first line when you type the word, “KOREA’ in the city dictionary site, United Sates. The Korean peninsula is the region that can be enormously harmed by the Cluster bomb units and anti-personnel mine,”

_흡수통일을 추구하는 이명박 정부 하에서의 국방비 증액은 대북 방어가 아닌 선제공격과 침략, 무력흡수통일을 위한 한미연합전력구축에 그 목적이 있는 만큼, 국방비 삭감투쟁은 이명박 정권의 기반을 허물고 평화와 통일, 복지로 나아가는 전제를 마련하는 투쟁이라는 의의를 갖습니다.

_As the increment of the defense budget under the Lee Myung-Bak government who pursues the absorbing unification is not for the defense against North Korea but for the preemptive strike, invasion, and establishment of the ROK-US combined war power for the absorbing unification by military power, the struggle for the defense cut has the meaning that it tears back the base of the Lee Myung-Bak regime and prepare for the premise for the peace, unification, and welfare.