Petition Fwd: End the Korean War: Stop the Key Resolve!

From End the Korean War on March 3, 2011
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Dear friends and allies:

We are writing to ask you to add your organization’s name to this
statement which the National Campaign to End the Korean War is sending
to the Obama administration and Congress. The U.S. has just started a
new round of dangerous war games in the Korean peninsula, which must
stop.
We are asking you to email us permission to include your group’s
name on the letter below. You can simply hit REPLY to this email (admin@endthekoreanwar.org)
You have supported our campaign previously; we hope you will join us
in this effort. Thanks for your support!
- From the National Campaign to End the Korean War.
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Stop Provocative U.S. War Games in Korea
Prioritize Jobs and Services at Home

At a time when state and local governments are cutting essential
public services, the United States is spending desperately needed tax
dollars on dangerous and costly military exercises in Korea. We, the
undersigned, demand the U.S. government immediately stop the
provocative and dangerous “Key Resolve-Foal Eagle” military
exercises and take concrete steps to end the 60-year war on the Korean
peninsula through peaceful dialogue.

For eight weeks, from February 28 to April 30, 2011, the U.S. and
South Korea Combined Forces Command are conducting joint military
exercises called “Key Resolve-Foal Eagle.” These war games,
involving 13,000 US troops and a nuclear aircraft carrier, are
intended to simulate an attack on North Korea’s nuclear weapons
facilities and intervention plans in the case of instability in North
Korea.

In contrast to calls made by the Korean people for peace and
engagement, “Key Resolve-Foal Eagle” exercises exacerbate an
already tense situation on the Korean peninsula. The U.S. government
alleges that these exercises are routine and defensive in nature, but
it is clear that the aim of these exercises is to simulate the
annihilation of the North Korean military, regime change, and
occupation of North Korea. The exercises simulate a massive landing by
more than 200,000 South Korean and US troops to occupy Pyongyang and
the mobilization of offensive Stryker brigades.

Since the military crisis last November over Yeonpyeong Island, the
countries involved in the Six Party talks have been making progress to
return to peace talks for the stability and security of Northeast
Asia. By forging ahead with these massive simulation war games, the
United States and South Korea only further worsen tensions on the
Korean peninsula and sabotage prospects for peaceful dialogue.

We call on the Obama administration to cancel the destructive Key
Resolve-Foal Eagle war games and instead begin the process of finally
ending the 60-year war on the Korean peninsula by signing a Peace
Treaty with North Korea. We are in the midst of an economic crisis. We
can no longer afford to waste millions of dollars on war games that
threaten peace and the sovereignty of another nation. As a
precondition for returning to talks, the United States has demanded a
demonstration of “sincerity” by North Korea, which subsequently
put forward many viable options for denuclearization. Now the United
States must respond by halting the provocative Key Resolve- Foal Eagle
exercises and return to peaceful negotiations.

Signed
National Campaign to End the Korean War

(National Association of Korean Americans, National Committee for
Peace in Korea, National Lawyers Guild Korea Peace Project, Nodutdol
for Korean Community Development, Veterans for Peace Korea Peace
Campaign)