[Translation] Send the human force and resource mobilized in the Foal Eagle exercise to rescue the Japan from the disaster!

No war exercise against North Korea!
Stop the war exercise and support for the rescue of Japan from the big earthquakes!


* All the image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea,
In front of the United States embassy, Seoul, March 15, 2011
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Upon the horrible three disasters of tsunami, earthquake and nuclear plant explosion in Japan, Yoo Yong-Jae, director of the U.S. military matters, of Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea wrote a column titled, “Send the human force and resource mobilized in the Foal Eagle exercise to rescue the Japan from the disaster." Praising the Japanese citizens’ mature consciousness despite terrible disaster and expressing he and fellow Koreans’ sincerest condolence to the Japanese citizens’ he demanded that the South Korean and United States forces should immediately stop the current Foal Eagle war exercise and should send the human force and resources mobilized in war drill to rescue Japan instead. The below is the hurried partial translation of his article. You can see his original Korean writing here.
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From March 16, the nuclear aircraft carrier, Ronald Reagan has been put in the support operation for the disaster of Japan. It was also known that there is the high possibility that part of the US marine force stationing in Okinawa would be mobilized into the rescue operation for the Japan earthquakes so the size of the US military force joining in the Foal Eagle exercise would be more decreased.

However the personnel of the Combined Forces Command explained that “the matter of Ronald Reagan’s participation in the drill is still opaque and other drills will be proceeded as the original schedule.”

At the time when the terrible state of emergency is happening in Japan who is the biggest Asian ally nation of the United States and ‘partner’ of South Korea, with the centurial disaster, it is the urgent situation that needs various supports and rescuing hands. However it looks to be unreasonable that the United States says that she would continue the drill to the end since it has been planned long time ago, like making an executioner’s dance beside the house in mourning.

Further the war exercises that the authorities of South Korea and United States are staging this year have been intensified of their invasive nature against North Korea. The military authorities of South Korea and United States, following their earth-scorching exercise against the initial points of attacks in North Korea, such as with the F-15K or MLRS, in case of North’s attack in the northwestern Island areas, are staging the synchronizing exercises in which they aim to paralyze the North Korean’s war performance ability and her will by precisely attacking 700 target points within 72 hours upon the symptom of North Korean invasion near the cease fire line and to put in the ROK-US combined forces into North Korea upon the timings of the posthumous of Kim Jong-Il, of residents’ uprisings and of outflows of nuclear and weapons of mass destructions.

Even though the ROK and United States quibble that it was for the ‘yearly defense exercise’ while doing such aggressive war drill, that is only a lie for hiding the invasive and illegal natures of the war exercise this time. Because of such war exercise by the ROK and US authority, the militaristic tension in the Korean peninsula is heightened and the dialogue phase that has barely opened after the biggest war crisis is becoming risky as well.

The ROK and US authorities should immediately stop such confrontational and wasteful ROK-US Foal Eagle war exercise in the situation when their ally and partner nation is experiencing the disaster unheard-of before. And under the agreement and negotiation with the Japanese government, they should cooperate to help to build the Japanese people’ will for life, by promptly supporting the resources such as human forces, equipments, foods, medicines and fuel that have been put in into the ROK-US joint drill.

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Upon the horrible current disaster in Japan, the victims of the sex slavery by the Japanese force during the Japanese imperialism in Korea from 1910 to 1945 processed their regular Wednesday protest with silence on March 15, praying with consolation and condolence to the Japanese citizens and Korean residents in Japan. The idea had been first initiated by the old women, victims themselves. (Image source: Cho Sung-Bong, Tongil News, March 16, 2011)