Text Fwd: [Translation] The SPARK, “Discussion on the TTX will be retrogressive to the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula”

* The below is the arbitrary translation of the Tongil News article(클릭) * 확장억제정책위원회 첫 본회의 개최에 대한 평통사의 입장(클릭) The SPARK, “Discussion on the TTX will be retrogressive to the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula” The Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea stated its opposition on the ‘TTX’ practice measure (ROK-US application exercise on the extended deterrence measure) that would be discussed in the 28th Security Proliferation Initiative (SPI) that would be held in Hawai’I from March 28 for two days. In the SPI meeting this time, the ‘extended deterrence committee’ meeting will be first held and concrete agreement on the TTX practice measures will be processed. The SPARK statement on March 28, 2011 reads that “Knowing the United States’ active will to make South Korea joint the United States MD, there is a high possibility that the main contents of the TTX will be the Missile Defense exercise between the ROK and US or among the ROK-US-Japan.” The SPARK claimed that “It means that the matter of the ROK-US MD would be not just simple cooperation but be leveled-up to that of joint exercise.” It also reads that, “In the sense that the US MD is the method for pre-emptive nuclear attack, South Korean participation into the US MD and combined exercise are dangerous that intensify the nuclear war danger in the Korean peninsula,” and states that, “That would bring the strengthening of nuclear arming by North Korea and China and would provoke nuclear arms race in the North East Asia. That would be retrogressive to the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula and would make remote the peace agreement conclusion that is connected to the former.” The SPARK saying that, “The South Korean joining of the US MD and combined exercise do more than harm than good because it would bring nuclear war and nuclear arms cost competition therefore would seriously threaten the peace in the Korean peninsula & North East Asia; deepen South Korean military subjugation into the United States; and hand over tremendous financial burden to her people,” demanded that “We demand to immediately stop the related negotiation, resolutely opposing ROK’s dangerous and unnecessary participation of the US MD, and the extended deterrence committee meeting in which the TTX practice measure would be discussed.”

Photos Fwd:[SPARK] We oppose submission on the matter of NK uranium enrichment to the U.N. Security Council!

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Korean language statement (click)
성명서: 제임스 스타인버그 미 국무부 부장관 방한에 즈음한 기자회견
: 북의 우라늄농축 문제 유엔안보리 회부 반대한다! (클릭)
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* All the image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea, Jan. 26, 2011

Press interview upon the visit by James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State of the United States :
We oppose submission on the matter of NK uranium enrichment to the U.N. Security Council!
In front of Foreign Affairs and Trade Department 10: 30 am, Jan. 26, 2011

Start talks on the non-nuclearization of Korean Peninsula and peace agreement!

Text Fwd:[Campaign to End the Korean War Action Alert] ONLINE PETITION AND LETTERS TO OBAMA 한국 전쟁 종식을 위한 국제 서명 요청및 오바마에게 보내는 편지

* Text informed from Martha Duenas on Dec. 18, 2010

From APICAW - Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against the War

dear everyone,

as many of you have no doubt heard, the obama administration--which has pursued a reckless neoconservative policy in northeast asia--has recently sent admiral mike mullen, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, to the region to thump his chest. recently, we've witnessed one massive joint military exercise after another--u.s. and japan, u.s. and south korea--which contributes greatly to regional instability. the u.s., japan, and south korea have reconsolidated their cold war alliance, and south korea recently changed its rules of engagement so that it is positioned to strike north korea not in tit-for-tat measure but with disproportionate force. the foundation is set for all-out conflict, and the stakes are nuclear.

with all this in mind, the national campaign to end the korean war has just launched an online petition and letters to obama calling for the u.s. to pursue the path of peace in korea. we are circulating the following action alert (see below).

a few urgent requests:

1. could you take a moment to sign the petition as an individual?
   
2. could circulate the below action alert to organizations that would be willing--as organizations--to endorse this petition? (see #2 below.)
   
3. could you circulate the following action alert widely to friends and allies?

christine

Action Alert – ONLINE PETITION AND LETTERS TO OBAMA

Please join the National Campaign to End the Korean War (www.endthekoreanwar.org) in an ongoing online demonstration.

We have launched a petition and letter-writing campaign to President Obama, calling for the de-escalation of recent military hostilities surrounding the Korean Peninsula. With our economy in desperate straits and our military overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, now is the time to prioritize peace in Korea. We object to the use of American taxpayer money to stage costly and unnecessary military exercises in recurring massive war games, involving tens of thousands of US and South Korean troops. These war games intensify the risk that an accident could quickly spiral into general warfare, which could kill millions of innocent people. We invite wide participation by all who support the return to diplomacy to achieve peace in Korea.

1. Sign the petition, President Obama: Pursue the Opportunity for Peace in Korea

http://bit.ly/korean-peace1%20

2. Ask your organization to endorse the petition by sending a message to info@endthekoreanwar.org.

3. Join the letter-writing campaign by sending an electronic letter to President Obama. For details, see this site, http://bit.ly/korean-peace

4. Send a paper copy of your letter to President Obama. If you prefer, simply print out the Open Letter and add a note, card, or your own letter. No matter how brief you cover note is, it would be most effective if it is hand-written. This confirms that we are a growing movement of real, live, concerned citizens.

5. Contact your personal and professional network through email, Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs, phone calls, and ask your friends, colleagues and family members to sign the petition and to send letters to President Obama.

6. Have Twitter? Use the hashtag #koreanpeace in your tweets to make this a trending topic.

7. Tweet your elected officials and other world leaders about the escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula and demand an immediate halt to the U.S.-South Korean war games.

• Look for your Members of Congress on Twitter. Click here to look for their twitter accounts.

• U.S. President Barack Obama (@barackobama), the White House (@whitehouse), and the U.S. Department of State (@StateDept)

• South Korean Blue House (@BluehouseKorea) and the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade (@mofatkr)

• United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (@secgen) and the United Nations (@UN)

8. Ask those in your network to consider making a donation to the National Campaign to End the Korean War so that we can take out an ad in a major newspaper to publicize our Open Letter to President Obama. http://bit.ly/korean-peace-donate

Thank you for your support,

National Campaign to End the Korean War

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Reference articles


Hankyoreh
N.Korea echoes threat of ‘self-defense attacks’ Tensions have again escalated as S.Korea prepares to restart artillery firing exercises off Yeonpyeong Island
Posted on : Dec.18,2010

Hankyoreh
[Bloomberg] Defending Korea Line Seen Contrary to Law by Kissinger Remains U.S. Policy By Daniel Ten Kate and Peter S. Green
Dec 17, 2010

Voice of Russia
Russia Summons U.S., South Korean Ambassadors Over War Games
December 17, 2010
(* Text informed from Rick Rozoff's Stop NATO)

Text Fwd: [Translation] [SPARK Statement] denunciation against Minister Kim's remark on his examination on the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapon

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* Image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea, Nov. 23, 2010.

The banner reads:
Press interview to denounce the remarks by against Kim Tae-Young, Minister of National Defense
"Examination on the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapon"
Resign, Kim Tae-Young, Minister of National Defense,
who counters against non-nuclearization of Korean peninsula!

Immediately start the six party talk for the non-nuclearization
of the Korean peninsula without condition!

* 아래는 평화와 통일을 여는 사람들의 11월 23일 성명서, "전술핵 재배치 검토" 망언 김태영 국방장관 규탄 기자회견: 한반도 비핵화 거스르는 김태영 국방장관은 사퇴하라! 입니다. 국문 원문을 보시려면 여기를 클릭.
* 해커 보고서 전문을 비롯, 관련 기사를 보시려면 여기 클릭

* The below text is an arbitrary translation from the press interview statement by the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea on Nov. 23, 2010. You can see its original Korean statement here.
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Press Interview to denounce Kim Tae-Young,
Ministry of National Defense,

who made an absurd remarks on the “examination
on the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons”
and counters against non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula!

We strongly denounce the absurd remarks by the Minister of Kim Tae-Young who tramples down the joint declaration on the non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Sept. 9 joint statement.

During the audit by the Committee on Budget and Accounts, National Assembly [on Nov. 22], Kim Tae-Young, Minister of National Defense said he “would examine on the deployment of the United States’ tactical nuclear weapons” in Extended Deterrence Committee [agreed on 42nd Security Consultative Meeting. For more on it, click HERE]

The North Korea’s uranium enrichment has already been predicted. It is because since 2009 when there was the announcement of the U.N. Presidential Statement (4/13) that blamed her launch of a satellite (4/5), she has openly declared on the technological development of the uranium enrichment the next day and since then she has made clear on her examination on light water reactor. Her opening to public of the uranium enrichment facility in North Korea this time showed that in actual objects.

There is no basis to judge that she has gone beyond the scope of her ‘right to peaceful use of nuclear’ mentioned in Sept. 19 joint statement in the legal and technological senses in the current stage. Like another countries, the North Korea has the international legal right to build light water reactor. There could have been no spare for North Korea to just wait for the provision of light water reactor from other countries of the six-party, when the expectation on it has been difficult even though it was clearly stated in the Sept. 9 joint statement.

From the political and strategic aspect, the intention of North Korea who has made public of her uranium enrichment facilities can be told to urge the Obama administration that has only prolonged time without any measure, alleging ‘strategic endurance.’ In other words. It is her warning that, if the Obama government would not enter for the settlement of issue through dialogue, she could step toward her nuclear arming by uranium enrichment. If not such intention, there could have been no reason for her to purposely invite a nuclear scientist of the United States and make public of her uranium enrichment facility. Therefore since her essential intention is not in her nuclear arming, the issue of nuclear in the Korean peninsula is the matter that could be solved without limit if [the North Korea and United States] accept the demands each other by resuming the NK-US talks and six party talks. The verbal remark by Siegfried Hecker, Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation of Stanford University, who is told to have said that “there would be no non-nuclearization of Korean peninsula without basic change of the NK-US relationship," means [North Korea] can realize the non-nuclearization of Korean peninsula if the United States withdraws from her hostile North Korean policy, in other words.

Seeing in that context, the remark by Kim Tae-Young, Ministry of National Defense, on his ‘examination on the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons’ is a reckless one confrontational against North Korea, more aggravating the nuclear issue in the Korean peninsula but not solving it. While the North Korea has only made public open her uranium enrichment facilities, having her right supported by international law, it is enormously excessive and irrational that he says such and such on the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons. [His saying] not only deviates from the joint declaration on the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula and 9.19 joint statement, but pours over cold water onto the political situation that is demanded of the resumption of the six party talks for the non-nuclearization of Korean peninsula. If the remark by the Ministry Kim is realized, the security of the Korean peninsula and North East Asia would be more dangerous with the non-nuclearization of Korean peninsula becoming [impossible], the nuclear domino situation being staged in the North East Asia, and the danger of nuclear war being heightened.

We strongly denouncing Kim Tae-Young, Ministry of National Defense, who makes routine of absurd remarks confrontational against North Korea and countering against the non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, demand the resignation of the Minister Kim who makes dangerous of security.

Otherwise, it seems that there is an expedient judgment working , that is intended to weaken the people’s voice of distrust and criticism being poured onto himself and the Ministry of National Defense, because of its concealment and manipulation on the Cheonan ship incident, successive incidents and irrationality within military, by drawing the support by the bellicose power who is against North Korea and wishes the redeployment of the nuclear weapon of the United States [in the Korean peninsula] or nuclear arming of South Korea.

Therefore, denouncing the absurd remark by Kim Tae-Young, Ministry of National Defense, who attempts to avoid rebukes being poured on him and Ministry of National Defense, we strongly demand his immediate resignation.

The authorities of the ROK and United States should promptly enter for the NK-US talks, four party peace forum and six party talks for the non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and conclusion of peace agreement!

North Korean’s making public of her uranium enrichment facilities means the lines of ‘strategic endurance’ by the Obama administration and ‘non-nuclearization first’ and ‘apology first on the Cheonan ship incident’ by the Lee Myung Bak administration have become totally failed. A situation in which sanction is not effective and North Korean nuclear ability is being strengthened as time goes-not desired by the authorities of the United States. That is the situation that we have constantly claimed; sanction and oppression rather aggravates the states of things; and time is not in the side of the authorities of the ROK and United States.

The authorities of South Korea, United States and Japan are told to have decided the measure to demand the stop of the uranium enrichment to North Korea for the premise of the resumption of the six party talks, after their going through an emergency discussion related to the opening of uranium enrichment facility by North Korea. It means that while they self-acknowledge that the conditions that they have claimed in the past have failed while revealed their embarrassing situation and limit, by putting a new condition again on the other hand.

Director, Hecker has said, “It is clear that waiting patiently for Pyeongyang to return to the six party talks on terms acceptable to the United States and it allies will exacerbate the problem. A military attack is out of the question. Tightening sanctions further is likewise a dead end…The only hope appears to be engagement.”

We demand the ROK and US authorities to stop their unmeaning behaviors of continuing sanction and oppression with taking pre-condition for talks, following the advice by the director Hecker. We demand the authorities of the ROK and United States to promptly start various kinds of talks and negotiation on the NK-US talks, four party talks (South Korea, North Korea, United States and China), peace forum, six party talks and to contribute to the permanent peace in the Korean peninsula and North East Asia.

Nov. 23, 2010

Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea
/ press interview participants

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To see Siegfried Hecker's Yongbyon report, download the below.

SH_Yongbyonreport.pdf
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Photo & Video Fwd: A Korean American teen staged one man protest for peace in Korea during the G20 재미 동포, 조너선 리 (13살) G20기간 한반도 평화호소 1인시위

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* Related blog

[In Update] People’s Response Action against G-20
[엎데이트중] G20대응민중행동
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* Image source: Yahoo News
'People walk past as Jonathan Lee, a Korean-American from Mississippi, stages a one-man protest near the venue of the G20 Summit in Seoul November 12, 2010. The teenage American boy travelled to North Korea last August with a letter asking North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to allow the creation of a peace forest which would grow over the heavily armed demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas.(REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won)'

* Image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea 평통사 국문 클릭(original source: Yonhap News)

A remarkable boy, Jonathan Lee(13) had a press interview on Nov. 10, stating his will to do a one man protest, 7hours in each day of Nov. 11 and 12. The slogan is the both Koreas and United States should make a peace agreement , end the war and form a children peace forest inside the DMZ.
For more on his protest and speech during Nov. 11 to 12, see the videos below.

Jonathan Lee's one man protest outside of G20 summit meeting venue, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 11, 2010 (Video URL)



13 Year Old US Boy to Protest for Peace at G20 (Video URL)

Photo Fwd: Obama should enter the talk for peace agreement in the Korean peninsula! 오바마는 한반도 평화 협정 체결을 위한 대화에 나서라

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* Related blogs

Friday, November 12, 2010
Text Fwd: 'No waver in commitment to security of S. Korea' (*Obama in the Yongsan USFK base speech )
남한의 안보에 대한 사명감에 어떠한 지연도 없을 것(*오바마, 용산 미군 기지 연설)

Friday, November 12, 2010
Photos Fwd: [Upon the ROK-US summit meeting] Abolish the FTA! Resume the NK-US talks! No ROK-US alliance!
[사진] 자유 무역 협정 폐기하라! 북미 대화 재개하라! 한미 동맹 폐기하라!

Thursday, November 11, 2010
Text Fwd: [Translation] The problems of the ROK-US summit meeting
[번역] 한미 정상 회담의 문제점들

[In Update] People’s Response Action against G-20
[엎데이트중] G20대응민중행동
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* Image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea 평통사 클릭

Obama should enter the talk for peace agreement in the Korean peninsula!
In front of the Yongsan USFK base, 10am, Nov. 11, 2010

Obama should mot make South Korea as the first victim of U. S. economic crisis
through the FTA and G20!
The United States government should not make South Koreans pay for her military burden!
Do not transfer all the burden for base relocation cost to Koreans!

Photos Fwd: [Benjamin Hiller] G20 Protest Seoul, Nov. 7 to 8 젊은 독일 사진가 벤자민 힐러의 G20 리포트, 11월 7일~8일

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* Related blogs 관련 블로그들

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Fwd: More Photos on G 20 Protest : Nov. 7, Pan-Korean Workers' Rally
더 많은 전국 노동자 대회, 11 월 7일 사진들

Monday, November 8, 2010
Photos Fwd: An evening festival before the Pan Korean Workers’ rally , Nov. 6, 2010
11월 6일 전국노동자대회 전야제 열림

Monday, September 20, 2010
Text Fwd: Put People First!: Launch of the “People’s Response Action against the G-20” on Sept. 15:
9월 15일 G20대응민중행동’ 출범

All the blogs on G20 (42 as of Nov. 9, 2010)
G20 관련 모든 블로그들(2010년 11월 9일 날자로 42개)
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* Photo courtesy: Benjamin Hiller (Click HERE)

'Pan Korean Workers' rally, Nov. 7, 2010
STOP G20!

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Benjamin Hiller, a young German photographer is making a wonderful coverage on the protest against G20.

He says Demotix, where he publishes his photos, has now opened a news-hub especially for the G20 coverage. You can check it in the below:

http://www.demotix.com/g20-summit
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Here are some of the photos and texts from his coverage.
All the photo courtesy here is Benjamin Hiller.

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1. G20 Seoul: Candlelight activists join Anti-FTA Sit-In, [Nov. 8, 2010]

Members and supporters from the Democratic Labor Party hold candles during their Sit-In against the FTA agreement between USA & South Korea as well as in protest against the upcoming G20 Summit in Seoul. Seoul, Korea. The police fears a situation like 2008 when the candlelight activists counted 100.000s.

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2. Democratic Labour Party hold G20 Seoul Protest [Nov. 8, 2010]

* Note: The Lee Myung-Bak government and US started a secret talks to pass Free Trade Agreement with a worse revised version including the import of the US beef, on Monday, Nov. 8. As the news was known, all the progressives are now in emergency situation.

No ROK-US FTA

Today members from the Democratic Labour Party started an Sit-In in the center of the city. They will stay there for the next few days until the G20 Summit is over.

See more photos
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3. G20 Seoul: Press Conference of Anti-G20 activists, [Nov. 8, 2010]

Anti-G20 activists held an emergency conference after the detention of Philippine activists and denial of visas for activists to travel to Korea. The speakers were from Malaysia, Japan, Spain, South Africa and Korea. Seoul, Korea. 08/11/2010

Charles Santiago (Malaysia), member of the Malaysia Parliament, condemned especially the deportation of the Philippine activists. Seoul, Korea. 08/11/2010.

James Tyotyo from the Confederation of South Africa Trade Union concluded, that since 2008 the G20 has been nothing than a talk show and has failed to deliver any coordinated response to the economic and financial crisis. Seoul, Korea. 08/11/2010.

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4. G20 Seoul: Press Conference of Anti-G20 activists, [Nov. 7, 2010]

Workers from a Samsung factory protest against the worse working conditions as well as the high death toll at that factory. 07/11/2010. Seoul, Korea.

Stop the increment on the defense budget, that counter against the peace agreement!

'Today the first big Demonstration against the upcoming G20 Summit in Seoul/Kora took place. Around 40.000 Demonstrators (the Police says 20.000) attend the rally at the Seoul Plaza, a central place directly next to the City Hall of Seoul.

The rally started around 12 am and stayed peaceful until 6 pm. Than the Demonstrators tried to break through the Police-lines and march towards the inner City core. But the massive presence of more than 8.000 Rito-Cops (including water-guns and barriers constructed out of buses) held them off. During this scuffles several Demonstrators as well as Riot-Cops got arrested.

The rally focused mainly on the topics "Globalization" as well as "Neoliberalism", but also about the criticized "Four River" Project in South-Korea and Migration Rights.

In four days, at November 11, the main demonstration will take place. The State has announced to use all its force (50.000 Police in Seoul) to protect the COEX center (where the Summit will take place) against the Demonstration.'

See more photos

Text Fwd:[ Korea Report] Crossing the Border in the DMZ

* Korea Report on Aug. 21, 2010
Crossing the Border in the DMZ

Rev. Han Sang-ryol (top photo) crosses the Demarcation Line separating the two sides of Korea into South Korea after visiting North Korea with a message of peace, reconciliation and hope for reunification. Until few years ago, this act would not have caused a stir in South Korea, used to an upsurge of inter-Korea exchanges that brought steady border crossings, trade and joint ventures during a decade of inter-Korean rapproachement, brought on by former president Kim Dae-jung's "Sunshine policy" and followed on by former president Roh Moo-hyun -- who himself crossed the boarder on foot similarly to North Korea on an official visit.

But now, with the conservative Lee Myung-bak government in place, the border has been closed off and the clock has been turned back to the old days of open confrontation and hostilities between the two sides of Korea, and Rev. Han is likely to be prosecuted with the archaic National Security Law that outlaws unauthorized contacts with North Korea or activities "supporting" North Korea.

Rev. Han's action is reminiscent of similar feat by college student Im Soo-kyung (bottom photo) in 1989, whose unprecedented and courageous action inspired Koreans towards inter-Korea reconciliation. Im spent five years in prison for crossing the border (in violation of the National Security Law), along with Father Moon Kyu-hyun, who accompanied her on the crossing in support.

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* Related petitions and video

_[Three International Petitions] to End the Korean war and peace treaty(or peace resolution)

_ Korea Report
August 18, 2010
DMZ to DC 2010: Calling for Permanent Peace in Korea

Photos Fwd: Koreans' Joint Action against War Exercise July 25 to 28

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* Please see the Joint Action's Statement on July 25, 2010, HERE
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* Image source: Joint Action for the Truth Examination of the Cheonan ship Incident and Peace in the Korean Peninsula

*Stop War Exercise, Start Peace Talk.

* The candles lit in front of the United States embassy for three nights from July 25 to 28, 2010.

* Singers for peace

* Passengers looking at the publicity material, made by the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification of Korea, South Korean branch.

* A Student dance group dance against ROK-US war exercise.

* Image source: Joint Action for the Truth Examination of the Cheonan ship Incident and Peace in the Korean Peninsula

Text Fwd:[Translation] Joint Action's Letter on July 25, 2010

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* Below is the arbitrary translation. The original Korean statement written on July 25, 2010, can be seen HERE and in many organizations' sites including HERE. 'The Joint Action for the Truth Examination of the Cheonan Ship Incident and Peace in the Korean Peninsula (http://326true.net/) is a joint framework to examine the truth of the ‘sunken Cheonan ship incident’ that is full of suspicion and to realize the peace in the Korean peninsula. It started by 43 organizations on June 16, 2010' (translation from its introduction site)
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정전협정 체결 57년

Upon the 57th commemoration of the conclusion on the Ceasefire agreement

천안함 진실규명, 한미 군사훈련 중단,
평화협정 체결 촉구 서한

Letter to Call Upon the Truth Examination of the Cheonan Ship,
Stop of the ROK-US War Exercise
And Conclusion of the Peace Agreement

정전협정 체결 57년이 되는 올해, 한반도 일대의 군사적 긴장은 크게 고조되고 있다.

This year when the conclusion on the ceasefire agreement meets its 57th commemoration, the militaristic tension in the Korean peninsula is being immensely heightened.

천안함 침몰사건을 빌미로 한 대대적인 대북압박, 군사대결 정책으로 인해 군사분계선과 해상 경계선 일대에서 군사적 충돌 위험이 매우 높아졌다. 특히 오늘부터 동해에서는 1976년 판문점 위기 이후 최대규모의 해,공군 합동 한미연합 전쟁연습 ‘불굴의 의지’가 시작되었으며, 북측에서도 이에 대응하여 ‘물리적 대응’, ‘보복성전’을 경고하고 나섰다.

Because of the extensive oppression against North Korea and military confrontation policy, the danger of militaristic clash has been very heightened in the areas of the Military Demarcation Line and Maritime borderline. Especially from today, the joint ROK-US naval & air war exercise, ‘Invincible Spirit,’ which is the largest scale since the Panmunjeom crisis in 1976, has begun in the East Sea, and North Korea responded against it warning of ‘ physical response,’ and ‘sacred retaliation war.’

한반도 일대의 적대적 대결과 충돌은 남북 민중, 나아가 동북아 민중 모두의 평화적 생존권을 위협하는 일이다. 한반도 일대의 군사적 긴장을 없애기 위해서는 주한미군을 비롯한 전쟁무력을 없애고 평화협정을 체결하여 전쟁상태를 완전히 끝내고 공고한 평화체제를 구축해야 한다.

The hostile confrontation and clash in the area of Korean peninsula threatens the right to live in peace, of the people in South and North Korea and further of the people in the North East Asia. To get rid of the militaristic tension in the Korean peninsula zone, it is necessary to eliminate the war military power including the United States Forces of Korea; to conclude the peace agreement to completely end the status of war; and to establish the stable peace structure.

천안함 침몰 사건에 대한 모든 정보를 공개하고 전면적인 재조사를 실시하라!

Open all the information on the incident of the sunken Cheonan Ship and act on the whole reexamination on it!

천안함 침몰사건은 오늘날 한반도 일대의 군사적 대결과 충돌 위험을 고조시키는 핵심적 요인이 되고 있음에도 불구하고, 그 진상에 대한 안팎의 의혹이 해결되지 못한 채 날로 증폭되고 있다.

Even though the Cheonan ship incident is becoming today, the factor that intensifies the militaristic confrontation and possibly dangerous clash in the area of the Korean peninsula, the suspicions surrounding the truth of the [incident] have not been settled but rather increased daily.

천안함 침몰 사건 조사 발표 내용 중 이미 TOD 동영상 편집 조작, 사건 발생 시간 보고 조작, 설계도 관련 조작 등 숱한 조작들이 확인된 바 있으며, 어뢰 파편 흡착물 의혹, ‘1번’ 글씨 및 어뢰 파편의 부식 기간 의혹, 침몰 장소와 TOD 동영상 방위각 사이의 이격, 당시 진행된 한미 대잠수함 훈련 문제 등 많은 의혹들이 계속 쏟아지고 있다.

Among the announced content of the investigation on the sunken Cheonan ship, countless manipulations- such as those of the TOD movie editing, of the incident occurrence time, and of the related [North Korean torpedo] design draft- have already been clear, while there are pouring out many suspicions like- on an adhesive material on the torpedo fragment, ‘ 1 번’ (*pronounced il-beon, meaning NO. 1), the corrosion period in the torpedo fragment, sunken site, differently [identified] angle from the azimuth angles in the TOD movie, and the matter of ROK-US submarine exercise that was being processed at the time.

한미 양국은 더 이상 진상규명 요구를 외면하지 말고 천안함 침몰 사건에 대한 관련 정보를 모두 공개하고, 국정조사 및 남과 북이 함께 참가하는 공동조사 등 전면적인 재조사를 통해 한 점 의혹도 남김없이 진상을 규명하라!

The both ROK & US authorities should no more neglect the demand for the examination on the truth; should all open the information related to the sunken Cheonan ship; and should totally examine the truth without a suspicion left through a total reinvestigation such as the investigation on the government affairs and joint investigation in which the South and North join together!

대규모 한미연합 전쟁연습 즉각 중단하고, 대북 군사대결 정책 철회하라!

Immediately stop the large-scale ROK-US joint war exercise and withdraw the military confrontation policy against North Korea!

한미 양국은 오늘부터 동해 일대에서 항공모함 ‘조지 워싱턴’호, 이지스함 등 20여척의 함정을 비롯해 F-22 전투기 등 200여대의 항공기를 동원한 대규모의 해,공군 합동 훈련을 진행하고 있다.

From today, the both ROK-US nations are processing the large-scale naval-air joint drill in the area of East Sea, in which they mobilize the aircraft carrier, ‘George Washington,’ 20 naval vessels such as Aegis Destroyer, and 200 air crafts such as the F-22 fighter planes.

이번 훈련은 ‘천안함 대응조치’의 일환으로 진행되는 것으로서 은폐 조작된 진상조사 결과를 앞세워 실질적인 무력시위를 하겠다는 것에 다름 아니다. 한미 양국이 대대적인 군사훈련, 무력시위를 강행함에 따라 북측도 군사적 대응을 공언하고 나섰다. 힘과 힘이 충돌할 우려가 현실화되고 있는 셈이다.

This exercise is being processed as part of the ‘response measure on the Cheonan ship’ and it is nothing but that [the ROK & US are exposing their intention] that they are to do virtual military demonstration alleging a concealed and manipulated investigation of truth. As the both authorities of the ROK & US enforce the extensive military exercise & military power demonstration, the North Korea presented herself to declare that she would do the military response. The apprehension that power and power might clash each other is being realized.

그러나 미국 주도의 유엔안보리에서 조차 천안함 공격의 당사자가 북이라는 한미 양국의 주장이 수용되지 않았고, 아세안지역안보포럼(ARF)에서는 침몰에 대한 ‘규탄’ 언급도 빠져버렸다. 반면, 유엔안보리 의장성명과 ARF 의장성명에서는 ‘대화와 협상을 통한 평화적 해결’, ‘6자회담의 조속한 재개’를 권고하였다. 이것만이 한반도 일대에서의 군사적 충돌을 막고 실질적인 해결을 강제할 수 있기 때문이다.

However, even in the UN Security Council lead by the United States, the claim by the both authorities of the ROK & US was not accepted and in the Asian Regional Security Forum (ARF), even the mention of ‘denunciation’ was dropped out. On the other side, the UN Security Council Presidential Statement and ARF Presidential Statement recommended the ‘peaceful solution through dialogue and negotiation,’ and ‘prompt resumption of the six party talks.’ It is because only those can block military clash in the Korean peninsula area and enforce the virtual settlement of it.

한미 양국은 평화를 파괴하고 군사적 충돌 위험성을 높이는 무력시위, ‘불굴의 의지’ 군사훈련을 즉각 중단하고, 대북 군사대결 정책을 철회하라!

The both authorities of ROK & US should immediately stop the military exercise, ‘invincible spirit,’ a military power demonstration that intensifies the danger of military clash and should withdraw the military confrontation policy against North Korea!

정전협정 폐기하고 평화협정 체결하라!

Abolish the Ceasefire Agreement and Conclude the Peace Agreement!

한반도 일대의 군사적 긴장상태가 해소되지 않는 것은 근본적으로 정전협정이 평화협정으로 전환되지 않고 있기 때문이다.

The reason that the situation of the militaristic tension in the Korean peninsula is not settled is fundamentally because the peace agreement is not being converted into the peace agreement.

전쟁이 일시 중단된 현재의 상태로는 언제라도 군사적 충돌이 일어날 수 있으며, 최악의 경우 전면전으로 비화될 위험성도 배제할 수 없다. 그 뿐 아니라, 이를 빌미로 한 주한미군 주둔과 패권적 한미동맹으로 인해 자주권과 평화적 생존권이 심각히 파괴되고 민중의 혈세가 빼앗기고 있다.

In the current situation when the war is temporarily paused, there could be militaristic clash any time and one cannot exclude the danger that it could expand into all-out war in the worst. Not only that, due to the stationing United States Forces of Korea and dominating ROK-US alliance, the right of self-reliance and right to live Peacefully are being seriously destroyed and people’s bloody tax are being gotten rid of.

6 자회담 당사국들은 9.19 공동성명에서 한반도의 영구적 평화체제 수립을 위해 별도의 포럼을 열기로 합의하였고, 지난 해 보즈워스 특사의 방북 이후 미국도 ‘평화협정 체결 협상’이 시작될 수 있음을 거론한 바 있는 만큼, 대북 압박을 즉각 중단하고 평화협정 협상에 나서야 한다.

The related parties of the six party talks have agreed with one another in 9.19 joint statement to hold a separate forum for the permanent peace system in the Korean peninsula and just as after Bosworth’s-the special envoy- visit to North Korea last year, the United States has mentioned that ‘the negotiation on the conclusion of the peace agreement’ could be started soon, the [United States] should immediately stop the oppression against North Korea and step forward to peace agreement.

이명박 정부 또한 북측 김계관 부상의 방미를 좌절시킨데 이어 리처드슨 뉴멕시코 지사의 방북을 가로막는 등 북미 간 접촉과 대화를 방해하는 시대역행적이고 치졸한 행태를 즉각 중단하고, 남북관계 개선과 한반도 평화를 위한 대화에 즉각 나서라!

The Lee Myung-Bak government should immediately stop the era-retrogressive and crude behavior that interrupts the contact & dialogue between North Korea & United States also, such as blocking the visit by Richardson- the State Governor of the New Mexico-to North Korea, after break-downing of the visit by Kim Kye Gwan-the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in North Korea- to the United States; and should immediately step forward for the improvement of the inter-Korean relationship and dialogue for the peace in the Korean peninsula!

한반도 일대의 평화가 크게 위협당하고, 대화와 협상의 전망이 극히 어두워져 있는 지금, 우리는 평화를 실현하기 위한 투쟁을 힘차게 전개할 것이다.

Now the peace in the area of the Korean peninsula is being seriously threatened and the prospect for dialogue and negotiation is immensely darkened, we will briskly unfold our struggles to realize peace.

우리는 우선 전쟁연습 기간인 오늘부터 28일까지 전국 각지에서 농성과 촛불시위, 기자회견과 1인 시위 등을 통해 한미연합군사훈련을 규탄하고 그 중단을 촉구하는 여론을 모아나갈 것이며, 앞으로 미군없는 평화협정 체결, 공고한 평화체제 구축을 실현하기 위해 각계의 실천을 계속 조직해 나갈 것이다.

In the first place, from today to 28th which is the war exercise period, we will denounce the ROK-US joint war exercise through nationwide sit-ins, candle protests, press interviews and one-man protests; will gather the public opinion to demand the stop of it; and in the future, we will continuously organize the practices from the various fields to realize the conclusion of the peace agreement [by which] the USFK [withdraw], and establishment of firm peace system.


2010년 7월 25일

July 25, 2010

천안함 사건 진실규명과 한반도 평화를 위한 공동행동

Joint Action for the Truth Examination of the Cheonan ship Incident and Peace in the Korean Peninsula

Poster Fwd: Come to D.C. July 25-27, 2010

* Click the image for the larger view

* from the National Campaign to End the Korean War

Come to D.C. July 25-27, 2010

Join us July 25-27 for our National Campaign Strategy Meeting in Washington, press conference and meetings with State Dept and Congress. Contact us to attend at info@endtheKoreanwar.org.

60 Years: Campaign says peace is the way to avoid naval clashes

10 Reasons Why the U.S. Must Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea

Exciting Teaching Initiative on Korea War with ASCK

Action Toolkit and Resource Guide

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* Three International Petitions to End the Korean War! Peace Treaty (or Resolution) Now! : Please Click HERE
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[Three International Petitions] to End the Korean war and peace treaty(or peace resolution)

* Image source/ related blog: Korea Report, June 25, 2010

* Image source/ related blog: Click HERE
'Armistice Agreement, July 27, 1953' (original source: Panmunjeom Travel center)
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* Please take time. These movements could be crucial to stabilize the peace in Korea and in the North East Asia, as well.

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1. [famoksaiyanfriends] SIGN THE PETITION "60 Years Is Enough--End the Korean War Now!"!

* Informed from Martha Duenas on July 10, 2010

60 Years Is Enough--End the Korean War Now!

You can view this petition at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/7483361

Message from Christine Hong:

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Dear everyone,

Please take a moment to sign (and to pass to allies--particularl y folks who live in the 9th District) the petition, "60 Years Is Enough--End the Korean War Now!" Our aim is to get Congresswoman Barbara Lee to introduce a statement calling for a peaceful resolution to the as-yet unended Korean War on the House floor on Tuesday, July 27 (Korean Armistice Day), of this year.

Many thanks for your support. Christine

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2. Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea

http://www.spark946.org/bugsboard/lee/mj_english_doing.htm

Sign the petition

for a Korean peninsula Peace Treaty

Join the people who are signing petitions for a Korean peace treaty, to be delivered to the governments of four countries : South Korea, North Korea, China and U.S.

Send your name, organization, state by e-mail (to SPARK)

The name list will be published as an advertisement in the newspaper on every 27 July, the day when the Korean War Armistice Agreement was signed in 1953, More than 30,000 people have signed the petition by now.

→ Peace Agreement for the Korean Peninsula (proposed draft)

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3. National Campaign to End the Korean War

http://www.endthekoreanwar.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=17

About the National Campaign to End the Korean War

The National Campaign to End the Korean War is the collaboration of more than 50 leading Korean-American, veterans, and human rights organizations working to promote a U.S.-Korea policy that will bring about a lasting peace on the Korean peninsula. Our goal is to finally end the 1950-1953 Korean War through the signing of a peace treaty between the United States and North Korea. For more information, please visit: http://www.endthekoreanwar.org

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* You may also refer to

: Writing by Cheong Wooksik (peace Network): Cheonan sinking and New Cold War in Asia
June 30, 2010

:Statement: Veterans of the Korean War Call for a Real Peace Treaty
(Veterans for Peace, United States)
[국문 번역]성명서:한국 전쟁 [미] 재향 군인들, 진정한 평화 조약을 요구한다.
(미국 평화 재향 군인회)
June 25, 2010 2010년 6월 25일

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Video: Oh, Peace!: A Video for the Realization of the Peace Treaty by the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea (Korean/ Oct. 10, 2008)

Video: Casting Crowns - White Dove Fly High(URL Informed in Korea Report)



Video: The long road to Korean reunification - 21 Sep 07 (Video URL)