Text Fwd: [MIKE WHITNEY] The Korean War, Round Two [마이크 휘트니] 한국 전쟁 라운드 2

* Text informed from Steve Zeltzer on Dec. 11, 2010

Counterpunch
Games of Provocation
The Korean War, Round Two
Weekend Edition
December 10 - 12, 2010
By MIKE WHITNEY

The Obama administration is playing a dangerous game of chicken on the Korean peninsula and it could end in war. North Korea responded to provocative joint military operations between the US and South Korea off its coast by shelling nearby Yeonpyeong Island which lies in disputed waters. The North's artillery attack killed four and left many others wounded. US and South Korean officials have vehemently condemned the attack and promised to retaliate to any similar incident in the future.

The media have helped to inflame passions and demanding "payback". Propaganda fliers have been spread across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), some of them reaching as far north as Pyongyang. According to the Korea JoongAng Daily an official from the South Korean Ministry of National Defense said "the South is prepared to broadcast propaganda along the DMZ and that the ministry is “weighing the timing.”...Loudspeakers are already installed in 11 areas along the DMZ for further propaganda attacks." ("Propaganda war escalates; use of loudspeakers mulled", Korea JoongAng Daily)

Journalist Gregory Elich explains the details surrounding the incident in an article on Counterpunch titled "Menacing North Korea":

"In response to the South Korean announcement of an impending artillery drill, North Korea telephoned the South Korean military on the morning of November 23, urging them to cancel plans to fire shells into what the North regarded as its territorial waters. The North warned that if the drill proceeded, they would respond with a "resolute physical counter-strike."

Nevertheless, the artillery drill proceeded and four hours later, North Korean artillery fired on the island. In the first round, 150 shells were shot, of which 60 hit the island. Then 20 more shells were fired in a second round. In all, four people on the island were killed and 18 wounded."

The US/South Korea war games are a deliberate provocation, no different than if China or Russia sent an armada to conduct operations 3 miles off Cape Cod. Even so, the White House is using the incident to put pressure China to coerce the North into acceding to US diktats. So far, China has played a constructive role by calling for 6 party talks, but that hasn't placated the Obama administration. What Washington wants is regime change, and it's tightened sanctions and increased its saber rattling to achieve its goal. Here's more from the Korea JoongAng Daily which lays out the US plan for escalation:

"The heads of the U.S. and South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed to change defenses against North Korean attacks yesterday, with South Korea getting a leading role in immediate retaliations and the Americans pledging support.

The agreement was made as Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, made an unexpected visit to Seoul yesterday to reaffirm America’s commitment to its alliance with South Korea. Mullen spoke with his South Korean counterpart, Han Min-koo, about North Korea early yesterday.

“North Korea’s attacks are getting bolder and bolder,” said Han. “If they choose to strike again they will be punished severely, and North Korea will pay a big price.” ("U.S. top brass discusses new retaliation strategy",Korea JoongAng Daily)

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Text Fwd: Leading pro-democracy intellectual dies at 81 한국 민주주의의 지도적 지성 리영희 선생님 별세

국문 비디오를 여기에서 보실 수 있읍니다. 사이트에서 마우스를 내려가실 것(클릭)

Hankyoreh
Leading pro-democracy intellectual dies at 81
: Lee Young-hee was a leading critic of authoritarian administrations that took power after the Korean War
Dec. 6, 2010

Lee Young-hee, a national symbol of an intellectual activist and a major figure in the journalist sector, passed away Sunday at the age of 81.

Lee, a former Hanyang University professor emeritus and editorial adviser for the Hankyoreh, died at around 12:40 a.m. Sunday at Green Hospital in the Myeonmok neighborhood of Seoul’s Jungnang District, where he had been hospitalized for chronic illness.

Lee’s life was a long battle with the anti-intellectualism and anti-democracy forces that had him dismissed twice each from press and university positions and arrested a total of five times. Following his imprisonment in 1980 after the new military regime of Chun Doo-hwan fingered him as one of the ringleaders behind the Gwangju Uprising, the French daily Le Monde called him “an intellectual mentor.”

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His books “Logic of a Transitional Era” (1974) and “Idols and Reason” (1977) provided candid pictures of the true nature of the Vietnam War concealed under anti-Communist ideology, and the realities of Communist China. Both were among the era’s most prominent banned books.

His statements of concern about the era did not stop even after the right half of his body was paralyzed following a cerebral hemorrhage in 2000. Lee, who once said, “My hope is that one day my books do not sell a single copy and my royalties come out to zero Won,” died without ever seeing a society where his books were not needed.

Video Fwd: [Press TV] Arash Zahedi talks to Sara Flounders on US Korea Wargames [프레스 TV] 아래쉬 자헤디, 사라 플라운더스와 한미 전쟁 연습에 대해 말하다

* Video thankfully informed by Steve Zeltzer then Lotus Fong on Dec. 5, 2010

Press TV's Arash Zahedi talks to Sara Flounders on US Korea Wargames

Text Fwd: [Marmilist] Fact check on North Korean casualties 사실 자료: 한국 전쟁중 북한쪽 사상자들

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* Text thankfully forwarded by albertsargis through Marmilist groups then Lotus Fong from Nov. 29, 2010 to Dec. 2, 2010. The emphases comes from the senders.
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[Marmilist moderator's note: for further background information on DPRK war/military theory & strategy also check out the Marmilist archive post of March 23, 2010 Army first, or army-centered politics (Songun Chongch'i) of DPRK (w/Al's comment)]

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Global Research, November 27, 2010

The World is at a dangerous crossroads.

The US is seeking a pretext to wage war on North Korea.

North Korea is said to constitute a threat to Global Security.

From the Truman Doctrine to Obama. The history of the 1950s Korean war confirms that extensive war crimes were committed against the Korean people. As confirmed by the statement of General Curtis Lemay:

"Over a period of three years or so we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population."1

North Korea lost close to thirty percent of its population as a result of US led bombings in the 1950s. US military sources confirm that 20 percent of North Korea's population was killed off over a three period of intensive bombings:

"After destroying North Korea's 78 cities and thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her civilians, [General] LeMay remarked, "Over a period of three years or so we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population." It is now believed that the population north of the imposed 38th Parallel lost nearly a third its population of 8 - 9 million people during the 37-month long "hot" war, 1950 - 1953, perhaps an unprecedented percentage of mortality suffered by one nation due to the belligerance of another."2

During The Second World War the United Kingdom lost 0.94% of its population, France lost 1.35%, China lost 1.89% and the US lost 0.32%. During the Korean war, North Korea lost close to 30 % of its population.

These figures of civilian deaths in North Korea should also be compared to those compiled for Iraq by the Lancet Study (John Hopkins School of Public Health). The Lancet study estimated a total of 655,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, following the US led invasion (March 2003- June 2006).

We call upon the people of the US, Canada and NATO countries to put pressure on their governments.

A war on North Korea would engulf the entire region.


PEACE IS PATRIOTIC.

SAY NO TO A WAR ON KOREA

SAY NO TO MILITARY ESCALATION

Michel Chossudovsky

NOTE
1. Curtis Lemay quoted in Richard Rhodes, "The General and World War III," The New Yorker, June 19, 1995, p. 53.
2. See Brian Willson,Korea and the Axis of Evil, Global Research, October 2006
3. The population of North Korea was of the order of 8-9 million in 1950 prior the Korean war.
US sources acknowledge 1.55 million civilian deaths in North Korea, 215,000 combat deaths. MIA/POW 120,000, 300,000 combat troops wounded. (Wikipedia)
South Korean military sources estimate the number of civilian deaths/wounded/missing at 2.5 million, of which some 990,900 are in South Korea.
Another estimate places Korea War total deaths, civilian plus combat at 3.5 million.

Compilation by estimates:
North Korea:

* NoKo Military
o 130,000 KIA (Pentagon: ¼ "KWM")
o 294,151 (Nahm93)
o 214,899 KIA + 101,680 MIA (Wallechinsky; Clodfelter, citing ["highly suspect"] Defense Dept. est.) [=316,579]
o 316,579 (COWP)
o 350,000 (Rummel)
o 520,000 (Small & Singer, FAS)
o [MEDIAN: 316,579]
* NoKo Civilian
o 406,000 killed + 680,000 missing (Nahm93)
o Up to 1,000,000 (Wallechinsky; Clodfelter)
o 1,185,000 (Rummel)
o [MEDIAN: 1,000,000]
* NoKo Military + Civilian
o 500,000 (Britannica)
o 700,000 (Dictionary of 20C World History)
o 926,000 (Compton's)
o 1,316,579 (Wallechinsky; Clodfelter)
o 1,380,151 (Nahm93)
o 1,535,000 (Rummel)
o [MEDIAN: 1,316,579]

Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at University of Ottawa, is the head of the Center for Research on Globalization, an independent Canadian think tank.

Text Fwd: Action Alert – Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea

* Image source: same as the link

* Text sent from Bruce Gagnon on Nov. 28, 2010

End the Korean War
Action Alert – Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea


Action Alert – ONLINE DEMONSTRATION for Peace in Korea - Sun 11/28 and Wed 12/1

President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning this Sunday, November 28.

This only escalates the already tense situation on the Korean peninsula and brings us dangerously closer to an all-out war.

And the blogosphere is already full of hate-mongering rhetoric calling for “retaliation” after the tragic incident on Yeonpyong Island earlier this week.

Two civilians and two South Korean soldiers have died. We say NO MORE LOST LIVES.

We need all those who stand for peace to call for de-escalation on the Korean peninsula and an immediate end to the U.S.-South Korean war games.


On Sunday, November 28, from 12 noon to 3 pm EST (9 am to 12 noon PST)

and Wednesday, December 1 from 7 pm to 10 pm EST (4pm to 7 pm PST)

Join the National Campaign to End the Korean War (www.endthekoreanwar.org)
in a coordinated "online demonstration" -


1. Barrage the White House and State Department with emails and urge President Obama and State Secretary Clinton to immediately stop the joint U.S.-South Korean war maneuvers, and sign a Peace Treaty to end the state of war that has existed for sixty years on the Korean peninsula- http://www.whitehouse.gov/contacthttp://contact-us.state.gov/


2. Post replies on online media sites and blogs where they are discussing the issue and beat back the war-mongering rhetoric with calls for de-escalation and a peaceful resolution. Refer to the attached factsheet for talking points. Some suggested sites are -

www.cnn.com
www.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com
www.huffingtonpost.com
www.npr.org
www.bbc.co.uk
www.news.yahoo.com
www.voanews.com
www.abcnews.go.com
www.foreignpolicy.com


3. Post links to articles calling for diplomacy on listserves, blogs, facebook, twitter -

• "North Korea's Consistent Message to the U.S." By former President Jimmy Carter in the Washington Post, November 24, 2010

• “Retaliation, Retaliation" by Paul Liem of the Korea Policy Institute, Nov 25, 2010

• "Crisis in Korea?" by John Feffer, Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus in the Huffington Post, Nov 23

• Tim Shorrock Posted on the Daily Beast

• Tim Shorrock on Democracy

• “A Return Trip to North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Complex” By Siegfried S. Hecker

• “Review U.S. Policy toward North Korea” Bob Carlin and John Lewis


Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652 Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 443-9502 globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)


Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

Text Fwd: [News Briefing] Standoff intensifies over China’s Korean War remarks 중국의 한국 전쟁 발언으로 한미 와 중국 관계 거리감 심화

Hankyoreh
[News Briefing] Standoff intensifies over China’s Korean War remarks
Oct. 29, 2010

The Chinese government on Thursday supported remarks by China’s Vice President Xi Jinping that China‘s entry into the Korean War was “a great and just war for safeguarding peace and resisting aggression” from the U.S.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu made the Chinese government’s position clear, saying that Xi’s remarks are the decided view of the Chinese government, while South Korea and the U.S. government have denounced them.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Xi on Monday met with veterans and heroes of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the volunteer army entering the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to help in the war to resist U.S. aggression, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Xi said in his speech that China’s entering was “also a great victory gained by the united combat forces of China’s and the DPRK’s civilians and soldiers, and a great victory in the pursuit of world peace and human progress.”

The Chinese people will never forget the friendship established in battle with the DPRK’s people and army, Xi added.　

The Xinhua and the Chinese Communist Party’s organ People’s Daily, however, ran an article on their websites Thursday to acknowledge that the Korean War was started by North Korea’s invasion based on former Soviet Union documents.　

Text Fwd: US 'likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011'

* Image source: same as the link

* Text informed from the Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government on Sept. 6, 2010

Press TV
US 'likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011' :Despite US announcement of complete withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, Washington will reportedly keep thousands of soldiers in the war-torn nation.

American military experts said the remaining forces are expected to stay in Iraq beyond 2011 as a 'peacekeeping force' for a decade, AFP reported.

Last week, US President Barack Obama declared an end to Washington's combat mission in the war-ravaged country.

However, about 50,000 US troops remain in Iraq supposedly on training and advisory roles until a complete pull out.

Meanwhile, US officials are planning to employ thousands of private contractors to conduct operations formerly performed by US troops.

The report came after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki last week expressed confidence that "Iraqi security forces are capable of taking full responsibility."

The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 under the pretext of destroying alleged weapons of mass destruction. However, no such weapons were ever found.

Nearly a trillion dollars have been spent and more than 4,400 US soldiers and countless number of Iraqi civilians have been killed since the invasion began.

AGB/MB/HRF

Related Stories:

* US admits Iraq war outcome 'clouded'
* Obama ends US mission in Iraq
* 'Iraqi forces capable of taking over'
* Biden in Iraq as US ends combat mission
* CBO: US war in Iraq costs $709bn

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* Related article
The New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor
In Korea, a Model for Iraq
By PAUL D. WOLFOWITZ
Published: August 30, 2010

EXCERPTS

'The aftermath of another American war is instructive. Fifty-seven years ago, an armistice ended the fighting in Korea — another unpopular conflict, far bloodier than the Iraq war, although shorter. Civilian casualties were horrendous, and the United States and its allies suffered more than half a million military casualties. The South Korean Army took the heaviest losses, but the United States also paid a high price: 33,739 killed or missing in battle and 103,284 wounded. '

[* Note: Some even estimates about 4 million Koreans were killed during the Korean War]

'Some similar considerations apply to Iraq today. First, Iraq occupies a key position in the Persian Gulf, a strategically important region of the world — a position that is all the more important because of the dangerous ambitions of Iran’s rulers.'

'It is well worth celebrating the end of combat operations after seven years, and the homecoming of so many troops. But fully abandoning Iraq would damage the interests of the United States in the region and beyond. Maintaining a long-term commitment, albeit at greatly reduced cost and risk, is the best way to secure the gains that have been achieved with so much sacrifice.'

Paul D. Wolfowitz, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, was the deputy secretary of defense from 2001 to 2005.

[Incheon]Visiting the Wolmi Island and Legacy of War

* Image source: Hankyoreh, July 16, 2010
The 'Bereaved family members of [Wolmi Island] civilians killed during the U.S. air raids during the Korean War hold signboards requesting compensation from South Korean and U.S. governments, July 15. ' According to the article, the Bereaved families have continued more than 2000 day sit-in on Wolmi Island and have 'remained uncompensated for eviction during the war while a $23M park project is underway.' (For a related blog, click HERE)

The signboards say:
The City of Incheon that has robbed of the Wolmi Island should be responsible.
The US military should open all the materials (on the bombing), openly apologize about the civilian massacre incident and make reparation for it
-Civic Committee for the Wolmi Island Natives’ Returning Back to Hometown-

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1. Not well Known Story of the US Napalm Bombing on a Village During the Incheon Landing Operation, Sept. 15, 1950

The Wolmi Island is famous for the Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Incheon Landing operation on Sept. 15, 1950, upon the outbreak of the Korean War. The three landing points of red, green, and blue have now become the ports and recreation sites.

More recently, the native villagers who had to fled their hometown due to the U. S. napalm bombing during the landing operation have been having vigil in their makeshift house for seven years to demand the examination of the truth on the day and compensation for the loss of their hometown. As of Sept. 3, their vigil date met 2171 days.

Visiting with Mr. Lee Haeng-Woo, we happened to see a villager who was 16 years old at the time and an activist who was with him.

The old man said there were about 64 households in their hometown and many were killed by napalm bomb at the time. The activist told us that the reason that the US bombed the villagers’ hometown that had been nothing to do with the DPRK soldiers who had been staying in the landing sites next to the hill where the village was also located on the other side of it but because the US military wanted to use it as their base by expanding the existing Japanese base then.

Even after the US base became not to be used any more, the Ministry of National Defense, ROK and City of Incheon have not consulted the villagers and replaced their land with a city park without the native’s agreement. The villagers have been doing the vigil at the very front of the park, for more than 2171 days by yesterday.

They have also demanded to examine the truth on the US massacre by napalm bombing on the day. It is told that their demand was now some officially acknowledged and they could take the official memorial service for the dead for three years now inside the park.

Still the tasks are being remained for further US & ROK government examination of truth and compensation for the bereaved families of the victims on the day.


The banner on the makeshift vigil house says,'The City of Incheon and Ministry of National Defense should establish a prompt compensation and measure for the returning to ones’ home for the Wolmi-Island natives.'

The natives and activists are doing a rotational vigil at the very site of the natives' hometown now changed to a city park as you can see behind them.
From the natives’ protest site, by climbing up and crossing the hill, you can reach to one of the US Incheon landing sites, called Green beach point, during the Korean War. The site is now a city recreation park.

From the top of the hill, one can see the other landing site in ones’ eastern side.
The old U.S. base has now returned to the City. Statues of the dogs have been set up in the site for the commemoration of the deaths of the dogs that the US military have kept. The natives spit the words that their lives are less worthy than those of dogs in satire.

A stone that says about the history of the Wolmi-Island.

Before going to the Wolmi Island, we have visited Rev. Hong Keun-Soo, a co-executive Chairperson of the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea (SPARK), and who is now in a nursing home for the Parkinson disease. Thanks to Agatha Haun and Marion Kennedy Kim, his book was recently translated and published in English. You may order the book from the SPARK(spark946@hanmail.net)
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* Related articles

Wikipedia
Incheon Landing Operation

Hankyoreh
Wolmido residents demand joint investigation into Korean War massacre
: Surviving family members petition Obama for his support to resolve situation surrounding Incheon landing
Posted on : Sep.16,2009 12:35 KST

New York Times
Korean War survivors tell of carnage inflicted by U.S.
By Choe Sang-Hun
Published: Monday, July 21, 2008

Photo Fwd: [From the VfP Convention, U. S.] A Banner for the Solidarity bet. the Veterans for Peace in Corea & U.S. [미 평군 회담] 한미 평화 재향 군인회 연대를 위한 배너

* Image source: Bruce Gagnon blog브루스 개그논 블로그:
Click the image for larger view 이미지를 클릭하시면 화면이 확대 됩니다.
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* The above photo is uploaded, too, in the website of the Veterans for Peace, Corea (by Mr. Kim Hwan-Young, Secretary of the VfP, Corea): Click
위의 사진은 평화 재향 군인회 웹사이트에도 올려져 있읍니다 (김환영 평군 사무 국장님): 클릭
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* See also Bruce Gagnon blog, here.
여기 브루스 개그논 블로그를 또한 보시길.
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• On Aug. 28, 2010, Bruce Gagnon has thankfully informed the above photo for the members of the Veterans for Peace, Corea, after the below workshop during the VfP national convention in Portland, Maine, United States, Aug. 25 to 29. The No Gun Ri movie is also screened during the convention. The members of the VfP, Corea could not join the convention for financial reason. The VfP members in the photo above are holding the banner of the VfP, Corea that the members of the VfP, Corea had presented to the members of the Veterans for Peace, Maine chapter, through Bruce Gagnon, as an expression of thanks to Tom Sturtevant who had brought the banner of the VfP, U.S., for the Corean members during the International Conference against the Asia Pacific Missile Defense and for the End of Arms Race, last April 16-18, 2009. The Maine state is where the Veterans for Peace movement first started 25 years ago. The small letters in the upper side of the banner says, ‘Army for Nation, Army for Democracy, [and] Army for Peaceful Unification.’ The bigger green letter at the bottom side of banner reads, Veterans for Peace, [Corea]. For more information on it, please see here.

2010년 8월 28일, 브루스 개그논은 8월 25일부터 29일에 걸쳐 진행되고 있는 메인주 포틀랜드 미 전역 평화 재향 군인회 회담 기간에 있었던 아래의 워크샵 이후 한국 평화 재향 군인회에 사진을 보냈읍니다. 노근리 영화가 회담 동안 또한 상영됩니다. 한국 평화 재향 군인회는 재정적 이유로 그 회담에 참여할 수 없었읍니다. 위의 사진의 회원들은 지난 2009년 4월 16일부터 18일까지 아시아 태평양 미사일 방어망 반대와 군사 경쟁 종식을 위한 국제 회담 기간동안 한국 평화 재향 군인회 회원들을 위해 미 평화 재향 군인회 깃발을 가져온 탐 스터트번트에 대한 감사의 표시로 한국 평화 재향 군인회 회원들이 브루스 개그논을 통하여 메인 지부 평화 재향 군인회 회원들에게 전한 한국 평화 재향 군인회의 배너를 들고 있읍니다. 메인주는 25년 전에 평화 재향 군인회 운동이 처음 시작된 곳입니다. 배너 윗쪽의 작은 글자들은 ‘민족 군대, 민주 군대, [그리고] 평화 통일을 위한 군대’ 입니다. 아래의 더 큰 녹색 글자는 [한국] 평화 재향 군인회 입니다. 더 많은 정보는 여기를 보시길.

* Image source 이미지 소스: Click here 여기 and 와 here 여기를 클릭

Bruce Gagnon and Veterans for Peace, Corea, holding the banner of the Veterans for Peace, United States, presented to the VfP, Corea by Tom Sturtevant, Aug. 20, 2009
2009년 8월 20일 탐 스터트번트가 함국 평화 재향 군인회에 증정한 미 평화 재향 군인회의 깃발을 들고 있는 브루스 개그논과 한국 평화 재향 군인회 회원들.

Citation from Bruce Gagnon's blog 브루스 개그논의 블로그 일부를 인용하면:

'Korean war veteran, and Maine VFP member, Tom Sturtevant has been the keeper of the banner since I brought it back from Korea.

'한국 전쟁 베테란이며 메인주 평화 재향 군인회 회원인 탐 스터트번트는 제가 그 배너를 한국에서 갖고 온 이후 배너를 계속 보관해왔었읍니다.

Most of the VFP members in the workshop yesterday had served in Korea during the war or since then. They all feel a strong sense of duty to help bring true peace and reunification to Korea. But as one of the guys said yesterday, "It's hard to convince people today that Korea is still an important issue after 60 years."

어제 워크샵의 대부분의 회원들은 [한국 전쟁중] 또는 그 이후에 한국에 있었읍니다. 그들은 모두 Korea에 진정한 평화와 통일을 가져오는데 도울 수 있길 강한 의무감을 느낍니다. 그러나 어제 한 사람이 말하듯, “[전쟁 이후] 60년이 지나도 한국이 아직도 중요한 이슈라고 오늘날 많은 사람들을 확신시키는 것이 어렵습니다.”

I tried to address this problem in my words during the workshop as I put Korea into the larger context of U.S. military strategy in the Asian-Pacific region. I talked about NATO expansion into the region and U.S. military moves to surround China.

저는 워크샵 기간동안 한국 아시아 태평양 지역 미국 군사 전략의 더 큰 콘텍스트 안에 한국을 위치함으로서 이 문제를 제 말로 역점을 두어 풀어가려고 노력했읍니다. 저는 그 지역으로의 나토 확장 및 중국을 봉쇄하기 위한 미국 군대의 움직임에 대해 말했읍니다.

The U.S. pretense about concern over North Korea is only a justification for the Pentagon to dramatically escalate its operations throughout the Asian-Pacific. U.S. bases are being expanded in Guam, Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea - including major deployments of "missile offense" systems.'

미국이 북한에 대해 염려하는 젠 체를 보이는 것은 단지 아시아 태평양에 걸쳐 극적으로 작전들을 점증시키려는 것입니다. 미국 기지들은 “미사일 공격” 시스템들 배치를 포함, 괌, 오키나와, 일본, 그리고 남한으로 확장되고 있읍니다.'

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Workshop on Korean War, in the VfP convention 평군 회담 한국 전쟁 관련 워크샵:

*Quote from the convention workshop site 회담워크샵 사이트에서 인용

'U.S. MILITARISM IN THE ASIA PACIFIC: A DISCUSSION ON UNENDING WAR WITH A FOCUS ON KOREA: PETER BRONSON, WOODY POWELL, TOM STURTEVANT, BRUCE GAGNON, GEORGE MCANAMAS, AND VIRGINIA RODINO [SOMERSET ROOM]

‘아시아 태평양에서의 미 군사 주의: 한국 전쟁에 촛점, 끝나지 않은 전쟁에 대한 토론: 피터 브론슨, 우디 파웰, 탐 스터트번트, 브루스 개그논, 조지 맥나마스와 버지니아 로디노 [서머셋 룸]

In observing the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, this workshop will reflect on the continuing tragedy and costs of this lingering war. The presenters believe that it is urgent now to replace the Korean War cease-fire agreement with a peace treaty. After showing a short video about the Korean War, members of VFP-Korea Peace campaign will lead a roundtable discussion about the hidden history of the war, obstacles to ending the war, and what we can do to end it. Participants are encouraged to bring any pictures, art work, or mementoes of the war to share in the workshop.'

한국 전쟁 발발 60 주년을 맞아, 이 워크샵은 계속되는 비극 및 이 끌어지는 전쟁의 비용을 돌아볼 것이다. 참여자들은 한국 전쟁 정전 협정을 평화 조약으로 바꾸는 것이 현재 절박하다고 생각한다. 한국 전쟁에 대한 짧은 비디오를 보인 후 평화 재향 군인회 한국 평화 캠페인 회원들은 전쟁의 숨은 역사, 전쟁 종식의 장애들, 그리고 우리가 무엇을 할 수 있는 지에 대한 대등한 토론을 끌어갈 것이다. 참가자들은 이 워크샵에서 공유하기 위해 전쟁에 관한 어떤 그림들, 예술품들, 기념품들을 가져올 것을 격려받는다.
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About No Gun Ri Movie in the VfP convention 평군 회담 중 노근리 영화 상영:

Dr. Chung Koo-Do, Director of the No Gun Ri Institute, advisor of documentary says:
(*From the description site of movies screened during the workshop)

노근리 연구소 소장이자 다큐멘타리 자문 위원 정구도 박사는 말하길:
(*워크샵 동안 상영되는 영화들 소개난에서)

'The No Gun Ri incident is a civilian massacre incident happened around late July, 1950 during the early Korean War. Many civilians were massacred and I am one of the bereaved family members of those victims. Due to the No Gun Ri incident, my elder brother and sister (at the age of five and two, respectively) were killed and my mother was seriously wounded and narrowly escaped the death.

'노근리 사건은 한국 전쟁 초기 1950년 7월 말경 일어났던 사건이다. 많은 시민들이 학살되었으며 나는 그 희생자 유가족들 중 한 사람이다. 노근리 사건으로 인해 나의 형과 여동생(각각 5살과 2살이었던)이 살해되었으며 나의 어머니는 심하게 상처를 입고 가까스로 죽음을 탈출했다.

For such a long time, I've considered the No Gun Ri incident as one of the most significant cases that teach the importance of human rights and peace. In that sense, I've always though it's very important to make the No Gun Ri documentary. While making the documentary, I had a chance to serve as an adviser.'

오랜 세월동안, 나는 노근리 사건을 인권과 평화의 중요성을 가르키는 가장 중요한 사건의 하나로 고려해 왔다. 나는 노근리 다큐멘터리를 만드는 것을 항상 매우 중요하게 생각했다. 다큐멘타리 제작시 나는 자문 위원으로서 일할 기회를 가졌다.'
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* Related sites and blogs 관련 사이트 및 블로그들 :

Veterans for Peace_Corea 한국 평화 재향 군인회

Veterans for Peace, United States 미국 평화 재향 군인회

VFP National Convention - 25th Year Anniversary Celebration!
미 평화 재향 군인회 국가 회담- 25주년 창설 축하!
Aug. 25 to 29, 2010 2010년 8월 25일 ~29일

[Upon 6oth anniversary of the Korean War]
Veterans of the Korean War Call for a Real Peace Treaty
[국문 번역][60주년 기념] 한국 전쟁 [미] 재향 군인들, 진정한 평화 조약을 요구하다.
June 25, 2010 2010년 6월 25일


[Bruce Gagnon blog] VIDEO OF VFP CONFAB MARCH [on Aug. 29, 2010]
[브루스 개그논 블로그] 또 다른 비디오: [2010년 8월 29일] 평군 회담 행진
September 08, 2010 2010년 9월 8일

[Bruce Gagnon blog]Video: ANOTHER SPEAKER AT VFP RALLY: Lisa Savage, Code Pink[on Aug. 29, 2010]
[브루스 개그논 블로그]비디오: [2010년 8월 29일]평군 회담의 또 한 명의 연설자: 리사 새비지, 코드 핑크
Friday, September 03, 2010 2010년 9월 3일

Text Fwd: Antiwar rally by Veterans for Peace caps convention
[국문 번역] 반전 집회가 [미] 평화 재향 군인회의 회담을 마무리하다.
Aug. 30, 2010 2010년 8월 30일

Video Fwd: Two Videos from the Veterans for Peace Convention,
Maine, Aug. 28, 2010
2010년 8월 29일, 미국 메인주 평화 재향 군인회 회담 관련 2 개의 비디오

[Bruce Gagnon blog], Tuesday, August 24, 2010
[Video]VFP CONFAB COVERAGE CONTINUES
브루스 개그논 블로그: [비디오]평군 회담 기사 계속되다, 2010년 8월 24일

[Bruce Gagnon blog] Sunday, August 22, 2010
PROMOTING VFP CONFAB
브루스 개그논 블로그: 평군 회담 홍보, 2010년 8월 22일

Video Fwd: [Bruce Gagnon blog] Tom Sturtevant from Maine Veterans for Peace
비디오 포워드:[ 브루스 개그논 블로그] 탐 스터트번트: 메인주 평화 재향 군인회

[Three International Petitions] to End the Korean war and peace treaty
(or peace resolution)
한국 전쟁 종식과 평화 협정(또는 평화 결의안) 실현을 위한 [세 개의 국제 서명]

[국문 번역][Bruce Gagnon blog 브루스 개그논 블로그] Massacre at No Gun Ri 노근리의 학살
Oct. 14, 2010 2010년 10월 14일

No Gun Ri Incident 노근리 사건
_ English, 영문,
_ Korean, 국문

No Gun Ri related Chungjoo MBC programs (Sorry, only Korean!)
노근리 관련 청주 MBC 프로그램들은 여기서 보실 수 있읍니다.

No Gun Ri fiction movie 노근리 픽션 영화:
"작은 연못 (A Little Pond. 2009)"

[Japan Focus] The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea:Uncovering the Hidden Korean War
Kim Dong choon
The Other War: Korean War Massacres
[재팬 포커스] 한국 진실과 화해 위원회: 숨겨진 한국 전쟁을 열며
김동천
또다른 전쟁: 한국 전쟁의 학살

Korean War Armistice Agreement, July 27, 1953 (English)
한국 전쟁 정전 협정, 1953년 7월 27(영문)
For Korean above, see Here or Here
국문은 여기 또는 여기를 클릭

Peace Agreement for the Korean Peninsula (English, proposed draft)
by the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea
평화와 통일을 여는 사람들 한반도 평화 협정 제안 (영문, 제안 초안)

Peace Agreement for the Korean Peninsula (Korean, proposed draft)
by the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea
평화와 통일을 여는 사람들 한반도 평화 협정 제안 (국문, 제안 초안)

여기를 또한 보시길.

Video Fwd: [Bruce Gagnon blog] Tom Sturtevant from Maine Veterans for Peace

* Bruce Gagnon blog
Friday, July 23, 2010
ONE OF MY FAVORITE MAINERS

'The latest edition of my public access TV show This Issue features Tom Sturtevant from Maine Veterans for Peace. Tom was a charter member when VFP was founded in 1985 here in Maine.

He discusses his experiences during the Korean War and also gives information about the upcoming 25th anniversary national convention that will be held in Portland, Maine on August 25-29.

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* Related blogs

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/07/text-fwd-veterans-of-korean-war-call.html
Text Fwd: Veterans of the Korean War Call for a Real Peace Treaty
(Statement on June 25, 2010)

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/07/international-petition-three.html
Saturday, July 10, 2010
[Three International Petitions] to End the Korean war and peace treaty (or peace resolution)

Text Fwd: 60th anniversary of the Korean War

* Text Fwd from International Action Center on July 22, 2010

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.

60 years later, the Korean War is not over, and Korea is still divided.

In 1945, two U.S. colonels in Washington D.C. divided the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel. This arbitrary divide soon became a border and military frontline before and during the Korean War. An Armistice temporarily ceased fighting on the Korean peninsula and established the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the 38th parallel. A peace treaty was never signed, and to this day, Korea remains in a state of war.

The National Campaign to End the Korean War is bringing the DMZ back to Washington D.C. Join us from July 25-27 for a series of events that show how we continue to be affected by the division and demand the U.S. government end the Korean War by signing a peace treaty.

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SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2-4pm

Capitol Reflecting Pool Plaza (between 1st St NW and 3rd St NW)

"100 Bojagi for Peace"

This interactive art installation in front of the Capitol will feature 100 bojagi (traditional Korean bundles carried by refugees during the war) with audio and written recollections by Korean Americans and Canadians during the Korean War. The bojagi represent millions of Korean families who are still separated by the division.

SUNDAY, JULY 25, 7-9pm

Justice Center, 617 Florida Ave NW

"Remembering the Forgotten War"

Join us for the new film "In the Matter of Cha Jung-hee" by Deann Borshay Liem on the adoption of thousands of Korean children resulting from the Korean War. Additional short films and live performance.

MONDAY, JULY 26, 10am

Press Conference

TUESDAY, JULY 27

Legislative visits to demand an end to the Korean War

To participate in these activities, please contact -

nodutdol@nodutdol.org or 646 409 8056

Text Fwd: TRCK relaxes U.S. bombing investigation criterion under new president

* Image source: Same as the link
'Visitors wait to meet with officials of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea (TRCK) in Seoul.'

Hankyroreh
TRCK relaxes U.S. bombing investigation criterion under new president
Observers say the organization has dropped a greater number of investigation petitions under the new conservative president
By Kim Min-kyeong
Posted on : Jul.16,2010 12:23 KST

Excerpt:

'After receiving 157 petitions over the past four years by civilians claiming damages from U.S. military bombings, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Korea, under President Lee Young-jo, made the decision to investigate 56 of the cases, or 35.6 percent. This number is conspicuously lower than the overall 85.2 percent investigation rate for received cases.
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* Related article 1

* Image source: same as the link
'Bereaved family members of civilians killed during the U.S. air raids during the Korean War hold signboards requesting compensation from South Korean and U.S. governments, July 15.'

Hankyoreh
Bereaved families continue 2,017-day sit-in on Wolmi Island
: The families remain uncompensated for eviction during the war while a $23M park project is underway
By Kim Min-kyeong
Posted on : Jul.16,2010 12:09 KST

Excerpts

‘The residents of Wolmi Island, who were forced from their home with just the clothes on their back, have been demanding to be allowed to return home since 1952, but have only been told by the government that Wolmi Island was being used as a military facility. Recently, the Defense Ministry and Incheon City government have been trying to pass off responsibility, saying the land was not theirs, and that they were not responsible for the residents being forced out.’

‘A sit-in strike by bereaved families demanding an investigation and compensation for their losses, which began on Oct. 7, 2004, continued for its 2,017th day Thursday. The bereaved family members continue the strike two at a time in a building constructed using wood planks taken from the homes removed from Wolmi Island. Six of the 30 people that began the strike have since died, while those that survive are frequently ill.’

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* Related article 2

* Image source: same as the link
'Downtown Seoul after being destroyed by a U.S.bombing operation during the Korean War in 1950.'

Hankyoreh　
U.S.’s Yongsan bombing of 1950 caused 1,587 civilian deaths U.S. air raids accounted for 25 percent of civilian deaths in the first 3 months of the war
Posted on : Jul.16,2010 12:05 KST
By Gil Yoon-hyeong

'How bad was the damage from the Yongsan bombing? According to statistics on Seoul resident casualties during the first three months of the war, drawn up by the government statistics office in 1950, one fourth of the 17,127 deaths were caused by air raids. In particular, of the 2,709 total deaths suffered in the Yongsan district, the direct target of the Yongsan bombing 1,587, or 58.6 percent, were due to bombings.'

Video Fwd: U.S. USED GERM WARFARE DURING KOREAN WAR

Bruce Gagnon blog
Thursday, March 18, 2010
U.S. USED GERM WARFARE DURING KOREAN WAR

For further study on this topic read "A Plague Upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program" by Daniel Barenblatt.

The book details how the U.S. imported Japanese biological warfare technologies and scientists into the country after the end of WW II and used their expertise to develop biological weapons that the Pentagon used during the Korean War.

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* Veterans for Peace, ROK has forwarded the Pressian article on the same Al Jazeera report on March 17. Please see HERE.

한국 평화 재향 군인회는 같은 알 자자라 3월 17일 리포트 를 실은 프레시안 기사를 실은 바 있읍니다. 여기를 보실 것

‘이 문제를 연구해 온 강정구 동국대 교수는 <프레시안>과의 통화에서 "미국은 세균전 관련 무기를 극동지역에 배치했었다는 사실은 인정했지만 합참 지시가 문서로 발견된 건 처음"이라고 말했다.

강 교수는 "이런 명령이 있었고, 무기를 배치했고, 다른 증거와 증언들도 많다는 상황을 감안하면 세균전 주장에 근거가 없다고 말하기 어렵다"며 "윌리엄 콜비 전 중앙정보국(CIA)이 세균전 관련 자료를 모두 없앴다고 했기 때문에 직접 증거를 발견하긴 어렵겠지만 합참 문서 같은 게 나왔는데 달리 무슨 말이 더 필요한가"라고 말했다.’

Movie, ‘A Small Pond’ on the No Gun-Ri Massacre Finally Opens on April 15.

* All the original image sources: No Gun Ri Production and twitchfilm.net

* All the original image sources: No Gun Ri Production and twitchfilm.net

The Jeju Sori article on March 2 reports a movie, 'A Small Pond' (Director: Lee Sang-Woo, production by No Gu Ri production) that is on the No Gun Ri massacre is finally open in eight years of the movie production decision

The opening date was decided to be April 15, eight years after the Movie production decision. It is also after 60 years of the No Gun Ri massacre and after 11 years when the whole truth was known to the world, thanks to the AP reporters. In reference, this year is the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.

However, it can be said that it was dominantly by the persistent efforts by the survivors and their families of the No Gun-Ri massacre, who made the breakthrough in late 90s, after the end of the military dictatorship for decades in South Korea that had oppressed people’s freedom of speech including the truth of Korea war, that the truth could be finally made as a movie.

The No Gun Ri massacre story was also translated in Swedish. See Here.

Text Fwd: Seoul Wants to Recover War Remains in NK

* Image source/caption: same as the below link

'Chang Soo-man, Vice Defense Minister'
Korea Times
01-04-2010 17:17
Seoul Wants to Recover War Remains in NK
By Jung Sung-ki, Staff Reporter

South Korea will discuss with North Korea the repatriation of war remains buried in the North as part of humanitarian efforts, the Ministry of National Defense said Monday.

Ministry officials said they had established detailed measures for an envisaged inter-Korean joint excavation of the remains of soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, and will propose the plans to the North soon.

The joint effort had already been agreed upon by the two Koreas during the second inter-Korean defense ministerial talks in November 2007, according to the officials.

Vice Defense Minister Chang Soo-man told reporters, ``The proposal for the joint excavation is also part of efforts to improve ties between the two Koreas.''

``It's time to take bilateral efforts to improve relations. If North Korea responds to our proposal positively, that will be a great step forward in improving inter-Korean ties,'' Chang said.

Earlier in the day, President Lee Myung-bak pledged in his New Year's address that he would prioritize repatriating the remains of fallen soldiers in North Korea on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.

According to the ministry, about 39,000 soldiers, or 30 percent of South Korean war dead, were buried in the North. About 10 percent of the estimated 137,000 are believed to have been buried in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean Peninsula.

South Korea has recovered the remains of about 3,360 fallen soldiers since 2000.

The United States conducted excavation work in the North between 1996 and 2005 and reclaimed 225 sets of remains.

The two Koreas remain technically at war as the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

gallantjung@koreatimes.co.kr

[국문 번역] MASSACRE AT NO GUN-RI

Click to enlarge this depiction of the No Gun-ri massacre
노근리 학살을 묘사한 위를 클릭하시길.

Ninety-four year old Chung Eun Yong points out the bullet holes from US 7th Cavalry rifle fire
94세 정은용 옹이 미국 제 7 기병대의 소총 발화들로 생긴 총탄 구멍들을 가르키고 있다.

* Bruce Gagnon blog 브루스 개그논 블로그
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2009년 10월 14일
MASSACRE AT NO GUN-RI 노근리의 학살


Yesterday I spent most of the day visiting the site of the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment's massacre of more than 225 innocent Korean civilians on July 26, 1950 at No Gun-ri during the Korean War.

저는 어제 대부분의 날들을 한국 전쟁 기간 1950년 7월 26일 미 육군 제 7 기병대 연대가 225명 이상의 무고한 시민들을 학살한 노근리 현장을 방문하며 보냈읍니다.

In the days before July 26, 1950 the North Korean army was pushing
US military forces southward. The US Army ordered two villages of peasant farmers in the No Gun-ri area to evacuate. There were taken by the US military to a nearby railroad track and ordered to walk along it. At one point the 500-600 refugees were instructed to bunch up and sit on the tracks. Two US military aircraft then circled overhead and dropped 7-8 bombs on their heads.

1950년 7월 26일 전 북한군은 미군을 남쪽으로 밀어내고 있었읍니다. 미군은 노근리 일대 농부들이 사는 두 마을에 떠날 것을 명령했읍니다. 그들은 미군에 의해 근처 철도 선로로 이동되었고 그 길을 따라 걷도록 명령 받았읍니다. 한 지점에서 500~600여명의 피난민들은 한 데 묶여져 선로에 앉을 것을 명령 받았읍니다. 그리고 나서 두 미군 비행기가 머리 위를 날았고 그들의 머리 위에 7~8개의 폭탄을 떨어 뜨렸읍니다.

This story was told to me yesterday by a 72 year-old woman, Yang Kae-suk, who was 13 years-old at the time of the attack. Her father was carrying her grandmother on his back. The body of her grandmother was never found as body parts flew in every direction.

이 이야기는 어제 공격 당시 13세 였던 72세 양[해]석 할머니로부터 들은 것입니다. 그 분의 아버지는 그의 등에 그 분의 할머니를 엎고 있었읍니다. 그 분 할머니의 몸은 산산 조각으로 흩어져 결코 찾지 못했읍니다.

Her other family members tried to hide near a tree and her mother was severely wounded. A bomb fragment hit Yang in the back of the head and her left eye ball blew out of the socket and she tossed it on the ground.

그분의 다른 가족 구성원들은 근처 다리에 숨으려 했지만 그 분의 어머니는 심하게 상처를 입었읍니다. 폭탄 조각이 양할머니의 머리 뒤를 치자 왼쪽 눈동자가 동공에서 튀어나왔고 [양할머니는] [순간] 그것을 땅으로 던졌읍니다.

Soon 7th Cavalry soldiers began firing their rifles at the defenseless crowd and they hid for cover under a nearby train tunnel. For the next four days and three nights the people inside the tunnels were fired on from four different directions by the US soldiers who had them surrounded. US planes reappeared and strafed them with machine gun fire. More people, who were crammed inside the tunnels, were killed as they tried to sneak out for water or tried to escape. Some number did escape the madness that surrounded them.

곧 제 7기병대 군인들이 그들의 소총을 무방비 상태의 군중들을 향해 쏘기 시작했고 그들은 근처의 철도 터널 아래로 몸을 숨겼읍니다. 세 밤 네 낮 동안 그 터널의 사람들은 그들을 에워쌌던 미군들의 총을 사방 서로 다른 방향에서 맞았읍니다. 미군 비행기가 다시 나타나 그들에게 기계총으로 소총 사격을 했읍니다. 더 많은 사람들이 터널 속에 꾹꾹 채워졌다가 물을 찾아 살짝 나오려 하거나 탈출하려 할 때 죽임을 당했읍니다. 몇몇은 그들을 에워쌌던 광기로부터 탈출했읍니다.

Finally in the dark of night the Army's 7th Cavalry withdrew as the North Korean Army advanced. Then early on the fourth morning the North Koreans told the people they were free.

제 7 기병대는 북한군이 진입하면서 마침내 밤의 어둠을 타 퇴각했읍니다. 그리고 네 번째 이른 아침 북한군이 그들에게 자유라 말했읍니다.

This was not the first time the 7th Cavalry had been associated with a mass slaughter of civilians. The Regiment perpetrated the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, at the end of the Indian Wars.

제 7 기병대가 시민 대량 학살에 연루된 것이 이번이 처음은 아닙니다. 그 기병대는 인디언 전쟁의 끝, 1980년 12월 29일 사우스 다코타 주 운디드 니(Wounded Knee) 학살을 범했읍니다.

Yang's mother was in terrible need of medical care but there was none available. Maggots had begun to appear inside her wounds. Her father made medicines from the rye seed and bandages from the persimmon tree that grows abundantly in the area. Her mother was to survive.

양할머니의 어머니는 의술 치료를 몹시 필요로 한 상태였으나 이용할 수 있는 것이 아무것도 없었읍니다. 구더기들이 그녀의 상처에서 나타나기 시작했읍니다. 양할머니의 아버지는 보리 씨앗으로 약을 만들었고 그 지역에서 넘치게 자라는 감나무로부터 붕대를 만들었읍니다.

For many years the No Gun-ri massacre remained a US Army secret as the successive right-wing governments in South Korea, under the control of the US, kept a lid on the story. But then in 1999 the Associated Press broke the story and the BBC followed with a documentary (entitled "Kill 'em All") a few years later. This film reveals orders coming from the highest levels of the Army instructing the field commanders to kill all civilians who got in the way.

많은 세월 동안 노근리 학살은 미국의 통제하에 계승된 남한 우익 정부들이 그 이야기를 덮는 것을 고수해왔기에 미국 군대의 비밀로 남아 있었읍니다. 그러나 1999년 연합 통신이 그 이야기를 폭로하고 BBC가 몇 년 후 그 이야기를 다큐멘터리로 만들었읍니다. (‘모두 죽여라’하는 제목으로요.) 이 필름은 그 명령이 군대 최고위급들에게서 온 것으로 그들이 현장 사령관들에게 갈 길에 방해되는 모든 시민들을 죽이라고 했던 것을 밝힙니다.

Over the years the survivors and their supporters had been trying to bring justice to those who were killed or wounded at No Gun-ri. They organized the "Committee for Unveiling Truth about the No Gun-ri Massacre" and finally helped force the creation of a joint South Korea-US investigation. (The US for a long time tried to down play the size of the killing field.) The final reported conservatively acknowledged the deaths of 228 people and the tunnel where people hid was surveyed and all bullet damage was marked to show the places where US troops had fired-on the tunnel. At both ends of the tunnel there are now triangles (showing where bullets still remain embedded in the concrete) and circles (where bullets created marks).

많은 세월, 그 생존자들과 지지자들은 노근리에서 학살되거나 부상입은 사람들에게 정의를 찾아 주려 노력했읍니다. 그들은 노근리 학살 진상 규명 위원회”를 조직했고 남한-미국 공동 조사단을 꾸리도록 압력을 가하는 데 일조했읍니다. (미국은 오랫동안 그 학살의 규모를 애써 축소하려 했읍니다.) 최종 보고는 보수적이나마 228명의 죽음을 인정했고 사람들이 숨었던 터널은 조사되었으며 총탄 흔적들은 미군 부대가 터널 안으로 소총 사격을 했던 장소들을 보이기 위해 표시되었읍니다. 현재 터널의 양 끝에는 삼각형들 (총알들이 아직도 콘크리트에 박혀 있는 곳을 보임)과 원들(총알들이 흔적을 남긴 곳)이 표시되어 있읍니다.

I asked Yang how she felt today about the US military. She said she could never go to school because of her missing eye. Today she grows grapes and persimmons in the small farming village where she lives. "War should not be," she told me.

저는 양할머니께 현재 미국 군대에 대해 어떻게 느끼느냐 말했읍니다. 그 분은 잃어버린 눈때문에 전혀 학교를 다닐 수 없었다 말했읍니다. 현재 그 분은 사시는 곳 작은 농촌 마을에서 포도와 감을 재배합니다. “전쟁은 있어서는 안된다.”고 저에게 맣씀하셨읍니다.

To this day there has been no financial compensation to the victims or their families. About 50 survivors of the No Gun-ri massacre are still alive.

오늘날까지도 희생자들이나 그들의 가족들에게 재정적 보상이라곤 전혀 없었읍니다.약 50 여명의 노근리 학살 생존자들이 아직 살아 있읍니다.

Chung Koo Do is the Director of the No Gun-Ri Institute for Peace Studies and is dedicated to ensuring that the memory of the massacre is not lost and that justice prevails. His mother was a survivor of the slaughter by the 7th Cavalry. He told me that there were over 500 incidents of killing of civilians during the war but No Gun-ri was the only case investigated by a joint South Korean-US government team. After the No Gun-ri investigation the US said it would not look into any other case.

정구도님은 노근리 평화 연구소의 소장으로 학살의 기억이 잊혀지지 않고 정의가 승리하기 의해 헌신합니다. 그의 어머니는 제 7 기병대의 학살 생존자였읍니다. 그는 저에게 전쟁동안 500 여개가 넘는 민간 학살 사건이 있었지만 노근리가 남한-미국 정부에 의해 유일하게 조사된 경우라 말했읍니다. 노근리 조사후 미국은 다른 사건들을 찾아 보지 않겠다 말했읍니다.

2010 will be the 60th anniversary of No Gun-Ri. Chung told me his organization is planning to sponsor several important events to commemorate the massacre. He hopes that US soldiers who were involved in the Korean War will come for the events and he particularly hopes that Veterans for Peace in the US will send a delegation to Korea during this time. He asked me to help them make that possible and I told him I would do my best.

2010년은 노군리 60주년이 되는 해입니다. 정선생님은 저에게 그의 조직이 그 학살을 기념하기 의한 몇몇 중요한 행사들을 주최하러 준비하고 있다 말했읍니다. 그는 한국 전쟁에 참여했던 미국 군인들이 행사들에 오고 특히 미국의 평화 재향 군인들이 그 기간에 한국에 대표단을 보내길 원합니다. 그는 저에게 그 일이 가능하도록 도와 줄 것을 부탁했고 저는 그에게 제 최선을 다하겠다 말했읍니다.

Chung pointed out with great pride the large area surrounding the No Gun-ri massacre site that will become a peace park. The South Korean government is now building a peace museum, educational facilities, and memorials. The survivors, and their descendants, are determined to keep the memory of No Gun-ri in the forefront of international peace movement efforts.

정선생님은 노근리 학살 현장을 에워싼 큰 지역이 평화 공원이 될 것이라고 자랑스럽게 가르켰읍니다. 남한 정부는 현재 평화 박물관, 교육 시설들, 그리고 기념관들을 짓고 있읍니다. 생존자들과 그들의 자손들은 국제 평화 운동 노력의 앞장에서 노근리의 기억을 지켜나가기 위해 굳은 결의에 있읍니다.

It is a sad moment in history that should be remembered by all of us.

그 것은 우리 모두에 의해 기억되어야 할 역사의 슬픈 순간입니다.


* 역주 노트 (Translator's note):
No Gun-Ri Institute for Peace Studies, 노근리 평화 연구소 는 click here