Photos Fwd: Obama, Nobel War Recipient, Lee Myung Bak, Rat!

* For the unofficial translation of the statement on Nov. 18, 2009,
please go to HERE.

* For Nov. 19 protest images, please go to HERE.


* Image source: Chunji Inbo(News Chunji)

* Image informed from the SPARK site
'No, Redispatch to Afghanistan: Is their any country that re-dispatches after its withdrawal on the Earth?
-A member of the People's Solidarity Participatory Democracy(PSPD) holds a sign'

' No Korean Troops in Afghanistan again!!'
'Sorry, Children in Afghanistan
[we wanted to keep you from the war and cold weather!]'

(* It was the cry by the two young students when they were dragged and arrested
by the police in Myungsong, Seoul, on the night of Nov. 18, 2009.
18 including the two women(one pregnant) and Secretary of the Veterans for Peace, ROK
were arresed on the night. For the Korean report of it, see, here.)

The photos below are some extractions on the Koreans’ protest in the multiple cities against the re-dispatch of the South Korean troops to Afghanistan and the police violence against the protesters on Nov. 18, 2009. The police illegally arrested the two students in the press interview in the morning, who were just quietly holding the pickets behind an activist who was doing a press interview with the media. The police arrested 18 again in the candle event in the night. Most were young people and students who were just singing a song, “ Lay Down Gun” and shouting their slogans, “No South Korean troops to Afghanistan. The images come from the multiple sources.



* Image source: Lee Jong-geun, Hankyoreh, Nov. 18, 2009

'A member of the Civilian Alliance Against the Redeployment of Troops to Afghanistan sits in a police vehicle following his arrest in Seoul’s Gwangwhamun Plaza, and holds up a sign with a picture of U.S. President Barak Obama to the window that reads, “Yes You Can Stop the War in Afghanistan,” Nov. 18.

President Obama was expected to arrive in South Korea later that evening for a summit scheduled the next day. Obama’s stop in South Korea is at the end of his four-nation tour through Asia.

* Image source: Kim Chul-Soo, Voice of People, Nov. 18, 2009

* Image source: Kim Chul-Soo, Voice of People, Nov. 18, 2009

* Image source: Kim Chul-Soo, Voice of People, Nov. 18, 2009

* Image source: Park Hyun Bym, Tongil News
Seoul, Nov. 18, 2009

* Image source: Park Hyun Bum, Tongil News
'Nobel War Recipient, Obama'
Seoul, Nov. 18, 2009

* Image source: NoCut News
* Image informed from the SPARK site

* Image source: Yonhap News
* Image informed from the SPARK site
'No Koreans Troops to Afghanistan'

* Image source: Cho Sung-Bong, Tongil News
'Seoul, Nov. 18, 2009'

* Image source: Kyunghyang Newspaper( truejs@kyunghyang.com)
* Image informed from the SPARK site

* Image source: Cho Sung-Bong, Tongil News,
'Seoul, Nov. 18, 2009'

* Image source: Park Hyun Bum, Tongil News,
'Songtan AFB, Pyeongtaek, Nov. 18, 2009

Obama first arrived in the Songtan AFB in Pyeongtaek, among the heavy police presence, visited the base first. Pyeongtaek is the proposed North East Asia military hub by the United States Force, and the site of the struggle against the relocation and expansion plan of the United States Forced of Korea under the Strategic Flexibility from 2002 to 2007. One speaker was told to say, “ [The United States and the South Korean governments] forcefully robbed of the farmers’ lands, saying they relocate the Yongsan US base to Pyeongtaek. However they could not complete the relocation during the Roh Moo Hyun government, nor they can not do it by the end of Lee Myung Bak government..., While the village people near the base is suffering for the noise and hearing difficulty in even one runway in the Songtan base, the plan for the additional runway is to give the unbearable suffering to the people nearby the base.’


* Image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea(SPARK)

'Incheon, Nov. 18, 2009'

* Image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea(SPARK)
'Obama, Nobel War Recipient_Daejeon, Nov. 18, 2009'

* Image source: Kim Hyun-Jin, Chamsori-Jeonbuk Internet newspaper

'Kunsan, Nov. 18, 2009'

* Image source: Lee Dong-Eun, Voice of People,
'Busan, Nov. 18, 2009'

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* For the unofficial translation of the statement on Nov. 18, 2009,
please go to HERE.

* For Nov. 19 protest images, please go to HERE.