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The endorsement was joined by 435 international supporters including many well-known activists, artists and scholars [ESSF is among the supporters]. We thank so much to all the international citizens who joined our endorsement. We also remember that there are much more international friends who (...)
Real Denuclearisation and the Establishment of a Lasting Peace on the Korean Peninsula are Up to Us - KPTU will continue to work for a peaceful and equal Korea On June 12 Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Donald Trump, President of the United States of America held the first ever summit between leaders of the two countries at the Capella Hotel in Singapore. Following the meeting, the two leaders signed a joint (...)
Even before President Trump arrived Monday night at Osan Airbase in South Korea for the second stop on his five-nation tour of East Asia, thousands of Koreans fearing another war had flooded the streets in eight Korean cities to tell the militaristic president to go home.
The unpopular leader (...)
$1bn THAAD defence system in South Korea guarding against threats from North Korea will be operational ’within days’.
South Korea’s government has brushed aside US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that it should pay for a $1bn missile defence system the two allies are installing in South Korea (...)
The system will be online in the coming days in what some see as a move that could further escalate tensions with Pyongyang.
Protesters clashed with police officers in Seongju County of South Korea when U.S. troops started transporting part of a missile defense system to the installation site (...)
Nobel laureates Mairead Maguire and Leymah Gbowee and others cross the DMZ between the North and South Korea in 2015.
The group states their mission is to mobilize women for peace in Korea globally. As the tensions between the U.S. and the DPRK continue to escalate, a group of 40 women leaders (...)
Despite the rain, hundreds of people turned out in Seongju County on September 4 for a candlelight vigil for the 54th night in a row. Their message is clear: no to the United States’ planned deployment of the THAAD missile defence system, not in Seongju or anywhere in South Korea.
Seongju, a (...)
Jeju is called the Island of Peace, but in spite of seven years of constant large protests it’s where the South Korean military has almost finished construction of a new naval base.
The international community is extraordinarily concerned about the Chinese construction on small islands and (...)
From May 6 to 9, President Park Geun-hye made her first trip to the United States since her inauguration. The highlight of the trip (save the sexual harassment scandal that has emerged surrounding her former spokesperson), came on May 7 when Park held a bilateral meeting with U.S. President (...)
Blowback in the Pacific
On the small, spectacular island of Jeju, off the southern tip of Korea, indigenous villagers have been putting their bodies in the way of the construction of a joint South Korean?US naval base that would be an environmental, cultural and political disaster. If (...)
As the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit(hereafter the Seoul Summit) will be held on March 26th 27th, the Korean civil society is calling for common actions against the Seoul Summit and international solidarity for the nuclear free world.
The Korean civil society including NGOs for peace, (...)
Tension heightened in Gangjeong village on August 14 when the protestors learned that 500-600 policemen, 16 police buses, 10 vehicles with suppression gear including 3 water cannons were dispatched from the mainland. The protesters responded by confirming their determination to protect their (...)
ABSTRACT Anti-base movements are once again rising in South Korea, this time on the southern coast of Jeju Island. Local resistance against the construction of a South Korean naval base has persisted ever since the announcement of Gangjeong village as the future site in 2007.1 News about (...)
THERE are some actions for which those of us alive today will be judged in centuries to come. The only question will be: What did we know and when did we know it?
I think one judgment-worthy action may be what you and I do about the militarization of Jeju Island, South Korea, in service of the (...)
In May 2011, ‘Vimeo’ and ‘Youtube’ posted a film interview with Korean film critic Yang Yoon-moo. The interview shows why Yang has struggled against the naval base building for 4 years in Gangjeong village, Jeju Island south-west of the mainland of Korea and strategically located in relation to (...)
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