55개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Sunday, 7.09 was the last day of Peace March. Since 5 days activists were marching from Seoul to Pyeongteak to protest against the relocation of USFK bases - as well against the planned ROK-US FTA...
On Voice of People(VoP) yesterday the first English "report" about it was published:
"People are Marching for the Peace"
The latest about the end of Peace March you can read here(in Korean):
[평화행진 5일차] 팽성상인회, 평화순례단에 각목테러 (VoP)
Here: http://blog.jinbo.net/tkdcjsdk/?pid=55 you can see more impressive pics..
For more informations please check out:
평택범대위
Interview, news, analysis, background infos from the last two days
("left-liberal" S. Korean daily) Hankyoreh:
[Interview] North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations
’Missile tests are unrelated to the six-party talks’
Han Song-ryol, North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said Thursday in New York that the United States has to unfreeze North Korean funds it has blocked in a Macao bank for his country to return to the six-party talks.
In an interview with The Hankyoreh, Ambassador Han said North Korea would be able to stop "defensive" missile launch tests if there were first a restoration of confidence between Pyongyang and Washington, and that releasing North Korean money currently frozen in a bank located in Macao would be a sign of that confidence. He said also that the invitation to visit extended to Christopher Hill, top U.S. negotiator at the six-party talks and assistant secretary of state, remains open.
Ambassador Han’s comments can be seen as more to-the-point than the more flexible tone of the statement made on June 1 by the North Korean foreign ministry statement, in which it first invited Hill to visit Pyongyang. While his comments may not mean an entirely different approach for North Korea, they are notable in that they express a continued desire for dialogue with the U.S. even after launching a series of missiles.
The following is a partial text of the interview.
Hankyoreh: Are the test launchings related to the six-party talks?
Han: No.
Hankyoreh: What, then, are North Korea’s conditions for returning to the talks?
Han: The United States at least needs to lift its freeze of funds in [Banco Delta Asia of] Macao. That is a minimum condition. The freeze needs to be lifted so as to remove an obstacle that has been formed.
Hankyoreh: Would it be enough to have bilateral dialogue with North Korea within the framework of the six-party talks?
Han: Releasing the money in Macao would make bilateral contact meaningful.
Hankyoreh: Why is ending the action against the bank in Macao so important?
Han: It is not just about the money. It is a question of whether the United States has the will to coexist with us, whether it has a desire to resolve issues through negotiation, or whether it is going to unilaterally force us to give up our nuclear programs. The joint statement issued in Beijing on September 19 of last year contains two things. One is that we discard our nuclear weapons programs. The other is that the U.S. is to discard its antagonist policy towards [North] Korea and move towards normalizing relations. However, as soon as that joint statement was announced, the U.S. went about enacting financial sanctions. It thinks it can make us come out with our hands up if pressured, but that is a mistake.
Hankyoreh: What will your response be if the United Nations Security Council adopts a resolution on the North Korean regime?
Han: There would be stronger physical measures taken.
Hankyoreh: Would that include a nuclear test?
Han: I am going to avoid comment on that. Everyone can understand that as he so desires.
Hankyoreh: These days there are calls in the U.S. for "five-party talks" that exclude the North. Any comments?
Han: Our position is that it should go ahead and try if it thinks it can achieve non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula while excluding us.
Hankyoreh: Is the invitation extended to Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill still valid?
Han: It is still valid. It would be advantageous in accurately understanding the U.S. position and advantageous in accurately conveying our position. Having Hill visit is better than if he does not.
Hankyoreh: Why fire missiles at a time like this?
Han: We need to consistently strengthen our national defense capabilities if we are going to be prepared for the ever-increasing American military threat. Part of that involves test firing missiles. If the U.S. no longer seeks the collapse or change of our government, we would have no need to go about such intense training.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/139633.html
Yonhap, S. Korean semi-official news agency:
NK willing to return to dialogue if U.S. lifts punitive measures..
Han Song-ryol, deputy chief of North Korea's mission to the United Nations, told Yonhap News over the phone that any sanctions against his country would be considered an act of war...
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060708/610000000020060708014523E1.html
U.S. satisfied with Seoul's response to N.K. missile launches
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said North Korea's missile launches have brought the two allies closer together, indicating that the two sides have no major differences on how to cope with the missile issue...
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060708/610000000020060708151107E5.html
Guardian (GB):
North Korea Knows How to Get Attention
North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
It's called coercive diplomacy. North Korean-style, it has involved antagonizing everyone on and over the horizon, foes and allies alike, and then pulling back. Sometimes just in the nick of time...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5938328,00.html
N.Korean Envoy: Pressure Could Trigger War
North Korea's ambassador to Australia warned Sunday that international attempts to halt his nation's missile tests could lead to war.
In a letter to The Sunday Herald Sun newspaper in the southern city of Melbourne, Ambassador Chon Jae Hong defended last week's missile launches as ``routine military exercises'' aimed at increasing the nation's ``capacity for self-defense.''...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5939479,00.html
IHT/NYT:
U.S. backs diplomacy-first approach to North Korea
The Observer (GB):
Kim Jong-il: Wine, women and bombs
He has an expensive taste in cognac, an obsession with films and seeks comfort in the company of his Pleasure Brigade, but as he demonstrated last week, North Korea's dictator still lives for the politics of brinkmanship...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1816145,00.html
FROM OSAN TO PYEONGTAEK..
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[평화행진 4일차] 150여명 각목 휘둘러도 경찰 수수방관 (VoP)
평택 미군기지 확장 저지와 한미 FTA 협상 반대를 위한 285리 평화행진 "평화야, 걷자!" (Solidarity for Peace and..)
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source: 민중의소리(VoP)
DAY 10
Already yesterday(local time) the Palestinian govt./Hamas was calling for armed resistance against the Israeli invasion in Gaza:
Hamas calls Gaza to arms (Al Jazeera)
Today, only few hours later the same institution, incl. Haniyeh, was calling for "calm, cease-fire" and so on..
And the Israeli answer - of course - is this:
Israel rejects Haniyeh's ceasefire proposal (Yedioth Ahronoth)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office rejects Palestinian PM's call for truce between Israel, Palestinian factions. Jerusalem officials say they would not agree to any ceasefire until Hamas frees kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272637,00.html
Also yesterday it was reported following: "Dichter: We’ll release prisoners if necessary". And only few hours later the German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the Israeli Minister of Interior Bar-On rejected any release of Palestinian prisoners.
Meanwhile IDF is staying in several parts of Gaza City and fierce clashes are taking place since hours..
IDF advances to within 500 meters of Gaza City (Haaretz)
The Israel Defense Forces expanded its operation in Gaza on Saturday morning, with tanks advancing to within 500 meters of Gaza City. Some 15 tanks entered the Strip through the Karni border crossing in what the army said was a search for tunnels used by militants.
The armor corps and troops from the Givati infantry brigade reached the outskirts of Sajaiyeh and engaged in fierce fighting with local militants...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735911.html
Here you can read a strange report by NYT(IHT) from inside the battle zone in Gaza:
For children, nothing but fear
Since weeks all across the country the activists are preparing for coming Wed., 7.12(!!!^^), the Central Struggle Day Against ROK-US FTA.
Just some minutes ago I found this (funny) propaganda poster.
It looks more like a bloody, raw steak^^
And believe it or not, the upper half of the steak is complete incedible...
For more infos about the Anti-FTA struggle check out this:
And from tomorrow or so I'll write more about the issue..
English report? Just forget it..^^ (mi-anh hae-yo. oh no.. I'm not frustrated, not at all..)
The 3rd day of Peace March: from Suwon to Osan..
[행진 3일차] 오산역 촛불..."빈집 철거 그냥 두지 말자"
source: 민중의소리
토요일에 대추리에 들어가기 위해 알아야 할 사항들을 알려드립니다.
토요일에 대추리에 들어가려면 가능한 일찍 들어가세요.
평화행진 팀이 들어가기 전에 들어가야 들어갈 수 있을 것 같습니다.
경찰은 분명히 행진 팀을 막을 것으로 보입니다.
일요일 오전에 가도 들어가지 못할 확률이 매우매우 높습니다.
금요일 밤이 제일 좋고, 아니면 토요일 점심 이전에 가야 들어갈 수 있을 것 같습니다.
물론 평화행진 팀과 함께 원정3거리에서 길을 막는 경찰에 항의하며 길에서 날밤을 새면서 함께 투쟁의 결의를 다시면서 진한 동지애를 느끼고, 마침내 경찰의 저지선을 뚫고 다같이 마을 사람들의 열광적인 지지와 환호를 받으며 대추리로 들어가고 싶은 사람은 평화행진 팀에 반드시 결합하세요.
8일 토요일 저녁 7시에 평택역에서 열릴 촛불집회에 꼭 오시면 됩니다.
꼭 오세요!! 반드시 여기에 오셔야 합니다!!!!!!
친구들 데리고 모두모두 오세요!
토요일에 대추리에 들어가기 위해 알아야 할 것들 (토요일 저녁 7시 평택역 촛불집회에 꼭 오삼!!!!)
DAY 9
After fierce fighting in the last 24 hours between Palestinian fighters and IDF, especially in the northern part of the Gaza Strip - according to Israeli sources at least 40 Palestinians were killed - it seems that a kind of solution of the current conflict, caused by the kidnapping of G. Shalit(the Israeli soldier) might be happen soon.
Yeah it sounds really good! But, believe it or not, actually nothing will be solved and only a short while later the entire shit will be starting again(more about it I'll write likely later..)!
Here just the latest news:
Ynet, just a short time ago, reported this:
Dichter: We’ll release prisoners if necessary
Internal security minister says ‘Israel will release Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit’s freedom. Adds: Release of prisoners in exchange for end to Qassam rocket fire on Israel an attainable goal
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said Friday that “Israel will release (Palestinian security) prisoners to free kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. We’ve done it in the past to free hostages and in exchange for calm.”..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272480,00.html
Just in the morning Guardian wrote this:
Israeli army in for the long haul in Gaza Strip
· Settlements reoccupied in wake of Ashkelon attacks
· Crisis could go on even if kidnapped soldier is freed 
Palestinians carry a man wounded in an Israeli air strike near Khan Yunis in the
Gaza Strip. Photograph: Samuel Aranda/Getty
The Israeli army launched an assault on the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya and reoccupied three former Jewish settlements in response to the attacks on Ashkelon, until now well beyond the range of the rudimentary Palestinian missiles.
Politicians and the army acknowledge that now the tanks and troops are in again it may be politically impossible to withdraw them swiftly even if the captured Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, is freed...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1814696,00.html
...and about one hour ago this:
Israeli Hints at Prisoner Swap for Soldier
Before, all the day, the news were just like that:
Qassam fire on Sderot continues
Day of panic in Gaza vicinity communities: In spite of IDF's presence inside Strip, Red Dawn alert system constantly activated. Ten rockets hit southern town area since Friday morning; three residents wounded by shrapnel, rushed to hospital...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272427,00.html
Gaza Division commander: Palestinians in shock
Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi tells Ynet, 'Palestinians did not expect such a long series of operations; soldiers in field, he says, are dealing with many weapons smuggled from 'totally breached' Egyptian border. IDF: More than 30 terrorists killed so far...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272357,00.html
Beit Lahiya turns into ghost town
Palestinian sources report that almost all residents of Gaza Strip town fled their homes following IDF strike, only gunmen left in alleys. Palestinian Health Minister calls on residents to donate blood...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272399,00.html (Yedioth Ahronoth)
Israel kills five more Palestinians (Al Jazeera)
And so on, and so on..
Let's see what's coming in the next days..
..???..
(Of course) until now there is no English report about the - now - 2nd day of the Peace March.
So here just some pictures and a article in Korean by Voice of People (민중의소리):
The 2nd day: Protest in Gwacheon, Govt. complex
Demo in downtown Suwon
Protest rally in front of Gyeongi-do Police HQ, Suwon
2nd Evening Culture Festival..
..at Suwon Stn.
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THE BEAT GOES ON...
Ha, ha.. of course the DPRK has all rights to.. blabla.. And never they will give up.. blabla.. And of course no-one can stop them... WHAT A SURPRISE^^!!
Here the last news and analysis about the latest developments:
The Guardian(UK)
North Korea defies critics over missiles
North Korea rounded on its critics in dramatic fashion on Thursday, warning the US and Japan that it planned to test-launch more missiles and would resort to "physical actions" against any country that continued to pressure it to abandon its missile programme.
The secretive state acknowledged for the first time that it had launched seven missiles on Wednesday in a move that had drawn immediate condemnation from the US, Japan and Britain and prompted an emergency meeting of the UN security council. The missiles all landed harmlessly in the Sea of Japan...
Please read the full article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1813942,00.html
Two other articles/analysis by the same paper, published 7.06, you can read here:
Kim may have overplayed his hand
IHT/NYT:
News Analysis: U.S. has few good choices in N. Korea standoff
Discord over reply to Korean missile test
Asia Times(HK/China):
N Korea's ace threatens US-Seoul alliance
Washington Post:
N. Korea Says It Will Continue Missile Tests
Al Jazeera:
North Korea vows more missile tests
DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Its Missile Launches (KCNA)
And finally the S. Korean "left-liberal" daily Hankyoreh wrote yesterday about the timing of the missile tests following:
Question of timing for N.K. missile launch
Reasons both international and domestic for holding test-fire now
North Korea fired at least six missiles, the long-range Daepodong-2 and the mid- to short-range Scud and Nodong, consecutively from about 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. on July 5, local time. The weather near the launch side in Musudan-ri, formerly Daepo-dong, Hwadae-gun, North Hamgyeong Province, was not favorable for the test launch. It is common practice not to fire missiles in bad weather, nor at night, but the North proceeded. According to a military expert, the U.S., China, Europe, and Russia have never launched missiles in early morning under bad weather.
The missiles were fired in regular sequence as soon as the United States launched the space shuttle Discovery. The U.S. was celebrating its Independence Day, waiting for news of the space shuttle launch, when they were shocked by the news that North Korea had conducted its launches. This provocative move by the communist regime brought about a crisis on the Korea Peninsula and Northeast Asia. The media worldwide were busy reporting on the North’s missile test-firing and concerned nations’ countermeasures instead of covering the launch of the space shuttle.
An analyst said, "North Korea displayed its missile capabilities by firing missiles on U.S. Independence Day. Such a movement is high-level psychological warfare meant to attract the world’s attention."
The timing of North Korea’s missile launch holds very strong symbolism, not only for inter-Korean relations but within North Korea, as well. The day July 4 is the 34th anniversary of the South-North Joint Statement, and Kim Il-sung died 12 years ago on July 8. The mouthpiece of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, Rodong Sinmun, in an editorial on July 4 stressed that the country’s " ’military-first policy’ will bring prosperity to our fatherland."
When North Korea test-launched a Daepodong-1 missile on Aug. 31, 1998, it had international and domestic intentions in selecting that date, as well. At the time, the Stalinist regime was making attempts to rewin the minds of its citizens under slogans of North Korea as a ’powerful nation’ with a ’military-first policy’ to usher in the so-called Kim Jong-il era after Kim Il-sung had been in power for so long. Kim Jong-il continued his drive to win over the North Korean people by means of the historic inter-Korean summit in 2000 and two North Korea-Japan summits since then, but he may have wanted to reassert himself since George W. Bush took office.
It is highly possible that North Korea was exhibiting its brinkmanship tactics once again. China has stepped up diplomatic efforts by suggesting unofficial six-party talks and President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi declared at a summit in Washington on June 29 that they would not accept North Korea’s missile launches. Under such circumstances, Pyongyang fired at least six missiles, including a long-range one, as if to say, "North Korea will never surrender or retreat."
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/139006.html
And last but not least:
Of course..
"The DPRK has a right to build Weapons of Mass Destruction.."(harrharr~)
http://www.geocities.com/songunpoliticsstudygroup/spsgjune252006.html
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