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Anti-THAAD activist dies after setting himself on fire
South Korean activist Jo Young-sam died one day after setting himself on fire Tuesday in Mapo-gu, Seoul, to protest against the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.
“THAAD should go and peace shall come. (The peace initiatives of) the Moon Administration should prevail,” 58-year-old Jo had said. He also left a four-page statement addressed to President Moon Jae-in...
...in which he denounced the THAAD deployment and called for peace initiatives regarding North Korea.
Jo had suffered third-degree burns all over his body and had been rushed to a hospital for treatment. However, he died Wednesday morning.
Jo visited North Korea in 1995 upon a formal invitation from Lee In-mo, who had been repatriated to the North. After his visit to North Korea, Jo took refuge in Germany for 18 years. He finally returned to South Korea in 2012 and was sentenced to one year in prison for his unauthorized visit to the North.
After serving his prison sentence, he moved to Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, and had recently been engaging in an anti-THAAD campaign.
At a joint press conference early Wednesday, activist groups said the Moon administration and the US should be held accountable for his death. (source: K. Herald, 9.20)
Related Korean reports/statements:
☞ 사드 철회 촉구하며 분신한 조영삼 씨 20일 오전 선종 (노동과 세계, 9.20)
☞ 성주주민들, “공권력 남용한 경찰” 인권위에 진정 (민중의소리, 9.20)
☞ '화염 속의 천사' 고 조영삼 님이 남긴 뜻... (전교조, 9.20)
Y'day(9.16) afternoon in Soseong-ri(Seongju-gun/county, Gyeongbuk-do/province): About 200 KCTU activists from the nearby regions staged an anti-THAAD protest...
...to support the 5th Soseong-ri Peace Rally(KCTU's report, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here)...
(사진/'동영상': 조남달)
Related report:
☞ 사드 배치 완료 후 열린 소성리 평화행동… (뉴스민, 9.16)
The U.S. committed another state terrorism by cooking up new "sanctions resolution" 2375 against the DPRK at the United Nations Security Council with voting machines on Tuesday.
In this regard, a spokesman for the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace(!!) Committee stresses in a statement on Wednesday that the army and people of the DPRK have turned out in a nationwide and all-people confrontation against the U.S., burning their hearts with surging anger and hatred toward the U.S. imperialists and their followers.
The statement says:
The army and people of the DPRK are unanimously demanding that the Yankees, chief culprit in cooking up the "sanctions resolution", be beaten to death as a stick is fit for a rabid dog.
The Yankees are the sworn enemy and group of wolves which can never be allowed to go as they have massacred and persecuted the Korean people century after century. The group of gangsters should never be pardoned for having ruthlessly trampled down our sovereignty and right to existence. There's limit to patience. Now is the time to annihilate the U.S. imperialist aggressors. Let's reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let's vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now. These are voices of the Korean army and people.
Also heard in the DPRK are strong accusations against the Japs who have zealously joined in the U.S. racket for sanctions.
The behaviors of Japs, sworn enemy of the Korean nation, are enraging us. The wicked Japs should not be pardoned as they have not yet made a sincere apology for the never-to-be-condoned crimes against our people but acted disgustingly, dancing to the tune of the U.S. "sanctions". A telling blow should be dealt to them who have not yet come to senses after the launch of our ICBM over the Japanese archipelago. The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us. This is the voices of the enraged Korean army and people.
Our army and people's resentment at the south Korean puppet regime is getting stronger. What they have contended is; The south Korean puppet forces are traitors and dogs of the U.S. as they call for harsher "sanctions" on the fellow countrymen. The group of pro-American traitors should be severely punished and wiped out with fire attack so that they could no longer survive. Only then, the entire Korean nation can thrive in a reunified territory to be proud of in the world.
The army and people of the DPRK are also enraged at the UN Security Council which has turned into a tool serving the U.S. without regard to peace and security of mankind.
The UNSC moves only on the instruction of the U.S., and it is a tool of evil which does not ensure the global peace and security but ruthlessly wrecks them on the contrary. It is pitiful to see the behavior of big powers and money-bribed countries which voted for "anti-DPRK sanctions", disregarding justice, moral sense and conscience. The UNSC is made up of those unprincipled countries and, accordingly, such useless tool should be disbanded at once. This is what all the people in the DPRK have in view and demand.
The said angry voices just represent a statement of the Korean people to the U.S. and its followers.
Dogs bark, the caravan moves on. Our army and people will never waver but do what they are determined regardless of "sanctions" no more than rotten net.
The adoption of heinous "sanctions resolution" hardens our faith that what we should depend on is only our self-defensive nuclear force as well as our unshakable will to go only along the road of simultaneously pushing ahead the economic construction and the building of nuclear force.
source: KCNA(9.13)/Rodong Shinmun(9.14)
Last Thursday(9.07), just few hours after the latest anti-THAAD battle in Sosoeng-ri, Korea Times told us that Seongju residents vow to continue protest(*).
Two days ago(9.09) The Hankyoreh reported the following: Seongju residents and civic groups opposing the THAAD deployment plan to continue blocking the delivery of construction equipment, materials, and oil to the antimissile base from the road outside the Soseong Village Community Center in Seongju county, North Gyeongsang province. The plan comes even after the deployment of a full THAAD battery was completed with the delivery of an additional four launchers. Residents also plan to launch the “Blue Butterfly Expedition,” traveling around the country by bus to call for the THAAD system’s dismantling...(the complete article you can read here)
The "Blue Butterfly Expedition" tour bus...
* On the same(9.07) day the Korean Teachers Union(KTU) held a press conference in central Seoul and issued a declaration, demanding the immediate THAAD withdrawal.
Related statements(in Korean) by KCTU and KMWU, issued on the same day, you'll get here and here...
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