295개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Once a "backwater town in the boondocks" - now the center of resistance(against the THAAD deployment). Impressions from Soseong-ri(Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk-do), photographed y'day by comrade Park Joon...
Yesterday's Korea Times reported the following: George Friedman, a U.S. geopolitical analyst, has claimed that Washington is preparing to attack North Korea. Speaking at the 2017 Strategic Investment Conference in Orlando, Florida, Monday, he said the Kim Jong-un regime's actions have "offered the U.S. no alternative" to a clash, according to Business Insider, a U.S. business news website. The comment came at a time when the North is continuing to push for provocations including two ballistic missile tests this month in defiance of international condemnation and sanctions...(more you can read here)
Related stuff:
☞ Congressmen warn Trump against strike (JoongAng Ilbo, 5.25)
☞ To strike or not to strike (K. Times, 4.13)
Last Wednesday(5.10) KCTU stated the following: In spite of attempts to stimulate fears that a vote for a progressive candidate would be a ‘void vote’, voters were wise in their choices. The votes gained by the two progressive candidates embody the spirit of the candlelight uprising, which sought fundamental social reform and the eradication of the structural evils sewed by the previous administration, and will serve as pressure on the Moon administration to move forward with reform at the right pace and in the right direction. This means first and foremost reversing the stationing of THAAD...
One day later(5.11) Korea Times wrote that President Moo Jae-in faces a tough diplomatic challenge involving the controversial deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in South Korea... Cheong Seong-chang, a senior research fellow at the Sejong Institute, said, "If the new government concludes that the THAAD deployment here was not a rational decision, it will need to make a drastic decision to cancel the deployment"...
Three days later(5.13)...
Related reports in Korean, depicting last Saturday's "3rd Pan-national Peace Action Day" in Seongju/Soseong-ri, you'll get here and here.
NewsMinTV recorded the entire event... and you can watch it here and here.
Last but not least... here you'll get a report by the Korean Health &Medical Workers' Union, depicting the "3rd Pan-national Peace Action Day"...
Yesterday's Yonhap reported the following: Hundreds of residents near the deployment site of a U.S. missile defense system here filed a petition with the Constitutional Court on Monday to obtain an injunction against its construction and operation. A total of 527 residents from Seongju County and neighboring Gimcheon, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, asked the court to prohibit the shipment of additional components of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery into the site, as well as the construction of the battery unit, until a separate ruling is made on its legitimacy...
Meanwhile...
Last but not least: Anti-THAAD sit-in struggle/hunger strike(ongoing since 13 days) in central Seoul(@Gwanghwamun)...
Related articles:
☞ Locals from Seongju travel to Seoul and protest THAAD (JoongAng Ilbo, 5.09)
☞ 성주 소성리 할머니가 미국 트럼프 대통령에게 쓴 편지 (민중의소리, 5.08)
☞ 대선 하루 앞둔 성주 소성리…“새 정부 첫 과제는 사드 철회” (뉴스민, 5.08)
Latest developments
Wednesday, 4.26:
Surprise Overnight Placement of THAAD...
Related report: Seongju residents resist arrival of THAAD...(Hankyoreh, 4.27)
Thursday, 4.27:
The 'Songju Emergency Measure Committee for Defending Holy Land of Won Buddhism' declared the launch of an indefinite hunger sit-in in central Seoul(nearby Gwanghwamun) to protest against THAAD deployment...
Y'day(4.29) afternoon/evening in central Seoul:
About 50,000 citizens joined the 23rd Candlelight Rally and demanded: "THAAD out! PEACE in!" (related report: 박근혜 없는 50일, “촛불 여러분, 희망의 봄이 열렸습니까?”)...
Today's Guardian wrote that North Korea appears to be preparing to conduct a nuclear test in a show of defiance towards Donald Trump, who has not ruled out military action to pressure the regime into abandoning its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes...
Yesterday's NYT published the following: In an unusually strong editorial, Global Times, a newspaper that reflects the thinking of China’s leadership, said Beijing would support stiffer United Nations sanctions, including “strictly limiting” oil exports to North Korea should it conduct a nuclear test. The editorial, indicating nervousness about what the North might do on Saturday, said that the peninsula was the closest to “military clashes” since 2006. “China, too, can no longer stand the continuous escalation of the North Korean nuclear issue at its doorstep,” the editorial said. “Instead of accepting a situation that continues to worsen, putting an end to this is more in line with the wish of the Chinese public.”... (here you can read yesterday's Global Times' editorial, mentioned by NYT)
Related piece:
☞ To strike or not to strike (Korea Times, 4.13)
Yesterday's Korea Times reported the following: Presidential frontrunners Moon Jae-in and Ahn Cheol-soo have virtually dropped their opposition to the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile shield in South Korea in an apparent bid to appeal to conservative voters. Moon, a former chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, said Tuesday that South Korea can "push ahead" with the ongoing installation of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense(THAAD) battery...
On the same day A senior Chinese diplomat on held a second round of talks with South Korean politicians on the bilateral dispute over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system here. Wu Dawei, Beijing's chief negotiator on North Korea's nuclear program, met with Rep. Kim Moo-sung, election committee chief of the splinter conservative Bareun Party... During the talks at the National Assembly, the two sides apparently repeated their positions on the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, according to Kim... "The Chinese keep expressing their opposition to the THAAD deployment, but I said the THAAD issue is already a finished story. Its deployment has already begun, so I said it would be best not to talk about it anymore," the lawmaker said... (source: Yonhap, 4.12)
Exactly: "The THAAD issue is already a finished story"!
Why? Because... on the same day the S.K. military started to move the equipment into the planned THAAD deployment site. But to avoid a (possibly violent)confrontation with the local anti-THAAD resistance the stuff was/is delivered by airlift...
And while during this process - at least - the local anti-THAAD resistance became "powerless"... it seems that Moon Jae-in &co. came to the conclusion: We don't need to support them anymore!!
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