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  1. 2006/02/25
    지금 이라크안에
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  2. 2006/02/22
    이스라엘정부:세계 대전..
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  3. 2006/02/01
    이라크戰/한군/철수..
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  4. 2006/01/10
    3月: 이란戰?????
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  5. 2006/01/10
    美國vs이란...핵폭탄 ..
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  6. 2006/01/06
    파병반대국민행동 #2
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  7. 2005/12/31
    파병반대국민행동 #1
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  8. 2005/12/16
    12月17日 (土), 反戰대회
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  9. 2005/12/04
    미국과 이슬람교-파시즘주의...
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  10. 2005/11/30
    이라크: NO FUTURE! (??)
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北 미사일.. #6

 

 

 

Korean talks collapse, with North rejecting demands (IHT, 7.13)

 

High-level talks between South and North Korea collapsed in acrimony Thursday, as the North rejected South Korean demands for an end to missile tests and a return to negotiations on the North's nuclear program, and countered with a demand for more economic aid.

 

The failure, which ended the inter- Korean cabinet-level talks a day ahead of schedule, came as China appeared to have made little headway in its own efforts to get the North Koreans to the negotiating table and the United States and Japan called for the United Nations Security Council to act.

 

As it left the talks held in the South Korean city of Busan, the North Korean delegation accused the South of "parroting" American positions and warned that the South should be held responsible for "unpredictable, catastrophic consequences in inter-Korean relations."

 

South Korea had criticized the launching of North Korean missiles last week, which prompted calls, notably from Japan, for tough UN sanctions. Seoul urged the North to defuse tensions by returning to six-nation talks on ending its nuclear weapons and missile programs.

 

The North dismissed the South Korean statements. Instead, the North argued that its "army-first" policy of increasing its military capabilities "promotes the security for the South and benefits the general public of the South." (^^YEAH!!)

 

North Korea then asked the South to provide 500,000 tons of rice in food aid, as well as raw materials for shoes and textiles.

 

Seoul said that discussions of food aid were out of the question.

 

"Nobody in the South believes your army-first politics is helping us," the South Korean unification minister, Lee Jong Seok, the chief South Korean delegate, was quoted as telling his North Korean counterpart, Kwon Ho Ung, on Wednesday. "If you want to help our security, you should stop missile tests and your nuclear weapons program."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/13/news/missile.php

 

 

Korea Times will write tomorrow:

 

UN to Adopt Resolution on North Korea
 

The UN Security Council (UNSC) is expected to adopt a punitive resolution against North Korea as early as Saturday.

 

Japan, backed by the United States, is pressing for a draft resolution imposing weapons-related sanctions on the North, while China and Russia, Pyongyang’s allies, oppose it and want to introduce a milder resolution without sanctions.

 

The United Kingdom, Slovakia, Greece and France also support the Japan-proposed resolution calling for banning North Korean missile tests and preventing the regime from acquiring or exporting missiles, missile technology or weapons of mass destruction.

 

South Korea also has expressed objections to any resolution invoking the U.N. Charter’s Chapter 7, which serves as the basis for mandatory sanctions including military ones.

Seoul officials are employing full diplomatic efforts to settle the turmoil on the Korean Peninsula and coax North Korea to rejoin the stalled multilateral nuclear talks, which include the two Koreas, the Untied States, Japan, China and Russia.

 

Beijing and Moscow have expressed concern over the possible inclusion in the resolution of Chapter 7, which can be enforced militarily. Their draft text, instead, deplores the multiple missile launches by Pyongyang and urges the Stalinist regime to institute a moratorium.

 

Mindful of these objections from China and Russia, Japan could introduce a less stringent resolution, Japanese news reports said.

 

Japan is pressing ahead with urgency, wanting the resolution to be passed before the G-8 summit opening in Russia this weekend.

 

``We are not ready to spend a lot of time on these negotiations,’’ Japan's U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima told reporters. ``I think the G-8 summit is approaching and our position is to have a council decision by the end of the week.’’

He said it would be ``very difficult’’ to accept the Russian and Chinese resolution in its present form.

 

In New York, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told reporters consultations would continue with Russia and China on their rival, milder draft resolution introduced on Wednesday in response to North Korea’s seven missile tests on July 5.

Referring to Beijing’s failure to persuade North Korea to return to the six-party talks on ending its nuclear weapons program, Bolton said, ``so it looks to me like Pyongyang’s intransigent attitude remains unchanged.

 

``And if that's the case, I think dealing with these missile launches and the nuclear program impels us to move to a vote sooner rather than later,’’ he added.

 

White House spokesman McCormac said the center of gravity of diplomatic efforts is moving away from the region and more toward the United Nations. He said it was a positive development that everyone was talking in terms of a resolution, adding, ``It's just a matter now of talking about specific language.’’

 

The vote on the Japan-authored draft had been postponed to give China time to persuade Pyongyang to return to the disarmament talks and seek a diplomatic way out of the missile crisis.

 

But China’s ambassador to the United Nations said the North had yet to respond to Chinese concerns. ``Time is not a factor,’’ China’s U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said. ``I do hope that in the next few days, we can come up with an agreement.’’

 

Cabinet-level talks between the two Koreas ended without bearing fruit Thursday, after Seoul rejected the North’s demand for 500,000 tons of rice.

 

South Korea said it would suspend all food aid in response to the missile tests, and called for Pyongyang’s return to the nuclear talks.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200607/kt2006071417481011950.htm

 

 

Yonhap, 7.14:

 

Seoul still waiting for response from Pyongyang on U.N.move

 

 

Hankyoreh wrotes today:

[News Analysis] Why is North Korea so stubborn?

 

 

Guardian/AP just a short while ago:

 

Japan Insists on Quick N. Korea Resolution 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

평택/평화 행진(fin)

Finally here you'll find a very personally report about the last two days (7.08/09) of the Peace March in English:

 

Notes from the Peace March from the Blue House to Pyeongtaek

 

Attacks against protesters, 7.08 (source: 민중의소리/Voice of People)

 

And the "left"-liberal daily Hankyoreh published yesterday following article in English:

 

Protesters beaten by supporters of U.S. base relocation


Skirmish in Pyeongtaek follows candlelight vigil by those against base move

 


Members of the Pan South Korea Solution Committee Against U.S. Base Extension in Pyeongtaek (KCPT), holding a peaceful march in one of the disputed former residential areas where a U.S. base is to expand were beaten by local business owners supporting the base relocation.


About 400 protestors, marching to the disputed Pyeongtaek district of Daechuri on July 8 after a candlelight vigil, were met by about 100 local merchants wielding metal rods.


A member of the KCPT, identified by his surname, Mr. Gwak, was among those attacked. Gwak said, "They cursed me and pulled me out of the car and beat me." He is currently receiving treatment at a nearby hospital.

 


In addition to the rods, the merchants used sticks to beat the protestors and threw stones and eggs at them. About 30 protesters were injured.


Police called to the scene, however, told the marchers to "return home" instead of subduing the merchants. No arrests were made on the scene.


About 80 of the protestors went to the Pyeongtaek police station to raise a complaint about the lack of arrests following the incident, and 45 were themselves arrested on charges of interference with the execution of official duties.


Regarding this incident, a group of local merchants said, "Due to two years of rallies and demonstrations, commercial areas around the U.S. military base have been greatly damaged and merchants hurt by the KCPT."


Fearing further protests, the police have since blocked entry into the Daechuri district.

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/140045.html 
 


진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

오늘(水) 평화행진

 

아침 10시

 

청와대

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

평화가 무엇이냐..

by 돕헤드同志

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

南朝鮮.평화.투쟁..

..in the point of view of the

 rulers in the DPRK

 

Wow.. "only" 6 days after it was happen KCNA(DPRK's central "news" agency) was able to "report" about 6.24 anti-war rally/demo in Seoul!! So KCNA was writing yesterday following "meaningfull" article, full with many informations about the important event:

 

Anti-War Event in S. Korea


   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- An event of "the June 24 anti-war action to denounce murder of Iraqi civilians, get the Jaitun unit withdrawn and oppose the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek" was reportedly held at the Maroni Park of University Road in Seoul under the sponsorship of the south Korean People's Action against Troop Dispatch. Noting that grudges against the U.S. forces were being pent up in Iraq day by day and, even in the United States, there was a growing public demand for their withdrawal from Iraq, the speakers called upon all the people to turn out in the movement for peace against war.
    Branding the move to expand the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek as a highly dangerous act to turn the Korean Peninsula into a battlefield of the U.S. war of aggression, they said the movement for peace against war was linked with the fight against the expansion of the military base.
    A resolution was read out at the event, which declared that people of all social strata would stage a mammoth anti-war protest late in September to close the chapter of the U.S. forces' occupation of Iraq and get the Jaitun unit withdrawn.
    Meanwhile, a signature campaign for the total withdrawal of the Jaitun unit within the year and a photo exhibition exposing the killings of Iraqi civilians by U.S. troops took place around the venue of the event.

 

Oops & Wow.. once again!

 

 

Of course the N.K. propaganda is not publishing pictures

about events like that..(6.24)

 

 

And of course KCNA and Rodong Shinmun are regularly commentating the struggle in and around Pyeongtaek, like before y'day:

 

United Action against Expansion of U.S. Military Base Urged in S. Korea


   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The All-People Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek of south Korea reportedly held a press conference in front of "Chongwadae" on June 26 at which it strongly denounced the "government's" moves to expand the U.S. military base. A press release read out at the press conference warned that if the "government" persists in the forcible eviction of the residents in the planned area for the expansion of the U.S. military base, it will face stronger resistance of the people.


    Then Mun Jong Hyon, who has been on a hunger sit-in strike for the 21 consecutive days against the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek, published an appeal to the people.


    Accusing the "government" of ruthlessly cracking down upon the residents while unilaterally pushing forward the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek, the appeal termed this a submission to the U.S. and, at the same time, an act of disturbing peace on this land.


    Pak Sun Hui, permanent representative of the south Korean National Catholic Alliance for Justice, speaking at the press conference, said the hunger struggle helped them renew their firm resolution to fight it out as long as they are alive.
    Kim Je Nam, secretary general of the Green Federation, said that civic organizations will also join in the struggle to prevent Phyongthaek from being turned into the U.S. base for war of aggression.

 

 

Struggle against Expansion of U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek

to Be Continued


   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The struggle against the expansion of U.S. military base in Phyongthaek has been carried on in south Korea in June, too. Early in May, the south Korean authorities mobilized heavily armed forces to seize land in the area of Taechu-ri and Todu-ri of Phaengsong Township, Phyongthaek City and to mercilessly repress the protesters.


    The fascist tyranny triggered the furies not only from the Koreans in the north, south and abroad but also from the world people of conscience.


    The All-people Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek has been formed with chairmen group of the south Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, religionists of the four main religious fraternities and some 130 political parties, civic and social organizations in south Korea. The committee and activists of the civic organizations and men of the press across south Korea have issued special appeals and statements almost every day and held hundreds of candle-events, sternly condemning the military authorities' anti-national submissive acts of rendering soil to the aggression troops.


    The mass media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea widely report the struggle of the south Korean people against the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek.


    Rodong Sinmun says: The forcible removal was conducted under the U.S. pressure in accordance with its aggressive intention to convert south Korea into its main advanced base for its war strategy. And it clearly shows once again that the south Korean authorities are pro-U.S. traitors.


    Statements and talks have been made public by the European Regional Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the Society for Cooperation among Koreans in Germany, 14 organizations of Korean residents in U.S. and other overseas Koreans. The "Ministry of National Defense" and police authorities of south Korea committed tragedies in Phyongthaek similar with those in Kwangju in May of 1980, the statements and talks said. They strongly demanded that the south Korean authorities turn out in genuine national cooperation in conformity with the June 15 era.


    The struggle has become a matter of concern in the international arena.


    The Amnesty International demanded that those forcibly walked away be released forthwith and the south Korean "government" solve the Phyongthaek issue through dialogue with the people. Over 150 civic organizations and figures of Japan, foreign mass media are voicing firm solidarity with the south Korean people in their struggle for defending the land of Phyongthaek.

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200607/news07/01.htm#6 

 

..blabalabala...

 

Harrharr.. "Amnesty International demanded".. wow, what a surprise, that they can spell the name this organization.. HYPOCRISY!!

 

If N.K. really would be interested to support the anti-war movement in S.K. (KCNA, Rodong Shinmun.. are calling it "south Korea") and to decrease the current strange situation on the peninsula it should suggest disarmament and peace agreements between the South and North, instead to threaten the region with long-range missiles.. (aeh~ I mean, its just my opinion..).

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

다음 주말 대회(土/日) ..

ANTI-WAR RALLIES/DEMOS

IN SEOUL


 

 


진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

北 미사일.. #2

 

Now, not even 24 hours after my last contribution about this issue, the US administration made it clear that they don't want even to think about bilateral talks with the DPRK(actually it was clear from the beginning that they will reject this kind of "offer"..). ``You don't initiate talks by threatening to launch an ICBM(inter-continantal ballistic missile),'' Bolton, the U.S. envoy to the U.N. said.

 

And finally some US ex-politicians are calling now for military strikes against DPRK's missile sites(please see the last two articles).

 

Just a short while ago AP reported following:

 

China Concerned Over N. Korea Missile Test


China issued its strongest statement of concern yet Thursday over a possible North Korean long-range missile launch, while Pyongyang warned of possible clashes in the skies as it accused U.S. spy planes of repeated illegal intrusions.

Beijing is the North's last major ally and key benefactor, and Washington has urged China to press the North to back down on its potential missile test.

``We are very concerned about the current situation,'' Jiang Yu, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official, said at a regular briefing in Beijing. ``We hope all parties can do more in the interest of regional peace and stability.''

Jiang said China would ``continue to make constructive efforts.''

President Bush praised China on Wednesday for ``taking responsibility in dealing with North Korea.''

Worries over a potential North Korean launch have grown in recent weeks following reports of activity at the North's launch site on its northeastern coast, where U.S. officials say a Taepodong-2 missile - believed capable of reaching the United States - is possibly being fueled.

 

Read the full article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5903911,00.html

 

 

And the semi-official S.K. newsagency Yonhap published this:

 

N. Korea's next step draws keen attention

 

As the United States turned town North Korea's repeated appeals for direct talks over a possible missile test, Pyongyang's next move remains unpredictable, analysts here say.

They say North Korea appears to be in dilemma over whether to go ahead with the missile launch in the face of strong warnings from the U.S. and Japan.

U.S. officials have stuck to a firm stance against any bilateral talks with North Korea outside of the Beijing-based six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Speaking to Yonhap News Agency earlier this week, Han Song-ryol, deputy head of the North's mission to the United Nations, said his country has a right to own a ballistic missile and test it.

"We are aware of the U.S. concerns about our missile test-launch. So our position is that we should resolve the issue through negotiations," he said. It was the highest-profile response from North Korea on the recent reports of its preparations for the launch of the so-called Taepodong-2, which is said to be able to fly as far as the western United States.

 

Read the entire stuff here:

http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060622/610000000020060622161806E5.html

 

 

IHT/AP:

Japan makes moves to monitor North Korea

 

 

Washington Post published today following article:

 

Former Defense Officials Urge U.S. Strike on North Korean Missile Site


Former defense secretary William J. Perry has called on President Bush to launch a preemptive strike against the long-range ballistic missile that U.S. intelligence analysts say North Korea is preparing to launch.

 

In an opinion article(*) that appears in today's Washington Post, Perry and former assistant defense secretary Ashton B. Carter argue that if North Korea continues launch preparations, Bush should immediately declare that the United States will destroy the missile before it can be fired.

 

Perry and Carter suggest using a cruise missile launched from a submarine and carrying a high-explosive warhead. "The effect on the Taepodong would be devastating," they write, using the name of the Korean missile. "The multi-story, thin-skinned missile filled with high-energy fuel is itself explosive -- the U.S. airstrike would puncture the missile and probably cause it to explode. The carefully engineered test bed for North Korea's nascent nuclear missile force would be destroyed."

 

As President Bill Clinton's defense secretary, Perry oversaw preparation for airstrikes on North Korean nuclear facilities in 1994, an attack that was never carried out. He has remained deeply involved in Korean policy issues and is widely respected in national-security circles, especially among senior military officers. He has been a critic of the Bush administration's approach to North Korea.

 

"We believe diplomacy might have precluded the current situation," Perry and Carter said. "But diplomacy has failed, and we cannot sit by and let this deadly threat mature."

Perry and Carter say that such a strike "undoubtedly carries risk" but that there would be no damage to North Korea beyond the missile galley. They argue that the unproven U.S. missile-defense system might not be able to shoot down a missile.

 

Meanwhile, there were some signs that South Korea, where officials have expressed skepticism over U.S. intelligence regarding an imminent missile launch, might be willing to step up pressure on the North. Yesterday, Kim Dae Jung, the former South Korean president, postponed a much-lauded visit next week to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, because of the rising tensions.

 

"Because of the unforeseen situation, it has become difficult" for Kim to visit North Korea, Jeong Se Hyun, a former top aide to Kim, told reporters.

 

In addition, South Korea's unification minister, Lee Jong-Seok, was widely quoted in the country's press as suggesting that continued investment and humanitarian aid to North Korea might be curbed if Pyongyang conducts a missile test. In a meeting with opposition leaders from South Korea's Grand National Party, which has criticized the administration of President Roh Moo Hyun for being soft on North Korea, Lee was quoted by the Korea Times as saying Seoul "will not pretend as if nothing has happened in the event of North Korea test-firing a missile."

 

Also yesterday, the U.S. ambassador to Japan reiterated that "all options are on the table" with regard to North Korea.

 

Asked whether the United States would attempt to shoot down the North Korean missile if launched, J. Thomas Schieffer warned in an interview that "we have greater technical means of tracking it than we had in the past, and we have options that we have not had in the past."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101838.html

 

 

* If Necessary, Strike and Destroy
North Korea Cannot Be Allowed to Test This Missile

 

By Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry


North Korean technicians are reportedly in the final stages of fueling a long-range ballistic missile that some experts estimate can deliver a deadly payload to the United States. The last time North Korea tested such a missile, in 1998, it sent a shock wave around the world, but especially to the United States and Japan, both of which North Korea regards as archenemies. They recognized immediately that a missile of this type makes no sense as a weapon unless it is intended for delivery of a nuclear warhead.

 

A year later North Korea agreed to a moratorium on further launches, which it upheld -- until now. But there is a critical difference between now and 1998. Today North Korea openly boasts of its nuclear deterrent, has obtained six to eight bombs' worth of plutonium since 2003 and is plunging ahead to make more in its Yongbyon reactor. The six-party talks aimed at containing North Korea's weapons of mass destruction have collapsed.

Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil? We believe not. The Bush administration has unwisely ballyhooed the doctrine of "preemption," which all previous presidents have sustained as an option rather than a dogma. It has applied the doctrine to Iraq, where the intelligence pointed to a threat from weapons of mass destruction that was much smaller than the risk North Korea poses. (The actual threat from Saddam Hussein was, we now know, even smaller than believed at the time of the invasion.) But intervening before mortal threats to U.S. security can develop is surely a prudent policy.

 

Therefore, if North Korea persists in its launch preparations, the United States should immediately make clear its intention to strike and destroy the North Korean Taepodong missile before it can be launched. This could be accomplished, for example, by a cruise missile launched from a submarine carrying a high-explosive warhead. The blast would be similar to the one that killed terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq. But the effect on the Taepodong would be devastating. The multi-story, thin-skinned missile filled with high-energy fuel is itself explosive -- the U.S. airstrike would puncture the missile and probably cause it to explode. The carefully engineered test bed for North Korea's nascent nuclear missile force would be destroyed, and its attempt to retrogress to Cold War threats thwarted. There would be no damage to North Korea outside the immediate vicinity of the missile gantry.

 

The U.S. military has announced that it has placed some of the new missile defense interceptors deployed in Alaska and California on alert. In theory, the antiballistic missile system might succeed in smashing into the Taepodong payload as it hurtled through space after the missile booster burned out. But waiting until North Korea's ICBM is launched to interdict it is risky. First, by the time the payload was intercepted, North Korean engineers would already have obtained much of the precious flight test data they are seeking, which they could use to make a whole arsenal of missiles, hiding and protecting them from more U.S. strikes in the maze of tunnels they have dug throughout their mountainous country. Second, the U.S. defensive interceptor could reach the target only if it was flying on a test trajectory that took it into the range of the U.S. defense. Third, the U.S. system is unproven against North Korean missiles and has had an uneven record in its flight tests. A failed attempt at interception could undermine whatever deterrent value our missile defense may have.

 

We should not conceal our determination to strike the Taepodong if North Korea refuses to drain the fuel out and take it back to the warehouse. When they learn of it, our South Korean allies will surely not support this ultimatum -- indeed they will vigorously oppose it. The United States should accordingly make clear to the North that the South will play no role in the attack, which can be carried out entirely with U.S. forces and without use of South Korean territory. South Korea has worked hard to counter North Korea's 50-year menacing of its own country, through both military defense and negotiations, and the United States has stood with the South throughout. South Koreans should understand that U.S. territory is now also being threatened, and we must respond. Japan is likely to welcome the action but will also not lend open support or assistance. China and Russia will be shocked that North Korea's recklessness and the failure of the six-party talks have brought things to such a pass, but they will not defend North Korea.

 

In addition to warning our allies and partners of our determination to take out the Taepodong before it can be launched, we should warn the North Koreans. There is nothing they could do with such warning to defend the bulky, vulnerable missile on its launch pad, but they could evacuate personnel who might otherwise be harmed. The United States should emphasize that the strike, if mounted, would not be an attack on the entire country, or even its military, but only on the missile that North Korea pledged not to launch -- one designed to carry nuclear weapons. We should sharply warn North Korea against further escalation.

 

North Korea could respond to U.S. resolve by taking the drastic step of threatening all-out war on the Korean Peninsula. But it is unlikely to act on that threat. Why attack South Korea, which has been working to improve North-South relations (sometimes at odds with the United States) and which was openly opposing the U.S. action? An invasion of South Korea would bring about the certain end of Kim Jong Il's regime within a few bloody weeks of war, as surely he knows. Though war is unlikely, it would be prudent for the United States to enhance deterrence by introducing U.S. air and naval forces into the region at the same time it made its threat to strike the Taepodong. If North Korea opted for such a suicidal course, these extra forces would make its defeat swifter and less costly in lives -- American, South Korean and North Korean.

 

This is a hard measure for President Bush to take. It undoubtedly carries risk. But the risk of continuing inaction in the face of North Korea's race to threaten this country would be greater. Creative diplomacy might have avoided the need to choose between these two unattractive alternatives. Indeed, in earlier years the two of us were directly involved in negotiations with North Korea, coupled with military planning, to prevent just such an outcome. We believe diplomacy might have precluded the current situation. But diplomacy has failed, and we cannot sit by and let this deadly threat mature. A successful Taepodong launch, unopposed by the United States, its intended victim, would only embolden North Korea even further. The result would be more nuclear warheads atop more and more missiles.

 

Ashton B. Carter was assistant secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton and William J. Perry was secretary of defense. The writers, who conducted the North Korea policy review while in government, are now professors at Harvard and Stanford, respectively.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101518.html

 


진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

北 미사일.. #1

 

Latest news, comments and analysis

about the missile "madness"

 

 

First of all: the f.. missile is still in its hole!

But of course - no wonder - KJ Kim's trip to P.Y. is cancelled as one of the first(foreseeable) results of the latest developments.

Meanwhile - of course it was also pedictable - the S.K. govt is threatening the DPRK with the stop of("additional") economic and humanitarian help(Yonhap, Korea Times).

And the US administration's position: "All options are still on the table", a.k.a. everything can be happen, incl. a military option(just watch CNN's stuff쟯n the end of my contribution..).

And finally, of course also foreseeable: the DPRK is offering the US administration bilateral negotiations to solve the "missile problem"(on the other side the DPRK said that it has all rights to launch a satellite..).

 

 

IHT published in the last two days following articles:

North Korea's very bad idea (NYT)

South Korea's ex-leader won't visit North

U.S. Readies System For Missile Detection? (Washington Post)
Use Against N. Korean Launch Discounted

The U.S. military yesterday moved ships into position off the coast of North Korea to detect the launch of any long-range ballistic missiles and prepared its new, unproven missile-interception system to attempt a response if necessary.

Please read the full article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001446.html

 

 

The latest comment published y'day in Asia Times(HK/China) you can read here:

Pyongyang will shoot itself in the foot(harrharr, finally a kind of surprising..)

Before y'day the same magazine published following analysis:

There's method in the missile madness

..and some backgrounds about the DPRK's missile development program and export:

Pyongyang's global reach

And finally here you can watch the latest contribution in CNN Intl. TV program(6.21):

 

North Korea's plan to launch a long-range missile prompts U.S. concern

http://edition.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2006/06/20/starr.north.korea.missle.launch.dod 

 

 

And last but not least the S.K. "left-liberal" daily Hangyeore wrote this y'day:

Expert says N.K. missile could carry nuclear payload 12,000 km

 

 

(..oops, what a great idea!!)

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

대포동 2호, #2

 

While the international media was/is putting the DPRK's missile issue on its headlines - for example on CNN Intl. it was/is the top story ..

 

North Korea Moves Closer to Missile Test

 

North Korea has finished loading fuel into a long-range ballistic missile, a Bush administration official said Monday as signs continued that the reclusive communist state(*) will soon test a weapon that could reach the United States.. (Guardian, AP)

 

More nations warn North Korea against launching missile (IHT)

 

 

...the S.K. media is, once again, trying to play down the issue:

 

Korea Times Tuesday's edition will publish following:

 

Seoul Calm Over NK Missile Issue
 

North Korea does not appear to be at the stage of test-firing its long-range missile in a day or two, despite recent news reports, as few concrete signs indicating an imminent launch have been detected, sources in Seoul said Monday.

Some foreign news services reported over the weekend that North Korea seems to have finished fueling a long-range ballistic missile increasing the possibility it will go ahead with its first important test-launch in eight years...

 

South Korea has not yet concluded whether the projectile North Korea plans to launch is a military-purpose missile or a civilian-purpose satellite...

 

(the entire article you can read here:

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200606/kt2006061917113210440.htm)

 

Opps, perhaps following will be a kind of un-sensitively(harrharr, I'm un-sensitively!! everyone knows..)...

 

Just my(possibly stupid) idea, but it might be a likely scenario in the coming days:

 

Soon the DPRK will launch the Daepodong No. 2. Of course the Daepodong is just a "missile to launch a satellite to bring the latest song, praising the peaceful unification between the South and the North",..blabla.. "to the space"..

 

The US Navy will shoot it down and KIm Jeong-il will blame the USA for attacking the DPRK's efforts for their(of course peaceful) space program.. blabla.. (well, once again, this is just my idea..).

 

..................................

 

 

^^what a SURPRISE:

 

 

‘N. Korea Visit May Be Postponed’


Former President Kim Dae-jung's scheduled trip to Pyongyang later this month may be delayed due to tensions over North Korea's alleged move to test-fire a long-range missile and Pyongyang's lukewarm attitude toward the trip...

 

..................................

 

`Launch may be a satellite'


 There is not enough evidence to conclude that a test launch allegedly prepared by North Korea was for military purposes, it was reported in Seoul yesterday.
The Seoul government is said to be keeping in check the possibility that the projectile could be a satellite instead of a ballistic missile, based on the location of the launch pad and type of fuel.

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/06/20/200606200005.asp

 

 

 

 

* Of course N.K. has nothing to do with communism..

BTW: There was no communist state in the past.. and there will be no communist state in the future! Because communism means a classless society, without state, nation, borders, (ruling)political parties, police, military..

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

'Hadji Girl', 美군인 "노래"..

Self-made "entertainment" by US Marines in Iraq

 

On 6.12 the Council of American-Islamic Relations, Washington D.C., published following:

 

'MARINES' CHEER SONG ABOUT KILLING IRAQI CIVILIANS
Song's lyrics: 'I blew those little f**kers to eternity'

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate a music video posted on the Internet that seems to show U.S. Marines cheering a song that glorifies the killing of Iraqi civilians.

CAIR said the four-minute video, called "hadji girl," purports to be a "marine in iraq singing a song about hadji." (A "Hajji" is a person who has made the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but the term has often been used as a pejorative by U.S. troops in Iraq.) The song, posted online in March, tells of a U.S. Marine's encounter with an Iraqi woman. It has been viewed by almost 50,000 people.

The song's lyrics include: "I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally. . .I blew those little f**kers to eternity . . .They should have known they were f**king with the Marines." Members of the audience, not shown in the video, laughed and cheered wildly for these lyrics.

http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=2184&theType=NR

 

 

Here the shit is coming:


 

 

Here the entire "lyrics":

 

I was out in the sands of Iraq
And we were under attack
And I, well I didn't know where to go
Then the first thing that I could see
Was everybody's favorite Burger King
So I threw open the door and I hit the floor

Then suddenly to my surprise
I looked up and I saw her eyes
And I knew it was love at first sight
And she said 'Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad, sherpa sherpa.. blabla..'
Haji girl, I can't understand what you're saying
And she said 'Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad, sherpa sherpa.. blabla..'
Haji girl, I love you anyway

Then she said she wanted me to see
Wanted me to go meet her family
But I, well, I couldn't figure out how to say no
Cuz I don't speak Arabic, so..

She took me down an old dirt trail
And she pulled up to a sod shanty
She threw open the door and I hit the floor
Cuz her brother and her father shouted:
'Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad, sherpa sherpa.. blabla..'
They pulled out their AK's so I could see

And they said
'Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad, sherpa sherpa.. blabla..'
So I grabbed her little sister
And I put her in front of me
As the bullets began to fly
The blood sprayed from between her eyes
And then I laughed maniacally

Then I hid behind the tv
And I locked and loaded my M-16
I blew those little fuckers to eternity
And I said:
'Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad, sherpa sherpa.. blabla..'
They shoulda known they were fuckin' with a Marine

("dirka, dirka mohammed jihad" that phrase came from Trey Parker's and Matt Stone's puppet movie "Team America: World Police")

 

You should follow the text very seriously, especially after 'So I grabbed her little sister ..' and combine it with the reaction of the "audience".

 

 

Finally - I think - there's no further comment necessary!?

 

 

PS.(6.16):

Meanwhile in the last 24 hours or so the 'ruling forces' are trying to downplay or just excuse the issue. Of course the Ministry of War in the USA, but also the 'leading' press.. Like the German magazine Der Spiegel: they wrote today that the song was just 'funny meant', 'marine strnge humor' and especially the last parts were just 'misunderstandings'. Spiegel justified this bullsh.. with the sentences: "..the marine(soldier) accompanied the girl home. But there the young woman was shot cold-bloodedly by her father and brother: 'And she threw open the door / And I hit the floor... / Cuz her brother and her father shot her.'"

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,421649,00.html 

But this 'interpretation' is complete f.. sh.. because - as I wrote before - when you listen the 'song' and read the 'lyrics' seriously, without any problems,  you are able to follow this shit and you can check out what's correct or not...

 

No matter if it is the US govt or in the Geman press - they try everything to protect the(allied) mass murders in Iraq(and of course everywhere)!

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

평택 투쟁.. #9

HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST USFK AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES/COLLABORATORS(THE S.K. GOVT)..

 

16 Activists Join Hunger Strikes for Release of Kim Ji-Tae

 

Mun Jeong-heon(a Christian activist against war), one of the leaders of the KCPT, the umbrella organization working in solidarity with the communities of Daechuri and Doduri to resist the expansion of USFK Bases, continues to hunger strike in front of the Blue House (Cheongwadae, the residence of the S.K. president), now with the support of 2 free activists, and 15 activists who remain in police custody from actions on March 15th, April 7th, May 4th and May 5th. Father Mun stated, "The reason why I started [this] hunger strike is to follow our chairperson [to give support in his suffering] and to ask our government to be honest."

 


All began their hunger strikes to demand the release of Daechuri villiage main representative Kim Ji-tae. Kim Ji-tae surrendered himself as a condition for resumed talks between the residents of Daechuri and Doduri and the S. Korean government. The activists thought and believed that he would not be arrested or held, only interrogated. However, on June 6th, it was announced that Kim Ji-tae would not be released. Residents withdrew from talks with the government and held a protest at the Pyeongtaek police station. Solidarity vigils are held throughout S. Korea and in Gwanghwamun in central Seoul nightly at 7pm.
After being denied bail at a review hearing on June 7th, Kim Ji-tae continues to be held in prision while awaiting trial on alleged illegal protest activities.

 

어제부터 내린비로 기온이 상당히 많이 떨어졌습니다. 단식이 일주일이 되어가면서 신부님의 체력이 급격히 떨어지셔서 큰 걱정입니다. 그래도 대추리에서 주민들이 찾아오셔서 힘을 내어보십니다.

▲문정현신부님 단식 6일째 대추리 주민들이 방문하셨다. 김지태이장님의 어머니 황필순 할머니는 신부님을 보자마자 울음을 터트리셨다.

 

For more about the latest news(in Korean) please read this:

6/11 문정현신부 단식6일째 청와대 농성

http://www.antiwar.or.kr/maybbs/view.php?db=antipabyeong&code=board&n=7352&page=208

..and

"청와대에 평택쌀 전하러 왔다"

(Voice of People/민중의소리)

 

For more informations(in English) please check out:

http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/

http://www.antigizi.or.kr/zboard/zboard.php?id=english_news

http://www.saveptfarmers.org/

 

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