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  1. 2006/03/22
    네팔뉴스 #11
    no chr.!
  2. 2006/03/21
    팔레스티나 국가..
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  3. 2006/03/21
    팔레스티나 <->이스라엘..
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  4. 2006/03/21
    프랑스..총파업!!!
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  5. 2006/03/20
    프랑스..총파업....
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  6. 2006/03/19
    팔레스티나, 3.18
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  7. 2006/03/19
    프랑스, 3.16-18
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  8. 2006/03/18
    3.19 反戰 대회
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  9. 2006/03/18
    프랑스, 3.16.. 사진
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  10. 2006/03/17
    3.18 MTU 연대의 밤
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POSCO 파업 #1

Here the latest by S.K. newspapers English editions:

 

Yesterday(7.18) bourgeois daily JoongAng Ilbo wrote following:

 

Pre-dawn assault on Posco building fails to dislodge entrenched strikers

 

Police retreated after an unsuccessful attempt to evict 1,500 striking construction workers from the Posco headquarters building in Pohang, North Gyeongsang province. The police, who had seized the lower three floors of the building from strikers over the weekend, moved into the fourth floor, which was empty of protesters, at about 11 p.m. Sunday, and began removing chairs and office furniture that the strikers had used to block the fire stairways between the fourth and fifth floors.


They mounted an assault intended to clear the rest of the building at about 2 a.m. yesterday, but met strong resistance. Police said they were attacked with jury-rigged flamethrowers and barrages of hot water. Four policemen were reportedly treated for burns. They withdrew, they said, because of the danger of a fire in the building ignited by those homemade weapons.


After the assault, about 300 protesters left the building voluntarily, claiming ill health. The other 1,200 remained on the fifth through 12th floors, pelting police with garbage from the roof. Police had allowed food shipments from family members of the strikers to pass through their lines.


The authorities cut off the building's water supply yesterday morning to prevent more scalding water attacks.


Civic groups in Pohang say they have lost patience with the strikers. About 1,500 members of 33 civic groups in the city asked the workers to stop the sit-in and go back to the negotiating table. They planned a rally at a city stadium today to press their demand, and posted signs around the city calling for an end to the dispute.


Park Seung-ho, the city mayor, released a statement yesterday asking the workers to return to their jobs. He said he did not want them to add to the city's economic woes of a population decline and increasing unemployment. The strikers are employees of several small construction companies, all contractors of Posco. Their most recent negotiations with the Korea Specialty Contractors Association over wages and working hours were broken off early Sunday morning.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200607/17/200607172130228809900090409041.html

 

In today's edition following is written:

Posco occupation drags on through a sixth day

 

Today's Korea Times is writing this:

 

Police Gear Up to End Standoff at POSCO

Police in the southeastern city of Pohang are seeking to disband striking subcontracted construction workers who occupied POSCO's headquarters for the sixth straight day yesterday by cutting off electricity and water supplies to the building.


Earlier in the day, the government warned that it would step in to end the standoff if the workers refuse to leave the building voluntarily, saying that the labor strike could significantly hurt the world's fifth largest steel producer.

 

About 2,000 workers from subcontractors to POSCO forced themselves into the company's office building last Thursday, protesting against the management's decision to request police intervention in a strike led by a regional industrial union of construction workers.

The police, who fought over the weekend to gain control over the first four floors of the 12-story property, believe that about 1,000 workers currently remain inside the building.

In an announcement jointly made by the ministers of labor, justice, and government administration and home affairs, the government promised to mediate talks between the construction workers' union and a group of Pohang construction companies, many of them contractors of POSCO, which have been disputing over wages and working conditions of workers, on the condition that the striking workers give up their control of the building.

 

About 7,000 riot police personnel are currently deployed to the POSCO building, according to police.

 

However, the government said it could order law enforcement authorities to force an end to the standoff at POSCO's headquarters if the striking workers refuse to voluntarily leave the building, calling the recent labor actions as ``excessive'' and ``unlawful.''

 

``The construction workers' union has been pushing for a strike against the construction and machinery companies in Pohang, and occupied the headquarters of POSCO, which is not a direct party in the labor strife,'' said Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs Lee Yong-sup during a news conference held at the central government complex in downtown Seoul yesterday.

 

``Should the striking workers continue their illegal collective actions, there will be no alternative for us but to respond strictly to those actions by law and order. We will allow legal actions but will always restrict illegal actions,'' Lee said.

 

On Monday, POSCO issued a statement condemning the construction workers' occupation of their office building, saying that it will consider requesting law enforcement authorities to cut off electricity and water supplies.

...

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200607/kt2006071818021268040.htm

 

The semi-official news agency Yonhap was reporting yesterday:

Gov't willing to mediate talks if protesters end POSCO strike

 

The riot cops already attacked several times the

striking workers and their supporters

..and many of them were..

..(partly seriously) injured

 

 

About the beginning of the strike Voice of People was writing this notice:

 

Ulsan plant laborers on a general strike

     

The plant construction laborers of Ulsan area has been on a general strike on 5 July, following Pohang area.
  
A labor union of Ulsan plant construction(Chairperson Lee Jong Hwa) had voted for or against actions taken in a labor dispute at the terrace land on the Tae Hwa river from 10 in the morning on this day. The union has started on a strike right after the vote was passed by 783 against to 117.
  
After 1 p.m. on this day, even though the vote was finished, plant laborers of Ulsan area had gathered at the terrace on the Tae Hwa river, and the strike atmosphere was raising because unorganized laborers were submitting applications for joining the union.
  
After 3 p.m., about 1,000 laborers were preparing their fight shouting slogans such as "Let's fight till the end."
  
After last year's general strike, unfair labor practice such as denial employment, enforcing secession the union etc. at the Ulsan area has been continuing so requirement of this strike is focusing on recognizing a labor union and contracting collective bargain. A labor union has been requiring these requirement but the company has been denying even the first meeting for the formal bows.

The labor union of Ulsan plant marched Ulsan downtown from 4:30 p.m. starting at city hall, and then They took part in another assembly for solving larbor suppression and gaining the basic rights of laborers.
 
Before this, construction union of Pohang area(Chair person Lee Ji Kyoung) has been stopping their work 5 days and keeping 4,000 comrades still. Also, other unions of east part of south Cholla and west part of south Kyoungsang will be on a strike right after voting for or against on 8 July.

http://www.vop.co.kr/english/news_view_eng.html?serial=46681

 

A summary of the latest developments in Korean you can read here:

 

[현장] 포항건설노조 포스코 점거 및 영남노동자 결의대회
<30신:기사대체 19일 6시 50분>"머리채를 잡고 바닥에 눕혀 버리고 발로 걷어차는 등 10여 분 동안 경찰에게 폭행을 당했다"고... / 문형구 박경철 기자

[사진출처=민주노총]
 

 

 



진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

M.E.전쟁 #4

 

 

 

DAY 7

 

 

Today's edition of Asia Times(HK/China) is publishing following interesting articles:

 

US hawks smell blood

 

Leviathan run amok

 

The Guardian, GB, wrote this, 7.18..

Why did Hizbullah do it? 

 

 

Until now in Lebanon more than 200 people, mainly civilians were killed by Israeli attacks.

At least 500,000 Lebanese are fleeing their homes, trying to take shelter in schools, other parts of the country or are on the way to Syria.

 

Pictures from the war zone..

In Lebanon..








 

 

..and Israel




 

 

The very latest by Ynet(early evening/CET):

 

Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Day of happiness for region near

 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, “The day of happiness for the region is near… The world is on the verge of great changes,” according to the Iranian news agency.

 

Ahmadinejad added that he considered Israel’s operation in Lebanon “a type of playing with fire.”

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

北 미사일.. #8

 

 

 

The S.K. bourgeois daily JoongAng Ilbo reports today following:

 

North calls alert..

 

North Korea has ordered wartime mobilization preparation for its soldiers and citizens, a senior intelligence official said yesterday. The order was delivered to military and civilian leaders just after midnight Sunday, four hours before the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution condemning the North's arms and missile programs.
..
The order, which was not broadcast by radio or television, was the first in 13 years. In March 1993, readiness was increased as North Korea pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The intelligence official said he assessed the order, in Kim Jong-il's name, as an effort to rally the nation behind him. He said soldiers were recalled to barracks, camouflage was being rolled out and civilian travel had been restricted.

..

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200607/18/200607182133430879900090309031.html

 

Wow, what a great idea!!

 

 

DPRK's KCNA published yesterday - just a little belated - following:

DPRK Foreign Ministry Refutes "Resolution of UN Security Council"

 



 

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

1936.7.18...

 

Today, 70 Years Ago the

Spanish Civil War Began

 

 

At first, for the facts and background please read this on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

(More about it I'll post, write in the coming days)

 

 










 



SMASH THE FASCISM!

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

M.E.전쟁 #3

 


 

 

DAY 6

 

 

Only in the last hours many of Hizbullah's Katyusha missiles were fired to Haifa, Safed, Tiberias, Akko... in Israel. Right now, while I write this, Haifa is again under attack..

This new round of violence followed massive air raids by IDF/IAF against targets in Lebanon. Alone until Sunday at least 100, mosttly civilians were killed there(the German magazine Der Spiegel reported at least 170 people killed in lebanon until now, Monday afternoon/CET).

On Sunday morning(CET), in Isreal the new working week just was beginning, Hizballah's Katyushas were hitting Haifa, killing eight railway workers in a train depot.

 

On Saturday Hizbullah declared the "all-out war" against Isreal and just yesterday they promised more "surpises" for Isreal, similar to the attacks against Haifa, but "more worse".. Additional Nazrallah, the leader of Hizbullah, said in a TV speech on Sun. that there is a "historic opportunity to defeat the Zionist enemy".

 

Today morning(CET) Hizbullah's missiles were hitting the first time Affula, a Isreali town just few KM north of the border to the West Bank.

 

Meanwhile Israels's attacks against Gaza are continuing. IAF rockets were hitting last night again the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

In the West Bank city of Nablus Al-Aqsa militants killed one IDF soldier and injured several other by throwing hand grenades. According to Isreali media the security forces are worrying that the Palestinians there will create sooner or later a "THIRD FRONT".

 

 

Here the latest news by M.E. and intl. media:

 

Israel Answers Attack With Lethal Blows (Guardian/AP, today morning, CET)

 

Hezbollah and Israel traded fierce barrages for a sixth day Monday, as the latest eruption of warfare in the Middle East showed no sign of easing. Rockets struck deep inside Israel a day earlier, killing eight people in Haifa, and Israeli planes bombed Lebanon from north to south.

Israeli missiles hammered the Lebanese capital on Monday morning, killing two people in Beirut's port, bombing a gas tank in a northern neighborhood and shelling the southern suburbs,

The port was in flames, and the Israeli army said it had launched at least 60 strikes overnight, both with aircraft and artillery. The strikes Monday killed 15 people and wounded more than 53 by mid-morning.

The death toll on both sides rose to more than 200 - at least 180 in Lebanon and 24 in Israel. In addition to the Israeli victims at a rail repair facility in the Haifa attack on Sunday, an Israeli rocket blew up a Lebanese army position, killing eight soldiers, and a sea-launched missile killed at least nine people in the southern Lebanese port of Tyre...

 

Read the full article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5955743,00.html

 

Israel army in Lebanon raid 

 

Haifa under rocket attack again (Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth)

 

At least seven blasts heard in northern city, whose residents already woke up to siren sounds Monday morning; no injuries reported. Carmiel also hit by rockets; several residents suffer from shock. Four people lightly hurt Monday morning in Katyusha attack east of Akko...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277194,00.html

 







Beirut between Saturday and Sunday night..

 

Targets in Lebanon and Isreal attacked in the same time..

 

Monday, early afternoon(CET), Haifa, Israel

 

 

Asia Times(HK/China) is publishing following analysis:

Hezbollah and the art of the possible
 

 

Just few minutes ago(Monday afternoon/CET) Ynet reported following new developments:

 

Al-Aqsa: We kidnapped Border Guard officer in W. Bank

 

Fatah armed wing publishes announcement naming officer allegedly kidnapped; IDF: Name not recognized, but claims being investigated The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, claimed Monday afternoon they had kidnapped a Border Guard officer in the West Bank...

 

Please read the entire article here:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277332,00.html

 

Of course finally it might be turn out that it's not true, but on the other side if it's true.. it just might be really the beginning of a THIRD FRONT

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

北 미사일.. #7

 

 

 

U.N.S.C. Resolution 1695 on DPRK

 

Following the full text of yesterday's(7.15) draft resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council:


The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolutions 825 (1993) of 11 May 1993 and 1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004,

Bearing in mind the importance of maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in north-east Asia at large,

Reaffirming that proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as their means of delivery, constitutes a threat to international peace and security,

Expressing grave concern at the launch of ballistic missiles by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), given the potential of such systems to be used as a means to deliver nuclear, chemical or biological payloads,

Registering profound concern at the DPRK's breaking of its pledge to maintain its moratorium on missile launching,

Expressing further concern that the DPRK endangered civil aviation and shipping through its failure to provide adequate advance notice,

Expressing its grave concern about DPRK's indication of possible additional launches of ballistic missiles in the near future,

Expressing also its desire for a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the situation and welcoming efforts by Council members as well as other Member States to facilitate a peaceful and comprehensive solution through dialogue,

Recalling that the DPRK launched an object propelled by a missile without prior notification to the countries in the region, which fell into the waters in the vicinity of Japan on 31 August 1998,

Deploring the DPRK's announcement of withdrawal from the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the Treaty) and its stated pursuit of nuclear weapons if spite of its Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards obligations,

Stressing the importance of the implementation of the Joint Statement issued on 19 September 2005 by China, DPRK, Japan, Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States,

Affirming that such launches jeopardize peace, stability and security in the region and beyond, particularly in light of the DPRK's claim that it has developed nuclear weapons,

Acting under its special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security,

 

1. Condemns the multiple launches by the DPRK of ballistic missiles on 5 July 2006 local time;

 

2. Demands that the DPRK suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program, and in this context re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching;

 

3. Requires all Member States, in accordance with their national legal authorities and legislation and consistent with international law, to exercise vigilance and prevent missile and missile-related items, materials, goods and technology being transferred to DPRK's missile or WMD programs;

 

4. Requires all Member States, in accordance with their national legal authorities and legislation and consistent with international law, to exercise vigilance and prevent the procurement of missiles or missile related-items, materials, goods and technology from the DPRK, and the transfer of any financial resources in relation to DPRK's missile or WMD programmes

 

5. Underlines, in particular to the DPRK, the need to show restraint and refrain from any action that might aggravate tension, and to continue to work on the resolution of non-proliferation concerns through political and diplomatic efforts

 

6. Strongly urges the DPRK to return immediately to the six-party talks without precondition, to work towards the expeditious implementation of 19 September 2005 Joint Statement, in particular to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs, and to return at an early date to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards;

 

7. Supports the six-party talks, calls for their early resumption, and urges all the participants to intensify their efforts on the full implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement with a view to achieving the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner and to maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in north-east Asia;

 

8. Decides to remain seized (appraised) of the matter.

 

 

But DPRK's response was/is - simply said: "F*** YOU!!"

 

NK immediately, after only 45 minutes(J. Bolton called it a "world record"), rejected the resolution and vowed to continue its missile tests.

Park Gil-yon, North Korea's U.N. ambassador, accused the Security Council of ``unjustifiable and gangster-like” action aimed at isolating his country.

``The delegation of Democratic People's Republic of Korea resolutely condemns the attempt of some countries to misuse the Security Council for the despicable political aim to isolate and put pressure on the DPRK, and totally rejects the resolution,'' Park said, according to intl. news agencies.

 

 

North Korea rejects UN missile demand (IHT/NYT, 7.16)

 



 

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

M.E.전쟁 #2


 

 

 

 

One of the very latest news: the German magazine Der Spiegel reported in the early afternoon(CET) that the leader of Hizbullah, Sheikh Nazrallah, is now on Isreal's death list..

Actually the entire Friday in the Muslim world is the weekend holiday and in Isreal the holiday(Shabbath) just a short while ago(Friday afternoon) was beginning and will end Saturday night. So during this time the news are more frugal as regular.. 

 

Here the latest by intl. and M.E. news agencies and papers:

 

Guardian, GB:

 

Israel vows to destroy Hizbullah

Bombardment of Lebanon continues as Israelis told to stock up on supplies


Israeli jets continued to bomb Lebanon on Friday, hitting the airport and 18 other targets as Jerusalem threatened to escalate its attack on the besieged country even further. Three people were killed. Hizbullah fired 13 more rockets at northern Israel, but caused little damage.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis were advised to stock up on essential supplies on Friday morning before returning to their bomb shelters by noon. The residents of northern Israel had emerged from their shelters after a relatively quiet night. On Thursday more than 150 Hizbullah rockets had been fired, killing two people.

 

Read the full article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1820615,00.html

 

 

Haaretz, IL:

 

Israel imposes sea and air blockade on Lebanon  
IDF officer: Army to bombard Hezbollah HQ in Beirut 
 
The Israel Defense Forces is planning to bomb Hezbollah headquarters in a densely populated area of south Beirut on Friday, a senior General Staff official told Haaretz.

The IDF said it has dropped leaflets warning civilians of the impending attack and that many of them have left the Shi'ite Dahiya quarter of south Beirut, where thousands of people live in multi-story residential buildings.

"We will atack more significant targets than we have attacked until now," the officer said. "If we had chosen to bomb earlier, it would have ended with hundreds of civilians killed, and we took ethical considerations into account. On the other hand, we will not adopt a naive approach, and the model of terrorists hiding behind civilians will not be accepted."...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=738611&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0

 

 

Beirut Intl. Airport, hit by IAF Friday morning

 

 

Israel presses assault on Lebanon  (Reuters/AP/IHT)

 

 

Israel bombs Beirut airport again (Al Jazeera)

 

 

Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth, IL:

 

New strikes in Lebanon

 

The Israeli air force on Friday fired missiles at two bridges on the Beirut-Damascus highway, including one which is situated over the Zahrani river.

 

A Hizbullah base in the southern town of Khiam was also hit by missiles.

 

The navy bombarded launch pads used by Hizbullah to fire Katyusha rockets into northern Israel, the army said.

Witnesses in Beirut said the Israeli Air Force again attacked the city's international airport, according to Hizbullah's television station al-Manar...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3275536,00.html

 

 

Safed: Man seriously injured in Katyusha attack

 

Katyusha rocket hits house in Safed, wounding 12 people. One person in serious condition after sustaining head injuries; some 14 rockets hit town Friday afternoon. Simultaneously rockets fired at Nahariya, land in heart of town; two lightly injured in strike
Hagai Einav

 

Hizbullah continues to strike north: Katyusha barrages landed Friday afternoon in Safed, Nahariya, Hatzor, Kiryat Shmona, Karmiel, Matat, Sasa, Pki'in and Beit Jan. One of the rockets directly hit a house in Safed, injuring 12 people. One person sustained a very severe head injury.

 

"Shabbath in Nahariya"

 

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon have also landed on Shomra, Metula, Zarit, and Even Menachem. Magen David Adom paramedics said over 50 civilians have been treated so far, including two in Yesod Hamaale where two katyusha rockets exploded...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3275609,00.html

 

 

Asia Times, HK/China:

 

It's war by any other name 

 

AP/Guardian:

 

Israelis Continues Bombardment of Beirut



 

I"D"F on "work" in Lebanon and the results..

 






 

 

PS.(8 PM, CET):

 

Just 30 min. ago following was reported by Ynet:

 

IDF destroys Nasrallah’s Beirut headquarters

 

Air Force bombards 11-storey building in Beirut’s Bir-Hassan area, a Shiite stronghold in where Nasrallah’s headquarters is located; Hizbullah spokesman says Hizbullah chief not hurt in the attack. IDF: Attack’s objective was not to assassinate Nasrallah
Roee Nahmias

 

The Israeli Air Force continued bombarding targets deep in Lebanese territory Friday evening. At around 8 p.m. a cloud of smoke was seen rising from an 11-storey building in the Bir-Hassan area, a Shiite stronghold in Beirut where Hizbullah Chief Hassan Nasrallah’s headquarters is located.

 

However, Nasrallah himself was apparently not in the building at the time of the attack.

 

A Hizbullah spokesman confirmed that Nasrallah was not hurt in the attack, nor was his family or entourage.
 

Nasrallah’s residence is located inside the complex that was attacked by the IAF, and IDF sources said two buildings were destroyed in the attack.
 

The objective, army sources clarified, was not to assassinate Nasrallah.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3275771,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

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 

 

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M.E.전쟁 #1

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Since yesterday's Hizbullah attack against Israel, where the Lebanese combat unit was killing IDF soldiers and capturing two other, it seems that the entire region is leading to a new Middle East(M.E.) War.

Already since yesterday late morning IAF is bombing targets in Lebanon, incl. Beirut, such as streets, bridges, the Beirut Intl. Airport.. Meanwhile Hizbullah attacks Isreal with Katyusha missiles.

Already today at least 50 civilians in Lebanon were killed by IDF/IAF and a lot of Katyusha missiles were fired into Isreali towns, such as Nahariya, and villages, killing two and injured dozens more.

And likely soon the situation will escalating after Hizbullah has warned just a short time ago, that they have the capacty to hit for example the port of Haifa with middle-range missiles.

Meanwhile the Israeli attacks against targets in Gaza are continuing (since before y'day IDF is staying in the middle of the area, splitting the Strip into two parts/north and south).

 

Here the latest news by intl. and M.E. news agencies/news papers..:

 

At first a statement by the Palestine Information Center(actually its very, very close to Hamas..), 7.12:

 

Hamas hails Hizbullah's qualitative operation in southern Lebanon

Jubilant reactions were still echoing across Palestine and the Arab world over the qualitative armed operation carried out by the Lebanese Hizbullah fighters against the IOF troops in the occupied Lebanese Sheba Farms.

The Hizbullah operation killed 7 Israeli soldiers, wounded 21 others, and more importantly captured two IOF servicemen.

Hamas Movement welcomed the operation and praised Hizbullah over it, adding that the "brave" operation confirmed the integrity of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance program.

The operation comes only three weeks after a similar qualitative armed operation carried by three armed wings of the Palestinian resistance factions led by the Qassam Brigades of Hamas at the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing point, in which two IOF soldiers were killed and four others were wounded with a fifth one taken as POW.

An overwhelming joy was prevailing over Palestinian citizens, especially families and relatives of the detained Palestinian citizens in Israeli jails as they expressed hopes that reunion with their beloved ones was fast approaching.

The Islamic Jihad, for its part, affirmed that the operation boosted morale of the steadfast Palestinian people and prisoners in Israeli jails.

"We salute our brethren in Hizbullah for the good job done as the armed operation in the Sheba Farms displayed the sincere position of Hizbullah towards the Palestinian people and its heroic resistance", a statement issued by the Movement said.

The Qassam Brigades added to the prevailing atmosphere of enthusiasm as they rocked the Ashkilon city inside the 1948-occupied lands with a third Qassam missile in few hours. The Brigades earlier fired two missiles at the occupied city, hitting the power plant in it.

IOF troops, war planes, and Apache choppers knocked down Palestinian infrastructure in the densely populated Gaza Strip, including power plants, water networks, roads and bridges, thus placing the Strip on the verge of human catastrophe.

The Brigades further launched one of their Al-Yassin projectiles at an Israeli tank stationed in the main Salahuddin street that connects southern and northern parts of the Strip, in Abu Holi area.

In the Hebrew state, Hebrew sources quoted Israeli security sources as affirming that Palestinian fighters in northern West Bank just needed an expert engineer who could fire the already manufactured missiles.

The Hebrew Maariv newspaper quoted the sources as further affirming the repeated attempts to launch such missiles from the West Bank will ultimately succeed and push Israel to the corner.

The missiles are already there waiting for an engineer to manage firing them, and then we have to brace ourselves for string of missiles from the West Bank into the heart of Israel", said the paper as quoting those security sources.

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_19142.shtml 

 

 

Al Jazeera wrote today:

Israeli strikes kill 27 in Lebanon

 

 

 


 

The Guardian, GB:

Lebanon under Israeli siege

 

 

 


 

 

The Israeli "left"-liberal daily Haaretz:

 

Peretz: We won't let Hezbollah return to border
Woman killed when rocket hits house in Nahariya; Beirut airport hit as Israel imposes sea and air blockade

 

At least 11 people were wounded Thursday afternoon when a fresh barrage of Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon struck the northern town of Safed.

Of the wounded, one person was seriously hurt, another sustained moderate wounds, two people were lightly hurt and seven were treated for shock.

The strike comes hours after a Katyusha rocket hit a house in the northern border town of Nahariya, killing an Israeli woman and wounding 29 others, including a number of children...

Please read the full text here:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/737860.html

 

 

Yedioth Ahronoth/Ynet:

 

Lebanon: 47 killed in IDF strikes

 

Israel strikes Beirut airport, blockades Lebanese ports on Thursday, intensifying reprisals that have killed 47 civilians since Lebanese Hizbullah fighters seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier Reuters

Israel struck Beirut airport and blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, intensifying reprisals that have killed 47 civilians since Lebanese Hizbullah fighters seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.

 

Hizbullah retaliated for Israeli "massacres" by firing 60 rockets at Nahariya in northern Israel. A civilian was killed and 27 were wounded, including children, Israeli medics said...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3275059,00.html 

 

 

Israeli Airforce and...

..artillery in action

And its today's results..

..in different parts of Lebanon

 

 

Safed: 2 seriously injured in rocket attack

 

Air Force strikes inside Lebanon, but barrages in north continue: In Safed, 12 residents wounded after being hit by Katyusha rocket; in communities north of Acre residents called to take shelter. Hizbullah: If Beirut is bombed, Haifa will be targeted

After a woman was killed in the northern city of Nahariya Thursday morning from a direct hit of a Katyusha rocket, the rockets arrived at Safed in the afternoon, claiming a heavy price.

 

Rocket barrages hit the northern communities throughout the day, and residents were called to enter shelters and security rooms. In the afternoon, a heavy barrage hit the city of Safed. One of the residents suffered a head injury and his condition was defined as critical. Another two residents were lightly injured by shrapnel.

 

 

Hizbullah attacks...

...against towns and villages in north Israel

 

Hizbullah's Katyusha attacks against Isreal targets in the last 24 hours

 

 

Meanwhile Fatah/Al-Aqsa Brigades want to open a new missile front(Ynet/WND):

 

Al-Aqsa leader: West Bank rocket war is on

 

Terror leader announces start of missile barrage nearing Israel's main population centers 
  

While Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip have been contending with almost daily missile attacks, Palestinian rockets will now be launched regularly on other side of the country aimed at Jewish communities a few miles from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Abu Oudai, a chief rocket coordinator for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview.

  
Abu Oudai claimed major Israeli cities and the country's international airport would eventually become Palestinian rocket targets.

 

He said his group has the ability to produce rockets in the northern West Bank - a claim denied by the Israeli army. He hinted at possible help in developing rockets from Iran, Syria and the Lebanese Hizbullah militia.

 

"Our goal is to cover all Israeli regions and to bring them inside the distance of our rockets," said Abu Oudai, speaking from Nablus.

 

"Every Israeli site or city is inside our capabilities and if some sites are not yet they will be very soon. The Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem every site and city will be targeted. We are speaking about a new era in the conflict between us and the enemy."

 

Whole new front

 

The rocket master's statements follow a series of claims by the al-Aqsa Brigades of firing rockets the past few days from the northern West Bank towns of Tul Karm and Jenin targeting Jewish communities nearby. Brigades leaders called WorldNetDaily to take credit for the rocket launchings, which they said fell short of their intended goals, landing instead in Palestinian areas. They promised more missile firings.

 

Security officials say any West Bank missile attack would open a whole new front of rocket targets against Jewish communities in the territories and against neighboring cities, including Jerusalem.

 

The Israeli Defense Forces has not yet officially confirmed this week's claimed West Bank rocket attacks. Palestinian and Jordanian officials said the attacks indeed took place.

 

Al-Aqsa has the past few months previously claimed they fired rockets from the northern West Bank. The IDF denied the claims only to later release select information stating some rockets had been fired from northern Samaria.

 

'Blessed operation begins'


Security analysts maintain publicity about terror groups' current missile capabilities in the territories could generate criticism of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to withdraw from most of the West Bank.

 

Abu Oudai said the missile firings from Tul Karm and Jenin were "only the very beginning of our blessed operation of launching rockets from the West Bank against Israeli cities. In the next days and from now on the falling of rockets in the enemy territory (in and near the West Bank) will not be strange and rare."

 

The al-Aqsa leader described his West Bank rocket infrastructure:

 

"With the help of Allah we succeeded to transfer rockets and technology that will bring in the very next days the number of rockets in the West Bank to hundreds. As for the kinds of rockets, they are very similar to the rockets in Gaza but here in the West Bank we are making huge efforts to improve them, especially their accuracy and distance."

 

He said his group has stockpiles in the West Bank of primitive versions of the Qassam rocket.

 

But Abu Oudai rejected the Israeli statements, claiming his group "absolutely" has the ability to manufacture Qassams and other kinds of rockets in the northern West Bank.

  
"The Israeli army said a few years ago that Gaza rockets are nothing and that they don't present any threat to the security of Israel and its citizens," said Abu Oudai. "Now we all know what is the truth and what is the real situation. Every day our rockets in Gaza become more accurate and do more killing and this is exactly what will happen in the West Bank.

 

It is their own business that they deny and minimize. But in the coming days the proofs on the ground will be very clear to the average Israeli in the street and not only to the Israeli political and military leadership."

 

Abu Oudai, though, admitted to problems with his group's West Bank rocket infrastructure.


"We have the capabilities of producing the rockets in the West Bank and we are also smuggling from Gaza, but I will be honest and sincere with you that our weakest point is the lack of experience in the West Bank. But we are working very hard to solve this problem."

 

Asking for help from Iran, Syria, Hizbullah

 

Asked if the al-Aqsa Brigades received any outside help to its rocket development program, Abu Oudai explained, "It is our right to receive any help from anybody and our doors is open to every support, from Syria, Iran, Hizbullah or anyone who wants to help and to support the Palestinian people."


Prior to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last August, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened an "unprecedented response" to any rocket firing carried out by terror groups after Israel vacated the territory.

 

For the past ten months, until Israel sent ground troops into Gaza last month, the Israeli army mostly responded to the regular rocket attacks with aerial and artillery fire, failing to stop or even slow the rate of rocket attacks.

 

Abu Oudai said he does not fear Israeli retaliation for his group's planned rocket launchings from the West Bank.

 

"I heard many time the expression of unprecedented response. The only unprecedented thing is the frequency of the Israeli 'empty threats.' We are not afraid and we have nothing to fear," said Abu Oudai.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3274774,00.html

 

 

 

And last but not least here first reactions by readers of Yedioth Ahronoth(7.12):

 

Israeli reader:

 

Proof that...   
       
...giving into kidnappers only results in more kidnappings. Hizbullah invented this method. It's time they paid the price for their folly.

 

Let's admit it. Even Hamas admits that if we do everything they want we will only earn a hudna of 20 years. We have no peace partner amongst these barbarians. The time to change the rules has come.

 

We need to recognize that the lives of these captured soldiers have ended. They surely will be, if they haven't already been, murdered by their captors, who will seek to auction off their bodies.

 

We need to protect ourselves. First, all the borders need to be closed. No Palestinians at all may come into Israel. All who are here already will be put in prison and may not return home, not to be released until our soldiers are released. None. Full closure, until all the Israeli captives are returned.

 

If that doesn't work after one week, and it won't, start building gallows for the Palestinian terrorist/murderers in our jails. Start with the women murderers that they want freed so badly. Then, go through the ones who've been in prison for more than 20 years, whom they also want freed. in exchange for Cpl Shalit.

 

Then go through the entire Hamas leadership.

 

Then go through the remainder of the murderers starting with the youngest who are the age of our soldiers, and ending with the oldest.

 

For every day that passes that our soldiers remain in captivity, another prisoner will be hung. On a day that they publicize a murder, or on a day when another terrorist atrocity occurs against our people, we will hang the equivalent number of injured and dead in that atrocity.

 

Publicize the list in advance, together with the details of their crime, the scheduled date of their hanging, and the number of people they killed, and how. List the number of people who survived the actions of these murderers, if any, and how their actions impacted them. Supply the whole bloody biography.

 

Then, tape it to their feet as they hang from the rope. Engrave it into the tombstone under which they will be buried, with their feet pointing away from Mecca.

 

Make the other prisoners dig their graves. Provide the prisoners who committed murder with cyanide capsules so that they may take their own lives if they wish, and save us the trouble.

 

Then let's see if Fadi and his ilk smiles. Then lets see how many more kidnappings occur.

 

We could go on a few years like this. I doubt it would take long before the Palestinians get the message not to do this anymore. 

 

 

Arab reader:

 

Israeli Swines   
       
Hizbullah has plenty of long range missiles and rockets and other state of the art arms (which they acquired????????) that will bring complete destruction to illegtimate state of Israel.

This time not Arabs but all Muslims are behind them.

Try to test them by provoking them and they will give you the right answer instantly. Now they will use other options too at their disposal in war with you dirty nation. The land of Palestine will be cleansed soon by Hisbullah!! 
  
asif ,     Kuwait     (07.12.06)

 

 

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7.12 反한미FTA 투쟁..

Despite really heavy rain in S. Korea..

 

 

..yesterday at least 50,000 farmers, unionized workers, students... took (not only) the streets to protest against the planned ROK-US FTA.

 

Just in the morning following was reported:

 

"This morning, 41 unionized irregular workers occupied the roof of the building left beside Dong-A B/D near Gwanghwamun (Sejong-no/jong-no intersection) in central Seoul. They are demanding job protection, regular worker status, an end to the government crackdown on the labor movement, an immediate end to the FTA talks, securing of workers rights, and an end to the spread of neoliberalism. 100 protestors were blocking the front entrance of the building, preventing the police from entering to remove those on the roof. More are gathering right now to help defend those who have occupied the building..."

www.anarclan.net (english board)

 

 

Here you can see a video about the action:

http://www.nofta.or.kr/webbs/view.php?board=nofta_10&id=100

Another great picture about this action you can see here:

http://blog.jinbo.net/virus/?pid=106

 

 

Later in the early afternoon some 50,000 (VoP reported/Yonhap wrote in the afternoon 70,000) activists gathered in front of Seoul City Hall for a massive protest rally.

 

 

 

 

 

Later, when I understood it well (I'm still 9,000 KM west of S.K.), the masses wanted to march in the direction of the so-called Blue House, the residence of the president.

 

 

Of course they were blocked by large units of riot cops (according to govt. sources 28,000 troops were on the spot..). In several places around the Gwanghwamun area fierce clashes between unarmed protesters and the riot cops, using metal shields, clubs, fire extinguisher and water cannons, took place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally in the evening hours, around 9 PM, the confrontations were concentrated in the near/in front of the US embassy.

 

 

For more reports/latest news please check out(VoP/민중의소리, here you also can watch 8 documentaries):

 

[현장중계 20신 최종 오후 9시 30분]
민중의 힘, "미대사관 앞을 열었다"

 

More Pics you can see here:

물대포와 방패를 뚫고

 

And of course for the latest news, pictures, videos.. please check out:

www.nofta.or.kr

(unfortunately there is NO english updating until now..)

 

About two hours ago the semi-official news agency Yonhap was reporting this:

 

Tens of thousands of anti-FTA activists rally in Seoul, despite heavy rain


Tens of thousands of South Korean activists and farmers braved torrential rains to stage anti-U.S. rallies Wednesday, denouncing their government's free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with Washington as a form of "U.S. economic colonialism."


About 60,000 anti-globalization protesters moved near Gwanghwamun street in central Seoul after holding a rally in front of Seoul City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, said officials at the Korean Alliance against Korea-U.S. FTA, an association of anti-FTA civic groups in South Korea. Police estimated the number of protesters at 28,000.

 

During the rally near the city hall, the protesters, clad in raincoats, chanted anti-American slogans such as "We oppose U.S. economic colonialism." They also held pickets which read, "The FTA is handing over our entire economy to the U.S." and "The economic invasion. War threats. The U.S. is an axis of evil."


After moving to areas near Gwanghwamun street, the demonstrators tried to form a human chain around the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae, but more than 20,000 riot police prevented them from doing so. The police blocked areas surrounding the presidential office and the U.S. Embassy in Gwanghwamun and clashed with some of the protesters, but no casualties have been reported so far, police officers said.

 

South Korean farmers, laborers and activists have conducted anti-FTA demonstrations since Monday, when South Korea and the U.S. opened their second round of FTA talks in Seoul with the aim of signing a deal by early next year. The protesters say the FTA would threaten their livelihood.

 

The violent street rallies even forced the South Korean government to cancel its interim briefing on the five-day FTA talks with the U.S., which was scheduled to take place at the Government Complex Building in downtown Seoul. The briefing was rescheduled for Thursday morning.

 

The afternoon rally snarled traffic in central Seoul and congestion was heightened as heavy rain battered the Seoul metropolitan area during the evening rush hours. Major streets were jammed in central Seoul, with cars moving at speeds below 10 kilometers per hour. Major subway stations were crammed as people attempted to head home.

 

Seoul received nearly 200 millimeters of rain as of 3 p.m. and weather officials forecast the downpour would continue until Thursday morning.

 

In a related development, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, a major umbrella trade union, implemented a six-hour strike Wednesday to protest the ongoing trade liberalization talks.

 

The labor union claimed 170,000 union members participated in the walkout but police put the number at 74,000...

http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060712/640000000020060712220158E3.html
   
 

A contract worker is being stopped by riot police in the attempt to occupy the Ilmin Museum of Art during a rally against a Korea-U.S. free trade agreement in Gwanghwamun, Seoul on Wednesday. Protestors also demanded regular employment for casual workers.

(the complete reactionary daily Chosun Ilbo)

 

Korea Herald(also a kind of reactionary)  is writing today following:

Activists stage wet anti-FTA protests 

(as you can see/read the bourgeois media don't take the protest seriously, not really..)

 

 

 

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