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Kim Young-oh, who lost his 16-year-old daughter Yoo-min in the April 16 Sewol Ferry Disaster, continued today his hunger strike for the 36th consecutive day...

Last Friday he stated the following in front of 50,000 people in central Seoul: "I did not eat anything but water and salt in the last 33 days, and I think I am loosing my memories... But I won't give up untill we'll get the real truth!"

Related articles:
☞ 세월호 특별법 제정 촉구 단식 36일째 유민 아빠 입장 발표 (KCTU, 8.16)
☞ Why Sewol ferry victims stage protest? (Korea Observer, 8.16)

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Last Friday(8.15) afternoon in central Seoul: About 50,000(30,000 according to Hankyoreh/the cops counted just 12,000) people, among them also thousands of KCTU activists, rallied in front of the City Hall to show their solidarity with the bereaved families of the Sewol Ferry Disaster and called for an independent, transparent investigation of the sinking. Later on thousands of demonstrators wanted - as finally planned - to march to Cheongwadae. But just after some few hundred meters they were blocked for hours by large units of riot cops and threatened with water cannons(*). But while the "Pope Francis’s visit to South Korea is drawing the international media’s attention back to the Sewol ferry sinking"(Hankyoreh, 8.16), the S. Korean (bourgeois)English-language media didn't mention it(i.e. the mass rally) at all...

* Related reports, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here:
☞ 5만명 ‘세월호 범국민대회’, 청와대 행진...경찰 대치 (NewsCham, 8.15)
☞ 5만여명 운집한 서울광장…시민·유가족들 “끝까지 함께 하자” (VOP, 8.16)

☞ [8.15] 범국민대회... (PLN, 8.16)

☞ 세월호 특별법 제정 촉구 5만여 명 범국민대회 (KCTU, 8.16)

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Racently the 'business'(i.e. arch-capitalist) magazine Forbes(USA) published the following: "It’s time for [...]America to leave the Koreans solve their own problems... America’s troops should return home, and the U.S. security guarantee should end. South Korea could then take its place among the world’s nations as truly independent, freed of its embarrassing reliance on Washington for defense, perhaps the most basic attribute of nationhood." The entire piece you can read here! [PS. Of course the last paragraph "UPDATE: ...why the U.S. should fear the ROK (and Japan) developing nuclear weapons..." is a complete f*cking stupid idea!!!]

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No comment...(*)

* But here some related articles:
☞ "The Sewol Bill Was Stabbed in the Back by the Opposition Party" (KHS, 8.11)
☞ Families of ferry victims continue sit-in protest... (Yonhap, 8.10)
☞ Start by getting rid of the opposition party (Hankyoreh, 8.09)

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