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Mainly elderly residents of the southeastern city of Miryang(South Gyeongsang Province) are clashing now since one week with "officials"(workers and hired thugs) from Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and riot cops in their protest against the power company’s resumption of the construction of 52 transmission towers there after eight months of suspension.
"As of yesterday, eighth day of protests, 18 people have been injured as local residents try to block KEPCO from bringing in equipment to construct electricity transmission towers", today's Hankyoreh reported...
Related articles:
☞ KEPCO takes legal action against poor, elderly protestors (Hankyoreh, 2012.7.06)
☞ KEPCO, Miryang residents clash (Korea Times, 5.20)
☞ Controversial power-line works resume amid strong protests (K. Herald, 5.20)
☞ Elderly people injured in pylon protest (UCAnews, 5.21)
☞ Elderly residents in a tooth and nail fight against electricity towers (Hankyoreh, 5.22)
☞ No end in sight for dispute over Miryang power-line towers (K. Herald, 5.28)
More related articles/reports(incl. lots of pics) in Korean you'll get here(LabourStart)!!
Letters from a conscientious prisoner(No. 125), Lee Jong-hwa(*), today(5.26) since 29 days in jail(for his resistance against the Jeju Naval Base project).
As a poet and writer, he drafted numerous letters. A few of those are in English(**)...
* You may write him solidarity letters to the following address:
Lee Jong-hwa
161 Ora-2 dong(Jeju Prison)
Jeju City
Jeju, THE PEACE ISLAND
South Korea
* To see a collection of his letters, please check out:
http://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/496a/854
http://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/496a/860
Illusion...
Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and director of the KPA General Political Bureau, on a visit to China as a special envoy of the dear respected Kim Jong Un, met with Liu Yunshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and member of the Secretariat of the C.C., Communist Party of China (CPC), at the Great Hall of the People on Thursday...
Choe Ryong Hae said he came to China as a special envoy of the dear respected Kim Jong Un, adding that it is the invariable stand of the WPK to consolidate and develop generation after generation the DPRK-China friendship associated with the devoted efforts made by the leaders of the elder generation of the two parties and countries.
The DPRK will always advance hand in hand with the Chinese comrades to defend the socialist cause in the two countries and boost the friendship and solidarity between the two peoples, he noted...
...and reality(today's Rodong Shinmun, without any word about Choe's visit in Beijing):
Yesterday(5.21) in central Seoul: 49 activists of Korean Gov't Employees' Union incl. Kim Jung-nam(KGEU's chairperson), who have been requesting a meeting with minister of public administration for union recognition and reinstatement 135 dismissed workers since May 1, were arrested for conducting an "illegal" sit-in protest in front of the Ministry of Security and Public Administration(for more info please read "South Korea: 49 trade unionists arrested"!!)...
KGEU's yesterday's report(incl. a lot of photos) you'll get here! More related and updated (Korean)articles/reports you'll find on LabourStart...
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