Briefs on the anti-US anti-war struggle in south Korea

 

4.2-The Movement Headquarters for Anti-US and Anti-war and the Conclusion of North Korea-US Non-aggression Treaty held the 19^th Friday Rally for Peace against the US and War in front of the US Embassy in Seoul.

A resolution adopted at the rally stressed that the more the US makes desperate efforts to install a pro-US proxy regime, the more determinedly the south Korean people would rise up to check it.

It called for smashing the US plot of political coup and its new war moves and waging the dynamic struggle for the independent reunification by our nation itself.

4.7-University students affiliated to the Seoul Area Federation of University Student Councils staged the street propaganda activities against the US vice president Cheney’s Seoul junket at the intersection in front of Myeongdong, Seoul.

-Baek Jong-ho, chairman of Hanchongryon, made public a commentary to condemn the authorities’ absurd move to conceal the ill intention of the additional troop dispatch to Iraq.

4.8- The Democratic Labor Party called for repealing the plan of the troop dispatch to Iraq claiming that the dispatch would pose more severe threat of terror, to say nothing of heavy casualties among the dispatched troops.

-The People's Emergency Action against the Troop Dispatch to Iraq grouping 351 civic organizations stated in a press interview that it would conduct energetic campaign to defeat 122 candidates to the 17^th National Assembly, including 72 from the GNP, 23 from the Uri Party, 8 from the United Liberal Democrats, who supported the motion of the troop dispatch.

4.10-The Reunification Solidarity issued a statement denouncing the authorities’ stubborn willingness to send additional troops to Iraq.

4.13-The civic organizations including the People's Action to Revise the Unjust South Korea-US “SOFA”, the People's Action against the Troop Dispatch to Iraq and the Reunification Solidarity held an anti-US solidarity rally against the US vice president Cheney’s visit to south Korea.

-The People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy issued a commentary denouncing Cheney’s Seoul junket.

4.14-142 personages including the chairman of the Lawyers for Democratic Society, held the promoters’ rally for 10,000-man declaration on the current situation to demand the revocation of the troop dispatch to Iraq at the Zelkova Café in Angukdong, Seoul.

They stated that they would wage the all-people petition campaign to compel the newly formed 17^th National Assembly to adopt a resolution to repeal the troop dispatch before June when the dispatch was scheduled, and different political parties to withdraw their opinion on the troop dispatch.

4.15-The People's Emergency Action against the Troop Dispatch to Iraq held a rally against US vice president Cheney’s junket to south Korea near the US Embassy in Seoul, claiming that the dispatch of the south Korean troops to Iraq would be viewed as a participation in the war, not in the peace and reconstruction projects. It demanded that the government should not yield to the US unjust pressure.

4.16-The National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification issued a commentary entitled “The people's victory- an era of progressive politics was ushered in”, calling for the unremitting all-people struggle to clean up the pro-US conservatives and open the era of independence, democracy and reunification by the people's concerted efforts with the spirit of the victory in the general election.

-The People's Action against the Troop dispatch to Iraq called a press conference in front of Cheong Wa Dae (the presidential office) to protest against US vice president Cheney’s visit to it.

In a press release, it condemned Cheney as a murderer who concocted the false information on the Iraqi WMD and provoked the merciless aggressive war for oil, stressing that they sternly reject the US hostile policy towards north Korea and its hegemonic moves.