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Korean Peninsula In Historic Peace Talks – Thanks To Activists, Not Trump

April 21, 2018 Ben Norton, Therealnews.com Strategize! Activism, Korea, North Korea, Peace, South Korea

It's the Real News. I'm Ben Norton. After six decades of conflict, it looks like the war on the Korean peninsula may finally be coming to an end. Since the early 1950s, South and North Korea have technically been at war with each other. From 1950-1953 the United States waged a devastating war on North Korea in which the U.S. killed some 3 million people, 20 percent of the nation's population. The U.S. burned most of the country's major cities to the ground. After this U.S.-led war, South and North Korea never signed a peace treaty, which means generations of Koreans on both sides of the demilitarized zone have grown up in a perpetual state of war.Well, now that all appears to be changing. South Korean officials confirmed this week that they are in talks with North Korean officials and are considering drafting a peace treaty for the first time.

Koreas Negotiating Peace Treaty & End To Demilitarized Zone

April 17, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Create! North Korea, Peace, South Korea

The 1950 to 1953 war between North and South Korea ended their hostilities with a truce and the creation of a demilitarized zone. Now the North and South Korea governments are preparing to announce a permanent end to the Korean War, he newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official. CNBC reports: Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation. Kim and Moon could also discuss returning the heavily fortified demilitarized zone separating them to its original state, the newspaper said.

Will the United States Seek Peace in North Korea?

March 29, 2018 Staff, Zoom in Korea Create! China, Donald Trump, North Korea, South Korea

North Korea and China dramatically showed the two nations are close allies before President Trump's planned meeting with North Korean President Kim Jong Un. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the North Korean and Chinese leaders met in surprise visit as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China. It was Kim Jong Un’s first trip outside of North Korea. The two leaders released photos of their meeting. The images sent a message to President Trump and Washington, DC that North Korea and China are close allies. Kim Jong-hoon, a member of South Korea’s National Assembly and co-chair of the progressive Minjung Party, led a delegation to Washington on March 20-21 to appeal to U.S. lawmakers about supporting efforts for peace on the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. Congress and Senate should not just watch Trump’s maneuvers from the sidelines but play an active role to make sure the talks succeed in achieving genuine and lasting peace.

“Put The Brakes On US Empire”: Interview With Ajamu Baraka

March 21, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. Resistance Report Imperialism, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

We discuss the current situation in Venezuela and why that solidarity by people in the United States is critical, even if we believe the process in Venezuela is not perfect. We also discuss Syria, North Korea and the Ukraine, and the serious threat of conflict with Russia and China. Baraka places the current discussion of gun control in the United States in the context of the need to make deeper connections between violence and weapons in the U.S. and U.S. imperialism around the world. We also talk about the upcoming military parade in November called for by President Trump.

Who’s Afraid Of Talking With Kim Jong Un?

March 12, 2018 Jonathan Marshall, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Foreign Relations, North Korea, Trump Administration

Americans should welcome President Trump’s apparent willingness to speak with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, but instead naysayers are warning of dire consequences, Jonathan Marshall explains. Three months ago, I quoted approvingly Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to supporters in Atlanta that he would “absolutely” speak to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even if there were only a “10 percent or a 20 percent chance that I can talk him out of those damn nukes.” “What the hell is wrong with speaking?” the candidate said. “We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table.” This week, the ever-mercurial President Trump agreed to take Kim up on a surprise offer to meet face-to-face in two months to search for peace. The meeting will be the first ever held between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, two countries that remain technically at war.

Historic Turning Point: U.S. Agrees to Summit with North Korea

March 11, 2018 Staff, Zoom In Korea Create! Donald Trump, North Korea

The Trump administration made a surprising reveal yesterday about its plans to engage in direct talks with the North Korean government by May of this year. South Korea’s National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong made the announcement at the White House on the evening of March 8 following his meeting with Donald Trump. This groundbreaking announcement comes on a historic week when North and South Korea agreed to hold its summit meeting in late April. Chung was sent to Pyongyang by South Korean President Moon Jae-in just days prior as a part of a special envoy that met with North Korea’s leadership, including Chairman Kim Jong-un.

The Two Koreas Talk: On The Path To Peace

March 8, 2018 Staff, Zoominkorea.org Educate! Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, North Korea, Peace, South Korea

Following a two-day meeting with North Korean officials in Pyongyang, South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s special envoy returned to Seoul on March 6. The special envoy had dinner with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on March 5 and a follow-up meeting the next day with North Korea’s high-level officials including Kim Yong-chol, the vice chairman of the Korean Workers Party (KWP) Central Committee. Upon their return to Seoul, the South Korean delegation gave an announcement to the press that summarized the result of the meeting. According to this announcement, the North and South made a major breakthrough in the inter-Korean talks by agreeing to hold a summit as soon as late April of this year. The following is a translation of the full press announcement by the South Korean special envoy to Pyongyang on the results of their meeting

No ‘Bloody Nose’ Strategy For North Korea, Says U.S. Official, Senators

February 19, 2018 Joe Gould, Defensenews.com Educate! North Korea, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has no strategy for a pre-emptive “bloody nose” strike against North Korea, according to two lawmakers and a Trump administration official. In response to reports that the administration is considering limited, pre-emptive attacks to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear program, critics have said the president lacks the authority for such an attack and that it would spark the war it’s meant to avoid. Republican Sen. Jim Risch and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, said Thursday they and other senators had been told by senior White House officials on Wednesday that there was no such strategy. Neither senator identified the officials. The White House had “made it very clear there is no bloody nose strategy for a strike against North Korea,” Shaheen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

South Korea, Straying Off The Leash?

February 10, 2018 Ramsay Liem, Counterpunch.org Strategize! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Korea, North Korea, South Korea, US Imperialism

Never before has North Korea loomed so large in the U.S. imagination. No longer just a problem “over there,” North Korea has emerged as a much more immediate threat, one with the power to unleash nuclear Armageddon on not only East Asian but also North American shores. Months of “fire and fury” exchanges between the leaders of the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have stoked American fears of impending nuclear carnage. Exacerbating these anxieties is widespread U.S. ignorance of the origins and history of seven decades of hostile U.S. relations with North Korea, a country dismissed in the past as a failed state. In sharp contrast to alarmist views of an erratic and hostile North Korea, the dominant American narrative of South Korea depicts U.S.-South Korea relations as an enduring and equal partnership in the face of a shared enemy.

US Misses Opportunity For Peace Progress At Olympics

February 9, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Educate! Mike Pence, North Korea, Olympics, South Korea

Vice President Mike Pence went to South Korea and missed the opportunity for further peace on the Olympic peninsula. The historic opening created by North and South Korea at the Olympics was an opportunity but Pence played the situation like a childish teenager. At a dinner dinner reception Pence went around the table and shook hands with everyone except the diplomat from North Korea. At the stadium Pence sat one row in front of the North Korean of the sister of President Kim Jong Un's sister. While Kim Jong Yo was so close to her he never even tried to speak to her. Anotger missed opportunty for peace. At the same moment, South Korean President Moon Jae-in shook hands with Kim Yo Jong, creating a historic moment and a photograph that gave hopes to many for peace between North and South Korea and movement toward unification and an end of hostilities.

Our New National Defense Strategy: Great Power Conflict and Arms Race

February 5, 2018 Margaret Flower and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast North Korea, Pentagon, Syria, Wars and Militarism

The new National Defense Strategy announced last week moves from the ‘war on terror’ toward conflict with great powers. The move from military conflict against non-state actors, i.e. ‘terrorists’, to great power conflict means more military hardware, massive spending on weapons and a new arms race. We speak with Nicolas Davies and Mike Whitney about reasons for the change in defense strategy, the broad impacts it will have and how it will affect areas of conflict around the world.

US Misconceptions On War With North Korea

January 29, 2018 David Barno And Nora B, Eensahel, Warontherocks.com Educate! North Korea, Nuclear War, US Imperialism

The drumbeats of war with North Korea are sounding ever louder as heated rhetoric — and false missile attack warnings — continue to fly across the Pacific and through the Twitterverse. Despite some nascent signs of dialogue with the North, war with Pyongyang in 2018 seems more likely than at any time in decades. Last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) publicly estimated the odds of war with North Korea to be between 30 and 70 percent, and stressed that war would have to involve regime change. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said that “storm clouds are gathering” over the Korean peninsula, and that while he hoped for a diplomatic solution, he felt “very little reason for optimism.” Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen warned that the United States is closer “to a nuclear war with North Korea and in that region than we have ever been.”

Missile Scare Motivates Hawaiians To Take Action

January 17, 2018 Anita Hofschneider, Civil Beat. Resist! Hawaii, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Noelani Goodyear–Ka‘ōpua, a professor at the University of Hawaii, is among the many people planning to attend the march who believe the Hawaiian Islands are illegally occupied by the United States. She said the missile scare underscores why it’s important to spread awareness of the islands’ history. “In many ways what happened today reinforces for many of us why it’s so important to keep educating others about the truth of our history, the truth of Hawaii’s history and not only to think about why Hawaiian sovereignty is important because of the historical wrongs that were committed but because of the ongoing present conditions of occupation that make us a target of missiles,” she said.

North and South Korea Discuss Olympic Cooperation

January 13, 2018 Staff, Zoominkorea.org Educate! Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, North Korea, Olympics, South Korea

On January 9, high-level officials from North and South Korea met to discuss the North’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea in February. The inter-Korean meeting was held in the village of Panmunjom at the border of the divided Korean Peninsula. On January 1, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed hope for reconciliation with South Korea in his New Year address. The next day, South Korean President Moon Jae-in proposed high-level talks with North Korea ahead of the Olympics. Ri Son-gwon of North Korea and Cho Myong-gyon of South Korea — the lead representatives of their respective states’ reunification committees — led the talks. The two sides came to an agreement about North Korea’s delegation to the Pyeongchang Olympics.

North Korea & South Korea Threatening To Seek Peace

January 8, 2018 William Boardman, Readersupportednews.org Create! North Korea, Peace, South Korea, US Imperialism

A few gestures of mutual respect between North Korea and South Korea during the first week of January are a long way from a stable, enduring peace on the Korean peninsula, but these gestures are the best signs of sanity there in decades. On January 1, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for immediate dialogue with South Korea ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics there. On January 2, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in proposed that talks begin next week in Panmunjom (a border village where intermittent talks to end the Korean War have continued since 1953). On January 3, the two Koreas reopened a communications hotline that has been dysfunctional for almost two years (requiring South Korea to use a megaphone across the border in order to repatriate several North Korean fishermen).

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