South Korean People's Struggle for Independence against the US
This year 2008, the south Korean people vigorously waged
the struggle to terminate the
Different
segments of the people and organizations undauntedly staged rallies and
candlelit demos against the
On
the occasion of Bush¡¯s south Korea junket in August, in particular, there took
place an one-million-people candlelit march to demand a renegotiation on the
import of American beef, and vigorous struggles against the US and Lee
Myong-bak in front of the US embassy, the US Ryongsan military base and other
places of south Korea.
They
also waged vigorous struggle against the unequal and subordinate south Korea-US
¡°Mutual Defense Treaty¡± which legalized the
Civic
organizations and the people strongly demanded the immediate repeal of the
unequal treaty, a hurdle in the way of the independent development of the south
Korean society and reunification of the country, disclosing the injustice of
the aforesaid treaty.
The
south Korean people actively conducted the struggle against the aggressive and
plunderous nature of the south Korea-US ¡°Free Trade Agreement¡± .
Members
of 34 farmers¡¯ organizations and 20 000 representatives of different
organizations held in Seoul a ¡°national meeting¡± to denounce the anti-national
acts of the Lee Myong-bak clan which moves to conclude the FTA by all means,
and vowed to stage the struggle unyieldingly until they abolish the FTA, the outcome
of the US plunderous policy.
The
south Korean people from all walks of life incessantly waged the dynamic
struggle against the US which extorted the increase of the funds for the upkeep
of its troops in south Korea, extension of the dispatch period of the south
Korean troops to Afghanistan and the participation of south Korea in the
missile defense system, etc, hardly repressing their national grudge over it.
The
Anti-imperialist National Democratic Front and the south Korean people will
further intensify the anti-US independent struggle to safeguard the dignity,
interests and sovereignty of the nation, so as to put an end to the
Vigorous Anti-war Struggle for Peace
This year the south Korean people actively conducted the
anti-war struggle for peace to remove the source of war and realize durable
peace on the
Anti-war peace movement organizations and the people from
different social strata continued rallies for peace and disarmament, press
conferences, rallies and demos to frustrate the
They, in particular, staged vigorous struggle against the
south Korea-US joint military exercises such as ¡°Key Resolve¡±, ¡°Foal Eagle¡± and
¡°Ulji Freedom Guardian¡±.
The
The South
Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country¡¯s Reunification, the
Solidarity for Realizing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration, the
Solidarity for Progress and other organizations published statements and appeals
to demand the US stop at once the dangerous military provocations aimed at
igniting a war on the Korean Peninsula.
Unprecedented large-scale signature campaigns for the
withdrawal of the
Slogans such as ¡°The US troops, ringleader of threat of
war in the Korean Peninsula, go out!¡±, ¡°Let us terminate the shameful history
of the US occupation of south Korea and advance toward the new era of
independent reunification, peace and prosperity!¡± reverberated over the
Posters written ¡°Conclude peace treaty¡±, ¡°The US troops,
go out. For peace and reunification!¡± were hung on main buildings of cities and
the disgusting US flags were burnt in flames in the sites of anti-war struggle.
Anti-imperialist solidarity organizations in the world
including the Association for the Study of the Songun Politics in the UK, the
US Solidarity Committee to Support the AINDF and the South Korean People's
Struggle, the Korean Friendship Association and the Swiss-Korea Committee
conducted various solidarity activities to denounce the DPRK-targeted war moves
of the US and the south Korean war-hawks, thus encouraging the anti-war peace
struggle of the AINDF and the south Korean people and dealing heavy blows to
the war maniacs in the US and south Korea.
The AINDF and the south Korean people will conduct in the future, too, the anti-war peace struggle more vigorously for lasting security and peace in the Korean Peninsula in firm solidarity with the anti-imperialist solidarity organizations of the world.