South Korean People's Struggle for Independence against the US

 

This year 2008, the south Korean people vigorously waged the struggle to terminate the US domination and interference over south Korea upholding the banner of independence against the US.

Different segments of the people and organizations undauntedly staged rallies and candlelit demos against the US which forced the opening of the south Korean markets to American beef, denouncing it as shameful aggression moves that trample down the dignity and sovereignty of the nation and violate its right to existence.

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 US military occupation of south Korea.

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 US occupation and domination over south Korea without fail.

 

 

 

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 Korean Peninsula.

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 US and the Lee Myong-bak group¡¯s moves for aggravating the tension during the year.

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 south Korean people intensified the struggle fiercer than ever before to expel the US aggression troops, cancer-like entity in realizing peace of the Korean Peninsula and root source of war, from south Korea.

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 US troops and anti-war demonstrations were conducted throughout south Korea.

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 US embassy and the US military bases ubiquitous in south Korea.

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.