A news conference on July 27 in front of the U.S. Capitol featured a broad array of activists and organizations: Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ; Joy Gebhard, Divided Family Member; Rick Downes, Coalition of Families of Korean & Cold War POW/MIAs; Lt. General (Retired) Daniel P. Leaf, U.S. Air Force; Joyce Ajlouny, American Friends Service Committee; Hana Marie Kim, 30 Under 30 activist and high school student; and Barbara Lee, U.S. Congress member from California.
Following the press event, an emotional Han ceremony at the Foundry United Methodist Church gave the many participants of Korean ancestry an opportunity to express and manage the complex emotions of sorrow, resentment, grief, sadness and hope that afflict many members of families separated during the Korean War and the following seven decades of a divided Korea.
Later, a rally in front of the White House featured Echo Hyunsook Cho, Women Cross DMZ; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; internet personality Nick Cho, “Your Korean Dad”; and other speakers. It was followed by a spirited mile-long march past the Korean War Veterans Monument to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where an interfaith vigil was held.
Why does Kim have to step down for the war to be formally ended that has been over de facto since 1953?
Read the article. They are calling for a united Korea. How does that work? Like you said, hostilities have been over for decades. “Ending the war” means American forces leave the country. Who benefits from that besides Kim (and China)? How does that help Korean families separated by the DMZ?
Just gonna drop this, for the sake of all the new people coming to this instance
For anyone that wants an anti-imperialist commentary on the background and aftermath of the Korean War, read the book Patriots Traitors and Empires.
Just one of the nuggets in the book that you’ll learn is that Kim Il-Sung was actually willing to entertain the idea of a unified Korea but with two political systems as long as the American military gtfo. Of course America obstructed that peace deal and many others.
The Korean people on both sides of the peninsula are more than capable of figuring out what reunification looks like without further Yankee meddling or Western concern trolling.
This should be a copypasta for every civil war/internal conflict the USA shoved itself into.
Many people in both Koreas would like to see reunification one day. That doesn’t mean there’s any plan to do so yet.
That would depend on the specific details of the treaty, wouldn’t it?
Maybe Amerikkkan forces should accept that they lost the Korean War and stop occupying the South.
So let Kim take the South then? That’s the plan? Unite Korea under a despotic cult leader who is starving his own people?
Korean unification has support in both North and South.
Cap
The U$ should stop occupying and oppressing Korea
No, mate, it’s completely true: Kim Jong‐un is starving millions and millions of innocent people simply because he has nothing better to do with his time. Trust me, all of my entrepreneurial Korean friends can back me up on this.
Of course unification has support in both North and South, but there’s zero overlap of how each government would want to share power.
We will leave when South Korea asks us to leave. But that’s literally the opposite of what they want.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-south-korean-president-asks-u-s-to-take-tougher-stance-against-north-korea
The South Korean government is a puppet propped up by the U$.
Ok.
I’m sure the leader that’s so far right his ideology is called “k-trumpism” represents the views of every single Korean. I’m sure the average SK resident supports have poor quality food for poor people, doubled down patriarchy, and reduced wages for workers.
The people of occupied Korea yearn for the 96 hour work week. They actually love it when our stupid fucking troops run over their kids with tanks.
Hell yeah, I too get my information about my country’s rivals from propaganda outlets and seth rogen movies
Sorry, are you suggesting that any of the Kims have not been despots? You know that we have access to more than one source of information, right?
Dang, you watch CNN and NBC? What a varied media environment.
No you’re not, you love this shit
Would these be the same sources of information that said covid is over, there’s not a recession, Ukraine doesn’t have a nazi problem, Russia is about to lose the war, China is sending balloons to spy on you, and Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction?
shut up dronie
The fuck is a dronie?
You know, like
A drone strike enjoyer
A wedding bombing fan
A hospital strafing appreciator
You know
A liberal
Oh ok.
Explain why the US occupying South Korea is better than reunification under the DPRK.
i literally don’t understand why people are arguing with you. fuck kim and north korean government. he needs to step down
We’re arguing with him because he’s wrong, and a white supremacist.
Why do you think you know more about how the DPRK should work than they do?
well you see he watched this seth rogan movie once and browsed /r/politics obssessively for the last decade
idiot i know people who escaped north korea
the fuck do you know???
Do the names of the people you know rhyme with show me snark?
Huh, I’ve been called a lot of things, but never a white supremacist. That’s a first for me.
You are not Rudyard Kipling, carrying the white man’s burden to enlighten savages. The colonized people of the world want you to leave them the fuck alone.
Ok.
Get used to it, as capitalism decays you, a liberal, will be defending more and more racist and fascist policies as the government tries to maintain profit and control.
lmfao because they’re a puppet state for china that threatens nuclear bullshit and violence all the time?
no democracy, the people are starving and there’s government issued meth
what the fuck are you even talking about you numbskull?
why do YOU think you know more about how the DPRK(ironic name) should work than I do? you don’t but you’re supporting a fat fascist fuck so off the bat i know you got shit for brains
If you can say it’s true without providing proof, I can say it’s not the same.
They are under siege and constant threat of aggression. The U$ is the aggressor.
Fuck off, cracker
Are these not the ten principles upon which the nation and its one party operate?
Doesn’t sound like a democracy to me.
fuck you idiot shill for the fascists harder lmfao you’re arguing with yourself because everyone else knows this situation
i literally know people who escaped that awful country, do you?
Big internet, lotta people, many viewpoints. I don’t mind an honest discussion of opposing ideologies. But I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. I suspect there’s a concerted effort to make certain ideologies seem more popular than they actually are.
Who’s concerting this effort?
This line is one of the most offensive from you bourgeois fuckers. So many of us are struggling workers. Where are these CPC checks? Where are these millions of rubles I’m owed?
Shut the hell up. We’re human beings.
Wow! There are people who want to make communism more popular? On lemmygrad? I don’t believe you.
nah fuck your conspiracy mind. the dprk is shit and kim is a trash leader who needs to be ousted before progress can happen