On Korea Peace Day, November 6, 2003, there will be events at universities and other institutions around the US and internationally which work toward peace on the Korean peninsula. So far over 20 universities are participating.
Please let us know how we can help you organize a Peace Day event on your campus. Check back here often, and also on the ASCK main web site (www.asck.org) for suggestions and materials which can help. You can also email us at peaceday@asck.org.
Please let us know how we can help you organize a Peace Day event on your campus. Check back here often, and also on the ASCK main web site (www.asck.org) for suggestions and materials which can help. You can also email us at peaceday@asck.org.
Korea Peace Day 11-06-2003
Friday, October 03, 2003
Connecticut College event on October 8
Alexis Dudden writes that Connecticut College will be hosting an event on Wednesday, October 8, at 4:30pm. Desaix Anderson (Former Executive Director of KEDO and career foreign service officer) will give a talk entitled "Crisis in Korea: The Radicalization of American Foreign Policy." The talk will take place in the Ernst Common Room, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Boston College events
Ramsay Liem writes that there are three events on US-NK relations coming up in the Boston area.
- On October 10, Prof. Han Park of the University of Georgia, who helped to broker the “Agreed Framework” between the U.S. and North Korean government with former President Jimmy Carter, will speak on "What Does North Korea Want?".
- On October 27, John Feffer, the author of a new book on U.S. policy and Korea (see post below), will speak on "Is North Korea Next?".
www.koreasolidarity.org
Judy Han manages www.koreasolidarity.org, the website of the Korea Solidarity Committee, located in the Bay Area. The site includes useful resources such as fact sheets and time lines of the current US-NK situation as well as current news. The above is from KSC's participation in the September 28 National Day of Action for peace in San Francisco, which was reported on the front page of the Joongang Ilbo, San Francisco edition.
New book: "North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Policy and the Korean Peninsula"
John Feffer has a new book coming out with Seven Stories Press---preorders are being taken at Amazon.com. An excerpt is available at the Seven Stories website.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Hong Suk Chon featured in New York Times
Hong Suk Chon is featured in the New York Times ("Korean Actor's Reality Drama: Coming Out as Gay"). An excerpt from the article:
"Three years ago when I came out, I felt the public opposed me," Mr. Hong said, switching effortlessly between English and Korean. "Eighty percent of the e-mails were hostile, like `I want to kill you,' and 20 percent were supportive. Now it's the opposite. Before I came out, no one talked about homosexuality in Korea. But then everybody was talking about it. I think Koreans are starting to accept homosexuality."
US congress discusses bill on North Korea
The September 28 Chosun Ilbo reports that "The U.S. Congress will pass a bill this year to promote freedom for all of the Korean Peninsula, a staffer at the Congress said Sunday. The bill will call for spending of $200 million through 2006 to promote human rights and democracy in North Korea and support North Korean refugees."
However, Karin Lee writes that "Calls to two staffers on the Hill indicate that this article has several inaccuracies, regarding not only the content of the bill, but even the Members of Congress involved. The most staffers would say at this point is that a bill that addresses North Korea will be introduced fairly soon. The content of the bill and who will sponsor it are still under discussion."
Monday, September 29, 2003
Peaceful presence at US-DPRK soccer match, Columbus, Ohio
The DPRK and US womens' soccer teams met in Columbus, Ohio on September 28, and ABC carried it live in the US. The ABC broadcast briefly showed a group of people at the match playing ggengari and buk (traditional Korean folk instruments) and flying flags showing a unified Korea.
The Associated Press carried a story ("N. Koreans Finding Unity at World Cup") which quoted North Korean forward Jin Pyol Hui saying, "I feel the Korean people are one nation and one blood."
Yul-san Liemand Ramsey Liem write that the people in this photo are members of the Congress for Korean Reunification and members of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.
