Friday, January 03, 2003
- Bush’s policies could set back relations with North Korea
by By John Feffer and Karin Lee, who are based in Tokyo, where they work for the American Friends Service Committee, East Asia Quaker International Affairs Program
George Bush is on the verge of making a big foreign policy blunder. Instead of running with the Clinton policy on North Korea, the Bush team appears to be fumbling the hand-off.
The new administration has reversed recent progress made between North Korea and the United States. During a March 7 meeting between President Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, Bush dimmed Kim’s hopes of reconciling with North Korea. Kim’s efforts to bring about peace to the Korean Peninsula led to him being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year.
- Chalmers Johnson/Tim Shorrock on the Korean Crisis
CHALMERS JOHNSON, author of “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire” and Okinawa: Cold War Island,” is a specialist on the politics and economics of East Asia and a veteran of the Korean War. He said today: “Bush came into office saying that he did not want to negotiate with North Korea. Even under Clinton, the U.S. was failing to fulfill its agreements with the North Koreans. The U.S. has essentially caused the current crisis with its belligerent stance toward North Korea, including its rebuff of South Korean President Kim’s peace initiative (for which he won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize), the ‘axis of evil’ speech, the new National Security Strategy Directive of September 2002 endorsing ‘preventive’ war by the U.S., and the policy advocating the use of nuclear weapons in the interests of maintaining American hegemony. South Korea is a genuine democracy, created in 1987 when Koreans revolted against 25 years of American-supported military dictators. The U.S. still has more than 100 military bases in South Korea.... How would we feel if it were reversed? ... Another source of resentment is the South Korean economic meltdown a few years ago, which was essentially caused by the IMF, largely controlled by the U.S. government. South Korea has recovered brilliantly but it still resents American interference and arrogance.” From the Institute for Public Accuracy
Also see Roh win underscores US-Korea rift by Tim Shorrock: “....In a debate this week, Roh noted that the 1994 crisis with North Korea, when the administration of Bill Clinton came close to launching a preemptive attack on the North’s nuclear facilities, was almost entirely a US affair. “We almost went to the brink of war in 1993 with North Korea, and at the time we didn’t even know it,” he said. “We don’t want to become spectators again. In the old days, we were not able to solve our problems ourselves. Now it is different. We should say with confidence what we want and what we demand........” More:
Thursday, January 02, 2003
- Quiz on the History of Korean-American Relations
from CounterPunch:[url=http://www.counterpunch.org]http://www.counterpunch.org[/url]
by GARY LEUPP, associate professor, Department of History, Tufts University and coordinator, Asian Studies Program:
(Choose the best answer. 3 points each. Answers at the end.)
1. In 1866 the U.S. merchant ship General Sherman defied the laws of Korea
(then pursuing a policy of strict isolation) by entering Korean waters, and
sailing up the Taedong River towards Pyongyang to demand trade. What
happened to the ship?
a. It was attacked by local people and soldiers, burned, and sunk, with the
loss of its entire crew.
b. Its crew was politely informed that since Korea was a satrapy of China,
and that all negotiations concerning commerce had to take place via Beijing.
c. It was welcomed, and Korean officials began discussing with the Americans
a Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
Continue to questions 2-33
- Past and present stories
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--NOT ALL WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS ARE PUSHOVERS
--Peace is made with enemies
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-- Water justice in Kyoto?
-- Denis Halliday, Former UN Official, in Iraq
-- North and South Korea, the U.S. and Japan
-- Bush’s policies could set back relations with North Korea
-- Chalmers Johnson/Tim Shorrock on the Korean Crisis
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--Japan Supporting U.S. Invasion of Iraq
--Japanese Americans Express Solidarity with American Muslims
--Quiz on History of Korean-American Relations
Earlier Stories below from Jan 1, and Dec 2002
--Dow sues penniless Bhopal survivors: How low can Dow go?
--American Towns Oppose War
--Bush Plan for War Provokes Hostility Toward U.S
Many other articles added in the last weeks of December 2002, including Chis Hunt’s Buy Nothing Day contribution, Hollywood Entertainers protesting the coming war and:
(1) Letter to the BBC on War Bias
(2) Internet Censorship in China, Australia, the U.S....
(3) Attack of the elite on the Venezuelan President
(4) Military refusers in Israel
(5) Arrests of Muslims in the U.S.
(6) Attack of the right on Sean Penn for speaking out against war
(7) North Korea and more all listed here.
And don’t forget earlier stories such as:
(8) Take Action: Tell CNN/HBO to STOP Acting as a Cheerleader for a New War on Iraq
(9) Take Action: Tell Bush No War!
(10) 3 Humanitaran Activists Punished for Bringing Medicine to Irag, Vow Defiance
(11) The Profoundly Reckless Push for War
(12) Icelandic Peace Activist Arrested for Warning Airlines of Threat From Carrying Nato Weapons
and more, all located here!
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イスラマバード)の物理学教授であり、MITに留学中だった学生のころ
に、ベトナム反戦運動の先頭にたっていたイクバール・アハマッドや
チョムスキー、ハワード・ジンらと出会い、それ以来、核兵器を
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核抑止の失敗に向かう印パ紛争 ジア・ミアーンとの共著, 首藤もと子, 31.Oct.2002
“The India Pakistan Conflict -the failure of nuclear deterrence” with Zia
Mian, 24.Nov.2002
われわれも 9 月 11 日にハイジャックされたのか？, 田崎晴明, 10.Sep.2002
“Were We Too Hijacked On 9/11?”, 09.Sep.2002
ムスリムと西洋 ─ 9 月 11 日の後, 田崎晴明, 9.Dec.2001
“MUSLIMS AND THE WEST AFTER 9/11”, 12.Jan.2002
暗黒の火曜日：イスラマバードから, 廣田和馬, 田崎晴明, 19.Sep.2001
“BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD”, 17.Sep.2001
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-Dow sues penniless Bhopal survivors: How low can Dow go?
[url=http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=Bhopal&s=blue2]
Tell Dow to clean up Bhopal [/url]
Mon 23 December 2002
In a stunning example of corporate insensibility, Dow Chemical, the worlds largest chemical company, and new owners of Union Carbide is to sue survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. While the site of the disaster lies covered in toxic waste and survivors struggle with continuing ill health and deadly pollution from the site, Dow has decided to add to their woes with a Indian lawsuit.
- American Towns Oppose War
Counter Resolutions As Protest
By Jessica Azulay
(Please support ZNet, from which this commentary originated: http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/donorform.htm
In the face of a massive failure of the United States government and the United Nations to heed the will of the national and international antiwar majority, some U.S. cities are taking matters into their own hands. Despite sizable dissent, President Bush has resolved to declare war on Iraq, and the United States Congress has declared its support of his policy, ignoring a huge outpouring of letters and phone calls by constituents demanding the opposite. Bought into line, the U.N. Security council passed a new resolution on Iraq, which seems to be designed to set Iraq up for inevitable failure and attack. In response to the obvious flouting of democracy and international law, antiwar activists have shifted their focus away from Congress and are convincing their city councils to make some resolutions of their own.
