文대통령, 빌리 브란트가 되라

文대통령, 빌리 브란트가 되라

 

 

한반도 위기, 북한을 세일즈 해서 극우와 군국주의인 일본 아베가 승리했습니다. 트럼프 대통령은 한국 방문때 북한에 대한 초강경론의 메시지를 계획하고 한국 정부는 현재까지 한미일 대북 제제, 강경론에 올인하고 있습니다.

 

1980년 소련과 미국이 동서독에 새로운 핵 미사일 배치로 유럽 전체를 핵전쟁의 위기로 몰아 갔을때 서독 시민들의 거대한 평화 운동은 미국-유럽 시민들의 평화 운동으로 발전했습니다.

 

서독의 진보 총리인 빌리 브란트는 자신의 정치 생명을 희생하면서까지 미소의 위협에 저항, 시민들의 반미국 미사일, 반반핵 운동을 지지, 10년후 동서독 통일, 유럽 통일의 기반을 세웠습니다.

 

현재 미국내 수많은 시민 평화 단체들이 1980년 유럽-미국 시민 연대와 유사한 평화 운동을 한반도 위해 만들고 있습니다. 촛불혁명 1주년 기념, 제2의 촛불은 평화 운동으로 점화되길 기원합니다.

 

--시몬 천 드림

 

   

Korea without war!

 

"One million people could die on the first day of any preventive or preemptive war with North Korea."

 

The gravest danger now is that North Korea, South Korea, and the United States will stumble into a catastrophic war that none of them wants. The military’s job is to come up with options. That involves thinking the unthinkable. Scott D. Sagan

 

What we have to do is seize this moment of mass consciousness to move directly into the structures of the Cold War themselves, the blocs behind the missiles. We have to keep to some very large and simple ideas… E. P. Thompson

 

Dear Friend—an update on the making of people’s powerful deterrence against war in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. "History is made by ordinary women and men", noted E.P. Thompson. That’s so true! American and European ordinary people together contributed to ending the Cold War through a powerful and inspirational cosmopolitan peace movement in the 1980s. In fact, peace movement is and has been America’s finest and most honorable tradition; for instance, in 1983, 1 million American people sent a message of peace to the world in a march for disarmament in New York. Imagine 1 million ordinary Americans and millions of Europeans together created an agenda of peace, acted on it and delivered the result! Now is our turn--ordinary Americans, Korean-Americans, Asian-Americans, Koreans and people in Northeast Asia to forge a powerful people’s deterrence to end this last remaining Cold War and prevent a nuclear war. Please help us!

 

We Need a Mass Movement to Prevent Nuclear Conflict in the Korean Peninsula

 

1. The Guardian. Jimmy Carter says he is willing to go to North Korea on peace mission

 

Carter said he was “afraid” of nuclear conflict between the US and North Korea. “They want to save their regime [and have] now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland.” Carter had indicated a willingness to talk peace with North Korea last month, according to an academic at the University of Georgia.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/22/jimmy-carter-north-korea-donald-trump

 

2. “North Korea has “nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles,” but won’t deploy them in the absence of a threat”.

 

“Our weapons are designed for the protection of our homeland from the constant nuclear threat from the US,” she added.

 

“Our nuclear response will be directed at the US and won’t target any other country,” she said.

 

North Korea will not attack other nations in the absence of a threat. US stop threatening NK. Problem solved!

 

https://www.rt.com/news/407292-us-nuclear-status-nkorea/

 

3. Scott D. Sagan. Foreign Affairs. The Korean Missile Crisis

 

It is time for the U.S. government to admit that it has failed to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States. North Korea no longer poses a nonproliferation problem; it poses a nuclear deterrence problem. The gravest danger now is that North Korea, South Korea, and the United States will stumble into a catastrophic war that none of them wants. The military’s job is to come up with options. That involves thinking the unthinkable. But it is also military leaders’ responsibility to offer brutal honesty to political leaders and the public. When it comes to the current conflict with North Korea, that means admitting that there are no military options that do not risk starting the most destructive war since 1945.

 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-korea/2017-09-10/korean-missile-crisis

 

5. Felicity Arbuthnot. Global Research. North Korea – As Trump Threatens, the Nation Still Struggles with America’s Lethal Legacy

 

North Korea has said that 400,000 bombs were dropped on the capital, Pyongyang: “roughly one bomb for every resident at the time.” 32,500 tons of napalm was also dropped on the country. “To this day the North Korean Government and media point to the American bombing as a war crime and a major justification for the continued mobilization of the North Korean people – as well as the development of nuclear weapons – in defence against nuclear attacks.”

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-as-trump-threatens-the-nation-still-struggles-with-americas-lethal-legacy/5613799

 

6. Russia Steps Up as go-between on North Korea. Nikkei Asian Review

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China have urged U.S. President Donald Trump to pursue a dialogue with North Korea. Moscow also opposed, until the last minute, the fresh round of sanctions on the North passed by the United Nations Security Council in September.

 

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/Russia-steps-up-as-go-between-on-North-Korea?n_cid=NARAN012

 

7. Eva Bartlett. 10/22/2017. MPN News. Photo-Report: The North Korea Neither Trump Nor Western Media Wants The World To See

 

On September 19, 2017, in the forum of the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to “totally destroy” North Korea….This is not the first time threats against the DPRK have been issued. Colin Powell in 1995 threatened to turn North Korea into “a charcoal briquette” and in 2013 reiterated that threat to “destroy” the country.

 

The demonization of North Korea transcends party lines, drawing on a host of subliminal racist and Orientalist imagery; no one is willing to accept that North Koreans may have valid reasons for not accepting the American definition of reality.”

 

https://www.mintpressnews.com/north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-world-see/233355/

 

8. Ploughshares Fund. North Korea Fact Sheet

 

There are many options the Trump administration could consider to scale back or suspend military exercises as it explores negotiations with the North. The next US-ROK military exercises, called Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, will take place in March 2018 and involve more than 300,000 US-ROK troops.

 

https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/factsheet-us-rok-military-exercises

 

9. Suzy Kim. Breaking America’s Cold War Addition in Korea. AntiWar.Com

 

Thompson concluded that the Cold War was an “addiction,” “a habit supported by very powerful material interests in each bloc,” from the military-industrial complex to intelligence and national security agencies, and the politicians they serve. This is no less true here in the United States as it is in North Korea today, where the American threat has been used to justify draconian measures since the Korean War….This may sound utopian, but the largest protest against nuclear weapons in American history gathered close to one million people in Manhattan’s Central Park in 1982. The recent anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a sobering reminder of what is at stake.

 

http://original.antiwar.com/suzy_kim/2017/08/25/breaking-americas-cold-war-addiction-korea/

 

10. Public Education for Peace in Our Times!: Americans, Korean-Americans, Koreans and people in Northteast Asia stand together for peace

“The public continues to be either uneducated or misinformed about North Korea and Iran. Public events, press work, fact sheets, social media, etc. can be used to provide an alternative narrative to push for diplomacy. For the most part, polling is on our side. We would like to move those polls even further and activate people to take action.” (Koreapeacecollaboration)

 

http://thepeacereport.com/koreawebinars/

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