74개 국내여성단체와 7개 해외여성단체가 5월 20일(목) 오후, 광화문광장 미국대사관 앞에서 한미정상회담에 대한 여성단체 입장문 발표 기자회견을 진행하였습니다.
5.24 평화와 군축을 위한 세계여성의 날을 맞이하여
2021년 5월 21일 한미정상회담에 대한 여성단체 입장 발표 기자회견문
“한미정상은 한반도에서 분단의 적대적 관계를 해체하여 지속가능한 평화체제로 나아갈 기반을 마련하라!”
오는 5월 21일(금) 미국 워싱턴에서 한미정상회담이 열릴 예정이다. 바이든 대통령의 임기 100일에 즈음하여 대북정책 검토를 마치고 열리는 이번 정상회담은, 문재인 대통령 임기 만료 1년을 앞두고 한반도가 다시 평화로 나아갈 수 있을지 아니면 긴장과 불안으로 되돌아갈지 가늠할 매우 중요한 분기점이 될 것이다.
이에 한국과 세계의 여성단체들은 이번 한미정상회담에 바라는 의견을 다음과 같이 밝히고자 한다.
첫째, 한미정상은 2018년 양국이 북한과의 관계에서 각각 도달한 선언과 합의, 즉 4.27 판문점선언과 6.12 싱가포르 합의의 실질적 이행을 위한 구체적 방안을 마련해야 한다. 무엇보다 현재 남북 사이에, 그리고 북미 사이에 신뢰가 거의 없다. 신뢰는 상대방의 입장을 헤아리는 데서부터 출발한다. 한미정상은 신뢰를 쌓고 대화의 문을 열기 위해 북한이 지속적으로 요구한 대북 적대정책 철회를 위한 첫 걸음을 내딛어야 한다. 남북관계 재개와 북미관계 정상화의 출발점은 8월로 예정된 한미연합군사훈련 중단에 합의하는 데서 시작될 수 있다.
둘째, 최근에 미국은 새로운 대북정책을 ‘조정된 실용적 접근’이라 밝혔다. 한미정상회담은 미국이 북한에 대해 제안할 평화 이니셔티브을 발굴하는 장이 되어야 한다. 북한은 강대강, 선대선이라는 대화의 원칙을 표명했다. 대화의 악순환도 선순환도 가능하다는 북한의 입장을 고려한다면, 미국은 북한과의 대화를 위한 조건을 내세우기 보다는 조건 없는 대화의 문을 열어야 한다. 동시에 공석으로 남아있는 대북정책특사를 조속히 임명하여 대북대화를 실질적으로 전개하기 바란다.
셋째, 이번 한미정상회담에서 다뤄질 한미관계의 현재와 미래는 양국의 관계 발전뿐만 아니라 동북아 지역의 공존과 평화 구축에 기여하기를 바란다. 한반도의 평화는 지역의 평화와 함께 가야 하는 구조적 성격이 있다. 미중 경쟁과 신냉전 출현에 대한 우려가 깊은 이때에, 사드 배치 공식화나 새로운 무기 체계의 한국 배치와 같은 지역의 군사적 긴장을 촉발하는 결정이 이뤄지지 않기를 바란다.
우리 여성들은 감염병 확산과 기후변화의 위기 속에서 협력과 공존의 중요성을 절감하고 있다. 한미정상이 추구해야 할 우선적 가치는 한반도 주민의 생명과 안전이다. 이를 위해 한국전쟁 후 지금까지 70년 이상 지속된 군사적 대결과 갈등이 아니라 아직도 끝나지 않은 한국전쟁을 완전히 종식하고 평화체제로의 전환에 대한 공감대가 형성되어야 한다.
그런 의미에서 이번 한미정상회담에서 신뢰에 기초한 북미관계의 출발시킬 수 있는 방안을 마련하여, 이를 통해 한국전쟁의 완전한 종식, 북미관계의 정상화, 대북 제제의 해소와 한반도의 비핵화, 나아가 한반도의 모든 주민들이 염원하는 지속 가능한 한반도 평화체제로 진전될 수 있는 기반을 마련하기 바란다.
Global Partnership Program - The United Church of Canada
Hawai'i Peace and Justice
International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom
International Women's Network Against Militarism
Veterans For Peace Chapter 113-Hawai'i
Women Cross DMZ
Women for Genuine Security
Press conference statement of women's organizations
on the Republic of Korea-U.S. Summit on the occasion of
May 24 International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament:
"The presidents of the Republic of Korea and the U.S. should dismantle the hostile relationship caused by division on the Korean Peninsula and lay the foundation for a lasting peace regime."
The ROK(Republic of Korea, South Korea) and the United States will have a summit in Washington D.C. on May 21, 2021. As the United States has completed its review on the DPRK(Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea) policy, the summit will be a crucial turning point in the Korea Peace process whether to make meaningful progress or to roll back to the past of tension and anxiety under the situation that President Moon’s term remains one year.
We, women’s organizations in South Korea and around the world, would like to express our demands for the summit as follows.
First, the presidents of the ROK and the U.S. should come up with specific measures to implement agreements in 2018 such as the Panmunjom Declaration between the two Koreas in April, and the U.S.-DPRK joint statement in Singapore in June. Since there is little trust between South and North Korea, and between the DPRK and the U.S., it needs that trust building starts with mutual understanding. The presidents of the ROK and the U.S. should take the first step of withdrawing their hostile policy on the DPRK, which the DPRK has demanded. Suspending the ROK-U.S. combined military exercises in August can play a role of a meaningful point for resuming talks for inter-Korean relations and normalizing the DPRK-U.S. relations.
Second, the U.S. recently explained that their DPRK policy would pursue ‘a calibrated and practical approach’ that is open to and will explore diplomacy with the DPRK. The ROK-U.S. summit should serve as a venue for developing initiatives for peace that the U.S. will propose to the DPRK. The DPRK stated their principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill. Considering the DPRK’s position that a vicious and virtuous cycle of dialogue is possible, the U.S. should open the door to unconditional dialogue rather than presenting conditions for dialogue with the DPRK. At the same time, President Biden should appoint a special envoy for the DPRK policy which remains vacant as soon as possible and develop the practical dialogue.
Third, we hope that the two leaders discuss not only the development of the two countries' relationship but also how to contribute to co-existence and peace-building in Northeast Asia at the summit for the present and the future of the ROK-US relations. Peace on the Korean Peninsula has a structural nature that must go with peace in the region. At a time when there is a lot of concern about the U.S.-China competition and possible rising of the new Cold War era, we hope that there will not be a decision to set off military tension in the region, such as formularization of the THAAD deployment or deployment of new weapons systems in South Korea.
We have realized the importance of cooperation and coexistence amid the COVID-19 situation and the climate crisis. The priority values that the summit of the ROK and the U.S. should pursue are the lives and safety of people in the Korean Peninsula. To this end, a consensus should be formed on a formal end of the Korean War and the transition to a peace regime instead of the military confrontation and conflicts that have lasted more than seventy years since the Korean War.
In this sense, we hope that the ROK-U.S. summit will develop a way to start the U.S.-DPRK relations based on trust and pave the way for a formal end to the Korean War, normalization of the DPRK-U.S. relations, relief of sanctions against the DPRK, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and establishment of a lasting peace regime for people on the peninsula.
May. 20, 2021
Signed:
A network of parents who act, Ansan Women Workers Committee, Anseong Women's Association, Anyang Sharing Women's Association, Anyang Women’s Hot-Line, Bucheon Women's Hot-Line, Bundang Women's Association, Busan Women's Association, Busan Women’s Association United, Center for Women & Politics, Changwon Women's Association, Cheonan Women's Association, Corporation Korean Unification Women's Council, Daegu Women’s Association, Daegu-Kyungbook Women’s Association United, Dangjin Eoulim Women's, Four Thousand Women's Association, Gender Equality Training Platform, Goyang Women’s Link, Gwangju Women's Association, Gyeonggi Gwangju Women's Association, Gyeonggi Women's Association United, Gyeonggi-do Women's Solidarity, Gyeongnam United, Gyeongnam Women's Solidarity, Haman Women's Association, Hanam Women's Association, Hwaseong Women's Association, Icheon Women's Association, INCHEON WOMEN WORKERS’ ASSOCIATION, JEJU WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, Jinhae Women's Association, Jinju Women's Association, KIDOKYOMINHOE, Korea Church Women United, Korea Differently Abled Women United, Korea Women's Movement for Peace, Korea Women’s Associations United, Korea Women’s Political Solidarity, Korean Association of Women Theologians, Korean Hanbumo Association, Korean Methodist Women's Leadership Institute, Korean Women Workers’ Association, KWSI, Masan Changwon Jinhae Civil Assembly for the Japanese Military Sexual Slaves, Namhae Women's Association, Namyangju Women's Association, National Federation of Women's Peasants., National Women's Farmers' Association, National YWCA of Korea, Paju Women Link, PEACEWIND, Phwomen's Association, Pyeongtaek Women's Association, Seogwipo Women's Association, Seongnam Women's Association, Seoul Women Workers’ Association, Seoul Women's Solidarity (Jun), Solidarity for USAFIK Women's Human Rights, South Gyeongsang Province Branch of the National Unregular School Workers' Union, Suwon Women Workers’ Association, SUWON WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, SUWON WOMEN’S HOT-LINE, Suwon Working Women's Association, The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, The Women's Committee of the National Council of Churches in Korea, Ulsan Women's Association, ULSAN-WOMEN, Women Making Peace, Women’s Division of South Committee for the Realization of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration, Women’s Forum for Peace & Diplomacy, Yangsan Women's Association, Yongin Women's Association
Endorsed:
Global Partnership Program - The United Church of Canada
Hawai'i Peace and Justice
International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom
74개 국내여성단체와 7개 해외여성단체가 5월 20일(목) 오후, 광화문광장 미국대사관 앞에서
한미정상회담에 대한 여성단체 입장문 발표 기자회견을 진행하였습니다.
5.24 평화와 군축을 위한 세계여성의 날을 맞이하여
2021년 5월 21일 한미정상회담에 대한 여성단체 입장 발표 기자회견문
“한미정상은 한반도에서 분단의 적대적 관계를 해체하여 지속가능한 평화체제로 나아갈 기반을 마련하라!”
오는 5월 21일(금) 미국 워싱턴에서 한미정상회담이 열릴 예정이다. 바이든 대통령의 임기 100일에 즈음하여 대북정책 검토를 마치고 열리는 이번 정상회담은, 문재인 대통령 임기 만료 1년을 앞두고 한반도가 다시 평화로 나아갈 수 있을지 아니면 긴장과 불안으로 되돌아갈지 가늠할 매우 중요한 분기점이 될 것이다.
이에 한국과 세계의 여성단체들은 이번 한미정상회담에 바라는 의견을 다음과 같이 밝히고자 한다.
첫째, 한미정상은 2018년 양국이 북한과의 관계에서 각각 도달한 선언과 합의, 즉 4.27 판문점선언과 6.12 싱가포르 합의의 실질적 이행을 위한 구체적 방안을 마련해야 한다. 무엇보다 현재 남북 사이에, 그리고 북미 사이에 신뢰가 거의 없다. 신뢰는 상대방의 입장을 헤아리는 데서부터 출발한다. 한미정상은 신뢰를 쌓고 대화의 문을 열기 위해 북한이 지속적으로 요구한 대북 적대정책 철회를 위한 첫 걸음을 내딛어야 한다. 남북관계 재개와 북미관계 정상화의 출발점은 8월로 예정된 한미연합군사훈련 중단에 합의하는 데서 시작될 수 있다.
둘째, 최근에 미국은 새로운 대북정책을 ‘조정된 실용적 접근’이라 밝혔다. 한미정상회담은 미국이 북한에 대해 제안할 평화 이니셔티브을 발굴하는 장이 되어야 한다. 북한은 강대강, 선대선이라는 대화의 원칙을 표명했다. 대화의 악순환도 선순환도 가능하다는 북한의 입장을 고려한다면, 미국은 북한과의 대화를 위한 조건을 내세우기 보다는 조건 없는 대화의 문을 열어야 한다. 동시에 공석으로 남아있는 대북정책특사를 조속히 임명하여 대북대화를 실질적으로 전개하기 바란다.
셋째, 이번 한미정상회담에서 다뤄질 한미관계의 현재와 미래는 양국의 관계 발전뿐만 아니라 동북아 지역의 공존과 평화 구축에 기여하기를 바란다. 한반도의 평화는 지역의 평화와 함께 가야 하는 구조적 성격이 있다. 미중 경쟁과 신냉전 출현에 대한 우려가 깊은 이때에, 사드 배치 공식화나 새로운 무기 체계의 한국 배치와 같은 지역의 군사적 긴장을 촉발하는 결정이 이뤄지지 않기를 바란다.
우리 여성들은 감염병 확산과 기후변화의 위기 속에서 협력과 공존의 중요성을 절감하고 있다. 한미정상이 추구해야 할 우선적 가치는 한반도 주민의 생명과 안전이다. 이를 위해 한국전쟁 후 지금까지 70년 이상 지속된 군사적 대결과 갈등이 아니라 아직도 끝나지 않은 한국전쟁을 완전히 종식하고 평화체제로의 전환에 대한 공감대가 형성되어야 한다.
그런 의미에서 이번 한미정상회담에서 신뢰에 기초한 북미관계의 출발시킬 수 있는 방안을 마련하여, 이를 통해 한국전쟁의 완전한 종식, 북미관계의 정상화, 대북 제제의 해소와 한반도의 비핵화, 나아가 한반도의 모든 주민들이 염원하는 지속 가능한 한반도 평화체제로 진전될 수 있는 기반을 마련하기 바란다.
2021년 5월 20일
한미정상회담 입장 발표 연명 여성단체들(가나다순)
6.15남측위여성본부, 감리교여성지도력개발원, 경기광주여성회, 경기여성단체연합, 경기자주여성연대, 경남여성연대, 경남연합, 고양여성민우회, 광주여성회, 기독여민회, 기지촌여성인권연대, 남양주여성회, 남해여성회, 당진어울림여성회, 대구경북여성단체연합, 대구여성회, 대전여성단체연합, 부산여성단체연합, 부산여성회, 부천여성의전화, 분당여성회, 사천여성회, 서귀포여성회, 서울여성노동자회, 서울여성연대(준), 성남여성회, 수원여성노동자회, 수원여성의전화, 수원여성회, 수원일하는여성회, 안산여성노동자회, 안성여성회, 안양나눔여성회, 안양여성의전화, 양산여성회, 여성평화외교포럼, 여성평화운동네트워크, 용인여성회, 울산여성회, 이천여성회, 인천여성노동자회, 일본군성노예제문제해결을위한정의기억연대, 일본군위안부할머니와함께하는마창진시민모임, 전국여성농민회, 전국여성농민회총연합, 전국여성연대, 전국학교비정규직노동조합경남지부, 제주여민회, 젠더교육플랫폼효재, 젠더정치연구소여세연, 진주여성회, 진해여성회, 창원여성회, 천안여성회, 파주여성민우회, 평택여성회, 평화를만드는여성회, 평화바람, 포항여성회, 하남여성회, 한국YWCA연합회, 한국교회여성연합회, 한국기독교교회협의회여성위원회, 한국여성노동자회, 한국여성단체연합, 한국여성연구소, 한국여성장애인연합, 한국여성정치연구소, 한국여신학자협의회, 한국한부모연합, 한민족통일여성협의회, 함안여성회, 행동하는학부모네트워크, 화성여성회
Endorsed by: (국외 지지하는 여성운동단체)
Global Partnership Program - The United Church of Canada
Hawai'i Peace and Justice
International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom
International Women's Network Against Militarism
Veterans For Peace Chapter 113-Hawai'i
Women Cross DMZ
Women for Genuine Security
Press conference statement of women's organizations
on the Republic of Korea-U.S. Summit on the occasion of
May 24 International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament:
"The presidents of the Republic of Korea and the U.S. should dismantle the hostile relationship caused by division on the Korean Peninsula and lay the foundation for a lasting peace regime."
The ROK(Republic of Korea, South Korea) and the United States will have a summit in Washington D.C. on May 21, 2021. As the United States has completed its review on the DPRK(Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea) policy, the summit will be a crucial turning point in the Korea Peace process whether to make meaningful progress or to roll back to the past of tension and anxiety under the situation that President Moon’s term remains one year.
We, women’s organizations in South Korea and around the world, would like to express our demands for the summit as follows.
First, the presidents of the ROK and the U.S. should come up with specific measures to implement agreements in 2018 such as the Panmunjom Declaration between the two Koreas in April, and the U.S.-DPRK joint statement in Singapore in June. Since there is little trust between South and North Korea, and between the DPRK and the U.S., it needs that trust building starts with mutual understanding. The presidents of the ROK and the U.S. should take the first step of withdrawing their hostile policy on the DPRK, which the DPRK has demanded. Suspending the ROK-U.S. combined military exercises in August can play a role of a meaningful point for resuming talks for inter-Korean relations and normalizing the DPRK-U.S. relations.
Second, the U.S. recently explained that their DPRK policy would pursue ‘a calibrated and practical approach’ that is open to and will explore diplomacy with the DPRK. The ROK-U.S. summit should serve as a venue for developing initiatives for peace that the U.S. will propose to the DPRK. The DPRK stated their principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill. Considering the DPRK’s position that a vicious and virtuous cycle of dialogue is possible, the U.S. should open the door to unconditional dialogue rather than presenting conditions for dialogue with the DPRK. At the same time, President Biden should appoint a special envoy for the DPRK policy which remains vacant as soon as possible and develop the practical dialogue.
Third, we hope that the two leaders discuss not only the development of the two countries' relationship but also how to contribute to co-existence and peace-building in Northeast Asia at the summit for the present and the future of the ROK-US relations. Peace on the Korean Peninsula has a structural nature that must go with peace in the region. At a time when there is a lot of concern about the U.S.-China competition and possible rising of the new Cold War era, we hope that there will not be a decision to set off military tension in the region, such as formularization of the THAAD deployment or deployment of new weapons systems in South Korea.
We have realized the importance of cooperation and coexistence amid the COVID-19 situation and the climate crisis. The priority values that the summit of the ROK and the U.S. should pursue are the lives and safety of people in the Korean Peninsula. To this end, a consensus should be formed on a formal end of the Korean War and the transition to a peace regime instead of the military confrontation and conflicts that have lasted more than seventy years since the Korean War.
In this sense, we hope that the ROK-U.S. summit will develop a way to start the U.S.-DPRK relations based on trust and pave the way for a formal end to the Korean War, normalization of the DPRK-U.S. relations, relief of sanctions against the DPRK, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and establishment of a lasting peace regime for people on the peninsula.
May. 20, 2021
Signed:
A network of parents who act, Ansan Women Workers Committee, Anseong Women's Association, Anyang Sharing Women's Association, Anyang Women’s Hot-Line, Bucheon Women's Hot-Line, Bundang Women's Association, Busan Women's Association, Busan Women’s Association United, Center for Women & Politics, Changwon Women's Association, Cheonan Women's Association, Corporation Korean Unification Women's Council, Daegu Women’s Association, Daegu-Kyungbook Women’s Association United, Dangjin Eoulim Women's, Four Thousand Women's Association, Gender Equality Training Platform, Goyang Women’s Link, Gwangju Women's Association, Gyeonggi Gwangju Women's Association, Gyeonggi Women's Association United, Gyeonggi-do Women's Solidarity, Gyeongnam United, Gyeongnam Women's Solidarity, Haman Women's Association, Hanam Women's Association, Hwaseong Women's Association, Icheon Women's Association, INCHEON WOMEN WORKERS’ ASSOCIATION, JEJU WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, Jinhae Women's Association, Jinju Women's Association, KIDOKYOMINHOE, Korea Church Women United, Korea Differently Abled Women United, Korea Women's Movement for Peace, Korea Women’s Associations United, Korea Women’s Political Solidarity, Korean Association of Women Theologians, Korean Hanbumo Association, Korean Methodist Women's Leadership Institute, Korean Women Workers’ Association, KWSI, Masan Changwon Jinhae Civil Assembly for the Japanese Military Sexual Slaves, Namhae Women's Association, Namyangju Women's Association, National Federation of Women's Peasants., National Women's Farmers' Association, National YWCA of Korea, Paju Women Link, PEACEWIND, Phwomen's Association, Pyeongtaek Women's Association, Seogwipo Women's Association, Seongnam Women's Association, Seoul Women Workers’ Association, Seoul Women's Solidarity (Jun), Solidarity for USAFIK Women's Human Rights, South Gyeongsang Province Branch of the National Unregular School Workers' Union, Suwon Women Workers’ Association, SUWON WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, SUWON WOMEN’S HOT-LINE, Suwon Working Women's Association, The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, The Women's Committee of the National Council of Churches in Korea, Ulsan Women's Association, ULSAN-WOMEN, Women Making Peace, Women’s Division of South Committee for the Realization of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration, Women’s Forum for Peace & Diplomacy, Yangsan Women's Association, Yongin Women's Association
Endorsed:
Global Partnership Program - The United Church of Canada
Hawai'i Peace and Justice
International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom
International Women's Network Against Militarism
Veterans For Peace Chapter 113-Hawai'i
Women Cross DMZ
Women for Genuine Security