On July 25, the Korean Council joined the Citizens’ March for Sovereignty and Peace, together with the Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon Action Groups for Sovereignty and Peace and citizens, to call for an end to the transformation of the Korean Peninsula into a military base for war against China and for the immediate return of wartime operational control.
Michelle Steel, who is expected to take office as U.S. Ambassador to Korea this week, has repeatedly called for the continued strengthening of the Korea-U.S.-Japan military alliance even before assuming her post. She is a figure who blocks peace on the Korean Peninsula and seeks to fully carry out U.S. demands. The United States sees Korea as a war base for its strategy of encircling and pressuring China. As the so-called “Asian NATO,” which seeks to bind Korea, Japan, and the Philippines into a single military network, begins to take shape in earnest, the risk of Korea being drawn into conflicts involving neighboring countries is higher than ever.
Participants firmly rejected the strengthening of war alliances and the transformation of the Korean Peninsula into a war base, and called for the immediate return of wartime operational control to the Korean military. After marching from Gwanghwamun to the front of the U.S. Embassy, participants held a performance tearing banners that read “War-Addicted United States” and “Wartime Operational Control Cannot Be Returned Without Permission.” Korean Council activists also took part in the performance.
Peace on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia begins with stopping the militarization of the Korean Peninsula as a war base and regaining our wartime operational control. The Korean Council will continue to actively take part in solidarity actions to oppose war and defend peace with our own hands.
On July 25, the Korean Council joined the Citizens’ March for Sovereignty and Peace, together with the Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon Action Groups for Sovereignty and Peace and citizens, to call for an end to the transformation of the Korean Peninsula into a military base for war against China and for the immediate return of wartime operational control.
Michelle Steel, who is expected to take office as U.S. Ambassador to Korea this week, has repeatedly called for the continued strengthening of the Korea-U.S.-Japan military alliance even before assuming her post. She is a figure who blocks peace on the Korean Peninsula and seeks to fully carry out U.S. demands. The United States sees Korea as a war base for its strategy of encircling and pressuring China. As the so-called “Asian NATO,” which seeks to bind Korea, Japan, and the Philippines into a single military network, begins to take shape in earnest, the risk of Korea being drawn into conflicts involving neighboring countries is higher than ever.
Participants firmly rejected the strengthening of war alliances and the transformation of the Korean Peninsula into a war base, and called for the immediate return of wartime operational control to the Korean military. After marching from Gwanghwamun to the front of the U.S. Embassy, participants held a performance tearing banners that read “War-Addicted United States” and “Wartime Operational Control Cannot Be Returned Without Permission.” Korean Council activists also took part in the performance.
Peace on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia begins with stopping the militarization of the Korean Peninsula as a war base and regaining our wartime operational control. The Korean Council will continue to actively take part in solidarity actions to oppose war and defend peace with our own hands.