by ZoominKorea | Apr 9, 2018 | Audio/Video, News, Peace and Militarism, Photos, Special Features, US-ROK Alliance
On April 7, organizations seeking justice for the April 3 Jeju Uprising and Massacre in 1948 held a press conference in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. The Association for the Bereaved Families of the April 3 Victims, the Memorial Committee for the 70th...
by ZoominKorea | Apr 4, 2018 | Analysis, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism
This article was originally published in Flow. By Patty Ahn This year’s Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea featured two strikingly different soundtracks. On one hand, the sounds of K-Pop flooded the mediascape as A-list idols performed nightly at the...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 27, 2018 | Korean Diaspora, News, News Headlines, NK-SK Relations, Peace and Militarism, US-NK Relations, US-ROK Alliance, US-ROK Alliance
Kim Jong-hoon, a member of South Korea’s National Assembly and co-chair of the progressive Minjung Party, led a delegation to Washington on March 20-21 to appeal to U.S. lawmakers about supporting efforts for peace on the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. Congress and Senate...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 19, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, Peace and Militarism, Trump
This article was originally published in The Hill. By Kim Jong-hoon When President Trump visited South Korea in November 2017 and addressed the National Assembly, I stood and held up a sign that read, “No war; We Want Peace.” Although he was an honored guest of the...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 14, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, Peace and Militarism
This article was originally published March 12, 2018 in The Baffler. By Tim Shorrock AS THE MINUTES TICKED DOWN to last Friday’s extraordinary announcement from South Korea that President Trump would break with seven decades of U.S. policy and meet with North Korean...