by ZoominKorea | Apr 20, 2018 | Analysis, Interviews, N-S Relations, NK-SK Relations, Peace and Militarism
The summit meeting between North and South Korea is just one week away. A senior official of South Korea’s Blue House indicated that replacing the armistice regime with a peace treaty is a major agenda item for the meeting between the leaders Kim Jong-un (North Korea)...
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 | Feb 16, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, N-S Relations, NK-SK Relations, Peace and Militarism
By Hyun Lee Perhaps the most moving moment in the opening days of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics was when Kim Yong-nam, the president of the Presidium of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly, quietly wiped his tears as North and South Korean singers sang in unison...
by ZoominKorea | Jan 11, 2018 | N-S Relations, News, News Headlines, NK-SK Relations, Peace and Militarism, Trump, US-ROK Alliance
On January 9, high-level officials from North and South Korea met to discuss the North’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea in February. The inter-Korean meeting was held in the village of Panmunjom at the border of the divided...
by ZoominKorea | Jun 27, 2017 | News, NK-SK Relations, US-ROK Alliance
THAAD Deployment On June 24, 3,000 protesters stood hand in hand to create a human chain around the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. The peaceful action was led by the National Task Force to Oppose THAAD Deployment, whose demand to the U.S. government remains unchanged since...
by ZoomKorea | Aug 15, 2016 | News Headlines, NK-SK Relations
On August 14, in commemoration of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial occupation in 1945, 1,000 people from all sectors of the movement for peace and reunification gathered in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Plaza for an outdoor “roundtable conference.” People from all...
