One Year Later, South Korea’s Anti-THAAD Fight Continues

by ZoominKorea | Jul 14, 2017 | Audio/Video, Peace and Militarism, Stop THAAD

July 12 marked one year since the beginning of the Seongju residents’ struggle to stop the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system. So far, the AN/TPY-2 radar — the main component of the THAAD battery that will...

N Korea’s ICBM Test: Part of the Unended Korean War

by ZoominKorea | Jul 11, 2017 | Analysis, Audio/Video, Interviews, Peace and Militarism, Trump

At the G20 summit last week, Moon Jae-in discussed the need for talks with North Korea to establish permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula while also making pointed remarks about the North’s test of Hwasong-14, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), on July 4....

Moon and Trump Meet: Will It Be Dialogue or Confrontation on the Korean Peninsula?

by ZoominKorea | Jun 29, 2017 | Analysis, Audio/Video, Interviews, Peace and Militarism, Trump

South Korea’s new president Moon Jae-in arrived in Washington DC this week to meet with Donald Trump for their first summit. Among the issues that might be discussed over the next two days include — resolving the nuclear conflict with North Korea and the...

[Audio] Beyond Flying Missiles and Goose-stepping Soldiers: Understanding the US-N Korea Crisis

by ZoominKorea | May 12, 2017 | Analysis, Audio/Video, DPRK, Interviews, Peace and Militarism, Reunification, Special Features

Part 1: “It was the only thing left standing”: The Human Cost of War As the United States threatened a preemptive strike and escalated military provocations against North Korea in recent weeks, the western media barraged the U.S. public ad nauseum with images of...

People’s Briefing for #KoreanPeace: Bay Area Korean Americans Urge De-escalation

by ZoominKorea | Apr 28, 2017 | Audio/Video, News, Peace and Militarism, Trump, US-NK Relations

Following Trump’s Senate briefing on North Korea this week, Korean American activists and allies in the Bay Area held their own “people’s briefing” outside Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office on April 27. They called for de-escalation of military tensions between the...

[Interview] U.S. Missile Crisis in Korea

by ZoominKorea | Mar 23, 2017 | Analysis, Audio/Video, Interviews, Peace and Militarism, Stop THAAD

ZoominKorea’s Hyun Lee and Julian Cho joined Jeff Blankfort on his radio program, Takes on the World on A-Infos Radio Project. They discussed the context of North Korea’s recent missile tests and the history of military tensions between North Korea and the U.S., as...