[Interview] S Korea’s Labor Fight against Moon’s “Flexible Work Hour” Policy

by ZoominKorea | Dec 15, 2018 | Analysis, Interviews, Labor and People's Struggles

160,000 South Korean workers walked off the job last month to protest President Moon Jae-in’s labor policy. The following is an interview with Wolsan Liem of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union (KPTU) about the strike, the current...

[Interview] Towards Ending the 65 Years of Armistice: Understanding the process for peace in Korea

by ZoominKorea | Jul 24, 2018 | Analysis, Interviews, Peace and Militarism, Trump

July 27, 2018 marks the 65th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement which brought about a ceasefire to the Korean War. The agreement was signed by North Korean General Nam Il representing both the Korean People’s Army (KPA) as well as the Chinese People’s Volunteer...

Media Roundup: Reactions to the DPRK-U.S. Summit

by ZoominKorea | Jun 20, 2018 | Analysis, Audio/Video, Interviews, Peace and Militarism, Trump, US-DPRK, US-ROK Alliance

Washington’s neoliberal pundits and politicians reacted with horror at the outcome of the historic U.S.-North Korea summit on June 12. They balked at Trump’s mention of halting the annual military exercises in Korea and the possibility of withdrawing U.S. troops from...

Korean Americans Discuss Inter-Korean Vow for Peace

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)...

[Audio] Towards Normalization: Experts and scholars make sense of Trump agreeing to talks with DPRK

by ZoominKorea | Mar 12, 2018 | Analysis, Audio/Video, DPRK, Interviews, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism, Trump

Korea experts and scholars joined Sputnik Radio‘s Loud & Clear for a two-part discussion about last week’s stunning news of Trump accepting North Korea’s invitation to hold a summit meeting with Chairman Kim Jong-un in May of this year. In part...

[Audio] Trump-Moon Summit Rehashes Same Dead-end Policy on North Korea

by ZoominKorea | Nov 8, 2017 | Analysis, Audio/Video, Interviews, Peace and Militarism

ZoominKorea’s Hyun Lee discussed Trump’s recent visit to South Korea and the ongoing US-North Korea crisis on “By Any Means Necessary,” hosted by Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon on Sputnik Radio. “North Korea’s goal is to set a negotiating table...