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Korea
It took almost 60 years, but the government of south Korea has finally admitted
what many in the younger generation had already found out through the
progressive movement there: Thousands of civilians were massacred by the south
Korean regime at the beginning of the 1950-53 war, for no other reason than
that they were considered sympathizers with the communist revolutionaries who
had liberated the north of Korea from Japanese rule during World War II and
were now battling U.S. imperialism....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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A meeting of the San Francisco Labor Council on July 27 unanimously
adopted a resolution to support striking workers in South Korea....
Posted Aug 5, 2009
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SsangYong Motor is not exactly a household name, even among autoworkers here.
Smaller than Hyundai, Kia and GM-Daewoo, this Korean auto firm only produces
vehicles for the domestic market. Members of the United Auto Workers, however,
need to pay close attention to a fierce battle taking place at a SsangYong
plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea....
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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Some 100,000 people poured into Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, capital city
of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on June 25. This massive
crowd in a country of only 22 million people gathered at a rally and
commemoration entitled “June 25, The Day of Struggle Against U.S.
Imperialism.” The event marked the anniversary of the day in 1950 when
the U.S. started the war which killed millions of Korean people....
Posted Jul 5, 2009
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Here’s how Koreans in the north look at the current situation between
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States, based on
conversations with a member of that country’s leading party, the Workers
Party of Korea....
Posted Jun 18, 2009
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When it became clear that the countries of the Organization of American
States—all but one—would vote on June 3 to readmit Cuba to
membership, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, representing the one,
walked out.
Cuba has applauded the efforts of member countries to finally reverse its
expulsion from the OAS, which Washington had engineered in 1962 after the
failure of its invasion of Cuba. But Havana has said “no thanks” to
reentering the OAS, which for half a century has done Washington’s
bidding....
Posted Jun 10, 2009
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Anyone in the United States who pays attention to the corporate news media must
think that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea just violated the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Right? Except that no such treaty exists....
Posted May 27, 2009
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Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of south Korea have recently
toured the U.S. and Canada, speaking out about how bloody repression by the
U.S.-backed dictatorship of Syngman Rhee accompanied the political partitioning
of Korea in 1948....
Posted Apr 19, 2009
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On April 5, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced it had
launched a communications satellite into orbit. It was a remarkable first for
this small socialist country in the north of Korea, which has been struggling
to develop a modern economy in the face of great hostility from Washington....
Posted Apr 12, 2009
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It is impossible to find objective reporting about the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea in the U.S. corporate media. When Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton went to Japan and China recently for her first official visit to Asia,
she did what no diplomat is ever supposed to do: launched into a wildly
speculative and personal attack on DPRK leader Kim Jong Il. Instead of
chastising her for poisoning the atmosphere and precluding the
“openness” in foreign relations promised by the new administration,
the media gleefully egged her on....
Posted Feb 25, 2009
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A police attack Jan. 20 on tenants resisting eviction in Seoul, South Korea,
led to the death of six people. In response to this atrocity, thousands marched
on both Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 demanding that the police chief be fired for this
unwarranted use of force to evict people from their homes....
Posted Feb 5, 2009
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was the very first country in
the world to successfully repel an all-out U.S. invasion and war....
Posted Jan 11, 2009
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When 300 women workers who manufactured SIRIUS satellite radios in Seoul, South
Korea, were all fired for forming a union, they vowed to fight for their
jobs....
Posted Nov 2, 2008
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea took a dramatic step on June 27
to prove conclusively to the world that it was disabling its technology for
making nuclear weapons....
Posted Jul 3, 2008
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As told by most history textbooks in the U.S., the Korean War started with a
June 25, 1950, invasion from the communist north and the freedom-loving U.S.
came to the aid of the besieged democratic Republic of Korea in the south. The
reality was very different....
Posted Jun 29, 2008
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Not too much has appeared in the U.S. media lately about the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea. In this case, no news is good news....
Posted Jun 22, 2007
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