INT'L DAY OF ACTION
End U.S. division of Korea
From Seoul to Tokyo to New York and Washington, activities
in many cities around the world on June 22 spotlighted U.S. war
crimes during the Korean War and called for an end to the
Pentagon's more than half-a-century-long military occupation of
south Korea. Thousands rallied in the south Korean capital and
then merged with millions of soccer fans in the streets.
In New York, Yoomi Jeong and Sharon Ayling, recently
returned from a fact-finding delegation that visited massacre
sites in the south and interviewed survivors, told a forum
organized by the Korean Truth Commission and the International
Action Center that the south Korean media is finally
acknowledging the issue of U.S. war crimes. The audience saw a
powerful BBC video that contained interviews with survivors of
the Nogun-ri massacre and with U.S. soldiers who had been
ordered to kill civilian refugees during the war.
Brian Becker, co-director of the IAC, warned that the Bush
administration's verbal attacks on north Korea are leading to
war. He showed how Washington's strategy is to deny the
energy-starved socialist state the means of building a
light-water nuclear reactor agreed to by the Carter
administration. This could force the Koreans to resume building
an earlier model reactor that produces some plutonium as a
byproduct. The Bush administration would then charge north
Korea with planning to build "weapons of mass destruction."
It's a "gotcha" situation that could become the pretext for a
U.S. attack.
--Deirdre Griswold
Reprinted from the July 4, 2002, issue of
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