Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by JAGGI Maya
This epic political novel traces the country from Japanese occupation through partition, as experienced by a family of railway workers
A rusting, bullet-riddled locomotive in the demilitarised zone that slices through the Korean peninsula gives this marvellous epic novel its enigmatic title. (…)
, by KWON Boduerae
Today marks 100 years since the March 1st Movement began in Korea, a movement that helped to coalesce the burgeoning Korean resistance to Japanese colonial rule. In this article, Boduerae Kwon places the movement in the context of national liberation struggles of the years after the First World (…)
, by SPENCE Richard
Authorities in the country have discovered mass burial sites containing thousands of bodies, including scores of children.
Trawls of records including declassified files in Washington have uncovered evidence of the massacres of at least 100,000 people suspected of having sympathy with the (…)
, by Tadashi Kinoshita
It has been 72 years since the Korean people defeated the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism. But what resulted was the divide between North and South Korea instead of a unified state.
Over the past 72 years, the divided North and South Korea were under permanent threat by the United (…)
, by MARCETIC Branko
The US dropped napalm on civilians and leveled entire cities during the Korean War. That’s why North Korea is so hostile to America.
Ask many Americans about the Korean War, and they’re apt to tell you it was where the men and women of the 4077th served [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098], (…)
, by CUMINGS Bruce
More than four decades ago I went to lunch with a diplomatic historian who, like me, was going through Korea-related documents at the National Archives in Washington. He happened to remark that he sometimes wondered whether the Korean Demilitarised Zone might be ground zero for the end of the (…)
, by AFP, BBC, Kyodo News
‘Comfort women’ statue installed near Japanese consulate in Busan
SEOUL – A civic group on Friday installed a statue symbolizing women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, a move that could strain Japan-South Korea relations.
The (…)
, by HARDEN Blaine
Correction: An earlier version of this commentary reported incorrectly that Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay spoke to the New Yorker in 1995 about the scale of U.S. bombing during the Korean War. LeMay died in 1990. The quote came from a 1984 interview of LeMay by the Office of Air Force History; it (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
The supposed South Korean success story has been achieved thanks to policies that run contrary to the economic model advanced by the World Bank. Far from being a virtuous accumulation of wealth through the advantages of free-market forces, the economic development of South Korea came about by “a (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The account that follows attempts to portray the Korean War as experienced by a young boy and by his father, R. Gerald Riddell, a Canadian diplomat. It does not attempt to draw a balance sheet of Canadian foreign policy in that period. It is followed by a tribute to R.G. Riddell written in 1951. (…)
, by Kyodo News
S. Korea warns Japan on scope of collective self-defense
SEOUL (Kyodo) — South Korea has delivered to Japan its stance on Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe’s controversial move to revise his country’s Constitution to permit collective self-defense, laying out three principles, a Seoul daily (…)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
GWANGJU, South Korea (Kyodo) — A South Korean court on Friday ruled in favor of four Korean women who were forcibly conscripted as laborers during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, ordering Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay them 150 million won (about $141,510) each in (…)
, by Kyodo News
NEW YORK — South Korea’s gender equality and family minister has raised the issue of women used as sex slaves by the wartime Japanese military at the human rights panel of the U.N. General Assembly.
Although Cho Yoon-sun did not specifically name Japan, she called Friday on “the responsible (…)
, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun
SEOUL (Kyodo) — South Korea called on Japan again Thursday to hold talks on compensating Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, reiterating demands to discuss the issue of the “comfort women.”
“We urge Japan to take responsible and (…)
, by Kyodo News
SEOUL (Kyodo) — Seventy-nine South Korean victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki filed a suit with the Seoul District Court on Monday, seeking compensation worth 10 million won (about $8,990) for each person from the South Korean government.
The group of survivors said in a (…)
, by Kyodo News
SEOUL — The Busan High Court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. on Tuesday to pay 80 million won (about \7 million) each in compensation to the families of five deceased Koreans who were forced to work for the company during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
It was the (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Tariq Ali recalls extracts from his Diary about North Korea. The full article is below.
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Forty-two years ago, I was mysteriously invited to visit North Korea. Pakistan’s military dictatorship had been toppled after a three-month struggle and in March 1970 the country was in (…)
, by KATSIAFICAS George
On the weekend of May 15-18, 2009, the city of Kwangju, South Korea, held the Kwangju International Peace Forum to celebrate the struggle for democracy in South Korea and to support similar struggles elsewhere in Asia. Christopher Kerr of South Korea-based solidarity group Venceremos caught up (…)
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