A news conference on July 27 in front of the U.S. Capitol featured a broad array of activists and organizations: Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ; Joy Gebhard, Divided Family Member; Rick Downes, Coalition of Families of Korean & Cold War POW/MIAs; Lt. General (Retired) Daniel P. Leaf, U.S. Air Force; Joyce Ajlouny, American Friends Service Committee; Hana Marie Kim, 30 Under 30 activist and high school student; and Barbara Lee, U.S. Congress member from California.
Following the press event, an emotional Han ceremony at the Foundry United Methodist Church gave the many participants of Korean ancestry an opportunity to express and manage the complex emotions of sorrow, resentment, grief, sadness and hope that afflict many members of families separated during the Korean War and the following seven decades of a divided Korea.
Later, a rally in front of the White House featured Echo Hyunsook Cho, Women Cross DMZ; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; internet personality Nick Cho, “Your Korean Dad”; and other speakers. It was followed by a spirited mile-long march past the Korean War Veterans Monument to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where an interfaith vigil was held.
Why does Kim have to step down for the war to be formally ended that has been over de facto since 1953?
Read the article. They are calling for a united Korea. How does that work? Like you said, hostilities have been over for decades. “Ending the war” means American forces leave the country. Who benefits from that besides Kim (and China)? How does that help Korean families separated by the DMZ?
Just gonna drop this, for the sake of all the new people coming to this sub.
For anyone that wants an anti-imperialist commentary on the background and aftermath of the Korean War, read the book Patriots Traitors and Empires.
Just one of the nuggets in the book that you’ll learn is that Kim Il-Sung was actually willing to entertain the idea of a unified Korea but with two political systems as long as the American military gtfo. Of course America obstructed that peace deal and many others.
The Korean people on both sides of the peninsula are more than capable of figuring out what reunification looks like without further Yankee meddling or Western concern trolling.
This should be a copypasta for every civil war/internal conflict the USA shoved itself into.
Many people in both Koreas would like to see reunification one day. That doesn’t mean there’s any plan to do so yet.
That would depend on the specific details of the treaty, wouldn’t it?
Maybe Amerikkkan forces should accept that they lost the Korean War and stop occupying the South.
So let Kim take the South then? That’s the plan? Unite Korea under a despotic cult leader who is starving his own people?
Hell yeah, I too get my information about my country’s rivals from propaganda outlets and seth rogen movies
Korean unification has support in both North and South.
Cap
The U$ should stop occupying and oppressing Korea
No, mate, it’s completely true: Kim Jong‐un is starving millions and millions of innocent people simply because he has nothing better to do with his time. Trust me, all of my entrepreneurial Korean friends can back me up on this.
shut up dronie
Explain why the US occupying South Korea is better than reunification under the DPRK.
i literally don’t understand why people are arguing with you. fuck kim and north korean government. he needs to step down
We’re arguing with him because he’s wrong, and a white supremacist.
Why do you think you know more about how the DPRK should work than they do?
well you see he watched this seth rogan movie once and browsed /r/politics obssessively for the last decade
idiot i know people who escaped north korea
the fuck do you know???
lmfao because they’re a puppet state for china that threatens nuclear bullshit and violence all the time?
no democracy, the people are starving and there’s government issued meth
what the fuck are you even talking about you numbskull?
why do YOU think you know more about how the DPRK(ironic name) should work than I do? you don’t but you’re supporting a fat fascist fuck so off the bat i know you got shit for brains
If you can say it’s true without providing proof, I can say it’s not the same.
They are under siege and constant threat of aggression. The U$ is the aggressor.
Fuck off, cracker
fuck you idiot shill for the fascists harder lmfao you’re arguing with yourself because everyone else knows this situation
i literally know people who escaped that awful country, do you?
Are these not the ten principles upon which the nation and its one party operate?
Doesn’t sound like a democracy to me.