Declaration meeting against US On Feb. 23, the Busan Solidarity for People's Sovereignty held a declaration meeting against the US outside the US military base in Busan to demand the total suspension of south Korea-US joint military rehearsals, lift of sanctions against north Korea, dissolution of the south Korea-US Working Group and withdrawal of US forces from south Korea.    The US is putting a brake on inter-Korean relations when the Korean nation is advancing towards peace and co-prosperity, Gong Eun-hee con-representative of the Busan Solidarity for People's Sovereignty said. Gong urged the US to lift sanctions against north Korea and dissolve the south Korea-US Working Group interfering in the south-north ties. Vehemently denouncing the south Korea-US joint military exercises inviting the dark cloud of war to the Korean Peninsula, Gong claimed the immediate withdrawal of the US troops from south Korea. They attached seizure notes upon the wall of the US mil...

Liquidate the LKP! South Koreans from all walks of life hit the Liberty Korea Party for slandering the Gwangju Uprising as a “riot”. On Feb. 23, a nationwide rally urging withdrawal of the lawmakers from the LKP who distorted the Gwangju Uprising and enactment of “act of punishment of distortion of May 18” was held in Seoul with the participation of one thousand members from 550 civic bodies. They denounced the lawmakers of LKP for distorting the spirit of the May 18 Gwangju Uprising, while chanting slogans “Dissolve the LKP!” and “Immediate enactment of Act of punishment of distortion of May 18”. Absurd remarks made by Chi Man-won and lawmakers from the LKP are distortion of history denying democracy and swimming against the era, they said. The LKP is hindering the investigation into the truth of May 18 uprising and giving shelter to three people who made foolish talk about the May 18 uprising, they noted. Meantime, mayors and provincial governors from 15 cities and ...

Thoughtless act of hooligans On Feb. 8, members of National Assembly including members of Kim Jin-tae, Lee Jong-Myong and Kin Sun-rye from the opposition Liberty Korea Party and conservative disputant Chi Man-won sponsored a public hearing at the National Assembly. They described the Gwangju popular uprising as a disturbance caused by a north Korean special unit and defamed the bereaved families of the uprising as a monster group organized by the pro-north Korean leftist force.      They claimed that the Gwangju popular uprising should be reappraised, while speaking highly of Chun Doo-hwan as a “hero”. They threw the civic organizations that were protesting it against out of the National Assembly.   As is well known, the Gwangju popular uprising was the south Korean people’s eruption of pent-up wrath and anger on colonial domination of the foreign forces and military fascist rule. It was a nationwide resistance of the Gwangju citizens who wished...

Heated strife for party hegemony The opposition Liberty Korea Party is at loggerhead over the next party presidency with the approach of the LKP convention to be held on Feb. 27. Some days ago, candidates for next party presidency including Hwang Gyo-ahn, O Se-hun and Kim Jin-tae spoke ill of each other by slandering “a shirker of military service”, “a good-for-nothing man”, “the author of checking expansion of conservatism” and “a turncoat that abandoned the party when it was in an awkward situation”. Hwang, who served as the prime minister during the days of  the  Park Geun-hye regime, makes desperate efforts to scratch Park’s back and extend his sympathy to Park. It is a puerile intrigue to win support from the pro-Park group. Kim Jin-tae is giving his best shot to achieve his political aim by exploiting Park. He has claimed political relationship with Park. He is trying very hard to win pro-Park’s coteries over to his side.      Meantime, form...

Pyongyang, February 21 (KCNA) -- The North, South and Overseas Headquarters of the Pan-National Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) adopted a joint resolution at the 19th meeting of co-chairmen of Pomminryon held on Wednesday. The resolution stated as follows: 1. Pomminryon will hold aloft the banner "Let us usher in a heyday of peace, prosperity and reunification of the Korean peninsula by thoroughly implementing the historic north-south declarations!" this year. Pomminryon will turn out as one in the patriotic movement for reunification to carry out the north-south declarations, programme of reunification common to the nation, with a whole heart, and ensure the wide-spread campaign for implementing the north-south declarations everywhere its organizations work. 2. Pomminryon will powerfully propel the development of inter-Korean relations which have entered the new stage. It will join all the compatriots in focusing all efforts on turning inter-Kor...

Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF) issued an "Appeal to all the people" on Feb. 13 through which it called for decisively ostracizing the "Liberal Korea Party" (LKP), a cesspit of deep-seated conservative evils. The appeal cited facts that LKP - the group of traitors - is challenging the people who turned out in the candlelight struggle to a fight, reviving like a poisonous mushroom in a dump though they got the impartial public punishment to rename the ugly "Saenuri Party" "Liberal Korea Party" and to be discouraged. The LKP reckless act enraging all the people constitutes an open challenge against the above-said people who decisively tried the conservative regime for the worst crimes in the name of the people and meted out punishment to Park Geun Hye and other chief criminals who held the monopoly of the administration, the appeal said. The appeal also said that...

Toward peace, prosperity and reunification! A committee composed of civic bodies including the South Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration, the All-People Consultative Council for National Reconciliation and the Solidarity for Progress called a press conference in Seoul on Jan. 30 at which it called for people to open up a bright future of peace, prosperity and reunification with concerted efforts of the nation. Now is the time to pool intention and wisdom of the Korean nation to say farewell to hostility and confrontation of the past, they pointed out.    It appealed to the people to implement and develop inter-Korean declaration agreed by the top leaders of the south and the north of Korea, to develop inter-Korean cooperation in an all-round way with the participation of broad segments of people and start a nationwide social discussion to achieve peace and reunification.  

On Jan. 31, members of a student body held a surprise rally outside the US embassy to demand total reduction of upkeep of the US forces in south Korea. They protested against the US demand for the upkeep of its forces and demanded the total curtailment of upkeep and withdrawal of its troops from south Korea at the news conference. The Uncle Sam demanded the upkeep of its force as the US troops have protected south Korea, however, its forces are the front line unit to contain north Korea as well as China and Russia, they revealed. The US army is stationing in south Korea to maintain hegemony in the northeast Asia not for protection of south Korea and it is the cause of inviting war. Accordingly, it is not the upkeep for the protection but subsidiary for the US troops in south Korea and war, they noted. The US forces in south Korea have bedeviled the situation of the northeast Asia by staging war games and introducing strategic assets and did not pay fees for purification ...