Now south Korean people’s struggle against the increase of upkeep expenses for the US army is developing in south Korea. On Oct. 22, the People’s Party had a press conference in Seoul at which it declared that would launch struggle against the increase of upkeep expenses for the US army. The upkeep expenses for the US army should be reduced instead of the increase. We’ll form the campaign headquarters against the increase of upkeep expenses, it said. In particular, simultaneous action would be held at over 600 places and all members of the party will immediately go into emergency action in November, it noted. On Oct. 23, two civic organizations called a press conference near Chengwadae to denounce gangster-like demand of the US.                                     The organizations stated that they have no money for the US that is going to wrest exorbitant amount of money from the peop...

The south Korean authorities made a reckless violence against students who occupied the US embassy in Seoul to stage a protest against the US demanding a hike in the defense cost share. On Oct. 18, seventeen south Korean students affiliated to the Progressive Federation of Students climbed over a wall of the US embassy to find their way into the embassy. In the embassy they staged the protest carrying placards written “Harris, who is forcing defense cost for the US force by five times, leave this land ”, while shouting slogans “no hike in the defense cost share”, “denounce the US” and “withdrawal of the US army”. The south Korean authorities made four students arrests.  The surprise protest is reminiscent of occupation of the US culture house in Busan in the 1980s. It is a patriotic deed of dissatisfaction with the US that regards south Korea as a low-ranking ally and to put an end to the lopsided relations between south Korea and the US.     It is a righteo...

Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- According to website Kuguk Jonson, the Central Committee of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF) made public an appeal on Sunday arousing the south Korean people from all walks of life to the struggle against conservative and evil forces. The appeal said that owing to the desperate efforts of the conservative and evil forces on the verge of ruin, there created the situation in which the future of justice and truth may be affected by dark clouds and the desire of the people for opening a new era be dampened. It noted: The evil forces are chanting the slogan "Let us bring down the left-wing forces" and threatening the candlelight demonstrators. Their hysteric reminds the people of power-thirsty hyenas who rode roughshod over under the fascist dictatorship. The situation proves that though Park Geun Hye was thrown into prison by the candlelight demonstration, the departed souls of the old era still linger, reviving th...

In Denunciation of US On Oct. 8, civic organizations including the Busan Coalition  of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea’s Reunification  held a press conference outside the US consulate in Busan to denounce the US wh ich  has violated the DPRK-US joint statement and aggravated the situation of the Korean  P eninsula. The US has applied sanctions against north Korea after inking the DPRK-US joint statement to push the DPRK-US relations to catastrophe. And it is worsening the situation of the Korean Peninsula while introducing numerous nuclear weapons into south Korea, they noted. The US forces in south Korea, which has wasted blood tax of the south Korean people under the pretext of “defense cost” and blocked the trend towards peace, prosperity and reunification, should be withdrawn from south Korea, they stressed.   

On Oct. 10, a civic organization  sponsor ed a rally in Daejeon to strongly demand reform of the prosecution and liquidation of conservatism. Participants said that the prosecution is typical target of liquidating conservatism as it has made desperate efforts to suppress dissidents. They called for the people to turn out in the struggle for reform of the prosecution. Meanwhile, a civic organization in Gwangju held the 2nd candlelight rally, demanding reform of the prosecution and dissolution of the LKP. The participants shouted slogan demanding the reform of the prosecution and liquidation of conservatism, marching along the street.

War drill against north Korea  The US is conducting marine combined drill against north Korea with south Korean army behind the screen of “peace” and “dialogue”. On Oct. 3, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps said at a meeting held in Washington that the U.S. 3rd marine expedition in Japan and south Korean marine have conducted joint exercise and they will keep “KMEP” drill in autumn of this year.     “KMEP” drill is the one that has been conducted annually with the unit of 3rd U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa whose mission is to infiltrate into north Korea and south Korean marine stationed in Pohang port and five islands in the west sea. On last March, the U.S. military authorities including the deputy commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps declared the combined special war drill between south Korea and the U.S. marine corps to the public. The joint drill is a dangerous military provocation as it is the drill for attack aiming at maratime aggression against north...

2019 world Peace Forum on the Korean Peninsula took place at Columbia University in New York on September 29. Participated there were over 100 people including Cardinal of the Catholic Church in New York, director of international cooperation of the World Ecclesiastical Council, experts in Korean affairs, activists for peace against war, lawmakers of ruling Democratic Party of south Korea and pro-reunification activists.      There were discussions titled “significance of the June 12 Singapore joint statement”, “peace regime in the Korean Peninsula and proposal for realizing denuclearization”, “improvement of the DPRK-US relations and mutuality for ensuring stability in the northeast Asia”, “unreasonableness of the US and UN sanctions against the DPRK” and “peaceful co-existence in the multipolar world”. Thanks to the completion of the DPRK nuclear force on Nov. 29 2017, the structure of world politics has been newly established. It is a historical event ...

On Oct.3, a meeting of south Korea-US conservatism was held with attendance of members of the Liberty Korea Party, experts and north Korean defectors including the White House ex-national security deputy  adviser . South Korea-US alliance is in danger state and south Korea should have access to nukes, they stressed. The US conservative politicians said that the south Korean conservatives should have the victory in the general election. They are inciting the south Korean conservatives’ offensive against the government and laying bare their attempt to interfere in parliamentary election to be held in next year. It is another farce the south Korean conservative plotted to take power in conspiracy with the US conservatives. It is an open secret that the south Korean conservatives including the LKP have made desperate efforts to seize the power by uniting the conservative forces with the backing of the US. The US conservative politicians are inciting the south Korean con...

Elimination of lawbreakers On October 27, the prosecution issued a summons to 20 members of Liberty Korea Party to take attendance but they  declined . It sparks the public criticism. In last April, the members of the national assembly affiliated to the LKP seriously violated the law by keeping the members of the other part ies  in the rooms and occupied their offices. They received the summons from the prosecution.  But the group of LKP refused investigation of the prosecution three times, saying it as a “political oppression”. Hwang Gyo-ahn, the head of the LKP, instructed his members of the party not to go to the investigation organ, saying that it is innocence to resist peacefully against illegality. It is quite natural that those who take an illegal act should be punished. The LKP is the group of immorality in the world.

On Oct. 4, students of the south Korean Student Progressive Federation called a press conference in front of the US embassy. They condemned the US which expressed its dissatisfaction with the south Korean air force’s flight over the Dok islet and intervention of internal affairs of south Korea such as its abolition of GSOMIA..    Dok islet is an inviolable territory from the historical point of view. Though the US showed its neutral stand, but actually it stands by Japan, they criticized. The US requested five billion US$ to the south Korean authorities at a recent meeting on defense cost sharing, the former is putting pressure upon the  latter to donate more money though the former spends astronomical amount of fund, they said. That much amount of money is tantamount to investment for the public wellbeing, they asserted.    The US is standing on the side of Japan. We should say goodbye to the US and Japan which are making their pr...

After his junket to the US, south Korean President Moon-Jae-in decided to purchase US-made ammunition worth ten billion US$  in three  year s to come  under duress of the US President Trump.   The south Korean authorities have to buy the US-made stealth fighters “F-35A” and next-generation sea patrol plane “Poseidon”  with the investment of funds running to astronomical figures. South Korea has been reduced into an arsenal of foreign force by widely introducing the US-made ammunition into south Korea throughout the world. The south Korean authorities, which have mentioned about “dialogue” and “peace”,    are cooking up a scheme to introduce war  hardware  against north Korea. It is an intolerable treachery of inter-Korean  agreement  and anti-national crime inviting the disaster of war in the Korean Peninsula. The south Koreans,  pondering  over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by purchase of th...

The south Korean  authorities , on August 25, held the 4th memmorial ceremony for soldiers killed in Changjin Lake and the 69th  anniversary  of restoration of Seoul with attendance of veterans from the US and vassal nations on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of south Korean air force.    On Oct. 1, they made public the show flight of F-35A stealth fighters to mark the Armed Force Day.   It is an open threat and a deliberate provocation to north Korea. It is a wanton violation of inter-Korean agreement that promised to totally stop all hostile acts against the other side and an intolerable challenge to the Korean nation desirous of peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula. The double-faced acts of the south Korean  authorities  are touching off unanimous censure and wrath of the Korean nation.   Though the south Korean authorities are widely advertising  rapprochement  and peace, the current reality proves th...

On Oct. 5, a large candlelight demonstration took place outside the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Seoul High Public Prosecutors Office in demand of reform of the prosecution. Civic organizations held the 8th candlelight resistance after making speeches, giving art performance and staging protests. About three million people of different strata took part in the protests. We are candlelight holders who drove Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye to prisons, it is easy to send the prosecution to the jail, they said, chanting slogans.   They set up large-size electric bulletin boards, luminous instruments with all missions, candles, bugles and placards around the meeting venue and shouted slogans and sung led by speakers. They launched a nationwide signature campaign in demand of reformation of the prosecution.      Meantime, same events took place in Gwangju and across south Korea

On September 26, the grand peace march of the south Korean students had a rally in front of the White House to condemn the US. They made speeches and chanted slogans outside the White House and exchanged greetings with members of expedition who are claiming withdrawal of the US forces in south Korea.    Prior to this, out of the desire of all Koreans for national independence and national self-determination, they gave a performance outside the State Department. After the rally, they went to the Capitol to deliver speeches against the US disturbing the process of peace of the Korean Peninsula. The US should stop at once the act of obstructing improvement of inter-Korean relations by abusing the UN and withdraw the US forces present in south Korea, a member asserted.  They shouted slogans “The US should stop interference in domestic affairs and withdraw its troops from south Korea!” and “Retract the sanctions against north Korea and implement the DPRK-US agr...

The US is going to hold the right of command in war and peacetime over the south Korean army through the UN Forces Command after transfer of wartime operation control to the south Korean army. It well known to the world that south Korea and the US have pushed ahead to set up the future combined command at which the south Korean army takes the commandership and the US holds  deputy commandership after the transfer of wartime operation control. However, the US said that it is unacceptable for the US army to be under the commander of other nation. It is insisting on exercise of the right of command in war and peacetime over the south Korean army through the UN Forces Command after transfer of wartime operation control. It proves that the US has no intention to transfer its operation right to the south Korean army and it is going to dominate south Korea militarily for good through the UN Forces Command. There are more than 200 nations in the world, however, no army entrust its com...

South Korean people from all walks of life strongly demand reformation of the prosecution. On September 26, professors in Busan had a press conference to make public a declaration on the situation, in demand of reform of the prosecution. The prosecution has served as a faithful servant of the successive regimes as it is a group of controlling criminal process, the declaration condemned. This illegal process should be destroyed by reforming the prosecution and true democracy would be realized through it, the declaration stressed.  Meantime, 7 800 people from literature, art, religious and education circles, people of various circles and overseas Koreans held a signature campaign in demand of reformation of the prosecution in Gwangju.             One million people of all social standings held a candlelight rally in Seoul on September 28. They shouted slogans to demand reform of the prosecution.