Abrogate Unequal SOFA!
Abrogate Unequal SOFA! Fifty-one years ago, the south Korean authorities concluded the humiliating and unequal "Status of Forces Agreement" (SOFA) with the US on July 9, 1966. The SOFA is a modern slavery agreement legalizing the US forces' presence in south Korea and granting them unlimited privileges. The agreement ignores the sovereignty of the south Korean people and protects the interests of the aggressor forces from the first article to the last one as it stipulates the issues of "criminal jurisdiction," "use of land and facilities," "tax business" and "immigration control," etc. Under the patronage of SOFA the US troops are committing hideous crimes such as violence, plunder, murder and rape in south Korea almost every day. Murder of Yun Gum-i, driving armored car over middle schoolgirls to death and other murders by the US troops were the cruelest and most brutal ones baffling human imagination. However, the ...