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15Dec

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South Korea, USA

USA: “Being Detained Feels Like the Abuse I Tried to Escape”:

NOVANEWS "Being Detained Feels Like the Abuse I Tried to Escape": A Korean Survivor Speaks Out From Immigration Detention By Yihwa Kim and Translated and Edited by Hyejin Shim, Truthout (Photo: Gerolamo Auricchio / EyeEm / Getty Images) Yihwa Kim is a Korean woman who fled her home country, South Korea, because of the extreme and prolonged domestic and sexual violence she suffered at the hands of her father and his various connections. She has been detained since April 2017 for seeking asylum in the United States. In November, her right to a bond hearing was denied by a judge who was a former prosecutor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). During her hearing, this judge openly said that he sympathized with the prosecuting attorney for DHS and understood his...

13Nov

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

N.Korea: Trump ‘Begged for a Nuclear War’ During Visit to Korean Peninsula

NOVANEWS While Trump is greeted by protesters across the continent, North Korea says he has “laid bare his true nature as destroyer of world peace and stability” by Common Dreams As protests continue across the continent while U.S. President Donald Trump travels Asia, North Korea on Saturday called Trump a “destroyer of world peace and stability” who “begged for a nuclear war” during his visit to South Korea earlier this week. “Trump, during his visit, laid bare his true nature as destroyer of world peace and stability and begged for a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula,” a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement to a state news agency. Reuters reports the spokesman also said that nothing would deter Pyongyang from continuing its nuclear weapons progra...

12Nov

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South Korea, USA

Retrospect on the Moon-Trump Summit, South Korean Anti-Trump Protests

NOVANEWS By Zoom in Korea U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met in Seoul on November 7 and held a joint press conference following their summit. Trump’s statement was noticeably toned down in contrast to his past remarks on North Korea. It did not contain threats of “fire and fury” or military action against North Korea. Trump and Moon agreed to resolve the “North Korean nuclear issue” in a “peaceful manner” and establish “permanent peace” on the Korean peninsula; But they also reaffirmed their commitment to the strategy of “maximum pressure,” i.e. intensifying military pressure and sanctions against North Korea. Trump reiterated complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of North Korea as the U.S.’ goal (North Korea has...

12Nov

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America’s Camp Humphreys Military Base in South Korea: Largest Overseas US Military Facility

NOVANEWS As Trump visits, the new U.S. mega-base south of Seoul is almost complete. By Jon Letman The Diplomat Featured image: Kang Song-won stands on the rooftop of a house in Songhwa-ri village just beyond the wall surrounding USAG Humphreys. Behind the wall, Apache, Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters await their next mission. (Source: Jon Letman) At first glance, Humphreys looks like an ordinary American suburb. With K-12 schools, chapels, a library, a big box store, dental and veterinary clinics and a spacious plaza where kids can skateboard and eat ice cream, Humphreys could easily be in Dallas or Denver. It’s the security gates, razor-wire topped walls and the M1 Abrams tanks that stand out. U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys is, in fact, in Pyeongtaek, 40 miles south of Seoul,...

5Nov

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South Korea

The Post-Fukushima Legacy: Nuclear Energy in Asia, South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Industry

NOVANEWS By Lauren Richardson and Mel Gurtov Featured image: The Fukushima disaster of March 11, 2011 Introduction: Nuclear Energy in Asia by Mel Gurtov The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 has raised serious questions about nuclear power. In our work since Fukushima, we have tried to answer two questions: What is the current status of nuclear energy in Asia? Does nuclear power have a future in East Asia? By answering those questions, we hope to contribute to the global debate about nuclear energy. To be sure, questions of such magnitude can rarely be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Decisions on energy are made at the national level, on the basis of both objective factors such as cost-effectiveness and notions of the national interest, and less objective ones, s...

23Oct

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North Korea, South Korea

Korean War: 600,000 Tons of American Bombs on the North. Every City was Destroyed ‘Video’

NOVANEWS Part 22 By mlovmo This episode details the UN bombing campaign over North Korea and the results for the people on the ground. The majority of civilians killed in the Korean War were killed in North Korea by air attack. (This segment on the bombing of North Korea was censored from the US version of this documentary.). Extensive war crimes committed by the United States. .

18Oct

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North Korea, South Korea

Korea: Diplomacy that Opens the Door to Healing and Reunification

NOVANEWS An Open Letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump From Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, United Methodist Church By Bishop Hee-Soo Jung General Board of Global Ministries Featured image: Bishop Hee-Soo Jung Mr. President, I respectfully write to you with four appeals. First, I want to appeal to you for exemplary leadership in the case of North Korea. In a volatile and dangerous situation, a calm, cool, well-reasoned response is necessary. Our American media gives a limited, and somewhat biased view of what is happening on the Korean peninsula. Certainly there is evidence of rash and short-sighted decisions; but such evidence demands a more mature and measured response from global super-powers. North Korea needs to be taken seriously, and offered an opportunity to ...

13Oct

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“Calm Before the Storm”? Trump Sends Second Aircraft Carrier to Korean Peninsula with 7,500 Marines Aboard

NOVANEWS By: Tyler Durden Zero Hedge Just one week after uttering his now-infamous “this is the calm before the storm” statement to the press ahead of a dinner with military leaders, we now learn that President Trump has dispatched a second nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, filled with 7,500 marines, to the Korean Peninsula. Of course, this comes after rumors swirled earlier this week that North Korea is preparing to fire multiple short-range rockets around the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on Oct. 18th. The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, is en route to the western Pacific after leaving San Diego port last week. The Roosevelt will focus on maritime security operations in the Pacific and Middle E...

24Sep

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North Korea, South Korea

S Korean Ruling Party Slams N Korean Foreign Minister’s UN Speech

NOVANEWS On Sunday, South Korea's ruling Democratic Party criticized the speech North Korea's Foreign Minister made at the UN General Assembly meeting. (Sputnik) — South Korea's ruling Democratic Party criticized on Sunday the speech made by North Korea's Foreign Minister at the UN General Assembly in New York and called for responsibility. "North Korea tried to justify its nuclear programs… But the international community will only regard the North's claims as groundless sophistry… North Korea must also keep in mind that the only way to achieve the realization of international justice isn't by carrying out reckless provocations but by taking action responsibly as a member of the international community," the party's spokeswoman said, as quoted by Yonhap News Agency. On ...

20Aug

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Korean Americans Denounce US War Threats in Coordinated Protests

NOVANEWS By Zoom in Korea On August 14–ahead of the 72nd anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule–Korean Americans across the United States rallied to demand the U.S. government stop war provocations against North Korea and start talks towards peace. Korean Americans and other anti-war peace activists in New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles held coordinated protest actions in their respective regions. Following the impeachment of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and the election of liberal Moon Jae-in, Korean people around the world had high hopes for the resumption of North-South engagement. Many had expected North, South, and overseas Koreans to come together for a joint conference in Pyongyang or Seoul on August 15 in commemoration of Kore...