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  1. Progressive party planned in South Korea

    establishment as pro-North Korea, and is itself an alliance of student councils and unions with a membership of ... hundred each, plus political orientations that range "from mild pro-North Korea, socialist, to ... Progressive party planned in South Korea In the face of escalating attacks against jobs and ...

  2. SOUTH KOREA: Impeachment attempt provokes mass protests

    North Korea, and the new, liberal, elite represented by former president Kim Dae-jung and his successor, ... Korea's single-chamber parliament, to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun are galvanising a pro-democracy ... dictatorships that ruled South Korea until 1987. The MDP had been the ruling party until a recent split in which ...

  3. SOUTH KOREA: Social movements fight free trade agreement

    North Korea. Since Roh has recently made moves to improve relations with North Korea (primarily to ... Korea-US Free Trade Agreement held its first mobilisation. The coalition brings together around 270 ... the significant impact the rice market has on Korea, as it is directly linked to the nation's ...

  4. New treaty could help stop arms companies exploiting nuke threat

    Economy Imperialism & war Linda Pearson North Korea United States Nuclear Non-Proliferation ... the world has watched the escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States with growing ... alarm. North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear weapons program since first testing an ...

  5. Talisman Sabre war rehearsals focus on interoperability

    Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, France, Britain, Canada and Germany. The Philippines, ... operations that occur here in the north of Australia, are an important component of that.” [Sydney Anti-AUKUS ...

  6. Korea: the unfinished revolution

    By Gim Joong-gen In the aftermath of counter-revolution and the 1950-53 war, southern Korea was ... a distorted official history to shore up the Republic of Korea (ROK). [Conclusion of a two-part article.] This ... Il-sung's Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) became one of the most policed and insular ...

  7. South Korea: Sacked car workers win long fight

    Pyeongtaek in South Korea's north-west. The story began in 2004 when the Chinese company Shanghai ... criss-crossed the entire country to let people know of our story.” South Korea February 28, 2014 999 Striking ...

  8. Korea: the unfinished revolution

    Japanese colonialism Because capitalism in Korea was the product of Japanese colonisation, and the daily ... and patriots. The Koryo (ancient name for Korea) Communist Party was formed in 1920 in Shanghai by ... whose Red Army had helped liberate Korea in the last weeks of the war. However, the Kremlin agreed to US ...

  9. Pacific fisherfolk and environmentalists oppose Japan’s Fukushima radioactive waste dumping

    1990s, European nuclear reprocessor sea discharged radioactivity was identified off north-east Alaska, ... Association in South Korea, said: β€œSince the Japanese government declared the dumping of contaminated water in ... against the dumping of Fukushima radioactive waste into the Pacific, in South Korea's capital, Seoul ...

  10. SOUTH KOREA: Socialists advance towards forming new party

    regime in North Korea. In addition, the PWC's members must deal with the years of retreat in the ... BY IGGY KIM SEOUL β€” At its sixth congress on March 24-25, South Korea's Power of the Working ... 1945-53 revolution was defeat in South Korea by the US invasion, to have come this far in the process of ...

  11. South Korea shaken by new civic revolution

    Progress Justice Party that outlived its pro-North Korea rival, the United Progressive Party. The UPP was ... Economy Democracy Young-su Won Corruption Seoul South Korea is currently in a vortex of an ... elections were introduced in 1987, when a new democracy was born in South Korea after three decades of ...

  12. SOUTH KOREA: Cops viciously maul Daewoo workers

    This current has fallen in with Kim Dae-jung's "sunshine policy" towards North Korea, in ... Concrete, Korea Telecom, at three separate insurance companies and in the health sector. Even casual ... shock which followed the 1997-8 financial crisis has passed. The alternatives facing South Korea ...

  13. South Korea: Dismissed workers fight for justice

    Building. Hongik University is South Korea’s most famous university for visual arts. Many graduates are ... the minimum wage. In South Korea, the minimum wage is 4320 won an hour (A$3.89); the workers at Hongik ... living expenses in South Korea are almost the same price as in Australia. Some everyday commodities, such ...

  14. SOUTH KOREA: Workers' rally reveals ranks' anger

    (O20). More widely, workers' anger has been rising as South Korea's capitalist restructuring, ... the street rally began explosively. As 25,000 began gathering in University Road, just north of the ... system", a system that allows them to work in South Korea but legally subjugates them to an inferior status ...

  15. International Youth Forum meets in Korea

    DAELE HEALY describes her experiences at the International Youth Forum held in South Korea August ... environment?". Korea is a good country to ask these "How long is a piece of string?" questions because ... the last 30 years South Korea's GDP has increased 100 times. With industrialisation there has ...

  16. 10 new albums to make you raise your fist

    children were evacuated from the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea on August 7, as climate change-induced ... condemned the Trump-admiring politicians and pundits who had sent his viral song β€œRich Men North Of ...

  17. Warning about β€˜nuclear sharing’ falls on deaf ears at NPT meeting

    weapons β€” Russia, United States, China, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea ...

  18. US bombs targeted

    US bombs targeted at Korea By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY β€” 1>North Korean Workers' Party ... from South Korea before supporting US President George Bush's campaign against North Korea ... Sun, had complained that North Korea had not agreed to international inspection of its nuclear ...

  19. Japan’s plan to dump radioactive Fukushima waste meets protests across the Pacific

    beachgoers. β€œThe danger posed by the plan cannot be contained within just the North-East Asia region. In two ... explosion of the nuclear reactors. β€œThis was in conjunction with Korea’s progressive action groups during ... to stand with local communities in Fukushima as well as communities in Japan, Korea, China and ...

  20. Popular support for historic Korean Summit, but is a lasting peace finally here?

    to denuclearise and end hostilities between North and South Korea, Trump has no other option but to ... State Mike Pompeo seems to suggest high hopes for ending antagonisms between North Korea and the US. ... between North and South. North Korea also adjusted its time zone to South Korea’s, which has followed ...

  21. US tries to undermine Cuba’s tourism industry

    list: Iran, Syria and North Korea. Being on the SSOT list subjects Cuba to devastating international ... Economy Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean North America Ian Ellis-Jones ...

  22. Behind Donald Trump’s dangerous sabre-rattling

    confrontation with North Korea β€” with the larger target being China. Trump was eating dessert with Chinese ... So far, the threats against North Korea and China remain verbal. But all this sabre-rattling is very ... dangerous. The US, Russia, China and North Korea are nuclear powers. Any actual military confrontation on any ...

  23. Rally called against military build up in AsiaΒ 

    International solidarity Imperialism & war Rachel Evans North Korea missiles military buildup ... Donald Trump Gadigal Country/Sydney War drums are beating louder in Asia. North Korea launched another ... 's launch site. North Korea is responding to US President Donald Trump's threats. Trump told the UN in ...

  24. US pushes for total trade embargo

    On October 14, five days after North Korea announced that it had carried out its first nuclear ... neglects the nuclear threat posed to his country by the US. Western analysts estimate that North Korea has ... war with North Korea (a ceasefire was agreed to in 1953), has some 10,000 nuclear weapons, 5735 of ...

  25. Myths about Korean militarism

    * * * THE FRONTIER between North and South Korea is the most militarized border in the world. There is, of ... superpower-in-the-making, China, is North Korea's only close ally. It's not clear that China would intervene ... box." U.S. military power is overwhelming, but North Korea does possess some deterrents. That's why ...

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