For a Peaceful Island
Recently the struggles of the Jeju Islanders and other people in
It is said that if the construction project is finished the naval base can harbor some 20 warships of different kinds and the
Through the construction of the naval base the US and south Korean warmongers seek to ensure the mobile invasion on the north through the East and West Seas of Korea in contingency of the peninsula, and furthermore, to hold the hegemony of the west Pacific areas.
Jeju Island was designated in 2004 as an exclusively preservation zone for its superb scenic beauty, but the south Korean war maniacs frenzied in confrontation with the north are rushing headlong into building a military base there to provide it to their master, the US, at an early date.
The south Korean people, infuriated by the war mongers’ sinister intension to make the island an outpost of invasion to mount a preemptive attack on the north from the sea, deprive the inhabitants of their living grounds and make them victims of war, have vigorously struggled against the naval base construction project since last March.
A cultural event for peace was held on September 3 under the sponsorship of the “National Measure Council for Checking the Jeju Naval Base Construction Project”.
Over 260 people from the opposition parties and different civic organizations who came to the island from the inland via a “peace airplane”, and some 2,000 Jeju islanders from different parts of the island took part in the event.
The participants chanted slogans such as “Until the violence and war are removed from Jeju” and “Solidarity until the construction project is halted” and strongly demanded the stop of the base construction singing songs such as “Song of absolute opposition to the naval base”. They also conducted such events as making peace necklaces and flying balloon lamps wishing for peace.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the measure committee of the Gangjeong village to oppose the naval base construction project who is waging a sit-in on a watchtower called on them to lead the struggle against the base construction to make
Appalled by the people's struggle the security authorities mobilized even the policemen from the inland to walk off 30 inhabitants and activists on the eve of the event on September 2, and on the very day of the event strictly encircled the venue and suppressed the people by over 1,300 fascist riot police. However, they could not daunt the fighting spirit of the participants.
In the meantime, Jeju immigrants living abroad called a press conference on September 5 in
The south Korean warmongers should stop at once their foolish moves to bring about war disasters on this land by enforcing the Jeju naval base construction project running against the Korean people's aspiration for realizing independence, peace and reunification through the inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation.
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