Korea

North Korea Has Survived 75 Years of Barbaric Imperial Attack Under the Stewardship of the Much Maligned Kim Dynasty

January 20, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, China, Korea, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, January 15, 2025 Development of nuclear weapons has enabled North Korea to avoid the fate of Libya, Syria and Iraq Over the last 75 years, North Korea has been invaded and bombed back to the stone age by the United States, subjected to unprecedented economic warfare, vilified in the international media and had[…]

Washington’s (not so) Strong Man in Seoul is Defying Arrest

January 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Korea, North Korea

by In Jeong Kim, published on DropSite News, January 3, 2025 Editor’s Note: Actually, he was finally arrested yesterday, January 17. So, it took me two weeks to get to this but it’s still critical to understand the political morass in South Korea. On January 3, three days after a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for suspended president[…]

Everything Comes Back to Ukraine.

December 8, 2024 UNAC Editor Featured, Korea, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, Weapons Sales

UNAC Statement, December 7, 2024 In South Korea the president Yoon Suk Yeol attempted to impose martial law on the country but failed. Why did Yoon do this? Some say it was because of the corruption of the government and the fact that he was unpopular. Is this a reason for martial law? South Korea is basically a client state[…]

U.S. Policy in Korea is Stuck in a Time Warp With Little Having Changed Since 1950

February 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Korea, Occupation, U.S. Aggression, White Supremacy

by Dermot Hudson, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 15, 2024 The DPRK Has Thwarted U.S. Designs to Control the Korean Peninsula in a Major Historical Accomplishment. Revisiting the lead up to the Korean war, a tale of atrocities, before, during and after… an important description of events prior to the Korean War. I had no idea so many of[…]

War Looks Just as War Looks: Dismal and Ugly

November 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, Imperialism, Korea, Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Vijay Prashad, published on The Tricontinental Institute, November 2, 2023 It is impossible to look away from what the Israeli government is doing to Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Waves of Israeli aircraft pummel Gaza, destroying communications networks and thereby preventing families from reaching each other, journalists from reporting on the destruction, and[…]

The Korean War Continues With Biden’s Renewal of Travel Ban to North Korea

September 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Immigration, Korea, Migrants and Refugees

by Amanda Yee, produced by Globetrotter, September 1, 2023 On August 22, the U.S. State Department renewed its ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. This travel ban prohibits as many as 100,000 Korean Americans living in the United States from visiting their relatives in North Korea. The ban was first set in place by[…]

Activists Demand Biden and Congress End War on Korea

August 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Korea, Political Analysis, Protest

by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, August 2, 2023 Washington D.C.~ A National Mobilization to End the Korean War drew hundreds of people to several events here on July 27 and 28. July 27 was the 70th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended combat in the Korean War. That agreement — among the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea[…]

South KoreaPivots to Conflict

May 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Korea, Multipolar World, Nuclear Weapons

by Dae-Han Song and Alice Kim, published on People’s Dispatch, May 8, 2023 South Korea’s far-right President Yoon Suk Yeol is rushing South Korea headlong into the middle of the new Cold War that the United States is waging against China. Yoon’s aspiration to position South Korea as a “global pivotal state” is turning it into a bigger cog in[…]

Koreans Oppose U.S. Military Aggression

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Korea, U.S. Aggression

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, November 11, 2022 The U.S. media repeatedly reported that “Operation Vigilant Storm” was in retaliation to four missiles fired by North Korea. These joint military drills were the largest in the history of such operations, with a display of about 240 warplanes including F-35B fighters, which conducted some 1,600 sorties. But more transparent[…]

Korea/DPRK: Surviving US-UN Sanctions and Military Threats

September 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Korea, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, War on the Poor

by Erica Jung, September 30, 2022 Introduction North Koreans live under restrictions, embargoes, and scarcities imposed and enforced by a variety of sanctions from the United States and the United Nations.1 In fact, north Korea is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, having been subject to sanctions since its foundation in 1950. US sanctions in particular serve[…]