Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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by Aditya Sarin, published on People’s Dispatch, September 6, 2022 Between August 22 and September 1, the United States and South Korea concluded their largest joint military drills in the Korean Peninsula since 2017, under the name ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’. Over the last four years, the scope of the annual exercises had been scaled back, first because of Donald Trump’s attempts at[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 26, 2022 The western corporate media described the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai’i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that[…]
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by Richie Merino, published on Workers World, August 10, 2022 The following remarks were prepared by International Action Center member Richie Merino for the “Denuclearization and Peace on the Korean Peninsula” event at the United Nations Aug. 4, co-organized by Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) and People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). The key actors in Korea’s[…]
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