TIM SHORROCK—My award was doubly significant because my stories had grown directly out of events that took place on the very square where I stood. There, in the shadow of Gwangju’s old Provincial Capital, the last voices of the city’s rebels had been stilled on May 27, 1980, by a Korean Army division dispatched from the DMZ marking the border with North Korea. They were sent with the approval of the US commander of the US-Korea Joint Command, Gen. John Wickham. That decision, made at the highest levels of the US government, forever stained the relationship between the United States and the South. For the people of Gwangju, many of whom believed that the US military would side with the forces of democracy, it was a deep betrayal that they’ve never forgotten.
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Harpal Brar and Caleb Maupin in conversation: The Origins of the DPRK
1 hour watching time readEDITOR—Comrades Harpal Brar, Joti Brar and Caleb Maupin discuss the conditions that led to the division of Korea and the history of free Korea, its struggle to build a socialist state while enduring massive sanctions and the torrent of Imperialist misinformation.
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Russia: Then and Now, Ep. 4: Special Guest Regis Tremblay
12 minutes readDEBORAH ARMSTRONG—Regis has traveled around the world to make documentaries like “The Ghosts of Jeju,” which he filmed in South Korea in 2012. Jeju is an eye-opening documentary about an island where the United States opened a naval base, causing great harm to the local ecosystem and indigenous people of Jeju, whose protests fell upon deaf ears.
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Martyanov: How to Fix North Korea’s Dangerous Airline
15 minutes readANDREI MARTYANOV—One of the things needed to be remembered while talking about SMO–life still continues. And here is an interesting video related to commercial aviation which I stumbled upon today and it discusses Air Koryo and the situation with North Korean civil aviation.
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ISRAEL SHAMIR—Kim called for nuclear disarmament, but a general one, not only for Korea. Indeed while signing the NPT, the nuclear powers undertook to strive for general nuclear disarmament and for creation of the world free of nuclear weapons. This undertaking remained a dead letter. The last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev made some steps in this direction, but the US used his idealism to increase the power gap between the two states.