This video is about South Korean police against striking workers.
From British daily The Morning Star:
A SOUTH Korean court has sentenced two left-wing activists to at least two years in prison for establishing a solidarity group to improve relations with North Korea.
The Seoul Central District Court convicted Choi Han-Wook and Kang Jin-Goo on Tuesday of violating the broadly worded National Security Law, which was established during the cold war era. …
Court spokesman Kwon Tae-hyung said that Mr Choi and Mr Kang had received sentences of 24 months and 30 months respectively. …
The court concluded that the Solidarity for Practice of the South-North Joint Declaration (SPSNJD) group is “pro-enemy.” …
The SPSNJD said in a statement that it only aims to promote peace on the divided Korean peninsula.
It also accused the court of using an “old-fashioned” security law to return South Korean society to the cold war era.
Leftwingers, liberals and human rights groups have long urged Seoul to repeal the law, which they say has been used to penalise groups opposed to the government.
Crackdown in South Korea as President Lee emphasises need for “labour market flexibility”: here.
The outpouring of public sympathy for [former South Korean president] Roh following his death is misplaced in view of his record in office. Nevertheless, the widespread mourning points to bitterness over the deepening social divide in the country: here.
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South Korea: The legacy of the 1980 Kwangju uprising
On the weekend of May 15-18, 2009, the city of Kwangju, South Korea,
held the Kwangju International Peace Forum to celebrate the struggle for
democracy in South Korea and to support similar struggles elsewhere in
Asia. Christopher Kerr of South Korea-based solidarity group Venceremos
caught up with George Katsiaficas to discuss the legacy of the 1980
Kwangju uprising.
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US admits N Korea not on the move
N KOREA: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted it did not appear that North Korea had made any military preparations to follow through on its threat of retaliation for new United Nations sanctions.
A draft UN resolution proposed on Wednesday would impose tough new sanctions on the country’s weapons exports and financial dealings and allow inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/world/world_in_brief__51
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South Korea’s rollback of democracy
By George Katsiaficas
May 25, 2009 — The suicide of former South Korean president Roh
Moo-hyun on May 23, 2009, left South Korea in shock. All over the
country, tens of thousands of tearful people sought to eulogise and
memorialise Roh — to find ways to express their grief and anger.
Conservative government politicians were blocked by local residents from
joining tens of thousands people who made the journey to Roh’s small
hometown the day he died. Not only were they refused admittance, many
people splashed them with water and chanted that they should get out —
shaming them into leaving. Opposition party spokesperson Kim Yu-jeong
expressed what is in many people’s hearts when he blamed Roh’s tragic
death on the conservative government’s relentless and disrespectful
offensive against him: “The people and history know what made the former
president do something so tragic.”
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