No New Korean War!
Emergency Protest in Los Angeles This Monday, Nov. 29, at 5:00 pm @ Wilshire & Western Metro Stop (Koreatown)
S Western Ave & Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90010
Show your support for the rally by signing this statement! Stop the Provocations ? U.S. Military Out of Asia Now! Forward to a friend Facebook button Twitter button Korea war threats
U.S. leaders -- Democrats and Republicans alike ? is ?regime change.? They could also lead to a new Korean war, one that could expand to wider regional, and potentially nuclear, conflict.
The DPRK wants direct talks with the United States, a formal Peace Treaty ending the Korean War, and a normalization of relations with the United States. This seemed like a realizable goal in the last months of the Bill Clinton administration in 1999 and 2000. George W. Bush scuttled these efforts shortly after taking office in 2001. The Obama administration continued this policy with new sanctions and endless war games simulating the invasion and bombing of North Korea.
The anti-war movement and all progressive people and organizations should stand against any new war, and demand an end to the U.S.-South Korean provocations.
?War Games? = Preparation for Real War
In recent years there have been at least three clashes in the same area as the November 23 incident. The DPRK had repeatedly warned South Korea against carrying out the latest ?war games? the area. In fact, the term ?war games? is a misnomer -- these maneuvers should correctly be called dress rehearsals for war. No one knows, moreover, whether any particular military exercises is practice or the real thing, until it is over and done with. This is especially true when the ?war games? take place in extremely close proximity to an enemy state.
The biggest provocation of all is the massive presence of U.S. military bases, troop, nuclear and conventional weapons in the region. In 2010, 65 years after the end of World War II, there are scores of U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine bases in Korea, Okinawa, and all across Japan. The U.S. has provided high tech weaponry of all kinds to Taiwan. Trident submarines, each of which can launch hundreds of nuclear warheads, and nuclear-armed aircraft carriers prowl the eastern Pacific round-the-clock.
This vast deployment of military power halfway around the world far exceeds that of any other country. It and the tens of billions of dollars it wastes every year.
There will be an emergency anti-war rally in Los Angeles on Monday, Nov. 29, 5:00 pm at the corner of Wilshire and Western Ave. in the heart of Koreatown. For more info call 213-251-1025 or email answerla@answerla.org.
If you live too far away or can't make it, please take a moment to sign an anti-war statement in support of the rally.
.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition http://www.AnswerLA.org AnswerLA@AnswerLA.org 213-251-1025 137 N. Virgil Avenue, #201 Los Angeles, CA 90004
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