A spokesman for the North Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's
Reunification (Pomminryon) issued a statement Monday denouncing the Lee Myung
Bak regime of south Korea for suppressing people after faking up a spy ring
case.
The statement said:
The Lee group of traitors let the Intelligence Service and the Security
Investigation Group raid and search houses and offices of more than 10
personages working in the field of labour, and in political and academic
circles, on absurd charges that they have been conducting "espionage and had
formed an underground party" on the "instruction of the north". They even
arrested one of them by invoking the draconian "National Security Law."
The puppet regime seeks to suppress officials of the South Headquarters of
Pomminryon and even opposition parties, with charges that they are linked with
the "Iljin Association case."
They went the lengths of asserting that the Institute of University Education of
south Korea, known to monitor the university students' actions, has something to
do with the "Iljin Association case", as it has halved its registration fee and
registration fees issued. They are censoring data, computers and even their
notebooks. They are also persecuting workers’, youth and university students'
organizations, including the Meeting of Workers for Democracy, the Jeju Youth
Association and the Kangrung Youth Association, and then marching individuals
off by invoking the National Security Law.
It is a trite method used by the south Korean regime to fake up a spy ring case
and intensify their crackdown whenever it faces a ruling crisis.
The recent spy ring case and crackdown are aimed at calming public resentment
caused by the regime's domestic and foreign policy failure, economic depression,
deteriorating livelihood and escalating anti-reunification confrontation with
the north. They are also aimed at diverting people's criticism and prolonging
their remaining days.
They are a last-ditch effort to crackdown on the struggle of progressive and
democratic forces that wish to punish the conservative regime at the "National
Assembly" and "presidential" elections due next year, who want to stay in power
come what may.
South Koreans are becoming increasingly critical of the crackdown, describing it
as a "last-ditch effort of the dictatorial regime" and "an attempt to smash
progressive political parties and civic and public organizations before the
elections."
The crackdown will only harden the people's pledge to bring down the
conservative regime.
Various organizations and people of all social standings in south Korea should
turn out in the struggle for the repeal of the National Security Law, the worst
law violating human rights, for the release of those who have been forcibly
detained, and to overthrow the Lee regime seeking fascism and confrontation with
the north by hatching all sorts of plots.
The Lee regime has pursued an unpopular rule and resorted to fascist suppression
while hatching plots against the DPRK and fanning up an atmosphere of war and
confrontation since the very day of its seizure of power. It will not be able to
escape stern punishment by history for those thrice-cursed crimes.
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Thursday 14 July 2011
TEAR GAS REPUBLIC ATTACKS WORKERS
Recently the (bourgeois) Korea Times 'reported' the following: "Thousands of protestors violently clashed with police during an overnight rally Sunday as they attempted to get into the shipyard of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction in Busan to support striking workers there..."
But in reality they just wanted to march through the almost deserted streets to reach the area near the shipyard, to end the protest day/night with a CULTURE FESTIVAL... But finally they were attacked by thousands of riot cops (7000 + 4000 'security guards', hired by Hanjin management) using water cannons and tear gas.
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But in reality they just wanted to march through the almost deserted streets to reach the area near the shipyard, to end the protest day/night with a CULTURE FESTIVAL... But finally they were attacked by thousands of riot cops (7000 + 4000 'security guards', hired by Hanjin management) using water cannons and tear gas.
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International Solidarity Supporting the Hanjin Struggle
Some 10,000 workers and citizens from every part of South Korea participated on the night of July 9-10 in the "Hope Bus" march to the Hanjin shipyard in Busan to protest against dismissals in breach of contract and precarious work at the shipyard, and to make a solidarity visit to hunger-striking protester Kim Jinsuk. After a culture festival at Busan the participants started a candlelight march to the shipyard. One kilometer from the yard riot police blocked the road and opened fire on marchers with water cannons and liquid tear gas... (IMF report, 7.13)
But despite (or more precisely because of) the tightened STATE TERROR against the S. Korean solidarity movement, a mass campaign to support the Hanjin struggle becomes increasingly popular among the int'l labour movement!
The International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) recently sent a letter to the S. Korean president, calling for the gov't to stop all violence against the workers at Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard...
The IMF, KMWU and LabourStart have launched a campaign calling on the S. Korean gov't to end the violence immediately (click here to join the effort and send your protest NOW!).
Protest letters were sent also by AMWU and AWU(Australia), CNM/CUT(Brazil), CGT métallurgie(France), IMF-JC(Japan), FIM-CISL(Italy), NTUI(India), Fellesforbundet(Norway), the Pakistan Labour Federation, the Philippine Labour Federation and Metal Workers Alliance, USW Métallos(USA), CAW(Canada), IG Metall(Germany) etc...
But despite (or more precisely because of) the tightened STATE TERROR against the S. Korean solidarity movement, a mass campaign to support the Hanjin struggle becomes increasingly popular among the int'l labour movement!
The International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) recently sent a letter to the S. Korean president, calling for the gov't to stop all violence against the workers at Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard...
The IMF, KMWU and LabourStart have launched a campaign calling on the S. Korean gov't to end the violence immediately (click here to join the effort and send your protest NOW!).
Protest letters were sent also by AMWU and AWU(Australia), CNM/CUT(Brazil), CGT métallurgie(France), IMF-JC(Japan), FIM-CISL(Italy), NTUI(India), Fellesforbundet(Norway), the Pakistan Labour Federation, the Philippine Labour Federation and Metal Workers Alliance, USW Métallos(USA), CAW(Canada), IG Metall(Germany) etc...
South Korea's ‘Harmless’ teargas'
The riot police on Sunday discharge leftover teargas solution into the road after they dispersing the second group of “Hope Bus” participants. The participants traveled to the Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC)’ Yeongdo shipyard where Kim Jin-suk, a Direction Committee member for the Busan chapter of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), has staged an aerial protest on the No. 85 crane for more than six months calling for the withdrawal of HHIC’s layoff plans.
The police have been criticized for indiscriminately squirting teargas solution, hitting children, the elderly, and people with disabilities while attempting to block them from entering the HHIC protest site. The police incurred strong criticism for using teargas solution containing carcinogenic dichloromethane during a violent crackdown on a strike by Ssangyong laborers in 2009.
The police said the solution used this time is not harmful to people because it lacks the dichloromethane, and the teargas solution was discharged by mistake.
(Photo courtesy of a twitter user @assa76)
SOUTH KOREAN STATE TERROR AGAINST WORKERS
Yesterday's Kyunghyang Shinmun reported the following about last weekend's STATE TERROR in Busan:
10,000 Participants of ‘Hope Bus’ Forcibly Dispersed by Police..
Harmful tear gas and batons used against peaceful protestors
About 10,000 citizens from around the country, albeit police estimates at 7,000, aboard a second wave of 'Hope Bus' on Saturday paid a visit to Youngdo Shipbuilding Yard, Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC) Busan.
This visit was aimed at cheering up Kim Jin-sook, who is staging a protest against the HHIC's sacking of workers alone high up on a Crane No. 85 and to pep up fired workers of the HHIC simultaneously .
However, while the police forcibly tried to disperse protestors using tear-causing gas and water cannons, and apprehended 50 and wounded 100, this stirred up a controversy that the crackdown was too forceful and violent.
Participants of Hope Bus held a cultural festival at Busan Station at 7 o'clock pm Saturday and marched towards Youngdo Shipbuilding Yard, but were thwarted by the police 700 meters ahead of the Yard.
Protestors made a demand of the police to secure a peaceful demonstration to reach to meet Kim Jin-sook in person, but the police issued an order of dispersal instead.
In the wee hours of Sunday, when the protestors marched towards a wall set by the police, the police began to fire tear-causing solutions.
Upon police firing of tear gas, Lee Jung-hee, Leader of Democratic Labor Party, blacked out and was taken to Busan University Hospital for treatment.
The police afterwards shot water cannons with tear-causing solutions at the protestors, wielded shields and batons to disperse the protestors.
In the process, 50 protestors including Shim Sang-jung, former leader of Progressive New Party, and Lee Gwang-seok, Chairman of National Farmers Federation, were apprehended and quite a number of them were wounded.
Woo Seok-gyoon, Policy Director of Health and Medical Group Association, said, "A great number of the wounded got chemical burns causing blisters. Considering the symptoms, the tear-causing solution seems to be the same kind that was used at the crackdown at Ssangyong Motors in 2009."
Woo added, "At that time, the International Cancer Research Center defined the methylenechloride solution contained in the tear-causing solution as carcinogenic and a research team at Harvard University announced that CS gas is a kind of 'toxic chemical weapons'."
About 2,000 protestors out of the whole dispersed themselves after staging, for a while, a sit-in demanding retraction of staff curtailment and criticizing forcible crackdown by the police.
However, their demand for a face-to-face meeting with Kim Jin-sook did not materialize, who is now a symbol of protest in HHIC's massive personnel curtailment.
LINK
10,000 Participants of ‘Hope Bus’ Forcibly Dispersed by Police..
Harmful tear gas and batons used against peaceful protestors
About 10,000 citizens from around the country, albeit police estimates at 7,000, aboard a second wave of 'Hope Bus' on Saturday paid a visit to Youngdo Shipbuilding Yard, Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC) Busan.
This visit was aimed at cheering up Kim Jin-sook, who is staging a protest against the HHIC's sacking of workers alone high up on a Crane No. 85 and to pep up fired workers of the HHIC simultaneously .
However, while the police forcibly tried to disperse protestors using tear-causing gas and water cannons, and apprehended 50 and wounded 100, this stirred up a controversy that the crackdown was too forceful and violent.
Participants of Hope Bus held a cultural festival at Busan Station at 7 o'clock pm Saturday and marched towards Youngdo Shipbuilding Yard, but were thwarted by the police 700 meters ahead of the Yard.
Protestors made a demand of the police to secure a peaceful demonstration to reach to meet Kim Jin-sook in person, but the police issued an order of dispersal instead.
In the wee hours of Sunday, when the protestors marched towards a wall set by the police, the police began to fire tear-causing solutions.
Upon police firing of tear gas, Lee Jung-hee, Leader of Democratic Labor Party, blacked out and was taken to Busan University Hospital for treatment.
The police afterwards shot water cannons with tear-causing solutions at the protestors, wielded shields and batons to disperse the protestors.
In the process, 50 protestors including Shim Sang-jung, former leader of Progressive New Party, and Lee Gwang-seok, Chairman of National Farmers Federation, were apprehended and quite a number of them were wounded.
Woo Seok-gyoon, Policy Director of Health and Medical Group Association, said, "A great number of the wounded got chemical burns causing blisters. Considering the symptoms, the tear-causing solution seems to be the same kind that was used at the crackdown at Ssangyong Motors in 2009."
Woo added, "At that time, the International Cancer Research Center defined the methylenechloride solution contained in the tear-causing solution as carcinogenic and a research team at Harvard University announced that CS gas is a kind of 'toxic chemical weapons'."
About 2,000 protestors out of the whole dispersed themselves after staging, for a while, a sit-in demanding retraction of staff curtailment and criticizing forcible crackdown by the police.
However, their demand for a face-to-face meeting with Kim Jin-sook did not materialize, who is now a symbol of protest in HHIC's massive personnel curtailment.
LINK
South Korean Police Hit for Firing Tear Liquid
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Public Health and Medical Organizations and the Pusan and South Kyongsang Provincial Consultative Council of Doctors for Humanitarianism on July 10 denounced the police for firing tear liquid at the participants in the action demanding vital rights.
The organizations accused the police of firing tear liquid containing carcinogen material and toxic gas substance at the protestors against the unreasonable lay-off by the business side around the Young Do Shipbuilding Yard of the Hanjin Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.
This tear liquid is highly likely to contain the same substance as what was used to crack down on the strike of the Trade Union of the Ssangryong Motor Co. Ltd., in 2009, they charged, terming the use of such tear liquid against the demonstrators who included even aged people and children an inhuman action.
Meanwhile, a photo showing police throwing out tear liquid on the road after putting down the demonstration was posted on an Internet homepage that day, stunning the people.
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One More Soldier of S. Korean Puppet Army Commits Suicide
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- A soldier belonging to the 1st Division of the south Korean puppet Marine Corps present in Phohang, North Kyongsang Province committed suicide on July 10, south Korean MBC reported.
He destroyed himself, leaving his suicide note in which he wrote he could no longer endure savage violence by his superiors at ordinary times.
The recent suicide case which occurred in the wake of that reported on July 3 is a product of the inhuman treatment prevalent in the puppet army.
The organizations accused the police of firing tear liquid containing carcinogen material and toxic gas substance at the protestors against the unreasonable lay-off by the business side around the Young Do Shipbuilding Yard of the Hanjin Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.
This tear liquid is highly likely to contain the same substance as what was used to crack down on the strike of the Trade Union of the Ssangryong Motor Co. Ltd., in 2009, they charged, terming the use of such tear liquid against the demonstrators who included even aged people and children an inhuman action.
Meanwhile, a photo showing police throwing out tear liquid on the road after putting down the demonstration was posted on an Internet homepage that day, stunning the people.
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One More Soldier of S. Korean Puppet Army Commits Suicide
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- A soldier belonging to the 1st Division of the south Korean puppet Marine Corps present in Phohang, North Kyongsang Province committed suicide on July 10, south Korean MBC reported.
He destroyed himself, leaving his suicide note in which he wrote he could no longer endure savage violence by his superiors at ordinary times.
The recent suicide case which occurred in the wake of that reported on July 3 is a product of the inhuman treatment prevalent in the puppet army.
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Just sending this from a discussion forum of Koreans and East Asians on Samsung .
BTW just on the question of Brit companies in SK -other than HSBC and Tesco which
are big there the following British property companies have offices in SK
CBRE
Jones Lang Lassalle
Savills
Land Securities
Collier International
From Asia's finest
May 3 2011, 08:15 PM
Many Koreans pride over supposedly "Korean" companies like Samsung. They make proud statements like, "I'm Korean, our people make Samsung," which seems to be a fair statement, right? Not necessarily.
According to Samsung's Stock Ownership Structure, FOREIGNERS actually own most of Samsung. In particular, of the total shares outstanding, foreigners own/control over 55%. This doesn't include categories like "Major Shareholder Related Parties," which Samsung subsidies own/control over (of which foreigners own the majority) and Treasury Stock that the company keeps (again, mostly owned by foreigners).
Ownership structure of Samsung Electronics as of the end of December, 2010
Total Stock
To put things into perspective, domestic individuals own a mere 5% the overall company.
Of the Preferred Stock, foreigners own a staggering 82%. Of the Common Stock, foreigners own over 50%, mainly because most of the common stock is under the control of Samsung subsidies, which foreigners own the majority of.
Preferred Stock
Common Stock
So, what does this imply about Samsung? Is it a "Korean" company as many Koreans like to think and are so proud of?
Here's an informative Samsung commercial that shows South Korea being transformed from a peasant society to a modern one:
WATCH:
BTW just on the question of Brit companies in SK -other than HSBC and Tesco which
are big there the following British property companies have offices in SK
CBRE
Jones Lang Lassalle
Savills
Land Securities
Collier International
From Asia's finest
May 3 2011, 08:15 PM
Many Koreans pride over supposedly "Korean" companies like Samsung. They make proud statements like, "I'm Korean, our people make Samsung," which seems to be a fair statement, right? Not necessarily.
According to Samsung's Stock Ownership Structure, FOREIGNERS actually own most of Samsung. In particular, of the total shares outstanding, foreigners own/control over 55%. This doesn't include categories like "Major Shareholder Related Parties," which Samsung subsidies own/control over (of which foreigners own the majority) and Treasury Stock that the company keeps (again, mostly owned by foreigners).
Ownership structure of Samsung Electronics as of the end of December, 2010
Total Stock
To put things into perspective, domestic individuals own a mere 5% the overall company.
Of the Preferred Stock, foreigners own a staggering 82%. Of the Common Stock, foreigners own over 50%, mainly because most of the common stock is under the control of Samsung subsidies, which foreigners own the majority of.
Preferred Stock
Common Stock
So, what does this imply about Samsung? Is it a "Korean" company as many Koreans like to think and are so proud of?
Here's an informative Samsung commercial that shows South Korea being transformed from a peasant society to a modern one:
WATCH:
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