“성주가 민통선이냐 밭일가는데 신분증검사”

 

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“싸드 막는 평화버스 응원해주세요!”

 

싸드 반대를 외치는 국내외의 목소리가 높아지고 있다.

 

사드 배치 예정지인 경북 성주골프장 인근 주민들의 본격적인 대응이 시작됐다. 14일 사드배치철회 성주투쟁위에 따르면 14일 성주 초전면 소성리 도로에서 주민과 원불교 관계자 등이 사드 배치 차량 이동을 막기 위해 무기한 연좌농성에 들어갔다. 이곳은 사드 배치 예정지인 성주골프장에서 1.3㎞ 떨어진 유일한 진입로다.

 

 

 

 

마스크를 쓴 경찰 수십 명이 에워싸고 있는 가운데 원불교 김성혜 교무는 “성주골프장을 지나는 순례길을 10년 넘게 다녔는데, 지난 2일부터 경찰과 군이 막고 있다”고 성토했다. 그는 “종교 행위를 일방적으로 막는 행위는 불법이고 위법”이라며 “사드 배치를 강행한다면 차량 이동을 막겠다”고 결연한 태도를 보였다.

 

미주에서도 힘을 보태고 있다. 싸드 문제를 주류사회에 공론화하는데 앞장서는 시몬 천 노스이스턴대학 국제정치학 교수는 긴급 이메일을 통해 “사드를 배치하기 위해 논밭에 일하러 가는데도 1400명의 경찰들이 마을을 점령하고 주민들 신분증 점검한다고 한다”며 “대구, 경북이전 세계 핵 미사일 집중 포격 대상이 되고 있다”고 경고했다

 

천 교수는 “오는 18일에 그동안 너무나 고생해왔고 또 너무나 힘든 시간을 견뎌야 하는 우리 성주, 김천, 어머님, 할머님, 이웃들 위해 평화버스 간다고 합니다. 함께 봄소풍 가는 기분으로 가셔셔 얼굴이라도 서로 한번 보고 손한번 잡아 주시면 좋겠다”고 당부했다.

 

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다시, 머리띠를 묶으며

 

김수상

 

파면罷免될 것이 파면되고 나니

소성리가 소승리小勝利로 들린다

어제는 마을회관에서 할매들이 만세를 불렀다는데

월곡지 오르막의 아기사과나무들도

기뻐서 꽃을 빨리 매달았다는데

아직 큰 산 하나를 우리는 더 넘어야 한다

이제 겨우 작은 승리를 한 것일 뿐

우리의 싸움은 아직 끝나지 않았다

 

심판 받을 것이 심판을 받았다고

오늘이 마지막 촛불을 드는 날이라는데,

우리는 촛불을 내릴 수 없다

쫓겨날 것이 쫓겨난다고

축배를 들고 노래를 부른다고 하는데,

우리는 아직 노래를 부를 수 없다

혈맹의 의리는 지켜야한다고 가르치듯 말하는데,

우리를 전쟁으로 내모는 그런 의리라면

궁벽한 시골 양아치들보다 못한

의리라고 우리가 말해주겠다

 

머리맡에 핵탄두를 요격하는 미사일이 들어온다는데

미사일 한 대 값이 소성리의 땅을 다 팔아도 모자란다는데

이제 막 기지개를 켜는 보드라운 흙 가슴 위로 철조망을 친다는데

상화 시인의 말처럼 땅을 빼앗기면 봄조차 빼앗기고

꿈조차 빼앗길 텐데

우리의 기나긴 평화의 싸움을 엿같이 대하는

애비애미도 모르는 저 호로새끼들과 우리는 끝까지 싸워야 한다

 

혹시라도 벌레가 잠을 깰까

순한 숨을 쉬는 우리의 전답을 미국에게 빼앗기지 않으려면

유모차에 아픈 관절을 의지하며 다시 머리띠를 묶어야 한다

길가에 팔을 벌려 드러누워야 한다

누워서라도 끝까지 푸른 하늘을 응시하며 평화를 지켜내야 한다

망백望百의 할매들이 “사드 오면 질까에 들누블끼다!”고 절규하는

미국의 개들이 말아먹은 동네가 성주에 있다

 

봄이 오는 소야*의 벌판에 나비가 날고 새가 울어도

우리는 아직 기쁘지 않다

권력을 다 가진 양 대권주자들이 설쳐대도

우리는 그들을 믿지 않는다

242일 동안 촛불을 들어도 한 줄 기사를 써주지 않는

너희를 우리는 믿지 않는다

우리는 오로지 우리를 의지하며

참외꽃처럼 피어날 것이다

 

웃을 때가 아니다

아직 승리한 것이 아니다

봄이 와도 들판에 씨를 못 뿌리는 사람들이 소성리에 살고 있다

꿈결에서 식은땀을 흘리는 사람들이 소성리에 살고 있다

전쟁을 부르는 괴물과 맞서 별고을의 사람들이 싸우고 있다

다른 사람의 목숨을 위해 자기의 목숨을 걸고 싸우는 사람들이 있다

평화란 피로 지켜내야 할 수도 있다는 것을

어금니를 깨물며 속으로 다짐하는 사람들이 있다

평화의 세력들이 소성리로 속속 모여들고 있다

따뜻한 봄바람도 언 땅을 녹이며

소야의 벌판으로 달려온다

삭정이 같은 나뭇가지가 꽃들을 밀어내고 있다

꽃잎 한 장 다치지 않았다

우리의 봄을 돌려다오

우리의 땅을 돌려다오

땅을 빼앗기면 꿈조차 빼앗긴다

땅을 빼앗기면 봄조차 빼앗긴다

사드는 가고 평화는 오라!

전쟁은 가고 평화여 오라!

*소야 : 소성리의 옛 이름.

 

 

DAY 4 Mr. Trump--stop the US-South Korea war game and preemptive strike. Diplomacy NOW in Korean peninsula

 

In particular, it mattered very much that the [candlelight] protests were peaceful and orderly, and did not threaten the democratic process itself… That legitimacy is what makes impeachment different from a coup. It’s why Seoul Plaza is not Tahrir Square in Cairo. -- Noah Feldman (professor, Harvard Law School) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-12/south-korea-does-impeachment-right

 

…the idea of using force against North Korea, when even their artillery, 10,000 guns north of Seoul, conventional artillery, can take out a city that has a third of the South Korean population, you just really have no military option on the Korean Peninsula. But unfortunately, a lot of folks in Washington haven’t gotten that straight. Bruce Cumings (professor, University of Chicago)

 

Dear Friend—an update on the news, views and actionable items related to the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia. My apologies for a long message, but please do remember the spirit of this amazing people's movement in Korea. I've met many good Americans who love Korea more than Koreans, especially in Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Japan Studies, Korean Studies, etc. We need you on board of this HOPE bus for democracy, human security, and peace! Help us!

 

Key words: candlelight movement, legitimacy and democracy vs. THAAD and US-South Korea war games

•Korea’s historic candlelight protest praised by global media, scholars and experts

 

•In contrast, the impeached and former president Park continues to divide the nation

 

•Costly, destructive and threat-provoking U.S.-South Korea war game in progress

 

◦The United States brought drones (unmanned aircraft) aimed at infiltrating to North Korea, a team of Navy SEALs, that took out Osama bin Laden

•Scholars, peace organizations, and activists call for Trump administration to pursue diplomacy while hawkish politicians in South Korea and Japan behind the scene are reportedly urging the most dangerous policy--preemptive strike of North Korea, which will result in a nuclear war

•Residents near the site of THAAD in Seongju and Gimcheon are under intense surveillance as more than 1500 policemen moved in the small city; farmers even have to show their ID to go to the field. Just like any other US military bases, civilian life, freedom and liberty in these communities will be restricted.

•Opposition parties demand the parliament's ratification of deployment of THAAD: no legitimacy, no democratic process, no THAAD!

•Peace Bus, March 18, 2017 to Seongju/Gimcheon THAAD Out PEACE in

 

I. US-South Korea-Japan war game

 

Yonhap News. U.S. Navy SEALs to take part in joint drills in S. Korea

 

U.S. special operations forces, including the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, will take part in joint military drills in South Korea to practice incapacitating North Korean leadership in the case of conflict, a military official said Monday. The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six will join the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises between the two allies for the first time, along with the Army's Rangers, Delta Force and Green Berets. "A bigger number of and more diverse U.S. special operation forces will take part in this year's Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises to practice missions to infiltrate into the North, remove the North's war command and demolition of its key military facilities," the official told Yonhap News Agency asking not to be named. http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/03/13/0200000000AEN20170313009400315.html

 

2. Zoom in Korea. U.S. Considers First-Strike Attack on North Korea. Bruce Gagnon

 

We are living in the most dangerous time in human history. We can’t sit around as bystanders while Washington presses onward with its military pivot to surround Russia and China. We must speak out, help others understand what is actually going on, and actively protest these offensive plans that could lead to WW III.

 

3. For an informative and in-depth coverage of Korea news by Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, PBS news program with Christine Ahn and Prof. Bruce Cumings

 

Christine Ahn. And I think that there is a perception in this country that—that regime collapse is imminent and that all it will take is a military action to conduct it. And when has regime change ever been successful? And what would be the likelihood for the millions of South Koreans right across the DMZ and the innocent civilians? But it would engulf the entire region into a very dangerous regional conflict—Russia, China, Japan, the United States. By being part of mutual defense treaties, it will engulf the entire region. Five of those—of the top 10 countries in terms of their military capacity and defense spending are in that region. It’s a tinderbox. And so, we really need to understand that the Korean conflict is at the root of that. And so we have to really seriously pressure our government. I mean, it’s obviously—how do we, you know, pressure the Trump administration, that seems to not have a clue about Korea? But we have to. I think it’s a very dangerous situation, and we have to be very vigilant.

 

Bruce Cumings: I think North Korea is really working hard to try not to be an international pariah. Certainly, they are doing the missile tests. They do that as a message to the United States. But I think that they don’t want to be isolated. They want to join the international community. They want the sanctions to be lifted, so that they could eventually normalize. And so, it just raises a lot of questions. Why would they do this at a time when they were about to have potential talks, Track 2 dialogues, with U.S. officials

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/13/china_warns_us_north_korea_are

 

4. William Perry. President Trump, There Is A Deal To Be Made With North Korea

 

Our diplomacy has consistently failed to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal and is likely to continue to fail if that is our overriding goal. But we do have a viable diplomatic option to reduce the dangers created by that arsenal. I believe that North Korea might well agree to give up testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles and agree not to sell or transfer any of its nuclear technology, in return for economic concessions from South Korea and security assurances from the U.S.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korea-nuclear-danger_us_58c2b543e4b0d1078ca63919?

 

5. Listening to Korea’s Liberals. John Delury

 

A liberal South Korean president is very likely—or in the case of Moon Jae-in, guaranteed—to proactively engage Kim Jong Un in political dialogue, allow civic groups in the South to resume their activities and exchanges with the North, and restore and expand economic linkages. The Obama administration’s lukewarm attitude toward dialogue and negotiation, and focus on getting China to implement harsher sanctions on the DPRK, would no longer align with the inter-Korean policy of its ally in Seoul…The second dawn of a Sunshine Policy on the Korean peninsula would present either a challenge or opportunity for whomever happens to be the next occupant of the White House. As a general principle, Americans are more comfortable talking to South Korean conservatives than liberals, and the fact that conservatives have controlled the presidency for so long has strengthened that US tendency. Given this year’s election results, now may be the time for US policymakers, especially those in the potential next administration, to start listening a bit harder to Korean liberals.

 

http://38north.org/2016/04/jdelury042016/

 

6. With Park’s ouster, Seoul may now reset relations with its neighbors

 

The Trump administration is now conducting a policy review to decide how to deal with North Korea’s threats, and there is plenty of talk in Washington about “kinetic options” — a euphemism for some kind of military action. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, some ruling party lawmakers are now openly pushing for Japan to develop the capacity to preemptively strike North Korea.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/With-Park-s-ouster-Seoul-may-now-reset-10993723.php

 

II. Candlelight movement for democracy

 

1. Bloomberg. Noah Feldman (professor at Harvard University) South Korea does impeachment right.

 

In particular, it mattered very much that the protests were peaceful and orderly, and did not threaten the democratic process itself… That legitimacy is what makes impeachment different from a coup. It’s why Seoul Plaza is not Tahrir Square in Cairo.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-12/south-korea-does-impeachment-right

 

2. How to Remove a President: Mass Protests Force Out South Korean Leader Amid Corruption Scandal

 

It’s extraordinary. And I would say it’s a really incredible outcome of months of organizing by mass movements to unseat this president that was obviously charged for political corruption but whose policies have really steered South Korea into a very dangerous situation that we are in today. And I think it’s extraordinary what people in mass movements can do, and I think it’s not just great for South Korea and for peace on the Korean Peninsula, but I think it’s a really great symbol for the rest of the world.

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/13/how_to_remove_a_president_mass

 

3. How a protest movement swelled to oust South Korea’s president

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2017/0310/How-a-protest-movement-swelled-to-oust-South-Korea-s-president?cmpid=gigya-more

 

4. BBC. South Korea's Park leaves presidential palace after impeachment

 

Her demeanour outside her new residence was upbeat and full of smiles. It was not the demeanour of a disgraced, regretful politician.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39247940

 

5. The Hankyoreh. [Editorial] A people's victory, and the dawn of a new spring for South Korea

 

It’s time for Park and her supporters to leave behind the turgid stream of their lunacy.

 

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/786084.html

 

6. The New Yorker. E.Tammy Kim. A New Moment for South Korea

 

The so-called Candlelight Movement came to stand for a broad set of principles: freedom of speech, government and corporate accountability, economic redistribution, and workers’ rights.

 

…The election will come at a difficult moment, not only for the Korean peninsula but also for East Asia and, indeed, the entire world. Every spring, in an extravagant, costly display, the U.S. and South Korea stage military exercises as a warning to the North (and Japan and China, too). And every spring, North Korea stages its own extravagant, costly missile launches, spurring international scorn. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-moment-for-south-korea

 

7. The Washington Post. South Korea shows how democracy is done

 

To be sure, South Korea still has many problems. But its people, buoyed up by an extraordinary wave of civic activism, are showing that they aren’t prepared to accept the established way of doing things. They have mounted a remarkable campaign for change, and today that campaign has borne fruit of the most dramatic sort. Their cousins to the north can only dream of similar acts of defiance — which is why their country remains frozen in time, beholden to a leader whose only plan for the future is tied to the machinery of violence.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/03/10/south-korea-shows-the-world-how-democracy-is-done/?utm_term=.0241dc13dde0

 

III. THAAD Out PEACE in

 

Zoom in Korea. Seongju Residents Prepare to Block THAAD Deployment; S Korean Women Appeal for Solidarity on International Women’s Day

 

THAAD deployment in Korea will be adjacent to residential and economic hubs–schools, hospitals, markets, businesses, and farms. It will threaten the very economic and social lifeblood of the communities it invades. Such callous disregard for an entire nation’s people represents immorality and arrogance on a scale rivaling that of the classic colonial mindset, in which men and women are dehumanized to a degree that negates even basic observance of their most fundamental rights. Human dignity and the well-being of our communities ought to take precedence over the ravenous and all-consuming greed of military-industrial conglomerates. The chief beneficiaries of THAAD are corporations such as Lockheed Martin and the so-called public servants through whom they speak–those who have shamefully chosen to trample the sovereign rights of the men and women they have sworn to represent in order to advance their own self-serving needs. Koreans, who throughout their history have suffered the vicissitudes of war and occupation, are now suffering under the yoke of corrupt and dishonorable officials who sell their lives and well-being of their own sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers. It is truly a tragedy to behold. http://www.zoominkorea.org/seongju-residents-prepare-to-block-thaad-deployment-s-korean-women-appeal-for-solidarity-on-international-womens-day/

 

In Korean

 

Poem by Kim Sosang. THAAD out PEACE in

 

"유모차에 아픈 관절을 의지하며 다시 머리띠를 묶어야 한다"

http://www.newsmin.co.kr/news/18658/

 

Stop US-KOREA-JAPAN war games, stop THAAD and work for peace

http://worknworld.kctu.org/news/articleView.html?idxno=245627

 

Stop candlelight protest? 노창현의 뉴욕 편지. 광장은 이제 끝내라구요?

 

미래의 대통령은 대한민국의 국격을 세계에 드높이고 궁극적으로 민족의 숙원인 평화 통일을 위한 지렛대를 만들어주기를 간절히, 또 간절히 희구(希求) 합니다.

http://www.newsroh.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=cno&wr_id=557

 

Simone Chun. “When they go low, we go high” 그들은 저급하게 가도 우리는 품위있게 갑시다

 

http://www.newsroh.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=reporter&wr_id=196

http://www.okja.org/index.php?mid=saseol&category=2234&document_srl=51572