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Seoul pushes back on Borrell’s claim about Ukraine weapons

1Jun

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Seoul pushes back on Borrell’s claim about Ukraine weapons

The EU foreign policy chief highlighted the need for ammo shipments but did so unilaterally, South Korea’s defense ministry says EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. © Christine OLSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-Sup never discussed ammunition shipments to Ukraine with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the ministry told journalists on Sunday. It was referring to Borrell’s since-deleted tweet saying he had “a good meeting” with Lee on the sidelines of Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore. “Shared alarm at continued [North Korean] provocations and discussed Ukraine’s needs for ammunition,” he wrote at the time. The South Korean Ministry of Defense c...

South Korea approves Ukraine arms transfer

27May

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South Korea approves Ukraine arms transfer

Seoul has claimed the Wall Street Journal report was partly “inaccurate” but declined to specify further FILE PHOTO: South Korean soldiers arrange 155mm howitzer shells during a military exercise in Goseong, South Korea, April 4, 2016. © AP / Newsis / Jang Se-young South Korea has agreed to send hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine under a “confidential arrangement” with the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move would mark an about-face for Seoul, which has been reluctant to authorize lethal aid to Kiev. Under the reported agreement, South Korea will first ship the munitions to the US, which will then forward them on to Ukraine, sources told the WSJ on Wednesday. Seoul and the Pentagon have so far de...

The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition

20May

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The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition

The revival of a classic work of journalism which exposes the gap between the official story and reality By I. F. Stone and introduction by Tim Beal and Gregory Elich At the height of the McCarthy era and the inception of the Cold War, the great journalist I.F. Stone released The Hidden History of the Korean War, a courageous work of investigative journalism that demolished the official story about America’s so-called “forgotten war.” As the war spiraled to its conclusion, Stone closely analyzed openly available U.S. intelligence narratives on the war’s official start, and the actions of key players like John Foster Dulles, General Douglas MacArthur, and Chiang Kai-shek. The result of his investigations was a controversial book that raised questio...

South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards

14Apr

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South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards

Strikers demand job security, healthcare, social housing and the right to free assembly in latest class-war skirmish. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel South Korean workers have been organising over the past few months against their monopolistic employers and the miserable working conditions they offer. It is the same organised struggle that is needed by British workers. On 18 October, south Korean workers walked off jobs and took to the streets, demanding better working conditions and job security and in defence of their ability to assemble and protest. The strike was organised by the Korean Confederation of Trade unions (KCTU), south Korea’s largest trade union organisation with more than 1.1 million members. The umbrella group re...

US-south Korean war games are fuelling the drive towards war in the Pacific

14Apr

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US-south Korean war games are fuelling the drive towards war in the Pacific

The USA and its south Korean stooges are recklessly stoking the flames of war on the Korean peninsula by staging DPRK invasion and nuclear strike rehearsals. Party statement Subscribe to our channel South Korean soldiers rehearse an invasion of the DPRK under the supervision of their US commanders. This year has seen the resumption and expansion of joint military exercises between US and south Korean forces, amidst dangerously heightened rhetoric from the southern regime. There has also been an expansion of the rehearsal scenarios to include a ‘pre-emptive’ nuclear first strike and DPRK leadership assassination operations. At the same time, joint exercises have been conducted for the first time between the USA, south Korea and a remilitarising Japan, showing clearly an...

Pyongyang fires missile ahead of US-South Korea military drills

20Feb

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Pyongyang fires missile ahead of US-South Korea military drills

North Korea had warned of an ‘unprecedented’ response to allied exercises North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. © SAUL LOEB / AFP North Korea has fired a long-range ballistic missile from its east coast into the sea according to the South Korean military, a day after warning Washington and Seoul that it would issue a “strong” response to upcoming military exercises between the two allied nations. Seoul didn’t immediately report where the missile landed, but Japan’s vice minister for defense, Toshiro Ino, said it was estimated to have splashed down in waters around 125 miles to the west of Oshimo Island off the coast of Hokkaido, inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. According to Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Tokyo is maintaining close dialog...

South Korea and US respond to missile launch by Pyongyang

19Feb

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South Korea and US respond to missile launch by Pyongyang

The allies' warplanes took to the air as a show of force, Seoul says South Korean and US jets accompanying American B-1B bombers strategic bombers. © AFP / South Korean Defense Ministry South Korea and the US staged combined air drills on Sunday, a day after North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Seoul have said. As part of the exercise, South Korean F-35A and F-15K fighters, and US F-16s escorted American B-1B aircraft entering the South’s air defense identification zone, the JCS said. It didn’t specify how many B-1B strategic bombers were involved. Some ten aircraft were scrambled as part of the drills, according to Yonhap news agency. They flew in formation over the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and...

Pentagon chief makes nuclear pledge to Asian ally

22Jan

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Pentagon chief makes nuclear pledge to Asian ally

Washington and Seoul will conduct “tabletop exercises focused on nuclear threats” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrives at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, January 30, 2023 © AP /Lee Jin-man US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has reaffirmed Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to South Korea, promising to deploy the full range of US conventional and nuclear military capabilities if needed to deter what he described as increasingly “destabilizing” actions by North Korea. In an editorial published by Yonhap news agency on Tuesday amid his third visit to Seoul as US defense chief, Austin claimed that only the presence of thousands of American troops and the “most advanced” military assets has ensu...

Resolutely condemn US and South Korean provocative war exercises

19Oct

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Resolutely condemn US and South Korean provocative war exercises

Posted by: John Phoenix US imperialism and its minion, the South Korean regime, began large scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 – the first in four years. These exercises, held along the border with the DPRK, included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the largest-scale drills undertaken since 2018 at which time they were scaled down ahead of a summit to be held between the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, and the then US president, Donald Trump. Coinciding with these drills, South Korea also staged a four-day civil defence exercise involving 480,000 people. Yoon Suk-yeol, the South Korean president, stated that “in order to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula, our watertight security posture must ...

21Sep

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South Korea, USA

Resolutely condemn US and South Korean provocative war exercises

US imperialism and its minion, the South Korean regime, began large scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 – the first in four years. These exercises, held along the border with the DPRK, included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the largest-scale drills undertaken since 2018 at which time they were scaled down ahead of a summit to be held between the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, and the then US president, Donald Trump. Coinciding with these drills, South Korea also staged a four-day civil defence exercise involving 480,000 people. Yoon Suk-yeol, the South Korean president, stated that “in order to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula, our watertight security posture must serve as a basis”. Just the...