On April 2, after massive pressure from the government the majority of the National Assembly, the South Korean Parliament, voted with 179 voices for the bill. But 68 voices voted against the bill.

It has been two weeks since the war against Iraq began, and dozens of anti-war protests were held over the weekend in the country.

The National assembly was expected to endorse a bill yesterday afternoon approving the dispatch of S. Korean (non-combat) troops to support the U.S.-led aggression against Iraq.

A Palestinian political expert has dismissed declarations by the Bush Administration that it was interested in fostering democracy in Iraq as "a big lie."

As the US and UK coalition forces strove to the height of their illegal and indiscriminate imperialist war against Iraq, Korean activists protesting against the war earned a small victory against the Korean government. On 25th March, the National Assembly, which was supposed to vote on the motion to dispatch 600 military engineers and 100 medics to Iraq, decided to put off the vote until 2nd April.

Korean civil society and social movements were disappointed and angered by the betrayal of the President Roh Moo-hyun, who, on March 13, against all the hopes and expectation of the Korean people for a forthright leader, committed to support the U.S. war actions in his telephone conversation with U.S. president George W. Bush.

The authors urge that George W. Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard committed war crimes, referred to Paragraph 1 (c), Article 5 of "Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court"(hereinafter "Rome Statute") and must be indicted.

John Feffer is the editor of the forthcoming Power Trip: Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11 (Seven Stories, 2003) and is currently finishing a book on U.S.-Korean relations. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus (online at www.fpif.org) and a member of FPIF's Advisory Committee.

Like in Europe, Egypt, the U.S., China, Vietnam and Australia in the South Korean capital Seoul thousands demonstrated last Saturday against the U.S. led aggression against Iraq.

March 21, nearly 15,000-20,000 marched to the American Embassy in central Seoul

On 20th March 2003, the US army started to launch missiles on Iraq, while President Bush appeared to make his address on television. This invasion is an act that reaffirms the imperialist ambitions of the US, an act that is turning a deaf ear to the cries of the worldwide anti-war protests and the appeals of the Iraqi people.

The anti-war peace movement in Korea will be one in this world-wide struggle against the war. Let us rise to stop this “barbaric war” that will drive women and children and innocent people to death, bring about environmental catastrophe, and the decimation of the cultural heritage of the Sumer and Mesopotamia civilizations which have ushered in the dawn of the history of humanity.

The KCTU (Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) previously called on the workers of the world to organize an International Labour Delegation to Iraq. The purpose of the appeal for action was to express the working class’s strong opposition to the US-led war, and also to expose first-hand the atrocities that the economic sanctions and the war would bring to the region, in a stand of solidarity with the people of Iraq.

Perhaps days or hours before the attack last weekend several hundreds of thousands demonstrators protested against the planned U.S. aggression against iraq.

Participating in the international day of action for peace and against war on February 15

Approximately 400 protestors, mainly youth, gathered at Yeongdeungpo subway station. They loudly demanded an end to war preparations against Iraq and vehemently condemned Seoul's expected support of their allies in Washington.

Pictures on Dec. 31, 2002 for anti-war movement and against US military in South Korea

On Saturday, December 7, after a large rally in downtown Seoul, thousands took to the streets and turned down one blockade of riot police units after another.

Around 5,000 mostly students, activists, and religious figures braved chilly temperatures to gather at Jongmyo Park to carry the momentum of the previous Saturday's huge mass rally and subsequent demonstrations in various parts of the southern peninsula by a growing diversity of groups in order to intensify and expand the struggle to vindicate the deaths of the girls, who were ran over by a U.S. military tank last June.

Since some times, America critical voices suspecting that the planned U.S. war against Iraq is only because of the rich oil resources of Iraq.

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Two middle school students, Shim Mi-seon and Shin Hyo-sun going to their friends birthday party were crushed to death in Hyochonli, Yangju county, Gyeonggi province, by U.S. Army armored bridge carrier at about 10:30 A.M., on June 13, When the vehicle hit the girls, they were walking on side of the road.

Shin Hyo-soon and Shim Mi-sun were walking to a friend's birthday party when they were struck and killed by a United States Army bridge carrier on June 13th, in Hyochon Village near Camp Red Cloud, 15 miles north of Seoul.

Organizers are planning a large mass rally to take place at Jongmyo Park next Saturday.

Shin Hyo-soon and Shim Mi-sun were walking to a friend's birthday party when they were struck and killed by the military vehicle.