Wednesday, November 01, 2017

South Koreans Launch Actions Against Trump’s Visit
With locals’ protest against Trump and the US aggression moves gaining momentum in south Korea, 220-odd political parties and organizations including the Party of the People, People’s Democratic Party, People’s Action for Peace against War, Confederation of Democratic Trade Unions and Federation of Peasants Associations reportedly formed the Anti-Trump Joint Action on October 26 and launched a solidarity action.

That day, the organization held a press conference in Seoul in connection with its formation and made public its action plan.

Speakers asserted that they should mount a fierce protest as Trump’s bellicose remarks that if a war breaks out in the Korean peninsula it will be fought there are contrary to the spirit of 17 million candlelight protestors who want peace.

The organization issued an action declaration, which said that it would launch a protest action against Trump’s visit to south Korea as it would pose a new menace to peace and people’s livelihood with war threat, forced purchase of military hardware and pressure.

The government which is obliged to stop Trump’s reckless behaviour that will never be welcomed by the locals is taking the lead in imposing sanctions on the north and asking for the sale of US-made weapons before Trump proposes it, while praising his rhetoric, it said. Not content with succumbing to the US at its threat to abrogate the US-south Korea Free Trade Agreement, the local authorities are engrossed in humiliating diplomacy as they invite Trump as a state guest and plan to make him address the national assembly, it added.

The organization is going to launch diverse protest actions as it set the period from October 30 to November 8 as an anti-Trump action week.

KCNA

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