🎄 2025 Reflections | December KPNGN Newsletter
Dear Friend,
Join us for our final KPNGN meeting of 2025, where we’ll reflect on our mobilizing and advocacy work for Korea peace with a special video presentation. Come festive! Bring a drink! RSVP here.
Upcoming Event
Thursday, Dec. 11 at 11am PT/2pm ET | Korea Peace Power Hour: Support the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act
Join us for an end-of-year virtual power hour phone-banking session to urge members of Congress to support H.R.1841, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act. KPNGN is co-hosting this session alongside the American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Church & Society and Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Korean American Peace Fund, and Women Cross DMZ. RSVP here.
Recommended Viewings
From the Education Committee:
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- Another Eulsa Year, another blow to Korea’s sovereignty examines the unfavorable outcome of recent U.S.-ROK tariff negotiations in the context of Korea’s painful history of colonization by Japan.
- South Korea is not a US outpost offers critical analysis on U.S.F.K. Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson’s argument for “turning the Korean Peninsula into a launchpad that is always available for US military contingencies.”
- Korean military expert calls pursuit of nuclear submarine ‘vanity of a nation drunk on delusion of becoming world power’ provides a scathing critique of President Lee Jae Myung’s plans to develop nuclear-powered submarines for South Korea’s arsenal.
- Lee hints at willingness to scale back drills with US to resume dialogue with North Korea. The article also discusses possibilities for Lee Jae
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Sincerely,
Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network