Summer Updates from the Korea Peace Community | July Newsletter
Dear Friend,
Join our Monthly National Call this Thursday, July 9 at 5pm PT/8pm ET! This month’s meeting will be held as a space for community news. We’ll share regional and committee updates. We’ll also provide updates on the ongoing 2026 Korea Peace Advocacy Summer and mobilizing grassroots advocates for peace. RSVP here!
Immediately after, we will resume our three-part Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network Orientation with an overview of KPNGN. Please stay on this same link from 9-10 pm ET to join.
Every year, Korea Peace Advocacy Summer brings hundreds of people from across the country to organize with fellow community members to challenge elected officials to support peace legislation.. Participants join virtual and in-person meetings with members of Congress to share personal stories and urge members to support policies focused on Korea peace. In addition to the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act, this year’s advocacy days will include advocacy to challenge bloated U.S. military spending and justice for victims of militarized gender-based violence. Join us this summer and register today!
🎐 Upcoming Events
July 9, 2026 at 6pm PT | GYOPO Learning Circle: Lessons from the Pacific: Feminist Solidarities Towards a Demilitarized Pacific | Los Angeles, CA
Join GYOPO for a Learning Circle: Lessons from the Pacific program with Professor Jinah Kim and activist-educator Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey to reflect on the long arc of transnational feminist organizing towards a demilitarized Asia-Pacific. In particular, we will discuss how artistic practices and creative interventions have illuminated histories across generations, forged connections, and strengthened communities actively resisting militarism in Korea, Asia, and communities across Oceania. This event is presented in partnership with Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, Women Cross DMZ, and Nodutdol. RSVP and learn more here
July 26, 2026 at 5 pm | Armistice to Peace Rally | Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
This year marks 73 years since the United States and North Korea signed the Korean Armistice Agreement, which temporarily halted but did not formally end the Korean War. This unresolved war has kept families separated and is the root cause of tensions on the peninsula. Rally with us at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and join our call to end the Korean War! Everyone is welcome to join. RSVP and learn more here.
This rally is co-hosted by the Korea Peace Network, an alliance of concerned U.S.-based civil society groups working together to establish a just peace on the Korean Peninsula through peacebuilding, engagement, reconciliation, and dialogue between all concerned governments and civil society groups.
📣 Take Action
- Write to your representative today to challenge exorbitant U.S. military spending in Korea by advocating for changes to the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).
- Urge your Member of Congress to Support Peace in Korea and co-sponsor H.R.1841, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act (PKPA), which calls for a formal end to the Korean War through a binding peace agreement and a review on current travel restrictions to the DPRK.
📚 Recommended Readings
From the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network Education Committee:
- “Is the United States Ready to Relinquish OPCON?” 조건부 전시작전통제권(OPCON) 전환 체제는 대한민국의 주권을 제한하며 사실상 속국 상태를 고착화한다. This article shares analysis on the history and current status of U.S. wartime operational control of South Korea’s military and ongoing debates on transferring control back to the South Korean government.
- Xi, Kim hold talks in Pyongyang, pledge to advance China-DPRK ties. This article covers the recent China-DPRK summit and meetings between Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un.
- Former ministers criticize Seoul’s North Korea policy. This article reports on public criticism made by former ROK Unification Ministers on the Lee administration’s joint ROK-EU condemnation of the DPRK, its nuclear program, and its alliance with Russia.
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In peace,
Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network