Frontline Struggles Against U.S. Militarism in Northeast Asia: ISC International Forum, Building Peace, October 28
This enlarging cache of U.S.-led anti-China coalitions in the region, and the intensification of joint and multinational war games—such as the live-fire “Combined Annihilation drills” this May, the “largest U.S.-South Korea military drills in 70 years,” or Ulchi Freedom Shield this August, which involved the use of nuclear assets—raises the threat of regional or even global war. To prevent war and build peace in Northeast Asia, and join forces with activists and groups working toward a growing non-aligned movement within and beyond the region, the Seoul-based International Strategy Center organized a two-day online forum on October 28, focused on frontline anti-war struggles in Northeast Asia, and the 29th, focused on peace and non-aligned movements around the world. This article details the key topics and discussions from the October 28th forum.
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Trilateral Missile Defense System a Step Towards Asian NATO
The United States, Japan, and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea’s missile launches, more worrisome, it escalates tensions in the region with China through the “NATOification” of all three countries, agreed upon in the “Spirit of Camp David” agreement.
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Okinawa: A bastion for peace?
The Kishida government has ramped up military buildup in preparation for a potential war in Taiwan, including upgrading civilian airports for military use. The most vocal protests to the Japanese government’s militarism have come from Okinawa, who would bear the brunt of the cost of war. A 2022 study revealed that 83 percent of Okinawans believed that Okinawa’s bases would be targeted during a conflict.
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McCarthyism is Leading Us to War
Those that call China an enemy of the U.S. have yet to tell us how and why that is so. The Western media repeatedly fails to uphold the basic tenets of good journalism when painting China as a global threat: China’s last armed conflict was the four-week Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979; in contrast, since 1945, when it “cast itself as the global peacekeeper,” the US has been in a state of endless war and invasion , not to mention its 20-year wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And yet based on media portrayals, Russian or Chinese spy balloons are flying all around us. Why does the US conjure imaginary enemies? For armaments to be manufactured and generate profit for the war industry, public consent also needs to be manufactured. Without such an enemy, real or perceived, maintaining military budgets ten and a hundred times the size of most countries would be impossible.
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We invite you to 2023 ISC International Forum Online Event "Building Peace: Preventing War in Northeast Asia"
As conflicts and tensions rise in Northeast Asia, intellectuals and activists working on the front lines for peace will gather to foster solidarity. Please check out our speakers and disccussants of the forum and sign up NOW!!
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Okinawa: A bastion for peace?
Yoshikawa says that peace movements are responding by working to “create a larger, more cohesive peace movement” that is organizing events and rallies to which peace groups from mainland Japan and abroad are invited. The growing US-Japan-South Korea trilateral alliance has “sparked a counter-alliance among peace movements” in each country. If Okinawa is an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US to wage war, it can also become a bastion for movements to wage peace.
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<INFOR DECK>Preparing for War Is the Beginning: An Early Warning for Northeast Asia
July 27 marked the 70th anniversary of the 1953 ceasefire to the Korean War. In the three years leading up to the anniversary, South Korean peace movements organized the international Korea Peace Appeal campaign to replace the armistice agreement with a peace treaty to conclude the 70-plus-year Korean War. The anniversary has come and gone, but, instead of peace, the Joe Biden, Yoon Suk Yeol, and Fumio Kishida administrations are stoking tensions in the Korean Peninsula as a smokescreen to build a NATO-level U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral alliance against China.
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