{"id":3179,"date":"2022-03-08T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koreapeacenow.org\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:30:06","slug":"for-international-womens-day-a-powerful-message-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapeacenow.org\/for-international-womens-day-a-powerful-message-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"For International Women\u2019s Day, a Powerful Message for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend,<\/p>\n

To mark International Women\u2019s Day, we want to highlight some of our recent efforts for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

Last week, amid Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and growing tensions in the Northeast Asia region, we organized a letter<\/a> from 100 women leaders from more than 20 countries to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and North Korea\u2019s First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son-hui, urging them to help set the stage for a diplomatic solution to avoid possible war.<\/p>\n

Without progress in negotiations between the US and North Korea for three years now, we called on the two highest-ranking women diplomats, Choe and Sherman, to help restart talks. The letter \u2014 which is signed by Nobel Peace laureates, parliamentarians, feminist activists and scholars, humanitarian workers, and others, including Gloria Steinem, South Korean Ambassador for Gender Equality Youngsook Cho, and Canadian Senator Marilou McPhedran \u2014 called on the U.S. to give up its \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign in order to achieve progress. Read the full letter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, we\u2019re happy to report new supporters of H.R.3446, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act. In recent months, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA33), Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL1), and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD8) have all signed on as co-sponsors.<\/p>\n

Supporting women\u2019s peace efforts are all the more crucial in light of recent attacks by well-financed interests seeking to prolong the Korean War. Investigative reporter Eli Clifton just published a damning expose<\/a> in The Nation<\/em> revealing just who is behind these efforts and what their financial motivations are.<\/p>\n

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In short, Annie M.H. Chan is the wealthy chairwoman of One Korea Network and the Korea Conservative Political Action Conference, which funded the costly advertising blitz attacking pro-peace efforts last year. Chan peddles conspiracy theories and fearmongering about North Korean and Chinese influence in South Korea and the US, and has financial ties to firms that export nuclear technology from the US and South Korea. \u201cFearmongering about Chinese aggression and influence, promoting the use and export of nuclear power technology, and maintaining a militarized US-South Korea alliance all serve Chan\u2019s ideological and business interests,\u201d writes Clifton. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although these well-funded attacks try to paint those calling for peace in Korea as fringe, we know that our desires for peace are shared by a broad, diverse and multi-generational movement, from members of divided Korean families to those who fought in the Korean War. We are a powerful grassroots movement and, together, we collectively call for Korea peace now!<\/p>\n

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Thank you for supporting us.<\/p>\n

In peace,<\/p>\n

Christine Ahn<\/p>\n

P.S. Here are some recent media clips:<\/p>\n

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