Register now for Korea Peace Advocacy Week!

Dear Friend,

With tensions on the Korean Peninsula running dangerously high, it’s clear we need a non-military solution to the security crisis in Korea — now.

Join us for this year’s Korea Peace Advocacy Week, March 18-22, 2024, as we tell members of Congress to support a peace-first approach. Decades of isolation and pressure have failed us.

Your participation is crucial for building support to officially end the Korean War and replace the armistice with a peace agreement. We must continue to tell our stories and make our voices heard to elected officials. Can we count on you to participate? Register now!

Participants will join two or three half-hour online meetings via Zoom with staff from your Representative’s office, sharing personal stories and urging members to support H.R.1369, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act.

Please register by March 1. We’ll send you information about an online training session happening the week of March 4. And read what a previous participant had to say about why he participates in Advocacy Week.

In other news:

• JOIN: On Thursday, February 8 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, join our monthly Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network meeting where historian Mark Tseng Putterman (@tsengputterman) will discuss his research on Asian American anti-imperialism during the Cold War period, focusing on how Asian American activists worked across ethnic, class, and generational lines. Join us as we discuss how prior generations of Asian American anti-imperialist activism can inform our work today to end the war in Korea and end U.S. militarism globally. Register here.

• JOIN: Today, February 1 at 2pm PT/5pm ET, CODEPINK will host a webinar, “North Korea Is Not Our Enemy,” with Women Cross DMZ’s Echo to give context to Kim Jong Un’s recent announcement that North Korea will not pursue reconciliation with South Korea, and ways to de-escalate tensions in Northeast Asia. Register here.

• WATCH: “What’s behind North Korea’s policy change towards South Korea?” Women Cross DMZ Board Member Ji-Yeon Yuh was recently featured on Al Jazeera to discuss Kim Jong Un’s recent announcement, what North Korea really wants, and how the Biden administration should respond.

• WATCH: “The Cost of U.S. Militarization in Hawaiʻi: Climate, Housing, and Community Impacts.” Christine Ahn explains why Hawaiʻi is especially vulnerable to a potential war with China and North Korea, and why we must double down on our calls for a diplomatic solution.

• READ: “What [Beyond Utopia] lacks is discussion of the United States’ unsavory role in creating the harsh conditions inside North Korea that contribute to defectors being forced to flee.” Read Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Member Iris Kim’s op-ed in The Daily Beast about why the Academy was right to exclude the North Korean defector documentary Beyond Utopia from its nominees.

• READ: Independent journalist Tim Shorrock did a deep dive into the inaccuracies in Beyond Utopia. Read his piece, “Beyond Utopia: Another False Narrative About Korea” for a point-by-point rebuttal of the film’s portrayal of Korean history.

Thank you for your support. I hope you’ll join us for these important events!

Cathi