재미동포평화연대(KAP)는 미국내 진보단체인 국제행동센터(IAC)에서 발표한 긴급 메시지를 돌리며 미국의 대북적대시 정책을 반대하는 서명을 촉구했다.

이 진보단체는 미국 극우세력들이 연방정부의 자금지원을 받아 유럽과 미국에서 북한의 인권문제를 구실로 대북적대시 정책을 추진하며 사실을 왜곡하고 있다고 폭로하며 오는 3월22일 워싱턴 디씨와 벨지움 부뤼셀에서 이른바 북인권문제라는 미명아래 코리아반도를 긴장으로 몰고 가고 있는 사태에 대해 경종을 불러 일으키는 한편 반세기 이상 분단된 코리아반도는 반드시 정전상태에서 평화협정이 이뤄져야 하고, 외세의 간섭없이 자신의 운명을 자신이 해결하도록 해야 한다고 설명하며 각계에서 서명운동에 동참해 줄 것을 촉구했다. [서명운동에 대한 편지 견본과 수신처들을 소개한 내용들은 아래를 참조하기 바란다.]
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North and South KOREA
One Nation, One People!
URGENT APPEAL OF SOLIDARITY!


The Korean Americans for Peace Coalition, Los Angeles, is circulating this
URGENT MESSAGE from the International Action Center to ask your
participation in the email/phone/fax campaign to oppose the upcoming North
Korean human rights events taking place on March 22 in Washington D.C. and
Brussels, Belgium.

People of North Korea are our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters whom we
have longed to be reunited for more than a half century.?The U.S.
government refuses to end the Korean War by signing the Peace Treaty, and is
trying to hamper with the Korean people"s self-determination to reunify as
one nation, one people by continuing to demonize North Korea.

Your participation in this campaign will be deeply appreciated!?

In solidarity,


Younghui Kim and Jamie Kim
Co-Coordinators
Korean Americans for Peace
KAPLosAngeles@yahoo.com


Dear Friends, this email is going out to thousands around the country to
oppose an international campaign of villification by the U.S. government to
brand the the DPRK (north Korea) as a violator of human rights. We hope you
will join us in opposing this campaign.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Freedom House are
spearheading this U.S. government sponsored and funded campaign. NED is
organizing a so-called informational event about "human rights" in north
Korea next Wednesday, March 22nd, in Washington, DC. This event is part of
an international campaign to villify north Korea, and bring about the
overthrow of its government, replacing it with a U.S. client state.

A "private" hearing on North Korean refugees will also be held at the
Council of the European Union, and the Third International Human Rights
Conference on North Korea will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Brussels.
The conference is being sponsored by the U.S.-based Freedom House, which
received $2 million in funding from the U.S. State Department. Freedom House
and NED work closely together.

As part of this right-wing campaign, a few days ago, the Bush administration
announced a new national security strategy in which it vowed to end
`tyranny" in north Korea and declared that the U.S. is ready to take "all
necessary measures," including pre-emptive strikes against that country.

In the U.S., NED is attempting to garner support from the progressive
community for this campaign, and have elected to hold the DC event at the
Bus Boys And Poets cafe, which is usually a venue for progressive events.
They have even attempted to do outreach for the event amongst the
progressive community.

We strongly urge all to read the form letter below and send an email, call
and/or fax the public officials and event organizers listed below,
registering opposition to the events and demanding they be cancelled. The
form letter can serve as the basis for an email, phone call or fax.

In D.C., The International Action Center will be organizing a picket at Bus
Boys And Poets (2021 14th St NW, near U street in DC) of this reactionary
event, starting at 6:30pm-that"s next Wednesday, March 22nd. The IAC will be
there with signs and informational flyers. Please join the picket if you are
local to the area.

Contact info for public officials and the reactionaries organizing the
so-called informational events about "human rights" in North Korea follows.


Please email, call or fax them to lodge your protest:
Sample letter is attached below.?But please note that some officers are not
accepting "emails" from undesignated parties (pls. use fax or phone).?


(You can copy and paste the following email list.?Please note that this
list does not include everyone"s email address.)

davidirahurwitz@hotmail.com
hrnk_org@hotmail.com
fhdc@freedomhouse.org
president@whitehouse.gov
sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov


The DC organizer:
David Hurwitz
davidirahurwitz@hotmail.com
(202.364.1199)

The DC Speaker:
Debra Liang-Fenton, Executive Director
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
1101 15th Street, NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
hrnk_org@hotmail.com
Phone: (202.293.7396 x651)
Fax: (202) 223-6042 http://www.hrnk.org/

The Brussels Organizer (Freedom House)
Tel. (202) 296 5101
Fax: (202) 293 2840
E-mail: fhdc@freedomhouse.org

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
president@whitehouse.gov

Vice President Richard Cheney
Eisenhower Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20501
202-456-9000
vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520
phone: 202-647-4000
fax: 202-647-2283

Secretary General Kofi Annan
United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
sg@un.org

Sen. William Frist
Board Member, National Endowment for Democracy
email from http://frist.senate.gov
SH-509
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3344
Fax: (202) 228-1264

Rep. Nancy Pelosi
E-mail: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
2371 RHOB
Washington, D.C. 20515-0508
Phone: (202) 225-4965
Fax: (202) 225-8259

Sen. Richard Lugar
Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
E-mail: senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov
SH-306
Washington, D.C. 20510-1401
Phone: (202) 224-4814
Fax: (202) 228-0360

Rep. Henry Hyde
Chair, House International Relations Committee
Email via website: http://www.house.gov/hyde
2110 RHOB
Washington, D.C. 20515-1306
Phone: (202) 225-4561
Fax: (202) 225-1166




COPY THIS SAMPLE LETTER
(Please type your name, city & state at the end of the letter):?


President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice,
Secretary-General Annan, Congressional Leaders, and officials of the
National Endowment for Democracy and the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in
North Korea,


I am writing this letter to oppose an international campaign that has been
launched by the U.S. Government to brand the DPRK (north Korea) as a
violator of human rights. I demand that all aspects of this campaign be
stopped immediately.


Part of this campaign is an "informational event" in Washington, D.C. being
organized by the so-called U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
This committee is nothing but a front for the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED), which the Los Angeles Times, without a hint of irony,
called "a private group funded by Congress!"


The campaign also includes an "International Human Rights Conference on
North Korea" being held in Brussels, Belgium. This conference is being
organized by The U.S. based organization Freedom House, which received $2
million in funding from the U.S. State Department.


The board of the "U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea" is packed
with former White House, Pentagon and CIA officials, neo-cons and members
of congress. It is intimately connected with NED. I demand that these phony
events be cancelled immediately! NED"s first president, Allen Weinstein,
admitted openly that "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years
ago by the CIA."


NED has also infiltrated into Venezuela and has tried to overthrow the
democratically elected government of President Hugo Chavez. While they tout
themselves as champions of human rights and democracy, the brazen
interference of a U.S. government funded organization into other countries
affairs shows they are the very antithesis of real democracy.


NED has also funded NGO"s in Eastern Europe that have been largely
responsible for the overthrow of governments in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan
and Ukraine. Today some 450,000 of these NGOs operate in Russia. Also on
the U.S.-funded NGOs target list are Iran, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Belarus,
and Haiti.


Hiding under the moniker of "human rights", the NGO"s subvert
and overthrow governments that don"t follow U.S. foreign policy dictates or
allow free reign for U.S. corporate interests.


And the penetration of U.S. funded NGO"s into a country is often a prelude
to war. In Yugoslavia for example, NED funded NGO"s to organize both
Serbian and Albanian "opposition" groups to weaken the government. When the
government tried to counter these moves, the Clinton administration said it
was violating human rights and a war soon followed.


A war of aggression is the worst possible violation of human rights. A new
U.S. war on the Korean peninsula would surely bring the deaths of tens or
hundreds of thousand of innocent Koreans, and possibly of many U.S. service
men and women as well. I am firmly opposed to any U.S. war moves on the
Korean peninsula.


The Korean peninsula is today occupied by 37,000 U.S. troops, who despite
the persistent demands of the Korean people, have refused to leave. The U.S.
military acts as in imperial overlord, trampling on the rights and lives of
the people.


The most heartfelt desire of the Korean people is for reunification of
their homeland. Successive U.S. administrations have sought to keep the
Korean people divided to maintain their dominant position on the peninsula.


Presently the U.S. is turning South Korea into a forward military station
for possible aggression against other parts of the world. They are also
planning to utilize South Korea to build up the U.S. led Missile Defense
system in Asia.


North Korea, like Cuba, is a small, genuinely independent country that has
wrested itself free of U.S. domination and is constantly struggling to
maintain that independence. The U.S. should keep its hands off and stop
meddling in the affairs of independent sovereign states.


U.S. lecturing on "Human Rights" to other countries is utter hypocrisy! Five
million Koreans died during the U.S. war there from 1950 to 1953. U.S.
massacres of Korean civilians are now well documented, such as the machine
gunning of hundreds at No Gun Ri. The U.S. occupation of the southern part
of Korea resulted in a brutal military dictatorship and the jailing of tens
of thousands of political prisoners.


The Abu Graib torture scandal, the prison camp in Guantanamo, Cuba, the
killing of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians, have exposed before the
eyes of the whole world that the U.S. government is the world"s greatest
violator of human rights.


Disband the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Stop the
slanderous villification campaign against the DPRK now!




YOUR NAME HERE
CITY, STATE