Adopted on 25 May 2007, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia We the civil society members working for conflict prevention in Northeast Asia gathered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 24-25 May 2007. We the participants reaffirmed our commitments made in the 2005 Tokyo Agenda and the 2006 Mt. Kumgang Action Plan, and explored further common efforts. The meeting focused...
2007/05/25 00:00 2007/05/25 00:00
Written statement * submitted by the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), a non-governmental organization in special consultative status A Statement from Human Rights and Social Organizations in the Republic of Korea regarding the Report of Vitit Muntarbhorn, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democ...
2007/03/20 16:34 2007/03/20 16:34
Joint Statement* Northeast Asian Citizens’ Call for a Peaceful Solution to the Missile Crisis We, citizens working for peace in Northeast Asia, express our deep concern over the recent missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Though the DPRK claims the tests to be an “exercise of its legitimate right as...
2006/07/11 00:00 2006/07/11 00:00
North Korea pushed forward with their missile launch last week. Other nations such as South Korea, the U.S., and Japan reacted by taking a hard-line approach. As a result, these actions immediately complicated the security situation on the Korean Peninsula. We express regret that despite concerns from South Korea and the international community, N...
2006/07/10 00:00 2006/07/10 00:00
Civil Society’s Call on the Six-Party TalksJuly 22, 2005 NGO leaders from Northeast Asia, namely South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and Mongolia, and the US, have jointly issued a statement at the Untied Nations to call on the governments of the region for a peaceful resolution to the nuclear crisis over North Korea prior to the resumed Six-Party Talk sch...
2005/07/23 17:49 2005/07/23 17:49
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-first session Item 9 of the provisional agenda QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD Written statement* submitted by the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), a non-governmental organization in special consultative status App...
2005/02/14 00:00 2005/02/14 00:00
The Korean Civil Society Statement in Response to The May 4, 2004 Report of the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 4011, the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 May 19, 2004 We are members of the Korean civil society who work to promote peace and human rights in the Korean peninsula. This st...
2004/05/19 00:00 2004/05/19 00:00
What is the North Korea HEU Program? Jungmin KANG, Nuclear Analyst The second round of six-party talks held in Beijing, China on February 25-28 saw certain agreements on major principles, such as the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but failed to make any progress on the most urgent issues such as North Korea's controversial highl...
2004/04/01 00:00 2004/04/01 00:00
The second round of six-party talks begins on February 25 in Beijing, China. In view of the various expectations and concerns for the talks that is set to resume after much difficulty, we ardently hope that it develops into a turning point for a tangible resolution of the crisis that has hung over the Korean Peninsula for so long. We believe the si...
2004/02/23 00:00 2004/02/23 00:00
Call for peace in Korea by KOREAN PEACE COMMITTEE We, the undersigned citizens of New Zealand, join with Americans of goodwill in calling on the US government to engage in meaningful negotiations with North Korea to · resolve the present crisis on the basis of non-aggression and removal of sanctions in exchange for the verifiable...
2003/12/16 00:00 2003/12/16 00:00