Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with korea www.salem-news.com 2010 This year's "Ride for Freedom" demonstration in Washington D.C, Sunday, May 27, 2012, marks Rolling Thunder's 25th Anniversary. The purpose of this demonstration is to bring awareness to the government so full accountability can be achieved for all Prisoners of War (POW) and those Missing in Action (MIA) from all wars. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/rolling-thunder-cat.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/rolling-thunder-cat.php Mon, 21 May 2012 05:08:00 PDT Few things are more "American" than the roar of hundreds of thousands of bikers from all over the nation riding through Washington D.C. to the sound of cheering, flag waving supporters of our POW/MIA's and veterans. They honor more than 58,000 who gave their lives in the Vietnam War and the countless number left behind. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/rolling-thunder-1-cat.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/rolling-thunder-1-cat.php Mon, 21 May 2012 05:05:00 PDT Most would agree that it is awfully hard to put a price on a human life. If you are a Korean working for Samsung, sadly, the price is not high enough. Korean officials and the Samsung company are acting in complicity, coordinating their efforts to silence and ignore the growing evidence of a cancer cluster among electronics manufacturing workers at Samsung. http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/samsung-worker-deaths-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/samsung-worker-deaths-wg.php Thu, 17 May 2012 03:19:00 PDT An en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its decision in our case brought on behalf of veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In its decision, the Ninth Circuit held that a federal statute closes the courthouse door to constitutional claims by veterans. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/vuft-newsletter.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/vuft-newsletter.php Thu, 10 May 2012 16:01:00 PDT “The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis” is the subject of Bruce Gagnon's six-city tour of Washington State. Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and long-time member of Veterans For Peace. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/gagnon-speech-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/gagnon-speech-le.php Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:01:00 PDT Phil Leveque, who fought in the 89th Infantry Division (some members shown to the right), wrote, We were driven by the belief that we had to defeat an obscene enemy to get to go home. It was General Ridgeway of the Paratroopers said with conviction... "The best military weapon is the American Infantryman." http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/price-war-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/price-war-pl.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:39:00 PDT Did you know that 10 to 18% of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans may have post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD? Do you know the signs and symptoms and where to turn for help? A team leader at the Salem Oregon Veterans Health Administration, will speak on these issues and answer questions at an informative lecture on our returning veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder on Thursday, in Stayton. http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/ptsd-stayton.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/ptsd-stayton.php Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:20:00 PDT Isn’t it possible that North Korea's latest rocket-launch-gone-bad, and for that matter all of the previous ones, are actually successes disguised cleverly as failures? Not an embarrassment but a victory for its newest leader Kim Jong Un? http://salem-news.com/articles/april142012/nkorea-rockets-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april142012/nkorea-rockets-rb.php Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:02:00 PDT One of the most vivid memories I have of my service in the U.S. Senate was of an early Democratic caucus. It was in January of 1973, not long after President Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, had ordered the carpet bombing of Hanoi in an effort to strong arm the Vietnamese into surrendering. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/no-me-war-ja.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/no-me-war-ja.php Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:24:00 PDT There is very much widespread ignorance about what PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is all about. There has been a litany of "homesickness", "miss their mothers", "miss their girlfriends". PTSD is the fear of death while it is erupting all around a soldier. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/infantry-death-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132012/infantry-death-pl.php Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:34:00 PDT Veterans who are in need of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care and due process of disability claims, it is our Government’s obligation to take responsibility and be sympathetic to those in need, The American people need to query their members of Congress and Senate. Why won’t they help our veterans in need? We Vietnam veterans who are sick need the help of our Congress and Senate. Please do what is right. http://salem-news.com/articles/april032012/ao-news.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april032012/ao-news.php Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:28:00 PDT Mr. Song Kyung-Dong, a poet, and Mr. Jeong Jin-Woo, a member of the progressive party, suggested a peaceful assembly for solidarity in support of Ms. Kim Jin-sook. They have now been charged with numerous criminal offenses. Ms. Kim has occupied the top of a crane in the workplace urging for the withdrawal of illegal layoffs by her company. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/korean-suppression-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/korean-suppression-wg.php Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:53:00 PDT Both the Indian Prime Minister and the Korean President should note that today the Supreme Court has passed a judgment that the Environmental Clearance given to POSCO was ultra vires. It means that neither the Prime Minister of India nor its leading Ministry has people’s interest in mind; and they have yet again proven that they don’t respect Indian laws. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/posco-loses-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/posco-loses-as.php Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:55:00 PDT International peace activist and organizer Bruce Gagnon comes to Washington State April 24 to April 30, 2012 to engage local communities around the theme “The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis.” Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and long-time member of Veterans For Peace. http://salem-news.com/articles/march262012/bruce-gagnon-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march262012/bruce-gagnon-le.php Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:44:00 PDT Today’s cold-blooded murder of at least 16 Afghani civilians by a U.S. Army soldier is the latest in a decade-long history of atrocities carried out by the NATO occupiers. It will be remembered as the tipping point in a criminal war that grows more criminal with each passing month. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/answer-statement.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/answer-statement.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:07:00 PDT Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era. For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry. http://salem-news.com/articles/march042012/machine-stop-dm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march042012/machine-stop-dm.php Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:48:00 PST The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Per Diem Only component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program. This Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) includes funding priorities for those applicants who will serve specific homeless veteran populations that are identified in this NOFA... http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/homeless-vets-ps.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/homeless-vets-ps.php Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:58:00 PST According to one of my experts... there is much more to consider than what is listed here, especially when trying to get the earliest effective date possible for the PTSD grant, but what is here doesn't appear to be wrong. There are two basic steps to receive a disability from the Veterans Administration for PTSD. The first step is filing a claim with the VA for PTSD. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/ptsd-form-dc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/ptsd-form-dc.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 PST Thousands gathered in snow-bound streets for the huge funeral procession of leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang. As the hearse passed, I suddenly realized that the real problem of North Korea lies not in its unmonitored nuclear capabilities, but rather in its people and in their ostensible fear of freedom. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/korean-fears-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/korean-fears-ae.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:43:00 PST As our writer in India Arun Shrivastava detailed in his recent report, the Korean firm, Pohang Iron and Steel Company or POSCO, is now the Trojan-horse of the western banking and financial cartel. What should have been an organized, project, has become a loathsome issue and activists say the POSCO money has stifled the good senses of officials with the Indian government, the state of Orissa civil administration, and the police. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/posco-letter-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/posco-letter-tk.php Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:19:00 PST However, there is another side to the story that might be hard to swallow. North Korea has been a promoter of youthful leadership at the apex of power. The story started in 1994 when Kim Jong-Il succeeded his late father, Kim Il-Sung. He was only 42 years. Today, at 27 or thereabouts, his successor and son, Kim Jong-Un, is a boy in all respects. Not many countries, including the established democracies, can boast of propelling such a young person to ultimate power. http://salem-news.com/articles/december222011/kim-jong.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december222011/kim-jong.php Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:30:00 PST The controversial political leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, died yesterday. He was the supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was changed and the leader's title was implicitly deemed the "Supreme Leader". As the commander of the 4th largest army in the world, Kim Jon-il has been nothing less than a controversial figure in his lifetime. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/kim-john-il-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/kim-john-il-tk.php Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:25:00 PST Residents on the South Korean Island of Jeju are continuing to resist the siting of a huge naval base there. http://salem-news.com/articles/november082011/s-korea-military.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november082011/s-korea-military.php Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:13:00 PST The 45 poems that compose KOREAN ECHOES draw the reader into piecing together a puzzle, with each poem presenting a small measure of the Korean War soldier's world, a world wholly embedded in the deepest design at the heart of human experience, embedded as if words were shrapnel. Steel moments of clarity are rendered from language and pounded into consciousness through Tom Sheehan's craftsmanship, each poem a sharpened moment of awareness of all humanity can be, do, and endure, and still love life and living. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/korean-echoes-sd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/korean-echoes-sd.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:57:00 PDT I was in Seoul, South Korea this month at the invitation of the wonderful EBS TV Documentary Festival, and was truly, happily surprised to see a resurgence of activism among ordinary Koreans. Don't get me wrong. Since its founding, Korea has had a tradition of fierce, die-hard activism (which Koreans themselves may attribute to a diet high in garlic and red pepper, as well as their commitment to social justice), but this ferocity seemed to have gone dormant in the mid-nineties. http://salem-news.com/articles/august302011/koreans-march-il.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august302011/koreans-march-il.php Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:01:00 PDT Former U.S. Army Captain Phil Steward provided testimony to the Korean National Assembly on Monday, August 1st, on the U.S. Army’s use of herbicdes in Korea during 1968-1969, according to a news story in The Chosunilbo and confirmed in an email from Steward to me today. The Chairman of the Korean National Sub-Committee asked Steward to help in obtaining statements from Korean veterans about their probably exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides. http://salem-news.com/articles/august092011/korea-agent-orange-ro.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august092011/korea-agent-orange-ro.php Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:30:00 PDT Today, Press Secretary Jay Carney made the following statement on progress on Trade Adjustment Assistance for American workers and pending free trade agreements that will support tens of thousands of American jobs. “President Obama has fought for an ambitious trade agenda that doubles exports in five years, levels the playing field for American workers, and reflects American values..." http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/trade-agreements.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/trade-agreements.php Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:27:00 PDT With deepening strategic ties between India and USA, there is also increased military-to-military contact for training and inter-operability. Both India and USA are democracies, one the largest and the other the oldest, both with volunteer militaries statutorily under civilian control. Just as the two democracies have much to learn from each other, so too, have their respective militaries and their respective veterans. http://salem-news.com/articles/june232011/india-veterans-sv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june232011/india-veterans-sv.php Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:00 PDT The word prosperity most frequently refers to increase in material wealth. Not so often, it refers in a wider sense to all round development of individuals and society, with justice and social equity being the corner stone. There is perhaps no society, past or present, in which all sections of people have become prosperous, especially in the latter sense. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222011/prosperity-cost-sv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222011/prosperity-cost-sv.php Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:48:00 PDT This is the transcript of a successful EFT session with a three-tour Iraq War Veteran of the U.S. Army. Disclaimer: Caution-- veterans with PTSD symptoms: This is a graphic account of severe combat trauma. If you are easily triggered, don’t read this. If you choose to read it and feel yourself becoming triggered, turn your attention away from your memories and back to the narrative. http://salem-news.com/articles/june192011/ptsd-healing-sh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june192011/ptsd-healing-sh.php Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:54:00 PDT