Korean community calls for peace across the peninsula, 70 years after the armistice

Peter Boyle
Gadigal/Sydney
August 1, 2023
Issue 
1387
News
End the Korean War action in Sydney. Photo: Kyoung-sik Joo

The Korean community group Sydney Candlelight Action held an action in the suburb of West Ryde as part of the global call for a peace agreement to officially end the Korean War, 70 years after the 1953 armistice.

Community activist Joon Shik-shin warned that the South Korean government was allowing United States nuclear submarines to visit, making Korea “the most dangerous battleground in the New Cold War”.

Moses J Hahn, Minister of Castle Hill Presbyterian Church called on South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to step down for “escalating the war crisis in the Korean Peninsula”.

 

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