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| 23 February 2004 |
Appeal by Members of Northeast Asian Regional Civil Society |
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The Honorable George W. Bush
The President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington D.C. USA 20500
23 February 2004
RE: Nuclear Weapons Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
To the Honorable President George W. Bush
The undersigned members of civil society organizations in South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Japan are writing to urge you to work for a peaceful solution to the problems posed by the nuclear weapons crisis on the Korean Peninsula at the upcoming six-nation talks on February 25 in Beijing.
We are participants of the Northeast Asia Regional Consultation Meeting on The Role of Civil Society in the Prevention of Armed Conflict, which was held in Tokyo from February 6-8, 2004. This regional consultation is part of an international process, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, recommended by the United Nations Secretary General, and initiated by the European Centre for Conflict Prevention, to engage civil society in the prevention of armed conflict.
We cannot emphasize enough the importance of a peaceful resolution between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in order to prevent potential armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
In particular, we make the following recommendations to all governments involved in the Six-Party talks.
GPPAC, visit – www.conflictprevention-dialogue.org
ECCP, visit – www.conflict-prevention.net
Four principles
- The DPRK and the United States must resolve this dispute by peaceful means only. Threats of containment or use of force must be excluded from the negotiating table.
- The DPRK and the US must oppose development or deployment of nuclear arms on the Korean Peninsula. This includes the nuclear weapons program of the DPRK as well as the US deployment and use of nuclear weapons on the Peninsula. The denuclearization agreement of the two Koreas must be respected.
- The DPRK and the US must resolve the current crisis by a package deal in which the US provides for a security guarantee and the lifting of economic sanctions to the DPRK in return for the freeze of all nuclear weapons programs.
- Any policy regarding the future of the Korean Peninsula must consider the Korean people’s views and hopes. Clearly note that the Korean people’s desire is not war, but reconciliation, cooperation, peace-building and reunification.
Five Critical Issue
- The United States must not launch a pre-emptive strike and other states must not support any pre-emptive attacks on the DPRK.
- The US must not enforce a regime change in the DPRK, and should abide by Article 6 of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
- The DPRK must abandon its nuclear weapons program and restore its membership to the NPT.
- The US and the international community must increase humanitarian aid to the DPRK and people in humanitarian disaster.
- The US and Japan must immediately lift economic sanctions on the DPRK.
We are committed to work with the governments of the six-nation talks to resolve this current conflict by peaceful means and make every effort to create peace in Northeast Asia.
We appreciate your attention in this matter and expect your careful consideration as you prepare for the upcoming negotiations.
Yours sincerely
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| Signed |
AU Pak Kuen |
Vice-president of Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union |
DOI, Kanae |
Lawyer, Tokyo |
Vadim GAPONENKO |
Director, International Research Center, Maritime State University, Vladivostok |
JUNG Gyung-Lan |
Chairperson, Committee for International Solidarity, Women Making Peace |
KIMIJIMA Akihiko |
Professor of Law, Hokkai Gakuen University Sapporo and Co-Chairperson, Nonviolent Peaceforce Japan |
KODAMA Katsuya |
Associate Professor in Peace Research and Sociology, Mie University; Secretary General, International Peace Research Association |
LEE Hyun-Sook |
Representative, Women Making Peace; Council of Unification Education; National Council for Peace on the Korean Peninsula |
LEE Jae-Young |
Peace Programme Coordinator, Korea Anabaptist Center; Researcher, Conflict Resolution Center, Women Making Peace |
LI Song |
Director of Japan division of Association for Democratic China; President, Association of Chinese Residents in Japan |
Dennis LIN |
Director of Research and Information Department, Peace Time Foundation of Taiwan |
Jeannie MANIPON |
Coordinator and Executive Director of Asian Region Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA); Steering Committee, Asian Peace Alliance (APA) |
Kathy R. MATSUI |
Dean of Student Affairs, Professor, Department of Global Community Studies, Seisen University, Tokyo and International Advisory Committee Member of Global Campaign for Peace Education |
MUSHAKOJI Kinhide |
Secretary General of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), Japan Committee Member, APA |
Tatiana RUCHKINA |
Organizer of youth-exchange and environmental clean up projects, President of Pacific Wave (NGO) |
SATO Yasunobu |
Professor of Law, Graduate School of International Development, University of Nagoya |
TAKAHARA, Takao |
Director, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo |
UMEBAYASHI, Hiro |
Executive Director, Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security; Executive Director, Peace Resources Cooperative (Peace Depot) |
Phillip YANG |
Professor, Department of Political Sciences; Director, Taiwan Security Research Center, National Taiwan University |
YOSHIOKA Tatsuya |
Director and Co-founder of Peace Boat (NGO), Tokyo |
ZHU Cheng Shan |
Director, Nanking Massacre Museum; Professor, National Science Museum; Founder and Director, Nanking Peace Institute |
For more information, contact:
Peace Boat
Tel +81-3-3363-8047
Fax +81-3-3363-7562
Email gppac[a]peaceboat.gr.jp
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