Features in issue 2451

Rice to the starving people of North Korea!

by Bae Young-Hwan

While all the attention is focused on North Korea's nuclear issues, Bae Young-Hwan from the Korean Women's News reports on a grassroots, women-led campaign to provide practical assistance and to build bridges between North and South.

A young movement in search of direction

by Andreas Speck

Conscientious objection in South Korea

Martin Luther King gave me a dream for Korea

by Syngman Rhee

Syngman Rhee fled his homeland as a 19-year-old in 1950 and found himself at the heart of the US civil rights movement in the Sixties. Here he speaks about his work for reconciliation between North and South Korea.

South Korea: migrant workers and the anti-war movement

by Christian Karl

"Our first priority has to be to fight against the possibility of war on the peninsula and elsewhere." Christian Karl reports on the struggle of migrant workers in South Korea and their mutually supportive relationship with the anti-war movement.

Moving into the future: building peace in North-East Asia

by James Reilly

Asian "tigers", nuclear weapons and US militarism meet migrant workers, peace activists and conscientious objectors. James Reilly introduces this issue's theme.