On Monday November 27, during the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), John KIM, IFOR representative at UN in New York, will participate to a side event on A Call for Justice: Recent Status of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims and the People's Tribunal
Speakers
Kee-youl Lee, first generation victim
Jeong-soon Han, second generation victim
Hayoung Bak, SPARK
Guest Speakers
Sean Wiliam Conner, Executive Director of IPB
Akira Kawasaki, Executive Committee Member of Peace Boat
John Kim, NGO Rep. to UN for IFOR
Colleen Moore, Church and Society with the United Methodist Church
Nodutdol
Outline :
The US committed an inhumane war crime by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. One lesser-known fact is that 40,000 Koreans who had been forcibly conscripted as laborers in Japan, lost their lives due to these bombings.
Since then, Korean survivors and their supporters have taken activism to the streets, demanding justice. In 2019, they decided to initiate a People's Tribunal to build international legal grounds and political legitimacy, paving the way for future legal action against the US.
During this event, we will listen to testimonies from Korean atomic bomb victims and provide an update on the current status of the International People’s Tribunal to hold the US accountable for dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We will also screen a short film historicizing the struggles of Korean victims.
Co-organizers
Korean Atomic Bomb Victims
Solidarity of Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK)
People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)
Asia Citizen's Network for Peace