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18 February 2018
Firstly, apologies for a lack of Week in Review last week, but it is back this week. While the world is focusing on Pyeongchang for the Winter Olympics (there is some Winter Olympics-related news here), there has been other news that has flown under the radar in the media this week (both mainstream and alternative) that wasn't covered by Ne News this week.
Moon's Chief of Staff Takes Centre Stage in Inter-Korean Detente
In 1989, a then-22 year old student from South Korea sneaked into North Korea and was filmed advocating for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, which was divided by the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1945, even though the people of Korea wanted independence after the defeat of the occupiers at the end of the Second World War.
The person in question was Im Jong-seok, who at the time was a prominent student democracy activist and is now the Chief of Staff for South Korean President Moon Jae-in; and the now-51 year old is now playing a pivotal role in an inter-Korean detente fostered by the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, officials and experts say. We also saw North Korean officials in the South and there are moves to a detente between the two, despite the opposition coming from the far-right in the South and Washington in regards to the North's alleged nuclear program (even though Washington boycotted an international conference to ban nuclear weapons which was attended by 122 countries including North Korea, and North Korea was the only nuclear country that voted to ban nuclear weapons). And on top of that, Im has been floated around as a special envoy to North Korea in relations to building inter-Korean ties that were damaged by a decade of conservative rule in Seoul.
Just over a week ago at the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, we saw the Koreans enter the stadium under the Unification Flag and saw a ice hockey player from North Korea carry the Olympic Flag with another ice hockey player from South Korea. And in addition, ice hockey players from both the North and the South competed together in the women's ice hockey, despite scoring only once in their three games.
Could the 2018 Winter Olympic Games be the catalyst for peace on the Korean Peninsula and lead to the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula? Only time will tell.
Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/moons-chief-of-staff-takes-centre-stage-in-inter-korean-detente/5629502
International Olympic Committee Okays Statue of Liberty, But No Admiral Yi
And while we have seen moves towards peace on the Korean Peninsula as a result of the Winter Olympics, politics has raised its head in the Ice Hockey in Pyeongchang with the International Olympic Committee okaying the United States of America having the Statue of Liberty on the goalkeepers' helmet; but has denied Korea (both the South Korean men's team and the combined Korean women's team) permission to put national hero Admiral Yi (a naval commander of the Joseon Dynasty, who defended the country from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s) on their goalkeepers' helmet. The reason for this ban was that the IOC interpreted that the image of Admiral Yi can throw a political message to the subtle relations between Korea and Japan, the latter ruled Korea between 1905 and 1945 and still strained over the island of Dokdo, which is claimed by both countries.
Source: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/sports/2018/02/702_244252.html
Far-Right Wing March in Bulgaria
In Sofia, Bulgaria, despite international and domestic condemnation, a march by the far-right wing group the Union of Bulgarian Legions has taken place honouring pro-Nazi General Hristo Lukov, who was a leader of the Union of Bulgarian Legions; and this march included neo-Nazis from countries such as Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Estonia who described Ludov as a "Bulgarian war hero". As mentioned by Press TV, the rally (which also involved laying a wreath at his former home) was initially banned by the city's municipality, but a court overturned this decision to the dismay of Sofia's mayor Yordanka Fandukova, who said that the ceremony "has no place in our city." This had also led to a petition against it which has attracted over 178,000 signatures.
It should be emphasised that Ne News condemns Nazism, and it is worth noting that many far-right wing groups in Europe supports the European Union (and Ne News is opposed to the European Union). It should also be noted that Sir Oswald Mosley (the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1940s) was the first to call for a European Union with Northern Africa included in the European Union (note that the European Union was behind the Union of the Mediterranean, which includes Northern Africa). This means that in order to fight racism and Nazism, we must oppose the European Union as well as the other superstates that are being formed throughout the world (and no doubt the pin-up boy of the far-right Mylo Yiannopoulos supports these superstates, and in particular the European Union as well as a potential North American Union).
Source: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/02/17/552736/far-right-nazi-sofia-march
18 February 2018
Firstly, apologies for a lack of Week in Review last week, but it is back this week. While the world is focusing on Pyeongchang for the Winter Olympics (there is some Winter Olympics-related news here), there has been other news that has flown under the radar in the media this week (both mainstream and alternative) that wasn't covered by Ne News this week.
Moon's Chief of Staff Takes Centre Stage in Inter-Korean Detente
The person in question was Im Jong-seok, who at the time was a prominent student democracy activist and is now the Chief of Staff for South Korean President Moon Jae-in; and the now-51 year old is now playing a pivotal role in an inter-Korean detente fostered by the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, officials and experts say. We also saw North Korean officials in the South and there are moves to a detente between the two, despite the opposition coming from the far-right in the South and Washington in regards to the North's alleged nuclear program (even though Washington boycotted an international conference to ban nuclear weapons which was attended by 122 countries including North Korea, and North Korea was the only nuclear country that voted to ban nuclear weapons). And on top of that, Im has been floated around as a special envoy to North Korea in relations to building inter-Korean ties that were damaged by a decade of conservative rule in Seoul.
Could the 2018 Winter Olympic Games be the catalyst for peace on the Korean Peninsula and lead to the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula? Only time will tell.
Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/moons-chief-of-staff-takes-centre-stage-in-inter-korean-detente/5629502
International Olympic Committee Okays Statue of Liberty, But No Admiral Yi
Source: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/sports/2018/02/702_244252.html
Far-Right Wing March in Bulgaria
It should be emphasised that Ne News condemns Nazism, and it is worth noting that many far-right wing groups in Europe supports the European Union (and Ne News is opposed to the European Union). It should also be noted that Sir Oswald Mosley (the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1940s) was the first to call for a European Union with Northern Africa included in the European Union (note that the European Union was behind the Union of the Mediterranean, which includes Northern Africa). This means that in order to fight racism and Nazism, we must oppose the European Union as well as the other superstates that are being formed throughout the world (and no doubt the pin-up boy of the far-right Mylo Yiannopoulos supports these superstates, and in particular the European Union as well as a potential North American Union).
Source: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/02/17/552736/far-right-nazi-sofia-march
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