If you’re wondering why Trump may be talking about purges and revolution in Korea, some MAGA folk have been trying for months to get Trump to help impeached and imprisoned former Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol who has espoused election fraud conspiracies after declaring martial law last December

Eighty years ago today, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, followed by Nagasaki three days later. In this OpEd for Common Dreams, I discuss why we must work toward a world free from the threat of nuclear devastation. We must heed the call of A-bomb survivors: Never again.

Come join @afsc-org.bsky.social and the National Committee on North Korea (NCNK) for this panel discussion on the role of trust in advancing both humanitarian efforts and diplomatic progress between the U.S. and North Korea.
📅 August 5
⏰ 6:00pm EST
🔗 Register bit.ly/3ITppKK

Humanization over militarization
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70% of Americans believe the U.S. president should offer to hold meetings with the North Korean leader, according to a U.S. public opinion poll commissioned by AFSC in 2025. In this NK News piece, I expand on why Trump should again engage in diplomacy with North Korea.
www.nknews.org/share/c6f805ea

Retrieval of service member remains is just one of the reasons the U.S. government should continue to find ways to engage North Korea. The remains of approximately 5,300 service members are still in North Korea.
www.defense.gov/News/News-St...

Deeply concerning.
apnews.com/article/doge...

AFSC and 40 civil society orgs have joined together to urge the Trump administration to take bold steps toward lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula by:

🕊️ End the Korean War
🌍 Lift the travel ban
🤝 Normalize relations with North Korea

Full letter: afsc.org/newsroom/ope...

At @afsc-org.bsky.social I have the pleasure of helping my colleagues write, edit, and pitch op eds. Despite a shrinking media landscape and DEEP reluctance of many opinion editors to publish pro-Palestine content we persevered! Here are five of my favorites from 2024. #BestOf2024

"The best bills don't become law unless someone cares enough to find a path forward for them. Then to find a new path when the original one becomes impassable. And another when our party loses the majority. And another when..."
www.policyisforlovers.com/how-good-pol...

LOL even the state wants an alternative to calling the police.

Kim Ou-Joon testifies on reported plans under martial law:
1. Assassinate PPP leader Han Dong-hoon
2. Stage fake "rescue" attack on Cho Kuk, Yang Jeong-cheol, & Kim Eo-jun
3. Plant NK uniforms to fabricate blame
4. Assassinate US personnel to provoke NK military strikes
youtu.be/tYe3WgoCUl8?...

Motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon fails because his party boycotted the vote.... 국민의힘 의원들이 도대체 뭘 하시는 거지...
m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2024...

www.justsecurity.org/105426/treas...

Excellent assessment of how Yoon’s use of martial law—for whatever ill-conceived reason—was substantively illegal by Cho Hee-kyung :

m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/articl...

There are three hard and fast rules in South Korea:

1. Don't wear shoes inside.
2. Don't eat on the subway.
3. Don't mess with a hard-won democracy and a citizenry that's time and again shown in will take down authoritarian presidents.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...