Korean & U.S. Groups Call for Repealing the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement<\/strong><\/h2>\nConsolidating KORUS on the Basis of Security Called \u201cOpportunistic, Unnecessary and Wholly Unacceptable”<\/em><\/p>\nSEOUL, Republic of Korea \u2014 As Presidents Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in prepare to meet this week, civil society organizations from Korea and the United States issued a statement reiterating their long-standing opposition to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement and calling for its repeal. \u00a0The statement was issued by Citizens Trade Campaign, a U.S.-based coalition of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer and faith organizations together representing more than 12 million Americans, and thirty-three different Korean organizations.<\/p>\n
The United States and South Korea are strong allies, and yet the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) harms the people of our nations.<\/p>\n
U.S. and Korean civil society groups vigorously opposed KORUS when it was first proposed because we knew that a deal negotiated behind closed doors with hundreds of corporate advisors would be disastrous for working people, family farmers, public health and the environment in both countries.\u00a0We continue to oppose KORUS\u2019s corporate-centered terms, including investor-state dispute settlement that empowers multinational corporations to challenge our laws before panels of three private lawyers, intellectual property rules that drive up the cost of medicines\u00a0and undermine human rights, rules that push a radical deregulation agenda, and more.\u00a0 In its five years in effect, the U.S.-Korea trade agreement proved even worse than expected.<\/p>\n
How to peacefully resolve military tension on the Korean peninsula is a challenging question, but what should happen with KORUS is an entirely separate question that is straightforward.\u00a0\u00a0Any attempts to\u00a0further entrench corporate power\u00a0and consolidate KORUS on the basis of security\u00a0would be opportunistic, unnecessary and wholly\u00a0unacceptable.\u00a0We\u00a0call on our governments\u00a0to repeal KORUS, and to work together for a peaceful resolution to the current military conflict.<\/p>\n
We also call on our governments\u00a0to fulfill their promise of 2006 that the KORUS negotiating documents are kept in confidence for only three years from the entry into force of KORUS, and\u00a0to fully disclose all the original KORUS negotiating documents, many of which still remain secret.<\/p>\n
Citizens Trade Campaign<\/p>\n
Association of Korea Doctors for Health Rights<\/p>\n
Association of Physicians for Humanism<\/p>\n
Conference for Movement of Democratic Families’<\/p>\n
Conference of the bereaved family for National Democracy<\/p>\n
Council for Federal Reunificateion of Korea<\/p>\n
International Trade Research Institute<\/p>\n
IPLeft<\/p>\n
Jinbo Network<\/p>\n
Karl Polanyi Institute Asia<\/p>\n
Knowledge Commune<\/p>\n
Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement<\/p>\n
Korea Alliance of the Poor<\/p>\n
Korea Catholic Farmer’s Movement<\/p>\n
Korea Center Council for National Independence, Democracy\u00a0and Reunification<\/p>\n
Korea Demoractic Street Venders Confederation<\/p>\n
Korea Dentists Association for Health Society<\/p>\n
Korea Peasants League<\/p>\n
Korea Solidarity for National Independence, Democracy and Reunification<\/p>\n
Korea Street Vendors Confederation<\/p>\n
Korea Supporters Association for Prisoner of Conscience<\/p>\n
Korea Women Peasants Association<\/p>\n
Korea Women’s Alliance<\/p>\n
Korea Youth Solidarity<\/p>\n
Korean Council for Democratic Martyrs<\/p>\n
Korean Council of Democratic Laborers<\/p>\n
Korean Federation of Medical Groups for Health Rights<\/p>\n
Korean Pharmacists for Democratic Society<\/p>\n
Korean Square of Reunification<\/p>\n
Labor Human Rights Center<\/p>\n
People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)<\/p>\n
Solidarity for Worker\u2019s Health<\/p>\n
Solidarity of Buddhist’s Peace Movement<\/p>\n
South Headquarters of Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification<\/p>\n
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