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Date(s) - Friday - Aug 16, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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- Moderator: Brad Wolf
- Presenters: : Elliott Adams, Joseph Essertier, Kapsong Kim, Gil Kim, Juyeon JC Rhee, Margaret Engel
- Description: As an effort to abolish nuclear weapons in the world, this panel will introduce a journey for justice by Korean atomic victims. In August of 1945, 70,000 Korean a-bomb victims were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They had been forcibly removed from their homeland by the Japanese and became victims of the atomic blasts. While they suffered for the past 79 years through neglect, discrimination, and oppression, they have won individual victories from the Japanese government for medicare. And now, they seek an apology from the United States. They also seek through this people’s tribunal a legal ruling that the US atomic bombings in 1945 violated international law at that time, and that nuclear weapons and their use or threat of use are currently in violation of international law.
The tribunal has gathered participants and a renowned legal team from around the globe to build a case and move it forward with the opening gavel set for 2026 in New York City to coincide with either the UN Review Conference for the Non-Proliferation Treaty or the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The tribunal is supported by numerous peace and social justice organizations and seeks to highlight the many dangers and unintended victims of nuclear weapons, particularly in this current age where the threat to use nuclear weapons has increased dramatically by nuclear weapons states.
Not only providing necessary backgrounds, the panel will discuss their own perspectives on the nuclear abolition, U.S.’s deterrence strategy, Korean a-bomb victims, and international people’s tribunal.
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