“We want a nuclear-free peaceful world” say South Korea’s women | WNN – Women News Network
(WNN) Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: We South Korean women believe nuclear weapons and power reactors are a matter of life or death. They threaten our lives, the lives of our families and all living creatures.
We Korean women remember the tragic atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 when some 700,000 people, including 70,000
Koreans, were exposed to atomic radiation. The horror of mushroom
clouds, which melted people and buildings and contaminated soil, still
lingers today because more than 20,000 nuclear weapons exist on our
planet.
We Korean women feel an enormous sense of crisis as we witness the
aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011. We
are shocked once again at the destructive power of radiation seen in the
loss of human lives, environmental pollution and contamination of food.
We are even more shocked at the foolishness of those who continued to
build nuclear reactors even after the danger of nuclear power generation
was demonstrated at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Women
protest against a new nuclear power plant main Gwanghwamun Government
General Office gate in Seoul, South Korea December 23, 2011. Image:
Energy Justice Actions South Korea
