13.03.2001

Dear Comrades and Friends

Daewoo Struggle from Korea is continuing. Oppress of the Kim Daejung government is more and more strong. Especially, the government makes a new unit (a "special attack" unit) in charge of off gasoline bombs (fire bottle) on the drill ground of National Police Agency in Seoul Friday, March 9, 2001. It is unbearable plan and we will move against. Comrades and friends, please make issue fighting world-widely, and Solidarity.

In Solidarity
Patch A

Our English web-sites updated as follows

1. The Struggle is continuing... - Demonstration in front of Inchon National University of Education - Daewoo Bupyung Factory runs again. But we don't give up our struggle. Comrades and laborers who were not arrested in the struggle of attending to the factory, are all together at Inchon National University of Education and Bupyung Station. They are throwing fire bottles with their anger, sorrow, and pain.
2. Press Conference of International Squad for arresting Kim Woo-choong.

International Squad (Yu Man-hyong, head of the Squad, a former member of Daewoo Motor Labor Union/ Park Jom-kyu, 31, organizing chief of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU) / Hwang I-min, 37, spokesman for Daewoo Joint Struggle Headquarters Against Daewoo Motor) for arresting former Daewoo chairman Kim woo-choong, and for censuring DJ regime's violence returned home today after various activities throughout France for 10 days since they left Korea on Feb. 23.

1. We were hailed by French citizen and the Press as well as the local workers. We visited Interpol headquarters and made an official request to arrest Kim Woo-choong. We exposed to them that the Kim Dae-jung government has no intention to catch Kim Woo-choong. No nongovenmental group or a person has ever visited the Interpol and made a request before. We also tried to force our way into the Nice villa where Kim Woo-choong had been found to enjoy his luxury life. Through this struggle we clarified and let the world know that the grand villa in France belongs to Daewoo workers.
2. On arriving in Paris, we met major nongovenmental organizations including ATTAC and disclosed to them the horrible situation in Korea where the government uses public power to suppress Daewoo Motor workers who are rightfully struggling against the company's layoffs. This disclosure made the Council of the European Union adopt, through an official procedure, a statement reprimanding the South Korean government for suppressing the labor. The Council also decided to organize a Korea-visiting group to officially reprimand the DJ government. On top of this, International Confederation for the Human Rights said it will visit Korea in order to make a joint white paper with Korea's human rights organizations on human rights abuse of the Korean workers by the government and the companies and file a suit with the Human Rights Commission of UN against the Korean government. French social groups decided to organize a joint countermeasure committee, which will send mail censuring the Korean government and set up a fund to put censuring ads on Korea's newspaper.
3. Traveling major cities in France, we distributed about 10,000 leaflets about the arrest of Kim Woo-choong and denunciation on DJ regime's suppression on the labor. We visited the Korean Embassy in France and showed our intention. Also we had rallies in many places.  France's major broadcasting companies and prestigious newspapers ran a story of our activities and the purpose of our visit to France. We sold all 1000 badges we made and could build a fund of about $2,800 to support our activities. We made an official visit to ILO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and filed a lawsuit against DJ government for banning multiple trade unions in one workplace. Lift of ban on multiple trade unions is postponed 5 years by the government.
4. Although we did not succeed in arresting Kim Woo-choong, escaping charges of embezzlement, we could have conviction, through our activities in France, that we, workers, can catch him on our own and found out that only the South Korean government has no intention to get Kim Woo-choong, the world top thief. During our activities, we were offered joint struggles by the workers of various countries like Germany, Switzerland and Britain; British workers of GM in Luton plant, UK, offered international joint struggles of worldwide workers in motor industry. Luton workers are also threatened to be laid off by GM. They also suggested a visit to BFC that has managed the hidden assets of Kim Woo-choong and struggles for the arrest of the ex-Daewoo chairman Kim and forfeiture of his amassed funds.

We will search everywhere in the world for Kim Woo-choong and never fail to arrest him.

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