After having lunch with leaders of the Pan Korean Alliance for Reunification, we headed to the US Eighth Army headquarters. We wanted to make sure that the USA heard our message loud and clear. True to the colonial relationship between the USA and south Korea, the headquarters of the US military are just across the south Korean Ministry of National Defense and besides the Korean War Memorial. By then, a sizable group of students had joined us and the Korean police had amassed, lining the outside of the sidewalk with a long 2-3men deep line. Korea is a beautiful mountainous country with developed infrastructure.
Roads are well paved, with good signs, some even in English.
It is also a highly industrialized country manufacturing electronics, autos, ships, chemicals, textiles and clothing. On our way to the coast, we passed a huge KIA plant and beautifully planted fields of rice and barley. Everywhere I looked, something was sprouting from every inch of soil. I also saw people speaking on cell phones in small, countryside roads. South Korea s Vieques, is a village whose population of 3,200 has endured the practices of the US Air Force for over 50 years.