Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, Bandipora (2026)

24/07/2026

📍Sanger Hall, 48-20 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside, New York
📅Saturday August 1st at 12-5 PM

📢STOP THE PACIFIC WAR!
CANCEL ULCHI FREEDOM SHIELD!
US OUT OF KOREA!

Join us in Sunnyside, New York on Saturday, August 1st for an art build & Korean revolutionary music listening party!

We will make signs and paint a banner for our upcoming rally on Saturday, August 15th, which marks 81 years since the end of Japanese colonialism and the beginning of the US occupation of Korea.

We are gathering on Liberation Day to protest against Ulchi Freedom Shield, a joint US-South Korea military exercise that happens in Korea every August. We will provide a brief teach-in on the history of Korean resistance against Japanese colonialism and the present-day US occupation of Korea, We’ll also debut our very own K-pop remix and listen to Korean revolutionary music! Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Come cool down for the summer together while learning about what to expect at the rally.

24/07/2026

Join us in Sunnyside, New York on Saturday, August 1st for an art build & Korean revolutionary music listening party!

We will make signs and paint a banner for our upcoming rally on Saturday, August 15th, which marks 81 years since the end of Japanese colonialism and the beginning of the US occupation of Korea.

We are gathering on Liberation Day to protest against Ulchi Freedom Shield, a joint US-South Korea military exercise that happens in Korea every August. We will provide a brief teach-in on the history of Korean resistance against Japanese colonialism and the present-day US occupation of Korea, We’ll also debut our very own K-pop remix and listen to Korean revolutionary music! Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Come cool down for the summer together while learning about what to expect at the rally.

📍Sanger Hall, 48-20 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside, New York
📅Saturday August 1st at 12-5 PM

📢STOP THE PACIFIC WAR!
CANCEL ULCHI FREEDOM SHIELD!
US OUT OF KOREA!

17/07/2026

🎨 Join us for an art build to prepare for our 8.15 Mobilization! 🎨

📅 Sunday 7/25, 1-5 pm
📍 Richmond, CA (Address will be shared the day before upon RSVP)
👉 RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/BAYART815

Join Nodutdol Bay Area and BAYAN Norcal for an afternoon of collective art-making as we prepare for our 8.15 Day of Action! We will be painting banners and making puppets designed by Bay Area movement artist David Solnit () while learning about the historical significance of August 15, Korean National Liberation Day, and the ongoing struggle for the national liberation of Korea. Let’s create powerful visuals for the movement together to demand an end to the joint U.S-ROK Ulchi Freedom Shield war games taking place next month.

Then, join us on Saturday, 8/15 for our National Day of Action Mobilization at the SF Federal Building (1-4 PM), where we will demand an end to imperialist war everywhere!

📢 STOP THE PACIFIC WAR! CANCEL ULCHI FREEDOM SHIELD! US OUT OF KOREA!

04/07/2026

America at 250: US Crimes in Korea

For 250 years, the United States has carried out imperialist and colonial crimes throughout the world.

For almost a third of that history—more than 80 years—the US military has occupied Korea and committed a long list of crimes against the Korean people.

US history has been defined by genocidal war and repressive terror against the working and colonized poor. For Koreans and billions others across the world, today is nothing but another chapter in a long story of violation at the hands of US imperialism.

On this Fourth of July, we raise our demands for Korea’s national liberation and for our people’s rightful independence from US occupation and war: US Out of Korea!

01/07/2026

Japan is rapidly remilitarizing — and it’s pushing East Asia closer to war.

Despite having a “peace constitution” that forbids it from having a standing military, Japan has now become a top 10 global military spender.

Current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who represents the most extreme factions of Japan’s far-right, is accelerating this process. Ultimately, Takaichi is trying to dismantle the pacifist clause in Japan’s constitution. This has sparked some of the largest anti-war protests in Japan’s history.

Japan’s rearmament directly threatens Korea and the wider region. Japan is actively seeking to expand its military ties with South Korea, which would further subordinate South Korea’s interests to Tokyo and Washington. Simultaneously, it is also deploying missile systems with the capacity to strike North Korea and China.

To understand why this is happening, we need to look at both Washington’s present imperialist interests in the Pacific, as well as its historical relationship with Japan. After WWII, the US embraced Japan’s fascists as allies rather than enemies, allowing the unrepentant imperialists who terrorized the people of Korea and the region to harbor their dreams of imperial revival.

Now, Washington is loosening the leash, and Japan’s government is rushing ahead to assert itself as a military power.

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30/06/2026

117 former camptown women demand justice from the U.S. military!

Donate to support the preservation of the “Monkey House”, the link available in our bio.

This past weekend, Nodutdol New York hosted an event at Ridgewood Presbyterian Church in Queens to uplift Korean women's long struggle against U.S. imperialism. Currently, 117 women in South Korea are suing the U.S. military, demanding reparations for the exploitation, medical abuse, and s*xual violence that affected 1 million Korean women and girls.

We heard from three brilliant speakers: Elizabeth Oh, member of NYC DSA, grounded attendees in the history of the military prostitution system, its roots in Japanese colonialism, and its key role in the US-ROK alliance and South Korea's economic development. Next, Mira Ko, the director of the organization Saeumteo, called in from Korea to share context on the ongoing lawsuit and stressed the need for activists in the U.S. to hold their government accountable, ensuring that as many camptown women as possible can see justice done in their lifetimes. Finally, Heeshin Choi, the co-chair of Task Force to Stop the Demolition of the "Monkey House," joined from Korea to speak on the fight to preserve sites of U.S. military crimes, like the "Monkey House" venereal disease clinic and the house of murdered camptown woman Yun Geum-i, as cornerstones of public memory.

The event also featured an exhibit with a model of the Monkey House and a 3-D map of Camp Casey. We were joined by our partner organizations, .nyc, , , and , who connected the program to women's struggles against imperialism in Palestine, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

Thank you so much to our speakers, our attendees and partners, and for having us!

We stand in full solidarity with the camptown women, and take up their call for justice whole-heartedly.

END TO MILITARY SEXUAL VIOLENCE!
US OUT OF KOREA NOW!

25/06/2026

Today, June 25, marks the official start of the Korean War in 1950. But the true roots of the war lay in 1945 — when the US imperialist war on the Korean people began.

Division was never chosen by the Korean people. It was imposed and enforced at gunpoint by a US occupation of Korea that began in 1945 and has never ended. In the five years between 1945-1950, the US and their Korean collaborators waged a brutal counterinsurgency war to crush the popular socialist and anticolonial movement based in the popular classes of the workers and peasants among the masses of people. This was the true beginning of the Korean War.

While an armistice was signed in 1953, a peace agreement to officially end the war and move towards a political resolution never took place. The Korean War is the longest war in US history. And Korea has remained divided in its long shadow.

For decades, reunification became the rallying cry of the Korean left on both sides of the peninsula. In 1972, this process became enshrined in the principles of independent, peaceful reunification, which sought to achieve a “one state, two systems” model for the peninsula.

In 2023, North Korea declared that after more than 50 years of attempts, it was time to abandon the road of peaceful reunification. This decision was not made lightly. It came after decades of false starts with South Korea, diplomatic impasse with the US, and constant imperialist aggression in the form of war games, sanctions, and information warfare.

Here, we break down what this new phase means for our national liberation struggle, how we got here, and why confronting US imperialism and Korean reaction are the primary tasks of our generation.

For too long, our people in the north have lived under US sanctions and military threats, while our people in the south have suffered under the boot of occupation and capitalist exploitation. Now is the time to raise our struggle to a higher level. US Out of Korea!

17/06/2026

On Saturday, June 13th, Nodutdol Bay Area invited our community to learn about gijichon/camptown women in South Korea and their recent lawsuit against s*xual exploitation and medical abuse from the US military and ROK government.

We had a presentation on the colonial and imperialist basis for prostitution in the camptowns, listened to the testimonies of gijichon women, and wrote letters of support that will be delivered to the encampment protest in Dongducheon, South Korea. We were joined by local organizers who connected military s*xual violence in the camptowns to s*xual violence in US prisons, such as in the case of widespread assault by guards against incarcerated women at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, CA.

We stand in full solidarity with the 117 Korean women who are demanding acknowledgement and reparations from the US military in this historic lawsuit. We also know that true justice for gijichon women requires Korea's liberation from US imperialism.

Justice for the Korean camptown women!
Justice for all victims of US s*xual violence!
US OUT OF KOREA!
US OUT OF EVERYWHERE!

16/06/2026

KOREAN WOMEN ARE SUING THE US MILITARY. HERE’S WHY.

Throughout most of its history, the US military ran a massive s*x industry in Korea with the help of the South Korean government—exploiting over a million Korean women.

Since the start of US military occupation in 1945, the s*x trade flourished around US bases in a Korea ravaged by colonialism and war. These areas were called camptowns, or gijichon. Many camptown women were tricked with the promise of jobs. Many were underaged girls who were poor, orphaned, and trafficked. Trapped in debt bo***ge to club owners and ostracized by South Korean society, women couldn’t leave. South Korea’s dictatorship encouraged it all.

The US military managed camptown women like inventory: military police rounded up women for mandatory medical screening, and locked them up in prison-like clinics where they were injected with deadly amounts of antibiotics.

Women faced systematic s*xual violence from soldiers not too unlike Japan’s “comfort women” system—and some of the same women exploited by Japan were also exploited by the US.

In 2022, South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that the government had violated these women’s rights. Now, they’re holding the US military accountable, and had their first hearing in May.

The US only took Japan’s role as the colonizer, and the US military exists only to prey on our people. We need to hold the US to account.

Solidarity with Camptown Women!

US Out of Korea!

12/06/2026

New Yorkers — join us in Ridgewood on June 27 to hear directly from activists in South Korea campaigning for justice for victims and survivors of the US military s*x industry in Korea.

🔗RSVP link in bio!
📅 Saturday, June 27th
⏰1PM
🎟️ Free Admission
📍Stone Circle Theater (Ridgewood Presbyterian Church), 59-14 70th Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385

The US has over 80 military bases in South Korea — each of which spawns its own camptown economy. For as long as the US occupation has existed, the s*x industry has existed alongside it. In the latter 20th century, this system thrived with official state support from the US and South Korea, at the expense of over a million Korean women and girls.

Our program will feature a panel with NYC-based activist Elizabeth Oh, as well as Mira Ko, the director of Saeumteo (새움터), an organization established in 1996 working to resolve issues affecting women who were exploited in prostitution around U.S. military bases in Korea.

Please note that this venue is not wheelchair accessible. If you have questions or concerns about accessibility, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Content Warning (CW): This event includes discussion of s*xual violence, s*xual assault, r**e, coercion, prostitution, human trafficking, state violence, and related trauma. Participants may also encounter discussion of legal cases, survivor testimony, and systemic abuse.

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