A New Zealand-based campaign organised by Korean Peace Committee to promote peace on the Korean peninsula and to advocate resolution of issues between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the basis of peaceful negotiation between states in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

• New Zealanders call for Peace in Korea!
  Media release 15 August 2003
• Call for Peace
  New Zealand Call for Peace in Korea launched 15 August 2003
  Signatories

• Korean American National Coordinating Council's Hahm on nuclear crisis
  In conclusion, I propose that the US must make genuine serious commitment to talk with North Korea, regardless of the format of talk. Test North Korea's seriousness by proposing a tough but fair interim agreement, which includes freezing all North Korea's nuclear programs, reintroducing inspectors to verify that spent nuclear fuel has not been reprocessed, and moving all spent fuel rods out of the country. In exchange, US should assure North Korea that US will not attack North Korea while safeguard talks on interim agreement are underway, nor prevent other countries from providing foreign assistance to the North. After talks on interim agreement should proceed satisfactorily to both sides, more permanent settlement must be sought. For more comprehensive settlement, North Korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities including components and spent fuel, pledge not to manufacture, test, or export long range missiles under a regime of extensive monitoring and verification. In exchange, as long as North Korea lives up to its obligations, US must guarantee not to attack the country, agree to early normalization of relations with it, and end all sanctions against it.
  Speech at Korea Peace Forum in New York, 27 July, 2003
• Korean Civil Society Expects Forward-Looking Six-Party Talks Towards the Resolution of the Crisis Surrounding the Korean Peninsula
  By email 26 February 2004 from Gyung-Lan Jung Chairperson, Committee for International Solidarity Women Making Peace
• Stop War Planning and Start Peace Talks
  An International Appeal to Oppose War Provocation in Korea and to Resolve North Korean Issue by Peaceful Means
  Women Making Peace and National Council for Peace on the Korean Peninsula (South Korea)
  To sign, please reply to jglan21@yahoo.com or humanrights@korea.com humanrights@korea.com, ensuring that you include your name, position, name of your organisation, and your country and city.
• Caritas supports continued humanitarian aid, peace and reconciliation
• Moon J Pak urges Bush to negotiate
  Address to the Korean War Veterans at the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Commemoration, Dearborn, Michigan, July 27, 2003 by Chairman, Steering Committee, Korean -American League
• Letter re N. Korea to Bush
  Organised regionally by Friends of the Earth, Sydney
• The Korea Armistice to Peace Treaty Campaign
  Organised by Korean-Americans
• Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK): Scholars Urge Dialogue, Peaceful Resolution to North Korea Issue
  US scholars call for normalisation of relations with DPRK
• Korean and U.S. Religious Leaders Join to Address Korea Crisis
  18 June 2002

• Fundamental Switchover in U.S. Hostile Policy Toward DPRK Is Indispensable for Solution to Korea's Nuke Issue
  Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry on Pyongyang's Stand on Six-party Talks 13 August 2003
• KCNA on DPRK-U.S. Talks
• DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Six-Party Talks
  Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Six-party talks for a solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. will be held in Beijing soon thanks to the former's initiative and peaceful efforts. In this regard, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today released a statement, which said:
  We have already clarified several times the stand that the DPRK will not stick to any format of talks if the U.S. is ready to make a switchover in its policy towards the DPRK since it is essential for solving the nuclear issue between the two countries.
  At the recent DPRK-U.S. contacts in New York, we put forward a bold proposal for starting six-party talks in Beijing without going through an unnecessary phase and holding the bilateral talks within their framework.
  It is an expression of our utmost magnanimity as the proposal has come from the stand to solve the nuclear issue between the two countries peacefully through dialogue in any case.
  The U.S. side agreed to the DPRK-proposed six-party talks, giving up its persistent assertion that the DPRK should "scrap its nuclear program before dialogue." And it proposed to have DPRK-U.S. contacts within the framework of the talks, at which the two sides will clarify each other's stand and discuss the issue.
  We have decided to take note of this proposal of the U.S. side.
  As the multilateral talks are slated to take place as called for by the U.S. side so far, the forthcoming talks will clearly show the world community whether the U.S. has a true willingness to make a switchover in its policy towards the DPRK or not
• N. Korea: Fibs versus Facts by Leon V. Sigal
  Leon V. Sigal, director of the Northeast Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York, asserts that the Bush administration has been misleading in its portrayal of North Korea by spreading three "inexactitudes" concerning North Korea's nuclear intention, role in the Agreed Framework, and the possibility of its collapse. Moreover, a U.S. strategy of strangulation cannot be effective unless all of the North's neighbors are willing to join in. However, none are willing to, as they all realize that pressure without negotiations won't work with Pyongyang.
• Kofi Annan on armistice
  The Secretary-General -- Message on the 50th anniversary of the Korean war armistice agreement 27 July 2003
• NZ must take lead for Korean peace
  Keith Locke MP, NZ Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, 27th July 2003
• Charter of the United Nations
• Letter from DPRK Foreign Minister Paek to UN Security Council
  28 June 2003
• DPRK statement: U.S. to blame for derailing process of denuclearisation on Korean Peninsula
  Statement issued 15 May provides detailed description of DPRK position
• Conclusion of non-aggression treaty between DPRK and U.S. called for
  DPRK statement of 25 Octobe 2002
  [The DPRK is ]... ready to seek a negotiated settlement of this issue on the following three conditions: firstly, if the U.S. recognizes the DPRK's sovereignty, secondly, if it assures the DPRK of nonaggression and thirdly, if the U.S. does not hinder the economic development of the DPRK.
  Nowadays, the U.S. and its followers assert that negotiations should be held after the DPRK puts down its arms. This is a very abnormal logic.... Then, how can the DPRK counter any attack with empty hands?
  ...If the U.S. legally assures the DPRK of nonaggression, including the nonuse of nuclear weapons against it by concluding such treaty, the DPRK will be ready to clear the former of its security concerns....

• Ensuring a Korean Peninsula Free of Nuclear Weapons
  James A. Kelly February 13, 2004

• Factors [Requirements] for Resolving the Nuclear Issue
  Li Gun
  Deputy DPRK Representative to the 6-Party Talks
  December 16, 2003

• FULL TEXT OF CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT FOR SIX-PARTY TALKS
  Saturday, February 28, 2004 The following is the full text of the Chairman's Statement for the Second Round of Six-Party Talks on the Korean nuclear issue. 1. The Second Round of Six-Party Talks was held in Beijing among the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America from 25th to 28th of February, 2004. 2. The heads of delegations were Mr. Wang Yi, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC; Mr. Kim Kye-gwan, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of DPRK; Ambassador Mitoji Yabunaka, Director-General for the Asian and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan; Ambassador Lee Soo-Hyuck, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the ROK;Ambassador Alexander Losiukov, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; Mr. James Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State. 3. The Parties agreed that the second round of the Six-Party Talks had launched the discussion on substantive issues, which wasbeneficial and positive, and that the attitudes of all parties were serious in the discussion. Through the talks, while differences remained, the Parties enhanced their understanding of each other's positions. 4. The Parties expressed their commitment to a nuclear--weapon-free Korean Peninsula, and to resolving the nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue in a spirit of mutual respect and consultations on an equal basis, so as to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the region at large. 5. The Parties expressed their willingness to coexist peacefully. They agreed to take coordinated steps to address the nuclear issue and address the related concerns. 6. The Parties agreed to continue the process of the talks and agreed in principle to hold the third round of the Six-Party Talksin Beijing no later than the end of the second quarter of 2004. They agreed to set up a working group in preparation for the plenary. The terms of reference of the working group will be established through diplomatic channels. 7. The delegations of the DPRK, Japan, the ROK, Russia and the USA have expressed their appreciation to the Chinese side for the efforts aimed at the successful staging of the two rounds of the Six-Party Talks.

• North Pacific Working Group Seoul meeting and beyond
  Tim Beal
  A report to the NZ committee of the Council on Security in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) on a meeting of the North Pacific Working Group of CSCAP in Seoul in November 2003, and subsequent developments
  Powerpoint presentation.....Wordprocessor file
• Making Sense of the Korean Crisis
  An Interview with Gavan McCormack by Stephen R. Shalom and Mark Selden; February 15, 2004
• The Multilateral Mantra And North Korea
  Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute, February 20, 2004
• The Six-Party Talks Can Succeed
  Leon Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Council, Social Science Research Council, February 3, 2004.
• Positions, Policies and Prospects - a view from outside the Six
  Tim Beal: Paper for Moving Forward on the Korean Peninsula 11th Meeting of the CSCAP North Pacific Working Group November 13-15, 2003 Renaissance Hotel, Seoul, Korea.
  paper..............presentation

Dr Tim Beal (Coordinator)

Victoria University of Wellington

Rev Don Borrie

Presbyterian Minister, Porirua; Chairman, NZ-DPRK Society

Dr Christine Dann

Writer, Researcher, Christchurch

Mr Kim Hakmook

Korean National Congress for Reunification, Seoul/Wellington

Dame Laurie Salas

United Nations Association of NZ, Wellington

Rev Stuart Vogel

Presbyterian Minister, Auckland

Mr Alyn Ware

Peace Foundation of New Zealand, Wellington