Gangjeong villagers Mayor Kang Dong-Kyun (in yellow shirt), Sung-Hee Choi, Seoul activist Baek Gayoon, U.S. international attorneys Katy Kintzele and Shauna Lange, and Ron Engel from Center for Humans and Nature (Indiana, U.S.), on the Assembly floor just before voting on Motion 181 to save Gangjeong Village from construction of a navy base.
It's fascinating to listen to the South Korean government environmental ministry representative lie through his teeth as he says that the Gangjeong villager supports the Navy base. They voted 94% to oppose the base! They've been protesting and going to jail for years. IUCN delegates in the hundreds went and met with the villagers. To continue those lies is a slap in the face of truth.
In the end the NGO's saw through the smokescreen and voted yes for the resolution. The governments (with 30 South Korean votes) essentially blocked passage.
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