With renewed tensions once again raising the specter of war on the Korean peninsula, the Korean Students Association, Korean Undergraduate Students Association, and Korean Language Program at UGA join the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korean (ASCK) in declaring November 10, 2005 to be Korea Peace Day.

On this day we call upon all concerned people and organizations to join together on college and university campuses throughout the United States to express a commitment to a peaceful resolution of the on-going tensions between the U.S. and North Korean (DPRK). Fifty-two years ago, on July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed to end the fighting in the Korean War. That war killed more than three million Koreans, more than half a million Chinese, and more than 35,000 Americans. The Korean War has never formally ended. Korea remains divided, and the United States and North Korea remain technically at war with each other half a century after the armistice.

The first Korea Peace Day was held on November 6, 2003, with events taking place at over forty colleges and universities throughout the United States. As on that day, this Korea Peace Day is dedicated to promoting a formal end to the war and the renunciation of the use of military force on the Korean peninsula. Events on the Korea Peace Day at UGA will focus on illuminating the impact of the current tensions on Korean peninsula on the lives of ordinary Koreans as well as the importance of understanding the need for the U.S. to build new, more beneficial relationships with both North and South Koreas through dialogue, cooperation, and the active pursuit of peace.