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Kurdistan dream, letter to the Korea Times
editor
29.6.2007
By Nawzad Kareem
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June
29, 2007
Dear Editor,
First, I would like to take this opportunity to
thank Korean government and the Korean people for
their support of Kurdish people in Iraqi-Kurdistan.
Their contributions have been very fruitful and
outstanding from cultural exchange, establishing
schools, clinics and hospitals to training local
management teams on how to operate in a free market
and a democratic system.
I read your editorial, "Pullout
From Iraq,’’ June 18, 2007,
passionately during my last visit to your beautiful
city Seoul. I was a little bit surprised to see your
firm and rigid stand on the Korean army base in
Iraq. You concluded your article with a very clear
message, "There are no more reasons, moral or
practical_ left to force the idle Korean troops to
stay in an increasingly dangerous country.’’
I am having trouble agreeing with you for two main
reasons; first of all, they are not in Iraq, they
are based in Kurdistan, so called northern Iraq,
the unfortunate and tragic fate of Kim Sun-il
happened outside Kurdistan’s regional government’s
control, we do regret this tragedy.
Second, the Korean Army is not in the war business
or to protect people from terrorism and civil war.
They are a team of military engineers, medical
staff, cultural attaches _ business promoters,
bankers, artists, etc.
The closest example to their noble work will be what
the U.S. army did in Korea some fifty years ago. We
Kurdish people in northern Iraq, appreciate what the
Korean people have done for us and what they are
planning to do for us in the future.
We also have an aggressive economical plan and
vision to become the second Dubai in the Middle
East.
We are the only secular administrative and society
in the region with less than 6 percent of our
directly elected regional parliament controlled by
religious parties. Our economy will flourish, and
Kurdistan will be the second Dubai. We need to work
together.
Nawzad Kareem
koreatimes co.kr
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