The Korea Christian Association for a Nuclear-Free World (KCANFW) held their regular meeting on May 29.  One of the issues they are deeply concerned with is the Kori power plants.  Plants 1 and 2 are over 30 years old, and built in a very populated part of Korea.  If an accident were to happen, it threatens the life of millions.    From Kori, a system of 765V High Energy Transmission Towers are being built that will carry power from Kori 3 and 4 to Gyeong-Nam Province.  Plants 3 and 4 are still under construction yet, so frequently questions are raised as to why the rush to build these towers capable of such voltage?  When Plants 3 and 4 are completed, 1 and 2 should be closed having reached their maximum plant life, and so the existing power lines should suffice.   Several small villages of Miryang City is one place where a pause has come in the government’s rush to build.  For 9 years some of the citizens have continued to resist allowing the power lines to cross their land. About 80% of the residents have given up over these 9 years, and taken the company’s compensation package, but 20% (374 households) of these rural folk continue to refuse agreement with the Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and demand official dialogue.     The government thought they had beaten them on June 11. An Administrative Execution action took place that day, in which 2200 police and 250 KEPCO staff descended on the hills around Miryang, destroying the protest camps and tents in which the villages were living to keep construction from taking place.  The 2200 police were facing 100 mostly elderly villagers and activists, including priests and nuns.  Many of the resisters were injured in this police action.   On June 10, NCCK had issued a statement, asking the government to one, not carry out this Administrative Execution action, two, start discussions and communication with sincere arbitration between villagers and government to come up with reasonable suggestions of alternatives to the high voltage transmission towers in this place, and three, to urge the National Assembly to make a law preventing such police violations taking place.   On June 17, some of the Miryang grandmothers came to Seoul and carried out protests in front of the National Police Station and in front of KEPCO.  The Korea Christian Association for a Nuclear-Free World provided lunch boxes for them, and promised to continue to stand in solidarity with them and their concerns.   On June 18, NCCK visited the area, hearing the determination of the elderly villagers to stay with their life campaign. They strongly express the desire to continue, until, as they say, “the day the towers can be pulled out”.  A suggestion they have for NCCK is to establish rural-urban connections between member churches and the villages of Miryang, in which connections people could build relationships where they would hear the story of the resistance, where youth could be sent to learn about life and care of the land, and where a cooperative sharing local crops could be established to benefit the people of urban churches.