A military parade by the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The socialist state has declared that it is not bound by the armstice signed after the war against US imperialism in 1953.
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Published Dec 1, 2010 9:58 PM
Workers World Party stands in complete solidarity with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at this critical moment, as U.S. imperialism and its client regime in south Korea are threatening war.
We reject the deafening blast of deceitful propaganda that presents the DPRK as the aggressor, even as it bravely holds off a potential invading force of hundreds of warships and fighter planes that have been deployed by Washington and Seoul in the West Sea near the DPRK.
The U.S. billionaire rulers have waged class war against the DPRK ever since it was founded by revolutionary forces, led by the legendary guerrilla fighter Kim Il Sung, who had ousted Japanese imperialism from the north of Korea and liberated the workers and peasants there from colonial slavery.
The class of capitalist financiers and industrialists, who today are sucking the working class here dry to keep their record profits, could not tolerate a socialist north Korea. Through their economic and political control over Washington, they launched a devastating three-year war against the DPRK in 1950-53, killing millions of Koreans and tens of thousands of U.S. youth. But they could not break the will of the people in the north to be free of foreign domination.
These world-class exploiters never gave up their ambition to control all of Korea. That is why the U.S. has imposed sanctions on the north, maintains tens of thousands of troops in the south, and refuses to meet with the DPRK to sign a peace treaty ending the state of war that still exists, 57 years after the ceasefire. They have left the DPRK no choice but to develop the means to defend itself against constant threats from Washington and the Pentagon.
The Korean people, north and south, want peace and the reunification of their divided country. Even as a war fever was being drummed up in Seoul, courageous demonstrators there demanded “No war!”
Workers and poor people in the U.S. are also sick and tired of the politicians’ deadly priorities that put the enormous Pentagon budget ahead of vital human needs, even as hunger, unemployment, homelessness and ill health keep growing.
We demand: End the sanctions and the war threats! Bring U.S. troops and warships home now and sign a peace treaty with the DPRK! Money for jobs, schools, housing and health care, not for war!
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International League of Peoples’ Struggle condemns U.S. war threats
Published Dec 1, 2010 9:56 PM
The following statement was issued on Nov. 26 by Professor Jose Maria Sison, chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle.
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent and ongoing provocations being made by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet government against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We refer to the mobilization of 70,000 troops for a week of military maneuvers just off the border of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in order to simulate an invasion of the DPRK. ...
The south Korean puppet forces fired many shells into territorial waters of the DPRK on Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. Only after an hour and a half later did the DPRK retaliate in self-defense by firing shells at the Yonphyong Islet held by south Korea.
The south Korean puppet forces have made the provocations obviously at the instigation of the U.S. U.S. officials and mass media have misrepresented the DPRK as the one making the provocations and have quickly beaten the war drums for the deployment of U.S. forces and weapons of mass destruction against the DPRK.
In a far bigger act of war provocation, the U.S. has announced plans to send the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its battle group, including war ships, destroyers and hundreds of fighter jets, into the area to participate in new military exercises to threaten the DPRK.
Let us recall that the U.S. military forces have been involved in all the war maneuvers by south Korea, going back to the 1950-53 war, have killed millions of the Korean people and have occupied south Korea since the end of World War II.
We demand that the U.S. withdraw its 30,000 troops from south Korea in order to allow the peaceful reunification of Korea and let the Korean people exercise their right to national self-determination.
We demand that immediately the U.S. and South Korea stop their war maneuvers and exercises against the DPRK. They must remove their warships from the territorial waters of the DPRK. The U.S. must end the sanctions it has instigated against the DPRK.
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!
Down with U.S. imperialism and its south Korean puppets!
Long live the Korean people of both north and south!
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Global anti-imperialist group denounces war exercises
Published Dec 1, 2010 9:52 PM
The following statement was released Nov. 30 by Manik Mukherjee, Vice President of the All India Anti-imperialist Forum and General Secretary of the International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee.
The International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee denounces the conspiracy of the U.S. imperialists to heighten the war tension in East Asia by launching a joint military exercise with south Korea in the Yellow Sea.
The U.S. has long been militarily threatening the [the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] with a view to staging a counter-revolutionary overthrow of socialism in DPRK and bringing about a “regime change” there. The present joint military drill is another such exercise directed against the DPRK.
We also condemn India’s pro-imperialist stand on this issue. Instead of strongly voicing a demand for stopping the joint military exercise, it has taken an ambivalent stand by appealing to both parties to maintain peace, thereby effectively taking side with the imperialist camp.
However, it is heartening that the people in south Korea are beginning to see through the nefarious design of the U.S. and are staging protests against the joint exercise, holding placards proclaiming, “No War” and “We Want Peace.”
The IAPSCC demands that the U.S. totally withdraw its military presence in the Korean region and allow the two Koreas to peacefully resolve their differences through mutual dialogues.
IAPSCC calls upon all the peace-loving people of the world to rise up in protest against the U.S. war maneuvers and to build up a strong global international movement against the imperialist war designs.
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Times Square protest demands end to U.S. aggression in Korea
Published Dec 1, 2010 9:45 PM
In the first of a series of actions in New York this week — buttressed by similar protest demonstrations in other parts of the U.S. — anti-war protesters marched near the military recruiting booth in Times Square to protest the latest U.S./south Korean joint war exercises in the sea near north Korea. About half of the demonstrators were from New York’s Korean community.
Chants of “Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation!” alternated with demands that the U.S. finally sign a peace treaty with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, something that it has failed to do during the 57 years since the 1953 cease-fire armistice was signed.
The demonstration was called by the Answer Coalition and drew support from the Pakistan Freedom Forum, the International Action Center, the FIST youth group, the Philippine community and political organizations like Workers World Party and others.
At the ending rally, people announced protests scheduled in New York for Nov. 30 at a tree-lighting ceremony sponsored by General Electric, and on Dec. 1 and Dec. 3.
The Korean organization Nodutdol is circulating information about a Dec. 1 online action being organized by the National Campaign to End the Korean War (endthekoreanwar.org). “Peace in Korea” will take place on Dec. 1 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST. See nodutdol.org.
The IAC has circulated an online petition that by Nov. 19 had 1,150 signers, including 110 organizations, and which has been directed to more than 85,000 political officials and media. See iacenter.org.
The IAC has also called a protest for Friday, Dec. 3, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., on the west side of Broadway between 33rd and 34th Street.
— Report & photo by John Catalinotto
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Baltimore activists say ‘No U.S. war in Korea’
Published Dec 1, 2010 7:37 PM
Community activists took to the streets in Baltimore Nov. 30 during lunch hour to say no to U.S. war threats against Korea. They gathered at the corners of 33rd and Greenmount Avenue armed with signs and leaflets to get out information to people passing by.
An update and in-depth analysis of the crisis in Korea is scheduled Dec. 13 at the Baltimore Solidarity Center, 2011 N. Charles Street, 7 to 9 p.m. The forum will feature Workers World newspaper editor Deirdre Griswold, who has traveled to the DPRK and south Korea. She will address the meeting via webcam and Skype. The forum is part of the Workers World Party weekly discussions on socialism.
— Report and photo by Sharon Black
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