February 6, 2013 - No. 13
Defend the Korean People's Right to
Be
Oppose U.S.-South Korean Nuclear War
Games!
Defend
the
Korean
People's
Right
to
Be
• Oppose U.S.-South Korean Nuclear War Games!
Anti-DPRK UN Security
Council Resolution 2087
• DPRK Affirms Its Right to Peaceful Use of
Space, Sovereignty and Self-Defence
• U.S.
Double Standards over Satellite Launch Denounced
DPRK's Nation-Building
Program in 2013
• Continuing the Work to Strengthen the
Socialist
Economy, Boost National Defence and Advance Reunification
Coming Events
• Halifax Weekly Pickets: Hands Off Syria!
Hands Off Iran!
• Public Meeting: Tales of Terror -- The U.S.
War on Cuba
Defend the Korean People's Right to Be
Oppose U.S.-South Korean Nuclear War Games!
On Monday, February 4, U.S. and south Korean naval and
land forces
began three days of war exercises off the East Sea of Korea which
involve live-fire, naval manoeuvres and submarine detection drills. The
USS San Francisco, a nuclear submarine, aegis
destroyers as well as battleships from the
south Korean navy are deployed in drills aimed at engaging the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in war.
According to the monopoly media, this is a "show of
force" against
the DPRK for supposedly carrying out "a ballistic missile test" on
December 12, 2012 when it successfully put in space the earth satellite
Kwangmyonsong 3-2. This is no mean feat for a small nation, facing a
60-year-old economic and political
embargo from Anglo-American imperialism, which has now demonstrated its
advanced scientific capability in space and threatens the U.S. and big
nation monopoly on space technology.
In the wake of the December
12 satellite launch, the UN Security
Council unjustly imposed further sanctions against the DPRK on January
22, adding the DPRK Space Agency and other institutions to an economic
blacklist. In the face of these unjust measures, the DPRK has
repeatedly re-affirmed its right to
undertake the peaceful use of space and has pledged to take all
necessary measures, including conducting further nuclear tests to
safeguard its sovereignty, independence and right to live in peace. Now
this is all being used by the U.S. imperialists to justify their war
games in the East Sea to escalate war hysteria against
the DPRK.
It is important for the Canadian people and all
peace-loving
humanity to reject the "moral equivalency" argument the U.S.
imperialists float with their allies and in the monopoly media that
because of the "nuclear threat" from the DPRK, the U.S. is justified in
conducting military exercises aimed at invading the
DPRK, building its nuclear weapons capability in south Korea (which is
in violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement (KAA) signed at the end
of the Korean War), and further militarizing south Korea against the
supposed threat from the DPRK. This "moral equivalency" argument covers
up that it is the U.S.
which wants to use the entire Korean peninsula as a launching pad for
imperialist war and aggression against China to dominate East Asia and
the world, and that the Korean people should be cannon-fodder. This
must not pass!
The fact is that from the
end of the Korean War in July 1953 to the
present, the DPRK, which defeated the U.S. and its allies including
Canada in that war, has been calling for a Peace Treaty with the U.S.
to replace the KAA. The KAA began the ceasefire at the end of the
Korean War and from the time of
its signing, the U.S. has overtly and covertly pushed to ignite another
war with the DPRK. This includes introducing nuclear weapons to south
Korea in violation of the KAA, and refusing to engage in peace treaty
talks and other provisions of the KAA following the ceasefire. To date,
the U.S. has refused to sign
a peace treaty with the DPRK. Instead, it carries on yearly joint
military drills with south Korea and Japan aimed at invading the DPRK
and imposing regime change. It will be remembered that last June, the
joint military land and sea exercises included the bombing of a DPRK
flag, a highly provocative act. Clearly,
the aim of the U.S. is not peace on the Korean peninsula, but to keep
the Korean peninsula in a state of constant military tension and
instability, going against the interest of the Korean people and the
peoples of East Asia and the world.
In the face of these ongoing threats, the DPRK has had
to take
serious measures to ensure that it can defend itself militarily in the
event of another Korean war which has the potential to engulf all
humanity in a nuclear holocaust. The working class and people of Canada
and the world must demand that the U.S.
immediately stop these war games and sign a peace treaty with the DPRK
which is what the Korean people and all humanity want.
No to U.S.-South Korean Military
Exercises to Threaten the DPRK!
The U.S. Must Immediately Sign a Peace Treaty with the DPRK!
Anti-DPRK UN Security Council Resolution
2087
DPRK Affirms Its Right to Peaceful Use of Space,
Sovereignty and Self-Defence
On January 24, the National Defence Commission
(NDC) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued a
statement condemning the UN Security Council (UNSC) for passing UN
Security
Council Resolution 2087 based on the disinformation that DPRK's
successful launch of its Kwangmyongson
3-2 earth satellite was a ballistic missile test. On the basis of this
resolution, further sanctions against the DPRK were imposed. The
statement of the NDC denounces the U.S. Obama regime for masterminding
this manoeuvre within the Security Council and elevating its hostile
policy towards the DPRK to a new
and dangerous level, by attempting to rally international public
opinion against the DPRK's sovereign right to the peaceful use of space.
In response to this criminal
action of the UN Security
Council on January 22, the NDC stated that it condemns and rejects the
UNSC resolution pointing out that the DPRK will never recognize the
unjust resolutions that are aimed at violating its sovereignty and
denying its right to the peaceful use of space, as
recognized by international law. The NDC statement points out,
"Sovereignty is what keeps a country and nation alive. The country and
the nation without sovereignty are more dead than alive. The satellite
launch was the exercise of an independent right pertaining to the DPRK
as well as its legitimate sovereignty
recognized by international law. Therefore, the U.S. and those
countries which launched satellites before have neither justification
nor reason to find fault with the DPRK's satellite launch."
The NDC also points out that other countries that launch
space satellites also use ballistic missile technology, and that it is
unacceptable that when the DPRK does the same, it is considered a
weapons test which endangers the whole world.
Concerning the efforts to denuclearize the Korean
peninsula and ensure peace and stability in the region, the NDC makes
the important point that as the condition for denuclearizing the Korean
peninsula, the U.S. and other big nuclear powers must be forced to
abandon nuclear weapons, and as long as the U.S.
does not denuclearize, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula
cannot be realized. The NDC further states: "The army and people of the
DPRK have drawn the conclusion that only when the denuclearization of
the world is realized... including the denuclearization of the U.S.,
will it be possible to denuclearize
the Korean Peninsula and ensure peace and security of the DPRK." The
NDC statement notes that since the U.S. is using the UNSC to encroach
on the sovereignty and independence of the DPRK, there is no basis for
the Six-Party Talks to proceed.[1]
Finally, the NDC affirms the DPRK's right of
self-defence, stating that the country will take all measures to
foil any effort by the U.S. and its aggressor allies who dare to
violate its sovereignty and independence, affirming that the people and
army and the nuclear capability of the DPRK will be fully mobilized
against aggressors particularly the U.S., "the sworn enemy of the
Korean people."
TML condemns UNSC resolution 2087 as a wanton
attack on the DPRK's right to the peaceful use of space, its
independence and sovereignty, the ongoing campaign of the Harper
government to support these and other unjust UNSC resolutions, and
calls on the working class and people to stand with
the DPRK which is fighting for its right and the right of all nations
and peoples to live in peace on the basis of self-determination,
sovereignty and independence.
Note
1. The Six-Party Talks are
negotiations held intermittently since 2003 for
purposes of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. Attended
by China, Japan, the DPRK, Russia, South Korea and the
U.S., they are hosted in Beijing and chaired by China. Talks were
suspended
in
June 2008 due to continued obstruction by the U.S. and its allies
Japan and south Korea.
U.S. Double Standards over Satellite Launch Denounced
On February 2, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of
the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) addressed the double
standards of the U.S. Specifically, the U.S. denied that the DPRK
has the right to launch a satellite for peaceful purposes while
defending a satellite launch by south Korea. He
pointed out that it is the U.S. which masterminded the UN Security
Council's "Resolution" which attacks the launch of the DPRK's satellite
Kwangmyongsong 3-2, but supports and defends south Korea's launch of
satellite Naro. This will only draw worldwide censure and ridicule on
the U.S., the spokesman added.
His explanation of the situation continued.
A U.S. State Department spokesman argued that south
Korea carried
out its launch in a responsible manner and clarified that it is not for
military purposes. Therefore, south Korea's approach is allegedly
different from that of the DPRK. The U.S. denial of the DPRK's right to
launch a satellite for no justifiable
reason while consenting to the satellite launch by its client state
south
Korea is the height of double standards and impudence, the DPRK's
spokesman pointed out.
The successful launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2 by the DPRK
was the
exercise of the legitimate right of a sovereign state to the peaceful
use of space, consistent with universally recognized international law.
Even professional institutions in the U.S., to say nothing of the
international community, have verified
that the DPRK's satellite is in orbit.
Despite this reality, the U.S. perpetrated its hostile
act via the
UNSC to negate the DPRK's independent and legitimate right to launch
its satellite, using the occasion as yet another opportunity to stifle
the DPRK. The U.S. sought a pretext to deny a satellite launch and
block the DPRK's scientific research into
space and its economic development. "Resolution" 2087 was passed to
trample on the right of the DPRK to determine its own economy and
violates the fundamental principles of the UN Charter which calls for
respecting each country's sovereignty and their impartial treatment.
Highlighting yet another double standard, it was pointed
out that
last year, the U.S. allowed its south Korean puppets to drastically
extend the range of their missiles in violation of the very missile
non-proliferation regime instituted by the U.S. itself, straining the
regional situation.
The U.S. self-serving imperialist logic is that its
allies are
permitted to violate international law, while those countries it deems
hostile are not to be permitted to do anything -- it is law of the
jungle which prevails.
The U.S. brazen double standards and hostility will be
met with the
toughest retaliation from the army and people of the DPRK who will not
cease to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country, the
spokesman concluded.
DPRK's Nation-Building Program in 2013
Continuing the Work to Strengthen the Socialist
Economy, Boost National Defence and
Advance Reunification
New Year's celebration in
Pyongyang, January 1, 2013.
Kim Jong Un
delivers 2013 New Year's message.
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Since January 1, the people of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been discussing the New Year's Message
delivered by Kim Jong Un, Supreme Leader of the DPRK, and are taking
initiatives to implement the plans for the nation laid out in that
speech. The main themes of the speech
summed up the achievements of 2012, the centenary of the birth of Kim
Il Sung, the founder of modern Korea, and acknowledged the people's
many proud achievements on all fronts of their socialist
nation-building project. Kim Jong Un, hailed these accomplishments and
called on the people of the DPRK to go
all out and carry the work further. This includes the work to build an
independent socialist economy that meets the needs of the people,
further develop modern Korean socialist culture, boost national defence
to safeguard against outside threats and aggression, and the efforts to
realize the independent, peaceful reunification
of Korea.
One of the highlights of the New Year's message was to
celebrate the successful launch of earth satellite Kwangmyonsong 3-2 on
December 12, 2012, and pay tribute to the scientists and technicians
who brought credit to the nation by achieving the goal set out by the
late leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Il, to
attain this goal in rocket science in the centenary year of the birth
of Kim Il Sung.
Kim Jong Un noted that the successful satellite launch
fully demonstrated "the high level of space and technology and the
overall national power of Juche Korea." He underscored that
by relying on their own efforts, technology and knowledge -- thus
embodying the Juche principle of
self-reliance -- the DPRK's scientists had raised the prestige of the
Korean people and "clearly showed that Korea does what it is determined
to do."
Iron workers
celebrate satellite launch (left); awards ceremony for scientists
involved in satellite launch.
Addressing the membership of the whole country and all
the people working with the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un
called on everyone to put full weight behind the further strengthening
and consolidation of the economy. He particularly highlighted the need
to further develop coal-mining,
electric-power and metallurgical industries, as well as railway
transportation as the basis of building the foundations of a thriving
economy capable of serving the people's needs. He noted that honing the
cutting edge of the scientific and technological revolution today is
key to building a strong economy. In 2013, modern
scientific methods will be used to increase grain production,
livestock, fish and fruit farming to provide people with a better and
varied diet. Among the projects highlighted was transformation of the
Sepho tableland into a massive stock-breeding centre to increase meat
production. This project is being undertaken
by the Korean People's Army and shock work brigades who are making
great advances.
Food production:
greenhouse tomatoes and fish processing factory.
This year also marks the 65th anniversary of the
founding of the DPRK and the 60th anniversary of the Korean War in
which the DPRK defeated the U.S. and forced it to sign the Korean
Armistice
Agreement. In this regard, to safeguard the sovereignty of the DPRK,
Kim Jong Un mentioned that defence capacity of
the DPRK will be raised in various ways.
In his speech Kim Jong Un
also highlighted the
contributions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in building the modern
Korean nation and especially their tireless work to advance the sacred
project of Korean reunification. He noted that the entire Korean nation
-- north, south and overseas compatriots -- should
unite in the coming year and do their duty to achieve the independent,
peaceful reunification of Korea by their own efforts by implementing
the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration
which provide the way forward. He called on the anti-reunification
forces in south Korea to abandon
their hostility to the DPRK and work toward realizing the collective
interests of the nation.
The New Year's Speech ends with recognition that in the
world today the imperialists run rampant, interfering in the internal
affairs of sovereign nations and launching wars of aggression which
endanger peace and the security of all humankind. Kim Jong Un called
attention to the fact that the Korean peninsula
itself is a volatile region where the danger of war is ever present. In
the face of this, he pointed out that the DPRK will march forward
upholding its banner of independence and sovereignty. It will extend
the hand of friendship and co-operation with those countries that
reciprocate by respecting its sovereignty and
in so doing contribute to safeguarding peace and stability and in the
world.
TML congratulates the leadership and people of
the DPRK for their momentous achievements in 2012 and bold plans
to uphold their sovereignty, build their independent socialist
people-centered economy and to safeguard peace and security on the
Korean peninsula. TML calls on
the working class and people of Canada to demand that the Harper
government abandon its hostile anti-communist cold war stance against
the DPRK and normalize relations with that country on the basis of
mutual non-interference in order to promote friendly and mutually
beneficial relations between our two countries.
Production of textiles
and heavy machinery.
Coming Events
Halifax Weekly Pickets:
Hands Off Syria! Hands Off
Iran!
Join
the Weekly Pickets Opposing
Imperialist Intervention in Syria and Iran
Weekly
pickets began in Halifax on June 8, 2012 and take place
every Friday at 4 pm.
Every
Friday -- 4:00-5:00 pm (weather permitting)
Corner of Spring Garden Rd. & Barrington St.
Organized by: Halifax Branch of the
Communist Party
of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist),
No Harbour For War and other concerned Haligonians
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The warmongering against Syria is reaching fever pitch.
The big
powers of Western Europe, Turkey and the U.S. with Canada in tow seem
determined to launch open aggression against Syria. Their covert
operations have thus far failed to achieve their aim of regime change
so every day they up the ante. In this
regard, the Canadian government and the Loyal Opposition in the federal
Parliament are the most hysterical of warmongers.
The Harper dictatorship and the Loyal Opposition have
not hesitated
to repeat the Anglo-French-U.S. litany of justifications for such
aggression and added some of their own. This is mainly comprised of
disinformation to demonize the Syrian government which is blamed for
gross violations of human rights.
This is to make sure no investigations can seriously determine who is
committing the violations, while also claiming that external powers,
like Russia, are fueling the internal conflict.
In this way Canada is deploying itself to advance the
U.S.
imperialist interests in particular. It wants the kind of "humanitarian
intervention" which culminated with regime change in Libya but has to
contend with the likes of Russia first. To do this it is advancing a
self-serving definition of what constitutes foreign
interference in the internal affairs of a country. According to the
Canadian warmongers, it is foreign interference in the internal affairs
of Syria when Russia and China defend their political and economic
relations with Syria because these relations are outside the U.S.
imperialist sphere of control. But, according to
them, all the covert operations carried out by the U.S. and western
imperialist powers and their client states in the Middle East and
Turkey are not foreign interference. These actions are allegedly
disinterested because they are said to have the aim of defending human
rights. It is the most unadulterated balderdash.
Amongst other things, the aim is to confuse the anti-war movement,
while it sets in motion its deadly plans to attack Syria.
The U.S. camp's strategy is ultimately also aimed at
targeting the
Islamic Republic of Iran for attack once Syria is out of the way. To
justify such an aggression, like the fairy tale a decade ago about
weapons of mass destruction buried in the deserts of Iraq, deafening
propaganda is being floated world-wide --
especially from the United States and Israel -- about the alleged
dangers of Iran developing a nuclear bomb. The real issue, however, is
the imperialists' ambition to eliminate Iran's political independence,
especially its independent development and management of current and
future oil production on its territory.
The gauntlet is openly being thrown down by the Big Powers. The peoples
of the world cannot afford to hesitate for a minute. Peace-loving
humanity must take its stand against this latest grave danger of war,
one that could easily escalate far beyond the borders of Syria and/or
Iran.
Hands Off Syria! Hands Off Iran!
Canada Needs an Anti-War Government!
Get Canada Out of NATO!
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Public Meeting:
Tales of Terror -- The U.S. War on Cuba
with
acclaimed journalists
Keith Bolender and Stephen Kimber
Thursday,
February 7 -- 7:00 pm
Room 302, Dalhousie Student Union Building
6136 University Avenue
Sponsored by: Canadian Network on Cuba,
Nova Scotia Cuba Association,
Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group
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Since the early 1960s, few other countries have endured
more acts of
terrorism against civilian targets than Cuba. The U.S. has had its
hands
in much of these terror attacks. The impact on the Cuban civillian
population has been enormous, with over 1,000 documented incidents
resulting in more than 3,000 deaths
and 2,000 injuries.
Keith Bolender and Stephen
Kimber will examine different
facets of
this tragic history. Drawing on his groundbreaking book, Voices From
the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba
(2010),
Bolender will tell the story from the Cuban side by giving voice to the
victims on the island. Bolender
allows the victims to articulate the atrocities the Cuban people have
suffered -- which largely originate from Cuban counter-revolutionaries
based in the U.S., often with the active help of the CIA. Voices From the
Other Side includes first-person interviews with more than 75
Cuban
citizens who have been victims
of these terrorist acts, or have had family members or close friends
die from the attacks.
In his forthcoming book, What Lies Across the Water: The
Real Story
of the Cuban Five (2013), Stephen Kimber, chronicles the
case of five Cuban intelligence agents sent to penetrate Cuban-exile
terrorist groups in Miami. Their mission was to prevent terrorist acts.
However, they were arrested
and sentenced to long terms in prison. As former U.S. diplomat Wayne
observes: "Kimber follows the Cubans as they are assigned to the United
States as undercover agents, not to work against the U.S. but to gather
information on exile terrorist activities against Cuba. The Cuban
government then invited representatives
of the FBI to come to Havana to receive and discuss the evidence of
these terrorist activities and plans gathered by the agents. The
meeting took place in June of 1998. The Cubans then waited for the
United States to take action against the exile terrorists. But none was
taken. The only action, rather, was the arrest
of the Cuban Five, they who had provided much of the evidence turned
over to the FBI."
Keith Bolender is a freelance journalist who worked for
more than 10
years with the Toronto Star.
He has written extensively on Cuban
matters for a variety of North American publications. He is a member of
the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA), on their Roster of Experts for
Cuban Affairs. He currently
lectures at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies on
American foreign policy and the Cuban Revolution.
Stephen Kimber is an award-winning Canadian journalist
and writer.
The author of one novel and seven books of non-fiction, he is a
Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in
Halifax, where he specializes in non-fiction.
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