U.S. Provocations and Disinformation Target DPRK
People of South Korea Vigorously Protest U.S. War Exercises
Seoul, Korea, August 13, 2022 protest against U.S./south Korea joint military exercises.
The U.S. Biden administration stands condemned for escalating joint military exercises with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan on the Korean peninsula, in a show of force against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Korean people for whom history shows they have absolutely no regard. These war exercises are integral to the dangerous and criminal U.S. strategy to militarize East Asia to encircle China.
From August 26 to September 1, the U.S. and ROK conducted the Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint military exercises, the largest since before the pandemic. "Total war" scenarios involved thousands of U.S. and ROK troops, live-fire drills, simulated joint attacks and taking out of DPRK strategic defence installations.
The
people of the ROK have been vigorously protesting these war exercises,
the ROK's subordination to the U.S. and the actions of the new ROK
government to undermine relations with the DPRK and endanger the entire
Korean Peninsula. The new ROK government of Yoon Suk-yeol responded to
these
demands of the people by pledging to take a "tougher stance" against
the DPRK and to "normalize" these joint war games with the U.S.
Beginning September 26, the U.S. aircraft carrier strike group, composed of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and Aegis-equipped missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52), arrived in Busan for joint military exercises with the ROK navy in the East Sea. These drills took place in the context of U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris' visit to the ROK. The ROK navy stated that the exercises are an expression of the "powerful resolve" of both countries to respond to "DPRK provocations" and to strengthen joint naval operations.
For the record, the DPRK has no troops or missiles outside its borders, unlike the U.S. which is joined by Canada, Japan, the ROK and others in striving to impose U.S. domination in the Indo-Pacific and especially East Asia. The DPRK has not participated in any war except the Korean War (1950-53), which was launched by the U.S. with Canada, Britain, and NATO and other countries fighting under the cover of the UN flag.
From the end of the Korean War till today, it is the U.S. that has refused to abide by any of the terms of the Armistice Agreement that ended the fighting in the Korean War, which stipulated that the U.S. remove its troops and armaments from the Korean Peninsula and sign a Peace Treaty.
Instead, the U.S. continues to maintain a military presence of 28,500 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines on the Korean Peninsula for which the people of the ROK must pay and they operate outside of ROK law. It is a U.S. occupation under the hoax of supporting the United Nations Command in Korea. Additionally, it has engineered various UN Security Council sanctions against the DPRK, challenging its right to be and violating the human rights of the people of that country. As a result of 70 years of U.S. provocations and aggression, the DPRK which suffered so greatly during the Korean war and, before that, under Japanese occupation, built and continues to test its nuclear weapons arsenal as a means of self-preservation.
The U.S., Canada and other countries are the ones to explain why they rebuff efforts by the DPRK to get the U.S. to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War. The ongoing tension on the Korean Peninsula is a serious problem for the Korean people The only language the U.S. knows involves military threats, provocations, blackmail and war.
The Korean people and the peoples of the world demand that a peace treaty be signed to end the Korean War so that tensions can be reduced and problems on the Korean Peninsula can be sorted out peacefully. This is the profound desire of the Korean people. Canadians are called on to take principled stands to oppose U.S. warmongering and meddling on the Korean Peninsula and demand that Canada stop participating in war exercises and sanctions.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 38 - October 31, 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520381.HTM
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