73rd
Anniversary of Founding of Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Stand with the Korean People to Achieve Peace and National Reunification 
Celebration
in 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea. (Xinhua)
September 9 marks the 73rd anniversary of the
founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) sends its greetings to Kim
Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, to the Workers' Party
of Korea, and to the government and the people of the DPRK on this
joyous occasion. CPC(M-L) wishes the DPRK every success in its work to
secure peace and prosperity for their nation and to put an end to more
than 70 years of U.S.-engineered division, tension and strife on the
Korean Peninsula. The Korean people, under the
leadership of General Kim Il Sung and the Korean People's Army,
liberated their nation on August 15, 1945 after decades of struggle
against the Japanese occupiers (1910-1945). From the ruins of war they
began building a modern democratic state. Throughout the country,
People's Committees were formed and in August to September 1945 the
Korean people elected their representatives to a People's Assembly,
which proclaimed the "Korean People's Republic" on September 6, 1945.
However, the Republic was short-lived. Even though the Korean
people freed themselves from the Japanese occupiers without the
presence of any U.S. troops, the U.S. included a term in the surrender
signed by Japan on September 2, 1945 that the Korean Peninsula would be
divided along the 38th parallel and that the defeated Japanese military
in Korea would surrender to U.S. forces in the south, not to the Korean
liberators. On September 8, 1945, two days after the declaration of the
Republic, thousands of U.S. troops began to arrive in Korea. The new
occupiers declared the Korean People's Republic illegal and began to
crush the People's Committees by force. In the words of U.S. General
Douglas MacArthur, Korea was to be an "anti-communist bulwark."
Over the next three bloody years, through a campaign of mass
terror and brutality, the illegal U.S. Military Government and their
local agents criminalized, rounded up, tortured, imprisoned and
murdered hundreds of thousands of suspected communists, "leftists" and
other patriots who refused to submit to U.S. dictate. The
U.S. organized a fraudulent "free and fair" election in May 1948, which
was boycotted en masse
by the Korean people. The U.S. installed Syngman Rhee as President of
the Republic of Korea by force of arms in July 1948. In
response to this crime by the U.S. against the Korean people and their
drive for independence and reunification, Kim Il Sung declared the
founding of the DPRK on September 9, 1948 in Pyongyang at a jubilant
rally of more than 1 million people. The founding of the DPRK
guaranteed the Korean people the revolutionary base from which their
drive for reunification and self-determination would continue.
The U.S. puppet anti-communist Syngman Rhee regime clung to
power through terror and brutality. It suffered irreversible losses in
the south Korean election of May 1950. The U.S. then launched the
Korean war to capture the Korean Peninsula and use it to threaten
aggression against China and the Soviet Union. More than 4 million
Korean civilians were killed and massive destruction caused to the
economy and infrastructure. The United States and 17 other countries,
including Canada, took part in this war of aggression against the
Korean nation under the fig-leaf of the UN flag on the false pretext of
collective self-defence against an attack by the north on the south.
The U.S. aggressors committed crimes against the peace, crimes
against humanity and untold war crimes, including massacres of
civilians, as well as the use of biological and chemical weapons and
the fire-bombing of various northern cities, which resulted in many
civilian casualties. The DPRK, though still in its infancy, with the
help of the Chinese Volunteer Forces, organized the Korean people and
defeated the U.S. in the war and forced it to sign the Korean Armistice
Agreement, thus defending the sovereignty and honour of the Korean
nation. Kim Il Sung, President of the DPRK, said at
the time: "The victory of our people in the Korean War was a victory of
the revolutionary people over the imperialist forces, a victory of the
revolutionary army over the aggressive forces of imperialism. It proved
that the people who rise up for freedom, independence and progress,
taking their destiny into their own hands under the leadership of a
Marxist-Leninist party, will never be conquered by any imperialist
forces of aggression. It also exposed the vulnerability and corruptness
of U.S. imperialism, demonstrating to the oppressed nations of the
world that U.S. imperialism is by no means an unconquerable enemy and
that they too can definitely fight and defeat it." It
is important to point out that the DPRK has committed no act of
aggression against another country. The Korean War, which engulfed the
entire Korean Peninsula, was provoked by the U.S. and its puppet regime
in the south. Standing firm against the might of the U.S. military
empire -- known for its use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
worldwide -- the DPRK affirms not only its right to be, but the right
of all nations and peoples to self-determination and peace. For this
internationalist spirit, the DPRK is justly admired by all justice- and
peace-loving people in Canada and the world. Today,
the DPRK stands proudly second to none in the family of nations.
Despite the brutal racist and illegal sanctions that the U.S. imposed
on the DPRK during the Korean War, which have increased in intensity
with successive U.S. imperialist administrations, the DPRK has not been
brought to its knees. It prevails and thrives despite the most arduous
and trying conditions. Under the leadership of Kim
Jong Un and the Workers' Party of Korea, the entire people of the DPRK
have been mobilized to strengthen their socialist independent economy,
and uphold the DPRK's independence and right to be. As one, they work
collectively to improve the standard of living of the people, deepen
and widen its people's culture, and maintain its dignity. The
DPRK has also built its self-defence capacity to safeguard its
independence from the constant military threats and nuclear blackmail
of the U.S. imperialist warmongers. While the DPRK today has diplomatic
and trade relations with more than 165 countries in the world, Canada,
integrated into the U.S. imperialist agenda for war, has refused to
even recognize the credentials of the DPRK Ambassador to Canada despite
establishing formal links with the DPRK in 2001. This is unacceptable.
Canadians want Canada to be a force for peace in the world and
normalizing relations with the DPRK would enhance peace on the Korean
Peninsula as well as contribute to peace in the world. CPC(M-L)
treasures the meeting between its founder and leader Comrade Hardial
Bains and President Kim Il Sung. Canadian communists will always stand
with the people of the DPRK and the Workers' Party of Korea and support
their efforts to secure peace on the Korean Peninsula, justice,
prosperity, and the reunification of the Korean nation by their own
efforts. On the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of
the founding of the DPRK, CPC(M-L) calls on the Canadian people to
stand with the people of the DPRK for their right to be. The Canadian
state and its governments must abandon their hostile anti-communist
policies toward the DPRK and normalize relations with that country for
mutual benefit and for peace.
This article was published in
Volume 51 Number 9 - September 5, 2021
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2021/Articles/M5100911.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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