Plans of Workers' Party of Korea to Strengthen Movement for Peace and Reunification
The 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea
(WPK), held in the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from
January 5 to 12,
addressed important issues for the
independent reunification of the country and
development of external
relations. Referring to the Report delivered to
the Congress by Kim
Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of the DPRK, the
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published the
following account of
the discussion:
"Our nation is now standing on the crucial
crossroads of whether to
advance along the road of peace and
reunification," Kim Jong Un said.
"It is no exaggeration to say that the current
inter-Korean relations have been brought back to
the time before the
publication of the Panmunjom Declaration and the
hope for national
reunification has become more distant."[1]
The Report to the WPK's 8th Congress stressed
that north-south
relations cannot thaw by the efforts of one side
alone nor improve by
themselves with the passage of time. To thaw
relations, the Report said, it is necessary to
take a stand to resolve
the basic problems first in the north-south
relations; halt all acts
hostile toward the other side, and seriously
approach and
faithfully implement the north-south declarations.
 Kim Jong Un
clarified the WPK's principled stand on
inter-Korean
relations as follows:
The south Korean authorities
are going against
the implementation of the north-south agreement
on guaranteeing peace and military stability on
the Korean Peninsula.
In disregard of our repeated warnings that they
should stop introducing
the latest military hardware and joint military
exercises with the U.S., the south is securing and
developing new
cutting-edge offensive equipment including
ballistic and cruise
missiles.
At the present moment the DPRK does not need to
show goodwill to the
south Korean authorities unilaterally as in the
past, and the DPRK will
treat them according to how they
respond to our just demands and how much effort
they make to fulfill
the north-south agreements.
The third part of the Report to the WPK's 8th
Congress also noted
that whoever took power in the U.S., the real
intentions of its policy
toward the DPRK would never change. The Report stressed the need for an "adroit" strategy
towards the U.S.
while at the same time steadily expanding
solidarity with the
anti-imperialist, independent forces.
The Report also referred to the need to frustrate
the reactionary
offensive of the enemy and raise the prestige of
the DPRK by enhancing
the role of the external information sector. It
stressed the need for the field of external work
to further develop
relations with the socialist countries, and
consolidate unity and
co-operation with the revolutionary and
progressive parties
which aspire for independence, and launch a
dynamic joint struggle
against imperialism on a worldwide scale so as to
make the external
environment of the DPRK evermore
favourable.
The Report expressed the steadfast determination
of the WPK to
reliably defend the peace and stability of the
Korean Peninsula as well
as of the rest of the world. There is no country
on this planet, it said, which is permanently
exposed to the threat of
war as is the DPRK, nor a country as strong in its
people's desire for
peace.
The
Report to the 8th Congress points out that "we have stored the
strongest war deterrent, and steadily develop it, aimed at defending
ourselves and opening up an era of genuine peace free from war
forever. Now that our national defence capability has risen to
such a level that it can pre-emptively contain the threat of the
hostile forces outside our territory, in the future any heightening of
tensions on the Korean Peninsula would lead to the instability of
security on the part of the forces posing a threat to us."
Stating
that the key to establishing a new DPRK-U.S. relationship lies in the
U.S. withdrawal of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the Report
clarified the WPK's stand that it would approach the U.S. on the
principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill in the future,
too. It reaffirmed that the DPRK, as a responsible nuclear weapons
state, will not use its nuclear weapons unless the aggressive hostile
forces try to have recourse to their nuclear weapons against the DPRK.
By clarifying the foreign policy and stand of the
WPK for
strengthening friendship and solidarity with all
the countries in the
world respecting the sovereignty of the DPRK and
for
achieving genuine international justice, the Report on the work of the
Central Committee of the WPK provided strategic
and tactical guidelines
for further increasing the DPRK's
international authority and influence in the new
period to be reviewed,
KCNA says.
Note
1. The Panmunjom
Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and
Reunification of the Korean
Peninsula was signed by Kim Jong Un,
Chairman of the DPRK and Moon Jae-in, President
of the Republic of
Korea on April 27, 2018, following north-south
summit talks at the
House of Peace, Panmunjom.
This article was published in
Volume 51 Number 5 - February 21, 2021
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