All Out
to Oppose U.S. War Preparations on Korean Peninsula!
The Biden administration announced on April 30 that it had completed
its review of U.S. policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK).
While providing no details, the White House spokesperson stated, "Our
goal remains the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
With a clear understanding that the efforts of
the past four administrations have not achieved this objective [...]
Our policy calls for a calibrated, practical approach that is open to
and will explore diplomacy with the DPRK [...]"
If
the U.S. was truly interested in denuclearizing the Korean peninsula,
there is no mystery about what must be done. The U.S. must formally end
its state of war against the DPRK by
signing a peace treaty, and engage in peaceful relations with that
country. It means ending the constant threats of military aggression
including close to 100 small and large-scale
joint-military exercises that the U.S. carries out with the Republic of
Korea (ROK), Japan and other of its allies, including Canada, as well
as threats of "decapitating" the DPRK leadership,
and threats of nuclear annihilation. It means ending the U.S.-led
brutal and illegal economic and political sanctions imposed on the DPRK
which are a form of economic warfare and
collective punishment against a small country that affirms it's right
to be and will not capitulate. These are part of the U.S. strategy to
divide the Korean people, and justify the U.S.
military presence on the Korean Peninsula with the overall aim of
regime change in the DPRK so that the entire Korean Peninsula can be
nuclearized under U.S. dictate right at the doorstep
of China and Russia.
Activists
in south Korea have been marching, for more than 40 days for the One
Korea Peace Railway, with the aim of reviving and expanding the
intra-Korean railway project that was undermined by U.S. interference
in intra-Korean relations. Participants in the march include railway
workers, those whose families have been separated by the U.S. division
of Korea, as well as trade unionists, religious and civil society
organizations. Shown here, the marchers in Cheonan on June 12, 2021.
The
DPRK has time and again made it clear that it wants peace; it wants the
Korean nation, north and south, to sort out the contradictions on the
Korean Peninsula by their own efforts,
without foreign interference and intervention. It participated in the
Six-Party Talks hosted by China between 2003 and 2009 involving itself,
China, Russia, Japan, the U.S. and the ROK to
denuclearize the Korean Peninsula but withdrew when it became clear
that the U.S. wanted the denuclearization of the DPRK, but not the
Korean Peninsula. Furthermore the U.S.
consistently violated every signed agreement of the negotiations at
every stage while continuing to weaponize the entire ROK. Today, 28,500
U.S. troops remain alongside a massive arsenal
of deadly weapons including conventional, nuclear and chemical, making
south Korea the most militarized outpost of U.S. imperialism in the
world.
In the interests of peace the DPRK has also
signed agreements on
several occasions with the government of the ROK to end hostilities,
build trust and strengthen ties so as to overcome
more than 70 years of division forcefully imposed by the U.S. and
against the will of the Korean people. The DPRK has committed to work
with the ROK toward the peaceful reunification
of Korea based on a confederation of the two different socioeconomic
systems of north and south. The DPRK is still waiting for the ROK to
fulfill its obligations to end the joint military
exercises and other acts of aggressions based on the historic Panmunjom
Declaration signed by the two Koreas in April 2018.
The
only reason the DPRK acquired nuclear weapons in the first place
-- developed through its own science and technology -- was to defend
itself against the constant nuclear and
conventional war threats and rehearsals for aggression by the U.S. and
the ROK armed forces, the latter of which remain under U.S. not ROK
command. Furthermore, it was the U.S. that
brought the first nuclear weapons into the ROK in 1958 in violation of
the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement, and it has continued to do so.
In
his Report to the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in
January of this year, DPRK leader Kim Jong Un emphasized that the key
to establishing a new DPRK-U.S.
relationship lies in the U.S. withdrawal of its hostile policy toward
the DPRK. Among other things, 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.
However
the DPRK leader, speaking from the experience of the Korean
people with successive U.S. administrations, also said the DPRK had a
very realistic assessment of what to
expect from the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections. In his
Report to the 8th Congress of the WPK, he 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 around the world.
He reaffirmed
that the DPRK, has achieved such a high national
defence capability that "it can pre-emptively contain the threat of
hostile forces outside our territory, and 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." Kim Jong Un also emphasized that the DPRK,
unlike the U.S., is "a responsible nuclear weapons state" that "will
not use its nuclear weapons unless the aggressive hostile forces try to
have recourse to their nuclear weapons against the
DPRK."
In
his address to the Joint Session of Congress on April 29, U.S.
President Biden targeted Iran and the DPRK as "threats to American
security and the security of the world" and
pledged to address these "threats posed by both of these countries
through diplomacy, as well as stern deterrence." Thus, the DPRK
leader's assessment that there would be no change to the
U.S. policy toward the DPRK with the new administration was shown to be
correct. Biden's "pragmatic approach" of "diplomacy" and "stern
deterrence" is that the ends -- which is to have
the DPRK give up its right to be -- justify the means. Such an approach
fools no one, least of all the Korean people, and like the various
self-serving approaches of previous
administrations, it will fail. No blackmail nor self-serving trickery
or use of force will succeed in getting the DPRK to come to heel.
The "human rights" disinformation that the U.S. churns out
against
the DPRK is part of its arsenal to demonize the latter and maintain a
state of war to justify its occupation of the
Korean Peninsula, to encircle China and project U.S. domination in the
Indo-Pacific region. It is also intended to deflect from its own crimes
at home and abroad, and attempt to arrest the
movement of the Korean people for peace and reunification, and divert
the world's opposition to U.S. imperialism, which is the biggest threat
to humanity and to world peace.
Speaking on May 2
in opposition to the crude remarks from the State
Department spokesperson on April 28, stating that the Biden
administration will work with its allies "to raise
awareness of North Korea's egregious human rights situation,
investigate abuses and violations" on so-called "North Korea Freedom
Week,"[1]
the
DPRK Foreign Ministry underscored that the U.S. is hardly qualified to
speak on the matter of human rights, as "it has inflicted unspeakable
suffering and pain on the people of the DPRK
with its vicious hostile policy."
The
DPRK Foreign Ministry cited the daily death tolls in the U.S. of
"innocent people due to social inequality and racial discrimination,"
and the latter's horrific record of more than
half a million deaths because of the inadequate intervention to stem
the COVID-19 pandemic and protect human life. The DPRK also noted that
there are more than 40,000 gun-related deaths a year in the U.S. and
pointed out that it is the U.S. that needs to
be investigated and sanctioned for gross human rights violations at
home and abroad. The DPRK condemned the U.S. as
a "human rights wasteland."
The Canadian people and
the world can attest that these observations
by the DPRK are factual, and that the DPRK's call for the U.S. to be
investigated for widespread human rights
crimes at home and abroad is just.
From
the time of its founding in 1948, the DPRK has stood on
principle to defend its sovereignty and independence and the honor of
the Korean nation. It has called for an end to the
U.S. military occupation of Korea and an end to all hostile acts and
acts of aggression aimed at it by the U.S. and its allies. Its heroic
efforts to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula are a contribution to
world peace and deserve the unconditional and unstinting support of all
justice- and peace-loving peoples of Canada and the world.
U.S. Troops Out of Korea!
All Out for Peace on the Korean Peninsula!
Note
1.
"North Korea Freedom Week" is
organized and sponsored by the Defence Forum Foundation a so-called NGO
led by former U.S. military personnel, politicians, religious leaders
and
private sector executives whose mission is "Keeping America Strong.
Promoting Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights Abroad." The President of
the organization is Suzanne Shultz, who
is also the Honorary Chairman of Free North Korea Radio, the North
Korea People's Liberation Front and a Vice- Chair of the Committee for
Human Rights in North Korea. She is also a
Board member of Christian Solidarity Worldwide-USA, all of which are
involved in constantly spewing anti-communist lies about human right
abuses in the DPRK in order to justify illegal
sanctions and other acts of war and aggression against that small
country, and to assist U.S. "diplomacy" to achieve regime change in the
DPRK.
This article was published in
Volume 51 Number 15 - June 15, 2021
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2021/Articles/MS51151.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
