72nd Anniversary of the Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- September 9
Photo is of the celebration held in 2018 to mark
the 70th anniversary of the founding of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
September
9, 2020 marks the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). On this occasion, the National
Leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) Anna Di
Carlo sent greetings to Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of
Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme
Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK and wished the Korean people
success in their striving to secure peace for their nation and put an
end to more than 70 years of U.S.-engineered division, tension and
strife and to move forward as a united, peaceful and prosperous
country.
After decades of struggle against the Japanese
occupiers (1910-1945), the Korean people, under
the leadership of General Kim Il Sung and the
Korean People's Army, liberated their nation on
August 15, 1945 and began building a modern
democratic state from the ruins of war. Across the
country, People's Committees were formed and in
August-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 because the
U.S. insisted on fulfilling its ambition to
establish a foothold in north-east Asia on the
Korean Peninsula after the defeat of Japan, 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 one million people.
In order to capture the Korean Peninsula and use
it to threaten aggression against China and the
Soviet Union, in 1950 the U.S. instigated the
Korean War and from 1950 to 1953 more than four
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.
DPRK President Kim Il Sung 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.
Led by President Kim Il Sung, the exploits of the
Korean people in the anti-Japanese war continue to
inspire not only the Korean people, but the
peoples of the world, to be courageous, fearless
and self-reliant, that no matter the
difficulties and the odds against them, they can
prevail. President Kim Il Sung's far-sightedness
and wisdom were tempered in the forge of
anti-Japanese struggle, meeting the cruelty of the
Japanese occupiers with total confidence in the
Korean people and their abilities and
determination.
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 tireless
efforts to secure the reunification of the Korean
nation, peace on the Korean Peninsula, justice and
prosperity.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 33 - September 5, 2020
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