The Socialist Workers Party sends revolutionary greetings on this 50th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

We denounce the extensive war maneuvers by U.S. and south Korean troops conducted last month in south Korea, as well as the most recent threats and slanders by Washington and Tokyo against the Korean people - using the DPRK's launching of a satellite as a pretext to perpetuate their claims that the DPRK is a military threat to the people of the region. This follows Washington's brutal bombings of the sovereign nations of Afghanistan and Sudan, including destroying a medicine factory in Khartoum. These acts of imperial aggression, carried out in the name of "fighting terrorism," show once again that Washington is the real threat to humanity.

The U.S. rulers and their imperialist allies act today from a position of weakness. Their claim that capitalism is on a forward march to stability, peace, and prosperity rings more hollow than ever. As the growing decay of the market system becomes more evident to all - from the crisis sweeping Asia and increasingly spreading in Latin America to the recent tremors on Wall Street - workers and peasants from Indonesia to Russia are resisting the devastating social conditions resulting from the rulers' attempts to shore up their system at the expense of the toilers.

Fifty years ago, as the imperialist rulers in Washington were declaring their "American Century," the Korean people were already waging their struggle for true independence and self-determination - a heroic fight that dealt one of the first blows to Washington's pretensions and led to the defeat of U.S. imperialism's attempt to overturn the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

We will continue to join with others in telling the truth about Korea, especially among working people resisting the attacks by the employers on their working and living conditions and democratic rights here in the United States. We stand with the Korean people in the fight to get all the U.S. troops and weaponry out of Korea, tear down the wall dividing the country, and reunify the Korean nation.  
 
 
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