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    Vol.63/No.32           September 20, 1999 
 
 
End U.S. Threats To N. Korea  
Below we reprint the greetings Socialist Workers Party national secretary Jack Barnes sent to the Workers Party of Korea on the occasion of the September 9 anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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The Socialist Workers Party sends revolutionary greetings on this 51st anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

We denounce the recent threats of military aggression and provocations by Washington and Tokyo, as well as by their backers in Seoul, against your country - using the supposed imminent testing of a rocket by the DPRK to justify their prior decision to launch a "Star Wars" Theater Missile Defense system, aimed not only against the people of Korea but of China as well. In June, Seoul's Navy, which is backed and financed by U.S. imperialism, sank a vessel from your country, killing all seventeen Korean seamen aboard in another indication of who is the aggressor in the Korean peninsula.

More than half a century ago, as the imperialist rulers in Washington were proclaiming an "American century," the Korean people were already waging their struggle for 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. It is among these fighters in city and countryside, who are increasingly resisting the effects of the capitalist crisis, that the Korean people will find their best allies.

We stand with you in the fight to get all U.S. troops and weaponry out of Korea, to take the steps necessary to defend Korea's national sovereignty, and to reunify the Korean nation.

 
 
 
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