In all its talks and negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Washington is not interested in peace. In the eyes of the U.S. ruling class the government in north Korea will always be a "rogue state" as long as it refuses to bend to its imperial dictates. Bush's arrogant condemnation of the "secrecy" of the government in the north simply means Washington--whose entire foreign policy is based on secrecy and lies--thinks it has the right to stick its snout in that country's affairs.

There are irresolvable class antagonisms between Washington and the workers state in north Korea. The U.S. big-business class will never reconcile itself to the defeat it suffered at the hands of the workers and peasants of Korea, who overturned capitalist property relations there. In response, the U.S. rulers organized a bloody war against the Korean people in 1950-53 that killed more than 3 million Koreans and devastated cities and factories.

The current U.S. conflict of policy with its "ally" in south Korea is a result of Washington's course of aggression against the north and maintaining its control over the south--including its ever-present threat of using nuclear weapons. The U.S. rulers couldn't care less about their underlings in Seoul who express anxiety over Wash-ington's confrontational stance.

The Bush administration, like the Clinton White House before it, is pressing to develop a "nuclear shield." Its aim is to give the U.S. military a first-strike nuclear capacity that it can wield as a threat against any regime or nation that does not submit to its dominance around the globe. U.S. imperialism is also preparing with cold-blooded awareness for the day when it will resort to military might to try to reestablish capitalism in China, Russia and other countries where workers and peasants have overturned the system of wage slavery.

Washington has been unable to crush the deep aspirations for reunification and sovereignty among the Korean people. Millions are opposed to the 37,000 U.S. troops occupying Korean soil in the southern half of the peninsula--a nuclear-armed military force that targets working people in both north and south.

Working people in this country must oppose the U.S. government's aggressive actions toward north Korea. We should embrace the fight for reunification of that Asian nation and demand that U.S. troops get out of Korea.
 
 
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