While U.S. diplomats pushed through a resolution at the UN Human Rights commission in Geneva condemning Pyongyang for "human rights violations," Washington has scrapped contracted shipments of food and fuel to north Korea.

The U.S. rulers’ stance is consistent with 50 years of hostility to north Korea, which dealt Washington its first military defeat in the 1950-53 Korean War. It is also part of its accelerated drive today toward war. In face of spreading depression conditions and intensifying conflict among the world’s leading capitalist powers, the U.S. rulers are using their military might to extend their economic and strategic advantage over their rivals in Europe and Japan. This crises-driven effort to redivide the world for the benefit of U.S. finance capital is behind the war and occupation of Iraq.

As they step up their campaign against north Korea, the U.S. war planners are well aware of the demonstrated defensive capacities of the DPRK’s armed forces and of the workers and peasants of this embattled nation. Imperialist aggression would have an explosive impact among working people and youth in the south, millions of whom oppose the presence of U.S. forces and support the demand: "Korea is one!"

The bosses’ response to the crisis of capitalism is to increase layoffs and speedup, cut wages and benefits, and press harder to carve out markets for its capital and commodities throughout the world. The war against working people at home goes hand in hand with their aggression abroad.

Capitalist attacks on working people in the United States, however, continue to generate resistance. Today workers are engaged in strike action--from the machinists at Lockheed Martin in Texas, to meat packers at Tyson Foods in Wisconsin. They are refusing to subordinate their demands to wartime ruling-class appeals for "national unity" and patriotism.

It is to these fighters, along with young people and others protesting the brutality of capitalism, that class-conscious workers reach out with the truth about imperialism’s drive to war against Korea.

We urge you to join with others in demanding of the U.S. government: No to all military threats and provocations! End the economic embargo! Normalize diplomatic relations with the DPRK! All U.S. troops out of Korea!
 
 
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