The Socialist Workers Party joins the government and people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in celebrating the 56th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK. On this occasion, we reaffirm our solidarity with the Korean people’s decades-long struggle for national sovereignty and reunification. We condemn the ongoing political and economic blackmail of the DPRK by Washington, Tokyo, and other imperialist powers. In the guise of reducing U.S. forces in Korea and pulling troops back from a “tripwire” along the border imposed by Washington, the U.S. rulers are in fact taking further steps to put themselves on a footing for military assaults against the DPRK.

We stand shoulder to shoulder with the Korean people and the DPRK against the offensive being carried out by the nuclear-armed regimes in Washington, London, and Paris under the hypocritical banner of opposing “atomic proliferation.” Along with Iran, north Korea is among the main targets of these unremitting and bullying pressures. In a world in which 2 billion people—one-third of humanity—has no access to modern energy of any kind, finance capital is organizing to prevent nations in the semicolonial world from expanding electrification to all, through nuclear power if they so choose.

Washington and its allies also have no right to decide what measures of self-defense are taken by governments that the U.S. rulers target with their massive nuclear and strategic arsenals. It is the United States, the only one ever to use atomic weapons against the people of another country, that represents the threat to humanity.

On the anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Socialist Workers Party welcomes the opportunity to fight together with you against our common enemy, Yankee imperialism. We pledge to continue getting out the truth about the unending threats and pressures by Washington against the DPRK, as well as about the Korean people’s fight to reunify your country.

Withdraw all U.S. military forces from Korea’s soil and waters!

End the threats against Korea!  
 
 
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