Vol. 77/No. 11      March 25, 2013

Working people worldwide should oppose all sanctions against North Korea imposed by the U.N. Security Council at Washington’s behest; demand an end to U.S. military exercises, provocations and threats; and call for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and materiel from the Korean Peninsula. This above all would lay the basis for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which is in the interest of all working people.

Washington’s unremitting aggression abroad is being carried out by the same propertied rulers waging a war on the living standards, unions and rights of working people at home.

Like the mounting sanctions against Iran, the economic squeeze against North Korea is being conducted under the false rubric of “nuclear nonproliferation.” Behind this selective, arbitrary and hypocritical pretext is the intention to inflict hardship on the working people of both countries and trample on their sovereignty. The U.S. rulers will never forgive the Korean people for dealing Washington its first military defeat, as they will never forget the mass popular revolution of 1979 that overthrew the U.S.-backed monarchy in Iran.

The U.S. government forcibly divided the Korean nation as it had just thrown off the half-century yoke of Japanese colonial domination. It launched its murderous war under cover of the blue U.N. flag, killing some 4 million Koreans, after working people in the North had overturned capitalist property relations. When defeated, Washington refused to sign a peace treaty with North Korea and remains officially at war to this day.

Washington has backed successive capitalist-landlord tyrannies in the South. Today it maintains some 28,500 troops on Korean soil, as well as nuclear arms and delivery systems throughout the Pacific, surrounding Korea.

The partition of Korea remains the only unresolved national division imposed by Washington and its imperialist allies coming out of World War II. The desire for reunification by Korea’s working people in the North and South deserves the support of workers and farmers throughout the world.

End all sanctions and threats against North Korea and Iran! Korea is one!
 
 
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