Vol. 77/No. 16      April 29, 2013

The following is a message to Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, from Steve Clark on behalf of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party on the occasion of the April 15 national holiday in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists send internationalist greetings on the occasion of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s April 15 national holiday. We also join this year in celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the historic resistance against the 1950-53 US-imperialist-organized war against the Korean people. We pledge our unconditional solidarity with the struggle to reunify Korea, which was partitioned in 1945 through a divide-the-spoils deal between Washington, London, and Moscow.

Today Washington deploys more than 28,000 US troops on Korean soil. It maintains missiles, planes, and warships in Korean airspace and waters and carries out provocative joint military exercises and war games with the capitalist regime in Seoul. The imperialist government that this year alone has led the charge in imposing two new rounds of global banking and other sanctions against the DPRK has more than a hundred of its own military satellites in orbit and patrols the Pacific — which it treats as an American sea — with nine Trident submarines carrying some 1,000 nuclear warheads.

The US rulers, who have refused for sixty years to sign a peace treaty with the DPRK, leveled cities, towns, and villages across Korea during the 1950-53 war. In addition, during the second interimperialist slaughter, Washington — along with its enemies in Berlin and its allies in London — initiated for the first time in warfare the unconscionable firebombing of civilian populations across Europe. To the horror of class-conscious working people the world over, the propertied US ruling families incinerated cities across Japan with conventional and nuclear bombardment, slaughtering both Japanese civilians and Korean workers brought there against their will during Tokyo’s brutal and degrading colonial occupation of your country.

In face of today’s global capitalist crisis, workers and farmers — from North America and Europe, to the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean — are resisting assaults by the earth’s rival exploiting classes on our living and job conditions, our political rights, and on our very dignity as human beings. These fighting toilers and those who support their battles can be won in growing numbers to champion the Korean people’s insistence on your right to national unity.

On this national holiday, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists join with you and others the world over in demanding:

US troops out of Korea and the Pacific! Lift the sanctions!

Rid Korea’s soil, its airspace, and the Pacific seas surrounding it of nuclear weapons!

Korea is one!

Comradely,

Steve Clark for the National Committee Socialist Workers Party
 
 
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