Vol. 77/No. 33      September 23, 2013

The following message from Steve Clark on behalf of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party was sent to Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, on the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists send revolutionary greetings on the 65th anniversary of the September 9, 1948, founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We reaffirm our commitment to the fight to reunify Korea and to end the partition Washington sought to legitimize earlier that year with bogus UN-“supervised” elections imposing the Syngman Rhee tyranny on working people below the 38th parallel.

We condemned last month’s “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” joint military exercises by US and South Korean troops. Washington’s provocation flies in the face of recent DPRK initiatives, welcomed by the SWP and other supporters of Korea’s national sovereignty, to reopen the joint Kaesong industrial zone and make it possible for divided family members to meet for the first time since the murderous 1950-53 Korean War waged by Washington and its client regime in Seoul.

The US rulers, who in their imperial arrogance claim the “right” to take military action against sovereign nations, are now threatening missile strikes on Syria, as workers and peasants resist the hated regime there. At the same time, US imperialism is bolstering its military power in the Pacific, with the DPRK and China foremost in its gunsights.

Nine nuclear-armed US submarines prowl Asia’s seas, each one equipped with missiles and nuclear warheads equal in their heinous payloads to some 6,000 times the imperialist holocaust unleashed against Japanese and Korean residents of Hiroshima. The people of Korea, Asia, and beyond have no interest in these monstrously destructive weapons and aspire to a world free of them once and for all.

The global capitalist crisis is inflicting unemployment, debt, foreclosures, and job-related deaths and injuries on toilers the world over. It is among workers and farmers fighting such attacks that the Korean people find support for your struggle for national reunification.

US troops and weapons out of Korea and its skies and waters! For a peninsula and a Pacific free of nuclear weapons!

Korea is one!
 
 
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