On Feb. 14, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists sent revolutionary greetings to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the country’s Feb. 16 national holiday.
“Washington’s recent docking at the Port of Busan on the Korean Peninsula of the USS Alexandria — a fast-attack submarine armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles — is part of the unceasing US imperialist provocations against the government and people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which seventy-two years ago defeated Washington’s invasion force in face of brutal and ruinous bombardment of Pyongyang and other cities, towns, and villages,” Steve Clark wrote for the SWP National Committee.
“There has been an escalation of the deployment of US imperialist aircraft carriers, submarines, and bombers to South Korea over the past year by the former Democratic and now Republican administrations,” Clark said. “This includes joint Washington-Seoul live-fire drills involving massive US B-1B bombers.
“On this anniversary, the Socialist Workers Party demands that the US imperialist rulers:
End all joint military exercises in Korean airspace and waters with the governments of South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and other powers threatening the DPRK!
Lift all economic and banking sanctions against the DPRK immediately and unconditionally!
For a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula!
Get all US military forces out of Korea!”