Vol. 74/No. 30      August 9, 2010

The Obama administration has made clear these air and naval “war games,” the largest off the Korean coast in years, will be followed by more such operations in the coming months.

The U.S. imperialists, along with their ally in Seoul, have ceaselessly organized military provocations against North Korea. Their moves are part of more than 50 years of hostility since the workers and peasants of that country made a socialist revolution and defeated the 1950-53 U.S. invasion carried out under UN cover. Since then Washington has refused to sign a peace treaty with Pyongyang.

The U.S. government’s new economic sanctions further tighten those passed by the United Nations Security Council last year and will limit access to food, fuel, and funds.

Washington justifies this aggression as necessary to stop the North Korean “nuclear threat.” But it is Washington that introduced nuclear arms and delivery systems on Korea’s soil and maintains them throughout the Pacific, and for decades has stationed tens of thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea. It is Washington that has forcibly maintained the partition of Korea into North and South, despite strong support in both countries for reunification.

We should demand: Withdraw U.S troops, ships, and weapons from the Korean Peninsula! End the sanctions against North Korea! Sign the peace treaty!
 
 
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