{"id":540,"date":"2013-04-07T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwgusa.wordpress.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2013-04-07T03:17:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T03:17:26","slug":"defeat-the-imperialist-war-drive-against-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cwgusa.org\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"DEFEAT THE IMPERIALIST WAR DRIVE AGAINST NORTH KOREA!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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United States\/South Korea and their Allies:<\/b>Hands Off North Korea!<\/b>Down with UN sanctions!<\/i><\/b>Defeat the imperialist war drive against North Korea!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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Obama at the DMZ prior to the March 2012 Seoul Summit, where he warned North Korea
as part of US imperialist war drive in East Asia (Pool\/Yonhap News via Bloomberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the first week of April the United States along with South Korea and its other allies continued its escalation against the North Korean (DPRK) bureaucratically deformed workers state (DWS), one of the historic gains for the international working class in the aftermath of World War II.\u00a0 South Korea on April 5th deployed two Aegis destroyers to monitor North Korea, while 2500 US marines have deployed to Australia and there has been a military buildup in Guam as well.\u00a0 Under the pretext of the DPRK developing a nuclear weapons capability, the United States, the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons in a war, is going after the North Korean regime to promote its imperialist interests in the region.\u00a0 This is scare-mongering by the Obama administration to rally support for their adventures, much like the \u201cWeapons of Mass Destruction\u201d claim used by the Bush administration to wage war on Iraq.\u00a0 The DPRK has no capacity to hit the USA with long range\u00a0missiles\u00a0or any nuclear payload.<\/p>\n
North Korea possesses zero<\/em> nuclear warheads!\u00a0 No reports that can be independently verified estimate any North Korean delivery systems capability in the next five years.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the US, which has about 8,000 nuclear warheads ready for use, also has ABM missiles deployed in Alaska and Guam.\u00a0 ABM\u2019s are not a defensive system but an offensive system based on maintaining First Strike capability.\u00a0 It can hit missiles on their liftoff minutes before they reach the apex of trajectory.\u00a0 In an operational scenario the USA strikes first, and then Russia or China launch with their depleted reaction force, then the ABM can hit the depleted enemy reaction force.\u00a0 This is an offensive system aimed at China, not Korea, which is not a threat to the United States.\u00a0\u00a0 Japan\u2019s current Prime Minister Abe, who hails from a war criminal family, wants to rearm Japan with nuclear\u00a0weapons.\u00a0 The five permanent members of this UN Security Council which imposed sanctions on North Korea: USA, Russia, China, France and Britain all possess nuclear weapons. The United Nations is a reactionary tool of the major powers to stamp approval on imperialist adventures.\u00a0 When they cannot agree, the individual powers do as they please in any case.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>While undoubtedly United States would like to overthrow the North Korean deformed workers state, their larger aims in this whole affair are to assert U.S. imperialist authority in East Asia and the Pacific, primarily against the emerging imperialist power of China.\u00a0 As part of its inter-imperialist war drive against China, these actions by the US are really about encircling and spending China to death.\u00a0 This standoff is less about Korea and more about the struggle between emergent imperialist China and its attempt to control its own back yard and beyond and the dominant imperialist thug attempting to maintain hegemony. Conflict between United States, its Japanese ally, and China spell increased imperialist rivalry as Mother Jones reported in January, 2013 in an article entitled Will China-Japan-US Tensions Sink the Global Economy?<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\n<\/span>\u201c\u2026a potential crisis of far greater magnitude, and potentially far more imminent than most of us imagine. China’s determination to assert control over disputed islands in the potentially energy-rich waters of the East and South China Seas, in the face of stiffening resistance from Japan and the Philippines along with greater regional assertiveness by the United States, spells trouble not just regionally, but potentially globally.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
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\nFor its part, while capitalist China would like to see the collectivized economy of the DPRK overthrown and capitalism restored, they certainly do not want it done by the United States, as that would place the United States strategically on their border.\u00a0 However, China doesn\u2019t want to shed blood for North Korea or mess up their economic relationship with the Unites States at this time.\u00a0 China owns 54% of the US debt.\u00a0 After the nuclear test in February, the United Nations imposed a new round of sanctions against the DPRK, and Beijing helped create these.\u00a0 The economic sanctions have created conditions of starvation, much like the UN sanctions against Iraq led to the deaths of an estimated 1 million Iraqis from disease and hunger.\u00a0 Embargos themselves are an act of war and lead to actual shooting wars.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Korean and Chinese people paid dearly for their revolutions. Their post war revolutionary opposition to US imperialism, which sought to replace Japanese colonialism with American hegemony, collided with criminal US provocations resulting in a Korean War that left 4 million Koreans and 1 million Chinese dead. The working class must place the blame for the misery of the Korean people squarely on the back of imperialism.\u00a0 And we warn the masses that today the Chinese Stalinists are unwilling to provide the backbone of support for the beleaguered DWS, which is now bristling with false bravado in the face of imperialist war exercises within binocular range.\u00a0 For the Chinese Communist Party a slow restoration of capitalism and the integration and transformation of the DPRK into a semi-colony was on the agenda.\u00a0 They do not care one wit to defend the workers’ property that remains in Korea, in fact they have eyes on it, but they will not tolerate capitalist reintegration directed from the south which leaves the US military on the Yalu River.<\/p>\n
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\nUS Provocations Against North Korea<\/b>
\n\u00a0<\/span>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> and CNN revealed on April 4th<\/sup> that the Obama administration had created \u201cthe playbook,\u201d a step-by-step saber-rattling plan that the Pentagon was following.\u00a0 This included deployments to South Korea of nuclear capable B-52 bombers, B-2 bombers, and F-22 Raptor fighters in March.\u00a0 This plan was concocted months ago as the brainstorm of former defense secretary Leon Panetta and approved by current defense secretary Chuck Hagel.\u00a0 The US commander of the Strategic Air Command during both the Korean War and the early Vietnam War years, Curtis Lemay, said he would not leave one brick standing on top of another brick in North Korea\u2026and he did that with a massive bombing campaign.\u00a0 More bombs were dropped by the US on North Korea during the three years of the Korean War, 1950-53, than in all of World War II.\u00a0\u00a0 No wonder North Korea is a little miffed when the United States flies B52\u2019s and B2’s over\u00a0the region.<\/p>\n
All this has echoes of the Cuban Missile Crisis when Kennedy brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war in his drive to destroy the Cuban Revolution.\u00a0 And Obama has proven himself as reckless as \u201cthe bombing starts in five minutes\u201d Reagan, an outburst in the Cold War aimed against the Soviet degenerated workers state.\u00a0 In a series of deliberate provocations, the United States has engaged in a risky series of actions that apparently they are having second thoughts about now.\u00a0 Amid concerns that the US provocations \u201ccould lead to miscalculations\u201d by North Korea, unnamed American officials have stated that Washington was now stepping back.\u00a0 That miscalculation could include considering the 1.1 million strong active DPRK army, their 180,000 special operations forces and their 8 million reservists.\u00a0 The United States may have the technological superiority, but it would be a bloody war.<\/p>\n
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<\/b>The imperialist butchers of the United States have a lot of gall condemning North Korea for wanting weapons to defend themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 After destroying North Korea\u2019s 78 cities and thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her civilians, US General Lemay remarked, \u201cOver a period of three years or so we killed off \u2013 what \u2013 twenty percent of the population.\u201d\u00a0 This amounted to an estimated 4 million Korean civilians killed.\u00a0 North Korea actually lost close to thirty percent of its population as a result of US-led bombings in the 1950s, while the United States military and their South Korean allies committed atrocities against civilians, like the now well-known No Gun Ri massacre of men, women and children.\u00a0 These war crimes were continued into the next decade in Vietnam, through executions, napalming, and the burning of Vietnamese villages and the carpet-bombing of North Vietnamese cities.\u00a0 My Lai has become synonymous with 20<\/span>th<\/sup> Century imperialist war crimes.\u00a0 The US ruling class\u2019 criminal actions continued into the 21<\/span>st<\/sup> Century with their butchery in Afghanistan and Iraq, as documented by Wikileaks.\u00a0 PFC Bradley Manning is being made a scapegoat for these leaks.\u00a0 We demand his freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n
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U.S. military officers overseeing South Korean executions of civilians “suspected of collaborating” with the “communists,”
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\u201c[<\/span>T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . . \u201c<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n