| On July 27, 2011, the Korean people, as well as progressive and democratic forces around the world celebrate the 58th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement (KAA) between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States which brought a ceasefire to the Korean War -- a war of aggression against the Korean people led by the U.S. imperialists and their allies including Britain, and carried out under the fig-leaf of the UN flag. The signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement also signalled the first military defeat of the U.S. following the Second World War -- a "humiliation" for which it has yet to forgive the DPRK and the Korean people. The U.S. and its allies had no business intervening in the Korean War which began as a civil war fought between Koreans to re-unify their country that was divided by the U.S. by force following the Second World War. The ink was hardly dry on the KAA when the U.S. began to violate it, signalling that it had no intention of upholding its end of the Agreement, and since has carried out one perfidy after another including refusing to conclude a Peace Treaty with the DPRK, violating the provision not to introduce nuclear weapons onto the Korean peninsula or to threaten the DPRK and the Korean people in any way. Far from it, the U.S. under the Barak Obama regime not only refuses to take responsibility for the crimes against the peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed against the Korean people in that three-year war that began on June 25, 1950 which claimed the lives of over 4 million Koreans, the vast majority of whom were civilians, but continues to carry out ongoing military exercises with its puppet Lee Myung Bak regime in south Korea and also the Japanese militarists -- all aimed at invading the DPRK. Currently, the Lee government in the south is going ahead with plans to build a deep water naval base on Jeju Island for the use of the U.S. and south Korean navy. This would be a base from which to launch wars of aggression in the region. The Jeju Islanders and peace and reunification activists across Korea are carrying out protests and demonstrations against this act of aggression to build a naval base for war. The aim of the U.S. today is the same as it was then -- to take over the entire Korean peninsula as a launching pad for its takeover of Asia and then the world. The U.S. justification for doing so remains as bankrupt as ever. All the attempts of the U.S. to realize its domination of the region -- its occupation of the Korean peninsula with almost 30,000 troops as well as its military bases, the ongoing attempts to sabotage the Korean people's movement for national reunification, and its engineering of one fascistic puppet regime after another in the south, including the present regime of Lee Myung Bak and its continuous disinformation and propaganda that the "problem" in Korea is the "threat" from the DPRK -- have failed to silence the 70 million Koreans who are demanding with one voice the peaceful and independent reunification of their homeland, free from U.S. imperialist interference. The criminal role of the U.S. imperialists in Korea, from 1945 to the present, has been exposed for the whole world to see, and the resolute struggle of the Korean people stands as an example for all the peoples of the world fighting against imperialist domination. One of the main demands of the Korean people and all peace and justice loving people around the world is for the U.S. to sign a peace treaty with the DPRK to replace the KAA and bring a formal end to the Korean War. This would be a first step in stabilizing the political situation on the peninsula and easing tensions that could at any time ignite a nuclear war which would engulf the whole world. The DPRK has proposed the signing of a formal peace treaty with the U.S. several times. So far the U.S., which has even violated all the terms of the armistice agreement since the time it was signed, has also rebuffed these proposals. This shows who is for war and who is for peace. The U.S. must be held accountable for its crimes on the Korean peninsula and be forced to sign a formal peace treaty with the DPRK The occasion of the 58th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement is an opportunity for the peace and justice-loving working class and people to demand that the U.S. immediately sign a Peace Treaty with the DPRK to bring a formal end to the Korean War, and also to vigorously support the people of Korea in their just struggle for self-determination, peace, independence and reunification. U.S. Troops Out of Korea! Demand the U.S. Sign a Formal Peace Treaty with the DPRK Now! |