The European Communist and Workers’ Parties gathered in Brussels this
5 May 2003 unequivocally condemn the provocations, threats and aggressive plans
of the United States of G.W. Bush against the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea. These aggressive US plans threaten world peace today very seriously.
A war against Korea could extend to China : at the time of the Korean War of
1950-53 the Ameri-cans developed plans for using nuclear weapons against Chinese
cities.
The victory of the counter-revolution in the former USSR has led US imperialism
to reinforce its attempts to overthrow socialist governments, among which the
Democra-tic People’s Republic of Korea and Cuba are the first targets.
In addition, the ultra-reactionary forces in the Bush administration are determined
to overthrow the regimes of all those countries which are bold enough to defend
their national independence consistently. The brutal and illegal aggression
of the United States against Iraq, an independent state and a member of the
UN, has made impe-rialism even more arrogant. The aggressors struck Iraq after
forcing it to disarm, a fact unique in history.
By unilaterally starting wars against Yugoslavia and Iraq, the United States
has swept aside international law, eliminated in effect the UN Charter and shown
itself to be the only truly rogue state in the world. Let us remember that Hitler’s
Germany withdrew from the League of Nations in order to embark on aggression
on an international scale. G.W. Bush is today embarking on the same path by
in effect destroying the UN.
The independent and peaceful reunification of Korea is the deepest wish of the
entire population, both in the North and the South of the country. We thus fully
support it. The policy of reunification of the Korean fatherland, initiated
by Comrade Kim Il Sung, carried on by comrade Kim Jong Il and put in practice
with the historic North-South Summit of 15 June 2000, has proved to be completely
correct and has brought its first successes. The United States, however, cannot
tolerate a process which they do not control and have doubled their efforts
to sabotage it. In additon, US imperialism is concerned about the continuing
improvement in relations between the DPRK and Ja-pan. The Bush administration
has clearly defined Asia as the key region, which has to submit to its domination
in its entirety. With this aim, the United States is planning the extension
and the reinforcement of its military bases in Asia. However, the peace-ful
and independent reunification of Korea and the improvement of relation between
the DPRK and Japan will remove any excuse for maintaining US military bases
in the South, with their 37.000 soldiers and their thousand odd nuclear weapons.
The so-called Korean nuclear crisis has been completely fabricated by the Bush
ad-ministration, in an attempt to make the process of peaceful reunification
fail, increase military tension in the peninsula and justify increasing its
threats and preparations for war.
The DPRK does not threaten any state in any way. On the other hand, the United
States of G.W. Bush publicly threatens to use atomic bombs against the DPRK,
bomb its nuclear plant in Nyongbyong, and use every means of force at its disposal
to eliminate the socialist government under the leadership of the Workers’
Party of Korea.
The criminal aggression and occupation of Iraq by the United States prove that
the DPRK is right to refuse any disarmament. Defending its independence is the
unde-niable right of any sovereign country, a right internationally recognised
and included iin the UN Charter. Comrade Kim Jong Il’s policy of giving
priority to the army is thus a proof of great clearsightedness.
The present crisis concerns the relations between the United States and the
DPRK. The latter is right to demand that a peaceful solution be reached through
bilateral ne-gotiations between the two states. The United States must first
conclude a non-aggression pact with the DPRK, something it has refused to do
since 1953. An armis-tice has been in force since the end of the Korean War,
but the United States has al-ways refused to conclude a peace treaty. We wholeheartedly
support this step of the DPRK, the only one which can lead to complete denuclearisation
of the Korean pe-ninsula.
Socialist Korea, like the other countries which have embarked on the path to
socia-lism, defends the ideals for which communists and anticapitalists throughout
the world are fighting. We thus consider it to be our internationalist duty
to defend socia-list Korea in the face of the threat of a criminal imperialist
attack.
The refusal of the DPRK to submit to American hegemonism is an encouragement
for all the peoples of the world to resist US plans of domination.
We call on the popular masses and all peace-loving men and women of Europe and
the whole world to show proof of their solidarity with the DPRK.
In order to prevent war and preserve peace, we demand that all European govern-ments
oppose US threats and provocations against the DPRK. In order to promote friendship
and understanding among peoples, we ask all European governments to establish
diplomatic and economic relations with the DPRK.