Monday 28 January 2013

STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE JUST STAND OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMISSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA

KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION( UK )
STAFFORDSHIRE BRANCH

STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE JUST STAND OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMISSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The Staffordshire Branch of the UK KFA views with deep concern the imposition of sanctions by the United Nations' Security Council upon the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea over the issue of the launch of the Kwangyongsong No.3 satellite in December 2012. We regard the decisions of the UNSC over the matter of the peaceful use of outer space by the DPRK as highly provocative and hypocritical. The position taken by the DPRK's National Defence Commission on January 23rd, 2012,as being fully justifiable.

Many nations around the world explore space, both for economic and scientific purposes.None of these countries have faced discriminatory treatment by the United Nations for exercising their legitimate right to peacefully utilize outer space. Nothing was said by the UNSC or anybody else over south Korea's attempted satellite launch, a few years ago. The United States in the 1980s desired to militarized outer space with its "Star Wars" programme.

Peoples Korea encounters everyday threats and intimidation from the United States, Japan and south Korea. The US has something within the region of 40,000 troops deployed in south Korea and about a thousand nuclear weapons aimed at north Korea, stationed in the south. Large scale military exercises such as "Team Spirit" and "Foal Eagle" are conducted regularly by the US and south Korea. These manoeuvres simulated an invasion scenario of north Korea, with "regime change" being their objective.

Representatives from the US Administration have called upon the DPRK to disarm unilaterally,but the United States has never been responsive towards the peace initiatives taken by the Government of Socialist Korea.  Infact, it is the US that has the biggest nuclear arsenal, with 31,255 warheads in its stockpiles. History has recorded that it was the United States which used the atomic bombs first on civilian targets, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Since 2008, the south Korean authorities  have gone on a course of confrontation with the north, pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to boiling point. The south Korean regime have impeded both the letter and the spirit of the historic inner Korean agreements of June, 2000 and October 2007. Due to the actions of the clique in Seoul, all the north-south declarations have now become redundant.

When the US and its allies can deploy from outside the Korean peninsula nuclear weapons aimed at the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and indeed, target long range missiles armed with atomic warheads, from the territory of the United States of America itself, the position of universal disarmament is the only tangible and reasonable one. The six-party talks and other negotiations , which the DPRK took part in with sincerity, were nothing but a smokescreen for imperialist pressure politics. The sole road for ensuring the peace and security of North-East Asia and the rest of the world, is in the strengthening of the defence capability of the DPRK. The army and people of Socialist Korea will fight to maintain their social system and national sovereignty with every available means.

We in the Staffordshire Branch of the Korean Association (UK) fully endorse the principled stand of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. The friends of Korea urge all progressive people, every Anti-Imperialist and Peace Campaigner and Trade Unionist to support the Korean people's fight for national dignity and independence, against the forces of imperialist aggression. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is setting a brilliant example to the peoples of the Global South and to working people throughout the world, as a state which is truly free and independent. 


LONG LIVE THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA, THE BASTION OF INDEPENDENCE!

LONG LIVE THE KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY, THE DEFENDERS OF PEACE AND JUSTICE!

KOREA IS ONE!

STOP SANCTIONS AGAINST PEOPLES KOREA, NOW! 


Issued by the Staffordshire Branch of the UK Korean Friendship Assocation
January 28th, 2013 (Juche 102)
 

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