samedi, juillet 01, 2006

Actualité - Salute the Struggle of the Korean People for Reunification

Franc-Parler publie un article de Voice of Revolution saluant la lutte du peuple coréen pour la réunification pacifique de leur patrie. Malgré la désinformation et les attaques de l'impérialisme américain le peuple va de l'avant vers la réunification. Les grandes puissances et les médias tentent de paralyser le mouvement antiguerre en propageant le mensonge que la République populaire et démocratique de Corée (RPDC) serait une "menace" pendant que les États-Unis envahissent des nations et en menacent d'autres. Franc-Parler publie également à titre d'information la Déclaration Nord-Sud pour réunification pacifique du 15 juin 2001 dont c'est le 5 anniversaire.

The Korean people south and north are standing as one against U.S. provocations and war plans and organizing for reunification. As the U.S. mounts the largest war drill since Vietnam in the waters near Korea, the Koreans are pressing forward with efforts to bring about the peaceful and independent reunification of Korea. Theirs is a just stand for peace. Reunification directly blocks current U.S. efforts to launch war against Korea and embroil all of Asia, and the world, in a third world war. It is a stand consistent with the deeply felt desire of all Koreans to unite their nation and heal the wounds of division, imposed by the U.S.

In demonstrations north and south on June 25, the 56th anniversary of the U.S. war against Korea (1950-53), Koreans vigorously opposed U.S. war crimes and U.S. provocations today. Demonstrations continue to be organized at U.S. bases in Korea while common efforts are developing to achieve reunification. Throughout Korea, in the U.S. and worldwide, the peoples are demanding U.S. Troops Out of Korea Now! Bring All U.S. Troops Home Now!

The U.S. is attempting to whip up fear to disorient the anti-war movement, using disinformation concerning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). As it did with Iraq, and Vietnam before, and in launching the Korean War, the U.S. is painting the DPRK as a “threat.” The U.S., according to war-president George W. Bush, is not a threat. The U.S. — with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, with its past use of nuclear weapons and its open first strike nuclear policy, with its war drills near Korea involving 22,000 troops, 280 bombers, 40 warships and 6 submarines, with its use of chemical and biological weapons, in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, with its policy of pre-emptive war and unjust and illegal wars against Iraq and Afghanistan — is not a threat! Yet the DPRK, which has not committed any act of aggression and is prepared to sign a non-aggression pact with the U.S. and has called for bilateral talks on matters of security, supposedly is a threat. The claims that Korea is a threat and the U.S. is not are yet more government lies to justify aggression.

Given the experience with Iraq and the government lie of Iraq’s “threat” of “weapons of mass destruction,” and given the many other examples of the U.S. concocting “threats” to justify war and repression, there is no reason to trust the government when it brands the DPRK as a “threat.” There is every reason to reject U.S. lies and demand Hands Off Korea! U.S. Disarm Now!

Let no one be fooled by U.S. efforts to justify yet more aggression, using the claim that a country is, or might be, or maybe could be developing nuclear weapons. The DPRK and all the Korean people have the right to defend themselves and their sovereignty and to refuse to submit to U.S. dictate.

Reunification is a problem for the Koreans themselves, together, to solve and one they are actively moving forward on. The U.S. is interfering to stop reunification for it knows full well that the Korean people are a formidable force for peace and progress. In standing against U.S. war plans and actively working for reunification, the Korean people are representing all the world’s people organizing to block world war and defend humanity. Americans are one with the world’s anti-war movement and must step up opposition to war against Korea, as they are to war against Iraq.

Support the Reunification of Korea! All U.S. Troops Home Now!
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June 15, 2000
North-South Joint Declaration on Peaceful Reunification

True to the noble will of all the fellow countrymen for the peaceful reunification of the country, Chairman Kim Jong-Il of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and President Kim Dae-Jung of the Republic of Korea had a historic meeting and summit in Pyongyang from June 13 - 15, 2000.

The heads of the North and the South, considering that the recent meeting and summit, the first of their kind in history of division, are events of weighty importance in promoting mutual understanding, developing inter-Korean relations and achieving peaceful reunification, declare as follows:

1. The North and the South agreed to solve the question of the country’s reunification independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation responsible for it.

2. The North and the South, recognizing that a proposal for federation of lower stage advanced by the North side and a proposal for confederation put forth by the South side for the reunification of the country have elements in common, agreed to work for the reunification in this direction in the future.

3. The North and the South agreed to settle humanitarian issues, including exchange of visiting groups of separated families and relatives and the issue of unconverted long-term prisoners, as early as possible on the occasion of August 15 this year.

4. The North and the South agreed to promote the balanced development of the national economy through economic cooperation and build mutual confidence by activating cooperation and exchanges in all fields, social, cultural, sports, public health, environmental and so on.

5. The North and the South agreed to hold dialogues between the authorities as soon as possible to implement the above-mentioned agreed points in the near future.

President Kim Dae-Jung cordially invited Chairman Kim Jong-Il of the DPRK National Defense Commission to visit Seoul and Chairman Kim Jong-Il agreed to visit Seoul at an appropriate time in the future.

June 15, 2006

Kim Jong-Il, DPRK, Chairman, National Defense Commission

Kim Dae-Jung, President, Republic of Korea

(Voice of Revolution)

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