Struggle for Peace in South Korea

Struggle for Peace The south Korean people's struggle to foil the madcap war moves to invade the DPRK by the US imperialists and the south Korean war maniacs, and to realize the lasting peace of the Korean Peninsula is vigorously continuing. On February 26, pro-peace and reunification movement organizations including the south Korean Solidarity for Realizing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration held the 250th Friday rally against the US and war and for the withdrawal of the US troops in front of the US embassy in Seoul. Speakers there bitterly denounced the joint military exercises “Key Resolve” and “Foal Eagle”, drills for mounting a preemptive attack on the DPRK, which the US and south Korean war hawks planed to stage from March 8 to 18. They strongly urged the US to stop at once the military drills which will bring a nuclear war to the Korean Peninsula and positively come out to conclude a peace treaty with the DPRK. On March 3, the People for Peace and Reunification made public an article exposing the danger of the north-targeted joint military drills by the US imperialists and the south Korean war hawks. The article condemned the drills as provocative acts running counter to the aspiration of the compatriots for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. It disclosed that the war drills of this year are to be staged in accordance with the war scenario for invading the DPRK more belligerent and reckless than the existing “OPlan 5027”, and the contents of the drills consist of such attack operations as removing WMD, street fighting and striking strongholds. The article asserted that if the bellicose forces conduct the north-targeted joint war drills in the end, it would only reveal their true color as ringleaders who block the establishment of peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula. The US imperialists and the south Korean war maniacs should stop the north-targeted war drills which invoke the aggravation of tension and confrontation and exert sincere efforts to conclude a peace treaty and improve the inter-Korean relations.