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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