The
United Nations through the instigation of the US and its allies
inluding Japan and South Korea have imposed brutal and unjust sanctions
against the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) austensibly for
violating international agreements concerning nuclear weapons. Yet it is
not the DPRK that is creating a threat to peace in the Korean
Peninsular and the world, but THE US which has aways militarily
threatened the DPRK with annihilation. The DPRK not only has a right to
develop and own nuclear weapons as long as the US and other nations also
develop and own the weapons of mass destruction, but the communist
country has also clearly stated that its nuclear weapons are in the
Korean peninsular only to deter an American attack which has remained
the threat to the peace and security of the region since it was defeated
militarily by the revolutionary army of North Korea under the legendary
leader of Korea and world socialism, comrade Kim Il Sung.
As Christopher Black, a prominent international lawyer based in Toronto, Canada,
argues, “The fact that the Rassian and Chinese have joined the US in
this instead of calling for sanctions against the US for its threats
against the DPRK and its new military exercises which are a clear and
present danger to the DPRK is shameful. If the Russians and Chinese are
sincere why don’t they insist that the US draw down its forces so the
DPRK feels less threatened and take steps to guarantee the security of
the DPRK? They do not explain their actions but their actions make them
collaborators with the US against the DPRK.”
The
SDP in exercise of its socialist internationalist obligation condemns
in no uncertain terms the unjustified sanctions against DPRK instigated
by imperialism and legalised by the United Nations that is many times
used to impose the will of imperialism and big powers. We are aware that
the US has never stopped its cold and hot war against DPRK that through
one of the greatest patriotic, heroic and revolutionary anti-colonial
and anti-imperialist national liberation armed struggles succeeded in
winning true independence in the northern half of Korea. When it invaded
Korea, US imperialism like Japanese colonialism earlier, suffered one
of the most humiliating military defeats it will never forget in its
reactionary history. We also know that the US and its allies hate DPRK
with a venom for refusing to be a puppet of imperialism like South Korea
and for asserting its right to determine its own destiny along Juche
socialism. Dirty false propaganda war is wedged against DPRK for
refusing the capitalist and neo-colonial path of slavery,
under-development and exploitation of person by person and instead
choosing the path of development for freedom and humanity, socialism.
We
in Kenya and Africa struggling against capitalism and imperialism and
for nations and societies without exploitation of person by person will
not accept to be cheated by imperialists who have always been part and
parcel of the root causes of Africa’s problems. Neither will we accept
to be fooled by imperialist propaganda disseminated everyday by the
Western media aimed at shaping our world view in line with imperialism.
For imperialism is not and has never been a friend of Africa but its
enemy. African patriots and revolutionaries will never allow imperialism
to tell us who our friends are. We know who our friends are. And North
Korea has always been Africa’s true friend. When the whole of the
African continent was under Western colonialism, Korea under the
revolutionary leadership of comrade Kim Ill Sung was fighting Japanese
colonialism and showing solidarity with Africa at the same time. After
it drove away Japanese colonialism and US imperialism, DPRK in the name
of socialist internationalism increased its moral, military and other
material support to African countries in their struggle for liberation
from colonialism, imperialism and apartheid. Immediately after
independence from colonialism in the 1960s, thousands of Africans,
including Kenyans, received free higher, technical and specialised
education in the DPRK. DPRK not only offered arms, finance and other
material solidarity to Namibia, South Africa, Angola and Mozambique in
the war against apartheid and imperialism, but it also actually sent
internationalist revolutionaries in Africa to fight side by side with
Africans for Africa. DPRK fought with Egypt and Africa during the 1967
war against the brutal Zionist regime of Israel supported by Western
countries. Today DPRK is together with African countries in the demand
for a new just international order. In this DPRK is blamed by
imperialism and imperialist puppet regimes in the world for being in the
forefront and showing by its own example that a new just international
order cannot be but anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, it must be
socialist. DPRK is in fact an example to be followed by all people and
nations struggling for freedom, independence and for societies, nations
and world without exploitation and oppression of person by person and
nation by nation. DPRK is a world symbol or resistance to the
reactionary capitalist and imperialist ideologies and systems that
exists in order for a few people, families and nations to continue to
exploit, oppress, enslave and plunder the majority of human beings and
to threaten the very existence of the earth.
But
most of all DPRK is regarded to be the greatest enemy of imperialism,
particularly the US, for being a true independent country politically,
culturally, economically, ideologically, militarily and a nuclear power
capable of defending her independence from any foreign military
invasion. Unlike the US and its allies, DPRK has never used its military
power to invade, dominate and destroy other countries and to plunder
their natural resources. Also neither, unlike the US and its imperialist
allies, has DPRK ever initiated and sponsored terrorism and terrorist
organisations anywhere in the world. And yes, if the West and other
countries including Zionist Israel has nuclear weapons, why not DPRK? We
the SDP demand that all countries in the world must not develop or
possess weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons. Only then
can there be legitimate justification for imposing sanctions against
DPRK,or any other nations at that, for possessing nuclear weapons today.
Finally,
SDP demands that the Kenyan and African governments condemn the
unjustified sanctions against DPRK and further demand for the immediate
and unconditional end of the sanctions.
Long Live DPRK!
Long live anti-imperialist solidarity!
Long live socialism!
Mwandawiro Mghanga
Chairperson of Social Democratic Party of Kenya (SDP)
Member of the Executive Committee of Africa Left Networking Forum (ALNEF)
Monday, 14 March 2016
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