The article noted that “The south Korea-U.S. ‘mutual defense pact’ concluded 65 years ago is an unpardonable country-selling one as it has desperately blocked the independent development of the south Korean society, laid a stumbling block in the way of the Korean nation for peace and reunification of the country and brought a war disaster to Korea.”

The article also noted, “The south Korean people can neither get rid of misfortune and pain nor can the danger of war be defused on the Korean peninsula nor the north-south relations improve as long as the U.S. keeps south Korea under its military occupation and domination and sycophants and traitors are allowed to kowtow to the aggressors.”

The U.S. has about 30,000 troops stationed in south Korea and regularly partners with the south Korean authorities to stage provocative military exercises.

The U.S. recently upped the number of its troops on the Korean peninsula as a part of Washington’s “pivot towards Asia.” The “pivot” or “rebalancing towards Asia” as it has recently been rebranded, is the current U.S. strategy to dominate the Pacific region and contain socialist China by projecting military force, treaties and economic agreements.

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Minneapolis, MN – Organizers of the weekly peace vigil on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge between Minneapolis and Saint Paul have announced plans to dedicate the April 10 vigil to making an anti-war statement in response to the military crisis in Korea.

The vigil will be held Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

The event will call for an end to the ongoing U.S. military maneuvers in the region and an end to the economic sanctions imposed on north Korea.

A statement issued by organizers says in part, “The Korean peninsula is at a flash point. U.S. war games, including sending nuclear bombers on a mission simulating the bombing of North Korea, only serve to bring Korea to the brink of a new war. We call for an end to the U.S. war games, for the U.S. to make a peace treaty to end the Korean war, and for an end to the sanctions on North Korea.”

The vigil is organized by Women Against Military Madness End War Committee and Twin Cities Peace Campaign.

The call for the April 10 vigil is endorsed by the Anti-War Committee, Emergency Committee to Stop U.S. War in Korea, Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, Veterans for Peace and others.

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The report states that Pak Rim Su, chief of the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army, sent the following message to James D. Sherman, commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea, on Feb. 23:

“As you know, a grave situation where a war may break out any moment prevails in Korea due to the brigandish moves of the U.S. and its allied forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK, taking issue with its just satellite launch and underground nuclear test for protecting its sovereignty.

“If your side ignites a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle again under the cover of ‘defensive and annual ones’ at this dangerous time, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour.

“You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction while a great victory is in store for the guardians of justice.”

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article from Workers World:

The U.S. government has carried out so many wars and invasions since World War II that just listing them all would take a whole page. Most people living in the U.S. have only a vague idea of the terrible damage this imperialist government has inflicted on the world — always in the name of peace and democracy.

This July 27, the Korean people are commemorating the end of one of those wars. Those who live in the north, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, cannot forget that date. As a fact sheet put out by the DPRK says, “The memory of the war, even after nearly 60 years, still lives in the minds of the people.”

In the northern and southern parts of the Korean peninsula, old and young will mourn the millions who were killed in a war that lasted three years, from 1950 to 1953. In the north, which had liberated itself in 1945 from Japanese colonial rule, the struggle against a new oppressor — the U.S. — will be the dominant theme. People will talk about the huge amount of firepower the Pentagon expended trying to bring about the surrender of the revolutionary communist government there.

The DPRK fact sheet says that the U.S. “hurled into the Korean war a huge force of armed troops over 2 million strong, including one-third of its ground force, one-fifth of its air force, and the most part of its Pacific Fleet, and the troops of its 15 vassal states, south Korea and even the remnants of the former Japanese army. It also squandered over 73 million tons of war materiel, 11 times greater than that it had consumed in the four years of the Pacific War.”

The destruction that so much weaponry and armed forces did is almost inconceivable. U.S. pilots toward the end of the war reported they could find no more targets to bomb — they had destroyed every building over one story, every bridge, every factory. Yet the Korean people continued to resist, living in caves and underground, and eventually repelled the invasion.

On July 27, 1953, the U.S. signed an armistice and withdrew its troops south of the 38th parallel — where they had been before the war started. U.S. occupation troops have been in the south ever since, dividing the Korean people into two separate states.

A people organized will never give up

We live in a time when Washington is carrying out at least three open wars and many more covert ones that employ pilotless drone planes, Special Forces and mercenaries. Imperialism has not changed its spots. The super-rich ruling class of the U.S. is not content with making huge profits off the labor of workers here. It needs to grab resources and exploit the people all over the world or this insatiable system breaks down.

The leaders of the DPRK know this. They have no illusions about imperialism. At the same time, they have confidence in the determination of the Korean people to never let the imperialists do again to Korea what they did before and are doing today to countries like Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Korean statement points out that it was in Korea that the U.S. imperialists met their first defeat ever. They could not break the people or their leaders. The casualties the U.S. sustained in that war, as they made young draftees fight for their empire, were greater than in any war since.

Just like the Vietnam War more than a decade later, the war in Korea showed that an organized people defending their homeland and their social system against a predatory invasion force will never give up.

As the Korean people commemorate the armistice signed on July 27, 1953, they also continue to stay strong militarily and remain vigilant so that one day the U.S. government will have to sign a peace treaty with the DPRK and end the state of war that has kept Korea divided for so long.

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A consequence of occupation has been the division of Korea into two separate countries – North and South. Along the 38th parallel, the South Korean authorities have erected a wall, which divides families, friends, and ultimately a people. The government in the north, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, has made many reasonable proposals to unite the country, but the continued U.S. occupation continues to frustrate the will of the people – on both sides of the border – to achieve reunification.

Unfortunately, the Bush administration has been raising tensions on the Korean peninsula. It has branded North Korea a “rogue state”. Accusations such as this coming from the president of the U.S., a country that finances death squads in Colombia, sends guns to Israel so they can kill Palestinian children, and recently organized the kidnapping of the former president of Yugoslavia, would be laughable, if they were not so serious. This kind of talk is designed to justify the occupation of the south, and the war moves towards the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea in the north.

People in this country have no interest in a second Korean war. U.S. troops should be brought home now! The people of Korea want reunification. This demand is just and deserves our support.

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