For Immediate Release
Dec. 3, 2010
Support a peaceful solution to the Korean Peninsula dispute
Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada,
Dec. 3, 2010
The Communist Party of Canada condemns the Canadian government’s role in
helping to fan the flames of war in the Korean peninsula, and urges
instead a policy of supporting broad international efforts to seek
peaceful, negotiated resolutions to the historic disputes in this region.
The main source of rising tensions on the Korean peninsula has been the
increasingly hawkish stand of the new South Korean government of
President Lee Myung-bak, with the encouragement of U.S. and Japanese
imperialism. The recent exchange of artillery fire took place in
disputed coastal territories off the western South Korea/Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) frontier. In this same area, 70,000
South Korean troops and U.S. nuclear warships have been carrying out
mock invasion manoeuvres, which are a dangerous provocation against the
DPRK.
The huge U.S. military presence in the peninsula and its massive support
for the South Korean government are part of a strategy going back over
half a century. to maintain the division of Korea and to “contain”
countries which oppose U.S. hegemony in the region. As long as U.S.
imperialism maintains this policy, the danger of a renewed war in the
Korean peninsula will remain, with the potential for deadly consequences
affecting the entire world.
We warn once again that attempts to isolate and threaten North Korea,
such as blockades, sanctions or unilateral military aggression, pose
grave dangers. Such moves amount to a declaration of war against the
DPRK, with unforeseeable results. Renewed hostilities against the DPRK,
as part of a hypocritical U.S. stance which allows its allies such as
Israel to build up nuclear weapons, would harm global efforts to curb
the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to achieve universal and
comprehensive disarmament.
Instead of supporting U.S. imperialism in its anti-Korean provocations,
Canada should respect the sovereignty of the DPRK, and call on the
United States to sign a peace treaty with the DPRK to finally end the
Korean War. We also renew our demand that Canada call for the removal of
all U.S. military forces from South Korea and the Asia-Pacific region,
and that it support talks for a regional nuclear weapons-free zone and
the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
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