[D66] NK nucleaire afschrikking

[Jugg]

Notoir inzake Noord-Korea zijn de Spartacisten zeker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_League_(US)
http://www.icl-fi.org/index.html
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/leaflets/korea2017.html

12 August 2017

Crazed U.S. Imperialists Threaten Nuclear War

Hands Off North Korea!

Statement of the Political Bureau of the Spartacist League/U.S., section 
of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)

In their drive to destroy the North Korean bureaucratically deformed 
workers state, the U.S. imperialist warmongers are taking the world to 
the brink of nuclear war. On August 8, Donald Trump threatened North 
Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” adding 
yesterday that the U.S. military is “locked and loaded” for war. While 
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has tried to downplay the 
administration’s saber rattling, Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” 
Mattis doubled down, declaring that North Korea risked “the end of its 
regime and the destruction of its people.”

Washington’s war rhetoric is no idle threat. The U.S. has almost 25,000 
troops across the border in South Korea, on top of another 50,000 in 
Japan. Later this month, U.S. and South Korean forces are planning 
massive military exercises in yet another provocation against North 
Korea. On August 10, U.S. and Japanese troops began an 18-day live-fire 
military exercise in Hokkaido. The Japanese imperialists are the 
historic colonial occupiers of the Korean Peninsula, and have long 
sought the counterrevolutionary destruction of the North. After Trump 
made his “fire and fury” remarks, the chief cabinet secretary in Japan, 
Yoshihide Suga, declared, “Our government approves of that stance.” All 
U.S. forces out of South Korea and Japan! Down with the U.S./Japanese 
imperialist axis against North Korea!

The U.S. and its allies paint North Korea’s development of a nuclear 
arsenal as a dangerous threat. In fact, the real danger to the world’s 
masses is U.S. imperialism. The U.S. threats against North Korea come on 
the anniversary of the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 
followed three days later by the bombing of Nagasaki. Not only is the 
U.S. the only country to have ever used atomic weapons, it also came 
close to using nuclear weapons in the 1950-53 Korean War—hindered mainly 
by the Soviet Union’s own nuclear arsenal.

In that war, which was carried out under the auspices of the United 
Nations, the U.S. attempted to crush insurgent workers and peasants in 
the South and to overturn the social revolution in the North. It 
slaughtered three million Koreans and nearly a million Chinese soldiers, 
whose intervention was instrumental in turning the tide against the U.S. 
and other imperialists. The peninsula was devastated, with 18 of the 
country’s 22 largest cities largely or totally obliterated, including 
North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, which was flattened. In the closing 
weeks of the war, U.S. bombers destroyed irrigation dams that provided 
water for three-quarters of the North’s food production. The war ended 
in a stalemate. But the U.S. refused to sign a peace treaty or recognize 
the North, and has since then maintained a massive military presence in 
the South while subjecting North Korea to decades of military pressure 
and economic sanctions.

Washington’s latest threats came only days after the UN Security Council 
unanimously voted to approve crippling new sanctions against North Korea 
after it launched two intercontinental missiles last month. The 
sanctions, criminally supported by the Chinese Stalinist regime, are 
themselves an act of war and aim to cut off a third of North Korea’s 
export revenue and to force Pyongyang into submission by reversing the 
modest economic growth the country has experienced over the last several 
years. Down with UN sanctions against North Korea!

Whether under Republicans or Democrats, U.S. imperialism’s policy toward 
the North has always been to foster counterrevolution on the road to 
overturning the gains of the 1949 Chinese Revolution. Trump’s 
bellicosity, and his unpredictability, raise the prospect of nuclear 
Armageddon in the Far East. But Obama also threatened to attack the 
North, including with nukes, having several times sent B-2 bombers over 
the peninsula. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system 
that the Trump administration provocatively installed in South Korea 
earlier this year had been in the works for months, going back to the 
Obama regime.

Like China, North Korea is a bureaucratically deformed workers state 
where capitalist class rule was overthrown. Capitalist/landlord rule was 
toppled in North Korea by armed forces acting under the protection of 
the Soviet Army following World War II. The establishment of 
proletarian, collectivized property relations freed the northern half of 
the country from imperialist domination. At the same time, both the 
Chinese and North Korean workers states have been ruled since their 
inception by nationalist, Stalinist bureaucratic castes that exclude the 
working class from political power.

It is vital for the international proletariat, not least in the U.S., to 
stand for the defense of North Korea and China against the predatory 
U.S. rulers, their Japanese allies and their South Korean underlings. 
The overturn and expropriation of capitalism in these countries are 
historic gains for the international working class. Their unconditional 
military defense against imperialist attack and capitalist 
counterrevolution is integral to the cause of world socialist revolution.

Such defense necessarily includes these countries having nuclear weapons 
and delivery systems to deter imperialist attack. There is much that is 
bizarre and unsavory about the dynastic, mythologized, bureaucratic rule 
of Kim Jong Un and his predecessors. But Pyongyang’s drive to secure 
nukes is a rational, essential policy of self-defense, not least against 
the U.S., which openly threatens a nuclear “first strike” against its 
perceived enemies. It is welcome that the North has gone some way toward 
developing a credible nuclear deterrent. If not for such a deterrent, 
the U.S. would have already bombarded North Korea, as it has so many 
countries in the Near East and elsewhere.

In the wake of the U.S.’s latest threats, North Korea announced that it 
is planning to launch by mid August several missiles designed to land in 
the waters around the island of Guam in the Pacific. It is U.S. 
imperialism that has put Guam under threat. Andersen Air Force Base was 
key to U.S. aerial operations during the Korean War and is used today 
for bombers flying over the Korean Peninsula. Guam itself was captured 
by the U.S. imperialists over a century ago in the Spanish-American War 
and has remained a colonial territory since. U.S. forces and bases out 
of Guam! For Guam’s right to self-determination!

An August 10 editorial in China’s state-run Global Times stated that 
Beijing would “prevent” the U.S. from overthrowing the Pyongyang regime, 
while also noting that “China will stay neutral” if North Korea fires at 
the U.S. first. Beijing’s policy regarding North Korea is premised on 
the futile Stalinist pursuit of “peaceful coexistence” with world 
imperialism. While it remains North Korea’s only ally, China has 
repeatedly pressured North Korea to stop its development of nuclear 
weapons. Time and again, it has voted for UN sanctions against the 
North, even if it does not fully implement them. Beijing’s collaboration 
with Washington against Pyongyang harms the defense of the Chinese 
workers state itself—the ultimate target of the U.S. imperialists. 
Capitalist counterrevolution in North Korea would bring U.S. forces 
right to the Chinese border, hugely intensifying the imperialist 
military threat.

Key to the defense of the deformed workers states is the fight for 
workers political revolution to sweep away the nationalist ruling 
bureaucracies. This is part of our perspective for the revolutionary 
reunification of Korea—through socialist revolution in the South and 
political revolution in the North. The struggle to replace the Stalinist 
misleaders with governments based on workers democracy and revolutionary 
internationalism must be linked to the extension of proletarian power to 
the centers of world imperialism—West Europe, Japan and the U.S. 
imperialist colossus. Vital to this fight is the creation of 
Leninist-Trotskyist parties as sections of a reforged Fourth International.

The capitalist order in its imperialist epoch has thrown the planet into 
continual wars and occupations in order for the imperialist powers to 
extend their domination of the globe. And, once again, it is threatening 
humanity with nuclear holocaust. As Marxists, we look to the multiracial 
American proletariat to bring down the U.S. imperialist beast from 
within. The same ruling class that threatens nuclear war against North 
Korea is also waging war on the livelihoods of working people and the 
oppressed in the U.S. What is desperately needed is class struggle 
against the capitalist rulers, both to defend the interests of workers 
at home and to hinder the ambitions of U.S. imperialism abroad. The 
Spartacist League and our comrades in the International Communist League 
aim to win the most conscious layers of the working class to the 
understanding that what is necessary to put an end to exploitation, 
oppression and imperialist slaughter is the overturn of the capitalist 
order in the U.S. and internationally through workers revolution. Defend 
North Korea! Down with U.S. imperialism!


On 04-09-17 21:15, Jugg wrote:
> Enkele jaren geleden postte ik dit plaatje van een spartacist. Gezien de 
> toenemende reikwijdte van de Noord-koreaanse raketten is het de vraag of 
> de spartacisten er nog zo over denken... De militaire retoriek van de 
> H-bom was in enkele geval geslaagd. De "sterkst mogelijke maatregelen" 
> zal weer een trumpiaans eufemisme zijn voor slappe hap. De sterkst 
> mogelijke maatregelen komen niet vanuit het Witte Huis maar vanuit deze 
> AC-lijst natuurlijk... Als we de 'football' nu eens leeg laten lopen, 
> zou dat een 'ongelukje' uit de kleine hoek kunnen voorkomen?