------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 13, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
EDITORIAL: DEFEND KOREA George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld often appear to be cartoon versions of the Roman emperors, thumping their chests and calling all opponents nasty names. But the threats are all too real and the potential damage to be done by a U.S. military attack is not at all comic. While the Bush administration is shouting about Iraq and has built up a huge military force surrounding that disarmed country, there are other military attacks also being prepared. Every imperialist bully has more than one fight going at a time, and the Bush gang has many. Little notice has been given in the U.S. media concerning the move of two dozen heavy Air Force bombers to Guam, reported on March 5. People in the United States may not understand the meaning of this, but the people of Korea understood it instantly. This puts the U.S. military into a position to easily carry out a surprise bombing campaign against North Korea. The people of both North and South Korea were instantly outraged and the South Korean government was quick to ask the Bush administration for assurances that no attack is being planned. No such assurances came from Washington. The U.S. media continues to cover up what is happening in Korea, acting instead as the official Pentagon news agency. Where are the reports that show that it is the United States, and not North Korea, that is in violation of the agreements made? In the 1994 North Korea-U.S. Agreed Framework, signed by Bill Clinton, the U.S. promised to develop full diplomatic relations with North Korea as well as to provide power plants to replace their nuclear plants that were to be shut down. The U.S. broke this agreement completely. The Bush administration even announced when it came into office that it had no intention of honoring the agreement. Nothing that North Korea is doing now is in violation--because you cannot violate a treaty that was publicly broken and disavowed by the other side. The threat of a military strike on Korea is greater now than ever. The anti-war movement must make sure to include Korea in all of its actions to demand an end to Washington's global war threats. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe wwnews- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
