the US not to step into the quagmire of another war at least now.
These objective and subjective conditions have provided the necessary background for dialogue. The North Korean leadership viewed the dialogue as need of the hour as it hoped that it may set in motion a peace process and enable it to focus on building the economy and addressing the needs of its people. The US leadership too was not for an immediate war. It chose for the present dialogue as a means to realise the same objective what it would have tried through war.
The agreements reached in the June 12 Summit are only small steps in the long journey of peace. There are problems to be dealt to translate them into practice. Korea was divided forcibly in 1953 by the invading imperialist powers and an armistice was imposed. Because of this, North and South Korea continue to be at war technically since then. The restoration of peace demands an immediate end of this illegal, unjust and imposed state of war. June 12 Summit seems to have not addressed this question. 28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea for several decades reducing South Korea virtually into a colony and posing a serious threat to North Korea. The US President Trump has announced his intention to withdraw these troops. He must implement it soon. North Korea has agreed that complete denuclearisation of Korean Peninsula as its ultimate aim. US has promised to provide security guarantees to North Korea. These are important commitments of June 12 Summit. At the same they have also becom e a source of different interpretations and controversies. The North Korea’ s state media has reported on June13, 2018 that Mr Kim and Mr Trump had recognised“ the principle of step-by-step, and
10 simultaneous denuclearisation.” It implies that the denuclearisation is not a one sided affair. It applies to US too. But the US and the mainstream media are presenting it as the job of North Korea alone. US has already unleashed the propaganda that the North Korea is not taking any steps towards denuclearisation. The question of US providing the security guarantees to North Korea carry its own problems. The US and other western powers are not trustworthy for the North Korean leadership. It fears that disarming itself depending on US may prove suicidal. W hat course the North Korean leadership takes to tide over this problem is a matter that can be decided by North Korea alone. The economic sanctions imposed by the US on North Korea are still continuing. As the US Secretary of State said,“ the sanctions and the economic relief that North Korea will receive will only happen after the full denuclearisation.
contd from page 10 are classed as international migrants – forced to leave their homes and families in search of work.
The working class in the imperialist countries experienced, particularly after 2008, a drastic fall in their living standards while the world’ s richest 1 per cent has been growing their wealth at 6 per cent every year. Just 43 persons own the same amount of wealth as the 50 per cent of the poorest in the world. The working people and their discontent and resentment is growing. To divert the anger of working people, the ruling classes f the im perialist countries are whipping up racism and national chauvinism to create judicial and political framework to repress the working people, and to weaken the working class and their anti-war feelings by pitting the workers
While these problems are yet to be addressed, the US President Trump came with the statement on June 23th, 2018 that the actions and policies of North Korean govt.“ continue to pose unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, f oreign policy and economy of the US.” So, the journey for a lasting peace, security and stability in the Korean Peninsula is long, full of pitfalls and accidents. The US imperialists will do a great harm to the peace process if they play with the peace process and treat the dialogue, agreements and their implementation as nothing but a dominant power dictating the terms and as a part of tactics to compel or manoeuvre the other side into submission. This is a period where the oppressed nations and people are rich in their experiences with imperialism and more conscious of their own interests. Coming days prove more difficult for the imperialists and their hangers on.
against each other based on race and nationality.
The anti-immigrant measures and the attacks on the working class are the two sides of the same imperialist policy.
The‘ Class Struggle’ condemns the persecution of immigrants by the imperialist counties and call upon the working people to unite and firmly defend the rights of the immigrants. Here what Karl Marx said at the Inaugural Session of the First International in 1864 is very relevant:
“ Past experience has shown how disregard of that bond of brotherhood which ought to exist between the workmen of different countries, and incites them to stand firmly by each other in all their struggles for emancipation, will be chastised by the common discomfiture of their incoherent efforts”.
Class Struggle