{"id":2537,"date":"2017-07-07T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:03:21","slug":"stop-escalating-us-aggression-against-the-dprk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/stop-escalating-us-aggression-against-the-dprk\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Escalating US Aggression Against the DPRK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/em>A Political Solution to the Crisis is Possible and Urgent<\/em><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump\u2019s threatening statements regarding the DPRK and its missile tests this week are a serious danger to peace in the region and in the world.<\/p>\n

President Trump and his administration are not the world\u2019s policeman, and have no right to threaten \u201cpunishment\u201d of the DPRK or overthrow of the DPRK\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

Nor do they have any right to threaten peace and stability in the region with ultimatums of war, and provocations such as Operation Decapitation carried out with the support of South Korea and Japan several weeks ago, and this week\u2019s flyover the South China Sea by two US Lance bombers.<\/p>\n

It is rich indeed that the US, the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons, and the country with the largest nuclear weapons stash in the world, is threatening one of the smallest and poorest countries in the world \u2013 impoverished as a result of the US war in Korea which has never ended, and has artificially divided the Korean peninsula along the 1953 ceasefire demarcation line \u2013 for the crime of defending itself against threats of foreign invasion and coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n

To de-escalate the crisis, the US must end its provocations, withdraw it massive military build-up in South Korea, end the US war on Korea which began in 1950 and allow reunification to proceed on the Korean Peninsula according to the right of the Korean people to self-determination and sovereignty free of external threats and provocations.<\/p>\n

This is the only road to long-term peace and security.<\/p>\n

The US\u2019 escalating actions aimed to provoke both Pyongyang and China are the road to war. They are a pretext for a US strike against Pyongyang with all of the horrendous consequences that would ensue.<\/p>\n

Further, US efforts to involve China should raise warning flags everywhere. Is China the main target of US provocations and war-mongering?<\/p>\n

The great danger to peace and security today is the US administration which has already launched military strikes against Syria and Afghanistan, aided in the soft coups against progressive governments in Latin America and the current attempted coup against the popular government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and threatened the government of Cuba – all in the first 20 weeks of Trump\u2019s presidency.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a significant escalation over the aggressive policies of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

Peace loving peoples in Canada, and globally, must say no to US aggression now, before war is started \u2013 accidentally or by order of the US President.<\/p>\n

This includes the peace forces in Canada, which have yet to respond, while the Liberal government has willingly jumped on the Trump train to war. This includes sending Canadian troops to Syria, Afghanistan, Latvia, and Africa; increasing military spending by 70%; committing 2% of annual GDP to NATO. PM Trudeau\u2019s election commitment to peace-keeping has been thrown out the window, while the PM\u2019s references to leaders of DPRK as \u201ccrazy\u201d come straight from Donald Trump\u2019s speech-writers. How much more Canadian foreign policy will come to Ottawa from the Trump hotel suite?<\/p>\n

We call on the labour and democratic movements, and the pace movement in the first place to say NO to WAR \u2013 and YES to peace, peaceful coexistence, mutual security and disarmament.<\/p>\n

The alternative is mutual assured destruction.<\/p>\n

Central Executive Committee
\nParti communiste du Canada<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Political Solution to the Crisis is Possible and Urgent US President Donald Trump\u2019s threatening statements regarding the DPRK and its missile tests this week are a serious danger to peace in the region and in the world. President Trump and his administration are not the world\u2019s policeman, and have no right to threaten \u201cpunishment\u201d…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-solidarity","category-peace-and-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}