Fifty
five years ago the south Korean people launched a mass struggle to put
an end to the colonial rule of the US imperialists and the fascist rule
of their stooges and achieve an independent life. This struggle, called
the April Popular Uprising, occupies a significant page in the history
of the movement of the south Korean people.
The
uprising swept across south Korea involving several million people. It
was an outburst of the pent-up indignation of the south Korean people
who were under the colonial rule of the US imperialists and the fascist
rule of their stooges for 15 years after Korea’s liberation.
The
traitor Syngman Rhee who had maintained his “regime” by dint of the
fascist police rule with the backing of the US revealed his wild
ambition to win another term in the fraudulent election held on March
15, 1960. Meanwhile, not only workers and citizens but students of
secondary and higher schools staged demonstrations, shouting “Reject the
fraudulent election” and “The current election is void. Don't count the
votes”.
Dumbfounded,
Syngman Rhee placed the whole of south Korea under martial law and
issued an order to put down the demonstrations. This enraged the south
Korean people of different social strata including youth and students to
rise up in the struggle against the crackdown. The participants in the
struggle fought against the fascist oppression at the risk of their
lives, shouting “Corrupt politics must retire!”, “Down with the Syngman
Rhee regime!” and other slogans, and eventually overthrew the
dictatorial Syngman Rhee regime, pro-American, flunkeyist and
traitorous.
Through
the uprising the south Korean people demonstrated that a fascist regime
which depends upon pro-Americanism and flunkeyism would inevitably fall
into a cesspool of history. The uprising gave a telling blow to the US
which had pursued a policy of colonial subjugation in south Korea and
showed that a patriotic force would be easily able to defeat any
dictatorial group if they wage a stubborn struggle in unity.
Since
then 55 years passed, but the aspirations of the south Korean people
for independence, democracy and national reunification have not yet been
realized.
The
achievements the participants in the uprising made at the cost of their
blood to democratize the south Korean society have been flagrantly
trampled upon by the United States and the pro-American conservative
forces of south Korea.
It
is the consistent strategy of the US to place the whole of the Korean
peninsula under its control and realize its ambition to hold sway over
the Asia-Pacific region using south Korea as a foothold.
Proceeding
from this strategy, the US has stood in the way of the movement of the
Korean people for national reunification and constantly aggravated
tension on the Korean peninsula, while tightening its political and
military grip on south Korea.
As
an example, it decided to indefinitely delay its transfer of wartime
operation right to south Korea. Now it is seeking to deploy the THAAD in
south Korea. In particular, it is resorting to the machinations to
isolate and stifle the DPRK with a foolish scheme to drive it to a
collapse in the long run, finding fault with its “nuclear and human
rights issues.” In the meantime, it is reinforcing its aggressive armed
forces in south Korea and is ceaselessly staging joint military
exercises with south Korea in a bid to threaten the DPRK militarily and
mount a nuclear war against it. Through large-scale joint military
exercises with its puppet bellicose forces of south Korea which are
targeted at aggression on the DPRK the United States is driving the
Korean peninsula to a touch-and-go situation.
Given
to flunkeyism and dependence on foreign forces, the present puppet
ruling forces of south Korea are selling out the national dignity and
interests, very often referring to the need to tighten the alliance with
the US. They are a group of traitors without the slightest national
self-respect who bring disgrace on their fellow countrymen by
shamelessly fawning on their American master and carry forward the dirty
history of toeing the line of outside forces. Hence, the US is
intensifying its domination and subordination over south Korea.
Moreover, all the elementary achievements for democracy won by the south
Korean people at the cost of their blood are being trampled upon.
Recently
it has been made public that south Korea and the US cooked up a plot of
political terrorism aimed at offending the leadership of the
revolution, army-people unity and dignified socialist system of the
DPRK. Some spies of south Korea perpetrated espionage against the DPRK
under the manipulation of the US and the south Korean puppet group. The
largest-ever case is sparking off soaring indignation among the Korean
army and people.
As
long as the US military occupation and control of south Korea and the
traitors who try to curry favour with the aggressors are left intact,
the south Korean people will not be freed from misfortunes and
sufferings and the Korean peninsula escaped from the danger of war once
and for all.
The
reality demands that the south Korean people turn out in the patriotic
struggle for independence, democracy and national reunification while
strongly opposing and rejecting the US domination and intervention and
the moves of the puppet conservative group steeped in pro-Americanism
and flunkeyism and confrontation with fellow countrymen, following the
example of the participants in the uprising.
Herein
lies the way to realize the aspiration of the participants, as well as
the long-cherished desire of all the south Korean people for
independence, democracy and national reunification.
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