“Intolerable
Act of Betrayal”
NDFSK issues statement on
Budapest’s decision to
exchange permanent missions
The Central Committee of
the National Democratic Front of South Korea made public on September 25 a
statement in connection with Budapest’s decision to
exchange permanent missions at ambassadorial level with the Roh Tae-woo military
government.
Here is the full text of the statement.
As
was already reported the Hungarian government and the Roh Tae-woo military
government agreed to exchange permanent missions at ambassadorial level with
diplomatic privileges and immunities and reached an agreement on holding talks
to establish diplomatic relations.
Budapest’s decision
which was made after a series of secret talks with the Roh Tae-woo junta means
that the Hungarian regime will recognize the colonial and military dictatorship
as a “legitimate government” and will have official political relations with
it.
Budapest’s action is an
unbearable and intolerable act of betrayal, because our people have been
fighting against the US colonial and
military rule, shedding blood.
The south Korean people are now feeling strong indignation toward the
Hungarian authorities for their inconceivable
action.
The Roh Tae-woo military government with which the Hungarian authorities
seek to have official political relations is a major enemy in our people's
struggle for national salvation.
The Roh Tae-woo military
government is a colonial puppet regime framed by
Washington and is a
military and fascist regime which is not qualified to belong to the world
community of nations.
Because of the
US occupation of
south
Korea and its colonial fascist
rule, our nation had to live in our own land as a slave of a foreign country and
as a prisoner of the dictatorships for half a century, deprived of civil
rights.
We
also had to suffer from the national tragedy, the division of the country, and
we have been faced with nuclear danger resulting from the East-West
confrontation.
In
order to free ourselves from this unfortunate predicament, we have waged, over
the past 40 years, a sacred struggle against
US imperialism
and the fascist rule under the banner of independence, democracy and
reunification.
This course was really an arduous course which produces countless
martyrs.
However, we overcame all the hardships and difficulties, believing we
will win the final victory, without being swayed or
disappointed.
Our people's unabated struggle against imperialism and fascist rule has
always received active support and encouragement from the fighting peoples and
progressive peoples the world over because of the justness of our
cause.
Their support and encouragement greatly helped our people raise the
fighting spirit.
Originally, socialist countries have given selfless support to our people
fighting imperialism.
How can
Hungary shake hands
with our enemy?
How can this socialist country betray our
people?
It
is hardly believable that a socialist regime can do such a
thing.
Countries which have won a victory in their national liberation struggles
have obligations to give support and encouragement to those who have not won
victory.
This is a noble international duty.
In
particular, socialist
Hungary is a country
which knew the true meaning of international support and encouragement better
than most countries.
Hungary managed to
liberate itself from fascist rule with the support and encouragement from the
countries which had previously won liberation and introduced a socialist
system.
From its own experiences
and lessons, Hungary is in a
position to show sympathy with and give active support and encouragement to our
people who have not won the struggle against imperialism and the fascist
rule.
Despite all this, the Hungarian authorities are attempting to shake hands
with the enemy of our people, throwing away elementary conscience and moral
obligation and openly challenging our people's
cause.
Hungary’s decision to
recognize the Roh Tae-woo military government, a lackey of the
US imperialists,
is nothing different from the act of the reactionary powers who recognized the
Horthw fascist regime, a puppet regime of Nazi Germany and a “democratic
government” in the early 1940s.
We
can only say that Budapest’s action
reflects its support for the colonial fascist rule of the
US imperialists
and the Roh Tae-woo group with their “two
Koreas”
policy.
The action creates a stumbling block to our way towards independence,
democracy and reunification.
The decision of
Hungary to establish
state relations with the Roh Tae-woo military dictatorship alienates it from our
people who are waging the struggle for national liberation and against
imperialism.
Are the Hungarian authorities on the side of the oppressors or the
oppressed?
Are they for the national liberation struggle or against
it?
These questions must be asked.
The Hungarian authorities must answer these questions before our people
and the world public, first of all.
Socialist Hungary is in a position to demonstrate the beauty of the
advanced socialist system and defend the dignity and authority of socialism as
it became a socialist country after a bloody
struggle.
Budapest’s decision to
establish a permanent mission in colonial
south
Korea for financial reasons is
not only an act of disgracing socialism but also an act of disappointing our
fighting people.
Hungary’s decision can
only be construed as a grave breach of faith whereby she abandoned her class
stand as a socialist state faced with pressure and temptation from the
reactionary forces of imperialism.
The shameless act of the
Hungarian authorities can be equated with the opportunistic act of Imre Nagy who
sold out the socialist cause of the Hungarian people faced with the reactionary
offensive of US
imperialism.
In
the century-old international communist movement, we have unfortunate records of
turncoats and traitors who surrendered to the imperialists, betraying the cause
of the working class.
However, we have not seen anybody who discarded the ideal of socialism
and shook hands with a puppet regime of the modern imperialists who speak about
anti-communism in the harshest of words.
Budapest’s decision is
a turnabout which will not only leave a stain on the international communist
movement but also represent a great shame in the history of the Hungarian
people.
In
an attempt to justify their action the Hungarian authorities say that their
decision does not run counter to internationalism and reflects their “bold
ideas” drawn from an “analysis of the changing situation in
south
Korea”.
How can the Hungarian
communist authorities use the same pretext and share the same views with the
US imperialists
and their puppet Roh Tae-woo?
It
is we, the south Korean people, who can analyze the south Korean situation best,
not Hungary situated in
East
Europe.
We
cannot witness any change in the situation of the
Korean
Peninsula.
The colonial system
established by the US imperialists
remains intact in south
Korea.
Although the Olympic Games
were held in south Korean, this does not mean that
south
Korea has changed to a
sovereign country from a colony.
Although Roh Tae-woo was elected president through a direct election,
this does not mean that the military fascist regime has changed to a democratic
government.
Although Roh talks about
“peace” and “open-door policy”, this does not mean that the root cause of
nuclear war has been eliminated from the
Korean
Peninsula.
South
Korea is still under a colonial
and military rule and the danger of nuclear war is hanging over the
country.
The country is in danger of being divided
permanently.
Our people are asking, “Why can’t the Hungarian authorities see the
reality of this country? They only see a $500 million
loan.”
The NDFSK and our people cannot but be worried about the dangerous
thinking of the Hungarian authorities who discarded their faith in socialism to
get a few dollars and worried about the grave consequences of their
decision.
The Hungarian authorities who discarded their revolutionary faith by
shaking hands with our enemy should not think that they can land on our country
with ease.
There is no room for the
turncoats and traitors to the struggle of our people and for the Hungarian
people in south
Korea where fierce struggles
against the US and for
independence are going on.
We
will never allow the Hungarian authorities to establish a permanent mission in
south
Korea to have political
relations with the enemy of our people who are engaged in the struggle against
US imperialism
and the fascist rule and for national salvation.
We
don’t want the slogan of “Hungarians, go home” to be heard along with “Yankees,
go home” nor do we want the national flag of
Hungary to be burnt
along with the Stars and Stripes in the future.
The NDFSK and our people
will turn our hatred for and indignation at the Hungarian authorities’ action to
the courage, and continue our struggle against
US imperialism
and the military dictatorship aimed at independence, democracy and reunification
in high spirit.
It
is historically inevitable that US imperialism’s
colonial and military rule over south
Korea should collapse and our
people's cause for independence triumph.
The Hungarian authorities shook hands with the colonial and military
dictators, but they will have to apologize to our people for their crime when
our people achieve victory.
We
strongly urge the Hungarian government to cancel the unjustifiable decision
which will create a stumbling block to the patriotic movement of the south
Korean people, before they are deeply caught in a trap set by the
colonialists.
September 25,
1988
Seoul
NDFSK
Statement on Hungarian Mission
The Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea
made public a statement on September 25, protesting against the unjust attempt
of the Hungarian government to establish official state relations with the Roh
Tae-woo military government, a target of denunciation of our people, and
demanding the immediate withdrawal of this
decision.
But the Hungarian rulers,
despite our advice, persistently try to open a permanent mission of
ambassadorial level in Seoul within this
month and announce it as a “first step” toward the establishment of state
relations.
We
of the NDFSK, strongly condemning, together with the entire people, this
surprising act of the Hungarian government authorities, clarify once again our
opinion of protest reflecting the will of our
people.
1.
The opening of the Seoul permanent
mission of the Hungarian government is an intolerable hostile act against our
people fighting against the colonial fascist rule.
…
2.
The opening of the Seoul permanent
mission of the Hungarian government is a criminal act doing harm to our people's
sacred cause of reunification.
…
3.
The opening of the Seoul permanent
mission of the Hungarian government is a betrayal to Marxism-Leninism and
socialism.
…
4.
The Hungarian permanent mission in
Seoul will be a
target of our people's anti-Hungarian struggle.
November 10,
1988
Seoul
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