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| outside the new American embassy in London |
The
new American embassy in Nine Elms is a giant glass cube with disguised
fortifications in a quiet part of town. But last weekend NCP leader Andy Brooks
and other comrades stood outside the moated compound to loudly call on Donald
Trump to honour the pledges made in Singapore and work for peace and
tranquillity on the Korean peninsula.
The
picket was called by the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) to mark the 68th
anniversary of the Korean War that began when US imperialism and its south
Korean lackeys attempted to invade Democratic Korea on 25th June 1950.
Millions died in the war that ended
with an armistice in 1953. But Korea remains partitioned with the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) ringed by the nuclear arsenals of US
imperialism and facing tens of thousands of American troops based in the south
of the divided peninsula.
Every year the anniversary of the outbreak
of the Korean War is marked by the start of the month of solidarity with the
Korean people. In Britain, and throughout the rest of the world, Korean
solidarity campaigners meet to demand an end to the American occupation of
south Korea and the peaceful reunification of the country that has been divided
since the end of the Korean War.
This year the protesters focused on the
recent summit between Chairman Kim Jong Un of the DPRK and US President Donald
Trump and called on the American leader to honour his fine words in Singapore
and continue along the road to peace in Korea.
KFA Chair Dermot Hudson took the mike to
say that the Korean War was provoked by south Korea under the instigation of
the Americans. Millions of people died in the war and the US used germ and
chemical warfare as well as committing many massacres of innocent civilians.
Dermot said that despite the positive
outcome of the DPRK-US summit, no permanent peace treaty has been concluded and
US troops remain in south Korea. There is a need for US troops to be withdrawn
from south Korea and a permanent peace treaty which would finally end the
Korean War should be signed.
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