Hands Off Korea!

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“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today —my own government” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King was right. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is not a threat to the United States or anyone else. The U.S. military is threatening North Korea.

In 1945, after the Korean people threw off Japanese rule, the United States invaded Korea, divided the country and occupied the southern half. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans who opposed this division were murdered by a U.S.-imposed military regime.

In 1950 the U.S. launched the Korean War. In three years at least 3 million Korean civilians died under U.S. bombs and U.S. guns. The North Korean capital of Pyongyang had 400,000 people. The U.S. Air Force hit it with 420,000 500-lb. bombs. President Truman threatened North Korea with nuclear weapons. So did Nixon, 16 years later.

Today Korea remains divided, and 29,000 U.S. troops still occupy the south. The U.S. still refuses to sign a peace treaty with People’s Korea, and nuclear-armed U.S. warships lie off its coast.

The U.S. sold $2.5 billion of arms last year to the regime in South Korea and its George Bush- loving president. And now the U.S. and South Korea are threatening to blockade North Korea and board its ships. When Britain did that to the United States, it led to the War of 1812.

North Korea is believed to have two to four nuclear weapons. The U.S. has 10,000. The US. is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons. Thousands of Korean slave laborers were among those who died when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It's the Pentagon, not North Korea, that invaded Iraq, Haiti and Afghanistan. The Korean Peoples Army has never been deployed outside its country.

Today millions of workers in the U.S. face layoffs, wage cuts, foreclosures and evictions. But the Pentagon is threatening war against North Korea, a small country that provides its people with full employment and free health care, housing and higher education.

DPRK leader Kim Jong Il, the son of national hero Kim Il Sung, who led the freedom struggle against Japan, has never laid off, foreclosed or evicted anybody. We need to fight for jobs, healthcare, education and stop another war.

Some of the 100,000 political prisoners executed with U.S. approval by the South Korean puppet government in the first months of the Korean war.