[The following statement is reprinted from the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, 2-4 May, 2002. The list of organizations who signed it are at the end of the document. Click here to go to the seminar's website.]

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Declaration of support for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

International Communist Seminar

‘Economic Crises and Possibility of a Major World Crisis’ Brussels, 2-4 May 2002

27-06-2002

The last days, the situation has abruptly worsened on the Korean peninsula, because of the hostile policy of the Bush administration against the DPR of Korea, who is aspiring to peace.

It is well known that the bellicose Bush administration has already put the DPR of Korea on its "Axis of Evil" list and has revealed that it constitutes a nuclear target. The United States shows that its objective is to stifle by force a sovereign and peace-loving state.

This attitude causes deep concern among the progressive and peace-loving people of the whole world.

Today, the one who is truly responsible for the threat of war on the Korean peninsula is not the DPR of Korea, but the United States.

First of all, they have deployed thousands of nuclear arms and tens of thousands of troops in South Korea. They also continuously organize large-scale war exercises with their South Korean puppets, targeting the North, and bringing the situation on the Korean peninsula close to war.

We denounce the hostile policy of the Bush administration against the DPR of Korea, aimed at stifling it by force, by describing it as a member of the "Axis of Evil". We demand that the problem of the reunification of the Korean peninsula must be solved in independence and peace, in accordance with the will of the Korean nation, based on the spirit of the joint North-South Declaration of June 15, 2001.

To assure a lasting peace on the Korean peninsula, we demand the withdrawal of nuclear weapons and US troops deployed in South Korea, and that US ceases to push the war-mongering forces of South Korea to confrontation with the DPR of Korea.

Signatories:

1. Anticapitalist National Assembly, Italy
2. Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum, Nepal
3. Association of Refugees from Latin America and the Carribean (ARLAC), Belgium
4. Cercle Henri Barbusse, France
5. Chad Action for Unity and Socialism (ACTUS)
6. Colonel Taher Sangsad, Bangladesh
7. Comité d’initiative pour la formation du Parti communiste (COIFOPCHA), Haïti
8. Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist (revolutionaries)) (KPML(r)), Sweden
9. Communist Party of Cuba
10. Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
11. Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) – Janashakti
12. Communist Party of the Philippines
13. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)
14. Communist Workers and Peasants Party, Pakistan
15. Communists in struggle, France
16. El Machete, Mexico
17. FPC – PT, Democratic Republic of Congo
18. Freedom Road Socialist Organisation, USA
19. Jatio Shromik Jote (National Trade Union Federation), Bangladesh
20. Lalkar, United Kingdom
21. Partido Proletario del Perú
22. Movimiento Revolucionario 8 Octubre (MR8), Brazil
23. Nepalese Communist Party (Mashal)
24. Nepalese People’s Progressive Forum
25. National Democratic Front of the Philippines
26. New Communist Party Netherlands (NCPN)
27. Ray O. Light Group, USA
28. Russian Communist Workers’ Party
29. Socialist Party of Latvia
30. Stalin Society, United Kingdom
31. Union of Communists, Ukraine
32. Workers’ Communist Party (AKP), Norway
33. Workers’ Party of Belgium
34. Workers’ Russia
35. Workers’ World Party, USA
36. Communist Party of India (Marxist - Leninist) - Red Flag
37. Partido de la Liberación, Argentina

(list of 26^th June 2002)

To sign this declaration, send a message to wpb@wpb.be