the US not to step into the quagmire of another war at least now .
These objective and subjective conditions have provided the necessary background for dialogue . The North Korean leadership viewed the dialogue as need of the hour as it hoped that it may set in motion a peace process and enable it to focus on building the economy and addressing the needs of its people . The US leadership too was not for an immediate war . It chose for the present dialogue as a means to realise the same objective what it would have tried through war .
The agreements reached in the June 12 Summit are only small steps in the long journey of peace . There are problems to be dealt to translate them into practice . Korea was divided forcibly in 1953 by the invading imperialist powers and an armistice was imposed . Because of this , North and South Korea continue to be at war technically since then . The restoration of peace demands an immediate end of this illegal , unjust and imposed state of war . June 12 Summit seems to have not addressed this question . 28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea for several decades reducing South Korea virtually into a colony and posing a serious threat to North Korea . The US President Trump has announced his intention to withdraw these troops . He must implement it soon . North Korea has agreed that complete denuclearisation of Korean Peninsula as its ultimate aim . US has promised to provide security guarantees to North Korea . These are important commitments of June 12 Summit . At the same they have also becom e a source of different interpretations and controversies . The North Korea ’ s state media has reported on June13 , 2018 that Mr Kim and Mr Trump had recognised “ the principle of step-by-step , and
10 simultaneous denuclearisation .” It implies that the denuclearisation is not a one sided affair . It applies to US too . But the US and the mainstream media are presenting it as the job of North Korea alone . US has already unleashed the propaganda that the North Korea is not taking any steps towards denuclearisation . The question of US providing the security guarantees to North Korea carry its own problems . The US and other western powers are not trustworthy for the North Korean leadership . It fears that disarming itself depending on US may prove suicidal . W hat course the North Korean leadership takes to tide over this problem is a matter that can be decided by North Korea alone . The economic sanctions imposed by the US on North Korea are still continuing . As the US Secretary of State said , “ the sanctions and the economic relief that North Korea will receive will only happen after the full denuclearisation .
contd from page 10 are classed as international migrants – forced to leave their homes and families in search of work .
The working class in the imperialist countries experienced , particularly after 2008 , a drastic fall in their living standards while the world ’ s richest 1 per cent has been growing their wealth at 6 per cent every year . Just 43 persons own the same amount of wealth as the 50 per cent of the poorest in the world . The working people and their discontent and resentment is growing . To divert the anger of working people , the ruling classes f the im perialist countries are whipping up racism and national chauvinism to create judicial and political framework to repress the working people , and to weaken the working class and their anti-war feelings by pitting the workers
While these problems are yet to be addressed , the US President Trump came with the statement on June 23th , 2018 that the actions and policies of North Korean govt . “ continue to pose unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security , f oreign policy and economy of the US .” So , the journey for a lasting peace , security and stability in the Korean Peninsula is long , full of pitfalls and accidents . The US imperialists will do a great harm to the peace process if they play with the peace process and treat the dialogue , agreements and their implementation as nothing but a dominant power dictating the terms and as a part of tactics to compel or manoeuvre the other side into submission . This is a period where the oppressed nations and people are rich in their experiences with imperialism and more conscious of their own interests . Coming days prove more difficult for the imperialists and their hangers on .
against each other based on race and nationality .
The anti-immigrant measures and the attacks on the working class are the two sides of the same imperialist policy .
The ‘ Class Struggle ’ condemns the persecution of immigrants by the imperialist counties and call upon the working people to unite and firmly defend the rights of the immigrants . Here what Karl Marx said at the Inaugural Session of the First International in 1864 is very relevant :
“ Past experience has shown how disregard of that bond of brotherhood which ought to exist between the workmen of different countries , and incites them to stand firmly by each other in all their struggles for emancipation , will be chastised by the common discomfiture of their incoherent efforts ”.
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