Korean War. A bit of history helps.

Korea. Helps to know a few facts.

Before you make a judgement. The US conducted a war against Korea in the 1950's. Between 20 and 30% of the population north of the present border were murdered by US forces. This was a war crime of monstrous proportions. 78 cities and thousands of villages were wiped out. The top US general said that never before had such a high proportion of people in one nation been killed by the belligerence of another nation. We are dealing with the aftermath of this now.

To compare. Britain, the US, France, China, none of these nations lost more than two percent of their populations in world war two. If the US had lost the same percentage of its people in world war two as Korea lost in defending itself against the US in the Korean war it would would have lost up to 80 or 90 million people. We would probably all be running around in wee Kim Il suits and living in a vicious repressive Stalinist regime. It is bad enough after 9/11.

We have always argued that the crimes of US capitalism worldwide create tens and tens of millions of people who hate the US. And this carries over into attacks and antagonism towards the US people. US corporate policies, US capitalist policies, US Imperialism and its policies of robbing and stealing and invading and slaughtering and looting round the world are the main enemies of the security of the US working class.

US foreign policy should be based on the needs of working people worldwide not on the needs of the profit addicted US corporations. Then we would be safe. Working people of the world unite.

End all wars and occupations and withdraw all US troops and all troops of all the capitalist nations and unite the workers of the world. This is the basis for a sane international policy.

Sean.