The Central Committee of the National Democratic
Front of South Koreas issued a white paper on the crimes the Bush
Administration has committed to disturb the implementation of the June 15
South-North Joint Declaration.
The white paper reads.
White Paper on Bush Administration's
crimes against South-North Joint
Declaration
With the publication of the June 15 South-North
Joint Declaration, a milestone of peace and independent reunification has been
set up in Korea and a great turn was made in the fate of the Korean nation.
After the joint declaration was adopted, the
inter-Korean relations began to take a big step forward from confrontation to
reconciliation, from the Cold War to peace and from division to reunification.
This was indeed a great event unprecedented in
the 50-odd-year long history of national division and a happy event common to
the world.
With the inauguration of the Bush administration
on January 20 a year ago, however, the implementation of the inter-Korean joint
declaration has been stalemated, the inter-Korean talks, along with the north
Korea-US negotiations, were deadlocked and the climate of the Cold War appeared
again on the Korean Peninsula.
Bush, the author of this situation, who raised a
controversy with the violent remark of "axis of evil" in Washington,
is going to make a trip to south Korea.
The south Korean people are vehemently
reprimanding Bush as a " king of evil" and intensifying the anti-US
and anti-Bush struggle to deal a heavy blow to him.
With Bush's Seoul trip approaching, the Central
Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea, reflecting the
resentment of the south Korean people and the entire Koran nation, announces
this white paper on the crimes he has committed for one year against the Korean
nation's reunification.
1. Reversion of north Korea-US relations
The adoption of the South-North Joint
Declaration was a historic event that opened a new turn for the independent
reunification of Korea.
But Washington has disliked the implementation
of the joint declaration, the orientation of Korea's reunification, from its
outset.
As south Korean media said, "the United
States has so far reserved its support to the June 15 joint declaration".
(South Korean daily The Chosun Ilbo -- June 8, 2001) and the Bush
administration "began to reveal its intention to abort the
declaration". (South Korean magazine Mal -- July 2001)
Home media exposed the reasons.
"Bush never wants the Cold War structure to
collapse by the inter-Koran joint declaration. Only by making enemy and
enhancing the critical sense, he can justify the sale of new-type arms he
promised to his friends in the war industrial sector and protect the financial
interests of the rich Republicans." (South Korean daily The Busan Ilbo --
May 3, 2001)
"The Bush team does not want the
inter-Korean joint declaration to develop to Korea's reunification. It is
because the reunification may lean to China and Russia geopolitically close to
the Korean Peninsula and if then, Korea may get rid of its influence."
(South Korean paper The Hankyoreh -- June 12, 2001)
For that reason, the Bush government has
hampered the implementation of the inter-Korean joint declaration by
deadlocking the north Korea-US relations since its inauguration.
As the spokesman for the north Korean foreign
ministry said in a statement on October 24 last year, the Bush government has
reversed everything after its inauguration. (South Korean magazine Minjok 21 --
Jan. 2002).
That was the "three-reversion
operation" such as "reversion of north Korea-US summit",
"reversion of the north Korea-US Framework Agreement" and
"reversion of north Korea-US negotiations". The operation was
designed to disturb the Korean nation's drive for reunification.
(1) Abortion of agreed north Korea-US summit
In October 2000 a special envoy of north Korea
visited Washington and former Secretary of State Albright visited Pyongyang,
with the result that Clinton was to visit Pyongyang to have north Korea-US
summit talks. Both countries had agreed to discuss and make a package
settlement of the issues of north Korean missile, peace in Korea and complete
improvement of bilateral relations. Accordingly, if the north Korea-US
relations were normalized by the summit under the condition that the inter-Korean
relations were developing toward reconciliation and cooperation, the 55-year
long Cold War structure would collapse, opening a wide way to peace and
reunification of the Korean nation.
But Clinton's visit to Pyongyang was canceled
all of a sudden on December 20 last year.
It was just Bush and his team that dissuaded
Clinton to cancel the visit.
While consulting with Clinton for the takeover
of the government on December 19, Bush said, "It is impertinent for the
outgoing President to visit north Korea", "The north Korean missile
issue, the most pending issue between north Korea and the United States, should
be shifted to the new government."
On the previous day 11 Republicans including the
floor leader of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives
urged in a letter to Clinton to cancel his plan to visit Pyongyang, saying
"reckless negotiation with north Korea is no better than nothing".
(South Korean daily The Dong-a Ilbo -- Dec. 19, 29, 30, 2000)
Owing to the Bush group's operation to abort the
Pyongyang-Washington summit, the relationship between north Korea and the
United States returned from the point of overall solution to the starting point
of hostility and the reconciliatory mood created between south and north Korea
by the June 15 joint declaration was broken.
(2) Abrogation of north Korea-US Framework
Agreement
The nuclear issue of north Korea "has been
settled by the Geneva agreement concluded on October 21, 1994 in the end of one
and a half years' negotiations over the Yeongbyeon nuclear facilities."
(Mal -- July 2001)
But Bush who had asserted before his election
that "the Geneva agreement failed in suspending the nuclear development of
north Korea" (The Dong-a Ilbo -- Jan. 18, 2001) put up reexamination of
the agreement, in a bid to scrap it totally. (The New Korea Times -- June 23,
2001)
The Bush administration asserted that the
"inspection of north Korean nuclear facilities should be done now",
which had been promised to be done at the final stage of the light-water reactor
project, and that the light-water reactors should be replaced with
thermoelectric power stations because plutonium could be extracted from
them". It was an "unreasonable obstinacy to abrogate the Geneva
agreement." (The Dong-a Ilbo -- Jan. 18, 2001)
(3) Suspension of north Korea-US talks
In order to secure the continuation for the
improvement of north Korea-US relations Pyongyang stated after the inauguration
of the Bush administration that it would continue dialogue with Washington on
the level during the Clinton administration.
After he took office, however, Bush reiterated
violent remarks that he would "generally reexamine the relations with
north Korea" (The Kyunghyang Shinmun -- Mar. 15, 2001), reversing the
framework of north Korea-US negotiations.
At the south Korea-US summit in Washington Bush
said that his government's north Korea policy would be utterly different from
that of the Clinton government. Commenting on this, media said, "He put
emphasis on the turnover to a hawkish policy of gaining American interests by
means of strength, differently from the previous government." (The
Hankyoreh -- Mar. 9, 2001)
On January 17 last year, three days before he
came into office as the Secretary of State, Powell said, "We will never
hasten the relations with north Korea. We should be allowed to verify and
control the implementation of the result of negotiations with north Korea. We
will give nothing to north Korea unless it suspends the development and export
of missiles and moves to clean away the threats of conventional and
non-conventional weapons. (The Chosun Ilbo -- Jan. 19, 2001)
The diplomatic and security officials of the
Bush government asserted that "for the resumption of talks with north
Korea a watching and verifying system over it is necessary" (Powell) and
"the conventional arms issue as well as the nuclear and missile issues
should be included in the agenda of the talks with north Korea." (National
security adviser Rice) (The Hankyoreh, Dec. 10, 2001).
The gist of Bush's north Korea policy, which was
announced after five months' examination, is to "include north Korea's
nuclear, missile and conventional weapons issues in the agenda of
negotiations", to "resume negotiations only under a system of
thoroughgoing watch and verification" and to "improve political and
economic relations with Pyongyang only after the three issues are solved."
(The Hankyoreh -- June 8, 2001)
It was in a nutshell a statement denying talks
and relations with north Korea.
Korea experts in Washington commented the Bush
administration's statement on a hard-line policy toward north Korea as a bogus
statement "to check the inter-Korean dialogue and block the north Korea-US
relations by avoiding the talks with Pyongyang, rather than to have genuine
dialogue and improve relations with north Korea." (The Hankyoreh -- June
8, 2001)
2. Disturbance of inter-Korean
reconciliation
With the appearance of the Bush administration,
the blood relationship of the nation, which had begun to be relinked, faces a
crisis of rupture.
The inter-Korean reconciliation and dialogue are
deadlocked, exchange and cooperation are aborted and travel and temporary
reunion are suspended.
"The Bush administration has hampered in
every way the betterment of inter-Korean relations" by using its
subordinate relationship with south Korea. (The Dong-a Ilbo -- August 2, 2001)
(1) Deadlock of inter-Korean dialogue
At the south Korea-US summit talks held in
Washington on March 7 last year, Bush said, "You have committed an error
in judging north Korea. I harbored some skepticism about north Korea." (US
daily The New York Times -- Mar. 8, 2001) "North Korea's nuclear
development and missile issues are suspicious. The Clinton government had been
deceived for six years. My government will not be fooled." (South Korean
magazine Shin Dong-a -- Apr. 2001)
Expressing his strong displeasure with
Kim Dae-jung for having signed the June 15 joint declaration without an
approval of Washington, Bush, who was only 54 years old, scorned 74-year-old
Kim Dae-jung, calling him "this man".
He demanded that Seoul should moderate
inter-Korean relations as Washington demands and consult with Washington about
the process of its north Korea policy at every step, including the political and
military affairs and the government-level aid to north Korea. (The New York
Times -- May 5, 2001)
It was to check the inter-Korean
dialogue for the improvement of their relations.
After the Sept. 11 incident in Washington and
New York, the Bush administration which has hampered inter-Korean talks had
Seoul issue an emergency alert and moved its task forces into south Korea, thus
deadlocking the inter-Korean ministerial talks.
South
Korean media denounced Bush.
"The 6th inter-Korean ministerial
talks held in November ended with no success because of the emergency alert of
the south side. The anti-terrorism war of the United States hampers the
inter-Korean dialogue again." (Minjok 21 -- Jan. 2001)
"As an emergency alert order was
issued to the south Korea-US Combined Forces and the military tension grew, the
inter-Korean ministerial talks to implement the June 15 joint declaration
proceeded in difficulty and at last deadlocked. As the situation after the
emergency alert showed, the Bush government has been proved to be the
ringleader of hampering the implementation of the joint declaration."
(South Korean magazine Min -- Jan. 2002)
(2) Interruption of inter-Korean
cooperation
The inter-Korean exchange and cooperation is an
internal problem of the Korean nation; it is not a matter Washington could put
its nose in.
But the Bush administration pressed south Korea,
saying, "The United States intends to have north Korea discontinue its
nuclear and missile projects on the principles of reciprocity and inspection.
How can we cooperate with each other when south Korea gives only north
Korea?" (The Dong-a Ilbo -- Jan. 29, 2001)
Washington has disapproved all sorts of
inter-Korean economic cooperation, saying "If south Korea gives
electricity to north Korea, the United States will lose its nuclear inspection
card," "Computer 386, if connected together, may be used for military
purposes," "Chemical fertilizer may be used to produce conventional
weapon detonator," and "Food should be verified to be delivered to north
Korea because it may be supplied to the army." (The Dong-a Ilbo -- Jan.
20, 2001 and Min -- Aug, 2001)
On January 2 this year, the Bush administration
"revised control regulations banning the export of double-purpose products
to ease the export of high-performance computers to China, Russia, India and
Pakistan. But it maintains the ban on computer export to 'terrorism-sponsoring'
countries including north Korea."
Dissatisfied with this, Washington abetted
President Lee Hoi-chang of the opposition Grand National Party and other pro-US
conservatives of south Korea to make fuss about "Seoul's unilateral offer
to north Korea".
They keep silence to the waste of 30 trillion
won of blood tax for the purchase of weapons from US industrial complexes in
the "5-year plan for military buildup", which will cause inter-Korean
confrontation, in pursuit of Bush's policy of giving priority to south Korea-US
cooperation over the south-north Korean cooperation.
(3) Blocking inter-Korean travel
The Bush government has blocked the inter-Korean
travel and reunion.
Mt. Geumgang is our famous mountain and
the Seoul-Sinuiju railway is a great artery of our nation.
But the American gangsters bossed by
Bush have hampered south Koreans' sightseeing to Mt. Geumgang in north Korea on
the allegation that the tourism expenses are used for the military purpose,
disallowed the Seoul-Sinuiju railway project on the pretext that north Korean
tanks may attack the south if landmines are swept away and opposed the
inter-Korean contact and travel under the sophism that it will expand
nationalism. (Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun -- Feb. 2, 2001 and Min -- January)
The Bush administration has frantically
hampered the inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation, straining the
inter-Korean relations back to the confrontational situation before the
publication of the June 15 joint declaration, for the purpose of expanding arms
markets to save the US economy from the current stagnation and using the Korean
Peninsula as a test ground of the US military supremacy by creating a Cold War
climate here.
Indeed, Bush, who has checked
reconciliation and dialogue, travel and reunion of our nation for the sake of
the United States, is a never-to-be-condoned enemy of our nation who is
obsessed in national exclusionism.
3. Crime of creating war crisis
With the inauguration of the Bush
administration, the atmosphere of peace and detente created in the wake of the
publication of the June 15 joint declaration has been broken by the current of
Cold War on the Korean Peninsula.
(1) Establishment of War Cabinet
The Bush government emerged as a "khaki
regime" and "war cabinet".
Bush,
an advocate of war like his father George Bush, the major culprit of the Gulf
War, nominated conservative hard-liners to the diplomatic and security posts of
the White House.
Richard Cheney, Colin Powell and Condoleezza
Rice, the maniacs of strength who, as the Secretary of Defense, the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the national security advisor during the
government of Bush Sr., had become notorious as the "fierce animal of the
Gulf War" and "ghost of operation to collapse the Soviet Union. They
were appointed as Vice-President, Secretary of State and national security
advisor respectively.
Donald Rumsfeld, the drafter of the MD program
who had been Secretary of Defense under the Ford administration, was designated
as Secretary of Defense, Richard Armitage, a hawk who had presented the
conservative "Armitage report" symmetrical to the "Perry
report", as Deputy Secretary of State and Paul Wolfowits, an advocate of
the MD system and hard-line policy toward north Korea, as Deputy Secretary of
Defense. All of them are of the military clique, war advocates and hard-liners
toward north Korea.
Bush's "khaki regime, pursuing white terrorism
to chop the countries getting on its nerves with the ax of MD", utters
that the "north Korean 'Communist government' should be destroyed."
(Mal -- July 2001)
The world strategy of the Bush government
composed of war advocates is designed to "maintain the great
power-chauvinist hegemonistic system." It means to "maximize the
functions as a war state and hold hegemony by pursuing the war policy which set
out with the Afghan War" (south Korean Christian Broadcasting System --
Jan. 4, 2002) and "militarily pacify the countries which disobey the
United States and make this world a jungle world of the strong." (The
Hankyoreh -- Jan. 4, 2002)
(2) Cooperation for War
The south Korea-US cooperation system which the
Bush government takes as the key of mutual relations is in fact a war
cooperation to induce the south in the MD project and involve it in the camp of
the United States and Japan to bind it to the so-called "anti-terrorism
war".
For this purpose Powell, Armitage and other
MD-related officials visited south Korea to have secret talks with Seoul
officials and force them to purchase weapons necessary for MD. (The Hankyoreh
-- June 29, 2001)
In July last year Wolfowits said that it was necessary
to develop and deploy aerial laser weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
The former commander of the US Navy in the
Pacific region said, "Our first archenemy is north Korea. If the south
Korean government buys and deploys Patriot missiles, it will just be the
theater missile defense system." (The Kyunghyang Shinmun -- July 16, 2001
and Min -- Apr. 2001)
Practically, dealings are brisk between south
Korea and the United States to deploy in south Korea Patriot missiles and
Standard missile launchers necessary for the MD system, while the south
Korea-US military cooperation system is in force for MD. "The Pentagon
plans to station an Aegis warship equipped with 30 interceptor missiles on the
East Sea 20-50 kilometers off north Korea by 2003 and select the East Sea as
the first testing waters of MD. (KBS-2 -- May 10, 2001)
Today the United States, Japan and south Korea
are suffering from serious economic stagnation.
Representing the interests of munitions
complexes which find the way out of the economic crisis in war, belligerent
rightist conservative governments have appeared in the United States and Japan.
It is natural that they dislike the present
Seoul government which signed the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and
advocate a "peace declaration".
The Bush administration is backing the rightist
conservatives of south Korea in order to produce a war system by putting up
persons seeking vested rights in the Cold War.
After the Sept. 11 incident the Bush government
urged Seoul to dispatch troops to the Afghan War and forced Seoul to extend
continuous support to the US anti-terrorism war. (KBS-1 -- Nov. 15, 2001)
This is aimed at involving south Korea in
US-ignited war and solidifying the south Korea-US cooperation for war.
(3) Arms Buildup
The Bush administration is on an antinomic arms
race of urging north Korea to reduce weapons unilaterally and forcing south
Korea to purchase US arms.
As south Korean media said, this "war
race" of Bush is to "disarm north Korea to the last and conquer it
with easy." (Mal -- July 2001)
In order to attain this target the Bush
administration, while demanding north Korea suspend the development and export
of missiles, has decided to forcibly sell 111 tactical ground-to-ground
300km-range missiles and Patriot ground-to-air missiles by 2004.
While urging Pyongyang to reduce its
conventional weapons, it has been selling ten trillion won worth of weapons to
south Korea since last year, including early warning plane, two squadrons of
the airforce's next-term guided weapon SAM-X, the airforce's next-term fighter
F-X, the army's next-term attack helicopter AH-X, the navy's Aegis-grade
destroyer KDX-III, commanding helicopter VH-X and pilotless reconnaissance
plane UAV. (Shin Dong-a -- Apr. 2001)
Besides, it is replacing the outmoded Apache
helicopter AH-64 of the US Forces Korea with uptodate AH-64D and has decided to
introduce pilotless reconnaissance plane UAV, Popeye missile and
mine-destroyers more powerful than the "bunker buster" used in the
Afghan War. (The Hankyoreh, Dec. 5, 2001 and The Chosun Ilbo -- May 14, 2001)
It also plans to organize a new "mobile
attack brigade" for a war against north Korea. (KBS-1, May 16, 2001)
A rogue nation that poses a military threat is
just the United States.
(4) To make pretext of war
Bush delivered an ultimatum to north Korea on
November 27 last year.
At a special press conference held at the White
House, he warned that north Korea should suspend the development and
proliferation of mass destruction weapons and allow verification to confirm the
result. If north Korea supports mass destruction arms, it will be treated as
terrorists and may be a target of the US attack, he added. (KBS-1 -- Nov. 27,
2001)
After the press conference mass media commented
that his remarks, which were made when the possibility of war expansion was
increasing after the collapse of the Taliban, were tantamount to an ultimatum
for pressure on north Korea. Earlier, on November 19, US Undersecretary of
State John Bolton slandered in his keynote speech at an international
conference of the Biological Weapons Ban Agreement held in Geneva that north
Korea can produce biological and germ weapons within a few weeks, which are
enough to be used for military purpose." (KBS-1 -- Nov. 20, 2001)
It is a preparation to make a pretext of war
with the tremendous phrase of "weapons of mass destruction" by adding
an issue of biological weapons to the nuclear and missile issues, which has
been so far used as a plea of the MD project.
After Bush sent an ultimatum to Pyongyang, US
spy organs circulated rumors that "north Korea is exporting long-range
missiles", "al-Qaida might purchase mass destruction weapons from
terrorism-sponsoring nations like north Korea and Iraq" and "anthrax
might be produced in north Korea," in an attempt to link north Korea to
terrorism.
At the same time, the New York Times carried an
article titled "Who is next Taliban? Don't forget north Korea" and
warhawks of the Bush government have let loose violent remarks that "north
Korea may be a next target of the anti-terrorism war" and "If
Pyongyang rejects inspection, a war may go ahead of diplomacy."
Belligerent Bush, who cooked up a pretext of war
with the words of "mass destruction weapons" to menace north Korea,
at last described north Korea, along with Iraq and Iran, as an axis of evil in
his State of Union message.
It was an open declaration of war which pointed
north Korea as a next target of the anti-terrorism war.
Originally, the major target of the new military
strategy of the Bush government in the 21st century was not Afghanistan but
north Korea.
Since its inauguration, the Bush administration
has raised a big fuss about the groundless military threat from north Korea and
pressed Pyongyang with unacceptable demands, with a view to militarily stifling
it that stands as an "anti-US forward fortress" at the gateway of the
Asia-Pacific region which the United States considers as the pivotal zone in
its global strategy.
All the US moves since the Sept. 11 incident up
to now were focussed on making north Korea a target of the anti-terrorism war
and implementing it.
The deployment of a new taskforce in the
southern part of the Korean Peninsula after the start of the Afghan War was
geared to an anti-north Korean operation, and when the United States was
confident of victory in the Afghan War, it picked up the allegation of
"mass destruction weapons" in an effort to make a plea of war in
Korea.
The violent remark of "axis of evil"
was a provocative declaration of war against north Korea.
Bush's Seoul visit scheduled for February 19 is
a war trip to examine the preparation on the spot and put it into practice. It
is a criminal act to exterminate the Korean nation through a nuclear war for
the US hegemonist world strategy.
Bush is indeed the boss of terrorism, devil
incarnate and hooligan of war.
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All facts prove that the Bush administration has
decided to solve the Korean issue by strength, unlike its predecessor.
The forthcoming south Korea visit by
Bush may reduce the June 15 joint declaration, the Korean nation's program of
independent reunification, to a mere sheet of paper and ignite a war which will
ruin the whole nation. Our people cannot overlook the situation.
The south Korean people have been deprived of
their sovereignty and dignity and suffered from the tragic national division
for more than half a century entirely because of the United States.
Now
it is the time they make the United States pay dear for its crimes.
The south Korean people, together with
all the Korean nationals desirous of peace and reunification, will turn out in
an anti-US, anti-Bush struggle to abort Bush's Seoul visit and give a stern
chastisement to the "devil incarnate".
The Central Committee of the National
Democratic Front of South Korea expresses the expectation that the
international community will render positive support and solidarity to the
south Korean people in their just struggle to judge the United States,
"empire of evil", and achieve independence, democracy and
reunification by implementing the June 15 joint declaration.
Central Committee
National Democratic Front of South Korea
Seoul
February 13, Juche 91 (2002)