Recently, in the ‘Republic of Korea’, Yoon Suk-yeol declared the emergency martial law. The attempted fascist coup failed by the National Assembly which passed the bill to lift the martial law in 6 hours. But the fascist forces have tried to declare the second martial law, provoking the war in Korean peninsula.
Regarding the Korean situation, the Communist Youth Union of Spain (UJCE) sent their solidarity message to the People’s Democracy Party and Progressive Youth League in the ‘ROK’.
Communist Youth Statement on the Self-Coup in South Korea
The news of the latest events in South Korea should not surprise anyone, nor do they change in the slightest the nature of the South Korean state, which is none other than to serve the geopolitical interests of the US in the region, either with a more or less democratic veneer or showing its true anti-popular and colonial face.
And the so-called “Republic of Korea” is not and has never been a legitimate state, only a territory occupied by US imperialism (which unlike the USSR never withdrew its troops from the peninsula, maintaining up to 50,000 soldiers and numerous military bases to this day), proof of this is its failure to sign several attempts to sign peace with the North, since it requires Washington’s permission.
Throughout its history, the title state of South Korea has stood out, both in its “democratic” stages and in its various military dictatorships, for harshly repressing the workers’ movement and communism, which has always been illegal in the country.
If the South Korean state is already anti-democratic and anti-communist, this has intensified with the latest government, which seems determined to reactivate the war with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to the point that the latter has considered peaceful reunification impossible, a policy that it has defended since its foundation.
This authoritarian and anti-popular intensification has also been seen in the growing repression towards our comrades of the People’s Democracy Party, whose headquarters, and the homes of several of its militants, were raided by the police on August 30 of this year, which has been followed by summons and other forms of political repression of its militancy.
Therefore, as we know that nothing good can be expected from any of the US puppets, we can only end this statement by wishing a prompt liberation of the Korean people from imperialism and the reunification of the Korean nation around the DPRK, its only legitimate state, by all means necessary.
