Illustraton on cont.ws
The international situation is very acute today. Acts of trampling on the sovereignty of other countries and nations and threatening peace and security have frequently been committed in different parts of the world. Tensions are escalating day by day and the danger of a new world war is increasing. Such a situation, which is contrary to the common desire of the progressive mankind, is attributable to the intensified moves of the imperialists towards aggression and war.
Aggression and plunder are the nature of imperialism and its mode of existence. It is imperialism that emerged as a result of aggression and plunder and has fattened with ceaseless aggression and plunder.
The United States, for instance, made huge profits through the Second World War and also collected big money during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Since the Second World War, there have been no major wars or armed conflicts in which the shadow of the US was not seen. In over 240 years of its history the US has not fought for only 16 years.
There were 248 armed conflicts in 153 regions of the world until 2001 after the end of World War II in 1945, of which 201 were provoked by the US.
The demand for peace has grown more than ever before throughout the world in the present century, but the US war machine has run in high gear continuously from the Afghan and Iraqi wars up to now. It is the monopolies that manage this war machine. They want wars to continue and make more money for them.
The US munitions businesses are now showered with money by the Ukrainian war, a proxy war aimed at exhausting and weakening Russia.
Meanwhile, the methods of aggression and plunder of the imperialists have become craftier and more vicious.
The imperialists are now undergoing a serious crisis at home and abroad. In particular, the world political tide from the unipolar world to multipolarization, including the changed power structure in the Asia-Pacific region, is seriously endangering the existence of the imperialists.
Whenever they face severe crises, the imperialists try to find a solution to it in the war of aggression. The two world wars that had plunged humanity into terrible disasters were also started by the imperialists to get out of the worst political and economic crises. The US also ignited the fuse of the Korean and Vietnam wars as they suffered terrible political and economic crises at the time.
Now, the US has got so weak that it can never be high-handed at will in any part of the world as well as in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the circumstances, the US persistently resorts to the crafty double-dealing tactics against sovereign states under the signboard of "ensuring peace". But this is nothing but hypocrisy to cover up the aggressive nature.
The imperialists will never give up their power policy, policy of aggression and war. They are hell-bent on the military intervention against sovereign states and expansion of armaments while talking about "peace". They escalate the confrontation crisis, directly launch wars or wage a proxy war on the pretext of external threat.
The US has built military bases for aggression in different parts of the world to constantly station its troops there and expands and strengthens such military blocs as NATO. At present, it has set up over 800 military bases in some 80 countries and regions to hinder the independent development of different countries by mobilizing huge armed forces. Not content with this, it rigged up such instruments of aggression as AUKUS to create instability throughout the world.
Reality shows that the US’ "peace strategy", a product of its invariable aggressive nature, is an inverted war strategy and a variety of power policy.
Clear is the aim pursued by the US. It is to cover up its sinister nature as an aggressor under the signboard of "peace" and expand its armaments on a large scale to gain the upper hand and dominate the world.
As long as imperialism exists, the world can never be peaceful and aggression and war can never disappear. To defend national sovereignty in the complicated international environment, it is important for each nation to build its own absolute strength, not to beg. It is a bitter lesson of history that the weak falls prey to others.
Only when each nation builds up its own strength and fights against the imperialists to the last can war be prevented and lasting peace ensured on the earth.
The Pyongyang Times - March 23, 2024