What does Kim Jong Il’s defiance mean for the Bush military doctrine?

Offensiv takes a closer look at the Korean crisis. Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). While the Bush administration has concentrated on the removal of the Saddam regime in Iraq as its main priority, a new flashpoint of tension has arisen on the Korean peninsula in the last month.

Propaganda claims and counter-claims have been exchanged in a situation which appeared to be spiralling out of control. Undoubtedly US imperialism’s new aggressive and arrogant approach to international relations has massively inflamed tensions in the region. Socialists give no support for the so-called "Communist" regime of the dictator Kim Jong II in North Korea.

The CWI stands in solidarity with the workers and youth of North Korea who face US imperialist aggression on the one side and mass starvation and economic collapse under a Stalinist regime on the other. Once again the breathtaking hypocrisy of US imperialism ... more.

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