In 2001, along with Saddam Hussein�s Iraq and Iran, North Korea was named as a component of George Bush�s �axis of evil� Understandably, the bureaucracy of Kim Jong Il panicked. Bush was preparing to invade Iraq, so they figured that their country was threatened by the USA. So North Korea expanded their nuclear weapons programme. The west panicked and in retaliation threatened all sorts of economic boycotts. North Korea did not budge.
North Korea is threatening no one. It certainly has no ties with El Quaida. But the imperialists don�t trust anyone who is not part of their axis. Israel, armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, has a long record of invading neighbours such as Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. It is an ally of the USA. US imperialism is not anti-nuclear. It wants nuclear weapons but only in the hands of countries it trusts. The imperialist�s campaign to disarm must therefore be totally and categorically opposed.
The bargaining and power games seem to have worked. North Korea has agreed to close down its nuclear weapon plants. However what the bureaucrats have gained from this is grotesque and reactionary. Basically they are selling off North Korean labour to international capitalism at bargain rates. The bureaucrats will no doubt reap the benefits and make billions for disciplining the proletariat for capitalist benefit.
Once again the North Korean bureaucracy is exposed as reactionary. It also exposes their reactionary concept of socialism in one country, the brainchild of Joseph Stalin. This was the start of the demise of the Soviet Union. The Korean bureaucrats want to go down the same road, though perhaps at a slower pace. These bureaucrats must be overthrown through political revolution. Any measures to impose capitalism on the North Korean people must be categorically opposed. North Korea must become a revolutionary workers state.