Bill Clinton meets Kim Jong Il
North Korea has announced it will grant a “special pardon” to two American journalists it tried and convicted as spies, hours after former US president Bill Clinton paid an unannounced visit to the Communist regime.
The journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were convicted to 12 years hard labor for espionage and engaging in “hostile acts” after they were caught wandering into North Korean territory last March.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee
The two journalists had been working for former US Vice President Al Gore’s media venture Current TV.
In a joint statement, the familes of the two women expressed their thankfulness to everyone involved with successfully negotiating their daughters’ release.
After the announcement, Kim later hosted a banquet for Clinton at the state guesthouse, Radio Pyongyang and the Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported.
There is no report on whether Clinton spoke with the Communist dictator about the nuclear ambitions he has for his country.
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The 3 year Fatherland Liberation War or Korean War waged by the US
imperialists against the Korean people was a most unjust and immoral war
waged by an imperialist superpower plus troops of its satellite countries
(which regrettably included the UK).However as US military historian Bevin
Alexander said it was the first war the US lost(Bevin Alexander “Korea:
the First War We Lost” New York 1986).
This was the first ever defeat suffered by the US imperialists The Korean
peoples victory in the Fatherland Liberation War from 25 June 1950 to July
27th 1953 was the first victory in the world struggle against US
imperialism. It opened up a new era of anti-US anti-Imperialist struggle
and made possible many other victories against US imperialism.
During this war many myths about US imperialism were smashed to
smithereens by the heroic Korean Peoples Army commanded by the great
leader Marshal Kim Il Sung the gifted military strategist and legendary
hero of the anti Japanese armed struggle.
During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation the U.S. imperialists
lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed
forces, and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies,
including over 12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over
3,200 tanks and armored vehicles of different types, more than 13,350
trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces of various types. This is only part of
the bitter setbacks suffered by them in the war.
The U.S. hurled nearly 2 million-strong forces, including three services
of its army equipped with modern weapons, armed forces of its 15
satellites, “ROK” army and the Japanese militarist aggression forces, and
a huge amount of sophisticated military hardware into the Korean War. The
U.S. employed the most brutal and barbarous methods and means in the
history of war by using even chemical and germ weapons.The brutality of
the US imperialists outdid Hitlers Nazis and destroyed the image of the US
as ‘humanitarians’ and ‘apostles of peace’
The myth of the US imperialists ‘might’ was smashed-General Mark Clark
wearily concluded that he was the first US commander to sign an armstice
without a victory.It was a stunning miracle that the 2 year old DPRK
defeated the US imperialists, ringleader of imperialism and chieftain of
international reactions
The Fatherland Liberation War was a true peoples war of justice against US
imperialism, a just national liberation war and a class struggle against
the enemy of the people.It showed the truth that the only way to defeat
imperialism is to destroy by force of arms and that there must be no
illusion about imperialism whatsoever.
Victory in the war was only possible due to the Juche orientated military
thought and tactics of the great leader Marshal Kim Il Sung and heroism
and self sacrifice of the Korean people.The great leader supreme commander
Marshal Kim Il Sung created new tactics of warfare based on the Juche idea
and the anti Japanese armed struggle.New forms of warfare such as tunnel
warfare were created as well as the concept of creating a second front
within a single country.
As Marshal Kim Il Sung said no force can defeat a people rallied around a
vanguard party and if a small country achieves Juche it can defeat a
powerful enemy.