Twenty five years after the United States launched its first great anti-communist war on June 25, 1950, storm clouds are gathering in Korea once more. The situation in Korea is very tense and the danger of war is increasing. Ever since the defeat of US imperialism in Indochina, both Ford and Kissinger have been publically avowing their "commitments" to the fascist dictatorship in south Korea and US clients in the Middle East.

American military and foreign affairs experts have claimed recently that they expect a new Korean war to break out in September this year. State department and Pentagon officials have indicated that any sign of popular revolt in south Korea will be looked upon as "an act of aggression" from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The 1953 defence treaty between the United States and south Korea will be used to send the 42,000 nuclear-armed US troops into action against the masses in the south and the north will be invaded.

The U.S. propaganda machine, with "Time and 'Newsweek" in the van, is churning out its usual lies about an imminent invasion of the south to trick the people into supporting U.S. aggression. Its Indochina all over again.

We are being told that the economy of socialist north Korea is about to collapse under a huge weight of foreign debt and that President Kim II Sung is a madman fully prepared to destroy his country. In contrast south Korea is allegedly bounding ahead economically.