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U.S. war games ‘dangerous,
provocative’ Korea charges

PYONGYANG, Democratic People’s Republic of
orea — All units of the Korean People’s Army, sec-
unty forces, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the
Young Red Guards were placed on alert in face of a
Massive joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise
Which began Feb. 1. .
Under the code name ‘Team Spirit 83”’, the exercise
li Continue on South Korean land, sea and air until
mid-April. Over 70,000 U.S. troops along with 118,000
Soldiers of the South Korean army are practicing such
$ as landing and river crossing operations which, the
charges, are preludes for an attack against their

_ The joint forces include one divisional headquarters
and one infantry brigade of the U.S. army, the Rapid
Ployment Force, the Marine combat unit of the U.S.
Seventh Fleet, the strategic and tactical airborne force of
U.S. Pacific fieet, the carrier fleet corps including the
St nuclear-powered carrier, USS Enterprise.

_.H€ military exercise coincided almost exactly with a
“sit to South Korea’s capital, Seoul, by U.S. Secretary

of State George Shultz.

The DPRK has described the exercise as ‘‘a malicious
challenge to and provocation against’ the north. The
U.S. intends ‘‘to threaten and blackmail our people with
‘strength’ and create obstacles to the peaceful reuni-
fication of Korea’’, a leading newspaper charged.

‘*At the same time the U.S. seeks to give a shot in the
arm to the South Korean puppet government ... which
is isolated within and without,”’ it says.

The article continues:

‘**Team Spirit’ is ‘a test war’ and ‘a preliminary war’
for unleashing a war of aggression against our Republic
by massing vast forces on the Korean front at one time.

‘*Moreover, it is virtually ‘a nuclear test war’ and ‘a
nuclear preliminary war’ designed to execute the plan of
nuclear war already worked out by U.S. imperialism and
plunge the Korean and Asian peoples and the world
people into the holocaust of nuclear war.

“Tt was not accidental that U.S. army chief of staff
Meyer recently flew to South Korea and openly
threatened the use of nuclear weapons ...

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Korean-U.S. armistice talks ended the Korean War in 1953.

“**Team Spirit’ for this year draws greater attention
for its coincidence with the acceleration of the formation
of the U.S.-Japan-South Korea triangular military al-
liance at the last stage.

**As was clear from the recent trip of Japanese Prime
Minister Nakasone to South Korea and the United
States, the U.S. imperialists intend to control Asian
nations through Japan by standing her as the ‘leader’ of
Asia and their agent in this region, and make Asians fight
each other in Korea by drawing in the Japanese
‘Self-Defence Force in case of emergency’ ...

“It is no secret that Japan will be the major base for
‘Team Spirit’ military exercises and high-ranking com-
manders of the Japanese ‘Self-Defence Force’ will par-
ticipate in the rehearsal under the cloak of ‘observers.’

“This tells us that the ‘Team Spirit’ is, in fact, a joint
military rehearsal of the United States, Japan and the
South Korean puppets and its main purpose is to lay the
foundation of the triangular military alliance by realizing
the integration of the U.S.-Japan-South Korea military
actions ...

“The frantic war exercises of U.S. imperialism and
the South Korean puppets prove that their outcries over
a ‘threat of southward invasion’ are a groundless prop-
aganda.

“Tn reality, it is not a ‘threat of southward invasion’
but the threat of northward invasion on the part of
U.S. imperialism and its South Korean puppets that
endangers peace in Korea.

“U.S. ruling circles not only keep their aggression
forces in South Korea but also resort more persistently
to such vicious military exercises as the ‘Team Spirit’,
dead set against our repeated proposals to replace the

Korean Armistice Agreement with a peace agreement. .

And why? |

“*The reason cannot be considered otherwise than that
they seek not peace but war and scheme a northward
invasion of Korea.

“This is a great threat to peace and security not only in
Korea but also in Asia and the world. If U.S. imperialism
Starts a war in Korea, it will expand to vast areas of Asia
and the world. This is clear to everyone.

““It-is an urgent requirement for peace and security in
Asia and the world to determinedly thwart and frustrate
the new war provocation manoeuvres of U.S. im-
perialism which are becoming all the more undisguised in
Korea.”

ae Tom Morris

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War crimes ghost
Won't go away

_There are some intriguing
Sidelights in the case of Nazi
War criminal Klaus Barbie who
Was finally turned over to
France after years of hiding in
Bolivia.

__ The Barbie affair will be set-
tled after 37 years. He has al-
Teady been tried in absentia
and twice sentenced to death
by a French military tribunal.

Ss reports indicate he will
tried again, this time in per-
Son for his part in the murders
Of thousands of French anti-
ists.
Much detail will undoub-
tedly come out during Barbie’s
- However, in addition to
facts Surrounding his actions as

Nuremberg war crimes trial, 1948.

Gestapo chief in Lyon, it will
be interesting to see what is
said about the role of U.S.
intelligence services in 1948 in
employing Barbie at $1,700 a
month to give them Soviet mili-

-tary secrets.

Former U.S. intelligence
officer, Erhard Dabringhaus,
now a professor at Wayne
State university, has charged
he was told by his superiors,
‘Forget the Nazis. We’re con-
cerned with the Communists
...” Dabringhaus told a TV
audience he was ordered to
stonewall efforts by French
authorities to find Barbie and
to deny any knowledge of the
criminal’s whereabouts.

As more information sur-
faces, it is becoming clear that
a broad plan was undertaken

immediately after World War
Two by the United States to
utilize Nazi criminals in its de-
veloping anti-Soviet offensive.
More and more cases pop up as
people are discovered in the
U.S. and Canada — ‘“‘respect-

able citizens’’ with dirty war-'

time histories.

Not all war criminals fled to
South America. The Canadian
Jewish Congress has estimated
1,000 of them are living in
Canada. One even ran for
Parliament in 1972 for the Con-
servatives in a Toronto riding
(he lost).

The Barbie case should
impel Ottawa to clean house,
to quit hiding behind legal
niceties and doubletalk and get
serious when it comes to un-
covering war criminals living
here. :

The problem facing nervous
government officials when it
comes to extradition of Nazis
may be to answer the question:
How did they get here in the
first place?

Two lost years,
more coming

Half way through his term,
President Reagan’s proposed
budget for 1984 mirrors the real
guts of his administration. It
reflects the sharp turn begun in
1980 — to build an unprec-
edented military machine, and
to build it by brutal slashes

against peoples’ programs and
social services.

Twenty-four months of
Reaganism have produced a
nightmare. Every domestic

‘social program has been cut to

the bone — education, wel-
fare, pensions, food stamps,
school lunches, environ-
mental, self-help, job retrain-
ing and on.

In broad terms, military
spending has jumped a full
one-third and social spending
has been cut one-third. It’s the
“‘guns-or-butter’’ choice in
spades.

Reagan likes guns. He has
lots of butter at the White
House.

The president is asking for a
staggering $245.3-billion for
weapons for fiscal 1984. He ar-
gues it’s the minimum for
America ‘‘to remain strong’’.

- By contrast, to meet the high-

est unemployment rate in 50
years, Reagan proposes a job
retraining figure of $240-mil-
lion. To grasp the full flavor of
this, note that Reagan spent
$346-million last month to refit
the USS New Jersey, a 40
year-old battleship.

Another comparison: The
total debt of all Caribbean is-
lands to western banks (Rea-
gan ‘‘generously offered
$350-million in short term cash
loans) is $6.5-billion. That
means U.S. war spending in
1984 alone could wipe out the
region’s debt 37 times over.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 18, 1983—Page 9

The long, dark
Paraguayan night

Supreme dictator for 29
years, running a country where
no opposition is tolerated,
Paraguayan strongman Gen-
eral Alfredo Stroessner ‘‘won”’
another term as president Feb.
6 guaranteeing his brand of
“stability’’ for another five
years.

Since coming to power in
1954 Stroessner has kept Para-
guay in a continuous cycle of
30-day emergencies, lifting the
law only on election day when
the people are required to vote.
As the dictator cast his ballot,
arriving in a_ bulletproof
limosine with an armed escort,
a two block area in the capital,
Asuncion, was cordoned off.

He ‘‘won’’ with 90.82% of
the vote.

Storessner is a firm ally of
the West, ‘‘a fervent anti-
communist’’, reports the
press. Some members of the
Communist Party of Paraguay
are today spending their third
decade in his jails, many others
are in exile.

Acknowledging his preor-
dained victory, Stroessner told
the press his people are aware
thare has been democracy, or-
der, freedom, progress and
well-being for the past 29
years.

It has been the order and
freedom of the grave.

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