The participants of the 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties declared their support for the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people.

ICP, 23 November 2016

The participants of the 18th IMCWP expressed their support to the struggle of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and Korean people. The signatories of the statement underlined the decisiveness of the WPK and Korean people to build a socialist nation and maintain the peace on the Korean Peninsula despite the pressure of US imperialism. The participants saluted the militancy of the Korean people for "continuing to hold the banner of socialism" and their struggle against the US imperialism.

In the statement, the difficulties and nuclear threat of the US imperialism are reminded and the legitimacy of the Korean people's military preparations for a possible attack is underlined.

The signatories of the statement is as follows:

1. Algeria Democratic and Socialist Party

2. Communist Party of Argentina

3. Communist Party of Australia

4. Workers Party of Bangladesh

5. Communist Party of Belarus

6. Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)

7. Communist Party of Brazil (PcdoB)

8. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Communist Party of Denmark

9. Hungarian Workers’ Party

10. Communist Party of India

11. Communist Party of Israel

12. Jordanian Communist Party

13. Lebanese Communist Party

14. Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxism Leninism)

15. Communist Party of Norway

16. Communist Party of Pakistan

17. Communist Party of Palestine

18. The Palestinian Peoples Party

19. Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930)

20. Communist Party of Russian Federation

21. Russian Communist Workers’ Party

22. Communist Party of Soviet Union

23. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

24. Communist Party of South Africa

25. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

26. Communist Party of Sri Lanka

27. Communist Party of Sweden

28. Communist Party of Venezuela