THE COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines (CPP) slammed President Rodrigo R. Duterte anew on Thursday, calling him “a tool for US foreign aggression” when he denounced North Korea for developing its nuclear weapons capability. “He is echoing the line of the US imperialists demanding North Korea to stop testing its intercontinental ballistic missiles and satellite-launching rockets to deny it the capability to defend itself and deter US military aggression,” the CPP said. ”For all his bluster, Duterte, the strongman that he is, has no such balls, having revealed himself a pseudo-patriot who has now fully embraced his fellow buffoon Trump,” it added. CPP also said that it supports the North Koreans in condemning US threats of invasion against their country. “The DPRK’s (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) nuclear weapons and capability at striking back is its only assurance against suffering the same fate as Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and other countries which became victims of US aggression and transformed into a US colonial wasteland.” CPP’s founding leader, Jose Maria Sison, is in the US terror list. — Jil Danielle M. Caro
