Trump makes waves

The election of the president of the United States Donald Trump has caused serious turmoil in peoples' minds, like ripples from a stone thrown.

Who has "moved" Trump?

Some commentators when talking about the election for the presidency of Donald Trump, claim that the candidate won the elections against the wishes of the American establishment, contrary to the sentiment of Wall Street, which betted on Clinton, in spite of the propaganda of the central mass media, etc. This view is incorrect. Hillary Clinton herself blamed her defeat on FBI Director James Comey, who shortly before the voting day opened up an investigation of her mail correspondence. In her opinion, this scandalous fact persuaded voters sympathies over to the opposing party.

You may also recall that during the election campaign on the Internet appeared "leaks" against Clinton, which showed that her Foundation collaborated with the Islamists, received money from the state of Qatar, etc.

Thus, we see that a part of the American establishment, part of the security forces in the face of the FBI management bet on Trump winning, and therefore we can speak of a "split of elites" in the United States.


Plans of Trump: whether or not they will be implemented?

Inside the United States Trump promises to carry out right-wing policies of protectionism, but in the international arena, he spoke of the need to moderate U.S. aggressive foreign policy, explaining that down to lack of resources in America. This statement has been compared with a return to the "isolationist" policy espoused by the States before World War II. Such a comparison is, of course, a gross exaggeration, but if Trump really limits the aggressiveness of American States on the world stage, it will definitely be on the side of the forces of progress on all continents.

However, on this occasion it is too early to applaud and to sound the trumpets. American presidents' words often differ with deeds. George W. Bush in the election of its president also spoke about the desire to reduce foreign expansion in comparison with the times of the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton. But then what broke out in September 11, 2001, and began: Afghanistan, Iraq ... US military interventionist activity only increased sharply.

Plans for US presidents in relation to internal policies, too, have not always been implemented. So, Bill Clinton, going to the polls, promised voters to reform the health care system, to make it more accessible to ordinary Americans. However, it was his desire that encountered the opposition of vested interests and was not satisfied. Similarly, the US Congress has announced the abolition of health care reform, conceived by Barack Obama ("Obamacare").

New conditions for the Russian opposition

If Trump still implements his promise to less to interfere in the affairs of other countries (and engage in internal affairs more), it will allow people to breathe more easily, including and the Russian Left Opposition. First, the opposition is now fighting against the Putin regime, and do not have to fend off accusations of "working for the external enemies." Secondly, as to weaken the threat of the United States in immediate intervention in Russian affairs (in the case of an exacerbation), the opposition will be able to resolutely fight against the political regime ruling in Russia, without fear that "rocking the boat" will really be playing into the hands of an "external foe"

Perestroika among Russian liberals

Most interesting is the metamorphosis of awaiting Russian liberals. Firstly, they are already experiencing a crisis of their ideology. During the presidency of Obama, they were accustomed to the fact that the word "America", "Obama", "democracy", "globalism" - are synonymous. Now they have to wake up and realize that America is different, and its course of development does not always meet the aspirations of the Russian liberal.


Secondly, under the presidency of the Democratic Party in the US, huge amounts of money were sent to support a variety of "non-governmental organizations" in various countries, forming their "pro-American little movements" Russian liberals have also been feeding from this trough. Republicans, unlike Democrats are spending money on foreign affairs more sparingly. Therefore, we should expect a reduction of financial streams into the pockets of Russian liberals.

The sharp decrease in funding will force the Liberals to evolve. Some of them like prodigal sons, have surrendered their heads back into the fold of the Putin regime and will be satisfied with the meetings in some kind of "advisory boards". Another part of the Liberals, the one most fiercely hating Putin and his system will be forced to look for allies in Russia, including in the left movement. Over time, the situation will resemble the situation since "March of Dissent", when radical liberals Kasparov collaborated with the "Another Russia" and the Vanguard of Red Youth. For the sake of finding new allies, these liberals will moderate their anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Stalinist rhetoric.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARSHAL KIM JONG UN !

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The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK),the Juche Idea Study Group of England(JISGE),the UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) and the UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu issued the following joint statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea , First Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean Peoples Army, which falls on the 8th of January;
Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has been leading the DPRK for the past five year and has pushed forward the Songun revolutionary cause and Juche revolutionary cause following in the footsteps of the great generalissimo's Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is holding aloft the red banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
Dear respected leader Marshal Kim Jong Un is distinguished by extraordinary energy ,stamina, remarkable dynamism as well as profound devotion to the revolutionary cause, deep concern for the lives of the people and fidelity to the Songun revolutionary cause.
Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un made a most memorable impact at Kim Il Sung Military University by writing brilliant thesis on the outstanding military art of the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung in the Fatherland Liberation War. Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un in the past year has written many works such as "LET US BRILLIANTLY ACCOMPLISH THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE, HOLDING KIM JONG IL IN HIGH ESTEEM AS THE ETERNAL GENERAL SECRETARY OF OUR PARTY","LET US MARCH FORWARD DYNAMICALLY TOWARDS FINAL VICTORY, HOLDING HIGHER THE BANNER OF SONGUN", " THE GREAT KIM IL SUNG IS THE ETERNAL LEADER OF OUR PARTY AND OUR PEOPLE","LET US STEP UP THE BUILDING OF A THRIVING BY APPLYING KIM JONG IL'S PATRIOTISM"," LET US HASTEN THE FINAL VICTORY THROUGH A REVOLTIONARY IDEOLOGICAL OFFENSIVE!","THE CAUSE OF THE GREAT PARTY OF COMRADES KIM IL SUNG AND KIM JONG IL IS EVER-VICTORIOUS " and many other important works. He has both distinguished himself as a foremost theoretician and great thinker . He has immortalised the great ideas of the great leader President Kim Il Sung and eternal general secretary Kim Jong Il as great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has put forward the great self-development first idea , an application of the Juche theory and self-reliance.
The 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea was successfully held under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un and has put forward the programme of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism in order to realise the independence of the popular masses.
Under dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un's brilliant leadership the Korean people have raced ahead at a new speed Mallima speed raising high the banner of self-development first and self-reliance .Whole new streets and complexes have been completed one after the other.Tube trains and aircraft of 100 per cent Korean manufacture and resources have made
Under the Songun revolutionary leadership of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un the defence potenials of the DPRK have been built up and amazing advances have been made. The DPRK has carried out 3 nuclear tests in the period of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un's leadership including the test of the first H bomb of the DPRK. The DPRK now has the capacity to wage nuclear war on the US imperialists
Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has become known as a great world revolutionary leader because of his tough and revolutionary anti-US,anti-imperialist stance and because he has won victory in the showdown of power with the US to defend Korean style socialism.
We in the ASSPUK and JISGE , firmly convinced that under the leadership of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un the DPRK will achieve greater glory and victory , marching forward to the final victory of Songun ,towards a thriving socialist country and an reunified Korea with total independence. Therefore we extend our hearty congratulations to the dear respected Marshal
Kim Jong Un the great leader of the Korean people and sun of Songun !.


UK KFA, The Juche Idea Study Group of England and the Association for the Study of Songun Politics held a small scale celebration of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN's birthday on the 7th of January . Report As follows



The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK , the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the UK Korean Friendship Association held a meeting and reception on the 7th of January in south east London , to commemorate the birthday of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN . The meeting was attended by members of the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA from London and other parts of the UK.
Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson opened the meeting saying that dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is another great leader of the Korean people who is leading People's Korea to final victory over the US imperialists. He also said that
" Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has been leading the DPRK for the past five year and has pushed forward the Songun revolutionary cause and Juche revolutionary cause following in the footsteps of the great generalissimo's Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is holding aloft the red banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
Dear respected leader Marshal Kim Jong Un is distinguished by extraordinary energy ,stamina, remarkable dynamism as well as profound devotion to the revolutionary cause, deep concern for the lives of the people and fidelity to the Songun revolutionary cause.... Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has become known as a great world revolutionary leader because of his tough and revolutionary anti-US,anti-imperialist stance and because he has won victory in the showdown of power with the US to defend Korean style socialism"
Participants in the meeting praised respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as a constructor of socialism. Dr Hudson said that respected Marshal KIM JONG UN had smashed the counter-revolutionary factionalist clique.
Dr Hudson referred to dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN's New Year Address for 2017 . He said that this had attracted massive attention from the media but the media had only concentrated on the reference to the ICBM and ignored the rest of the address. Dr Hudson said that " In the New Year Address Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN puts forward the great slogan "Let us accelerate the victorious advance of socialism with the great spirit of self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force!" . Self-reliance and self-development are the DPRK's secret weapon to smash the unjust and crazy US imperialist and UN sanctions.Moreover self-reliance and self-development will protect the DPRK from "reform" and "opening up " and the restoration of capitalism. Self-reliance and self -development will enable the Korean people to forge ahead at Mallima speed to implement the decisions of the 7th Congress of the WPK.Without a doubt self-reliance is the only correct way to build socialism and win final victory over the imperialists, Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a wise and farsighted leader , indeed a genius, to put forward such a brilliant strategy."
Dr Hudson also said that dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN put forward significant proposals for reunification. Dr Hudson said that Trump was wrong and a fool to say that a DPRK nuclear ICBM would never happen.
The meeting put forward some tasks for the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA in 2017.
A letter to dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was adopted by a meeting.

Some DPRK books and publications were exhibited.
Participants enjoyed refreshments prepared by Dr Hudson

STATEMENT OF UK KFA AND ALLIED ORGANISATIONS

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The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK),the Juche Idea Study Group of England(JISGE),the UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) and the UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu issued a statement in support of the New Year Address for 2017 by dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the supreme leader of the Korean people and outstanding leader of the world revolution.
It is a most impressive New Year address which is full of militancy and optimism. Dear respected
Marshal KIM JONG UN shows deep and remarkable modesty in the address saying that "My desires were burning all the time, but I spent the past year feeling anxious and remorseful for the lack of my ability. I am hardening my resolve to seek more tasks for the sake of the people this year and make redoubled, devoted efforts to this end.". This is very moving indeed.We Juche Idea and Songun idea followers of the UK are deeply impressed with this. Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is the only leader in the world that is a true servant of the people and really cares about his people. Significantly respected Marshal KIM JONG UN calls for a "an intensive struggle to root out abuses of power, bureaucratism and corruption that spoil the flower garden of single-hearted unity."
Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN reviews the great achievements of 2016 including the successful holding of the 7th Congress of the great Workers' Party of Korea and the massive successes of the 70 day campaign and and 200 day campaign. He points out that "We conducted the first H-bomb test, test-firing of various means of strike and nuclear warhead test successfully to cope with the imperialists' nuclear war threats, which were growing more wicked day by day, briskly developed state-of-the-art military hardware, and entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile; we achieved other marvellous successes one after another for the consolidation of the defence capability. This provided a powerful military guarantee for defending the destiny of the country and nation and victoriously advancing the cause of building a powerful socialist country. Our valiant People's Army reliably defended the security of the country and the gains of the revolution by resolutely frustrating the enemy's reckless moves for aggression and war, and gave perfect touches to its political and ideological aspects and military and technical preparations, as befits an invincible army. The brilliant successes achieved in the sector of national defence instilled a great national dignity and courage in our people, drove the imperialists and other reactionary forces into an ignominious defeat, and remarkably raised the strategic position of our country" These are great achievements what will shine forever
2017 will be a highly significant year for the DPRK as it will see the 105th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG , the 75th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL and the 100th anniversary of the birth of the anti-Japanese woman revolutionary heroine and Mother of Korea Madame KIM JONG SUK. It will also be a year in which the Korean people work hard to implement the decisions of the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.
In the New Year Address Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN puts forward the great slogan "Let us accelerate the victorious advance of socialism with the great spirit of self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force!" . Self-reliance and self-development are the DPRK's secret weapon to smash the unjust and crazy US imperialist and UN sanctions.Moreover self-reliance and self-development will protect the DPRK from "reform" and "opening up " and the restoration of capitalism. Self-reliance and self -development will enable the Korean people to forge ahead at Mallima speed to implement the decisions of the 7th Congress of the WPK.Without a doubt self-reliance is the only correct way to build socialism and win final victory over the imperialists, Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a wise and farsighted leader , indeed a genius, to put forward such a brilliant strategy.
Self-reliance is to be maintained in the military field as dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN says "Officials, scientists and workers in the defence industry, burning their hearts with the "Yongil bomb spirit" of the days of the anti-Japanese struggle and the revolutionary spirit of the workers of Kunja-ri of the days of the Fatherland Liberation War, should develop and produce larger quantities of powerful military hardware of our own style. By doing so, they can build up the arsenal of the Songun revolution.". Thus the DPRK will rely on it self for defence and not harbour illusions about big powers.
Marshal KIM JONG UN has shocked the imperialists with the pledge to increase the defence potentials of the DPRK including the possiblity of an ICBM test. The DPRK is emerging as a socialist military power of Juche and Songun in the far east. No one should take issue with this. We support the right of the DPRK to carry the test of an intercontinental ballistic missile .
Nevertheless the DPRK Supreme leader holds out the olive branch to those hostile countries who may wish to reconsider their mistaken , reactionary and anachronistic anti-DPRK policies. We strongly support the call of dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN for the US and south Korea to discontinue their war games on the Korean peninsula. This is most realistic and fairest way to achieve peace and security on the Korean peninsula and indeed in the world.
Noting that 2017 is the 45th anniversary of the historic July 4 Joint Statement and the 10th anniversary of the October 4th respected Marshal KIM JONG UN also puts forward many good ideas for achieving peaceful reunification such as holding a pan-national grand meeting. We support the call of Marshal KIM JONG UN for the south Korean authorities to completely and finally abandon foolish notions of "regime change ". We believe that the proposals put forward by dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN represent the aspirations of the entire Korean people for reunification
To conclude New Year Address for 2017 of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a a highly valuable document that is programme for self-reliant socialist construction ,for national reunification and for achieving international justice. We in the that UK KFA ,the Juche Idea Study Group of England , Association for the Study of Songun Poltiics UK and UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu are pleased to support it and urge that it is widely studied by the world progressive people and the people of the UK.

NEW YEAR ADDRESS OF DEAR RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN

Dear Comrades,
Having seen out 2016, in which we glorified each and every day with gigantic struggle, creating a new history of great prosperity unprecedented in the history of the Juche revolution, we are seeing in the new year 2017.

Availing myself of this meaningful opportunity, when we look back with dignity upon the great year filled with proud miracles wrought by our great people, I, with the noblest mind, offer warm greetings to all the Korean people, who overcame with optimism trials of all hues unprecedented in history, sharing weal and woe with the Party and throwing in their lot with it by forming an integral whole with it in ideas, intention and will, and extend glory and blessing of the hope-filled new year to them.

My warm greetings go also to the compatriots in the south and abroad and to the progressive peoples of the world and other foreign friends who aspire after independence and justice.

The year 2016 was a year of revolutionary event, a year of great change, worthy of note in the history of our Party and country.

Last year, amid the soaring revolutionary enthusiasm of all the Party members, service personnel and other people and great interest of the world, the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea was held in a meaningful and splendid way as a grand political festival.

The congress proudly reviewed our Party's glorious history of advancing the revolutionary cause of Juche along the victorious road under the wise leadership of the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and unfolded an ambitious blueprint for accomplishing the socialist cause under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Through this historic congress, the iron will of our service personnel and people to continuously march along the road of Juche following the Party was fully demonstrated, and lasting groundwork for the Korean revolution was laid. It will be etched in the history of our country as a meeting of victors that demonstrated the invincible might of the great Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist party, as a glorious meeting that set up a new milestone in carrying out the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Last year an epochal turn was brought about in consolidating the defence capability of Juche Korea, and our country achieved the status of a nuclear power, a military giant, in the East which no enemy, however formidable, would dare to provoke.

We conducted the first H-bomb test, test-firing of various means of strike and nuclear warhead test successfully to cope with the imperialists' nuclear war threats, which were growing more wicked day by day, briskly developed state-of-the-art military hardware, and entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile; we achieved other marvellous successes one after another for the consolidation of the defence capability. This provided a powerful military guarantee for defending the destiny of the country and nation and victoriously advancing the cause of building a powerful socialist country. Our valiant People's Army reliably defended the security of the country and the gains of the revolution by resolutely frustrating the enemy's reckless moves for aggression and war, and gave perfect touches to its political and ideological aspects and military and technical preparations, as befits an invincible army. The brilliant successes achieved in the sector of national defence instilled a great national dignity and courage in our people, drove the imperialists and other reactionary forces into an ignominious defeat, and remarkably raised the strategic position of our country.

Last year we achieved proud successes in the 70-day campaign and 200-day campaign organized for glorifying the Seventh Congress of the Party.

These campaigns were a do-or-die struggle in which all the people smashed to smithereens the enemy's vicious schemes to isolate and suffocate our country and brought about a turning point on all fronts where a powerful socialist country is being built, a massive struggle of creation that gave birth to a new Mallima era.

Thanks to the heroic struggle of the Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's working class and all other people, the ambitious goals the Party set for the 70-day campaign and 200-day campaign were attained with success and a fresh breakthrough was made in the development of the national economy.

Our resourceful, talented scientists and technicians, following the successful launch of the earth observation satellite Kwangmyongsong 4, succeeded in the static firing test of new-type high-thrust motor of the launch vehicle for a geostationary satellite. By doing so, they have opened up a broad avenue to the exploration of outer space. Also, they established fully-automated, model production systems of our own style, bred high-yielding strains with a view to ramping up agricultural production and achieved other laudable scientific and technological breakthroughs one after another. All this will be of great significance in developing the country's economy and improving the people's livelihood. The electric-power, coal-mining, metallurgical, chemical and building-materials industries, rail transport and other major sectors of the national economy attained their respective production and transport goals, thereby demonstrating the potential of our self-supporting economy and giving a powerful impetus to the building of a socialist economic giant. Numerous industrial establishments and cooperative farms registered the proud success of surpassing the peak-year level. The People's Army stood in the vanguard in adding lustre to the history of "gold seas" and in creating a legendary speed at important construction sites. The sectors of education, public health and sports, too, made admirable achievements. When some areas in North Hamgyong Province were devastated by a sudden natural calamity, the whole country turned out in the restoration effort in hearty response to the Party's appeal and achieved a miraculous success in a short span of time.

During the 70-day campaign and 200-day campaign we created a new spirit of the times for building a powerful socialist country, and our people's trust in the Party and confidence in socialism grew firmer. Last year, in which the whole country kept on seething with vigour day and night, all the Party members and other working people, youth and service personnel gave full scope to the indomitable attacking spirit of braving ordeals and difficulties, the death-defying mettle of answering the Party's call with devotion and practice in any adversity, and the collectivist might of helping one another and leading one another forward to advance by leaps and bounds.

The brilliant successes we achieved in all the sectors of the revolution and construction last year are by no means attributable to any good conditions, nor are they a fortuitous result of any divine power. The mysterious power that brought about all these miraculous successes is just the single-hearted unity of all the service personnel and people, their great capacity for self-development. Even though the enemy grew more blatant in their obstructive schemes and severe difficulties cropped up one after another, all the service personnel and people drew themselves closer together around the Party and waged a vigorous struggle in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude. This was how they achieved the world-startling, miraculous successes under such trying circumstances.

The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow the road of self-reliance and self-development–this is the invaluable truth of the Juche revolution confirmed by our army's and people's gigantic struggle in 2016.

I extend my heartfelt thanks once again to all the service personnel and people who, with unshakeable confidence in the final victory of the revolution, adorned last year, eventful and arduous, with laudable exploits by devoting their patriotic loyalty, sweat and blood to building a powerful socialist country.

Comrades,

We should turn out again in the new year's march towards a greater victory.

To build on the successes already gained and turn a heyday in the revolution into a great golden age is an ideological and spiritual characteristic and work style of all our service personnel and people who were trained under the care of the great leaders. In this significant year, by further encouraging the revolutionary spirit that was heightened to an incomparable degree in the course of the previous miraculous year, we should make remarkable progress in the implementation of the decisions adopted at the Seventh Congress of the Party and thus translate the people's ideals and dreams into brilliant reality on this land.

We should concentrate our efforts on implementing the five-year strategy for national economic development.

This year is of key importance in carrying out this strategy. In order to open up fine prospects for the implementation of the strategy and develop the country's overall economy onto a higher plane, while building on the successes gained last year, we should attain the goals for this year's struggle without fail.

"Let us accelerate the victorious advance of socialism with the great spirit of self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force!"–this is the militant slogan we should uphold in this new year's march. We should wage a vigorous all-people, general offensive to hit the targets of the five-year strategy on the strength of self-reliance and self-development.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

The sector of science and technology should concentrate efforts on solving scientific and technological problems arising in modernizing factories and enterprises and putting their production on a regular footing with the main emphasis on ensuring the domestic production of raw materials, fuel and equipment. Production units and scientific research institutes should intensify cooperation between themselves, and enterprises should build up their own technological development forces and conduct a proactive mass-based technological innovation drive, propelling economic development with valuable sci-tech achievements conducive to expanded production and the improvement of business operation and management.

The electric-power, metallurgical and chemical industries should take the lead in the efforts to hit the targets of the economic strategy.

The electric-power industry should carry out its production plan without fail by ensuring good maintenance of generating equipment and structures and stepping up its technical upgrading. It should run the nationwide integrated power control system effectively and organize alternated production scrupulously to ensure balance between power production and consumption; it should also develop the various sources of power to create a new generating capacity on a large scale.

The metallurgical industry should introduce advanced technologies to lower the iron production cost and ensure normal operation of Juche-based production lines to turn out iron and steel in larger amounts. The state should take stringent measures to supply raw materials, fuel and power to the Kim Chaek and Hwanghae iron and steel complexes and other metallurgical factories.

The chemical industry is a basis for all other industries and plays an important role in consolidating the independence of the economy and improving the people's living standards. This sector should revitalize production at the February 8 Vinalon Complex, expand the capacity of other major chemical factories and transform their technical processes in our own way, thus increasing the output of various chemical goods. It should direct efforts to establishing a C1 chemical industry to carry out the tasks at every stage promptly and satisfactorily.

The coal-mining industry and the rail transport sector should meet the demands for coal and its transport by power stations and metallurgical and chemical factories on a top priority basis.

The machine-building industry should be rapidly developed. Machine factories should step up their modernization, perfect the processes for the serial production of new-type tractors, vehicles and multi-purpose farm machines, and produce and supply different kinds of high-performance and quality machinery and equipment.

This year light industry, agriculture and fishing industry should be radically developed to make greater progress in improving the people's living standards.

Light industry should work out proper management strategies, regarding use of domestically available raw and other materials as their core, so as to revitalize production and bring about a turn in diversifying the range and types of consumer goods and improving their quality. It should normalize production in the mines and enterprises in the Tanchon area, so that they can prove effective in improving the people's living standards.

The agricultural front, the major thrust in building an economic giant, should raise a strong wind of scientific farming and push forward the movement for increasing crop yield. It should widely introduce seeds of superior strains and scientific farming methods, whose advantages have been proved in practice, expand the area of land under two-crop farming, and be proactive in inventing and introducing high-performance farm machines.

By doing so, it can attain the production goal of grains. It should adopt measures to run the livestock farming base in the Sepho area on a normal basis and increase the production of fruits, mushrooms and vegetables, so that the people can enjoy benefits from them.

The fishing sector should conduct a dynamic drive for catching fishes and push perseveringly ahead with aquatic farming. It should build modern fishing vessels in a greater number and lay out a comprehensive fishing equipment production base in the east coast area, so as to consolidate the material and technical foundations of the fishing industry.

The construction sector should complete the construction of Ryomyong Street at the highest level and concentrate its forces on the major construction projects including the building of the Tanchon Power Station, modernization of the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex and the development of the Wonsan area. It should also build more educational and cultural facilities and houses in an excellent way.

Upholding the slogan of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, every field and every unit of the national economy should launch a dynamic struggle to increase production and practise economy to the maximum, and thus carry out the plan for this year on all indices.

The whole country should turn out in land administration. We should further transform the appearance of the land of our country by building modern tree nurseries in provinces, perseveringly pressing on with the forest restoration campaign and conducting river management, road repair and environmental conservation on a planned basis.

In order to bring about a turnabout in implementing the five-year strategy for national economic development, it is imperative to carry on economic guidance and business management with clear objectives and in an innovative way. The Cabinet and other economic guidance organs should work out tactics to ensure the sustainable economic development by putting the overall national economy definitely on an upward track, and implement them with an unflinching perseverance.

All the fronts in the sector of culture including education, public health, sports, literature and the arts should effect a new, revolutionary upsurge to accelerate the building of a civilized power. The whole country and the whole society should launch a dynamic drive this year, a year of science and education, to improve the facilities and environment for science and education.

The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.

Single-hearted unity is the precious revolutionary legacy the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il bequeathed to us, and herein lies the invincible might of our style of socialism. All the service personnel and people should establish the ties of kinship with the Party, their hearts pulsating to the same beat as it, and unite closely behind it in ideology, purpose and moral obligation, so as to struggle staunchly to achieve the prosperity of the country. We should thoroughly apply the people-first doctrine, the crystallization of the Juche-oriented view on the people, philosophy of the people, in Party work and all the spheres of state and social life, and wage an intensive struggle to root out abuses of power, bureaucratism and corruption that spoil the flower garden of single-hearted unity. We should resolutely thwart the enemy's sinister and pernicious schemes to check the warm and pure-hearted aspiration of our people who follow the Party single-heartedly and to alienate the Party from them.

In this year of the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army, we should raise the fierce flames of increasing the military capability.

The People's Army should conduct the Party's political work in a proactive manner, so as to ensure that it is pervaded with the ideology and intentions of the Party alone. It should designate this year as another year of training, another year of perfecting its combat preparedness, and ensure that all its units of different arms, services and corps raise a hot wind of perfecting their combat preparedness in order to train all its officers and men as a-match-for-a-hundred combatants, tigers of Mt Paektu, who are capable of annihilating any aggressor force at a stroke. Officers and men of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces and members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards should prepare themselves politically and militarily and maintain full combat readiness to firmly defend the socialist system and the people's lives and property.

Officials, scientists and workers in the defence industry, burning their hearts with the "Yongil bomb spirit" of the days of the anti-Japanese struggle and the revolutionary spirit of the workers of Kunja-ri of the days of the Fatherland Liberation War, should develop and produce larger quantities of powerful military hardware of our own style. By doing so, they can build up the arsenal of the Songun revolution.

Success or failure of this year's struggle aimed at carrying out the decisions of the Seventh Congress of the Party depends on the role of Party and working people's organizations.

Party organizations should concentrate their work on carrying out the Party's policies and the major revolutionary tasks advanced for their respective sectors and units. They should correctly identify the problems to which the Party attaches importance and which are the main links in the whole chain of bringing about an upsurge in production, and should resolve them by enlisting all their forces. They should move the theatre of political work to the seething production sites and launch a revolutionary ideological offensive there. In this way they can powerfully arouse the masses to the general mobilization struggle for carrying out the Party's ideas and policies. All the primary Party organizations, by applying the main spirit of the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the Workers' Party of Korea, should ensure that the spirit of continuous innovations and continuous advance is displayed to the full in this year's all-people, general offensive.

All the youth league, trade union, agricultural workers' union and women's union organizations should enlist their members and encourage them to be astir in the advance for great upsurge, and ensure that they become innovators, creators of the Mallima speed.

The current stirring era demands that our officials, standard-bearers in carrying out the Party's policies, improve their working style and attitude in a revolutionary way.

Our people's enthusiasm for labour is very high now; when this enthusiasm is supported by bold and scientific operations, effective command and personal examples of our officials, there is no fortress we cannot conquer and no difficulty we cannot overcome. All the officials, well aware of the noble mission they have assumed before the Party and revolution, should become locomotives that lead the masses in the vanguard of the ranks.

They should plan their work in a big way with innovative insight, always think what to do and work in a keyed-up and militant way. They should resolutely break with defeatism, self-preservation, formalism and expediency, and devote their heart and soul to the struggle for carrying out the Party's plans and intentions.

Last year, in reflection of the national desire for reunification and the requirements of the times, we put forward the Juche-oriented line and policy of reunification at the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and made strenuous efforts to this end. However, the south Korean authorities turned a deaf ear to our patriotic appeal and ignored our sincere proposal. Instead, they clung to their sanctions-and-pressure schemes against the DPRK and persisted in clamouring for a war against it, thus driving inter-Korean relations towards the worst catastrophe.

Last year, south Korea witnessed a massive anti-"government" struggle spreading far and wide to shake the reactionary ruling machinery to its foundations. This resistance involving all south Korean people, which left an indelible mark in the history of their struggle, was an outburst of pent-up grudge and indignation against the conservative regime that had been resorting to fascist dictatorship, anti-popular policy, sycophantic and traitorous acts and confrontation with their compatriots.

This year we will mark the 45th anniversary of the historic July 4 Joint Statement and the 10th anniversary of the October 4 Declaration. This year we should open up a broad avenue to independent reunification through a concerted effort of the whole nation.

Positive measures should be taken to improve inter-Korean relations, avoid acute military confrontation and remove the danger of war between north and south.

The improvement of inter-Korean relations is the starting-point for peace and reunification, and it is a pressing demand of the whole nation. Any politician, if he or she remains a passive onlooker to the current deadlock between the two sides, can neither claim to be fully discharging his or her responsibility and role for the nation nor enjoy public support. Every manner of abuses and slanders aimed at offending the other party and inciting confrontation cannot be justified on any account, and an immediate stop should be put to the malicious smear campaign and other acts of hostility towards the DPRK, all designed for the overthrow of its system and any other "change."

We are consistent in our stand to safeguard the security of the compatriots and peace of the country without fighting with the fellow countrymen. The south Korean authorities should not aggravate the situation by finding fault with our exercise of the right to self-defence thoughtlessly, but respond positively to our sincere efforts to prevent military conflict between north and south and ease the tension.

They should also discontinue arms buildup and war games.

The whole nation should pool their will and efforts to usher in a heyday of the nationwide reunification movement.

All the Korean people in the north, in the south and abroad should achieve solidarity, make concerted efforts and unite on the principle of subordinating everything to national reunification, the common cause of the nation, and revitalize the reunification movement on a nationwide scale. They should promote active contact and exchange with each other irrespective of differences in their ideologies and systems, regions and ideals, and classes and social strata, and hold a pan-national, grand meeting for reunification involving all the political parties and organizations including the authorities in the north and south, as well as the compatriots of all strata at home and abroad. We will readily join hands with anyone who prioritizes the fundamental interests of the nation and is desirous of improving inter-Korean relations.

It is necessary to frustrate the challenges of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad who go against the aspiration of the nation for reunification.

We must put an end to the moves for aggression and intervention by the foreign forces including the United States that is occupying south Korea and tries to realize the strategy for achieving hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region, and wage a dynamic pan-national struggle to thwart the moves of the traitorous and sycophantic anti-reunification forces like Park Geun Hye who, failing to see clearly who is the real arch-enemy of the nation, is trying to find a way out in confrontation with the fellow countrymen.

Well aware of the will of the Korean nation to reunify their country, the United States must no longer cling to the scheme of whipping up national estrangement by inciting the anti-reunification forces in south Korea to confrontation with the fellow countrymen and war. It must make a courageous decision to roll back its anachronistic policy hostile towards the DPRK. The international community that values independence and justice should oppose the moves of the United States and its vassal forces aimed at wrecking peace on the Korean peninsula and checking its reunification, and the neighbouring countries should act in favour of our nation's aspiration and efforts for reunification.

All the fellow countrymen in the north, in the south and abroad should do something to make this year a meaningful year of a new phase in independent reunification by stepping up a nationwide grand march towards reunification through the concerted effort of the nation.

Last year the imperialist reactionary forces' moves for political and military pressure and sanctions against our country reached an extreme. But they failed to break the faith of our service personnel and people in victory, and could not check the vigorous revolutionary advance of Juche Korea.

We will continue to build up our self-defence capability, the pivot of which is the nuclear forces, and the capability for preemptive strike as long as the United States and its vassal forces keep on nuclear threat and blackmail and as long as they do not stop their war games they stage at our doorstep disguising them as annual events. We will defend peace and security of our state at all costs and by our own efforts, and make a positive contribution to safeguarding global peace and stability.

Our Party and the government of our Republic will remain committed to the ideals of our foreign policy of independence, peace and friendship, expand and develop the relations of good-neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation with those countries championing independence, and make concerted efforts with them to ensure genuine international justice.

Comrades,

As I am standing here to proclaim the beginning of another year, I feel a surge of anxiety about what I should do to hold our people in greater reverence, the best people in the world who have warmly supported me with a single mind out of their firm trust in me.

My desires were burning all the time, but I spent the past year feeling anxious and remorseful for the lack of my ability. I am hardening my resolve to seek more tasks for the sake of the people this year and make redoubled, devoted efforts to this end.

Previously, all the people used to sing the song We Are the Happiest in the World, feeling optimistic about the future with confidence in the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. I will work with devotion to ensure that the past era does not remain as a moment in history but is re-presented in the present era. On this first morning of the new year I swear to become a true servant loyal to our people who faithfully supports them with a pure conscience.

And I will push the effort to set up across the Party a revolutionary climate of making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people.

As long as the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is illuminating the road ahead of us and we have the single-hearted unity of all the service personnel and people around the Party, we are sure to emerge victorious.

Let us all march forward dynamically towards a bright future, holding up the splendid blueprint unfolded by the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea to develop ours into a powerful socialist country. -0- (2017.01.02)



Source - UK KFA Chairman Dermot Hudson

New Years Greetings from UK KFA

HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Happy New Year to all UK KFA members. We hope that you have enjoyed the festive season!


2017 will see many important DPRK anniversaries such as the 105th birth anniversary of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG , the 75th birth anniversary of the great leader chairman KIM JONG IL and the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Army.


During last year UK KFA maintained a high level of activity , lets build that in 2017, lets see greater attendance at meetings and events,-forget football, TV and shopping , come and do something different and exciting!


Lets get more UK KFA members visiting the DPRK!

January 8, 1982 - Kim Jong-Un was born

On January 8, 1982 Kim Jong-un was born - Chairman of the WPK, Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, the DPRK Chairman of the State Council, the Supreme Commander of the KPA, the faithful follower of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the Great Leader Kim Jong Il.





Kim Jong-un came to the leadership of the country in 2011, but in the past such a short time he has managed to do a lot towards the development of national economy, improve public education, improving teh DPRK's defence capability. Despite the constant provocation by the diverse United States, the country of Socialism goes forward with confidence to the heights of the construction of a prosperous powerful state.



We wish the DPRK under the leadership of the young leader Kim Jong-un new successes in building a powerful socialist state

AUCPB

Fifth Conference of the All-Union movement "in Defence of political prisoners, fighters for socialism

To the leftist and communist organizations

on the territory of the ex-USSR



We, the participants of the 5th conference of the VDZP, turning to our comrades in the struggle for the socialist future of our common country, we want to remind you:

The VDZP was created to defend our comrades struggling in one form or another against the anti-national bourgeois reforms, for the return of the country to the path of socialist construction and subjected to harassment and repression by the bourgeois government. Almost 20 years since the famous case of Andrei Sokolov, we help those who have fallen in jail, fighting for socialism, and fighting for the liberation of political prisoners. In prominent cases - the "NRA case" in Russia, the "Odessa case" in Ukraine, Zhanaozen prisoners affairs in Kazakhstan and others - comrades persecuted by bourgeois regimes, obtained through VDZP help from outside - financial, legal, moral and political. Let no one could wrest from the torture chambers, but, without a doubt, our movement has contributed to the fact that almost everything is under our defence of political prisoners (except the bitter loss of: Sergey Berdyugina and Rome Shaygalimova) survived in captivity, and many have waited for his release. In custody it is very important to know that on the outside they are remembered not only by relatives, comrades and supporters that protect them as political fighters.

The Movement (VDZP) for many years worked as a non-party. Unfortunately, in recent years the majority of political parties and organizations prefer to defend themselves "their own" political prisoners. This approach is not only contrary to the idea of ​​Communist solidarity, but also harms the aid located in the dungeons of his comrades: narrows the base of material support of political prisoners, restricts the dissemination of information about their case and position. Besides, it should be remembered that many political prisoners, objectively upholding socialist values, do not belong to any of the political parties - the workers and trade unionists, communists and non-party, etc. To assist them it is necessary for a cross-party organization. Therefore, in our opinion, the VDZP should be strengthened and expanded.


Today there is a trend towards fascist regimes that seized power in the territory of the Soviet republics, that strengthen repression against fighters for the workers' rights, for socialism, "crackdown" against the communist and left-wing organizations. For example, in Russia, this leads to unjustified ban on those or other mass events - rallies, marches and other political actions (for example, a de facto ban of the communist Festival Print "Red May" in 2016), to increase fines for administrative cases to a completely preposterous case sizes, the threat of criminal cases after a series of administrative detention, etc.

Moreover, a new law on the police, allowing the police to shoot people to kill without special permits, the created so-called National Guard subordinate to the President. By adopting the "Spring Package", there is now fully enhanced surveillance of citizens; with the direct support of the authorities, security forces and the church there is a reaction formation of paramilitary shock troops to fight the growing labour movement. Similar processes, up to the actual ban of the communist organizations, taking place in the territories of other republics of the Union.

In this situation, the role and significance of left-wing organizations is to protect the fighters for justice for workers' rights, for socialism, and this must increase dramatically.

None of our friends - supporters of socialism and communism, who end up in the claws of the judicial system, should be left without the material and moral and political support.

We call on all leftist and communist organizations in the Soviet Union to act in solidarity in the struggle for the liberation of the comrades from the dungeons of the class enemy.

For this purpose, in particular,

- Create regional (republican) branches of the VDZP in the territitories-republics countries after the destruction of the Soviet Union;

- To inform the Central Committee of the VDZP of political prisoners, fighters for socialism; - Take measures to protect specific comrades gathering signatures calling for their immediate release, the referral to the relevant governmental and judicial authorities; distribution of leaflets and other campaign materials, the organization of publications on political prisoners in the communist left, and in the non-communist press, local radio and TV stations;

- To organize the collection of funds for campaigns for freeing the prisoners

Assist political prisoners, assist them (including legal)

and their families;

- To provide information on political prisoners and protection to foreign communist, workers and left-wing democratic organizations, parliamentarians and the media abroad; and etc.

We call on all the Communist and other left-wing organizations in the territory of both Russia and the other Soviet Republics temporarily destroyed, connected to the struggle against the bourgeois repression, to send their representatives to work together in the Central Committee of the All-Union movement "in defence of political prisoners, fighters for socialism."



Fifth All-Union Conference of motion

"In defence of political prisoners, fighters for socialism"

Moscow, 12.17.2016.



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AUCPB