UK KFA news late July 2017

1. 64TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE IN THE FATHERLAND LIBERATION WAR AGAINST US IMPERIALISM.

July 27th is Korea's Second Liberation Day , the Day of Victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War against US imperialism and 15 satellite countries of the US including the UK and France .

The Korean people under the leadership of the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG inflicted a massive defeat on the US .

In Korea in the short time of 3 years over a million US and south Korean puppet soldiers were killed , wounded or captured . The infamous anti-communist senator J R McCarthy of the US said that the US had suffered a serious defeat in Korea . The defeat in Korea was the beginning of a downhill slide for the US which saw it defeated in Vietnam, Laos ,Cambodia , Iran and many parts of the third world.

The victory of People's Korea was due the outstanding military command of the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG , an ever victorious iron-willed brilliant commander and military strategic genius as well the heroism and self-sacrifice of the heroic Korean People's Army and Korean people. During the Fatherland Liberation War great generalissimo KIM IL SUNG applied unique Juche-based military tactics.

Now the DPRK is a 100 time and a 1000 times stronger than in the 1950s . Only final defeat awaits the US in Korea !
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Come and hear about the Victory of People's Korea over the US Meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of England on the 29th of July.Venue details on request from uk@korea-dpr.info or juche007@yahoo.co.uk

2. UK KFA CONDEMNS FCO INTERFERENCE IN PEOPLE'S KOREA !

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The UK Korean Friendship Association issued the following statement today in connection with the publication of the so-called 'Human Rights and Democracy Report 2016" by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which gravely slandered the Democratic People's Republic of Korea over the human rights issue :

We totally condemn and reject the publication of the 'Human Rights and Democracy Report 2016'

by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office .

Firstly, it constitutes gross interference in the internal affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea . As it slanders the socialist system of the DPRK and denies the independence of the DPRK and the right of the DPRK to choose its own system and idea , it is a hostile act against People's Korea and severely detrimental to building friendly and beneficial relations with People's Korea .

Secondly, the report is just full of lies and slanders. The report is not based on objective evidence but instead on accounts from 'defectors ' from the DPRK as well US imperialists and south Korean puppets.It looks like it has been copied and pasted from the US goverment and south Korean puppet regime. Basically , the UK FCO is simply adding to the pile of anti-DPRK propaganda and fake news .

Thirdly , there is no human rights problem in the DPRK. The people of enjoy the right to housing , to education , to free medical care , to work and even have holidays paid for a state expense ! Everyone in the DPRK supports dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and the Workers Party of Korea and they are happy to build socialism. The great Juche Idea which stresses the independence and creativity of man and also always stresses the role of ideology rather than seeking to use administrative or coercive methods to mobilise people for socialist construction.So basically there cannot be such a thing as a "human rights "problem" in the DPRK.

Moreover the People's Korea is a true people's democracy based on the Juche idea and the single-hearted unity of the people around dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and the Workers' Party of Korea. In the DPRK virtually 100 per cent of electors vote in elections whereas in the UK the turnout at the last general election (which was said to be a record high) was 68.8 per cent . It is ironic that a government elected by only 30 per cent of the electorate is lecturing a country where the government is elected by nearly 100 per cent of electors . The UK needs to put its own house in order before it is criticises. In the DPRK the electors also have the right to recall deputies.

Fourthly, it is very hypocritical for the UK goverment to take issue with People's Korea over human rights when you have the situation in the UK where people have to go to foodbanks for food. In the UK there are people denied the right to work, the right to housing , the right to security in old age and many other rights. There is a very long list of human rights violations by the UK which would take a long time to list. In the past the UK has violated human rights in other countries when it had colonies such as Kenya and Malaya.The DPRK has never had colonies , never had troops or military bases in other countries nor tried to impose its will on other countries.

Fiftly, the FCO report is really about 'regime change ' in the DPRK , not human rights. What the FCO mean when they talk grandly about extending 'human rights' and 'democracy ' , is to support the overthrow of the people-centred , Juche-based socialist system and restore the capitalist system. The FCO is colluding with the US imperialists and the south Korean fascist puppets in their anti-DPRK campaign to topple socialism in People's Korea and make it a colony of US imperialism. The report reeks of British imperialist arrogance.

UK KFA calls for the FCO and British government to end their interference in the DPRK and also to pursue an independent foreign policy free from US influence. The British government should drop the daydream of regime change in the DPRK and instead fully respect the independence of the DPRK and its socialist system , The UK should build mutually benefical and friendly relations with the DPRK.

HANDS OFF PEOPLE'S KOREA !

NO TO BRITISH IMPERIALIST INTERFERENCE IN PEOPLE'S KOREA

UK KFA

3.US TRAVEL BAN CONDEMNED BY KFAUSA AND STAFFORDSHIRE KFA

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STATEMENT OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE UK KFA"ON THE TRAVEL BAN FOR US CITIZENS TO THE DPRK"

The Staffordshire branch of the Korean Friendship Association totally condemns any sort of travel ban for US citizens to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, as a retrograde and counter-productive move. At a time, when tourism and cultural exchange is increasing between countries, the Trump Administration is putting a barrier on people to people contacts.

Using the case of Otto Warmbier, as a pretext, the US is attempting to isolate the DPRK on the international arena. The DPRK is infact not alone, but admire and respected by millions of people throughout the world for its dignified defence of socialism and independence. It is the US Imperialists who are behaviouring like tyrants, denying their citizens the opportunity to see the DPRK for themselves. Are the ruling circles in Washington DC that afraid of the people of the United States knowing the reality of Juche Korea first hand by means of travel?

The banning of travel to the DPRK will impact most of all, the Korean community who reside in the United States. This punitive measure will thwart the opportunity for family reunions and travel for the overseas Koreans to their ancestral homeland, the DPRK. By enforcing this travel ban, the Trump Administration is acting in a racist and cruel manner against the aspirations of the Koreans who want the chance to visit the DPRK.

The Staffordshire KFA Branch calls upon people of goodwill to oppose the travel ban on US citizens going to the DPRK. We urge progressive people to conduct vigorous campaign to halt Trump's reactionary travel ban!!

4.SPECIAL ARTICLE ON THE DPRK ECONOMY

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Something that is being shared a lot and commented on is a report from the south Korean puppet Bank of Korea about the DPRK economy . The headline in Reuters says "North Korea 2016 economic growth at 17-year high despite sanctions: South Korea" . This news is being carried by all sorts of news outlets even the every right wing "The Daily Mail".

In fact the 3.9 per cent figure, that is quoted by the media for the DPRK'seconomic growth is actually a gross underestimate . The real figure is much higher than that , probably several times that. The DPRK media have reported increases in industrial output value for several industries as being 20 per or 30 per cent year on increases . For example during the 70 Day Campaign in the spring of 2016 industrial out value shot up by 1.6 times or 60 per cent as compared to the previous year. So the figures produced by the south Korean puppets are actually very mean indeed and do not accurately reflect the high speed growth of the DPRK economy.

In the past the DPRK raced ahead at Chollima speed (Chollima being a mythical horse that could cover a 1,000 kilometres in one day , now the Korean people under the leadership of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN have created a new speed , Mallima speed (Mallima is said to fly 10,000 kilometres per day)

What they are not telling people is even the grudging 3.9 per cent figure is higher than the 2.7 per cent growth claimed for the south Korean puppet economy , abour 40 per cent higher .In fact the reactionaries do not know that the term “Korean Miracle “ was first used by the famous Cambridge economist Professor Joan V Robinson to describe the DPRK . Writing the highly respected journal "Monthly Review " in 1964 that she said that“"Eleven years ago in Pyongyang there was not one stone standing upon another. (They reckon that one bomb, of a ton or more, was dropped per head of population.) Now a modern city of a million inhabitants stands on two sides of the wide river, with broad tree-lined streets of five-story blocks, public buildings, a stadium, theatres (one underground surviving from the war) and a super-de luxe hotel. The industrial sector comprises a number of up-to-date textile mills and a textile machinery plant. The wide sweep of the river and little tree-clad hills preserved as parks provide agreeable vistas. There are some patches of small gray and white houses hastily built from rubble, but even there the lanes are clean, and light and water are laid on. A city without slums."”

The highly respected UK social scientist Malcolm Caldwell who was a lecturer at School of Oriental and African Studies . In his book "The Wealth of Some Nations " he notes that from 1954 to 1970/71 the DPRK rate of industrial output growth was 23.5% whereas that of south Korea was 15.3% so the DPRKs rate of growth was over 50 % higher(siimilar to now)

It is worth pointing that the DPRK has enjoyed 17 years of straight economic growth and was unaffected by the 2008 crisis of the capitalist countries. Unlike south Korea, the DPRK did not need to be bailed out by the IMF. In fact the DPRK does not know austerity.

The various media commentators do correctly point out that the DPRK's economic growth has been achieved despite sanctions. However they do not go deep enough in their analysis . Not only is the DPRK's economic growth higher than that of south Korea but most importantly it is self-reliant economic growth, the basic engine for the DPRK's growth is the Juche-based independent national economy, whereas as south Korea's "growth " is based entirely on foreign capital and loans .

Finally , in the DPRK economic growth is used entirely for the people's , it goes to increasing wages, building new housing , schools and hospital whereas in south Korea and other capitalist countries any money from increased economic growth goes into the pockets of the capitalists. Also in south Korea ,which is most perverse and crazy place , money from south Korean taxpayers is paid to the US Army for so upkeep expenses so that economic growth in south Korea not only benefits local and international capitalists but also the US imperialist occupation army . Visiting the DPRK over a five year period from 2012 to 2017 I have witnessed whole new streets ,which are in effect the size of small towns, such as Changjon Street, Mirae Scientists Street and Ryomyong Street being constturcted and completed. In the DPRK people's real wages are augmented by stuff like free housing as well as free medical care etc.

So bascially even figures from the south Korean puppets and the capialist media prove what we in the Association for the Study of Songun Politics , Juche Idea Study Group of England and UK Korean Friendship Association have known for a very long time : that the Juche-based independnet national economy is superior . Juche-based economics work and deliver a high growth rate.

Dr Dermot Hudson

President Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK

Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England

Official Delegate UK Korean Friendship Association

Member International Committee For the Study of Songun Politics

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