UK KFA Statement on the 67th anniversary of Korea's liberation

UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

                    London August 13 2012
The UK Korean Friendship Association issued the following statement on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from Japanese imperialism on August 15th.
                      We congratulate the Korean people on the 67th anniversary of their liberation from Japanese imperialism.
                   Korea was liberated from the iron chains of Japanese imperialism thanks to the struggle carried out by the partisans of the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army led and commanded by the great leader President Kim Il Sung.
              Japan, an ally of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, had annexed Korea in 1910 . They had severely repressed the Korean people even forbidding the use of the Korean language in Korea as well as plundering Korea of valuable resources. The Japanese imperialists comitted unspeakable atrocities such as forcing Korean women into sexual slavery and killing many Korean people.
                                         The anti-Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader general Kim Il Sung was a thunderbolt of independence that shattered forever the oppression of Japanese imperialist colonial rule over Korea. Korea became a nation instead of being part of the "Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere" of the crazed fascist Samurai's.  With the achievement of independence on August 15th 1945 the Korean people gained a new life of independence and creativity becoming masters of their own fate. A new era of national revival under the Juche idea was ushered in.
                       Today under the leadership of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un  and the Workers' Party of Korea the DPRK is further consolidating its independence .
UK KFA