Thursday 28 February 2013

Japan's repression of CHONGRYON

What the Japanese Rightist reactionary authorities are doing to Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan is appalling. I have heard that they are denying the right of Korean children in Japan to be educated. Japan is a deeply racist society and is becoming more and more fascist every day. There must be full solidarity with CHONGRYON and the Korean community in Japan against the attacks by the Japanese reactionaries
 

Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Contributors to Successful Nuclear Test

Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Contributors to Successful Nuclear Test



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 People's Army, had a photo session with the scientists, technicians, workers, soldier-builders and officials who contributed to the successful third underground nuclear test.

Kim Jong Un appeared in front of the building of the WPK Central Committee.

He highly praised those who successfully conducted the underground nuclear test as part of the practical countermeasure to defend the security and sovereignty of the country, thus fully demonstrating once again that Korea does what it is determined to do and instilling faith in sure victory and optimism into the army and people of the DPRK.

He had a photo taken with them, expressing expectation and conviction that they would achieve greater successes in their scientific researches to further bolster up the nuclear deterrent for self-defence by waging a dynamic drive for breaking through cutting-edge science and technology with the same vim and vigor with which they succeeded in the nuclear test.

Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Kyong Hui, Choe Thae Bok, Pak To Chun, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Yang Gon, Kim Yong Il, Kim Phyong Hae, Kwak Pom Gi, Mun Kyong Dok, Jo Yon Jun and Hong Sung Mu.

Wednesday 27 February 2013

KCNA Commentary Brands Military Drills as Politically-Motivated Provocation against DPRK


    Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean puppet forces plan Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises under the pretext of "annual" ones.
    This is an undisguised and deliberate, politically-motivated military provocation gravely threatening the security of the DPRK.
    A touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the U.S. hostile moves against the DPRK that have been stepped up after its legitimate satellite launch and underground nuclear test for defending its sovereignty.
    Against this backdrop, the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces are trying to set fire to the power magazine by kicking off undisguised war drills against the DPRK.
    Frantic saber-rattling reminiscent of an actual war will be staged across south Korea for nearly two months under the codenames of Key Resolve and Foal Eagle.
    This can not but be a very dangerous military move aimed to ignite an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula where slightest military move and even an accidental event may lead to an all-out war.
    The U.S. and south Korean forces have escalated military confrontation with the DPRK after its satellite launch.
    After its third underground nuclear test, in particular, the south Korean military had confabs with the U.S. on the issue of including the concept of "preemptive attack" in the "tailored containment strategy", openly crying out for "mounting a preemptive attack even if it may entail a war."
    A large number of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces and latest nuclear attack means have been deployed in south Korea and its vicinity and huge forces of the three services of the south Korean army have been, in fact, put on alert as in wartime.
    Maneuvers like combined naval drill and combined anti-submarine drill have been perpetrated by the U.S. and the south Korean forces across south Korea every day.
    Through Key Resolve and Foal Eagle the U.S. seeks to materialize its scenario for stifling the DPRK as an adventurous "preemptive nuclear attack" on it.
    This is proven by the programs of the commanding post drill aimed to cope with various circumstances such as the U.S. reinforcements' deployment in the Korean Peninsula under the simulated conditions of an actual war and more than 20 combined mobile exercises to be staged by the U.S. and south Korean coalition forces in the land, air and sea.
    The hostile forces had better stop bluffing.
    It is the firm will of the army and people of the DPRK to react to the military pressure with an all-out action and counter nuclear threat with nuclear deterrent for self-defence and to sweep the enemies out of the earth and win a victory in the war for national reunification.
    The warning of the DPRK is by no means a threat. -

Friday 22 February 2013

ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA slam "Key Resolve " and "Foal Eagle"

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
http://www.uk-songun.com/index.php email juche007@yahoo.co.uk
                                              London 23rd of February Juche 102(2013)
The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK, Juche Idea Study Group of England and UK Korean Friendship today issued the following joint statement denouncing the decision of the US imperialist aggressive warmongers and south
Korean fascist puppets to stage the "Foal Eagle " and "Key Resolve " war exercises.
                  We utterly condemn and oppose the plan of the US imperialists to hold simultaneous war  exercises "Foal Eagle" and "Key Resolve " against the DPRK in March and April. The US imperialists scheme to hold the exercise Foal Eagle from March 1 to April 30 and the exercise Key Resolve from March 11 to 21, to make the sky, land and seas of south Korea into theatres of war exercises against the DPRK.
    The  US imperialist warmongers also are thinking of additionally holding more than dozens of joint mobile drills during the Foal Eagle exercise.
    It was reported that the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops including at least 10 000  troops and huge armed forces of the south Korean puppet army and even armed forces of satellite states of US imperialism under the helmet of UN Forces will take part in the exercises.
                             There is no way given the scale and nature of the exercises that there are purely defensive . Moreover they are directly connected to the UNSC sanctions resolution and the DPRK nuclear test. The exercises are clearly
aimed at "backing up" the sanctions with force and intimidating the DPRK.
                                       "Key Resolve " and "Foal Eagle" are basically a rehearsal to invade the DPRK and take it over realising so-called "regime " change. In essence the war exercises are aimed stifling the people-centred socialist system of the DPRK by force and extending US colonial rule in south Korea to the north.
                                     The exercises are the biggest single threat to world peace. The situation in the Korean peninsula is already very strained due to the US imperialists extreme anti DPRK policies and the provocations of the Lee Myung Bak regime in south Korea. The exercises bring the possibility of  an actual physical war breaking out a step closer. The holding of "Foal Eagle " and "Key Resolve " are being held against the wishes of the independence loving and progressive peoples of the world.
         We demand that the exercises are cancelled NOW ! , also that all anti DPRK resolutions are revoked by the UNSC. It is time for all friends of the DPRK and Songun idea and Juche Idea followers to turn out decisively in support of the
DPRK.
US OUT OF KOREA!
KOREA IS ONE!

ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

Chief of KPA Panmunjom Mission Sends Telephone Message to U.S. Forces Commander in S. Korea

 Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists are escalating dangerous military pressure on the DPRK, having confabs for slapping brigandish new "sanctions" against it over its satellite launch, its legitimate and independent right, and underground nuclear test for self-defence to protect it.
    They are mulling kicking off Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises targeted against the DPRK again on March 1 in a bid to bring dark clouds of a war of aggression to hang over Korea despite the strong protest and denunciation at home and abroad. They are employing such sleight of hand as "notifying" the DPRK side of this "in advance".
    A touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the hostile acts and military racket of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and their followers against the DPRK.
    Pak Rim Su, chief of the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army, sent the following message to James D. Sherman, commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea, in this regard at 9 a.m. Saturday:
    As you know, a grave situation where a war may break out any moment prevails in Korea due to the brigandish moves of the U.S. and its allied forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK, taking issue with its just satellite launch and underground nuclear test for protecting its sovereignty.
    If your side ignites a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle again under the cover of "defensive and annual ones" at this dangerous time, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour.

    You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction while a great victory is in store for the guardians of justice. -0-

DPRK Juche independent national economy will smash the imperialist sanctions-special article of ASSPUK and JISGE

            There has been a general clamour in the imperialist media about sanctions against the DPRK for its recent nuclear test. Already the EU has slapped a massive sanctions package on the DPRK and a US congress resolution was passed calling for "additional sanctions" against the DPRK . The UN Security Council a marionette of US imperialism may also impose some sanctions on the DPRK on top of the draconian sanctions imposed on the DPRK on the 22nd of January.
However no amount of sanctions can break the will of the people of the DPRK united around the dear respected leader Marshal Kim Jong Un, Although they are a grave affront and an insult to the dignity of the DPRK they cannot affect the DPRK's economy,
                       Consider the following facts. The DPRK has been under a virtually continuous US blockade since 1950 . However the economy of the DPRK grew 431 times in terms of industrial output value and 65 times in national income between 1946-1984 ! This is an extremely high rate of growth. Two Western economists Brun and Hersh in their book "Socialist Korea a Case Study in comparative economic development" quoted an economic expert as stating that the DPRK's annual average economic growth rate between 1954 and 1970 was 23.5 % . Probably the highest growth rate in the world and a genuine Korean economic miracle(by the way the term Korean economic miracle was actually used by the emenient Cambridge economist Professor Joan V Robinson in 1964 to describe the DPRK economy). All these was done under conditions of sanctions and blockade by the US and other countries. Moreover it was entirely by the DPRK's own efforts  not by 'aid' from the imperialist countries and certainly not favourable trade terms.
                              At at time when the Western countries had enforced a virtually total sanctions regime and blockade in the late 1950s the DPRK economy grew at a rate of 36.6% per annum between 1957 -1960 . In 1957 its rate of growth hit 44% undoubtedly the highest in the world. When you think capitalist countries have a growth rate of only 1% or 2% per year.
                                   The great leader President Kim Il Sung put forward the line of building an independent national economy as early as the 1940s. In the 1950s the modern revisionists and great power chauvinists tried to put pressure on the DPRK to join the CMEA but it refused to do so maintaining the line of economic independence. The great leader President Kim Il Sung defined the independent national economy as follows
"building an independent national economy means building a diversified economy equipping it with up-to date technology and creating our solid bases of raw materials,thereby building up an all embracing economic system in which every branch is structurally interrelated so as to provide domestically most of the products of heavy and light industry and the agricultural produce needed to
make the country wealthy and powerful and to improve the people's living conditions"
(KIM IL SUNG Selected Works 2nd English edition vol 3 p 399).

Futhermore the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il in his work "ON THE JUCHE IDEA" wrote of the independent national economy as follows ;
"Building an independent national economy means building an economy which is free from dependence on others and which stands on its own feet, an economy which serves one's own people and develops on the strength of the resources of one's own country and by the efforts of one's own people. Such an economy makes it possible to develop the productive forces quickly by utilizing the nation's natural resources in a rational and integrated way, improve the people's
living standard continuously, strengthen the material and technical foundations of socialism, and increase the nation's political, economic and military power. It also ensures the exercise of complete sovereignty and equality in political and economic affairs in international relations and contributes to strengthening the world 's anti-imperialist, independent forces and socialist forces. It is vital to build an independent national economy particularly in those countries which were backward economically and technically because of imperialist domination and plunder in the past. Only when they build an independent national economy in these countries, will they be able to repel the new colonial policy of the imperialists, free themselves completely from their domination and exploitation, wipe out national inequality, and vigorously advance on the road of socialism
."


       Today the DPRK has an independent national economy which relies basically on its own raw materials and can produce most most of the machinery and equipment need for socialist construction. The DPRK can now produce anything from a wrist watch to a satellite. The imperialists were forced to concede that the Unha 3 rocket which carried the Kwangmysong 3-2 satellite was virtually 100% DPRK made.
                One foreign expert estimated that the proportion of foreign trade in the Gross national product of the DPRK was 4.8 % whereas in south Korea it is 80%. This shows several things ; that the DPRK is the most economically independent country in the world,  that south Korea is pathetically dependent on foreign trade , that the DPRK is free from the malady of globalisation and that it can withstand any sanctions because even there were total sanctions the other 95.2 % of the DPRK's economy would be unaffected.
                      Thus the DPRK will , under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, march on to final victory and build a thriving socialist country undeterred and unaffected by any sanctions of the crazy US imperialists !

ASSPUK
JISGE




Thursday 21 February 2013

A PRESENTATION BY Shaun Pickford ON KIM JONG IL'S WORK "ABUSES OF SOCIALISM ARE INTOLERABLE" GIVEN IN LONDON ON FEBRUARY 16 2013 (JUCHE 102)

A PRESENTATION BY Shaun Pickford ON KIM JONG IL'S WORK "ABUSES OF SOCIALISM ARE INTOLERABLE" GIVEN IN LONDON ON FEBRUARY 16 2013 (JUCHE 102) PART ONE


If we recall the events of the late 1980s and early 1990s, it would have appeared that the cause of socialism was a lost one. Country after country in Eastern Europe had abandoned  socialism. The Soviet Union, the first workers' and peasants' state ih history, been dissolved on December 25th, 1991. In China on June 4th, 1989, there had an attempt to change the social system and this was halted by the action of the Chinese communists and people. Some of the socialist countries which had survived the counter-revolutionary onslaught adopted "Market Economics" and "Political and Cultural Opening".

The intellectual climate of the time was to view socialism and communism as obsolete  concepts. This was summed up in Francis Fukyama's statement "The End Of History". In other words, the only viable model for social development was for post-modernism in ideology, neo-conservatism in politics and liberalism in economics . It became an orthodoxy among political and academic circles that communism had become redundant and that the universalization of liberal democracy and economics was the end point of human evolution.

This position in regard to socialism, was reinforced by some quarters on the Left. Certain parties and individuals gave up their life long allegiance to communism and went over to bourgeois liberalism and sociology.It became a prevailing sentiment among those who had ditched Marxism "that the forward march of labour had been halted" and "we live in new times, where the old notions no longer apply".

Against this background of an avalanche of attacks upon the concept of socialism, Kim Jong IL published his "The Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" on March 1st, 1993 in the theoretical journal of the Workers' Party of Korea "Kulloja". Kim Jong IL in the March 1st, 1993 Discourse clearly goes on the offensive in defence of socialism.

In the opening passages of the work, Kim Jong IL demolishes the decades long slander against socialism. Kim Jong IL states the following: "The claim that socialism is "totalitarian", "barracks like" and "administrative and commanding" is not in essence different from pernicious anti-socialist propaganda which the imperialists have conducted since the first appearance of socialism in the world. The imperialists have always said that socialism is an inhuman society in which there is no freedom or democracy. The terms "totalitarian", "barracks-like" and "administrative and commanding" are a repetition of the imperialists' false propaganda against socialism that use new words.

The democratic idea which a long time ago advocated freedom, equality and human rights, in opposition to feudal despotism, was transformed by the capitalist class into bourgeois democracy, which imposed and defended exploitation and subordination by capital. The imperialists made every possible effort to embellish bourgeois democracy, calling it liberal democracy; however, they can not conceal its falsity and reactionary nature, nor could they remove from the minds of the popular masses their aspiration and longing for socialism which could provide them with genuine freedom".

As we can see from the above quotations, Kim Jong IL cuts through the bourgeois mythology concerning democracy and human rights. The imperialists distorted the democratic ideal, which was the standard bearer of the revolutionary bourgeoisie, in its struggle with feudalism. As most people in capitalist society empirically and theoretically know that parliamentary democracy is of a limited nature. Even the democracy we experience in capitalist countries is being eroded by security/anti-terrorist measures and by the influence of the multi-national corporations and by trans-national formations (such as the European Union and NATO). In essence, democracy under capitalism serves the elite and excludes the poor and oppressed. 

As well as the external threat the socialist countries faced from imperialism, like military intervention, blockade and sabotage, these countries encountered an internal danger.The collapse of the USSR and the socialist countries of Europe was bought about not by war or invasion, but by treachery and by ideological and bureaucratic degeneration. The Trojan Horse within the European Socialist Camp was modern revisionism. Revisionism arose in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union after its 20th Congress in 1956. Within a period of three decades, modern revisionism had evolved in the ranks of tthe CPSU and the ruling Communist and Workers' Parties in Eastern Europe. Imperialism and the opportunists embedded within the leaderships of the ruling parties, had a common agenda, that was to destroy socialism and the revolutionary heritage in those countries.

The notion of totalitarianism was continually used by the imperialist information agencies to batter socialism in theory and practice, Bourgeois ideologists equated communism and fascism as similar totalitarian practices. Whereas "liberal democracy" supposedly avoids these "left"/"right" extremes. There have even been attempts by some academics and authors in the West to revise the history of the Second World War and make the conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as a battle of two totalitarian systems, and to assert that Soviet Russia was worse than the Third Reich. Whatever their subjective motives, "National Communists" give plausibility to capitalist propagandists in their drive to relate Communism with the theory and practice of Nazism.

It was the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, who was the darling of bourgeois liberalism, with his theories on totalitarianism and the open society. Popper criticised Marxism and Historicism, rejected the existence of objective laws of social development and upheld liberalism. The ideology of Karl Popper, along with the theories of Leo Strauss and Milton Freeman became the bedrock of neo-conservative political and economic thought in the late 20th century. The expression totalitarianism was coined by the Italian thinker Giovanni in 1923. Amendola used the term "Totalitaro" to refer to the structure and goals of the state which had total representation and control of the nation and of the national interest. Kim Jong IL makes a devastating critique of the bourgeois theory of totalitarianism with the following:" Totalitarianism served as the political idea of fascist dictators. Notorious Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy used totalitarianism as an ideological tool to justify their fascist dictatorship. The fascist dictators stamped out the most elementary democratic freedoms and rights of the working people and enforced tyrannical policies, behind the misleading name of national socialism, claiming that for the sake of the whole nation no working class movement and no class struggle could be permitted. What is meant by the whole in totalitarianism is not the whole of the popular masses but a tiny handful of privileged circles such monopoly capitalists, major landowners, reactionary bureaucrats and warlords. Calling socialism under which the popular masses are the masters of everything,  "totalitarianism" is ultimately a preposterous lie which identifies the most progressive idea that reflects the demands of the working masses with the reactionary idea of fascist rulers".

One of the main planks of the ideology of "Perestroika" (Restructuring) in the USSR was that the proceeding way of building of socialism had been commanding and administrative. Gorbachev and his associates launched in January 1987 at the CC CPSU plenary session launched an onslaught on "stagnation" and bureaucracy using the methods of restructuring  and openness. The standpoint of the Gorbachev leadership was to usher in so-called democratic socialism, to use the methods of "democracy" over "administrative and command ones. In the sphere of ideology, the modern revisionists employed the tactics of firstly disparaging figures like former Soviet Leaders, then Stalin and Lenin, and finally socialism itself. Glasnost gave free reign to different varieties of bourgeois ideologies. Within four years since Perestroika and Glasnost were announced and implemented, the Party and Country of Lenin and Stalin was no more.

The Gorbachevite strand of modern revisionism has clearly the theory and practice of the dictatorship of the proletariat in its sights. In reality since the 20th and 22nd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, the dictatorship of the proletariat was weakened and then destroyed. In the wake of the 20th Congress of the CPSU , the Soviet theorists came up with the conceptions of the state of the whole people and the party of the entire people, and that class struggle had ceased during "advanced socialism". Internationally the theory of peaceful co-existence was promoted as a solution to all problems. These theories advanced by the Soviet Leadership from the late 1950s- early 1960s,laid the foundations for the openly counter-revolutionary "New Way of Thinking" two decades later. The theories about the state of the state of the whole people and the end of class struggle within socialism ignored the laws of the dialectical materialism.
PRESENTATION BY Shaun Pickford ON KIM JONG IL'S WORK "THE ABUSES OF SOCIALISM ARE INTOLERABLE" PART 2



Kim Jong IL tears to pieces the assertions made by the revisionists on the question that somehow socialism is administrative and commanding. Contrary to these assertions, socialist society is a social system where the masses of the people are the masters of everything and play the decisive role in social-political administration. In socialist society democracy and centralism are organically combined.

The issue of bureaucracy is one that has plagued socialist societies. Bureaucracy is a mentality left over from feudalism and capitalism. A socialist society is a transitional one between capitalism and communism, so there are many remnants of the old social system within the new. In Eastern Europe and the USSR, a sort of chasm grew between, on the one hand, the Party and State Leadership and the civil society on the other. Kim Jong IL points out about the nature of bureaucracy;"The abuse of power and bureaucracy are products of the anti-socialist idea and expressions of anti-socialist methods. If the mass line is implemented thoroughly under the correct leadership of the working party in socialist society so that the popular masses occupy the position of masters of state and society and play their role as such to the full, it is possible to eliminate the abuse of power and bureaucracy. 

If the abuse of power and bureaucracy are allowed to grow in socialist society they will alienate the popular masses from the party and state, and the enemies of socialism will exploit it. The situation in those countries in which socialism has collapsed shows this. In every country the people demanded socialism free from the abuse of power and bureaucracy; they did not demand capitalism. What people have got as a result of the collapse of socialism is not " humane and democratic socialism" but capitalism under which exploitation, oppression and social inequality are dominant and every type of crime and social evil prevails. In those countries where socialism collapsed and capitalism was revived the abuses of power and bureaucracy have not disappeared but become institutionalized and legitimized and are socially prevalent."

Social wealth and productive relations are the bedrock of all social systems and nations. In the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, from the mid-1960s, social ownership was undermined and then during the perestroika era it was privatized. Economic reforms carried out in the USSR known as the "Liberman Reforms" on enterprises having autonomy from the centre and primary having material incentives as the key criteria of production. This generated a sort of capitalist outlook among the enterprise managers and led to the wholesale privatization of the means of production during the late 1980s-early 1990s in the USSR and then in the Russian Federation.In certain remaining socialist countries, economic activity has become dependent on joint ventures with Western big business and on capitalist methodology. 

Kim Jong IL makes the strong case in his work, that socialism cannot built by material incentives alone, but with ideological incentives as well. Material incentives are very important in socialist society, as socialism is a transitional society, Merely putting the emphasis on material incentives will have the effect of reducing the people to the frame of mind of being egoists. In those countries, which abandoned the ideological struggle and encouraged egoism, the building of the socialist economy floundered and capitalist economics was introduced. 

It is the basic task for the party and state to provide centralized and systematic guidance of the economy under socialism. An economy without guidance from the peoples states is not a socialist economy, and the society which is not based upon a socialized economy cannot be called socialist. Socialist ownership consists of state and all people ownership. Socialist relations of production enable the working people to exercise their rights as the masters of the state and society, that is to use the social wealth in their interests. If socialist ownership is dissolved and converted back into private property, social wealth and relations will be consequently held by a few,ie the bourgeoisie .

Progressive ideology must as a necessity keep abreast with contemporary events, or else it becomes irrelevant to its surroundings.Philosophy has been constantly advanced from the era of the ancient scholars and writers. It was Karl Marx who put Hegel's dialectics on a materialist basis. Marxism became the ideology of the International Working Class after the 1840s. Leninism in its turn, was the scientific socialist thought during the period of the emergence of imperialism and of proletarian revolutions and of worker & peasant states. Kim IL Sung and Kim Jong IL craved out the ideological reflection of the role and position of the working masses in the age of independence. KimILSungism-KimJongILism has been fashioned as a theory which is an expression of humanity's increasing desire for independence at the beginning of the 21st century.

In many ways dogmatism is the mirror image of modern revisionism. It is because those parties and states in the socialist camp could not find adequate answers to the questions posed by further developments in society, that these socialist countries fell into modern revisionism and counter-revolution. As a response to revisionism, some communist parties adopted dogmatism, ultra-leftism and a "class against class" position.

Kim Jong IL puts the forward the point about advancing socialist ideology "If the socialist cause is to be defended and completed, the socialist idea should be developed and perfected constantly and the popular masses should be equipped with it, so that they accept socialism as their unshakable conviction. They will keep in socialism only when they are convinced of the justness of the socialist cause. As experience shows, if we are to defend the cause of socialism and bring glory to it, the socialist idea should be perfected and the working masses armed with it so that becomes their firm conviction".

To some people, to say that to have faith in the revolutionary cause, may sound strange, but having a firm brief in socialism during the good and bad times, is extremely essential. Socialism and Communism are social systems that are constructed by the consciousness and enthusiasm of the working masses, who by the essence of those societies are the owners of everything within them. So if the leaders, ruling party and indeed the popular masses in a socialist society have little or a superficial faith in the revolution, then when they encounter difficulties and setbacks, these societies with a weak conviction in socialism will fall. A sign of how vital the conviction in socialism is, to uphold the communist cause, was when the leaderships of the USSR and Eastern Europe became hostile to the concept of socialism itself, and led counter-revolutions in the late 80s. In a small Balkan Socialist country, known for opposition to modern revisionism, the successor to the founder of the Party and State proclaimed his absolute loyalty to his predecessor's cause, at the latter's funeral. In under five years of being the party leader, this successor rejected his forerunner's legacy and bought in capitalism into that Balkan nation, all because the successor's faith and will were feeble.

Kim Jong IL puts the question of revolutionary faith into perspective with this passage"Moreover, we should see to it that the people have unshakable faith in socialism and regard it as their moral duty to defend it. The political and ethical cohesion of the popular masses can only be lasting when socialist ethics is fully prevalent. Socialism strikes deep root in actual life when socialist ethics based on revolutionary comradeship and obligation is established and becomes widespread. Only when this happens can the popular masses fully discharge their responsibilities and role as the masters of socialist society, build socialism successfully, firmly defend the cause of socialism and promote it, whatever the adversity."

On the social-political map today, there exists the Juche-type socialism in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. The red flag still flies in the land of Songun. The secret of the success of the durability of Korean style socialism lies in its consolidation. This strengthening of the positions of socialism was achieved by having the ideological, technical and cultural revolutions. Another important ingredient in the flourishing of socialism in the DPRK was prominence given to ideological work. Socialist society demands by its nature, a much higher level of consciousness with the ranks of the masses, the masters of socialism.  

A genuine socialist society is a collectivist one, by its very make up. For socialism to be triumphant, collectivism must become prevalent throughout all spheres of society. An intense level of collectivism has been gained in the DPRK. Peoples Korea is like one big family; with the Leader, Party, Army and People united as one socialist collective. All working people in the DPRK enjoy all the social and material benefits of socialism, such as full employment, universal health care and education at all stages, and free housing. Even at the time of the Arduous March ( a period shortages caused by the imperialist's blockage and by natural disasters in the mid-1990s), not one hospital, day care centre or school closed down. If socialist society is to reach its true potential, then the creativity and consciousness of the popular masses must be unleashed. Workplace and residential democracy in the DPRK is expressed through the Chongsong-ri method and the Taean Management system, giving the working masses a say into every decision made. Juche Korea is country which achieved a degree of social harmony and has a level of egalitarianism, unknown elsewhere in the world.

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is here twenty years after this work was published and the DPRK will be here when imperialism disappears from the surface of the Earth. Peoples Korea has withstood many challenges, including the sudden passing away of Chairman Kim Jong IL on December 17th, 2011. Rallied around the Songun Revolutionary Leadership of Kim Jong Un, the Korean people will complete the cause of socialism and communism, and achieve national reunification and global independence. The imperialists, their puppets and mercenary hegemonists have intensified their campaign to stifle and destroy Korean style socialism over the "Satellite" and "Nuclear Test" issues. Socialist Korea will once again demonstrate to friend and foe alike, its might and strength in the coming years and decades.

The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong IL made the following statement "Our socialism is unshakable, whatever the storm. This is because the single-hearted unity of the leader, the Party and the people has been realized and the people are building a new life in conformity with their independent demands under the guidance of the Party and the Leader".

Many authors, academics and politicians, whether they be reactionary or progressive, have wrestled with the questions concerning the future of socialism. Only Kim Jong IL's work "The Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" offers a concise and comprehensive analysis of socialism's prospects and destiny. I can recommend that all progressives and anti-imperialists read and study this work in its entirety .




A talk delivered on the work "The Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" by Shaun Pickford, the Secretary-General of the Juche Idea Study Group of Britain, on February 16th 2013 (Juche 102). Shaun Pickford has travelled to the DPRK five times and has authored many articles on the DPRK & the Juche Idea.

( All quotations used in the talks were from "The Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" carried in the anthology "For The Victory of the Socialist Cause", published Pyongyang, Korea 1999 Juche 88.

Speech made to the February 16th meeting of the ASSPUK and JISGE by Dermot Hudson President of the ASSPUK and Chairman JISGE

Comrades and friends
Today February 16th is the 71st anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the sun of Songun . It is rightfully celebrated as the day of the Shining Star by the Korean people and the progressive and revolutionary peoples of the entire world. Today when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea faces unprecedented threats from US and world imperialism it becomes ever more important for Juche idea and Songun idea followers to uphold this occasion. Marking the birth anniversary of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is an act of positive solidarity with the DPRK in its struggle against US imperialism .
Today the DPRK is one of the few countries in the world that it is not a member of the IMF, World Bank or World Trade Organisation . It does not have a foreign owned or privately owned central bank . Moreover it does not have any foreign troops stationed on its soil and does not take orders from other countries , as has been demonstrated recently. This is the proud legacy of leader Kim Jong Il and why we uphold his birth anniversary The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was born the son of guerrillas on snows-wept Mt Paektu during the anti-Japanese war . As a young boy he witnessed the the barbarous action of the US imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War of the early 1950s. The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il resolved to fight imperialism to the very end as well as to treasure even a single blade of grass in the country and to make Korea mighty and prosperous. His successor dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un wrote of him
The General was a peerless patriot; he loved his country and fellow people more ardently than anybody else, and devoted his whole life to achieving the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people, thus performing imperishable exploits that are etched in the history of the country.”
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was the loyal successor to the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung the father of socialist Korea. Comrade Kim Jong Il began his Songun revolutionary leadership in August 1960 with his visit to the the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su no 105 tank division of the Korean People's Army and began guiding the work of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1964 when he began his work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il ensured that the road of Juche was firmly adhered. He smashed the attempts of the opportunists,counter-revolutionary anti-party factionalists and revisionists to derail the unity of the party making it ever more steel like and monolithic. He wrote many works exposing and criticising modern revisionism and imperialism notably “Characteristics of Modern Imperialism and its aggressive nature”. He wrote
Modern imperialism is imperialism based not merely on monopolistic domination but whose political and economic basis is state-controlled monopolistic capitalism, depending not on old colonialism but on neo-colonialism. existing not in parallel with each other but reorganized in subordinate relation with US imperialism as the ringleader, and not growing in strength but making a last-ditch effort even while declining rapidly to its downfall."
Later on referring to the corrosive role of revisionism in literature he said
Conventional revisionists played the role of a guide for introducing bourgeois literature invisibly under the guise of socialism, whereas modern revisionists have revealed their true colours, openly claiming bourgeois restoration and opening the door to the imperialists.
The so-called “supraclass literature” and “cosmopolitan literature” the revisionists advocate in an attempt to paralyze the social function of literature as a weapon of the class struggle is merely a smokescreen to hide their reactionary nature of betraying the interests of the working class.
Comrade Kim Jong Il worked hard to develop and enhance the Juche idea , the guiding idea of the Korean revolution . He ensured its purity and comprehensively systematised the Juche idea in his famous work "ON THE JUCHE IDEA ". In the work he analyzed and explained the Juche idea in depth. Whilst emphasing the profound philosophical nature of the Juche idea he never lost sight of it revolutionary nature and relationship to socialist construction in Korea and the world revolutionary process ;
The Juche idea has led the revolution and construction straight along the new road which had never been trodden by others before. The Korean revolution has paved an absolutely correct path for national liberation in a colony and opened a short cut to socialism. It has created a best socialist new life which the world’s people call a “model of socialism”, and is successfully pioneering the untrodden path to socialism and communism. Because the Juche idea illuminates the way, we have been able to advance along the shortest route and thus achieve in a brief period of time a great victory in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and socialism, a success which is amazing to the world.

The Juche idea has become a solemn reality in our country. The history-making changes and great creations worked out by our people are precious fruit of this idea. Very proud and honoured by the brilliant victory and results attained under the banner of the Juche idea, our people are now struggling for the historic cause of transforming the whole society in accordance with this idea.

Because it reflects the common aspiration of the world’s people to independence, the Juche idea is exerting a great influence on the contemporary revolutionary movements to build a new world of independence


This work powerfully inspired the world's people in their struggle for independence and liberation.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il smashed the anti-socialist offensive of the imperialists, modern revisionists and renegades of socialism in the early 1990s. He militantly declared "Socialism Is a Science " and "expect no change from me". He wrote a number of powerful works which such as “Our Socialism Centred On the Popular Masses Shall Not Perish"Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable", “ and " On Giving Priority to Ideological Work Is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism ". Under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the DPRK held high the red banner of socialism defying all challenges from the imperialists and others. The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il held no illusions about imperialism he said as follows
We are now defending socialism and conducting the revolution and construction in direct confrontation with US imperialism. We are waging what could be called a war without gunfire. We should get ready to wage a bloody struggle should the enemy attack us, and we must win the fight against the US imperialists by any means
We must entertain no illusions about US imperialism. We must not make concessions or retreat in the confrontation with the US imperialists, but set our face against them.”
Comrade Kim Jong Il developed the Songun idea, an embodiment of the Juche idea initiated by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. When the US imperialists and world imperialist forces conspired to crush Korean-style socialism when the DPRK faced difficulties owing to the frustration of socialism in some countries and consecutive natural disasters the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il brilliantly administered Songun politics thus winning the war without gunshots against the US imperialists. He built the DPRK into a socialist military power of Juche with its own nuclear deterrent .


Thank you for listening.

Wednesday 20 February 2013

Nuclear Test, Part of DPRK's Substantial Countermeasures to Defend Its Sovereignty: KCNA Commentary


    Pyongyang, February 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's third nuclear test was part of its substantial countermeasures for defending its security and sovereignty to cope with the vicious hostile actions of the U.S.
    It was a full-fledged exercise of the country's sovereignty as the test demonstrated the will and potentials of Songun Korea to stand against the brigandish action of the U.S., which wantonly encroached upon even the right of a sovereign state to launch satellite for peaceful purposes.
    The U.S., however, portraying it as a "challenge" to the international community, has stepped up hostile actions.
    The U.S. stepped-up hostile actions prove that the DPRK's option and reaction were quite just, and only harden the will to counter tough action with toughest action.
    This is the truth proved by the history of the DPRK-U.S. relations and confrontation.
    As known, no nation has directly been exposed to the U.S. nuclear threat for such a long time in the world as the Korean nation.
    Proceeding from this, the DPRK proposed establishing a peace zone free from A-bombs in Asia in 1959 after the war and has made every possible effort for decades to realize the proposal.
    To this end, it has worked hard for dialogue including bilateral and multilateral talks with the U.S. and countries concerned and made positive efforts by dint of international law including its accession to NPT.
    But the U.S. hostile policy and strategy for nuclear blackmail aimed to swallow up the whole of Korea at any cost, prompted by the advantageous topographical features of the Korean Peninsula, have been systematically intensified in all fields century after century.
    This proved that the efforts through dialogue and by dint of international law will all end up in smoke as long as the U.S. hostile policy and threat of a nuclear war continue.
    The DPRK has been put in the "list of preemptive nuclear attack" amid the state of physical showdown with the U.S., the biggest nuclear weapons state and the only nuclear war criminal state, which has long persisted. Defending the sovereignty of the country under such situation was not an issue which could be settled with words or appeals.
    The ceaseless nuclear blackmail and sanctions racket kicked up by the U.S. gravely threatening the DPRK's right to self-determination and development and even its vital right required a solution to them.
    Therefore, what the DPRK finally opted was the strategic resolution to react to nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons.
    The tragic consequences in those countries which abandoned halfway their nuclear programs, yielding to the high-handed practices and pressure of the U.S. in recent years, clearly prove that the DPRK was very far-sighted and just when it made the option. They also teach the truth that the U.S. nuclear blackmail should be countered with substantial countermeasures, not with compromise or retreat.
    The resolute stand of the DPRK that it will take tougher countermeasures in succession if the U.S. goes hostile to it is based on the present-day's stark situation and the historical lesson.
    The DPRK's substantial countermeasures based on justice and truth will continue till it wins a final victory. -0-

Statement of the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA on Japanese anti Chongryon, anti DPRK moves.


ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK 
 http://www.uk-songun.com/index.php email juche007@yahoo.co.uk


                                 London 20th of February Juche 102(2013) 
 The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK, the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the UK Korean Friendship Association issued the following joint statement denouncing the so -called "additional sanctions"

The Japanese reactionaries who dream of reviving the "Greater East  co-Prosperity Sphere(the Japanese Empire) used the third Nuclear test of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as an opportunity to sharpen their own "sanctions" against the DPRK even more.  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in a "Declaration" on 12 February that the vice chairman of Chongryon be prevented from re-entering Japan if they have made a home visit to the DPRK.This is monstrous aggression and terrorism against the Chongryon was justified by the  absurd claim that the Chongryon Vice Chairman "the North Korean authorities, acting as its members help" would.On 14 February, an official of the local Chongryon organization of Kyoto was arrested on the flimsy pretext of arbitrary and "violation of foreign exchange law."The ultra-reactionary Abe clique mobilized even a mob of fascist hooligans who went to Chongryon Central Hall in Tokyo and yelled deeply racist malicious slogans like "Koreans disappear from Japan"  and that the nuclear test of the DPRK as a "threat to world peace" slandered. Chongryon is a dignified Overseas Koreans organization that defends the democratic and national rights of Koreans living in Japan.The suppression of Chongryon by the Japanese reactionaries is an unacceptable, outrageous and criminal act of aggression against the DPRK, whose citizens are the Chongryon members, and a violation of human rights of Koreans living in Japan.
 Our  organizations strongly condemn  and denounce the criminal acts of terror and harassment of the Japanese fascist reactionaries. We call for the progressive people of the UK to campaign in support of Chongryon.

ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

Ireland Juche-Songun Ideas Study Group supports DPRK third nuclear test

Ireland Juche-Songun Ideas Study Group supports DPRK third nuclear test

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20/02/2013 Juche 102
The Ireland Juche-Songun Ideas Study Group lauds the successful third nuclear test carried out by the DPRK earlier this month. Such an experiment displays, without the slightest ambiguity, the readiness and ability of the DPRK to protect her people from the cancer of imperialism.
The very real threat posed to the DPRK and her people by US imperialism on the Korean Peninsula warrants a solid response from the DPRK. The recent attacks and sanctions on The DPRK, as a punishment for the DPRK pursuing its sovereign right to peaceful space exploration, displays the desperate nature of US hostilities towards the DPRK.
Standing alone as the primary combatant to imperialism today, the DPRK has proven to the world that there is still one nation ready to resist US imperialism. The actions of the DPRK, in carrying out a controlled and scientific nuclear test, inform the rest of the world that The DPRK is not willing to accept illegitimate terms put forward by the US regime. The tests, a reply to the constant intimidation of The DPRK and her people by the US, are a safe experiment on the road to developing a nuclear deterrent.
The DPRK are developing nuclear capabilities as a defensive measure against the subversive, under-handed tricks of the US regime. The puppet leadership in South Korea is happy to facilitate the US war machine. They are quiet happy to invite a US military presence onto the Korean Peninsula and use such a presence as an antagonism towards The DPRK. The actions of the Seoul government has been treacherous, their support for US war criminals and invaders has put the lives of the people of the DPRK in danger. The government in Pyongyang have sent a clear message through developing this nuclear deterrent, that they are willing and prepared to defend their people at any cost.
The Ireland Juche-Songun Ideas Study Group calls for an immediate halt to US intimidation of the DPRK through illegal sanctions and measures. The IJSISG stands firmly with the DPRK and her people in the defence of her nation against US imperialists. We support the nuclear tests carried out this month and support future similar developments which will seek to defend the people of the DPRK against imperialism.

Report of Meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of England and Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK held on the 16th of February

A meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK  was held on the 16th February in central London.  The meeting was attended by members of the Juche Idea Study Group of England, Association for the Study of Songun Poltics UK and the UK Korean Friendship Association . People from all walks of life attended the meeting including members of the New Communist Party , the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and supporters of the the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition.
The meeting began 1-30pm. The immortal revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Jong Il " was played to start the meeting.

Chairman of the JISGE and president of the ASSPUK  opened the  meeting. He said that today is the 71st anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. This is also the first meeting organised by a Juche Idea Study Group since the Nuclear Test conducted on the 12th of February (members of the audience broke into stormy applause). The chairman  then read out a presentation on the revolutionary activities of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il he said(excerpts)

"Today February 16th is the 71st anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the sun of Songun . It is rightfully celebrated as the day of the Shining Star by the Korean people and the progressive and revolutionary peoples of the entire world. Today when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea faces unprecedented threats from US and world imperialism it becomes ever more important for Juche idea and Songun idea followers to uphold this occasion. Marking the birth anniversary of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is an act of positive solidarity with the DPRK in its struggle against US imperialism .
Today the DPRK is one of the few countries in the world that it is not a member of the IMF, World Bank or World Trade Organisation . It does not have a foreign owned or privately owned central bank . Moreover it does not have any foreign troops stationed on its soil and does not take orders from other countries , as has been demonstrated recently. This is the proud legacy of leader Kim Jong Il and why we uphold his birth anniversary.

The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was born the son of guerrillas on snows-wept Mt Paektu during the anti-Japanese war . As a young boy he witnessed the the barbarous action of the US imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War of the early 1950s. The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il resolved to fight imperialism to the very end as well as to treasure even a single blade of grass in the country and to make Korea mighty and prosperous. His successor dear
respected Marshal Kim Jong Un wrote of him
The General was a peerless patriot; he loved his country and fellow people more ardently than anybody else, and devoted his whole life to achieving the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people, thus performing imperishable exploits that are etched in the history of the country.”
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il not only held high the red flag of socialism showing determined resilience whilst defending the DPRK's sovereignty by the dint of Songun politics but he also led the people in the struggle to build a thriving socialist country and a people's paradise. He was always on the road of on-the spot guidance mixing with the people.

We remember the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the anniversary of his birth for manifold and excellent ideological and theoretical achievements as well his role as a great people's leader and constructor of socialism.
Today the Korean people under the guidance of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un hold the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il in high esteem as they complete the Juche revolutionary cause. Under Marshal Kim Jong Un the Korean people will advance along the road of independence, Songun and socialism charted by the great leaders comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and win final victory.

Members of the audience said that the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il held firm to socialist principles and made sure that the DPRK keep to the road of socialism Next  the secretary general of the Juche Idea Study Group spoke about the immortal classic work "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable", He said that this work was written after the collapse of socialism in a number of countries. It will be the 20th anniversary of the work on the 2nd of March this year.  It was a brave work that refuted the slanders of the imperialists and reactionaries against socialism and the socialist idea.  Spokesman of the imperialist such as the reactionary Francis Fukuyama even noisily proclaimed that end of history . The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il  explained that
"
The claim that socialism is “totalitarian”, “barracks-like” and “administrative and commanding” is not in essence different from the pernicious anti-socialist propaganda which the imperialists have conducted since the first appearance of socialism in the world. The imperialists have always said that socialism is an inhuman society in which there is not freedom or democracy. The terms “totalitarian”, “barracks-like” and “administrative and commanding” are a repetition of the imperialists’ false propaganda against socialism that uses new words."
The speaker  said that the slander about totalitarianism was first made by  the reactionary Karl Popper .  He also said that the USSR had collapsed due to revisionism which started . This work of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il exposes revisionism and opportunism. Moreover despite the challenges posed by the intensification of the moves of the imperialists to stifle Korean style socialism the DPRK held firm. During the period of the "arduous march " in the DPRK not one hospital or school closed down (stormy applause from audience).
                         That although the work was written 20 years ago it had stood the test of time.
A member of the audience said that he had read the "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" and it is a very good work which everyone should read.

The president of the ASSPUK spoke about the DPRK's nuclear test and US imperialism's unceasing provocations and pressure against the DPRK. He said that the nuclear test was a just self-defensive measure. Since the Soviet Union first launched Sputnik 1 years ago 9000 satellites have been launched . None of them were discussed by the  UN Security Council and none of them resulted in sanctions.
               A member of the audience said that the imperialist media admit that sanctions against the DPRK are useless. The chairman pointed out that the DPRK 's economy grew at a fast rate of nearly 40% in the 1950s when it was under conditions of near total economic blockade by the West. The DPRK's independent national economy makes it invincible.
Many useful suggestions were made to actively expand and develop solidarity with the DPRK including new creative ways. the secretary general of the JISGE stressed the need for a more vigorous expose of the south Korean puppet regime . He said it is a big violator of human rights and labour rights. The chairman of the JISGE said pro reunification patriot Mr Ro Su Hui had been jailed for 4 years and we must campaign for his release. A member of the audience said that we should never lose sight of the sacred goal of reunification.
               2 messages to the dear respected leader Marshal Kim Jong Un were adopted.
Literature from the DPRK was on show  and also a picture exhibition. Militant anti-imperialist music from the DPRK such as "Peace is On Our Bayonets ", "Death to the US imperialists " and "Korea is One " was played. Refreshments including tea and coffee, sandwiches, sausage rolls and biscuits were served.

"US Flag is burning all over the world!" North Korean Video

The New Worker on the DPRK Nuclear Test

A test for peace

DEMOCRATIC Korea conducted a third underground nuclear test this week. The atomic test was conducted safely to ensure that there was no adverse effect to the surrounding ecological environment. The development of the DPR Korea’s independent nuclear deterrent is part of a series of practical measures to defend the security and sovereignty of the DPR Korea in the face of the economic and diplomatic offensive by US imperialism and its venal allies and lackeys to deny the independent right of the DPRK to pursue space exploration.
Communists all over the world have joined the Korean people in the free north, the occupied south of the country and the overseas communities in congratulating the latest achievement of Democratic Korean science and technology. But the prospect of a free and independent DPRK has provoked the usual hypocritical bleating from the imperialist camp and those who clearly should know better than to condemn north Korea for doing what they have already done themselves.
Had US imperialism honoured the agreements struck between great leader Kim Il Sung and the Clinton administration in the 1990s none of this would have happened. But the Americans chose to double-cross the DPRK and now they must pay for the inevitable consequences for their duplicity.
The Americans, who used atomic bombs to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War, are the last to talk about peace and disarmament. They have conducted over a thousand nuclear tests of their own and they possess a nuclear arsenal that could destroy the world several times over.
The imperialists, whose legions straddle the world they exploit, plunder and oppress, have no right to condemn anyone for taking steps to defend their own independence. Democratic Korea threatens no one but its enemies are close by. United States nuclear-armed warships are stationed off the Korean coast and thousands of US troops are in the south of Korea as well as in Japan.
Democratic Korea has never invaded another country nor does it seek to do so. The imperialists destroyed Yugoslavia. Imperialist troops and their pawns have invaded Iraq and Libya. Their troops fight on in Afghanistan and Mali and their agents foment the civil strife in Syria. In the Middle East America’s chief lackey, Israel, maintains a brutal occupation on the West Bank of occupied Palestine while the Americans’ other willing tools, the feudal Arab oil princes, use their money to destabilise Syria to make the region safe for the big oil corporations and the vultures from the World Bank and the IMF.
Democratic Korea is committed to the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula and it has pledged never to be the first to use nuclear weapons.
The DPRK has had no choice but to develop its nuclear energy programme and its own independent nuclear deterrent. The DPRK threatens no one. The US wants to perpetuate the division of Korea and ultimately to extinguish socialism in the Korean peninsula. That will not happen. The New Communist Party fully stands by the DPRK and condemns the imperialist aims and threats.

Monday 18 February 2013

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ASSPUK , JISGE and UK KFA blast EU anti DPRK sanctions

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
http://www.uk-songun.com/index.php email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

London 18th of February Juche 102 (2013)

The ASSPUK, Juche Idea Study Group of England and UK Korean Friendship Association issued the following joint statement on the sanctions imposed by the

European Union on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

                       This has been done under the false pretext of the DPRK's nuclear test . However the DPRK's nuclear test was a purely self-defensive measure in response the hostility and interference of the US imperialists and their marionette the UN Security Council who took the unprecedented and extreme step of interfering in the DPRK's independent right to space exploration .
                        The European Union (which has long been distrusted and resented by the independence minded and progressive people of the UK) is acting as a Trojan horse for US imperialism, in fact even as a sort of shock brigade for US imperialism. The draconian sanctions imposed on the DPRK by the EU have nothing to do with the nuclear test but everything or even the launch of theKwangmysong3-2 but have everything to do with interfering in the DPRK and trying to undermine and stifle the people-centred socialist system of Juche in the DPRK.

However the reactionary imperialist bosses of the EU should know that no sanctions can ever break the DPRK because of the independent national economy based on the Juche idea. The DPRK does not need imperialist banks, it can develop rapidly on own its resources as the launch of the Kwangmysong3-2 proves.

The EU sanctions will fail and the world will witness the power of the Juche economy of self-reliance.
ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

UK KFA Statement on the hostile policy of the British government to the DPRK

UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

                 London 18th of February 2013

The UK Korean Friendship Association in a statement issued today condemning the hostile and unfriendly attitude to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by the reactionary British government.

                       The British government initially took the extreme and unprecedented step of interfering in the DPRK's space by condemning the launch of the Kwangmysong 3-2 by the DPRK on the 12th of December even calling the DPRK ambassador the FCO . Then the UK voted in the UNSC to apply sanctions on the DPRK for launching the Kwangmysong 3-2 . It is not the business of the UK government whether the  DPRK launches satellites or not and the UK has never challenged or crticised any other country. This a hypocritical and one-sided policy .
                            Not content with that the British government took a very hostile policy to the DPRK's self defensive nuclear test on February 12th. The test was the demand of the Korean people and a just measure to defend the sovereignty of the DPRK however the British government took a most reactionary policy at the instigation of the US.  Certain figures of the British government went on television to attack the DPRK's nuclear test and an arrogant imperialist attitude towards the DPRK was taken. This was hypocritical as Britain carried out nuclear tests in the past . Also the British government has never criticised the US  for carrying out nuclear tests.
                                 Instead joining the US inspired hysterical clamour against the DPRK Britain should pursue an independent policy and respect the independence and sovereignty of the DPRK.   The British government must break with the hostile anti-DPRK policies and not repeat the tragic past history which included British troops acting as mercenaries for US imperialism in the past Korean war. This action in fighting against the Korean people , holding back reunification brought shame and dishonour on the UK.

UK KFA

Friday 15 February 2013

Ireland KFA Statement on the Day of the Shining Star

On this the occasion of the Dear Leader's birthday KFA Ireland would like to pay tribute to the heroic exploits of Kim Jong-il. The 16thof February marks the 72nd birthday of one of the most courageous and brilliant leaders our world has known. Throughout his life, a life devoted to the service of his country and its people, the Dear Leader selflessly laboured for the causes of Sovereignty, Socialism and Unification on the Korean Peninsula.

While learning from the Great Leader Kim il-Sung, the founder of the Democratic People?s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-il studied the philosophy of Juche diligently and developed a strong understanding not only of political theory, but also how that theory could be applied to help the workers of his country. Through his brilliant understanding of theory, through his study of socialism and Juche, Kim Jong-il understood and further developed the revolutionary theory that guides the DPRK.

The Dear Leader was also a faithful servant and worker for the Workers Party of Korea. He drove the party forward and kept it strong. He understood that the party must be a revolutionary one, one that rejected the malignancy that is revision. He was a lifelong fighter for the cause of the WPK and its Juche ideals.

The Dear Leader though also knew the importance of a leader being in constant contact with his people. Kim Jong-il struggled alongside his people and made constant field visits to see how the practices of the leadership of the DPRK were benefiting the people. He lived to improve the lives of his people and their happiness and comfort was paramount in his mind.

Upon the death of his father, the Great Leader and Eternal President Kim il-Sung, Kim Jong-il took a country suffering the loss of a father-like leader and helped heal the wounds of loss. With his genius leadership he continued the cause of Juche and carried on the work of the Great Leader. While carrying forward the great socialist traditions of Kim il-Sung he also strengthened the military as a means of defending the DPRK against Yankee imperialists and the aggressive puppets in Seoul.

As chairman of the National Defence Commission, Kim Jong-il conducted the forces responsible for the security of the country. He ensured that the Western imperialism that has for decades threatened the security of the DPRK was kept at bay. He continued the work of building a strong and efficient military force to defend the people of his country.

As a selfless leader and servant of his nation, his people, his party and his ideals, Kim Jong-il was a hero to all those around the world who live under the tyranny of capitalism or in the chains of imperialism. His message resonates throughout the world and inspires both young and old minds on every continent. In our country, a country living partitioned by imperialism and under the slavery of capitalism, we look now to Kim Jong-il and his great contribution to freedom and revolution. He is a hero to all those who are cold, hungry or living in slavery. His undying spirit shall continue to be a source of great inspiration to all for all eternity.


Antoin Flecher
Official KFA Delegate for Ireland

Hysteria runs riot

The anti DPRK racket has really gone wild what with the Tory ruling class of British imperialism trying to lecture the DPRK and now apparently British diplomats are planning to boycott the celebrations in Pyongyang tomorrow- this is a hostile act and an insult. The EU is imposing their own "sanctions". Australia has banned DPRK diplomats from entering. The south Korean fascist puppets are screaming for different sanctions including "military actions". Meanwhile they have foolishly showed off a missile which they made various outlandish claims for . Well they would never get the chance to fire it in the first place, the idiots . The hysteria kicked is similar to the old Cold War and actually goes beyond it in some respects.

DPRK country of true independence

Today the DPRK is one of the few countries in the world that it is not a member of the IMF, World Bank or World Trade Organisation . It does not have a foreign owned or privately owned central bank . Moreover it does have any foreign troops stationed on its soil and does not take orders from other countries , as has been demonstrated recently by the launch of the Kwangmysong 3-2 satellite and the successful nuclear test.

Meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the British Association for the Study of Songun Policy February 16th

Meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the British Association for the Study of Songun Policy February 16th
  • 71st anniversary of the birth of the great leader Chairman Kim Jong Il
  • 20th anniversary of the publication of the "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable
  • 10th anniversary of the publication of The Songun-based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-victorious Banner of Our Revolution.
  • Defend the DPRK against US and UNSC threats and sanctions !
  • Support the DPRK Nuclear Test !
Venue details on request from juche007@yahoo.co.uk or Juche London on Facebook

All friends of the DPRK are urged to come and show their support for the DPRK against the US imperialists" -smash the sanctions  Defend the DPRK
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Thursday 14 February 2013

UK KFA STATEMENT ON THE 71ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL

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UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
                   London 15th of February 2013

               The UK Korean Friendship Association issued the following statement on the 71st anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.
 Our association salutes the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on the anniversary of his birth, February 16th . The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was not only the great leader of the Korean people, who served them over many decades, but also a great fighter for independence . He was the architect of the era of independence . Comrade Kim Jong Il made great contributions to the cause of independence of the world's people in both practice and theory.

In practice he built up the DPRK as a sublime model of independence. The US imperialists fear and hate the DPRK so much because of the example it shows to the people of the world. Over the last 20 or so years the US imperialists have become more pronounced in their efforts to dominate the world , to create a Unipolar world , a so-called “New World Order “. Many countries have fallen victim to the US , others including some big countries have given in to it. However the one country that hasn't is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The DPRK has always been known for its sturdy independence , this is based on the Juche idea created by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung which was further developed by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. The Juche idea stipulates independence, self-sufficiency and self-defence as the principles to be adhered to in building a country.

In the 1990s when the US imperialists arrogantly announced their “New World Order” project they turned their attention to the DPRK putting forward all sorts of measures and stratagems to isolate , stifle and crush it most notably the so-called “nuclear issue” . The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il who had been elected as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK resolutely met their challenges head on. On March 9th 1993 he ordered the Korean People's Army on to a state of semi-war and then on March 12th the DPRK announced its intention to withdraw from the one-sided and reactionary “Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty”. These were blows that shook the US and other imperialists rigid. No other country had withdrawn from the NPT !This showed the iron-will of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il in defending the independence of the DPRK.
When the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung passed away and the DPRK was hit by natural disasters the imperialists foolishly hoped that the DPRK would “open up” and “reform” and become subservient to imperialism . However the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il declared “Expect No Change from me”. A US imperialist army helicopter that strayed into the territory of the DPRK was shot down on December 17th 1994. This demonstrated that the DPRK under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il would not tolerate any infringement of its sovereignty.

Today the DPRK is probably the only country in the world that is not a member of the IMF, World Bank and WTO. It is a country that says and does what it likes . Defying the US imperialists and big powers ,under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un ,it recently launched the Kwangmysong 3-2 on December 12th 2012 and has conducted a nuclear test . Thus the DPRK is the most independent country in the world , a legacy bequeathed by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.
                    Comrade Kim Jong Il was a great people's leader who put his heart and soul into building up the   DPRK as people's land of bliss . Thanks to his leadership the Korean people enjoy great benefits such as free education, free healthcare and virtually free housing.
                                        The achievements of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il are carried forward by the dear respected leader Marshal Kim Jong Un. 
Our UK KFA remembers the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on the day of his birth for his great achivements.

UK KFA