THE RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC FILM "THE INTERVIEW" MUST BE NOT SHOWN IN UK CINEMAS
STATEMENT OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION (UK)
The Staffordshire Branch of the Korean Friendship Association (UK)
calls upon all progressive people to halt the screening of the US made
feature film "The Interview", in British cinemas and multiplexes. This
"film" cannot be described as a form of
entertainment or culture, but as an incarnation of chauvinism and
terrorism. When the peoples of the world demand peace and understanding
among nations, this film cultivates misanthropy and aggression. Every
person who desires peace and independence, should demand the
cancellation of this piece of unadulterated war propaganda from being
shown here in the UK.
To advocate the murder of a head of state
or a nation state's leadership constitutes a violation of national and
international law, as this film does. The production and distribution of
this film, constitutes an act of terrorism against a sovereign state.
The Staffordshire KFA Branch is sure that if any other country had made a
feature film depicting in graphic detail the assassination of the
British Head of State or the Head of the Government, than the UK
authorities would consider such a matter, as a breach of diplomatic
relations and a promotion of terrorism. Under current UK legislation,
the preparation and the glorification of acts of terrorism are regarded
as serious crimes.
Under pressure from progressive opinion,
the multi-national company behind this film, Sony Pictures, had the good
sense to withdraw "The Interview" from its distribution network. It is
was Barrack Obama, the Pentagon and the US Department who insisted that
this movie be propagated far and wide within the United States itself,
and in some other countries. This clearly demonstrates that this
so-called feature film was produced by the US military-industrial-media
complex as a instrument in its anti-People's Korea diatribe. The
Hollywood movie "The Interview" shares a lot of characteristics with the
racist epic "A Birth Of A Nation" and with such Nazi era films such as
"The Eternal Jew" and "Jud Suss".
The United States of America
is not so innocent a party, when engaging in acts of terror and war,
both within the North American continent and on the world stage. In its
very origin, the United States, expanded by means of terrorism and
aggression. As a result of the colonization of the continent, 10 million
native Americans were exterminated. The colonizers then kidnapped and
trafficked 20 million Africans as slave labour. After 239 years, since
the Declaration of Independence of the United States , the African
Americans and other people of colour, still suffer discrimination, as
seen in Ferguson. In the USA, a murder occurs every seven minutes and
the annual growth rate of violent crime is 12.6 per cent. Wealth and
power in the United States, has over the last thirty years, been placed
in to the hands of the one per cent, the ruling elite. Aggression and
terrorism have become a byword for US foreign policy, as seen with
recent wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan.
This feature film "The Interview" is doubly insulting to the Korean
People, as the United States has had a 70 year long history of
aggression on the Korean peninsula. It is the United States that divided
Korea into two halves, in September 1945 and today, the US perpetuates
the division of Korea, with a occupation force of 40,000 troops and a
thousand nuclear warheads, stationed in south Korea. On June 25th, 1950,
the US imperialists committed an act of terrorism, by launching an
attack on the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. During the Korean
War, the US perpetrated atrocities in Sinchon County, with a toll of
35,383 civilians murdered by the war criminals. The United States was
the wirepuller behind May 18th, 1980 massacre in Kwangju, south Korea,
which had a death toll of 5,000 civilians. These days, the US
continues to interfere into the affairs of the Korean People, for
instance, by backing the banning of the Independent Progressive Party in
south Korea. Now, on drunk on arrogance, the US Imperialists are
attempting to impose further sanctions on the DPRK over the alleged Sony
incident. The Korean People will firmly defend their gains of Korean
style socialism, by upholding the supreme revolutionary leadership and
smashing the terrorism of the imperialists.
The Staffordshire
Branch of the UK KFA urges every peace campaigner, anti-imperialist
activist, socialist and trade unionist to stop the showing of this
racist war propaganda in Britain. We call upon progressive people
everywhere to reject this nasty piece of chauvinism in the form of "The
Interview" and instead embrace friendship and solidarity with the
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and with the Korean People who only
want peace and independence.
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