Monday 27 November 2017

Report of Staffordshire and north midlands UK KFA regional meeting 25.11.17

                                                       
 
The Staffordshire branch of the UK Korean Friendship Association (UK KFA) supported by the Stoke On Trent branch of the Juche Idea Study Group of England hosted a successful meeting Staffordshire and north midlands meeting of the the UK KFA on the theme "People's Korea the true version " . This was held in a hotel in the centre of the Stoke On Trent on the 25th of November. In attendance were members of the Staffordshire KFA and UK KFA and local anti-imperialists.
 Shaun Pickford secretary of Staffordshire KFA introduced the speaker Dr Dermot Hudson chairman of UK KFA/KFA Official Delegate UK saying that
 "I wish to welcome everyone who has come along to this meeting of the Staffordshire Branch of the UK KFA. The Korean Friendship Association since its foundation in the year 2000, has expanded both its membership and its influence internationally, The KFA in Britain has grown in terms of its internet and practical activities, the UK KFA now have branches in many parts of the country. Our organisation the Korean Friendship Association is a broad based one, encompassing members of various political parties and people who are non-affiliated. We have within our ranks Trade Unionists, Peace Campaigners, and persons who are interested in travel and culture.
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Over the past year, the Trump Administration has brought the situation in Korea and the world to the brink of nuclear war. The DPRK has proposed a peaceful solution to the current crisis, only to have been met with more warmongering from the US side. North Korea wants peace and peaceful reunification, but will never surrender its independence, sovereignty and national dignity to nobody. The United States has stationed in south Korea 40,000 troops and around a thousand nuclear warheads, that is why the DPRK has been forced to develop its own nuclear deterrent. Solidarity has never been so vital as now with the just cause of the Korean people, that is to overcome the flood of lies and disinformation about the DPRK propagated by the Western Media.
Stoke On Trent, where this meeting is held today, has many proud proletarian traditions, a city where the mass democratic movement of Chartism flourish and where Fanny Deakin led the Hands Off Russia Movement, a city in which the workers in the mining and ceramic industries fought for their rights. Back in 2003, the UK KFA held a successful gathering in the city hosted by the Workers' Educational Association and I trust that this meeting will prove to b"e as equally as productive. On a pedantic note, the meeting is not being held in one of the six towns, however the event is staged in the City of Stoke On Trent as entirety"
Dr Dermot Hudson spoke saying that  " Usually the media like to talk about “North Korea “ , although in fact there are actually no such country as north Korea or indeed south Korea , Korea division’s was totally artificial, basically being imposed by the US imperialists . Before 1945 there was no geographical or physical or racial division in Korea but a US army colonel took a pencil and ruler and drew a line across the map of Korea.  This was a crime of great enormity, dividing a whole people ! In my talk I will instead refer to People’s Korea or Juche Korea (Juche being the guiding ideology of People’s Korea ) or use the initials DPRK .

  Today the DPRK is the most demonised and abused country on earth with lies about the country being produced on an industrial scale.
the DPRK is a stable and harmonious unified society based on single hearted unity so there is no terrorism and no riots. In the DPRK there is unity between the  armed forces and civilians  so people do not fear or despise the armed forces....
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The re listing of the DPRK as a so-called "state sponsor of terrorism " is an attack on the ideology and system of the DPRK . It is basically an attempt to stifle the Juche-based socialist system.
 However guided by the great Juche Idea , the Korean people do not care whether the US lists them as a "state sponsor of terrorism " or not . It will smash any additional sanctions with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the self-development first idea !
  Moreover the DPRK will more fully implement the line of developing the economy and nuclear force in parallel . The US will pay for its rash provocation of relisting the DPRK as a "state sponsor of terrorism "
It is time to take a real stand and defend People's Korea from the threat of US aggression . The US is quite openly threatening the DPRK with annihilation , with being "eliminated " from the face of the globe ."

There followed questions and discussions . Participants in the meeting said that in the DPRK there is a great respect for the armed forces . A question came up about the struggle for Korea's reunification .Dr Hudson replied that Korea's reunification can only come about when the US withdraws from south Korea . He also explained that there is the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea (AINDF)  which struggles for the independent reunficiation of Korea and is the proud successor to the Revolutionary Party for Reunification that was founded in 1969. UK KFA is proud to have fraternal relations with the Pyongyang Mission of the AINDF.

Shaun Pickford made the closing address  saying that this had been the first meeting of Staffordshire KFA and it had a big successful.

The meeting concluded with the slogans
KOREA IS ONE
LONG LIVE DEAR RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN !

An exhibition of DPRK books including the works of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG , great leader comrade KIM JONG IL and respected Marshal KIM JONG UN  along with UK KFA and JISGE publications was held.

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