UK KFA Condemns stance of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on UNSC Sanctions against People's Korea!

London 25th of October  2018

The UK Korean Friendship Association today issued the following statement in response to the statement issued by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) on the 24th of October;
  Earlier this month the UNSC sanctions implementation committee slapped sanctions on 3 more ,ships including a DPRK flagged vessel , for allegedly breaching sanctions on the DPRK . On the 24th of October the UK FCO issued a statement applauding this saying that " The UK welcomes the announcement by the UN’s 1718 Committee that it has listed three vessels for engaging in sanctions evasion". The statement also added that the UK along with the US , Australia , France , Canada , New Zealand and Japan is contributing to the sanctions enforcement .The UK FCO called for a halt to all sales of refined petroleum to the DPRK !
     So basically the UK FCO is not just supporting the sanctions by is calling for what amount to a total blockade of People's Korea in order to suffocate it's socialist system .
   There have been no DPRK nuclear tests for over one year and the last missile test was nearly one year ago so there is no longer a pretext or justification to continue to impose sanctions on the DPRK . Moreover 3 inter-Korean summits have taken place and a DPRK -US Summit so that the situation on the Korean peninsula has changed radically and a new atmosphere of peace and dialogue is now
prevailing . Imposing sanctions on the DPRK is not conducive to dialogue and will only serve to
complicate the situation on the Korean peninsula.
  UK KFA has always rejected the sanctions on the DPRK . They are illegal sanctions which never had any justification in the first place and are really regime change sanctions aiming at suffocating the DPRK and destroying the socialist system.
 It is indeed shameful that the UK government is taking a stand which runs counter to the mood of peace on the Korean peninsula and can only serve to undermine moves towards  a lasting peace.
  UK KFA strongly denounces the reactionary and anachronistic  stance of the UK FCO. We call
for an end to the reactionary anti-DPRK policy of the British establishment and for the UK to
stop interfering in the Korean peninsula . All British warships deployed in the region must be
withdrawn !
HANDS OFF PEOPLE'S KOREA !
PEACE NOW !
UK KFA.