Report of UK KFA Picket -No to BBC Lies About People's Korea !

The UK Korean Friendship Association (UK KFA) held the  picket "No to BBC Lies About People's Korea !  " on the 24th of November from 1500 hours outside the BBC HQ , Broadcasting House , Portland Place , London . The picket was attended by members of the UK Korean Friendship Association ,  the Juche Idea Study Group of England , Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK , British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula as well members of the New Communist Party , Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ML and progressive members of the public.
   Dr Dermot Hudson chairman of UK KFA and the Juche Idea Study Group of England  addressed the picket saying ' The BBC, which is known to progressive people as the British Brainwashing Corporation , has consistently lied about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK). Its coverage of the DPRK is one sided and exaggerated to say the least. On several occasions BBC reporters have used tricks and subterfuges to enter the DPRK ' . Dr Hudson gave examples of lies by the BBC about the DPRK .He also pointed that the BBC in the past played an insidious role in subverting ,undermining and overthrowing the socialist countries in Eastern Europe and the USSR . Dr Hudson concluded by saying "The BBC consistently demonizes and smears the DPRK by using clichés like
“impoverished”, “totalitarian “ and “ isolated “ . Rather than being impoverished the DPRK has a rapidly growing economy, it is a people-orientated society and rather than being isolated has diplomatic relations with over a 100 countries !
The UK Korean Friendship Association believes the BBC should stop lying about the DPRK and instead produce fair, accurate and objective material about People’s Korea !"
 Messages of support from Alejandro Cao De Benos  President of KFA  , from KFASUA , from Staffordshire KFA , From KFA Netherlands and a goodwill messages from UK KFA members were read out.
  Alejandro Cao De Benos in his message said " The US Imperialism, by utilizing its money resources and puppet mass media like the BBC, is regularly organizing campaigns of defamation and creating horror stories with the aim of creating fear and rejection to Korea among the general public.
But the times of the U.S. and British media empires monopoly for mind control are coming to an end.
The rise of popular and alternative low cost media and the suffering of the regular citizen is making more and more people to question every sensationalist news coming from the mainstream press.
As more universities request us to hear about Korea directly from the source, as more and more fake news are being exposed, there is a new generation that will no longer swallow all nonsense and look to the source for information. That source is the KFA, and your help to approach Korea to the people will become more important everyday.
We, the friends of Korea, armed with a thousand reasons and direct experience more than any rotten academician paid by the CIA, will expose the imperialist propaganda with facts and force the journalists to do their right impartial work, not to be merely slaves of the capitalist big brother losing their dignity on the way."

Picketers chanted
' Down with the BBC , Defend People's Korea !
Down with the lying BBC, Defend People's Korea !
' Down  with  the imperialist BBC , long live People's Korea !
Long live People's Korea , long live the Juche Idea !
Long live Marshal Kim Jong Un !
 DPRK Flags and UK KFA banners were displaying along with placards denouncing the BBC .
Leaflets were handed out . Discussions held with passers by

Regrettably this time , the BBC did not engage with us and merely sent their security men out to take a leaflet.

Picket concluded at 1700 hours .  It was a great success