Anglo-People's Korea/Songun: Why you should support and get involved with the UK Korean Friendship Association?

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Why you should support and get involved with the UK Korean Friendship Association?

Why you should support and get involved with the UK Korean Friendship Association? Today UK KFA is the cutting edge of solidarity with People’s Korea , a true socialist state with ‘undiluted sovereignty ‘( to quote former British prime minister John Major ) and a strong national culture. We are sure that if you support People’s Korea and like its achievements like free medical care, free education , full employment and an excellent welfare system , you will be considering joining UK KFA . Below we set out the reasons why you should and also answer some common misconceptions about UK KFA.

We are genuinely pro DPRK , 100 percent . We unconditionally Defend People’s Korea and its right to existence . We are not half-hearted and faint hearted not two -faced liberals who say they support the DPRK but really want to ‘change the regime’ which really means they want to undermine socialism and Juche in the DPRK and reduce the DPRK to a pale shadow of its former self , basically opening up the way for the restoration of capitalism in the DPRK which would mean unemployment , poverty and homelessnesses just like in the former socialist countries.
We work closely with the Korean Committee For Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries which is our partner organisation in the DPRK and we also work with the Korean Association of Social Scientists , the Korea Publications Exchange Association and the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea .We also liaise with the DPRK Embassy in London.
UK KFA has a lot of expertise on the DPRK and experience in travelling to the DPRK . Our Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson has visited the DPRK 18 times and other leading members 8 times . Our UK KFA leadership has a wealth of experience . Dr Hudson himself has written over 10 books and many articles on the DPRK and has appeared on national and international television including BBC and Al Jazzera.
We are part of the worldwide international Korean Friendship Assocation www.korea-dpr.info which has thousands of members all over the world , This year alone new branches of KFA have been established in Zimbabwe , Ghana, Serbia, India , Costa Rica and other countries.KFA holds one international meeting per year.
We are proactive in supporting the DPRK . During the past year we held several meetings , some of them jointly with the Juche Idea Study Group of England . We have held meetings outside of London including in Manchester, Derby and two meetings in Glasgow. We staged 2 pickets and a very successful poster exhibition .Some organisations only support the DPRK as a tickbox exercise and in the past some DPRK friendship associations only held a meeting every 2 or 3 years .

Some Myths and Misunderstanding About UK KFA Refuted

“It only exists on the Internet /Facebook etc” . No ! , UK KFA holds meetings and events . There is also an international KFA meeting each year .
“We cannot support KFA , it is too small.'' Firstly, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy or self-perpetuating idea . If you think the UK KFA is too small then join and make it bigger , that is the answer ! , Secondly, actually UK KFA is not small , we have hundreds of members registered plus over 6,000 likes on Facebook.
‘KFA is all meetings , speeches and pickets ‘ Not true . This year we held a successful poster exhibition and a BBQ. We plan more cultural activities plus social events.
“I cannot get involved in KFA because all the meetings are in London “ . Not true we have held meetings and events in the following places ,Liverpool, Manchester , Derby , Stoke-On-Trent, Croydon and Glasgow . We plan more regional meetings and are willing to send speakers to anywhere in the country if you can get a venue.
“UK KFA is just one person/two people/ three people” . An old horse chestnut but not true . No organisation can exist with just one member ! KFA is a membership based organisation and with several officials who work as a collective .