It is useful once again to reflect where the constant hostility to People’s Korea comes from and why the name of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is vilified 24/7 .
Much of the hostility can be explained simply as the anger of the US empire towards a country that it cannot control or dictate to . In the years of the 19th century and early 20th century , imperialists and colonialists called leaders of colonies who stood up for themselves ‘mad dogs ‘ or crazy . This idea is alive today and permeates much of the thinking about the DPRK in establishment circles . The DPRK is also hated by the mainstream media for upholding socialist principles . What gives the propaganda against the DPRK a particularly virulent and toxic nature is that anti-communism and imperialist psychosis are combined with racism and orientalism .
There is another element of the hostility towards the DPRK that needs analysis and addressing . As has been remarked on before, if you look at stories in the mainstream media about the DPRK you will notice one common factor ; many of them are sourced from south Korea . Also you find ‘Professor Blah ,Blah of Such and Such university in south Korea wheeled out to make anti-DPRK statements and fraudulent ,fake analysis .
South Korea was the place that gave the world the Kwangju massacre , it was responsible for the kidnapping of the composer Yun I Sang , the attempted murder of its future president Kim Dae Jung and the murder of south Korean communist leaders Kim Jong Tae and Choi Young Do ( but of course you will never hear liberals talking about this) . South Korea was and is a colony of the US , a puppet regime and a giant military base for the US . South Korea also sent its troops to fight in the Vietnam war on the US side . Basically , in the 1960s and 1970s south Korea was a no-no for most of the Left and many liberals . In fact there were mass demonstrations against south Korea in many countries . South Korea’s anti DPRK propaganda, which goes back to Day 1 , tended to get ignored or taken with a pinch of salt . However this began to change from the 1980s. The 1980s were a devil's decade in which many turned their faces and white became black and black became white . Some liberal academics ignored the fact that south Korea was a fascist dictatorship complete with Hitler Bars and took up teaching jobs in south Korea .The money they were paid with was stained with the blood of the south Korean people . Some British academics got funding from south Korea . Later on in the 1990s there were rumours of British Labour MPs being bribed by south Korea .
One particular act of betrayal which added fuel to the fire of anti-DPRK was the visit of the USSR president Gorbachov to south Korea in 1990 which was followed by the opening of diplomatic relations between the south Korean puppets and the USSR and a south Korea -USSR summit . At the time the daily newspaper of the Workers Party of Korea ‘ Rodong Sinmun ‘ carried an article titled ‘diplomatic relations bought and sold with dollars ‘ . The pro USSR Left in many countries dropped their guard against the south Korean puppets and swallowed the lies of the south Korean puppet regime about People’s Korea . It was later shown that Gorbachov, the traitor to socialism , had actually received a bribe of $100,000 from the south Korean puppet ruler Roh Tae Woo . Gorbachov was reviled by the people of the former USSR and people in many countries as a traitor , ‘the Judas of the 20th century ‘.
Therefore another root of anti-DPRK is the repackaging and rebranding of south Korea and liberals and some leftists falling hook , line and sinker for the lies of the pathetic puppets against People’s Korea.
Let’s reject post-modernism . liberalism and orientalism and Defend People’s Korea with No Ifs and Buts .
Dr Dermot Hudson .
KFA UK Chairman.
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