The Korean Friendship Association of the UK together with the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea held a successful online meeting to honour the 113th anniversary of the birth of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and the 93rd anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (the forerunner of today’s Korean People’s Army ) on the 12th of April at 1500 hours BST via Skype .
Participating were members and officials of the Korean Friendship Association UK (KFA UK ) and British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea from London , Staffordshire and Scotland plus international guests from KFA Andalusia (Spain),KFA Canada , KFA Bulgaria , KFA Greece , the People’s Korea Initiative of Poland , Netherlands and the USA .
A message of greetings from comrade Alan Bolon , KFA UK Organisation Secretary and head of KFA UK West of England was given .
Dr Dermot Hudson Chairman of KFA UK and Chairman of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea made a keynote address on the subject of President KIM IL SUNG and the Juche Idea and said in part “
People’s Korea is indeed a land of miracles . In today’s meeting we will focus on what is behind these miracles ; the founder of People’s Korea ,President KIM IL SUNG and the Juche idea . The Juche Idea is the guiding ideology of the DPRK which has given birth to real and tangible achievements , it is not an abstraction.
President KIM IL SUNG was born on the 15th of April 1912 . His achievements are many and varied . It is a simple fact that without President KIM IL SUNG today Korean people would not be speaking Korean but would be speaking Japanese .
Undoubtedly , one of his greatest achievements was the creation of the Juche Idea .”
The Chairman of Staffordshire KFA UK and secretary General of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said in his presentation that President KIM IL SUNG created the Juche idea based on the ideas of Chiwon (“Aim High “) and Marxism -Leninism . The Juche idea is not an abstraction but fully reflected the demands of the popular masses . President KIM IL SUNG rejected dogmatism as well as factionalism.
The head of KFA Scotland in his speech pointed out that “ As a necessary part of winning the struggle against imperialism, comrade Kim Il Sung had to develop the field of Marxism and scientific socialism to adapt to the unique circumstances in Korea and the historical state of world socialism, including great successes but also failures, often related to ideology and revisionism. The result was the birth of the Juche philosophy and the foundations of Songun philosophy, which his successor, generalissimo Kim Jong Il, fully developed. His great work laid the path that the great leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un have followed and extended to lead the Korean nation to an incredible state of technological and cultural development despite the neverending attack by US imperialism”
Dr Hudson read out the contribution of KFA Germany which said in part “the greatest of all these revolutionaries is the great leader President KIM IL SUNG. During his youth Korea was a colony of the brutal Japanese imperialists”
The representative of KFA Canada gave a speech praising the exploits of President KIM IL SUNG.
The general secretary of KFA Greece brought the greetings of KFA Greece to the meeting and praised the DPRK’s self-reliance and the correctness of the Juche Idea advocated by President KIM IL SUNG.
The representative of KFA Andalusia (Spain) pointed out that the 13th of April is the 33rd anniversary of the award of the title of Generalissimo to President KIM IL SUNG . She praised the exploits of President KIM IL SUNG for his work in building socialism.
A Myanmarese progressive in the USA praised the DPRK and President KIM IL SUNG for maintaining revolutionary principles.
Dr Dermot Hudson made a short speech on the 93rd anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army the forerunner of today’s Korean People’s Army explaining that “ The Korean People’s Army(KPA) origins go back to the 25th of April 1932 rather than simply the 8th of February 1948 when the KPA was founded as a regular revolutionary armed force . In fact the KPA was founded as the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army , which later became the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army(KPRA ) in March 1934 , on the 25th of April by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG in Antu, Manchuria where many Koreans had been exiled to because of the harshness and barbarity of Japanese imperialist colonial rule in Korea”.
A short documentary film “Father of the People “ was shown.
The meeting concluded at 1700 hours BST
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