Recently the US based ultra leftist website “Politsturm “ posted an article on it's Youtube channel titled “ The DPRK leadership gained access to new technologies and Russian markets in exchange for the participation of North Korean troops on Russia's side.”
This article is basically repeating imperialist talking points about the DPRK’s relationship with the Russian Federation . The DPRK’s international prestige has risen greatly in the past 3 or 4 years and the DPRK recently successfully celebrated the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea . The imperialists are desperately trying to pour cold water on this and ultra leftists like Politsturm are helping them .
The article is liberally peppered with references to imperialist and south Korea puppet sources . It seems that the ‘true believers’ of Politsturm for whom the DPRK is not pure enough are happy to resort to using imperialist and bourgeois sources !
The DPRK did not gain “ access to new technologies “ in exchange for “ participation of North Korean troops on Russia’s side “ . Firstly , the DPRK ‘s ICBM programme,its nuclear programme , and other weaponry are products of self-reliance and the DPRK’s Juche-based technology. Politsturm is just repeating the false narrative of the imperialists that the DPRK cannot make anything itself and that it is dependent on other countries . In fact the DPRK has an independent national economy capable of making anything from a wristwatch to a nuclear weapon or ICBM . Secondly , the participation of troops from the Korean People’s Army in the operation to liberate Kursk was according to the DPRK-Russian Treaty of 2024 which contained a clause that each side that can ask the other for military assistance if the other is attacked . It is about mutual assistance not the transfer of technology .Thirdly , it gave the KPA valuable combat experience in fighting US imperialist backed troops in a situation of real war ,
Politsturm betray themselves as influenced by imperialist and NATO propaganda when they refer to a “ Ukrainian counter-offensive “ What ??? . Ukraine is a neo-nazi state which tried to invade the Kursk region of the Russian Federation .Basically the DPRK by sending troops did its bit in the struggle against international fascism . Previously the KPA participated in operations in Vietnam during the Vietnam war , in Egypt and Syria in 1973 and assisted Angola and Zimbabwe .
Will Politsturm also criticise the DPRK for assisting the United Arab Republic and Syria on the grounds that these were “non-socialist states “ or arguably less socialist states ?
If you take the line of Politsturm then it would have been wrong for Stalin to have allied the USSR with imperialist Britain and imperialist USA(which were the biggest imperialist powers at the time ) during the Second World War and also wrong for the USSR to have concluded the Non Aggression pact with Nazi Germany . This is the logic of Politsturm !
Politsturm make a lot out of the presence of a delegation of the United Russia Party but there was also a delegation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . Some communists were also present as members of Juche Idea Study delegations and friendship delegations , for example an official of the All Union Communist Party of Bolshevik (Nina Andreeva ) of Belarus participated in the celebrations as a delegate of a Juche Idea Study group .
The Politsturm article ignores the complexities of the DPRK international relations . It is true that relations between the DPRK and Russia are flourishing and becoming closer but only 8 years ago the Russian Federation voted for sanctions against the DPRK in the UN Security Council . However , in recent years Russia itself has become a target of imperialism . It is natural for ant-imperialist states to co-operate and make common cause! . Surely it is a victory for the DPRK that has broken through the diplomatic blockade and established good relations with its neighbouring countries .
The DPRK is not dependent on China as Polisturm asserts.The DPRK economy has become more self-reliant since the 1990s . I can remember visiting the DPRK in the 1990s and going around the shops in those days many of the goods on the shelves were produced in China but nowadays the shops in the DPRK are stocked with domestically sourced products . A member of the Korean Friendship Association who studied on a course at KIM IL SUNG University and lived in the DPRK for 3 months said it was possible to live on DPRK products only for the whole 3 months . Moreover the DPRK this year (2020) shut its border in January but has survived without a problem for nearly 4 years . This fact alone dashes the argument that ‘the DPRK couldn’t survive without China ‘ to shreds. Please refer to the following
https://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2020/12/dprk-is-independent-and-self-reliant.html
https://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2021/03/answering-so-called-north-korean.html
https://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-china-cannot-shut-down-peoples.html
Politsturm also ignore the complexities of the DPRK-China relationship which have been detailed here
https://medium.com/@alaricus96/cats-and-bowflies-b5a35625be0f
Time does not permit a full refutation of the nonsense of Politsturm but just one more thing (as the late Lt Columbo would say ) ; unbelievably the ultra-leftists of Polistrum simultaneously attack the DPRK for being “dependent “ on Russia and China but ‘isolationist “ at the same time . It cannot be both ! Polistrum attack the new line of the DPRK on abandoning reunification even going as far to moan about cutting roads to south Korea and the demolition of the Reunification monument . These are just and revolutionary measures to protect Juche-based socialism and prevent the puppet ROK from annexing the DPRK ! Does Polisturm want the end of Juche socialism and the DPRK to be absorbed into south Korea ? Whose side are they on !
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