BGSJI and KFA UK on the 79th anniversary of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League

 

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

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London 17th  January 2025
The  British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI),and the Korean Friendship Association of UK ( KFA UK) issued the following statement on the 79th anniversary of the foundation of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League;

The Socialist Patriotic Youth League has traversed the proud road of the Juche-orientated militant youth league. It was founded on the 17th of January  1946 as the  Democratic Youth League of Korea and subsequently became the  League of Socialist Working Youth in 1964 to reflect the realities of the new socialist Korea in which capitalism had been liquidated and young people had become socialist working youth. On the 50th anniversary of its foundation in January 1996, the League of Socialist Working Youth became the KIM IL SUNG Socialist Youth League in order as a mark of respect for the great leader President KIM IL SUNG the eternal leader of the Korean revolution and father of the youth of Korea. On August 28th  2016 the KIM IL SUNG Socialist Youth League was renamed  Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League and in 2021 adopted the proud name of Socialist Patriotic Youth League to reflect the demands of the era.                                        

                                                   

 The  Socialist Patriotic Youth League and its predecessors the DYL, LSWY and KISSYL have always opposed revisionism and factionalism, upholding the great Juche Idea and the wise teachings of the great leaders' President KIM IL SUNG and Chairman KIM JONG IL on youth.

 The Socialist Patriotic  Youth League has always been the most reliable reserve force of the Workers Party of Korea and has ensured that the young people are the vanguard and shock brigade of socialist construction. Many massive structures in the DPRK such as the Paektusan Youth Hero Power station are associated with the feats of the heroic youth of the DPRK

Now the young people of the DPRK organised in the Socialist Patriotic Youth League are embodying the teachings of the dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN  on youth power. 

Glory to the 79th anniversary of the foundation of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League!

BGSJI

KFA UK

BGSJI and KFA UK support the press statement titled "We will contain the planned hostile military provocations and control the unstable regional situation with more thorough exercise of the right to self-defence"

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London 17th of January 2025  

The  British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI) and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK))issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of the chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ) titled "We will contain the planned hostile military provocations and control the unstable regional situation with more thorough exercise of the right to self-defence" that was published on the 17th of January ;

Since the beginning of 2025 the US imperialists and their lackeys such as Japan and the ROK  have carried out many serious military provocations against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK ) gravely undermining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and surrounding region.

For example " On January 6 and 9, the U.S. Air Force strategic reconnaissance planes flew over the Korean peninsula several times to perpetrate aerial espionage against the DPRK's strategic depth. On January 10, the 4th U.S.-ROK "nuclear consultative group" meeting was held in Washington to simulate a nuclear war drill on the Korean peninsula and an increase in the visibility of deploying U.S. strategic assets.

On Jan. 15, B-1B strategic bombers of the U.S. Air Force were deployed in the sky over the open sea near the Korean peninsula to conduct a U.S.-Japan-ROK joint air drill. On the same day, the U.S. and ROK air forces staged the first air live-shell firing drill for this year."

The US is stirring up tensions on the Korean peninsula and stoking the fires of a potential nuclear war . Last year the US and the ROK puppets carried out numerous provocative military exercises one after another despite repeated warnings from the DPRK and condemnation from the international peace movement.

The press statement of the chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK clarifies that the DPRK has the right to self-defence and will exercise it .

We support and uphold the DPRK's right to defend itself from the aggression of the US and their lackeys the ROK puppets !

US Hands Off People's Korea !
Defend People's Korea

BGSJI

KFA UK 

BGSJI and KFA UK on the 57th anniversary of the capture of the USS Pueblo by the Korean People's Army

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London 17th of January 2025  

The  British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI) and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK))issued a joint statement on the 57th anniversary of the capture of the US imperialist armed spy ship the "USS Pueblo" by the heroic Korean People's Army navy.
  The capture of the USS "Pueblo" by the navy of the Korean People's Army 57 years ago on the 23rd of January 1968 was a great blow to US imperialism
                                                
                        
                                          

  The captured ship is a symbol of victory in the anti-US, anti-imperialist struggle .The "Pueblo " is now on display at the Fatherland Liberation War Museum of the DPRK in Pyongyang . It forms the central part of the display of captured enemy weapons. It is the only US warship to be in the hands of an adversary of the US.  The ship had remained in Wonsan for many years and then in 1998 was taken to the River Taedong in Pyongyang and moored at the site where the USS General Sherman was sunk by Korean patriots led by Kim Ung U the grandfather of the great revolutionary leader President Kim Il Sung . In 2013 it was moved to the reconstructed and expanded Fatherland Liberation War Museum on the River Potong.
                              

                                                            

 Delegations of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK and the Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK have visited the "Pueblo" many times. The "Pueblo " is a graphic and substantial demonstration of US imperialism's crimes against the Korean people but at the same time, it shows the vulnerability of the US and its inevitable defeat.
 The "Pueblo " was captured 7 miles off Wonsan on the east coast of the DPRK on the 23rd of January 1968. Its crew were armed and so was the ship, as it had a machine gun mounted at the stern. A small group of KPA sailors managed to overpower over 80 US personnel and capture them.
   The US imperialists arrogantly demanded that the DPRK hand back both the ship and the crew, threatening to bomb the DPRK. The great leader President Kim Il Sung stood firm saying the DPRK would match all-out war for all-out war and that the only thing the US would get out of it was corpses and death. The modern revisionists, traitors and capitulationists who were the agents of imperialism, had also suggested the DPRK hand back the ship and its crew but the DPRK stood firm and the "USS Pueblo " is still in Pyongyang over 50 years after being captured.
 The  "Pueblo " is a living testimony to the bankruptcy of the US hostile policy towards the DPRK.
  
BGSJI
KFA UK

    

Wherein Lies the Future of Mankind?

 Wherein Lies the Future of Mankind?

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/21764

 2025.1.16.

The homeless in the United States surged by 18%, reaching the record high of 770,000 in January 2024, according to the recent report released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The report presents a full picture of the American society to the international community - its corruption and its spiritual underpinning: The rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.

European countries like France, the UK and Germany are vying with the U.S. in the number of the homeless, amounting to more than a million.

The catch-22 situation persists where one cannot get a job without permanent residence and one cannot afford a residence without wages, as was reported in detail by several foreign media.

Then what is the reason why so many people are reduced to beggars in the streets in western countries despite their much-boasted-of civilization, highly developed economy and vast wealth?

It’s because the capitalist system itself is based on extreme egoism, an anti-popular system that is meant to defend the interests of privileged minority only, without paying any heed to the rights and interests of the working majority.

Only a handful of rich people are extravagantly tasting all sorts of delicacies on the New Year downtown, while a huge number of people with no home and no money are looking up to the sky shivering with cold in search of a savior – such is the plight of the capitalist society that has no future whatsoever.

Quite the contrary, it has become a daily scene in our country that people across the country are seen on media singing and dancing at their housewarming celebrations.

Many people who grew up without even knowing what it was like to be homeless have now moved to better dwellings, more modern and larger and free of charge thanks to the socialist welfare policy.

They are now expressing their gratitude saying that they feel as if they moved to the super-luxury apartments of Kyongru-dong in the capital city of Pyongyang and that their new houses with lovely attics and balconies are more like villas, not simply apartment houses.

This naturally gains admiration of the whole world.

The happiness of our people greeting the New Year in cozy, bright and warm dwellings is an eloquent testimony to the fact that the future of mankind lies in socialism and socialism is the very ideal of people.

KCNA Commentary on U.S. Increase in Defence Budget

Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The present world is more eager for peace and stability than ever before as it has witnessed ceaseless bloody massacres and wars.

But the desire of mankind is being trampled underfoot by the U.S., the worst war state.

Shortly ago, the U.S. adopted the "national defense authorization act for fiscal 2025" envisaging the largest-ever defence budget, an increase of 8.9 billion U.S. dollars over last year's.

No one in the world believes the U.S. poor explanation that it is for the "defence of its territory" and for "countering the hostile forces the world over".

The U.S. military spending accounts for 40 percent of the total world military expenditure and is larger than the military spending of ten countries in the next rankings all put together.

Its amount will be beyond imagination, if unannounced funds, which are spent in military affairs under various pretexts, are calculated in addition to the defence expenses publicly announced by the government.

It is worth noting that such frantic arms buildup is being made in the U.S., which is not a very rich country but a "state with the largest debt" that has reached more than $35 trillion in astronomical figures.

This is neither the spending for defence nor the money for the world peace.

The U.S. is spending military funds lavishly on inciting and carrying out war, conflicts, confusion and slaughter in different parts of the world, not on defending itself, as it did in the past.

Despite the denunciation and rejection at home and abroad, it has rendered huge military aid to the Israeli murderers and Ukrainian military gangsters year after year to prolong the wars and incite bloody killings. This is the reality.

The world clearly knows how many innocent children and other people are deprived of their lives, hope and living space by the U.S. lethal weapons and how much money the U.S. arms industries are making at the cost of their blood and pain.

The U.S. has ceaselessly deployed its ultra-modern military hardware and strategic assets in the Korean peninsula and other parts of Asia-Pacific, as well as in Europe and the Middle East, sparking off a vicious cycle of tensions and arms race.

The chaotic world and worldwide upheaval are the aftermath of the U.S. persistent arms buildup.

The U.S., which emerged and has existed through aggression and massacre, is desperately spending funds on the military field, despite its worst debt crisis ever in history, to gratify its ambition for dominating the whole world by upper-hand in strength and to retain its collapsing dominant position as the "only superpower" in the world.

It is as clear as noonday that such increased military spending for this year will be directed to further escalating the danger of military conflict in the Korean peninsula and the region when the fact that the U.S. is the most reactionary state entity regarding anti-communism as an invariable state policy is taken into account.

To cope with the outrageous moves of the U.S. challenging the desire of mankind for peace and bringing instability to the world, the DPRK will further step up the bolstering of the powerful military capability for self-defence, a basic guarantee for defending the people and sovereignty, and continue to achieve great successes this year, too. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.01.17.)

조선중앙통

Press Statement of Chief of External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Friday issued the following press statement "We will contain the planned hostile military provocations and control the unstable regional situation with more thorough exercise of the right to self-defence":

From the outset of the year the U.S. and its satellites are getting evermore undisguised in their military provocations to pose a grave challenge to the security environment of the DPRK.

On January 6 and 9, the U.S. Air Force strategic reconnaissance planes flew over the Korean peninsula several times to perpetrate aerial espionage against the DPRK's strategic depth. On January 10, the 4th U.S.-ROK "nuclear consultative group" meeting was held in Washington to simulate a nuclear war drill on the Korean peninsula and an increase in the visibility of deploying U.S. strategic assets.

On Jan. 15, B-1B strategic bombers of the U.S. Air Force were deployed in the sky over the open sea near the Korean peninsula to conduct a U.S.-Japan-ROK joint air drill. On the same day, the U.S. and ROK air forces staged the first air live-shell firing drill for this year.

The U.S. political and military provocations, witnessed day after day in the Korean peninsula where huge armed forces of warring countries are on high alert and the possibility of permanent military conflict is wandering, are the direct root cause of inciting the danger of armed conflict and disturbing the regional stability.

The U.S., which spent the end of last year through the largest-ever war drills, entered the new year with military provocations involving its satellite countries. This goes to prove that it is the U.S. which has brought instability to the region, and heralds this year's development of the military and political situation in the Korean peninsula with a dangerous tendency.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry expresses serious concern over the provocations of the U.S. and its allies that add another factor of instability to the very serious tension in the Korean peninsula, and clarifies once again that the DPRK's exercise of the right to self-defence to defend the sovereign rights and security interests of the state will be conducted more intensively.

The DPRK's access to a more overwhelming war deterrent aimed at countering the U.S.-led hostile states' military threat is an essential requirement for maintaining the balance of forces on the Korean peninsula and ensuring the security of the regional situation.

As already clarified, the DPRK will strongly deter any military provocation planned by the hostile forces and firmly defend the security interests of the state and the regional peace and stability by exercising more thoroughly and perfectly the right to self-defence, pursuant to its toughest counteraction strategy. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.01.17.)

"People's Korea Today " issue 49 (January 2025)