“Cheers Of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades -speech of Dr Dermot Hudson

 

 Dear comrades and friends ,

The title of this seminar “Cheers Of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades “ is very apt and relevant because the cheers of victory on July 27th 1953 in Pyongyang still echo today not just in Pyongyang but around the entire world . Today, when US led imperialism is carrying out aggression all over the world and some countries are crumbling, it is important to recall the great victory of the Korean people against US imperialism in the 1950s.

Often the imperialists like to refer to the Korean War (more correctly called the Fatherland Liberation War ) as the “unknown war “ or “forgotten war “ . The reason for this can be found in the statement of right wing US military historian Bevin Alexander , himself an officer in the US imperialist aggression forces during the war , who wrote that the Fatherland Liberation War was the “first war we lost”. The infamous reactionary senator JR McCarthy said that ““we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “.

The Fatherland Liberation War or Korean War was the first time that a socialist country was involved a full scale war against US imperialism and world imperialism.The US imperialists not only threw their own armed forces into the war but those of the south Korean puppets , 15 of their satellite countries,including to my shame , the UK , and even the Japanese militarists who fought in Korea in secret wearing the uniforms of the south Korean puppet army . In some ways the Fatherland Liberation War was like a world war.The Fatherland Liberation War was an anti-imperialist struggle against the international forces of reaction headed by US imperialism , a class struggle , a war to defend socialism and a war for national liberation.

The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials.  In fact 73 million tons of war materials  were used in the war .The war raged on until July 27th 1953 when the US kneeled down and signed the Armistice Agreement.

Originally the ROK puppets had boasted that they would have “breakfast at Haeju ,lunch in Pyongyang and dinner in Sinuji “ . However the invading ROK puppet forces were routed and the ROK puppet army collapsed . Instead Seoul, the capital of the puppet ROK  was liberated on the 28th of June .In the first stage of the war the Korean People's Army liberated 90 percent of the territory of south Korea and 92 per cent  of the population.A truly remarkable accomplishment that was achieved by the self-reliant revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea under the command of the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG.

During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces, and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over 12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and armoured vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces of various types. The loss suffered by the US imperialists was nearly 2.3 times greater than what they had suffered in the four years of the Pacific War during World War II. Even official US statistics showed during each of the three years of the Korean War they lost double  the number of troops lost in each year of the Vietnam war. Later comrade KIM IL SUNG declared that “In this great struggle our people fought determinedly as one in mind under the correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominious defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs”

 Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN  said that the Fatherland Liberation War  “was a military miracle unprecedented in the war history of mankind and a great feat of historical significance never seen before in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years”.

The Fatherland Liberation War ended in victory due to the Juche orientated military tactics and Juche-orientated military thought of the great leader supreme commander generalissimo KIM IL SUNG and the sublime heroism of the KPA. The myth of US invincibility was smashed to smithereens in the Fatherland Liberation War.  The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War inspired national liberation and revolutionary movements all over the world to struggle against the colonial system of the US-led imperialists bringing about an era of decline for  US imperialism, an era of anti -imperialism . US imperialism's defeat in Korea preceded its defeat in Vietnam and elsewhere. The Korean people's victory in the Fatherland liberation war was a great contribution to the world revolutionary movement as it showed that US imperialism could be stopped in its tracks and beaten.

Dr Dermot Hudson

Secretary General ERCFKP

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Korea's Great Fatherland Liberation War is the Model for antiimperialist and national liberation struggle-Martin Lotscher KFA Switzerland -Swiss Korea Committee

 

July 27 of this year marks the 73rd anniversary of the Korean people's historic victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War.

Three hard years fought the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA), guided by the great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, against the US imperialists and their 15 satellite armies which had attacked the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on June 25, 1950.

Korea is a small country, and the United States are a territorial giant.

The US imperialists in their superpower arrogance thought that it will be easy to force the "little" Korea to knees.

The US imperialists' goal in the Korean War was to encircle China and the Soviet Union from the eastern side.

The US imperialists thought that their superiority in arms will lead them to a fast vistory.

But they were mistaken. Not the weapons and the territory of a country decides the results of a war, but the question: Who fights for justice and who fights for unjustice?

Korea fought for justice. It defended its sovereignty, independence and freedom.

The KPA, supported by the whole Korean people, followed the brillant Juche strategy and tactics of Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG.

On the fourth day of the war, on June 28, 1950, the KPA succeeded to liberate Seoul, the stronghold of the enemy.

And in the following weeks in July 1950 nearly the whole territory of then south Korea was liberated!

And even after the strategic retreat the KPA defended heroically the DPRK against the Yankee invaders.

After a hard-fought war of three years, one month and two days, the heroic KPA and the Korean people won a historic victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War!

How was it possible? The reason is that a people, as little its country may be, who fights for the just cause of independence and for freedom, can besiege even a big power.

And a people who is guided by a leader who works for the people's happiness, who loves the people and who is loved by the people, will surely win.

The great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG was a real peoples's leader and an illustrous Supreme Commander and the invincible strategist of Mt. Paektu.

He has liberated Korea in 1945 and wiped out the Japanese imperialists.

Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG forced two imperialist powers to knees in one generation. And he is the first supreme commander in history who won a victory over the United States.

The Korean people's great victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War encouraged all peoples in Asia, Africa and Latin America who were still fighting for their own liberation and freedom.

Korea's Great Fatherland Liberation War became the model for antiimperialist and national liberation struggle.

Today, the DPRK is a nuclear weapon state and has also long-range missiles and reconnaissance satellites.

A repeated attack of the US imperialists against the DPRK would lead to the downfall and total destruction of the "American Empire".

Thanks to the Songun leadership, initiated by Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, strengthened by Generalissimo KIM JONG IL and completed by the respected Marshall KIM JONG UN, and the single-hearted unity of the people around the leader and the Workers' Party of Korea, socialist Korea is invincible!

Glory to the Korean people's victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War!

Martin Lötscher,

president of the Swiss Korea Committee (KFA Switzerland)

July 2, 2026

Contribution of comrade Alejandro Cao De Benos to the International Seminar "Cheers of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades "

  

Dear Comrades and friends,

 

The Victory Day of the Fatherland Liberation War is a moment of profound remembrance and unwavering solidarity. We stand united to condemn the unjust invasion of the DPRK by U.S. imperialist forces in 1950 and to honour the indomitable spirit of the Korean people who secured a historic triumph against overwhelming odds.

 

On June 25, 1950, the U.S. imperialists, abusing the name of the United Nations, launched a war of aggression against the young Republic. They boasted arrogantly that the DPRK would be brought to collapse within a mere 72 hours. Yet, they gravely misjudged the mettle of the Korean people. The U.S. imperialists committed a third of their ground force, a fifth of their air force, and most of their Pacific Fleet, alongside troops from fifteen satellite states, to crush the nation. They planned to expand the flames of war to Manchuria—a blueprint for world domination. But the Korean People's Army and the heroic citizenry rose as one. Under the legendary leadership of President KIM IL SUNG, they turned their 72-hour boast into a 27,000-hour nightmare of defeat. After three years of fierce combat, on July 27, 1953, the aggressors were forced to sign a surrender document on the very land where they had ignited the war.

 

This victory was not merely a military achievement—it was a monumental event in world history. The Korean people shattered the myth of U.S. imperialist "invincibility" and dealt a deadly blow to their strategy for global dominance. The Fatherland Liberation War demonstrated that even a small nation, fighting for justice and sovereignty, can defeat the most formidable imperialist forces. The World Federation of Trade Unions rightly declared that the Korean struggle showed an example of tenacity that inspired anti-imperialist resistance across the globe. Comrade Marshal KIM JONG UN has rightly called July 27 a miracle—a great victory that inflicted an everlasting shame and defeat upon U.S. imperialism.

 

Today, we declare with absolute confidence that such a war will never happen again. The tragic suffering of the 1950s will not be repeated. Thanks to the steadfast military development of the Republic, it now possess a reliable and effective war deterrent. The nuclear forces serve as the core of the military sovereignty and the centerpiece of self-defense strategy. As Comrade Marshal KIM JONG UN has emphasized, the DPRK has advanced along the path of a nuclear-armed state, overcoming all oppression and challenges to secure absolute power capable of preventing and deterring war itself. The military capabilities—from the nuclear arsenal to the recently commissioned Choe Hyon Destroyer—stand as an unbreachable shield. The imperialists know well that any new adventure on the Korean Peninsula would invite a catastrophic response.

 

The victory of the Fatherland Liberation War is etched forever in the proud Korean history—a triumph of extraordinary military wisdom, unyielding faith, and the heroic spirit of the people. We honor the martyrs who gave their lives to defend its dignity and sovereignty.  And we move forward with certainty, knowing the glorious DPRK, armed with powerful deterrence, will forever stand invincible.

 

Glory to the heroic Korean People's Army! Victory belongs forever to the people of the DPRK!

 

 

Alejandro Cao de Benos

President of the KFA

 

From Voice of Korea-Pride of Korean Women

From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260609045/69/en

Pride of Korean Women

The Chollima Statue, the spirit and symbol of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is in the centre of the capital city of Pyongyang. Here Chollima means a winged horse galloping 1,000 ri a day

The two riders on Chollima rushing toward the future represent the Korean people and one of them is a woman.

The woman farmer with a rice-sheaf depicts the heroic Korean women promoting the vigorous advance of the state as powerfully as men.

Merits Written in More Than 70-year-long History

In theDPRK the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill is the first to be considered among the factories with many women.

The mill has produced 17 heroines, 9 Merited Weavers and 13 Meritorious Persons of Socialist Patriotism for more than 70 years.

There are also women who worked as deputies to power organs at all levels including the Supreme People's Assembly.

Mun Kang Sun, Head of the Towel Workshop, became a heroine in her girlhood.

"I thought hero is a special man.

I only turned out a lot of fabrics and so I've never thought that I would be a hero.

Now I am a mother with two children. The state let me study and entrusted me with a unit. And it introduced me to the whole country whenever opportunity permitted.

I am really happy under the grateful socialist system that values the women and holds them up."

There are not only production buildings but also a nursery and a kindergarten at the mill. And there are wonderful cultural and welfare facilities and hostel for the working women.

The working women are devoting themselves to their jobs without any worry in the workplace with all conditions needed for women.

The first half of this year has already witnessed a woman worker who carried out two-year quota and more than 110 workers who fulfilled their yearly assignments.

Among them is Merited Weaver Ri Myong Sun well-known to the whole country as a model of the times as she set the record of weaving fabrics as long as more than 2,400 kilometres by covering the distance of over 400,000 kilometres which is equivalent to making ten rounds of the earth for 25 years.

"I just wanted to be a good worker by turning out more fabrics than anybody else. So I worked and worked during my 32-year-long career of weaver. The state acknowledged it greatly and awarded me the titles of Merited Weaver and Meritorious Person of Socialist Patriotism.

The more we work, the greater glory and happiness are given to us in our socialist system."

There are many women officials including a leading Party official in the mill.

Mun Kyong Sil, Head of the General Chemical Fiber Spinning Workshop, is one of the five heads of general workshops. She is also a deputy to the Songyo District People's Assembly.

In February, she participated in the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea as a delegate.

She led the workers of her workshop to carry out the first half-yearly plan before others. In the course, a worker fulfilled the two-year plan of the mill for the first time and more than 40 workers carried out their yearly assignments.

While working at the mill for nearly 40 years, Mun Kyong Sil was involved in the study-while-you-work system and completed a university course.

"I started to work at the mill at the age of 17. I grew to be the head of a general workshop and a deputy to the district people's assembly taking care of the life of the local people and took part in the Ninth Congress of the glorious Workers' Party of Korea as a delegate. All this is unthinkable apart from the grateful socialist system which respects the women."

Fully Realizing Dreams and Hopes

Ri Ye Rim, Director of Postgraduate School of the Pyongyang University of Computer Technology, is one of the authorities on artificial intelligence of the DPRK.

She is just in her 50s. She became a doctor in her 30s and a professor in her 40s.

To be a good educator was a dream and hope she kept in her childhood.

She distinguished herself as a student inventor during her university days. She made two inventions and developed more than 10 new valuable programs in 10 years after she became a teacher, proving herself as a woman of ability.

She also created a new teaching method capable of further enhancing the ability of students and generalized it to the university.

Students liked and respected her as she has not only profound knowledge and distinguished ability in her major field of study but also makes good use of diverse teaching methods.

As the director of the postgraduate school now, she is always working with the same tireless passion and spirit of inquiry as she did when she was a new teacher.

"In retrospect, I can say that I realized my dream and wish.

I learned information technology as I wished and became an educator as I hoped. While teaching students, I became a doctor and a professor.

I've never been harassed by burden of housekeeping as a woman. On the contrary, I have lived amid the love of the collective.

It is my pride and happiness to contribute to prosperity of the country with my knowledge."

* * *

The Korean women keep deep in their hearts the noble consciousness that their destiny and happiness of their families are possible in the socialist motherland. With the consciousness, they are working hard with patriotism in their workplaces.

Among them are those women officials devoting themselves to the people, women scientists making constant scientific researches, sportswomen flying the national flag on the international arena and women making innovations at factories and farms.

Such reality is related with July 30, 1946, the significant day when the Law on Sex Equality was promulgated.

Along with this day, the position and role of Korean women were changed beyond recognition and the great achievements made by the Korean women written in the history of the country.

It is the noble intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un that as the position and role of women are enhanced, the development of the state is accelerated and the harmony and unity of the society become consolidated.

Under the guidance of the great leader, the Korean women will fully display their dignity and might as a powerful force pushing one of the wheels of revolution.

 

80 years of true gender equality in People's Korea-special article by Dr Dermot Hudson

 

On the 30th of July 1946 , a truly epochal change of great significance took place in the northern half of Korea , People’s Korea ; the Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea enacted the Law on Sexual Equality as part of the wide ranging programme of democratic reforms of the anti-imperialist ,anti-feudal democratic revolution which was carried out after Korea’s liberation from Japanese imperialist colonial rule in August 1945 . President KIM IL SUNG had first put forward the idea of making women equal with men in the days of the Anti-Japanese armed struggle .In THE TEN-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE FATHERLAND published on the 5th of May 1936  point 7 stated ‘To abolish the caste system which divides the ryangban (nobles) and the common people, and other inequalities; to ensure equality based on  humanity irrespective of sex, nationality or religion; to improve the social position of women and respect their personalities;’

. The Law on Sexual Equality of People’s Korea freed women from centuries upon centuries of double and treble feudal oppression . It was a profoundly revolutionary measure which changed the lives of Korean women forever .

The Law on Sexual Equality of People’s Korea consisted of a total of 9 articles . Article 1 declared that “Women have equal rights to men economically, culturally, socially, and politically in all areas of life of the nation”. Thus for the first time in history Korean women became equal with men. Korean women also gained the right to vote . In capitalist countries which style themselves as “democratic “ , it took a long time for electoral voting rights to be extended to women for example in the UK women did not get full voting rights until 1928 ,some 10 years after men but in People’s Korea women had the right to vote from the beginning .

Similarly , Article 3 of the Law on Sexual Equality also granted Korean women the right to equal pay . This was 24 years before the equal pay act in the UK . In fact despite equal pay legalisation in the UK , the gender pay gap still remains .

Significantly the law abolished all Japanese imperial laws and regulations concerning women . Korean women had suffered horrendously under Japanese imperialist rule under which they not only faced feudal oppression but were subjected to criminal ill treatment by the Japanese imperialists .The Japanese imperialists subjected over 200,000 Korean women to sexual slavery , an unspeakable crime which degraded them and subjected them to a fate worse than death. To this very day there has been no proper apology  or atonement from Japan for this crime.

The Law on Sexual Equality forbade polygamy and the sale of wives and concubines . It abolished prostitution something that capitalist countries have failed to do and in fact during  past decades the sex and prostitution industries have greatly expanded in the capitalist countries . Symbolic of this is the scandal around Jeffrey  Epstein, the American capitalist financier who forced many young women and even children into prostitution and trafficked them . Today in the DPRK there is no prostitution , no pornography and no sex industry that blights the lives of women and creates toxicity and decadence in society.

Later the equality of women in the DPRK was enshrined in the constitution of the DPRK and many other laws to enhance the position of women were passed.

Today in the DPRK women hold important positions such as factory director and also deputies to People’s Assemblies at different levels.

Some may point that Western countries also have gender equality legalisation but these are just just bits of paper  with no real meaning . In People’s Korea legalisation is fully backed by practical measures such as the provision of free childcare as well as a healthy ethos of valuing women. Korean women have enjoyed 80 years of Juche-based socialist women’s liberation.

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Hon Secretary General Global Farmy for the Study of KIM JONG UN People’s First Policies

Bathing Beach Draws Many

 

Beachgoers begin to throng the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area, an iconic seaside resort in the DPRK, since early July.

Kalmaegi Hotel in Myongsasimni

 

The Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area is located in Myongsasimni on the east coast of the DPRK. The tourist area boasts many luxury hotels such as Kalmaegi Hotel which is furnished with all service conditions like bedrooms and restaurants. The hotel is counted as one of the best hotels in the tourist area.