THE RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC FILM "THE INTERVIEW" MUST BE NOT SHOWN IN UK CINEMAS STATEMENT OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION (UK)

THE RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC FILM "THE INTERVIEW" MUST BE NOT SHOWN IN UK CINEMAS
STATEMENT OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION (UK)

The Staffordshire Branch of the Korean Friendship Association (UK) calls upon all progressive people to halt the screening of the US made feature film "The Interview", in British cinemas and multiplexes. This "film" cannot be described as a form of entertainment or culture, but as an incarnation of chauvinism and terrorism. When the peoples of the world demand peace and understanding among nations, this film cultivates misanthropy and aggression. Every person who desires peace and independence, should demand the cancellation of this piece of unadulterated war propaganda from being shown here in the UK.

To advocate the murder of a head of state or a nation state's leadership constitutes a violation of national and international law, as this film does. The production and distribution of this film, constitutes an act of terrorism against a sovereign state. The Staffordshire KFA Branch is sure that if any other country had made a feature film depicting in graphic detail the assassination of the British Head of State or the Head of the Government, than the UK authorities would consider such a matter, as a breach of diplomatic relations and a promotion of terrorism. Under current UK legislation, the preparation and the glorification of acts of terrorism are regarded as serious crimes.

Under pressure from progressive opinion, the multi-national company behind this film, Sony Pictures, had the good sense to withdraw "The Interview" from its distribution network. It is was Barrack Obama, the Pentagon and the US Department who insisted that this movie be propagated far and wide within the United States itself, and in some other countries. This clearly demonstrates that this so-called feature film was produced by the US military-industrial-media complex as a instrument in its anti-People's Korea diatribe. The Hollywood movie "The Interview" shares a lot of characteristics with the racist epic "A Birth Of A Nation" and with such Nazi era films such as "The Eternal Jew" and "Jud Suss".

The United States of America is not so innocent a party, when engaging in acts of terror and war, both within the North American continent and on the world stage. In its very origin, the United States, expanded by means of terrorism and aggression. As a result of the colonization of the continent, 10 million native Americans were exterminated. The colonizers then kidnapped and trafficked 20 million Africans as slave labour. After 239 years, since the Declaration of Independence of the United States , the African Americans and other people of colour, still suffer discrimination, as seen in Ferguson. In the USA, a murder occurs every seven minutes and the annual growth rate of violent crime is 12.6 per cent. Wealth and power in the United States, has over the last thirty years, been placed in to the hands of the one per cent, the ruling elite. Aggression and terrorism have become a byword for US foreign policy, as seen with recent wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan.

This feature film "The Interview" is doubly insulting to the Korean People, as the United States has had a 70 year long history of aggression on the Korean peninsula. It is the United States that divided Korea into two halves, in September 1945 and today, the US perpetuates the division of Korea, with a occupation force of 40,000 troops and a thousand nuclear warheads, stationed in south Korea. On June 25th, 1950, the US imperialists committed an act of terrorism, by launching an attack on the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. During the Korean War, the US perpetrated atrocities in Sinchon County, with a toll of 35,383 civilians murdered by the war criminals. The United States was the wirepuller behind May 18th, 1980 massacre in Kwangju, south Korea, which had a death toll of 5,000 civilians. These days, the US continues to interfere into the affairs of the Korean People, for instance, by backing the banning of the Independent Progressive Party in south Korea. Now, on drunk on arrogance, the US Imperialists are attempting to impose further sanctions on the DPRK over the alleged Sony incident. The Korean People will firmly defend their gains of Korean style socialism, by upholding the supreme revolutionary leadership and smashing the terrorism of the imperialists.

The Staffordshire Branch of the UK KFA urges every peace campaigner, anti-imperialist activist, socialist and trade unionist to stop the showing of this racist war propaganda in Britain. We call upon progressive people everywhere to reject this nasty piece of chauvinism in the form of "The Interview" and instead embrace friendship and solidarity with the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and with the Korean People who only want peace and independence.