The Staffordshire branch of the UK Korean Friendship
Association (UK KFA) supported by the Stoke On Trent branch of the
Juche Idea Study Group of England hosted a successful meeting
Staffordshire and north midlands meeting of the the UK KFA on the theme
"People's Korea the true version " . This was held in a hotel in the
centre of the Stoke On Trent on the 25th of November. In attendance were
members of the Staffordshire KFA and UK KFA and local
anti-imperialists.
Shaun Pickford secretary of Staffordshire KFA introduced
the speaker Dr Dermot Hudson chairman of UK KFA/KFA Official Delegate
UK saying that
"I wish to welcome
everyone who has come along to this meeting of the Staffordshire
Branch of the UK KFA. The Korean Friendship Association since its
foundation in the year 2000, has expanded both its membership and its
influence internationally, The KFA in Britain has grown in terms of
its internet and practical activities, the UK KFA now have branches
in many parts of the country. Our organisation the Korean Friendship
Association is a broad based one, encompassing members of various
political parties and people who are non-affiliated. We have within
our ranks Trade Unionists, Peace Campaigners, and persons who are
interested in travel and culture.
.....
Over the past year,
the Trump Administration has brought the situation in Korea and the
world to the brink of nuclear war. The DPRK has proposed a peaceful
solution to the current crisis, only to have been met with more
warmongering from the US side. North Korea wants peace and peaceful
reunification, but will never surrender its independence, sovereignty
and national dignity to nobody. The United States has stationed in
south Korea 40,000 troops and around a thousand nuclear warheads,
that is why the DPRK has been forced to develop its own nuclear
deterrent. Solidarity has never been so vital as now with the just
cause of the Korean people, that is to overcome the flood of lies and
disinformation about the DPRK propagated by the Western Media.
Stoke On Trent,
where this meeting is held today, has many proud proletarian
traditions, a city where the mass democratic movement of Chartism
flourish and where Fanny Deakin led the Hands Off Russia Movement, a
city in which the workers in the mining and ceramic industries fought
for their rights. Back in 2003, the UK KFA held a successful
gathering in the city hosted by the Workers' Educational Association
and I trust that this meeting will prove to b"e as equally as
productive. On a pedantic note, the meeting is not being held in one
of the six towns, however the event is staged in the City of Stoke
On Trent as entirety"
Dr Dermot Hudson spoke saying that " Usually the media
like to talk about “North Korea “ , although in fact there are actually no such
country as north Korea or indeed south Korea , Korea division’s was totally
artificial, basically being imposed by the US imperialists . Before 1945 there
was no geographical or physical or racial division in Korea but a US army
colonel took a pencil and ruler and drew a line across the map of Korea. This was a crime of great enormity, dividing
a whole people ! In my talk I will instead refer to People’s Korea or Juche
Korea (Juche being the guiding ideology of People’s Korea ) or use the initials
DPRK .
Today
the DPRK is the most demonised and abused country on earth with lies about the
country being produced on an industrial scale.
the DPRK is
a stable and harmonious unified society based on single hearted unity so there
is no terrorism and no riots. In the DPRK there is unity between the armed forces and civilians so people do not fear or despise the armed
forces....
The re
listing of the DPRK as a so-called "state sponsor of terrorism " is
an attack on the ideology and system of the DPRK . It is basically an attempt
to stifle the Juche-based socialist system.
However guided by the great Juche Idea , the
Korean people do not care whether the US lists them as a "state sponsor of
terrorism " or not . It will smash any additional sanctions with the
revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the self-development first idea !
Moreover the DPRK will more fully implement
the line of developing the economy and nuclear force in parallel . The US will
pay for its rash provocation of relisting the DPRK as a "state sponsor of
terrorism "
It is time to
take a real stand and defend People's Korea from the threat of US aggression .
The US is quite openly threatening the DPRK with annihilation , with being
"eliminated " from the face of the globe ."
There
followed questions and discussions . Participants in the meeting said
that in the DPRK there is a great respect for the armed forces . A
question came up about the struggle for Korea's reunification .Dr Hudson
replied that Korea's reunification can only come about when the US
withdraws from south Korea . He also explained that there is the
Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea (AINDF) which
struggles for the independent reunficiation of Korea and is the proud
successor to the Revolutionary Party for Reunification that was founded
in 1969. UK KFA is proud to have fraternal relations with the Pyongyang
Mission of the AINDF.
Shaun
Pickford made the closing address saying that this had been the first
meeting of Staffordshire KFA and it had a big successful.
The meeting concluded with the slogans
KOREA IS ONE
LONG LIVE DEAR RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN !
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