Why British sanctions against People's Korea Are wrong

On the 7th of July  the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced that it was imposing sanctions on two alleged entities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) as part of its 'new global human rights regime' .

  Two law enforcement agencies  in the DPRK have been sanctioned by the UK for alleged "forced labour, torture and murder'  in  'gulags' in the DPRK . This is a false and nonsensical allegation as there are no 'gulags 'in the DPRK , gulag being a Russian term which refers to correctional labour camps that existed for a period in the former USSR .  UK KFA rejects the allegation that there are such things  in People's Korea .

   These sanctions by the Foreign and Commonwealth are in addition to the sanctions imposed on People’s Korea by the UN , US and EU . Since 2016 the UN Security Council , five times  . The DPRK is the most heavily sanctioned country on earth . Sanctions are an act of war , they are a crime against humanity and in fact none of the sanctions imposed on the DPRK have any legal basis -what law says that the DPRK cannot have nuclear weapons.

      The sanctions are really aimed at regime change , bringing down the people’s government and making the country a colony of the US so that the US and others can seize control of the trillion dollars worth of rare earth deposits in the country.

 It is truly deplorable that instead of concentrating on developing good relations with the DPRK on the basis of independence , mutual benefit and co-operation , the British government is obsessed with imposing sanctions on People's Korea one after the other . Britain's withdrawal from the European Union(EU) could have heralded a new era in Britain-DPRK relations with Britain tearing up EU sanctions against the DPRK and negotiating new trade deals with the DPRK

Dr Dermot Hudson UK KFA Chairman

Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea