KFA UK held its first meeting in Liverpool for nearly five years on the 24th of February at 1900 hours. Originally a KFA UK Liverpool meeting had been planned for March 2020 but got called off due to the Covid 19 Pandemic and the lockdown .
The meeting was held in the Casa Bar (which was founded by Liverpool dockers) , a friendly and well run venue . Despite the cold and windy weather and attention being focussed on Ukraine , the meeting attracted interest with new people attending the meeting . People travelled from different parts of the north west to come to the meeting and all age groups were represented.
Peter , the representative of KFA UK in the north west, opened the meeting . He reminded people of the intense hostility by the US towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) which included an actual physical war against the DPRK which killed many people in the DPRK . He pointed out that the US has imposed sanctions in the DPRK .
Peter said that there is an intense and unending propaganda and disinformation campaign against the DPRK .
Dr Dermot Hudson , KFA UK Chairman addressed the meeting saying in part “In fact KFA is expanding rapidly , in the last 18 months we have opened new branches in Finland , Norway , Kenya , Nepal and Bulgaria as well as establishing our branches in Poland and Germany . In November last year we held a successful KFA International meeting in Barcelona , Spain and in 2020 KFA celebrated its 20th anniversary …Propaganda against the DPRK is on an industrial scale . It comes from different sides , not just the establishment, the Right and the mainstream media but also some on the so-called “Left ‘ and even the ultra left . A lot of propaganda against the DPRK is rooted in orientalism , Euro-centrism and chauvinism as well being motivated by a hatred of the socialist system of the DPRK . At the moment the DPRK has been taken out of the news by the mainstream media partly due to the Ukraine crisis but also because to the elite the DPRK is a policy failure ; all their tactics against the DPRK have failed ; whether it is sanctions , the threat of force and military pressure and even Trump’s high stakes diplomacy . The mainstream media do not like to talk about failures , only success so the DPRK has been taken out of the news …..The DPRK is a country that can say and do what it likes without looking over its shoulder at others. The DPRK in carrying out ICBM and nuclear tests has not only defied the US and the UN Security Council but also the EU , Japan and significantly the big power chauvinists Russia and China . John Major, the former British prime minister even admitted that the DPRK , presumably unlike the UK, has ‘undiluted sovereignty’.
It is a society free from conflict and division. A society free from crime and terrorism.
The DPRK is a genuine socialist country. Despite the raging winds of anti-socialism, the new wave of post-modernist anti-communism and the setbacks that have occurred, the DPRK is maintaining socialist principles. Moreover despite 60 years of sanctions and blockade plus natural disasters the DPRK is implementing popular welfare policies such as free education, free housing, free medical care without taking a penny from its citizens in tax.
I hope you will join us in KFA in defending People’s Korea and get out there and spread the message.”
A question and answer session followed . There were questions about DPRK-US relations and some other subjects . There was a lively and vibrant atmosphere with good discussion .
Literature of KFA UK and the DPRK was displayed at the meeting which attracted attention and some was sold .
Meeting concluded at 20.50 hours
KFA UK chairman Dr Dermot Hudson gave a short interview with a Youtube channel .
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