Friday 2 September 2022

Speech of Dr Dermot Hudson KFA UK Chairman to Seminar on Korea's Liberation 13.08.2022

Before I refer to the anniversary of Korea’s liberation , I would like to mention 2 very significant things. Firstly , the DPRK has achieved victory over Covid 19 ;

Covid 19 has been eliminated in the DPRK 100 days after it broke out and 91 days after the DPRK switched over to a top-level emergency anti-epidemic system. The fatality rate from Covid 19  in the DPRK  was very low , probably the lowest in the world.  This was a great and miraculous victory that only People's Korea, guided by the great Juche Idea and led by the Workers Party of Korea and respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , could achieve . To put things into context, so -called advanced countries like Britain , US and Japan after over 2 years are still reporting Covid 19 cases . South Korea  recorded 128,000 new cases and 58 deaths from Covid 19 in the past day with  over 21 million people in total infected with Covid 19.


The DPRK 's victory was achieved through self-reliance and without outside help . The DPRK correctly rejected the fake 'humanitarian aid ' of imperialism and vaccines of the big capitalist pharmaceutical monopolies of the imperialist world who seek only profit . The DPRK 's victory was also due to the fact that the Workers' Party of Korea and the people's government took measures so quickly and resolutely . In the Western world some governments failed to act quickly against Covid 19 .


As respected Marshal KIM JONG UN  wisely pointed out "In other words, the invaluable victory we have achieved is the victory of our Party's anti-epidemic policy, the victory of our state's crisis management strategy, the victory of our people's fortitude and single-hearted unity unique to them, the great victory brought about by the superiority of our style of socialist system."  . This is indeed true . The victory against Covid 19 in People's Korea is due to the single-hearted unity of the people around the Party and the leader and the superiority of the socialist system .


Moreover the total superiority of the Juche-based people-centred socialism has been proved by the DPRK's victory over Covid 19. Juche -based socialism is infinitely superior to the decadent , corrupt capitalist system in south Korea and the system in the so-called ' free ' and 'democratic ' countries of the capitalist world .


We salute the victory of People's Korea in the anti-epidemic war and believe it to be a great example for the world .



Secondly , vice-department director comrade Kim Yo Jong  made a significant speech in which she denounced the south Korean puppets for deliberately spreading Covid 19 into the DPRK using balloons .  This is a crime against humanity that has been committed by the so-called ‘defectors ‘  and south Korean puppets for which they must pay . I think we have a duty in this country to expose this crime against the DPRK by the south Korean puppets as widely as we can .  South Korea is a fascist regime just like Ukraine and needs to be eliminated .


In just under  2 days, the Korean people will mark the 77th anniversary of Korea’s liberation .

On the 15th of August 1945 Korea was liberated from the grim and oppressive fascist rule of Japanese imperialism, thanks to the 20 year long armed struggle conducted under the leadership of the great leader general KIM IL SUNG the sun of the Korean nation , ever-victorious iron willed brilliant commander and gifted military strategist. The anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army led by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG had neither a state base or rear to rely on.The armed struggle of the anti-Japanese guerrillas was a self-reliant one that embodied the Juche Idea and the Songun Idea. The great leader general KIM IL SUNG cast aside the flunkeyist idea of relying on big powers for salvation and instead conducted an independent struggle,based on Juche , against Japanese imperialism fully relying on the masses of people.  

                                     






                    The anti-Japanese armed struggle fully proved in practice the truth of Songun that independence is achieved by the force of arms. During the anti-Japanese armed struggle the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG adhering firmly to the line of Songun rejected illusions of the national  reformists and opportunists that independence could be achieved by peaceful means or by begging for it.

  Some people like to say that the liberation of Korea was due to the Soviet Union or the Soviet Union and China . They like to portray People’s Korea as a creation of another country . To this ,two things can be said . Firstly , that the USSR only entered the war on the 9th of August 1945 whereas the anti-Japanese armed struggle had been waged since 1930  when President KIM IL SUNG formed the Korean Revolutionary Army and later the Anti-JapanesePeople’s Guerilla Army . Secondly , as a friend of mine from KFA Greece said ; how did the USSR and China succeed in their revolutions  ? It was because of the efforts of the people in those countries , so it is the same for Korea.


     The Juche-oriented guerrilla tactics of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and the indomitable struggle of the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army (later the Korean People's Revolutionary Army ) tore the guts out of Japanese imperialism, defeating the million strong Kwantung army of Japanese imperialism. The barbaric Japanese imperialist invaders were expelled from the land of Korea at last.                

    The defeat of Japanese imperialism, one of the main forces and shock brigade of international fascism , by the partisans of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army led by the great leader  general KIM IL SUNG made a great contribution to the victory of the worldwide anti-fascist forces .

                                         

   The victorious liberation struggle of the Korean people led by  general KIM IL SUNG , a gifted military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander was an inspiration for the peoples of the colonial countries fighting for their independence and liberation .The 1968 World Cultural Congress in Havana adopted a document praising the anti-Japanese armed struggle waged under the leadership of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG.

    With the victory of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army , commanded by the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG ,in August 1945 the Korean people finally gained their emancipation from the cruel shackles of Japanese colonialism and greeted a new life of independence , a life of hope for the future.

     After liberation  the agrarian reform which eliminated feudalism and landlordism and gave land to the peasants was carried out and later the law on sexual equality which liberated women and also the nationalization of basic industries was enacted .

  After liberation under the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG the people of Korea built a new thriving  country of independence, a country which even  in the words of enemies has "undiluted sovereignty " .Under the banner of self-reliance the Korean people are further consolidating the independence of the country and building a fine and might independent power of Juche.The Korean people now have lives of independence and creativity .

   Today People's Korea ,the land of Juche ,pulsates with independence  under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN who carries forward the great line of independence developed by  great President KIM IL SUNG.


Can I also take this opportunity to denounce the hostile policy of the British government towards the DPRK.

On the 30th of June 2022 the British government  including the Foreign and Commonwealth and Development Office , and the office of the Prime Minister , issued a lengthy document titled ‘ UK-Republic of Korea bilateral framework for closer cooperation’ which is aimed at giving more British support to the south Korean puppet fascist regime  and provoking the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) .A hidden agenda behind the document is regime change in People’s Korea .


 Britain has always played a reactionary and imperialistic role in Korea . In the 1900s , Britain connived at Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea. Later Britain sent troops to fight against the Korean people  in 1950  , in the Fatherland Liberation War  or Korean War . Shamefully British troops acted as cannon fodder and mercenaries for US imperialism and its destructive and barbaric war against the Korean people. After the Korean war Britain gave huge amounts of aid (from the taxes paid by British working people ) to the south Korean puppets and the then state-owned  motor company ‘ British Leyland “  assisted the motor industry in south Korea .




The ‘bilateral framework ‘ document  refers to south Korea as being a ‘free and open society ‘ ! Nothing could be further from the truth ! South Korea is a despotic fascist regime which operates  the ‘National Security Law ‘  which is based on old Japanese colonial laws  and prohibits sympathy for the DPRK or commmunist or leftist activities . In the past south Korea murdered the leaders of the Revolutionary Party for Reunification , the Strategic Liberation Party and People’s Revolutionary Party .South Korea still has political prisoners including a number of ‘long term unconverted prisoners ‘. South Korea is dominated by the Jaebols ( big capitalist corporations ) and a society in which there is a big gap between the rich and poor as typified by the film “Parasite’.




The document refers to the ‘complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation’ of the DPRK basically repeating a tired old mantra . Of course lurking behind this is the hidden aim of overthrowing the socialist system in the DPRK and colonising the northern half of Korea .Moreover it is taking issue with the DPRK ‘s legitimate right to self-defence and is a denial of the DPRK ‘s sovereignty .







The  document also refers to ‘human rights ‘ and the DPRK ‘opening up ‘ the so-called ‘humanitarian aid ‘ of imperialism . This is yet another ploy ,another stratagem to create ‘regime change ‘ in the DPRK and overthrow the socialist system . The DPRK does not need any ‘humanitarian aid ‘from south Korea or Britain or imperialism .





There is also talk of upgrading the existing  ‘Free Trade Agreement.’ between Britain and south Korea . This will only result in more cheap , substandard and shoddy south Korean goods being dumped in Britain . It will also mean some British monopoly capitalist firms exploiting cheap labour in south Korea .





KFA UK rejects the so-called ‘UK-Republic of Korea bilateral framework for closer cooperation’! It is both a mechanism for denying the sovereignty of the DPRK and overthrowing the socialist system of the DPRK and at the same time propping up the totally reactionary , fascistic and decadent colonial regime in south Korea.




KFA UK believes that Britain should break with old and discredited policies towards the Korean peninsula and instead promote cooperation based on genuine friendship , mutual benefit and independence with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , the truly authentic state on the Korean peninsula.


Down with the south Korean puppet fascist regime !


Hands off People’s Korea !




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