Report of the 1st session of the European Regional Forum for Friendship,Solidarity and Exchange with the Korean People for the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK 02.09.2023

                                                                         

                

  

Report of the 1st session of the European Regional Forum for Friendship,Solidarity and Exchange with the Korean People for the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK   02.09.2023

The 1st session of European Regional Forum for Friendship,Solidarity and Exchange with the Korean People for the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK organised by the Korean Friendship Association of the UK and the European Regional Preparatory Committee for the 75th anniversary of the DPRK took place on the 2nd of September from 1400 hours to 1630 hours . The event consisted of a physical meeting in the Marchmont Centre  Central London and an online meeting via Zoom . The online meeting was held with the kind assistance of KFA Germany.

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Participating directly in person in London were members of KFA UK ,the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea , KFA Germany, the Belgium -Korea Friendship Association as well as the New Communist Party,the Internationalist Revolutionary Communist Party  and Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain Marxist Leninist .

 Participating online was the Sweden Korea  Friendship Association, comrade Alejandro Cao De Benos President of the Korean Friendship Association , the leader of the International Solidarity Group with the DPRK and representatives of the group. Members of KFA UK from Staffordshire ,Scotland and Liverpool also joined the meeting online as well as people from the following countries ; Austria , Belgium ,Germany , Spain , Russia , Poland , Belarus , Luxembourg, Pakistan  and other countries.

Christer Lundgren in his keynote address said that “During its 75 years of existence the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has had extremely challenging difficulties to overcome, including the fierce Fatherland Liberation War, the postwar reconstruction and industrialization, continuous war threats and extreme economic difficulties caused by the imperialists’ manoeuvres to isolate and stifle the People’s Korea as well as by the collapse of some other socialist countries.”

Comrade Kim Song Gi of the DPRK Embassy brought greetings from the embassy to the meeting . He said that under the correct leadership of  President KIM IL SUNG and Chairman KIM JONG IL the DPRK travelled the road of struggle, never giving up even though the moves of the hostile forces continue to this day .

Alejandro Cao De Benos President of the Korean Friendship Association  in his speech that “ The fact that the DPRK has withstood the test of time, disasters, sanctions and imperialist threats for 75 years, is evidence of the invincible validity of its system and the full support of the korean people in its future. I am fully confident that as long as Korea is guided by the exemplary Leaders of Mt. Paektu, only victories awaits in the path of happiness.”

Dr Dermot Hudson Secretary General of the European Regional Preparatory Committee for the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK and chairman of KFA UK  in his address stressed that “

From the first day of its foundation, the DPRK has advanced along the road of Juche, the road of self-reliance, independence and socialism. Juche Korea was not a copy of another country but a unique and original state”

Jef Bossyut of the Belgium Korea Friendship Association denounced the US imperialist war moves against the DPRK .

The vice-chairman of KFA Germany said that “Today, the DPRK has become a socialist paradise with the highest living standard in the world. There is no other country in the world where taxes are abolished, there is no other country in the world where housing is free, and there are only a few other countries in the world without unemployment and homelessness, but with free healthcare and free housing”.

Michael Chant of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain Marxist Leninist praised the achievements of the DPRK and stressed the need for solidarity with the DPRK.

Andy Brooks, general secretary of the New Communist Party praised the DPRK for self-reliance.

The head of Staffordshire KFA UK recalled his visit to the DPRK for the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK.

Comrade Alan Bolon , KFA UK Organisation Secretary and head of KFA UK West of England gave a lecture titled “Democratic People's Republic of Korea,A country of happiness and prosperity under the star of Juche style Socialism” in which pointed out that “the last decade of developing Peoples Korea shows clearly that the path from the beginning time, from foundations and guerilla's was and is absolutely right. People's Korea is growing in strength and power in the military and economic spheres. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is an 'Asian - superpower' in our age”

Comrade Alan Bolon, who is also founder and General Secretary of the International Revolutionary Communist Party, given to Comrade Song Gi Kim from DPRK Embassy in London, 'Resolution' in the occasion of 75 - Anniversary of foundation of the DPRK

A letter to respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was adopted.

The documentary “ Pyongyang Today “ was screened via Zoom.

The meeting concluded at 16.20 hours BST

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