Thank you for inviting me to speak , I am here on behalf of the Korean Friendship Association UK (KFA UK ) which defends People’s Korea with No Ifs or Buts . I would like to briefly mention that November 13th was the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the international Korean Friendship Association of which KFA UK is a key part .
The purpose of the foundation of the KFA back in November 2000 was to provide a voice for People’s Korea , to act as a the sword and shield of People’s Korea in the Western world . In those days there was not a single page with DPRK official information but just fake propaganda from the CIA World Fact Book and the south Korean puppet regime. President Cao de Benos decided to change that situation and requested permission from the DPRK to build the first ever page with direct connection with the country. That is how the website korea-dpr.com was created.
Since its formation KFA has unswervingly defended People’s Korea against imperialist propaganda.
Anyway to address the subject of the meeting namely the Stand of the DPRK and its People for Self-Reliance and against Imperialist Intervention I will say the following .It appears that this meeting today is being held at the same time as a meeting on Venezuela which appears to be under the threat of imminent invasion by the US imperialists who are stripping away the mask of peace to reveal themselves as aggressors . Indeed President KIM IL SUNG once said that " US IMPERIALISM IS THE MOST BARBAROUS AND SHAMELESS AGGRESSOR OF MODERN TIMES, THE MAIN FORCE OF AGGRESSION AND WAR,THE RINGLEADER OF WORLD REACTION, THE BULWARK OF MODERN COLONIALISM, THE STRANGLER OF NATIONAL LIBERATION AND INDEPENDENCE AND THE DISTURBER OF WORLD PEACE".
We must not forget or lose sight of that People’s Korea too faces threats from US imperialism namely the presence of over 30,000 troops in the Republic of Korea or south Korea as well as nuclear weapons deployed in and around the Korean peninsula . It also like Venezuela faces sanctions ; both the DPRK and Venezuela are sanctioned by the US , UK and EU but the DPRK also faces sanctions by the UN Security Council .
However the DPRK is not blowing up DPRK fishing boats or not yet anyway!. Of course had Venezuela had its nukes like the DPRK , it maybe would not face such an acute and imminent threat from the US imperialists . Indeed if Syria had nukes maybe Assad would still be in power . The so-called “denuclearisation “ of the DPRK is a regime change tool which actually means the ‘decommunisation ‘ or ‘desocialisation “ of the DPRK , lets make no mistake about it . In fact denuclearisation would mean the colonisation by imperialism of the DPRK.
In his speech to the 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) on the 21st of September ;respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said that "We will never lay down our nukes." and that “There will be no negotiations, and never at that, with our enemy states to exchange something with them, obsessed with trying to get free from their sanctions.”
The DPRK does not rely on other countries for its defence and is indeed self-reliant on all fields because it regards self-reliance as the cornerstone of its revolutionary strategy . Self-reliance is not a short term tactic or simply a response to the US sanctions . As respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said to the 1st session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly “ Whatever wind may blow and whatever challenges and difficulties may lie ahead, our Republic will, in the future, too, make no concession or compromise over the issues concerning the fundamental interests of our State and people. It will resolve everything on the strength of self-reliance and self-development, stepping up the building of a powerful socialist country in our own way and by our own efforts."
Self reliance is a key part of the practical implementation of the Juche idea . The Juche idea stipulates that the following guiding principles should be adopted in the revolution and construction ; Juche in ideology , independence in politics , self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in defence .
Visiting People’s Korea in October we witnessed first hand the achievements of self-reliance we saw that Pyongyang was a blaze of light and colour at night . The imperialists are lying when they say that there is no electricity in the DPRK . Rather than “everyone starving “ , we saw no homeless or beggars on the streets and the guide for another delegation said that people get free housing and food only costs 0.3 dollars per month , just compare that to the UK !!! No comment . Now the construction of the 4th stage of Hwasong Street is under way , I saw it with my own eyes . This rapid development is being carried out under conditions of intense sanctions by the imperialists as well as natural disasters and the DPRK’s border being closed for 4 years due to the global health crisis . This development is being achieved without outside help, ‘aid’ or foreign capital . It is a miracle of self-reliance and shows what a socialist country can do when it relies on its own resources and believes in itself. That is basically Juche and self-reliance .
During the visit we were able to attend the It was my first time to attend a DPRK military parade at night , previously I had only attended parades during the day time . This parade was not held under easy or ideal conditions but in the rain and wind . Other countries would not have been able to do this but People’s Korea , Korea of Juche was able to do this . We witnessed the new type Hwasong 20 ICBMs that looked massive . A friend from Italy turned to me and said “That is for Washington “ , so lets focus on the issue of self-reliance in national defence .
Marshal KIM JONG UN put forward the line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel -which is sometimes referred to as Pyongjin at the historic March 2013 plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.Only People’s Korea had the line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel. Marshal KIM JONG UN declared that “As long as the imperialists’ nuclear threat exists, we must keep up simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces as an immutable line and further consolidate the nuclear deterrents."
The line of building the nuclear force and economy was put forward when the US imperialists and world reactionary forces were running wild to stifle People’ Korea. The US imperialists and south Korean fascist puppets carried out nuclear war exercises one after the other . At the same time the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on the DPRK for the mere fact that it had launched its own satellite the Kwangmyongsong 3-2 in December 2012. The situation demanded that the DPRK take measures to defend its independence , its system ( the people-centred socialist system and its very existence . Independence cannot be defended by words alone.During the period from the collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s we have seen countless invasions and interventions by US imperialism most notably the Yugoslav War , the 20 year long occupation of Afghanistan and the Iraq War .
The line of building the nuclear force and economy in parallel is a modern application of the original , independent , Juche based line of building the economy and defence in parallel that was put forward by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG in 1962 .President KIM IL SUNG keenly realised that the DPRK could not rely on other countries for its defence. An example can be given of the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the revisionist USSR betrayed Cuba by capitulating to US imperialism and pulling out the missiles.Thanks to the implementation of the Pyongjin line, Juche Korea raced across the nuclear finishing line and became a proud member of the nuclear club which consists of a small number of countries such as the US, UK ,France , Russia , China , Israel , India and Pakistan . Similarly the ICBM club is an elite exclusive club of just 6 or 7 countries . The DPRK has both its own ICBMs and Nukes , more importantly it has total control over them, it does not have to ask the permission of another country to fire its ICBMs nor does any other country have a second key to operate the DPRK's nuclear weapons.
In recent years there have been more leaps forward in national defence building such as big advances in missile technology including missiles that can strike the US , the launch of a military reconnaissance satellite , the test of underwater drones and this year saw the launch of 2 new type naval destroyers.
There is no doubt that without self-reliance in national defence the DPRK would have fallen victim to another war .
I would also like to see a few words about the recent changes to the DPRK’s policy on inter-Korean relations and reunification . I think it is important to provide clarification but also the new stance towards the south -the ROK , is an important assertion of the DPRK will to maintain and secure its socialist system and to rely on itself .
The DPRK and Workers Party of Korea changed its policy on reunification at the 9th plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in December 2023 .
Recently respected Marshal KIM JONG UN addressed the 13th session of the 14th term Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK on the 21st of September last . His speech gave a further in depth clarification of the policy of the DPRK on reunification and its stance towards the Republic of Korea (ROK) also known as south Korea .
Reunification is actually impossible because as respected Marshal KIM JONG UN pointed out “The ROK is a deformed entity with hemiplegia and a colonial tributary whose all fields have been Americanized, a foreign country that has thoroughly become heterogeneous.
It is a matter of course that as water and fire can never fuse into one, the independent politics and the sycophantic and treacherous politics cannot concur, the independent defence and the subordinate defence cannot merge with each other, the self-reliant economy and the colonial contract economy cannot combine, and the socialist culture and the Yankee culture cannot go together."
Indeed it is impossible to merge the DPRK's independent , Juche -based self-reliant socialist system with the neo-colonial dependent corrupt capitalist system in the south.
The ROK’s constitution states that the territory of the ROK covers the entire Korean peninsula . Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said that “ Though government has changed more than ten times and the Constitution undergone revision nine times in the ROK so far, nothing has changed in the territory-related article of the Constitution, which is aimed at invading and annexing the DPRK. And although the National Security Law has been revised several times, the article concentratedly reflecting hostility towards the DPRK has not undergone even the slightest revision”
The cost to the people of the DPRK if so-called "reunification “ was imposed on them would be beyond any kind of calculation ; it would mean the end of the socialist system resulting in mass unemployment , poverty , homelessness and all sorts of social ills . Therefore the DPRK is right to reject this .
The DPRK regards the ROK as an enemy and the most hostile state . This is based on reality because ever since it has existed the ROK has schemed to undermine the DPRK and overthrow the socialist system.
The new ROK puppet ruler Lee Jae Myung has been blathering about ‘peace ‘ and ‘improvement ‘ of relations but there is a dagger hidden behind his back ,so called denuclearisation . When Trump met the puppet Lee Jae Myung in October they did not publicise at the time that they had adopted a declaration which called for “"complete denuclearization" of the DPRK as well as for increases in ROK military spending the building of nuclear submarines .
Therefore DPRK is totally correct not to speak to the ROK and reject the fake peace overtures of the ROK puppets!
To conclude let’s defend People’s Korea with no ifs or buts !
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