Speech of comrade Jeremy Bierenger KFA Germany to the online meeting for Korea's liberation 14.08.2026

 

Dear comrade Dr. Dermot Hudson,

Dear comrade Martin Lötscher,

Dear participants of this online-meeting,

Today we are here to celebrate the 81th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule. I want to ask you, you people who are in majority born in Europe and live in Europe. What do you think when you hear book burnings? Here in Germany everyone thinks about the 1933 book burnings. Shortly after the nazis took power in Germany they started to burn progressive literature including works of Karl Marx, Erich Kästner and Kurt Tucholsky. A terrible crime with the goal to destroy knowledge and a way to stop people from education themselves.

But this was not the first time books were burned and destroyed in mass. The Japanese imperialists did the same with Korean books after they occupied the Korean peninsula. What kind of books did they destroy? Revolutionary ones? Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels? Anti-Japanese ones? They searched schools and even sacred temples to find and destroy Korean history books. Some books, knowledge about Koreas history and culture was lost forever. Because the goal of the Japanese occupiers was to destroy the Korean nation as a whole. No one should speak the Korean language, have Korean names or know Koreas history. And what did Germany do? Did they sanction Japan? Did they boycott it´s products or made an ultimatum? No the contrary! To the eternal shame of my people we allied ourselves with the Japanese imperialists and supported their imperialist wars.

The Korean People´s Revolutionary Army under the leadership of great leader President KIM IL SUNG alongside the Red Army liberated Korea on the 15th August 1945. For the first time in history the Korean people in the north of the Korean peninsula were free. Free from the colonial rule and free from feudal and capitalist oppression. They could finally decide their own fate. The liberation was followed by a number of democratic reforms: men and women were finally made equal, the land was redistributed in favour of the small farmers and the factories banks etc. were nationalized. Under the leadership of great men: President KIM IL SUNG, comrade KIM JONG IL, and Marshal KIM JONG UN the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea became a strong, independent and prosperous state. Even the mainstream-media can´t deny that anymore. The wall street journal called the DPRK „The world´s most surprising economic success story“, and the New York Times referred to the DPRK´s economic success as „Miraculous transformation“. And all this is despite the brutal US-American Embargo and despite the constant threat from western imperialism!

The past can´t be changed. We can not restore destroyed books and we can not bring back dead sons to their mothers. What we can do, we Germans and British is, we can apologize for our past mistakes and we can decide to go another way for the future. A way of partnership and collaboration with the DPRK.

I want to thank comrade Dr. Dermot Hudson, organisation secretary Alan Bolon and the whole of KFA UK for organizing this meeting and spreading the truth about People´s Korea.

Long live KFA!

Long live the DPRK!
Long live respected comrade KIM JONG UN!

Manse!