Answering the lies of Panorama- commentary by the UK Korean Friendship Association, Juche Idea Study Group of England and ASSPUK

On the 1st of August  2016 the BBC 1 flagship programme "Panorama " broadcast  "Inside north Korea" made by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes  who had been arrested  and expelled from the DPRK in May 2016  Of course this is not the first time that "Panorama" has slandered the DPRK , in 2013 despite numerous protests BBC Panorama broadcast "north Korea undercover" ( a very similar
title) made by John Sweeney who had entered the DPRK by deception(by a posing as an academic) . "Panorama " has a very long history of attacking socialist countries, anti-imperialist states and progressive causes. It is very much a propaganda mouthpiece, a megaphone for the capitalist ruling class of the UK.  There is a close relationship between the BBC and the British external intelligence service MI6. It was exposed a long time ago that in fact many BBC foreign correspondents are actually MI6 agents or work closely with it. Those working for the BBC are required to undergo the same level of security vetting as the Foreign Office this excludes communists and left wingers from working for the BBC. MI6 itself co-operates closely with the US CIA and the south Korean NIS ,so it is likely that this programme was made at their request.
   BBC reporters are usually from privilieged middle class backgrounds . They receive salaries of £47,000 per year and the following benefits; "Childcare vouchers,Health screening,Illness, personal accident or travel insurance,Private medical or dental cover,A big discount on a new bike for cycling to work,Monthly wine deliveries" Plus they might receive tax-free under the table payments from
other sources.
  Wingfield-Hayes spent some time covering the pro-imperialist "colour revolutions " in the middle east which were ochre stated by the Western media and saw the overthrow of some progressive and anti-imperialist governments such as that of Col Gadhafi. Wingfield-Hayes reporting on Palestine was criticised by pro Palestinian organisations.
   Not surprisingly in many ways Wingfield-Hayes programme was a rehash of Sweeney's earlier one , it relied heavily on the stale repetition of cliches and bare-faced propaganda lies. There was nothing
original or new  about Wingfield-Hayes programme, you could find most of what he said already in any publication or media outlet in the West. So much for "investigative journalism"
    Within the space of the first few minutes Wingfield-Hayes managed to trot out as many tired anti-DPRK propaganda cliches as possible such "isolated " , "impoverished  " etc ,etc. Of course this is the classic propaganda technique elaborated by Hitler's chief propagandist Josef Goebbels who said that if you repeat a lie enough times then people will accept it as true.By continually repeating untrue cliched assertions like "isolated "  and "impoverished" the BBC actually brainwash people.
   Wingfield-Hayes kept on about poverty in the DPRK, and yet in the UK impoverishment is on the increase.Did Wingfield-Hayes see any foodbanks in the DPRK ? Did he see any second-hand clothes shops?Any pawnbrokers ?The answer is a resounding No .Walking the streets of Pyongyang in October 2015 and April 2016 ,members of the UK KFA and Juche Idea Study Group of England did not see anyone begging and no one homeless or sleeping in shop doorways.Indeed in the DPRK people receive homes free of charge and food is distributed at low cost so that can be no such thing 
as poverty in the DPRK.
  The programme showed a lot of ignorance and political illiteracy. The Juche Idea was referred to 
as the 'Juche Ideal' by Wingfield-Hayes . He gave no analysis or explanation of the Juche Idea. In fact the Juche Idea is a deep philosophical concept that centres on the idea that man is the master of everything and is expressed in practical terms  as independence, self-sufficiency and self-defence.It is an idea that has gripped the hearts and minds of millions of people throughout the world and Juche Idea Study Groups exist in many countries throughout the world. Wingfield-Hayes stands in front of the statue of Kim Jong Il and but refers to it as being a statue  Kim Il Sung instead !What an idiot !
Wingfield-Hayes wrongly said that  the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea was the first one to be held for 40 years ,this is wrong it is 36 years .
   Our "intrepid reporter " claimed that he was going to take  a casual walk outside the guest house compound. In fact he was accompanied by a film crew so it was not a casual walk but actual filming.
In London people are required to get permission before they film anywhere.  The FilmLondon website states "Whatever location you are using, no matter how public it seems, it is likely you'll need to notify or get permission from somebody.
The impact of failing to inform relevant authorities could result in unnecessary police resources being deployed.". So Pyongyang is actually no different from London. Thus Wingfield-Hayes committed a transgression agains the socialist system of the DPRK and an hostile act by trying to film without prior permission.
    Wingfield-Hayes assumed the role of a paediatrician and claiming the ill children at The Okryu Hospital were all actors!!! This is a grave insult to the children and their parents , an insult to the Korean people and a slander on the socialist system!
  There were references to executions of high-ranking officials. In fact many of those reports such as the one about former chief of general staff of the Korean People's Army , Ri Yong Gil  , have been proved false. General Ri was elected to a position at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, far from being dead ! . The only execution that took place was that of the traitor Jang Song Thaek in December 2013. This was a just measure as the traitor had been involved in corruption and was planning to overthrow the socialist system in the DPRK in concert with the US and south Korea and 
 a certain big power. The execution was necessary to defend the socialist system of the DPRK and the independence of the country.
     As one account of a visit to the DPRK states "  The imperialists claim that there are hundreds of thousands of people held in camps in the DPRK , such camps would have to be massive and with a huge number of guards but I did not see such a thing in the DPRK countryside. Moreover the DPRK is very peaceful and calm you rarely see emergency vehicles rushing through the busy streets. If it what the imperialists say about "human rights " and " forced labour camps " in the DPRK was true, then you would say police or security personnel on the streets arresting many people and putting them in lorries to go to "labour camps " or "concentrations camps " but I saw no such thing happen. I did not see heavily armed police on the streets that you sometimes encounter in London , either on the streets or at railway stations or at airports . Indeed I was able to go for a walk near the Mansudae Assemby Hall the home of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly  , the highest organ of legislative power in the DPRK and roughly equivalent to the parliament. Now in London the area around parliament is a restricted area where movement is controlled and armed police units patrol. However  in Pyongyang I see no police or security personnel in the area surrounding the Mansudae Assembly hall. Of course
the DPRK is a stable and harmonious unified society based on single hearted unity so there is no terrorism and no riots. In the DPRK there is unity between the  armed forces and civilians  so people do not fear or despise the armed forces..I did not see the police oppressing anyone on the streets . I did not see anyone get arrested or the police in the DPRK shoot anyone dead !  In the USA , the so called "land of the free "  , which is the country behind the clamour about " human rights in the DPRK , the police regularly shoot down people  most of them black. The British newspaper "The Guardian" said so far this year 944 people had been killed by police in the USA so far this  year ! . In the UK armed police units have been responsible for the loss of life notably innocent Brazilian electrician  Jean Charles De Menezes and Mark Duggan (which sparked the 2011 riots)"
   Wingfield-Hayes received the best hospitality from the DPRK . He was put in the VIP Guest compound but instead of showing gratitude  repaid this good treatment by telling lies.
   Of course the most damning thing about Wingfield-Hayes was that he actually confessed  to lying and making up stories when he was arrested , In course of the programme he admitted that in 2003
he had entered the DPRK under false pretences pretending to a tourist and filmed covertly. Thus Wingfield-Hayes by his own admission does not tell the truth and practises lying and deception.
  No amount of propaganda from British imperialism will make the Korean People give up socialism. The task of UK KFA is now more vital than ever before, in exposing the lies and spreading the truth about Peoples Korea!!  Join us now in our fight to defend People's Korea !
UK KFA
Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Juche Idea Study Group of England.

Saviour of National Restoration

Saviour of National Restoration

General Kim Il Sung makes a speech at the rally held in Pyongyang

to welcome his triumphant return in October 1945

71 years have passed since Korea’s liberation.

When the fate of the Korean nation was at stake, the whole nation as well as many patriots set out on the struggle for national liberation. They appealed to the world powers. In the March 1 Uprising in 1919, they rose in revolt against the Japanese colonial rule and launched Independence Army movement. But, the desiring liberation did not come and bloody struggles ended with failure.

What was the cause of the failure?

The lack of sacrifice for liberation?

It was because the Korean nation was not led by a prominent leader.

At that time when the Korean nation stood at the crossroads of life and death, the bright sun of national resurrection swept away the dark clouds of national sufferings.

He is General Kim Il Sung, the sun of the nation and lodestar of liberation.

In his early teen age, he embarked on the road of revolution with a grim resolve not to return before Korea had become independent.

The twenty-year-long bloody war of Korean nation led by General Kim Il Sung against the Japanese imperialists was the unprecedented, most arduous and severe struggle and confrontation.

During the period of it, he lost his parents and younger brother in an alien land.

The difficulties and hardships of anti-Japanese struggle are beyond description.

Unceasing fierce battle against the enemy, biting cold, constant hunger…

He had kept all the hardships and sorrows to himself and took pleasure in painstaking for the nation, revolution and people.

He united the people, who were ignorant of way to advance, into one under the banner of the anti-Japanese and inspired them with confidence in victory. His wise leadership was the dynamics for the victory. The Korean people felt keenly that they could save the destiny of the nation as well as of their own only when they follow him to make an all-people resistance and waged a war against the Japanese imperialist gangsters.

President Kim Il Sung started the armed struggle with only two pistols and defeated the Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth without the state backing and the support of regular armed forces to liberate the fatherland. The Korea’s liberation is a miracle recorded in the history of national liberation struggle that could be achieved only by the President.

Many years have elapsed since the liberation. Nevertheless, Korea is pervaded with the nation’s deep reverence for the President.

A professor in Seoul said that August 15 is the day when the destiny of the nation was saved from the Japanese colonial rule and a new era of national prosperity was opened up. And he went on that the liberation was achieved by President Kim Il Sung, the anti-Japanese legendary hero. The online paper Chammallo highly praised the President for his exploits of liberation. It noted that, with patriotic will, he led the heroic anti-Japanese armed struggle without the state backing and liberated the fatherland on August 15, 1945 by the nation itself.

Chairman Kim Jong Un immortalizes the exploits of President Kim Il Sung and leads the nationwide struggle to implement the President’s behests of national reunification to victory.

The bright future of the nation depends on Chairman Kim Jong Un.

Upholding Chairman Kim Jong Un who is identical with the President as the father of the nation, cheers of national liberation will certainly develop into hurrah for national reunification.

Korean Preparatory Committee for 2017 Meeting Praising Great Persons of Mt. Paektu Formed

2017 is a significant year which greets the 105th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, the 75th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il, the 100th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk and the 5th anniversary of Marshal Kim Jong Un's election to the top posts of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the DPRK.
Kim Jong Suk, chairwoman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who doubles as chairwoman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People, was elected chairwoman of the preparatory committee, Ri Yong Chol, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Song Il, vice-chairman of the Central Broadcasting Committee of Korea, and O Yong Chol, vice-minister of Culture, vice-chairmen of the preparatory committee and Pak Kyong Il, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who doubles as vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People, secretary general of the preparatory committee.
The preparatory committee decided to organize diverse activities to introduce and add shine to the greatness and exploits of the peerlessly great persons of Mt. Paektu and make meticulous arrangements to let the Meeting Praising Great Persons of Mt. Paektu be held in Pyongyang and on Mt. Paektu in 2017 successfully in close contact with the preparatory committees formed in regions and countries throughout the world.
Preparatory committees for the 2017 Meeting Praising Great Persons of Mt. Paektu have been formed in Asia-Pacific, European, African, American, Oceanian and Arab regions and more than 60 preparatory committees in about 50 foreign countries so far reflecting the unanimous aspiration and desire of the world progressive people. They are conducting colorful activities. -0-

ASSPUK,JISGE, UK KFA and UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu denounce US biochemical warfare laboratory in south Korea

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK 

www.uk-songun.com email juche007@yahoo.co.uk
                           
               1st of August Juche 105(2016)
    The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK), the Juche Idea Study Group of England(JISGE),the UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) and the UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu today jointly issued a statement in support of the statement made by the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army(KPA) concerning the establishment of a biological and chemical weapons laboratory in south Korea by the US imperialists;
   The US imperialists have announced the so-called "Jupiter plan "to establish a biochemical warfare laboratory in south Korea to produce anthrax and botulinus.Under this plan necessary personnel and hardware are supposed to be brought into Pusan Port by this November and the project is due to commence from 2017.
  Germ weapons are the weapon of the devil.This is a plan by the US imperialists to wage a genocidal war to exterminate the Korean nation.History has not forgotten that the US imperialists carried out crude germ warfare against the innocent Korean people  during the Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s. The U.S. imperialists are the sworn enemy of the Korean people and the world people.
    The south Korean people are strongly opposed to the construction of the US
biochemical warfare laboratory.We support them in their struggle.
   As the statement of the KPA Panmunjom mission says the barbarous intent of the US imperialists to exterminate the Korean nation will only strengthen the resolve of the KPA to wage retaliatory war against the US imperialists.
   We demand that the US imperialists drop the plans to build a biochemical
laboratory in south Korea and withdraw their troops from south Korea. Furthermore we support the resolve of the Korean People's Army and its militant anti-imperialist stand.
US OUT OF KOREA
YANKEE GO HOME
ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA
 UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu
   

U.S. Imperialists' Plan to Set up Bio-Chemical Weapons Laboratory in S. Korea Slammed

 Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist aggression forces decided to set up a biological and chemical weapons laboratory studying highly toxic germs of high lethality like anthrax and botulinus under what it called "Jupiter plan".
    Under this plan necessary personnel and hardware are supposed to be brought into Pusan Port by this November and the project is due to commence from next year.
    The Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army in a statement Monday said that the "Jupiter plan" pursued by the U.S. imperialist aggression forces is pursuant to the scenario to wage a biological and chemical warfare at a time of fighting a war of aggression against the DPRK.
    The U.S. imperialists' act of leaving no barbarous means and ways untried to invade the DPRK urges the army and people to harden their immutable will to take retaliation against the U.S., the statement said, and went on:
    The U.S. imperialists are the sworn enemy and murderers who indiscriminately massacred the Koreans through germ and chemical warfare far back during the last Korean War.
    After the war the U.S. imperialists massively introduced into south Korea weapons of mass destruction including biological and chemical weapons in a bid to annihilate the Korean nation and yet they did not forward any notice about it to the south Korean puppet forces.
    The number of germ warfare experiments conducted by the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea remains shrouded in the mists and no one can estimate the amount of highly poisonous chemical substances now stockpiled there.
    At a time when the whole world is aspiring after peace and security, the U.S. imperialist aggression forces are making preparations for germ warfare as evidenced by the plan to set up the biological and chemical weapons laboratory in south Korea. This can never be tolerated.
    The U.S. imperialists' hideous scheme for germ warfare clearly teaches the army and people of the DPRK how they have to approach the imminent confrontation with the U.S.
    The army of the DPRK is fully ready to counter any form of war mode wanted by the U.S. imperialists.
    The U.S. imperialists' hideous moves to inflict the holocaust of germ warfare upon the Korean nation are bound to invite stern punishment. -0-

south Korean fascists banning books

According to the south Korean newspaper "Tong-A ilbo" there are currently 12,000 banned books and pamphlets in the ROK, which violate the National Security Law. The seditious list includes DPRK publications and books on the Juche Idea, and what could be deemed Marxist and liberal literature. A total of 307 publishing houses and bookstores have been closed by the Pak Gye Hee Regime over the last four years. The mainstream media continues to perpetuate the myth that south Korea is somehow democratic and akin to the same standards of Western countries!

[English] Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang