Contribution of Martin Lotscher KFA Switzerland to the online Meeting 14.08.2026

 Dear comrades of the Korean Friendship Association UK and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea,

On behalf of the Swiss Korea Committee (KFA Switzerland) and the Swiss Juche Idea Study Group, I send you our comradely greetings to your online meeting to celebrate the 81st Anniversary of Korea's Liberation.

August 15, 1945 was the happiest day of the Korean people. On that day the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) commanded by the great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG liberated Korea from the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism.

He gave the Korean people freedom, independence and democracy.

The Korean people was the happiest people of the world!

Korea's liberation encouraged all Asian peoples who were still fighting for their own liberation from the colonial yoke of imperialist powers.

The Juche-based struggle of the Korean people for independent liberation is the model of antiimperialist liberation struggle until today.

Dear comrades, we wish you a successful online meeting to celebrate Korea's Liberation Day!

Eternal glory to the great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, the Sun of Korea and heaven-sent liberator!

Eternal glory to the Korean people's victorious struggle for national liberation!

Martin Lötscher,

president of the Swiss Korea Committee (KFA Switzerland),

president of the Swiss Juche Idea Study Group

August 12, 2026

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!

Speech of Alan Bolon to the meeting for the 81st anniversary of Korea's liberation 14.08.2026

 Dear participants of the Online Meeting marking the 81st anniversary of Korea's liberation: First, please accept my apologies for my absence, which is due to urgent family matters. Dear participants, please hear my message: 

 Today’s meeting offers an opportunity to reflect not only on the nature and significance of the events that took place 81 years ago but also—and I believe this is crucial—on the impact those events have on the present day, both for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and for us personally. 

 You gather today to commemorate the liberation of the Korean people and to pay tribute to all those who fought for a free and independent Korea. This day is a time to reflect on the price paid for independence and to express gratitude to the heroic generations of Korea who did not yield during the darkest hours of the Japanese occupation.

 On this day commemorating the great Korean victory over the Japanese occupation, it is worth first highlighting the importance of honoring the historical legacy of the Korean people—a legacy that recalls the long years Korea spent under Japanese rule. This heritage stands as a glorious pillar of the strength possessed today by socialist, Juche Korea.

 Eighty-one years since liberation from Japanese occupation represents nearly a full century—a significant span of time for any country or nation. Yet, the true measure of time for a nation lies not merely in its passing, but in the deeds and achievements realized during that period—achievements that shape the present day—and in the case of the DPRK, these are immense. Eight decades of building the finest form of socialism—a socialism centered on human well-being and development—represent eight decades of forging a new type of socialist man: a free, conscious, and creative being, standing as the supreme entity to which the world is subordinate. 

 This process—briefly interrupted by Yankee aggression in 1950 and the victory over American imperialism—spanning these eight decades, demonstrates that the Korean path to socialism, initiated by the long struggle for liberation led by the esteemed Comrade Kim Il Sung—a path he forged first in his heart and in the fires of guerrilla warfare—is the only and most righteous path for all who harbor a yearning for freedom and independence in their souls. 

 When we look today at other countries around the world—where people suffer under the exploitation and oppression of capital, and where wealthy elite classes carve ever-deeper divisions while trampling upon the rights and freedoms of others (whose poverty is a direct consequence of those elites)—we feel all the more admiration and respect for the social, economic, and political model of People's Korea, founded upon the epoch-making Juche philosophy. It is precisely the idea of Juche—and the strength derived from it, rooted in authenticity and the power unleashed within the collective unity—that has been and remains the source of all the successes achieved by People's Korea. 

 The liberation of Korea from Japanese occupation—achieved at the cost of blood and the sacrifices of many Korean Heroes—brought a long-cherished freedom; immediately following this liberation, Korea embarked on the monumental task of building a state based on equality among all social classes, under the leadership of the proletariat. Just as the people of Korea had united in the struggle against the Japanese occupiers, so too did they remain steadfast after their victory, united as a disciplined collective characterized by high moral standards and active engagement. This high level of engagement stems not only from embracing the guiding force of the epoch-defining Juche philosophy but also from adopting the lessons and experiences of the Heroes who fought for Korea’s liberation in the anti-Japanese struggle—a struggle that culminated in the victory of 1945. This victory conveys the message that freedom is both a gift and, above all, a task—a task for us all. Please remember: A freedom is not granted once and for all; we must nurture and uphold it every day. 

 May the memory of this glorious day for the people of Korea—when the power of tradition and the legacy of the heroic deeds performed by the valiant Korean People's Army in the struggle against the Japanese occupiers find expression, united in patriotism—serve as a model and an inspiration for us in the fight for a new, just world free from exploitation and imperialist domination! 

 Glory and honor to the heroes who fell in the struggle to liberate Korea from the yoke of Japanese occupation!

 Long live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! 

 With greetings to all of you and thankfully to the meeting: A l a n B o l o n Organization Secretary of the KFA UK

We Will Exercise Our Right to Self-defence for Neutralizing Military Threat from Hostile Forces through More Transparent Action: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The large-scale U.S.- ROK joint military exercises, Ulji Freedom Shield, began in every part of the ROK on August 17. The drill poses the most immediate and open threat to the DPRK and the regional security.

The exercises will last for over 10 days, involving U.S. troops in the ROK and the ROK army as the mainstay of the exercises as well as extra-regional U.S. reinforcements and forces of member states of the "UN Command". And these frantic exercises cover all spheres of carrying out wartime operations including the ground, sea, air, space, cyber and psychological information. This is pushing again the tensions on the Korean peninsula to the threshold of a war.

In particular, all the major units under the U.S. 8th Army, including the 2nd Infantry Division, the 19th Sustainment Command, the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, and the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, are taking part in the drill. And various actual maneuvers of the drill include a combined arms live-firing exercise aimed at verifying the capability for joint precision strike and mobility, a combined wet gap crossing exercise and a joint logistic support maneuver for providing war supplies in contingency.

Nevertheless, prior to the exercises, the military warmongers of the U.S. and the ROK described the drill as "annual" and "defensive" one in public with the aim of hiding the aggressive and provocative nature of the largest-ever exercises.

Such drill, which has been staged for decades despite the changes of regimes in the U.S. and the ROK, cannot be regarded only as a bad habitual military practice of the enemy states. And we can never get used to it.

As everybody knows, the enemies' war drill differs in its mission, form, scale and training methods every time.

All the elements of the war drill have been developing into extremely dangerous ones, quite different from the past ones. And it is being desperately oriented towards improving the actual fighting capacity in the war exercises against the DPRK and gaining the decisive ascendancy in the security structure in the Korean peninsula and the rest of the region.

The main point of the drill is to perform "practical training reflecting the changing security environment" and to "improve effectiveness". And its scenarios are being tailored to adapt to new modern war manuals and ways analyzed in recent wars.

The U.S.-ROK command post training under the simulated conditions of contingency in the Korean peninsula, the field training exercise which was waged more than ten times and even the "all-government combined exercise" which the ROK is staging independently by enlisting more than 4 000 agencies and over 580 000 personnel across the country feature supplemented elements of ultra-modern operations such as AI, drone and cyber.

What is all the more serious is that the U.S.-led "UN Command" which played an auxiliary role in the Ulji Freedom Shield exercises only a few years ago is kick-starting in real earnest to revive its combat function and expand its role, talking about "contribution in new spheres such as intelligence, cyber and space" with the ongoing exercises as an occasion.

Prior to the drill, the deputy commander of the "UN Command" said that it would be the strongest deterrence when the countries sharing the same intention counter together and the strong combination of posture when the ROK-U.S. alliance and UN Command are added, making it a fait accompli to hurl into an actual war the largest-ever multinational aggression forces by misusing the name of the "UN forces" in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula as it did in the 1950s of the last century.

This is a development that can not be overlooked. It visually shows that the ROK bordering the DPRK is turning into not only the training ground of the U.S.-ROK military alliance but also a gathering place of multinational aggression forces and a test ground of modern warfare for occupying the security sphere of the DPRK and the independent countries in the region.

The dangerous escalation of the war drills staged by the U.S. and its vassal forces is posing a more serious threat to the security rights of the DPRK and this will lead to the further deterioration of the situation of the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region.

The present situation makes us keenly realize what we should do.

The DPRK's exercise of its right to self-defence will continue to completely neutralize the enemies' military threat until the enemy states give up their reckless dream of overwhelming someone by force and completely abandon their attempt to break the balance of strength in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean peninsula.

It is necessary to counter the threatening maneuvers of the enemies which are getting serious as the time goes by with newly-developed strength.

The DPRK will always put all the enemies violating and threatening its sovereign security in the sighting range for precision and annihilating strike by its retaliatory means.

All the war drills for aggression staged by the enemy states in the Korean peninsula and the region will never produce the result desired by them. -0-

Phyohun Temple in Mt Kumgang

 

The Phyohun Temple stands in Mt Kumgang, a celebrated mountain of the DPRK. Built in 670, the Buddhist temple is among the four major temples in Mt Kumgang.

Pyongyang Taedonggang Fish Restaurant

 

The Pyongyang Taedonggang Fish Restaurant outwardly resembling a pleasure boat stands on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK. It draws many for its instant dishes made of fresh fish such as sturgeon, salmon and Ryongjong fish.

Korean Speciality–Rice-and-mugwort Cake

 

The healthy rice-and-mugwort cake with peculiar aroma and taste is one of the Korean traditional foods.