By New Worker correspondent
FRIENDS and comrades marked the 62nd
anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in the Fatherland Liberation War in
London on Saturday 18th July. The meeting, called by the Korean Friendship Association and
the Juché Idea Study Group heard an opening from Dermot Hudson of the KFA and a
report-back of a recent trip to the DPR Korea by Shaun Pickford.
Dermot Hudson
said: "The Fatherland Liberation War referred to as the Korean War in the
imperialist countries was provoked by the US imperialists on 25th
June 1950 and lasted three years. It was a most intense war, one of the
fiercest wars of the 20th century. Indeed it was a third world war in miniature
in which the two systems in the world, capitalism and socialism fought each
other.
“The US imperialists along with troops from 15 of
their vassal states attempted to destroy the young Democratic People's Republic
of Korea in its cradle, an obscene and barbarous war in which a big power and
its minions tried to pulverise into submission a small country.”
Dermot also spoke about the 21st anniversary
of the demise of great leader President Kim Il Sung: "President Kim Il
Sung was a great man, a great leader, a great philosopher who created the Juché
Idea and authored the Songun idea.
“He wrote over
1,800 works, and was the father of
modern Korea, indeed Korea is the Kim Il Sung nation. He was respected as one
of the outstanding leaders of the international communist and working class
movement.”
Shaun Pickford
said: “I was able to return to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea after
an interval of three years and saw immense improvements in the cultural and
living standards of the Korean People. All the progress that is being realised
in the DPRK, is based on socialist principles and self-reliance.
“The Supreme
Leader of the DPRK, Marshal Kim Jong Un, is working continuously for the
welfare of the Korean people and spares nothing for the well-being of the
workers, farmers and intellectuals. Such a leader as Kim Jong Un, cannot be
found elsewhere in the world, as the DPRK leader is always putting the people
first in everything”.
The meeting also
received a message from Cllr Damien Biggs, East of England regional party secretary
and National Executive Committee member of the Socialist Labour Party.
A very lively
discussion followed with questions and answers and concluded with the adoption
of a solidarity message to DPRK leader Kim Jong Un.
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