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| Kim Song Gi addressing the meeting |
by New Worker correspondent
Korean
solidarity activists met last weekend to hear a report back from members of a
recent delegation to Democratic Korea that took part in celebrating the 70th
anniversary of the foundation of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Pyongyang. The meeting at the Kings
Cross Neighbourhood Centre in the heart of London was organised by the Korea
Friendship Association (KFA), whose chair, Dermot Hudson had headed the UK KFA
delegation that visited the DPRK last month.
It was a first time visit for one of
the delegates who said: “as the American journalist Lincoln
Steffens said after spending time in the early days of the Soviet Union ‘I have
seen the future, and it works’”.
The
meeting also commemorated the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea by great
leader Kim Il Sung on 10th October 1945.Kim Song Gi , a diplomat from the DPRK embassy in London, addressed the meeting saying that the
anniversary was a great event as the Party is the force leading the Korean
people forward . He said thanks to efforts of the WPK and respected leader Kim
Jong Un another successful inter-Korean
summit had taken place. Moreover the WPK is pursuing people-orientated policies
and is taking care of people's lives.
Theo Russell spoke on behalf of the New
Communist Party and a message from the RCPB (ML) was read out.
A lively Q & A followed with
questions about industrial democracy and workers control in the DPRK , sanctions
, public transport fares , and free beer rations!
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