The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) organised an online anti-US meeting to mark the Day of Struggle Against US imperialism , the 75th anniversary of the provocation of the Fatherland Liberation War and the start of the Month of Solidarity with the Korean people . The meeting was held on the 25th of June at 1900 hours BST via Telegram . Participating in the meeting were KFA UK activists and members from London , Staffordshire , Scotland and other parts of the UK ,they were joined by guests from KFA Andalusia (Spain) ,KFA Canada , KFA Germany, KFA Greece , KFA Spain and the People’s Korea Initiative of Poland .
Dr Dermot Hudson Chairman of KFA UK introduced the meeting and explained that June 25th is the Day of Struggle against US imperialism in the DPRK and that the Month of Solidarity was initiated in the 1960s by Tricontinental People’s Solidarity Organisation .
The head of Staffordshire KFA UK and secretary general of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea spoke . He pointed out the provocation of the Fatherland Liberation War by the US imperialists and south Korean puppets was a plot by the US to subjugate the Korean people and destroy the people’s democratic system established in the DPRK . The speaker recalled visiting the Sinchon Museum in the DPRK , the site of massacres by the US of civilians . He said that the DPRK won victory in the war thanks to the commanding tactics of the respected and beloved leader President KIM IL SUNG, an ever-victorious iron -willed brilliant . He concluded that today the DPRK under respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is standing firm against US imperialism.
Dr Hudson made his keynote address in which he said in part “75 years passed since that fateful day on Sunday 25th of June 1950 the US imperialists provoked the Fatherland Liberation War which is referred to by the mainstream media as the Korean War , although it was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people .As Marshal KIM JONG UN said to a conference of war veterans in 2015 that the Fatherland Liberation War was “a confrontation between rifle and atomic bomb.”
He also said Britain had sent troops to fight against the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War but there was opposition to this by the Communist , Young Communist League , Daily Worker and some Labour MPs. He concluded with a call for more solidarity with People’s Korea.
The vice-chairman of KFA Germany spoke stressing the importance of remembering the Fatherland Liberation War . Today in the world the US imperialists and their proxies are committing genocide . He said that
However we can be sure Comrades, the voice of the popular masses
cannot be silenced forever. US-Imperialism may seem strong on the
outside but is in fact very weak on the inside. The struggle of the
popular masses for their sovereignty is unstoppable and will eventually
lead to a world, which the DPRK today is setting the first example of.
The acting general secretary of KFA Greece brought the greetings of KFA Greece to the meeting . He denounced the atrocities of the US imperialists adding that Greece as well as the UK had shamefully sent troops to fight against the Korean .
Representatives of KFA Andalusia and KFA Scotland also made short contributions which denounced the crimes of the US imperialists and saluted the fortitude of the KPA soldiers.
A short documentary clip “Indelible Crimes “ was shown and a music video “Death to the US imperialist Aggressors “ was played.
The meeting concluded at 20.10 hours BST.
