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Public Meeting

The Present Situation in the DPRK


The peoples of the world, including the Korean people and their leadership, desire a nuclear-free world and an end to all nuclear threats. However, the US is the main threat to world peace and security with its nuclear monopoly and aggression. This meeting is being held to oppose the disinformation about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and support the movement for the peaceful reunification of Korea. We invite everyone who is interested in the reality of the DPRK to come along and participate.

　

Marx House, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU
Access by public transport: Underground: Farringdon on Circle, Hammersmith & Metropolitan lines;
British Rail: Thameslink, Farringdon; Buses: 55, 63, 243, 259

Saturday, June 27, 2009, 3.00pm

With a panel from Friends of Korea who will lead discussion on and answer questions about the DPRK.

All welcome! Hands Off Korea! Part of the month of solidarity with the DPRK marked internationally.
Organised by Friends of Korea

UK KFA is staging 2 pickets one-one outside the South Korean
embassy and one outside the US embassy on June 25 to mark the 59th
anniversary of the Korean War(known in the DPRK as the Great Fatherland
Liberation War) and the start of the Month of Solidarity with the Korean
people.
The Korean war was provoked by the US imperialists 59 years ago using the
south Korean puppets as their canon fodder.The US imperialists used brutal
methods carrying massacares at Sinchon Ri and Nogun Ri.Chemical and germ
warfare was used against the Korean people.The US also threatened the use
of nuclear weapons Our picket will be to protest about the contuining
occupation of south Korea and the division of Korea.

It is more important than ever to rally around and support the DPRK in the
face of machine increasing threats,pressure and sanctions against the DPRK
by the US and its front machine tthe UNSC.Today the US is This is, in
essence, a wicked pressure offensive launched by the U.S. imperialists to
disarm the DPRK, strangle its economy and undermine its ideology and
system.
DEFEND THE D P R KOREA! SUPPORT OUR PICKETS

Picket of South Korean Embassy -12:30 - 14:30 -
Buckingham Gate London-nearest tube Victoria ,St James and Westminster

Picket of US Embassy-15:30 - 17:30
Grosvenor Square-nearest Tube-Bond St,Marble Arch and Green Park

[Revy]

Korean reunification would be extremely difficult, for a variety of reasons. Economic collapse in the North being one of them. My guess is if it were to happen, it would look more like the unification of East and West Germany.

Even if a socialist revolution occurred in South Korea, would they want to just throw all that away so they can live under the North's dictatorship? I don't think so.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

If a socialist revolution occurred in south Korea it would be a huge boost to the workers and farmers in the north. It would eliminate the biggest justification of the "military-first" and sham "self sufficiency" policies of the bureaucracy in the north - and the very existence of that bureaucracy itself.

In other words, it would create a huge opening and pave the way for the ouster of the bureaucracy in the north and the reunification of Korean on lines most amenable to the proletariat.

Any other path of reunification will come along lines amenable to imperialism, and will represent a huge set back for workers in Korea and around the world.

[Revy]

If a socialist revolution occurred in south Korea it would be a huge boost to the workers and farmers in the north. It would eliminate the biggest justification of the "military-first" and sham "self sufficiency" policies of the bureaucracy in the north - and the very existence of that bureaucracy itself.

In other words, it would create a huge opening and pave the way for the ouster of the bureaucracy in the north and the reunification of Korean on lines most amenable to the proletariat.

Any other path of reunification will come along lines amenable to imperialism, and will represent a huge set back for workers in Korea and around the world.

Thanks for explaining that. I hope you're right. What I don't want to see is just one unified capitalist Korea. Then all the ideologues will once again proclaim the failure of communism. I have always been for a solution which puts all of Korea along a more genuine socialist direction.

[Shin Honyong]

As much as I'd love to rip on US attacks on other countries and talk about the sins of the ROK and USA, the DPRK is not exactly a "Communist" country I'd love to defend.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

So you don't defend unions with sell-out leaders from attacks by bosses or the state, right?

[Wakizashi the Bolshevik]

I am a KFA member, too bad that there aren't any meetings here in Belgium :(.

[Shin Honyong]

So you don't defend unions with sell-out leaders from attacks by bosses or the state, right?

Do you support Unions that do nothing but increase their own leaders power and trample on the working class?


Then again, most Unions are not neo-Confucian monarchies whose leaders got into power by slaughtering fellow patriots. The DPRK have frequently worked against the interests of the workers in the name of increasing their own personal power.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Do you support Unions that do nothing but increase their own leaders power and trample on the working class?If your answer to that is no than you wouldn't defend a UAW picket line that was being attacked by the National Guard.

There's a big difference between lending political support to something and defending it from attack.