-speech to KFA International Meeting 12 November 2022 by Dr Dermot Hudson ,chairman
Dear comrade Alejandro Cao De Benos , KFA President
Dear comrades and friends ,
This KFA International Meeting is being held in the significant year of 2022, which has seen not only the 110th anniversary of the birth of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and 80th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade KIM JONG, IL but also the 10th anniversary of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN ‘s leadership. Marshal KIM JONG UN has proved himself to be an extremely capable and dynamic leader who is both a defender of the people’s interests and also a defender of the independence of the country.
Some of us remember the first public speech of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN that was made at the military parade on April 15 2012 in KIM IL SUNG Square . To me two points stood out from the speech ;
Firstly , Marshal KIM JONG UN pledged that “The permanent strategy of our revolution and its final victory lie in going straight along the road of independence, the road of Songun, the road of socialism”
And that
“ It is the firm determination of our Party to ensure that our people , who are the best in the world and who have remained faithful to the Party in the face of all manner of difficulties ,do not have to tighten their belts again but enjoy all the benefits of socialism”‘ .
At the time the imperialist mainstream media misinterpreted the second quotation because they have no understanding whatsoever of socialism and do not realise that improving living standards is fundamental to socialism and is an intrinsic feature of people-centred , Juche-based socialism . In fact the DPRK did not adopt ‘reform ‘ and ‘opening up ‘ but under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , who strongly stressed self-reliance and self-development first , People’s Korea kept to the road of Juche , self-reliance ,independence and socialism . This not only disappointed the imperialists but angered them considerably so they waged an intense campaign of slander and psychological warfare which defamed Marshal KIM JONG UN and the socialist system of People’s Korea.
Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN has shown himself to be an extremely astute and shrewd leader . On the one hand in order to prevent a catastrophic war he held summits with the then US president Trump and with 3 summits with the south Korean chief executive . These events were also misunderstood by some at different ends of the political spectrum .On the other hand , the DPRK did not dismantle a single ICBM or nuclear weapon and it did not open a McDonalds in Pyongyang. It rejected the so-called ‘Libyan model ‘ of unilateral disarmament . In January this year (2022) the 6th Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea was held and decided that national defence should be bolstered and to “resume temporarily suspended activities .”
This year the DPRK has carried out many missile tests including the successful test of the Hwasong-pho 17 ICBM in March ,
Under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN there has been rapid development in all fields and the DPRK has achieved many great things . The DPRK successfully concluded the line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel , the line of Pyongjin and became a nuclear power of Juche and an ICBM power .
The economy of the DPRK has grown rapidly under the banner of self-reliance and under the guidance of supreme leader Marshal KIM JONG UN . The DPRK domestically produced its own tube train, trolleybus , double decker bus , light plane and new type tractor .
Great achievements have been registered in the field of construction .Whole new streets in Pyongyang housing tens of thousands of families have sprung up one after the other ; Changjon Street, Unha Scientists Street , Mirae Scientists Street , Ryomyong Street and Songhwa street . Housing construction is not just in Pyongyang ; a whole new city has been constructed at Samjiyon in the far north of the DPRK and housing built in rural villages . When floods occurred in 2015, 2016 and 2020, respected Marshal KIM JONG UN made sure that new homes were constructed rapidly to replace the destroyed ones.
None of this was done in ideal conditions . The DPRK has had to face the most severe sanctions from the US imperialists and the UN . Moreover there have been constant military pressure and provocations from the US imperialists and south Korean puppets . On top of all this the world has been gripped by the global pandemic health crisis of Covid 19 . The DPRK correctly closed its borders back in January 2020 . So the DPRK has survived nearly 3 years with the border closed when some countries would not last a few days .
Under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the DPRK was able to defeat Covid 19 within 3 months and basically by relying on its own resources as it rejected the fake humanitarian aid of world imperialism and the south Korean puppets . No other country has done this. In some countries Covid 19 still prevails after nearly 3 years since its first outbreak .
Lastly ,mention should be made of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN initiation of a campaign against anti-socialist and non-socialist behaviours . In 2019 Marshal KIM JONG UN declared that ‘ Establishing socialist lifestyle and morality is a serious political struggle and an acute class struggle to defend and glorify our idea and social system’ and later in that year the campaign against anti-socialist and non-socialist behaviour began in earnest which was further reinforced at the 8th Congress of the WPK in January 2021 and at plenary meetings of the WPK Moreover in a recent speech Marshal KIM JONG UN drew attention to the danger of ” opportunistic and counterrevolutionary ideological tendencies “ .Bourgeois and imperialist ideology are insidious toxins that destroy socialism . They can be an invisible and silent enemy that stealthily infiltrates into a socialist country just like a disease entering the body . Indeed you could compare imperialist and bourgeois ideology and culture to Covid 19.Marshal KIM JONG UN has ensured that the DPRK has not fallen into the trap that some former socialist countries fell into.
The 10 years of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN ‘s supreme leadership have been years of victory and glory . KFA UK salutes the great achievements of People’s Korea under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and believes that the coming decades will see even greater victories for People’s Korea including the final defeat of US imperialism and the reunification of Korea .
Long Live respected Marshal KIM JONG UN !
Long Live People’s Korea !
Long Live self-reliance !
Long live Juche !
Long live KFA !
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
Official Delegate KFA for the UK .
