Report of Meeting of the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA to mark 66th anniversary of victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War

                                                           

The  Juche Idea Study Group of England and Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK supported by the UK Korean Friendship Association held a meeting on the 27th of July in central London to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War . The meeting was attended by members of the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK Korean Friendship Association , members of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party including general secretary Andy Brooks and members of the progressive Italian community in London as well as general public.
The meeting received messages wishing it well from the DPRK Embassy , London and from Staffordshire KFA .
Dr Dermot Hudson opened the meeting saying that the situation on the Korean peninsula was becoming tense owing to the moves of the double dealing south Korean authorities who are carrying out military exercises and importing weapons from outside. Dr Hudson said that the recent tactical missile test of the DPRK was a great success and dealt a  blow to the warmongers. It was even more important than before to support the DPRK against imperialism and holding this meeting to celebrate the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War was a way of showing solidarity .
Dr Hudson briefly reported about his successful visit to Brazil where he addressed a seminar of 200 people at Rio State University
Speaking about the anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War Dr Hudson said in part ” Nearly  one month ago Trump made an unprecedented gesture and became the first US president to actually set foot in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , a country that the US has never recognised diplomatically and has imposed massive sanctions against. Trump made this gesture at a very significant place , Panmunjom . This was a the place where the US 66 years ago on this victory signed the Korean Armistice Agreement , acknowledging the military defeat and failure of the US in the Korean War or as it is known in the DPRK , the Fatherland Liberation  War. It can be said that maybe Trump was recognising the political defeat of the US in Korea, some 66 years after the US acknowledged its military defeat….
  The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials.  In fact 73 million tons of war materials were used in the war .The war raged on until July 27th 1953 when the US kneeled down and signed the Armistice Agreement.
During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces, and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over 12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and armoured vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces of various types. The loss suffered by the US imperialists was nearly 2.3 times greater than what they had suffered in the four years of the Pacific War during World War II. Even official US statistics showed during each of the three years of the Korean War they lost double  the number of troops lost in each year of the Vietnam war.
The right wing and extremely anti-communist  US military historian Bevin Alexander , who himself had been a US army officer during the Korean War, referred to the Fatherland Liberation War as being ‘the first war we lost’
Former US State of Secretary Marshall said that “the myth was blown away. We are not a strong country as others thought. The infamous Senator J R McCarthy admitted “we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “ . McCarthy’s remark  prompts me to think whether  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were really executed(on the 19 of June 1953  a month before the US defeat) as scapegoats for the US defeat in the Fatherland Liberation War .As the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG said “In this great struggle our people fought determinedly as one in mind under the correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominious defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs
The US imperialists also suffered irretrievable political and moral defeats.

There can no doubt that he victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was due to the outstanding an brilliant commanding art of the great leader Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG , a military strategic genius .
The US and Donald Trump should study the history of the US defeat in Korea and draw the lesson from it and end their hostile anti-DPRK policy totally , otherwise an even greater defeat is staring them in the face  !”

Andy Brooks , general secretary of the New Communist Party and editor of the New Worker newspaper  said that basically the Fatherland Liberation War was a big defeat for the US and they did not like to speak it .He said that the American and British soldiers in the Korean War had not wanted to go there in the first place and had to not wanted to fight . Comrade Brooks said that  a old British soldier in the Korean war said he never saw any south Korean troops only British , Turkish and American troops . He also said that the US and south Korea had built a concrete wall across the length of Korea.
A representative of the progressive and anti-imperialist Italian community in London spoke about the need to support the DPRK against imperialism .

Questions and discussion followed. A school teacher from the south coast of England pointed out that the US forces in Korea used Afro-American troops as a bullet shields and cannon fodder. Further discussion followed on this point , it was said that the US used the armed forces of other countries to shield them from the KPA . Others in the discussion pointed out that some US soldiers defected to the DPRK . The DPRK had well treated prisoners of war . Dr Hudson said that the US and south Korea built the Concrete Wall to divide Korea permanently. He also said that the peace process in Korea could collapse quickly.
Dr Hudson recommended that people read the ‘The US Imperialists Started the Korean War “ and“US Distortion of the Provocation of the Korean War “

A letter to dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was adopted.

The excellent DPRK action film ORDER O27 was screened and was enjoyed by the audience.

An exhibition of publications from the DPRK and also KFA and JISGE including the works of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG , great leader Chairman KIM JONG IL and dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was held.

Light refreshments including tea, coffee and bottled water were served.

Meeting finished at 17.30 hours