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Today the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) , or Juche Korea or People’s Korea for short is one of the few countries in the world not to have a single case of Covid 19 . As of today (22.04.2020) at 9am there were 2,565,299 cases and 177,775 fatalities .
Covid 19 is threatening humanity’s future and well-being . The Covid 19 crisis is having all kinds of knock-on effects such as shortages of food and toilet paper , disruption to services , businesses going bankrupt and a rise in unemployment . It is predicted that UK GDP will fall by 35 per cent ! .If this happened it would be much worse than the recessions in the 1970s and 1980s. In France and Belgium there have been riots and disorder is expected to break out in other capitalist countries.
In Britain 17337 people have died but the figure is believed to be much higher because this figure is only for people who have died in hospitals and excludes elderly people in nursing homes who have died plus those who died in their own homes and elsewhere . 129,000 people in Britain are diagnosed as suffering from Covid 19 but again figure could be much higher because mass testing has not been carried out . In the USA , the so-called ‘land of of the free’ the death toll is the highest in the world with some 45,000 fatalities and over 800,000 people infected.
In contrast to the DPRK , the US-occupied south Korea has 10634 cases and 238 dead . However this figure is likely to have been massaged by the authorities . Moreover south Korea does not have free health care so the figures exclude the poor who cannot afford medical treatment and have died in the backstreets and the slums of Seoul .
Reactionaries who scoff and sneer at People’s Korea refuse to believe that People’s Korea has no Covid 19 cases , of course there is more than a small amount of cynicism in their disbelief. However the World Health Organisation(WHO) confirms that there are no Covid 19 cases in the DPRK . The situation is normal , schools and universities are reopening in the DPRK . Shops are open and there are no shortages . Moreover the DPRK is racing ahead at Mallima speed with big construction projects such as the Pyongyang General Hospital .
What is the secret ? Well the DPRK took early measures against Covid 19 such as closing the border in January before even the WHO declared Covid 19 a pandemic . Other measures included extending school holidays , getting people to wear masks , rigorous disinfection of public areas , medical checkups for people , health education and quarantining foreigners within the borders of the DPRK. Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , a true people’s leader , convened a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on the 29th of February at which it was discussed ” taking nationwide top-class anti-epidemic steps in a more thorough-going way and strictly putting them into practice in order to cope with the viral epidemic spreading rapidly around the world”. and also “measures to deter the influx and spread of the infectious disease in a scientific, preemptive and lockdown way.” . At the same time respected Marshal KIM JONG UN had officials guilty of bureaucratic behaviour .This contrasts with the incompetence of many leaders in the capitalist world who failed to take any decisive measures to stop the situation getting out of control .
Really Covid 19 is a consequence of globalisation , neo-liberalism , capitalism and the incompetence of the rulers of capitalist countries . What shines through is the superiority of the Juche-based socialist system of People’s Korea . The DPRK based on self-reliance has rejected globalisation and has built a self-reliant independent national economy. The socialist system of People’s Korea is based on single-hearted unity ,it can mobilise resources to fight against epidemics in a way that class-divided ,conflict ridden capitalist societies cannot do so . The fact there are no Covid 19 cases in People’s Korea is testimony to the superiority of Juche-based socialism.
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Official Delegate Korean Friendship Association UK
