Book " Unpresented Principles " by Nina Andreeva

 

Motherly Party

 The Workers' Party of Korea is praised as motherly Party by the people in the DPRK.

The motherly Party!

The WPK is the only party in the world that has won such a title.

The motherly Party-this call reflects the boundless veneration and absolute trust of the Korean people in the WPK and is the honorary title peculiar to it.

The WPK has made a long journey of devoted service for the people's wellbeing from the outset of its founding to this day.

Thanks to the loving care of the WPK that serves all the people with sincerity, taking full responsibility for their destiny and future, the Korean people could pull through hardships and ordeals with smile and enjoy happiness and honor.

The past decade that went by under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is a clear proof.

Lots of dwelling houses and structures have mushroomed and all sorts of popular policies have been executed in the Juche Korea.

The appearance of farm villages underwent a total facelift and the Korean people lead a life with nothing to envy in the world in new homes of happiness.

That is why the Korean people sincerely call the WPK the motherly party.

The Party takes care of the people with maternal affection and the latter absolutely trust and follow the former.

Herein lies the might of the WPK and the source of invincibility of the Korean people.

The WPK is winning a series of victories and glories with the call of a motherly Party presented by the people.

Led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the WPK will remain etched in the mind of the people as a benevolent mother.

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'The shame of housing disaster of capitalist's UK, and the proud housing success of socialist People's Korea'(article originally from " The Revolutionary Thought "

  'The shame of housing disaster of capitalist's UK, and the proud housing success of socialist People's Korea' ( An article from the quarterly magazine 'The Revolutionary Thought' issue 4, of the Internationalist Revolutionary Communist Party ) 

 Housing, the need for space for personal living is one of the most basic and fundamental human needs. In the housing system that is in capitalist countries, for example in the UK housing is one of the areas of operation of capitalist competition. 

In the past decades, the UK state, and above all local councils, built apartments. Immediately after World War II, entire cities were built, 30 of which were built from scratch. This was done only to make apartments available. And what is important, these were not just any flats - flats erected in the first period after the war were built with the assumption that they were to be desired by an ordinary citizen. So, they had a higher standard than those that were available on the market at the time. But all of this effort was wasted, back in the days when the neo - liberal gang of Margaret Thatcher, did not only destroy the weak but existing social relations in the housing sector, but also disrupted and remodelled council housing sector in functioning for ordinary citizens as more hostile and shut for their issues and needs, for development. 

The first building in London that was built as a communal rental building is in the East End. It was built for workers. Today, flats in it cost so much that if the British prime minister came to the bank with his earnings, he would not get a loan for even two rooms of that flat ... Except that this building was built much earlier. In 1901. This example illustrates well what catastrophic effects is of liberal politics on the housing sector. All promises of liberal politician class of bourgeois ruling classes have a short - term character of 'electoral sausage' - so it is just empty promises. In the long run, the market and this will lead to horrendous price hikes and it will stifle investment and deprive the poorest of the poor of any chance of housing.

 Follow to 50s and 60s, almost anyone who needed one could apply for an apartment. Even in the 1970s people complained that the waiting time for public housing was long, as much as two ( ! ) years. Today the waiting time in the UK is at least 20 years, but unfortunately there are also places where it is known that you will never get social housing.

 In 1979, when Margaret Thatcher began her rule, she decided to 'give away' council flats. In principle, everyone could get a flat in which they lived for a fraction of the value ( a similar solution existed in Poland a few years ago ). The whole operation was carried out perfectly in terms of Public Relations. For example, it was said that anyone could become a landlord. And in England, being a landlord in the bourgeois terminology is almost like nobility.

 Even in this decision, political considerations were paramount. They wanted to weaken support for the Labour Party. When someone in Britain became the owner of their own house with a garden, they automatically moved to the middle class. And when you are middle class, you do not vote for a working class party. Attacking everything that was an element of community life - trade unions, municipal housing, even local governments, whose competencies were limited. And one of the tools was the distribution of flats for ownership. 

However, almost half of the flats bought by the owners were quickly resold at a profit to investors who bought several dozen flats at attractive prices. And then, the problem began. 

Not best, but still well - functioning system has been destroyed. Successive generations must pay for Thatcher's handouts. The combination of privatization and the abandonment of public housing has led to a situation where the state had to do something to save those who had no place to live .

So, it introduced rent subsidies. That it would solve the problem of housing shortage, but it did not happen, it only caused the prices and wages of landlords to increase. 

With the privatization of the real estate market, rent subsidies were introduced - for those who cannot afford a flat, the state will pay the difference. Admittedly, there are some limitations, e.g. the rental price cannot be significantly above the average for this place, because then the state will not pay extra. After 2008, a ban on co - financing was also introduced when there are more rooms in the apartment than people occupy it. There are age limits that exclude young singles from the system. But in most cases, there are surcharges. Currently, the housing allowance is received by about 20 - 25 percent and still continues to shrink. through ever - increasing budget cuts in spending and deliberately complicating and hindering the application, for these credits by making the requirements more difficult and bureaucratic the application process. 

But because of these subsidies, prices are constantly rising. And at a pace that state aid cannot keep up with. The effects can be seen in the statistics. While in the 1960s, the average household spent about 20% of its income on housing maintenance today it is already 40 percent or more. This causes less money to go to other sectors of the economy than real estate. It is estimated that after deducting the contribution to the change in housing prices, the British economy would grow by only approx. 0.2 per cent. annually. 

In addition, in 1988, a law was introduced that in practice completely deregulated the rental sector. The principle was introduced that the landlord has the right to increase the rent or terminate the contract, guided only by his own whim. The only limitation is the requirement of two months' notice. Social housing provided stability. These properties were rented for life, and often even with the right to inherit the lease by children. Today, it is very difficult for tenants to feel safe. The changes began in 1979, when a new housing model appeared. 

Although it sounds paradoxical, in the UK it is not valuable to build flats or houses. More can be earned in a situation where the supply is practically non - existent. And communal construction came to a standstill. 

A decade ago, the British government introduced the 'Help to Buy' program - and it was nothing more than a down payment for people who want to buy their first apartment. Sounds familiar? As a result, there are no more flats, but the prices of those that would have been delivered anyway, immediately become higher. 

It is a general rule that such mechanisms do not change the situation on the market, because they do not affect the supply. In London, in 2002, you had to pay five average annual salaries for an average - sized apartment, and in 2022, it was already fourteen. What is more, in Great Britain, the largest banks do not grant, for example, housing loans to people who receive any benefits. 

Today, even a British professor cannot afford to buy a flat. 

It used to be estimated that the income from four or six years of work should be enough to buy a flat, and it was. Currently, in London, Winchester or Oxford, housing already costs an average of 16 years of income from work and that is the average income for the area. This makes it virtually impossible to buy real estate. The problem is increasingly affecting people with fixed incomes - even professors at the University College of London or Richmond University have a problem with it.

 However, the increase in real estate prices is accompanied by a deterioration in construction standards. In a new building in the UK, it can be difficult for two people to pass each other on the stairs. The area is falling - the apartments are miniature, but they are also crowded and overcrowded. 

The standard is that singles who cannot afford to buy anything of their own nest in apartments intended for families. 50 percent over the course of a decade. the number of twenty - year - olds who do not have their own place has increased. In the 1980s, the average age of a buyer of a new apartment was 26 years old, now it is 32 years old. University graduates who start work often cannot even afford to rent an apartment, so it is common for parents to subsidize housing expenses. 

In the British urban space, local councils look in vain for larger projects of building new premises for municipal purposes. Mostly, the already available resource is used - increasingly destructive and degrading. An example is the project widely popularized in the local press and considered a success by the local council of liberal idiots for the design of the old and part damaged building of the former police station in Taunton Somerset. The police were moved to the local council building, due to the poor technical condition of the building, dampness, mould and mildew and destruction. Now, the council under pressure of thousands of citizens awaiting on council housing list decided try to adapt former police station to housing needs instead of invest to a new project. Of course, easier is just sold urban areas from taking into construction activity for the city and its citizens. 

In the housing policy of local councils in the UK distorted by liberal idiots, the overriding goal of urban space is not to benefit and meet human needs, but to generate immediate income, profit. Thus, all provisions and opinions contained in local documents, stating that the basic duties of local authorities include providing housing to all residents, are treated as an ornament of the document and a text without any coverage in reality, the real goal is the so - called: 'normalization' of relations between local government and development companies in a commercial way, i.e. 'negotiating' local government officials with those business representatives who have to offer as much money as possible for the purchase of municipal land. Cases of corruption are not rare here. Thus, local government authorities become de facto political representatives of business. Simultaneously with the sale of premises, the process of mass sale of municipal land is underway. 

The desire to commercialize every area of life is one of the pillars of capitalism. It is no different in the housing sector.

 As a result of well - paid bribes, local authorities generously transfer all land and real estate to private operators, private business. In line with Margaret Thatcher's maxim that 'there is no such thing as society', no one thinks about the social costs of such measures. It is similar with the housing sector, which is treated like any other commodity, a resource that should not be included in the additional costs of the local council budget or, if necessary, should be as small as possible and limited, like the local budget, to a minimum of expenses for general social purposes, but plus bonuses and maintenance costs for civil servants. All in line with the anti - social ideas of liberal idiocy. 

Completely opposite to the priorities and goals of the state, or rather the lack of it in relation to the housing needs of the society, as is the case in the socialist system, the liberal economy, or rather their sector of private parasites, who have mastered the housing sector and which occurs, among others, in UK. Data on the housing sector and the needs of the public in the UK in relation to the provision of housing that are published in the press are tragic and alarming. The ideas of liberal free - market idiots at the helm of power, as usual, are aimed at protecting their interests and profit for them, not for the benefit of the average citizen. These ideas are designed to pump public money into the private pockets of the financial elite. In this case, the money from the budget is to go to private banks, developers and idlers who live in luxury from the mere fact of having apartments for rent. Of course, ordinary people will be most affected, because big business - including real estate developers, housing trade brokers and speculators - is quite successful in evading taxes. For the class of parasites - landlords and private businessmen investing in the UK housing market, it is more profitable to hold vacant, empty luxury flats than to allow price reductions, which would inevitably be caused by that is speculatively turned from owner to owner with interest and profit. Buying flats ''for investment' is a pathological behavior, which results in an increase in housing prices and exclusion of more and more people from any possibility of 'living on their own'. People who cannot afford loans today often pay more for renting an apartment than the loan instalment. A roof over your head is the basis for a dignified life and as a society we should guarantee it to every family, regardless of the interests of parasitic elites! 

Housing should be considered a right of every citizen, not a tool for multiplying profit. In a socialist economy, there is no place for idlers who live in abundance from other people's work and effort. Just as workplaces will be taken from the capitalists in one way or another and handed over to the workers, so will any 'owner' of large numbers of apartments be simply expropriated. For private owners of apartments renting for huge rents, as reality shows, quality and ensuring good conditions for landlords are not important, only profit for the smallest financial outlay counts. 

 The reality of catastrophic lack of not only flats, but also their technical condition show UK press. Mostly in the local and low - circulation, and therefore closer to the truth about the living conditions of the British society, there are articles about the catastrophic living conditions of the British society. As example one of article of local press of the Bristol City increase in supply. These apartments are built not to serve people, but as an investment of capital .

                                                     

Revealed: renters living in mouldy art deco flats

handed steep rent hike by millionaire London landlords'

An article about the problems of the residents and the ignorance of the owners

[ source: 'The Bristol Cable'. Issue No 34 - summer 2023 

The article is full of complaints from residents and examples of building destruction and poor technical condition that threatens the health of people living there, and also shows the ignorance and disregard of owners who make fortunes from renting in such conditions. As we read in this article, the residents of the exclusive Queen's Court in Clifton building in Bristol have to accept the terrible conditions in which they live with huge rents and have no influence to change it. They are afraid to even speak and do anything in their defense so as not to be evicted.

 '’There always been mould and damp in our flat - it's never been sorted’, Stuart continues. He's had to do without key appliances for months, and had water pouring down his walls during stormy weather... ... ’We thought we were the only flat had [mould and damp]’, Stuart says. ’But people are in far worse situations than we are’'

 Unfortunately, despite the fact that they experience nuisance as a result of living in disastrous conditions, there is still a deeply ingrained idea in the minds of these people that in a free and liberal real estate rental market companies should provide them with good housing conditions: 'If they are going to be charging market value, they should provide market value' Unfortunately, this is only a wish. In addition, not to be fulfilled at all. Because the capitalist owners of this building are not interested in incurring expenses for necessary repairs and maintaining good technical condition for the residents. They are only interested in profit. Filling their bank accounts with rent money without disturbance - it is their attitude.

 City Estates was advised by contractors to waterproof the roof first. This advice was ignored to save money, the sources say, causing flooding into flats below.' '’The main issue has been lack of response’, Oliver says.’ There was a lot of rain in the new year, it started leaking here’, he adds, pointing to the stairwell. ’There was a massive puddle, we have a bunch of cracks and mould in our living room’. I ask when it was sorted out. ’It hasn't been’, he replies with a chuckle. ’It stopped raining’

Residents who pay high rents and live in unhealthy conditions. In conditions that do not care at all, owners who are responsible for ensuring good housing conditions in the quoted example from Bristol tried to fight for their rights. However, they quickly died down. The capitalist system in the housing sector does not work for the benefit of the inhabitants but for the benefit of capital owners. 

'’A lot of people accepted [the rise] straightway out of fear of being kicked out of their flats’.' Oliver says. '’Many people I spoke to feared revenge evictions if they pushed too hard against the lack of maintenance, and felt pressured to accept rent increases they didn't want'’ Sad story indeed.A sad example of many in the UK

 . Now let's see how the country, where the socialist system is at a high level of development, manages to cover the housing needs of the society. A country where human needs come first - the socialist Korea of Juche, so Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 

 In the DPRK capital of Pyongyang, huge projects have been undertaken in the past and present to build thousands of apartments. On construction sites, apart from employees for whom it is a matter of honour to have flats available for everyone as soon as possible, there are also soldiers from Korean People's Army. 'The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, attended the inauguration ceremony of the first - stage 10 000 flats ...' ' ... Officials of the construction headquarters for 50 000 flats in Pyongyang city, commanding officers of the Korean People's Army, who took part in the housing construction, officials of the Party and power organs in the city and military -civilian builders congratulated working people, who moved into the modern houses given by the Party and the state free of charge.' [ source: Korean Central News Agency ]

 Also in rural areas, housing construction managed with careful care and supplied with funds from the central budget of socialist planned economy, is flourishing and developing on a large scale. As example, in July this year, another part of planned houses has been handed over for settlement in the rural area ( villages of Phungjon - ri in Chonnae County, Sunhak - ri in Kosong County, Hyon - ri in Sepho County and Jiam - ri in Phyonggang County ). All of the new and modern houses of various and peculiar styles were built to provide convenience of the residents free of any charges as part of Juche based pro - social politics of the socialist state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 

' ... The Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK Government vigorously pushed ahead with the project of building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang in 2022 even under the harshest situation. A modern street with 10 000 flats was set up in the Songsin and Songhwa area as part of the project. The Eighth Congress of the WPK held in January 2021 had designated the building of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang as one of the important tasks to be accomplished during the five - year plan period. The groundbreaking ceremony for the building of 10 000 flats in the Songsin and Songhwa area as part of the project to build 50 000 flats in Pyongyang was held in March 2021 ...' ' ... Construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area was promoted at its last stage in 2022. It was a reflection of the steadfast will of the WPK not to suspend for a moment to do something it has aspired to do even in the face of trials and difficulties. The year 2022 witnessed ushering in of a new era of rural rejuvenation in the country...' ' ... Building houses has also been promoted vigorously in the Komdok area in the northern part of the country. In this area, a large - scale mineral producer, a biggest - ever mountain gorge town, with 25 000 houses and neighbourhood - serving amenities, will be built in five years, beginning from the year 2021, with 5 000 houses each year...' [ source: '2022 DPRK Raising Its Profile' ]

                                                                   

New public buildings for society,

in Songhwa and Hwasong Streets,

and the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District of Pyongyang, 

capitol city of the DPRK

[ source: Korean Central News Agency

New houses free of charge for DPRK citizens, of the rural area of the Kangwon Province [ source: Korean Central News Agency ]

 How the socialist government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea looks after and cares about housing needs, providing housing for every Korean family is shown in one of the many articles by the communist party - the Workers' Party of Korea - central press organ - 'Rodong Sinmun' Rodong Sinmun on Popular Character of WPK's Policies Seen through Housing Construction Pyongyang, August 2nd 2023 ( Korean Central News Agency ) ' ... in an article says that the Workers' Party of Korea ( WPK ) set at its 8th Congress it as the core of its construction policy to make the DPRK the first country which solved the housing problem in the world, and has launched a series of gigantic projects for its realization. People move into new houses in different parts of the country. This is the outcome of the people - first principle peculiar to the WPK, which gives top priority to the interests and convenience of the people, deeming them absolute in working out and implementing all policies, the article says, and goes on: It is only the WPK which makes sure that all dwelling houses are built as intended and demanded by people, respecting the people as Heaven. Today our Party is pushing ahead with the rural construction. Thanks to it which has taken best care of the people in the face of severer difficulties and made selfless, devoted efforts for the good of them, regarding all hardships as pleasure, the people enjoy more benefits under socialism and their great cheers of hurrah for the Workers' Party and socialism resound throughout the country. As it encourages people to cherish new dreams and ideals, work hard to realize them, acquire such enterprising work style as to discover, create and innovate more new things, our Party’s construction policy has become a popular policy run through with warm love for the people, which thoroughly embodies the people - first principle. It is the steadfast will of the WPK to radically improve the living environment of the people across the country in 20 to 30 years and thus turn the country into an ideal socialist country admired by the world and a socialist paradise where the people enjoy the highest civilization in comfort and harmony' [ source: 'Rodong Simmun', Korean Central News Agency ]

 A comparison of the effectiveness and level of ensuring the housing needs of the capitalist society in the UK in relation to the socialist system of planned economy in the DPRK, where the housing sector is permanently included in the areas of investment activity of the state, shows the difference as huge as the pride of such a pro - social policy in the state, where man and his needs are in the first place in DPRK, in relation to the enormity of the decline and continuation of the pathetic and anti - human activity of imagined the so - called 'invisible hand of the market' which, according to liberal fabulists, was supposed to solve all the needs of society. And as a result, deepens misery and creates chaos, and reinforces social inequality in the exploitation of the poorest classes. who cannot obtain housing due to their low social status and income. The number of homeless people on all city streets in the UK is growing. i.e. those whose cost of rent and rent exceeded the possibility of income. 

They are often young people in their prime who are able to work. But the cost of living is so high that working just does not pay off anymore. In the field of housing policy, the UK and the DPRK are not even comparable. There is just no housing policy or exist loose and contradictory, not coordinated housing policy - created to make profit not for housing needs for society in the UK.

 Actually. What is there to compare? Lack of flats and those that are used for exploitation for the profit of the owners in very bad condition, compared to thousands of comfortable and newly built, beautiful flats given free of charge to the working class in the socialist DPRK system?

(This article was originally published in ' The Revolutionary Thought ' the journal of the Internationalist Revolutionary Communist Party and is reproduced by their kind permission)

Let us break up south Korea-US nexus!

 On October 1, the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front issued an appeal under the title of "Let us resolutely smash the aggressive yet submissive south Korea-US alliance through a nationwide campaign!" on the threshold of 70th anniversary of the conclusion of the south Korea-US mutual defense treaty.

The appeal revealed that the south Korea-US mutual defense treaty made up in the 1950s is the most shameful document of servitude as well as a sycophantic one singular in history, by which south Korea has been reduced to not only an advance nuclear base of the US for invading north Korea and a bridgehead for realization of the US supremacy over the world, but also the worst desert of human rights, and the south Koreans have been forced into unbearable misfortune, pain, damage and death without elementary freedom, dignity, democracy and civil rights, being shackled by the chain of the south Korea-US alliance for centuries.

Moreover, south Korea has been pushed deeper into the bottomless quagmire of a present-day colony and the people have suffered a permanent colonial slavery of the foreign forces since Yoon Suk-yeol took power, it went on to censure.

He made a "new record" of the greatest pro-American sycophancy to put the successive pro-US stooges in the shade after he sat on the "throne".

Traitor Yoon buckles himself to being filial to the US, clean indifferent to this land and people from the outset.

He, who settled all issues arising in all fields including politics, military, diplomacy and economy under the approval of the US, committed the treacherous crime of signing the Washington Declaration and the Spirit of Camp David.

He is an idiot who does not hesitate to fly to the NATO, Ukraine or anywhere at the request of the master styling himself a vanguard for realization of the US strategy for world domination.

Yoon takes up a positive attitude in fence-mending with Japan who is moving heaven and earth to fabricate the south Korea-US-Japan trilateral military nexus and establish the "Asian-version NATO", not content with his connivance at Japan's discharge of wastewater.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that warmonger Yoon Suk-yeol, leaning on the south Korea-US alliance, is pushing ahead in a big way with nuclear war provocation against north Korea with the aim of stifling compatriots.

It arouses great indignation.

Traitor Yoon added main subjects of north Korea to the target of attack and made drastic revisions to north Korea-targeted operation plans including the furthermore detailed "OP-2022".

A large amount of US strategic triad including the nuclear strategic bomber and the nuclear-powered flattop are now at liberty to move freely in and out of south Korea drumming up war fever under the cloak of provision of the US extended deterrence means.  

War clouds hang over the Korean Peninsula by the south Korea-US alliance and people are in constant grip of uneasiness and fear due to the ever-increasing war danger and instability.

Owing to tributary and submissive "alliance" between the US and south Korea which is in bondage to the former through and through, the people's livelihood and economy are plunged into recession.  

The south Korea-US mutual defense treaty is the worst subordinate document rare to be found in the world and the south Korea-US alliance is the root of evil causing every kind of misfortune and humiliation, south Korea is still chained to the unequal and servile south Korea-US mutual defense treaty, it is in itself a national disgrace as well as a worldwide ridicule, the appeal pointed out.

It called for a nationwide crusade against the US for putting a period to the disgraceful history of the US occupation of south Korea that has continued century after century and for recovering freedom and dignity, stressing that no longer can the people bear and tolerate such submission and humiliation and only when the US colonial rule is brought to an end and the south Korea-US alliance demolished, can the people lead a life worthy of human being.

 

54 years under the Rays of Juche

 

54 years have elapsed since the AINDF was founded under the guidance of the great sun of the nation. With the foundation of the Revolutionary Party for Reunification (RPR) on August 25, 1969, the south Korean people could have an invincible vanguard party truly representing the interests of the people and resolutely carry on a righteous struggle for the social change. The RPR was renamed the National Democratic Front of South Korea, later to become the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF) in keeping with the demands of the developing situation and the times. The AINDF has developed into the ranks of national salvation and a militant vanguard in which the monolithic ideology and leadership are firmly established. The AINDF made more strenuous efforts to imbue south Korea with the ardent reverence for the peerlessly great men who are possessed of extraordinary intelligence, distinguished leadership and noble virtues. Led by the great Juche idea, it has encouraged the patriotic people from every background to turn out in the struggle for independence, justice and democracy. The AINDF has even experienced heart-rending pains and hardships caused by the fascist clique and the outside forces for the sake of its historic cause. However, led by the peerlessly great persons revered by the entire Korean nation, the AINDF has made a sustained advance along the road of Juche. The AINDF will steadily accelerate the struggle to realize the national independence under the leadership of the respected President of the State Affairs Kim Jong Un, holding President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the sun of Juche in the future. For the present, we will decisively hold in check the north-targeted war maneuvers of warmongers at home and abroad in a bid to plunge the Korean nation into a nuclear disaster and will kindle the fierce flames of a massive struggle to ensure the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. Meanwhile, we will more energetically conduct a nation-wide campaign for ousting the traitorous Yoon's regime from the presidency which reduces south Korea to the tundra of democracy, public welfare and civil rights with the unparalleled fascist despotism and anti-popular misrule. The cause of the AINDF will for sure emerge ever-victorious as long as we are led by the banner of Juche idea under the wise leadership of the peerlessly great man.

 

'What does it mean to defend People’s Korea, with ‘no ifs or buts’? by CNY Rao -Article first published in "People's Korea Today"

'What does it mean to defend People’s Korea, with ‘no ifs or buts’?

                                   

' Here in the West, Socialist Korea is under constant attack from the mainstream media. The most ridiculous lies are manufactured and spoon-fed to people so they might regurgitate them on command. As principled communists - this, I hope is understood by us all - it is important we counter misinformation: claims that people in the DPRK are starving, that they are brainwashed, that they are oppressed, etc. etc. Throughout history, many countries have been given harsh treatment by western news outlets, but none today as much as the DPRK. 

 During the civil war which succeeded the October Revolution, many British communists ( including Willie Gallagher and Harry Pollitt ) were active in a campaign named 'Hands off Russia', aimed at opposing Britain’s support for the Whites and its eventual intervention against the Bolsheviks. A well-known action of the campaign was the refusal by dock workers to load arms - arms which were going to Polish soldiers in the Polish-Soviet war - onto a boat ( the SS Jolly George ). Practical actions such as these are very necessary and are in fact still carried out today ( albeit mostly at a smaller scale ) by organisations formed to defend socialism. Many groups have been formed in the UK with the purpose of showing solidarity with the victims of imperialism: the British-Soviet Friendship Society, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, the Britain - Vietnam Solidarity Front ( active in the 1960s during the Vietnam War ), the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and of course the Korean Friendship Association. The KFA is particularly unique in that it must fight an unusual battle: it must promote solidarity with a country which has been so extensively lied about that most people’s conception of it is entirely different to its true nature. 

 Unsurprisingly, different battles require different tactics. This is where the idea of defending People’s Korea with 'no ifs or buts' comes in. Essentially, in order to successfully combat the propaganda spread about the DPRK, a much more thorough approach to solidarity work is required: holding the DPRK at 'arm’s length' will not do.

The few revisionists who don’t reject the DPRK entirely ( normally those who, when push comes to shove, are social - democrats ), can be divided into two categories in terms of their attitudes towards both People’s Korea as a whole and Kimilsungism - Kimjongilism. 

 Firstly, there are those who try to ignore the DPRK, as if it’s some minor attempt at socialism which failed forty years ago. I see members of communist parties doing this a lot: they will talk about solidarity with Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and China, but stop there, and when confronted, they might timidly admit they support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 'critically'! 

 The British left loves to rattle on about Cuba but can not spare even a minute to acknowledge the great achievements of the socialist system in Korea. 

 The other grouping of those only willing to hold People’s Korea 'at arm’s length' are those who oppose sanctioning ( and on a good day, maybe even the division of Korea ), but feel the need to condemn the DPRK as a 'totalitarian regime', one which must be put an end to. 

 The similarity we can see between these two camps is that neither understands what the real incentive for defending People’s Korea is. It is neither out of some Kantian obsession with telling the truth nor out of 'critical support against US imperialism': the reason we have to defend People’s Korea and the reason this defence must take place with no ifs or buts is the socialist construction currently taking place in the DPRK under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un. 

 You see, the phrase 'defending People’s Korea with no ifs or buts' can be interpreted as referring back to the KFA’s much more radical and confident stance. Many organisations which exist today to promote solidarity with the DPRK either: 

1) Do not attribute the DPRK’s success to Juche or Songun; 

2) Claim that Juche is an adaptation of Marxism - Leninism ( like Mao Tse - tung Thought or Kaysone Phomvihane Thought ), instead of an original philosophy, or:

3) see the Juche Idea as inapplicable outside the DPRK. The Korean Friendship Association recognises the originality of Juche - style socialism and its contributions to Korean independence: this recognition is absolutely necessary for the dispelling of anti - DPRK propaganda to have any serious weight. 

 In the West today, the mainstream media not only attacks the DPRK as a country but also the Juche Idea, falsely comparing it to a 'religion' or a 'brainwashing tool'. Some revisionists seem to think that we needn’t spare a second for the DPRK post-reunification; principled communists should look to the DPRK as inspiration for how we can build socialism in Britain. To comprehensively defend People’s Korea - when most won’t have the opportunity of refusing to load boats with weapons destined for the Korean Peninsula - we must stand by the Leadership, the Workers’ Party and the Juche Idea. 

[ Author: CNY Rao ]

Human scums with multiple sins

 

Nowadays, the defectors to south Korea are getting overheated at the van of anti-DPRK confrontation.

In its lead are Park Sang-hak, Lee Min-bok and Kim Seong-min. It is to be noted that they are identical in vileness.

They committed serious crimes in the DPRK and defected to south Korea to escape punishment for the crimes and wallow in luxury turning back upon their kinsmen and friends.

Park was an idler from his childhood and has given himself up to money even going further to steal a precious cultural treasure.

Kim stole state property and has committed various vile sins to live in wealth.

It is for this reason that they defected to south Korea where crimes stalk and money matters only and so they don't hesitate to make confrontational schemes while getting money from the US and conservative groups.

It is said that even this year again the Ministry of Unification has launched a plan to give funds to the anti-DPRK organizations to "improve human rights in the north".

It is extremely pathetic that they have a sad lot in trying to gain something from good-for-nothing human scums worse than a beast.