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| Andy Brooks leads the NCP side in talks with Choe Thae Bok of the WPK |
by New Worker correspondent
NEW COMMUNIST Party of Britain
comrades joined millions of Koreans in Pyongyang
this month to celebrate the centenary of the birth of great leader Kim Il Sung
and take part in the World Congress of the Juché Idea that opened in the
Democratic Korean capital on 12th April.
NCP leader
Andy Brooks, together with Peter Hendy and Theo Russell
from the Central Committee, held talks with Choe Thae Bok, member of the
Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party
of Korea (WPK), and took part in other events and ceremonies throughout the
week.
These included
the great military parade in the heart of the capital that was addressed by Kim
Jong Un, First Secretary of the WPK and supreme leader of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea and a grand firework display along the Taedong river
held on 15th April, the anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the
eternal president of the DPRK.
Speaking to
the people at the military parade Democratic Korean leader Kim Jong Un saluted
the historic contribution of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to the DPRK’s
development and he called upon the whole nation to stick to the path blazed by
his predecessors and strive to win new victories.
The World
Congress of the Juché Idea was attended by the delegations and delegates from
65 countries including the NCP and a delegation of the British Association for
the Study of Songun Policy led by Chair Dermot Hudson.
The discussion
over the two-day congress at the People’s Palace of Culture was opened
Vishwanath, the director-general of the International Institute of the Juché
Idea, and Kim Yong Nam, the President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK. This was followed by contributions from academics and
progressives from all over the world on different aspects of Juché, the
ideology of independence, anti-imperialism and socialism developed by Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il, which is the guiding light of the Korean communist
movement.
