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| Yu Kwang Song, Andy Brooks and Michael Chant |
by New Worker
correspondent
FRIENDS of Korea met last Sunday to
celebrate the formation of the
Workers Party of Korea at a social meeting at the John Buckle Centre in south
London.
The WPK was
founded on 10th October 1945 by great leader Kim Il Sung. Since its
birth the WPK has led the Korean revolution and socialist construction,
performing tremendous feats. Under the guidance of the respected leader Kim
Jong Un, the WPK is now leading the drive to build a thriving and impregnable
socialist country.
At the meeting
the panel, which included New Communist Party leader Andy Brooks, Revolutionary
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), general secretary Michael Chant,
Yu Kwang Song from the DPR Korea embassy in London and John Rainsborough from
the Korean Friendship Association, all spoke about the role of the WPK in the
world communist movement and the significance of the Juché Idea in the modern
world.
Comrades joined
in the discussion which followed. Then came a cultural interval, provided by
Michael Chant and Lesley Larkum, who played Arirang,
a folk-song known throughout the Korean peninsula and the national anthem of
the DPRK. And, as always, the discussion continued informally during the buffet
at the end of the meeting.
The celebration
was called by the Co-ordinating Committee of the Friends of Korea, which brings
together all the major movements active in Korean friendship and solidarity
work in Britain today. It is chaired by
Andy Brooks and the secretary is Michael Chant.
The Friends of
Korea committee consists of the NCP, RCPB(ML), the Socialist Labour Party, the European
Regional Society for the Study of the Juché Idea and the UK Korean Friendship
Association. The committee organises meetings throughout the year, which are
publicised by the supporting movements and on the Friends of Korea blog.
