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| David, Dermot and Thae Yong Ho |
by New Worker
correspondent
Friends
of the Korean people met at the Chadswell Centre in central London on Saturday 21st May to hear report-backs from two comrades who have recently returned from Democratic
Korea and to express their solidarity with the Workers Party of Korea which has
just successfully concluded its 7th Congress.
The meeting, called by the Korean
Friendship Association, heard Dermot Hudson and David Munoz speak about their visit
to the DPR Korea in April, and heard a report from Thae Yong Ho from the DPRK
embassy in London. A friend of the
DPRK from Sweden addressed the meeting about the Pyongyang International Film
Festival and the Wonsan Air Festival and many others joined in the general
discussion that followed. New Communist
Party leader Andy Brooks took part in the meeting together with a number of
comrades from London and East Anglia along with Prof Harish Gupta, the head of
the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea.
The meeting denounced the lies and
slanders of the BBC against the DPRK and the vile and poisonous attacks on
Dermot Hudson, the KFA and the Juche Idea Study Group by sectarians and
dogmatists on the “Red Youth” website. Future action including a picket of US
imperialism’s London embassy in June was discussed before the meeting concluded
with informal discussion over refreshments.
The UK Korean Friendship Association (KFA)
organises solidarity meetings and protest pickets in London throughout the
year. The KFA also works side by side with the Friends of Korea committee which
also holds regular events in the capital.
