On August 17th UK KFA along with the ASSPUK and JISGE as well New Communist
Party general secretary Andy Brooks and members of the labour,peace and progressive
movement.Some had travelled from as far as Southampton and Oxford to be at the
meeting.
The first picket was at the south Korean puppet embassy at 1pm.The KFA banner along
with the DPRK and the AUCPB red flag and also slogans "Hands off the DPRK "
and "No UNSC" sanctions were displayed.One south Korean puppet official asked the
picketers "Do you have permission from police to do this"(possibly a feeble attempt
at intimidation),later a so called "Police Community Support Officer" tried to ask for
identification of demonstrators but there was no legal nessecity for this.The other
attempt at obstruction came from a rather arrogant UK businessman who claimed the
demonstration was interrupting his company board meeting !.
The statement of UK KFA denouncing the Ulji Freedom Guardian exercises was
read out by Kevin Cain KFA Organisation secretary and leader of the For Bolshevism
group.Demonstrators chanted "DPRK Here to Stay,SK no way !","No War exercises"
"Down with Lee Myung Bak puppet regime" "Victory to the DPRK" "US troops out
of Korea".The music "Peace is On Our Bayonets" ,"Death to the US imperialist
agggressors " "Korea is One" and "No Motherland Without You".
Demonstrators then proceeded to the US Embassy at Grosvenor Square.The picket
started at 3pm Police tried to move us away from the front of the entrance of the US embassy, but we refused and remained in the area used by all other protests there. .Flags of the DPRK were displayed also UK KFA banner and placards
"Hands Off the DPRK" and "No UNSC sanctions".This part of the demonstration was
joined by the Revolutionary Workers Party (Posadist-Trotskyist).Kevin Cain KFA
Organisation Secretary read out the UK KFA statement denouncing Ulji Freedom
Guardian he said "The US imperialists and south Korean puppets-thee Lee Myung bak sellout fascist regime-are staging yet more military exercises this time Ulji Freedom Guardian.These come hard on the heels of earlier military exercises which appear to be held continously in south Korea.
UFG is larger in scale than the other exercises and is a clear cut rehearsal to start a war and invade the DPRK.US president Obama has declared himself the "first Pacific president of the USA" and intends to rule the Asia Pacfic region as a colonial domain.
UFG exercises are a threat to peace not only on the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region but also the entire world as a war could easily start as a result of the exercises,a small incident or accident could easily turn into war which would then spread across Asia and become a nuclear war.
UFG is a crude and blatant attempt at intimidating the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea into making unilateral concessions and ultimately to give up its socialist system.This is a serious encroachment on the DPRK's sovereignity"
Brent Cutler resident of Southampton city stated that US troops remain in south Korea
contrary to UN agreements and resolutions and the Korean Armstice Agreement,it
is time for them to go home
Dermot Hudson KFA Official Delegate UK and president ASSPK said that the Obama
regime in the US has continuined with the policy of Bush aimed at stifling the DPRK.
Ulji Freedom Guardian is a rehearshal to invade the DPRK as it even involves civil
servants and adminstrators.He said that Obama is just the trendy face of US
imperialism.
Speakers also drew attention to the insidious attempt of the US imperialists to
extradite Sean Garland leader of the Workers Party of Ireland and friend of the DPRK
to the US as well the US extradition of UK citizen Gary McKinnion.
Speakers also contrasted the DPRK's advanced socialist democracy with the corrupt
and decadent bourgeois democracy of the US.
The slogans "USA No Way,DPRK Here to Stay" "US troops out now" were chanted
loudly by demonstrators.The music "Peace is Our Bayonets","Death to the US
imperialist aggressors ","Korea is One" ,"Let Us Uphold the Red Flag" and "No
Motherland Without You" were played.
Support for the picket was expressed by Malaysian residents in London and also
English working class youth.
Picket concluded at 5pm
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