jamahir
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Sukant Chandan with Shaun Ajamu Hutchinson and 27 others.
January 6 at 3:53pm
In 1945 the people of Korea overthrew Japanese and western imperialism, a revolution by radical socialists and communists led by the late president of socialist 'North Korea' (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) Kim Il Sung. From 1945 until the imperialist war of aggression and genocide or the 'Korean War' in 1950, the imperialists killed nearly half a million people and destroyed much of the land.
In the war of aggression from 1950-1953 some 4 million Koreans were killed by imperialism, Pyongyang was flattened and the USA and UK imperialists forced a partition of the country and colonised the south which is still occupied by tens of thousands of USA troops who have some 1,000 nuclear war heads on the Korean armistice border pointed at Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK.
The DPRK has always and continues to advocate the removal of all imperialist interference in Korea and for the peaceful reunification of Korea with a 'one country two systems' strategy.
Today Pyongyang stands as a beautiful city and the country continues to advance the rights and liberation of its people. The struggle of the Korean people and the DPRK greatly inspired many across the world, including Che Guevara who considered the socialist countries of Korea, China and Vietnam the most important examples of socialism and revolution for the people of the world.
The African and Black Liberation movements also took primary inspiration from the DPRK, with the Black Panthers sending solidarity delegations there and including Kim Il Sung on the front page of their newspaper and encouraged people learn from the DPRK and their concept of independence and socialism. The Nation of Islam, the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party and socialist Tanzania, Libya, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Syria and Cuba are a few countries who have had and continue to have close and warm relations with the DPRK.
Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner in the USA and former young local leader of the Black Panther recounts in his autobiographical book 'We Want Freedom', how the Panthers and the Nation of Islam looked to Kim Il Sing and the DPRK as a great example:
"Shouts of "Help Us Free Huey!" mingled with "Salaam Aliekum, brother!" as we struggled to sell our product.
"Yo, brother! Find out what’s happenin’ that the white power structure ain’t gonna tell ya! Check out The Black Panther—only a quarter!"
"Salaam Aliekum, Sister! Come on back to your own! Read Muhammad Speaks! Twenty-five cents!"
For nearly an hour the sales continued, fed and famished by the flow of passerby debarking from the trains hissing to a stop overhead. After a while, we got into a conversation:
"Brother, you got to get with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and stop following those devils like Marx and Lenin and ’em."
"Well, bro’—you should get with the Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, and the Black Panther Party."
"You should follow a Black man, brother, not some Jews like Marx and Lenin!"
"We revolutionaries, brother, and we study about revolutionaries from around the world. We don’t care what race they is."
"I can see that, brother," glancing at a copy of The Black Panther, pointing to a cover picture of an Asian, full-haired man. "Who is that, brother?"
"That’s Kim Il-Sung, the leader of North Korea, and a revolutionary."
"You see what I’m saying, brother? Here you go talking ‘bout another guy! He ain’t got nothin’ to say to Black people, brother!"
"Well, if that’s so, brother, why he in yo paper Muhammad Speaks?"
"What you talkin’ bout, brother?" he asked, seemingly stunned by the question.
I read and studied his paper quite regularly, for its layout, news, and commentary, but I doubted if he ever read any of ours. This seemed only logical for someone assigned to the East Coast Ministry of Information office, and I remembered reading this week’s issue of Muhammad Speaks.
"Check it out, brother, in yo international news section."
In disbelief, he turned the pages until, sure enough, an article appeared bearing a photo of Kim Il-Sung. He looked at it, and then turned to me, smiling.
"Yes sir, brother. Yessir. Um-humm."
"And what we learned from him was the idea of Juche, a Korean word that means self-reliance!""
The 1990s and into the 2000s was a very precarious situation for the DPRK as the socialist anti-imperialist Eastern Bloc had collapsed leading to economic problems for the DPRK and the USA led the charge of threatening a war of destruction against the DPRK in its ridiculous 'axis of evil' countries. While the UK and USA destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan on the basis of lies, at the same time they were threatening the same towards the DPRK.
It was only the DPRK's capacity by means of weapons testing that showed the imperialists that the DPRK will conduct all-out peoples war and is ready and willing to defend itself by all means at its disposal. The DPRK has proven to this day that a very small global south country is able to stand up to the most powerful and genocidal imperialist system in the world by means of having a close relationship with Russia and China and above all a united people with a militant army and leadership utilising all means of self defence is the surest guarantee to secure its own independence. One only has to look at Libya, a former socialist and proud independence Pan-Africa and Pan-Arabist country that was destroyed in no small part due to it not having the military capacity to protect itself from NATO.
DPRK has been a leading beacon of anti-imperialist and socialist struggle, making its achievements through major victories against imperialism that assists all peoples across the world fighting for independence and socialism.
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source - Sukant Chandan | Facebook
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jamahir's comment - in the korea war, the aggressors not only were usa military and british military but also sadly the military of my country, india.
on behalf of the progressives and humane people in india, i seek forgiveness of the people of dprk.
edit : sukant chandan was among the brave and independent journalists/activists who visited the libyan jamahiriya in 2011 and spoke the truth about nato disinfo and outright lies... his colleague and friend is the brave and lovely lizzie phelan... here[1] is sukant speaking to rt about his visit to libya in early 2011.
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[1] 'No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli - NATO wages war on false claims' - YouTube
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