A letter on the DPRK

The following letter was sent to a number of publications by Dr Dermot Hudson, Chair of Korean Friendship Association UK, following the recent broadcast of ‘Michael Palin in North Korea’, which was the topic of a post on this website.

Dear comrades,

On the 14th of June, the BBC, aka the British Brainwashing Corporation, broadcast a programme full of lies claiming that people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) were starving.

If the BBC were right about the DPRK, by now everyone in the DPRK would have starved to death in the DPRK not once but several times!

The BBC does not have reporters inside the DPRK. In fact, the borders of the DPRK were closed in January 2020. So the BBC has no access to people in the DPRK.

To make matters worse the BBC claimed that they carried out interviews with DPRK citizens with the help of the ‘Daily NK “. “Daily NK ” a south Korean anti-DPRK propaganda website which is linked to the US CIA and south Korean NIS as well as ultra-rightists, and south Korean nazis. It receives funding from the US government-funded ” National Endowment for Democracy Even the south Korean “Unification Ministry ” once criticized the “Daily NK ” for what it called a “flood of raw, unconfirmed reports” about the DPRK. The ‘Daily NK ‘ has become notorious for wild stories which are usually proved false a few months later.

The fact that the BBC admit that the Daily NK was involved proves that it is a fake story! The so-called evidence offered was actually third-hand reports and anecdotal which was almost certainly false in the first place. The ‘Daily NK ‘ does not have sources within the DPRK but just makes up stories and then passes them off as coming from their (unnamed ) sources in the DPRK which do not exist in the first place.

As a matter of fact, the DPRK is a socialist country and DPRK citizens are supplied with food at low cost as well as free housing, free education and free health care. Taxation was abolished in 1974. The DPRK has a State Price Commission which controls prices.

Let us reject the lies of the BBC about People‘s Korea! People should cancel their TV licence and stop paying for the BBC’s lies and the lavish lifestyles of lying BBC reporters!

Yours fraternally,

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman of Korean Friendship Association UK