On August 22nd this year, KCNA proved – once again
– that there is indeed a close relationship between the ruling Chosun Workers
Party and fascist organizations abroad. Under the headline, “DPRK’s
Important Days Marked in Brazil, Germany,” the North Korean news agency
reported the following:
There took place a book exhibition and round-table
talks in Brazil and a meeting in Germany on Aug. 13 and 14. They marked the Day
of Songun in the DPRK and the 69th anniversary of Korea’s liberation […]
The chairman of the Anti-Imperialist Forum of
Germany said in a speech: A new history of Korea has begun since Kim Il Sung
liberated the country 69 years ago. [North Korea] has won victories in the
confrontation with the U.S. because Kim Jong Il, faithful successor to the
idea and cause of Kim Il Sung, built powerful capability for self-defense with
his Songun revolutionary leadership. Kim Jong Eun is further developing [North Korea] into an invincible military power. It greatly encourages progressive peoples in their struggle against imperialism.
One month earlier, this “Anti-Imperialist
Forum of Germany” (in German: “Antiimperialistische Plattform,”
the successor organization to the “Combat League of German
Socialists”) had received the following letter of appreciation from the
North Korean consular presence in Berlin [translation from original German by the author]:
Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea
Glinkastrasse 5-7, 10117
Berlin
To Comrade [name redacted],
Chairman of Anti-Imperialist Platform,
Germany
Berlin, July 23rd 2014
Dear Comrade [name redacted],
I would like to convey to you and to the members of
the Anti-Imperialist Platform my honest thanks for your memorial letter to
Comrade Kim Jong Eun, First Secretary of the WPK, First Chairman of the National
Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the KPA on the occasion of the 20th anniversary
of the demise of our great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.At this occasion, I wish you and the members of the
Anti-Imperialist Platform Germany for the future much success in your fight for
world peace and against imperialism.With socialist greetings,
Ri Si Hong,
Extraordinary and appointed
Ambassador of the DPR Korea
in Berlin
Crude “anti-imperialism” is not the
only idea shared by neo-Nazi organizations and the Chosun Workers’ Party (WPK above).
Another overlap is racism; specifically, a common hatred for multicultural
societies. Indeed, in April 2006 Rodong Sinmun provided some “theoretical foundations” to support its position:
A strange farce to hamstring the essential
characters of the Korean nation and seek for “multiracial society” is
now being held in south Korea. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today runs a signed
commentary, which censures the farce as an unpardonable bid to negate the
homogeneity of the nation, make south Korea multiracial and Americanize it. To
deny the peculiarity and advantages of the homogeneous nation now that
dominationism and colonialism are posing a threat to the destiny of weak
nations is a treacherous act of weakening the spirit of the nation, the
commentary says, and goes on: The south Korean pro-American traitorous forces
advocating the theory of “multiracial society” are riffraffs who have
not an iota of national soul, to say nothing of the elementary understanding of
the view on the nation and social and historic development.
To be continued…
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