{"id":29812,"date":"2015-01-27T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=29812"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:18:10","slug":"koths-bipartisan-push-for-the-thir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/koths-bipartisan-push-for-the-thir\/","title":{"rendered":"Koth&#8217;s Bipartisan Push for the Third Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">After Michael Koth was kicked out of the<br \/>\nCommunist Party he advocated openly national revolutionary &nbsp;positions. He became a member of the Workers<br \/>\nParty of Germany (<i>Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands<\/i>\/PdAD) and later took<br \/>\nover its chairmanship. The politically insignificant PdAD was&nbsp;closely<br \/>\nlinked to the Society for Study and Propagation of the Juche Idea in Germany &#8211;<br \/>\nthe German-Korean Friendship Society. Both organizations, PdAD and the Korean-German<br \/>\nFriendship Society, came to be dominated by Koth and guided by the policy<br \/>\npositions of the Chosun Workers Party.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:\n11.5pt;line-height:115%\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">PdAD slowly<br \/>\nconverged with neo-Nazis. Party members frequently joined demonstrations<br \/>\norganized by the neo-Fascist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). In<br \/>\nSummer 1998, Koth and a NPD delegation were all invited to an event hosted by<br \/>\nDPRK Ambassador Ri San Yu.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.5pt;\nline-height:115%\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">However, a<br \/>\nfew weeks later PdAD was dissolved, having failed, in the view of German<br \/>\nintelligence, to bring together right and left wing elements. Undeterred, in<br \/>\n1999 Koth and several other notorious activists formed another group &#8211;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;the Struggle League of German Socialists (<i>Kampfbund Deutscher<br \/>\nSozialisten<\/i>\/KDS).&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.5pt;\nline-height:115%\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the<br \/>\nbeginning, KDS was very active. Especially in the<br \/>\nRuhr region in the west but also in the former East Germany they were able to<br \/>\nrecruit a number of new members. Koth became a member of the group<font face=\"SimSun\">&#8216;<\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s central leadership and the regional leader of Berlin and<br \/>\nBrandenburg (the federal state bordering Berlin). While members in western<br \/>\nGermany were often shaped by neo-Nazism, many of those in the east were ex-members of the<br \/>\nformer Socialist Unity Party of Germany, which had been the ruling party of the<br \/>\nGerman Democratic Republic until 1989.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">KDS followed<br \/>\na strategy known as <\/span><span lang=\"ZH-CN\" style=\"font-family:SimSun;\nmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:\nSimSun;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Querfront,&#8221;<br \/>\nwhich advocates bringing together activists from left and right to fight for<br \/>\nnational socialism (see footnote). According to statements from Michael Koth, the GDR had<br \/>\nfailed not because of the social cause but the national one. And so, he surmised,<br \/>\nfailed internationalist socialism must be replaced by nationalist socialism.<br \/>\nKDS represented a radical Anti-Americanism and Anti-Zionism, and sought<br \/>\nsolidarity with Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia, Hugo<br \/>\nChavez in Venezuela, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran&#8230; and North Korea.&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span>It described&nbsp;<i>Juche&nbsp;<\/i>as \u201cthe only remaining socialist doctrine, guiding the world&#8217;s peerless and pure society, ruled by the true National Socialism\u201d (source: KDS propaganda, 2005).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" class=\"bbs_caption1_box\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/efile\/201501\/DNKE_1039_362413_1422349739_i.jpg\"><br \/><a class=\"bbs_caption1\">KDS propaganda image in support of North Korea. This image replaces another one used in an earlier<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"bbs_caption1\"><\/a><a class=\"bbs_caption1\">edition of this article. We apologize for any confusion. The caption reads, &#8220;Invincible North Korea&#8230;Solidarity<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"bbs_caption1\">with the people of North Korea in their struggle for freedom and self-determination!&#8221; | Image: KDS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">However, only three<br \/>\nyears later the group was dissolved by its own leadership. According to the<br \/>\nformer \u201cAltermedia Info\u201d, this was a result of \u201cKDS&#8217; deficient political record of<br \/>\nsuccess in the past 10 years, resp. its failure to promote the &#8216;Querfront&#8217;<br \/>\nconcept\u201d. At the time, Altermedia Info was one of the more prominent websites for German neo-Nazis. In 2011 its operators were sentenced to<br \/>\nimprisonment for hate crimes and other right-wing extremist criminal acts.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But while KDS&#8217; central organizational<br \/>\nstructure was dissolved, one local offshoot in Berlin\/Brandenburg survived. Led<br \/>\nby &nbsp;Michael Koth, the group became a project to promote Juche, Songun, and<br \/>\n\u201cKimilsung-Kimjongilism\u201d&#8230;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To be continued&#8230;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">* Views expressed in Guest Columns are<br \/>\nindependent and not necessarily those of Daily NK.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Michael Koth was kicked out of the Communist Party he advocated openly national revolutionary &nbsp;positions. He became a member of the Workers Party of Germany (Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands\/PdAD) and later took over its chairmanship. 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