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Zulanka in NK wrote:

I thought Kim was very humble and emotional in this speech. This part noted in the comments of the video was great:

"I never want that our military strength would aim at someone else.

We clarify that our war deterrent is being developed not for aiming at others.

We are developing it in order to defend ourselves.

If we don't have our own strength, the only thing we have to do is to wipe the streaming tears and blood though our fists are clenched."

What did you think of it comrades?

I thought it was also very revealing that he emphatically took responsibility for failing to meet economic goals in the face of enormous difficulties including of course the pandemic as well as the military/diplomatic situation and natural disasters.

Western media always depicts the DPRK as supposedly treating their leaders like infallible gods while western "democracies" have "accountable" leadership.

But this example shows just the opposite, the DPRK's leaders show immense humility and self criticize while the leaders of the imperialist countries do everything they can to scapegoat their failures and divert responsibility for the crises they have created for themselves and the world at large.

Hello, comrades

Communists Demand the Federal Government Act to Protect Mi’kmaq Fishers and Fishing Rights!

The Communist Party of Canada stands with Mi’kmaq fishers, the Sipekne’katik First Nation and Indigenous nations across Canada who are demanding protection for Indigenous fishers and the legal Indigenous fishery under attack by mobs of 200 or more people in New Edinburgh and Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia this week.

The attacks have escalated over the past weeks from harassment and interference with Indigenous fishers on land and at sea, to the illegal theft and destruction of Indigenous lobster traps, equipment, ramming Indigenous boats, burning a fish boat, and firing live ammunition at Indigenous fishers, to the destruction of two Indigenous fish storage facilities with rocks and gasoline while fishers were trapped inside this week. Throughout all of these events, the RCMP and police have stood idly by, watching the attacks unfold.

The RCMP’s failure to intervene to stop the attacks, to arrest mob leaders, and protect Indigenous fishers endangered by mob violence, combined with the federal government’s failure to order the RCMP to protect Indigenous fishers and the legal Indigenous fishery, is clear evidence of systemic racism and of government collusion to wipe out the Indigenous fishery using the full force of the state.

The right of the Indigenous peoples of NS to an Indigenous fishery is undeniable. The 1752 Treaty of Peace and Friendship guaranteed the Mi’k Maq the right to earn a “moderate livelihood” from hunting and fishing. This was challenged by the federal government with the arrest and prosecution of Donald Marshall for eel fishing in the 1990s. In 1999 the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the government’s arguments in the Marshall case, and upheld Indigenous rights to hunt and fish.

But the RCMP, police, and the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) have not upheld the law, and have actively enabled mob rule to overpower and crush the Indigenous fishery, and Indigenous rights.

Largely invisible in media coverage is the Clearwater corporation, the largest producer of shellfish in North America, which operates year-round with exclusive rights to trap 720 tonnes of lobster in the biggest lobster fishing area off NS, annually. Clearwater has a direct interest in diverting attention from its own massive profits, unsustainable fishing practices, and court appearances for gross violations of DFO regulations. Its virtual monopoly on fishing in NS means it effectively sets the price for the lobster catch, and for the poor wages and living standards of small commercial fishers.

Clearwater has a direct interest in fanning the flames of racism and hatred, and ensuring that widespread anger is directed at the Indigenous fishery and not at Clearwater and its owner John Risley whose net worth is $1.21 billion.

The Communist Party demands that the federal government act now to protect Indigenous fishers and communities, by ordering the DFO and RCMP to end mob violence, arrest and charge perpetrators, and enforce the law. Indigenous fishers and communities must be provided reparations for the damages inflicted on their livelihoods and on their communities, and be guaranteed that their rights to fish and hunt will be protected henceforth.

We call on the labour and democratic movements to speak up in support of the Indigenous fishers and communities affected in NS, and to demand government action to end the violence against Indigenous fishers and communities, to enforce the law, and to obey the law that successive federal governments have worked so hard to overturn legally and otherwise.

Central Executive Committee

Communist Party of Canada

October 16, 2020

http://communist-party.ca/communists-demand-the-federal-government-act-to-protect-mikmaq-fishers-and-fishing-rights/?fbclid=IwAR2f78iyTAPAAuW6M2fANMYu6quF8qxKqgSpVTJoWjSQVKPCumHtcd7qdmQ

I have edited the 'Abbreviated history of North Korea' to more of a first person account of the regional history, as it was a mix of this and point form before (I found this very difficult to read. The final verson is in the factbook of V ming and it requires updating for 2020 (pandemic, regional changes I have missed etc) and I hope someone will volunteer to pick up this task. Our history is important in viewing our past success and ideas to motivate and plant the seeds of future success as a region, both in influence and growth. I encourage the region to discuss, propose any changes and comrades to volunteer in the task of keeping up on our history. Can we agree that the new version I have written should replace the old version currently displayed in the WFE? (Also I dont have a spell check on NS here comrades, hopefully I haven't ruined English.lol)
Please let me know your thoughts.

Revolutionary regards;

V Ming

Dystopian sno-men wrote:

Probably because Western democracies elect their leaders, have term limits, are held accountable to laws, and their elections feature more than one candidate.

When one of the Kim dynasty is removed from power by something besides death, start talking about "accountability" in North Korean leadership.

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No nation can be ruled by a government that the people dont approve of, especially for 60 years. Kim Jong Un has been elected and had some 80% approval rating, what western democracy can state that about their government leader? Elections in the DPRK all municipalities put forward members of the ruling party for the masses to vote on, incumbents have their jobs weighed and if they haven't done well for their community they are replaced. There are at least three (but I believe four) political parties in the DPRK. You speak about " held accountable to laws" as though in the DPRK there aren't any. This is simply not true and following the news there often politicians are removed or put on trial for corruption or nepotism.

Keep your ignorance in your hippy region, dont insult us.

OPP invade Kanonstaton to uphold court injunction

Last Wednesday I was witness to the OPP invading Kanonstaton (an area of unceded Native land in Caledonia Ontario, Canada) to uphold an Ontario court ruling. Land defenders were arrested, shot at with rubber bullets and taunted with chicken noices by the cowardly Ontario Provinial Police.

Today, all over the bourgeois news is an attack caught on camera of land defenders striking back over the weekend, smashing up an OPP cruiser with rocks and lacrosse sticks. Its funny how when the state inflicts violence hardly a peep is heard but when comrades fight back its front page, national news. The Canadian Braodcasting Corporation chose its words carefully and while it did mention last Wednesday's confrontation, it did little more than mention a "skirmish" - this is colonial violence perpetrated by the state.

Hello comrades of North Korea. It has been a long time. A long time since 25th worker soviet and a bunch of your brothers of NK saved my region from certain fascist invasion. Thank you for accepting my embassy renewal, I am not sure why it was shut down, as I have been virtually inactive for a year or so.

Vash

Dystopian sno-men wrote:

He's the only one on the ballot.

The Kim's are a dynasty that has ruled through fear and murder. That's why only they have ruled. And deep down, you know this. What kind of worker's state is it when father's nominate their son to succeed them? As I observed, the Kims are accountable to no one but the Grim Reaper when it comes to being removed from office. It's a tyranny.

The Kim's uphold a vision to rebuild a Korea terrorized by the outside world, from Russia to Japan, China to America everyone has had their dirty hands in Korea! The Korean people are not stupid, they collectively choose this vision and its leaders who profess to accomplish it and have shown some imporessive results. Many American presidents have been assasinated or had such attempts on their life, you do not see these things happening in Korea, if the Korean people en mass did not accept the Workers party and its leadership then they would collectively overthrow it.

What kind of Workers state has a father nominate a son to succeed him? A state where the people are supportive and demanding of the dreams of the father, a state who's leadership was the first to abolish illiteracy in Asia, a state who's been stomped on and bombed by some of the most powerful nation states across the world, and a state from which yhey have had to rebuild from nothing. Not a building stood standing at the end of the Korean war. This state, which has had numerous foreign attempts to infiltrate and dominate and frustrate its independance, finds solace in a leadership which has promised such.

"Deep down" I know what Korea is, what it was under Japanese colonization. "Deep down", I know what the Russia-Japanese war did to it, I know what the Americans have done to it. "Deep down" I know, that I know enough about Korea to hold this region for 10 years, the majority of that time democratically. You mention that the Kims rule through murder, but how many murders is the state accountable for? An attempt on the life of a former diplomat in a foreign nation? - well that sounds like the CIA or KGB or any other state apparatus at work doing the dirty deeds that come with state hood, I'm not defending it, I'm just stating that its not out of the ordinary for secret services to do such.

Police Raid Humanitarian Group Over Pandemic Aid to North Korea

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/28/police-raid-humanitarian-group-over-pandemic-aid-to-north-korea/