UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

London 15th January
The UK Korean Friendship Association issued the following statement.We support the proposal made in the DPRK Foreign Ministry statement of the 11th of January for the issue of replacing the Korean Armstice Agreement of 1953 with with a permanent peace treaty between the DPRK and the US.
In the opinion of UK KFA this is long overdue.The stance of the DPRK Foreign Ministry is a just and correct one.A permanent peace treaty between the DPRK and the US is only way to ensure peace in Korea and also the Asia -Pacific region.

We also support the just demand of the DPRK for an end to the reactionary sanctions applied to the DPRK by the US and its followers.Only when these sanctions are lifted can any meaningful dialogue take place.

UK KFA believes that US troops should be withdrawn from south Korea as part of any peace settlement between the DPRK and US and also US nuclear weapons withdrawn from south Korea.
Our association supports the just and peaceloving stance of the DPRK  as expressed in the DPRK Foreign Ministry statement.

COMMENTS —————————-

Sir/Ma’am,
I would like to respond to a article dated the 15th of January on your website.
The article was concerning the DPRK’s Foreign Minister’s comments on the 11th of January with respect to
replacing the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953 with with a permanent peace treaty.

As an American soldier I understand the dilemma that is faced by the DPRK.
How can the U.S. expect for a resolution between itself and Korea, if it
fails to withdraw all hostile forces from the peninsula. That would be the
same as me coming to a meeting seeking peace, carrying a gun. The U.S. is
notorious for involving itself in matters that do not concern them; case and
point, the U.S.’s involvement in Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy in
1994. The U.S. decided to involve itself in a matter that was of no concern
to them, and in turn resulted in a weak, U.S. friendly government; whose
corruption for the last fifteen years resulted in the inability of that
government to support the people. This is proven by the recent events that
occurred Haiti.

If the U.S. truly wants peace, then the U.S. should in fact end its
sanctions on the DPRK. When this obvious action is taken, then a true peace
dialogue can take place between both nations.

Jinwoo
(Yonatan Moreh)