KFA UK Responds to the trendy liberal vloggers

Our attention has been drawn to all kinds of reports and videos being circulated by some privileged and entitled middle class visitors to the DPRK . Here we will answer some of the things they saud . We will focus on one such person who goes by the name of Harry Jaggard(is this a made up name ) who made two videos “Pack your bags boys, I'm running in North Korea” and “ Inside North Korea – The Strangest Country on Earth 🇰🇵” .

In both videos , Jaggard constantly refers to the DPRK as “North Korea “ instead of by its proper title , the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK for short or People’s Korea . Jaggard’s first video is full of orientalist cliches about the DPRK using words like “surreal “ and “secretive “ ( if the DPRK is so secretive, why has such a hostile person as Harry Jaggard been let in ) . Jaggard trots out the usual mainstream media /elite narrative about the DPRK being a “dictatorship “ and “ oppressive “ etc and ignores the actual reality of the DPRK in front of him . Did Mr Jaggard see any actual evidence of oppression in the DPRK such as the police beating people up and dragging them off the streets or pointing guns at people’s heads (which this writer actually saw in one country he visited but not in the DPRK ) . Where were the massive “concentration camps “ that the Western media tell us exist ? There was no sign of them in Mr Jaggard’s video !

In fact, far from being “oppressive “ and a “dictatorship “, the DPRK’s democracy is second to none .Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a genuine people’s leader who is elected by the people and supported by them . In capitalist countries governments are elected by a minority of the electorate whereas in the DPRK they are backed by 100 per cent of the electorate . The DPRK is a democracy from the top to the bottom; from the Supreme People’s Assembly down to the local people’s committees and people’s neighbourhood units.


Jaggard even says after visiting the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm “ that everyone is starving “ his own videos show that this is simply not true . In fact in the DPRK everyone is supplied with basic foods at low cost so no one starves .

However , one myth is broken by Mr Jaggard’s video ; that there is no internet in the DPRK as it is clearly shown that there is internet access in the DPRK at the Grand People’s Study House (and other places ).

Overall Mr Jaggard comes across as gormless , ignorant , silly and flippant . He wrongly calls the Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang , the DPRK National Library ( and includes a clip where he supposedly receives an email from Marshal KIM JONG UN , of course this is not true ). He talks about “Korean Nationalist Party “ music but no party with such a name exists in the DPRK . This shows Mr Jaggard as a truly ignorant man lacking in any understanding .

Lastly the title of one of Mr Jaggard’s videos “The Strangest Country on Earth” is simply a cliched demonisation of the DPRK . What is strange about a country that is clean , that lacks vandalism and graffiti , that has no beggars or homeless and has free education , free health care plus free housing ? . Surely a strange country is one where the homeless sleep on the streets but there are empty houses and also people with second or third homes or a country that imports products like steel and coal which it could easily produce at home ?

Our KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson visited the DPRK last year in April and was the first British visitor to the DPRK for 5 years but the mainstream media ignored his account and instead focussed on hostile vloggers like Mr Jaggard.

Supporters of People’s Korea should ignore the twaddle of the likes of Harry Jaggard and read accounts of people like Dr Hudson.

https://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2024/04/return-to-land-of-juche-korea-by-dr.html
https://archive.org/details/dermot-hudson-travels-in-the-land-of-juche-korea

How Koreans Helped Us Liberate Kursk Region

Until now, Russia has neither confirmed nor denied the presence of DPRK troops on the front line. We are not obliged to inform anyone, in fact. This is a matter of bilateral relations and agreements. Meanwhile, Korean units gradually began to arrive in Russia during the Kursk epic.

At first, they were trained at training grounds, familiarized themselves with modern combat tactics, mastered drone control skills, and became familiar with field realities. Then the "combat Buryats," as our military jokingly and for the sake of secrecy called them, were transferred to the Kursk region. They lived in field conditions so as not to "show off." At first, they held the third line, then the second, then they were tested in fortifications and, finally, in assaults.

The Korean soldiers distinguished themselves with their coherence, discipline, fatal disregard for death and remarkable endurance. It is understandable - they are mostly young guys, strong, pumped up and well trained in their homeland. Especially their units of the Special Operations Forces. The allies made a great contribution to the liberation of the Korenevsky district, and in the battles near Staraya and Novaya Sorochiny, and in the breakthrough to Kurilovka... They had a strict rule - not to be captured alive. And not to surrender voluntarily.

By the way, the enemy tried to persuade them to do this by throwing around imitation DPRK banknotes (pictured) with the following text written in hieroglyphs: "Surrender! Kim Jong-un has brought you to death and starved your families. Place a yellow flag in front of you, raise your hands and shout "Freedom!" Slowly walk towards the Ukrainian soldiers and fulfill their demands."

Not a single Korean soldier violated either his oath or allied obligations. It was important for Pyongyang to gain experience in modern combat operations, to study the tactics and technologies of a potential enemy (the "collective West") and to acquire knowledge that was inaccessible due to the sanctions regime. And these tasks were accomplished. But the Koreans also made a significant contribution to the defeat of the Ukrainian group on our soil within the framework of a comprehensive bilateral agreement.

Their arrival allowed us not to ease the pressure on other sections of the front, to continue the offensive in Donbass and to inflict enormous damage on the invasion group, which consisted of 95 (!) battalions.

@sashakots

Older than Edda writes

I would like to note separately that the treaty with the DPRK was probably the first working Russian alliance treaty in many decades. The Warsaw treaty worked only to a limited extent, being provided with an occupation contingent of the USSR, calling things by their proper names. We had friends there, and very good ones, but as soon as it became clear that Moscow would not interfere with the "velvet revolutions" and would withdraw its troops, the entire alliance disappeared in an instant, there were not enough friends. The treaty with Cuba worked, and there Havana honestly harnessed its infantry to African wars, providing the USSR's geopolitical interests with combined arms "weight".

And now with Korea. There are no troops of ours on Korean territory, the DPRK is not critically dependent on our supplies, it could sign a treaty of friendship and partnership, help with workers and those same shells, and that would also be a lot. But the Korean people are all right with their sense of duty, gratitude and human appreciation, and the memory of their war is sacred to them, as well as those who died in the battles for the liberation of Korea in 1945, and in the battles with the "multinational forces" in 1950-53.

Now they have returned this debt, showing themselves to be much more of an ally than the entire CSTO put together. Thanks to them for that.

@Slavyangrad