K KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
12th July 2013

The UK Korean Friendship Association strongly denounces the so-called commemoration of British participation in the Korean War or Fatherland Liberation War as it is known in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The reactionary authorities led by the Cameron government organised a parade and a "thanksgiving service" with the participation of the south Korean puppet embassy.
Rather than being a matter to celebrate and commemorate Britain's participation in the Korean War brought extreme shame and dishonour on the UK. It was an act of criminal subservience to the US which saw British young men sacrificed in order to satisfy the the interest of the Wall Street monopolies who had ignited the Korean War . Rather than fighting for "freedom " and "democracy " as is claimed they fought for US imperialism against national liberation, against the liberation of Korea , they fought to prop up the reactionary fascist Syngham Rhee puppet regime . As one former British soldier in the Korean war admitted openly " If the United Nations hadn't intervened, the chances are there would just be one Korea." This statement speaks volumes. It shows the the US imperialists and the troops from their satellite states such as the UK prevented the reunification of Korea the cherished desire of the Korean people. Indeed there could (and should) have been only one Korea in which the Korean nation lived in peace and harmony. The statement betrays the fact the British troops acted as mercenaries for US imperialism.
The British forces suffered massive losses . The 27th Brigade and the 29th Brigade of Britain, which were the first to come to the Korean front, were torn to shreds, hit hard by the Korean People's Army on the front of the Raktong River. When U.S. troops were surrounded on the bank of the Chongchon River, the 27th Brigade was driven out as bullet shields and suffered a heavy loss.
One of the regiments sent to fight in Korea by the reactionary authorities of the UK was the so-called Royal Irish Rifles a regiment which had been involved in the repression of the nationalist people of northern Ireland and which later became the notorious "Ulster Defence Regiment" responsible for many atrocities during the northern Irish troubles,
Thus the participation of Britain in the Korean War was totally reactionary and unjust . An act of participating a war waged by a big power against a small country,
Yesterday's "commemoration " was not really to remember a "forgotten war" but to justify the UK's participation in US imperialist war exercises against the DPRK and the revival of the so -called UN Command in order to create a "international coalition" against the DPRK.

UK KFA says no to participation of British forces in a second Korean War. No to the revival of the UN Command , US out of Korea !