Stop the War Coalition (STWC) held a meeting on the tense situation on the Korean peninsula . From a KFA viewpoint the meeting was a bit hmm to say the least . The problem with STWC is that they believe in excluding and marginalising any pro DPRK , pro Juche view point .(KFA did offer to send a speaker but this was declined ) One of the positives of the meeting was that the warmongering and hype of the British media , including so-called 'liberal ' papers like the 'Guardian ' .They were some attempts to explain the context of the DPRK nuclear programme , it was correctly pointed out the US introduced nuclear weapons on to the Korean peninsula in 1957.

However where the meeting went seriously off track and ended up justifying US imperialism was when two of the speakers parroted the claim of the US to have withdrawn nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula in early 1990s,. The US had deployed up to 1750 nuclear weapons in south Korea at one time and the figure averages at around 1,000. The US took a NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY stance towards nuclear weapons in south Korea after 1991 . Evidence revealed to the south Korean ' national assembly ' has shown that they are still there . It is deplorable that STWC echoed US imperialist propaganda on this point.
Veteran fake Leftist and DPRK basher Tariq Ali was relatively restrained but managed to tell a silly and ludicrous story that Benazir Bhutto had given the DPRK nuclear weapons and had taken them to the DPRK on her presidential plane !!! (Blimey !) .

Those speakers who put the DPRK nuclear programme into its historical context did not mention the use of biological weapons during the Korean War . None of the speakers mentioned the Juche idea and the DPRK's spirit of anti-imperialist independence during their presentations but tended to portray the DPRK as a puppet or client of the USSR-Russia and China .

One speaker wrongly claimed that the DPRK decided to develop nuclear weapons after the fall of the USSR , ignoring the fact that the DPRK was never part of the USSR's 'nuclear umbrella' nor was it a Warsaw pact member . Generally a few of the speakers came across as being part of the " I love Russia and China " brigade and supported the idea of these countries forcing the DPRK to disarm . UK KFA reject the idea , regardless of where it comes from , that the DPRK should disarm ,