Dermot Hudson (born 20 July 1961) is a British political activist with close relations with

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

. He is the Chairman of the British Group for the Study of the

Juche Idea ''Juche'' ( ; ), officially the ''Juche'' idea (), is the state ideology of North Korea and the official ideology of the Workers' Party of Korea. North Korean sources attribute its conceptualization to Kim Il-sung, the country's founder and f ...

, Chairman of United Kingdom

Korean Friendship Association The Korean Friendship Association (KFA, es, Asociación de Amistad con Corea) is a Spain-based friendship association with North Korea. The KFA was established in November 2000. It claims to have official representatives in 34 countries. The KFA ...

, and Chairman of the British Association for the Study of Songun Politics. Hudson received a doctorate in socio-political science from the

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populatio ...

-based in April 2016, after submitting a thesis titled ''In Defence of Songun''. Hudson's works have been translated into German, Turkish, Spanish, Portugese, Russian and Korean. In 2021 Happenstance Films released the short documentary film ''A Friend of Kim'' about Hudson.

Works

*''Behind the Mirror of Lies -The Truth About the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.'' (2011). *''Who Really Did Start the Korean War?.'' (2011). * ''Red Flag Flying High in Juche Korea.'' (2012). * ''The Cuban Missile Crisis, Songun and the DPRK.'' (2012). * ''The Eternal People's Sun.'' (2012). *''People's Korea celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victory in Fatherland Liberation War.'' (2013). *''Juche Korea September 2012-forward under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.'' (2013). *''KIM JONG IL GREAT DEFENDER OF INDEPENDENCE, SONGUN AND SOCIALISM.'' (2013). *''KIM JONG IL THE GREATEST CHAMPION OF JUSTICE AND INDEPENDENCE.'' (2014). * ''Peoples Korea Smashes Counter-Revolution.'' (2014). . *''The Anti KFA McCarthyite Witchunt in the UK - -the real denial of human rights.'' (2015). *''Land of Anti-Imperialism and Independence-Report of Visit to Peoples Korea for the International Seminar on the Juche Idea for Anti.Imperialism, Independence and Solidarity.'' (2016). * ''In Defence Of Songun.'' (2017). . * ''10th Visit to the land of Juche, Peoples Korea October 2015.'' (2017). . *''Visit to the Juche People's Paradise to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG.'' (2017). * ''Dermot Hudson in Defence of Juche Korea!.'' (2018). . * ''Victory Of Juche Korea Is A Science.'' (2018). . * ''Travels In The Land Of Juche Korea, 1992–2017. -Personal recollections of visiting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -travel notes and a bit of autobiographical stuff.'' (2018). . * ''Korea of Juche.'' (2020) *''The Famine That Never Was - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the ‘ Arduous March ‘ period The myth of famine in the DPRK exposed.'' (2020). . *''A refutation of the false pseudo-academic propaganda against People's Korea.'' (2020). * ''The Great Conspiracy Against People's Korea.'' (November 2021). . * ''People’s Korea Battles Covid 19 and Wins.'' (2022). * ''Red Suns of Juche- Based Socialism.'' (April, 2022). * ''Juche Philosophy Study Course -KFA UK and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea.''(June, 2022).

Filmography

* '' The Mole: Undercover in North Korea'' (2020) * ''A Friend of Kim'' (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, Dermot 1961 births Living people Experts on North Korea British activists People from Hammersmith British communists North Korea–United Kingdom relations Alumni of the University of Winchester Communist Party of Great Britain members New Communist Party of Britain members Socialist Labour Party (UK) members People educated at Peter Symonds College

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