{"id":130390,"date":"2025-05-30T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130390"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:57:48","slug":"peoples-temple-and-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=130390","title":{"rendered":"Peoples Temple and North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The purpose of these tables is to help provide a resource for scholars who seek to understand Peoples Temple meetings with other foreign governments.<\/p>\n

In this case the focus is mapping out the regular meetings between Peoples Temple members and the North Korean embassy in Georgetown, Guyana (1978). The second chart served as a reference chart for all the known sermons that Jim Jones that touched on the subject of North Korea, North Korean political philosophy, and South Korean politics.<\/p>\n

Table 1: Meetings Between Peoples Temple members and the North Korean Government<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nPeoples Temple (PT) Members<\/strong><\/td>\nNorth Korean Government Officials Met<\/strong><\/td>\nOther Government Officials Met<\/strong><\/td>\nType of Meeting<\/strong><\/td>\nTopics Discussed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 17, 1978<\/td>\nSharon Amos and Debbie Touchette<\/td>\nAmbassador Li Jun Ok, 1st Secretary Li San Il, and 3rd Secretary Jo Myong Guk<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean embassy visit[1]<\/a><\/td>\nNorth Korean interest in the organizational structure and beliefs of PT.<\/p>\n

The NK government was aware of PT due to NK state media posting positive articles about them in state press.<\/p>\n

The NK officials were very interested in Korean PT members Lew Jones and Kim Yoo Ni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

April 2, 1978<\/td>\nDeborah Touchette<\/td>\nLi San Il and Jo Myong Guk<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean embassy visit[2]<\/a><\/td>\nLi wanted to know if Lew spoke Korean. Wanted to know if they could give a presentation on PT \u2018in the near future\u2019.<\/p>\n

PT got lessons on Kim Il-sung.<\/p>\n

Li and Jo wanted PT members back \u2018next night\u2019 to watch NK films<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

April 1978?<\/td>\nMarcie, Deborah Touchette, Ava, Sharon Amos, Kim Yong Ai, and Lew Jones<\/td>\nLi San Il and Jo Myong Guk<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean embassy visit[3]<\/a><\/td>\nSharon Amos notes that \u2018they are quite eager for us to be in contact with them\u2019<\/p>\n

NK embassy officials hold Kim Il-sung in a \u2018almost reverent religious feeling\u2019 and \u2018do not criticize much their country\u2019.<\/p>\n

NK officials hold \u2018Marcie\u2019 in \u2018obvious reference\u2019. They are \u2018anxious\u2019 to meet Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

NK officials are planning to visit Jonestown in \u2018May or June\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

April 9, 1978<\/td>\nBruce, Sharon Amos, Mike Prokes, and Debbie\u00a0 Touchette<\/td>\nDid not notate what NK officials met<\/td>\nCharles J. Chichester, information officers at the Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Leonard Duvant, President of the Guyana Study Center of the Juche Idea<\/td>\nKorean Program at Critchlow Labor College honoring Kim Il Sung 66th Birthday[4]<\/a><\/td>\nNoted that PT should stay in touch with Guyana Korea Friendship Society and the Korean Study Center.<\/p>\n

Found Juche<\/a> to be a \u2018revolutionary philosophy\u2019 and see Kim Il Sung as a \u2018savior\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

April 21, 1978<\/td>\nSharon Amos<\/td>\n2nd Secretary of North Korean embassy<\/td>\nYugoslavian 1st Secretary, unknown Russian government officials<\/td>\nKorean Cultural Program (likely inside North Korean embassy)[5]<\/a><\/td>\nPT contacted Yugoslavian embassy but did not have time to visit.<\/p>\n

2nd NK secretary noted that Jonestown members were \u2018communists not socialists\u2019.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

May 2, 1978<\/td>\nSharon Amos, Kim Woon Ai, and Lew Jones<\/td>\nLi San Il<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean Embassy[6]<\/a><\/td>\nEmbassy officials very much wanted photos of Jim Jones, Marcie, Kim Yoon-ai, Karl, Lew, Terry, and Chvok.<\/p>\n

Sharon invited NK officials to dinner. But they said \u2018perhaps next week\u2019.<\/p>\n

The embassy is very interested in dinner with Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

Sharon wants to give presentations on Jim Jones to the embassy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

May 1978<\/td>\nTerri Jones, Lew Jones, Deborah Touchette, and Chioke Jones<\/td>\nJo Myong Guk<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean Embassy[7]<\/a><\/td>\nJo noted that religious people in NK were \u2018accepted\u2019<\/p>\n

Wanted to know the history of the name of PT<\/p>\n

Interested in more Jim Jones booklets. Specifically \u2013 \u2018The Letter Killeth\u2019<\/p>\n

Jo was \u2018always glad to see us [PT]\u2019 and \u2018wanted us to stay in touch\u2019<\/p>\n

Wanted photos of Jim Jones and family and two copies of Peoples Forum every month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

July 18, 1978<\/td>\nSharon Amos and Deborah Touchette<\/td>\nLi San Il<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean Embassy[8]<\/a><\/td>\nLi was interested when Jim Jones \u2018was coming into town\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
August 10, 1978<\/td>\nSharon Amos<\/td>\nLi San Il and\u00a0Jo Myong Guk* (They say he is the 2nd Secretary however in past notations he is the 3rd Secretary)<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNorth Korean Embassy[9]<\/a><\/td>\nLi noted they were in communications with black organizers of the DPRK Friendship Society<\/p>\n

Sharon brings up wanting to emigrate Jonestown to North Korea due to US pressure on Guyana.<\/p>\n

[Jones had wanted 1000 PT members to relocate to NK]<\/p>\n

Li and Jo enjoyed dinner with Jim Jones (unknown date but sometime between 18 July \u2013 10 August)<\/p>\n

Li was curious as to when PT members will give up US citizenship.<\/p>\n

Li had heard rumors of Guyana police infiltrating PT.<\/p>\n

Li was given the works of Huey Newton<\/p>\n

Li wanted to visit Jonestown but needs to wait till Ambassador returns from NK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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[1]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978 https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=112173<\/a>, G-2-C-7a and G-2-C-8a<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-C-2a-c<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-C-\/a<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-C-1B<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-D-1<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-D-2a-b<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-C-6<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-C-5<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> Temple Contacts with North Korean Embassy in Georgetown, 1978, G-2-C-3A-b<\/p>\n

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Jim Jones\u2019 Remarks about North Korea \u2013 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSource<\/strong><\/td>\nQuotes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ191 [10]<\/a><\/td>\nAll of North Korea was flattened by bombs from USA. There wasn\u2019t a building left intact. Now everything\u2019s restored. Free medicine, free medical care. And they exalt their leader as a savior, as a god. Kim Il-sung. But that\u2019s necessary, because people who have been conditioned to worship for many, many, many, many generations and centuries, but he uses that power, not to corrupt, but to give power to the people.<\/p>\n

There\u2019re no political prisoners, by the way, and freedom of religion still exists in North Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Late April 1978? [11]<\/a><\/td>\nQ203 [12]<\/a><\/td>\nA North Korean \u2013 Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea \u2013 patrol boat has been sunk by the fascist puppet regime of US imperialism South Korea.<\/p>\n

General [John K.] Singlaub was ousted last year from his job \u2013 S-i-n-g-l-a-u-b \u2013 as Chief of Staff in South Korea\u2019s dictatorship, because he said that President Carter, his planned withdrawal of US imperialist troops from South Korea might precipitate another North Korean invasion. Even the State Department subsequently corroborated this likelihood, screams the US press, calling for more Cold War military stances. Reporting that the Communist Pyongyang \u2013 P-y-o-n-g-y-a-n-g \u2013 the capital of the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea, continues to threaten the stability of the region, The New York Times says the threat it poses to the ROK \u2013 which is the fascist Republic of Korea \u2013 is of a serious emergency. In fact, the proposed withdrawal from the dictatorship of South Korea, the puppet of US imperialism, has since been delayed because it has become clear to everyone, said The New York Times, that General Singlaub was right.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ205 [13]<\/a><\/td>\nThe Peoples Democratic Republic of North Korea\u2019s ambassador said, in praise of Jonestown, that we have reached a place that North Korea hopes to attain, the elimination of the monetary system. They will be many of the future planned visitors.<\/p>\n

General Workers Union official and government official representing Dr. Reed, is black. He gave a background, said Kim Il Sung, the glorious prime minister of North Korea, who is worshipped in a sense because it\u2019s necessary to have a strong leader in the transition from socialism into the purity of communism. Kim Il Sung\u2019s grandfather [Kim Bo-hyon] was involved in the struggle against US imperialism. A US spy ship was captured in the 1800\u2019s and burned, and the people on it were slaughtered by the brave Koreans led by the grandfather of Kim Il Sung, who is the absolute representative of the people, the dictatorship of the proletariat, in Korea.<\/p>\n

[Note<\/strong>: What Jones is referencing is the General Sherman Incident of 1866 when the American merchant ship SS General Sherman was destroyed in the Taedong River for attempting to open the isolated Imperial Korean government. This incident is used by North Korean state media to further legitimise Kim Il-sung\u2019s claims of anti-imperialism and anti-US sentiments.[14]<\/a> It is not known whether his ancestor did take part in this attack.]<\/p>\n

The North Korean government, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, is a democracy. Total justice. They live in cooperatives. They live very modestly, and they are very, very supportive of Jonestown. They flew over it and called it a model of communism in this hemisphere.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Juche is the doctrine or the central idea of communism. Juche. It\u2019s j-u-c-h-e. [The] Juche idea is that man is his own creator, can create or destroy, [the] potential of man to be great and do great things. This is the central theme and doctrine of the leader of the only representative government of Korea, the Peoples Democratic government of North Korea, Communist North Korea.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Potential of man to be great and do great things. Korea went through 36 years of Japanese rule and torture of its people. US then occupied it by its military aggression after World War II. The Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea has been able to whip up tremendous support for their struggle, said the government of Guyana, through its spokesman, Comrade James.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ209 [15]<\/a><\/td>\nFor more than 30 years the US has propped up and defended a brutal fascist military dictatorship in South Korea, a regime which has been [a] willing tool of US imperialism and has one-sixth of its population in jail, in exploiting its own people for the profits of US multinational corporations.<\/p>\n

The US imperialist has prevented the reunification of Korea, which both China and Russia call for, and seems determined to make the present division between North and South a permanent one. It maintains tens of thousands of troops and sophisticated atomic and nuclear weaponry in South Korea to prevent the collapse of a regime which is universally hated by the South Korean masses and does not have more than five percent support of the public.<\/p>\n

Now Carter has proposed withdrawing some of the 42,000 US ground troops stationed in South Korea.\u00a0\u2026 turning some two and a half billion dollars in military aid over to the fascist military dictatorship of Park Chung-Hee.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ214 [16]<\/a><\/td>\nRemember the socialist classes will be held in the normal group arrangement for testing.\u00a0\u2026 \u00a0Also be aware of the position papers of Guyana on imperialism and its support of the reunification of Korea under the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea, which is the only representative government of Korea. Moreover, be aware of the commentaries on South and North Korea and Mozambique.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Early November 1978<\/td>\nQ216 [17]<\/a><\/td>\nWPK [Worker\u2019s Party of Korea or Korean Worker\u2019s Party] general staff of the Korean Revolution. The Workers Party of Korea, the DEPK\u2013 RK, that beautiful, practical, lovely country that we saw on our TV station, where all the children eat rice as a staple food, and how healthy they look, and how vigorously happy, enthusiasm on all their faces, it would be good if Marceline could have that set up in her room so she could see it. Nothing would warm the heart more than the joy that was in the faces of the Korean people.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the workers party of Korea is a party founded, led by President Kim Il-sung, the gram [grand] and great leader of the revolution, is in the vanguard detachment of the Korean working class and other working masses.<\/p>\n

The general staff of the Korean Revolution and the guiding force of the Korean people. His revolutionary party of new type that has inherited the glorious revolutionary tradition that built up to President Kim Il-sung during his long-drawn anti-reactionary and anti-Japanese struggle. \u2026 It goes on in essence to say that the PNC [People\u2019s National Congress of Guyana] backs wholeheartedly the doctrine of the DPRK, the Communist North Koreans, for reunification of their countries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ225 [18]<\/a><\/td>\nNorth and South Korea, and the position papers that I gave yesterday of Guyana on its stands about socialism and imperialism and the multinational corporations, some of it\u2019s on the blackboard, not all the details, and its position on full support for the demands of the Democratic Peoples Republic \u2013communist \u2013 North Korea\u2019s demand for reunification with South Korea that\u2019s presently under a dictatorship imposed by USA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ255 [19]<\/a><\/td>\nI just wanted to add that bit of good news, we were well received by the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea, and they\u2019ll be coming out soon. They\u2019re showing fascinating assistance and interest to us. Thank you so much, and I love you very dearly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ263 [20]<\/a><\/td>\nGuyana Broadcasting Studios, which reflects the policies of the Peoples National Congress, which is the party of Prime Minister [Forbes] Burnham, our leader, has called for support of the Korea reunification symposium, meeting tonight in Georgetown.<\/p>\n

USA has a firm policy against the reunification of North and South Korea, as South Korea, under the dictatorship that was set up as a puppet regime, you know the [ass-] kissers that I spoke about, the lackeys, has been obediently the servant of US imperialist interests in Asia. But Guyana was bolder in its support than I\u2019ve heard heretofore, for the reunification of Korea.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ309 [21]<\/a><\/td>\nThe last of the news will be a commentary on Korea. Korea. Just some twenty years of upholding socialism, \u2026 towards the anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, the communist country. Little is known in the United States about this socialist country, yet in its three decades now nearly of independence, the DPRK has made dramatic achievements from what was a colonial semi-feudal economy \u2013 if not a feudal one \u2013 in 1948. Then they were bombed into hell till there was nothing left standing when the war ended with US imperialism in 1953. So they\u2019re barely twenty years old, digging out of the graveyards. Nothing was left standing. One bomb for every individual was dropped on the North Koreans.<\/p>\n

The North Koreans have built a socialist society, a socialist society with one of the highest standards of living in the world, in and of itself. This was no simple task. I am not reading from a pro-socialist magazine or giving comments of a pro-socialist magazine. I\u2019m giving one from Harpers. But it was complicated by three years of US aggression which had but all but devastated the economy in the capital Pyongyang, P-y-o-n-g-y-a-n-g. For example, at the end of the Korean war in 1953, it is estimated that no more than three buildings, if any at all, were left standing. Following the war\u2019s end in 1953, the Koreans began to rebuild their country. Their success then have not been based on magic or good luck or favorable weather conditions, because cloud seeding has been used against them by our tax dollars through the CIA.<\/p>\n

The DPRK, communist North Korea, attributes its advances to a strong political line summed up in the Korean word, \u201cjuche<\/a>,\u201d j-u-c-h-e. The word does not have an equivalent in English. Roughly it can be translated as self-reliance. Guyana gives much credit to that word and they are very good friends of the DPRK.<\/p>\n

As developed by President Kim Il-sung, juche, the concept stands on three legislative, political independence, economic self-reliance, and military self-defense. An integral part of the juche concept is the axiom that the problems facing the Korean revolution \u2013 and there have been numerous difficulties over the years \u2013 must be solved on the basis of Korea\u2019s concrete conditions, not on the basis of developmental theories mechanically imported from US imperialism. Basing itself on [three pronunciations] the juche, or the juche, or jussie, j-u-c-h-e concept \u2013 someone else can give you a proper pronunciation \u2013 the DPRK industrialized its agricultural country in only eight years.<\/p>\n

Now this is the picture we saw night before last.<\/p>\n

The beauty of their organization, where they work sixteen hours. Eight hours of work. Eight hours of study. And then eight hours of rest. And it was this industrialization that laid the groundwork for establishing an independent economy which, as the Koreans realized from their colonial experience, was their only way to truly safeguard their political sovereignty. There is such unity and solidarity in this country that they do not have one jail in the country inhabited by over fifteen million people. Perhaps more important, remembering that US troops are still poised on North Korea\u2019s southern borders, ready to invade at any moment, this industrialization created the basis for the DPRK\u2019s own defense capability.<\/p>\n

The Korean people have been the main beneficiaries of these significant accomplishments. Health care and education are free, with a universal eleven-year compulsory education system for everyone. Comprehensive daycare centers have been established for working women. Recreational centers have been provided throughout the country of the most modern variety like our carnivals and circuses. There are state subsidies on basic foodstuffs, particularly rice. Free clothing is given to schoolchildren and workers. Subsidies mean that the rice cost little or nothing. Large-scale construction of new housing has guaranteed livable housing all for now no rent at all. Now that\u2019s what work brings about.<\/p>\n

I would think you\u2019d take joy in just working to make funds for Zimbabwean Patriotic Front or the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of North Korea or Namibia.<\/p>\n

[Note:<\/strong> It is not known how much money the PT donated to the North Korean government.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ378 [22]<\/a><\/td>\nKorean reunification, which is of course contrary to the interest of USA, because USA cruelly divided Korea. All the people prefer the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of North Korea. USA came in to South Korea, imposed one of the worst dictators in history, who has thousands of political prisoners. Many have disappeared, never to be seen again by their families. They had been cruelly tortured by the KCIA, an auxiliary of the dread[ed] CIA of US imperialism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ385 [23]<\/a><\/td>\nThe Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, known for its grand welcome of world dignitaries, gave Prime Minister Forbes Burnham one of the most rousing receptions they\u2019ve ever given any dignitary of state, when he arrived last week. The reception party was headed by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Communist North Korea, President Comrade Kim Il-Sung. On hand were workers, men, women and children, and others who chanted patriotic songs in appreciation of Prime Minister Burnham\u2019s visit from our own beloved Guyana. In this picture, it shows a gathering of women among the thousands that met Prime Minister Burnham at the airport. Well-dressed, beautiful, and the most modern background, the city of Pyongyang, where the capital of North Korea is located. \u2026<\/p>\n

The only breakthrough this week was that the prime [foreign] minister \u00a0[Huang] Hua [Guofeng?] of China didn\u2019t travel to the Peoples Democratic Republic of North Korea, the communist government there, and state unequivocally that USA should withdraw its forces, its troops that it has refused to withdraw, and furthermore, he said that reunification of North Korea would be a demand of China\u2019s foreign policy, and they would continue to make that demand.<\/p>\n

[Note<\/strong>: Jones is likely referring to Huo Guofeng, the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and short lived successor to Mao Zedong]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

October 21 1978<\/td>\nQ400 [24]<\/a><\/td>\nAfter the [Russian] language class, there will be Technicolor film \u2013 beautiful film \u2013 on the solidarity of the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of North Korea, which has close ties with Soviet Union, models its government and collectives after the Soviet Union, but is also close with the Peoples Republic of China. Absolute solidarity.<\/p>\n

In 20 years, when their entire nation was bombed back into the Stone Ages, they have rebuilt every bit of their country, and you will see such solidarity and such wholesomeness in their 16-hour schedule day, you\u2019ll see joy on their faces and reflections of happiness and purpose that cannot be denied. Thank you. Much love.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ401 [25]<\/a><\/td>\nPeople say, there\u2019s too many meetings. I\u2019m rather tired of hearing about too many meetings, in that we\u2019ve got Democratic Peoples Republic\u2013 which I could\u2019ve shown you tonight but I\u2019ll probably show you tomorrow in the language session. And all will be required to attend. Say, \u201cI don\u2019t like these meetings.\u201d Neither do I. But we\u2019ve got to get ourself [ourselves] in readiness now to meet certain elementary requirements. In the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of North Korea, people work automatically 16 hours a day. And you will see their faces shining and beaming and healthy.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the way North Korea looked. And the way they\u2019ve built it now, there\u2019s not one bit of poverty, not one slum, not one piece of rubble, not one piece of dirty street. You don\u2019t see litter or anything, and even that film, that was made by US film company, you see nothing but beauty.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what we want to say about the People\u2019s Republic of North Korea. They say, no man marry till you\u2019re 32. No woman marry until you\u2019re 30. Say, you don\u2019t know your own mind. You haven\u2019t been educated. You haven\u2019t been fulfilled. You don\u2019t have enough self-image. You don\u2019t have enough awareness of yourself. You understand what I\u2019m saying? \u2026<\/p>\n

We got these wood toys. I want to see how many of you\u2019ll volunteer time. Show the little North Korean children going out and uh\u2013 and harvest. And I mean, some of \u2018em were so small that the rice they were carrying, \u00a0you couldn\u2019t see \u2019em. They were carrying the rice along on their shoulders, on their heads, and they looked like little rice bodies movin\u2019. But they loved and they laughed and they danced and they jumped, and you never heard such singing, you never heard such synchronization, you never saw such orchestration of unity in your life. My heart wanted to cry because here, every time we try to organize\u2013 You been ruined, some of you assholes.<\/p>\n

I was reviewing today a beautiful film on the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of North Korea, I want you to see it tomorrow, 16 hours a day, that goddamn USA leveled that country to nothing but rubble. There were three houses left standing. There was a bomb dropped for every person. For every person in North Korea, there was a bomb. I don\u2019t know the tonnage of the bomb. One bomb. And those beautiful people, by working like that and caring and not being like some of you, gruntled, always disgruntled. Why you have this? Why you got to have to watch the show? Why we have to have a meeting every night? Goddamn, why don\u2019t you quit griping a little bit and understand and know what the hell I\u2019m doin\u2019? I make various exceptions, so why do we have to watch the film twice? You can\u2019t get Harlan County<\/em> in one time.<\/p>\n

[Note<\/strong>: Harlan County U.S.A<\/em> is a documentary film that covered the Brookside Strike between coal miners in Kentucky and Duke Power Company. [26]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ433 [27]<\/a><\/td>\nGuyanese supporters have gathered by the hundreds in support of Korea\u2019s demand, which USA oppose, for reunification of that country. Commander Lee of the GNS [Guyana National Service] has come out in support of the reunification of communist Korea. A rally will be held in the Essequibo region this night.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 1978?<\/td>\nQ592 [28]<\/a><\/td>\nJones:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. But as I recall the law, you can\u2019t get no Social Security checks in Cuba. Right? Cuba, Vietnam or Hungary. Or Albania. Mmm-hmm. North Korea. Yeah. Countries to which Social Security checks can\u2019t be sent. U.S. Treasury Department regulations prohibit mailing checks to anyone in Albania, Cuba, East Berlin, East Germany, Khmer Republic, Cambodia, North Korea \u2026<\/p>\n

Male<\/strong>: How about Russia?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> No, nothing about Russia. You can get your checks in Russia. Poland. This is Social Security check, I think. I think it\u2019s only Social Security\u2019s. Government, other forms, you can. But there\u2019s ways around that, I heard, there\u2019s ways around that.<\/p>\n

Male<\/strong>: I don\u2019t think Cuba should be considered as an option, because in the September White Night, you got the message that the Cuban government would only accept you and a few others and not all of us.<\/p>\n

Jones<\/strong>: Yeah, man, but hell\u2019s fire, we were in the middle of a warfare. Now \u00a0they\u2019re talking differently now. This is April. That\u2019s September.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ598 [29]<\/a><\/td>\nMarceline:<\/strong> All I want to say, when I went to the Korean Embassy, after the United States just wiped them out, and of course they won their revolution, they couldn\u2019t grow cotton, they had no way to make materials to make clothing, and so they learned how to make fabric out of wood, and out of limestone, and out of reeds. I don\u2019t know what were the kind of reeds that grow across \u2013 around the ocean, but I think it\u2019s very interesting, I don\u2019t know whether this is the same person or not, but at least, maybe they could show us\u2014<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> He\u2019s a rich, a rich manufacturer here who likes North Korea. He\u2019s a businessman, but he likes North Korea, and he likes us, so\u2014<\/p>\n

Marceline:<\/strong> Okay, I don\u2019t know whether he knows\u2014<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2014compensating for his riches, I don\u2019t know\u2014<\/p>\n

Marceline:<\/strong> \u2014 how to make fabric out of wood, but I think it would be a great thing if we could learn how to do that.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ606 [30]<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0The power failures are not as great now as the prime minister is going, and has already left to the Soviet Union and the great country of Communist North Korea. The Communist North Koreans, as you know, are very friendly to us, their embassy in terms of visit, communist Cuban embassy, very friendly and even offered us asylum if fascism were to take over.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ737 [31]<\/a><\/td>\nThings are going well for us in Georgetown. All sorts of public appearances last night. The most beautiful cultural center auditorium of any nation I\u2019ve ever seen in the world, the Guyana Cultural Center. All kinds of leaders, the ambassador of North Korea was astounded, he said, by our talent.<\/p>\n

Our musical and entertainment program in Georgetown was a raving success. \u2026<\/p>\n

Ambassador of North Korea, communist North Korea, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and all said that they were very well pleased, in fact, overwhelmed by our performances.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ738 [32]<\/a><\/td>\nDr. Forbes Burnham [Prime Minister of Guyana] is now, in a matter of few days, a delegation of our government leaders, going to the Soviet Union and North Korea. We will, as you know, we want to be prepared for our guest. Any day we\u2019ll be having visitors from United States as well as the Soviet embassy and the Cuban Embassy and the North Korean Embassy, as we are more and more getting to know and have friendship and bonds of eternal solidarity with Third World nations. We have one nation representative Zimbabweans coming, we have Yugoslavian embassy that has been more and more active in the arena of Third World politics and the demand for African liberation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ753 [33]<\/a><\/td>\nTonight visiting our headquarters is Dr. [Vibert] Mingo, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Immigration, in the cabinet, our liaison. He\u2019s our man that represents the government and us in mutual talks. He will be at our house for dinner, and then the North Koreans have invited us to a very special movie presentation. The North Koreans are the only true communist government, peoples government, in Korea. They will be visiting us soon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ759 [34]<\/a><\/td>\nAs you know, the Prime Minister will be traveling on to North Korea, who have been very friendly, and also used to visit us. Their embassy has been very, very appreciative of our program. They were at our celebration, our entertainment show at the cultural center. They also are going to visit us, as I said. \u2026 It was pointed out in the release that the reunification of Korea is the unanimous desire and aspiration of the entire Korean and peace-loving people of the world over.<\/p>\n

The release, however, noted that following the announcement of the Nixon Doctrine of the US ruling circles, openly pushed ahead with the two Koreas idea in real earnest early in the 1970s, the United States, the release continued, zealously encouraged the South Korean fascist authorities to take the road of the split, not reunification. Subsequently, the South Korean authorities<\/p>\n

immediately proceeded to practice the two Koreas plot. All reasonable and realistic proposals advanced by the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of Communist Korea \u2014 North Korea \u2014 to the South Korean fascist authorities were dismissed \u2026 eventually the South Korea, in a so-called special statement, announced to the world the policy of freezing and perpetuating the division of that beloved country where the peoples want to be free and live under the great Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, now confined to North Korea, the Communist-liberated zone. <\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ780 [35]<\/a><\/td>\nThe Soviet Union\u2019s Embassy who was present and Yugoslavian Embassy present, also at our cultural event, and the North Korean Embassy and the Cuban Embassy. All plan to attend, and visit rather, our project soon. So inspection teams must be prepared every day, and we must beautify and dress up, all the people must send in criticisms and suggestions for changing things to make it the most beautiful spot possible, as they\u2019re becoming more and more impressed. They want about a ten-page bibliography on myself and background to send to Moscow and to the prime minister and for press consumption throughout the USSR, the vanguard of Marxist-Leninist peoples liberation throughout the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nQ886 [36]<\/a><\/td>\nFor two thousand years, there was one Korea. Imagine USA wanting to divide a country that it was two thousand years united. And 25 years of enforced artificial division will not change that fact. All the bayonets the US Army can muster will never be able to sever Korea permanently. \u2026 The hands of US imperialism and its lackeys reaches directly into the lives of all Koreans.<\/p>\n

If we work and produce, we can send out funds to help other systems. We also already have helped the DPRK [Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, North Korea] while we\u2019ve been here. But we\u2019ve got to do more, we\u2019ve got to get our people to freedom. <\/strong>I would think you\u2019d take joy in just working to make funds for Zimbabwean Patriotic Front or the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea, or Namibia. \u2026<\/p>\n

The hands of imperialism reaches directly into the lives of all Koreans. We here have the opportunity, and as I said before, the duty to help move it. Who in the world is better situated to take up this fight than we, the only socialist movement as the different guests have said in the last few days in the United States? If we don\u2019t take it up, who will? We must always work, we know the night\u2019s coming when no man can work, we know nuclear war looks inevitable, we know it almost looks an absolute, but as we commemorate this twenty-fifth anniversary of socialism really being free in the DPRK, we join with progressives the world over in demanding: US imperialism out of Korea, bring the troops home, like Carter promised.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nQ985 [37]<\/a><\/td>\nAnd to go back and listen to North Korea, South Korea, and the tape about Guyana, the tape about Guyana and its position on world imperialism. It gives various names of the leaders of Guyana and what they have to say about imperialism. \u2026 Okay, now, you may be seated. Where are\u2013 and what the agenda of problems? Who is the leader of North Korea? I got that.<\/p>\n

The United States poured more bombs on that little country than fell between 1939 and 1949, by all nations in World War II, and levelled every building in North Korea, and under the honorable leadership of Kim Il Sung, the communist leader, the agrarian leader, they built back every building, and there\u2019s not one scar of war left, in just 30 years. Twenty-five years. Twenty-five years. That\u2019s a hell of accomplishment for people that had just dug out of the caves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

[10]<\/a> Q191<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[11]<\/a> \u2018North Korean Boat Sunk,\u2019 The Washington Post<\/em>, April 28, 1978, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/national\/1978\/04\/29\/north-korean-boat-sunk\/2f2585e4-aec8-494f-a74f-9e22f406c6eb\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[12]<\/a> Q203<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[13]<\/a> Q205<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[14]<\/a> \u2018Ardent Patriot Kim Jong U,\u2019 The Korean Friendship Association, June 22, 2014, https:\/\/kfausa.org\/ardent-patriot-kim-ung-u\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[15]<\/a> Q209<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[16]<\/a> Q214<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[17]<\/a> Q216<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[18]<\/a> Q225<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[19]<\/a> Q255<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[20]<\/a> Q263<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[21]<\/a> Q309<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[22]<\/a> Q378<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[23]<\/a> Q385<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute,<\/p>\n

[24]<\/a> Q400<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[25]<\/a> Q401<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[26]<\/a> Gary Arnold, \u2018Harlan County\u2019: Ardent, Absorbing,\u2019 Washington Post<\/em>, March 23, 1977, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/lifestyle\/1977\/03\/23\/harlan-county-ardent-absorbing\/17846a89-e4f6-46af-ad1f-170487593dea\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[27]<\/a> Q433<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[28]<\/a> Q592<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[29]<\/a> Q598<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[30]<\/a> Q606<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[31]<\/a> Q737<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[32]<\/a> Q738<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[33]<\/a> Q753<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[34]<\/a> Q759<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[35]<\/a> Q780<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[36]<\/a> Q886<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n

[37]<\/a> Q985<\/a>, The Jonestown Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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