Proletarian internationalists all over the globe have hailed the achievement of the scientists, engineers and er, conscript labourers, of The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) who “have succeeded in putting satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, an experimental communications satellite, into orbit by means of carrier rocket Unha-2 under the state long-term plan for the development of outer space.” Before long revolutionary workers will be able to view the top notch quality entertainment for which the DPRK broadcasters are justly renowned (see below) and will no longer have to endure the reactionary garbage of the bourgeois media. It’s also good to know that someone is giving serious thought to developing outer space.

The capitalist running dogs are claiming that the rocket is now somewhere under the Pacific Ocean. Actually “it is sending to the earth the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans “Song of General Kim Il Sung” and “Song of General Kim Jong Il”” according to the DPRK official website and no honest toiler should rely on any other source of information about that great nation. Regrettably neither song seems to be available on iTunes.

Many may take the view that a state which is having severe trouble feeding its own people could find better things to be doing than shooting lumps of metal and 1980s electronic gadgetry into either space or the ocean depths. Obama has taken time off from trying to drum up enthusiasm for the war in Afghanistan to pretend that the North Koreans’ Mickey Mouse space programme represents a major threat to world peace.  He says that he is determined to “prevent the spread of these weapons” and is trotting out the international community to back him up, much of which already has either telecommunications satellites and / or long range missiles.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, exercising his customary independent thinking, bleated ‘while Pyongyang continues to pursue a hostile policy towards the rest of the world, it cannot hope to take its rightful place within the international community.” On this logic having troops fighting in two wars in other peoples’ countries is not hostile and is how you earn your place in the international community.

The squalid Kim Jong Il regime is a joke to everyone who does not have the misfortune to live there. It behaves like a man who has had a bad car crash which damaged the bits of the brain dealing with social skills. Obama and Milliband are using its vainglorious attempts at launching rockets to remind the world that there may be a new face in the White House but that the imperialists still feel that they have the right to threaten and isolate any state that does not toe their line.

Anyone for the workers’ long range ballistic missile? You may want to discuss your views with some co-thinkers in the Juche Idea Study Group of England. Membership is contingent on wanting  to apply the Juche Idea in England and loving Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il