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Dermot Hudson | |
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![]() Dermot Hudson in 2025 | |
Chairman of the British Korean Friendship Association | |
Assumed office 2000 | |
Preceded by | Position created |
Chairman of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea | |
Assumed office Sep 1985 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 20 July 1961 64) Hammersmith,London,England | (age
Political party | Communist Party of Great Britain (1980–1987) New Communist Party of Britain (1990–1997;2014-present) Socialist Labour Party (UK) (2001–2003) |
Alma mater | University of Winchester Korean Association of Social Scientists University of Greenwich |
Dermot Caradoc Hudson (born 20 July 1961) is a British communist [1] political activist with close relations with North Korea. He is the Chairman of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, [2] Chairman of United Kingdom Korean Friendship Association, [3] and President of the British Association for the Study of Songun Politics. [4] [5] [6] He is a former trade unionist and civil servant. [7]
Hudson received a doctorate in socio-political science from the Pyongyang-based Korean Association of Social Scientists in April 2016,after submitting a thesis titled In Defence of Songun.
Hudson's works have been translated into Czech, [8] Serbian, [9] German,Turkish,Spanish,Portuguese,Russian and Korean. Dr Hudson has also written articles for 'Covert Action Magazine ',the Bangladesh 'Daily Folk ' and also in the past Pravda.ru
In 2021 Happenstance Films released the short documentary film A Friend of Kim about Hudson.