North Korea: Is the ANCYL fuelling North Korean propaganda offensive?
The ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe should take action against his Youth League, if it turns out that they have indeed provided vocal support for the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. The North's state-run news agency KCNA has recently used quotes, ostensibly obtained from the ANC Youth League, for propaganda purposes.
KCNA stated in one such report that:
"The secretary of the African National Congress Youth League of South Africa praised Kim Jong Il as the great guardian who firmly guarantees peace and security of not only the Korean Peninsula but the world with his Songun [‘Military First'] politics." [1]
They have also quoted a "vice-chairman of the [ANC youth] league" saying:
"The stand of the DPRK is just and fair." [2]