Mamdani’s Socialist Group Backs ‘Death To Imperialism’ Summit Praising North Korea

The socialist group that counts Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a member endorsed an event defending North Korea’s totalitarian regime against Western critics.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and its International Committee were “endorsing” and “supporting” organizations, respectively, for a “People’s Summit for Korea” held from July 25-27 in New York City, the event’s website shows. The forum called for “reunification” of South Korea with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime and promoted claims that “imperialist” forces have unfairly disparaged the communist nation.

The left-leaning publication Peoples Dispatch quoted activists such as Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition Executive Director Brian Becker defending the “DPRK,” or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, at the summit.

“One of the problems that we face in the United States is the nonstop demonization and caricaturing of the DPRK,” Becker said, according to the outlet.

“Imperialism wants us to believe that the government of North Korea, and the people of North Korea, are completely distinct, and fundamentally antagonistic,” a member of the activist group Nodutdol reportedly told her audience while describing a trip she took to the country. “This lie facilitates any number of imperialist maneuvers, ranging from sanctions, to conducting war drills, as it allows the imperialists to say that they are carrying out these actions on behalf of North Korea, and against their government.”