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.
[7] Hudson received a doctorate in socio-political science from the Pyongyang-based Korean Association of Social Scientists [ko] 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.