Tal-Labour are off to Pyongyang as special guests of the cruel and ultra-repressive dictatorship

Off to Pyongyang again: Mintoff’s foreign minister and Muscat’s special envoy, Alex Sceberras Trigona, with his boss.

Joe Mizzi: let’s hope he packs a suit for the celebrations

Dom Mintoff and Kim Jong Il at Mintoff’s home in Tarxien

Dom Mintoff with Kim Il Sung in North Korea – when that troupe sang ‘Ma taghmlu xejn mal-perit Mintoff’

The government of Malta (Labour) and the Malta Labour Party will be represented at the 67th anniversary – not 50th, not 100th, but 67th – of North Korea’s national day on 9th September.

Transport Minister Joe Mizzi will represent the government, while Malta’s envoy to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, Alex Sceberras Trigona – who is a representative of the Maltese government by dint of his WTO appointment – will represent the Malta Labour Party.

It was Sceberras Trigona who, as Prime Minister Dom Mintoff’s (and Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s) Foreign Minister, had signed a secret (later revealed) agreement with the North Korean dictatorship for the training of Maltese special police in ‘crowd control’ measures. That was the era of mass anti-government demonstrations.

They are the special guests of the cruel and ultra-repressive Pyongyang dictatorship, which has invited only those governments and organisations which it deems friendly.