Well, North Korea is—how shall I put it—in the news, here’s an extract from something written by one Andrew Murray, then a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain’s executive committee back in 2003 (my emphasis added):

The drive to seize command of the world economy in the interests of its own monopoly groups now propels the US government to seek to seize command of every corner of the world itself. This does not need any amplification in relation to the Middle East at present. But we should also be alert to the very real dangers in the Fareast and around Peoples Korea. The clear desire of the USA to effect ‘regime change’ in its second ‘axis of evil’ target could well provoke an armed clash there, too. Our Party has already made its basic position of solidarity with Peoples Korea clear.

Just some extremist?

Well yes, but an extremist who later took on a very senior role in Britain’s largest trade union. In 2016 Murray left the Communist Party to join Britain’s Labour Party. In 2017 he was drafted in to run the final stages of Labour’s surprisingly successful campaign, a campaign that may have prepared the ground for Corbyn (or someone like him) to become the U.K.’s next prime minister.

Queried about Murray’s past (Murray has also had some interesting things to say about Stalin) Corbyn praised his “enormous abilities” and said that Murray was a “a democratic socialist and member of the Labour party like me”.

The last part of that phrase was true. Both men are indeed members of the Labour Party.