Cargill Inc. delegation here

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Cargill Inc. of the United States led by Norwell Coquillard, President for North Asia, arrived here Tuesday.

Rodong Sinmun praises S. Korean students' solidarity with workers

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today says the south Korean students' joining in the workers' strikes for their vital rights and democracy is a very right action which is a sign of the south Korean people's escalating struggle against dictatorship and for democracy. In a commentary the daily says the whole nation praises and fully supports the students' solidarity struggle. The south Korean people including workers and students have the same desire for independence, democracy and reunification, it notes. Therefore, it is natural that they join each other in the struggle to realise their same desire. What the workers and students will lose in the struggle against Kim Young Sam and the fascist laws is the fetters of suppression and exploitation and what they will gain is genuine freedom, rights and life, it says, adding: The students under the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils will continue fighting for independence, democracy and reunification in solidarity with the workers and other people.

Press conference called by Pyongyang mission of NDFSK

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) called a press conference on January 21 to explain information on the meeting of the standing committee of its central committee. The information on the meeting was distributed at the press conference. Chief of the mission Ri Jong Sang said that the vanguard fighters of the NDFSK and south Korean people more deeply felt the greatness of Secretary Kim Jong Il, who firmly defended justice of the world and socialism, saved the destinies of the nation and humankind, turned adversities into favourable conditions and thus brilliantly adorned the history of the era of independence last year. Last year was a historic one when it was recognised as the declaration of the times that the people's cause of independence, the cause of socialism is sure to win as it is guided by General Kim Jong Il, Ri Jong Sang said, adding: The south Korean people more deeply realized that only when they fight as indicated by the Juche idea, holding General Kim Jong Il in high esteem, will the sacred cause of independence, democracy and reunification certainly be achieved. The south Korean people, he further said, have the unchangeable faith that the great leader President Kim Il Sung is immortal in the hearts of the people and that only when they are faithful to the guidance of General Kim Jong Il will the victory and future be ensured.

Continued struggle declared in S. Korea

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The "Korean Confederation of Trade Unions" called a press conference at the Myongdong Cathedral on January 21, at which it accused the traitor Kim Young Sam of showing no willingness to solve the controversial issue and declared that it would go on a general strike on January 22, according to a radio report from Seoul. Kwon Yong Gil, chairman of the confederation, denounced the traitor Kim Young Sam for his utterances that the "labour law" and the "law on the agency for national security planning" were passed through "legal procedures". He declared that they would fight it out until the laws are abrogated. Some 2,800 professors of 62 universities in south Korea who had taken part in a signature campaign in protest against the amended "labour law" and the "law on the agency for national security planning" released a statement on January 21 in demand of the total nullification of the laws. The statement demanded that the "summit meeting of ruling and opposition parties agree on the total withdrawal of the "labour law" prohibiting the formation of more than two unions at one work site and allowing companies to lay off workers and of the "law on the agency for national security planning" repressing the freedom of ideology and expression. If this demand is not met, not only the ruling party but also the opposition political camp will be the targets of public denunciation, it declared.

Letter to s. Korean literary men

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and Art of Korea sent a letter to the south Korean people of literature and art in connection with the south Korean fascist clique intensifying the suppression of the workers' massive struggle against the retrogressive revision of the "law on the agency for national security planning" and the "labour law", while trying to justify the crackdown. The letter says that the suppression of the workers the kim Young Sam group are escalating, linking their struggle with the north, is nothing but an anti-democratic, anti- national crime to further fascistize south Korean society and force the slave labour on them by effectuating the evil laws revised in a terrible atmosphere of confrontation between the north and the south. The men of literature and art are pioneers in denouncing injustice and social evils and guides of justice and truth, it notes, expressing the expectation that they will pave a way of justice, a way of patriotism, togther with workers.

Youth league discusses tasks of young people in forced march of socialism

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The 11th Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League was held in Pyongyang on January 20 and 21. Discussed at the meeting were tasks of youth league organizations to become victors in the forced march of socialism and to invigorate education through publications among young people. It outlined concrete tasks facing all the organizations and officials of the youth league in carrying out their duty in the forced march of socialism under the slogan "let us all become victors in this year's 'arduous march'!" The meeting called for imbuing all organizations with the Red Flag Idea of the Workers' Party of Korea and stressed that the youth league organizations should strengthen ideological education among the young people to encourage them to become human bombs and rifles defending the leader. It also noted that the youth league organizations should enhance their role and increase their the might as reserve combat units and detached force of Secretary Kim Jong Il. It called on the young people to bring about a great upsurge in the socialist economic construction.

Morality and great man

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Jong In Suk, director of a consultation office in south Korea, wrote an article titled "Morality and great man" in appreciation of the noble virtues of Secretary Kim Jong Il, the Seoul- based radio voice of national salvation reported. The article read in part: South Korean society has turned into a barren land of morality. Distrust and hatred among people have reached the extremes and nobody knows when this society will collapse. Unlike this society, the northern society is full of human love and sound morality. All people in the north regard their leader as the father of the nation and loyalty to him as their highest moral obligation and remain intensely loyal to President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il. The people's loyalty to the leader is based on their unique view of morality. The north is a mysterious land where love for the country, comrades and neighbors is valued as the most beautiful morality and people devotedly work and even defy death for the sake of society, the collective and their comrades. What is the source of the morality based on human love? President Kim Il Sung was the father of true moral politics. Secretary Kim Jong Il, while assisting the President, put heart and soul into helping the people in the north, splendidly trained by the President, to have more beautiful moral traits. On the basis of the man-centred Juche idea, General Kim Jong Il propounded a theory of morality that defends human values most resolutely and develops humanity into most powerful, beautiful and noble beings. He also has turned the north into a powerful nation in moral and political aspects. With his practical examples, he teaches humankind what human morality should be like. He regards loyalty to the leader as the highest form of morality. He has been loyal and dutiful to the President. He considers it his bounden duty to respect and put forward the forerunners who were faithful to the motherland and the people. His famous work "Respecting the Forerunners of the Revolution is a Noble Moral Obligation of Revolutionaries" is an outcome of his noble view of morality. The north has the leader Kim Jong Il, the incarnation of morality and loyalty, and its people are united not only ideologically but also morally. So, the north will certainly overcome all difficulties and create a bright history with redoubled vigor.

NDFSK calls for burying "civilian-veiled" dictatorship

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) in the present fighting slogans on Jan. 17 called upon the people from all walks of life in south Korea to more vigorously turn out in the all-people resistance for the withdrawal of the evil laws revised by the Kim Young Sam group and for burying the "civilian-veiled" dictatorship, the Seoul-based radio voice of national salvation reported. The slogans say that the stirring present situation calls for holding higher the flag of struggle to put an end to the intelligence terrorist politics, the fascist repressive rule and build a genuine society of democracy in order to secure the urgent rights of 23 million workers and their families to democracy and existence. The slogans continue: Let us abolish the slave "labour laws" which kill workers and fatten businessmen. Democracy is suffocated and the people are slaughtered by the "law on the agency for national security planning". Let us abrogate the "law" through struggle. Let us smash strong-arm suppression with an overall general strike, defend the "Korean Confederation of Trade Unions" and give full play to strong fighting and organising power. If solidarity of workers and students is achieved, the "civilian-veiled" dictatorship will be ended, the slogans say, calling upon the one million students to join in the general strike of workers. The slogans call upon the peasants to overthrow the "civilian-veiled" regime killing them, shoulder to shoulder with workers and upon the teachers who are deprived of the right to unity to undauntedly turn out in the struggle to repeal the evil laws. They also call upon the intellectuals to hold high the candle light of the struggle burning the revised evil laws and upon the pressmen to denounce the crimes of the "civilian-veiled" dictatorship going against the will of the people, with pens of justice in their hands. They appeal to the religionists to give harsh penalties to judas, Kim Young Sam. The slogans call for burying the "civilian-veiled" dictatorship with the unity of all the people.

NDFSK on celebrating April 15 and February 16

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) was held in Seoul on January 20. The first agenda item of the meeting was to grandly celebrate the 85th birth anniversary of the great leader President Kim Il Sung and the 55th birthday of the great leader Secretary Kim Jong Il as the greatest national holiday common to humankind. The meeting set the February 10-20 period and April 10-20 period as celebration days. It discussed and adopted a program of organisational and political activities to mark the holidays and authorized the NDFSK central committee to issue books which carry ideas and theories of the great leaders and the achievements made under their leadership and deep respect and loyalty of the people of all social standings for them and publish documents to commemorate April 15 and February 16. It decided to dispatch a congratulatory group of the NDFSK to Pyongyang on the occasion of April 15 and February 16 to wholeheartedly pray for the immortality of the President and present a congratulatory message and a silk banner of the NDFSK central committee to Secretary Kim Jong Il. The meeting discussed the second agenda item, the way of the national democratic movememnt for this year. The way is to hold fast to the principle of activating the struggle for independence against the United States and the movement for national reunification and concentrate all efforts on overthrowing the traitorous Kim Young Sam regime, a stumbling block to democracy and reunification, the meeting stressed. Noting that the overthrow of the Kim Young Sam regime is the demand of the present situation, the will of the people and the task of the national history, the meeting stressed the need to strengthen the forces of workers,peasants and students with the workers as the axis and unite the dissidents and other people to vigorously turn out in the nationwide resistance. It expressed the belief that the south Korean people will make a new turning point in the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification, full of the conviction of certain victory and optimism in this significant year and decorate the history of the nation.

Labour movement in s. Korea supported worldwide

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA)-- The struggle of south Korean workers was actively supported in different countries. The British Society for Independence Studies in a statement January 16 said that the south Korean authorities are clamouring about "threats from the north" in an attempt to conceal the essence of their dependent economy. We call upon all the labour movement, the labour Party and democratic and reasonable people in britain to express full solidarity with the labour movement in south Korea, said the statement. Chitta Vishwath, Secretary General of the All-India Peace and Solidarity Organisation, in a statement January 16 said that it is only too natural that south Korean workers have turned out in the struggle against the amended "labour laws" and "law on the agency for national security planning." He expressed the conviction that the south Korean workers would continue their struggle till their just demands are met. He urged the Kim Young Sam group to abrogate the "labour laws" and the "law on the agency for national security planning" at once and release the arrested union leaders and democrats without delay. M.M. Verma, Director of the Indian Centre for U.N. Studies, said in a statement that reconciliation and cooperation on the Korean Peninsula are unthinkable as long as the "national security law" and the concrete wall remain in south Korea. He stressed that the Kim Young Sam group honestly confess their crimes against the nation and step down from "power".

DPRK public org. on Japan's move to avoid postwar settlement

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Committee for Investigation into Damage Caused by Japanese Imperialist Occupation of Korea issued a statement today denouncing Takami Eto, former General Director of the Management and Coordination Agency of Japan, for his recent remarks denying the past crimes of Japanese imperialism. The statement says: Some time ago, Takami Eto said Japanese imperialism's invasion and military occupation of Korea were made under a "treaty" and that they were little different from the "merger of a town and a village." He also expressed doubt over the recruitment of "comfort women for the army" written in Japanese middle school history textbooks that will be available from this spring. His remarks denying Japan's past crimes have caused a big stir in the international community. It is an undeniable historical fact that militarist Japan began aggression on Korea from more than a hundred years ago and militarily occupied Korea for 41 years when it committed all kinds of unethical crimes including massacre, drafting of "comfort women" and forced labor. Nonetheless, Takami Eto, a former member of the Japanese government and a dietman "elected" by the people, distorted this stark fact and justified the past crimes. We can hardly repress surging resentment. The government authorities of Japan describe Eto's remarks as a talk based on his "individual view of history" and "not binding on the government." If this is true, they should raise a serious issue over this incident and resume negotiation with the DPRK for postwar settlement. The double-dealing tactics of the Japanese government compels us to view the revival of militarism and the rightist development of society in Japan in combination with the present government's policy of avoiding postwar settlement. A spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry already issued a statement on January 10, urging Japan to immediately come to the negotiation table with the DPRK with a sincere attitude for postwar settlement. Our demand is absolutely just and principled. In response to this, the Japanese government manipulates the mass media of Japan to raise unreasonable preconditions such as "four-way talks" and "inter-Korean dialogue" and describe time as immature for postwar settlement, which should have already been done. It also wirepulls a private fund to pay "compensation" to some former "comfort women" in secrecy in an attempt to bribe them and avoid state reparation. It is outrageous for the offender to talk about "time" concerning the repentance of his crimes before the victim. It is more than half a century since the end of world war II and humankind are on the threshold of the 21st century. However, the agitation for the revival of militarism is not restricted by law but overlooked and defended by the government only in Japan unlike other defeated nations. This draws due attention from the unbiased public opinion around the world. The Japanese government must discard its wrong attitude toward cognition of history and postwar settlement and meet our just demand without delay.

FM greets mauritanian counterpart

Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) - Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam sent a message of greetings to Sidi Ould Khliva on his appointment as Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would favorably develop in the interests of the two peoples, the message wished him success in his new work.