March 8 Revolution of Syria commemorated

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- A MEETING WAS HELD HERE THURSDAY TO MARK THE 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH 8 REVOLUTION IN SYRIA UNDER THE COSPONSORSHIP OF THE KOREA- SYRIA FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION AND THE COMMITTEE FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. PRESENT AT THE MEETING WERE YUN KI JONG, MINISTER OF FINANCE AND CHAIRWOMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION, OTHER OFFICIALS CONCERNED AND CITIZENS. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AD INTERIM ANWAR AL-FADEL AND OFFICIALS OF THE SYRIAN EMBASSY HERE AND SYRIAN STUDENTS STUDYING IN KOREA WERE INVITED. AT THE MEETING SPEECHES WERE EXCHANGED BEFORE A CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE SYRIAN PRESIDENT WAS ADOPTED.

Declaration campaign launched in s. Korea

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- THE SUWON CITIZENS' MEASURE COMMITTEE FOR REPEAL OF THE AMENDED "LABOUR LAWS" AND "LAW ON THE AGENCY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING" AND FOR DEMOCRACY STAGED A 10,000 CITIZENS' DECLARATION CAMPAIGN FOR A TOTAL WITHDRAWAL OF THE RAILROADED BILLS AND A PROBE INTO THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HANBO POLITICS-BUSINESS COLLUSION, A SOUTH KOREAN NEWSPAPER SAID. THE MEASURE COMMITTEE, CONSISTING OF 20 ODD ORGANIZATIONS, DEMANDED IMMEDIATE REPEAL OF THE RETROGRESSIVELY REVISED FASCIST LAWS, SAYING THE LAWS SHOULD BE DECLARED NULL AND VOID. THE HANBO LOAN SCANDAL SHOULD BE PROBED AND THOSE INVOLVED BE PUNISHED, IT SAID, STRESSING: THE KIM YOUNG SAM "GOVERNMENT" SHOULD STEP DOWN, HOLDING ITSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESENT SITUATION. LET US ACHIEVE GENUINE DEMOCRACY BY THE EFFORTS OF WORKERS AND OTHER PEOPLE.

"Cabinet" reshuffle in s. Korea

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- KIM YOUNG SAM ON WEDNESDAY REPLACED THE PRIME MINISTER, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND NINE MINISTERS OF THE "GOVERNMENT", A RADIO REPORT FROM SEOUL SAID. ON FEB. 23 HE REMOVED HIS CLOSE "AIDES", THE CHIEF SECRETARY AND THREE SENIOR SECRETARIES OF "CHONGWADAE". HE HAS ALSO DECIDED TO REORGANIZE THE "NEW KOREA PARTY'S" HIERARCHY SOON, THE REPORT SAID. HIS "CABINET RESHUFFLE" AND REORGANIZATION ARE NOTHING BUT A DECEPTIVE DRAMA OF COVERING THE HANBO LOAN SCANDAL WITH A SMOKE SCREEN TO HIDE HIS IRREGULARITIES. WITH THIS "RESHUFFLE", SIX "PRIME MINISTERS" WERE CHANGED IN SOUTH KOREA IN THE FOUR YEARS UNDER THE "CIVILIAN REGIME". THE FACTS CLEARLY SHOW HOW UNSTABLE THE "CIVILIAN REGIME" HEADED BY KIM YOUNG SAM IS AND HOW BADLY IT IS REJECTED BY THE PEOPLE.

Kim Young Sam's drama for camouflaging his colors as kingpin of thieves

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- THE MAKING PUBLIC OF PROPERTY BY SOUTH KOREA'S KIM YOUNG SAM SEVERAL DAYS AGO WAS A DRAMA FOR ADVERTISING HIS "UPRIGHTNESS" AND VEILING HIS TRUE COLORS AS KINGPIN OF THIEVES, SAYS RODONG SINMUN TODAY. IN A COMMENTARY THE DAILY SAYS: HE DECLARED THAT HIS PROPERTY WAS ENLARGED BY 98 MILLION WON LAST YEAR, REACHING 2,730 MILLION WON IN TOTAL. BUT THIS FIGURE IS UNBECOMING TO THE KINGPIN OF THIEVES. IT SAYS: EVEN THOUGH A TRILLION WON HE RECEIVED FROM ROH TAE WOO IS NOT INCLUDED, COUNTLESS IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY HE COLLECTED FROM THE CAMPAIGN OF "MAKING PUBLIC PUBLIC OFFICIALS' PROPERTY", THE INTRODUCTION OF THE "SYSTEM REQUIRING REAL NAME IN FINANCIAL DEPOSITING", THE "INVESTIGATION INTO THE SLUSH FUND SCANDAL", ETC. HE WAS BRIBED WITH D50 MILLION IN RETURN FOR LIBERALIZING RICE IMPORT, D15 MILLION FOR HIS CONSENTING TO A TREACHEROUS DOCUMENT DEMANDING SOUTH KOREA'S INCREASED SHARE OF THE COST OF KEEPING U.S. TROOPS IN SOUTH KOREA AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR HIS APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF U.S.-MADE WEAPONS. THE HANBO INCIDENT HAS REACHED THE HIGHEST WATERMARK IN HIS IRREGULARITIES. AFTER HE CAME TO POWER WITH THE HELP OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY GIVEN BY CHUNG TAE SOO, GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF THE HANBO BUSINESS GROUP, HE HAD PRESSURIZED BANKS TO GRANT LOANS OF NEARLY 6 TRILLION WON TO HANBO, FOR WHICH HE RECEIVED A TRILLION WON FROM IT. THIS IS WHAT SOUTH KOREAN POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSMEN ARE CLAIMING AND WHAT CHUNG HIMSELF ADMITTED. IT IS NOT EASY TO FIGURE UP HOW MUCH KIM YOUNG SAM HAS AMASSED IN A CRAFTY WAY SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE. WITH NO DRAMA CAN HE COVER UP HIS TRUE COLORS AS KINGPIN OF IRREGULARITIES AND THEFT. THE SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLE WILL NEVER TOLERATE HIM.

Japan urged to stop impeding improvement of DPRK-U.S. ties

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- THE JAPANESE REACTIONARIES SHOULD PONDER OVER GRAVE CONSEQUENCES TO BE ENTAILED BY THEIR ACTS OF OBSTRUCTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF DPRK-U.S. RELATIONS AND ENCOURAGING THE SOUTH KOREAN PUPPETS TO INTER- KOREAN CONFRONTATION, URGES RODONG SINMUN IN A COMMENTARY TODAY. THE DAILY SAYS: THE JAPANESE REACTIONARIES INTEND TO GRATIFY THEIR MILITARIST DESIGN UNDER THE "U.S.-JAPAN SECURITY SYSTEM". IT IS ILLUSTRATED BY THE FACT THAT THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES ARE CALLING FOR "JAPAN-U.S. COOPERATION FOR COPING WITH CONTINGENCY" IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA AND FOR "ADJUSTMENT OF LEGISLATION". WHAT THE JAPANESE REACTIONARIES ARE SEEKING IS TO MAINTAIN AND STRENGTHEN THE "JAPAN-U.S. SECURITY SYSTEM", THAT IS THE MILITARY ALLIANCE, UNDER THE PRETEXT OF "COOPERATION FOR COPING WITH CONTINGENCY" IN THE PENINSULA, REALISE THEIR AMBITIOUS DESIGN TO TURN THEIR COUNTRY INTO A MILITARY POWER AND LAUNCH OVERSEAS MILITARY AGGRESSION ABOARD THE U.S. WAR CHARIOT. BUT THEY ARE NOW WORRIED ABOUT THEIR LOSING THE GROUND TO CLAMOUR ABOUT "CONTINGENCY" IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA WHICH IS NEEDED TO JUSTIFY THEIR MOVES TO TURN THE COUNTRY INTO A MILITARY POWER AND SET ON THE ROAD OF OVERSEAS EXPANSION. THEY WANT NEITHER IMPROVED RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DPRK AND THE UNITED STATES NOR RELAXED SITUATION ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. IF DPRK-U.S. RELATIONS ARE NORMALIZED AND TENSION EASED IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA, THEY WILL LOSE THE PRETEXT FOR RAISING OUTCRIES OVER "CONTINGENCY" IN THE PENINSULA. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO IMPEDE THE IMPROVEMENT OF DPRK-U.S. TIES, WHILE ENCOURAGING THE SOUTH KOREAN PUPPETS TO INTER-KOREAN CONFRONTATION IN A BID TO KEEP TENSION RUNNING HIGH IN THE PENINSULA. WE CANNOT CONNIVE AT THEIR SCHEME TO STRENGTHEN THE AGGRESSIVE COLLUSION WITH THE U.S. UNDER THE PRETEXT AND LEGALIZE THE REINVASION OF KOREA THROUGH "SECURITY EMERGENCY LEGISLATIVE ARRANGEMENTS". IF THEY CONTINUE SUCH THINGS IN DEFIANCE OF OUR WARNING, JAPAN WILL GET ONLY DISGRACE AND DESTRUCTION.

Press review

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- PAPERS HERE TODAY CARRY NEWS THAT THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL SENT THANKS AND GIFTS TO OFFICIALS OF FORESTRY SECTION AND AMBULANCES TO HOSPITALS IN PYONGYANG. UNDER THE BANNER TITLES "THE RESPECTED COMRADE KIM JONG IL IS THE GREAT SUN OF THE 21ST CENTURY" AND "THE RESPECTED COMRADE KIM JONG IL, THE GREAT SUN OF THE 21ST CENTURY WITH OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP ABILITY" PAPERS CARRY NEWS THAT HIS 55TH BIRTHDAY WAS CELEBRATED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. RODONG SINMUN REPORTS THAT COMRADE KIM JONG IL SENT THANKS TO WORKERS, TECHNICIANS, OFFICE WORKERS AND FARMERS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO BUILDING RURAL DWELLING HOUSES IN SOUTH PHYONGAN PROVINCE. GIVEN IN THE PRESS IS NEWS THAT INNOVATIONS WERE BROUGHT ABOUT IN RAILWAY PROJECT BETWEEN WONSAN AND MT. KUMGANG, MINOR POWER STATIONS ARE BEING BUILT AND WORKING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE TAKEN AN ACTIVE PART IN SPRING LAND MANAGEMENT. RODONG SINMUN CARRIES NEWS THAT 10,000 CITIZENS' DECLARATION CAMPAIGN TOOK PLACE IN SUWON OF SOUTH KOREA TO DEMAND THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE FASCIST LAWS AND DENOUNCE THE HANBO INCIDENT AND OVERSEAS COMPATRIOTS ISSUED A DECLARATION ON SITUATION. PAPERS INFORM THE READERS THAT SOUTH KOREAN PUBLIC CIRCLES DEMANDED AN END TO THE CORRUPT RULE OF THE KIM YOUNG SAM "CIVILIAN-VEILED REGIME" IN CONNECTION WITH THE HANBO INCIDENT. RODONG SINMUN IN A COMMENTARY DESCRIBES OPENING TO THE PUBLIC OF PROPERTY BY THE TRAITOR KIM YOUNG SAM AS A FALSE FARCE TO MAKE A MOCKERY OF THE PEOPLE. MINJU JOSON IN A COMMENTARY DENOUNCES THE "CABINET RESHUFFLE" BY THE TRAITOR KIM YOUNG SAM AS A CUNNING POLITICAL BURLESQUE. RODONG SINMUN RUNS A COMMENTARY SAYING THAT THE JAPANESE REACTIONARIES ARE STRENGTHENING THE "SECURITY SYSTEM" WITH THE U.S. UNDER THE PRETEXT OF "EMERGENCY" ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. PAPERS GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF A MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF THE 14TH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS.

Crafty political burlesque

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- MINJU JOSON TODAY, COMMENTING ON ANOTHER ROUND OF "CABINET RESHUFFLE" IN SOUTH KOREA, SAYS THAT THE DECEPTION OF THE "RESHUFFLE" WAS BROUGHT TO LIGHT BY THE FACT THAT THE TRAITOR KIM YOUNG SAM, WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPLACED BEFORE ANYONE ELSE, REMAINS IN POWER. THE NEWS ANALYST GOES ON: COVERING UP HIS TRUE COLORS AS THE PRINCIPAL CULPRIT OF THE HANBO INCIDENT AND AVOIDING THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT, KIM YOUNG SAM IS TRYING TO EMERGE FROM THE PRESENT CRISIS THROUGH THE REPLACEMENT OF HIS CLOSE AIDES. THIS IS A CRAFTY ACT INDEED. HE DESCRIBED THE "CABINET RESHUFFLE" AND THE REPLACEMENT OF "SECRETARIES OF CHONGWADAE" AND "OFFICIALS" OF THE "NEW KOREA PARTY" AS "RENOVATION OF STATE POLICY", WHICH IS AN ADVERTIZEMENT TO MAKE A MOCKERY OF PUBLIC OPINION AT HOME AND ABROAD. THE "CABINET SHAKE-UP" IS NOT "RENOVATION" BUT ANOTHER POLITICAL BURLESQUE, WITH WHICH THE TRAITOR IS SEEKING TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HANBO SCANDAL HE HIMSELF IS INVOLVED IN AND GET OUT OF THE TIGHT CORNER WITH NEW REACTIONARY CONSERVATIVE FORCES TO EXPIRE HIS REMAINING TERM OFFICE. HOWEVER, WITH NOTHING CAN THE TRAITOR KIM YOUNG SAM BRIDGE OVER THE PRESENT SERIOUS RULING CRISIS AND SAVE HIS DESTINY FROM THE RUIN.

Continuous guidance tours of Secy. Kim Jong Il

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- COMRADE KIM JONG IL, SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY (KPA), ON MONDAY INSPECTED KPA UNIT 212, WHICH DEFENDS THE FOREFRONT ON THE WEST COAST OF KOREA. AT THE FOREWARD COMMAND POST, HE LEARNED ABOUT THE DEFENCE SITUATION AND GAVE THE UNIT TASKS TO STRENGTHEN ITS FIGHTING EFFICIENCY. HE LOOKED AT ENEMY-CONTROLLED KYODONG AND KANGHWA ISLANDS ON THE WEST SEA OF KOREA THREE KILOMETRES AWAY FROM HIS POSITION, LEARNED ABOUT THE ENEMY SITUATION AND GAVE THE UNIT RELEVANT TASKS. THUS, HE GREETED THIS SPRING WITH HIS INSPECTION OF THE FOREFRONT. HE MAKES LOCAL GUIDANCE TOURS TIRELESSLY TO STRENGTHEN THE KPA AND PROMOTE THE HAPPINESS OF THE PEOPLE. WHETHER IT RAINS OR SNOWS, HE MAKES HIS WAY EVEN TO A REMOTE ISLAND AND A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE THROUGH HIGH WAVES OR RUGGED SWAMP IF IT IS FOR THE SAKE OF THE ARMY, THE PEOPLE AND THE REVOLUTION. LAST YEAR HE INSPECTED UNITS OF THE THREE SERVICES OF THE KPA, INCLUDING THE EASTERN, WESTERN AND CENTRAL SECTORS OF THE FRONT. HIS TRAVEL COVERED THOUSANDS OF MILES. HE EVEN MADE A RISKY INSPECTION OF THE PANMUNJOM MISSION OF THE KPA, FROM WHICH THE ENEMIES WERE WITHIN HAILING DISTANCE. HE CLIMBED A STEEP MOUNTAIN PASS AND FORCED HIS WAY TO VISIT SERVICEMEN AND SOLDIER-BUILDERS OF POWER STATIONS. HIS CLOTHES WERE WET AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND DRIED IN THE CAR. AFTER HIS LONG JOURNEY, HE WORKED INTO THE NEXT MORNING IN HIS OFFICE. HE TOOK A SHORT SLEEP IN THE CAR AND HAD SIMPLE MEALS DURING HIS LOCAL GUIDANCE TOUR. HE GREETS THE MORNING IN HIS OFFICE AND LEAVES FOR LOCAL GUIDANCE EVEN IF IT IS LATE AT NIGHT. HE IS A GREAT REVOLUTIONARY WHO TRAVELS EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF THE COUNTRY IN DISREGARD TO BAD WEATHER AND REGARDS MANIFOLD FATIGUE AS WORTHWHILE FOR THE COUNTRY'S PROSPERITY AND THE PEOPLE'S HAPPINESS. EVERY RAINY AND SNOWY DAY, THEREFORE, THE SERVICEMEN AND CIVILIANS ALL WISH THAT HE WOULD NOT MAKE A LOCAL TOUR BUT TAKE EVEN A MOMENT'S REST IN PEACE.

Happy Korean women

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- KOREAN WOMEN LOOK BACK ON THE RADICAL CHANGES IN THEIR POSITION WITH THE APPROACH OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HOLIDAY (MARCH 8). BEFORE THE LIBERATION OF THE COUNTRY FROM JAPANESE COLONIAL RULE, THEY UNDERWENT DOUBLE AND TREBLE MALTREATMENT UNDER THE YOKE OF FEUDALISTIC MALE CHAUVINISM AND CONFUCIAN PRINCIPLES. TODAY THEY TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN SOCIAL LIFE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS WITH MEN. THIS IS A RESULT OF THE TIRELESS EFFORTS OF THE GREAT LEADER PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG, WHO PAID DEEP ATTENTION TO THE SOLUTION OF THE WOMEN'S PROBLEM FROM THE BEGINNING OF HIS REVOLUTIONARY CAREER. IN MAY 1936 DURING THE ANTI-JAPANESE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE, HE PUBLISHED THE TEN-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE FATHERLAND. IT IS STIPULATED IN THE PROGRAMME THAT THE CASTE SYSTEM WHICH DIVIDES THE NOBLES AND THE COMMON PEOPLE AND OTHER INEQUALITIES SHOULD BE ABOLISHED, EQUALITY BASED ON HUMANITY IRRESPECTIVE OF SEX, NATIONALITY OR RELIGION BE ENSURED, THE SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMEN BE IMPROVED AND THEIR PERSONALITIES BE RESPECTED. THUS, HE DEFINED SOCIAL LIBERATION OF WOMEN AS ONE OF THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF THE KOREAN COMMUNISTS. IN JULY 1946, THE YEAR AFTER KOREA'S LIBERATION, HE PROMULGATED LAW ON SEX EQUALITY HE HAD WORKED OUT, WHICH MEANT A NEW BIRTH OF KOREAN WOMEN WHO ACCOUNT FOR A HALF OF THE POPULATION. THE LAW FREED WOMEN FROM ALL SUFFERINGS, MISFORTUNES, RIGHTLESS LOT AND INEQUALITIES ONCE AND FOR ALL IN A LIBERATED KOREA. TODAY KOREAN WOMEN GIVE FULL PLAY TO THEIR HOPES AND TALENTS AND ROLL ONE OF THE TWO WHEELS OF REVOLUTION. WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR NEARLY A HALF OF LABOR FORCE IN THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. THEY PLAY A BIG ROLE IN EDUCATION, CULTURE, HEALTH CARE, COMMERCE AND TEXTILE, DAILY NECESSITIES AND FOODSTUFF INDUSTRIES. A LOT OF UNITS ARE RUN ONLY BY WOMEN. MANY WOMEN TAKE PART IN STATE POLITICS AS DEPUTIES TO PEOPLE'S POWER BODIES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS AND WORK AS SENIOR OFFICIALS OF PARTY AND STATE ORGANS, MANAGING DIRECTORS OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND CHAIRPERSONS OF MANAGEMENT BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE FARMS. AMONG FAMOUS ENGINEERS AND EXPERTS AND TALENTED SCIENTISTS, ARTISTES AND ATHLETES, WOMEN HOLD A LARGE PROPORTION AND MANY OF THEM HAVE HONORARY TITLES, ACADEMIC DEGREES AND TITLES.

Korean delegation leaves for U.S.

PYONGYANG, MARCH 7 (KCNA) -- A DELEGATION OF THE KOREAN CHRISTIAN FEDERATION LED BY KANG YONG SOP, CHAIRMAN OF ITS CENTRAL COMMITTEE, LEFT PYONGYANG FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.