Repatriation of unconvertedlong-term prisoners urged

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The Left Democratic Front of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Solidarity Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification and the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship Association published a joint statement on March 3 demanding the repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea. Old Kim In So and Ham Se Hwan should have been sent back home immediately after the war according to the Korean armistice agreement, the statement said, adding: But they had been imprionsed for decades, being tortured and maltreated and have not yet been sent back to their hometowns due to the illegal and inhumanitarian moves of the South Korean authorities. The statement demanded the South Korean authorities promptly allow those unconverted long-term prisoners to come back to reunite their families even in the evening of their life.

"Mindan" urges repealof evil laws in S. Korea

Tokyo, March 7 (KNS-KCNA) -- Korean compatriots under "mindan" (the South Korean residents association in Japan) held a meeting here on Feb. 23 urging the repeal of retrogressively revised "labour laws" and "law on the agency for national security planning" and a probe into the truth behind the Hanbo loan scandal. They said in a resolution adopted at the meeting that the ruling and opposition parties of South Korea should nullify the railroaded evil laws and reamend them in a democratic way and that the special investigation committee should thoroughly probe the truth behind the Hanbo incident and clarify the substance of outside pressure. They also called for enactment of a bill on preventing irregularities and democratic amendment of the "political fund law".

Korea-Japan joint consultative meeting on Japan's wartime crimes

Tokyo, March 7 (KNS-KCNA) -- A Korea-Japan national consultative meeting of groups for investigation into the forcible draft of Koreans was held in osaka on February 22. The meeting heard reports on the fact-finding groups' activities in different areas. It was decided there to launch a one million-signature campaign for setting up a "council for probing the wartime crimes of Japan". The meeting adopted an emergency appeal.

Literature appeared in Seoul

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Many copies of literature calling for the overthrow of the Kim Young Sam "regime" were scattered in Jongro district, Seoul, on March 7, according to a radio report from Seoul. The literature says: The only wayout is to overthrow the present "government" and let us conclude the struggle for repeal of evil labor laws with the overthrow of the present "government".

All-people rally held in S. Korea

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the National Measure Committee for Democracy held an all-people rally to condemn the revised labour laws and law on the agency for national security planning and get the decadent "government" resigned in Seoul and ten other places throughout South Korea on march 8 with the attendance of more than 50,000 workers and members, a Seoul-based radio said. At the rally the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions said that in case the fascist clique wind up the revised "labor laws" not in line with international standards, the organisation would define it as the second retrogressive revision of the "labour laws" made only for party interests. It declared it would conduct a campaign against the evil labour laws and a general strike. The organisation also vowed to concentrate on a struggle for right to existence and basic rights of labor.

Utterances inviting indignation

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Chief cabinet secretary of Japan Kajiyama talked about coping with an "event of contingency" on the Korean Peninsula, "countering capacity" and "establishing legal system" and said that this is a big task of Japan-U.S. consultation". Minju Joson today, commenting on this, says that his utterances prove that the Japanese reactionaries try to step up the conversion of Japan into a military power and overseas aggression with the backing of the U.S. The analyst says: the Japanese reactionaries have worked hard for turning Japan into a military power and dispatching troops overseas under the cloak of the "U.S.-Japan security system". They are scheming to push ahead with the arms buildup and military reinvasion by clamouring about the "emergency" on the Korean peninsula. They have obstructed in every way the improvement of relations between the DPRK and the U.S. afraid of losing a pretext of emergency on the Korean peninsula and encouraged the south Korean puppets' moves for the north-south confrontation to keep the tension on the Korean Peninsula. With no trick the Japanese reactionaries can conceal their intention. However hard they may resort to a false propoganda about "threat" from the DPRK, it cannot be true. The "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula is a prelude to reinvasion upon Korea. If the Japanese reactionaries stage a comeback to the DPRK, it will move up their self-ruin.

Don't bring calamity upon themselves

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The South Korean puppets are squandering a huge amount of money for purchasing war supplies from the beginning of the year and some countries are now vying with each other in making arms sales contract with the puppets and delivering war supplies to them. Rodong Sinmun today, commenting on this, says that South Korea has turned into an exhibition of lethal weapons and a global arms market. The analyst goes on: The arms buildup of the South Korean puppets and some countries' arms export are rendering the tense situation of the Korean peninsula more strained and confrontation between the north and South of Korea acute. The tensions on the Korean Peninsula are exerting a grave influence on peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world. For the relaxation of tensions and preservation of peace on the Korean peninsula it is imperative to stop an act harmful to them. We will make every possible effort for peace on the Korean peninsula and never pardon those who ignor our efforts for peace and take the road of war. Those who encourage the South Korean puppets to a war against the northern half of Korea through arms sales will pay dearly for it. The anti-DPRK arms buildup of the South Korean puppets and some countries' delivery of arms to them will bring a calamity upon themselves.

Rodong Sinmun on trick of Kim Young Sam group

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The Kim Young Sam group declared an halt to the "negotiations for rewritting the labour laws" and has put in force the revised labour laws. Rodong Sinmun today in a commentary says that this is an unbearable mockery of and challenge to the South Korean workers and people of other strata calling for repeal of the labor laws and enactment of democratic labor laws. If the Kim Young Sam group have had an iota of reason and conscience, they should have lent an ear to the voices of the south Korean people and the progressives of the world and withdrawn the retrogressively revised labor laws, the analyst says, and goes on: However, they have employeed cunning techniques to enforce them, talking about the "legitimacy of the labor laws". The "negotiations between the ruling and opposition parties" for "rewritting the labor laws" were a farce of the puppets designed to avoid the public protests against the fascist laws. By enforcing the murderous labor laws, the Kim Young Sam group betrayed their true colors as the vicious enemy of the South Korean working people, including the workers. The South Korean workers should not be taken in by a trick of the puppets but continue their stubborn struggle against Kim Young Sam and fascist laws till their just demand will be met. They, therefore, should overthrow the kim Young Sam group in the grip of a serious crisis caused by the hanbo loan scandal.