Rrigmarole about "security" to do harm to fellow countrymen
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- South Korean puppet Defence Minister Kim Tong Jin recently visited the "Defence University" and "Military Reeducation Centre" and made a rigmarole again about "security" to incite confrontation between the north and the south, according to a report.
Some time ago he entreated Japanese masters to prevent the withdrawal of the U.S. troops. It is not fitting for him, a colonial servant, to clamour for "state security and independent defence". He also made provocative utterances that recent "consciousness of security" has been slackened and "the view of fighting against the enemy" weakened.
His remarks indicate that he would not permit the aspirations for independence, democracy and reunification and sympathy with the northern half of Korea because they are an expression of slackened "consciousness of security" and weakened "view of fighting against the enemy".
This betrays the treacherous, repressive moves of the Kim Young Sam group to crack down under the pretext of "security" upon the slightest national feelings as well as the democractic movement for reunification which is obstructive to the war manoeuvres against the fellow countrymen.
The recent clamour of the Kim Young Sam group for "security" is part of their criminal moves to intensify the fascist suppression of the democratic forces aspiring after reunification, incite the spirit of confrontation against the north among the people and aggravate the situation of the Korean Peninsula to ignite another war.
The Kim Young Sam group should immediately give up their manoeuvring to unleash a new war under the cloak of "security".
Jjoint efforts for reunification called for
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Pak Kwang Gi, Chief of the Mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea in Cuba, made a speech through Radio Havana on Mar. 29 on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the publication of the work of President Kim Il Sung "10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country".
He called for all the Koreans at home and abroad to pool their efforts in the sacred cause of national independence, peace and reunification under the banner of the 10-point programme.
The 10-point programme, which comprehensively indicates the general objective, ideological basis, principles and ways for the great unity of the nation, is a great one for national reunification, he said, and went on:
"That is the absolutely independent, righteous and realistic one reflecting the unanimous desire of the nation.
The whole nation in the south, north and overseas must strengthen solidarity and realize organizational unity to achieve great national unity.
"If they meet and contact each other, they may deepen understanding, promote trust and find a good way for national independence, peace and reunification although their ideas differ from each other.
"All the Koreans should make efforts to convene a joint conference of representatives of political parties and organizations in the south, north and overseas this year."
April 15 to be commemorated as "Day of Sun"
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Members of the sun society of south Korea active in Seoul held a meeting on mar. 15 and decided to commemorate April 15, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as "Day of Sun", according to the radio voice of national salvation from Seoul.
They made a plan for various propaganda activities such as lectures, symposiums on the Juche idea, public discussions of President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences, song-lessons, a photo show and publication of wall papers and handouts from Mar. 15 to Apr. 15.
The February 16 Fellowship Society, Saeppyol Society and Paektu Society in Seoul and other organizations and ideology study circles held meetings for commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as a great auspicious day of the nation.
Rodong Sinmun on Japan's military cooperation for reinvasion
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, Watanabe, Chief of the Staff of the Japan Ground "Self-Defence Force", visited south Korea for confabs with the south Korean puppet Defence Minister and other brasshats on the issue of intensifying military cooperation between Japan and south Korea.
Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today says:
The Japanese reactionaries are loudly calling for the "system for cooperation" with the south Korean puppets under the pretext of "military threat from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and "regional security." Lurking behind this is an ulterior intention to stifle the DPRK with strength.
Watanabe, together with brasshats of the south Korean puppet army, toured a special combat unit, the military academy and Panmunjom in a bid to acquaint himself in detail with war preparations and military strength of south Korea and the situation of the military demarcation line.
Japanese military bosses have so far visited south Korea for discussions with the south Korean puppets on military affairs and cried for cooperation with south Korea. But, none of them learned the condition of the puppet army and showed up at the Military Demarcation Line to instigate the puppets to inter-Korean confrontation as Watanabe did.
Japan has pushed ahead with rearming itself on a large scale since its defeat in the war. As a result, the Japan "Self-Defence Forces" have been strengthened into an aggression force which can undergo any war. Not content with this, the Japanese reactionaries are trying to build a military power and thus reinvade other nations.
They unhesitatingly say that, if a war breaks out in Korea, they will not remain with folded arms. This means that they will involve themselves in Korean war.
Japan has already decided to dispatch vessels and planes of the "Self-Defence Forces" to south Korea on the plea of "rescuing Japanese."
Japan's intention to take military cooperation with south Korea as an occasion in paving the road to reinvasion is a serious miscalculation.
The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to realise that their military conspiracy with south Korea will bring about their own ruin.
Rodong Sinmun calls for digesting great Juche idea
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today calls for all people to arm themselves more firmly with the great Juche idea. An editorial of the paper says:
Secretary Kim Jong Il deepened and enriched the Juche idea, founded by the great leader President Kim Il Sung, with new principles and contents through his extraordinary research, energy and outstanding ideological and theoretical activity.
This idea is the life and soul of Korean revolution and a valuable weapon for victory.
Only when we are all firmly armed with the idea and live and struggle as demanded by the idea can we vigorously progress the socialist cause of Korean style without twists and turns.
The Juche idea is a philosophy for revolution and a valuable ideological and spiritual pabulum for revolutionaries of Juche type.
The idea is an ideological foundation of the Korean-style socialism, which displays invincible vitality as it embodies this idea.
The Workers' Party and people of Korea are fighting to defend their socialism. In other words, they fight to powerfully demonstrate the justness and invincible might of the Juche idea and remake nature, society and humanity as demanded by the idea.
We should be boundlessly loyal to the idea and defend its purity with a high sense of pride that we have it as the guiding idea of revolution.
We should accelerate the revolution and construction as demanded by the idea.
Press review
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today frontpages a report that Secretary Kim Jong Il thanked a number of units in Pyongyang, Nampho and other areas that set examples in carrying through the Party's policy on stock-breeding and assisting the people's army.
Papers give an account of a meeting held to mark the 40th anniversary of planting of trees by Secretary Kim Jong Il on Mt. Jang in Pyongyang.
A decree of the Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on instituting a military parade commemorative medal is printed in papers.
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the publication of Secretary Kim Jong Il's celebrated work "On the Juche Idea", Rodong Sinmun carries an editorial under the headline "Let Us Arm Ourselves More Firmly with Great Juche Idea".
The paper reports that national preparatory committees for the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung were inaugurated in India and Peru.
Minju Joson prints the second installment of the book "Kim Jong Il - Leader of 21st Century", which was written jointly by the editor-in-chief and first deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian paper patriot.
It carries a political essay titled "Country Under Bright Sun", with a picture of President Kim Il Sung standing by lake Chon on Mt. Paektu.
Given in the press is the news that the first quarterly quotas were hit in various divisions of the national economy.
On the new school year starting today in Korea, Rodong Sinmun comes out with an editorial article underscoring the need to pay bigger efforts to education.
Papers inform the readers that talks were held in Dar-Es-Salaam between government delegations of the DPRK and Tanzania.
Seen in papers is an indictment issued by the Korean measure committee for rescuing unconverted long-term prisoners in south Korea to lay bare the inhumane crimes of the south Korean authorities in ceaselessly abusing human rights of the unconverted long-term prisoners, the POWs.
Rodong Sinmun comments on the military tieup that has been deepening between the Japanese reactionaries and the south Korean puppets.
40th anniversary of Secy. Kim Jong Il's tree-planting marked
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of Secretary Kim Jong Il's tree-planting on Mt. Jang in Pyongyang.
On March 31, 1957, he climbed the mountain and said trees should be planted so that the mountain might be overgrown with trees.
Addressing the meeting, Kang Hyon Su, Chief Secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the Municipal People's Committee, said the country's tremendous achievements are associated with the respected General Kim Jong Il's noble intention to turn the socialist homeland into a more beautiful paradise of the people by carrying out President Kim Il Sung's plans.
Kang called for turning the country where Kim Il Sung's nation lives into a better paradise of the people, true to Secretary Kim Jong Il's plans of land development.
Korea-Cuba solidarity committee meets
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the Korea-Cuba solidarity committee was held in Pyongyang on Monday.
An action programme was discussed at the meeting to mark the 30th death anniversary of Ernesto Che Guevara, an internationalist soldier who devoted himself to the revolutionary cause of the oppressed peoples in Latin American countries under the banner of the anti-U.S. and anti-imperialis struggle.
It was attended by Mun Jae Chol, Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Ccultural Rrelations with Foreign Countries and Vice-Chairman of the Korea-Cuba solidarity committee,
Other officials concerned and Cuban ambassador to Korea Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona and embassy officials.
First quarterly assignments fulfilled
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Many units in the national economy of Korea have fulfilled their first quarterly assignments.
The Pukchang, Anju and Kaechon area coal complexes, the Hwangbuk area united sapropelic coal mines and other coal mines throughout the country carried out their first quarterly assignments.
The Pyongyang Textile Combine, the Sinuiju Textile Mill, The Pakchon Silk Mill, the Hyesan Shoe-Making Factory and other light industrial factories carried out their quarterly quotas 10 to 20 days ahead of schedule.
The Taedonggang United Power Station and the Hochongang Power Station introduced rational methods of operation so as to carry out their quarterly assignments.
The quarterly assignments have been overfulfilled by the Ministry of Forestry, the Hwanghae Tideland Construction Enterprise, the March 5 Youth Mine, the Mobile Corps of the General Bureau of Land Transport, the Yonbaek Salt Works and many other units.
Song and dance ensemble of the ministry of public security
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- The song and dance ensemble of the Ministry of Public Security has celebrated its 50th anniversary.
After seeing an art performance "We will defend our general with our lives" on March 30 which was given to mark the anniversary, Secretary Kim Jong Il expressed great satisfaction and thanked the creating staff and artists of the ensemble.
He put forward important tasks that would serve as the guidelines in the creative activities and performance of the ensemble. For instance, the ensemble should keep its unique features in the content and form of art pieces and the mode of performance.
The performance of the ensemble is going on at the 2,000-seat Ponghwa Art Theatre in Pyongyang, drawing public interest.
The program includes impressive music and dance pieces and story-telling pieces. The ensemble, established in march 1947, has created and performed over 1,000 art pieces of high ideological and artistic quality to meet the demands of the time. In the 1980s the ensemble was in the prime of its development.
During the period Secretary Kim Jong Il led the ensemble to make art activities in accordance with the mission and duty of the public security organ.
In the first half of the 1980s, for example, he polished up some 40 songs created by the ensemble.
The ensemble is renowned in Korea for its unique contents and forms of performance.
Over 10 people's and merited artists are included in the ensemble.
The ensemble was awarded the "Order of Kim Il Sung", the highest order of the DPRK, in 1972 for its successful activities.
S. Korea's persecution of POWs under fire
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- The Korean Measure Committee for Rescuing Unconverted Long-Term Prisoners in South Korea released a statement on Monday exposing the south Korean authorities' human rights abuses against them.
They, who were taken prisoner during the Korean War nearly 50 years ago, are still suffering in and outside prison as victims of the "National Security Law" and the "Law on Supervision for Public Peace", the statement noted, saying:
Kim Son Myong, the longest-term prisoner in the world, was taken prisoner during the war after joining the Korean People's Army in south Korea. But the south Korean authorities kept him in prison for 45 years on charge of "spying", the charge faked up by means of torture.
An Hak Sop, the second longest-term prisoner in the world, also suffered behind bars for 43 years on the same charge.
The south Korean rulers have more harshly persecuted Kim In So, Kim Yong Thae, Ham Se Hwan and others who were born in north Korea..
They, in wanton violation of international law and the Korean Armistice Agreement, put them in prison, intentionally excluding them in the exchange of Pows. 33 years and 7 months in prison made Kim in so disabled.
Though he was released, he is now suffering from an illness in south Korea where he has no relatives.
Ham Se Hwan was held prisoner, hit by twelve bullets. He was released after twenty years in prison, but he was confined again in the "Chongju Custody Centre for
Preservation of Public Peace" for many years, subjected to cruel torture and maltreatment, because he refused to be converted.
Kim In So, Kim Yong Thae and Ham Se Hwan are now in a critical condition with no relatives to nurse them, deprived of political rights and freedom.
Especially, Kim In So's life has been at stake in the wake of last year's cerebral haemorrhage.
The south Korean authorities are still keeping him under supervision for the "Preservation of Public Peace", alleging that he is likely to commit a crime again because he has refused to be converted and kept in touch with his family in The north.
All the facts clearly show that they intend to kill the Pows from the north by continuing to harshly persecute them In south Korea.
We express the belief that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and other international and national human rights bodies and democratic organizations and the world's progressive people will make a case of the south Korean authorities' human rights abuses against the Pows and strongly urge the repatriation of the three old men.
Understanding on U.N. assisted project in agriculture signed
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- An understanding on assisted project for curing the flood damage in agriculture was signed in Pyongyang today between the DPRK National Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and Food and Agriculture Organisation of UN.