NDFSK on memorial events for President Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- The National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) Central Committee issued a communique on a conference of its standing committee held in Seoul on June 6 to mark the third anniversary of the death of President Kim Il Sung, the radio voice of national salvation from Seoul reported. According to the communique, the conference adopted a resolution on holding memorial events to mark the anniversary. The NDFSK Central Committee will send a letter to Secretary Kim Jong Il and dispatch a delegation to Pyongyang. The June 8-July 10 period will be set as a memorial month and memorial service, lecture, seminar and other events will be held at the NDFSK organizations at all levels and other patriotic organizations. The NDFSK will make information activities in a positive, diverse way through its newspaper and radio. On July 8, the radio voice of national salvation will broadcast a special program and the Kuguk Jonson newspaper will issue a special edition.

Vice-President meets Lao delegation

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Ri Jong Ok, member of the politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and Vice-President of the DPRK, met the visiting delegation of the Commission for External Affairs of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, led by its Vice-Chairman Khampheth Phengmeuang, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on June 13. The head of the delegation said during the visit he could know well that the Korean people owe all their achievements in socialist construction to the outstanding and seasoned leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il. He said he was confident the Korean people would register greater success under the wise leadership of Secretary Kim Jong Il, however complex the situation may be. He stressed he would make all efforts to boost the friendly and cooperative ties between the two parties, two countries and two peoples.

Film show to mark National Day of Russia

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- A film show was sponsored by the DPRK-Russia Friendship Society here on Friday to mark the National Day of Russia. Invited were Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Valery Denisov and his Embassy officials. Present there were Ro Sok Gyu, vice-chairman of the Radio and TV Broadcasting Committee of the DPRK and chairman of the society, officials concerned and working people in the city.

Friendship gathering at Cuban Embassy

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- A friendship gathering took place at the Cuban Embassy in Pyongyang on Friday to mark the birth anniversary of the internationalist Che Guevara. Invited to the gathering were Mun Jae Chol, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and vice-chairman of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee, and other officials concerned. Cuban Ambassador to Korea Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona and his Embassy officials were on hand there. They saw photos and books showing Che Guevara's life and activities.

Open questionnaire to Kim Young Sam

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- An open questionnaire was sent to Kim Young Sam on June 12 in the joint name of the "lawmakers" of the opposition "National Congress for New Politics" and "United Liberal Democrats" in south Korea. Through the 7-point questionnaire they demanded Kim Young Sam open to the public the total sum of the 1992 "Presidential Election" fund including the campaign fund he received from Chung Tae Soo of the Hanbo group and Roh Tae Woo. The opposition "lawmakers" said that they send the open questionnaire in a bid to solve the problem because Kim Young Sam they judged has not yet perceived the current situation characterised by total crisis.

New U.S.-Japan military tieup under fire

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang-based papers today describe the interim report on review of "Japan-U.S. defence cooperation guidelines" adopted by the United States and Japan as an expression of new military tieup between the two countries that has been getting graver since the end of the Cold War. The move means, in actuality, that the United States and the Japanese reactionaries have taken a new dangerous step to establish military domination over the Asia-Pacific region, opposed undisguisedly to the aspiration of the people and the trend of the times, says Rodong Sinmun in a commentary today. The news analyst continues: The backbone of the interim report is joint operation of the United States and Japan for military intervention and aggression on any region and country with "emergency" around Japan as an excuse. Their outcries over "prevention of crisis" and "deterrent to disputes" are intended to justify their military intervention and aggression. By "regional security" and "prevention of disputes" they mean military intervention and aggression. What can not be overlooked is that the United States and the Japanese reactionaries revealed in the interim report their attempt to invade and stifle the northern half of Korea. On the plea of "jointly coping with an emergency" on the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese reactionaries are scheming to speed up militarisation and create legal conditions for re-invasion. And, the United States schemes to attack and conquer the north of Korea with Japan as a shockbrigade. Therefore, the United States is conniving at and urging Japan's militarisation and demanding joint military action in case of "emergency". The Korean people, who cherish justice and peace, can not remain an onlooker to the moves of the U.S. and Japanese hawks to stifle and reinvade Korea. Branding the "interim report" as something ill-boding, Minju Joson demands that the United States and the Japanese reactionaries suspend reckless military moves at once.

Rodong Sinmun on s. Korea's plan to import weapons

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with a signed commentary on the south Korean puppets' plan to import stinger missiles from the United States. This reveals their criminal plan to perfect war preparations against the north under the signboard of increasing the defence capabilities to cope with "possible surprise attack" from the north, the news analyst of the paper says, and continues: We cannot but take a serious view of the fact that the south Korean war maniacs are continuously introducing new types of lethal weapons and military equipment. Kim Young Sam is further intensifying the fascist crackdown upon the pro-reunification, patriotic forces, while amassing lethal weapons to harm fellow countrymen. This shows how frantically Kim Young Sam is trying to escape from the ruin. Kim Young Sam is now hell bent on brutal crackdown upon the pro-reunification, pro-democracy forces and preparations for a war against the DPRK in an attempt to remain in power as the war servant of the United States. War against the north will never open the way for him to survive. We are always merciless to the enemy who tries to hurt our republic and destroy our socialism. We will make the Kim Young Sam group pay thousandfold for their reckless moves which are being intensfied day by day.

Press review

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Papers here today report that Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, sent thanks to officials and working people for fully displaying the traditional traits of army-people unity. Rodong Sinmun gives an account of a National Memorial Committee of Guinea formed and a memorial meeting held in Mongolia on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the death of President Kim Il Sung. Under the fixed title "The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us" the paper edits an article titled "Our future is bright under benevolent sun," illustrated by a picture of President Kim Il Sung among children in the Mangyongdae Fun Fair (April 1982). Minju Joson carries a political essay titled "A peerless patriot" on the greatness of President Kim Il Sung. Econews of the press includes innovation in coal production and railway transport and other domains of the national economy. Papers introduce feats performed by KPA soldiers in assistance to the countryside in hearty response to the telegraph order of the Supreme Commander. Rodong Sinmun rounds up reaction of readers to the article on the 13 people who defended portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il with confidence and obligation in an accident on the West Sea. The paper carries a commentary denouncing the south Korean puppets for planning to import stinger missiles from the United States. The paper carries a letter of information issued by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland on the ill-boding moves in south Korea to aggravate the confrontation and tension between the north and south. Papers comment on the dangerous nature of the interim report on the review of the "Japan-U.S. defence cooperation guidelines". Rodong Sinmun runs an article exposing the massacre committed by the Japanese imperialists in Korea.

Juche-based theory on correctly combining political, moral and material incentives

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries an article contributed by Prof. and Dr. Kim myong Ryol on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Having a Correct Understanding of the Political, Moral and Material Incentives" (June 13, 1967). Secretary Kim Jong Il in his work gave flawless scientific answers to the correlations between the political and moral incentive and material incentive in socialist society, the principle for their materialisation, the correlations between the speed and equilibrium of economic development and other theoretical and practical problems which should be urgently settled in socialist economic construction. The work was, is and will be an immortal ideological and theoretical weapon for the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people in socialist economic construction, the article says. Referring to the significance of the work, the article goes on: The work indicates from a new angle the issue of combining the political, moral and material incentives in socialist society on the Juche-based principle and provides a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon to manage the economy to meet the essential requirement of the socialist system based on collectivism. Secretary Kim Jong Il said in the work that the working masses' voluntary and creative enthusiasm can be given full play only when main stress is laid on the political and moral incentive. Putting the main stress on the political and moral incentive does not mean neglecting the material incentive. However, if the main stress is laid only on the material incentive in the whole of economic management, it will entail a grave consequence. The miracles wrought in the 1970s characterised by the great speed campaign, the 1980s characterised by heroic feats in grand socialist construction and the 1990s characterised by the revolutionary spirit of soldiers prove the validity and vitality of the idea and theory of Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Memorial meetings for President Kim Il Sung in Madagascar

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- The Socialist Progressive Party of Madagascar and the Madagascan Society for the Study of the Works of Kim Jong Il held meetings respectively on May 28 and 30 to recall the brilliant life and feats of President Kim Il Sung to mark the third anniversary of his death. The speakers at the meetings said that the President was a genius of ideology and theory, a master of leadership and kind father of the people. His distinguished ideology, theory and brilliant feats will be kept forever in the minds of the leaders of the progressive political parties and peoples all over the world, they added. They said that the Korean people are exalting the dignity and honor of Kim Il Sung's nation as masters of the country and society with the most revolutionary Party and the people's Government, invincible armed forces and powerful self-reliant national economy as well as their strong socialist state centering on the people, thanks to the President, the sun and the father of the nation, who devoted his whole life only to the freedom and happiness of the people and global independence. The President is immortal generation after generation because the issue of succession in leadership has been solved successfully in Korea, they said, and added that over the last three years, Secretay Km Jong Il has showed a personal example of what attitude and position the true successor should take.

Japan urged to atone for past crimes

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- The Japanese rightwing reactionary forces are now making a hue and cry over the "suspected kidnapping of a Japanese girl", while refusing to make an apology for the killing of innocent Korean people in the past. This eloquently shows their shamelessness, a signed article of Rodong Sinmun today says. The Japanese imperialists brutally killed more than one million innocent Korean people in 40 years of their colonial rule over Korea. Citing specific materials to expose that the man-slaughter committed by the Japanese imperialists in Korea was a heinous crime without an equal in human history, the author of the article says: Right after they occupied Korea, the Japanese imperialists prattled that Koreans must obey the Japanese law, or they must die. They worked out one evil law after another, detained Koreans at random and punished them without trials. The Koreans who were detained in 1918 numbered more than 142,000. About 18,000 Koreans were murdered in the period from 1906 to 1911. The Japanese imperialist aggressors killed as many as 40,000 Koreans at the end of 1931 and early in 1932. Particularly, at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923, nearly 10,000 Koreans were slaughtered in such brutal ways as hanging, gouging out eyeballs, cutting off noses, dismembering and stabbing them in the abdomen with knives and spears. The Japanese imperialists ruthlessly killed young Koreans who had been drafted for forced labor. The killing of "Comfort Wwomen for the Army" was an unimaginably brutal crime. Japan must apologize and atone for such crimes, the paper says, and continues: Atonement for the above-said massacres is not an issue belonging to the choice of Japan. Japan must pay for the killing of Koreans without fail. If Japan refuses or tries to delay it, it will be made to pay more dearly. The Korean people have a legitimate right to receive apology and compensation from Japan. They will certainly make Japan pay.

Memorial committee for President Kim Il Sung formed in Guinea

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- A Guinean National Committee For Honoring the Memory of President Kim Il Sung was formed in Conakry on June 5 to mark the 3rd anniversary of his death. Minister of Territorial Administration and Localization and Director General of the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea Dorank Assifat Diasseny was elected chairman of the memorial committee. The committee decided to set the June 8-July 8 period as a memorial month and hold various events during the period.

Greetings to Bulgarian Prime Minister

Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, Acting Premier of the Administration Council, sent a message of greetings to Ivan Kostov, Bulgarian Prime Minister. The message extended congratulations to Ivan Kostov on his appointment as Bulgarian Prime Minister and expressed the conviction that the cooperative relations between the two countries will continue to develop on good terms. Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam sent a message of greetings to Nadezhda Mihailova upon her appointment as Bulgarian Foreign Minister.