Memorial committees for President Kim Il Sung formed abroad
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) - Memorial committees for marking the third anniversary of the death of President Kim Il Sung were formed in different countries.
At an inaugural meeting of the Memorial Committee of the Sunbula International Friendship Club of Libya held on June 4, the General Secretary of the Club was elected Chairman of the Committee.
The Executive Committee of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association inaugurated a memorial committee on June 6 with the Chairman of the Association Thomas Ronstron as its chairman.
At an inaugural meeting of the Memorial Committee of Tanzania held on June 9, Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa, member of the National Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania, was elected Chairman of the Memorial Committee.
The meetings set a memorial period and decided to organize various events on the occasion.
DPRK ready to fight final battle with enemies= Secretary Choe Thae Bok
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee Choe Thae Bok declared that the DPRK will not hesitate to fight the final battle with the United States and the south Korean authorities if they so earnestly wish to make a military showdown with the DPRK.
Choe Thae Bok, who is also alternate politburo member of the WPK Central Committee, made the remark in his report at the national meeting held in Pyongyang on Wednesday 33 years since Secretary Kim Jong Il began working at the WPK Central Committee.
In his report, he said among other things:
"The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets are rapidly putting in action their dangerous scheme to mount a forestalling attack on the DPRK."
"When aggression is triggered off, counterattack will follow inevitably."
"Our People's Army is levelling its guns at every movement of the enemies and is fully prepared to promptly take relevant countermeasures."
"There is a limit to our patience."
"If the enemies try to test our will and military strength despite our repeated warnings, our People's Army will mobilize all potentials consolidated for scores of years and give vent to our people's pent-up grudges and wrath."
Unpardonable provocations
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today, describing the large-scale "Joint landing exercise and joint combat power demonstration" staged by the south Korean puppets in the East Coast of Korea on June 17 as a provocative war gamble, repeatedly urges them to act with discretion.
The news analyst goes on:
The recent war rehearsal was an open hostile act and a grave provocation designed to get on the nerves of the people in the northern half of Korea and lead the situation closer to the brink of war.
The people in the northern half of Korea who are anxious about peace in the country and its peaceful reunification cannot remain an onlooker to the developments.
They are following with sharpened vigilance possible war provocations of the puppets against the northern half of Korea.
If the puppets who are doomed to ruin provoke a war of aggression against the northern half of Korea, with the backing of their master, the U.S., the people and the People's Army in the northern half of Korea will deal an annihilating blow at them and remove the rootcause of war from the Korean Peninsula.
Japan can never evade blame for unethical crime
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries, in conspiracy with the south Korean puppets, are making a fuss, groundlessly suspecting the DPRK of having "kidnapped a Japanese girl." This is part of their attempts to avoid discharging political, moral and historical obligations for postwar settlement.
Their behavior constitutes another insult to former "Comfort Women for the Japanese Army," says Rodong Sinmun in an article today.
Nearly 200,000 Korean women were forced into sexual servitude for the Japanese army. This was reminiscent of medieval slave hunting. This operation was officially endorsed by the Japanese Government, controlled by the Japanese military and carried out by a Japanese organisation.
The women had their dignity and virginity ruthlessly violated and their bodies and youth destroyed.
This being a stark historical fact, the Japanese Government still fails to atone for the past crime.
The Korean people will certainly make Japan pay for all misfortunes and sufferings it imposed on them in the past.
Press review
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 33rd anniversary of Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee.
Rodong Sinmun dedicates an editorial headlined "Invincible is cause of our people progressing closely rallied around great leader" to the anniversary.
Figuring large in papers is an account of a national meeting held in Pyongyang to mark the anniversary and a report made there.
Under the bannerline "Let us carry to accomplishment revolutionary cause of Juche under leadership of Party", Rodong Sinmun gives much space to articles dealing with achievements made under the leadership of Secretary Kim Jong Il as well as words praising them.
Minju Joson carries an article titled "In the course of turning our Party into the one of comrade Kim Il Sung", with a Korean painting on Secretary Kim Jong Il standing in front of a building of the party central committee.
Rodong Sinmun introduces successes scored by the people throughout the country in their efforts to carry out the behests of President Kim Il Sung with yearning for him over the past three years.
Spotlighted in the press is a statement issued by the spokesman for the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces under the title "Our revolutionary armed forces can never remain an onlooker to prevailing situation".
Conspicuous in Rodong Sinmun is "White paper on public sentiments in south Korea" released by the institute for national reunification.
Overseas Koreans proposed holding a symposium on reunification to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of the July 4 joint statement, says the press.
Rodong Sinmun runs a commentary denouncing the large-scale "Joint landing drill" and "Demonstration of combined fighting capabilities" staged by the south Korean puppets as a war-gamble against the north.
A commentary of Minju Joson flails the Kim Young Sam group for resorting to every conceivable move to undermine and disorganize the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon).
Rodong Sinmun comes out with an article stressing the Japanese reactionaries can never flee from responsibilities for the unethical crimes Japan committed against the Korean people in the past including the crime against the "Comfort Women for the Japanese Army".
Seminars on work of President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held in Pyongyang and provinces across the country to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "Our Intellectuals Must Be Revolutionaries Faithful to the Party, the Working Class and the People".
President Kim Il Sung in his work stressed the need to eradicate flunkeyism and dogmatism and establish Juche firmly in scientific research and in education and indicated what stand and attitude the university teachers should have in further developing scientific education of the country in a Juche-based way and making the country prosperous.
Speakers at the seminars said that the revolutionary training of university educators and their assimilation to the working class is the course of completely wiping away the unsound ideas remaining due to their professional characters and of training them to be professional revolutionaries with strong revolutionary faith, Party spirit and working class spirit.
The speakers also referred to the ideological and theoretical significance and vitality of the work.
The seminars called upon all the intellectuals to entrust their destinies to Secretary Kim Jong Il and do their duty as professional revolutionaries in the struggle to make the country prosperous and achieve the final victory of the Juche revolutionary cause.
Symposium on reunification initiated
Tokyo, June 17 (KNS-KCNA) -- Koreans in Japan, the United States, Canada, Uzbekstan, Switzerland and other countries proposed to sponsor a symposium on reunification in Tokyo on July 2 to mark the 25th Aniversary of the Publication of the July 4 North-South Joint Statement, said Choson Sinbo on June 17.
Initiators in the prospectus addressed to overseas compatriots said that the announcement of the July 4 joint statement was an event of epochal significance in the history of the nation to settle the reunification issue. The three principles of national reunification -- independence, peaceful reunification and great unity of the nation -- clarified in the joint staement are the program of reunification common to the nation, they pointed out.
They noted they propose to hold a symposium of overseas compatriots on reunification, saying that all the compatriots should discharge the mission of members of the nation by waging a vigorous struggle to achieve the cause of reunification, the supreme task of the nation, with the concerted efforts of the whole nation as elucidated in the joint statement.
Crackdown on Hanchongryon condemned
Tokyo, June 17 (KNS-KCNA) -- Chairman of the League of Korean Youth in Japan Pak Ku Ho and Chairman of the Union of Korean Students studying at Japanese Shools Jon Se Gwon made public press statements on June 14, denouncing Kim Young Sam's undisguised crackdown on the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), a legitimate autonomous organization embracing one million students in south Korea.
They said that the moves of Kim Young Sam to destroy and stifle Hanchongryon reached the highest pitch of cruelty. They branded this as a diabolic fascist crime.
They held that Kim Young Sam should not despicably seek to save his neck with the fabrication of "security-oriented situation" but step down at once.
It is not Hanchongryon but the Agency for National Security Planning, a fascist plot-breeding organization against the nation, reunification and people, that should be dissolved, they added.
S. Korea in political backwardness
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- South Korea has become an area of political backwardness as well as a laughing stock of the world people since Kim Young Sam took power by foul means and remains in office, still engaging himself in irregularities.
Kim Young Sam is a special-class "Election" offender who squandered astronomical amount of money to win in the "Presidential Elections".
He squeezed 90 billion won in the name of "Election" fund from the Hanbo group. He also received a huge amount of "Election" fund from Roh Tae Woo, comprador businesses and others.
For money, he did not hesitate to take hands with his political opponents. He got money amounting to 150 billion won from Roh on several occasions and, in return, agreed to the merger of three reactionary parties what is called "marriage based on money".
His irregularities grew more undisguised after he took office. He tounched the corrupt officials on the raw and forced them to donate money to "Chongwadae".
Through such wrongdoings, he has squeezed much money.
Typical are 200 billion won from "opening to the public of officials' property", 800 billion won from the establishment of "financial depositing in the real name",
And several million dollars in reward for his approval of purchase of latest-type U.S. weapons.
Nevertheless, the traitor adopting irregularities as his way of life still remains in power. Such practices can be found only in south Korea, an area of political backwardness.
White paper on public sentiments in s. Korea
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- An increasing number of the south Korean people are bitterly condemning Kim Young Sam. In this regard the Institute for National Reunification published a white paper on public sentiments in south Korea on June 15.
The document dealing with the public sentiments seen through public opinion, irony and struggle says that the destruction of Kim Young Sam is a matter of time, and warns that in case the traitor refuses to step down immediately, he will be overthrown in the flames of all-people resistance.
It goes on:
According to a poll, 50.7 percent of the pollees voiced protest against Kim Young Sam in 1994, 67.3 percent in 1995, 87.4 percent in 1996 and more than 90 percent in 1997, while only 3 percent of the pollees "backed" him. (the Japanese paper Akahata March 1, 1997 and the Japanese paper Sankei Shimbun January 24, 1997) the south Korean Kyunghyang daily news January 16, 1997, said that 88 percent of those who had voted for him felt regret over what they had done.
The south Koreans' discontent with Kim Young Sam is illustrated in a lot of satiric stories and cartoons.
Kim Young Sam is called judas for his treacheries or a turkey for his incalculable moods.
The February 1997 issue of the south Korean magazine MAL in an article titled "people turning their back on Kim Young Sam" says that Chun Doo Hwan, Roh Tae Woo and Kim Young Sam are meeting a miserable end.
South Korean publications carried pictures and drawings of Kim Young Sam and his son Kim Hyon Chol in the nude, causing a big stir among the people (south Korean magazine Shin Dong-A October 1995).
There were many struggles of the people from all walks of life against the puppet government after his assumption of office.
The struggles staged up to date from 1993 totaled more than 18,000, which involved upwards of 15 million people.
The struggles staged last year totaled 9,300, involving some 3.13 million people.
The struggles were participated in by broad segments of the people, including students, workers, peasants, intellectuals, pressmen, religionists, citizens, women, minor entrepreneurs, low-class civil servants and hundreds of organisations of students, workers and citizens.
Hundreds of mock trials for Kim Young Sam and rallies to burn him in effigy took place in south Korea.
The south Korean magazine Hangyore 21 on April 3, 1997, says that as a matter of fact, Kim Young Sam has been detained in "Chongwadae" which is called the most luxurious prison on the globe.
All this represents voices of the south Koreans against Kim Young Sam. Kim Young Sam should have a correct understanding of the public sentiments and step down immediately, stresses the white paper.
Rodong Sinmun calls for closely uniting around Secy. Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an editorial to the 33rd anniversary of Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, under the title "Invincible Is Cause of Our People Progressing Closely Rallied Around Great Leader".
The editorial says:
The history of leadership of Secretary Kim Jong Il over the Pparty and the revolution for over 30 years proves that he is an outstanding leader, a great statesman and an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant Commander who has the literary and military accomplishments and loyalty and filial piety on the highest level.
Secretary Kim Jong Il is a great thinker and theoretician who exalts the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung as the guiding idea of the times and leads the cause of socialism, the cause of independence, to victory.
He is the most outstanding leader of the present time, for he leads the Korean-style socialism along an ever-victorious road with distinguished and seasoned leadership.
In particular, he put forward a unique idea that the people, the state and the Party cannot exist without the Army and has led the Juche-based army building to victory, so that the revolutionary armed forces are in the prime of development.
He is the father of the people. He fully inherited noble popular traits from President Kim Il Sung.
Under the leadership of Secretary Kim Jong Il, who pursues benevolent politics, the people have become loyal subjects of the leader, the Party and the revolution, and a proud, unprecedented history of singlehearted unity has been created.
The Korean people who are the happiest in the world to have Secretary Kim Jong Il at the head of the Party and the Revolution should uphold him, with revolutionary faith, lofty conscience and unshakable readiness to follow only him as he represents their destiny and future and the banner of victory.
Even though the situation turns difficult in the revolution, we should defend Secretary Kim Jong Il politically, ideologically and even at the cost of life under the slogan "Let us defend the headquarters of revolution headed by the great comrade Kim Jong Il at the cost of life ", the editorial stresses.
U.S. imperialists, igniter of Korean War
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- June 25 is the day when the U.S. imperialists ignited the war of aggression in Korea 47 years ago. With the approach of the day, the Korean people are looking back on the war with bitter hatred for the U.S. imperialists.
It was the U.S. imperialists' long-dreamt ambition for world supremacy to stifle the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea in its cradle and turn Korea into a forward base for their Asia strategy.
After framing up a puppet regime in south Korea, they entrusted U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Muccio and head of the U.S. military advisors' group Robert with the task of working out a plan for the war of aggression on Korea. By these war servitors the socalled "action plan for northward advance" was mapped out and the order was issued to start an armed invasion from the areas along the 38th parallel.
Under the command of Robert, the south Korean puppet army units of the worst type occupied Mts. Songak and Unpha and other major heights and made desperate efforts to expand it into a total war as scheduled. In 1949 they committed armed invasion on more than 2,600 occasions.
Entering 1950, their war provocation moves reached the climax.
The United States signed the "south Korea-U.S. mutual defence assistance pact" with the south Korean puppets and put the puppet army under their control.
The enemy declared an "emergency martial law" throughout south Korea and amassed the puppet army along the 38th parallel and kept them fully ready for "northward advance". Large-scale armed invasions on the DPRK were committed more frequently. The dangerous situation in which war might break out any moment was created in Korea.
On June 17, 1950, dulles, a notorious war servitor, flew into south Korea as a special envoy of truman. He "inspected" areas along the 38th parallel and finally ratified the operational plan for "northward advance".
The U.S. imperialists and the Syngman Rhee puppet clique made preparations for the war of aggression against the DPRK for a long time and started a total armed invasion on the northern half of Korea at 05:00 on June 25, 1950, refusing to accept realistic and reasonable proposals of the DPRK Government for reunifying the country in a peaceful way.
The U.S. imperialists were mistaken. They thought they could win in the war against the DPRK which was extricated from the colonial slavery just a few years before.
The Korean people turned out as one man in the just fatherland liberation war for the freedom and liberation of the country. In the three-year-long hard-fought war, they won a great victory and started the U.S. imperialists on the decline.
Secy. Kim Jong Il's work disseminated abroad
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- The famous work of Secretary Kim Jong Il "Giving Priority to Ideological Work Is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism" has been disseminated over the world creating a great sensation since its publication (June 19, 1995).
The work has been reported on over 500 occasions by about 200 mass media of some 60 countries of the world including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Syria, Egypt, Cuba, Lebanon, Angola and Italy.
Many countries, international agencies and organizations have studied and disseminated the work in various forms and ways.
Famous political and public figures of different countries and officials of organizations for the study of the Juche idea held symposiums, lecture meetings and study sessions on the work to emphasize its theoretical and practical significance and vitality.
They noted that the Workers' Party of Korea has always advanced along the road to victory because it has strengthened ideological work, thoroughly imbued the popular masses with socialism and solidified the ideological base of socialism.
The world progressives highly praise of the special and historical exploits performed by Secretary Kim Jong Il, a great thinker-theoretician, master of leadership and military genius, they added.
Prof. and Dr. of Meerut University of India B. M. Jauri in an article titled "Sword to defend genuine socialism" noted that the work indicates the way for humankind.
B.M. Jauri, who is also Secretary General of the Ghaziabad, India, Society for the Scientific Study of Self-reliance, added that Secretary Kim Jong Il is a master of idea and theory in the 20th century who developed and enriched socialism as the highest peak of human thought.
DPRK Vice-President and FM meet Ghanaian Ambassador
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Vice-President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Pak Song Chol today had a talk with Ghanaian Ambassador E. P. to Korea Kojo Amoo-Gott Fried, who paid a farewell call on him, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall. Pak Kil Yon, Vice Foreign Minister, was present there.
Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam also met and had a talk with the Ambassador.
Greetings to Nepalese Foreign Minister
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Yong Nam sent a message of greetings to Kamal Thapa on his appointment as the Foreign Minister of Nepal.
The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further strengthen and develop and sincerely wished him great success in his responsible work.