Memorial committees for President Kim Il Sung inaugurated abroad
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Committees for honoring the memory of President Kim Il Sung were inaugurated in Pakistan and Poland to mark the third anniversary of his death.
The Political Secretary of the Chief minister of Sind Province was elected Chairman of the Karachi, Pakistan, committee at the inaugural meeting on June 11.
The First Vice-Chairman of the Poland-Korea Association was elected Chairman of the Polish Committee at the inaugural meeting on June 12.
The meetings set a momorial month and decided to hold events during the month.
Portrait of President Kim Il Sung hung in Pakistan
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for hanging a portrait of President Kim Il Sung was held at the office building of the Secretariat of the Pakistan Youth Enlightening Society on June 10.
Chairman of the society said in his speech that the portrait of President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people and the progressive people of the world was hung at the office building of the secretariat with the approach of the third anniversary of his death.
The President is the founder of socialist Korea and the great statesman, outstanding leader who illumined the road for prosperity of Pakistan and other third world countries, the chairman stressed.
He added that the society would study and learn the Juche idea created by him and experience of socialism in Korea.
KDWU denounces suppression of "Hanchongryon"
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union on Thursday made public a statement urging the Kim Young Sam group to stop the suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and step down at once.
The statement said:
"Hanchongryon" is a legitimate autonomous organization of students in south Korea and its call for independence, democracy and reunification is quite just, for it reflects the desire and wish of the south Korean people.
Chief culprits of violence and bloodshed in south Korea are none other than the "civilian" fascist group.
Branding the suppression of "Hanchongryon" as an unpardonable criminal act trampling down the precious future of the nation and a vicious challenge to the wish and desire of the south Korean people for independence, democracy and reunification, the Central Committee of the KDWU bitterly criticizes it in the name of all the Women's Union members and mothers in the north.
We express the confidence that the south Korean students will defend "Hanchongryon" from the "civilian" fascist clique's hysteric suppression in unity with all other people in south Korea and more dynamically wage the movement for independence, democracy and reunification.
Forestalling attack will lead to death
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a commentary denounces the decision of U.S. war maniacs to increase military budget by one billion dollars for alleged "Entry into the Korean War" as an open war provocation move To stifle the DPRK by strength.
The news analyst goes on:
Taking advantage of the participation of a large number of units of the Korean People's Army in farming, the U.S. and the south Korean puppets are going to unleash a war aganist the DPRK.
The obtaining situation makes it incumbent upon us to be fully ready for any challenge.
We are prepared to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country at the risk of our lives and have made full preparations for annihilating the aggressors.
If the U.S. and the south Korean puppets make a forestalling attack, we will answer with a merciless counterattack.
The U.S. war maniacs and the south Korean puppets had better judge the situation with presence of mind and stop making a forestalling attack.
The provokers will get nothing but a shameful defeat and death.
Secy. Kim Jong Il just like President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- President of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea T. B. Mukherjee on June 5 issued an article titled "Comrade Kim Jong Il is just like Comrade Kim Il Sung."
He spoke well of clairvoyance of President Kim Il Sung in the article, adding that all the situations created in the former USSR and other East European socialist countries are the same as prophesied by the President.
The frustration of socialism was caused by the degeneration of the leading staff and the parties and not by shortcomings of the socialist system, he noted.
The people are not variable in deep trust in the Party and the leader in Korea in spite of their sufferings from reduction in agricultural production caused by drought and floods in recent years, he stressed.
He related stories about the President's deep love for the people, which are recorded in the history of the Korean revolution.
Recalling that he met the President, he said that President Kim Il Sung is a savior who bestowed love upon all the people.
He further said:
"His sudden death is the greatest loss of humankind. Such a great man emerges only once in a thousand years. "
"He was the greatest philosopher of humanism and the savior who indicated to the world people the road to ultimate freedom of man and global independence. The world will advance along that road without fail."
"Comrade Jim Jong Il is just like comrade Kim Il Sung."
"I am confident that comrade Kim Jong Il will continue to lead the world people along the road of truth and independence."
Overseas trip of kingpin of thievery
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comments on Kim Young Sam's planned trip to the United Nations and Mexico.
Branding the trip as a flunkeyist, treacherous and mendicant one to improve his public image and bridge over the serious ruling crisis, the daily says:
His visit will reveal once again to the world the true picture of south Korea as a lawless, fascist society and a politically most backward area in the world.
He, hellbent on the flunkeyist, treacherous and fascist acts and war preparations against reunification, can do nothing but acts against the nation overseas.
Needless to say, his overseas trip will be stained with flunkeyist and treacherous acts and anti-national, anti-reunification crimes to sell the dignity and interests of the nation to outsiders, seek division and confrontation over the "four-way talks" and further depend on outsiders.
In the long run, his trip will harm the national dignity of the south Korean people and bring disgrace to them.
War exercise against north in s. Korea
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppets staged a field combined tactical exercise of tank units at a training centre in the central sector of the front on Thursday allegedly for "strengthening of combat posture for quick reaction", a Seoul-based radio reported.
In the exercise, many tanks, armored vehicles and infantrymen with the support of attack helicopters fired bullets and shells and rapidly went over to a three-dimensional "mobile warfare."
This shows the dangerous moves of the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets for forestalling attack on the DPRK are radically intensifying in actual stage.
The Kim Young Sam groups' reckless action will invite merciless punishment.
30th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's work observed
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the April 25 house of Culture on June 19 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."
Prior to the meeting, the participants heard the tape-recorded speech the President addressed to the university lecturers in Hamhung city on June 19, 1967.
In the work the President gave a clear exposition of the tasks and ways of training all university lecturers to be revolutionaries faithful to the Workers' Party of Korea, the working class and the people.
Choe Thae Bok, alternate politburo member and Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, delivered a report.
He said the President's work was a historic one which brought about an epochal turn in training university lecturers to be revolutionaries faithful to the Party through revolutionary training of them and their assimilation to the working class and that it is highly important guidelines in solving the question of intellectuals and developing the nation's education and science.
He recalled that over the past 30 years university lecturers have covered a worthwhile revolutionary road with the honor and pride of being career revolutionaries under the wise guidance and great loving care of the President and Secretary Kim Jong Il.
In particular, the general trusts the intellectuals as eternal companions, faithful helpers and good advisers of the Party, and champions and implementors of Party policies, the reporter said.
He went on to say that the general is leading all the intellectuals to share the destiny with the party forever, encouraging them to have a profound truth that science has no border, but the Korean intellectuals have the socialist homeland.
Press review
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Under the headlines "The world's progressives pray for the eternal life of President Kim Il Sung" and "President Kim Il Sung will always live in the hearts of the world's progressives", Rodong Sinmun and Minju Joson today frontpage accounts of events held in different countries to commemorate his third death anniversary.
Given in papers are accounts of mass rallies held across the country to vow to carry through the telegraph order of Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
Minju Joson carries an article titled "With the anti-Japanese traditions based on comradeship", illustrated by a gem picture of President Kim Il Sung on a white horse recalling the days of the anti-Japanese war.
Rodong Sinmun runs a lengthy article entitled "Leader and writers" 30 years after
Secretary Kim Jong Il opened a new history of the portrayal of the leader in literature.
The paper gives a revolutionary legend "'Kings of forest' in polite attitude" about the great courage of President Kim Il Sung.
It is reported in the press that a meeting was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of the President's celebrated work "Our Intellectuals Must Be Revolutionaries Faithful to the Party, the working class and the people".
Rodong Sinmun dedicates to the anniversary an article entitled "The great leader's immortal feats in preparing the intellectuals to be faithful to the Party and the revolution".
The paper observes the Day of Artillerymen (June 20).
Carried in the press are a statement of the C.C., Korean Democratic Women's Union and an account of a meeting of Korean youth and students in Japan, both of which denounced the Kim Young Sam group's suppression of "Hanchongryon".
Rodong Sinmun comes out with a commentary on Kim Young Sam's planned trip to the United Nations and Mexico, and Minju Joson a commentary condemning his group's war moves against the north.
A commentary of Rodong Sinmun accuses the U.S. bellicose elements of having decided to urgently increase the military budget in addition, for "Entry into Korean War".
The paper in an article stresses it is anachronistic for the imperialists to resort to the strong-arm policy.
Kim Young Sam's crackdown on Hanchongryon under fire
Tokyo, June 18 (KNS-KCNA) -- Korean youth in Japan on june 18 held a central meeting in Tokyo as regards the Kim Young Sam group's fascist suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon).
Chairman of the League of Korean Youth in Japan Pak Ku Ho in his speech branded the suppression as a despicable outrage that can be done only by Kim Young Sam. He demanded that Kim Yong Sam stop the suppression and step down at once.
A letter of protest to the suppression was read out at the meeting.
With no desperate effort can the traitor break the patriotic will of one million students in south Korea who are united with the youths and students in the north and overseas, the letter said, and stressed that the students will dump Kim Young Sam in the rubbish heap of history and certainly achieve peace and reunification of the country .
Ri Jong Hwal, Chairman of the Association of Koreans in Japan for Peaceful Reunification, and Ryu Chang Sun, Chairman of the Korean Student Committee in Japan, released statements on June 14 blaming the Kim Young Sam group's crackdown on "Hanchongryon".
Ri Jong Hwal urged the traitor to unconditionally set free the arrested students and pro-reunification patriotic figures and to quit the office at once.
Ryu Chang Sun said that the Korean Students in Japan, though they live in an alien land, would turn out in the struggle for independent and peaceful reunification of the country in one-minded unity with the students of "Hanchongryon".
Folk dance suite "People in walled city of Pyongyang"
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The work of carrying forward the heritage of national culture is active in Korea.
Some time ago, the state national art troupe created the folk dance suite "People in walled city of Pyongyang".
The suite is a peculiar art work which shows patriotism and loyalty of Pyongyang people, their creative labour and customs, rich emotions and aspirations for the future with lively, elegant and interesting national dances and music full of life.
The program of the 60-minute-long performance includes folk dances "Hunters in Raknang", "warriors in the walled city of Pyongyang", "Sound of Fulling Cloth at Moonlit Night" and "Spring of Moran Hill". The performance fully represents dance movements and rhythms created by ancesters in keeping with modern aesthetic senses, acclaimed by the audience.
On June 14, Secretary Kim Jong Il saw the folk dance suite and highly praised and thanked the creative staff and artistes of the state national art troupe for their successful creative activities.
He gave highly important tasks which would serve as a guideline in properly preserving the traditions of national culture. He stressed that the literary and art and all other domains should more vigorously strive to retain the heritage of excellent national culture.
In Korea the heritage of national culture is being carried forward on the principles of historicism and modernism, taking precautions against restorationism and national nihilism.
Last ten years have witnessed the creation of national operas "Tale of Chun Hyang" and "Tale of Sim Chong", the folk dance suite "Song of Seasons" and the legendary dance drama "Touch-Me-Not".
"Touch-Me-Not" was performed at the "1997, China Year of International Operas and Dance Dramas" held in china from the end of April last. It was acclaimed by the spectators in Beijing, Qingdao and other cities of China.
Besides, "Welcoming the First Full Moon", "Dance with Clinks", "Dance with Winnows" and "Sword Dance" and many other dances have been created in Korea.
Despicable trial
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The Seoul high court in its final trial on June 17 sentenced seven leading members of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) to prison terms ranging up to five years, a radio report from Seoul said.
The seven include the Chairman of the Chungchong Provincial Federation of University Student Councils and the Struggle Department Director of the Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils.
The fascist clique passed prison terms on them, charging that they killed a riot police at the time of the August 15 ceremonies for reunification last year.
The trial coincided with the campaign to dissolve "Hanchonryon" after the deaths of a riot police and a citizen during student struggle for the fifth-term "Hanchongryon" earlier this month.
Thus, the fascist clique aim to impair the image of "Hanchongryon" and obliterate it.
Provokers will be punished
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Young Sam showed up at the Sosan Airforce Base on June 18 and openly whipped up a war fever against the north, according to a radio report from Seoul.
He urged the puppet airforce to be "on full alert to provide against military training and possible provocation by the north," while watching the "demonstration flight" of a combat flying corps.
Earlier, on June 17, the south Korean puppet navy and marine corps staged a large-scale "joint landing exercise" and "combined combat power exhibition" in the East Sea of Korea.
The south Korean puppets staged a tactical training of a unit under the puppet metropolitan defence command on Umyon Hill in Seoul, firing bullets and shells. And they held a "BCDP training" for large army units above division.
Some time ago, Kim Young Sam called the puppet Defence Minister and other brasshats to "Chongwadae" and instigated them to get ready for war. Synchronizing with this, large scale war exercises were launched.
This ill-boding movement fully shows that the south Korean puppets have overstepped the danger line in their war provocation moves against the north.
As is known, the officers and men of the Korean People's Army are out in the socialist countryside for this year's farming. They are working hard to bring about an epochal turn in farming in hearty response to the telegraph order of the KPA Supreme Commander.
At this juncture, the south Korean puppets are hellbent on war exercises along the military demarcation line, crying that they would turn the zone into a "sea of fire". The intentional and premeditated military provocations indicate that they think this time is a good chance to make a forestalling attack.
As a matter of fact, they are going to unleash a war against the north, openly declaring it.
To answer war with war and attack with attack and mercilessly annihilate the war provokers is the unbreakable will of the Korean People's Army whose mission it is to firmly defend the socialist motherland and the safety of the people with arms.
If the Kim Young Sam group finally ignite war, the Korean people and servicemen will mete out severe punishment to the provokers.
Relics prove talents of nation
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean people have glorified their 5,000-year-long history with scientific creation and inventions.
This is proved by the metallic type, the first of its kind in the world, invented in the 12th century, the map of the heavens made in 1395, Hunminjongum (the Korean script) invented in 1444 and many other legacies.
The Koreans are proud of the true record of the Ri Dynasty and Humgyonggak (water clock) made in 1438.
The true record of the Ri Dynasty which existed for more than 500 years is a diary, which deals in a chronological order with the facts which took place during the rule of 27 Kings. It is composed of some 1,700 volumes.
Humgyonggak is the then most developed water clock whose curious and precise mechanical devices are automatically moved by hydraulic power.
Those historic legacies prove the distinguished resourcefulness and talents of the Korean nation and make great contributions to the culture of humankind.
Anachronistic strong-arm action
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The imperialists are wieLding a strong-arm club at their will to maintain and expand the old order of domination and subjugation after the rival of arms race disappeared and the balance of strength destroyed with the end of the Cold War, but they are mistaken and cannot solve any issue with a strong arm.
Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed article today.
The daily notes:
The strong-arm action could work in the colonial era but does not work in the present era as it is an act ignoring the will of other countries and nations and forcing them into concession.
The present era is an age of independence. The once oppressed and maltreated people are pushing ahead with the history as the masters of their destiny and the world, and the tenor of independence is sweeping all the continents of the world. The people of many countries freed from the colonial york of imperialism are valiantly turning out in the struggle against all manner of domination and subjugation. Non-aligned and other developing countries and some capitalist countries are aspiring after independence.
It is an irresistible basic trend of our era that the world people are calling for independence and many countries are taking the road of independence. It is an anachronistic act to resort to the strong-arm action, the leftover of the old era, at this time. It will precipitate the self-destruction of the imperialists.
President Kim Il Sung's feats in training intellectuals to be true revolutionaries
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Thirty years have elapsed since President Kim Il Sung published a famous work "Our Intellectuals Must Be Revolutionaries Faithful to the Party, the Working Class and the People" (June 19, 1967).
Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an article to this occasion.
The Korean intellectuals have grown to be revolutionaries contributing to the Workers' Party and revolution of Korea under the benevolent care of President Kim Il Sung. The Korean revolution has triumphantly advanced with their inexhaustible creative strength and wisdom, the article stresses.
It recalls the achievements made by him in bringing up the intellectuals to be unfailingly loyal to the WPK and the Korean revolution.
The article goes on:
He firmly united the intellectuals around the WPK, believing in them at all times. He regarded them as a motive force of the revolution consistently and led them to share the destiny with the Party to the end. The WPK's emblem marked with hammer, sickle and writing brush is associated with his deep benevolence. He defined the workers, peasants and intellectuals as the components of the Party and worked to bring them up to be revolutionary soldiers of the Party.
He also educated and trained the intellectuals constantly along revolutionary lines so that they could fully display their wisdom and talents in socialist construction the way the revolutionaries and workers do.
The immortal feats of President Kim Il Sung, who provided the large unit of revolutionary intellectuals, are being firmly defended and exalted by Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Secretary Kim Jong Il always trusts the intellectuals and takes warm care of their work and life. He calls them eternal companions, faithful helpers and good advisors of the WPK, ardent defenders and strict implementors of the Party policy, leads the work to educate them along revolutionary lines and assimilate them to the working class and sees it that they enjoy a worthy life.
Under his absolute trust and loving care all the intellectuals of Korea are growing to be true revolutionaries of Juche-type. The monolithic unity between him and the intellectuals is being cemented with the advance of the revolution.
Pyongyang youth and students denounce Kim Young Sam for scheming to disorganize "Hanchongryon"
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Youth and students in Pyongyang held a rally and bitterly denounced the Kim Young Sam group for declaring the dissolution of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon).
The south Korean fascist clique defined "Hanchongryon", an autonomous and democratic, mass organisation of south Korean students, as an "organization benefitting the enemy", officially declared it to be dissolved and decided to punish all its leading members on charge of violating the notorious "National Security Law".
The puppet clique threatened to regard those universities and organisations which do not secede from "Hanchongryon" by the end of July as sympathizing with its "pro-north activities benefitting the enemy" and to take a "legal action" against them as against it.
Speaking at the rally, Jang Yong Chol, First Secretary of the Pyongyang Minicipal Youth League, in the name of all the youth and students in the northern half of Korea, condemned Kim Young Sam clique's manoeuvres as an unpardonable criminal act, an intentional reactionary offensive to lead the inter-Korean relations to a more acute phase of confrontation. Speeches were made by youth and students at the rally.
The speakers said that all the youth and students in the northern half of Korea will stand on the side of the students of south Korea undauntedly struggling for reunification and patriotism at all times and extend full support and encouragement to the struggle of "Hanchongryon".
A letter of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League Central Committee to International Youth and Student Organizations was read out at the rally.
Referring to the Kim Young Sam group's moves to crack down on and stifle "Hanchongryon", the letter said:
In a bid to justify the hair-raising suppression of "Hanchongryon", the south Korean authorities charged that south Korean students' determination to take part in the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students at the Inaugural Ceremony of "Hanchongryon" is an "enemy-benefitting act to attend an assembly of young people of communist states".
If the south Korean authorities' move to disorganize "Hanchongryon" is not checked up, it will bring a grave danger to the movement of the south Korean youth and students aspiring after justice and progress and, at the same time, exert a great loss upon the development of the democratic movement of world youth and students.
The central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League expresses the belief that your organizations will pay due attention to the serious situation prevailing in south Korea and take effective steps to check up the south Korean authorities' manoeuvres for crack down on the students' movement and extend solidarity for "Hanchongryon's" just struggle.
Air force base for northward invasion
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA)-The Kim Young Sam puppet clique built largest air force base in south Korea with the investment of 500 billion won, according to a seoul based radio report.
On June 18 Kim Young Sam showed up at the base and whipped up a war fever against the north.
This shows that the Kim Young Sam group are seeking war with the north as way out the crisis.
Oppotition to crossing out Japanese crimes in textbooks
Tokyo,June 18 (KNS-KCNA) - Members of the Kochi Prefecture Society for Solidarity with the Korean Women and the Women's Society Opposed to War in Japan scattered leaflets in Kochi prefecture on June 8 in opposition to attempts to cross out description of the "Comfort Women for the Army"issue in the textbooks of Japan.
Japan has not yet apologized and compensated for its war crimes, the leaflets said, and added that the oppisition to the description of the "comfort women" issue in textbooks of Japan contains a dangerous intention to distort the history.
The International Labor Organization in its 1997 report noted that the old Japanese army enforced sexual slavery upon "Comfort Women for the Army",they said, and called for establishing friendly ties with the Asian countries on the basis of a correct understanding of history.