Greetings to Croatian Prime Minister
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, acting Premier of the Administration Council, sent a message of greetings to Croatian Prime Minister, Zlatko Matesa, on the National Day of Croatia.
The message expressed the conviction that relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms in various fields and sincerely wished him success in his work for the prosperity of the country.
Basketball game between Korea and Yugoslavia
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- A basketball game between "Phokphung" women's team of Korea and the national women's team of Yugoslavia took place at the basketball gymnasium in Chongchun Street on Friday.
The game ended in favour of Yugoslavia 94:83.
Over 150 espionage flights
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. staged more than 150 espionage flights against the DPRK in May.
Involved in them were RC-135, P-3 and other types of strategical and tactical reconnaissance planes.
On May 28, a U-2 strategical reconnaissance plane spied on in-depth areas of the DPRK, making a high-altitude flight above forefront areas.
Only in May, it committed more than 30 espionage flights.
Three to four RC-12s, RF-4cs and EH-60s committed aerial espionage acts against the DPRK, flying above forefront areas along the Military Demarcation Line day and night every day.
Trite phrase of "threat" = KCNA commentary =
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Defense Department in its recently-published annual defense report said that the DPRK is an "unpredictable threat," according to a report.
The "threat" comes because the DPRK has deployed offensive military forces in forward areas and possessed biological and chemical weapons and means of their delivery and because Seoul is located near the demilitarized zone, the report analyses.
It is the height of shame of the United States, styling itself the only superpower in the world, to brand a sovereign state in Asia as a factor of threat and try to justify its argument.
What it seeks in its repeated advertisement about "threat" is not "peace."
Historically, Korea has not posed any threat to its neighbouring nations. Moreover, it has never threatened the United States across the ocean.
The Korean war and the tense relations existing between the north and the south are wholly ascribable to the U.S. troops' occupation of South Korea.
The problem in stability in the Asia-Pacific region is related to the U.S. military bases in Japan and other countries in this region.
In the annual defence report, the United States argued again that the presence and deployment of 100,000-strong U.S. Forces in East Asia and the pacific basin are needed.
It openly declared that it would continue to stage bilateral and multilateral war games with the South Korean puppets, Japan and some countries.
Their assertion reminds one of a thief crying "stop thief "
The United States also described as "unpredictable threat" the self-defensive military strength of the DPRK and the geopolitical condition of the Korean peninsula caused by the military demarcation line drawn by it.
The phrase can convince no one because it is a foolish sophism aimed at disarming and stifling the DPRK militarily.
The Korean people have never begged the United States to defend their security, and the Asian people also have not left peace and security of Asia to its mercy.
The United States must abandon its ambition for world supremacy and stop interfering in the internal affairs of Korea and other Asian nations and withdraw its troops.
If there exist unpredictable threats in East Asia and the Pacific region, they are none other than the U.S. hegemonistic policy and its offspring, the U.S. military presence and occupation policy.
Horrible atmosphere created by tyrants
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today accuses the South Korean fascist clique of discussing "overall measures" to cope with general strike of workers and manipulating a "government"-controlled economic organisation to threaten "strong counteraction" such as closure of worksites on strike.
The news analyst says:
The workers' strike can never be branded as a crime and target of bloody suppression.
Large numbers of South Korean workers are being driven out of jobs under the murderous lay-off system and labor exchange system.
It is only too natural that the workers deprived of the right to existence should go on strike to take the right back.
The puppets, however, are desperately working to suppress the guiltless workers while shelving their treacherous misrule.
Like the preceding fascist dictators, the puppet regime is trying to suppress the workers who fight for existence.
Suppression is not almighty. On the contrary, it will add to the indignation and resentment of workers at the puppets and instigate the workers to resistance.
The people will make the double-faced fascists pay dearly.
Rodong Sinmun on Japan's moves for overseas expansion
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, the Japanese reactionaries dispatched military planes and warships overseas under the pretext of "tense situation" in Indonesia.
Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today says:
This dispatch is part of instances showing to what extent their moves to realise military invasion through the legalized policy of overseas expansion have gone.
They have modernized the arms of the "self-defense forces," supplied it with long-range weapons, legalized its overseas dispatch and, recently, sent military planes and warships to other country under the pretext of "tense situation."
This shows that their moves to realise the design for overseas expansion have entered the full-scale stage of implementation.
There is no guarantee that the Japanese reactionaries will not stage a dangerous military action abroad any moment under the "Japan-U.S. Defence Cooperation" the scope of which has been expanded to the broad areas of Asia and the west pacific as well as the Korean peninsula and Taiwan.
The Japanese reactionaries, who are hell bent on the reckless moves for overseas expansion, refusing to draw a lesson from their past, would be well advised to bear it in mind that military reinvasion will lead them to self-destruction.
Brutal suppression of labour movement under fire
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea made public a statement on may 29 denouncing the South Korean rulers for brutally suppressing the just struggle of workers for democratic rights, freedom and genuine life.
The statement said:
Fierce struggles for the abrogation of the lay-off system and for the vital rights are taking place in all parts of South Korea.
Theirs are very just struggles to retake the dignity and the right to existence.
The fascist maniacs are cracking down upon the strikes with the mobilisation of some 25,000 riot policemen of 236 companies and launching a wholesale arrest campaign in an attempt to "legally punish" all the leadership members of the strikes.
This clearly reveals the fascist nature of the present South Korean rulers who are little different from the "civilian"-veiled dictator.
The South Korean rulers must stop the fascist crackdown upon the labour movement and repeal their policy of dependence upon outside forces and the anti-people labour policy without delay.
CPG on development of relations with WPK
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Honorary Chairman Harilaos Florakis and General Secretary Alek Papariga of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, when they respectively met the delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea on May 23 and 24, expressed their will to develop relations between the two parties.
The honorary Chairman said he was struck with admiration for the WPK which is firmly defending socialism and that the CPG will always fight along with the WPK in the struggle against imperialism.
The General Secretary expressed full support and solidarity to the Workers' Party and people of Korea in the energetic efforts for socialist construction and the reunification of the country under the wise leadership of General Kim Jong Il. He said he will make all efforts to develop the relations with the WPK.
Wall-paper praising Kim Jong Il appears in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- A wall-paper praising General Kim Jong Il was pasted up near Sokcho port of South Korea, according to Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoting information of the Kangwon provincial committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea.
Written in the wall-paper in the name of the patriotic vanguard society for reunification were contents of the five-point policy of great national unity under the title "General Kim Jong Il set forth policy of great national unity", and slogans calling for accelerating the reunification movement with all people in one mind under the leadership of General Kim Jong Il, the sun of reunification.