Spokeswoman for Korean Women's Society on anti-DPRK smear campaign
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- A spokeswoman for the Korean Women's Society for Solidarity with Asian Women released a statement on June 20 denouncing Japan for its ongoing anti-DPRK1smear campaign over what it calls a "case of suspected abduction."
The statement says:
The results of an intensive survey of the missing Japanese by the Red Cross Society and institutions concerned of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea proved that there was and is no such kind of people in the DPRK, and the Japanese government was officially informed of the results through relevant channels.
Japan, however, is still raising a hue and cry over the "suspected abduction" in an effort to slander the DPRK. This is part of the smear campaign to harm the DPRK, block the improved relations between the DPRK and Japan and obstruct the settlement of the humanitarian and other outstanding issues between the two countries.
The "case of suspected abduction" is a political plot hatched by the South Korean puppet Agency for National Security Planning to encourage the Japanese people to confrontation with the DPRK= It is a product of the hostile policy the Japanese reactionaries are pursuing towards the DPRK hand in glove with the South Korean puppets.
The "suspected abduction" advertised by Japan itself lacks political reason and international morality. In fact, this is a foolish act of Japan to pretend to be victim after inflicting immeasurable pains and losses upon the Koreans.
While keeping mum about the "comfort women for the army" issue and shocking crimes of the past, Japan is taking issue with the DPRK over the fiction of the "suspected abduction".
Japan must sincerely make an apology and compensation for the misfortune and pains it brought to the Korean people, instead of persisting in its smear campaign.
We will never tolerate the crimes the Japanese reactionaries committed against the Korean people, including women, but settle our account with them a thousand times generation after generation.
Indian MP supports Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- Prema Chandra, a member of Indian parliament released a statement on June 16 supporting the Korean people's cause of national reunification in a month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
He said:
"More than half a century has passed, but the reunification of Korea has not yet been achieved. It is attributable to the anachronistic Korea policy of the U.S. which is to blame for the division of Korea and the trite policies of division and showdown by the South Korean authorities.
"The U.S. should adopt at an early date a measure for withdrawing its aggression forces and weapons of mass destruction from South Korea as demanded by the peace-loving people of the world. The South Korean authorities should immediately stop pursuing the policy of confrontation with the fellow countrymen and accept the five-point policy of great national unity out of the stand of national independence."
"The patriotic forces of national reunification will certainly build a reunified state, a Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo, in the face of all manner of challenges," he added.
Five-point policy of great national unity supported
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- Foreign party leaders supported "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully Through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation," a historic work of General Kim Jong Il.
Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Socialist Party of Romania, said: We believe that when the entire Korean nation in the north, south and abroad fight in great unity, they will achieve a durable reunification of Korea and the prosperity of the nation and contribute to ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and, furthermore, in Asia and the rest of the world.
O. C. Norton, general secretary of the People's National Congress of Guyana, hoped that Korea would be reunified through great national unity and in a peaceful way and through the struggle against anti-reunification forces colluding with outside forces.
Political leader of the Maurice bishop patriotic movement of Grenada Terence A. Marryshow stressed that they will as ever make all efforts to strengthen and develop bonds of friendship and solidarity between the Maurice bishop patriotic movement of Grenada and the Workers' Party of Korea in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
S. Korean magazine on tragedy caused by IMF
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- The South Korean magazine Shin Dong-A of June issue carried a special writeup on the tragedy caused by trusteeship of the International Monetary Fund.
The content of application for employment submitted to business groups in South Korea now in a racket of unemployment is not a mere joke for wage earners, the magazine said, and went on:
Hairdye is the best seller under the trusteeship of the IMF because of fear that grey hair might result in dismissal.
Even after they suffered industrial disaster at workplace, they have to work, hiding it for fear that their jobs may be lost. They have to smoke on the sly. Such developments caused by the IMF are depriving working people of even the slightest self-respect.
O Ik Je interviewed
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- O Ik Je, vice-chairman of the committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, was interviewed by KCNA on June 18 after touring Mt. Kuwol, which has been turned into a pleasure ground of the people under the wise leadership of General Kim Jong Il.
He said he was deeply moved by the historical site associated with revolutionary activities of Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable fighter, and vowed to devote himself to national reunification, true to his "aim high, holding General Kim Jong Il in high esteem through generations.
"General Kim Jong Il is a peerless patriot," O Ik Je said. "It is an expression of his great patriotism that he has defended the country singlehandedly from the threat imperialist allied forces and that he turned Mt. Kuwol into a famous mountain of Korea and the world in the period of the 'arduous march' without taking enough meals."
He furthe said:
"The mountain is blessed with peculiar landscape and many historical and cultural relics belonging to national treasure. It is also associated with undying achievements made by the general for the happiness of the Korean people.
This is why the mountain has become famous in the world.
"I was deeply impressed by the explanation about the revolutionary spirit and heroic feats of servicemen who successfully carried out the difficult and vast project.
"Such heroic feats can be performed only by the Korean People's Army, trained by President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il.
"The KPA is the strongest in the world not only in fighting but in loyalty and filial duty, patriotism, architecture and emotional life.
"No enemy in the world can defeat the KPA."
U.S. troops' pullout brooks no delay
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- A U.S. Strategy Institute in a recent "policy report" held that the United States should come out to the DPRK-U.S. negotiation, apart from the four-way talks, with a view to setting up a new peace-keeping mechanism in place of the armistice agreement, saying the issue of withdrawal of the U.S. Forces from South Korea should be debated.
It is very natural in view of trend of the times and of requirements of the present situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula, Minju Joson says in a commentary today.
The news analyst goes on:
There is no reason for the U.S. Forces to remain in South Korea after the end of the Cold War.
The pullout of the U.S. Forces from South Korea and the establishment of a new peace-keeping mechanism in place of the armistice agreement are the kernel of the solution of the Korean peninsula issue. Nevertheless, the U.S. reactionary ruling quarters are trying to keep their forces in South Korea permanently, far from withdrawing them.
A clear proof of this is that the United States is persistently spreading rumors about non-existent "threat" from the north and scheming to revise the "mutual defence pact" with the South Korean puppets.
The U.S. will get nothing from its policy of strength that runs against the trend of the times.
If it truly wants peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, it should take a step for total withdrawal of its forces from South Korea, not seeking to keep them indefinitely.
The pullout of the U.S. Forces from south is an urgent matter which brooks no delay.
The U.S. military should know it clearly and take a decisive step to withdraw its forces.
U.S. belligerent forces hell-bent on war preparations
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today lambastes the U.S. belligerent elements for planning to stage RIMPAC '98 joint military manoeuvres for a month from July 6, together with their satellite forces.
RIMPAC is aimed at realizing the U.S. Asia policy, the news analyst says, and goes on:
The U.S. belligerent elements are intending to stifle the DPRK by dint of multi-national forces and to establish military domination over the whole of Asia.
The United States is talking about "peace" and the like but is invariably pursuing its attempt to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
Today the Korean peninsula is a region where the situation is most tense in the world.
We cannot but heighten vigilance against the U.S. warmongers' plan to stage provocative war manoeuvres aiming at the DPRK with mobilization of satellite forces.
To participate in the U.S.-led RIMPAC '98 would mean, in any case, to encourage the U.S. permanent presence in Asia and defend the U.S. aggression policy toward the DPRK and Asia. It would also invite antagonism and distrust among Asian countries.
The United States cannot attain its dominationist aim with strength.
Obtrusive act
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a commentary today denounces the South Korean "Ministry of National Unification" for hindering nongovernmental contact between the north and south.
The recent conference of the political parties and organisations in the DPRK sent to the political parties, organisations and public figures in South Korea a letter proposing to hold a "grand festival for national reconciliation, unity and reunification" in Panmunjom on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of Korea's liberation, August 15, Juche 34 (1945), in which Koreans in the north, south and abroad will participate.
The analyst goes on:
The "Ministry of National Unification", which is not supposed to participate in the grand festival this year, is clamouring about "acceptance" and "working-level contact", while gagging political parties, organisations and people of all social sectors in South Korea that intend to respond to the DPRK's initiative.
This is an obtrusive act of villains who do not mind their P's and Q's. It is imprudent to put one's nose into the nongovernmental grand reunification festival.
There is no reason why authorities meddle with the reunification festival of political parties, organisations and public figures.
The "Ministry of National Unification," interfering in the August 15 grand reunification festival, is trying to exclude the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) from the festival by branding it as an "enemy-benefiting organisation." this is a repetition of the anti-reunification acts of the former dictators.
The "National Unification Ministry" is resorting to such obtrusive acts because its top seat is occupied by such a person bereft of reason as Kang In Dok. He is a cancer blocking national reconciliation, unity and reunification.