Friendly gathering with Russian guests
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering with the members of a delegation of the international association of the Russian peace fund and the friendship association was held at Korea-Russia Friendship Moranbong Senior Middle School no. 1 on June 25.
Invited there were the members of the visiting Russian delegation headed by Vladimir Maslin, first vice-chairman of the international association of the Russian peace fund.
Present were Choe Jong Hwan, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials concerned and teachers and students of the school.
The participants went round modern educational facilities of the school including classrooms, laboratories and circle rooms and saw an art performance given by students.
Then, they talked with each other, deepening feelings of friendship.
DPI spokesman on policy report of U.S. institute
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A U.S. institute in a policy report called for gradually withdrawing the U.S. troops from South Korea and for establishing a new security system.
In this connection, the spokesman for the Disarmament and Peace Institute ( DPI) of the DPRK published a statement today, which reads in part:
This is insufficient in view of our demands for an early withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea but a praiseworthy call as it reflects the current international trend of detente heading for the 21st century.
Calls for the U.S. troop pullback from South Korea are being made again in the United States.
This fully shows once again the invalidity of "U.S. troops' permanent presence in South Korea" on the lips of the present South Korean authorities.
The scheme to keep the U.S. troops in South Korea for an indefinite period is an anachronistic political error under the present circumstances in which countries concerned are working to establish "strategical partnership" as regards the Korean question.
The U.S. administration and congress announced plans for phased reduction and withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea on several occasions.
As a matter of fact, there is no excuse for the U.S. troops to remain in South Korea at the present juncture because the north and the south of Korea signed an agreement on non-aggression and because the DPRK and the United States signed a framework agreement.
Invariable is our stand to force the U.S. troops out of South Korea and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country through the great unity of the entire nation and on the principle of national independence.
Though belatedly, the U.S. administration should immediately take a measure to get its troops out of South Korea in keeping with the international trend toward peace and detente and in accordance with the requirements of the American people for anti-war and peace and thus help toward the efforts of the Korean people to solve the question of national reunification with the internal force of the nation.
Party given at Syrian embassy
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Bassam Al-Haj Hussein, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Syrian embassy here, gave a party at the embassy on June 25 on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Syria.
Invited to the party were Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam and officials concerned.
Speeches were made at the party.
Foreign party leaders on friendly relations with WPK
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Party leaders of different countries said that they would develop friendly relations with the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Alberto Camilo Suarez, secretary general of the Liberal Party of Colombia, when he met with the DPRK ambassador to his country on June 19, said that his party has long maintained friendly relations with the WPK.
He voiced support and solidarity for the WPK's policies of national reunification and noted that his party intended to further develop its friendly relations with the WPK and the DPRK.
Tansri Dato' Chan Choong Tak, general secretary of the Malaysian people's movement, met with a delegation of the WPK on June 22 and said that his party valued its relations with the WPK and would make strenuous efforts to develop them.
Superior election system of Korea
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are all afire with enthusiasm to greet the election of deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly (July 26).
They, who have experienced the superiority of the government, are filled with determination to consolidate the people's power as firm as a rock by participating in the election as one.
The basic mission of the DPRK government, whose master is all the people including workers, farmers, soldiers and intellectuals is to defend and realize the independent demand and interests of the popular masses.
That is why elections of deputies to state power organs at all levels are held amid deep interest of the people in Korea.
The election system reflects the will and demand of the people and is convenient for them.
State power organs at all levels from the country people's assembly to the Supreme People's Assembly are elected on the principle of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot.
All citizens who have reached the age of 17 have the right to elect and to be elected, irrespective of sex, race, occupation, length of residence, property status, education, party affiliation, political view and religion.
Candidates for deputies to the People's Assembly at all levels are nominated by the will of the people and the candidates are qualified as deputies when they are voted for by over 50 percent of the electorate.
Voters, who are unable to go to the polling stations for physical and other reasons, cast ballots into a moving ballot box as they want.
All these prove how superior the election system of Korea is.
Victims of defoliant flail United States
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Former soldiers of the South Korean puppet army vowed to bring a lawsuit with the international criminal tribunal against the unethical crime of the U.S. in using defoliant, according to the South Korean newspaper Hangyore.
They had suffered from defoliant during the Vietnam war of aggression by the U.S. imperialists.
This lawsuit will reportedly be presented in July.
Repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners in S. Korea called for
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Martin Lotcher, chairman of the Swiss committee for supporting Korea's reunification, in a letter of protest to the South Korean chief executive on June 17 said that Kim In So, Ham Se Hwan and Kim Yong Thae, unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea, must be unconditionally repatriated to the northern half of Korea at once.
Now, the health of the long-term prisoners is very critical in consequence of inhuman torture, he said.
He urged the South Korean chief executive to repatriate the old and ailing long-term prisoners without delay.
He called for abolishing the "National Security Law" and releasing all political prisoners detained on the strength of the anti-reunification, anti-national law.
U.S. preparations for Korean War
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- From the first days of their occupation of South Korea the U.S. had made full preparations for a war to invade the northern half of Korea.
In October Juche 34 (1945) they organized the "national defense command" and "national defense garrison" under South Korea's "plan for national defense preparations". And on a secret order, a company consisting of 1.2 times as many soldiers as the fixed number was formed in each province of South Korea. Then battalions and regiments were organised.
In this way the South Korean puppet army was enlarged to eight regiments as of April 1946.
The "coast guards" was founded in November 1946.
Meanwhile, they set up a "military english school" in December 1945 and a "naval school" in January 1946.
Early in December 1947, the U.S. and the South Korean puppets formed three brigades with regiments already enlarged in each province so that they could assume an "aspect of the army."
Seven regiments were additionally formed into two brigades from January to May 1948.
Ordnance, engineer and communications units were organised.
The U.S. made a "Law on 'ROK' Army Organization" at the end of November 1948 and reinforced the South Korean puppet armed forces into eight divisions in June 1949.
With the formation of the army, they founded the puppet air force and marine corps in South Korea.
By such moves of arms buildup, the numerical strength of the South Korean puppet army, air force and navy reached 160,000 including 50,000 police in 1949.
In the year alone, the U.S. provided the South Korean puppet army with dlrs 190 million worth of weapons and military equipment, which included more than 105,000 rifles and carbines, over 2,000 heavy and light machine guns, 50,000,000 rounds of ammunition, guns of different calibres and shells, 5,000 military trucks, 50,000 mines and other blasting agents, 79 vessels and 20 odd planes. They also enlisted and trained 1,250,000 young and middle-aged South Korean people and students as reserve forces for the war.
They entrusted the commander of the U.S. Forces in South Korea with training of the puppet army and command of operations in order to take the prerogative of the supreme command over the puppet armed forces.
Anti-U.S. struggle in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- South Korean people are all out in the struggle for independence and democracy of society and against the United States.
Students are active in the struggle.
The enlarged management council of Sunchon National College for anti-U.S. national salvation and the emergency nation-saving measure committee of the 30th-term general student council of Dongguk University have raised as their fighting slogans "opposition to U.S. " and "opposition to the United States which kills the economy through IMF ". Student councils of the college of cultural and social science, the college of engineering and the college of science under Kwangwoon University in Seoul vowed to fight to the last in the name of Hanchongryon (South Korean Federation of University Student Councils), upholding such slogans as "We oppose the United States" and "We oppose the economic aggression and plunder by IMF".
At its 6th-term inaugural ceremony Hanchongryon declared that it would orient all its activities to the anti-U.S. struggle, the struggle against the U.S. military occupation, unjust intervention and economic aggression on South Korea.
A valiant anti-U.S. struggle is also waged by people of other walks of life.
Inhabitants in Misan-myon, Ryonchon county, Kyonggi Province held protests with tractors and lorries against the war exercises of the U.S. troops.
22 organizations and citizens in Kunsan including the citizens federation for economic justice staged a demonstration against the increase of the runway rent for civilians three times by the U.S. aggression troops.
Sixteen civic organizations in Uijongbu, Kyonggi Province, made public a statement denouncing the atrocities of American soldiers and strongly urged abrogation of the humiliating "South Korea-U.S. status of forces agreement."