Oratorical contest held to mark National Day
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Colorful events are taking place in Korea to celebrate the 50th birthday of the DPRK.
A national oratorical contest of working people's organizations was held here some time ago.
Participating in the contest were over 130 officials and members of the general federation of trade unions and the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea who were selected in the preliminaries.
EU-offered food arrives
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- 37,000 tons of maize offered by the European Union arrived at Nampho Port on Thursday.
The EU is to offer 86,000 tons of food in assistance to the DPRK this year.
30,000 tons of fertilizer the EU decided to offer by mid-July already came and have been used in this year's farming. The remainder of the planned food will arrive soon.
Last year the EU supplied 155,000 tons of food to the DPRK, which suffered natural disasters.
Its continued assistance encourages the Korean people in the efforts to clear away the aftermath of years of disasters and attain self-sufficiency in food.
Hanchongryon delegates feted
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The north headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon) hosted a party on August 7 for delegates of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) which represents the south headquarters of Pomchonghakryon.
The delegates have come here to participate in the August 15 grand pro-reunification festival and Pomchonghakryon's joint exploration of and joint seminar on historical sites and cultural relics in the north.
They are kim tae won, a fourth-year student of the stockbreeding management faculty of the animal husbandry college of Konkuk University in Seoul, and Hwang Son, a fourth-year student of the national language and literature faculty of the college of human studies of Duksung Women's University.
Also invited there were members of the overseas headquarters who have come here to take part in the events.
Present were Kim Yong Ho, chairman of the preparatory committee for the August 15 grand pro-reunification festival, Kim In Ho, chairman of the north headquarters of Pomchonghakryon, and its members, chairmen of the student committees of universities and colleges and students in the city.
Speeches were made by north, south and overseas delegates.
Rodong Sinmun criticizes Japanese government
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today lashes out at recent utterances of Shoichi Nakagawa, new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, and the misdeed of the Ministry of Labour of Japan.
At the first press conference held after his inauguration, Shoichi Nakagawa made remarks negating the crimes related to the "comfort women for the army." and the Ministry of Labour turned down the demand of the fact-finding group for the forcible drafting of Koreans for access to materials under the pretext of "inadequate documents."
Commenting on them, a news analyst of the paper says:
This shows that the present Japanese authorities do not differ from former governments in their views of the past issues. And this predicts that they will more shamelessly try to conceal the past crimes of the Japanese imperialists and evade their obligation to liquidate them.
Their attempts to negate and justify the past crimes are an expression of dangerous militarism which seeks to repeat the past.
The Japanese authorities must honestly admit the past crimes and , apologize and compensate for them.
Tyrant more truculent than former dictators
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The South Korean rulers recently faked up a "case of the underground revolutionary headquarters of the North and South Kyongsang Provincial Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea"
And arrested 14 people affiliated with labor and civic organizations in Ulsan and Pusan. They have persecuted and tortured the people on charges of distributing "handbills benefiting the north, the enemy," and encouraging workers to go on strike.
Several days ago, the chairman of the National Reunification Committee of the Kwangju-South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils was arrested and the chairman of the 5th-term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils penalized.
Rodong Sinmun today views the suppression as part of the premeditated fascist offensive against the patriotic-minded people aspiring after democracy, vital rights and the country's reunification.
The daily says in a commentary:
Even former dictators who made themselves infamous with manhunting could not penalize workers who fought for democracy and vital rights on charges of being "pro-north."
But the present rulers have put such workers on the altar of fascist laws, charging them with "benefiting the enemy."
This is apparently a provocation against the north.
The South Korean authorities intend to chill the desire for national reconciliation and unity which is ever growing with the approach of the August 15 grand pro-reunification festival, and emerge from the serious crisis of the regime by means of provocation against the north and harsh suppression of the South Korean people.
With brutal suppression, however, they cannot check the people's ardent desire for independence, democracy and reunification.
Danish preparatory committee for DPRK national day formed
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A Danish preparatory committee for celebration of the 50th National Day of the DPRK was formed in Copenhagen on July 29.
Present at the inaugural meeting were Jorgen Petersen, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Denmark (Marxist-Leninist), and delegates from other political parties and members of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association.
At the meeting Anders Kristensen, Chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association, was elected Chairman of the preparatory committee.
Signature campaign begins in Seoul for abolition of "NSL"
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Seoul headquarters for promotion of the 9th Pan-National Rally for Peace and Reunification of the Country began an all-people signature campaign on August 1 demanding abolition of the "National Security Law" (NSL).
The headquarters in its action program said that it began the signature campaign urging the fascist clique to stop defining the south headquarters of the National Alliance For the Country's Reunification and the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils as "enemy-benefitting organizations" and to ensure the Pan-National Rally.
It proposed a method of activities and said:
"Let us struggle till the abolition of the 'NSL' with the belief that our sweat will contribute to the reunification of the country."
Rodong Sinmun on globalisation of the economy
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- "Globalisation of the economy" on the lips of the imperialists is a new dominationist method they have employed after the end of the Cold War, says Rodong Sinmun today.
Their allegation that the economy should be "globalised" in keeping with the worldwide trend of "integration" after the end of the cold war is, in essence, catchword of economic domination over and unrestricted plunder of the world, the daily says, and goes on:
The "globalisation" of the economy is aimed at the deterioration of national economy of other countries and economic subjugation. It is also designed to hold sway over economic life of the world. In a nutshell, it is a strategy of the imperialists to establish a new world economic order of westernstyle, use the economic life of the world for their purpose of dominating the world and facilitate unrestricted exploitation and plunder throughout the world.
The world people should have a good knowledge of the reactionary nature of the imperialists' "globalisation of the economy." They should not accept nor allow it.
Joint struggle proposed by Hanchongryon
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Committee of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) announced an appeal for a joint struggle on August 5.
The proposal disclosed in detail the fact that the present "government" of South Korea, which does not want the country's reunification, is making desperate efforts to check the August 15 grand pro-reunification festival.
It is urgently necessary at present to launch a joint struggle in order to remove the obstacles in the way of the festival, it stressed, and said:
The patriotic-minded people should actively turn out in the fight for the withdrawal of a decision on defining the south promotion headquarters of Pomminryon (National Alliance for the Country's Reunification) and Hanchongryon as "enemy-benefiting organizations" and for the abrogation of the "National Security Law."
Only then, is it possible to make the festival an occasion for national reconciliation, unity and reunification, the appeal said.
It is nation's will to reunify country under Kim Jong Il's leadership
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- It is the faith and will of the Korean nation to put an end to the division of the nation and reunify the country in our generation under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Rodong Sinmun says this in an article today.
Noting that he has devotedly worked to let the fellow countrymen see a reunified country at an early date by carrying through President Kim Il Sung's instructions for national reunification, the daily says:
The will of the nation to reunify the country under his leadership has become more steadfast as it is based on acknowledgement of the undying feats performed by him in the history of the movement for national reunification.
In line with the President's Juche-oriented ideas of the country's reunification based on national independence, he put forward the most fair and aboveboard ideas and policies for the reunification of the country, thus indicating how the Korean nation should struggle for the reunification.
He is strengthening the driving force of national reunification and successfully leading its cause with his scientific, strategic and tactical leadership.
He is also leading the fellow countrymen to national unity and national independence with great generosity, magnanimity and attraction.
His greatness is absolute= it is an immense attraction uniting the fellow countrymen as one and a powerful motive force arousing the whole nation in the struggle for the reunification.
There is no one in the world who can block the vigorous advance of the nation, full of conviction of national reunification.
The entire fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad will accomplish the cause of the reunification of the country without fail under Kim Jong Il's leadership as instructed by the President.
Abolition of "NSL" demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Pomminryon Seoul City Preparatory Committee for "Grand Festival for National Reconciliation, Unity and Reunification" published a statement on August 3.
The statement said the "government" has defined the south headquarters of Pomminryon (National Alliance for the Country's Reunification) and Hanchongryon (South Korean Federation of University Student Councils) as "enemy-benefiting organizations" in a bid to block their participation in the proreunification events.
It urged the "government" to withdraw the charge against the two organizations, ensure the grand festival for national reconciliation, unity and reunification, unconditionally set free all the prisoners of conscience, abrogate the "National Security Law" and dissolve the "Agency for National Security Planning."