Policy of strength can never be almighty =KCNA commentary=
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Blue Ridge, flagship of the U.S. 7th Fleet, entered Pusan Port of South Korea on August 22 to join in the Ulji Focus Lens joint military exercises.
Its portcall, which came at the time when the danger of war is growing more and more on the Korean peninsula, further eggs the South Korean authorities on to war.
This move proves that "dialogue" and "negotiation" the United States talked about so often recently are nothing but a hypocrisy and that it is still resorting to the "policy of strength" to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
The United States has already sent vast forces from overseas to South Korea. And it has deployed huge task forces including nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and nuclear-propelled submarines in the seas near the Korean peninsula. Then, are these needed for "dialogue" and "negotiation"?
The United States should make its position clear and behave in a farsighted way.
We are ready for both dialogue and war and will answer dialogue with dialogue and war with war, as the U.S. asks.
Today's Koreans are different from what they were in the past time when the U.S. forced gunboat diplomacy with its ship general sherman.
The continued dispatchment of the U.S. warships to South Korea will only invite greater indignation of our people and increase our revolutionary armed forces' striking capacity.
Statesmen of the United States should know that "policy of strength" is not almighty and it will bring immeasurable disasters to the U.S.
We are keeping a sharp eye on the U.S. attitude.
Chief of NDFSK Pyongyang mission issues statement
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) will creditably accomplish the cause of national liberation, independent reunification, under the uplifted banner of the invincible Juche idea.
Ri Sang Chol, chief of the NDFSK Pyongyang mission, declared this in a statement published on Monday to mark the 29th anniversary of the NDFSK.
He said the NDFSK has developed into an invincible vanguard in which the ideological unity of members based on the Juche idea has been firmly achieved and in which the oneness of idea and leadership has been realised.
He further said:
The NDFSK has conducted brisk external activities so as to win support from political parties and public organizations of many countries. Now, its supporters and sympathisers are daily increasing in number.
It is firmly determined to win in the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification by frustrating the reactionary offensive and fascist repression by the U.S. and the South Korean authorities.
Social scientists meet to commemorate 50th DPRK anniversary
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- A symposium of social scientists was held here on Monday to commemorate the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the DPRK.
Speakers stressed that the President Kim Il Sung founded the DPRK which is guided by the immortal Juche idea and whose masters are the working masses. Its foundation was a historic event declaring the birth of a state of new type centred on the popular masses, they said.
They said the President developed the DPRK into a powerful socialist state, independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in defence.
The DPRK is an invincible bulwark and beacon for the human cause of independence, they noted.
They stressed it is a sure guarantee for accomplishing the Juche revolutionary cause to uphold General Secretary Kim Jong Il with loyalty and exalt the exploits of the President in state-building for all ages.
Present at the symposium were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, Thae Hyong Chol, President of the Academy of Social Sciences, and others.
Anti-reunification, fascist violence
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities arrested Rev. Kang Hui Nam, chairman of the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon), and three other leading officials of the organisation on a charge of violating the "National Security Law."
Rodong Sinmun today describes the apprehension as anti-reunification, anti-national fascist violence.
The news analyst says:
The "government" authorities, not content with the apprehension of innocent patriotic students calling for reunification and champions of reunification, have gone the length of arresting the public figure in his eighties.
That is a thrice-cursed anti-national, anti-reunification crime.
By doing so they showed that "reconciliation," "unification" and "democracy" on their lips are a gross deception and hypocrisy.
They should stop suppressing and punishing pro-reunification, pro-democracy forces and immediately release Rev. Kang and other patriotic figures.
Centre for education in revolutionary tradition
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The Korean Revolution Museum is a centre for education in revolutionary tradition.
It graphically shows the glorious revolutionary history and immortal feats of the President Kim Il Sung.
It is located on Mansu Hill in the central part of Pyongyang.
It was founded in August Juche 37 (1948) and rebuilt in 1972 on an expansion basis.
Mt. Paektu, a holy mountain of revolution, figures large on the front wall of the museum against the background of which the Statue of the President stands.
On both sides of the statue are grand monuments portraying the periods of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and the socialist revolution and construction.
The museum has nearly 100 rooms where photos, relics and other materials are put on display.
Classified there in historical order are materials on each stage of the Korean revolution from the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. There is also in the museum a room showing the revolutionary activities of the President in 1994, the last year of his life.
Exhibited in the museum are materials on the revolutionary activities of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
More than 25 million people have visited it since its foundation.
It was awarded "Kim Il Sung Order" three times for its great contributions to educating people in revolutionary tradition.
Arrest of students in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities whisked away four students in Seoul on August 22, on charge of violation of the "National Security Law," a radio report from Seoul said.
The students are leading members of the General Student Council of Pusan National University, among them chairman Kim Kwang Su, who is also chairman of the Pusan and South Kyongsang Provincial Federation of University Student Councils.
The authorities arrested two more students of this university including the Planning Department Director of the General Student Council.
The students participated in the grand pro-reunification festival of Pomchonghakryon (National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification).
"Human rights box" produced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The family movement for realizing democracy, a human rights organization in South Korea, reportedly held a ceremony for sealing a "human rights box," which was made to impart human rights violations the anti-national elements committed against independence, democracy and reunification to posterity.
The box is filled with miniatures of jail and torture tools, and helmets, shields, tear-gas canisters, etc. used by riot police.
It has been decided to unseal the box 50 years after, the movement declared.
"Law-abiding oath" rejected in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Seventeen unconverted long-term prisoners of South Korea refused to write a "law-abiding oath" forced by the "government for the people," according to the Newspaper Hangyore.
The "government" demanded that all prisoners of conscience write a "law-abiding oath" before being given "special pardon" with August 15 as occasion. But, none of the unconverted long-term prisoners has acceded to it, the paper said.
Meanwhile, 11 prisoners of conscience in Taejon prison, eight of whom are unconverted long-term prisoners, started a hunger strike on August 5, the deadline for filing a written "oath".
They urged the abolition of "system of law-abiding oath", a retrogressive amendment of the fascist system of ideological conversion, the family movement for realizing democracy said.
NDFSK's cause will be invincible
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article extends warm congratulations and militant greetings to the vanguards of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) and patriotic people from all walks of life in South Korea on the 29th foundation anniversary of NDFSK, a true patriotic vanguard organisation of the South Korean people. Its predecessor is the revolutionary party for reunification.
The author of the article says:
NDFSK raised it as the main line of building the organisation to model its ranks on the Juche idea and has realized the oneness of ideology and leadership, growing up to be an ever-victorious patriotic vanguard organisation and an invincible militant unit.
The vanguards of NDFSK who are greeting the 29th anniversary are resolved to fight till the day when they will achieve the cause of independence, democracy and reunification with the people from all walks of life.
NDFSK is raising it as its basic fighting task to put an end to the colonial fascist rule over South Korea by outside forces, build an independent and democratic government and realize the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
The South Korean people have waged an undaunted struggle for independence against the United States, for democracy against dictatorship and for national reunification, not being discouraged and vacillated. This is attributable to the bloody struggle of the NDFSK vanguards who have fully displayed self-sacrificing spirit and heroism always in the van of the ranks.
NDFSK will as ever valiantly fight in the van of the People's struggle for new politics, new system and new life under the banner of independence against outside forces, for democracy against dictatorship and for national reunification and discharge its mission and role as the patriotic vanguard organisation.
Invincible is the just cause of NDFSK which is vigorously advancing under the banner of the great immortal Juche idea.
Damage caused by downpours
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The downpour which began raining at 5 on the early morning of August 23 brought heavy damage to the areas of Korea as a whole.
The heavy rain that fell for a day and a strong wind caused a heavy loss in various domains of the national economy.
Especially, South Hamgyong Province suffered heavier damage than other areas of Korea.
According to the conservative data available, as of 15 p.m. on August 24 thousands of hectares of arable land were submerged in water. More than 50 spots on motorways, some 90 bridges and several spots of railways were destroyed. As a result, the traffic of trucks and trains was paralysed.
The strong wind and tidal waves destroyed more than 10 vessels.
More than 1,500 dwelling houses and tens of public buildings were submerged in water.
The heavy rain which fell in the early morning and strong wind took a heavy toll of lives as well. A large number of domestic animals suffered heavy damage.
In Riwon county a heavy rain of up to 280 millimetres fell in four to five hours, leaving 1,200 dwelling houses and some 10 factories and enterprises submerged.
Thousands of hectares of paddy and non-paddy fields were submerged and hundreds of hectares of them were buried in the ground in Sinhung and Pukchong counties.
Emergency relief steps have been taken in the afflicted areas.
The dead, the wounded and the missing are counted.
An emergency step has been taken for the stable living of the afflicted people.
The relevant institutions continue survey's the recent damage.
Damage in plain areas of Korea
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Abnormal climatic phenomena severely affected plain areas of the DPRK. As a result, it is foreseen that grain output will drastically decrease in these areas.
Thousands of dwelling houses and public buildings were submerged and roads, bridges and railways were seriously damaged.
Many areas, including South Hwanghae Province, Kaesong, North and South Phyongan provinces and Nampho, were hit hard by floods and rain-storms.
Particularly, rural communities in South Hwanghae Province, granaries of Korea, seriously suffered from rain-storms.
The province had five torrential rains in the period from mid-July to date, which submerged tens of thousands of hectares of farmland. Consequently, it is expected that grain harvests in Paechon, Yonan, Kangryong and other counties of the province will markedly drop owing to rainstorms and tidal waves.
The Pakchon plain of North Phyongan Province was inundated by heavy rains which fell on August 23 and 24.
Ryongchon, Phihyon, Unjon, Cholsan and other counties of the province also suffered much damage from torrential rains and rainstorms.
Downpours fell in Kaesong from August 4 to 10. As a result, it is foreseen that grain harvests in Kaephung and Phanmun counties and other areas of Kaesong will decrease by above 60 percent.
Rural communities of South Phyongan Province and Nampho were also severely affected by abnormal climatic phenomena.
The national and local flood rehabilitation committees are taking emergency steps to clear away damage caused by abnormal weather phenomena. Officials concerned went out to affected areas to acquaint themselves with the scope of the damage. They have stepped up rehabilitation, maintaining contact with relevant units.
Now, damaged houses, roads, bridges, railways and others are being rehabilitated. A powerful drive is under way to drain stagnant water from farmlands.