Vietnamese President on relations with DPRK

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- Vietnamese President Jon Tok Luong referred to the relations with the DPRK on Nov. 17 when he met the Korean ambassador to Vietnam. He said that the friendly relations between the two countries, parties and peoples forged by the President Kim Il Sung and President Ho Chi Minh are a valuable heritage which should be developed generation after generation and that Vietnam will continuously strive to develop it. The President said that he is rejoiced over successes made by the Korean people in the construction of the country, overcoming all difficulties. He expressed the belief that negotiations related to the issue of the Korean peninsula will be helpful to the Korean people's defence of the country and sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Generator No. 3 of Sunchon Thermal Power Plant operated

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- Generator No. 3 of the Sunchon Thermal Power Plant has begun to run after its test operation. This generator carrying feelings of friendship between Korea and China was visited by Han Kuk Sung, vice-Minister of Power and Coal Industries, officials concerned and Wan Yongxiang, Chinese ambassador to Korea, embassy officials and Chinese guests on Wednesday. That day, the Ministry of Power and Coal Industries gave a party on the occasion of the operation.

GFTUK spokesman on S. Korean economic bankruptcy

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) published a statement on Wednesday, nearly one year after the South Korean economy was placed under the trusteeship of the International Monetary Fund owing to its catastrophic crisis. The statement said: Running for "presidential elections," the present chief executive had committed himself to free South Korea from IMF trusteeship. Although one year has passed since then, however, the crisis of the South Korean economy has been further deepened and prolonged instead of being defused. The South Korean economy is now breathing its last, heavily saddled with hundreds of billion dollars of foreign debts. Businesses have gone bankrupt en masse, radically increasing the number of the unemployed, continuously sending prices soaring up and devaluating the currency. Now, the "second crisis" is looming over the economy. After all, the present catastrophic crisis gripping the South Korean economy as a whole is an inevitable result of the present rulers' anti-people flunkeyist and treacherous rule depending on outsiders. The South Korean rulers have fired millions of working masses, yielding to the brigandish demand of IMF. This is as good as a death sentence upon them. The statement expressed the expectation that the South Korean workers would draw a serious lesson from the immeasurable misfortunes they have undergone so far under the IMF system and turn out more vigorously in the struggle to defend their independent dignity and vital rights and find a way out by their own efforts.

S. Korea seeks unified commanding system of army

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- The anti-national "government of the people" of South Korea on Tuesday took a step to unify the commanding system of the three services of the army, as part of preparations for war against the north, a Seoul-based radio said. Under the step, command offices of the three services were integrated into the "kyeryongdae service support corps" under the Defence Ministry. This integration is an escalation of the moves for a unified commanding system of the army. The current step poses a grave danger as it was taken in step with anti-north war moves of their master, U.S. imperialists.

Papers on Clinton's trip to S. Korea

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- Papers here today comment on anti-north war confab between the U.S. President, Bill Clinton, and the South Korean chief executive. Rodong Sinmun charges that the recent trip to South Korea of the U.S. President was designed to pursue a "tough policy against the north" so as to give a shot in the arm to the authorities in the grip of the unprecedented politico-economic crisis and encourage them to follow the aggressive U.S. Korea policy. The news analyst says: During the recent trip the South Korean authorities showed hearty response to the "tough policy against the north" on the lips of Clinton, their master, and begged for "support" for the alleged "sunshine policy," a reversed edition of the anti-north war policy. Clinton and the South Korean authorities incited war fever without hesitation over the "suspicion of underground nuclear facility," a product of their plot against the north. They alleged that there is an "underground nuclear facility" in the north and in case the north refuses to allow an inspection of it, there will be a "tough countermeasure." Their allegations are an unbearable provocation to the north. Those allegations of theirs can be made only by war mongers who are running amuck to stifle the north by force of arms. We are on the alert against the reckless military provocation moves of the U.S. military and the South Korean bellicose elements. We cannot but take a relevant self-defensive measure. We are going to make clear who is to blame for the prevailing tense situation. The danger of war is increasing in the Korean peninsula and there is the same tense situation as before the adoption of the DPRK-U.S. framework agreement. The provokers will be held responsible wholly for all the ensuing consequences. We remind the bellicose elements at home and abroad of this position of ours. Minju Joson warns that if the danger of war increases in the Korean peninsula and the situation goes back to the original state before the adoption of the DPRK-U.S.framework agreement, the U.S. and the South Korean authorities will be held responsible entirely for all the consequences arising therefrom.

Centre of class education

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- The Sinchon Museum is visited every day by working people, servicemen and students and schoolchildren of Korea, foreigners and overseas Koreans. The museum, located in the town of Sinchon county, South Hwanghae Province, is the centre of class education, which exposes brutal manslaughter committed by U.S. imperialists in Korea, especially during the last Korean War. It consists of the main building (16 rooms), the second building (three rooms) and outdoor visiting sites. Exhibited there are 6,465 remains and evidences and over 450 photos showing brutal atrocities of the U.S. imperialists . On display in rooms of the main building are materials on the crimes of the U.S. imperialists who tried to invade Korea from one hundred and scores of years ago. There are also materials on the brutal massacres by the U.S.imperialists in Sinchon at the time of our temporary strategic retreat during the 1950-1953 Korean War, and in different parts of Korea. In 52 days after their occupation, the U.S. imperialists mercilessly murdered more than 35,380 or a quarter of the Sinchon county population, among them 16,234 children, old people and women. Lethal weapons used at that time and evidences are seen in the main building. In rooms of the second building are evidences and materials on the indiscriminate bombing and bacteriological and chemical warfare staged by the U.S. imperialists against North Korea during the war, and on the brutal murder of people by the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean authorities in the south of Korea. The outdoor visiting sites of the museum include the air-raid shelter of the former Sinchon County Party Committee where over 900 people were burnt to death by the U.S.imperialists, a cemetery of 5,605 patriots and cemeteries of 400 mothers and 102 children who were killed in two powder magazines. At the time of the Korean War, a fact-finding team of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers inspected those places before making public a joint communique denouncing the massacres by the U.S. imperialists in Sinchon as murderous crimes without an equal in history. General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the museum on November 22. describing the museum as a very important place of educating the Korean people in class consciousness, he advanced tasks to intensify the education.

Reunification by confederacy, most realistic way

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- The most realistic way for the reunification of divided Korea is to reunify the country by means of confederacy, Rodong Sinmun stresses in a signed article today. The paper goes on: The Korean people have undergone immeasurable misfortunes and sufferings for more than half a century owing to the division of the country and the nation forced by outsiders. Moreover, the Korean nation is exposed to a danger of nuclear-scourge because of reckless moves of warmongers at home and abroad for a new war. This situation requires to ensure a durable peace of the Korean peninsula and achieve its peaceful reunification at an early date. Aspirations of the Korean nation and Korea's situation prove that to build a unified national state by means of confederacy based on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments is the best way for ensuring the peace of the country and achieving its peaceful reunification. Confederacy calls upon the north and south to reunify the country on the basis of recognizing and tolerating each other's ideas and social systems, not trying to force them on the other side. Accordingly, it is a fair reunification formula which does not seek only the supremacy or interests of one side nor does any harm to the other. The confederacy formula also calls upon the north and south to reunify the country on the principle of co-existence, one side not conquering the other side or being conquered and not overwhelming the other side or being overwhelmed, which causes neither dispute nor conflict. In fact, the reunification by means of confederacy is the most realistic and reasonable way of ensuring the peace of the country under the condition in which different ideas and systems exist in the north and south. It also makes it possible to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country with the united effort of the whole nation in conformity with demands and interests of the nation.

Preferential duties

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) - The Wonjong Customs Office is the entrance to the Rajin-Sonbong Economice and Trade Zone are a from the third country. It deals with more than 800 businessmen, 160 items of rolling stock and 800 tons of goods a day. Preferential tariffs are applied and important materials used for the zone development are duty-free. People form the third country as well as the Chinese have free access to the zone any time without customs declaration. Formalities are simplified to provide every convenience.

Senior DPRK officials meet Cuban ambassador

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- Kye Ung Thae, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, today met and had a talk with Cuban ambassador to Korea Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona, who paid a farewell call on him. Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, also conversed with the Cuban ambassador.