Friendship meeting held between Korean, Japanese youths
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- A friendship meeting was held at the Central Youth Hall on Friday between officials of the C.C., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and members of a delegation of the Council of Young Men's Associations of Japan on a visit to Korea.
Present at the meeting were secretary Kim Kyong Ho of the C.C., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and officials of the league.
Members of the delegation of the council headed by President Yoshihlyo Kato were on hand.
The participants appreciated an art performance and conversed with each other, deepening feelings of friendship.
Provocative remarks = KCNA commentary =
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The South Korean chief executive, when he met the group of chairmen of the overseas councils of the "Advisory committee for democracy and peaceful reunification" on November 25, repeatedly spun out an outburst of getting on the north's nerve.
Reiterating the ill-intentioned "policy towards the north," he driveled that "if the north does not alter its attitude towards the nuclear and missile issues they would Take a tough counter-measure and that, in case it follows the strategy of communizing the south by force of arms, they would sternly frustrate it through consultations with allied nations."
We can never tolerate his outburst which came when the U.S. conservative hard-liners are driving the situation of the Korean peninsula to an extreme pitch of strain, spreading the rumor of "suspicion of an underground nuclear facility."
When the U.S. President toured South Korea some days ago, the South Korean chief executive also revealed his treacherous nature by siding with his master in his attempt to make an excuse of switchover to "tough policy towards the north".
The provocative "outbursts against the north" reveal the servile position of the South Korean chief executive as an executor of the U.S. aggressive Korea policy as well as his nature as an anti-national warmonger who dreams of maintaining his power through confrontation and hostile policy against the fellow countrymen.
Does he not know his indiscreet belligerent outbursts are not essentially different from the anti-reunification slanders made by the preceding dictators?
He should bear in mind that he will be held wholly responsible for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by provocative outbursts he made following in the treacherous footsteps of his predecessor.
Rodong Sinmun calls for applying socialist democracy in state activities
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun on Friday stressed that socialist democracy should be thoroughly applied in state activities if a socialist government is to fully discharge its honorable mission as a people's servant.
This original idea of state building was clarified by the President Kim Il Sung in his policy speech "Let us bring the advantages of socialism in our country into full play" at the first session of the Ninth Supreme People's Assembly in May Juche 79 (1990), basing himself on the Juche idea.
The idea is a highly important guideline to which the DPRK government should adhere for ever, the paper said, and continued:
Applying socialist democracy in state activities is a fundamental requirement for defending the worthwhile life of our people as masters of politics. It is also essential for providing them with a sound and equal material and cultural life and firmly defending their independent and creative life.
Some former socialist countries blindly followed the formula of politics of outdated society. As a result, state and society were administered by specified persons, not by their masters, popular masses. This produced bureaucrats, paralyzing people's creativity.
Under the situation renegade socialists attacked the working-class party, alleging that its monolithic guidance over government organ was a source of bureaucracy. And they hamstring the party's leadership over government and introduced bourgeois multi-parties and parliamentary system.
Consequently, misfortunes, not democracy, befell people, the paper said, and went on:
Socialist democracy is not mere democracy without dictatorship.
As they make no secret of their party spirit, communists openly state that socialist democracy assumes a class spirit.
Socialist democracy provides the broad masses of people including workers, peasants and intellectuals with freedom and rights but imposes sanctions on the class enemies.
Our people's government should intensify its dictatorial function in order to smash the anti-socialist moves of the imperialists and other reactionaries and defend the interests and safety of the popular masses.
S. Korea schemes to purchase artillery pieces
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The "government of people" of South Korea has planned to disburse 106.4 billion won on the purchase of large-calibre artillery pieces of new type for forward units of the army next year, according to a Seoul-based radio report.
Though the economic crisis of South Korea has been deepened under the trusteeship of IMF, the authorities this year, too, squandered "government fund" on the purchase of large-calibre cannons, destroyers, advanced transport helicopters and other weapons.
Bloodthirsty beasts in human shape
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- South Korea has become an "exhibition" of atrocities of the GIS, says Rodong Sinmun today.
The news analyst says:
The U.S. imperialist aggressors consider that South Koreans is not worth one fly.
Though the aggressors killed South Koreans, took liberties with women and plunder the people of property, the South Korean authorities transferred the criminals to the U.S. military police without a word of protest.
As a consequence, Yankees commit one atrocity after another in South Korea.
We remember the thrice-cursed crimes of the U.S. imperialists who murdered in cold blood innumerous Koreans and other parts of North Korea they occupied during the Fatherland Liberation War.
The Korean people will take a thousandfold revenge upon the U.S. imperialist aggressors.
Round-table conversation between Japanese and Korean groups
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- A round-table conversation was held in Tokyo on Nov. 20 between "AFUMU", a Japanese non-governmental flood damage assistance organization for DPRK, and a Korean delegation for agricultural exchange.
At the conversation, Makoto Tanabe, executive secretary of AFUMU, said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il, true to the intention of the President Kim Il Sung, is devoting his all to the agricultural development and prosperity of the country.
He stressed the need for close cooperation for the normalization of diplomatic relations and friendship between Japan and the DPRK.
The independent and peaceful reunification of Korea should be achieved at an early date, greatly contributing to the world peace, he added.
Experience and opinions on agriculture were exchanged there.
Kim Jong Il praised by foreign poets
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- A Cuban poet Maria Julia Guerra and a Guinean poet Sekou Traore created and published poems in praise of the greatness of Marshal Kim Jong Il.
Maria Julia Guerra in a poem congratulated Marshal Kim Jong Il on his assumption of the important post as Chairman of the National Defence Commission. She joined the Korean people in celebrating the 50th birthday of the DPRK with happiness, the poet said.
The marshal visits the forefront to meet the people's desire for reunification of the divided country, the poem said, adding: guided by him, Korea will surely be reunified at an early date.
Sekou Traore praised Kim Jong Il as the humblest and kind man who is building a people's paradise with his energetic revolutionary activities and is devoting his all to the people and revolution. It is the greatest happiness and pride of the Korean people to have Kim Jong Il, the poet said, stressing:
Taking over the great aim of President Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il is creating an epic of love for the people.
"Museum on NSL" to be set up in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The Lawyers' Organization for Democratic Society (Minbyon) has been pressing ahead with the construction of the "Museum on the National Security Law", the South Korean newspaper "Hangyore" November 26 said.
The museum is due to be set up on December 1 on which falls the 50th anniversary of the "NSL" make-up, in compliance with the unanimous demand of the South Korean people for preserving historic materials on sufferings by the "NSL" in the museum.
The museum will display all materials on "NSL"-related crimes, which include records of investigations of and trials on people of broad segments who had died in prison as victims of the "NSL" and who had lived in terrible misery and sorrow for scores of years since its make-up, evidences, publications, theses and newspaper articles.
Minbyon's move to set up the museum is evoking positive support among South Korean people calling for the "NSL", the infamous means for fascist repression.
South Korea's business slump, worst after Korean War
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. paper herald tribune Nov. 26, commenting on the economic failure of South Korea, said that it is the worst after the 1953 Korean War.
The paper noted that South Korea should repay 30 billion dollars of loan next year and that 21,000 enterprises went bankrupt this year.
It said that foreign analysts estimate that it is difficult for the South Korean economy to emerge from stagnation.
Japanese anti-DPRK diatribe under fire
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- A delegate of the Japanese government to negotiations for the normalization of diplomatic relations with the DPRK in a recent interview with the Sankei Shimbun said "as long as North Korea refuses to take a sincere attitude towards the suspected kidnapping and hometown visit of Korean-resident Japanese women, the normalization negotiations and Japan-DPRK agreement themselves are difficult. He made the remarks at a time when the Japanese authorities are persisting in the anti-DPRK smear campaign, describing the DPRK's launch of artificial satellite as the "launch of a ballistic missile" and a civil underground facility as a "nuclear facility."
Rodong Sinmun today, commenting on his remarks, says:
The "suspected kidnapping" is a fiction of the South Korean "Agency for National Security Planning." Japan is kicking up a dust with the fiction.
The hometown visit of Korean-resident Japanese women has been suspended. The blame for it rests with the Japanese authorities who brought forward the issue of "those who divested themselves of their nationality. We, therefore, have no intention to argue about the issue.
We have already made clear the position that as long as the sworn enemy, Japan, persists in the anti-DPRK campaign, we will no longer have discussions with Japan about the normalization of the relations between the two countries.
It is the height of impudence for Japan to say this or that about the normalization of the relations.
Without the normalization of relations with Japan we have lived and will live in the future, too.
We, however, will square accounts with Japan as regards its crime-woven past in any circumstances.
If the Japanese authorities want to evade apologizing and compensating to the Korean people for the past crimes of the Japanese imperialists and keep on the anti-DPRK campaign as they do, they should not speak of the normalization of the relations with the DPRK.
U.S. hard-liners warned not to run amuck
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. conservative hard-liners are now carrying on reckless war drills in and around the Korean peninsula while raising a hue and cry over the DPRK's "development and proliferation of missiles", says Minju Joson in a commentary today, criticizing their maneuvers as very dangerous ones for preemptive attack on the DPRK.
The news analyst continues:
The anti-DPRK diatribe of the U.S. conservative hard-liners is meant to justify their reckless military row and find a pretext for a new war of aggression.
The U.S. hawks are to unleash a new war of aggression in the Korean peninsula on every account, put the whole of the Korean peninsula under their influence and, furthermore, to easily attain their strategic purpose of domination over Asia.
Now that they intend to provoke a war of aggression against the DPRK on any account, the DPRK can not but take a powerful counter-measure.
By building up the nation's defense capability, the people and People's Army of Korea will smash invasion by any enemies at a stroke.
The U.S. conservative hard-liners should ponder over the consequences to be entailed by their indiscreet maneuverings and stop the moves for a new war of aggression on the DPRK at once.
Nepal government delegation here
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- A Nepal government delegation headed by Minister of Industry Hem Raz Rai arrived in Pyongyang today.
The DPRK government gave a party for the delegation.
Greetings to President of Burkina Faso
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Nov. 26 sent a message of greetings to Blaise Compaore upon his reelection as President of Burkina Faso.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will further develop, the message sincerely wished him new success in his responsible work.
Solidarity with Palestinian people's struggle expressed
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings today to Yasser Arafat, President of the State of Palestine, chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and head of the national authority of Palestine, on the occasion of the "Day of world solidarity with the Palestinian people."
The message extended firm solidarity to Yasser Araft and, through him, to the Palestinian people.
It said that the just cause of the Palestinian people to restore and exercise the legitimate national rights, including the right of Palestine, the right to self-determination and the right to build an independent state, is enjoying support and encouragement from the Korean people and the world's progressive people.
Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries will continue developing, the message wholeheartedly wished the President of the state of Palestine success in his work for a fair solution of the Palestinian issue.