Talks between Kang Sok Ju and William Perry

   Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Talks between Kang Sok Ju, first vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, and William Perry, special envoy of the U.S. President, were held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall for several hours between May 26 and 28.
    Present at the talks on the DPRK side were vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan and the director of the U.S. affairs department of the Ministry and officials concerned,and on the U.S. side were an ambassador of the State Department, a senior director of the National Security Council, White House, and a general of the Defense Department, officials of the State Department and other entourage of the special envoy.
    The talks took place in a sincere and frank atmosphere full of mutual respect. The sides seriously discussed pending problems concerning the DPRK-U.S. relations and other problems arising in guaranteeing peace and security in the Asia-pacific region. The U.S. side informed the DPRK side of the matters concerning the examination of the Korea policy of the U.S. administration.
    The DPRK side comprehensively explained to the U.S. side the consistent principled stand of the Worker's Party of Korea and the DPRK government toward the DPRK-U.S. relations. It stressed that if the relations between the two countries are to be improved, the United States should recognize the system and sovereignty of the DPRK, approach it on an equal footing and fundamentally withdraw its policy hostile toward the DPRK, according to the agreement reached with the DPRK side long ago.
    The U.S. side said that it has come to have a deep understanding of the DPRK's policy and the national confidence and strong will of the Korean people united in one mind.

Reception by U.S. President's special envoy

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- William Perry, special adviser to the U.S. President and his special envoy, gave a reception on Thursday evening on the conclusion of his visit to the DPRK. Invited there were first vice foreign minister Kang Sok Ju, vice foreign minister Kim Kye Gwan and other officials concerned and the charge d'affaires ad interim of the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang and representatives of international organizations.
The special envoy's entourage were present there. Speeches were made by William Perry and Kang Sok Ju. Earlier on Wednesday, the special envoy and his party visited Mangyongdae where the President Kim Il Sung was born. They visited the Tower of the Juche Idea, the Pyongyang metro, the Taesong Co-op Farm in Pyongyang and other places and appreciated an acrobatic show.

U.S. President's special envoy and his party leave

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- William Perry, special adviser to the U.S. President and his special envoy, and his party left here today after a four-day visit to the DPRK. They were seen off at the airport by officials concerned.

Reception by Polish charge d'affaires ad interim

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Mieczyslaw Dedo, charge d'affaires ad interim of Poland in Pyongyang, gave a reception on Thursday at the embassy on the occasion of the National Day of Poland. Invited there were vice foreign minister Ri In Gyu, vice chairman Ri Song Ho of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and other officials concerned. Speeches were made there.

Cuban embassy officials help farmers

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Jose Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy officials on Thursday helped farmers of the Korea-Cuba Friendship Hwasong Co-op Farm in farming. They transplanted rice seedlings with farmers and deepened friendly feelings, singing songs of the two countries during a break.

Hanchongryon vows to hold its 7th-term inaugural ceremony

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) announced on May 25 that it would hold its 7th-term inaugural ceremony at Yonsei University from May 28 to 30, according to a radio report from Seoul.
At the inaugural ceremony, Hanchongryon plans to elect executive members including its 7th-term chairman and confirm its fighting program for this year. Upset by this, the South Korean authorities ordered repressive machines to "totally block" the inaugural ceremony itself and punish all the participants on charges of "sympathizing with the enemy" in violation of the "National Security Law" by hurling Police into the university if the organisation holds it by surprise.

U.S. schemes to bring warships to East Sea of Korea

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. are scheming to bring a destroyer and an escort ship belonging to the 7th U.S. fleet to the East Sea of Korea from the Yokoska base of Japan on May 29, according to a report from Seoul. They announced that these warships will enter a port of the east coast after participating in a joint exercise with the South Korean "Navy". They are now reinforcing their armed forces in South Korea on the plea of the Yugoslav crisis. The projected anchorage of these warships in South Korea is part of their moves.

Japan precipitates its 2nd defeat day

   Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed commentary denouncing the Japanese reactionaries for legalizing overseas aggression with the passage of the legislation for implementing the "Japan-U.S. Defence Cooperation Guidelines" through the House of Councilors on May 24.
    The news analyst says: Japan, a defeated nation in World War II, has come to have the belligerent right again and make its military forces participate in a war of aggression any time and anywhere on the plea of "cooperating" with the U.S. forces in their military actions. It is clear that the Japanese reactionaries who have made the legislation, a wartime law, will work hard to implement it. The implementation of the legislation just means overseas aggression.
    Thus, the Japanese "Self-Defence Forces" have come to set out on overseas aggression as they wish with the backing of the U.S. Their first target is the Korean peninsula. As the Japanese reactionaries are openly crying, the "emergencies" in areas surrounding Japan mean the "emergencies" on the Korean peninsula. In case the U.S. unleash a second war of aggression on Korea, the Japanese reactionaries will take part in it and cooperate with them and carry into practice their ambition for aggression.
    They intend to invade Korea, a vantage-point of geopolitical, military and strategical importance, use it for a bridgehead for aggression on Asia and thus set out on the road of the all-out aggression on Asia as they did in the past. Our revolutionary armed forces and people are resolved to deal thousand-fold retaliatory strikes at the Japanese reactionaries and mercilessly wipe them out once they train the fuse of reinvasion again, forgetting the lesson of their past defeat.
    The Japanese reactionaries must ponder over consequences to be entailed by their moves for reinvasion. They must not precipitate a second defeat day by themselves.

Mt. Taesong

   Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Mt. Taesong in suburban Pyongyang is a favorite recreational resort for the working people. Though only 270m above sea level, it is the highest mountain in central Pyongyang.
    Here are the revolutionary martyrs cemetery, the site of a secret camp used by a small unit of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army during the anti-Japanese war, and dozens of slogan-bearing trees preserved in original state. It also boasts a host of cultural remains and relics from Koguryo, the first feudal state in Korea that existed from 277 BC to AD 668--the site of a royal palace, ancient walls, temples, fortress gates, pavilions and dozens of legendary ponds.
    Another public attraction here is the boating grounds, swimming pools, the folk-game area, fun fair, sporting and amusement facilities and public service amenities. A multitude of legends are woven around this mountain of antiquity and many species of plants are designated as living monuments.

Revision of "foreigners registration law" urged

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Ryu Kwang Su, director of the compatriots' life department of the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, published a statement on May 20 as regards the approval of some "amendments" to the "foreigners registration law" at the Japanese diet, according to the May 26 issue of Joson Sinbo published in Japan.
The "amendments" preserve the basic nature of the law that violates human rights of Koreans in Japan and other foreigners by grasping their movement, he said. He strongly demanded the Japanese government and diet not partially amend the "law" but fundamentally revise it, including the abolition of the obligation to constantly carry "registration cards" and the abrogation of penalties.

U.S. sub-critical nuclear test

   Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries an article flaying the U.S. scheme to continue the sub-critical nuclear test by the year 2010. The United States is a nuclear viper poised to kill others with the biggest and most dangerous nuclear teeth ever on the earth, it observes, and continues: The United States describes nuke-weapons as a "deterrent force" and a means to contain "challenge" and "threat" to its interests and implement "security commitments" to its allies. It is no more than a pretext to justify its nuclear arms build-up.
    Now in the world there is no nation that attempts to wage a war against the United States and its allies or to launch a nuclear attack at them. That is why it can never be justifiable for the United States to increase nuclear arsenals and regards nuclear weapons as a "deterrent" means and "security umbrella" to cope with "challenges" and "threats".
    Since its nuclear opponent has disappeared after the end of the Cold War, the United States has expanded the theatre of nuclear strategy to a global scale and regards as its objects of nuclear strategy the developing countries and, in particular, the countries that go against the grain with it and stand in the way of establishing the U.S.-led unipolar world order.
    This illustrates that the U.S. nuclear threat has gone beyond a specific object and a specific region in the Cold War era and expanded to the world's scale, many countries and peoples being targets of U.S. nuclear offensive. Now the Korean peninsula is a region ridden with the biggest danger of a nuclear war in the world because the spearhead of the U.S. nuclear strategy has been directed to Korea.
    The fiction of the DPRK's "missile threat" and "nuclear suspicion" loudmouthed by the United States is to invent an excuse for a nuclear preemptive attack on the DPRK. The United States, who is the most dangerous nuclear criminal and the enemy of peace, is sure to be punished by history.

Greetings to Ethiopian President

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Ethiopian President Negasso Gidada on Wednesday on the occasion of the national holiday of the Ethiopian people. Believing that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further develop, the message wished the Ethiopian President and people greater success in the struggle for consolidating peace and stability of the country.

Minister of Education appointed in Korea

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- The presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK promulgated a decree on relieving and appointing the Minister of Education on May 27. According to the decree, Choe Ki Ryong was relieved of his post as Minister of Education and Pyon Yong Rip appointed to the post.

Kim Yong Sun meets president of World Vision

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Sun, chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, today met and had a friendly conversation with Dean R. Hirsch, international president of the World Vision, and his party on a visit to the DPRK at the Mansudae Assembly Hall. Vice-chairman Ri Jong Hyok of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee was present there.