Members of WFP mission help farmers
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- Members of the WFP mission here including Erich Weingartner visited the Anhung Co-op Farm on June 5 to help it in farming. They helped farmers in rice transplanting. At a break, they appreciated a performance given by kindergartners of the farm.
Wreaths laid before statues and grave of Kim Hyong Jik
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- Senior officials of the party and state, working people, soldiers of the Korean People's Army, youth and students laid wreaths on Saturday before the statue of Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea, in Ponghwa ri, Kangdong county, Pyongyang, and his grave in Mangyongdae on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of his death. Wreaths sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il, were laid before the statue and grave. Present at the wreath-laying ceremonies were Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol and other senior party and state officials.
Amid the playing of wreath-laying music, wreaths including bouquets and flowers were laid before the statue and grave in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, the cabinet, ministries, central organs, educational institutions, KPA units, and party and power bodies, enterprises, co-op farms and schools in Pyongyang. Those present observed a moment's silence looking back on his revolutionary exploits.
On the same day, wreaths were also laid before his statues in Sakju county, North Phyongan Province and Junggang county, Jagang province.
DPRK delegation visits Hangzhou
Hangzhou, June 5 (KCNA) -- The DPRK delegation led by Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, on an official goodwill visit to the People's Republic of China, visited Hangzhou city Saturday afternoon. The delegation looked round Lake Xi and Yuefei Temple in the city. They made a tour of Meijiawucun of Xihuxiang, production base of tea leaves in Zhejiang Province, which is situated in the suburbs of Hangzhou city.
On the same day, they met senior officials of the Zhejiang provincial people's government. That evening the governor of the Zhejiang provincial people's government gave a reception in honor of the DPRK delegation.
S. Korean warships intrude into north
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The South Korean ruling quarters committed a grave military provocation of illegally intruding warships deep into the territorial waters of the north side southeast of Ssanggyo-ri, Kangryong county, South Hwanghae Province, on June 5, military sources said. Three warships of South Korea, having watched the movement of fishing boats of the north which were catching fish at sea off Soyonphyong Islet, proceeded northward at full steam across the sea boundary line in an attempt to commit hostile acts.
No sooner had a patrol boat of the Navy of the Korean People's Army defending the sea post of the country with vigilance sailed to the scene than the enemy's warships fled southward in a hurry. This provocation act is a premeditated move to lead the inter-Korean confrontation to its extreme pitch by artificially aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula.
DPRK delegation arrives in Shanghai
Shanghai, June 6 (KCNA) -- The DPRK delegation led by Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on an official goodwill visit to the People's Republic of China arrived in Shanghai this morning by a special plane. The delegation was greeted at the airport by leading officials of the city.
The delegation left Hangzhou this morning.
Japan's military expansion and S. Korea-Japan military tie-up exposed
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (Hanminjon) issued an indictment on June 2 as regards Japan's military expansion and the South Korea-Japan military tie-up which are becoming all the more serious, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation said.
The indictment said: Japan's military expansion and its moves for overseas aggression are impending beyond the danger line. It is drastically increasing military expenditure the growing rate of which places first in the world. The military expenditure in 1950 when the police reserves of the "Self-Defence Forces" were founded, was 131 billion yen, 156.9 billion yen in 1960 and about 5,000 billion yen in 1998.
By putting spurs to equipping the "SDF" with ultra modern and long-distance weapons, Japan has up-to-date fighter planes including F-15 and F-16 as main force planes and has up-to-date submarine, a large transport ship which can be used as an aircraft carrier and aegis missile escorts.
Particularly, it is stepping up the development of new-type long-distance missile to mass-produce all sorts of missiles.
The British newspaper Sunday Times said Japan has ten types of missiles which can be charged with nuclear war heads. Recently Japan decided to launch four intelligence satellites till 2000 on the pretext of "missile threat" from the DPRK. This is the last stage for its military expansion and overseas aggression.
It is making preparations for military action to cope with the "emergencies" on the Korean peninsula. It took active part in the execution of the "operation plan 5027", a U.S. war plan for aggression on the DPRK, in 1994 and approved more than 1,000 provisions of cooperation.
It was closeted with the United States in top secrecy on three occasions last year and worked out a "war plan" designed to invade the DPRK. It is also zealously involved in introducing the U.S.-led "Theatre Missile Defense" system. Contacts and exchange between military personnel of South Korea and Japan are unprecedentedly brisk and their scope is expanding.
Mutual studying at all military academies of South Korea and Japan, joint riding in up-to-date planes and mutual test flight are in full swing and confabs are repeated to set up joint military bodies and carry on joint military operations and joint military training. Accordingly, intelligence, telecommunication and alarm systems for joint military operations and opening of transport canals for military personnel and materials are being supplemented and completed.
The formation of the South Korea-Japan military alliance is being promoted at the final stage and the U.S.-Japan-South Korea triangular military alliance, Asian version of NATO, has been rounded off.
Through the military tie-up between South Korea and Japan, the latter seeks reinvasion of Korea. Japan is scheming to invade Korea at any cost before its reunification and use it as a springboard of aggression on Asia to realize its old dream of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere".
Siding with this, the Kim Dae Jung "government" intends to intensify military tie-up with Japan and make an attack on the north with the backing of Japan. The treacherous Kim Dae Jung group should act with discretion, mindful that the act of doing harm to the fellow countrymen in the north with the backing of Japan will only result in inviting fire on the roof of "Chongwadae".
Japan is not an "unsinkable aircraft carrier".
Japan should ponder over the fact that a powder magazine of military expansion extremely heated will catch fire and Japan will be sunken in the pacific forever before its missiles are launched toward the continent. It should give up at once the reckless war policy that can invite its self-destruction.
Anti-"government" struggle is inevitable
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- It is inevitable that South Korean university graduates, dropouts and students temporarily absent from school formed the "Young Unemployed Union" and other organizations and are rising up in the struggle for vital rights together with workers and peasants. Minju Joson says this in a commentary today.
The news analyst goes on: Their right of learning is trampled underfoot and even their right to existence deprived of owing to the anti-social misrule of the "people's government" rulers. The rulers are undisguisedly cracking down on the youth and students organizations including Hanchongryon (South Korean Federation of University Student Councils). It is only too natural that the young South Korean people are setting out on the anti-"government" struggle under this situation.