17th plenary meeting of c.c., youth league
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The 17th plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League was held on June 12. The meeting discussed tasks of the league organizations to carry forward to completion the Juche revolutionary cause generation after generation under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, holding the President Kim Il Sung in high esteem forever.
It stressed that the officials of the youth league should work like those of the communist youth league during the anti-Japanese struggle and those of the democratic youth league during the Fatherland Liberation War.
On the same day, a meeting was held by youth league officials to thoroughly implement the instructions given by Kim Jong Il to a primary organization of the youth league of Hyangphung-ri, Songchon county, South Phyongan Province.
Solidarity with Korean people expressed in France
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Bangno on June 5 under the sponsorship of the France-Korea Friendship Association in the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
The chairman of the association said at the solidarity meeting that more than half a century has passed since Korea was divided by outsiders, but it has not yet been reunified owing to the U.S. troops' occupation of South Korea and separatist moves of the South Korean authorities. The only way for Korea's reunification is to found the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo as clarified by President Kim Il Sung, he stressed.
The speaker expressed the resolve to continue their vigorous activities for supporting the Korean people in their struggle to drive the U.S. forces out of South Korea, reunify the country independently without outside intervention, overcome the economic difficulties caused by the imperialists' blockade and repeated natural disasters and defend socialism.
Prosecutors' moves protested in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Deputies of the Federation of South Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) called at the "supreme public prosecutor's office" on June 9 to protest against its authorities' scheme to "induce strikes" in a bid to obliterate the Mint Co., Ltd. Trade union, according to a radio report from Seoul.
The deputies demanded the "government" authorities make a strict probe into the truth and punish all the chief culprits who were under the commanding system of the prosecution at that time. The FKTU warned that it would go on a general strike from June 26 unless its demand is met.
Meanwhile, members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a rally in front of the building of the "supreme public prosecutor's office" on the same day and paid a protest visit to the Seoul district public prosecutor's office. They also planned a protest visit to "Chongwadae", the report said.
That day the South Korean Bar Association issued a statement and demanded the "National Assembly" invoke the "right of investigation into state affairs" to probe the truth behind the prosecution authorities' suppression of the Mint Co., Ltd.
The statement said that the prosecution authorities should not be allowed to investigate their crimes, calling for the introduction of a special prosecution system.
Participation in meeting urged to be allowed
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Sin Chang Gyun, Honorary Chairman of the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, expressed his intention time and again to participate in the "meeting for remembering Kim Ku" which will be held in Pyongyang on June 26 and urged the South Korean authorities to allow his tour to the north, according to a report from Seoul.
It was decided at a consultative meeting of permanent officials of the Council for National Reconciliation, which was held in Pyongyang on April 19, to hold the meeting on June 26 this year, the 50th anniversary of his murder and to invite South Korean public figures including those who participated in the historic April north-south joint conference.
Sin Chang Gyun, who had been to Pyongyang to participate in the joint conference together with Kim Ku, asked the South Korean authorities several times to allow his participation in the meeting, but he got a negative answer each time.
Greetings to Slovak President
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) --Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Rudolf Schuster on June 11 on his election as President of the Slovak Republic.
The message extended congratulations to the President and expressed the belief that the friendly relations between the Korean and Slovak peoples will develop.
It wished the President success in his work.
S. Korean authorities' move to sell off IO Islet
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea issued a statement on June 9 denouncing the present South Korean "government" for its attempt to sell off to outside forces Io Islet, an inviolable territory of Korea, said Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The statement said: The islet is a territory proper to Korea which has been governed by the Korean nation through generations. It is an islet of treasure which cannot be neglected in view of the geographical position and fishery resources.
The present "government" is scheming to sell off to Japan, its master, Io Islet in the South Sea of Korea, following the signing of a treacherous South Korea-Japan "fisheries agreement" on transferring the dominion over Tok Islet in the East Sea of Korea, an inalienable part of the Korean territory, to Japan.
This glaringly reveals again that the present rulers are a group of the most despicable sycophantic traitors to the nation who put the successive flunkeyist traitors, including the "five traitors of 1905" who sold off the country to the Japanese into the shade. Their move to sell off Io Islet after Tok Islet, yielding to the pressure and coercion of outside forces, heedless of the nation's sovereignty and dignity, is a revelation of the despicable flunkeyist and treacherous nature and a ruse to evade the "government" crisis.
After its appearance, the present "government" that tries to keep itself in reliance on foreign forces and capital, has schemed to get rid of the political and economic crisis and settle the issue of inter-Korean relations with the backing of the outside forces. Dependence on outside forces is the road of the nation's ruin and self-destruction. The present "government" should admit its towering crime of selling off a part of the Korean territory to the foreign forces and be sternly punished by history.
Meeting for remembering Mun Ik Hwan
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A meeting for remembering Rev. Mun Ik Hwan, a pro-reunification patriotic figure of South Korea, was held in china on June 1 on the occasion of his 81st birth anniversary. The meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the Council for National Reconciliation of the DPRK which initiated it, and the National Alliance for Democracy and Unification, a dissident movement organization of South Korea, which responded to it.
Present at the meeting were delegations of the Council for National Reconciliation from the north side, the National Alliance for Democracy and Unification from the south side, delegations of reunification movement organizations and individual figures in china, Japan, Americas and Canada, family members and relatives of Mun Ik Hwan.
It was stressed at the meeting that Mun had devoted his whole life to the nation, democracy and reunification with love for the country and nation. The meeting called for vigorously fighting for the independence and great unity of the nation and the country's reunification in response to the five-point policy of great national unity indicated by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Il.
The meeting made public a joint statement condemning the South Korean authorities for scheming to suppress the delegates of the national alliance for democracy and unification.
Release of participants in meeting urged
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The Federation of South Koreans in Japan for Democracy and Unification, the South Korean Youth League in Japan, the South Korean Democratic Women's Society in Japan, the Council of South Korean Students in Japan for National Reunification and the International Center of Fund for South Korean Human Rights issued a joint statement on June 6 to denounce the present South Korean regime for arresting the delegates of the National Alliance for Democracy and Unification who had participated in the meeting for remembering Rev. Mun Ik Hwan, a pro-reunification patriot, held in China and urge it to release them unconditionally, according to a report.
The arrest of the delegates in South Korea is a challenge to the desire of the fellow countrymen for reunification and an intolerable treacherous act. The statement demanded that the South Korean authorities allow free travel of all civilian organizations and figures of South Korea to the north and immediately abolish the "National Security Law" preventing reunification and trampling down democracy and civil rights.
Japan's crafty and shameless behaviour
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- At a recent "forum of UN small arms experts group" the Japanese reactionaries expressed their "strong support" to the UN efforts to restrict the use of small arms in dispute-ridden areas and said that they would "do all they can do" to make preparations for an international meeting to discuss small arms issues.
Commenting on this, Minju Joson today says this reveals once again the crafty intention of Japan to wear the mask of "peace champion" in the international arena.
The commentary goes on: The Japanese reactionaries are now keen on having fuller right of the "Self-Defence Forces" to use weapons than ever before. The cabinet meeting approved of the plan to allow the "SDF" to carry three types of weapons including machine guns when evacuating Japanese in case of an outbreak of "crisis overseas".
This is indicative of a real intention of the Japanese reactionaries to mobilize even artillery and missiles in future overseas expansion on the pretext of "protecting their warships and planes. They are well advised to clearly realise that no matter how hard they may try to style themselves "peace champion", it will never go down with anyone. They should discontinue their moves to make Japan a military power and step up overseas expansion, and honestly liquidate the crime-woven past as soon as possible.