Traditional DPRK-China friendship is unbreakable
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Indestructible is DPRK-China friendship which has a long historical root and which has been strengthened and developed in the struggle to achieve the common purpose and ideal, stresses Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, today.
Pointing out that the traditional DPRK-China friendship, which has advanced in the trials of history, is coming into fuller bloom as days go by, the editorial says: The China visit of a delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea led by Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, was a great event which demonstrated at home and abroad the might of the traditional DPRK-China friendship that struck its root in the common struggle and was forged in blood.
Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, received the DPRK delegation, meetings and talks between senior officials of the two countries were held in a comradely, cordial and friendly atmosphere. At the meetings and talks both sides exchanged views on the issue of further developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries and on a series of matters of common concern and reached a consensus of views.
The China visit of the DPRK delegation made a great contribution to further developing of the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two parties, two countries and two peoples of the DPRK and China and had a great influence on the development of the situation northeast Asia including the Korean peninsula and the world as a whole.
As the President Kim Il Sung taught, DPRK-China friendship is an unbreakable one which was forged in blood in the struggle to realise the common purpose and ideal and which has been consolidated in all sorts of trials. DPRK-China friendship has a long historical tradition and root. Kim Il Sung forged relations of comradely obligation and deep intimacy with comrades Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai long ago and laid the foundation of the DPRK-China friendship.
He rendered material and mental assistance to the Chinese people when they were waging the anti-Japanese revolution and the struggle to liberate the whole of the country. During the past Korean War, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai dispatched the Chinese people's volunteers to Korea who fought in the same trench with the Korean people against the U.S. The particular intimacy and warm revolutionary obligation forged between the preceding leaders of the two countries long ago is a sure guarantee for the indestructibility of DPRK-China friendship.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China headed by esteemed Jiang Zemin, the Chinese people are working hard to implement the tasks set out in the 15th congress of the CPC = remarkable achievements have been made in the struggle to achieve the stability and unity of the whole country and realize the modernization of socialism with Chinese characteristics = and they are making successes in economic, cultural, scientific and military domains on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the PRC.
The reversion of Hong Kong was an event in which China cleansed its disgrace forced by outsiders and retook the lost territory. The Korean people are stepping up the grand march for building a powerful nation. They have the unshakable faith that, led by the great Kim Jong Il, they can win the final victory in the building of a powerful socialist nation. As they have such faith, they are cheerfully advancing with the might of single-hearted unity under the difficulties, frustrating isolation and suffocation moves of the enemy and surmounting the natural disasters through the might of the single-hearted unity.
It is a common desire of the two peoples to strengthen and develop the traditional DPRK-China friendship generation after generation.
Bright is the prospect of DPRK-China friendship and its solidity is firmly ensured. The Worker's Party and people of Korea will as ever strengthen and develop DPRK-China friendship true to the behest of President Kim Il Sung.
Committees for remembering Kim Il Sung formed abroad
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Committees for remembering the President Kim Il Sung are being formed one after another in different countries. On June 15, an inaugural meeting of the Mongolian committee was held. At the meeting, the chairman and vice-chairman of the committee were elected and its program was made public. An inaugural meeting of a joint remembering committee of the Jordanian political parties and organizations held on June 9 set a period of remembering the president from June 25 to July 10 and decided to hold multifarious events in this period.
News of struggle in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Delegates of the affiliated trade unions of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) simultaneously entered into a hunger strike on June 18 in protest against the prosecution's act of "inducing" trade unions to "strike", according to a Seoul-based radio report.
That day chairman Ri Kap Yong of the KCTU called a press conference at which he declared that the delegates of 1,300 affiliated trade unions of the KCTU would call a hunger strike. The KCTU is demanding the punishment of those responsible for the operation to "induce unionists to strike," release of the imprisoned workers, the dissolution of the fascist "committee of measures for public security" and an official apology from the "president". Earlier, on June 17, the KCTU held protest rallies in 17 localities simultaneously.
In another development, university students including Seoul National University and Korea University held a protest rally at which they angrily demanded the present government clarify the truth of its moves to destroy the trade unions.
Evening gala of youth and students in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- An evening gala of youth and students in Pyongyang was held at the Kim Il Sung Square on June 19 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea. Jon Pyong Ho and other senior party and state officials were present at the gala. Invited to the gala were Koreans overseas on a visit to the socialist fatherland, diplomatic envoys and embassy officials here and foreign guests.
As the song "Receive our salute please" reverberated far and wide, the square turned into a veritable sea of dancers. The participants danced, representing the highest tribute and best wishes of the youth, students and people across the country to Marshal Kim Jong Il, who has led the Worker's Party of Korea and the revolution to victory over the last 35 years of his great guidance. The festive mood reached the climax when they danced to the tune of songs "Our Comrade Kim Jong Il" and "Let us sing of dear commander of people."
On the same day, artists presented performances at central and local theatres.
Working people and KPA soldiers make excursions
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Working people from all walks of life across the country and soldiers of the Korean People's Army made excursions to the secret camp in Mt. Paektu to commemorate the 35th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Excursions of central, provincial and KPA soldiers groups followed that of officials and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea.
Before their start of excursions, they held a meeting before the statue of the President Kim Il Sung standing before the monument to the victorious Pochonbo Battle in Hyesan city, Ryanggang Province.
They arrived at the secret camp in Mt. Paektu, visited a simple log cabin, where Kim Jong Il was born, and swore an oath of loyalty before the native home.
European regional seminar on Juche idea and socialism opens
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- An European regional seminar on the Juche idea and socialism was held in Moscow on June 17 on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Present at the seminar were delegates of the Juche idea study groups from 17 European countries.
Kenich Ogami, secretary general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, and Vishwanath, director of the board of the IIJI, secretary general of the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council and of the Juche Idea Study Society of India, and other foreign public figures attended it as honorary guests.
Also present there were a delegation of the Korean Social Scientists Society headed by first vice-chairman Kim Chol Sik and a delegate of Korean social scientists in Japan. An inaugural speech was followed by congratulatory speeches at the seminar. At the seminar congratulatory messages from the Korean Social Scientists Society, the National Salvation Front of Russia and the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea were conveyed at the seminar.
Edmond Jouve, president of the Council of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, delivered a report at the seminar under the title "the Human cause of independence, the socialist cause, is invincible." He noted that over the 35 years Kim Jong Il has comprehensively systematized the Juche idea and steadily developed it in depth with superb intelligence through his energetic ideo-theoretical activities to meet the requirements of the times and revolutionary practice.
In just a few years after the collapse of socialism in several countries he published a series of works including "socialism is a science" and "abuses of socialism are intolerable," in which he gave scientific answers to all questions to be solved to defend and develop socialism, thus providing a great socialist programme to restart and advance the socialist movement on a new basis.
Kim Jong Il has applied the Juche idea and the socialist theory based on it, thus performing great exploits that will shine for ever in the history of the socialist movement. The Juche-based socialist theory indicates the strategic goal of the socialist movement as well as basic ways of achieving it. In order to advance the socialist movement on a new basis it is necessary to firmly build up the driving force of the revolution and steadfastly maintain the independent and creative stands. Noting that socialism in Korea is a socialist bulwark in our times, the reporter called for widespread joint actions to defend the Korean socialism.
The report was followed by speeches.
Prior to the seminar, the 7th meeting of the council of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea was held.
The seminar continues.
U.S. under fire for pushing S. Korea to new war
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary today denounces the U.S. for egging the South Korean warmongers on to unleash a new war. The U.S. conservative hard-liners are now driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war, vociferating about "strong counteraction," strengthened.
S. Korea-U.S. "joint posture" and "sustained security cooperation" over the "missile threat" from the north. They echoed the South Korean rulers' false propaganda that the incident in the west sea of Korea occurred due to the north's invasion, the commentary says, and goes on: This once again discloses the U.S.'s sinister attempt to stifle the DPRK by instigating the South Korean war likers and is part of their intentional and planned moves to provoke a new war in Korea.
In pursuance of the aggressive "operation plan 5027-98," the U.S. introduced ultra-modern equipment and forces into South Korea and put the U.S. forces in Japan and the Asia-pacific region on the high alert and egged the South Korean warmongers on to clash with the north. This is intended to spark a war in Korea and resort to a collective use of force against the DPRK just as they did in Yugoslavia.
The U.S. scenario for a war against the north is shifting to the phase of implementation from its preparatory phase. Under the situation where the U.S. is to unleash a new war at any cost, the conflict between the DPRK and the U.S. is becoming unavoidable. Recalling that we are fully prepared for a showdown with the U.S., the commentary warns: The U.S. warmongers should not interpret our warning as an empty talk.
Provokers will be doomed to death
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Papers here today come out with signed commentaries accusing the United States and the South Korean authorities of aggravating the situation, massively reinforcing aggression forces in the Korean peninsula with the recent gun-firing at the west sea of Korea as an occasion.
A commentary of Rodong Sinmun says: Since the incident, the South Korean rulers have launched adventurous military actions and the U.S. dispatched the aircraft carrier constellation and several up-to-date nuclear-powered submarines to the waters off the Korean peninsula and put fighter planes on a standby allegedly to cope with contingency.
Seeing through the sinister design of the U.S. and the South Korean rulers beforehand, we have consistently showed patience and self-restraint in order to prevent armed conflicts. From the very day when South Korean battleships obstructed the routine fishing operation of our fishing boats, we, valuing national reconciliation and unity, repeatedly urged the South Korean rulers to stop at once military provocations which might produce grave consequences and gave them as many warnings as we could.
Nevertheless, the U.S. and the South Korean rulers, in a bid to mislead public opinion at home and abroad, are spreading rumours that the north fired first at South Korean battleships. Their sophism is nothing but a desperate outcry of those who lost their spirit from an annihilating blow after provoking the north like a puppy knowing no fear of the tiger.
The South Korean authorities had better bear in mind that if they twist the sleeping tiger, they will not go scot-free. If the U.S. the South Korean rulers persist in military provocations despite our warnings, all the U.S. forces present in South Korea and the South Korean army, not several battleships or scores of provokers, will be completely annihilated.
A signed commentary of Minju Joson warns that if the United States and the South Korean rulers persist in confrontation and escalation of tension, reversing black and white, the DPRK will take a decisive countermeasure against it.
Repressive campaign in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The South Korean rulers detained 18 former and incumbent leaders of the General Student Council of Hanyang University and the vice-chairman of the General Student Council of Sowon University. And they officially brought indictments against 15 members of the Hanyang organisation for anti-U.S. national salvation on charges of violating the "National Security Law", crying that they wire-pulled the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon).
Commenting on this racket, a news analyst of Minju Joson today says: This indicates that a new repressive offensive against Hanchongryon has begun.The South Korean authorities charged the members of the Hanyang Organisation with propagating the advantages of the north's proposal for reunifying the country by means of confederacy. However, their activities deserve praises because they were patriotic ones to accelerate the reunification of the country.
Nevertheless, the South Korean rulers, taking an issue with their patriotic deed, are cracking down upon progressive youths aspiring after alliance and reconciliation with the north. This shows that the South Korean rulers are anti-north confrontation fanatics of the worst type and that they seek only confrontation and division, not national reconciliation and unity.
While suppressing students and people by linking them with the north, they are committing adventurous military provocations against the fellow countrymen in the north hand in glove with outsiders, worsening the inter-Korean relations and driving the situation of the Korean peninsula to the brink of war. This goes to show that they are seized with fear. Owing to the anti-people misrule of the present authorities, the economy has been driven into a crisis and the people's discontent is growing stronger in South Korea.
At this very juncture, "four scandals" were revealed in South Korea, placing the "second cabinet" formed at the end of may on the verge of collapse.
Thus, the South Korean authorities are trying to find a way out of their crisis in confrontation with the north.
However, their anti-north confrontation racket will only precipitate the ruin of the present ruler.
Meetings held to mark anniv. of Kim Jong Il's start of work
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held in different provincial capitals, cities, county seats and at complexes and all units of the three services of the Korean People's Army yesterday to mark the 35th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Worker's Party of Korea Central Committee.
Reports were made at the meetings.
The reporters said that Kim Jong Il realized the modeling of the whole party on the monolithic ideology based on the idea of the leader and devoted all his efforts to strengthening the organizational unity and purity of the party ranks centering on the leader. They went on: Kim Jong Il has brought about fresh turns in all fields of the revolution and construction by wisely leading the army, economy and culture.
Noting that his outstanding leadership over the revolution with priority given to the army is a model of socialist politics and a sure guarantee for the victory of the Korean revolution, they stressed: Thanks to his energetic leadership the Korean People's Army has grown to be an invincible army and a first-line death defying detachment which devotedly defends the leader.
The last 35 years are shining as a glorious history in which Kim Jong Il, who is most outstanding in terms of political and military wisdom, ideas and virtues and leadership arts has consolidated the foundations, politico-ideological, military, economic and cultural, for the final victory of the socialist cause of Juche.
The reporters stressed the need to bring about a new turn in the building of a powerful socialist nation by dynamically accelerating the second grand Chollima march, upholding his leadership with loyalty, and thus finally accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.
U.S. urged to halt its moves to start war on Korean peninsula
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The permanent representative of the DPRK at the United Nations sent a letter to the president of the UN Security Council on June 18 in view of the grave situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula due to armed clash caused by the South Korean authorities at the west sea of Korea at the instigation of the U.S.
The South Korean authorities massed their warships every day in the north side's territorial waters off the west coast of Korea from June 4 and disturbed our navymen on a routine duty, and on June 15 these warships deliberately bumped against northern patrol ships and fired thousands of bullets and shells at them, threatening their lives and damaging our warships, the letter said, and went on: This incident is a deliberate military provocation committed by the South Korean authorities under the patronage of the U.S., which, holding the prerogative of supreme command over the local army, seeks to increase tensions and ignite a war on the Korean peninsula.
Asserting that any problem should be solved through dialogue, the U.S. proposed to hold DPRK- U.S. general officers' talks at Panmunjom, but they stood up abruptly and left the conference room while they were under way. This is clear indication that the incident was premeditated by the U.S. What merits particular attention is that such ill-boding military moves of the U.S. are timed to coincide with the Yugoslav crisis coming to an end. A touch-and-go situation has been created in the Korean peninsula.
Under the armistice agreement, only five islets belong to South Korea and our sovereignty is strictly exercised in waters off these islets. However, the U.S. and South Korean ruling quarters are vociferating about "northern limit line" established at their will in violation of the armistice agreement. This is a blatant infringement upon the north's sovereignty related to territorial waters. The armed conflict did not develop into an all-out war entirely thanks to our full exercise of patience and self-restraint.
The letter hoped that the UNSC, clearly aware of the truth of the incident, will take a measure to immediately stop the military provocations of the U.S. and South Korea against the DPRK.
Communique of KPA navy command
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The navy command of the Korean People's Army issued its communique no.1 as regards the fact that the South Korean authorities infiltrated warships again deep into the north side's territorial waters off the west coast today.
The communique says: At around 09:43 today four warships of South Korea intruded in offensive formation deep into the north side's territorial waters southwest of Ssanggyori, Kangryong county, and later were joined by another six battleships at 10:25 and 10:55. And at around 18:00 eight warships were sent to the waters.
This grave provocation, leading the situation to the brink of war, is an unpardonable challenge to the Korean People's Army soldiers who are restraining themselves with high patience. The South Korean authorities have ceaselessly sent warships to the north side's waters, even after the exchange of fire between the two sides on June 15.
They intentionally made provocations by infiltrating eleven battleships on four occasions on June 16, four ships on three occasions on June 17 and six ships on three occasions on June 18 and 19 each into our territorial waters. The enemies must clearly know that there is a limit to our patience.They must stop acting rashly, mindful that every movement of theirs is within the gun-sights of our KPA sailors thirsting for revenge. We call attention to such provocative moves of the South Korean authorities.