Greetings to President of Maldives
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings on July 23 to Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Republic of Maldives, on the occasion of its Independence Day.
Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would develop, the message wished the president and people of Maldives successes in the work for the prosperity and development of the country.
Condolence to king of Morocco
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of condolence sunday to Mohamed the 6th, King of Morocco, in connection with the death of Hassan the 2nd, former king.
The message expressed deep condolences to the king and, through him, to the government and people of Morocco and the bereaved family of the deceased.
Day of second liberation
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are marking July 27, the day of second liberation.
On this day 46 years ago the Korean people and people's army defeated the U. S.-led imperialist allied forces and won the great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953).
Before the Korean War, victories of 114 times had been recorded in the U. S. history of war. The U. S. imperialists hurled into the Korean War over two million-strong armed forces including one third of their army, one fifth of their air force, most of their pacific fleet, troops of 15 satellites, the South Korean Army and Japanese militarist armed forces. They employed most brutal means and methods of war with modern weapons and a large amount of the latest combat material and technical equipment.
But the Korean people and people's army, united close around the party and the leader, wrought an unprecedented military miracle by defeating the imperialist allied forces led by the U. S. imperialists who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world.
The victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War was the fruition of the outstanding military strategy and idea, war tactics and seasoned leadership of the President Kim Il Sung.
He put forward the most right strategy and tactics in each time and stage of the war with his clairvoyant military wisdom and led the army and the people to victory in the war with his steel-like courage and outstanding commanding art.
He set forward operations for the liberation of Taejon, the formation of the second front behind the enemy's line, assaults, aircraft hunters movement and other military methods. The enemy's "summer and autumn offensives", "new offensives" and other military operations were foiled by the outstanding far-sightedness of the President.
In the Korean War the U. S. imperialists sustained a great loss of manpower and materials and a serious fiasco.
The damage of the U. S. imperialists in the Korean War was as much as nearly 2.3 times that in the four-year pacific war during World War II.
The Korean people achieved a brilliant victory in the three-year Fatherland Liberation War and started the U. S. imperialists on the downhill for the first time in history.
Spirit of Moncada remains alive
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Papers here dedicate articles to the 46th anniversary of the victory in an assault on the Moncada barracks in Cuba (July 26, 1953).
Rodong Sinmun says that the attack on the Moncada barracks, a military stronghold of the Batista clique, was an eruption of wrath of the Cuban people who had groaned for a long period under the exploitation and suppression by the imperialists.
Saying that the spirit of Moncada has become a strong driving force encouraging the Cuban people to the struggle against the imperialists, the author of the article continues:
The Cuban people are firmly defending the revolutionary gains without any slightest vacillation and hesitation despite persistent anti-Cuban campaign of the imperialists.
Today all the Cuban people, irrespective of age or sex, have turned out to arm themselves in response to Fidel Castro's line on turning the whole country into an impregnable fortress.
They are pushing ahead with revolution and construction in keeping with the "special time in the peaceful period" always maintaining the posture of fighting in the battlefield.
Noting that the Cuban people's struggle to defend socialism is just and its victory is certain, an article of Minju Joson says that the revolutionary spirit of Moncada will remain alive forever.
Kim Il Sung's achievements praised
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- International public circles continue to voice strong support to the DPRK government memorandum on the achievements made by the President Kim Il Sung in the history of the movement for reunification of the country.
Abdul Raman Matar, chief of information of the permanent secretariat of the Organization of Socialists in the Mediterranean, in his statement on July 14 said:
"We were deeply moved by President Kim Il Sung's words that the national reunification will be his most excellent gift to the people and the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great unity of the whole nation are the most fair and just principles for reunification."
Ahmed Hasanin, editor-in-chief of the Egyptian Paper Al Shabab Al Arab, in his statement on July 17 noted that the President clearly laid down reasonable principles and ways of the country's reunification and this remains shining as the greatest achievement made by him in the history of the movement for national reunification.
The Guyana Labour Union, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union and the Guyanese National Association of Workers in Agriculture, Commerce and Industry in a joint statement on July 15 expressed admiration at the vigorous struggle in Korea to realize the three charters for Korea's reunification and the five-point policy for the great national unity under the seasoned guidance of the great leader Kim Jong Il and sent full support to and firm solidarity with the Korean people's struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
Meanwhile, papers and radios of different countries including the Egyptian paper Al Siyassi, the Libyan paper Ad Shams, the national radio and the RTM of Madagascar gave wide publicity to the memorandum on the President's achievements for the national reunification.
KCNA on Japan's anti-DPRK smear campaign
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries, not content with their anti-DPRK propaganda that an artificial satellite launched by the DPRK is a "missile," are crying out for tightened "control on export to the DPRK" on the absurd pretext that as "Japan-made components," were used for its production. Worse still, this campaign is being joined by the United States and the South Korean authorities.
Theirs is nothing but a sheer lie which was invented for the purpose of attaining their ulterior design to disparage achievements of the DPRK's highly-developed science and technology and brand it as a source of "military threats."
We reclarify that the carrier rocket and artificial satellite launched into orbit by DPRK scientists and technicians at one fire were part of the Juche-based scientific and technological achievements. In other words, they were 100 percent developed with our talents and technology.
What cannot be overlooked is the Japanese reactionaries' insistence that "control on export to the DPRK" be tightened.
It means, in essence, "economic sanctions" against the DPRK.
The DPRK, having a solid foundation of the independent national economy, has nothing to fear although it is placed under the "economic sanctions" by Japan.
What we cannot overlook is the Japanese reactionaries' outcries for "economic sanctions" over the DPRK's launch of an artificial satellite.
This is an open declaration of confrontation with the DPRK.
The fiction of "missile and military threats" from the DPRK clamored about by the Japanese reactionaries and echoed by the United States and the South Korean rulers is nothing but a pretext to militarily contain the DPRK and isolate and stifle it and a vicious artifice to justify their preparations for reinvasion.
The Japanese reactionaries must not run amuck, clearly mindful that today's Korean people are not people who were under the colonial rule in the past and that the DPRK is a militarily powerful nation.
The United States and the South Korean rulers, too, must discard the foolish design to contain the DPRK with strength by instigating the Japanese reactionaries.
Success in economic construction
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A new epochal phase is being opened in the economic construction of Korea.
The Korean people achieved great success in revitalizing the country's economy in a little more than half a year by vigorously speeding up the march at a canter to make this year a year of a turning-point in building a powerful nation.
According to compiled data, the national industrial output value in the first half of the year increased by 20 percent as compared with the same period of the previous@year. The production on the indices of major industries went up by far. Especially, the output of electricity grew 40 percent and that of coal 13 percent.
In the same period, more than 2,500 factories and enterprises including the units of great importance in the economic development over fulfilled the plans for the first half of the year, set much higher than the corresponding period of the previous year, and more than 4,000 local industry factories are in the process of revitalizing the production.
The workers of the Songjin Steel Complex attained the goal of steel production in May, opening a prospect for keeping production going at a high level.
The workers of the Sungri General Motor Works laid a solid basis of production and accelerated the production vigorously, thus carrying out the motor production plan.
In the same period, the workers of the Kim Jong Thae General Electric Locomotive Works set a record high in the production and repair of locomotives since its commission by giving full play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
Many factories and enterprises in the sector of the machine-building industry including the Ryongsong associated machinery bureau entered the phase of revitalizing production in the first six months of the year by vigorously expediting the canter march.
Especially, in the sector of power industry, the construction of large-scale power stations such as the second-stage project of the Anbyon Youth Power Station and the Thaechon Power Station and big power stations being built by all the provinces made rapid progress. As a result, there is a bright prospect of fully meeting the growing need for electricity.
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The co-leaders of the joint delegation of the New Socialist Party and the Okinawa Socialist Mass Party of Japan on a visit to Korea were interviewed by KCNA at the Pyongyang Koryo Hotel.
The leaders said they felt the urgency of withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea after visiting Panmunjom.
The Japanese government has taken an active part in freezing the division of Korea for ever, leader Soukou Simabukuro said, adding:
It is the right behaviour of the government to do something helpful to the termination of Korea's division, feeling guilty.
The United States bears the responsibility for immediately withdrawing its armed forces from South Korea so as to create a favourable atmosphere for the reunification of Korea, he said.
Another leader Osamu Yatabe said that the military demarcation line should be removed from the Korean peninsula as soon as possible and that the reunification of Korea will be realized if the U.S. troops get out of South Korea and the Korean people solve the issue of reunification in an independent and peaceful way with their own united efforts.
Japan's cries for "security" blasted
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary today blasted the Japanese reactionaries for making much fuss over "security."
The commentary says:
Some days ago, the Japanese reactionaries sponsored the Tokyo forum for nuclear disarmament, at which they underscored the need to realize the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula at an early date allegedly to "keep North Korea from nuclear development."
And they are calling for close "cooperative relations" among countries in the Asia-pacific region for "security" in the region.
Underlying the Japanese reactionaries' clamoring about "security" in the Asia-pacific region is a crafty ruse to conceal their criminal moves for overseas aggression and secure their position in the region.
Having adopted the legislation on the updated "Japan-U.S. Defence Cooperation Guidelines" which enables the "Self-Defence Forces" to carry out military actions in any region of Asia, the Japanese reactionaries are now pushing ahead with the moves to institute the "emergency law."
Japan is bringing a large quantity of plutonium, putting spurs to the development of "Theatre Missile Defence System" (TMD) and is pushing ahead with the secretly worked out operation plan to make a limited strike at the DPRK. It has thus become the most dangerous force of war in Asia and a wrecker of peace and security.
The Japanese reactionaries are behaving in a dastardly manner to realize their ill-intentioned ambition, with daggers hidden behind their coats and wry smiles on their faces. They are bound to meet curse and denunciation.
DPRK will return total war for Japan's air raid
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Voices condemning the Japanese reactionaries are now growing louder among the Korean people, angered by the shocking news that Japan is planning to make an air raid on the DPRK's "missile launching base".
It is the unanimous view of the public circles, mass media and people from all walks of life in the DPRK that once the Japanese reactionaries mount such a preemptive attack as an air raid it will lead them to self-destruction and the whole Japanese territory will be buried at sea for good.
The Korean National Peace Committee in a statement released some days ago solemnly declared that if the Japanese reactionaries, seized with vertigo of overseas aggression, dare to attack the DPRK, the Korean people and people's army will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors with a thousand-fold retaliatory strike and give vent to the pent-up rancor against them.
For several consecutive days, the Pyongyang-based papers have conspicuously carried articles condemning the Japanese reactionaries' planned air raid under the titles "Japan should know she will be burnt to death in flames kindled by herself" and "We will never tolerate Japanese reactionaries' military adventure." They have also echoed reactions of people from all walks of life to this brinkmanship under such headlines as "We can not repress surging indignation," "We will give merciless punishment" and "We will crush them at a stroke".
A Rodong Sinmun article said the Korean people have always waited for an opportunity to give vent to the pent-up resentment against the sworn enemy and, at last, the Japanese reactionaries are offering this opportunity by themselves. It added:
If you want to fight, we will not avoid it. Let's see who will win or lose. If the Japanese reactionaries deal a blow to us we will return it hundred times.
The Korean people and the people's army, who have deep-seated enmity for Japan, will answer Japan's air raid with a total war and this is not an empty talk at all, stressed an article of Minju Joson, organ of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the cabinet.
The people from all walks of life and the people's army servicemen in Korea are expressing surging resentment and grudge against the Japanese reactionaries.
Ra Kyong Mu, a workshop head of the Pyongyang Textile Machine Plant, said the Korean working class would unfailingly give vent to the deep-seated enmity and vengeance upon Japan, if only an opportunity comes.
Pak Kyong Hun, director of a department of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, on behalf of all the Korean youth warned the Japanese reactionaries as follows:
We revengers are waiting for an opportunity. If the Japanese reactionaries dare attack us, we will shower bombs upon their heads to give vent to our long pent-up grudge against them.
The revolutionary armed forces of Korea are reacting to the enemy's provocation moves with a more resolute and tough stance.
The people's army servicemen are warning the Japanese reactionaries not to act rashly, clearly mindful of the revolutionary armed forces of Korea, possessed of means and strength powerful enough to shatter whatever provocations in a twinkle.
A KPA officer Ro Sung Gyu said the enraged KPA is closely following every movement of the Japanese reactionaries, warning the DPRK will blow up the whole of Japan with powerful strike means, if they make a military strike at it.
This warning of the Korean people and the people's army is by no means an empty talk.
The Japanese reactionaries are well advised to act with discretion, clearly mindful of it.
U.S. urged to show faith
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry today issued a statement assailing the ever more undisguised attempt of the United States to disarm the DPRK under the cloak of "improved relations."
Accusing the United States of its absurd assertion that the DPRK nuclear and missile development pose a threat to the U.S.
And it is, therefore, possible to "improve relations" with the DPRK only when it abandons the development, and that the DPRK-U.S. relations are at a low ebb owing to this, the spokesman stated:
This is intended to mislead public opinion.
The U.S. hard-line conservative forces went the length of crying that once the DPRK launches a satellite or a missile, they will reduce a budget to finance the supply of heavy oil and the construction of Light Water Reactors, the U.S. commitments under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
This compels us to make our stand clear once again.
We do not want to regard the United States as the sworn enemy and if the U.S. recognizes our sovereignty and the freedom of option and approaches us with good faith, we are ready to develop relations with the U.S. on the principle of equality and mutual benefit.
What we cannot overlook is the fact that the United States professes "improved relations" before us but behind the scenes it is persistently trying to wrest a unilateral concession from us, while pursuing a hostile policy to isolate and stifle us at any cost.
We, who are exposed to constant threat due to the U.S. policy of isolating and stifling the DPRK, are left with no option but to increase our own defence capabilities and develop missiles as its means.
Moreover, the missile development pertains to the sovereignty of an independent state, which allows no slanders from anyone.
As for the DPRK's satellite launch, over which the United States is raising a hue and cry, it is meant for a peaceful scientific research into the space and there is no need to be afraid of it.
The same can be said of the "nuclear development" over which the United States is making a fuss.
A "nuclear issue" does not rest at all with the DPRK, that has sincerely implemented the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and the "suspicion about the underground nuclear facility" was cleared through the visit to the Kumchang-ri tunnel.
The issue of "probe into the past nuclear activities" of the DPRK raised by some of the U.S. forces can be satisfactorily clarified in the course of implementing the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework, in other words, at a time when the delivery of Light Water Reactors will make successful progress and reach a certain phase.
The solution of both the issue of "transparency" as regards the DPRK's nuclear activities and the missile issue will depend, after all, on the attitude of the United States.
The DPRK has so far sincerely implemented its commitment under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
The United States, however, has neglected the implementation of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and staged joint military drills one after another in a bid to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK, thus posing potential threat to its dialogue partner with ceaseless military pressure and anti-DPRK "cooperation" moves.
If the United States is really interested in the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and desirous of "improved relations" with the DPRK, it should, above all, take practical steps to totally lift economic sanctions against the DPRK, a specific manifestation of its hostile policy towards the DPRK, and refrain from taking "cooperation" moves against the DPRK and posing military threat to it.
Furthermore, it should pull its forces out of South Korea and respond to signing a peace agreement with the DPRK so as to root out whatever source of threat to the DPRK.
If the United States shows good faith in such a way we, too, will do so.
The DPRK states explicitly that if the United States wishes to abrogate the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework, it may do as it pleases.
It is the business of the United States, not the matter about which the DPRK should say this or that.
If the United States wishes to abrogate the agreed framework on the pretext of the DPRK's satellite launch, which has nothing to do with the framework, we will be compelled to take a relevant measure.
If a brake is put on the implementation of the agreed framework such as the suspension of financing for the KEDO (Korean peninsula Energy Development Organization), we will feel no need to pin hope on it any longer.
Congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a congratulatory letter from the military attaches corps here on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War .
It was handed to an official concerned by doyen of the corps vu Dinh Thang, military attach of the Vietnamese embassy in Pyongyang, today.
Pyongyang-Shenyang air service to be opened
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Talks were held in Pyongyang between governmental civil aviation delegations of the DPRK and China to reach an agreement on opening regular air service.
Present at the talks on the Korean side were members of the delegation led by Kim Chang Guk, deputy director-general of the General Civil Aviation Administration of the DPRK and on the Chinese side were members of the delegation headed by Bao Peide, deputy director general of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China.
Both sides agreed to add Pyongyang-Shenyang regular air service to the appendix of the DPRK-China intergovernmental agreement on air service and signed relevant documents today.