S. Korea plans to purchase missiles from Israel
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities are scheming to purchase Popeye air-to-surface missiles worth 100 million dollars from Israel, according to a report.
They already made a contract on the purchase of those missiles which would be deployed in their air force, and obtained the "Pentagon's approval" for the deal.
Statement of DPRK government distributed as UNSC document
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The August 10 statement of the DPRK government published on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the liberation of Korea was distributed on August 12 as an official document of the UN Security Council S
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The statement disclosed once again Japan's 100-year long criminal policy towards the DPRK and made clear the DPRK's principled stand towards DPRK-Japan relations.
S. Korean rulers' misdeed denounced
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The South Korean rulers are threatening to take legal actions against reunification envoys of South Korea under the "security law" the moment they return on charges that they "illegally visited" Pyongyang. At the same time, they are investigating delegates of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and its workers football team for reunification on groundless charges although they visited Pyongyang with the prior permission from the authorities.
Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today says:
Such misdeeds of the South Korean rulers are another political gangsterism of throwing a wet blanket over the ardent desire of the whole nation for reunification. They are also evil deeds which can be committed only by the separatists who dislike reunification and an unpardonable treacherous move to break the strong will of all the fellow countrymen in the north, south and overseas to accelerate the reunification of the country through the independence and great unity of the nation.
The South Korean rulers ruthlessly cracked down upon the grand pan-national pro-reunification festival sponsored by pro-reunification patriotic organisations in South Korea while employing every conceivable mean plot and trick to block it.
This is clear evidence that they have no willingness to work for the country, the nation and reunification but seek only confrontation with the north, the country's division and war.
North visits for reunification are patriotic ones which cannot be incriminated in any case.
The South Korean rulers must discard the ill-intentioned design to punish those patriotic people who visited the north or held events related to the grand pan-national pro-reunification festival by branding their acts as "enemy-benefiting."
Japan urged to apologize to Korean people
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The statement of the DPRK government disclosing Japan's 100-year long criminal policy towards the DPRK has been supported in different countries.
The struggle for peace and socialism, "the Peace House" Hall and the newspaper Contropiano of Italy recently published a joint statement. The rapid rearming and the reappearance of militarism in Japan are arousing serious concern from among peace-loving people of Asia and the rest of the world, the joint statement said, and went on:
Now Japan is foolishly raising a hue and cry over "threat from North Korea" to justify its resurgence of militarism.
The Japanese authorities should immediately apologize for the crimes Japan committed against the Korean people in the past and compensate for the damage.
We reiterate our determination to vigorously conduct solidarity activities to support the Korean people in the struggle to defend peace and security of Asia.
The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana in its statement on August 16 said that Japan should repent of all crimes it committed against the Korean people. It should stop criminal acts harmful to Korea's reunification and normalize relations with the DPRK to establish friendly relations with the DPRK in keeping with the interests of the two peoples and the requirement of the times, it held.
The Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK in its statement on August 15 recalled that the Japanese authorities described the DPRK's launch of an artificial satellite as one aimed at the "development of medium-range missile" posing threat to Japan and South Korea and pointed out that their insistence was intended to serve their hostile purpose.
Scathingly denouncing their anti-DPRK moves, it urged the Japanese authorities to discard the policy of wrecking peace and security in the Korean peninsula and its surroundings and resume DPRK-Japan negotiations for normalizing relations between the two countries and stabilizing the situation of the Asian region.
Press conference on row over "missile threat"
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) Thursday called a press conference in connection with the fact that the U.S. and Japanese reactionaries and the South Korean authorities are driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war, raising a hue and cry over the fictitious "missile threat" from the north in conspiracy with each other.
Attending the conference were media men and women in Pyongyang and foreign correspondents.
Referring to the serious situation on the Korean peninsula caused by the row over "missile threat," Pak Kwang Gi, chief of the mission, said at the conference that the NDFSK central committee issued an open letter to the world public opinion exposing the truth of the row, reflecting the aspiration of the Koreans and the world people.
Then he answered questions put by journalists.
Distributed at the conference were copies of the "open letter disclosing the truth behind the U.S. row over 'missile threat' from the north."
Rescindment of "NSL" called for
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The Roman Catholic Solidarity for Abolition of the "National Security Law" in South Korea held a ceremony in Seoul on August 16 to start a pilgrimage for the abolition of the "NSL", according to a South Korean newspaper.
The organization in its declaration on its start branded the "NSL" as a typical evil law that severely encroaches upon man's expression of thought and freedom, and mentioned the significance of the movement for the abolition of this law.
It declared that it would make a pilgrimage to all parts of South Korea from Aug. 17 to September 13, conducting various events for the abolition of the "NSL" including a street signature campaign by parishes.
Anti-"government" rally in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held an anti-"government" rally in Seoul on August 16, according to a report.
At the rally the confederation denounced the August 15 "special amnesty" declared by the chief executive of South Korea as a deceptive one pardoning only those prisoners in whom he is interested.
Saying that a large number of union leaders and members are still detained or sought for, it urged an immediate release and stop searching for all of them.
U.S. warned against disastrous consequences of military option
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The U.S. bellicose forces are attempting to stifle the DPRK with strength, crying for a "military counteraction" to cope with the "worst situation" on the Korean peninsula, strengthened the "system of cooperation" between the U.S. and South Korea and the presence of 100,000-strong U.S. forces in the Asia-pacific region.
In this regard, a signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun today says:
Their aggressive remarks and frantic military exercises cannot be interpreted otherwise than very dangerous developments as they are timed to coincide with prevailing public opinion that North Korea will become a U.S. target after the Balkan crisis and there is no guarantee that the "Ulji focus lens" joint military maneuvers, which entered into a full-scale phase, will not develop into a real war.
A second Korean war is unavoidable as the U.S. is working desperately to stifle the DPRK by force of arms and realise its ambition for unchallenged domination over Asia.
If the U.S. opts to settle the issue by military pressure, our army and people will not hesitate to take their option and retaliate against it.
It is the unshakable will and determination of the Korean People's Army and people to return fire for fire and more merciless and powerful retaliation for aggression, and thus remove the very source of war from the Korean peninsula.
If the U.S., carried away by success of its military option in other regions and countries, thinks it can succeed in applying the same method to the Korean peninsula, it is a serious miscalculation.
If the U.S. imperialists eventually turn to a military option, its consequences will be most miserable and disastrous in the U.S. history.
Camouflaged diplomacy under fire
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Behind the screen of "dialogue" the United States is seeking to stifle the DPRK with strength in the guise of "peace," observes Minju Joson today in a signed commentary on the recent sixth round of the four-way talks.
The commentary says:
Backtracking more than before in all aspects, the United States made a far-fetched assertion that the issue of the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from South Korea should not be discussed at the talks and that it was not a party concerned in the issue of signing a peace agreement.
This clearly proves that the U.S. is not in a position to ensure peace and security on the Korean peninsula and is using the four-way talks as a lever to carry out the policy of stifling the DPRK.
It is the invariable design of the U.S. to destroy our socialism.
Referring to the madcap "99 Ulji focus lens" joint military exercises now under way in South Korea, the commentary notes:
These facts go to prove that U.S. loud-mouthed "peace" and "dialogue" is nothing but a camouflaged diplomacy and a smokescreen to cover up its war policy.
If the U.S. persists in its ill-intentioned acts and continues pursuing confrontation and war in total disregard of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework, it will be wholly responsible for all the consequences arising therefrom, it warns.
S. Korean rulers' flunkeyist and traitorous act
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The South Korean ruling quarters brought to Seoul the remains of Underwood who was the first American missionary to come to Korea as a guide for its aggression on Korea.
Minju Joson today in a commentary terms this as a mean action which could be taken only by the worst flunkeyists steeped in the ideas of worshipping and kowtowing to America to the marrow of their bones and an intolerable challenge to the Korean people opposed to the U.S.'s moves for aggression, plunder and stationing.
The commentary says:
In accordance with this step all the remains of his clan of three generations--his wife, son and grandson--were buried in South Korea.
As for Underwood and his clan, they brought disgrace upon the modern history of the Korean people, operating in Korea for over 110 years since 1885 through four generations. They are the Korean people's sworn enemy who earned an ill-fame as servants and guides of the U.S. in their aggression on Korea.
Although the successive South Korean rulers have served Americans as their master but no one dared to bring the remains of aggressors to South Korea to please his master.
Pointing out that the South Korean rulers have taken a step forward in their pro-U.S. flunkeyist actions by bringing the remains of aggressors to South Korea, the commentary stresses that this is designed to benumb the South Korean people's anti-U.S. feeling and spirit of independence and keep South Korea as a colonial military base of the U.S. for an indefinite period.
World first lead type
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- In Korea, metal type was invented and used in printing in the late 12th century. In its wake, lead type was invented in the 15th century.
For type founding new techniques were introduced in various fields such as survey of metal materials, and their mining, melting and casting. In the course of this, the fundamentals of printing engineering of lead were found.
Thus in 1436, the world's first lead type was made.
Prior to this, in 1421 a new method of type composition was evolved, which marked the beginning of modern type-setting.
In this type composition, letters were arranged on copper plates and fixed with various sizes of bamboo pieces or wood before printing.
This method was the highest level of type-setting in those days, which overcame the disadvantages of the former fixed type on beeswax and could ensure mass printing.
Legal records write that Korea's lead type and copper type anticipated their use in china and Europe by far.
Truth behind U.S. row over "missile threat" revealed
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea released on August 17 an open letter on the truth behind the U.S. row over the "missile threat".
Terming the U.S. row over the "Taepodong missile" on which its hue and cry over the non-existent "missile threat" from the DPRK is based as an extension of its U.S. "nuclear" racket kicked up in a bid to stifle it, the letter gave a detailed account of its origin and truth.
It said:
The United States used to pick up a "missile issue", while escalating its row over "nuclear suspicion" from long ago.
At the DPRK-U.S. negotiations, the United States has unilaterally demanded a halt to the DPRK's export and development of missiles, linking it with the signing of a peace agreement.
Underlying the U.S. proposal to discuss the "missile issue" at the negotiations was its aim to secure a lever to launch an offensive to stifle the DPRK on the plea of the "missile issue" and find a pretext to disarm it.
The phase of crisis caused by the U.S. row over the "nuclear suspicion" gradually turned into a phase of stability following the adoption of the agreed framework between the DPRK and the United States in October 1994.
Upset by this development, the bellicose circle which represents the U.S. hawks raised the issue of "suspected underground nuclear facility in north Korea" from the end of 1998, but the visit to the "problematic" underground facility deprived the United States of its last card in the "nuclear" row.
Then the United States dreamt up the fallacy of the "missile threat," describing the DPRK's satellite as a "missile" in a bid to resume the anti-DPRK campaign.
The row over the "missile threat" has been escalated to the phase of military preemptive attack after going through the phases of fabrication of misinformation, political, diplomatic and economic countermeasures.
The U.S. has resorted to every method to achieve the aim sought by it in this row, including efforts to build up public opinion and political and military methods.
The U.S. hard-line conservatives have been spreading the "fiction of missile re-launch" since the end of May this year when their visit to the Kumchang-ri underground facility was over, asserting that the DPRK was preparing for the test-fire of "Taepodong 2." They were busy creating the urgency of the situation by trying to convince the public opinion that the test-fire "was imminent," "suspended", "is going on" or "has been rounded off".
The United States directly linked the north's "missile issue" to "security" in order to bring it into relief as a pending important political issue.
The United States, the Japanese reactionaries and the South Korean authorities consider the fiction of north's "missile threat" to be an important means of sanctions to isolate the north.
This was evidenced by the Japan-U.S. summit talks held last September, the South Korea-Japan summit talks in march this year and the South Korea-U.S. summit talks in July this year which discussed measures to build up a "cooperation system" whereby the U.S., Japan and South Korea would jointly cope with the "missile threat."
U.S. Defense Secretary Cohen's tour of Japan and South Korea at the end of July this year was a criminal one intended to map out a "scenario for military counteraction" and the first phase of the scenario discussed there was preemptive "deterrent to launch", the second "deployment of armed forces" and the third "preemptive attack".
The real aim sought by the U.S. hard-line conservatives in their row over the DPRK's "missile issue" was to provoke the "second June 25 war" in a bid to launch into the development of the U.S. "National Missile Defense" system which requires an investment of fund amounting to astronomical figures and thus build up a new system of combat forces after the end of the Cold War.
The world public likens the present situation to the June crisis in 1994.
The gravity of the problem lies in the fact that the war-like situation in 1994 was created because of the counter-offensive "operation plan 5027" while the present touch-and-go situation is the result of the tensions that have escalated due to "operation plan 5027-98", a scenario for a preemptive attack.
The crisis did not originate from the north's "missile threat" but has been caused and escalated by the massive deployment of strategic weapons in the United States, Japan and South Korea and the row kicked up by them over the north's missiles.
Threat is not posed by a satellite launched by the north or its re-launch but is caused by sanctions taken by South Korea, the United States and Japan in a bid to isolate and stifle the north and their attempt to mount a preemptive attack on the north on this pretext.
Threat does not come from the DPRK's missile development, an exercise of a sovereign right to self-defence but from thousands of U.S. strategic weapons deployed in South Korea, Japan and the U.S. mainland targeted at the north and war exercises for their use under the simulated conditions of real battles and the U.S. economic sanctions against the DPRK.
A way out for the U.S. lies not in the development of the "missile defense" system but in the U.S. forces' pullout from South Korea, a way out for Japan lies not in the introduction of the U.S. "Theatre Missile Defence" system but in the drop of its hostile policy toward the DPRK and a way out for South Korea lies not in purchasing U.S. "Patriot" missiles but in its policy switchover to national independence and great national unity.