KDWU meeting held
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The 31st plenary meeting of the Korean Democratic Women's Union central committee was held here Thursday to discuss the tasks of the union's organizations to defend and glorify the leadership feats of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu.
The plenary meeting pointed out that the feats performed by the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Suk, the great communist revolutionary fighter, in the women's movement serve as a lifeline instrumental in strengthening and developing the union.
Thanks to the energetic leadership of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu, the Korean Women's Movement could cover a straight path of victory in the annals of the Juche revolution, the meeting noted.
Proposed at the plenary meeting were specific tasks to defend and glorify the undying leadership feats of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu, who devoted their all to strengthening and developing the Korean Women's Movement.
Youth Day observed
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Colorful events of youth league officials up and down the country and youth and students took place here to mark Youth Day (August 28).
Among the colorful events were oratorical contest, vocal and instrumental solo competition and exposition of data on class education.
The participants in the oratorical contest called upon youth league officials to fulfil their obligations in preparing the 8 million young people as human bombs loyal to General Secretary Kim Jong Il, aware of the mission and duty of youth league as befits an organisation for ideological education.
The participants in the vocal and instrumental solo competition vividly depicted the loyalty and filial piety of youth and students who will uphold the leadership of the Marshal with loyalty, holding the President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal sun.
The exposition of data on class education dealt with at least 4,600 education data of 549 kinds that youth league organisations throughout the country made by themselves for class education of youth and children.
Military attaches corps visits Mt. Paektu area
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The military attaches corps here visited the area of Mt. Paektu of Korea from August 23 to 25.
Upon their arrival in lake Samji which is within a calling distance from Mt. Paektu, the members of the military attaches corps laid a floral basket and made a bow before the statue of the President Kim Il Sung standing by the lake.
They visited the old home in the Mt. Paektu secret camp where General Secretary Kim Jong Il was born and went round the mementos preserved there.
At the end of the visit the doyen of the military attaches corps Vu Dinh Thang, military attach of the Vietnamese embassy here, said that Kim Jong Il acquired matchless grit, extraordinary wisdom and resourcefulness, experiencing grim ordeals of the rigorous anti-Japanese war in Mt. Paektu.
After visiting Mt. Paektu, Yan Jiangfeng, military attach of the Chinese embassy here, said that Mt. Paektu is a holy mountain of revolution, the fountainhead of revolution where President Kim Il Sung defeated the Japanese and achieved the cause of national liberation through the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
Alfonso Rodriguez Perez, military attach of the Cuban embassy here, said that Mt. Paektu fully shows the greatness, spirit and grit of Kim Il Sung, a great man born of heaven, and Marshal Kim Jong Il, the son of Mt. Paektu.
Renzo Rejas Olivares, military attach of the Peruvian embassy here, said he is convinced once again that a powerful nation will be built and the reunification of the country certainly be achieved in Korea before long as there is Kim Jong Il who wisely leads Korea.
The military attaches corps also went round the Pochonbo Revolutionary Battle Site, the Rimyongsu Revolutionary Site and other places.
Suppression of patriotic forces denounced
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the central committee of the Korean Buddhist Federation issued a statement on August 26 accusing the South Korean authorities of arresting Buddhist priest Jin Kwan some time ago for the mere reason that he acted as leader of a reunification vanguard during the August 15 grand pan-national reunification festival in South Korea.
The statement said:
Jin Kwan is a Buddhist who has devotedly struggled for reunification of the country, human rights and the repatriation of the unconverted long-term prisoners for long in defiance of harsh persecution and plots of the successive South Korean rulers. And members of the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon), the National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification and the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions who are being persecuted are all pro-reunification patriots praised by all the fellow countrymen for their contributions to the successful holding of the largest-ever August 15 Grand Pan-National Reunification Festival in which Koreans in the north, south and overseas took part for the reunification of the country.
All the Buddhists in the northern half of the country vehemently denounce the "people"-veiled rulers' fascist suppression of Jin Kwan and other participants in the August 15 Grand Pan-National Reunification Festival as a frontal challenge to the unanimous aspirations and desire of the entire nation for reunification.
The present "people"-veiled rulers of South Korea must properly judge the aspirations of the fellow countrymen for reunification, put an immediate end to the persecution of pro-reunification patriotic forces, release all the detainees including Jin Kwan and completely abolish the harmful "National Security Law."
We believe that all the Buddhists in South Korea would launch more powerful actions to frustrate anti-reunification moves of the "people"-veiled rulers and to make the "National Security Law" abolished, true to the mission of Buddhists to promote the reunification of the country and the great unity of the nation.
U.S.-Japan "TMD" system aimed to spark arms race
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comments on the plan for the establishment of U.S.-Japan "Theatre Missile Defense" system which has entered a stage of implementation.
The United States and Japan signed an agreement on the establishment of "TMD" system recently.
This U.S.-led system is aimed to locate through a satellite the ballistic missiles in flight within a range of 3,000 km and "intercept" them with missiles and thus to "protect" the U.S. and its "allies."
Referring to the strategic aim the U.S. seeks in establishing the system, the paper says:
The United States is scheming to establish "TMD" system in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other areas under the signboard of "security" on the pretext that the DPRK's satellite activities pose a "missile threat." In this way it is going to strengthen its military supremacy and strategic position in this region and override and contain big powers.
Especially, its intention is to reinforce the U.S. combat forces in northeast Asia and increase military pressure on the DPRK and then provoke another Korean war.
The moves for the establishment of U.S.-Japan "TMD" system will upset the balance in strategic defensive and offensive weapons and strategic security system, touch off a new arms race and military confrontation and complicate the situation.
In the long run, the U.S.-Japan "TMD" system should be interpreted as an attempt to trigger off another arms race, and a ghastly move to start a second cold war, a new world war.
The establishment of such "system", which goes against the trend towards detente and disarmament, should be checked.
Party's leadership over 2nd grand Chollima march
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The vigorous second grand Chollima march now under way in Korea is ascribable to the clear-sighted leadership of the Worker's Party of Korea, stresses Rodong Sinmun in a by-lined article today.
The article says:
The WPK 's leadership is very instrumental in imbuing the entire party members and other working people with confidence of victory and optimism and making the whole country vibrant with the same mettle of advancing as was displayed in the period of the post-war great Chollima upsurge.
What is important in the WPK 's leadership over the march is to help all people to live and work in the spirit of Kanggye and settle all problems on the principle of self-reliance and encourage them to boldly push ahead with all work with matchless grit and strong will.
Pointing to the enormous efforts bent by the WPK to arm the people with the spirit of Kanggye, the article notes that such political work makes the whole country pervaded by the spirit and encourages all the people to turn out in the march with revolutionary zeal.
The Kanggye spirit is the spirit of resolutely carrying out the plan and intention of the great leader Kim Jong Il, the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle.
The guidance provided by the WPK , which is firmly adhering to the principle of self-reliance in socialist construction, has brought about a remarkable change in realities.
The Korean people have become creative ones who rose up, believing in their own strength, and can do anything if they have a will and indomitable revolutionary ones.
The WPK 's cause is now led by the respected Kim Jong Il, the article notes, stressing that the second grand Chollima march led by the WPK is bound to triumph as he is held in high esteem as its supreme leader.
Youth Day
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- August 28 is the Youth Day in Korea.
The President Kim Il Sung formed the Young Communist League of Korea (YCLK) with young people steeled and tested at revolutionary organisations on August 28, 72 years ago.
The YCLK was a secret revolutionary organization with the core elements of the anti-imperialist youth league as its backbone. It was a vanguard organisation of the revolution which led the anti-Japanese organisations of people of different social standings as an advance detachment of the Korean communists.
The YCLK expanded its ranks into the northern area of Korea along the Tuman River and wide areas overseas in a short period by waging powerful political underground work among people and art troupe activities for enlightening them as well as activities to revolutionize rural areas.
This league played a core role and made an immortal contribution to accomplishing the historical cause of forming a revolutionary party of new type in Korea and founding the anti-Japanese people's guerrilla army, holding President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the lodestar of the Korean revolution and the centre of unity and leadership.
During the arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the members of the league successfully carried out the Juche-oriented lines and strategic and tactical policies of the Korean revolution and demonstrated the heroic spirit and immortal will of the Korean youth, acting as the brave combatants, able commanders, tested political workers and members of underground organizations of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.
Relying on the precious traditions of the youth movement created during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, this league developed into the democratic youth league, a mass youth organization after the liberation, and then, into the league of socialist working youth and now into the Kim Il Sung socialist youth league.
In February 1991, the great leader Kim Jong Il set Aug. 28 when the President made a new start of the Korean youth movement as the Youth Day, and put forth the tasks of further developing the youth movement in keeping with the requirement of the developing revolution.
The Korean youth are vigorously accelerating the 2nd grand Chollima march to build a powerful nation with the approach of the Youth Day. And multifarious political events are going on to enhance the revolutionary enthusiasm of the youth.
Statement of spokesman for Japan mission of NDFSK
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Japan mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a statement on August 25 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its foundation.
The foundation of the revolutionary party for reunification, the predecessor of the NDFSK, on August 25, 30 years ago was a historic declaration heralding the birth of a new party of Juche type in South Korea, with the result that the revolutionary movement in South Korea could have a reliable staff which is capable of triumphantly steering out the anti-U.S., anti-fascist movement for national salvation with the Juche-based strategy and tactics, he said, and went on:
Today the three tasks of independence, democracy and reunification have become a fighting program of the patriotic people from all walks of life in the revolutionary movement in South Korea and a dynamic struggle for democratization of society and national reunification has been waged with the main stress laid on the struggle for independence against the United States. This clearly shows the vitality of the great Juche idea.
The NDFSK and the patriotic people from all walks of life will certainly bring about a new morning of independence and democracy and a new history of a reunified country in this land through the sacred war for independence against the United States and for national liberation.
Discovered "comfort stations" confirmed by Japanese cameraman
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Takashi Ito, a Japanese cameraman who visited the DPRK as a member of the Aichi Prefecture, Japan, fact-finding group on forcible draft of Koreans, referred to the recently discovered "comfort stations".
He confirmed that the two old wooden buildings he saw recently in Pangjin-dong, Chongam district, Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, had been used as "comfort stations" for Japanese soldiers.
Touching upon the testimonies of inhabitants there, he said testimonies of inhabitants convinced him that these buildings were "comfort stations."
Residents remembered that army and police guarding the buildings barred the inhabitants from approaching them and they saw soldiers standing in queue outside the buildings and pictures of women pasted on their entrances, he noted.
He said that he went round places at which "comfort women" were believed to be buried.
Japan urged to make policy switchover
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Foreign public figures issued statements to the press supporting the statement of the DPRK government which disclosed Japan's 100-year-long history of criminal policy towards Korea.
Otete Gaston Mboyo, national chairman of the National Movement of the Genuine Lumumbist Combatants of Democratic Congo, in a statement on August 15 said that Japan must discard the old dream of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere" and apologize and compensate for the crimes it committed against the Korean people in the past, clearly mindful that Korea today is not Korea yesterday.
Jon Temi Frank, international secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party-KPRL(R) of Sweden, in a statement on August 20 said that what attitude Japan takes toward the bloody crime-woven history is a crucial issue today on the eve of a new century and provides conditions for peace, stability and detente in this region.
But the Japanese authorities have so far neither admitted their crimes nor compensated for them, he noted, adding this policy is an extension of the imperialist policy that has been pursued throughout the 1900s.
He urged the Japanese authorities to think twice and make a policy switchover as stated in the statement of the DPRK government.
"Sunshine policy" flailed
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Samuel Walker, chairman of the Guyana Labor Union, on August 20 released a statement denouncing the "sunshine policy" of the South Korean authorities.
The statement said that the "sunshine policy" clamored about by the South Korean authorities is a policy for division which is harmful to Korean reunification as it calls for anti-reunification and anti-north confrontation posture.
The statement demanded that the South Korean authorities stop mocking at the desire of the world people for peace and reunification of Korea with such words that escape from reality as "sunshine" and "engagement" and renounce at once the reckless moves for invading the north in "cooperation" with outside forces.
The separatist forces must properly know that the DPRK is not a country on which their "policy of detente" or "engagement policy" would work, it said.
National meeting for developing Japan-DPRK friendship held
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The 23rd national meeting (national exchange meeting) of the Liaison Council of the Societies of Japanese Teachers for the Study of the Juche Idea for developing the Amity and Friendship between Japan and the DPRK was held in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, on August 18.
At the meeting a lecture and report were made on Japan's stepped-up war preparations including adoption of the legislation on the implementation of "Japan-U.S. Defence Cooperation Guidelines" on the pretext of "threat from north Korea" and speeches were made at panel discussions.
The speakers expressed the determination to conduct a more brisk movement for Japan-DPRK friendship to bring in a new tide of independence and peace.
A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
Moranbong Youth Park
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The Moranbong Youth Park at the southern foot of Moran Hill in Pyongyang is crowded with working people and school youth and children these days.
A chain of colourful events of youngsters are under way in the open-air theatre in the park with the approach of the Youth Day.
It was built in Juche 48 (1959) under the long-term plan of the President Kim Il Sung for city construction.
The park covering some 46 hectares has a main entrance and several auxiliary entrances so that visitors may easily enter it.
It is divided into such recreation grounds as central area, water-scenic area, children's park and wooded area.
There are in the centre of the park a plaza which boasts a flower garden and chandeliers, the youth park open-air theatre, a big fountain and a pond covering 600 square metres.
Also found in the park are a photo studio, soft-drink stands and booths.
The 10 hectare water-scenic area boasts of two-tier waterfall (Moran Waterfall), Kyongsang Bridge, a pavilion (Phyonghwa Pavilion) and an amusement and recreation site around it.
There are in the park more than 80,000 trees of at least 140 species and flowers of every kind and a big area of lawn, adding to the scenic beauty of the park.
Abolition of "NSL" urged
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The Catholic Priests' Solidarity for Abrogation of the "National Security Law" on Aug. 25 released a "declaration of 2,000 Catholics urging the abolition of the 'NSL'" at a press conference in a hall in Seoul, according to a radio report from Seoul.
Recalling that the "National Security Law" still remains instrumental in controlling the ideas and conscience of the people even under the "people's government", the declaration urged the authorities to "immediately abolish the 'NSL' which is violating the people's freedom of conscience and expression."
KCNA on S. Korea-Russia "cooperation" in military field
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities are going to invite a high-ranking official of the Russian Defense Ministry to South Korea early in September to discuss such matters as "military cooperation and exchange," provision of various kinds of war equipment and military technical facilities and "missile launch" of the DPRK, a foreign news report said.
This move cannot but heighten our vigilance as it is a very serious matter, which will further aggravate the military confrontation in the Korean peninsula.
As known to everyone, the South Korean authorities are now massively introducing missiles and other up-to-date weapons from the United States while persistently seeking to import sophisticated lethal equipment from Israel and other countries in a bid to have a military edge on the north.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-Japan-South Korea military nexus has been strengthened through anti-DPRK war exercises including large-scale U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises and South Korea-Japan joint naval drill. As a result, a touch-and-go situation is prevailing in the Korean peninsula.
It is against this backdrop that they are now scheming to equip their forces with weapons from Russia and seek cooperation from it over the issue of the north's "missile launch." The developments glaringly show to what extent the desperate war moves of the present South Korean rulers have gone.
The massive arms buildup of the South Korean warhawks is a criminal move to provoke a war against the north and militarily contain it, the move that should be condemned by all the fellow countrymen.
What cannot be overlooked is that some countries get embroiled in such reckless war moves and cooperate with the South Korean authorities without principle.
Despite our repeated warnings, they are selling various types of war equipment including modern submarines and missiles and military technical facilities to South Korea for a petty amount of money and interfering in our matter of satellite launch. This is as good as an act of exacerbating the tense situation on the Korean peninsula and undisguisedly joining the South Korean warhawks in war moves against the north.
For those responsible for Korea's division to sell weapons to one of its two parts, that is to the South Korean authorities who seek permanent division and "unification through absorption" cannot be construed otherwise than an anti-DPRK deed of instigating the South Korean authorities to ignite a war against it.
The moves of the South Korean authorities, who are stepping up war preparations while aggravating the north-south confrontation, and those who are cooperating with them can never be justified but will certainly meet deserved retaliation.
Credentials to Kim Yong Nam
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Rodrigo Querubin Londono, newly appointed Ambassador E.P. of the Republic of Colombia to the DPRK, presented his credentials to Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon was present there.
After receiving the credentials, the president conversed with him.
Greetings to Moldovan President
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Moldovan President Peter Luchinsky on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Moldova.
The message wished the Moldovan president and people successes in their work for the prosperity of the country, expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would develop in the interests of the two peoples.