Japanese hostile policy toward DPRK
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The Czechoslovak Party of Communists issued a statement on August 22 denouncing the Japanese authorities' hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The statement strongly condemned Japan's policy of aggression on Korea. It continued:
Japan has up to this day refused to compensate for the human, material and moral damage done to the Korean people.
Our party demands Japan compensate to the Korean people without delay and stop the imperialist moves to threaten the world peace at once.
"Sunshine policy" assailed
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The Guyanese Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification and the Guyana-Korea Friendship Association in an appeal published on August 23 lambasted the South Korean authorities for mocking the efforts to solve the question of Korea's reunification by peddling the hypocritical "sunshine policy" quite contrary to the reality of Korea.
The appeal said that the "sunshine policy" of the South Korean authorities to degenerate and disintegrate the socialist system of the north and achieve "unification through absorption" under their "system of liberal democracy" will inevitably bring nothing but confrontation and war between the north and south.
It held that Korea should be reunified through a confederacy formula on the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
It strongly demanded that the South Korean authorities repeal the so-called "sunshine policy" at once, unconditionally accept the reasonable reunification proposal of the DPRK and promptly discontinue the anti-reunification, anti-national arms buildup and war moves.
Japan urged to liquidate crimes against Korean people
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The Left Democratic Front of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Solidarity Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification sent a letter of protest to the Japanese Prime Minister in their joint name on August 23.
The letter said that the mental, human and material damage done to Korea owing to the Japanese colonial rule was unprecedentedly disastrous in human history.
Noting that Japan, far from repenting of the past crimes after the defeat in the war, has resorted to ceaseless political and military threat and blackmail and economic blockade against the DPRK with the backing of the United States, the letter sharply denounced Japan for its crimes committed against Korea in a century.
Japan must make a total liquidation of the past crimes it committed against the Korean people and strive to improve relations with the DPRK on the principle of reconciliation, good neighborliness, equality, friendship, independence and reciprocity in conformity with the interests of the two peoples, it stressed, adding:
The left democratic front of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Solidarity Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification subscribes to the DPRK's principle that Japan must drop the policy of suffocating the DPRK and that if Japan finally turns to a showdown of strength in a bid to find a pretext to realize its wild ambition for reinvasion, the DPRK will have no option but to take a corresponding countermeasure.
Great fortune of nation
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- A retired general of South Korea Hyon Kwang Hyok published an article headlined "Great fortune of nation", according to the Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The article deals with the great fortune of the nation that is holding in high esteem General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Noting that he is firmly defending the nation, taking the destiny of the 70 million fellow countrymen upon his shoulders, it said:
Kim Jong Il, who is identical to President Kim Il Sung in terms of ideology, leadership, literary and military accomplishments, virtue and talent and traits, is the greatest man and the most famous commander.
When the yankees amassed armed forces in and around the Korean peninsula, spreading the rumour about "nuclear suspicion" of the north, with the result that danger of imminent war was created, he declared a semi-war state in the north, took a decisive step of declaring the withdrawal of the DPRK from the NPT, startling the world again.
The people's army in the north is displaying its might as an invincible army thanks to his outstanding leadership.
He, a man of varied attainments, has always turned misfortunes into blessings, adversity into favourable conditions, dynamically leading politics, economy, culture and all other fields.
Today the people in the south are following him as the lodestar of the national reunification, the sun of the nation, because they are fascinated by his greatness.
He is the sun for the salvation of all people who is indicating the way of true life to the nation and humankind and giving nutrition and vitality to them.
As our nation is holding in high esteem "Marshal Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st century," whom all the people look up to, revere and follow, the country will certainly be reunified and the Korean nation will prosper forever.
Senior party and government officials congratulate young people
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Senior party and government officials of the DPRK visited industrial establishments, scientific institutions, universities and construction sites across the country yesterday to congratulate young people on Youth Day.
Han Song Ryong, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and Yon Hyong Muk and ministers of the cabinet went to the construction site of Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway, Kim Il Sung University, the Amnokgang Tyre Plant, the Chollima Steel Complex and the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex and other units to congratulate youths on the day.
There were multifarious events demonstrating faith and will of the young vanguard to stand in the van of upholding the idea and leadership of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Il, optimism and enthusiasm of youth at different units.
The senior officials conversed with active youth league members and asked the young people to fully demonstrate the honor of being the shock brigade and vanguard in the building of a powerful socialist country.
That day leading officials of provinces, cities and counties went out to factories, enterprises, cooperative farms and universities to congratulate youths and inspire them.
Young Koreans and Chinese take part in friendly labour
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- A Chinese delegation of officials of the Beijing city committee of the Communist Youth League on a visit to the DPRK to attend celebrations of Youth Day, took part in a friendly work in the construction site of the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway yesterday.
Members of the delegation together with members of the Korean youth shock brigade carpeted the roadbed with gravel. During break, they sang and danced, deepening friendly feelings.
The head of the delegation said after sweating while working at the construction site of the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway with Korean youth he has more keenly realized that the Chinese and Korean people are comrades-in-arms who are inseparably linked with each other, adding that they would set store by the Sino-Korean friendship and keep it in bloom generation after generation.
Youth Day celebrated
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Youth Day was significantly marked throughout the country yesterday.
An art performance was given by the Central Youth Art Propaganda Troupe at the Central Youth Hall.
The program of the performance that began with "Song of Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League" included multifarious numbers highly praising the greatness of Marshal Kim Jong Il and reflecting the firm determination of the young vanguard to uphold his idea and leadership with loyalty and filial piety.
Evening galas of youth took place in the capital and local cities that day.
Meanwhile, there took place a slogan explanation meeting, public presentation of virtues and oath-taking meeting in the plaza of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang on Friday with the attendance of tens of thousands of youth and students.
U.S. strategy for world domination refuted
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, George Kenyan, a veteran diplomat and a historian of the United States, criticized the U.S. for its impracticable design to become a "leader" of the world.
In an article contributed to the magazine New York Review of books he insisted that the U.S. refrain from interfering in internal affairs of other countries, saying this or that.
Commenting on this, Pyongyang-based newspapers today say that his statement is based on comparatively correct analysis of the realities.
Rodong Sinmun says:
George Kenyan was a down-to-earth anti-communist, anti-socialist element, who personified arrogance of the U.S. style and its design for domination over the world. It is not by accident that he warned of unreasonableness of the U.S. hegemonism and inevitability of its failure.
The U.S. ruling quarters' ambition for domination over the world is growing stronger under the objective situation in which the confrontation structure of strength has been destroyed by the termination of the Cold War.
But this ambition can never be realized. If the U.S. continues pursuing hegemonism, it will result in its further isolation.
Minju Joson stresses that as George Kenyan acknowledged, the U.S. strong-arm action against the DPRK is like hammering on cold iron.
The DPRK is ready to take military counteraction to foil the U.S. military actions against it.
Military tie-up of U.S. and Japan denounced
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with a signed article assailing the intensified military tie-up between the United States and Japan and their ill-boding military movements.
This military nexus is evidenced by the fact that moves have been stepped up by the United States and Japan to implement the updated "Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation" and establish the "Theatre Missile Defense" system and they are in the process of finally examining and rounding off the U.S.-Japan joint operational plan," the article observes, and goes on:
The updated "guidelines" have already entered a phase of implementation and the DPRK is made the first target of their offensive.
It is not fortuitous that the Japanese reactionaries do not bother to assert that the updated "guidelines" presuppose an "emergency" in north Korea.
The planned establishment of the "TMD" system is also targeted against the DPRK. The decision of the U.S. And the Japanese reactionaries to step up the development of the "TMD" system under the pretext of the DPRK's "missile threat" indicates that its arrow is directed to the DPRK.
Now the U.S. and the Japanese reactionaries are finally examining and rounding off the "U.S.-Japan joint operational plan" in a bid to start a new Korean war while going ahead with a more detailed "study of emergency" on the Korean peninsula. Some time ago, the United States and the Japanese reactionaries agreed to set up a U.S.-Japan joint coordinating center allegedly to "cope with the situation" in the surrounding areas. Needless to say, it will function as a military headquarters to command their battles for aggression in the "event of emergency" in the Korean peninsula.
The joint military drills staged by them scores of times this year are aimed at a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
The intensified U.S.-Japan military tie-up results in escalating the tensions on the Korean peninsula and increasing the danger of war.
This is evoking great apprehension of the Asian people.
"Ulji focus lens" joint military drill lambasted
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary discloses the aggressive nature of "Ulji focus lens" joint military drill which was staged by the U.S. and the South Korean authorities.
Involved in the drill were "ROK" forces of three services, the South Korean administrative organs and civilians as well as the huge U.S. forces and war equipment in South Korea and from Japan, Guam Island and the U.S. mainland.
The drill carried out by warhawks at home and abroad throughout South Korea for over 10 days, was a test and preliminary war aimed at invading the north from A to Z in its provocative nature and content, the commentary observes, and goes on:
This saber-rattling staged by them with huge armed forces involved in the wake of their armed provocation they committed in the west sea, while raising a hue and cry over the non-existent "missile threat" from North Korea, eloquently proves that they are watching for a chance to ignite a war by making a war against the north a fait accompli.
It is thanks to our patient self-defensive measure that the reckless "Ulji focus lens" military drill did not develop into a war.
It is as foolish as trying to break a rock with a rotten egg for the warhawks at home and abroad to try to stifle the DPRK with "strength".
If the aggressors mistake the Korean peninsula for the Persian gulf or the Balkans and undertake a preemptive attack on the DPRK, they will meet only death.
Letter to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The officers and members of the youth league shock bridged for the construction of Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway sent a letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of Youth Day.
Recalling in the letter that Kim Jong Il assigned to young people a difficult task to build the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway, they said they came to have firm conviction that they can carry out whatever difficult task once they do as intended by him.
In the letter they vowed to finish the work of carpeting the roadbed with gravel till October 10 this year, the 54th anniversary of the founding of the Worker's Party of Korea, and round off in the main the road construction including bridges till December 24 and thus demonstrate again the might of the shock brigade of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, the reserve combat unit and detached force of the respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.