Yang Hyong Sop meets Nigerian ambassador
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, today met Adoga Onah, ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the DPRK who paid a farewell call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Present were Pak Kil Yon, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Reception on Polish Independence Day
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The Polish charge d'affaires ad interim to the DPRK gave a reception at the embassy yesterday on the occasion of the Independence Day of Poland.
Present on invitation were Ri In Gyu, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials concerned and diplomatic envoys of various countries here.
There were speeches at the reception.
Armed spy ship "Pueblo" draws endless stream of visitors
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. armed spy ship "Pueblo" is visited by an increasing number of people every day.
The ship was captured by seamen of the Korean People's Army on January 23, Juche 57 (1968).
This is evidence proving the history of the U.S.'s aggression against Korea.
Over 400,000 people from all walks of life have visited the ship for five years since it was open to public inspection in June, Juche 83 (1994). It was brought to Pyongyang from Wonsan and is now anchored in the River Taedong just in front of the monument to the sinking of the U.S. pirate ship "General Sherman."
The hearts of the visitors are burning with hatred against the U.S. aggressors and the determination to take revenge upon them.
Ri Tong Sop, a collier of the Kujang United Coal Mine, said that if the U.S. invade this land again, oblivious of the lesson in the past, the Korean people will not pardon them but throw them into the sea to the last one.
Ri Hung Gyong, a member of the Kuup co-op farm, Thongchon county, Kangwon Province, said: It seems that the yankees who were hit hard by the capture of "Pueblo," have not yet come to their senses. The U.S. should stop acting rashly, aware that our strike is merciless, he added.
Kim Song Il, an officer of the KPA, had this to say: "At that time only one spy ship was captured but in future, the whole land of the U.S. will be destroyed if it invades us again."
Foreign delegations on visit to our country are invited to see "Pueblo."
Sports facilities built
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Modern indoor and outdoor stadiums have been built in Kaechon, South Phyongan Province of Korea.
The three-storied indoor stadium has been built in a peculiar architectural style. It has a plottage of tens of thousands of square metres. It has facilities not only for ball games and heavy weight games but for calisthenics and gymnastics.
There are also facilities for sports lectures and training.
The indoor stadium is equipped with modern cultural and service facilities for players and spectators.
It has every facility for holding meetings and other functions. The Kaechon Outdoor Stadium has a seating capacity of tens of thousands. Football, basketball and volleyball and other events can be held in the stadium.
U.S. invariable hostile policy towards DPRK assailed
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK remains unchanged and it will never make a present of peace to us, declares Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article says:
The U.S. is talking about the improvement of relations with the DPRK and peace on the Korean peninsula before us, but is whetting the sword for aggression behind the scene. This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. is escalating its military moves against the DPRK, refusing to pull back its forces from South Korea.
The U.S. is clamoring about peace, having deployed huge aggressor forces in South Korea and staged madcap war exercises targeted against the north. This is an ostrich policy.
The U.S. is opposed to the establishment of peace mechanism, one of the important conditions for defusing tensions and ensuring peace on the Korean peninsula.
The Armistice Agreement provides for temporary cease-fire only, not lasting peace. It should be replaced by new peace mechanism if war is to be averted and lasting peace ensured on the Korean peninsula.
A signatory to the Korean armistice agreement, the U.S. can never flee from its responsibility for the signing of a peace agreement.
Pointing to the U.S. effort to justify its aggressive policy towards the DPRK on the absurd pretext of "military threat" from it, the article goes on:
The U.S. is expanding the sphere of its domination, escalating its war of aggression against anti-imperialist, independent countries. The DPRK is made the next target of its aggression.
If the U.S. continues to pursue its policy to stifle the DPRK, going against the trend of the times, it will meet only defeat and death in face of our retaliation.
U.S. to deliver advanced missile launching systems to S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Pentagon decided on November 9 to sell 14 advanced "Patriot" missile launching systems to South Korea, according to a foreign news report.
The system called "PAC-3" is said to be capable of intercepting attacking planes and shorter-range ballistic missiles.
The U.S. is asserting that this sale is aimed to "prevent an attack" from someone.
They have already deployed war equipment and lethal weapons including missiles in South Korea enough to start a war, thus driving the situation to the brink of war.
Long-term joblessness steadily increases
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The number of long-term jobless people is on a steady increase in South Korea, according to a radio report from Seoul.
The number of the people who are denied jobs over a year reached more than 188,000 in the third quarter of this year or up 23 percent over the same period last year.
Disclosing the fact, the Hyundai Economics Institute in South Korea said the problem of joblessness has assumed a new dimension.
Pro-Japanese traitor's outbursts assailed
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Hong Sun Yong, "Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade" of South Korea, in a recent "interview" with Japanese reporters said that South Korea is ready to "welcome" Akihito any time and that it will "create" an atmosphere so that his South Korea visit may be more "significant" and "blessed" by regional countries.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as rubbish which can be talked only by hong sun yong who is steeped in pro-Japanese spirit to the marrow of his bones.
The commentary goes on:
Akihito is a symbol of the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Korean nation.
No South Korean will "welcome" him.
The Korean people and the world's progressives are heightening their vigilance against the dangerous moves of the Japanese reactionaries who are whetting the sword of reinvasion of the Korean peninsula and Asia, far from liquidating their crime-woven past.
The South Korean authorities revealed once again to the world their ugly colors as pro-Japanese traitors bereft of reason and discretion when they assured Japan they would ensure that South Korea visit of Akihito, a symbol of militarist Japan, be "blessed" by other countries and regions.
If traitors are allowed to remain in the land, the nation is bound to meet only disasters.
One can hardly find in the world such a group of wicked sycophantic traitors as the "people's government" rulers who are engrossed in the moves to remain colonial stooges by pleasing their master imperialists, utterly indifferent to the destiny of the country and the nation.
It is only natural for the South Korean people to have risen in the struggle to throw overboard foreign aggressors and pro-U.S., pro-Japanese quislings.
Piffle of violators of human rights
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA)- The present chief executive of South Korea let Kim Jong Pil, an architect of "Yusin," read his "address" at the general meeting of international criminal police organization held in Seoul on November 8, a Seoul-based radio reported.
In the "address" he called on the international community to "jointly deal with the crimes of threatening the human right to existence, damaging humanism and violating social justice."
As far as the present chief executive's talk about the crimes of "violating social justice" is concerned, the anti-social policy of the "people's government" is chiefly responsible for violating it in South Korea.
In less than two years of its office the "people's government" has further strengthened the fascist repressive system and threatened the vital rights of people under the mandate of the IMF, abusing human rights in all fields, political, economic and cultural.
This is proved by the fact that there are now over 1.1 million psychopathic cases under the rule of the present "government."
S. Korean rulers denounced for shielding American murderers
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Yun Song Sik, permanent member of the Consultative Council of Former South Korean Politicians in the North for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, in his interview with KCNA on November 11 condemned the South Korean rulers for covering up the atrocities committed by GIs in South Korea for many years.
Recalling that American massacres in Chilgok, Riri, Masan, Uiryong, Haman and Tanyang were brought to light one after another in the wake of AP disclosure of GIs' massacre in Rogun-ri, he said: The so-called "people's government" is hell bent on protecting the U.S., its master, lending a deaf ear to the protest of the nation.
The present chief executive talked nonsense that a probe can be conducted into the accusations of killing made against GIs but in a way "not to harm the friendly relations with the U.S."
The successive rulers of South Korea have been keen on protecting the criminals of the U.S. forces.
According to data available, the number of cases of atrocities committed by GIs in South Korea for the last 54 years since 1945 reached more than 100,000. This means 2,000 cases on annual average.
Yun cited a few examples of what he witnessed or heard before his coming over to the north.
As already reported, in late October, 1992, a U.S. soldier belonging to the U.S. second infantry division raped a woman called Yun Kum I residing in Tongduchon, Kyonggi Province, and struck her on the head with a weapon, killing her.
Moreover, the killer thrust a glass bottle into her womb and an umbrella holder into her anus.
These shuddering brutalities are disclosed one month or three months or half a year or a year after their occurrence.
When a U.S. soldier named Steven strangled a woman called Ri Ki Sun to death after failing to rape her in Tongduchon in September, 1996, the South Korean authorities could not utter even a word in protest against the atrocity but clinched the case under the name of "prosecution without detention."
This is only part of the U.S. outrage and servile attitude of the South Korean authorities.
In February, 1995, the South Korean police office received a letter of request from the U.S. forces command demanding a strict news blackout regarding GIs' crimes and conveyed it to 13 local "police offices" across South Korea, instructing them to carry it out, as requested.
It is by no means accidental that the South Korean rulers are working hard to cover up GIs' massacres in Rogun-ri and other areas on the pretext of "friendly relations with the U.S.," Yun said, and stressed:
The South Korean authorities' act of shielding the criminals of the U.S. forces in South Korea is an unpardonable treachery.
KCNA on S. Korean media's false reports
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Recently some mass media of South Korea spread misinformation that there is any change in the stand of the north. They said that the north "again allowed South Koreans to visit the Rajin-Sonbong trade zone, "there was an agreement on stationing" someone in the zone and "one may expect tour of the zone and resumption of investment in it."
Such reports do not deserve even a passing note as they are misinformation floated at the instigation of the "Intelligence Service."
There is no change in our stand toward the zone.
The Rajin-Sonbong trade zone will not open its door to anyone who seeks to commit criminal acts against the DPRK under the cloak of economic cooperation on the directives of the South Korean "Intelligence Service."
Such poor misinformation dreamed up by the South Korean authorities is a reflection of uneasiness caused by the bankrupt "engagement policy" and nothing but a desperate attempt to mislead the South Korean people.
The South Korean authorities should clearly know this trite trick will bring them to nowhere, only result in escalating north-south confrontation and invite curses and condemnation from the public at home and abroad.