Kim Jong Il praised by South Korean people
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Members of the "committee to greet new millennium", an organization of young intellectuals in Kwangju city, recently had a meeting to vow to more ardently worship and follow the great leader Kim Jong Il in a new millennium, according to a Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoted by the south Jolla provincial committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea.
At the meeting, the chairman of the committee made an address under the title "leader Kim Jong Il is the great sun who will glorify the 21st century" which was followed by speeches of other members and "let us pave the new way for independence, democracy and reunification in a new millennium under the guidance of leader Kim Jong Il."
The meeting adopted a resolution on holding in higher esteem and following Kim Jong Il as the sun of the nation, ushering in the new year 2000.
Seminar on Kim Jong Il's work held in Madagascar
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- A joint seminar of figures of political parties including the united party of struggle of Madagascar, the Juche idea study groups, friendship organizations and public circles of Madagascar on the famous work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "Socialism Is a Science" was held in Antananarivo on Dec. 4.
Speakers including the chairman of the Malagasy National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea at the seminar said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Socialism Is a Science" indicates a road of struggle for the victory of the socialist movement at the present times as a "communist manifesto of the 20th century" and a "weapon for the victory of the socialist cause."
Noting that Kim Jong Il instilled confidence of victory into the world revolutionary people and placed in their hands a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon for the revival of socialism by comprehensively clarifying the scientific accuracy and truth of socialism, they stressed that the work is of great theoretical and practical significance in the cause of socialism.
Abolition of "security law" demanded
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Representatives of human rights organizations in South Korea including the Society for Human Rights Movement and the Council of Bereaved Families of Martyrs for the Nation and Democracy at a press conference held on Dec. 9 demanded the abolition of the "security law," according to a Seoul-based radio report.
They rejected the fascist repression by the authorities, demanding all the illegally detained men of conscience be set free and shadowing, watch and search for patriotic students and workers be halted.
Protest rallies in S. Korea
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and students under the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) held protest rallies in different parts of Seoul on December 11, according to a radio report from Seoul.
More than 1,000 members of the KCTU held a rally in front of the "National Assembly" building in Youido, demanding the cutdown of working hours and denouncing employers for refusing to pay wages to union officials.
Over 1,000 students under "Hanchongryon" held a rally at Myongdong Cathedral on the same day demanding the unconditional release of students and peasants who had been arrested by riot police on the scene of demonstration staged the day before.
Describing the mass rally held in Seoul on December 10 as an "intentional one" to create "social disturbances," the "National Police Agency" of South Korea is threatening to arrest all those involved.
The South Korean authorities are persecuting more than 30 demonstrators whom they had arrested on the spot.
To go in for socialism is irreversible trend of historical development
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Socialism is incomparably superior to capitalism for the validity of its ideal and it is an inexorable law that the former is sure to triumph while the latter is bound to go to ruin, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
Socialism is sure to win because it reflects the wishes and aspirations of the absolute majority of the population who want to live on the basis of equality free from exploitation and suppression.
Just is a socialist cause to realise the people's desire for independence and its realization is possible only under the socialist system.
The society based on individualism splits the community into classes that stand opposed to each other and breeds social inequality and exploitation and suppression of popular masses by the minority ruling class.
It is a historic lesson drawn from the development of human society that to realize the people's desire for independence the society based on individualism should be replaced by the one based on collectivism.
The collapse of socialism in some countries does not mean the "end" of socialism as claimed by the imperialists.
Socialism as a science remains alive in the hearts of the people.
It is the reality that a number of parties around the world have bridged over temporary crisis and turned out in the struggle to revive socialism.
More than 240 parties have signed the Pyongyang Declaration which confirmed the validity of socialism and the inevitability of its victory. This is clear evidence that revolutionary political parties of the world have turned out in their struggle for the revival of socialism with the declaration as their common action program.
Japan's double-dealing tactics flayed
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Japan brought forward a "resolution" calling for a final elimination of nuclear weapons at a recent UN General Assembly session in a bid to become a nuclear giant under the signboard of a "defender of peace", backed by the United States, observes Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
It is foolish of the Japanese authorities to think that if they behave so, the world will not be cautious about their design for nuclear arming and their image be improved, the commentary says, and goes on:
Herein lie insincere and short-sighted nature of Japan's diplomacy and craftiness peculiar to it.
In fact, Japan is not qualified to talk about elimination of nuclear weapons, for no country in the world is so keen on going nuclear as Japan.
Through its persistent moves for nuclear arming Japan is increasing nuclear threat in northeast Asia, far from working for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Japan is fully ready to make nuclear weapons any time as it wishes.
Japan can go nuclear any time.
Japan's act to be fool the world with its hypocritical double-dealing tactics will only invite public ridicule.
Struggle is only way out
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- Entirely just is the anti-"government" struggle launched by South Korean workers and other people for their right to existence and democracy as it is an eruption of the pent-up grudge against the traitorous regime, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
The South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) strongly demanded the authorities pay wages to unionists, which is essential for the workers' right to existence and democracy, the commentary notes, and goes on:
If the wage issue of unionists is not settled though KCTU has become legal, its legalization is, in fact, meaningless.
The way for South Korean people from all walks of life to win genuine vital rights and democratic freedom is to abolish such fascist laws as the "security law" and dismantle repressive institutions.
The South Korean economy has now gone bankrupt and people are in dire destitution owing to the traitorous misrule of the self-proclaimed "people's" rulers.
More than 53,000 enterprises proved insolvent, over 8 million joblessmen and at least 13 million poor people are hovering between life and death and there are over 1.1 million insane persons and many suicides. The "people's" rulers have turned South Korea into a veritable hell on earth at the end of the 20th century.
The South Korean workers and other people have chosen the way of struggle between the two ways: To remain idle and starve to death or rise up in a struggle to win vital rights.
S. Korean navy's moves to invade the north
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The South Korean warmongers shifted the "command of the second fleet of the navy" from Inchon to Phyongthaek with due ceremony on Dec. 10, according to a report.
Addressing the base commissioning and fleet shifting ceremonies attended by the chief executive, "the Minister of National Defence" and the "chief of staff of the navy," warlords let loose the bravado that it will become an "oceanic navy in 21st century."
The South Korean authorities have spent 740 billion won since 1989 to build the Phyongthaek base and equip it with sophisticated equipment and training facilities.
They claim that the base is located more southward than Inchon close to the "Northern Limit Line" unilaterally set by them together with their master U.S. is capable of handling 120 warships.
This is a clear indication that they are further stepping up their preparations to invade the north at the west sea through the shifting of the fleet command.
The South Korean authorities are going to launch a new minesweeper "Yangyang" at the end of this month to be used for invasion of the north.