Group for study of Kim Jong Il's works formed in Guyana
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- The Georgetown, Guyana, Group for the Study of Comrade Kim Jong Il's Works was inaugurated in Georgetown with due ceremony on the occasion of the 58th birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Robert Williams, general secretary of the Good Green Guyana, in his speech said that the profound principles of the Juche idea and theoretical and practical matters arising in embodying them are laid down in Kim Jong Il's works.
Llewelyn John, leader of the People's Democratic Movement of Guyana, said that he deemed it a great honor to become a member of the group for the study of comrade Kim Jong Il's works on the occasion of his birthday and that his movement would study and learn from the experience gained by the Worker's Party of Korea guided by the Juche idea.
Literature wishing Kim Jong Il long life scattered
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Copies of literature wishing the respected Marshal Kim Jong Il a long life in good health were scattered in Jongro district, Seoul, on the morning of Jan. 1, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoted the Seoul city committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea as saying.
Written in the literature with the sunrise above Mt. Paektu on the backdrop were the letters reading that Kim Jong Il is father of the 70 million fellow countrymen, savior of the nation's destiny and sun for reunification in the 21st century.
Also written were the letters that the people who live in the dark South Korean society, a product of national division, where there are no soul of independence and flower of democracy regard him as their pillar of hope.
Policy advisory group formed in South Korea
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- At least 140 university professors of South Korea including Ri Yong Hui of Hanyang University and Pak Ho Song of Sogang University held an inaugural ceremony of the policy advisory group of the "citizens' solidarity for general election" on January 19, a Seoul-based radio reported.
They fully supported the organization's campaign for voting against corrupt and incompetent politicians in the elections, saying that they would cooperate with it in its activities.
They also said that they would join the organization in working out the list of fraudulent candidates and touring regions and actively assist it in its work to testify to the validity of the campaign to vote against them.
U.S. and Japanese war moves under fire
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and Japanese military are stepping up close exchange of opinion as a follow-up of the plan for introducing new-type aegis.
Minju Joson Saturday in a signed commentary denounced this as an anachronistic and dangerous move to spark a new arms race in East Asia and escalate military tensions there.
The "Theatre Missile Defense" system reflects an ulterior intention of the U.S. and Japanese reactionaries to have a "military edge" in East Asia, establish the military domination over it and, moreover, to hold world supremacy, the commentary said, and went on:
They dream of realizing their ambition for domination by stifling the DPRK militarily.
That is why they are going to stage a computer simulation exercise for a "contingency" on the Korean peninsula from mid-February while stepping up the establishment of the "Theatre Missile Defense" system under the pretext of "missile threat" from the DPRK.
Their projected joint exercise is nothing but a preliminary to another war of aggression on the DPRK.
If they ignite a war on this land, the Korean People's Army and people will annihilate the aggressors to the last with merciless strike.
U.S. aircraft carrier to call at Pusan port
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces command in South Korea reportedly announced on Jan. 21 that an aircraft carrier belonging to the 3rd fleet of the U.S. pacific fleet command is due at Pusan port on Jan. 26.
The aircraft carrier scheduled to stay in South Korea till Jan. 30 has 80 planes aboard, including sophisticated fighter-bombers "F/A 18".
The U.S. and the South Korean authorities who have converted South Korea into a military base for a war of aggression on the north, continue escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula through these madcap war maneuvers.
Challenge to justice and patriotism
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- A few days ago, the South Korean authorities passed prison terms on students of Hannam University on charges that they organized "independent ranks for the nation and hope" inside the university and joined the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon).
Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed commentary denounced this as vicious suppression of justice and patriotism and a wicked action to stamp out Hanchongryon.
It continued:
It is clear why the South Korean rulers have got frantic in the repressive campaign from the outset of the year putting students under Hanchongryon on trial.
The self-proclaimed "people's government" rulers are destined to ruin, condemned by the people for all kinds of crimes, corrupt policy and flunkeyist treacherous acts committed since they came into power.
Hence, they seek a way out of the crisis in the repressive campaign against such patriotic fighting organizations as Hanchongryon.
U.S. will meet nothing but disgrace and death in confrontation with DPRK
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Yun Song Sik, permanent member of the Consultative Council of Former South Korean Politicians In the North for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, was interviewed by KCNA on Saturday, 32 years since the capture of the U.S. armed spy ship "Pueblo".
"Pueblo" was captured by soldiers of the Korean People's Army in waters off Wonsan on Jan. 23, 1968, while deciphering bugged military and administrative communication messages of the DPRK and conducting watch and espionage on its military objects. It is now anchoring at the river taedong in Pyongyang, where the U.S. pirate ship "General Sherman" was sunken, to be visited by people from all walks of life and servicemen of the Korean People's Army and foreigners.
Yun Song Sik said that no sooner had "Pueblo" been captured than the United States sent a fleet of scores of warships, including a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, to waters off Wonsan and formed a combat flying corps consisting of at least 730 planes, while putting political and diplomatic pressure upon the DPRK. But this conflict ended in the victory of North Korea as the United States officially admitted its intrusion into the territorial waters of the DPRK and signed a document of apology 11 months later.
This was followed by the shooting down of a large spy plane "EC-121", which the U.S. touted as "Pueblo in the sky", on April 15, 1969, the "Panmunjom incident" on August 18, 1976, sinking of "Escort Craft 56" on January 19, 1967, the shooting down of U.S. military helicopters on July 14, 1977 and on December 17, 1994, and many other incidents. But each time the United States was compelled to make an apology to the Korean people.
All these victories that demonstrated the national pride and self-confidence have been won thanks to the matchless grit and ever-victorious stratagem of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Marshal Kim Jong Il. They are the result of the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who trained the people's army as a-match-for-a hundred army capable of defeating any formidable enemy in one blow, as a main agent of revolution and turned the whole country into an impregnable fortress, on the strength of the army-first policy and the perfect unity between the army and the people who devotedly upheld the idea and leadership of the party and the leader.
The United States must know well that the Korean people and army are the heroic people, the matchless army under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the invincible and iron-willed commander, he declared, warning that the U.S. will meet nothing but disgrace and death in the confrontation with the DPRK.
U.S. warned not to misjudge DPRK
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Recently a spokesman for the U.S. State Department disclosed its intention of going ahead with limitless arms export to South Korea, giving assurances that the U.S. would continue to help the latter secure "defensive and deterrent forces."
The South Korean rulers are to spend 5.3 trillion won for the implementation of their "arms buildup plan for 2000," including the introduction of 20 types of ultra-modern weapons such as missiles of different types, large-sized submarines and transport ships.
The South Korean rulers overheated with war fever, encouraged by their master U.S. arms supply and patronage, are working with increased frenzy to equip the "ROK" Army units with more lethal weapons and step up the preparations for a war of aggression against the north, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
The commentary goes on:
The U.S.'s intention to conduct limitless arms export to South Korea is to provoke the second Korean war.
To this end the U.S. singled out the DPRK as their target after the Yugoslav crisis and are beefing up its forces and the "ROK" Army.
We are keeping ourselves fully ready to cope with all possible events, regarding it as the most important state affair to attach weighty importance to the military. It is our mode of retaliation to deal crushing blows to the enemy.
The U.S. must not misjudge us but know well who is their opponent.
Intensified anti-U.S. struggle called for
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Recently it was disclosed that hundreds of "political prisoners" were massacred by the police of South Korea on Jeju Island during the past Korean War by orders of the U.S. and the South Korean authorities.
Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
The indiscriminate killings of civilians by the U.S. and the South Korean rulers during the past war were aimed at recovering from their repeated setbacks in the war and checking the anti-U.S., anti-"government" struggle of the South Korean people.
The commentary goes on:
All aggressors without exception are murderers.
But no cannibals were as cruel and brutal in massacring peaceable people, irrespective of age and sex as the U.S. aggressors.
They were, in fact, beasts and man-killers.
A powerful anti-U.S. struggle is the only way for the South Korean people to survive and achieve the country's reunification, stresses the commentary.
Over one million people murdered in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Yonhap News from Seoul released shocking news on Jan. 22 that 1.13 million innocent people of South Korea were murdered before and after the Korean War.
The data kept by the "National Association of Bereaved Families of Those Killed" disclosed that 250,000 people were murdered in South Kyongsang Province, 210,000 in south Jolla and north Kyongsang provinces respectively, 190,000 in North Jolla Province and many innocent people in other parts of South Korea such as Jeju Island, Kyonggi and north and south Chungchong provinces, South Korean Kangwon Province and Seoul, and mass killings were perpetrated particularly in north and south Kyongsang provinces and north and south Jolla provinces.
These figures were reportedly proved by speeches made at rallies held by regional associations in Taegu, Kyongju and other areas in 1960 and material evidence, including photos of excavated sites of massacres and bulletins of the associations.
Maeil Sinmun dated Jan. 20 said that the chairman of the association Ro Hyon Sop sent to the then "government" in 1960 an official document to the effect that 1.13 million people were murdered across South Korea after collecting complaints made by the bereaved families of those killed.
The document contained seven demands, including enactment of law for punishing the murderers, compensation to the families of the victims and excavation of their remains.