Joint statement of WPK and DWP issued
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- A joint statement of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and the Dominican Worker's Party (DWP) was issued here on February 19.
Ivan Rodriguez, chairman of the DWP central committee, visited the DPRK from February 12 to 19, Juche 89 (2000) at an invitation of the WPK Central Committee.
The statement said:
Talks were held between the two parties during his visit.
At the talks both sides informed each other of the activities of their parties and exchanged views on the issue of further developing the friendly relations between the two parties and a series of matters of mutual concern including the international situation and reached a complete consensus of views on them.
The WPK highly praised the DWP for its vigorous struggle to oppose the imperialists' domination of and interference in Dominica and build a popular democratic and independent society there and achieve the unity with revolutionary parties, holding aloft the banner of anti-imperialist independence and socialism, and expressed its full support and solidarity with it.
The DWP noted with high appreciation that the workers' party and people of Korea have answered the imperialists' policy of strength with tough counteraction and their appeasement policy with the revolutionary principle and firmly defended the bulwark of socialism, holding fast to the line of attaching great importance to ideology, the military and science and technology under the peculiar army-first revolutionary leadership of the great leader Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the WPK. And it expressed its firm solidarity with them in the struggle to meet the long-cherished desire of national reunification.
The WPK and the DWP will closely support and cooperate with each other on the road of joint struggle for the victory of the human cause of independence and socialism under the revolutionary banner of independence against imperialism in the future, too.
Joint statement of WPK and Guyanese political party
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea and the Good Green Guyana issued a joint statement here yesterday.
Hamilton Green, leader of the Good Green Guyana, visited the DPRK from February 15 to 19, Juche 89 (2000) at an invitation of the WPK Central Committee.
According to the joint statement, talks were held between the two parties during his visit.
At the talks both sides discussed the issues of developing relations between the two parties and strictly adhering to the principle of the Pyongyang Declaration and exchanged views on a series of mutual concern and reached a complete consensus of views on them.
The WPK expressed its support and solidarity with the Good Green Guyana in the vigorous struggle for democratic rights and promotion of wellbeing of the working masses of different social strata including workers and peasants, independent development of the national economy and elimination of the unemployment and poverty.
The Good Green Guyana expressed belief that under the wise leadership of the great Kim Jong Il, an outstanding leader of the Korean revolution and the world's socialist movement, the workers' party and people of Korea would make this year a year of general advance for bringing about a decisive turn in the building of a powerful socialist nation through the accelerated second grand Chollima advance and achieve success in the struggle to realise the long-cherished desire of national reunification.
The joint statement said that the WPK and the Good Green Guyana would closely support and cooperate with each other in the joint struggle to build a free and prosperous, new world under the banner of independence against imperialism in the future, too.
Egyptian military attach hosts reception
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- Mohamed Mohamed Ahmad Ashour, military attach of the Egyptian embassy in the DPRK, hosted a reception yesterday to mark the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Invited to the reception were general O Ryong Bang and other generals and officers of the Korean People's Army.
Speeches were made there.
Floral basket sent to DPRK embassy
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- Laurent Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Congo, sent a floral basket to the DPRK embassy in his country on February 14 in congratulation of the 58th birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Authorized by him, Ilun Gaiwan, advisor to the President for foreign affairs, visited the DPRK embassy to lay the floral basket before the picture of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il standing on Mt. Paektu.
The advisor said the respected Kim Jong Il who succeeded to the cause of President Kim Il Sung is the greatest man in the world.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Amerindian Affairs of Guyana and the secretary general of the Good Green Guyana paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK embassy in Guyana and laid floral baskets before the portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Jail sentences on pro-reunification champions flayed
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities sentenced to prison terms the representatives of the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification and the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils for participating in the '99 Grand Pro-reunification Festival and the 10th Pan-national Rally.
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary assails this hideous step as an unpardonable anti-reunification, anti-national fascist action to dampen the desire of the fellow countrymen for national reconciliation, unity and reunification and block the road of reunification.
The visit of pro-reunification envoys to Pyongyang and their participation in pro-reunification events were aimed to realize a meeting of the three parties of Koreans in the north, south and overseas, so as to share sufferings resulting from the division and pool their strength and will and seek ways of achieving reunification, the commentary notes, and goes on: They are by no means offenders and there is no reason to punish them.
The legal action taken against the pro-reunification patriots indicates that the South Korean authorities' talk about "reconciliation" and "cooperation" is nothing but a deceptive jargon and it is aimed at quelling the desire for reunification growing stronger among people as days go by and inciting confrontation with the north.
The South Korean rulers should immediately stop fascist actions to punish the pro-reunification patriots and release without delay those illegally detained patriotic people.
GIs' criminal atrocities condemned
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The truth about U.S.'s massacres of civilians in Rogun-ri, Yongdong county, North Chungchong Province, and Masan, Changnyong and Sachon of South Kyongsang Province, and Phyongthaek, Kyonggi Province, and other areas in South Korea during the last Korean War has been fully disclosed recently by documents preserved at the U.S. national archives and the declassified documents of the U.S. military and testimonies made by ex-soldiers of the U.S. aggression troops who participated in the war, and South Korean victims and eyewitnesses. This has touched off indignation of the Korean people and human conscience.
The investigation committee of the democratic front for the reunification of the fatherland, which was organized at the outset of the Fatherland Liberation War to investigate and record GIs' criminal atrocities, issued indictment no. 1 on February 19 to inform the world of part of those crimes investigated and confirmed over the last 50 years.
The indictment deals with the massacres committed by the U.S. from June 25 to early August, 1950.
The indictment cites dates and places, etc, to accuse the U.S. aggressors of killing many peaceable civilians, destroying or reducing to ashes houses and properties and leveling to the ground great many schools, hospitals and theatres and other cultural establishments and peaceful industrial facilities in the northern half of the DPRK by indiscriminate bombing and bombardment from the first day of the Korean War.
The indictment says:
In the period from June 25, 1950 when the Korean War broke out to early August of the same year the U.S. aggressors killed over 10,730 peaceable civilians, destroyed or reduced to ashes 14,119 houses and razed to the ground more than 100 cultural establishments and peaceful industrial factories in the North Korea.
All these facts go to clearly prove that the brutal massacres and indiscriminate destruction committed by the U.S. in the past Korean War are the indelible crimes against humanity and they are ogres in human skin and chieftains of aggression, plunder and destruction and the sworn enemy of the Korean people.
We will surely make the U.S. aggressors pay for the criminal atrocities committed during the Korean War in order to protect the dignity of the nation.