Kim Jong Il visits KPA unit no. 1321
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited Korean People's Army unit no. 1321 on Tuesday to congratulate the servicemen on the 68th foundation anniversary of the heroic KPA.
He was accompanied by KPA vice marshal Jon Jae Son and staff members of the supreme command.
He was also accompanied by Kim Yong Sun, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and first vice department directors of the party central committee.
Upon arriving at the unit on the forefront, he waved to the enthusiastically cheering soldiers and warmly congratulated them on the 68th birthday of the KPA.
He went first to the revolutionary site of the President Kim Il Sung in the area of the unit.
He said the site should be preserved and managed well in its original state and that effective education be carried out through it.
Then, he went to an education room, bedroom and other entertainment and logistic facilities of the unit to take warm care of the living of its soldiers.
He acquainted himself in detail with the living conditions of the soldiers ranging from the quality of photographs of soldiers pasted up on the billboard for the honored and the use of education materials to their dishes and military uniforms, and highly praised its commanding officers for devotedly working to provide the soldiers with good living conditions.
He went to various places of the unit including a lecture room to learn about the training of soldiers and their performance of duties.
He was deeply satisfied to know that all its soldiers are reliably defending their forefront posts. He highly praised their exploits and set forth highly important tasks which would serve as a guideline in further increasing the combat power of the unit.
He appreciated a chorus performance given by all the servicemen of the unit.
He gave its soldiers a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts.
He posed for a photograph with the men and officers of the unit and their families.
Greetings to President of Sierra Leone
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone, on April 20 on the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the independence of Sierra Leone.
The message wished the President and people of Sierra Leone great success in their work to put an end to the civil war, achieve peace and stability of the country and rehabilitate the destroyed economy.
Paek Nam Sun meets Chinese ambassador
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, met and conversed with Wang Guozhang, Chinese ambassador to Korea who paid a courtesy call on him today.
Present there were an official concerned and the minister-counselor of the Chinese embassy here.
Greetings to South African President
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on April 24 sent a message of greetings to Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa, on its National Day.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will further expand and develop, the message wished the President and people of south Africa success in their work for peace and development of the country.
Greetings to Togolese President
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema on Monday on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Togolese independence.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further strengthen and develop, the message wished the President greater success in his work to achieve political stability and prosperity of the country and peace in the sub-region.
Floral basket to Korean embassy in Havana
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba sent a floral basket to the DPRK embassy in Havana on April 15, Sun's Day , which is the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
Floral baskets laid before statues of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Servicemen, working people and school youth and children across the country laid floral baskets before the statues of the President Kim Il Sung yesterday on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Army.
Servicemen, working people and school youth and children in Pyongyang visited the statue of Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill.
Seen at the statue was a floral basket sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Amid the playing of basket-laying music, floral baskets in the names of the party and armed forces organs, power organs, ministries, national institutions and organs of various other levels, KPA units, enterprises, factories, farms and schools and bouquets and flowers were laid before the statue.
The visitors made bows respectfully before the statue of the President.
Floral baskets, bouquets and flowers were also laid before his statues at Kim Il Sung Military University, Kim Il Sung Political University, the Ministry of the People's Security and other various units in the city.
KPA servicemen, working people and school youth and children across the country visited his statues in their residential quarters to present floral baskets, bouquets and flowers and made a bow before them.
Meanwhile, the military attaches' corps here laid a floral basket and made a bow before the statue of the President on Mansu Hill.
Greetings to Tanzanian President
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa on April 24 on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the foundation of the United Republic of Tanzania.
The message warmly congratulated the President and the government and people of Tanzania on the 36th foundation anniversary of the republic.
The message wished the President and government of Tanzania great success in their efforts to consolidate national unity and the union of the country, develop the national economy and ensure regional peace and stability, expressing the belief that the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would continue to expand and develop.
Kim Jong Il's work published in Tajikistan
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully Through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation," a work published by General Secretary Kim Jong Il on April 18, Juche 87 (1998) was brought out in booklet by the Publishing House of the Leninavad regional committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan on April 13.
Literature scattered in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Many copies of literature were scattered in Taejon, South Korea, to commemorate the 88th birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoted the south Chungchong provincial committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea as saying.
The front side of the literature scattered in the name of the Thaeyang Society at the dawn of April 15 had letters "long live Sun's Day" and "in commemoration of April 15" and the words of the immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Il Sung" written against the background of the rising sun and his native home in Mangyongdae.
The upper part of its back side bore letters "Kim Il Sung is immortal" written against the background of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, the sacred temple of Juche, where he is lying in state for perpetuity and its lower part the words of the song "the leader will always be with us".
S. Korean students stage sit-in strike
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Students of 20 universities of South Korea went on a sit-in strike of various forms all at once in protest against the authorities' increase of registration fee, a Seoul-based radio reported.
Those of six universities including Ehwa Woman's University had their hair cut short or staged a sit-in strike in tents in token of their protest. Those of 14 universities across South Korea on sit-in strikes inside them expressed their will to continue the struggle till their demands are met.
Reporting this, the radio said that the educational administration will remain in chaos for quite some time at the 14 universities due to the sit-in strike as there is no sign that the students will discontinue the strike sooner or later.
KPA commanding officers enjoy army day among soldiers
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Commanding officers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) went to those units on important duty to enjoy army day significantly among soldiers, true to the intention of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political department, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the general staff, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces, and other general officers conveyed greetings of the supreme commander to the KPA officers and men.
They learnt about their duty performance and living conditions after being briefed on the leadership exploits of the great leader Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il recorded in the history of army building and on the history of the units.
They spent the holiday, enjoying art performances and playing sports and amusement games with soldiers.
Spokesman of DPRK FM assails U.S. anti-Cuba campaign
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an answer given to a question put by KCNA today assailed an anti-Cuba human rights resolution adopted at the 56th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 18.
Recalling that the Cuban government and public are strongly denouncing the adoption of this resolution as another charade staged under the U.S. behind-the-scene wire-pulling, he said:
It is well known to the world that over the last 40 years since the victory in the Cuban revolution the U.S. has pursued a policy of political isolation and imposed economic sanctions and blockade upon socialist Cuba in a bid to stifle it.
Many Cuban people have been brutally murdered or crippled and Cuba has suffered huge economic losses due to the U.S. terrorism and subversive and sabotage activities.
The anti-Cuba campaign launched by the U.S. again over the "human rights issue" is, in fact, an encroachment upon the sovereignty of an independent country and a violation of human rights as it is part of the anti-socialist moves to hurl mud at the Cuban revolution and stifle it.
The DPRK strongly condemns any moves of the U.S. against socialist Cuba and will always extend full support and solidarity to the government and people of Cuba in their just struggle to defend the sovereignty and independence of the country and national dignity and socialism.
Art performances on 68th KPA founding anniversary
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Art performances were held yesterday at theatres in the capital and local areas to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army.
An art performance "Let Us Sing of April 25" was presented by the Mansudae Art Troupe at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre and a concert was performed by the State Symphony Orchestra at the Moranbong Theatre.
The performances raised the curtains with a chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and an orchestra "General of Korea."
Their programs included numbers representing outstanding army-first leadership exploits of General Secretary Kim Jong Il who has strengthened and developed the people's army into invincible armed forces, the main force of the revolution, which have inherited the revolutionary traditions of Mt. Paektu to finally accomplish with arms the revolutionary cause of Juche which was started with arms and the ideological and moral traits of the army and people who are ready to become human bombs in devotedly defending him.
A revolutionary opera "Sea of Blood" was performed by the Pibada Opera Troupe at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre, a revolutionary drama "mother's request" by the State Theatrical Company at the Pyongyang Theatre and a national song and dance ensemble "For Better Future" by the State National Art Troupe at the Central Youth Hall.
Art performances were given at the Hamhung Grand Theatre and other provincial theatres.
S. Korean authorities urged to stop show of sex films
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The Citizens Council for Measures Against Media Fostering Pornography and Violence of South Korea on April 20 said that the UN Commission on Human Rights demanded the South Korean authorities stop an open show of sex films, a Seoul-based radio reported.
The South Korean authorities allowed the show of sex films despite the protest of the people, injuring sound ethics and morality of society and mentally degenerating young people.
Early opening of diplomatic relations between Japan and DPRK urged
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- A letter of request to the Japanese Prime Minister was adopted at the sixth meeting of the Japan-DPRK friendship Okayama prefectural people's forum held in Okayama Prefecture on April 1.
The resumption of the Japan-DPRK talks was desired by the Japanese people, the letter said, and went on:
The division of the Korean peninsula was caused by Japan's colonial rule over Korea and its war of aggression against the peninsula in the first half of the 20th century.
The continued split of Korea is attributable to the fact that Japan, pursuant to the U.S. Korea policy, has always been hostile to the DPRK and has joined Washington in its policy of keeping Korea divided into the north and the south.
A new order will be established between Japan and the DPRK, free visit between them be possible and "doubt" will be naturally cleared only when a policy of dialogue and cooperation is adopted instead of Japan's old wrong policy toward the DPRK to open the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
We strongly demand the Japanese government pursue an independent diplomacy and liquidate before the end of this century the wrongdoings committed in the century and establish diplomatic relations with the DPRK.
International community urged not to allow Japan to violate justice
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- A representative of the International Educational Development Organization, speaking at the 56th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 13, urged the international community not to allow Japan to bring disgrace to the victims and violate justice.
He said that the world is disappointed at the United States' attitude of not demanding compensation to the victims of Asian disasters, while supporting the plan of the German government to compensate to the victims of European disasters. All the countries are obliged to admit the enslavement and other war crimes and compensate for them, he noted, adding: World WarII cannot be considered as ended unless the victims receive compensation from the Japanese government, and they are still disgraced by Japan.
He stated that the victims will not abandon their lifelong demand for justice, holding that Japan should not be allowed to play any role on the international arena unless their demand is met.
Mass killings during Korean War under fire
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- It was disclosed recently in the course of probe into the U.S.'s brutal mass killings of civilians in Yongdong that by the U.S. order the "ROK" army and South Korean police massacred without trial at least 2,000 "political prisoners" in Yongo-ri, Jichon-myon, Chilgok county of North Kyongsang Province.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that those mercilessly killed were patriots who fought against the U.S.'s colonial military rule and traitor Syngman Rhee's treacherous anti-reunification policy.
It was a crime to imprison those patriots as "criminals" and impose all manner of persecution and suffering upon them, the commentary says, and goes on:
Not content with this, the U.S. herded soldiers of the "ROK" army and police into massacring without trial those patriots who earnestly desired national independence and reunification .
The U.S. and their stooges indiscriminately killed not only patriotic people but also war refugees in a bid to recover from their repeated setbacks in the war and calm down the anti-U.S., anti-"government" sentiment.
They should fully probe the truth behind massacres hitherto concealed and make public them.
The Korean nation will surely make the aggressors and traitors pay a thousand times for the blood shed by the fellow countrymen not only during the Korean War but up to this date since the U.S. forces' occupation of South Korea.
DPRK FM memorandum supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The general secretary of the United Party of Struggle of Madagascar sent a letter to the UN Secretary General on April 17 in support of the memorandum issued by the DPRK Foreign Ministry on March 21.
The letter said that the U.S. could never avoid the responsibility for the unethical mass killings committed by GIs against innocent civilians during the Korean War.
It asserted that as the U.S. forces committed the brutal killings in the name of "UN forces" the UN should feel due responsibility for them, dissolve the "UN forces command" in South Korea and take a practical measure to let the U.S. forces withdraw from there and thoroughly investigate the criminals and seriously punish them.
Mohamed Samba Kebe, secretary general of the National Confederation of Guinean Workers, in a statement issued on April 6, denounced the mass killings committed by the GIs during the Korean War on behalf of members of his organization.
New York Times on mass killings of "political prisoners"
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The New York Times dated April 21 carried a report of AP on mass killings of "political prisoners" committed by the South Korean "ROK" army and police during the last Korean War.
The paper said:
In the early period of the Korean War the "ROK" army and police murdered at least 2,000 "political prisoners" without trial and U.S. army officers frequently witnessed them.
These facts were disclosed by the declassified U.S. military documents and testimonies made by witnesses.
The new specific disclosure made by AP and a South Korean researcher proves the assertion of some historians that in the middle of 1950 when the "ROK" army was fleeing in face of the advancing North Korean army, a large number of "political prisoners" were arrested by their "government" to be killed in secret, and this was obviously aimed at blocking the cooperation between the left-wingers and the communist army.
The paper also referred to testimonies of witnesses, saying the disclosure of these facts has been barred for scores of years due to the successive military rulers of South Korea and brought to light recently by families of the victims.
NDFSK publishes communique on commemorations of Sun's Day
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on April 21 published "communique on commemorations of the 88th birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung" as regards commemorations of Sun's Day held with large attendance by the NDFSK patriotic fighting organizations and people from all walks of life in South Korea, said Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
According to the communique, the NDFSK and its affiliated fighting organizations at all levels formed preparatory committees for commemorating Sun's Day , set a period of remembering President Kim Il Sung from April 1 to 20 and held meetings to commemorate Sun's Day .
The meetings said that the birth of the President was a great event which greeted the greatest man of the sun ever known in history who opened a new history of sun's homeland, sun's nation and sun's era and his cause of the sun is being brilliantly carried forward and accomplished by General Secretary Kim Jong Il who has been held in high esteem as the sun of the 21st century.
Letters to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the meetings.
Referring to lecture and retrospection meetings, the communique said:
The NDFSK organizations at all levels and patriotic fighting organizations held book and photo exhibitions showing the famous works and leadership exploits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, film shows introducing the North Korea, Kimilsungia shows, "Sun's Day evening of culture" praying for the eternal life of Kim Il Sung and other commemorations.
Floral baskets and flowers were laid before the portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the venues and meetings of pledge were held on April 15.
On the occasion of Sun's Day the April 15 Fellowship Society, the Paektu Society, the Thaeyang Society, the Yongsaeng Society, the February 16 Philosophy Study Society, the Independence Society and other patriotic movement organizations pasted up wall-papers and wall newspapers, propagandized Sun's Day through internet, scattered printed materials, mailed souvenir cards, organized video shows and significantly conducted colorful activities including gatherings to sing songs.
From April 14 to 17 radio Voice of National Salvation broadcast special programs and the newspaper Kuguk Jonson published a special write-up.
Former U.S. ambassador's baloney
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Gleysteen who was a U.S. ambassador at Seoul when the Kwangju Popular Uprising took place in South Korea in May 1980, speaking at a function held in Los Sngeles, U.S. on April 22, said that he was convinced that the quelling of the Kwangju resistance was decided on by Chun Doo Hwan and permitted by "President" Choe Kyu Ha, a Seoul-based radio reported.
His base remarks are aimed at shifting all the responsibility for the Kwangju massacre on to the South Korean ruling quarters and freeing the U.S., the principal culprit and manipulator of the hideous crime, from all the crime.
It is an open secret that Gleysteen, in a message sent to the U.S. State Department from Seoul on May 23, 1980, said his embassy allowed the South Korean authorities to use in Kwangju those forces under the U.S.-South Korea combined forces command.
It is also a well-known fact that after the Kwangju massacre, Wickham, the then commander of the U.S. aggression troops stationed in South Korea, said that the "establishment of the Chun Doo Hwan regime was one of the most successful in the U.S. policy toward South Korea after the October incident (shooting Park Chung-Hee to death)."
It has been fully proven by the two facts that it was the U.S. who plunged Kwangju into a sea of blood.
It is a trite habit of the U.S. to shift the responsibility for all their crimes on to the South Korean rulers.
The South Korean people will make the U.S., the culprit of the crimes, pay a very high price.
"Army born of Mt. Paektu will be immortal"
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Papers carried an epic "Army born of Mt. Paektu will be immortal" written by Kwak Il Mu on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.
The epic says that the long path covered by the Korean revolution which was launched and goes on with arms is precisely the revolutionary history of the army born of Mt. Paektu which is associated with the life of the great Kim Jong Il, a brilliant army commander.
Marshal Kim Jong Il, whose disposition is to attach great importance to the army, is the most brilliant army commander born of Mt. Paektu, successor to the tradition of the anti-Japanese guerrillas.
Referring to wise remark on arms that though everything may change in the world, a rifle does not betray its user and a rifle can be called a permanent companion and comrade of a revolutionary, the epic says that it is the army philosophy on faith and the great program of the army on comrade.
The epic goes on:
Although everything in the world may change there should be no change and wavering in the army.
Kim Jong Il is the supreme leader of the army and the supreme incarnation of army spirit who administers the affairs of the state, leads the revolution and enforces benevolent politics with arms.
Our army has grown stronger thanks to the single-hearted unity, the most important factor of the revolution. Our army is single-heartedly united as it is equipped with the spirit of Mt. Paektu.
When the army of Kim Jong Il, the army of Mt. Paektu, goes into action, the world will see how formidable and powerful it is.
A powerful nation of Kim Jong Il, the fatherland of the army of Mt. Paektu, is ever-victorious and the army of the brilliant commander born of Mt. Paektu immortal, the epic concludes.
Army to emerge ever-victorious in spirit of Mt. Paektu
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The spirit of Mt. Paektu is the source of the invincible might of the Korean People's Army (KPA), says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The KPA's spirit of Mt. Paektu was created in the anti-Japanese revolutionary war.
This fierce war was fought against an imperialist formidable enemy armed to the teeth.
The Korean revolutionary armed forces achieved the liberation of the country by defeating the Japanese imperialists who were incomparably superior to them in numerical strength and military technique.
The victory in the anti-Japanese war demonstrated the might of the Korean revolutionary armed forces who fought in the revolutionary spirit of Mt. Paektu.
The anti-Japanese guerrillas were possessed of the indomitable spirit of crushing the enemy even if they might die a hundred times and superb war methods and tactics of beating any formidable enemy. This staunch spirit enabled them to work miracles unprecedented in the world war history.
A vigorous drive is now under way in the KPA to learn from the mode of the anti-Japanese guerrillas in training and their way of life and fight. Prevalent in the army are confidence of sure victory and optimism that it can emerge victorious under any circumstances only if there are water and air.
The KPA has inherited the spirit of Mt. Paektu in the course of struggling for nearly 70 years under the leadership of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu and this spirit has become disposition peculiar to the army.
The three commanders of Mt. Paektu, considering it as a vital issue related to the destiny of the fatherland and the revolution to strengthen and develop the revolutionary army, have built revolutionary armed forces capable of providing a sure guarantee for the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms. This was the greatest exploit performed by them.
The invincible might of the KPA which fights in the spirit of Mt. Paektu finds a vivid expression in its prodigious grit and matchless audacity and in the bold spirit of dealing deadly blows to the reckless enemies. It is clearly manifested in the KPA's way of life and struggle full of revolutionary optimism.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Political parties and organizations of Russia, Italy, Syria, Congo, Madagascar, Pakistan, Guinea, Bulgaria, Peru and Indonesia participated in the international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification from April 10 to 20.
The signature paper was signed by O. Shenin, chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chairman of the International Committee for Unity and Friendship with Peoples, on behalf of one million members= V. I. Anpilov, chairman of the executive committee of "Working Russia" Movement, on behalf of 200,000 members= V. M. Smirnov, chairman of the National Salvation Front of Russia, on behalf of 10,000 members= N. A. Andreyeva, general secretary of the central committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and Vladimir Tolstikov, chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK and chairman of the East European Center for solidarity and support with the DPRK, on behalf of their respective party and organization.
Among the signers were the secretary general of the Monima Socialist Organization of Madagascar on behalf of 18,980 members, the national chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Madagascar on behalf of 700,000 members, the national chairman of the Militant Action Party for Sovereignty of Madagascar on behalf of 10,740 members, the national chairman of the Socialist Progressive Party of Madagascar on behalf of 970,000 party members, the director of Nansan senior middle school in Antananarivo on behalf of teachers and students, the first administrative secretary of the Party for Unity and Progress of Guinea authorized by the general secretary of the party on behalf of 450,000 party members, the army chief of staff and the navy chief of staff and the commander of the Security Forces of Guinea on behalf of their servicemen, the director of the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea, the president of the Society for the Study of the Juche Literary Idea of Guinea, the chairman of the Guinea-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group, the chief of the Guinean Group for the Study of Kimjongilism on behalf of their organizations, Michele Capuano, general secretary of the People's United Democratic Left Wing of Italy and chairman of the Italian Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with Peoples, on behalf of 8,500 members, Osvaldo Pesce, general secretary of the Unified Communist Party of Italy, Paolo Pioppi, secretary general of the Italian Committee for the Reunification and Peace of Korea, Alberto Moreno, general secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Peru (Red Motherland), Emil Khriaktov, chairman of the Communist Party of Bulgaria "Georgi Dimitrov", the chairman of the Pakistan Socialist Party, the secretary general of the Lahore branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association, the secretary of the Pakistan Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the secretary general of the Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions, the secretary general of the Pakistan Organization for Afro-Asian People's Solidarity and the general secretary of the Pakistan Kissan committee on behalf of their parties and organizations.
In Indonesia general directors of different companies signed the signature paper on behalf of their company members.
The signature paper was also signed by the chairman of the Syria-Korea Friendship Association and the chairman of the Congolese Committee for Supporting the Proposal for Founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo.
Japan's anti-DPRK campaign assailed
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Japanese anti-DPRK plot-breeding bodies, the "Liaison Council of Victims' Families", the "National Council for Rescuing Japanese" and "the Council of Local Assemblymen" kicked up an anti-DPRK row in Seoul on April 18 with the South Korean "Council of Families of those Kidnapped by North" allegedly to "cooperate" in an "early repatriation of them", a news radio report said.
This anti-DPRK campaign launched by Japanese militarist forces and South Korean anti-communist conservative forces at a time when the intergovernmental talks between the DPRK and Japan are under way is aimed at injuring the dignity of the DPRK, isolating it internationally and fomenting anti-DPRK sentiment among the peoples of Japan and South Korea in a bid to torpedo the talks and perpetuate the division of Korea.
During their occupation of Korea the Japanese imperialists kidnapped or walked away 6 million young and middle-aged Koreans under the name of "labour draft" or "conscription" and took away nearly 200,000 women as "comfort women for the army," and unconverted long-term prisoners are illegally detained in South Korea.
These are the only issues to be settled between the DPRK and Japan and between north and South Korea.
This notwithstanding, the Japanese reactionaries and the South Korean anti-DPRK forces are chiming in with each other in the smear campaign over "kidnapping" or "those kidnapped by the north." This is just like a thief crying "stop the thief "
The Japanese reactionaries had better apologize for kidnapping millions of young and middle-aged Koreans to kill them in slave work sites and war shambles during their occupation of Korea before talking about the fictitious "kidnapping" and the non-existent people "kidnapped by the north." And the South Korean authorities should send without delay the unconverted long-term prisoners back to the north.
Nobody will pay attention to their loudmouthed "issues of kidnapping" and "those kidnapped by the north".
One's evil doings are will rebound on oneself.