Yang Hyong Sop meets new Nigerian ambassador
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with Alhaji Daudu Sulaiman, new Nigerian ambassador to the DPRK who paid a courtesy call on him, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present was Pak Tong Chun, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Agricultural cooperativization carried out by WPK
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) singled out the cooperativization of the private peasant economy as the most important task to carry out the socialist revolution and vigorously pushed ahead with it after the Fatherland Liberation War.
The President Kim Il Sung, with a deep insight into the matured requirements for the agricultural cooperativization at that time, advanced a unique policy on the agricultural cooperativization, the policy of transforming the rural economic form along socialist lines prior to technical reconstruction, at the sixth plenary meeting of the WPK Central Committee in August 1953.
The WPK pushed forward the agricultural cooperativization true to the President's policy.
Adhering to the principle of voluntaries and maintaining a correct class policy, the WPK thoroughly implemented it.
The principle of voluntaries was strictly adhered to.
On account of observing this principle the WPK did not leave the work of inviting peasants to join cooperatives to the mercy of spontaneity but actively conducted ideological education among them to help them realize the advantages of cooperativization through object lessons and wisely led them to voluntarily join the cooperatives.
The WPK strictly implemented the correct class policy, while guiding cooperativization.
It consistently maintained the policy of firmly relying on the poor peasants, strengthening the alliance with the middle peasants and restricting and gradually remolding the rich peasants. This policy was based on a correct analysis of the class relations in the countryside of Korea at that time.
The poor peasants accounted for about 40 percent while the rich peasants less than 0.6 percent of the peasants.
There were not a few middle peasants, but most of them benefited from the agrarian reform after the liberation of Korea. That was why the poor peasants and almost all the middle peasants supported the agricultural cooperativization from its outset. Some of the middle peasants vacillated or hesitated while rich peasants turned away from it or opposed it, but this force was pretty small.
The size of the cooperatives was small--15 to 20 households--at the beginning. It was gradually increased--40 to 100 households--as conditions improved.
As a result, 80.9 percent of the farm households joined cooperatives as of the end of Juche 45 (1956).
The agricultural cooperativization was successfully completed in Korea in a matter of only 4-5 years under the wise leadership of the WPK.
Bronze weapons discovered
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Archaeologists at the Korean Central History Museum have recently discovered several narrow bronze daggers and spearheads, typical weapons of the Kojoson period (early 30th century BC-108 BC), in Pyongyang and North Hwanghae Province.
A narrow bronze dagger unearthed from a dolmen at Osan-ri in Sunan district, Pyongyang, has a broken edge but a proper shape from the middle to the hilt. Its original size is unknown, but the remaining part measures 15 cm in length and 3.4 cm in width. It is the second such dagger ever discovered from a dolmen.
Another dagger from Raknang district is still bigger, 27.6 cm long and 3.5 cm wide with no groove or joint and a flat vertebral column.
Still another dagger from Samsong-ri in Junghwa county is 25.5 cm long and 2.7 cm wide, with both edges holding grooves from the middle to the hilt and with symmetrical joints on the vertebral column that reaches the hilt.
A spearhead 18.9 cm by 3.5 cm was collected in the fields of the sixth work-team at Ryongchon-ri, Hwangju county, North Hwanghae Province. It is shorter and narrower than average.
Another spearhead was found together with a three-foot bronze kettle from a wooden coffin tomb at Sungri-dong no. 1, Raknang district, Pyongyang. It is a bit longer, the lengthy edge similar to a narrow bronze dagger.
The artifacts are not only effective weapons but also delicate metalwork with artistic executions of the softly curved bodies, sharp edges and smooth grooves.
In past years, Pyongyang and North Hwanghae Province revealed many remains and relics such as dolmens, stone-coffin tombs, house sites, Pipha (flute)-shape daggers and spearheads belonging to the early period of Kojoson and narrow bronze daggers and spearheads from the late period of Kojoson.
Korea's sweet rice dish
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The sweet rice dish is one of the cooked rice, a traditional Korean food. The ingredients are steamed glutinous rice mixed with honey, sesame oil, chestnuts, dates and pine-nuts.
Glutinous rice is soaked into water for a good while.
After having been washed, it is steamed. Chestnuts are peeled off and sliced into pieces= and the seeds of dates are pulled out and split and boiled until they become juice.
Then put honey in the steamed glutinous rice, season with soy and mix it with chestnut splits and date juice. If it is somewhat hard, add more date juice, sesame oil and honey and put them in a pot and tightly seal the mouth. Put this pot into oven with some water and cover the lid. Boil it up steaming-hot and then at weakened fire until the rice turns oily. Serve the rice in a bowl and garnish with pine-nuts and cinnamon.
The delicious-looking sweet rice, reddish brown and greasy due to long-heated juice and sugar, tempts people's appetite. Dried persimmons, mushrooms and walnuts are also used as ingredients.
For its long history, peculiar taste and good ingredients, it is served as a special food on holidays.
Base diplomacy of Japanese authorities
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The United States and Japan reportedly ruled out the DPRK's membership of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at its annual meeting held in Thailand on May 7. The U.S. branded the DPRK as a "terrorist state" and Japan chimed in with the U.S.
The U.S. much publicized "terrorism" by the DPRK is nothing but a ruse intended to isolate Pyongyang internationally and wrest a sort of "concession" at DPRK-U.S. negotiations. Therefore, there is no need to pay heed to the U.S. loudmouthed "terrorism."
What matters is base diplomacy of Japan blindly following the U.S. crafty stratagem.
By nature the ADB should not attach any political strings to the application of any country to join it and any member of the economic and social commission for Asia and the Pacific is entitled to be a member country of the ADB. It is quite illogical for the U.S. and Japan to attach absurd political condition to the bid of the DPRK, a member of the commission, to join the ADB.
This diplomatic posture taken by Japan towards the DPRK in pursuance of the U.S. clearly indicates that its talk about the improved relations with the DPRK is nothing but hypocrisy and there is no change in its hostile policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK economically.
Japan is becoming ever more pronounced in its moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK at a time when the DPRK-Japan talks are under way. This prompts the DPRK to doubt once again any success of its talks with Japan. The DPRK has been disillusioned with the inconsistent stand of the Japanese authorities reading others' faces while dealing with the issue of DPRK-Japan relations.
This servile diplomatic posture of Japan may imperil the fate of the talks.
U.S. schemes to build missile base
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The U.S. have urged the South Korean authorities to offer land of over 170,000 Phyong (one Phyong equals six feet square) in Phyongthaek, Kyonggi Province of South Korea, for the construction of a new military base, according to the South Korean newspaper Choongang Ilbo May 9.
As most of the land is under cultivation, its conversion into a U.S. military base would deprive peasants there of means of their living. Although the case, is so serious the South Korean authorities have no alternative but to offer it to the U.S. side under the humiliating "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement," the paper deplored.
The U.S. military in South Korea also asked the authorities to provide large areas around its air force bases in Kunsan of North Jolla Province and Osan of Kyonggi province allegedly for "security," it reported.
"Commemorations of half centenary of Korean War" assailed
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea released a statement on May 6 condemning the U.S. and South Korean authorities for staging "commemorations of the half centenary of the Korean War," according to the Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The statement said:
Nowadays, the U.S. is staging "commemorations of the half centenary of the Korean War" in collusion with the South Korean authorities. Such movement is nothing but a sinister trick to twist the aggressive nature of the Korean War and prevent the war-weariness rampant in the U.S. And South Korea.
It is also part of war preparations intended to make other countries dispatch mercenaries in the event of contingency on the Korean peninsula as they did during the past Korean War.
The people from all a of life should develop the struggle against the "commemorations" into a strong anti-U.S. struggle to drive the U.S. aggression troops out of South Korea, a colony, in close combination with a campaign for probe into the truth behind the mass killings of civilians committed by GIs during the Korean War.
If the U.S. persistently rush headlong toward war against the North Korea, instead of drawing lessons from their defeat in the past Korean War, the Korean people will vigorously turn out in the nationwide anti-u.s. Resistance to wipe out the aggressors to the last one.
Japan urged to properly approach DPRK-Japan talks
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Assertion made by Japan on the eve of the 10th intergovernmental talks between the DPRK and Japan that the "missile issue" and the "issue of kidnapping," etc. should be settled can not be construed otherwise than a campaign to deliberately lay obstacles to the talks and hinder them from making any progress, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
Japan's attitude compels us to doubt if it has true willingness to settle the issues of redressing its past and establishing diplomatic relations with the DPRK through the talks.
Recalling that Japan picked a quarrel with the DPRK for no reason at each round of talks between the DPRK and Japan, the commentary goes on:
It insisted on far-fetched assertions, ballyhooing about "missile issue" and the "issue of kidnapping" which have nothing in common with the issue of redressing its past and opening diplomatic relations with the DPRK, and hindered the progress of the talks on purpose.
It is nonsensical for one to propose to have talks while provoking his dialogue partner. What is more incomprehensible is why Japan is renewing a verbal spat against the DPRK while calling for improved relations with it.
The DPRK-Japan talks should not turn into a forum for a quarrel. If Japan approaches the talks from this improper stand, it will put the talks into a bottomless quagmire.
The hard-won talks should not be let to repeat a collapse in the past.
It is high time the Japanese authorities thought twice.
S. Korean military urged to make public data
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The Green Federation, an environmental movement organization of South Korea, on May 9 released a statement urging the "ROK" army authorities to fully open to the public the data related to the possession of chemical weapons, according to a radio report from Seoul.
In the statement the organization disclosed the fact that the authorities built a factory in Maegok-myon, Yongdong county, North Chungchong Province, to scrap some of surplus chemical weapons and have operated it since last year.
It repeatedly called for the full disclosure of the data related to possession of chemical weapons, urging the authorities to take a measure for protecting the lives of the people and environment from contamination by chemical weapons.
GIs' mass killings under fire
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The Party of the Congress for the Independence, the Socialist Progressive Party and the Monima Socialist Organization (Party) of Madagascar on May 2 released a joint statement denouncing the GIs' massacres of civilians during the 1950-1953 Korean War.
The statement exposed the mass killings committed by the GIs in different areas they temporarily occupied during the war and strongly demanded that the U.S. government and military admit their crimes and make an official apology and an immediate and adequate compensation for them.
It said:
Considering the U.S. military presence in South Korea to be the main obstacle to Korea's reunification, we urge the U.S. government and military to immediately withdraw their troops together with all lethal weapons from South Korea.
The U.S. forces still maintain the "UN forces command" in South Korea for the realization of their war strategy. We hold that the united nations should take immediate measures to thoroughly investigate the crimes committed by the GIs during the Korean War, in conformity with its charter and the requirement of international law, and set up a special tribunal to severely punish the criminals under the law.
The South Korean authorities should, far from colluding with the United States, immediately respond to the January 25 joint appeal of the DPRK political parties and organizations on forming a "nationwide ad hoc committee for investigation into the truth behind the GIs' massacres."
U.S. policy of military occupation of S. Korea assailed
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Members of the anti-U.S. national salvation death-defying squads of Korea University and other universities in South Korea staged a surprise demonstration at the U.S. embassy in Seoul on May 9.
In the demonstration they scattered leaflets demanding an end to the U.S. military presence in South Korea.
The leaflets said the United States must stop its interference policy and withdraw from this land before it is too late, AP reported, adding the students claim that the presence of the U.S. troops in South Korea hinders unification of the divided Korean peninsula.
It continued:
The students demanded Washington's apology for the mass killings of unarmed South Korean civilians by U.S. soldiers during the 1950-53 Korean War.
They, in particular, demanded a speedy U.S. investigation of the massacre of South Korean civilians at Rogun-ri.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, the people's anti-U.S. voice comes louder and louder, students said in the leaflets.
S. Korean defector interviewed
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- South Korean Ri Ki Won was interviewed by mediapersons at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel today.
He came over to the North Korea a few days ago via a third country.
He majored in engineering at Hanyang University and worked at different enterprises after graduation.
Before his defection he was vice-chief for equipment maintenance at a joint tramcar stock company.
Asked what was the motive of his defection, Ri answered he could no longer live in the South Korean society where the fate of a human being is swayed by money.
Describing the South Korean society as a place where have-nots can not survive, he said that even his family was compelled to break up. Unable to make ends meet.
He termed the South Korean society a cursed one bereft of justice and humanity and an unequal one where the rich become richer and the poor poorer.
The South Korean people's longing for the north is growing stronger, he said, stressing:
It is their feeling today that South Korea should pursue politics, economy, culture and diplomacy the way leader Kim Jong Il does and he should be president of a unified state.
Three-point charter for Korea's reunification hailed
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Choijilav Gombosuren, chairman of the Mongolian Agricultural and Food Industrial Workers Union who was heading the union delegation on a visit to the DPRK participated in the international signature campaign for support to the three-point charter for Korea's reunification.
On May 8 he signed the paper on behalf of 95,000 union members.
After the signature, he said that the three-point charter is the most just proposal for Korea's reunification and that his union fully supports the reunification proposals advanced by President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people.
Chongryon protest to Japan's Asahi TV
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Representatives of the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan and the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan called at the Asahi Television on April 27 to protest against its slander telecasting, according to Joson Sinbo published in Japan.
The television telecast its emcee Soichiro Tahara supporting Tokyo metropolitan governor Shintaro Ishihara's utterances and making very insulting remarks against Korean residents in Japan.
The representatives urged the Asahi TV to withdraw his remarks and apologize for them.
They also referred to falsity and gravity of "suspected remittance," sophism made by the television to slander the DPRK Chongryon and Korean credit unions in Japan.
The Asahi Television will be to blame for all the consequences arising therefrom, they warned.