Kim Jong Il's famous work hailed abroad
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Abani Roy, secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and member of Rajya Sabha of India, made public a press statement on May 20 hailing the famous work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction."
In the statement he said the respected Kim Jong Il, who began his work at the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea long ago, has performed brilliant exploits for the strengthening of the party and the revolution and construction.
He further said:
In the work, Kim Jong Il completely clarified the essence of preserving the Juche character and national character of the revolution and construction, its importance and significance and the important theoretical and practical problems which would serve the revolutionary parties and peoples as guideline in maintaining the revolutionary principles.
All the ideas and theories in the work are new and unique ones that fully reflect his remarkable wisdom.
Guyanese committee for remembering Kim Il Sung formed
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Georgetown on May 19 to inaugurate the Guyanese committee for remembering the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
The Minister of Public Service of the Presidential Office of Guyana in his speech at the inaugural meeting said Kim Il Sung wrought a miracle in the 20th century that political veterans of the world could not work.
The Minister of Public Service of the Presidential Office, the Minister of Ameriindian Affairs and the leader of the Good Green Guyana were elected co-chairmen of the committee at the meeting.
The meeting set the days from May 19 to July 15 for remembering him and adopted an action program to hold different commemorations such as rally, lecture meeting, symposium, film show and book and photo exhibition.
Foreign diplomats and representatives of int'l organizations plant trees
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Foreign diplomatic envoys and representatives of international organizations in the DPRK on Thursday went to the central nursery in Sunan district, Pyongyang, and planted memorial trees with the approach of the world environment day which will fall on June 5.
They were accompanied by Jang Il Son, Minister of Land and Environment Protection, and officials concerned.
They went round the nursery, being briefed on the fact that land management and environment protection are making rapid progress and the long-term plans for the improvement of environment are being implemented nationwide in the DPRK.
After speeches were made they planted pine-nut trees there.
U.S. newspaper reports on mass killings by GIs in Rogun-ri
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Washington Post on May 22 reported that killings of civilians by U.S. aggression forces in Rogun-ri during the last Korean War are a real fact, according to a Seoul-based radio report.
AP reporters followed up for two years the incident, which the U.S. administration had not admitted for a long time but kept silence, and reported it after fierce disputes with the editorial board, the newspaper noted.
Evidence, except the testimony of Edward Daily, an eyewitness of the scene, suffices to prove the core of the Rogun-ri incident in which civilians were shot to death under a railroad bridge following an aerial strafing.
U.S. forces' bomb-dropping denounced
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a statement on May 23 denouncing the U.S. forces for dropping bombs in a firing range of Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province of South Korea, according to Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The statement said the bombing incident in Maehyang-ri is not accidental but inevitable, caused by the war moves against the north of the U.S. forces stationed in South Korea.
The statement went on:
The U.S. aggression forces have fired and dropped depleted uranium shells and bombs for 60 hours every week, leaving a large number of people dead and wounded and hundreds of farm houses destroyed.
The United States should apologize and compensate overall for all atrocities in this land including bombing in Maehyang-ri and immediately withdraw its troops, the target of curse and denunciation of the whole nation, from South Korea.
Japanese government urged to make apology and compensation
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Koji Ito, head of the Japanese delegation of the Nagano Prefectural People's Council for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea, had an interview with the KCNA upon winding up a visit to the DPRK and demanded the Japanese government clearly settle its past through apology and compensation.
Noting that he was moved to see the Korean people's struggle, he said the diligent and talented Korean nation with a 5,000-year-long history should be reunified as one.
He went on:
The Korean people are still compelled to undergo immeasurable sufferings from the national division by the outside forces. The Japanese government should feel responsibility for it and make efforts to clearly redress its disgraceful past.
The Japanese people earnestly hope that Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations will be established. But the relations between the two countries have not been improved because the Japanese government laid an obstacle in the talks for opening diplomatic ties by raising those problems which are not related to the agenda of the talks.
The relations between the two countries will be improved when the Japanese government sincerely reflects on its wrong history of the past, clearly redresses its past through apology and compensation and drops its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
We will conduct colourful activities including a signature campaign for the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea and the improvement of the relations between Japan and the DPRK.
KCNA warns Yomiuri Shimbun not to speak for militarists
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese paper Yomiuri Shimbun on May 22 in an editorial stirred up war hysteria under the pretext of "threat from North Korea."
The editorial asserted that the DPRK's "missile launch" and the "incident of its operation ship" clearly showed that "what North Korea does is the biggest factor of instability in Japan and its surrounding areas." It also argued that "in order to allay the Japanese people's uneasiness it is absolutely necessary for Japan to establish a perfect defense system with hard-line and flexible stance, while sustaining diplomatic efforts."
This tenor of the editorial betrays the conservative and reactionary tendency of the editorial staff of the paper as it tailored to meet the objective and taste of the Japanese reactionaries who are putting spurs to militarism and their moves to turn Japan into a military power.
The story about "threat from North Korea" spread by hack writers of Yomiuri Shimbun is a sheer fiction and lie. This is no more than a ploy of Japan to seek a pretext for becoming a military power and launching overseas invasion.
A noisy call made by the Japanese reactionaries and hack writers, their mouthpiece, for "handling a crisis" and "establishing a defense system," talking about "people's awareness" is nothing but a gimmick to cover up their dangerous militarist design and deceptive agitation to mobilize the Japanese people again to a war of aggression.
If the Japanese media truly have a stake in peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and hope for the welfare of the Japanese people, they should stop floating the fiction about "threat from North Korea," a product of the anachronistic anti-DPRK policy, and speaking for the militarists.
And the Japanese reactionaries should not use any longer hack writers in hatching sinister plots to justify their moves for a war of aggression against others but reflect on and apologize for the indelible crimes committed against the Korean people and redeem their past as early as possible.
B-1 bomber deployed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The U.S. recently deployed two B-1 bombers at the U.S. air force base in Osan, Kyonggi Province, a new move to escalate the tensions on the Korean peninsula and perfect their strategy for air raids on the DPRK "in contingency," according to a foreign press report.
These bombers were reported to have already staged a series of combat flying exercises.
This fact was disclosed by the U.S. military magazine aviation week and space technology.
The U.S. has already laid down an "order for the air force to fulfil its mission" which calls for hurling the U.S. troops in Japan into South Korea the moment a "new war breaks out in Korea."
They have also ordered the U.S. air force in South Korea to "intensify its drills," while committing a watch and espionage against the DPRK on a permanent basis by mobilizing electronic reconnaissance plane E-8C to collect information about movements on the land from the onset of the year.
At a time when a climate is being created for peace and peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula, the U.S. keeps shipping new types of military hardware into South Korea and issuing military orders to escalate tensions. This lays bare their true colors as the chieftain of war of aggression.
Reception given by Nigerian ambassador
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Alhaji Daudu Sulaiman, Nigerian ambassador to the DPRK, hosted a reception yesterday on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Invited were Minister Paek Nam Sun and vice-Minister Pak Tong Chun of Foreign affairs, Ryo Chun Sok, vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces, Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations With Foreign Countries, and officials concerned.
Speeches were exchanged at the reception.
U.S. procrastination on lwr project flayed
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Papers here today in signed commentaries assail the South Korean "Intelligence Service" for issuing a warrant of arrest of a citizen in Kwanak district in Seoul on May 22 on charge of praising the North Korea.
The "Intelligence Service" is going to invoke the notorious "Security Law" against him on charges that he was active in an ideology study circle during his university days and recently sent e-mails lauding the DPRK to 36 trade unions and progressive organizations five times after opening an internet homepage.
Rodong Sinmun dismisses this as a blatant crackdown upon the South Korean people aspiring after reunification through alliance with communism and the north and an unpardonable provocation against the DPRK.
Realities in South Korea go to prove that neither dialogue between the north and south nor national reconciliation, unity and reunification are possible without the abolition of the "Security Law" and the "Intelligence Service" in South Korea.
The "Intelligence Service's" action to arrest that citizen on charges of violating the "SL" is clear evidence that they still regard the DPRK as their "principal enemy."
The north cannot remain a passive on-looker to this.
Minju Joson says that if the South Korean authorities truly wish national reconciliation and unity, they should immediately abolish anti-national and anti-reunification "Intelligence Service" and "Security Law," both bitterly cursed by the whole nation.
Step to arrest praiser of north under fire
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- At least 200 figures of civic, public and religious organizations of South Korea held a press conference in Seoul on May 25 at which they issued a declaration on the situation, a Seoul-based radio reported.
In the declaration they strongly demanded a fundamental revision of the "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" and an immediate closure of firing range of the U.S. air force in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province.
It also demanded the "government" authorities be positive in their actions to thoroughly probe the truth behind GIs' mass killings of civilians during the Korean war and make the U.S. apologize and compensate for them.
Declaration on situation issued in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The south headquarters of the national ad hoc committee for probing the truth behind GIs' massacres was formed in Seoul on May 19.
Present at an inaugural meeting were representatives of the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, "the National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification," the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, "the National Alliance of the Peasant Movement," the Council of the Movement for Independence and Reunification, the struggle headquarters of the pan-national rally, the Joint Measure Committee for Basic Rights of People and the release of prisoners of conscience, the committee of emergency measures against U.S. and war, the people working for peace and reunification, the joint meeting of youths, the central council for national independence and reunification and the committee for defending the spirit of the nation.
The meeting discussed the organizational system and decided to form a steering committee of the south headquarters of the national ad hoc committee for probing the truth behind GIs' massacres with representatives of affiliated organizations and individual figures.
The south headquarters discussed and decided on the orientation of the work and action plans. They include such activities as fully accepting the Beijing agreement of the working officials of the relevant organizations in the north, south and overseas to form the national ad hoc committee for probing the truth behind GIs' massacres, staging an anti-U.S. demonstration in front of the white house on June 23, holding an all-nation rally on June 25 demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops who are chiefly responsible for massacres of civilians, releasing a white paper on those mass killings, building a museum in Rogun-ri and staging an anti-U.S. cultural festival, seminar, every Wednesday propaganda and signature campaign.
A declaration on the formation of the south headquarters was read out.
South headquarters formed to probe truth behind GIs' massacres
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary rails against the United States for dragging on the light water reactor (LWR) project under an unreasonable pretext in a bid to scuttle it.
The commentary says:
The U.S. conservative hard-liners are letting loose such a piffle that "nuclear and missile threat" from the DPRK will adversely affect the LWR project. It was against this backdrop that the U.S. House of Representatives recently adopted a "bill" calling for "compulsory house and senate approval" of any U.S. transfer of facilities and technology for atomic energy to the DPRK.
This is a move to deliberately throw hurdles in the way of carrying out the project that has already been much delayed.
Under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework adopted in 1994 the United States is committed to complete light water reactors and hand them over to the DPRK by 2003.
But the United States has not properly fulfilled it. This has seriously retarded the LWR project and it will most probably be finished much behind the schedule. The United States is to blame for this. The U.S. has dragged on the project under this or that pretext.
The LWR project is not something which the United States may or may not do. This is an unavoidable commitment and responsibility which it is committed to fulfil under the agreed framework and according to its President's guarantee message.
The United States should make its stand clear.
The DPRK has suffered heavy economic losses due to its measure of freezing nuclear facilities. They are increasing due to the delayed construction of light water reactors.
Now that United States seeks to delay this project, persistently raising a hue and cry over the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK, the DPRK can not but reconsider a corresponding counter-measure.
The United States will be held wholly responsible for all the consequences of its unreasonable stand.
Military attaches corps visits realigned fields
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The military attaches corps in Pyongyang yesterday visited the realigned fields in North Phyongan Province, the northwestern part of Korea.
Hearing the explanation that the 50,000-hectare-land realignment project in North Phyongan Province was completed in a short span of time, they looked round the realigned fields of Chojang cooperative farm in Kwaksan county and Sinchon cooperative farm in Jongju city.
After inspection, head of the corps Vu Dinh Thang, military attache of the Vietnamese embassy, said that he understood better the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Korean People's Army who do anything unconditionally when the respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il is determined.
Yan Jiang Feng, military attache of the Chinese embassy, noted that the realigned fields are a great achievement made by the Korean people and army in the grand nature-harnessing project under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Cuban military attache Eduardo Sanchez Pena said the DPRK has opened a promising prospect for increase of grain production by realigning land wonderfully.
Mohamed Mohamed Ahmad Ashour, military attache of the Egyptian embassy, emphasized that it is the peculiar character of the Korean people and army to unconditionally realize the plan of Kim Jong Il.
Vladimir Dombrovski, military attache of the russian embassy, said the land rezoning is very important in Korea where the cultivated area is limited.
Biggest-ever chorus performed by young builders
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- On April 15, the significant Sun's Day, 50,000 young builders of the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway presented the biggest-ever chorus at the bank of lake Thaesong overlooking the construction site.
Their singing in chorus of such famous songs as "Song of Loyalty" and "Where Is Dear General" seemed to shake the earth and sky.
This chorus demonstrated to the world that no one can match the young builders rallied close around their leader and the Korean youth can work any miracles.
The chorus was repeated several times.
This motorway project started in Korea when the country was in a very difficult situation.
There was an acute shortage of not only equipment and materials but food.
It was a Herculean task to carry out the project.
Though the project was to be undertaken along the old road between Pyongyang and Nampho, it did not stand comparison with it in terms of its width and technical needs and a now roadbed in all sections extending well over 40 kilometers had to be built.
Despite severe cold in winter, the young builders successfully carried out a series of blasting to remove hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of earth by drilling blast holes manually. They had to carry bags of sand, gravel and earth on their backs to build the roadbed.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il highly appreciated the feats of the young builders, saying that he wanted to invite all of them to sit on "gold cushions".
And he showed such loving care for them as seeing to it that special food and gifts were repeatedly sent to them.
The young builders were firmly confident that they could create anything out of nothing and work any miracles under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Not a single day and month passed without witnessing the loyalty and devoted efforts of the builders of the motorway.
It was thanks to this faith that they succeeded in completing the roadbed in a matter of little over a year despite all difficulties and bottlenecks.
That was why they performed the unprecedented-in-scale chorus in high praise of the great leader.
The construction of set-ups and paving are in full gear in various sections of the motorway.
Essential qualities of man clarified by Juche philosophy
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Juche philosophy scientifically and perfectly elucidated the essential qualities of man for the first time in the human history of philosophy.
The Juche philosophy clarified from a new angle that independence, creativity and consciousness are the essential qualities of man as a social being.
According to a definition made by the Juche philosophy, independence is an attribute of man as a social being who is desirous of living and developing independently as master of the world and his own destiny.
Man is desirous of living and developing independently as master of nature and society free from all manner of subjugation and fetters of nature and society.
Having independent idea and consciousness reflecting this desire, man conducts independent activities to dominate the world.
Independence is the most essential and fundamental attribute of social man.
Creativity is an attribute of social man who transforms the world and shapes his destiny purposefully and consciously.
This attribute means man's capacity to cognize and transform the world not inherent in living things in general.
By virtue of his creative consciousness and transformation capacities, man transforms nature and society to be more beneficial to him.
Consciousness is an attribute of social man which determines all his endeavors to understand and reshape the world and himself.
The attribute means character of man who understands the world and transforms it, guided by his idea and consciousness. This guarantees all independent and creative activities of man.
The Juche philosophy clarifies that independence, creativity and consciousness are closely linked with each other and they are attributes which find a common expression in activities of man. Man has such attributes as people are social beings who form a social collective and live and work in social relationship.
The Juche philosophy thus defined the essential qualities of man as a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness. It is an ideological, theoretical and methodological cornerstone of the man-centred philosophical outlook on the world.
Early repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners urged
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for operating "reunification square", a reception room for unconverted long-term prisoners, was held on May 22, according to Yonhap News from Seoul.
Attending the ceremony were representatives of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the Committee for Promotion of Repatriation of Unconverted Long-Term Prisoners, "the National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification" and so on.
They unanimously urged the immediate repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners to the North Korea.
Hanging on the wall of the room were photographs of 77 prisoners who refused to write a "letter of ideological conversion" and who should be sent back to the north.
Over 400 cases of damage reported
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- At least 400 cases of damage have been reported so far by inhabitants in the area around the firing range of the U.S. air force in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province of South Korea, according to a radio report from Seoul.
This was disclosed by the "joint investigation team" of the United States and South Korea which perfunctorily began its work on May 18.
The U.S. troops and the South Korean authorities took the stand of brushing aside the demand of the inhabitants for the shift of the firing range from Maehyang-ri by declaring "it is impossible." This is lashing them into greater fury.
S. Korean authorities frantic in suppressing Hanchongryon
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities are hell-bent on suppressing the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) on the occasion of its 8th-term inaugural meeting.
The inaugural meeting is scheduled to be held at Pusan University from May 26.
In order to break it up at the initial stage, the Pusan "Police Agency" is going to arrest Kang Jong Ho, chairman of the General Student Council of Dong-a university, and 10 other students on charges of violating the notorious "Security Law" for the mere reason that they do not secede from Hanchongryon which was prescribed as an "enemy-benefiting organization" and requested a warrant for the arrest of Ri Hui Jong, chairman of the General Student Council of Pusan University, and 20 other students.
Meanwhile, the South Korean authorities deployed police force of 10 companies around Pusan University from May 24 in a bid to block the gathering of students under Hanchongryon at the university.
But Hanchongryon declared their will to hold the inaugural meeting in the teeth of any suppression.
S. Korean authorities' indifferent attitude toward Tok Island condemned
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Tokdo Museum closed the door on May 23 in protest against the South Korean authorities' indifferent attitude toward Tok Island, according to a radio report from Seoul.
The museum side hung a streamer bearing letters reading "Tok Island not defended. The Tokdo Museum has closed the door" on the entrance gate and closed the door upon visitors.
The curator of the museum expressed his wrath, saying what operation of the museum means under the condition in which the South Korean authorities are indifferent to Tok Island and the island is faced with dangerous situation. He said that the museum would not open until the "government" has a firm will to defend Tok Island.
Proposal for founding DCRK
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in an article stresses that the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo advanced by the President Kim Il Sung at the sixth congress of the Worker's Party of Korea on October 10, Juche 69 (1980) is the reunification formula common to the Korean nation.
The proposal calls for reunifying the country by founding a confederal state on the condition that the north and south of Korea recognize and tolerate each other's ideas, social systems and governments.
Namely, it is to found a unified state by confederal formula based on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments.
The proposal for founding the DCRK reflects the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--the reunification program common to the nation, which were declared in the north-south joint statement on July 4, 1972. The proposal is the best way for the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea, the article says, clarifying its grounds.
The proposal indicates the most reasonable, fair and aboveboard ways of reunification acceptable to all classes, circles, parties and groups--composition of a unified national government, its mission, function and role, the authority and duty of a confederal government and regional governments, the character and name of a confederal state, the article notes, adding:
The proposal clarifies the external position of a confederal state by prescribing it as a neutral state, not joining in any political-military alliance or bloc nor being a satellite country of any powers.
U.S. ambassador urged to apologize to Maehyang-ri villagers
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The Green Federation, South Korean Environmental Movement Organization, urged the U.S. ambassador to South Korea to make a direct apology for his special article contributed to a daily on May 23, a Seoul-based radio reported.
The U.S. ambassador in the article asserted that the South Korean court exercises jurisdiction on all major crimes committed by GIs present in South Korea, the organization noted, demanding the ambassador make a direct apology to Maehyang-ri villagers as what he wrote does not tally with articles stipulated in "the ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" now in force in South Korea.
Recalling that he was so brazen-faced as to say they found neither damage nor any other evidence to compensate for what happened in Maehyang-ri, the organization demanded he apologize for his assertion, dismissing it as a denial of the stark fact that its airforce plane dropped bombs in Maehyang-ri on May 8, injuring villagers and destroying at least 700 houses.
Japan urged to compensate for its past crimes
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- It has become an international trend to pay compensation for past crimes. But it is only Japan which acts contrary to this, Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
The Korean people are the biggest victims of the Japanese Asian aggression, the commentary says, and goes on:
After occupying Korea by force of arms, Japan kidnapped and forcibly took away at least six million Koreans to battle fields and construction sites and forced nearly 200,000 women to become sex slaves for the "Japanese imperial army."
The Japanese robbed Korea of incalculable quantities of agricultural produce and natural resources and looted cultural relics listed as national treasures.
The hearts of the Korean people are shaking with towering grudge and resentment against Japanese imperialism..
Japan has persistently pursued a hostile policy toward the DPRK, far from making apology and compensation. Due to this shameless act, the relations between the DPRK and Japan have not improved though more than a half century has passed.
There is no other way for Japan to improve its relations with the DPRK but to honestly admit all its crimes committed against the Korean people and sincerely apologize and compensate for them.