Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Political parties and organizations of Romania and Guyana joined in the international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Socialist Party of Romania, together with members of its leadership on behalf of 300,000 party members, the chairman of the Romanian Communist Party, the chairman of the Workers Association of Romania and the chairman of the Students Association of President College of Guyana on their party and association members.
Book on Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's noble obligation published
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Korean National Institute of China published a book "Noble Obligation To Be Handed Down For Ever" in Chinese, which was written by Zhang Jinquan, son of a Chinese revolutionary martyr Zhang Weihua, on the occasion of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
The book carries pictures showing the revolutionary activities of the great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and warm love shown by them for Zhang's family.
Edited in the book were "Revolutionary Comrade-In-Arms Zhang Weihua" (1 and 2) of the fourth volume of part 1- the anti-Japanese revolution of Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century."
The book consists of nearly 40 subtitles including "Days When He Was Growing Into a Revolutionary," "'This Is Zhang Weihua'" and "Flower of Sino-Korean Friendship Cultivated Through Five Generations."
The author of the book stressed that Kim Il Sung was a great man born of heaven with the humblest and warmest humanity and obligation in the world. He added that Kim Il Sung's love for Zhang's family, which lasted over half a century since its start in Fusong, is now invariably being carried forward by Kim Jong Il.
Struggle of NDFSK and S. Korean people supported
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Juan Carretero, secretary general of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America in Cuba, on May 10 sent a letter addressed to the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) to the NDFSK Pyongyang mission on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the heroic Kwangju Popular Uprising.
In the letter he noted that the Kwangju Popular Uprising was an offspring of the desire of the South Korean people to live in a reunified independent and democratic country and a heroic and proud deed which gave a heavy blow to the colonial fascist rule of the U.S.
He further said: Though 20 years have passed since the uprising, the desire of the South Korean people has not yet been realized. The United States is hell-bent on the moves to perpetuate the division of Korea, stationing its troops in South Korea.
He extended full support and solidarity to the NDFSK and the South Korean people in their struggle to drive the U.S. murderers out of South Korea and reunify the country.
Negative assertion of some S. Korean media about U.S. forces pullback
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued information bulletin no. 807 on May 26 denouncing some mass media of South Korea for their negative assertion about the withdrawal of the U.S. troops, a clear sign of their uneasiness about the anti-U.S. sentiment for independence growing stronger among students and other people.
Some media in South Korea are spreading such sheer sophism that the "important role" of the U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia should not be "underestimated," actions staged against the U.S. troops "may threaten" their presence in South Korea and any protest should not lead to "rejecting" "their presence."
These assertions are nothing but preposterous jargons that can be made only by a group of hack writers, reptile media going against the trend of the times and the strong aspiration of the nation, as they are an unbearable insult to the mounting anti-U.S. struggle staged by students and other people in South Korea, the bulletin said, and went on:
What is more intolerable is that some media in South Korea claim that the South Korean people's anti-U.S. struggle is "bolstering" someone's call for the U.S. forces withdrawal. This is an unpardonable crime against the people and the nation.
Some South Korean media's echo of absurd assertions of the U.S. aggressors and their stooges leaves no doubt that these hack writers and venal trumpeters are misrepresenting justice as injustice and patriotism as treachery for a petty amount of money.
These media are well advised to return to their true mission, though belatedly, and support and encourage the South Korean people in their anti-U.S. struggle for independence.
The information bulletin called upon all the media-persons in South Korea to powerfully wield their pens of justice and take the lead in the struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. from South Korea and independence, democratization of the society and the reunification of the country.
Ridiculous "commemorations" of Korean War under fire
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Yun Song Sik, permanent member of the Consultative Council of Former South Korean Politicians In the North For the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, in an interview with KCNA on Friday denounced the United States and the South Korean authorities for busying themselves with various "commemorations" intended to cover up their true colors as war criminals with the approach of the half centenary of the Korean War of aggression ignited by them.
He said: The war criminals should have been severely punished by history. The U.S. and the South Korean authorities' "commemorations" of the war of aggression provoked by themselves, are therefore, an intolerable mockery of and challenge to justice and human conscience.
This is aimed to allay the anti-U.S. sentiment of the South Korean people now at its height following the disclosure of the truth behind GIs' mass killings in Rogun-ri, justify the war of aggression they ignited 50 years ago and paint the U.S. aggressor forces as an "apostle of peace" and "protector," yun said.
He cited historical facts to prove that the U.S. and the South Korean authorities' invasion of the north cannot be distorted as the "north's invasion of the south."
He pointed out that another aim sought by them is to justify their moves for the second war against the north and draw the Korean War participants into this war.
He called upon the South Korean patriotic people to decisively frustrate the U.S. and its stooges' funny "commemorations" and come out vigorously in the anti-U.S., anti-war struggle.
U.S. "plan for partly return" of land used by it assailed
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The "Ministry of National Defense" of South Korea on May 2 said that the U.S. forces informed South Korea of its plan to return only 6,600 hectares of land out of the area of their bases in South Korea by 2007, according to the Japanese Asahi Shimbun.
The U.S. forces were reported to have requested the South Korean authorities to offer 2,000 hectares of land to them for a military base in return for implementing their plan, adding they would sustain their presence in South Korea.
This betrays the black-hearted design of the U.S. to retain a permanent hold on South Korea as their military base for aggression.
Their proposed partly "return" of land is nothing but a cunning trick to grab new land for their key base in return for delivering back some unnecessary land to South Korea, while pretending to meet with a half heart the growing demand of people in various parts of South Korea for the return of the land used as U.S. military bases.
KCNA on U.S. arms buildup
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology recently reported that the United States deployed two new type of strategic bombers B-1 capable of carrying nuclear bombs at the U.S. air force base in South Korea, a new move to perfect its strategy for air raids on the DPRK in "contingency".
According to the magazine, 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 and ordered the U.S. air force in South Korea to intensify its drills.
This is an irrefutable proof that the U.S. is the very one responsible for increasing tensions, displeased with the climate created for a dialogue for peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula.
This move disclosed the U.S. intention to use nuclear weapons without hesitation on the Korean peninsula.
It is aimed to further escalate the political and military tensions on the Korean peninsula in a bid to chill the climate for the north-south dialogue.
This means that the U.S. disavowed the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework in which it promised not to make any nuclear threat and nuclear attack on the other side, thus self-exposing that its talk about peace and dialogue is no more than hypocrisy.
Its wild design to dominate the world by force of arms remains unchanged and its "policy of strength" is becoming more undisguised.
The U.S. should bear in mind that it will be held entirely accountable for the consequences to be entailed by its reckless arms buildup.
The U.S. is well advised to behave itself, clearly understanding the DPRK's will to counter "strength" with strength.
Japanese reactionaries' war jargon flayed
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Foreign diplomatic envoys and representatives of international organisations here yesterday visited realigned fields in North Phyongan Province, the northwestern part of Korea.
They, being briefed on the fact that the Korean people and servicepersons carried out a task of realigning more than 50,000 hectares in a matter of months, went round the fields of the Chojang cooperative farm in Kwaksan county and the Sinchon cooperative farm in Jongju city.
At the end of the visit, Palestinian ambassador Shaher Mohammed Abdlah said he was deeply moved to see the achievements gained in the land rezoning in North Phyongan Province under the wise guidance of the great Kim Jong Il.
Mongolian ambassador Damdiny Byamba said the eye-opening changes in North Phyongan Province serve as evidence that the Korean people rallied close around leader Kim Jong Il are able to carry out any difficult tasks with credit.
Cuban ambassador Jose Manuel Inclan Embade said the province successfully carried out a vast land-rezoning project so as to increase agricultural production.
Realigned fields visited by foreigners
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries are talking these days such gibberish that there is the danger of Japan's involvement in a war because of North Korea in a desperate bid to convince the public of non-existent "missile threat" from the DPRK and "suspected kidnapping."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a war jargon of those keen on reinvasion.
The commentary goes on:
It is not Japan but the DPRK that is exposed to a missile threat.
The Japanese reactionaries are now working hard to establish the "Theatre Missile Defense" system in league with the United States. This is targeted against the Asian countries including the Korean peninsula.
It is not the DPRK but Japan which is responsible for the "issue of kidnapping."
Japan is a country with the world's biggest kidnapping record.
It was publicly known that at least six million Koreans were kidnapped and drafted by Japan in the past.
Their talk about Japan's possible involvement in a war because of the DPRK is an undisguised war plan to realize its ambition for reconquest under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK.
The Japanese reactionaries are zealously involved in the U.S. war strategy in a bid to realize their dream of reinvasion with the U.S. backing. This is the reason why Japan is floating such a fiction.
If the Japanese reactionaries persist in their moves to stifle the DPRK, they will meet only destruction.
Kwangju Popular Uprising hailed abroad
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Palestine Liberation Organization and the New Communist Party of Great Britain separately released press statements on May 19 and 17 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising in South Korea in May 1980.
The statements noted that the Kwangju Popular Uprising was an eruption of the pent-up grudge and anger and an offspring of the ardent desire for independence, democracy and reunification of the South Korean people opposing the colonial tyrannical rule by the U.S. and their stooges.
The statements further said:
20 years have passed since the uprising, but the desire of the uprisers has not been met at all. After cooking up the pro-U.S. military dictatorial "government," the U.S. try to perpetuate this system of their colonial rule by changing its name. The South Korean authorities are mercilessly suppressing the patriotic struggle of the people while eagerly supporting the U.S.'s colonial domination and war moves.
The United States, the assailant and backstage manipulator of the Kwangju massacre in which a large number of citizens were brutally murdered, should officially apologize to the South Korean people for the massacre and immediately withdraw its forces and war equipment from South Korea, putting an end to its anachronistic intervention and domination over South Korea.
The South Korean ruling quarters should discontinue dependence on outside forces and flunkeyist and traitorous deeds, make policy switchover for national independence, repeal the "Security Law" and dissolve the "Intelligence Service" obstructive to independence, democracy and reunification and stop at once the suppression of the patriotic and democratic forces.
Gigantic land realignment project in Korea praised
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- D. D. Shastri, chairman of the Trade Union Coordinating Center of India, issued a press statement on May 19 after studying the great leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Improving the Layout of the Fields Is a Great Transformation of Nature For the Prosperity of the Country, a Patriotic Work of Lasting Significance."
Kim Jong Il, faithful successor to the revolutionary cause of the President Kim Il Sung, is carrying forward with credit the leadership exploits of the President in agriculture, too, he said, and went on:
Kim Jong Il unrolled an ambitious plan for land realignment and has energetically steered the struggle for its implementation on the spot.
Such large-scale land realignment projects now under way in the DPRK can be undertaken only by socialist Korea under the outstanding leader, who totally dedicated to the country and the people, is making a great history of creation and construction.
He expressed confidence that the agricultural workers in the DPRK would create a new great history of the full realization of agricultural mechanization under the long-term plan of Kim Jong Il.
False assertion of investigating team for probe into U.S. bombing refuted
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Inhabitants near a firing range of the U.S. air force in Maehyang-ri on May 25 dismissed the assertion of the South Korea-U.S. "joint investigating team" as "totally unacceptable," a Seoul-based radio reported. In an interview with some media it claimed the damage done to inhabitants was not attributable to the bombing exercise of the U.S. air force.
The committee of measures for the compensation for damage done to inhabitants in Maehyang-ri declared that it would stage a more powerful struggle for the closure of the firing range of the U.S. air force, irrespective of the results of the deceptive investigation. It warned the U.S. air force that if the U.S. air force restarts the firing exercise on May 29, it would join members of civic organizations in the struggle to immediately remove wire entanglements around the firing range and occupy it.
DPRK delegation leaves to attend ORC meeting
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- A DPRK railway delegation headed by Minister of Railways Kim Yong Sam left here today to attend the 28th ministerial meeting of the Organization of Railways Cooperation (ORC) to be held in Latvia.
Act of chilling dialogue
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Jo Song Thae, "Minister of National Defense" of South Korea, made a tour of Japan from May 20 to 24.
At the talks with the director general of the Japan Defense Agency during his tour he called for vigilance against the north and close relations among Japan, the United States and South Korea for a joint counteraction irrespective of the north-south summit talks.
He also took issue with the north over "missile issue" and non-existent biological and chemical weapons and had a confab on "increased South Korea-Japan military exchange and cooperation".
The anti-north diatribe is an unpardonable challenge designed to chill inter-Korean reconciliation and unity. It is also a hostility toward dialogue partner.
The DPRK has made every sincere effort to make the soon-to-be-held north-south dialogue arranged with so much effort produce good results in conformity with the great expectation and desire of the nation.
If the South Korean authorities are truly interested in dialogue and reunification, they should discontinue anti-north diatribe designed to spoil the atmosphere of dialogue.
The recent anti-north diatribe by Jo, keen on confrontation with the north, revealed once again the willingness of the South Korean authorities for showdown with the north.
From the very day when the north-south agreement was published, Jo has let out utterances getting on the nerves of the north and spoiling the atmosphere of dialogue.
On April 24 he met with the American ambassador in Seoul and the commander of the U.S. forces present in South Korea to ask for close "anti-north cooperation" in the efforts to cope with the summit and the changing situation. He called a series of meetings with brass hats and told the nonsense that "the summit is a product of South Korea's engagement policy toward the north" and the army should back policies of the "government with strong force."
The utterances made by Jo at the talks with the director general of the Japan Defense Agency manifested his stand opposing dialogue and reunification.
If the South Korean authorities truly want improved inter-Korean relations, peace and reunification, they should no longer egg such ultra right anti-DPRK elements as Jo on to make anti-north diatribe aimed at chilling dialogue. They should not misjudge the magnanimity of the north.
If they continue to seek confrontation with the dialogue partner, they will be held entirely responsible for all the consequences arising therefrom.
The north will closely follow their future behaviour.