Kim Yong Nam greets Italian President
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of Italy, on the occasion of its National Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the President, government and people of Italy and expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would expand and develop in various domains.
It sincerely wished the President and people of Italy greater success in their work for prosperity of the country.
Spokesman of DPRK FM on talks between DPRK and Britain
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- The spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the recent talks between working diplomats of the DPRK and Britain held in Pyongyang.
Talks between working diplomats of the DPRK and Britain were held in Pyongyang from May 16 to 20, he said, and continued:
The recent talks are a continuation of the earlier dialogue.
Both sides had an exhaustive discussion on the issues of developing in depth the bilateral relations in various fields in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and confidence and reached a consensus of views on a series of matters.
We will as ever make positive efforts to develop the relations with all the countries which respect our sovereignty and are friendly to us, including Britain.
Advance team of South Korea arrives
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- An advance team of the south side for preparations for the historic Pyongyang meeting and inter-Korean summit talks arrived here today.
The team was met by officials concerned.
U.S. branded as chieftain of aggression and war
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government made public a memorandum on Tuesday disclosing the real aggressive and war aims sought by the United States in its efforts to falsify the truth of history.
The memorandum, published on the occasion of the half centenary of the Korean War, brands the U.S. as a provoker of this war.
It says:
What the U.S. really sought in provoking the Korean War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953) was to expand its sphere of military domination to the whole Korean peninsula, considering it as an advance base for carrying out its anti-communist strategy and Asian strategy.
Macarthur, the then commander-in-chief of the U.S. Far East command, said he always regarded Korea as a military advance base of tremendous importance. (February 4, 1957, issue of the U.S. newspaper the New York Times) he also stressed that conquest of Korea as a whole would enable the U.S. to cut off the only and one supply line linking Soviet Siberia to the south and control the whole area between Vladivostok and Singapore. (page 148 of Herschel Meyer "Modern History of the United States")
After visiting South Korea as a special envoy of the U.S. President to inspect the process of converting it into a military base Wedemeyer, a U.S. Lieutenant General, reported that if Korea's reunification and independence were allowed, it would constitute great threat to the overall interests of the U.S. It is advisable for the U.S. to expand its military occupation to the whole Korea, he added. (page 18 of the Japanese book "U.S. Military Strategy In the Far East")
Pointing out that the U.S. had a vital stake in igniting the Korean War as it was undergoing a serious economic crisis, the memorandum says:
Though the U.S. reaped fabulous profits during the World War II, its economy faced a serious recession in 1949.
The Japanese book "Korean War" said in its page 128 that the Korean War was a way out of the U.S. economic crisis.
On the accelerated preparations of the U.S. for the war, the memorandum says:
In May 1949 the then U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Muccio, told "Defence Minister" Sin Song Mo and "Minister of Home Affairs" Kim Hyo Sok of South Korea: as there is the United States behind you, everything will go well. We hope that you will trust us and carry out our recommendations and instructions faithfully. A solution to any problem is the strength. This solution can be provided only by the U.S. strength and you should solve this problem as quickly as possible. (page 113 "Collection of Documents Proving the Korean War Provoked by the U.S. Imperialists" Pyongyang)
The U.S. and Syngman Rhee of South Korea frantically stepped up arms buildup with a goal to gain an "upper hand of ten to one" over the north's armed forces.
On July 18, 1949, Rhee, in a letter sent to Jang Myon, South Korean "ambassador" to the U.S., said that South Korea would train and equip 100,000 standing troops, 200,000 reservists and 100,000 policemen, 400,000 in all, for "national defence."
Johnson, chief of the E.C.A. office in the "ROK," testified at the U.S. budget committee of the House of Representatives on May 19, 1950 that "100,000 South Korean soldiers equipped with U.S. weapons and trained by the U.S. military advisers group were already ready to go into action at any time." (page 40 of the Japanese version of the U.S. book "Who Started the Korean War")
Macarthur testified that the U.S. amassed all military supplies and weapons in the area along the 38th parallel to attack North Korea on the eve of war. At the senate hearing held from May 3 to 14, 1951 he disclosed that "ROK" army kept supplies and equipment in places near the 38th parallel and it did not build position in its rear. (Austrian paper Volksstimme dated July 16, 1990, page 69 of the Japanese version of the U.S. book "Who Started the Korean War" and page 96 of the Japanese version of the U.S. book "The History of the Korean War")
The "ROK" army committed a total of 2,617 cases of armed provocations in the whole area along the 38th parallel in the year of 1949.
The U.S. mapped out the operation plan for "northward expedition" and the "NSC-68" strategic plan for a special action to be taken at the time of war.
This plan was worked out and accepted at the joint meeting of the U.S. State Department and the joint chiefs of staff by the order of Truman in January 1950 and ratified at the U.S. National Security Council on April 2 and handed to the South Korean authorities as it was in early 1950 before the outbreak of the Korean War. (the U.S. paper the New York Times dated April 13, 1964)
Upon getting everything ready to provoke the war against the north, the U.S. and Syngman Rhee lost no time to put the plan into practice.
On his arrival in South Korea as Truman's special envoy, Dulles inspected the 38th parallel on June 17, 1950 and came back to Seoul on June 18 where he instructed Syngman Rhee to "start an attack on the north while conducting the counter-propaganda that North Korea invaded the south first."
He appeared at the South Korean "National Assembly" on June 19 to state that "the U.S. was ready to offer all moral and material assistance to South Korea in the fight against communism." (page 4 of the Japanese book "Who Is Aggressor")
Macarthur said at the meeting of the U.S. senate foreign relations and armed services committee held in May 1951 that the North Korean army was deployed very far from the 38th parallel, adding that was the deployment for defence, not for attack, according to a "secret report" of the South Korean "ambassador" to the United States.
Flying corps of the U.S. air force already began military action on June 25, 1950 and indiscriminately bombed the areas of the northern half of Korea from June 26 and the U.S. 7th fleet launched military operations in the seas off Korea on the same day.
The U.S. played cunning tricks to falsify the truth of its war of aggression and justify its undisguised armed intervention by abusing the name of the United Nations.
It cooked up a "resolution" on branding the DPRK as an "aggressor" at the meeting of the UN Security Council on June 25.
The then U.S. President, Truman, quoting the "resolution" calling for the full-scale involvement of the U.S. forces in the Korean War, said the security council asked all the member nations of the UN to render all forms of assistance for implementation of the "resolution." He admitted that he ordered the U.S. navy and air force to assist and support the "ROK army" under such situation. (the U.S. newspaper Minneapolis Times July 23, 1950)
The U.S. let the meeting of the UN Security Council adopt on July 7 a "resolution" which called for allowing U.S. forces to go under "UN forces" helmets and putting troops of its satellite countries under its control.
In fact, such "resolutions" were fabricated in the absence of the representative from the DPRK in violation of article 32 of the UN charter which calls for inviting a party to a dispute under consideration to participate in the discussion relating to the dispute. Moreover, they were passed in the absence of the Soviet representative in Breachof article 27 of the UN Charter which provides for adoption of any decision on procedural matters, by an affirmative vote of 7 members of the UNSC including the concurring votes of its 5 permanent members.
The U.S. thus shifted the responsibility for the outbreak of the war onto the north under the abused UN name from the outset of the war and employed every possible means and method in the war. It mobilized one third of its land force, one fifth of its air force and most of its pacific fleet to the war and even armed forces of 15 satellite states under the name of "UN forces."
The U.S. is chiefly to blame for breaking all articles stipulated in the Armistice Agreement which serve as a prerequisite for ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula.
Article 60 of the AA stipulates that within three months after the Armistice Agreement is signed and becomes effective, a political conference of a higher level of both sides be held by representatives appointed respectively to settle through negotiation the questions of the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, etc.
On July 28, 1953, the day after the conclusion of the AA, U.S. secretary of state Dulles openly declared that the U.S. would walk out of the political conference after lapse of 90 days and the U.S. side, in actuality, deliberately threw obstacles in the process of the DPRK government-proposed preparatory talks held in October that year in Panmunjom for the political conference and unilaterally walked out of the meeting, thus bringing the talks to a rupture.
Subsequently it breached the articles of the AA that bans the introduction of military hardware and combat materiel.
At a hearing of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee held in February 1960, the then U.S. army chief of staff, Lemnitzer, confessed that through scores of years of sustained efforts the U.S. succeeded in scrapping paragraph 13 D of the AA and came to have new type equipment in South Korea.
The U.S. also completely paralyzed the functions of the Military Armistice Commission and the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission tasked to discuss and solve violation of the AA.
The U.S. troops in South Korea are the root cause of the danger of a new war, the memorandum notes, and goes on:
The United States signed the "mutual defense treaty" with South Korea on August 8, 1953 and shifted the 8th U.S. army command and the "UN command" to South Korea from Japan respectively in July 1955 and July 1957 in a bid to massively beef up offensive forces for a new war against the DPRK.
The U.S. House of Representatives at a meeting held in May 1975 to examine the budget for national defense disclosed that at least 1,000 U.S. nuclear weapons were already deployed in South Korea. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Ronald Dimlongz admitted at the congress that the United States introduced at least 1,000 nuclear weapons and deployed 54 planes capable of carrying nuclear bombs in South Korea, according to the reports of "Hapdong News" June 3, 1975 and Jiji on June 20, 1975.
The United States has ceaselessly perpetrated espionage and provocations against the DPRK since the armistice.
In January 1968, the U.S. armed spy ship "Pueblo" was captured while conducting espionage after illegally intruding deep into the territorial waters of the DPRK.
The U.S. belligerent forces worked out many operation plans to attack the DPRK which have been steadily amended and supplemented.
In a recent year the U.S. worked out even a plan for the second war of aggression on the Korean peninsula called "operation plan 5027-98", a more perfect one than the previous one.
The ceaseless U.S.-South Korea joint military drills are aimed to round off the operation plans under the simulated conditions of an actual war.
The U.S. design to provoke a new war of aggression finds a more vivid expression in its moves to knock into shape the "triangular military alliance" grouping the United States, Japan and South Korea.
The DPRK government has made every sincere effort in order to replace the state of armistice by durable peace on the Korean peninsula from its unshakable peaceloving stand, the memorandum notes, and demands the United States immediately stop its moves to start a new war, drawing a proper lesson from its shameful defeat in the last Korean War, and dismantle the "UN command" and withdraw its forces from South Korea at once as required by the resolution of the 30th UN General Assembly.
Juche philosophical outlook on world
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- The Juche idea established a new man-centred philosophical outlook on the world.
That the world is dominated and reshaped by man is a new viewpoint on the world in relation to man, which was clarified by the Juche philosophy.
The Juche idea shows a new viewpoint and attitude to the world, on the basis of man's position and role as master of the world.
The viewpoint and attitude to the world shown by the Juche idea are those with which the world is approached by focussing on man, the master of the world.
Taking a man-centred attitude towards the world means approaching the world from the viewpoint of interests of man, the master of the world.
The world should naturally be approached from this angle because man is the master of the world.
Man is the most precious being in the world, and his interests are more valuable than any others in the world.
Everything in the world has its value only when it serves man.
Approaching the world by focussing on man means dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of the activity of man who transforms it.
Man is the most powerful being in the world, and man alone is capable of transforming the world. It is man and none other that requires its transformation and performs this work. Man acts upon and transforms the world as he desires, drawing on the objective laws.
The world is changed for the benefit of man only by his energetic activity.
The Juche viewpoint and attitude to the world are truly revolutionary in that they enable men to transform the world and shape their destiny independently, creatively and consciously, with a high degree of awareness that they are masters of the world and their own destiny.
The Juche world outlook is based on the philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything.
New films produced
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Recently the Korean Film Studio produced part 12 of the feature film "Forest Sways".
The film was created against the background of the army-people joint meeting held in Beidadingzi at the victorious end of the arduous march made during the anti-Japanese revolutionary war.
It truthfully depicts the superb strategy of the President Kim Il Sung and his warm love for soldiers, the unshakable view on the leader with which the anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk defends the headquarters of the revolution and fighters' noble sense of obligation and comradeship.
The feature film "Women Crew of Train" deals with the heroic struggle of the young women crew of a train. They successfully ensure the wartime transport by devoting all their efforts and wisdom to it to implement the strategic plan of the President during the Fatherland Liberation War.
The studio also produced "Son Back Home." It depicts a soldier of the Korean people's security forces who succeeds in coming back home by remaining true to his revolutionary faith to the last in South Korea. The enemy arrests him, adrift in a rough storm in the sea while performing his military duty. Among the recently produced films is "White Smoke" depicting a young researcher who succeeds in developing a new type of a crusher at a thermo power plant in his efforts to devotedly work like his father who died while at work.
The April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army produced several feature films, including "Wives of Officers".
The film deals with the warm love the wives of officers at a forefront unit shows for its soldiers as their real mothers and sisters would do though they differ from each other in their ages, living environment, characters and aptitude. Through this portrayal it tells the cinema-goers that they are not merely housewives but soldiers belonging to one and the same family of the revolutionary army who are ready to share their lives and death with their husbands in the trench.
International Children's Day marked
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture today to commemorate the 50th Day of International Children which falls on June 1.
Chon Yon Ok, chairwoman of the central committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, in her report recalled that it was decided to commemorate June 1 as an International Day of Children the world over.
This marked a historic occasion of strengthening unity and solidarity among the mothers of the world in the sacred struggle to defend peace from imperialism, protect the lives and health of the children and promote their happiness and sound development and a starting point to bring about a new turn in the work to solve the women's problem and bring up the rising generation, she said, and went on:
In the DPRK the matter of bringing up the younger generation and the issue of succession to the revolutionary cause of Juche were successfully solved and the centuries-old desire of the mothers to bring up their children well came true.
The President Kim Il Sung, possessed of the noblest view on the rising generation, devoted everything to them and the bright future of Korea all his life.
Kim Jong Suk, a communist revolutionary fighter who remained intensely loyal to the President's Juche-oriented revolutionary idea and leadership over the upbringing of the rising generation, made indefatigable efforts to bring up the children well in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and in the days of building a new country.
The work to bring up the younger generation has reached a new higher stage under the wise guidance of the great leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il has dynamically guided the work to further consolidate and develop the system of educating and bringing up the children in conformity with new requirements of the developing Korean revolution which accelerates the cause of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea and to prepare the children as fine successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche in keeping with the requirements of the socialist pedagogy.
Our lovely children growing up to be future pillars of Korea will stoutly succeed to the revolutionary cause of Juche and prove themselves young loyalists in the dynamic march to build a powerful nation, she stressed.
Among those present at the meeting were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and alternate politburo member of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and others, wives of foreign diplomats here and foreign women.
After the meeting an art performance was given by kindergartners in Pyongyang.
RIMPAC 2000 under fire
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary rails against the U.S. for launching the largest-ever RIMPAC 2000 joint military maneuver in the sea off Hawaii.
Though this kind of drill is an annual event, RIMPAC 2000 is something unprecedented in scale, the commentary notes, and goes on:
This is a dangerous saber-rattling intended to realize its design to dominate Asia.
RIMPAC 2000 is targeted against the DPRK. It is the core of the U.S. Asian strategy to hold military supremacy over Asia by retaining its military grip on the Korean peninsula and using it as a springboard.
Pointing out that the maneuver is part of its moves to stifle the DPRK, the commentary says the U.S. warmongers intend to hurl huge multinational forces into the Korean front as they did in the last Korean War to blitz.
They can get nothing from their frantic war exercise aimed to chill the climate for the inter-Korean dialogue and negotiations and escalate military tension and danger of war.
The U.S. is well advised to stop at once this provocative war exercise, properly judging the trend of history and realities.
Villagers around U.S. air force firing range claim damages
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- More than 2,160 residents in 10 villages around the U.S. air force firing range in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province, South Korea, claimed damages against the authorities on May 23, according to a radio from Seoul.
They demanded a compensation of 21.61 billion won, saying that the bombing exercise by the U.S. air force in the firing range on May 8 wounded villagers and destroyed hundreds of dwelling houses.
Silly rumour afloat in S. Korea refuted
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- "Samsongdang," a South Korean publishing company, is spreading the rumour that it "exclusively signed a contract with the publications export and import company of the DPRK on the transfer of the right of book publication and joint publication".
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a provocative false propaganda against the north.
The commentary says:
At the outset of the year South Korean publications carried articles saying "Samsongdang" had agreed with the company concerned of the DPRK on the issue of book publication and signed a "contract" with it.
But this was dismissed by the north as a sheer fabrication intended to achieve a sinister aim.
As a matter of fact, the DPRK's company has never agreed on such issue with the South Korean publishing company and, accordingly, there is no such "contract."
Clarifying this stand, the DPRK demanded South Korea stop such false propaganda which would adversely affect the north-south relations.
Nevertheless, the company published the DPRK's books, clamorous about the "signing of the contract," far from making apology to it.
This cannot be construed otherwise than a deliberate action to reap profits, taking advantage of the popular attention focused on the north.
"Samsongdang" should clarify the truth behind its publication of the DPRK's books and apologize and compensate for its infringement of the DPRK's copy a right and stop deliberately abusing the DPRK's name, the commentary warns.
DPRK FM spokesman on recent DPRK-U.S. talks in Rome
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the recent DPRK-U.S. talks held in Rome.
Recalling that the DPRK-U.S. vice-minister-level talks were held in Rome from May 24 to 30 as a continuation of their regular talks, the spokesman said:
At the talks both sides had an in-depth discussion on pending issues between the two countries including the implementation of the measures of lifting economic sanctions against the DPRK announced by the U.S. in September last year, focusing on the issue of U.S. compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the delayed provision of light water reactors, the issue that was taken up by the New York talks last March.
Both sides shared the view that the issues discussed should be put into practice at an early date to improve the bilateral relations.
They agreed to hold multi-faceted talks to continue to discuss the pending issues.
Scientific forum of Korean social scientists in Japan
Tokyo, May 29 (KNS-KCNA) -- A scientific forum of Korean social scientists in Japan was held at the Tokyo metropolitan headquarters assembly hall of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on May 27 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Chongryon.
Speakers said that the policy of line-switchover put forth by the great leader Kim Il Sung is the most shining one of his exploits in the leadership over the movement of Koreans in Japan and a historic event which opened an epochal phase in the movement and destinies of Koreans in Japan.
They referred to theoretical and practical matters in bringing about a new leaping progress in the movement of Koreans in Japan under the leadership of the respected leader Kim Jong Il.
Italian academic figure on vitality of Juche idea
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Guiseppe Amata, Italian representative for the Study of the Juche Idea, referred to the vitality of the Juche idea at a meeting held on May 15 to inform it of the 15th board meeting of the International Institute of the Juche idea which was held in Pyongyang in April.
Representatives at the board meeting pointed to the profundity and vitality of the Juche idea and expressed their determination to make a more active study and propaganda of the Juche idea, he said.
The great achievements made by the Korean people in building a powerful socialist nation under the wise guidance of the great leader Kim Jong Il show the great viability of the Juche idea, he stressed.
It is the international duty of the progressive peoples to encourage the Korean people to advance along the road of socialism they chose by themselves, he said, adding he as a follower of the Juche idea would make a more positive study and propaganda of the Juche idea in close combination with the realities of Korea.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- More political parties and organisations of different countries joined in the international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by Eduardo Mora Valverde, coordinator of the central committee of the People's Party of Costa Rica, on May 24 on behalf of party members and supporters, Rashid Gabala Ali, director of the general relations department of the Liberal Party of Egypt, on May 27 on behalf of 500,000 party members and Alejandro Rosales, chairman of the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, on May 19 on behalf of members of the committee and the Lazaro Cardenas Trade Union Front.