Struggle for independence against imperialism called for
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article calls on all the countries and nations advocating independence to turn out in a vigorous struggle for independence against imperialism, bearing deep in mind that dependence on outside forces leads to subordination and national ruin.
It is absurd and foolish of any country and nation to depend and pin hope on others, expecting them to bring progress and prosperity to it, the article says, and goes on:
The imperialists' "aid" which they term "greatly helpful" to the progress of other countries and nations is nothing but a noose for plunder and subjugation.
"Cure" peddled by them in different parts of the world is not for the progress of other countries and nations but aimed to improve their image and fish in troubled waters.
East European countries that accepted "cure" offered by imperialists are now in the grip of worsening socio-economic crisis and disputes.
Any attempt to solve issues with the help of imperialists is little short of leaving one's own destiny to a herd of ferocious wolves.
One should not harbor any illusion about foreign forces nor idolize them in order to discard the idea of depending on them. One should not abandon one's own view and faith, caving in to growing pressure from imperialists.
Dependence on outside forces in the progress of countries and nations is as dangerous as poison but independence is as good as elixir.
U.S. projected "commemorations of half centenary" of Korean War
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary terms the United States' projected big "commemorations of the half centenary" of the Korean War a mockery of and insult to justice and human conscience and a premeditated provocation to the Korean people.
The U.S. warmongers are describing the last Korean War as "southward invasion" by someone and ballyhooing about their "counter-attack" and "victory" in the war, the commentary notes, and goes on :
They are busying themselves with making arrangements for "memorial services" for the aggressors killed in the war, "erecting cenotaphs" to them and "distributing printed matters for the occasion."
The mobile photo exhibition scheduled to take place in the "Macarthur Memorial" is part of this racket.
The real aim sought by the U.S. in its desperate efforts to shirk the responsibility for the start of the Korean War and much talk about its "victory" in the war despite its shameful defeat in the war is to play down its ignominious defeat in the war and tone down the anti-U.S. sentiment daily mounting in South Korea and Japan, etc.
The aggressive nature of the U.S. can never change just as wolves cannot become lambs, the commentary observes, and stresses:
The U.S. warmongers should halt at once their ridiculous farces and saber-rattling, clearly mindful that their reckless moves to start a war against the DPRK will only bring tragic consequences.
Proper solution to issue of dominium over Tok Islet demanded
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Over 200 personages of religious, academic and other circles of South Korea reportedly released a statement at a press conference on June 7 demanding a proper solution to the issue of dominium over Tok Islet.
Denouncing the "people's government" for keeping mum about the issue, the statement demanded that the authorities show their strong will to defend the dominium over the islet to the last.
KCNA accuses U.S. of trying to evade its responsibility
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- After the adoption of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework the United States committed itself through its president's message of assurances to take responsible measures for the provision of light water reactors (LWR) to the DPRK. However, the fate of the agreed framework is now in peril due to the U.S. non-fulfillment of it.
Quite contrary to the DPRK's sincere approach to the implementation of the agreed framework, the U.S. has paid only lip-service to the LWR project and there have been serious fluctuations in its supply of heavy oil to the DPRK as substitute energy, thus creating great confusion and difficulties in the DPRK's economic performance. This fact is widely known.
In this connection, the DPRK has warned the U.S. more than once and urged it to show its faith by quickly and honestly implementing the points of the agreed framework.
However, the U.S. has remained unchanged in its wrong attitude. These days it is hatching a sinister plot to shirk its responsibility for its non-fulfillment of the agreed framework.
This is clearly evidenced by its recent "congressional research service report" in which it asserted "North Korea is highly likely to have the technology to produce nuclear weapons and has many more nuclear bombs than estimated because of a possible influx of plutonium from Russia."
The release of this "congressional research service report" on "North Korea's possible possession of nuclear weapons," a baseless story, was timed to coincide with the surface of the issue of U.S. compensation for the delayed LWR project. The U.S. assertion is nothing but a brigandish attempt to shift its blame for the non-fulfillment of the agreed framework on to the DPRK.
It is a hard fact admitted by the U.S. itself that there is no doubt about the DPRK's freezing of all its nuclear activities right after the adoption of the agreed framework.
This was also proved by the U.S. visits to the Kumchang-ri underground facility last year and recently and the statement of the U.S. Department of State on the results of the visits.
That was why Russia in a press release denying the report said "the report is clearly biased and contributes nothing to the creation of a favorable climate for the settlement of the Korean problem and the successful holding of the inter-Korean summit."
As a matter of fact, the DPRK is suffering tremendous economic losses due to the freezing of its independent nuclear power industry under the agreed framework. There are, therefore, opinions calling for the nullification of the agreed framework and assertions that push for restarting the nuclear power industry before it is too late.
The U.S. is well advised to behave in good faith, mindful that it will be accountable for the non-fulfillment of the agreed framework, including the compensation for the economic losses caused by the delayed LWR project, and for its imperiled fate.
U.S. urged to admit war crimes
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The African Regional Committee of Friendship and Solidarity With the Korean People issued a statement on May 29, denouncing the GIs' mass killings of civilians during the Korean War.
During the last Korean War the U.S. forces, under the helmet of the "UN forces," destroyed the North Korea as a whole including capital city of Pyongyang with indiscriminate bombing and bombardment in violation of international treaties and war law and regulations and killed millions of people, the statement charged, and said:
The committee demands that the U.S. admit its crimes committed against the DPRK and make an unconditional and full compensation for the shocking crimes which will never be pardoned by history.
The United Nations should probe the truth about the crimes in accordance with its humanitarian mission, for the crimes were committed under the signboard of the UN, and bring those criminals to trial in conformity with the international law.
We hope that governments and non-governmental organizations of all countries will cooperate with the UN for stern and fair trial of the criminals.
U.S. troops stockpile war supplies in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. aggression troops present in South Korea have reportedly stockpiled 5,000 billion won worth of war supplies for an "emergency" in the Korean peninsula.
Disclosing the fact on June 5, the South Korean "Ministry of National Defence" said that ammunitions of different kinds account for 60 percent of the quantities needed for the South Korea-U.S. "combined forces" in the "event of contingency."
The U.S. 7th Air Force armed with planes of latest type including F-16 and A-10 is 30 percent of the air force of the "combined forces" in combat ability, it added.
False rumour about "missile threat from N. Korea" rejected
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Robert Einhorn, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State For Nonproliferation, reportedly claimed on Wednesday that the U.S. plan for "National Missile Defense" (NMD) system is aimed at preventing "missile threat" from the DPRK.
He said, "the plan would be directed at dealing with threats, emerging missile threats, such as those we see coming down from the road from countries such as North Korea."
His utterances are no more than a trick to justify the U.S. plan for "NMD" system and find a pretext for its materialization so as to establish its military domination over the world.
This plan is a replica of its "Star Wars" project in the Cold War era. At first the U.S. set forth the "TMD" in a bid to prevent rebuff from home and abroad. But last year after the DPRK's launch of satellite in 1998 it declared it as a state policy to develop and deploy the "NMD," which means, in fact, revival of the "Star Wars" project.
Einhorn also said that the "NMD" "would not in any way be directed at China" and that the system "would neither trigger off an arms race in Asia nor upset the global strategic balance." But this argument is sheer hypocrisy.
His loudmouthed "missile threat" from the DPRK is a fiction invented to cover up the main target of the U.S. "NMD" and mislead world public opinion so as to justify the U.S. military dominationist moves.
Anniversary of anti-Japanese June 10 independence movement observed
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Papers here dedicate signed articles to the 74th anniversary of the anti-Japanese June 10 independence movement.
On June 10, 1926, the Korean people turned out in a massive anti-Japanese movement. They fought bravely against the armed Japanese imperialist military police in Seoul and other parts across the country, chanting slogans "Long live Korean independence" "Japanese army go home," etc.
The demonstration was a massive anti-Japanese patriotic resistance to retake the nation's sovereignty and dignity and achieve the liberation of the country and its independence, observe articles.
Rodong Sinmun says:
Although 74 years have passed since the patriotic participants in the anti-Japanese demonstration shed their blood, their desire has not been achieved in South Korea, the southern half of the country. This is entirely because of the foreign forces' domination and interference and the flunkeyist and treacherous acts of the successive rulers.
The present situation urges the South Korean people to turn out in a nationwide struggle to cut off the foreign forces' noose of domination and subjugation.
The paper calls for escalating the anti-U.S. struggle for independence to terminate the colonial rule of the U.S. and win back the nation's dignity and sovereignty.
Minju Joson says that it was the desire of the participants in the demonstration to live in an independent society free from foreign forces and traitors and that is also the strong wishes of the South Korean people.
S. Korean people's struggle supported
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Dominica on May 22 sent a letter of solidarity to the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising in South Korea.
The uprising in May 1980 has not yet ended but develops into the struggle of the South Korean people for sovereignty and reunification, the letter said, and went on:
The Worker's Party of Dominica fully supports the just demand of the South Korean people.
The U.S., mastermind and wire-puller of the Kwangju massacre, should make an official apology to the South Korean people, stop its anachronistic domination and interference and withdraw its aggression forces and war equipment from South Korea at once.
The South Korean authorities should change their policy of dependence on the U.S. into independent policy, immediately abolish the "Security Law" and dissolve the "Intelligence Service", the main obstacles to independence, democracy and reunification, and stop the suppression of the patriotic and democratic forces.
U.S.'s crimes committed before Korean War
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. had indiscriminately suppressed all obstructive to their policy of building military bases of aggression and moves for provoking the war against the North Korea from the first days of their occupation of South Korea.
The then commander of the U.S. forces present in South Korea, Hodge, threatened that the U.S. military administration was the only government of South Korea.
Anyone who is disobedient to orders or slanders the military administration will be punished, he added.
Having occupied South Korea, the U.S. troops began to forcibly dissolve the people's committees organized throughout South Korea.
In May 1946 the U.S. imperialists cooked up a "case of judge Jong's counterfeiting of notes" and, under this pretext, attacked the building of the Communist Party in Seoul and forcibly banned Haebang Ilbo, the organ of the party. And when over 2,000 Seoul citizens staged a demonstration demanding the opening to public of the trial of the "case," they fired on them, causing a large number of causalities.
They mercilessly quelled the October Popular Uprising in 1946, the April 3 Uprising of Jeju Islanders in 1948 against "separate election for separate government" and the mutiny at Ryosu which was timed to coincide with the uprising.
Under the general direction of the then head of U.S. military advisory group, Robert, the U.S. troops and the South Korean military police destroyed 295 hamlets in Jeju Island, killing over 70,000 islanders in cold blood. They arrested more than 22,000 patriotic soldiers and people and killed at least 9,450 at Ryosu.
The rigging up of the notorious "Security Law" was very instrumental in intensifying suppression.
According to a report of the "UN commission on Korea", those arrested under the "SL" in 1949 amounted to over 118,600.
That year more than 109,000 innocent people were massacred in South Korea.
The U.S. reduced South Korea to a veritable hell, sea of blood, to step up the preparations for invasion of the North Korea.
Kim Il Sung's efforts for inter-Korean dialogue
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The north-south summit talks are near at hand.
The north and south of Korea in the north-south agreement issued in this regard on April 8 reaffirmed the three principles of national reunification clarified in the historic July 4 North-South Joint Statement.
The Korean people came to have the three principles of national reunification, program for reunification common to the nation, entirely thanks to the wise leadership of the President Kim Il Sung who paved the way for the north-south dialogue and steered the Korean people to the peaceful reunification of the country.
The President advanced a new proposal for wide-range north-south negotiations in keeping with the rapidly changing situation at home and abroad and the requirements of the movement for national reunification in the 1970s.
He put forward a proposal to hold north-south political negotiations in April Juche 60 (1971) and in August of the same year expressed his will to meet any time all political parties, public organizations and individual personages of South Korea including the then ruling party of South Korea.
The proposal enjoyed full support and welcome at home and abroad. Preparatory talks between the north and south Red Cross organizations thus began on Sept. 20, 1971, making a breakthrough toward the north-south dialogue.
Taking the nation's aspiration after national reunification into consideration, the President set out a concrete proposal to widen and deepen the north-south dialogue.
It was under his enduring guidance that the inter-Korean high-level political talks were held in Pyongyang in early May 1972.
And July 4 of the year witnessed the publication of the north-south joint statement whose keynote is the three principles, independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, laid down by the President, which serves as a program for reunification common to the nation.
Thanks to the three principles of national reunification, the north-south high-level talks held in the 1990s could adopt the "agreement on reconciliation, non-aggression, cooperation and exchange between the north and the south" and the "joint declaration on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."
In June 1994, the President met with the former U.S. President Carter on a visit to Pyongyang and expressed his will to meet the chief executive of South Korea without condition in any place any time, thus opening a bright prospect for the north-south summit talks.
U.S. urged to swim with trend of times
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The South Koreans are calling for the revision of the "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" and the dismantlement of the U.S. military bases, while the Japanese are demanding the U.S. forces present in Japan go back home. In this regard Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary: This demand is attributable to the fact that the U.S. forces' presence in Asia is the root cause of threat to peace and stability in the region and all sorts of misfortune and sufferings of the peoples there.
Both the South Koreans and the Japanese are unanimous in urging their authorities to deprive the U.S. forces of their extra-territorial rights, bar them from acting rashly and send them back home in order to put an end to the history of misfortune and sufferings, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The U.S. is going to hold "commemorations of the half centenary of the Korean War" to embellish and justify their presence in northeast Asia and frantically conducting war exercises to launch a new war of aggression at any cost.
The U.S. intention to sustain its military presence in the region, defying the will and desire of the people in and around the Korean peninsula is to hold military supremacy in the region and realise its strategy to dominate Asia and other parts of the world.
It is the need of the times and a prerequisite for peace and stability in the region to force the U.S. forces to withdraw from northeast Asia including the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. is well advised to face up to the trend of the times and withdraw its forces from South Korea and other parts of northeast Asia.
Anniversary of June Popular Uprising observed
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to the 13th anniversary of the heroic June Popular Uprising of the South Korean people.
The uprising was a massive anti-U.S. and anti-fascist popular uprising to achieve national reunification against military dictatorship and foreign domination and interference, the article says, and goes on:
The uprising turned into a massive anti-U.S. and anti-dictatorial resistance with nomination of Roh Tae-Woo as a "presidential candidate" on June 10 as a momentum.
The uprisers fought bravely despite a terror-ridden atmosphere of brutal crackdown and a wholesale arrest following the proclamation of "a-class emergency alert," thus fully demonstrating their firm will not to yield to injustice and dictatorship.
The uprising proved that the popular masses who turned out in the struggle to accomplish the just cause are strong and victory is in store for the people from all walks of life when they unite as one and fight against oppressors.
13 years have passed since the uprising, but the desire of the uprisers for independence, democracy and reunification has not yet come true.
Democracy and reunification cannot be expected without independence. Genuine democratic development can hardly be attained and hurdles will remain in the way of national reunification as long as the U.S. imperialists' domination and interference in South Korea go on.
Anti-U.S. struggle for independence is the only way of realising the South Koreans' desire to live in a free and democratic reunified land without outside forces lording it over them.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification hailed
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Nepalese and Pakistani organizations joined in the international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
As of May 31, the signature paper was signed in Nepal by leaders of the General Federation of Trade Unions, the National Association of Teachers, the National Union of Women, the Democratic National Youth Federation and the International Taekwon-do Association on behalf of over 310,570 unionists, 70,000 teachers, 300,000 women, 100,000 youths and 3,000 Taekwon-do players.
In Pakistan, chairman of the Pakistan Self-reliance Research Association Fakauddin Choudhury signed the paper on behalf of the association on June 1.