Talks held between foreign ministers of DPRK and Japan
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had official talks with his Japanese counterpart Yohei Kono in Bangkok on July 26.
At the talks opinions were exchanged on the issue of liquidating the past between the DPRK and Japan, a historic outstanding issue, at an early date and, based on this, establishing new relations of good neighborliness and friendship as soon as possible and on the issues of mutual concern.
The foreign ministers of the two countries agreed to work out and make public a joint communique on the points agreed upon at the talks and signed the joint communique.
The joint communique reads:
1. Both sides, basing themselves on the recent affirmative circumstances prevailing in the Korean peninsula, expressed the will to liquidate the past between the two countries and establish new relations of good neighborliness and friendship and shared the view that they will make every possible effort for the early establishment.
2. They reached a consensus of views that as part of such effort they will sincerely promote the work for the appropriate solution of all the problems between the DPRK and Japan.
3. Proceeding from the shared desire to improve the relations between the DPRK and Japan, both sides agreed to increase exchanges in different aspects and visits to develop mutual understanding and amity.
4. Both sides agreed to have the tenth intergovernmental full-dress talks for the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and Japan in Tokyo from August 21 to 25.
Vice-president of Samsung goup and his party arrive
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Yun Jong Yong, vice-president of Samsung Business Group in South Korea, and his party arrived here yesterday by air.
Also arriving here were table-tennis players of the Samsung group to participate in table-tennis games for reunification to be held under the co-sponsorship of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and the group.
Song Ho Gyong, vice-chairman of the committee, officials concerned and sportspersons met Yun Jong Yong and his party at the airport with compatriotic feelings.
The Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee gave a reception for them in the evening.
War victory day observed by Palestinian ambassador
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Palestinian ambassador to Korea Shaher Mohammed Abdlah gave a reception at the embassy on Wednesday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
Invited to the reception were vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces Ryo Chun Sok, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Pak Tong Chun, Col. General of the Korean People's Army Ji Ki Son and other KPA generals and officers.
Speeches were made there.
Foreign diplomats visit Kunja Revolutionary Site
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Foreign diplomatic envoys in Korea visited the Kunja Revolutionary Site in Songchon county, South Phyongan Province, yesterday on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
This significant site is associated with the immortal exploits of the respected leader President Kim Il Sung.
During the 1950-1953 Fatherland Liberation War he visited this place to guide the munitions production of the nation and lay a solid foundation for the independent national defence industry.
The visitors laid bunches of flowers before the statue of Kim Il Sung at the site and paid homage to him.
Then they went to the historical monument to the President's on-site guidance before inspecting the Kunja Revolutionary Museum.
They gave deep impressions while being briefed on the fact that the President visited the workers of the munitions factory in the flames of the grim war on several occasions and encouraged them to wartime military production, showing deep trust and paternal love for them.
At the end of their visit they made entries in the visitor's book.
Seminar on Kim Il Sung's reminiscences held in Peru
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- A seminar on "optimism for the future" in vol. 8 (continuing edition) of part I the anti-Japanese revolution of the President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century" was held in Lima on July 17.
Victor Oliva Miguel, secretary general of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru, said in his speech that Kim Il Sung's reminiscences is a must textbook of life and struggle which should be read by all those who work for freedom and happiness of people and the building of a new society. It is also food of revolution providing firm faith in their cause, revolutionary enthusiasm and optimism for the future, he stressed.
Saying that the Juche idea founded by Kim Il Sung is a new philosophy centered on people and banner of human emancipation, he said: It is thanks to Kim Jong Il's distinguished and outstanding leadership and the great Juche idea that the Worker's Party of Korea founded by Kim Il Sung is demonstrating its might to the world as a great ever-victorious party.
Kim Il Sung's revolutionary life and brilliant exploits and Kim Jong Il's outstanding and superb leadership ability and great idea and experience are a great model that should be followed by the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru and other world progressive parties and people.
U.S. urged to renounce "missile defence" program
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- The United States is floating a new fiction of "missile threat" and "suspected technology transfer" by the DPRK.
Whenever an opportunity presents itself American officials take issue with the DPRK's development of missile.
They are persistently spreading the story that the DPRK transfers missile technology to other countries so that they may be capable of striking the U.S.
Such fuss over "missile threat" from the DPRK does not come from the fear that its missile may strike the U.S. mainland. It is intended to push ahead with the development of the U.S. "National Missile Defence" system (NMD).
The U.S. adventurous "missile shield" program now under way is of very dangerous nature.
This program, if it is put into practice, will further expand the sphere of U.S. military influence on the world.
The "missile shield" will provide decisively favourable conditions for the U.S., the world's biggest possessor of nuclear weapons, to make a preemptive nuclear attack and neutralize other countries' nuclear offensive capabilities.
The U.S. "NMD" program is a criminal plan because it may trigger off a new arms race.
Its unilateral building of "missile shield" will prompt other big powers either to drastically increase strategic nuclear attack capabilities or to develop new-type weapons to destroy the "shield."
What the U.S. seeks in establishing the "NMD" system is to put European countries going their own way under its tight control.
Those countries are planning to build independent defence forces in Europe. But this plan will misfire and they will inevitably come under the control of the U.S. if Russia and China are embroiled in the arms race.
That is why the EU countries as well as Russia and China are strongly opposed to that adventurous and dominationist program of the U.S.
So, the U.S. invented "missile threat" from the DPRK to calm down other big powers and justify its dominationist moves.
Rodong Sinmun calls for global independence
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- With no desperate effort can the imperialists block the process for global independence, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The imperialists' moves to check the process for global independence are nothing but an anachronistic delusion not only in view of the historic development but in view of the deplorable position and weakness of imperialism as the moribund old force, the article notes, and goes on:
Independence is what keeps a man, a country and nation alive. If countries and nations are to be independent, there should be global independence.
It is a common aspiration of the world people and their vital demand today to realize global independence and this trend of independence sweeps all continents and all regions of our planet.
Imperialism is the filth of history as it has lived out its days. The imperialists are plagued with insolvable inner contradictions and finding themselves in a bottomless abyss of ruin.
The increased frenzy on the part of the imperialists to maintain their old order of domination and subjugation and their intensified moves for aggression and war will only invite stronger resistance from the world people demanding independence and peace and more serious political and economic crisis.
Japanese maritime aggression forces' attempt to participate in drill overseas
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary assails the Japanese reactionaries for their move to let their Maritime "Self-Defence Force" participate in the U.S.-led multinational rescue drill to be staged in waters off southeast Asia this autumn.
It says:
The Japanese reactionaries claim that their Maritime "SDF's" projected participation in the military drill is aimed at "humanitarian activities" and "making public its rescue technique" but it is nothing but a window-dressing to cover up its true nature.
The Japan "SDF's" plan to advance into southeast Asian waters is by no means accidental, the commentary observes, and goes on:
Southeast Asia is a region of great military strategic importance.
That was why this region became a major target of aggression of the Japanese imperialists during the pacific war.
The intention to set up "SDFs'" military bases in southeast countries manifested by the Japanese ruling quarters clearly proves that their military moves are by no means for a "humanitarian purpose."
There is no denying that Japan will launch the second pacific war under the signboard of "humanitarianism."
The Japanese aggression maritime forces are going to advance into seas far away from Japan to realise its dream of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere."
If Japan sets out on aggression and war again, it will only precipitate its own self-destruction.
Rally and demonstration in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- At least 15,000 students and peasants under the "National Federation of Peasants' Unions" of South Korea held a rally and a demonstration in Seoul on July 25 in protest against the opening of their market to foreign agricultural products, according to the Christian Broadcasting Service from Seoul.
Participants in the "national peasants' meeting" held on university street in Seoul noted that the market opening is seriously threatening the peasants' lives and demanded the authorities take measures against it.
The authorities' indiscriminate import of agricultural products makes it impossible for the peasants to recover even production cost due to steady drop of prices of all products and increases their debts, they noted.
They demanded the authorities institute a special law and take other emergency measures to cope with the deplorable situation in the rural areas and the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry own the responsibility for it and step down.
At the end of the rally peasants and students took to the street and staged a demonstration despite crackdown by riot police.
They torched a U.S. flag in protest against the U.S. undisguised pressure upon South Korea to open its market.