GIs' massacre of civilians disclosed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- At least 30,000 innocent citizens were massacred in Pusan, Ulsan and other areas of South Kyongsang Province before and after the Korean War, according to Yonhap News from Seoul.
Among them are those killed by GIs and victims of the news federation incident.
This was disclosed at an inaugural meeting of the "south Kyongsang provincial preparatory meeting for settlement of the issue of massacres of civilians" and a seminar held at the Catholic Public Education Hall in Changwon, South Kyongsang Province on Sept. 20.
Kim Ju Wan, head of the public media team of "Kyongnam Provincial People's Daily News" said that "at least 10,000 members of the news federation were killed by GIs in south Kyongsang province and that 1,000 civilians in over 20 places, 10,000 political prisoners and members of the news federation in Pusan, 1,600 people in Kochang, Sanchong and Hamyang incidents and those in Oegong-ri of Mt. Jiri, Sichon of Sanchong county and Samjang incident, 30,000 in all.
Kim Jong Il praised
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Abdul Rahman Matar, chief of information of the permanent secretariat of the organization of socialists in the Mediterranean, issued a statement on September 10 on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the DPRK.
In the statement he expressed his respects for Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, who has carried forward the revolutionary cause of Juche with creative and original idea and achieved great successes, on the occasion of the birthday of the DPRK and said that he has rallied the popular masses and led the Korean people to progress and victory.
Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the struggle to achieve national reunification on the basis of the three-point charter of national reunification, he said, and added:
Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il progress has been made in the Korean people's struggle for national reunification after the historic Pyongyang meeting.
Kim Jong Il's work published abroad
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction" was published in booklet by the secretariat of the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea on September 15.
Contained in the work released on June 19, Juche 86 (1997) is the idea that the Juche character and the national character of the revolution and construction should be preserved in order to thwart the dominationist moves of the imperialists and reactionaries and to push ahead with the popular masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause.
Preparatory committees formed abroad
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees were formed in Italy and at the Karachi Association for the Study of Self-reliance in Pakistan to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
At the inaugural meeting in Italy the secretary general of the Italy-DPRK Association for Friendship and Cooperation was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
The meeting in Pakistan decided to hold various functions including a seminar on the superb leadership and immortal revolutionary exploits of the great leaders President Kim Il Sung, founder and leader of the WPK, and general secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the WPK.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
Reunification is supreme task of nation
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- To terminate the division of Korea and reunify the territory and the nation is the supreme task of the nation to achieve independent and unified development of the country and the nation, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The division of the Korean nation into the north and south is an abnormal happening and a national misfortune forced by the foreign forces and it is a temporary misfortune which should be overcome without fail.
Reunification of the Korean nation is a necessary trend in the history of the nation and a law-governing requirement of the national development.
The territorial bisection and national division are expanding differences between the north and the south in all domains of political, economic and cultural life and making ambiguous the national commonness of the homogeneous nation.
And the division rules out the possibility to tap the resources of the country and utilize the wisdom and talents of the people in a uniform way and obstructs the independent development of the country and the nation.
Owing to the national division, the Korean people are not free to come and go across their country and do not know whereabouts of their kinsmen, relatives and friends.
If Korea remains divided into the north and south and they are kept confronted with each other, the Korean nation cannot be free from the domination and subjugation of foreign forces but be a plaything of foreign forces.
Without national reunification, any communist and any conscientious nationalist of Korea cannot say he did his task.
It is supreme patriotism to devote oneself to the sacred cause of national reunification and it is a felony to hamper national reunification.
"Kidnapping" of Japanese has nothing to do with DPRK
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, the Japanese chief executive said that it is unthinkable for the Japanese government to establish diplomatic relations with North Korea in disregard of suspected kidnapping cases and that "Tokyo will not open diplomatic relations with Pyongyang before their settlement."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that kidnapping has nothing to do with the DPRK.
It goes on:
It is not Japan but the DPRK to talk about "kidnapping."
As to kidnapping, Japan is an assailant and the DPRK is a victim.
It is a stark historic fact that Japan kidnapped and took away nearly 200,000 Korean girls and women from Korea and forced them to be "comfort women for the army," sex slaves, and walked away at least 6 million Korean young and middle aged men and made them victims of the war of aggression.
The "suspected kidnapping" cases raised by the Japanese authorities are premeditated moves to evade the issue of redressing their past and get a sort of political concession from the DPRK.
The DPRK is not frightened by their remarks that it is unthinkable to establish diplomatic relations with the DPRK without settlement of the issue of "kidnapping."
If Japan set the non-existent issue of "suspected kidnapping" as preconditions for the establishment of Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations, the DPRK will turn round.
The DPRK does not care about whether diplomatic relations with Japan are improved or not.
The DPRK has no idea to open diplomatic relations with Japan while allowing its self-respect and dignity to be impaired.
It is as foolish as coming home to roost that Japan continues to get on the nerves of the DPRK by raising the non-existent issue of "suspected kidnapping."
Working-level delegation for north-south economic cooperation leaves
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the north side left Pyongyang by air to attend a working-level contact for north-south economic cooperation to be held in Seoul from Sept. 25 according to an agreement between the north and the south.