Kim Yong Nam receives credentials from Guinean ambassador
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today received credentials from Djigui Camara, new Guinean Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Present there was Kung Sok Ung, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
After receiving the credentials, Kim Yong Nam had a talk with the ambassador.
Paek Nam Sun meets new Guinean ambassador
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun today met and had a talk with Djigui Camara, newly-appointed Guinean Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK, when he paid a courtesy call on Paek.
Kim Jong Il receives gift from Chinese delegation
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from a delegation of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions on a visit to the DPRK.
Head of the delegation Xu Xicheng, vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, handed the gift to an official concerned.
Floral basket laid before Kim Il Sung's statue
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- A floral basket was laid before the President Kim Il Sung's statue on Mansu Hill by Jose Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK, and embassy officials yesterday on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of economic and commercial relations between the DPRK and Cuba.
They placed a floral basket before his statue in reverence for the President and paid respects to him.
More ancient relics unearthed
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- A bronze Pipha-shaped dagger and a bronze axe were recently unearthed in Anju city, South Phyongan Province. They are believed to belong to Tangun Korea, the first state in Korea.
The Pipha-shaped dagger has symmetrical blades on both sides of a cylindrical bar and its bottom is used as a short handle.
It is 24.5 cm in length, 3.5 cm in width and 140 g in weight. Its handle is also 3.5 cm in length.
The bronze axe looks like an open sack when it is observed from the top to the bottom of its blade. And its blade is shaped like an open fan. Its helve is to be fixed to its round part.
It is 5 cm in length, 4.5 cm in width and 75 g in weight.
These relics are very instrumental in systematizing the history of ancient Korea.
These are displayed at the Phyongsong History Museum.
Japan's design for mass destruction condemned
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government, at a cabinet meeting on Dec. 1, discussed measures against the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and adopted a relevant decision.
According to the decision, all the medical institutions of Japan's "Self-Defence Forces" and the state are to provide Medicare to GIs "attacked" by such weapons from outside under "the law on emergencies in areas surrounding Japan."
And research will be made to deal with the weapons and Japan will stage with the United States joint drills for preventive measures against them.
Commenting on it, Rodong Sinmun today says this government decision proves that Japan is putting into a concrete form the preparations for overseas aggression by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Japan's clamor about "attack by those weapons from outside" is intended to justify its preparations for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, and it is, in fact, the green light to its attack by such weapons.
This frantic moves of Japan hint that in case of "emergencies" in areas around the Korean peninsula Japan and the United States will escalate them into a nuclear, biological and chemical war.
No country around Japan seeks an attack or threat by those weapons. As for such attack, it will be made only by the U.S. and Japan by the use of their special technologies.
If Japan uses nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in an attempt to realize its design for overseas aggression, it will, above all, bring irrevocable consequences to Japan itself.
S. Korean workers hold rally for vital rights
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- At least 4,000 unionists of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of South Korean Trade Unions held a joint rally in demand of the vital rights on December 5, according to "MBC" from Seoul.
They said at the rally that the authorities are threatening workers' right to existence by leaving a great number of people jobless, through the unilateral restructuring, and worsening working conditions.
In a resolution they urged a halt to the unilateral restructuring of key industries and the improvement of the labor system including the reduction of working hours. And they warned that they would go on a joint general strike if the authorities refuse to accept the demands.
Revision of "agreement on mobilization for public security" in Japan
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defence Agency and police office revised the "agreement on mobilization for public security" on December 4, according to a news report.
The keynote of the revised agreement is to take "joint actions" of the police and "Self-Defence Forces" (SDF) against what they called "missile launch" and "armed guerrillas." This is an indication that the Japanese reactionaries' moves to round off the work of putting Japan under a fascist system and on wartime footing have become more undisguised these days under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK.
Japan overtly and covertly amended or deleted provisions restricting its militarization and overseas expansion from the present constitution, which stipulates the renunciation of war as its state policy and instituted "Hinomaru" and "Kimigayo," symbols of militarism, as its national anthem and flag.
Japanese ultra right-wing forces continue raising a hue and cry over "disturbances" to be caused by someone in case of emergency and stirring up animosity towards the Korean residents in Japan among Japanese people in tacit connivance of the government.
The revised agreement calls on the "SDF" to play its military role and fulfil its responsibility in the field of "public security," too, in order to speed up the establishment of the fascist military system in wartime. It also allows the police and the SDF to equip themselves with tanks and machine guns and other heavy weapons though their use of weapons during their "mobilization for public peace" was limited to light arms in the past.
The revision of the agreement, in fact, means one step forward towards Japan's militarization and establishment of a wartime system.
Japan's revision of this agreement under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK is an expression of undisguised anti-DPRK hostile policy. This is nothing but a sinister attempt to hide the criminal purpose and dangerous nature of those moves of Japan.
Japan should stop at once the anachronistic anti-DPRK hostile moves and the adventurous acts to revive militarism, which will only bring self-destruction to it.
Unfair court ruling flayed
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- Tokyo high court of Japan dismissed a claim for the Japanese government's apology and reparation raised by Song Sin Do, 78, one of the former "comfort women for the Japanese army," on November 30, according to MBC of South Korea.
The court admitted it was a violation of the international law that the Japanese "imperial army" set up "comfort stations" and forced Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II and Japan is responsible for it, but rendered this decision, asserting that "an individual has no right to directly demand a state, an assailant, pay reparation."
This unfair and contradictory decision is a striking manifestation of the act of whitewashing the crimes committed by the Japanese "imperial army" and a blatant affront to the public.
U.S. reinforcements to be hurled into Korea in "contingency" on sharp increase
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- U.S. reinforcements to be hurled into the Korean peninsula in "contingency" sharply increased, according to "Yonhap News" from Seoul.
According to information released by the South Korean "Ministry of National Defence", the numerical strength of main forces of the U.S. reinforcements including army, navy and air force and marines is over 690,000 or up 43 per cent over that in the early 1990's and they are made up of army divisions, aircraft carriers with sophisticated fighters aboard them and combat flying corps capable of carrying out different missions.
It is said that Okinawa- and U.S.-based marine task forces as well as at least 160 warships of all types and 1,600 aircraft including fighter-bombers "F-18" will be additionally hurled there.
Exploits for national unity lauded
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries an article on the valuable experience and exploits made by the Worker's Party of Korea in the efforts to achieve the great national unity.
The article says:
The President Kim Il Sung advanced the Juche-based idea of great national unity and worked all his life for the unity of the Korean nation.
In the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle he set forth the line of forming a national united front against the Japanese and rallied the patriotic forces of all strata under the banner of the anti-Japanese resistance to lead the struggle for national liberation to victory.
In particular, the formation of the Fatherland Restoration Association by him gave a decisive momentum to realizing the line of the anti-Japanese national united front.
After the liberation of Korea, he put forward the slogan that those with strength should give their strength, those with knowledge dedicate their knowledge and those with money donate their money in order to contribute to the building of a new country. And he saw to it that people from all walks of life who love the country and the nation turned out as one in the building of a democratic, independent and sovereign state.
Kim Il Sung advanced the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--to lay a firm foundation of the national unity and reunification.
He also laid down the ten-point programme of great national unity to clarify the basic principle and ideological basis to be maintained in achieving the great national unity, and concrete tasks and ways for realizing the unity, the paper emphasizes, and goes on:
For the great national unity the great leader Kim Jong Il has persistently pursued the policy of embracing any one who treasures the spirit of the nation and loves the country and the nation, irrespective of differences in thought and system and class and strata.
Absurd pretext for comeback to Korea
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- The Japanese militarist forces are overtly and covertly scheming to realise their ambition for reinvasion and their old dream of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere", says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries are now seeking various pretexts to stage a comeback to Korea and invade other Asian countries with Korea as a bridgehead.
One of them is the non-existent "nuclear threat" and "missile threat" from the DPRK.
When the imperialists were crying out for "nuclear inspection" of Korea in the early 1990s, the Japanese reactionaries ran amuck to brand the DPRK as a criminal involved in "development of nuclear weapons" without any evidence.
They are raising a hue and cry over the "nuclear threat" from the DPRK even now when its nuclear facilities are frozen.
On the pretext of "nuclear threat" and "missile threat" from the DPRK they seek to justify their moves to turn Japan into a military power and launch an overseas aggression and stage a comeback to Korea, while watching for a chance for it.
"Rescuing Japanese overseas" and "preventing disasters" are another pretext invented by them.
The exercise of evacuating Japanese overseas took place recently according to the "law on emergencies in areas surrounding Japan." It was a test exercise to put into practice the operation plan for evacuating Japanese from South Korea in case the second Korean war breaks out.
In the past the Japanese imperialists invaded and occupied Korea under the pretext of "protection of their residents."
But now the Japanese reactionaries are attempting to conduct reinvasion operations under the cloak of "rescuing Japanese in case of emergency on the Korean peninsula."
Their clamors about the issue of the "mysterious ships" are one of the pretexts for justifying a marine attack to reinvade Korea.
Noting that the aggressive nature of the Japanese militarists remains unchanged and will never change, the article calls for heightening vigilance against Japanese militarism.
Korean-style socialism praised by Nepalese figure
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- Korean-style socialism is sure to triumph as there are the wise leadership of the respected Kim Jong Il and the people single-heartedly united around him, said Subash Kaji Shrestha, chairman of the Study Forum for Self-reliance of Nepal, at a press interview before his departure from here for home.
When socialism was frustrated in eastern European countries including the former Soviet Union western media and reactionaries said that the DPRK would not exist as a socialist state any longer, clamoring about the "victory" of capitalism and the "end" of socialism. But in the DPRK the banner of socialism fluttered more vigorously, squashing all the speculations, he noted, and continued:
The realities in the DPRK clearly proved before the world that there are no insurmountable difficulties for the people led by Kim Jong Il and equipped with the great idea leading the times.
The great successes made in the DPRK instill tremendous strength and courage into the world progressive people aspiring after independence and convince them of the victory of the great Juche idea and socialism, the ideal of humankind.
Preparatory committee inaugurated
Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of the preparatory committee for "solidarity for reunification" was held in Seoul on December 4 by 33 organizations including the Democratic Worker's Party, the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification" and the "Korean Confederation of Trade Unions" of South Korea, according to Seoul-based "Yonhap News".
The organizations set it as the objective of solidarity actions to implement the June 15 north-south joint declaration based on the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--clarified in the July 4 joint statement.
They advanced six-point tasks such as opposition to foreign interference, achievement of independent reunification, the building of a peace system, disarmament, opposition to military exercises and the repeal of the "Security Law" and other leftovers of the Cold War.
Co-chairman of the committee Pak Sun Gyong, adviser to the Democratic Worker's Party, in an inaugural speech said that the publication of the June 15 joint declaration is a reflection of the unanimous desire of 70 million Koreans for reunification and a significant event in the national history in which their strong will to reunify the country in a few years without fail was manifested.
That day the preparatory committee adopted a "proposal to compatriots in the north and abroad" and proposed to co-sponsor a "joint national function to greet the new year, 2001, for peace and reunification of the country" and a "grand national symposium on the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration".