New feature film produced
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Some days ago the April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army produced part 4 (Choe Hyon) of the multi-part feature film "the Nation and Destiny" part 53.
The film depicts the heroic battles fought by Choe Hyon and KPA servicemen behind the enemy lines to protect the safety of the supreme headquarters after it went over to a counterattack from the entire front line under the preeminent operation plan of the President Kim Il Sung during the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-july 1953).
It truthfully represents the indomitable fighting spirit of the first and second generations of the revolution who devotedly defended the party and the leader and stresses that comradely love and the sense of obligation centered on the leader serves as a source of inexhaustible strength of the revolutionary armed forces.
A preview of the film took place at the People's Palace of Culture yesterday.
Senior party and state officials and other cadres and Pyongyangites saw the film.
Seminars held in Tanzania and Ethiopia
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held by the Tanzanian National Coordinating Committee of the Juche Idea Study Groups and the Addis Ababa Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Ethiopia on December 8 and 9 separately to mark the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
The chief of the Addis Ababa Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Ethiopia in his speech said that world politicians are now praising him as a general type statesman. He went on:
The DPRK considers the military affair as the most important state affair and gives top priority to strengthening the army. This politics is the political mode which can be created only by Kim Jong Il, general type statesman.
Only victory and glory are always in store for the Korean people guided by Kim Jong Il, general type politician with literary and military accomplishments.
The secretary general of the Tanzanian National Coordinating Committee of the Juche Idea Study Groups in his speech said: The world records many heroines, but no great woman performed such great exploits as Kim Jong Suk did.
What occupies the most important place in her history of revolutionary struggle and her feats was that she ensured President Kim Il Sung's safety and brought about the future of modern Korea by giving a steady continuity to the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Pyongyang declaration's vitality increases
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang declaration "Let us defend and advance the cause of socialism" has gives a strong impetus to progressive parties and people around the world in their struggle for socialism with great attraction.
The Pyongyang declaration was adopted by leaders and representatives of progressive parties including communist parties and workers' parties of many countries in April Juche 81 (1992). This declaration represented the resolution of the communist parties and workers' parties to fight it out for the future of humankind with firm confidence in the cause of socialism.
No sooner had the declaration been published than over 150 media of more than 60 countries gave wide publicity to it.
The number of political parties which signed the declaration at the time of its adoption was 70 and it reached 170 one year after its adoption. 251 political parties have signed it up to this date.
The progressive parties including communist parties and workers' parties of various countries took the Pyongyang declaration as the charter of socialism and their action program and are working hard to put it into practice.
The political parties of various countries including Russia and Romania keep pace with each other in the movement for rebuilding socialism, boosting their relations on the basis of the declaration.
Many progressive parties including the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Norwegian Communist Party and the New Communist Party of Great Britain sent their delegations to the DPRK to learn from experience in its party building and socialist construction.
A gathering of officials of progressive parties from more than 20 countries took place in Moscow to mark the fifth anniversary of the publication of the declaration. It adopted a statement "let us advance under the uplifted banner of the Pyongyang declaration."
All this shows that the Pyongyang declaration proves more valid as days go by.
Japan's claim to Tok Islet rejected
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- High-ranking officials of the Japanese political circles claimed that Tok Islet belongs to Japan and the Japanese reactionaries staged even an exercise called "operation to take back Tok Islet" which they described as a "special islet" by mobilizing the three services of the "Self-Defence Forces."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary condemns this as an undisguised infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and a military provocation to it.
It says: Historically Tok Islet belongs to Korea. This was recognized by the world and even Japan is aware of this fact Tok Islet will always remain part of the territory of Korea and no one has the right to interfere in this issue.
The exercise staged by the Japanese reactionaries was intended to use this as a pretext to commit a military provocation to the DPRK and launch their reconquest of Korea.
The Japanese reactionaries' claim to Tok Islet goes to prove that the Korean peninsula is made the first target of their overseas aggression and they leave no stone unturned to put it into practice.
The people are greatly angered by the Japanese reactionaries who are keen on the moves to occupy Tok Islet, with the far-fetched assertion that it belongs to Japan.
The Korean people and the people's army, their hearts burning with bitter grudge against Japanese militarism, will mete out a merciless punishment to the Japanese reactionaries, if they invade even an inch of Korea's territory.
Punishment of Japan's war criminals called for
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Seoul-based "Radio No. 1" said various kinds of records and documents produced at the recent second women's international war crimes tribunal on Japan's military sexual slavery held in Japan brought to light the fact that the Japanese imperial army took away women of its neighboring countries and regions and forced them into sexual slavery before and during the world war two.
Noting that the tribunal indicted three persons including former Japanese Emperor Hirohito and ex-Prime Minister Tojo for war crimes and demanded Japan own state responsibility, it held that Japan should apologize and compensate for them as the operation of "comfort stations" was a blatant violation of the international law.
Japan should know that the war criminals should be punished and sexual abuse against women, in particular, is a war crime which should be called into question from a legal point of view even after the lapse of many years, it added.
Repeal of SL demanded
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The people's solidarity for the abolition of the security law at a press conference held in Seoul on December 12 demanded the law be repealed at the "national assembly session," according to MBC of South Korea.
The organization charged that issue of abolishing the security law is not discussed at the "national assembly session" despite the fact that it is an evil one that violates human rights and there is no justification for it to exist in the prevailing atmosphere of reconciliation between the north and the south.
Noting that even the amendment to the SL submitted to the "National Assembly" retains a particularly poisonous article of the law "charge of forming organization profiting the enemy," the organization dismissed this as a doubtful behavior to save face.
Japan urged to drop its bid to sit on UNSC
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) - Japan should do something to be trusted by the international community and qualified to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council before making any bid for it, says Rodong Sinmun here today in a signed article.
This is the conclusion made by the article recalling that Japan's bid for permanent membership was dismissed as a delusion at the UN General Assembly this year.
The article cites facts to prove that Japan can never sit on the sc due to Japan's over self-satisfaction and hasty conclusion made by the Japanese authorities that Japan is supported by the world, failing to see through other's true intention.
They were too foolish to think that Japan is fully qualified for the permanent membership and garnered support necessary for it through several years of lobbying. That was why Japan has behaved as if it had already become a permanent member. But this issue was not placed on the agenda of the UN General Assembly this year, much less voting on that issue.
Japan expected that there would be no difficulty for it to get support from the five permanent members of the sc but it was a wrong analysis of the balance of forces and misjudgment of the situation made on the basis of subjectivism.
China has taken a negative approach to Japan's bid for permanent membership. The United States has dropped a check bar on Japan's moves to become a political and military power as it may emerge as its rival. Italy is also poised to contain Japan.
The article recalls the public opinion that Japan was foolish to count "votes" at the UN.