Kim Jong Il directs land realignment project in South Hwanghae Province
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Monday gave on-site guidance to the land leveling and realignment project in South Hwanghae Province.
He went round Yonan and Chongdan counties and other parts of the province and acquainted himself in detail with the progress of land realignment project.
Feasting his eyes on the vast expanse of standardized fields, he was greatly satisfied to note that soldier-builders and people intensely loyal to the party and the revolution have done a lot of work in such a short span of time by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of fortitude, the revolutionary spirit of soldiers, and highly praised their proud feats.
Then he advanced highly important tasks that would serve as a guideline in accelerating the socialist rural construction including land realignment and bringing about a radical turn in agricultural production.
Saying that the land leveling and rezoning project started by our party is an important work to obtain new arable land for increased grain output and realize the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture, he stressed the work should be dynamically pushed forward without a let-up through a mass drive.
Now that rich experience has been gained through the land realignment projects in Kangwon, north Phyongan and south Hwanghae provinces it is possible to realign the land across the country in a short span of time if the organizational and political work is conducted among the masses in keeping with a high degree of their revolutionary enthusiasm, he said, urging all the provinces, cities and counties to work hard to finish the land realignment by their own efforts.
He also set forth tasks to be fulfilled to increase the grain output in the realigned paddy and non-paddy fields.
Learning about the specific agricultural situation of the province, he said it is very important to boost agriculture in the province, the largest granary of the country. And he urged industrial establishments and other relevant units to satisfactorily supply necessary farm materials to it in time.
The province is favorable for double cropping as its soil is fertile and climate mild, he said, pointing out that no portion of this precious land should remain idle and double cropping should be introduced on a large scale with main stress on grain.
Then he put forth tasks to be carried out to build all rural villages well as befitting socialism.
Noting that officials and agricultural workers in the province have done a lot of work to implement the "theses on the socialist rural question in our country", he earnestly called for turning all the rural villages into modern socialist villages good to work and live in so as to hand them down to posterity.
Accompanying him were secretary Kim Kuk Thae, department director Jong Ha Chol and first deputy department directors Pak Song Bong and Jang Song Thaek of the Worker's Party of Korea Central Committee and generals of the Korean People's Army Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
On the spot he was received by vice marshal of the KPA Ri Yong Mu, chief secretary of the south Hwanghae provincial committee of the WPK Kim Un Gi, Col. Gen. of the KPA Sim Myong Su, vice-Minister of Agriculture Choe Sang Byok and leading officials of the province and counties.
U.S. Army secretary's remarks flayed
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Measure Committee on the Mass Killings of Civilians in Rogun-ri released a statement on December 15 denouncing U.S. Army secretary Caldera for having denied the shooting orders related to the case, the Seoul-based "Yonhap News" (internet) reported.
The statement noted that Caldera made remarks distorting the truth despite evident testimonies of U.S. Korean War veterans.
His remarks are intended to evade or downplay the U.S. military and government's responsibility for the massacres and water down and distort the case. They are a sinister behavior to shift the blame onto war veterans, it held.
The statement urged the South Korean authorities to announce the results of the investigation into the case at once and take a strong counteraction against the U.S. side seeking to twist the incident.
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander commemorated
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- Lecture meetings were held in Dar Es Salaam of Tanzania and at the Defence Ministry of Guinea, San Martin De Porres University and San Juan Bautista University of Peru and by the Democratic Congolese Youth Group for the Study of the Juche Idea from Dec. 5 to 8 to commemorate 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 lecturers stressed that Kim Jong Il's is a revolutionary family that fought for freedom and liberation of Korea generation after generation.
They said that under his army-first leadership the DPRK could have the Korean People's Army, the most powerful formidable army in the world, and that under his wise guidance it would be turned into a powerful nation.
Meanwhile, media of different countries gave special write-ups and programs on the occasion of Kim Jong Suk's 83rd birth anniversary.
The Cambodian newspaper Khmer Amata on Dec. 12 and the Peruvian radio Santa Rosa reported that she gave birth to leader Kim Jong Il. This is her greatest feat and it was a historic event of the nation that guaranteed the rosy future of Kim Il Sung'S. Korea, they said.
She was not only a fighter and politician but also a model woman possessed of warm love and simplicity, they stressed.
They also said her august name and feats always remain in the hearts of the people with prosperous socialist Korea.
Remark of U.S. ambassador to S. Korea
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The ambassador of the United States to South Korea at a recent seminar held in Kyoto, Japan, talked nonsense that the "North Korean military still poses a threat to South Korea."
In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary observes:
The U.S. ambassador's utterance reflected the true intention of the United States to stem the trend of the situation on the Korean peninsula towards reunification and incite confrontation between the north and the south.
The U.S. conservative forces seek to stifle the DPRK by force of arms, seize the whole of Korea and realize their ambition for world domination by using it as a springboard, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The United States has already worked out the "win-win strategy" and sharply increased in recent years reinforcements to be dispatched to the Korean peninsula in case of "emergency" there, pursuant to the strategy.
The numerical strength of these reinforcements has swelled by at least 100,000 and over 160 warships of various types and more than 1,500 fighters have been inducted into those forces over the last Decade.
The U.S. conservative forces consider this trend of the situation on the peninsula towards peace and detente as a hurdle in the way of realizing world supremacy.
No sinister intention of those conservative forces can go down with anyone.
Three principles of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The three principles of Korea's reunification are its cornerstone as they clarify the fundamental stand and way to solve the issue of reunification by the efforts of the nation in conformity with its will and interests, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
These principles lay down, first of all, the fundamental principle and stand to solve the issue of reunification independently.
It is the avowed principle and fundamental stand of the Worker's Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK to solve the issue of national reunification independently on the principle of national self-determination.
National reunification is the cause to be achieved for the Korean nation in any case and the Korean people are responsible for it.
It is they who have vital interests in the issue of national reunification and are committed to and capable of accomplishing that cause.
All the members of the nation should cherish the dignity and pride of being Koreans and believe in its strength pave the way for national reunification by their own efforts.
This is the most right way of achieving the independent reunification of the country by overcoming all obstacles.
These principles also indicate the basic method of accomplishing the cause of national reunification.
It is the principled stand and invariable line of the WPK to achieve national reunification by peaceful means without a recourse to armed forces.
The Korean people do not wish to fight a fratricidal war over the issue of reunification as they have undergone unspeakable misfortune, sufferings and disasters resulting from the division of the country and the nation.
It is the unanimous wish of the peace-loving people of the world to see the issue of Korea's reunification solved peacefully in keeping with the trend of the times towards peace.
These three principles provide a fundamental guarantee for reunifying Korea independently and peacefully.
The great unity of the nation is a Decisive guarantee for accomplishing the cause of national reunification.
The issue of national reunification cannot be solved by the will and efforts of people in one of the two parts of Korea, any class and social section, any political grouping or any individual but should be settled by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.
If the Korean nation is to fulfill its role and responsibility in the efforts to achieve national reunification, all its members should firmly unite irrespective of differing ideology and system.
History of 20th century indicts Japan
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The 20th century is about to come to its end. At this historic turn of the century people retrospect the history of the world wars in the 20th century which brought greatest-ever disasters to humankind and most cruelly violated civilization and hope that there would be no such wars any more. At this moment, the international community is increasingly vigilant against Japan. This is due to its inglorious past and present and its untransparent future agenda.
In the first half of the century Japan killed tens of millions of Asians through wars of plunder and aggression and in its latter half it employed all sorts of gimmicks to keep its hideous crimes buried in oblivion of the history.
It is none other than Japan which is about to greet a new century without liquidating its past crimes.
The bitter Asian history of the 20th century started with the Japanese imperialists' military invasion of Korea.
The Japanese imperialists, afraid of being embroiled in the scourge of a hopeless war if the Korean people rise up in anti-Japanese war of resistance, hatched the most wicked plot in the world history of diplomacy to topple the weak feudal government of Ri dynasty. That was the fabricated "Ulsa five-point treaty" and "Korea-Japan annexation treaty."
History records such examples as threatening other countries by force of arms to force them to sign shackling treaties but has never witnessed such despicable things done by Japan. It stole the official seal of a government institution of other country and forged the signature of its head of state to fabricate a treaty.
After depriving Korea of its national rights by such a vicious method Japan enforced a colonial military fascist rule over it for over 40 years. In that period it kidnapped or took away over six million young and middle-aged Koreans to force them into medieval slave labor and killed millions of Koreans by the most cruel methods.
The Japanese imperialists kidnapped nearly 200,000 Korean women in broad daylight and forced them into sexual slavery.
Their brutal mass killings of those women in battle sites are still fresh in the memory of people as a horrible nightmare.
The international community hates Japan so much for its crimes related to the "comfort women for the army" because they were the most despicable and barbarous crimes against humanity.
The Japanese authorities, proud of being an economic power, are showing their moneybags off everywhere they go. But there is a point at issue which should never go unnoticed.
The point is with whose blood, sweat and wealth the foundation for the industrial progress of Japan which boasts of "high-rate growth" was laid.
During Japan's rule over Korea over six million young and middle-aged people were taken to Japan to slave there.
Japanese big businesses grew fat with the immeasurably precious treasures looted from Korea.
The Japanese imperialists, not satisfied with the plunder of all the material and cultural properties of Korea including underground resources and cultural relics, took away even brass spoons and chopsticks from Korean families.
During the last Korean War which broke out in 1950 Japan raked up enormous profits in return for its direct involvement in the war and the offer of its whole territory to the U.S. armed forces as a logistic base.
In fact, Japan's offer of its whole territory to the Korean people would not be enough to compensate for the human, material and cultural and spiritual and moral losses it brought to them for a century from early 20th century up to this date.
But in Japan at the turn of the century there is a Samurai view of history that "there is no need to feel guilty for what was done in the past" and "it is possible to know the truth of history only 100 years later." And even arrogant remarks that the military fascist colonial rule over Korea was "legal" are heard from there.
Japanese right-wing forces' denial of their history of aggression and crimes is not simply attributable to Japan's deep-seated bad habits and shameless nature. This was prompted by their ambition and carefully arranged plan to repeat their past history any time at any cost and realize their old dream of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity sphere."
Their other purpose is to evade the state compensation for Japan's crimes against humanity.
The Japanese authorities have made a mockery of the international community with all sorts of wordplays for over 50 years since the end of World War II. They pretended to apologize for the crimes with the words "regret" and "repentance," but retracted them by saying "there is no need to make apology" and "what Japan did was legal."
Japan announced that it fully compensated to the south east Asian countries by giving them small "aid," grant or in the form of "loan." It dreamed up a poor case of "suspected kidnapping" in a bid to evade the apology and compensation to the Korean people and is about to see out the 20th century with its crimes unsettled, clamoring about "people's sentiment." This is a height of shamelessness and moral vulgarity of the Japanese authorities.
The Japanese authorities are grossly mistaken if they think that they can erase unprecedented killings, rape, kidnapping and plunder committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people by playing tricks over the issue of "a few persons missing".
Japan should be judged by justice and history.
The history indicts Japan for its crimes. Japan is a war criminal state of the 20th century and the only "enemy state" which is going to greet the 21st century without settling its war crimes.
The history of the 20th century will always curse disgraceful Japan which adamantly refuses to repent of the wrongs done for a century.
DPRK boasts edifices bearing word "youth"
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- There are nearly 30,000 monumental edifices and units bearing the word "youth" in the DPRK.
This year alone, at least 10 monumental edifices were honored with this word.
Among them are the Youth Hero Motorway completed in October and the Anbyon Youth Power Station whose second stage project was finished this year.
The over 40 km-long youth hero motorway from Pyongyang to Nampho is a monumental edifice built by young people under the difficult conditions where they were hard pressed for everything including construction machines and vehicles.
They successfully completed the motorway in a matter of less than two years, overcoming difficulties in the indomitable fighting spirit.
The revolutionary spirit of soldiers was created when the first stage project of the Anbyon Youth Power Station was under way.
This spirit, which was displayed in the most difficult period of the "arduous march," prevailed throughout the country, inspiring all the people to brave ordeals and difficulties and lay a solid springboard from which to build a powerful nation.
Servicemen of the Korean People's Army displayed to the full mass heroism and matchless devotion in carrying out the second stage project of the power station to successfully complete it.
The Hwangbuk Youth Saltern, the March 24 Youth Mine, the Hachang Youth Power Station, the Unsong Youth Reservoir and others are associated with young people's feats.
Youth are creditably playing their role as vanguard and shock brigades for socialist construction in the land leveling and rezoning project in South Hwanghae Province, the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong waterway project, the construction of the Odaejin saltern, a dam of the Kumjingang power station and other minor power stations in various parts of the country.
Brilliant life of Kim Jong Suk
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- December 24 will mark the 83rd birth anniversary of the indomitable communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
On this occasion, an endless stream of working people from all walks of life, servicepersons of the people's army and school youth and children are visiting the revolutionary martyrs' cemetery on Mt. Taesong here and her statues and revolutionary sites in various parts of the country.
They are looking back with deep emotion on the brilliant life of Kim Jong Suk who devoted all her life to the country and the people.
She embarked upon the road of revolution to win the liberation of Korea in her early years. She won fame as a brave fighter and a competent political worker in the days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
All her life is shining as a paragon of genuine revolutionaries intensely loyal to the President Kim Il Sung.
She was just like a fortress and shield in protecting his safety.
It is well known that when she spotted enemy soldiers creeping in by stealth close to the headquarters during a battle fought against Japanese troops in Juche 29 (1940), she lost no time to wipe out them, thus protecting commander Kim Il Sung at the risk of her life.
She made a distinguished contribution to the sacred war for the liberation of the country with her outstanding organizational ability and revolutionary sweep.
After the liberation of the country, she devoted herself to the building of a party and regular armed forces, the establishment of a people's government and the successful carrying out of democratic reforms, pursuant to Kim Il Sung's line of building new Korea.
Kim Jong Suk is always remembered by the Korean people for her immortal exploits performed on behalf of the country and the revolution.
WPK praised as ever-victorious party
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- Members of the delegation of officials of the National Movement of Uganda which visited the DPRK some time ago, highly praised the Worker's Party of Korea.
Deputy head of the delegation Boaz Kanyima said the history of the building of the WPK is a history in which President Kim Il Sung's unique idea and theory on party building based on the immortal Juche idea have been applied creditably.
The WPK's exploits and experience are an example and textbook that all the progressive parties around the world should learn, he said.
Member of the delegation Paul Muwonge said it is a precious experience to all the progressive parties of the world that a brilliant victory can be achieved in the revolution and construction only when independence is maintained in party activities.
Another member of the delegation Emyimu William noted that the WPK has enjoyed the absolute support and trust from the people and the Korean people have entrusted their destinies entirely to the party.
He further said:
The great Kim Jong Il has led the work of the WPK from long ago and, in this course, further developed it into an ever-victorious, great party.
Victory and glory are always in store for the Korean people guided by this great party.