Songs of women created in DPRK
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Many songs in praise of women have been created in the DPRK.
All of those songs popular among people are based on the important role of women in society, the collective and in home life.
The recently created "song of wife" fully reflects the feats of wives who always take care of household without any complaint and devotedly work for them with smile on their faces even under the difficult conditions, and the mind of their husbands ready to dedicate their lives to the worthwhile work for the country with them.
In fact, the Korean women, who account for half of the population, have performed great feats in the whole course of the arduous Korean revolution.
A large number of women took arms to liberate the country from the Japanese imperialists' military rule and dedicated their youth to this sacred war for national liberation. In the fatherland liberation war the Korean women encouraged and helped their husbands and sons and daughters to perform heroic feats in the battles for defending the country more precious than their lives.
They also fully displayed the revolutionary faith, optimism, the spirit of overcoming difficulties and the spirit of devoted service in the periods of postwar rehabilitation and socialist construction and, especially in recent years of the "arduous march" and the forced march.
Such beautiful appearance of the simple yet resolute Korean women, who always dynamically push one of the two wheels of the revolutionary chariot, is represented in many popular songs.
Among them are "song of woman fighter", "don't forget woman guerrilla", "my mother", "love of great mother", "request of mother" and "fighter's wife", which sing of the feats women soldiers performed in the bloody revolutionary war and of the mind of women as mothers or wives who take care of their sons and daughters and husbands so that they can vigorously advance along the road of revolution.
Such songs as "do you know who that girl is", "girl on steed", "I can't say yet" and "urban girl comes to get married" mirror the high zeal for labour and the tender passion of women who are performing feats in socialist construction.
There are also "love wife", "women are flowers" and many other songs that reflect the social traits of treasuring and putting forward women, simple and sincere.
Those songs of women are resounding through now when the March 8 International Women's Day is at hand.
U.S. "Atlantic defense initiative" under fire
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article condemns the invariable ambition of the united states for world domination.
The U.S. "Atlantic defense initiative" is an extension of the "National Missile Defense" (NMD), the article says, and goes on:
This initiative reflects new U.S. strategic plan.
By the NMD the U.S. means building a powerful "missile defence system" to destroy "enemy" missiles in the air and "protect" itself.
For this, the U.S. is demanding the modification of the "ABM" concluded with the former soviet union in 1972, asserting that the treaty does not provide a sure guarantee for defending the U.S. "security."
The initiative can be termed as a "strategy for space missile alliance" aimed to drum up the support of its allies for the NMD.
The NMD is designed to achieve the U.S. strategic aim by force of arms in a bid to establish world hegemonism.
The U.S. is keen to push ahead with the establishment of the nmd with increased zeal and, at the same time, tighten control over its allies.
The initiative is also designed to achieve this objective.
The U.S. aims to extend the sphere of the NMD as far as Europe and thus get its support and cooperation and isolate Russia.
The U.S. initiative will not only affect many countries including NATO members in Europe but upset the global strategic balance and create fresh confusion.
China's campaign against "Falun Gong" cult supported
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today carries a signed article on the campaign against "Falun Gong" cult intensified in china.
The Chinese government is organizing and intensifying the campaign against the "Falun Gong" cult because it is an anti-social and unethical perverse organization which paralyses the sound reason of people and harasses social stability and legal order, says the article.
Referring to the harmfulness of the "Falun Gong" cult, the article points out:
The Chinese government is intensifying the campaign also because this perverse organization hatches an anti-government plot in conspiracy with the anti-Chinese outside forces.
The anti-Chinese outside forces described the Chinese government's strict dealing with the "Falun Gong" cult as "human rights abuse" and "crackdown upon the freedom of citizens." However, legal control over the unethical and anti-state perverse organization cannot be human rights abuse.
Political parties, public organizations and religious groups of China are bitterly condemning the criminal "Falun Gong" cult and demanding intensified legal sanctions and control over it.
With the Chinese government's timely and dynamic efforts, the campaign against the "Falun Gong" cult is now being carried out effectively and a number of people, once tempted by the "Falun Gong" cult, are propagandizing its harmfulness and joining in the campaign, awakened to the essence of the perverse religion.
China's efforts to deal a blow to the unscientific and unethical "Falun Gong" cult will bear a good fruit.
Djiboutian President on relations with DPRK
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Ismail Omar, President of Djibouti, when he met with the DPRK ambassador to that country on February 26, said that the government of Djibouti sincerely hopes for the positive development of relations with the DPRK striving for progress and peace under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
He expressed the belief that the relations between the two countries would grow stronger through active and effective cooperation on the basis of deep trust and the desire to live in a better world.
The government of Djibouti will fully support the reunification of Korea and contribute to its early achievement, he noted.
Federal formula, best way of reunification
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article says that federal formula for national reunification is the most fair and reasonable way that is suitable to the reality of Korea.
Reunification by federal formula means, in essence, to achieve national reunification through the establishment of a unified national government on the condition that the north and the south recognize and tolerate each other's ideologies and social systems, a government in which the two sides are represented on an equal footing and under which they exercise regional autonomy respectively.
Materialisation of the federal formula is feasible because it reflects the principle of neither conquering nor being conquared, the article says, and goes on:
The way of reunification by federal formula based on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments is a way peculiar to Korea, unprecedented in history.
The establishment of a unified state by federal formula means not a federation between the same social systems based on class interests but a federation between different social systems based on the common interests of the nation.
The way of reunification by federal formula is the most reasonable and fair and aboveboard way that helps solve the reunification issue smoothly, not pursuing one side's predominance or interests and not doing harm to any side.
And it is a genuine patriotic way acceptable to anyone because it values the common interests of the nation, national commonness and the desire of all the fellow countrymen for national reunification more than differences of ideologies and systems in the north and the south and puts them to the forefront.
KCNA on Japanese media attitude towards tampering with history
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Asian countries and many other nations of the world are increasingly critical of Japan's examination of history textbooks.
This is because Japan seeks to revise history textbooks in the direction of tampering with its history of aggression of Korea and other Asian countries and justifying its past crimes. this is little short of Japan's expression of its will to repeat the history of aggression as it refuses to reflect even a bit on the hideous crimes committed against Asian countries in the 20th century.
That is why the international community and media are taking Japan to account for its moves to distort history and calling upon it to handle the issue prudently.
It is an unavoidable historic duty of all the Japanese including politicians and intellectuals to educate the rising generation with a correct view on history in conformity with the desire of humankind to live in peace in the 21st century.
Nevertheless, Japanese rightwing forces do not bother to make a spate of reckless remarks such as "self-maltreatment" and "interference in internal affairs", far from feeling guilty of the distortion of history. Worse still, most of the Japanese are not aware of the truth behind such disturbing development.
The moves to tamper with history are, in fact, directly linked with the dangerous design for ultra-nationalism and militarism which will lead Japan again to war of aggression and destruction. yet, public opinion is not built up in Japan over this acute socio-political issue. this is chiefly attributable to the attitude of Japanese media toward this issue.
Despite strong reaction of Asian countries and protest and condemnation by Japanese fair-minded intellectuals most of the Japanese media have kept mum about this issue. Worse still, Sankei Shimbun is keen to speak for the shameless assertions of the rightwing forces to justify their moves to tamper with history.
If Japanese media take such attitude, the people and public of Japan will be ignorant of what is going on and once again fall victim to the fascist politics and war of aggression as they did in the period of Japanese imperialism.
That is why aged soldiers of the former Japanese "Kwantung Army" who were hurled into the war of aggression thronged to the Ministry of Education and Science on March 2 and warned that if history is distorted, the history of aggression will be repeated.
The Japanese media are well advised not to keep mum about the moves to distort history but to lead the popular masses to justice and conscience if they truly think of the future of Japan and value people's interests.