U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK denounced abroad
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Statements denouncing the hostile policy of the U.S. administration toward the DPRK were released in Guyana and Uganda.
The Amerindian action movement of Guyana in a statement on March 28 denounced the U.S. for escalating its anti-DPRK campaign after the emergence of the Bush administration. The administration pulled up the DPRK over the non-existent "threat" from it and "human rights issue" and labelled it as a "terrorism-sponsoring country", chiming in with Japan's row over the "kidnapping" issue, the statement noted, and went on:
The hostile policy of the bush administration toward the DPRK is a grave challenge to the aspiration and desire of the Korean people and the international community for the improved relations between the DPRK and the U.S., the termination of the Korean division and durable peace on the Korean peninsula in the new century.
We strongly urge the U.S. to discard the anachronistic daydream and opt to improve the relations with the DPRK at an early date and immediately halt all its moves against the Korean people in their drive to achieve the reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation according to the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The Ugandan railway workers' union in a statement on march 26 expressed deep concern about the situation on the Korean peninsula getting worse due to the U.S. moves.
The statement noted that the U.S. deliberate moves to strain the situation on the Korean peninsula are intended to invent a pretext for the establishment of the "theatre missile defence" system now being rejected by its allies.
The statement called on all countries and the peoples of the world to pay due attention to the U.S. behaviour and strive to prevent the history of the 20th century recorded with war and destruction from being repeated in the 21st century.
The U.S. should compensate for the enormous material losses the DPRK's independent nuclear power industry has suffered owing to the delayed light water reactor project and take an approach and stand suited to the trend of the times, the statement said.
Greetings to foreign minister of Laos
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message of greetings to Somsavath Lengsavath upon his reappointment as deputy prime minister of the government and foreign minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Convinced that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the peoples and foreign ministries of the two countries will continue to develop in the future, too, the message wished him success in his responsible work.
Cyprian President on friendly relations with DPRK
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Cyprian President Glafcos Clerides stressed that he would strive to further develop the relations of friendship and cooperation with the DPRK, when he received credentials from new DPRK ambassador Jang Myong Son on March 27.
He hoped that the Korean people would make achievements in their efforts to overcome many difficulties, build a powerful nation and reunify their country.
Friendship gathering with members of economic delegation of Netherlands
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- A friendship gathering with members of an economic delegation of Netherlands was held in Pyongyang on April 3.
Invited to the gathering were members of the delegation led by Dominique Bauduin, chairman of the foreign trade and investment committee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Present were hong son ok, vice-chairperson of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and chairperson of the Korean Committee for Friendship with the Dutch people, and members of the committee.
Participants conversed with each other on the issue of boosting the friendly and cooperative ties between the two peoples before appreciating an art performance given by schoolchildren.
Preparatory committees formed abroad
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- An organising committee was formed in Ukraine and preparatory committees were inaugurated in France and the Czech Republic to commemorate Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
At the inaugural meetings Oleg Grachov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, was elected chairman of the organising committee and chairman of the France-Korea Friendship Association Andre Obri and chairman of the Mt. Paektu Czech-Korean Friendship Association Jiri Jarka were elected chairmen of the preparatory committees.
The committees decided to hold meetings, film shows and other colorful events to commemorate Sun's Day.
Work of Kim Il Sung published in Peru
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung's famous work "On the Three Principles of National Reunification" was brought out in book form by the T.C. Publishing House of Peru on March 28 on the occasion of Sun's Day.
Laid down in the work published in Juche 61 (1972) are the three principles of national reunification -- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
U.S. anti-DPRK war agitation under fire
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- U.S. imperialist warhawks are becoming more vociferous about the second Korean war after defining the DPRK as its "No. 1 Enemy."
In this regard rodong sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
Blair, commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces in the Pacific, during his recent junket to South Korea, let loose provocative outbursts that North Korea is the "No. 1 Enemy of the U.S." and it is capable of striking South Korea and the whole of Japan with missiles.
It is not strange that war outcries are heard from among conservative hardliners of the present U.S. administration advocating a hostile policy towards the DPRK.
Blair made such remarks at a time when the bush administration has become more zealous in its pursuance of the hard-line policy to stifle the DPRK and louder in its call for "cooperation" with Japan and South Korea for a war of aggression. This is a manifestation of the U.S. intention to turn to confrontation and war against the DPRK at any cost.
What the U.S. seeks is to incite enmity towards the DPRK among Japanese and South Koreans in a bid to strengthen the triangular military alliance and use it as a springboard from which to provoke a new war of aggression and use U.S. allies as a shock brigade.
The U.S. is keen to convince the Japanese reactionaries of the DPRK's "threat of missile strike at Japan" so that they may make the DPRK the principal target of overseas aggression and deeply involve themselves in the aggressive triangular military alliance system.
There is a problem to be tackled by the U.S. in strengthening the alliance. That is South Korea.
The present U.S. ruling quarters are becoming increasingly assertive before South Korean officials that top priority should be given to "cooperation system" and "the alliance" between the U.S. and South Korea in a bid to stem the trend towards improved inter-Korean relations. Blair's South Korean tour was apparently aimed to serve that purpose.
It is clearly evidenced by the fact that he advocated the fiction of the DPRK's "missile strike at South Korea" before South Koreans. By this method the U.S. imperialists are fostering an atmosphere of confrontation with the DPRK in South Korea and working hard to bring the process of inter-Korean reconciliation back to the state of confrontation in order to attain their aggressive aim.
The DPRK is fully prepared to strongly react to the U.S. hard-line policy to stifle it. If the U.S. warhawks turn to confrontation and war at any cost, the DPRK will make a thousand-fold retaliation against them.