Iranians help Korean farmers
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Charge d'affaires A. I. Gholamali Yahyazadeh and staff members of the Iranian embassy here on Monday visited the Korea-Iran Friendship Saenal Cooperative Farm in Sinchon county, South Hwanghae Province.
They helped farmers in hastening rice-transplanting while waging a drive to overcome the damage caused by a long spell of drought and high temperature.
They handed aid materials over to the farm.
During a break they appreciated an art performance and talked with farmers, deepening the feelings of friendship.
National day of Ethiopia marked
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Dubale Belihu, charge d'affaires A.I. of the Ethiopian embassy here, hosted a reception at the Taedonggang club for the diplomatic corps on Monday to mark the tenth anniversary of the national day of his country.
Invited to the reception were vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop and officials concerned.
Diplomatic envoys of different countries here were also invited.
Speeches were made there.
DPRK-Slovak protocol signed
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- A DPRK-Slovak intergovernmental protocol on the international agreements concluded between the DPRK and former Czechoslovakia was signed here on Monday.
It was inked by vice-minister of foreign affairs of the DPRK Choe Su Hon and Jan Soth, director general of the section for bilateral cooperation of the Slovak Foreign Ministry.
Japan's distortion of history condemned in India
New Delhi, May 27 (KCNA) -- Trade unions of India made public statements condemning Japan for its moves to distort historical facts in textbooks.
The All-India Trade Union congress in a statement on May 22 bitterly denounced the Japanese authorities for working hard to considerably distort, embellish and cover up the crimes Japan committed against the Korean people for over 40 years of its illegal occupation of Korea.
The statement recalled that in the period the Japanese imperialists suppressed and shot many patriotic Koreans to death. They also took away nearly 200,000 Korean women as "comfort women for the army" and forced them into sexual slavery.
The Japanese authorities should apologize and compensate for such unprecedented shameless crimes committed against the Korean people in the past, it held.
The centre of Indian trade unions in a statement on May 23 disclosed the above said crimes and condemned as a shocking outrage the Japanese authorities' approval of history textbooks in which most of the crimes were deleted.
The centre, the statement said, scathingly denounces Japan's moves to twist history and extends its full support and solidarity to the Korean people in the campaign to expose its past crimes.
Contributions to computer education highly estimated
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent gifts to officials, teachers, researchers and workers who have contributed to the development of computer education.
Those at computer educational and scientific institutions wrote, compiled and published scores of kinds of teaching materials for newly organized computer classes in a matter of two months. It would take several years to do so at an ordinary pace.
Kim Jong Il highly praised them for having written good teaching materials.
a meeting took place on Monday to convey his gifts.
Farm famous for stock-breeding
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- People in Kubin-ri, Kangdong county, Pyongyang, are very successful in stockbreeding.
This stockbreeding farm is putting a main emphasis on breeding goats.
Eleven out of its 13 workteams are stock-breeding teams.
There are more than 4,300 head of goats. 1,800 were added to the total head of goats on the farm this year alone.
Every team has air-conditioned goat pens, 150 square meters each, and veterinarian's rooms.
The farm has more than 1,300 hectares of natural pasture and over 250 hectares of artificial pasture. It is fully equipped with feed processing facilities.
The modern milk processing shop produces an average of 2.5 tons of sour milk and 500 kg of cheese and yogurt every day.
The increase of production of meat and milk resulted in a several-fold rise in the farmers' cash income.
The Kubin-ri was once known as an area unfit for crop cultivation as 80 per cent of it consists of steep mountains and soil is shallow in depth and barren. But today it has turned into a rich farm widely known for successful stock-breeding.
Leader Kim Jong Il sent to the farm superior breeds of goats and more than 10 species of good grass seeds and modern facilities to produce cheese and sour milk.
The prospect of the farm is very good.
U.S. denounced for defending Japan's sexual slavery
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Papers today denounce the federal district court in Washington for turning down the collective suit mounted by survivors of the former "comfort women for the army" in the Asian region against the Japanese government in demand of compensation and taking an attitude in favor of the Japanese government's view.
Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary recalls that the system of "comfort women for the army" established by the Japanese imperialists was the biggest-ever crime against humanity, noting that it was quite natural for them to file such a collective suit.
The commentary says:
The court dismissed the collective suit, asserting that it is unreasonable to talk about Japan's past crimes as it has the privilege of exemption from responsibility as a sovereign state, its government had already cleared all suits related to the war scores of years ago, and, moreover, the U.S. court has no right to handle the suit.
An attitude and stand toward the issue of "comfort women for the army" are a criterion showing whether the U.S. respects human rights or not.
However, the U.S. styling itself "human rights champion" is siding with the Japanese government, turning a blind eye to the issue. This is little short of defending the Japanese imperialists' past aggression and even covering up crimes related to the "comfort women for the army".
The ulterior aim of the U.S. is to give a shot in the arm of Japan now in the soup over the issue of liquidating its past in a bid to draw Japan closer to its side and use Japanese as a "shock brigade" in implementing its Asia-Pacific policy for the realization of its strategy for world domination.
The U.S. unwarranted attitude can never be tolerated.
Defending war crimes is as good as instigating them.
Japan is also well advised to come to its senses.
If Japan continues clinging to the U.S. apron-strings, openly evading the liquidation of its past, it will only bite the dust.
Minju Joson in a commentary says that the U.S. decision to dismiss the collective suit is an expression of its criminal attempt to woo Japan to play the role of a shock brigade in realizing its strategy for world domination at any cost, giving no consideration to the issue of the "comfort women for the army."
Rodong Sinmun calls for rejecting dependence on foreign forces
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean nation should hold high the banner of national independence, rejecting dependence on foreign forces in order to solve the issue of national reunification by itself, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The banner of national independence is the main key to the settlement of the national issue and a basic cornerstone of the principle of national reunification.
There can be no national reunification without the principle of national independence. When the Korean nation fails to maintain the principle of national independence, it cannot solve the issue of national reunification any time, get rid of foreign domination and subordination and avoid the fate of a ruined nation.
In any case the Korean nation should firmly maintain the principle of national independence. Only then, can it achieve national reunification on which its destiny depends and its prosperity.
The banner of national independence is a touchstone which distinguishes between patriotism and treachery and between reunification and division.
National reunification is the greatest patriotism. The Korean nation's patriotic will for reunification should be displayed in subordinating everything to the cause of national reunification under the uplifted banner of national independence.
It is no more than word-juggling to talk about reconciliation, unity and reunification, pursuing dependence on foreign forces without consciousness of national independence. dependence on foreign forces is a treachery to the nation and an anti-national act which makes havoc of the destiny of the nation.
The stand of national independence at present should be shown in conducting a vigorous movement for independent reunification under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The article calls upon all Koreans in the north, the south and overseas to wage a more powerful movement for national independence and reunification in the spirit of the joint declaration so as to achieve independent and peaceful reunification of the country in the near future.
Greetings to secretary general of OAU
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Salim A. Salim, secretary general of the organization of African unity, on the start of the formal work of the African Union.
The message expressed the belief that the union would ensure peace and stability in this region and greatly contribute to achieving common prosperity of the African continent by mobilizing and utilizing great potentials and rich natural resources.
The message wished the union a great success in its work for peace and progress on the continent.
IAEA delegation leaves
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency left here today by air after participating in the 16th round of negotiations for the implementation of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
IPPNW co-president arrives
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -Mary-Wynne Ashford co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and her party arrived here today.