Decision adopted at joint meeting of political parties and organizations in DPRK hailed
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- The joint meeting of political parties and organizations in the DPRK held here on May 28 to pave the way for achieving reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation called for holding a grand national symposium on Mt. Kumgang, a famous mountain of Korea, with people from all walks of life in the north, south and abroad attending on the occasion of the first anniversary of the publication of the north-south joint declaration.
It also discussed such issues as organizing colorful events in the north, south and abroad according to their specific conditions, steadily staging a movement and functions to successfully implement the declaration and escalating them nationwide during the "June 15-August 15 Period of the Movement for Promoting National Reunification."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that the proposal and decision made at the meeting are very significant and timely ones as they represent the nation's will and aspiration after reunification and the requirements of the reality.
The commentary goes on:
Over the last one year since the historic Pyongyang meeting and the publication of the joint declaration great progress has been made in the struggle for national reunification.
But, it is now facing a grave challenge.
The U.S. imperialists are desperately trying to throw a stumbling block in the way of the Korean nation's independent reunification, talking about "hard-line" toward someone.
In South Korea large-scale joint military exercises against the DPRK are being staged one after another and pro-reunification patriotic organizations are being suppressed one after another on absurd charges of being "enemy-benefiting" organizations.
The main purpose of the joint meeting is to hold those functions for reunification nationwide during the June 15-August 15 period and foil the outsiders' and anti-reunification forces' challenges through the unity of the whole nation and provide an opportunity to effect a new upswing in the movement for national reunification.
One's stand and attitude toward the decision and call made at the joint meeting precisely mean an approach to the joint declaration and a criterion showing whether he or she wishes reconciliation, unity and reunification of the nation or not.
Whoever is truly concerned about the destiny of the country and the nation and desirous of national reunification should positively respond to the decision and call of the joint meeting.
KCNA brands U.S. as wrecker of world peace
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Official figures of the U.S. administration in different places recently let loose a string of balderdash that "the U.S. is ready to cooperate with Japan in exercising its right to collective self-defence" and "Japan should exercise its right to collective self-defence even by revising its constitution".
This is a proof that the Bush administration's attempt to turn Japan into a military power and use it as a shock brigade in executing the U.S. strategy for world domination has reached an extremely adventurous phase.
The Japanese right-wing forces are now working hard to formally upgrade the "Self-Defence Forces" to an army and rewrite the "peace constitution" so as to lay legal foundations for overseas aggression. If Japan is allowed to have regular armed forces and "exercise the right to collective self-defence", it will certainly turn into a military power and launch reinvasion of Asia. This is quite clear from Japan's past and its present political and military tendency.
Japan is a war criminal state which inflicted monstrous disasters upon humankind and the only country obsessed with the wild ambition for aggression, far from liquidating its criminal past.
That's why the international community has been very vigilant against Japan's moves for rearmament and for its conversion into a military power.
However, the United States rearmed Japan and used many Japanese servicemen as a shock brigade for aggression during the Korean War and is now pushing it to those moves.
All facts go to prove that the U.S is the very one who sparks an arms race in Asia and wrecks the world peace.
The Bush administration, seized by an arrogant and self-opinionated design for world domination, seems to forget that Japan's moves to emerge as a military power and realize militarization are far from beneficial to the U.S. itself.
Agreement on Korea-China cooperation signed
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- An agreement of the 40th meeting of the DPRK-China border river navigation cooperation committee was signed here on Tuesday.
Present at the signing ceremony were members of the delegations of the DPRK and Chinese sides to the committee.
The agreement was inked by head of the DPRK delegation Ri Nam Jong and head of the Chinese delegation Tian Yugang.
U.S. hard line policy toward DPRK assailed
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Over 200 members of the Confederation of Trade Unions and the Democratic Workers' Party of South Korea held a rally in front of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan, Seoul, on May 26, according to Seoul-based MBC.
At the rally they said the atmosphere of inter-Korean reconciliation is being distracted by the Bush administration's persistent hardline policy toward the DPRK.
Recalling that the U.S. administration recently called for the establishment of "Missile Defense" system and an increase of 20 percent in spending for the upkeep of its troops, the ralliers contended its hardline policy towards the DPRK is hampering inter-Korean dialogue.
Sports achievements exhibited
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- An "exhibition of achievements in physical culture and sports" has been arranged at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium.
On display there are over 200 photographs and more than 600 cups, medals and golden belts which show the achievements made in sports over the past 55 years.
There is also a chart showing that DPRK players won over 1,220 medals in world championships, Olympiads and other international games.
According to data at the exhibition, 95 heroes and heroines and people's sportspersons, over 660 merited sportspersons and over 2,700 masters of sports were produced from the nation's field of sports in the period.
Family of physician
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Korea boasts of many families of intellectuals who contribute to the building of a powerful nation.
Among them is a family of physician Ryu Sik who recently wrote the book "the way to a hundred-year longevity". the book, a dear friend to the people for the health promotion, is a product of the warm human love of merited physician, professor and doctor Ryu Sik, vice-president of Namsan Hospital, and his wife, son and daughter.
Leader Kim Jong Il was informed of his family who wrote a book helpful to the health promotion of the people with awareness of the mission of physicians. he highly praised:
"It is highly commendable that the whole family wrote it with praiseworthy idea".
He sent the book to the grand people's study house to feed it into the computer, so that readers may get access to medical materials and knowledge any time.
Ryu Sik has already written tens of medical books, reference textbooks and theses including a reference book for clinical surgery, a collection of surgery, health and hygiene, greatly contributing to the development of medical science. and he brought up over 10 doctors and bachelors of medical science.
His son Ryu Rim and daughter Ryu Ho Chun, doctors and bachelors at the hospital attached to Pyongyang University of Medicine and Pothonggang district people's hospital in Pyongyang, studied and solved the urgent issues of surgery and pharmacy, proving them effective in practice.
His wife Pak Juk Sun with a long career of an obstetrician is called and respected by neighbouring women as "their own mother".
Greetings to Croatian President
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Stipe Mesic, President of Croatia, on its independence day.
Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would further develop in the future, the message wished him and the Croatian people great successes in their work for stability and prosperity of the country.
DPRK foreign minister meets Danish ambassador
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- DPRK foreign minister Paek Nam Sun today met and conversed with Christoffer Bo Bramsen, Danish ambassador to the DPRK, who paid a farewell visit to him.
DPRK-Cuban plan for cultural exchange signed
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- A plan for cultural exchange for Juche 90-92 (2001-2003) between the governments of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Cuba was signed here today.
The plan was inked by Hong Son Ok, vice-chairperson of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and Esteban Lobaina Romero, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.
Choe Thae Bok meets Romanian party delegation
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the political bureau and secretary of the central committee of the Workers'Party of Korea, met the delegation of the Greater Romania Party led by Gheorghe Buzatu, vice-president of the senate of Romania from the party, and had a conversation in a friendly atmosphere at the Mansudae Assembly Hall, today.
The head of the delegation said that all buildings built in Korea are the world's first class ones and all this is the result of the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung who devoted his whole life to the people.
And he said he came to know well the army-first guidance of leader Kim Jong Il through the visit to Korea, expressing the belief that the Korean people would emerge victorious in the building of a powerful nation under his wise leadership.