Utterance of U.S. secretary of defense accused
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- U.S. secretary of defense Rumsfeld addressing a recent closed meeting of the armed service committee of the U.S. House of Representatives said that the bush administration is now working out a new flexible military strategy to cope with an "inevitable occurrence of unexpected situation" such as a Korean War.
In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says:
His utterance clearly suggests what the administration seeks on the Korean peninsula is a new war.
The United States has not given up an ambition for world domination by "force" and is working hard to achieve it.
The present situation where the united states is making the outbreak of the second Korean war a fait accompli in a bid to realize its design once again convinces the Korean people of the greatness and vitality of the army-first politics of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Thanks to the army-first politics of the wpk the people's army and people of Korea have a fixed will. If the enemy opts to start a new war at any cost, the army and people of the DPRK will deal a telling blow to him by displaying the strength they have so far built. It is their will and resolution.
There is no need to explain what consequences this devastating strike will bring.
The U.S. had better bear this in mind and have a right option.
Martyrs and their wives interred together
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Dead wives were buried in their husbands' graves at the patriotic martyrs cemetery in Sinmiri on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
Interred at the cemetery are those who died while devotedly fighting for the liberation of the country and working for socialist construction and national reunification, cadres of the party, state and army, and officials who performed feats in scientific, educational, public health and culture and art fields.
Leader Kim Jong Il, gifted with warm love for comrades, saw to it that the cemetery was built in the 1980s and stone pictures of martyrs were attached to the graves in September Juche 87 (1998). And he instructed this year that dead wives of martyrs should be buried in their husbands' graves.
This is an expression of his unbounded love and deep trust in revolutionary comrades and their children.
As of the end of may, remains of over 100 wives were buried in their husbands' graves at the cemetery.
KCNA slams Japan's moves for aggression
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Nakatani, director general of the Japan Defense Agency, told the security committee of the house of representatives on May 31 that "cooperation from the self-defense forces is needed for the U.S. troops, if they are exposed to danger in the event of contingency in areas surrounding Japan." and he urged the government to allow the exercise of right to the collective self defense through the revision of the constitution.
This proves that Japan is accelerating the moves to legalize the overseas aggression by the "SDF", a shock brigade in executing the U.S. world strategy, pursuant to the bush administration's policy of "giving importance to Japan." At the same time, it shows the Japanese politicians are veering to the right so fast as to call for adopting militarisation as a state policy.
The present constitution of Japan bans, in principle, the possession of an army, the use of armed forces against any other country, and the exercise of "right to collective self-defense" intended for joint military actions with its allies.
In spite of it, Japan keeps, in actuality, an army called "SDF", and has laid a groundwork for joint military actions such as the "guidelines for U.S.-Japan defense cooperation", reducing the pacific constitution to a mere name. What remains to be done by Japan at present is only to rewrite articles of the constitution in favour of militarisation.
What cannot be overlooked is that the U.S. and Japan are in collusion with each other over the issue of the "right to collective self-defense".
The former and new U.S. ambassadors to Japan recently called for the U.S. cooperation in this matter. Such call was repeated this time by the director general of the Japan defense agency. It is because the U.S. and Japan have the same interests.
The U.S. seeks to use Japan as a shock brigade for the implementation of its world strategy while the latter schemes to launch reinvasion of the Asia-Pacific region with the help of the former.
Japan is well advised to ponder over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its vaulting ambition for militarisation. The U.S., too, had better refrain from the criminal conspiracy with Japan.
International Children's Day observed
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- The 51st June 1 International Children's Day was significantly marked in the DPRK.
A friendly gathering of Korean and foreign women and children in Pyongyang took place at Mangyongdae fun fair on Friday.
Present there were secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea central committee Kim Jung Rin and others.
Wives of foreign diplomatic envoys here and other women and children of different countries were invited.
The gathering began with a song and dance "holiday of children, flower buds," and a march and a rhythmic gymnastics were performed by children.
Then the participants played toy-picking, tug-of-war, Thongil train running, archery and other sports and amusement games, deepening the friendship.
On the same day, children across the country enjoyed their holiday in parks, pleasure grounds and kindergartens, giving art performances and playing sports and amusement games.
S. Korean air force exercise under fire
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- The South Korean air force announced that it would stage a five day-long "2001 exercise for supporting air battles" from May 30 to be participated in by all its units and "examine its results".
In this regard, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
Participating in the exercise billed as a "drill for the best maintenance and the increase of the capacity for arms support" are F-4 and F-16 and other type fighters, training planes and transport planes of different types and helicopters. specially selected "elite ground crews and arms handlers" are set to undergo training under the simulated conditions of an actual war.
To stage a drill of fitting planes with live ammunition and assembling bombs and examining its results under the simulated conditions of an actual war is a very dangerous development to be seen only on the eve of a war.
This is a challenge to the joint meeting of political parties and organizations in the DPRK that discussed immediate measures and made an important proposal for opening the door of reunification by the efforts of the Korean nation on the occasion of the first anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and also a provocation to the north.
The basic idea of the declaration is to realise the country's reunification independently by the Korean nation's efforts in the north and the south, the main agent of reunification.
In order to achieve the independent reunification, the north and south should get reconciled and united and reject the foreign interference in the internal affairs of the nation.
Nevertheless, the South Korean military authorities are favouring foreign aggressor forces' hostile policy toward the DPRK and giving spurs to the arms buildup and the modernization of military hardware targeted against it.
Traitors to the nation cannot go scotfree while attempting to block the implementation of the declaration after rejecting fellow countrymen's offer for reconciliation and cooperation and joining hands with foreign forces.
If they bring the north-south relations back to the state of confrontation and tension before the adoption of the declaration, they will meet irretrievably serious consequences.
The South Korean military authorities will have to be entirely responsible for them.
Japan's intention for revision of LAW under fire
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary assails the Japanese reactionaries for working hard to revise the "law on cooperation in U.N. peace-keeping operations" so that the Japan "Self-Defence Forces" (SDF) may use weapons in those operations as they please.
This is intended to let the SDF use weapons at random in any region of the world under the signboard of "peace-keeping", the commentary says, and goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries leave no means untried for overseas aggression.
Japan's "peace constitution" exists in name only.
Japan has all conditions for undertaking a war of overseas aggression. the adoption of a new legislation for the implementation of the "guideline for Japan-U.S. defence cooperation" led to the restoration of the SDF's right of belligerency and the right to participate in a war.
When SDF is allowed to use weapons as it pleases broad, the SDF can launch overseas invasion in real earnest.
The Japanese reactionaries' projected revision of the law is chiefly to serve the purpose of permitting the servicepersons of SDF to use weapons overseas. Through this they seek to stage military operations in any part of the world, which precisely means Japan's overseas invasion.
As seen above, their moves for overseas invasion have entered the phase of its realization.
If they begin overseas invasion, they will not be able to escape the same miserable doom as what the Japanese imperialists met for committing a war of aggression in the past.
Students and workers meet former unconverted long-term prisoners
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Teaching staff and students of Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology and workers of the Pyongyang Garment Factory and Pyongyang Changgwang Garment Factory separately met with former unconverted long-term prisoners, the patriotic fighters for reunification.
Former unconverted long-term prisoners, strong in faith and will, are leading a happy life after their return to the socialist homeland from South Korea last September.
At the meeting they recalled that they emerged victorious remaining true to the last to the sense of obligation as revolutionary soldiers despite physical torture and appeasement of the enemy aimed at their conversion for scores of years. They could do so because there were the deep care of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and their determination to live not to be ashamed of themselves before the Workers' Party of Korea and the leaders and their comrades-in-arms and parents, brothers and sisters, they added.
Students and workers vowed to prepare themselves as human bombs devotedly defending Kim Jong Il on the first line like pro-reunification patriotic fighters and become heroes and heroines of the times in building a powerful nation.
Former unconverted long-term prisoners enjoyed a colorful performances staged by students and workers and spent a pleasant while singing together with them.
Solidarity with survivors of Japan's sexual slavery called for
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Jong Yon Jin, chairperson of the "committee for justice and restoration of honor of 'comfort women for the army' and victims of forced labor by the imperial Japanese army in the U.S." which represents the suit filed by victims of the "comfort women for the army" and forced labor in the U.S., held a press conference in South Korea on May 29, according to Seoul-based Yonhap News.
Jong at the press conference accused the Japanese government of trying to turn down by all means the suit filed to the federal district court in Washington by 15 survivors of the "comfort women for the army" against the Japanese government in demand of its official apology and proper compensation.
Jong also accused the U.S. government of delivering a written opinion to the court supporting Japan's letter unreasonably dismissing the suit.
Jong called upon the authorities and all circles, political and academic, and civil organizations of South Korea to solidarize with survivors of the "comfort women for the army" who filed the suit.
S. Korean unionists' struggle goes on
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Over 3,000 unionists under the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (Minjurochong) held a meeting in Seoul on June 1 demanding a halt to lay-off and an early passage of the bill on the improvement of people's living through the "national assembly", according to Seoul-based radio 1.
Chairman of Minjurochong Tan Pyong Ho, addressing the meeting, said that the "national assembly" remaining a bulletproof "parliament" over the last one year failed to take up the bill on the improvement of people's living including the bill on the protection of mothers.
The organization threatened to enter from June 12 into an all-out struggle calling for a stop to restructuring and passage of the bill on the improvement of people's living.
Loving care shown by Kim Jong Il for Hamhung city
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il showed loving care for Hamhung city to help it speed up the modernization of its youth goat farm and economic development and improve the standard of its citizens' living.
True to Kim Jong Il's noble intention to create pasture in different parts of the country and breed a lot of goats, officials and working people in the city built a road extending over 60 km, created pasture on its either side, and constructed many production buildings, modern houses, welfare and service facilities and six power stations in a short span of time. As a result, there appeared a workers' district specializing in goat farming.
Kim Jong Il showed loving care for the city in high recognition of their devoted service.
Present at the meeting held at the Hamhung Grand Theatre yesterday to convey this solicitude were senior party and state officials including Kye Ung Thae, Choe Thae Bok and Yon Hyong Muk, leading officials of party and power bodies and economic organs in South Hamgyong Province, employees of the Hamhung Youth Goat Farm, officials and working people in the city.
Also present there were chief secretaries of provincial, city and county committees of the WPK and chairmen of provincial people's committees.
Speakers at the meeting represented the determination of the officials and working people in Hamhung to implement to the letter the party's policy on massively raising grass-eating animals to supply more meat and milk to the people.