Cuban embassy officials help Korean farmers
1 (KCNA) -- Cuban ambassador to Korea Esteban Lobaina Romero and embassy officials yesterday gave helping hands to the Korea-Cuba friendship stock farm managed by ri hong sop on the conclusion of the month of solidarity with the Cuban people.
Present there were Kim Myong Vhol, vice-chairman of the c.c., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, and officials concerned.
After being briefed on the history of the stock farm, the guests saw round its facilities and worked with its members.
During a break the guests talked with them, deepening friendly feelings.
Aerial espionage on over 130 occasions
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists committed aerial espionage against the DPRK by strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes of different missions on over 130 occasions in July, according to military sources.
Espionage by U-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft numbered at least 30 and espionage by reconnaissance planes of various kinds from overseas bases more than 10.
The U.S. imperialists mobilized 3 or 4 South Korea-based RC-12 and RC-7B tactical reconnaissance planes on a daily average to spy on the front line area and the east and west coasts.
KCNA on U.S. challenge to DPRK
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The Bush administration is becoming undisguised in fanning up enmity against the DPRK as part of its anti-DPRK smear campaign even after it announced the "resumption of dialogue with the DPRK".
U.S. deputy defense secretary Wolfwitz in a CNN appearance on July 28 asserted that the United States is exposed to the potential threat of North Korea's conventional weapons, noting that North Korea and Iraq will be the greatest military threat to the U.S. in the future.
His remarks go to prove that the Korean peninsula has been chosen as a main target of the U.S. new military strategy and the U.S. is keen to invent a pretext, to launch an operation after making the outbreak of another Korean war a fait accompli. they also suggest that the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK will be invariably pushed forward in the future as its strategic target.
The United States is seeking a sinister political and military aim in projecting the DPRK as the "greatest military threat" before the international community.
Following its military action against Iraq, the United States chose the Korean peninsula as a target of its new military policy calling for the use of armed forces abroad to meet the national interests of the United States.
It is universally recognized that the story about "threat from North Korea," which is possible start of a war by North Korea, is a sheer fiction and it is needed for carrying out its strategy for world domination.
The United States' aim is to establish the internally and internally censured "Missile Defense" system under the pretext of the "greatest military threat" from the DPRK and, furthermore, to launch another local war to meet the interests of U.S. munitions monopolies.
The U.S. clamour about "threat of conventional weapons" of the DPRK is no more than a pretext to put its new war scenario into practice.
It is preposterous for the U.S. to talk about this "threat" and it is another outrageous challenge to the DPRK.
The United States should immediately stop its base moves to provoke a war of aggression under the pretext of the DPRK's armed forces for self-defence and bear deep in mind that its hostile policy towards the DPRK will bring it to nowhere.
Japan accused of peddling "abduction" issue
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- At a g-8 foreign ministerial meeting held in Europe some time ago, Japans top diplomat raised an issue of "Japanese kidnapped" by the DPRK.
Commenting on it, Rodong Sinmun today says:
As a diplomatic boss of Japan, she should be prudent and honest in her action and speech and responsible for them, pondering over the consequences to be entailed by them.
We have already told Japan at past bilateral talks and on other occasions that the DPRK has nothing to do with any "abduction", and urged it to produce evidence. This was sufficient enough for it to understand the matter. But Tokyo failed to do so.
Such being the case, Japan is still persisting in the "suspected abduction" issue and now peddling it to European countries. It is dirty and foolish of Japan to do so.
In fact, Japan is very annoyed at the opening of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and EU and the relations of friendship and cooperation developing between the DPRK and European countries. It must be perplexed and disgraceful because as a geographically closest country, it stood before other nations in having negotiations with the DPRK for improved relations but it is now lagging behind others. It is entirely to blame for it.
Japan can get nothing from its peddling such issue, which will only further cool down the DPRK-Japan relations.
Minju Joson on scientific exposition of root cause of Koreas division
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson yesterday carried a signed article on President Kim Il Sung's irrefutable clarification that it is the U.S. imperialists who divided Korea.
The division of Korea was not caused by the contradiction within the nation, the article said, and went on:
This is proved by the fact that delegates of the nation were absent at the international conference of the countries concerned which dealt with the Korean issue.
Originally, Korea neither invaded other country nor was defeated.
The Korean nation achieved the liberation of the country by itself. therefore, there was neither reason nor pretext for the allied powers to make the Korean issue an object of post-war settlement.
The president made it clear that the U.S. imperialists have long pursued the policy of aggression on Korea and they framed up a crafty "proposal for dividing Korea with the 38th parallel as a demarcation line" after the second world war and illegally occupied South Korea.
The Korean people's revolutionary army and the former soviet army launched a general offensive on August 9, Juche 34 (1945) and advanced into Korea, breaking through the fortresses of the Japanese imperialists.
But by that time the U.S. troops were in Okinawa and the Philippines. Accordingly, the U.S. imperialists had neither time nor ability to set foot in any part of Korea.
That was why they imminently had a confab to occupy any region of Korea, ordered by U.S. President Truman. At the confab the U.S. troops were unilaterally entrusted to disarm the Japanese army in the area south of the 38th parallel of north latitude. And the written proposal was unilaterally communicated to other allied powers.
On this basis the U.S imperialists landed in South Korea on September 8, nearly one month after the defeat of the Japanese imperialists.
The U.S. imperialists renamed the Korean government-general of the Japanese imperialists the "U.S. military government" and enforced a "military rule" in South Korea. Under the U.S. "military government" the people's committees organized on the initiative of the people were forcibly dissolved and transport and communications between the north and south were cut by the boundary of the 38th parallel.
They illegally brought the Korean issue to the U.N. and forced a "separate election" upon South Korea to set up a pro-American "separate government" there under the signboard of the U.N. and divide Korea artificially.
One more ancient mural tomb unearthed
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Recently Korean archeologists succeeded in discovering mural tomb in Thaesong-ri, Kangso district, Nampho. The tomb is believed to belong to the period of Koguryo.
This is named "Tomb No.3 in Thaesong-ri".
The tomb is a typical tomb built with stone and covered with earth belonging to the period of Koguryo (277 B.C.- 668 A.D.)
The tomb is square at its bottom and round from it to its top. One side of its bottom is 32 m long.
An entrance to the tomb is on its south side.
The tomb divided into several rooms covers 38.68 square meters.
Walls of a room where there is an entrance are made up of layers of plain rocks that are plastered several times while those of other rooms are made up of huge granite.
Murals are painted on the right and left walls of the first room, on its ceiling and on stone walls in other rooms.
Foreign aggressors robbed the tomb of its valuables several times.
Their walls and ceilings were severely destroyed in particular.
As a result, only an image of a person and patterns on the mural painting on the western wall of the first room remain slightly recognizable.
Unearthed in the tomb were gold ornaments, jewelry, bronze bracelet, glazed pottery and many pieces of pottery, coffin nails and other relics.
According to archeologists, structure, building materials and relics inside the tomb prove that it is a king-level tomb belonging to the period from early to the middle of the 4th century.
The tomb is drawing a keen interest of historians.
Swiss National Day observed
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate signed articles to the national day of the Swiss confederation.
A signed article of Rodong Sinmun says that the DPRK's government established good neighbor and friendly relationship with those countries that respect the DPRK's sovereignty and are friendly towards it though they have political views and social systems different from DPRK's and has developed exchange and cooperation with them and Switzerland is one of those countries.
It goes on:
Exchange and cooperation have developed on good terms between the DPRK and Switzerland. It meets with the interests of the peoples of the two countries and is good for the development of relations between the DPRK and European countries.
Switzerland is striving to achieve political stability and economic development to meet new circumstances and conditions of the new century.
The DPRK believes that the relations between the DPRK and Switzerland will develop favorably in the future, too, in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
Extending congratulations to the Swiss people on the national day the DPRK wishes them a new development in their lives, the article adds.
Paek Nam Sun meets Czech ambassador
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the DPRK, met and had a talk with Czech ambassador to the DPRK Alexander Karych who paid a farewell call on him today.
Talks held between DPRK and Nigerian parliamentary delegations
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Talks between the delegation of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Nigerian parliamentary delegation were held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
At the talks the two sides informed each other of the situation in their countries and exchanged views on the development of friendly and cooperative relations between the two parliaments and a series of matters of common concern.
Present at the talks were chairman of the SPA Choe Thae Bok and other officials concerned, members of the Nigerian delegation headed by Anyim Pius Anyim, President of the senate, and Alhaji Daudu Sulaiman, Nigerian ambassador to the DPRK.
The talks proceeded in a friendly atmosphere.