Kim Jong Il's Russia visit hailed
pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's official Russia visit is warmly supported and welcomed by world public circles.
The Socialist Unionist Party of Syria in a statement released on August 7 noted that the party has followed with keen attention leader Kim Jong Il's historic official visit to the Russian Federation.
Now that the U.S. moves for "globalization" and world domination are getting pronounced, we regard his visit as a historic one of opening a new prospect of leading socialism to progress and development worldwide, the statement said.
The Arab and International Committee for Solidarity with the Korean People and for Supporting the Reunification of Korea in a statement issued on August 6 said it is a striking demonstration of the traditional friendship and solidarity between the DPRK and Russia that Kim Jong Il went to Russia and met with President V.V. Putin.
Organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people are convinced that people's Korea and Russia will contribute to genuine peace and security of asia and the rest of the world and the solidarity and progress of the world people, it stressed.
Japan's moves for reinvasion of Korea under fire
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a commentary denouncing Japan for invariably pursuing its wild design to reinvade Korea.
This is clearly evidenced by the fact that Japan is keen to round off ahead of schedule the reexamination of the present "defense program outlines" supposed to be finished in 2005, the commentary says, and goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries' loudmouthed "defense program outlines" are a dangerous document for overseas aggression, not for "defense."
They are calling for the exercise of the "right of collective self-defense" under the signboard of "international contribution." and they are underscoring the need to revise the present constitution in a bid to replace the symbolic "peace constitution" by a war constitution.
Japan's distortion of textbooks intended to whitewash the history of the past aggression and the Japanese chief executive's attempt to visit the "Yasukuni Shrine" go to prove that they are desperately working to realize their design for reinvasion.
Today Japan has emerged as a dangerous force of aggression in Asia. The Korean peninsula is the first target of the Japanese reactionaries. They are directing the spearhead of aggression to the peninsula, talking about a "joint counter-action" with the united states in case of "emergency on the Korean peninsula."
Having already worked out the scenario for reinvasion of Korea, they frantically staged landing operation and other attack operation exercises while massively deploying the main units of the "self-defense forces" in the western part of Japan near the Korean peninsula.
Their hasty moves to reexamine the "defense program outlines" are to round off their preparations to stage a comeback to Korea.
Sports contests for Jonsung Cup held
pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Sports contests for Jonsung Cup were held in Pyongyang and localities on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
The contests involved swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, diving, yachting, canoeing, water skiing and other sea games.
National records were renewed in several swimming events.
U.S. moves to provoke war denounced
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Abudl Kader, chairman of the central committee of the National Workers' Federation of Bangladesh, issued a statement on august 5 in support of the Korean people's cause of national reunification.
He in the statement said:
Leader Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo as the three charters for national reunification and has wisely led the Korean people's struggle to realize them.
Under these circumstances, the historic Pyongyang summit meeting was held and the north-south joint declaration was published in June last year.
The U.S. imperialists and their stooges are now scheming to thwart the peaceful solution of the Korean issue.
We denounce the U.S. forces' occupation of South Korea and their moves to ignite a new war, and demand the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea.
The chairman called upon all the peace-loving people of the world to extend support and solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle to put an end to the U.S. forces' presence in South Korea and reunify the country peacefully.
Japan urged to apologize and compensate for its past crimes
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- We once again urge Japan to stop distorting history at once, admit its legal responsibility for its past crimes against humanity and settle its disgraceful past with an official apology and state compensation.
The DPRK delegate said this in a speech at the 53rd session of the UN sub-commission on human rights held in Geneva on August 6.
The aggression and conquest of other countries and nations, colonialism and the slavery inflicted immeasurable pain and disasters on many victimized countries and people, he said, and went on:
However, there are persistent attempts to bury the issue of the past in oblivion forever. Japan is not allowed to behave as it pleases as far as the issue of the settlement of its past is concerned.
Those countries that enforced a colonial rule and slavery in the past should admit their legal and moral responsibility and make an official apology. And through state compensation and education in correct history they should show their clear commitments and political willingness not to repeat their wrong past.
S. Korean university students refuse to work at Chosun Ilbo office
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Representatives of students of newspaper and broadcasting faculties of eleven universities across South Korea including Yonsei University and Korea University made public a declaration of refusal to find employment at the Chosun Ilbo office, according to Seoul-based CBS.
They announced at a press conference demanding a press reform on August 8 that they would not get jobs at the newspaper office and that they would conduct a campaign to refuse employment at the Chosun Ilbo office not only among the above-said students but among all other university students of South Korea.