Friendly gathering with Lao embassy officials
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering with Lao embassy officials was held at Korea-Laos Friendship Pyongyang Chongryu Senior Middle School yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of the establishment of friendly city relationship between the DPRK capital city of Pyongyang and Lao capital city of Vientiane.
Invited to the meeting were charge d'affaires ad interim Manith Sengsathith and officials of the Lao embassy in pyongyang.
On hand were Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials concerned and teachers and students of the school.
The participants looked round experimental and practical training rooms, appreciated an art performance given by schoolchildren and talked to each other, deepening friendly feelings.
U.S. annual report on religion under fire
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Korean Christian Federation yesterday released a statement condemning the United States for taking issue with the DPRK over its religious issue some days ago.
The statement says:
The U.S. State Department in its recent "annual report" groundlessly twisted and defiled the DPRK policy on religion and referred to a certain "measure." It is nothing but a vicious plot to serve its sinister political purpose of isolating the DPRK.
The U.S. styling itself a Christian country committed thrice-cursed war crimes against humanity and Christianity. It savagely bombed more than 1,900 churches, cathedrals and temples and killed in cold blood hundreds of thousands of Korean religionists including Christians during the past Korean War.
The central committee of the Korean Christian Federation dismisses such U.S. behavior as outrageous and arrogant as it disregards even the elementary principle of the international law and seriously violates the basic principle governing the life of a Christian which forbids him from telling any lie harmful to the other and, at the same time, sternly condemns it in the name of all the Korean Christians.
The U.S. should apologize for destroying all the churches in Korea and killing many religionists in the past Korean war in the 1950s and immediately and unconditionally withdraw its arrogant "decision."
The statement expressed the expectation that the international Christian organizations and all the honest-minded Christians of the world who love justice and peace would actively turn out in the struggle to check and frustrate the U.S. plot.
U.S. urged to drop its unilateral demand
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The commander of the U.S. forces in South Korea in a recent "lecture given on invitation" clamored for a "close watch" on the "threat from North Korea" and a "firm measure" against someone's "misjudgment." the U.S. ambassador to South Korea addressing a "seminar" to which he was invited talked about the "need" to cut down the conventional armed forces of the DPRK.
In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says:
This clearly indicates that the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK have entered an extremely grave stage.
The issue of reducing of the conventional armed forces of the DPRK raised by the U.S. clamoring about the non-existent "threat" from it is aimed to justify its attempt at the permanent occupation of South Korea, torpedo the DPRK-U.S. dialogue and shift the responsibility for it onto the DPRK.
The U.S. left no stone unturned to perpetuate its troops' presence in South Korea, keeping South Korea under its military occupation for more than half a century. Its talk about the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK is part of its moves.
Though the U.S. is talking about the DPRK-U.S. dialogue, it, in fact, has shown no interest in it from its beginning.
On the contrary, it is seeking to torpedo the DPRK-U.S. dialogue and shift the responsibility for it onto the DPRK at any cost.
There is no change in the DPRK principled stand on the issues of the U.S. military presence in South Korea and the DPRK-U.S. dialogue.
The DPRK has consistently demanded the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. forces from South Korea. It is a pressing issue in improving the DPRK-U.S. relations. It is the DPRK consistent stand to settle the abnormal DPRK-U.S. relations through DPRK-U.S. dialogue. But the DPRK never begs for dialogue.
It approaches and conducts all dialogues from an independent stand. Neither demand nor pressure, which are running counter to the DPRK independent stand and interest, can work on it.
If the U.S. truly wants the dialogue with the DPRK, it should renounce its unilateral attitude toward the dialogue, properly understanding the DPRK will and stand toward it.
Everything depends on the U.S. attitude.
The DPRK will watch the U.S. future behavior.
Poems written by foreigners
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Anders Kristensen, chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association, wrote poems "I Send Greetings" and "On Orori Plain."
He in the poems says that Korea was closest to him despite language and geographical barriers.
He says he sends greetings to the Korean people who preserve the Juche character and national character, unaffected by serious natural disasters and the imperialists' blockade and pressure.
He says it is thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il that thousands of years old patches of Orori Plain in South Hwanghae Province have been replaced by a vast plain.
Igor Ryapin, first secretary of the Russian Union of Writers, wrote a poem "Comrade Kim Jong Il Comes."
He in the poem says: Today leader Kim Jong Il follows the footmarks of friendship left by President Kim Il Sung in the vast land of Russia and the friendship between the two peoples will be ever-lasting.
New disinfecting and washing agent developed
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Chaunaek, a new variety of liquid disinfecting and washing agent, was developed by Korean medical scientists.
Chaunaek is good for washing oneself as it is strong in its sterilizing function. it is 15.4 times as effective as liquid soap.
It contains 98.95 g of hclo3, 0.05 g of radix gypsohilae saponin and 1.00 g of caustic soda.
It is free from skin irritation and inflammation.
It is widely used as disinfectant in hospitals, kindergartens, nurseries and other places requiring high sanitation. It is also used on co-op farms and fruit farms to eradicate the effect of pesticide.
Choe Thae Bok meets new Pakistani ambassador
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and conversed with new Pakistani ambassador to Korea Sultan Habib, who paid a courtesy call on him, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Credentials to Kim Yong Nam from Polish ambassador
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Wojciech Kaluza, new Polish ambassador to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present there was Choe S1 Hon, vice-minister of foreign affairs.
After receiving credentials, Kim Yong Nam conversed with the ambassador.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on Japan's step for overseas aggression
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement today as regards Japan's adoption and effectuation of "anti-terrorism special law" on November 2.
The statement said:
The law allows Japan to dispatch its "Self-Defense Forces" (SDF) overseas under the pretext of assisting the U.S. in its anti-terrorism war now under way.
According to the law, Japan will no longer be restricted by the constitution which renounces a war and bans the exercise of the right of collective self-defense, the article that should be strictly observed by a defeated nation in world war ii, but will be allowed to dispatch the SDF worldwide.
This indicates that Japan has finally embarked upon the road of realizing its wild ambition for overseas expansion of which it has dreamt for over 50 years since its defeat.
Japan has regarded the large-scale attacks on the U.S. and the subsequent U.S. retaliatory military attack on Afghanistan as a golden chance to put its old ambition into practice. As the first step for its realization, it hastily fabricated this law to allow the overseas dispatch of the SDF.
Japan's undisguised moves to launch overseas expansion and become a military power are arousing deep apprehension and resentment of many Asian countries and the rest of the world. Strong protests are ringing out not only from Japan but from among the world public.
These reckless moves of Japan can never be tolerated.
Our people are following Japan's militarist moves for expansion with high vigilance and keeping themselves fully ready to counter them.
Japan is rushing headlong toward militarist expansion instead of drawing a lesson from its crime-woven past. But it will meet strong resistance of the Korean people and other Asian people and face a more miserable end than what it sustained in the past.