Kim Jong Il's work published in Tunisia
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let us reunify the country independently and peacefully through the great unity of the entire nation" was brought out in booklet by the Shawki Publishing House of Tunisia on Jan. 15
The work was published on April 18, Juche 87 (1998). It clarifies the historic five-point policy of the great national unity that serves as a highly important guideline in achieving the great unity of the Korean nation.
The five-point policy calls for sticking to the principle of national independence, uniting under the banner of patriotism, the banner of national reunification, improving the inter-Korean relations, struggling against foreign forces' domination and interference and anti-reunification forces and strengthening mutual contacts, dialogue and solidarity of the whole nation.
The booklet in its preface says: we hope that the plan of Kim Jong Il and the cherished desire of all the Korean people would be achieved, and wish Juche-based socialism progress and prosperity.
KCNA on Japan's military expansion policy
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- Japan reportedly worked out a basic policy as regards an "emergency legislation" on January 21.
The basic policy was worked out under the pretext that it is the responsibility and duty of the state to adjust the system of coping with an armed attack in peace time under the constitution. It is a war document designed to legalise Japan's policy of military overseas expansion. It is as clear as noonday that the document has a very baneful impact on regional peace and stability.
Japan's clamour about the non-existent "armed attack from other country" is a pretext to justify the "emergency legislation."
Japan has finished the working out of the basic policy as regards the "law on emergency" the shaping of which has long been stepped up despite the opposition of the people at home and abroad. This means that Japan has seized the opportunity to pursue the policy of military overseas expansion in real earnest.
In the wake of the "September 11 incident" Japan's "self-defence forces" have intensified overseas military actions.
Japan has military muscle strong enough to realise the aggressive ambition of the Japanese militarists and ultra-nationalist forces to recover from their past defeat.
What remains to be done by Japan is to perfect a legal and institutional mechanism so as to emerge a military power and carry out overseas aggression.
Japan tries to act as the leader of the Asia-Pacific region, not bound by any law.
Japan, oblivious of the lesson from the defeat, tries to take the road of reconquest in a bid to realise its wild ambition for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in reliance upon its military and economic potentials. This will only precipitate Japan's self-destruction.
The international community should be vigilant against Japan's efforts to become a military power and moves to turn its society into a right-wing conservative one.
GIs hit for mass killings of civilians
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist aggressor troops committed mass killings of civilians in Rogun-ri, Yongdong county of South Korea during the last Korean War. It was recently disclosed once again by a testimony made by a former GI who had participated in the mass killings.
Rodong Sinmun today cites concrete facts to describe the mass killings as monstrous crimes beyond human imagination.
The news analyst says:
Countless are testimonies made by those who participated in the mass killings.
It was not Rogun-ri only where GIs' mass killings of civilians took place.
Since the very day of their occupation of South Korea the Yankees have killed millions of Koreans, betraying bestiality as a group of American cannibals.
They are the sworn enemy of the Koreans.
The South Koreans should no longer allow themselves to be victims of the Yankees' aggression, killing and plunder.
The U.S. imperialists should reveal all the real facts of the mass killings of civilians in Rogun-ri and other parts of South Korea, apologize to the Korean people and the world conscience, make a thousand-fold compensation and pull their aggression forces out of South Korea at once.
Ri hit for sycophantic act
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- The reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and peace in the Korean peninsula reportedly issued a statement denouncing Ri Hoe Chang, president of the "Grand National Party" of South Korea, for his sycophantic remarks and anti-reunification stand on January 18.
The "three principles of strategic reciprocity, national agreement and the verification of transparency" set out by Ri in the new year press conference on January 17 are in full accord with the anti-DPRK stand of the bush administration, the statement says, and goes on:
This is a sycophantic act designed to curry favor with the U.S. master.
We strongly warn him that if he persists in his partitionist stand, the U.S.-toeing flunkeyist stand, he will face a stern judgement by the people.
National day of India marked
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries hosted a friendship meeting at the Taedonggang club for the diplomatic corps yesterday on the occasion of the 52nd the National Day of India.
Invited to the meeting were Indian ambassador to the DPRK Binanda Kumar Gogoi and staff members of the embassy.
Present there were Choe Jong Hwan, vice-chairman of the committee, and other officials concerned.
The participants enjoyed colorful amusement games and an art performance given by schoolchildren and conversed with each other, deepening friendship.
Bush's projected trip of S. Korea protested
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- The south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification reportedly released a statement on January 16 protesting Bush's projected trip of South Korea.
This planned trip hints that the Korean nation will fall victim to unilateral hegemonism of the U.S., the statement said.
Stressing that the inter-Korean relations of cooperation and unity based on the June 15 joint declaration is incompatible with the U.S. hard line toward the DPRK, it said:
Designating the DPRK as a target of its war operation, the United States is now forcing upon it the inspection of mass destruction weapons such as nuke, missile, conventional arms and biological and chemical weapons while rendering the bilateral relations extremely strained. In another development, it announced a plan for establishing a missile defense system and is drawing the South Korean authorities to its implementation.
The U.S. should immediately stop such political intervention and take a sincere approach to the improvement of the DPRK-U.S. relations on the basis of the agreement reached between them before, squarely seeing the will of the Korean nation for reconciliation and reunification.
300,000 people inspect U.S. armed spy ship "Pueblo"
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- 34 years have passed since the u.s. imperialists' armed spy ship "Pueblo" was captured.
The armed spy ship was captured by seamen of the Korean People's Army on January 23, Juche 57 (1968) while illegally intruding into the territorial waters of our side.
The ship, which was in the East Sea of Korea off Wonsan, is on display on the River Taedong flowing through Pyongyang.
More than 4,000 soldiers of the KPA three services and officials, workers, farmers and students of institutions, actories, cooperative farms and schools visited the ship this year.
A total of 300,000 people inspected it in a matter of two years from October Juche 88 (1999).
140,000 men and officers of the people's army and people of all strata inspected the ship last year when the Korean peninsula was faced again with confrontation and tension owing to the reckless hard line of the U.S. administration toward the DPRK.
This clearly proves that the indignation and revenge of the Korean people upon the U.S. imperialist aggressors are daily growing.
Before the "Pueblo" which shows the shameful end of the aggressors, the visitors can hardly repress hatred for the U.S. imperialists who have resorted to aggression and war moves against Korea century after century.
South Korea-U.S. cooperation in war moves under fire
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea issued a statement as regards the grave situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula.
Chief Pak Kwang Gi of the NDFSK Pyongyang mission at a press conference held here today with Korean and foreign reporters attending made public the statement denouncing the U.S. and the South Korean bellicose elements for their undisguised cooperation in war moves.
The statement says:
Bellicose mandarins of the Bush administration fly into South Korea one after another after it proclaimed this year as a "year of war."
On January 3 three congressmen, advocates of the missile defense system, flew into Seoul and on January 17 a group of republicans led by the speaker of the U.S. house of representatives, ill-famed "advocates of arch enemy conception"
U.S. defense secretary Rumsfeld and the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff are expected to visit Seoul.
In mid-February Bush-led warmongers are expected to visit Seoul.
Owing to the war preparations of the Bush administration to invade the DPRK dark clouds of war are gathering over the Korean peninsula where the process of reconciliation, cooperation, peace and reunification has been underway since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
Bush-led warmongers' tour of Seoul is a war junket designed to block the improvement of inter-Korean relations, inveigle the South Korean authorities into their war strategy and thus put into practice the U.S. reckless war plan to invade the DPRK. The developments are reminiscent of the tour of Dulles on the eve of the June 25 Korean War.
The situation on the Korean peninsula in the far east is getting so tense that the same war of aggression as that in Afghanistan is about to break out.
We cannot remain a passive on-looker to the serious developments.
It is the fixed will and determination of the Korean people to preserve the basic spirit of the June 15 joint declaration, a programme for independent reunification common to the nation, and, through its implementation, put an end to the tragedy of national division in this land.
The U.S. should have a proper understanding of the Korean people's unshakable will for independent reunification against the U.S. and act with discretion. It also should put an immediate halt to the anachronistic war preparations against the north and moves to turn South Korea into a permanent colony and pull lethal weapons and aggressor troops out of South Korea at once.
The present authorities of South Korea should draw a lesson from the miserable end of the flunkeyist traitors who were sternly tried by the nation, immediately stop cooperating with the U.S. in war moves and sincerely implement the joint declaration in cooperation with the fellow countrymen.
The statement calls upon all the people to turn out in an anti-U.S. struggle to frustrate the war tour of Bush and Rumsfeld.
Then Pak Kwang Gi answered questions put by reporters.
Brisk preparations for "Arirang" in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- A mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" is in the making as a great masterpiece in the 21st century.
It will raise its curtain at the may day stadium on picturesque Rungra islet of Pyongyang in April. A full-dress depiction is going on on the basis of the already completed program.
At least 90 scenes of the constantly changing background have been completed and many songs and orchestras arranged to suit the character of the extravaganza.
Uptodate science and technology has been introduced to this performance.
A work is progressing at the final stage to make a three-dimensional decoration of the large stadium with the help of specially arranged stages, large lanterns, huge projectors, laser illuminators, automatic monochromatic ray devices, direct ray illuminators, color changing devices and other lighting equipment.
Constantly changing background scenes will be put on a high level of grand, rhythmic, three-dimensional and scientific description. The background will present fascinating scenery of lightning, thunder, fountain and rainbow.
The creating staff is now busy with preparations to give its premiere in spring to live up to the expectation of the people.
Book "Good Prescriptions" published
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Languages Book Publishing House has recently published a book "Good Prescriptions" (health-special efficacy 6).
Collected and systematized in the book are methods of treating sick people with Koryo medicines whose efficacy has long been confirmed through life experience and secret treatment methods handed down to people.
The book has 4 chapters.
Chapter 1 "experiential remedy that should not be ignored" introduces valuable experiential remedies under 16 subtitles and chapter 2 "secret good remedies according to symptoms of diseases" good prescriptions under 118 subtitles.
Chapter 3 "first-aid folk remedies" introduces good prescriptions which can be applied to first-aid and chapter 4 "good use of some Koryo medicines" deals with a good use of natural medicines such as earthworm, alum, schizandra chinensis and leaves of gingko tree.