GIs accused of Rogun-ri massacre
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Committee for Probing the Truth about the Rogun-ri Massacre in South Korea made public a paper "Rogun-ri incident: lesson for GIs" on January 23, according to the newspaper Hangyore dated Jan. 24.
The paper was presented by major Ryu Mu Bong, an instructor at the military staff college of South Korea, in may last year when he was studying at the U.S. military staff college.
Ryu in his paper contended that the GIs were responsible for the incident that took place in Rogun-ri, Yongdong county, North Chungchong Province, in 1950 when the Korean War was under way. The U.S. command should have taken those commanding officers concerned to task under the law, the paper said.
Describing this paper as "very noteworthy", a spokesman for the committee said: its assertion that the U.S. army officers should have been brought to task is very just and objective.
Reporting about the facts, the newspaper said the paper is expected to cause a great sensation though it was made public belatedly as it has totally refuted the conclusion made by the South-Korea-U.S. joint fact-finding group in January last year that "Rogun-ri incident was accidental."
Rodong Sinmun on north-south joint declaration
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration is a declaration of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity based on the three principles of national reunification, a landmark of national reunification and a reunification program common to the nation, said Rodong Sinmun yesterday in a signed article entitled "declaration of independent national reunification embodying the three principles of national reunification."
It went on:
Independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity are the three principles of national reunification advanced by President Kim Il Sung in May Juche 61 (1972).
The historic north-south joint declaration solemnly says that the Korean nation will solve the issue of national reunification independently by its concerted efforts on the principle of independence, one of the three principles.
No foreign forces have a mandate to interfere in the issue of national reunification but the Korean people are entitled to solve the issue with their national will and efforts.
The joint declaration indicates a clear way of achieving peaceful reunification, one of the three principles.
The joint declaration decided to promote reunification on the basis of the commonness of the north side's proposal for lower-stage federal formula and the south side's proposal for confederation. It clarifies the way of reunification by federal formula on the basis of recognizing and tolerating different ideologies and systems in the north and south and on the principle of co-existence, co-prosperity and common interest, thus providing a solid cornerstone for the north and south to advance toward reunification with confidence with a common design for national reunification.
The joint declaration also reflects the principle of great national unity, one of the three principles. When the whole nation unites to form one driving force, it means reunification.
Greetings to Jordanian prime minister
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Premier Hong Song Nam of the DPRK cabinet sent a message of greetings to Ali Abu al Ragheb upon his reappointment as prime minister of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.
Wishing him success in his responsible work for stability and development of the country, the message expressed belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would grow stronger in different fields.
Meanwhile, DPRK foreign minister Paek Nam Sun sent a message of greetings to Marwan al Moasher upon his appointment as foreign minister of Jordan.
Unity of whole nation called for
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Sung Sang Sop, chairman of the c.c., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, released a statement on Sunday hailing the proposal of the recent joint meeting of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations, which calls for making this year "a year of promoting the unity and reunification by the concerted efforts of our nation".
This proposal is a reasonable and realistic initiative that makes it possible to pool will and efforts of all the Koreans under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and glorify this year as a year of a new surge in achieving the cause of national reunification, the statement said, and went on:
All the fellow countrymen should make this year of weighty significance in the implementation of the joint declaration a year of promoting the unity and reunification of the nation without fail.
The farmers in the north and the south should further develop the nationwide solidarity this year, too, drawing on the precious experience gained through the farmers' meeting for reunification, the 2001 grand festival for national reunification and other joint struggle conducted to support and implement the joint declaration last year.
The UAWK will work to strengthen the concerted action with farmers' organizations in the south in putting into practice the three appeals and three proposals made at the joint meeting and thus contribute to glorifying this year as a "year of promoting the unity and reunification by the concerted efforts of our nation".
Pyongyang and Moscow open friendly ties
Moscow, January 26 (KCNA) -- An agreement on establishing friendly ties between Pyongyang and Moscow was signed here on Friday.
Present at the signing ceremony on the DPRK side were members of a Pyongyang city delegation led by Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, and the DPRK ambassador to Russia and, on the Russian side were mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov and officials concerned.
The agreement was inked by Ryang Man Gil and Yuri Luzhkov.
Order issued by U.S. forces to kill civilians during Korean War
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- It was confirmed by BBC that the U.S. forces issued an order to indiscriminately kill civilians in Rogun-ri, Yongdong county, North Chungchong Province, and other areas during the Korean War, according to Seoul-based MBC.
MBC said BBC is going to telecast on coming February, a documentary film titled "kill all" related to the Rogun-ri massacre committed by GIs, adding that the film deals with a shocking fact that U.S. Navymen killed more than 400 civilians on a seaside of South Korea during the war.
The film also shows that 82 villagers including 25 children were killed in a temple that stood in the operation zone of the u.s. 25th infantry division.
The film testifies to the fact that commanding officers of the U.S. forces issued an explicit order to kill all civilians and the GIs who had participated in the war made testimonies confirming the fact.
U.S. use of germ weapons in Korea condemned
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed commentary 50 years after the full-scale use of germ weapons by the United States in the northern half of Korea during the Korean War.
It says:
The U.S. troops massively scattered such insects as fly, spider and bedbug carrying pest, cholera and typhoid bacteria and other germs all over areas of the north from January 28, 1952. They massively killed Koreans by indiscriminately using germ and toxic chemical weapons in violation of the international law in the whole period of the Korean War.
The barbaric germ warfare carried out by the U.S. forces was premeditated and organized killings committed under the instruction given by the U.S. joint chiefs of staff and by order of the U.S. far eastern headquarters.
This notwithstanding, the united states has not yet admitted these crimes though five decades have passed since then but is threatening humankind with massively stockpiled biological and chemical weapons.
The United States is now pulling up the DPRK over the non-existent "issue of biological and chemical weapons" like a thief crying "stop the thief". This is aimed to divert to the DPRK the international community's watchful eyes focused on Washington and further step up preparations for a biological and chemical war behind that smokescreen.
Also lurking here is a sinister intention to invent a pretext for putting increased pressure upon the DPRK in pursuance of its hostile policy towards it.
With no artifice can the united states ever evade the chief responsibility for perpetrating the barbaric germ warfare and hide its true colours as the arch criminal threatening humankind with biological and chemical weapons.
Pyongyang fine art festival
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- A fine art festival will be held here in February with large participation.
The festival will involve a national fine art exhibition, a young painters' fine art exhibition, a youth and children's fine art exhibition, an industrial fine art exhibition, a Korean national dress exhibition, a souvenir exhibition and a computer fine art contest.
The Korean art gallery, the Pyongyang international house of culture and the people's palace of culture will be their venues.
Compatriots in the north and south of Korea and overseas and artists and fine art lovers of different countries are expected to participate in the festival.
Posters and a logo for the festival and prizes (gold, silver and bronze), certificate of the prize and medals for successful participants are in the making.
A variety of souvenirs are being prepared for its participants.
Book "Geological Formation of Korea" published
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Book "Geological Formation of Korea" (vols. 1-6) was published in the DPRK.
The book comprehensively and systematically deals with achievements gained in the field of geological survey over the last nearly five decades.
Its vols. 1-3 carry an introduction, materials on the geological strata of archeozoic, proterozoic, paleozoic, mesozoic and cenozoic eras and about 400 kinds of pictures of fossils belonging to those eras.
Systematized there according to regions and strata are materials on the stratum of the paleozoic era closely connected with different kinds of valuable minerals.
They also deal with the prospect of discovering more resources in the stratum in the days ahead.
vols. 4 and 5 systematically carry tables and maps of intrusive rocks which are of important significance in the study of the geological formation of the country.
Vol. 6 comprehensively deals with results of the survey and study of intrusive rocks and tectonic structure.
The publication of the book listed as a national treasure is a result of the Juche-oriented policy of the Workers' Party of Korea on geological survey.
Anecdotes about Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- One day in January, Juche 40 (1951) when the Fatherland Liberation War was at its height, General Kim Il Sung visited the kitchen of the guards unit all of a sudden.
Lifting the pot lid, he asked them what they had as their meal.
The guards answered as one that they had boiled rice with meat soup.
Well aware of the country's conditions at that time, he reproached them for telling a lie.
So a young guard told him that they had boiled rice mixed with other cereals and salty soup. From then on he made it part of his routine to visit the kitchen in the morning and the evening to acquaint himself with the diet of the guards.
One year President Kim Il Sung came out to the spot to see a new type of mortar. he asked a soldier as if its barrel was not heavy.
The soldier told him it is lighter than the old one.
Saying that he would like to carry the barrel on his shoulder, the president asked the soldier to let him put it on his shoulder.
The president walked along a dusty road, jerking the barrel on his shoulder or turning it. he did so to see if it was not inconvenient for the soldier to carry the barrel on his shoulder during the march.
After walking some time with the barrel on his shoulder, the president instructed ordnance officials to make the barrel lighter.
Samsong Temple on Mt. Kuwol
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Samsong temple on Mt. Kuwol is one of Korea's ancient cultural relics.
From ancient Korea it was called Tangun Temple because a memorial service was made there for Tangun and renamed Samsong temple from the end of the Koryo dynasty as memorial services were held for three sages--grandfather of Tangun, father of Tangun and Tangun.
The temple is associated with the patriotic spirit of the founder of Taejonggyo Ra Chol who committed suicide at the temple while waging an anti-Japanese struggle after coming there in protest against the Japanese imperialists' occupation of Korea and their policy of vandalism against Tangun.
It was burnt by the Japanese imperialist aggressors but restored to its former glory in the days when Mt. Kuwol was rebuilt into a world-famous beauty spot.
The temple has the Samsong Shrine with a crane-shaped roof which looks golden, red and blue at each corner, the Yanghyon hall for training sages, the Yongbin hall to accommodate guests, Jonsa room which keeps sachet and various dishes and utensils for rituals, a lodging house for keepers and a gate that looks like a kind of an open building with a roof which lacks eaves and rounded sideboarding at either end.
Aeguk Moran Garment Factory
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The modern Aeguk Moran Garment Factory is a centre producing garments for export.
The factory with a total floor-space of over 10,000 square meters is situated on the bank of the River Pothong in Moranbong district, the central part of Pyongyang.
It produces hundreds of thousands of men's ready-made suits and vests a year.
It provides technical training to workers of garment factories from different parts of the country.
It is operating as a model unit in the garment field as it has dozens of engineers and hundreds of highly skilled workers.
Its products are popular in various countries.
It was commissioned on Dec. 14, Juche 75 (1986) as a donation made by Kim In Gwon, Korean businessman in Japan.
A "monument to loyalty" stands there to convey his patriotic devotion to posterity.
Exchange of greetings between DPRK and Kirgyzstan foreign ministers
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the DPRK, exchanged messages of greetings with his Kirgyzstan counterpart Muratbek Imanaliev on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further expand in the mutual interests of the two peoples, Paek sincerely wished him success in his work.
Muratbek Imanaliev expressed belief that the cooperative relations between the two peoples would grow stronger in conformity with their welfare.