Letter to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at a meeting of the executive committee of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO) on March 10 on behalf of the participants in a seminar on Korea's independent reunification, a meeting to mark the 25th anniversary of the committee and the meeting of the CILRECO executive committee held in Paris on March 9 and 10.
The participants in the seminar were unanimous in saying that President Kim Il Sung advanced realistic and reasonable policies and ways of national reunification and performed immortal feats in the efforts to accomplish the cause of national reunification, the letter said.
It highly praised efforts exerted by leader Kim Jong Il to unite broad strata of pro-reunification patriotic forces in the north and the south and abroad to achieve the country's reunification as early as possible after formulating principles and ways of national reunification as the three charters.
The letter pointed out that the meeting of the executive committee of CILRECO organized various functions at which it called for taking measures to wage a more wide-spread international solidarity movement to frustrate the hostile forces' moves to lay obstacles in the way of implementing the north-south joint declaration and hinder Korea's reunification in every way.
The meeting decided to launch an international campaign to support the joint declaration and reject every attempt aimed to hinder Korea's reunification and demand an immediate withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea, the letter noted.
It sincerely wished Kim Jong Il greater success in his noble work for the reunification and prosperity of the country.
CILRECO meeting held
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the executive committee of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO) was held in Paris on March 10.
Attending it were officials of the CILRECO and representatives of political parties and organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in different countries and international organizations.
The meeting briefed its attendants on the situation now prevailing on the Korean Peninsula before reviewing last year's work and discussing this year's task of the CILRECO.
Guy Dupre, secretary general of the CILRECO made a report at the meeting.
Referring to the present situation of the Korean Peninsula, he said that leader Kim Jong Il made a clear exposition of all the problems raised by the times with perfect logic and through his energetic activities.
On the achievements made by the Korean people in the efforts for the independent reunification of the country last year, the reporter said: The unprecedentedly frantic moves of the Bush regime to isolate and stifle the DPRK could neither frighten nor bring the Korean people to their knees.
Then he reviewed last year's positive activities of the CILRECO which focussed on building up worldwide support for the dprk's principled stand and efforts to reunify Korea by the united efforts of its nation.
And he mentioned the orientation of the CILRECO's activities to intensify the international solidarity movement for support to the independent reunification of Korea this meaningful year, which marks the 25th anniversary of the committee.
Then followed speeches.
The meeting adopted an action program of the CILRECO for 2002.
Highly estimating the June 15 inter-Korean joint declaration, which provided new environment not only for Korea's independent reunification but also for global peace and security, the action program expressed the expectation that the world community would make positive efforts for the honest implementation of the declaration.
It stated that the organization would widely introduce in various methods the feats performed by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in the history of the movement for Korea's reunification.
It will also conduct a widespread international signature campaign supporting the inter-Korean joint declaration and urging an immediate withdrawal of the U.S. forces from South Korea so as to arouse such support and demand worldwide, it said.
It stressed that the CILRECO would escalate its activities condemning the U.S. hard-line policy intended to stifle the DPRK and its arms buildup in South Korea, and South Korea's "theory of principal enemy", "security law" and cooperation with outsiders, etc. and conduct vigorous solidarity activities to remove the concrete wall, a symbol of division.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
There, Brian Backer, member of the workers world party of the U.S. and chairman of the U.S. Get Out of Korea Committee, was elected vice-chairman of the CILRECO.
Funeral of Ri Tu Ik held
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- A funeral of vice marshal of the KPA Ri Tu Ik, member of the Central Committee and Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, was held in Pyongyang yesterday.
He participated in the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by President Kim Il Sung. He devoted himself for many years to increasing the combat capability of the Korean people's army at a responsible post of a KPA unit and the institution of the armed forces true to the Juche-oriented military line of the WPK.
Present at the funeral were members of the state funeral committee, including party and state leading officials Jo Myong Rok, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Il Chol and Ri Ul Sol, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, officials of party and armed forces' institutions, servicemen of the KPA, the bereaved family and relatives.
A funeral service took place at the patriotic martyrs' cemetery in the suburbs of pyongyang.
After the playing of the national anthem, a condolatory address was made by vice marshal of the KPA Kim Il Chol, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces.
DPRK ambassador to Uganda appointed
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- A new DPRK ambassador to Uganda was appointed.
Kim Pong Gi was appointed as ambassador, according to a decree of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.
Meeting held in S. Korea to implement joint declaration
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- The "first meeting of mountaineers to vow to implement the June 15 joint declaration" was reportedly held in Mt. Pukhan in Seoul on march 10.
The meeting was aimed to escalate the movement for implementing the joint declaration and strengthen the unity and cohesion among organizations of the reunification movement.
The meeting was the first of its kind to be sponsored by the society for inheriting the spirit of pro-reunification patriot Kim Ryang Mu from this year.
Members of different organizations including the "council for national reunification" and the solidarity for implementing the south-north joint declaration distributed literature calling for the implementation of the declaration among the mountaineers and expressed their will to wage a vigorous reunification movement, shouting "Long live the June 15 joint declaration" "Long live national reunification" and "Long live national unity and reunification".
Then a message of pledge to implement the joint declaration was published.
Projected U.S.-S. Korea joint military maneuvers under fire
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- The joint military maneuvers the U.S. imperialists are to begin on March 21 are dangerous war gambles to invade the northern half of Korea, the largest and the most aggressive of the joint military maneuvers staged in South Korea in terms of their scale, purpose and content since the "suspension" of the "Team Spirit" joint military maneuvers, says Rodong Sinmun today in a by-lined commentary.
The news analyst says:
The projected manoeuvres are fraught with even greater danger because they are to be staged right after U.S. President Bush visited South Korea to make a final examination of the war scenario against the northern half of Korea on the spot. He declared this year as a "year of war" on the plea of "combating terrorism" and is keen to impose a holocaust of nuclear war upon the Korean Peninsula.
The manoeuvres involving armed forces and combat equipment quite enough to carry out a war are a product of a criminal intention of the u.s. to provoke an actual war when an opportunity presents itself.
It is a daydream for the U.S. warmongers to try to seize the DPRK by force of arms.
It is the revolutionary spirit of the people's army and people of the DPRK to react to their hard line with the toughest stand and return fire for fire.
If the U.S. imperialist warmongers and their followers dare unleash a war of aggression against the DPRK, they will face only self-destruction.
Bush's plan to exterminate humankind under fire
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- The U.S. administration recently ordered a three-year research to develop nuclear weapons capable of destroying the deep tunnels and cave complexes with powerful shock waves enough to crush structures deep in the earth.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
Gordon, a senior official in charge of U.S. national nuclear security, in a testimony made at the house of representatives said that the united states would exert all efforts to improve the nuclear warheads for various types of missiles in ten years to come.
Referring to this objective of the U.S. in his interview with the Washington Post, Bolten, under secretary of state for disarmament and international security, did not bother to utter that the U.S. might mount a preemptive nuclear attack even on nonnuclear countries.
His outbursts fully reflect the Bush administration's policy.
According to the recently disclosed secret report on the "nuclear posture" released by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Bush administration designated at least seven countries including the DPRK, Russia and China as the targets of its nuclear attacks and decided to develop smaller tactical nuclear weapons for "limited nuclear attack."
All these facts go to clearly prove that the U.S. is chiefly to blame for a nuclear threat and it is the most heinous enemy of humankind who threatens the world peace and harasses its security.
The DPRK is fully ready to react to it by any mode. The right of action impudently asserted by the U.S. is not its monopoly.
Now that the U.S. openly poses a nuclear threat to the DPRK the latter is left with no option but to take a substantial countermeasure to cope with it. It is its well-deserved right to self-defence.
The U.S. is well advised to stop running amuck. This will do the U.S. good.
Korean national holidays to be commemorated in Bulgaria
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- A joint plenary meeting of the Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association and the Bulgarian Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification was held in Sofia on February 28.
The meeting reviewed the work which has been done in Bulgaria to celebrate leader Kim Jong Il's birthday as a world-wide festival and discussed immediate tasks to significantly commemorate the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army worldwide.
The meeting heard a report of the Bulgarian delegate after returning from the "Meeting to Congratulate the Sun of the 21st Century".
The participants released a statement on joining in the international signature campaign for supporting the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and urging immediate withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea and held a signing ceremony.
S. Korean organizations slam U.S. nuclear war plan
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- South Korean organizations reportedly issued statements condemning the U.S. for its secret report on plan to use nuclear weapons.
The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils denounced the plan for nuclear attack as an unpardonable criminal act of warmonger bush as he is keen to bring a nuclear holocaust to the peace-loving Korean nation and destroy the whole Korean Peninsula.
It urged Bush to immediately withdraw the plan for nuclear attack on the Korean Peninsula, which creates nuclear horror worldwide, and honestly implement the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
The council for national reconciliation and independent reunification noted that the U.S. nuclear attack strategy is an explicit declaration of a nuclear war as it is fundamentally different from pentagon's previous military strategy in its bellicose nature and hegemonism.
Saying the U.S. nuclear strategy seeking hegemony can never be allowed, the council branded the U.S., which is posing a threat of nuclear war, as the arch criminal destroying peace on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of the world.
The south headquarters of the national alliance of youth and students for the country's reunification said that the U.S. plan for nuclear attack on the north shows who is the enemy keen to exterminate the Korean nation and how arrogantly the U.S. is behaving, bereft of reason.
The 70 million Koreans including South Koreans see through the U.S. aggressive nature so clearly and they are so resolutely determined not to pardon the U.S. plan for nuclear attack that both the ruling and opposition parties are opposed to it, it said.
Rodong Sinmun on U.S. nuclear strategy for aggression
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today runs a signed article assailing the vicious U.S. nuclear strategy for aggression.
Recalling that the U.S. designated at least seven states: Russia, China, the DPRK, Syria, Libya, Iran and Iraq as the targets of its nuclear attacks and decided to develop smaller tactical nuclear weapons for the "limited nuclear attack," the article says:
This proves that even after the end of the cold war the U.S. is still setting its nuclear strategy as a major lever for hegemony and world supremacy. The U.S. described the nuclear weapons as a means to prevent someone's "attack" and "threat" in a bid to justify its moves for increasing nuclear combat power and practising nuclear strategy.
The U.S. has long attempted to unleash a nuclear war that may impose a nuclear holocaust upon humankind.
The first a-bomb test of the U.S. was designed by war-thirsty Roosevelt. The a-bomb test was carried out by Truman who put spurs to the researches and manufacture of the a-bombs. And the first a-bombs were dropped over the heads of the Japanese people and the test of tactical nuclear weapons to be used in the Korean War was stepped up. Eisenhower hatched 22 plots to use atomic weapons against the DPRK and other socialist countries.
Later, Reagan put forward a "strategic defense program," "star wars" to militarize space. And former U.S. President Bush advanced "shining stones," a variety of "star wars," which is followed by its another variety, the missile defense system. Such facts prove that the U.S. is pushing ahead with its nuclear strategy.
With the establishment of the MD the present U.S. President, Bush, is trying to stand nuclear advantage over other countries, thus realizing the purpose of aggression which was not achieved by his preceding U.S. presidents.
The plan of nuclear attack was designed and released by Bush, prompted by such a wild ambition.
Congratulations to Albanian prime minister and foreign minister
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Pandeli Majko, on his appointment as Albanian prime minister.
The message wished him success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country.
Meanwhile, foreign minister Paek Nam Sun sent a similar message to his Albanian counterpart Arta Dade on his reappointment as foreign minister of the country.
SPA chairman and his party leave for Russia
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, and his party left here today to visit Russia.
They were seen off at the airport by Jang Chol, vice-chairman of the assembly, and Andrei Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.
DPRK delegation of general bureau of atomic energy leaves for Russia
Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the general bureau of atomic energy of the DPRK led by its director general Ri Je Son left here today to attend a meeting of the plenipotentiary representatives of governments of the member nations of the combined institute for nuclear studies due to be held in Dubna, Russia.