Bush administration hit for seeking aggression on Korea
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The world public bitterly denounces the Bush administration for its wild ambition for aggression on Korea.
The chairman of the Guinean Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification in a statement said that tension is still being kept on the Korean Peninsula by the U.S. and South Korea and the danger of war is growing there. The U.S. and South Korea should immediately stop their moves to ignite a new war in Korea, he said.
The Bulgarian newspaper Rabotnicheski Vestnik in an article said that the U.S. provoked a war early in the 1950s to invade North Korea and, even after its defeat, it has been continuously resorting to the moves for aggression on the DPRK in violation of the armistice agreement.
The central committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in a statement said that the U.S. is likely to forget that it was defeated by the young DPRK in the Korean War (1950-1953). The statement warned that the U.S. is miscalculating that it will not be punished even if it ignites a war against the DPRK.
The Egypt-Korea Friendship Association in a statement strongly demanded that the U.S. and the South Korean authorities immediately stop their large-scale military exercises going against the desire of all the Korean people and the world community for reconciliation, peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula through the implementation of the historic north-south joint declaration.
The chairman of the labour union of Guyana in a statement said that if the South Korean authorities take part in the current war exercises in line with the U.S. war policy against the DPRK, they would be strongly protested and denounced by the peace-loving people of the world as a naked betrayal of the north-south joint declaration.
The Chinese Liberation Army Daily in an article said that the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises destroyed the favorable atmosphere of reconciliation, cooperation and peace on the Korean Peninsula in violation of the spirit of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework on refraining from threatening dialogue partner militarily and the spirit of the north-south joint declaration.
Hong Chang Su defends his world champion
Tokyo, March 23 (KNS-KCNA) -- Hong Chang Su, Korean pro-boxer in Japan, knocked out Kazuhiro Ryuko, Japanese, in a match of defending his champion of the super flyweight of the WBC held in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on March 23.
This was the fourth match for Hong, Labour Hero and People's Sportsman of the DPRK, to retain his champion.
U.S. mandarins' reckless remarks against DPRK refuted
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- A senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency of the united states asserted it is highly probable that the DPRK is pushing ahead with the "preparations for a test-fire of an inter-continental ballistic missile" capable of striking the U.S. mainland with "nukes" and the U.S. Defense Secretary said that the DPRK is active in "developing weapons of mass destruction" including "biological and chemical weapons and nuclear weapons."
Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed commentary in this regard.
It says:
As for the nuclear threat, the U.S. is to blame for posing it to the DPRK.
There are more than 20,000 nuclear warheads stockpiled in the U.S. it is threatening the DPRK after deploying at least 1,000 nuclear weapons in South Korea.
The hawkish bush group is working hard to put into practice its plan for a nuclear attack on the DPRK. It is running mad frequently raising a hue and cry over the DPRK's "nuclear problem." but this is the height of folly.
By zealously floating the fiction of "nuclear development" by the DPRK, the U.S. war hawks seek to convince the world of the "danger of nukes" from the DPRK and use it as a pretext to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it. It is their intention to raise the cloud of the first nuclear mushroom on the Korean Peninsula in the new century.
That is why the U.S. is escalating its false propaganda about a "nuclear threat" from the DPRK and frantically stepping up preparations for a nuclear war.
The DPRK is maintaining heightened vigilance against this false propaganda and keeps itself fully ready to cope with it. The DPRK will strongly retaliate against attacks to be made by the U.S. imperialists with either nuclear weapons or conventional weapons.
Joint military exercises denounced
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary condemns the large-scale joint military exercises being staged by the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean warmongers as a premeditated military provocation to the DPRK and extremely dangerous war gambles intended to plunge the Korean nation into a nuclear holocaust.
It goes on:
Bush's recent visit to South Korea was to hold war confabs with brasshats of the U.S. aggressor forces present there and local warmongers.
Through the ongoing war maneuvres the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean warmongers seek to finally examine and round off the preparations for an attack on the north and, furthermore, go over to an actual war while watching for a chance.
The DPRK can never remain a passive onlooker to this dangerous situation prevailing in the Korean Peninsula. Its stand toward aggressors remains firm. The aggressors' escalated military threat and blackmail against the north will only compel it to further increase its capability for self-defence. The strike of the army of the DPRK at the aggressors will be merciless. A war to be launched by the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean warmongers against the north will only lead to self-destruction.
They are well advised to stop acting rashly.
Reception given for Presidential orchestra of Russia
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK hosted a reception for the Presidential orchestra of the Russian Federation on a visit to the DPRK at the People's Palace of Culture yesterday.
Present on invitation were members of the orchestra led by lieutenant general Sergei Streigin, commander of the garrison of the Kremlin in Moscow, ambassador Andrei Karlov and staff members of the Russian embassy here.
Also present there were vice marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, vice-chairman of the NDC and the minister of the People's Armed Forces, officials concerned and artistes.
At the reception KPA general Pak Jae Gyong said that the visit of many well-known Russian actors and actresses to the DPRK is a token of deep trust of President Putin and the Russian people in the Korean people.
Excellent performances of the orchestra would encourage the struggle of the army and people of Korea, who have turned out in the building of a powerful nation, single-heartedly united around leader Kim Jong Il, and greatly contribute to boosting the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Russia, he said.
He wished the Russian people greater success in their struggle to build powerful Russia under the leadership of Putin.
Sergei Streigin in his speech said that the visit of the orchestra is of a great symbolic significance as it is timed to coincide with the 53rd anniversary of the Russia-DPRK agreement on economic and cultural cooperation.
Performances of the orchestra in Pyongyang would be a great event in cultural exchange between the two countries and helpful to the development of the bilateral friendly relations, he said.
He said that the visit of the orchestra is a clear manifestation of the will of the supreme leaders of Russia and the DPRK to strengthen the bilateral friendship and cooperation in all fields.
Landing exercise of U.S. armored cars checked
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Members of the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification" reportedly held a protest demonstration, blocking with their bodies the landing exercise of the U.S. troops' armored cars at the seaside of Yongdok county, Phohang city, North Kyongsang Province, on Mar. 22.
The demonstrators marched head-on toward the landing armored cars, carrying a placard reading "stop the South Korea-U.S. military exercises, a war move on the Korean Peninsula" and a sloganboard "Stop to the 'RSOI' and 'Foal Eagle' exercises, against war and nukes".
Eventually, the cars kept away from them to land other place.
A foreign reporter, who covered the military games from the "team spirit" exercises, said that for the first time he saw such a block to the military drill.
Taekwon-do instructor Jon Chol Jun
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Jon Chol Jun is an international Taekwon-do instructor of the sixth grade.
Born in February Juche 52 (1963), he began to learn Taekwon-do when he was 11.
His special skill is strong fist strikes.
He is 172 cm tall and weighs 75 kg.
He became an international Taekwon-do instructor in 1984.
He conducted Taekwon-do exhibition activities in Hungary in 1988 and Canada in 1990.
He trained many Taekwon-do practitioners while active as an instructor in Belarus (1991-1996).
Ancient hunting site unearthed
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- A hunting site believed to be over 100,000 years old was unearthed on a limestone hill of the Koryong mountain range in Rodong-ri, Sangwon county, about 24 km East of Pyongyang.
This place was very favorable for hunting as 15 vertical caves were used as traps.
Some 2,000 pieces of fossils of animal bones were discovered in one of the caves.
Among them were fossils of three dicerorhinus kirchdergensis and a fossil of one leg bone and fossils of 32 megaloceros and fossils of nine leg bones.
The weight of the above-said animals are believed to be more than 3.5 tons and about 300 kilograms respectively.
Only a few leg bone fossils were unearthed. This suggests that hunters in those times cut thighs from animals to eat them.
The newly unearthed relics are rare ones showing the wisdom and resourcefulness of paleolithic men in the middle period of the old stone age.
President Kim Il Sung fond of songs
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung was greatly fond of songs.
He liked to sing songs in good times or bad times and in ordeals.
When crossing the River Amnok with a lofty aim to liberate the country at the age of 13, he sang the "Song of River Amnok", firmly determined to take back the usurped homeland without fail.
He found himself in a serious condition due to algor in January Juche 24 (1935) when the Korean revolution was at stake in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. But, he sang the "anti-Japanese war song" he had personally composed, thus instilling confidence in victory into guerrillas.
The song "Nostalgia" is one of the songs composed by him.
He drew strength and courage from singing the song and liberated the country from the yoke of the Japanese imperialists and defeated the U.S. imperialists in the hard-fought Korean Liberation War.
One year he sang the folk song "Yearning for Kangnam" to implant warm love for the country in the mind of the servicemen and whenever the country was facing difficulties he sang the "Song of red Flag", imbuing the people with confidence and will to win sure victory.
One day of December Juche 81 (1992) when he turned 80 he looked back on bygone days singing "Nostalgia."
The annals of the Korean revolution that started with songs and advanced with songs are associated with this noble song.
Emergency rally against official signing of "investment agreement"
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The South Korean "people's action against the investment agreement and the world trade organization" and the "national people's solidarity" reportedly sponsored an emergency rally against the official signing of the South Korea-Japan "investment agreement" near the "Chongwadae" in Seoul on March 22.
Also present were members of a Japanese organization opposed to the agreement.
O Jong Ryol, permanent chairman of the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification", in a speech said that if Japan becomes a military power, the Korean nation will most suffer from it. He called for "turning out in a struggle to save this land".
Ho Yong Gu, acting chairman of the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, accused Koizumi of considering the chief executive of South Korea to be the chief of the government-general appointed by Japan. The present "government" sold off Tok Islet and the east sea and is now seeking to transfer even the vital rights of people to multinational capital, he said.
A "resolution of labor, social, civic and student organizations" was adopted at the rally against the conclusion of the investment agreement.
It expressed decisive opposition to the "South Korea-Japan investment agreement" infringing upon the basic right of labor and forcing the privatization of public enterprises and demanded an immediate stop to signing the agreement.
Greetings to Bangladeshi President
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Bangladeshi President A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdury on the occasion of the independence day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the president, government and people of Bangladesh and expressed conviction that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue developing on good terms.
The message sincerely wished the president and people of Bangladesh greater success in their work for the development and prosperity of the country.
Changgwangwon Juvenile Sports School
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The Changgwangwon Juvenile Sports School is housed at the Changgwang Health Complex located on the scenic bank of the Pothong River.
An institution specializing in synchronized swimming, the school was set up in august Juche 89 (2000) under the step taken by the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government to develop physical culture and sports.
Its students aged between 8 and 16 are given education and training exclusively in synchronized swimming to become skilled reserve synchronized swimmers.
The school is still young, but its team came first in total points in the synchronized swimming event of the national juvenile championships held in August Juche 90 (2001). It also demonstrated its high technique and skills in the exhibition performance of synchronized swimming held to mark February 16, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il, this year, drawing the attention of spectators.
The school has already trained several promising synchronized swimmers, who are now active in sports groups.
Public interest in this school is growing with each passing day.