Book published in S. Korea on Day of Sun
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- Members of the Thaeyang Society in South Korea published a book titled "The Lodestar of National Reunification" on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, according to Seoul-based radio voice of national salvation.
The book has a total of 90 pages.
Printed on the first page of the book is a photo of the president. The book also carries several photos of him devoting himself to the work for national reunification including a photo of his receiving rev. Mun Ik Hwan.
The book contains his works "10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country" and "let us achieve the great unity of our nation."
DPRK weightlifters prove successful at Asia juvenile championships
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The DPRK weightlifters gave a good account of themselves at the Asia juvenile weightlifting championships in Thailand.
Ri Kyong Sok took the first place in both male snatch and jerk events for the 56 kg category.
Choe Un Sim created a new juvenile world record with a lift of 85.5 kg in the female 48 kg snatch and placed second in jerk and a two-lift total.
Kim Un Sil took the second place in both female snatch and jerk events for the 69 kg category as well as a two-lift total.
Rodong Sinmun calls for becoming men of faith
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- It is an unshakable faith of the Korean people that only when they advance along the way indicated by the idea of leader Kim Jong Il can they build a powerful socialist nation and achieve the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche, says Rodong Sinmun today in an editorial.
Kim Jong Il's idea serves as the militant banner for the building of a powerful nation in the 21st century and accomplishment of the cause of Juche, the editorial says, and goes on:
He clarified immortal ideological and theoretical guidelines for victorious advance of the Korean revolution with his distinguished wisdom and far-sightedness in leading the Workers' Party of Korea, the army and the people under the banner of the Juche idea. His idea brought about the great changes and proud achievements in our party work as well as in political, military, economic, cultural and all other fields in the past decades and the bright victory in defending socialism in the rigorous 20th century.
His idea is the banner of faith that we should hold up in the long journey of the Juche revolution we should go on however difficult it may be. It is none other than our generation that should achieve a total victory of his idea in the 21st century.
His revolutionary mode of struggle includes the creative spirit of making the impossible possible and creating something out of nothing, the revolutionary spirit of taking the offensive to brave all difficulties, the push-and-go working method of aspiring after the new without imitation and repeat and the revolutionary working style of making audacious and bold operations and changes, always looking into the future.
The editorial calls upon all the servicepersons and people to prepare themselves more firmly as men of faith in the era of Kim Jong Il by upholding his idea and leadership with allegiance, regarding his revolutionary idea as a motto of life and struggle.
KCNA on U.S. much ado about human rights issue
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The human rights commission of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on the human rights situation in the DPRK on April 17.
The chairman of the U.S. international association of religious freedom in a "testimony" told sheer lies about the human rights situation in the DPRK.
The U.S. termed the DPRK "a country of poor human rights performance" when it pulled up Iraq, Cuba and other countries over human rights issue at the meeting of the un commission on human rights held on April 8.
The recent racket over the human rights situation kicked up by the U.S. does not help settle the international human rights problem as it is part of the political burlesque escalated by the U.S., quite unaware of its real position as a country with the poorest human rights record in the world.
This only touches off the international community's bitter criticism of the U.S. human rights abuses because it has been censured for interfering in the internal affairs of those countries situated in the areas rich in natural resources and of military strategic importance and militarily involving itself in regional problems and disputes under the pretext of "human rights situation."
As the DPRK clarified more than once, there exists no "human rights problem" claimed by some dishonest forces of the U.S. in the DPRK nor can there be such a thing as its people lead an independent and creative life as the masters of the state and society.
Such being a stark fact, the U.S. has persistently pulled up the DPRK and other countries over "human rights issues". It does such a thing not because it is truly interested in human rights in other countries or has any qualification to settle international human rights problems.
Through this arrogant interference in human rights the U.S. seeks to conceal the poor human rights performance in the U.S. and politically isolate those independent and anti-U.S. countries that stand in the way of realizing its strategy for world supremacy based on "strength" and invent a pretext for military intervention in other countries.
The U.S. is using such good term as "human rights" as a political leverage to carry out its unethical and aggressive policy against the global peace and the happiness of humankind.
It is clearly proved by historical facts that the U.S. put political and economic pressure, imposed sanctions, committed military intervention and provoked a war in such anti-U.S. independent countries as Cuba, Iraq, Libya and Yugoslavia and infringed upon the sovereignty and dignity of those independent states and inflicted a huge loss of lives and properties upon innocent people there under the pretext of "human rights situation." tragic happenings in Afghanistan and Palestine also testify to the criminal role played by the U.S. as regards the "human rights issue."
All these facts strongly urge the u.s. to stop pursuing self-justified human rights policy aimed to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, styling itself a "human rights judge" of the international community, but respect the sovereignty of independent countries, the genuine human rights of those countries, and settle the human rights issue in its own country ridden with crimes and corruption to begin with.
Venue of "Arirang" performance
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The May Day Stadium here is the venue of the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang."
The stadium is situated on picturesque Rungra islet in the middle of the River Taedong flowing through the city.
The stadium looks like a parachute. It was completed on May 1, Juche 78 (1989).
Having 150,000 seats, the stadium covers over 400,000 square meters.
All the seats are distributed under a 60-meter-wide shade and the building has 8 floors.
On the ground floor there are over 10 training halls, rest halls and a swimming pool for sportsmen and on the 1st-4th floors rest rooms, soft-drink counters and other service facilities for spectators.
On the 5th floor there are at least 80 bedrooms for sportsmen, 870-meter-long racing track, rooms for international telephone, telex, media, interview, etc.
Facilities for the management of the stadium are housed on the 6th and 7th floors.
A huge TV screen (20mx10m) is available for spectators.
It has also indoor parking spaces for more then 300 vehicles.
It was venues of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students held in July 1989, a north-south football game for reunification in October 1990, the Pyongyang International Sports and Cultural Festival for Peace in April 1995 and the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "ever-victorious Workers' Party of Korea" commemorating the 55th anniversary of the WPK given on October 10, 2000.
Promotion committee for May 18 citizens' court formed
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- A promotion committee for the May 18 citizens' court was reportedly formed in South Korea on April 25.
The objective of the committee is to inaugurate the May 18 citizens' court aimed to clearly probe the truth behind the mass killings committed in Kwangju and hold the U.S. accountable for them.
The organization groups over 70 civic and social organizations including the organizations related to the May 18 Uprising in Kwangju, the south headquarters of the all people special committee for probing the truth behind GIS' mass killings, the lawyers' association for democratic society and the national alliance for democracy and reunification.
The committee adopted a "15-point charter of the May 18 citizens' court to bring the U.S. to account for the massacre in Kwangju." It declared that it would put the then U.S. government and 5 high-ranking officers of the U.S. troops responsible for the May 18 massacre in the dock on the basis of the charter.
It noted that after the court hearing it would be reorganized into a committee for probing the truth behind the massacre in Kwangju to continue to conduct study and investigation into the U.S. responsibility for the massacre, while bringing a lawsuit against the U.S. to the un commission on human rights.
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from S. Korea called for
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The joint meeting of groups for retaking of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan, our land, held the 10th rally in Ryongsan district, Seoul, on April 25, according to a news report.
Ri Chon Jae, permanent president of the Seoul alliance for democracy and reunification, called on the participants to get united to drive the U.S. troops out of South Korea and achieve great national unity, noting that the U.S., the chieftain of the mass killings in Kwangju, has still practiced high-handedness and tyranny in this land.
Jang Suk Yong, secretary general of the Anti-U.S. Women's Association, said that it would conduct a more vigorous movement for boycotting U.S. goods together with the people.
Hong Sun Sok, executive chairman of the anti-U.S. practice group of the national alliance for democracy and reunification, said that the present anti-U.S. sentiment is a reaction to all the crimes and wrong doings committed by the U.S. he called for pooling efforts to force the U.S. troops out of this land.
Withdrawal of plan to introduce U.S.-made fighters demanded
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The joint action for probing the truth behind suspected outside pressure to buy F-X fighters of the next generation and demanding the withdrawal of the decision to select F-15 K which groups 279 civic and social organizations and the "catholic measure committee against F-X" of South Korea reportedly held a press conference in Seoul on April 23.
The press conference was called to announce a plan of civic and social organizations for actions against the introduction of U.S.-made fighters.
Father Mun Kyu Hyon of the (South) Korean Catholic Priests' council for justice read out a statement.
The statement said that the "Ministry of National Defence" decided to introduce "F-15K" fighters of the U.S. Boeing Company by yielding to the U.S. pressure despite people's opposition, adding: the projected introduction of fighters of the next generation requires spending huge taxes collected from the people. If the ministry decides on this matter not according to their opinion but to the arbitrary action of some policy-makers, yielding to the U.S. pressure, it will be unable to escape the judgement by the people and the history.
The action plan published at the press conference called for organizing big protest rallies, demonstrations, cybre demonstration, etc. demanding the withdrawal of the decision to select the "F-15K" fighters.
At the end of the press conference the participants conveyed the statement to "Chongwadae" despite police obstruction.
New TV dramas produced
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- A number of new TV dramas were recently produced by the TV drama production of the radio and TV broadcasting committee of the DPRK.
One of them is two-part TV drama "bold girls".
It shows girl players getting familiar with the wisdom and skill with which forefathers created the martial arts of the nation, while making study tours of the historic places that bear witness to the birth of Taekwon-Do and growing to be top-notch Taekwon-Do players to demonstrate advantages of the nation.
The four-part TV drama "love and hatred" deals with a woman, deprived of her both arms due to the outrage of the U.S. imperialists during the Korean War (1950-1953), bringing up her children as avengers.
Among them is 11-part TV series "doctor Kye Ung Sang" adapted from the novel "life of a researcher" based on a true story.
The TV series impressively tell about the life of dr. Kye widely known as a geneticist and sericulturist.
Tv dramas produced by the production in recent years are highly appreciated by viewers.
Japan's moves to enact war law condemned
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the Japanese reactionaries for working hard to pass the "bills on emergencies" for overseas aggression through the diet in a bid to legislate on a system for a war of reinvasion.
The commentary says:
The bills related to the "event of armed attack," which was submitted to the diet, stipulate that the "event" means not only an "armed attack" against Japan from outside but also "an event of possible armed attack" and a "serious situation to be followed by an armed attack".
This indicates that the Japanese reactionaries may launch a preemptive attack on other countries under absurd pretexts, if necessary.
What is more serious is that they cite a "threat" from the DPRK as a pretext for enacting "laws on emergencies."
It is urgent for the Japanese reactionaries to apologize and compensate for their aggression in the past. Yet, they are keen to make an armed attack on the DPRK while evading this responsibility. What they are now doing only adds to the crimes committed against the Korean people in the past.
If Japan opts for reinvasion, refusing to liquidate its past, the DPRK can not but take a strong countermeasure against it. If the Japanese reactionaries invade the inviolable land of the DPRK it will not miss the opportunity to wipe out the Japanese aggressors, the sworn enemy, to the last man with thousand-fold merciless retaliatory blows and vent the spite which has rankled deeply in the heart of the Koreans.
Japan is well advised to stop its moves to enact the war law, not forgetting the lesson of history in which it went to ruin due to the war but facing up to the present reality.
Paek Nam Sun meets delegation of foreign ministry of Brunei Darussalam
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, minister of foreign affairs of the DPRK, met and had a friendly talk with the delegation of the Foreign Ministry of Brunei Darussalam led by permanent secretary Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng who paid a courtesy visit to him today.
Separated families and relatives from north and south reunite with each other
Kosong, April 29 (KCNA) -- Separated families and relatives of the north side reunited with those from the south side at Kumgangsan Hotel on Monday with a family as a unit.
At today's family reunion following the group reunion on Sunday families and relatives from the north and the south shared joy at meeting with each other in a family atmosphere and had meals together, deepening kindred feelings and renewing their patriotic pledge to work for the country's reunification.
Families and relatives in the north showed those from the south photographs on their happy life and conveyed their letters addressed to other family members and relatives in a harmonious atmosphere.
Ri Sin Ho residing in Kangdong county, Pyongyang, told his younger brother from the south that leader Kim Jong Il made sure that the 90th birthday table was sent to their mother in the south.
Kim Pong Yon in Wonsan, when meeting with his elder brother, said that under the benevolent socialist system his brothers and sisters and children are leading a worthy life while working at different institutions according to their wishes after their graduation from universities.
Kinsfolk in the north evinced their firm resolution to devote themselves to the cause of national reunification, singing folk songs and songs on reunification.
They earnestly called upon the compatriots in the north and the south to pool their efforts to implement the historic June 15 joint declaration to the letter and thus bring earlier the new morning of reunified country.
Kinsfolk from the south also determined to do their best to bring about the day when they will be able to live together with their families and relatives in the north after the country is reunified.
Kinsfolk in the north and the south exchanged souvenirs.
Meanwhile, the central committee of the Red Cross Society of the DPRK hosted a reception in honour of separated families and relatives in the north and the south at Kumgangsan Hotel Sunday evening.