Japan's dangerous military move under fire
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, chief cabinet secretary of Japan Fukuda addressing the ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives to cope with the "event of armed attack" expressed his will to work for the adoption of a new law on establishing a "civilian defence organization."
This was prompted by a criminal intention of the Japanese reactionaries to convert Japan into a military power and realize their ambition to launch overseas expansion, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
It continues:
What merits a serious attention is that the issue of adopting a "law on emergency" and the issue of establishing the "civilian defence organization" are under formal debate at the diet at a time when Japan is trying to keep warships of the Japan "self-defence forces" in the Indian Ocean for another six months in a bid to carry on a joint operation with the U.S. forces.
This suggests that the Japanese reactionaries' preparations for a war of aggression to convert Japan into a military power and realize their ambition for overseas expansion are close to completion.
The Japanese militarist forces which have been under the mask of "peace" since its defeat are coming out to launch a war of reconquest.
The Japanese reactionaries are well advised to behave with discretion, keeping in mind that their attempt is as foolish an act as trying to jump into a fire with faggot on their backs.
Branch of Poland-Korea Association formed
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The Opatuw branch of the Poland-Korea Association was inaugurated on May 11 with due ceremony.
An action program of the branch was announced at the ceremony.
The chief of the branch said that the branch would intensify propaganda about Korea and invigorate the solidarity activities for expanding and developing the friendly and cooperative relations with the Korean people.
Friendly gathering with Iranian embassy officials
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering with staff members of the Iranian embassy here was held at the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace on Tuesday on the occasion of the week for Korea-Iran friendship.
Present there on invitation were ambassador Jalaleddin Namini Mianji and officials of the Iranian embassy.
Choe Jong Hwan, vice-chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who is also vice-chairman of the Korea-Iran Friendship Association, and officials concerned were on hand.
The participants went round rooms for hobby groups of the palace and saw a performance given by its art circle members.
Then they talked to each other, deepening friendly feelings.
S. Koreans publish declaration on situation
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- A press conference was reportedly held in Seoul on May 17 as regards the release of a "declaration on situation of dissident organizations and personages for the successful holding of the June 15 grand festival for national reunification and against nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula and the United States."
The declaration was signed by 29 personages and 27 organizations, including the south headquarters of the national alliance for the country's reunification, the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the "National Federation of Peasants Associations", the "National Federation of Workers" and the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification" in response to the proposal for the declaration put forward by the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils going on a death-defying hunger strike on May 11.
A press release said they would remove the obstacles to the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration through an all-people anti-U.S. campaign and deal a telling blow to the U.S. and anti-reunification bellicose forces.
The declaration on the situation, read out at the press conference, urged the U.S. to give up its reckless nuclear war plan on the Korean Peninsula and stop its threat of nuclear war at once, saying any member of the Korean nation does not want a war.
We will successfully hold the June 15 grand festival by the efforts of the south and the north to demonstrate the will of the 70 million Koreans for peace and reunification against war and advance along the road of independent national reunification, the declaration said.
Anti-U.S., anti-war actions in South Korea
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Anti-U.S., anti-war struggles are going on in South Korea, according to news reports.
"The people's rally to inherit the spirit of the May 18 Kwangju resistance on its 22nd anniversary" was held in Kwangju on May 19 with an attendance of over 2,000 personages of various circles.
The permanent chairman of the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification" said at the rally that the U.S. was to blame for the Kwangju massacre. He called on all the people to turn out as one in the struggle to punish those responsible for the massacre and thus further heighten the anti-U.S. sentiment.
At the rally, permanent representatives of the international association of democratic lawyers at the U.N. urged the U.S. to go out of South Korea, saying it is impossible to inherit the genuine May spirit as long as the U.S. forces remain there.
A rally of Seoul citizens was held in Seoul on May 18 to inherit the spirit of the May 18 Kwangju resistance, shatter the U.S. nuclear war moves in the Korean Peninsula and check the forced introduction of F-15K fighters.
Prior to it, the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a Seoul district rally to win victory in the struggle to block the privatization of key industries and inherit the spirit of the May 18 Kwangju resistance.
Meanwhile, members of the death-defying hunger strikers' group, including the chairman of the Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils, and other students staged an anti-U.S. demonstration in Seoul, chanting slogans such as "Let us drive Yankees by inheriting the May 18 spirit" and scattering the leaflets reading "Bush, withdraw nukes from South Korea."
S. Korean sycophantic traitors' ridiculous move under fire
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Those keen on confrontation with the north in South Korea said they would frame up a "committee for promoting the publication of the list of pro-north leftist elements" in a bid to map out and open to the public the "list" in the future.
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a ridiculous move of the wicked and shameless pro-Japanese, pro-U.S. flunkeyists bereft of reason and conscience.
The daily says:
Those people whom they described as "pro-north leftist elements" are the patriotic figures who have taken lead in the campaigns for accusing the pro-Japanese traitors of selling off the interests of the country and the nation to foreign aggressors in the period of the Japanese imperialist rule and activities to achieve the cause of the country's reunification.
To defame those patriots only reveals the sinister intention to escalate confrontation with the north, backed by the U.S. imperialists, perpetuate the division of the country and block the independent reunification of the nation.
The daily calls for punishing the pro-Japanese, pro-U.S. sycophantic traitors who did all wrongs, enjoying pleasure and luxury, under the patronage of the Japanese imperialists, in the past period and are now zealously backing their master U.S. imperialists in their confrontation with the north as their cat's paws and standing in the way of the independent reunification of the nation.
Anti-north fuss in S. Korea flailed
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea issued an "Appeal to the People" on May 17 in protest against the criminal farce conducted by anti-reunification forces in South Korea to work out a "list of anti-U.S. and pro-north elements", according to Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The "society of Vietnamese War veterans", the "fellowship society of paratroopers" and other anti-communist organizations of the worst type are working out the list after setting up a "committee for promoting the publication of the list of pro-north leftist elements."
The appeal dismissed this as an intolerable anti-national and anti-reunification move as it is intended to put down at any cost the desire of South Koreans from all walks of life for national independence, great national unity and independent reunification against the U.S. daily growing strong after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
Saying that it is urgently required for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration to frustrate this farce, the appeal called for throwing overboard Ri Hoe Chang-led pro-U.S. and pro-Japanese and anti-reunification elements and holding higher the torch of anti-U.S., anti-Japanese and anti-war struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops from South Korea.
Kim Yong Nam greets Yemeni President
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly yesterday sent a message of greetings to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the Reunification and Foundation of the Republic of Yemen.
The message sincerely wished the President and people of Yemen greater success in their work for achieving social stability and economic prosperity of the country.
Angling encouraged in DPRK
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- River banks and lake shores in the DPRK are dotted with anglers and angling fans.
Angling fans and citizens are enjoying rest time on the banks of the River Taedong and the River Pothong flowing through the capital city of Pyongyang and other rivers.
According to An Pong Gi, vice-chairman of the angling fans' association of the DPRK Natural Conservation Union, the association was organized towards the end of the 1950s and more than 15,000 members have been enlisted and their number is on the increase.
The association is paying a deep concern to providing good conditions for angling.
The state has repeatedly taken measures to control unreasonable fishing on rivers and lakes and conserve and propagate fish.
It encourages angling, considering it as one of important means to add much to the beauty of surroundings and promote the people's health and cultural entertainment.
Stop to introduction of U.S.-made fighters urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils released an emergency statement on May 18 as regards the fact that the supplementary negotiations between the South Korean "Defence Ministry" and the U.S. Boeing Company came to a settlement before the signing of a contract on the introduction of F-15K fighters, according to a Seoul-based Yonhap News report.
The statement said that the recent negotiations were nothing but a "poor trick" to deceive the people and an act of making the South Korean people a laughing stock of the whole world.
It demanded the resignation of the minister of "defence", a contracting party, and a halt to the introduction of F-15Ks.
It also urged a thoroughgoing probe into the suspicion such as one aroused by the declaration of conscience made by colonel Jo Ju Hyong.
Pyongyang City People's Hospital No. 1
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang City People's Hospital No. 1 situated near scenic Moran Hill was the first people's hospital to be built in the North of Korea after the liberation of Korea in 1945.
Upon his triumphant return to the homeland President Kim Il Sung acquainted himself with health care in the country and saw to it that the hospital was built there.
There appeared a one-storied wooden building with just a few beds. The hospital had over ten doctors and nurses.
Today the hospital has grown more than 100 times in its scale and scope of treatment.
It has a total floor space of 40,000 square meters and at least 1,000 beds.
There are more than 40 departments equipped with modern medical facilities, including digestive, circulatory and endocrine ones.
The hospital has its own centre for the production of hundreds of kinds of highly efficacious medicines and tonics.
It has a competent medical staff including scores of doctors and masters of medical science and merited doctors.
Medical workers there present at least 200 scientific papers every year. New varieties of medicines and medical appliances are being developed there.
A lot medicine manufactured there are listed as state items and received patents.
Many medical books including "part surgery of book on experience in Koryo treatment" and "complete book of otorhinolaryngology" were written by doctors of the hospital.
Rodong Sinmun on unity between officers and men
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The unity between officers and men in upholding the leadership of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il with loyalty in one mind is the political and ideological superiority of the Korean People's Army and the source of invincible might enough to defeat any formidable enemy.
Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed article today.
The proud tradition of the unity between superiors and inferiors, the unity between officers and men created in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle has been carried forward in the whole course of army building and activities in Korea, the paper says, and goes on:
The relationship between the officers and soldiers in the KPA is a noble fraternal and comradely relationship.
The unity between superiors and inferiors, the unity between officers and men that gives full play to the revolutionary comradeship based on boundless loyalty to the leader is an important factor of making the KPA invincible.
The unity between officers and men is the motive power for strengthening the single-hearted unity of the KPA around Kim Jong Il in every way.
As the officers and soldiers are firmly united around Kim Jong Il as the community of destiny, a crystal of ideology and will, the might of the KPA is so invincible as to counter any modern weapons.
Yang Hyong Sop meets Indonesian ambassador
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with Indonesian ambassador to the DPRK Buchari Effendi who paid a farewell call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.