DPRK swept by waves of anti-U.S. rallies

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The country is swept by waves of rallies condemning the U.S. imperialist aggressors on the occasion of "June 25, the day of struggle against the U.S. imperialists." A rally of agricultural workers was held in front of the Sinchon Museum to vow revenge and a similar rally of members of the women's union in Phyonghwa-ri, Panmun county, Kaesong city, on June 24.
    The speakers at the rallies said that the Korean War provoked by the U.S. imperialists was a criminal war of aggression to impose colonial slavery upon the Korean people, who became masters of the country, and furthermore, dominate the world with Korea as a springboard, and an unprecedented war aimed to massacre civilians.
    They denounced the u.s. imperialists for reducing such objects to be strictly protected under the international law as peaceful cities, farming and fishing villages, hospitals, kindergartens and nurseries of Korea to ashes by indiscriminate bombing and bombardment and committing unprecedented mass killings.
    They also accused the U.S. imperialists of violating the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation even today, keeping their forces in South Korea.
    The rallies evinced the resolutions of the agricultural workers and women to take a thousand-fold revenge upon the U.S. imperialists and wipe them out to the last man if they unleash a war in Korea again.

2nd anniversary of June 15 joint declaration marked

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Firm solidarity with the Korean people in their struggle for national reunification was expressed at commemorations of the 2nd anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration in different countries. Mohammed Saad, secretary general of the People's Assembly of Syria and chairman of the Syria-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group, in a round-table talk said that the joint declaration is the only way for independent and peaceful reunification of Korea.
    Sergio Almaguer, first secretary of the Socialist Revolutionary Party of Mexico, in a round-table talk said that the joint declaration serves as a reunification program of historic significance which brought about a switchover from confrontation to reconciliation and peace and from division to reunification in the Korean Peninsula.
    Anders Kristensen, chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association, addressing a solidarity meeting, stressed that the public circles of Denmark and progressives of the world would conduct a campaign for solidarity with the Korean people and a movement for the unconditional withdrawal of the U.S. troops and their weapons of mass destruction from South Korea.
    A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

Congratulatory message to Frelimo Party

Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a congratulatory message to the Frelimo Party (the Mozambique Liberation Front Party) yesterday on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. The message said that the Frelimo Party has won great victory in the sacred struggle to achieve the independence of the country and defend the sovereignty of the nation over the last 40 years and made positive efforts to strengthen the national unity and attain the independent development of the country, enjoying support from the broad strata of people.
Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties would grow stronger in the idea of independence, peace and friendship, the message wished the party greater success in its work to strengthen the party and consolidate the political stability of the country.

Friendly gathering with Cuban youth held

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering with members of a delegation of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba was held at Korea-Cuba Friendship Moranbong Senior Middle School no. 1 yesterday. Present on invitation were members of the delegation led by Julio Martinez Ramirez, second secretary of the national committee of the union, and Cuban ambassador here Esteban Lobaina Romero.
    On hand were Kim Chol Hyok, secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, officials of the league and teachers and pupils of the school.
    Participants looked round several laboratories and practice rooms of the school before seeing an art performance given by pupils. They conversed with each other, deepening the friendship.

National art exhibition opens

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- A national art exhibition opened at the People's Palace of Culture on the occasion of the month of the anti-U.S. joint struggle (June 25- July 27). Displayed at the exhibition are over 60 Korean paintings, oil paintings, graphic paintings and posters.
    Among them are art works showing the great personalities of President Kim Il Sung who led the three-year-long fatherland liberation war to a brilliant victory and of leader Kim Jong Il who has exalted the dignity of Juche Korea.
    Other paintings reflect the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and the indomitable fighting spirit of the Korean servicemen and people who displayed mass heroism and ardent patriotism in the just war against the U.S. imperialist aggressors.
    On show are posters "Let us revenge ourselves on the U.S. imperialists, the sworn enemy" and "Knock provocateur down at one blow" and "Let us become iron fists to mercilessly beat the enemies of the revolution".

Ryangchon Temple

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The Ryangchon Temple built in 753 at Rakchon-ri, Kowon county, South Hamgyong Province, is one of the famous temples in Korea in terms of the size and history. Preserved there are three buildings, the Taeung Temple, the Kukrak Temple and the manse pavilion.
    According to historical records, the present Taeung temple was rebuilt in 1636 and the manse pavilion in 1729.
    The Taeung Temple is a tidy one-storied building with a hit-saddle roof with double eaves.
    Its interior is decorated with a multitude of paintings.
    The manse pavilion looks sublime and majestic. Many parts of the pavilion including its main beams are decorated with paintings.
    Preserved at the time-honored Ryangchon Temple are murals and other valuable historic relics which are a clear reminder of the features of those times.

Promising sports group

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The sports group of the Ministry of Commerce has produced many excellent sportspersons in marathon, boxing, acrobatic gymnastics and other events. A signal success was recorded in acrobatic gymnastics in particular.
    In the past 10 years, acrobatic gymnasts gave a good account of themselves at home and international contests.
    They are 23 years old on an average. Among them are many masters of sports.
    At contests, they successfully performed tower-building, somersaults and other difficult movements with the combination of speed and balance, showing the features of acrobatic gymnastics.
    Three-women plastic etude was acclaimed by spectators for its wonderful artistic and gymnastic technics.
    The sports group proved itself successful in other events at home and abroad.
    A sportswoman of the group, ha son bi placed first in the 54 kg category at the first Asian women's boxing championship in Thailand last year.
    The sports group is paying deep interest in training reserves.

GIS' mass killings of Koreans

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Nearly half a century has passed since the ceasefire in Korea. But the shuddering atrocities committed by "civilized persons" in the U.S. during the 3-year war are still fresh in the memory of the Korean people.
    Commander of the 8th U.S. army walker during its operation ordered his aggression soldiers to mercilessly kill everyone irrespective of children and old men and women.
    This order was carried out wherever GIS went in Korea.
    Mass killings committed by them in Sinchon county were beyond human imagination in brutality and cruelty.
    They killed more than 35,000 civilians or a quarter of its population in 50 odd days of their occupation.
    Not content with shooting, beating and throttling civilians to death and burying them alive, they used all medieval methods of killing such as gouging their eyes and skinning them off before dismembering them by use of saws or driving nails into their heads to death.
    GIS killed 120,000 civilians in Hwanghae Province alone.
    Their mass killings reduced many islets in Kangwon and north Phyongan provinces to uninhabited ones.
    When their plan to seize all parts of the northern half of Korea went awry, the U.S. imperialists took many civilians to South Korea, threatening that they would drop a-bombs over them. As the way of their retreat was blocked, they killed at least 25,000 civilians in a county of Kangwon Province alone. At least one million people were brutally killed by GIS in South Korea from the day of the outbreak of the war to September 15, 1951.
    Germ bombs were dropped by u.s. aggressors over 400 places in Kangwon Province, north and south Hwanghae provinces, Pyongyang, etc. more than 700 times, to cause a great many civilians to die of contagious diseases.

Russian dance troupe gives performances

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The Russian Moiseyev State Academy Folk Dance Troupe gave its performances here on June 23 and 24. The performances were seen by working people, youth and students in the city.
    Russian artistes put on the stage various dance pieces depicting the tradition of the dance troupe.
    Fleet dance suite "A Day on a Warship" truthfully depicted the militant and optimistic life of Russian seamen with dynamic rhythms full of spirit.
    Ukrainian dance "Gopak," "Kalmyk Dance" showing the national customs of the Kalmy people and Moldovan dance "Zhok" showing the optimistic features of young men and women enjoying a holiday were acclaimed by audiences.
    The performers sang chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il" solemnly, touching the right chord in the hearts of the audiences.
    Korean artistes presented bouquets to performers, congratulating them on their successful performance.

Withdrawal of U.S. troops from S. Korea urged

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Papers today say that the U.S., moves to stifle socialist Korea by force of arms can never be realized. Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary says that the U.S. imperialists' defeat in the Korean War ignited by them in 1950 clearly showed that Korea can never be conquered by force of arms.
    Noting that all the a aggressive moves and crimes committed by the U.S. imperialists in South Korea for nearly half a century since the Korean War proved that they are warmongers and the very ones blocking peace and reunification of Korea, the commentary says:
    The Bush bellicose forces keen on world supremacy are driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war, going against the need of the times, oblivious of the historical lesson.
    The Korean people regard the sovereignty of the country and dignity of the nation as their life and soul.
    Thanks to the great army-based leadership the DPRK is fully ready to destroy any stronghold of the aggressors mounting a preemptive attack on it.
    If the U.S. ignites a new war against the DPRK at any cost, it will only suffer an irretrievable defeat and disgrace.
    The U.S. is well advised to make a bold decision to drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK and withdraw its troops from South Korea.
    The U.S. forces should quit South Korea of their own accord before being driven out of it.
    Minju Joson in a signed commentary says that the U.S. military pull back from South Korea would be the only positive ever to be made by the U.S. styling itself the world's "only superpower" to peace and reunification of Korea.

Rodong Sinmun on army-based leadership

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The Korean people remain undeterred in any raging storm and overcome any trials and difficulties with rare perseverance. The army-based leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea always proves successful thanks to this indomitable faith and death-defying will. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
    It goes on: The army-centered leadership of leader Kim Jong Il, endowed with revolutionary faith and will, is based on the do-or-die spirit that no force on earth can defeat those who are ready to die and firm confidence of future and revolutionary optimism that while there is life, there is hope.
    The sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation depend on the faith and will of the leader. the historic experience clearly teaches that if a socialist political leader is weak in his faith and will, he is bound to yield to threat from the imperialists and lead the socialist cause to ruin.
    The years of army-based leadership provided by Kim Jong Il have been hard times when he had to weather out unprecedented trials and difficulties.
    The people's army and people of Korea have proved to be strong men of revolutionary faith who absolutely follow the leader and brave death in defending Korean-style socialism and personifies of the strong will to overcome any trails and difficulties in the course of upholding his army-based leadership with loyalty.
    The WPK's army-based policy is not a temporary state policy aimed to defend the country from the enemy's moves to isolate the DPRK but a great policy based on revolutionary optimism of Kim Jong Il, who is visualizing the future of a prosperous nation.
    Korean-style socialism is ever-victorious and the country has a bright future of a powerful nation thanks to the great army-based leadership of Kim Jong Il based on his resolute determination and firm faith of sure victory.

Koreans called upon to frustrate U.S. moves for aggression and war

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- It is 52 years since the U.S. imperialists launched a war of aggression against the DPRK. Under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung the people and People's Army of Korea fought death-defying battles with matchless bravery and mass heroism, thus inflicting a disgraceful defeat upon the aggressors and honorably defending the independence of the country and the gains of the revolution.
    Papers today in editorials recall that the U.S. imperialists have persisted in their moves to perpetuate Korea's division and provoke a new war in a bid to realize their invariable ambition to seize the DPRK, far from drawing a lesson from their bitter defeat in the last Korean War.
    Rodong Sinmun says that due to the Bush administration's hard-line policy toward the DPRK the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework is now on the verge of being scrapped and the movement for implementing the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration to achieve national independence and reunification is hitting snags.
    The paper goes on:
    The Korean people are now faced with honorable yet important tasks to frustrate the U.S. imperialists' ever undisguised moves for aggression and war, defend the peace of the country and the security of the nation and achieve the cause of independent national reunification.
    All the party members, servicemen of the people's army and people should consolidate the country as an impregnable fortress and rally closer around leader Kim Jong Il, true to his army-based policy, and if the enemy comes in attack, they should fight in a do-or-die spirit and realize the historic desire for national reunification.
    Minju Joson notes that just and sure to triumph is the Korean nation's struggle to frustrate the U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression and war, dispel the daily growing danger of a nuclear war and achieve its independent reunification.

Greetings to Slovak President

Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Slovak President Milan Kucan on the occasion of the independence day. In the belief that the relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the interests of the two peoples, the message sincerely wished the Slovak people progress and prosperity.

Greetings to Croatian President

Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Croatian President Stipe Mesic on the National Day. The message wished him success in his responsible work and the Croatian people progress and prosperity.

Greetings to Slovak prime minister and foreign minister

Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Janez Drnovsek, prime minister of Slovakia, on the Independence Day. Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the interests of the two peoples, the message wholeheartedly wished the Slovak people sustained progress and prosperity.
Meanwhile, foreign minister Paek Nam Sun also sent a message of greetings to his counterpart Dimitrij Rupel.

Anti-U.S. rallies held

    Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Mass rallies were held in front of the monument to the sinking of the U.S. imperialist ship of aggression "General Sherman," on the Jonsung Square, in front of the monument to the party founding, the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium and the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace here today on the occasion of the "June 25, the day of struggle against the U.S. imperialists." Today, 52 years after the U.S. imperialists provoked a war of aggression in Korea, Pyongyang was fully determined to wipe out the enemy.
    The venues were crowded with hundreds of thousands of Pyongyangites from all walks of life who angrily shouted anti-U.S. slogans, holding slogan-boards and placards condemning the U.S. imperialists. Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, in a speech at a rally said that the Korean War provoked by the U.S. imperialists was the most shameless and brigandish war of aggression to stifle the young DPRK and turn the whole of Korea into their permanent colony.
    He bitterly condemned the U.S. imperialists and their stooges for unleashing a war of aggression in Korea, imposing immeasurable misfortune and disasters upon the Korean people and running amuck to bring the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the heads of the Koreans, while keeping their troops in South Korea and wantonly violating the dignity and sovereignty of the nation.
    He underscored the need to resolutely check and frustrate the U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression and war against the DPRK in order to guarantee durable peace on the Korean Peninsula and achieve the peaceful reunification of the country. He continued:
    The United States directly responsible for the Korean problem should sincerely fulfill its own commitments and duty without fail, immediately stop the reckless anti-DPRK war maneuvers and withdraw its troops, nukes and other war equipment from South Korea at once.
    The U.S. should clearly bear in mind that if it blocks the peace and peaceful reunification of Korea, persisting in its anachronistic policy of war towards the DPRK, it will not escape strong protest and bitter condemnation not only from our nation but from the world progressives.
    The South Korean authorities should opt for national reconciliation and unity, opposed to the U.S. imperialists' moves to provoke a new war against the Korean nation, in the basic spirit of the June 15 joint declaration in which they promised to the nation that it would work to open the door of independent reunification by its concerted efforts.
    If the U.S. imperialists finally ignite a war of aggression on this inviolable territory, the DPRK will wipe out the intruders and provocateurs to the last man and achieve the historic cause of national reunification without fail.
    Other speakers called for giving death to the U.S. imperialist man killers, adding that the Korean people will certainly settle accounts with them.
    A poem "Korea declares" was recited at the rally.
    Present there were Choe Thae Bok and Kim Yong Sun, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army Ri Ha Il, Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the cabinet, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the central committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, Ryu Mi Yong, chairperson of the central committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party, and overseas Koreans. diplomatic envoys and members of the military attaches' corps here and foreign guests were present there on invitation.