Solidarity meeting with Finish delegation held
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A solidarity meeting with the delegation of the Finland-Korea Association was held in Pyongyang on June 25.
Kim Jong Suk, editor-in-chief of the Minju Joson office who is also chairperson of the DPRK-Finland Friendship Association, said in her speech that the association has done a lot of good things for boosting the friendly and cooperative relations with the Korean people over the last 32 years since its inauguration.
Chairman of the association Pekka Leppanen who is also head of the delegation in his speech said that the U.S. is persistently pursuing the hard-line policy against the DPRK to stifle it, describing it as part of the "axis of evil" and the "sponsor of terrorism" and obstructing Korea's reunification.
The Finish people fully support the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration as a landmark for Korea's reunification and express firm support to the struggle of the Korean people for reunifying the country independently and peacefully with their own efforts, he said, and went on:
Leader Kim Jong Il has developed in depth the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung with his outstanding wisdom and creative thinking and pursuit and rendered remarkable services to global independence.
The Finish people will as ever keep on cooperation and solidarity with the Korean people.
GIS' killing of S. Korean girl students under fire
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that the recent murder of two schoolgirls by the U.S. imperialist aggression troops is a continuation of the man-hunting committed by them in South Korea without a let-up for scores of years. Driving an armored car over the young girls, killing them, can be perpetrated only by the GIS steeped in the extreme misanthropy and trained in man-hunting.
Recalling that all acts of murder committed by the U.S. imperialists so far have been described as "accidental" and "something done by accidental mistake," the commentary blasts the U.S. military authorities present in South Korea for trying to gloss over the recent case as a "simple traffic accident" and "a thing that may possibly happen".
The commentary continues:
It is the U.S.-South Korea "status of forces agreement" that encourages the U.S. military authorities present in South Korea to do such shameless acts of shifting the responsibility for the murder onto victims just like a thief crying "stop the thief". On the strength of this shackling and unequal agreement the U.S. imperialist aggression troops are killing people, robbing them and raping women as they please, lording it over in South Korea.
As long as the U.S. imperialist aggression troops remain in South Korea the South Koreans can neither live in peace even a moment nor escape pain, misfortune and disaster.
DPRK increases investment in it development
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A DPRK representative made a speech at the discussion of the issue of information and communications technology for development at the 56th session of the UN General Assembly held on June 18.
He said that if information and communications technology is to truly serve as means for development, it is necessary to increase interest in the information community and build a solid infrastructure network of information and communications and, on this basis, create an atmosphere in which everyone can fully use information and communications technology.
He also underscored the need to pay primary attention to increasing the roles of the un organizations concerned including the international telecommunications union and the UNDP in the field of information and communications technology for development and boosting at an early date the information and communications technological capacities of developing countries. It is also important to intensify the training of specialists in this field and international exchange, he added.
He stressed that the DPRK government worked out a correct it development program after singling out the it development as the most important state affair and, on this basis, has increased investment in the field of information and communications technology in order to widely apply it to all domains of the national economy.
Cooperation with international organizations gets brisk
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The General Bureau for Cooperation with International Organizations of the DPRK (GBCIO) is an executive organ of the DPRK government, which selects and coordinates cooperation programmes and projects with un and other international organizations.
It was set up in May Juche 68 (1979) and has cooperative ties with un organizations including UNDP, UNIDO, FAO, UNESCO, and non-governmental organizations.
Over the last 20 years since the signing of the basic agreement with the UNDP in November 8, 1979, the GBCIO has successfully implemented over 100 programmes and projects.
Follows the breakdown of UNDP-assisted fund allocation in the 1979-2000 period: 23.12 percent for industrial field, 19.45 percent for agricultural field including fishery and aquaculture, 13.6 percent for transport including port, railways and civil aviation, 13.56 percent for education and training, 11.98 percent for energy including coal mining, 9.37 percent for environment, 4.93 percent for science and technology and 3.99 percent for other fields.
Recently it has boosted the ties of development cooperation with Europe, North America, and Oceania on a higher level.
Kim Myong Chol, director of the GBCIO, said that it would further promote bilateral and multilateral cooperation with UN organizations such as UNDP, non-governmental organizations, financial bodies and member states of the economic cooperation and development organization.
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U.S. and Japan urged to stop war policy
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A "Seoul meeting, day of the simultaneous global action for peace against war" was reportedly held in Seoul on June 22.
the meeting sponsored by the committee for anti-war and peace conference to inherit the June resistance was attended by over 1,000 citizens of all strata and members of peace movement organizations of Japan and the U.S.
The general secretary of the Japanese "meeting for supporting South Korean prisoners of conscience" in his solidarity speech declared: "we will wage a joint struggle to the last though Japan is keen to revise the peace constitution to launch a new war."
A U.S. peace activist said that Bush described those countries opposed to the U.S. policy as part of "axis of evil" but the real axis of evil is the U.S. government and that the war policy of the Bush administration should be checked.
In a "joint declaration of simultaneous global action for peace against war", the participants accused the U.S. of leading the world to the brink of war with remarks about "axis of evil" and Japan of pushing ahead with the institution of a bill related to the "law on contingency," threatening peace in Asia.
They demanded the U.S. and Japan immediately stop their hegemonistic war policy and attempt to become a military power, harassing world peace and return all U.S. military bases.
Military attaches' corps visits war museum
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The military attaches' corps here visited the victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum yesterday during the month of joint struggle against the U.S. (June 25-July 27).
Members of the corps looked round materials and evidences on display, being briefed on the facts that the U.S. imperialists ignited a war of aggression and committed shuddering murderous atrocities and the army and people of Korea defeated the Yankees to achieve a great victory under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
After the visit Yan Jiangfeng, military attache of the Chinese embassy who is doyen of the corps, said that the museum shows the crime-woven history of the U.S. imperialists in Korea.
The Korean people suffered calamities from the Korean War, he noted, adding: the visit made him keenly feel that the history of aggression should not be repeated.
Abdullah Hamidi Benam, military attache of the Iranian embassy, said that the U.S. imperialists are the most heinous criminals and murderers in the world.
It is the height of impudence that the U.S. imperialists talk about "human rights" while ignoring the historic facts and the U.S. can not flee from the responsibility for its crimes.
Many heroes and heroines produced during Korean War
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Immortal feats performed by the heroes and heroines are recorded in the history of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953).
DPRK Hero Ri Su Bok is a model of all the people for his ardent patriotism and self-sacrificing spirit.
Before going out for an assault he wrote on his pocket book a famous poem to the effect that the life dedicated to the motherland is the worthiest and happiest life.
When the attack of his unit was in the danger of being frustrated due to the enemy's strong fire power, he covered the muzzle of an enemy machinegun with his body to ensure the advance of his unit. He was 18 years old at that time.
Among the young heroes who dedicated their lives to the homeland are Jo Kun Sil, who, though seriously wounded in his arms and legs, pressed the trigger of his machinegun with his chin, mowing down enemy soldiers, and Kang Ho Yong, who was unable to move any more for many wounds all over his body but threw himself into the enemy with a hand-grenade in his mouth.
When an enemy tank was spotted rumbling up a height while on duty nurse Jo Sun Ok with hand-grenades in her hand dashed forward and destroyed it before breathing her last.
More than 500 heroes and heroines of the DPRK were produced during the war. They include Kim Song Jin, who miraculously survived after covering the muzzle of an enemy machinegun with his body, Kim Ki U who shot down more than 10 enemy planes with his small arms, and company commander Ri Tae Hun who foiled the landing operation of 50,000 troops for 3 days with just 4 coastal artillery pieces.
The title of DPRK Hero was instituted on June 30, Juche 39 (1950).
End to U.S. colonial domination and national division called for
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a statement on June 25 52 years after the U.S. imperialists ignited a war of aggression against the northern half of Korea, according to the Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The statement said:
The U.S. used the most cruel and brutal methods and means ever known in history in a bid to bring the DPRK into submission, but the former suffered a crushing defeat and lowered the colors.
Grave obstacles are lying in the way of implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the touch-and-go situation in which a nuclear war may break out is being created on the Korean Peninsula owing to the bush administration's reckless war provocation moves against the north.
The NDFSK bitterly denounces the u.s. reckless provocation moves to unleash a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula as the thrice-cursed unpardonable anti-reunification crimes against the Korean nation, representing the surging indignation of all the people.
The U.S. forces are a source of all misfortune and pains of the South Korean people and the main obstacle to the peaceful reunification.
All the people should drive the U.S. forces, the source of evils, out of this land and put an end to the colonial domination of the U.S.
The statement called for courageously turning out in the struggle to ostracize Ri Hoe Chang and other pro-U.S. traitors who are opposed to the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration, insisting on the "theory of principal enemy" and serving the U.S. in its pursuance of war policy against the north.
Film show in month of anti-U.S. struggle
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Films are being screened at cinemas and houses of culture in Pyongyang and local areas during the June 25-july 27 month of the anti-U.S. joint struggle.
Among them are documentary films "the fatherly leader with anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters," "the fatherly leader with servicemen" and "holding the great brilliant commander in high esteem" (serials).
The films show the great personalities of President Kim Il Sung, who led the revolutionary wars against the Japanese and U.S. imperialists to victory, and leader Kim Jong Il, who has glorified the dignity and honor of the country and nation with his Juche-oriented army-based leadership.
Other films show the army and the people of Korea humbling the pride of the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being "the strongest" in the world and honorably defending the independence of the country and the gains of the revolution.
Typical of them are documentary films "The Fatherland Liberation War" and "The U.S. Imperialists, Sworn Enemy of the Korean People" and feature films "Defenders of Height 1211" and "Wolmi Island."
Talks held between friendship parliamentary groups of DPRK and Poland
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Talks were held at the People's Palace of Culture today between the delegations of the friendship parliamentary groups of the DPRK and Poland.
At the talks both sides exchanged views on the issue of developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parliaments and a series of issues of common concern.
Present there from the DPRK side were Hyon Ryo Jin, deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly, and officials concerned and from the Polish side were members of the delegation of the Poland-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group led by Cezary Stryjak, member of Sejm, and Stanislaw Skowron, charge d' affaires ad interim of the Polish embassy here.
Kim Yong Nam receives credentials from new ambassador of Oman
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Abdullah Z. al-Hussni, new ambassador of Oman to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present there was Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of foreign affairs.
After receiving credentials, the president had a talk with the ambassador.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Beijing Association for International Friendly Contact of China.
The gift was handed to an official concerned by Li Zhao, president of the association, on a visit to the DPRK.
FM meets new ambassador of Oman
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Foreign minister Paek Nam Sun today met and had a conversation with new ambassador of Oman to the DPRK Abdullah Z. al-Hussni, who paid a courtesy call on him.