Minju Joson (organ of DPRK government)on best settlement of nuclear issue
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The best way of solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula under the present situation is to hold negotiations in the wake of removal of threat to the DPRK. This is an expression of the DPRK's greatest magnanimity based on its principled and consistent stand, says Minju Joson in a signed commentary today.
It goes on:
The proposed conclusion of the non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S. serves as the reasonable and realistic step to bridge over the grave situation prevailing in the Korean Peninsula.
The U.S. unilateral and high-handed attitude toward the DPRK over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula makes it more difficult to settle the issue.
Our criterion of the settlement of all the issues is the preservation of our sovereignty and right to existence. There may be negotiations and use of deterrent forces to this end. We are prepared for all of them.
If the U.S. truly wants the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, it should adopt practical measures to do away with threat to the DPRK, including the conclusion of the non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S.
If the U.S. gives legal assurances of non-aggression including the nonuse of nukes against the DPRK through the non-aggression treaty, the DPRK will be ready to clear the U.S. of its security concerns.
The U.S. is well advised to have a good understanding of the DPRK's stand over the nuclear issue and make a proper choice.
The ball is in the U.S. court.
Halt to hostile policy toward DPRK urged
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A seminar under the title "Doing Away With Obstacles To Peaceful Reunification Of Korea" was held at a university in California, U.S., on Oct. 11 and 12.
Present were a U.S. Congressman, ex-professor Ri Yong Hui at Hanyang University in South Korea, teachers and students of the university.
Present on invitation were officials of the DPRK permanent mission to the UN.
Speeches were made by the congressman and other figures of the U.S. and South Korea.
Noting that the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK is the chief obstacle to Korea's reunification at a time when the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration has brought about the good prospects for Korea's reunification, they called for the rectification of the policy.
They said that the anti-U.S. spirit has grown stronger as the days go by in South Korea, and urged the Bush administration to make an apology for GI excesses.
Referring to the DPRK-U.S. relations, they stressed that the Bush administration's present hostile policy toward the DPRK should be brought to an end.
Slovakia-Korea Friendship Association formed
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The Slovakia-Korea Friendship Association was formed with due ceremony in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, on October 20.
Present at the inaugural ceremony were personages of different circles of the country.
Present on invitation were officials of the Korean embassy in Slovakia.
The ceremony discussed the programme and action program of the association and other issues.
Ana Ondrashikova was elected chairwoman of the association.
She called upon the association to develop the exchange and cooperation between the two countries in political, economic, cultural and other fields, conduct a brisk activity to introduce culture, traditions, history and geography of Korea among broad segments of the people of Slovakia and increase cooperation with organizations of friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in different countries.
She vowed to make every possible effort to lead the association to contribute to building up international support for the Korean people's cause of national reunification.
Staunch fight against imperialists called for
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article calls for fighting to the last with the imperialists and other reactionaries, who are the principal enemy blocking the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of people.
Courageously fighting with the imperialist reactionaries in the do-or-die spirit makes it possible to defend the national sovereignty and peace and achieve victory of the revolutionary cause, the article says, and goes on:
It is necessary to encounter an aggressive war of the imperialists with a liberation war and meet the anti-revolutionary violence of the reactionaries with the revolutionary violence.
As a stick is the best to beat a wolf, so are arms to fight with the imperialists. countering them with arms is the only way to defend the national sovereignty and peace and achieve the victory of the revolutionary cause.
It is essential to readily cope with the moves of the reactionaries all the time. u.s. imperialism looks down upon those countries weak in military power, forces them to accept its brigandish demands and makes them a target of its military intervention and aggression.
Self-reliance in national defence should be realized to this end.
For this, it is important to firmly prepare the army and the people in political and ideological aspect.
Whether the army and the people win in the battle against the enemy or not depends not on what kinds of weapon they have, but on their political and ideological readiness.
It is also important to fully prepare the army and the people in military technical aspect and turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress.
Only then, is it possible to smash any aggression and war of the imperialists.