Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from S. Korea demanded

    Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Rallies of teachers and students of Kim Hyong Jik University of Education and Pyongyang Ryongwang Middle School were held on Nov. 28 denouncing the verdict of not guilty given to the GI murderers of schoolgirls in South Korea. Speakers said at the rallies that the GIs killed the schoolgirls by an armored car in broad daylight, but the U.S. military court declared them not guilty, adding that this brigandish action clearly shows the true colours of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces as man-killers.
    They continued. This outrageous action committed by the GIs should no longer be tolerated and the U.S. imperialists should be forced to pay for the blood shed by Koreans generation after generation.
    They dismissed the GIs' arrogant action as an insult not only to the South Korean people but to all Koreans and a blatant challenge to justice, conscience, and ethics and morality and bitterly condemned the sworn enemy U.S. imperialists, the root cause of all misfortune, sufferings and evils, on behalf of all teachers and students.
    It is only the U.S. imperialists who openly declared the killers not guilty, they noted, strongly calling upon all Koreans to turn out in the sacred anti-U.S. war.

Anniversary of Academy of Social Sciences marked

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Pyongyang yesterday to mark the golden jubilee of the Academy of Social Sciences. Present at the meeting were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Jong Ha Chol, Jo Chang Dok, officials concerned, scientists and employees of the academy and scientists in the capital city.
    Also present there were members of a delegation of the Association of Korean Social Scientists in Japan led by its chairman Kim Hwa Hyo and a delegation of the International Society of Korean Scholars led by its permanent advisor Choe Ung Gu.
    At the meeting, Choe Thae Bok read out a congratulatory message the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent to the scientists and employees of the academy.
    The message noted that over the last half century since President Kim Il Sung established the academy on December 1, Juche 41(1952), it has developed into the nation's comprehensive base for the study of social sciences and made a great contribution to the development of the Juche-oriented social sciences.
    Thae Hyong Chol, president of the academy, in his report said that Kim Il Sung gave an origin to the Juche-based and revolutionary social sciences in the crucible of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and clearly indicated the road for the social sciences of Juche to follow in each period and at each stage of the revolutionary development.
    Pointing out that the proud history of the academy is shining more brilliantly thanks to the great leadership exploits performed by Kim Jong Il, the reporter recalled that he published many works, energetically leading the academy to thoroughly establish Juche in all branches of social sciences and broaden and deepen scientific researches as required by the revolutionary development and the trend of the development of modern social sciences.
    The reporter called on the scientists and employees of the academy to intensify scientific researches as required by the era of the army-based policy and expand and consolidate their successes and thus positively contribute to carrying out the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Anti-U.S. rally in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- A rally called "Day of Second Action of Youth and Children for Declaring Trial of GI Killers Invalid", was reportedly held in Ryongsan, Seoul, on November 23 under the sponsorship of the youth and children measure committee for schoolgirls killed by a U.S. armoured car. It was attended by at least 1,000 youth and children and teachers.
    The committee pointed out in a report that it opened an independent internet homepage on the GIs' killing of the two schoolgirls, inaugurated a day of the first action of youth and children on July 17 and waged a signature campaign in areas including Myongdong, Seoul, on October 20.
    Several students in their speeches said: Youth and children have gathered here to take back self-respect. Though the United States pretends to be an apostle of peace, its barbarous nature was disclosed through the trial.
    A resolution was read out at the rally.
    It said:
    We will nullify the verdict of not guilty at once and punish the killers of the schoolgirls with our own hands.
    It clarified a future action program.
   

Cuban diplomats visit gift exhibition

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Esteban Lobaina Romero and other diplomats of the Cuban embassy here visited the gift exhibition of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces yesterday on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. The guests looked round with keen interest the gifts to supreme commander Kim Jong Il associated with KPA servicepersons' boundless reverence and admiration for him.
    At the end of the visit the ambassador wrote in the visitor's book that they were struck with admiration at the talents of the servicepersons with which they profoundly depicted the immortal feats performed by the three commanders of Mt. Paektu and truthfully represented successes made in the defence of the motherland and socialist construction.
    Military attache Giraldo Abreu Morales noted he was deeply impressed by the loyalty of the KPA servicepersons to Kim Jong Il, adding that the gifts clearly bore witness to their determination to devotedly defend the supreme commander and safeguard their motherland.

School renamed hero school

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Kanggye Jangjasan Middle School no.1 was renamed Hero Kanggye Jangjasan Middle School No.1. 19 heroes and heroines were among the graduates of the school.
    Among them one was awarded the title of the DPRK Twice Hero, nine the title of DPRK Hero and nine others the title of Labor Hero.
    A renaming ceremony took place at the school yesterday.

Reception given on Romanian National Day

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Alexandru Mica, charge d' affaires of the Romanian embassy here, gave a reception at the embassy on Thursday evening on the occasion of the National Day of Romania. Present on invitation were Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon, Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade Kim Yong Jae, vice-chairwoman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Hong Son Ok and other officials concerned and foreign diplomatic envoys here.
    Staff members of the embassy were on hand.
    Speeches were made at the reception.

S. Korean newspapers urged to think twice

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Segye Ilbo, Choongang Ilbo, Kyunghyang Daily News and other newspapers of South Korea are spreading the misinformation that the DPRK was to blame for the suspension of the projects of reconnecting rail and road links between the north and the south. In this regard papers here today carry signed commentaries. Citing the facts to prove that the United States is to blame for bringing the mine clearing to suspension and making it impossible to push forward the projects as scheduled, a commentary of Rodong Sinmun says:
    Some media of South Korea are imprudent and hasty. They were trying to shift the responsibility for the suspended projects onto the DPRK before it responded to the south side's proposal to discontinue the inspection of mine clearing. The DPRK cannot but ask if they were not requested by someone to do so.
    It cannot but question for whom they spoke.
    The projects were suspended due to the south side's dependence on foreign forces. If some media of South Korea truly wanted inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation, they should have carried articles bringing the military authorities to account for delaying the projects, yielding to foreign forces.
    Not content with slandering the DPRK, some media of South Korea clamored about the "dual nature", pulling up the DPRK over its promulgation of a decree on setting up the Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone. This only revealed that they are too talkative.
    Garrulity makes a mess of things.
    A commentary of Minju Joson says that if the South Korean newspaper Dong-a Ilbo takes such a treacherous road as putting a brake on the process of improving the inter-Korean relations, it will be cursed and condemned by the nation. It is well advised to take a right path, though belatedly, not lamenting its folly, the commentary warns.

Branch of agricultural science in Kangwon Province

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The branch of agricultural science in Kangwon Province under the Academy of Agricultural Science was founded in October Juche 52 (1963). It has more than ten rooms for researching into rice, maize and other crops, an experimental plot covering hundreds of hectares, a laboratory and test-rooms.
    Researchers of the branch, encouraged by a new history of large-scale land rezoning opened by Kim Jong Il in the province a few years ago, are working hard to introduce good seeds of paddy and non-paddy crops and advanced methods of cultivation suitable for the climate and soil conditions of the province.
    In recent years, they have succeeded in developing two kinds of winter-hardy and high-yielding rice seeds.
    Six exhibits presented by the branch won popularity at the 7th national exhibition of inventions and new technologies. Among them are the method of cultivating and introducing Chonnae persimmon and Chonsam persimmon, the method of cultivating tea plant Kosong no.1 and no. 2 and the technique of processing Unjong tea.

New stamps published

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean stamp corporation has published new stamps. Printed in the sheetlets are pictures about General Secretary Kim Jong Il's historic visit to the Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation in August and his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during the latter's visit to Pyongyang in September.
    Seen in the sheetlets titled "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Visits the Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation" are pictures of Kim Jong Il meeting and conversing with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok.
    Their size is 120mm100mm and 85mm70mm and the size of the stamps is 60mm42mm. Their face value is 120 won and 70 won and their stock number is 4214 and 4215.
    Other sheetlets are titled "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Meets with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi" and "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Signs the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi." printed in them are pictures of the historic events.
    Their size is 75mm65mm and 90mm80mm and the size of the stamps is 60mm42mm. Their face value is 150 won and 120 won and their stock number is 4225 and 4226.

Punishment of GI criminals urged

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The north headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth Behind the GIs' Massacres proposed a contact of representatives of the joint secretariat, the north, south and overseas headquarters of the special committee and organizations concerned in South Korea in Seoul at an early date and the formation of a joint investigation group to restudy and bring the GIs' crimes to the international organizations and punish the criminals in the name of the nation. The proposal was made in a letter sent by the north headquarters of the special committee to its joint secretariat and the south and the overseas headquarters, the All-People Measure Committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, Girl Students Killed By a U.S. Armored Car in South Korea, the anti-U.S. action group of the national alliance for democracy and reunification, the Anti-U.S. Women's Society and other joint organizations of Koreans in the north, south and abroad and organizations concerned in South Korea on Nov. 27 as regards the recent verdict of "not guilty" given to GI criminals who drove an armored car over South Korean schoolgirls to death.
    The letter noted that the U.S. military court's shameless trial which declared the GI criminals not guilty is an open mockery of the Korean nation, an intolerable insult to it and a challenge to justice and human conscience.
    The north headquarters of the special committee declares the recent false trial invalid as the assailant tried the assailant there, it said, adding:
    It is a high time that all the Koreans turned out in a drive to force the U.S. to pay thousand times for the disgrace it inflicted upon the Koreans and the blood shed by them.

World Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People observed

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean people will invariably support the Palestinian people in their just struggle to build an independent state and achieve independent progress, says Rodong Sinmun today in a by-lined article on the occasion of the world day of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The article continues:
    The more undisguised Israel becomes in its moves to invade Palestine, the stronger the international support and solidarity with the Palestinian people grow and the higher voices denouncing Israel mount.
    The Palestinian issue is the core of the issue of realizing Mideast peace.
    If the issue is not settled, it is impossible to achieve the Mideast peace.
    In order to settle the Palestinian issue the Israeli aggressors should unconditionally pull out of their occupied Palestinian land as demanded by the Palestinian people and the Palestinian people's legitimate national rights including the rights to self-determination and the right to found an independent state should be restored.
    The Korean people regard it as an international obligation to positively support the Palestinian people's just cause.
    This cause is sure to triumph.

Greetings to Prime Minister of Barbados

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, Premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of its independence. The message wished him great success in his work for the development and prosperity of the country.

Greetings to Prime Minister of Ukraine

     Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, Premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Viktor Yanukovich upon his appointment as Prime Minister of Ukraine. In the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Ukraine would continue to develop on good terms, the message wished him success in his responsible work.

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emitidos papeles enterizos de nuevos sellos

     pyongyang, 29 de noviembre (atcc) -- recientemente la editora de sellos de la republica popular democratica de corea emitio los papeles enterizos de nuevos sellos que se refieren a la historica visita del dirigente kim jong il a la region del lejano oriente de la federacion rusa realizada en pasado agosto y a su encuentro con el premier japones junichiro koizumi de visita en corea en septiembre. los papeles enterizos de pequeno tamano con el titulo de "la visita del gran dirigente camarada kim jong il a la region del lejano oriente de la federacion rusa" insertan las fotos que muestran a el encontrandose con el presidente ruso vladimir putin en vladivostok y departiendo con este.
    los tamanos de papeles enterizos son de 120 mm x 100 mm, 85 mm x 70 mm, el de sello, 60 mm x 42 mm, el valor nominal, 120 wones y 70 wones y el numero de reserva es 4214-4215.
    los papeles enterizos de pequeno tamano titulados "el encuentro del gran dirigente camarada kim jong il con el premier japones junichiro koizumi" y "el gran dirigente camarada kim jong il, junto con el premier japones junichiro koizumi firmo la declaracion corea-japon de pyongyang" insertan las fotos que muestran los eventos historicos.
    el tamano de papeles es de 75 mm x 65 mm, 90 mm x 80 mm, el de sello, 60 mm x 42 mm, el valor nominal 150 wones y 120 wones, el numero de reserva es 4225-4226.

se propone senteneciar en nombre de la nacion a asesinos norteamericanos

     pyongyang, 29 de noviembre (atcc) -- la direccion nortena del comite pannacional para la averiguacion especial del verdadero aspecto de las atrocidades de asesinatos de las tropas norteamericanas propuso sostener en seul lo mas pronto posible el contacto entre los representantes del cosecretariado, de las direcciones nortena, surena y del ultramar del comite en cuestion y de las organizaciones correspondientes de sudcorea para componer un grupo conjunto por la reaveriguacion, acusar los crimenes homicidas de las tropas yanquis a las organizaciones internacionales y sentenciar a los culpables en nombre de la nacion. asi propuso la direccion nortena del comite en cuestion en la carta que envio el dia 27, en relacion con la reciente declaracion de la inculpabilidad a los criminales de las tropas agresoras norteamericanas que asesinaron cruelmente a las dos alumnas de escuela secundaria de sudcorea, al cosecretariado y las direcciones surena y del ultramar, de dicho comite, el comite pannacional de medidas del incidente de asesinatos a las alumnas de escuela secundaria sin hyo sun y sim mi son por el carro blindado de las tropas norteamericanas en sudcorea, el grupo ejecutivo antiyanqui de la alianza nacional por la democracia y la reunificacion de la nacion, la asociacion de mujeres antiyanquis y otras organizaciones conjuntas del norte, el sur y el ultramar y las entidades correspondientes de sudcorea.
    el descarado juicio del tribunal de las tropas norteamericanas que declaro la inculpabilidad a los monstruosos asesinos que atropellaron las dos alumnas de sudcorea con el carro blindado es una abierta burla e intolerable insulto a la nacion coreana y un desafio a la justicia y la conciencia de la humanidad, senala la carta.
    la direccion nortena del particular declaro el nulo de tal "juicio" del tribunal de las tropas norteamericanas.
    el documento insiste en que ahora es el tiempo en que todos los coreanos deben levantarse resueltamente en la lucha por vengarlo mil veces mayor.

medios de prensa de sudcorea deben obrar con prudencia

     pyongyang, 29 de noviembre (atcc) -- en relacion con que los medios de prensa de sudcorea tales como los periodicos "segye ilbo", "jung-ang ilbo" y "kyonghyang sinmun" difunden rumores de que la responsabilidad por la interrupcion de la labor de union de las vias ferreas y carreteras entre el norte y el sur de corea recae sobre la parte norte, los periodicos capitalinos insertaron hoy los comentarios. el del periodico "rodong sinmun" revela a base de los hechos que los estados unidos es el fautor que hizo interrumpir la limpieza de campos minados y que obstaculizo promover segun lo planeado la obra de union de las ferrovias y carreteras y continua:
    unos medios de prensa de sudcorea obran muy imprudente y apresuradamente. antes de que nuestra parte de respuesta a la propuesta de la parte sur de cesar la supervision sobre limpieza del campo minado unos medios de prensa de surcorea trataron de imputarnos apresuradamente la responsabilidad por la interrupcion de la labor de union de las ferrovias y carreteras. ?recibieron una peticion de alguien? les preguntamos.
    ?a quien representan los ciertos medios de prensa de surcorea?
    la interrupcion de la labor de union de las ferrovias y carreteras se debe tambien a la actitud de la parte sur que depende de las fuerzas extranjeras.
    si esos medios de prensa desean de veras la reconciliacion y la cooperacion entre el norte y el sur, deberian publicar los articulos fustigando la responsabilidad a las autoridades militares sudcoreanas que obedeciendo a las fuerzas extranjeras demoraron la labor de union de ferrovias y carreteras entre el norte y el sur.
    al cabo de censurar a sus compatriotas unos medios de prensa de sudcorea no se tardaron en tildar de "dualidad" a nuestras medidas de crear la zona turistica del monte kumgang. quien habla mucho lleva al fracaso el trabajo.
    el del periodico "minju joson" subraya:
    el "tong-a ilbo" de sudcorea, al tomar el camino de la traicion a la nacion poniendo obstaculo en la mejora de las relaciones norte-sur, no podra evitar el repudio y condenacion de la nacion. por tanto, debe tomar el correcto camino ahora mismo para no arrepentirse de su acto, mas tarde.