U.S. warned not to act rashly
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and the South Korean military authorities called for the gjoint military counteractionh and gdeterrent forcesh under the pretext of the DPRK's gnuclear issueh at the 34th U.S. -South Korea gannual security consultative meetingh held in Washington some days ago.
They discussed even a gproposal for military sanctionsh aimed to militarily attack the DPRK.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this dangerous war confab as a wanton violation of the DPRK's inalienable sovereignty and a declaration of war against it.
The commentary says:
The DPRK set forth a proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty with the U.S. , a key to the solution of the pending issues between the DPRK and the U.S. , from a sincere stand to achieve peace and solve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
Nevertheless, the Bush administration had so far turned aside from this just proposal and insisted on its brigandish assertion that unless the DPRK scraps its gnuclear programh first there would be no dialogue. They even went so far as to openly declare a war against the DPRK.
The DPRK is not a weak country which will give in to pressure and war threat from any country or abandon its independent option.
The army and the people of the DPRK regard their dignity and sovereignty as their life and soul and never tolerate those who encroach upon them.
Those who dare unleash a war can not escape from the merciless strike by our armed forces built up under the army-based policy wherever they may be in the earth.
The U.S. warlike forces and their followers should not act rashly, mindful that our warning is not an empty word.
U.S. piracy on DPRK trading cargo ship denounced
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The United States captured the DPRK trading cargo ship Sosan in broad daylight when it was sailing in the open seas off Yemen on Dec. 10. In this regard South Korean organizations on Dec. 12 issued commentaries and a statement denouncing the U.S. , according to a news report.
The south headquarters of the national alliance for the country's reunification in a commentary said that the U.S. piracy is a dangerous act as the U.S. hard-line hostile policy toward the north has entered the phase of using strength.
Seeing the dangerous act of confrontation aimed at a war we have once again confirmed who is chiefly to blame for the war crisis on the Korean Peninsula, the commentary said, dismissing such undisguised move of the U.S. as nothing but a trick to inflict war calamities upon the Korean nation.
It held that the united states should stop anti-north provocations at once, act as a party concerned for the realization of the lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, conclude a non-aggression treaty with the north and guarantee it in practice.
The anti-U.S. , anti-war and anti-nuke joint conference in a commentary condemned the recent case as the U.S. violation of international law and such encroachment upon the sovereignty of the north as invasion of the territory.
The U.S. should clearly know that if it tries to continue interfering in the gpresidential electionh and other internal affairs of Korea while straining the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean people will never tolerate it, the commentary stressed.
The (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in a statement said that the U.S. groundlessly captured the north's ship, motivated by a scheme to throw a wet blanket over the ever-mounting anti-Americanism in South Korea in the wake of the murder of schoolgirls and intervene in the gpresidential electionh as well as a purpose to interrupt all things going on against the intention of the U.S.
Greetings to King of Bahrain
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to King Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the National Day of the Kingdom of Bahrain on Dec. 15.
The president in the message wished the king good health and happiness and the people of Bahrain greater progress and prosperity.
Congratulatory message to ANCSA
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a congratulatory message to the 51st National Meeting of the African National Congress of South Africa (ANCSA) on Dec. 15.
The message expressed belief that the national meeting would serve as an important occasion in activities of the congress to realize the national unity and the country's development and improve the people's living standard.
Expressing the conviction that the friendly and cooperative relations between the WPK and the ANCSA would further develop in the idea of independence, peace and friendship in the future, it sincerely wished great success to the meeting.
U.S. hindrance to inter-Korean economic cooperation assailed
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The first round of the meeting of the law-making panel for north-south economic cooperation held in Seoul from Dec. 11 to 13 proved fruitless entirely because of the U.S. pressure upon the South Korean authorities and its undisguised interference in the inter-Korean relations.
The chairman of the north side to the north-south committee for the promotion of economic cooperation said this in a statement issued on Dec. 15 denouncing the U.S. for its criminal moves to hamstring and torpedo the inter-Korean economic cooperation.
The statement went on:
At the panel meeting the two sides were set to draft an agreement and jointly publish it soon after smoothly discussing everything and reaching an accord on the institutional mechanism for economic cooperation.
But the south side made an about face in its attitude all of a sudden before close of the meeting. It asserted that it is difficult to successfully conduct inter-Korean economic cooperation and make public a joint press release unless gnuclear issueh is solved.
This rendered the agreement reached by the two sides through a two-day discussion vain.
It is clear to everyone that the meeting ended without any result because the U.S. put unreasonable pressure upon the South Korean authorities as part of its interference in their internal affairs under the pretext of the Dec. 12 statement issued by a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry as regards the U.S. stop of supply of HFO that had been under way under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
There is a buzz in South Korea that the meeting proved unproductive owing to the outside pressure.
The U.S. blustered that neither overland tour of Mt. Kumgang nor inter-Korean exchange is possible without a prior-consent of the gUN Forces.h
Senior officials of the U.S. departments of defense and state flew into Seoul one on the heels of the other to force the South Korean authorities to slow down the mine-clearing and advised them not to promote north-south economic cooperation unless gthe nuclear issueh is solved.
All these actions taken by the U.S. to interfere in and hamstring north-south economic cooperation are an undisguised infringement upon the sovereignty of the Korean nation and moves to bar the nation from achieving reconciliation, cooperation and reunification.
The U.S. should be wholly accountable for having rendered the meeting fruitless and obstructed the efforts to reenergize economic cooperation.
U.S. to blame for measure taken to lift nuclear freeze
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement issued on Dec. 15 asserts that the U.S. is entirely to blame for the measure taken by the DPRK to lift the nuclear freeze to generate electricity, adding that it was compelled to adopt this option by the U.S. attitude.
He recalled that the DPRK Government through a statement issued by a spokesman for its Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Dec. 12 clarified at home and abroad it decided to lift its measure for nuclear freeze the cope with the measure taken by the U.S. to stop the supply of heavy oil to the DPRK and immediately resume the operation and construction of its nuclear facilities for electricity production.
The DPRK's measure to lift the nuclear freeze is a just measure taken to make up for the loss of electricity caused by the U.S. unilateral halt to the supply of heavy oil under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF) and stabilize the economic construction and the people's living.
After the publication of the AF, we only suffered a big loss of electricity and the resultant damage done to economy.
If our nuclear facilities should be faulted, all the nuclear power plants in other regions and countries should be called into question. It is preposterous to assert that our nuclear power bases pose a threat while nuclear power plants in other regions and countries raise no problems.
The DPRK's measure to resume the operation and construction of its nuclear facilities to generate electricity does not pose any threat to South Korea.
The U.S. is deliberately straining the situation on the Korean Peninsula as evidenced by the piracy committed by it against a DPRK trading cargo ship on normal voyage for trade in the wake of its stop of heavy oil supply. All this is intended to calm down mounting anti-Americanism and drive a wedge between the north and the south in a bid to freeze the favorably developing inter-Korean relations.
The South Korean people are called upon to heighten vigilance against such moves and condemn the U.S. so as to foil them.
Emergency meeting on situation held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The All-People Measure Committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, Schoolgirls Killed By a U.S. Armored Car, reportedly held a gnational emergency meeting on the situationh on the university street, Seoul, on Dec. 11.
Present there were members of the all-people measure committee and civic and public organizations active in different parts of South Korea after forming their measure committees.
The meeting discussed a specific proposal to make the all-people grand peace march due on Dec. 14 a decisive momentum in the struggle for punishing the GI killers and revising the unequal sofa and decided on an action program.
The meeting also made public five-point guidelines for all-people action to be observed on Dec. 14, the gday of restoring the sovereigntyh and detailed guidelines for the 100,000-man all-people grand peace march.
Ever-mounting anti-Americanism on Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The Dec. 5 issue of workers world, the organ of the workers world party of the United States, in an article said that GIs' crime of driving an armored car over two schoolgirls to death is sparking largest-scale demonstrations against the presence of more than 40,000 U.S. troops in South Korea.
Demonstrators demanded the withdrawal of all the U.S. troops from South Korea and the transfer of the GI killers of the schoolgirls to the South Korean court, throwing rotten eggs into the U.S. Forces base, the paper noted.
Introducing in detail the activities of the All-People Measure Committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, Schoolgirls Killed By a U.S. Armored Car comprising civilian organizations of various circles in South Korea, the paper carried a photo showing South Korean people in protest demonstration.
On the same day a television of Indonesia said that the South Korean people and students are holding demonstrations almost every day in protest against the U.S. military court's verdict of not guilty given to murderers, demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops.
It aired footage of anti-U.S. demonstrations held by South Korean students and an America-visiting group in front of then U.S. military base and the U.N. headquarters
KCNA on U.S. assertion on human rights situation in DPRK
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is becoming more vociferous about ghuman rightsh in the DPRK in a bid to increase its pressure upon it.
To cite an example, an official of the U.S. State Department falsified facts when he expressed deep gconcernh over the gdifficulties of defectors from North Koreah in an effort to bring up the issue of gdefectors from North Koreah and internationalize it.
This is aimed at tarnishing the image of the DPRK on the international arena and creating a new leverage to pressurize the DPRK under the pretext of the human rights issue.
It is universally known that the U.S. has neither qualification nor justification to advise others over the human rights issue.
In recent days alone, the U.S. committed such savage human rights abuses as giving a verdict of not guilty to the GIs who drove an armored car over the two South Korean schoolgirls to death in broad daylight, by the force of the gSouth Korea-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement,h touching off towering anti-Americanism all over South Korea.
Such U.S. human rights abuse are reported almost everyday wherever the U.S. troops are stationed in the world.
GI rapes of girl students are in various U.S. military bases in Japan, creating public furore, and the U.S. President was compelled to apologize for them, no more than a hypocritical farce to calm down the public opinion. This indicates the U.S. poor human rights record.
The U.S. has not shaken off the ill-fame of the state with the world's worst human rights performance as terrorist organizations including Ku-Klux-Klan are stalking under legal protection and such crimes as murder, rape, drug addiction, etc. are occurring in the U.S. every minute.
It is a ridiculous political caricature for the U.S. to talk about someone's ghuman rightsh as if it was entitled to do so.
If the U.S. is truly concerned over the human rights issue, it should strive to settle its human rights issue, first of all, and make a political decision to immediately withdraw the U.S. troops from South Korea and other parts of the world as they are ill-famed for their human rights abuses and all other crimes perpetrated and incited by them.
KCNA assails U.S. police suppression of Korean woman in U.S.
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The South Koreans' anti-U.S. struggle triggered off by the U.S. military court's verdict of not guilty given to GIs who drove an armored car over the girl students to death is spilling over into other countries.
It is quite natural for the Korean nation to stand up against the U.S. as its sovereignty, right to existence and dignity are violated by it. Theirs is an entirely just struggle reflecting the unanimous desire of the Koreans.
The United States, styling itself the state with the gworld's best human rights record,h cracked down upon this just struggle of South Koreans, stunning the international community.
Recently the U.S. police walked away a Korean woman resident in the U.S. when she was on a protest sit-in strike together with the America-visiting group of South Koreans led by priest Han Sang Ryol, in front of the White House.
This is an intolerable challenge to the Korean nation demanding the punishment of the GI killers and one more barbaric act of touching off the nation's bitter hatred and wrath against the U.S.
This is also a clear proof that the U.S. is keen on humiliating, mocking at and hating the Korean nation as it has not yet sincerely repented of the GIs' killing of girl students.
The U.S. undisguised insult, persecution and suppression of Koreans not only in South Korea but in its mainland are touching off the Koreans' towering indignation at it.
The DPRK takes a very serious note of the recent U.S. police violence because it is an issue not confined to an overseas Korean but a violation of the dignity and sovereignty of all the Koreans.
The U.S. should certainly be made to pay for the blood shed by Koreans.
The U.S. should apologize to the Korean people hundred times, clearly aware that gone are the days when it could violate the life and dignity of South Koreans as it pleased while lording it over South Korea after occupying it.
U.S. will get nothing but defeat and death
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Misjudging the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the war-thirsty group of Bush is bringing the tensions that increased after it raised a nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of confrontation and clash, counting on the superior military muscle, but the U.S. imperialists will get nothing but a bitter defeat and death in the confrontation with the DPRK.
Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in a by-lined commentary.
A news analyst says:
The U.S. made public a decision to stop the supply of heavy oil to the DPRK, which had been done under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF), and, in actuality, stopped the supply of heavy oil from the beginning of December.
The obtaining situation compelled the DPRK to lift the measure of nuclear freeze taken on the premise that 500,000 tons of heavy oil would be annually supplied to the DPRK under the AF and immediately resume the operation and construction of nuclear facilities to generate electricity.
The U.S. , however, claimed that the DPRK violated the AF. The assertion is a base move to isolate the DPRK internationally and a cunning trick to justify the U.S. efforts to stifle the DPRK with nuclear arms.
The DPRK put forward a landmark proposal to conclude a non-aggression treaty with the U.S. with a view to clearing the Korean Peninsula of military confrontation and tensions and preventing a war, the DPRK has exercised maximum patience and self-restraint even under the worst situation where the U.S. put the AF on the verge of collapse and is posing real nuclear threat to the DPRK.
The U.S. should be mindful that this is not an expression of the feeble-mindedness and weakness of the DPRK at all.
The DPRK remains unfazed as it has made full preparations to cope with the confrontation and clash with the Yankees.
The army and people of the DPRK with burning hatred for the Yankees are in full readiness to fight a death-defying battle.
The U.S. will get nothing in the showdown with the DPRK.
It is well advised to be aware of this, rectify such a historic mistake as breaking the AF and adopt a proper option.
Youth urged to remain true to army-based policy
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The provincial meetings of young frontrankers in displaying the trait of assisting the army took place in the DPRK.
The meetings referred to the beautiful and noble spiritual and moral traits displayed by young people in the era of the army-based policy. And they discussed tasks to be fulfilled by youth to further demonstrate the honor of being young vanguard in the worth-while efforts to build a powerful nation.
Great changes are taking place in the mentality of young Koreans today.
They absolutely worship and trust their leaders. Such intense loyalty of them are manifested in their efforts to hold in high esteem President Kim Il Sung as the eternal sun of Juche and uphold leader Kim Jong Il's idea and leadership with one mind and idea.
Many young people have volunteered to join the army, and rendered material and moral support to the army under the army-based leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea and sincerely helped war veterans and honored disabled soldiers.
They are bearing the brunt of the struggle for building a powerful nation under the slogan gLet us become young heroes and heroines in a worthwhile struggle to glorify Kim Jong Il's erah.
The meetings called upon the youth to give full play to such noble trait in the era of the army-based policy and preserve and glorify the idea and immortal revolutionary exploits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
It was also emphasized in the meetings that the youth should fully display the spirit of becoming human bombs, the spirit of blowing oneself up to defend the headquarters of the revolution and volunteer to work in difficult domains of socialist construction and perform fresh miracles and exploits.
Cambodian minister here
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Hor Nam Hong, Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Cambodian Government, and his party arrived in Pyongyang on Dec. 14.
They were met at the airport by vice-minister of foreign affairs Kim Yong Il, officials concerned and Cambodian Ambassador here Oum Mannorine.
North side's delegation back from S. Korea
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The north side's delegation came back here today after attending the first round of the meeting of the law-making panel for north-south economic cooperation in Seoul.
It was met at the airport by Pak Chang Ryon, first vice-chairman of the State Planning Commission and the north side's chairman of the North-South Committee for the Promotion of Economic Cooperation, Jong Un Op, chairman of the National Economic Cooperation Federation, and other officials concerned.
Paek Nam Sun meets Cambodian guests
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Foreign Minister of the DPRK, met with Hor Nam Hong, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Cambodia, and his party who paid courtesy call on him on Dec. 14.
Present there were officials concerned and the Cambodian Ambassador to the DPRK.
IAEA urged to remove monitoring cameras
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The IAEA is requested to take necessary measures to remove the seals and monitoring cameras from all of our nuclear facilities at the earliest possible date, said Ri Je Son, director general of the General Department of Atomic Energy of the DPRK, in letters dated Dec. 12 and 14 sent to Mohamed Elbaradei, director general of the IAEA.
Informing the IAEA of the DPRK Government's decision to lift the freeze on its nuclear facilities as a countermeasure against the U.S. stop of the HFO supply, he said:
The U.S.has completely broken the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework by giving up unilaterally its HFO supply obligation after systematically violating the agreed framework.
The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has decided to take measures to lift the freeze on our nuclear facilities which has been in effect on the premise of the 500,000 mt of HFO supply per annum under the agreed framework and to normalize the operation of facilities necessary for power generation.
This decision of our government is a just countermeasure to cope with the complete collapse of the agreed items which are interrelated with each other by simultaneous action under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
The freeze on our nuclear facilities is not pursuant to any agreement or safeguards accord with the IAEA but to the DPRK-U.S Agreed Framework.
Furthermore our unfreezing nuclear facilities is far beyond the scope of activities of the IAEA and a serious extraordinary step to defend national sovereignty and right to existence from the threat of the U.S.
If the IAEA fails to expeditiously take measures to meet our request, we will take necessary measures unilaterally.
For Spanish-speaking people
congresos de pioneros juveniles de bellos rasgos de epoca
pyongyang, 14 de diciembre (atcc) -- tuvieron lugar en todas las provincias de corea los congresos de los pioneros juveniles de bellos rasgos de la epoca de priorizacion militar.
en los actos se refirieron a los hermosos y nobles rasgos espirituales y morales de los jovenes de la epoca de priorizacion militar y discutieron las tareas que se presentan para ostentar mas el honor de vanguardias juveniles en la digna lucha por la construccion de potencia prospera.
hoy en dia se registra un gran cambio en los rasgos espirituales y morales de los jovenes coreanos.
los jovenes adoran absolutamente a su lider y a su dirigente, les confian y los siguen con toda seguridad. en particular, enaltecen como eterno sol del juche al presidente kim il sung y apoyan con una sola voluntad la idea y la direccion del dirigente kim jong il.
innumerables jovenes, en pleno acato a la direccion de priorizacion militar del partido, solicitan alistarse en el ejercito, apoyan en lo material y en lo espiritual al ejercito y ayudan con sinceridad a los veteranos de guerra y los exmilitares heridos.
los jovenes, con la consigna g seamos heroes juveniles en la digna lucha por hacer brillar la epoca de kim jong ilh en alto, abren la brecha de avance en la delantera de la lucha por la construccion de potencia prospera.
en los congresos se senalaron que los jovenes deben poner en pleno juego nobles rasgos de la epoca de priorizacion militar para defender y hacer brillar la idea e inmortales proezas revolucionarias del presidente kim il sung y el dirigente kim jong il.
en particular, deben demostrar sin reserva el espiritu de bombas y balas y de suicidarse de explosion para defender a ultranza a la direccion de la revolucion e integrarse activamente a los sectores mas dificiles de la construccion socialista para crear nuevos milagros y meritos.
ee.uu. debe cesar en farsa contra rpdc
pyongyang, 14 de diciembre (atcc) -- el secretariado del comite por la reunificacion pacifica de la patria insistio en que ee.uu. debe dejar de proyectar ahora mismo la 20 parte de la peliculah james bond - 007h que describe como geje del malh la rpdc, incita la confrontacion entre el norte y el sur de corea, desprecia e insulta sin fundamento a la nacion coreana e inclU.S. o ultraja la religion de esta.
la informacion no. 830 del secretariado, publicada el dia 13, senala que desde principios de filmacion la pelicula fue un objeto del unanime repudio por parte de los jovenes estudiantes y otros habitantes de sudcorea.
pero, este film fue cinematografiado y se proyecta abiertamente en ee.uu., lo que es un acto criminal premeditado para burlar e insultar a la nacion coreana, senala la informacion y continua:
el hecho demuestra que ee.uu. es el fautor que instiga la confrontacion entre el norte y el sur en la peninsula coreana, la caU.S. a raigal de todas las desdichas y catastrofes de la nacion coreana, el imperio del mal que viola sin piedad hasta la creencia de los religiosos y la sede que divulga la cultura decadente llena de anormalidad, corrupcion, violencia y pasion sexual.
ee.uu., debe darse clara cuenta de que tal acto provocara solo la resistencia mas grande de nuestra nacion y cesar de inmediato en tal farsa.
aprobada resolucion independiente sobre corea
pyongyang, 14 de diciembre (atcc) -- la xi sesion de la tribuna de los partidos politicos de izquierda en la region de america latina y caribe efectuada en guatemala aprobo una resolucion independiente sobre corea.
el documento expresa el irrestricto apoyo y solidaridad con la lucha del partido del trabajo de corea y el pueblo coreano que han defendido resueltamente el socialismo.
demanda a la administracion bU.S. h que cese ahora mismo en las maniobras de agravar la situacion de la peninsula coreana so pretexto del problema nuclear y retire inmediatamente a sU.S. tropas de sudcorea.