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U.S. blockade scheme against DPRK under fire

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The United States recently brought together riff-raffs to discuss ways of completely blockading the DPRK on the sea and in the air. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary raps at the U.S. moves to blockade the DPRK as an illegal criminal act that has no ground in view of international law.
    Noting that there is neither resolution nor international convention which allows laying an "international encircling ring" around the DPRK, the commentary goes on:
    If international law and regulations on the international relations which constitute lawful principles and standards of international affairs are scrapped by a specific state in the 21st century, the consequences will be serious.
    If international law and regulations are reduced to dead letters of no effect which one may or may not abide by, the international community will be turned into a theatre of rowdysm ruled by the jungle law only and the words of justice and impartiality will disappear from the international scene.
    This is what the U.S. wants.
    The army and the people of the DPRK will never change the way they have chosen, afraid of the U.S. blockade moves.
    The U.S. would be well advised to immediately stop its unlawful blockade operation to isolate and stifle the DPRK. 　　　

Indians call for solidarity with Koreans

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the All-India Forward Bloc issued an appeal to the world progressive political parties and public organizations on July 19 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. The appeal noted that the DPRK government has made every possible effort to improve the relations with the United States, ease the tensions and reunify the country but the Bush administration has escalated its moves for invasion and war, kicking up a nuclear racket.
    The solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula mainly depends on the U.S. true willingness to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the appeal noted, demanding the U.S. drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK, accept the DPRK-proposed bilateral talks, conclude a non-aggression treaty with it and take its nukes and aggressor troops out of South Korea.
    The party called upon all political parties and public organizations in the world to extend invariable support and solidarity to the Korean people in their efforts to guarantee peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia and build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation. 　　　

Belgians meet pro-reunification patriots

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Members of the friendship visiting group of the Belgian Labour Party led by Bossuyt Zozef, member of its central committee, met with former Unconverted Long-term Prisoners, who are indomitable pro-reunification patriotic fighters of Korea, at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel yesterday. Present there were Ri Tu Gyun, Choe Ha Jong and Son Song Mo. They said they could remain true to the faith and constancy as revolutionaries to the last, not yielding to all sorts of torture and appeasement to wrest their ideological conversion in cold prison cells because they cherished absolute worship of the Workers' Party of Korea and President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il and the firm conviction that Korean socialism is sure to triumph.
    Saying that they are the happiest men in the world as they are blessed with the illustrious leaders, they pledged to hold Kim Jong Il in high esteem and devote themselves to the national reunification and the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Members of the visiting group were deeply impressed by the indomitable spirit of the fighters who maintained their revolutionary conviction and constancy to the last. 　　　

Foreign delegations and delegates here

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) --Foreign delegations and delegates arrived here Tuesday to participate in the International Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula and Solidarity Functions to be held on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. They were greeted at the airport by Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who is vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People, and other officials concerned.
    Among the arrivals were president of the International Association of Democratic Laywers Jitendra Sharma: secretary general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization Nouri Abdel Razzak Hussein: President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth Miguel Madeira: President of the Women's International Democratic Federation Marcia De Campos Pereira: honorary chairman of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea Paulette Pierson: deputy general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions Valentin Pacho: representative of the Arab Lawyers Union Hussein Mujalli, chairman of the Jordanian Lawyers Association: a delegation of the Sri Lanka-people's Korea Friendship Association headed by Reggie Ranatunge, honorary chairman of the Asian Regional Committee to Support Korea's Reunification and chairman of the association: a delegation of the New Socialist Party of Japan headed by chairman of its central executive committee Tatsukuni Komori: member of the National Council of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist) and President of the Council for People's Welfare of the Nepalese Royal Government Naresh Man Shakya: vice-chairman of the Asian Regional Committee to Support Korea's Reunification Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Bangladesh and chairman of the Bangladesh Committee for Solidarity with the Korean People: a delegation of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee of Nepal led by its chairman K. P. Sharma Oli, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist): Hans Haubenschild, chairman of the Germany-DPRK Association: Kazuhiko Seino, chairman of the Liaison Council of the Society for the Study of the Juche Idea of Japanese Teachers: Masakazu Yokobori, representative member of the Japan Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea and secretary general of the Japan-Korea Society for Scientific and Educational Interchange: a delegation of the Turkey-Korea Friendship Association led by its vice-chairman Dasar Karadag: a delegation of the joint secretariat of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth Behind the GIS' Massacre led by its deputy secretary general Jong Yu Mi: Tran Trong Giap, representative of the Vietnamese Union of Friendship Organizations: Charles M. Grossman, secretary of the Americans for a New Relationship with Korea: Monica Gail Moorehead, representative of the Workers' World Party of the United States of America: Margaret Marianna Vascassenno, representative of the International Action Centre: a delegation of the U.S. Veterans' Organization for the Peace led by J. Gary Campbell: Lorne Gershuny, representative of the People's Front Organization of Canada: Kristian Robert Carter, representative of the British Friendship Society with Korea: Manik Bahadur Lama, representative of the Kabre Forum for Self-reliance Studies, Nepal: and Lyne Sinyodyium, representative of the France-Korea Friendship Association.
    In the meantime, a delegation of the Mongolian-Korean Friendship Society led by its standing committee member Ch. Dash-Erdene arrived here by train. 　　　

Cuban diplomats visit revolutionary site

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Charge d'affaires ad interim Violeta Goodridge Culzac and officials of the Cuban embassy here visited the Paeksong Revolutionary Site situated in Phyongsong City, South Phyongan Province, on July 22 on the occasion of the 50th Anniversaries of the Korean people's victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War and the Cuban People's July 26 Armed Uprising. The guests laid bouquets before the statue of President Kim Il Sung at the site and paid tribute to him.
    They looked round with keen interest the historical buildings, being briefed on the fact that the President visited Kim Il Sung University located in Paeksong-ri during the war to convince its teachers and students of the victory in the war, open a bright prospect of the postwar rehabilitation and construction and lead them to build the university as a highest seat of learning.
    At the end of the visit the Charge D'affaires said that thanks to the president's foresightedness and great leadership ability the DPRK has the ranks of dependable intellectuals at present. 　　　

Ever-victorious history is immortal

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- If the U.S. imperialists start another Korean War, forgetting the historical lesson, the Korean army and people will sum up their confrontation with the U.S. and glorify the ever-victorious history of the DPRK through all generations, declares Rodong Sinmun today in an article dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. The authors say:
    It is truth taught by the history of the war that a life-and-death fight should be waged against aggressors and any enemy can be defeated when the entire army and people fight, unafraid of death.
    An essential experience of the war is that it is the key to victory to set great store by the gun and increase national might to the maximum, depending on a strong army.
    Noting that the DPRK and the U.S. imperialists are still standing in confrontation, the article stresses:
    The great military might built up by the Songun Policy serves as a precious sword of the DPRK in winning victories in all battles.
    The Korean People's Army is proud of its being a crystal devotedly defending the headquarters, which is overflowing with the spirit of laying down one's life as a human bullet or bomb and the spirit of self-blasting explosion, with revolutionary commanding system and military morale firmly established in the whole army, and its being a strong army of revolutionary comradeship which is closely united by unity between officers and men, superiors and inferiors and military and political combination. Such political and ideological advantages of the army are the core of military power of the DPRK and they are the source of invincible might capable of defeating the U.S. imperialist mercenary army.
    Now the U.S. imperialists are desperately resorting to psychological warfare along with moves of military aggression against the DPRK. But no mean moves of them can break the Single-hearted Unity of the party, army and people around leader Kim Jong Il.
    The Korean army and people are sure to win final victory in their showdown with the U.S. imperialists with the might of invincible military power and single-hearted unity under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, illustrious commander born of Mt. Paektu. 　　　

New homepage opened

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has opened its homepage "Exhibition of Science and Technology" in computer networks of the e-mail office under the Pyongyang Telephone Bureau. The homepage address is http://www.stic.ac.kp. The homepage will provide technicians and scientists with information about up-to-date scientific and technical achievements and new technical products and thus make a great contribution to the efforts for putting the national economy on a modern and it basis.
    It consists of front page, introduction of the exhibition, information service, program service, technical service, technical trade service, technical lecture, etc.
    On the front page, scientific institutions and associated units can introduce their achievements in scientific researches.
    The exhibition introduction page gives its history as a center of scientific and technical dissemination and technical trade service.
    Through the information service page, the users can read other countries' scientific and technical achievements that come through international communication networks. The page also introduces local scientific and technological achievements to other countries.
    Through the program service page, one can be provided with some 1,000 drivers of 30-odd kinds needed in the use of it facilities including the operating system.
    the technical lecture page is divided into various courses such as program, communication networks, energy, biology, chemistry and machinery. 　　　

Koreans vow to defend country with utmost resolution

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Fifty years have passed since the Korean people defeated the U.S. imperialists who were boasting themselves to be "the strongest" in the world. The monument to Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was erected in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to convey the lofty spirit of the heroic soldiers who defended the country at the cost of their lives in the revolutionary war for the freedom and independence of the country.
    According to data available at the monument, 20,594 batches involving 4,731,120 servicemen, working people, youth and students have visited the monument over the past decade since it was unveiled on July 26, 1993.
    All the visitors keenly felt the great vitality of the outstanding military ideas, strategies, tactics and war method of Juche applied by President Kim Il Sung to lead to victory the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War unprecedented in the world history of war.
    They vowed to learn from the heroic stamina and indomitable fighting spirit of the servicemen and people who dedicated their precious youth and lives to the defence of the sovereignty and dignity of the nation and the people's democratic system. They also resolved to defend the country as the first and second generations of the revolution did at the cost of their blood.
    The monument has been visited also by 4,942 groups involving 108,099 foreigners and 2,628 groups involving 16,056 Koreans from other countries in the same period.
    They lauded the Korean servicemen and people for the unrivalled bravery and mass heroism they displayed to repulse the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces' invasion and defend with credit the freedom and independence of the country and the gains of the revolution.
    Head of a Cuban military delegation Alvaro Lopez Miera, head of the delegation of for Peace and Socialist-Communist Workers' Party of Finland Reijo Katayaranta and chairman of the Spanish Association for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People Luis Perez Lara were unanimous in saying that they came to know well about the DPRK, which defeated the U.S. imperialists and won a brilliant victory in the past Korean War under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung. they also said that the immortal monument will hand the heroic feats of the Korean people down through generations. 　　　

National Art Exhibition opens

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- A National Art Exhibition was opened to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. Over 650 art pieces are on display.
    Some of them are ones created by former Unconverted Long-term Prisoners and war veterans.
    Among them are Korean paintings "Americans had mistaken Koreans" and "Saying that Defending Country is Supreme Patriotism", oil painting "To the Embrace of the General", sculpture "Wish of a Bodyguard," which impressively represent the exploits of President Kim Il Sung in leading the war to victory and the greatness of leader Kim Jong Il who is glorifying the dignity of Juche Korea with his original Songun Policy and Kim Jong Suk.
    Korean painting "Brave Soldiers in Wolmi Island", oil paintings "Victors" and "the End of Mercenary Soldiers" and others vividly reflect the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and indomitable fighting spirit displayed by the people's army officers and men in the 1950s and the shameful shape of the imperialist mercenary soldiers.
    Also exhibited are paintings showing the fighting spirit of the Korean People's Army soldiers and people.
    An opening ceremony of the exhibition was held at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia exhibition on July 23.
    Present were Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials concerned.
    Jang Chol, chairman of the central committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, made an opening address. 　　　

KPA Panmunjom mission issues memorandum

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army issued a long memorandum today on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement (AA). Citing facts, the memorandum indicts the United States for violating all key articles of the AA which stipulates the prevention of the outbreak of another war in Korea and a peaceful solution to the Korean issue and exposing the Korean Peninsula to a nuclear threat and a constant danger of war. Paragraph 60 of the AA stipulates that "in order to insure the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, the military commanders of both sides hereby recommend to the governments of the countries concerned on both sides that, within three months after the armistice agreement is signed and becomes effective, a political conference of a higher level of both sides be held by representatives appointed respectively to settle through negotiation the questions of the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, etc." But the U.S. left no means untried to prevent the political conference from being held, the memorandum says, and continues:
    The U.S. concluded the "mutual defense pact" with South Korea on August 8, 1953 in a bid to legalize the U.S. forces' presence in South Korea, openly challenging paragraph 60 of the AA which envisages withdrawing all foreign forces.
    In only nine months after the ceasefire the U.S. illegally introduced 177 combat planes, 465 artillery pieces of various calibers, 6,400 rockets, 1,365 machine guns and millions of various artillery shells and bullets into South Korea in violation of sub-paragraph 13 d of the AA which stipulates that "the commanders of the opposing sides shall cease the introduction into Korea of reinforcing combat aircraft, armored vehicles, weapons, and ammunitions."
    When this was detected by the neutral nations inspection teams the U.S. let guard, senior member of the U.S. forces side, declare at the 70th meeting of the military armistice commission held on May 31, 1956 that the allied forces were notifying the stoppage of the implementation of the part related to them in the AA article which stipulates duties to be performed by the neutral nations supervisory commission and the neutral nations inspection teams in areas under the control of the allied forces side. Later, it deported all members of the inspection teams who were active at five ports of south Korea at the same time.
    Before scrapping sub-paragraph 13 d of the AA the then U.S. State Secretary Dulles, Defense Secretary Wilson, the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff and other officials in top echelon of the U.S. administration openly stated that the scrapping of the sub-paragraph was inevitable.
    At the 75th meeting of the military armistice commission on June 21, 1957, the U.S. officially declared that it was giving up implementing sub-paragraph 13 d of the AA, letting loose the ridiculous jargon that it could not but introduce new types of weapons as it did not produce old types, so as to keep the "relative balance of military forces."
    On the same day the U.S. Defense Department officially declared the U.S. government decision to introduce new types of weapons into South Korea.
    In the wake of this unilateral scrapping of the sub-paragraph the U.S. moved the "UN command" to Seoul from Tokyo in July 1957 and massively introduced new types of weapons into South Korea, stepping up war preparations in real earnest and in full scale.
    The government of the DPRK issued a statement on June 26, 1957 in which it proposed convening an international conference involving countries concerned in order to pull back all foreign forces from Korea, ensure a lasting peace and promote the peaceful settlement of the Korean question. On February 5, 1958 it made public another statement proposing a simultaneous withdrawal of all foreign forces including the U.S. forces and the Chinese People's Volunteers from Korea.
    Out of the desire to pave the way for a peaceful settlement of the Korean issue, the Korean-Chinese side took initiative by declaring the unilateral withdrawal of the Chinese People's Volunteers from Korea. The withdrawal was completed by October 26, 1958. Nearly 45 years have passed since then but the U.S. still keeps its forces in South Korea.
    The U.S. dismantled the neutral nations inspection teams belonging to the neutral nations supervisory commission and the joint inspection team belonging to the military armistice commission, considering them to be stumbling blocks in the way of its preparations for a new Korean War. It has since worked hard for a long time to disorganize the commissions, the only remaining bodies for supervising the implementation of the armistice agreement.
    On March 25, 1991 the U.S. appointed a general of the South Korean army who had neither qualification nor mandate to handle the AA-related issues the senior member of the U.S. side to the Military Armistice Commission. This was an open mockery of the commission intended to wreck it.
    As the Military Armistice Commission was put out of existence, the neutral nations supervisory commission automatically disintegrated as it lost the object to work with.
    Now in Panmunjom there no longer exist the military armistice commission and the neutral nations supervisory commission that were to supervise the implementation of the AA. As a result, provisions of the AA related to the military armistice commission I.E. from paragraph 19 to 35 of article 2 and provisions related to the neutral nations supervisory commission id est from paragraph 36 to 50 of the article were all reduced to dead letters. The AA is now in danger of being totally scrapped due to the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK.
    The U.S. is planning to arm the U.S. troops in South Korea with ultra-modern military hardware to be introduced there at the cost of 11 billion U.S. dollars after working out a new "arms buildup plan." It is also instigating Japan and other satellites to naval and aerial blockades against the DPRK.
    The arms buildup and blockade moves are, needless to say, acts of scrapping the AA and war actions. notably, "Operation Plan 5030", a new war scenario worked out by the U.S. Defense Department, goes to clearly prove what a dangerous phase the U.S. has reached in its military moves as it was worked out in total defiance of the present AA.
    The U.S. unilaterally recoiled from implementing the sub-paragraph 13 d of the AA long ago and has turned South Korea into the biggest nuclear arsenal in the Far East by introducing huge nuclear weapons into it and is now openly calling for a preemptive nuclear attack. Under this situation it is indisputably clear that a war in Korea would be a merciless one in which the U.S. preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK would meet with the latter's retaliation.
    The DPRK is ready for any war of showdown.

Meeting of youth and students held

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- A meeting of youth and students here took place at Jonsung Square today to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. At the meeting Kim Kyong ho, first secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, made a report which was followed by speeches.
    The reporter and speakers said that the brilliant victory achieved by the army and people of Korea in confrontation with the U.S. in the 1950s under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung was a significant event in the national history as they defended the sovereignty of the DPRK and fully demonstrated the dignity of the nation and an event of the world historic significance as they opened a new era of an anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle and brought about a beginning of a downhill turn for the U.S. imperialists.
    The President created a unique military strategy and Juche-oriented war methods to beat back the U.S. imperialists, who were superior in numerical strength and in military technique, with political, ideological, strategic and tactical edges, thus inflicting a bitter defeat upon the enemy who had boasted of being the "strongest" in the world, they noted, adding:
    The 50 years since the firework was displayed on the day of victory represent a history of victory when the Korean people have emerged ever-victorious in the showdown with the U.S. imperialists and a proud history in which they have built up tremendous strength to win a final victory in the decisive battle against the U.S.
    They called for glorifying the tradition of emerging victors in the wars under the great banner of Songun and turning out as one in the decisive battle to defeat the U.S. imperialist aggressors, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, and achieve a final victory in it.
    Present there were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials of the league. 　　　

Egyptian ambassador hosts reception

Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Ahmed Ramy, Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK, on July 23 gave a reception on the occasion of the 51st Anniversary of the Victory in the July 23 Revolution, the National Holiday of the Egyptian people. Present there on invitation were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Pak Kyong Son, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Jong Chang Ryol, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Choe Su Il, director of the general bureau of Diplomatic Corps Affairs, and other officials concerned.
Speeches were made at the reception

WPC executive secretary arrives

Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Athanasios Pafilis, executive secretary of the World Peace Council, arrived here today to participate in the International Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula and Solidarity Functions to be held on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War.

Keynote report at international conference

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the central committee of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, made a keynote report at the plenary meeting of the International Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula held here today. Recalling the fact that the Korean Peninsula had been an object of big powers' continuous scrambles in history as it is situated in a strategically important region, the reporter said that the U.S. mobilized in the Korean War more than 2 million-strong armed forces including the three services and mercenary soldiers from 15 countries and weapons of mass destruction banned by international law in a bid to realize its strategy to dominate the world after the Second World War, but suffered a bitter defeat in the war.
    Though the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, it has been systematically violated and destroyed due to the U.S. policy of undisguised military threat and blackmail against the DPRK, he said, and went on:
    It is, in fact, thanks to the self-reliant national defence power of the DPRK that war has been deterred and peace guaranteed in the Korean Peninsula for over half a century.
    The sharp political and military confrontation is reaching its height in the Korean Peninsula. the U.S., ignoring the legal status of the DPRK which fairly withdrew from the NPT, is seeking to bring the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue before international meetings and the UN Security Council and make “violations” of international law a pretext to justify its moves to provoke a new Korean War.
    The situation requires all the peace-loving countries, all nations, organizations and people to turn out in the international solidarity movement to remove the danger of war from the Korean Peninsula in support of the just struggle of the Korean people for sovereignty and right to existence.
    The reporter raised the following matters:
    First of all, the U.S. criminal plot which has brought about the nuclear crisis in the Korean Peninsula again should be exposed to the international community.
    Next, it is necessary to wage an international movement to support the armed forces of justice for defending peace, while upholding the slogan of peace to ensure it in the Korean Peninsula.
    I hold that it is necessary to inform the world that his excellency Kim Jong Il's Songun Policy, justness of which has been already proved in practice, is a powerful political mode to check the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices, which are apprehended by the international community, and help the small countries defend their dignity and sovereignty.
    Next, various forms of struggle should be waged to denounce the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and the crimes it committed during the Korean War.
    If the U.S. really wants the peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula and the improvement of the DPRK-U.S. relations, it should apologize for all the crimes in Korea, punish those responsible, compensate to the victim side and take concrete measures for preventing the recurrence of the crimes.
    In order to correct the distorted history and defend justice, truth and human conscience, I propose to establish an international court in the framework of the current meeting which will historically and fully lay bare the atrocities the U.S. committed during the Korean War and its hostile policy toward the DPRK and call it to account.
    Last, I propose to conduct the movement for supporting the just cause of the Korean people in close combination with the struggle to restore the fair order of international relations and justice.
    It is the present situation prevailing in this region that all the actions against the DPRK are fraught with the danger of bringing about a clash in the Korean Peninsula and any clash may turn into a nuclear war.
    The international community should pay its attention to the fact that the U.S. is bringing charges of “violation of international law” and “object of international concern” against those countries situated in important regions to justify its war policy, while defiling the genuine value of international law and international relations. 　　　

International conference opens

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The international Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula was opened here today. The conference will discuss the issues arising in fundamentally removing the dangerous war crisis in the Korean Peninsula caused by the U.S. imperialists' war provocation moves to stifle the DPRK by force.
    Jitendra Sharma, president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, made an opening address at the conference.
    Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, made a congratulatory speech.
    Then was followed a plenary meeting on peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
    A keynote report was delivered by Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the central committee of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, and a supplementary report by Mun Jae Chol, chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People.
    The conference heard speeches.
    The conference continues.

Koreans in U.S. say no to traitor's projected U.S. visit

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Eastern Regional Federation of Koreans in the United States issued a statement on July 15 condemning traitor Hwang Jang Yop's projected U.S. trip. It said:
    It is the essential necessity of history and the undeniable demand of the times for our nation to pool its efforts and head for reconciliation, cooperation, unity, peace, reunification and prosperity. It is an immutable philosophical principle that those challenging this necessity of history and the need of the times are only fated to meet a miserable end.
    Hwang Jang Yop defected to the south in a hurry when his abuse of authority, embezzlement of public fund and trips for illicit intimate relationship were brought to light. These days he had the face to appear in different places to commit more acts of treachery.
    He showed himself at a “meeting with family members of kidnapped Japanese” on June 25 and a “seminar on the issue of defectors from the north and human rights issue in North Korea” on July 4. On every occasion he let loose a string of vituperation against the DPRK that brought him up. He went to the lengths of begging the authorities to allow him to visit the United States and Japan, so that he might work for propaganda against the north, peace and reunification.
    As for June 25 it was a “historic day” for him as he left the country whose sky was clouded with gun smoke to study in a far-off foreign country during the war, the hardest period for the nation.
    He received the most profound loving care in the most difficult period of the country. Yet, he plunged himself into an abyss of the greatest infamy during its hardest days. He is the most depraved and dirtiest guy ever known.
    July 4 was the “historic day” when the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--was declared before all the fellow countrymen.
    He left no stone unturned to commit such acts of treachery as toeing outsiders' line, praising the policy of war and fostering division at a time when all the fellow countrymen are joining hands with each other and renewing their firm resolution to bring earlier the reunification of the country through national cooperation. He, therefore, is an arch traitor and a chief criminal.
    All the fellow countrymen are, therefore, pointing accusing fingers at him with resentment. And the whole world ridicules him. The compatriots in the U.S. and Japan are resolved not to let him go back alive if he appears there.
    No one would welcome his U.S. visit.
    The federation as well as its members and fair-minded compatriots from all walks of life voice strong opposition to his trip to the U.S.
    The anti-reunification forces in the south including the Grand National Party should stop at once the most ridiculous farce intended to use Hwang, the most wretched man in the world, in stemming the strong trend towards national cooperation.
    We are closely watching how the South Korean authorities and the U.S. government will approach and handle the issue of his U.S. visit.
    The South Korean authorities must not allow him to visit the U.S. because how to handle this issue is a touchstone showing the stand and attitude of the South Korean authorities toward the June 15 Joint Declaration.
    Not content with slinging mud at the north, he went to the lengths of blustering that the north's regime should be toppled.
    The South Korean authorities will be condemned by all the fellow countrymen for behaving like an ostrich with its head on the sand if they allow him to visit the U.S. considering the issue as a technical issue related to an individual's tour raised at the lowest administrative unit.
    The U.S. government, too, should not permit his America visit.
    The issue of his visit is just like a question mark against the U.S. willingness to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the north.
    If the U.S. government equates the issue of his visit with an issue related to the safety of a traveller and invites him to visit the U.S. to use him for a propaganda favorable for carrying out its hostile policy toward the north, a burlesque for moves for a war against the north, it will touch off resentment of the north and bitterer anti-American sentiment of all the Koreans in the north, the south and abroad.
    It is our hope that the U.S. government will not commit such a mistake as inviting Hwang to the U.S. to bedevil the DPRK-U.S. relations.
    Those good-for-nothing guys are no better than a mass of excrement afloat on the rapidly flowing river. However hard they wag their tongues, national cooperation will be grow stronger day by day, the country will be reunified without fail and the Korean nation will prosper forever.

Pyongyang international conference opens

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The International Conference for Peace on the Korean Peninsula was opened here Wednesday with splendour amid the great expectation and concern of the peace-loving progressives of the world on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. It is a grand international gathering convened in response to an appeal released at a joint meeting of international democratic organizations and Asian regional organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in February.
    Under the dangerous situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula where a war may break out any moment owing to the moves of the U.S. imperialists to provoke a war to stifle the DPRK by force the conference will discuss issues arising in eradicating the root cause of this danger.
    Present there were president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers Jitendra Sharma, secretary general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization Nouri Abdel Razzak Hussein, president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth Miguel Madeira, president of the Women's International Democratic Federation Marcia de Campos Pereira, honorary chairman of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea Paulette Pierson, and other delegations and delegates, foreign diplomats and correspondents here.
    Also present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who is chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People, a delegation of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People, a delegation of the Korean Democratic Lawyers Association, a delegation of the Korean National Peace Committee, a delegation of the Korean Afro-Asia Solidarity Committee and other officials concerned.
    At the conference Jitendra Sharma made an opening speech.
    He expressed the belief that the conference would contribute to building up international public opinion demanding the defusing of the tensions and the guarantee of peace on the Korean Peninsula and give strong support and encouragement to the Korean people in their heroic struggle to meet the blatant challenge and pressure of the outside forces and champion peace.
    Yang Hyong Sop in his congratulatory speech wished the conference success, expressing the belief that the conference would provide an important occasion of building up international public opinion denouncing the U.S. for imposing unspeakable pain and misfortune upon the Korean nation and demanding peace on the Korean Peninsula.
    A plenary meeting for peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula was held.
    Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the central committee of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, made a keynote report.
    Mun Jae Chol, chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People, in a supplementary report said it is the invariable stand of the DPRK that dialogue and pressure can not go together and the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula should be settled in a reasonable way in view of the circumstances of its emergence and the responsibility for spawning it.
    If the U.S. infringes upon the sovereignty and security of the DPRK even a bit, the DPRK will wipe out the aggressors and provocateurs on this land to the last man and usher in a new era in which the Korean nation would always be able to live in peace free from any interference of outside forces, he warned.
    Speeches were made by the chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee of Nepal, the president of the Korean Friendship Association in Spain and the Arab Regional Representative for investigation into the Truth behind GIS' Atrocities.
    They accused the U.S. of perpetrating unilateral practices, interference and arbitrary practices in a bid to dominate the world in disregard of the UN charter and international law and imposing the pain of division upon the Korean nation and working hard to bring the scourge of war to it.
    The chairman of the Sri Lanka-people's Korea Friendship Association, the vice-chairman of the Turkey-Korea Friendship Association, the deputy general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, a member of the delegation of the U.S. Veterans' Organization for the Peace and the Representative of the International Action Centre in their speeches said that the key to the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. lies in the U.S. response to the bilateral talks with the DPRK with the will to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, and urged the U.S. to respond to the DPRK-U.S. talks, well aware of the nature and peculiarities of the nuclear issue and the reality.
    The chairman of the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru, the president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth and the representative of the British Friendship Society with Korea in their speeches said that leader Kim Jong Il's Songun Policy serves as a practical factor of guaranteeing peace on the Korean Peninsula.
    The vice-chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK said the reality clearly shows that the implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the reunification of Korea are hardly possible unless the U.S. troops quit South Korea and the U.S. gives up its wild ambition to dominate the whole of Korea, noting that the U.S. chiefly responsible for the division of Korea should not hamstring the implementation of the joint declaration any longer.
    Prior to the opening, the participants looked round the photos showing the history of aggression committed by the U.S. imperialists against the Korean people and saw a Korean documentary film “Answer of Korea” at Yanggakdo International Hotel.
    The conference continues.

Day of Victory in War celebrated abroad

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A meeting, photo exhibition and film show took place in Austria, Uganda and Peru on July 11 and 14 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Korean People's Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. On display at the photo exhibition were photographs showing the DPRK's victory in the war and its successes in socialist construction.
    The secretary for Steiermark state of the left-wing group of the Trade Unions of Austrian Federation said in a speech at a meeting that under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung the Korean people won a victory in the fight against the gangster-like U.S. imperialists and are celebrating the day the armistice agreement was concluded as a day of victory in the war.
    Noting that though half a century has passed since then, Korea still remains divided as the U.S. keeps its troops in South Korea and persistently obstructs the reunification of Korea, he hoped that the Korean people would emerge victorious in the confrontation with the U.S. imperialists, true to the Songun Policy of leader Kim Jong Il.
    The chief of the group for the Study of the Juche Idea of comrade Kim Il Sung at Old Kampala Higher Middle School of Uganda, addressing the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition, said that the Korean people have won one victory after another in the constant confrontation with the United States after the war. Kim Jong Il set out the Songun Policy, the first of its kind in the world history of politics, and has trained the Korean People's Army into an invincible army, turning the DPRK into a powerful and dignified country which no aggressors dare attack, he added.
    The chairman of the Peruvian-Korean Institute of Culture and Friendship, after seeing Korean films “Panmunjom” and “Korea has risen from the ruins”, said that the U.S., which was defeated in the Korean War 50 years ago, dares not provoke the Korean people today and it is beyond doubt that the Korean people would emerge victorious in the confrontation with the U.S. in the future, too.
    A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting in Austria.

Kim Jong Il's works published in over 60 countries

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's works were published, disseminated and studied in more than 60 countries in the first half of this year alone. His works including “The Juche Philosophy is an Original Revolutionary Philosophy”, “Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification” and “Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation” were brought out and disseminated in over 20 countries such as Cuba, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Democratic Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Jamaica and Yemen.
    His works were published in national languages by influential publishing houses in many countries including Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Peru, Iran, Austria, Nigeria and Venezuela.
    A collection of his works containing “On Having a Correct Viewpoint and Understanding of the Juche Philosophy” and “Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish” was released by the Communist Party of Germany.
    Meanwhile, his works were reported in full or summary by media of different countries including papers of Syria, Cambodia, Romania, India and Libya, Jamahiriya News Agency (JANA) and Radio and TV of Libya and News Service and Radio of Guinea.
    A seminar on his works “Socialism is a Science” and “Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable” was held in Bulgaria with scholars and public figures participating and joint seminars on his works were held by political parties, social organizations and groups for the Study of the Juche Idea in Nepal, Tajikistan, Nigeria and Democratic Congo. Those 60 odd countries also include the Congo, Egypt, Guinea, Syria, Uganda, India and Tanzania.

New flowerpot and plant variety

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Institute of the Central Botanical Garden of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has developed a new flowerpot for cultivating Kimilsungia. The flowerpot is made of clay and bubble resin. It is lighter than other kinds of flowerpots made of sphagnum and clay.
    Keeping sufficient water inside, it ensures humidity suitable for the growth of flower roots.
    It can be used for about 15 years.
    The institute has succeeded in making one-year-old Kimilsungia ramify several branches each of which opens two or three flowers. Originally, it had used to bloom on only one branch three or four years after its plantation.
    The institute has also bred a new variety of walnut tree. The small tree bears fruits within 3 or 4 years after its plantation.
    Two or three tons of walnuts are gathered from a hectare.
    Besides, the institute has completed a scientific method for habituating fruit-bearing trees including Elaeagnus Multiflora var. Hortensis sent by other countries to the climatic conditions of Korea. 　　　

Greetings to Egyptian President

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, on July 22 on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the July 23 Revolution, the National Holiday of its people. The message sincerely wished the President and people of Egypt great success in their work for the progress and prosperity of the country and a fair and lasting solution to the Mideast issue and expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms.

U.S. indicted by Pyongyang int'l tribunal

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang International Tribunal was opened today under the sponsorship of the Democratic International Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People to indict the U.S. for its crimes against Korea. The Joint International Prosecution Team of the “Pyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. Crimes in Korea,” authorized by the Democratic International Organizations, progressive anti-war peace organizations, justice-loving individual figures and lawyers, brings this indictment against the following persons, in their official and individual capacities, for the crimes committed on the Korean Peninsula by the U.S. administration, the U.S. military and other persons under their command (hereinafter referred to as the U.S.), the indictment says, and continues:
    The accused are all presidents of the United States, from the Truman administration to the present Bush administration: all secretaries of state, all secretaries of defense: all chairpersons of the joint chiefs of staff: all secretaries of the army, navy and air force, all directors of the central intelligence agency: all staff members of the National Security Council: all national security advisers to U.S. presidents: all commanders of the U.S. forces in South Korea: all those who planned, prepared, organized, ordered and executed the criminal acts included in the indictment, and their accomplices: and all those who were involved in mass killings of the Korean people.
    The basic charters, fundamental laws and conventions violated by the accused are as follows:
    The U.S. invasion of Korea violated the un charter, namely, chapter 1 on the maintenance of peace and security, chapter 5 on the procedures of the un security council, chapter 6 on the pacific settlement of disputes and chapter 7 on the actions with respect to threat to peace, breaches of peace and acts of aggression.
    The U.S. occupied South Korea and obstructed its democratic development in violation of the Cairo and Potsdam Declarations on post-war settlement.
    The U.S. provoked the Korean War and has made persistent attempts to ignite another war. These acts of aggression are in violation of the treaty on the renunciation of war, the treaty on the definition of aggression and the UNGA resolution 3314 (xx1x) on the definition of aggression and acts of aggression.
    The U.S. committed crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity on the Korean Peninsula in violation of the charters of the international military tribunal of Nuremberg and the Far East military tribunal, regulations of the Nuremberg tribunal and the principles of international law recognized at the trial and the code of laws on crimes against peace and security of mankind.
    The U.S. violated the Hague convention respecting the laws and customs of war on land, which forbids the use of poison and poisoned weapons, and the Geneva protocol prohibiting the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous and other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare.
    The U.S. violated the provisions of different conventions and protocols, including the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 on the protection of civilians in time of war and the same convention on the treatment of prisoners of war.
    The U.S. violated the universal declaration of human rights, the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, the convention on the abolition of racial discrimination in all forms, the international covenant on civil and political rights, the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, the convention on non-applicability of the statute of limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crimes of apartheid.
    The U.S. violated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the international convention on prevention and punishment of terrorism, the agreement on the partial limitation of drug production, the Geneva Convention on the prevention of drug production and trafficking, and other conventions and un resolutions which ban the drug trafficking and use.
    The U.S. violated the internationally recognized customary laws and rules governing the use of force.
    The U.S. undermined the Korean Armistice Agreement, the DPRK-U.S.A. Joint Statement and the DPRK-U.S.A. Agreed Framework. The U.S. invalidated the joint declaration on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and obstructed the implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    The U.S. violated the domestic laws of the DPRK, the People's Republic of China, Japan, the United States of America and other countries concerned in the course of pursuing its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    The indictment cited detailed facts to prove that the crimes were committed in violation of the above-said laws and regulations.
    All the crimes committed by the U.S. in Korea in the past were unprecedented ones in light of their scope and brutality.
    Seeing that the accused can never flee from their responsibility for bringing all sorts of misfortunes and pains to the Korean people after dividing Korea, the joint prosecution team urged the international joint justice team to rule that the U.S. must take all forms of responsibility indicated in international laws--political, moral, penal and material--and pass a judgment on it. 　　　

International tribunal opens

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. crimes in Korea was held on July 24 under the co-sponsorship of International Democratic Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People. The tribunal will give a relevant decision upon the U.S. after prosecuting it for all kinds of crimes including the most barbarous aggression, plunder, massacre and destruction in human history it has ceaselessly committed in the Korean Peninsula, bringing the Korean people indescribable misfortune and pain for over a century.
    Delegations and delegates participating in the International Conference first formed the international joint justice team and the international joint prosecution team to operate the Pyongyang International Tribunal.
    They chose Jitendra Sharma, president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, as presiding judge and Athanasios Pafilis, executive secretary of the World Peace Council, Miguel Madeira, president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Marcia De Campos Pereira, president of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Paulette Pierson, honorary chairman of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea, Valentin Pacho, deputy general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, as judges. The international joint justice team has 25 other members.
    The international joint prosecution team has Beth S. Lyons, representative of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers at the U.N. as chief prosecutor and George Katsiaficas, president of Peaceisland Foundation of the United States of America, Lorne Gershuny, representative of the People's Front Organization of Canada, Im Wan Sik, vice-chairman of the Korean Democratic Lawyers' Association, Alejandro Cao De Benos, chairman of the Spain Association for the Friendship with Korea, Aleksandr Brezhnev, member of the east European Regional Group for Probing the Truth behind GIS' Atrocities, as prosecutors.
    Beth S. Lyons, George Katsiaficas, Lorne Gershuny and Im Wan Sik on behalf of the prosecution team presented an indictment against the U.S. crimes in Korea.
    In the indictment they bitterly denounced the U.S. crimes as a gross violation of international law and the un charter, its embodiment.
    The trial continues. 　　　

Senior officials visit War Museum

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials, chairmen of friendly parties, members of the cabinet and leading officials of ministries and national institutions today visited the victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. They looked round various halls of the museum showing the immortal feats of President Kim Il Sung and the unrivalled bravery and mass heroism of servicemen and people displayed in implementing his orders.
    Looking round the car, operation maps and binoculars he used for his visit with servicemen in the forefront including Seoul, Suanbo, Height 1211 and for his on-site guidance to factories and rural villages in the period of the Fatherland Liberation War, they admired him for his devoted efforts for the victory in the war.
    They impressively looked round the materials showing the high spirit of proud sons and daughters of the country who devoted their youth and lives to the revolutionary war of justice for defending the dignity and sovereignty of Kim Il Sung's Korea.

Foreign diplomats lay floral basket

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Officials in charge of cultural and friendly relations of foreign embassies here today laid a floral basket before the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. After laying the floral basket, they paid in boundless reverence tribute to him who devoted his all to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people and to the global independence.
Written on the ribbon of the floral basket were letters “H.E. the great President Kim Il Sung will be immortal”. 　　　

July 26 Armed Uprising observed

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A meeting and photo exhibition took place here today on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the July 26 Armed Uprising of the Cuban people. Present on invitation were Violeta Goodridge Culzac, Charge d'affaires ad interim of the Cuban embassy here, and embassy officials.
    Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials concerned and working people in the city were on hand.
    Speeches were made at the meeting.
    Prior to the meeting, the participants looked round the photos on display.

National seminar on Kim Il Sung's exploits

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A national seminar on the immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in leading the Great Fatherland Liberation War to victory was held at the People's Palace of Culture on July 24 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the War. Present were secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Choe Thae Bok and Jong Ha Chol, minister of Education Kim Yong Jin, President of the Academy of Social Sciences Thae Hyong Chol, leading officials of national institutions, Pyongyang and local party and power organs and working people's organizations and men of science, education, culture and art, the press, revolutionary sites management and party cadres training centres explaining the immortal exploits of the president, speakers said that he, taking upon himself the heavy burden of the war, roused the whole party, the entire army and all the people to the heroic resistance and thus firmly guaranteed the victory of the war.
    The speakers went on:
    The brilliant victory in the war is of historic significance in shattering to smithereens the myth of U.S. imperialism's “mightiness” for the first time in history and giving the conviction of certain victory that even a small country can surely defeat the imperialists when it fights against them with arms in a do-or-die spirit in reliance on its own strength.
    The President started the U.S. imperialists on the downhill for the first time in history and led the anti-U.S. struggle to victory for scores of years. His immortal history of the anti-U.S. struggle is being successfully carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il.
    The speakers proved that Kim Jong Il is frustrating the moves of the U.S. imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK with his invincible Songun Policy and leading the anti-U.S. military and political confrontation. 　　　

Hwang's projected U.S. visit rejected

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Western Regional Federation of Koreans in the United States issued a statement on July 18 as regards the U.S. visit of Hwang Jang Yop slated for September, the traitor who defected to South Korea six years ago. It said: Hwang, former secretary of the Workers' Party of North Korea, has been known to do writing under the protection of the intelligence service of South Korea after he fled to the south six years ago.
    It has been known recently that the Roh Moo Hyun regime is likely to permit Hwang's visit to the U.S. when he wants it in a bid to terminate the uncomfortable relations with U.S conservatives, reading their faces as they persistently insisted on realizing his visit.
    Hwang is known to visit the U.S. in September at the invitation of the U.S. defense forum foundation, a typical conservatives' body of the U.S., supported by U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
    One may think that we need not care about his activities in the south and his visit to the U.S. and Japan, considering it as a matter related to an individual's freedom.
    The Korean Peninsula is in such a crisis that a nuclear war may break out owing to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. if Hwang is allowed to visit the U.S. to make a testimony at congress and give anti-north lectures in different places against this backdrop, this will be little short of inciting the Second Korean War.
    The united states is now making careful war preparations after working out the war plan 5030 intended to mount a military attack on north Korea next to Iraq.
    It is busy inventing various pretexts to attack North Korea and building up public opinion critical of it.
    Hwang is well aware of this. We the compatriots in the U.S. cannot sit idle and see Hwang to come to the U.S. and play into the hands of the U.S. conservative group keen to start the Second Korean War.
    When the June 25 war broke out, Hwang could escape it and study philosophy at Moscow University under the warm care of the country.
    He was greatly indebted to the country. He might not know how horrible the war was as he just read books in Moscow after escaping disasters of the Korean War.
    As this wicked intellectual betrayed the benevolent country, his projected visit to the U.S. may be prompted by his desire to flee to America in quest of his comfort if an another war breaks out in Korea.
    We believe that theories on change including Marxism-Leninism and the Juche idea he claimed to have studied should be acquired in the practice of specific social changes.
    While reading his books, we found that his theories are nothing but rubbish that cannot be applied to specific social changes as they are for the sake of theories. That was why we threw them into waste baskets.
    We know that Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, advised him several times not to write such nonsensical articles as they are of no help to any social change.
    The Juche idea is a guiding idea founded at the cost of blood in the course of the National Liberation Struggle such as the anti-Japanese war and the anti-U.S. war, not a theory faked up by such dirty intellectuals as Hwang who studied at a university library of a foreign country in peace after escaping the war.
    All the members of the federation would like to state that the tongue-wagging of such dirty scum as Hwang in the south, the U.S., Japan and other countries would prove futile before the DPRK as it is putting forward the People's Army as the main force and engine for change and has attained the singlehearted unity of the headquarters of change, the party, the army and the people as socio-political organism under the Songun leadership.
    We are very disappointed at the behaviour of the Roh Moo Hyun regime allowing Hwang's visit to the U.S. while reading the face of the U.S. conservative forces and the conservatives of the south and the U.S. egging him on to the U.S. visit.
    We are opposed to his America visit and will closely follow him wherever he goes in the U.S.
    Now that the danger of the war is escalating on the Korean Peninsula owing to the nuclear issue, all the members of the federation strongly call for an immediate cancellation of his U.S. visit, considering that his visit will not help settle the issue at all but complicate it. 　　　

U.S. escalated moves to increase tensions will lead to its self-destruction

    Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today issued a statement to the press 50 years after the conclusion of the Korean Armistice Agreement. The statement says:
    50 years have passed since the conclusion of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
    But durable peace has not yet settled on the Korean Peninsula in the 21st century, but the danger of a nuclear war is increasing on the peninsula. This is entirely attributable to the U.S. military presence in South Korea and its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    Over the last 50 years the U.S. has systematically violated and ditched the AA, rendering the situation on the peninsula strained.
    It deliberately led to breakdown the Geneva Conference on a peaceful settlement of the Korean issue convened under the AA. And it has massively shipped into South Korea modern combat equipment including nuclear weapons in violation of the AA, ceaselessly stepping up the preparations for another Korean War.
    It is nearly three decades since the 30th un general assembly session adopted a resolution on the pullback of all foreign troops from South Korea. but, the U.S. has since then kept its military presence in South Korea and posed constant threat to the DPRK through dangerous war gambles such as “Team Spirit” and “Foal Eagle.”
    After the emergence of the Bush administration the hostile policy pursued by the U.S. to stifle the DPRK reached an extremely dangerous stage. As a consequence, a touch-and-go situation is prevailing in the Korean Peninsula.
    The present U.S. administration announced an “arms buildup plan” to equip the U.S. forces in South Korea with weapons of the latest type. It is now working hard to put “sea and air blockade” against the DPRK into practice and loudly talking about provocative “Operation Plan 5030.”
    That is a blatant violation of the AA and a war action to invade the DPRK.
    The U.S. seeks a sinister political purpose in working hard to bring the situation to the brink of war at any cost in defiance of the unanimous demands of the DPRK government and the international community for a peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
    It is trying to complicate the nuclear issue that should be settled through the talks between the DPRK and the U.S. and increase South Korea's dependence on its security umbrella in a bid to put down the ubiquitous anti-Americanism in South Korea and demands for U.S. military pullback.
    The present U.S. administration is at pains to internationalise the nuclear issue that should find a fundamental solution through the direct negotiations between the DPRK and the U.S. in an effort to block any improvement in the inter-Korean and DPRK-Japan relations, sell more weapons to South Korea and gain support from the U.S. military complexes and thus get favorable returns in the elections to be held next year.
    The aforesaid hostile acts of the U.S. compel the DPRK to build up a strong war deterrent force.
    We know well that the U.S., which is ditching one provision of the AA after another, intends to use any ultra-modern weapons on the peninsula.
    The DPRK will consider the ultra-modern weapons the new conservatives of the U.S. try to use as tactical nuclear weapons, which compels the DPRK to make as powerful weapons as them.
    The U.S. should know well that its escalated moves to aggravate the situation on the peninsula will lead it to self-destruction.

For Spanish-speaking people

inaugurado nuevo sitio web

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- la academia de ciencias de corea acabo de inaugurar el sitio web “exhibicion de ciencias tecnicas” (http://www.stic.ac.kp) en la red de computacion del correo electronico de la central telefonica de pyongyang. en este sitio web los cientificos y tecnicos podran encontrar a su debido tiempo los datos referidos a los adelantos de la ciencia y la tecnica, los productos de nueva tecnica que serviran grandemente a la modernizacion y la informatizacion de la economia nacional.
    el sitio web lo componen la primera pagina, la columna de organos, la de noticias sobre los adelantos de la ciencia y tecnica, la de programa, la de servicio tecnico, la de servicio comercial y tecnico, la de catedra tecnica, etc.
    en la primera pagina los organos de estudio cientifico y las unidades conexas podran establecer el sitio web sustitutivo para dar a conocer sus exitos cientifico-tecnicos.
    en la columna de organos los usuarios podran leer el historial de la exhibicion de ciencias y tecnicas.
    en las demas columnas podran encontrar los adelantos de la ciencia y la tecnica de la rpdc y de los paises extranjeros, mas de 1 000 programas de control de mecanismo de mas de 30 variedades necesarios para el uso de los equipos tecnicos de informatica, asi como la leccion tecnica sobre el programa, la red de comunicaciones, la energia, la biologia, la quimica, la maquinaria, etc. 　　　

memorandum sobre actos de violacion de ee.uu. al acuerdo de armisticio de corea

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- con motivo del 50 aniversario de la concertacion del acuerdo de armisticio de corea la representacion del ejercito popular de corea en phanmunjom hizo publico el dia 23 un memorandum para acusar los actos criminales de ee.uu. que violo todos los articulos medulares del acuerdo de armisticio destinados a la prevencion de la nueva guerra en corea y la solucion pacifica del problema coreano acarreando asi la amenaza nuclear y el permanente peligro de la guerra a la peninsula coreana. el documento senala:
    la clausura 60 del acuerdo de armisticio de corea senala:
    “a fin de asegurar la solucion pacifica del problema coreano los comandantes militares de ambas partes enviaran, respectivamente, dentro de tres meses posteriores a la firma y la entrada en vigor del acuerdo de armisticio, los delegados a los gobiernos de los respectivos paises interesados para proponerles la convocacion de una reunion politica de rango superior en que se consulten la retirada de todas las tropas extranjeras de corea, la solucion pacifica del problema coreano y otros asuntos.”. pero, ee.uu. tramo toda clase de intrigas para obstaculizar la convocacion de esta reunion politica.
    por ejemplo, legalizo la permanencia de las tropas norteamericanas en sudcorea al concertar el 8 de agosto de 1953 el “pacto de defensa mutua” con esta, de manera que desafio abiertamente a la clausula arriba mencionada que preve la retirada de todas las tropas extranjeras.
    tambien, en desacato al parrafo ch de la clausula 13 del referido acuerdo que prohibe la entrada de aviones operacionales, vehiculos blindados, armas y municiones desde afuera de corea”, ee.uu. traslado ilegalmente, durante 9 meses posteriores al cese de fuego, 177 aviones operacionales, 465 canones de distintas calibres, 6 400 cohetes, 1 365 ametralladoras, millones de proyectiles y municiones de distintas clases a sudcorea, lo cual fue descubierto por el grupo de inspeccion de los estados neutrales.
    en la reunion 70a de la comision militar de armisticio efectuada el 31 de mayo de 1956, ee.uu. obligo a guard, miembro decano de su parte a declarar: “la parte de las fuerzas aliadas avisa a cesar la aplicacion de la parte correspondiente a si mismas del articulo del acuerdo de armisticio que define el cumplimiento del trabajo de la comision supervisora de la naciones neutrales y el grupo de inspeccion de las naciones neutrales dentro de la zona bajo la jurisdiccion de ellas mismas” y, despues, expulso al mismo tiempo todos los grupos de inspeccion de las naciones neutrales que actuaban en 5 puertos de entrada y salida en sudcorea.
    antes de anular el parrafo ch de la clausula 13 del acuerdo de armisticio, el secretario de estado norteamericano dulles, el secretario de defensa norteamericano wilson, el presidente de la junta de jefes del estado mayor de ee.uu. y otras altas personalidades de la administracion de ee.uu.
    de aquel entonces hablaron abiertamente de la inevitabilidad de su anulacion.
    en la reunion 75 de la cma efectuada el 21 de junio de 1957 la parte norteamericana, con la absurda sofisteria de “mantener el equilibrio de las fuerzas militares relativas” y la necesidad de introducir las armas de nuevo tipo porque no fabricaba las armas de tipo antiguo, declaro oficialmente renunciar el parrafo ch de la clausula 13 del acuerdo de armisticio.
    ese dia el departamento de defensa norteamericano publico que su gobierno habia decidido introducir en corea del sur armas de nuevo tipo.
    ee.uu. traslado en julio de 1957 la “comandancia de las fuerzas de naciones unidas” de tokio a seul de corea del sur e introdujo alli en gran medida armas de nuevo tipo para acelerar intensa y globalmente los preparativos de guerra.
    el gobierno de la rpdc publico el 26 de junio de 1957 una declaracion en la cual propuso convocar una conferencia internacional en que participen los paises interesados para evacuar todas las tropas extranjeras de corea, preservar alli la paz duradera y acelerar la solucion pacifica del problema coreano, y el 5 de febrero de 1958, otra declaracion adelantando la proposicion de retirar a la vez de corea todas las tropas extranjeras incluidos las norteamericanas y los voluntarios del pueblo chino.
    con el sincero deseo de abrir el camino de la solucion pacifica del problema coreano la parte coreano-china tomo la iniciativa de retirar unilateralmente los voluntarios del pueblo chino de corea y termino su retirada hasta el 26 de octubre de 1958.
    han transcurrido ya cerca de 45 anos desde aquel entonces, pero ee.uu. mantiene todavia sus tropas en corea del sur.
    ee.uu. elimino los grupos de inspeccion de naciones neutrales, aparatos adjuntos a la comision supervisora de las naciones neutrales y el grupo de observacion conjunta, aparato adjunto a la cma que constituian obstaculo para los preparativos de la nueva guerra coreana. despues maniobro durante largo tiempo para eliminar hasta la cma y la csnn, ultimos aparatos para el control de cumplimiento del acuerdo de armisticio.
    el 25 de marzo de 1991 ee.uu. nombro como miembro decano de la parte estadounidense de la cma a un general del ejercito surcoreano que no tenia calificacion ni autoridad para abordar el problema relativo al acuerdo de armisticio, lo que es una burla abierta a la cma y un acto de destruccion a esta.
    cuando la comision militar de armisticio desaparecio, la comision supervisora de las naciones neutrales no pudo escapar la misma suerte porque perdio el objeto de su trabajo.
    en phanmunjom no existen ya los aparatos de supervision de armisticio tales como la comision supervisora de las naciones neutrales y la comision militar de armisticio.
    de esta manera, fueron anuladas todas las clausulas 19-35 referidas a la comision militar de armisticio y las 36-50 referidas a la comision supervisora de las naciones neutrales, del articulo 2 del acuerdo de armisticio.
    en estos dias, el acuerdo de armisticio de corea llega a la fase de la anulacion completa por las maniobras de ee.uu. de aplastar a la rpdc. ahora, ee.uu., segun el nuevo “plan de aumento armamentista” trata de dotar a sus tropas ocupantes de sudcorea con los armamentos de punta destinando para este fin mas de 11 mil millones de dolares e instiga a japon y otros paises entreguistas a realizar el bloqueo maritimo y aereo contra la rpdc.
    el aumento armamentista y el bloqueo de ee.uu. constituyen, sin duda alguna, actos de guerra y de destruccion al armisticio.
    en particular, el “plan de operacion 5030” elaborado y publicado para la nueva guerra por el departamento de defensa norteamericano constituye un plan de guerra que desprecia el acuerdo de armisticio y demuestra que su movimiento militar llega a una etapa extremadamente peligrosa.
    hoy, ee.uu. ha convertido sudcorea en una base nuclear de mayor envergadura en el extremo oriente al renunciar unilateralmente la ejecucion del parrafo ch de la clausula 13 del acuerdo de armisticio y habla abiertamente del primer ataque nuclear. asi es indudable que la guerra que se desate en corea se convertira en una batalla de confrontacion despiadada entre el primer ataque nuclear de ee.uu. contra la rpdc y el golpe de represalia de esta.
    estamos preparados para cualquier forma de batalla de confrontacion. 　

victimas de guerra coreana revelan atrocidades de efectivos norteamericanos

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- los grupos y delegados de diversas regiones del mundo para la averiguacion de los verdaderos aspectos de las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanas, que han venido a pyongyang para participar en la conferencia internacional sobre la preservacion de la paz en la peninsula coreana y los actos de solidaridad que tendran lugar con motivo del 50 aniversario de la victoria del pueblo coreano en la gran guerra de liberacion de la patria, escucharon del 20 al 22 del mes en curso sobre el terreno los testimonios de quienes en la pasada guerra coreana sufrieron grandes desgracias y sufrimientos que se debian a las tropas agresoras norteamericanas. en la colina moran y el monte taesong escucharon el testimonio de la victima choe ki ok quien por ser miembro del partido del trabajo de corea y presidenta del comite de la union de mujeres en la comuna de rimhung del municipio de puk de la ciudad de pyongyang (aquel entonces) fue arrestada y sometida a las torturas y fechorias de toda clase perpetradas por los yanquis.
    los bestias yanquis aplicaron toda clase de torturas incluyendo la electrica y la de agua a los familiares de ella y otras numerosas personas encarceladas, se llevaron y violaron diariamente decenas de mujeres y mataron a balazo cada dia a decenas de habitantes inocentes, revelo ella.
    en el palacio cultural del pueblo, el prof. y dr. choe tong gyu dio testimonios sobre las atrocidades de guerra bacteriologica de los agresores norteamericanos en la guerra coreana.
    el se refirio a los hechos de que presencio durante la pasada guerra al participar en las actividades contra la guerra bacteriologica como miembro del grupo movil de prevencion de epidemias de la casa de sanidad del distrito de pukchong de la provincia de hamgyong del sur y a los datos que obtuvo al analizar los documentos.
    explico con materiales concretos el hecho de que los imperialistas norteamericanos lanzaron en gran cantidad las bombas bacteriologicas en casi todas las regiones de la republica popular democratica de corea incluyendo las ciudades, las aldeas rurales y montanosas.
    en el puente ferroviario yanggak, el prof. y dr. kim tok ho refirio que despues de ocupar la ciudad de pyongyang los agresores yanquis asesinaron colectivamente con metodos crueles a los ciudadanos y echaron los cadaveres en refugios antiaereos, pozos y lagos.
    revelo que en visperas de su huida, los norteamericanos divulgaron el rumor de “lanzamiento de bomba atomica” para llevar los habitantes a la parte sur de corea y lanzaron las bombas y dispararon rafagas de ametralladora contra miles de habitantes que atravesaban por el puente provisional y el ferroviario del rio taedong destruyendo a estos y asesinandolos.
    en el barrio de taephyong del municipio de mangyongdae, choe yun hyok, testigo de las atrocidades de guerra bacteriologica de los yanquis, revelo que por doquier estos perpetraron el bombardeo indiscriminado, el exterminio masivo y la guerra bacteriologica.
    el delegado de america del norte para la averiguacion del verdadero aspecto de las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanos dijo que como un ciudadano norteamericano se sentia culpable de las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanas cometidas en el periodo de la guerra coreana y acentuo que son muy importantes los testimonios de las victimas que revelan una parte de la historia de agresion de ee.uu. a corea.
    el delegado de la asociacion internacional de juristas democratas para la averiguacion del verdadero aspecto de las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanas insistio, a nombre de la aijd, en que deben ser indemnizados y disculpados los actos criminales de ee.uu. el jefe del grupo de averiguacion de esas atrocidades de la region latinoamericana y del caribe subrayo que para las victimas y para prevenir la repeticion de tales actos antieticos es imperiosamente necesario divulgar a todo el mundo los datos sobre las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanas.
    el jefe del grupo de la region de europa del oeste para la averiguacion del verdadero aspecto de las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanas senalo que deben revelarse sin falta sus crimenes nunca perdonables y subrayo que deben usar activamente los dados de averiguacion y los testimonios para que mas personas sepan de los sufrimientos del pueblo coreano dados por las tropas norteamericanas. 　　　

inaugurada conferencia internacional de pyongyang

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- la conferencia internacional sobre la preservacion de la paz en la peninsula coreana quedo inaugurada el dia 23 en esta capital. el foro internacional discutira los problemas que se presentan para eliminar de fuente la peligrosidad de la guerra en la peninsula coreana creada por las maniobras de los imperialistas norteamericanos destinadas a aplastar por la fuerza a la republica popular democratica de corea.
    en la ocasion jitendra sharma, presidente de la asociacion internacional de juristas democratas pronuncio un discurso de apertura.
    el vicepresidente del presidium de la asamblea popular suprema de la republica popular democratica de corea yang hyong sop pronuncio un discurso de felicitacion. acto seguido, tuvo lugar la sesion plenaria sobre la paz y la reunificacion de la peninsula coreana.
    rashed khan menon, presidente del comite central del partido del trabajo de bangladesh presento el informe de base y mun jae chol, presidente del comite coreano de solidaridad con los pueblos del mundo el informe suplementario. otras personas intervinieron.
    la conferencia continua. 　　　

conferencia internacional de pyongyang se refiere a eliminar peligro de guerra

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- tuvo lugar hoy en esta capital la sesion plenaria de la conferencia internacional sobre la preservacion de la paz en la peninsula coreana, en la cual rashed khan menon, presidente del comite central del partido del trabajo de bangladesh, presento el informe de base. el informante se refirio al hecho de que historicamente, la peninsula coreana, hallada en un punto estrategico, fue un objeto de incesantes contiendas de las potencias y apunto que, despues de la segunda guerra mundial, ee.uu., para realizar su estrategia mundial, movilizo a la guerra coreana a mas de dos millones de efectivos incluyendo sus fuerzas armadas terrestres, maritimas y aereas, las tropas de 15 paises satelites y las armas de exterminio masivo, cuyo uso fue prohibido en la ley internacional, pero sufrio de gran derrota.
    aunque fue firmado el acuerdo de armisticio de corea, este fue violado y destruido sistematicamente debido a aplicacion de la abierta politica de amenaza y chantaje militares de ee.uu. contra la republica popular democratica de corea, senalo el informante y continuo:
    en realidad, la capacidad autodefensiva de la rpdc es precisamente el factor real que durante mas de medio siglo detuvo la guerra y garantizo la paz en la peninsula coreana.
    hoy, el enfrentamiento politico y militar creado en esta peninsula llega al estado extremo. en estos dias ee.uu., al despreciar la posicion juridica de la rpdc que se retiro justamente del tratado de no proliferacion nuclear, trata de llevar el problema nuclear entre los dos paises en las conferencias internacionales e incluso en el consejo de seguridad de la onu para tildarle a corea un rotulo de la “violacion al derecho internacional” y alcanzar un “pretexto exterior” de una provocacion de la nueva guerra coreana.
    tal situacion demanda que todos los paises, todas las entidades y personalidades, amantes de la paz, apoyen la lucha justa del pueblo coreano por la soberania y el derecho a la existencia y se levanten en el movimiento de solidaridad internacional para eliminar el inminente peligro de guerra en la peninsula coreana.
    el informante presento los siguientes problemas:
    primero, es revelar detalladamente ante la sociedad internacional las maquinaciones criminales de ee.uu. que volvio a llevar la crisis nuclear a la peninsula coreana.
    ademas, bajo la consigna de preservar la paz en la peninsula coreana es desplegar el movimiento internacional por apoyar las fuerzas armadas de la justicia para preservar la paz en la peninsula coreana.
    insisto en que es preciso dar a conocer al mundo que precisamente la politica de songun (priorizacion militar) de su excelencia kim jong il cuya justeza fue confirmada en la practica, es un metodo politico potente que frena la coaccion y la arbitrariedad arrogantes de ee.uu. con que se preocupan los circulos sociales del mundo, y permite que los paises pequenos puedan salvaguardar su dignidad e independencia.
    ademas deben desplegar en diversas formas la lucha por revelar y condenar la politica de hostilidad de ee.uu. a corea y sus crimenes cometidos en la guerra coreana.
    si ee.uu. desea de veras la paz de la peninsula coreana, su reunificacion y la mejora de sus relaciones con corea, debe pedir disculpa, ante todo, por todos los crimenes cometidos en corea, castigarlos a los responsables, indemnizarlos a la parte danada y tomar medidas concretas para prevenir nuevos crimenes.
    para rectificar justamente la historia tergiversada y salvaguardar la justicia, la verdad y la conciencia humana propongo establecer en el marco de esta conferencia un tribunal internacional para revelar historicamente y originalmente los crimenes de ee.uu. cometidos en la guerra coreana y su politica de hostilidad a corea y fustigarle la responsabilidad del respecto.
    por ultimo planteo combinar estrechamente el movimiento por el apoyo a la justa causa del pueblo coreano con la lucha por recuperar el imparcial orden de las relaciones internacionales y la justicia.
    especialmente todos los actos contra la rpdc engendran el peligro del choque en la peninsula coreana, lo cual pueda pasar a la guerra nuclear. esta es la situacion actual de esta region.
    la sociedad internacional debera prestar la atencion a ee.uu. que insulta el verdadero valor del derecho internacional y las relaciones internacionales, tilda de la “violacion al derecho internacional”, “objeto de preocupacion internacional” a los paises situados en zonas importantes y legaliza su politica de guerra. 　　　

miembros de embajada de cuba visitan lugar historico de revolucion de paeksong

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- con motivo del 50 aniversario de la victoria del pueblo coreano en la gran guerra de liberacion de la patria y el 50 aniversario de la insurreccion armada del 26 de julio del pueblo cubano, violeta goodridge culzac, encargada de negocios a.i. de la republica de cuba en corea y otros miembros de la sede diplomatica visitaron el dia 22 el lugar historico de la revolucion de paeksong situado en la ciudad de phyonsong de la provincia de phyong-an del sur. primeramente, los huespedes depositaron ramos de flores ante la estatua de bronce del presidente kim il sung en el lugar y le rindieron tributo.
    los huespedes recorrieron con gran interes los edificios historicos escuchando la explicacion de que en el periodo de la guerra de liberacion de la patria el presidente visito a la universidad kim il sung situada en la comuna de paeksong, donde infundio a los profesores, empleados y estudiantes la fe en la victoria en la guerra, desplego una radiante perspectiva de la rehabilitacion y la construccion de postguerra y los condujo a hacer que la universidad haya sido un centro supremo de la ensenanza.
    terminada la visita, violeta senalo que gracias a la prevision y la gran capacidad de mando del presidente, corea llego a contar con una poderosa fila de intelectuales como hoy. 　　　

acto ilegal e injusto contra la rpdc

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- recientemente, ee.uu. tramo con gentuzas un complot para bloquear del todo el mar y el espacio aereo de la republica popular democratica de corea el periodico “rodong sinmun”, en un comentario individual de hoy, lo estigmatiza de un acto ilegal e injusto que carece de base de ley internacional.
    el comentarista se refiere a que no hay ninguna resolucion ni ningun acuerdo internacional que permite formar “la red del cerco internacional” contra la rpdc y continua:
    si en el siglo 21 se rompen por un pais especifico los derechos internacionales y las reglas de las relaciones internacionales que son principios y normas legitimos de la vida internacional, su consecuencia sera critica.
    en caso de que las leyes internacionales y las reglas de las relaciones internacionales se conviertan en papeles deshechos que no valen nada, la sociedad internacional se convertira en una escena caotica donde reine la ley de la selva y en la arena internacional se desaparezcan hasta las palabras de la justicia e imparcialidad.
    esto es un proposito de ee.uu.
    nuestro ejercito y pueblo no se asustan de bloqueo de ee.uu. ni cambian el camino optado por si mismos.
    los norteamericanos deben poner de inmediato fin a su vil “operacion de bloqueo”, acto ilegal e injusto tendente a aislar y asfixiar a la rpdc.

sera eterna la historia invencible

    pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- el diario “rodong sinmun” inserto en el numero de hoy los articulos individuales dedicados al 50 aniversario de la victoria del pueblo coreano en la guerra de liberacion de la patria. los articulos senalan:
    si los imperialitas norteamericanos desatan la segunda guerra coreana olvidando la leccion de la historia, el ejercito y el pueblo de corea daran conclusion a la batalla de confrontacion con los yanquis y exaltaran la historia invencible de la republica popular democratica de corea.
    la verdad que da la historia de la pasada guerra coreana es que si todo el ejercito y el pueblo se levantan en la lucha con la disposicion de morir, pueden vencer a cualesquier enemigos.
    la importante experiencia de esa guerra es que la clave principal de la victoria es consolidar el poderio nacional dando importancia a las fuerzas armadas y apoyandose en el poderoso ejercito.
    las poderosas fuerzas armadas preparadas por la politica de songun (priorizacion militar) constituyen un remedio omnipotente de la victoria invencible de la rpdc.
    nuestro ejercito se ha convertido en un destacamento de defensa decisiva a la direccion de la revolucion en que se han establecido firmemente el sistema de direccion revolucionaria y el estilo militares, y reina plenamente el espiritu de servir de balas y bombas y de inmolar por explosion, y en un poderoso ejercito de la camaraderia revolucionaria en que se ha aglutinado solidamente por la unicidad entre los oficiales y soldados, la entre los superiores y los inferiores y la combinacion politica y militar.
    tal superioridad politica e ideologica del ejercito popular constituye el nucleo del poderio militar de la rpdc y la fuente de la invencible fuerza capaz de vencer a los ejercitos mercenarios de los imperialistas norteamericanos.
    estos se ocupan de las maquinaciones de agresion militar contra la rpdc y la guerra de artimana psicologica.
    pero, no podran quebrantar la unidad monolitica de partido, el ejercito y el pueblo de corea aglutinados compactamente en torno al dirigente kim jong il.
    nuestro ejercito y pueblo lograran sin falta la victoria final en la batalla de confrontacion con los imperialistas norteamericanos, apoyandose en el invencible poderio militar y la unidad monolitica bajo la guia del dirigente mediante el songun. 　　　

inaugurada conferencia internacional de pyongyang

    pyongyang, 24 de julio (atcc) -- en medio de gran esperanza e interes de los pueblos progresistas del mundo amantes de la paz, quedo inaugurada solemnemente el dia 23 en esta capital la conferencia internacional sobre la preservacion de la paz en la peninsula coreana. la conferencia, motivada por el 50 aniversario de la victoria del pueblo coreano en la gran guerra de liberacion de la patria, es un gran foro internacional convocado segun el llamamiento publicado en la reunion conjunta de las entidades democratas internacionales y organizaciones de la region asiatica de amistad y solidaridad con el pueblo coreano, efectuada el pasado febrero en colombo, sri lanka.
    la conferencia discutira los problemas que se presentan para eliminar el origen de una peligrosa guerra creada en la peninsula coreana debido a las maniobras de provocacion de guerra de los imperialistas yanquis tendentes a aplastar por la fuerza a la republica popular democratica de corea.
    en el acto participaron jitendra sharma, presidente de la asociacion internacional de juristas democratas, nouri abdel razzak hussein, secretario general de la organizacion de solidaridad de los pueblos de asia y africa, miguel madeira, presidente de la federacion mundial de la juventud democratica, marcia de campos pereira, presidenta de la federacion democratica internacional de mujeres, paulette pierson, presidente honorario del comite internacional de enlace por la reunificacion y la paz en corea y otras delegaciones y delegados de distintos paises los representantes diplomaticos de varios paises en corea, asi como los corresponsales extranjeros.
    estuvieron presentes alli yang hyong sop, vicepresidente del presidium de la asamblea popular suprema de la rpdc, mun jae chol, presidente interino del comite de relaciones culturales con el extranjero y presidente del comite coreano de solidaridad con los pueblos del mundo, la delegacion del ultimo comite, la delegacion de la asociacion de juristas democratas de corea, la delegacion del comite nacional de defensa de la paz de corea, la delegacion del comite coreano de solidaridad afro-asiatica y otros funcionarios interesados.
    jitendra sharma, en su discurso inaugural, expreso la conviccion de que la conferencia despertara la opinion publica internacional de eliminar la tension en la peninsula coreana y demandar la paz, y dara un gran apoyo y estimulo a la heroica lucha del pueblo coreano por frustrar el brutal desafio y presion de las fuerzas extranjaras y preservar la paz.
    yang hyong sop, en su discurso de felicitacion, manifesto conviccion de que la conferencia sera un importante motivo para despertar la opinion publica internacional de revelar y denunciar las criminales maniobras de ee.uu. que impone a la nacion coreana innumerables sufrimientos y desgracias y de demandar la preservacion de la paz en la peninsula coreana y deseo que la conferencia obtenga exitos.
    se efectuo la sesion plenaria sobre la paz y la reunificacion en la peninsula coreana.
    rashed khan menon, presidente del comite central del partido del trabajo de bangladesh, presento el informe de base.
    mun jae chol, presidente del comite coreano de solidaridad con los pueblos del mundo, en su informe suplementario, senalo:
    la republica popular democratica de corea mantiene la posicion invariable de que el dialogo y la presion son incompatibles y el problema nuclear de la peninsula coreana debe ser solucionado racionalmente tomando en consideracion el proceso de su surgimiento y las relaciones de responsabilidad.
    si ee.uu. atenta en lo minimo la soberania y la seguridad de la rpdc, el ejercito y el pueblo de esta aniquilaran despiadadamente a los agresores y provocadores en esta tierra y abriran una nueva epoca en que la nacion coreana viva siempre en paz sin ingerencia de las fuerzas extranjeras.
    el presidente del comite nepales de solidaridad con los pueblos de asia y africa, el presidente de la asociacion de amistad con corea en espana y el delegado de la region arabe por la averiguacion del verdadero aspecto de las atrocidades de las tropas norteamericanas, en sus intervenciones, se refirieron a que a fin de lograr su ambicion de heguemonia mundial ee.uu., en desacato a la carta de la onu y el derecho internacional, se ocupa de la arbitrariedad, la intervencion y el despotismo e impone los sufrimientos de la division y la catastrofe de la guerra a la nacion coreana.
    el presidente de la asociacion de amistad sri lanka-corea popular, el vicepresidente de la asociacion de amistad de turquia-corea, el subsecretario general de la federacion sindical mundial, un miembro de la delegacion de la organizacion de veteranos para la paz de ee.uu. y el delegado del centro de accion internacional, en sus intervenciones, subrayaron que la solucion del problema nuclear entre la rpdc y ee.uu. reside en que este se presente en el dialogo bilateral con aquella con la voluntad de cambiar realmente de su politica hostil a corea y subrayaron que ee.uu. al ver correctamente la esencia y la peculiaridad del problema nuclear asi como la realidad debe acceder a las conversaciones con la rpdc.
    el presidente del frente obrero, campesino, estudiantil y popular del peru, el presidente de la federacion mundial de la juventud democratica y el delegado de la asociacion britanica para la amistad con corea precisaron que la politica de songun (priorizacion militar) de su excelencia kim jong il es un factor real que garantiza la paz de la peninsula coreana.
    el vicepresidente de la asociacion rusa de amistad y cooperacion cultural con la rpdc senalo que la realidad demuestra que seran imposibles la ejecucion de la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio y la reunificacion de corea mientras que las tropas norteamericanas permanecen de continuo en sudcorea y ee.uu. no abandona su ambicion de dominacion a corea y agrego que ee.uu., fautor de la division de corea, debe dejar de obstaculizar por mas tiempo la observacion de esa declaracion.
    antes de la apertura de la conferencia, los participantes recorrieron las fotos exhibidas en el hotel internacional yanggakdo alusivas a la historia de agresion de los imperialistas norteamericanos llena de crimenes, y vieron el documental coreano “respuesta de corea”.
    la conferencia continua. 　　　

acto y fotoexhibicion dedicados al 50 aniversario de la insurreccion armada en cuba

    pyongyang, 24 de julio (atcc) -- tuvieron lugar el dia 24 en esta capital un acto y una exhibicion de fotos dedicados al 50 aniversario de la insurreccion armada del 26 de julio del pueblo cubano. fueron invitados violeta goodridge culzac, encargada de negocios a.i. de la republica de cuba en corea y otros miembros de la sede diplomatica.
    participaron mun jae chol, presidente interino del comite coreano de relaciones culturales con el extranjero y otros funcionarios asi como trabajadores capitalinos.
    en la ocasion pronunciaron discursos.
    antes del acto los participantes vieron las fotos exhibidas.

divulganse obras de kim jong il en 60 paises

    pyongyang, 24 de julio (atcc) -- en el primer semestre de este ano se han editado, estudiado y divulgado las obras del dirigente kim jong il en mas de 60 paises. en mas de 20 paises, entre otros cuba, rusia, siria, libano, congo democratico, etiopia, guinea, jamaica y yemen se editaron y divulgaron “la filosofia juche es una original filosofia revolucionaria”, “materialicemos de modo consecuente el legado del gran lider camarada kim il sung para la reunificacion de la patria”, “que toda la nacion unida alcance la reunificacion independiente y pacifica de la patria” y otras obras de el.
    ademas, en los organos de prensa reconocidos de cuba, laos, mejico, peru, iran, austria, nigeria, venezuela y otros paises editaron en idiomas nacionales sus obras y el partido comunista de alemania dio a luz la coleccion de documentos que contiene las obras: “para tener correcto concepto y comprension de la filosofia juche” y “nuestro socialismo centrado en las masas populares es invencible”.
    por otra parte, los periodicos de siria, cambodia, rumania, india y libia, la agencia jana, radio y television de este ultimo pais, la agencia y la radio de guinea, los periodicos, agencias y radios de otros paises las informaron en texto completo o en resumen.
    tuvieron lugar un seminario de las personalidades de los circulos cientificos y sociales en bulgaria sobre las obras “el socialismo es ciencia” y “la difamacion del socialismo no sera tolerada” y los simposios conjuntos de los partidos politicos, entidades y organizaciones de estudio de la idea juche en nepal, tadjikistan, nigeria y congo democratico y se desarrollo ampliamente la labor de estudio de sus obras en mas de 60 paises, entre otros, congo, egipto, guinea, siria, uganda, india y tanzania. 　　　

nuevo florero y nueva variedad de nogal

    pyongyang, 24 de julio (atcc) -- el centro de investigacion del jardin botanico nacional de corea acabo de desarrollar un nuevo florero de kimilsungia y una nueva variedad de nogal.
    el nuevo es la calcinada arcilla mezclada con la resina espumosa. es mas ligero que el anterior y buena retencion de agua que permite asegurar la adecuada humedad para el crecimiento de raices de flor.
    el plazo de su uso susceptible de regenerarse mas de una vez es de 15 anos, mas o menos.
    con el nuevo kimilsungia de un ano da 2-3 flores en varias ramas aunque antes dio flores en una rama 3 - 4 anos despues.
    el centro de investigacion tambien obtuvo nueva variedad de nogal que da grandes frutos.
    el nogal es mas bajo que el anterior y da frutos 3 o 4 anos despues.
    el anterior da frutos 7 anos despues.
    el rendimiento por hectarea es de 2-3 toneladas.

actos por el 50 aniversario de la victoria de la guerra

    pyongyang, 24 de julio (atcc) -- en corea se efectuan cada dia los actos por el 50 aniversario de la victoria del pueblo coreano en la guerra de liberacion de la patria. en la exposicion nacional de bellas artes inaugurada el dia 23 estan exhibidas mas de 650 obras de bellas artes que demuestran la gran personalidad del presidente kim il sung, el dirigente kim jong il y la heroina antijaponesa kim jong suk, el espiritu de defensa decisiva al lider de los oficiales y soldados del ejercito popular de corea, asi como los aspectos de derrota de los mercenarios imperialistas.
    en el acto conmemorativo de los jovenes y estudiantes de esta capital los oradores senalaron que durante los 50 anos que datan de la victoria de la guerra, el pueblo coreano logro siempre la victoria en la batalla de confrontacion con el imperialismo norteamericano y recalcaron que todos deben levantarse como un solo hombre para derrotar a los agresores imperialistas norteamericanos y lograr el triunfo final llevando adelante las tradiciones de la victoria en la guerra bajo la bandera de songun (priorizacion militar).
    por otra parte tuvieron lugar la tribuna de narracion de los veteranos y benemeritos de guerra y el certamen de oratoria de los funcionarios y miembros del sindicato. 　　　