Political Murder by Traitorous Party
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The death of Jong Mong Hon is a political murder committed by the Grand National Party of south Korea displeased with the development of the inter-Korean relations, declares Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary today.
Recalling that Jong made significant contributions to promoting the co-prosperity and common interests of the nation as a pioneer of the work for reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south, it says:
The GNP, hating the normal economic relations between the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) and the Hyundai Asan of south Korea, has run the whole gamut of vicious obstructions to block them. And, in the long run, it framed up a ridiculous "law on special inspection" to block them altogether and continued putting pressure on chairman of the Hyundai Asan Jong Mong Hon, the leading figure of Hyundai.
For a few days before his tragic death, he had been subjected to questioning accompanied by threats and blackmail for 10-12 hours a day several times. When he was staying in Mt. Kumgang from July 23 to 25 for negotiations on inter-Korean economic cooperation, he told the vice-chairman of the KAPPC and those concerned of the north side with deep anger that not only the Hyundai Asan but all the political and financial circles of south Korea "will be barred from normal activities" before the "special inspection comes to an end" and "history will settle account with those who enacted the 'law on special inspection' in the future."
The sword of "special inspection" directed against him drove him to an unbearable state where he had to choose the tragic death. It is an obvious murder and the GNP is to blame for it.
With no subterfuge can the GNP escape from the responsibility for having driven to death Jong Mong Hon who had greatly contributed to national reconciliation and unity and the cause of reunification. The GNP must be buried underground at an early date for the sake of the democratic development of the south Korean society, the inter-Korean relations and national reunification.
Koreans Called upon to Protect National Independence and Peace
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Special Academic Committee of the Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and Peace of the Korean Peninsula on July 27 reportedly issued a statement titled "Let us foil the U.S. war plan and protect national independence and peace through nationwide anti-U.S. and anti-war movement."
The U.S. has constantly rendered the situation of the Korean peninsula tense. It is now creating an extremely dangerous war crisis while unilaterally forcing north Korea to disarm itself after openly working out a preemptive nuclear attack strategy and a detailed plan for attacks, the statement said, and continued:
If a war breaks out in the Korean peninsula, it would not merely be a war between north Korea and the U.S. only. We should wage an active struggle against the U.S. war moves, closely united under the banner of the June 15 Joint Declaration.
The U.S. should renounce its hostile policy toward the north, drop its plan to invade it, conclude a non-aggression treaty with it and replace the armistice agreement with a durable peace agreement.
KCNA Dismisses U.S. Plan to Contain DPRK with Nukes Daydream
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- 58 years have passed since the U.S. dropped A-bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing the first nuclear disaster in history.
During this period humankind has waged a strenuous anti-nuke struggle to build a free and peaceful world without any nuclear weapons but the desire has not yet come true because the U.S. has challenged the global peace and security and sparked a global nuclear arms race, advocating the "theory of all-powerful nuclear weapon".
The U.S. dropped the first a-bomb over Hiroshima from B-29 on August 6, 1945 and the second one over Nagasaki three days later, thus becoming the first criminal to use A-bombs in the world.
U.S. President Truman before the test of the first A-bomb at 4 a. m. on July 16, 1945 blustered that the explosion of the A-bomb would provide the U.S. with a stick to strike other countries.
It is not secret that the successive U.S. presidents have kicked off nuclear hysteria, vociferating about the justice and necessity of the use of nuclear weapons over the last more than half a century.
After the appearance of the bush administration, the U.S. military strategy made u turn from the hypocritical "nuclear containment" strategy to a preemptive nuclear attack strategy, heralding a real nuclear disaster to humankind.
The Bush administration, seized with an anachronistic ambition to dominate the world, made a policy switchover to realize it with nukes.
In this century the U.S. seeks to realize its strategy of dominating the world with nuclear threat and blackmail, while working hard to maintain an unchallenged nuclear edge to meet the challenge of other powers and prevent the appearance of new rivals.
Herein lies the main purpose of the new nuclear strategy pursued by the Bush administration.
The U.S. plan for nuclear attack aimed at maintaining an unchallenged nuclear edge and seizing major regions of resources and military strategic regions through unlimited military actions for world domination has already entered the phase of its implementation.
That is why the U.S. is steadily increasing the budget related to nuclear weapons and working in real earnest to develop nuclear weapons, reorganize and expand the mechanism for a nuclear war.
The U.S. defense department has already taken a measure to drastically increase the function of the U.S. strategic command controlling the nuclear armed forces by putting the space command under that command. It decided to push forward the plan to spend 5 billion dollars spread over 10 years for modernizing the facilities producing nuclear weapons across the country.
U.S. Congress dominated by the republican party fully agreed to the bush administration's new mode of having access to nuclear weapons, ie a nuclear strategy based on preemptive nuclear attack, and approved of most of the proposals for it.
This year the U.S. house of representatives and the senate agreed to spend 15.5 million dollars to develop nuclear bombs for destroying underground structures. The senate decided to repeal the "law banning smaller nukes" which was adopted and took effect in 1993.
The U.S. made it public that it would channel all efforts into the production of nuclear warheads for various types of missiles in 10 years to come.
The U.S. new nuclear weapon plan now pushed forward under the pretext of coping with bio-chemical and other types of weapons of "rogue states" will only result in upsetting the global military strategic balance and stability, spark a nuclear arms race in the world and further increase the danger of a nuclear war.
The U.S. attempt at a military attack under the pretext of the nuclear issue has gone beyond the limit. As a result, the situation on the Korean peninsula is so grave that the most horrible and destructive nuclear war in history may break out there any time.
The U.S. is set not to settle the nuclear issue but further complicate it, driving the situation to the brink of a war.
The U.S. has recently worked out and made public the new nuclear war plan "operation plan 5030" to attack the DPRK and is putting into practice the plan for a preemptive attack, while massively deploying more ultra-modern military hardware in and around the Korean peninsula.
It is well-known a fact that the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula is a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The U.S. is chiefly to blame for this nuclear issue and it is not the international community but the U.S. which caused the present nuclear crisis in Korea.
The key to the settlement of the nuclear issue, therefore, lies in whether the U.S. is truly willing to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK or not.
The U.S. plan to contain the DPRK through a nuclear attack is nothing but a daydream.
The U.S. seems to regard the nuclear monopoly and threat as the best leverage to establish world domination. Nothing is more serious mistake than for the U.S. to test its nuclear policy in Korea.
It is the revolutionary resolution of the army and people of the DPRK to return fire for fire.
The U.S. should ponder over the catastrophic disasters to be brought by its new nuclear strategy.
U.S. War Moves Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification on August 4 released a statement condemning the war provocative moves of the U.S. imperialists.
It called upon the youth and students to take the lead in the struggle to smash the U.S. nuclear war moves against the north and reunify the country independently under the banner of "by our nation itself".
The former director of the U.S. central intelligence agency and the deputy chief of the staff of the U.S. air force on August 4 contributed articles to the internet of a newspaper, arguing that the U.S. should be prepared for the second June 25 because it is highly probable the negotiations on the nuclear issue of the DPRK would end fruitless. And they even outlined ways of provoking a war. Hitting at their war outcries, the statement said:
Such provocative articles were openly made public in the press at a time when the U.S. has hurled an elite combat unit equipped with latest sophisticated weapons into south Korea to stage war exercises despite the objection of all public circles, this shows what lengths it has gone in its arrogance.
U.S. War Game Flayed
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A detachment of the striker unit, which is an elite combat unit armed with up-to-date weapons flew into south Korea a few days ago from its Fort Louis base in Washington State to stage military exercises.
Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary:
Though the effectives and military equipment of the striker unit thrown into the reckless war rehearsals are small in scale, its character and objective are very grave and dangerous.
After learning the important role of the rapid mobile strike unit equipped with latest weapons through the Iraqi war, the U.S. imperialists are seeking to attain their operational aim by making preemptive strikes at underground setups and major targets of the DPRK by mobilizing such unit in the Korean "contingency."
The military exercises staged by the detachment of the striker unit in south Korea were aimed at mastering and rounding off the preemptive strike tactics against the north in preparation for a new Korean war.
There is no doubt that in case of the outbreak of another war on the Korean peninsula the unit would be swiftly airlifted and deployed on the frontline.
The first target of the unit formed in accordance with "the concept of global operation" is the DPRK.
When the U.S. imperialists have made the provocation of a war against the north a fait accompli and are trying to carry it into practice, the DPRK cannot remain an onlooker to it.
The DPRK has deterrent force capable of striking back any U.S. preemptive attack or assault by the unit at one blow.
The U.S. imperialists should be clearly aware that they cannot achieve their aggressive ambition against the DPRK with any force.
Old Tombs Discovered in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Two tombs belonging to the period of Koryo (918-1392) were discovered some time ago in Jaegyong-ri, Sunan district, Pyongyang.
They were found out on a hill 3 kilometers northwest of the Ri seat. Each tomb has a corridor and inner chamber.
The walls and ceilings of the tombs were made with big stones, about a meter long, 35 centimeters wide and 28-32 centimeters high. They were plastered down evenly several times.
The floors, 80-90 centimeters deep from the ground, were tamped with clay mixed with lime.
A celadon bowl, copper spoon and other relics dating back to the Koryo period were found out there.
The tombs are similar with tombs with stone chambers in the Koguryo period in the erection of walls and inner structure of chambers and corridors.
They, rare to be seen in the Pyongyang area, are of weighty significance in studying the then culture and burial customs.
Large Ancient Stone Buddha Unearthed
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The research group of the archaeological institute under the Academy of Social Sciences and Songdo University of education recently conducted a study of a large stone Buddha dating back to the Koryo dynasty, unearthed in Kaesong city in the central part of Korea.
It was carved out of a large natural rock on Mt. Chonma in Samgo-ri, Kaesong city. the body, background and pedestal of the Buddha are standing as an integral statue.
It is 5 m high and the width and girth of its chest are 1.47 m and 5 m respectively.
The Buddha has no special decoration. It has a heavenly garment on its upper part and a skirt on its lower part.
Its upper part is fully exposed, 0.7 m from its background and its lower part carved in relief on the rock.
Scholars say the Buddha is the first of its kind and it has a great academic value.
Memorial Service for Late Jong Mong Hon
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A memorial service for the late Jong Mong Hon who was chairman of Hyundai Asan of south Korea was held at Mt. Kumgang resort on August 7.
Laid in the venue of the service were wreaths sent by different organizations and institutions such as the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, the Kumgangsan International Tourist General Company, the National Economic Cooperation Federation and the National Reconciliation Council.
Present there were officials concerned of the north side and employees of Hyundai Asan of south Korea staying at Mt. Kumgang resort.
Memorial addresses were made by vice-chairman of the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee Song Ho Gyong, president of the Kumgangsan International Tourist General Company Pang Jong Sam and vice-chairman of the National Reconciliation Council Ho Hyok Phil.
Expressing deep condolences over the death of Jong who started and developed north-south economic cooperation prompted by a patriotic desire, the speakers extended consolation and sympathy to his bereaved family.
The distinguished contribution made by him to the tour of Mt. Kumgang and the construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone and the cooperation in other fields for the common interests and prosperity of the nation will always remain recorded in our nation's history of reunification movement, they stressed.
They vehemently denounced the right-wing conservative group including the Grand National Party of south Korea for forcing him to meet a tragic end through an unreasonable "special inspection" under the "law on special inspection" whereby they incriminated his activities for national reconciliation and cooperation.
Officials of organizations concerned including the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, the National Economic Cooperation Federation and the National Reconciliation Council visited the mourning places prepared by the side of Hyundai in Pyongyang and Mt. Kumgang to express condolences over his death.
GNP Accused of Driving Jong Mong Hon to Death
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement on August 7 denounced the Grand National Party of south Korea for driving chairman Jong Mong Hon to death.
Recalling that the GNP cooked up even "the law on special inspection" of the "suspected remittance to the north" engineered by the United States, crying for suspending the tour of Mt. Kumgang whenever an opportunity presented itself, the statement said:
If the GNP group had not fabricated the "law on special inspection", faulting the inter-Korean cooperation, such tragedy would not have happened.
The man, who worked so hard to realize cooperation between compatriots and promote common prosperity and interests in the era of national independence and reunification, met a tragic death due to the pressure of schemers, though he deserves appreciation.
This is, indeed, a pitiful tragedy.
Such political swindlers and ferocious murderers as the GNP are still at large in south Korea though they should have been entombed after facing a stern judgment of history for advocating the anachronistic theory of confrontation and perpetrating pro-U.S. flunkeyis
Anniversary of ASEAN Observed
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today in a signed article observes the 36th anniversary of the founding of ASEAN.
ASEAN has made tireless efforts for the development and prosperity of the region since it was established, the paper says, and goes on:
Exchange and cooperation among member states of ASEAN in recent years have been carried on in various and extensive ways involving mining, energy, service, investment, finance, linguistics, intellectual property, technology and tourism.
Notably, the member states are striving to develop the national economy based on their own technology and briskly conducting exchange and cooperation in the field of science and technology.
ASEAN is making efforts to set up an economic community and expand the free trade zone while developing cooperation with other regional organizations.
DPRK and China Exchange Views on Six-Party Talks
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of foreign affairs of the DPRK, today met and had a talk with a delegation of the Chinese Foreign Ministry led by vice-minister Wang Yi.
Vice-foreign minister Kim Yong Il had talks with it on August 7.
At the talks and conversation they exchanged views on the issue of improving the bilateral relations and views on the six-party talks to be held to discuss the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
Both sides stressed the need to receive the U.S. answer to the DPRK proposal made at the Beijing talks held in April last at the coming six-party talks and were of the view that through it they would be able to judge the U.S. willingness to make a switchover in its Korea policy.
Greetings to Singaporean President
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to S. R. Nathan, President of Singapore, on August 8 on the occasion of its national day.
The message sincerely wished him success in his work for the building of a good society and prosperity.
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nuevas tumbas de la epoca de coryo
pyongyang, 8 de agosto (atcc) -- en la comuna de jaegyong del municipio de sun-an de esta capital fueron desenterradas nuevamente 2 tumbas de la epoca de coryo (918-1392).
las tumbas se encuentran en un pico a 3 km de distancia mas o menos al noroeste de la cabecera de dicha comuna.
la pared y el techo de las tumbas estan encajados por las piedras de 1 m de largo, 35 cm de ancho y 28 -32 cm de alto.
de ellas fueron descubiertas las reliquias de varios generos de la epoca, entre otras, escudilla de verdeceledon y cuchara de bronce.
las tumbas tienen importante significacion cientifica en el estudio de la cultura y la costumbre de inhumacion de aquel tiempo.
atcc comenta la naturaleza del primer pais criminal de guerra nuclear
pyongyang, 8 de agosto (atcc) -- ya han transcurrido los 58 anos desde cuando ee.uu. arrojo las bombas nucleares sobre hiroshima y nagasaki de japon dando la primera catastrofe nuclear inaudita a la humanidad.
durante este periodo, la humanidad ha desarrollado una consecuente lucha antinuclear para hacer de este planeta un mundo pacifico y libre de armas nucleares, pero no ha logrado todavia su deseo.
esto se debe a ee.uu. que al esgrimir la "teoria todopoderosa de las armas nucleares" acarreo la carrera armamentista nuclear mundial desafiando a la paz y la seguridad del mundo.
ee.uu. lanzo el 6 de agosto de 1945 una bomba atomica sobre hiroshima de japon a traves del bombardero "b-29" y, tres dias despues, arrojo la segunda bomba nuclear sobre nagasaki ganando asi la infamia del primer pais criminal nuclear del mundo que perpetro un exterminio masivo.
a las 4 de la madrugada del 16 de julio de 1945, el presidente norteamericano truman, en visperas de la prueba de la primera bomba atomica, dijo:
"de estallar aquella bomba atomica llegaremos a poseer un garrote para golpear a otros paises."
es de notoriedad que truman ordeno por primera vez en la historia dar el ataque de bomba nuclear contra la humanidad y durante mas de medio siglo los presidentes norteamericanos sucesivos, al hablar de la justeza y la necesidad del uso de las armas nucleares, levantaron un frenesi nuclear.
en particular, despues de la aparicion de la administracion bush, ee.uu. se quito hasta el hipocrita rotulo de la "estrategia de detencion nuclear" y paso a la del primer ataque nuclear anunciando una catastrofe nuclear a la humanidad.
la administracion bush, cautivada por la anacronica ambicion de hegemonia mundial, adopto la orientacion politica de realizarla con las armas nucleares.
en el nuevo siglo, ee.uu. trata de mantener la superioridad nuclear absoluta para impedir el desafio de las potencias y frenar la aparicion del nuevo rival, por una parte y por la otra, de realizar con chantaje nuclear la estrategia de hegemonia mundial.
he aqui el objetivo principal de la nueva estrategia nuclear de la administracion bush.
el plan de ataque nuclear de ee.uu. consistente en ocupar la supremacia nuclear, apoderarse de las zonas de recursos principales y los nudos estrategico-militares a traves de las ilimitadas acciones militares y controlar todo el mundo, entra ya en la etapa de practica.
ee.uu. aumenta el presupuesto relativo a las armas nucleares y se aferra con ahinco al desarrollo de estas y la reorganizacion y la ampliacion de gran envergadura del aparato de guerra nuclear.
el departamento de defensa norteamericano ya tomo la medida de ampliar grandemente la funcion de la comandancia estrategica de ee.uu. que tiene bajo su jurisdiccion las fuerzas armadas nucleares, fusionando a esta con la comandancia espacial y decidio invertir durante 10 anos futuros 5 mil millones de dolares para impulsar el plan de modernizacion de las instalaciones de produccion de armas nucleares de todo el pais.
el congreso de ee.uu. en que prevalece el partido republicano, dio consentimiento al nuevo modo de acercamiento de armas nucleares, es decir, la estrategia nuclear basada en el primer ataque nuclear de la administracion bush y ratifico la mayoria de esas propuestas.
ambas camaras del congreso de ee.uu. aprobaron invertir este ano 15 500 000 dolares para desarrollar la bomba nuclear capaz de destruir las estructuras subterraneas y el senado decidio anular la "ley de prohibicion de bombas nucleares pequenas" aprobada y entrada en vigor el ano 1993.
ee.uu. declaro que encauzaria todas las fuerzas, durante 10 anos futuros, a producir las ojivas nucleares que se cargaran en los misiles de varios generos.
nuevo plan de armas nucleares que ee.uu. impulsa so pretexto de hacer frente a las armas bioquimicas y otras de los "estados bribones", destruira el equilibrio estrategico - militar y la estabilidad del mundo, acarreara la carrera armamentista nuclear mundial y aumentara la peligrosidad de la guerra nuclear.
hoy el intento de ataque militar de ee.uu. que pretexta el problema nuclear rebaso el limite y debido a esto la peninsula coreana entrana una grave situacion en que puede desatarse a todo momento la guerra nuclear mas cruel y catastrofica.
ee.uu. no se propone resolver el problema nuclear sino que complicandolo aun lleva la situacion al borde de la guerra.
recientemente ee.uu. elaboro y publico el "plan de operacion 5030" para la nueva guerra nuclear contra la republica popular democratica de corea y al reforzar en gran medida equipos militares de punta en la peninsula coreana y su contorno, lleva a la practica el plan del primer ataque.
es ampliamente conocido que el problema nuclear de la peninsula coreana es un producto de la politica hostil de ee.uu. a corea del norte.
ee.uu. es el que engendro el problema nuclear y acarreo la crisis nuclear de hoy a nuestro pais.
por eso el punto clave de la solucion del problema nuclear reside en que ee.uu. muestre su voluntad de cambiar su politica con respecto a corea.
el plan de ataque nuclear de ee.uu. de aplastar con la fuerza a la rpdc no pasa de ser una vana ilusion.
ee.uu., al tomar el monopolio y amenaza nucleares por medio omnipotente para establecer su dominio mundial, va a probar su politica nuclear en corea, pero se equivoca grandemente.
"el que a hierro mata a hierro muere" es el temperamento revolucionario de nuestro ejercito y pueblo.
ee.uu., primer pais criminal nuclear del mundo debera reflexionar de la consecuencia catastrofica que provenga de su nueva estrategia nuclear.
asesinato politico por el "partido hannara" de corea del sur
pyongyang, 8 de agosto (atcc) -- el fallecimiento del senor jong mong hon es el asesinato politico por el "partido hannara" de corea del sur que desagrada el desarrollo de las relaciones norte-sur.
asi insiste el periodico "rodong sinmun" en un comentario individual de hoy y continua:
el senor jong, forjador de la labor de reconciliacion y cooperacion entre el norte y el sur de corea, hizo un gran aporte a lograr la prosperidad y los intereses comunes de la nacion.
el "partido hannara" descontento de las relaciones economicas normales entre el comite coreano por la paz de asia y el pacifico (ccpap) y hyundai, maniobro por todos los medios para impedirlas. por fin, fraguo la absurda "ley de inspeccion especial" con el objeto de interrumpirlas y ejercio de continuo presion sobre el presidente jong, empresario principal de hyundai.
durante unos dias anteriores a ese inesperado incidente, jong se vio sometido varias veces al interrogatorio acompanado de amenaza y chantaje de 1 12 horas al dia. cuando estuvo del 23 al 25 de julio en el monte kumgang para consultar la labor de cooperacion economica norte-sur, hablo con gran indignacion al vicepresidente del ccpap y funcionarios norcoreanos de que antes de que termine la "inspeccion especial" todos los circulos politicos y economicos de sudcorea incluyendo la firma hyundai y asan "no podran realizar actividades normales" y "en el futuro la historia saldara cuenta de los inventores de la 'ley de inspeccion especial'".
precisamente, la cuchilla de esta "inspeccion" obligo al senor jong tomar el camino de la tragedia. evidentemente, esto es un asesinato cuyo autor es el "partido hannara".
este no podra liberarse jamas de su responsabilidad por la muerte del senor jong quien hizo gran contribucion a la reconciliacion, la unidad y la reunificacion de la nacion.
para el desarrollo democratico de la sociedad surcoreana, las relaciones norte-sur y la reintegracion de la patria, el "partido hannara" debe ser enterrado cuanto antes.