Austrian Preparatory Committee Inaugurated

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The Austrian Preparatory Committee for Celebrating the 55th Anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was inaugurated in Vienna on August 13. Max Verworner, chairman of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and the DPRK, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
    The preparatory committee decided to hold colorful functions in the capital and localities on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the DPRK.

Anti-U.S. Rally in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A person to person belt forming rally opposing the U.S. threat of war to the Korean peninsula and demanding a stop to the suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) was reportedly held in front of the U.S. 8th Army base in Ryongsan, Seoul, on August 16. The rally was a part of the August 15 reunification function.
    Participating there were members of the Reunification Solidarity, the National People's Solidarity, the All-people Measure Committee for the Death of Schoolgirls and citizens and students, at least 5,000 in all.
    Kwon Yong Gil, representative of the Democratic Workers' Party, addressing the rally said the Bush administration should make it clear to the international community that it has no intention to mount a preemptive attack on the north and conclude a non-aggression treaty with the north in the name of the U.S. government.
    He strongly urged the U.S. forces, the regime and the conservative media to stop suppressing Hanchongryon, saying that the students' struggle against the U.S. troops' war exercises was righteous.
    A resolution was read out there.
    The resolution called for a turnout in a struggle to frustrate the U.S. moves to blockade the north and launch a war as they drive the situation on the peninsula to a higher pitch of strain.
    At the end of the rally, the participants tried to enclose the base but failed due to the riot police.

Press Statement of Youth League

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League issued a statement to the press on August 19, expressing the belief that the south Korean youth and students will take the lead in the undaunted struggle to sweep away the group of the Grand National Party and other right-wing conservative forces and defend the gains of the struggle for democracy attained with blood. The statement fully supported an appeal to all the south Korean brothers and sisters published in joint name by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and the National Reconciliation Council, considering it an appeal calling the south Korean youth and students and people to the struggle for democratization of the society and the peace and reunification of the country.
    If the GNP and other right-wing conservative forces come into power again, south Korea would be turned into a theatre of fascist rowdyism and this land, the land of life, into a sea of war fire, so that the hope and dream of our youth and students to live as masters of a reunified country may not be realized.

11th Anniversary of Pomchonghakryon Observed

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A rally was reportedly held at the playground of Kyunghee University on August 16 to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon). At the rally an address was made by Jong Jae Uk, permanent chairman of the South Headquarters of Pomchonghakryon who is also chairman of the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils, and solidarity messages from the North Headquarters and the Overseas Headquarters of Pomchonghakryon were read out. And a congratulatory speech was made by Ra Chang Sun, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification.
    Read out at the rally was "a resolution of a rally for commemorating the 11th anniversary of Pomchonghakryon taking the lead in defending peace against the U.S. and war holding high the banner of "By our nation itself".
    The resolution condemned the U.S. for obstinately resorting to its hostile policy toward the north and the anti-national, anti-reunification forces for intensifying wholesale suppression of the pro-reunification patriotic forces with the approaching of the six-way talks for a solution to the issue of the Korean peninsula.
    The resolution called upon all the youth and students to come out in the struggle to defend peace against the U.S. and war under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.
    The resolution called for developing the solidarity movement of youth and students still further amid the struggle to defend peace against the U.S. and war and the struggle to do away with the GNP and the anti-reunification forces.

KCNA Slams U.S. Talk about "Early Inspection"

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The United States is preposterously asserting that an inspection team should be formed with five countries to participate in the six-way talks to make an "early inspection" of the DPRK's nuclear facilities and verify the dismantling of its nuclear program, to begin with. This goes to prove that the U.S. is becoming more undisguised in its foolish attempt to put international pressure upon the DPRK to scrap its nuclear program before dialogue in a bid to totally disarm it and bring it to its knees.
    Explicitly speaking, the U.S. demand for an "early inspection" of the DPRK nuclear facilities is absolutely unacceptable as it is a blatant interference in its internal affairs and an infringement upon its sovereignty.
    The U.S. has misused the verification through inspection pursuant to the Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency as a leverage to stifle the DPRK. It is still working hard to force the DPRK to dismantle its nuclear deterrent force under the pretext of verification.
    The U.S. insists that the DPRK accept the "demand for scrapping its nuclear program before dialogue", shunning the latter's proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty. This is a brigandish logic urging the DPRK to appear bare-handed before the U.S.
    If the DPRK had have any intention to accept the U.S. demand for "scrapping its nuclear program before dialogue" it would have already done so in 1994 when the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework was published. It is self-evident that the DPRK can not accept such assertion under the tense situation where the U.S. further stepped up its policy to stifle the DPRK with nukes than that time and there is the real danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
    The U.S. is forcing the DPRK to accept its absurd demand for "dismantling of its nuclear program before dialogue" and "an early inspection," shelving its commitments. This is little short of demanding the DPRK surrender to it.
    Surrender means death.
    The U.S. call for an "early inspection" of a sovereign state would only spark a conflict.
    The DPRK is approaching the issue of inspection with the highest degree of vigilance. It can discuss the issue of verification through inspection only after the confirmation that the U.S. has dropped its hostile policy towards the DPRK and stopped posing a nuclear threat to it.
    As unanimously declared by the world public, inspection is just like a detonating fuse and a prelude to a war.
    The Iraqi war proved that consenting to disarmament through inspection does not help prevent a war but sparks it.
    It is the height of folly for the U.S. to force the DPRK to accept its demand for an "early inspection", considering it as Iraq. This act would be little short of opening Pandora's box.
    The U.S. should give up its absurd attempt to convince the international community of the justice of its demand for an "early inspection" with a lip-service that it "has no intention to invade" the DPRK. It should make an early U turn in its hostile policy toward the DPRK and respond to its proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty.

Indian Embassy Officials Visit Middle School

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Rich Pal Singh and staff members of the Indian embassy in Pyongyang Tuesday visited DPRK-India Friendship Pyongyang Wasan Middle School on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the independence of India. They were briefed on the great successes made by the school equipped with modern educational equipment and facilities, while making a round of classrooms, hobby group rooms, experimental and practical training rooms with deep interests.
    Then they saw an art performance given by pupils of the school.
    The ambassador said he was deeply pleased to visit the school on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the independence of India and he would work hard to further develop the friendly relations with the DPRK in the future.

Clear Expression of Patriotic Will and Magnanimity

     Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The DPRK which values the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration decided to send its players team and supporters group to Taegu, the venue of the 22nd Universiad, prompted by the desire to boost inter-Korean relations and realize national cooperation in the basic spirit of the declaration, says Rodong Sinmun today in a commentary. The news analyst further says:
    This is a manifestation of the DPRK's warm patriotic will to achieve reconciliation and unity between compatriots in the north and the south and independent reunification.
    The group of the Grand National Party and other ultra-right conservatives held what they called "August 15 people's rally" in the plaza of the Seoul City Office to kick up a frantic anti-DPRK racket.
    As regards the never-to-be-condoned anti-DPRK rowdyism, the north called the south Korean authorities to account for this and urged them to make an apology and take a measure to prevent the recurrence of similar incident and made clear its stand to strictly deal with the travels of people of the north to a dangerous place where the security and dignity of the fellow countrymen are violated in broad daylight and the issue of sending the players and supporters groups to the Universiad due in Taegu for the present.
    National cooperation is the current of the national history.
    The players and supporters groups' participation in the Taegu Universiad proves that no desperate efforts of the anti-reunification forces in south Korea can ever stem the current of the national history toward the reunification of the north and the south of Korea.
    All the Koreans and humankind will see the north and south Koreans working hard together for reconciliation, cooperation and reunification in Taegu instead of competing with each other for victory as they did in Pusan last year.

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En Pyongyang delegacion de Surcorea a simposio Norte-Sur

     Pyongyang, 19 de agosto (ATCC) -- Llego el dia 19 a esta capital la delegacion de la parte Sur al simposio Norte-Sur para corregir la notacion inglesa del nombre del pais. La delegacion es presidida por Kang Man Gil, rector de la Universidad de Sangji de Surcorea e integrada por Kim Yong Hwan y Kim Song Ho, miembros de la Asamblea Nacional y las personalidades de los circulos cientificos y de prensa. En el aeropuerto la acogieron con un sentimiento fraternal Mun Yong Ho, director del Instituto de Filologia de la Academia de Ciencias Sociales y otros funcionarios.

Equipos de jugadores y de hinchas de RPDC iran a 22a Universiada Mundial de Taegu

     Pyongyang, 19 de agosto (ATCC) -- El vocero del comite por la Reunificacion Pacifica de la Patria (CRPP) hizo publica el dia 19 una declaracion para anunciar que la parte Norte decidio enviar el equipo de jugadores y el equipo de hinchas a Taegu de Corea del Sur donde se efectuara la 22a Universiada Mundial al considerar afortunado el hecho de que hoy la parte Sur expreso una lastima con un claro sentido de disculpa por el alboroto anti-RPDC del colectivo de opositores a la reunificacion de Corea del Sur ocurrido el 15 de agosto en Seul y dio promesa de prevenir su repeticion. La declaracion senala:
    Esto es una clara expresion de nuestra gran magnanimidad y voluntad patriotica de apreciar la Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio y realizar la cooperacion nacional conforme al espiritu fundamental de ella.
    De hecho, tomamos esta decision partiendo del unico deseo de ir hacia la reunificacion mediante la reconciliacion y la unidad de nuestra nacion homogenea aunque el "Partido Hannara" y otras fuerzas conservadoras ultraderechistas de Corea del Sur impidieron el camino hacia el Sur de nuestra delegacion deportiva.
    Tal decision refleja el caluroso sentimiento patriotico de los habitantes de la parte Norte de la Republica hacia los compatriotas hermanos de Corea del Sur.
    Nuestro presente camino hacia el Sur demuestra a las claras que es imposible detener la tendencia de la historia nacional a ser uno solo el Norte y el Sur, por muy desesperadas que sean las maniobras a que recurran las fuerzas opuestas a la reunificacion de Corea del Sur.
    Nos esforzaremos por hacer que como en los juegos Asiaticos de Pusan del ano pasado, tambien la presente Universiada Mundial de Taegu sirva de un importante motivo que manifieste a todo el mundo el verdadero aspecto de nuestra nacion mancomunada hombro con hombro con los compatriotas hermanos del Sur en vez de disputarnos por la victoria.