Evening Galas Held on Day of Youth
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Evening galas of youth and students were held in different parts of the country on August 28, the Day of Youth.
The gala venues in Pyongyang such as the plazas of the Tower of the Juche Idea, the Monument to Party Foundation, the Arch of Triumph, the Monument to Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War and Pyongyang Indoor Stadium were crowded with young men and women and students celebrating the Day of Youth with pride and joy.
The galas began with the merry tune of "Waltz of the Day of Youth".
The plazas turned into animated scenes of dances to the tunes of such songs as "Youth Is Glorified under the Leadership of the Party", "My Youth Will Be Dedicated to the Country," "Glory to the Country and Youth".
The galas surged to a great crescendo when Children's Union members and kindergartners joined the dances to folk melodies.
U.S. Urged to Drop Onesided Policy in Favour of Japan
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The United States still designates the East Sea of Korea as "Japan Sea" in an onesided way of thinking in favour of Japan and from a biased stand.
This is an act against history as it ignores the fair principle of marking places and goes against the trend of the times, Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary slamming the U.S. State Department for marking the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan as "Japan Sea" in its homepage introducing the Korean peninsula.
The commentary goes on:
The designation of the East Sea of Korea as "Japan Sea" is a mockery of the Korean people and an infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.
The issue of correcting the wrong designation of the East Sea of Korea is a matter of principle related to undoing the leftover of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule over Korea and observing the principle of marking places and that of fidelity to historical truth and ensuring international justice and impartiality and a historical task.
The U.S. is also to blame for the wrong designation of the East Sea of Korea as "Japan Sea", the commentary observes, charging that the U.S. is persistently pursuing an onesided policy in favour of Japan with hostility and bitter prejudice towards the DPRK.
The U.S. should face up to the times and history and make a switchover in its onesided policy in favour of Japan and its hostile policy toward DPRK.
Anti-DPRK Rowdyism Denounced
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity of south Korea in a statement on August 25 denounced the ultra-right conservatives for kicking up an anti-DPRK racket in front of the Taegu Press Center on August 24, according to a news report.
The statement condemned the ultra-right organizations for engaging themselves in wicked hostile acts against the north, invariably opposed to the participation of the north's players team and supporters group in the Universiad.
The statement demanded the ultra-right organizations responsible for the incidents immediately stop fostering confrontation and hostility and apologize for their rash acts of chilling the desire of the fellow countrymen in the south and the north to work for reconciliation and unity between the south and the north and creating difficulties in the Universiad.
Meanwhile, the Youth and Students Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration released a statement on August 26 warning that if the Grand National Party of south Korea and the ultra-right anti-reunification conservatives commit more rash acts, they can never escape the people's stronger resentment and denunciation.
National Student Program Competition Held
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The 4th National Student Program Competition took place in Pyongyang from Aug. 25 to 28.
It drew more than 130 students of universities, colleges and middle schools who had proved successful at competitions among students of universities and colleges, provinces, cities and counties across the country.
They competed in applying the knowledge derived from the basic science subjects including computer, math. physics, intellectual subjects, diagram processing and other high-level subjects of programming.
Ri Jong Hwan of Kim Il Sung University and Kong Ryong Il of Kim Chaek University of Technology came first in the university competition, Min Chol Hyok of Tukjang College of Coal Mining and Yu Thae Gil of Pyongyang Middle School No. 1 placed first in the college and middle school contests respectively.
A closing ceremony was held at Kim Chaek University of Technology yesterday.
Commendations and prizes were awarded to successful participants at the ceremony.
Rodong Sinmun on Immortal Exploits of Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed article on the immortal exploits leader Kim Jong Il has performed by training a large contingent of heroes and heroines in the Songun era in the run-up to the meeting of heroes and heroines in the Songun era slated to be held here with splendor before the 55th anniversary of the DPRK.
The article says:
The heroes and heroines of the times, the Songun era, are the vanguard fighters, staunch revolutionaries, ardent patriots and performers of miracles and innovations as they have absolutely worshipped and devotedly defended the leadership of the revolution.
The heroic spirit and quality of Kim Jong Il are the main source of the emergence of the large contingent of heroes and heroines in the Songun era.
His Songun policy is a decisive factor of having trained these ranks while his trust and loving care served as the cradle in which they have been trained.
For everyone to live and struggle like heroes is a worthwhile work to eternally glorify his exploits.
In order for the army and people to live and struggle like heroes they should remain boundlessly loyal to the Party and the leader.
The loyalty to the Party and the leader means most ardent patriotism and the deepest love for the people and the most vivid manifestation of heroism and the main criteria of heroes and heroines of the times. When everyone learns from the heroes and heroines of the Songun era and lives and struggles like them our Party becomes stronger, our army more powerful and the DPRK prosperous.
Keynote Speeches Made at Six-way Talks
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- Heads of delegations to the six-way talks on the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. made keynote speeches at the talks opened in Beijing on August 27.
Assistant State Secretary James Kelly, head of the U.S. delegation, said that the U.S. immediate purpose is to ensure that the north Korean nuclear program is eliminated in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner. He added that the U.S. can discuss security assurances and political and economic benefits only when the DPRK eliminates its nuclear weapons program completely, verifiably and irreversibly.
Noting that the U.S. would not pursue the bilateral talks with the DPRK for the solution to the nuclear issue, he said: Once the DPRK's nuclear weapons program is eliminated, the U.S. is prepared to start bilateral negotiations on a series of issues, including missiles, conventional weapons, counterfeiting and drug smuggling, terrorism, human rights and abduction. That would be aimed to normalize the bilateral relations.
The conclusion of any non-aggression treaty is neither appropriate nor necessary. The U.S. is, therefore, not interested in it. Once the DPRK's verifiable and irreversible abandonment of the nuclear weapons program is confirmed, the U.S. would be ready to discuss security concerns with other countries at the next talks.
Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, who is leading the DPRK delegation to the six-way talks on the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., in his keynote speech made clear the principled stand on the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
He said:
The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the general goal of the DPRK. It is not our goal to have nuclear weapons.
The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula was our initiative and it is our consistent stand and the desire of all Koreans to realise it. The U.S. is, however, standing in its way.
If the nuclear issue between the two countries is to be peacefully settled through dialogue the U.S. should make a radical switchover in its policy toward the DPRK.
This is a master key to and a precondition for the settlement of the nuclear issue
The Bush administration openly disclosed its attempt to use nuclear weapons after listing the DPRK as part of "an axis of evil" and a target of a "preemptive nuclear attack."
This prompted us to judge that the Bush administration is going to stifle our system by force and decide to build a strong deterrent force to cope with it. Hence, we determined to possess that force. Our deterrent force is not aimed to attack somebody without any proper reason. It is a means for self-defence to protect our sovereignty.
We can dismantle our nuclear program if the U.S. makes a switchover in its hostile policy towards us and does not pose any threat to us.
The benchmark for our judgement that the U.S. no longer antagonizes us will be provided only when a non-aggression treaty is concluded between the DPRK and the U.S., diplomatic relations opened between them and the U.S. does not obstruct our economic dealing with other countries.
The non-aggression treaty called for by us is by no means to demand "security assurances," but to have a non-aggression treaty with legal biding force whereby both signatories commit themselves to non-aggression.
The U.S. can not shirk its responsibility for having suspended the implementation of the agreed framework.
We have fully fulfilled our commitment to freeze our nuclear facility since the adoption of the agreed framework.
Kelly who came to the DPRK as a special envoy of President Bush in October 2002, failing to present any specific "evidence", groundlessly pulled us up, using coercive words and rudely behaving ignoring the Oriental custom. He claimed that we have secretly pushed forward an enriched uranium program in breach of the Agreed Framework.
In this regard we made it clear that we have no secret nuclear program but we are entitled to have weapons more powerful than those based on enriched uranium. We have powerful weapons, including single-hearted unity. After Kelly's Pyongyang visit, the U.S. misled the public opinion, saying that we admitted to the secret nuclear program and unilaterally stopped the supply of heavy fuel oil from November, 2002.
The DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework concluded in October 1994 was thus nullified due to the U.S. unilateral refusal to fulfil its commitments.
The DPRK has abided by the principle that the measures for settling the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. should be implemented by simultaneous actions.
These actions provide a realistic way of realizing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Any opposition to the simultaneous actions would mean opposing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and, furthermore, can not be construed otherwise than a revelation of an intention to disarm the DPRK and swallow it up. "Early inspection" can never be accepted in any case, he said, setting out our proposal for a package solution to the nuclear issue and the order of simultaneous actions.
He further said:
For a package solution, the U.S. should conclude a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK, establish diplomatic relations with it and guarantee the economic cooperation between the DPRK and Japan and between the north and the south of Korea. And it should also compensate for the loss of electricity caused by the delayed provision of light water reactors and complete their construction.
For this, the DPRK should not make nuclear weapons and allow the nuclear inspection, finally dismantle its nuclear facility, put on ice the missile testfire and stop its export.
According to the order of simultaneous actions, the U.S. should resume the supply of heavy fuel oil, sharply increase the humanitarian food aid while the DPRK should declare its will to scrap its nuclear program.
According to this order, we will allow the refreeze of our nuclear facility and nuclear substance and monitoring and inspection of them from the time the U.S. has concluded a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK and compensated for the loss of electricity.
We will settle the missile issue when diplomatic relations are opened between the DPRK and the U.S. and between the DPRK and Japan.
And we will dismantle our nuclear facility from the time the LWRs are completed.
Clarifying the principled stand of the DPRK on finding a solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., our delegation would like to advance the following proposal prompted by the desire to make the six-way talks fruitful.
First, the DPRK and the U.S. should make clear their will to clear up bilateral concerns.
The DPRK will clarify its will to dismantle its nuclear program if the U.S. makes clear its will to give up its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
Second, all the countries participating in the six-way talks should agree on the principle to implement the measures for solving the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. through simultaneous actions.
If our reasonable proposal is turned aside at the talks, we will judge that the U.S. does not intend to give up its attempt to stifle the DPRK by force at an appropriate time while persistently insisting the DPRK "scrap its nuclear program first" to waste time.
In this case the DPRK can not dismantle its nuclear deterrent force but will have no option but to increase it. Whether the nuclear issue will be settled or not depends on the U.S. attitude.
Chinese, Russian, south Korean and Japanese sides made keynote remarks at the talks.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, head of the Chinese delegation, said the nuclear issue should be solved peacefully, adding that the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty, peaceful co-existence and normalization of relations with the U.S. and the establishment of economic and trade relations with other countries proposed by the DPRK are a positive, constructive, just and rational offer. He noted that the conclusion of the non-aggression treaty should be settled through the DPRK-U.S. direct talks and the issues of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and security concerns raised by the DPRK should be solved simultaneously. It is important to achieve durable peace on the Korean peninsula by establishing a peace mechanism on the peninsula with the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue as a momentum, and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is favorable for protecting the fundamental interests of the north and the south of Korea and the stable situation in Northeast Asia, he said.
Russian Vice Foreign Minister Losyukov, head of the Russian delegation, said an emergency measure is needed to defuse the tensions on the Korean peninsula, noting that it is important to work out a "roadmap" by incorporating each other's measures.
He noted that Russia is interested in ensuring denuclearization and durable peace on the Korean peninsula and maintaining reliable security for all the countries in the region and developing the mutually beneficial cooperation.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of south Korea Lee Soo-Hyuck, head of the south Korean delegation, set out the "simultaneous action order," promising to sincerely implement the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and continue the economic aid to the DPRK on the basis of compatriotism and humanitarianism and noting the nuclear issue should be comprehensively solved.
Department Director of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Japanese delegation, noted that it is necessary to solve the missile and abduction issues in a comprehensive way together with the nuclear issue.
Through the keynote remarks made by each delegation at the six-way talks one may comment on the stance of each country as follows:
The DPRK reclarified its consistent stand that its goal is the denuclearization and the guarantee of peace and security on the Korean peninsula and comprehensively set out a clear orientation and specific ways for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue including the principle of simultaneous actions.
The DPRK set the goal of dropping its nuclear program from the time the U.S. abandons its hostile policy towards the DPRK and advanced a package solution and simultaneous action order, calling for implementing all the measures to attain the goal on a phased basis on the principle of simultaneous actions.
China, Russia and south Korea also referred to the package solution and the way of simultaneous actions, urging the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue.
Japan took the attitude to use the six-way talks for meeting its political interests, focusing on the abduction issue rather than the settlement of the nuclear issue.
The prevailing tone of the keynote remarks is that it is imperative to achieve denuclearization and peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, peacefully solve the nuclear issue and to this end give a package solution to all issues of concerns between the DPRK and the U.S. on a phased basis on the principle of simultaneous actions.
But regrettably, the United States flatly refused such views.
The United States opposed the package solution and the principle of simultaneous actions instead of expressing its will to make a practical switchover in its policy.
It is the U.S. stand that only when the DPRK scraps its nuclear program first the U.S. can discuss issues of security assurances and economic aid and the issues of missile, conventional weapons, human rights and other issues should be discussed if the DPRK wants to normalize the relations with the U.S. even after it completely abandons its nuclear program.
The United States said the next talks can take place only when the DPRK expresses its intention to scrap its nuclear program.
In the final analysis, the U.S. would move only after the DPRK is completely disarmed.
It is against common sense to raise such a demand to its counterpart at the talks when the DPRK and the U.S. are standing in confrontation with each other with arms and this raises a serious question as to its true intention.
The DPRK cannot but interpret this otherwise than a U.S. intention to invade it after it is disarmed.
It is a brigandish like demand beyond the tolerance limit.
It has become clearer through the six-way talks that the United States is forcing the DPRK to disarm, while persistently pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
In fact, the DPRK hoped that an agreement was reached between them at the talks whereby the DPRK could be able to express its will to scrap its nuclear program in return for the U.S. manifestation of its will to make a policy switchover at least and the hard-won dialogue would go on.
As such expectation was betrayed, it is not difficult to guess how the DPRK will react to it.
By flatly refusing to exchange even words expressing the will to make policy switchover, the United States put the prospect of the next talks at peril.
For Spanish-speaking people
Elogian noble personalidad e inmortales hazanas de Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, 29 de agosto (ATCC) -- Este ano, numerosos paises del mundo organizaron muchas actividades que elogian noble personalidad del Dirigente Kim Jong Il y sus inmortales hazanas.
Con motivo del 16 de febrero (cumpleanos del Dirigente), el dia de la fundacion del ejercito y otras efemerides de Corea le dirigieron al Dirigente cestos de flores, mensajes y cartas de felicitacion el presidente de la Federacion Rusa, el rey de Camboya, el presidente de Estado de Palestina y otros dirigentes del Estado y gobierno de varios paises del mundo, y los lideres de mas de 90 partidos politicos, entre otros, el presidente del CC del Partido Popular Revolucionario Lao, el secretario general del Partido Nacional Progresista Unido de Egipto y el presidente del Comite Central del Partido Comunista de Brasil.
Tambien, mas de 300 partidos politicos y entidades del mundo, entre otros, el Partido Comunista del Libano, el Movimiento Nacional de Uganda, el Partido por el Progreso y la Unidad de Guinea y el Instituto Cultural y de Amistad Peruano-Coreano celebraron mitines, seminarios y diversas festividades y aprobaron mensajes y cartas de felicitacion al Dirigente de Corea.
Al Dirigente Kim Jong Il le otorgaron titulos de ciudadano honorario las ciudades de Netzahualcoyotl, Chiautempan y San Nicolas de Los Garza de Mexico y la region de Lince de la ciudad de Lima del Peru y la Universidad Alas Anas del Peru, el diploma de doctor honoris causa y la medalla.
Ademas, le rindieron regalos el ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba, el primer secretario del Partido Comunista de Albania, el gobernador de la provincia de Novosibirsk de Rusia, el presidente de la Asociacion Internacional de Juristas Democratas, el secretario general del Comite Regional Africano para el Estudio de la Idea Juche y otras personalidades de varios paises y organizaciones internacionales y regionales.
Por otra parte, Pakistan, Nepal, Siria, Egipto, Bulgaria, Italia y otros paises dieron a luz los libros que elogian la noble personalidad y hazanas revolucionarias del Dirigente y numerosas personalidades de diversos circulos publicaron poesias y articulos.
Noticias de 22a Universiada Mundial
Taegu, 28 de agosto (Corresponsal de la ATCC) -- El dia 28, en las semifinales las futbolistas coreanas participantes en la 22a Universiada Mundial ganaron al equipo de Taipei de China por 4 a 0 y adquirieron la calificacion para participar en las finales.
El mismo dia, la judoka Pak Myong Hui ocupo segundo lugar en la categoria de 48 kilos.
Acto "Noche de anoranza por el General Padre"
Taegu, 28 de agosto (Corresponsal de la ATCC) -- Los miembros de la delegacion de la Asociacion Deportiva Universitaria (ADU) de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea que participan en la 22a Universiada Mundial efectuaron el dia 28 en Taegu el acto "Noche de anoranza por el General Padre" con motivo del Dia de la Juventud.
En la ocasion participaron Jon Kuk Man, jefe de la delegacion, los miembros del equipo de jugadores y el grupo de hinchas, de la RPDC.
Los miembros de la delegacion abrieron escena de funcion artistica.
Esta fue iniciada por el coro "Cancion del General Kim Jong Il" y en la escena se pusieron el solo "Nuestro Lider", solo de acordeon "El general en el caballo blanco", el coro "Es mejor nuestro General", solo "El encanto", que reflejan la anoranza por el General, y otras piezas.
Ri Hyang Ok, estudiante del Instituto Superior de Musica y Danza de Pyongyang se refirio a la emocion de aquel dia en que habia cantado ante el estimado General y canto la cancion "Ryonggangguinari".
Om Song Ok, estudiante del Instituto Superior de Dramaturgia y Cinematografia de Pyongyang recito la poesia improvisada "Idea sobre la anoranza".
Los presentes en el acto cantaron en coro la cancion "Donde esta querido General".".
En la ocasion fue aprobada una carta dirigida al Dirigente Kim Jong Il.