Korean People's Struggle for National Reunification Supported

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Papua New Guinea will positively support the struggle of the Korean people for reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south of Korea and for reunification of the country under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. Governor-General of Papua New Guinea Silas Atopare said this when the new DPRK ambassador presented credentials to him on November 11.
    Papua New Guinea has hoped to learn from the experience of Korea in all fields, interestedly watching the efforts of Korea for economic development and people's welfare, the governor-general said and adding: Bilateral relations will further develop through a normal exchange between the two countries.

Stop to U.S. Pressure for Troop Dispatch to Iraq Urged

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The Emergency People's Action against Additional Troop Dispatch to Iraq reportedly held a press conference in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on November 10 and demanded that the Bush administration put a stop to open pressure for troop dispatch. A press release made public by the organization referred to the fact that the U.S. in a recent working negotiation concerning the issue of troop dispatch to Iraq forced the south Korean side again to dispatch not non-combatants but a combat unit of a divisional scope.
    The government should not resort to a distressed negotiation with the U.S. but resolutely turn down any form of troop dispatch, the press release stressed.
    After the press conference the organization delivered a letter of protest to the U.S. embassy.

Photo Exhibition and Film Show Held

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries arranged a photo exhibition and film show at Pyongyang International Cinema House on November 13 on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and central and east European countries. Present on invitation were diplomatic envoys and staff members of the Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak embassies here.
    Acting Chairman Mun Jae Chol and Vice-Chairperson Hong Son Ok of the committee and officials concerned were on hand.
    Speeches were made there.
    After looking round photos introducing central and east European countries, the participants saw documentary films.

Punishment of Those Responsible for Human Rights Abuses Demanded

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union in a statement on November 13 said that all the Korean women would struggle for the final settlement of the issue of Korean victims of Japan's forcible drafting and force it to pay for the blood shed by them without fail. The statement said:
    The list of Koreans forcibly drafted by the Japanese imperialists during their military occupation of Korea, which was obtained after the lapse of more than half a century, serves as a convincing indictment bringing the Japanese reactionary ruling quarters to the court of history as they have shamelessly worked to keep their hideous crimes committed against humanity buried into oblivion of history forever.
    The Japanese authorities should immediately give up its foolish attempt to shirk the blame for the most hideous human rights abuses and make honest efforts to redeem the crimes related to the forcible drafting.
    The Korean people are not those who used to be in the past when they were trampled down and the Korean women are no longer the women whose chastity and dignity were violated by Japanese and had to suffer humiliation before them in the past.
    We strongly demand the Japanese government lend an ear to the just voices of the Korean people and humankind, probe the truth of each of the most serious human rights abuses committed by Japan in the past and make the results public, punish those responsible for them and make full apology and compensation to the victims and their bereaved families.

Ishihara's Reckless Remarks Slammed

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The representatives of the Korean Youth League in Japan, the Association of Young Korean Workers in Commerce in Japan and the Union of Korean Students in Japan made public statements on November 9, denouncing the ridiculous utterances of Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Ishihara, according to Choson Sinbo published in Japan. Ju Sang Cho, chairman of the Korean Youth League in Japan, said that Ishihara's remarks distorting and fabricating past history were "a rigmarole going against the trend of the times for the normalization of DPRK-Japan relations and peace and stability of Northeast Asia" and demanded an immediate withdrawal of his reckless remarks and apology.
    Pak Yong Chi, chairman of the Union of Korean Students in Japan, dismissed Ishihara's remarks as foolish outpourings prompted by a political intention to beautify the crimes committed by Japan in the past and justify them at any cost and said they wantonly contravened the basic spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    Ku Pon Hon, chairman of the Association of Young Korean Workers in Commerce in Japan, declared a fight against Ishihara's heedless act to erase the crime-woven past of Japan from the memory of the Japanese people, distort the truth of history and stir up public opinion against Korea among in Japanese society.

Actions against Troop Dispatch to Iraq Called for

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The United States is the main target of the south Koreans' struggle to fundamentally settle the issue of additional troop dispatch to Iraq, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. The struggle against the additional troop dispatch to Iraq now underway in south Korea is entirely just because it represents support to the anti-U.S. resistance of Iraqis and other Arabs who are out to defend national dignity and sovereignty and win peace against war, the commentary says, and goes on:
    The issue surfaced due to the U.S. unilateral brigandish demand and pressure, as it is against by the wishes of the people and the will of the authorities.
    U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is expected to fly into south Korea soon. It is the observation at home and abroad that the main purpose of his junket is to pressurize the south Korean authorities to dispatch combat troops to Iraq.
    What matters is why America is so keen on south Korea's dispatch of troops to Iraq. GIs are killed almost every day by Iraqi resistance forces' anti-U.S. actions. The U.S., therefore, seeks to replace its troops by young south Koreans.
    It is the U.S. sinister intention to drive south Koreans as bullet shields and achieve its aim of aggression at the cost of their blood.
    It is important to define the main target of the struggle in order to fundamentally settle this issue. The issue of the troop dispatch is a product of the U.S. pressure. In order to block the additional troop dispatch to Iraq it is necessary to hold higher such anti-U.S. slogans as "No U.S. pressure for additional troop dispatch" and "We oppose U.S., chiefly to blame for troop dispatch to Iraq."
    The south Korean authorities should clearly speak for the people and express its resolute stand against the troop dispatch, away from its servile attitude of unconditionally meeting the U.S. demand. This alone would help them get people's support and save themselves from being censured as traitors in the future.

KCTU on General Strike

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The (south) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reportedly staged a general strike on November 12, demanding a stop to labour suppression and discrimination against part-time jobs. It involved at least 150,000 unionists of the Federation of Metal Industry Trade Unions, the Federation of Chemical Fiber Trade Unions, the Railway Trade Union, the Federation of Public Service Trade Unions and others under the KCTU.
    Meanwhile, rallies took place simultaneously in 18 areas including Seoul, Pusan, Taejon, Kwangju, Taegu and Jeju island.
    The rally in front of the building of the "National Assembly" in Youido drew over 10,000 unionists of the KCTU. A resolution was published there. It said the KCTU would declare the days from Nov. 13 to 19 as a "period of struggle for putting an end to labour suppression, removing discrimination against part-time jobs and mourning labour martyrs" and vowed to intensify its fight.
    Unless the "government" accepts the demands of workers such as payment of compensation, stop to suppression, and elimination of discrimination against part-time jobs by the 19th, it would again launch an all-out struggle including a general strike on November 19 and 26, the resolution said.

Japan Urged to Redress its Past Crimes

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government proposed solution to the "issue of abduction" as its basic guidelines of diplomacy towards the DPRK. Dismissing this as wrong, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary observes: The most urgent task before it to settle the outstanding issue between the DPRK and Japan is not to solve the "issue of abduction" but redeem its past crimes. And herein lies a key to normalizing the DPRK-Japan relations.
    It goes on:
    The "issue of abduction" cropped up in the long-standing abnormal relationship between the DPRK and Japan. This issue, however, was already settled by Koizumi's visit to Pyongyang and the publication of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration last year.
    Japan's singling out the solution to the "issue of abduction" as the basic guidelines of its diplomacy towards the DPRK can not be construed otherwise than a premeditated and deliberate act to lead the hostile relations between the DPRK and Japan to an extreme phase of confrontation, indifferent to improving the bilateral relations.
    What is most important for normalizing the relations between the two countries is for Japan to liquidate its past.
    Yet, Japan has gone without compensating for its past crimes though more than a half century has passed since its defeat in the war. On top of this, it is keen on downplaying, embellishing and justifying them. Such reckless acts only stoke the Koreans' bitterness towards Japan. The Korean people are greatly enraged by Japan's fickle attitude towards the issue of redressing its past when comparing it with the German approach toward the compensation for its past wrongs. Japan keeps complicating the issue which admits of no argument as it had already been settled, shelving the most essential and fundamental issues in the relations between the DPRK and Japan. This is little short of building a higher barrier between the two countries.
    Japan's attitude is not in line with the wishes of the two peoples for improved bilateral relations and may adversely affect not only the bilateral ties but the efforts to ensure peace and security in the region.
    There is a political framework for improving the DPRK-Japan relations, ie the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    If the two countries respect the declaration whose core item is Japan's liquidation of its past and sincerely implement it, they can smoothly improve their relations and bring about positive results.

50th Anti-U.S. Solidarity Meeting Held

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The 50th anti-U.S. solidarity meeting was reportedly held in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on November 11 under the co-sponsorship of the People's Action for Revising the Unequal South Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement," the Headquarters of the Movement for the Return of the U.S. Military Base in Ryongsan, the People for Peace and Reunification and the National Reconciliation and Independent Reunification Council and the Phyongthaek Measure Committee Opposing the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base. Kang Jong Gu, professor of Dongguk University, and Ri Kwan Bok, advisor to the All-People Committee for Measures against for the Death of Schoolgirls, made speeches and then a letter of protest to Bush was read out at the meeting.
    The letter disclosed the fact that the south Korea-U.S. "annual security council" slated for November 17 would confirm and publish the content of agreement on the "expansion of the role of the U.S. troops in south Korea as a mobile force in Northeast Asia," which was discussed at the 5th "meeting to discuss the future policy on the south Korea-U.S. alliance" held in October. This is intolerable as it would escalate the military confrontation on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia, it said.
    The scheme to change the "role" of the U.S. troops in south Korea is aiming at turning the Korean peninsula into a great Northeast Asia military base by expanding the "military alliance" between south Korean and the U.S., the letter noted, demanding its immediate withdrawal.
    It resolutely opposed the south Korean trip of U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld intended to force combat troop dispatch to Iraq.
    Representing the unanimous will of all the people, we will check the U.S. unjust pressure for troop dispatch, do away with the unilateral "south Korea-U.S. relations" and thus restore national independence and dignity without fail, it declared.
    The participants in the meeting burned a photograph of Rumsfeld, opposing his visit to south Korea.

Technical Modernization Active in DPRK

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Light industry factories in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are accelerating technical modernization to improve the quality of goods and expand the production capacity. The Pyongyang Footwear Factory has newly established a production process to make a million pairs of sports shoes every year.
    The Phyongsong Synthetic Leather Factory manufactured five PP fibre-spinning machines, each with an annual production capacity of 200 tons, and introduced equipment for automatically controlling temperature irrespective of the change of frequency to better the quality of products.
    The Sinuiju Cosmetics Factory manufactured a calcium carbonate crusher with a capacity of 100 kilograms per hour, while the Pyongyang Daily Necessities Factory made various molds including a mold of 12-litre plastic bucket, making it possible to produce more than 10,000 quality plastic goods every month.
    The Pyongyang Korean Clothes Factory has newly set up two embroidery machines and dyeing processes for tetoron rayon cloth were established in the Anju and Pakchon silk mills.
    The Mangyongdae Shoes Company built a production process of injection-molded boots with an annual capacity of 230,000 pairs and started operation, and the Hwangju Textile Mill made an heat treatment equipment for cloth.
    The Kyongsong Porcelain Factory constructed a high-speed roller kiln and began making rollers by itself to increase the production six times. And the Hamhung Spices Factory erected a tower with a refining capacity of 100 litres per hour.

Pine Needle Tea Made in DPRK

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Researchers of the Wood Processing Company of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has made pine needle tea, a natural health drink. They has succeeded in finding out the remedial effects of pine needle which has been known as pharmaceuticals for longevity from old times, and invented a method of extracting essence from pine needles after years of study of references and ecological experimentation.
    The fine pine needle tea is made through processes of enzyme treatment, extraction and concentration.
    It, treated in low temperature, has various natural efficacious components.
    It contains a large amount of vitamin C, B1, B2, B12, PP, A and E, calcium, selenium, microelements, nucleic acid, essential amino acid, refined oil, etc.
    Therefore, it is efficacious for the lack of vitamin C, neuralgia, cerebral hemorrhage, arteriosclerosis, aging, limb paralysis, various kinds of hemorrhage, fatigue, digestive trouble, etc.
    A person who had long taken antibiotic for chronic colitis, but to no effect, cured the disease with the tea.
    A hospital administered modern drugs and pine needle tea to a hundred patients. According to the comparative experiment, the tea has proved very efficacious for liver.
    The researchers are now exerting efforts to make liquor, sweets, etc. with pine needles. The fax number of the company is 00850-2-381-4416.

Greetings to Palestinian President

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Yasser Arafat, president of the State, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and chief of the Palestinian National Authority, on November 14 on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of proclamation of the State of Palestine. Extending warm congratulations to him and the Palestinian people, the message wished them greater success in the struggle to retake the legitimate national rights including the right to found an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Greetings to Jordanian Foreign Minister

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a message of greetings to Marwan Al Moasher on his reappointment as minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to expand and develop in conformity with aspirations and wishes of the two peoples, the message wished him success in his responsible work.

KCNA Blasts New Type Missile Deployment in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The south Korean authorities announced that they would deploy at least 100 tactical ground-to-ground missiles with a 300 km firing range long enough to strike the whole of the DPRK within this year, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK. Those missiles manufactured by the U.S. Lockeed Martin Company are reportedly capable of striking the strategic targets including rear bases, munitions factories and communications facilities in the north.
    This is a very dangerous development as it would deteriorate the military situation on the Korean peninsula growing tenser due to the U.S. strategy to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK which has entered the stage of its implementation.
    This is, therefore, intolerable.
    The south Korean war servants' frantic missile deployment for the U.S. war of aggression against the DPRK arouses the unanimous denunciation of all the Koreans as it is an anti-national and anti-peace criminal act of violating the basic spirit of the June 15 joint declaration.
    What merits serious attention is that the missile deployment is part of the U.S. arms buildup for a war of aggression against the DPRK.
    Recently the U.S. added 20-odd Longbow AH-64Ds capable of flying more than 370 km to a Apache battalion of the U.S. 6th armoured brigade in south Korea, according to its arms buildup plan. It also forward deployed all kinds of modern task forces including "PAC-3" in south Korea in a bid to finally round off its preparations for another Korean war.
    The south Korean warhawks' missile deployment aimed to keep pace with the U.S. war preparations reflects their political aim to take the lead in executing the U.S. plan to stifle the DPRK by force.
    It is no secret that the south Korean military has long cried out for an urgent need to boost the missile defence capacity under the absurd pretext of a missile attack from the north.
    The U.S. and south Korea even agreed to escalate the military moves to stifle the DPRK at the U.S.-south Korea meeting to discuss the policy on future alliance held on October 6.
    The missiles being deployed against this political and military backdrop are entirely targeted against fellow countrymen in the north. Once they are tipped with U.S. nuclear warheads, Koreans will suffer a nuclear holocaust and all their territory will turn into debris.
    It goes without saying that both the north and the south will fall victim to a nuclear war if it breaks out on the peninsula. The north builds up a deterrent force for self-defence to cope with the increasing nuclear threat from the U.S. The south Korean bellicose forces' moves for missile deployment, therefore, fundamentally differs from it in their mission and nature.
    The destiny of the Korean nation is exposed to the greatest threat posed by the U.S. If the south Korean authorities go in for military standoff and war to serve the outsiders behind the scene of dialogue, exchange, reconciliation and cooperation, they will have to own full responsibility for all the ensuing consequences.

Gift to Kim Jong Il from Head of Indonesian Delegation

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by the head of a delegation of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a visit to the DPRK. It was handed to Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun by Director General for Asia Pacific and Africa Makarim Wibisono, who is heading the delegation.

Mongolian Prime Minister to Visit DPRK

     Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) - Mongolian Prime Minister Nambarin Enkhbayar will shortly pay an official visit to the DPRK at the invitation of Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Pak Pong Ju

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UMDC exige castigar a los responsables de crimenes de violacion al derecho humano

     Pyongyang, 14 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Todas las coreanas lucharan hasta el fin por la solucion definitiva del problema de los coreanos victimas del arresto forzoso y los liberaran ciertamente del rencor. Asi senalo la vocera de la Union de Mujeres Democraticas de Corea (UMDC) en una declaracion fechada 13 y continuo:
    La lista de los coreanos victimas del arresto forzoso en el periodo de la ocupacion militar del imperialismo japones divulgada hoy a mas de medio siglo de aquel entonces servira de un acta de acusacion destinada a llevar al juicio de la historia a los dominantes reaccionarios de Japon que actuan descaradamente para poner enteramente en el olvido de la historia sus tremendos crimenes de violacion al derecho humano.
    Las autoridades japonesas deben abandonar de inmediato su vana ilusion de evadir la responsabilidad de los actos criminales de ultragran tipo de violacion al derecho humano y hacer esfuerzos sinceros por la solucion justa de este problema.
    El pueblo coreano no es aquel que en el pasado fue el objeto de opresion y las coreanas no son aquellas que en el pasado privadas de entereza y dignidad vivieron sometidas a la afrenta.
    Demandamos energicamente que el gobierno japones preste oidos al justo clamor del pueblo coreano y la humanidad para averiguar y publicar los verdaderos aspectos de todos los actos criminales de ultragran tipo al derecho humano perpetrados por el Estado antiguo, castigar a los responsables de estos y hacer la disculpa y la indemnizacion estrictas a los danados y sus familiares.

Sobre la proxima visita a Corea del primer ministro de Mongolia

     Pyongyang, 14 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Nambaryn Enkhbayar, primer ministro de Mongolia realizara pronto una visita oficial a Corea cumplimentando la invitacion de Pak Pong Ju, primer ministro del Consejo de Ministros de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.

Liquidacion del pasado es la tarea primordial para Japon

     Pyongyang, 14 de noviembre (ATCC) -- La tarea primordial de la solucion de los problemas pendientes entre la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Japon no es el "problema del secuestro", sino la liquidacion del pasado de Japon y he ahi la llave de la mejora de las relaciones entre los dos paises. Asi senala el periodico "Rodong Sinmun" en un articulo individual de hoy en relacion con el comportamiento erroneo del gobierno japones que definio como orientacion principal de la diplomacia con respecto a la RPDC la solucion del "problema de secuestro" y continua:
    Esta cuestion fue surgida por la duracion de las relaciones anormales entre ambos paises y solucionada completamente por la visita del premier japones Koizumi a Corea, realizada el ano pasado y la publicacion de la Declaracion Corea-Japon de Pyongyang.
    La presentacion de tal orientacion principal por Japon demuestra que este no tiene interes en la mejora de relaciones bilaterales y maniobra intencionalmente para llevar al estado de confrontacion extremista las relaciones hostiles entre los dos paises.
    La liquidacion del pasado criminal de Japon es el asunto importantisimo para la normalizacion de las relaciones bilaterales.
    Hasta la fecha a mas de medio siglo desde la derrota de Japon, este no liquida sus actos criminales del pasado sino los tergiversa, embellece y justifica.
    Tales actos descarados agrandan mas el odio del pueblo coreano a Japon.
    Ahora, los coreanos, al ver las actitudes diferentes de Japon de Alemania sobre los crimenes del pasado, no contienen la gran indignacion al acto descarado de ese pais isleno.
    Este deja a un lado el problema mas esencial y fundamental en sus relaciones con Corea y crea la complejidad con el problema ya resuelto que no tiene ningun valor discutible, lo cual es un acto para agravar las relaciones hostiles entre ambos paises.
    El presentar la solucion del "problema de secuestro" como tarea primordial de la diplomacia con Corea no conviene a la demanda de los pueblos de ambos paises que desean la mejora de las relaciones bilaterales sino ejercera una influencia mala no solo sobre las relaciones de ambos paises sino tambien sobre la preservacion de la paz y la seguridad de la region.
    Ya esta preparado el esquema politico para mejorar las relaciones entre los dos paises.
    Eso es precisamente la Declaracion Corea-Japon de Pyongyang.
    Si respetan el espiritu de este documento que toma por el nucleo la liquidacion del pasado y lo ejecutan sinceramente, seran solucionadas sin complicaciones las relaciones entre Corea y Japon y se lograra un resultado positivo.

Blanco de la lucha contra el envio adicional de efectivos a Irak es EE.UU.

     Pyongyang, 14 de noviembre (ATCC) -- El blanco de la lucha esencial para solucionar raigalmente el problema del envio adicional de efectivos a Irak en el Sur de Corea es EE.UU.. Asi senala el diario "Rodong Sinmun" en un comentario individual de hoy y continua:
    Es del todo justa la lucha de oposicion al envio adicional de los efectivos a Irak en el Sur de Corea porque esta lucha es una expresion del apoyo a la resistencia antiyanqui de los pueblos de Irak y los demas paises arabes que defienden la dignidad y la soberania nacionales y aspiran a la paz.
    El envio adicional de los efectivos surcoreanos a Irak es un problema surgido no por la demanda de los habitantes ni por la voluntad de las autoridades sino por la unilateral demanda bandidesca y la presion de EE.UU..
    El secretario de defensa norteamericano Rumsfeld realizara pronto una visita al Sur de Corea con el proposito principal de ejercer presion para que este envie los efectivos militares a Irak segun la opinion interna y externa.
    EE.UU. se desespera tanto para efectuar el envio de los jovenes y adultos surcoreanos a Irak, o sea, para lanzar a estos como para balas en sustitucion de los soldados norteamericanos que mueren cada dia por la lucha antiyanqui de las fuerzas resistentes de Irak y realizar a costa de ello su proposito agresivo.
    El problema es fijar correctamente el blanco de la lucha esencial por solucionar raigalmente el problema del envio de los efectivos. Este problema ha surgido por la imposicion y la presion de EE.UU. y el camino para detener el envio adicional de efectivos a Irak es enarbolar las consignas antiyanquis, entre otras, "Oposicion a la imposicion norteamericana para el envio de los efectivos a Irak" y "Oposicion a EE.UU., autor del envio de los efectivos a Irak".
    En cuanto a este problema tambien las autoridades surcoreanas deben pronunciar las palabras reflejando la voluntad de los habitantes, abandonar la actitud de obedecer a ciegas a la demanda de EE.UU. y expresar la posicion de resuelta oposicion al envio de los efectivos. Solo de esta manera, podran disfrutar del apoyo del pueblo y evitar el destino del traidor en el futuro.