CPRF Issues Indictment

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued a lengthy indictment on March 6, denouncing the transfer of the U.S. military bases in south Korea pursuant to the U.S. policy to launch a war of aggression against the DPRK as a very dangerous move to reinforce those bases to meet its strategic and greedy interests. The indictment, which was released at a time when the U.S. is placing on the order of the day the issue of transferring the U.S. military bases in south Korea under the pretext of the "relocation" of the U.S. troops, asserted that there is neither reason nor pretext for the U.S. to keep those bases in south Korea.
    It roundly exposed the true essence and the purpose of the bases of the U.S. troops who have brought unspeakable misfortune and sufferings to the Korean nation, remaining in the south side of the Korean peninsula like poisonous thorns for nearly 60 years under the signboards of "security" and "peace".
    According to the indictment, the U.S. military bases in south Korea are densest in the world and a military centre involving the three services.
    The indictment continues:
    The U.S. has at least 90 military bases of all sorts throughout south Korea from the joint security area of Panmunjom to the Mosulpho air force base in Jeju Island.
    The U.S. bases are the principal place of Yankees whose essential attributes are murder, arson, plunder and destruction and the rendezvous of mercenary soldiers.
    They have brought immeasurable material and economic damage to south Korea. They have not only inflicted human and material damage on south Korea but served as a center widely disseminating corrupt Yankee culture.
    Those bases are the inviolable entities that the U.S. occupation forces are given absolute privilege.
    The U.S. forced south Korea to sign "agreements" which legally allow it to use south Korean land for an indefinite period free of charge and furthermore, makes south Korea pay directly or indirectly tens of billions of U.S. dollars a year for the upkeep of those bases and facilities.
    These bases are considered "kingdoms of darkness" where all the crimes of U.S. troops are covered and backed and the security of criminals is guaranteed.
    All sorts of crimes committed by the U.S. troops in south Korea number 5 cases on a daily average and the number of those reported so far stands at more than 270,000 cases.
    The U.S. military bases in south Korea are bases for aggression and war wearing the veil of "peace."
    Those bases serve as local tools implementing the U.S. policy for the war of aggression against the DPRK and vantage points of military strategic importance for attacking and invading the DPRK any moment.
    They also serve as forward bases of war supplies for the war of aggression against the DPRK.
    Deployed in those bases are nuclear weapons, depleted uranium shells, N-bombs and other weapons of mass destruction that gravely threaten human lives.
    The U.S. forces bases in south Korea also play a role of a scout unit for the aggression of the DPRK including espionage and military provocation.
    The U.S. frantic moves to transfer its military bases in south Korea are aimed to step up and finally round off its preparations for the aggression of the DPRK.
    Those bases are look-out posts for the perpetuation of national division which militarily back the U.S. policy of perpetuating the division of Korea.
    As a strong trend for reconciliation, unity and reunification between the north and the south of Korea has come after the publication of the historic June 15 joint declaration, the U.S. has overtly and covertly worked to check it.
    The U.S. bases in south Korea are the biggest powder magazines in Far East that have been deployed according to the U.S. strategy to put Asia under its domination.
    Stockpiled in those bases are all types of military equipment including thousands of tactical nuclear weapons, many depleted uranium shells, all types of aircraft including F-16 and F-15 fighters, means for carrying nukes, and hundreds of Lance, Patriot and other missiles and atomic artillery pieces.
    Those are aimed to invade not only north Korea but other parts of Asia.
    As long as the U.S. military bases, powder magazines in the East, continue to exist in south Korea, a war by the U.S. to loot Asia is unavoidable in the new century. A war is the matter of time.
    There is neither reason nor pretext for the U.S. to keep its military bases in south Korea. Their presence in south Korea is illegal and unlawful. Their presence diametrically runs counter to the resolution of the UN General Assembly on withdrawing the U.S. troops from south Korea.
    The U.S. will never escape a shameful fate of being driven out south Korea, if it persistently seeks to keep its troops there.

U.S. Policy of Aggression against DPRK Flailed

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The 25th Congress of the Communist Party of Norway adopted a statement titled "The Communist Party of Norway Extends Solidarity to the Struggle of the Korean People" on February 22. The U.S. policy of aggression against the DPRK is rendering the situation of the Korean peninsula extremely strained and laying a stumbling block in the struggle of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people for socialism, the statement said, and stressed:
    The U.S. is seeking to justify its policy of aggression against the DPRK under the pretext of putting an end to "terrorism", but it is a real terrorist act that the U.S. wantonly scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, resorting to the tactics of pressure and blockade.
    Meanwhile, the leadership of the Communist Party of Norway discussed the matter of developing relations with the Workers' Party of Korea several times during and after the congress.
    The party leadership expressed its will to increase support for the WPK in its struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country and socialism and achieve national reunification and, at the same time, to make all efforts to develop cooperative relations between the two parties.

European Regional Headquarters of Pomminryon Criticizes U.S. Korea Policy

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The European Regional Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) made public a statement titled "We vehemently condemn U.S. Korea policy" on March 2. The U.S. announced a "report on human rights", timing to coincide with the six-way talks opening, which touched off astonishment and indignation, said the statement.
    The human rights issue loudmouthed by the U.S. is an unequivocal war plot and CIA's fabrication and distortion of information, the statement noted, sternly castigating the Bush administration for its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The statement strongly demanded in the name of all the fellow countrymen trying to achieve independent and peaceful reunification by our nation itself that the Bush administration, the root cause of war and the prime mover of human rights abuses, immediately renounce the "report on human rights" and withdraw U.S. troops from south Korea.

Monuments to Revolutionary Sites Built

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Monuments to the revolutionary sites of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il have been built on the Sammyo Cooperative Farm in Kangso County, South Phyongan Province, the Tongju Cooperative Farm in Pyokdong County, North Phyongan Province and the Poku Cooperative Farm in Sinchon County, South Hwanghae Province and a monument to the revolutionary site of Kim Jong Il at a branch factory of the Kusong Machine-tool Plant. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il visited the Sammyo Cooperative Farm on April 28, Juche 36 (1947) and October 13, Juche 53 (1964) and other days to teach it to increase grain production, develop fruit farming and livestock breeding, spruce up rural houses and intensify class education among youth and children.
    The President visited the Tongju Cooperative Farm on October 10, Juche 46 (1957) and on July 11, Juche 52 (1963) to indicate concrete tasks to diversify agricultural management to improve the living standard of farmers.
    Kim Jong Il visited the farm on August 6, Juche 55 (1966) to lay stress on developing livestock breeding and sericulture and building up villages into a socialist modern countryside as taught by the President.
    The President gave on-the-spot guidance to the Poku Cooperative Farm on January 26, Juche 51 (1962) and other days and Kim Jong Il on January 26, Juche 51 (1962) and on August 19, Juche 53 (1964).
    Kim Jong Il visited the branch factory of the Kusong Machine-tool Plant on January 25, Juche 89 (2000) and on February 14, Juche 90 (2001) to clarify the way of producing machine tools of our type and the way of building up the factory on a modern line.
    Unveiling ceremonies of the monuments were held at relevant units.

"Song of Seasons" Appreciated by Russian Artistes

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The State Academy Ensemble of the Ministry of Interior of Russia appreciated the folk dance suit "Song of Seasons" at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre yesterday. Artistes of the ensemble led by its head Victor Eliseyev were invited.
    Among the audience were Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned and working people in the city.
    The performers vividly depicted the creative labor life and noble customs of resourceful and diligent Koreans through their graceful folk dances overflowing with national feelings.
    The performance proceeded in the warm feelings of the DPRK-Russia friendship; acclaimed by the audience.

Kim Yong Nam Sends Greetings to Syrian President

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Bashar al Assad, president of Syria, on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the March 8 revolution in Syria. The message said that the Korean people are sincerely rejoiced over the great progress made by the Syrian people in the work for independent development and prosperity of the country under the correct leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party of Syria after the victory of the revolution and extend full support and firm solidarity to the Syrian Arab people's cause of justice.
    Expressing the belief that the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would grow stronger, it wished the president and the people of Syria greater success in their struggle to retake the occupied Golan Heights, achieve the fair and comprehensive peace in the Middle East and develop and modernize the country.

Greetings to Syrian President

     Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, today sent a message of greetings to Bashar Al Assad, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Arab Socialist Baath Party and president of Syria, on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the March 8 revolution in Syria. The message said that the March 8 revolution was an event of historical significance in the struggle of the Syrian people to defend the sovereignty of the country and the nation and build a prosperous new Syria.
    It noted that the Korean people always extend full support to the Syrian people in their fair and aboveboard cause to retake the occupied Arab land including the Golan Heights, fairly and comprehensively settle the Mideast issue and defend Syria.
    Expressing the belief that the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would grow stronger in the future, it wished the president good health and happiness.

Large Mosaic Mural Built at Ryongsong Machine Complex

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A large mosaic mural "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung arousing the workers to effect another great revolutionary surge" has been built at the Ryongsong Machine Complex. Represented in the mural, 13 metres wide and 12 metres high, is the image of tender-hearted President Kim Il Sung encouraging the workers to perform feats in a new struggle.
    An unveiling ceremony of the mural was held on the spot.

Agricultural Workers Compete in Basketball

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) --The 6th National Basketball Tournament among Agricultural Workers was held in Pyongyang. Men and women basketball players from 20 cooperative farms which had proved successful in city, county and provincial contests competed in the tournament that started on March 1.
    Men players from the Kwanhae Co-op Farm in Unryul County, South Hwanghae Province, and women players from the Chail Co-op Farm in Pujon County, South Hamgyong Province, emerged a winner respectively.
    A closing ceremony of the tournament was held at the Basketball Gymnasium in the Chongchun Street yesterday.

Japan's Adoption of "Amendment to Law on Foreign Exchange" Assailed

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Nearly 50 political parties and organizations of the world held protest rallies, issued statements and sent protest letters to Japan for the past one month after the adoption of the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" at the House of Representatives of Japan on January 29. They disclosed its purpose and demanded its withdrawal. The Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party held an extraordinary enlarged meeting at which it disclosed the Japanese reactionaries' intention to strangle the DPRK economically at any cost and escalate economic pressure and blockade against it in league with the U.S. to this end.
    Several political parties of Bangladesh including the Central Committee of the Workers' Party and Bangladeshi organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people held a rally protesting against the adoption of the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" at the House of Representatives of Japan and adopted a protest letter addressed to the chief executive of Japan in which they urged the Japanese authorities to stop their moves against the DPRK and opt to improve relations with it.
    The Romanian Working Party, the Nasser Arab Democratic Party of Egypt, the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (R) in Sweden, the All-India Agricultural Workers' Union, the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association and several other political parties and organizations of various countries in their statements and protest letters termed Japan's behavior a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and a wanton violation of international law.
    The Genuine Lumumbist Patriotic Party of Democratic Congo, 11 political parties and organizations in Mexico including the Juche Idea Institute, the Nepal-DPRK Friendship Association, the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee of Nepal, the Peace Action Committee and the National Press Club in the country in a statement and joint statements demanded Japan stop at once its hostile moves against the Koreans, saying that its moves to blockade the DPRK are little short of moves to launch a war of aggression against the Korean people and those intended to revive Japanese militarism.
    Many media and personages of different social standings also denounced Japan's adoption of the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" and strongly demanded the Japanese authorities immediately drop their hostile policy toward the DPRK.

GNP's Traitorous Behavior Condemned

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland released information bulletin No. 861 on March 5 as regards the recent behavior of the south Korean "Grand National Party" that once again revealed its true colors as a heinous group of traitors to the nation. The information bulletin said:
    At the session of the south Korean "National Assembly" held on March 2, a "bill for probe into the truth behind the case of killings of civilians" during the Korean war was not approved due to the opposition of the "GNP".
    This was an unpardonable criminal act of challenging the unanimous call of the whole nation for laying bare the unprecedented massacre of civilians committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressors and the south Korean army during the last Korean war and forcing them to pay a thousand times for the blood shed by the victims.
    The U.S. imperialist aggressors brutally killed more than 1.24 million innocent civilians in south Korea and at least three million people in the northern part of Korea with the most barbarous method during the Korean war.
    The movement for probing the truth behind the case of mass killings of civilians during the Korean war now brisk in south Korea is a very just patriotic one as it is an expression of the spirit of national independence and a patriotic determination to force the U.S. imperialists to pay for all the crimes committed against the Korean people and defend the national dignity and sovereignty.
    The GNP is hell-bent on pro-U.S. sycophantic and treacherous acts while unhesitatingly telling rubbish that "south Koreans'chanting anti-U.S. slogans would harm the national interests." It is quite natural for the south Korean people to rise up in the campaign for the dissolution of the "GNP," branding it as a "party of traitors" and "a foreign party."
    The south Korean people can never realize their aspiration and desire as long as the "GNP" is allowed to go scot-free.

North Side's Delegation Returns

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The north side's delegation led by Choe Yong Gon, vice-minister of Construction and Building-Materials Industries who is the north side's chairman of the North-South Committee for the Promotion of Economic Cooperation, returned here today after participating in the 8th meeting of the committee held in Seoul. The delegation was met at the airport by Jong Mun San, chief secretary of the DPRK Cabinet, Jong Un Op, chairman of the National Economic Cooperation Federation, and other officials concerned.

DPRK Delegation Leaves for Czech Republic and Britain

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly headed by its Chairman Choe Thae Bok left here today to visit the Czech Republic and Britain. It was seen off at the airport by Kang Nung Su, vice-chairman of the SPA, and David Arthur Slinn, British ambassador to the DPRK.

North Side's Principled Stand on Upcoming NAE in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement Saturday clarifying the north side's principled stand that the National Assembly election due in mid-April in south Korea should offer an occasion of punishing the Grand National Party and eliminating it from the political arena. The statement disclosed the GNP's anti-national and anti-reunification criminal acts, saying that the present NA has been converted into a den of evil as it dominates this law-making body, regarding it as its barracks. The GNP whitewashes and conceals its pro-U.S. treacherous acts, anti-reunification moves and all sorts of corruption and irregularities there, it added.
    The statement continued:
    The upcoming election should not be just a contest for more seats but acute confrontation between patriotism and treachery, between reunification forces and separatist forces, between peace and war and between democracy and fascism.
    The candidates from this disgusting and dirty party should be voted down to put an end to its existence.
    A due attention should be paid to the ridiculous efforts of the GNP to create the impression that its appearance will change through a "shake-up". The GNP would be well advised to drop its art of camouflage and quit the political arena of its own accord.
    The statement expressed the conviction that all the parties, groupings and people of different social standings in south Korea would form a united front against the GNP and cast not a single ballot for it with a high degree of awareness.

Congratulations to Russian Prime Minister

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov upon his appointment as prime minister of the government of the Russian Federation. Expressing belief that the relations of economic cooperation between the two countries would grow stronger in various fields in conformity with the DPRK-Russia relations developing favorably day by day on the basis of the special relationship between the two heads of state, the message sincerely wished him good health and greater success in his responsible work.

Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

     Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected KPA Unit 272 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment. He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first vice department director of its Central Committee.
    He first went to a tree nursery of the unit to see a long-term plan to create forests and acquaint himself with tree planting.
    He highly praised the successes made by the unit, greatly pleased to learn that it has built a tree nursing base under a long-term plan and its servicepersons and their families have turned out as one in tree planting, thus turning the compound of the barracks and the area around it into a thick woodland in a few years.
    Then he climbed a mountain behind the barracks where tree planting was brisk and planted a tree together with servicepersons of the unit.
    After the tree planting he dropped in at an operation command room where he received a report on the situation from its commander and learned in detail about its performance of duty.
    He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in further increasing the unit's combat capability, greatly satisfied over the fact that its servicepersons are reliably standing guard over the defence line of the country with a noble patriotic determination to firmly defend the socialist motherland by force of arms.
    He watched its servicepersons under training.
    He highly praised all officers and men for their success in training, greatly pleased to learn that they have been trained as a-match-for-hundred officers and men fully capable of undertaking combat duties under any circumstances.
    He familiarized himself in detail with the political and ideological education among servicepersons, looking round a servicemen's hall and a room devoted to the history of the unit.
    He indicated tasks to further deepen and develop the political work in the army and ways to do so, highly praising the unit for fully applying the anti-Japanese guerrilla style of political work and conducting an effective ideological work among its servicepersons.
    Then he took deep care of the service and living of soldiers, going round an education room, bedroom, mess hall, subsidiary food store, outdoor resting place and other places.
    He highly appreciated the successes made by the officers and men of the unit, very pleased with the fact that they are assiduously managing the unit and tenaciously leading its economic life by learning from the anti-Japanese guerrillas' fighting traits and way of living.
    He gave servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.

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Gran mosaico en el Complejo de Maquinaria de Ryongsong

     Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- En el Complejo de Maquinaria de Ryongsong quedo erguida la pintura mural de mosaico de 13 metros de ancho y 12 de alto intitulada "El gran Lider, camarada Kim Il Sung, llamando a un nuevo auge revolucionario". La pintura al fresco describe majestuosamente la afectuosa figura del Presidente Kim Il Sung, quien estimula a los obreros a una nueva lucha y proezas.
    Tuvo lugar en el mismo lugar una ceremonia inaugural del mosaico.

VI Torneo Nacional de Baloncesto de trabajadores agricolas

     Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar en esta capital el VI Torneo Nacional de Baloncesto de Trabajadores Agricolas. En el certamen, iniciado el primero del mes en curso, participaron los jugadores de ambos sexos de 20 entidades que ganaron buenas notas en las eliminatorias de ciudades, distritos y provincias por unidad de granjas cooperativas.
    El torneo fue efectuado a manera de partido de los ganadores.
    Los jugadores de la Granja Cooperativa de Kwanhae del distrito de Unryul de la provincia del Hwanghae del Sur y las jugadoras de la de Chail del distrito de Pujon de la provincia de Hamgyong del Sur ganaron respectivamente el primer lugar.
    El torneo fue clausurado el dia 5 en el Centro de Baloncesto del reparto Chongchun.

Portavoz del MINREX de la RPDC refuta la acusacion de EE.UU.

     Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- A la pregunta de un reportero de la Agencia Telegrafica Central de Corea formulada en relacion con que en los ultimos dias, EE.UU. volvio a acusar a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea del "problema de drogas", el portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la RPDC respondio el dia 5 como sigue: El pasado primero de marzo, el Departamento de Estado norteamericano, en un llamado "informe anual sobre el control del narcotrafico", dijo absurdidades malintencionadas de que la RPDC toma por su "politica estatal" el contrabando de drogas. Esto no pasa de ser un engendro de la politica de aislamiento y aplastamiento de EE.UU. contra la RPDC y una farsa para afectar la digna imagen de esta.
    La RPDC es un Estado que al tener como la ideologia directriz la idea Juche centrada en el hombre, prohibe estrictamente por la ley el uso, trafico y produccion de estupefacientes, que convierten a los hombres en invalidos espirituales.
    La importacion de los estimulantes espirituales con fines cientificos tambien se desarrolla bajo el control y orden juridico rigurosos del Estado. Y desde hace mucho tiempo, nuestro pais asegura debidamente el intercambio de informaciones y la cooperacion con el Consejo Internacional de Narcoticos en este sector.
    EE.UU. debe remediar el problema finisecular de delitos del narcotrafico que azotan la sociedad norteamericana antes de difamar a otros paises ejerciendo la "autoridad" super-estatal que nadie le atribuyo.
    EE.UU., al emitir como de costumbre esos "informes anuales" para mancillar la imagen de alguien, revelara por si solo todos los males sociales y la vulnerabilidad social de si mismo.
    Aconsejamos a EE.UU. que resuelva sus propios problemas antes de meter narices en asuntos ajenos.