Anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's Demise Commemorated

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- A meeting, seminar, lecture, photo exhibition and film shows were held from July 3 to 9 by the Peruvian Nationalist Party of the Andian Community, the Indian Working Women's Society for the Study of Juche Philosophy, in Goteborg City, Sweden, and at Agricultural College Named after Obiang in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, and the Equatorial Guinea-DPRK Friendship Farm, the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science and the Embroidery School of the International Solidarity Center in Guinea on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's demise. On display in the venues of functions were photos showing the revolutionary activities and exploits of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.
    Korean films such as "1994 of Great Life" were screened at the film shows.
    The general secretaries of the Peruvian Nationalist Party of the Andian Community and the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru in their speeches made at a meeting highly praised the immortal feats performed by Kim Il Sung for the Korean revolution and the human cause of independence.
    The chairperson of the Indian society said at a seminar that Kim Il Sung's ideological and theoretical exploits would be immortal with the era of independence.
    The international secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (R) in Sweden in a lecture looked back with deep emotion on the revolutionary life and immortal feats of Kim Il Sung and underscored the need to intensify the movement for solidarity with the Korean people in the future.
    The director general of the Guinean institute at a lecture said that Kim Jong Il, regarding it as his lifelong mission to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started by the President, has devoted his all to it, adding that the President's intention in his lifetime is being translated into a reality thanks to the intense loyalty and total dedication of Kim Jong Il to the President.

Repeal of Decision on Troop Dispatch Demanded

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- More than 50 members of the Democratic Workers' Party of south Korea held a press conference in front of Kwanghwamun in Seoul on July 20 and demanded the government withdraw the decision on troop dispatch to Iraq, according to the south Korean MBC. If the government dispatches troops to Iraq it would be judged by the people, they said, asserting that the ruling and opposition parties should convene an extraordinary session of the National Assembly for reexamination of the decision on troop dispatch.
    They declared that they would wage an infinite sit-in strike in tents at the Citizens Park of Kwanghwamun until the government cancels the decision on the troop dispatch.

Anti-National Act of South Korean Military Authorities Flayed

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity of south Korea on July 17 made public a statement titled "We denounce bellicose forces getting overheated in military attack." Recalling the announcement of the south Korean military authorities on July 14 that "a patrol craft of the north crossed the northern limit line" and they opened a warning fire in answer, the statement said it was unjustifiable for the military authorities to try still to rationalize the military counteraction.
    Branding the incident as a grave anti-national and bellicose act intended to scrap the agreement reached at the south-north military talks and create military tension, the statement continued:
    Inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation are already expanding to the military domain. The north is not our "enemy."
    All the fellow countrymen in the south and the north are now under obligation to observe the agreements on peace and unity and the army can never be an exception.
    We demand that the military authorities not swim against the trend of the times toward the inter-Korean reconciliation, unity and peaceful reunification.

S. Korean Students' Hunger Strike to Check Troop Dispatch

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The "hunger strike group for the withdrawal of the decision on troop dispatch to Iraq and renunciation of south Korea-U.S. cooperation for a war" of the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) called a press conference upon the formation of the group and went into a hunger sit-down for an indefinite period in Seoul on July 17. At the press conference head of the strike group Kim Song Jin, chairman of the Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration of the Jeonnam National University, and other speakers stated that the group would continue the hunger strike till the plan of the government authorities to send additional troops to Iraq is retracted. They said that during the strike they would wage a movement for the withdrawal of the decision on troop dispatch and declaration of national independence against the U.S. and one-person demonstration and conduct information activities.
    Chairman of Hanchongryon Paek Jong Ho read a press release, which said the 12th-term Hanchongryon would launch into an all-out struggle to thwart additional troop dispatch to Iraq. He declared that it would go all out in the fight to check additional troop dispatch without fail and frustrate south Korea-U.S. cooperation for a war.

Anniversary of Cuban People's July 26 Armed Uprising Observed

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here Thursday on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the Cuban people's July 26 Armed Uprising. Present there on invitation were Cuban Ambassador to the DPRK Esteban Lobaina Romero and staff members of the embassy here. Also present were Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education who is chairman of the DPRK-Cuba Solidarity Committee, Kim Yong Do, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, officials concerned and working people in the city.
    Speeches were made at the meeting that started with the playing of the national anthems of Cuba and the DPRK.
    The meeting was followed by a film show.
    The participants appreciated the Korean feature film "He Was Senior Colonel".

Large-scale Blasting Carried Out with Success

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- A large-scale blasting was successfully carried out at the site of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory on July 22 to remove 300,000 cubic meters of earth. It is now under construction on the bank of the River Taedong in Taean County, South Phyongan Province, as a monumental edifice to be recorded in the history of the DPRK-China friendship. This was conducted on the basis of the thorough-going preparations made for the last blasting, drawing on the successes and experience gained in the earlier two blastings, one to blow up 400,000 cubic meters of earth and the other 300,000 cubic meters of earth.
    The latest blasting has opened a good prospect of completing its site leveling earlier than scheduled.

8th National Exhibition of Invention and New Technology Opens

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The 8th National Exhibition of Invention and New Technology opened at the Three-Revolution Exhibition Thursday. On display in the form of real thing, model, video recording, diagram and so forth are over 1,000 pieces of invention and new technology achieved by scientists, technicians, officials and working people across the country in their efforts to develop the nation's science and technology.
    While the exhibition is open there will be a work for the dissemination and generalization of worthy items of invention and new technology in the form of scientific and technological presentation, short course, etc. and diverse information services including the introduction of exhibits through information service networks.
    Present at the opening ceremony were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Sung Hyon, minister of Metal and Machine-Building Industries, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, officials concerned, scientists, technicians, inventors and working people.
    Pyon Yong Rip, president of the Academy of Sciences, addressing the opening ceremony, said all the officials, scientists, technicians and inventors should make substantial contributions to making a breakthrough on the economic and scientific front by devoting all their energy and wisdom to the development of the nation's science and technology.
    At the end of the opening ceremony, the participants went round the exhibition hall.

U.S. Urged to Pay for Blood Shed by Koreans

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson Friday carries a signed commentary as regards the recent discovery of a U.S. document dealing with its forces' killing of civilians in cold blood in the waters off Phohang, North Kyongsang Province during the Korean war. It says:
    The recently disclosed mass killing of civilians is just a tip of iceberg of the monstrous massacres committed by the U.S. imperialists in various parts of Korea during the Korean war.
    It was widely known that they massacred innocent civilians in cold blood everywhere after igniting a war against the DPRK in the 1950s.The piled up dead bodies of the south Koreans killed by the U.S. imperialists until now would be as high as a mountain and the blood shed by them fill a reservoir.
    As facts prove, the U.S. troops in south Korea are neither "friends" of the south Korean people nor "apostles of peace." They serve as a lever backing the U.S. colonial rule over it with arms and a frontline shock force for a war against the north. The U.S. imperialists' introduction of over 10 F-117 Stealth bombers to south Korea and their development of missiles capable of underground penetration are aimed at starting a new war on the Korean peninsula. It is as clear as noonday that the outbreak of another war in Korea would cause such massacre of civilians as what happened in Rogun-ri and Phohang.
    The Korean nation will launch a nationwide struggle against the U.S. to force it to pay for the blood shed by the innocent Koreans thousand times.
    The U.S. imperialists should apologize to the Korean nation for the monstrous crimes committed so far and immediately withdraw their forces from south Korea as early as possible.

Action Taken to Disallow Pyongyang Visit of Ngo Delegation under@Fire in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration reportedly held a regular meeting of its central steering committee on July 17 at which it released a special statement accusing the south Korean authorities of disallowing the Pyongyang visit by a non-governmental delegation of south Korea to participate in functions to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung. The statement sternly chided the Ministry of Unification for disallowing the Pyongyang visit of personages of a non-governmental organization including Presbyter Pak Yong Gil, widow of Rev. Mun Ik Hwan, to participate in the above-said functions. Such action was an anachronistic anti-reunification behavior reminiscent of the rash action taken against those south Koreans who wished to mourn the death of the President in 1994 and an unethical action of ignoring even the ancestral good manners and customs and elemental human morality, the statement noted, and continued:
    The government should immediately allow the Pyongyang visit by the non-governmental delegation, though belatedly. And the forces for the reunification movement should carry on their struggle till its visit has been realized and thus force the government to completely change its attitude toward the non-governmental exchanges.
    The next year is a significant year which will mark the fifth anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, the statement said, calling upon all the people to draw a lesson from the incident and make every possible effort to put the non-governmental exchanges on a new higher stage.

Greetings to Cambodian Prime Minister

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Pak Pong Ju sent a congratulatory message to Hun Sen upon his reappointment as Cambodian Prime Minister. Expressing the belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would continue to develop favorably in the future, the message sincerely wished him a greater success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country and people's wellbeing.
    Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a congratulatory message to Hor Nam Hong upon his reappointment as Cambodian minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Humanitarian Goods Donated to DPRK

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The International Rotary donated humanitarian goods to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. A donation ceremony was held in Pyongyang on Wednesday. Present there were the members of its free cooperation delegation headed by Randal Eastman.

Personal Letter and Gift to Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a personal letter and gift from Thaksin Shinawatra, leader of the Thai Rak Thai Party and prime minister of the Kingdom of Thailand. The personal letter and gift were handed to Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on July 23 by Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, a special envoy of the party leader and prime minister and a special representative of the party, on a visit to the DPRK.

Kim Yong Nam Meets Thai Party Delegation

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with the delegation of the Thai Rak Thai Party led by Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, a special envoy of party leader and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and a special party delegate, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on July 23. Present there were Pak Kyong Son, vice-director of a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials concerned.

Negotiations for Transfer of U.S. Military Base in Ryongsan

     Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- Members of the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification and the Phyongthaek Measure Committee against the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base and civilians in Phyongthaek reportedly held a press conference in front of the building of the "government" in Seoul on July 19 to reject the negotiations for the transfer of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan. Speakers including the director of the Secretariat of the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification in their speeches noted that they would strongly oppose the 10th consultative council meeting of the future of the south Korea-U.S alliance policy initiative slated to be held in the U.S. which would discuss the issue of drawing up an agreement on the transfer of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan and an accord to implement it.
    A press release issued at the press conference said the humiliating nature has been revealed by the negotiations for the transfer of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan and this is the reason why the organizations are opposed to the above-said meeting.
    The demands of the U.S. were unilaterally met at the last negotiations for the transfer of the U.S military base in Ryongsan because of the inequality manifested in those negotiations, the press release said, strongly demanding a total restart of the negotiations.
    It held that the U.S. should not cut back its forces in south Korea but completely pull them out of south Korea.
    At the end of the press conference, the participants staged a sit-in strike in front of the building.

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Kim Jong Il recibe carta y presente de premier tailandes

     Pyongyang, 23 de julio (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio una carta personal y presente que le dirigiera S. E. Thaksin Shinawatra, lider del Partido Rak Thai y primer ministro del Reino de Tailandia. El Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, representante especial de esta organizacion politica y enviado especial del premier tailandes de visita en Corea, los entrego el dia 23 a Kim Yong Nam, presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.

Donacion de "Rotario Internacional" a la RPDC

     Pyongyang, 23 de julio (ATCC) -- El "Rotario Internacional" dono a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea materiales humanitarios. Los miembros de la delegacion de asistencia gratuita del "Rotario internacional" presidida por Randal Eastman participaron el dia 21 en el acto de donacion efectuado en esta capital.

Aumento armamentista de EE.UU. en peligrosa etapa

     Pyongyang, 23 de julio (ATCC) -- Llegan a la peligrosa etapa las maniobras de aumento armamentista de EE.UU. para provocar una nueva guerra en la Peninsula Coreana. El semanario norteamericano especializado de asuntos militares "Defence News" dio a conocer que EE.UU. logro desarrollar y probar misiles de penetracion subterranea de ultra alta velocidad para destruir las instalaciones militares soterradas de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea (RPDC) y anadio que dentro de un ano terminara el plan de desarrollo de misiles, se ubicaran con preferencia 6 unidades a las tropas norteamericanas ocupantes del Sur de Corea y luego, adicionalmente mas segun el resultado de su gestion.
    Tal aumento armamentista de EE.UU. acarrea constantemente una peligrosidad de la guerra a la RPDC.
    El 31 de julio del 42 (1953) de la Era Juche, a los cuatro dias de la conclusion del acuerdo de armisticio, EE.UU. introdujo ilegalmente a traves del puerto de Pusan del Sur de Corea 106 canones, cientos de miles de proyectiles y balas. Durante medio siglo desde entonces, los imperialistas norteamericanos introducen alli en gran medida las armas de exterminio masivo, armamentos de punta y otros equipos militares.
    El 31 de mayo de 2003, esa superpotencia publico un "plan de aumento armamentista" para equipar con nuevas armas nucleares a sus uniformados en el Sur de Corea y lo puso de inmediato en ejecucion.
    Inmediatamente despues de la publicacion de dicho plan, fueron ubicados adicionalmente mas de 20 helicopteros "Longbou AH-64D" en un batallon de helicopteros "Apache" de la sexta brigada de caballeria norteamericana y, despues, una parte de los misiles "Patriot 2" fue sustituida por "Patriot 3".
    Ademas, introdujo mas de 10 cazabombarderos, avion "U-2", 6 bombarderos Stealth "F-117", un batallon de cazas "F-15E", el avion tactico sin piloto "Shadow 200" y otros armamentos sofisticados. Tambien este ano sustituyo los viejos tanques de la division de infanteria norteamericana No. 2 con decenas de los "M1-A1 ABRAMS" equipados con alta tecnica.
    En las bases militares norteamericanas en el Sur de Corea estan emplazados miles de armas nucleares tacticas, numerosos proyectiles de uranio empobrecido, los cazas "F-16" y "F-15" que son medios de transporte de armas nucleares, y otros aviones de toda indole, cientos de misiles como "Lance" y "Patriot", canones atomicos y otros equipos militares.
    Ahora, el Sur de Corea se ha convertido en una region mas densa en la ubicacion de armas estrategicas en el mundo.
    El aumento armamentista de EE.UU. empeora cada dia mas la situacion de la Peninsula Coreana y convierte la region del Nordeste Asiatico en un agudo lugar de enfrentamiento militar.