Guinean President Supports Cause of Korean People

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) - - Just as the Korean people actively support the Guinean people with all sincerity so we unconditionally support the cause of the Korean people. Especially we fully support the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. Guinean President Lansana Conte said this on August 25 when he received Kim Pong Hui, Korean ambassador to his country.
    The president further said:
    The DPRK has invariably and positively stood behind the cause of the Guinean people since Guinea won independence. This is why Guinea highly values its friendly and cooperative relations with the DPRK.
    The friendship between the two countries was provided and has been consolidated by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and successive leaders of Guinea, he said.

S. Korean Students Protest against Troop Dispatch

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- At least 100 students of Seoul National University and Korea University affiliated to the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils staged a demonstration in front of Seoul Airport in Songnam, Kyonggi Province on August 28 in protest against the dispatch of "Jaitun" unit to Iraq, according to the south Korean "KBS". The protesters strongly demanded the authorities cancel the decision to send more troops to Iraq, stating that the unjustifiable dispatch of troops is little short of reducing all the people to war criminals.

Anniv. of Kim Jong Il's Visit to Far Eastern Region of Russia Observed

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- A film show and a round-table talk were held in Khabarovsk on Aug. 25 on the occasion of the second anniversary of the historic visit of leader Kim Jong Il to the Far Eastern region of the Russian Federation. Present there were the general director of the Amurkabel Co. Ltd. And officials of the company and officials of the DPRK Consulate General in Nakhodka.
    The participants watched the film "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Visits the Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation."
    Then a round-table talk took place.
    They expressed their will to make energetic efforts to boost the bilateral cooperative relations in conformity with the intention of the leaders of the two countries.

Results of S. Korea-U.S. Consultative Meeting Condemned

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification reportedly made public a statement on August 27, denouncing the results of the 11th Consultative Meeting for the Future of the South Korea-U.S. Alliance Policy Initiative. The statement recalled that at the meeting held on August 19 and 20 the issue of the redeployment and "cutback" of the U.S. forces present in south Korea was discussed and an agreement on the transfer of a U.S. military base from Ryongsan and an amendment to the plan for joint land management were initialed.
    The meeting clearly showed the arrogance of the United States and the humiliating diplomacy of the south Korean "government" authorities, the statement said, adding: The youth and students are getting angry at this.
    The "government" authorities must know clearly of the possible consequences of their pro-American flunkeyist and humiliating acts on the peace and independent reunification of this land, it urged.

30th Anniv. of Naming Art Troupe Kumgangsan Opera Troupe Observed

     Tokyo, August 29 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting to mark the 30th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's naming an art troupe under the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) the Kumgangsan Opera Troupe was held in Tokyo on Aug. 27. After a decree of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly was read out the title of People's Artiste was awarded to vocalist Ri Yong Su, vice-director of the Performance Organizing Department of the Kumgangsan Opera Troupe.
    Then congratulatory messages from the Ministry of Culture and the Phibada Opera Troupe of the DPRK were introduced.
    A speech by So Man Sul, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, was followed by a report of Hong Ryong Wol, honorary chief of the Kumgangsan Opera Troupe, and other speeches at the meeting.
    A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted there.
    A commemorative performance was given after the meeting.
    Prior to the meeting, the participants watched the documentary film "Kumgangsan Opera Troupe Formed by the Fatherly Leader."

CPRF Spokesman Assails U.S. Arms Buildup in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is contemplating deploying a squadron of Alaska-based F-15E fighter-bombers of the U.S. Air Force into south Korea in September for an exercise aimed to familiarize themselves with terrain conditions in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula. A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF) in a statement issued on Monday in this regard said:
    This goes to prove that the U.S. moves to mount a full-scale preemptive attack on the DPRK have reached an extremely reckless phase.
    The U.S. has so far pretended to be deeply interested in improving the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and seeking a negotiated solution to the nuclear issue, asserting that it has never pursued the hostile policy towards the DPRK and that it is the U.S. stand to find a negotiated diplomatic settlement of the nuclear issue.
    However, the Bush administration has desperately escalated the massive arms buildup and war exercises targeted against the DPRK under the signboard of "dialogue" and "peace." This once again clearly indicates that its loudmouthed "talks" and "dialogue" are nothing but a deceptive farce to cover its aggressive and predatory nature and Washington remains unchanged in its ambition to stifle the DPRK by force.
    It is as clear as daylight that if a war is ignited by the U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula all Koreans in the north and the south will suffer a horrible nuclear disaster.
    If the U.S. is allowed to escalate its reckless arms buildup and war exercises, they will bring irrevocable calamities to all Koreans.
    The U.S. should unconditionally stop such reckless arms buildup as introducing F-15E fighter-bombers into south Korea and withdraw its aggressor forces and military equipment from south Korea without delay.
    Meanwhile, the south Korean authorities should ponder over the consequences to be entailed by their treacherous act of bringing aggressor forces into south Korea from outside.

DPRK Compelled to Take Every Possible Measure for Self-Defence

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. bellicose forces are now repeating their hackneyed fiction of "threat from the north" in a bid to cover up their ambition to invade the DPRK. They have gone the lengths of impudently asserting that even the reduction of U.S. troops in south Korea as part of "redeployment of U.S. forces" would not result in weakening "the deterrent against north Korea" and any misjudgment would prove a serious blunder. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary carried in this regard observes:
    The aim sought by the U.S. imperialists in the redeployment of their forces is to put their strategy of preemptive attack into practice. The ulterior motive of the U.S. is to disarm the DPRK behind the smokescreen of "reduction and redeployment" of its forces.
    The U.S. asserts that it has no intention to invade the DPRK, while paying lip-service to a "peaceful and diplomatic solution of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula." But there is no change in its policy to stifle the DPRK by force of arms. It has sent an aircraft carrier flotilla to the waters around the Korean peninsula and keeps shipping sophisticated war hardware into south Korea.
    A clear proof of this is the facts that Bush openly said the U.S. was demanding north Korea lay down its arms and John Bolton, U.S. under-secretary of State, uttered that north Korea could expect improved relations with the U.S. only when it settles not only the issue of nuclear weapons but issues of biological and chemical weapons, ballistic missile, human rights, etc.
    What the U.S. seeks is not a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue but a preemptive attack against the DPRK. The U.S. imperialists' frantic arms build-up discloses the true aim sought by them in refusing to commit themselves to drop their hostile policy toward the DPRK while clamoring for a "peaceful solution to the nuclear issue".
    Now that the U.S. pursues only confrontation and war instead of dialogue an d peace, the DPRK is left with no option but to take every necessary measure for self-defence. The commentary urges the United States to immediately stop such reckless arms build-up.

Pyongyang International Invitational Table Tennis Tournament Closes

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The 18th Pyongyang International Invitational Table Tennis Tournament closed Monday with a due ceremony at the Table Tennis Gymnasium in Chongchun Street. Present at the closing ceremony were Jong In Chol, vice-chairman of the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, Kim Yu Ho, chairman of the DPRK Table Tennis Association, officials concerned, foreign paddlers, working people, school youth and children and sports fans in Pyongyang.
    The ceremony was preceded by finals of men and women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles in which paddlers presented exciting scenes of scoring by displaying splendid technique they had refined in day-to-day training.
    Chinese paddlers gathered the golds in all events.
    The invitational tournament proved to be a good opportunity in promoting friendship and exchanging achievements and experiences in sports among countries.

Japan Accused of Reviving Militarism

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- Members of the Society of Bereaved Families of the Pacific War Dead in south Korea held a meeting in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Aug. 29 denouncing Japan for distorting history and reviving militarism, according to the south Korean MBC. Its participants lodged a strong protest with the Tokyo metropolitan educational authorities against having decided on Aug. 26 to let students use a distorted history textbook from April next year against the backdrop of Japan's evermore undisguised moves to tamper with history as evidenced by its acts to embellish its war of aggression and cover up its past crimes related to the sexual slavery.
    They also chided Japan for such moves for the revival of militarism as the visit of a group of Japanese ministers to the "Yasukuni Shrine" on August 15 and the beefing up of the Japanese "Self-defence Forces".
    During the meeting they had a ceremony of burning a Japanese flag, etc. and threw eggs into the Japanese embassy building.

U.S. Hostile Stand toward DPRK Assailed

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- U.S. President Bush recently mumbled that the United States was demanding the DPRK lay down arms and Under-secretary of State John Bolton let loose a string of rubbish, croaking that north Korea could expect improved relations with the U.S. only when it solved the issues of bio-chemical weapons and ballistic missiles and, furthermore the human rights problem, beside the nuclear issue. Commenting on this, a Minju Joson news analyst today says:
    This indicates that the U.S. new conservative forces do not take the trouble to conceal their wild design to overthrow the system of the DPRK through the "change of the system" and "disarmament" and are going to put it forward openly.
    The DPRK cannot but take a serious note of the fact that they are promoting the criminal plot to pull down the DPRK in a dangerous stage with extreme hostile feelings toward it. It is closely watching the developments with high vigilance.
    The DPRK very highly values the sovereignty and security of the country and the nation. It has never thought about improved DPRK-U.S. relations with its sovereignty encroached upon.
    The DPRK can never have good relations with the U.S. as long as the latter refuses to drop its hostile policy toward it. Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we have something to be made clear to the U.S. which is putting on airs over the matter of DPRK-U.S. improved relations.
    Improved relations between countries are not a gift presented by one side to the other. The U.S. describes its improved relations with the DPRK as a sort of benefit to the latter. But this is a manifestation of its arrogance and impudent behavior.
    The U.S. should make a bold decision to renounce its anachronistic view and stand full of self-righteousness and arrogance.

Korean and Japanese Women Meet

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- A solidarity meeting of Korean and Japanese women for Korea's reunification and the normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations was held in Pyongyang on Monday. Hong Son Ok, vice-chairwoman of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who is chairwoman of the Korean Women's Association, in her speech said the Korean people were greatly enraged by the fact that the Japanese right-wing conservatives have inaugurated new monitoring bodies of various types, enacted and supplemented new regulations and adopted the "law on sanctions" against the DPRK and evil laws against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) one after another in order to impose economic sanctions on the DPRK and crack down upon Chongryon.
    Japan's behavior of supporting the United States which has left no means untried to stifle the DPRK is touching off bitter indignation and resentment among the Korean people, she noted , and continued:
    The DPRK-Japan relations have entered a new phase since the DPRK-Japan summit talks held in May. The women of the two countries should pool efforts to usher in a new era of reconciliation and friendship between the DPRK and Japan.
    Sumiko Shimizu, head of the Japanese women's "Peace Line" visiting group who is representative of the Japanese Women's Society for Solidarity with the Korean Women, in her speech said that the Korean people are dynamically advancing to defend the sovereignty of the country and achieve peaceful reunification by their concerted efforts while striving to implement the June 15 joint declaration. The Japanese women will positively support and encourage the Korean people in their just struggle to achieve the country's reunification, she stressed.
    She noted that the Bush regime has escalated the tensions in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia, forcing the DPRK to scrap its nuclear program and revealing its attempt to mount a nuclear preemptive attack on it after designating the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil."
    Speeches were made at the meeting.
    A resolution adopted there said that the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration is a step forward in realizing the hope for peace in Northeast Asia. It clarified a 5-point resolve carrying the will to achieve peace and stability in Northeast Asia through solidarity between the DPRK and Japan.
    The resolve calls for lifting the voices demanding an earlier normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations, properly educating the younger generation in history and struggling against all sorts of national discrimination. It also deals with issues arising in positively supporting and encouraging the just cause of the Korean people and conducting a dynamic campaign to attain the common purpose.

Greetings to Libyan Leader

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today sent a message of greetings to Colonel Moammer el Gaddafi, leader of the great September first revolution in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the great September first revolution in Libya. The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to grow stronger and wished the Libyan people progress and prosperity.

Kim Yong Nam Greets Kyrgyz President

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Askar Akayev, president of the Kyrgyz Republic, on Aug. 31 on the occasion of its national day. The message wished the president success in his work for the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of the people, expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to develop in the interests of the two peoples.

Greetings to President of Uzbekistan

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, on August 31 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the independence of the country. Wishing the president greater success in his work for stability and prosperity of the country, the message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further develop.

DPRK Public Health Delegation Leaves for China and Maldives

     Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- A DPRK public health delegation led by Kim Su Hak, minister of Public Health, left here Tuesday to visit China and participate in the 22nd meeting of health ministers of the Southeast Asian Region of the World Health Organization and the 57th Southeast Asian Regional Conference of the WHO to be held in the Republic of Maldives. The delegation was seen off at the airport by Choe Chang Sik, vice-minister of Public Health, Guan Huabing, charge d' affaires a. i. of the Chinese embassy here, and Eigil Sorensen, representative of the WHO here.

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Acto de solidaridad de coreanas y japonesas

     Pyongyang, 31 de agosto (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 30 en esta capital un acto de solidaridad de coreanas y japonesas en demanda de la reunificacion de Corea y la normalizacion de relaciones diplomaticas Corea-Japon. Hong Son Ok, presidenta de la Asociacion de Mujeres de Corea y vicepresidenta del Comite de Relaciones Culturales con el Extranjero, en su uso de la palabra, senalo que las fuerzas derechistas y conservadoras de Japon inventaron nuevos aparatos de vigilancia y reglamentos o perfeccionaron los ya existentes a fin de aplicar la sancion economica contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y reprimir a la Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon (Chongryon), aparte de la aprobacion sucesiva de "legislaciones de sancion" contra la RPDC y leyes infames anti-Chongryon, lo cual produce gran indignacion del pueblo coreano.
    Tal procedimiento -prosiguio- del pais isleno, que se suma a las maniobras de EE.UU. que no repara en medios y metodos para aplastar a la RPDC, provoca la ira y el rencor del pueblo coreano.
    Gracias al encuentro cumbre Corea-Japon, celebrado en mayo ultimo, las relaciones bilaterales entran en una nueva coyuntura, por lo tanto, debemos juntar nuestras fuerzas para abrir una nueva epoca de reconciliacion y amistad entre ambos paises, subrayo.
    Acto seguido, pronuncio un discurso Sumiko Shimizu, jefa del grupo de visita "El camino de la paz" de mujeres japonesas y representante de la Sociedad de enlace de Mujeres Japonesas por la Solidaridad con Mujeres Coreanas.
    Sumiko se refirio a que el pueblo coreano, en lucha por la materializacion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio, libra vigorosa marcha para defender la soberania y lograr la reunificacion pacifica del pais con las fuerzas unidas de la nacion coreana.
    Las japonesas respaldaran y apoyaran activamente la justa lucha del pueblo coreano por lograr la reunificacion del pais, recalco.
    El gobierno de Bush, que puso a la RPDC la etiqueta del "eje del mal", al exponer su arrogante demanda de la cancelacion nuclear y el intento de primer golpe nuclear contra ella, agrava la tension de la Peninsula Coreana y el Nordeste Asiatico, asevero.
    En el acto hubo intervenciones.
    La resolucion aprobada en este conclave, que defiende la Declaracion Corea-Japon de Pyongyang calificandola de un manifiesto que da una marcha adelante a la materializacion de la aspiracion a la paz de la region del Nordeste Asiatico, consta de 5 articulos que reflejan la voluntad de las feminas de ambos paises de preservar con la solidaridad entre si la paz y la estabilidad de esta region.
    El documento tambien abogo por elevar las voces en demanda de la realizacion pronta de la normalizacion de relaciones diplomaticas Corea-Japon, realizar estrictamente la educacion de la historia a las nuevas generaciones y luchar contra la discriminacion nacional de todo tipo.
    Ademas menciona los problemas que se presentan en desarrollar activamente el movimiento por apoyar activamente la justa causa del pueblo coreano y alcanzar el objetivo comun.

Vocero de CRPP condena aumento armamentista de EE.UU

     Pyongyang, 31 de agosto (ATCC) -- Los Estados Unidos intentan trasladar el mes que viene a la parte Sur de Corea un batallon de cazabombarderos "F-15E" de su fuerza aerea para que este se incorpore a un entrenamiento de adaptacion a las condiciones topograficas para el "tiempo de emergencia" de la Peninsula Coreana. Esto demuestra que llegan a una etapa muy temeraria las maquinaciones de provocacion de guerra de agresion al Norte de Corea a traves de un ataque global y sorpresivo.
    Asi senalo el vocero del Comite por la Reunificacion Pacifica de Corea (CRPP) en su declaracion fechada 30 y continuo: Hasta la fecha, este pais norteamericano solia decir "no practico ni una vez la politica hostil a Corea" y la "posicion de Estados Unidos es solucionar el problema nuclear por via diplomatica y negociada" y aparentaba tener interes en eliminar las relaciones hostiles con la RPDC y dar solucion negociada al problema nuclear.
    Pero, de hecho, el aumento armamentista de gran envergadura y los freneticos entrenamientos militares contra el Norte de Corea demuestran a las claras que el llamado "dialogo" y "conversaciones" de que habla Estados Unidos no pasan de ser una farsa para encubrir su naturaleza agresiva y saqueadora y que es invariable el designio de Washington de aplastar por la fuerza a la RPDC.
    Si las tropas norteamericanas desencadenan una guerra en la Peninsula Coreana, todos los coreanos en el Norte y el Sur sufriran una catastrofe nuclear irreparable.
    EE.UU. debe dejar de introducir incondicionalmente cazabombarderos "F-15E" en el Sur de Corea y sacar de inmediato de alli a sus tropas agresoras y armamentos.
    Al mismo tiempo, las autoridades surcoreanas tienen que reflexionar de las consecuencias que emanen de sus actos antinacionales consistentes en introducir en la tierra patria a las fuerzas agresoras extranjeras.

Presidente de Guinea apoya causa del pueblo coreano

     Pyongyang, 31 de agosto (ATCC) -- Nosotros tambien apoyamos incondicionalmente la causa del pueblo coreano, en particular, la reunificacion pacifica de la Peninsula Coreana, al igual que este da sincero y activo apoyo y respaldo al pueblo guineo. Subrayo asi el dia 25 el presidente de la Republica de Guinea, Lansana Conte, al reunirse con el embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea en su pais, Kim Pong Hui.
    Dijo que Corea ha apoyado invariablemente la causa del pueblo guineano desde cuando Guinea logro la independencia, por lo cual aprecia mucho las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion con Corea y destaco que la amistad entre los dos paises fue preparada y se consolida por el gran Presidente Kim Il Sung, Su Excelencia el Dirigente Kim Jong Il y los dirigentes sucesivos de Guinea.