U.S. Interference in Koreans' Affairs Assailed

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should clearly see through the true nature of the U.S. interference and obstructions to the north-south economic cooperation and resolutely foil them, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article. The U.S. sent an official notice to the south Korean authorities that it would apply laws and regulations that ban the export of strategic items to what it called "sponsors of terrorism" to south Korean enterprises advancing into the Kaesong Industrial Zone. This is aimed to scuttle the construction of the zone, under the absurd pretext of "possible exclusive use of them for a military purpose", the article says, and goes on:
    It is not the first time that the U.S. has interfered in the economic cooperation between the Koreans and stood in their way.
    The U.S. has hindered the project of reconnecting the rail and road links on the eastern and western coasts and the construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone ever since their start, talking about the "approval" by the "UN Command". The U.S. has hamstrung the Korean nation's efforts for reconciliation and cooperation by pressurizing the south Korean authorities to adjust the tempo of the improvement of the inter-Korean relations depending on the progress to be made in the settlement of the nuclear issue.
    As if it were not enough, the U.S. is again working hard to put a physical brake on the construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone, stretching dark tentacles to it. This can not but be an intolerable challenge and a mockery of the Korean nation advancing towards reconciliation and reunification under the uplifted banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    This unwarranted interference in the construction of the zone is a premeditated move to disrupt the process of reconciliation and reunification on the Korean peninsula and this is little short of interfering in the affairs of the Koreans.
    The U.S. interference and obstructions against inter-Korean economic cooperation is a direct product of its criminal policy to dominate Korea.
    The south Korean authorities should correctly judge and handle all the issues proceeding from the stand of defending national independence and in the interests of the nation as befitting the era of reunification after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration and resolutely reject the U.S. unreasonable interference.

DPRK Birthday Celebrated Abroad

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) --A photo exhibition, a film show, a lecture meeting and a seminar were held from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1 to mark the 56th birthday of the DPRK. The events were organized by a company in Singapore, the Juche Idea Study Society of Delhi, India, and the Fasil-Rakwon Pharmacy Joint Company in Nigeria. On display at the photo exhibition were photos showing the glorious course covered by the DPRK.
    The Korean film "The Great Auspicious Event of the Nation and High Honor of the People" was screened at the film show.
    Meanwhile, Latigo Oral, deputy director for External Relations of the Secretariat of the National Movement of Uganda, released a press statement on Sept. 1. He highly praised the undying feats of President Kim Il Sung in the building of the country, recalling that he founded the DPRK, a genuine people's power.
    Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il have strengthened the DPRK politically, militarily and economically, he noted, and said: It will develop into a more powerful state under the distinguished guidance of Kim Jong Il, with Kim Il Sung held in high esteem as its eternal president.

U.S.-S. Korea War Games Flailed in India

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The All-India Peasants' Union and the All-India Agricultural Workers' Union made public a joint statement on August 31, denouncing the U.S.-south. Korea military exercises Ulji Focus Lens-04. Frightened by the growing might of the DPRK and the positive movement toward the development of the inter-Korean relations, the United States is trying to find a pretext to ignite another war of aggression in Korea, the statement noted, and said:
    The strained situation on the Korean peninsula has resulted from the continued presence of the U.S. forces in south Korea and the deployment of nukes there.
    We demand the U.S. occupation forces withdraw from south Korea, taking along their nuclear weapons, so that the Korean people may reunify the country successfully.

S. Korean Peasants' Action for Food Sovereignty

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Headquarters of the People's Movement for Defending Food Sovereignty was inaugurated in Seoul on Sept. 1 to protect domestic rice, according to south Korean MBC. Attending the inaugural ceremony were over 60 civic and public organizations including the south Korean Solidarity of Peasants.
    The headquarters called for defending sovereignty over food, contending that the opening of the rice market will cause a serious food crisis and frustrate the life of peasants.
    It declared it would launch a full-scale action to check the opening of rice market and defend sovereignty over food.

Rodong Sinmun on Juche-Oriented Theory of State Building

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are leading a proud and worthwhile life under the banner of the glorious Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the international prestige of the DPRK is steadily rising higher. This is a clear proof of the greatness of the Juche-oriented theory of state building provided thanks to the energetic theoretical and ideological activities of the Workers' Party of Korea. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article. It goes on:
    The issue of power is important for hewing out the destiny of the popular masses, but it could not find a right solution in any era and revolution. It was only the WPK that perfectly solved the theoretical and practical issue arising in building revolutionary power.
    President Kim Il Sung put forward the original line of building power based on the Juche idea and pursued the politics centering on the popular masses, thus successfully hewing the path of state building in the era of independence.
    He gave an origin to the building of people's power based on the Juche-oriented principle as early as in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and further developed in depth the Juche-oriented theory of state building to meet the intrinsic requirements of socialist society. The Juche-oriented theory of state building provided by Kim Il Sung has thus been developed in depth with the progress of the revolution. This theory has been further developed and enriched at a new higher stage under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    It is the theory of state building in our era as it is a full embodiment of the principle of Songun.
    The fundamental character of the theory of state building Kim Jong Il has developed in depth as required by the Songun era is that it regards it as a great important affair and a basic principle of state building to increase military force.
    He set out the original idea of placing the army before the working class and has augmented the military force, considering it as the most important state affair. The reality clearly proves the justice of the Juche-oriented idea of state building that a country which pursues Songun is a true popular country and strong state.
    Another important character of the theory is that it considers the perfect unity of the whole society on the basis of the revolutionary soldier spirit as a social and political foundation and a fundamental cornerstone for state building and the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation as an ultimate and basic aim of state building.
    The WPK's theory of state building serves as a great programme for state building in the 21st century as it correctly reflects the desire of humankind for building an independent powerful state.

New Stamps Issued

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Korea Stamp Corporation recently issued nine kinds of stamps. They include sheetlets and individual stamps.
    Seen in the upper parts of the sheetlets, each consisting of four stamps, are words "Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il's Unofficial Visit to the People's Republic of China," "April 19-21, Juche 93(2004)," "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Meets Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi" and " May 22, Juche 93(2004)."
    Also printed in the sheetlets are pictures of Kim Jong Il meeting Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Zeng Qinghong, senior Party and state officials of China, respectively and touring capital and local areas of China, and pictures of him meeting and talking with the Japanese prime minister.
    The face values of the stamps are 3, 12, 40 and 60 won respectively.
    Six other stamps were also issued to mark the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping of China.
    Featured in the sheetlet are words "The 100th Birth Anniversary of Deng Xiaoping" and "1904-2004" and stamps carrying a picture of President Kim Il Sung, along with Deng Xiaoping, enjoying welcome of citizens when visiting the People's Republic of China, and pictures showing Deng's life. The face values of the stamps are 3, 12, 35, 50, 70 and 80 won respectively.

Jong Jun Thaek Wonsan University of Economics

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Jong Jun Thaek Wonsan University of Economics is a center of economic education in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It, founded on September 1 Juche 49 (1960), was named after Jong Jun Thaek, a patriotic martyr, who was infinitely loyal to the Workers' Party of Korea and President Kim Il Sung.
    It consists of planned economy, material supply and labor administration, financial economy, commercial management, trade economy and other faculties, and scores of chairs, a research institute, a doctoral institute, a library, a publishing house and an information center.
    It has a competent teaching staff which is composed of those with academic degrees or titles including professors and doctors.
    In the compound of the university covering an area of 31,300-odd square meters are fully-equipped educational and welfare service buildings including buildings Nos.1, 2, 3 and 4, a hall, a general lecture room, dormitories Nos.1 and 2, a gymnasium and a comprehensive welfare service centre.
    President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il sent educational materials and apparatuses to the university on several occasions, thus turning it into a centre of training able economic specialists.

Construction of Dwellings Completed in Explosion-hit Ryongchon

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The construction of dwellings for 1,650 families has been completed in the damaged area of Ryongchon County, North Phyongan Province, amid deep care of the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Some 130 days after the wagon explosion, the area has turned into a town teemed with many modern two-three storey dwelling houses.
    The colorfully painted houses of various styles lend a new beauty to the area. Each apartment houses six to eighteen families. Each flat, covering 60-70 square meters, has two or three living rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, etc.
    The houses will be soon occupied by people.

Letter to International Committee of Red Cross

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society and the DPRK Society for Human Rights Studies on August 27 sent a letter to the International Committee of Red Cross denouncing the United States and the south Korean authorities for committing such inhumane acts as abducting 468 DPRK citizens and taking them away to south Korea in two batches on July 27 and 28 under the mask of "defectors from the north". The letter said:
    This is not the first time that the south Korean authorities allured and abducted northerners but they have long systematically committed such crimes, the letter said, and went on: Taking advantage of the U.S. policy to stifle the DPRK, they perpetrated such acts after setting up many bodies and organizations and sending personages that specialize in alluring and abducting "defectors from the north" in other countries and regions close to Korea.
    Such acts of the south Korean authorities have divided more families and relatives in the era of reunification after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration in Korea, adding to the misfortune and sufferings of Koreans.
    It is intolerable that foreign forces have forced Korean families and relatives to live separated from each other in the north and the south for more than half a century, not allowing them to visit and meet each other.
    And it cannot but be a serious humanitarian issue that there cropped up another sort of issue of separated families and relatives in the peace time, not in the wartime.
    We hold that the U.S. and the south Korean authorities' base act of alluring and abducting "defectors from the north" should not be tolerated internationally.
    Now that exchange and cooperation are getting brisk between the north and the south of Korea the appearance of more separated families and relatives can never be overlooked in view of the humanitarian idea of Red Cross or respect for human rights or the desire of the Korean nation for reunification.
    It is our hope that your organization will take every possible step to deter the U.S. and the south Korean authorities from alluring and taking away DPRK citizens under the mask of "defectors from the north."

Letter to Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Society for Human Rights Studies and the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society on August 28 sent a letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights complaining to it about the criminal actions taken by the U.S. and south Korean authorities to abduct DPRK citizens and take them to south Korea under the mask of "defectors." The south Korean authorities perpetrated such terrorism as alluring and abducting 468 DPRK citizens in broad daylight and taking them to south Korea under the mask of "defectors from the north" in two batches on July 27 and 28, the letter said, and continued:
    It is not the first time that the authorities committed such unethical and inhumanitarian crime. They have, in fact, systematically abducted DPRK citizens for years.
    This was an organized and premeditated allurement and abduction carried out under the manipulation of the U.S. as part of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the policy aimed to tarnish the dignity and the authority of the DPRK and undermine it.
    It is an open secret that the U.S. has deliberately dreamed up the issue of "defectors from the north" in a bid to internationalize and politicize it.
    Pursuant to the U.S. policy to stifle the DPRK the south Korean authorities have set up in countries and regions close to the DPRK institutions and organizations staffed with many agents who specialize in alluring and abducting north Korean "defectors" to perpetrate systematic abduction and terrorism against DPRK citizens.
    The authorities' planned act of alluring and abducting DPRK citizens has divided more families and relatives in the reunification-oriented era after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, adding to the nation's pain and misfortune.
    It is something deplorable that families in the north and the south have lived separated from each other for more than half a century due to outsiders, without being able to visit or see each other. It can not but be a tragedy for the nation that there cropped up another sort of issue of separated families and relatives in the peacetime, not in the wartime.
    The U.S. is keen to bring down the system in the DPRK under the pretext of its "human rights performance" while going frantic in its moves to destroy the DPRK through military threat, blackmail and economic sanctions and blockade. It should stop at once the base and clumsy operation for the "exile of north Korean defectors."
    It plans to take groups of abducted DPRK citizens to what it called "concentration camps for north Korean defectors" set up in areas close to the DPRK. This clearly proves that it has not entitled to talk about "human rights" and "freedom" and it is an empire of evil with the poorest human rights record in which the basic principle of humanitarianism is not observed.
    It is our hope that the office, true to its original mission to observe humanitarianism and respect human rights, would move to stop the U.S. and the south Korean authorities from carrying out such operation.

Kim Yong Nam Meets Italian Guest

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with Giancarlo Elia Valori, director of the Italian Institute of International Relations, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Monday. On hand was Pak Kyong Son, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    On the occasion the director said that the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being creditably carried forward under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    ĦĦHe expressed full support and solidarity with the Korean people in their efforts to build a great powerful prosperous nation and accomplish the cause of national reunification.

DPRK Cadres Express Condolences over Death of Russians

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and Colonel General of the Korean People's Army Pak Sung Won visited the Russian embassy here Monday expressing condolences over the death of many innocent inhabitants in a hostage-taking incident caused by terrorists in Russia. Yang Hyong Sop made an entry in the mourners' book.

Diplomats Visit Russian Embassy

     Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Diplomats of different countries and representatives of international organizations here visited the Russian embassy Monday to express condolences over the death of many innocent people caused by terrorists' hostage-taking incident in Russia. They made entries in the mourner's book.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona subunidad de Unidad No. 833 del EPC

     Pyongyang, 6 de septiembre (ATCC) --El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, inspecciono la subunidad de entrenamiento de bisonos de la Unidad No. 833 del EPC. El Dirigente se entero del estado de cumplimiento del deber de la subunidad y al ver los materiales de educacion grafica escudrino el uso de estos medios visuales.
    Se mostro muy satisfecho de que la subunidad, al librar activamente la labor politica conforme a la caracteristica de los novatos, forma a estos como fuertes en idea y conviccion e indico las tareas que se presentan para profundizar la labor ideologica.
    En el lugar de prueba y revision de punteria, el Comandante Supremo vio un entrenamiento de los militares.
    El dijo que lo principal en los rasgos de que deben disponer los militares es el infalible arte de tirar y subrayo que hay que concentrar la fuerza en el entrenamiento de los noveles para prepararlos en un corto espacio de tiempo como combatientes listos a pelear a solas contra cien enemigos con un elevado arte de tiro.
    Al ver las instalaciones deportivas de toda indole, el lugar de descanso al aire libre y aparatos de recreacion, se mostro muy regocijado de todas las condiciones preparadas para el descanso cultural de los novatos e indico personalmente los medios para librar ampliamente actividades deportivas y recreativas conforme a la caracteristica de los militares.
    Se mostro muy complacido de que se han acondicionado magnificamente el recinto del cuartel y su contorno y dijo con orgullo que este cambio sorprendente es un milagro que solo pueden hacer nuestros militares de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar) quienes adelantan el tiempo y el futuro.
    Acto seguido, recorrio la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor, el deposito diario, el bano, la sala de cultivo de hongos, la sala de elaboracion y otras instalaciones de servicio publico, educacion, cultura e intendencia para atender cordialmente con un sentimiento paternal la labor y vida de los novatos.
    El Comandante Supremo charlo con los bisonos que se entrenaban y los felicito por su ingreso en el ejercito.
    Senalo que gracias a que nuestro pueblo con el noble civismo de que la defensa de la patria es el maximo patriotismo y con infinito amor por las fuerzas armadas sirve de baluarte para la defensa del pais, nuestra patria es una fortaleza inexpugnable y prosiguio que los novatos deben forjarse firmemente en lo ideo-espiritual y fisico durante el tiempo de servicio militar para prepararse como ardientes revolucionarios y resueltos combatientes.
    El Dirigente presencio una funcion artistica de los militares de la subunidad y se fotografio junto a estos.
    Le acompanaron Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong, generales de ejercito del EPC, y Ri Yong Chol, miembro de la Comision Militar Central y primer subjefe de departamento del Comite Central, del PTC.

Debe ponerse fin al injusto estorbo de EE.UU.

     Pyongyang, 6 de septiembre (ATCC) -- Todos los coreanos del Norte y el Sur y en ultramar deben calar la esencia de la intervencion y el estorbo de los Estados Unidos en la cooperacion economica Norte-Sur y frustrarlos tajantemente. Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual del dia 6 y continua:
    Estados Unidos notifico oficialmente a las autoridades surcoreanas su posicion de aplicar a las empresas surcoreanas en la Zona Industrial de Kaesong los reglamentos que prohiben la exportacion de los materiales estrategicos al "Estado de apoyo al terrorismo". En fin se propone frustrar la construccion de la Zona Industrial de Kaesong escudandose de la "posibilidad de uso exclusivo militar".
    Ya en reiteradas ocasiones esta superpotencia intervino e impidio la labor de cooperacion economica de la nacion coreana.
    Desde el comienzo de la obra de union de ferrovias y carreteras de lineas Este y oeste y de la construccion de la Zona Industrial de Kaesong, los Estados Unidos las impidieron so pretexto del "permiso de la Comandancia de las Fuerzas de la ONU" y forzaron a las autoridades surcoreanas a moderar la velocidad del avance de las relaciones Norte-Sur de conformidad con la "marcha del problema nuclear" poniendo asi un enorme estorbo en la labor de reconciliacion y cooperacion de la nacion coreana. No satisfechos de todo esto, vuelven a extender garras de intervencion a la construccion de la Zona Industrial de Kaesong a fin de poner freno fisico a su marcha. Esto es un intolerable desafio y burla a la nacion coreana que aspira a la reconciliacion y la reunificacion enarbolando la bandera de la Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio.
    El injusto acto de Norteamerica sobre la obra en cuestion es una intervencion en la cuestion interna de la nacion coreana y una provocacion premeditada para impedir el proceso de reconciliacion y reunificacion en la Peninsula Coreana.
    Deviene un producto directo de la criminal politica de dominacion a Corea.
    Las autoridades surcoreanas deben juzgar y tratar con acierto todos los problemas en la posicion de independencia e intereses nacionales conforme a la epoca de reunificacion del 15 de junio y rechazar rotundamente todos los injustos actos intervencionistas de Estados Unidos.