U.S. Human Rights Offensive against DPRK Assailed

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- It is said that the United States, having worked out the "North Korean Human Rights Act" aimed at "overthrow of the political system" of the DPRK, is now planning to appoint "a special envoy in charge of north Korean human rights issue" and looking for a suitable person. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says it is the hackneyed method of the U.S. to politicize the "human rights problem" and, resorting to practices of option and double standard, exploit it in justifying its aggression, war, overthrow of political systems and change of regimes in anti-U.S. independent countries. This can be said of the "North Korean Human Rights Act" it cooked up recently, notes the analyst, and goes on:
    Sensing it hopeless to realize its scheme and stratagem to totally disarm the DPRK by forcing it to "renounce its nuclear program first," the U.S. is now going to try its luck in "overthrowing the regime" of the DPRK and "destroying its political system" with "human rights" and "democracy" as the expedient. The "North Korean Human Rights Act" coined by it as it pleased under the cloak of "improving human rights in north Korea" is an offspring of this move. This is another undisguised political provocation against the DPRK to drive the socialist system, the life and soul of the Korean people, to a collapse at any cost with the "human rights problem" as well as the "nuclear issue" as its two-pronged javelin.
    Unshakable is the principled stand of the DPRK to answer the reactionary human rights offensive of the U.S. with a revolutionary one, and its "strength" with strength. Today when the U.S. stand and policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK, refusing the Korean style idea and system and peaceful co-existence with it, is getting all the clearer, the confidence and will of the Korean People's Army and people to firmly defend the country's sovereignty and socialism with a mighty self-defensive deterrent force is becoming stronger and their hatred for the U.S. is burning fiercer a thousand fold.
    The U.S. would be well advised to formulate a stand for a policy change, dropping its fantastic dream of stifling the DPRK with the "nuclear issue" and the "human rights problem" as its two-pronged javelin.

Anti-Reunification Acts of S. Korean "Government for People" Reviewed

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland Monday published a document reviewing the two-year course of the anti-reunification acts of the south Korean authorities that have endangered the foundation of the inter-Korean relations. The present south Korean authorities, the document says, in the first days after they took office, put forward what they called "policy of peace and prosperity", the keynote of which was the promotion of "nation's security and prosperity," declaring they would inherit and develop all the achievements gained after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration. But their acts over the last two years are quite the contrary.
    Truth to tell, they have done nothing helpful to the implementation of the declaration and improvement of the inter-Korean relations but have systematically all along done grave harm to this.
    Playing into the hands of the United States and the Grand National Party, the south Korean "government for people", shortly after it came to power, accepted the treacherous "law on special inspection" and brought to trials and punished one after another those who had contributed to the declaration.
    The south Korean authorities barred the Pyongyang trip of a south Korean delegation for paying homage to President Kim Il Sung on the 10th anniversary of his demise.
    Hand in glove with the U.S. and its satellites, they seduced and abducted civilians of the DPRK abroad and took them to south Korea in groups under the cloak of "defectors from the north," thus leading the inter-Korean relations to a worse phase.
    No sooner had it taken office than the "government for people" staged anti-north joint military exercises under various codenames such as "Foal Eagle", "Reception, Staging, Onward-movement and Integration" and "Ulji Focus Lens" in the land, sky and waters of south Korea almost every day in league with war maniac Bush.
    And they let the U.S. ship into south Korea in a wholesale manner mass destruction weapons including ultra modern military equipment tested in the real wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to strike at fellow countrymen and have worked out war scenarios for a preemptive attack on the north such as OPLAN 5030 and OPLAN 5027-04 with the United States and put spurs to their implementation.
    The south Korean authorities have pursued the collapse of the political system of the north, systematically renewing the "emergency plan to cope with a fast changing situation of the north". They mapped out in secrecy such "emergency plans" as Chungmu 3300 and Chungmu 9000 and have renewed them all along.
    In November, they listed at least 30 Internet homepages such as "Our Nation's Auditorium" and "By Our Nation Itself" as "pro-north sites" and took a step of cutting off all their connections.
    If south Korea which is subordinate to the United States possesses nuclear weapons, they would be nuke of aggression to strike at fellow countrymen jointly with foreign forces and nuke of crime to destroy the Korean nation and reduce the Korean Peninsula to ruins.
    They forced additional troop dispatch to Iraq with outcries for "alliance" with the United States.
    The "government for people" gave up "reforms" half way, coming to terms with the ultra-right conservatives and failing to scrap the "National Security Law" harmful to the inter-Korean relations.
    The whole course of its acts over the past two years is a course of anti-reunification acts in which it has put the brake on the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and brought to a deadlock the favorably developing inter-Korean relations.
    Due to all the wrong acts of the south Korean authorities, multi-channel dialogues and contacts including the ministerial talks have stopped and the inter-Korean relations frozen, and the situation of the Korean Peninsula is rushing headlong to an acute confrontation and strain.
    Stating that the above-said review involves questions of principle concerning the dignity and system of the DPRK and the reunification of the country and the destiny of the nation, the document urges the south Korean "government for people" to admit its two-year course of acts against reunification and apologize to the nation at an early date in whatever form and way considered suitable.
    The future of the inter-Korean relations entirely depends on the south Korean authorities' attitude, concludes the document.

Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday dedicates a signed article to the 15th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let Us Give Full Play to the Korean Nation-First Spirit." The work explains the content of the nation-first spirit to be cherished by the Korean people and gives perfect answers to the principled questions as to the issue of highly displaying the spirit.
    The article says:
    The spirit serves as an ideological and moral source for achieving independent development and the prosperity of the country and the nation.
    The Korean people's ardent spirit of national independence has been displayed on the highest level in the Songun era guided by Kim Jong Il.
    Holding aloft the slogan "Let us live our own way!" the people of the DPRK are effecting fresh innovations and feats on all fronts for building a great prosperous powerful nation. This stirring reality eloquently proves that the Songun policy of Kim Jong Il serves as a banner of national independence as it makes it possible for the people to build a rich and powerful country on their own, believing in their own strength.
    Thanks to his Songun leadership the people of the DPRK are proud to be a revolutionary people who preserve and glorify the national identity in all fabrics of social life.
    They are preserving and exalting the Juche character and national identity in all domains of the revolution and construction under his wise guidance.
    It is under his Songun leadership that the fine tradition of the Korean nation is now in full bloom and a sound and revolutionary way of socialist cultural and emotional life is prevailing throughout the country. As a result, there is no room for any form of ideological and cultural poisoning by the U.S. imperialists. This is the true picture of the DPRK.

New Kind of Converter Developed in DPRK

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The Branch Academy of Railway Science under the Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has developed a new kind of converter to be used in lighting of passenger train. Merited scientist and associate Prof. Pang Sung Gwan told KCNA that this 30 kilowatt device converts high voltage of direct current flowing through railway lines into alternating current to supply electricity for fluorescent lamp and incandescent electric lamp as well as electric fan, air conditioner and heating equipment in train.
    The converter, as big as twice an ordinary filing cabinet, saves direct-current motor, generator for lighting of passenger car, much manpower, materials and funds. And its production cost is very low.
    The converter enjoys good popularity at home and abroad.

Korean Association for Publication Exchange

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The Korean Association for Publication Exchange of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has translated tens of documentary films including "For the Liberation of the Country" in eight languages. "For the Liberation of the Country" is based on President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century" (part of the anti-Japanese revolution). It has been screened in other countries.
    The association, founded in February Juche 57 (1968), is a state institution for exchange of publications. It serves foreigners and overseas Koreans with materials on politics, the economy, history and culture of Korea.
    It has widely disseminated books, periodicals, calendars, video tapes showing historic events and scenic spots of the country, and CDs and cassettes containing folk and famous songs at home and abroad. And it has developed cooperation with more than 100 countries in this field.
    It has also participated in international books fairs and international fine art and folkcraft shows and held exhibitions of books, photos and handicraft in foreign countries.
    This year it sponsored DPRK books, photos and handicraft exhibitions in scores of countries including Russia, China, Peru, Mexico, Bulgaria and Benin.
    The association, with dozens of creation and production centres in Pyongyang and local areas, produces hundreds of thousands of Korean paintings, jewel pictures, sculptures, embroideries, calligraphic pieces and other folkcraft articles every year.

Floral Basket and Congratulatory Letter to Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a floral basket and a congratulatory letter from the diplomatic corps to the DPRK on the threshold of the New Year Juche 94 (2005). The floral basket and congratulatory letter were handed to DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun today by Ahmed Amer Al Muakaff, secretary of the People's Bureau of Libya, on behalf of the corps.

U.S. Call for "Disarmament" of DPRK Refuted

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA today as regards the assertion about the "disarmament" of the DPRK made again by high-ranking officials of the U.S. administration: Senior most officials of the U.S. administration are reported to have openly asserted again these days that it is necessary to "disarm" the DPRK by "collective pressure". They dared not make such assertion for some time.
    This ill-boding assertion helps us guess what a Korea policy the Bush administration will shape for its second term.
    Their assertion means, in the final analysis, that the DPRK should lay down its arms and abandon its system, yielding to the U.S. It is an unacceptable demand that can never be met.
    The DPRK has already clarified more than once the stand that the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue is an offspring of the present U.S. administration's extremely hostile policy towards the DPRK and, accordingly, the issue can be settled only when the U.S. drops its hostile policy aimed at the "overthrow of the system" in the DPRK and opts for co-existence with it.
    It is nonsensical for the U.S. to assert that the DPRK, which has been in the hostile relationship and technically at war with the former for over half a century, should accept the unilateral demand for "disarmament".
    It will be something unimaginable that the DPRK will accept such coercive and brigandish demand.
    The U.S. is grossly mistaken if it calculates that the DPRK will lay down its arms of its own accord under any pressure from somebody.
    Self-defensive power is our life and soul and the core of our Songun policy is to attach importance to arms.
    The U.S. would be well advised to stay calm and do its own business, if it has no will to co-exist with the DPRK.
    There is no reason for the DPRK to make haste.

Kim Yong Nam Meets Outgoing Libyan Diplomat

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, had a conversation with Ahmed Amer Al Muakaff, secretary of the People's Bureau of Libya to the DPRK, who paid a farewell call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Tuesday. On hand was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon.

Wreaths to Indian Embassy

     Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry, the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Korea-India Friendship Association sent wreaths to the Indian embassy in Pyongyang Tuesday to express condolences over the death of former Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao. Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea who is chairman of the Korea-India Friendship Association, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and officials concerned visited the Indian embassy to place wreaths before the portrait of P.V. Narasimha Rao and pay a silent tribute to the memory of the deceased.
    They made entries in the mourner's book.

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Kim Jong Il recibe cesto de flores y carta de Cuerpo Diplomatico

     Pyongyang, 28 de diciembre (ATCC) ? El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio un cesto de flores y una carta de felicitacion que el Cuerpo Diplomatico en Corea le dirigiera con motivo del nuevo ano 94 (2005) de la Era Juche. En representacion del Cuerpo Diplomatico, Ahmed Amer Al Muakaff, secretario de la Oficina Popular de la Gran Jamahiria Arabe Libia Popular Socialista los entrego el dia 28 al canciller coreano Paek Nam

Dignidad y orgullo de Corea

     Pyongyang, 28 de diciembre (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 28 un articulo individual dedicado al 15 aniversario de la publicacion de la imperecedera obra clasica del Dirigente Kim Jong Il "Demostremos altamente el espiritu de dar prioridad a la nacion coreana". La obra aclara el contenido del espiritu de dar prioridad a la nacion coreana y los problemas de principios que se presentan para ponerlo de pleno manifiesto.
    Este espiritu es la fuente ideo-espiritual para lograr el desarrollo independiente y la prosperidad del pais y la nacion. El fervoroso espiritu independiente del pueblo coreano llega a la altura mas sublime en la epoca del Songun conducida por el Dirigente, senala asi el articulo y continua:
    La realidad de hoy en que nuestro pueblo con la consigna de "!vivir a nuestra manera!" en alto crea nuevas innovaciones y proezas en todos los frentes de la construccion de una gran potencia prospera sirve de una prueba elocuente de que la politica de Songun del Dirigente es la bandera de independencia nacional de construir por cuenta propia la patria prospera.
    Bajo la sabia direccion del Dirigente, el pueblo coreano defiende y lleva adelante el caracter Juche y la nacionalidad en todos los sectores de la revolucion y la construccion. Bajo la direccion del Songun del Dirigente se ponen de pleno manifiesto las excelentes tradiciones de nuestra nacion y en todo el pais reina el estilo de vida cultural socialista sana y revolucionaria que no da vagar al intento de penetracion ideo-cultural de los imperialistas norteamericanos.

Rodong Sinmun llama a frustrar ofensiva de DDHH de EE.UU.

     Pyongyang, 28 de diciembre (ATCC) -- En los ultimos dias, los Estados Unidos fraguaron la "ley de derechos humanos del Norte de Corea" destinada a "derrocar el regimen" de este y luego de planear la designacion de un "enviado encargado de derechos humanos del Norte de Corea", promueven la seleccion del personal para ese cargo. Con respecto al hecho, el diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 28 un comentario individual.
    Es un metodo rutinario de este pais estadounidense politizar el "problema de derechos humanos" y aplicar el doble rasero y la selectividad para justificar su agresion y guerra a los paises independientes en su disfavor, el derrocamiento del regimen y la sustitucion del poder de estos paises, senala el comentario y prosigue:
    Lo prueba la arriba mencionada "ley de derechos humanos del Norte de Corea".
    La superpotencia, al darse cuenta de que es imposible realizar su intento de desarmar por completo a la RPDC obligando a esta ser "primera en renuncia nuclear", trata de valerse de los "derechos humanos" y la "democracia" para realizar el "derrocamiento del sistema" y el "arruinamiento del regimen" de aquella. Es un producto de tales maquinaciones la llamada "ley de derechos humanos del Norte de Corea". El Tio Sam la fraguo a su antojo so pretexto de "mejoramiento de la situacion de derechos humanos del Norte de Corea". Es una abierta provocacion politica para "derrocar" de todas maneras el regimen socialista coreano que es el destino y la vida del pueblo coreano, pretextando el "problema nuclear" y el de "derechos humanos".
    Es invariable la posicion de principios de la RPDC responder a la ofensiva reaccionaria de derechos humanos de EE.UU. con la revolucionaria y a la "fuerza" con la fuerza. Hoy en que se ponen a flote la posicion y la politica de EE.UU. de negar la ideologia y el regimen de la RPDC y la coexistencia pacifica con esta y de aislarla y aplastarla, se hacen mas firmes la conviccion y la voluntad del ejercito y el pueblo de Corea de defender con la poderosa fuerza de detencion auto-defensiva la soberania del pais y el socialismo y se centuplica su odio a EE.UU.
    El Tio Sam debe abandonar su vana intencion de realizar la ambicion de aplastar a Corea pretextando el "problema nuclear" y el de "derechos humanos" y tomar la posicion de cambiar de politica.