Even One Phyong of Land Cannot Be Offered to U.S.: Minju Joson
Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- The U.S. recently forced the south Korean authorities to offer the Ryongsan base in Seoul as a new building site of the U.S. embassy, which is a shameless action violating the sovereignty and dignity of the south Korean people and another plunder of the inviolable land of Korea.
Minju Joson says this Sunday in a signed commentary.
It goes on:
We cannot offer even one phyong of our land to Yankees.
The Ryongsan base is the very place where the Japanese imperialists, during their occupation of Korea, set up the backbone organs for their colonial rule such as the "government-general" and the command of the Japanese army stationed in Korea and the U.S. imperialists, wormed into south Korea in place of the Japanese imperialists after the liberation of Korea, established tools for their military occupation and colonial rule. It is a symbol of disgrace with which the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation were trampled on.
The U.S. imperialists' dreaming of eternal domination over south Korea by building their embassy in this place is one more grave infringement upon the sovereignty and dignity of the Korean nation and an insult to the Korean people.
The south Korean people should resolutely smash the shameless moves of the U.S. imperialists to build the U.S. embassy in the Ryongsan base through the dynamic anti-U.S. struggle for independence.
The south Korean authorities should clearly understand that there is no one phyong of land to offer to the Yankees and should come to senses and promptly stop their anti-national action of leaving the inviolable territory of the country to the mercy of the foreign forces.
Kim Jong Il's Birthday Celebrated in Foreign Countries
Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- Film shows and photo exhibitions were held in India, Malaysia and Singapore on Feb. 4 and 7 on the occasion of the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il.
Displayed at photo exhibition halls were photos of Kim Jong Il giving field guidance to the work in different economic sectors and finding himself among servicepersons and people.
Korean films "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Work in Different Sectors," "Korea, Land of Morning Calm" and "The Korean People's Army, Steel-strong Ranks" were screened at the film shows.
The principal of a primary school in Delhi, India, said that the Korean people could shatter the moves of the imperialist allied forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK and honorably defend the country's sovereignty and national dignity thanks to the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il.
The general director of the Harmonica World Company Ltd. in Malaysia stressed that the U.S. is resorting to all sorts of schemes to stifle the DPRK, but it dare not pounce on it led by Kim Jong Il.
The director of a company in Singapore noted that Kim Jong Il is a great man who is steering the world politics in the 21st century and the Korean people under his wise guidance are the most dignified people in the world.
Performance Given by Art Circles under Ministry of People's Armed Forces
Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- Art circles under the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces gave a performance celebrating February 16 at the April 25 House of Culture on Saturday.
The performance was watched by Kim Yong Chun, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, KPA vice-marshals, leading officials and servicepersons of the ministry.
The performers impressively sang of boundless reverence of all the people and servicepersons for Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il who performed great exploits in developing the revolutionary armed forces and building a great prosperous powerful nation through chorus "The Old Home Covered with Snow," male group singing "Yearning for the General," mixed-duet "Soldier Lives Near to the General" and other numbers.
Narrative telling the heroic and epic Songun revolution record of Kim Jong Il "Long Live the Great Songun Politics," narrative and song "Thinking of the Way of Songun," female quintet "Blue Sky above My Country" and other numbers touched the heart-strings of the audience.
Trio of trumpets and small chorus of the immortal famous song "Dear General, Where Are You," poem and narrative "Battle Flag for Devotedly Defending Leader, Forward," mixed group singing "Nilliri of Single-minded Unity" and other numbers showed well the steel-strong faith and will of servicemen to become victors at any cost in showdown with the U.S. and in building a great prosperous powerful nation, holding fast to arms for devotedly defending the leader and carrying through his instructions in the do-or-die spirit.
Oceanian Regional Preparatory Committee Formed
Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- The Oceanian regional preparatory committee for a joint event of Koreans in the north and south and overseas
for implementing the June 15 joint declaration was inaugurated on February 4.
The committee consists of Koreans in Australia and New Zealand.
Vice-Chairman of the General Association of Koreans in Australia Jang Jin Min was elected chairman of the preparatory committee, Chairwoman of the General Association of Koreans in Australia Kim Un Sil honorary chairwoman and 13 public figures vice-chairmen.
Actions for Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from S. Korea Called for
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- Song Hyo Won, chairperson of the 13th term south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), on February 8 made public a statement titled "Let's make 2005 a year of withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea and a year of independent reunification of the country through cooperation for national independence, cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for reunification and patriotism, inheriting the spirit of the February 7 national salvation struggle", according to a news report.
The February 7 national salvation struggle waged in 1948 was a courageous anti-U.S. struggle participated in by south Korean people from all walks of life in all parts of south Korea including Seoul, Taejon, Mokpho, Pusan and Inchon. They staged actions against the U.S. moves to justify its colonial rule over south Korea and split the nation, shouting the slogans "U.S. forces, go home," "No UN Observation Committee" and "No separate government."
The statement said Hanchongryon would surely make the year 2005 a year of withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea and a year of independent reunification inheriting the spirit of the February 7 national salvation struggle. It stressed the need to shatter the U.S. war moves, win back sovereignty by rejecting U.S. domination and interference and drive the U.S. forces out of south Korea to bring about an era of prosperity for our nation in which it enjoys independence and peace.
Calling for a nation-wide anti-U.S. resistance, the statement said that Hanchongryon would realize cooperation for national independence, cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for reunification and patriotism to bring about a decisive turning phase in the movement for the independent reunification of the country this year which marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the country.
Performance of Russian Dancing Troupe Goes On
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The State Academy Beriozka Dancing Troupe Named after N. S. Nadezhdina gave a performance on Friday.
The performers deeply impressed the audience by enthusiastically singing Korean songs including the immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Jong Il".
They truthfully represented the traditional lifestyle, diligent work and national sentiment of the Russian people in their repertoire including solo dance "Memory" and the song and dance "Beriozka".
They also staged comic dance "Mosquito" and the mixed group dance "Petrushka" rich in humor, drawing merry laugh from the audience.
The performance was highly acclaimed by the audience as it was pervaded with the friendship between the peoples of the two countries.
Koreans Called Upon to Cement Single-minded Unity
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Saturday carries an editorial article titled "Single-minded Unity Serves as the Strongest Weapon
in the Songun Revolution."
The single-minded unity of our revolutionary ranks is comradely unity highest in the level of the purity of ideology and will, organizational integrity and noble moral obligation, the article says, describing it as the strongest unity based on trust and devotion.
It goes on:
Our revolutionary ranks have achieved unbreakable comradely unity because profound trust is its bottom line. The history of the unity of our revolutionary ranks is characterized by the comradely trust and love. Herein lies its real significance.
Leader Kim Jong Il's trust in the army and people provides eternal dynamism and precious nutritive elements for their life and struggle.
The leader reposes absolute trust in the servicepersons and people and the latter deeply trust and follow the former. These kindred ties have put the single-minded unity on a new higher level.
The single-minded unity of our revolutionary ranks is demonstrating its might as unbreakable unity in idea and will as the people are rallied close around their leader in one idea and will and as an organized integral whole in which all of them move as one.
The entire party and army and all the people in the DPRK breathe and move as one as intended by the party, cherishing Kim Jong Il's revolutionary idea as immutable truth and a maxim of their life and struggle.
The unity of our revolutionary ranks is unbreakable as it has grown stronger thanks to their total dedication. The total dedication of the party and leader to the people and the latter's boundless devotion to the former produced the single-minded unity between them.
Our single-minded ranks have become ranks of those who are determined to devotedly safeguard their leader and those based on genuine comradeship in which all their members help and lead each other forward. This unity has grown stronger as the spirit of serving the people prevails throughout the society.
The party devotes itself to the people and they uphold the party's leadership with utmost dedication and guidance and the masses are blended with each other like one organism. Herein lies an important factor of our unity remaining undeterred by any stern trial.
This unity serves as a powerful treasured sword which helps increase the country's military capacity to be invincible and a mighty weapon for bringing about miraculous changes and prosperity in the Songun era. We should consolidate our single-minded unity based on the trust and devotion in hearty response to the party's slogan "Let the Whole Party and Army and All the People Unite as One in Mind and More Strikingly Demonstrate the Might of Songun!"
Immensely bright is the future of the Songun revolution which advances and emerges victorious thanks to the single-minded unity.
The army and people of the DPRK will always demonstrate their honor of being victors as they confidently advance along the orbit of Songun, rallied close around Kim Jong Il in single mind, no matter how the world may change and how the situation may develop.
Kim Jong Il Praised as Master of Cinematic Art
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- Foreigners have expressed their strong admiration for leader Kim Jong Il who has provided wise and dynamic leadership to the field of cinematic art when they visited the revolutionary museum at the DPRK Ministry of Culture.
Head of the group of Chinese technicians working for the construction of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory Cui Baoyu, said that the Korean feature film "The Flower Girl", scripted from immortal classics "The Flower Girl", is a flawlessly perfect masterpiece.
It is entirely thanks to the on-site guidance and instructions given by Kim Jong Il to the field of cinematic art on many occasions for the past several decades that the Korean cinematic art has reached such a high level as we have seen today, he said, adding: We hope that the Juche-based cinematic art of Korea would further develop and effloresce under his guidance.
Viktor Yeliseev, head of the State Academy Ensemble of the Ministry of Interior of Russia, said that the museum clearly bears witness to the greatness of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the glorious course covered by the Korean cinematic art, which has made great progress under their wise guidance. Our visit to the museum convinced us that Kim Jong Il is a genius of art, he added.
Swedish delegate Agneta Gustavsson, head of the Austrian delegation Brigiter Waych and other participants of the 9th Pyongyang Film Festival said after visiting the museum that they are firmly convinced that the cinematic art of Korea will make greater progress in the future as it is guided by Kim Jong Il, its great master.
Abolition of NSL Demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The Youth and Student Solidarity for Implementing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration reportedly made public a statement on February 6, denouncing the deceptive moves of the Grand National Party of south Korea to check the abolition of the "National Security Law".
The GNP is insisting that the debate on the repeal of the NSL may cause the people's split and conflict and spark off a political dispute, which is action to hoodwink the people who are out in the struggle for abolition of the NSL, the statement said.
Noting that the people's split and conflict are being made by the GNP, it stressed that the south Korean people would no longer be taken in by the deceptive tricks of such pro-American and anti-reunification conservatives as the GNP.
U.S. Policy of Aggression and Dominationism Unjustifiable
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The United States keeps invading independent countries and interfering in their internal affairs in disregard of norms governing international relations and principles of equality, mutual respect and non-interference in others' internal affairs under the pretext of an "anti-terror war," etc. This crime can never be justified.
Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a signed article.
The U.S. has persistently pursued the policy of aggression and committed high-handed practices against other countries, terming them, especially those sovereign states with strong anti-imperialist independent stands, parts of an "axis of evil", "rogue states" and "dangerous forces", the article says, and goes on:
Invading other countries and nations to dominate them is a criminal act of breaching the principles of equality and mutual respect to be abided by in international relations.
The U.S. has gone arrogant enough to divide countries of the world into this or that category and pursue a hegemonistic and unilateral policy, styling itself the world "leader". This is an extremely arbitrary and high-handed practice and an outright challenge to the international community.
The world has become as turbulent and complicated as today entirely due to the U.S. moves for aggression and domination.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula has also deteriorated due to the U.S. hostile policy and reckless war moves against the DPRK.
It is an invariable ambition of the U.S. to invade the DPRK and dominate Asia with the Korean Peninsula as a springboard and establish a global order of its domination.
The U.S. talk about "peace and human rights" is nothing but a slogan for invading and dominating other countries and a subterfuge to cover up its criminal nature. The U.S. policy of aggression and dominationism is bound to go bankrupt as it goes against the trend of the times and the desire and wish of humankind.
9th Kimjongilia Festival Opens
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The 9th Kimjongilia Festival opened in grand style at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition here on Feb. 12.
On display there are at least 19,000 potted Kimjongilias presented by commissions of the cabinet, ministries, national institutions, military organs, provincial organizations, people from all walks of life, youth and students, diplomatic missions here, friendly, social and non-governmental aid organizations, individual figures, overseas Koreans, Chinese residents in Korea and the Pyongyang Mission of the National Democratic Front of south Korea.
Present at its opening ceremony were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the Cabinet, members of the Cabinet, senior officials of ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations and officials concerned and others.
Kang Nung Su, chairman of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee, addressing the ceremony, noted that this festival, a successful annual event, is a peculiar festival of Korean style for praising the great man and a festival of flowers cultivated with loyalty as it will fully demonstrate the unshakable faith and will of the Korean people to make the long march of the Songun revolution following leader Kim Jong Il to the last.
The current festival will be a more splendid and significant one as it is opened after Kimjongilia, national pride and treasure, was formally registered as a new species at the International Society for Horticultural Science amid the world people's praise of it as a world famous flower.
At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round with deep emotion the flowers in full bloom representing the Sun that have turned the venue of the festival red like the glow in the sky above the Jongil Peak.
Foreign Figure Skaters Arrive Here
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- Chinese, Russian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Belorussian, Swiss and Ukrainian figure skaters arrived in Pyongyang today to participate in the 14th international figure skating festival for Paektusan Cup to be held on the occasion of the February holiday.
S. Korean Military Authorities Warned against Military Provocations
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The Navy Command of the Korean People's Army issued the following press release Saturday warning the south Korean military authorities over their continued infiltration of a battleship into the waters of the north side in the West Sea of Korea, a move to deliberately strain the situation:
The south Korean army perpetrated military provocations by infiltrating a battleship several times into the waters of the north side south of Kuwol Hill on Feb. 12 in the wake of its similar intrusion on Feb. 8, 9 and 11.
The south Korean military authorities sent the battleship to the sensitive waters where two naval skirmishes occurred in the past against the backdrop of a grave situation created due to the U.S. imperialist warhawks' invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK. This can not but be an extremely irresponsible and base act of treachery.
The command warns the south Korean military authorities that such dangerous military provocations may entail a very serious disaster.
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Mongolia: editada en folleto obra de Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, 12 de febrero (ATCC) -- Fue editada en folleto en Mongolia la imperecedera obra clasica del Dirigente Kim Jong Il "La politica de Songun es un potente modo de politica socialista".
En el acto de edicion que tuvo lugar el dia 4 en Ulan Bator hizo uso de la palabra C. Surenjav, presidente de la Asociacion de Amistad Mongolia-Corea.
El respetado Dirigente Kim Jong Il inicio la politica de Songun (priorizacion militar) a base del analisis cientifico de la situacion dada en la Peninsula Coreana y las complejas circunstancias del acontecer internacional, indico el orador y prosiguio:
Gracias a esta magna politica, esta defendida fidedignamente la soberania de Corea y avanza siempre victorioso el socialismo coreano. Con ella el pueblo coreano construira sin falta en un tiempo cercano una gran potencia prospera y lograra la reunificacion independiente y pacifica del pais.
Deseo buena salud al gran Dirigente Kim Jong Il, quien pronto acogera su cumpleanos, y mayores exitos en el cumplimiento de su noble causa para la edificacion de una gran potencia prospera y la reunificacion de la patria.
Actos por 16 de febrero en varios paises
Pyongyang, 12 de febrero (ATCC) -- Una platica sobre inmortales hazanas del Dirigente Kim Jong Il dedicada al 16 de febrero (su cumpleanos) se efectuo el dia primero en la Editora del periodico sirio "Al Usubuu Al Riadih".
En ella se subrayo que Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il es el mas veterano y probado politico del mundo y que por la politica de Songun (priorizacion militar), que practica el Dirigente, el pueblo coreano juega el rol de abanderado de la causa de independencia de la humanidad y de foro que ilumina el camino de la victoria de la causa revolucionaria del mundo en medio de los bloqueos y amenazas crueles de los Estados Unidos.
En la Union de Amigos Mexicanos en Memoria del Presidente Kim Il Sung tuvieron lugar el dia 2 una reunion de lectura al articulo intitulado "El Dirigente Kim Jong Il es el politico de gran virtud" y una proyeccion del documental coreano "Casa natal del campamento secreto del Paektu". Y una Compania de Indonesia proyecto el dia 4 el documental coreano "El camarada Kim Jong Il, gran Dirigente, dirige sobre el terreno las labores de varios sectores".
En la reunion de lectura el presidente de dicha entidad mexicana, Andres Gasca Sanchez, presento una breve historia de las actividades revolucionarias y la politica de virtud del Dirigente.
Dijo que todas las meditaciones y las actividades del Dirigente Kim Jong Il parten del ardiente amor al pueblo y de la confianza en este y destaco que siempre sera invencible la politica del Dirigente basada en la benevolencia.
El director de la compania de Indonesia arriba mencionada senalo que a traves del documental coreano podia conocer bien de la noble personalidad de Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il y su politica de virtud y anadio que, al ver las escenas de su incesante visita de orientacion, recibio una impresion de que de veras el es el Padre del pueblo y se entero bien de la razon de que el pueblo coreano le respeta y sigue tanto.
Continua funcion de conjunto de danza de Rusia
Pyongyang, 12 de febrero (ATCC) -- El Conjunto de Danza Academico Nacional "Beriozka" N. S. Nadezhdina de Rusia continuo su funcion tambien el dia 11.
Los ejecutantes cantaron con entusiasmo el inmortal himno revolucionario "Cancion del General Kim Jong Il" y otras canciones coreanas, dando grandes impresiones a los espectadores.
En el solo de baile "Recuerdo", la cancion y danza "Beriozka" y otras piezas los artistas demostraron bien las tradicionales costumbres de vida, la laboriosidad y el sentimiento nacional del pueblo ruso.
En la danza comica "Mosquito" y la danza mixta en grupo "Petrushka" los bailarines eslavos describieron vividamente el contenido humoristico de las obras, que movieron a la risotada al publico.
La funcion transcurrida en un ambiente desbordante de amistad entre los pueblos de Rusia y Corea se granjeo vivos aplausos del publico.