Philippine Preparatory Committee Inaugurated

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The Philippine National Preparatory Committee for the "Meeting Praising the Great Persons of Mt. Paektu" was inaugurated in Manila on April 17. Displayed at the venue of the inaugural ceremony were photographs showing revolutionary exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, their famous works, pictures of the Korean people's struggle for building a great prosperous powerful nation and achieving the reunification of the country and handicrafts.
    Present there were Eta Rosalles, a parliamentarian of the Philippines, Jose David Lapuz, chairman of the Philippines-DPRK Friendship Society, and men of the political, public and business circles and members of the friendship society.

Repeal of Bill on Part-Time Job Urged

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Professors' organizations including the "National Professors Union" held a press conference on April 22 at which it demanded the retraction of the bill on part- time job now being pushed forward by the "government" and the ruling party, according to south Korean MBC. They charged that the bill presented by the "government" would only increase the scope of the part-time job and widen the divide.
    The passage of the bill would reduce most of the regular workers to part-timers, they noted, demanding the withdrawal of the bill and the adoption of a genuine bill on the protection of the part-timers.

Plans for Cooperation between DPRK and China Signed

     Beijing, April 26 (KCNA) -- A plan for cooperation in the field of standardization, measuring and quality control for 2005-2006 and a plan for cooperation in the field of quality certification for 2005-2006 were signed between the State Bureau for Quality Control of the DPRK and the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China and between the State Bureau for Quality Control of the DPRK and the State Certification and Accreditation Administration of China in Beijing on April 25. Those plans were inked by Vice-director of the bureau Pak Song Guk from the DPRK side and the deputy-director of the state general administration and the deputy chief administrator of the state certification and accreditation administration from the Chinese side.

Rice's Reckless Remarks Ridiculed

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rice, while justifying the Iraqi war started by the U.S. recently, blustered that though the information about north Korea's nuclear program is insufficient, the whole world should strongly react to it. These reckless remarks come under fire by a signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun Wednesday. Her remarks reveal the U.S. efforts to create an international atmosphere for putting pressure upon the DPRK over the nuclear issue and its design for mounting a preemptive attack on it, the commentary observes, and goes on:
    Given the fact that Rice is the chief architect of the U.S. foreign policy, her outcries provided the army and the people of the DPRK with an opportunity to clearly reconfirm the Bush administration's purpose of its policy towards the DPRK.
    "Insufficient information about north Korea's nuclear program" and "the whole world's strong counter-action" touted by Rice are intended to shift the U.S. blame for having compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons onto the international community and mobilize multi-national forces for mounting preemptive attacks on it. To this end, the U.S. imperialist warlike forces worked out "OPLAN 5029-05," a new concrete version of the existing war scenario against the DPRK, and drew up a "plan to bomb nuclear facilities" in the DPRK and a "plan for blockading its coastal areas and airspace." This means they are leaving no means untried to stifle the DPRK by preemptive strikes. Their talk about "the whole world's strong counter-action" is little short of a declaration of a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    The army and people of the DPRK remain undeterred by any outbursts of the U.S. as they are strong in the spirit of independence and pluck. They will pay no heed to "the whole world's strong counter-action" and so on. Their message to the Uncle Sam is that it may do as it pleases. But the U.S. should bear in mind that the option of a preemptive attack is not its monopoly.
    It is the mode of counter-action of the army and people in the DPRK to counter the attack by a stick with a rifle and the rifle firing with artillery firing. The U.S. would be well advised to ponder over the disastrous consequences to be entailed by its preemptive strike at the DPRK.

War Blare of U.S. 7th Fleet Commander under Fire

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet shortly ago let loose a blast for invasion of the DPRK, palavering that "in case of emergency and a serious matter in social stability" the combat force of his fleet would be hurled into the DPRK to "restore the order". Rodong Sinmun Wednesday brands his jargon as an intolerable grave act of provocation that openly revealed the intention of the United States to occupy the DPRK by force of arms as it was an undisguised declaration of its military intervention in the Korean Peninsula.
    The news analyst goes on:
    A serious view must be taken of this because it was the first time for the Bush group to have been so outspoken in revealing its aggressive design against the DPRK, suggesting the mobilization of its 7th fleet force, since it took office and the remarks of the 7th fleet commander had a thread of connection with the newly drafted "OPLAN 5029-05". His war blast clearly indicates that the U.S. has entered the stage of resorting to strength, discarding even the pretence at "dialogue" and "respect of sovereignty," having been driven into a dilemma, at a loss for words in face of the DPRK's just stand toward the nuclear issue and public opinions at home and abroad sympathetic with and supportive of it.
    The "emergency case" cried over by the U.S. is utterly unthinkable in the society of the DPRK where the whole Party, army and people are single-mindedly united. To expect it is no more than a foolish dream.
    The wild outburst of the U.S. 7th fleet commander is a military threat to force the DPRK to come to the six-party talks and scrap the nuclear program.
    There can be no change in the principled stand of the DPRK toward a solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and the iron will and pluck of the army and the people of the DPRK to answer the U.S. military threat and tough policy with a super tough action.
    The United States should behave with discretion, well aware that its policy to stifle the DPRK by military force is nothing but an act of self-destruction like jumping into fire with firewood.

U.S. Double-dealing Tactics under Fire

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists are resorting to sinister and crafty acts, pursuing a carrot-and-stick policy in their aggression on and pillage in other countries. Carrot and stick are their hackneyed means of aggression. Rodong Sinmun says this in an article Wednesday. Noting that the U.S., which held its head too high, pursuing unilateralism and arbitrariness in the international arena, is resorting to ever craftier double-dealing tactics, finding itself "a general without an army" forsaken by its allies, the author of the article goes on:
    The U.S. has clung to the double-dealing policy of carrot and stick down through history.
    The U.S. outwardly cries out for "respect" and "friendship" between countries, but viciously seeks behind the scene aggression, military intervention and subversive acts against others. And, while advocating "cooperation" and "aid," it actually exploits them as the means of subjugating other countries politically and economically.
    On the other hand, the U.S. has employed the stick tactics to win some Southeast Asian countries over to its side.
    The U.S. tenaciously resorted to the double-dealing tactics toward the former Soviet Union, the first socialist state.
    Its stick did not work when the former Soviet Union stood firm against it. But, when renegades of socialism came to power there and made one concession after another, the U.S. resorted to the carrot tactics to drive it to collapse.
    The Iraqi situation shows more clearly what a miserable lot one meets if one backs down and yields to imperialism.
    Today the U.S. is pressuring Iran over the "nuclear issue" and even scheming a military attack aimed at a change of power after labeling it as part of the "axis of evil" and an "outpost of tyranny."
    One must stand firm against the U.S. stick tactics and be on the alert against the carrot tactics, not tempted by it Some countries in Africa which had once taken a stiff stand toward the U.S. are now succumbing to it, wanting its aid, discouraged by its invasion and occupation of Iraq. They, however, lament belatedly that they were duped by the U.S. promise of "aid."
    The world progressive countries and people should frustrate the U.S. imperialists' crafty and vicious double-dealing tactics of carrot and stick, seeing through their hypocritical and aggressive nature.

U.S. Escalated Moves for War against DPRK Assailed

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Ultra-modern war hardware is being more massively deployed on the Korean Peninsula than before the six-party talks aimed at denuclearization and stability were under way and, consequently, the situation on the peninsula is inching closer to the brink of war due to the U.S. reckless war moves, says Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article. It goes on:
    The U.S. chilled the atmosphere of the six-party talks by slandering the DPRK as an "outpost of tyranny" early this year. It has recently staged war exercises against the DPRK, creating the situation on the peninsula on the eve of war. It has been recently disclosed that the U.S. deployed scores of latest ground-to-ground missile of new type at the Second Division of the U.S. forces in south Korea, stirring up a furor.
    The U.S. recent introduction into south Korea of ultra-modern war hardware once again clearly indicates that it does not want a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. but only seeks to stifle it by force of arms.
    It is said that the U.S. shipped these missiles into south Korea before any other places after testing their destructive power in the war of aggression against Iraq. It is not the first time that the U.S. introduced such war hardware whose performance was tested in real wars.
    The U.S. moves for massive arms build-up give the lie to its loudmouthed "peaceful solution" to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and clearly indicate that it is getting all the more undisguised in its aggressive design to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
    The U.S. shipped the new type missiles into south Korea last year when the six-party talks were deadlocked due to the U.S. high-handed and self-opinionated attitude and the second-term of the Bush administration was decided. At that time the U.S. authorities made a "gesture" to create the impression that its hard-line toward the DPRK was likely to change but, in actuality, introduced latest war hardware into south Korea, challenging the international community desirous of a positive settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. This proves that the second-term Bush administration's Korea policy had been oriented toward the hard-line policy aimed at stifling the DPRK already at that time.
    What the U.S. really seeks is to stifle the DPRK through confrontation and war, not to coexist with it in peace or settle the nuclear issue diplomatically. Proof of this is the ever-more pronounced ambition of the Bush bellicose group to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
    The situation urgently requires the DPRK to bolster the deterrent force for self-defence for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and all the Koreans in the north, the south and overseas to strengthen the three forms of cooperation to foil the U.S. ambition to stifle the DPRK with nukes.

Kim Yong Nam Greets Togolese Interim President

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK sent a message of greetings to Bonfoh Abbass, Togolese interim president, on Apr. 23 on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of its independence. Expressing belief that the bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation would continue to grow stronger in the interests of the two peoples, the message sincerely wished him great success in his work for peace and stability.

Children's Camps Reopen in DPRK

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Schoolchildren are enjoying themselves at children's camps which reopened the door on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung (April 15). The authorities of the camps across the country are organizing varied activities suitable to children's ages and feelings so that they may spend pleasant days during their camping.
    The activities include art contests, craft show, evening of culture, sports and amusement contests, sightseeing aboard ship, boating and swimming.
    Meanwhile, the campers climb mountains to get knowledge of nature and collect plants, cooking by themselves, and thus train their body and mind and deepen what they have learned.
    They also visit revolutionary battle sites and time-honored cultural relics.
    The camping period is from April to October. During the period, schoolchildren enjoy a 3-day, 5-day and 7-day camping.
    Jo Chun Gil, a department director of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, told KCNA that this year over 140,000 pupils will camp in scenic spots throughout the country.

New Books Come Out in DPRK

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The Kum Song Youth Publishing House in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has recently brought out new books. Among them are a novel "Confrontation of History" (Vol. 4), an illustrated book "A Hunter in Mt. Paektu" and illustrated reminiscences "Comrades, Take This Pistol!"
    The novel "Confrontation of History" deals with the struggle hero Jong Si Myong and pro-reunification patriots waged to frustrate the war provocation moves of the U.S. imperialists and the Syngman Rhee clique, upholding the ideas of President Kim Il Sung to reunify the country, divided by foreign forces after the liberation in August Juche 34 (1945).
    The illustrated book "A Hunter in Mt Paektu" contains 14 stories including a legend "A Hunter in Mt Paektu", an old tale "This Is the Man", a cartoon "A Tongue-Tied 'Friend' " and a humor "Answer of A Hired Boy".
    The legend "A Hunter in Mt Paektu" conveys a righteous deed of a hunter and villagers in punishing Japs coming to Mt Paektu to drive in an iron stake on the top of the mountain to break the spirit of Korea.
    Carried in "Comrades, Take This Pistol!" are two reminiscences written by Kim Jwa Hyok and Pak Kwang Son, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters.

Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Large Combined Unit

     Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected the command of a KPA large combined unit in the eastern sector of the front. The large combined unit was honored with field guidance given by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il several times including the historic on-the-spot guidance in May 1965.
    Kim Jong Il who made a long trip to the front looked round the monument to the field guidance of Kim Il Sung and the room devoted to the history of the unit. He said that thanks to the outstanding leadership and meticulous care of the President the unit could perform shining exploits in the sacred battles to crush the enemy in the days of the hard-fought war and has grown strong to be a matchless combat contingent capable of wiping out any formidable enemy.
    He conversed with commanding officers of the unit.
    They had the high honor of reporting to him the achievements made by them in the efforts to implement the tasks given by him during his series of field guidance.
    He was greatly pleased to learn that the commanding officers and men of the unit have grown to be able commanding officers with high capabilities and qualifications and creative ingenuity and initiative and stalwart fighters.
    He highly appreciated the successes made by all the servicepersons of the unit, noting that they have done a lot of work by displaying patriotic devotion in reliably defending the outposts of the country true to the WPK's Songun leadership.
    After going round entertainment and logistic facilities of the unit, he met with servicepersons of its sub-unit. He learned in detail about their service and living, asking how are all servicepersons on the forefront, if it is not hard to stand guard over the forefront, if they don't feel any inconvenience in their living and if they regularly receive tidings from their hometowns.
    He was very pleased to hear that all of them have grown to be exemplary soldiers who creditably perform their duties with high awareness that they are soldiers with rifles in hands. He wished them a happy future, urging all of them to remain faithful to their military service to become excellent soldiers.
    He spared time to watch together with the commanding officers of the unit and their families a performance given by an art squad at the hall of the command of the large combined unit.
    He had a photo session with servicepersons of the command.
    He was accompanied by Chief of the KPA General Staff Kim Yong Chun and KPA General Pak Jae Gyong.

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Nuevos libros

     Pyongyang, 27 de abril (ATCC) -- La Editorial Juvenil Kum Song de Corea acabo de editar nuevos libros para trabajadores, jovenes y ninos escolares. Entre estos figuran la novela larga "Confrontacion de la historia" (tomo IV), el libro de dibujos animados "Cazador del monte Paektu" y las memorias ilustradas de guerrilleros antijaponeses "Camaradas, tomen este fusil".
    La novela "Confrontacion de la historia" describe las actividades del protagonista Jong Si Myong y otros patriotas, quienes cuando quedo dividida la patria por las fuerzas extranjeras, tras la restauracion en agosto del 34 (1945) de la Era Juche, libraron una sangrienta lucha por frustrar las maquinaciones de provocacion de guerra de los imperialistas yanquis y la camarilla de Syngman Rhee, y pinta las de otros personajes conocidos y desconocidos quienes dejaron claras huellas en la historia del movimiento por la reunificacion de la patria.
    El segundo libro contiene 14 piezas ilustradas, entre otras, la leyenda homonima, el cuento "Este es", la caricatura " quedado sin palabras", el humor "Respuesta del nino sirviente".
    La leyenda "Cazador del monte Paektu" demuestra la ingeniosa lucha de un cazador y otros aldeanos quienes castigaron duramente a los japoneses aviesos que se penetraron al pie del monte Paektu diciendo que habria que clavar una estaca de hierro en la cima del monte Paektu para suprimir el espiritu de Corea.
    El libro "Camaradas, tomen este fusil" es la transcripcion en dibujos de las reminiscencias de los combatientes revolucionarios antijaponeses Kim Joa Hyok y Pak Kwang Son.

Comite preparatorio nacional de Filipinas para encuentro de elogio

     Pyongyang, 27 de abril (ATCC) ? Quedo constituido el dia 17 en Manila el Comite Preparatorio Nacional de Filipinas para el "Encuentro de Elogio a los Grandes Hombres del Monte Paektu". En el lugar del acto constitutivo se veian las fotos alusivas a las hazanas revolucionarias del Presidente Kim Il Sung y del Dirigente Kim Jong Il, sus obras clasicas, fotos alusivas a la lucha del pueblo coreano por construir una gran potencia prospera y reunificar la patria, bordados y productos artesanales.
    En la ocasion estuvieron presentes el parlamentario Eta Rosalles, el presidente de la Asociacion de Amistad Filipinas-Republica Popular Democratica de Corea Jose David Lapuz, y otras personalidades de los circulos politicos y sociales y de negocios y miembros de la mencionada entidad de amistad.

Ninos escolares enfrascados en el campismo

     Pyongyang, 27 de abril (ATCC) -- Los campamentos para los ninos esparcidos en todas las localidades del pais abrieron sus puertas en ocasion del Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung). Asi que comenzo la vida alegre de los ninos escolares campistas. Los empleados de los campamentos organizan diversas actividades congruentes con la edad y psicologia de los infantes para darles mas alegria en las jornadas del campismo. Entre ellas, figuran el concurso musical por unidad de grupos, exhibicion de talentos y veladas de los felices y orgullosos donde los ninos escolares recitan poesias, cantan y pintan para hacer alarde de sus habilidades.
    Ademas, aportan otro tanto las actividades deportivas y maritimas como la competencia deportiva, juegos de diversiones y recreos, navegacion en barcos de excursionistas, botes y natacion, etc.
    No puede faltar el alpinismo cuando se habla del campismo, pues los infantes lo practican en diversas formas para forjarse fisica y espiritualmente y ampliar sus conocimientos sobre la naturaleza.
    El alpinismo de divulgacion de conocimientos, el de coleccion de plantas y el recorrido de un dia entero por un largo itinerario preparando la comida con sus propias manos son formas mas aplaudidas por los menores.
    Asimismo, visitan los lugares historicos de la revolucion, los antiguos campos de batalla revolucionaria y los otros de interes historico y cultural.
    El campismo se extiende de abril a octubre y su periodo es de 3, 5 o 7 dias.
    Segun Jo Chun Gil, jefe de departamento del Comite Central de la Union de la Juventud Socialista Kim Il Sung, como de siempre, este ano tambien llegaran a mas de 140 mil los campistas que pasaran agradables ratos en numerosos campamentos erigidos en lugares pintorescos del pais.