Rodong Sinmun on Three Principles of National Reunification

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- 33 years ago, President Kim Il Sung met with the south side's delegate who came here to attend the High-Level Political Talks between North and South of Korea and clarified the three principles of national reunification, the cornerstone for the accomplishment of the cause of national reunification. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed article.
    It says:
    The three principles of national reunification are the most just and reasonable programme for reunification as they indicate the principles and ways of smoothly achieving the reunification of the country by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation without any deviation in view of its demand for independence and interests, the essence and nature of the issue of national reunification and the reality of the divided country. The principle that national reunification should be achieved independently without reliance on outside forces and free from their interference is a fundamental principle, the lifeline of the cause of national reunification.
    The three principles of national reunification turn the cause of national reunification into the Koreans' cause of independence both in name and reality and provide a sure guarantee for its victorious accomplishment as they regard the principle of independence as a fundamental stand and principle to be adhered to in the struggle for national reunification.
    The principle that national reunification should be achieved by peaceful means without resorting to arms is one which indicates a basic way of settling the issue of national reunification in the common interests of the Korean nation.
    It is only the Korean nation that will suffer from a fratricidal war and this will only give foreign forces a chance to fish in troubled waters. The Korean nation stands for peace and peaceful reunification. The principle of peaceful reunification is, indeed, the most just way of national reunification which fully accords with the will and interests of the Korean nation.
    The principle that great national unity should be promoted by transcending the differences in ideology, ideal and social system is a sure guarantee for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification.
    The three principles of national reunification are highly important guidelines to be held high by all the Koreans desirous of the reunification of the country and a charter for reunification to be invariably maintained and implemented by them till the country is reunified no matter how the situation and circumstances may change.

Japan's Pitch for Permanent Membership of UNSC Flailed

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- 26 organizations of different circles in south Korea such as the Citizens Solidarity for Peace and Reunification, the Human Rights Committee of the south Korean Council of Christian Churches, the Hungsadan and the Youth Federation of south Korea and 20 public and overseas Korean organizations active in China, Japan, the U.S. and so on reportedly issued an international solidarity statement on Apr. 29 denouncing Japan for making a bid for permanent membership of the UNSC. The statement said:
    We cannot repress our resentment at Japan working hard to revive militarism as it has tampered with its history of aggression and beautified and justified its criminal acts, thereby rubbing salt into the wounds inflicted by it upon great many Asians, though it should feel responsibility as a war criminal state.
    Japan has evaded the settlement of its past crimes, an attitude quiet different from other war criminal states. It has turned its face away from the elementary rights of those who underwent all sorts of misfortune and sufferings due to its past policy of aggression and their descendants. This is the "conscience" of Japan at present.
    We are strongly opposed to Japan's impudent bid for a permanent membership of the UNSC on behalf of all the Asians who fell victim to the Japanese imperialist aggression in the past, in solidarity not only with the forces of conscience in Japan but with the forces around the world aspiring after lasting peace in Asia.

DPRK's Stand on UNSC Reform Clarified

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea calls for making sufficient discussions of all proposals and making tireless efforts to reach a consensus, not setting an artificial deadline for the reform of the UN Security Council, said the DPRK delegate. Making clear the stand of the DPRK at an unofficial meeting of the plenary session of the UN General Assembly on the UNSC reform on April 27, he called for a unanimous agreement of the member states and voiced opposition to setting the criterion of election of a permanent member of the UNSC with main stress on financial contribution.
    Drawing attention to the fact that Japan has not settled the anti-human war crimes it committed last century, though 60 years have passed, and it teaches a distorted history to the younger generation, beautifying its crime-woven history, and intentionally causes territorial disputes with its neighboring countries, he said those neighboring countries which fell victims to Japan's aggression in the past are strongly opposed to its permanent membership of the UNSC.
    If a country which is stepping up preparations to repeat past war crimes is admitted as a permanent member of the UNSC, merely because it donates a huge amount of money to the UN, we will not be able to talk about justice, international peace and security and credibility of the UN, he stressed.

Japan Hit for Mock Exercise of Preemptive Attack

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- It has been disclosed recently that the Japanese reactionaries staged in top secrecy a mock exercise of preemptive attack on the premise of the U.S. support under the cloak of a "reaction to a missile attack" from the DPRK. According to Japanese Sankei Shimbun, the Japan Defence Agency examined an operation of a preemptive strike at the missile base of north Korea and staged a mock exercise of an attack by fighters of the Air "Self-Defense Force" in 1994.
    Commenting on this, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Tuesday says:
    "Missile threat" from someone over which the Japanese reactionaries are raising a terrific hue and cry is sophism prompted by their vicious intention to justify the establishment of the U.S. missile defense system and give a facade of justification to their reinvasion design and moves of preemptive attack. The DPRK has made it clear more than once that its peaceful missile program can never be a threat to those countries which are not hostile toward it.
    Today the Japanese reactionaries are hastening the establishment of a triangular missile defense system with the U.S. and south Korea. They are seeking a preemptive attack on the DPRK, instigated by the U.S.
    Capitalizing on the U.S. imperialists' policy of stifling the DPRK, they are speeding up preparations for a preemptive strike at the DPRK and, at the same time, getting overheated in their maneuvers to grab Tok Islet and introduce sanctions against it, thus driving the DPRK-Japan relations to the worst phase and rendering the regional situation strained.
    It is the invariable intention of the Japanese reactionaries to realize their reinvasion scheme without difficulty with the backing of the U.S.
    If they opt for an adventurous preemptive attack, the army and people of the DPRK will deal an annihilating blow to them by every possible means.

Endorsement of Distorted History Textbook in Japan Lambasted

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on April 25 passed the history textbook for middle schoolers made by the Society for History Textbook Reform, an ultra-right conservative organization. Noting that the history textbook is full of lavishing praises on and beautification of the crimes committed by Japan in Asian countries in the past, a Minju Joson analyst Tuesday says:
    With regard to Korea, for example, the textbook distorts the Japanese imperialists' military aggression and colonial rule over it as "Japan's march into the Korean Peninsula for self-defense", while beautifying them as something "helpful to the modernization of Korea."
    And it must not go unnoticed that such extra-large anti-human crimes committed by Japan as the forcible drafting of Koreans and the sex slavery for the imperial Japanese army are completely struck out from the textbook and Tok Islet, an inviolable part of the Korean territory, is described as "part of Japan's territory."
    The present behavior of Japan related to the issue of history obviously indicates that Japan is longing for its past appearance and taking great pains to go back to those days. How a country approaches history is a touchstone suggesting the orientation of its political development. Take Germany for example. It has honestly reflected on history and shown zeal in settling its past crimes, thus winning the confidence of the international community.
    But Japan has taken a road quite contrary to this.
    The intention and reactionary scheme behind the distortion of history make the international community draw without difficulty the conclusion that Japan is pursuing a war, not peace.
    It is the present look of Japan that the whole state is rapidly stepping into militarism, fascism and rightist reaction for a war.
    This must be checked at any cost as it is a very dangerous development from the viewpoint of peace in Asia and the rest of the world.

"Tongukyojisungram", Old Geography Book of Korea

     Pyongyang, May 3(KCNA) -- "Tongukyojisungram" (50 volumes) is a geography book published in 1481 by 23 scholars and politicians including Ryang Song Ji (1415-1482), Ro Sa Sin(1427-1498) and Kang Hui Maeng (1422-1483). The book contains data from the book "Paldojiriji" (Geography of eight provinces) and other Korean documents, prose and poems and materials collected from local areas. It, along with "Sejongsilrokjiriji" (geography book attached to the true records of King Sejong), takes an important place in publishing geography books in the period of feudal rule in Korea.
    Given in the book are brief history, location and area of the eight provinces.
    Also introduced in detail are brief history, habitants, customs, scenic places, mountains and streams, military installations, etc. of 83 counties and 178 sub counties.
    The part of mountains details famous mountains, hills, passes, and peaks and the part of rivers sources of rivers, streams, shoals, ferries, ponds and hot springs.
    The book is of great importance in the study of history and geography including society, economy, military affairs and culture in around the 15th century.

"Naked America"

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- A year has passed since the abuses of detainees by U.S. troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were disclosed. They forced stripped Iraqi detainees to build a human pyramid and to imitate indecent conduct. And a servicewoman leashed the neck of a naked Iraqi detainee to drag him like a dog. Such inhuman abuses committed by American soldiers in Iraq have still enraged people.
    The criminal acts, perpetrated under the patronage of the U.S. administration and upper echelons of the military, are not an issue limited only to the Iraqis.
    Human dignity is trampled down ruthlessly everywhere the U.S. aggression forces reach.
    The 60-year-long occupation of south Korea by the U.S. imperialists is a crime-woven history full of brutal rape, gang-rape, violence and human-slaughter.
    Innumerable are such crimes U.S. troops have committed in south Korea as the murder of Yun Kum I and close haircutting of a woman in Tongduchon.
    Famous writer of Korea Paek In Jun, in his satire "Naked America" written in the early 1960s, said GIs stripped a south Korean woman naked and painted her body before driving her out in street, but it is the American imperialists who are naked before human conscience, fully revealing their true colors as beasts.
    What the United States, which does not feel shame at being naked under the eyes of humankind, has done only shows that "justice", "freedom" and "defence of human rights" on its lips are all hypocrisy.

Kim Yong Nam Greets Polish President

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski on the occasion of the national holiday of the Polish people. Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to expand and develop on good terms in the bilateral interests, the message sincerely wished the president greater success in his work for the prosperity of the country and the well-being of its people.

Kim Jong Il Congratulates Egyptian President

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Tuesday sent a congratulatory message to Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, chairman of the National Democratic Party of Egypt and president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the occasion of the latter's 77th birthday. The message sincerely wished the Egyptian president good health and happiness and greater success in his work for the country's progress and prosperity and the Arab unity and the Mideast peace.

Paek Nam Sun Greets His Polish Counterpart

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a message of greetings to his Polish counterpart Adam Daniel Rotpeld on the occasion of the national day of the Polish people. The message expressed the belief that the traditional friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries would grow stronger in the mutual interests.

Visits

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- A DPRK delegation led by Ri Yong Hui, vice-chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, left here Tuesday by air to participate in a ministerial meeting of the non-aligned countries on the development of women to be held in Malaysia. Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Ri Jong San, chairman of the DPRK Veteran Anti-Imperialist Fighters' Committee, and Kim Ok Sun, member of the committee, who are anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, left here today by air to attend commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of Russia.
    Meanwhile, a delegation of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces headed by Lieut. General Leonardo Andouo Valdes, vice-chief of its General Staff and director of the Operations Department, and Banou Keita, director general of the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea and chairman of the Guinean Society for the Study of the Juche Farming Methods, arrived here.
    Representatives of the UNDP and other international organizations and experts in trade from Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Britain and Australia also arrived here to participate in a seminar on trade to be co-sponsored by the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Trade and the UNDP.

Kim Yong Nam Receives Credentials from New Egyptian Ambassador

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Egyptian Ambassador to the DPRK Moustafa Mohamed Ahmed Al Hatter at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today. On hand were Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon and staff members of the Egyptian embassy.
    After receiving the credentials, Kim Yong Nam had a talk with the ambassador.

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Comunicado conjunto de comite preparatorio para actos conjuntos

     Pyongyang, 30 de abril (ATCC) -- Se dio a la publicidad el dia 28 en el monte Kumgang el comunicado conjunto del Comite preparatorio de los actos conjuntos del Norte, Sur y ultramar para la ejecucion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio. Segun el documento, tuvo lugar del 26 al 28 de abril del ano en curso en el monte Kumgang el contacto de trabajo de este comite con la participacion de delegados de diferentes sectores del Norte y el Sur y un representante de ultramar.
    En esta ocasion, los delegados discutieron dedicadamente los medios concretos para activar aun mas el movimiento por la reunificacion de la patria en el ano en curso y, por inmediato, garantizar la marcha exitosa de los actos conjuntos en pro de la reunificacion a celebrarse en Pyongyang con motivo del 5 aniversario de la publicacion de dicha Declaracion Conjunta y llegaron al acuerdo en los siguientes puntos:
    1. El comite preparatorio (para actos conjuntos) decidio organizar solemnemente en Pyongyang un acto conjunto nacional por la reunificacion con motivo de la publicacion de la historica Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio.
    Este acto se denominara como "Gran festival nacional por la reunificacion en conmemoracion del 5 aniversario de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio" (simplemente, ) y tendra lugar del 14 al 17 de junio.
    Por el Norte y el Sur participaran 615 delegados, respectivamente y por la parte de ultramar, llegaran 200 o 300 representantes.
    Durante el festival se celebraran de modo especifico varios actos, entre otros, la mega- marcha nacional por la independencia, la pa y la reunificacion, la conferencia nacional por la reunificacion en conmemoracion del 5 aniversario de la Declaracion Conjunta, la galeria conjunta de fotos del Norte, el Sur y ultramar, los encuentros por sectores, la funcion artistica por el 5 aniversario de la publicacion de la Declaracion Conjunta y los juegos deportivos y recreos.
    Los delegados surenos arribaran a Pyongyang por la ruta maritima directa en el Mar Oeste mientras los de ultramar lo haran por vias que les convengan.
    2. El comite preparatorio fijara la insignia conmemorativa para el gran festival y llama a los compatriotas dentro y fuera del pais que hagan donaciones de una manera u otra para la marcha exitosa del acto. Y quedo en otorgarles el certificado de donantes a las entidades y personalidades que hagan contribucion especial.
    3. El comite decidio continuar el debate sobre el problema de organizar este ano variados actos por la reunificacion de las entidades de diferentes sectores, inclusive la mega-marcha nacional por la reunificacion entre el monte Paektu y el Hanna, conforme al gran fervor de todos los coreanos dentro y fuera del pais por la reunificacion.

Conferencia de solidaridad de delegados campesinos

     Monte Kumgang, 29 de abril (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 29 en este lugar la conferencia de solidaridad de los delegados campesinos del Norte y el Sur del 2005 para la ejecucion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio. Asistieron al acto los miembros de la delegacion del subcomite de trabajadores agricolas del Comite Preparatorio de la parte Norte para los Actos Conjuntos del Norte, el Sur y ultramar para la ejecucion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio, encabezada por su presidente Kang Chang Uk, y los miembros de la delegacion de la direccion campesina del Comite Preparatorio de la parte Sur para dichos actos conjuntos, presididos por el co-delegado Jong Jae Don.
    Los jefes de ambas delegaciones senalaron que la reunificacion de la patria es el mayor deseo de la nacion coreana y anadieron que la independencia nacional es la linea de subsistencia y atajo para la reunificacion de la patria y es asunto interno que se debe solucionar por cuenta propia de la nacion.
    Los campesinos del Norte y el Sur, con la bandera de la paz antibelica en alto, deben levantarse en la gigantesca lucha patriotica por eliminar este ano la fuente raigal de la guerra en esta tierra, apuntaron.
    Las entidades de campesinos del Norte y el Sur -subrayaron- deben consolidar los exitos logrados en el pasado en el movimiento por la reunificacion y desplegar activamente la lucha por realizar en un nivel mas alto la solidaridad para asi glorificar el presente ano significativo.
    Se refirieron a los exitos que los campesinos de ambas partes lograron durante los ultimos 5 anos en el movimiento por la reunificacion y recalcaron la necesidad de hacer del presente el primer ano de la reunificacion independiente.
    Los campesinos del Norte y el Sur deben cumplir con su responsabilidad y papel en eliminar el peligro de guerra y preservar la paz, concluyeron.
    El foro escucho las intervenciones de los delegados de ambas partes y aprobo una resolucion conjunta.
    El documento se refiere a los problemas que se presentan ante los campesinos del Norte y el Sur para defender invariablemente la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio que indica el atajo para la reunificacion de la patria, activar el movimiento por llevarla a efecto, defender la soberania nacional y solidarizarse para proteger la soberania alimentaria de la parte Sur y hacer esfuerzos en conjunto por el desarrollo unificado de la agricultura.