End to U.S. Forces' Presence in S. Korea Called for

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- Yun Ki Jin, chairperson of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification, reportedly issued on June 2 an appeal titled "Let's Glorify the 5th Anniversary of the Publication of the June 15 Joint Declaration as Chapter Declaring Actions against the U.S. and War and General March for Independent Reunification". The appeal said that a powerful struggle for independence against the U.S. that raged on the Korean Peninsula after the north's declaration of its access to nuclear weapons is rapidly gaining in scope and strength. It urged the U.S. to properly judge the tremendous might of the Korean nation making a general onward march to end the 60-year-long occupation of south Korea by the U.S. forces.
    The appeal continued:
    The June 15 grand festival for national reunification must mark a new turning-point in the movement for independent reunification and a starting point in the popular struggle. Now is the time for us youth and students in south Korea to have the responsibility and awareness to devote ourselves to the struggle.
    It is the pledge made by us before the nation to launch an all-out mass struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea, the appeal noted, calling for orienting all actions towards the pullback of those forces from south Korea.
    It stressed the need to successfully hold in various areas on June 11 "joint memorial services to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of death of Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son that falls on the same day and a ceremony of declaring joint actions for peace against war and for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from June 13 to September 8".

Anniversary of June 15 Joint Declaration Observed

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- A meeting, lecture, photo exhibition and film shows were held by the Karachi Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association and the Mfumalanga Provincial Committee of the South African Communist Party on June 1 and 3 on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. On display in the venues of the functions were photos showing the successes achieved by the Korean people in socialist construction.
    Zabed Ansari, secretary general of the Karachi branch, and Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Pakistan Association for Self-Reliance Studies, in their speeches at the meeting said that President Kim Il Sung energetically worked for national reunification till the last moments of his life and Kim Jong Il has wisely led the Korean people in their struggle to thoroughly fulfill the President's last instructions for national reunification.
    Juda Sothesi, secretary of the provincial committee of the South African Communist Party at a lecture titled "Lodestar of Korea's Reunification" gave a detailed account of the fact that Kim Jong Il provided a historic meeting in Pyongyang which culminated in the adoption of the joint declaration and thus brought about a turning phase in the movement for national reunification. He stressed that the Korean people would achieve the reunification of the country by their own efforts as long as there are for them the unique Songun politics and wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Participants of film shows watched Korean films "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to the Work in Various Domains" and "The Brilliant History of the Great Leadership."

Solidarity with Korean People Urged

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The Tunisia-Korea Friendship Association expressed solidarity with the friendly Korean people in their efforts to achieve reunification in conformity with the idea of "By our nation itself", calling upon the world progressive forces to extend support and solidarity to them in their struggle for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country at the earliest date possible. In a statement issued on June 5 on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the month of international solidarity with the Korean people, it said the adoption of the declaration was a brilliant fruition of the energetic efforts and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il true to the behests on national reunification given by President Kim Il Sung who lives an eternal life.
    The members of the association express serious concern over the increasing threat and pressure of the United States toward the friendly Korean people under the pretext of the nuclear issue and the obstacles laid on the way of Korea's reunification, the statement said.

Cambodian Embassy Officials Help Farmers

     Sinchon, June 8 (KCNA) -- Keo Sophannara, charge d'affaires a.i., and officials of the Cambodian embassy here Wednesday helped the DPRK-Cambodia Friendship Paeksok Cooperative Farm in Sinchon County, South Hwanghae Province, in field work. They weeded maize fields with farmers and chatted with them, deepening friendly feelings after seeing a performance of art pieces by children of the farm's kindergarten. The charge d'affaires a.i. said conditions have been created for better farming in the DPRK with the energetic promotion of gigantic nature remaking including the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway project and land re-zoning and wished the agricultural working people there bigger fruits in agricultural production this year.
    She noted that the friendly relations between Cambodia and the DPRK provided by Great King Norodom Sihanouk and President Kim Il Sung were growing stronger under the deep care of King Norodom Sihamoni and leader Kim Jong Il.

Art Show Opens to Mark Anniversary of June 15 Joint Declaration

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- An art show opened at the Pyongyang International Cultural Center Wednesday to mark the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. At least 60 works of art including Korean paintings, oils, acryl paintings, jewel paintings, posters and calligraphic works showcased at the show give impressive depictions of the imperishable feats of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il for the accomplishment of the cause of national reunification, the most cherished desire of the nation, and the validity and vitality of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    Among them are the acryl painting "Heralding the New Spring of Reunification", the Korean paintings "Dawn in Panmunjom" and "Reunification Dance", the oil "Thaw on River Rimjin", the calligraphic work "Great National Unity" and the poster "Let All Women in North and South and Abroad Unite under the Banner of Reunification".
    The oils "Blessing" and "Spring in the Fatherland" depict the happy life of unconverted long-term prisoners while the oil "Evening at the Woljong Temple" and the Korean painting "Morning on the Chonju Peak in Mt. Kumgang" show the time-honored history of the Korean nation and the beautiful landscape of the country.

U.S. Hit for Forcing "CONPLAN 5029" upon South Korea

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification in south Korea reportedly issued Monday a statement titled "We bitterly denounce the U.S. for forcing 'CONPLAN 5029', a scenario of war against the north, upon south Korea". Recalling that the south Korean defense minister and the U.S. secretary of defense put their heads together over a war scheme on June 4 and "agreed" upon keeping and developing "CONPLAN 5029" while vociferating about the "outbreak of contingency" on the Korean Peninsula, the statement said:
    We decisively oppose "CONPLAN 5029," a plan for provoking a war against the north, which will provide a pretext for making the permanent presence of the U.S. forces in south Korea a fait accompli.
    We resolutely oppose the U.S. intrigue to legalize an illegal military intervention in the so-called "rapidly changing situation" of the north by setting in motion the "UN Forces Command" as an architect of "CONPLAN 5029".
    We vehemently denounce the attempt of the "government" to deceive the people through the establishment of "CONPLAN" which is, by nature, not different at all from the "OPLAN".
    We demand the withdrawal of the U.S. troops in south Korea which are forcing upon south Korea "CONPLAN 5029" that will bring disasters to the Korean nation for the interests of the U.S. alone and demand that those who accepted the U.S. request be called to account.
    We sharply condemn the U.S. for forcing "CONPLAN 5029", a war scenario to justify "aggression" on and "occupation" of the north, upon south Korea.

Crackdown upon Anti-U.S. Actions under Fire in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The Youth and Students Solidarity of south Korea to Implement the June 15 Joint South-North Joint Declaration reportedly made public a statement on June 4 denouncing the U.S. and the south Korean police authorities' brutal crackdown upon the anti-U.S. actions. The statement said: The police authorities arrested for no reason Paek Yong Hyon, chairman of the Kwangju and South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils, on the charge that he spearheaded the struggle demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea staged in front of the U.S. forces' base in Songjong-ri on May 15 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising. This outrage was followed by their arrest of Ri Sang Bom, student of Hanyang University. This suppression reminds one of the days of the fascist dictatorship in the past.
    All these outrages are being perpetrated at the zealous instigation of the U.S.
    The statement demanded the U.S. forces quit south Korea as they drive the police to the violent crackdown upon anti-U.S. demonstrations.
    The statement warned that the police authorities should bear in mind that they will come under fire by the nation, should they continue yielding to the U.S. pressure to suppress the people, far from protecting them.

U.S. Style Human Rights Standards under Fire

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The United States issues an "annual report on human rights" every year in which it lets loose all sorts of vituperation against the DPRK and many other countries over "human rights record." In this regard Rodong Sinmun Thursday says in a signed article: The U.S. style human rights standards can never be generally accepted. These standards are so ridiculous that when the opponents to the regime in any country are allowed to conduct undisguised legal activities against their government and social system America considers that human rights are respected there. This, in essence, is aimed at overthrowing the system in the countries falling out of the U.S. favor and this, therefore, has nothing to do with genuine human rights. The concept on human rights based on the American view on value can never be acceptable to other countries.
    These American standards can never be generally accepted because the United States has the poorest human rights record. The article cites concrete facts to prove that the U.S. is the world's worst abuser of human rights and a tundra of human rights.
    Recalling that the Amnesty International put the United States on top of the list of the worst violators of the five major human rights in the world, the article goes on:
    It is a mockery and a challenge to genuine human rights and democracy that the U.S. cited "human rights record" in various countries, shutting its eyes to this hard fact, and tried to impose the American model of human rights upon the world.
    If the U.S. style human rights standards are generally accepted, the world will turn into a lawless and dark one without human rights.
    It is ridiculous and brazen-faced for the U.S. to kick off such a fuss pulling up other countries over human rights issues, behaving as if it were "a human rights judge."
    The U.S. application of its double dealing human rights standards finds its manifestation in the fact that while keeping mum about human rights abuses by those pro-American forces and allies of the U.S., it is desperately pulling up those countries falling out of its favor over absurd "human rights issues" and using them as pretexts for interfering in their internal affairs and pressurizing them. It even seeks to bring down their social systems.
    This evil practice of the U.S. only triggers off a vicious cycle of confrontation and antagonism.

June 15 Joint Declaration Lauded

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- Jo Il Min, chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, was interviewed by KCNA on June 8 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the historic June 15 joint declaration. He told KCNA that the last five years since the publication of the joint declaration have been years during which the south Korean people have won brilliant victory in the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification, worthy years in which they demonstrated their might as the proud master in putting an end to the cursed history of division and opening the way to the new era of reunification.
    He went on:
    The June 15 joint declaration brought up the south Korean people into the powerful driving force of the movement for national reunification. This finds manifestation in the fact that the reverence for leader Kim Jong Il, the peerless patriot who provided the historic June 15 declaration, is firmly rooted in the centre of the ideological and moral world of the patriotic people in the south and has become their faith.
    This finds expression also in the fact that the south Korean peoplefs ideological sentiments for great national unity have grown after the publication of the joint declaration and that it has led them to throw off the noose of pro-U.S. flunkeyism and oriented them to the consciousness of independence against the U.S.
    Its another manifestation is that the declaration helped the south Koreans have a clear understanding of the obstacles to independent reunification (the U.S. imperialists and their followers) and its motive force (the northern brothers and sisters and themselves) and led the south and the north to form the driving force of the reunification movement. The Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il is the main factor in strengthening the south Korean people into a powerful driving force of the movement for national reunification, stated the chief of the mission, and continued:
    As the great Songun politics firmly defends the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation, it can stand against any aggressor and defeat him when it pools strength.
    The hearts of all the Koreans following the great brilliant Songun commander are pulsating with the spirit of independence. Nobody on earth can bar the way of the Korean nation fighting vigorously to achieve the independent reunification of the motherland.
    The U.S. scenarios of preemptive nuclear attack on the north such as gOPLAN 5029-05h and gCONPLAN 8022-02h can never break the will of all the Koreans for independent reunification against the U.S.
    The vanguard fighters of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front will turn out in the anti-U.S. showdown with death-defying readiness to defend the nation's independence and dignity and firm conviction of victory, put an end to the U.S. domination and occupation and bring earlier the new morning of national reunification to this land.

June 15 Joint Declaration, Fruit of Independent Reunification Idea

     Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The cause of national reunification of the Korean people has vigorously advanced under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, declaration for the independent reunification common to the nation. The relations of confrontation and antagonism between the north and south of Korea which had lasted for more than a half century have turned into ones of dialogue, negotiation, cooperation and exchange. And the reunification movement has developed on to a new high stage of opening the way for the independent reunification with national cooperation under the idea of "By our nation itself".
    This is entirely attributable to the wise guidance of leader Kim Jong Il, who has regarded the country's reunification as his lifelong mission and devoted his all to it.
    In the middle of October Juche 84 (1995) he reclarified his resolve to achieve national reunification without fail according to the last instructions of President Kim Il Sung. He has since then formulated the three principles for national reunification, the ten-point programme for the great unity of the entire nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, which were put forward by the President, into the three-point charter for national reunification, thus providing a firm foundation for reunification.
    Kim Jong Il also authored a number of works including "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" (August 1997)and "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation" (April 1998) to light the road ahead of the reunification movement.
    His idea of the great national unity expounds that he would unite with those who want national reunification and advance shoulder to shoulder with them for the reunification cause, regardless of their past career. This magnetic idea has enjoyed positive support from the political parties and groups and people of all walks of life in south Korea and helped them turn out in the patriotic efforts for reunification.
    He provided the north-south summit in June 2000, the first of its kind in the history of national division, and said that it would be good for the summit to publish a joint declaration giving hope for national reunification and optimism for the future to the 70 million fellow countrymen.
    In a matter of 50 hours of the Pyongyang summit, his energetic efforts resulted in making a breakthrough in the 55-year long history of division and publishing the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, programme of the independent reunification common to the nation.

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Historica declaracion conjunta de 15 de junio

     Pyongyang, 9 de junio (ATCC) -- Hoy, la causa de la reunificacion de la patria del pueblo coreano marcha con vigor bajo la bandera de la Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio para la reunificacion independiente. La historia de confrontacion y antagonismo entre el Norte y el Sur de Corea, que perduraba mas de medio siglo, se ha convertido en el dialogo, las negociaciones, la cooperacion y el intercambio. El movimiento por la reunificacion de la patria ha llegado a una nueva etapa alta que abre un ancho camino para la reunificacion independiente con la cooperacion nacional bajo el ideal "Con las fuerzas propias de la nacion coreana". No podemos pensar jamas en este evento al margen de la sabia direccion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il quien al tomar por la mision de toda su vida la reunificacion de la patria dedica todo lo suyo para esta causa.
    A mediados de octubre del 84 (1995) de la Era Juche, el Dirigente volvio a expresar su decision de lograrla sin falta segun el legado del Presidente Kim Il Sung.Luego, definio como las tres cartas para la reintegracion nacional los tres principios de la reunificacion de la patria, el programa de diez puntos para la gran unidad pannacional y el proyecto de fundacion de la Republica Federal Democratica de Coryo asentando una firme garantia de esta gran empresa.
    El Dirigente dio consecutivamente a la publicidad las obras, entre otras, "Materialicemos de modo consecuente el legado del gran Lider camarada Kim Il Sung para la reunificacion de la patria" (agosto de 1997), y "Que toda la nacion unida alcance la reunificacion independiente y pacifica de la patria" (abril de 1998) aclarando asi un nuevo atajo dirigido al movimiento por la reunificacion.
    Su idea de la gran unidad nacional, segun la cual se unira en una misma fila para la causa de la reunificacion con todos los hombres que desean la reunificacion de la patria, fue apoyada y simpatizada enteramente por todos los partidos, agrupaciones y habitantes de distintos estratos del Sur de Corea y se ha hecho una fuerza motriz que les impulsa a tomar activamente el camino del patriotismo por la reunificacion.
    En junio de 2000 el Dirigente preparo por primera vez en la historia de la division nacional el encuentro de los maximos dirigentes del Norte y el Sur de Corea cuando dijo que seria mejor que los maximos dirigentes de ambas partes presentaran en el primer ano de la decada de 2000 una declaracion conjunta que puedan dar a los 70 millones de coreanos una esperanza a la reunificacion de la patria y el optimismo en el futuro.
    Gracias a sus dinamicas actividades y abnegados esfuerzos, apenas durante mas de 50 horas fue abierta una brecha en la historia de division de 55 anos y por fin nacio la Declaracion Conjunta Norte- Sur del 15 de Junio, programa comun de la nacion coreana para la reunificacion independiente.

Exposicion de bellas artes por 5 aniversario de declaracion conjunta

     Pyongyang, 9 de junio (ATCC) -- La Exposicion de Bellas Artes en conmemoracion del 5 aniversario de la publicacion de la Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur del 15 de Junio quedo iniciada el dia 8 en la Casa Internacional de Cultura de Pyongyang. En el lugar se veian mas de 60 obras de bellas artes, entre otras, pinturas al estilo coreano y al oleo, las acrilicas, las con polvos de piedras preciosas, pancartas y artes caligraficas que demuestran bien las inmortales hazanas del Presidente Kim Il Sung y del Dirigente Kim Jong Il acumuladas ante la causa de la reunificacion de la patria, maximo anhelo de la nacion, la justeza y la vitalidad de la citada Declaracion."
    Se destacan la pintura acrilica "Para la nueva primavera de la reunificacion", las pinturas al estilo coreano "La madrugada de Phanmunjom" y "Baile de reunificacion", la pintura al oleo "Se deshiela el rio Rimjin", la caligrafia "Gran unidad nacional", el afiche "!Unamonos todas nuestras mujeres del Norte, Sur y en ultramar bajo la bandera de la reunificacion!"
    Tambien estan exhibidas las pinturas al oleo "Bendicion" y "Primavera de la patria" que reflejan la dichosa vida de los ex presos de larga condena no abjurados, la al oleo "Anochecer en el pabellon Woljong", la al estilo coreano "La manana del pico Chonju del monte Kumgang", etc. que demuestran la larga historia de la nacion coreana y la hermosura de la patria.