Spokesman for DPRK FM Clarifies Principled Stand on Building Peace Mechanism on Korean Peninsula

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Friday issued a statement clarifying the principled stance on building a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula in the run-up to the 52nd anniversary of the conclusion of the Korean Armistice Agreement (KAA). It said:
    The process of building a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula should contribute under any circumstances to creating an atmosphere for the peaceful co-existence between the DPRK and the U.S. and achieving peaceful reunification of the north and the south of Korea. The building of a peace mechanism is a process which the DPRK and the U.S. should go through without fail in order to attain the goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
    By nature the ceasefire was realized on the premise of a peaceful settlement of the Korean issue.
    The Korean issue has not yet been solved due to the U.S. unreasonable policy toward the DPRK though more than half a century has passed since the conclusion of the KAA. The U.S. adopted "National Security Council Resolution 170" in November 1953 right after the ceasefire, defining it as its policy to perpetuate the division of the Korean Peninsula, while indefinitely keeping the ceasefire mechanism till it puts the whole of Korea under its occupation. In June, 1954 the U.S. deliberately brought the Geneva conference on the Korean issue to rupture, completely blocking the withdrawal of all the foreign troops from Korea and the peaceful solution of the Korean issue envisaged in the KAA.
    In the subsequent period, too, the U.S. sought only confrontation and tension on the Korean Peninsula, turning down the proposal for holding the tripartite talks inviting south Korea, too, to participate in the DPRK-U.S. talks and all other fair and realistic proposals and initiatives advanced by the DPRK government to replace the armistice agreement by a peace agreement.
    The DPRK also had the four-party talks to build a lasting peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula but they could not prove successful due to the U.S. insincere approach towards the talks.
    As seen above, due to the U.S. anachronistic policy aimed to maintain the ceasefire mechanism on the Korean Peninsula, Northeast Asia still remains the biggest hotbed in the world, the only region where there is the structure of confrontation dating back to the Cold War era in the new century.
    To replace the fragile ceasefire mechanism by a lasting peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula with a view to doing away with the last leftover of the Cold War era is essential not only for the peace and reunification of Korea but for the peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
    Moreover, this presents itself as an issue pending an urgent solution for fairly settling the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., a matter of concern of the international community.
    Replacing the ceasefire mechanism by a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula would lead to putting an end to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, which spawned the nuclear issue, and the former's nuclear threat and automatically result in the denuclearization of the peninsula.
    The replacement of the fragile ceasefire mechanism by a lasting peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula would precisely mean a process of peacefully settling the Korean issue.
    Successful progress in the process of building a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula would not only help towards achieving peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia and the rest of the world but give a strong impetus to the process of the soon-to-be-resumed six-party talks aimed to settle the nuclear issue.
    It is the hope of the DPRK that the U.S. and other countries concerned would pay due attention to the just stand of the DPRK on building a peace mechanism and positively respond to it.

HIV Carriers on Steady Increase in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- HIV carriers are now on the steady increase in south Korea, according to the MBC of south Korea. According to the results of the survey, 317 more HIV carriers were reported as of the end of June last.
    This is a five percent increase over that in the same period of last year, the MBC added.

One More Assault by U.S. Soldier against S. Koreans Reported

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- One more case of assault committed by a soldier belonging to the U.S. 8th Army in south Korea against civilians there was disclosed on July 16, according to MBC of south Korea. That day the U.S. soldier beat and choked the owner and two employees of gay quarters in Puphyong District of Inchon when they did not allow him to enter there.

U.S. Troops' Pullback from S. Korea Urged

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Such violence as beating civilians and hitting them with bottles on their heads is committed by American occupation forces in south Korea nonstop. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Friday says that such violence can be committed only by robbers steeped in the idea of looking down upon other nations and hooliganism.
    The U.S. imperialist aggression troops have killed people and destroyed their properties almost every day since their occupation of south Korea 60 years ago, the signed commentary says, and goes on:
    Unimaginable are misfortune and pain the south Koreans have suffered due to the U.S. imperialist aggression troops' atrocities. Virtually every south Korean, naive child, the aged, girl and woman, has suffered from atrocities of the aggression troops.
    What matters is that those crimes were neither accidental occurrences nor privately motivated but products of the savage nature of the aggression troops.
    A pamphlet distributed among the U.S. imperialist aggression forces has on its first page letters that they should be merciless and good at killing.
    It is by no means fortuitous that the U.S. imperialist aggression troops have unhesitatingly committed bloody massacres, insulting south Koreans as field rats or pheasants since they set their feet on south Korea.
    One can never be in peace as long as there is a wolf nearby.
    If the south Koreans are to lead a peaceful and stable life, they should pull the U.S. imperialist aggression troops, a group of murderers and hooligans, out of south Korea as early as possible.

Intensified Anti-U.S. Struggle Urged

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Yun Ki Jin, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification, reportedly issued an appeal titled "Let us greet July 27, the 52nd anniversary of the Armistice Agreement, as a day of all-out charge in the struggle against the U.S. and war and for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces, in keeping with the dynamic advance of the nation" on July 15. The appeal said that the Koreans are now making a victorious advance in the struggle against the U.S. and war with the might of national cooperation, in response to the call for "By our nation itself" that rang out in the venue of the June 15 Grand Festival for National Reunification.
    The more desperately the United States and the pro-American forces work to incite division and confrontation between the south and the north of Korea, the nearer the day of reunification will come, it said, calling upon the youth and students to keep pace with the advance of the nation.
    The youth and students should fully display their patriotic zeal, the appeal said, adding: For the present, they should make preparations to greet July 27 as a day of all-out charge in the struggle against the U.S. and war and for the U.S. forces' pullout, adorn the August 15 joint event as a chapter of independence and peace and successfully hold the September 8 all-people rally for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces.

Adherence to Independent Stand Called for

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- A bright prospect will open for the development of the inter-Korean relations and the national reunification only when the Koreans firmly maintain the independent stand on solving all the issues by depending on themselves, while placing the common interests of the nation above anything else. Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.
    It says:
    In the efforts to develop the inter-Korean relations and solve the issue of the country's reunification the Koreans should not allow the foreign domination and interference under any circumstances but firmly maintain the stand to solve everything by their own efforts in their own interests.
    As the six decade-long history of national division shows, the U.S. has left no means untried to deter the inter-Korean relations from improving and block the national reunification, seized by its ambition to keep the Korean nation divided forever and dominate it. Flunkeyism and dependence on outside forces would only lead to allowing foreign aggressor forces to meddle in the internal affairs of the Korean nation and make it impossible to settle the issue of the country's reunification.
    An independent stand can remain unshakable only when one is confident of the advantages and capability of the Korean nation.
    The north and the south should preserve the present trend and atmosphere of the improving relations, tide over the complicated and serious situation and difficulties with their own wisdom and efforts and wage a dynamic struggle to achieve national reconciliation, cooperation and reunification.

Functions for Solidarity with Cuban People Held

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- A solidarity meeting and film show took place here Thursday on the occasion of the month for solidarity with the Cuban people. Present at the meeting on invitation were Charge d'Affaires Caridad Adela Galan Pelegrino and staff members of the Cuban embassy here.
    Vice-Chairman of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee Jon Hyon Chan, who is vice-chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials concerned and working people in the city were on hand.
    Speeches were made at the meeting.
    Then it was followed by the film show.
    The participants enjoyed the Korean feature film "The Faithful Servant of People".

South Side's Delegation Visits Various Places in Pyongyang

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the south side led by Ko Un, chairman for reunification of the Association of Men of National Literature, which attended the meeting of Korean writers for implementing the June 15 joint declaration, Thursday visited various places in Pyongyang. They visited the old home of President Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae who devoted all his life to the liberation of the country and people's happiness. There they looked round relics, being briefed on the immortal revolutionary history of the President and his families.
    They posed for a photograph before the old home.
    Then they visited the Ssuksom Revolutionary Site.
    They went round the United Front Tower and the place where a consultative meeting took place and other places, being briefed on the fact that Kim Il Sung led well-known political figures of south Korea, who attended the Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea after the liberation of the country, to the road of national unity and showed warm care for them. The delegation also went to the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace, a modern centre for extracurricular education of schoolchildren. There it looked round various hobby group rooms and appreciated a combined performance given by members of the art group of the palace.
    The delegation visited the Tower of the Juche Idea, the Arch of Triumph, the Pyongyang Metro and other places. Meanwhile, the delegation of Korean writers in Japan headed by Kim Jong Su, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Writers and Artistes in Japan, and Han Kil Su, department director of the General Association of Koreans in China, and his party visited various places in Pyongyang on the same day.

DPRK Delegation Leaves for Six-Party Talks

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA)--A DPRK delegation led by Kim Kye Gwan, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, left here Friday to participate in the six-party talks for settling the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the United States to open in Beijing on July 26. It was seen off at the airport by Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and Andrei Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK

KCNA Refutes Threadbare Fiction about "North Korean Defector"

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Media in the United States and south Korea again floated the threadbare fiction about a "north Korean defector-asylum seeker." Recently they spread a whopping lie that a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly who had allegedly worked in the field of munitions industry sought "asylum" in south Korea.
    They reported that this "defector" testified to the fact that the north has manufactured nuclear weapons with plutonium and developed "special weapons."
    The DPRK can not but draw attention to the smear campaign kicked up by unsavory forces against it at a time when the north-south relations are making favorable progress and the six-party talks for the solution to the nuclear issue are expected to resume soon. As we have already clarified, the alleged defection of a deputy to the SPA is a sheer fabrication because there is no such institution in the DPRK as the "marine industrial institute" to which he allegedly belonged and no man with such position from the DPRK had ever made a business trip overseas.
    The unsavory forces have failed to cite even the name of the "defector" in their diatribe, which proves that "testimonies" made by him are a sheer fabrication and farce.
    This can not be interpreted otherwise than an intolerable provocation by the hostile forces who seek to scuttle the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue by pulling up the DPRK on the eve of the fourth round of the six-party talks.
    The Grand National Party and other ultra-right conservative forces in south Korea, driven to a tight corner after losing their clout in the politicaldom in south Korea, have set the stage for the above-said premeditated anti-DPRK farce at the instigation of neo-conservatives in the U.S.
    The unsavory forces are resorting to rash actions against dialogue at a time when the international community is looking forward to a successful settlement of the nuclear issue after the resumption of the six-party talks.
    This clearly discloses the true nature of those who do not want the resumption of the six-party talks, the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and improved DPRK-U.S. relations and inter-Korean ties.
    The ultra-right unsavory forces are working hard to deliberately chill the atmosphere for the talks and prevent the DPRK from returning to the six-party talks. But such clumsy sleight of hand and plot will never work.
    They cooked up a lot of fictions about "political refugees" and "defectors from the north" whenever an opportunity presented itself. To whom did these smear campaigns bring disgrace? They must know about this better than any others as they orchestrated and staged the farces.
    It is elementary common sense that such acts will hamstring the efforts to solve the nuclear issue and will not do the Koreans including those forces good. The orchestrators of the recent charade should apologize and pay a dear price for telling sheer lies.

Greetings to Egyptian President

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Friday sent a message of greetings to Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt, on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the July 23 revolution, the national holiday of the Egyptian people. Expressing the belief that the good friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to expand in the future, too, the message sincerely wished him and the Egyptian people greater successes in their work for prosperity of the country, Arab unity and peace in the Middle East.

"Stone River", Natural Monument of DPRK

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- There is a mysterious river called "stone river" in Mt. Okryon area of Pujon County, South Hamgyong Province, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The river presents its wonder from the point 2 kilometers down from the top of the mountain.
    The 120-meter-wide river is covered with big grey and ruddy stones.
    The river flows beneath the stones.
    It is believed to have come into shape more than 5,000 years ago when ice melted and rolled down along with stones from the top of the mountain by natural and geological action.
    The river was registered as a natural monument in the country.
    In May Juche 90 (2001) leader Kim Jong Il saw the fantastic view of the river during his field guidance to South Hamgyong Province.

Commemorative Photo Album and Books Off Press

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Publishing House has brought out a photo album and books commemorating the 5th anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. The album titled "Five Years Seen through Photos" prints a photograph of leader Kim Jong Il with a broad smile on his face against the background of Mt. Paektu, holy mountain of the nation.
    Under the sub-titles "Five Years of Ardent Reverence for General Kim Jong Il", "Five Years of the Idea 'By Our Nation Itself'" and "Five Years of Struggle against U.S. and Other Outside Forces", it gives photos showing historic events which took place over the last five years since the publication of the joint declaration.
    The book "Era of Independent Reunification Brought About by the June 15 Joint Declaration" says that the historic meeting between leader Kim Jong Il and President Kim Dae Jung in Pyongyang and the joint declaration ushered in the era of independent reunification. It also writes that over the last five years, a new chapter of reconciliation, cooperation and reunification of the nation has been recorded and the reunification movement vigorously advanced under the Songun politics.
    Among the newly published books are the book "Three Forms of Cooperation for National Reunification" and collections of poems.
    The publications will further inspire the fellow countrymen in their efforts to achieve national reunification by themselves.

Greetings to Prime Minister of Mauritius

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, sent a congratulatory message to Ahmed Shaheed on his appointment as foreign minister of Maldives. In the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms, the message sincerely wished him a success in his new job.

Greetings to Maldivian Foreign Minister

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Navin Chandra Ramgoolam on his appointment as prime minister of Mauritius as the result of the recent general election. Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger and develop in the future, the message sincerely wished him great success in the fulfillment of his new duty for social and economic development and prosperity of the country.

Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to New Saltern in Wonsan Bay

     Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, gave field guidance to the new saltern in Wonsan Bay which has put its production on a normal footing. He was greeted on the spot by Ko Jong Dok, chairman of the Kangwon Provincial People's Committee, Pak Jong Nam, secretary of the Kangwon Provincial Committee of the WPK, and senior officials of the province and the saltern.
    He mounted a gazebo from which he commanded a-bird's-eye-view of the saltern and learned in detail about its construction and production.
    Feasting his eyes on a vast expanse of salt fields, the salt refining shop and other production buildings and cosy dwelling houses and cultural facilities standing in lines at the foot of a mountain, he noted with great satisfaction that such a gigantic project completed by the province by itself was a great success.
    He extended thanks to all the builders and their helpers who have done a lot of work for the prosperity and development of the country without being known to others.
    He highly appreciated the popular work style displayed by the party and power organs in the province including the provincial party committee and the provincial people's committee and working people's organizations, saying that he was pleased with fact that they have done good things for the people by actively mobilizing the masses in the spirit of devoted service to them.
    He praised the officials, workers and technicians of the saltern for keeping the production going at a high rate by fully displaying creative wisdom and strengthening cooperation.
    Today when the country is humming with creation and changes under the banner of Songun all the people are steadily increasing the wealth for the eternal prosperity of the nation and the happiness of the generations to come with persevering will even under the difficult situation where they are pressed for everything, he noted, adding that the Korean revolution is winning victory after victory and the cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation is bound to be accomplished with flying colors thanks to the inexhaustible strength of the people all out in the sacred struggle to usher in a new era of history.
    The experience Kangwon Province has gained in the course of successfully building a modern large saltern and massproducing good quality refined salt proves that one can successfully undertake any difficult task if one works tenaciously with faith and fighting spirit that one can do anything if one has a will, he said, calling on all fields and units to make a new leaping advance in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation by giving fuller play to the spirit of devotedly implementing the Party's policies. He set forth tasks which would serve as guidelines in putting the management of salt fields on a scientific and technological basis and steadily increasing the production.
    He was accompanied by Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Hwang Pyong So, vice department director of its Central Committee.

Working Contact Made between Authorities of North and South

     Kaesong, July 22 (KCNA) -- A working-level contact between the authorities of the north and the south of Korea took place in Kaesong on July 22 in connection with the expected participation of the delegations of the authorities of both sides in the "August 15 grand national festival for independence, peace and reunification" slated to be held in the area of the south side under an agreement reached at the 15th inter-Korean ministerial talks. At the contact the north and the south issued an agreement after deciding to make the Aug. 15 grand national festival a significant grand festival which would demonstrate internally and externally the will of all Koreans for national independence, their desire to achieve national reconciliation, unity and co-prosperity through their concerted efforts.
    According to the agreement, both sides will dispatch delegations of authorities to the festival, decide on the composition and size of their delegations as they think fit and they will be headed by officials of the same level as were exchanged during the June 15 grand national festival for reunification and the delegation of the authorities of the north side will stay in the area of the south side for three nights and four days from Aug. 14 to 17 and both sides will consult and decide on the specific itinerary by way of exchanging documents in Panmunjom.
    The north and the south agreed to cooperate with each other in the efforts to make functions of the Aug. 15 grand national festival proceed in an atmosphere of reconciliation and cooperation and let the delegations of the authorities of the two sides have joint functions, etc.
    It was agreed that the delegation of the authorities of the north side would directly fly over the West Sea by its airliner for its trip and both sides would follow the practice observed during the June 15 grand national festival for reunification as regards such technical matters as procedures for travel, provision of facility and guarantee of personal safety.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona Unidad No. 2653 del EPC

    　Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- El Comandante Supremo Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, inspecciono la Unidad No. 2653 del Ejercito Popular de Corea. 　Al recorrer la sala de presentacion del historial, el Comandante Supremo senalo que esta unidad se ha fortalecido en un invencible destacamento de combate bajo la sabia direccion y minuciosa atencion del Presidente Kim Il Sung.
    　El Dirigente se entero del estado de cumplimiento del deber de la unidad y vio un entrenamiento de los militares. Y se mostro muy satisfecho de que todos los militares de la unidad crecen como combatientes de uno contra ciento y preparados tanto politica e ideologicamente como militar, tecnica y fisicamente para defender firmemente la patria socialista.
    　Al ver el frondoso bosque alrededor del cuartel elogio que los militares con el ardiente patriotismo plantaron muchos arboles y los cuidan con esmero y enseno el metodo para realizar con vistas al futuro la forestacion del recinto del cuartel.
    　El Comandante Supremo recorrio la Casa de Militares, la biblioteca, la sala de emision radial y otras instalaciones de cultura y educacion para enterarse de la labor politica de la Unidad.
    　Al ver diversos datos de educacion grafica exhibidos en la Casa de Militares, dijo que la labor politica en el ejercito popular se aviene al sentimiento psicologico de los soldados y apunto que la manera de trabajo emprendedora y revolucionaria para hacer creaciones e innovaciones ininterrumpidas sin estancamiento momentaneo es una orgullosa tradicion de nuestro ejercito, abanderado y brigada de choque de la revolucion del Songun (priorizacion militar).
    　Acto seguido, recorrio el comedor, la cocina, el deposito de alimentos subsidiarios y otras instalaciones de intendencia para prodigar profunda atencion a la vida de los militares.
    　Vio el menu del comedor y los materiales para alimentos subsidiarios en el estante de la cocina y dijo que hay que suministrar comidas frescas a los soldados que sudan mucho al ejercitarse en la estacion veraniega.
    　El Comandante Supremo se fotografio junto a los militares de la unidad.
    　Le acompanaron Ri Yong Chol, miembro de la Comision Militar Central del PTC y primer subjefe de departamento del CC del PTC, y Hwang Pyong So, subjefe de departamento del CC del PTC.

MINREX expone posicion de principios para sistema de paz

    　Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- Con motivo de cumplirse los 52 anos desde cuando se firmo el acuerdo de armisticio de Corea, el portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea hizo publica el dia 22 una declaracion exponiendo la posicion de principios sobre el establecimiento del sistema de la paz en la Peninsula Coreana. El proceso de establecimiento de tal sistema debe contribuir a la creacion del ambiente para realizar la coexistencia pacifica entre la RPDC y EE.UU. y lograr la reunificacion pacifica entre el Norte y el Sur de Corea, senala el documento y prosigue: El establecimiento de este sistema debe ser un proceso imprescindible para lograr la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana.
    El armisticio se logro con una premisa de dar solucion pacifica al problema coreano. A mas de medio siglo de la firma del acuerdo de armisticio, el problema coreano no vio solucion debido a la injusta politica de EE.UU. sobre Corea.
    El imperio aprobo en noviembre de 1953 (inmediatamente despues del armisticio) la "resolucion del consejo de seguridad nacional (NSC en siglas inglesas) 170", en la cual politizo perdurar la division de la peninsula Coreana al mantener indefinidamente el sistema de armisticio hasta el tiempo de ocupar a toda Corea y en junio de 1954 llevo a la ruptura intencionalmente la reunion de Ginebra sobre el problema coreano para impedir para siempre la solucion pacifica del problema coreano y la retirada de todas las tropas extranjeras del territorio coreano, previstas en el acuerdo de armisticio. Y despues, se opuso a todos los proyectos e iniciativas equitativos y realistas del gobierno de la RPDC de convertir el acuerdo de armisticio en el convenio de paz, incluido el proyecto de las conversaciones tripartitas incorporando al Sur de Corea en las negociaciones entre la RPDC y EE.UU., y asi trajo solo la confrontacion y la tension en la Peninsula Coreana.
    Nosotros participamos en las conversaciones a 4 bandas para establecer un duradero sistema de paz en dicha Peninsula, pero, tampoco pudimos obtener fruto por la actitud infiel de EE.UU.
    Asi, debido a la politica anacronica de EE.UU. de mantener el sistema de armisticio en esta peninsula, la region del Noreste Asiatico queda como un foco de guerra mayor del mundo con la estructura de confrontacion del tiempo de guerra fria.
    Convertir el inestable estado de armisticio en un duradero sistema de paz en la Peninsula Coreana y eliminar el ultimo residuo de la guerra fria es la tarea imprescindible para la paz y la reunificacion de Corea y para la paz y la seguridad del Noreste Asiatico y el resto del mundo.
    Ademas, resulta un problema impostergable para la solucion justa del problema nuclear entre la RPDC y EE.UU., tema de interes comun de la sociedad internacional. La conversion del sistema de armisticio en el convenio de paz pasara a eliminar la politica hostil y la amenaza nuclear de EE.UU. a Corea, que son origen del problema nuclear, y a realizar la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana.
    En fin constituye un proceso de solucion pacifica del problema de la Peninsula Coreana.
    La marcha exitosa del proceso del establecimiento del sistema de paz en la Peninsula Coreana contribuira a la preservacion de la paz y seguridad de esta peninsula asiatica, el Noreste Asiatico y el resto del mundo y estimulara decisivamente el curso de las conversaciones a 6 bandas que se reanudaran pronto para la solucion del problema nuclear.
    Abrigamos la esperanza de que EE.UU. y las fuerzas interesadas presten debida atencion a la justa proposicion de la RPDC sobre el establecimiento del sistema de paz y respondan positivamente a ella.

Invariable barbaridad de tropas agresoras

    　Pyongyang, 22 de julio (ATCC) -- En el Sur de Corea no cesan de surgir los crimenes de violencia de las tropas ocupantes como dar golpe a las personas y romperles la cabeza con la botella. Lo pueden perpetrar solo los gangsteres adiestrados con la idea chovinista. Asi senala el rotativo Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual insertado en su edicion del dia 22 y continua:
    Los crimenes de las tropas ocupantes del Sur de Corea como matar a los habitantes y destruir los bienes no cesaron de ocurrir durante los 60 anos que datan de la presencia de las tropas agresoras yanquis en el Sur de Corea.
    Son tremendas las desgracias y penalidades que sufren los habitantes surcoreanos por las atrocidades barbaras de los uniformados yanquis ocupantes del Sur de Corea. Estos ocasionaron danos a todos los surcoreanos: los ninos, los ancianos, las muchachas y mujeres.
    Los actos criminales de las tropas norteamericanas ocupantes no son casuales sino producto de su salvajismo.
    En la primera pagina de un folleto que circula entre los uniformados norteamericanos se senala: "Debeis ser despiadados y habiles matones".
    Los efectivos yanquis mataron sin escrupulo a los habitantes surcoreanos tratando a estos como a "raton de campo" o "faisan".
    No se puede estar tranquilo al lado del lobo.
    Los habitantes surcoreanos, para gozar de una vida tranquila y estable, deben expulsar cuanto antes a las tropas invasoras yanquis del suelo s