Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission, inspected KPA Unit 503. He was accompanied by First Vice Department Director Ri Jae Il and Vice Department Director Hwang Pyong So of the WPK Central Committee.
    He learned about the unit's performance of duty before watching servicepersons' training at the military lecture room.
    He highly praised all the servicepersons of the unit for having successfully implemented its training program by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm to the training after contriving and introducing more effective apparatuses into training. He learned in detail about how the political work is conducted among its servicepersons, going round the servicepersons' hall, an educational room and other entertainment and educational facilities.
    He was satisfied to learn that the unit has prepared all its servicepersons as vanguard fighters of the revolution firmly equipped with high revolutionary consciousness and the working class awareness by successfully building entertainment and educational facilities and putting their operation on a regular basis.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' living, looking round a bedroom, a mess hall, a wash-cum-bath house, a non-staple store, a food-processing room, a vegetable plot and other facilities for supply service.
    Looking at logistic facilities, plots under various species of vegetables and trees around the compound of the barracks, he expressed great satisfaction with the fact that the unit has provided its servicepersons with good living conditions.
    He highly appreciated the achievements made by the unit in the past, noting that this unit is exemplary not only in its military and political training but in supply service, the cultural and moral level, its management and all other aspects.
    The servicepersons of the KPA are leading an affluent life by sprucing up their posts wherever they are stationed, in deep mountains or solitary islets, he said, adding that this proud change in the era of Songun clearly proves the ideological and moral quality of the KPA.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photo session with them.

Preparatory Committees Inaugurated in Mongolia

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees for celebrating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea were formed with due ceremony at University of Culture of Mongolia and the Federation of Peace and Friendship Organizations of Mongolia on July 19 and 20 under the sponsorship of the Mt. Paektu Association for Independent Development of Mongolia and the Mongolia-Korea Friendship Society. On display in the venues of the ceremonies were photos introducing the immortal leadership exploits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.
    N. Sarantuya, executive chairman of the association, in his speech at a ceremony referred to the immortal exploits performed by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, adding the association would widely introduce their exploits on the occasion.
    The vice-chairman of the society in his speech at a ceremony pointed out the efforts made by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the development of the friendly relations between Mongolia and the DPRK, noting that the 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation is not only a holiday for the Korean people but a holiday common to all its members. The ceremonies elected M. Ganjorig, chairman of the Association, and Ch. Surenjav, chairman of the Society, chairmen of the preparatory committees and N. Sarantuya and the vice-chairman of the society general secretaries of the committees.
    The committees decided to hold colorful political functions including a meeting and seminar and publish famous works of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and introduce the DPRK on the occasion.

GIs' Massacre of Civilians in Rogun-ri under Fire

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The North Side's Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres on July 24 issued an indictment laying bare the monstrous massacre of civilians committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in Rogun-ri, Yongdong County, North Chungchong Province of south Korea during the Korean war. The U.S. killing of civilians in Rogun-ri has been further probed by new findings and confirmed by testimonies made by former U.S. soldiers involved in the crimes and witnesses.
    According to the indictment, the Seventh Regiment of the U.S. First Armored Division reached the area of Jugok-ri, Yongdong County, North Chungchong Province on its way of fleeing from Taejon on the evening of July 25, 1950.
    The U.S. imperialist aggressor forces told civilians of the nearby village to gather with a promise to take them to a safe place. They brought together even refugees from different places including Rimgye-ri and took them away to Rogun-ri along the Seoul-Pusan railways next morning. Then they searched the civilians after forcing them to form short ranks.
    When the inhabitants gathered along the railways at about the noon of July 26, a U.S. communication man had a wireless contact with some unit. Shortly afterwards a reconnaissance plane appeared and circled in the sky above their heads several times before flying back. No sooner had this happened than two U.S. fighters flew there to bomb and strafe the civilians. In a twinkling at least 100 dead bodies were littered about the railways and their surroundings.
    Survivors ran helter-skelter into two railway tunnels. U.S. soldiers machine-gunned at those who took refuge there.
    Killings lasted for four consecutive days till the morning of July 29.
    The U.S. imperialist murderers entered the tunnels under the pretext of "treating the wounded." After confirming the number of survivors they again fired machine-guns at them. At least 400 of those civilians met tragic deaths after being allured into the trap by the beast-like U.S. imperialists.
    The indictment cited facts to disclose that the U.S. imperialists' mass killings in Rogun-ri were an organized and premeditated crime committed against civilians in wanton violation of the publicly recognized international law and war laws and regulations.
    According to even the initially compiled data, they killed at least 1.24 million peaceable inhabitants in south Korea alone during the Korean war.
    The Korean people who value the dignity and sovereignty like their life and soul will never allow the U.S. imperialists to exterminate the Korean nation through reinvasion and nuclear disasters but force them to pay for all their crimes at any cost, the indictment warned.
    The North Side's Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres in the indictment expressed the expectation that the world progressives who value justice, truth, peace and human rights would voice stronger solidarity with the south Korean people in their sacred anti-U.S. struggle and all the Koreans in their just struggle for peace and reunification of the country.

Reception Given by South Side's Delegation

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the south side gave a reception at the People's Palace of Culture Sunday evening for the participants in the meeting of Korean writers for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration. Present on invitation were Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, An Kyong Ho, director of the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, Kim Jong Ho, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, Kim Pyong Hun, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Writers Union, officials concerned, writers and poets in Pyongyang, 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.
    Ko Un, chairman for reunification of the Association of Men of National Literature who is heading the south side's delegation, and members of the delegation were on hand. The reception was addressed by Sin Se Hun, director general of the south Korean Association of Men of Literature, Hyon Sung Nam, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Writers Union, and Han Gil Su.
    The meeting of Korean writers offered them an opportunity to keenly feel once again that though the land remains divided, the Koreans are a homogeneous nation which can never be split into two and the national literature is also one, the speakers said, stressing that the Korean literature should become one for reunification instilling patriotism into the hearts of the compatriots in the north, the south and abroad and helping them breathe the same breath.
    We men of national literature who have been apart from each other for the last 60 years have embarked on the road of building literature for reunification, they said, calling for creating works representing the soul of the nation and its desire for reunification.

Regional Headquarters for Joint Functions of Koreans Formed in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The Yonsu headquarters of the south side's preparatory committee for joint functions of Koreans in the south and the north and overseas to implement the June 15 joint declaration was reportedly inaugurated on July 21. The headquarters was reported to have consisted of 25 civic and public organizations in Yonsu District, Inchon.
    Speakers at its inaugural ceremony said that what is most important in the activity of the headquarters is to help the inhabitants in the region regard the issue of reunification as their own.
    Contending that the campaign against the U.S. forces' deployment of PAC-3 on Munhak Hill in Inchon is for the peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula, they called upon the inhabitants in the region to become driving force in the campaign.
    An inaugural declaration stressed that the headquarters would contribute to the inter-Korean reconciliation through many-sided exchange and play a positive role in realizing national cooperation.

Stop to Police Search for Political Offenders Urged in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Twenty-seven civic and public organizations in south Korea, including the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon), the Bar Association for a Democratic Society and the Group of People Demanding Halt to Police Search for Political Offenders Related to the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), reportedly held a press conference in Seoul on July 21 to urge a total stop to the police search for political offenders and the release of all prisoners of conscience. Disclosing the unjust nature of the "National Security Law," Ri Jong Rin, honorary chairman of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon, asserted that the evil law should be abolished in the June 15 era of reunification as it has been used to arrest the personages keeping their conscience and striving for the reunification of the divided country.
    Jang Kyong Uk, secretary general of the Bar Association for a Democratic Society, contended that the government should solve the issues of the prisoners of conscience and the wanted persons of Hanchongryon on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the country's liberation.
    A press release published at the conference said the government should not set such unnecessary preconditions as demanding the ideological conversion and reflection from those patriots in return for a stop to the police search for political offenders.

Japan's Monstrous Desecration of Remains of Koreans under Fire

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) --Japan is so mean, despicable and wicked that it is not the country which the DPRK can deal with anywhere, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary in connection with the disclosure of the Japanese reactionaries' serious desecration of the remains of Korean draftees. The Nagoya, Japan, Social Welfare Consultative Council clarified that remains of Koreans who were drafted to Japan during the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule of Korea kept at a columbarium in the city had been pulverized and disposed of in 1999 without neither the confirmation of their identities nor advance notice to their bereaved families.
    This is the double murder of the victims of forcible drafting as it totally deprived their bereaved families of their right to take back the remains of their forefathers. This outrage once again convinced the Koreans of the moral vulgarity, poor quality and the despicable and cruel nature of the Japanese reactionaries.
    The action taken by the Japanese reactionaries to pulverize and dispose of the remains of the above-said victims is aimed to cover up the crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists in the past and evade compensation for them.
    Their racket over the "issue of remains", "issue of abduction" and "human rights issue" is a revelation of such sinister intention. As clearly proved by the recent disclosure of the fact Japan has neither qualification and face nor any justification to say anything about the above-said issues.
    The Korean people will certainly force the Japanese reactionaries to pay a dear price for this double crime.

Message of Consolation to Egyptian President

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Sunday sent a message of consolation to Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt, as regards the great human losses caused by near-simultaneous bombings in the country. Kim in the message expressed deep consolation for Mubarak and, through him, the Egyptian government and bereaved families of the victims.

Message of Sympathy to Egyptian Foreign Minister

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the DPRK, sent a message of sympathy to his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Abu al-Gheit in connection with big casualties caused by near-simultaneous bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The message expressed deep sympathy and consolation to the foreign minister and the bereaved families of the victims.

Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Art Troupe Leaves

     Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang schoolchildren's art troupe left here for Macao, China, on Monday to participate in the 4th East Asian Children's Art Festival.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona companias de Unidad No. 287

    　 Pyongyang, 25 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 companias de la Unidad No. 287 del Ejercito Popular de Corea. El Comandante Supremo inspecciono una compania de artilleria adscrita a la unidad arriba mencionada.
    Se mostro satisfecho de que los miembros de la compania, luego de acondicionar bien el lugar de entrenamiento, se ejercitan regularmente formandose como artilleros certeros.
    Acto seguido, recorrio la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor, el bano, el deposito de alimentos subsidiarios, el corral y otros lugares.
    Evaluo la vida hacendosa de la compania constatando con regocijo que los oficiales y soldados de la compania decoran el cuartel como una casa de reposo y hacen bien la vida alimenticia organizando con ahinco la produccion para autoconsumo como el cultivo y la cria de animales.
    El Comandante Supremo dio a los militares de la compania binoculos y fusil automatico y se fotografio junto a estos.
    El mismo dia, inspecciono tambien una compania de automoviles de dicha unidad. Vio un ejercicio tecnico y de calificacion de los militares en la sala de entrenamiento. Es loable que la compania produce varias herramientas y equipos para elevar la tasa de movilizacion de los medios de transporte, subrayo el y apunto que todos los militares deben proteger y cuidar como las ninas de sus ojos los equipos tecnicos.
    Acto seguido, el Comandante Supremo dialogo con los jefes de la compania para hacer conocimiento de la labor de intendencia y recorrio la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor, el deposito de alimentos subsidiarios, el bano, la parcela de verduras y otras instalaciones de educacion, cultura e intendencia para prodigar esmerada atencion a la vida de los soldados.
    Al ver las fotos que reflejan diversos aspectos de la vida de los militares, se mostro contento de que todos ellos han crecido como valiosos combatientes capaces de pelear uno contra ciento y subrayo la necesidad de que se tiren mas fotos para dar alegria a los militares.
    El Comandante Supremo se fotografio junto a los militares de la compania.

Rodong Sinmun denuncia actos innobles de reaccionarios japoneses

    　Pyongyang, 25 de julio (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 25 un comentario individual en relacion con que los reaccionarios japoneses trituraron y trataron en 1999 los restos mortales de los coreanos reclutados en el pasado para trabajos forzados, que estaban guardados en la depositaria de restos mortales de la ciudad de Nagoya. 　El comentario senala:
    　Segun el consejo de bienestar social de la ciudad de Nagoya de Japon, los reaccionarios japoneses lo hicieron sin tramites de identificacion de los muertos ni notificacion de antemano a sus familias.
    　Esto es un gravisimo crimen que vuelve a matar a las victimas coreanas y que priva a las familiares del derecho a guardar los restos de sus antepasados. 　A traves de este hecho el pueblo coreano constata la bajeza humana y moral, la barbaridad y la crueldad de los reaccionarios japoneses.
    　Los reaccionarios japoneses perpetraron tal fechoria para encubrir y eludir la indemnizacion por este respecto. 　Con tal intencion arman bullas del "problema de los restos mortales", "problema del secuestro" y "problema de los derechos humanos". Por lo tanto no tienen calificacion ni honra de hablar de estos problemas ni posibilidad de ponerse en contacto con nosotros en todas las partes del mundo.
    　El pueblo coreano ajustara cuentas hasta el fin de dobles crimenes de los reaccionarios japoneses que insultan a los restos mortales de los coreanos.