Reunification Event Held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- An evening of resolution for independence, peace and reunification was reportedly held at Kyunghee University in Seoul on August 15 under the co-sponsorship of the Peoplefs Solidarity, the Reunification Solidarity and the Democratic Workersf Party of south Korea.
Attending it was at least 15,000 people including workers, peasants, women and youth and students.
Kim Hye Gyong, representative of the Democratic Workersf Party, said that a peace-keeping mechanism should be established above anything else for peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula. All the people should turn out in the struggle against the transfer and expansion of the U.S. military bases in south Korea and the U.S. forces' gstrategic flexibility" and arms build-up, the speaker urged.
Jong Kwang Hun, permanent representative of the Peoplefs Solidarity, stated that what the United States is mostly afraid of is independence and unity of the Korean nation rather than nukes and missiles.
Min Kyong U, former secretary general of the Reunification Solidarity, and Ri Tong Jin, former chairman of the Reunification Committee of the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils, who had been detained on the strength of the gNational Security Lawh and were recently released, shouted slogan gLet us achieve the reunification of the country by concerted efforts of the Korean nation.h
An art performance on the theme of national reunification was given by members of the childrenfs reunification vanguard belonging to the gGroup for Paektu-Halla Grand March for National Reunificationh.
After the event, the participants held an August 15 all-people rally for peace against war and for independent reunification in university street in Seoul.
An appeal to 70 million countrymen and a resolution of struggle were read out at the rally.
Anti-Japanese Rally Held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- A rally was reportedly held in Ulsan, south Korea, on August 13 to condemn the Japanese imperialists' past atrocities.
Attending it were over 1,000 people including former "comfort women" for the imperial Japanese army, youth and children and citizens.
Speeches were made at the rally after testimonies of former "comfort women".
The speakers said they could not repress the surging national indignation while hearing the testimonies. Younger generations should never forget such crime, cherishing it in mind, they held.
Then, an open letter to the Japanese prime minister was read out at the rally.
Rallies of Public Circles Held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Rallies of workers, peasants, women, youth and other people were reportedly held at Kyunghee University in Seoul in the early morning of August 15.
The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the south Korean National Federation of Peasants Associations called a meeting under the subject gPro-reunification rally of workers and peasants across south Korea for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops and the national cooperationh.
A declaration for national reunification was read out at the meeting. The declaration stated that workers and peasants will join efforts to conduct an anti-U.S., anti-war peace movement including the struggle against the U.S. war moves and the expansion of its military base in Phyongthaek and for the pullout of the U.S. forces, and jointly struggle against the gglobalizationh of neo-liberalism.
The participants in the womenfs rally sponsored by the Womenfs Committee of the Reunification Solidarity declared that the supreme object and task facing the Korean women is to build a reunified country.
A rally of resolution was also held by the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Countryfs Reunification, the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils, the south Korean Council of Youth Organizations and others.
Kim Il Sung's Work Published in Peru
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung's work "Let the North and the South Open the Way to Peace and the Reunification of the Country in a United Effort" was brought out in pamphlet by a Peruvian publishing house to mark the 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation.
The work is the talk with the delegates of the two sides to the Inter-Korean High-Level Talks on Feb. 20, Juche 81(1992).
He clarified in the work that the effectuation of the "Agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, Cooperation and Exchange between North and South" and the "Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" is an epochal event which made a milestone for peace and reunification of the country. And he indicated the principled problems arising in achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Celebrated in Different Countries
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Functions took place in different countries to mark the 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation.
Celebration meetings and film shows were held in Ceske Budejovice of the Czech Republic and Quito of Ecuador and a ceremony of opening a DPRK book, photo and handiwork exhibition was held in Zumpango city of Mexico between August 9 and 11.
"They Were Always Together on the Road to Bring about the People's Well-being" and other Korean films were screened at the film shows.
The chairman of the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association, speaking at the meeting, highly praised the undying feats performed by President Kim Il Sung who liberated Korea, defeated U.S. imperialism and turned the DPRK into an invincible socialist bulwark, independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.
Kim Il Sung was a legendary hero, gifted strategist and the great leader of the revolution and construction, he said, adding that the modern history of Korea is unthinkable apart from the august name of the President.
The honorary manager of the "Voluntad" Publishing House of Ecuador in a speech at the meeting said that Kim Il Sung was a peerless hero who liberated Korea and provided the Korean people with an independent life. The feats performed by him for the country and the people are being firmly defended and glorified thanks to leader Kim Jong Il, he noted.
Meanwhile, film shows, book and photo exhibitions and lectures were held in Phnom Penh of Cambodia, Delhi of India, Kiev of Ukraine and Conakry of Guinea from August 6 to 12.
Speakers said at the functions that the feats of Kim Il Sung who devoted himself to the cause of Korea's liberation will shine long. After the liberation the Korean people built a powerful socialist country, independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence, under his wise guidance and are now making great achievements in the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation, true to the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il, they stressed.
Friendship Meeting
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union Thursday arranged a friendship meeting with the president of the Women's International Democratic Federation and her party on a visit to the DPRK.
Present on invitation were Marcia de Campos Pereira, president of the Women's International Democratic Federation, and European Coordinator Skevi Koukouma who is executive member of the federation.
Chairwoman Pak Sun Hui and officials of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union were on hand.
The participants in the meeting talked about activities of their organizations, the achievements and experience gained by them in the past, and cooperation between them, deepening the feelings of friendship.
Pyongyang Int'l Invitational Table Tennis Tournament Opens
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The 19th Pyongyang Int'l Invitational Table Tennis Tournament was opened.
It brought together at least 60 paddlers from China, Jilin Province of China, Iran, Singapore and DPRK (groups A and B). It will be held from August 18 to 22, divided into men and women's team events, men and women's singles and men and women's doubles.
An opening ceremony took place at the Table Tennis Gymnasium in Chongchun Street.
Present there were Kim Yu Ho, chairman of the Table Tennis Association of the DPRK, and other officials concerned.
Kim Yong Nam, chairman of the organizing committee of the tournament, made a speech at the ceremony.
The ceremony was followed by matches in the men and women's team events.
DPRK Players Prove Successful at Universiad
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- DPRK players carried off one gold, three silver and one bronze medals at the 23rd Universiad now under way in Izmir of Turkey.
Ri Kyong Il emerged winner in the final match in the 55 kg category of Greco-Roman wrestling held on August 16.
DPRK girls finished the runners-up in team gymnastic competitions, Han Jong Ok in the uneven bar event of women's gymnastics and Hong In Sun and Choe Kum Hui in the women's simultaneous diving from a 10-metre platform.
Kang Kum Chol carried off a bronze medal in the 66 kg category of freestyle wrestling.
Floral Baskets to DPRK Embassies
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets were respectively sent to the DPRK missions in the capital cities of Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Indonesia and other countries by the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Association, the Vietnamese Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Club, the Ethiopian preparatory committee for celebrating the 60th anniversaries of the liberation of Korea and the Workers' Party of Korea, general directors of Indonesian companies including the Badja Machine Co., the Rabitra Bahtera Pratama Co. and the Manager of the Mt. Chilbo Company and figures of political parties and organizations and public circles of various other countries on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation from August 11 to 15.
The floral baskets were laid before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and their full-length portraits at the missions.
Japanfs Militarist Hysteria under Fire
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Japan termed the DPRK and China gthreatening statesh although it is chiefly responsible for threatening peace and stability in Northeast Asia. This is sheer sophism that can be made only by crafty and shameless ones, observes Minju Joson Friday in a signed commentary.
What the Japan Defense Agency claimed in its defence white paper for 2005 is nothing but sheer lies grossly falsifying truth, the commentary says, and goes on:
Japan dubbed the DPRK and China gthreatening statesh in a bid to invent pretexts for justifying their moves to revive militarism, emerge a military power and realize overseas expansion now being frantically stepped up under the U.S. patronage.
The moves for reinvasion which the Japanese reactionaries are escalating with their undisguised exceptional zeal for overseas expansion are arousing serious apprehension among members of the international community as they are timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Japanese imperialist's defeat.
In the white paper Japan painted the DPRK as "a factor of grave instability" and declared Tok Islet, an inalienable part of the territory of Korea, as "a disputed island". This is a blatant provocative act prompted by a sinister intention to put the whole of Korea under its control.
The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to awake from a day-dream.
If they opt for reinvasion of Korea, seized by militarist zeal for reinvasion, they will only suffer a defeat much more miserable than what they did 60 years ago.
They should face up to the reality and behave with discretion.
KCNA Blasts Japan's "Defense White Paper for 2005"
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defense Agency in its recent "defense white paper for 2005" listed the DPRK and China as "states threatening Japan." Moreover, it described Tok Islet, an inalienable part of Korea's territory, as a "disputed area."
It is the keynote of the white paper to take new military steps for protecting the security of Japan from "the threats of nukes and ballistic missiles" from the DPRK and "the increasing military threat" from China.
This is a very dangerous and brazen-faced subterfuge to justify Japan's moves to revive militarism and emerge a military power and realize its overseas expansion under the pretext of "military threats" from the DPRK and China.
The DPRK clarified its stand more than once that its self-defensive armed forces will in no way be a threat to Japan unless the latter perpetrates hostile acts against it.
Japan's oft-repeated "nuclear and missile threat from north Korea" is a fabrication made by the Japanese reactionaries on the basis of a political calculation from A to Z.
The situation is growing very tense on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia due to Japan's moves to emerge a military power and realize overseas expansion, backed by the United States.
Japan has tightened its military alliance with the U.S. and pushed ahead with arms build-up plan, thus rapidly increasing its military capability in foreign countries.
It has paid primary attention to legalizing the war actions of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in a bid to realize its ambition for establishing the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
The "military threat" from the DPRK and China is cited by Tokyo as the only pretext for working hard to achieve this goal.
The Japanese reactionaries are keen to convince the international community that the SDF's military actions are for "defense" in principle.
It is under this pretext that Japan is going ahead with the preparations for military reinvasion openly with increased zeal.
It is pushing forward its long-range missile program aimed at preemptive assault under the pretext of "neutralizing the ballistic missile plan" of the DPRK and keen to introduce the missile defense system which calls for putting the DPRK and China and other parts of Asia within its range of attack.
The Japanese reactionaries are deliberately sparking a territorial dispute, asserting that Tok Islet, an inalienable part of Korea's territory, is a "disputed area." This is a deliberate and premeditated move to strain the situation in the region and create an environment favorable for realizing their ambition for emerging a military power and launching reinvasion.
In order to achieve true reconciliation and peace in Northeast Asia free from confrontation and distrust, it is necessary to force Japan to drop its bad habit of always sacrificing others to meet its own interests.
This is the trend of the times.
Conversion of Revolutionary Ranks into Highly-Efficient Ones Called for
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- It is a sure guarantee for strengthening the driving force for the revolution to turn the revolutionary ranks highly-efficient with the People's Army as a model as required by the Songun era, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
Turning the revolutionary ranks highly-efficient as required by the Songun era means training all members of the society into ranks of loyalists and invincible revolutionary ranks of Songun that have personified the intense loyalty to the headquarters of the revolution, revolutionary spirit and organization, sense of discipline and unity and fighting spirit inherent in the People's Army, the article says, and goes on:
Turning the revolutionary ranks highly-efficient on the pattern of the army is an important work for preparing all members of the society as fighters devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution. The spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution now being fully displayed by the servicepersons has become an ideological and moral basis of the unity and cohesion of the revolutionary ranks in the DPRK.
The bulwark devotedly safeguarding the leader where the army and the people have achieved perfect unity in thinking, fighting spirit, feelings and emotion and which has grown invulnerable guided by the noblest spirit of the times represents a mighty driving force of our revolution and the most powerful weapon that have been secured in the course of turning the revolutionary ranks highly-efficient.
The above-mentioned work is, at the same time, an important work to achieve a decisive victory in the anti-imperialist class struggle. One who learns from the anti-U.S. working class stand and the revolutionary awareness of the army and lives and struggles the way it does is an independent guard soldier and staunch revolutionary required by the present times.
It is an honorable task to work fresh miracles and innovations in building a great prosperous powerful nation. The work inspires all the members of the society to learn from the ideology and view point, way of thinking, the fighting spirit and the work style of the army and thus bring about an uninterrupted surge in the revolutionary struggle and construction.
Fermented Bean Curd, New Functional Food
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Researchers of the Foodstuff Institute of the Branch Academy of Light Industrial Science under the Academy of Sciences in the Democratic Peoplefs Republic of Korea have succeeded in making fermented bean curd. It is highly nutritive and delicious.
They infect sliced bean curds with bacteria, treat them in some processes and put them into a pot and seal it up to ferment them for 40 days in high temperature.
In order to add seasoning to them, they put spices such as garlic, pepper, ginger and black pepper into the pot.
The fermented bean curd contains various kinds of vitamins 15 percent more than the ordinary bean curd and 18 kinds of amino acid 8.4 times those of the latter.
It, strong in deoxidation, is very efficacious for preventing aging and treating circulation disorders.
The longer, the better.
It can be well stored for six months even in hot weather and its taste remains
unchanged for several days in open-air.
The taste of the bean curd varies according to the fermentation conditions and kinds of bacteria.
The institute is now introducing the production method of the fermented bean curd among people.
Floral Basket and Gift to Kim Jong Il from Japanese Delegation
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a floral basket and a gift by the second delegation of Japan for the study of the Juche idea on a visit to the DPRK.
They were handed to an official concerned by Toshikazu Suzuki, chairman of the Shizuoka Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, who is leading the delegation.
Doctorate Awarded to Korean Teacher in Japan
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of awarding doctorate to a teacher of Joson University of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) took place at the Peoplefs Palace of Culture here on Friday.
Present at the ceremony were Vice-Premier Kwak Pom Gi who is chairman of the DPRK State Commission for Conferring Degrees and Titles and Secretary General of the commission Kang Chun Gum and officials concerned.
A decision of the commission was read out and a certificate of doctor of literature and a medal were awarded to O Hyang Suk, a teacher at Joson University, who made a significant contribution to unearthing cultural heritages of the Korean nation and systematizing them in an all-round way on the basis of the Juche-oriented idea and theory on literature and art.
Tribute Paid to Kim Po Hyon
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the grave of Kim Po Hyon, an ardent patriot, in Mangyongdae this morning on the occasion of the 134th anniversary of his birth.
Seen there was a wreath from Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Ro Tu Chol and officials of the Party and power organs, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons and working people in Pyongyang.
Amid the playing of the wreath-laying music, a wreath was placed before the grave in the name of the WPK Central Committee.
Also laid were wreaths in the name of ministries, national institutions, military academies, educational and press organs and party and power bodies and farms in the city.
The participants observed a moment's silence, looking back upon the noble life of Kim Po Hyon who devoted his all to the future of the country and the nation with his ardent patriotism and humanity.
Sympathy to French FM
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a message of sympathy to his French counterpart Philippe Douste Blazy.
The message expressed deep sympathy to the French foreign minister and, through him, to the government and victims and the bereaved families in connection with the airbus crash in the air above the Caribbean Sea which claimed big French casualties on Aug. 16.
Kim Yong Nam Meets Congratulatory Group of Koreans in Japan
Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and conversed with compatriotic feelings with the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan led by Ryang Su Jong, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, which participated in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
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ATCC comenta "carta blanca de defensa del 2005" de Japon
@Pyongyang, 19 de agosto (ATCC) -- Hace algunos dias, en su "carta blanca de defensa del 2005", Japon acuso de "paises amenazantes" a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y China y califico de "zona litigiosa" a la isla Tok, que legitimamente pertenece a la RPDC.
El nucleo de este documento es tomar nuevas medidas militares encaminadas a preservar la "seguridad" de Japon frente a la "amenaza nuclear y de misiles balisticos" de la RPDC y la "creciente amenaza militar" de China.
Esto es un acto sumamente peligroso y atrevido del pais-isla para justificar el renacimiento del militarismo, la conversion en potencia militar y la expansion territorial a ultramar con el pretexto de la supuesta "amenaza" de la RPDC y China.
En varias oportunidades la RPDC patentizo que sus fuerzas armadas autodefensivas no representaran amenaza alguna para Japon si este no recurre a acciones hostiles a si misma.
El "rumor de la amenaza nuclear y de misiles del Norte de Corea", de que habla tanto Japon, salio de los mezquinos calculos politicos de los reaccionarios de este pais.
Hoy dia, llevando a cuestas a su amo EE.UU., Japon maniobra para convertirse en una potencia militar y expandir su territorio a ultramar, a causa de lo cual la situacion regional del Nordeste Asiatico, inclusive la Peninsula Coreana, se torna muy tirante.
En estos tiempos, Japon fortalece su alianza con EE.UU. en el terreno militar, por una parte y por la otra, acelera su "plan de aumento armamentista" y aumenta su capacidad de operacion militar en ultramar.
Para satisfacer su ambicion de implantar la "esfera de co-prosperidad de gran Asia oriental", intenta cumplir en primer lugar su meta de legalizar las acciones beligerantes de las "fuerzas de autodefensa".
El unico pretexto que utiliza Japon para este fin es precisamente la "amenaza militar" de la RPDC y China.
En tal contexto, los reaccionarios japoneses tratan de convencer a la sociedad internacional de que sus acciones militares se corresponden principalmente a la "defensa".
Con esta fraudulenta "justificacion" acicatean a la luz publica sus preparativos para lanzar nueva agresion militar.
Impulsan el "plan de misiles de largo alcance para el ataque preventivo" bajo el subterfugio de "neutralizar el programa de misiles balisticos" de la RPDC y pretenden implantar el "Sistema Antimisiles" que coloca en su mirilla no solo a la RPDC y China sino el resto del continente asiatico.
Al insistir en que la isla Tok es una "zona litigiosa", los reaccionarios japoneses quieren producir intencionalmente un conflicto por el territorio. Esto parte de sus premeditadas maniobras para dar un clima favorable a la conversion en una potencia militar y la realizacion de su ambicion de tomar nueva agresion al agravar la situacion regional.
Para acabar con la confrontacion y la desconfianza y lograr la reconciliacion y la paz autenticas en el Nordeste Asiatico, hay que eliminar escollos como Japon que siempre sacrifica a otros para sacar sus provechos.
Esto es la demanda de la epoca.
Peru: obra de Kim Il Sung en folleto
@Pyongyang, 19 de agosto (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 60 aniversario de la liberacion de Corea, la Editora El Carmen del Peru dio a luz la obra del Presidente Kim Il Sung gHallanemos el camino hacia la paz y la reunificacion del pais con la fuerza unida del Norte y el Surh, charla hecha el 20 de febrero del 81 (1992) de la Era Juche ante los miembros de las delegaciones del Norte y el Sur de Corea a las conversaciones bilaterales de alto rango.
@En la obra, el Presidente senalo que la puesta en vigencia del "Acuerdo sobre la reconciliacion, la no agresion, la cooperacion y el intercambio entre el Norte y el Sur" y la gDeclaracion Conjunta sobre la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreanah es un evento trascendental que constituye un jalon para la paz y la reunificacion del pais y dilucido los problemas de principios que se presentan en la realizacion de la reunificacion independiente y pacifica de la patria.