Japan's Massacre of Koreans Flailed

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Massacre of Koreans committed by Japan during its occupation of Korea in the first half of the last century was a hideous crime against humanity unprecedented in the history of aggression and an organized and premeditated massacre aimed to exterminate the Korean nation, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article. Japan committed premeditated cruel massacre of Koreans during the whole period of its occupation of Korea to exterminate the Korean nation in a bid to attain its criminal purpose to make Korea a prefecture of Japan. It was the fundamental policy and basic mode of the Japanese imperialists' rule of Korea to kill as many Koreans as possible, the article says, and goes on:
    Not a single day has passed without Koreans' shedding blood during Japan's 40-odd-year long occupation of Korea.
    The Japanese imperialists cruelly killed Koreans everywhere they went.
    They announced the "three-point policy" calling for killing all Korans, setting fire on everything and looting everything and killed Koreans indiscriminately in a bid to exterminate the Koreans.
    During the Kanto quake of 1923 the Japanese imperialists set in motion police and vigilante corps in an organized manner and ruthlessly massacred more than 23,000 innocent Koreans.
    They forcibly walked away or drafted at least 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans and forced them into slave labor, abducted, kidnapped or forcibly walked away 200,000 Korean women to reduce them into sexual slaves for the "Imperial Japanese Army" in a madcap attempt to totally exterminate the Korean nation.
    Due to their monstrous barbarity more than one million Koreans met cruel death.
    Japan's massacre of Koreans was a crime against humanity in gross violation of the universally recognized international law and wartime law and regulations.
    The crime can neither be erased nor lessened with the lapse of time and the statute of limitations cannot be applied to it.
    The Korean people keep tabs on the past crimes of Japan.
    They will certainly force Japan to pay dearly for them.

Building of Nuclear-free World Called for

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will as ever make every possible effort to make the world free from nuclear weapons. The DPRK delegate said this at the plenary session of the 60th U.N. General Assembly on Dec. 8.
    The DPRK delegation holds that what is basic in disarmament should be nuclear disarmament and it should be dismantlement of nuclear weapons, he said, expressing concern over the U.S. and its allies' insisting only on non-proliferation while disregarding nuclear disarmament. For non-proliferation it is necessary to remove its root cause, he said, noting that it is high time for all the nuclear states to take effective steps for complete dismantlement of nuclear weapons.
    He called for signing a binding international agreement on non-use of nukes as early as possible so as to remove the danger of the use of nukes by nuclear states, which is concerned by non-nuclear states.

GNP's Misinformation under Fire

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- The Headquarters of the People's Movement for Revising the Law on Private Schools consisting of 45 civic and public organizations of south Korea including the Citizens' Federation for Economic Justice, the "National Teachers Union" (Jongyojo) and the Citizens' Solidarity for Democratic Society held a press conference in Seoul on Dec. 14 at which they strongly urged the Grand National Party to stop spreading misinformation about the revised bill on private schools and Jongyojo, south Korean KBS reported. The organization condemned the GNP for resorting to a false propaganda with groundless "theory of color" while branding the bill as one to instill anti-U.S., pro-north idea into the hearts of people.
    It held that the GNP stop such false propaganda at once and respond to an open debate with civic and public organizations.

U.S. Ambassador's Remarks Flayed

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- South Korean organizations issued statements denouncing the U.S. ambassador in Seoul for taking issue with economic cooperation by the Korean nation itself, while slandering the north as a "criminal state" and a "state posing major military threat". The Headquarters of the south Korean People's Movement for Reviving South-North Economic Cooperation in a statement on Dec. 13 said that south-north economic cooperation is to lay a foundation for peace and an important work for peaceful vital rights as it is civilian-level exchange, it said, noting that it is imprudent to talk about "theory on caution" and the like.
    This fully revealed that it is the U.S. that defiled the spirit of the joint statement of the fourth round of the six-party talks as it ignored even the elementary condition of negotiations that dialogue partner should be respected, the statement added.
    The Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and Peace on the Korean Peninsula in a statement on Dec. 14 said that the remarks of the U.S. ambassador were serious because they were prompted by the planned action of the U.S. administration. It denounced the U.S. for totally negating the basic spirit of the joint statement of the fourth round of the six-party talks and resorting to unilateral hostile acts against the north including financial sanctions and "human rights" offensive behind the scene of dialogue.
    It is unpardonable to imprudently interfere in the south-north economic cooperation, an internal affair of the Korean nation, the statement said, strongly demanding the "government" authorities expel at once the U.S. ambassador who was oblivious of his duty.

Members of Human Rights Organizations Launch Sit-in Strike

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Members of south Korean human rights organizations including the Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights, the Society for Human Rights Movement and the Dasan Human Rights Centre reportedly occupied the "security section room" in Namyong-dong, Seoul on Dec. 15 and staged a sit-in strike. They held that policemen concerned and riot police who cracked down on a meeting of farmers on Nov. 15 should be sternly punished, the usual training of violent repression by the mobile corps of the Seoul Police Office be opened to the public and be dissolved at once, the head of the office should make clear the fabrication and cover-up of the murder case of farmer Jon Yong Chol and resign and those responsible for the murder should be judicially punished. They strongly demanded the "government" authorities nullify the "bill on rice negotiations", a starting point of the current developments, and take fundamental measures to revive agriculture.

Pro-American Sycophantic Act Flailed

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Recently the south Korean pro-American ultra-right conservative forces are seeking to erect in Taegu a statue of Walker who was notorious for his bestial killing of Koreans as commander of the 8th U.S. Army occupying south Korea during the past Korean war and died a dog's death by the Korean People's Army. A spokesman for the North Side's Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres in a statement on Dec. 17 said that the pro-American conservative forces are working hard to build the statue of Walker in Taegu at a time when the patriotic movement is going on in south Korea to remove the statue of McArthur in Inchon. This is a despicable pro-American sycophantic act and a vicious challenge to the aspiration of the south Korean people to decisively break with the principal criminals of aggression, the spokesman said, and went on: Walker was a heinous murderer, war maniac and special-class war criminal who brutally killed millions of Koreans during the Korean war. Nevertheless, the pro-American conservative forces including the Grand National Party are running amuck to erect the statue of Walker, turning their back on the grievance of all the fellow countrymen. This is aimed to revive the departed soul of a ringleader of the aggression troops to turn this land into a slaughter-place of Yankees and it is an anti-national move to unleash the second Korean war.
    No matter how desperately the pro-American conservative forces may try in south Korea, they cannot arrest the vigorous trend of the June 15 era toward national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
    The people from all walks of life in south Korea should shatter the moves of the pro-American sycophantic traitors and bring the aggressors and murderers to justice instead of erecting the statue of Walker, the sworn enemy of the Korean nation, and turn out in an undaunted struggle to destroy their ugly plastics, though belatedly.

"UN Forces Command" Lambasted

     Kaesong, December 17 (KCNA) -- The participants in the third conference of youth and students organizations of the north and the south to implement the June 15 joint declaration issued a statement during the conference to denounce the U.S. forces with the signboard of the "UN Forces Command" for blocking the entrance of two members of the Anti-U.S. Youth Society among representatives of the south side coming to Kaesong to participate in the conference. The current behavior of the "UN Forces Command" is an anti-reunification act of throwing a wet blanket over the advance of the Korean nation toward reconciliation and cooperation, peace and reunification as it has been unprecedented since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, the statement said, and went on:
    Moreover, the "UN Forces Command's" nonpermission of their visit to Kaesong which was approved by the south side's government cannot be construed otherwise than an intention not to respect the independent judgment of the Korean nation but to obstruct its unity and hold sway over its issue at random. The United States, which styles itself a "model" of democracy, raising a hue and cry over the "human rights issue" of the north, is taking issue with the name of the organization, which is the height of contradiction.
    The statement strongly denounced the current behavior of the "UN Forces Command" as an unjust outrage against the Korean nation. It strongly demanded the "UN Forces Command" make a responsible apology for it and prevent its recurrence.
    It warned that the "UN Forces Command" should stop acting rashly, bearing in mind that the nationwide struggle of the youth and students in the north and the south will make its existence difficult in case such thing takes place again.

Conference of Youth and Students Organizations of North and South Held

     Kaesong, December 17 (KCNA) -- The third conference of youth and students organizations of the north and the south to implement the June 15 joint declaration was held here on Dec. 16 and 17. Present there were representatives of youth and students organizations in the north and the south.
    At the conference they reviewed the achievements made in the reunification movement to open a new epochal phase of national reunification this significant year and earnestly discussed the practical issues for the youth and students in the north and the south to firmly unite under the banner of "By our nation itself" and accelerate independent national reunification through the implementation of the joint declaration.

Kim Jong Il Inspects Sub-Unit of KPA Unit

     Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected a sub-unit of KPA Unit 946 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment. He acquainted himself with the performance of the sub-unit's duty before watching the training of the servicepersons in the training lecture room. He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the commanding officers and soldiers of the sub-unit have grown to be a-match-for-a hundred fighters through the training put on a scientific and normal basis and set forth tasks to be fulfilled to further increase the combat power of the sub-unit. He said that in the past period it paid a primary attention to the training so as to get high marks in live firing exercises, adding that to intensify combat training is a basic guarantee for increasing its combat power.
    He learned about the tree planting, highly praised the servicepersons for having made scores of hectares of forest in the recent years and showed high appreciation for their patriotism.
    He then made the rounds of an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom-cum-bathroom, a non-stable foodstuff store, a mine-refrigerator, a laundry and other entertainment, educational and supply service facilities to take warm care of the work and living of the servicepersons.
    He was much pleased with the fact that an affluent dietary life has been provided for the soldiers and said that the proud success is ascribable to the strenuous efforts of its commanding officers and soldiers.
    While looking round educational materials on display at the education room, he said TV programs and publications are of weighty importance in education of the servicepersons, stressing the need to publish and distribute a larger number of President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences, "Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas," "Among the People" and other books and produce a large quantities of TV programs suitable to the features of the servicepersons.
    He said every unit he inspected is abundantly using quality non-stable foodstuffs provided through the efforts to do well sideline farming, adding that it is very good in improving the dietary life as well as helping soldiers adopt a correct attitude toward labor.
    He gave its servicepersons a pair of binoculars and a machine gun as gifts and had a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, First Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Ri Jae Il and Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Hwang Pyong So.

Gdynia Branch of Poland-Korea Association Formed

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of the Gdynia Branch of the Poland-Korea Association was held on Dec. 11. On display in the venue of the ceremony were famous works of leader Kim Jong Il, photos showing his Songun leadership exploits and books and photos introducing Songun Korea.
    Present there were Slaboy January Guzowski, member of the Central Committee of the association, and other political and public figures. Staff members of the DPRK embassy in Warsaw were present on invitation.
    The ceremony elected leading members of the branch.
    The vice-director of a Polish hospital said at the ceremony that Poland and the DPRK have a long-standing tradition of friendship and solidarity. He went on:
    The Polish people who helped the Korean people both materially and morally during the last Korean war are still today extending positive support to the Korean people in their just cause to reunify the country divided by foreign forces.
    It is of very great significance to inaugurate the Gdynia branch of the Poland-Korea Association, a body for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people, at a time when the world attention is focused on the Korean people in their struggle for peace, stability and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    The Korean people have made leaping advances in all fields under the uplifted banner of socialism along the path chosen by themselves despite the persistent economic sanctions and moves of the imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK. The credit for this entirely goes to Kim Jong Il who has wisely led the struggle to defend peace and sovereignty of the country and build a great prosperous powerful nation with his original Songun politics. He noted that the branch would conduct activities in various forms and methods to strengthen solidarity with the Korean people and positively support the cause of Korea's reunification and study and disseminate the Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il.

Book on DPRK Published in Japan

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Noboru Kameda, representative of the Society of the Japan-Korea Culture, published "Hammer and Sickle and Writing Brush", a collection of congratulatory words of songs. He has created many words of songs and songs praising the greatness and undying feats of the illustrious commanders of Mt. Paektu and the might of the invincible Workers' Party of Korea. Edited in the collection are pictures showing the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and words of 52 songs and 8 songs in Japanese and Korean.
    All the words of songs and songs contained in the collection laud with strong appeal the greatness of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and emphasize that all the shining achievements made by the Korean people in socialist construction, the movement for national reunification and the efforts to accomplish the human cause of independence are ascribable to the Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    Also seen in the collection are pictures showing the Old Home of Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae, the Old Home of Kim Jong Il in the Secret Camp in Mt. Paektu, the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, the Tower of the Juche Idea, the West Sea Barrage and others.

Book and Photo Exhibition and Film Show Held

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- A book and photo exhibition and a film show for foreign students studying at Kim Il Sung University and Kim Hyong Jik University of Education were held at the Pyongyang Cultural Exhibition on Friday on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army and the 88th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk. They went round photos showing the undying Songun revolutionary leadership exploits performed by Kim Jong Il and feats performed by him in his external activities and the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea the Korean army and people celebrated in a grand style. Then they looked round famous works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and books introducing politics, economy, culture and history of the DPRK before watching Korean feature film "Footprints Marked with Blood ".

U.S. Ambassador's Outcries under Fire in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils reportedly issued a statement on Dec. 10 to denounce the U.S. ambassador in Seoul for letting loose outcries. This move of the U.S. is the revelation of its sinister intention to get rid of the situation turning more unfavorable for its political and diplomatic stand-off with the north and a political operation to rally all the conservative forces in this land in a bid to revive a "regime" of pro-U.S. ultra-right forces, the statement said.
    Recalling that at a seminar on Dec. 7 the U.S. ambassador let loose a string of balderdash that the "north is a criminal regime", the statement termed this a very dangerous criminal act to incite confrontation between fellow countrymen and thus spoil the atmosphere of reconciliation, cooperation and reunification prevailing on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. ambassador should bear in mind that with nothing can the U.S. block the dynamic advance of the Korean nation toward independence, reunification and progress and he will face a stern judgment should he repeat such balderdash, the statement warned.

Immediate Repatriation of Unconverted Long-term Prisoners Called for

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- South Korean religionists of Christianity, Buddhism, Round Buddhism and Catholics reportedly held a press conference at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Dec. 12 at which they demanded the authorities repatriate unconverted long-term prisoners immediately. They denounced the rightist elements, at the instigation of the Grand National Party of south Korea and the conservative media, for destroying the tombstones of unconverted long-term prisoners and defiling the boxes of remains on Dec. 5.
    The current desecration is another tragedy caused by the national division and can never be pardoned in light of morality and ethics, they said, calling for checking such vandalism with the strength of the masses so that it should not be committed any longer.
    The repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners cannot be postponed any longer, they said, stressing that the "Ministry of Unification" should strive for an early repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners remaining in south Korea.

Anti-U.S. Solidarity Rally Held in Seoul

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The 75th anti-U.S. solidarity rally was reportedly held at the park of citizens of Kwanghwamun in Seoul on Dec. 13. A manifesto titled "Let's turn out as one in the struggle against forcible evacuation for expansion of U.S. military base" was published at the rally. Recalling that the "Central Committee for Land Expropriation" set Dec. 22 as the day for the start of forcible evacuation of people from the land in Phyongthaek despite the opposition of farmers, it said that this is little short of a declaration that the authorities will confiscate the land of the farmers in Phyongthaek by every conceivable means and offer it to the U.S.
    The struggle against the expansion of the U.S. military base in Phyongthaek and forcible evacuation is a patriotic struggle to protect the Korean cultural heritage and the land of life and peace, a struggle to defend national independence and peace in protest against the aggressive readjustment of the "south Korea-U.S. alliance" and the plan for relocating the U.S. forces in south Korea and a just struggle for world peace, the manifesto said, and went on: No honeyed words and appeasement can check the struggle of the inhabitants.
    Do not forget the urgent appeal of the inhabitants in Phyongthaek for not depriving farmers of their land and defending the land, their life. Let all of us pool our strength in the just struggle of the inhabitants in Phyongthaek. Let's develop with success the third grand peace march slated for Feb. 12 next year into the all-people struggle to foil the aggressive readjustment of the "south Korea-U.S. alliance" and the plan for the relocation of the U.S. forces in south Korea.
    Let's put an end to the submissive history in which the U.S. has dominated our destiny and make a new history of independence and peace.

Greetings to Kazak President

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on Dec. 15 sent a message of greetings to Nursultan Nazarbayev upon his election as president of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The message wished the Kazak president a success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country and expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will in the future, too, continue to expand and develop on good terms in the interests of the two peoples.

S. Korean Pro-American Ultra-right Conservative Forces' Anti-North Smear Campaign Flailed

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The smear campaign on the "human rights issue in the north" conducted by the south Korean ultra-right conservative forces at the instigation of the United States is a part of the war moves against the north and, accordingly, the anti-communist fanatics including the "Grand National Party" cannot evade their responsibility as the principal criminal of igniting a war. A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said this in an answer to a question put by KCNA on Friday in connection with the fact that the south Korean pro-American elements including the GNP recently held an "international meeting on the human rights issue in the north" in Seoul.
    He said:
    The current anti-north smear campaign conducted by the south Korean pro-American ultra-right conservative forces including the GNP at the expense of the U.S. government budget is no more than a funeral of the living dead who have a long innings, denounced and forsaken in south Korea. As to the human rights issue, it rests with the U.S. and the south Korean pro-American conservative forces including the GNP. The GNP, a group of the remnants of the fascist dictatorship and their descendants, is now dead set against the abolition of the "National Security Law" and other anti-human rights fascist evil laws. It is so brazen-faced to run amuck to restore the old system under which its predecessors wielded the club of fascism against the people.
    Moreover, it is ridiculous that those who keep mum about the human rights abuses of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops who did physical and mental harm to the south Korean people for 60 years of their occupation of south Korea are foolishly talking about the "human rights issue in the north". The U.S. has long resorted to shameless smear campaigns over the "human rights issue" before invading other countries and nations. The provokers and fanatics of confrontation will get nothing but disgrace and death.

17th North-South Ministerial Talks Close

     Jeju Island, December 16 (KCNA) -- The 17th North-South Ministerial Talks were held on Jeju Island from Dec. 13, 2005, to Dec.16. According to a joint press release announced at the talks, both sides positively assessed the development of the inter-Korean relations this year which witnessed a new turning point in the efforts to implement the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. They have agreed on the following points, proceeding from their common understanding and will to develop the inter-Korean relations on a new higher stage in the new year 2006: 1. The north and the south shared the understanding that they should recognize and respect each other's ideology and system guided by the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration, away from the outdated conception dating back to the era of confrontation obstructive to national reconciliation and unity, and decided to take practical measures in that respect.
    2. The north and the south shared the view that the joint statement adopted at the 4th round of the six-party talks should be implemented as early as possible for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and decided to positively cooperate with each other to ensure that the nuclear issue is settled peacefully for the security and interests common to the nation.
    3. The north and the south agreed to make positive and substantial efforts to ease the military tension and ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula. In this regard, both sides agreed to recommend each other's military authorities to make sure that the talks between the military authorities will be held in the earliest possible period in the new year.
    4. The north and the south agreed to expand and develop the inter-Korean economic cooperation on a new stage for the interests and prosperity common to the nation and the balanced and uniform development of the national economy.
    First, both sides agreed to take substantial measures to expand investment and cooperation in terms of area and types and scale of business on the principle that the economic cooperation between the north and the south is the cooperation undertaking made by Koreans.
    Second, both sides shared the understanding that it is necessary to rapidly push forward the second-phase development of the Kaesong Industrial Zone and such projects as arrangements for transit, custom clearance, telecommunication and trial operation of railways on the eastern and western coasts and decided to discuss and settle the issues related to them through the North-South Committee for the Promotion of Economic Cooperation.
    5. The north and the south agreed to positively push ahead with the humanitarian work on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.
    First, both sides agreed to open Red Cross talks within February 2006 with a view to discussing and settling the humanitarian issues of mutual concern. Second, both sides agreed to arrange the 4th video meeting between separated families and relatives around the end of February 2006 and the 13th reunion of separated families and relatives around the end of March. 6. The north and the south agreed to actively help each other so that the International Taekwon-Do Federation and the World Taekwon-Do Federation may closely cooperate with each other for the uniform development of Taekwon-Do, a national martial art.
    7. The north and the south agreed to cooperate with each other in the efforts to have historic relics in the area of Kaesong registered as world cultural heritages and preserve and take care of them.
    8. The north and the south decided to take steps to transfer as early as possible the "monument to the victory in the battle in the northern area of Korea," which was retrieved from Japan, to the area of the north where it had stood.
    9. The north and the south agreed to hold the 18th North-South Ministerial Talks in Pyongyang from March 28, 2006, to March 31.

Vice-Chairman of International Martial Art Games Commission Here

     Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Leong Wai Meng, vice-chairman of the International Martial Art Games Commission and concurrently vice-president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation, arrived here today. He was met at the airport by Ryu Song Il, vice-president of the Korean Martial Art Federation and concurrently vice-chairman of the Korean Taekwon-Do Committee.

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Kim Jong Il presencia funcion artistica "Cielo azul de mi pais"

    　Pyongyang, 17 de diciembre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea, presencio junto con los oficiales y soldados del EPC, en la ciudad de Pyongyang, la funcion artistica "Cielo azul de mi pais", que en ocasion del sexagenario de la fundacion del PTC, prepararon en conjunto las entidades prestigiosas de rama del ejercito y civiles, inclusive el Coro Estatal Benemerito del EPC, el Conjunto Artistico Mansudae, el Conjunto Artistico del EPC, el Conjunto Operistico "Mar de Sangre", etc. Esta obra maestra describe de manera epica los cambios seculares logrados por la sabia direccion del invencible PTC y el aspecto heroico de la Corea del Songun (priorizacion militar) que impulsa vigorosamente la marcha general de la revolucion mediante el Songun con el poderio de la unidad monolitica del partido, el ejercito y el pueblo.
    La funcion iniciada con el duo mixto y coro "Cielo azul de mi pais" tuvo en su repertorio el coro masculino "Con la fidelidad invariable", el coro "Himno al Mariscal Kim Il Sung", el coro masculino "No nos olvidaremos", la cancion acompanada por Oungum (instrumento tipico de Corea) y Pangchang "Siempre con la estrella orientadora", el duo femenino y coro "Himno al camarada Kim Jong Il" y el coro "Viva el Partido del Trabajo de Corea", entre otras piezas. El Comandante Supremo respondio con la mano alzada a las efusivas aclamaciones de los ejecutantes y espectadores y felicito la culminacion exitosa de la funcion.
    Se mostro muy contento de que resulto magnifica esta funcion signada del espiritu de la epoca y agradecio a todos los creadores y ejecutantes a nombre del Comite Central del PTC y el CDN de la RPDC.
    Le acompanaron en verla el vicemariscal del EPC Kim Yong Chun, miembro del CDN de la RPDC y jefe del Estado Mayor General del EPC, el vicemariscal del EPC Kim Il Chol, miembro del CDN de la RPDC y ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Populares, e integrantes del mando operacional de la Comandancia Suprema del EPC y otros generales.

Constituida sucursal de la Asociacion Polonia-Corea

    　Pyongyang, 17 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Quedo constituida el dia 11 la sucursal de Gdynia de la Asociacion Polonia-Corea. 　En el lugar del acto constitutivo estaban exhibidas las obras clasicas del Dirigente Kim Jong Il y las fotos alusivas a las proezas realizadas por el con su direccion mediante el Songun (priorizacion militar) y otros libros y fotos sobre la Corea del Songun. 　Asistieron a la ocasion el miembro del Comite Central de la Asociacion Polonia-Corea Slaboy January Guzowski y otras personalidades de circulos politicos y sociales. Ademas, fueron invitados los funcionarios de la embajada de la RPDC en Polonia.
    　En la ocasion fueron electos los dirigentes de la sucursal.
    　Al hacer uso de la palabra, el vicepresidente del Hospital de Tratamiento y Rehabilitacion dijo que los dos paises tienen una larga tradicion de amistad y solidaridad.
    　El pueblo polaco ayudo en lo material y espiritual al pueblo coreano durante la pasada guerra coreana y hoy tambien envia irrestricto apoyo a la justa causa del pueblo coreano por reunificar la patria dividida por las fuerzas extrajeras, apunto.
    　Hoy en que la atencion mundial se enfoca a la lucha del pueblo coreano por la paz, la estabilidad y la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana, tiene suma importancia el nacimiento de la sucursal de Gdynia como organizacion por la amistad y solidaridad con el pueblo coreano, anadio. Gracias a su Excelencia Kim Jong Il, quien con la original politica de Songun defiende la paz y la soberania del pais y dirige sabiamente la lucha por construir una gran potencia prospera, el pueblo coreano logra un desarrollo vertiginoso en todos los sectores con la bandera del socialismo en alto y sin desviarse del camino optado por si mismo pese a las constantes maniobras de los imperialistas para bloquear en lo economico a la RPDC, aislarla y aplastarla, indico.
    　En el futuro la sucursal reforzara la solidaridad con el pueblo coreano y enviara activo apoyo a la causa de reunificacion de Corea y desplegara de diversas formas las actividades de estudio y propaganda sobre la politica de Songun que practica Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il, concluyo.

Terminada 17a ronda de conversaciones a nivel ministerial N-S

    　Isla Jeju, 16 de diciembre (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar del 13 al 16 de diciembre de 2005 en la isla Jeju la 17 ronda de conversaciones a nivel ministerial Norte-Sur de Corea. 　Segun el comunicado conjunto publicado en las conversaciones, ambas partes evaluaron positivamente el desarrollo de las relaciones N-S de este ano en que se ha creado una nueva coyuntura en la ejecucion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio Norte-Sur y se pusieron de acuerdo en los siguientes puntos al identificar la voluntad de llevarlas a una etapa mas alta en el nuevo ano 2006:
    　1. El Norte y el Sur coincidieron en que se debe reconocer y respetar la ideologia y el sistema de su contraparte conforme al espiritu de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio y liberandose de la vieja concepcion de la epoca de confrontacion que estorbo la reconciliacion y unidad nacionales acordaron tomar medidas practicas para llevarlo a efecto.
    　2. El Norte y el Sur compartieron la opinion de ejecutar pronto la declaracion conjunta de la cuarta ronda de conversaciones a seis bandas para realizar la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana y acordaron cooperarse activamente para que el problema nuclear se resuelva de manera pacifica y acorde con la seguridad e interes comun de la nacion.
    　3. El Norte y el Sur acordaron esforzarse activamente en lo practico por lograr la distension militar y la paz en la Peninsula Coreana. 　Con respecto a esto, ambas partes decidieron recomendar a sus respectivas autoridades militares para que se efectue pronto en el nuevo ano las conversaciones de las autoridades militares.
    　4. El Norte y el Sur acordaron ampliar y desarrollar a una nueva etapa la cooperacion economica N-S para fomentar los intereses y la prosperidad comun de la nacion y el desarrollo equilibrado y unificado de la economia nacional.
    　1) Ambas partes decidieron tomar medidas practicas para poder ampliar la inversion y la cooperacion en la region, el tipo de negocios y la dimension de estos en el principio de que la cooperacion economica N-S es un trabajo interno.
    　2) Ambas partes identificaron la opinion de impulsar pronto el desarrollo de la segunda etapa de la zona industrial de Kaesong, el transito, el paso de la aduana, las comunicaciones, la operacion ejemplar de la via ferroviaria de las costas oriental y occidental, etc. y decidieron resolverlos a traves del Comite de Promocion para la Cooperacion Economica N-S.
    　5. El Norte y el Sur acordaron impulsar activamente las labores humanitarias con motivo del nuevo ano lunar.
    1) Ambas partes decidieron efectuar dentro de febrero de 2006 las conversaciones de la Cruz Roja y consultar y resolver los problemas humanitarios de interes mutuo.
    　2) Ambas partes decidieron organizar a finales de febrero de 2006 el cuarto encuentro de los familiares y parientes separados a traves de medios audiovisuales y a finales de marzo, el 13o encuentro de los familiares y parientes separados en el monte Kumgang.
    　6. El Norte y el Sur acordaron apoyar activamente para que la Federacion Internacional de Taekwon-Do y la Federacion Mundial de Taekwon-Do se cooperen intimamente para el desarrollo unificado de este arte marcial de la nacion coreana.
    　7. El Norte y el Sur acordaron cooperarse en registrar las reliquias historicas de la zona de Kaesong como patrimonios de la humanidad, mantenerlas y administrarlas.
    　8. El Norte y el Sur acordaron tomar medidas para trasladar en un futuro cercano el monumento a la victoria de las batallas en la region septentrional (durante la guerra de Imjin 1592-1598), devuelto por Japon, al lugar de la parte Norte donde fue levantado.
    　9. El Norte y el Sur acordaron efectuar del 28 al 31 de marzo de 2006 en Pyongyang la 18 ronda de conversaciones a nivel ministerial N-S.