Work of Kim Jong Il Published in Austria

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Respecting the Forerunners of the Revolution Is a Noble Moral Obligation of Revolutionaries" was brought out in pamphlet by the Joseph Gebauer Publishing House in Vienna on March 20. The work, published on December 25, Juche 84 (1995), clearly clarified the idea that it is the requirement of the revolution to respect the forerunners of the revolution and the principled issues arising in establishing the moral traits of respecting the forerunners of the revolution and developing noble moral and obligatory relationship among the people.

35th Anniversary of Bangladeshi Independence Commemorated

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- A meeting for commemorating the 35th anniversary of the independence of Bangladesh took place in Pyongyang on March 25. It was attended by officials of the Korea-Bangladesh Friendship Association and Pyongyangites.
    The meeting was addressed by the chairman of the association. After the meeting, participants looked round photos and books introducing Bangladesh.

"Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" Vol. 62 Published

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- "Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" Vol. 62, a library of the great Juche idea, was brought out by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House. The complete collection contains 32 famous works including historic speeches, concluding speeches and talks made by President Kim Il Sung from April to May, Juche 66 (1977). .
    In his work "The Land Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" he clarified the principled issues arising in ownership, development, conservation and administration of land as required by the new reality. .
    "On Decisively Increasing Coal Production at Coal Mines in Anju and Kaechon", "On Effecting a New Innovation in Transport", and other works clearly indicate the tasks and ways of ensuring the overall development of the national economy. "Talk with a Delegation of the French Action Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea", and other works expound the issue of achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea on the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--and in accordance with the five-point policy of national reunification and the issue for the people of all the progressive countries to unite firm. Other works clarify the issue of developing fishery, the issue of improving the standard of people's living and the tasks and ways to push ahead with the revolution and construction.

S. Korean Peasants Protest Authorities' Moves for Opening Agriculture

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The "National Federation of Peasants Associations", the "National Federation of Agricultural Managers" and other 11 peasants organizations of south Korea reportedly formed the Federation of Peasants, a permanent solidarity organization for reviving agriculture against the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. FTA, on March 22. At an inaugural meeting held in Seoul the Federation of Peasants called for further expanding solidarity with the people and pooling their efforts in the struggle to revive agriculture. .
    An inaugural declaration was read out at the meeting. .
    The declaration stressed that the peasants would make every possible effort for the revival of agriculture together with the people against the authorities' moves for opening agriculture.

Stop to Joint Military Exercises Demanded

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The Federation of Koreans in the United States and Kim Su Sik, chairman of the Association of Koreans in Japan for Peaceful Reunification, made public statements separately on March 21 and 25 to demand a stop to the large-scale joint military exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the south Korean military authorities, according to a news report. The federation in the statement said that the war exercises may go over to a war as they are a drill for a preemptive nuclear attack. The anti-national, anti-human forces harassing peace will be sternly judged by history, it stressed. .
    Kim Su Sik in the statement branded the joint military exercises as a very grave criminal act of bedeviling inter-Korean relations and driving the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war, going against the June 15 era. .
    If the south Korean authorities truly want the improvement of inter-Korean relations and peace on the Korean Peninsula, they should not become the follower and accomplice of outsiders' aggression and intervention but stop at once the joint military exercises with the foreign forces and take the road of independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity, he stressed.

Reunion of Separated Families and Relatives Continues

     Mt. Kumgang resort, March 25 (KCNA) -- The 13th reunion of separated families and relatives from the north and the south of Korea, which started on March 20, continued at Mt. Kumgang resort on March 23 and 24. Separated families and relatives from the south already met those from the north and on March 23 those from the north had a group reunion with those from the south. That day the south Korean Red Cross gave a reception for those from the north and the south. .
    The separated families and relatives from the north and kinsmen from the south had family reunions on March 24, evincing their ardent desire for reunification, exchanging souvenirs and having photos taken. .
    Separated families and relatives from the north, together with those from the south, went round Lagoon Samil, a scenic spot. .
    On March 25 the separated families and relatives from the north and the south bid a farewell, hardening their determination to reunify the country by the united efforts of the Korean nation under the banner of the historic June 15 joint declaration.

S. Korean Authorities Hit for Joining U.S. in Its Attempt to Invade DPRK

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- For the south Korean authorities to join the U.S. in its attempt to invade the DPRK to do harm to their fellow countrymen is a perfidy to the June 15 joint declaration which calls for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country with the concerted efforts of the Korean nation and a treacherous act of shaking the inter-Korean relations to their very foundation. A spokesman for the North Side's Preparatory Committee for the Implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration said this in a statement on Saturday. The United States and the south Korean warhawks have staged the RSOI and "Foal Eagle" exercises, the joint military exercises against the DPRK, in south Korea with huge armed forces for aggression, which is an unpardonable crime against the nation and peace as it will worsen the inter-Korean relations and block the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration, he said, and went on: .
    The prevailing situation clearly proves once again that the U.S. advertisements about "dialogue", "respect for sovereignty" and the like are nothing but a sheer lie to deceive the public opinion at home and abroad and the U.S. is a wrecker of peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, a heinous enemy of reunification and the chieftain of aggression and war. .
    Our army and people, convinced that peace is guaranteed only by arms, are fully ready to respond to preemptive attack with preemptive strike, a nuclear war with nuclear deterrent. .
    The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean warhawks should not act rashly but stop at once their reckless moves for a war against the DPRK, clearly seeing the strong spirit and will of our army and people to annihilate the enemy to the last. The south Korean authorities should make clear their stand toward reconciliation or confrontation, peace or war. .
    The prospect of the inter-Korean relations entirely depends on the attitude of the south Korean authorities.

Japan Urged to Stop Fascist Moves against Chongryon

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries on March 23 mobilized the Osaka prefectural riot police under the security bureau of the Tokyo Police Office to ransack six buildings, including the office of the Osaka Prefectural Association of Korean Workers in Commerce in Japan and houses of Korean residents. The forcible search is part of another smear campaign against the DPRK and Chongryon (the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) launched for a sinister political purpose to intentionally link the "abduction issue" to organizations and Korean residents under Chongryon and put pressure upon the DPRK, Rodong Sinmun says in a signed commentary today. .
    The association of Korean workers in commerce, which the Japanese reactionaries called in question, has nothing to do with the "abduction issue", the commentary says, and goes on: .
    Japan inflicted untold misfortune and disasters upon the Korean people in the past, and its reactionaries raised the "abduction issue" as a shield to cover up this crime-woven past. It is well-known to everyone that they are now running amuck to make a provocative offensive against the DPRK with such issue. The recent case, too, is no more than a sort of plots invented to meet their sinister purpose. In this way, they seek to whip up anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon sentiment in the Japanese society and escalate their pressure and blockade against the DPRK in the plea of "public sentiment". It has been clearly proven by the fact that the plotters informed TV, Internet, newspapers and other media in advance of the case and the planned search to cause a media frenzy. .
    The Japanese reactionaries should stop such smear campaign against the DPRK and Chongryon at once on reason. Otherwise, they will be wholly held accountable for the consequences.

Moves of Japanese Reactionaries to Evade Liquidation of Past Flailed

     Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Persistent moves of the Japanese reactionaries to evade the liquidation of the past under an unreasonable pretext are a clear expression of their anti-DPRK campaign proceeding from the militarist viewpoint. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article. .
    It goes on: .
    Their moves to hush up the issue of the settlement of the past with the "abduction issue" are a shameful plot to evade the responsibility for Japan's past crimes. There is no ground for Japan to make a pretext regarding the settlement of the past. They are pursuing an ulterior intention to impair the image of the DPRK with a racket over the "abduction issue" and obtain its concession in the settlement of the pending issues between the DPRK and Japan. .
    Their racket is a premeditated provocation to bar the settlement of the past and drive the DPRK-Japan relations to confrontation and conflict. .
    The issue of normalizing the DPRK-Japan relations is neither a political bargaining nor an issue beneficial or harmful to anybody. The DPRK has no idea to improve relations with Japan if it does not want to do. The Japanese reactionaries raise the "abduction issue" not worthy of debate as a precondition for normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations in a bid to incite confrontation and coil up tensions and to be hostile toward the DPRK. .
    We have no intention to aggravate relations with Japan, but cannot but take a hard-line step now that it is viciously slandering us and intensifying its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its moves for reinvasion. .
    The frantic campaign conducted by the Japanese reactionaries against the DPRK under an unreasonable pretext will be as foolish as to make a mess of the future of Japan by themselves.

Greatness of Kim Jong Il Praised

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The Association for Friendship with the Korean People having its branches in at least 90 countries posted on its Internet homepage "One Korea Network" an article praising the greatness of leader Kim Jong Il and photos introducing the eight sceneries in the era of Songun. The world progressives and media are praising and giving a wide publicity to the distinguished intelligence and determination with which Kim Jong Il resolutely smashed the moves of the imperialist allied forces to stifle the DPRK, the homepage said. .
    It echoed what the chairman of the Central Committee of the Nepal Worker-Peasant Party and the secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan said in praise of him and posted an article carried in the Bangladesh newspaper Natun Bangla.

Projected U.S.-S. Korea War Exercises Flailed

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the British Association for the Study of Songun Policy and the British Branch of the Association for Friendship with the Korean People made public a joint statement on March 16 denouncing the United States and the south Korean bellicose forces for planning to stage the RSOI and "Foal Eagle" joint military exercises, a continuation of the ill-famed "Team Spirit" joint military exercises. The statement said that the above-said military exercises are aimed to ignite a new war on the Korean Peninsula to invade the DPRK, destroy the socialist system centred on the popular masses, a system chosen by the Korean people themselves, and threaten those countries around the peninsula. .
    What merits a serious attention is that the saber-rattling is slated to take place at a time when the U.S. imperialists are further intensifying the vicious propaganda offensive and blockade against the DPRK, the statement noted, and continued: All this fully brings to light the sinister aim of the U.S. imperialists to scrap the agreement reached at the six-party talks and threaten and bring down the DPRK, the homeland of Juche. .
    The projected military exercises are a challenge to the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.

Anti-U.S., Anti-War Struggle Called for in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- A joint rally of youth and students to vow actions against the U.S. and war reportedly took place near Kwanghwamun in Seoul on Mar. 19 under the co-sponsorship of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon), the Youth and Students Solidarity to Implement the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration, the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils, the south Korean Council of Youth Organizations and the Youth Committee of the Democratic Workers' Party. Speakers at the rally charged that the large-scale RSOI and "Foal Eagle" joint military exercises to be staged from Mar. 25 are not for a defensive purpose but outright maneuvers for preempting a nuclear attack on the north. .
    The danger of the projected maneuvers lies in that they are the first to be staged after south Korea agreed upon the "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. forces present in south Korea, they said. A joint declaration issued at the rally called upon the youth and students to rise up as one in actions against the U.S. and war and for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea, adding that the peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula are not achievable as long as the U.S. troops stay in south Korea. .
    A joint resolution of the South Headquarters, the North Headquarters and the Overseas Headquarters of Pomchonghakryon was read out at the rally before an art performance was given on the theme of the peace against war and the independent reunification.

U.S. Hit for Planning to Stage Military Exercises

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The United States can never evade its responsibility for bedeviling the DPRK-U.S. relations, laying an obstacle to the resumption of the six-party talks, hamstringing the process to warm the inter-Korean relations and chilling the ardent desire of the Korean nation for reunification through war exercises. The Association for Friendship with the Korean People having its branches in at least 90 countries said this in a statement titled "U.S. imperialists and the south Korean military authorities, stop the war exercises against the north at once" on March 23. The statement said that the military exercises planned by the U.S. cannot but be a blatant challenge and provocation to the DPRK, its dialogue partner, as they are slated to take place at a time when the political and military confrontation between the two countries is growing acute and the six-party talks are being delayed owing to the U.S. financial sanctions and "human rights" racket against Pyongyang. The U.S. is, indeed, a wrecker of peace and the chieftain of war as it is disturbing peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over it and a vicious enemy of reunification as it is standing in the way of the reconciliation and unity of the Korean nation and seeking permanent division, it noted. If the U.S. truly wants detente, peace and dialogue on the Korean Peninsula, it should stop the military exercises for aggression at once and withdraw all its aggression troops and lethal weapons from south Korea without delay, it demanded.

Halt to S. Korea- U.S. Joint Military Exercises Called for

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification, the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification and other civic and public organizations of south Korea reportedly held a press conference in front of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan of Seoul on March 20 at which they called for checking the south Korea-U.S. joint military exercises through a powerful international joint struggle. At the press conference speakers said that the current military exercises are, in fact, the south Korea-U.S.-Japan tripartite exercises for a preemptive attack on the north as the U.S. forces not only in south Korea but also in Guam and Japan are participating in the exercises.
    The aggressive character of the war exercises has been made clear as they are to be staged with Phyongthaek area near the Military Demarcation Line as a stronghold on the basis of the aggressive "OPLAN 5027-04" aimed at overturning the north, they stressed. A press release read out said that the danger of the war exercises lies in that they may go over to a total war anytime. It strongly called for putting a stop to the joint military exercises to force the confrontation between the south and the north and increase the crisis of war to lay a grave obstacle to establishing peace mechanism in the Korean Peninsula.
    Meanwhile, the representative of the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification called for solidarity struggle at a rally against the expansion of the U.S. military base held in Iwakuni of Japan on the same day.
    A similar rally took place in Guam.

Dock No. 2 of Ryongnam Ship Repairing Factory Commissioned

     Nampho, March 24 (KCNA) -- A commissioning ceremony of the Dock No. 2 of the Ryongnam Ship Repairing Factory took place on the spot on Friday. With the building of the large computer-aided dock capable of repairing tens of thousands of tons of several ships simultaneously at the factory the capacity of ship repairing has remarkably increased and firmer material and technological foundations have been laid to develop the shipping industry of the country as required by the new century. A message of thanks sent by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to officials and builders of the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport who performed great labor feats in the construction of Dock No. 2 was conveyed at the ceremony. The message said that the officials and builders of the ministry who turned out as one true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung on further increasing the capacity of the factory and the militant tasks of the WPK performed the great labor feats in completing the construction of Dock No. 2 in a big and bold way with their own efforts in a short span of time.
    It highly appreciated the officials and builders of the ministry for displaying intense loyalty to the Party and the leader and patriotic devotion and successfully building Dock No. 2 as a monumental edifice of the Songun era.
    Speeches were made at the ceremony.
    Present there were Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Ro Tu Chol, Minister of Land and Marine Transport Kim Yong Il and other officials concerned.

Anniv. of General Federation of Unions of Literature and Arts of Korea

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 60th anniversary of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea. A commemoration meeting was held at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre on Friday. A congratulatory message sent by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to the organizations under the general federation, creators and artistes was conveyed at the meeting. The message said that President Kim Il Sung, basing himself on the brilliant tradition of building the revolutionary literature and art established during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, founded the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea on March 25, Juche 35 (1946) and leader Kim Jong Il has energetically led the general federation to play a great role in developing the literature and art of Juche.
    It highly appreciated the general federation for having made great achievements in the work of training creators and artistes ideologically and artistically, rallying them around the Party and arousing them to the drive for carrying out the Party's line on literature and art and the Party policies.
    A report and speeches were made at the meeting.
    The reporter and speakers stressed the need for all the officials, creators and artistes to bring about a fresh turn in the work of the general federation and the creation of art works.
    Present at the meeting were Minister of Culture Kim Jin Song, officials concerned and a delegation of the Union of Korean Writers and Artistes in Japan headed by Kim Jong Su, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the union.

Dangerous War Gamble Blasted

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- RSOI and Foal Eagle joint military exercises are to be staged in south Korea from March 25 to 31, involving the U.S. forces present in south Korea and south Korean troops and over 3,000 U.S. troops from its mainland and overseas bases. Minju Joson today says in a commentary in this regard:
    The above-said war exercises are a dangerous war gamble to invade the DPRK as they may go over to an actual war any moment.
    The war maneuvers will involve Abraham Lincoln, one of the leading nuclear-powered carriers of the U.S. Navy, in particular. This indicates that they are neither an "annual defensive drill" nor a demonstration of force, but a test nuclear war, a preliminary war, to make a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    The exercises fully reveal the U.S. dark intention to totally scrap the joint statement adopted at the six-way talks.
    The above-said large-scale war maneuvers targeted against the DPRK are fraught with the serious danger of bringing a nuclear holocaust to all the Koreans in the north and the south. It is, therefore, an unpardonable treacherous act to support the U.S. war scheme.
    The south Korean authorities should make a decision to stop the exercises with outsiders, though belatedly, if they truly value the inter-Korean joint declaration and want security, reconciliation, cooperation and reunification of the nation. If the U.S. dares ignite a nuclear war in this land, the army and people of the DPRK will give vent to their pent-up hatred toward the U.S. and mobilize its tremendous deterrent for self-defence built up so far under the banner of Songun politics and thus wipe out the aggressors to the last man.

KCNA Urges U.S. to Lift Financial Sanctions

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- It is shame on the United States to let loose malarkey intended to give impression that it is making a sort of big concession to make the six-party talks roll again. Shortly ago, the U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Vershbow asserted the need to discuss north Korea's proposal to set up a non-permanent consultative body aimed to handle the issue of "counterfeit notes" within the framework of the six-party talks, saying that the talks are tasked to discuss the issue of normalizing relations between the DPRK and the U.S. as well as the nuclear issue.
    This assertion is nothing but a sleight of hand to cover up Washington's true colors and do harm to the dialogue partner.
    The six-party talks came to a deadlock due to the U.S. financial sanctions. It is the real intention of the U.S. to tighten financial sanctions against the DPRK with a view to preventing the six-party talks from resuming and doing harm to it. The DPRK was generous enough to advance at the New York DPRK-U.S. working-level talks proposals for settling the above-said issue, taking the reality in which the resumption of the talks is blocked by those sanctions into due consideration. The Bush administration, however, turned down all those sincere proposals after the talks, talking about the "effect of sanctions". Worse still, it asserted in a "report on national security strategy" that it would continue taking all necessary measures, thus openly adopting it as its national policy to apply financial sanctions against the DPRK. The U.S. financial sanctions against the DPRK were the principal reason why the six-party talks have reached an impasse. But the U.S. is insisting on discussing the issue of financial sanctions at the six-party talks in a bid to shift the responsibility for the delayed talks on to the DPRK side.
    If the U.S. truly wants to resume the six-party talks with a bold decision to improve the relations with the DPRK it had better just lift financial sanctions before talking about the resumption of the talks.
    It, however, does not want an earlier resumption of the talks, to say nothing of lifting the sanctions.
    It is the view of the international community that the U.S. is not likely to return to the talks as it is beset with so many troubles and self-contradictions such as Iraqi and Iranian issues and the total bankruptcy of its "nuclear non-proliferation strategy." The U.S. is gravely mistaken if it thinks that such a word jugglery intended to hide its own weak point will work on its relations with the DPRK.
    It is none other than the U.S. that raised a series of irrelevant issues after the fourth round of the six-party talks in a bid to deliberately throw hurdles in the way of the talks. This means that the talks will naturally roll on if the U.S. lifts a check-bar. Should the U.S. persist in its delaying-tactics, counting on its financial sanctions, the DPRK will not fritter away time, either.

Congratulations to Belorussian President

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Thursday sent a congratulatory message to Aleksandr Grigoriyevich Lukashenko on the latter's reelection as president of Belarus. Kim Yong Nam in the message said that his reelection means the high respect and trust of the Belorussian people in him.
    Expressing that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will grow stronger in the interests of each other, the message sincerely wished him greater success in his responsible work for prosperity of the country.

Greetings to Bangladeshi Prime Minister

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Khaleda Zia, prime minister of Bangladesh, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its independence. The message sincerely wished the friendly Bangladeshi people progress and prosperity, expressing conviction that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the interests of the two peoples in the future. Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a similar message to his Bangladeshi counterpart M. Morshed Khan.

Greetings to Bangladeshi President

     Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Mar. 25 sent a message of greetings to Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the independence of the country. The message wholeheartedly wished the president and people of Bangladesh big success in their work for the independent development and prosperity of the country, expressing the conviction that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to favorably develop in the future, too.

Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

     Pyongyang, March 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 of the DPRK, inspected KPA Unit 3406. He acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty. He went round combat and technical apparatuses before watching the servicepersons in training. He set forth tasks to be tackled to increase the combat capability of the unit, expressing satisfaction over the fact that it has successfully arranged technical lecture and training halls and intensified trainings so that all the commanding officers and men have become well versed in combat and technical equipment and acquired high commanding ability and combat capability.
    Our army and people are turning out as one in the sacred anti-U.S. struggle with burning hatred for the U.S. imperialist aggressors and the unshakable resolution to take revenge upon them, he said, adding that no force on earth can match the single-mindedly united forces in the DPRK which no weapon can ever frighten or destroy.
    He highly praised the servicepersons of the unit for having prized and handled their combat and technical equipment like the apples of their eyes just as the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters did and successfully performed their duties with the firm resolution to devotedly protect the happiness of the people and the socialist system of the DPRK centred on the popular masses.
    Then he took deep care of the service and living of the servicepersons, going round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a wash-cum-bath house, a non-staple food store, an outdoor resting place and other places.
    He called upon all the commanding officers to pay deep attention to the supply service work, noting it is very good that the unit has provided good living conditions to the servicepersons by assiduously managing its economic life.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle 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 and Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Hwang Pyong So.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona unidad no. 236 para entrenamiento de soldados

    　Pyongyang, 25 de marzo (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. 236 para entrenamiento de soldados novatos de las fuerzas aereas del EPC. Tras recibir un parte de recibimiento de los jefes de la unidad recorrio las salas de leccion tecnica para hacer conocimiento detallado del estado de educacion. Se mostro regocijado de que la unidad acondiciono magnificamente por cuenta propia los equipos graficos para ejercicio practico que permiten a los soldados bisonos asimilar facilmente la tecnica especializada basica e indico las tareas que se presentan ante la unidad.
    Acto seguido, recorrio la Casa de Militares, la biblioteca, la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor, el deposito de alimentos subsidiarios, la sala de elaboracion de alimentos, la lavanderia y otras instalaciones de cultura, educacion e intendencia para prodigar profunda atencion a la labor y vida de los soldados.
    Como la epoca de soldado bisono, subrayo, es un periodo importantisimo para dar primer paso al servicio militar hay que organizar con esmero la labor de educacion y ensenanza y prestar especial atencion a la vida de ellos.
    Esta unidad fundada y dirigida por el Presidente Kim Il Sung logro grandes exitos en la formacion de reserva poniendo en pleno despliegue toda su inteligencia y entusiasmo, dijo y evaluo de altas las hazanas acumuladas por sus militares. El Comandante Supremo se fotografio junto a los militares de la unidad. Le acompanaron los generales de ejercito del EPC Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong y el subjefe de departamento del CC del PTC Hwang Pyong So.

ATCC comenta la astuta posicion de EE.UU. ante la cita a 6 bandas

     Pyongyang, 25 de marzo (ATCC) -- En estos dias, Estados Unidos dice cosas muy descaradas como si hiciera una gran concesion para la reanudacion de conversaciones a 6 bandas. Hace poco, el embajador norteamericano acreditado en el Sur de Corea, Bershbow, dijo que puesto que la cita a 6 bandas debe abordar no solo el problema nuclear sino tambien el de la normalizacion de las relaciones entre la RPDC y EE.UU., ha de ser discutida en el marco de la misma la iniciativa de la primera de organizar una entidad consultiva no permanente sobre las "billetes falsificados".
    La nueva opinion de EE.UU. no es mas que una astuta treta para encubrir su sucia naturaleza y calumniar a su contraparte del dialogo.
    Las conversaciones a 6 bandas quedaron suspendidas por la sancion financiera de EE.UU.
    La verdadera intencion de este imperio consiste en arreciar la sancion financiera para abortar esa cita y, a la larga, arruinar a nuestro pais.
    Tomando en plena consideracion que la sancion financiera de EE.UU., activada por el supuesto "problema de billetes falsificados", impide la reanudacion de la cita a 6 partes, nuestro pais planteo iniciativas indulgentes para solucionarlo en el contacto de trabajo neoyorquino entre ambas partes.
    Sin embargo, despues del contacto, la administracion Bush las rechazo totalmente abogando por los "efectos de la sancion".
    En el mismo contexto, agrego en el "reporte de la estrategia para la seguridad nacional" la frase de "seguir tomando todas las medidas necesarias" refrendando abierta y oficialmente en una politica estatal la sancion financiera contra nuestro pais. Entonces, la propuesta de EE.UU. de tratar la sancion financiera en la mesa de conversaciones en lugar de levantarla primero tiene por su objetivo imputar a nuestro pais la responsabilidad por la dilacion de la cita.
    Si EE.UU. desea de veras reiniciar las conversaciones a seis bandas con una valiente decision de sanear las relaciones con la RPDC, simplemente tendria que levantar la sancion financiera en lugar de hablar tanto de la reanudacion de las mismas. En verdad, EE.UU. no lo desea ni la reanudacion pronta de la cita a 6 bandas. La sociedad internacional opina que es imposible que retorne a ella EE.UU., empantanado en varios rompecabezas y contradicciones como los problemas iraqui e irani y el colapso total de su estrategia para la "prevencion de proliferacion nuclear". Estaria muy equivocado el Tio Sam si piensa utilizar en el trato con la RPDC esa treta malpensada para ocultar sus defectos con unas palabras inconsistentes. Es precisamente la Norteamerica que puso escollos artificiales a la cita al cuestionar sin ton ni son un nuevo paquete de problemas despues de terminada la cuarta ronda de la misma. Por lo tanto, si EE.UU. levanta la barrera, seran reanudadas las conversaciones. Si EE.UU. sigue con su tactica dilatoria apegandose a la sancion financiera, nuestro pais tampoco malgastara el tiempo que le corresponde.

Minju Joson se pronuncia contra maniobras militares en Sur de Corea

     Pyongyang, 25 de marzo (ATCC) -- A partir de hoy hasta el dia 31 se desarrollaran en el Sur de Corea el "ejercicio combinado de refuerzo en el tiempo de guerra" y el simulacro "Aguilucho" con la participacion de las tropas norteamericanas ocupantes del Sur de Corea, el ejercito surcoreano y mas de 3 mil efectivos estadounidenses provenientes de su propio territorio y de sus bases militares en ultramar. Precisa el rotativo Minju Joson en un comentario individual del dia 25 y prosigue: Estas maniobras conjuntas para atizar el fuego a la mecha de la guerra contra el Norte de Corea resultan sumamente peligrosas porque pueden extenderse en cualquier momento a una guerra real.
    En particular, la presencia de Abraham Lincoln, uno de los portaaviones nucleares mas grandes de las fuerzas navales de EE.UU., delata que las presentes maniobras belicas no devienen "ejercicios anuales para la defensa" ni "demostracion armada" sino la fase experimental y previa de la guerra nuclear contra el Norte de Corea. A traves de las mismas, quedo revelada la siniestra intencion de EE.UU. de invalidar completamente la Declaracion Conjunta aprobada en las conversaciones a 6 bandas. Esos macro-ejercicios de guerra contra el Norte de Corea pueden acarrear a toda la nacion coreana, tanto del Norte como del Sur, tremendos desastres nucleares. Por lo tanto, resulta un imperdonable acto traidor a la nacion la incorporacion al designio belico norteamericano.
    Si es verdad que las autoridades surcoreanas aprecian la Declaracion Conjunta Norte-Sur y desean la seguridad, la reconciliacion, la cooperacion y la reunificacion de la nacion, deben tomar ahora mismo la decision de parar esas maniobras militares con EE.UU.
    Si este imperio osa desatar una guerra nuclear en este territorio, el ejercito y el pueblo de Corea reduciran a cenizas a los invasores empleando sus fuerzas disuasivas de autodefensa, preparadas bajo la bandera del Songun (priorizacion militar) y explotando como lava volcanica el vehemente odio hacia este imperio.

Inaugurado dique No.2 de Fabrica de Reparacion de Barcos de Ryongnam

    　Nampho, 24 de marzo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 24 en el mismo terreno una ceremonia inaugural del dique No.2 de la Fabrica de Reparacion de Barcos de Ryongnam. 　Con la construccion del dique capaz de reparar a la vez varios barcos con desplazamiento de decenas de miles de toneladas cuya gestion esta computarizada, se ha elevado considerablemente la capacidad de reparacion y se ha echado la firme base material y tecnica para desarrollar el transporte maritimo conforme a la demanda del nuevo siglo.
    　En la ceremonia se dio lectura al mensaje de agradecimiento del Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea dirigido a los funcionarios del Ministerio de Transporte Terrestre y Maritimo y los constructores que realizaron grandes meritos laborales en dicha construccion.
    En pleno acato al legado del Presidente Kim Il Sung de elevar la capacidad de la Fabrica de Reparacion de Barcos de Ryongnam y a la tarea combativa del partido, los funcionarios de dicho ministerio y constructores acumularon grandes meritos laborales, al hacer operacion audaz y desplegar el trabajo de gran ambicion en la construccion del dique para terminarla con su propia fuerza en corto plazo, el mensaje senala. 　El mensaje senala que dando pruebas de alta fidelidad al partido y al Lider y de abnegacion patriotica, ellos lo construyeron magnificamente como obra monumental de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar).
    　En el acto varias personas hicieron uso de la palabra.
    　Estuvieron presentes el vicepremier del Consejo de Ministros Ro Tu Chol, el ministro del Transporte Terrestre y Maritimo Kim Yong Il y otros funcionarios.

Kim Yong Nam envia mensaje al presidente de Belarus

     Pyongyang, 25 de marzo (ATCC) -- El presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kim Yong Nam, envio el dia 23 un mensaje de felicitacion a Alexandr Grigoriyevich Lukashenko, en ocasion de su reeleccion como presidente de la Republica de Belarus. La misiva senala que la reeleccion del destinatario es una manifestacion del alto respeto y confianza del pueblo de Belarus hacia el. El remitente expresa la conviccion de que las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion existentes entre los dos paises se ampliaran y se desarrollaran a favor de los intereses mutuos y formula sinceros votos por mayores exitos en la labor responsable del mandatario para la prosperidad de Belarus.