U.S.- S. Korea Joint Military Exercises Slammed

     Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed commentary. It goes on: These war maneuvers are a preliminary war and a test nuclear war designed to finally examine and round off the preparations for a war against the north and mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it.
    This large-scale saber-rattling cannot but be a very dangerous development as it is timed to coincide with the U.S. ever-increasing pressure and escalating conspiratorial plots against the DPRK. The U.S. has not only tightened its financial sanctions against the DPRK and intensified the "human rights" offensive against it but escalated its smear campaign against Pyongyang. As if it were not enough with these moves, it is crying out for a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    It is due to the frantic moves of the U.S. against the DPRK that the six-party talks still remain stalled and confrontation and tensions are festering on the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK has already warned the U.S. and south Korea against the serious consequences to be entailed by these war gambles and strongly demanded a halt to them.
    As a matter of fact, the U.S. imperialists' saber-rattling has made the prospects of the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue and the six-party talks gloomier, thrown more obstacles to the process of improving the inter-Korean relations and compelled the north to postpone the inter-Korean ministerial talks.
    The U.S. imperialists are a chief disturber of peace, a chieftain of war and a cursed foe of national unity and the reunification of Korea.
    The Korean people will stake their lives at the dignity of the nation and the cause of reunification and frustrate the intention of the United States and its allies to invade the DPRK, going against the desire of the Korean nation and the trend of the times, the commentary concludes.

S. Korean Men of Literature and Art Vow to Struggle against Expansion of U.S. Forces Base

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A "literary and art festival for peace" and a "candle-light cultural festival" reportedly took place in Taechu-ri, Phyongthaek City, Kyonggi Province in south Korea on Mar. 25. Poets, moviemen and residents there present at those events strongly protested the expansion of the U.S. forces base. They were co-sponsored by the "Literary Forum for Peace of south Korea," the "General Federation of National Artistes of south Korea" and the Joint Action of Men of Literature and Art. Participants in the "literary and art festival for peace" staged a performance, while reciting a poem dealing with the actions of the residents in Phyongthaek to defend their cradle, shouting slogans such as "No expansion of U.S. military base!"
    Speakers at the 571st "candle-light cultural festival" said that an anti-U.S. struggle is the only way of protecting their literature, declaring that when the people of all social standings pool their efforts, they will surely emerge victorious in their actions against the expansion of the base.
    A statement read out at the function warned if the south Korean authorities use force to offer the area of Phyongthaek to the U.S. forces, all the men of literature and art would struggle against it to the last ounce of their strength.

Immediate Stop to North-Targeted War Exercises Demanded in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The All-People Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek, south Korea, reportedly issued a statement on Mar. 26. The statement condemned the aggressive joint military exercises aimed at deterring the inter-Korean relations from improving and threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula and strongly urged the United States and the south Korean authorities to immediately stop them. The U.S. claims these war maneuvers are "annual drills for a defensive purpose" but they are war maneuvers for invading the north launched according to its strategy of a preemptive nuclear attack on the north from every angle as they involve huge armed forces including at least 20,000 U.S. troops and nuclear-powered carrier "Abraham Lincoln", the statement noted.
    It condemned the U.S. for busying itself to expand its military base in Phyongthaek in a bid to secure a military stronghold for preempting an attack on the north according to the agreement reached on the "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. troops and the scenarios for a war against the north and the south Korean authorities for yielding to its pressure.

Book and Collection of Poems on DPRK Published in Russia

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Publishing House of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cooperation with Foreign Countries on March 24 brought out book "The DPRK-Invincible Bulwark of Socialism" authored by Vladimir Yakushev, deputy editor of the paper "Rosiskaya Pravda", and a collection of poems "March of Songun Victory" written by Russian poet Alexandr Brezhnev on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and the 13th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.

Application of Double-standards to Nuclear Issue Cannot Be Allowed

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. should not apply its unreasonable double-standards to the nuclear issue but dismantle its nuclear weapons first of all and stop its moves to threaten other countries with nuclear weapons and mount a preemptive attack, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article. The article castigates the U.S. for applying unreasonable double-standards to the nuclear issue, while pursuing its aggressive and hegemonic nuclear politics turning a deaf ear to the voices of humankind demanding total dismantlement of nukes. It is the consistent military policy and strategic target of the U.S. imperialists to bolster up nuclear forces and hold nuclear supremacy, the article says, and goes on: The U.S. imperialists, considering nukes as almighty means for establishing world domination order, are threatening other countries with them and bringing in dark clouds of a nuclear war.
    The U.S. application of double-standards to the nuclear issue finds its expression in conniving, patronizing and assisting its allies' development and production of nuclear weapons while kicking up a row of pressure on those countries whose ideology and system are different from its own over the "nuclear issue". The U.S. is applying double-standards to the nuclear issue according to state relations with itself and its strategic interests.
    The U.S. double-dealing attitude in the nuclear issue is a revelation of its unilateralism and highhandedness. Its unreasonable behavior weakens the binding force of the NPT and drives the world to a nuclear arms race. Its nuclear highhandedness reduces the NPT to a good-for-nothing and eggs nuclear-free countries to have nuclear means.
    The U.S. is talking about "non-proliferation" while stepping up nuclear arms buildup and modernization and openly pursuing a nuclear war because it has a sinister intension to make anti-imperialist and independent countries victims of its nuclear hard-line policy.
    The U.S. anti-DPRK campaign over the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula is a typical example of its application of double-standards to the nuclear issue. It is the unfair application of double-standards that the U.S. is scheming to completely check the peaceful nuclear activities of the DPRK, while announcing that it will provide nuclear technique and fuel to some countries outside the NPT.

Kim Il Sung Praised as Great Man

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Erich Zavadil, chairman of the Austrian preparatory committee for commemorating the Day of the Sun, addressing a meeting, said that President Kim Il Sung was a great man recognized by the world, adding that the progressive people of many countries significantly commemorate the day in every April. Various functions took place in Democratic Congo, Tanzania and Austria from Mar. 18 to 22 on the occasion with leading officials and members of political parties and organizations of those countries attending.
    Several figures including Otete Gaston Mboyo, chairman of the National Committee of the Genuine Lumumbist Patriotic Party of Democratic Congo, at a remembrance meeting recalled that the President made undying contributions to the Korean revolution and the accomplishment of the human cause of independence and extended full support to the people of the developing countries in their struggle for national liberation and the building of a new society.
    Praising the President as a "great politician of the 20th century", "a peerlessly great man" and "the great sun of humankind", they stressed that his exploits would shine forever with his august name.
    The chief of the Group for the Study of Kimilsungism of Mjumbe University in Morogoro, Tanzania, at a reading session under the title "President Kim Il Sung who made a great contribution to the human cause of independence" said that the President built the most advantageous socialist system in the DPRK by embodying the immortal Juche idea, a guiding idea in the era of independence, and made an undying contribution to the struggle of the world oppressed people including the African people for freedom and liberation.

16th Individual Contest for "February 16 Art Prize" Closed

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The 16th individual contest for "February 16 Art Prize" was closed. The first place was taken by Choe Hye Ran, player of the State National Art Troupe, and Kim Son Yong, player of the North Phyongan Provincial Art Troupe. At a closing ceremony held on March 29, 46 winners were awarded certificates and medals.
    Present there were Minister of Culture Kim Jin Song, officials concerned, artistes of capital and local art troupes and teachers and students of art educational institutions.

Study of Juche Idea and Songun Politics Brisk in Different Countries

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The study and dissemination of the Juche idea and Songun politics have been brisk involving diverse forms and methods in nearly 30 countries for the last three months. Leader Kim Jong Il's famous works "On Having a Correct Viewpoint and Understanding of the Juche Philosophy" and "The Juche Philosophy Is an Original Revolutionary Philosophy" were published in booklet by the Mt. Paektu Association for Independent Development of Mongolia and the Publiraser Publishing House of Peru. Books "Cause of Juche and Songun Politics", "Homeland of Songun Politics" and "Might of Songun" came off the press in Nepal, Pakistan and Italy. These books profoundly explained the principles and originality of the Juche idea and Songun politics, etc.
    Seminars on Kim Jong Il's works on the Juche idea and Songun politics including "On the Juche Idea" and "Songun Politics of Our Party Is an Effective Socialist Political Mode" were held in Russia, Mongolia, India, Guinea, Uganda, Mexico, Austria and other countries.
    And seminars, lectures and round-table talks on the Juche idea and Songun politics were held in different countries including Syria, Bangladesh, Thailand, Tajikistan, Sweden, Moldova, Tanzania, Democratic Congo and Brazil. The Ethiopian Youth Committee for the Study of the Juche idea was formed in Addis Ababa for the purpose of intensifying the study and dissemination of the Juche idea on the occasion of the birthday of Kim Jong Il.
    Meanwhile, media in different countries gave wide publicity to the great Juche idea and Songun politics under the titles "Kim Jong Il and the immortal feats performed by him for the human cause of independence", "Modern Korea and Songun", "Songun politics and political power" and others.

Symposium on Juche-Based Aesthetic Idea Held

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A symposium in the field of movie industry on leader Kim Jong Il's Juche-oriented aesthetic idea was held on Mar. 29. The symposium discussed tasks to be tackled to bring about a fresh turn in movie-making true to his Juche-oriented aesthetic idea and ways to do so. Recalling that Kim Jong Il clearly indicated the way for the Juche-oriented cinematic art to follow, speakers pointed out that he has always paid deep attention to the creation of films and shown great loving care for those actors and actresses who distinguished themselves in truthful acting, thereby leading the creators and artistes with profound care to produce hits.
    They underscored the need for the moviemen to thoroughly implement the Workers' Party of Korea's Juche-oriented idea and theory of literature and art so that the cinematic art may make a positive contribution to stepping up the on-going general march of Songun revolution to build a great prosperous powerful nation. They also called on all creators and artistes to devote their wisdom and energies to producing movies loved by the servicepersons and people, bearing deep in mind the importance of the cinematic art in developing the overall literature and art. The symposium was attended by Kim Jong Ho, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, officials concerned, creators and artistes in the field of movie industry, officials guiding creative institutions and teachers and students.

Samilpho Foodstuff Processing Factory

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Samilpho Foodstuff Processing Factory, located in Raknang District in Pyongyang, is a leading food processing center which is conducive to improving the dietary life and health of working people. The factory, built in August Juche 85 (1996), covers thousands of square meters of area. It has been furnished with a complete set of modern machinery and equipment in accordance with the assembly-line production processes.
    It produces hundreds of kinds of processed foodstuffs including tea, spirits, noodle and processed local farm products.
    The tea workshop of the factory turns out various kinds of tea with highland special products and tonics and health food with natural honey. And the spirits workshop distils Koryo medicinal spirits of over 50 kinds including Kumgangsan Balloonflower Liquor, Rokyongsansam Liquor and Chilbosan Mushroom Liquor with natural medicinal materials.
    In particular, Pyongyang Buckwheat Cold Noodle, Arrowroot Cold Noodle, Elm Cold Noodle, Koryo Insam (ginseng) Honey, Pullo Sansam (wild ginseng) Honey and Bee Milk Honey manufactured by the factory are popular with people for their peculiar taste and ardor and their high medicinal effect.
    Its processed foodstuffs are demanded by Korean people at home and abroad and foreigners.
    Jong Yun Ho, manager of the factory, told KCNA that the production processes of the factory are perfect in the technical aspect. The factory will do its bit by increasing the sorts of health food and tonics with famous natural products indigenous to Korea as raw materials, he added.

Books on Cultural Heritage Published in DPRK

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Cultural Preservation Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has recently published books "Companion of Cultural Heritage Protectors" and "Ryongthong Temple in Kaesong", introducing the cultural heritage of the nation. The book "Companion of Cultural Heritage Protectors" gives the chronological table of the on-the-spot guidance of President Kim Il Sung, leader Kim Jong Il and anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk over cultural relics. It also introduces main historical relics and remains belonging to the primitive, ancient and mediaeval ages and methods for preserving and managing them.
    Featured in it are general knowledge, chronological table of the Korean history and main historical relics in different regions for the working people and school youth and children.
    The book "Ryongthong Temple in Kaesong" writes that Kim Jong Il gave instructions related to the work for restoring the famous Ryongthong Temple of Koryo on more than ten occasions and energetically guided the project in the period of "Arduous March" and the forced march and the temple was successfully restored to the original state. It also compiles the position of the temple before the restoration and its history, career of Friar of attainment of divine enlightenment Ui Chon who lived as the monk in the temple for a long time, relics which remained there and the literary and art works related with the temple.
    It also introduces in detail the entrance of the newly restored temple, courtyard, main area of the temple, grave site of Ui Chon, memorial service hall area and epitaph written on his gravestone.

Japanese Government Urged to Compensate A-bomb Victimse

     Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A general meeting of the Association of Korean Victims of A-bombs for Peace against Nukes was held in Pyongyang Thursday. It strongly demanded the Japanese government take measures for making compensation to the Korean victims of A-bombs as was discussed at the third meeting of the International Council of Solidarity for Demanding Japan Liquidate Its Past held in Pyongyang in September last year. A reporter and speakers at the meeting charged that the Japanese government is obliged to immediately settle the issue of the Korean victims of A-bombs in the light of international law and ethics and morality but it has not taken any practical measure in this respect up to this date.
    The Japanese government is turning its face away from the above-said issue under the pretext of absence of diplomatic ties between the two countries, they said, adding that a very small number of survivors and children of the victims are still undergoing serious pain due to the aftermath of the A-bomb disaster.
    The meeting discussed and decided on an action plan for 2006 which includes the issue of intensifying the activities for solidarity with the organizations demanding compensation for A-bomb disasters and post-war compensation and organizations for protecting human rights active in Japan and other countries and the publication of a report on the investigation into the issue of Korean victims of A-bombs on behalf of the association and the issue of sending a letter to the Japanese minister of Health, Labor and Welfare demanding an urgent settlement of the issue of the Korean victims of A-bombs.

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Reto frontal a aspiracion nacional a reunificacion, senala Rodong Sinmun

    　Pyongyang, 30 de marzo (ATCC) -- Hace unos dias, los imperialistas norteamericanos y los belicistas surcoreanos iniciaron por fin el "ejercicio combinado de refuerzo para el tiempo de guerra" y el simulacro conjunto "Aguilucho" de gran envergadura desoyendo el unanime repudio de toda la nacion coreana. Al respecto el diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 30 un comentario individual calificandolos de actos criminales que amenazan el destino de la nacion coreana y obstaculizan de gravedad la causa de reunificacion de la patria. Esos ejercicios belicos constituyen la fase previa y experimental para ultimar los preparativos para la guerra contra el Norte de Corea y asestarle un golpe preventivo nuclear, precisa el comentarista y prosigue:
    Resultan mas peligrosos todavia porque coinciden con que EE.UU. intensifica mas que nunca la presion y el complot contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea. En el mismo contexto, ultimamente EE.UU. da mas calor a la sancion financiera y la ofensiva de "derechos humanos" y como si los insultos verbales fueran poco, aboga abiertamente por atacar preventivamente a la RPDC.
    A causa de tales enloquecidas maniobras anti-RPDC, no se reanudan las conversaciones a 6 bandas y se agravan la confrontacion y la tension en la Peninsula Coreana.
    La RPDC ya habia demandado fuertemente el cese de las maniobras militares EE.UU.-Sur de Corea advirtiendo sus nefastas consecuencias. De hecho, ellas entenebrecieron las perspectivas de la solucion pacifica del problema nuclear y la cita a 6 bandas y afectaron las relaciones Norte-Sur como la posposicion de las conversaciones ministeriales.
    En fin, los imperialistas gringos son destructores de la paz, provocadores de la guerra y estorbadores de pesima calana de la unidad y la reunificacion de la nacion coreana. Para la dignidad nacional y el porvenir de la causa de reunificacion, todos los coreanos frustraran tajantemente el intento de EE.UU. y sus satelites de agredir a la RPDC, que desafian a la nacion y la corriente de la epoca.

No se puede permitir pauta de doble rasero en el problema nuclear

    　Pyongyang, 30 de marzo (ATCC) -- Estados Unidos no debe aplicar la injusta pauta de doble rasero en el problema nuclear sino cancelar ante todo sus armas nucleares, dejar de amenazar con estas a otros paises y poner fin a sus maniobras encaminadas a dar golpe preventivo. 　Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual insertado en su edicion del dia 30 y prosigue:
    　Desoyendo la demanda de la humanidad de cancelarlas totalmente, el imperio practica la politica nuclear de corte agresivo y hegemonico y aplica la injusta pauta de doble rasero en el problema nuclear.
    　Tiene por su invariable politica militar y objetivo estrategico el aumento de armas nucleares y la toma de hegemonia nuclear.
    　Al considerar las armas nucleares como medio omnipotente para establecer el orden de dominio sobre el mundo, amenaza y chantajea con estas a otros paises y acarrea un nubarron de guerra nuclear.
    　La pauta de doble rasero de Estados Unidos se expresa en que tolera, ampara y hasta apoya a sus aliados en el desarrollo y la produccion de armas nucleares, pero ejerce presion a los paises que tienen la ideologia y el sistema diferentes acusandolos del "problema nuclear".
    　Es decir, el imperio trata este tema segun las relaciones estatales consigo y sus intereses estrategicos.
    　Tal procedimiento de dos caras es muestra de su unilateralismo y su politica despotica y debilita la fuerza de restriccion del Tratado de No Proliferacion (TNP) induciendo al mundo a la carrera armamentista nuclear. La politica de arbitrariedad nuclear de EE.UU. invalida el TNP y obliga a los paises no poseedores de armas nucleares a disponerse de estas.
    　Por una parte, acelera el aumento y la modernizacion de armas nucleares y persigue abiertamente una guerra nuclear y, por la otra, habla de la "no proliferacion nuclear" para realizar su malvada intencion de convertir a los paises independientes antiimperialistas en las victimas de su politica de despotismo nuclear. 　Las maniobras norteamericanas anti-RPDC en torno al problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana tipifican la aplicacion de la pauta de doble rasero. 　Estados Unidos se comprometio a algunos paises libres del TNP a ofrecerles la tecnica y combustibles nucleares, pero en cuanto a la RPDC intenta neutralizar por completo hasta las actividades nucleares con fines pacificos.

Simposio sobre la idea estetica del Juche

     Pyongyang, 30 de marzo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 29 el simposio del sector cinematografico sobre la idea estetica del Juche del Dirigente Kim Jong Il. En la ocasion fueron discutidos las tareas y medios para registrar un nuevo viraje en la creacion de peliculas en pleno acato a la original idea estetica del Dirigente. El Dirigente, quien hace mucho tiempo habia iluminado la via del arte cinematografico del Juche, presto siempre profunda atencion a la creacion de peliculas, prodigo solicitud a los actores que interpretaron en alto nivel sus papeles y guio cordialmente a los creadores y artistas a crear obras maestras, senalaron los oradores y continuaron:
    Hay que materializar estrictamente la idea y la teoria literarias y artisticas del Juche del Partido del Trabajo de Corea para que el arte cinematografico contribuya activamente a acelerar la marcha general de la revolucion mediante el Songun (priorizacion militar) de hoy para construir una gran potencia prospera. Todos los creadores y artistas, bien conscientes de la importancia de la rama en el desarrollo de la literatura y el arte en su conjunto, deben dedicar toda su inteligencia y entusiasmo a la produccion de los filmes que prefieran el ejercito y el pueblo. En el acto participaron Kim Jong Ho, presidente del Comite Central de la Federacion General de Escritores y Artistas de Corea y otros cuadros, creadores, artistas, funcionarios directivos en la creacion, profesores y estudiantes del dominio.