Apology and Compensation from U.S. Demanded

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the North Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres issued a statement Saturday in connection with the recent disclosure of a letter written by the U.S. ambassador in Seoul during the last Korean war, which sparked off a great sensation at home and abroad. The letter contained the fact that the U.S. directly ordered GIs to kill civilians during the war. The statement said:
    The U.S. is obliged to stand trial for its organized massacres of Koreans. But it is trying to evade its responsibility even today when its crimes were brought to light. It is working hard to provoke another war of aggression against the DPRK to reduce the Korean Peninsula to a battle-field of a nuclear war and exterminate the Korean nation.
    This is an open insult and intolerable challenge to the Korean nation who has not yet vented their pent-up spite on the U.S. imperialist man-slaughters.
    All Koreans should turn out in a just struggle to make the U.S. pay for the misfortune, disaster and sacrifice inflicted upon their fellow countrymen with the dignity and honor of the nation.
    The south Koreans from all walks of life should wage a vigorous anti-U.S. struggle to get the U.S. to apologize and compensate thousand-fold for its crimes and to withdraw the U.S. imperialist aggression troops, root cause of misfortune and pain and war, from south Korea.
    They should also wage a staunch struggle to ostracize the pro-American "Grand National Party" which is following the U.S. to bring war and destruction to the Korean nation.

Appeal for Commemorating Day of Sun Hailed

    Cairo, June 2 (KCNA) -- Yehia Zakaria Khairullah, secretary general of the Egypt-Korea Friendship Association, released a statement on May 29 in support of the appeal the Swiss Preparatory Committee for Commemorating the Day of the Sun and February 16 made to commemorate the Day of the Sun and Feb. 16 in 2007 as the common holidays of the world progressive humankind. Hs said in the statement that the association fully supports the appeal to organize colorful functions on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and February holiday next year and visit the native home in the secret camp of Mt. Paektu where leader Kim Jong Il was born in February.
    He underscored the need to organize the Egyptian preparatory committee, calling on different organizations of Egypt to grandiosely commemorate the significant holidays.

Floral Basket Laid before Statue of Kim Il Sung

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- Delegations and delegates to the Fifth Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair placed a floral basket before the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill Sunday. They laid the basket of flowers before his statue and made a bow with boundless reverence for the President who devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people and made immortal contributions to the accomplishment of the human cause of independence and the development of friendly relations among countries.

Anniversary of Minju Joson Observed

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary (June 4) of Minju Joson, the organ of the DPRK government. President Kim Il Sung founded the newspaper Pyongyang Minbo right after Korea's liberation and developed it into the organ of the government, naming it Minju Joson.
    Leader Kim Jong Il has led Minju Joson to preserve its revolutionary nature and play a significant role in implementing the policies of the party and the state.
    At the meeting, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, read out a congratulatory message of the WPK Central Committee to the journalists, editors and employees of the Minju Joson.
    The WPK Central Committee in the message highly praised the journalists, editors and employees for having made positive contributions to consolidating and developing the state and social system of the DPRK and accelerating socialist construction through brisk media activities with their intense loyalty to the party and the leader and patriotic dedication.
    Kim Jong Suk, editor-in-chief of Minju Joson, made a report, which was followed by speeches.
    The reporter and speakers said that the foundation of Minju Joson was the birth of the Juche-oriented revolutionary government organ, the first of its kind in the Korean nation's history of 5,000 years, and an event of weighty significance in the strengthening and development of the people's power and political and ideological life of the Korean people.
    The six decades of Minju Joson are glorious annals in which a new history of the organ of the DPRK government has been made under the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
    They called on all the officials, journalists, editors and employees to hold the President in high esteem forever and defend Kim Jong Il politically and ideologically and at the risk of their lives and profoundly explain the WPK's idea on Juche-oriented power building and the state polices and intensify the media activities to implement them.

Probe into Truth behind Massacre in Rogun-ri Urged in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- South Korean people of different circles have reportedly urged a probe into the truth behind the massacre of civilians in Rogun-ri committed by GIs during the last Korean war and damages. On May 29 a U.S. medium opened to the public the data proving that the massacre was ordered by the U.S. government.
    The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration said in a statement on May 30 that the disclosed data prove that the massacre was a elaborately premeditated and organized crime. The U.S. should adequately apologize and compensate for it, the statement urged.
    On the same day the Measure Committee for Unveiling Truth about the Rogun-ri Massacre and the Democratic Workers' Party of south Korea made public statements to denounce the massacre as a elaborately premeditated and organized crime.
    The statements stressed that the south Korean government should put forward a clear proposal for settling the incident, a human rights issue related to national self-respect.

57th Rally for Peace and Disarmament Held in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification and other civic and social organizations in south Korea reportedly held the 57th rally for peace and disarmament in front of the building of the Defence Ministry on May 30 to denounce the moves of the military authorities to increase the "budget for national defence". Speakers said that it is an act of deceiving the people for the Defence Ministry to drastically increase the defence budget for 2007 under the pretext of allegedly increasing the military capability according to the plan for cooperative and independent national defence. In case the ministry purchases ultra-modern weapons with the increased budget, this will deepen south Korea's military subordination to the U.S., they said.
    A written protest to the ministry was read out at the rally, which asserted that the ministry and the Planning and Budgetary Agency should stop the closed-door debate on defence budget.

Slovak Foreign Ministry Delegation Here

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Miroslav Lajcak, director-general for Political Affairs, arrived here Saturday. It was met at the airport by officials concerned. -0

KCNA on Changes in Area of Mt. Paektu

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- Five decades have passed since leader Kim Jong Il started the study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu. The first study tour of the area organized by him in June Juche 45 (1956) was a great action which solemnly declared before the era his firm faith and will to defend and glorify forever the revolutionary traditions established by President Kim Il Sung and a historic event of weighty significance in keeping the continuity of the Korean revolution started in Paektu forests.
    Kim Jong Il has since worked heart and soul to turn Ryanggang Province into a grand seat of education in the revolutionary traditions.
    He visited the province on nearly 40 occasions in last five decades.
    He visited the Monument to the Victorious Battle of Pochonbo 10 times from July Juche 57 (1968) to Juche 61 (1972).
    He opened the course for "250-mile journey for learning" while giving on-the-spot guidance to the province in July Juche 57 (1968), and published his famous work "Let Us Build Up This Revolutionary Battle Site" to give guidelines that should be maintained in building up the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.
    When visiting Lake Samji on July 4, Juche 65 (1976) he located the site of the statue of Kim Il Sung and clarified the orientation and way of building a grand monument. And he gave teachings over 200 times in all to guide in detail its building from its formation and design to structure, representation and construction.
    His on-the-spot guidance to the work of the revolutionary battle sites in the area in March Juche 89 (2000) marked an epochal turning point in sprucing up the area as a holy land of revolution.
    Great changes have been made in building up the area for five decades.
    Many revolutionary battle sites and historic sites were discovered in the 1960s and 1970s, starting in Juche 47 (1958).
    In the latter of the 1980s the secret camp of Mt. Paektu was found in Sobaeksu Valley and restored to its original state. This was an auspicious event of special significance in carrying forward the revolutionary traditions.
    In the days of researching and discovering the revolutionary historic materials at least 1,100 pieces of revolutionary relics including Kim Il Sung's celebrated work "The Ten-Point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland", an original material in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, were collected, 230 revolutionary historic buildings ascertained and more than 360 trees bearing revolutionary slogans found.
    A brisk drive was conducted to build up revolutionary battle sites and historic sites in the area of Mt. Paektu in step with the rapid progress in the work of discovering and ascertaining the revolutionary relics.
    A statue of Kim Il Sung was erected in the Pochonbo revolutionary battle site in November Juche 73 (1984). And his statues and statues of Kim Jong Suk, woman general of Mt. Paektu, were built in Phophyong, Sinpha and other areas to suit the revolutionary historic content there and monuments to autographic ode and propositions of Kim Il Sung in the secret camp of Mt. Paektu, more than 360 monuments in revolutionary battle sites and historic sites.
    The work of preserving the revolutionary relics has been improved to meet realistic conditions.
    Paektu House has been built in the area of Mt. Paektu so as to contribute to the education in revolutionary traditions. Fine granite stairs down to Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu for expeditionary groups were built and a pavement road to the top of the mountain made with 437,500 stones. Other roads to revolutionary battle sites and historic sites have been built.
    More than 63.5 million people of all strata visited the revolutionary battle sites and historic sites of the area in last five decades.
    At least 210,000 Koreans overseas and more than 120,000 foreigners visited them.

U.S. Urged to Admit Its Organized Massacre of Civilians

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- The United States should no longer try to shirk off its responsibility for the organized massacre of civilians committed during the last Korean war since the crime was verified by a recently declassified letter of the then U.S. ambassador, but admit it and apologize to the Korean nation and withdraw its forces from south Korea, says Minju Joson Sunday in a signed commentary. Referring to the fact that the U.S. has so far shirked off its responsibility for the well-known massacre in Rogun-ri, far from admitting and apologizing for it, the commentary denounces the U.S. troops as a group of man-slaughters that deliberately massacred innocent civilians.
    The U.S. is conducting war exercises against the north almost everyday in a bid to provoke a new war, a nuclear war in the Korean Peninsula while pushing forward the redeployment of its forces far from withdrawing them from south Korea, the commentary says, and goes on:
    It is as clear as noonday that the south Koreans will be cruelly killed by the U.S. military ogres just as during the last war and all the Koreans will suffer nuclear holocaust unless they put an end to the U.S. occupation of south Korea and check its new war provocation moves. The nationwide anti-U.S. struggle of the Korean nation is for preventing such incident beforehand. Anyone who truly loves the country and the nation is turning out in the struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces.
    The clan of the "Grand National Party" serving the U.S. for its existence is dead set against the U.S. forces' withdrawal, while chiming in with the U.S. moves to provoke a new war. Therefore, it is imperative to disband the GNP, a group of traitors, so as to force the U.S. military ogres to pay for the blood shed by the innocent Koreans and prevent a nuclear war.

Rodong Sinmun on Progressive Character and Advantages of Socialism

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- The imperialists and their spokesmen are describing socialism as "totalitarianism" but can never defile the progressive character and advantages of socialism with any smear propaganda. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
    Originally, totalitarianism had been used as a political idea by the fascist dictators, the article says, and goes on:
    Criticizing as "totalitarianism" socialism under which popular masses are masters of everything is a preposterous sophism considering the most progressive idea reflecting the demand of the popular masses to be identical to the reactionary idea of the fascist ruling quarters.
    The interests of monopoly capitalists whose intrinsic nature is exploitation and domination are not compatible with those of all people. Large-scale state machinery and suppression networks of capitalist society serve the interests of monopoly capitalists, the ruling class, and ruling bureaucrats and encroach on the interests of the overwhelming majority of working people. Under this bourgeois state system the capitalist class exploits, plunders and suppresses people mercilessly.
    Everything is defined by money and power in capitalist society. Accordingly, the capitalist class behaves arbitrarily with their large money and unlimited state power while the popular masses are reduced to slaveries of capital and forced to lead a miserable life. The U.S. reactionary ruling quarters do not miss every opportunity to talk about "welfare of all people", "equality of all people" and "respect for human rights" in a bid to distort and fabricate the truth.
    It is the supreme principle of the party and state activities to work for the promotion of the people's welfare in our socialist society where the principle of collectivism "One for all and all for one" prevails. The state is entirely responsible for the destiny of the people and looks after them.
    It is the ideal of humankind to lead an independent and happy life in a peaceful world free from exploitation and oppression, domination and subordination, aggression and war. It is the socialist idea to embody this common demand and desire of humankind. The human ideal and desire cannot be changed and, accordingly, the idea of socialism embodying them cannot be changed.

Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Start of Study Tour of Mt. Paektu Area Marked

    Samjiyon, June 4 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at an educational ground in front of the Samjiyon Grand Monument in Ryanggang Province Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu. Attending the meeting were party, army and state officials, Cabinet members, leading officials of party and armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, members of the national excursion group of party information officials, members of the June 18 construction shock brigade and officials and working people in the province.
    Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in a report said that Kim Jong Il's start of study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu in June Juche 45 (1956) was a historic event of epochal significance in carrying forward the pure tradition of the Korean revolution started on Mt. Paektu and advancing the socialist cause of the Korean people along the road of Juche.
    He went on to say:
    The opening of the excursion route to the revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu area provided a landmark for resolutely defending and carrying forward the glorious revolutionary traditions of the WPK established by President Kim Il Sung and guaranteeing the victorious advance of the Korean revolution.
    As Kim Jong Il opened up the excursion route, looking far into the future of the Korean revolution, the excursion along this route to the revolutionary battle sites centering on Mt. Paektu was briskly conducted with the attention of the whole party and the society. The Korean people and the rising generations have come to cherish the unshakable faith and indomitable will to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche to the end, while making a study tour of the revolutionary battle sites of Mt. Paektu.
    Thanks to the revolutionary traditions whose great attraction and vitality have been proven in the practice of the protracted Korean revolution, the Korean army and people could win one victory after another in the war to defend socialism, single-mindedly united around the headquarters of the revolution despite the grim and acute environment that prevailed the Korean revolution in the 1990s and pave the way for the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, breaking through manifold difficulties and hardships with faith in sure victory and indomitable will.
    Thanks to Kim Jong Il's far-reaching plan and energetic leadership the revolutionary battle-fields and historic sites in the area of Mt. Paektu have been spruced up majestically and flawlessly as a center for the education on the revolutionary traditions. The area including Samjiyon Township has undergone changes beyond recognition and witnessed the fairyland of socialism, a miracle of history.
    We should hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem forever as the eternal leader of our party and revolution and the sun of Juche and defend and glorify his idea and revolutionary exploits for all ages.
    We should repose absolute trust in Kim Jong Il, destiny of the country and the nation and symbol of victory, and uphold his Songun idea and leadership with loyalty.
    We should wage an unflinching struggle under the uplifted banner of Songun to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, reunify the country and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair Opens

    Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- The 5th Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair was opened on Sunday with the attendance of 32 organizations from 14 countries, regions and international organizations. Displayed in the fair venue were valuable scientific and technological books and data of different fields.
    An opening ceremony was held at the Three-Revolution Exhibition.
    Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and others were present at the ceremony.
    Present there were delegations and delegates from different countries, regions and international organizations, a delegation of overseas Koreans, a south Korean delegation and diplomatic envoys and officials of foreign embassies here.
    Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who is chairman of the organizing committee of the fair, in an opening address expressed the belief that the fair would be successfully held to positively contribute to the common progress and prosperity of humankind and the promotion of friendship and cooperation among peoples of different countries.
    Gennadi Turmov, president of Far-Eastern State University of Technology who is heading its delegation, said in a congratulatory speech that the successful opening of the fair showed that the DPRK government is attaching weighty importance to the development of science and technology.
    Leader Kim Jong Il's idea of giving importance to science and technology is greatly contributing to the development of science and technology of the DPRK and the common progress of humankind, he stressed.

Important Anniversaries in DPRK Marked Abroad

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Round-table talks were held in Poland on May 22 and a rally in Bangladesh on May 24 on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the 6th anniversary of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. Displayed in the venues of the functions were Kim Jong Il's famous works, photographs dealing with his immortal Songun leadership exploits and books introducing the DPRK.
    Speakers at those functions said that Kim Jong Il created unique party work style and theories while working at the Central Committee of the WPK for more than four decades, and thus greatly contributed to its strengthening and development and wisely led the Korean people with his Songun revolutionary leadership.
    The vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Poland-Korea Association said at the round-table talks that the north-south summit meeting and the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration ushered in a new era of achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea, adding that this is totally ascribable to the outstanding Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    The general secretary of the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship Association said at the rally that the inter-Korean relations characterized by distrust and confrontation were replaced by those of reconciliation and cooperation and there came a new era of independent reunification under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration. He declared that the association would fully support the Korean people in their efforts to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea.

Pakistani President Supports Peaceful Solution of Issue of Korea's Reunification

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf expressed hope that the issue of Korea's reunification would be solved peacefully as desired by the Korean people. He said this when receiving credentials from the DPRK ambassador e.p. to Pakistan on May 30. Noting that the friendly relations between the two countries are long-standing and very good, he wished the friendly Korean people great success in their work for the development and prosperity of the country.

Final Document of Ministerial Meeting of NAM Coordinating Bureau Refers to Issue of Korea

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- A final document was adopted at the ministerial meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the NAM held in Malaysia on May 29 and 30. The document also referred to the issue of Korea.
    According to it, the ministers expressed support to the Korean people in their efforts to reunify the country by the united efforts in accordance with the joint declaration adopted at the historic North-South Summit held in Pyongyang in June 2000, recognizing that ensuring durable peace and security on the Korean Peninsula is important for the common prosperity of the Korean people and peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
    Expressing hope for the realization of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the ministers underscored the important role of the six-party talks in solving the nuclear issue and supported their earliest possible resumption.
    In this context the ministers supported the principle laid down in the joint statement dated Sept. 19, 2005, which calls for denuclearizing the peninsula and its early and sincere implementation.

DPRK Children's Art Troupe Successfully Performs in Czech Republic

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Art Troupe on a visit to the Czech Republic gave its successful performances in Prague and local cities Fristak, Straznice and Zlin from May 19 to 27, evoking a lively response among audiences. The art troupe represented the happiness of the Korean children growing to be future pillars of Songun Korea under the warm loving care of leader Kim Jong Il in its colorful repertoire including a female vocal solo, a quintet, a dance and a Janggo solo.
    The chairman of the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association said that watching Korean children's performance is enough to clearly realize the validity of Kim Jong Il's Songun politics and its vitality.
    The chairman of the Pribram branch of the association said that one may hardly find such talented children anywhere else in the world, adding: This suffices to prove that Korea's socialism is best and as long as there is the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il Juche Korea is sure to emerge a great prosperous powerful nation that remains undeterred by any pressure and blockade.
    A section chief of the State Children and Youth Association under the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic said that the Korean children's performance was flawless as all numbers were unique and high in the level of artistic representation and the ensemble was perfect. The DPRK is a country of arts and the children of the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Art Troupe are talented little young artistes, he added.
    The mayor of Fristak said the children's performance was so splendid that he joined them in singing to the tune of what they sang throughout the presentation. He noted that the educational system in the DPRK is something to be envied as it devotes everything possible to the children despite hard conditions.
    The headmaster of a primary school in Fristak said that every number of the program presented by the Korean children was enchanting and unique, and praised the art troupe as the world's most famous children's art troupe.
    The director of the Czech Children and Youth Center "Prague House" said that the Korean children are very happy as they are growing with an ample opportunity to study under the socialist system.

S. Korea to Introduce More U.S.-made Fighter Bombers

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Ministry of Defence decided to introduce 20 more F-15K fighter bombers from the U.S., according to the south Korean Yonhap News. A U.S. medium reported about this fact on May 28.
    The south Korean military authorities at the "Committee for Promotion of Defence Work" held on May 17 agreed to introduce additional 20 U.S. F-15K fighter bombers from 2009 except 40 planned by 2008.
    The Yonhap News said that this fighter-bomber can load 11 tons of bombs and ammunition including direct hit shells for precision attack, air-to-ground missiles to attack the underground fortress of the north.

U.S. Brigandish Threat Disclosed

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- At the 37th south Korea-U.S. annual security consultative meeting held in Seoul in October last the U.S. threatened the south Korean "government" that it would withdraw its air force from south Korea unless conditions for its forces' exercises are provided, according to a news report. This fact was disclosed in "major pending data of national defence" opened to the public by the south Korean Ministry of Defence on May 29.
    According to it, the U.S. at the meeting requested the south Korean side to expand the training ground, saying that "the exercises of the U.S. 7th air force rapidly dwindled after the closure of the firing range in Maehyang-ri and it is apprehensive about the decrease of pilots' skill and morale.
    The U.S. also demanded the installation of automatic marking equipment at the Jik Islet firing range in the sea off Kunsan, complaining that it cannot recognize the range without such equipment. And it forced the increase of the time of using the firing range on the part of its troops. It threatened that it would move its 7th air force to other region unless such conditions are provided.
    Yielding to the U.S. threat, the south Korean "government" is busy taking a measure for the U.S. air force to make a flexible use of the firing range in Jik Islet and seeking to install automatic marking equipment costing 2.8 billion won by the end of August.

Unwarranted Measure against Internet in S. Korea Flailed

   Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The south Korean joint measure committee for the abolition of the system which calls for using one's real name as regards elections grouping eight Internet mediapersons associations and more than 140 civic and public organizations held a press conference in Seoul on May 30 at which it denounced the "government's" unfair measure taken against the Internet media, according to a news report. The chief editor of the Internet Broadcasting Voice of People and other speakers blasted the recent decision made by the "government" to enforce the above-said system against Internet users with the "local elections" as a momentum. They described this as an evil law like the "National Security Law" violating the freedom of expression and human rights of Internet users.
    Nothing can suppress the Internet users' freedom of speech, they declared, branding the "government's" measure to establish the system as a short-sighted one.
    A joint statement released at the press conference demanded the "government" provide the people with the freedom of expression and immediately stop pushing forward the system.

Rodong Sinmun on Local Election Results in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The "elections to the local self-governing bodies" held in south Korea on May 31 proved that any force is bound to be forsaken by the people if it betrays them by pursuing unpopular policies, observes Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed commentary. The commentary says:
    The present south Korean rulers betrayed the people's interests while calling for "reforms." They even tried to defame the June 15 joint declaration through the unreasonable "special investigation into the mail of money to the north", etc. The south Koreans issued a deserved warning to such rulers at the elections.
    For the forces supporting the June 15 joint declaration the election results may serve as a good springboard from which to make a fresh start for carving out a bright future.
    The election returns, however, do not give the "Grand National Party" any reason to be upbeat. The GNP is the most unpopular and traitorous party in south Korea. This party proved successful only by fishing in the troubled waters.
    The election results, in the final analysis, mean the victory of the south Koreans, not one won by such charlatans as GNP group. The south Korean ultra-right conservative forces should not misjudge the situation but stop running wild.
    The peace-loving progressive forces in south Korea should make a fresh start, drawing a lesson from the stern judgment made by the people this time. They should defend the June 15 joint declaration and keep advancing the era of "By our nation itself" through their concerted efforts.

Stamp Commemorating KCU Diamond Jubilee Issued

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- A stamp has been issued in the DPRK in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean Children's Union (KCU). The KCU was founded on June 6, Juche 35 (1946) under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
    It, based on the tradition of the Children's Corps organized in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, is a revolutionary mass organization of the children who will carry forward the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    Printed on the stamp are the words "In Commemoration of 60th Anniversary of Korean Children's Union" and "Juche 35 (1946) - Juche 95 (2006)".
    The stamp reflects a sunflower, red necktie and badge of the KCU in the center.
    Its face value is three won.

North Side Delegation Leaves for South

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The north side delegation led by Ju Tong Chan, vice-chairman of the National Economic Cooperation Committee who is chairman of the north side to the North-South Committee for Promotion of Economic Cooperation, left here Saturday to participate in the 12th meeting of the committee to be held on Jeju Island. It was seen off at the airport by Kwon Ho Ung, chief councilor of the Cabinet who is head of the north side to the inter-Korean ministerial talks, Kim Song Il, vice-chairman of the National Economic Cooperation Committee, and officials concerned.

Delegation of Kyonggi Province Here

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- A delegation of Kyonggi Province of south Korea led by Governor Son Hak Gyu arrived here Saturday. It was met at the airport by Jong Tok Gi, vice-chairman of the National Reconciliation Council, and officials concerned.

50th Founding Anniversary of KAASC Marked

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the Chollima House of Culture on Saturday to mark the 50th founding anniversary of the Korean Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee (KAASC). Present at the meeting were Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the C.C., the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and chairman of the KAASC, members of the KAASC and working people in the city.
    Ryom Sun Gil in his report referred to the successes made in the struggle to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea and strengthen friendship and solidarity among the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America for five decades under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and spoke of tasks of the KAASC.
    He stressed the need for the Asian, African and Latin-American peoples to defend peace and national independence against the U.S. dominationist policy and further strengthen friendship and solidarity among the peoples of different countries.

Greetings to General Secretary of Lao People's Revolutionary Party

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a congratulatory message to Choummaly Saynasone, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Saturday on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The message expressed the belief that the traditional ties of friendship and cooperation between the two parties would continue to consolidate and develop in the interests of the two peoples and wished the general secretary good health and happiness as well as success in his responsible work for the strengthening of the party and the prosperity of the country.

Kim Jong Il Appreciates Art Performance

    Pyongyang, June 3 (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, appreciated a performance given by the art squad of KPA Large Combined Unit 324. The art squad staged numbers of diverse genres including chorus "Song of the Korean People's Army", agitation on the basis of revolutionary anecdote "The General and the Blue Sky", poem recital and serial songs "My Motherland", story telling "Let's See First", mixed chorus "Colors of Steel-Strong Units Are the Life and Soul of the Army", drum and homophony "It's Good to Live in the Company", chorus "We Will Defend the Headquarters of Revolution with Our Lives".
    The performers successfully represented the invincible might of the KPA trained to be a matchless army under the loving care of the great brilliant commander and the unshakable faith and will of its servicepersons to devotedly protect the headquarters of the revolution and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms under the guidance of the Party.
    The performance deeply impressed the audience as it had a strong appeal and was replete with the spirit of the times.
    He highly praised the members of the art squad for their successful performance, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that they gave a splendid performance with a high ideological and artistic value by truthfully representing the firm determination of the army of Songun Korea to wipe out the enemy.
    He appreciated their revolutionary work style, noting that they are instilling the conviction of sure victory, optimism and will and courage to annihilate the enemy into servicepersons through their militant art activities, sharing weal and woe with soldiers as befitting artistes of the revolutionary army.
    Noting that performing art is one of the effective means for educating servicepersons, he set forth important tasks which all art squads should consider as guidelines in intensifying their art activities as required by the era of Songun.
    Among the audience were Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first vice department director of the C.C., WPK, Hwang Pyong So, vice department director of the C.C., WPK, and general officers of the KPA.

Kim Jong Il Inspects Young Cadres Training Sub-Unit of KPA

    Pyongyang, June 3 (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 the young cadres training sub-unit of KPA Large Combined Unit 324. After being saluted, he learned in detail about how the education is conducted there.
    He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the sub-unit is conducting effective education by sufficiently securing educational equipment and materials for study to help the trainees acquire versatile knowledge and improve their cultural attainment.
    Then he went round a bedroom, a mess hall, a wash-cum-bath house, a non-stable food store, a barn and other supply service facilities. He highly appreciated the achievements made by the sub-unit in the last period, noting that it has done a lot not only in the education aimed at training an increasing number of able young cadres but in the overall work including its management.
    After making the round of the sub-unit, he set forth important tasks, which would serve as guidelines in training young cadres.
    Future hinges on how to prepare the young people as most vital pillars of society and on how to enhance their role, he said, adding that the work with youth is particularly important for the KPA made up of young people.
    Pointing out that in order to prepare all trainees as able young cadres it is necessary to steadily improve the contents of education and the qualifications of the teachers, he specified the orientation and ways to do so.
    If the politico-ideological education is to be conducted in a unique manner to suit the characteristic features of the young soldiers, it is very important to raise the political and cultural levels of the young cadres and improve their organizing and guiding ability and, at the same time, help them acquire qualifications as standard-bearers of the ranks possessed of great agitating power and elocution, in particular, he noted, calling for directing great efforts to this work.
    He had a photograph taken with servicepersons and trainees of the sub-unit.
    He was accompanied by Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first vice department director of the C.C., WPK, and Hwang Pyong So, vice department director of the C.C., WPK.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona la Unidad Naval no. 269 del EPC

    Pyongyang, 3 de junio (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 Naval No. 269 del Ejercito Popular de Corea. 　Ante todo, el Comandante Supremo recorrio el monumento a la visita de orientacion del Presidente Kim Il Sung y la sala de presentacion del historial.
    　El Comandante Supremo dijo que bajo la sabia direccion del Presidente la Unidad ha crecido como una invencible unidad combinada naval y recalco que brillaran eternamente en los anales de la patria las hazanas revolucionarias del Presidente acumuladas en la construccion de las fuerzas navales autonomas.
    　Al decir que los militares bien conocedores de la historia y de las tradiciones de su unidad pueden sentirse apegados a esta y hacer mejor el servicio militar, senalo la necesidad de activar la educacion a traves de la sala de presentacion del historial.
    　El Comandante Supremo visito el historico buque de guerra en que el Presidente dio el 5 de julio de 1954 las encarecidas ensenanzas para el desarrollo de las fuerzas navales.
    　Al recordar con profunda emocion aquel dia inolvidable, destaco que deben conservar con debida atencion el citado buque que entrana las hazanas de direccion del Presidente para que los marineros guarden en lo profundo de sus corazones la benevolencia de este.
    　Al recorrer el puerto hizo conocimiento de todas las labores de la unidad y presento las tareas que se presentan para fortalecer la combatividad de esta.
    　Se mostro muy satisfecho de que en pleno acato a las ensenanzas del Presidente dadas sobre el terreno, los oficiales y soldados hicieron muchos trabajos en el pasado y, a traves de los ejercicios cotidianos, crecieron como valientes marineros capaces de pelear a solas contra cien enemigos.
    　Acto seguido, el Comandante Supremo se fotografio junto a los marineros de la unidad.

Que demuestra el resultado de "elecciones locales" en Sur de Corea?

    Pyongyang, 3 de junio (ATCC) -- El resultado de las "elecciones de autonomia local" efectuadas el 31 de mayo en toda la extension del Sur de Corea demostro que los gobernadores con la politica antipopular seran repudiados por el pueblo. 　Asi comienza el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 3 y prosigue:
    　Los actuales politiqueros surcoreanos abandonaron los intereses del pueblo preconizando la "reforma" y trataron de deshonrar el espiritu de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio con la erronea "inspeccion especial de la remesa al Norte de Corea". Esta vez los surcoreanos les hicieron advertencia debida.
    　Para las fuerzas de apoyo a la citada declaracion el "resultado de elecciones" de esta vez puede servir de un motivo para emprender nueva partida.
    　El "partido Hannara", agrupacion antipopular y vendepatria no debe vanagloriarse del "resultado de las elecciones" porque gano "cedulas" aprovechandose del conflicto entre otros.
    　En resumidas cuentas, el "resultado de elecciones" es la victoria no de los politicastros del "partido Hannara" sino del pueblo. Las fuerzas ultraconservadoras del Sur de Corea deben justipreciarlo y actuar con prudencia.
    　Y las fuerzas progresistas pacifistas del Sur de Corea deben tomar por leccion la severa sentencia del pueblo y emprender una nueva partida para mantener con la fuerza unida el espiritu de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de junio y hacer prevalecer la epoca de "entre nosotros, los connacionales".

Comite Coordinador del MNOAL se refiere al problema de Corea

   Pyongyang, 3 de junio (ATCC) -- Los dias 29 y 30 de mayo tuvo lugar en Malasia una reunion ministerial del Comite Coordinador del Movimiento de los No Alineados (MNOAL), en la cual se aprobo un documento final que tambien se refiere al problema de Corea. 　Segun el documento, los ministros reconocieron que la preservacion de la paz y la seguridad duraderas en la Peninsula Coreana es importante para la prosperidad comun del pueblo coreano, la paz y seguridad de Nordeste Asiatico y el resto del mundo y manifestaron apoyo a los esfuerzos del pueblo coreano por lograr la reunificacion del pais con las fuerzas unidas de acuerdo con la Declaracion Conjunta aprobada en las historicas conversaciones de los maximos dirigentes del Norte y el Sur, celebradas en junio de 2000 en Pyongyang.
    Los ministros cifraron la esperanza de que se realice la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana, subrayaron el papel importante de las conversaciones a 6 bandas para la solucion del problema nuclear y desearon que esta cita se reanude lo mas pronto posible.
    Expresaron apoyo a los principios de la Declaracion Conjunta del 19 de septiembre de 2005 para la Desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana y a su ejecucion pronta y estricta.

Presidente pakistani apoya la reunificacion pacifica de Corea

    Pyongyang, 3 de junio (ATCC) -- Mientras recibia el 30 de mayo las cartas credenciales del nuevo embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, el presidente de la Republica Islamica de Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, expreso su deseo de que el problema de la reunificacion de Corea sea resuelto por via pacifica conforme a la aspiracion del pueblo coreano. Las relaciones de amistad entre los dos paises son historicas y muy excelentes, dijo el mandatario y formulo votos por grandes exitos al amistoso pueblo coreano en su labor para el desarrollo y la prosperidad del pais.