Chinese Crewmen Celebrate War Victory Day in DPRK

    Chongjin, July 24 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held by the crew of a Chinese-flagged ship at Chongjin port on July 23 on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War. Present there were the master and crewmen of the Chinese-flagged ship Gaohua.
    Speakers at the meeting said the Korean people won a shining victory by defeating the U.S. imperialists who boasted of their being the "strongest" in the world through the display of unexampled self-sacrificing spirit and mass heroism under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, a gifted strategist and invincible iron-willed commander.
    During the war the Korean people demonstrated to the world how mighty was the strength of justice and greatly inspired the national liberation struggle in colonies, they said, noting that under the outstanding Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean people are now opening a wide venue for the reunification of Korea and the building of a great prosperous powerful nation while shattering the moves of the U.S. imperialists for a new war at every step.

Peace Agreement Called for

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Jose Armando Rodriguez, chairman of the Socialist Party of Mexico, issued a statement titled "The Korean Armistice Agreement should be replaced by a peace agreement" on July 18 in the June 25-July 27 month of the anti-U.S. joint struggle. The Korean Peninsula is now becoming the area of most acute confrontation, he said in the statement, citing materials to disclose the fact that the United States has systematically scrapped the Armistice Agreement.
    The agreement has already lost its mission and role as an institutional mechanism to prevent the escalation of tension and the danger of a war on the Korean Peninsula, he noted, adding:
    To replace the AA with a peace agreement is the most primary and essential issue with a view to preventing arms buildup and arms race on the Korean Peninsula, settling the acute matters including the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and improving the overall DPRK-U.S. relations and inter-Korean relations.
    If the U.S. really wants peace and security in the Korean Peninsula, the Asia-Pacific and in the rest of the world, it should immediately come out to replace the AA with a peace agreement.
    Expressing full support to the DPRK's self-defensive step to cope with the U.S. threat, the chairman stressed that the U.S. should stop its hostile police toward the DPRK.

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

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity of south Korea reportedly issued a statement on July 21 in denunciation of the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers' military exercises for a war of aggression. The south Korea-U.S. "Combined Forces Command" announced that it would stage the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises from August 21 to September 1 as scheduled, said statement.
    Terming this a bellicose move to drive the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war and a violation of peace on this land, the statement expressed strong opposition to the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises presupposing a war in the Korean Peninsula.
    The south side's participation in the joint military exercises targeted at the north means following the U.S. war policy against the north, which will result in blocking the development of inter-Korean relations, the statement said, stressing:
    The south Korean government should strongly urge the U.S. to withdraw the plan for the military exercises and should clarify its will not to participate in the exercises.

S. Korean Authorities Urged to Take Road of National Cooperation

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils reportedly issued a statement on July 21, urging the south Korean authorities to take the road of national cooperation. The statement referred to the fact that the authorities are now sympathizing with the U.S. hostile policy towards the north.
    If they follow the U.S. and anti-reunification forces they will get nothing but disgraceful stigma of traitors and war holocaust, the statement said, stressing that they should take the road of national cooperation.
    They should bear in mind that if they turn their back on the interests and demand of the nation they will be forsaken by the nation, it emphasized.

DPRK Students Win Prizes at World Chinese Language Contests

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Han Sol Hyang, student of Kim Il Sung University, received the first prize and Ra Song Hui, student of Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, the second prize and the best acting prize at the 5th world student Chinese language contests. The contests held in Beijing from July 19 to 22 drew 101 students from 49 countries who proved successful in country preliminaries.
    The participants competed in the art of Chinese language speaking, quiz and the presentation of special skill prior to finals.
    Han Sol Hyang came first by displaying distinguished ability in the art of Chinese language speaking that required all-round linguistic knowledge and expressive power and in the quiz which called on the contestants to possess versatile knowledge about different fields including history and culture.
    Ra Song Hui received the second prize and the best acting prize by displaying admirable talent in the presentation of special skill.

DPRK Students Win International Chorus Contest

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Students of Pyongyang Music and Dance School won a gold medal and a certificate of merit at the 4th International Chorus Contest, which opened in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, on July 15 under the sponsorship of the International Cultural Foundation. It brought together more than 300 choruses including music institutions from at least 80 countries.
    The participants, divided into 26 groups, had to compete in preliminaries before moving up to the contest.
    On July 17 girls chorus of Pyongyang Music and Dance School took part in the contest among members of the young girls group participated in by more than 50 choruses from 16 countries including China, UK, South Africa, and Australia.
    Korean girls successfully presented Korean famous songs of "Nostalgia" and "Girls Greeting Spring", folk song "Play with Flowers" and German song "Weaving Girl" with high artistry, winning a high acclaim of the jury and audience.

Meeting of Agricultural Workers

    Janggang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Agricultural workers held a meeting at the Hyangha revolutionary site in Janggang County, Jagang Province, on Monday to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War. Kang Chang Uk, chairman of the C.C., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, said in a congratulatory address that under the outstanding leadership of President Kim Il Sung, an invincible and iron-willed commander, the Korean army and people gave full play to mass heroism and matchless devotion so as to bring the most shameful defeat to the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world and achieve a great victory which will shine in the century.
    Aware that the drive for increased food production is a struggle for the country and a struggle for victory on the front, farmers ploughed and sowed fields and produced more rice and sent it to the front in the teeth of heavy bombings by the U.S. imperialist aggressors, thus contributing to the victory in the war, he said, and stressed:
    All the agricultural workers should do farming well as required by the farming method of Juche, following ardent patriotism of farmers displayed during the wartime, under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il who represents our destiny and future.
    Speeches were made there.
    Poem "Let's glorify the feats of President Kim Il Sung in achieving victory in the war for all ages!" was recited at the meeting.

Aphorism for National Reunification

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- "The reunification of the country is precisely patriotism and the struggle for it is the highest form of patriotic struggle". This aphorism of Kim Jong Il powerfully arouses the entire Korean nation to the genuine patriotic struggle for national reunification. Also it clarifies the truth of life and struggle for the Koreans who have been undergoing sufferings caused by the national division.
    The Korean nation, with King Tangun as its ancestral father, is a homogeneous nation of one and the same blood who has created a 5,000-year-long history while living in the same territory.
    It, however, has been subjected to misfortunes, divided into the north and the south by outside forces for over 60 years.
    The U.S. imperialists and its satellite forces do not want to see the reunification of Korea to achieve their aggressive and separatist design. They are making desperate efforts to rupture the reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south by hook or by crook and lead the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war for the purpose of imposing the scourge of a nuclear war on the Koreans.
    In order to achieve the reunification at the earliest date under the present grave situation, those, with the blood and soul of the Korean nation, should value the great national unity dearer than anything else and turn out as one in the struggle against the separatists.
    Each member of the nation should bear in mind that the reunification of the country is patriotism and the struggle for it is the highest form of the patriotic struggle and devote his all to the reunification. Only then, he will be known among the fellow countrymen and become a patriot famous in the history of the nation.
    The validity and vitality of the aphorism have been proved by the known and unknown heroes who laid down their valuable lives for the country's reunification and are being displayed by the Koreans in the north, south and overseas who are daringly joining the grand march for national independence and reunification.

Catfish of Fine Breed Cultivated

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Catfish of fine breed has been cultivated on the basis of up-to-date biological technology by researchers of the State Academy of Sciences and the Natural Science Institute of Kim Hyong Jik University of Education in the DPRK. The new breed of catfish is high in productivity and strong in resistance to diseases.
    The academy researchers have newly developed an advanced analysis technology for culturing a new breed of fish, selected ancestor catfish of fine breed which grows fast and found out hereditability of its younger generation in a scientific way.
    The researchers of the university and the Pyongyang Catfish Farm have bred a new species of pure-line catfish on the basis of this success. The productivity of the new one is more than 50 percent higher than that of the other species under the same breeding conditions.
    The new breed of catfish has been introduced to the Fish-Breeding Company in Pyongyang and 40-odd fish-breeding units across the country.
    The catfish fry grow healthily.
    Choe Chol Sik, director of the institute, said in an interview with KCNA that they annually provide hundreds of thousands of the catfish fry to fish-breeding farms in different parts of the country.

New Commemorative Stamp Issued

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA)--A new commemorative stamp (a kind of souvenir sheet) has been published in the DPRK on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War (July 27). Reflected on the souvenir sheet are a painting showing Hero Ri Su Bok rushing toward an enemy's pillbox to cover it, his photograph and a medal of Hero of the DPRK. Also seen there is the song "For the Motherland" based on the poem written by him.
    Ri Su Bok silenced the enemy's gun muzzle with his body to ensure the victory of his unit at the Height 1,211 battle at the age of 18 during the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25,1950-July 27,1953). He is still alive in the minds of the Korean people.

Brutality of U.S. Troops Assailed

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in an article Tuesday throws a revealing light on the brutalities perpetrated by U.S. troops in all parts of the world. Recalling that a soldier of the U.S. army in Iraq recently murdered a little girl after raping her in the southern area of Baghdad, the author of the article says:
    The attitude of the U.S., which is reluctant to make an apology and even to utter a word of regret, brings into sharp focus the brutal nature of the U.S. imperialists whose business is murder and pillage.
    After enumerating a string of examples including the gang rape of a teenage Japanese girl student by U.S. soldiers in Okinawa in 1995, the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by three U.S. seamen in a hotel room in Australia in May 1997 and human rights abuses and murder in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, the article goes on:
    The human rights abuses by U.S. soldiers all over the world are results of the violation of national sovereignty under the policy of aggression of the present U.S. administration. Its neo-conservative forces inculcate into the minds of the U.S. soldiers the idea of extreme misanthropy and destruction of other nations, the idea that they should be merciless and no mercy should be shown to anyone, if the United States is to lord it over and rule the world. The U.S. ruling quarters put pressure to block the passage of the "bill on banning tortures" through Congress and backed the maltreatment and brutal tortures of prisoners by U.S. soldiers, arguing that tortures are "necessary" to open the mouths of "terror suspects." This vividly shows the hypocrisy and fiction of the "defense of human rights", loudly advertised by the U.S.
    The world people cannot get rid of misfortunes, sufferings and disasters caused by the U.S. imperialists as long as the latter continue armed intervention in and aggression upon sovereign states after setting up military bases of aggression and deploying armed forces in all parts of the world. The club of "anti-terrorism" brandished by the Bush warlike forces is the root cause of the violation of the independence of sovereign states, abuse of human rights and destruction of world peace and security in the present century.
    The people cannot live a tranquil life and the world cannot be peaceful unless the U.S. imperialists' policy of aggression is checked and frustrated. The world should wage a relentless fight against the U.S. imperialists, a gang of murderers and war maniacs.

DPRK Women Footballers Prove Successful

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The DPRK women's eleven came first in group qualifying matches for the 15th Asian Women's Football Championships, which is under way in Australia, starting on July 16. Two winners and two runners-up of matches held by groups A and B will advance into semi-finals of the championships.
    The DPRK team beat the Thai team 9:0 and the Myanmar team 3:0 in group B matches. And it trounced the south Korean team 1:0 after drawing with the Australian team to be qualified for semi-finals.
    On July 27 it will have a match with the Chinese eleven that came second in group A. Meanwhile, the Australian team that finished runner-up in group B will compete with Japan, the winner of the matches in group A.

DPRK Delegation Leaves for Malaysia

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- A DPRK delegation led by Paek Nam Sun, minister of Foreign Affairs, left here Tuesday to attend the 13th ministerial meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum to be held in Kuala Lumpur. The delegation will visit Malaysia and Singapore.
    It was sent off at the airport by Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and Sarizam Bin Abu Bakar, charge d' affaires a.i. of Malaysia.

Talks Held between Parliamentary Delegations of DPRK and Iran

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Talks between the delegations of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Tuesday. Present there from the DPRK side were members of the SPA delegation led by Kim Wan Su, chairman of the Korea-Iran Friendship Parliamentary Group, and from the Iranian side members of the parliamentary delegation led by Anoushiravan Mohseni Bandpei, chairman of the Iran-Korea Parliamentary Friendship Group, and Jalaleddin Namini Mianji, Iranian ambassador to the DPRK.
    At the talks both sides exchanged views on the issue of boosting the relations between the two parliaments to keep pace with the friendly and cooperative relations growing stronger in various fields between the DPRK and Iran and a series of issues of mutual concern.
    The talks proceeded in a friendly atmosphere.

Kim Il Sung Praised in Different Countries

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Korean book, photo and handcraft exhibitions and film shows were held in Uganda, Nigeria, Libya and Brazil from July 7 to 11 on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung. On display in the venues of the functions were famous works of the President and Kim Jong Il and photos showing their undying exploits and books, photos and handiworks reflecting the struggle of the Korean people to build a great prosperous powerful country.
    Screened at the film shows were Korean films "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung Is Immortal", "The Great Life in 1994" and so on.
    Speakers at the functions highly praised Kim Il Sung as the greatest man and the sun of humankind who will always live in the hearts of all people.

Japanese Reactionaries' Anti-Chongryon Campaign under Fire

    Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications of Japan is nowadays pressurizing 140 autonomous bodies across the country to reexamine the tax reduction and exemption for the facilities associated with the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) after making an investigation into the facilities in the areas under their jurisdiction. In this regard Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed commentary terms it a very serious racket kicked up against Chongryon and a revelation of the most hostile policy of Japan toward the DPRK.
    Japan is working hard to strangle Chongryon financially in a bid to destroy it, the commentary notes, and goes on:
    Chongryon is a legitimate organization of overseas citizens of the DPRK. Japan's attitude toward Chongryon precisely means its view and stand on the DPRK.
    The Japanese reactionary forces are keen to use the anti-Chongryon racket and Japan's hostile policy toward the DPRK as leverage for extremely straining the DPRK-Japan relations and realizing their wild ambition to stage a comeback to Korea. Precisely for this reason, Japan is so zealously toeing the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    Japan is oblivious of any legal and moral obligation.
    The anti-Chongryon campaign of Japan is an unjustifiable violation of human rights and the principle of humanitarianism even in view of international laws including the UN conventions calling for the protection of minorities, the guarantee of all rights to them and the elimination of discriminations against them.
    The above-said reckless moves of Japan may entail serious consequences.
    The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to immediately stop their reckless acts of driving the DPRK-Japan relations to an extreme pitch of tension.

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Rodong Sinmun denuncia maniobras anti-Chongryon de Japon

    Pyongyang, 25 de julio (ATCC) -- En estos tiempos, el Ministerio de Manejo Publico, Asuntos Interiores, Correo y Telecomunicaciones de Japon obliga a 140 instituciones autonomas de todo el pais albergando instalaciones relacionadas con la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon) reexaminar las medidas de exencion de impuestos sobre estas. Esta descabellada campana contra la Chongryon es una muestra de la politica extremadamente hostil de Japon a la RPDC. 　Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 25 y prosigue:
    　De esta manera, Japon intenta estrangular financieramente a la Chongryon, entidad legitima de ciudadanos de la RPDC en ultramar. La actitud de Japon en cuanto a ella significa una pauta para medir como este pais considera y trata a la RPDC.
    　A traves de las acciones anti-Chongryon y politica de hostilidad a la RPDC, las fuerzas reaccionarias japonesas tratan de empeorar las relaciones con esta y realizar su ambicion de agredirla de nuevo.
    　Por esta razon, Japon se ofrece como activo colaborador con la politica hostil de Estados Unidos a la RPDC.
    　Por otra parte, el pais-isla nunca se siente endeudado con su obligacion juridica y moral.
    　A la luz de los convenios de la ONU y otras leyes internacionales de proteger las minorias, asegurar todos sus derechos y prevenir la discriminacion, las maniobras anti-Chongryon de Japon constituyen una accion anti-DDHH y antihumanitaria nunca justificable.
    　Por lo tanto, los reaccionarios japoneses deben poner de inmediato fin a esas temerarias maniobras que pueden tener nefastas consecuencias.

Coreanas ganan clasificatoria del Campeonato Asiatico de Futbol (F)

    Pyongyang, 25 de julio (ATCC) -- Las futbolistas coreanas ocuparon el primer lugar en la clasificatoria por llaves del XV Campeonato Asiatico de Futbol (F) que tiene lugar a partir del dia 16 en Australia. Los equipos jugaron a modo de uno contra todos divididos en llaves A y B y los cuatro elencos, que ocuparon primer y segundo lugares en cada llave, iran a las semifinales.
    El equipo femenino de Corea en la llave B ocupo el primer lugar al vencer a Tailandia por 9 a 0, a Myanmar por 3 a 0, al Sur de Corea por 1 a 0 y al empatarse a cero con Australia.
    Las semifinales del dia 27 seran duelos la RPDC vs. China (segundo lugar en el grupo A) y Australia (segunda del B) vs. Japon (primero del A).

Estudiantes coreanas coronan en concurso mundial de lengua china

    Pyongyang, 25 de julio (ATCC) -- Han Sol Hyang, estudiante de la Universidad Kim Il Sung y Ra Song Hui, estudiante de la Universidad de Lenguas Extranjeras de Pyongyang recibieron los premios de primero y segundo lugares y de mejor interpretacion en el V Concurso Mundial de Universitarios de Lengua China. En el presente certamen, efectuado del 19 al 22 de julio en Beijing, participaron 101 estudiantes sobresalientes seleccionados de 49 paises a traves de las eliminatorias.
    El concurso se realizo dividido en tres disciplinas: el arte de hablar en chino, respuesta de los conocimientos, presentacion de lado fuerte para llegar al final.
    Han ocupo el primer lugar al demostrar su capacidad extraordinaria en las disciplinas: el arte de hablar en chino y en la pregunta y respuesta de los conocimientos sobre la historia, la cultura, etc.
    Ra ocupo el segundo lugar y recibio el premio de mejor interpretacion al demostrar su habilidad extraordinaria en la presentacion de lado fuerte venciendo a 101 rivales.

ATCC califica a Rice de politica iletrada

    Pyongyang, 25 de julio (ATCC) -- En entrevista concedida el dia 22 con el cuerpo de periodistas asiaticos, la secretaria de Estado norteamericana, Rice, dijo que el "Norte de Corea es un pais completamente irresponsable y peligroso que no anuncia el lanzamiento de sus misiles en cuatro direcciones y declara abiertamente poseer la capacidad de armas nucleares". Indudablemente, ella pronuncio este disparate en visperas de la reunion ministerial del Foro Regional de ASEAN con la intencion de justificar la belicosa politica de presion de EE.UU. a la RPDC e involucrar en ella a los paises regionales.
    Pero, sus palabras tergiversando cinicamente la realidad resultan increiblemente ignorantes si se toma en cuenta que fueron articuladas nada menos por la jefa de la diplomacia de un pais.
    Entonces preguntamos a Rice si en este mundo hay otro gobierno mas peligroso e irresponsable que la administracion Bush que amenaza abiertamente con lanzar un "golpe preventivo nuclear" contra un Estado legitimo y soberano tras definirlo a su capricho como "eje del mal" y sumergio a todo el orbe en el circulo vicioso de la carrera armamentista nuclear y el terrorismo bajo la falsa consigna del "antiterrorismo".
    La administracion Bush es la banda de bandidos de pesima calana que navegando en contra de la corriente de la historia a la paz y la seguridad, dividio el mundo en el "bien y mal", refrendo en una politica estatal la guerra y la matanza y no vacila en invadir a otros paises y asesinar a los habitantes inocentes para sus fines politicos y egoistas.
    Sin embargo, la secretaria de Estado de este ejecutivo tan cruel cuestiona atrevidamente el lanzamiento de unos misiles que se llevo a cabo como parte de ejercicios militares para hacer frente a las maniobras de agresion y guerra precisamente de los yanquis.
    Por eso, para ella no hay otro calificativo mejor que la politica analfabeta.
    La prueba de misiles por parte de nuestro pais se realizo despues de que nos hayamos convencido consecuentemente de la seguridad en todos los espacios aereos, terrestres y maritimos. Por lo tanto, como reconocen los paises circunvecinos, nadie resulto perjudicado para no hablar de embarcaciones y aeronaves civiles.
    En contubernio con Japon, EE.UU., que se halla en estado beligerante con nuestro pais, propicio un clima belicista amenazando desde hace un mes interceptar nuestros misiles.
    Entonces, si hubieramos avisado de antemano el ensayo de misiles como insiste Rice, en la region de Asia y Pacifico se habria dado una peligrosisima situacion.
    A traves de este hecho, la gente pudo saber facilmente en que nivel se halla la politica exterior de la administracion Bush donde trabaja de secretaria de Estado una mujer que comete desinhibidamente irracionales actos verbales.