Koreans Called upon to Force U.S. to Pay for Blood Shed by Them

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Koreans will never forget the monstrous massacres committed by the U.S. imperialists but certainly force them to pay for the blood shed by them. Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed commentary, 60 years since the U.S. imperialists massacred workers in Hwasun Coal Mine, South Jolla Province, the first mass-killing of Koreans after their occupation of south Korea.
    It goes on:
    On August 15, 1946 the U.S. made a surprise attack on the coal miners on their way to Kwangju to participate in the event to mark the first anniversary of the liberation of the country and killed them by mobilizing troops, planes and tanks.
    The past more than six decade-year long history of the U.S. imperialists' presence in south Korea was a history of massacre and plunder. The October popular resistance, Jeju islanders' uprising, soldiers' revolt in Ryosu, the April popular uprising, October resistance for democracy and the Kwangju popular uprising were savagely put down by the beast-like U.S. imperialists. Many civilians fell victim to their medieval crackdown and massacre.
    They also committed monstrous massacres of Koreans after provoking a war of aggression against Korea in the mid-20th century. Their mass killings of innocent civilians in the temporarily occupied northern half of Korea, to say nothing of the brutalities perpetrated by them in different parts of south Korea including Rogun-ri, were crimes against humanity that baffled human imagination.
    The souls of those Koreans who met tragic deaths in different parts of this land at the hands of the U.S. imperialists whose brutality and bestial nature far surpassed those of the Hitler clique to loudly cry for the punishment of these man killers. Even a thousand days would not be enough to indict the U.S. imperialists for their mass killings of Koreans. They are now working hard with blood-shot eyes to launch aggression and war to inflict a nuclear holocaust upon the Korean nation. The U.S. imperialist aggressors are the sworn enemy of the Koreans with whom they can not live under the same sky.

Japanese Reactionaries' Wild Ambition for Comeback to Korea under Fire

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government recently approved the "2006 white paper on defence". Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary carried in this regard terms the white paper a document for aggression and war as it reveals the Japanese reactionaries' invariable wild ambition to stage a comeback to Korea.
    The Japanese reactionaries in the "white paper" unreasonably raised a hue and cry over "threat" from the DPRK once again, the commentary says, and continues: This is aimed at securing a legal pretext for the reinvasion of Korea.
    It is preposterous for the Japanese reactionaries to grumble about "threat" from the DPRK. They seek to realize their dream of reinvasion of Asia, backed by the U.S. In the meantime, the U.S. is keen to carry out its Asian strategy for aggression with ease with Japan as a main player. The Japanese reactionaries in the "white paper" asserted that it is necessary to boost the Japan-U.S. alliance in order to ensure peace and security in Japan and its vicinity. This is an indication that they are working hard to realize their wild ambition for reinvasion by strengthening the military collusion with the U.S. They regard the DPRK as the primary target of their overseas aggression. Their noisy call for "preemptive attack" upon the "enemy's" base is aimed at staging a comeback to Korea.
    In the "white paper" they also claimed that Tok Islet is part of the inalienable territory of Japan, thereby betraying their wild ambition to reinvade Korea. Now that all arrangements have been made for staging a comeback to Korea, they are set to turn the islet into an area of international dispute in a foolish bid to internationalize the issue and secure a legal pretext for reinvading Korea.
    In the "white paper" they made much ado about the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK and described Tok Islet as part of the "inalienable territory" of Japan. This is a shameless provocation against the DPRK and a reckless act of a gangster.
    The Japanese reactionaries' moves for reinvasion have gone beyond the danger line. They are seized with such day dream that they are oblivious of the grave consequences to be entailed by their moves for reinvasion. They would be well advised to stop such reckless acts of disturbing peace and stability in Northeast Asia.

Rally for Solidarity for Settlement of Issue of "Comfort Women" Held in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- A rally for world solidarity for the settlement of the issue of "comfort women" for the imperial Japanese army was reportedly held in Pusan, south Korea on August 9. It was attended by members of women organizations including the "Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps", the Federation of Women Organizations in Pusan, the Women's Society for Reunification and the Pusan Branch of the "National Association of Women's Trade Unions".
    A statement read out at the rally strongly demanded the Japanese government apologize and compensate for the past crimes of sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army as recommended by the UN.
    Noting that the Japanese government is going to restore militarism through visits to the "Yasukuni Shrine" and the distortion of history, the statement said that the south Korean "government," too, should set out to settle the issue of victims of "comfort women" for the imperial Japanese army at an early date.
    On the same day, similar rallies took place in 27 countries including Japan, the U.S. and Canada.

Greetings to Congolese President

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Denis Sassou-Nguesso, president of Congo, on Aug. 11 on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of its independence. The message wished the Congolese president and government greater success in their work for the country's prosperity and national unity, expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the mutual interests.

U.S. Ceaseless Bomb-Dropping Exercises Denounced

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued information bulletin No. 921 in connection with the disclosure of the fact that U.S. fighters keep conducting bomb-dropping exercises in the air over the firing range of the U.S. forces in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong County, Kyonggi Province, south Korea which they claimed "closed" a year ago. The bulletin said:
    The continued bomb-dropping exercises of the U.S. forces in the air over the area of Maehyang-ri are an intolerable insult and mockery of the south Korean people and a blatant challenge to the public opinion at home and abroad as they bring to light the attempt of the U.S. to continue using the firing range in Maehyang-ri.
    The U.S. is now pressurizing the south Korean side to offer another firing range for the U.S. forces under the pretext of closing the firing range in Maehyang-ri. This is, indeed, the demand of a brigand.
    The U.S. is utterly indifferent to the fate of the south Korean people and doing whatever it pleases in south Korea, even misleading the public opinion in order to meet its aggressive interests and serve its purpose of war.
    The U.S.-loudmouthed "transfer of military bases," "transfer of the right to war-time operation" and "reduction of the U.S. forces" are nothing but a charade intended to evade the U.S. forces' withdrawal from south Korea. These phraseologies are, in essence, aimed at perpetuating the presence of its forces in south Korea and escalating their war moves against the DPRK.
    The south Korean people from all walks of life should see through the deceptive nature of the U.S., hold higher the anti-U.S., anti-war slogans and turn out as one in the struggle to take back Maehyang-ri usurped by the foreign occupation forces and drive the U.S. forces out of south Korea.

Japan Urged to Redeem Its Past Crimes

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Korean people will surely force Japan to pay generation after generation for all the human and material losses and mental pain the Korean nation suffered under the 40 odd year-long medieval military fascist rule of the Japanese imperialists. A spokesman for the DPRK Measure Committee for Demanding Compensation to Comfort Women for the Japanese Army and Victims of Forcible Drafting declared this in a statement issued Monday in connection with the fact that Pak Yong Sim, victim of sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army, died in Kangso County, South Phyongan Province, at the age of 85 on Aug. 7 with her bitter grudge against the Japanese imperialists unsettled. The truth about what Pak suffered provided a most typical example of the criminal sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army that has been proved by irrefutable evidence and witnesses and widely known worldwide, the statement noted, and went on:
    The Japanese government has not yet uttered even a single word of apology nor paid even a penny in compensation though more than six decades have passed since then. This behavior added to the sufferings and grudge of the victim and resulted in damaging her health and this was the main cause of her death. As the victims unanimously hold, the Japanese government has persistently resorted to delaying tactics with the calculation that it would be no longer responsible for liquidating Japan's past if there remains none of the victims, the witnesses of the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against humanity in the past. The Japanese government should drop its anachronistic ambition to evade the settlement of the past and honestly repent of all the hideous human rights abuses and clarify them and, on this basis, opt for redressing the past crimes as early as possible. It should make full compensation to the dead and their bereaved families.

August 15 Liberation, Day of National Resurrection

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Korean people observe the 61st anniversary of their liberation from the Japanese imperialists' military occupation on August 15. During their 40-year-long occupation, the Japanese imperialists kidnapped and forcibly took away some 8.4 million innocent Korean people, cruelly killed more than a million and forced 200,000 women to serve the Japanese army as sexual slaves. They also compelled the Koreans to change their names and tried to obliterate their spoken and written languages.
    They plundered and destroyed hundred-thousand pieces of national treasures and cultural assets of the Korean people at random and carried away a colossal amount of underground resources, various kinds of products and even kitchen utensils in a vicious way.
    Under the colonial enslavement policy of the Japanese imperialists the Korean people suffered heavy human, mental and material losses that could not be forgotten for all ages and underwent misfortunes and sufferings, denied of the hope for life. President Kim Il Sung, who was born into a patriotic and revolutionary family in the darkest period of national calamity, was keenly aware of the ruined nation's sorrow and embarked upon the road of revolution in his teens to fight the Japanese imperialists for 20 years.
    The President founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army in April Juche 21 (1932), dealt a blow to the million-strong Kwantung Army of the Japanese imperialists which was boasted of being "crack" with his protean tactics, crossing innumerable death lines during the hard-fought war against Japanese imperialism.
    At last, the President defeated the Japanese imperialists and liberated the country, thus enabling the Korean people to enjoy a worthwhile and proud life in the new democratic society and the DPRK to enter the international arena as an independent and sovereign state.

Atrocious Living-body Test by Japanese Imperialists

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists imposed untold miseries and pains upon the Korean people committing living-body test and others for biochemical warfare in the past. They organized secret units for germ warfare including "Unit 731", "Unit 516" and "Unit Nami 8064" in the period of World War 2 and made all possible efforts to research and produce various kinds of biochemical weapons. For this purpose, they took Korean and other Asian people as the objects of murderous living body test.
    Unit 731 was so notorious among them.
    The Japanese imperialists called the objects "logs" at that time and sent hundreds of Koreans and Chinese to Unit 731 for living-body test annually in accordance with the "special supply system".
    It carried out most barbarous experiments on them beyond of human imagination. They included putting a living body in a centrifuge and turning it, changing the whole blood of human body with that of monkey or horse and filling the stomach with poisonous gas or rotten tissue.
    It drove people into an enclosed room and blew poisonous gas into it to measure how long they survived and take pictures of their wriggling scenes.
    Documents on such barbarities and biochemical weapons including poison-gas bombs are being discovered one after another.
    It was disclosed recently that the Japanese imperialists planned to mount an attack with germ weapons right after their surrender in the world war and the task was assigned to Unit 731.
    The Japanese imperialists handed over the materials on the germ and poison-gas experiments conducted on more than 3.6 million people to the U.S. imperialists and helped them on the spot. They also mass-produced and supplied large amounts of war equipment and bio-chemical weapons to the United States to drop various kinds of germ and poison-gas bombs upon the Korean people, during the Korean War. Japan is bound to be punished by Korean people for its cruel living-body tests and the bio-chemical warfare.

Old Book of Koryo Medicine Restored

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The DPRK is making efforts to discover, restore and preserve well a lot of cultural heritage. Among them is "Ouichwalyobang", priceless medicinal classic belonging to the period of Koryo (918-1392).
    The two-volume book deals with main prescriptions employed by the chief royal physician. It, worthy of national treasure, was published in Pyongyang for the first time in April 1226.
    The book was published in reflection of the demand of the then times for developing an independent medicine. It was needed to treat diseases with drug-stuffs indigenous to Korea and to write medical books conforming to the actual conditions. The book had long been used in medical treatment and medical education as reference book before disappearing.
    The academic circles hold that it was ascribable to the Japanese invaders who destroyed and plundered valuable cultural legacies of Korea and stole away a lot of priceless classics during the period of Imjin Patriotic War(1592-1598).
    Thanks to the painstaking efforts and research of scholars, the lost "Ouichwalyobang" has recently been restored closely to the original one and its accuracy proved in a scientific way.
    The restored book edits the therapies inherent to Koryo as the main. As for some therapies of other countries, they have been amended and supplemented to suit the local conditions.

Floral Basket and Congratulatory Letter to Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was presented with a floral basket and a congratulatory letter by the diplomatic corps here on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of Korea's liberation. The floral basket and the congratulatory letter were handed to DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun by Secretary of the People's Bureau of Libya Bashir Ramadan Khalifa Abu Janah who is doyen of the diplomatic corps on Monday.

Gift to Kim Jong Il from Brazilian

     Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from Marcio Cabreira, national coordinator of the October 8 Revolutionary Youth of Brazil, on a visit to the DPRK. The gift was conveyed to an official concerned on Monday.

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Kim Jong Il inspecciona base ganadera de Unidad 757

    　Pyongyang, 14 de agosto (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 base ganadera de la Unidad No. 757 del Ejercito Popular de Corea. 　Tras escuchar el historial de la granja ganadera, recorrio la granja de conejos. 　Al recorrer corrales de conejo construidos de modo especifico, sala de elaboracion de pienso y otros varios lugares, se entero de los pormenores de cria y cuidado y estado de produccion y se mostro muy satisfecho de que los empleados de la granja produjeron anualmente enorme cantidad de carne de conejo y la suministro a los militares. 　Luego, el Comandante Supremo visito la casa de Yun Ho Jung, gerente de la granja donde luego de escuchar las experiencias de esta familia de la cria y cuidado de conejos evaluo un buen ejemplo que crearon los miembros de esta.
    　Senalo que al laborar tesoneramente con la firme decision de materializar cabalmente la politica ganadera del Partido durante largo tiempo, Yun contribuyo grandemente al desarrollo de la ganaderia del pais y evaluo altamente el fervoroso espiritu patriotico de el subrayando que es autentico patriota quien dedico toda su inteligencia y entusiasmo para el florecimiento y la prosperidad de la patria.
    　Dijo que la granja mostro claramente con la practica la superioridad de cria de conejo y enseno la necesidad de que todas las unidades sigan el ejemplo de esta granja. 　Acto seguido, el Comandante Supremo recorrio la granja de cabras de la unidad. 　Al recorrer los procesos de produccion dotados de las modernas maquinas y equipos para los trabajos de ordeno y elaboracion y los establecimientos culturales y de servicios publicos aseados, se mostro muy satisfecho de que los militares de la unidad acondicionaron magnificamente para elaborar diversos productos lacteos y evaluo altamente sus meritos.
    　Apunto que hay que mejorar la cria y el cuidado de cabra y poner en pleno funcionamiento las instalaciones para producir mayor cantidad de leche de cabra y otros alimentos lacteos para los militares e indico las tareas que se presentan para la administracion y la gestion de la granja.
    　El Comandante Supremo, al recorrer la sabana nuevamente creada, destaco que la creacion del prado constituye un importante problema en la ganaderia y subrayo que las granjas de cabra y conejo deben prestar profunda atencion a esta labor. 　Senalo que en nuestro pais con muchas montanas es posible criar por doquier los ganados entre otros cabra y conejo y enseno la necesidad de desplegar activamente con un movimiento masivo la produccion ganadera para operar un nuevo salto en esta labor. 　Le acompanaron los generales de ejercito del EPC Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae y Pak Jae Gyong, los primeros subjefes de departamento del CC del PTC Ri Je Gang y Ri Jae Il y el subjefe de departamento del CC del PTC Hwang Pyong So.

Sangre con sangre se paga, subraya Rodong Sinmun

    　Pyongyang, 14 de agosto (ATCC) -- Todos los coreanos nunca olvidaran los genocidios cometidos por las bestias norteamericanas contra la nacion coreana y cobraran sin falta el precio de sangre derramada. Asi comienza el comentario individual publicado el dia 14 en el diario Rodong Sinmun en ocasion del 60o aniversario de la primera masacre que ejecutaron los imperialistas gringos despues de ocupar el suelo surcoreano.
    　El 15 de agosto de 1946, estos salvajes movilizaron a un gran numero de efectivos, aviones y tanques para asaltar y matar a sangre fria a los trabajadores de la mina de carbon de Hwasun de la provincia de Jolla del Sur quienes se trasladaban a Kwangju para el acto conmemorativo del primer aniversario de la liberacion de Corea, precisa el comentarista y prosigue:
    　La historia de mas de 60 anos de ocupacion surcoreana por parte de tropas yanquis es un abultado expediente de matanzas y saqueos.
    　Debido a la represion medieval y barbaros asesinatos de los antropofagos norteamericanos, la sublevacion popular de octubre, el levantamiento popular de la isla Jeju, la insurreccion de los militares de Ryosu, el levantamiento popular de abril, el alzamiento democratico de octubre, el levantamiento popular de Kwangju fueron sofocados dejando innumerables muertos.
    　Ademas, a mediados del siglo pasado, despues de desatar la guerra de agresion en Corea, cometieron inimaginables asesinatos contra los habitantes inocentes en distintas localidades surcoreanas, inclusive la comuna de Rogun, y en las zonas de la RPDC ocupadas temporalmente.
    　Las almas de los asesinados sin piedad en manos de los imperialistas yanquis, quienes son mas salvajes y bestiales que los verdugos hitlerianos, los denuncian hasta hoy en todas partes del territorio patrio sin poder descansar en paz. 　No bastan cien dias ni mil para denunciar la historia criminal de EE.UU. 　Para colmo, hasta hoy, los imperialistas norteamericanos maniobran desesperadamente para agredir y guerrear contra la nacion coreana a fin de imponerle desastres nucleares.
    　Los agresores norteamericanos son enemigos jurados y encarnizados, con quienes el pueblo coreano no puede convivir bajo el mismo cielo.

"Carta blanca de defensa" de Japon - documento de agresion a Corea

     Pyongyang, 14 de agosto (ATCC) -- El periodico Rodong Sinmun inserto en el numero del dia 14 un comentario individual que califica la "Carta Blanca de Defensa de 2006" aprobada recientemente por el gobierno japones de un documento de agresion y guerra que revela la ambicion de nueva agresion a Corea de los reaccionarios japoneses. En este documento los reaccionarios japoneses volvieron a portar absurdamente la teoria de "amenaza" de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea para justificar nueva agresion a Corea, senala el comentarista y continua:
    Es una insistencia absurdisima la teoria de la "amenaza" de la RPDC. Ellos tratan de lograr el sueno de nueva agresion a Asia bajo el amparo de EE.UU. y este maniobra para realizar con facilidad su estrategia agresiva a Asia en confabulacion con el pais isleno.
    En el citado documento los japoneses senalaron que para preservar la "paz y la seguridad" de Japon y su periferia "resulta necesario el desarrollo de la alianza Japon-EE.UU.". Esto demuestra que ellos tratan fortalecer aun mas la confabulacion militar con su amo y realizar la ambicion de nueva agresion.
    En particular, toman por primer blanco de agresion a la RPDC. Para emprender nueva agresion a Corea hablan mucho del "ataque preventivo" contra las bases "enemigas".
    En dicho documento los reaccionarios japoneses definieron la isla Tok como "territorio" de Japon revelando asi la ambicion de nueva agresion a Corea. Ellos ya terminaron todos los preparativos para tal agresion a Corea. Ahora, pretenden hacer de esa isla como zona de conflicto internacional e internacionalizar este asunto para procurar un pretexto legitimo de nueva invasion a Corea. Hoy en dia, las maniobras de los reaccionarios japoneses para la nueva agresion rebasan el limite de peligro. Cautivados por la absurda ilusion ellos no piensan en las graves consecuencias que emanen de sus maniobras belicas.
    Los reaccionarios japoneses deben abandonar sus actos insensatos que perturban la paz y la estabilidad en la region de Nordeste Asiatico.