FM Meets Special Assistant to Rev. Franklin Graham

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met and conversed with Melvin L. Cheatham, special assistant to Rev. Franklin Graham, religious leader of the U.S., and his party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday. On hand were officials concerned.

U.S. Urged to Halt Its Moves to Invade DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The "Panmunjom incident" on August 18, 1976 was, to all intents and purposes, a product of the premeditated and deliberate plot hatched by the U.S. to ignite a war against the DPRK. The military tension on the Korean Peninsula is greater than that three decades back. A spokesman for the Korean National Peace Committee observed this in a statement issued Thursday, 30 years since the U.S. imperialists orchestrated the incident. It said:
    U.S. war hysteria has reached an extremely dangerous phase.
    It formally adopted a preemptive attack on the DPRK as its "national security strategy." The U.S. has become more undisguised in its attempt to invade the DPRK, taking issue with it over its deterrent for self-defense, and desperate in imposing sanctions upon the DPRK under unreasonable pretexts. The U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea are rounding off their preparations for a war against the DPRK at a final phase under the signboards of "transfer of bases" and "troop relocation". Their nuclear war exercises have already gone beyond the danger line.
    The Korean Peninsula can never be free from the danger of war nor can the Koreans escape a nuclear war holocaust as long as the U.S. pursues its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its military presence in south Korea goes on.
    The U.S. should drop at once its hostile policy and immediately stop its moves to invade the DPRK, clearly understanding the latter's deterrent for self-defence which no force can ever match and withdraw all its forces and war hardware from south Korea as early as possible.

Anniversary of Liberation of Korea Observed in Italy and Egypt

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A round-table talk, a seminar and a film show were held in Italy and Egypt on Aug. 7 and 8 on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of Korea's liberation. Miriam Pellegrini Ferri, chairman of the Italian Committee for the Study of the Songun Idea for Independence and Sovereignty, said at the round-table talk that President Kim Il Sung founded the great Juche idea and wisely led the Korean people to put an end to the colonial rule by the Japanese imperialists.
    He noted that the President gave confidence and courage to the world progressive peoples by building genuine people's socialism in Korea.
    Yehia Zakaria Khairullah, chairman of the Egyptian Committee for the Study of the Juche idea, stated at the seminar that Aug. 15 is a significant day when Kim Il Sung achieved the liberation of Korea and that he is the great leader who led the prolonged and arduous anti-Japanese struggle to victory.
    Leader Kim Jong Il has brilliantly carried forward the intention of the President and is leading the Korean people's struggle for building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation to victory with his Songun politics, the chairman stressed.
    Korean film "For the Liberation of the Country" was screened at the film show.

Namibian Prime Minister Supports Korean People

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- I remember that the Korean people gave unsparing assistance to the Namibian people in their struggle for independence. Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula said this when he met with the DPRK ambassador who paid a farewell call on him on Aug. 8.
    He stressed that the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung made a great contribution to the struggle of the Namibian people for independence and the building of a new society. He expressed full support to the Korean people in their struggle to achieve reunification by their own efforts.

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

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification reportedly released an appeal titled "Believing in the strength of people ensures victory" on August 13. The U.S. has revealed its aggressive nature by staging frantic war exercises against the north and scheming to materialize the "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. troops in south Korea and conclude the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement", the appeal said, stressing that peace in this land can be defended only when all the fellow countrymen are united under the banner of peace against the U.S. and war, banner of "By our nation itself".
    The appeal called for strengthening the united might of the nation in every way and concentrating everything on the anti-U.S., anti-war struggle.

Depollution of Environment in U.S. Military Bases Demanded in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- 26 civic and public organizations including the Green Federation in south Korea reportedly called an emergency press conference in Seoul on August 11 to urge the U.S. troops to take responsibility for the depollution of the environment in the U.S. military bases. A press release read out at the press conference recalled that the U.S. returned 15 U.S. military bases in south Korea to the south Korean side without depolluting the environment there, warning it that should it fail to depollute the environment there, it will never escape censure and condemnation from all the Koreans.
    The civic and public organizations can never allow the U.S. to return its military bases without depolluting the environment there, the press release noted, and continued: We will form an emergency organization and conduct actions for demanding the U.S. renegotiate the issue of depolluting the environment in the returned U.S. military bases.
    It also urged the authorities to inspect the relevant government office to have the truth behind the humiliating negotiations probed.

U.S. Hostile Policy toward DPRK Assailed

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Internet 'Thongil News" on July 31 posted an article written by Kwon Jung Hui, chairman of the Society for National Spirit, in which he blasted the U.S. hostile policy toward the north. The article accused the U.S. of working hard to provoke another war in Korea, paying no heed to the north's reasonable and just proposal for the conclusion of a peace agreement without making any apology for its indiscriminate mass killings of civilians on this land.
    The U.S. is clinging to gimmicks over the nuclear issue but the north will not be taken in by such mean trick, it said, and urged:
    If the U.S. truly wants peace on the Korean Peninsula it should drop its unlimited greed and sinister intention and opt for concluding a peace agreement with the north, though belatedly, and withdrawing its forces from this land without delay.

Joint Rally against Police Suppression Held in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A big group of marchers for "beautiful Seoul without the U.S. forces" comprising 19 civic and social organizations in Seoul and a group of members of the Phohang Regional Construction Trade Union for actions in Seoul reportedly held a joint rally in front of Seoul Railway Station on August 11 to denounce the police crackdown and demand the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea. Speakers at the rally declared that their actions to drive out the big capitalists bleeding the workers and other people white and force the U.S. forces, a source of increasing the danger of a war, out of south Korea are little different from the struggle of the Phohang construction workers and this struggle should be conducted in unity with the workers.
    At the end of the rally its participants marched toward the "National Police Office." They also offered strong resistance against the riot police before holding a meeting to condemn its suppression.
    They had an anti-U.S. cultural event that night.

Rodong Sinmun Calls for More Vigorous Anti-War Struggle

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The struggle against the United States, Japan and the "government" is growing fiercer across south Korea with the involvement of many people from all walks of life. It is realistic and natural as it is a revelation of their unshakable will to defend peace of the country and security of the nation from outsiders' aggression and war moves and from the moves of the pro-American bellicose forces following them and invariably advance along the road of independent reunification. Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed article today.
    In order to ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula and achieve its peaceful reunification, it is urgent to oppose the aggression and war moves and remove the danger of war, the article points out, and says:
    The U.S. imperialists are now recklessly scheming to stifle the DPRK which is dynamically advancing toward socialism under the uplifted banner of independence against imperialism. They are resorting to all sorts of machinations to lay an "international siege" to the DPRK, while speeding up arms buildup and staging madcap war exercises to invade it.
    Such adventurous anti-DPRK moves are driving the military tension of the Korean Peninsula to the point of explosion.
    The imminent situation requires the Koreans to intensify national cooperation for peace and security of the country. It is because ensuring peace on this land is not a matter related to security of either the north or the south but a matter related to the whole Korean Peninsula and the destiny of the Korean nation. It is clear that if a war breaks out in the peninsula due to the reckless military provocation of the U.S. imperialists, their nukes will bring nuclear holocaust to all Koreans in the north and the south.
    Nevertheless, the pro-American bellicose forces in south Korea are chiming in with the U.S. war moves.
    The facts clearly show that it is necessary for all the fellow countrymen to wage a more vigorous struggle against the aggression and war moves of the U.S. imperialists and the flunkeyism of the pro-American bellicose forces in south Korea in order to defend peace from war on the Korean Peninsula and reunify it.
    The Korean nation is responsible for defending peace and preventing war on the peninsula where war and peace are in acute confrontation.
    The south Korean people should more staunchly and invariably go along the road of struggle judged and chosen by themselves for peace and security of the peninsula.

AINDF Issues Statement on 61st Anniversary of Korea's Liberation

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front issued a statement on Aug. 15 on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the country, according to Internet site Kuguk Jonson. The statement said President Kim Il Sung liberated Korea, opening to the Korean nation a new era of national history for putting an end to the history of sufferings and shaping its destiny independently.
    However, the purpose and desire of the south Koreans to live and develop as the dignified nation of an independent country was savagely trampled upon by the U.S. imperialists who made their way into south Korea to take the place of the Japanese imperialists and the joy of liberation turned into the tragedy of national division and new dependency, the statement noted, and went on:
    The people of all social strata should turn out as one in the anti-U.S. struggle for independence to terminate the U.S. imperialists' military occupation and close the chapter of the disgraceful colonial history which has lasted more than one century.
    All the Koreans should wage with greater intensity the patriotic movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity under the uplifted banner of "By our nation itself", the main idea of the June 15 joint declaration, and make a general turnout in the actions against the U.S. and war and for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces to shatter the U.S. imperialists' moves to provoke a war against the north.
    The people of all social standings should energetically support and uphold the Songun politics of the north, bearing in mind that Songun is immediately independence, peace and reunification.
    The AINDF will give greater spurs to the movement for independent reunification against the U.S. jointly with the people of all sections desirous of the peace and reunification of the country so as to make a sizable contribution to the unfailing achievement of national reunification, the long-cherished desire of the fellow countrymen.

U.S., Backstage Manipulator of Aggression on Lebanon

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Israel triggered aggression on Lebanon, but it was the U.S. which manipulated it backstage, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article. The Bush bellicose forces, prompted by their strategy of domination over Mid-east, are turning their back on the demand of the international community for stopping Israel's aggression on Lebanon, the article says, and goes on:
    The U.S. seeks to put the Mid-east issue under its control so as to encourage Israel's aggression instead of binding Israel hand and foot in it.
    Israel's aggression on Lebanon may be said as a prelude to the U.S. invasion of Iran. In the region Israel is a shock brigade of war for the U.S., whereas Syria and Iran are its enemy. The U.S. thinks it is necessary to contain the armed forces of Hamas and Hezbollah militarily in a bid to contain Iran, a target of its strategic attack. That is why the U.S. fanned up Israel's aggression on Lebanon despite strong protest and denunciation by the international community.
    The U.S. is trying to secure a pretext for its invasion of Iran by encouraging Israel's aggression on Lebanon. Iran is supporting the anti-Israel struggle of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance forces.
    The U.S. has already made preparations to launch a war against Iran. Huge U.S. troops are stationed in Kuwait and Iraq and its fleets are deployed in the Persian Gulf. It is well known that the U.S. is hatching every possible plot to find a pretext to invade Iran.
    All the facts go to clearly prove that the U.S. is an aggression force that seeks to harass peace in Mid-east and spark off a fresh war by manipulating Israel backstage.

Physical Training Center in Pyongyang

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) --There is a comprehensive physical training center for athletes on Chongchun Street in Pyongyang. The center has been equipped with more than 300 physical training aids of some 70 kinds including abdominal bench, pulley and lat mach. It will ensure full physical training conditions to the foreign players who will participate in the Second International Martial Arts Games.
    It was opened in October Juche 90 (2001).
    Athletes of various sports groups of the DPRK including the National Sports Group have undergone training there.
    Recently foreign athletes are seen among trainees.
    Kim Ung Gwan, technical coach of the center, told KCNA that the training for improving the physical capacity of athletes is on a high scientific level.

KCNA Slams Japan's Hostile Policy toward DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Japan's hostile campaign against the DPRK has gone beyond the danger line recently. The Japan Liberal Democratic Party is working hard to pass the "bill on special measure for implementing the regulation on the specified financial transactions" through the Diet after deciding on its "outlines". Meanwhile, the government is tightening the financial sanctions including control on the remittance to the DPRK and going busy laying a "siege" to the DPRK through an "alliance" with forces hostile to it.
    Moreover, radical politicians who do not hesitate to bluster that they would not rule out the possibility of preemptive attack on the DPRK are emerging powerful candidates for next term prime ministership in Japan. This is a true picture of Japan.
    The Japanese reactionaries have become all the more undisguised in their campaign against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
    The Japan Ministry of Public Management, not content with canceling or downplaying the measure to exempt facilities related to Chongryon in 24 cities from paying fixed property taxes this year, investigated 140 autonomous bodies across the country which has Chongryon-related facilities and forced all of them to reexamine the measure of tax exemption.
    Japan has already banned the entry of "Mangyongbong-92" and cases of violence against Korean students numbered more than 60 recently.
    Japan has long pursued a hostile policy toward the DPRK but the relations of hostility between the two countries have never reached such point of explosion.
    What matters is Japan's hysteric way of thinking concerning the DPRK.
    It is frantically applying sanctions against the DPRK and suppressing Chongryon, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, in a bid to spark off a chaotic situation in the region and fish in troubled waters.
    Japan is accustomed to meeting its own interests at the sacrifice of others to hold supremacy. Its ulterior intention is to get the following political gains: to divert the attention of the international community elsewhere and shirk off its responsibility for the redemption of its past which it has dodged though the last century was replaced by the new century, court the U.S. favor by executing its hostile policy toward the DPRK more faithfully than others and help reactionaries get more votes for the next term prime ministership by inciting nationalist sentiment at home and stoking bitterness towards the DPRK among Japanese.
    This objective prompted them to bedevil the DPRK-Japan relations and push them to those in the period of confrontation.
    Japan's settlement of its past wrongs, a product of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule in the last century, still remains an outstanding issue between the DPRK and Japan.
    What is important for Japan to regain its political and moral face is to draw a lesson taught by the bitter history in the last century and make honest compensation to those countries which fell victim to its aggression.
    Japan intensified the suppression of Koreans in Japan, direct victims of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule in the past, and their descendents whenever the situation grew tenser on the Korean Peninsula. This is little different from the way militarist Japan enforced its harsh colonial rule in the last century.
    Japan's cry for sanctions against the DPRK and suppressive campaign only bring its weakness into bolder relief.
    No country can win the confidence of the international community as it wishes and no gimmick can ever alter history.
    Japan would be well advised to reflect on its wrongs and apologize for them before slandering and keeping watchful eyes on its neighboring countries.

National Seminar on Songun Idea Held

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A national seminar on the Songun idea was held at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday. Presented there were five papers which explained and proved in detail the immortal exploits the peerlessly great persons performed by founding the unique Songun idea, carrying forward it and leading the revolutionary cause of Juche along the road of victory.
    The speakers said that the ideological and theoretical feats performed by President Kim Il Sung lie in that he laid down the precious principle of making revolution in reliance upon arms, the basic cornerstone of which is the Songun idea, set forth the great Songun idea and put forward the Juche-oriented revolutionary line, the Songun revolutionary line as the strategic line of the Korean revolution. The Songun idea of the Workers' Party of Korea originated from the two pistols left by his father and the programme and rules of the Down-with-Imperialism Union founded by him, they added.
    It is a unique way of making revolution clarified by the Songun idea to consider the founding of the revolutionary army and increasing its capacity as a priority issue and carry out all the strategic tasks of the revolution based on its capability, they said, adding that the line of armed struggle laid down in the Kalun meeting served as a line of Songun revolution as it paved a new path for accomplishing the popular masses' cause of independence.
    Recalling that Kim Il Sung started the Songun revolutionary leadership by founding the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Unit on April 25, Juche 21 (1932), they noted that he defeated two formidable imperialist enemies by the unique Songun leadership mode, led the Korean revolution to victory and thus made the revolutionary cause of Juche shine as a glorious Songun revolution.
    General Secretary Kim Jong Il, proceeding from the peculiar conditions of the Korean revolution, perfected the Songun idea as an ever-victorious revolutionary idea for achieving a decisive victory in the anti-imperialist class struggle and accomplishing the cause of socialism, they pointed out, and continued:
    He started his Songun revolutionary leadership by providing historic field guidance to the Guard Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Tank Division 105 of the Korean People's Army in August, Juche 49 (1960) and formulated the Songun politics as a basic political mode under socialism in the middle of the 1990s with a firm determination to bolster up the People's Army and tide over difficulties in reliance upon its might.
    The speakers explained that he formulated the President's Songun idea as a Songun revolutionary principle and Songun political theory through his energetic ideological and theoretical activities, thus making the idea serve as great guidelines in our era.
    Among those present there were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education, and officials concerned.

Congratulations to Venezuelan Foreign Minister

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a congratulatory message to Nicolas Maduro Moros upon his appointment as foreign minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The message wished him success in his work, expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow strong in various fields as desired by the two peoples.

U.S. Termed Harasser of Global Peace and Security

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies issued a statement on August 17 as regards the fact that the U.S. has resorted to every possible means to disturb the international efforts and the adoption of a resolution of the UN Security Council to put an halt to the crisis in Lebanon. The statement said:
    The recent Israel's military invasion of Lebanon claimed the lives of many innocent civilians and wantonly violated human rights.
    In this regard, the UN Human Rights Council called a special meeting on the crisis in Lebanon on August 11 to adopt a resolution bitterly denouncing Israel for its invasion and mass killings of civilians, expressing condemnation over them.
    The infringement upon the sovereignty and mass killings of civilians by a war of aggression are the biggest human rights abuses recognized by the international law.
    The U.S. has revealed its true colors as the harasser of global peace and security, kingpin of state-sponsored terrorism and the biggest criminal against humanity by positively encouraging Israel in the aggression of Lebanon and mass killings of civilians.
    The U.S. has resorted to every possible means to disturb the international efforts and the adoption of a UNSC resolution to put a halt to the crisis in Lebanon.
    By doing so, it has positively encouraged Israel in its brutal mass killings and worked hard to establish its monopolistic domination over the Mideast region.
    It is the top priority of the international community to make a thorough-going investigation into and punish the chief criminals responsible for the crisis in Lebanon, a replica of the U.S. aggression of Iraq and mass killings of civilians.
    From this point of view, it is very natural that major international human rights bodies including the UN Human Rights Council have dealt with the mass killings of civilians committed by Israel as an emergency special agenda and taken measures one after another to vehemently denounce them.
    Nevertheless, the U.S. and some countries have made their efforts to attack independent countries under the pretext of human rights, turning aside from such biggest human rights abuses as mass killings of tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
    It is a typical example that the U.S. and its followers pull up the system of the DPRK where genuine human rights are fully provided for the people under various pretexts.
    It is an abnormal behavior as it is obviously a pattern of politicization of human rights, double standards and selective attack.
    The crisis in Lebanon that triggered bloody disaster in the wake of that in Iraq has given a serious lesson to the international community.
    The lesson is that unless the U.S. makes a switchover in its policy abusing the human rights issue as an all-powerful means for its interference into the internal affairs of other countries and world supremacy, it is impossible to fairly discuss the human rights issue.
    Human rights precisely mean national rights and the defence of human rights is the protection of national rights.
    Human rights without the sovereignty of the country and the strength to protect them are nothing but a fiction.
    The people of the DPRK will firmly defend the most precious socialist system of Korean style they have chosen and developed under the uplifted banner of Songun.

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Rodong Sinmun revela quien manipulo la agresion al Libano

    Pyongyang, 17 de agosto (ATCC) -- Aunque Israel apreto el gatillo en la agresion al Libano, quien tomo el control trasero es precisamente Estados Unidos. Revela el diario Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual del dia 17 y continua:
    Segun su estrategia de dominio del Medio Oriente, las fuerzas belicosas de Bush desoyen la demanda de la sociedad internacional de detener la agresion israeli al Libano.
    Pues el imperio trata de coordinar el problema del Medio Oriente promoviendo los actos agresivos del pais hebreo.
    Se puede decir que esa invasion es el preludio de agresion de EE.UU. a Iran. En esa area, Israel es brigada de choque de guerra de EE.UU. y Siria e Iran son "enemigos" de este.
    　EE.UU. piensa que para aplastar a Iran, uno de sus blancos de ataque estrategico, es imprescindible aniquilar por via militar a las fuerzas paramilitares de Hamas de Palestina e Hizbala (partido de Dios) del Libano. He aqui el objetivo principal por el cual EE.UU. instigo al estado sionista a lanzar la invasion armada contra el Libano pese a la fuerte protesta y denuncia de la sociedad internacional.
    De esta manera, EE.UU. trata de procurar un pretexto para la agresion a Iran, que apoya la lucha antiisraeli de las fuerzas insurgentes de Palestina y el Libano.
    EE.UU. ultimo los preparativos para provocar la guerra contra Iran. En Kuwait e Iraq estan acantonadas enormes fuerzas armadas norteamericanas mientras las flotas del mismo pais estan desplegadas concentradamente en el golfo persico.
    Como demuestran los hechos, EE.UU. es el malhechor que manipulando detras de la cortina a Israel, perturba la paz del Medio Oriente y busca nuevas guerras.

Premier de Namibia apoya la lucha del pueblo coreano

    Pyongyang, 17 de agosto (ATCC) -- No nos olvidamos de que el pueblo coreano brindo sincero apoyo a la lucha del pueblo namibio por la independencia. 　 Dijo asi el dia 8 el primer ministro de la Republica de Namibia, Nahas Angula, al embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario coreano acreditado en su pais, quien le hizo una visita de despedida.
    Apunto que la idea Juche concebida por el Presidente Kim Il Sung hizo un gran aporte a la lucha del pueblo namibio por la independencia y la construccion de una nueva sociedad y expreso irrestricto apoyo a la lucha del pueblo coreano por realizar por su propia cuenta la reunificacion del pais.

Maniobras anti-RPDC de Japon sobrepasan el limite alarmante -Comentario de ATCC-

    Pyongyang, 17 de agosto (ATCC) -- En estos dias, sobrepasan el limite alarmante las maniobras hostiles de Japon contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea. El Partido Democratico Liberal de Japon aprobo un "programa" del "proyecto de ley sobre medidas especiales para el control de transacciones financieras determinadas" y acelera preparativos para su "codificacion" en la dieta.
    Por otra parte, el gobierno nipon pretende aplicar las medidas de sancion financiera como la restriccion de remesas a la RPDC y formar un "cerco" contra esta en "alianza" con las fuerzas hostiles.
    Para colmo, se postulan como fuertes candidatos al poder del proximo periodo aquellos politiqueros extremistas que no vacilan en pronunciar palabras tan agresivas como "no descartar la posibilidad de atacar preventivamente a la RPDC". Esto es la realidad de la sociedad japonesa.
    En tanto, llega a su peor fase la frenetica campana de los reaccionarios japoneses contra la Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon (Chongryon).
    Este ano, el Ministerio de Manejo Publico, Asuntos Interiores, Correo y Telecomunicaciones de Japon obligo a 140 instituciones autonomas de todo el pais albergando instalaciones relacionadas con la Chongryon reexaminar las medidas de exencion de impuestos sobre estas.
    Con anterioridad, ya fueron canceladas o reducidas en 24 ciudades las mismas medidas sobre las propiedades fijas de esas instalaciones.
    Ademas, Japon prohibio la entrada del barco coreano "Mangyongbong-92" en el archipielago japones donde ultimamente se reportaron mas de 60 casos de maltrato sobre los alumnos de escuelas coreanas.
    Si bien el pais-isla vino recurriendo siempre a su politica hostil a Corea, las antagonicas relaciones bilaterales nunca estuvieron a punto de explosion como ahora.
    El problema es el descabellado modo de pensar de los japoneses en cuanto a Corea.
    En estos tiempos, al enfrascarse en la sancion contra la RPDC y la represion anti-Chongryon en adhesion a la politica hostil de EE.UU., el pais isleno pretende perturbar la situacion regional y sacar sus provechos.
    Pues, este pais tiene el vicio cronico de sacrificar a otros para sus intereses y convertirse en un "Estado normal".
    Ahora los reaccionarios japoneses tratan de producir el efecto de tres pajaros de un tiro en el manejo del problema coreano.
    Especificamente dicho, quieren ganar mayor numero de votos en el cambio del poder al evadir la responsabilidad por la liquidacion del pasado criminal -algo pendiente aun en el nuevo siglo- desviando la atencion de la sociedad internacional, agradarle a EE.UU. mostrandose mas activista que nadie en el cumplimiento de la politica hostil de este y al sembrar entre los habitantes japoneses el "odio" hacia la RPDC abusando del sentimiento nacionalista.
    Para este fin, ellos necesitan llevar a la coyuntura de confrontacion las relaciones bilaterales.
    Entre ambos paises queda pendiente todavia el problema de liquidar la historia criminal que escribieron en el siglo pasado los imperialistas japoneses al practicar la dominacion colonial sobre Corea.
    　Sacar lecciones de esa historia ensangrentada e indemnizar sinceramente a los paises danados es lo fundamental para recuperar la moralidad politica de Japon.
    Cada vez que se torna tensa la situacion de la Peninsula Coreana, este pais comete mas ultrajes y acosos contra los coreanos residentes ahi, victimas directas de la politica colonial de Japon, y sus descendientes. Tales actos no se difieren en nada del barbaro modo de dominacion de Japon militarista en el siglo pasado.
    Pero, la campana de sancion y represion contra la RPDC muestra unicamente la vulnerabilidad de los reaccionarios japoneses.
    La confianza internacional no se consigue con el deseo y la historia no se cambia con gestos enganosos de un dia u otro.
    Seria mejor que Japon se reflexione primero de si mismo antes de difamar y mantenerse a distancia de su vecino.

Rodong Sinmun apoya lucha de amplias masas surcoreanas

    Pyongyang, 17 de agosto (ATCC) -- Los habitantes surcoreanos de distintos sectores intensifican cada dia mas la lucha contra Estados Unidos, Japon y el "gobierno" con la firme voluntad de preservar la paz del pais y la seguridad nacional frente a las maniobras de agresion y guerra de las fuerzas foraneas y a los belicistas proyanquis, y de seguir firmemente por el camino de reunificacion independiente de la patria. 　Asi subraya el diario Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual del dia 17 y prosigue:
    　Para preservar la paz en la Peninsula Coreana y lograr por via pacifica la reunificacion del pais, es preciso oponerse a las maniobras de agresion y guerra y eliminar el peligro de guerra.
    　En estos tiempos, los imperialistas norteamericanos maniobran freneticamente para derrumbar a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea que avanza con dinamismo por el camino del socialismo enarbolando la bandera de independencia antimperialista. Para este fin, se esfuerzan perversamente por formar un "cerco internacional" contra la RPDC mientras recurren al aumento armamentista y simulacros belicos para agredirla.
    　Debido a la aventurera campana anti-RPDC de los yanquis, la tension militar de la Peninsula Coreana llega a la fase de explosion.
    　Esta situacion tan tirante de hoy nos demanda intensificar la lucha por la cooperacion nacional a fin de preservar la paz y defender la seguridad del pais porque esta empresa no es para una parte de la patria dividida en el Norte y el Sur sino para el destino de toda la Peninsula Coreana y toda la nacion coreana.
    　En caso de estallar una nueva guerra en esta peninsula por tal temeraria provocacion militar de EE.UU., resulta obvio que las armas nucleares de los yanquis acarrearan tremendos desastres a todos los connacionales del Norte y el Sur de Corea.
    　Sin embargo, los belicistas proyanquis del Sur de Corea actuan como si echaran lenas al fuego.
    　La situacion demuestra a las claras que para detener la guerra, preservar la paz en la Peninsula Coreana y realizar la reintegracion territorial, hay que desplegar con mas audacia la lucha contra las maniobras de agresion y guerra de los imperialistas norteamericanos y los actos serviles al imperio de los belicistas surcoreanos.
    　La nacion coreana es precisamente el encargado directo de preservar la paz y prevenir la guerra en la Peninsula Coreana que se convierte en un lugar de confrontacion aguda entre la guerra y la paz.
    　Los habitantes surcoreanos deben marchar con mayor firmeza por el camino de lucha optado por si mismos para la paz y la seguridad en esta tierra.