KPA Panmunjom Mission Terms "Ulji Focus Lens" War Action

    Panmunjom, August 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army issued a statement Tuesday condemning the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises that started in south Korea on Monday at a time when the U.S. has become ever more undisguised in its hostile policy towards the DPRK and its moves to isolate and stifle the latter and the stand-off between the DPRK and the U.S. has reached an extreme phase. The statement said:
    The KPA side can not but draw serious attention to the fact that these joint military exercises are timed to coincide with the largest-ever naval and air combined maneuvers staged in the waters off the Korean Peninsula and those exercises are staged after keeping a carrier strike flotilla on alert in waters near it.
    We are taking a serious note of the fact that the above-said war maneuvers were launched at a time when the DPRK and the U.S. are still in the relations of hostility and belligerence and after the former declared a war against the latter in a recent resolution of the UN Security Council adopted by wirepulling its followers.
    As clear to everyone, "Ulji Focus Lens" now underway in a terror-ridden atmosphere is obviously an undisguised military threat and blackmail against the DPRK and a war action going beyond the phraseology of violation of the Armistice Agreement (AA). No one can vouch that it would not go over to an actual war.
    The KPA has already clarified more than once that a preemptive military action against other side is not a monopoly of the U.S. and the KPA side, therefore, reserves the right to undertake a preemptive action for self-defence against the enemy at a crucial time it deems necessary to defend itself, now that the two countries still remain in the above-mentioned relationship due to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    The mission is authorized to state that the KPA side would not be bound to the AA in taking on its own initiative military measures for protecting the security and sovereignty of the country in the future, considering the ongoing war maneuvers as a war action declaring the AA null and void.

Cuban Embassy Officials Visit Exhibition of Works on Juche Idea

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Cuban Ambassador to the DPRK Ruben Perez Valdes and embassy officials visited the Exhibition of Works on the Juche Idea on August 21 on the occasion of the month of solidarity with the Cuban people. The guests looked round with keen interest the works and data on display, being briefed on the facts that President Kim Il Sung founded the Juche idea, Kim Jong Il deepened and developed the idea with his ideological and theoretical activities and they, peerlessly great men, wrote a great number of works to make immortal contributions to the accomplishment of the human cause of independence.
    They also visited King Tangun's Mausoleum. They went round stone sculptures and the chambers of the mausoleum, being briefed on the precious cultural treasure which proves the long history and homogeneity of the Korean nation.

Koreans in U.S. Commemorate August 15

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- The Headquarters of Koreans in the U.S. of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the Federation of Koreans in Western Region of the U.S., the Rasong Forum for Reunification and other national democratic movement organizations in Los Angeles held a seminar to commemorate August 15, the day of Korea's liberation, on August 15, according to Internet homepage Minjok Thongsin in the U.S. At the seminar speakers said that the Japanese chief executive openly visited the "Yasukuni Shrine," while Japan is now talking about a "preemptive attack" on the north, which is a clear proof that Japan will never repent of the history of crimes it committed against the Korean nation in the past.
    They charged that Japan has become undisguised in the expansion of military capability and schemed to scrap the "pacifist constitution" to revive militarism.
    Denouncing the U.S. for pursuing its imperialist domination policy in south Korea, occupying it for more than 60 years, they stressed that reunification is the cause of national liberation to drive the foreign forces out of south Korea.

Stop to S. Korea-U.S. Military Exercises Called for in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- 71 civic and social organizations of south Korea including the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification and the Anti-U.S. Women's Society reportedly called a press conference in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on August 18 to demand a stop to the south Korea-U.S. joint military exercises. A press release demanding a stop to the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises which call for a war was read out at the press conference. The release said that the joint military exercises to be staged from Monday are aimed at training the control of the crisis of south Korea-U.S. combined forces in case of emergency in the Korean Peninsula, reorganization of all work on a war footing and procedure of cooperation of the south Korea-U.S. combined forces and estimating and rounding off the deploying capacity of U.S. reinforcements.
    It can not but be an undisguised military pressure upon the north that the joint military exercises are being launched in the Korean Peninsula at the time when conflict between the north and the U.S. is being aggravated and the U.S. economic blockade against the north is surfacing, the release noted, stressing if the U.S. and the south Korean "government" truly want peace on the Korean Peninsula, they should stop the aggressive military drills.

Conservative Gangsters' Violence Denounced in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity, the People's Solidarity and the All-People Measure Committee for Checking the Expansion of the U.S. Military Base in Phyongthaek of south Korea reportedly made public a statement on August 17 condemning gangsters of conservative organizations for assaulting members of civic organizations. Gangsters under the "Pan-Conservative Alliance" perpetrated such group violence as kicking and beating members of the June 15 Youth Society in Taejon who were on their way home after taking part in an August 15 all-people rally for independence and peace in the plaza of the Seoul City Office on August 15.
    The attitude of conservative organizations goes to prove that they are nothing different from the erstwhile dictatorial "regimes" in their true colors, the statement noted, adding the conservative forces are inciting confrontation among Koreans, still not away from the way of thinking dating back to the era of the Cold War, and barring the progressive forces from expressing their political will by use of force.
    No matter how wild the conservative forces may run, they can never block the advance of people toward independence, peace and reunification and the political castaways of the times are bound to meet judgment of history, statement stressed.

Minju Joson on Korea's Unshakable Will to Force Japan to Settle Its Past

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Japan is a brigandish, shameless and sworn enemy of the Korean nation. The Koreans will surely force Japan to pay for the blood shed by them generation after generation. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary carried 96 years after the "Korea-Japan annexation treaty" was cooked up by the Japanese imperialists at the point of bayonet and by fraudulent means.
    The reactionaries of Japan are now working hard to evade its responsibility for apology and compensation and gratify their wild ambition for reinvasion of Korea, the commentary notes, and goes on:
    They have become more frantic than ever before in pursuing their hostile policy towards the DPRK since they made it a focus of their Asia policy. Reckless calls for "preemptive attack" on the DPRK are heard from among the Japanese reactionaries and they have become more undisguised in their moves to grab Tok Islet, part of the inalienable territory of Korea.
    The history and present reality clearly prove that Japan is the principal enemy of the Korean nation.
    The army and people of the DPRK will employ every possible means and method to force Japan to pay for the blood shed by the Koreans without fail.

Rodong Sinmun on Tradition of Juche Literature and Art

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- It is the important task which should be firmly grasped in the building of Juche-based literature and art to defend and successfully carry forward the tradition of revolutionary literature and art of the Workers' Party of Korea established in the flames of the anti-Japanese war, declares Rodong Sinmun in a signed article Tuesday. It goes on:
    The immortal famous masterpieces created by President Kim Il Sung during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle are the cream of the revolutionary literature and art of Korea and the eternal lifeline which constantly pushes forward Juche-based literature and art through generations.
    The revolutionary drama "Sea of Blood" performed in Manjiang in August Juche 25 (1936) 70 years ago is shedding light in history as one of the typical works among the immortal famous masterpieces created by the President in the days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
    The revolutionary literature and art created by the President in the days of the anti-Japanese war was the first in the history of human literature and art to put up the popular masses as the driving force of history and describe their position and role in social development and shaping of human destiny on a high plane. They thus propounded the truth that the popular masses are the master of their own destiny and that their independent idea and consciousness and creative activities are the very force pushing history forward.
    The anti-Japanese revolutionary literature and art based on the great idea and creative methods reflecting the demand of the times and the desire of the popular masses are precious assets and tradition of Korean nation's literature and art.
    With Kim Jong Il soaring as the lodestar leading the era of independence, the revolutionary literature and art of Korea began developing on a new higher stage with the anti-Japanese revolutionary literature and art created by the President as its brilliant tradition and a great flower garden of Juche-based literature and art spread in this land.
    Under the energetic guidance of Kim Jong Il, revolutionary novels and films based on the famous masterpieces have made their appearance and "Sea of Blood"-style revolutionary operas and "Mountain Shrine"-style dramas come into being. This is a successful inheritance of the tradition of anti-Japanese revolutionary literature and art and a precious fruition of the Juche-based literary and art revolution.
    Bright is the future of Juche-based literature and art of Korea as it is guided by Kim Jong Il who is carrying forward to accomplishment the revolutionary cause of Juche and it has the shining tradition of revolutionary literature and art.

Minju Joson on Danger of War in Korea

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- The joint military exercises "Ulji Focus Lens", a product of the U.S. ambition for invasion of the DPRK, indicate that the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK are going over to the phase of using force from the phase of economic blockade, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary. The exercises may go over to an all-out nuclear war against the DPRK any moment as they are now under way according to the "OPLAN 5027", the key point of which is to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK with nukes, the commentary warns, and says:
    The U.S. intention is to weaken the DPRK through economic blockade and swallow it up by force. What is serious is that the south Korean authorities are zealously joining the U.S. in its moves to provoke a war against the DPRK. This tells that they are going against the June 15 joint declaration.
    Recently, inter-Korean ministerial talks were deadlocked and projects for humanitarian aid suspended due to the south Korean authorities' servile attitude toward the U.S. to deteriorate the north-south relations.
    It is a wild daydream for the U.S. to seize the DPRK by force. The army and people of the DPRK are keeping sharp eyes on the U.S. war moves and will never allow the aggressors to intrude into the sky, land and waters of the DPRK even an inch. The U.S. should stop the adventurous war exercises against the DPRK at once and the south Korean authorities should stop depending on outsiders and take the road of national independence, though belatedly.

Hit Films Created

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) --The newly produced feature films "Diary of a Girl Student" and "Pyongyang Nalpharam" are now on screen in the DPRK, evoking a big response in the audience. The feature film "Diary of a Girl Student" convincingly shows on a high degree of ideological content and artistic value that the greatest property to be handed over to their children by parents is not honor or any expensive treasure but the pure-hearted conscience and the obligation to support the Party and the leader.
    Though based on the life of an ordinary family, the film is a hit and has opened up a new path in all aspects of the film art such as scenario, direction, shot, action, edition of scenes and film music.
    The feature film "Pyongyang Nalpharam" portrays the Pyongyang martial arts men who defended Muyedobothongji (illustrated book on martial arts) from the tentacles of the Japanese aggressors at the cost of their lives. It impressively says that the time-honored history, wisdom and dignity of a nation can be glorified only when it has a genuine fatherland.
    The film full of the soul and stamina of the Korean nation leaves deep impression on the audience for its unpredictably developing plot, exciting scenes and unique dramatic framework.
    Kim Jong Il wisely led the production of the feature films so as to mark a turning point in developing the Juche-based film art in the new era.

Blueberry, Special Product of Mt. Paektu

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Blueberry is a special product of Mt. Paektu in the DPRK. The blueberry gathering is at full swing in Samjiyon, Taehongdan and Paekam Counties and other areas of Ryanggang Province.
    Blueberry trees grow in mountainous areas 800-2,540 meters above the sea level.
    The tree puts forth buds late in May and opens its flower between late in June and late in July. And its fruit gets ripe in the first half of August.
    As blueberry contains such ingredients as sugar,protein, fatty substance, carbohydrate, tannin, organic acid (mainly citric acid), mineral matter, vitamins, anthocyan pigment, it is very good for health.
    It is efficacious for lowering cholesterol content in blood vessel, liver and kidney and preventing and curing heart and blood diseases.
    For its sterilizing power, it is also potent for the treatment of diseases of the internal organs, sedation of the central nerve and removal of poisoning by heavy metals and various kinds of drugs.
    The Paektusan Blueberry Processing Factory in Ryanggang Province produces various kinds of spirits and foodstuffs with blueberry as raw material.
    Paektusan Blueberry Wine is one of the famous ten spirits of the DPRK and popular at home and abroad.
    Meanwhile, the government has taken measures to deepen the research into blueberry and cultivate it in an artificial way in recent years.

Congratulations to PM of Equatorial Guinea

    Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of congratulations to Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfube upon his appointment as prime minister of Equatorial Guinea. The message wished him success in his job, expressing the belief that the bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation would continue to grow stronger in the future, too.

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"Ulji Focus Lens" declara invalidez de Acuerdo de Armisticio, revela EPC

    Pyongyang, 22 de agosto (ATCC) -- El portavoz de la Representacion del Ejercito Popular de Corea en Phanmunjom emitio este martes la siguiente declaracion: Quedaron iniciadas la vispera en el suelo surcoreano las maniobras militares conjuntas "Ulji Focus Lens" cuando EE.UU. intensifica la politica hostil a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y las maniobras para aislarla y atropellarla y llega a la peor fase la confrontacion entre ambas partes.
    El EPC presta mucha atencion al hecho de que estos ejercicios coinciden inusualmente con las macro-maniobras combinadas de fuerzas navales y aereas en aguas perifericas de la Peninsula Coreana y tienen a su disposicion unos grupos de portaaviones de ataque en espera en zonas inmediatas.
    Ademas, damos mas gravedad a que EE.UU. los desarrolla a sabiendas de que se halla en las hostiles relaciones beligerantes con la RPDC y, en particular, a unos dias despues de que haya hecho la declaracion de guerra a nombre del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU instigando a los paises satelites.
    Es evidente para todos que "Ulji Focus Lens", que se despliega en ese clima tan espeluznante, deviene una abierta amenaza y chantaje contra la RPDC y un acto belico mas grave que la violacion del Acuerdo de Armisticio.
    Por lo tanto, no hay ninguna garantia de que este simulacro no de paso a una guerra de verdad.
    El EPC reitero en varias ocasiones que ya que debido a la politica hostil de EE.UU. a la RPDC, ambos paises se hallan todavia en beligerancia, la accion militar de caracter preventivo contra otra parte no es algo exclusivo del primero sino el (EPC) tambien tiene derecho a pasar al primer golpe contra su adversario en un momento decisivo cuando lo considere necesario para autodefenderse.
    La Representacion del EPC en Phanmunjom declara autorizada que la parte del EPC considera los recien iniciados ejercicios de EE.UU. como acto belico anunciando la invalidez del Acuerdo de Armisticio y en lo adelante no se comprometera en nada a este en tomar de modo activo las medidas militares necesarias para la seguridad y la soberania del pais.

Corea cobrara sin falta el precio de sangre por parte de Japon

    Pyongyang, 22 de agosto (ATCC) -- Japon es un pais mas gansteril y descarado, enemigo jurado de la nacion coreana, y debe pagar de generacion en generacion el precio de sangre al pueblo coreano. Asi senala el periodico Minju Joson en un comentario individual del dia 22 dedicado al 96o aniversario de la falsificacion del "Tratado de Anexion de Corea a Japon" por la amenaza de bayoneta y fraude de los imperialistas japoneses.
    El comentarista continua:
    Hoy, los reaccionarios nipones evitan la responsabilidad de la disculpa e indemnizacion y maniobran con mas frenesi para realizar su ambicion de nueva agresion a Corea.
    Ellos ponen el foco de su politica asiatica a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y persiguen mas obstinadamente la politica hostil a esta. Pronuncian sin vacilacion la "teoria de ataque preventivo" contra nuestro pais y actuan con mas frenesi para usurpar la isla Tok, territorio propio de la nacion coreana.
    La historia y la realidad de hoy atestiguan que Japon es el peor enemigo de la nacion coreana.
    El ejercito y pueblo de Corea valdran de todos los medios y metodos para cobrar sin falta el precio de sangre de nuestra nacion.

Valiosas tradiciones de literatura y arte

    Pyongyang, 22 de agosto (ATCC) -- Defender y llevar adelante con brillantez las tradiciones de literatura y arte revolucionarios del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, preparadas en el fragor de la lucha antijaponesa, constituye una tarea importante para la construccion de esta rama de tipo jucheano. 　Asi comienza un articulo que difunde este martes el diario Rodong Sinmun y prosigue:
    　Las obras maestras creadas por el Presidente Kim Il Sung en el periodo de la lucha revolucionaria antijaponesa son el nucleo de literatura y arte revolucionarios de nuestro pais y la eterna linea vital que permite darles firme continuidad de generacion en generacion.
    　El drama revolucionario "Mar de sangre" estrenado en Manjiang en agosto del 25 (1936) de la Era Juche brilla en la historia como una de las obras representativas del Presidente creadas en el mismo periodo.
    En la literatura y arte de la revolucion antijaponesa, por primera vez en la historia de la humanidad de esta materia, el Presidente presento a las masas populares como sujeto de la historia y explico la posicion y el papel de ellas en el desarrollo social y la forja del destino del ser humano esclareciendo la verdad de que son ellas mismas el dueno de su propio destino y su conciencia ideologica independiente y actividades creadoras constituyen el motor de la historia.
    　La literatura y el arte en cuestion, que reflejan la demanda de la epoca y la aspiracion de las masas populares y estan basados en la gran idea y metodos de creacion, devienen preciosas riquezas y tradiciones literarias y artisticas de la nacion coreana.
    　Gracias al Dirigente Kim Jong Il, quien orienta la epoca de la independencia, la literatura y el arte revolucionarios de Corea se desarrollan en un nivel mas alto tomando por sus brillantes tradiciones los mismos de la revolucion antijaponesa creados por el Presidente.
    　Bajo su dinamica direccion, se dieron a luz las novelas y peliculas revolucionarias, adaptadas de las obras maestras del Presidente, y se crearon las operas y dramas revolucionarios al estilo de "Mar de sangre" y de "Ermita Songhwang", respectivamente.
    　Esto significa una brillante continuacion de las mencionadas tradiciones y el precioso resultado de la revolucion artistica y literaria de tipo jucheano.
    　Se abrira un horizonte mas amplio y prometedor para esta rama de nuestro pais porque cuenta con la direccion del Dirigente quien lleva adelante la causa revolucionaria del Juche y con esas brillantes tradiciones de literatura y arte revolucionarios.

Miembros de la embajada cubana visitan varios lugares de Corea

    Pyongyang, 22 de agosto (ATCC) -- Como colofon de las actividades para el mes de solidaridad con el pueblo cubano, el embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario, Ruben Perez Valdes, y otros miembros de la Embajada de la Republica de Cuba en Corea visitaron el dia 21 la Exposicion Permanente de Obras de la Idea Juche. 　Muy atentamente pasaron revista a las obras y datos expuestos escuchando explicaciones sobre el hecho de que el Presidente Kim Il Sung concibio la idea Juche y la profundiza y desarrolla el Dirigente Kim Jong Il con sus actividades ideo-teoricas, y de que estos grandes hombres sin iguales hicieron una inmortal contribucion a la realizacion de la causa de independencia de la humanidad al escribir muchas obras.
    　El mismo dia, los huespedes cubanos concurrieron al Mausoleo de Tangun donde escucharon explicaciones sobre los preciosos patrimonios culturales que prueban la larga existencia y el caracter homogeneo de la nacion coreana y vieron esculturas de piedra y la camara de cadaver.