U.S. Termed Harasser of Global Peace

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The United States is a harasser of global peace because its "war on terrorism" has brought to the international community nothing but terror, retaliation, massacre, disaster, uneasiness and horror. Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    Five years have passed since the Bush administration declared "war on terrorism" in the wake of "September 11 incident." The U.S. ruling quarters claim that the "anti-terrorism war" is for the sake of the global peace and security but it is, in essence, aimed to achieve their aggressive purpose and the ambition for world domination.
    It is not secret that the "war on terrorism" which the U.S. started as part of retaliatory actions following the "September 11 incident" has spilled over into a war to bring down progressive countries, going beyond the original nature, purpose and framework of its military operation.
    The aim sought by the U.S. in the Afghan war was to keep its forces in Central Asia, encircle and contain China and Russia and thus put strategic natural resources in the region under its control and expand the sphere of its domination in Asia and Europe.
    The U.S. which used to abuse the UN as a means for overseas aggression in the past even discarded the voting machine of UN and openly opted for aggression against other countries under the signboard of "war on terrorism." The U.S. ruling quarters cited the issue of "development of weapons of mass destruction including biological and chemical weapons" and "anthrax case," etc. to brand Iraq as a "terrorism sponsor" and a "rogue state." They even pedaled the rumor that the Saddam Hussein government was linked with Al-Qaeda.
    By doing so the U.S. sought to put Iraq under its occupation and domination, keep firm grip on oil rich Mid-east and establish an energy monopoly in a bid to control world economy and expand its political and military domination worldwide.
    The U.S. chose a preemptive attack as a principal method of waging the "war on terrorism." The U.S. war-like forces designated several countries including the DPRK as targets of nuclear attack, expanding the sphere of use of nuclear weapons and adopting preemptive nuclear attack as their policy. This more clearly testified to the fact that the U.S. strategy to escalate the "war on terrorism" is a very dangerous military strategy as it calls for resorting without hesitation to fresh and more destructive aggression against other countries, state terrorism, military intervention and war under the signboard of "combating terrorism" and acts of inflicting a nuclear holocaust upon humankind.
    Only destruction awaits the aggressors and war fanatics who have committed all sorts of crimes while waging the "war on terrorism" characterized by state-sponsored terrorism, monstrous massacre and destruction unprecedented in history. Death sentence has already been passed on them. The Bush forces had better drop its criminal ambition to dominate the world.

Rodong Sinmun on Criminal History of Japan's Invasion of Korea

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean people always remember the crimes of the Japanese imperialists in thrusting their dark wounds never to be healed upon the Korean nation after stretching their dark tentacles of aggression on Korea from long ago, declares a Rodong Sinmun article Wednesday. Recalling that the Japanese militarists 131 years ago cooked up the "Unyo-maru" incident in order to bring the feudal government of the Ri dynasty into submission by arms threat and blackmail and force upon it a subjugating unequal treaty for aggression, the author of the article goes on:
    Under the pretext of the incident, the Japanese imperialists fabricated the "Kanghwa Island Treaty" in a brigandish manner and paved the way for intruding into Korea in all fields, political, economic and military.
    The 12-article "Kanghwa Island Treaty" provided for opening Korean ports and allowing Japan to survey the coastal sea of Korea and draw its sea chart. It was an utterly illegal "treaty" cooked up under the Japanese imperialists' military threat and coercion against the Korean nation's will and interests. It was an unequal document of aggression aimed at political, economic and military intrusion into Korea and subjugation of it.
    The Japanese imperialists thrust their dark aggressive claws deep into Korea through the "treaty." Later, in 1905, they forged the "Ulsa Five-Point Treaty" and occupied Korea by force of arms to impose immeasurable misfortunes, sufferings and calamities upon the Korean people by pursuing the harshest ever colonial fascist rule over Korea for over 40 years.
    Endless is the list of the crimes committed by Japan in the past days beginning with the fabrication of the "Unyo-maru" incident--invasion and colonization of Korea, medieval terror policy, cunning cultural rule, plunder of human and material resources, brutal suppression and killing of Koreans and extermination of Korean national culture.
    Many years have passed since militarist Japan met its ruin while running about like a mad dog in aggression and war. However, the aggressive nature of the Japanese militarists has not changed at all.
    Now they are whetting the sword sharp to stage a comeback to Korea, shouting themselves hoarse to whip up militarism, buoyed by wild ambition for overseas expansion.
    The Japanese militarists are the long-time sworn enemy of the Korean nation.
    The Korean nation will surely force Japan to pay for their past crimes.

Kim Yong Nam Meets First Vice-President of Council of State of Cuba

    Havana, September 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with Raul Castro, first vice-president of the Council of State of Cuba, on Sept. 18. At the meeting Kim Yong Nam conveyed to him Kim Jong Il's words of consolation and best wishes for an early recovery of Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba.
    Raul said that Cuba and the DPRK are steadily advancing irrespective of any change in the international situation, stating the two countries would maintain the same stand in their foreign policies and major international issues.

Kim Yong Nam Meets Vietnamese President and Malaysian Prime Minister

    Havana, September 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on September 16 separately met and had a friendly talk with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi participating in the 14th NAM summit in Havana. At the meeting the Vietnamese President said that the party, state, government and people of Vietnam would boost the friendly and cooperative relations with the Korean people.
    The Malaysian Prime Minister extended thanks to Kim Jong Il for having paid deep attention to the strengthening of the non-aligned movement and the development of the relations between Malaysia and the DPRK.
    The relations between the two countries are on a very high level at present, he noted, adding he will boost them in all domains.
    He expressed the belief that the issue of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula would be settled in the interests of the Korean people thanks to the powerful strength of the people rallied close around Kim Jong Il.
    Meanwhile, Kim Yong Nam met the Algerian foreign minister and the Libyan secretary for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation at the summit.

Paek Nam Sun Meets New Chinese Ambassador

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met and conversed with new Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Liu Xiaoming who paid a courtesy call on him Wednesday. On hand were officials concerned of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the minister councilor of the Chinese embassy here.

FTA Negotiations Flailed

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- A protest rally and demonstration against the negotiations for the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement" (FTA) reportedly took place in front of the White House in the United States on Sept. 14, bringing together the expeditionary fighting group from south Korea for checking the conclusion of FTA, members of the Committee of Koreans residing in the U.S. against Neo-liberalism and South Korea-U.S. FTA and Koreans residing in the U.S. The declaration on the situation read out at the rally said the United States, at the third round of FTA negotiations, tried to force south Korea to let U.S. pharmaceutical business to meddle in the quotation of the prices of medicaments in south Korea, open the door for the commercialization and privatization of public enterprises through dealings at market prices and to loosen bank regulations.
    It accused the south Korean side of taking a humiliating stand toward such approaches of the U.S. and the "government" of accepting the resumption of the import of U.S. beef demanded by the latter as a precondition to the negotiations.
    Speakers at the rally declared that they would not stop their fight until the conclusion of FTA would have been completely thwarted.
    They said they would stage a fight of general turnout in south Korea in October and November.
    After the rally the protesters marched through streets, shouting slogans against FTA negotiations.

Kim Il Sung's Exploits in Party Building Praised

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Harpal Brar, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), answering a question put by a reporter about his impressions of the Monument to the Party Founding, said he learned a lot about the exploits performed by the great persons of the DPRK in founding and building the Workers' Party of Korea. The monument, he further said, brings to the good knowledge of the younger generation the immortal feats performed by President Kim Il Sung in party building and the proud history of the WPK, the organizer and guide of all victories. He continued:
    From the monument I can look over the panoramic view of the statue of the President standing on Mansu Hill.
    The President is always alive in the heart of humankind and is leading still today the struggle for accomplishing the global cause of independence to victory.
    His exploits in party building will be handed down through generations with the monument.
    Now the WPK is growing stronger as an invincible party under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il.
    It is our duty and mission to develop the relations between the two parties. We will make energetic efforts to this end.

10th Pyongyang International Film Festival Goes on

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The 10th Pyongyang International Film Festival that was opened on Sept. 13 is successfully going on. Showing during the festival are full-length feature films and TV program films (documentary, short and children's films) newly produced by several countries and international organizations in recent years. Films highly estimated at international film festivals are specially screened.
    Films screened at the Pyongyang International Cinema House include Chinese film "Taihang Mountain," Russian film "The Vesyegonsk's She-Wolf," French film "Not Here to Be Loved," Indonesian film "Joni's Promise," British film "Nanny McPhee," Belgian film "Off Screen" and Swiss film "Sternenberg."
    Specially screened on the occasion were Chinese documentary "President Kim Il Sung and Mr. Shang Yue" and German film "The Miracle of Bern" and others.
    The films screened at the People's Palace of Culture include Russian film "The Game-Keeper," Chinese film "The Parking Attendant in July," Chinese Hong Kong film "Shaolin Soccer," Egyptian film "Best Times" and British film "Bean."
    Films of various themes produced against the background of different times contribute to the success of the festival as they make a truthful artistic representation of the people's desire to live happily in an independent and peaceful new world free from all forms of domination, subjugation and social inequality and of their traditional lifestyles.

Hanchongryon Vows to Take Lead in Struggle

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) reportedly issued a statement on September 14 to express its will to take the lead in the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification. Referring to the fact that the U.S. and pro-American conservative forces are intensifying their aggression moves to reduce this land to a colony in all political, economic, military and cultural fields and blocking the independent dignity and great unity of the Korean nation, the statement said:
    Hanchongryon will more vigorously advance with firm faith, will and optimism in order to win victory in the struggle against the U.S. and the pro-American conservative forces.
    Hanchongryon will stand in the van of the struggle to oppose the U.S. moves to expand its military base in Phyongthaek aimed at preparations for a war on the Korean Peninsula and permanent presence of its troops in south Korea and check the negotiations for the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement," an agreement for economic plunder in colony.
    The organization will wage a powerful struggle for the abolition of the "National Security Law," evil law of the times, and an end to the anti-reunification moves of the pro-American conservative forces.
    The organization will take the road of struggle until independence, democracy and reunification of this land are realized.

Participants in Film Festival Appreciate Performance Given by State Symphony Orchestra

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Foreign delegations, delegates and guests of honor participating in the 10th Pyongyang International Film Festival together with working people in the city enjoyed a performance given by the State Symphony Orchestra at the Moranbong Theatre on Tuesday. The artistes of the orchestra put on the stage colorful pieces reflecting the unshakable faith and will of the army and people of the DPRK.
    The fourth movement "Glory to General Kim Jong Il" of the symphony suite "Long Journey for Songun Leadership," orchestral music "Arirang," "Mungyong Pass" and "Rich Harvest Comes to the Chongsan Plain" and a collection of famous music including "Don't Advance Night of Pyongyang," in particular, won the high acclamation of the audience.
    The performers also successfully performed foreign music pieces such as "Aria of Rogina" from the opera of Rossini "The Barber of Seville" and the overture of "The Bat" composed by J. Strauss to meet the ideological and thematic contents of the works.

Aid Materials from China

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The government of China provided the DPRK with aid materials including food and diesel fuel in connection with flood damage.

Rodong Sinmun on Three-Point Patriotic Movement

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The patriotic movement for national independence, peace against war and great national unity is a just movement to frustrate the moves of the foreign forces against reunification of Korea and energetically push forward the cause of national concord, peace and reunification of the country under the banner of "By our nation itself." Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article, and goes on:
    Independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity are the main tasks of the Korean nation in their struggle for reunification of the country. Herein lies the road ahead of the Korean nation and the target of its struggle.
    Independent reunification is the supreme task of the Korean nation.
    The Korean nation, which is undergoing the tragedy of national division by the foreign forces, should always maintain independence, reject foreign interference and settle the issue of national reunification by itself on the principle of national independence.
    Peace against war is the supreme task to defend the life and security of the nation.
    To prevent the foreign forces from provoking a war and defend peace is a national task which brooks no further delay for the security and future of the nation and reunification of the country.
    Great national unity, the basic way of strengthening the driving force of national reunification, gives a decisive guarantee for independent reunification and constitutes its essential content. Independent reunification and peace against war should be achieved by the great national unity.
    The three-point patriotic movement -- independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity -- is the struggle to obtain the basic interests of the Korean nation.
    The Korean nation, which struggles for national reconciliation and unity, peace and reunification, cannot talk about patriotism apart from the three-point patriotic movement.

Creativity, Attribute of Human Being

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The Juche idea expounds that creativity is an attribute of man, the social being who transforms the world purposefully and shapes his destiny. Man does not use the natural living materials as they are but changes them for use and converts the unfavorable living environment in his favor and creates what he needs.
    Man makes the working tools and technical means with which he creates materials and cultural wealth. And man overthrows the old social system and establishes a new one.
    It is an essential characteristic of man differing from other organisms to transform and develop the nature and society and carve out his destiny in accordance with his will and want.
    Such characteristic is called the creativity of man.
    Having creativity means that man has a creative ability.
    When the creativity is called an attribute of man remaking the nature and society, the creative ability is the capability of man to transform the nature and society.
    Unthinkable apart from creativity is the creative power, and vice versa.
    The socialist system of Korea under which the working people are the master of everything provides them with all conditions so that they can enjoy a worthwhile creative life.

Folk Games Encouraged in DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean people, optimistic and emotional, have created and enjoyed a lot of folk games and amusements from olden times. Folk games include archery, swinging, seesaw and Korean wrestling for training martial arts and for building physical strength.
    And there are amusements such as singing- and dancing-party reflecting beautiful melody and lively rhythmic movement, intelligence match for study and rest, entertainment for improving cultural knowledge, children's amusements and so on.
    Typical of them are dancing and singing of peasants, masquerade, yut, Korean chess, paduk (go), top spinning, rope jumping, sleigh riding, kite flying, shuttlecock, cat's-cradle, knee fighting and dyeing fingernails with pink touch-me-not flower.
    Tug-of-war, playing with sticks and ball and various other games cultivate players' spirit of loving neighborhood, collective and the nation.
    These games and amusements are now encouraged to foster national character among the working people, school youth and students.

Greetings to Prime Minister of Belize

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize, on the occasion of the 25th independence day of his country. Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would more favorably develop, the message sincerely wished him greater success in his work for the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of its people.

Preparatory Committee for Commemorating Day of Sun and Feb. 16 Inaugurated

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- A preparatory committee for commemorating the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, and February 16, the birthday of Kim Jong Il, in 2007 was inaugurated by the Association for Friendship with the Korean People headquartered in Spain on Sept. 11. Alejandro Cao de Benos, chairman of the association, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee and the representative of the Norwegian branch of the association who is its international director its first secretary and the representative of the U.S. branch of the association who is its international information secretary its second secretary.
    The preparatory committee decided to hold an Internet seminar on the Songun leadership exploits of the peerlessly great persons, a photo exhibition and film show, issue a special information bulletin and arrange the visit of a delegation to the old home of Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae and the old home of Kim Jong Il in the secret camp of Mt. Paektu on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and February 16 in 2007.

DPRK's Birthday Celebrated Abroad

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- A film show, photo exhibition and an art performance were held in Laos and meetings took place in Austria and Ecuador from Sept. 5 to 11 on the occasion of the 58th founding anniversary of the DPRK. On display in the venues of the events were photos showing the glorious revolutionary history and immortal feats of the peerlessly great persons.
    Participants of the film show watched Korean film "Steel-Strong Ranks, Korean People's Army."
    The deputy prime minister and foreign minister of the Lao government, after watching the film, said that the U.S. dares not to invade the DPRK as it has the KPA grown to be steel-strong ranks under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, illustrious commander born of Heaven.
    The minister of Health of Laos, after looking round the photos on display, noted that the appearance of the army and people single-mindedly united around Kim Jong Il convinced him that the DPRK has a rosy future.
    The chairman of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and the DPRK in a speech at the meeting stressed that the history of the DPRK would be unthinkable without Kim Il Sung, the eternal President of the Korean people, highly praising the undying feats he performed by defeating the Japanese and U.S. imperialists and turning the DPRK into a socialist powerful nation independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence.
    A mayor of Loja Province of Ecuador in a speech at the meeting paid highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who has led socialist Korea to victory, saying that the reality of Korea clearly proves that a country, though small, can defeat any formidable enemy when it has powerful military force for self-defence and all its people are united close around their leader.
    A message of greetings to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting held in Austria.

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Rodong Simnun califica a EE.UU. de perturbador de la paz mundial

    Pyongyang, 20 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun inserto en su edicion del dia 20 un comentario individual que va en particular: Estados Unidos es perturbador de la paz mundial, porque la "guerra contra el terrorismo" acarreo a la sociedad internacional solo el terror y represalia, la matanza y calamidad, la inquietud y horror.
    Ya se cumplen los 5 anos desde cuando la administracion Bush declaro la "guerra antiterrorista" con motivo del "incidente del 11 de septiembre".
    La capa predominante del imperio difunde el rumor de que la "guerra antiterrorista" es para la paz y la seguridad del mundo. Pero, en su esencia, es para lograr su finalidad agresiva y su ambicion de dominio al mundo.
    Ya es bien de notoriedad que la "guerra antiterrorista" desatada por EE.UU. como una accion de represalia al "incidente del 11 de septiembre" se expande a una conflagracion de conquista a los paises progresistas rebasando el caracter, el objetivo y el marco de la operacion militar anterior.
    En la guerra afgana la superpotencia persiguio el objetivo de estacionar sus tropas en Asia central para cercar y mantener a raya a China y Rusia, apoderarse de los recursos estrategicos de esta region y extender la esfera de su dominio a Asia y Europa.
    En el pasado EE.UU. se valio de la ONU como aparato para la agresion a ultramar. Y ahora, bajo el rotulo del "antiterrorismo", toma a su antojo el camino de la guerra de agresion a otros paises, sin aprobacion de la ONU. Para convencer al mundo de que Irak es un "pais de apoyo al terrorismo" y "Estado bribon", los dominantes estadounidenses acusaron a este pais del problema del "desarrollo de las armas bioquimicas y otras de exterminio masivo" y del "incidente de bacteria de carbunco". Y difundieron hasta el rumor de que el gobierno de Saddam Hussein estaba vinculado con "Al-Qaeda".
    De esta manera EE.UU. pretendio realizar la ocupacion y dominacion sobre Irak, controlar el Medio Oriente abundante en los recursos petroleros, manejar a su antojo la economia mundial mediante el establecimiento de la exclusividad energetica y extender en el ambito mundial su dominio politico-militar.
    El pais estadounidense tomo el ataque preventivo por el metodo principal de la "guerra antiterrorista". Los belicistas estadounidenses definieron a la RPDC y otros varios paises como blancos de su ataque nuclear, amplificaron la esfera de uso de armas nucleares y politizaron el ataque preventivo nuclear. Con ello se hizo mas evidente que la "guerra antiterrorista" de EE.UU. es una estrategia militar muy aventurera para acometer la nueva agresion aun mayor, el terror estatal, la intervencion militar y la guerra so pretexto de "eliminacion del terror" y acarrear desastres nucleares a la humanidad de nuestro planeta.
    No podran evitar la autodestruccion los agresores, maniacos de guerra, que al desarrollar desesperadamente la "guerra antiterrorista" acometen terror estatal, matanzas y destrucciones, crimenes no vistos en la historia. Ellos estan condenados a la ruina.
    Las fuerzas de Bush deben abandonar su ambicion criminal de dominar al mundo.

Tiene lugar con exito el X Festival Internacional de Cine de Pyongyang

    Pyongyang, 20 de septiembre (ATCC) -- Se torna mas bullicioso el X Festival Internacional de Cine de Pyongyang, que levanto su telon el pasado dia 13. En la presente edicion se proyectan los filmes de largometraje, los documentales, cortometrajes y dibujos animados filmados en los ultimos anos en varios paises y organizaciones internacionales y las peliculas apreciadas en los festivales internacionales de cine.
    En la Casa Internacional de Cinematografia de Pyongyang se proyectaron la pelicula china "El monte Taihang", la rusa "Aulla el lobo", la francesa "No es para el amor", la indonesia "La promesa de Joni", la inglesa "La nodriza McPhee", la belga "Detras del telon", la suiza "La aldea Sternenberg", etc.
    Tambien se presentaron especialmente el documental chino "El Presidente Kim Il Sung y el senor Shang Yue", el filme aleman "Milagro de Berna", etc.
    En el Palacio Cultural del Pueblo se proyectaron la pelicula rusa "Guardabosque", la china "Julio del asistente de parqueo", la de Hong Kong de China "Futbol de Shaolin", la egipcia "Tiempo mas rico", la inglesa "Bean", etc.
    Las peliculas demuestran vividamente en cuadros artisticos la aspiracion de los pueblos a vivir felizmente en un nuevo mundo independiente y pacifico oponiendose a toda clase de dominio, subyugacion y desigualdad social, y las tradicionales costumbres nacionales de vida.

China ofrece a Corea materiales de asistencia

    Pyongyang, 20 de septiembre (ATCC) -- El gobierno de la Republica Popular China entrego gratis a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea alimentos, aceite pesado y otros materiales, en relacion con los danos ocasionados por inundaciones.

Espana: comite preparatorio para efemerides coreanas

    Pyongyang, 20 de septiembre (ATCC) -- La Asociacion de Amistad con Corea, que tiene su sede en Espana, constituyo el dia 11 el Comite Preparatorio para el Dia del Sol (15 de abril-cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung) y el 16 de febrero (cumpleanos del Dirigente Kim Jong Il) de 2007. @Como presidente de la entidad naciente fue electo Alejandro Cao de Benos, presidente de dicha Asociacion y como primer y segundo secretarios, el gerente internacional quien es el representante de la sucursal en Noruega y el secretario internacional de informacion quien es el representante de la sucursal en Estados Unidos, de dicha asociacion, respectivamente.
    @En ocasion de esas efemerides, el comite preparatorio decidio realizar un seminario por Internet sobre las hazanas de direccion de los grandes hombres simpares mediante el Songun (priorizacion militar), fotoexhibicion y proyeccion filmica, editar un numero especial de boletin y enviar una delegacion para visitar la Casa Natal del Presidente en Mangyongdae y la del Dirigente en el Campamento Secreto del Monte Paektu.