Adoption of Anti-DPRK "Human Rights Resolution" at UN Assailed

    Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Monday as regards the adoption of a "human rights resolution" against the DPRK at the third committee of the UN General Assembly: The anti-DPRK "human rights resolution," a product of the collusion and tie-up among hostile forces including the U.S. and the EU was railroaded through a meeting of the third committee of the 61st UN General Assembly on Nov. 17.
    The resolution fabricated by hostile forces, toeing the U.S. line, is full of sheer lies that can convince no one as was the case with the similar one adopted last year.
    For this reason the majority of UN member nations including almost all developing countries clarified their principled stands either by voting against it, abstaining from voting or boycotting the meeting. This proves that the resolution, in fact, has no legal validity.
    The U.S. and other hostile forces are sadly mistaken if they think they can frighten us by debasing and slandering the inviolable dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK over its "human rights issue".
    The U.S. and other western countries are deliberately sidestepping serious human rights abuses such as extreme racial discrimination and keeping the world's biggest number of prisoners and horrendous human rights violations such as massacre of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon and other countries, while bringing absurd charges of "violation of human rights" to some countries. This eloquently proves that the politicization of the human rights issue, selectivity and double standards concerning it have gone beyond a tolerance limit in the international arena.
    The U.S. and the EU had better put an end to their own human rights abuses before finding fault with the human rights performance in other countries.
    We categorically reject the recent "human rights resolution" as a product of their anti-DPRK political plot.

Iranian President Supports DPRK's Efforts for Denuclearization

    Tehran, November 19 (KCNA) -- The Iranian government and people have positively supported the Korean people in their efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when meeting a delegation of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly headed by its Chairman Choe Thae Bok on Nov. 18. Noting that all the progressive countries in the world should resolutely stand as a united force against the imperialists' moves for split and alienation, the Iranian president went on:
    The Pyongyang visit paid by Seyed Ali Khamenei and his meeting with President Kim Il Sung marked a historic occasion in the development of the relations between the two countries.
    The Iranian president underscored the need to boost the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries in economic and other fields in order to match a high level of the political relations between Iran and the DPRK.
    Present there were members of the delegation and the DPRK ambassador to Iran.

Young Footballers Delight Nation

    Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- The news that young footballers won the recent AFC Under-19 Soccer Championship after the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Soccer Championship in September is making the nation happy. Upon hearing the news of the football result, Pak Chol, vice-minister of the Chemical Industry told KCNA that the success of the footballers was a pride of the Korean people striving to build a prosperous and powerful nation. The spirit and will displayed by the soccer players, he added, demonstrated the offensive spirit and indomitable will of the Korean people who are advancing forward toward the victory, under the complex international situation.
    Ji Chol Song, 72, former manager of a large factory, had this to say: Viewing the football march through the TV, I was moved to tear. The match made me 10 years younger. I drew fresh courage and was dominated by an irresistible impulse to do something for the country and the people.
    The news inspired athletes in particular.
    Ri Ung Ju, boxing coach of the Pyongyang City Sports Group, said that his boxers are full of resolution to demonstrate the honor of the country with stubborn fighting spirit shown by the footballers at the international games to be held and are intensifying training with a higher goal.
    The news of the football match is also the topics at streets, families and working sites.
    Parents educate their children so they can do a great thing for the country and people as the footballers did.
    Workers in the sectors of the railway transport and electric power production are registering fresh successes with a resolution to devote themselves to the development of the country with increased transportation and production.

Hydro-power Stations under Construction

    Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- The construction of hydro-power stations is progressing apace in different parts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. A huge blasting was conducted at the construction site of the Wonsan Youth Hydro-power Station recently to secure enough gravels and sand. The constructors are now pushing ahead with various projects including building dams in the upper and lower parts of the river and cladding dams with stones.
    They are carrying out their daily assignment at 120 percent in the project of covering the water tunnel with concrete.
    Those in charge of assembling generators have finished in the main the assembling of facilities and the electric power system projects so as to produce electricity at hydro-power stations Nos. 2, 3 and 4.
    A collective innovation has been reported from the construction site of the Orangchon Hydro-power Station.
    The builders there have introduced efficient construction methods in the assembling of generators, closing up of the temporary drainage and the foundation work, thus making it possible to carry out the projects ahead of the schedule.
    The workers of the construction site of the Ryesonggang Hydro-power Station have done the earthen dam project 95 percent and are putting the finishing touch to the construction of the generating room and the assembling of turbines Nos. 1 and 2.
    They have finished the assembling of cylinder for turbines and guide wing and the installment of the waterproof door.
    Innovations are taking place at the construction site of the Kumyagang Hydro-power Station, too. The workers there doubled the speed of concrete tamping that in the corresponding period of last year. In recent they have built the dam ten meters higher, carrying on the projects of building the generating room and retaining wall on the left bank in the downstream and the sluiceway project.
    Besides, many minor hydro-power stations are being dynamically built in different parts of the country to make an effective use of stream water.

Green Gram Pancake, Health Food

    Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- Green gram pancake is one of favorite national foods native to Korea. It is a health food as it has protein, carbohydrate, vitamins and various nutritive substances and a detoxification function.
    Green gram pancake with a long history had been called "Makbuchi" which means a fried food for guests. And its cooking methods varied according to areas.
    However, the cooking method used in the north and south Phyongan provinces centering on Pyongyang has been widely disseminated.
    The method is to fry in lard the pancake with a piece of sliced pork in the center.
    It has been a living custom in Korea to put the green gram pancake on the birthday and wedding tables.

Japanese Reactionaries' Anti-Chongryon and Anti-DPRK Campaign Flayed

    Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are bitterly denouncing the Japanese reactionaries for their reckless and frantic hostile policy against and suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and the Koreans in Japan with the nation's towering rage, declares Rodong Sinmun Monday. Commenting on this, an analyst of the paper declares:
    The Japanese reactionaries have banned the entry of the DPRK ship "Mangyongbong-92" into Japanese ports, restricted the reentry permit for Koreans in Japan, cancelled the reduction and exemption of taxes on fixed assets of Chongryon and perpetrated arson, destruction, threat, violence and wild blast against Chongryon organizations and students of Korean schools in Japan in an unbroken chain. All these go to prove their indiscreet anti-Chongryon campaign.
    Their anti-ethnic, inhuman crimes against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan vividly remind us of the atrocities of the Japanese imperialist brutes that imposed unbearable slavery and national humiliation upon the Korean people and whipped themselves into frenzy to exterminate the Korean nation once and for all during their colonial rule over Korea.
    Their hostile acts and frenzied suppression of the bare-handed Chongryon and Koreans in Japan clearly show that they are barbarians ignorant of elementary international law, diplomatic usage and morality and a group of gangsters accustomed to terrorism and human rights abuses.
    They should clearly know that any form of sanctions against and suppression of Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan are immediately unpardonable criminal acts of infringing upon the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK.
    It is an unshakable stand and will of the Korean people to answer Japan's sanctions with tougher retaliation and strictly settle account with it with regard to all its crimes. The tighter the Japanese reactionaries cling to political repression and persecution to put down and harass Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan, the fiercer are the hatred and revengeful thought of the army and people of the DPRK against Japan, their sworn enemy.
    They should stop at once their reckless suppression of Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan, deeply pondering over its catastrophic consequences, and drop their malicious hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Kim Jong Il Sends Wreath to Bier of Late Sim Won Il

    Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il Monday sent a wreath to the bier of the late Colonel General of the KPA Sim Won Il who is deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, expressing deep condolences over his death.

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MINREX rechaza nueva "resolucion de derechos humanos" contra RPDC

    Pyongyang, 20 de noviembre (ATCC) -- En relacion con la "resolucion de derechos humanos" contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, aprobada en el tercer comite de la Asamblea General de la ONU, el portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la RPDC declaro el dia 20 a la Agencia Telegrafica Central de Corea como lo siguiente: En la reunion del dia 17 del tercer comite del 61o periodo de sesiones de la Asamblea General de la ONU fue aprobada de manera coercitiva la llamada "resolucion de derechos humanos" contra la RPDC como producto de la confabulacion de Estados Unidos, la Union Europea y otras fuerzas hostiles.
    Al igual que la otra aprobada el ano pasado, la nueva esta redactada de punta a cabo a base de absurdos datos fraudulentos e inventados, que no tienen nada de veracidad.
    Por eso, en la votacion del "proyecto de esa resolucion", la mayoria de los paises miembros de la ONU, incluyendo casi todos los paises en vias de desarrollo, mostraron sus posiciones de principios al votar en su contra o con la abstencion y al ausentarse. Esto demuestra que ese documento perdio en realidad su legalidad.
    Seria una idea muy ridicula si EE.UU. y otras fuerzas hostiles piensan asustar a la RPDC al insultar arbitrariamente la dignidad y el poder intocables de ella acusandola del "problema de DDHH".
    La situacion actual en que se cuestiona el problema de derechos humanos de algunos paises haciendo vista gorda de la horrenda violacion de DDHH en EE.UU. y otros paises del occidente, en particular, la extremada discriminacion racial y el mayor numero de prisioneros a escala mundial, y del genocidio de civiles y otros macro-crimenes violatorios de DDHH, que se cometen en Iraq, Afganistan, Palestina, Libano, etc., muestra elocuentemente que hoy dia sobrepasan su limite en la arena internacional la politizacion, la selectividad y el doble rasero en el trato de este problema.
    EE.UU. y la UE deben resolver primero los problemas internos de la violacion de derechos humanos de todo tipo antes de reprochar a otros paises.
    La RPDC rechaza total y resueltamente la nueva "resolucion de derechos humanos" calificandola de un producto del complot politico contra si misma.

Minju Joson comenta aumento armamentista en el Sur de Corea

    Pyongyang, 20 de noviembre (ATCC) -- En un comentario individual difundido la vispera el periodico Minju Joson condeno a las autoridades militares surcoreanas que introducen desde Estados Unidos un gran numero de armas de exterminio masivo y otros equipos militares, al tiempo que desarrollan por propia cuenta nuevos armamentos. De acuerdo con las fuentes, ellas anunciaron que iniciaran desde 2007 la prueba de la operacion del sistema de radar movil y tratan de emplazar los tanques de fabricacion surcoreana desde 2011.
    Por otra parte, intentan importar dentro de dos o tres anos de EE.UU. una parte de los ultramodernos equipos de guerra nuclear y las armas sofisticadas como el caza "F-15K", el destructor tipo Aegis y los misiles teledirigidos aire-tierra, lo cual estaba programado hasta 2012.
    Lo grave del caso es que el desarrollo y el emplazamiento de esos armamentos, en que se gastan fabulosos fondos, no son para defender la seguridad nacional de la agresion de las fuerzas foraneas.
    En efecto, las autoridades militares surcoreanas dicen abiertamente que tales labores "apuntan al Norte de Corea" revelando por si solas que andan enloquecidas por la confrontacion fratricida en adhesion a las maniobras de EE.UU para atropellar a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
    La confrontacion fratricida es un acto de suicidio y en la guerra no puede haber piedad.
    @Quienes se arremeten con armas contra sus coterraneos en fidelidad a los agresores foraneos, se arruinaran tragicamente.
    Los belicistas surcoreanos deben reflexionar de las graves consecuencias que emanen de su provocativo aumento armamentista.
    Al recobrar el juicio aunque desde ahora, las autoridades militares surcoreanas deben ponerse al lado de la nacion y dirigir el fusil a los agresores norteamericanos que durante mas de 60 anos ocupan el territorio surcoreano con las fuerzas armadas y acarrean el nubarron de una nueva guerra nuclear.

CRPP denuncia "teoria de ataque preventivo" de belicistas surcoreanos

    Pyongyang, 20 de noviembre (ATCC) -- En el recien "foro internacional sobre el poder aereo" coauspiciado por el "Instituto de Gestion" de la Universidad Yonse del Sur de Corea y un Instituto de Estados Unidos, los "profesores" de la Academia Militar de la Fuerza Aerea Surcoreana dijeron que hay que asestar "ataque preventivo" a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea. El portavoz del Comite por la Reunificacion Pacifica de la Patria (CRPP), en la informacion no. 927 publicada el dia 18, senalo que tales palabras significan un intento de los belicistas surcoreanos que haciendo eco de la campana de la sancion y presion y las maniobras belicas de EE.UU. se proponen desatar la guerra nuclear en la Peninsula Coreana y continuo:
    La fuerza disuasiva nuclear de la RPDC es para preservar la paz frente a las maniobras de sancion y presion y la amenaza nuclear de EE.UU., y no es para amenazar al Sur de Corea.
    Las fuerzas belicosas de la capa militar del Sur de Corea hablan mucho de la "amenaza" de la RPDC y de la "teoria de ataque preventivo". Esto es una intolerable provocacion a esta y un acto antinacional de servir a EE.UU. de brigada de choque de la guerra nuclear de agresion al Norte.
    Esto prueba que no es casual que las fuerzas belicistas surcoreanas dan acicate a los ejercicios militares de agresion al Norte y al aumento armamentista bajo la instigacion de EE.UU. y que ellas persiguen el malsano proposito de desatar nueva guerra en confabulacion con las fuerzas extranjeras.
    El "ataque preventivo al Norte" es la provocacion de la guerra nuclear.
    Las fuerzas belicistas surcoreanas que se portan como ejecutor de la guerra nuclear de EE.UU. deben actuar con prudencia teniendo presente de que no podran evitar la ignominiosa derrota ante el contraataque despiadado de la RPDC.