Juche Idea Study Group Formed in Barbados
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Barbados Group for the Study of the Juche Idea was inaugurated with due ceremony in Bridgetown on Feb. 19.
David Denny, chairman of the July 26 Movement of Barbados, was elected chairman of the group.
February Holiday Celebrated
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held by the Polish Communist Party, the New Yugoslav Communist Party, the Swedish National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Finland-Korea Society, the Branch Center of the Cambodian Pyongyang Friendship Center and Progre School in Mali from Feb. 7 to 16 on the occasion of the February holiday.
Speeches were made at the meetings.
Juzef Lachut, chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Polish Communist Party, highly praised Kim Jong Il for having developed and enriched the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung through his energetic ideological and theoretical activities and led the confrontation with the U.S. to victory with his unique Songun policy and thereby firmly defended the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country.
Branko Kitanovic, general secretary of the New Yugoslav Communist Party, noted that the Workers' Party of Korea led by Kim Jong Il has achieved great successes in socialist construction and the field of foreign relations.
Richard Stenberg, chairman of the Swedish National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, noted that Kim Jong Il has wisely led the struggle to safeguard peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world and embody the Juche idea in all fields of the revolution and construction. Esko Koskinen, chairman of the Finland-Korea Society, said that the conferment of "International Kim Il Sung Prize" upon Kim Jong Il was high recognition of his undying feats.
Congratulatory messages to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the meetings.
Anti-U.S., Anti-War Actions Vowed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- South Korean civic and public organizations including the Reunification Solidarity and the People's Solidarity of south Korea reportedly held a meeting demanding a halt to the projected RSOI and declaring the anti-U.S., anti-war actions for 2007 in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Mar. 1.
Accusing the U.S. of planning to stage the RSOI in south Korea this year again, the speakers at the meeting rapped the on-going disturbing military moves as evidenced by the recent call made by the commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea for bolstering the U.S. troops and the deployment of F-117 Stealth fighter bombers in Kunsan.
All the peace-loving Korean people will turn out in the anti-U.S., anti-war actions if the U.S. stages the RSOI in pursuance of its anachronistic design to stifle the north by force of arms, they warned.
Anniversary of March First Popular Uprising Commemorated in Seoul
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- An event was reportedly held in Seoul on March 1, 88 years since the March First Popular Uprising.
The speakers there said that the pro-Japanese elements who should have been eliminated right after the liberation of Korea are still pursuing flunkeyism to serve foreign forces, calling on the people from all walks of life to unite to foil the attempt of the pro-Japanese, pro-U.S. and anti-reunification forces to seize power.
The desire of the participants in the uprising for national independence has not yet come true due to the moves of the outsiders and anti-reunification forces, they said, urging the south and the north to frustrate the Japanese reactionaries' ambition to grab the territory of Korea by their concerted efforts.
A memorial service for the martyrs of the March First independence movement and a meeting to commemorate its anniversary was held on the same day under the sponsorship of the Council for Promoting Compensation to the Pacific War Victims, etc.
Minju Joson Ridicules Japan Covetous of Permanent Membership of UNSC
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Japan should not overreach itself with an eye to a responsible position of the United Nations, but make a sincere apology for and redress its past crimes as early as possible so that it can be trusted and supported by the international community and people, advises Minju Joson in a news analysis Tuesday.
Recalling that Japanese prime minister Abe some time ago blustered Japan would restart at a proper time the campaign to gain the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council and then the Japanese government stated that it would submit to the UN "a proposal for UN reform" aimed at expansion of the permanent membership, the analyst goes on:
The shameless attempt of the Japanese reactionaries to grab the permanent membership of the UNSC has given rise to deep concern and sharp caution of many countries in Asia and the rest of the world.
The Japanese imperialists in the past invaded Korea, China and other Asian countries and pursued a heinous colonial rule and a barbarous policy of obliterating other nations hither-to unknown, inflicting terrible sufferings and misfortunes upon the Koreans and other peoples of Asia. This remains incurable deep wounds till today though a long time has passed.
Japan has not yet admitted, apologized for and redeemed the crimes committed by it in the last century. Worse still, it is denying its past history of aggression and stepping up the moves for militarization and overseas expansion.
It is as clear as noonday that if this Japan is allowed to be a permanent member of the UNSC, it will go on a rampage to gratify its hegemonic greed in Asia and the rest of the world by abusing the authority of the UN.
It is evident to anyone that Japan is not entitled to be a permanent member of the UNSC when it finds itself a laughing stock and a butt of derision by all people as a henchman of the U.S., a political dwarf and an ill-intentioned country for toeing the U.S. line and refusing to settle its scandalous past.
Japan would be well advised to behave itself, clearly seeing how the world assesses and approaches it.
Intensified Struggle against Bourgeois Ideology and Culture Called for
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Bourgeois ideology and culture are the most reactionary ones as they benumb the mentality and physical bodies of human beings and stand in the way of social progress.
Minju Joson Tuesday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The reactionary nature of bourgeois ideology and culture finds its manifestation, above all, in that they are benumbing people's spirit of independence and working class awareness and deforming their creative ingenuity so as to reduce them to slaves of capital and "human tools."
The capitalist reactionary circle is busy spreading superstition in a bid to make people believe in the "godlike existence" decisive of human destiny. By doing so it seeks to prevent them from being aware that they are responsible for their own destiny and make them submit to their fate.
In capitalist society money is a deciding factor of everything including personality and workforce. The rich have the right to enjoy pleasure whereas the poor are obliged to obey them as slaves of capital.
The reactionary nature of the bourgeois ideology and culture also finds its expression in that social life is getting corrupt and decadent and the jungle law prevails in all human relations.
In capitalist society no means is left untried to accumulate one's fortune and ethics and morality, sense of obligation and conscience are being trampled underfoot. This society is plagued with fraud, swindle and plunder. Taking place there in an unbroken chain are such horrendous crimes as murders between fathers and sons, brothers, husbands and wives and colleagues keen on meeting their selfish interests.
Capitalists are deliberately contriving various means to foster luxury and a dissolute and degenerated life. Such human scum as drug addicts and those seeking abnormal ambition are on the steady increase in number.
The reactionary nature of bourgeois ideology and culture can be explained by the fact that they are used by the imperialists as leverage to realize domination, subjugation, aggression and plunder against other countries and nations with ease.
The imperialists are craftily working to infiltrate bourgeois ideology and culture into the anti-imperialist independent countries and socialist countries, prattling that bourgeois ideological and cultural offensive is effective enough to bring down those countries, which they deem hard to subdue by dint of nuclear weapons. Precisely for this reason the bulk of their state budget goes to those institutions and information bodies that specialize in the above-said offensive. They are busy faking up misinformation to be used for advertising "advantages" of capitalism and conducting smear campaigns against the progressive countries. They also preach that the corrupt capitalist life style is suitable to the intrinsic nature of human being.
Congratulations to PM of Lesotho
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili upon his reappointment as Prime Minister of Lesotho.
Expressing the belief that the relations between the two countries would continue to develop in the mutual interests, the message wished the prime minister success in his responsible work for the prosperity and socio- economic progress of the country.
Ro Tu Chol Meets Russian Ambassador
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, met and had a conversation with Valery Sukhinin, new Russian ambassador to the DPRK, who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Tuesday.
Present there were Kim Yong Sam, minister of Railways, Ri Kyong Sik, minister of Agriculture, Sim Ki Yop, minister of Fisheries, and Valentin Chekulaev, councilor of the Russian embassy here.
Successes Made in Micro-operation
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The hospital attached to Pyongyang University of Medicine has proved successful in the micro-operation of completely fractured arms and legs.
Researchers of the microsurgery laboratory under the Clinical Institute have developed a special suture needle, key of microsurgery, by themselves, and ultramicro-surgery technology. They are successfully stitching inner, middle and outer membranes of one-millimeter-thin blood vessels separately through the zoomed view of an operation microscope.
They have also succeeded in linking dozens of neural glands of the hair-like nerve trunk.
They have conducted thousands of micro-operations including one hundred and scores of operations for fractured limbs and skin, neural gland and living bone transplantation operations since they linked the fractured arm of a patient 15 year ago.
The researchers, basing themselves on the already-made successes, are developing cutting-edge fields of surgery from traumatic orthopedic surgery to blood vessel surgery, facial orthopedic surgery and visceral organ transplantation.
Agricultural Encyclopedia Off Press
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Agricultural Publishing House has published the agricultural encyclopedia (7 Volumes.)
It contains more than 21,000 scientific and technical terms and local and foreign materials. The terms are from famous works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the agricultural sector and are used in all the fields of rural economy and its relevant fields such as agricultural production, stockbreeding, fruit growing, sericulture and agronomics and in various scientific fields of agriculture including agricultural climate, genetic breeding, botanical physiology, soil science and agricultural chemistry.
This lemmas and data are arranged in alphabetical order. The picture- and photo- illustrated encyclopedia is a national treasure, which is of great scientific, technical and academic significance.
EU Troika Delegation Here
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A Troika delegation of the European Union led by Andreas Michaelis, commissioner for Asian and Pacific Region, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, arrived here today by air.
Congratulations to Senegalese President
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Tuesday sent a congratulatory message to Abdoulaye Wade on his reelection as President of Senegal.
Kim said in the message that the reelection of him as president of Senegal is a manifestation of its people's trust and support for him.
In the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the future, the message sincerely wished the president greater success in his responsible work for the prosperity and development of the country.
Japan Accused of Suppressing Koreans in Japan
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Youth and Students Headquarters of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration reportedly held a meeting near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on March 1 to call upon the youth and students in the south and the north and overseas to pool efforts and curb the Japanese authorities' persecution and suppression of Koreans in Japan.
The speakers at the meeting said with towering resentment that Japan was still insulting and suppressing Koreans although 88 years had passed since the March First Popular Uprising of the Korean people and over 60 years since the liberation of Korea.
A joint resolution of youth and students organizations in the south and the north and overseas was made public at the meeting, which denounced the Japanese reactionaries' harsh suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and Koreans in Japan.
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Minju Joson critica pretensiones de Japon en cuanto a la ONU
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- Japon no debe actuar atrevidamente para hacerse miembro permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, sino pedir sinceras disculpas por sus crimenes del pasado y recompensarlos cuanto antes para ganar la confianza y apoyo de la sociedad internacional y los pueblos del mundo.
Demanda asi el periodico Minju Joson en un comentario individual del dia 6 y prosigue:
Hace unos dias, el premier japones Abe expuso que en un tiempo oportuno su pais lanzaria de nuevo una campana para ser miembro permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU.
Poco despues, el gobierno japones anuncio que presentaria ante la ONU un "proyecto de reformas de esta" con miras a ampliar el numero de paises miembros del Consejo de Seguridad.
Tales pretensiones descaradas de los reaccionarios japoneses producen una seria preocupacion y precaucion de muchos paises asiaticos y de otras partes del orbe.
Al practicar el inaudito e infame dominio colonialista y la barbara politica de exterminio nacional sobre varios paises asiaticos agredidos como Corea y China, los imperialistas nipones impusieron indecibles sufrimientos y desgracias a los pueblos regionales y cuyas derivaciones los atormentan hasta hoy dia.
Sin embargo, el pais isleno no quiere reconocer, disculparse ni indemnizar esas fechorias cometidas en el siglo expirado y, al contrario, da acicate a la militarizacion y las maniobras expansionistas a ultramar negando su historia de agresiones del pasado.
Cuando este pais se haga miembro permanente del Consejo de Seguridad, abusaria de la autoridad de la ONU para materializar su ambicion hegemonica sobre Asia y el resto del mundo.
Es obvio que no tiene calificacion para la membresia permanente del Consejo de Seguridad un pais como Japon, que es burlado por todo el mundo como sirviente de EE.UU., enano politico y pais avieso.
Japon debe darse clara cuenta de que manera lo tratan los otros paises del mundo y portarse con prudencia.
Rodong Sinmun critica la ideologia y cultura burguesas
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- La ideologia y la cultura burguesas corrompen el espiritu y el cuerpo del ser humano y frenan el progreso social.
Adelanta un articulo individual difundido este martes por el diario Rodong Sinmun y continua:
Lo reaccionario de las mismas es que entumecen el espiritu independiente y la conciencia clasista de las masas populares y deforman su capacidad creadora para convertirlas en esclavas del capital y medios de trabajo vivientes.
La capa reaccionaria capitalista promueve la proliferacion de supersticion para que las personas confien en algun "ente divino" capaz de manejar sus destinos y caigan, de esta manera, en el fatalismo sin poder adquirir la conciencia de que son responsables de sus propios destinos.
En la sociedad capitalista, el dinero es la unica pauta para medir lo todo, inclusive la personalidad y las fuerzas laborales.
Por tal razon, los ricos tienen el derecho a gozar de todo mientras los pobres se ven obligados a obedecer y vivir como esclavos del capital.
El otro caracter reaccionario de la ideologia y la cultura burguesas es que corrompen la vida social y fomentan la ley de selva en todas las relaciones humanas.
En la sociedad capitalista, para ganar el dinero las personas recurren a cualesquier medios y metodos y dan espaldarazos a la etica, la obligacion moral y la conciencia. Pululan casos de fraude, estafa y pillaje y se cometen a cada hora escalofriantes crimenes como la matanza entre familiares, parientes, matrimonios y colegas para los intereses propios.
Para promover una vida lujosa y corrupta, los capitalistas inventan diversos medios, que convierten a la gente en drogadictos y perversos.
En tercer lugar, la ideologia y la cultura burguesas sirven como medio para realizar facilmente la dominacion, la subyugacion, la agresion y la explotacion sobre otros paises y naciones por parte de los imperialistas.
Estos se comprometen abiertamente a derrumbar con la ofensiva ideo-cultural burguesa a los paises que no pudieron conquistar ni con las armas nucleares. En tal sentido, maniobran sutilmente para difundir la idea y la cultura en cuestion en los paises independientes antiimperialistas y los socialistas.
Para este fin, asignan muchos fondos del presupuesto estatal a los aparatos intrigantes y las entidades informativas, que se encargan de la ofensiva mencionada.
Estas unidades hablan a bombos y platillos de la "superioridad" del capitalismo y censuran abiertamente a los paises progresistas a base de desinformaciones. Ademas, predican como si fuera conveniente a la naturaleza de los seres humanos el corrupto modo de vida capitalista.
Nuevos alcances en la exploracion de tecnologias quirurgicas
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- En el Hospital de la Universidad de Medicina de Pyongyang se ejecutan en un alto nivel las micro-operaciones para la juntura de brazos y piernas completamente amputados.
Los investigadores de la sala de micro-cirugia del Instituto Clinico adscrito a ese centro asistencial desarrollaron hace mucho tiempo por cuenta propia la aguja especial para suturas, conocida como la clave para la exploracion de esta rama.
A base de esto, desarrollaron una ultramicro-tecnologia con que fusionaron por separado las membranas interna, intermedia y externa dentro del vaso sanguineo de 1 mm de grueso, clasificadas a traves de las imagenes ampliadas por medio de un microscopio para operaciones.
Ademas, alcanzaron semejante exito en la neurocirugia al reenlazar decenas de nervios en un tejido nervioso tan fino como un pelo.
Desde que los galenos de aqui empalmaron hace 15 anos un brazo apartado del cuerpo de un paciente, se llevaron a cabo miles de micro-operaciones, de ellas ciento y decenas para la conjuncion de partes amputadas y las demas para el transplante de piel, nervio y hueso vivo.
Ateniendose a tales logros, ellos exploran activamente otros planos sofisticados, ademas de la ortopedia externa, tales como la cirugia del vaso sanguineo, la ortopedia facial, el trasplante de organos, etc.
Organizado Grupo de Estudio de la Idea Juche en Barbados
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- Quedo constituido el 19 de febrero en Bridgetown el Grupo de Estudio de la Idea Juche de Barbados.
Como jefe de la entidad naciente fue electo David Denny, presidente del Movimiento del 26 de Julio de este pais.