Information Bulletin Issued by International Body
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea issued an information bulletin on Mar. 12.
The bulletin carries a detailed report that an international meeting took place in Pyongyang in February to demand the withdrawal of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and an appeal to the world progressives who love justice and peace and a letter to the U.S. Congress were adopted there.
The participants in the meeting in unison bitterly condemned the indiscreet policy of the U.S. against the DPRK and called on the world progressive people to extend positive support and solidarity to the Korean people's just cause of defending the security of the country and the nation and achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, it says.
It also carries accounts of the 20th inter-Korean ministerial talks and the six-party talks.
U.S.-S. Korea Joint Military Drills Assailed
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The British Association for the Study of Songun Policy, in a statement on Mar. 15, lambasted the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean authorities for their planned RSOI and Foal Eagle in south Korea.
Noting that the United States and the south Korean authorities are scheming to hurl massive armed forces and ultra-modern military hardware into the war games, the statement said: This shows once again that the U.S. imperialists remain utterly indifferent to peace and the relaxation of tension and continue to cling to a double-faced tactics.
The south Korean authorities are wantonly violating the June 15 joint declaration and the basic spirit of the recently held inter-Korean ministerial talks by involving themselves in the U.S. war scheme, it noted.
It urged the U.S. and the south Korean authorities to immediately give up the projected war games, bearing mind that they gravely threaten the peace of Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
The statement called upon the world progressive people to conduct a vigorous campaign to resolutely support the DPRK and have the plan of aggressive RSOI and Foal Eagle scrapped promptly.
Prizes Awarded to Scientists and Technicians
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A certificate and a medal of "February 16 Scientific and Technical Prize" were conferred on Jo Song Chol, a room chief of Kim Il Sung University, who has contributed to the development of the nation's science and technology and economy by succeeding in scientific researches.
They were also awarded to the scientists, technicians and officials in the sector of scientific research and at factories and enterprises for having successfully carried out their assignments for ordered projects.
A ceremony of awarding them took place on Mar. 20.
Present there were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, and Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet.
Anniversary of DPRK-Russia Agreement Marked
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Russia Friendship Association sponsored a film show at the Chollima House of Culture in Pyongyang on Mar. 20 to mark the 58th anniversary of the signing of the agreement on economic and cultural cooperation between the DPRK and Russia.
Present there on invitation were Charge d'Affaires Alexander Matsegora and staff members of the Russian embassy here.
On hand were Hong Son Ok, vice-chairwoman of the committee who is chairwoman of the association, officials concerned and working people in the city. The participants watched Russian film "Barhanov and His Bodyguard".
Japan's Moves to Revise Constitution Denounced
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson in a commentary Wednesday observes that the "Pacifist Constitution" of Japan is facing its end.
Urging Japan to stop at once its hare-brained push for the revision of the constitution which will lead it to a disaster, the commentary says:
Now a substantial measure is being taken in Japan to bring a war-oriented constitution into being by rewriting the "Pacifist Constitution". That measure is a drive to adopt a bill on the referendum to decide on procedures of the revision of the constitution.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is speeding up preparations to have the bill passed through the House of Representatives before May 3, the constitution day. It intends to get it railroaded through the House of Representatives single-handed, should the opposition parties come out against it.
This indicates that the adoption of a war-oriented constitution is a fait accompli in Japan and it is pushed ahead on a full scale.
There are several reasons for the Japanese reactionaries to throw away the "Pacifist Constitution." But their main purpose is to round off the preparations for the realization of their militaristic ambition for reinvasion.
Nothing can justify the moves of the Japanese reactionaries rushing headlong toward the completion of the preparations for a militarist overseas aggression as evidenced by their drive to discard the "Pacifist Constitution" and make a war-oriented constitution.
End to U.S. Domination Policy and Withdrawal of Its Forces Demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification reportedly published a statement titled "We demand an end to the U.S. domination policy and withdrawal of its forces" on Mar. 16.
Noting that Mar. 18 marks the lapse of 25 years since fire was set to "the American Cultural Service" in Pusan, the statement said:
This fight was an eruption of the people's wrath at the United States, the back-stage wirepuller of the massacre in Kwangju in 1980, and a signal shot of the anti-U.S. struggle.
Today when 25 years have passed after the fire the U.S. is shipping ultra-modern weapons into this land and relocating its forces under the cloak of "strategic flexibility" while getting overheated in massive aggressive war exercises including "RSOI", the statement noted.
It urged the U.S. to give up its domination policy at once and withdraw from this land with its troops at an early date.
Symposium on 90th Anniversary of KNA
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A symposium in the field of social sciences took place on March 20 to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Korean National Association.
Present there were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials, teachers, researchers and lecturers of scientific, educational and party cadre training institutions and related to revolutionary relics.
Read at the symposium were five papers explaining the historical significance of the formation of KNA which was organized and guided by Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, and its feats.
The speakers recalled that Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter, put forward the idea of "Aim High" and formed the Korean National Association on March 23, Juche 6 (1917), through energetic activities.
Noting that the KNA was an anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization largest in scale which was staunch in its independent stand against imperialism at that time, they said its formation was an epochal event in opening a new road of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea.
Regarding the idea of "Aim High" as the starting point and ideological foundation of the organization and activities of the KNA, Kim Hyong Jik put forward fighting tasks of the KNA and the principles of activities of its members by embodying the idea and thus made it the guideline of the pivotal revolutionary organization in the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle, they said.
The KNA, they noted, widely disseminated the idea of proletarian revolution, a new progressive idea, among the broad masses, closely rallied them around the organization and vigorously pushed on preparations for an armed struggle, thereby laying a firm foundation and building revolutionary forces for leading the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea to a proletarian revolution.
He energetically guided the KNA to play the pivotal and vanguard role in changing the course of the nationalist movement to a proletarian revolution, thus performing immortal revolutionary exploits in the history of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, they said.
They pointed out that the KNA performed outstanding feats in paving the way of the new history of national liberation by rapidly expanding the organization through the ideological enlightening and awakening of the masses of all strata and training military cadres of working people's origin while actively undertaking the work of forming new armed units.
Inheriting and developing the exploits performed by the KNA is one of the essential requirements of the revolutionary cause of working class which is carried on for a long period through generations and a fundamental guarantee for the victorious advance of the cause of Songun revolution, they stressed.
Halt to RSOI Demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Members of different civic and public organizations of south Korea reportedly held a press conference around the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Mar. 16. There they made public a "declaration of representatives from all walks of life demanding a halt to the RSOI and calling for peace on the Korean Peninsula".
The above-said south Korea-U.S. joint military drill to be held from Mar. 25 to 31 is a practical exercise to master the plans for preemptive attack upon the DPRK including the "OPLAN 5027", the declaration said.
It held that in order to realize the peaceful co-existence it is necessary to honestly implement the Feb. 13 Agreement and stop the confrontation racket and the projected war drill against the DPRK.
The declaration called upon all the forces, who want dialogue, peace and reunification instead of confrontation, war and division, to turn out in the grand march for peace to greet a new era of peaceful co-existence and prosperity.
U.S. War of Aggression Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A meeting and a demonstration were reportedly held in Seoul on March 17 under the sponsorship of the south Korean People's Action against Troop Dispatch.
The meeting titled the "international joint action against war to denounce the U.S. on the lapse of four years after its aggression of Iraq" took place in the plaza of Seoul Railway Station.
Speakers at the meeting disclosed the wars of aggression committed by the U.S. in different parts of the world in recent years and denounced it for invading Iraq and killing Iraqi people in a brutal way.
Noting that the south Korean "government" dispatched troops to the U.S. war of aggression but it resulted in death of innocent young people, they denounced the "government" for its persistent troop dispatch.
The U.S. pays lip service to the improved relations with the DPRK externally but is planning to stage war drills against it internally, they pointed out, urging the U.S. not to mock at the world people with its double-dealing tricks any longer but opt for the road to peace.
Solidarity letters from peace movement organizations in various countries were introduced at the meeting.
A resolution, read out at the meeting, demanded that the U.S. stop the wars of aggression of Iraq and Afghanistan at once and the south Korean "government" withdraw the overseas-dispatched troops.
At the end of the meeting the participants held a demonstration.
Information activities and a signature campaign denouncing the U.S. war of aggression were conducted around the venue of the meeting.
Water Quality Improver Developed
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Chaek University of Technology has developed a new kind of water quality improver.
The machine is made with the application of the cutting-edge science and technology such as nano technology.
The kernel of the improver is a filter bar. A bar is capable of refining 2,500 liters of water as "spring water".
The filter bar, made with nano materials, consists of a layer for removing floating matters and microorganism, a layer for deodorizing smell, a layer for absorbing heavy metals and two physical filter layers.
The new improver is superior to other kinds of water purifiers in various points.
It eliminates heavy metals, floating matters and microorganism harmful to the human body.
The water purified by the improver is clean and low in chemical combination. It supplements microelements to and improves the digestion function of the human body, thus effectively preventing various diseases.
Football Technical Innovation Contest Held in DPRK
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A football technical innovation contest of the A class teams was held in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The contest was participated in by seven men's teams and eight women's teams. It was held by the methods of group round robin, diagonal and straight matches and final matches in the period from February 22 to the middle of March.
The soccer team from the Pyongyang City Sports Group came first at the men's contest.
The team was made up mostly of young players but ran the games well with flexible tactics to stand against the opponents.
The Pyongyang city team which won the second place in the group A defeated 2-1 the Kigwancha team who came in the first in the group B. At the final, it defeated the Amrokgang team 2-0, to take the gold medal in the first national soccer contest this year.
At the semi-final of the men's contest, the team of the Ministry of the Light Industry crushed the Kigwancha team with the scores of three to one.
Meanwhile, at the women's final the Amrokgang team defeated the Rimyongsu team 5-3 to become the winner.
The third and fourth places came to Sobaeksu and the April 25 teams respectively.
The contest helped the teams accumulate experience and technique which are helpful toward the football development.
Greetings to Iranian President
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday on the occasion of the New Year in Iran.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in different fields, the message sincerely wished the president good health and happiness and greater success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Austrian Organization
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Left Bloc of the Austrian Trade Union Federation.
The gift was conveyed to an official concerned on Wednesday by Oliver Jonischkeit, secretary of the federation who is on a visit to the DPRK.
Message of Sympathy to Russian President
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Wednesday sent a message of sympathy to V. V. Putin, President of the Russian Federation, in connection with the accident that took place at a coal mine in Kemerovo of Russia, claiming casualties.
Expressing deep sympathy and consolation to the president and, through him, to the victims and their bereaved families, the message expressed hope that the president and the Russian government would eradicate the aftermath of the accident as early as possible.
Kim Jong Il Appreciates Concert on Works Created by Jang Ryong Sik
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il appreciated a concert given on works created by People's Artiste Jang Ryong Sik.
Among the audience were senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and creators and artistes of the army and the society.
Put on the stage were a piano concert "Cantata to Comrade Kim Jong Il", orchestras "Nobody Knows", "General on a Galloping White Horse", Soprano "Let's Go to Mountains and Sea", contralto solo "Fog Creeps over Jong Il Peak" and other colorful numbers arranged and conducted by him.
Jang Ryong Sik arranged all music pieces in such a way as to meet the emotional and sentimental need of the nation and successfully conducted the group of musicians as an integral whole by his unique skill, thus strikingly demonstrating the greatness of graceful and exquisite Korean music.
Kim Jong Il warmly congratulated all the artistes on their successful performance and extended thanks to them, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that they presented a splendid concert with high artistry.
Jang Ryong Sik has conducted creative activities with warm love for the country and the people and indefatigable energy and enthusiasm, thereby producing excellent works loved by the Korean people and conducive to the revolution, he said, calling all the creators and artistes to learn from his earnest and enthusiastic creative work style and attitude.
He expressed expectation and conviction that the creators and artistes would produce more successful art pieces meeting the need of the new century by abiding by the unique principle of creating art works of Korean style and displaying the work style with which they created the five revolutionary operas and thus become genuine creators and staunch defenders of socialist culture and arts.
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Minju Joson comenta la enmienda constitucional de Japon
Pyongyang, 21 de marzo (ATCC) -- La "constitucion pacifista" de Japon se aproxima a su fin. Japon debe poner de inmediato fin a la enmienda constitucional que traera desastre nacional.
Senala asi el periodico Minju Joson en un comentario individual de este miercoles y prosigue:
Ahora este pais isleno toma las medidas practicas para sustituir la "constitucion pacifista" por la belicista.
Es un movimiento para la aprobacion de un proyecto de ley de plebiscito para fijar el proceso de la enmienda constitucional.
El Partido Democratico Liberal de Japon acelera los preparativos para lograr la aprobacion de dicho proyecto de ley en la Camara de Representantes antes del 3 de mayo, dia de la constitucion. Si partidos de oposicion se lo oponen, el PDL lo aprobara a solas.
Esto demuestra que la preparacion de la constitucion belicista en el pais isleno es un hecho consumado y se impulsa en una etapa decisiva.
El objetivo fundamental que persiguen los reaccionarios japoneses al enmendar la "constitucion pacifista" es perfeccionar los preparativos para realizar su ambicion militarista de nueva agresion.
Son injustificables las maniobras de los reaccionarios japoneses que dan acicate a los preparativos de agresion a ultramar.
Simposio dedicado al 90 aniversario de fundacion de ANC
Pyongyang, 21 de marzo (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar la vispera el simposio de la rama de ciencias sociales por el 90o aniversario de la fundacion de la Asociacion Nacional Coreana (ANC).
En la ocasion estuvieron presentes el secretario del Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea Choe Thae Bok, los funcionarios, profesores, investigadores y conferenciantes de los organos de ciencia, ensenaza, formacion de cuadros del partido y rama de reliquias historicas revolucionarias.
Fueron publicadas las 5 disertaciones que argumentan la significacion historica y las hazanas de la constitucion de la ANC organizada y dirigida por Kim Hyong Jik, destacado dirigente del movimiento antijapones de liberacion nacional de Corea.
Los oradores senalaron que el indoblegable combatiente revolucionario, Kim Hyong Jik, presento la idea de "Jiwon" (gran proposito) y al librar dinamicas actividades fundo el 23 de marzo del 6 (1917) de la Era Juche.
Explicaron que la ANC fue una organizacion revolucionaria clandestina antijaponesa, firme en la posicion antiimperialista e independiente y de mayor dimension en aquel periodo y anadieron que su fundacion devino un evento trascendental en allanar un nuevo camino del movimiento antijapones de liberacion nacional de Corea.
Argumentaron que el tomo la idea de “Jiwon” por el punto de partida y la base ideologica de la organizacion y las actividades de la ANC y al materializarla presento las tareas de lucha y el principio de accion de los miembros de la organizacion, de manera que estos sirvieran de guia directriz de la organizacion revolucionaria vertebral de la lucha antijaponesa de liberacion nacional.
La ANC inculco a amplias masas la nueva idea revolucionaria proletaria y agrupandolas en torno suyo impulso la preparacion para la lucha armada y de esta manera, preparo una firme base y fuerzas revolucionarias capaces de conducir a la revolucion proletaria el movimiento antijapones de liberacion nacional, recalcaron los oradores.
Refirieron que el dirigio dinamicamente la ANC para que cumpliera un papel central y precursor en lograr un viraje del movimiento nacionalista a la revolucion proletaria y asi acumulo las inmortales hazanas revolucionarias en la historia del movimiento antijapones de liberacion nacional.
La ANC, apuntaron, dio lucidez e ilustracion ideologica a los habitantes de distintas clases y capas para ampliar con rapidez su membresia, formo a los cuadros militares procedentes del pueblo trabajador, desplego activamente la labor de organizar un nuevo cuerpo armado y asi realizo sobresalientes hazanas en allanar una nueva historia de la liberacion de la patria.
Enfatizaron que llevar adelante las hazanas logradas por la ANC es una demanda esencial de la causa revolucionaria de la clase obrera que se cumple de generacion en generacion y constituye una garantia fundamental para el avance victorioso de la causa de la revolucion del Songun (priorizacion militar).
Otorgado "Premio cientifico-tecnico 16 de febrero" a cientificos y tecnicos
Pyongyang, 21 de marzo (ATCC) -- El certificado y la medalla del "Premio Cientifico - Tecnico 16 de Febrero" se concedieron a Jo Song Chol, jefe de un gabinete de la Universidad Kim Il Sung, quien realizo un nuevo exito en la labor para desarrollar la ciencia y tecnica del pais y la economia nacional, a los cientificos, tecnicos y funcionarios de unidades de investigacion cientifica, fabricas y empresas que cumplieron magnificamente las tareas encomendadas.
Tuvo lugar el dia 20 una ceremonia de otorgamiento de dicho premio con la presencia del secretario del Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Choe Thae Bok, y el viceprimer ministro del Consejo de Ministros, Ro Tu Chol.
Competencia de innovacion tecnica de futbol
Pyongyang, 21 de marzo (ATCC) -- En Corea tuvo lugar del 22 de febrero a mediados de marzo la competencia de innovacion tecnica de futbol entre los equipos de primera categoria bajo la participacion de 7 equipos (M) y 8 equipos (F) en forma de todos contra todos, cruzados, directos y finales.
Al cabo de los encuentros acalorados de 20 dias el equipo (M) de la ciudad de Pyongyang ocupo el primer lugar.
Este equipo compuesto por novatos en su mayoria hizo bien los partidos con sistemas tacticos capaces de vencer a sus rivales.
El citado equipo, que ocupo el segundo lugar en el grupo A, vencio por 2:1 al de Kigwancha que ocupo el primer lugar en el grupo B, y en la final vencio por 2:0 al equipo de Amrokgang. En fin ocupo el primer lugar en el primer torneo nacional de futbol de este ano.
En los juegos masculinos en que se renian los tercer y cuarto lugares, el equipo del Ministerio de Industria Ligera vencio por 3: 1 al de Kigwancha.
Por otra parte, en la final de damas, el equipo de Amrokgang ocupo el primer lugar al derrotar 5 por 3 al fuerte rival de Rimyongsu.
Los tercer y cuarto puestos los ocuparon los equipos de Sobaeksu y 25 de Abril, respectivamente.
A traves del presente certamen los equipos participantes pudieron obtener buenas experiencias y tecnicas que contribuiran al desarrollo ulterior de esta disciplina deportiva.