Feats of Kim Il Sung Lauded in Different Countries
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- A meeting, round-table talks, photo exhibitions, film shows and an art performance took place in Ovorhangay Province of Mongolia, Nymburk County of the Czech Republic and Mexico City of Mexico on Mar. 26 on the occasions of the Day of the Sun, the 14th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and the 75th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.
On display in the venues of the functions were photos showing the revolutionary exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and introducing successes of the Korean people in socialist construction.
Participants of the film shows watched Korean films "For the Liberation of the Country" and "They Were Always Together on the Road to Bring About the People's Well-being."
There was an art performance by Mongolian children in the above-said province. The program of the performance, which started with the "Song of General Kim Il Sung", included diverse songs and dances.
The governor of the administration of the Mongolian province, addressing a meeting, highly praised the personality of President Kim Il Sung as a great man, noting that he is deeply revered by all people for the distinguished feats performed on behalf of the era and history.
The chairman of the Nymburk County Committee of the Communist Party of Czech and Moravia in the Czech Republic noted at round-table talks that Kim Il Sung is highly lauded as an a prominent statesman and the great leader for his undying contribution to the human cause of independence.
The president of the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, addressing round-table talks, referred to the astonishing miracles wrought by the DPRK under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
A message of greetings to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting held in Mongolia.
Special Bulletin Issued in U.S. to Commemorate Day of Sun
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Group for the Study of Songun Politics issued special bulletin under the title "The life dedicated to the country and people" on Mar. 26 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, the birthday of President Kim Il Sung.
The life of the President lauded as the eternal leader of the Korean people was dedicated to the country and the people, the bulletin noted, and went on:
After embarking upon the road of revolution in his early years, he fathered the Juche idea and the Songun idea.
He led the anti-Japanese armed struggle to liberate Korea and steered the building of a new society, the Fatherland Liberation War and socialist construction to victory and built the socialist system centered on the popular masses.
His whole life totally dedicated to the country and the people will always shine, winning the admiration of the Korean people and the world's progressive mankind.
On the same day, the group posted on the Internet homepage "My Family" from Chapter 1 of Vol. 1 of Part 1-Anti-Japanese Revolution of "With the Century", the President's reminiscences, together with the photo of his old home in Mangyongdae.
Excursion March of School Youth and Children to Old Home in Mangyongdae
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- School youth and children from across the country made an excursion march to President Kim Il Sung's old home in Mangyongdae on April 1 to commemorate the 95th anniversary of his birth.
Before starting the march, they laid floral baskets and bouquets before the statue of the President on Mansu Hill and made bows.
Led by flags bearing portraits of the President and Kim Jong Il, they marched in fine array through streets of Pyongyang, flying the flags of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and red flags.
School youth and children and working people from all walks of life cheered the marchers on the roadsides, waving bundles of flowers.
Upon their arrival in Mangyongdae, the marchers laid wreaths and bouquets before the tombs of Kim Po Hyon, grandfather of the President, and Ri Po Ik, his grandmother, and Kim Hyong Jik, his father, and Kang Pan Sok, his mother, and observed silent tributes.
Then they visited the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum and walked round the old home of the President in Mangyongdae.
Japan's Moves for MD Assailed
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Japan formally decided on the "main principle for an emergency measure" for the use of PAC-3 at a Cabinet meeting on March 23.
Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Monday terms it a criminal act of threatening peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
Japan's frantic moves for establishing the missile defense system (MD) indicate that the moves of the Japanese militarist forces for overseas expansion have entered a dangerous phase, the news analyst says, and goes on:
What merits a serious attention is that Japan's moves for MD are a main factor of sparking off a new arms race, a Cold War as it is aimed to wreck peace. Other countries, therefore, will not remain a passive onlooker to Japan's desperate moves for MD and, accordingly, will take countermeasures against them. This will cause a new arms race, a Cold War to rage. The Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia are exposed to the greatest danger of it.
The DPRK has already warned that such moves of Japan mean a hostile act, a grave threat to it. Nevertheless, Japan is getting frantic in its moves to step up the building of the MD targeted against the DPRK. By doing so Japan has openly violated the spirit of the agreement reached at the six-party talks on refraining from threatening each other.
Japan's reckless moves will adversely affect the worldwide efforts for peace, disarmament and detente and the process to ensure peace in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia.
Rodong Sinmun on Songun Revolutionary History
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il's Songun revolutionary history is a sacred chronicle of lifting the position and national power of socialist Korea to the highest plane and displaying the dignity and glory of the nation to the whole world with the treasured sword of Songun. It is an undying history of the legendary great man who opened up a brilliant new era of the victory of the cause of independence with his rare gift and distinguished leadership ability.
Rodong Sinmun stresses this in an editorial article Monday.
The Songun revolutionary history of the Workers' Party of Korea is glorious revolutionary true records of feats which will shine through all ages, the article notes, and goes on:
Kim Jong Il set forth the Songun politics as the main political mode in face of the grim situation confronting the country and the revolution and has led the cause of Korean-style socialism along a victorious course with the revolutionary army as the main force.
The Songun revolutionary history of the WPK is a sacred course of the opening of the new history of a dignified socialist political power, the course of a heroic struggle in which a matchless military power no one dare provoke has been built, and an epic of creation and change in hewing the future of the prospering country our own way.
The flawless solution of the fundamental questions arising in the construction of a powerful nation by building an invincible political and ideological power under the banner of Songun is a great feat that provided a firm guarantee for the prosperity of the country.
The military power for self-defence has been fortified rock-firm and the DPRK has become possessed of a powerful nuclear deterrent under the banner of Songun. This is a historic event which has made it possible to shatter the U.S. imperialists' ever-growing threat of preemptive nuclear attack and their sanctions and pressure and honorably defend the supreme interests of the state and the security of the nation.
The army and people of the DPRK have laid a springboard for the building of a prosperous and powerful country with world-startling creation and leaps and greeted an efflorescence of the prospering country. This is a precious fruition of the unique mode of creation and the wise leadership of the WPK.
The sacred Songun revolutionary history of the WPK vividly represents the greatness of Kim Jong Il born of the heaven, the most distinguished statesman and rare great man in our era.
There has been no such leader in the world as Kim Jong Il who elevated the dignity and position of the country to the position of a power and brought a tremendous change in a brief historic period of ten odd years in the worst adversity.
The Songun revolutionary history of the WPK is a history of indomitable struggle in which all difficulties have been surmounted with steadfast faith and strong will, a long journey of noble loving care shown for the people with devotion and an ever-victorious history shining with experienced and tested political ability.
Kim Jong Il is the supreme incarnation of faith and will previously unknown in the world history of politics; he is not only the state leader and Supreme Commander but the affectionate father of the people and the great servant for them and a statesman of ability who has built up the revolutionary ranks and wisely led the Songun revolution with his distinguished ability.
Noting that the Songun revolutionary history of the WPK is the national treasure which should be glorified through all generations, the article stresses the need to firmly defend the Songun revolutionary feats and tradition of the WPK and carry them forward invariably, attach importance to the military affairs and direct primary efforts to national defence and strictly observe the revolutionary principles in all realms of social life.
DPRK-targeted War Maneuvers Denounced
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- The week-long RSOI and Foal Eagle joint military exercises staged by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean warlike forces were a grave military provocation against the DPRK and an intolerable crime increasing tension and threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula, declares Rodong Sinmun in a news analysis Monday.
The analyst says:
The war maniacs at home and abroad attempted to cover up the provocative and aggressive nature of the war drills, claiming they were "annual" ones. But this far-fetched sophism cannot go down with anyone.
As a matter of fact, the two war games put together are little short of the Team Spirit joint war game which earned itself ill fame as a nuclear test war and a preliminary war against the DPRK.
Another aspect of the grave nature of the two war drills is that they were reckless acts of challenging the process of a peaceful solution to the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue and the normalization of the inter-Korean relations.
A revealing light was cast on the hypocritical and perfidious colors of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities in resorting to the hostile and aggressive acts against the DPRK, seeking confrontation and war as in the past under the cloak of "dialogue" and "peace".
We never overlook the indiscreet war provocation moves of the U.S. and the south Korean war maniacs behind the curtain of "dialogue" but are fully ready to cope with an emergency.
The prospect of the settlement of the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue and the improvement of the inter-Korean relations depends entirely on the policy of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities toward the DPRK. The reality shows that no matter how many times dialogues are held and whatever good agreement is reached, they are useless and, in the long run, a military clash may break out, unless this policy is amended.
The U.S. and the south Korean bellicose forces should approach the DPRK with reason and abandon their hostile policy and aggressive design against it.
Notorious "Law for Maintenance of Public Peace" of Japanese imperialists
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists had enacted the "Law for Maintenance of Public Peace" and other fascist laws during their occupation of Korea. They slew innocent Korean people cold-bloodedly as "criminals" by setting the evil laws in motion.
Originally, the Japanese imperialists instituted and promulgated the "Law for Maintenance of Public Peace" in April 1925 for the purpose of suppressing the leftist movement forces which aspired after socialism against the imperialist ruling system at home.
From May that year, they widened its application range and objects to Korea and other colonial countries and regions.
The law woven with human rights violation provisions stipulated that all acts "changing the state system or denying the private property system" and all the activities against the colonial fascist ruling system should be punished as "offences".
The Japanese imperialists revised the penalty regulations of the law in 1928 in favor of their colonial rule. According to it, those who formed an association to "change the state system" and its leading personnel shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or death and other members to five and more years of penal servitude.
The Japanese imperialists supplemented the law with more fascist human rights violation provisions in 1941 just before the Pacific War.
It served also as the basis for the concoction and enforcement of other fascist laws in colonies.
The Japanese imperialists, on the basis of the law, fabricated many special criminal laws such as "ordinance for probation of Korean political offenders" and "ordinance for prevention and detention of Korean political offenders" and ruthlessly repressed the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle and all the progressive movements of the Korean people.
They put some 234,000 Koreans in jail in a year of 1925. This figure well illustrates how many Koreans had been arrested, imprisoned and killed by the "Law for Maintenance of Public Peace" and other fascist laws during the colonial rule.
Such atrocities the Japanese imperialists committed against the Korean people by dint of the fascist laws are crimes violating international laws. They can neither be pardoned nor justified.
Changdok School Tells Kim Il Sung's Patriotism
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Changdok School also receives new pupils on the occasion of the new school year.
The faces of the pupils entering the school gate beam with special pride and joy.
The school is associated with the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung.
Kim Hyong Jik, his father, said that a man born in Korea must have a good knowledge of Korea. True to the lofty intention of his father, he came to Mangyongdae by foot, covering the "250-mile Journey for Learning" after his graduation of Badaogou Primary School in the northeast area of China. There he was admitted into the fifth year class of Changdok School in April 1923.
Changdok School was established by Kang Ton Uk, his grandfather on mother's side, and other far-sighted people from Chilgol and the surrounding area as a part of the patriotic movement for cultural enlightenment after the "Korea-Japan Annexation". It was a fairly large school with more than 200 students out of the private schools established in west Korea.
The President studied hard the Korean history, culture and geography at the school and visited Mts. Ryongak and Jongbang and other places of the country.
In the course of the study, he gained a good knowledge of beautiful fatherland and valuable historical and cultural relics and cultivated ardent patriotism. He scratched out the word Mother-tongue from the textbook "Mother-tongue Reader" and wrote in its place the word Japanese. The Mother-tongue Reader became the Japanese Reader. He told pupils of Changdok School, who were practicing themselves in Japanese, that the Koreans should speak in Korean.
He produced and guided the performance of the musical play "Thirteen Houses" in reflection of hatred for the Japanese imperialists and love for the fatherland.
After the liberation of the country, the President visited the school in October 1945 and said with deep emotion that the period in Changdok School was of significance in his life and the patriotism fostered at that time gave him a great confidence and fighting spirit during the anti-Japanese armed struggle. And he indicated clearly the way to be taken by the school.
The school, which has turned to be a model school under the warm care of the President, is now training lots of pupils as future pillars with ardent love for the motherland.
New School Year Begins in DPRK
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- The new school year in Juche 96 (2007) has begun in the DPRK.
Amid the growing public concern for education all the provinces, cities and counties, industrial establishments and co-op farms provided primary and middle schools with ample material conditions for education in the new school year.
Ceremonies of opening the school year took place all at once at all the institutions of higher learning, middle schools and primary schools across the country on April 2.
Officials of party and power organs at different levels, teachers and employees of those institutions and schools, senior students and parents of students warmly congratulated the new students.
Reports and speeches were made at the ceremonies.
At the end of the ceremonies, the first class began.
NRC Spokesman on Case of "Single-minded Association" in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- The south Korean security authorities recently imposed heavy punishment upon four former and incumbent cadres of the Democratic Labor Party, a Korean businessman in the U.S. and others on charges of "receiving instructions from the north", "getting in touch with it" and "gathering and transmitting secrets". They were arrested and prosecuted in December last year for their alleged involvement in the "case of the Single-minded Association".
A spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council in a statement on Monday termed this action an unpardonable anti-reunification fascist deed.
As far as the case is concerned, it is a groundless anti-DPRK farce as it lacks any convincing evidence and was totally denied by those concerned, the statement said, and went on:
The south Korean security authorities are working hard to punish guiltless people by bringing absurd charges of "espionage" to them in the present June 15 era when a lot of compatriots are visiting the north and the south to meet each other. They are using the same trite method as employed by the military fascist regimes in the era of confrontation.
The recent fascist action is a deliberate and premeditated plot of those keen to prevent the north-south relations from improving and bring them back to those in the period of confrontation.
The south Korean authorities should face up to the mind-set of the public and the trend of the times and immediately stop their mean anti-DPRK farce, declare those related to the case not guilty and set them free without delay and repeal the "National Security Law", a leftover of the old era of confrontation, at an earliest possible date.
Japanese Authorities' Repression of Chongryon Protested
Tokyo, March 31 (KNS-KCNA) -- The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and Koreans in Japan staged a protest in front of the Dietmen's Hall of Japan in denunciation of the Japanese authorities' anti-Chongryon campaign.
The Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectural headquarters of Chongryon and officials under them and Koreans launched a sit-down in protest against the Japanese authorities' fascist crackdown on Chongryon and Koreans in Japan on Mar. 28.
They conducted information activities, waving suspension posters bearing the words "Police authorities, stop illegal search of Chongryon!" and "No more assaults and violent words against children and students of Korean schools!" and flags.
Earlier, officials of the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters and the Nishi Tokyo Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon and Koreans waged a protest against unreasonable political suppression and human rights abuses by the Japanese authorities.
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EE.UU. impone al Sur de Corea financiar traslado de sus tropas
Pyongyang, 2 de abril (ATCC) -- Hace unos dias, Estados Unidos y las autoridades surcoreanas contrajeron un "acuerdo final", segun el cual correran por cuenta de las segundas casi 5 mil 600 millones de US $ que representan mas de la mitad de casi 10 mil millones necesarios al traslado de la base militar y la segunda division del primero en Ryongsan de Seul y a la construccion del nuevo enclave en Phyongthaek prevista hasta 2011.
Al respecto, el portavoz del Comite Central del Frente Democratico para la Reunificacion de la Patria emitio la vispera una declaracion.
En lugar de retirar a sus tropas ocupantes del Sur de Corea, el imperio pretende hacerlas arraigarse en suelo surcoreano mediante el "traslado de la base militar" y la "reubicacion", senala el documento y prosigue:
Por tales conceptos, impulso esta vez al Sur de Corea esos fabulosos fondos, lo cual constituye un insulto insoportable a los habitantes surcoreanos y burla a toda la nacion coreana.
En este sentido, el citado "acuerdo final" deviene un imperdonable acto criminal que pisoteo flagrantemente la aspiracion independiente de los habitantes surcoreanos y violo la dignidad nacional.
Por eso, el FDRP lo condena categoricamente a nombre de todos los coreanos.
Los habitantes surcoreanos deben levantar a lo mas alto la consigna de retirada de las tropas yanquis y luchar por ahora contra ese leonino protocolo sobre contribuciones.
Rodong Sinmun condena maniobras militares de EE.UU. y Sur de Corea
Pyongyang, 2 de abril (ATCC) -- La ejecucion durante una semana pasada del "ejercicio combinado de refuerzo para el tiempo de guerra" y el simulacro conjunto "Aguilucho" por parte de Estados Unidos y los belicistas surcoreanos resulta una grave provocacion militar a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y un intolerable acto criminal que exacerba la situacion y perturba la paz de la Peninsula Coreana.
Condena asi el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual difundido este lunes y prosigue:
Los maniacos de guerra dentro y fuera del pais intentaron encubrir el caracter provocativo y la esencia agresiva de tales maniobras militares calificandolas de "anuales". Pero con esta sofisteria no pueden enganar a nadie.
Si esos dos ejercicios se fusionan, adquiriran la dimension de "Team Spirit", otra maniobra militar conocida como la guerra nuclear de prueba y la preliminar contra el Norte de Corea.
Otra gravedad del caso es que estas maniobras desafian a la solucion pacifica del problema nuclear entre RPDC y EE.UU. y el proceso de normalizacion de las relaciones intercoreanas.
Esta vez fue desenmascarada la fachada hipocrita y traicionera de EE.UU. y las autoridades surcoreanas que detras del vistoso cartel de "dialogo" y "paz", persiguen de continuo la confrontacion y la guerra y se mantienen en sus maniobras hostiles y agresivas contra la RPDC.
No estaremos con brazos cruzados ante tales aventureras maniobras y estamos dispuestos a hacer frente a cualesquier contingencias.
La perspectiva de la solucion del diferendo nuclear RPDC-EE.UU. y de la mejora de las relaciones intercoreanas depende enteramente de la politica del segundo y las autoridades surcoreanas a la primera. Si esta politica no se rectifica, no valdra la pena ningun tipo de dialogo y acuerdo y se producira al final un conflicto armado. La realidad lo demuestra.
EE.UU. y los belicistas surcoreanos deben tratar a la RPDC con razon y abstenerse de su politica hostil a esta y de su intento de agredirla.
Rodong Sinmun condena a Japon por establecimiento de sistema antimisiles
Pyongyang, 2 de abril (ATCC) -- En una reunion del gabinete sostenida el 23 de marzo Japon decidio oficialmente el "compendio de disposicion urgente" para el uso del misil "PAC-3".
Indudablemente, esto deviene un acto criminal que amenaza la paz y la estabilidad del Nordeste Asiatico y el resto del mundo.
Asi senala el periodico Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 2 y continua:
Tal esfuerzo activo del pais isleno por el establecimiento del sistema antimisiles deviene un paso peligroso de expansion de las fuerzas militaristas japonesas a ultramar.
Lo que resulta peligrosisimo es que este acto antipacifico traeria una nueva carrera armamentista y guerra fria.
Ante tal movimiento de Japon otros paises no estaran con brazos cruzados sino tomaran contramedidas.
De ser asi se soplara de nuevo el viento de nueva guerra armamentista y la guerra fria.
El lugar que entrana mayor peligrosidad por ello es la Peninsula Coreana y el Nordeste Asiatico.
La Republica Popular Democratica de Corea dio en reiteradas veces la advertencia de que el establecimiento del sistema antimisiles de Japon deviene un acto hostil y una gran amenaza a si misma.
Sin embargo, ese pais isleno persigue el establecimiento de tal sistema contra la RPDC en flagrante violacion del acuerdo de las conversaciones a 6 bandas de abstenerse de los actos amenazantes a otra parte.
Los imprudentes actos de Japon ejerceran influencia negativa sobre los esfuerzos del mundo por la paz, el desarme y el alivio de tension y a la preservacion de la paz del Nordeste Asiatico.