Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works Vol.69 Comes Off Press
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The Publishing House of the Workers' Party of Korea published the Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works Vol.69.
The collection contains 55 works of President Kim Il Sung including his historic speeches, conclusions and talks between January and August, Juche 68 (1979).
The works contain unique ideas, theories and policies he laid down for the victorious advance of the socialist cause on the basis of a profound insight into the requirements of the developing revolution.
Such works as "On Further Strengthening the Party Guidance to the Socialist Economic Construction" and "Let's Bring About a Fresh Turn in the Party Guidance to the Administrative and Economic Work" expound the idea of further increasing the militant functions and roles of the party organizations to bring about a great change in the party guidance to socialist construction.
Such works as "On Developing Transport Rapidly in Keeping with the Requirements of a Higher Stage of Socialist Economic Construction" and "On Putting Enterprise Management on a Regular Basis and Improving Labour Administration" deal with the tasks to be implemented to steadily round off the inter-sector structure of the economy and strengthen the country's economic independence so as to meet the lawful requirements of the socialist economic construction.
In his "On the Tasks Facing the Korean Scientists and Technicians in Japan for Developing Science and Technology in Our Country," "It Is Necessary to Intensify the Study of Methods of Cultivating Crops to Suit the Conditions of Alpine Areas" and other works the President indicated the orientation and ways of rapidly developing all fields of the socialist cultural construction including science and education. And in his "We Should Reunify the Country by the Concerted Efforts of Our Nation" and "Talks with the UN Secretary General and His Party" and other works he enunciated the idea of preventing the permanent division of the nation and achieving the country's reunification by the concerted efforts of the Koreans.
The book also indicates tasks and ways of carrying out the revolution and construction including the issue of successfully building the revolutionary battle sites and revolutionary sites as centres for the education in the revolutionary traditions, the issues of turning the city of Pyongyang into a more beautiful and modern city and providing its citizens with good living conditions and the issues of developing the democratic national education of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and intensifying the movement of Koreans in Japan.
Moldovan President on Relations with DPRK
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The Republic of Moldova sets great store by the friendly and cooperative relations with the DPRK, said Moldovan President Vladimir Woronin when receiving credentials from the DPRK ambassador to Moldova on May 16.
The president noted that he would boost the friendly and cooperative relations with the DPRK in various fields in the future, too.
Korean People's Struggle Supported
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of Nicaragua, had talks with the visiting delegation of the DPRK Foreign Ministry headed by Vice-Minister Kim Hyong Jun on May 19.
The president wished the heroic Korean people under the leadership of Kim Jong Il great successes in the future struggle to defend the country's sovereignty and achieve the national reunification.
He said that Kim Jong Il has firmly protected the sovereignty of the DPRK with his wise leadership.
Recalling with deep emotion the days when he visited the DPRK to be received by President Kim Il Sung, he praised Kim Il Sung as a prominent leader of the world revolution who made immortal contributions to the accomplishment of the human cause of independence.
Vigorous Struggle against U.S. and GNP Called for in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Yun Ki Jin, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification reportedly issued an appeal titled "Let all the youth and students wage vigorous struggle against the U.S. and the Grand National Party" on May 18.
The appeal noted that all the Koreans are dynamically advancing toward independent reunification while foiling the anti-reunification moves on the part of the U.S. and pro-U.S. conservative forces under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration.
The GNP, an anti-reunification party being driven to a tight corner, is now desperately trying to rally the forces standing against the June 15 joint declaration through deceptive tricks while talking about "correction of its policy toward the north", the appeal disclosed.
It called on the youth and students to conduct mass information activities for disclosing the deceptive moves of the U.S. and the GNP, their machinations to launch a war and the essence of the anti-reunification policy of the forces standing against the June 15 joint declaration and wage a vigorous anti-U.S., anti-GNP struggle.
End to U.S. Domination and Intervention Urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Organizations in south Korea reportedly released statements on May 18 on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising.
The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification in a statement said the Kwangju Popular Uprising taught a bitter lesson that genuine independence, democracy and reunification on this land are guaranteed only by the struggle for democracy against outsiders and fascism. The statement called for driving the U.S. forces, who have been engrossed in provoking a war on the Korean Peninsula and interfering in the internal affairs of Korea, out of south Korea without fail in the spirit displayed by the participants in the uprising.
The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils in its statement titled "Let us carry forward the spirit displayed by martyrs in the May 18 popular uprising and turn out in the struggle against the U.S. and the Grand National Party" called on the youth and students to inherit the spirit of the martyrs and take the lead in the struggle to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula, get the U.S. forces withdrawn and disband the GNP.
The Solidarity of Youth and Students for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in its statement denounced the U.S. for stepping up arms buildup and staging war exercises in a bid to check the reconciliation and reunification of the Korean nation. And it stressed the need to put an end to the U.S. domination and interference in this land through struggles against the U.S. and war and for withdrawal of its forces.
U.S. Moves to Deploy Military Hardware in S. Korea under Fire
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, the United States announced a plan to deploy the high-efficiency surface-to-air missile "SM-2" system and three Aegis destroyers in south Korea.
Such moves to deploy up-to-date military hardware under the pretext of "military drill" are prompted by an intention to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK after massively deploying armed forces of aggression in and around the Korean Peninsula, Minju Joson Tuesday says in a signed commentary.
It goes on:
Recently the U.S. and south Korean warlike forces frantically staged RSOI and Foal Eagle joint military exercises against the DPRK and test-fired Tomahawk Black-3 cruise missile on a nuclear-powered cruiser in the Atlantic Ocean. These facts go to prove that the U.S. is still persisting in the military confrontation with the DPRK.
The U.S. policy of military confrontation with the DPRK is an intentional and premeditated move to stonewall the denuclearization and peace of the Korean Peninsula and aggravate military tension in order to drive the situation to the brink of war.
It is the invariable ambition of the U.S. to realize its Asia strategy with the Korean Peninsula as a springboard. The U.S. seeks to secure a military guarantee for its world supremacy at any cost by accelerating the modernization and build-up of its aggression armed forces in the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity and gaining the upper hand in strength.
The U.S. will be entirely held accountable for serious consequences to be entailed by its reckless military confrontation policy.
Japan's Plan for Research and Development of New Type Weapons Blasted
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Defence of Japan recently decided to research and develop high performance laser weapons from next year. This clearly indicates what phase the wild ambition of the Japanese reactionaries to secure a military edge in Northeast Asia and emerge a "leader" of Asia has reached.
Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
In order to mislead the public opinion the reactionaries assert that their research and development of the above-said weapons are aimed at boosting Japan's air defence capability allegedly to cope with the increasing threat to the sky above Japan. This is, however, sheer sophism.
It is their invariable ambition to reinvade Asia. They are persistently escalating their moves to convert Japan into a military giant, defying criticism and condemnation at home and abroad.
The above-said decision was prompted by their dangerous scenario to justify the exercise of the "right of collective self-defense" under the pretext of building a missile defense system with the help of the United States and acquire the capability to mount a preemptive attack and thus realize their design for overseas invasion.
Their loudmouthed "threat" from the DPRK is aimed at establishing military supremacy in Northeast Asia and realizing their ambition for overseas aggression.
It is a daydream for the Japanese reactionaries to work hard to emerge a "leader" of Asia, backed by the U.S. Their scenario will only bring Japan shameful destruction.
Dynamic Actions for National Reconciliation and Unity Called for
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The present times are the June 15 era of reunification in which the Koreans are promoting reconciliation and cooperation with each other and working hard to achieve independent reunification, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed article.
The June 15 era of reunification is an era of national independence in which the north and the south are developing their relations and paving the way for independent reunification by their concerted efforts, guided by the idea of "By our nation itself", the article notes, and goes on:
It is the need of the times and the will of the nation to solve all the issues in conformity with the idea of "By our nation itself" which the north and south promised to embody and has been hailed and supported by all the compatriots.
None of the two sides is, therefore, allowed to deny and sidestep the above-said idea.
If any side gives importance to the foreign forces instead of valuing its nation in contravention of the principle of "By our nation itself" or cooperates with them instead of joining hands with its compatriots, it should be branded as an act of betraying its nation and going against the times.
The present times call for placing the common interests of the nation above anything else, subordinating everything to the cause of national reunification, promoting co-existence, co-prosperity and common interests on the basis of the commonness of the nation and achieving genuine reconciliation.
The common points of the nation remain unchanged as the north and the south belong to the same nation.
The differing ideologies and systems in the north and the south do not pose any problem, given the commonness of the nation formed and consolidated for thousands of years.
The north and south can surely get reconciled and promote co-existence, co-prosperity and common interests, should they place the common interests of the nation above anything else and subordinate everything to the cause of national reunification and approach and solve all the issues on the basis of the national community.
In order to accelerate the independent reunification through genuine reconciliation between the north and south it is necessary to put the earliest possible end to the foreign presence and domination over south Korea and reject foreign forces' meddling in the issue of the relations between the north and south and the issue of reunification.
It is also necessary to stop the confrontation and war moves quite contrary to the trend of the times towards reconciliation and cooperation and remove the legal and political barriers lying in the way of national reconciliation and unity of the nation from south Korea.
Japanese Reactionaries' Preemptive Attack Doctrine Debunked
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The Japanese militarists are twisting and turning in an effort to make the doctrine of preemptive attack the basic military principle of the "Self-Defense Forces" in the present century. Rodong Sinmun in an article today brands this as a manifestation of the militarist aggressive idea of the Japanese reactionaries which has been carried into extremes.
Noting that the doctrine of preemptive attack of the Japanese reactionaries is a military provocation backed by preparations for overseas aggression, the author of the article goes on:
Japan has been rounding off military preparations for overseas aggression by hastening arms buildup after the war.
The maritime "Self-Defense Force" of Japan has grown into a modern naval force equipped with various up-to-date battle ships including submarines and destroyers and its offensive capability is well on a par with that of other capitalist powers. As estimated by Western media, the maritime "Self-Defense Force" of Japan is partially way ahead of the U.S. naval force.
The air and ground "Self-Defense Forces" of Japan are also prepared for all wars. The air "Self-Defense Force" is equipped with ultra modern fighter planes while the ground "Self-Defense Force" has a perfect system of ground offensive as it is fully equipped with tanks, armored cars, artillery pieces, missiles and other weapons.
The Japanese militarists are in possession of all conditions for overseas aggression, institutional and legal.
The Japanese reactionaries are going ahead in real earnest with the revision of the constitution allowing the exercise of the "right of collective self-defense." This is a very dangerous act to set up a military system of a war-seeking state, totally throwing away the veil of "a pacifist state" which they have been showing off after the war, and launch into a preemptive strike at other countries any time.
The Japanese militarists are now making quite a fuss, shouting themselves hoarse about "anti-terrorism" and "coping with contingency." They seek in this to mount a preemptive attack on other countries with these as a pretext. And their first target here is the DPRK.
The preemptive attack doctrine about which the Japanese reactionaries are so much blatant is, in essence, intended for a surprise military attack on the DPRK.
Paektusan Biosphere Reserve, Unique Ecosystem
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The Paektusan biosphere reserve in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea covers a vast area from Mt. Paektu to the southeast direction.
Mt. Paektu, starting point of the Great Paektu Range, is a celebrated mountain with precious wealth in the scenic and ecological, historical and cultural aspects.
Mt. Paektu, volcanic creature, 2,750 meters above the sea level, the vast land around it and Lake Chon, a large crater lake, which is the fountainhead of rivers and streams, go well with each other, presenting a beautiful landscape.
Mt. Paektu covered with a thick pumice stone layer, which looks like a mountain capped with snow all the year round, the clean and blue water of the Lake Chon, the boundless forests covering the vast land, the Lake Samji among the forests, water-falls with their fountainhead in the Lake Chon, wild flowers on the highland and the unique ecosystem on the boundary line of the forests--all these constitute a natural landscape that can be seen only in the Paektusan biosphere reserve.
Animals such as Korean tiger, deer and musk deer, trees of various species including larch, Abies nephrolipis and birch, wild vegetables, medicinal herbs, aromatic and flower plants form a forest ecological system in the reserve.
Chonji char accustomed to the Lake Chon attracts special attention of experts.
Mt. Paektu and its surrounding area, which are of great significance in preservation of biodiversity, were registered as an international biosphere reserve in April Juche 78 (1989).
The DPRK government set the area as a natural reserve in 1959 and as a special reserve of revolutionary battle sites in 1985.
International Day of Biodiversity Observed in DPRK
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- May 22 is the International Day of Biodiversity.
The global ecosystem has been seriously destroyed, rapidly decreasing the bio-resources needed for the life of the people. The actuality has risen as an urgent problem to protect the biodiversity in recent years.
According to the data released by the World Conservation Union, biological species which have been extinguished total over 1,000 and those on the brink of extermination far exceed 10,000.
The DPRK is abundant in biodiversity compared with the size of its territory. Under the correct nature preservation policy of the government, the work for protecting ecological diversity have been undertaken as an affair of the state and all people from long ago.
Lots of nature reserves including the Mt. Oga nature reserve, natural parks including Mt. Myohyang and Mt. Kumgang, reserves for native animals, plants and birds and their habitation, reserves for natural products and reserves for natural resources have been set to protect ecological diversity.
The Paektusan biosphere reserve has been preserved and managed amid the special concern of the Korean people from long ago. It was registered as an international biosphere reserve in April Juche 78 (1989).
The biological resources have been protected and increased by various methods including recovery of ecosystem and enhancement of biological function outside the reserves.
The production units such as forestry, agriculture and fishing industry are protecting the biodiversity through development and application of new science and technologies and, at the same time, are taking measures to ensure their sustainable utilization.
The relevant units including the Ministry of Land and Environment Conservation and the DPRK Natural Conservation Union have worked out strategies and action programs for biodiversity and are directing primary efforts to protecting and propagating indigenous species, those in a crisis and rare ones.
The state is pushing ahead with the protection of biodiversity through the institution of laws and regulations and the establishment of administrative and technical management systems. And it does not stint investment to the development of management technologies for analyzing, removing or minimizing the threat to the biodiversity.
And the state is turning the protection of biodiversity into the work of popular masses through the education and propaganda.
It is also taking positive measures for strengthening the international exchange and cooperation as an important part of the international efforts to ease the ecological crisis.
Protocol Signed between DPRK and Russia
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) - A protocol of the 11th meeting of the Forestry Sub-Committee of the Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy and Science and Technology between the DPRK and Russia was signed in Pyongyang Tuesday.
It was inked by Pak Jae Chun, vice-minister of Forestry, and Ivan Matsyorov, vice-minister of Industry and Energy who is heading the forestry delegation of Russia.
Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Valery Sukhinin was on hand.
DPRK Delegation Leaves
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the DPRK-Mongolia Friendship Parliamentary Group headed by its Chairman Kim Wan Su left here Tuesday to visit Mongolia.
It was seen off at the airport by officials concerned and the Mongolian charge d'affaires ad interim here.
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Rodong Sinmun condena a Japon tendente a "senorear" en Asia
Pyongyang, 22 de mayo (ATCC) -- El Ministerio de Defensa de Japon decidio recientemente comenzar el ano proximo la investigacion y el desarrollo de un arma de laser de alta potencia.
Esto demuestra a que grado llego la ambicion de los reaccionarios japoneses de convertirse en el "caudillo" de Asia al tomar la heguemonia militar en la region del Nordeste Asiatico.
Asi senala el periodico Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual de este martes y continua:
Aunque los reaccionarios japoneses enganan a la opinion publica diciendo como si el desarrollo de ese artefacto se encaminara a "fortalecer la capacidad antiaerea de Japon frente a la creciente amenaza en su espacio aereo", esto no pasa de ser una absurda sofisteria.
Ellos abrigan su invariable ambicion de agredir de nuevo a Asia. Por eso, maniobran con teson para convertir a su pais en una potencia militar desafiando al repudio interno y externo.
Tal decision del pais isleno partio del peligroso intento de realizar su ambicion de agredir a otros paises al legalizar el ejercicio del "derecho a la defensa colectiva" y poseer la capacidad de ataque preventivo pretextando implantar el Sistema Antimisiles con EE.UU.
En tanto, pregonan la supuesta "amenaza" de la RPDC para tomar la heguemonia militar en el Nordeste Asiatico y realizar esa ambicion.
Pero, es irrealizable el sueno de Japon de "senorear" en Asia bajo el amparo de EE.UU. y lo unico que le tocara es la autodestruccion vergonzosa.
Minju Joson denuncia despliegue de pertrechos belicos en Sur de Corea
Pyongyang, 22 de mayo (ATCC) -- Recientemente Estados Unidos publico un plan de despliegue en el Sur de Corea del sistema de misil mar-aire de gran eficacia "SM-2" y tres destructores "Aegis".
Tal movimiento, que promueve EE.UU. a rotulo de "ejercicios militares", parte de la intencion de desplegar enormes fuerzas armadas agresoras en la Peninsula Coreana y su contorno para dar golpe preventivo a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
Asi senala el periodico Minju Joson en un comentario individual de este martes y continua:
Ultimamente las fuerzas belicosas norteamericanas y las surcoreanas libraron freneticamente el "ejercicio combinado de refuerzo para el tiempo de guerra" y el simulacro conjunto "Aguilucho" contra la RPDC y efectuaron una prueba de lanzamiento de misil crucero "Tomahawk Black-3" en el crucero atomico situado sobre el Oceano Atlantico. Esto es una clara prueba de que EE.UU. persigue invariablemente la confrontacion militar con la RPDC.
El imperio persigue tal politica de confrontacion militar con la RPDC para obstaculizar la desnuclearizacion y la preservacion de paz en la Peninsula Coreana y exacerbar la tension militar para llevar la situacion al borde de la guerra.
EE.UU. abriga la invariable ambicion de realizar la estrategia asiatica tomando por trampolin la Peninsula Coreana y trata de ocupar la superioridad de la fuerza al dar espuelas a la modernizacion y aumento de las fuerzas armadas agresoras en la Peninsula Coreana y su contorno y de preparar de esta manera la garantia militar para la realizacion de su ambicion de dominio al mundo.
EE.UU. debe asumir la entera responsabilidad de las graves consecuencias que emanen de su temeraria politica de confrontacion militar.
Editado tomo 69 de obras completas de Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, 22 de mayo (ATCC) -- La Editora del Partido del Trabajo de Corea dio a luz el tomo 69 de las obras completas de Kim Il Sung.
El tomo 69 recoge 55 trabajos del Presidente Kim Il Sung, entre ellos, historicos discursos, discursos resumen y charlas, pronunciados en el periodo de enero a agosto del 68 (1979), de la Era Juche.
Las obras sintetizan las ideas, teorias y orientaciones originales que, luego de percatarse de la demanda de la revolucion en desarrollo, el Presidente presento para propiciar el avance victorioso de la causa socialista.
Los trabajos "Para fortalecer mas la direccion del partido sobre la construccion economica socialista", " Produzcamos un nuevo cambio en la direccion del partido sobre la labor administrativa y economica", etc. dilucidan las ideas de registrar un gran viraje en la direccion partidista sobre la construccion socialista al elevar la funcion y papel combativos de las organizaciones del partido.
Tambien, las obras "Para desarrollar con rapidez el transporte de acuerdo con la exigencia de la construccion economica socialista en su etapa superior", "Para regularizar la gestion empresarial y mejorar la administracion de la mano de obra", etc. aclaran las tareas que se presentan en perfeccionar continuamente las estructuras de los sectores de la economia conforme a la demanda legitima de la construccion economica socialista y fortalecer la independencia economica del pais.
En las obras "Sobre las tareas de los cientificos y tecnicos coreanos residentes en Japon para el desarrollo de las ciencias y la tecnica en nuestro pais", "Deben hacer bien el estudio sobre el metodo de cultivo de plantas agricolas conveniente a las zonas alpinas" y otras, el Presidente indico las orientaciones y medios para desarrollar con rapidez las ciencias, la ensenanza y todas las ramas de la construccion de cultura socialista. Tambien en los trabajos "Hay que reunificar la patria con las fuerzas propias de nuestra nacion" y "Charla con el secretario general de la ONU y su comitiva", etc. dilucido ideas de evitar la division perpetua de la nacion y lograr la reunificacion de la patria con las fuerzas propias de nacion coreana.
El tomo dilucida, ademas, el problema de acondicionar bien los lugares de combate e historicos revolucionarios como centros de la educacion en las tradiciones revolucionarias, el de construir mas hermosamente a estilo moderno la ciudad de Pyongyang y brindar las excelentes condiciones de vida a los ciudadanos, el de desarrollar la educacion nacional democratica de la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon) y fortalecer el movimiento de estos coreanos y otras tareas y medios que se presentan en la revolucion y la construccion.
Rodong Sinmun elogia la epoca del 15 de junio
Pyongyang, 22 de mayo (ATCC) -- En un articulo individual difundido este martes, el periodico Rodong Sinmun indica que la epoca actual es la de reunificacion iniciada el 15 de Junio en que la nacion coreana impulsa la reunificacion independiente promoviendo la reconciliacion y la cooperacion.
En esta epoca para la independencia nacional el Norte y el Sur de Corea desarrollan las relaciones bilaterales bajo el ideal de "entre nosotros, los connacionales" y allanan juntos el camino de reunificacion independiente, opina el articulista y continua:
Es una demanda de la epoca y la voluntad nacional solucionar todos los problemas de acuerdo con ese ideal, ratificado por ambas partes y apoyado por todos los coreanos.
Ya que el Norte y el Sur admitieron ese lema y se comprometieron a cumplirlo, ninguna de las dos partes puede negarlo ni desatenderlo.
Resultan traicioneras a la nacion coreana y desafiantes a la corriente de la epoca las acciones opuestas al principio de "entre nosotros, los connacionales" como menospreciar a los coterraneos y negarse a colaborar con los mismos para apreciar a las fuerzas foraneas y confabularse con estas.
La epoca actual exige al Norte y al Sur que den preferencia a los intereses comunes de la nacion, dediquen lo todo a la reunificacion de la patria, promuevan la coexistencia, la prosperidad y bienestar comunes a base de la identidad nacional y logren la verdadera reconciliacion.
Si las dos partes abordan todos los problemas en estos principios, pueden reconciliarse y lograr la coexistencia, la prosperidad e intereses comunes.
El Norte y el Sur son una sola comunidad nacional tanto en el pasado como hoy. La diferencia de ideas y sistemas entre ambas partes no es nada en comparacion con la identidad nacional que se formo y se consolido durante varios milenios.
A fin de adelantar la reunificacion independiente al unirse de verdad, ambas partes deben poner cuanto antes punto final a la ocupacion y el dominio de las fuerzas extranjeras sobre el Sur de Corea y rechazar la intervencion de ellas en las relaciones intercoreanas y el problema de la reunificacion.
Y deben parar las maniobras de confrontacion y guerra opuestas a la tendencia de la epoca de reconciliacion, cooperacion y unidad y eliminar en el Sur de Corea las barreras juridicas y politicas que las impiden.