Chinese FM Arrives Here
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Yang Jiechi, Chinese foreign minister, and his party arrived here today on the invitation of Pak Ui Chun, DPRK foreign minister.
They were greeted at the airport by Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, and others and Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the Chinese embassy here.
Chinese FM Feted
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government hosted a banquet in honor of the visiting Chinese foreign minister at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Monday.
Present on invitation were Yang Jiechi, Chinese foreign minister, and his party, Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the Chinese embassy here.
Present there were Pak Ui Chun, DPRK foreign minister, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
Pak in his speech said that it is the consistent stand of the Workers' Party and government of the DPRK to set store by and steadily boost the DPRK-China friendship which was provided by revolutionaries of the elder generation of the two countries and for which their top leaders show deep concern.
He noted with joy that the national power is growing strong in China, the DPRK's neighbor, and its international position is rising.
It is our sincere hope that the Chinese people will register greater success in their work to victoriously greet the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China and build a comprehensively well off socialist society under its leadership with Hu Jintao as its general secretary.
Yang in his speech said that the Sino-Korean Friendship has a long history and the bilateral relations have developed thanks to the direct care of the top leaders of the two countries and the concerted efforts of the two sides.
Noting that the Korean people have registered great successes under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, he sincerely wished them fresh and greater success.
It is the steadfast policy of the party and government of China to steadily consolidate and boost the Sino-Korean relations of friendship and cooperation as they attach utmost importance to the Sino-Korean ties, he noted, expressing the belief that the future of the bilateral relations will be more beautiful thanks to the concerted efforts of the two sides.
Preparatory Committee Formed in South Africa
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The South African Preparatory Committee to Remember President Kim Il Sung was inaugurated in Mfumalanga Province, South Africa, with due ceremony on June 25.
At the ceremony, the chairman of the Mfumalanga Provincial Committee of the South African Communist Party and the chairman of the South African Association of Friendship and Solidarity with Korean People were elected chairman and secretary of the preparatory committee.
The preparatory committee set the period of remembrance from July 1 to 10 and decided to organize a seminar, a photo exhibition, a film show and other various events during the period.
Suppression of Struggle against FTA under Fire
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The All-People Movement Headquarters for Checking the south Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement reportedly called a press conference in front of the "government" building in Seoul on June 28, at which it denounced the "government" authorities' suppression of the struggle against the conclusion of the FTA.
Noting that the "government" requested advance arrest warrants for co-representatives of the headquarters while seeking to take a tough action against the strike of the Federation of Trade Unions of Metal Industry under the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, speakers at the conference termed it an act of repression intended to break the will of the people.
The Ministry of Justice is going to enact a "law" demanding damages from any violator of the "law on assembly and demonstration", they said, charging that this is an outrage to curb demonstrations by dint of the evil law.
Meanwhile, Ryu Son Min, chairman of the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils, released a statement titled "The government should immediately stop suppression of the Federation of Trade Unions of Metal Industry and nullify the negotiations for the conclusion of south Korea-U.S. FTA" on June 26.
Anti-FTA Fight in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The struggle for checking the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement was simultaneously held in 8 regions including Seoul with more than 60,000 people in attendance on June 29, according to a media report.
The Maroni Park in University Street, Seoul was the scene of "a national rally of workers for the victory in an all-out struggle in June".
It brought together more than 12,000 workers and members of political parties, civic and public organizations.
The speakers at the rally said the "government" was forcing labor instability and poverty upon the part-time workers and scheming to drive the people to a more woeful destitution by signing FTA.
The resolution read out at the rally declared that the workers would pool their strength and fight it out in demand of a stop to the conclusion of FTA and nullification and total revision of the evil law on part-time jobs.
At the end of the rally, the participants marched through streets.
Greetings to Burundian President
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi, on June 28 on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of its independence.
In the message Kim Yong Nam expressed the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the mutual interests and wished the Burundian president and people greater success in their work to achieve national reconciliation and unity and development of the country.
Japanese Reactionaries' Moves for Retrogressive Revision of Constitution under Fire
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Some time ago the French paper La Liberation said what the Japanese reactionaries seek through the retrogressive revision of their Constitution is not to defend Japan but participate in a war against the third country.
As commented by the French paper, their moves to adopt a war constitution are aimed to reorganize the present state system into a wartime system for overseas aggression, observes Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary.
It goes on: The Abe forces are vociferating about the necessity to revise the present Constitution, calling for "departure from the postwar regime" pursuant to the "change of the times" and "a responsible role" in the settlement of international issues. This is sheer hypocrisy.
Abe has disclosed his attempt to replace the "Pacifist Constitution" by a war constitution within three years while blustering that now is the time to boldly reorganize the postwar regime and start with a clean sheet and it is his "mission to make the state take on fresh appearance". They have already adopted the "law on referendum" aimed to revise the Constitution. If the results of the referendum came out as intended by the Abe regime, this would mean providing legal conditions for scrapping the "Pacifist Constitution" that has existed in name only and adopting instead a war Constitution in Japan. This indicates that the moves of the Japanese reactionaries for the retrogressive revision of the Constitution are being pushed forward at the last phase.
Through the above-said retrogressive Constitutional revision they intend to develop the "Self-Defence Forces" (SDF) into regular armed forces and grant it the "right to collective self-defense" in a bid to justify the aggressor armed forces' overseas military actions.
Graves are consequences to be entailed by their moves for the retrogressive Constitutional revision. The appearance of a war constitution in the wake of the demise of the "Pacifist Constitution" would enable the Japanese reactionaries to hurl their aggressor forces into any area of the world and mount a preemptive attack on any other country, unhindered.
Songun Politics, Shield against War: Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Songun politics of the DPRK is a patriotic shield which contains the reckless moves for aggression and war of outside forces with a powerful deterrent for self-defense, protects all the fellow countrymen in the north and the south from the holocaust of war and firmly defends peace of the country, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article.
It goes on:
All the Koreans boundlessly trust the great Songun policy and unanimously support it as it reliably defends the security of the fellow countrymen and demonstrates to the world the dignity and might of the Korean nation.
It serves as a powerful weapon firmly defending the peace of the country from the harebrained war scheme of the bellicose forces at home and abroad. The DPRK's mighty war deterrent for self-defence has become an invincible shield for curbing reckless war provocations of the bellicose forces at home and abroad and firmly defending the peace of the country and the security of the nation. In actuality, the U.S. is now standing in an acute military standoff with the DPRK on the Korean Peninsula, but it dares not to resort to such a rash military adventure against the DPRK as what it did in the 1950s.
Songun politics is a politics of true patriotism for bringing a peaceful life and prosperous future to the fellow countrymen in the north and the south.
Koreans at home and abroad all benefit by Songun politics as it guarantees peace.
South Korea is under the protection of Songun just like the north. Should the U.S. ignite a war on the Korean Peninsula, the south Korean economic and social foundations will be reduced to ruins. Had it not been for the powerful war deterrent built in the DPRK by Songun politics which guarantees a stable situation on the Korean Peninsula, south Korea would have long ago witnessed a confusion and total catastrophe defying comparison with what suffered under the "mandate" of the International Monetary Fund in 1998.
Songun politics is, in deed, an unbreakable shield and a powerful treasured sword protecting all the Koreans, whether in the north or in the south, from a holocaust of war.
WPK Praised as Mother Party
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea has always served the masses of people and its cause is invincible as it has won one victory after another by forming a harmonious whole with the people, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed article.
To serve the people is an intrinsic nature of a revolutionary party leading the cause of socialism, the article notes, and goes on:
The WPK has not forgotten its responsibility for the people's destiny even a moment nor lost popularity while leading the revolution for several decades. It has set an example of the times by showing in practice how a party should lead the people with responsibility for their destiny despite manifold stern trials. Herein lies the greatness of the WPK's history.
The WPK is a true popular party as it places the interests of the people above anything else and a great mother party as it takes care of the destiny and future of the people in a responsible manner to the last.
It is the guide that has provided sure political, military and economic guarantees for the Korean nation to enjoy eternal prosperity in this land. It is also like a mother as it gives noble political integrity to all Korean people and leads them along the road of a worthwhile life and struggle.
The WPK is a great party as it has recorded an epic on the service to the people holding in high esteem the peerless great men endowed with warm love and trust in the people, the article notes, and goes on:
President Kim Il Sung was the benevolent father who devoted all his life to the people with the most ardent love for them and a peerless statesman who gave a new origin to the construction of the mother party.
The revolutionary history of Kim Il Sung in which he dedicated himself to the eternal happiness and prosperity of the people has been successfully carried forward by Kim Jong Il.
The WPK regards his noble view on the people as a starting point in all its activities and fully embodies his noble popular trait in all its work, holding fast to the Songun policy as a main political mode and adorning the history of devoted service to the people.
Fish Breeding in Paddy Fields Encouraged
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Fish breeding in paddy fields is being encouraged in co-op farms of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Various farms in Pyongyang have recently released more than 500,000 fries in paddies.
The farms are taking necessary measures in conformity with technical requirements in fish culture.
Co-op farms in Taedong County, South Phyongan Province are dynamically culturing fish in paddy fields in close connection with the Fish Breeding Guidance Bureau.
They are making puddles and fishways in the selected paddies to breed various species of fish including carps and crucian.
The Kupho Co-op Farm in Hwangju County, North Hwanghae Province has bred fries in vast acreage of paddies every year, thus considerably raising the per-hectare yield of rice and fish production.
Vice Department Director of the Fish Breeding Guidance Bureau Han Yong Il told KCNA that the fish breeding in paddies is equivalent to a fish farm with the several tens of hectares of fish breeding grounds.
The fries grow by eating plankton and insects in water without any additional feed and make the fields fertile, he added:
The bureau is positively encouraging fish farming in paddies, along with that in fish farms, and organizing well the work to provide full fries to co-op farms across the country.
Japanese Imperialists' Vicious Educational Policy in Korea
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists had enforced the vicious educational policy for colonial slavery to obliterate the national consciousness of the Korean people during their military occupation.
They imposed an education on the Korean people in an attempt to "turn them into the subjects of Empire".
The education was carried into practice on the basis of the three-point educational policy put forth by Jiro Minami who was assigned as the governor-general in August 1936. The three-point educational policy meant to put the Korean young people under the "state system" of Japan ruled by the absolute authority of the "emperor", to realize the "oneness of Japan and Korea" and to train the body and mind for the war of aggression.
The occupationists made all desperate efforts to imbue militaristic ideology and culture of Japan into the minds of the Korean people with the three-point policy as the main of the colonial enslavement policy.
In particular they revised the regulations of primary schools and abolished the education in the Korean language at all levels of schools.
And they banned the Koreans from using the Korean written and spoken languages at the two-year primary schools and vocational schools and forced them to learn Japanese written and spoken languages. Still worse, they forced the Koreans to change their surnames and names into Japanese ones.
The educational policy of "turning Koreans into the subjects of Empire" was an out-and-out "national reformist education" to convert the Korean people into colonial slaves and cannon-fodder.
Anti-Chongryon Campaign of Japanese Authorities Assailed
Tokyo, June 30 (KNS-KCNA) -- Officials of Chongryon-lining central organizations released statements in denunciation of Japanese Prime Minister Abe's reckless remarks branding Chongryon as a "criminal organization."
Choe Song Yong, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, lashed at the balderdash let loose by Abe branding Chongryon as a "criminal organization" for no reason.
He demanded that Abe should immediately withdraw and apologize for the venomous outpourings, clearly realizing what a shameless crime it was that he stringed out anachronistic remarks against dignified Chongryon.
Kang Chu Ryon, chairwoman of the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union in Japan, representing the wrath of all the officials of the union and the Korean women in Japan, bitterly denounced Japanese Prime Minister Abe and the right-wing reactionaries knee deep in building up public opinion against Chongryon and Koreans.
She stated that all the Korean women would never pardon the Japanese authorities and right-wing reactionaries for smearing the image of Chongryon and spreading the climate of "hunting Koreans."
Kim Tong Hak, secretary general of the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan, said Abe made the outburst abusing the rights of Koreans in Japan when the innocent Koreans in Japan were subjected to discrimination with chauvinistic sentiments running high in Japan.
Representatives of Chongryon Central Standing Committee Protest Japanese Media
Tokyo, June 30 (KNS-KCNA) -- The representatives of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) staged a protest action against the Japanese media for spreading sheer lies, riding on the wave of the Japanese authorities' moves against the DPRK and Chongryon.
On June 27 the representatives lodged a protest with the managing editor of weekly magazine "Aera" of the Asahi Shimbun and others against carrying an article full of prejudice and invectives based on groundless remarks uttered by riff-raff.
They also lashed at the magazine for acting a mouthpiece of the Abe regime, forgetful of the mission of media to inform the readers of truth about the arbitrary use of power by the Abe regime such as its anti-Chongryon campaign and urged the magazine to correct the article and make an apology.
Earlier, the representatives visited "TBS TV" where they denounced the TV for airing everyday false programs full of lies to tarnish the image of the DPRK and Chongryon and foster sentiments against Koreans among the Japanese.
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MINREX denuncia nueva campana anti-Chongryon de la banda de Abe
Pyongyang, 2 de julio (ATCC) -- Un portavoz de la cancilleria de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea emitio la vispera una declaracion denunciando las cada dia mas imprudentes maniobras represivas de la banda de Abe contra la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon).
En estos tiempos, las maniobras represivas de la banda de Abe a la Chongryon llegan a una etapa mas imprudente, barbara y nunca perdonable, adelanta la nota y prosigue:
Despues de hacerse el premier de Japon fomentando la conciencia hostil a la RPDC, Abe, quien heredo el temperamento de ultranacionalismo y chovinismo nacional de sus antecesores colmados hasta en sus tuetanos de la hostilidad a los coreanos, recurrio a la escalada de la campana anti-RPDC y anti-Chongryon.
La pandilla de Abe cometio incesantemente el ano pasado y este ano el registro forzado, la agresion fisica, el arresto y otras acciones violentas y barbaras contra los establecimientos de la Chongryon y los coreanos residentes en Japon. Y ahora intenta ejecutar por la fuerza una subasta sobre el solar y el edificio de la Casa Central de la Chongryon por conducto de la Corporacion de Resolucion y Coleccion.
Ellos llevaron unilateralmente al fracaso los esfuerzos por resolver el problema al ordenar a esa entidad rehusar obstinadamente las sinceras y racionales propuestas de la Chongryon sobre la solucion de las deudas y presentar una demanda sumamente discriminatoria y parcial.
Esto resulta una maniobra para acabar con la Chongryon y el movimiento de los coreanos radicados en Japon al eliminar fisicamente la base de las actividades de esta institucion, que deviene la defensora de los derechos nacionales democraticos de estos compatriotas, siendo un siniestro atentado a la soberania de la RPDC, al que no se atrevio ninguno de los anteriores gobiernos del pais isleno.
La Chongryon es una legitima organizacion de los compatriotas en ultramar de la RPDC fundada para defender los derechos nacionales democraticos de los coreanos residentes en Japon, quienes son victimas directas de ese criminal arresto forzado a los coreanos perpetrado en el pasado por los imperialistas islenos y sus descendientes.
Tanto a la luz de las circunstancias historicas de la creacion de la Chongryon como en vista de todos los crimenes cometidos de generacion en generacion por la familia de Abe en contra de la nacion coreana, el actual mandatario japones tiene la ineludible responsabilidad juridica y moral de protegerla y garantizar sus actividades.
Sin embargo, como si no le bastaran todas esas acciones represivas a la Chongryon, la horda de Abe trata de arrebatar hasta el edificio y la tierra de la Chongryon, lo cual deviene un flagrante atentado a la soberania de la RPDC de similar gravedad que la sancion financiera.
En estos dias, las autoridades japonesas justifican esas tentativas anunciando como si fueran un "asunto economico relacionado con la recaudacion de los bonos de credito".
Pero, detras de esta cruenta campana, se hallan la premeditada intriga y la indicacion directa de Abe encaminadas a cumplir sus mezquinos fines politicos.
Inquietado por la constante caida de apoyo en visperas de las elecciones de los consejeros previstas para finales del mes en curso, Abe, quien no pudo conseguir resultados esperados con su absurda insistencia en cuanto al "problema del secuestro", maniobra irracional y desesperadamente para poner escollos en el curso de las conversaciones a 6 partes al llevar a la peor fase las relaciones con la RPDC mediante la toma forzada de ese edificio de la Chongryon.
Japon frena el avance de la cita a 6 bandas para la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana en su intento de dilatar la solucion del problema para seguir utilizandolo como el pretexto de militarizacion de su pais hasta completarla.
Es una conducta muy virulenta el que la banda de Abe se mantiene callada en la mesa de esa cita y, a las espaldas, acosa brutalmente a esa inocente organizacion de los coreanos en Japon.
Entonces, nuestro pais se ve obligado a dudar de la necesidad de la continua participacion en ese dialogo de Japon, que se porta tan suciamente partiendo de su malsano proposito.
Nuestro pais nunca se mostrara indiferente ante esa brutal represion a la Chongryon y nuestra entidad competente tomara medidas necesarias.
Rodong Sinmun denuncia enmienda constitucional de Japon
Pyongyang, 2 de julio (ATCC) -- Hace poco, el periodico frances "Liberation" revelo que la enmienda constitucional de los reaccionarios de Japon no es para la defensa de su territorio sino para participar en la guerra contra un tercer pais.
Como lo revelo el rotativo galo, las maniobras de los reaccionarios japoneses para fabricar una constitucion belicista se orientan a cambiar el actual sistema estatal en el belico para la agresion a ultramar.
@Ratifica el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual publicado este lunes y prosigue:
@Es un absurdo engano el que las fuerzas de Abe resaltaran la necesidad de enmendar la constitucion vigente abogando por la "salida del sistema posbelico" en ajuste a los "cambios de la epoca" y el ejercicio de un "papel responsable" en la solucion de los problemas internacionales.
Abe expone abiertamente su intencion de cambiar dentro de tres anos la "constitucion pacifista" por una belica pregonando que ahora es "cuando hay que modificar valientemente el sistema posbelico y comenzar de nuevo" y que su "mision" es "proyectar un nuevo aspecto estatal".
@Para este fin, la pandilla de Abe ya elaboro la "ley de plebiscito" para el particular.
@Como se de en este sufragio un resultado esperado por el gobierno de Abe, se prepararan las condiciones legales para fabricar una constitucion belica cancelando la "pacifista", que vino existiendo formalmente hasta ahora. Esto insinua que entro en su ultima fase las maniobras de enmienda constitucional de los reaccionarios japoneses.
A traves de este trabajo, ellos intentan convertir en un ejercito regular a sus "fuerzas de autodefensa" y legalizar las acciones militares en ultramar de las fuerzas agresoras al permitir el "derecho a la autodefensa colectiva".
Si se llevan a efecto tales maniobras, se produciran graves consecuencias. Es que los reaccionarios japoneses podran despachar libremente a sus tropas invasoras a cualquier parte del mundo y perpetrar el ataque preventivo a otros paises.
Nombrado nuevo embajador coreano en Cuba
Pyongyang, 30 de junio (ATCC) -- Segun un decreto del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kwon Sung Chol fue designado como nuevo embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la RPDC a acreditarse en la Republica de Cuba.
Parte de Pyongyang la delegacion de trabajo de la OIEA
Pyongyang, 30 de junio (ATCC) -- Partio este sabado de esta capital la delegacion de expertos de la Organizacion Internacional de Energia Atomica (OIEA) presidida por el subdirector general, Olli Heinonen.