Actions for Abolition of NSL Vowed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Former chairpersons of the 3rd to 13th-term south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) on June 30 reportedly issued a joint statement in which the south Korean students vowed to struggle to the last for the abolition of the "National Security Law (NSL)" and the dissolution of the "security investigation group".
Accusing the security authorities of arresting Jang Song Hoe, chairman of the 14th-term Hanchongryon, on the charge of violating the NSL, the statement noted that Jang energetically spearheaded the movement for independence, peace and reunification.
The students active in the patriotic movement for reunification deserve praises in the era of great national unity brought by the June 15 joint declaration, it stressed.
The pro-U.S. anti-reunification forces including the security authorities are no more than bubble as they are washed away by the strong tide of the Korean nation's movement for independent reunification, the statement said, adding that the traitors standing in the way of the advance of history are bound to meet its stern judgment.
Korean People's Struggle Supported
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Sefwat Sharif, general secretary of the National Democratic Party of Egypt, met and had a talk with the delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea on a visit to Egypt on June 27.
He said that the National Democratic Party of Egypt appreciated and supported the efforts made by the friendly Korean people to build a rich and powerful nation and achieve the country's reunification under the leadership of the WPK headed by Kim Jong Il.
The National Democratic Party of Egypt would make positive efforts to boost the relations with the WPK in the future, too, he stressed.
Meanwhile, Abdullah al-Ahmar, deputy general secretary of Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party, met the WPK delegation on a visit to Syria on July 1.
He noted that Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party and the Syrian people fully supported the WPK and the Korean people in their struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country, speed up the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and achieve the country's reunification, true to the Songun policy of Kim Jong Il.
Signature Campaign against FTA Conducted in U.S.
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- More than 400 Koreans in the U.S., overseas Koreans and American public figures reportedly staged a signature campaign against the conclusion of the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement" in Washington on June 30.
Accusing the south Korean authorities and the U.S. of formally signing the agreement for the conclusion of the FTA that day, the participants charged that the south Korean authorities signed the paper pronouncing the death sentence which would take lives of people in utter disregard of the consequences to be entailed by the conclusion of the FTA.
Assailing the south Korean authorities for working hard to conclude the FTA which would force only subjugation and submission on the people, the participants vowed to wage a more dynamic struggle to check the conclusion of the FTA.
Conclusion of FTA Opposed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The All-People Movement Headquarters for Checking the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement" reportedly called an emergency press conference in Seoul on July 1 as regards the fact that the United States and the south Korean authorities formally signed an agreement on the conclusion of FTA.
A press release read out at the conference noted that the south Korean authorities signed the agreement on June 30 despite the strong opposition of the people from all walks of life. The process of concluding the FTA, from the negotiations to final signature, is run through with illegality, arrogance and self-importance, it said.
Declaring the agreement totally null and void, it urged the "National Assembly" to make an immediate investigation into the "state policy" on the process of concluding the FTA and its contents and set a veto on the ratification of the agreement.
The politicians who supported the conclusion of the ruinous FTA would have to pay dearly for it, the release warned, stating that the headquarters would fight out in solidarity with the people from all walks of life.
The press conference heard the speeches by Pak Sok Un, co-executive chairman of the headquarters, Choe Kyu Yop, executive chairman of the Democratic Labor Party, Ri Kyu Jae, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, and other personages of various circles.
They demanded that the present regime immediately quit as it has sold off the interests of the people to outside forces.
Agricultural Workers Meet to Remember Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- A remembrance meeting of agricultural workers entitled "We will hold our General in higher esteem with rice, true to the last instructions of fatherly leader" took place in front of the Okdo Revolutionary Museum, Ryonggang County, South Phyongan Province on July 4 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.
Kang Chang Uk, chairman of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, and other speakers at the meeting recalled that the President walked along the ridges between fields of the co-op farms across the country till the last period of his life to provide the Korean people with affluent diet.
They also recollected the deep loving care and benevolence shown by the President for the agricultural workers while making endless journeys for field guidance.
Noting that the President's long-term plan for rural construction is now being translated into a brilliant reality by Kim Jong Il, they called upon all the UAWK members and agricultural workers to bring about a bumper harvest this year.
The event included an art performance. Staged there were mixed duet "Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Are Just the Same," female solo "Ye, Bright Moon over My Country" and other numbers.
Present at the meeting were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and others.
Message of Sympathy to Pakistani President
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of sympathy to Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, on July 3 for the flood damage that hit different areas of Pakistan including Sind Province.
Expressing deep sympathy with the president and through him with the inhabitants of the afflicted areas, Kim Yong Nam hoped that the Pakistani government would heal the flood damage and the life of the flood victims be stabilized at an early date.
New Novel Sees Light
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The Literature and Art Publishing House of the DPRK has recently published a full-length novel titled "Wings" based on the life of Hero of the DPRK Thae Son Hui.
Thae was the first woman aviator in the country. She distinguished herself in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953) by applying skillfully sudden air-attack and low-altitude flight.
She mounted air-raids on Taehwa Island on several occasions defying the volley of anti-aircraft fire to destroy huge manpower and military hardware of the enemy and bombed the fuel depot and military establishments of the U.S. forces in Inchon, thus performing meritorious services.
President Kim Il Sung granted an audience to her in Juche 41 (1952) and gave her a pocket pistol in praise of her distinguished military services.
The novel describes impressively how she, who had lived as farm-servant or nurse of a rich family before the liberation of the country, was covered with such glory.
The novel gives the truth that it is the most sacred civic duty to devote oneself to the defense of the country and herein lies one's worthwhile life.
Greetings to President of Cape Verde
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Pedro Pires, President of Cape Verde, on July 2 on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of its independence and the proclamation of its republic.
In the belief that the bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation would grow stronger in the future, Kim Yong Nam in the message wished the president of Cape Verde great success in his work for the prosperity of the country and well-being of its people.
Chinese Pay Respects to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The family of Zhang Weihua, an anti-Japanese revolutionary martyr, today sent a floral basket to the statue of President Kim Il Sung standing on Mansu Hill here on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of his demise.
Written on the ribbon of the basket was letters "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will live forever."
Vehicles Donated to Korean Farm
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The New Zealand-DPRK Society donated vehicles to the DPRK-New Zealand Friendship Haksan Co-op Farm, Hyongjesan District, Pyongyang.
A presentation ceremony was held at the farm on Thursday.
Present at the ceremony were Pak Kyong Il, chairman of the DPRK-New Zealand Friendship Society, and other members of the society and officials of the farm and Peter Wilson, member of the New Zealand-DPRK Society, who is on a visit to the DPRK.
Prior to the ceremony, the participants looked round cozy houses, a kindergarten and a nursery there and Haksan-ri People's Hospital and enjoyed an art performance.
Abe Group's Anti-Chongryon Campaign under Fire
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The Abe group has escalated its anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon (the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) campaign. This is, however, nothing but a rash act of a political dwarf.
Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
The Abe gentries paint the unfriendly action taken against Chongryon as a "mere business issue related to the collection of bonds." But this is a political plot and criminal move to deprive Chongryon of the centre of its activities and destroy it. With nothing can they deny this hard fact.
No previous regimes of Japan have ever resorted to such frantic campaign to stamp out Chongryon as what the Abe group is now perpetrating. They refrained from such action as they were aware even a little of the fact that Chongryon is a legitimate overseas compatriots' organization of the DPRK whose mission is to protect the democratic national rights of Koreans in Japan, the victims of the criminal forcible drafting of Koreans committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past and their descendants, and they are legally and morally responsible for guaranteeing the activities of Chongryon on the basis of their recognition of its existence because of the historical background.
Nevertheless, the Abe gentries have rolled up their sleeves to carry out their operation to destroy Chongryon. This self-exposes that they are a group of villains and gangsters who do not feel any legal and moral responsibility for the crimes committed by Japan in the past.
Their action to deprive Chongryon of its building and plottage despite the fact that it has played the role of a mission of the DPRK in Japan is, in fact, a wanton infringement upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK.
The Abe group is seeking a sinister aim through its anti-Chongryon campaign.
The escalated suppression of Chongryon is pushing the DPRK-Japan relations to the lowest ebb and driving the six-party talks to a collapse. It is the ulterior intention of the Abe gentries to stand in the way of the six-party talks and use them for meeting their political and strategic interests.
Chongryon Organizations Meet
Tokyo, July 3 (KNS-KCNA) -- There took place in Tokyo the 28th Congress of the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan, the 21st Congress of the Central Korean Educational Association in Japan, the 17th Congress of the Union of Korean Writers and Artistes in Japan and the 6th general meeting of the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan.
Present there were Vice-Chairmen Nam Sung U, Ri Ki Sok, Pae Ik Ju and Ko Tok U and department directors of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), leading officials of the above-said organizations and delegates.
Reports and speeches were made at the congresses and general meeting.
The reporters and speakers referred to the achievements gained by their organizations in the past and advanced tasks for dynamically conducting the "movement to invite compatriots to come to the fold of Chongryon" set forth at the 21st Congress of Chongryon.
The reports were adopted as the decisions of above-said congresses and meeting.
Ku Tae Sok, Jo Ryong Hyon and Kim Jong Su were respectively reelected chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan, chairman of the Central Korean Educational Association in Japan and chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Writers and Artistes in Japan.
Ha Jong Yun was elected chairman of the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan.
Japanese Media Blasted
Tokyo, July 3 (KNS-KCNA) -- Officials of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and Koreans in Kanto district on July 2 staged a protest action in front of the Tokyo head office of Asahi Shimbun publishing the weekly magazine "Aera" which had carried a forged article treating the senior officials of the Central Headquarters of Chongryon as "criminals" by raking together groundless "testimonies."
They branded it as a malicious human rights abuse that a media office which should cover unbiased reports carried a whopping lie full of prejudice and malice and tarnished the image of the Chongryon Central Headquarters and its senior officials.
That day they met with the Asahi official concerned and the reporter who wrote the false article and demanded they immediately withdraw the article seriously smearing the reputation of the Chongryon Central Headquarters and its senior officials and apologize for it.
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Minju Joson critica hostigamiento a la Chongryon de la banda de Abe
Pyongyang, 5 de julio (ATCC) -- La escalada de la campana de la banda de Abe contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon) no es mas que una accion imprudente del enano politico (Japon).
Califica asi el rotativo Minju Joson en un comentario individual publicado este jueves y prosigue:
La banda de Abe justifica su conducta grosera sobre la Chongryon diciendo que su intento de subastar la Casa Central de ella es un "asunto economico relacionado con la recaudacion de los bonos de credito". Pero, resulta irrefutable que ese complot politico y acto criminal parten de su malvada intencion de eliminar ese centro de actividades de la Chongryon y dar punto final a la misma existencia de esta.
@Ninguno de los gobiernos anteriores de Japon se mostro tan frenetico como la banda de Abe en las maniobras para exterminar la Chongryon. Es porque estuvieron conscientes, aunque tenuemente, de que ella es una legitima organizacion de los compatriotas de la RPDC en ultramar fundada para defender los derechos nacionales democraticos de los coreanos residentes en Japon, quienes son victimas directas del criminal arresto forzado a los coreanos perpetrado en el pasado por los imperialistas nipones o sus descendientes, y de que por tales causas historicas, les pesa la responsabilidad legal y moral de reconocer su existencia y garantizar sus actividades.
Sin embargo, los pandilleros al mando de Abe se muestran mas entusiastas que nadie en el hostigamiento a la Chongryon revelando su identidad de gangsteres que ni siquiera tienen cargos de conciencia legal y moral por sus crimenes del pasado.
El intento de arrebatar hasta el edificio y la tierra de la Chongryon, que funciona como una representacion de la RPDC en Japon, significa un flagrante atentado a la dignidad y soberania del primer pais.
Al recrudecer la represion a la Chongryon, Abe pretende llevar a la peor fase las relaciones con la RPDC para quebrar finalmente las conversaciones a 6 bandas. Su astuta intencion es conducir esta cita al estancamiento y aprovecharlo en el cumplimiento de sus fines politicos.
Kim Yong Nam envia telegrama de consuelo al presidente paquistani
Pyongyang, 5 de julio (ATCC) -- El presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kim Yong Nam, envio el dia 3 un telegrama de consuelo al presidente de la Republica Islamica de Paquistan, Pervez Musharraf, en relacion con que varias zonas de este pais, incluso la provincia de Sind, fueron afectadas por inundaciones.
El remitente expresa al destinatario y, por su conducto, profunda compasion y consuelo a la poblacion de las zonas golpeadas y desea que el gobierno pakistani resarza lo mas pronto posible las secuelas del siniestro y estabilice la vida de los perjudicados.
Acto de agricultores en recordacion de Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, 5 de julio (ATCC) -- En ocasion del XIII aniversario del fallecimiento del Presidente Kim Il Sung, los trabajadores agricolas se reunieron en el acto en memoria de el "Apoyaremos activamente al Dirigente con el arroz segun el legado del Lider padre", que tuvo lugar la vispera en la explanada frente al Museo de la Historia Revolucionaria de Okdo del distrito de Ryonggang de la provincia de Phyong-an del Sur.
Kang Chang Uk, presidente del Comite Central de la Union de Trabajadores Agricolas de Corea (UTAC), y otros oradores refirieron que para hacer mas rica la vida alimentaria del pueblo coreano, el Presidente anduvo hasta el ultimo momento de su vida por los senderos entre las parcelas de todas las llanuras cooperativistas del pais.
Recordaron que durante su incesante direccion sobre el terreno, el Presidente dispenso grandes benevolencias y beneficios a los trabajadores agricolas. Subrayaron que el grandioso proyecto de construccion rural del Presidente se realiza con exito por el Dirigente Kim Jong Il y enfatizaron que todos los miembros de la UTAC y otros campesinos deben trabajar diligentemente para producir este ano cosechas abundantes.
En la ocasion fueron presentadas unas piezas artisticas como el duo mixto "El Presidente y el Dirigente son identicos" y el solo femenino "Oh, luna brillante de mi patria".
En el conclave participaron el secretario del CC del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Kim Jung Rin, y otros funcionarios.
Partidos de Egipto y Siria apoyan al PTC y al pueblo coreano
Pyongyang, 5 de julio (ATCC) -- El secretario general del Partido Nacional Democrata de Egipto, Sefwat Sharif, departio el 27 de junio con la delegacion del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, de visita en su pais.
En la ocasion, el lider del partido egipcio dijo que su agrupacion aprecia y apoya los esfuerzos del amistoso pueblo coreano por construir una patria prospera y reunificar el pais bajo la orientacion del PTC encabezado por Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il.
El subrayo que su partido seguira esforzandose activamente en lo adelante tambien por desarrollar las relaciones con el Partido del Trabajo de Corea.
Por otra parte, Abdullah al-Ahmar, subsecretario general del Partido Socialista del Resurgimiento Arabe de Siria, se reunio el primero de julio con la misma delegacion coreana en visita en su pais.
En la audiencia el ratifico que su partido y pueblo apoyan totalmente la lucha del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y el pueblo coreano por defender la soberania del pais, acelerar la construccion de una gran potencia prospera socialista y lograr la reunificacion de la patria en pleno acato a la politica de Songun (priorizacion militar) de Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il.