Diplomatic Relations between DPRK and Montenegro Established
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The DPRK and the Republic of Montenegro agreed to establish diplomatic ties at ambassadorial level on July 16 on the basis of the UN Charter and the principles of the universally recognized international law.
The report on establishing diplomatic ties between the two countries was made public here on July 17.
The opening of diplomatic ties will provide favorable conditions for boosting the bilateral ties in political, economic, cultural and various other fields on the principles of respecting each other's independence, non-interference in each other's internal affairs and equality.
Kim Il Sung Remembered
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Meetings to remember President Kim Il Sung took place in Uganda, Egypt and Russia on July 6 and 7 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of his demise.
The meetings were attended by personages from various circles of the relevant countries and members of the organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people and Juche idea followers and other people.
Speeches were made there.
The chief of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of the Teachers of the Faculty of Psychology of Chambogo University in Uganda said that the world progressives keenly realized that the immortal Juche idea fathered by the President is the great idea to be followed and studied by mankind.
The chairman and secretary general of the Egypt-Korea Friendship Association noted that the President was a great leader who was deeply trusted and revered not only by the Korean people but by progressive humankind, stressing that they would deeply grasp the greatness of the President and widely introduce it to broad sections of people in the future.
The Korean people could put an end to the long history of tragedy and came to lead today's happy life as they held such a great leader in high esteem as the President, said the curator of the Far Eastern National Museum Named after Grodekov of Khabarovsk region in Russia.
Plate Bearing August Names of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Unveiled in Russia
Moscow, July 16 (KCNA Correspondent) -- The plate bearing the august names of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il was added to the monument "Good Angel of Peace" erected at the Park Commemorating the 850th anniversary of Moscow.
An unveiling ceremony was held on the spot under the sponsorship of the Russian International Charity Fund "Protectors of Arts for the Century" on July 14.
Guards of honor of the Russian army were seen standing around the plate bearing the august names in the "Garden of Glory" on the right side of the centre of the monument.
The plate bearing the august names was unveiled and the certificate on the event was conveyed to the DPRK ambassador to Russia.
Then speeches were made by the president of the Russian International Charity Fund "Protectors of Arts for the Century," the governor of the southeast administrative district of the Moscow City Government, the chairman of the Russian Union of Writers and other personages.
The speakers said the Russian people deem it great honor to have the august names of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, prominent leaders of the fraternal Korean people, added to the monument "Good Angel of Peace" standing in the capital city of Moscow. They hoped that the friendship between the fraternal peoples of the two countries would grow stronger day by day in the future, too.
At the end of the ceremony a congratulatory performance was given by Russian children.
Children's Summer Camping Brisk in DPRK
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Schoolchildren's summer camping is brisk at the children's camps in the DPRK.
They are spending pleasant days at such picturesque camps as the Mangyongdae Children's Camp, the Sokam Children's Camp and the Yonphungho Children's Camp.
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren have so far enjoyed camping since the year's camping started at the Jangjasan Children's Camp on the occasion of the significant February and at all other camps on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.
Schoolchildren camping at the Mangyongdae Children's Camp visit the old home of President Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae, the warship rock, wrestling site, study site and other revolutionary sites to learn from his glorious childhood. Their program also includes climbing Mt. Ryongak to collect plants, mountaineering and other activities to consolidate what they have learned at school.
During their pleasant camping days schoolchildren also tour Mt. Myohyang.
Covering the mountaineering course leading to Manphok Ravine and Sangwon Temple and other scenic spots, they have the chance to nurture patriotism.
Those camping at the children's camps on the shores of scenic Sokam, Sohung and Yonphung Lakes and the Kyongpho and Soho children's camps on the seaside on the east coast of Korea are busy with marine sports, boating, cooking competitions and sports games.
Russian Dancing Troupe Performs in Wonsan
Wonsan, July 17 (KCNA) -- The visiting State Academy Beryozka Dancing Troupe of Russia Named after N. S. Nadezhdina gave a performance in Wonsan on July 17.
The performance was appreciated by officials in the fields of literature and arts and media and working people in Wonsan.
The dancing troupe raised the curtain with the chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il."
It put on the stage colorful pieces including female group dance "Beryozka," mixed group dance "In Memory of Defenders of the Motherland" and trio dance "Troika" representing the Russian people's patriotism and optimistic life.
Rodong Sinmun on Three Tasks before National Reunification
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The tasks of attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity serve as a banner of the patriotic struggle for reunification as they are based on the three principles of national reunification, programme common to the nation, which President Kim Il Sung put forward and the north and the south confirmed in the July 4 joint statement, stresses Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article.
It goes on:
Holding fast to the stand of attaching importance to the nation is an essential requirement for applying and observing the principle of independence in the struggle for national reunification.
Attaching importance to the nation is a clear manifestation of the independent stand and independence is the core and lifeline in solving the reunification issue.
All the Koreans should strictly maintain the transparent stand of attaching importance to the nation despite whatever unexpected and complicated situation and cope with it. It is also necessary for them to categorically reject the outside forces' interference in the internal affairs of the nation and domination moves. And they should never tolerate the pro-U.S. sycophantic traitors cooperating with the outside forces while attaching greater importance to the outsiders than to the nation.
The struggle to defend peace is the just patriotic struggle to ease the tension and remove the danger of a war on the Korean Peninsula and thus create peaceful environment for national reunification.
All the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas should turn out as one in the struggle for peace against war and decisively shatter the moves of aggression and war that threaten the Korean nation and harass peace on this land so as to defend the dignity and destiny of the nation. They should put the earliest possible end to the U.S. forces' continued presence in south Korea aimed at domination and aggression.
The struggle to achieve national unity represents the one to build the driving force for national reunification.
All the reunification movement organizations and Koreans from all walks of life in the north and the south and overseas should consolidate the unity with the June 15 All-Korean Committee, a nationwide organization for reunification movement, as a centre and steadily boost solidarity and alliance through the movement for reunification. The south Korean people should work harder to ostracize the reactionary conservative forces including the Grand National Party of south Korea who are making desperate efforts to reverse the June 15 reunification era to the era of confrontation in the past, flatly denying the idea of "By our nation itself."
Rodong Sinmun Brands U.S. as Nuclear Criminal
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The United States is the very one which gave rise to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula by pursuing a policy of turning south Korea into a nuclear base and maneuvering for a nuclear war against the DPRK, states a Rodong Sinmun analyst Wednesday.
Noting that the U.S. is distorting truth and misleading world opinion, raising terrific outcries over someone's "nuclear issue" and "nuclear threat" while shelving its own nuclear crimes, the analyst says:
This is a shameless and gangster-like act reminding us of a guilty party filing the suit first.
The U.S. officially declared "the start of the nuclearization" of the U.S. forces in south Korea in 1957 and has since pushed it forward. Even now it is giving added spurs to the development of nukes while ceaselessly introducing nuclear war tools of the latest type, behind the curtain of its idle chatter about the settlement of the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula. And it continues presenting nuclear threats to the DPRK, shipping into south Korea ultra-modern nuclear war tools and staging massive war exercises.
All the historical facts clearly show that a solution to the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula entirely depends on the switchover of the U.S. policy towards the DPRK. In other words, the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula will be totally settled only when the U.S. gives up its hostile policy towards the DPRK and pulls all its nuclear war tools out of south Korea.
In the September 19 joint statement of the six-party talks the U.S. gave assurances that it had no nuclear weapons in south Korea and had no intention to attack or invade the DPRK with nukes or conventional weapons. So it should fully convince others by a verifiable method. Without this, it is shameless and ridiculous of it to spin out trash about someone's "threat" and mumble about the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Minju Joson on Abe Team Now in Dilemma
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The opposition forces of Japan including the Japan Democratic Party are escalating their political offensive against the Abe team. They are busy presenting draft resolutions calling for reproving Abe and a non-confidence motion against the Abe Cabinet to the Diet in the wake of their submission of a draft resolution calling for reproving the corrupt Cabinet ministers to it, asserting that Abe should be held accountable for the unbroken occurrence of scandals and gaffes among Cabinet ministers in the Japanese political camp. Minju Joson today observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
The Abe team is now finding itself in a tighter corner day by day due to its wrong reactionary politics. This is a natural product of its wrong domestic and foreign policies.
The Abe forces are now driven into a dilemma at home and abroad by the scandal surrounding the report presented by the minister for Administrative Reforms on the income and outgo of political funds, the remarks made by the minister of Health, Labor and Welfare insulting women, the suicide committed by an incumbent minister, the outbursts let loose by the minister of Defense on the dropping of A-bombs and his resignation due to them, the loss of tens of millions of pension records and the passage of a resolution demanding the Japanese government to officially admit and apologize for the sexual servitude for the Imperial Japanese Army at the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee by an overwhelming majority, etc.
The public in Japan is becoming assertive that Abe step down as the president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, if it suffers a defeat in the House of Councillors election. There is no future for the political charlatans engrossed in irregularities and corruption.
U.S. Allegation of "Southward Invasion" Refuted
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The whole course of the Korean war irrefutably proved that with no amount of false propaganda could the U.S. imperialists deceive the world people and that they were the provocateurs of the Korean war, declares a Rodong Sinmun Wednesday.
The allegation of the U.S. imperialists about "southward invasion" is a thinly spun lie and fabrication, the article notes, and enumerates confessions and testimonies of the U.S. imperialist aggressors concerning the Korean war.
The article goes on:
MacArthur, commander of the U.S. forces in the Far East and "commander of the U.N. forces" in the period of the Korean war, said when he was testifying on the outbreak of the Korean War at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 1951: In a word, the north Korean army was deployed far from the 38th parallel. It was a deployment for defense, not for offensive.
Robert, head of the U.S. military advisory group in south Korea, told the pressmen toward the end of May 1950 that now there was no sign of the buildup of the north Korean army along the 38th parallel, according to the U.S. publication "U.S. and Korean War".
Early in May 1950 the then U.S. Ambassador in Seoul reported his country that there was scarcely any possibility of north Korea invading south Korea in the near future and Dulles, the warmonger, testified that he could not find any possibility of "southward invasion" from north Korea.
Even the U.S. intelligence bosses could not get a clue as to confirm "southward invasion" and the military inspection team of the "UN Commission on Korea" testified that it had not gotten any information on the "aggressive design" of north Korea.
On the contrary, the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean bellicose elements were making full preparations in south Korea to invade the northern half of Korea in those days.
MacArthur testified at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 1951: The south Korean army has put its supplies and equipment in areas not far from the 38th parallel. They did not build positions deep inside. The whole area from the 38th parallel to Seoul was a logistic base.
The then intelligence director of the command of the U.S. forces in the Far East confessed that the greater part of the Syngman Rhee army were actually deployed already along the 38th parallel when the outbreak of the war was at hand.
A staff officer of the above-said command, when he was a member of the U.S. military advisory group in Iran, told Iranian staff officers the Korean war was started by the south Korean army on the direct order of the U.S. command in Japan, according to the December 22, 1950 issue of the Indian paper "Cross Road."
Election Preparations Progress Apace in DPRK
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The election of deputies to the Provincial (City under the Direct Control of the Government), City (District) and County People's Assemblies in the DPRK will be held on July 29.
Preparations for the election are at full swing in Pyongyang and local areas.
The central election guidance committee for the election of deputies to local people's assemblies was formed on June 23. It was followed by the formation of committees in the constituencies and sub-constituencies, which are carrying on their work.
They made public the voters' lists on July 14.
The people's power bodies at all levels regularly acquaint themselves with the work of the election committees and take necessary measures.
Slogans and posters on election have been posted in many places of streets.
Brisk among the people are political activities for the successful election.
Meanwhile, efforts are being exerted to arrange polling stations well and to keep the factories, working sites, streets, residential quarters and surroundings clean.
The working people in all parts of the country are making innovations in production and construction with a firm determination to consolidate the revolutionary power as firm as rock.
Great Efforts Directed to Marine Affairs
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- A deep attention has been paid to the marine work in Korea facing seas on three sides.
The government has built many marine scientific research institutions and educational bases so as to bring up lots of competent marine experts. The protection and management of marine environment are being done in a prospective way.
The work for developing marine resources is being conducted dynamically along with the preservation of seas. Tidal power stations are being constructed and the artificial cultivation and fish breeding technologies developed.
The DPRK has set the July 12 as the Day of Sea and the July and August as Months of Sea. Marine scientific and technological presentations, film shows, exhibitions and lectures on marine expedition and development are organized on these occasions for the purpose of widely disseminating knowledge on marine science and technology.
The DPRK is developing marine science and technology and creating a sea industry in close contact with international organizations including the UNESCO.
Egyptian Embassy Officials Help Korean Farmers
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Egyptian Ambassador to the DPRK Moustafa Mohamed Ahmed Al-Hatter and embassy officials today helped members of the DPRK-Egypt Friendship Sosamjong Co-op Farm in Ryokpho District here in harvesting vegetables.
The guests laid bouquets before the mosaic depicting President Kim Il Sung finding himself among farmers before paying tribute to him.
During break, they appreciated an art performance and conversed with farmers, deepening the friendship.
That day they handed aid materials to the farm.
Friendly Gathering with Egyptian Embassy Officials Held
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Egypt Friendship Association co-hosted a friendly meeting with the staff members of the Egyptian embassy in Pyongyang at the Taedonggang Club for the Diplomatic Corps on July 18 on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the July 23 revolution in Egypt.
Present there on invitation were Moustafa Mohamed Ahmed Al-Hatter, Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK, and his embassy officials.
Also present there were Jon Hyon Chan, vice-chairman of the committee who is vice-chairman of the association, officials concerned and teachers and pupils of Kim Song Ju Primary School.
Speeches were made there and members of the art group of the school gave an art performance.
The participants deepened friendship, playing sports and amusement games.
Kim Yong Nam Greets Nicaraguan President
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of the Republic of Nicaragua, on July 14 on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the victory in the Sandinist People's Revolution.
Kim Yong Nam in the message said that the Nicaraguan people overthrew the Somoza pro-U.S. dictatorial regime under the leadership of the Sandinist National Liberation Front of Nicaragua through the four decade-long armed struggle and paved the way for building a free and equal new society.
The message highly estimated the successes made by the Nicaraguan president and government in the work to achieve the national unity, equality and development and eradicate poverty.
In the belief that the bilateral ties of friendship would as ever grow stronger in various fields in the future, too, the message wished the Nicaraguan president success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people.
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Rodong Sinmun califica a EE.UU. de criminal nuclear
Pyongyang, 18 de julio (ATCC) -- Estados Unidos es el que causo el problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana al practicar su politica de conversion del Sur de Corea en una base nuclear y recurrir a las maniobras de guerra nuclear contra el Norte de Corea.
Senala asi el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual de este miercoles y prosigue:
Al relegar a un lado tales crimenes nucleares, EE.UU. cuestiona el "problema y amenaza nucleares" de alguna parte invirtiendo la verdad e induciendo en error la opinion publica mundial. Esto es una conducta descarada y gangsteril de un ladron que tratara de golpear a la victima del robo.
EE.UU. vino impulsando el "armamento nuclear" de sus tropas ocupantes del Sur de Corea ya desde 1957 cuando anuncio publicamente el inicio de este trabajo.
Hasta hoy, aunque habla mucho de la solucion del problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana, acicatea el desarrollo de armas nucleares y sigue introduciendo en el Sur de Corea los ultramodernos pertrechos para la guerra nuclear.
Ademas, amenaza constantemente a la RPDC desplegando los ejercicios belicos de gran envergadura.
Todos los hechos historicos demuestran claramente que la solucion del problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana reside enteramente en el cambio de la politica hostil de EE.UU. sobre Corea.
Es decir, ese asunto se resolvera de raices solo cuando EE.UU. renuncie por completo su politica hostil a la RPDC y retire inmediatamente del suelo surcoreano todos sus equipos de guerra nuclear.
A traves de la Declaracion Conjunta del 19 de Septiembre, aprobada en las conversaciones a 6 bandas, EE.UU. afirmo que no tiene sus armamentos nucleares en el suelo surcoreano y no se propone a atacar o invadir a la RPDC con estos artefactos o los convencionales.
Si el imperio sigue cuestionando la "amenaza" de alguna parte y hablando de la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana sin confirmar esos compromisos de manera verificable y objetiva, estas acciones no pasaran de ser las atrevidas, ridiculas y enganosas.
Banda de Abe en aprietos, burla Minju Joson
Pyongyang, 18 de julio (ATCC) -- En estos dias, el Partido Democratico y otras fuerzas opositoras de Japon insisten en que Abe debe responsabilizarse de los casos de corrupcion y disparates que se desatan uno tras otro entre los magnates del circulo politico.
Como parte de la intensificada ofensiva politica contra el premier Abe, presentaron a la dieta unos proyectos de resolucion demandando someter a la indagatoria a los magnates corruptos y a propio Abe y expresando el descredito al gabinete al mando de este.
Por sus erroneas y reaccionarias politicas exterior e interior, la banda de Abe se empantana cada dia mas dentro y fuera del pais en un callejon sin salida, critica el periodico Minju Joson en un comentario individual publicado este miercoles.
Entre sus malas se cuentan el manejo ilicito del informe del ingreso y egreso de fondos politicos por parte del ministro encargado de la reforma administrativa, la profanacion a las mujeres por el titular de Salud y Trabajo, el suicidio de un ministro en activo, el disparate del titular de Defensa respecto al lanzamiento de bombas atomicas de EE.UU. y su consiguiente renuncia, la perdida de decenas de millones de registros relativos al pago de la pension, la aprobacion por la abrumadora mayoria en el Comite de Relaciones Exteriores de la Camara de Representantes del congreso norteamericano del proyecto de resolucion en demanda del reconocimiento y disculpa oficiales del gobierno japones por el caso de ex "consoladoras sexuales" para el viejo ejercito de este pais, etc., precisa el comentarista.
Continua que la opinion publica de Japon insiste en que Abe debe renunciar a la presidencia del Partido Democratico Liberal de Japon si esta entidad pierde las elecciones de consejeros de la dieta japonesa.
No tienen futuro los especuladores politicos que tienen apegos a la corrupcion y otros casos ilicitos, concluye.
Celebrada en Rusia una ceremonia de honrar a Kim Il Sung y Kim Jong Il
Moscu, 16 de julio (ATCC) -- Fueron inscritos los nombres del Presidente Kim Il Sung y el Dirigente Kim Jong Il en el monumento al "Honesto angel de la paz" edificado en el parque conmemorativo del 850 aniversario de la fundacion de la ciudad de Moscu.
Una ceremonia inaugural del monumento se realizo el dia 14 en el mismo lugar bajo auspicios del Fondo Internacional de Caridad "Protectores de arte secular" de Rusia.
La placa con los nombres del Presidente y el Dirigente, ubicada en el "Jardin de gloria" a la derecha del centro del monumento, estaba flanqueada por los guardias de honor del ejercito ruso.
En la ocasion quedo descubierta la placa y se traslado al embajador coreano en Rusia el certificado correspondiente.
Acto seguido, accedieron al microfono el presidente del citado fondo caritativo, el gobernador del distrito administrativo sudeste del gobierno urbano de Moscu y el presidente de la Union de Escritores de Rusia, entre otras personalidades.
Los oradores dijeron que representa un gran honor para el pueblo ruso la anotacion de los nombres del Presidente Kim Il Sung y el Dirigente Kim Jong Il, destacados lideres del hermano pueblo coreano, en el monumento al "Honesto angel de la paz" construido en la capital rusa.
Expresaron la esperanza de que en lo adelante se fortalezca y se desarrolle cada dia mas la amistad entre los hermanos pueblos de ambos paises.
Terminada la ceremonia, hubo una funcion artistica de felicitacion ofrecida por los ninos rusos.
Relaciones diplomaticas entre la RPDC y Montenegro
Pyongyang, 18 de julio (ATCC) -- La Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y la Republica de Montenegro acordaron el dia 16 establecer las relaciones diplomaticas a nivel de embajador basandose en la Carta de la ONU y los reconocidos principios de derecho internacional.
Quedo publicado el dia 17 en esta capital un comunicado correspondiente al respecto.
El establecimiento de las relaciones diplomaticas entre los dos paises facilitara las buenas condiciones para ampliar y desarrollar las relaciones bilaterales en varias esferas incluyendo la politica, economia y cultura ateniendose a los principios de respeto mutuo a la soberania, la no intervencion en los asuntos internos de su contraparte y la igualdad.