Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Nursery Shop
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the Nursery Shop of the Riwon County Forest Management Station in South Hamgyong Province.
After being briefed on the station, he went round the science and technology dissemination room and plots under saplings of various species to learn in detail about the production of saplings.
He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the station has created an excellent nursery reminiscent of a big botanical garden and put the production of saplings on a scientific basis.
He climbed the mountain clad in thick verdure to see the forest of grafted pine-nut trees created by the station.
Seeing the forest of grafted pine-nut trees covering the mountain range and pine-nut clusters on each twig of trees, he said that this is, indeed, spectacular scenery. He heard a story about the efforts made by the workers to tend the forest.
Saying that such work can yield fruits only ten years or dozens of years later, he stressed that this can be done only by a true patriot who devotes himself to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the generations to come. He highly appreciated the noble patriotic spirit displayed by Choe Ki Jong, former head of the Forest Management Station, who made his life rewarding along with the forest for years and other officials and workers of the station.
The experience gained by the Riwon County Forest Management Station has proved in practice the truth and tremendous vitality of the great Juche idea that calls for transforming man, society and nature as required by Juche, he said, stressing that there is nothing impossible in this world when the creative ingenuity of people is given fullest play.
We can turn all the mountains of the country into thick woodlands in a brief span of time if we make tenacious efforts to change the appearance of the mountains and rivers of the country just as the Riwon County Forest Management Station did, he said, setting forth on the spot tasks to be fulfilled to create forests.
He noted that in order to turn the whole country into a thick woodland and greenery it is necessary to plant many trees and pay deep attention to protecting and managing forests.
He stressed the need for the scientific research institutions to obtain saplings of good species which are of economic value and suited the climatic and soil conditions of the country and actively push forward the research work to widely disseminate them.
He called on the whole party and army and all the people to turn out as one to wage a dynamic drive to create forests in order to convey the land which has been covered with thick forests and which has turned into "mountains of gold and treasures" down to posterity.
He was accompanied by Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the WPK Central Committee.
Kim Yong Nam Pays Courtesy Call on Hu Jintao
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on a visit to China to participate in the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games paid a courtesy call on Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 7.
On the occasion Hu Jintao expressed deep thanks on behalf of the party, government and people of China to the Korean comrades for rendering positive support throughout the period of making preparations for the Olympiad and to General Secretary Kim Jong Il for sending sympathy to them and to the party, government and people of the DPRK for extending sincere support to them during the difficult period when China suffered a series of natural disasters, in particular.
The Sino-Korean friendship is a common treasure provided by the revolutionaries of the elder generation, he said, stressing that it is the consistent strategic policy of the party and government of China to steadily boost these relations of friendship no matter how the international situation may change in the future.
He said that the Korean people have registered many successes despite difficulties by displaying the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the wise leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
On behalf of the party, government and people of China he wished the Korean people greeting the 60th birthday of the DPRK this year greater success in the nation-building.
Present there were Pak Kil Yon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Choe Jin Su, DPRK ambassador to China, Ling Jihua, director of the General Office and secretary of the Secretariat of the C.C., the CPC, Wang Huning, director of the Policy Research Office and secretary of the Secretariat of the C.C., the CPC, Dai Bingguo, state councilor, and Yang Jiechi, minister of Foreign Affairs.
Kim Yong Nam Meets Wu Bangguo
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on a visit to China to attend the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games had a friendly talk with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 7.
Wu Bangguo said that under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean people have made many successes in the cause of socialism and the field of external activities, maintaining socialism even under the complicated international situation.
Expressing thanks to the DPRK for rendering positive support to the preparations for the Beijing Olympiad, he wished the DPRK players shining successes in the Olympiad.
Present there were Pak Kil Yon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Choe Jin Su, DPRK ambassador to China, Cha Peixin, vice-chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the CNPC, and Zhao Weizhu, deputy secretary general of the Standing Committee of the CNPC, and Sun Wei, deputy secretary general of the Standing Committee of the CPNC and director of Chairman Wu Bangguo's Office, and Qiao Zonghui, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs.
Wu Bangguo hosted a reception in honor of Kim Yong Nam in the evening.
KPA Panmunjom Mission Issues Detailed Report
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army released the following detailed report Friday dismissing the sophism let loose by the United States that the already demised Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) still exists:
The U.S. put out of existence the NNSC, a mechanism tasked to oversee the implementation of the Armistice Agreement (AA), which it regarded as a hurdle in the way of turning south Korea into the world's biggest nuclear base and making preparations for launching a new war, and the Neutral Nations Inspection Teams affiliated to it long ago.
But it still keeps Swiss and Swedish members of the former NNSC at Panmunjom in a bid to make the world public believe that it still exists, a poor charade.
The U.S. forces side is busy manipulating those members to meet at Panmunjom almost everyday although it met once every Tuesday. It is also egging them on to conduct "diplomacy for eliciting sympathy" from tourists coming to Panmunjom, asking them to receive texts of the so-called "letter" near the Military Demarcation Line for several hours though it was flatly rejected by the KPA side.
The U.S. forces side went the lengths of letting them guide tourists in Panmunjom and watch the take-off and landing exercises of the U.S. forces copters in the area of the conference hall and participate in a "memorial service" for the U.S. soldier, etc. in a clumsy bid to convince the public that the commission still exists and is active.
Even in Europe personnel of the member nations of the former NNSC met as an annual event at which they talked rubbish that they would continue to fulfill their commitments under the AA at the prodding of the U.S.
The NNSC was an international mechanism set up at Panmunjom on August 1, 1953 according to Paragraph 36 of the AA. Its basic mission was to oversee the implementation of Paragraph 13 d of the AA which bans two belligerent parties from introducing armed forces from outside Korea in order to prevent the recurrence of fresh armed conflict in Korea after ceasefire.
As long as the NNSC was left intact, it was quite impossible for the U.S. to rapidly modernize the equipment of its forces in south Korea nor was it possible for it to introduce nuclear weapons the shipment of which was stepped up according to its "big-scale retaliation" strategy.
Hence, the U.S. forces side obstructed the supervision and watch by the NNSC and the Neutral Nations Inspection Teams in every way.
As the build-up of its forces and violations of the AA were brought to light, the U.S. forces side forcibly expelled the Neutral Nations Inspection Teams from the area of its side on June 9, 1956 and officially declared that it unilaterally abandoned the implementation of Paragraph 13 d of the AA at the 75th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) on June 21, 1957.
As a result, the NNSC existed only in name.
The U.S. forces side appointed a general of the south Korean puppet army which was not a signatory to the AA and which had neither qualification nor mandate to handle issues related to the AA as senior member of its side to the MAC in gross violation of the Paragraph 20 of Article 2 of the AA on March 25, 1991, thus compelling the MAC to suspend its activities and depriving the NNSC of the mechanism to work with.
In the meantime, the Czechoslovak and Polish members of the NNSC pulled out of Panmunjom and their countries joined the U.S.-led NATO, thus losing neutrality. This caused the NNSC which existed only in name to completely collapse. This being a hard reality, the U.S. is working hard to create the impression that the NNSC still exists. This is intended to achieve its sinister aims to justify the existence of the "UN Command" as a signatory to the AA in a bid to secure a legal ground for rapidly and automatically hurling multinational forces a Korean war in contingency on the Korean Peninsula and shift the blame for the collapse of the mechanism to oversee the implementation of the AA onto the DPRK by using Swiss and Swedish personnel as "witnesses."
With no crafty machinations, however can the U.S. evade the responsibility for destroying the NNSC and sparking off the nuclear crisis on the peninsula.
The U.S. has not only systematically disturbed the work of the NNSC but turned south Korea into its nuclear arsenal and forward logistic base in the true sense of the word by massively introducing all types of operational equipment and nuclear weapons. It has ceaselessly staged exercises for a nuclear war against the DPRK.
This sparked off a nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and forced the Korean people to live, being exposed to the constant nuclear threat of the U.S.
The U.S. and its satellite forces are escalating sanctions and pressure upon the DPRK, claiming in unison that the nuclear issue was spawned on the peninsula because the DPRK built a nuclear power base and war deterrent for self-defence to cope with the threat of nuclear attack from the U.S. This is nonsensical, indeed.
The Korean People's Army is now standing in confrontation with the U.S. forces which have massively stockpiled various types of nuclear weapons in south Korea.
The Korean people are not the spiritless people who sit idle, waiting for a lucky chance and mercy after being deterred by the U.S. nuclear blackmail.
The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it thinks that it can bring the Korean people to their knees with threat, arbitrary practices, sanctions and pressure.
The sanctions and pressure of the U.S. and its satellite states can never work on the army and people of the DPRK who regard sovereignty as their life and soul and no one can encroach upon the system and sovereign dignity of the DPRK under any circumstances.
The reality proves that the DPRK was entirely right when it built the self-defensive military power at a required level to cope with the U.S. nuclear threat.
The U.S. should drop its pipedream to achieve its sinister aim by using the ghost-like "NNSC".
It is the only right way of promoting lasting peace and stability on the peninsula at present to replace the AA by a peace accord and build a new peace-keeping mechanism.
Lee Myung Bak Group's Fascist Suppression under Fire
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement on August 7 in which he branded the Lee Myung Bak group's brutal fascist suppression of the south Korean people in their just struggle for their independent right and right to existence as an unpardonable crime against the people and the nation and bitterly denounced it.
The massive anti-U.S. and anti-"government" demonstrations of the south Korean people can in no way be treated as crimes nor can they become targets of crackdown as they are entirely just actions for independence, democracy and reunification, the statement said, and went on:
The situation prevailing in south Korea indicates that traitor Lee Myung Bak has betrayed his true colors as a ferocious fascist and is now openly pursuing a strong-arm policy, a repressive policy after discarding the veil of appeasement and deception he wore right after his seizure of power.
Lee can never tide over the worst ruling crisis with anachronistic fascist suppression and strong-arm politics.
What the Lee group have done since they came to power is nothing but such acts of treachery as allowing foreign forces to infringe upon the dignity and interests of the nation and even the people's vital rights and the crimes they have committed by throwing grave obstacles in the way of developing the inter-Korean relations and achieving independent and peaceful reunification.
They are the dyed-in-the-wool descendants of the dictatorial regime and the thrice-cursed traitors to the nation and ferocious fascist tyrants.
The fascist suppression the Lee group are now perpetrating, while committing crimes against the nation and reunification, reminds one of the group of military dictators who met their doom in the past and Lee and his gentry are destined to meet the same miserable end.
They should immediately release the detained patriotic figures and stop the fascist suppression of the people, well aware that those who went against the desire of the people and the trend of the times met only shameful destruction, warned the statement.
U.S. Urged to Apologize for Massacres of Civilians during Korean War
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the North Side Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Crimes issued a statement today in which it urged the U.S. to apologize before the Korean nation and the world conscience for the thrice-cursed massacres of civilians committed during the Korean war.
Facts about more mass killings of civilians committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces during the past June 25 war have been brought to light in south Korea one after another to spark off a great furor, the statement said, and went on:
The above-said massacres are the most barbarous war crimes against humanity in the world's history of wars. They clearly prove that the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces are, indeed, beasts in human skin and a group of bandits who completely disregard international law and humanitarianism.
But the U.S. is resorting to crafty moves to evade the responsibility for the massacres while covering up and justifying them, claiming that they were "accidental" though more than half a century has passed since the ceasefire.
It is also keeping its forces in south Korea and committing violence, plunder, rape and man-killings every day, bringing untold misfortune and sufferings to its people. And it is busy with the moves for provoking another war against the DPRK.
The moves for aggression on the DPRK and massacres of civilians perpetrated by it century after century are connived at and overlooked still today when the war crimes in which wars of aggression were started and innocent civilians were killed are being severely punished worldwide after becoming targets of stern judgment, not bound to the statute of limitations. This is an unpardonable insult to justice and human conscience and an intolerable violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation.
All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should turn out more vigorously in the struggle to force the U.S. to pay for all the brutal killings of Koreans and put an end to its military presence in south Korea and its hostile actions against the DPRK in order to preserve the dignity and honor of the nation.
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Russia Visit Marked
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Alexander Matsegora, Russian charge d'affaires ad interim here, gave a reception at the embassy on August 7 to commemorate the 7th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's historic visit to the Russian Federation and the 6th anniversary of his visit to its Far Eastern Region.
Present there on invitation were Kim Yong Chun, vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Pak Ui Chun, minister of Foreign Affairs, Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
Staff members of the Russian embassy were on hand.
Alexander Matsegora said at the reception that the visit to Russia by Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, marked a great event in boosting the bilateral relations.
He said that they would make every possible effort to consolidate the traditional relations of friendship and good neighborliness between the two countries this year marking the 60th anniversary of Russia-DPRK diplomatic relations.
The Korean people are working hard to significantly greet the 60th birthday of the DPRK, he said, expressing the conviction that they will register bigger successes in building a great prosperous and powerful nation, increasing the defence capabilities, developing the economy and improving the standard of people's living under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Kim Yong Chun noted that the visit made a great contribution to promoting the development of the DPRK-Russia relations in the new century and ensuring peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
It is the consistent stand of the DPRK government to value and steadily develop the good neighborly and friendly relations with Russia, he declared.
He expressed the conviction that this year marking the 60th anniversary of the DPRK-Russia diplomatic ties mutually beneficial cooperation and exchange would grow stronger under the deep care of both sides and by their joint efforts and mutual cooperation would be strengthened in the work for peace and security in the region and the rest of the world.
Traditional Sports and Amusements Contest of School Youth and Children Held
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A traditional sports and amusements contest of school youth and children from across the country was held on Moran Hill in Pyongyang between August 4 and 8.
It brought together 500 school youth and children selected from provinces. They competed in Taekwon-Do, Korean wrestling, swinging and other traditional sports and amusement events, divided into two sections--middle school and primary school groups.
Those from Pyongyang Chungjong Middle School, Jajak Middle School in Kaechon City of South Phyongan Province, Sansong Primary School in Haeju City of South Hwanghae Province and Pyongyang Chollimagori Primary School proved successful in the Taekwon-Do event.
Yongung Sinam Middle School in Ryongchon County, North Phyongan Province, took the first place in the Korean wrestling event and girls' swinging and seesawing events.
South Hwanghae and North Phyongan provinces came first in the total standings.
Its closing ceremony took place on August 8.
Magazine Hana Founded
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The first issue of the magazine Hana has been released recently in the DPRK.
Carried in the magazine are news on Songun revolutionary activities of leader Kim Jong Il and photos and items showing various activities of Koreans in the north, the south and overseas who are lauding the Songun politics and making positive efforts for independence and reunification.
It also gives common knowledge on history showing the superiority and wisdom of the Korean nation, materials on figures and others.
The magazine will do much for arousing all the fellow-countrymen to the pro-reunification movement under the banner of June 15 joint declaration and October 4 declaration.
Ryonghung Temple, Historical and Cultural Relics
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Ryonghung Temple in Mt. Paekun, Yonggwang County of South Hamgyong Province, is a historical and cultural relics which shows high architecture and prominent talents of the Korean nation.
The temple, built in 1048 in the period of Koryo, was called Songbul Temple. After its reconstruction in other place, it was renamed Ryonghung Temple.
One should go up the 99 stairs and pass by two 350-year-old fir trees to enter the temple. The temple includes the Main Hall, Unha Pavilion, Muryangsu Pavilion and Hyangro Shrine.
The Main Hall standing on the foundation 1.5 meters above the ground shows the unique grandeur and noble architecture of old building of Korea.
A two-storied decoration, beautiful and delicate, is hanging inside the colorfully painted Main Hall.
Located in front of the hall is the Unha Pavilion, a loft building, with a hip-saddle roof and double eaves.
The Muryangsu Pavilion is in a lower place 40 meters east of the hall and behind it there is the Hyangro Shrine where the chief priest offered a Buddhist mass before the burning incense every morning and every evening.
The Bulji Hermitage is situated in an upper place one kilometer off the Ryonghung Temple. It is told that 16 Buddhist nuns had lived in the hermitage built in 1378.
Today the temple is conducive to making people adhere to the Juche character and national character and implanting patriotism in their minds.
Mt. Rangrim Area Tells of Immortal Exploits of President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- An endless stream of visitors is flowing to the Rangrim revolutionary site on the threshold of the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of the country.
Rangrim County, Jagang Province, bears immortal traces of energetic activities of President Kim Il Sung when he advanced into the homeland during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
At the Xigang meeting in March Juche 26 (1937), President Kim Il Sung put forth the strategic policy of overwhelming the Japanese imperialists militarily and expanding the base of Mt. Paektu to the area of the Rangrim Mountain Range and, in reliance upon it, bringing the Korean revolution as a whole centering on the anti-Japanese armed struggle to a great upswing and dispatched a small unit of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and political workers.
He came to the Wagalbong Secret Camp, the main one of the secret base of Mt. Rangrim, in August 1938. There he said the secret base should play the role of the regional leading base for ensuring the armed struggle and other forms of anti-Japanese struggle conducted under the unified leadership of the headquarters of the revolution such as the armed struggle, the work for building party organizations and expanding and strengthening the Fatherland Restoration Association as well as preparations for an all-people resistance, and a base of the actions and operations of KPRA units and their logistic base.
He came to the Wagalbong Secret Camp again in September and convened a meeting of members of the small unit of KPRA and political workers active in the Mt. Rangrim area, at which he set forth the tasks to put fresh muscles into the secret base and build up a sturdy force of all-people resistance by forming various organizations including a para-military organization in the area and give effective aid to the guerrilla army.
On the other hand, he taught a detailed work method to the members of the small unit and political workers of the secret base and met members of organizations and people in the area and encouraged them to turn out in the fight against the Japanese imperialists.
Many revolutionary organizations and para-military organizations including the Anti-Japanese Workers' Association and the Workers' Shock Brigade came into being in Rangrim County in the first half of the 1940s under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung.
Seeing the immortal footmarks left by the President in the area of Mt. Rangrim, the visitors renew their resolution to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered in Mt. Paektu without fail under the Songun revolutionary leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
KCNA Rebukes U.S. Wrong Geographical Designation of Korean Places
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The United States is making geographical designations of different places of the world as it pleases, thus becoming a laughing stock of the world people.
A typical example is the wrong designation of Mt. Paektu and Lake Chon of Korea.
According to CBS of south Korea, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names designated Mt. Paektu and Lake Chon as those belonging to China on Internet service network of geographical names of foreign countries and marked the lake as one of China on a map. It even marked the River Amnok as one of China and the River Tuman estuary as one of Russia on Internet site.
What should not be overlooked is the reason why the U.S. has shown such great "interest" in the geographical designation of various places of the world for such a long time.
As early as in 1977 the above-said board deliberately changed the name of Tok Islet, part of the inviolable territory of Korea, thus inviting censure and derision from the international community.
In July it marked the islet as an area of undesignated sovereignty, sparking off such strong criticism that it had no option but to retract it.
The Congress Library also attempted to deliberately change the name of Tok Islet on an official map some time ago only to spark off a public furor.
This clearly proves in the eyes of the world that American institutions that claim to study the geographical names of countries of the world and its maps are pseudo organs made up of imbeciles and fools utterly ignorant of world geography.
It is not hard to guess how things would go well in the U.S. as it shapes its policies counting on such guys changing names of places of various countries as they please only to provoke laughter.
Geographical designation has long spawned serious political problems worldwide.
In deliberately misusing geographical names of various places some institutions of the U.S. seek an ulterior motive to render the situation in Northeast Asia extremely tense and trigger off disputes there in a bid to fish in troubled waters.
Such behavior on the part of the U.S. reminds one of what it did more than a century ago when it recognized the Korean Peninsula as a region under the Japanese rule and fabricated the "Taft-Katsura Agreement" with the Japanese imperialists.
We state loud and clear that the geographical names of all areas of Korea are the issues concerning the eternal cradle of the Korean nation.
Lee Group's Conception of Confrontation Blasted
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- To do away in south Korea with the confrontational conception hostile toward fellow countrymen is unanimously required by the trend of the present times toward national unity and reunification and all Koreans at home and abroad.
Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in a signed article.
Koreans in the north and the south are of the same nation and there is no ground for the compatriots to mistrust and stand in confrontation with each other, the article notes, and goes on: Any intention to stand in confrontation with fellow countrymen cannot be construed otherwise than a treacherous and anti-reunification conception intended to disturb reconciliation and unity of the nation, bring the inter-Korean relations to a collapse and block the advance of the cause of reunification.
The history of the arduous movement for national reunification teaches a serious lesson that it is impossible to develop the inter-Korean relations and achieve peace and reunification of the country unless the treacherous confrontational conception is discarded. This conception is nothing but a leftover of the old era as it diametrically runs counter to the June 15 era of reunification and it should be discarded as early as possible for the development of the inter-Korean relations and the progress in the reunification cause.
Recalling that the theory of "principal enemy", an anachronistic confrontational conception, is openly advocated in south Korea, the article goes on:
The Lee Myung Bak group should never be allowed to pursue their treacherous anti-reunification moves to do harm to the fellow countrymen, prompted by the above-said conception in contravention of the principle of national independence and the idea of "By our nation itself", its embodiment.
The June 15 era of reunification when the Koreans are striving to achieve the independent reunification, peace and prosperity by their concerted efforts calls for doing away with the above-mentioned conception and achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country as early as possible in the spirit of "By our nation itself."
All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should give fuller play to the spirit of "By our nation itself" and intensify the just patriotic struggle to denounce and foil the Lee Myung Bak group's moves to bring the inter-Korean relations to catastrophe on the basis of the above-said confrontational conception, concludes the article.
End to Suppression of Reunification Vanguard Demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration of south Korea issued a statement titled "Immediately stop the suppression of the Reunification Vanguard" on August 4.
The statement accused the puppet police of indiscriminately walking off the members of the Reunification Vanguard of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification who held a legitimate press conference outside the office of the "Grand National Party" in Suwon, Kyonggi Province. It termed this fascist action a treacherous action to tone down the south Koreans' protest against Bush's visit to south Korea.
It went on:
The Lee Myung Bak regime is making desperate efforts to crack down upon the people's candlelight actions and arrest the just struggle of the pro-reunification patriotic youth by mobilizing police. This is another act of yielding to the U.S.
With no suppression can the Lee group break the will of the people to demand the total renegotiations on the American beef import, protest against Bush's junket to south Korea and scrap the south Korea-U.S. "alliance."
The statement demanded the Lee Myung Bak regime immediately put an end to the crackdown upon the candlelight struggle and set free at once all the detained members of the Reunification Vanguard.
Security Authorities Accused of Faking up Conspiratorial Case
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Members of civic, social and students' organizations including the People's Solidarity for Abolition of the "National Security Law" of south Korea and the Fellow Students' Association for Democracy of Hongik University held a press conference in Seoul on Aug. 5 to denounce the security authorities for faking up a conspiratorial case.
Kwon O Hon, chairman of the Council for Supporting Prisoners of Conscience of the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy, Kim Jong Min, vice-chairman of the Seoul City Committee of the Democratic Labour Party, and others spoke at the conference.
They accused the police of breaking into the house of Jang Jin Suk, graduate from Hongik University, and searching it on the charge of violation of the NSL on Aug. 1.
They insisted that such search and confiscation operation should be conducted against "Chongwadae" and the political camp keen to fake up new cases to add to those cooked up in the past.
The security authorities, not content with suppressing participants of candlelight actions, are forcing the conscientious and progressive persons to fall victim to the NSL, they charged, declaring that the evil law should not be allowed to exist any longer in the era of peace and reunification.
Victim Jang stated that "she is charged with the violation of the NSL again 8 years after she spent a prison term in 2000." She declared she would voluntarily go to the "Security Investigation Group" to prove the injustice of the NSL and demand its repeal.
A press release was read out there.
The press release recalled that the successive regimes without exception intensified the moves for confrontation with compatriots, advocating "coloring," and invoked the NSL whenever the people became assertive for democracy and peaceful reunification.
The Lee Myung Bak group should no longer suppress the struggle of the people for reunification, peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula, it urged.
Korean People's War Victory Day Celebrated
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Meetings, film shows and lectures took place in Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Philippines in the period from July 25 to 30 to mark the 55th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
Speeches were made at the events.
The meeting held in Philippines adopted a document supporting the cause of the Korean people.
Appreciated at the film shows was Korean film "The Fatherland Liberation War" (Part 5).
Meanwhile, a reading session on the three charters for Koreafs reunification was arranged by the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea on July 28.
DPRK's Significant Day Marked
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A lecture was held in Guinea and a book and photo exhibition, a film show and an art performance in Laos on July 23 and 24 to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the start of Kim Jong Il's Songun revolutionary leadership.
On display at the exhibition hall were famous works of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il, photos showing their undying exploits and books introducing Songun Korea.
Banou Keita, chairman of the Guinea-Korea Friendship Association, said in the lecture that the start of Kim Jong Il's Songun leadership served as the starting point of the work for laying a basis of the Songun politics to defend and carry forward to completion the President's Songun idea and cause. This helped mark the historic event in which the Songun politics, the politics that has brought about signal changes in the destiny of the Korean people, was defined as a main political mode of socialism, he added.
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Kim Jong Il dirige Planta Porcina y Granja de Cabras en Hamju
Pyongyang, 8 de agosto (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, dirigio sobre el terreno la Planta Porcina de Hamju y la Granja de Cabras Phyongphungdok de Hamju.
El Dirigente estuvo primero en la nuevamente construida Planta Porcina de Hamju.
Luego de escuchar explicaciones ante el plano de la planta, recorrio el exterior y el interior de ella averiguando en detalles el estado de construccion y cria.
Evaluo altamente los meritos de los constructores y voluntarios mostrandose muy satisfecho de que la provincia de Hamgyong del Sur construyo magnificamente por cuenta propia esta moderna base ganadera de gran capacidad.
Encomio la abnegacion patriotica de los funcionarios y constructores, que edificaron esta base ganadera de eterna duracion al servicio del pueblo, subrayando que ella esta situada en un buen lugar y se construyo cualitativamente, en particular, se diseno bien de modo que pudiera elevar la eficacia del pienso y su transporte.
En varios lugares incluyendo la sala de elaboracion del pienso y el corral de ceba hizo conocimiento de las condiciones de equipos tecnicos y la situacion de la cria y estimulo a los empleados que trabajan con mucha dedicacion para suministrar mas carne al pueblo.
Dijo que el salto de la produccion de la planta de patos de Kwangpho y la construccion en la zona de Hamhung de otra moderna planta porcina permiten suministrar mas carne a la clase obrera de esta ciudad y otros habitantes de la provincia.
Indico las tareas para normalizar la produccion de la Planta Porcina de Hamju.
Acto seguido, el Dirigente Kim Jong Il visito la Granja de Cabras Phyongphungdok de Hamju.
Esta orgullosa granja de gran dimension, extendida en la vasta meseta de Phyongphungdok del distrito de Hamju, tiene 24 granjas anexas.
Tras escuchar explicaciones ante el plano de la granja, recorrio la sala de elaboracion de leche, el corral de cabras y otras instalaciones de produccion, y la Escuela de Phungdok anexa a la Escuela Secundaria de Phungsong y la Tienda de Phyongphungdok y otras facilidades culturales y de servicio publico cerciorandose del estado de produccion de la granja y la vida de los trabajadores agricolas.
En la sala de elaboracion de leche, donde se manufactura toda clase de productos lacteos, hizo conocimiento de los equipos de produccion y del metodo de elaboracion expresando gran satisfaccion por este taller acondicionado por cuenta propia.
Tras recorrer las instalaciones de produccion y de intendencia, disfruto desde un mirador del panorama de la granja.
Al ver durante largo tiempo el majestuoso aspecto de la granja parecida a un cuadro, se mostro muy satisfecho de que los militantes del partido y otros trabajadores del distrito de Hamju construyeron esta granja tan excelente en el periodo dificil en que carecia todo.
Los habitantes distritales desplegaron una dinamica lucha guardando en el corazon la consigna de "Vivamos no para hoy sino para el manana" en el periodo de la "marcha penosa" y la forzada, cuando nuestra patria atravesaba pruebas mas severas, y por fin, pueden cosechar los frutos de sus duros trabajos, dijo y evaluo altamente sus meritos.
Dijo que es prometedora la perspectiva del desarrollo de la granja que cuenta con las favorables condiciones naturales y geograficas.
Luego de destacar la necesidad de convertir la granja en una renombrada base de cria de cabras al promover planeadamente la labor para crear mayor capacidad productiva, tomo medidas que favorecen mucho a la granja e indico las tareas que incumben a ella.
La orgullosa realidad de hoy es resultado de que los funcionarios, militantes del partido y los trabajadores de la ciudad de Hamhung y el distrito de Hamju y otras partes de la provincia de Hamgyong del Sur trazaron planes ambiciosos y lucharon con teson en pleno acato a la orientacion del partido de criar en gran medida los ganados herbivoros, resalto y senalo que ellos son precursores orgullosos que comprobaron en la practica la justeza y vigencia de la politica de nuestro partido de criar muchas cabras de alta eficacia economica.
Hoy dia, contribuyen a la mejora de la vida alimentaria los productos lacteos elaborados a granel en numerosas granjas de cabras construidas en las unidades del Ejercito Popular de Corea y en la sociedad, asevero y anadio que este cambio asombroso es brillante fruto de la gran epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar).
Aunque hubo muchas dificultades y pruebas en la construccion de las granjas de cabras de gran tamano en la provincia de Hamgyong del Sur, los habitantes de esta la impulsaron hasta el final sin vacilar ni un momento desplegando en alto grado el espiritu revolucionario de los militares y el de lucha tenaz, recalco.
De esta manera, pudieron lograr el orgulloso exito de ahora, dijo y subrayo que lo mas importante es tal espiritu revolucionario de materializacion a ultranza consistente en cumplir incondicionalmente todo lo que decida el partido.
Le acompano el secretario del Comite Central del PTC, Kim Ki Nam.
Kim Yong Nam hace visita de cortesia a Hu Jintao
Pyongyang, 8 de agosto (ATCC) -- El presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea Kim Yong Nam, quien realiza una visita a China para participar en la ceremonia inaugural de los XXIX Juegos Olimpicos, hizo el dia 7 en el Gran Palacio del Pueblo de Beijing una visita de cortesia a Hu Jintao, secretario general del Comite Central del Partido Comunista de China y presidente de la Republica Popular China.
En la ocasion, el mandatario chino expreso profundo agradecimiento en nombre del partido, gobierno y pueblo chinos por el energico apoyo de los camaradas coreanos brindado durante todo el tiempo preparatorio de los juegos olimpicos, en particular, por el mensaje de consuelo del Secretario General Kim Jong Il y sincero apoyo del partido, gobierno y pueblo coreanos enviados a China en aquellos tiempos severos cuando esta fue azotada varias veces por los desastres naturales.
La amistad China - Corea constituye una riqueza comun preparada por los revolucionarios de la anterior generacion, anadio y recalco que consolidar y desarrollar constantemente en el futuro las relaciones de amistad bajo cualquier situacion internacional constituyen la invariable orientacion estrategica del partido y el gobierno de China.
Subrayo que bajo la sabia direccion del PTC encabezado por el Secretario General Kim Jong Il, el pueblo coreano alcanza incontables exitos superando las dificultades y manifestando el espiritu de autososten y lucha tenaz.
En representacion del partido, gobierno y pueblo chinos, deseo al pueblo coreano, que acogera este ano el 60o aniversario de la fundacion de la RPDC, mayores exitos en la construccion del estado.
En la ocasion estuvieron presentes el vicecanciller Pak Kil Yon, el embajador coreano en China, Choe Jin Su, por la parte coreana, y por la china, el miembro del secretariado y director de la Oficina General, del CC del PCCh, Ling Jihua, el miembro del secretariado y director de la Oficina de Investigacion de la Politica, del CC del PCCh, Wang Huning, el consejero de Estado Dai Bingguo, el canciller Yang Jiechi.
Kim Yong Nam se reune con su homologo chino Wu Bangguo
Pyongyang, 8 de agosto (ATCC) -- El presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, de visita en China para participar en el acto inaugural de los 29o Juegos Olimpicos, sostuvo el dia 7 en el Gran Palacio del Pueblo de Beijing una charla amistosa con el titular del Comite Permanente de la Asamblea Popular Nacional (APN) de la Republica Popular China, Wu Bangguo.
En la ocasion Wu Bangguo dijo que bajo la direccion del camarada Kim Jong Il, el pueblo coreano logra muchos exitos en la causa socialista y la esfera exterior manteniendo el socialismo en la complicada situacion internacional.
Expreso agradecimiento a su huesped por el hecho de que Corea envio el apoyo dinamico a la preparacion de los Juegos Olimpicos de Beijing y deseo que los jugadores coreanos obtengan excelentes exitos en este certamen.
Estuvieron presentes el vicecanciller Pak Kil Yon, el embajador coreano en China Choe Jin Su, el vicepresidente de la Comision de Asuntos Exteriores del Comite Permanente de la APN de China Cha Peixin, el subsecretario general de dicho comite Zhao Weizhu, el subsecretario general del comite referido y el director de la Oficina del presidente Wu Bangguo, Sun Wei, y el vicecanciller chino Qiao Zonghui.
Wu Bangguo ofrecio anoche un banquete en honor de su homologo coreano.
Informacion de la Representacion del EPC en Phanmunjom
Pyongyang, 8 de agosto (ATCC) -- A fin de condenar la artimana de EE.UU. para hacer creer que sigue existiendo la ya desintegrada Comision Supervisora de las Naciones Neutrales (CSNN), la Representacion del Ejercito Popular de Corea en Phanmunjom hizo publica el dia 8 la siguiente informacion detallada:
Ya hace mucho tiempo, EE.UU. convirtio el suelo surcoreano en el mayor arsenal nuclear del mundo y disolvio la CSNN a cargo de controlar la ejecucion del Acuerdo de Armisticio y los grupos de inspeccion de los paises neutrales pertenecientes a ella, que constituian el escollo para la preparacion de la nueva guerra.
Pero, EE.UU. esta enganando estos dias a todo el mundo como si existiera todavia la CSNN al mantener enclavados en Phanmunjom a los ex -miembros de Suiza y Suecia de esta entidad.
Ultimamente, la parte de las tropas norteamericanas instigo a estos suizos y suecos para que estos convocaran casi todos los dias la reunion de la CSNN que sesionaba una vez a la semana: cada martes.
Tambien, les hizo estar de pie durante varias horas en la linea divisoria pidiendonos recibir el "mensaje" rechazado tajantemente por nuestra parte y solicitar hasta a los turistas a Phanmunjom sumarse a esta "diplomacia de compasion".
En particular, la parte norteamericana incorporo a los suizos y suecos en la guia para los turistas a Phanmunjom, el ejercicio de despegue y aterrizaje de los helicopteros norteamericanos, que se realiza en la zona de sala de reuniones, el "acto de recordacion" del soldado norteamericano y otras actividades para simular que si existe y funciona la CSNN.
Por otra parte, en Europa se oyen las tonterias de los ciudadanos de los paises ex-miembros de la CSNN, controlados tambien por EE.UU., quienes se reunen anualmente jurando seguir cumpliendo su deber establecido en el Acuerdo de Armisticio.
La CSNN fue una organizacion internacional que fue instaurada el primero de agosto de 1953 en Phanmunjom en virtud del articulo 36 del Acuerdo de Armisticio.
Su deber fundamental consistia en controlar y supervisar la ejecucion de la clausula D del articulo 13 del Acuerdo de Armisticio que prohibe a ambas partes la introduccion de mas fuerzas armadas desde el exterior de Corea para prevenir la repeticion del conflicto armado despues del armisticio en Corea.
Bajo la presencia de la CSNN, EE.UU. no pudo modernizar sus tropas estacionadas en suelo surcoreano ni impulsar la introduccion de armas nucleares segun la "estrategia de represalia de gran envergadura".
Por esta razon, la parte de las tropas norteamericanas obstaculizaba por todos los medios las actividades de supervision y vigilancia de la CSNN y sus grupos de inspeccion.
Cuando quedaron revelados sus actos de aumento armamentista y casos de violacion del Acuerdo de Armisticio, deporto el 9 de junio de 1956 a dichos grupos en la zona bajo su control y declaro oficialmente la renuncia unilateral de la ejecucion de la clausula D del articulo 13 del Acuerdo de Armisticio en la 75a reunion de la Comision Militar de Armisticio convocada el 21 de junio de 1957.
De esta manera, la CSNN se convirtio en una entidad a la que solo quedo su nombre.
El 25 de marzo de 1991, violando flagrantemente la clausula 20 del articulo 2 del Acuerdo de Armisticio, la parte estadounidense nombro como miembro-jefe de su parte de la Comision Militar de Armisticio a un general del ejercito titere surcoreano que no es signatario del acuerdo ni tiene calificacion alguna ni facultad de tratar los problemas relacionados con este documento.
De esta manera, la Comision Militar de Armisticio se vio obligada a interrumpir sus actividades y la CSNN se colapso al desaparecer esta primera entidad con que trabajaba.
Por otra parte, los miembros checoslovacos y polacos de la CSNN se retiraron de Phanmunjom y sus paises ingresaron en la OTAN bajo el liderazgo de EE.UU, lo cual resto a esta entidad su caracter neutral.
Sin embargo, EE.UU. recurre a esa marana para dar credulidad a la existencia de la ex CSNN partiendo de su siniestro intento de mantener la razon juridica de la introduccion automatica y rapida de las fuerzas multinacionales en la eventual guerra coreana en los tiempos de emergencia de la Peninsula Coreana al conservar la justificacion de la existencia de la "Comandancia de las Fuerzas de la ONU" como signataria del Acuerdo de Armisticio y de imputar a nuestra parte la responsabilidad de la disolucion de la CSNN presentando como "testigo presencial" a los suizos y suecos senalados arriba.
Pero, con tales maniobras astutas EE.UU. no podra liberarse de la responsabilidad de la quiebra de la CSNN y de la crisis nuclear dada en la Peninsula Coreana.
Ademas, EE.UU. introdujo en gran medida en el Sur de Corea los equipos operacionales y las armas nucleares de todo tipo convirtiendolo en su arsenal de armas nucleares y base logistica de avanzada y desplego incesantes ejercicios belicos nucleares contra la RPDC.
Por esta razon, se creo la crisis nuclear en la Peninsula Coreana y el pueblo coreano vive bajo la constante amenaza nuclear de EE.UU.
Es sumamente absurdo el hecho de que EE.UU. y sus satelites insistieran unanimemente en que el problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana fue surgido como resultado de la fundacion de la base de energia nuclear y la preparacion de las fuerzas disuasorias de guerra con fines de autodefensa frente a la amenaza de ataque nuclear de EE.UU. por parte de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea e intensificaran la sancion y la presion contra ella.
Hoy tambien, el Ejercito Popular de Corea esta enfrentandose con las tropas norteamericanas que poseen numerosas armas nucleares de toda indole en el Sur de Corea.
El pueblo coreano no es el impotente que ante el chantaje nuclear de EE.UU., espera con brazos cruzados una buena suerte o la clemencia.
Seria la tonteria mas grande si EE.UU. piensa que podria doblegar al pueblo coreano mediante la amenaza, el despotismo, la sancion y la presion.
Al ejercito y pueblo de Corea que consideran como su vida la soberania no valen la pena la sancion y presion de EE.UU. y sus paises seguidores y nadie podra ofender nuestro regimen y nuestra dignidad.
La realidad comprueba que fue mil veces justo que la RPDC preparara su capacidad militar de autodefensa en el nivel correspondiente para hacer frente a la amenaza nuclear de EE.UU.
EE.UU. debe abandonar su absurda ilusion de hacer algo por medio de ese aparato quebrado.
EE.UU. debe tener presente que en la etapa actual, sustituir el Acuerdo de Armisticio con el Tratado de Paz y establecer el nuevo sistema para asegurar la paz constituyen el unico camino justo para fomentar la paz duradera y estabilidad en la Peninsula Coreana.
FDRP condena la represion fascista de la banda de Lee Myung Bak
Pyongyang, 8 de agosto (ATCC) -- En su declaracion publicada ayer, el vocero del CC del Frente Democratico para la Reunificacion de la Patria (FDRP) condeno categoricamente la represion salvaje de la banda de Lee Myung Bak contra los habitantes surcoreanos alzados a la justa lucha por los derechos soberanos y el a la existencia calificandola de imperdonable acto criminal antipopular y antinacional.
Las manifestaciones masivas antiyanquis y anti-"gubernamentales" de los habitantes surcoreanos devienen la lucha muy justa por la independencia, la democracia y la reunificacion. Por lo tanto, ellas no pueden ser criminalizadas en ningun caso ni objeto de represion, senala la nota y continua:
La situacion actual del Sur de Corea demuestra que el traidor Lee revelo su naturaleza del infame fascista quitandose la mascara de apaciguador falaz que usaba a principios de su mandato y opto abiertamente por la politica coercitiva y represiva.
Pero, no se puede remediar con la anacronica represion fascista y coaccion la crisis de gobernacion de Lee, que llego al climax.
Lo unico que hizo la banda de Lee en el "poder" es la accion vendepatria de sacrificar para las fuerzas foraneas la dignidad y los intereses nacionales y el derecho a la vida de los habitantes y el crimen de crear graves obstaculos en el camino por el desarrollo de las relaciones Norte-Sur y por la independencia y la reunificacion pacifica.
La banda de Lee es descendiente del "poder" dictatorial y grupo de los imperdonables traidores a la nacion y peores tiranos fascistas.
La represion fascista de la banda de Lee, que no cesa de cometer los crimenes antinacionales y anti-reunificacion, hace recordar a las anteriores camarillas militares dictatoriales arruinadas finalmente.
Esa banda debe saber que correran el mismo destino de ellas quienes dan espaldas a la aspiracion del pueblo y la corriente de la epoca.
Igualmente, debe poner en libertad inmediatamente a las personalidades patrioticas encarceladas y parar ahora mismo la represion fascista contra el pueblo.
Jonminthukwi condena las acciones genocidas de los yanquis
Pyongyang, 8 de agosto (ATCC) -- En su declaracion publicada este viernes, el vocero de la direccion nortena del Comite Pannacional de Averiguacion Especial para Esclarecer Verdaderos Aspectos de Crimenes de Tropas Norteamericanas (Jonminthukwi) demando a EE.UU. pedir disculpas a la nacion coreana y la conciencia mundial por sus horribles acciones genocidas contra los habitantes coreanos perpetradas en el periodo de la guerra coreana (25 de junio de 1950-27 de julio de 1953).
En los ultimos dias, se produce un gran revuelo en el Sur de Corea al revelarse uno tras otro los verdaderos aspectos de la matanza masiva contra los civiles por parte de las tropas agresoras norteamericanas en el periodo de la guerra coreana desatada el 25 de junio, senala el portavoz y continua:
Estos barbaros crimenes antieticos de guerra sin precedentes en la historia mundial de las guerras demuestran claramente que los agresores yanquis son bestias disfrazadas de humano y la banda de gangsteres que no toman en consideracion la ley internacional ni el humanitarismo.
Pero, hasta la fecha a mas de un medio siglo desde el fin de la guerra, EE.UU. maniobra taimadamente para eludir su responsabilidad describiendo esas atrocidades como "accidentales".
De mal en peor, al seguir ocupando militarmente el Sur de Corea, impone indecibles desgracias y sufrimientos a los habitantes surcoreanos perpetrando diariamente la agresion fisica, el despojo, la violacion sexual y el asesinato y maniobra freneticamente para provocar la guerra de agresion a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
En la escena internacional son castigados implacablemente los crimenes de provocacion de la guerra de agresion y de asesinato de los civiles inocentes.
Sin embargo, los mencionados delitos horrendos de EE.UU., que prosiguen hasta en el siglo actual, son tolerados y desestimados hasta la fecha, lo cual deviene intolerable insulto a la justicia y conciencia de la humanidad e imperdonable violacion de la dignidad y soberania de la nacion coreana.
Para la dignidad y el honor de la nacion, todos los coreanos del Norte, el Sur y en ultramar deben luchar con mas dinamismo por ajustar la cuenta de los crimenes de EE.UU., acabar con la presencia de las tropas norteamericanas en el Sur de Corea y sus maniobras hostiles a la RPDC.