Kim Jong Il arranges luncheon for Kim Dae Jung
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on June 15 arranged a luncheon for President Kim Dae Jung.
Present on invitation there were President Kim Dae Jung and his wife, Rim Tong Won, special aide to the president, Pak Jae Gyu, Minister of Unification, Ri Hon Jae, Minister of Finance and Economy, Pak Ji Won, Minister of Culture and Tourism, and other suite members.
Present there were Jo Myong Rok, first vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Yon Hyong Muk, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Yong Sun, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Jang Song Thaek, Rim Tong Ok and Choe Chun Hwang, first vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee, and Kang Sok Ju, first vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The luncheon proceeded in an amicable atmosphere overflowing with compatriotic feelings.
Kim Dae Jung leaves
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il went to Pyongyang Airport on June 15 to bid farewell to President Kim Dae Jung going back after successful visit to Pyongyang.
People from all walks of life in the capital city were seen carrying bunches of flowers in their hands at the airport to send off Kim Dae Jung and his entourage.
When Kim Jong Il, together with Kim Dae Jung, appeared there amid the playing of welcome music, stormy cheers of "hurrah" burst out.
Kim Dae Jung's suite members and journalists also reached there to leave.
Present at the airport were Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly= Jo Myong Rok, first vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission= Yon Hyong Muk, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission= Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Yong Sun, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee= Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the SPA= Kim Yun Hyok, secretary of the SPA presidium= Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the c.c., the Korean Social Democratic Party= Ryu Mi Yong, chairwoman of the c.c., the Chondoist Chongu Party= and leading officials of the party and power bodies, public organizations, ministries and national institutions.
Kim Jong Il, together with Kim Dae Jung, reviewed a guard of honor of the KPA three services.
Children presented bouquets to Kim Dae Jung and his wife.
Kim Jong Il shook hands with Kim Dae Jung in farewell.
Kim Dae Jung and his entourage expressed deep thanks to Kim Jong Il for the warm hospitality accorded to them with a kinship. And they boarded the plane, waving to the cheering crowd.
Pyongyangites gave a warm send-off to the guests along the route from the state guest house to the airport.
Film show
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A film show took place at the Chollima House of Culture yesterday to mark the National Day of Russia.
Invited there were Valery Denisov, ambassador of the Russian Federation to the DPRK, and embassy officials.
Present there were Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and chairman of the Korea-Russia Friendship Association, officials concerned and working people in the city.
The participants saw the feature film "Behest."
Greetings to President of Iceland
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, on the occasion of its National Day.
The message warmly congratulated the president, the government and people of Iceland on the National Day and wished the country sustained prosperity.
Name of UN abused by U.S.
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The U.S. ignited the Korean War on June 25, 1950 and abused the name of the UN in a bid to cover up the true color of the provoker.
They convened a meeting of the UN Security Council on the very day when they started the war, fabricated the "armed attack from the north" and had it adopted an unreasonable "resolution" describing the DPRK as an "invader."
In this regard the U.S. book "History of the Korean War" (page 128) says that the U.S. proposal to brand North Korea as an "invader" was forced into approval without additional information and details of the crisis in the 38th parallel.
At the UN Security Council meeting which was open on June 27 at the request of the United States, the U.S. representative described the counter-attack of the Korean People's Army as an "attack on the UN itself" and put forth a "resolution" recommending UN member nations to grant necessary "aid" to South Korea allegedly to beat back the "armed attack" and restore peace and security in the region.
The voting machine was used to pass through a "resolution" to legitimate the entry of the U.S. and satellite armed forces into the Korean War.
Another "resolution" was adopted to put the helmet of the UN forces on the U.S. troops and put the satellite troops under the command of the U.S.
Upon Truman's orders Macarthur was appointed "commander of the UN forces" on July 8 and the U.S. far eastern headquarters in Tokyo changed into the "UN command" on July 25.
Like this the U.S. usurped the name of the United Nations to shift the blame for the outbreak of the war on to the DPRK and mobilized one third of their ground force, one fifth of their air force, most of their pacific fleet and even troops of 15 satellite countries under the pretext of the "UN forces."
However, the United States suffered a serious defeat in the Korean War for the first time in history and had to sign the Armistice Agreement.
Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK campaign
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Recently Japanese right-wing reactionaries riding in 12 separate loudspeaker vans came close to the DPRK's trading ship "Jangjasan" which was loading food at Osaka port went on the rampage, heaping malignant slanders and calumnies on the DPRK and even throwing stones at the ship.
Earlier on May 27 a similar thing happened at Nagoya port.
All these facts indicate that these were not accidental provocations by a few gangsters but part of the undisguised premeditated anti-DPRK smear campaign launched by right-wing reactionaries of Japan.
As far as food aid is concerned, it is offered by the Japanese side to the DPRK from a humanitarian stand.
Therefore, no political strings are attached to this. It is prompted only by such humanitarianism as helping each other in time of need, transcending the difference in ideologies and systems.
The hooliganism orchestrated by Japanese right-wing reactionaries only laid bare their true colors as a group of rogues bereft of ethics and morality and humanitarianism.
There are political forces challenging progress, claiming to be conservative, in the world but, no such silly and wicked force as Japanese right-wing reactionaries who totally deny even humanitarianism.
The Japanese right-wing reactionaries are a challenger to humanitarianism and a cancer-like existence standing in the way of improving the relations between the DPRK and Japan.
Such Rowdyism committed near a foreign ship by a group of gangsters in Japan which styles itself a "law-governed state" is attributable to the tacit connivance of the Japanese authorities.
If the Japanese authorities sincerely want the improved DPRK-Japan relations, they should take steps for public peace in order to stop right-wing gangsters' anti-DPRK hostile acts and national chauvinist hooliganism.
U.S. attempt to evade responsibility for GIs' massacres
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The U.S. warmongers screened a documentary film at a "Memorial Day concert" staged as part of the functions commemorating the half centenary of the Korean War. There they did not bother to assert that tragedies such as what happened in Rogun-ri took place because of soldiers of the people's army among the refugees.
They also argued that the U.S. Army "requested the U.S. Air force to bomb groups of civilians because they, considered to be instigated by the people's army and included by its soldiers, were infiltrating into its base".
Rodong sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a despicable and wicked trick to evade the responsibility for their crimes against humanity.
It is a deep-seated vicious habit for the united states to shift blame for its wrongs on to others, the commentary notes, and goes on: the U.S. imperialists have so far twisted hard facts about their start of the Korean War and their massacres of civilians.
Up until recent days alone the U.S. imperialists claimed they could not "verify" the Rogun-ri incident despite the every "possible effort made to investigate" it. But they are now insisting soldiers of the people's army were among the refugees.
This is nothing but a foolish trick to tarnish the image of the people's army, shirk their responsibility for the crimes, tone down the anti-U.S. sentiment mounting among the South Korean people higher than ever before and escape from worldwide criticism.
The truth of history can neither be covered up nor falsified. With no sleight of hand can the U.S. imperialists evade the responsibility for their crimes, concludes the commentary.