Kim Jong Il receives Mun Myong Ja
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received U.S-resident Korean woman journalist Mun Myong Ja staying in the homeland on June 30.
Present there were Kim Yong Sun, secretary of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
He gladly met her, a prominent woman journalist, and conversed with her in a warm atmosphere.
She expressed the most sincere thanks to him for meeting her and according hospitality to her although he was very busy with his on-the-spot guidance.
He arranged a luncheon for her and posed for a souvenir photograph with her.
U.S. strategy for world supremacy under fire
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary lays bare the sinister aim sought by the United States in its hue and cry over "missile threat" from the DPRK.
The U.S. is floating the fiction of this threat in a bid to put into practice its "missile defense" initiative, a replica of its "star wars project," the commentary observes, and goes on:
Through the establishment of the "National Missile Defense" system (NMD) the U.S. seeks to put under its control other big powers which are financially weak with its military edge. If the world's biggest possessor of offensive nuclear weapons the U.S. has a "missile shield" in place, it will create conditions decisively favourable for its preemptive nuclear assault.
It is another aim of the U.S. to get Russia and China embroiled in an arms race and draw European countries closer to its fold. If this aim is achieved, the European countries' attempted build-up of their independent defence forces will completely misfire and find no alternative but to act under its pulls and pressures.
The U.S. "NMD" is a product of its dominationist ambition to contain other big powers and thus conquer the world.
The point is that the feasibility of the "NMD" deployment for action has not yet been verified as it involves spending of a colossal amount of fund and has no sufficient technical guarantee.
It was against this backdrop that the U.S. keeps clamouring about "threat of missile" from the DPRK in a bid to woo other big powers to chime in with its moves to justify the "NMD" and bar them from preempting any more effective measures to develop and deploy new types of missiles than Washington.
This crafty method of the U.S. will only strip bare its wicked nature.
Dismantlement of U.S. air force firing range urged
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- More than 400 people under the committee of measures against damage to civilians for the dismantlement of the U.S. air force firing range in Maehyang-ri held a demonstration in front of the Hwasong "county office" on June 28 in demand of the dismantlement of the U.S. air force firing range, the South Korean newspaper Chungang-Ilbo said.
They occupied the road before the "county office" and staged a sit-in struggle, carrying banners bearing slogans "U.S. troops in South Korea, go home," "close Koun-ri firing range," etc. and a colorfully decorated bier.
The chairman of the committee charged that the "government" is paying no heed to the 50 odd-year sufferings of Maehyang-ri villagers by saying it will not respond to the dialogue with the villagers demanding the closure of the firing range and that today all the people decided to send in a notice of death meaning that they will not live in this "country" where people are forsaken.
More than 160 cases of aerial espionage
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. military committed aerial espionage on the northern half of Korea on over 160 occasions in June with strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes of different missions, military sources said.
Involved in the espionage were U-2 strategic reconnaissance plane, EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft and RC-12 tactical reconnaissance plane.
Espionage by U-2 numbered 35 and espionage by RC-12 more than 7
Remember-Kim Il Sung Committee formed in Guinea
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- A Committee for Remembering President Kim Il Sung was inaugurated in Guinea on June 22.
At the inaugural meeting chairman of the national information committee of Guinea Emil Tompapa was elected chairman of the committee.
The chairman said that Kim Il Sung was a great leader, a brilliant thinker and theoretician and a distinguished leader who enjoyed the absolute support and trust of the progressives of the world.
The cause of Kim Il Sung is being successfully carried forward thanks to the extraordinary intelligence and outstanding guidance of Kim Jong Il, he noted, adding: Korea will be a powerful country with stronger defence capabilities, more developed economy and uptodate science and technology.
The meeting decided to hold multifarious functions such as seminar, photo exhibition and film show on the revolutionary exploits of the president on the occasion of his sixth death anniversary.
DPRK head of delegation speaks at U.N. special session
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The head of a DPRK delegation Tuesday made a speech at the U.N. special session on social development in Switzerland .
He said:
The DPRK government and people will contribute to the efforts of the international community for global independence and social development by defending the sovereignty of the country and building a powerful nation.
The DPRK government is invariably pursuing social policies for the popular masses even under the hard conditions. It is because it is guaranteed by the great army-first politics and army-first revolutionary leadership of the respected leader Kim Jong Il.
The DPRK government will continue striving to pursue social policies for the people on a higher level.
The current session should pay special attention to the three issues -- the international community should work hard to establish a fair international economic order, the principles of respect for the sovereignty of state and non-interference in internal affairs be invariably and strictly observed in international relations and unilaternal economic sanctions and economic blockade be lifted and disputes be settled through dialogue and negotiations.
If the above-mentioned problems are to be settled properly, all the countries should show their will to hit the target of social development set by the world summit and the U.N. and U.N. organisations should pay special attention to it.
U.S. takes measures to ease economic sanctions against DPRK
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. administration on June 19 announced new regulations on easing a series of restrictions on the DPRK that had been published on September 17 last year.
The lifting of restrictions imposed upon the DPRK by the U.S. over the last more than half a century after labelling it a "hostile country" allows trade in ordinary goods, investment in agriculture and mining industry and other economic sectors, use of commercial ships and planes, certain financial transactions, etc.
This is part of the points to be implemented by the U.S. under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework adopted on October 21, 1994.
The U.S. should not confine itself to this partial lifting of sanctions but drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK and opt to take comprehensive and substantial measures to lift the sanctions as early as possible.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on compensation for loss of electricity
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today gave an answer to a question put by KCNA as regards recent anti-DPRK diatribe made by a leading official of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO) over the DPRK's just proposal calling for compensation for loss of electricity caused by the delayed provision of light water reactors.
At a KEDO executive council meeting held in New York on June 26 a leading official of KEDO reportedly said that concept of compensation cannot be accepted and there is no idea to compensate, disclosing KEDO's decision not to accept the DPRK's claim for compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the delayed construction of light water reactors.
If it is true, his remarks are a height of impudence.
Under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework the U.S. is committed to provide light water reactors to the DPRK till 2003 in a responsible manner. The U.S. is, in the final analysis, entirely responsible for the provision of the light water reactors to the DPRK.
All the problems arising in the implementation of the agreed framework, including provision of light water reactors, should be solved through negotiations between the DPRK and the U.S. from a to z. so, KEDO is not entitled to say this or that.
The DPRK has already raised the matter of compensation as one of the pending issues of keeping the agreed framework workable at the DPRK-U.S. talks.
As the DPRK's proposal is feasible and reasonable, the U.S., therefore, fully admitted the need for compensation and agreed to continue debates on it at the future talks. It is preposterous, indeed, for the KEDO to negatively respond to the DPRK's proposal.
As clearly stated, if the issue of compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the indefinite delay of the U.S.-led construction of light water reactors fails to find a smooth solution, the DPRK will have no option but to turn out electricity by graphite moderated reactors depending on its rich natural resources and its own technology.
It stands to reason.
The U.S. should choose one of the two options: to make compensation for the loss of electrictiy power or allow the DPRK to produce electricity by its own efforts.
KEDO delegation here
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) today arrived here to discuss a protocol according to the agreement on provision of light water reactors between the DPRK and the KEDO.
DPRK party and state delegation back home
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- A party and state delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea led by Kim Yong Nam, member of the political bureau of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today returned home after visiting Syria.
The delegation was met at the airport by Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the political bureau of the WPK central committee and vice-president of the SPA presidium, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned, Haissam Saad, Syrian charge d'affairs a.i. and Valery Denisov, Russian ambassador here.