Many poems in praise of Kim Jong Il created
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Poets of the central committee of the Korean Writers Union are busy writing poems praising leader Kim Jong Il for his official visit to the Russian Federation, a special event in the history of world politics.
They sing of how deeply the people and the officers and men of the people's army trust and follow him.
Poem "Trip Made By Sun" says that a long foreign tour started by Kim Jong Il following his long trip made to provide his army-first revolutionary leadership is a journey made by the great sun to clearly indicate the road to be followed by the new century.
"Our Bouquet," "We Long To See You General" and other poems represent the Korean people's reverence for him who is on his foreign tour for independence, peace, justice and truth.
Other poems such as "thousands of miles-long foreign trip," "Event To Be Recorded For Centuries" and "Congratulations" carry profound reverence for Kim Jong Il and great pride and joy of the Korean people and the officers and men of the KPA over the immortal feats he performed on his foreign tour.
Joint headquarters for implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration inaugurated
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Civil and public organizations inaugurated a joint headquarters for the implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration in Taejon, South Korea, on August 6, according to Seoul-based radio no. 1.
The headquarters comprises the solidarity council of Taejon-South Chungchong Province civil and public organizations, the reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and peace on the Korean peninsula and 52 other organizations.
Laotian diplomats visit site associated with Korean War
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Charge d'affaires A.I. Chanpheng Inthavanh and officials of the Laotian embassy here visited a historical site associated with the Fatherland Liberation War on Thursday on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the DPRK-Laos intergovernmental agreement on cultural cooperation.
The supreme headquarters was located in that site from the spring of 1951 to the end of the war in July 1953.
There general Kim Il Sung set forth strategic and tactical policies for each stage of the war and led the people to victory in the war.
The visitors went round the command room and the operation room of the supreme headquarters and other revolutionary historical buildings, and outdoor historical sites and relics.
Statement of protest to be sent to Japanese prime minister issued
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The association of bereaved families of pacific war victims in South Korea reportedly issued a statement of protest to be addressed to the Japanese prime minister, on August 4, denouncing the Japanese authorities for refusing to allow the entry into Japan of a DPRK delegation to participate in meetings to hear testimonies of victims related to the Japanese imperialists' war crimes in the past.
Referring to the rude act of the Japanese authorities, the statement said that Japan is totally ignoring and violating human rights and reason though it is talking about "democracy" and "human rights".
Contending that such behavior of Japan is closely related to the projected visit to the "Yasukuni Shrine" at a time when the Japanese imperialists' war of aggression in the past is being justified, the statement warned that all actions of the Japanese government would make the whole of Asia an enemy of Japan.
Pyongyang International Table-Tennis Invitational Tournament to be held
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The 15th Pyongyang International Table-Tennis Invitational Tournament will be held from August 13 to 17.
Participating in the tournament will be male and female paddlers from Mongolia, Iran, India, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) and the DPRK (group a and b).
The tournament involves men and women's team events, men and women's singles, men and women's doubles and mixed doubles.
The tournament will mark a significant occasion in promoting the development of table-tennis techniques and further developing exchange and friendly and cooperative relations in the sports field among countries.
Brisk preparations for international martial arts games
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The First International Martial Arts Games will be held here in September, Juche 92 (2003).
The games will be sponsored by the International Martial Arts Games Committee (IMGC) headquartered in Pyongyang.
They may be called the International Martial Arts Olympics.
The games are aimed to strengthen friendship, solidarity, and cooperation and promote noble spirit, humanity, high morality and sense of justice and thus help build a new peaceful society.
The games are open to all organizations and individuals affiliated to international martial arts federations and national martial arts organizations.
The participants will compete in such events as Taekwon-do, Wushu, Karate, Aikido, Judo, Judgits.
Available for them are all facilities such as gymnasiums with tens of thousands of seats and Sosan and youth hotels in Chongchun Street, Pyongyang.
The Korean Martial Arts Federation (KMF) is preparing cups, medals, diplomas and souvenirs for players.
The construction of the torch tower is now under way.
Preparations for the games are making successful progress.
Rodong Sinmun on U.S. military bases in Japan
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. troops and military bases in Japan are not of any help to the Japanese people but only bring misfortune to them, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The U.S. military bases in Japan are causing the Japanese people's misfortune and damage in their daily life.
The recent rape of a Japanese girl by a GI in Okinawa is a clear reminder of the damage done to the Japanese people living around the bases.
Such cases as GIs' breaking into Japanese houses and shops at midnight and threatening the lives and properties of Japanese and destroying them are occuring in an unbroken chain in Japanese cities where there are U.S. military bases.
The sovereignty of Japan is being infringed upon by the U.S. military bases in Japan.
The U.S. forces look down upon even the Japanese government in Tokyo.
It is because the "U.S.-Japan security pact" forces the Japanese government to meet the U.S. military demands.
What merits a serious attention is the fact that the U.S. military bases in Japan are functioning to bring the scourge of war to the Japanese territory.
What is dangerous in particular is the fact that they can be used as a detonating fuse for a nuclear war that will engulf Japan.
If the U.S. launches a nuclear war, those bases will become a dangerous time bomb threatening the very existence of Japan.
If the U.S. uses nuclear weapons to invade Asia, Japan will be enveloped in flames for offering its land as its nuclear bases and its whole territory will be reduced to debris as was the case with Hiroshima 56 years ago.