Signature campaign urging U.S. forces' pullback from S. Korea brisk

    pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- A signature campaign supporting the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and urging the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Korea is under way in different parts of the world after a ceremony was held in the Czech Republic on Feb. 23 to launch the campaign. In Guinea the signature paper was signed by Labiatou Serra Diallo, secretary general of the national confederation of Guinean workers, Emile Tompapa, chairman of the national information committee, and Ibrahima Soridien, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Horoya, on behalf of more than 85,000 working people, information officials, reporters and editors.
    In Ethiopia Hailde Mohamed, manager of the Walso International Taekwon-do Center in the southern area of the country, and Theshome Begena, manager of the Shasmene International Taekwon-do Center, signed the paper on behalf of over 17,000 international Taekwon-do trainees and fans.
    Meanwhile, Georgy Stoyanov, chairman of the Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association, issued a statement and signed the paper in the name of more than 2,480 members of the association.


Bush's outbursts slammed

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Anders Kristensen, chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association, said that the united states talks about an "end to the Cold War" and "Detente" but is, in actuality, resorting to the "policy of strength", a leftover of the Cold War era. Recently U.S. President Bush termed the DPRK, a dignified sovereign state, a "most dangerous regime in the world" and a "member of the axis of evil," while slandering it, he noted, and said:
    His remarks are totally brigandish logic.
    The U.S is a real chieftain of terrorism and evil. The U.S. is the world's largest possessor of nukes and other weapons of mass destruction and is indiscreetly threatening and invading other nations with them.
    Lurking behind such remarks is an insidious political intention to tarnish the image of the DPRK vigorously advancing under the banner of independence.
    With the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration a new phase was opened for Korea's reunification and the attention of the world focussed on the DPRK. frightened at this development, the U.S. is making desperate efforts to check it.
    The U.S. ruling quarters should make an official apology to the Korean people for the recent remarks and give up the hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    They should also immediately withdraw the U.S. forces, a main obstacle to the reunification of Korea by the united efforts of its nation, from South Korea and stop all forms of war games and provocations against the DPRK at once.


International Women's Day marked

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture on Friday to mark the 92nd International Women's Day. Present there were vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, secretary of the c.c., the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jung Rin and chairperson of the c.c., the Chondoist Chongu Party Ryu Mi Yong.
    Wives of officials of foreign embassies here and other foreign women were present on invitation.
    Pak Sun Hui, chairperson of the c.c., the Korean Democratic Women's Union, made a report at the meeting.
    She recalled that the movement of the Korean women successfully started and has victoriously advanced under the care of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu.
    Under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung, the Anti-Japanese Women's Association, the first revolutionary organization of women in Korea, was formed in the dense forests of Mt. Paektu at the dawn of the Korean revolution to start the Juche-based movement of the Korean women, the reporter noted, and said:
    In the DPRK today women work as deputies to the spa and other power organs at all levels and officials of party and state organs, industrial establishments and co-op farms and display their creative talents to the full in various domains under the wise leadership of the party and the leader.
    It is an honorable duty the women have assumed before the country and the nation to bring up the rising generation as reliable heirs to the revolutionary cause of juche, the reporter said, calling upon all mothers to train their sons and daughters to be staunch fighters devotedly safeguarding leader Kim Jong Il.
    She also stressed the need to further develop the Juche-based movement of the Korean women and strengthen friendship and solidarity with all the progressive women of the world aspiring after independence in the 21st century, too.


Japan slighted by U.S.

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Some days ago the U.S. Defense Department omitted Japan from the list of those countries that supported its "anti-terrorist war". In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
    When Japan, which showed extra zeal in supporting the United States, "protested" against this, the U.S. soothed the impatient feelings of Japan as a child, mumbling that "it was an error" and the U.S. was apologizing for it.
    The remarks made by Bush at the diet of Japan recently praising Japan were meant to use it as a shock brigade in a war of aggression to be unleashed by the U.S. and mobilize its military and economic potentials to the maximum.
    Make the best use of Japan but be cautious of it -- this is the U.S. basic stand toward Japan.
    Since the U.S. omission of Japan from the "list of the countries that made contributions to the war" was reported Japan has been busy describing it as damage done to its image for hurting the feelings of the U.S., its master.
    What is really tarnishing Japan's image is the U.S.-toeing attitude of the Japanese authorities who are shameless enough to describe the omission as something very serious.
    Japan keeps mum about what should be protested but gets angry at its omission from the disgraceful list. How can Japan be called a country with a principle and national dignity.
    Japan's moves to launch overseas aggression with the backing of the U.S. will only lead it to its self-destruction.
    And its U.S.-toeing attitude and war will invite nothing but isolation and destruction.


U.S. investigators tour Sinchon

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The group for probing the truth behind GIs' crimes led by Brian Willson, representative of the "Veterans' Organization for Peace" of the U.S., visited the Sinchon Museum yesterday. Members of the group looked round exhibits and visual aids, being briefed on the most cruel and barbarous mass killings of Koreans committed by the U.S. imperialists during the last Korean War.
    They looked round the air-raid shelter of the former Sinchon county party committee, the powder magazine in Wonam-ri, the grave of 400 mothers, the grave of 102 children and other places and probed the truth about the atrocities committed by GIs.
    The head of the group said that the museum bears witness to the crimes committed by the U.S. forces and the U.S. should opt to prevent the repetition of such crimes perpetrated in Korea.
    Then, they heard testimonies made by war victims who suffered unspeakable misfortune and sufferings due to GIs' barbarism.
    Min Son Hung, Choe Kyong Nyo, Jong Kun Song and Ri In Hwa said that their kinsmen and kinswomen were mercilessly killed by GIs. They described the GIs, who sprayed petrol and threw hand-grenades toward the children crying for hunger, as wolves and blood-thirsty felons.
    No matter how much water may flow under the bridge and mountains and rivers change, the GIs' crimes can never be pardoned, they said, urging the U.S. to make an apology and compensate to the Korean people for their crimes committed in Korea.
    Kim Yun Mun and Ju Sang Won cited concrete facts to condemn the U.S. imperialists for indiscriminately arresting and detaining innocent civilians in Sinchon and mercilessly killing them.
    They expressed the expectation that the members of the group would thoroughly probe GIs' crimes and open them to the world public.


"Airang" performance not to be missed

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- A Hong Kong and Macau, China, study group is on a visit to the DPRK to see the all-round rehearsal of the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang". Zuo Wei, director and general manager of the Guangdong (Macau) tours ltd., said that he came to know well about gymnastic displays and acrobatics of the DPRK through media in recent years.
    He went on:
    As the saying "seeing is believing" goes, nobody can know about the true feature of the mass gymnastic and artistic performance without watching it for himself.
    Today I had an opportunity to see for myself some scenes of the performance now in rehearsal.
    Words fail to give my impression of the wonderful scenes characterized by very good organization and refined skill.
    I was deeply impressed by the absolutely perfect preparations for the show.
    The mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" is an extravaganza which no one should miss.
    It is my belief that Arirang will reap rich and splendid results.


U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK rejected

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK is criticized worldwide. The presidium of the c.c., the Tajik Communist Party released a statement on Feb. 26 denouncing Bush for terming the DPRK, Iran and Iraq members of the "axis of evil" and calling for a change in the political system of the DPRK. This is an interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state and a violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK, a dignified member of the united nations, the statement said.
    The permanent secretariat of the organization of socialists in the Mediterranean in a statement on March 1 said that Bush's remarks revealed an intention of the U.S. administration not to defuse the tensions on the Korean Peninsula by persistently pursuing the hardline policy toward the DPRK.
    On the same day, the All-India Trade Union Congress in a statement said that such remarks clearly showed how shameless and outrageous the U.S. authorities' intention to isolate and stifle the DPRK is. The U.S. should not prevent the Korean people from solving the issue of national reunification independently free from outside interference in the spirit of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, it urged.
    The Federation of African and Asian Lawyers for Human Rights in a statement on March 4 held that the U.S. should admit its responsibility for deliberately hindering Korea's reunification by pursuing a hardline policy toward the DPRK and posing a threat of war to it. It should also stop interfering in the Korean issue at once and withdraw its forces from South Korea, the statement said.
    M. K. Pandey, secretary general of the centre of Indian trade unions, in a letter to the UN secretary general on Feb. 25, urged the united nations to condemn the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and take necessary measures so that all the UN member nations may respect and abide by the international law and the principles of the UN charter.


Stop to introduction of U.S.-made fighters urged in S. Korea

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- An emergency press conference was reportedly held in front of the building of the Defence Ministry of South Korea on March 5 to denounce it for seeking to purchase f-15 k fighters after yielding to the u.s. pressure. The press conference was sponsored by the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the Democratic Workers' Party, the council for national reconciliation and independent reunification, the social party, the "National Alliance for Democracy and Reunification", the "National Alliance of Vendors", the "National Catholic Alliance for Justice" and others.
    At the conference Won Yong Su, representative of the social party, accused the ministry of going ahead with the plan to purchase f-15 k fighters and urged it to immediately stop introducing them, a gesture of yielding to the U.S. pressure.
    Hong Kun Su, permanent representative of the council for national reconciliation and independent reunification, demanded the ministry stop buying the fighters, a deal totally going against the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration, asserting that the ministry's "introduction of fighters with the taxes collected from people is just like acting as an agent of the boeing company".
    A press release issued there noted that the introduction of fighters by the ministry was aimed at increasing the capacity of the South Korea-U.S. joint operation and the mutual operation system of weapons and the power to strike the depth of the north, a clear indication of the ministry's stand of following the bush administration's hostile policy toward the north.
    At the end of the conference the organizations asked for an interview with the "minister of national defense", demanding a halt to the introduction of fighters of the next generation and his resignation.


Greetings to Syrian President

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly on Thursday sent a message of greetings to Syrian President Bashar al Assad on the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the March 8 Revolution in Syria. The message said that all victories and achievements gained in Syria for 39 years are unthinkable without the wise leadership and feats of the Arab Socialist Baath Party of Syria and Hafez al Assad, leader of the permanent progress of the Syrian Arab people.
    The message wished the Syrian people greater success in their struggle to retake the Golan heights, achieve the unity of the Arab nation, modernize the country and hasten its development under the leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party headed by the president.



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