U.S. urged to stop interfering in inter-Korean dialogue
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The south headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification reportedly issued a statement on November 9, accusing the U.S. of putting the brake on inter-Korean dialogue under the pretext of the nuclear issue.
The U.S.-loudmouthed nuclear issue should be settled between North Korea and the U.S. as it was totally caused by its clamor for a preemptive nuclear attack on North Korea, the statement said, denouncing the U.S. moves to subordinate the favorably developing inter-Korean relations to its unilateral demand as an undisguised interference in the issue of the Korean nation.
It the U.S. styles itself a defender of peace in the era of the Cold War while pulling up North Korea, it will be criticized by the Korean nation and the whole world and pushed behind history, it stressed.
The statement urged the U.S. to stop interfering in inter-Korean dialogue under the pretext of the nuclear issue in North Korea, conclude a non-aggression treaty with it and withdraw its troops from South Korea.
KCNA denounces GNP's anti-DPRK smear campaign
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The motley crew of the Grand National Party was reported to have become evermore undisguised in its anti-DPRK smear campaign over its nuclear issue.
Ri Hoe Chang and other guys of the GNP are becoming increasingly rhetorical that the issue of the north's nuclear development should be solved through international cooperation and economic sanctions are a major leverage for finding a solution to the nuclear issue of the north, etc.
Such remarks can not be construed otherwise than very dangerous criminal outbursts intended to bring a holocaust of a nuclear war to the Korean nation as they serve the U.S. strategic purpose of internationalizing the issue of putting political and diplomatic pressure upon the DPRK and calling for even economic sanctions against it.
Their much publicized international cooperation is intended to escalate international pressure upon the DPRK in a bid to force it to scrap its "nuclear weapons program" and disarm it and make it surrender at any cost.
The international cooperation is incompatible with cooperation between compatriots as it guarantees their sovereignty and right to existence. Their call for international cooperation is intolerable as it is a criminal cooperation for a war that may escalate the political and military tensions on the Korean Peninsula and spark a new clash on it.
What merits serious attention is that the GNP is not only echoing the U.S. call for international cooperation but also zealously spreading its stories about economic sanctions against the DPRK despite public criticism at a time when the U.S. is set to use South Korea as a shock brigade in effecting this cooperation.
To chime in with the U.S. call for imposing economic sanctions upon the DPRK, which is little short of a declaration of confrontation with the DPRK, can not be construed otherwise than a belligerent act to bring dark clouds of a new war to hang over the Korean Peninsula.
This is a grave challenge to the favorably developing inter-Korean relations, a result of tremendous efforts, as it is a criminal breach of the basic spirit of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The GNP group's desperate moves to hamstring exchange, cooperation, reconciliation and unity between the north and the south are clearly evidenced by their recent outbursts that an accident is unavoidable if an accelerator is always kept pressed without putting a brake on the policy toward the north.
The nation will certainly force the GNP to pay for such treacherous acts as zealously spreading the U.S. talk about international cooperation and economic sanctions in a bid to check the development of the inter-Korean relations and drive the situation to a phase of confrontation.
New breast cancer therapy developed
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) --A new electrotherapy for breast cancer has been developed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The method is based on the combination of high-voltage shock and anti-cancer medicines.
It perforates tumor cell walls with high-voltage shock and increases the rate of medicines infiltrating into cancer cells.
With a smaller amount of anti-cancer medicines, it has greater anti-cancer effects.
The effects are controlled by the kind of anti-cancer medicine and the method of electric shock.
Researchers of the institute of experimental biology of the branch of biology of the academy of sciences and the cancer institute of the academy of medical science have applied this therapy to 19 patients with breast cancers at the first and second stages for more than three years.
The efficacy of the therapy has reached 94.7 percent. The cancers of 16 patients have completely been removed and those of two reduced more than 50 percent. Only one patient still has the cancer unchanged.
Of the 16 patients, 93.7 percent have had no relapse of cancer for three years.
Kimchi, Korean side dish
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Families, restaurants and hotels in Korea are now busy preparing Kimchi, one of the Korean traditional dishes.
Kimchi is made of cabbage and radish seasoned with red pepper, garlic, green onion, ginger and others and mixed with meat, fish, pickles, etc.
There are some sixty kinds of Kimchi.
Kimchi contains carbohydrate, protein, amino acid, vitamin and mineral matters.
Vitamin C and E contained in Kimchi makes human skin strong and increases resistance to diseases. So, it helps prevent cold, cancer, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and aging.
Mineral matters keep the balance of acid and alkali in human body.
Kimchi promotes the digestive and absorptive process by stimulating digestive fluid in mouth and stomach, and helps keep teeth from being rotten.
Atraumatic suture needle
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- An atraumatic suture needle for minute operations produced by the Hospital of Pyongyang University of Medicine is popular among medical circles.
The needle, developed by the institute of minute surgical operations of the hospital, was made by the cold elongation dice method. The needle is 50-350 micrometers thick.
The Korean Medical Association considers it much better than those produced in other countries in cleanliness, elasticity and linking between needle and thread.
The hospital has successfully performed at least 3,000 experimental operations and some 800 minute operations with this needle from Juche 79 (1990).
Anti-U.S., anti-war peace rally held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- A joint anti-U.S., anti-war peace rally was reportedly held in Seoul Sunday under the co-sponsorship of the All-People Measure Committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, schoolgirls killed by a U.S. armored car, the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the joint action for peace against war.
A letter of protest to U.S. President Bush was read out at the rally.
Noting that 1.05 million people participated in a signature campaign launched by the all-people measure committee, the letter said that they would stage with such bitter anger a sit-in in front of the white house.
The letter demanded a thorough-going reinvestigation into the case of two schoolgirls killed by the U.S. armored car, the abandonment of U.S. Forces' jurisdiction over criminals, the total revision of the South Korea-U.S. status of forces agreement, President Bush's immediate apology, etc.
U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK flailed
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The Arab Center for the Study of Independent Idea in Jordan issued a statement on October 29, denouncing the U.S. for clamoring about "nuclear threat" from the DPRK.
The U.S. attempt to disarm democratic Korea and block its defence program will come to naught, the statement said, adding:
The growing defence capability of the DPRK will be a powerful weapon to defend the sovereignty of the nation and guarantee the world people a genuine independent future free from outside interference.
The France-Korea Friendship Association in a statement on November 6 said that the U.S. violated the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and is resorting to a hostile policy toward the DPRK, alleging that it develops "nuclear weapons".
The DPRK maintains that a non-aggression treaty should be concluded between the DPRK and the U.S. in order to solve the nuclear issue reasonably and practically, the statement said, and stressed:
The U.S. should not arrogantly pose a threat to the DPRK to force the latter to accept its demand but respect the latter's sovereignty and iron out the difference of views through negotiations.
Greetings to Yasser Arafat
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on Nov. 14 sent a message of greetings to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the proclamation of the State of Palestine.
Wishing the president and the people of Palestine fresh success in their struggle to build an independent state with sacred Kuds as its capital, the message expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two peoples would grow stronger.
Declaration of chairmen of general student councils published in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The chairmen of the general student councils of 73 universities of South Korea reportedly issued a declaration of the chairmen of university student councils across South Korea at the press conference on Nov. 5 as regards the collection of one million signatures.
While struggling to bring GIs, the murderers, to the South Korean court, enraged at their killing of schoolgirls, we confirmed only the desperate wriggles of the GIs who regard the life of the people inferior to an ephemeral one, the declaration said.
It is impossible to expect any legal punishment as long as GIs, the criminals, are not brought to the South Korean court, it said, stressing: The transfer of GIs' jurisdiction to South Korea is a minimum prerequisite for the probe into the truth about the killing, punishment of those responsible for it and prevention of the recurrence of the case.
Anniversary of DPRK's entry into FAO observed
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) - Today is the 25th anniversary of the DPRK's admission to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
Minju Joson in a by-lined article on this anniversary says:
The FAO has discharged its mission and duty and registered many successes.
The FAO has rendered assistance to its many member nations for agricultural development.
The food problem is of weighty importance concerning the existence of humankind.
There are many international tasks to be carried out as regards the food problem.
In the new century the FAO is now facing evermore important tasks and it is required to boost its activities.
The DPRK government will exert positive efforts to further develop the cooperative ties with the FAO and fulfill its obligation as a member nation.
Spokesman for DPRK FM warns Japan against indefinite postponement of security talks
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA in connection with the fact that Japan is laying a new obstacle in the way of improving the DPRK-Japan relations in violation of the inter-governmental agreement:
As already reported, the DPRK let five Japanese related to the issue of abduction visit their hometowns for the first time after agreeing to their travel from a humanitarian point of view as requested by the Japanese side and according to their wishes, prompted by the desire to normalize the DPRK-Japan relations as soon as possible.
Under the agreement they were supposed to stay in Japan for one to two weeks.
It was the stand of the DPRK to enable them to return home together with their family members for their permanent residence, if they wish, while providing them with the greatest possible convenience.
However, the Japanese government has not sent them back, wantonly breaking the promise it made to the DPRK.
This is making the prospect for the solution to all the issues between the DPRK and Japan more complicated.
The Japanese authorities are working hard to justify their perfidy, raising a hue and cry over the "origin of the issue" after unilaterally ditching the DPRK-Japan inter-governmental agreement and complicating the solution to the issue.
As far as their loud-mouthed "origin" is concerned, this issue basically originated from Japan's colonial rule over Korea.
That is why the DPRK and Japan have been in the hostile relationship for over half a century since the end of the Second World War, and a series of complicated outstanding issues presented themselves due to such abnormal relations.
Such being the hard fact, the Japanese government is now talking much about the "origin". This is a self-contradictory assertion.
All the unilateral words and deeds of the Japanese side which diametrically run counter to what it promised to the DPRK are, in fact, reaching the danger line after going beyond limit.
What should not be overlooked is the fact that the Japanese side is taking such attitude under the manipulation of outside forces and at their instigation.
The Japanese side should immediately send back the five Japanese related to the issue of abduction now staying in Japan to restore confidence and help them have their will respected.
The Japanese side should know that as long as it does not honestly observe the agreement reached with the DPRK on sending them back, this will entail grave consequences including the indefinite postponement of the talks on security.
The DPRK has already officially notified the Japanese side of this.