S. Korean students stage anti-war struggle

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- Over 1,000 students affiliated to the South Korean Committee for Struggle of Students held a meeting for April 30 struggle of students in Seoul on Wednesday, according to Yonhap News of South Korea. The participants expressed anger, chanting slogans against the U.S. Iraqi war, the South Korean authorities' dispatch of troops.
    After the meeting, they took control of a road and staged a demonstration, shouting such slogans as "no war, troop dispatch and the united states".
    The demonstrators burnt in effigy a puppet in military uniform with letters "no troop dispatch" printed on it.
    In another development, students under the South Korean Council of Student Associations held a rally in Myongdong, Seoul, on the same day, protesting against the war and neo-liberalism.
    After the rally, they had cultural events at Korea University and Yonsei University.

Release of prisoners of conscience urged in S. Korea

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- People of different strata in South Korea reportedly launched a struggle in Seoul on April 27 in demand of the release of prisoners of conscience and the lifting of the police search for wanted members of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon). A press conference was called in front of the main gate of Yonsei University to announce a report on activities of the marchers' group for prisoners of conscience and demand the release of Ri Sok Gi, a prisoner of conscience, and the lifting of the police search for wanted members of Hanchongryon.
    At the end of the conference, the participants held a meeting welcoming the marchers' group and demanding the release of Ri Sok Gi and the lifting of the police search for wanted members of Hanchongryon.
    After the meeting, they staged a march, chanting such slogans as "Stop to the police search for wanted political offenders" and singing "March of Hanchongryon" and "Song calling for abrogation of the security law".
    They also staged the 153rd-day candlelight march for Mi Son and Hyo Sun as well as prisoners of conscience, calling for the release of Ri Sok Gi to enable him to reunite with his mother and freedom to wanted political offenders.
    In a "written request to the president", the marchers contended that the campaign for the release of prisoners of conscience is a struggle for early realization of independence, democracy and reunification.

Anniversary of three principles of national reunification marked

     Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- On May 3, Juche 61 (1972) President Kim Il Sung clarified the three principles of national reunification when meeting a delegate of the south side to the north-south high-level political talks who was staying here for the talks. Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to this day. The clarification of the three principles of national reunification marked a historic event as they made it possible for the Korean nation's reunification movement to advance along the road indicated by correct ideological and theoretical guidelines and emerge victorious, the article says, and continues:
    The national reunification is the Korean nation's own issue related to its sovereignty and, therefore, it should be responsible for reunifying the country by its own efforts to meet its independent requirement and will.
    The principle of peaceful reunification which calls for reunifying the country in a peaceful way without a recourse to force indicated a fundamental way of solving the country's reunification issue as required by the whole Korean nation.
    There is no ground for the Koreans to fight each other over the reunification issue. The differing ideas and systems existing in the north and the south can never be a source of a war. The cause of national reunification is, in essence, one of relinking the severed blood ties of the nation and achieving national unity.
    Only when the north and the south work together to reunify the country by their concerted efforts, placing the common denominators and common interests of the nation above anything else, can they achieve national reunification irrespective of idea and system.
    The three principles of national reunification serve as a great reunification programme common to the nation as they indicate the way of solving the reunification issue most smoothly and reasonably according to the Korean nation's unanimous wish and will for reunification.

Senior officials of DPRK congratulates workers on May Day

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials and leading officials of ministries, national institutions and local party and power bodies visited industrial establishments on Thursday to congratulate workers on May Day, the international day of the working class. Among those establishments were the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Plant, the Komdok Mine, the Kum Song Tractor Plant, the Sangwon Cement Complex, the February 8 Jikdong Youth Coal Mine, the Pukchang Area Coal Complex, the Pyongyang Thermal-Power Complex, the Pyongyang Steel Plant, and the March 26 Factory. The officials went round production sites of the industrial establishments, being briefed on the proud history covered by them under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
    They met with labor innovators, congratulating them on their achievements and visited workers' dormitories and houses.
    They also appreciated art performances given by workers and participated in colorful sports and amusement games.
    They ardently called upon the workers to perform heroic feats in the worthwhile efforts to adorn this year, the 55th birthday of the DPRK, with brilliant achievements.

Japan assailed for evading its responsibility for its past crimes

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Shotaro Oshima, ambassador of the Japanese mission in Geneva, referring to the issue of "violence against women" at the 59th meeting of the un commission on human rights, told the sheer lie that Japan has "fulfilled its legal responsibility" for its past crimes including the issue of "comfort women for the Japanese army". And he went to the lengths of beautifying Japan's past crimes by justifying the distortion of its history textbooks. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
    Japan is working hard to flee from the responsibility for its past crimes at any cost instead of honestly admitting and compensating for them even in the new century. This once again lays bare the brazen-faced nature and moral vulgarity peculiar to Japan before the international community.
    The human history records many wars. But it is only the Japanese imperialist aggression troops, which committed most hideous crimes against humanity by forcing a large number of women into sexual slavery even in battlefields.
    The Japanese government, however, is employing all sorts of sleight of hand to evade its responsibility and compensation for Japan's past crimes though more than half a century has passed since its defeat.
    The Japanese ruling quarters are trying hard to abdicate Japan's responsibility for sexual slavery, while doling out a paltry amount of "solatium" to survivors of "comfort women" for the imperial Japanese army from the "civilian fund" created in 1995.
    No one can falsify history and truth.
    The Japanese reactionaries' persistent efforts to flee from the responsibility to redress Japan's past crimes with a wrong view on history would only increase the bitterness of the Korean people and other people of the world toward Japan.
    The Korean people will surely force Japan to pay in the new century for the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists in the last century.

S. Korean students protest dispatch of troops to Iraqi war

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Students in South Korea reportedly staged a surprise demonstration in front of the "Defence Ministry" building in Ryongsan, Seoul, on April 30 in protest against the authorities' dispatch of troops to the Iraqi war. Upon hearing the news that the troops left for Iraq early in the morning, they expressed bitter indignation, throwing bottles of paint at the "ministry" building.
    The protestors scattered handbills reading "we are opposed to the war killing even civilians for the profit of capitalists and the dispatch of troops to it."

KPA birthday celebrated abroad

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Meetings, round-table talks, book and photo exhibitions and film shows were organized in Guinea, Switzerland, Egypt, Singapore and Peru between April 23 and 25 to celebrate the 71st birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA). At a meeting, the army commander of the Guinean armed forces referred to the fact that President Kim Il Sung founded the KPA and developed it into revolutionary armed forces.
    Today under the Songun leadership of supreme commander Kim Jong Il, the KPA has been built up as steel-like ranks equipped with powerful offensive and defensive means and as invincible armed forces capable of annihilating any aggressors at one stroke, he said.
    The chairman of the Swiss Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, at a meeting, highly praised Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for their feats performed in army building, saying:
    In the past century the KPA won the just wars against the U.S. and the Japanese imperialists under the guidance of Kim Il Sung and is now reliably defending the country, true to the Songun policy of Kim Jong Il.
    The United States should clearly know that the KPA is a matchlessly strong army led by the illustrious commander and the DPRK is not Iraq, he said.
    After seeing Korean films "the Korean People's Army, steel-like ranks" and "70th birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army", the Secretary General of the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea and other personages said:
    The KPA is a strong army fully prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique. No army in the world can match the KPA commanded by Kim Jong Il. The DPRK remains impervious to the U.S. moves to isolate and stifle it.
    A meeting in Switzerland adopted a congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il.

Wild mulberry tree in Mt. Myohyang

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- There is a wild mulberry tree near the Pohyon Temple in Mt. Myohyang in Hyangsan county, North Phyongan Province. It is the highest and oldest wild mulberry tree in Korea.
    The tree is 15 meters high and 3.5 meters round at the bottom.
    Its crown is 11.5 meters in diameter and its pointed oval leaves are 8-15 centimeters long and 5-10 centimeters wide.
    Spiked flowers of the tree which open in mid-may are yellow.
    When he visited the mountain in April Juche 43 (1954), President Kim Il Sung said that the rare tree several hundred years old should be preserved well.
    The tree is preserved well as natural product no. 88.

New brewing method of Makkoli developed

     Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- The institute of fermentation under the Academy of Sciences has developed a technology to brew Makkoli, a traditional drink of the Korean nation, in an industrial way. By the new method the drink can be brewed 10 times faster than the old ones used in families or restaurants, and stored for more than a month.
    To flavor the drink, carbonic acid gas is mixed with it after sterilization.
    The drink has rich nutritive substances of main ingredients such as white rice and wheat. It also contains some substances similar to insulin and urokinase so that it can improve the physiological function. It is very efficacious to prevent heart disorders, brain thrombosis, diabetes, hypertension, amnesia and other diseases.
    The milk-white drink is popular for its alcoholic spirits of 5 to 10 percent and sour and sweet taste.

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"rodong sinmun" denuncia maquinaciones de los reaccionarios japoneses

     pyongyang, 2 de mayo (atcc) -- shotaro oshima, embajador de la representacion de japon en ginebra, al discutirse el problema de la "violacion a mujeres" en la 59 sesion de la comision de derechos humanos de la organizacion de naciones unidas, hablo de que su pais cumplio la "responsabilidad legal" en cuanto a los crimenes del pasado incluidos el crimen relativo a las "consoladoras" a las tropas japonesas, y justifico la tergiversacion de los manuales de historia y otros crimenes. japon intenta evadir de todas maneras su responsabilidad hasta hoy en vez de reconocer e indemnizar sinceramente sus crimenes del pasado, lo cual demuestra una vez mas claramente la desverguenza e inmoralidad propias de japon ante la sociedad internacional.
    asi senala el diario "rodong sinmun" en un comentario individual de hoy y continua:
    se registro en la historia de la humanidad un sinnumero de guerras, pero, solo el ejercito agresivo del imperialismo japones perpetro el crimen anti-etico llevando numerosas esclavas sexuales al campo de guerra.
    sin embargo, el gobierno japones, hasta hoy que ya paso mas de medio siglo que data de su derrota, se propone eludir su responsabilidad e indemnizacion al respecto.
    los gobernantes japoneses distribuyeron, a traves del "fondo civil" fundado en 1995, unos centavos de dinero a las danadas "consoladoras" a las tropas japonesas bajo el rotulo de "dinero de ayuda y consuelo", con lo cual pretenden evadir la responsabilidad del crimen sexual cometido en el pasado.
    si los reaccionarios japoneses siguen evadiendo la liquidacion del pasado criminal, se aumentara mas el sentimiento antijapones del pueblo coreano y la conciencia de la humanidad.
    los coreanos saldaran cuenta sin falta en el presente siglo sobre los crimenes de los imperialistas japoneses cometidos en el pasado.

tecnica de elaboracion de makgolli, bebida nacional

     pyongyang, 2 de mayo (atcc) -- el instituto de fermentacion de la filial de la industria ligera de la academia de ciencias de corea desarrollo una tecnica para elaborar de modo industrial la bebida nacional makgolli. esta tecnica desarrollada por el dr. ma jae yon y otros miembros del colectivo de investigacion es el metodo de elaboracion industrial por la aplicacion del microbio.
    la tecnica permite reducir a una decima el tiempo de elaboracion de la bebida en comparacion con el metodo artesanal de las familias y la red gastronomica y conservarla mas de un mes.
    el makgolli tiene un sabor muy peculiar cuando se mezcla con el gas carbonico despues de la esterilizacion.
    conserva los elementos nutritivos de arroz, trigo y otras materias primas principales y contiene la insulina y otros elementos para la activacion fisiologica que tienen virtudes para la prevencion de las enfermedades entre otras cardiopatias, trombo cerebral, diabetes, hipertension y amnesia.
    makgolli-bebida fermentada de color blanquecino tiene un sabor refrescante con el licor (5-10), acido y dulce.