S. Korean Government's Decision to Send Troops to Iraq under Fire

     Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity of south Korea reportedly made public a statement on June 19 denouncing the government and the Uri Party for reconfirming the decision to send troops to Iraq at a time when the movement against the troop dispatch to Iraq is under way worldwide. At last the government and the ruling party have opted for joining in the war of aggression in defiance of the people's demand, the statement said.
    It demanded the present political camp immediately stop deceiving the people aspiring after independence, peace and reunification and withdraw the decision to send troops to Iraq.
    Labor organizations and students' organizations of south Korea also published statements on June 21 rapping at the government's decision to send additional troops to Iraq.
    The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in a statement noted that the decision of the government to send additional troops to Iraq without any justification and benefit is an unjustifiable and disgraceful action.
    The Federation of (south) Korean Trade Unions in a statement held that the government should immediately reexamine its decision to send additional troops to Iraq, though belatedly, and withdraw from Iraq the south Korean troops already dispatched there.
    The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils in a statement noted that the government and the ruling party should be held fully responsible for the decision and strongly urged them to stop at once the moves to send more troops to Iraq and pull out of it the forces already there.
    The General Students Council of Yonsei University issued a statement declaring that the real criminal that is driving the south Koreans to death was none other than the U.S. that started the Iraqi war of aggression and the government that decided to send troops there toeing the U.S. line.
    The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils called an emergency press conference in front of the building of "National Assembly" on June 19 and read out a statement. The statement denounced the government and the Uri Party for taking the lead in implementing the decision to send troops to Iraq, thus bringing an indelible disgrace to the people desirous of progress and reform.

Rodong Sinmun on U.S. Attempted Use of Nuclear Weapons during@Korean War

     Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists' moves to stifle the DPRK over the nuclear issue is an extension of the nuclear war strategy pursued by them during the Korean war, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article giving a detailed account of the attempts made by the U.S. imperialists to mount a nuclear attack on the DPRK during the war. The article continues:
    The U.S. developed A-bomb in July 1945 and worked out a plan to make the first use of the bombs in the Korean war at the instruction of the then U.S. President Truman before the war. It had in place hundreds of A-bombs and strategic bombers, their delivery means, just before the outbreak of the war.
    After making preparations for the nuclear war the U.S. warhawks launched the Korean war and attempted to use nukes whenever they found themselves in a difficult situation. McArthur, the then commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces in the Far East, proposed the issue of using A-bombs in the Korean war to Truman on July 7, 1950.
    He convened a special meeting of the National Security Council and a meeting of the Defense Department one after another on November 29, 1950 at which he raised the same issue and even issued a statement titled "Use A-bombs in North Korea." The U.S. imperialists then deployed strategic bombers carrying A-bombs in their air force base in Okinawa.
    The U.S. imperialist warmongers loudly talked about the use of A-bombs so as to conduct the adventurous "containment offensive" in January 1951. They contemplated dropping the bombs in "iron delta zone" linking Cholwon, Kimhwa and Phyonggang, while making preparations for an adventurous "big offensive" from April.
    232-page book "Modern History of U.S. Diplomacy" published by Pibong Publishing House of south Korea in 1998 said "according to a recent confirmation, 30 or 40 nuclear warheads had already been introduced and stored in south Korea in 1951. And targets were also designated at one time."
    From December 2 to 5, 1952 soon after he was elected president, Eisenhower flew into south Korea and asserted the use of A-bombs as part of "the counter-strategy to settle the military stand-off in the Korean war." In his first "state of the union address" made on February 2, 1953 he proposed the use of nuclear bombs in the "new offensive".
    According to a scenario worked out by him, the meeting of Joint Chiefs of Staff held on April 20, 1953 made a plan to use A-bombs in case they fail to reach an "honorable ceasefire". On May 19, 1953 the Defense Department again instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to propose the issue of using A-bombs.
    The chiefs of staff of the three services of the U.S. forces submitted the proposal for a wide use of A-bombs for strategic and tactical purposes to the National Security Council and got its approval. Timed to coincide with this, Dulles who was appointed as State Secretary blustered that the U.S. would use A-bombs in Korea, opening to the public the results of the test of nuclear weapons, in a bid to make its counterpart meekly accept its demand at the truce talks.
    Disclosing the persistent attempts made by the U.S. imperialists to mount a nuclear attack on the DPRK during the Korean war, the article says that the danger of a nuclear war is increasing on the Korean peninsula due to the bellicose Bush group's adventurous moves to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it.
    If the U.S. imperialists pursue the strategy to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK, misjudging its strength, they will sustain an irrevocable defeat and death, the article stresses.

British Organizations Express Solidarity with S. Korean People's@Struggle

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and Works of Comrade Kim Jong Il, the British Association for the Study of the Songun Politics and the British Society for Friendship with Korea sent a letter of solidarity to the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea on June 13. Two years have passed since two school-girls were killed in cold blood by GIs in south Korea, the letter said, extending solidarity to the righteous struggle of the south Korean people not to allow their death to be in vain.
    The letter strongly demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops from south Korea. It hoped that Korea would be reunified at an early date and all the Korean people would be made to live in a peaceful land without interference of the U.S. imperialists.

Preparations for Construction of Glass Factory

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Preparations for a ground-breaking ceremony of a glass factory provided gratis by the Chinese government to the DPRK are being pushed ahead. There was a blasting for blowing 400,000 cubic meters of earth to rezone the building plot on Friday.
    With the successful blasting the preparations for the ground-breaking ceremony have come near completion.

Rodong Sinmun Comments on Killing of S. Korean Civilian in Iraq

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- It is the way of preventing the recent tragedy in Iraq to put an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the south Korean authorities' withdrawal of the decision to dispatch troops to Iraq, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed commentary as regards the recent murder of a south Korean civilian by a resistance force in Iraq. The commentary goes on:
    It was, of course, unpardonable that this force kidnapped an innocent civilian as a bargaining chip and murdered him. But what matters is that south Korea failed to prevent such tragedy though it might not have occurred. There have been already several cases of abduction and attack against the dispatch of south Korean troops to Iraq. The south Korean authorities should have drawn a lesson from them and withdrawn the decision on the troop dispatch to Iraq.
    There is a rumour in south Korea that the abduction took place in late May but the U.S. and the south Korean authorities concealed the fact for fear that it might put a brake on the additional troop dispatch to Iraq. Anyway, the tragedy took place owing to the south Korean authorities' plan to send additional troops to Iraq, yielding to the U.S. pressure.
    The recent incident as well as all the tragic incidents in Iraq is chiefly due to the U.S. as it unilaterally provoked a brigandish war of aggression against Iraq in disregard of international law and the United Nations and imposed huge damage upon the Iraqi people. If the U.S. had not provoked the Iraqi war nor forced south Korea to join it the recent tragedy would not have occurred.
    The U.S. aggression is the root cause of the attacks of the resistance forces on foreigners and foreign troops in Iraq.
    The south Korean authorities should immediately withdraw the decision on additional troop dispatch to Iraq as demanded by the people.

Inter-Korean Meeting and Working Contact Held

     Kaesong, June 25 (KCNA) -- The second meeting of the Panel for the Construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone and the second working contact of banks for the settlement of accounts between the north and the south were separately held in Kaesong on June 24 and 25. At the second meeting of the panel both sides published a joint press release after discussing urgent issues such as electricity, communications, water and waste disposal, customs, quarantine and others to successfully promote the development of the zone.
    At the second working contact both sides adopted an agreement after discussing the issue of accounts settlement between the Foreign Trade Bank of the north and the Import and Export Bank of the south.
    The adoption of the agreement which deals in detail with technical issues such as object of settlement, period, the opening of an account with a bank, procedures and method of settling, its effectuation and renewal provides a guarantee for the trade by way of accounts settlement between the north and the south.

Day of Struggle against U.S. Marked

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- On June 25, the day of struggle against the U.S. imperialists, all parts of the country shook with people's shouts evincing their firm resolution to take revenge upon the U.S. imperialist aggressors, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, a thousand times and demonstrate the national dignity and the will to win in the confrontation with the U.S. The spirit of waging a fierce struggle against the U.S. ran high across the country that day, 54 years since the U.S. imperialists ignited the Korean war of aggression.
    At least a million Pyongyangites from all walks of life staged anti-U.S. demonstrations in streets and held a mass rally at different plazas and squares here despite heavy rain that day.
    At the rallies they reaffirmed the firm conviction and spirit of the People's Army and people of Korea that if the U.S. warhawks ignite a war at any cost in the inviolable territory of Korea despite its repeated warnings, the army and people of the DPRK will mobilize its entire war deterrent force to wipe out the aggressors to the last man and achieve a shining victory in the showdown with the U.S.
    At a meeting of young soldiers of the Korean People's Army held in Sinchon County, South Hwanghae Province to vow their revenge they resolved to get fully prepared for do-or-die battles with the U.S. imperialists with the death-defying spirit and the Juche-oriented viewpoint on war.
    Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, carried an editorial on June 25 warning that if the United States starts another war in this land, not away from "strength-almighty doctrine" and vertigo of war, the People's Army and people of the DPRK and all other Koreans will give vent to the pent-up bitter grudge, mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and finally conclude their confrontation with the U.S.
    Seen in the streets and villages were slogans such as "Let's make the U.S. imperialists pay for the blood shed by Koreans a thousand times!" and "Let's win one victory after another in the sacred struggle against the U.S. with the might of Songun!" and anti-U.S. posters which fully reflect the growing bitterness of the Korean people towards the U.S. Media devote a lot of space and time every day to dealing with the firm will of the Korean people to frustrate the moves of the U.S. imperialists for aggression and war and pave the way for reunification with the might of Songun.
    Loud singing of songs "Leader, Just Give Us Your Order", "We Will Hold Rifles More Tightly", "Give Death to U.S. Imperialist Aggressors" and others are ringing out from radios and TVs.
    The Korean people have undergone misfortune due to the country's division for over five decades. That is why they are keenly aware of the need to courageously wage nationwide resistance against the U.S. for the sake of an independent life and the prosperity of the country.
    Moreover, the U.S. warmongers are persistently spreading fictions about the DPRK's "enriched uranium program" and "sale of nuclear substance" in a bid to find a pretext for mounting a military attack on it, while advertising that "north Korea is the next target after Iraq". This lashes the Korean people into fury.
    Now that the United States seeks to completely disarm the DPRK while putting increased pressure upon it over the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, the army and people of the DPRK are all out in the life-and-death confrontation with the U.S. imperialists to demonstrate their do-or-die will and strong national self-respect.
    Thanks to the war deterrent force for self-defence that has grown remarkably stronger under the Songun policy the Korean people are fully displaying their heroic spirit and mettle in the acute confrontation with the U.S.

KCNA Refutes Sankei Shimbun's False Report

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Typical reptile paper of the Japanese ultra-right conservative forces Sankei Shimbun again spread misinformation to tarnish the international image of the DPRK. Recently it reported that a six-member Iranian technical delegation comprising physicists and computer experts entered north Korea in May and they are expected to conduct a joint test of detonating devices for nuclear bombs involving the examination of neutron by using nuclear facilities in north Korea for six months starting from July.
    According to information available from a relevant institution, there had been no deal in the field of nuclear technology between the DPRK and Iran and no delegation on such mission came here, either.
    However, Sankei Shimbun told such a whopping lie. It was nothing but a cynical ploy to galvanize the world public opinion and put pressure upon the DPRK, taking advantage of the U.S. moves to charge the DPRK with the nuclear proliferation.
    Recently the U.S. has increased its pressure upon Iran to open to public the "nuclear activities including its secret nuclear weapons program" while putting in motion some Western countries and the IAEA. It is now foolishly attempting to deliberately link the DPRK to it.
    In February the U.S. met strong public criticism for having faked up the story about the "transfer of technology for the development of nuclear weapons" to the DPRK by a Pakistani nuclear scientist. Far from drawing a proper lesson from this precedent, the U.S. cooked up and floated the fiction about Iranian-north Korean "joint test of detonating devices for nuclear bombs" only to reveal its true colors as a centre for hatching despicable plots.
    The U.S. backtracked from the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework after fabricating the story about the DPRK's "enriched uranium program." It is now throwing a hurdle in the way of settling the nuclear issue, persistently insisting on this issue at the six-party talks, too.
    Sankei Shimbun can never escape public condemnation for having released such a false report to join the U.S. in its smear campaign and operation to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
    This newspaper has not yet dropped its bad habit of seeking its own interests by sowing seeds of dissension among other countries and nations. This time, too, it openly spread sheer misinformation in a bid to fool the world public opinion and fish in troubled waters.
    The Japanese society and media need to deplore its wrong doing before anybody else and to be cautious about this practice of telling sheer lies to speak for the U.S. though it professes to be an influential paper in Japan.

Greetings to Madagascan President

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana on June 23 on the occasion of the national day.. Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would further strengthen and develop, the message sincerely wished him and the Madagascan people great successes in the work for national unity and development of the country.

Greetings to Mozambican President

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Mozambican President Joaquim Alberto Chissano on June 23 on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of its independence. Expressing the belief that the good relations of friendship between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms, the message sincerely wished the President and the Mozambican people great successes in the work for the progress and prosperity of the country.

Greetings to President of Djibouti

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh today on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of its independence. Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to strengthen and develop, the message sincerely wished him greater success in his work for the stability and development of the country.

Greetings to Slovenian President

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People' Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek on June 25 on the occasion of its independence. Expressing the belief that the relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms, the message sincerely wished the friendly Slovenian people prosperity and wellbeing.

Message of Solidarity to President of Democratic Congo

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on June 23 sent a message of solidarity to Maj.GeneralJoseph Kabila, president of Democratic Congo, on hearing the news that the government and people of Democratic Congo brought under control in time the situations that threatened the peace process in the country. It is well known to the Korean people that the government and people of the country under your correct leadership have made efforts to defend peace and stability in the country and successfully implement the tasks in the period of transition even under the complicated situation, the message said.
    Extending full support and solidarity to the president and his people in the just struggle, the message expressed expectation and belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would as ever steadily grow stronger.

Chinese Military Delegation Here

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the border guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army led by Lieut. General Li Yu, assistant to the chief of the General Staff of the army, arrived here Saturday. It was greeted at the airport by Maj. General Han Tong Su and officers of the Korean People's Army, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and Military Attache Yang Xilian of the embassy.
    The General Staff of the KPA arranged a reception in honor of the delegation in the evening.

DPRK Delegation Returns

     Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The DPRK delegation led by Kim Kye Gwan, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, came back Saturday after participating in the third round of the six-party talks on the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. in Beijing. It was greeted at the airport by Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and Oleg Dabydov, Russian charge d'affaires ad interim.

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Kim Jong Il recibe presente de delegacion china

     Pyongyang, 25 de junio (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio regalo de la delegacion del Comite del Partido Comunista de China en la provincia de Liaoning presidida por su subsecretario Wang Wanbin, de visita en Corea. El jefe de la delegacion lo entrego a un funcionario coreano.

Egipto: Comite preparatorio de recordacion a Kim Il Sung

     Pyongyang, 25 de junio (ATCC) -- Quedo constituido el dia 15 el Comite Preparatorio de Egipto de Recordacion al Gran Presidente Kim Il Sung. Como presidente del Comite fue electo Muhammad al Husseini al Akad, viceministro de Agricultura de la Republica Arabe de Egipto.
    El comite definio del 15 de junio al 15 de julio como periodo de recordacion y decidio organizar simposio sobre las inmortales hazanas del Presidente, acto de recordacion, proyeccion filmica, fotoexhibicion y otras actividades.

Coraje y audacia simpar

     Pyongyang, 25 de junio (ATCC) -- El Presidente Kim Il Sung, dando pruebas de sus excepcionales cualidades de insigne general y de la audacia y coraje incomparables, exalto a todo el mundo la dignidad del pais y la nacion. El 25 de junio del 39 (1950) de la Era Juche, cuando los imperialistas norteamericanos provocaron la guerra en Corea, el presidio una reunion extraordinaria del gabinete en la cual dijo en tono sereno y vigoroso: los enemigos son imbeciles y evaluaron mal a los coreanos al desatar la guerra, y dio la orden de detener la invasion de los enemigos y pasar de inmediato al contraataque decisivo.
    Por eso, el Ejercito Popular de Corea (EPC) pudo detener en el acto el primer ataque sorpresivo del enemigo y pasar inmediatamente al contraataque, lo cual fue una cosa sin precedente en la historia de guerra humana de mas de 14 mil 520 ocasiones. El EPC libero a los 3 dias de la guerra a Seul, baluarte de los enemigos, y, un mes despues, a mas del 90 por ciento de toda la extension de la parte Sur y mas del 92 por ciento de la poblacion surcoreana.
    La joven Republica Popular Democratica de Corea fundada en 1948 logro una gran victoria tras derrotar a las tropas de 15 paises satelites acaudilladas por EE.UU. que se jactaba de la "supremacia" en el mundo.
    Despues de la guerra, los EE.UU. llevaron la situacion de la Peninsula Coreana al borde de la guerra al perpetrar las maniobras de agresion, en particular, el caso del barco espia armado "Pueblo" en enero de 1968. Entonces, el Presidente expuso la posicion audaz y de principios de responder con la represalia a la "represalia" y con la guerra total a la guerra total de los enemigos y condujo con tal decision firme por un camino de la victoria la revolucion y la construccion al decir que no se debe renunciar la construccion hasta las 12 p.m. de hoy aunque estalle manana la guerra.
    En la decada de 1990 cuando las maniobras de los enemigos para aislar y aplastar a la RPDC llegaban al climax, el Comandante Supremo Kim Jong Il quien encarna en si los rasgos del Presidente, con la conviccion y la audacia de que en el mundo nadie puede superar a quien esta dispuesto a morir, defendio firmemente el socialismo contra las fuerzas aliadas imperialistas.
    De veras, la historia siempre victoriosa de la Revolucion Coreana se debe al incomparable coraje y audacia de estos dos grandes hombres.