Sports Games of School Youth and Children Close

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The 31st National Sports Games of School Youth and Children for Jongilbong Cup which opened on June 21 at the Basketball Gymnasium in Chongchun Street in Pyongyang closed on Monday. More than 4,000 boys and girls selected in each province competed in 37 events of the games.
    Boys of Pyongyang Puksong Middle School and girls of Pyongyang Tongdaewon Middle School each placed first in football matches among middle schoolers while boys of Pyongyang Kallimgil Middle School and girls of Pyongyang Minhung Middle School came first in basketball matches.
    Titles in the defence sports competition went to boys of Pyongyang Ryongwang Middle School, girls of Tongdo Middle School in Pukchong County, South Hamgyong Province, and Suyang Middle School in Haeju City, South Hwanghae Province.
    Players of Hero Sinam Middle School took first in Korean wrestling matches.
    Meanwhile, boys of Paeksa Primary School in Sinuiju City and girls of Jongju Primary School in Jongju City in North Phyongan Province came first in football matches, boys of Kyongam Primary School in Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province, and girls of Pyongyang Janggyong Primary School in table tennis events and boys of Sinhung Primary School in Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province, and girls of Taedu Primary School in Nampho City in track and field events. Titles in the rhythmic gymnastic events went to players of Pyongyang Pongnam Primary School and Okgye Primary School in Haeju City, South Hwanghae Province.

President Kim Il Sung Remembered

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Functions were held by the Romanian Working Party, the Damascus Provincial Committee of Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party and the Secretariat of the National Movement of Uganda on June 28 and 29 in the run-up to the 11th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung. The organizational secretary of the Romanian Working Party at the remembrance meeting said that the Korean people have turned the DPRK into a country with strong national defence capacity, united close around their leader, because Kim Il Sung fathered the immortal Juche idea and thoroughly applied it into the revolution and construction.
    He expressed the belief that the Korean people would achieve greater victory in their struggle to build a great prosperous powerful nation true to the Songun politics pursued by leader Kim Jong Il who has fully inherited Kim Il Sung's idea and leadership ability. The secretary of the Damascus Provincial Committee of Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party at round-table talks said that all the members of the party and other Syrian people know well about the undying exploits performed by Kim Il Sung for the Korean revolution, in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle and in the development of the friendly ties between Syria and the DPRK and highly appreciate them.
    Under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad and Kim Jong Il, the Syrian and Korean peoples will remain true to the ideas and causes of their leaders and the relations of comradely and militant friendship between the two countries will continue to grow strong, he stressed.
    The deputy director for Foreign Relations of the Secretariat of the National Movement of Uganda at round-table talks noted that Kim Il Sung built the people-centred socialist system in Korea and made immortal contributions to the cause of global independence, the strengthening and development of the non-aligned movement and the establishment of a fair world order.
    He highly praised Kim Jong Il for having energetically worked to consolidate and develop people-centred socialism of Korean style and firmly defend it.

KPA Servicepersons Vow to Implement Joint Slogans

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- A rally of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces was held at the April 25 House of Culture Monday to vow to implement to the letter the joint slogans published by the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the WPK. A report by Vice Marshal Kim Yong Chun, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), was followed by speeches at the rally.
    The reporter and speakers called upon all the servicepersons to turn out as one in the drive to carry through the tasks set forth in the joint slogans and create a new heroic epic in the Songun era with revolutionary enthusiasm and militant mettle.
    They underlined the need to imbue the whole army with the revolutionary idea of Supreme Commander of the KPA Kim Jong Il, establish the commanding system and the revolutionary military discipline in the KPA whereby all the soldiers move as one true to his order, smash the enemy's persistent moves for ideological and cultural poisoning and psychological warfare and thoroughly preserve the ideological purity of the Songun ranks.
    They stressed the need for all the servicepersons to count every second in training in hearty response to the slogan of training-first to be a-match-for-a hundred stalwart fighters. Should the enemy intrude into the sky, land and sea of the country even an inch, they will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and achieve the cause of national reunification, they declared.
    They noted that the "100-day campaign" is an all-out charge of loyalists to glorify the 60th founding anniversary of the WPK as a grand festival of victors and demonstrate the invincible strength and spirit of the KPA and people rallied close around the Party and the leader.
    They called on all the servicepersons to fully display through the on-going great charge the might of the revolutionary army which has grown strong in thinking and faith under the care of the great illustrious commander of Songun.
    Present there were Jo Myong Rok, director of the General Political Department of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, leading officials of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces and KPA soldiers.

S. Korean Farmers Stage Protest inside U.S. Air Force Base

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Farmers in North Jolla Province reportedly advanced into the base of the U.S. Air Force in Kunsan on July 1 in demand of the compensation for damage done by oil leakage, etc. Farmers and members of civic and public organizations staged an all-night sit-in strike for the three consecutive days demanding the U.S. forces side take decisive measures to stop the oil leakage from the U.S. Air Force base and formally apologize for it. But the U.S. force's side turned down the demand.
    The demonstrators succeeded in breaking through the police cordon and advanced into the base to stage a protest. They drove a tractor into the wire entanglements around the base.
    Much upset by this, the security authorities reinforced the police force several times, while driving pro-U.S. conservative forces to the crackdown upon the protestors.

Combined Performance Given by Participants in Schoolchildren's Art Festival

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- A combined performance was given by participants in the 44th National Schoolchildren's Art Festival at the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace on Monday. They included members of art groups of schoolchildren's palaces and houses and middle and primary schools across the country who had been selected in the provincial, city and county contests of the National Schoolchildren's Art Festival.
    The performers put on the stage colorful numbers highly praising the undying exploits of Generalissimo Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il.
    They impressively depicted the schoolchildren's irrepressible yearning for and boundless gratitude to Kim Jong Il in a trio and chorus to the accompaniment of Oungum "The Generalissimo Is Our Sun," narration and chorus to the accompaniment of guitar "Footmarks Associated with Loving Care," a chorus to the accompaniment of accordion "Let the Playing of Unbangul Accordion Resound Forth" and other numbers. A concert of high-pitched flute "Pleasure of Joining the Children's Union," a duet "Big Potatoes in Taehongdan," song and story telling "Sea Drawn by Ok I" and others deeply impressed the audience.
    Their repertoire included such numbers as chorus "Let Us Be Loyal to Father Kim Jong Il with Good Knowledge, Moral Character and Health," boys' chorus "I Will Do Like Soldiers of the Korean People's Army" and girls' chorus "Let Us Go with the Honor of Getting Top Marks."
    Among the audience were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, officials of educational institutions and organizations of the youth league in Pyongyang.

Korean People Called upon to Emerge Victorious in "100-Day Campaign"

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The participants in the Pyongyang mass rally held at Kim Il Sung Square on July 3 called for waging with loyalty a dynamic "100-day campaign" to glorify the 60th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea as a grand festival of victors. This is a manifestation of the heroic mettle of Juche Korea where all the people have risen up to unconditionally and devotedly honor the Party's intention and determination and their ardent enthusiasm and intense loyalty to make every day of the general march of the Songun revolution rewarding for the sake of the mother Party and the country.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in an editorial says that the goal of the "100-day campaign" is to fully display the might of Songun true to the idea and intention of leader Kim Jong Il and bring about a decisive turn in the economic construction and people's living in this significant year. The editorial calls on all the servicepersons and people to achieve great victory in the campaign by the force of single-minded unity.
    It goes on: There are herculean tasks to be fulfilled during this campaign. However, we have nothing to fear and there is no unconquerable fortress for us now that we are under the outstanding leadership of the headquarters of the revolution, there is the foundation of the self-reliant national economy and the Party members and all other heroic people remain intensely loyal to the leadership of the Party.
    A sure guarantee for victory in this gigantic struggle lies in encouraging all the people to bring about a new great surge in the Songun revolution by carrying forward the tradition established by the elders in the period of the great Chollima surge after the war. All the people should create a new tempo of advance in the new century with the same spirit and mettle as displayed by them when effecting that Chollima surge.
    All the officials, Party members and other working people should set their hearts ablaze with the spirit of revolutionary soldiers, let all work sites seethe with the enthusiasm, mettle and traits of soldiers and intensify the scientific and technological revolution at all units of the national economy.
    The "100-day campaign" is a worthwhile struggle which will record a brilliant page in the history of the heroic struggle of the Korean people. No force on earth can stop the Korean people from dynamically advancing, united close around the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il.

U.S. War Exercise Denounced

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification reportedly made public a statement on June 30 in connection with the recent disclosure of the fact that the U.S. forces in south Korea staged in secrecy an exercise of escaping from the Korean Peninsula as part of their preparations for the operation of preemptive attack on the north. Recalling that the exercise which involved the U.S. forces and their families across south Korea was not a simple drill but an exercise staged under the simulated conditions of an "actual war," the statement stressed this indicates that the U.S. war scenario has entered the phase of its implementation.
    There is no justification for the U.S. forces to stay in the Korean Peninsula as the Koreans greeted the era of "By our nation itself," the statement noted, adding:
    We youth and students strongly demand the U.S. forces immediately quit this land.

Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War Struggle Essential for Preserving Peace

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Peace and security in various parts of the world are being seriously threatened and disturbed by the imperialists' reckless high-handed politics and their moves for aggression and war. In order to protect peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, it is necessary to wage a dynamic anti-imperialist and anti-war struggle. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    It is necessary to discard illusion and fear of imperialists in order to frustrate the imperialists' moves for aggression and war and defend peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world.
    Nothing is more foolish act than harboring an illusion about imperialism, thinking that their aggressive and predatory nature has changed.
    Illusion about imperialism just leads to self-ruin.
    One's fear of imperialism causes one to give up the anti-imperialist, anti-war struggle and yield to and compromise with it.
    If one is afraid of fighting imperialists, shrunken by their bravado, one can never be free from their yoke of domination and subjugation nor can one protect global peace and security.
    It is necessary to build military muscle in order to foil the imperialists' moves for aggression and war and defend global peace and security.
    Lessons drawn from those countries which collapsed in face of the imperialists' military high-handed practices teach that one should defend sovereignty and peace of the country by one's own efforts.
    The war against terrorism being staged by the U.S. at present is a contemporary form of "crusade" aimed to dominate the whole world and control the destiny of the world people. Progressive mankind is called upon to wage a joint dynamic struggle against the U.S. and war.
    If world progressives wage a vigorous struggle for peace against imperialism and war irrespective of ideologies and social systems, they can certainly accomplish the human cause of peace, the article concludes.

U.S. Shameless Assertions Refuted

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The U.S. chief executive was reported to have expressed deep concern about the DPRK's declaration of its access to nuclear weapons at a recent U.S.-EU annual summit in the White House. Earlier, the head of the U.S. delegation at a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors charged that the DPRK is a "challenger to NPT." Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed commentary carried in this regard says: Needless to say, it is foolish of the U.S. to try to lay the blame for the deadlocked six-party talks and their delayed resumption at the DPRK's door because Washington was chiefly accountable for having stood in the way of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
    It continues:
    It was none other than the U.S. that compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons and was chiefly to blame for having barred the process of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. demand that the DPRK scrap its nuclear program first, a bid to disarm it, is a revelation of Washington's extremely unreasonable unilateralism and its high-handed policy.
    It is nonsensical for the U.S. to unilaterally demand the DPRK disarm itself though both have been in the hostile relationship and technically at war for more than a half century.
    The U.S. has gone so shameless as to try to brand the DPRK as a nuclear criminal by accusing it of challenging NPT. This reminds one of a thief crying "Stop the thief!" At the NPT Review Conference held at the United Nations some time ago the U.S. was censured by the international community for having perpetrated crimes in violation of NPT.
    The U.S. seems to work hard to get rid of its awkward position by removing the label of "chieftain of nuclear proliferation" and bringing the charge to the DPRK. But this is futile.
    The DPRK has neither opposed nor shunned the six-party talks. The point at issue is that the U.S. attitude toward the six-party talks is opaque. If the U.S. persists in demanding the DPRK dismantle its nuclear program first without honoring its commitments, this will get it nowhere.

GIs' another Massacre of Civilians Disclosed

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- It has been recently disclosed that the U.S. imperialist aggressors ruthlessly massacred innocent residents in Sansong-ri, Ryechon County, North Kyongsang Province, during the last Korean war. In this regard Minju Joson Tuesday runs a signed commentary denouncing the murderous nature of GIs seeking pleasure in human killing. The recent disclosure is not the first time. All the massacres of civilians during the Korean war were committed by the direct orders and instructions of the U.S. military.
    The U.S. imperialists have neither admitted the brutal massacres of civilians nor apologized and compensated for them though more than half a century passed.
    The United States can never get rid of the responsibility for the crimes of having bestially killed innocent Koreans. It should admit all the murderous crimes committed by GIs, make an honest apology and compensation for them and promptly withdraw its troops from south Korea as unanimously demanded by the Korean nation.

Kim Jong Il Enjoys Performance Given by Russian Artistes

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Monday enjoyed a performance given by the visiting State Academic Moiseyev Dance Company of Russia. He was greeted at the theatre by Head of the dance company Elena Scherbakova, Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Karlov and his wife.
    He extended thanks to the artistes of the dance company for having given enthusiastic performances in the capital and local areas during their tour of the DPRK, delighting and inspiring its servicepersons and people. He had a cordial conversation with the guests.
    When he appeared in the auditorium of the theatre, the whole audience enthusiastically welcomed him with a thunderous applause.
    Artistes of the dance company presented him with bouquets representing their reverence for him and offered him best wishes.
    Among the audiences were Choe Thae Bok, Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, senior officials of the Party and the army and officials of cultural, art and media institutions.
    Also appreciating the performance were the head of the dance company, the Russian ambassador to the DPRK and staff members of the Russian embassy.
    The artistes put on the stage colorful numbers such as dance suite of Ancient Russia, Russian dances, a Korean dance, a Chinese ribbon dance, a Moldovan witticism dance and a Polish dance. Through the performance they truthfully represented with high artistry the optimistic life and national emotion and peculiar lifestyle of the Russians and various nations, thus strikingly demonstrating the appearance of the dance company with a long history and tradition.
    Kim Jong Il sent a floral basket to the artistes, congratulating them on their successful performance.

New Kind of Composite Fertilizer Developed in DPRK

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have developed a new kind of composite microelement fertilizer. The fertilizer absorbed into seeds and crops supplies them with essential microelements including B, Zn, Cu and Mn during the whole period of their growth, thus ensuring metabolism of plants such as photosynthesis and composition of nutritive substances. It also strengthens their resistance to salinity, harmful insects, drought, rain and storm and increases the number of ears of plant and the number of grains per ear.
    It is also applicable to fruit trees, cash crops, and economic and medicinal plants as well as grains and vegetables. The amount of the fertilizer applied per hectare is smaller than other kinds.

Kelp Picking at Full Swing

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Kelp picking is at full swing these days on the offshore farms on the east and west coasts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It has long been encouraged in the country to cultivate various species of kelp including Laminaria japonica, ochotensis, narrow-row tangle and latifoliate tangle and to expand the scope of its utilization.
    Kelp is natural health food which prevents aging.
    Its everyday intake helps make blood vessel strong, improve blood components and recover from fatigue quickly.
    Foodstuff factories throughout the country are manufacturing nutritious kelp jelly good for health of children.
    Factories in the public health sector make various kinds of health food with kelp, while public catering establishments produce and serve about 40 kinds of kelp dishes including fried and seasoned kelp.
    Kelp is also used as raw materials of industrial goods and additive of animal fodder.

Chinese Delegation Here

     Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament led by its Vice-President Liu Jingqin arrived here Tuesday. It was greeted at the airport by an official concerned and the Chinese charge d'affaires ad interim here.

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Rodong Sinmun denuncia demagogia de EE.UU. en problema nuclear

     Pyongyang, 5 de julio (ATCC) -- En la cumbre anual EE.UU. - Union Europea, celebrada recientemente en la Casa Blanca, el mandatario norteamericano dijo que "expresa profunda preocupacion por la declaracion del Norte de Corea sobre la posesion de armas nucleares". Con anterioridad, el jefe de la delegacion norteamericana a una reunion de la Junta de Gobernadores de la Organizacion Internacional de Energia Atomica (OIEA) habia tildado a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea del "pais desafiante a la no-proliferacion nuclear". No cabe duda de que todo eso es un necio intento de aquellos, que impidieron la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana, de imputar a la RPDC la responsabilidad por el estancamiento de las conversaciones a 6 bandas y la dilacion del reinicio de estas. Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 5 y prosigue: Es precisamente la Norteamerica que empujo a nuestro pais a poseer armas nucleares e impide el proceso de la desnuclearizacion de la Peninsula Coreana. Por lo tanto, resulta una expresion del unilateralismo y despotismo extremados y muy injustos el hecho de que los yanquis vuelven a imponernos la "renuncia nuclear, primero" encaminada a desarmar a nuestro pais.
    Es muy absurda la demanda sobre el desarme unilateral de la RPDC que durante mas de medio siglo se halla en relaciones hostiles y tecnicamente en guerra con EE.UU. No obstante, el imperio trata de pegarnos a su albedrio la etiqueta de "desafiante a la no-proliferacion" a fin de acusarnos a toda costa del "culpable nuclear", lo cual es una accion atrevida de un ladron que se desganita gritando "!ladron!".
    Sin embargo, por su papel protagonico en todos los crimenes nucleares, EE.UU. fue procesado por la comunidad internacional en la conferencia para revisar la ejecucion del Tratado de No Proliferacion, que tuvo lugar hace poco en la ONU.
    Parece que EE.UU. intenta salir de su incomoda condicion con sus inutiles e infructiferos esfuerzos por poner a nuestro pais su etiqueta del responsable de la proliferacion nuclear.
    Nuestro pais nunca se opuso ni renuncio a la cita a 6 bandas. Lo problematico en este caso es la intransparente posicion de EE.UU. ante la cita. Por mucho que EE.UU. trate de imponernos de continuo la "renuncia nuclear, primero" sin cumplir lo que le corresponde, no podra resolver nada.

Militares se deciden a realizar consignas conjuntas

     Pyongyang, 5 de julio (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 4 en la capitalina Casa Cultural 25 de Abril un mitin del Ministerio de las Fuerzas Armadas Populares para materializar cabalmente las consignas conjuntas del Comite Central y la Comision Militar Central, del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, publicadas con motivo del 60 aniversario de la fundacion de la organizacion. En el acto el vicemariscal Kim Yong Chun, quien es el jefe del Estado Mayor General del Ejercito Popular de Corea, presento un informe y otros funcionarios hicieron uso de la palabra.
    Los oradores dijeron que todos los oficiales y soldados del EPC deben levantarse como un solo hombre en la lucha por la materializacion cabal de las tareas presentadas en las citadas consignas y crear con entusiasmo revolucionario e impetu combativo una nueva epopeya heroica de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar).
    Apuntaron la necesidad de identificar a todo el ejercito con las ideas revolucionarias del Comandante Supremo Kim Jong Il, de establecer el sistema de mando unico del Ejercito y el ambiente militar revolucionario para que todos sus integrantes actuen como un solo hombre bajo las ordenes del Comandante Supremo, de impedir la aviesa penetracion ideologica y cultural y los tejemanejes de conspiracion psiquica de los enemigos y de mantener a cabalidad la pureza ideologica de las filas del Songun.
    Todos los militares deben aprovechar todo el tiempo para el entrenamiento enarbolando la consigna de dar prioridad a este y prepararse como combatientes habiles capaces de vencer cada uno a cien enemigos, senalaron los oradores y subrayaron que ellos tienen que aniquilar implacablemente a los que invadan a nuestra Patria aunque sea en una pulgada de su cielo, territorio o mar, y lograr la causa de la reunificacion del pais.
    La "batalla de 100 dias" es la general de fidelidad para glorificar el 60 aniversario de la fundacion del PTC como un gran festival de los triunfadores y exaltar a todo el mundo la invencible fuerza e impetu del ejercito y el pueblo, unidos monoliticamente en torno al Partido y el Lider, destacaron los oradores.
    En el presente combate de ataque general, todos los oficiales y soldados del EPC -finalizaron- deben poner de pleno manifiesto el poderio del ejercito revolucionario formado como fuerte en la idea y la conviccion, bajo la direccion del gran Comandante distinguido del Songun.
    En el mitin tomaron parte el jefe de la Direccion Politica General del EPC Jo Myong Rok, el titular Kim Il Chol y otros funcionarios directivos del MINFAP, oficiales y soldados del EPC.