Australian Delegation Here

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia led by Peter Baxter, first assistant secretary for the North Asia Division of the department, arrived here Sunday.


Kim Jong Il Praised by Russian Poet

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Russian poet Alexandr Konstantinovich Lavtev made public poem "Kim Jong Il, August Name of the Sun" in praise of Kim Jong Il.
    In the poem he told that Kim Jong Il indicated the way of the people to follow in the new century, steering the Songun revolution of Mt. Paektu and making long journey between Pyongyang and Moscow for friendship.
    An independent, new world, desired by all people, will appear as brilliant features of Kim Jong Il's century and remain forever under the rays of the great sun followed by them, the poet said.
    The poem also stressed that the august name of Kim Jong Il represents glory and happiness of humankind and hope and future of the world and it would shine forever.


Pullback of Forces Dispatched Overseas Demanded in S. Korea

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Nine women's organizations of south Korea including the Federation of Women's Organizations reportedly held a joint press conference in front of the building of the "Ministry of National Defence" in Seoul on March 8 at which they demanded an immediate withdrawal of the south Korean troops dispatched overseas.
    "Why should the south Korean troops meet deaths, involved in wars in other countries?" speakers at the press conference queried, urging the "government" authorities to be aware of the consequences entailed by their unreasonable policy of troop dispatch.
    On behalf of all the women out in the struggle for peace against war they demanded the "government" authorities withdraw at once the south Korean troops dispatched overseas.


U.S. Urged to Cancel Its Plan for Saber-Rattling for Preemptive Attack on DPRK

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The Reunification Solidarity, the People's Solidarity and the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification in south Korea reportedly held a joint press conference around the U.S. embassy in Seoul on March 7 demanding the U.S. cancel its plan for the saber-rattling for a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    Speeches were made at the press conference. Then followed the reading-out of a press release titled "Immediately cancel the plan for RSOI and Foal Eagle."
    The plan to stage the RSOI and Foal Eagle joint military exercises announced by the south Korea-U.S. "Combined Forces Command" is a move to chill the ardent desire of the Korean nation for peace on the Korean Peninsula, it noted, strongly demanding the U.S. cancel its plan for the exercises for a preemptive attack on the DPRK on behalf of all Koreans and the world peace-loving people.
    It went on: The planned joint military exercises would be held on the largest scale for the purpose of rounding off the procedures to hurl U.S. forces and hardware into the peninsula. This fact brings into bolder relief the nature of the exercises aimed at striking the DPRK.
    If the U.S. opts for staging the exercises for a preemptive attack on the DPRK, it will meet strong resistance of the Korean people aspiring after peace. The south Korean "government" should discontinue such rash act at brandishing swords against fellow countrymen, clinging to the coattails of foreign forces.


Struggle for U.S. Troop Pullout in S. Korea

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration and its affiliated organizations reportedly held an event called day of mass information activities opposing the sanctions on the DPRK, war and the U.S. on Feb. 24.
    Permanent co-representative Kwon O Chang, permanent adviser So Sang Ho and other leading members of the solidarity and members of the Seoul Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration launched information activities among citizens in Seoul.
    They conducted a signature campaign to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea, putting up suspension posters bearing the letters "The U.S., cancel the war exercises threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula!" and "The U.S. forces, biggest stumbling block lying in the way of peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula and a group of criminals, withdraw from south Korea at once!"
    Members of the Taejon and South Chungchong Provincial Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration distributed to citizens in the plaza of Taejon Railway Station copies of literature carrying the demand that the U.S. promptly cancel its planned RSOI, a large-scale exercise for preemptive nuclear attack.
    They also launched a "10 million-people signature campaign for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces", calling for the pullout of the U.S. forces, an obstacle to peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula, from south Korea at once.
    Members of the Preparatory Committee for the Jeju Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration conducted mass information activities for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces in front of the Jeju City Office.


DPRK Girls Overwhelm Thai Team at AFC U-16 Women's Championship

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- DPRK girls trounced the Thai team 7:1 on March 10 at the First AFC U-16 Women's Championship which is now under way in Malaysia.
    They beat the Japanese team 1:0 in the first game of the group round robin. Finishing on top of the round robin, they have secured the berth in the semi-finals.


Rodong Sinmun on Overheated Arms Buildup

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The nuclear arms race is getting superheated in the international arena, increasing nuclear threat to humankind, says Rodong Sinmun in a news analysis Monday.
    Noting that the hectic nuclear arms race is a serious matter in view of world peace and security and nuclear arms cutback, the analyst goes on:
    Nuclear arms buildup and nuclear supremacy are a consistent military policy and strategic goal of the United States. In pouring colossal fund and technology into the development of new-type nuclear warheads and the production of materials for nukes it seeks to beef up modern nuclear armed forces by giving fresh spurs to the development and production of new nuclear weapons.
    The director of the Nuclear Security Agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, some time ago, cried that it was necessary for the U.S. to maintain the nuclear armed forces and preserve the capability to modernize them, openly declaring that the U.S. would renounce the goals of nuclear arms reduction laid down in major international agreements signed in the past. This shows that the U.S. scheme to boost the modern nuclear armed forces remains unchanged.
    It is nobody's secret that the main purpose of the U.S. in working overtime to modernize and increase nuclear arms after declaring its strategy of preemptive nuclear attack lies in containing China and Russia by military forces and grasp military supremacy on the global scale. Foreign media note that Russia and China, on their part, are giving spurs to the modernization of the military forces including nuclear arms while increasing military expenditures for their own strategic goals.
    Foreign media represent the unanimous voice of world conscience and international community when they say that world peace and security cannot be expected unless the nuclear weapon states fulfill their duties.


Deceptive Nature of Transfer of "Right to Command Wartime Operations" Disclosed

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- It was formally agreed at the recent talks between the military authorities of the United States and south Korea that the former would transfer the "right to command wartime operations" to the latter by April 17, 2012. This reveals the U.S. criminal intention to intensify its forces' occupation and domination over south Korea and realize its anti-DPRK military strategy with ease.
    Rodong Sinmun Monday stresses this in a signed commentary.
    If south Korea is to fully exercise the prerogative of supreme command over its armed forces, it is necessary to fundamentally dismantle the military structure serving the U.S., to begin with, the paper says, and goes on:
    In consideration of the transfer of the "right to command wartime operations", the U.S. set the stage for such farces as reorganizing the "UN Command" and establishing a system for integrating command in order to keep holding the control over the south Korean army. It is clear that the U.S. seeks to keep the combined operational mechanism, key in its master-servant military relationship with south Korea, under spurious signboard.
    The U.S. and the south Korean military bluster that they would work out a new operational plan to replace "OPLAN 5027" and continue to stage "Foal Eagle", "RSOI" and other large-scale joint military exercises although an agreement was reached on the transfer of the "right". It is needless to say that in such case south Korea will be drawn deeper into the U.S. scheme to provoke a war of aggression against the DPRK.
    What the U.S. intends is to instigate the south Korean warlike forces to unleash a war against the DPRK and then shirk off its responsibility for it under the pretext of "fratricidal war".
    The transfer of the "right" would be meaningless as long as the U.S. imperialists continue their military occupation and rule over south Korea and escalate anti-DPRK war moves. The south Korean authorities should not be taken in by the clumsy farce but opt for taking a practical measure to get the U.S. imperialist aggression troops withdrawn from south Korea.


Farming Put on Scientific Footing

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Efforts have been made to do farming in a scientific way in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Academy of Agricultural Science (AAS), on the basis of successes and experience made in introducing IT and science into farming, is striving to put agriculture on a scientific and technological footing.
    The AAS is concentrating efforts on scientific agriculture this year, too, in cooperation with the Ministries of Agriculture and Education, other ministries and scientific institutes.
    It is taking measures to solve scientific and technical problems arising in applying the newly-bred good rice species into production, to breed new rice species and to make the highly-yielding seeds pay off in production.
    The AAS is also making preparations for introducing scientific successes into the overall farming and farming-related processes.
    Scientists in provincial branch academies of agricultural science and institutes under the AAS are also active in relevant areas to back this year's farming in a scientific and technological way.
    While systematizing the successes made in the past in all the fields from farming, stock-breeding, fruit-growing and sericulture to cultivation and breeding, the academy is supplementing the plan for putting farming on a scientific footing and taking a concrete steps to create a model in scientific farming.
    A lot of co-op farms including the Ripsok Co-op Farm in Mundok County, South Phyongan Province are taking the lead in this undertaking.


Gold-bronze Sedentary Statue of King Wang Kon

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of historical relics belonging to Koryo, the first unified state of Korea, is going on in the Korean Central History Museum.
    Conspicuous is a gold-bronze sedentary statue of Wang Kon, the first king of Koryo, in his forties.
    The statue was dug out in the area near the Mausoleum of King Wang Kon in Juche 86 (1997) when it was under reconstruction.
    Archeologists found out that it was the statue of king Wang Kon in the light of the statue wearing a crown and the posture seating in a chair with hands put together and of other relics including gilded bronze pieces, rectangular granite and iron rings and nails which were unearthed together with the statue.
    The crown the statue wears consists of internal and external ones.
    The external one has a 2.5 centimeter-wide band with four lines in the lower part.
    Carved in the center of the facade is a mountain and two small horns and clouds on both sides.
    The internal crown is higher than the external one. Many lines are engraved from the top downward like water-falls, the girth is decorated with eight circles and six out of them remain now.
    The sun and moon which are engraved in the circle symbolize empire or king, which proves that it is the king's crown.
    At the time of discovering, most of the gold-gilded part came off.
    The sedentary statue is very valuable as such gold-bronze statue of a king is rare to be seen in the world.
    The statue is 143.5 centimeters high.


KCNA Ridicules Abe's Loudmouthed "Beautiful Country"

   Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The Japanese authorities like to talk about the building of a "beautiful country." But they are becoming more vulgar and shameful in their behavior quite contrary to their motto. This is evidenced by the fact that the suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and phobia about Koreans in Japan have become evermore pronounced throughout Japan since Abe's assumption of premiership.
    The Abe Cabinet openly chose it as a policy to crack down upon Chongryon and Koreans in Japan under the pretext of "strictly enforcing law." It has steadily escalated this repressive campaign by setting in motion power machines including police and right-wing forces and media. Going beyond human imagination is the vicious and brutal nature of its crackdown upon Chongryon and Koreans in Japan as proved by Japanese public security authorities' search operations against Chongryon offices and schools and individual Koreans, increase in tax levies upon them and their arrest of Korean nationals and indiscriminate threat and violence against the above-said institutions and individuals.
    It was against this background that the Tokyo Metropolitan authorities have recently made desperate efforts to prevent Koreans in Japan from holding a meeting and demonstration in protest against the above-mentioned unreasonable political suppression and human rights abuses.
    The attempt made by the Japanese authorities to block even a legal protest meeting, not content with suppressing Chongryon, only betrayed their sinister design to force the Koreans in Japan into slavery in violation of their elementary rights. This is nothing but a repetition of the gangster-like logic that Koreans should sacrifice their lives and properties for the sake of the "Great Empire of Japan" and a revelation of the brazen-faced intention to dominate other nations.
    National chauvinism serves as an ideological lever for aggression and domination. The Japanese reactionaries are now kicking off a whirlwind of ostracizing Koreans across Japan in a desperate bid to stifle Chongryon. This is intended to stoke uneasiness about security and national chauvinism among Japanese for the purpose of making the society veer to the Right and facilitating the militarization of the country and thereby paving the way for staging a comeback to Korea. In a word, the Japanese reactionaries' much touted building of a "beautiful country" is no more than a smoke-screen to conceal this purpose.
    History goes to prove that the more black-hearted intention a country entertained, the more glossy words it used and the fiercer the fascist junta got, the more loudly it trumpeted about "democracy" and "human rights."
    The on-going frantic suppression of Chongryon by the Japanese reactionaries only testifies to the fact that they do not have even the slightest will to settle Japan's inglorious past or to be bold enough to turn over a new leaf. It, at the same time, glaringly shows what base and wicked country Japan, which claims striving to build a "beautiful country," is.
    The Japanese authorities would be well advised to repent of Japan's crimes and stop doing wrongs if they truly wish to build a beautiful country.


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FDRP refuta peroracion de Abe sobre ex "consoladoras" para ejercito nipon

   Pyongyang, 12 de marzo (ATCC) -- En su declaracion publicada la vispera, el portavoz del Comite Central del Frente Democratico para la Reunificacion de la Patria (FDRP) censuro fuertemente las palabras pronunciadas recientemente por el premier japones Abe para negar abiertamente el arresto forzado a las ex "consoladoras sexuales" para el viejo ejercito del pais isleno.
     Tal disparate taimado y descarado de Abe, encaminado a encubrir los crimenes antieticos del pasado de Japon y eludir la responsabilidad estatal por los mismos, deviene un intolerable insulto a las victimas de esa esclavitud sexual y sus familiares y un desafio insoportable a toda la nacion coreana y la sociedad internacional que demandan las excusas e indemnizacion por el respecto.
     Ademas, esto demuestra el intento del pais isleno de emprender de nuevo el camino de agresion tras justificar sus crimenes del pasado e impulsar a buen ritmo la militarizacion, siendo una peroracion sumamente agresiva que ofende gravemente la justicia y la conciencia de la humanidad.
      Ahora, todo el mundo califica el arresto forzado a las "consoladoras sexuales" por parte de tropas japonesas del "peor caso en el trafico de seres humanos del siglo XX" y de la mas "infame esclavitud sexual sin precedente en la historia".
     La reciente negativa frontal del premier nipon al polemico crimen demuestra claramente que los reaccionarios islenos son tipejos mas descarados y atrevidos.
     Sin embargo, a pesar de que se hallan en una situacion tan miserable, esas abominables bestias suenan con la membresia permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU y se dedican a acusar a la muy digna Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
     Resulta sumamente absurdo el hecho de que cuestiona el "secuestro" por alguna parte el mismo clan de los samurais quienes convirtieron a cientos de miles de coreanas en esclavas sexuales y mataron a millones de jovenes y adultos coreanos en los campos de guerra y trabajo forzoso.
     Toda la nacion coreana no debe perdonar jamas los reiterados disparates de los reaccionarios japoneses y ajustar la cuenta de modo consecuente de todos sus crimenes antieticos cometidos en detrimento de si misma.


Rodong Sinmun revela lo fraudulento de devolucion del mando operacional

   Pyongyang, 12 de marzo (ATCC) -- En las recientes conversaciones entre las autoridades militares de Estados Unidos y el Sur de Corea, se oficializo el traspaso del primero al segundo del "mando operacional para el tiempo de guerra" hasta el 17 de abril de 2012. Esto no es mas que una manifestacion del intento criminal de EE.UU. de intensificar la ocupacion militar y el dominio sobre el suelo surcoreano y alcanzar facilmente su estrategia militar contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
     Senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual de este lunes y prosigue:
     Hay que romper ante todo la estructura militar surcoreana subordinada a EE.UU. para que el Sur de Corea pueda ejercer de pleno el mando sobre sus fuerzas armadas
     Como alternativa a la devolucion del mando arriba mencionado, el imperio llevo a cabo la "reestructuracion organizativa" de la "comandancia de las fuerzas de la ONU" y el establecimiento del "sistema combinado de las relaciones de mando" para seguir controlando al ejercito surcoreano.
     Esto evidencia que EE.UU. quiere mantener el aparato de operaciones conjuntas, lo clave de las relaciones militares con el Sur de Corea, renovando unicamente su nombre.
     Los circulos castrenses de ambas partes anunciaron que elaborarian un nuevo plan sustituible al "plan operacional 5027" y seguirian desarrollando los macro-ejercicios militares conjuntos como el "Aguilucho" y el "ejercicio combinado de refuerzo para el tiempo de guerra" aunque acordaron transferir el "mando operacional para el tiempo de guerra". En tal caso, no cabe duda de que el Sur de Corea se adherira mas a las maniobras norteamericanas encaminadas a desatar la guerra de agresion a la RPDC.
     De esta manera, EE.UU. trata de lanzar a las fuerzas belicistas surcoreanas a la eventual guerra de agresion al Norte de Corea y eludir su responsabilidad por el respecto so pretexto de un "conflicto fratricida".
     Mientras los imperialitas norteamericanos siguen ocupando y dominando el suelo surcoreano y se mantienen en sus maniobras belicistas contra la RPDC, no tendra ningun significado el traspaso del "mando" en cuestion.
     Las autoridades surcoreanas deben tomar medidas practicas para la retirada de su territorio de las tropas agresoras norteamericanas sin dejarse enganar por esa barata farsa orquestada por el imperio.


Rodong Sinmun comenta aumento de armamento nuclear

   Pyongyang, 12 de marzo (ATCC) -- En la palestra internacional se torna mas activa la carrera armamentista nuclear que amenaza a la humanidad.
    Esto es un problema serio que contraviene a la preservacion de la paz y seguridad del mundo y la tendencia de desarme nuclear.
    Asi subraya el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 12 y continua:
    El aumento armamentista y la hegemonia nucleares son la invariable politica militar y la meta estrategica de EE.UU. Este pais dedica los astronomicos fondos y tecnologia al desarrollo de ojivas nucleares de nuevo tipo y la produccion de sustancias para armas nucleares a fin de aumentar las fuerzas armadas nucleares modernas.
    Recientemente el director de seguridad nuclear estatal del Departamento de Energia norteamericano dijo que EE.UU. "tiene la necesidad de mantener las armas nucleares y de mantener la capacidad de modernizarlas" y expuso la idea de renunciar las metas del desarme nuclear mencionadas en los principales convenios internacionales concertados en el pasado. Esto demuestra que no hay cambio alguno en la intencion de EE.UU. de aumentar las armas nucleares modernas.
    No es secreto que el principal objetivo que persigue EE.UU. al declarar la estrategia de ataque preventivo nuclear y al dar espuelas a la modernizacion y aumento de armas nucleares reside en mantener a raya a China y Rusia y tomar la hegemonia militar en la palestra mundial. Segun fuentes extranjeras, por su parte, Rusia y China, partiendo de su finalidad estrategica, aumentan los gastos militares para dar acicate a la modernizacion de las armas nucleares y otras fuerzas armadas.
    Los cables extranjeros estiman que es imposible esperar la paz y seguridad del mundo cuando los paises poseedores de armas nucleares incumplen sus obligaciones. Este criterio representa la conciencia mundial y la unanime voz de la sociedad internacional.