IAEA Working Delegation Leaves

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The working delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency headed by Deputy Director-General Olli Heinonen left here on Saturday.


Greetings to 9th AU Summit

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a congratulatory message to the 9th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union on June 27.
    Kim in the message noted that over the past years the African Union proposed significant initiatives for achieving peace, stability and socio-economic development of the continent and boosting the unity and cooperation among its member nations and has worked hard to put them into practice, thus considerably improving the position of Africa in the international arena.
    The government and the people of the DPRK will as ever steadily develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation with the AU and its member nations and extend full support and solidarity to the governments and peoples of African countries in their efforts to accelerate the continental political and economic integration, the message said.
    Expressing belief that the current summit will mark another important occasion in building independent, peaceful and prosperous Africa, Kim hoped that the summit would produce good results to meet the desire and expectation of all the African people.


Solidarity with Korean People Expressed in Cuba and Bulgaria

   Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- An opening ceremony of the month of solidarity with the Korean people was held at the Kim Il Sung Economic Special School in Cuba and a meeting in Devin City, Bulgaria on June 20 and 22 on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the 35th anniversary of the advancement of the three principles for Korean reunification and the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
    Present at the events were figures and people from various circles including the vice-president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the chairman of the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the director of the Kim Il Sung Economic Special School of Cuba, the mayor and the vice-mayor of Devin City of Bulgaria and the secretary general of the Bulgarian Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification. Staff members of the DPRK embassies in the respective capital cities were present on invitation.
    Speeches were made there.


June 15 North-South Joint Declaration Favored by British Figure

   Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- Dermot Hudson, chairman of the British Association for the Study of Songun Policy, posted an article titled "Songun and June 15 era of reunification" on the Internet Homepage on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    Under the sub-title "Birth of June 15 era of reunification " he gave a detailed account of the fact that late in the last century Kim Jong Il remarkably augmented the national power, holding aloft the banner of Songun to cope with the imperialists' frantic moves to isolate the DPRK and brought about a phase favorable for accomplishing the cause of reunification, fully demonstrating its dignity and might.
    It was thanks to Kim Jong Il that there took place such historic events as the inter-Korean summit and the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, a product of the might of his political mode, Songun politics.
    Under the sub-title "Advance of June 15 era of reunification " he wrote that the Songun politics serves as a mighty treasured sword for dynamically accelerating the movement for Korea's reunification along the orbit of independence as it helps firmly protect the sovereignty and dignity of the nation and further strengthen the driving force for reunification.
    The DPRK, possessed of powerful military deterrent of justice, a product of his Songun politics, has won one victory after another in the confrontation with the U.S. and the June 15 era of reunification is making dynamic progress as this has created favorable circumstances and conditions for the Korean nation to achieve independent and peaceful reunification.


Security Authorities' Unwarranted Suppression Protested in S. Korea

   Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reportedly made public a statement on June 27 in protest against the security authorities' unwarranted suppression of the All-People Movement Headquarters for Checking South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
    Accusing the security authorities of requesting in advance warrants of arrest for co-representatives of the headquarters, the statement declared that this was prompted by their sinister intention to quell the actions of the people against the conclusion of the FTA with the U.S. and produce it at any cost.
    Describing the actions of the headquarters as just ones to scuttle the humiliating negotiations as they are under way without any consultation with the people, the statement demanded an immediate halt to the unreasonable suppression of its actions.
    The workers will carry on their strenuous actions against the conclusion of the FTA braving any crackdown by the security authorities, it declared.


2000th Issue of Munhak Sinmun Published

   Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The 2000th issue of Munhak Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Korean Writers Union, was published.
    The first issue of the paper was published on Dec. 6, Juche 45 (1956). Over the last 50 odd years since then the paper has edited articles of diverse themes including those widely introducing the immortal feats performed by the three generals of Mt. Paektu in developing revolutionary literature and art, thus helping the working people grasp their greatness and educating them.
    It has also carried hundreds of literary works and literary and art comments every year including those listed as masterpieces of the times showcasing the proud picture of the steadily efflorescing Juche-oriented literature and art. This has helped writers, artistes and literature lovers raise their creative zeal and improve their talents.
    The paper is now avidly read by people from all walks of life as it has edited a variety of materials dealing with common sense in all fabrics of social life including politics, economy and culture.


Greetings to 28th CARICOM Summit

   Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Il, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a message of greetings to the 28th summit of the Caribbean Community.
    In the message he said he was pleased with the fact that the 28th CARICOM summit is under way amid the great concern and expectation of the people in the Caribbean region and extended warm greetings to the participants in the summit including heads of government of different countries.
    In the message he noted with appreciation that the CARICOM member nations worked out policies in the common interests of the region to cope with the challenge of "globalization" and have achieved sustained socio-economic development and stability and solved regional problems according to the principle of mutual respect, thereby making positive contributions to the work to defend the rights and interests of the Caribbean countries and promote the people's wellbeing and boost the cooperative relations among the above-said nations.
    Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and all the member nations would continue to develop on good terms, in the future, too, he sincerely hoped that the summit would satisfactorily discuss all the agenda items and achieve good success.


Seminars on Kim Jong Il's Works Held

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Seminars on Kim Jong Il's works were held by the Russian Youth Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea on June 15 and 21 to mark the 43rd anniversary of his start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    On display in the venues of the seminars were his famous works and photos showing his revolutionary activities.
    Chairman Dmitri Kostenko and Scientific Secretary Pavel Bilevski of the Russian association explained a detailed content of his work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction", saying that the work serves as a powerful weapon as it clarified the way of achieving victories in socialist construction and struggle against imperialists.
    They praised him for wisely leading the Korean people in the efforts to build a great prosperous powerful nation and achieve national reunification through his unique Songun politics.
    Malik Souma, director general of the Guinean institute, said that his famous work "Giving Priority to Ideological Work Is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism" serves as highly important guidelines as it gives the perfect answers to theoretical and practical issues arising in accomplishing the human cause of independence and the cause of socialism.
    A message of greetings to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the seminar in Russia.


WPK Praised

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Meetings, photo exhibitions, reading sessions and film shows took place in Hungary, Pakistan, Palestine, Indonesia and Peru from June 17 to 20 on the occasions of the 43rd anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the 7th anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    Gyula Thurmer, chairman of the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party, at a meeting said that Kim Jong Il's start of work at the WPK Central Committee was an event of historical significance in developing the WPK.
    Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Society for the Study of Self-Reliance of Pakistan, noted that the brilliant historic course of the WPK would have been unthinkable without Kim Jong Il, praising it as a powerful party as it has won only victory in the confrontation with any imperialists.
    The general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico made public a statement on June 15 on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of work at the WPK Central Committee.
    He stressed that his party wishes the WPK greater success in its work for strengthening people-centred socialism.


Meetings for Remembering Kim Il Sung Held

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Meetings for remembering President Kim Il Sung were held by the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and DPRK and the Laos-Korea Tin Company on June 18 and 19 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of his demise.
    On display in the venues of the meetings were photos showing the glorious revolutionary history and immortal feats of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
    Speakers at the meetings highly praised the President as an invincible and iron-willed commander previously unknown in history and the great leader of the Korean people and the world revolutionary people, expressing the belief that the Korean people would surely build a great prosperous powerful nation in the near future, true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.


Performances Given by Art Groups of Families of KPA Servicemen Prove Successful

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The era of Songun witnessed the emergence of the performing art of families of servicemen of the Korean People's Army.
    The participants in the ten contests among the art groups of families of servicemen of the KPA gave more than 560 performances, drawing audiences of over million servicepersons and civilians.
    Supreme Commander of the KPA Kim Jong Il, while giving field guidance to a unit of the KPA in the western sector of the front in January, Juche 87 (1998), told commanding officers that it was necessary for the KPA to organize a contest among art groups of families of its servicemen from that time on and gave meaningful instructions on its purpose and significance.
    In the subsequent period, too, he underscored several times the need to make it a tradition to organize the above-said contest on the occasion of the Day of the Sun every year and indicated the orientation and ways of solving all the issues arising in doing so ranging from the issue of giving fresh content and style to the contest, its organization and scale, the standard for the jury to costumes of the performers.
    He spared time to appreciate and guide at least 420 art pieces included in the repertoires of more than 30 performances from the presentation made by those participants in the first contest held in April, Juche 87 (1998) to the performance given by the participants in the tenth contest, placing their performing art on a new phase.
    The performing art of servicemen's families, an example of popular culture and art, is perfect in its ideological value and artistry and militant in its presentation.
    The performances given by the art groups of servicemen's families powerfully encouraged all the servicepersons and people to perform shining feats in defending the country and building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, cherishing the Songun revolutionary idea and the revolutionary soldier spirit deep in their minds.


Bombs, Shells and Bullets Used by U.S. Discovered in Kaesong

   Kaesong, June 29 (KCNA) --More bombs, shells and bullets have been discovered in Kaesong to bear witness to the atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressors.
    After igniting the Korean war on June 25, 1950 they massively dropped bombs including germ bombs and fired shells and bullets, severely destroying Kaesong City, an ancient cultural hub, and killing innocent people in cold blood.
    In recent several months alone the city discovered a 250kg-dud bomb and more than 150 bombs, shells and bullets of various kinds and 17 hand-grenades used by the U.S. imperialist aggressors during the Korean war.
    Two dud bombs were unearthed in Ryohyon-ri and over 100 shells including gun and howitzer shells were discovered in Sonjok-ri, Ryongsan-ri and other areas.
    25 machine gun bullets were found on Ojongmun Pass, five hand-grenades in Taeryon-ri and at least 20 shells and bullets in the vicinity of Pongdong Railway Station which had been leveled to the ground by destruction.
    Shortly ago 8 carbine bullets were found at the children's hospital in the city while a work was done to spruce up its surrounding.


Japan Urged to Make Official Apology for Sexual Slavery

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Over 20 women's organizations of south Korea including the Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps, the Women's Society for Achieving Peace and the South Korean Federation of Women's Organizations reportedly called a press conference in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on June 27 demanding the Japanese government's official apology for Japan's crimes related to sexual slavery in the past.
    Speeches were made at the press conference and a statement was issued.
    The statement referred to the fact that a resolution seeking an official apology from the Japanese government for the sexual exploitation of Asian women was passed through the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 26.
    The atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists against Korean women in the past are an inhuman crime which should not to be repeated, the statement said, stressing this issue should be settled as early as possible to reinstate the survivors of the crime who have lived in misery due to physical and psychological pain.
    The statement stressed that the Japanese government should make an official apology for the sexual slavery and let its rising generation properly know about Japan's past crimes and make efforts to prevent the reoccurrence of such inhuman acts as called for by the resolution.


Dissolution of "UN Forces Command" Urged

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean National Peace Committee released a statement on June 29 as regards the lapse of 50 years since the United States introduced the "UN Forces Command" into south Korea.
    This command is an illegal military mechanism for aggression which was set up in July 1950 just after the U.S. provoked the Korean War. The U.S. cooked up this mechanism by abusing the name of the United Nations to veil its true colors as an aggressor and massively ship into the Korean front its armed forces together with troops of its satellite countries. After its defeat in the war, the U.S. transferred the command from Tokyo of Japan to south Korea on July 1, 1957, while being hell-bent on the moves to ignite another war against the DPRK.
    Recalling the facts, the statement said:
    Since the transfer of the command into south Korea, the U.S. has kept its forces' presence in south Korea under the signboard of the "UN forces", more desperately engaging itself on the moves for domination, interference and war.
    Though a resolution calling for its disbandment was adopted at the 30th Session of the UN General Assembly in 1975, the U.S. has kept it up until now. It is nowadays working hard to reorganize the command into a "multi-national coalition body" while talking about the transfer of the "right to command wartime operations" in a bid to calm down the daily growing public demand for the withdrawal of its forces and expand its moves for a war of aggression worldwide.
    This is an open challenge to the entire Korean nation and public opinion at home and abroad aspiring after the peace on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. can never be allowed to continue its moves for permanent occupation of south Korea and against the DPRK under the helmet of the "UN forces".
    The "UN forces" in south Korea are aggression forces commanded by the U.S. from A to Z.
    The "UN Forces Command", a leftover of the last Korean War, should be dissolved at once and the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea.
    The U.S. should immediately disband the "UN Forces Command" and withdraw its aggression forces from south Korea as unanimously demanded by all the Koreans and the international community.
    The people from all walks of life in south Korea should resolutely reject the U.S. military occupation and moves for war of aggression on the DPRK and more bravely turn out in the struggle to get the U.S. imperialist aggression forces withdrawn from south Korea.


Greetings to Sudanese President

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, President of Sudan, on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the Sudanese revolution.
    Kim noted in the message that after the revolution the Sudanese people have achieved many successes in their efforts to defend the national sovereignty and territorial integrity and build a stable and prosperous new society under the leadership of the Sudanese president.
    Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger, Kim wished the Sudanese president greater success in his responsible work.


Aerial Espionage against DPRK Escalated in First Half of Year

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean forces committed more than 170 cases of aerial espionage against the DPRK in June, bringing the total number of cases of aerial espionage to more than 1,100 in the first half of the year, according to military sources.
    On June 27, the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces let their overseas-based RC-135 fly in the air above the areas along the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) for a long time in a bid to spy on all areas of the DPRK.
    They let two south Korea-based U-2s make simultaneous shuttle flights in the sky above the East and West Seas of Korea along the extension of the MDL day and night to perpetrate aerial observation, photographing and electronic espionage against all areas in the depth of the DPRK on June 11 and 19 each. The number of cases of aerial espionage by this type of reconnaissance plane reached at least 150 in the first half of the year alone.
    The U.S. imperialists mobilized RC-7B, RC-12, EP-3, E-3 and reconnaissance planes with various other missions and commanding planes, 4-5 on a daily average, on the 5th, 14th, 19th and 25th of June for madcap aerial espionage against the DPRK. More than 500 cases of aerial espionage were committed by RC-12 and RC-7B up to date from the beginning of the year.
    The warmongers of the south Korean forces let 2 or 3 RC-800s and RF-4Cs fly in the sky above the areas along the MDL to spy on the frontline and central areas of the DPRK everyday in June in a coordinated operation with the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces.
    Their RC-800 perpetrated a total of at least 360 cases of aerial espionage while their RF-4C committed more than 80 in the last six months.


DPRK Ambassador to Cuba Appointed

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kwon Sung Chol was appointed as DPRK ambassador to Cuba, according to a decree of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.


Congratulations to UK Prime Minister

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Il, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Gordon Brown upon his assumption of office as UK Prime Minister.
    He in the message wished the UK prime minister success in his responsible work.


Japanese Authorities' Suppression of Chongryon under Fire in S. Korea

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The Press Headquarters of the South Side's Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration reportedly made public a statement titled "Japanese government should immediately lift sanctions and halt suppression of Koreans in Japan" on June 25.
    The statement accused the Tokyo Distric Court and the Resolution and Collection Corporation in Japan of hatching a sinister plot to dispose of the Hall of the Central Headquarters of the General Association of the Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
    The statement said that this is an act of hamstringing the efforts of the international community to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula as it means intensifying the human rights abuses and suppression of the Koreans in Japan.
    What is more intolerable is that the Japanese prime minister himself let loose reckless remarks groundlessly incriminating Chongryon and is using the issue of collecting bonds for noisy anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon propaganda, it noted.
    It demanded the Japanese government stop at once the anti-Chongryon campaign and let the ultra-right forces discontinue their unreasonable acts of violence against Koreans in Japan.


Stop to Abe Regime's Anti-DPRK, Anti-Chongryon Campaign Demanded

   Tokyo, June 28 (KNS-KCNA) -- The Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) released a statement Thursday condemning the Resolution and Collection Corporation of Japan for taking a repressive measure against Chongryon at the instruction of the Abe regime.
    Recalling that the corporation issued an application for the forced sale of the Hall of the Central Headquarters of Chongryon, the statement declared that the action was aimed at usurping the hall quite contrary to its original mission of bond collection.
    The statement went on:
    Since the appearance of the Abe regime Japan's hostile policy towards the DPRK and Chongryon has become evermore pronounced. It is against this backdrop that such business issue as collection of bonds has become a political issue and the above-said corporation took a repressive action in total disregard of law, common sense and practice.
    Clear is the reason behind this action.
    Chongryon has played the role of a DPRK diplomatic mission abroad under the present situation where there are no diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan.
    Nevertheless, the Abe regime has been engrossed in a noisy anti-Chongryon campaign, deliberately misrepresenting its legitimate activities.
    The moves of the Abe regime against the DPRK and Chongryon are nothing but extremely anachronistic and foolish acts quite contrary to the world trend.
    We demand the Abe regime lift at once the sanctions including the embargo on the ship "Mangyongbong-92" that have done great harm to the living of the Koreans in Japan and guarantee the Koreans in Japan their right to existence and other rights.
    We, at the same time, strongly demand that the Resolution and Collection Corporation respond to the sincere negotiations for reconciliation with Chongryon and retract at once its application for unreasonable forced sale of the Hall of the Central Headquarters of Chongryon, proceeding from its fair stand free from any discrimination.
    It is our hope that the Tokyo District Court will dismiss at once the application for forced sale made by the above-said corporation.
    The unreasonable action taken by the Abe regime and the corporation will leave an indelible blot on the history of the relations between the DPRK and Japan as it is a serious breach of the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.


DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts Anti-Chongryon Campaign in Japan

   Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Sunday issued a statement denouncing the Abe group's evermore undisguised suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
    The statement said:
    These days the Abe group's anti-Chongryon campaign has reached such a reckless and hideous phase that it can never be tolerated.
    Abe inherited ultra-nationalism and national chauvinism from his ancestors who had been steeped in the antipathy towards Koreans to the marrow of their bones. He has escalated the anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon racket since he assumed the premiership by inciting bitterness towards the DPRK.
    The Abe group has taken harsh actions against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan such as forcible search of its facilities and their houses, assaults and arrests of them last year and this year. Not content with this, it is working hard to force upon Chongryon the sale of the plottage and building of the Hall of its headquarters through the Resolution and Collection Corporation.
    The Abe group instructed the corporation to raise an extremely discriminative and unfair demand to Chongryon, persistently turning down its sincere and reasonable proposals to redeem debts. It has thus unilaterally hamstrung Chongryon's efforts for the solution of the problem.
    This is nothing but a wanton infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK which no previous regime of Japan dared as it is a move to physically remove the centre of activities of Chongryon, a champion of democratic national rights of Koreans in Japan, and stamp out the activities of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan.
    Chongryon is a legitimate overseas compatriots organization of the DPRK whose mission is to protect the democratic national rights of the direct victims of the criminal drafting of Koreans by the Japanese imperialists in the past and the Koreans in Japan, their descendants.
    The present Japanese authorities are under an unavoidable legal and moral obligation to protect Chongryon and guarantee its activities in the light of the historical background against which Chongryon came into being and the crimes committed by the Abes against the Korean nation for several generations.
    Nevertheless, the Abe group is keen to usurp even the building and plottage of Chongryon, not content with its crackdown on it. This is a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK little short of financial sanctions.
    No matter how noisily the Japanese authorities trumpet that their action to usurp buildings of Chongryon is a "business matter related to the collection of bonds," the terror-ridden campaign sweeping Japan is a product of Abe's premeditated plot and his direct instruction to realize his political ambition to all intents and purposes.
    Abe is now feeling uneasy about the steady decline of the support rate for him with the election to the House of Councillors slated to take place late in July. Finding his far-fetched assertion about the "issue of abduction" no longer workable, he has gone insane in his move to usurp the building of Chongryon in a bid to put the DPRK-Japan relations to the lowest ebb and lay a hurdle in the way of the six-party talks.
    The aim sought by Japan in chilling the efforts to bring about progress at the six-party talks designed to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula is to drag on the settlement of the problem in a bid to use it as a pretext till its militarization has become a reality.
    It is quite ridiculous for the Abe group to harshly suppress Chongryon which has done nothing wrong as soon as its delegates went back to Japan from the talks where they kept mum.
    As Japan is behaving so dastardly with a black-hearted intention, the DPRK cannot but raise a serious question as to whether there is any need for its continued participation in the six-party talks.
    The DPRK will never remain a passive on-looker to the Abe group's harsh suppression of Chongryon and its relevant field will take necessary steps against it.


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CNDPC demanda disolucion de la "comandancia de fuerzas de ONU"

   Pyongyang, 30 de junio (ATCC) -- El portavoz del Comite Nacional de Defensa de la Paz de Corea (CNDPC) emitio la vispera una declaracion en relacion con que Estados Unidos introdujo hace 50 anos en el Sur de Corea la "comandancia de las fuerzas de la ONU".
    Inmediatamente despues del estallido de la guerra coreana, especificamente en julio de 1950, EE.UU. fabrico ese ilegal aparato militar agresivo abusando del nombre de la ONU a fin de encubrir su naturaleza de agresor y movilizar en el frente coreano a un gran numero de sus tropas y los uniformados de los paises satelites, recuerda la nota y prosigue:
    Una vez derrotado en esa guerra, como parte de sus maniobras para desatar una nueva guerra contra el Norte de Corea, traslado el primero de julio de 1957 al Sur de Corea la "comandancia de las fuerzas de la ONU" que estuvo enclavada en Tokio de Japon.
    Despues, las tropas norteamericanas se anidaron en suelo surcoreano disfrazadas de "Cascos Azules" y se enfrascaron mas en sus maniobras de dominacion, intervencion, agresion y guerra.
    Aunque en el XXX periodo de sesiones de la Asamblea General de la ONU, sesionado en 1975, se aprobo una resolucion sobre la disolucion de esa entidad, EE.UU. la mantiene hasta la fecha y trata de ampliarla como una "organizacion de alianza multinacional" mediante el "traspaso del mando operacional en tiempos de guerra".
    Esta jugada de EE.UU. tiene por su objetivo calmar la cada dia mas creciente opinion publica a favor de la retirada de sus uniformados y extender a todo el mundo sus maniobras belicistas.
    Esto deviene un desafio frontal a toda la nacion coreana y la opinion publica interna y externa que desea la paz de la Peninsula Coreana.
    Nunca sera perdonable el hecho de que EE.UU. recrudece usando el manto de las "fuerzas de la ONU" sus maniobras para ocupar de modo perenne el suelo surcoreano y hacer dano a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
    Las "fuerzas de la ONU" en el Sur de Corea son precisamente los efectivos agresores que se mueven segun la batuta del imperio.
    Por tal razon, segun la unanime demanda de toda la nacion coreana y la sociedad internacional, EE.UU. debe desarticular de inmediato esa institucion militar, que deviene un residuo de la pasada guerra coreana, y retirar a sus tropas ocupantes del suelo surcoreano de esta parte de la Peninsula Coreana.
    En tanto, los habitantes surcoreanos de diferentes estratos deben luchar con mas audacia por rechazar resueltamente tales maniobras de EE.UU. y expulsar del suelo surcoreano a las tropas agresoras de este imperio.


Esposas de oficiales del EPC ofrecieron mas de 560 funciones

   Pyongyang, 30 de junio (ATCC) -- En la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar) aparecio por primera vez el concurso de grupos artisticos de esposas de oficiales del Ejercito Popular de Corea.
     En el marco del certamen las concursantes ofrecieron hasta la fecha mas de 560 funciones desde la primera hasta la decima edicion del concurso y las presenciaron mas de un millon de militares y habitantes.
     Al realizar en enero del 87 (1998) de la Era Juche una visita de orientacion a una unidad del EPC situada en la parte occidental del frente, el Comandante Supremo Kim Jong Il hablo a los comandantes de la necesidad de organizar el concurso de grupos artisticos de esposas de oficiales del EPC e indico su proposito y significado.
     Y en varias oportunidades hablo de organizarlo tradicionalmente cada ano con motivo del Dia del Sol (el 15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung) y dio aclaracion a la orientacion y medios para la solucion de todos los problemas desde el nuevo contenido y forma del concurso, su dimension, la norma de evaluacion hasta los vestidos.
     En abril del 87 (1998) de la Era Juche, el Dirigente presencio la funcion de las concursantes en la primera edicion del concurso de los grupos artisticos de esposas de oficiales del EPC.
     Desde la primera hasta la decima edicion vio en mas de 30 ocasiones mas de 420 piezas para elevar a una nueva altura el arte de las esposas de militares.
     La funcion artistica de las esposas de oficiales, que sirve de modelo de la cultura y arte masivos, es perfecta en el nivel ideo-artistico y es combativa en sus actividades.
     Sus funciones estimularon a todos los militares y habitantes a guardar en lo profundo del corazon la idea de la revolucion del Songun y el espiritu revolucionario de los militares y realizar nuevas hazanas en la defensa de la patria y en la construccion de una gran potencia prospera socialista.


Chongryon demanda cese de nueva campana del gobierno de Abe

   Tokio, 28 de junio (SNC-ATCC) -- En relacion con que a las ordenes del gobierno de Abe, la organizacion de ordenamiento y recaudacion de Japon adopto una medida coercitiva contra la Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos Residentes en Japon), el Presidium del Comite Central de esta entidad publico el dia 28 una declaracion.
    Al ir mas alla de su mision de recaudar los bonos de credito, esa entidad japonesa presento la peticion de subasta sobre la Casa Central de la Chongryon con el proposito de apoderarse de este edificio, senala la nota y prosigue:
    Al paralelo del recrudecimiento, despues de la aparicion del ejecutivo de Abe, de la politica hostil a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y a la Chongryon, queda politizado ese asunto economico de recoger los bonos de credito y ese aparato se mantiene en esa postura violenta despreciando totalmente la ley, el sentido comun y las costumbres.
    Dado que no existen las relaciones diplomaticas entre la RPDC y Japon, la Chongryon funciona como una representacion de la primera en el extranjero.
    Sin embargo, el poder de Abe lanza una intensa campana contra la Chongryon tergiversando intencionadamente sus actividades legitimas.
    Tales maniobras de Japon contra la RPDC y esa organizacion de los coreanos radicados en el pais isleno resultan necias y desafiantes a la corriente internacional.
    Los miembros de la Chongryon demandan al gobierno de Abe que revoque de inmediato las medidas de sancion, inclusive la prohibicion de la entrada de "Mangyongbong-92", que perjudican seriamente la vida de los coreanos radicados en Japon, y que asegure los derechos humanos y el derecho a la vida de ellos.
    Igualmente, exigen fuertemente a la organizacion de ordenamiento y recaudacion de Japon que recobre su posicion imparcial y no discriminatoria, acceda a las sinceras negociaciones conciliadoras con la Chongryon y se retracte ahora mismo de su injusta peticion de subasta sobre la Casa Central de esta entidad.
    Desean ademas que el Tribunal Local de Tokio desestime inmediatamente esa solicitud.
    La conducta tan injusta del gobierno de Abe y la organizacion de ordenamiento y recaudacion de Japon en cuanto a la Chongryon contraviene seriamente al fundamento de la Declaracion Corea-Japon de Pyongyang y tendra graves consecuencias en la historia de las relaciones entre ambos paises.


Hallados pertrechos letales usados por imperialistas norteamericanos

   Kaesong, 29 de junio (ATCC) -- Se hallan incesantemente las bombas y otros proyectiles que usaron los agresores estadounidenses durante la pasada guerra coreana (1950-1953).
    Despues de desatar esta contienda belica el 25 de junio de 1950, los invasores yanquis destruyeron salvajemente la ciudad de Kaesong de larga historia y cultura y asesinaron sin piedad a los inocentes ciudadanos lanzando incontables bombas, inclusive las bacteriologicas, y otros pertrechos letales.
    En los ultimos meses, fueron descubiertos en esta urbe una bomba de 250 kg sin estallar y otras de distintos tipos, mas de 150 proyectiles y 17 granadas de mano.
    En la comuna de Ryohyon se desenterraron 2 bombas sin estallar mientras en las de Sonjok y Ryongsan y otras zonas se hallaron mas de un centenar de obuses de la artilleria como canones de campana y morteros.
     Por otra parte, en la loma Ojongmun fueron aparecidas 25 balas de ametralladora; en la comuna de Taeryon, 5 granadas de mano; en las inmediaciones de la estacion ferroviaria de Pongdong -desaparecida por el bombardeo-, mas de 20 balas y obuses de distintos tipos.
    Ademas, fueron encontradas recientemente 8 balas de carabina durante el ordenamiento del recinto del Hospital Pediatrico de esa ciudad.