Great King of Cambodia Sends Big Floral Basket to DPRK Embassy
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Norodom Sihanouk, Great King of Cambodia, sent a big floral basket to the DPRK embassy in Phnom Penh on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.
Written on the ribbon of the floral basket were letters "Highest tribute to HE Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, president of the DPRK. Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia".
A delegation of the Ministry of the Royal Palace of the Cambodian government led by Kong Sam Ol, deputy prime minister in charge of the Royal Palace, on July 6 visited the DPRK embassy and laid the floral basket before the portrait of Kim Il Sung and paid homage, authorized by the great king.
Big Floral Basket Sent to DPRK Embassy in Phnom Penh
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, sent a big floral basket to the DPRK embassy in Phnom Penh on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.
Written on the ribbon of the floral basket were letters "Highest tribute to HE Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, president of the DPRK. Norodom Sihamoni, king of Cambodia".
A delegation of the Ministry of the Royal Palace of the Cambodian government led by Kong Sam Ol, deputy prime minister in charge of the Royal Palace, on July 6 visited the DPRK embassy and laid the floral basket before the portrait of Kim Il Sung and paid homage, authorized by the king.
Reception Given to Mark Anniversary of DPRK-China Treaty
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Central Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association hosted a reception at Yanggakdo International Hotel on July 9 on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the conclusion of the DPRK-China treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance.
Present on invitation there were Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the Chinese embassy here and Chinese guests.
Also present there were Choe Chang Sik, minister of Public Health who is chairman of the Central Committee of the association, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and others and officials concerned.
Choe Chang Sik in a speech made at the reception referred to the fact that since the signing of the treaty the DPRK and China have stepped up socialist construction and contributed to ensuring peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world by supporting and cooperating with each other despite the complicated international situation.
He expressed the will to exert positive efforts to steadily consolidate and develop the DPRK-China friendship, a treasure common to the two peoples, together with the Chinese comrades, in the future, too.
He wished the Chinese people greater success in their struggle for building a harmonious socialist society based on the scientific view on development and reunifying the whole country.
Liu Xiaoming said that it is a consistent policy of the Communist Party and the government of China to steadily develop the Sino-DPRK friendly and cooperative ties, adding that the bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation have developed on good terms in recent years thanks to the concern of General Secretary Hu Jintao and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the concerted efforts of both sides.
Noting that the DPRK has made successes in developing economy, improving people's living standard and the inter-Korean ties and foreign relations and in several other fields this year, he hoped that the Korean people would register greater success in socialist construction under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by Kim Jong Il.
Wreaths Laid before Statues and Grave of Kim Hyong Jik
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the statue of Kim Hyong Jik, indomitable revolutionary fighter and outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea, standing in Ponghwa-ri, Kangdong County and his grave in Mangyongdae on July 10 on the occasion of his 113th birth anniversary.
Seen before the statue and grave were wreaths sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The wreath-laying ceremonies were attended by Choe Thae Bok, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Yong Rim, leading officials of organs of party, armed forces and power, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, working people and school youth and children in the city.
Placed there were wreaths in the name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, the DPRK Cabinet, ministries, national institutions, military academies, educational, public health and media institutions and party and power organs, enterprises, farms and schools in Pyongyang and bouquets.
The participants paid silent tribute to him.
Wreaths and bouquets were also placed before his statues standing in Kim Hyong Jik Military Medical University and Sakju and Junggang Counties.
Ji Ki Son Dies
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Col. General of the Korean People's Army Ji Ki Son, deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, died of incurable disease at the age of 76 on July 7 while being under treatment.
According to Rodong Sinmun Tuesday, his obituary was released by the DPRK National Defence Commission and the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces on July 7.
According to it, he was born into a worker's family in the period of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule. After liberation he became a commanding officer of the KPA and devotedly struggled to defend the country and develop the revolutionary armed forces.
While working at an important post of Kim Il Sung Military University for years, he made a positive contribution to training many military commanding officers and developing military science and theories.
He received Kim Il Sung Order, the highest order of the DPRK, and a lot of other state citations and the academic degree and title of academician, professor and doctor.
Floral Basket Laid before Portrait of Smiling Kim Il Sung
Havana, July 8 (KCNA Correspondent) -- A ceremony of laying a floral basket before the portrait of smiling President Kim Il Sung took place at the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America on July 5 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of his demise.
Present there were the secretary-general and members of the organization and staff members of the DPRK embassy in Havana.
The participants laid the floral basket before the portrait and paid tribute to him.
The secretary-general of the organization paid respectful homage to Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people, on the occasion and wished the Korean people greater success in socialist construction under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Meetings to Remember Kim Il Sung Held in Different Countries
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Meetings to remember President Kim Il Sung were held by the Workers' Party of Mexico, the Ukrainian "Treasured Sword of Songun" Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and the "Kim Il Sung Library" in Bulgaria on July 3 and 4 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of his demise.
Present at the meetings were figures and members of political parties and organizations of the countries concerned.
Speeches were made there.
Alberto Anaya Gutierrez, coordinator of the National Coordinating Committee of the Mexican party, said that Kim Il Sung is deeply revered by progressive humankind for the immortal exploits performed for the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence.
He also praised Kim Jong Il for having successfully carried forward the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the President under the uplifted banner of Songun.
Nikolai Polishk, chairman of the Ukrainian "Treasured Sword of Songun" Association for the Study of the Juche Idea, highly lauded the historic feats performed by the President for the cause of global independence.
Meanwhile, G. Debarajan, secretary of the Central Committee of the All-India Forward Bloc, released a statement on July 4 on the same occasion.
Kim Il Sung fathered the immortal Juche idea, the great guiding idea in the era of independence, thus providing the Korean people and other progressive people of the world with an eternal beacon of hope, the statement said.
Thanks to Kim Jong Il, the revolutionary life and undying feats of Kim Il Sung would shine long with the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche, it stressed.
Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from S. Korea Demanded
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Organizations of different countries released statements demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea.
The Swiss Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea in its statement on July 3 on the occasion of the month of international solidarity with the Korean people said that a movement to support the struggle of the Korean people for achieving national reunification and demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea took place worldwide every year on the occasion of the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
The U.S. imperialists' presence in south Korea is a main factor of the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula, the statement noted, and continued:
The Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il warns that if the U.S. provokes the second Korean war, it will meet only a miserable end.
The Korean people will surely reunify their country in the idea of "By our nation itself", the core of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The statement demanded the U.S. pull its forces out of south Korea and immediately stop its moves against the DPRK and the Korean people.
The All-India Indo-Korean Friendship Association and the Indian Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification in a joint statement released on July 4 on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of publication of the July 4 joint statement demanded the pullback of the U.S. troops, the main obstacle in the way of reunifying Korea, from south Korea.
New Documentary Film Produced
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The Korean Documentary and Scientific Film Studio recently produced a documentary film "May Samsu Power Station Convey Its Story Long."
The film deals with the historical facts about how the Samsu Power Station has been built as a structure to be proud of in the Songun era.
It contains touching scenes showing Kim Jong Il visiting the construction site despite blizzards in a severe winter day to indicate the orientation and ways to undertake the project and showing profound loving care for the members of the shock brigade.
The film also shows the builders dynamically pushing forward the project displaying heroism despite severe cold under the difficult situation where they were hard pressed for everything, the scientists and technicians showcasing fervent enthusiasm in their efforts to complete the design of the dam of Korean style and solve the scientific and technological problems arising in the construction and officials of many units and working people from across the country rendering material and moral assistance to the builders out of their patriotic zeal.
The film truthfully represents the noble ideological and moral quality and creative ingenuity of the members of the WPK and other working people of the DPRK in the Songun era ready to carry out anything planned and intended by Kim Jong Il without fail.
Pullback of U.S. Forces from S. Korea Demanded
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Jang Kyong Uk, chairman of the committee for the study of the issues of the U.S. forces of the Bar Association for a Democratic Society, demanded the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea at a seminar held in Seoul on July 4, according to a news report.
He said that a peace mechanism will be established on the Korean Peninsula when the U.S. forces in south Korea are withdrawn, the armistice agreement is replaced by a peace agreement and military confidence built between the north and the south of Korea.
The withdrawal of the U.S. forces is the core of the agenda of the political negotiations for establishing a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula and a task which should be implemented without fail in view of history and reality and from a legal point of view, he stressed.
The move to revamp the south Korea-U.S. "alliance" is a hurdle in the way of establishing a peace mechanism on the peninsula as it is an artifice to sidestep the issue of the withdrawal of the U.S. forces, he added, demanding a stop to the move.
Candlelight Meeting Held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The All-People Movement Headquarters for Checking the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement" reportedly held a candlelight meeting in Seoul on July 5 demanding the immediate release of its co-representatives.
Speakers at the meeting said that the security authorities' illegal arrest of co-representatives of the headquarters meant suppression of all progressive movement organizations in the struggle against the FTA conclusion.
Referring to the actions of organizations of people from all walks of life against the conclusion of the FTA now under way throughout south Korea, they vowed to intensify those actions.
They declared they would continue staging candlelight meetings till the co-representatives are released.
U.S. Imperialists Accused of Abusing Name of UN to Carry out Korean War
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists abused the name of the UN for perpetrating the last Korean war. This was a political fraud unprecedented in history, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed article.
It goes on:
The U.S. imperialists massively hurled their forces and troops of their satellite countries into the Korean war. To justify this they carefully worked out a scenario beforehand to bring the Korean issue to the UN.
Their Korean war of aggression did not go well from its outset according to their wishes.
As the situation turned out to be unfavorable to them, they intended to straighten out it in the name of the UN. The U.S. forced the UN to call a meeting of the UNSC at 3 p.m. on June 27, 1950 at which an illegal resolution on providing "aid" to south Korea was adopted and an aggressive resolution on allowing U.S.-led armed intervention of its satellite nations against the DPRK was also adopted.
In order to hurl more troops of their satellite nations into the war and escalate the armed invasion the U.S. imperialists instigated the UNSC to create U.S. forces-led "UN Forces" on July 7, 1950 and adopt a resolution on mobilizing them to the war.
By nature, the "UN resolution" approving military intervention in the DPRK was illegal as it was adopted without the participation of the former Soviet Union, a permanent member of the UNSC.
On July 8 Truman unilaterally appointed MacArthur, commander of the U.S. Forces in the Far East, as concurrent commander of the "UN Forces." On July 25 the U.S. imperialists set up the "UN Command" and allowed the U.S. forces and troops of their 15 satellite countries to go under helmets of "UN Forces" during the Korean war.
They perpetrated indiscriminate destructions and mass killings, wantonly violating the UN Charter and international law and bringing unspeakable disasters and misfortune to the Korean people.
The U.S. imperialists will always stand condemned by history for committing such unprecedented hideous crimes as perpetrating the Korean war with the mobilization of their huge forces and troops of their satellite nations under the name of the UN and thereby wrecking peace on the Korean Peninsula and bringing the war holocaust to the Korean nation.
U.S. Chiefly to Blame for Danger of New Cold War and Nuclear War
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. can never conceal its true colors as a chief criminal keen to spark off a new Cold War and a nuclear war, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary Tuesday.
Recently the U.S. has become all the more frantic in its moves to mass-produce new type nuclear weapons while pushing forward the establishment of the Missile Defense System (MD) in the Korean Peninsula and the Pacific region under the pretext of "threat" from someone, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The U.S. stepped-up moves to establish the MD and modernize military hardware including nuclear weapons only compel other countries to take corresponding steps. This will naturally result in escalating the arms race and increasing the danger of a nuclear war.
The Korean Peninsula is fraught with the greatest danger of a nuclear war in the world today. It is the strategic design of the U.S. bellicose forces to realize their ambition for world supremacy by igniting a nuclear war against the DPRK and escalating it into other countries. The situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula at present due to the U.S. is so tense that a nuclear war may break out any moment.
There exists on the earth only the threat of the U.S. military aggression, not "threat" from someone else.
The U.S. would be well advised to think over that it will have to pay a dear price for its reckless moves.
Old Medical Book on Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The Academy of Koryo Medical Science of the DPRK has deepened scientific research on the basis of the classical medical books of the nation.
Among them is the "Collection of Experience on Acupuncture and Moxibustion," the first of its kind in the country.
Vice-president Hyon Chol told KCNA that the book, which shows the then developed acupuncture and moxibustion, is of great significance.
The book elaborates symptoms of various diseases, relation between the five viscera and six entrails and Kyongrak, 138 spots for acupuncture which are frequently used in treatment and their functions, how to apply acupuncture and moxibustion, how to choose the spots for acupuncture and others in clinical treatment.
It also gives the causes and symptoms of the diseases in the head, breast, legs and other parts of the body and in the internal organs.
The book was written by Ho Im, medical scholar famous at home and abroad, in 1644 on the basis of his experience gained in a long medical service.
Rodong Sinmun on Victorious Songun Politics
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea is powerful one as it surely guarantees the victorious advance of the revolution despite any storm and stress in history and invincible one as it ensures steady victory not only in the confrontation with imperialism but in socialist construction.
Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
The WPK's Songun politics has displayed its might as victorious one representing the revolutionary faith, will and grit as it is based on the great guiding idea, invincible single-minded unity and matchless military power, the article notes, and goes on:
The Juche idea, Songun idea of the WPK is the great revolutionary idea most correctly reflecting the requirements of the times and the wishes of the popular masses and indicating the way of meeting them. The single-minded unity of the DPRK is invincible unity based on one centre, monolithic idea and revolutionary comradeship and sense of obligation. The Korean People's Army has demonstrated its dignity as an ever-victorious revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu fully prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique, an army that no revolutionary army of other countries can ever match, and firmly guaranteed the cause of socialism in the DPRK and its cause of building a rich and powerful country with arms. Thanks to the great guiding idea, invincible revolutionary forces and its politico-military might the DPRK has emerged victorious in the acute confrontation with the U.S., defended socialism and brought a turning phase to the building of a great prosperous powerful nation despite all sorts of difficulties and hardships in the way of the revolution.
The greater a country becomes in its politics, the more prosperous it gets and the better its people's mind-set will be.
Politics based on faith and grit keeps the country and nation alive in the world where highhanded and arbitrary practices of the U.S. imperialists and other imperialist reactionaries are rampant. It is the firm faith and will of the army and people of the DPRK to remain true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il to the end of the world despite rain and snow.
Repeal of NSL Demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reportedly issued a statement on July 5 in demand of the repeal of the "National Security Law"(NSL).
The statement recalled that the Committee for Settlement of Past History to Prove Truth and Achieve Reconciliation on July 3 made a decision to recommend the "government" to apologize and reexamine a "spy case" faked up by the military fascist dictatorial regime.
The "government's" sincere apology and compensation can be made only when it totally repeals the NSL, the statement said.
The fascist dictatorial regime used the NSL for fabricating all "cases" whenever its power was in a crisis, the statement said, denouncing the anti-reunification forces for having resorted to the whole gamut of machinations to maintain this evil law after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
The statement stressed that the recent "case of the Single-Minded Association", the case of arresting mediaman Ri Si U, etc. teach a lesson that the NSL, the evil law of the times, must certainly be repealed and this is the way of achieving genuine democracy on this land.
Japan Urged to Repatriate All Abductees of DPRK
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Japan is making much fuss in a bid to paint itself as a "victim of abduction" and the DPRK as an abductor.
Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
It goes on:
In doing so, the Japanese reactionaries seek to tarnish the image of the DPRK in the international arena and secure a pretext for justifying their hostile policy toward it.
The reality goes to prove that by origin Japan is the world's worst abductor.
In June, To Chu Ji, a citizen of the DPRK, who had been abducted by the Japanese reactionaries, returned to the socialist homeland.
In 2002, An Phil Hwa, another citizen of the DPRK, was lured and abducted by them to Japan.
These facts clearly prove two things. First, citizens of the DPRK were abducted by them in an organized manner. Second, it was not one or two citizens of the DPRK who were abducted by them to Japan.
By origin Japan is ill-famed for abduction. In the first half of the last century, Japan committed such hideous crimes as drafting at least 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans to battle sites and sites of slave labor and forcing more than 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army.
It is proven by history that every monstrous crime was not committed according to an individual intention but perpetrated as an organized state-sponsored crime.
Now that cases of Japan's abduction of citizens of the DPRK have been clearly disclosed recently, the Korean people will never pardon the Japanese reactionaries' hostile acts against the DPRK, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries should repatriate to the DPRK all its citizens abducted by them. They should, at the same time, give the DPRK assurances that they would punish the criminals and take steps against the recurrence of similar crimes and roll back at once all reckless hostile policies toward the DPRK including abduction.
All Koreans Urged to Come out to Honor Kim Il Sung's Instruction on National Reunification
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Every member of the Korean nation living in the June 15 era of reunification should turn out in the sacred patriotic struggle to accomplish the cause of independent reunification, bearing in mind the instruction given by President Kim Il Sung for reunification as the motto in his life and struggle and immortal guidelines for the patriotic movement for reunification.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The President had consistently adhered to the line of one Korea, the line of reunification despite whatever difficulties and adversity since the very day the nation was split by foreign forces.
The line of the country's reunification laid down and consistently maintained by the President is a line of national independence to achieve the complete sovereignty and independence of the country and the nation from A to Z and a true patriotic line for achieving the prosperity and development of a reunified country and the prosperity of the whole nation.
The three principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo are the three charters for national reunification which he provided to the fellow countrymen by systematically and comprehensively dealing with the fundamental principles and ways to achieve the country's reunification on the basis of the great Juche idea and the precious experience gained in the course of the struggle to reunify the country. They clearly indicate the way for the Koreans to achieve the independent reunification.
The fundamental principles and ways for national reunification indicated by the President are the most correct great programme for national reunification common to the nation the validity and vitality of which have been clearly proven in reality.
The driving force for reunification and patriotism grew stronger and the movement for national reunification mounted nationwide against the backdrop of the growing desire of the nation for reunification even at a time when the foreign forces and pro-U.S., anti-reunification forces of south Korea became evermore undisguised in their moves to create "two Koreas" and pursue confrontation and war against reunification in the last century and the nation greeted the June 15 era of reunification and the whole land of Korea was swept by the hot wind for national cooperation and the dynamic trend of independent reunification with the advent of the new century. All this was possible thanks to the President who enabled the Koreans to enshrine the three charters for national reunification as the mainstay for achieving national reunification.
Whoever loves the country and is willing to contribute to the cause of reunification should remain true to the noble idea and will of the President for independent reunification and wholeheartedly uphold the instruction given by him for reunification irrespective of ideology and ideal.
Russian Dancing Troupe Arrives
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The State Academy Beryozka Dancing Troupe of Russia Named after N. S. Nadezhdina led by its head Mira Koltsova arrived here today.
DPRK Doctor's Degree Awarded to Mongolian Ambassador
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of awarding the DPRK Doctor's Degree of Social and Political Sciences to Janchivdorjyn Lomvo, Mongolian ambassador to the DPRK, was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Tuesday.
He comprehensively dealt with and systematized the 60-year-long history of friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Mongolia provided thanks to the energetic external activities of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the activities of the leaders of Mongolia of the elder generation, thus contributing to improving the bilateral relations.
Present there were Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet who is chairman of the DPRK State Commission for Conferring Degrees and Titles, officials concerned and staff members of the Mongolian embassy here.
Message of Condolences to Indian PM
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Kim Yong Il sent a message of condolences to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Upon hearing the news that former Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar died of a disease, Kim extended deep condolences to the Indian prime minister and through him to the bereaved family members.
30th Anniversary of Kumgang Insurance Company Marked
Tokyo, July 8 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting was held here on July 6 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Kumgang Insurance Company of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
So Man Sul, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, made a congratulatory address. He said: President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, learning that the insurance of the Koreans in Japan was restricted due to the discrimination against them by the Japanese authorities, saw to it that the Kumgang Insurance Company was founded to reliably insure their lives and properties.
He called on the employees of the company to turn out in the "movement to invite Koreans to come to the fold of Chongryon" to help them contract with the insurance company.
Kim Jung Hwan, director of the company, said in his report that now the company is considered as a dignified insurance agency even in Japan, urging the need to further develop the work of the company on to a higher stage.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted there.
Mass Meeting Held to Denounce Japanese Reactionaries' Suppression of Chongryon
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang mass meeting was held at the Central Workers' Hall on Tuesday to condemn the Japanese reactionaries for suppressing the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
Pak Kwan O, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, said in his speech that the Japanese reactionaries revealed their brutal nature through their shameless move to usurp facilities of Chongryon, not content with having harshly suppressed Chongryon, regarding it as a thorn in its flesh.
He went on to say:
The Japanese reactionaries' hostile acts against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan now rampant throughout this island country remind one of the days when the Japanese imperialists harshly oppressed and massacred Koreans in Korea and other countries before the liberation of Korea.
The action taken by the Abe group to force upon Chongryon the sale of the hall of its headquarters is the revelation of its sinister intention to stamp out the movement of Koreans in Japan, in particular. It is an unpardonable provocation to the DPRK and Chongryon, a dignified organization of overseas citizens of the DPRK, and a wanton infringement upon its sovereignty.
The heinous action taken by the Abe group to suppress Chongryon only reinforces the belief of the Korean people that the Japanese reactionaries are their sworn enemy and their will to force Japan to pay for all the crimes it has committed up to this date since the past.
On behalf of all Pyongyangites, Pak denounced the Japanese reactionaries' nasty attack, suppression and brigandish action against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan with bitter national indignation.
Representatives of the working class, agricultural workers and youth and students in their speeches accused the Japanese reactionaries of persisting in their brutal acts in the new century, too. They branded Japan as a land with the poorest human rights record and a shameless rough state without any law-abiding, democracy and humanism.
They urged the Japanese reactionaries to fulfill their state responsibility and obligation to guarantee the just activities of Chongryon and the stable living of the Koreans in Japan according to the spirit and basic principle of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, well aware of the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their reckless suppression of Chongryon.
KCNA Blasts Japan's Suppression of Chongryon
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released a detailed report titled "The Abe group will have to pay a dear price for its reckless suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on July 10 as regards Japan's moves to obliterate Chongryon, a dignified organization of overseas citizens of the DPRK.
Its gist says:
The KCNA brands the Japanese authorities' outrageous actions against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan as an extremely grave provocation little short of a declaration of a war against the DPRK.
The application made by the Resolution and Collection Corporation of Japan for a forced sale of the hall of the Headquarters of Chongryon was a product of premeditated and systematic plots of the Abe authorities to stamp out Chongryon and tide over their ruling crisis.
The above-said corporation bought bad bonds to the tune of 4004.1 billion yen by spending 353.3 billion yen from 1999 to 2005. This means that Japanese businesses and enterprises redeemed those bonds at such a low rate as 8.8 percent.
The corporation, however, pressurized Chongryon to redeem 100 percent the debts of the hall of the Headquarters of Chongryon to it and add an annual interest of 5 percent to the payment.
Abe at a press conference called on June 12 blustered that "it was becoming evident that Chongryon was involved in abduction and other crimes" and "it became a target of investigation under the law on the prevention of subversive activities".
These reckless remarks revealed the intention of the prime minister to build up public opinion for inciting enmity and national chauvinism towards Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan and spearhead the brutal political terrorism intended to stamp out Chongryon.
The Abe group has become evermore undisguised in its moves to usurp not only the hall of the Headquarters of Chongryon but its Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters, Osaka Prefectural Headquarters, Aichi Korean Middle and High School and other local headquarters of Chongryon and Korean schools.
The director of the Japan National Police Agency hurled policemen into such a wholesale repressive campaign as persecuting and arresting officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan and other actions though they are under the obligation to protect their rights and activities, raving that "the police is tasked to implement the step for pressurizing north Korea" and "it is the job of the National Police Agency to force north Korea to come out for negotiations with Japan".
Chongryon organizations and their officials and its related facilities have become the primary targets of this campaign.
The Japanese reactionaries' reckless terrorism intended to paralyze the function of Chongryon have reached a graver phase since the outset of this year.
They have worked hard to stifle Chongryon economically by lifting the measure to exempt the hall of the Headquarters of Chongryon and its facilities from taxes and, at the same time, openly infringed upon the business and vital rights of Koreans in commerce and other Koreans in Japan.
They have obstructed the performing activities of the Kumgangsan Opera Troupe of Chongryon in every way, taking issue with and slandering those activities and disallowing the use of the hall. They are suppressing the democratic national education of Koreans in Japan and their freedom to travel to their homeland.
"Yomiuri Shimbun" and its weekly magazine "Aera" and other reptile media of Japan are busy with the false propaganda aimed at hurling mud at officials of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan on the basis of false "testimonies".
As proven by the cases of women An Phil Hwa and To Chu Ji, the truth of which has been disclosed in recent years, Japan has persisted in its abduction of Koreans while loudly trumpeting about the "abduction issue", a leftover of the Cold War era.
It is preposterous for Japan to use the "abduction issue" as a pretext for suppressing Chongryon though it has remained the world's worst abductor since the days of its colonial rule over Korea.
The DPRK-Japan relations have reached the most dangerous explosive point since the end of the Second World War due to the reckless anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon moves of the Abe group.
It is the jungle logic for Japan to cry out for "sanctions" against the DPRK, doing harm to the Koreans in Japan, the victims of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule, and their descendents, though it has not yet redressed its crime-woven past.
This behavior of Japan is further straining the relations among states in the Asia-Pacific and posing great threat to peace and stability in the region.
It is nothing but the death-bed frenzy of those in despair for the Abe group to go mad with the moves against the DPRK and Chongryon, bereft of reason.
The DPRK will force the Abe group to pay a dear price for their moves to suppress and stamp out Chongryon.
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EE.UU. trae la guerra fria y la nuclear, denuncia Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, 10 de julio (ATCC) -- El diario Rodong Sinmun difundio este martes un comentario individual subrayando que Estados Unidos es el culpable que trae la nueva guerra fria y la nuclear.
Ultimamente, pretextando la "amenaza" de alguna parte, EE.UU. acelera, por una parte, el establecimiento del Sistema Antimisiles en la Peninsula Coreana y la region del Pacifico y por la otra, da mas calor a la produccion a granel de nuevos armamentos nucleares, revela el Rodong Sinmun y prosigue:
La escalada de tales maniobras, en particular, la modernizacion de los pertrechos militares, inclusive los artefactos nucleares, obliga a otros paises a tomar contramedidas necesarias.
Esto acrecentara la carrera armamentista y agrandara el peligro de la guerra nuclear.
Hoy en dia, la Peninsula Coreana corre el mayor riesgo de la guerra de ese tipo en este mundo.
Pues los belicistas norteamericanos abrigan un intento estrategico de satisfacer su ambicion de dominar el mundo al desencadenar primero una guerra nuclear en Corea y extenderla luego a otros paises.
Por culpa de EE.UU. en la Peninsula Coreana reina hoy una situacion tan grave que puede dar paso en cualquier momento a una guerra nuclear.
En este mundo no existe otra amenaza sino la de agresion militar por parte del imperio.
EE.UU. debera reflexionar seriamente de que sus imprudentes acciones le costaran muy caras.
Minju Joson califica a Japon de secuestrador de nacimiento
Pyongyang, 10 de julio (ATCC) -- En estos dias, Japon hace ingentes esfuerzos por hacerse la "victima del secuestro" y convertir a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea en el "culpable" del caso.
@De esta manera, quiere mellar la imagen de la RPDC en la arena internacional y procurar un pretexto para justificar su politica hostil a ella.
Pero, la realidad demuestra que Japon es el secuestrador innato que no tiene parangon en este mundo.
@Senala asi el periodico Minju Joson en un comentario individual de este martes y continua:
En junio ultimo, regreso a la patria socialista la ciudadana de la RPDC To Chu Ji quien habia sido raptada y secuestrada hacia Japon por los reaccionarios de este pais isleno.
En 2002 estos cometieron el mismo crimen con la otra coreana An Phil Hwa.
Esto evidencia que el secuestro de los ciudadanos de la RPDC por los reaccionarios japoneses se perpetra de manera organizada y que no son pocas sus victimas.
En la primera mitad del siglo pasado, ese pais secuestrador de nacimiento mando por la fuerza a mas de 8 millones 400 mil jovenes y adultos coreanos a los campos de batalla y de trabajo de esclavitud y convirtio a 200 mil coreanas en esclavas sexuales para el viejo ejercito nipon.
La historia prueba que todas esas acciones no obedecieron a la voluntad de un individuo sino se cometieron de manera organizada segun la medida estatal.
Dado que quedaron evidenciados estos casos de secuestro, el pueblo coreano no perdonara nunca los actos hostiles de los reaccionarios islenos a la RPDC.
Japon debe devolver a todos los ciudadanos coreanos secuestrados, prometer el castigo a los criminales y la prevencion de nuevos casos y abandonar de inmediato toda clase de las maniobras hostiles a la RPDC, inclusive el rapto.
Rinden homenaje a Kim Il Sung en la OSPAAAL
La Habana, 8 de julio (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 13o aniversario del fallecimiento del Presidente Kim Il Sung, tuvo lugar el dia 5 en la Organizacion de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de Asia, Africa y America Latina una ceremonia para ofrendar un cesto de flores ante su retrato con amplia sonrisa.
En la ocasion estuvieron presentes el secretario general y otros miembros de la citada entidad e integrantes de la embajada coreana en Cuba.
Los participantes depositaron el cesto ante el retrato del Presidente y le rindieron tributo.
El secretario general de la OSPAAAL dijo que rinde sublime tributo al gran Lider del pueblo coreano, camarada Kim Il Sung, en ocasion del 13o aniversario de su fallecimiento y deseo al pueblo coreano mayores exitos en la construccion del socialismo bajo la sabia orientacion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il.
Rey de Camboya envia cesto de flores a la embajada coreana
Pyongyang, 10 de julio (ATCC) -- En ocasion del aniversario 13 del fallecimiento (el 8 de julio) del Presidente Kim Il Sung, el rey de Camboya, Norodom Sihamoni, envio un ceston de flores a la embajada coreana acreditada en su pais.
En la cinta del cesto se leia: "Rindo el maximo homenaje a Su Excelencia Generalisimo Kim Il Sung, Presidente de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea. Norodom Sihamoni, Rey de Camboya".
Por encargo del remitente, la delegacion del Ministerio del Palacio Real del gobierno del Reino de Camboya presidida por el vicepremier encargado de este Palacio, Kong Sam Ol, realizo el dia 6 una visita a la embajada coreana donde deposito ese cesto floral ante el retrato del Presidente y le rindio tributo.