Personal Message of Sympathy to Leader Kim Jong Il from President Roh Moo Hyun

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a personal message of sympathy from President of south Korea Roh Moo Hyun on August 20 in connection with the flood which hit areas of the north side.
    The personal message expressed deep sympathy with the fact that unprecedented torrential rain hit areas of the north side, claiming human and material losses, and hoped that they would recover from the flood damage as early as possible.


Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Blasts "Ulji Focus Lens"

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- If the U.S. persists in its military hostile actions against the dialogue partner, the DPRK will take strong counter-measures different from the stand for dialogue it has so far maintained. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK warned this in an answer given to the question put by KCNA Tuesday in connection with the joint military exercises launched by the U.S. in south Korea against the DPRK.
    He went on: The U.S. kicked off the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises together with the south Korean military from August 20 despite the concern of the international community and the repeated warnings of the DPRK. These war maneuvers are a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK as they are targeted against the DPRK, to all intents and purposes.
    The ceaseless saber-rattling being staged by the U.S. and the south Korean authorities against the DPRK, turning aside from their commitments to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and peace there, compels the DPRK to suspect the real aim sought by them in their much-touted "negotiated settlement of the issue" and "confidence-building".
    The DPRK is ready both for dialogue and confrontation.


Relief Activities of DPRK Red Cross Society

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Red Cross Society is intensifying relief activities to heal the flood damage and to stabilize the people's life in the flood-stricken areas.
    The society dispatched emergency relief groups to the affected areas. And it helps supplying emergency relief goods to the inhabitants on the spot in the areas in close contact with its provincial branches.
    The South Hamgyong Provincial Red Cross Branch has investigated in detail the losses in various places including Jongphyong, Kumya, Kowon counties hit hardest by the flood and taken necessary measures. It also called upon the Red Cross volunteers in the province to turn out in the emergency relief activities for the victims.
    Lots of residents and more than 2,300 volunteers in the province are taking part in the activities.
    The Kangwon Provincial Red Cross Branch handed over a large amount of tents, blankets, kitchen utensils and other emergency relief goods which had been kept in the store against disaster to inhabitants in the flood-affected Hoeyang, Kumgang, Ichon and other counties.
    The South Phyongan, North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae Provincial Red Cross branches set up first-aid treatment stations in different parts of the damaged areas to give medical services to the wounded and the people who are suffering from the contaminated water.
    The DPRK Red Cross Society, in collaboration with the members of the delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to the DPRK, is scrupulously organizing the transportation and distribution of the relief goods so that they are provided to the victims in time, while striving hard to solve problems arising in the work as early as possible.


Statement Issued in Syria on Day of Korea's Liberation

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will always triumph and prosper as the Korean people are making the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung shine at all times under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Vice Dean of the Political Faculty of the University of Damascus of Syria Saber Ballul said this in a statement issued on August 13 on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Korea.
    The statement continued: The exploits performed by the President for the liberation of Korea were something no great man in history could ever do. He brought about such a great turning point as liberation in the life of the Korean people by combining theory with practice.
    Kim Jong Il has successfully carried forward and developed the independent idea and line and the steadfast revolutionary principle of the President.
    It was the President and Kim Jong Il who provided the Korean people with an ideological and theoretical weapon for achieving national liberation and fighting against the imperialist allied forces headed by U.S. imperialism and this served as a beacon indicating the way to be followed by the people of progressive countries desirous of independence against imperialism.


U.S.-S. Korea Joint Military Exercises Protested in UK

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The British Association for the Study of Songun Policy and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea sent letters of protest to the U.S. president and the south Korean chief executive on August 14 in protest against the projected U.S.-south Korea "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises.
    Lodging strong protest with the U.S. forces side against formally announcing the plan to stage the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises in south Korea from August 20, the letters pointed to the gravity of the military maneuvers for aggression against the DPRK.
    Terming the above-said saber rattling a breach of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the February 13 agreement and a challenge to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world, the letters demanded an immediate repeal of the anachronistic plan for military exercises.
    The letters urged the United States to withdraw its troops and military hardware from south Korea at once and the south Korean authorities to remain true to "By our nation itself", the main spirit of the June 15 joint declaration, and stop the war drills targeted against the DPRK.


Kim Il Sung's Idea and Exploits Hailed

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The Association for Friendship with Korea based in Spain posted photographs of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il together with articles in its Internet homepage "Network of One Korea" on August 13 on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Korea.
    An article carried in the homepage under the headline "The exploits of President Kim Il Sung in liberating Korea will shine forever" said the man who liberated Korea by leading the great anti-Japanese war to victory was Kim Il Sung, the father of socialist Korea.
    His exploits in liberating Korea are that he freed the Korean people from the lot of colonial slavery and made them proud masters of the state and society and laid an eternal foundation for the endless prosperity of the Korean nation, noted the article, adding:
    These exploits have been further glorified by Kim Jong Il.
    He is pursuing original Songun politics by developing in depth the Songun idea founded by the President and thereby firmly defending socialism centered on the popular masses built by the President and ushering in a new turn in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Another article of the homepage titled "At the Head of the Movement for Reunification" said August 4 this year marked the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" in which he formulated the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo -- the crystal of the President's idea of national reunification -- as the three charters for national reunification.
    Noting that Kim Jong Il regards national independence as the most important principle in implementing the President's instructions for national reunification, the article stressed that the President's idea of national reunification and leadership exploits would shine forever.


Launch of U.S.-South Korea "Ulji Focus Lens" Joint Military Exercises under Fire

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The United States together with the south Korean war-like forces launched the large-scale "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises. This is a grave challenge to the DPRK, its dialogue partner, and war moves to bar the situation on the Korean Peninsula from improving and escalate military confrontation and tension.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    The warmongers are keen to cover up the danger and provocative nature of the war exercises, asserting that they are "computer mock exercises" and "annual drills." But these exercises are, to all intents and purposes, maneuvers for a war of aggression against the DPRK in the light of the background against which they were kicked off and the contents of the operations.
    What the U.S. seeks through the "Ulji Focus Lens" is to verify the effectiveness of the moves it has so far stepped up to bolster its aggression forces and reorganize them in terms of operation and round off combat command and operation system.
    The U.S. is staging madcap "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises with huge forces and up-to-date war hardware involved though the DPRK and the U.S. are in the process of the six-party talks. This is clear evidence that the U.S. is making the start of a war against the north an established fact and working hard to carry out its scenario.
    The U.S. can never evade the responsibility for having strained the situation on the peninsula, swimming against the trend of the times quite contrary to its promise and deliberately thrown obstacles in the way of finding a solution to the nuclear issue and developing the inter-Korean relations.
    South Korea's participation in the exercises is an anachronistic behavior as it runs counter to the demand and interests common to the nation and requirements of the June 15 era of reunification and adversely affects the inter-Korean relations.
    The peace-loving DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker to the reckless moves of the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces to threaten peace on the peninsula and ignite a nuclear war.
    The U.S. would be well advised to pay heed to the DPRK's warning and behave with discretion and stop at once the ongoing war exercises targeted against the DPRK.


Rodong Sinmun on Songun Politics

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea is a historical review of the Korean revolution which was pioneered and has emerged victorious with arms. Herein lie the validity and tremendous vitality of the Songun politics, an all-powerful treasured sword of the revolution and construction in the present times.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
    The WPK's Songun politics is based on the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in the Songun revolutionary leadership and experience gained by him in its course, the article notes, and continues:
    The President's Songun revolutionary leadership exploits and experience fully represent all the precious assets of eternal vitality in carrying out the cause of the Songun revolution. They include the unique exploit and experience gained in founding an army and then laying the foundation for founding the party and building power in reliance upon it, the experience gained in developing the revolutionary army into an invincible one by strengthening the blood relations between the army and the people and the experience of consolidating the unity of all the revolutionary ranks by dint of the politico-ideological might of the revolutionary army.
    The WPK's Songun politics means a revolutionary leadership mode at a new higher stage as Kim Jong Il has carried forward the President's Songun idea and Songun leadership exploits and experience and developed them in depth to suit the circumstances of the changed times and the actual conditions. Herein lie its peculiarities and source of its inexhaustible might.
    The validity and vitality of the WPK's Songun politics have been clearly proved in the historic practices of the Korean revolution. It has experienced neither impossibilities nor slightest failure nor frustration as it has advanced thanks to the might of Songun with priority given to arms.
    It is the WPK's Songun politics that fully embodied the precious truth of the Korean revolution as its red flag is recorded only with victories since its inception.
    The WPK set forth the original Songun political mode by systematizing and comprehensively dealing with the principle of the revolution and the experience and methods of struggle validity of which has been fully proven in the historic practices of the Songun revolution.
    A great political mode startling the people in the era can be created only in the revolution which benefits from the invincible revolutionary history and tradition provided by the President and has been steered by Kim Jong Il generation after generation. This is the most precious review of the history of the Korean revolution which was started and has triumphed with arms and immutable truth taught by it.


CSTIA, Leading Information Service Base in DPRK

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The Central Scientific and Technological Information Agency (CSTIA) is a leading service base of scientific and technological information in the DPRK.
    The CSTIA (then Information Agency under the Academy of Sciences) founded on August 5, Juche 52 (1963) renders rapidly and correctly latest scientific and technological achievements made at home and abroad to scientists, technicians, leading officials in the field of the economy and officials in industrial establishments and co-op farms and working people across the country.
    It keeps in store a large amount of technical innovations, inventions and other valuable scientific and technological data made at home.
    It collects the data of current trend and development of technology from the cardinal technical field including IT, nano-tech and bioengineering to the mechanical engineering, metallurgy and heat engineering, through scientific and technological exchange with various countries.
    Anyone can use its well-built database any time.
    This year the agency has also issued the publications including "Information of New Technology" and disseminated and generalized in time latest scientific and technological achievements in various sectors of the national economy through varied forms of information service activities.
    Besides, it regularly organizes reeducation for raising the IT working level of the users, trains IT experts and gives methodological guidance to the provincial scientific and technological information offices, regional information service centers.


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Rodong Sinmun condena el inicio de "Ulji Focus Lens"

   Pyongyang, 21 de agosto (ATCC) -- Estados Unidos comenzo por fin con las fuerzas belicistas surcoreanas el simulacro conjunto "Ulji Focus Lens" de gran envergadura. Esto es una grave maniobra de guerra que frena la corriente de la situacion de la Peninsula Coreana en rumbo favorable y agrava la confrontacion y tension militares, siendo un gran desafio a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
    Senala asi el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual de este martes y prosigue:
    Los belicistas tratan de ocultar el caracter peligroso y provocativo de la citada maniobra militar pintandola de "simulacro por computadora" y "entrenamiento anual". Pero, tanto en su curso de comienzo como en su contenido operacional, "Ulji Focus Lens" apunta evidentemente a la RPDC.
    El objetivo de ese ejercicio reside en revisar la efectividad del aumento y la reorganizacion operacional de las fuerzas agresoras, impulsados hasta la fecha, y perfeccionar el sistema de mando de combate y de operacion.
    Aunque EE.UU. dialoga con la RPDC en la cita a 6 bandas, no vacilo en desarrollar el simulacro "Ulji Focus Lens" movilizando a sus colosales fuerzas armadas y equipos belicos ultramodernos.
     Esto comprueba evidentemente que la provocacion de la guerra contra el Norte de Corea es un hecho consumado para el imperio.
    EE.UU. nunca puede evadir la responsabilidad de haber agravado la situacion de la Peninsula Coreana y frenado intencionalmente la solucion del problema nuclear y el desarrollo de las relaciones intercoreanas actuando con dos caras a contrapelo de la tendencia de la epoca.
    De otro lado, la adhesion del Sur de Corea a "Ulji Focus Lens" contraviene a la demanda y los intereses comunes de la nacion y a la epoca de reunificacion iniciada el 15 de junio y deviene un gesto anacronico que perjudica las relaciones Norte-Sur.
    La RPDC, que ama y aprecia la paz, no se quedara con brazos cruzados ante las imprudentes maniobras de EE.UU. y las fuerzas belicistas surcoreanas que amenazan la paz de la Peninsula Coreana y pretenden atizar el fuego de una guerra nuclear.
    EE.UU. debe escuchar atentamente la advertencia de la RPDC y parar de inmediato ese ejercicio belico contra la segunda.


Seran eternas la idea y hazanas de Kim Il Sung

   Pyongyang, 21 de agosto (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 62o aniversario de la liberacion (el 15 de agosto de 1945) de Corea, la Asociacion de Amistad con Corea, que tiene su sede en Espana, publico el dia 13 en la pagina web del Internet "Network de una sola Corea" articulos conmemorativos junto con las fotos del Presidente Kim Il Sung y del Dirigente Kim Jong Il.
    El articulo intitulado "Se transmitiran eternamente las proezas del Presidente Kim Il Sung realizadas por la liberacion de Corea" recuerda que el Presidente, fundador de Corea socialista logro la liberacion de Corea al conducir a la victoria la guerra antijaponesa.
    Tales proezas consisten en que el Presidente libero al pueblo coreano de la esclavitud colonial, lo presento como digno dueno del Estado y la sociedad y preparo la base eterna para la prosperidad infinita de la nacion coreana.
    Ellas son glorificadas mas por el Dirigente Kim Jong Il, quien desarrollo y profundizo la idea del Songun (priorizacion militar) concebida por el Presidente y practica la original politica de Songun, con lo cual que defiende con firmeza el socialismo coreano centrado en las masas populares, edificado por el Presidente, y abre una nueva era de viraje en la construccion de una gran potencia prospera.
    En otro articulo titulado "Al frente del movimiento por la reunificacion" el sitio, web senala que el 4 de agosto de este ano es el 10o aniversario de la publicacion de la obra maestra del Dirigente Kim Jong Il "Materialicemos de modo consecuente el legado del gran Lider, camarada Kim Il Sung para la reunificacion de la patria".
    Agrega que el Dirigente formulo en su obra los Tres Principios de la Reunificacion de la Patria, el Programa de 10 Puntos para la Gran Unidad Pannacional y el proyecto de la fundacion de la Republica Federal Democratica de Coryo, que resultan la esencia de las ideas en materia de reunificacion presentadas por el Presidente Kim Il Sung, como las Tres Cartas para la Reunificacion de la Patria.
    El Dirigente considera la independencia nacional como el principio mas importante en la materializacion del legado del Presidente para la reunificacion de la patria, subraya. Concluye que brillaran eternamente la idea y hazanas de direccion del Presidente para el cumplimiento de esa causa suprema de la nacion coreana.


Personalidad siriaca confia en la victoria y prosperidad de Corea

   Pyongyang, 21 de agosto (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 62o aniversario de la Liberacion (15 de agosto) de Corea, Saber Ballul, subdecano de la facultad de la politica de la Universidad de Damasco de Siria, en su declaracion fechada 13, dijo que bajo la guia de Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il, gran Dirigente, el pueblo coreano glorifica eternamente la idea Juche concebida por el Presidente Kim Il Sung, razon por la cual Corea saldra siempre victoriosa y se prosperara.
     Las hazanas acumuladas por el Presidente para la liberacion de Corea resultan inalcanzables por ningun otro gran hombre de la historia, senala el documento y prosigue:
      El Presidente alcanzo la liberacion de la patria, que significo para la vida del pueblo coreano un punto de gran viraje, combinando la teoria con la practica.
     Su Excelencia Kim Jong Il continua y desarrolla las ideas y lineas independientes y el firme principio revolucionario del Presidente.
     Gracias al Presidente y el Dirigente, el pueblo coreano pudo contar con un arma ideo-teorica capaz de lograr la liberacion nacional y hacer frente a las fuerzas aliadas imperialistas, encabezadas por EE.UU.
     Esta realidad constituye un faro que ilumina el camino a seguir por los pueblos de los paises progresistas que aspiran a la independencia antiimperialista.