Talks between DPRK Premier and Lao Prime Minister
Vientiane, November 5 (KCNA Correspondent) -- Talks between the premier of the DPRK Cabinet and the prime minister of the Lao government were held in Vientiane on Nov. 5.
Present there from the DPRK side were Kim Yong Il, premier of the Cabinet, Rim Kyong Man, minister of Foreign Trade, Ri Kyong Sik, minister of Agriculture, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Pak Myong Gu, DPRK ambassador to Laos.
Present from the Lao side were Bouasone Bouphavanh, prime minister of the government, Thongloun Sisoulith, vice prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs, Mounkeo Oraboun, minister of Information and Culture, Nam Vignaket, minister of Industry and Commerce, Bosaykham Vongdala, minister of Power and Mining Industry, Sitaaheng Rasphone, minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Khamphan Sittidampha, secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union who is vice-chairman of the Laos-Korea Friendship Association, Hiem Phommachanh, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Chaleune Warinthrasak, Lao ambassador to the DPRK.
At the talks both sides exchanged views on the matter of boosting the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries provided by President Kim Il Sung and President Kaysone Phomvihane and on the issues of mutual concern.
The talks proceeded in a friendly atmosphere.
Inter-Sector Talks Held between DPRK and Laos
Vientiane, November 5 (KCNA Correspondent) -- Inter-sector talks were held between the DPRK and Laos in Vientiane on Monday.
The talks were separately held between Minister of Foreign Trade Rim Kyong Man, Minister of Agriculture Ri Kyong Sik, acting Chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Mun Jae Chol and Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Yong Il from the DPRK side and Minister of Industry and Commerce Nam Vignaket, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sitaaheng Rasphone, Minister of Information and Culture Mounkeo Oraboun and Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Hiem Phommachanh from the Lao side.
At the talks both sides exchanged views on the matter of further boosting the cooperative relations in various fields.
Plan for Cultural Exchange Signed between DPRK and Laos
Vientiane, November 6 (KCNA Correspondent) -- A 2008-2010 plan for cultural exchange was signed here on Nov. 5 between the governments of the DPRK and Laos.
Present at the signing ceremony from the DPRK side were Kim Yong Il, premier of the Cabinet, Rim Kyong Man, minister of Foreign Trade, Ri Kyong Sik, minister of Agriculture, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Pak Myong Gu, DPRK ambassador to Laos.
Present from the Lao side were Bouasone Bouphavanh, prime minister of the government, Mounkeo Oraboun, minister of Information and Culture, Nam Vignaket, minister of Industry and Commerce, Bosaykham Vongdala, minister of Power and Mining Industry, Sitaaheng Rasphone, minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Khamphan Sittidampha, secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union who is vice-chairman of the Laos-Korea Friendship Association, Hiem Phommachanh, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Chaleune Warinthrasak, Lao ambassador to the DPRK.
Mun Jae Chol and Mounkeo Oraboun signed the plan.
Lao Prime Minister on Cooperative Relations with DPRK
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Bouasone Bouphavanh, prime minister of the Lao government, hosted a banquet on Monday in honor of Kim Yong Il, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, on an official goodwill visit to Laos.
The Lao prime minister, addressing the banquet, said that the party and government and people of Laos would steadily consolidate and develop the traditional relations of friendship and the comradely and fraternal cooperative relations with the party, government and people of the DPRK.
He said that the DPRK premier's visit to Laos signifies an important step forward in boosting the traditional relations of friendship and the comradely and fraternal support and cooperation between the two parties, states and peoples provided by President Kaysone Phomvihane and President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people.
The Lao people are pleased with the fact that the fraternal people of the DPRK have registered big successes in various fields despite difficulties and trials under the wise leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il and are advancing along the path chosen by themselves full of confidence, he added.
Resolution "Peace, Security and Reunification of Korean Peninsula" Adopted at UN General Assembly
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The resolution "Peace, Security and Reunification of Korean Peninsula" jointly proposed by the north and the south of Korea was unanimously adopted at the plenary session of the 62nd UN General Assembly on October 31.
Convinced that dialogue and cooperation between the north and the south of Korea are essential for ensuring peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, the resolution hailed and supported the north-south summit meeting and the "Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity" in October 2007.
The resolution encouraged the north and the south in their efforts to fully and faithfully implement the declaration and thus consolidate peace on the Korean Peninsula and lay a solid foundation for achieving peaceful reunification and called upon the member nations of the United Nations to support the process of dialogue, reconciliation and reunification of the north and the south and contribute to peace and security not only on the Korean Peninsula but also in other parts of Northeast Asia and, furthermore, in the rest of the world.
KCNA Urges Japan to Swim with Trend of Times
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, Kyoko Nakayama, special assistant to the present Japanese chief executive, categorically stood against delisting the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism", labeling it a "terrorist state" over the "abduction issue."
She talked nonsense that if the U.S. takes no account of the "abduction issue" while handling the issue of delisting the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism" it would adversely affect the Japan-U.S. relations.
In another development, the Japanese government went the lengths of complaining about Washington's DPRK policy. It asked the U.S. ambassador to Japan to send to U.S. President Bush a message to the effect that the on-going DPRK-U.S. negotiations over the nuclear issue might adversely affect the U.S.-Japan relations.
This is a reckless move to prevent the six-party talks from making any progress, much upset by it.
It is a rash act of going against the trend of the times for Japan to throw a stumbling block in the way of the six-party talks whose main purpose is to solve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and pending issues between the DPRK and the U.S. related to it.
This is as foolish an act as pricking its own eyes.
The world public is jeering at Japan, saying that it has been thrown into a tight corner by the progress made in the efforts to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula though it has made so much fuss over the "abduction issue."
Japan, in fact, has lost every sense of decency to talk about the "abduction issue" as it has not yet redeemed the hideous human rights abuses it committed in the past.
This has brought into bolder relief Japan's political and moral vulgarity on the international arena as it is no more than a trouble maker and bete noire.
Japan, however, is behaving like a cowboy, not knowing where it stands now.
If Japan goes on like this, it will not only be rebuffed at the six-party talks but be marginalized in the international community in the end.
Reception Given by Ambassador of Czech Republic
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Martin Tomco, ambassador of the Czech Republic to the DPRK, gave a reception at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel Monday on the occasion of its national day.
Present there on invitation were Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Yong Jong, vice-minister of Machine-Building Industry, Kim Yong Suk, vice-minister of Agriculture, Ri Ryong Nam, vice-minister of Foreign Trade, and officials concerned and diplomatic envoys of different countries and representatives of international organizations here.
On hand were staff members of the embassy of the Czech Republic here.
Speeches were made there.
Korean people Emerge Victorious with Spirit of "Arduous March"
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army under the command of President Kim Il Sung marched from Nanpaizi to Beidadingzi for over 100 days from early December Juche 27 (1938) to the end of next March.
It was an arduous march during which they had to overcome extreme food difficulty, fatigue and deadly diseases on top of fierce battles with enemies in intense cold.
The anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, the first generation of the Korean revolution, tided over manifold hardships, defended the destiny of the Korean revolution and carried out the historic task of advance to the homeland by giving full play to the spirit of guarding the leader with their very lives, the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, the spirit of breaking the deadlock and the spirit of revolutionary optimism in the arduous march.
The spirit of the "Arduous March" displayed by the Korean people in the 1990s is the succession and embodiment of the indomitable revolutionary spirit of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners.
During the "Arduous March" and the forced march, the army and people of Korea had wrought world-startling miracles with the revolutionary soldier spirit and the Kanggye spirit.
Under the slogan "Let us take charge of national defence and the socialist construction!", the servicepersons made a breakthrough for advance on the major construction sites including the Anbyon Youth Power Station and the main fronts of the socialist construction, while protecting the defence line of the country as firm as a rock.
The people of Jagang Province held high the slogan "Let's always be cheerful although our path is thorny!" and erected medium- and small-sized power stations in various parts of the province, defying acute shortage of food, power and raw materials. They put the production on a normal stage by tapping all internal reserves. In this course they created the Kanggye spirit to be applied throughout the country.
In those days, the spirit of Songgang and Ranam was created and good examples of creation and construction set to ensure that people could leap higher and advance faster.
The Korean people had built power stations, rezoned fields suited to the appearance of socialist Korea and constructed salterns in the east coastal area, goat farms, Youth Hero Motorway and other monumental edifices of eternal value, tightening their belts. These creations reflect unswerving faith and will of the army and people of Korea to bring about the rosy morrow of the rich and prosperous country by their own efforts.
The spirit of "Arduous March" is a precious asset of the Korean revolution that cannot be bartered for anything, and it serves as an ideological and mental power for the army and people to emerge victorious at all times.
Sea Birds Reserve
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- There is a sea birds reserve in Rap Islet off Sonchon County, North Phyongan Province.
Flocks of 10-odd species of sea birds including seagull, Cygnus olor, cormorant, streaked shearwater live in the reserve.
Among the sea birds are Yellow-beak white herons, seasonal birds which breed only in uninhabited islets including Muki and Taegam islets of Korea.
Yellow-beak white herons are frequent to fly to seashore fields and tideland of Sonchon County and Kwaksan County in the May-June breeding season. Sonchon County, therefore, directs deep attention to providing favorable conditions and environment for sea birds to lay eggs while making their nests.
It is also doing well the management of the surrounding areas so that wormwood, reed and shrubs grow well.
The Korean Cultural Preservation Agency is making great efforts to the protection and management of the reserve, one of the natural monuments.
All Koreans Called upon to Preserve National Character
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The hearts of all Koreans are now burning with the shared desire for reunification and patriotism. The reality today requires them to firmly preserve the advantageous character of the Koreans as a resourceful homogenous nation which boasts its history spanning 5,000 years and tradition and brilliant national culture. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The Korean nation still remains divided into two due to outside forces and its purity is fading away in the southern half of Korea under the foreign cultural domination. This deploring reality proves that preserving the history and tradition of the nation and adding shine to the national character provide a right way of achieving national unity and reunification as they instill national pride and self-esteem into the Koreans and help overcome the heterogeneity of the nation.
It presents itself as a more important issue than ever before for the Koreans to preserve their history and culture and patriotic tradition in which they have not yielded to outside aggressor forces as they are responsible for achieving the historic cause of national reunification by the concerted efforts of the nation free from outside forces.
National character serves as a foundation for national unity.
Temporary differences resulting from the national division can never stand above the common denominator of the nation which has been formed and consolidated throughout a long history. They can never be a factor of altering the national characteristics peculiar to Korea.
Now that there is a bright prospect of achieving national unity and reunification, all Koreans are called upon to set store by their advantageous national character and project and glorify it with patriotic will and thus promote national unity and bring about a fresh turn in the movement for national reunification.
Japan's Moves to Adopt "Bill on Special Measures against Terrorism" under Fire
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Japanese political circles are now locked in a fierce scramble over a new "bill on special measures against terrorism." The Japanese reactionaries' desperate moves to adopt the "bill" are aimed to secure a new legislation for preserving at any cost the justification for overseas dispatch of the "Self-Defence Forces (SDF)."
Minju Joson Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.
Whether Japan refuels the U.S.-led multi-national warships operating in the Indian Ocean under the "Law on Special Measures against Terrorism" or not, is an issue directly related to the matter of whether it continues pursuing the policy of militarist overseas expansion or not, the commentary notes, and goes on:
Japan has emerged the world's second largest military power and it has been expanded to the maximum in terms of its military muscle. It is fully capable of carrying out any military operations overseas, single-handed. It, therefore, wishes to exercise unchallenged influence in handling international issues.
That is why Japan seeks to bring its political position to the level commensurate with that of a war state and claims a "right" and capability to ignite even a war to become the leader of Asia.
Lurking behind this is the true intention of the Japanese reactionaries to adopt the "bill" in a bid to achieve the above-said objective.
They are working hard to boost the military tie-up with the U.S. and massively dispatch military forces overseas, while talking about "Japan-U.S. alliance." This behavior of Japan arouses the concern of its neighboring countries and the international community.
No country in the world would wish to see Japan emerging a dangerous state for aggression and war while rushing headlong into militarist overseas aggression.
Repeal of NSL Demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The 13th-term National Council of Woman Student Representatives (Jonnyodaehyop) of south Korea reportedly issued a statement titled "We denounce the arrest of fellow student Kang Un Ha, chairwoman of the 9th-term Jonnyodaehyop" on Nov. 2.
The statement accused detectives of the Kyongsan Police Station in North Kyongsang Province of walking away on Nov. 1 Kang Un Ha who was chairwoman of the General Woman Student Council of Yeongnam University in 2003 and chairwoman of the 9th-term Jonnyodaehyop.
The south and the north agreed to adjust their legal and institutional mechanisms with a view to developing the south-north relations to meet the purpose of reunification but the south Korean authorities are resorting to anachronistic suppression after labeling the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils and Jonnyodaehyop as "enemy-benefiting organizations" on charges of violation of the "National Security Law (NSL)", the statement charged.
It strongly denounced the security authorities' suppression, stressing that in order to establish a genuine peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula it is necessary to repeal without fail the NSL which defines the north as the "enemy".
Truth of Police Mass Killings of Civilians Disclosed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Committee for Settling the Past History for Truth and Reconciliation on October 29 disclosed the truth about the mass killings of civilians committed by the police before and after the Korean war, according to a press report.
The committee recalled that "Raju Unit" belonging to the police massacred innocent civilians in Haenam, Wando and various other areas in July 1950.
The committee claimed it probed the fact that policemen attacked a village in September 1948 to massacre guiltless peasants when they were engaged in farm work after branding them as "communist bandits."
The committee urged the "government" to make an official apology for the police mass killings and take immediate steps to prevent the occurrence of similar cases.
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Kim Jong Il presencia funcion de XXXI Festival Artistico de Militares
Pyongyang, 6 de noviembre (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y Comandante Supremo del Ejercito Popular de Corea vio la funcion de los militares de las companias de las Unidades No. 775 y No. 176 del EPC que participan en el XXXI Festival Artistico de Militares.
Le acompanaron el jefe del Estado Mayor General del EPC Kim Kyok Sik, el ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Populares Kim Il Chol, el primer subjefe de la Direccion Politica General del EPC Kim Jong Gak, el general de ejercito del EPC Hyon Chol Hae, el teniente general Jong Thae Gun y otros miembros directivos del ejercito.
Los militares de las companias pusieron en la escena la poesia y coro "El General visito el puesto", la narracion y coro "Es mejor nuestro General", el coro y narracion "Se colma de alegria la casa natal del soldado", el duo "El amor entre los oficiales y soldados floreciente en la marcha", el solo "Mi patria que defiendo" y "El cielo azul de mi patria", el entreacto "Hagamos florecer de par en par", la cancion y narracion "Nuestra epoca de servicio militar", la narracion y cancion "?Donde esta querido General?", el coro "Empunaremos mas fuerte el fusil" y otras piezas.
Los ejecutantes demostraron vividamente el poderio de heroico EPC y una parte de la digna vida militar y manifestaron con vigor la firme conviccion, voluntad e impetu del ejercito coreano de defender a costa de la vida la Direccion de la Revolucion y de llevar a feliz termino con el fusil la causa revolucionaria del Juche.
Al escuchar las canciones de fidelidad y de lucha de los soldados capaces de vencer uno contra cien enemigos, los espectadores rindieron el maximo honor y el mas caluroso agradecimiento al Comandante Supremo Kim Jong Il quien con la direccion de la revolucion del Songun (priorizacion militar) convirtio al EPC en el ejercito fuerte en la idea y la conviccion.
Al presenciar la funcion de los militares, el Dirigente expreso gran satisfaccion de que todos los militares de las companias no solo se prepararon como soldados listos para combatir uno contra ciento sino tambien crecieron como creadores de la cultura del Songun que poseen alta preparacion cultural, evaluo de alto el exito de su funcion y les dio agradecimiento.
El Dirigente dijo que librar energicamente las actividades culturales y artisticas entre los militares es una de las labores importantes para elevar la combatividad de la unidad e indico las tareas que se presentan para fortalecer las actividades artisticas en todas las unidades incluidas las companias.
Conversaciones por sectores entre Corea y Laos
Vientiane, 5 de noviembre (Corresponsal de ATCC) -- Tuvieron lugar el dia 5 en esta capital las conversaciones por sectores entre la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y la Republica Democratica Popular Lao.
Las platicas se realizaron respectivamente entre el ministro de Comercio Exterior Rim Kyong Man, el ministro de Agricultura Ri Kyong Sik, el presidente interino del Comite Coreano de Relaciones Culturales con el Extranjero Mun Jae Chol y el vicecanciller Kim Yong Il de la parte coreana y el ministro de Industria y Comercio Exterior Nam Vignaket, el ministro de Agricultura y Silvicultura Sitaaheng Rasphone, el ministro de Informacion y Cultura Mounkeo Oraboun y el vicecanciller Hiem Phommachanh de la parte laosiana.
En las ocasiones ambas partes intercambiaron opiniones sobre el problema de ampliar y desarrollar las relaciones de cooperacion en varias esferas.
Firmado plan de intercambio cultural entre Corea y Laos
Vientiane, 6 de noviembre (Corresponsal de ATCC) --Quedo firmado el dia 5 en esta capital el plan de intercambio cultural para 2008-2010 entre los gobiernos de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea y la Republica Democratica Popular Lao.
En la ocasion participaron por la parte coreana el primer ministro del Consejo de Ministros Kim Yong Il, el ministro de Comercio Exterior Rim Kyong Man, el ministro de Agricultura Ri Kyong Sik, el presidente interino del Comite Coreano de Relaciones Culturales con el Extranjero Mun Jae Chol, el vicecanciller Kim Yong Il y el embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario coreano en Laos Pak Myong Gu y, por la laosiana, el premier del gobierno Bouason Boupphavan, el ministro de Informacion y Cultura Mounkeo Oraboun, el ministro de Industria y Comercio Exterior Nam Vignaket, el ministro de Energia y Mineria Bosaykham Vongdala, el ministro de Agricultura y Silvicultura Sitaaheng Rasphone, el secretario del Comite Central de la Union de la Juventud Popular Revolucionaria Lao y vicepresidente de la Asociacion de Amistad Laos-Corea Khamphan Sittidampha, el vicecanciller Hiem Phommachanh y el embajador extraordinario y plenipotenciario laosiano en Corea Chaleune Warinthrasak.
Lo suscribieron Mun Jae Chol y Mounkeo Oraboun.
ATCC comenta actos ilicitos de Japon
Pyongyang, 6 de noviembre (ATCC) -- Hace unos dias, Kyoko Nakayama, asistente especial del actual gobernante japones, califico la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea de un "Estado terrorista" so pretexto del "problema del secuestro", y se opuso a toda costa a la exclusion de la RPDC de la "lista de los paises que apoyan el terrorismo".
Dijo que si Estados Unidos desprecia completamente el "problema del secuestro" en esa labor, danara las relaciones bilaterales.
Por otra parte, el gobierno japones "reclamo" la politica de EE.UU. hacia Corea haciendo que el embajador norteamericano acreditado en su pais enviara al presidente norteamericano Bush un telegrama segun el cual las negociaciones actuales entre la RPDC y EE.UU. podran perjudicar las relaciones con Japon.
Esto deviene un acto imprudente destinado a detener de todas maneras el progreso de las conversaciones a 6 bandas.
Ese pais isleno trata de crear obstaculos ante esta cita para solucionar el problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana y otros pendientes entre Corea y EE.UU. Esto deviene un acto tan absurdo que marcha a contrapelo de la tendencia de la epoca.
Tales actos produciran una consecuencia negativa como el suicidio.
Los medios de prensa senalan que gracias al progreso de la solucion del problema nuclear de la Peninsula Coreana Japon, que actuaba locamente por el "problema del secuestro", cae en el apuro.
Ese pais isleno que no liquida el marco-crimen inhumano del pasado, no tiene la calidad de hablar del "problema del secuestro"
Por tal razon cayo la honra politica y moral de Japon en la escena internacional y este pais se considera como existencia molesta e inutil para todos.
Sin embargo, Japon actua arbitrariamente.
Si el pais isleno no cesa de repetir tales actos, se situara al margen de las conversaciones a 6 partes y de la sociedad internacional.