South Korean Conservative Ruling Forces' Reckless Remarks over "Human Rights Issue" Denounced
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement on Thursday denouncing the south Korean conservative ruling forces for letting loose a spate of outbursts crying out for the "improvement of the human rights performance in the north" and "urging it to take proper measures" over the nonexistent "human rights issue" in the DPRK at the 7th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The statement branded their reckless remarks as an intolerable grave provocation to the DPRK and treacherous outbursts totally negating the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration and bringing back the inter-Korean relations to those of confrontation.
It went on:
The "human rights abuses in the north" oft-repeated by them is a product of the plot hatched by the U.S. and its followers to tarnish the high international prestige and image of the DPRK and undermine its system as such things have never existed and cannot happen under the Korean-style socialist system centered on the popular masses.
The south Korean conservative forces have made every desperate effort to deter the inter-Korean relations from favorably developing and stem the trend of the times towards reconciliation and unity, reunification and prosperity while escalating their smear campaign against the north even before their coming to power in step with the U.S. conservative hardliners' anti-DPRK row over the "human rights issue."
They have gone the lengths of letting loose malignant vituperation slandering and defiling even the regime and system in the DPRK, while frantically joining the U.S. bellicose quarters in the large-scale nuclear war exercises to invade it.
The reality goes to clearly prove that the south Korean conservative ruling forces are violating even the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration the basic idea of which is "By our nation itself" and the October 4 declaration which calls for converting the inter-Korean relations into those of mutual respect and trust.
We will never pardon those who are going reckless in a bid to hurt even the regime in DPRK which represents our dignity and lifeblood, only reading outside forces' faces utterly indifferent to the points agreed upon between the north and the south.
Those who only pursue confrontation and division, going against the desire of all the fellow countrymen and the trend of the times, are bound to be forsaken by the nation and meet destruction.
The south Korean conservative ruling forces would be well advised to behave themselves.
Homage to Kim Jong Suk Paid by Iranians
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Iranian Ambassador to the DPRK Morteza Moradian and his embassy officials laid a wreath before the bust of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk at the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt.Taesong Thursday on the occasion of the March 8 International Women's Day.
They placed before the bust the wreath carrying their boundless reverence and paid a silent tribute to Kim Jong Suk, woman commander of Mt. Paektu who performed distinguished exploits for the development of the women's movement true to the idea and leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
Written on the ribbon of the wreath were letters reading "The revolutionary exploits of Comrade Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese war hero, will be immortal!"
45th Anniversary of March 8 Revolution in Syria Marked
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A meeting and a film show took place at the Taedonggang Club for the Diplomatic Corps in Pyongyang on Thursday to mark the 45th anniversary of the March 8 revolution in Syria.
Present there on invitation were Charge d' Affaires ad Interim Muhammad Adib Al Hani and staff members of the Syrian embassy here.
Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and vice-chairman of the Korea-Syria Friendship Association, officials concerned and working people in the city were on hand.
Kim Jin Bom said at the meeting that the victory of the March 8 revolution in Syria was a brilliant result of the just struggle of the Arab people for independence, peace, progress and prosperity and a new history started in Syria since then.
The Syrian Arab people are now striving to defend the sovereignty of the country and build a modern state, he added.
Muhammad Adib Al Hani said that the friendly relations between Syria and the DPRK, provided by former President Hafez Al-Assad and eternal President Kim Il Sung, are now developing under the deep care of President Bashar Al-Assad and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Syria is fully supporting the Korean people in their efforts to build a great prosperous powerful nation and reunify the country, he added.
A congratulatory letter to the president of Syria was adopted there.
After the meeting the participants saw a Syrian feature film.
Songs of Enlightenment Period, National Musical Heritage
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The songs in the period of enlightenment were created in the days when the Korean people were undergoing national distress previously unknown in history at the hand of the Japanese imperialist aggressors.
The songs, which truthfully reflect the requirements of the times and sentiments and desires of the then people, greatly helped raise their anti-Japanese patriotic consciousness.
The majority of them called sad song of wanderers or song of loving one's home mainly manifest love for the motherland and native home of wanderers and their children who lived scattered in alien lands, deprived of their motherland and native homes by the Japanese imperialists.
Among them are such popular songs as "Sorrow of a Wanderer", "Wild Rose" and "Life in an Alien Land" and such children's song as "Spring in My Home Village" and "Sky over My Native Place". The love for the motherland and home depicted by the songs convey the sentiments of grievances and defiance at the aggressors who snatched away and trampled upon everything dear to the Koreans.
The children's songs "Beloved Kangnam" and "Half-moon" represent the earnest desire of the then people for national liberation through the children's mind longing for a new land free from exploitation and oppression. Many love songs of sorrow including "River Tuman in Tears" earnestly sing of the desire and yearning for the liberation of the country by metaphor about "a lover who is sure to come back".
"Emotional Age", "Falling Blossoms on Running Water" and many other songs depict in a romantic poetic language the sentiments of the times overflowing with belief in the spring of liberation that was sure to come with victory in the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by President Kim Il Sung.
By preserving the melodious features of folk songs which had become familiar to the Korean people through a long period while broadly introducing excellent successes achieved by human music in applying means and technique of expression such as tonality and rhythm and combining them to suit the taste of the Korean nation, the songs in the enlightenment period assumed new artistic features peculiar to the modern songs to some degree.
Ogasan Natural Reserve
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Ogasan Natural Reserve covers Mt. Oga on the border between Hwaphyong County, Jagang Province and Kim Hyong Jik County, Ryanggang Province, in the northern tip of the country and its surrounding area.
Its area is 1 600 hectares, about 4 kilometers from north to south and about 5 kilometers from east to west.
The name of the mountain was derived from the fact that its five beautiful peaks above over 1 000 meters rise in a primeval forest.
What is the main out of the peaks is the peak of Mt. Oga (1 227 meters) and the peak of Mt. Unbong (1 360 meters).
The forest consists of needle-leaved woodland, mixed woodland and broad-leaved woodland according to the height of the mountain.
As the northern distribution boundary line of broad-leaved woodland and the southern needle-leaved woodland boundary line meet each other in the area of Mt. Oga, its plant species are varied and the gregarious plants have a number of specific features.
The area presents a peculiar natural view with floras of the temperate zone and sub-arctic zone. There grow in the area northern plants such as Acer ukuruduense and southern plants such as Phyllitis japonica and Sasamorpha purpurascens.
The variety of plants in the reserve numbers more than 1 360. Among them are lots of several hundred year-old trees including over 1 100 years old Taxus cuspidata, over 700 years old Mongolian oak and over 500 years old pine-nut tree and linden tree. The area abounds in medicinal herbs including forest asiabell, Epimedium Koreanum, Paeonia obovata, Bupleurum falcatum and Cynanchun atratum and edible herbs including adder's-tongue, aralia shoots, brake, Miricacalia firma and anise.
There live in the Ogasan Natural Reserve hundreds of species of animals including mountain animals, birds, amphibian, reptiles and fishes.
U.S.-S. Korea Joint Military Exercises Slammed
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises now under way according to a carefully worked out operation plan for invading the north strip bare the bellicose and aggressive nature of the U.S. which has invariably pursued a hostile policy towards the DPRK under the signboard of "dialogue" and "peace".
Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The joint military exercises targeted against the north are a main factor of blocking the reconciliation and unity of the Korean nation.
It is well known that the U.S. staged joint military exercises in south Korea every year, hamstringing the efforts to implement the June 15 joint declaration and warm up the inter-Korean relations.
Clear is the reason why the U.S. is standing in the way of achieving reconciliation and unity between Koreans and developing the inter-Korean relations. Its ulterior aim is to invade the DPRK by force of arms at any cost. It is clearly evidenced by the ongoing saber-rattling.
These war maneuvers are a product of the dangerous collusion and nexus between the U.S. and south Korea to boost cooperation in war and bring back the era of inter-Korean confrontation.
These days the U.S. ruling quarters are zealously egging south Korea on to join it in pursuing its hostile policy towards the DPRK, crying out for an anachronistic "alliance".
The U.S. and south Korean warmongers' joint military exercises targeted against the north are a negation of the June 15 era of reunification and a desperate offensive to stifle the cause of national reunification.
In order to bring about a surge in the cause of independent reunification under the present situation it is necessary for all Koreans to unite close with one and the same will and desire and decisively foil the U.S. and south Korean trigger-happy forces' reckless moves to start a war against the north, concludes the article.
Key Resolve and Foal Eagle Enter into Full-Scale Operation Phase
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises of the war-like elements of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and the south Korean forces aiming at a preemptive attack on the DPRK entered a full-scale offensive operation phase from the phase of the deployment in the operational theater, according to a military source.
The U.S. imperialist aggression forces such as the overseas-based Striker unit of the U.S. 25th infantry division and huge ground forces of the 1st infantry division and the 72nd mobilization division of the 1st army corps and the 28th infantry division of the 6th army corps of the south Korean forces were deployed in the forefront operational theatre on March 4 and 5 before rapidly going over to the offensive operation.
Commandos of the brigade for special airlifting operation of the "Special Operation Command" of the south Korean forces were busy with observation, reconnaissance, assault and sabotage after being hurled into the imaginary theatre for combat operation to fulfill their duties in each province, city and county of the northern half of Korea.
In the meantime, the strike group of the super-large nuclear-powered carrier Nimitz of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces was busy with deck plane take-off and landing drill and the exercise for striking targets of the north almost every day in the waters southwest of Ullung Island in the East Sea of Korea while nuclear-powered submarine Ohio equipped with guided missiles and Aegis Cruiser Princeton and destroyers Hackins and Johnson equipped with guided missiles were hell-bent on joint naval maneuvers and drills for naval battle and missile strike in a coordinated operation with south Korean navy battleships.
Destroyers Chaffee and John S. McCain equipped with guided missiles, and landing craft Harbor Speary of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces were busy with drills for a joint fire power strike and submarine operation and naval warfare in a coordinated operation with warships of the 2nd fleet of the south Korean navy with the waters between Kyokryolbi archipelago and Taehuksan Islet as an operational theatre.
More than ten warships including the strike group of Nimitz and over 20 battleships of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd fleets and the five star flotilla of the south Korean forces busied themselves stepping up the preparations for examining the feasibility of the marine landing operation combined with intensive strike by flying corps, missile and naval artillery pieces in the waters of the East and West Seas of Korea.
The U.S.- and overseas-based flying corps now deployed in air force bases of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea, fighter bombers, assault planes and observation planes belonging to the U.S. Marines in the Pacific and fighters, pursuit and assault planes, assault planes and planes for special operations belonging to the 10th, 11th, 12th and 20th combat flying corps of the south Korean air force were busy with exercises for close air support, strike at ground targets and air battle.
On March 4 and 5 pursuit and assault planes flew into the air over south Korea after taking off the Iwakuni base of Japan and Nimitz and staged a madcap drill of dropping bombs on their targets and returning to their bases under the simulated conditions of an actual battle, kicking up a war atmosphere.
Joint War Exercises Denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Solidarity for Progress, the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification and the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and other civic and social organizations reportedly held a rally in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on March 1 in protest against the war exercises of the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces.
A resolution read out at the rally charged that Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint war exercises are clearly aiming at the aggression against the north, adding that the assertion of the U.S. troops that the exercises are putting a main emphasis on defence is nothing but foolish sophism intended to cover up their aggressive nature.
It accused the U.S. of working hard to realize its ambition to invade the DPRK by force of arms behind the scene while clamoring for the normalization of the relations with it in public.
Independent Reunification Called for in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Youth and Students Solidarity for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in south Korea reportedly made public a statement entitled "Let us inherit the spirit of national independence to achieve independent reunification, peace and prosperity" on March 1.
89 years have passed since the March 1 Popular Uprising, but south Korea is under the occupation of the U.S. imperialists, little different from the Japanese imperialist occupation army, who are wantonly violating the sovereignty of the Korean nation while intensifying colonial domination over south Korea in political, military, economic, cultural and all other fields, the statement said.
Moreover, Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises are throwing grave hurdles in the way for independent reunification, peace and prosperity of the nation, it said, calling on the youth and students to wage a dynamic struggle against the dangerous south Korea-U.S. joint military exercises aimed at attack on the north under the banner of "By our nation itself" by inheriting the noble spirit of national independence displayed by forerunners.
It also stressed that they should intensify the anti-U.S. struggle for independence to prevent war moves and drive the U.S. forces out of south Korea, holding higher the slogan for peace against war and for withdrawal of the U.S. troops, in order to bring a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity as early as possible.
Anniversary of March 1 Popular Uprising Marked in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The 89th anniversary of the March 1 Popular Uprising was reportedly commemorated in south Korea on Saturday.
A commemoration ceremony took place in Thapgol Park with the attendance of more than 90 civic, social and religious organizations, including the Federation of Homogeneous Nation Movement Organizations, the Bereaved Families Association of Persons of Merits for the Independence Movement, Hungsadan and the Korea Buddhist Chogye Order.
Similar functions, including an all-people meeting for the memory of March 1 and the rebuilding of national edifices and a memorial service for the forerunners who fell in the March 1 independent movement, were held in front of the Sungrye Gate destroyed by fire and the monument to the March 1 movement.
Speakers at the functions called for realizing the independent reunification through the great unity of the nation, saying that the spirit of national independence displayed during the March 1 uprising can be materialized only when all Koreans get united.
Exhibited there were historic materials dealing with the uprising and colorful art performances given in different areas.
Students of Seoul Chungang High School and their parents, more than 2 000 all told, staged a street march from the school to the Posin Pavilion representing the uprising.
Kim Jong Il's Birthday Marked
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Kyrgyzstan, a seminar on the exploits of General Secretary Kim Jong Il in Costa Rica and a friendly gathering in Vietnam and an art performance was given in Pakistan, Korean songs were appreciated in Uganda and round-table talks and a reading session on Vol. 1 of "Biography of Comrade Kim Jong Il" took place at the Secretariat of the Pan-African Movement from Feb. 8 to 24 on the occasion of his birthday.
Reports and speeches were made there.
The vice-chairman of the Kyrgyz Union of Associations of Friendship and Cooperation with Foreign Countries praised Kim Jong Il, brilliant successor to the cause of President Kim Il Sung, for having led the people to victory with rare ideological and theoretical wisdom and unique political mode.
The Korean people will achieve the country's reunification without fail and build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation as they are led by Kim Jong Il, he stressed.
The chairman of the Costa Rican Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea referred to the fact that Kim Jong Il put forward a revolutionary line for making a fresh leap forward in economic construction and has wisely led the Korean people's struggle for national reunification.
The general principal of a school in Karachi, Pakistan, said that it is a great honor for the school to have a class honored with the august name of Kim Jong Il, adding that the school would make positive efforts to continue exalting this honor.
A congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the function held in Pakistan.
Halt to U.S. and S. Korean Joint Military Exercises Demanded
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Switzerland-Korea Committee released a statement on Feb. 28 in protest against the U.S. and south Korean war-like forces' joint military exercises.
The statement disclosed the scale, contents and danger of the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle being staged by the U.S. and south Korean trigger-happy forces throughout south Korea.
The U.S. is making preparations for an offensive war against the DPRK while talking about the "dialogue", "normalized relations" and "peace" and the south Korean authorities are impudently taking part in the exercises for confrontation between compatriots and mass killings, touting the inter-Korean "detente," it noted, and continued:
The above-said offensive war drills staged by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean war-like forces are nothing but preparations for unleashing the second Korean war to impose a nuclear holocaust upon the Korean nation and a criminal act against the entire Korean nation and the world peace.
The statement demanded the U.S. immediately stop the criminal war maneuvers for aggression and withdraw its forces of aggression and nukes from south Korea.
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Rodong Sinmun revela motivo de ejercicios militares conjuntos
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- Los ejercicios militares conjuntos "Key Resolve" y "Aguilucho", que se despliegan segun el minuciosamente trazado plan de agresion al Norte de Corea, resaltan la naturaleza belicista y agresiva de Estados Unidos que persigue invariablemente la politica hostil a Corea hablando paradojicamente del "dialogo" y la "paz".
Denuncia el diario Rodong Sinmun en un articulo individual difundido este jueves, que califica esas maniobras militares de escollo principal para la reconciliacion y la unidad de la nacion coreana, y prosigue:
Es conocido por todos que EE.UU. vino frenando el desarrollo de las relaciones Norte-Sur y la implementacion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio al realizar todos los anos los ejercicios militares en el Sur de Corea junto con el ejercito surcoreano con el unico objetivo de agredir con las fuerzas armadas a la RPDC.
Tal entrenamiento militar es un producto de la peligrosa confabulacion entre EE.UU. y el Sur de Corea para fortalecer la cooperacion belica y hacer retornar la epoca de confrontacion fratricida entre los coreanos.
Por esta razon, ultimamente, hablando tanto de esa anacronica "alianza", los circulos del poder de EE.UU. involucran al Sur de Corea en la ejecucion de la politica hostil al Norte de Corea.
Las polemicas maniobras conjuntas resultan la negativa a la epoca de reunificacion iniciada el 15 de junio y la ofensiva desesperada para acabar con la causa de reunificacion de la patria.
Para seguir produciendo auge en la causa de reunificacion independiente bajo la situacion actual, toda la nacion debe unirse firmemente con la misma voluntad y frustrar rotundamente esa imprudente campana anti-RPDC de EE.UU. y los belicistas surcoreanos.
EE.UU. y ejercito surcoreano libran maniobras militares contra RPDC
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- Segun las fuentes castrenses, las maniobras conjuntas "Key Resolve" y "Aguilucho", desplegadas por los belicistas estadounidenses y el ejercito surcoreano con el fin de asestar ataque preventivo contra la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, traspasaron de la etapa de despliegue a la zona operacional a la fase de operaciones ofensivas.
Los dias 4 y 5, al ocupar la zona operacional de la primera linea del frente, las tropas agresoras estadounidenses inclusive la unidad "Striker" de la 25a division de infanteria proveniente de sus bases ultramarinas y un gran numero de fuerzas terrestres surcoreanas, inclusive la 1a division de infanteria y la 72a division de movilizacion del 1o cuerpo y la 28a division de infanteria del 6o cuerpo traspasaron con rapidez a las operaciones ofensivas.
Los "comandos" de la brigada de batallas aereas especiales de la "comandancia de operacion especial" del ejercito surcoreano infiltraron, segun sus deberes encargados por provincias, ciudades y distritos de la RPDC, en las zonas de supuestas acciones combativas, donde se aferran a la vigilancia, reconocimiento, ataque y destruccion.
El colectivo de golpe de portaaviones nucleares estadounidenses "Nimitz" emplazado a la parte sudoeste de la isla Ullung del Mar Este de Corea desarrolla diariamente el ejercicio de despegue y de aterrizaje de aviones de cubierta y el ejercicio de ataque a los objetos del Norte de Corea. Y el submarino nuclear "Ohio", el crucero de tipo Aegis "Princeton" y los destructores "Hackins" y "Johnson" desarrollan desesperadamente, en colaboracion con los buques de las fuerzas navales del Sur de Corea, las maniobras maritimas conjuntas y las de batalla maritima y los ejercicios de ataque de misiles.
Tomando por su escena operacional los mares entre el archipielago Kyokryolbi y la isla Taehuksan del Mar Oeste de Corea, los destructores "Chaffee" y "John S. McCain" y el buque de desembarco "Harbor Speary" de las tropas imperialistas norteamericanas realizaron ejercicios conjuntos de ataque con fuegos, los de operaciones con submarinos y los de batallas maritimas, en colaboracion con los buques de la 2a flota de la marina surcoreana.
Mas de diez buques incluso el colectivo de portaaviones "Nimitz" movilizado al Mar Este y al Mar Oeste de Corea, las primera, segunda y tercera flotas del ejercito surcoreano y mas de 20 buques de la flotilla de 5 estrellas aceleran los preparativos para revisar el caracter real de la operacion de desembarco combinando con ataques concentrados de aviaciones, misiles y canones de cubierta.
Las aviaciones estadounidenses trasladadas de su propio territorio y de las bases ultramarinas a sus bases aereas en el Sur de Corea, los cazabombarderos, aviones de asalto y observadores pertenecientes a la unidad marina del Pacifico, los aviones de combate, aviones de caza y de asalto y los aviones de operacion especial de las aviaciones de combate no. 10, 11, 12 y 20 de las fuerzas aereas del Sur de Corea se entregaron a los ejercicios para el apoyo aereo a corta distancia, el ataque a los blancos terrestres y la batalla aerea.
Los dias 4 y 5 los aviones de caza y asalto, despegados de la base de Iwaguni de Japon y del portaaviones "Nimitz", desplegaron en el espacio aereo del Sur de Corea los ejercicios de regresar a sus bases despues de lanzar las bombas a los objetos determinados.
Zona de proteccion del monte Oga
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- La zona de proteccion de la naturaleza del monte Oga abarca el contorno de esta montana limitrofe entre el distrito de Hwaphyong de la provincia de Jagang y el distrito Kim Hyong Jik de la provincia de Ryanggang, ambas de la parte septentrional de Corea.
Esa area de mil 600 hectareas se extiende 4 kilometros aproximadamente del norte al sur y 5 kilometros del este al oeste.
El nombre del monte Oga se debe a los cinco hermosos picos de mas de mil metros de altura, rodeados de una selva primitiva.
Los principales picos son el pico Oga de mil 227 metros y el Unbong de mil 360 metros.
En el monte Oga estan formados a las alturas diferentes el bosque de plantas coniferas, el mixto y el de arboles de hojas anchas.
Aunque las plantas oriundas de zonas templadas y subarticas muestran un excepcional paisaje natural, crece aqui tambien la vegetacion de las zonas septentrional y meridional.
Es muy rica la biodiversidad de la zona protegida que alberga mas de mil 360 especies, de ellas, muchos arboles anejados como el tejo de mas de mil 100 anos, el roble mongolico de mas de 700 anos, el pino pinonero y el tilo de mas de 500 anos.
@Tambien habitan las hierbas medicinales tales como Codonopsis pilosula y Fpimediun koreanum y las comestibles como Erythronium japonicum, el retono de aralia, el helecho, la pastinaca, Pimpinella brachycarpa.
Componen la fauna local los animales, aves, anfibios, reptiles y peces de centenares de especies.
Canciones creadas en la epoca de ilustracion
Pyongyang, 6 de marzo (ATCC) -- Las canciones de la epoca de ilustracion fueron creadas cuando el pueblo coreano estaba avasallado por los agresores imperialistas japoneses.
Esas piezas musicales, que reflejaron la exigencia de la epoca, la vida y el deseo de los habitantes de aquel entonces, hicieron gran aporte a despertar la conciencia patriotica antijaponesa entre los coreanos.
Ocupan la mayoria de ellas las canciones de vagabundeo o nostalgicas al pueblo natal, que reflejan el amor por la patria y la tierra natal desde el punto de vista de los coreanos nomadas o sus descendientes que fueron desterrados al extranjero por los imperialistas japoneses.
En las canciones populares como "Tristeza del viajero", "Flor de rosal silvestre", "Vida en el extranjero" y las infantiles como "Primavera en la tierra natal" y "Cielo de la tierra natal" reposan el rencor y la rebeldia a los agresores que privaron a los coreanos de todo lo valioso de la vida.
Las otras infantiles "Anoramos la region lejana del Sur" y "Medialuna" muestran el gran deseo de los habitantes de aquella epoca de acoger el dia de liberacion del pais a traves del mundo espiritual de ninos que suenan un nuevo mundo exento de explotacion y opresion.
En tanto, la cancion masiva "El rio Tuman de lagrimas" y las otras de amor expresan el igual deseo metaforizando la liberacion de la patria con el "querido" que regresara sin falta.
Muchas canciones como "Epoca de emocion" y "La flor marchitante y agua corriente" describen con rimas romanticas la situacion de aquellos tiempos en que se daban las senales de la liberacion que seguramente llegaria junto con el triunfo de la lucha armada antijaponesa organizada y guiada por el Presidente Kim Il Sung.
Las obras de la epoca de ilustracion satisfacen en cierto grado los requisitos de la cancion moderna porque en la seleccion de modos y compases y otros medios y metodos expresivos, aplican los adelantos musicales de la humanidad conforme al gusto de la nacion coreana manteniendo las melodias caracteristicas de las coplas folcloricas coreanas.