Anniversary of April Joint Conference Marked
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at a plaza of the United Front Tower in the Ssuksom Revolutionary Site on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the historic Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Vice-Premier Ro Tu Chol, the chairpersons of the friendly parties and other officials concerned, recipients of National Reunification Prize, former unconverted long-term prisoners who are pro-reunification patriotic fighters, officials of national institutions, people from all walks of life in Pyongyang and overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland.
Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in a report said that the joint conference held in Pyongyang on the initiative of President Kim Il Sung and under his guidance in April Juche 37 (1948) was a historic grand meeting of the nation for achieving the great national unity under the banner of reunification and patriotism to reject the outsiders' interference and domination and save the destiny of the country and the nation.
Recalling that thanks to the outstanding guidance of Kim Il Sung and his energetic activities the joint conference took place in a grand style in Pyongyang from April 19 to 23 in Juche 37 (1948), the reporter continued:
The President at the conference made a historic report titled "The Political Situation in North Korea" on April 21.
In the report he made a lucid analysis of the political situation prevailing inside and outside the country and clearly indicated tasks facing the Koreans in the north and the south to foil the separatist moves of the U.S. imperialists and set up a unified democratic government. In the wake of the conference the patriotic and democratic forces in the north and the south under his wise leadership courageously turned out in the struggle to shatter the plots to hold a treacherous "separate election" and set up a "separate government," dealing heavy blows at the moves of the U.S. imperialists and their stooges to split the nation and laying a solid foundation for founding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the glorious motherland.
It was the imperishable great exploit performed by the President in his efforts to achieve the reunification of the country that he indicated the fundamental principles and ways for it.
His Juche-based idea of great national unity and cause of national reunification are being firmly upheld and successfully carried forward and accomplished by General Secretary Kim Jong Il. A particular mention should be made of the fact that Kim Jong Il provided the historic Pyongyang meeting in June Juche 89(2000) and the June 15 joint declaration and made sure that the October 4 declaration, a programme for fully implementing the above-said declaration, was published last year. This constitutes an undying great exploit as it brought about a new phase for the development of the inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity.
South Koreans from all walks of life and other Koreans at home and abroad should resolutely foil the anti-reunification forces' acts of denying the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and open up a new phase of inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity through their concerted efforts.
The reporter called on all Koreans in the north and the south of Korea and abroad to wage a dynamic anti-U.S. and anti-war struggle to remove the root cause of hindering the national unity and reunification once and for all, resolutely frustrate the south Korean conservative ruling forces' anti-reunification policy and their moves for confrontation with the DPRK and positively support and uphold the great Songun policy.
FM Meets Outgoing Egyptian Ambassador
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Pak Ui Chun, minister of Foreign Affairs, met and had a conversation with Moustafa Mohamed Ahmed Al Hatter, Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK who paid a farewell call on him on Monday.
Syrian Party School Delegation Here
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the school of Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party led by Riad Youness, deputy of the director of the school, arrived here on Monday.
Wreaths Laid before Statue and Grave of Kang Pan Sok
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the statue of Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and outstanding leader of the Korean women's movement, in the Chilgol Revolutionary Site and her grave in Mangyongdae today with due ceremonies on the occasion of her 116th birth anniversary.
Seen before the statue and grave were wreaths sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The ceremonies were attended by Kim Yong Chun, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Yong Rim and others, leading officials of party and armed forces organs and working people's organizations, officials of ministries and national institutions, officers and men of the KPA, and officials of party and power bodies and working people in the city.
Wreaths in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and the DPRK Cabinet were placed there.
Also laid were wreaths in the name of working people's organizations, ministries, national institutions, KPA units, educational and public health organs and party and power bodies, farms and schools in Pyongyang.
The participants paid silent tribute to her, looking back on her brilliant revolutionary life and exploits.
Kang Pan Sok's Life for Country and Nation
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are looking back upon the great life of Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and an outstanding leader of the Korean women's emancipation movement, who devoted her whole life for the country and the nation on the occasion of her birth anniversary (April 21, 1892).
The meaningful story about a mal (15 kg) of foxtail millet fully shows her ardent love for the country and the nation.
Upon hearing the news that his mother's illness was in a critical condition when he was making preparations for the expedition to south Manchuria to bring about a new upswing of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, President Kim Il Sung went to Tuqidian, carrying with him a mal of foxtail millet he bought.
After she met her darling son, she tried to lead the conversation only to political topics, not mentioning about her health and household affairs.
The next day, the President climbed up a mountain with his younger brother to collect firewood and made all sincerity for his mother.
That night she earnestly said to the President: I am grateful to you for your great filial devotion, but I am not of the type to be comforted by that. You have a greater cause to attend to. Don't you think you should carry out your father's will? Don't worry about me, but hurry along your own way.
The next morning she gave 20 yuan to him, saying that a man must have money in his pocket in case of emergency. The 20 yuan she had earned and saved penny by penny by working her fingers to the bone doing washing and sewing for pay.
Her words strongly touched the heartstring of the President. Though she could claim filial piety of her children as their mother, she, enduring the serious pain with a mind for the lost country and nation, gave up the paternal right and made no scruple to inspire her son to take the road of revolution.
Recollecting his mother, the President said: The love she showed me was not simply motherly love. It was true revolutionary affection with which she regarded me as the son of the nation rather than her own son and awakened me to the need to give priority to loyalty to the country over filial piety towards my parents.
Reception Given by Chief of Libyan Economic Cooperation Bureau Here
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Abdelhafiz Misbah Bin Rabha, chief of the Economic Cooperation Bureau of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the DPRK, hosted a reception at the Taedonggang Club for the Diplomatic Corps Saturday on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and the 15th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.
Present there on invitation were Choe Chang Sik, minister of Public Health, Kim Pyong Phal, chairman of the C.C., General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
Speeches were made there.
Endless Stream of People Visit Tower of Juche Idea
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Tower of the Juche Idea standing on the bank of the River Taedong in east Pyongyang facing Kim Il Sung Square here has been visited by at least 452,000 servicepersons, working people from all walks of life, school youth and children and over 244,000 overseas compatriots and foreigners over the last ten odd years.
It was unveiled on April 15, Juche 71 (1982) on the occasion of the 70th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
Reckless Moves of Japanese Reactionaries for Overseas Expansion under Fire
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Defence of Japan recently released a report on "the strategic prospect of East Asia for 2008" in which Japan underscored the "necessity" of its overseas expansion, expressing uneasiness at Russia's bolstering its forces in the Far East and China's moves to increase its military muscle.
Earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda called for instituting a law on the overseas dispatch of the Japan "Self-Defence Forces (SDF)" without ratification. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its "white paper on disarmament" for 2008 let loose sheer sophism that nuclear tests and missile test fires, etc. by neighboring countries pose a grave "threat" to Northeast Asia and other parts of the world.
Rodong Sinmun today observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard:
Underlying the above-said assertions made by the Japanese reactionaries is a sinister aim to make preemptive attacks on other countries under the absurd pretext of someone's "threat" and realize their ambition for overseas expansion at any cost.
The commentary cites facts that Japan has long persisted in their moves for overseas expansion.
It is the invariable ambition of the Japanese militarists to realize overseas expansion.
As a matter of fact, the sphere of activities of the SDF is now gaining in scope worldwide, going beyond the boundary of the areas around Japan.
The Japanese reactionaries have become so emboldened that they are putting spurs to the moves to round off the preparations for mounting preemptive attacks for aggression in a bid to conquer not only Northeast Asia but the rest of the world.
The Japanese militarists' moves for overseas expansion are assuming more dangerous and reactionary nature as the days go by.
The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to drop their foolish and reckless intention because Japan's overseas expansion will only lead to self-destruction, warns the commentary.
Truth behind Mass Killings of Civilians during War Probed
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Committee for Settling the Past History for Truth and Reconciliation on April 15 opened to the public the truth behind the mass killings of civilians committed by puppet troops in Kochang, North Jolla Province, and Hamphyong, South Jolla Province, during the last Korean war.
The committee probed the facts that the "case of the 11th division in Kochang" and the "case of killings of civilians during the operation to take back Hamphyong" during the war were the incidents in which the 11th division of the puppet army massacred refugees and inhabitants under the pretext of conducting the so-called "punitive operation against communist rebels and guerrillas."
According to the results of the probe, a unit of the 11th division indiscriminately killed refugees and inhabitants in the area of Kochang in order to "eliminate all the dangerous elements that might stand in the way of carrying out the operation" and register its battle results from December 1950 to early in 1951.
The number of those killed reached 273 up to now. But the number of those killed is believed to be much bigger when the cases in which all family members were killed or bereaved families moved to other areas in those days and some did not apply for probe are taken into consideration.
Mass killings took place in Hamphyong, too, late in 1950. Another unit of the same division mercilessly killed all the inhabitants of a village there during its mobile operation under the pretext that all of them "cooperated with guerrillas."
The committee, opening to the public such atrocity, said that it was inhumane and barbarous to massacre such defenseless civilians without any procedure though it was the wartime.
Release of Namchongryon Chairman Urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Hyon Ung, director of the Struggle Headquarters of the 16th-term south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), made public a statement on April 17 in demand of the abolition of the "National Security Law" and the release of the chairman of the Kwangju and South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils (Namchongryon).
Recalling that the security investigation group forcibly took away Jo Hyon Sam, chairman of Namchongryon, some days ago, the statement branded the arrest of Jo as an anachronistic action as he has devotedly struggled for peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
It accused the Lee Myung Bak group of standing in the way of the nation while getting frantic with the suppression of the progressive forces from the outset of the year at a time when all the fellow countrymen are waging a dynamic struggle to usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity by their concerted efforts.
It urged the Lee Myung Bak "government", a group opposing the reunification and pursuing a Cold War, and the security authorities to abolish the "National Security Law" blocking the development of the inter-Korean relations, set free the chairman of Namchongryon and lift the labeling of Hanchongryon as an "enemy-benefiting organization" without fail.
Independent Reunification, Peace and Prosperity Called for in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration in south Korea issued a statement titled "Let's usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity by inheriting the spirit of the historic April south-north joint conference" on April 18.
The statement said that the joint conference held in Pyongyang in April 1948 was a significant assembly of the Korean nation to oppose the U.S. policy of dominating the Korean Peninsula and build an independent and sovereign state.
At the joint conference the patriotic forces in the south and the north demonstrated before the world that they could build an independent and sovereign state without foreign interference through great unity regardless of ideology, political view and religious belief in order to tide over the crisis of national division, the statement stressed.
It said that the spirit of great national unity of the joint conference has been inherited to be the spirit of "By our nation itself" enshrined in the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.
If the Lee Myung Bak group follows the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and vociferates about the tightened "south Korea-U.S. alliance" only, oblivious of the lesson of history, it will not be able to escape the same judgment of the entire nation as the Syngman Rhee dictatorial regime faced, it warned.
The solidarity will struggle to fully implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration in the spirit of "By our nation itself" that inherited the spirit of the joint conference, it declared.
Kim Jong Il's Work Published in Russia
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous work "The Songun Revolutionary Line Is the Great Revolutionary Line of Our Times and the Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution" was brought out in booklet by the Khabarovsk Territory Publishing House of Russia.
The work comprehensively deals with the Songun idea and feats of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
A ceremony of releasing the book was held on April 14.
April Holidays of DPRK Commemorated in Different Countries
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A joint seminar of Juche idea study organizations and a book and photo exhibition were held in Uganda, and seminars, photo exhibitions and film shows in Egypt and Thailand from April 6 to 9 on the occasions of the Day of the Sun, the 15th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and the 76th birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army.
Displayed in the venues of the functions were famous works of the peerlessly great persons and photos showing their undying feats and those introducing Songun Korea.
The participants in the film shows watched "For the Liberation of the Country" and other Korean films.
Meanwhile, a seminar on Kim Jong Il's famous work "The Workers' Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" was held in Mexico and seminars on such subjects as "DPRK's Songun Policy" and "Sun of Juche" in Mongolia, Uganda and Britain between April 5 and 8 on the occasions of April holidays.
The director of the International Relations Department of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan made public a statement on April 14 on the same occasions.
Congratulatory Visits Paid to DPRK Missions
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Figures of different circles of foreign countries paid visits to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasions of the Day of the Sun and the 15th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.
Among them were leaders of the Communist Party, the National Socialist Party, the Communist Party(Marxist-Leninist), the Socialist Party and the People's League of Bangladesh, the secretary general of the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, mayors and deputy mayors of Nakhodka, Artyom, Pokino and Partizansk of Russia, the Malaysian minister of Transport and general managers and managers of a travel agency and various companies in Malaysia, the chairman of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea and members of the leadership of the Addis Ababa Youth Association.
They laid floral baskets and bouquets before portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and full-length pictures of them standing together before paying tribute to them.
Kim Il Sung's Revolutionary Feats Lauded
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held by the Bangladesh People's League, the Juche Philosophy Study Committee of India and the Indian Intellectuals' Society for the Study of the Juche Idea on April 11 and 13 to commemorate the Day of the Sun.
Speeches were made at the meetings.
Garib Newaz, president of the Bangladesh People's League, and other speakers said that President Kim Il Sung, after embarking upon the road of revolution in his early years, founded the Juche idea and, on its basis, liberated the country, led the three-year Fatherland Liberation War to victory and successfully built Korean-style socialism centred on the popular masses.
Wipin Gupta, chairman of the Juche Philosophy Study Committee of India, stressed that thanks to the Juche idea and the Songun idea founded by Kim Il Sung the Korean revolution could win victory after victory despite the unprecedentedly rigorous and complicated ordeals and progressive humankind came to have a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon in its struggle for national liberation against imperialism.
He noted that Kim Il Sung was a prominent leader who guided the cause of global independence to victory and a great man who inspired and moved all people with his profound loving care and benevolence.
V. K. Chopra, chairman of the Indian Intellectuals' Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, said that under the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung there appeared in the DPRK the socialist system centred on the popular masses under which the people become masters of everything and everything serves them and which is advancing thanks to their concerted efforts.
Lee Myung Bak's Submission to U.S. Accused
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Association of Koreans in the U.S. against War and Neo-Liberalism made public a statement on April 15 denouncing traitor Lee Myung Bak's submission to the U.S.
The statement accused Lee of talking only about the "restoration" of the unequal south Korea-U.S. "alliance" while remaining indifferent to the future of the Korean nation and sufferings of the south Korean people during his U.S. junket.
No matter how important the "improved alliance" with the U.S. may be, the interests of the nation can never be sacrificed for the sake of the "alliance", the statement noted, and continued: It cannot but be a servile attitude for the traitor to call for an early signing of the south Korea-U.S. "Free Trade Agreement".
The statement stressed that the association desirous of the reunification, peace and prosperity of the country strongly demands the Lee Myung Bak group stop at once all the pro-U.S. submissive acts including the moves to conclude FTA with the U.S. and participate in the PSI and the missile defense system.
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Acto central por 60 aniversario de conferencia conjunta Sur-Norte
Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar este lunes en la explanada frente al Monumento al Frente Unido edificado en el Lugar Historico de la Revolucion de la Isla Suk el acto central por el 60o aniversario de la historica Conferencia Conjunta de los Representantes de los Partidos Politicos y las Organizaciones Sociales del Norte y el Sur de Corea.
En la ocasion participaron Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, el vicepremier del Consejo de Ministros Ro Tu Chol, los presidentes de partidos amigos y otros funcionarios, los laureados con el Premio "Reunificacion de la Patria", los ex presos de largas condenas no abjurados conocidos aqui como combatientes patrioticos por la reunificacion, los funcionarios de organos centrales, los trabajadores capitalinos de diferentes sectores asi como los coreanos en ultramar de visita en la patria socialista.
Al rendir el informe, Yang Hyong Sop, miembro suplente del Buro Politico del Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y vicepresidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema, dijo que esa conferencia sesionada en abril del 37 (1948) de la Era Juche en esta capital por la iniciativa y bajo la direccion del Presidente Kim Il Sung devino un gran conclave nacional de significado historico que abogo por lograr la gran unidad nacional bajo la bandera del patriotismo pro-reunificacion a fin de salvar el destino del pais y la nacion rechazando la intervencion y el dominio de las fuerzas extranjeras.
Gracias a la destacada guia y dinamicas actividades del Presidente, del 19 al 23 de abril de 1948, tuvo lugar con solemnidad en esta capital la historica Conferencia Conjunta de los Representantes de los Partidos Politicos y las Organizaciones Sociales del Norte y del Sur de Corea, preciso el orador y continuo:
El Presidente Kim Il Sung presento el historico informe de esa reunion intitulado "Situacion politica del Norte de Corea".
En ese informe, el hizo un analisis perspicaz de la situacion politica dada en el interior y el exterior del pais y aclaro las tareas de lucha de la nacion coreana del Norte y el Sur por constituir un gobierno democratico unificado rechazando las maniobras divisionistas de los imperialistas norteamericanos.
Tras aquella conferencia intercoreana, bajo la sabia direccion del Presidente, las fuerzas democraticas patrioticas del Norte y el Sur lucharon audazmente por llevar al fracaso las vendepatrias "elecciones separadas para fabricar un gobierno separado" dando un golpe demoledor a las maniobras de division nacional de los imperialistas norteamericanos y sus lacayos y sentando un firme cimiento para la fundacion de nuestra gloriosa patria, Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
Al presentar los principios fundamentales y remedios para la reunificacion de la patria, el Presidente realizo una hazana mas grande e imborrable en el cumplimiento de esta causa.
El Dirigente Kim Jong Il mantiene y da firme continuidad a la autoctona idea acerca de la gran unidad nacional del Presidente y la causa de la reunificacion de la patria.
En particular, el Dirigente propicio la historica cumbre intercoreana en Pyongyang (en junio de 2000) y la aprobacion de la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio y en el ano pasado, hizo publicar la Declaracion del 4 de Octubre, que resulta el programa para implementar en todos los sentidos la primera declaracion.
Esto devino una de sus enormes hazanas imborrables que trajo una nueva coyuntura para el desarrollo de las relaciones Norte-Sur, la paz y la prosperidad.
Los habitantes de diferentes sectores del Sur de Corea y todos los compatriotas dentro y fuera del pais deben unir sus fuerzas para propiciar una nueva coyuntura para el desarrollo de las relaciones Norte-Sur, la paz y la prosperidad frustrando tajantemente las maniobras de las fuerzas opositoras a la reunificacion que niegan las referidas declaraciones.
Igualmente, deben librar una dinamica lucha antiyanqui y antibelica para eliminar de raices los factores que estropean la unidad nacional y la reunificacion de la patria y dar al traste con la politica anti-reunificacion y las maniobras conflictivas con la RPDC de las fuerzas conservadoras en el poder del Sur de Corea.
Ademas, han de apoyar y acatar activamente la magna politica de Songun (priorizacion militar).
Clausurado primer Festival Artistico Nacional por el Dia del Sol
Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- Quedo clausurado el dia 19 el primer Festival Artistico Nacional por el Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung).
Este certamen tuvo 4 secciones, o sea, para los especialistas, los grupos de propaganda artistica, los grupos de agitacion artistica movil y los trabajadores que ofrecieron sus funciones en mas de 10 teatros, casas culturales y Casa Musical en la capital.
La Casa Central de la Juventud y el Palacio Cultural del Pueblo fueron las sedes de las ceremonias de clausura clasificadas en la categoria de artistas profesionales y la de aficionados.
En las ocasiones participaron el vicepresidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema Yang Hyong Sop, el secretario del Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea Kim Jung Rin, el presidente del Comite Organizador del Festival y ministro de Cultura Kang Nung Su, los funcionarios directivos de organizaciones de masas y otros funcionarios, los artistas de entidades artisticas centrales y locales, los miembros de los Grupos de Propaganda Artistica Movil, los miembros de los Circulos Artisticos de Trabajadores y trabajadores capitalinos.
Terminadas las funciones de clausura, hubo premiacion.
En el sector de especialistas fueron otorgados el premio colectivo del festival al conjunto artistico de la provincia de Hamgyong del Norte, el conjunto artistico de coreanos residentes en Japon y otras ocho entidades artisticas, el de armonia a 29 obras, el de creacion a los 19 participantes y el premio individual a los 47 artistas.
En el sector de aficionados fueron entregados el premio colectivo al grupo central de propaganda artistica de la juventud, el grupo de propaganda artistica movil de la Direccion de Ferrocarril de Pyongyang y otras 15 entidades, el de armonia a 29 obras, el de creacion a 42 participantes y el premio individual a 45 participantes.
Kang Nung Su, presidente del Comite Organizador del Festival, y Kim Pyong Hun, presidente del Comite Central de la Federacion General de Escritores y Artistas de Corea, pronunciaron discursos de clausura.
Los oradores subrayaron que esta cita artistica demostro la ferrea voluntad de los habitantes coreanos de luchar con mas tenacidad por la prosperidad de la patria unidos firmemente en torno al Dirigente Kim Jong Il bien convencidos de que el Presidente Kim Il Sung se encuentra siempre junto a ellos.
Rinden homenaje a Kang Pan Sok en 116 aniversario de su natalicio
Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 116o aniversario del nacimiento de Kang Pan Sok, indomable combatiente revolucionaria y destacada dirigente del movimiento femenino coreano, fueron depositadas el dia 21 las ofrendas florales ante su estatua de bronce en el Lugar Historico de la Revolucion de Chilgol y su tumba en Mangyongdae.
En ambos lugares estaban colocadas las ofrendas florales enviadas por 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.
En las ceremonias de homenaje participaron Kim Yong Chun, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Yong Rim, los funcionarios directivos de los organismos del partido y las fuerzas armadas, las entidades de masas, funcionarios de los ministerios y organos centrales, oficiales y soldados del EPC, funcionarios de las instituciones del partido y el Poder en esta capital y trabajadores capitalinos.
Fueron colocadas las ofrendas florales a nombre del CC del PTC, el Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema y el Consejo de Ministros, de la RPDC.
Igualmente, fueron puestas las otras a nombre de las organizaciones de masas, ministerios, organos centrales, unidades del EPC, instituciones de ensenanza y salud publica y de los organismos del partido y el Poder, granjas y escuelas en esta capital.
Los participantes guardaron un momento de silencio recordando la brillante vida revolucionaria y hazanas de Kang Pan Sok.
Rodong Sinmun denuncia intencion de expansion a ultramar de Japon
Pyongyang, 21 de abril (ATCC) -- Recientemente, el Ministerio de Defensa de Japon publico el informe intitulado "Estrategia y perspectiva de Asia Oriental de 2008" en el que enumero la "necesidad" de la expansion a ultramar expresando inquietud por el fortalecimiento de fuerzas armadas de Rusia en el Lejano Oriente y el de capacidad militar de China.
Con anterioridad el premier japones Fukuda insistio en el establecimiento de la ley sobre el envio a ultramar de las "fuerzas de autodefensa" de Japon sin la ratificacion de la dieta, mientras el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Japon, al publicar la "carta blanca de desarme" para 2008, dijo que el ensayo nuclear y el de lanzamiento de misiles de los paises perifericos constituyen una grave "amenaza" al Nordeste Asiatico y el resto del mundo.
Detras de que los reaccionarios japoneses hablan abiertamente de la "necesidad" de expansion a ultramar e insisten en el establecimiento de la ley de envio a ultramar de sus "fuerzas de autodefensa", esta ocultado el designio de asestar el ataque preventivo a otros paises bajo el pretexto de "amenaza" de alguien y realizar a toda costa su ambicion de expansion ultramarina.
Asi senala el diario Rodong Sinmun en un comentario individual del dia 21 y pone de relieve con datos de que Japon habia venido entregandose desde hace mucho tiempo a las maniobras de su expansion a ultramar y prosigue:
La expansion a ultramar es la invariable ambicion de los militaristas japoneses.
En realidad, la esfera de actividades de las "fuerzas de autodefensa" de Japon rebasa la region periferica a su pais y se amplia al ambito mundial.
Los reaccionarios japoneses dan acicate al completamiento de sus preparativos de agresion para el ataque preventivo sonando con el dominio al Nordeste Asiatico y el resto del mundo.
El complot de tal expansion ultramarina demuestra cada dia mas su peligrosidad y caracter reaccionario.
El camino de expansion a ultramar de Japon es el de autodestruccion. Los reaccionarios japoneses deben abandonar la estupida y temeraria intencion.