Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit 1622

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected KPA Unit 1622.
    He dropped in at the training hall to acquaint himself with the training of servicepersons of the unit.
    He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the unit to further increase its combat capability, expressing satisfaction over the fact that the commanding officers and men of the unit have grown to be a-match-for-a hundred fighters by undergoing effective trainings, pursuant to the WPK's policy of training.
    He saw the positive examples set by officers, commissioned officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves in training and highly appreciated the shining feats they have performed by exerting great efforts for training.
    Noting that all the servicepersons of the unit could possess a high level of military technology and combat capability as it has paid primary attention to the training, he said intensifying the training provides a sure guarantee for boosting the combat capability of the unit.
    After acquainting himself with the work conducted by the unit to turn the areas around the unit into a thick woodland and greenery, he praised it for having created a large area of forest and tended it with good care and highly appreciated patriotism displayed by its servicepersons.
    He took deep care of its soldiers' service and living, making the rounds of an education room, bedroom, mess hall, non-staple food store, wash-cum-bath house, barber's and other entertainment and educational and supply service facilities.
    He learned about the quality of the CDs shown on a TV screen and the use of entertainment equipment and expressed satisfaction over the fact that the unit has provided the soldiers with good conditions for a cultural and emotional life.
    He called on the commanding officers of the unit to pay deep attention to the living of the soldiers, always bearing deep in mind the teaching of President Kim Il Sung that supply service precisely means a political work, and indicated ways to do so.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su.


Japan's Past Crimes and Moves for Reinvasion Assailed

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Committee for Investigation into the Damage Done by the Japanese Imperialists during Their Occupation of Korea released a statement on August 1, 65 years after the Japanese imperialists put the criminal "conscription system" into force to hurl young and middle-aged Koreans into their war of aggression as cannon fodder.
    The statement said: The Japanese imperialists adopted "the bill on the revision of the military service law" in 1943 in the wake of the promulgation of "ordinance on the special Korean volunteers for the army," thus perpetrating such hair-raising atrocities as bringing unspeakable disasters and sufferings to the Korean nation. They are unpardonable as they were the most barbarous war crimes in the world history.
    The Japanese reactionaries are still today evading the responsibility to redeem the hideous unethical crimes Japan committed against the Korean nation in the last century, instead of making apology and reparation for these crimes. They are going mad with the brazen-faced moves to tamper with their history of aggression and grab Tok Islet and hostile moves against the DPRK in a bid to stage a comeback to Korea.
    This is an infringement upon the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation, a wanton violation of the justice and conscience and a blatant challenge to all the fellow countrymen and the international community demanding the settlement of the past crimes.
    We will never forget the monstrous criminal acts perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists to exterminate the Korean nation after illegally occupying Korea but surely force Japan to pay for their crimes.
    The wild ambition of the Japanese reactionaries to realize their old dream of "the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" has become evermore undisguised due to the Lee Myung Bak group's sycophancy towards Japan and treachery.
    We will never pardon not only Japan's past crimes and moves for reinvasion but the crimes committed by the Lee group against the nation.


Kim Yong Nam Meets CPC Delegation

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with the delegation of officials of the Communist Party of China led by Li Jengzhen, director of the Party History Research Centre of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy director of the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
    Kim Yong Nam said the long-standing DPRK-China friendship is favorably developing with each passing day under the deep care of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and Hu Jintao.
    Referring to the successes made by the party, the army and people of China in eradicating the aftermath of the great earthquake that hit Wenchuan, he expressed the hope that the Beijing Olympiad would prove successful.
    The head of the CPC delegation said that while staying in the DPRK the delegation witnessed the achievements made by the Korean people in their efforts to develop economy and improve the standard of the people's living under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by its General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
    He wished them bigger progress in their drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation.


Gift to Kim Jong Il

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by a delegation of officials of the Communist Party of China on a visit to the DPRK.
    It was handed over to Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Friday by Li Jengzhen, director of the Party History Research Centre of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy director of the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC who is heading the delegation.


Congratulations to PM of Equatorial Guinea

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Il, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to Ignacio Milan Tang on July 30 on his appointment as Prime Minister of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
    Reiterating his will to closely cooperate with his Equatorial Guinean counterpart in the efforts to ensure that the good ties between the DPRK and Equatorial Guinea would grow stronger in the mutual interests, Kim in the message sincerely wished him success in his work for the prosperity of the country.


Member of European Parliament and His Party Arrive

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Glyn Ford, member of the European Parliament from the British Labour Party, and his party arrived here today by air.


Seminar on Juche-oriented Literary and Art Idea Held

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- A seminar of the Juche-oriented literary and art idea on the orchestra and chorus "Snow Falls" was held on Thursday.
    Speakers at the seminar said that the orchestra and chorus "Snow Falls," a combination of Korean-style orchestra, chorus and modality, is a monumental masterpiece in the Songun era as it perfectly embodied the Workers' Party of Korea's Juche-oriented literary and art idea of creating and representing famous songs listed as national treasures as peculiar ones as required by the developing reality.
    They explained on how the above-said performance brought about a new phase in creating music pieces in the era of Songun by successfully representing in the form of orchestra and chorus the original tune of the song "Snow Falls".
    The most important success in its creation is that it made the song loved by the people shine as a famous one worthy of a national treasure by applying the method of music representation that can help bring the ideological contents and artistry of the original tune of the song to the highest level, they noted, and went on:
    The above-said orchestra and chorus has been arranged in such a manner as to ensure their profound philosophical contents and wide-ranging representation. This can be explained by the fact that the creating staff succeeded in finding out Korean style modality by use of diverse means and methods of representation. To be more specific, the creators found out the core of the famous song and oriented all its aspects to explaining its seed. They were successful in the musical plot and organization of its composition. They also succeeded in finding out the tune deep in national coloring by preserving the original tune as the main tune in the music arrangement and combining national musical instruments with Western ones.
    They stressed that the above-mentioned orchestra and chorus has been produced as a masterpiece that can represent the era of Songun, the new century, entirely thanks to the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    They underscored the need for all creators and artistes to produce more masterpieces in the Songun era by thoroughly arming themselves with the WPK's literary and art ideas and theories and earnestly learning from the success and experience gained in the creation of the above-said orchestra and chorus.
    Attending the seminar were Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su, Kim Pyong Hun, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, and creators, artistes, teachers and students in the field of culture and arts.


Tok Islet with Many Nicknames

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Tok Islet has more nicknames than any other Korean islets.
    Its names conveyed till today are Usan, Sambong, Kaji, Sok, etc.
    Usan Islet is its earliest name. It is derived from Usanguk which exercised jurisdiction over Ullung and Usan (Tok) islets in the early 6th century.
    Later "Usan" was changed into "Tok" of today.
    "Geographical Handbook of True Records of King Sejong" (1432) made clear the relations between Ullung and Usan islets and Usanguk, saying: "Usan and Murung islets are located in the middle of the sea east of the prefecture. The two islets being not far away from each other, one can see the other islet from one islet in a clear day. They were called Usanguk in the period of Silla dynasty".
    Tok Islet was once called "Sambong Islet" or "Kaji Islet".
    "True Records of King Songjong" says: "Three rocks lie in a row to the north of the islet. Lying next is Jung Islet and there is a small islet to the west of it. All of them are washed by the same sea water".
    Tok Islet was called Sambong mainly by the people of Hamgyong Province in those days for its external features.
    Kaji Islet, its another name, came from kaji which meant the seal in inherent Korean, which is the special product of Tok Islet.
    A record about Kaji Islet is found in "True Records of King Jongjo" (June Jongjo 18). According to it, Han Chang Guk, a military commander of Wolsong, went to Ullung and there he changed his course to Kaji Islet, where he caught two Kaji (seals) in April 1794.
    Sok and Tok were attached to the islet after the 1880s when active development of Ullung Islet was undertaken.
    Tok Islet has also European names.


Korean Revolution Museum

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The Korean Revolution Museum is greeting its 60th birthday.
    The museum, founded on August 1, Juche 37 (1948), has turned into a powerful centre of ideological education, a great edifice of education in the revolutionary traditions, of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    It has more than 90 rooms showing the people's struggle against the aggressors and the Korean revolution in the historical period spanning from the middle of the 1860s to the present Songun era when they are building a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation.
    It consists of rooms devoted to each period of the revolution and construction such as the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the building of a new country, the Fatherland Liberation War, the construction of foundations of socialism, the overall construction of socialism and the development in depth of the three revolutions, the room for President Kim Il Sung and his comrades-in-arms, the room for national reunification and the room for overseas Koreans.
    On display there are tens of thousands of revolutionary historical relics and remains, materials, large-sized semi-panoramic pictures "Pochonbo Battle" and "Defensive Battle on Height 1,211", five medium and small-sized semi-panoramic pictures, various mock-ups, charts, wax images, computer editions, tape and video recordings and other manufactured exhibits.
    It is visited every year by a great number of Koreans at home and overseas and foreigners. The number of the visitors totals above 27 millions since its foundation.
    The museum has issued lots of publications including the books "Revolutionary Comrades-in-arms Enjoying Immortality" and "Handbook for Visitors to Korean Revolution Museum" and the picture album "Korean Revolution Museum."


Important Guideline on National Unity and Reunification Cause

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung published the famous work "Let Us Achieve the Great Unity of Our Nation" on August 1, Juche 80 (1991).
    The work is a monumental document reflecting his unswerving will to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country with the concerted efforts of 70 million Korean people, the internal forces of the national reunification.
    He in the work indicates in an overall way the task, fundamental principle and way to realize the idea and theory of great unity for national reunification and to achieve the great unity of nation.
    The work clarifies the idea and theory on the issue of attaining a firm unity of the whole nation on the basis of patriotism and the spirit of national independence, the issue of giving precedence to the common interests of the nation and subordinating all to the reunification cause, transcending differences in ideology, system and religious faith, the issue of conducting contacts, visits and dialogues among the fellow-countrymen in the north, south and overseas in a big way, the issue of strengthening the nation-wide solidarity and realizing the organizational cohesion in the efforts for national reunification and others. They are the important guideline to be firmly adhered to in increasing the internal forces of national reunification.
    The validity and vitality of the work had been testified by the pro-reunification movement which developed into a nation-wide one by rallying the patriotic forces of the north, south and overseas around the great national united front under the wise leadership of the President in the 1990s.
    Its attraction and vitality has been more convincingly demonstrated in the June 15 reunification era.
    The June 15 joint declaration, the landmark of national reunification in the new century, and the October 4 declaration, its practical programme, have definitely turned the reunification cause into the work to be done by our nation itself.
    The north-south relationship of distrust and confrontation was converted into one of reconciliation and cooperation and the whole territory of the country was replete with the high degree of enthusiasm of reconciliation and solidarity.
    The shouts of "We are one" loudly rang in Pyongyang and Seoul, Mt. Paektu and Mt. Kumgang, Kaesong and Kwangju, Pusan and Taegu, powerfully demonstrating the validity and vitality of the President's idea and guideline of great national unity.
    The immortal contribution President Kim Il Sung made to the cause of national reunification by advancing the fair and aboveboard idea and theory of great national unity will shine long in the annals of the country.


Lee Myung Bak's Opposition to October 4 Declaration Termed Act of Treachery

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The part supporting the October 4 declaration was deleted from the statement of the chairman of the ministerial meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum at the "request" of the Lee Myung Bak group after the meeting came to close on July 28.
    When the above-said part was included in the statement, Lee severely criticized the south Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Much upset by this, the minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade instructed the assistant minister active in Singapore to get the above-said part deleted from the statement unconditionally. Acting upon the instruction, south Korean puppets met those concerned of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, the chair state of the meeting, and repeatedly implored them to delete that part from the statement.
    This mean behavior of the Lee group comes under fire by a signed commentary of Minju Joson Friday.
    The Lee group unhesitatingly stripped bare on the international arena the treacherous aim sought by them in pursuing inter-Korean confrontation, while negating and opposing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing the former, the commentary observes, and goes on:
    This undisguised act of treachery explains the reason why Lee said in his recent "policy speech" made at the "National Assembly" that the October 4 declaration might be discussed.
    By origin, Lee, displeased with the above-said declarations, regarded them as bete noire.
    Right after the declarations were published, Lee sidestepped and negated the above-said declarations in a bid to stem the trend of the times towards national reconciliation and unity and reunification of the country and do harm to fellow countrymen, backed by the United States.
    The recent demeanor of the Lee group substantially proved that what he uttered was nothing but a sheer lie intended to allure the people desirous of national reconciliation, unity and the reunification of the country and mislead the public opinion in a bid to tide over the ever-deepening ruling crisis.
    As shown by the present reality, Lee Myung Bak is no more than a philistine who is accustomed to telling lies and a political charlatan with whom one can hardly deal.
    As long as such philistine and swindler as Lee stays in power in south Korea, there will be only hurdles in the way of national reconciliation, unity and reunification, concludes the commentary.


Anniversary of Publication of Kim Il Sung's Work Observed

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Friday dedicates a signed article to the 17th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's work "Let Us Achieve the Great Unity of Our Nation."
    The work comprehensively deals with a wealth of practical experience gained in the arduous revolutionary struggle in the DPRK which has advanced and triumphed thanks to the might of unity, gives answers to the principled questions arising in achieving the great unity of the nation and indicates concrete tasks to be fulfilled to solve them and ways to do so.
    The work serves as an immortal programme for the great unity of the nation to be always held fast to by the Koreans as invariable guidelines for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, the article says, and goes on:
    As the President clarified in the work, to achieve the great unity of the nation is the most important task for realizing national reunification.
    The national character peculiar to the Koreans and the special characteristics of the historical development of Korea raise the issue of the nation's unity as a more urgent demand.
    The work clearly teaches the truth that it is the master key to carving out the nation's destiny independently to strengthen the driving force for national reunification and achieve the great unity of the nation.
    In order to achieve the above-said unity it is necessary for the members of the nation, first of all, to firmly maintain the principle of placing the common interests of the nation above anything else and subordinating everything to the cause of national reunification irrespective of ideology, system and religious belief.
    As clarified by the work, all Koreans at home and abroad should struggle with the might of the unity. This alone provides a sure guarantee for bringing earlier the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
    The idea of "By our nation itself", the core of the June 15 joint declaration, means a full embodiment of the idea and line of the great unity of the nation set forth and consistently maintained by the President.
    The Korean nation has nothing to fear and no obstacles insurmountable as it has such powerful treasured sword as the great unity of the nation provided by the President and Kim Jong Il is wisely leading all Koreans to unity and reunification.


Results of Investigation Conducted by Prosecution under Fire

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet prosecution announced the results of the intermediary investigation into MBC on July 29 which disclosed the injustice of the import of American beef, according to the south Korean KBS.
    The prosecution blustered it drew the conclusion that MBC deliberately hyped the danger of "mad cow disease", claiming that it found 19 mistranslations and distortions out of what was reported by MBC about American beef.
    The prosecution let loose a spate of threatening remarks that it would examine the proposal for indicting those involved in preparing the broadcasting programs in the wake of pressurizing MBC to submit the relevant information till August 13.
    In this regard MBC branded the prosecution as "a spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery which requested it to conduct an illegal investigation", stating that MBC cannot recognize the results of its investigation.
    The Civic Solidarity for Reforming Media held that "it is better for the prosecution to throw media into prison." It noted that experts on "mad cow disease" would call a press conference refuting the results of the investigation.
    Opposition parties including the Democratic Labor Party of south Korea declared that the unreasonable investigation conducted by the prosecution into MBC was a move to gag the press critical of the "government".


S. Korean Authorities' Suppression of Workers Denounced

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The Federation of south Korean Trade Unions made public a statement on July 28 in denunciation of the authorities' unjust suppression of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.
    The statement charged that the police issued arrest warrants for core members of the KCTU and took away its Chief Vice-Chairwoman Jin Yong Ok.
    Noting that the police have asserted that the issue of the arrest warrants was ascribable to the general strike against the American beef import, it contended that the labor movement organizations' just exercise of rights related to the socio-economically important matters should not be disapproved.
    If the "government" persists in the method of taking unreasonable legal action against trade unions and civic and public organizations, talking about "law and principle," this will create a grave crisis in the whole society including the labor movement, the statement warned.
    It demanded that the authorities repeal the issued arrest warrants for core members of the KCTU, immediately release Jin Yong Ok and ensure just activities of trade unions.


Pullout of U.S. Forces from S. Korea Urged

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Organizations of different social standings in south Korea staged actions for demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from south Korea and the conclusion of a peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the conclusion of the Armistice Agreement.
    A meeting urging the conclusion of a peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula without the U.S. forces took place in Seoul on July 26.
    Present there were members of different organizations including the Solidarity for Progress of south Korea, the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Joint Measure Committee of Civic and Public Organizations against the Expansion of Training Ground in Mugon-ri.
    Speakers at the meeting stressed the need to replace the AA by a peace agreement and remove the main factors of military threat, including the U.S. forces present in south Korea, as soon as possible, branding the U.S. as the mastermind of fostering division and confrontation between the south and the north of Korea and disturbing peace.
    In a resolution the participants declared that they would surely drive out the U.S. forces justifying their presence in south Korea under the pretexts of "threat from the north" and "strengthened south Korea-U.S. alliance" by vigorously conducting the movement for building peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula.
    On the same day, the Youth and Students Headquarters of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration held an anti-war peace rally of youth and students in Seoul.
    A resolution, read out at the rally, called for activating the movement to terminate the present armistice system and build a permanent peace mechanism as stipulated in the October 4 declaration.
    The resolution stressed that people from all walks of life should firmly unite around June 15 All-Korean Committee to adhere to and implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and realize peace on the Korean Peninsula.
    The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification, an anti-war peace movement organization, held an event for realizing a peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula at the people's hall in Jongro Ward, Seoul, on July 27 and then a meeting to vow the struggle for it outside the U.S. embassy.
    Also, the Citizen's Solidarity for Peace and Reunification, the Alliance of National Harmony Movements and other civic organizations called a meeting to vow to urge the termination of the armistice system and the establishment of peace mechanism in Seoul. After the meeting they staged a demonstration.


War Victory Day Celebrated Abroad

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held by the Lugazi Branch of the Uganda-DPRK Friendship Association, a photo exhibition by the Ugandan National Women's Council and round table talks in a company of Indonesia on July 24 and 25 on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
    Displayed in the venue of the photo exhibition were photographs showing immortal Songun leadership feats of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and those introducing the heroic struggle waged by the army and people of the DPRK to win a victory in the war.
    Speeches were made at the functions.
    S. N. Serwanga, chairman of the Lugazi Branch of the Uganda-DPRK Friendship Association, and the acting executive secretary of the Ugandan National Women's Council, referred to the fact that the Korean people beat back the armed invasion of the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being "the strongest" in the world and their satellite forces and honorably defended the freedom and sovereignty of the country in the last war under the wise leadership of the President. They also noted that the dignity and might of the DPRK are being more powerfully demonstrated to the whole world thanks to the original Songun policy of Kim Jong Il.
    The manager of a company in Indonesia said that in the Korean war the DPRK, though small, defeated the U.S. which boasted of being "the strongest" in the world thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung, the invincible and iron-willed commander, and the might of the Korean people united as one around him.


War Victory Day Observed by Bangladeshi Party

   Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Hasanul Huq Inu, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Bangladesh National Socialist Party, released a statement on July 26 on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
    He said in the statement that the shining victory won by the DPRK in the three-year-long hard-fought sacred war against the U.S. under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung marked an epoch-making event to be specially recorded in the human history and set a heroic example showing how to protect the dignity and happiness of the independent people from the imperialists' invasion.
    He continued:
    The U.S. imperialists are now making every desperate effort to provoke another war of aggression on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to realize their wild ambition to dominate the world, oblivious of the lesson drawn from their ignominious defeat.
    The U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression and threat are, however, meeting frustration and setbacks in face of the heroic struggle of the army and the people of the DPRK possessed of the invincible war deterrent under the outstanding Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, great brilliant commander.
    The victories and successes achieved by the DPRK in the struggle to defend socialism and build a great prosperous powerful nation under the great banner of Songun immensely encourage the world revolutionary people desirous of independence.
    Firmly convinced that the DPRK will achieve greater success in building a great prosperous powerful nation and in the struggle for national reunification under the uplifted banner of Songun, the Bangladesh National Socialist Party extends firm solidarity to the brave People's Army and people of the DPRK creating a history of winning one victory after another on the forefront of the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle.


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Entidad coreana denuncia crimenes de Japon del siglo pasado

   Pyongyang, 1 de agosto (ATCC) -- En ocasion del 65o aniversario de la imposicion del criminal "sistema de reclutamiento" por los imperialistas japoneses para utilizar a los jovenes y adultos coreanos como carne de canon en las guerras de agresion, el portavoz del Comite de Investigacion de los Danos por la Ocupacion de Corea por los Imperialistas Japoneses publico este viernes una declaracion.
    Los imperialistas japoneses hicieron sufrir a la nacion coreana indecibles desgracias y penalidades en virtud del "decreto sobre los voluntarios especiales coreanos de las fuerzas terrestres" y del "proyecto legal de enmienda de la ley de servicio militar" promulgado en 1943, senala la nota y prosigue:
    Estas atrocidades resultan los mas barbaros crimenes de guerra que no tienen precedentes en la historia mundial y nunca seran toleradas.
    En lugar de pedir disculpas e indemnizar por los peores crimenes de lesa humanidad cometidos en el siglo pasado contra la nacion coreana, los reaccionarios nipones eluden hacerlo y maniobran freneticamente para satisfacer su ambicion de retomar el camino de agresion mediante la descarada distorsion de la historia de agresion, la extorsion de la isla Tok y la ejecucion de la politica hostil a la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea.
    Esto deviene el atentado a la dignidad y la soberania de la nacion coreana, flagrante violacion de la justicia y conciencia y abierto desafio a todos los coreanos y la sociedad internacional que demandan a Japon liquidar sus crimenes del pasado.
    Nuestro pueblo nunca olvidara y ajustara la cuenta, cueste lo que cueste, de los ensangrentados crimenes de los imperialistas japoneses, que ocuparon ilegalmente a Corea y trataron de exterminar a la nacion coreana.
    El servilismo a Japon de la banda de Lee Myung Bak del Sur de Corea hace cada vez mas abierta la ambicion de los reaccionarios japoneses de llevar a la realidad su viejo sueno de la "Esfera de coprosperidad de gran Asia oriental".
    Nuestro pueblo no perdonara ni en lo minimo los crimenes y las tentativas de nueva agresion de Japon y los crimenes antinacionales de la horda de Lee Myung Bak.


Kim Jong Il recibe presente de delegacion china

   Pyongyang, 1 de agosto (ATCC) -- El Dirigente Kim Jong Il recibio presente que le dirigiera la delegacion de los cuadros del Partido Comunista de China, de visita en Corea.
    Li Jengzhen, presidente del Instituto de Historia del Partido del Comite Central del PCCh y subdirector de la escuela del Partido del CC del PCCh, quien preside la delegacion, lo entrego este viernes al presidente del Presidium de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, Kim Yong Nam.


Seminario sobre musica orquestal y coro "Cae la nieve"

   Pyongyang, 1 de agosto (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar la vispera el seminario de la autoctona idea literaria y artistica sobre la musica orquestal y coro "Cae la nieve".
    En la ocasion los oradores subrayaron que la obra maestra "Cae la nieve" creo la musica orquestal, el coro y la modalidad al estilo coreano y continuaron:
    @Esta obra maestra de valor monumental de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar) materializo perfectamente la autoctona idea literaria y artistica del Partido del Trabajo de Corea consistente en readaptar e interpretar las canciones famosas del valor de patrimonio nacional como originales piezas musicales conforme a la realidad en desarrollo.
    La magnifica interpretacion de la cancion "Cae la nieve" en forma de musica orquestal y coro exploro el nuevo terreno de la creacion de las piezas musicales en la epoca del Songun.
    El exito mas importante de esta labor es que hizo brillar esa cancion predilecta del pueblo como patrimonio nacional al utilizar el genero musical capaz de describir al maximo nivel el contenido ideo-artistico de su melodia original.
    El arreglo musical de "Cae la nieve" logro la profundizacion musical y filosofica gracias a la correcta busqueda de la clave de la cancion, desenvolvimiento de la obra en direccion de aclarar su tematica principal y al excelente proyecto y composicion musical.
    Igualmente, se debio a la creacion de la modalidad al estilo coreano mediante el uso de los medios y metodos descriptivos con que fue buscada en el arreglo musical una tonalidad de denso matiz nacional conservando en lo fundamental la melodia original y combinando los instrumentos musicales nacionales con los occidentales.
    La conversion de "Cae la nieve" en la obra maestra del nuevo siglo digna de representar la epoca del Songun es resultado de la incansable direccion del Dirigente Kim Jong Il.
    Todos los creadores y artistas deben armarse firmemente con la idea y la teoria del Partido del Trabajo de Corea acerca de la literatura y arte y crear mucho mas obras maestras de la epoca del Songun empleando los exitos y experiencias logrados en la creacion de "Cae la nieve".
    En este foro estuvieron presentes el ministro de Cultura Kang Nung Su, el presidente del Comite Central de la Federacion General de Escritores y Artistas de Corea, Kim Pyong Hun, los creadores, artistas, profesores y estudiantes de la rama.


Minju Joson condena acto traidor de Lee Myung Bak

   Pyongyang, 1 de agosto (ATCC) -- Despues de terminada el 28 de julio la reunion ministerial del Foro Regional de ASEAN, fue tachado por la "peticion de la banda de Lee Myung Bak" el parrafo de la declaracion del presidente que apoyaba la Declaracion del 4 de Octubre aprobada entre el Norte y el Sur de Corea.
    Al respecto, el rotativo Minju Joson publico este viernes un comentario individual que sigue:
    Cuando fue incluido en la declaracion del presidente de dicha reunion de ASEAN el parrafo mencionado, Lee Myung Bak fustigo al "Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Comercio".
    Por su parte, el aturdido ministro exterior ordeno eliminarlo incondicionalmente al asistente del ministro, quien se encontraba en el lugar de la reunion.
    Segun esa instruccion, los titeres surcoreanos suplicaron reiteradamente la omision del polemico parrafo a los funcionarios del MINREX de Singapur, pais presidente de la reunion ministerial del Foro Regional de ASEAN.
    De esta manera, la banda de Lee revelo sin escrupulos en la escena internacional su naturaleza de traidores que niegan y rechazan la Declaracion Conjunta del 15 de Junio y la Declaracion del 4 de Octubre, programa para implementar la primera, y persiguen la confrontacion con el Norte de Corea.
    En su "discurso sobre la politica gubernamental" pronunciado recientemente en la "Asamblea Nacional", Lee hablo de la posibilidad de debatir la Declaracion del 4 de Octubre.
    Pero, esa abierta accion traidora cometida en Singapur comprobo que lo dicho por Lee fue una mentira pura para remediar su cada dia mas aguda crisis de gobernacion seduciendo al pueblo aspirante a la reconciliacion, la unidad y la reunificacion nacionales e induciendo en error a la opinion publica.
    Desde el principio, Lee estuvo disgustado de dichas declaraciones porque se proponia frenar la corriente de la epoca hacia la reconciliacion, la unidad y la reunificacion de la nacion y hacer dano a los connacionales con la ayuda de EE.UU.
    Como demuestra la realidad, Lee Myung Bak es politiquero mentiroso y estafador con quien no vale la pena tratarse.
    Mientras permanecen en el "poder" del Sur de Corea los politiqueros estafadores de la calana de Lee, se vera obstaculizado siempre el camino de la reconciliacion, la unidad y la reunificacion de la nacion.