DPRK News March 13
Kim Jong Il enjoys art performance
Greetings to Mauritius President
Hoeryong chestnut
Loving care shown on soldier-builders
Japan urged to apologize for Sugishima's espionage
KCNA on Japan's foolish trick
Status of forces agreement privileges GI criminals
Tokyo metropolitan governor's anti-DPRK diatribe
Congolese preparatory committee formed
Kim Il Sung lauded
FOR SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE
Kim Jong Il enjoys art performance
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed a
performance given by art
propaganda squads of the navy and air force commands of the Korean People's
Army on March 12.
Members of the art propaganda squads put on the stage a chorus "Sound
of Horse's Hoof on Mt. Paektu," a
male solo and pangchang "Where Is the Dear General," a solo and agitation
"Let Us More Tightly Hold the Weapon
of the Revolution," a poem and chorus "Let Us Uphold Our Supreme Commander
With Arms" and other colorful
numbers of various art styles.
Through the performance, the squad members vividly showed the
invincible might of the KPA and the firm
faith and will of the people's army soldiers to devotedly safeguard the
headquarters of the revolution and accomplish
the Juche revolutionary cause at any cost with arms under the guidance of
General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
They also eloquently proved the validity and vitality of the WPK's
policy on conducting art propaganda
activities as anti-Japanese guerrillas did and clearly demonstrated the
might of the soldier-artistes who are creditably
performing their militant mission as honorable fighters on the forefront of
the ideological front, sharing sweets and
bitters with soldiers.
Kim Jong Il expressed great satisfaction with the successful
performance given by the members of the art
propaganda squads as artistes of the revolutionary army and highly praised
their achievements in giving courage and
confidence in sure victory to soldiers by conducting brisk revolutionary
and militant art propaganda activities with
intense loyalty to the party and the leader.
He acquainted himself in detail with their activities and set forth
highly important tasks which would serve as
guidelines in more thoroughly converting activities of all art propaganda
squads of combined units into the
anti-Japanese guerrilla style.
The performance was appreciated by director of the general political
department of the KPA Jo Myong Rok,
chief of the general staff of the KPA Kim Yong Chun, Minister of the
People's Armed Forces Kim Il Chol and other
KPA general officers.
It was also appreciated by secretary of the Central Committee of the
Worker's Party of Korea Kim Yong Sun
and first vice-directors of departments of the party central committee.
Greetings to Mauritius President
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, on March 9 sent a message of greetings to Cassam Uteem, President
of Mauritius, on the occasion of the
32nd anniversary of the independence of Mauritius and the 8th anniversary
of the proclamation of the republic.
The message wished the President and people of Mauritius greater
success in their work for achieving progress
and prosperity of the country.
Hoeryong chestnut
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- The Songbuk, village, situated 10km
northwest of county town of Hoeryong
in North Hamgyong Province, cherishes a national pride: A chestnut tree
rare to occur in northern Korea. Called as
Hoeryong chestnut and listed as a national living monument, it grows in the
cold latitudes far beyond its normal
zone.
Dating from 1920, it is 8.8m tall, 35cm across at the base of the trunk
and 9.2m across the tree-top. The
branches are gray and the boughs grayish brown, and the twinges are shorter
and thinner than average.
The first frost comes around September 29 and the last around April 30.
The buds sprout between May 25 and June 5 and the blossoms come out
between June 10 and 22. The fruit
ripens in late September through early October and the tree sheds leaves in
late October. The cluster of chestnut is
round-shaped and average-sized, and a fruit weighs some 10 grammers.
Because of its location on the northern off-limits of chestnut
distribution, the tree is of academic interest in
studying the occurrence of plants in relation to the ecosystem.
Loving care shown on soldier-builders
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Soldier-builders of the Korean People's
Army who participated in the
reconstruction of the Mujigae (rainbow) tunnel visited Pyongyang some days
ago to inspect the native home of
President Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae, the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, the
three-revolution exhibition and other
places.
Their visit is associated with the paternal loving care and solicitude
of General Secretary Kim Jong Il for the
soldier-builders.
The reconstruction of the Mujigae tunnel on the Pyongyang-Wonsan
Motorway began at a time when the
Korean people were making the "arduous march", tiding over ordeals.
For the sake of traffic convenience in this period, General Secretary
entrusted the KPA with the reconstruction
of the tunnel.
When the project started, he frequently acquainted himself with the
project and solved all the knotty problems
even under the difficult conditions of the country.
In a year when the project was in full swing, he saw to it that special
food was served for the soldier-builders
on several occasions, saying that they were taking much trouble under the
difficult conditions.
Under his warm loving care and solicitude, they pushed ahead with the
project in the revolutionary spirit of
self-reliance though they did such work for the first time.
When water dripped from the ceiling, they studied and introduced new
construction methods and when
electricity supply was suspended, they lighted lamps and stepped up the
project with hammering, so that they
completed the project in three years.
Looking round the rebuilt tunnel in February, Kim Jong Il gave thanks
to the whole unit for taking much
trouble.
Informed that some soldiers put off their discharge till the completion
of the project, he told the commanding
officers to send them to universities as they hoped and wanted, and posed
for a souvenir picture with
soldier-builders.
Japan urged to apologize for Sugishima's espionage
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Takashi Sugishima, researcher of the
Japan Market Economy Institute, was
detained on November 30 last year by a relevant organ for his espionage in
violation of the DPRK's law after
coming to it as a member of a delegation. In this regard Rodong Sinmun
today carries a signed commentary.
The commentary says:
It was confirmed that he had been engaged in espionage aimed to gather
information related to secrets of the
party, state and military in the DPRK, relations between the DPRK and U.S.,
between the DPRK and Japan and
other matters related to the DPRK's foreign policy.
Though three months have passed since the disclosure of the case, the
Japanese government has neither
admitted nor apologized for it.
Sugishima fully confessed and admitted that he committed espionage by
use of a portable tape recorder and
camera and other devices for his spying activities, the commentary notes,
and goes on: this is only part of the
undeniable convincing material and legal evidence.
The results of the investigation clearly proves that his espionage was
conducted under a carefully worked out
plan of the relevant organ of Japan and the South Korean authorities and
obviously what he did was anti-DPRK
espionage.
He deserves punishment under the relevant law of the DPRK as his
espionage against the DPRK has been
confirmed.
The Japanese authorities' adamant insistence that his espionage has
nothing to do with the government makes
the case more complicated and will turn the situation more unfavorable to them.
Japan is well advised to behave itself so that its regret may not come
too late.
KCNA on Japan's foolish trick
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Recently officials and some media of
Japan have peddled the "Yodo" plane
case again in a bid to link it with the U.S. issue of declassifying the
DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism".
It is not hard to guess the trick of the Japanese reactionaries to fish
in the troubled waters while unnecessarily
meddling in other's affair.
We make clear that the "Yodo" plane case can never be linked with the
issue of "sponsoring terrorism" and their
persistent allegation is a far-fetched argument which can be made only by
those who are steeped in the logic of
drawing water to one's own mill.
The truth about the "Yodo" plane case, the so-called airliner
"hijacking" by left-wing students of Japan, was
disclosed 30 years ago by a KCNA statement issued on April 4, 1970 in which
the DPRK explicitly clarified that it
could never play the role of Japanese police.
It is, therefore, preposterous for them to describe the DPRK stand and
attitude toward those involved in the
airliner "Yodo" case as a "support to terrorism." Japan and the United
States must be called the world's biggest
sponsors of terrorism as they are operating as dens of international exiles
after alluring or taking away peoples of the
DPRK and many other countries to reduce them to "exiles".
The Japanese reactionaries are well advised to stop such a foolish
anti-DPRK diatribe over the worn-out "Yodo"
plane case and liquidate their crime-woven past as soon as possible.
Status of forces agreement privileges GI criminals
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- The U.S. troops in South Korea are
privileged by the South Korean
authorities' flunkeyist and treacherous action.
The U.S. troops stationed in Japan and Germany, defeated countries, are
bound by law.
But the gi criminals are enjoying extra-territorial privilege in South
Korea.
It is guaranteed by the "status of forces agreement" signed between the
U.S. and the South Korean authorities.
In the "agreement" the South Korean authorities are to resign
jurisdiction over the U.S. aggression troops.
The "agreement" stipulates that though the South Korean police arrest a
GI criminal in the very act, they may
investigate after sending a written demand for the attendance of a suspect
to the U.S. military authority within 48
hours.
Only when investigation is accompanied and recognized by a
representative of the U.S. side shall it be effective.
In this case, even though the criminal refuses to make a statement,
judging it is unfavorable to him, the police
have no say.
And it is stipulated that the U.S. military side has the first
jurisdiction of a crime committed by gi "in the
execution of his official duties," irrespective of its character.
This exempts the gi from crime. If a criminal runs away to the unit of
U.S. troops, the police go for nothing.
It is not accidental that the South Korean police said right after the
arrest of McCarthy who killed a South
Korean woman that "it is not easy for them to call him to account if he
refuses his crime."
The U.S. criminals in South Korea are transferred to the U.S. military
side and given "caution, warning" and
light punishment at the most or discharged and sent back to their country.
That is why the South Korean people demand that the "status of forces
agreement" be revised and the gi
criminal severely punished.
On the contrary, the South Korean authorities advocate and back the
U.S. troops, saying that "some concession
is unavoidable."
As long as the U.S. aggressor troops remain in South Korea and the
South Korean authorities continue
flunkeyist and treacherous action, the crimes of the U.S. troops can never
be stopped.
Tokyo metropolitan governor's anti-DPRK diatribe
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Committee for Investigation Into
the Damage Done by the
Japanese Imperialists During Their Occupation of Korea issued a statement
today bitterly denouncing Tokyo
metropolitan governor Shintaro Ishihara for his provocative remarks that
"Japan would destroy North Korea at a
blow if it resorts to a folly." Dismissing it as an extremely provocative
and bellicose outburst against the Korean
people and an intolerable mockery of them, the statement says:
His outburst laid bare the hysteric anti-DPRK row kicked up by the
right-wing reactionary forces of Japan and
their ambition for reinvasion. This clearly shows what a dangerous phase
they have reached in their moves to divert
the trend for opening the diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan
and to fan up revanchism and hysteric
zeal for aggression in Japan.
The Japanese militarists occupied Korea by force of arms and enforced
an unprecedentedly harsh colonial rule
over it, inflicting unspeakable misfortune, pain, disaster and loss upon
the Korean people for more than 40 years.
Yet, the Japanese reactionaries are now watching for a chance of reinvasion
instead of making a sincere apology and
compensation for their past crimes. They should clearly know that the
grudge and hatred of our people's army and
people for militarist Japan have reached their zenith.
The ultra-nationalist reactionary forces like Ishihara are well advised
to behave with discretion, mindful that if
they run amuck like a puppy who knows no fear of the tiger, it will only
hasten their miserable self-destruction.
The committee seriously warns the Japanese reactionaries that if they
ignite a war of aggression against the
DPRK, the Korean people will never miss the chance to give vent to the
century-old wrath of the nation against the
Japanese on behalf of the whole nation.
Congolese preparatory committee formed
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- A Congolese preparatory committee was
formed in Brazzaville on March 3 to
commemorate Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
The chairman of the Congolese association for friendship among peoples
was elected chairman of the committee
at the inaugural meeting.
The meeting set a period from March 3 to April 20 for commemorating
Sun's Day to learn from Kim Il Sung,
the great leader of the Korean people and the world progressive peoples,
and decided to organize multifarious
commemoration events during the period.
Kim Il Sung lauded
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Serei Kosal, deputy general secretary of
the Funcinpec party of Cambodia,
highly praised the President Kim Il Sung.
He led the party delegation on a visit to the DPRK.
In his travelogue to the DPRK contributed to the March 3 issue of the
Cambodian paper Naktasu he said that he
more keenly felt how ardently the fraternal Korean people are holding in
high esteem Kim Il Sung who fathered the
Juche idea.
Kim Il Sung led to victory the war provoked by outside forces and
turned the DPRK into a highly developed
country without the assistance of any country, he noted.
He said that during his visit to the DPRK he more keenly felt the
excellent relations of friendship between the
Funcinpec party and the Worker's Party of Korea.
For Spanish-speaking people
kim jong il presencia la funcion de cuerpos de propaganda artistica de epc
pyongyang, 13 de marzo (atcc) -- el gran comandante supremo kim jong
il, secretario general del partido del
trabajo de corea y presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la
republica popular democratica de corea presencio
ayer la funcion de los cuerpos de propaganda artistica de las comandancias
de las fuerzas navales y aereas del
ejercito popular de corea.
los miembros de los cuerpos de propaganda artistica pusieron en la
escena el coro "trote del caballo en el monte
paektu", el solo vocal masculino y pangchang "donde se encuentra el querido
general", el solo vocal y agitacion
"tomemos con mas firmeza el fusil de la revolucion", la poesia y coro
"apoyemos con armas a nuestro comandante
supremo" y otras piezas de diversas formas.
los ejecutores demostraron excelentemente el invencible poderio del epc
y la ferrea confianza y voluntad de los
militares del epc de defender a ultranza la direccion de la revolucion y de
completar hasta el fin con armas la causa
revolucionaria del juche bajo la guia del respetado comandante supremo kim
jong il.
probaron poderosamente la justedad y la vitalidad de la orientacion de
propaganda artistica al estilo de guerrilla
antijaponesa del partido del trabajo de corea y manifestaron
fehacientemente el poderio de los artistas militares que
cumplen satisfactoriamente su mision de honrosos combatientes en la primera
linea del frente ideologico al compartir
la penalidad y la alegria con los soldados.
el comandante supremo kim jong il se mostro muy satisfecho de su
representacion digna de los artistas del
ejercito revolucionario y evaluo altamente los exitos de estos que infunden
coraje y fe en la victoria cierta a los
militares al desplegar las dinamicas actividades de propaganda artistica
revolucionarias y combativas con una alta
fidelidad al partido y al lider.
se entero de los pormenores de sus actividades y presento las tareas
programaticas que sirven de guia para
realizar mas estrictamente segun el estilo de guerrilla antijaponesa la
labor de todos los cuerpos de propaganda
artistica de las grandes unidades del epc.
la vieron junto a el jo myong rok, jefe de la direccion politica
general, kim yong chun, jefe del estado mayor
general, kim il chol, ministro de las fuerzas armadas populares y otros
generales del epc.
estuvieron presentes tambien el secretario kim yong sun, y los primeros
subjefes de departamento del cc del ptc.
atcc comenta artimana de japon
pyongyang, 13 de marzo (atcc) -- las capas oficiales y medios de prensa
del japon volvieron a salir con el asunto
del avion "yodo" y lo vinculan con la cuestion de "eliminacion por ee.uu.
en la lista de paises de apoyo al
terrorismo" a la rpdc.
en ello todo el mundo puede captar la artimana propia de los
reaccionarios japoneses que intervienen
absurdamente en los asuntos ajenos para sacar provechos.
a decir verdad "yodo" (que se trata del caso de "secuestro" del avion
de viajeros por los estudiantes izquierdistas
del japon) no puede vincularse con la cuestion del "pais de apoyo al
terrorismo". no pasa de ser insistencia ilogica.
la declaracion de la agencia telegrafica central de corea fechada 4 de
abril de 1970 patentizo que la rpdc no puede
desempenar el papel de la policia japonesa.
si las capas oficiales y medios de prensa del japon califican nuestra
posicion y actitud sobre los miembros del
avion "yodo" de "apoyo" al "terrorismo", a nuestra vez debemos calificar de
"reinos de terrorismo" al japon y ee.uu.
que inducen y llevan a sus territorios a los habitantes de corea y otros
numerosos paises para convertirlos en
"exiliados".
los reaccionarios japoneses deben abandonar su caduca artimana como la
de "yodo", producto de su hostilidad a
la rpdc y saldar pronto la cuenta de su pasado criminal.
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