DPRK News March 20
Kim Jong Il sends gift to Chinese President
Greetings to Tunisian President
Preparatory committees for Sun's Day formed abroad
Tokyo metropolitan governor hit for anti-DPRK diatribe
Gift to Kim Jong Il from President Jiang Zemin
Three-point charter for Korea's reunification supported
Struggle for independence against U.S. is only way out
Japan's bid to seat on UNSC
Masses to mark Nirvana Day
Clear evidence of GIs' massacres
Greetings to Iranian President
Kim Yong Nam congratulates Namibian Independence Day
Kim Yong Nam meets Swedish delegation
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Swedish delegation
Kang Sok Ju meets Swedish delegation
For Spanish-speaking people
Kim Jong Il sends gift to Chinese President
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent a gift to
President Jiang Zemin of the People's Republic of China.
The gift was handed to Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan on March 18 by
DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun who is on a visit to China.
Greetings to Tunisian President
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of
the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
sent a message of greetings to Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the
Republic of Tunisia, on March 19 on the occasion of the 44th National Day
of Tunisia.
The message extended congratulations to the President, government and
people of Tunisia on the National Day.
It wished the Tunisian people peace, development and well-being, expressing
the belief that the friendly relations between Korea and Tunisia would
develop on good terms.
Preparatory committees for Sun's Day formed abroad
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Inaugural meetings of preparatory committees
for commemorating Sun's Day, the 88th anniversary of the birth of the
President Kim Il Sung were held in Austria, India, Pakistan, Ecuador and
France.
The meetings introduced the undying exploits performed by Kim Il Sung for
the time and humankind and decided to commemorate Sun's Day as a grand
political festival.
The meetings discussed action programs to commemorate the holiday of April
with characteristics.
The inaugural meeting in India adopted an appeal to the progressive people
of the world with a view to commemorating Sun's Day.
The meetings in India and Pakistan adopted letters to General Secretary Kim
Jong Il.
Tokyo metropolitan governor hit for anti-DPRK diatribe
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- A spokeswoman for the central committee of
the Korean Democratic Women's Union issued a statement to the press on
sunday, condemning Tokyo metropolitan governor Shintaro Ishihara for
letting loose a very provocative and bellicose diatribe against the DPRK.
The statement vehemently denounced Ishihara's blast as a vicious challenge
insulting and deriding the dignity and sovereignty of Korea and an open war
agitation inciting reinvasion of Korea.
The Korean women love peace more than anybody else and bear deep-rooted
rancor and grudge against Japan, the statement said, warning that the
Japanese reactionaries should know all the Korean women are full of the
will to surely make Japan pay for the past crimes of the Japanese
militarists.
If the Japanese authorities truly want to create an atmosphere of dialogue
with the DPRK and improve DPRK-Japan relations, they should not tolerate
and back the anti-DPRK rackets of such right-wing reactionaries as Ishihara
but take a proper measure against it, stressed the statement.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from President Jiang Zemin
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift
from Jiang Zemin, President of the People's Republic of China.
Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan on March 18 handed the gift to DPRK
Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun on a visit to China.
The Chinese Foreign Minister said that the gift to General Secretary Kim
Jong Il carried the hope that the Korean people under his leadership will
achieve greater success through the vigorous second grand Chollima advance
at the speed of Chollima.
Three-point charter for Korea's reunification supported
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Personages of political parties and
organizations of different countries and international and regional
organizations participated in the international signature campaign to
support the three-point charter for the reunification of Korea in response
to the call of the meeting of the executive committee of the International
Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea which was held in
Paris in February.
The signature paper was signed by Blasco Hugo Fernandes, chairman of the
Democratic Intervention of Portugal= Sean Garland, former general secretary
of the Worker's Party of Ireland= Cris Coleman, spokesman for the central
committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain
(Marxist-Leninist)= Ann Rogers, delegate of the New Communist Party of
Great Britain= Anders Kristensen, secretary of the Nordic Cooperation
Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People= the
chairman of the Swiss Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification= the
general secretary of the Luxemburg-Korea Friendship Association= the
general secretary of the Ireland-Korea Friendship Association= the chairman
of the French Support and Action Committee for Korea's Independent and
Peaceful Reunification= Guy Dupre, secretary general of the International
Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea= Robert Charvin,
general secretary of the International Commission of Jurists for Democracy
and Human Rights in South Korea= Willy Burgeon, chairman of the Wallon
district council of Belgium= and Paulette Pierson, professor of the Libre
University in Brussels, Belgium.
Considering the Korean people's three-point charter to be the most just and
reasonable proposal and way of Korea's reunification, they sign the paper
in support of the charter and in demand of the immediate withdrawal of the
U.S. troops from South Korea so that the Korean people can solve their
destinies independently and a durable peace be ensured on the Korean
peninsula, it noted.
Struggle for independence against U.S. is only way out
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- The grim realities of South Korea call on the
people to turn out in the anti-U.S. struggle. The struggle for independence
against the U.S. is the only way out for the South Korean people, Rodong
Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
Recalling that the U.S. aggressor troops in South Korea have encroached
upon the independence of the South Korean people and brought immeasurable
misfortune, pain and disasters to them, the article goes on:
The U.S. should not be allowed to stay in South Korea any more. If the
South Korean people are to achieve democracy and escape from disasters,
they should drive the U.S. out of South Korea, first of all.
This is a bitter lesson they have drawn.
It is a day dream to expect democracy and the country's reunification while
the U.S. aggressors are left in South Korea as ever.
The U.S. aggressors, chiefly responsible for the Korean division, have
committed massacres, carried out aggression and war, brought all sorts of
misfortune and pain to the people. If they are allowed to remain in South
Korea, the South Korean people will meet more unspeakable disasters in the
future.
Expecting any "protection" from the U.S. aggressors is as foolish an act as
asking a wolf to protect sheep.
It is entirely just for the South Korean students and people to concentrate
their struggle on them.
A struggle for independence against the U.S. represents a genuine patriotic
banner all the patriotic democratic forces in South Korea should hold
aloft. Anyone who loves the motherland and the nation and wishes the
country's reunification should turn out in the struggle to regain the
usurped independence and trampled-down dignity of the nation.
The U.S. had better go back home before being driven out of South Korea
with disgrace by the fierce anti-U.S. resistance of the South Korean
people, the article warns.
Japan's bid to seat on UNSC
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Japan's bid for the permanent membership of
the UN Security Council is a mockery of the UN and an insult to human
conscience, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
The commentary goes on:
The chief executive of Japan at a recent meeting with the President of the
UN General Assembly said that the UNSC reform is not making rapid progress
and if things go on like this, it may weaken the confidence of the
international community in the UN. He asked the President to buckle down to
the work for "expanding the framework" to realize Japan's bid to seat on
the UNSC.
Japan is not in a position to talk about the international community's
confidence in the UN.
Because Japan has always backed the U.S. in its highhanded and arbitrary
practices in the international arena, following it like a shaggy dog.
There is a very strong reason in the assertion that Japan should not be
allowed to seat on the UNSC.
Japan has not yet shaken off the ill-fame of an "enemy state." It is still
listed as an "enemy" in the UN. Worse still, it dreams of overseas
invasion, not peace. It has not made a formal apology for its past shameful
crimes.
Many countries of the world despise Japan as a political dwarf.
Japan is well advised to drop its daydream and mind its own business.
Masses to mark Nirvana Day
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Masses were held at Buddhist temples across
the country today in commemoration of Nirvana Day.
At masses speakers evinced their will to vigorously conduct patriotic
practical activities to promote peace of the country and the great unity of
the nation and accelerate national reunification by active solidarity with
Buddhists in South Korea and overseas.
Attending the masses were clergymen from the central committee of the
Korean Buddhists Federation and provincial, city and county committees
under it, as well as monks and devotees.
Clear evidence of GIs' massacres
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Papers here continue carrying photographs on
monstrous crimes committed by the U.S.
They were taken by a liaison officer of the command of the U.S. forces in
the far east and "have recently been declassified" at the U.S. national
archives.
These photographs clearly show to the world how brutally the U.S.
aggression forces and their stooges massacred prisoners and patriots in
prisons across South Korea before and during the Korean War (June 1950 -
July 1953).
One of them shows patriots and people being tied to posts in the execution
ground. There are also a photo showing hateful soldiers of the "ROK" army
ready to kill them under the command of a U.S. officer, and another photo
showing its soldiers guiltless civilians into a crater to bury them alive
under the command of a U.S. officer.
These photographs irrefutably prove that the U.S. directly manipulated all
the massacres committed in South Korea.
There are many photographs that show too horrible scenes to see.
Among them are a photo showing soldiers' rifles targeted at the heads of
the people, trampling down their backs after forcing them to lie flat, a
photo showing cursed man-hunters firing a volley at many patriots who had
been thrown into a crater, a photo showing the bodies of the people who
died with towering grudge, photos of soldiers shooting to death survivors
among dead bodies and a photo showing a cutthroat cutting a man's head off
with a sickle.
Looking at these photographs, the readers are unanimous that they can
hardly repress bitter hatred against the U.S., and brand these ferocious
ogres as the sworn enemy of the Korean nation who cannot live under the
same sky.
Greatly angered by their monstrous atrocities, they keep sending articles
to newspaper offices renewing their resolve to take revenge upon the
murderers a thousand times.
Greetings to Iranian President
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of
the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today sent a message of
greetings to Iranian President Seyed Mohammad Khatami on the occasion of
the New Year in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The message congratulated the President and people of Iran on the New Year.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between
the DPRK and Iran would grow stronger and develop, the message sincerely
wished the President greater success in his work for the independent
development and prosperity of the country and good health.
Kim Yong Nam congratulates Namibian Independence Day
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of
the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on March 17 sent a message of
greetings to Sam Nujoma, President of Namibia, on the occasion of the 10th
anniversary of its independence.
The message congratulated the Namibian President and people on its 10th
anniversary of independence and wished them success in the work for
achieving the nation's development and prosperity and defending peace.
It expressed conviction that the traditional relations of friendship and
cooperation existing between the DPRK and Namibia would continue to develop
on good terms.
Kim Yong Nam meets Swedish delegation
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of
the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and conversed with a delegation of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden led by state secretary Jan
Eliasson at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present there were vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Pak Tong Chun and
Svante Kilander, charge d' affaires A.I. of the Swedish embassy to the
DPRK.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Swedish delegation
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift
from the delegation of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a visit
to the DPRK.
The gift was handed to Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the
Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today by state secretary of the
Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jan Eliasson who is leading the
delegation.
Kang Sok Ju meets Swedish delegation
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Kang Sok Ju, first vice-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, met and had a talk with a delegation of the Swedish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs headed by its state secretary Jan Eliasson.
For Spanish-speaking people
vocero de minrex de rpdc se refiere a conversaciones con ee.uu.
pyongyang, 20 de marzo (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de relaciones
exteriores de la republica popular democratica de corea al responder a la
pregunta de un reportero de la agencia telegrafica central de corea
formulada en relacion con las recien conversaciones rpdc-ee.uu. efectuadas
en nueva york dijo el dia 18 como sigue:
tuvieron lugar del 8 al 15 del mes en curso en nueva york las
conversaciones a nivel de viceministro como continuacion de las regulares
que venian efectuandose entre la rpdc y ee.uu.
en las presentes conversaciones ambas partes discutieron con suficiencia y
en lineas generales los actuales problemas bilaterales entre otros la
manera de compensar la perdida electrica que sufre la rpdc por la dilacion
considerable de la construccion de reactores de agua ligera que deben
terminar hasta el ano 2003 los ee.uu. segun el acuerdo basico concertado
entre ambos paises y el problema de eliminar a la rpdc de la "lista de
paises de apoyo al terrorismo".
ambas partes acordaron continuar tambien en el futuro las conversaciones de
varios conductos con el fin de discutir los actuales problemas bilaterales.
en las conversaciones la parte norteamericana reconocio la justedad de la
demanda de recompensacion electrica formulada por la rpdc y ambas partes
discutieron las medidas para llevarla a efecto.
fotos que sirven de pruebas a atrocidades homicidas
pyongyang, 20 de marzo (atcc) -- en estos dias los periodicos no cesan de
insertar las fotos que hacen a la gente temblar de indignacion.
son las fotos descubiertas en el archivo nacional de documentos de ee.uu.
recien desclasificados.
las fotos retratadas por el oficial de enlace de la comandancia del
ejercito del extremo oriente norteamericano demuestran a ojos del mundo
como asesinaron salvajemente antes y durante la guerra coreana (junio de
1950 - julio de 1953) los efectivos agresores imperialistas norteamericanos
y sus lacayos a los patriotas y los encerrados en las prisiones de todas
las localidades de surcorea.
hay fotos que muestran a los patriotas y otros habitantes amarradas en las
estacas del patibulo, a los efectivos del "ejercito nacional" surcoreano de
pie con maligna fisonomia dispuestos a asesinarlos, al oficial
norteamericano dirigiendo la escena de asesinato y a otros malvados que
arrojan al hoyo a los patriotas para enterrarlos vivos bajo el mando del
oficial norteamericano.
los fotos sirven de los pruebas irrefutables para afirmar que los
imperialistas norteamericanos son manipuladores directos de todas las
atrocidades de asesinato perpetradas en surcorea.
hay otras fotos que muestran al asesino que pisa la espalda de la gente
boca abajo disparando fusil contra la cabeza de esta, a los bandidos que
abren fuego a la vez contra los patriotas arrojados en una fosa, a los
cadaveres de quienes cayeron con gran rencor con ojos abiertos, a los
homicidas que buscan a los vivos de los cadaveres para rematarlos y otros
asesinos sacando con hoz craneos de las personas.
ante estas fotos las personas tiemblan de rencor diciendo que los barbaros
asesinos yanquis son enemigos jurados con que no se pueden vivir bajo el
mismo cielo.
los lectores de los periodicos no contienen vehemente odio e indignacion a
los asesinos y envian a sus redacciones articulos con determinaciones de
vengarse mil veces de estos.
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