DPRK News March 31
More flowers and trees planted in arboretum
Korean people's cause of national reunification supported
18th anniversary of publication of Kim Jong Il's work marked
Three-point charter of national reunification supported abroad
Japan's much publicized "people's feelings"
Spring struggle of S. Korean workers supported
Investigation into U.S. atrocities during Korean War called for
U.S. military refuses to transfer murder criminal
S. Korea's challenge to measure of navy command of KPA blasted
Over 210 cases of aerial espionage registered
S. Korea's flunkeyist and treacherous acts
Symposium on WPK experience held in Moldova
Work of Kim Il Sung published in Peru
For Spanish-speaking people
More flowers and trees planted in arboretum
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Many species of trees and flowers are
being planted in the arboretum of the
Kumsusan Memorial Palace with the spring tree planting going in full gear
in the DPRK.
The arboretum was established in Juche 85 (1996).
According to data available, over 12,000 flowers and trees of at least
60 species have been planted there in a
recent month alone.
As a result, at least 1.1 million plants of more than 250 species grow
there.
Among them are thousands of trees of at least 170 species contributed
by more than 30 countries including
China, Denmark, Sweden and Canada in over 60 batches.
The arboretum which extends hundreds of metres long and wide between
the River Hapjang flowing round the
palace and Mt. Taesong covers 100 hectares.
Visitors to the arboretum can see most of the plants growing in all
parts of the country and rare plants from
different countries of the world that have been adapted to the climatic and
soil conditions of Korea.
The arboretum is divided into areas for needle-leaf trees, oil-bearing
trees, fiber, paper and wood making trees
and wild fruit-bearing trees. There is in its center a combined forest, an
epitome of forests of various trees.
There will appear a peculiar Korean-style park with a loop road, lotus
ponds, pavilions, etc.
The arboretum will also have a big parking lot and service facilities.
Korean people's cause of national reunification supported
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung devoted his all to
the struggle for the reunification of
the country and the Korean people's struggle for the building of a powerful
nation and national reunification is now
being successfully carried forward by the great Kim Jong Il.
Maltese President Guido De Marco said this when he received credentials
from the new DPRK ambassador E.
P. to Malta on March 23. The President expressed full sympathy with Kim Il
Sung's words that Korea is one and
supported the standpoint of the DPRK to reunify the country by means of
confederation.
Meanwhile, Vassalo Anthony, general secretary of the c.c., the
Communist Party of Malta, when he met with
the DPRK ambassador who paid a courtesy call on him, said that he fully
supports the proposals for the
reunification of the country including the proposal for reunification by
confederation put forward by the workers'
party and government of Korea and that he would make efforts to increase
the number of supporters and
sympathizers in Malta.
18th anniversary of publication of Kim Jong Il's work marked
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate signed
articles to the 18th anniversary of the
publication of famous work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "On the Juche
idea".
Kim Jong Il in the work published on March 31, Juche 71 (1982)
consummated and systematized the Juche
idea founded by the President Kim Il Sung.
The work is a brilliant aggregation of Kim Jong Il's absolute espousal
of and boundless loyalty to the Juche
idea, the revolutionary idea of Kim Il Sung and distinguished ideological
and theoretical wisdom, Rodong Sinmun
in an article says, and goes on:
The work is a crystalline of Kim Jong Il's boundless loyalty to the
revolutionary idea of Kim Il Sung.
His loyalty is purest and most absolute.
With his absolute loyalty he concentrated on profoundly proving the
greatness of the Juche idea, while
reviewing the course of historical development of the working-class
revolutionary idea. And he evolved the whole
system and contents of the work--the philosophical principle and the
socio-historical principles of the Juche idea and
the guiding principles that should be maintained in the revolution and
construction--with the ideas and theories
proving the profundity and uniqueness of the Juche idea.
The work is a crystalline of his distinguished ideological and
theoretical wisdom, extraordinary energy and
steadfast will to advance the era and revolution along the road indicated
by the Juche idea.
It is his immovable creed of life that we have no other idea but the
Juche idea, the revolutionary idea of Kim Il
Sung and we should advance along the road indicated by the Juche idea,
always regarding it as an absolute truth.
An article of Minju Joson notes that only the Juche idea is the most
perfect revolutionary theory that helps
transform nature and society and remold man in conformity with the social
desire of man to live and develop
independently so as to make people responsible for the world and their
destinies and indicate the road to eternal
happiness and prosperity of humankind.
Three-point charter of national reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The Working Citizens Association of
Democratic Congo joined in the
international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of
national reunification.
Chairman Andre, at an extraordinary general meeting of the association
held on March 21, signed the signature
paper on behalf of 7 members of the guidance committee and over 4,870,500
members of 82 affiliated
organizations.
Raja Collure, general secretary of the central committee of the Sri
Lanka Communist Party, signed the signature
paper on behalf of 10,200 members of the party on March 25.
Japan's much publicized "people's feelings"
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Such words as "people's feelings" and
"domestic opposition," which hurt
the Korean people's feelings, are much publicized in Japan with the
DPRK-Japan talks near at hand.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
Japan's talk about "people's feelings" is a robber's sophism. As far as
feelings are concerned, the DPRK has
every right to talk to Japan about its people's sentiment.
The Korean people's grudge and hatred for Japan has reached their
zenith as Japan has shunned an apology and
compensation for its crimes in the past, denying and beautifying them,
while desperately escalating the moves to
reinvade Korea.
The servicemen of the people's army and people of Korea strongly assert
that in the view of Japan's undesirable
attitude the DPRK should take other option than talks if the issue of
Japan's redress of its past wrongs is to be
settled.
The gravity of Japan's crimes has grown down through generations as it
has not shaken off its ill fame of a
criminal state of the 20th century, and its younger generation has to pay
double or treble debt plus what their
preceding generations failed to do.
It is quite ridiculous of Japan to talk about "people's feelings"
towards the DPRK.
The Japanese authorities' clamor about the "people's feelings" is aimed
at building public opinion in a bid to
create an atmosphere in favour of them before the DPRK-Japan talks.
Through this they seek to put sort of pressure upon the DPRK and raise
unnecessary issues which are nothing
in common with the original idea and purpose of the talks and thus wrest
any "concession" from the DPRK.
This is a very foolish and poor trick.
If Japan has a true will to redress its past and improve relations with
the DPRK, it should stop its foolish talk
about "feelings" and properly approach the talks.
Spring struggle of S. Korean workers supported
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade
Unions (KCTU) declared its
spring struggle for the right to existence should targeted against the
present regime and decided to undertake its
activities in real earnest from April, including mammoth rallies.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says: Every
year witnessed the South Korean
workers' struggle for wage increase. But it is the first time that they
decided to launch their struggle under an
anti-"government" slogan.
It is a very noteworthy and encouraging development that the KCTU is
conducting its activities with correct
aims and slogan reflecting the aspiration and demand of the workers after
it was legalized, the commentary notes,
and goes on:
It was quite natural for them to have called a general strike after
deciding to focus the spring struggle on the
condemnation of the present regime. It is the deplorable reality of South
Korea that under the mandate of the IMF
millions of jobless people are wandering about streets, over 13 million
absolutely poor people are languishing in the
mire of poverty and suicide is reported in an unbroken chain.
The South Korean workers have drawn the conclusion that they cannot get
rid of this wretched plight as long as
the ruling quarters of the self-styled people's government remain in
office. They will never stop their struggle before
they sternly punish the rulers in unity and solidarity with civic
organizations.
Investigation into U.S. atrocities during Korean War called for
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The UN should fully investigate the
monstrous atrocities committed by the
U.S. troops during the Korean War and take a measure to sternly punish the
criminals, demanded Ri Hyong Chol,
DPRK permanent representative at the UN at a press conference held on March
24 in connection with the release of
the March 21 memorandum of the DPRK Foreign Ministry to inform the
international community of U.S. massacres
of civilians during the Korean War. He recalled that during the Korean War
the UN took no measure to halt the
atrocities committed by GIs under its name in wanton violation of the
international laws, thus leaving an indelible
blot on its history.
He continued:
The U.S. should no longer cover up the presence of its forces under the
name of the "UN forces command" and
their aggressive nature and withdraw them from South Korea.
The U.S. should sternly punish the war criminals who commanded mass
killings or took part in them during
the Korean War, and formally apologize and adequately compensate to the
DPRK government and people for the
crimes.
The UN should thoroughly investigate U.S. brutal atrocities, set up a
special tribunal and take a measure to
severely punish the criminals according to the international law.
U.S. military refuses to transfer murder criminal
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. military side on March 28
refused to transfer McCarthy, a corporal
of the U.S. 8th army, who killed a South Korean woman to the South Korean
authorities, according to a radio
report from Seoul.
The South Korean authorities, pressed by strong protest from all
sections and classes of South Korea, asked the
U.S. military side to "hand over" the murderer for his detention, but the
U.S. military side refused to transfer him,
saying that "the corporal has been detained in the U.S. military detention
house and there is no fear of his runaway."
S. Korea's challenge to measure of navy command of KPA blasted
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful
Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF)
released a statement on Thursday assailing the South Korean ruling quarters
for challenging the "order of navigating
to and from five islands" at the West Sea of Korea proclaimed by the navy
command of the Korean People's Army
as an important measure.
The statement said the order serves as a most fair and aboveboard and
timely measure to defuse the
ever-worsening military confrontation and tensions at the west sea and seek
a reasonable settlement of the problem
of the Military Demarcation Line at the west sea.
This measure proceeded from a peace-loving stand to root out the very
source of military confrontation and
prevent recurrence of armed conflict at the west sea, the statement noted,
and continued:
However, the South Korean ruling quarters dared to challenge the
important measure taken by our side, letting
loose such sheer sophism as "it was an action in disregard of sort of
agreement and it was a conception
unprecedented in the law of the sea."
Worse still, the "Defense Minister" of South Korea did not bother to
let loose a bellicose and provocative cry for
"strong retaliation" against "military provocation from the north,"
ordering the South Korean army to be on high
alert on the five islands at the west sea. And South Korea is staging war
exercises at the west and east seas of Korea
almost everyday.
These rash moves of the South Korean ruling quarters an intolerable
challenge to the DPRK's sincere efforts for
peace and security on the Korean peninsula and unpardonable criminal acts
to lead the inter-Korean relations to an
extreme pitch of tension and drive the country's situation to the brink of war.
It is the DPRK's mettle and determination to react to a tough stand
with a tougher stand and to a provocation
with merciless crushing blows.
The U.S. Forces side and the South Korean rulers should unconditionally
stop their criminal violation of the
"order of navigating to and from five islands" at the west sea, paying no
heed to the just measure of the DPRK and
persistently insisting on the illegal "Northern Limit Line."
If the enemy trespasses on the inviolable territorial waters of the
DPRK even an inch defying its warnings, its
people and revolutionary armed forces will deal merciless and crushing
blows to the aggressors.
Over 210 cases of aerial espionage registered
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. warmongers have committed at
least 210 cases of aerial espionage
against the DPRK in March, according to military sources.
Involved in the espionage flights were strategic reconnaissance planes,
early-warning planes, tactical
reconnaissance planes, patrol planes, and electronic warfare helicopters
based in South Korea and overseas.
A "U-2" high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane made 33 shuttle
flights over areas near the military
demarcation line to carry out photographing and electronic reconnaissance
of the depth of the DPRK.
Meanwhile, "RC-135" strategic reconnaissance plane made seven espionage
flights on Mar.24 and 27 and so on
and "RC-12" tactical reconnaissance plane flew 13 times day and night
between Mar. 21 and 23 to spy on the
frontline and east and west coasts of the North Korea.
S. Korea's flunkeyist and treacherous acts
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Pak Ji Won, "Minister of Culture and
Tourism" of South Korea, at the talks
with the Minister of Education of Japan during his visit to Japan on March
25, disclosed that South Korea examined
the policy of opening it to Japanese pop culture two times and it is
"poised to daringly carry out the third round of
opening in late June."
It is an unpardonable pro-Japanese flunkeyist and treacherous act to
call for Japanizing the moral civilization of
our nation.
Japanese culture is inferior "imitated, copied and mixed culture." Its
pop culture, in particular, is characterized
by extreme violence and eroticism.
The main theme of films, dramas and books is sword brandishing,
hara-kiri and open sexual relations. This is
the real picture of Japanese pop culture.
Needless to say, such decadent and vulgar culture exerts a baneful
influence on the young people and breeds all
kinds of crimes.
The policy of flinging South Korea's door open to the pop culture of
Japan is bound to bring disastrous
consequences as it will Japanize the South Korean people's spiritual world
and make them subject to the Japanese
culture.
Like economy culture is very instrumental in carving out the destiny of
a country and nation.
Once reactionary culture is rife it is not easy to combat it. If a
nation has its moral civilization dominated by a
foreign one it can hardly be revived.
South Korea's total opening of its door to pop culture of Japan leads
to the loss of national identity and Japan's
cultural domination over South Korea.
No wonder, South Korean publications warn the public that South Korea's
total opening of its door to Japanese
pop culture is a "cultural annexation without gun firing" and puts the
nation in the "danger of losing its soul".
The South Korean authorities should know that they are bound to face a
stern judgement by history and the
nation for their pro-Japanese treacheries.
Symposium on WPK experience held in Moldova
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- A symposium of leading officials of the
party of communists of Moldova on
the experience of the Worker's Party of Korea was held on March 22 on the
occasion of Sun's Day, the birth
anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
V.N. Voronin, first secretary of the central committee of the Party of
Communists of Moldova, in his speech
noted that Kim Il Sung had converted the DPRK into a dignified socialist
state by founding the Juche idea and
applying it to socialist construction.
He continued:
The revolutionary cause of Kim Il Sung is now being brilliantly carried
forward by the great leader Kim Jong Il.
He has comprehensively developed and enriched the Juche idea and solved
the problems arising in socialist
construction in a unique way on its basis.
We will strengthen ties and cooperation with the WPK and jointly brave
the pressure of the imperialists.
Work of Kim Il Sung published in Peru
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The Tony Cruz Publishing House of Peru
brought out in booklet the famous
work of the President Kim Il Sung "On the Three Principles of National
Reunification" on March 23.
This work is conversations Kim Il Sung had with the South Korean
delegates to the high-level political talks
between north and South Korea on may 3 and November 3, Juche 61 (1972).
Expounded in the conversations are the three principles of national
reunification--independence, peaceful
reunification and great national unity--and the issues of achieving
cooperation between the north and the south of
Korea.
For Spanish-speaking people
extensa arboleda de palacio memorial kumsusan
pyongyang, 31 de marzo (atcc) -- ahora se arregla cada dia mas
excelentemente la arboleda de 100 hectareas con
centenares de metros de ancho y largo entre el rio hapjang que corre por
cerca del palacio memorial kumsusan y el
monte daesong. la extensa arboleda consta de 4 sectores: los arboles
ornamentales coniferos, los oleaginosos y
fibrosos - pulpa para papel, los maderables y los frutales silvestres asi
como de un otro sector que representa la
reduccion de los sectores arriba mencionados en su centro.
en el marco de la campana para la repoblacion forestal primaveral en se
plantaron aqui durante un mes mas de 12
mil flores y arboles de mas de 60 especies, segun las estadisticas recogidas.
desde el ano 85 (1996) de la era juche en que se dio inicio a la
preparacion de este vivero hasta la fecha se
plantaron aqui mas de millon 100 mil plantas de mas de 250 generos
incluyendo miles de vegetales de mas de 170
especies enviados en mas de 60 ocasiones por mas de 30 paises del mundo
incluidos china, dinamarca, suecia y
canada.
en esta arboleda las personas pueden ver la mayoria de las plantas que
crecen en todo el pais y los vegetales
raros de varios paises del mundo adaptados al clima y suelo de corea.
dentro de la arboleda se construira un jardin de estilo coreano que
sera compuesto especificamente por una
carretera de circunvalacion, una laguna de loto, pabellon, etc. y se
formaran el parqueo y otras mejores instalaciones
de servicio publico para dar comodidades a los visitantes.
actos de espionaje aereo de ee.uu.
pyongyang, 31 de marzo (atcc) -- segun una fuente militar, los
belicistas imperialistas norteamericanos
perpetraron este mes mas de 210 actos de espionaje aereo contra la parte
norte de corea con la movilizacion de
aviones de reconocimiento estrategico y tactico, awacs, de patrulla,
helicoptero electronico y otros procedentes del
ultramar y surcorea.
el dia 30 el avion de reconocimiento estrategico de gran altura "u-2"
sobrevolando de ida y vuelta la region cerca
de la linea de demarcacion militar perpetro la filmacion y el espionaje
electronico sobre las profundidades de
norcorea.
el numero de espionajes por el "u-2" llega a 33 en este mes.
ademas, el avion de reconocimiento estrategico "rc-135" perpetro 7
veces los dias 24 y 27 y otros dias, y el
avion de reconocimiento tactico "rc-12" 13 veces en el periodo del 21 al 23
espionajes sobre el frente y las costas de
los mares este y oeste de la rpdc sobrevolando repetidamente de dia a noche
la zona de la primera linea del frente.
crpp rechaza desafio de autoridades surcoreanas a nuestras importantes medidas
pyongyang, 31 de marzo (atcc) -- el comite por la reunificacionn
pacifica de la patria publico el dia 30 una
declaracion condenando a los gobernantes surcoreanos que desafian a las
nuevas medidas importantes de la
comandancia de la fuerza naval del ejercito popular de corea con respecto
al "orden de navegacion para cinco islas"
en el mar oeste de corea.
la declaracion senala en particular:
el orden de navegacion en cuestion son las medidas muy justas y
oportunas que permiten aliviar la
confrontacion militar y la aguda tension en el mar oeste de corea y
resolver de manera racional el problema de la linea
de demarcacion militar de esa area maritima.
estas medidas han sido tomadas partiendo de la posicion amante de la
paz de eliminar la fuente del
enfrentamiento militar y prevenir el nuevo estallido del conflicto armado
en el mar oeste.
ahora los gobernantes surcoreanos se atreven a desafiar a tales medidas
importantes nuestras al salir con
sofismas absurdos de que estas contravienen al "acuerdo y las legislaciones
maritimas antecedentes".
para colmo, el "ministro de defensa" surcoreano habla en tono
provocativo de "postura de alerta" en cinco islas
referidas y de la supuesta "provocacion militar" de la rpdc o "contrarresto
resuelto" a esta, etc.. y hace desarrollar
diariamente ejercicios belicos en los mares este y oeste.
tales actos constituyen un intolerable desafio a nuestros esfuerzos
sinceros por asegurar la paz y la seguridad de
la peninsula coreana y crimenes imperdonables que agravan al extremo las
relaciones norte-sur y llevan la situacion
del pais al borde de la guerra.
tenemos temperamento de responder con la ultraintransigencia a la
intransigencia y con el despiadado golpe a la
provocacion de los enemigos.
la parte norteamericana y los gobernantes surcoreanos deben poner
incondicionalmente fin a sus actos
criminales que cometen contra el "orden de navegacion para cinco islas" en
el mar oeste de corea al insistir de
continuo la ilegal "linea limite norte" y al rehusar nuestras justas medidas.
si a pesar de esta advertencia nuestra, los enemigos invaden, aunque en
lo minimo, nuestras sagradas aguas
territoriales nuestro pueblo y fuerzas armadas revolucionarias castigaran
severamente sin ninguna piedad a los
agresores y provocadores.
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