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Tue, 09 May 2000 21:58:20 -0700
DPRK News May 9
Guarantee of legal status of Koreans in Japan called for
IAEA delegation here
Pyongyang international commodity exhibition opens
Three-point charter for Korea's reunification hailed
Ishihara's remarks under fire
Reckless moves of warmongers assailed
Liquidation of war forces called for
KCNA on charade of aggressors
Obtrusive acts
Savage exhumation of tombs by Japanese
For Spanish speaking people
Guarantee of legal status of Koreans in Japan called for
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- At the 9th round of the intergovernmental
talks between the DPRK and Japan held
in Pyongyang in April our side proposed the issue of improving the legal
status of Koreans in Japan as one of the key
points related to Japan's redress of its past. This assertion is the most
just one reflecting the DPRK's principled and
fair stand to develop good-neighborly relations with Japan on the basis of
Japan's redress of its criminal past. Rodong
Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
The article goes on:
The Koreans in Japan should be legally protected as victims of the
military occupation and rule of the Japanese
imperialists and their war of aggression in the light of the background
against which they settled there and from a
humanitarian point of view. However, they are neither guaranteed deserved
democratic and national rights nor legally
protected nor given humanitarian treatment. They have suffered all sorts of
mental and physical pain generation after
generation, subjected to unbearable national discrimination, contempt and
persecution.
Without the solution of the issue of improving the legal status of the
Koreans in Japan, Japan cannot say it has
fully settled its past although it resolved other matters.
As far as the guarantee of the legal status of the Koreans in Japan is
concerned, the Japanese government should
apologize politically and morally for having inflicted unspeakable
suffering and tremendous human and material losses
upon the Korean residents in Japan through the pursuance of its policy of
despising them before and after the liberation
of Korea and make material compensation for them.
The Japanese government should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK
and the General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan and all sorts of national contempt and discrimination
against the Korean nationals in Japan,
recognize their DPRK nationality and take ethical, moral and legal steps
for their preferential and cordial treatment, so
that they may live a stable life.
It should refrain from acts of politically persecuting the Korean
residents in Japan for no reason and alienating and
destabilizing the Korean community and abandon its national obliteration
policy intended to naturalize them to
Japanese.
Japan is well advised to stand to reason and properly judge the
situation and fully redress its past wrongs including
the problem of the status of the Koreans in Japan and thus put an end to
the inglorious history of the DPRK-Japan
relations and develop new good-neighborly relations with the DPRK.
IAEA delegation here
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the International Atomic
Energy Agency arrived here today to
participate in the 14th round of negotiations related to the implementation
of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
Pyongyang international commodity exhibition opens
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang international commodity
exhibition opened yesterday with due
ceremony.
Present at the opening ceremony were delegations from the DPRK, China,
Cuba, Russia, Bangladesh, Thailand,
Australia, Britain, Japan and Taipei of China.
The participants looked round machinery, electronic, light industrial
and chemical products, medicines, foodstuff
and other products presented by companies from the DPRK and other countries
and regions.
Present at the opening ceremony were Kim Yyong Mun, chairman of the
Committee for the Promotion of
International Trade of the DPRK, and officials concerned.
Three-point charter for Korea's reunification hailed
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Organizations of Syria and Guinea and a
Guyanese personage participated in the
international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter for
Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by chairperson of the General Federation
of Syrian Women Suad Bakr on behalf
of its 280,000 members on April 25 and vice-chairman of the Guinea-Korea
Friendship Association and vice-chairman
of the Economic and Social Council Chiana Diallo and editor-in-chief of the
Guinean newspaper Horoya Ibrahima
Soriden on April 27 and the general director of the Guinean Radio and
Television and the director general of the
Guinean News Agency on May 2 in the name of their members and staff.
Meanwhile, Guyanese Minister of Public Service George Fung-on signed
the paper on April 25.
Ishihara's remarks under fire
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean Human Rights Association in Japan
released a statement scathingly
denouncing Tokyo metropolitan governor Shintaro Ishihara for his hostile
and discriminatory remarks against the
DPRK and Korean residents in Japan, according to Joson Sinbo published in
Japan.
Ishihara intentionally let loose such words as "Sangokujin" and
"Hokusen," which have been used by the
Japanese ruling quarters and chauvinists who refused to abandon their
discriminatory and hostile feelings toward
Korea even after it was liberated from the Japanese imperialists' military
rule, the statement noted, and said:
His utterances came not by chance but were prompted by the intention of
Japan to avoid the liquidation of its past
wrongdoings committed during its military occupation of Korea and other
Asian countries.
The statement urged Ishihara to immediately withdraw his anachronistic
and discriminatory remarks going against
the voices of the world public demanding respect for human rights and the
desire of the Korean and Japanese people
for establishment of good neighborly relations between the two countries
and apologize for them.
Reckless moves of warmongers assailed
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Papers here today run signed commentaries
denouncing the U.S. and the South
Korean authorities for "commemorating the 50th anniversary" of the Korean War.
Rodong Sinmun says the frantic racket of the warmongers at home and
abroad can never be tolerated because it is
a mockery and insult to justice and human conscience and a premeditated
challenge and provocation against the DPRK.
The daily goes on:
If the U.S. and South Korean warmongers, who reduced the sacred land of
Korea to ashes and brutally massacred
millions of Koreans during the war, had a bit of reason as human beings,
they would not have held such a fanatic farce
as "commemorating" the anniversary of the war of aggression.
Their real intention to perform the anti-DPRK war burlesque is to
distort the aggressive character of the Korean
war ignited by them, prevent the prevalent war-weariness and the evasion of
conscription and introduce mercenary
troops of their satellites into the Korean front in case of "emergency" as
they did in the last Korean war.
They should drop their daydream to stifle the DPRK and give up at once
their farce of "commemorating the 50th
anniversary" of the Korean war.
Minju Joson stresses that the DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker
to their criminal moves to beautify the
war of aggression on Korea but bring the criminals who provoked the Korean
war before the severe court of history.
Liquidation of war forces called for
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Papers here today devote articles to the
55th anniversary of the victory of the soviet
people in the great patriotic war.
Dailies say that on this day the Korean people extend felicitations to
the people and the officers and men of the
armed forces of Russia.
Rodong Sinmun says that the victory won by the soviet people in the war
was a shining fruition of the leadership
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, unity and cohesion between the
party and people, boundless love and
devotion of the Soviet people to their Soviet motherland and their
indomitable will and mass heroism displayed in the
battles against the enemy.
The Soviet army and people crushed the Hitler fascists, thus defending
their Soviet motherland, liberating peoples
of many countries from the danger of fascist enslavement and making
contributions to saving world civilization, the
paper notes, and goes on:
The great victory of the soviet people in the patriotic war taught a
serious lesson that with no war of aggression can
the imperialists ever stifle socialism and enslave the world people.
Though more than half a century has passed since the end of World War
II, there still exist hotbeds of invasion
and war.
The imperialists are major war forces at present.
Taking advantage of the situation where the balance of forces on the
international arena has been upset, the
imperialists are becoming more arrogant in their acts to stifle socialism
and human cause of independence.
With no moves can the imperialists ever block the advance of socialism
and human cause of independence.
Minju Joson says:
The great victory won by the Soviet people in the war against fascist
Germany was an event that proved that the
might of the people, who turned out as one, firmly believing in their just
cause, was inexhaustible and no aggressor
forces could match their strength.
KCNA on charade of aggressors
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The United States and the South Korean
authorities are going to stage
"commemorations of the half centenary of the Korean War" provoked by them.
On this occasion a "resolution" was passed in the United States under
the co-sponsorship of its congress and the
President, while the South Korean authorities have formed a preparatory
committee for "commemorations" and
allocated a huge amount of fund to make "financial contributions" to the
erection of "cenotaphs" and "monuments" and
the construction of "war memorials" in South Korea and other countries.
This is nothing but a charade intended to totally falsify the truth
behind the Korean war of aggression and cover up
their true colors as war provokers and aggressors.
The Korean War was a war of aggression started by the United States by
instigating the South Korean
warmongers as it was a product of its aggressive policy to dominate Asia
and the rest of the world, using Korea as a
bridgehead.
The United States should stand trial of history for its ignition of the
Korean War and can never evade its
responsibility to pay reparation.
"Commemorations" and "functions" planned by the U.S. are part of its
premeditated moves to provoke a second
war of aggression on the Korean peninsula. This lays bare its sinister
intention to get "assistance" in the event of
contingency such as dispatch of mercenaries by different countries.
If the United States and the South Korean authorities hold those
burlesques despite stark historical facts, they will
certainly meet condemnation by the Korean and other peoples of the world.
Obtrusive acts
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- With the G-8 summit to be held in Okinawa as
an occasion Japan seeks to present a
"no war declaration" calling upon the world to vow not to ignite a war.
In this regard Minju Joson today runs a signed commentary noting that
its motion is nothing but a trick to mislead
the world public under the veil of a "peace state."
Calling attention to the fact that Japan is actually stepping up its
moves to become a military power threatening
peace, the commentary stresses that its "no war declaration" will be a
declaration of war against world peace sooner or
later.
It continues:
Japan is paying lip service to "peace state" and "contribution" to
world peace in an attempt to mislead public
opinion and stop the international community from criticizing its refusal
of the settlement of the past. By showing its
"concern" about world peace Japan is trying to curry favour with the
international community and get a permanent seat
on the UN Security Council.
Japan should not obtrusively behave itself as a "political power" under
the veil of a "peace state" but frankly
apologize and reflect on its past crimes and honestly approach the
settlement of the past.
By so doing Japan May improve its tarnished image in the international
arena and become a member of the
international community.
Savage exhumation of tombs by Japanese
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Japan indiscriminately destroyed and
plundered a lot of cultural properties as part
of its policy to obliterate the Korean nation after it occupied Korea by
force of arms.
The savage exhumation of tombs by the Japanese imperialists across the
country is touching off the indignation of
the Korean people as the days go by.
The Japanese exhumed more than 2,000 tombs including kings' mausoleums
in Kaesong, Kanghwa Islet, Haeju
and other areas in a matter of a few years from 1904.
They made no scruple to exhume and destroy the mausoleum of Tangun, the
ancestral father of the Korean nation.
They dug the grave mounds, destroyed the ceilings of grave chambers and
coffins. There was not a mausoleum
left untouched at that time.
They took filigrees Koryo celadon and all other cultural properties
from mausoleums.
Vandalism and plunder of cultural relics were committed in other tombs
in different parts of the country.
According to records available, in December 1921 the Japanese
imperialists dug a tomb of a couple in Ryangsan,
South Kyongsang Province, which was entombed in the age of Silla and robbed
it of more than 100 pieces of cultural
properties including necklaces and earrings. In October 1924 they dug out
ancient tombs in the vicinity of Pyongyang
and carried away all valuable articles.
More than 1,400 tombs in areas along the taedong river and
Ryongyon-myon were dug down in 10 years.
The Japanese imperialists' barbarities committed in Korea are criminal
acts unprecedented in human history.
Those Japanese who witnessed the scene made the following testimonies:
"Nowadays barbarities (exhumation of ancient tombs) were prompted by a
dream getting of a windfall of new
business opportunities since they came to rural villages of Korea.
They dug all tombs related to legends which said that gold bowls were
entombed or a gold rooster crew inside a
tomb on new year's day." ( Koizumi, head of "Pyongyang Museum" during the
Japanese imperialists' occupation).
Book "Rakrang and Pyongyang of Legends" (page 9 of 1934 edition) says
that "any Japanese in Pyongyang who
had not kept an old mirror or earthenware dug out from Rakrang tombs were
considered to be a fool."
Japan has more Korean cultural properties than Korea.
All the Korean people strongly demand Japan make a formal apology for
its past vandalism and unconditionally
return and compensate for all that they plundered and destroyed.
For Spanish speaking people
vocero de minrex de rpdc denuncia "teoria de amenaza de misil de largo
alcance de
norcorea" de ee. uu.
pyongyang, 9 de mayo (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de relaciones
exteriores de la republica popular
democratica de corea hizo publica ayer una declaracion oral condenando a
los estados unidos que acusan a la rpdc a fin
de mitigar la creciente censura internacional a su complot de
establecimiento del sistema de "defensa de misil del
estado".
el vocero senalo que nadie se dejara enganar por el maquiavelismo de
ee. uu. y nosotros mismos no toleraremos
que alguien regatee la soberania de nuestro pais y la dignidad de nuestra
nacion.
el vocero dijo:
el complot de establecimiento del sistema de "defensa de misil del
estado" de ee. uu. provoca unanime censura y
condena de la amplia sociedad internacional por ser la muy temeraria y
peligrosa intencion de destruir el equilibrio
estrategico del mundo y ocupar la superioridad nuclear monopolista en la
epoca actual.
pese a la oposicion de la opinion interna y externa la capa dominante
de ee. uu. maniobra obstinadamente para
establecer de todas maneras el sistema de "defensa de misil del estado".
para este fin ee. uu. toma por escudo la "teoria de amenaza de misil de
largo alcance de norcorea".
califico de "muy pequeno satelite de prueba" a nuestro primer satelite
artificial de la tierra "kwangmyongsong 1" a
fin de mermar su significado y recientemente cambio bruscamente de actitud
al decir que fue lanzamiento no del satelite
sino del misil de largo alcance a fin de justificar su sofisteria de que el
sistema de "defensa de misil" no esta esgrimido
contra rusia y china sino que es para hacer frente al desarrollo de misil
de largo alcance de la rpdc.
ee. uu. actua con tanta insensatez al creer que la repeticion de
mentiras es capaz de convencer a alguien y cae en
megalomania de burlar con ello a los paises interesados y la opinion
internacional.
pero, se equivoca grandemente.
ee. uu. tiene desplegados permanentemente miles de misiles nucleares en
distintas partes del mundo y ahora
pretende establecer otra red de "defensa de misil" solo por miedo al
lanzamiento del satelite de la rpdc, lo que es una
obstinacion descarada y pueril.
si se cuestiona el lanzamiento de satelite ee. uu. y los demas paises
capaces en esta materia deberan dejar de
hacerlo.
lo mismo ocurre con el caso de misil.
si ee. uu. siente de veras la amenaza por el misil de la rpdc ante todo
debe retirar su enorme amenaza militar que
aplica a ella.
esto es una obligacion que la parte norteamericana debio cumplir ya
segun el acuerdo basico concertado con la
rpdc.
ee. uu. debe consumir decenas de miles de millones de dolares para el
desarrollo del sistema de "defensa de misil
del estado". pero al retirar su amenaza militar a la rpdc podra ahorrar mas
enormes fondos.
sin embargo, este pais toma el camino de malgastar enormes fondos al
perseguir otra mayor finalidad estrategica
pretextando el problema de la rpdc.
ee. uu. debe conocer claramente que el problema de la rpdc no puede ser
algun pretexto ni objeto de regateo.
en pyongyang delegacion de aiea
pyongyang, 9 de mayo (atcc) -- la delegacion de la agencia
internacional de energia atomica (aiea) llego hoy a esta
capital para participar en 14 ronda de negociaciones para la ejecucion del
acuerdo basico rpdc-ee.uu.
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