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Korean Central News Agency Jan 19-20 Extracts. Implementation of joint declaration called for in S. Korea ��� Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The third rally for "day of all-people action for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration" was reportedly held in Seoul on Tuesday under the sponsorship of the reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and peace in the Korean peninsula. Addressing the rally, the permanent representative of the solidarity called upon the citizens of different circles to come out in the solidarity action, recalling that the united states is now pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to a grave phase after declaring this year as a "year of war". ��� A resolution was read out at the rally. ��� The resolution noted that 2001 was a fruitful year in which the south and the north gained more shining results in achieving the great unity of the nation than ever before. ��� The joint declaration provided the nation with a key and guideline for reunification, it said, adding: ��� We will make 2002 an important year for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration, a year of epochal significance in achieving national reunification by pooling the wisdom and efforts of the 70 million fellow countrymen to shatter the U.S. and the separatist forces' persistent policy of division. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anti-U.S. solidarity rally held in S. Korea ��� Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The 28th anti-U.S. solidarity rally was held in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Tuesday, according to South Korea's Thongil News. Attending the rally were members of citizens organizations, including the people's action for the revision of the South Korea-U.S. "status of forces agreement", the preparatory committee for the headquarters of the movement for the return of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan, the joint measure committee for retaking our land, U.S. military bases, and the all-people measure committee for the closure of the U.S. bombing ground in Maehyang-ri, and workers affiliated to the Daewoo Motor trade union. ��� At the rally speakers angrily stated that it is shameful that foreign troops are present in South Korea, vowing to fight on until the U.S. forces have been withdrawn from south korea. ��� The ralliers also heard a report from the joint measure committee for probe into the case of Jon Tong Rok, a victim of the U.S. military high-tension line accident, and speeches denouncing the U.S. construction of apartment houses in Ryongsan military base and war moves. ��� When policemen tried to block the rally, the ralliers clashed with them, strongly demanding the right to a peaceful rally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. urged to apologize for Rogun-ri massacre ��� Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- A former GI testified to the fact that the mass killings of inhabitants during the Korean War were committed by a U.S. military order to fire machine-guns, according to news reports from Seoul. This soldier was involved in the killing of civilians in Rogun-ri, Yongdong county, North Chungchong Province of South Korea in July 1950. ��� The headquarters of the people's movement for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Korea, in a commentary dated Jan. 14, urged the United States not to make a mockery of the Korean nation but to admit the massacres in Rogun-ri and all other areas and make a thousand-fold apology and compensation for them. ��� The Taegu and North Kyongsang Provincial Federation of University Student Councils released a statement on Jan. 16 demanding that the U.S. make a thousand-fold apology and compensation to the Korean people at once. The U.S. forces should immediately get out of South Korea, the statement urged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Removal of danger of war from Korean peninsula called for ��� Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- It is necessary to foil the moves for aggression and war and remove the danger of war from the Korean peninsula if peace and the independent reunification of the nation are to be achieved, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It goes on: ��� The danger of war is increasing on the Korean peninsula due to the U.S. hardline policy to stifle the DPRK by force of arms. ��� This danger of war will mount unless a struggle is waged against the policy. ��� The U.S. troops in South Korea are a main factor of harassing peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. ��� They are playing a major role in carrying out the U.S. anti-DPRK hardline policy by force of arms. ��� The U.S. claim that its forces in South Korea are a "war deterrent force" is nothing but sophism intended to justify its military presence in South Korea and its moves to ignite another Korean war. ��� They have no other mission than to ignite a new Korean war. ��� Therefore, the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea is a prerequisite to removing the danger of war from the Korean peninsula. This is also essential for ensuring peace and stability there. ��� The U.S. should, at the same time, drop its hardline policy towards the DPRK. ��� In order to remove the danger of war and ensure durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula it is necessary to frustrate the Japanese militarists' wild ambition to stage comeback to Korea. ��� The U.S. tries to use the Japanese reactionaries as its shock brigade in the new Korean war of aggression to be provoked by it. ��� The DPRK is made the first target of the Japanese militarist forces' overseas aggression. ��� Japan is just waiting for the U.S. to give the green light to the new Korean war. ��� A struggle against Japan's moves to reinvade Korea is, therefore, urgently required to ensure peace and stability not only on the Korean peninsula but in the rest of Asia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dangerous fever of war under fire ��� Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defence Agency is busy re-examining the present "defence program" and working out a "defence program" aimed to be carried out till the year 2005 and a new 2006-2010 "mid-term arms build-up plan." Minju Joson today observes: This is a proof that Japan tries to take an active part in the settlement of international disputes in an attempt to show off as a military and political power and meet "state interests" through military actions. ��� The news analyst says: ��� Japan is trying to emerge a war state capable of carrying out overseas aggression, not for self-defence. It is the final aim of the Japanese reactionary ruling quarters to have the same "right" and capacity as those of the united states that does not hesitate to use huge armed forces when it thinks they are necessary for meeting "state interests" and for establishing a sphere of domination. ��� Japan is about to emerge an enemy of humankind in the 21st century. ��� The Japanese reactionaries should cool down their heads overheated with fever of war and ponder with reason over the ensuing consequences of their moves for overseas aggression. ��� No country wants Japan to be a war state, but it wants Japan to be a pacific country. no country tolerates Japan's moves to become a war state. ��� The moves escalated by the Japanese reactionaries for a war of aggression in defiance of the unanimous will and demands of the international community will only precipitate their self-destruction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. imperialists' crafty strategy for aggression by proxy assailed ��� Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article calls upon the peace-loving people of the world to resolutely struggle to check and frustrate the U.S. imperialists' crafty strategy for aggression by proxy. The U.S. world strategy is one for aggression and war designed to control the anti-imperialist independent forces by force of arms and put the world under its domination and control, the article says, stressing that one of the U.S. important methods of carrying out the strategy is aggression by proxy. ��� It goes on: ��� The U.S. is now using Japan in Asia, Israel in the middle east, Kossovo separatists in Yugoslavia and NATO member nations in west Europe as its proxies for aggression. ��� The U.S. imperialists are pursuing their wily purpose through the strategy for aggression by proxy. ��� It is to strengthen domination and control over its allies, satellites and puppets to seize major land of resources and military points of the world. It is also to dominate and subordinate other countries through proxies and drive them out as shock brigades against other countries in an "emergency". ��� The U.S. imperialist aggression by proxy is, in essence, the craftiest method of aggression that has been long used to make other countries fight against each other and fish in troubled waters. ��� The aggression by proxy is now becoming more vicious and brigandish. ��� The U.S. is not only resorting to direct aggression operations but also making its allies, satellites and puppets its proxies in aggression operations in a bid to escape from its present crisis and realize its ambition for world supremacy. ��� The U.S. imperialist strategy of aggression by proxy poses a great threat to humankind. ��� It is rendering regional situation strained, infringing upon the independence and sovereignty of countries and nations, harassing peace and security and increasing the danger of war. ��� The intensified U.S. aggression by proxy is owing to its most serious crisis ever in history. The U.S. economic potential is too weak to support its reckless policy of strength. This is why the U.S. is trying to use its allies, satellites and puppets for intensifying aggression by proxy. ��� In order to prevent war and protect world peace, it is imperative to check and frustrate the U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression and war and, to this end, smash their strategy for aggression by proxy as well as their policy of strength. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA on Japan's reckless provocation ��� Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries have persisted in their anti-DPRK hostile moves since the beginning of the year as evidenced by their act of searching its cargo ship for no reason. On Jan. 7 the Japanese authorities searched a DPRK cargo ship, asserting that they received a "telephone message". In the wake of the incident it was confirmed by the security authorities and media that this was misinformation which had been provided by an unidentified jobless loafer. But the Japanese authorities are putting spurs to beefing up maritime "self-defense force", persistently floating the fiction of "threat from North Korea", instead of making an apology for this diatribe. ��� Such move is a grave encroachment upon the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity and a reckless provocation made by those hell-bent on the anti-DPRK smear campaign. ��� The Japanese reactionaries seem to have become extremely arrogant after openly setting out on the road of overseas expansion by taking advantage of the "September 11 incident". They do not bother to encroach upon the sovereignty of independent states even in violation of the generally accepted international laws. ��� What Japanese maritime forces are doing in coastal waters from the Asia-Pacific region to the Indian ocean is reminiscent of the piracy committed by the Japanese imperialists' fleet of aggression in the past. ��� This is a very serious development as it clearly indicates to the international community once again that the Japanese reactionaries are only keen to realize their old dream of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", far from repenting of the war of aggression committed in the past. ��� The army and people of the DPRK will never allow Japan, to start a war of overseas aggression once again with the Korean peninsula as a springboard as it committed indelible crimes against the Korean people in the past. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA on unreasonable assertion ��� Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- Recently some media, predicting the DPRK-U.S. relations this year, conveyed what They called views of U.S. experts on the Korean peninsula that the inspection of the nuclear facilities of the DPRK should be made from the middle of the year according to the plan to push forward the building of the light water reactors. This is an unreasonable assertion that reflects the viewpoints of impure elements keen to distort the basic spirit of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and the principles that should be maintained in putting it into practice and shift the responsibility for the delayed construction of lwrs on to the DPRK. ��� The basic spirit of the framework is that the U.S. is obliged to provide the DPRK with the light water reactors in return for the DPRK's freezing of nuclear facilities and the two sides agreed to abide by the principle of simultaneous honest implementation of their obligations. ��� In the wake of the publication of the framework the DPRK has fully implemented its obligation, suffering a huge loss caused by the freeze of the independent nuclear power industry. ��� The U.S. side, however, pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK, has implemented none of its obligations properly laid down in the framework. ��� The insincere attitude and stand of the U.S. side has seriously delayed the construction of the lwrs which it had promised to provide to the DPRK by the year 2003. It is told that the project is likely to be completed by the year 2008. ��� Under the situation the U.S. side is to blame for all the problems related to the implementation of the agreed framework. It is quite natural that the U.S. side should make compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the delayed construction of the lwrs. ��� It is quite unfair to try to unilaterally force the inspection of the nuclear facilities upon the DPRK, a victim, ignoring all the facts and truth. This is, in the final analysis, a criminal attempt to put political pressure upon the DPRK. ��� The fate of the agreed framework entirely depends upon the attitude of the U.S. side. ��� The U.S. side should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and adopt a substantial measure to make an immediate compensation for the loss of electricity to the DPRK before anything else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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