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Korean Central News Agency Extracts. Students in Pyongyang volunteer to join KPA ��� Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- Students of the graduation course at senior middle schools in Pyongyang gathered at Kim Il Sung Square yesterday to earnestly volunteer to join the Korean People's Army. Jang Yong Chol, first secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, in his speech called on the students of the graduation course to become devoted fighters in defending the headquarters of the revolution at the risk of their lives, saying that there is no more honorable thing to them than to stand guard over the country. ��� Students in their speeches said that though various sectors wait for them, it is their hope and aspiration to stand in the forefront of defending the country as soldiers of general Kim Jong Il in their youthful days. ��� A parent, a discharged soldier student of a university and a war veteran in their speeches warmly congratulated the students on volunteering to join the KPA and asked all of them to be heroes in devotedly defending the general and the country with arms. ��� After the meeting, the participants marched through the streets of the capital, singing wartime song "song of defending the motherland" and other militant and revolutionary songs. ��� Present at the meeting were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, KPA vice marshal Ri Jong San, officials concerned and war veterans. **** Removal of obstacle to reunification called for ��� Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- For the independent national reunification it is necessary to remove a source of a threat to the peace of the country and an obstacle to the reunification. Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in a bylined article. ��� The U.S. forces in South Korea are a dangerous force of aggression and a main obstacle to the peace and reunification of the country, the article says, and goes on: ��� They are the root cause of the arms race and danger of war on the Korean Peninsula as they are aimed to invade the northern half of Korea. The U.S. strategic purpose is to turn the peninsula into a springboard from which to dominate the Asia-Pacific region. The "threat from the north" advertised by the U.S. bellicose elements to justify the U.S. military presence in South Korea is a sheer lie and fabrication. It is designed to describe the U.S. imperialist aggression forces as the "war deterrent force" and a "guardian of peace" in a bid to perpetuate their permanent military presence in South Korea and, furthermore, dominate the whole of Korea and northeast Asia. ��� The South Korean anti-reunification elements label the people in the northern half of Korea as the "principal enemy" and make desperate efforts to unleash a war against the north, calling for "cooperation" with outsiders on the plea of what they call "security." It is a tragedy and a disgrace to the Korean people to allow them to remain as part of the nation. ��� Fratricidal showdown and war lead to self-destruction because they only give a chance to outsiders to fish in troubled waters. ��� The Korean people who call for the independent reunification of the country should not allow this land, their cradle, to be turned into shambles of a fratricidal war. ��� The existence of the "security law" is very anachronistic as it is a chief obstacle to national concord and reunification at present. ��� The Korean people will work hard to foil any attempt to hamstring the reunification movement and remain true to the idea "by the united efforts of the Korean people". **** Release of those involved in anti-U.S. action called for ��� Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- The Chungchong provincial travelers federation under the "national federation of student travelers" in South Korea reportedly demanded the release of those who occupied the U.S. chamber of commerce and industry and staged a sit-in. The organization issued a statement on March 7 in which it declared that the occupation of the U.S. chamber and the sit-in strike staged by fellow student Pak Jun Ma of Kyongwon College and other students of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils were an expression of the unanimous will of all the people opposed to bush's visit. It held that the above-said students should be set free as early as possible because they have always fought as the vanguard in the student actions. ��� The federation declared that it would struggle against the authorities who commit treacherous acts after branding the student action as "terrorism" and that it would carry on its actions until Pak Jun Ma and other members of the death-defying corps are released and the U.S. imperialists quit South Korea. **** S. Korea-U.S. joint military drills under fire ��� Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- The solidarity for implementing the south-north joint declaration reportedly released a statement on March 8, denouncing the South Korea-U.S. joint military drills. The South Korea-U.S. "combined forces command" announced that it would launch two joint military exercises called "reception, staging, onward movement and integration exercise" and "foal eagle" at the same time from march 21 to 27. ��� The announcement is an open provocation of the U.S. intended to unleash another war on the Korean Peninsular, the statement said. ��� It called upon all the people to unite in the struggle against the large-scale war exercises between South Korea and the U.S. and fully demonstrate the Korean nation's anti-U.S. and anti-war will which was displayed in the struggle against Bush's South Korea visit. ��� To implement the June 15 joint declaration under its banner provides a guarantee for preventing war holocaust and keeping peace and security of the nation, the statement said. It called for giving priority to national independence and cooperation and rejecting all dependence on outsiders, escalation of tensions and war moves. **** DPRK Foreign Ministry delegation leaves for China ��� Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, sent a message of greetings to his Mauritian counterpart Anerood Jugnauth. Extending warm congratulations to him on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of independence and the tenth anniversary of the proclamation of the republic, it expressed belief that the friendly ties between the two countries would develop on better terms. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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