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Korean Central News Agency Extracts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Indonesian President leaves ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri left here today by a special plane after successfully winding up her visit to the DPRK at the invitation of Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly. A large number of citizens turned out at the airport to see off the Indonesian President, carrying the flags of the two countries and bunches of flowers in their hands. ��� The Indonesian President and her husband and her entourage came out to the airport. ��� A ceremony of seeing off the Indonesian President took place at the airport. ��� After the playing of the national anthems of the two countries, Kim Yong Nam and Megawati Soekarnoputri reviewed a guard of honor of the three services of the Korean People's Army. ��� A woman worker presented Megawati with a bouquet. ��� The Indonesian guests were sent off by foreign minister Paek Nam Sun, minister of foreign trade Ri Kwang Gun, minister of culture and chairman of the DPRK information committee Kang Nung Su, president of the academy of sciences Ri Kwang Ho and other officials concerned. ��� Among the farewell bidders were ambassador Buchari Effendi and staff members of the Indonesian embassy here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Russian presidential orchestra's sojourn in Pyongyang ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Russian presidential orchestra led by lieutenant general Sergei Streigin, commander of the garrison of the Kremlin in Moscow, yesterday visited the International Friendship Exhibition. The guests went round the gifts to President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il from leaders of political parties and heads of state, prominent figures of political and public circles and people from all walks of life of many countries. ��� In the hall where the wax figure of the president stands they made bows to him in humble reverence. ��� On the same day the orchestra enjoyed a music and dance performance given by artistes of the DPRR at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs satirizing Bush in rapid vogue in S. Korea ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Songs satirizing U.S. President Bush are created one after another, causing a great sensation in South Korea. According to the March issue of the South Korean magazine Minjok 21, composer Yun Min Sok who is well known to South Koreans for his popular songs "Rare Cake" and "Dirty U.S." satirizing Bush wrote another anti-U.S. song "Torai Bush." ��� Describing the reason why the song was named "Torai Bush," the magazine in an article said that "those who talk nonsense are called 'Torai'" in South Korea and its writer thought that the "word would go well with Bush from that point of view." ��� The song is so popular that primary school pupils asked for its music so that they might sing it together with their colleagues, the article said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Russian artistes see rehearsal of "Arirang" performance ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Members of the Russian presidential orchestra saw some scenes of mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" in rehearsal at the May Say Stadium on the evening of March 28. All the members of the orchestra were deeply moved to watch the three-dimensional and fascinating mass gymnastic and artistic performance on the ground and shifting scenes on the wonderful background. ��� P. B. Obshannikov, chief conductor who is in charge of art of the presidential orchestra of the Russian Federation, said that he had neither seen nor imagined such a huge and wonderful work in any other country as the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang." ��� He continued: ��� Amazing organizing ability, skill of unanimous gymnastic and artistic movements, magnificent stage-settings, artistic effects of electronic displays including laser illuminators and shifts of the background are really beyond human imagination. ��� In particular, the music full of national feelings is very fine. ��� It is the unanimous mind of not only myself but all the members of our orchestra that such a great work can be created only in a great country. ��� Gennady Dmitryak, conductor of the chorus of "the Kremlin, Moscow" Museum, said that he had never seen such a splendid performance anywhere in the world. He went on: ��� A few days ago, a famous foreign actor won popularity in his performance in Moscow on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the formation of Moscow city. But it cannot hold a candle to today's performance. ��� The performance is very impressive as it is splendid, peculiar and conspicuous. ��� In particular the performance vividly shows the warm love of the Korean people for their homeland and the history of the nation. ��� The performance was so fascinating that I thought that all the performers might be the experts graduated from art schools or universities from their earliest days. ��� Such a wonderful performance which holds the first place of art circle in the world will never be seen again in future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GNP's anti-reunification declaration flailed ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF) issued a statement on March 29 assailing the South Korean "Grand National Party" (GNP) for drawing up a "basic line toward the north," an anti-reunification declaration. The statement says: ��� The GNP group in what it called a "basic line toward the north" groundlessly slandered the political system in the north, talking about "principle of separation." it went the length of opposing the on-going inter-Korean cooperation and exchange, clamouring about "reciprocity" and "transparency", and disclosed even a ridiculous "plan to develop the north." ��� The GNP's malignant mud-slinging at the DPRK's political system, life and dignity of its people, betrayed an intention to make a showdown with the north to the last, instigated by the U.S. imperialists when it echoed political hooligan Bush's call for a "change in the political system" in the DPRK. ��� The U.S. occupation of South Korea is the root cause of the harassed peace on the Korean Peninsula. However, the GNP is begging for the U.S. forces' permanent presence in South Korea. ��� Peace on the Korean Peninsula is unthinkable as long as the U.S. troops remain in South Korea. Yet, it is the GNP's intention to adamantly oppose inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation. ��� The CPRF bitterly denounces in the name of the Korean nation aspiring after peace and reunification of the country the GNP's "basic line toward the north" as a declaration of a war against the DPRK as it is keen to implement the line by playing the role of a shock brigade in the U.S. war of aggression against the DPRK and an anti-reunification declaration to bar the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and perpetuate the national split. ��� If the GNP hamstrings the process of improving the inter-Korean relations and puts a stumbling block in the way of the independent reunification as a dirty servant of the U.S., it will never escape a stern punishment of the whole nation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. nuclear strategy targeted against DPRK assailed ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Bush administration has started working up a plan for actions to implement its dangerous strategy of nuclear attack on the DPRK. This laid bare its intention to use even nuclear weapons to stifle the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article. ��� It is not the first time that the U.S. imperialists' attempt at a nuclear attack on the DPRK was brought to light, the article says, and continues: ��� Their moves to start a nuclear war in Korea and bring a nuclear holocaust to the Korean nation are already half a century long. ��� These moves have reached their height since bush's assumption of office. The hawkish bush group has become extremely arrogant while perpetrating high-handed and arbitrary practices in every part of the world. It has made no scruple of embarking upon the road of realizing its dangerous nuclear strategy to invade the independent DPRK in a bid to stifle it. ��� The U.S. attempt at a nuclear attack on the DPRK is a link of the whole chain of its desperate moves to stifle the DPRK and indicates that they have reached the highest water mark. ��� The U.S. nuclear strategy is targeted against the Korean Peninsula. It is the U.S. sinister ambition to bring the Korean people to their knees and put the whole of Korea under its control even by use of nuclear weapons. ��� Due to their reckless moves the Korean peninsula is exposed to a real danger of a nuclear war. They are gravely threatening the existence and progress of the Korean nation while hindering the process of achieving peace of the country and independent national reunification. ��� The U.S. imperialists are, in fact, most barbarous aggressors keen to bring a nuclear holocaust to the Korean nation in a bid to stifle the DPRK and put the whole of Korea under their domination. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Japan urged to take proper attitude toward of DPRK-JAPAN relations ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Japan's reactionary media and ultra-rightist forces are casting aspersions on the recent statement released by a spokesman for the central committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society. They are raising a hue and cry over the fictitious issue of "kidnapping" by the DPRRK claiming that "it is still too soon to expect much from the statement" as it was produced by an "appeasement policy" of the DPRK. ��� Turning aside the settlement of its past, Japan, an assailant, groundlessly takes issue with the DPRK, a victim, over the "kidnapping" issue invented by itself. This is just like a thief crying "stop thief" Rodong Sinmun today says this in a commentator's article. ��� It further says: ��� Japan committed never-to-be-condoned crimes against the Korean people during its past occupation of Korea and the Korean War, but has not yet made a clear-cut apology for them, to say nothing of compensation. ��� Nevertheless, it is clamouring about such "kidnapping" issue while wearing an air of innocence as regards its past heinous crimes. It is an intolerable insult to the Korean nation. ��� It is childish and maladroit of Japan to raise the "kidnapping" issue as a "bargaining chip", turning its back on the settlement of the past crimes. ��� The settlement of the past is the crux of problems to be solved for the improvement of the DPRK-Japan relations. It is impossible for Japan to expect the improved bilateral relations unless it makes an apology and compensation to the Korean people for its crime-woven past. ��� It is a legitimate right of the DPRK to get apology and compensation. We will employ all means and methods to make Japan pay for its past crimes without fail in our generation. ��� Japan's attempt to drag out the settlement would only add to its crimes and increase the amount of its compensation. ��� If Japan continues peddling the non-existent issue of "kidnapping" in this century, covering up its past crimes and evading compensation for them, failing to read the Korean people's sentiment and will, it will give vent to their wrath toward Japan and accelerate its ruin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GNP's "basic line toward north" under fire ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Papers here today carry signed commentaries assailing the South Korean "Grand National Party" for recently working up a "basic line toward the north", a keynote of its policy toward the north. Rodong Sinmun dismisses the assertion that "exchange and cooperation between authorities should be promoted on the basis of reciprocity" as an anti-national logic aimed to foster division and confrontation from a to z. The paper goes on: ��� It is preposterous to call for settling the national problem on the basis of equivalent exchange. To try to apply the logic of "reciprocity" which has no measure of value common to the nation to the inter-Korean relations is to achieve the GNP's foolish aim to make a showdown with the north. And its talk about "humanitarian aid" under the "conditions where transparency is guaranteed" is meant to lead the DPRK to "reform" and "opening" with a petty amount of money and a few goods as a bait and destabilize it. ��� It claimed in the basic line that "no exchange and cooperation should be made unless peace is guaranteed." This is little short of declaring that the GNP would not involve itself in such red cross and humanitarian activities as the exchange of home-visiting groups of separated families and relatives as it reveals its criminal attempt to check cooperation and exchange between the north and south of Korea and hamstring the process of improving the inter-Korean relations. ��� A "plan to develop the north" contained in the basic line is, in essence, a replica and version of the preceding rulers' plan to "restore the north". ��� It is an intolerable challenge and provocation to the north that the GNP group is now working hard to draw up a "plan to develop the north," a plan to "unify the country by invading the north," after formulating "unification under the liberal democracy" in its party's line. ��� The GNP's "basic line toward the north" is, in the long run, a declaration to invade the north intended to implement the anti-DPRK aggressive policy of the U.S. imperialists who are threatening to mount a nuclear attack on the DPRK after singling it out as a member of the "axis of evil." the line is also aimed to hinder the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and foster national division and confrontation. ��� Minju Joson dismisses the "basic line toward the north" as a declaration to foster confrontation and division aimed to perpetuate the national split. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mongolian party delegation winds up Korea visit ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party led by its General Secretary D. Idevkhten left here today for home. During its stay it toured the tower of the Juche idea, the International Friendship Exhibition, the Monument to Party Founding, the Korean Revolution Museum and other places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chief director of Pyung Hwa General Motor Company here ��� Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A delegation led by Pak Sang Gwon, chief director of the Pyung Hwa General Motor Company, arrived here today to attend a ceremony of commissioning the Pyung Hwa General Motor Works. The delegation was met at the airport by Song Ho Gyong, vice-chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee. ------------------------------------------------- Kim Il Sung's work published in Cuba ��� Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung's famous work "Let us accomplish the cause of socialism and communism under the revolutionary banner of Juche" was brought out in booklet by the publishing house of the Cuban book association on March 20. In its preface the book says that on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung the publishing house has the pleasure to bring out his work in token of support to the Korean people in their efforts to boost the relations of friendship and solidarity between the two countries, build a developed socialist society and achieve national reunification in confrontation with the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean reactionary forces. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Defending national sovereignty called for ��� Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The Bush administration torpedoed multi-faceted negotiations and contacts, scuppered the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and has pursued confrontation and war against the DPRK, while obstructing the inter-Korean dialogue and the implementation of the north-south joint declaration. In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says: ��� The situation on the Korean Peninsula has reached an extreme pitch of tension and the danger of a new war is increasing owing to an adventurous anti-DPRK line of the bellicose bush group and its war moves. ��� It is the consistent policy of the DPRK to prevent a war and defend peace. ��� We want peace, not a war. There is no reason for the compatriots in the north and the south to fight each other. ��� But it is our revolutionary stand not to allow anyone to infringe upon our sovereignty and dignity, wantonly challenging our peace-loving efforts. ��� The U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression and war and their presence in South Korea are the basic factor of disturbing peace and barring the peaceful reunification of Korea and the root cause of bringing a nuclear holocaust to the Korean nation. ��� If the U.S. imperialists are allowed to carry on their war moves and perpetuate their forces' presence in South Korea, a new war will engulf our country and put the nation's destiny and the future of our country in danger. ��� Had the DPRK failed to increase the national defence capability and follow an army-based policy, The U.S. imperialists would have ignited a new war in Korea. ��� The army-based policy is a true patriotic policy to defend the nation's security and the country's peace. This has been clearly proved by the present reality. ��� The army-based policy is aimed to defend and glorify the socialist system and mount a fierce attack upon and deal merciless blows at the aggressors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Declaration on present situation issued ��� Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- 790 teachers of primary, middle and high schools in South Jolla Province, South Korea, under the "national teachers union" reportedly issued a declaration on the present situation on march 26 in support of the struggle of the unionists. Expressing absolute support to the members of the power industry trade union in their strike and the formation of the civil servants union, the declaration urged the authorities to immediately halt their crackdown on the strike and honestly approach the dialogue with the trade union. ��� It denounced the authorities for their policy of privatizing public enterprises. ��� It also accused them of refusing to recognize the civil servants union, dismissing its formation as "illegal." The declaration said that they would encourage the struggle of the workers of the power industry and the civil servants union and actively support them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Implementation of June 15 joint declaration urged in S. Korea ��� Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and peace on the Korean Peninsula (Thongil Ryondae) reportedly sponsored a press conference against war and for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration beside the U.S. embassy in Seoul on March 27. The press conference was held after rev. Han Sang Ryol, permanent representative of Thongil Ryondae, staged a hunger sit-in in front of the U.S. embassy for 8 days from March 20. It was called to denounce the U.S. moves to turn the Korean Peninsula into a theatre of war and harden the will to implement the June 15 joint declaration. ��� Rev. Han released an article titled "finishing up the hunger sit-in opposing South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises, war exercise and urging the repentance and withdrawal of the U.S." ��� During the period of his hunger strike he reaffirmed that the way out of the Korean nation is, first of all, to implement the June 15 joint declaration, he said, adding: ��� The joint declaration is a watershed of a new history liquidating the times of division and opening an era of reunification and a great programme and milestone of the reunification movement. ��� A paper of the press conference was read out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cancellation of plan to introduce fighters demanded ��� Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Different South Korean organizations reportedly released statements assailing the virtually confirmed plan to introduce U.S.-made fighters. The "national alliance for democracy and reunification" accused the present authorities and the "Ministry of National Defense" of South Korea of working hard to purchase "F-15K" fighters without fail, yielding to the pressure put by the U.S. upon them to buy its weapons. ��� The organization said that the authorities keen to purchase U.S.-made weapons under "South Korea-U.S. cooperation system" are playing into the hands of Washington seeking to cool down the inter-Korean ties. ��� The social democratic union noted that the authorities' unpopular U.S.-toeing flunkeyist selection of the outdated type of fighters under its coercion must be dismissed as treachery worse than that of traitor Ri Wan Yong. ��� It is our belief that it is the only way of preventing the repetition of such shameful treachery to force the U.S. troops to pull out of South Korea and thus win back national sovereignty and achieve the independent reunification, the statement added. ��� It urged the present "government" to immediately withdraw the decision made on the selection of the type of fighters and abrogate the "South Korea-U.S. mutual defense pact." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anti-DPRK aerial espionage and war exercises under fire ��� Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists committed more than 150 cases of aerial espionage against the DPRK by mobilizing strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes with various missions in March, according to military sources. After its take-off from a U.S. air force base in South Korea a high altitude strategic reconnaissance plane "U-2" spied on strategic objects in the north, flying over South Korea for a long time. ��� On March 14 and 19, an "E-3" commanding plane left an overseas base and committed espionage on objects of the north side along the military demarcation line, commanding the fighters of the U.S. imperialist aggressors involved in an air battle exercise and a drill of striking the targets on the ground in South Korea. ��� Meanwhile, the U.S. imperialists committed aerial war exercises against the north in the sky over all parts of South Korea including forefront areas. ��� During the joint war exercises, a combination of the "Rsoi" and "Foal Eagle," staged from march 21 to 27 the U.S. imperialists let over 120 fighters fly in the sky over South Korea every day and mobilized at least 180 fighters on March 26 and 27, their last phase. ��� All these facts clearly prove that the U.S. imperialists are keen to seize the DPRK at a "single blow" through a surprise "preemptive attack" after singling out it as the next target of their operation following their afghan war. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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