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Korean Central News Agency Extracts Talks between WPK, C.C. secretary and special envoy of south side ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Talks between Kim Yong Sun, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, and Rim Tong Won, special adviser to President Kim Dae Jung on diplomacy, security and unification on a visit to Pyongyang at the request of the south side, were held on Wednesday. At the talks both sides had a wide-range discussion on the grave situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and issues related to the inter-Korean relations. ��� The north-south relations which had developed in favour of reconciliation, unity and reunification after the historic Pyongyang meeting and the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration have been aggravated and the implementation of the declaration has reached a phase where the declaration is facing a serious crisis due to the moves of the bellicose forces at home and abroad to provoke a war, our side noted, adding that not only the U.S. But the South side are to blame for this. ��� It said that the North side's compliance with the request of special envoy Rim Tong Won for Pyongyang visit was aimed to sit face to face with him and know about the south side's clear answer on the will to respect the basic spirit of the declaration calling for settling the issue of the country's reunification by the concerted efforts of our nation. ��� Our side took a serious note of the fact that the South side is keen on war exercises, persistently advocating the "principal enemy" conception, though at the historic Pyongyang meeting it assured our side that it would no longer talk about the conception, and urged it to change its present basic stand on the June 15 joint declaration. ��� The talks go on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Anti-U.S. cyber campaign" brisk in S. Korea ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- The "anti-U.S. cyber campaign" through internet is reportedly brisk in South Korea. A movement for boycotting U.S-made commodities is more brisk than ever before. ��� In the internet homepage "next cafe" over 120 sites specializing in the movement for boycotting U.S.-made commodities were newly established, and in another homepage a "society of those supporting the boycott of U.S.-made commodities" was organized through internet. ��� Organizations, including the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), and civic organizations have made a list of U.S.-made goods in their sites under the title "let us unite in a campaign of boycotting U.S.-made commodities" to make the campaign sweep all parts of South Korea. ��� The campaign is timed to coincide with the movement against the forced purchase of U.S.-made "F-15 K", while ads captioned "No F-15" are given wide coverage by South Korean media including Hangyore. ��� Also echoed in the internet is diverse anti-U.S. tenor. The newly edited materials liken Bush's gesture, posture and facial expression to those of an ape. ��� Meanwhile, slogans including "Let us puncture the arrogance of the U.S.", "Let us restore national pride" and "Let us warn the U.S. against its claim for supremacy based on logic of strength" are appearing one after another in the run-up to the world football championships. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rallies against privatization of power industry in S. Korea ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Rallies for checking the privatization of power industry took place in different parts of Seoul on March 30, according to Seoul-based Radio No. 1. The "national people's solidarity" held a rally at the Jongmyo Park on the same day with the attendance of over 7,000 unionists under the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, demanding a stop to crackdown upon the power industrial workers union and the newly formed civil servants union in the struggle to check the privatization of power industry. ��� The participants held a demonstration after the rally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA urges Japan to stop faulting DPRK ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- The reactionary media and ultra-right forces in Japan keep raising a hue and cry over the fictitious issue of "kidnapping." this can not be construed otherwise than a very disturbing attitude intended to chill the DPRK's sincere stand and attitude to hold negotiations with Japan at a convenient time to discuss issues of mutual concern prompted by humanitarianism. What is ridiculous is that the Japanese reactionaries are groundlessly pulling up the DPRK, a victim, while keeping mum about the wrongs done by Japan as a war criminal state with the world's largest kidnapping record. ��� As for the kidnapping issue, Japan is totally to blame for this crime. With nothing can Japan deny this as it is a hard fact recognized by human history. ��� Japan can never conceal the historical facts that it plundered Korea after invading it and inflicted the biggest human and material losses upon it for one century. ��� If any settlement is to be made, Japan should redeem these crimes, to begin with. ��� While shelving such key issue, however, the Japanese reactionaries are crafty enough to clamor about "prematurity" and "appeasement," as part of its diatribe over the DPRK's "kidnapping" issue. ��� What should not be overlooked is that they are talking nonsense that Pyongyang caved in to the pressure put upon it by the U.S. and Japan. ��� This is a mockery of the independent DPRK, a sovereign state, which has solved all foreign affairs guided by its own faith and will and an insult to the Korean nation which regards independence as its life and soul. ��� Japan's settlement of its past is a core issue related to improving the DPRK-Japan relations and nothing can be settled before Japan has apologized and compensated for its past crimes. ��� The DPRK will leave no means untried to make Japan settle its past crimes in our generation. ��� If the Japanese reactionaries insist in settling the issue in Japan's own interests, while talking nonsense in utter disregard of the Korean nation's wrath and grudge against Japan, they are certain to pay a very high price for that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Foreign Ministry spokesman on U.S. administration's decision ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry answered a question put by KCNA today as regards the fact that the U.S. administration recently decided not to "certify" to the congress this year the DPRK's abiding by the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF). He said: ��� It is none of our business whether the U.S. administration "certifies" to its congress the DPRK's compliance with AF or not as it is an issue belonging to the United States' internal affairs. ��� What should not be overlooked, however, is that this issue may tarnish the image of the DPRK which has sincerely implemented its commitments under the AF as it is intended to create false impression that the U.S. is unilaterally implementing the AF. ��� Through this issue Washington seeks to convince the international community that the U.S. is abiding by the AF and the DPRK is not complying with it. ��� The DPRK has allowed the IAEA inspectors' constant watch on its nuclear facilities after freezing them as required by the AF. ��� It is none other than the United States that is not abiding by the AF in actuality. ��� It has seriously delayed the provision of light water reactors (lwrs) nor has properly delivered heavy oil to the DPRK despite its commitments under the AF. ��� The U.S. should take an emergency measure to compensate for the shortage of electricity caused by the delayed provision of lwrs and deliver heavy oil for this year on time. This is the bounden duty to be fulfilled by the U.S. ��� It is quite natural for the DPRK to take a corresponding step unless such measures are taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DPRK government economic delegation leaves for Far East of Russian Federation ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- A DPRK government economic delegation led by Jo Chang Dok, vice-premier of the cabinet, left here today to visit the far east of the Russian Federation. The delegation was seen off at the airport by Jong Mun San, chief secretary of the cabinet, Mun Chang Nam, first vice-minister of power and coal industries, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of foreign affairs, and Andrei Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paek Nam Sun meets new ambassador of Tunisia ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, minister of foreign affairs of the DPRK, met and had a talk with Hamdi Salah, new Tunisian ambassador to the DPRK, who paid a courtesy call on him today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. urged to stop obstructing Mt. Kumgang tour ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee released a statement today assailing the United States for launching a new smear campaign against the DPRK. It says: ��� The U.S. congressional investigation bureau in a "Report on South Korea-U.S. Relations" recently submitted to the congress claimed that North Korea "used" the money paid for Mt. Kumgang tour for a military purpose and the Hyundai is believed to have provided funds to the DPRK in secrecy. ��� This diatribe on the part of the U.S. is prompted by its intention to justify its attempt to provoke a new war on the Korean Peninsula and calm down the South Koreans' mounting anti-U.S. sentiment. It is also intended to force South Korea to buy more U.S.-made weapons and scotch the Mt. Kumgang tour, symbolic of inter-Korean cooperation, in a bid to bring the north-south relations back to those in the period of confrontation. ��� The Bush administration has worked hard to derail the tourism since the first day of its office. The tourism that started amidst great expectation and concern of the nation has now become lukewarm. It is entirely attributable to the U.S. trickery and plots. ��� All these facts go to clearly prove once again that the U.S. is the most wicked sworn enemy of the Korean nation as it is not only hindering inter-Korean exchange and cooperation undertaken between Koreans in the spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration but also putting a stumbling block in the way of achieving Korea's reunification. ��� As the DPRK has clarified more than once, if the U.S. persists in its moves to hamstring Mt. Kumgang tour that was undertaken as part of inter-Korean non-governmental cooperation, that will only result in further heightening the Koreans' anti-U.S. sentiment and touch off stronger protest and denunciation among all the Koreans. ��� The U.S. is well advised to stop at once obstructing the Mt. Kumgang tour and behave with reason and discretion, though belatedly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Israel's military attack on Palestine slammed ��� Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today issued a statement denouncing Israel's recent military attack on Palestine. He bitterly denounced such military attack of Israel as an act of aggression aimed to eliminate the present national authority, the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and finally stamp out the Palestinian cause. ��� He continued: ��� Israel should stop at once such barbaric military acts of aggression as destroying the peace and stability in this region, withdraw its aggression forces from the headquarters of Arafat and the autonomous regions of Palestine including the west bank and immediately respond to the peace negotiations with the Palestinian side, as unanimously demanded by the international community. ��� We extend full support and solidarity to the Palestinian people in their just cause to defend their legitimate national rights. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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