Overseas Koreans' preparatory committees inaugurated
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- A preparatory committee of the United
Federation of Koreans in Russia
was inaugurated on January 8 to celebrate the 58th birthday of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
A preparatory committee of the United Federation of Koreans in Ukraine
was formed on Jan. 5.
The preparatory committees decided to hold different events to
celebrate Kim Jong Il's birthday as the greatest
auspicious holiday of the nation, a grand festival common to humankind.
Work of preserving Juche character and national character
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Korea will render greater depth to the
work of preserving the Juche
character and national character of the revolution and construction this year.
Maintaining the Juche character means that the popular masses shape the
destiny of their country and nation
independently and creatively as the masters of their destiny. Sustaining
the national character means preserving and
developing the good qualities of the nation and embodying them in all
spheres of social life.
It is the consistent position of the Worker's Party of Korea to
establish Juche and sustain the national character
in the revolution and construction.
The joint New Year editorial of the newspapers of the party, army and
youth calls for living our own way and
pushing ahead with socialist construction in the Korean-nation-first spirit
that our leader, our party and our nation
are best and our socialist system is best whatever others may say.
In response to the editorial, the Korean people and army are now firmly
defending the political system and
economic structure of Korean style and Korean way of life, smashing the
imperialists' moves for "globalization"
with a stiff attitude toward their policy of strength and with the
revolutionary principle to react to their carrot
strategy. It is the President Kim Il Sung's mode of making revolution to
work out and embody lines and policies in
keeping with the requirements and specific conditions of the Korean
revolution, rejecting flunkeyism and
dogmatism.
He set forth the line of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the line of
the party building, the line of building
armed forces, the line of building people's government, the line of
socialist construction, the line of building
self-supporting national economy and other Juche-based lines and policies
in all fields and led the Korean revolution
along the road of victory. The "10-point program of the great unity of the
whole nation for the reunification of the
country" advanced by him is based on love for the country and the spirit of
national independence to achieve national
reunification with the united strength of the nation.
The great leader Kim Jong Il in his works, including "Socialism Is A
Science" and "On Preserving the Juche
Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction",
clarified that the Juche character and the
national character are the life and soul of the Korean revolution and he is
defending the sovereignty of the nation.
The Korean people are now waging a dynamic drive to bring about a new
turning point in all political,
economic, military, educational, public health, literary and art and sports
fields, so as to preserve the Juche character
and the national character in all sectors of the revolution and construction.
They are also giving full play to the good national character in spoken
and written language, morality and
cultural life and entertainment.
Arms buildup in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The South Korean warmongers are
reportedly seeking to possess large
landing craft which can be rebuilt as a light aircraft carrier in an
"emergency."
They announced that they would purchase the landing craft carrying
forces about 700 strong and 10 helicopters
at the estimated cost of more than 400 billion won to drastically increase
the capacity of landing operation.
This betrays the bellicose nature of the South Korean authorities who
are beefing up armed forces of aggression
against the desire of the fellow countrymen.
Unconditional repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners demanded
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Promotion of the
Repatriation of Unconverted
Long-Term Prisoners demanded the unconditional repatriation of unconverted
long-term prisoners to their
hometowns at a meeting of representatives held at the Catholic hall on
January 18, according to a report from Seoul.
Noting that it is quite natural from the viewpoint of human rights to
repatriate unconverted long-term prisoners,
including Kim In So, Kim Yong Thae and Ham Se Hwan, to their hometowns, the
organization declared that it
would undertake a broad-based signature campaign demanding their
unconditional repatriation.
S. Korean rulers' arms buildup
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary rails against the frantic
moves of the South Korean rulers for arms buildup.
The commentary says:
The "Ministry of National Defence" of South Korea recently announced a
plan for military spending for 2000.
According to this plan, the South Korean warmongers are to ship into
South Korea 100 units of "Harpy," an
unmanned attacker, from a foreign country this year and deploy them for
action, and to introduce different types of
offensive missiles, submarines and large-sized transport ships.
This plan of the South Korean rulers is to further increase their
capabilities to undertake attack and operations
against the north and thus make a preemptive strike against it.
Drawing attention to the fact that the South Korean warmongers have
become ever more reckless in their moves
for confrontation and war against the north from the outset of the year,
the commentary continues:
Raising a hue and cry over the non-existent "provocation" and "threat"
from the north, the warmongers are
creating a warlike atmosphere.
The aim sought by them in this madcap arms buildup is to do harm to
their fellow countrymen in collusion with
foreign forces.
The South Korean warmongers' escalating moves for a war against the
north from the onset of the year once
again lay bare their true colors as traitors to the nation and fratricidal
war agitators.
Their anti-national moves for confrontation and war will only hasten
their self-destruction.
Truth of "Panmunjom incident" brought to light
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- It was reportedly disclosed that the
"Panmunjom incident" sparked by the
U.S. on August 18, 1976, was a provocation designed to unleash a war
against the DPRK.
A U.S. organization disclosed the recently declassified document called
"minutes of Washington Special
Measure Team." According to it, no sooner had the reckless attempt of the
U.S. to chop a tree that day ended in a
failure by the counter-action of soldiers of the Korean People's Army than
they held a "meeting of special measure
team" in the white house and hatched a plot to put pressure on the DPRK and
use armed forces against it.
At the meeting the then U.S. State Secretary Kissinger said that he
considered the plan for chopping the tree
desirable, revealing his sinister scheme to lead the incident to the
provocation of a war.
The meeting was presided over by Kissinger and attended by those
concerned of the State Department, the
Defense Department, the joint chiefs of staff, the Central Intelligence
Agency and the National Security Council.
Examined there were steps including a real bombing drill of "B-52"
bombers, seizure of DPRK's fishing boats
and merchant ships, launching of missiles into the coasts of the DPRK and
start of South Korea-U.S. joint war
maneuvers.
The recent disclosure of the steps taken by the U.S.'s in connection
with the "Panmunjom incident" provided an
undeniable testimony to the fact that the incident was orchestrated on
their script for a war of aggression.
Wallpaper praising Kim Jong Il displayed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- A wallpaper praising General Secretary
Kim Jong Il was pasted on the
concrete wall built across the central sector of the front, Seoul-based
radio Voice of National Salvation quoted the
Kangwon provincial committee of the National Democratic Front of South
Korea as saying.
Written in the wallpaper which was pasted under cover of darkness at
the dawn of December 29 last year in the
name of the patriotic soldiers society were the letters reading:
"Officers and men of the 'ROK' Army. This is the day the concrete wall
was built 20 years ago.
We cannot remain any longer guards of the concrete wall, a symbol of
national division and confrontation.
Let all of us pool our efforts and resourcefulness to blow up the
concrete wall, a disgrace of the nation, and
build a country under the guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Il where the north
and south will be one."
Military provocation at Panmunjom
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The "ROK" Army committed another
military provocation in a bid to
deliberately aggravate the situation at Panmunjom on January 18, military
sources said.
That day they introduced heavy weapons to two posts under cover of
darkness. And soldiers on duty at a post
made very threatening and vulgar outcries against soldiers of the Korean
People's Army on duty at a post 50 metres
from it.
On Jan. 19, too, a sergeant of the "ROK" Army at work uttered insulting
words to soldiers on duty at our post.
The ceaseless military provocations in Panmunjom area are premeditated
moves to escalate the tensions.
The South Korean rulers should stop at once such military provocations
aggravating the situation in Panmunjom
area and sternly punish those responsible for them.
Mass killings under fire
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Recently data on mass killings of
innocent people by GIs during the last
Korean War have been disclosed one after another, causing a big stir worldwide.
The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK today released a
statement in this regard.
40 more mass killings by GIs have been brought to light in different
parts of South Korea to the consternation
of the international community a few months since the mass killing of at
least 400 innocent people by GIs in
Rogun-ri, Yongdong county, North Chungchong Province, in July 1950 right
after the outbreak of the Korean War
was disclosed by AP in September last year, he said, and cited facts to
prove that the U.S. forces suffered repeated
setbacks in face of the immediate counterattack by the Korean People's Army
after provoking a war of aggression
on the North Korea in an attempt to dominate Korea and, furthermore, the
whole of Asia, and killed a large number
of Koreans throughout the war.
He said:
All the massacres committed by GIs in Korea were without exception
intentional and premeditated ones
perpetrated on the carefully worked out plan and orders of their command.
They were crimes against humanity, a
most wanton violation of the publicly recognized international treaty and
wartime regulations which ban targeting
non-combatants.
Progressive humankind who truly love peace and respect human rights and
the world conscience should brand
GIs' unheard-of massacres during the Korean war as crimes against humanity
and bitterly denounce them.
Moreover, the united nations should make a thoroughgoing investigation
into massacres committed by GIs in
Korea in the name of the "UN forces" by abusing its flag, punish those
responsible for them under the international
law, take a step to immediately dismantle the South Korea-based "UN
command" having disgraceful records of
massacres and thus remove the inglorious mark left in its history.
The Nazi war criminals who gave inhuman treatment to Europeans and Jews
and killed them during World War
II have been chased and punished till now. If the massacres committed by
the United States during the Korean war
are to be overlooked for being a "superpower", this will be a negation of
the "universality of human rights" and
most unacceptable double standards.
Now the United States which tops the list of human rights abuses styles
itself a "judge of human rights," talking
about "defence of human rights" more noisily than any others. Worse still,
it is encroaching upon even the
sovereignty of independent states as it wishes, insisting that human rights
are above state sovereignty.
No one can predict what massacres will be committed in the future if
the United States is allowed to continue
such atrocities.
Not only the United Nations and all other international organizations
but also governmental and
non-governmental human rights and judicial organizations and groups should
render positive cooperation in the
efforts to fully probe the truth behind the mass killings of civilians
committed by the United States and its followers
the South Korean authorities during the Korean war so that such genocide in
the 20th century may not be repeated in
the new century.
We will always remember the shocking massacres committed by the U.S.
against innocent Koreans during the
last Korean war and before and after it and make it pay dearly for such
atrocities.
500-mile journey made by President in teens
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- 75 years have passed since the
President Kim Il Sung covered a 250-mile
journey with the great intention of liberating the country in his teens.
On this significant day, senior middle school pupils of Korea are to
make an excursion along the course of the
250-mile journey made by him.
The excursion team made up of more than 2,500 pupils is to leave
Pyongyang on Jan. 22 and arrive in
Phophyong, Ryanggang Province, on Feb. 3, which is associated with his
revolutionary activity.
During the period the excursionists will visit his statues and historic
sites and monuments dedicated to his
revolutionary feats.
True to the will of his father who said that if the country was to be
free, one should know Korea well, he left
Badaogou on March 16 Juche 12 (1923) on the "250-mile journey for learning."
He arrived at his hometown Mangyongdae after 14 days. He cherished a
great intention of making revolution,
experiencing the nation's misfortunes and pain and the dark realities of
the country.
Hearing the news that his father was arrested by the Japanese
imperialist police in Juche 14 (1925), two years
after his return to the homeland, he covered the "250-mile journey for
national liberation" on January 22.
Embarking upon the road of revolution with the great intention for
national liberation, he left the homeland
crossing the River Amnok with a firm pledge that he would not come back
until Korea became independent.
His noble intention and pledge were fully realized through the
20-odd-year-long rigorous anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle.
That is why the 500-mile journey made by him in his teens is instilling
noble revolutionary spirit, ardent
patriotism and strong will into the rising generation.
Excursions to mark anniversaries of the journeys have been annual
events of pupils from across the country
since Juche 64 (1975) which drew a total of 1.8 million.
Chollima statue, symbol of Korea
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The Chollima statue was erected on
Mansu Hill, Pyongyang, in April Juche
50 (1961).
It depicts a horse galloping with its wings spread. This Chollima is a
symbol of Korea.
It is a historical monument which was built to symbolize the Chollima
movement, the general line of the
Worker's Party of Korea in the period when a great revolutionary advance
was made in the socialist construction.
The statue is composed of a worker, spurring the Chollima on to a leap
forward, with the red letter of the
Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea in his raised hand and a
woman peasant seated behind him with a
sheaf of ripe rice in her arms. The bronze statue is supported by granite
pedestal.
It stands 46 metres high and the sculpture itself is 14 metres high and
16 metres long.
It gives a truthful artistic depiction of the solid political and
ideological unity of the Korean people around the
Worker's Party of Korea and the desire and creative energy of the Korean
working people to do away with
everything backward in all aspects, economic, cultural, ideological and
moral, and push ahead with the socialist
construction at a rapid tempo under the leadership of the party.
The President Kim Il Sung gave origin to the Chollima movement
symbolizing the Chollima, a legendary horse
which runs 400 km a day, during the difficult period of the post-war
reconstruction.
The Korean working people continued working miracles in all fields of
the socialist construction under the
slogan "Let us rush ahead in the spirit of Chollima " to demonstrate the
dignity and honor of the country and nation
to the world.
This spirit has been carried forward.
The Korean people are all out in the struggle to glorify this year, the
WPK's 55th anniversary, with signal
victory in the crucible of greatly increased activity of Chollima.
Chollima will remain a spirit and symbol of Korea.
For Spanish-speaking people
vocero de minrex denuncia genocidios perpetrados por tropas yanquis
pyongyang, 20 de enero (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de rr.ee. de
la republica popular democratica de corea
publico ayer una declaracion oral en relacion con que siguen revelandose
los datos de las masacres perpetradas por
las tropas norteamericanas contra los habitantes inocentes en el periodo de
la pasada guerra coreana produciendo
grandes sensaciones mundiales.
el vocero senala:
en septiembre del ano pasado ap dio a conocer que en julio de 1950,
inmediatamente despues de estallida la
guerra coreana, los militares norteamericanos asesinaron en masa a mas de
300 habitantes inocentes en la comuna de
rogun, distrito de yongdong de la provincia de chungchong del norte.
durante unos meses posteriores fueron
revelados mas de 40 casos de masacres perpetradas por los yanquis en
distintas localidades de sudcorea que
provocan consternacion e indignacion de la sociedad internacional.
con la ambicion de dominar a corea y el resto de asia, las tropas
norteamericanas desataron la guerra agresiva
contra la parte norte de corea. pero sufrieron derrotas repetidas por el
contraataque inmediato de nuestro ejercito
popular y asesinaron cruelmente a numerosos coreanos durante todo el
periodo de la guerra.
todas estas masacres preparadas minuciosamente de antemano y ejecutadas
a ordenes de la instancia superior
son crimenes anti-humanos de ultragran tamano que violaron flagrantemente
el convenio internacional y los
reglamentos del tiempo de guerra que prohiben tomar por blanco a las
personas no combatientes.
la humanidad progresista y la conciencia del mundo que verdaderamente
aman la paz y respetan el derecho
humano deben denunciar con vehemencia estos asesinatos inauditos
calificandolos de crimenes anti-humanos de
ultragran tamano.
la onu debe limpiar sus manchas ignominiosas dejadas en su historia al
averiguar estrictamente dichas matanzas
perpetradas por tropas yanquis en corea a nombre de las "fuerzas de la onu"
con el abuso de la bandera de esta
organizacion internacional, castigar segun el derecho internacional a los
culpables y tomar las medidas para disolver
sin demora en sudcorea la "comandancia de las fuerzas de la onu" que tiene
la historia vergonzosa de masacres.
hasta hoy persiguen y castigan a los criminales de guerra nazistas que
maltrataron y asesinaron a los pueblos
europeos y sionistas durante la segunda guerra mundial.
pues, tolerar a los crimenes de masacres perpetradas en el periodo de
la pasada guerra coreana por ee.uu.
porque este se trata de una "superpotencia" constituira una negacion a la
"universalidad de derechos humanos", un
climax de la doble norma.
ee.uu., archiviolador de los derechos humanos vocifera mas que nadie de
la "defensa de estos" y se arroga las
funciones de "juez mundial en este particular" y atenta flagrantemente la
independencia de los estados soberanos
alegando que los derechos humanos estan por encima de la soberania nacional.
nadie puede prever que tragedia humana se producira en el futuro
mientras no se frene tal despotismo de ee.uu.
la onu y todas las organizaciones internacionales, las entidades
gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de
derechos humanos y juridicas deben esclarecer globalmente el verdadero
aspecto de las masacres perpetradas por
ee.uu. y las autoridades surcoreanas lacayunas contra los habitantes
inocentes durante la pasada guerra coreana y
brindar activa cooperacion para que los asesinatos perpetrados en este
siglo no se repitan en el nuevo.
calcularemos generacion tras generacion las masacres imperdonables
perpetradas por ee.uu. contra coreanos
durante y antes y despues de la guerra coreana y les recibiremos sin falta
el precio merecido.
revelado sectreto de "incidente en phanmunjom"
pyongyang, 20 de enero (atcc) -- segun informaciones, se revelo el
hecho de que el "incidente en phanmunjom"
provocado el dia 18 de agosto de 1976 por el imperialismo norteamericano se
perpetro para desatar una nueva guerra
contra la republica popular democratica de corea.
una organizacion de ee.uu. dio a conocer recientemente las
desclasificadas "notas de reunion del grupo de
medidas especiales de washington" segun las cuales al ver que por nuestros
militares del ejercito popular fracaso su
insensato acto talando un arbol para una provocacion, los imperialistas
norteamericanos se apresuraron a efectuar en
la casa blanca una "reunion del grupo de medidas especiales" para ejercer
presion y fuerzas armadas contra la rpdc.
en la reunion, kissinger, ex secretario de estado norteamericano dijo
que consideraba buena la idea de talar ese
arbol y expuso asi su designio de ampliar el incidente para provocar una
nueva guerra.
en esa reunion en que participaron los interesados de los departamentos
de estado y defensa, la junta de jefes de
estado mayor, la agencia central de inteligencia y el consejo de seguridad
nacional, efectuada bajo la presidencia de
kissinger se examinaron las siguientes medidas: el ejercicio de bombardeo
por avion "b-52", secuestro de nuestros
barcos pesqueros y mercantiles, lanzamiento de misiles a nuestras costas,
el ejercicio militar conjunto
sudcorea-ee.uu. y los demas problemas.
con la revelacion de la conspiracion del imperialismo norteamericano
con respecto al "incidente en
phanmunjom" se hizo evidente el hecho de que este caso fue un acto de
provocacion perpetrado segun un libreto de
guerra agresiva del imperialismo norteamericano.
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