>
> This is a clear indication that the criminal moves of the U.S. to provoke
>a new war on the Korean peninsula have reached a very serious phase under a
>carefully worked out operation plan.
> What merits a serious attention is that all this is going on behind the
>curtain of dialogue.
> We can never tolerate such U.S. behaviour as whetting a sword behind us,
>while paying lip-service to the "improved relations."
> The DPRK is fully ready for both dialogue and confrontation.
> If the U.S. desperately chooses confrontation disregarding our warning, it
>will not escape from fatal blows from our strong self-defensive forces.
>
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>U.S. urged to make apology and compensation
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- The Communist Party of Peru (Red
>Motherland), the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru, the
>Socialist Party of Peru, the Peruvian Communist Party, the National
>Reconciliation Front of Peru, the National Restoration Party of Peru, the
>Peru-Korea Institute of Culture and Friendship and the Peruvian Committee for
>Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea made public a
>joint statement on Feb. 3 denouncing the mass killings committed by the U.S.
>and the South Korean ruling quarters against civilians during the Korean War.
> In the statement the political parties and organizations strongly demanded
>that the U.S. government and the South Korean authorities officially apologize
>to and compensate the Korean people for their hideous crimes against humanity.
>
> They also strongly urged the U.S. government to drop its anachronistic
>colonial policy such as occupying and domineering over South Korea for over
>half a century and immediately withdraw its troops and weapons of mass
>destruction from it.
> They appealed to the successive South Korean rulers to discard their way
>of life as shameless colonial stooges who are prolonging their remaining days
>fawning on the diabolic U.S. murderers who massacred their fellow countrymen
>and truly turn to the road for national independence and reunification, though
>belatedly.
> They called upon international and regional organizations, all the
>governments and political parties, organizations and individuals of the world
>who value justice and conscience to actively turn out in the international
>solidarity movement demanding that the U.S. officially apologize to and
>compensate the Korean people for its hideous crimes against humanity.
>
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>Korean people follow Kim Jong Il like their father
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Justin Koumba, president of the
>Transition National Council of Congo, was interviewed by KCNA in Pyongyang
>prior to returning home.
> He expressed deep impression he got from the visit to the Kumsusan
>Memorial Palace where the President Kim Il Sung is preserved in state.
> He said the palace is really the sacred temple in the world and General
>Secretary Kim Jong Il, who built the wonderful sacred temple, is the faithful
>successor to the President's cause.
> He went on: During the visit to Korea I was deeply moved by the noble
>ideological and moral world of the Korean people who trust and follow Kim Jong
>Il like their father.
> Kim Jong Il ceaselessly makes a long and difficult journey for on-the-spot
>guidance and aquatints himself with all problems, large and small, ranging
>from the work of national defence to the people's food, clothing and housing.
> And then he indicates clear-cut orientations and ways to solve the
>problems and leads the struggle to realize them.
> He loves and devotes himself to the fatherland and the people most
>ardently. Therefore, the emotion of the Korean people who believe in and
>follow him is most ardent and beautiful.
> Under his wise leadership the Korean people will surely win final victory
>in the sacred struggle to exalt the sovereignty of the country and the
>national dignity decisively smashing the imperialists' moves to isolate and
>stifle the DPRK and their all challenges.
> I believe that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two
>countries based on the exceptional intimacy of President Denis Sassou Nguesso
>and President Kim Il Sung will surely continue to develop in the future, too,
>he said.
>
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>Rodong Sinmun on danger of U.S. moves for arms buildup
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Cohen recently
>dedicated an article to the Washington post clarifying the U.S. position to
>enforce the policy of arms buildup.
> Rodong Sinmun today runs an article in this regard.
> Cohen in the article said that the purchase value of military hardware in
>the current fiscal year would amount to 60 billion dollars.
> The U.S. attempt at arms buildup is a dangerous act, the news analyst
>says, and continues:
> The U.S. administration announced in January last year a plan for greatest
>arms expansion after the Cold War, declaring that it will increase military
>expenditure to 112 billion dollars for six years until the fiscal year 2005.
> The U.S. resorting to arms buildup again after the Cold War is a
>manifestation of its unchangeable essential nature of aggression and a rash
>criminal act to drive the world into the crucible of arms race.
> Its attempt was motivated by an impudent ambition to establish a U.S.-led
>global order with its arrogant strong-arms policy and hegemonism.
> Very dangerous is the U.S. ambition to modernize the U.S. troops still
>further through the arms buildup and take the position of the "military giant"
>and have the world under its thumb by force. Particularly, the U.S. plan to
>intensify the arms expansion policy under the pretext of an "emergency on the
>Korean peninsula" may cause a new world war by laying a time bomb in the
>DPRK-U.S. belligerent relations.
> It may break down the international disarmament process and bring about a
>second arms race and Cold War. It is not difficult to imagine what it means
>and what consequences it will bring.
> The U.S. should ponder over the danger of arms buildup and its aftereffect
>and make its right option.
>
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>S. Korean defectors interviewed
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Ri Chol Ho, 43, who defected from the
>south to the north of Korea with his 12-year old daughter shortly ago, was
>interviewed by reporters at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel today.
> He had made taxi service in Seoul before his defection.
> Noting that his family was broken by betrayal and swindles, that are a
>deep-seated fashion of the rotten and ailing South Korean society, he told
>reporters:
> My defection was motivated by my yearning for the northern half of the
>country, quite different from the south, where all its people form a big
>family in clean and sound life environment and General Secretary Kim Jong Il's
>benevolent and independent politics is administered.
> My first impression of Pyongyang is that its streets are clean and
>citizens are full of life with their faces bright.
> Seeing them enjoy folk games, I felt that the north is my genuine
>motherland where the spirit of the nation is kept.
> On the living conditions of people in the south, Ri said:
> The south looks gorgeous. However, it is a society in which those with
>money and power live in clover and the working masses without money and power
>find no other outlet but suicide.
> In the south preoccupied with the idea of submitting to the U.S., people's
>anti-American sentiment is radically growing after the GIs' mass killing in
>Rogun-ri during the Korean War was disclosed, the defector noted, saying: They
>will fight to drive the yankees, aggressors and murderers, out of South Korea.
>
> He further said:
> I will do my best to terminate such practices as the misery of life and
>family I suffered, the South Korean authorities' shocking moves to do harm to
>the fellow countrymen, continued atrocities of the GIs, and the pro-U.S.,
>pro-Japanese ruling quarters' treachery as soon as possible, and to hasten the
>day when the 70 million fellow countrymen will lead a happy life in one
>reunified country, holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem as its President.
> His daughter Ri Son Mi said:
> I had badly hated my mother for her leaving home.
> But here in the north I came to feel, seeing children learn and grow in
>happiness, that South Korean society is worse than the mother.
>
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>Kim Jong Il receives certificate from Peruvian university
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Piura National University of Peru on Feb.
>3 decided to award a certificate of Honorary Doctor of philosophy and a gold
>medal to General Secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of his 58th birthday.
> An awarding ceremony was held at the university building on Feb. 4.
> The President of the university handed the certificate of honorary doctor
>of philosophy and the gold medal to the DPRK ambassador to Peru.
> Written in the certificate is a message that Piura National University
>awards the title of Honorary Doctor of philosophy to General Secretary Kim
>Jong Il congratulating him on his 58th birthday and wishing him greater
>success in the work for well-being of the Korean people.
>
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>Kim Jong Il's work published in Pakistan
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's
>celebrated work "the Worker's Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader
>Comrade Kim Il Sung" was published by the Afzal Press, Pakistan, in book form
>on Feb. 1.
> The work released on October 2, Juche 84 (1995) says that the history of
>the WPK founded and developed by President Kim Il Sung is the history of his
>revolutionary activities.
>
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>Graduation ceremony of Kim Il Sung Agricultural College held
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- The 6th-term graduation ceremony of Kim
>Il Sung Agricultural College was held on Feb. 1 under the sponsorship of the
>Cuban Institute of Friendship With the Peoples.
> Present at the ceremony were executive secretary of the Cuban Committee
>for Supporting Korea's Reunification Roberto Vasquez, officials concerned and
>teachers and students of the college.
> Floral baskets were laid before the portrait of the President Kim Il Sung.
> The principal of the college and the Korean ambassador to Cuba made
>congratulatory speeches at the ceremony.
>
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>concedidos a dirigente kim jong il diploma de doctor honoris causa y medalla
>de oro
> pyongyang, 11 de febrero (atcc) -- la universidad nacional piura del peru
>decidio el dia 3 del actual conceder el diploma del doctor honoris causa en
>filosofia y la medalla de oro al gran dirigente kim jong il en ocasion de su
>cumpleanos 58.
> la ceremonia tuvo lugar el dia 4 en el edificio de este centro
>universitario.
> el rector de la universidad entrego al embajador coreano en su pais el
>diploma del doctor honoris causa en filosofia y la medalla de oro dirigidos a
>el.
> en el diploma se lee: con motivo del 58 cumpleanos de su excelencia kim
>jong il, maximo dirigente de la republica popular democratica de corea la
>universidad nacional piura le rinde felicitaciones y votos por los mayores
>exitos en su labor para bienestar del pueblo coreano y le otorga el titulo de
>doctor honoris causa en filosofia.
>
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>estamos preparados para todos los casos, comentario de atcc
> pyongyang, 11 de febrero (atcc) -- segun trascendieron, recientemente al
>hacer uso de la palabra en la sesion del comite de servicios militares del
>senado norteamericano henry shelton, presidente de la junta de los jefes de
>estado mayor de ee.uu. dijo que estados unidos desplego en la tierra
>surcoreana tanques renovados, vehiculos de combate de la infanteria, canones,
>helicopteros y aviones de ataque y el sistema de defensa misil "patriot". esto
>es un acto criminal desafiador que demuestra la mas belicosa e intransigente
>politica de ee.uu. con respecto a norcorea y es la mas grave evolucion que
>vuelve a exacerbar situacion militar de la peninsula coreana.
> no podemos menos que prestar atencion al hecho de que los ee.uu. refuerzan
>su intervencion militar en surcorea so pretexto absurdo de la supuesta
>"amenaza y desafio" de la rpdc a la que califican de perturbadora de la paz de
>la peninsula coreana.
> es ilogico que un pais pequeno "amenaza" a los ee.uu. que hacen alarde de
>la unica superpotencia del mundo con enormes potencialidades militares.
> historicamente no atentamos los intereses de los ee.uu. ni amenazamos su
>seguridad.
> los ee.uu. no abandonan su concepto del pasado de hostilidad a norcorea y
>difunden la supuesta "amenaza de esta" con la absurda intencion de lograr su
>finalidad militar de aplastar con la "fuerza" a la rpdc.
> no podemos estar con brazos cruzados ante el hecho de que como reconocio
>shelton, ee.uu. refuerza sus tropas ocupantes de surcorea y esta enteramente
>listo a trasladar en corto tiempo su infanteria de marina de okinawa y las
>fuerzas terrestres del territorio estadounidense a la peninsula coreana.
> todo esto demuestra que las maquinaciones criminales de estados unidos
>encaminadas a desencadenar la nueva guerra en la peninsula coreana se tornan
>mas abiertas llegando a la etapa muy grave con la minuciosa operacion.
> la gravedad de la cuestion es que todo eso se perpetra detras de la
>cortina del dialogo.
> no podemos tolerar jamas tal comportamiento de ee.uu. que habla de "mejora
>de sus relaciones" con la rpdc afilando el cuchillo para atentarla.
> estamos preparados tanto para el dialogo como para la confrontacion.
> si ee.uu. toma el camino del enfrentamiento con oidos sordos a nuestras
>advertencias no podra evitar el golpe demoledor de nuestras poderosas fuerzas
>de autodefensa.
>
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>diario "rodong sinmun" refuta peroracion de albright
> pyongyang, 11 de febrero (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en un
>comentario individual de hoy senala que la secretaria de estado norteamericana
>madelene albright encargada de la confeccion de la politica exterior de su
>pais y su ejecucion, al hacer uso de la palabra en la academia diplomatica
>rusa, acuso a la rpdc del problema nuclear y de misiles, revelando asi la mala
>intencion de ee.uu. de internacionalizar el problema coreano.
> ee.uu. se propone persuadir cueste lo que cueste a rusia de necesidad de
>desarrollar su agresivo sistema de "defensa de misiles de estado" y lograr la
>aprobacion en el parlamento ruso del "tratado de reduccion de armas
>estrategicas - 2". para lograr este fin sale con la supuesta "amenaza nuclear
>y de misil" de la rpdc tratando de aprovecharla como naipe y pretexto para la
>guerra de agresion a esta. en otras palabras se propone cumplir la guerra
>coreana con la movilizacion de las fuerzas armadas multinacionales a rotulo de
>la onu.
> el autor de proliferacion nuclear y de misiles no es la rpdc sino ee.uu.
> la "amenaza nuclear y de misiles" difundida por ee.uu. es una logica
>bandidesca e insistencia testaruda.
> ee.uu. debe poner fin a su accion malsana de acusar a la rpdc y atender
>solo cosas suyas .
>
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>llegada a rpdc totalidad de alimentos y coque prometidos por china
> pyongyang, 11 de febrero (atcc) -- llego aqui hasta el 2 de febrero la
>totalidad de 150 mil toneladas de viveres y 400 mil toneladas de coque que el
>gobierno de china decidio en junio del ano pasado ofrecer gratuitamente a la
>rpdc.
> en los ultimos anos el gobierno de china ofrecio en varias ocasiones
>viveres, petroleo y otros materiales de donacion a la rpdc que sufre
>dificultades temporales ocasionadas por las maquinaciones de aislamiento y
>supresion de los imperialistas y calamidades naturales.
> estos donativos que nos ofrecen de nuevo el partido y el gobierno de china
>siguiendo los tradiciones de amistad entre dos paises que se ayudan en los
>tiempos dificiles constituyen un gran estimulo al pueblo coreano que se
>esfuerza con dinamismo por la construccion de potencia bajo la sabia direccion
>del gran camarada kim jong il.
>
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>llegados equipos de donacion de pnud
> pyongyang, 11 de febrero (atcc) -- el programa de naciones unidas para el
>desarrollo hizo llegar aqui equipos necesarios para el resarcimiento de los
>danos causados por calamidades naturales en el sector agricola de la rpd de
>corea.
> la ceremonia de entrega de donativos tuvo lugar el dia 11 en esta capital.
> participaron hong myong ryol, viceministro de agricultura y otros
>funcionarios asi como david morton, coordinador permanente de la onu y
>representante permanente del pnud en la rpdc.
> hubo un intercambio de discursos.
> los participantes recorrieron los equipos donados por el pnud.
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