DPRK News March 12
DPRK wrestlers win gold medals
Missile battalion of ROK army organized
Struggle for repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners
Multiple rocket launching drill
S. Korean political parties at loggerheads
U.S. projected missile defense system will only invite isolation and destruction
U.S. sanctions, crimes against humanity
Japan's attempt to act spokesman for Asia
DPRK wrestlers win gold medals
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- DPRK players won three gold medals in the
International Freestyle
Wrestling Competition for President of the Republic Cup held in Ulan Ude of
the Bryatia Republic of the Russian
Federation from March 3 to 5.
It was participated in by 168 players from the DPRK, China, Mongolia
and 7 republics of the Russian
Federation.
Ko Jong Chol, So Kwang Myong and Kang Kum Chol respectively came first
in the 50 kg, 54 kg and 58 kg
events by beating their rivals with overwhelming points.
Missile battalion of ROK army organized
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- It was disclosed that the South Korean
warmongers organized a new missile
battalion in the ROK army at the end of last year, according to a radio
report from Seoul.
The deployed missile battalion has 27 launching pads, each worth 5.7
billion won, rocket shells and missiles.
The chief executive hurled this battalion into the large-caliber
multiple rocket firing exercise staged in the central
sector of the front on March 10 so that it might have its first firing drill.
This once again laid bare his true colors as a separatist keen on arms
buildup and war.
Struggle for repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Measure Committee for the Rescue
of Unconverted Long-Term
Prisoners in South Korea sent a letter to the South Korean Committee for
the Promotion of Unconverted Long-Term
Prisoners' Repatriation on Saturday calling for its positive efforts for an
earlier repatriation of those prisoners to the
North Korea.
In the letter the DPRK measure committee, on behalf of all the people
in North Korea, expressed full support to
the just struggle of the South Korean promotion committee who are making
all efforts for an early repatriation of
unconverted long-term prisoners to the north.
The letter said:
The repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea is
an urgent problem which brooks no
further delay in view of the situation of them suffering misfortune and
pain as well as in view of humanitarianism
and international law.
We express the belief that your organization will activate the efforts
for their repatriation in the future, too. And
we strongly call upon you to set a common goal, which is to realize the
repatriation of Kim In So, Ham Se Hwan,
Kim Yong Thae and other unconverted long-term prisoners who were taken
prisoner during the last Korean War,
before late June this year and return of all other unconverted long-term
prisoners who want to go to the DPRK, until
the 55th anniversary of Korea's liberation from the Japanese imperialists'
rule, and work hard together with us to
this end.
Multiple rocket launching drill
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities staged a
drill of operating large-caliber multiple
launch rocket system in the central sector of the front on Friday with
participation of officials concerned of the U.S.
military in South Korea and officials of the South Korean Defence Ministry,
a radio report from Seoul said.
Involved in the drill were Pukjin and Sonbong artillery units of the
South Korean army.
The authorities were buoyed by the fever of war against the north,
saying that all processes of this system from
target-detecting and launching are automated to reduce targets to ashes.
S. Korean political parties at loggerheads
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The United Liberal Democrats, which
seceded from the ruling coalition after
the dispute over the parliamentary cabinet system, and the ruling
democratic party of South Korea made a fierce
showdown with each other on March 7, a radio report from Seoul said.
That day Kim Jong Pil criticized the DP for having reneged on its
promise on parliamentary cabinet system and
said, the 'uld' will not cooperate with the ruler even after the election.
Branding the Presidential system of South Korea as an irresponsible
system that stands above the law, he said
that constitutional amendment is needed to remove confrontation between ins
and outs.
Meanwhile, ri in je, chairman of the election measure committee of the
DP, refuted Kim's argument as
nonsense.
He said DP should be turned into nationwide political party so as to
maintain the Presidential system.
The present antagonism between the ruler and Kim Jong Pil, who joined
hands on the promise on parliamentary
cabinet system but now become rivals, betrays ugly colors of those with
greed for power.
U.S. projected missile defense system will only invite isolation and destruction
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today describes the U.S. as
the enemy of peace and a source of
war of aggression.
The news analyst says:
The U.S. plans to make a formal decision on deploying a missile defense
system in the near future. It is aimed
at getting strategic upper hand in different parts of the world under the
pretext of missile defense and, furthermore,
establishing military domination over the world.
Despite strong precautions of many countries around the world the U.S.
is trying to establish the missile
defense system at any cost under the pretext of the threat from the DPRK.
It is not the U.S. but the DPRK that is exposed to nuclear and missile
threat.
The U.S. has deployed many nuclear weapons and missiles in South Korea,
Japan and around the Korean
peninsula to pose permanent threat to the DPRK. While continuously
delivering latest missiles to the South Korean
authorities, the U.S. is going to allow them to produce long-range missiles.
To move toward disarmament and peace is the trend of the times and
demand of humankind. If the U.S.
persists in arms buildup, aggression and war preparations, ignoring them,
it will find itself isolated and meet a
destruction.
U.S. sanctions, crimes against humanity
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. authorities let no chance pass
by without talking about
humanitarianism, styling themselves as champions of humanitarianism in the
world.
Rodong Sinmun today runs an article in this regard.
The paper says:
In mid-February the U.S. extended sanctions imposed upon Sudan even to
oil companies of other countries that
had contracts with this country, claiming that the government of Sudan
spends income from oil sale for the civil
war.
Recently the U.S. senate adopted a bill to the effect that if Russia
offers Iran missile technology and materials
that can be used for the development of weapons of mass destruction
sanctions will be imposed upon Russia, on the
plea of saving humankind from those weapons.
The U.S. claims that the sanctions against Iraq are aimed at preventing
the country from manufacturing
weapons of mass destruction and that sanctions against Cuba are designed to
lead the Cuban government to respect
humanitarianism and take the road of democracy.
The U.S. sanctions are, in essence, crimes against ethics and
humanitarianism, which inflict misfortune and
pain upon the people.
About 1.27 million people were killed in Iraq after the U.S. put
sanctions on it in 1990.
The people of Sudan plagued with disputes are suffering manifold pain
and disaster due to the U.S. sanctions.
Many congressmen admit that U.S. sanctions are criminal acts.
If the crimes of the U.S. are allowed any longer, humankind cannot
achieve equality and happiness any time,
but may lose dignity and value forever. The world people should,
thereafter, resolutely stand up against the U.S.
sanctions.
Japan's attempt to act spokesman for Asia
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The Japanese authorities have come in for
strong criticism by a signed
commentary of Rodong Sinmun today for their attempt to act a spokesman for
Asia.
The Japanese authorities are now getting busy, saying that they will
reflect the voices of Asia and discuss ways
of settling regional disputes at the summit of the group of 8 nations
slated for the end of July, the commentary says,
and goes on:
Nobody has asked Japan to play the role of a spokesman for Asia and it
is not qualified for that role.
Japan has not yet shaken off the ill-fame of an enemy state and is no
more than a political dwarf which only
follows the United States in the international arena. Even the South Korean
ruling quarters, the authorities of the
United States, look down upon Japan and treat it as their servant.
It is, therefore, a height of folly for Japan to attempt to act a
spokesman for Asia.
If Japan wants to play such a role, it should honestly apologize and
compensate for its past crimes, first of all,
and thus get the trust from the international community.
Lurking behind Japan's effort to be a spokesman for Asia is a sinister
intention to become a leader of Asia.
But this is a day dream.
The Asian countries are cautious against Japan which is whetting a
sword for aggression under the signboards
of peace and cooperation.
Japan had better drop its pipe dream and fulfil its commitments.
Only then can it escape from people's hatred and act fair and square.
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