DPRK News March 24
Congratulatory message to Syrian Foreign Minister
Kye Ung Thae meets delegation of cadres of Communist Party of China
Gift to Kim Jong Il from delegation of cadres
18th April spring friendship art festival to open in Pyongyang
Military attaches corps visits revolutionary sites
KCNA on provocative remarks of S. Korean chief executive
U.S. plans to replace apache with new type one
KCNA on S. Korean and U.S. military threat to DPRK
Japan urged to stop legislating on "suffrage"
U.S. loudmouthed "missile threat from North Korea"
Movement for rejecting those candidates to be defeated
S. Korean students demand settlement of registration fee problem
Japanese urged to stop using "mysterious ship case" for their war preparations
U.S. apology and compensation for its crimes against humanity called for
Preparatory committees formed to commemorate Sun's Day
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported in Guyana
For Spanish-speaking people
Congratulatory message to Syrian Foreign Minister
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Foreign Minister of the
DPRK, sent a congratulatory
message to Farouq al Shara on his stay in office as Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic.
The message extended warm congratulations to him and wished him greater
success in his work.
Kye Ung Thae meets delegation of cadres of Communist Party of China
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Kye Ung Thae, member of the political
bureau and secretary of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, today met and conversed with a
delegation of cadres of the Communist
Party of China headed by Chen Yiping, deputy secretary general of the
central political science and law committee
under the Communist Party of China.
Chen Yiping said that the Sino-Korean friendship was provided and
sealed in blood by the President Kim Il
Sung, chairman Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders of the old generation,
adding the great Kim Jong Il's visit to
the Chinese embassy clearly proved that the Worker's Party of Korea is
treasuring the Sino-Korean friendship and
paying deep attention to it.
The Communist Party of China headed by Jiang Zemin is convinced that
the friendship between the two
countries will grow stronger and develop, he stressed.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from delegation of cadres
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the visiting delegation of
cadres of the Communist Party of China.
Head of the delegation Chen Yiping, deputy secretary general of the
central political science and law committee
of the Communist Party of China, conveyed it to Kye Ung Thae, member of the
political bureau of the Central
Committee of the WPK and secretary of the C.C., the WPK.
18th April spring friendship art festival to open in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The 18th April Spring Friendship Art
Festival will open in Pyongyang on the
occasion of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
The festival will present a variety of performances including music,
dances, instrumental concerts and circus of
over 80 art troupes and acrobatic groups consisting of winners of national
and international music contests and
well-known artistes from more than 40 countries, as well as overseas Korean
art troupes and local art troupes.
The festival will contribute to developing friendship, solidarity and
cultural exchanges and cooperation among
peoples and men of culture and art of different countries in the idea of
independence, peace and friendship.
Military attaches corps visits revolutionary sites
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The military attaches corps here visited
the Hakdanggol Revolutionary Site
and Sunhwa school on March 23 on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of
the inauguration of the Korean National
Association (anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organisation) by Kim
Hyong Jik.
The Hakdanggol Revolutionary Site (located in the center of Pyongyang)
is a place where Kim Hyong Jik
inaugurated the Korean National Association.
Members of the military attaches corps looked round the revolutionary
site, being briefed on the dynamic
struggle waged by him to achieve the independence of the country by the
Koreans themselves.
They also visited Sunhwa school (Mangyongdae district) which is
associated with his patriotic educational
activities.
He is the father of the President Kim Il Sung.
He was an indomitable revolutionary fighter and an outstanding leader
of the anti-Japanese national liberation
movement in Korea.
KCNA on provocative remarks of S. Korean chief executive
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The South Korean chief executive, at a
recent tea party with the leading
officials of the association of reservists, asserted that "reform and
opening is the only way out" for the north and "if
North Korea opts for a war it will suffer only destruction," according to
Joson Ilbo of South Korea.
This cannot be construed otherwise than impudent and provocative outbursts.
By "reform and opening" the South Korean chief executive means, in
fact, blindly following the imperialist
forces keen on establishing their domination over all the countries under
the signboard of "globalization," thus
abandoning the Juche character and national identity.
The South Korean chief executive only betrayed the servile and dirty
"dead soul" peculiar to those preoccupied
with dependence on outside forces and flunkeyism and treachery when he
asserted that subordination, not national
independence, is the only "way out."
His clamor about a war and "destruction" should be viewed as an
intolerable provocative statement. We cannot
but take a serious note of a torrent of similar outbursts let loose by the
South Korean chief executive these days,
while paying lip-service to the "dialogue" for the improved inter-Korean
relations. He will have to pay a high price
for this.
The South Korean chief executive is well advised to face up to reality
and be prudent in his remarks regarding
the inter-Korean relations. And he had better mind his own business.
U.S. plans to replace apache with new type one
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The U.S. military stationed in South
Korea decided to replace apache
helicopters deployed in South Korea with new type attack ones, according to
a news report.
They intend to begin this replacement in April in the air regiment in
Chunchon to which an attack mission was
assigned.
The new type helicopter apache is equipped with a system of target
choice and reconnaissance and the first of its
kind to be mounted with shooting-control radar device, the report noted.
KCNA on S. Korean and U.S. military threat to DPRK
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Jo Song Thae, "Minister of National
Defence" of South Korea, at a recent
joint press conference at the end of "talks" with U.S. Defense Secretary
Cohen, called for a "prompt and resolute
joint action" against the alleged possible "armed provocation" of someone.
His remarks deserved strong condemnation as they are a war statement
calling for a U.S.-South Korea joint
attack on North Korea.
It is by no means accidental that these war outcries came at a time
when a series of talks are under way between
the DPRK and the U.S. and the South Korean authorities are frequently
talking about the "improvement of
relations" and "reconciliation" with the north.
This clearly proves that though the United States and the South Korean
authorities are paying lip-service to the
improved relations, they are, in actuality, seeking to provoke a war
against the DPRK.
The U.S.-Japan-South Korea military collusion and tie-up are being
tightened under the pretext of "joint
defence" and their DPRK-targeted military moves are being escalated these days.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of Japan flew into South
Korea for a war confab some days ago and
Cohen toured Japan and South Korea, crying out for "strong deterrent force"
against the DPRK. These moves only
exasperate the situation on the Korean peninsula.
Cohen's remarks are unpardonable outcries intended to encourage the
South Korean authorities to escalate
confrontation with the DPRK.
The U.S. and the South Korean warmongers must stop at once the
dangerous actions to encroach upon the
dignity of the sovereign DPRK.
Japan urged to stop legislating on "suffrage"
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Union of
Agricultural Workers of Korea in a
statement on Thursday denounced the Japanese reactionaries' moves to
legislate on "suffrage" as a premeditated
scheme to encroach upon the national dignity and rights of Korean citizens
in Japan and undermine Chongryon (the
General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) and one more anti-DPRK
hostile act.
The organisation charged that the issue of "suffrage" raised by the
Japanese reactionaries is a despicable plot to
separate Korean citizens in Japan from the DPRK and assimilate them to
"Japanese" under the pretext of giving
non-Japanese permanent residents the right to participate in Japanese politics.
If the Japanese authorities really want to improve relations with the
DPRK, they should unconditionally stop
scheming to legislate on "suffrage," substantially ensure all the
democratic rights of Korean compatriots in Japan,
make a sincere apology and compensation for the past crimes against the
Korean nation and make a switchover in
Korea policy, emphasized the statement.
U.S. loudmouthed "missile threat from North Korea"
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- On March 21 the head of the Central
Intelligence Agency, Tenet, addressing
a senate foreign relations committee hearing, made remarks against the
DPRK, according to a news report from
Washington.
He said "U.S. cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider
variety of countries, North Korea, probably
Iran, possibly Iraq over the next 15 years."
"The U.S. is more vulnerable than ever to surprise," he added.
He charged that proliferation of mid-range ballistic missiles by the
DPRK arms sales upsets strategic balance.
The U.S. has deployed various kinds of missiles, nuclear weapons and
other weapons of mass destruction in
different parts of the world and wrecks world peace and security. It is
also the largest arms seller in the world.
The U.S. loudmouthed "threat" and "arms sales" on the part of the DPRK
reminds the people of a thief crying
"stop thief "
Movement for rejecting those candidates to be defeated
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The Citizens' Solidarity for General
Election in South Korea is conducting a
movement for rejecting the candidates who were branded as those to be
defeated in the "election of national
assemblymen," according to a radio report from Seoul.
Over 30 leading members of the organization toured 15 cities of South
Korea including Pusan, Taegu and
Taejon for a week and held a starting ceremony of the "election"-related
movement on March 20.
They reportedly initiated the movement with a view to getting a promise
from 2,270,000 "voters " in 227
"constituencies" across South Korea, 10,000 in each constituency, the
promise that they will not vote for the
candidates who were already branded as those to be defeated.
In a related development, the movement began in more than 10 major
places of Seoul, too, on March 20.
S. Korean students demand settlement of registration fee problem
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Representatives of the General Student
Councils of 65 universities in South
Korea held a press conference at Ehwa Women's University in Seoul on March
20 in demand of the settlement of
the university registration fee problem, according to a radio report from
Seoul.
They protested private universities setting the rate of raising
registration fee by themselves and unreasonably
dealing with financial affairs to increase the burdens of students and
strongly demanded that the authorities come out
in the settlement of the problem.
They declared they would stay away from classes two days from March 23
and hold a large rally for the
settlement of the problem in Seoul on March 24.
Japanese urged to stop using "mysterious ship case" for their war preparations
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- It is one year since the Japanese
reactionaries faked up the "mysterious ship
case" against the DPRK on March 23 last year.
By the "mysterious ship case" they meant that warships of the Japan
"Self-Defence Forces" "pursued" what
they called "operation ships" of the DPRK which allegedly intruded into the
territorial waters of Japan. But it was a
sinister anti-DPRK plot hatched by them to realize their criminal design to
reinvade Korea.
The aim sought by them through this "case" was to find a pretext to
make legal arrangements for a war against
the DPRK.
It was not accidental that the fabrication of the "mysterious ship
case" was timed to coincide with the
deliberation at the Japanese diet of the "legislation on emergencies in
areas surrounding Japan" to implement the
updated "Japan-U.S. Defence Cooperation Guidelines", a war scenario for
reinvasion of the Korean peninsula.
The Japanese reactionaries used the "mysterious ship case" as a
shocking one along with the fiction of the
DPRK's "ballistic missile launch" which they zealously floated following
its satellite launch in 1998 in adopting the
"legislation on emergencies in areas surrounding Japan" in may last year
and effectuating it in September that year
despite opposition and denunciation from the people at home and abroad.
They have used the "case" as a pretext for stepping up military
preparations for their reinvasion.
Following the "case" they have worked hard to round off these
preparations, under the pretence of "countering
intrusion into Japan's territorial waters" and "guerrilla infiltration".
The Japanese government in the so-called "guidelines for
counter-measure" adopted on august 11 last year set
out specific procedures and a detailed plan to strengthen the government's
wartime commanding system and the
system of joint operations of the Defence Agency, the "Self-Defence
Forces", the Maritime Safety Agency and
police under the pretext of "checking mysterious ship."
While faking up the "mysterious ship case," the defence agency worked
out and used the "rules for
belligerency" which define the standard of units' actions and use of arms,
etc., the rules banned by the constitution.
The Japanese reactionaries have frantically escalated military
exercises aimed to increase maritime attack capacity
and the guerrilla drill of the ground "SDF" with the "case" as a momentum.
If they continue to escalate the war moves against the DPRK under the
pretext of the "case" whose falsity was
brought to light, they will be wholly responsible for the grave
consequences arising therefrom.
U.S. apology and compensation for its crimes against humanity called for
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a lengthy signed
article demands the United States
redeem its most hideous crimes against humanity in history committed during
the last Korean War.
The article entitled "U.S. imperialists are bound to meet stern
punishment by history and humankind" cites
undeniable facts to prove the bestial, vicious and grave nature of the U.S.
atrocities.
It continues:
The U.S. crimes against humanity put into the shade ill-famed Jinghis
Khan and the Hitler Nazi clique in their
scale and brutality.
The Korean War provoked by the U.S. is different from other wars in its
criminal nature because it was not a
mere war of aggression but a war aimed to exterminate a nation.
The article cites instances to prove that the U.S. monstrous crimes
were organized and state-sponsored ones
committed under a carefully worked out plan.
The mass killings by the U.S. was organized crimes deliberately
committed by orders and instructions under a
pre-arranged detailed plan.
All the killings were perpetrated according to the operation plans of
the U.S. far eastern headquarters and the
U.S. 8th army command. Those who directly ordered and commanded them were
U.S. army officers from
company commanders to divisional commanders.
This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. authorities have ignored
them and covered up the truth about them,
though they are well informed of them.
These facts go to prove that the U.S. authorities are entirely
responsible for the hideous crimes against
humanity.
The U.S. should be sternly judged by history without fail for its
biggest-ever crimes against humanity.
The U.S. should stop playing a trick to flout human conscience,
honestly admit its crimes and own state
responsibility for them.
It should apologize for the crimes against humanity committed in Korea,
compensate for them and face deserved
punishment.
Prescription is not applicable to the crimes against humanity.
No matter how hard the U.S. may try it can never escape from its
responsibility for the most brutal crimes in
history.
History will certainly mete out a stern judgement to the U.S. for its
biggest-ever crimes against humanity.
Preparatory committees formed to commemorate Sun's Day
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees for commemorating
Sun's Day were formed in
Poland and Spain on March 17 and 14 on the occasion of the 88th anniversary
of the birth of the President Kim Il
Sung. And the maritime territory preparatory committee of the Communist
Party of the Russian Federation for
commemorating Sun's Day was inaugurated on March 15.
Preparatory committees decided to organize multifarious functions on
Sun's Day.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported in Guyana
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Political parties and organisations of
Guyana participated in the international
signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of Korea's
reunification.
The signature paper was signed by Peter Persaud, leader of the
Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana, on
behalf of over 5,000 party members, by Robert Williams, chairman of the
Guyanese National Committee for the
Study of the Juche Idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung, on behalf of committee
members on March 14, and by Hamilton
Green, leader of the Good Green Guyana, on behalf of 1,550 party members,
by Samuel Soul, chairman of the
Guyana-Korea Friendship Association, on behalf of members of the
association and by Sabid Bacus, chairman of
the Guyana Committee for Support of Korea's Reunification, on behalf of
committee members on March 15.
Meanwhile, the signature paper was signed by the principal and class
teacher on behalf of teachers of the
Charlestown high middle school in Georgetown and students of the Kim Jong
Il class of the school.
For Spanish-speaking people
atcc comenta peroracion de belicista surcoreano
pyongyang, 24 de marzo (atcc) -- jo song thae, "ministro de defensa
nacional" surcoreano, en la rueda de
prensa conjunta con el secretario de defensa norteamericano concedida
despues de "conversaciones" con el, vocifero
de tomar "inmediata y resuelta accion conjunta" contra la "probable
provocacion armada" de la rpdc.
su peroracion es una declaracion de guerra de sudcorea y ee.uu. de
agredir juntos a norcorea. es objeto de
condenacion.
en los ultimos tiempos se realizan una serie de conversaciones entre la
rpdc y ee.uu. y las autoridades
sorcoreanas hablan frecuentemente de la "mejora de relaciones" y la
"reconciliacion" con norcorea. en tal tiempo el
vocifero otra vez de la "inmediata accion conjunta".
esto prueba bien que los estados unidos y las autoridades surcoreanas
hablan de la mejora de relaciones, pero de
hecho intentan provocar una nueva guerra contra la rpdc.
en los ultimos tiempos se intensifica el contubernio militar entre
ee.uu., el japon y sudcorea a titulo de la
"defensa conjunta" y se tornan muy insolitos sus movimientos agresivos
contra la rpdc.
recientemente el presidente de la junta de los jefes de estado mayor
del japon visito a surcorea para entablar
conciliabulo de guerra y lo hizo cohen, secretario de defensa
norteamericano luego de visitar japon y vocifero de las
"poderosas fuerzas disuasivas" contra la rpdc. todo esto exacerba la
situacion de la peninsula coreana.
las imperdonables y criminales declaraciones de cohen incitan
abiertamente a las autoridades surcoreanas al
enfrentamiento con la rpdc.
los belicistas de ee.uu. y sudcorea deben poner fin a sus peligrosas
acciones orientadas a atentar la dignidad
independiente de la rpdc.
atcc comenta palabras de gobernante surcoreano sobre relaciones con norcorea
pyongyang, 24 de marzo (atcc) -- segun el periodico surcoreano "joson
ilbo", recientemente el maximo
gobernante surcoreano, en una tertulia con los cuadros de la sociedad de
los ex-militares hablo de que norcorea debe
"tomar el camino de reforma y apertura" para vivir y "si escoge la guerra,
sufrira ruina".
es una peroracion insolente y provocativa.
la "reforma y la apertura" de que habla el gobernante surcoreano
significa seguir a siegas las maquinaciones de
las fuerzas imperialistas que intentan realizar mas estrictamente su
dominio sobre todos los paises a titulo de la
"globalizacion" suprimiendo el caracter jucheano y la nacionalidad.
el maximo gobernante surcoreano sigue insistiendo en que para "vivir"
no debe escoger el camino de la
independencia nacional sino depender del pais extranjero. esto demuestra
cobardia y vileza de quienes se ocupan de
actos de dependencia de las fuerzas extranjeras y actos traidores y
serviles a las grandes potencias y su "espiritu
muerto"
es sumamente malsano y provocativo hablar con osadia de la guerra
contra la rpdc y la "ruina" de esta.
observaremos con alta vigilancia y haremos estrictamente la cuenta tales
palabras del maximo gobernante surcoreano
pronunciadas en coincidencia con la insistencia de las "conversaciones" por
la mejora de relaciones con la rpdc.
el debe distinguir correctamente la realidad y actuar con prudencia en
pronunciar palabras referentes a las
relaciones con norcorea lo que seria mejor para el mismo.
pyongyang, sede de 18 festival artistico de amistad abril en primavera
pyongyang, 24 de marzo (atcc) -- con motivo del dia de sol, natalicio
del gran lider, presidente kim il sung, se
realizara solemnemente en pyongyang el 18 festival artistico de amistad
abril en primavera.
participaran mas de 80 grupos artisticos y circenses compuestos de los
premiados en los concursos
internacionales y nacionales y actores celebres procedentes de mas de 40
paises del mundo, incluidos los grupos
artisticos de los coreanos residentes en ultramar y los de la rpd de corea.
en esta ocasion se presentaran diversas
piezas como la musica vocal e instrumental, la danza y el circo.
este evento constribuira a fortalecer y desarrollar la amistad y la
unidad, el intercambio y la colaboracion
culturales entre los pueblos, los hombres de cultura y los artistas de
varios paises del mundo bajo el ideal de
independencia, paz y amistad.
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