DPRK News April 11
Message to Kim Jong Il from Russian President
Sun's Day to be commemorated worldwide
Kim Il Sung's work off press in Nepal
Foreigners visit Paeksong Revolutionary Site
KCNA on Ishihara's outbursts
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
U.S. and S. Korean authorities hit for joint military drill
Atrocities of "ROK" army disclosed
Pyongyang metro
Memorandum of DPRK FM supported abroad
S. Korean workers in strikes threatened
Motorway to be lined with flowering plants and shrubs
WPK's unshakable will to defend revolutionary traditions reiterated
Leader of Sri Lanka Communist Party arrives
Foreign guests arrive
Spokesman for DPRK FM on DPRK-German contact
Jang Chol meets delegate of Belarus
North headquarters formed
Delegation of Koreans in Japan here
Message to Kim Jong Il from Russian President
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
message from V. Putin, President of
the Russian Federation, on Monday on the occasion of Sun's Day.
Putin in the message extended congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the
national holiday of the DPRK and wished
good health and happiness to him and peace and prosperity to the Korean people.
He expressed the belief that the inter-state treaty concluded some time
ago would contribute to further
developing the long-standing tradition of friendship, good-neighborliness
and cooperation between Russia and the
DPRK.
He was convinced that deepening the bilateral relations conforms with
the interests of peoples of the two
countries and consolidating peace in Korea and northeast Asia, he added.
Sun's Day to be commemorated worldwide
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Preparations are made in different
countries of the world to commemorate
Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
Preparatory committees were formed in at least 50 countries, including
Syria, Jordan, Guinea, Congo, Italy,
Spain, Mexico and Colombia.
The preparatory committees set a period for commemoration and decided
to hold multifarious functions during
the period and widely propagandize the immortal exploits performed by the
President for the human cause of
independence.
National symposiums on his immortal revolutionary exploits and the
great Juche idea were held in Sri Lanka,
India and Nepal with a large attendance.
Seminars on the President's revolutionary life and the Worker's Party
of Korea experience in its building took
place in Moldova, Belarus, Peru and Madagascar and similar seminars are
arranged in Guyana, Nigeria, Tanzania,
Austria and other countries.
Commemorations including remember-the President meeting, rally, lecture
meeting and film show are held in
over 60 countries including Bulgaria, Thailand, Egypt, Ukraine and
Democratic Congo.
Kim Il Sung's work off press in Nepal
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Nepal-DPRK Friendship Association and
the Bhiswa Bhumi Press jointly
brought out in booklet the President Kim Il Sung's celebrated work "For the
Strengthening and Development of the
Non-Aligned Movement" on the occasion of Sun's Day.
The booklet says in the preface that under Kim Il Sung's wise guidance
the DPRK played an important role in
the struggle to attain the goal of the nam and made a great contribution to
the struggle for south-south cooperation
and economic independence of developing countries.
A ceremony of releasing the work took place in Kathmandu on April 2.
The Minister of State for Public Health of Nepal said that Kim Il
Sung's work is a precious textbook which
should be taken as a guideline by peoples of the nam member nations and
other developing countries. The world
people are studying his idea, he added.
Foreigners visit Paeksong Revolutionary Site
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Officials in charge of cultural and
friendly relations of foreign embassies here
visited the Paeksong Revolutionary Site on Monday on the occasion of Sun's
Day, the birth anniversary of the
President Kim Il Sung.
The site is situated in Phyongsong, South Phyongan Province. It is
where Kim Il Sung University was located
during the Fatherland Liberation War. In April, Juche 41 (1952) President
Kim Il Sung called at the university and
gave confidence in victory to its teachers and students and unfolded a
grand plan for postwar rehabilitation and
construction and socialist construction.
The visitors laid bunches of flowers before the President's statue at
the site and paid their respects to him.
They looked round the place where the President made a historic speech
before the teachers and students at that
time, the Paeksong Revolutionary Museum, the then main university quarters,
mess hall and others.
KCNA on Ishihara's outbursts
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Tokyo metropolitan governor Ishihara
reportedly made one more dangerous
outburst, addressing a ceremony at a garrison of the "Ground Self-Defence
Force" in Tokyo.
He said, "we can expect Sangokujin (people from Taiwan or Korea or
their descendants) and other foreigners to
riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake." And he called on the "GSDF"
to control such possible rioting.
His remarks are of heinous criminal nature as they are intended to
repeat the 1923 shocking massacre of
innocent Koreans and massively crack down upon Korean citizens in Japan.
The massacre of Koreans committed after the great Kanto earthquake in
September 1923 was part of the
monstrous crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists with national
chauvinism.
Over half a century has passed since the defeat of the Japanese
imperialists and Japan's apology and
compensation for its past wrongdoings present themselves as a pending
issue. The remarks made by Ishihara this
time are intended to justify and repeat the massacre in Kanto, instead of
reflecting on it. This shows he is an imbecile
who does not have even an iota of sense of political development.
The Tokyo metropolitan governor's repeated anti-DPRK remarks are as
good as an act of throwing a wet
blanket over progress in the DPRK-Japan talks because they were made at a
time when the improvement of the
bilateral relations presents itself as a task of the times and the next
round of the full-dress talks is to be held in
Tokyo.
The real intention of Ishihara, who is a leading figure of the Japanese
reactionary group and a prototype of
ultra-nationalists and chauvinists, is to put a brake on the DPRK-Japan
full-dress talks and incite anti-DPRK
antagonism among the Japanese people so as to crack down upon Korean
nationals in Japan and again drive the
Korean people into a position of a ruined nation.
The Korean people will surely settle accounts with Ishihara over his
anachronistic and criminal behaviour going
against trend of the times.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Political parties, organizations and
personages of different countries took part
in the international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter
of Korea's reunification.
On March 20 the signature paper was signed by the chairman and
leadership members of the Belgian Labour
Party on behalf of 100,000 party members and its supporters and by the
chairman of the Anti-imperialist League of
Belgium, the chairman of the youth movement under the Belgian Labour Party
in behalf of members of their
organizations and by the chief editor of the Belgian newspaper Solidaire on
behalf of the newspaper office.
Participating in the signature campaign on march 22 were the general
secretary of the c.c., the Communist Party
of Malta, the chairman of the Maltese Committee for Support to Korea's
Reunification and the chairman and the
secretary general of the Malta-DPRK Friendship Association on behalf of
their party and organizations and ten
public figures of Malta.
On March 27 the paper was signed by the general secretary of the c.c.,
the Communist Party of the Peoples of
Spain and its leadership members on behalf of more than 90,000 party
members and supporters.
U.S. and S. Korean authorities hit for joint military drill
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, the U.S. and the South
Korean ruling quarters announced a
plan to hold the "reception, staging, onward-movement and integration
exercise" for a week from April 15.
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary terms the U.S. troops' mobile
exercise projected by the warmongers
at home and abroad under the simulated conditions of war as an extremely
dangerous military maneuver aimed at
escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula.
The commentary goes on:
This indicates that the U.S. and the South Korean ruling quarters are
putting spurs to rounding off preparations
for a war against the DPRK.
Through the drill they seek to acquire and perfect the mobile warfare
method such as airlifting and deployment
in South Korea of U.S. troops from overseas bases and the method of
mounting a surprise attack on areas of the
DPRK.
No one can predict when the exercise will go over to an actual war.
If the DPRK-U.S. relations and the inter-Korean relations are to be
improved the U.S. and the South Korean
authorities should, first of all, drop hostility against the DPRK and a
foolish attempt to stifle it with strength.
Nevertheless, they continue rushing headlong into war and confrontation
against the DPRK, not detente and
peace on the Korean peninsula. This is a challenge to the unanimous
aspiration and desire of the people at home and
abroad.
They are well advised to face up to reality and stop their rash acts
and discontinue at once the north-targeted war
maneuvers which will bring only their self-destruction.
Atrocities of "ROK" army disclosed
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Washington Post dated April 7
disclosed that the "ROK" army killed over
1,000 innocent people in a village in south Vietnam in 1966 when it joined
the U.S. in the Vietnamese War of
aggression, according to a South Korean Yonhap News report from Washington.
The "ROK" army also killed at least 650 inhabitants in a village near
that one at the same time.
Earlier, the U.S. weekly Newsweek reported that the "ROK" army killed
thousands of civilians in south
Vietnam during the war.
Pyongyang metro
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang metro is one of major
transport facilities for the citizens.
The metro was opened to traffic in September Juche 62 (1973) and its
line has since been extended on three
stages.
It has two lines, one from north to south and the other from east to west.
The lines branch off to cover different districts as well as the suburbs.
The metro has ground and underground stations.
Underground stations boast of artistic decorations of murals,
sculptures and lighting which suit the name of
stations.
Kwangbok station is decorated with sculptures showing the struggle and
living of anti-Japanese guerrillas in
defence of the President Kim Il Sung who liberated the country for the
Korean people, and with murals 70 metres
long and 3.6 metres high.
Yonggwang station reflects the glory of the Korean people living under
the generous socialist system, holding
Kim Il Sung in high esteem. Large murals "spring of Pyongyang" 80 metres
long and 4 metres high are mosaiced
on the right and left walls of the station. Numerous electric lights are
suspending from the arch ceiling like the
galaxy in the nocturnal sky and pillars and chandeliers represent firecrackers.
Konsol (construction), Hwanggumbol (golden field), Sungri (victory),
Kaeson (triumphal return) and all other
underground stations have architectural, aesthetic, ideological and
artistic features.
The Pyongyang metro is a monumental edifice built with domestic
designs, technique and materials.
Memorandum of DPRK FM supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Political parties of Peru and Finland
supported the memorandum made public
on March 21 by the DPRK Foreign Ministry to denounce the GIs' crimes
against humanity during the past Korean
War (June, 1950-July, 1953) the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and
Students of Peru in a statement on April
3 demanded the United States admit killing more than one million innocent
civilians in the North Korea during the
Korean War though belatedly, honestly apologize for the crime before the
Korean people and human conscience and
immediately make adequate compensation for it.
The statement stressed that governments, political parties,
organizations and individual figures of all countries
and the United Nations and other international organizations and human
rights organizations that value justice, peace
and human rights should make an active investigation into GIs' mass
killings, install a special tribunal and punish
the criminals according to the international law.
The For Peace and Socialism-the Communist Worker's Party of Finland in
an appeal to the UN on March 31
noted that the criminal acts committed by GIs against people during the
past Korean War should be thoroughly
investigated and those responsible for them be tried.
The appeal said that the U.S. crimes during the Korean War are the
wanton violation of the international laws,
including the Geneva convention and the Hague convention, and war law and
regulations.
S. Korean workers in strikes threatened
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The "people's government" of South Korea
on Sunday released a joint
statement in the name of the "Minister of Finance and Economy" and ten
other "ministers or directors," menacing
workers in strikes, a radio report from Seoul said.
The statement branded workers' strikes for vital rights as "illegal
group action" and called for "legal actions"
against them.
Earlier, on April 7 at a meeting of public security-related "ministers"
a similar threat was made against workers
in strikes and an order issued to arrest 15 leading unionists of Daewoo
Motor Co.
Motorway to be lined with flowering plants and shrubs
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 40-km-long Pyongyang-Nampho motorway
project currently undergoes
an ambitious program of tree-planting and greenery layout.
The footpath will be lined on either side by trees and swards two to
three metres in depth and the motorway by
trees, greenery and ornamental thickets scores of metres deep.
A total of one million trees will be planted and the area of 84,000
square metres of strips covered by 1.13
million flowering plants and shrubs. Already, 110,000 white popular and
other trees are in planting. Some 60
species such as larch, nut pine, pink acacia and apple trees will be available.
A single row of roadside trees will stretch along throughout on either
side, spaced ten metres apart, except on
bridges. Behind them will be laid out flower-beds.
The greenery will be interspersed with shapely clusters of roses,
junipers and aromatic trees, each 500 metres
apart, which give a pleasing, diversified impression.
The surrounding orchards will be preserved and some more planted,
including terraced vineyards.
Some sections of the motorway will be lined with flowering shrubs.
Greenery work becomes more brisk with the advent of spring.
Supplies of trees stream out of south Phyongan and all other provinces.
WPK's unshakable will to defend revolutionary traditions reiterated
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- It is the unshakable will and
determination of the Worker's Party of Korea
(WPK) to accomplish the Juche revolutionary cause by preserving the
revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese
struggle, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It goes on:
The Juche revolutionary cause can be accomplished only when the
revolutionary traditions established by the
President Kim Il Sung in the forest of Mt. Paektu are taken as a lifeline.
This is the unwavering faith of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il, considering the anti-Japanese revolutionary traditions as
a cornerstone of eternal value for the
WPK and the revolution, has led the revolution and construction on the
basis of them and firmly protected their
purity.
A lot of his works including "Let Us Thoroughly Equip Ourselves With
Brilliant Revolutionary Traditions of
Our Party" and "Let Us Successfully Carry Forward the Juche-Oriented
Revolutionary Traditions" reflect his
steadfast stand and point of view that the anti-Japanese revolutionary
traditions should be adhered to as the only
lifeline of the Korean revolution and immeasurably precious treasures.
He has always instructed that the education in the revolutionary
traditions should be steadily intensified in the
Korean People's Army (KPA) and among the people so that they might live and
work in the same revolutionary
spirit of Mt. Paektu as the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters displayed.
The revolutionary spirit of Mt. Paektu is the spirit of being intensely
loyal to the leader by dedicating everything
to him, the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude and an indomitable spirit.
The KPA and the Korean people have dynamically advanced along the road
of revolution, braving ordeals
unprecedented in history. This has been possible entirely thanks to Kim
Jong Il who has steered the revolution and
construction by firmly preserving the anti-Japanese revolutionary traditions.
There is a long and thorny way for the revolution to cover. But we will
surely build a people's paradise, a
powerful socialist nation in Korea desired by the anti-Japanese
revolutionary forerunners by holding fast to the
Juche-oriented revolutionary traditions.
Leader of Sri Lanka Communist Party arrives
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Darrel Chandra Raja Collure, general
secretary of the central committee of the
Sri Lanka Communist Party arrived here today on the occasion of Sun's Day.
He was met by Choe Jin Su, vice department director of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea,
at the airport.
Foreign guests arrive
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Directors of the board of the
International Institute of the Juche Idea arrived
here today to participate in its 15th meeting.
Among them were Chango Machyo, senior advisor to the Ugandan President,
Joseph F. Mbwiliza, chairman of
the State Standing Survey Committee of Tanzania, Alva Chavez, secretary
general of the Latin American Institute of
the Juche Idea, and his party, Garib Newaz, executive director, and Manik
Lal Shrestha, deputy director of the
Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, Bruno Amoroso, secretary
general of the European Regional Society for
the Study of the Juche Idea, Reggie Ranatunge, vice-Minister of Ports
Development, Rehabilitation and
Reconstruction of Sri Lanka and advisor to the Sri Lankan Society for the
Study of Self-reliance, and his party, P.
Malanuk, vice-chairman of the Ukrainian Society for the Study of the Juche
Idea, Debabrata Biswas, Indian
parliamentarian, and Mustafa Jaber, chairman of the Jordanian National
Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea.
Spokesman for DPRK FM on DPRK-German contact
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Foreign
Ministry today in an answer given to a
question put by KCNA refuted false rumours spread by some forces as regards
the recent contact made between the
DPRK Foreign Minister and the German Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
He said:
On April 5 the DPRK Foreign Minister met with the German Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs during his
stopover at Berlin en route to Colombia to participate in the meeting of
Foreign Ministers of non-aligned countries.
At the contact the DPRK side informed the other side of the recent
situation in Korea, its proposals for national
reunification and independent foreign policy and both sides exchanged views
on matters of mutual concern.
The Foreign Minister of the DPRK clarified its principled stand on a
series of issues raised at the contact and
both sides reached a consensus of views that it is in bilateral interests
to continue discussions on issues of mutual
concern in the future, too.
But some forces let media under their control spread misinformation
about the contact. They asserted that
German side put sort of "pressure" on the DPRK in a foolish bid to attain
their sinister political purpose.
Friendly relations are established and developed between states not by
any "request" or "pressure" from
someone under any circumstances. But they are opened between them in any
case according to each other's
independent decision and judgement on the principle of sovereignty, mutual
respect and equality.
The DPRK government will as ever establish and develop friendly and
cooperative relations with all the
countries which respect its sovereignty and are friendly to it in the basic
idea of independence, peace and friendship.
Jang Chol meets delegate of Belarus
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Jang Chol, chairman of the organizing
committee of the 18th April Spring
Friendship Art Festival, met and had a talk with Boris Ivanov, first
vice-Minister of Education who is a government
cultural delegate of Belarus, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
North headquarters formed
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Democratic
Front for the Reunification of the
Fatherland and other social organizations of the DPRK at a meeting held in
Pyongyang today decided to form north
headquarters of the pan-national ad hoc committee for probing the truth
behind GIs' mass killings.
Yun Ki Bok, presidium member of the central committee of the Democratic
Front for the Reunification of the
Fatherland, was elected chairman of the north headquarters and Jo Kyu Il,
director of its secretariat, its secretary
respectively. And its members were chosen from the social organizations
concerned.
It was stressed at the meeting that the formation of the north
headquarters was prompted by the patriotic desire
to make the U.S. imperialists pay for all the mass killings committed in
Korea and help all Koreans live in the
coming new millennium as a dignified nation. And the meeting stressed the
need for the headquarters to keep in
close touch with investigation committees in South Korea and overseas to
fully probe criminal atrocities committed
by the U.S. Aggression troops and disclose them, go ahead with activities
to inaugurate a pan-national ad hoc
investigation committee and wage a dynamic anti-U.S. joint struggle.
Delegation of Koreans in Japan here
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- A delegation of Koreans in Japan headed
by Kwon Sun Hwi, vice-chairman
of the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan, arrived here today by air
on the occasion of Sun's Day.
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