DPRK News Apr 19
North side sends telephone message to south side
Syrian charge d'affaires ad interim gives reception
Joint friendship meeting of Korean and foreign artistes held
Pyongyang held meeting to commemorate April 19 Popular Uprising
Biochemical war moves of U.S. and S. Korean warmongers
Anti-"restructuring" rally in S. Korea
KCNA refutes Ishihara's outbursts
There is no change in DPRK foreign policy
Chief of NDFSK Pyongyang mission interviewed
Japan's attempt to evade responsibility for past crimes assailed
U.S. grave challenge to DPRK-U.S. normalization process
China presents meteorological facilities to DPRK
Three-point charter of national reunification supported abroad
National symposium on Juche idea held in Tajikistan
For Spanish-speaking people
North side sends telephone message to south side
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Jang Jae On, chairman of the central
committee of the DPRK Red Cross
Society, has been authorized today to send the south side a telephone
message as regards the holding of a
preparatory contact to discuss working procedural matters related to a
historic inter-Korean Pyongyang meeting and
summit talks in the portion of the south side at Panmunjom at 10:00 a.m. on
April 22 (Saturday) at the request from
the south side.
Syrian charge d'affaires ad interim gives reception
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Haissam Saad, charge d'affaires ad
interim of the Syrian embassy here, gave
a reception at the Okryu Restaurant on Tuesday on the occasion of the 54th
anniversary of the independence of
Syria.
Invited to the reception were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, Kang Jong Mo, Minister of Foreign Trade, Rim Kyong Suk, Minister
of Finance and chairperson of the
Korea-Syria Friendship Association, officials concerned, foreign diplomatic
envoys and military attaches of
different embassies in Pyongyang.
Syrian embassy officials were on hand.
Speeches were made there.
Joint friendship meeting of Korean and foreign artistes held
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Haissam Saad, charge d'affaires ad
interim of the Syrian embassy here, gave
a reception at the Okryu Restaurant on Tuesday on the occasion of the 54th
anniversary of the independence of
Syria.
Invited to the reception were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, Kang Jong Mo, Minister of Foreign Trade, Rim Kyong Suk, Minister
of Finance and chairperson of the
Korea-Syria Friendship Association, officials concerned, foreign diplomatic
envoys and military attaches of
different embassies in Pyongyang.
Syrian embassy officials were on hand.
Speeches were made there.
Pyongyang held meeting to commemorate April 19 Popular Uprising
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang meeting was held today to
commemorate the 40th anniversary
of the April 19 Popular Uprising of the South Korean people.
This was an event held by the north side as part of joint rallies
organized in the north, south and abroad on this
occasion.
The April 19 Popular Uprising in 1960 was an eruption of the pent-up
resentment and wrath of the students and
other people in South Korea at the colonial rule of the U.S. and their
stooges and a mass anti-U.S., anti-fascist
resistance to bring an independent and democratic new society.
Jo Kyu Il, director of the secretariat of the central committee of the
Democratic Front for the Reunification of the
Fatherland, in a report paid on behalf of all the youth and students and
other people of the DPRK deep respects to
the martyrs, who laid down their lives in the bloody struggle for the
sovereignty of the nation, social democracy and
the country's reunification, and their bereaved families and the uprisers.
He went on:
The uprising taught a serious lesson that if the students and other
people of South Korea are to emerge
victorious in their struggle for independence, democracy and reunification,
they should concentrate their struggle on
the U.S., the chief colonial ruler, and combine this with a struggle for
democracy against fascism and carry on the
struggle once started until the independence and democratization of the
society are fully realized, the reporter noted,
and went on:
The South Korean students and other people should further intensify
their struggle for independence against the
U.S. It is of great importance in the Korean nation's struggle for
independence against outside forces to check and
frustrate the Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK hostile policy and their
moves for reinvasion.
The South Korean authorities should not follow in the footsteps of
their predecessors who met a miserable end,
while being engrossed in flunkeyism, dependence on outside forces and moves
to perpetuate the national division
but opt for national independence, though belatedly, make a switchover from
their anti-DPRK hostile policy to the
policy of reconciliation and alliance with the north and stop at once
reckless military provocations and war exercises.
A joint resolution of compatriots in the north, the south and abroad
was made public at the meeting.
Among those present at the meeting were Yang Hyong Sop, alternate
politburo member of the Worker's Party
of Korea Central Committee and vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly, Kim
Yong Dae, chairman of the central committee of the Korean Social Democratic
Party, and Ryu Mi Yong,
chairwoman of the c.c., the Korean Chondoist Chongu party.
Biochemical war moves of U.S. and S. Korean warmongers
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean Anti-Nuke
Peace Committee made public a
statement on Tuesday denouncing the U.S. and South Korean warmongers for
their preparations for a biochemical
war.
Their moves for a biochemical war are criminal acts to harass peace on
the Korean peninsula and drive not only
the Korean nation but also humankind to destruction and a crisis, the
statement said, and went on:
The U.S. and South Korean authorities are increasing biochemical forces
of the U.S. aggression troops in
South Korea and of the "ROK" army and ceaselessly staging various joint
military exercises for a biochemical war
under the pretext of "coping with" the fictitious "threat of biochemical
weapon attack" from someone. This clearly
shows that they are going to ignite a dangerous biochemical war on the
Korean peninsula at any cost in a bid to
exterminate the nation.
The South Korean authorities in conspiracy with the U.S. has long
accelerated the development and
introduction of biochemical weapons wantonly violating the international
law banning development, stockpile and
use of those weapons. As a result, biochemical weapons are massively
stockpiled in South Korea today.
This is clear evidence that their intention to stifle the DPRK by force
of arms remains unchanged.
The U.S. and South Korean warmongers must clearly see the trend of the
times and aspiration of the nation and
drop at once their criminal moves for a biochemical war against it.
If they persistently resort to the war moves despite our repeated
warnings, they will be held wholly accountable
for all the consequences arising from them.
Anti-"restructuring" rally in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- At least 1,400 members of the
Stock-breeding Cooperative Unions of South
Korea held a rally on April 17 in protest against the "restructuring"
forced by the authorities, according to a radio
report from Seoul.
The unionists bitterly condemned the ruling quarters for unilaterally
merging the agricultural cooperatives with
the stock-breeding cooperatives under the pretext of "restructuring" to
threaten the very existence of stock-breeders.
They put up a stubborn struggle against riot police, attempting to force
their way into a hall, venue of a meeting to
form the Central Council of the Allied Agricultural Cooperatives against
their will.
KCNA refutes Ishihara's outbursts
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Tokyo metropolitan governor Ishihara is
letting loose an endless string of
rubbish.
Some days ago, he scornfully called the DPRK "Hokusen" in Japanese and
asserted in Tokyo that "Japan can
expect Sangokujin (people from Taiwan or Korea or their descendants) and
other foreigners to riot in the event of a
disastrous earthquake" only to arouse public criticism at home and abroad.
And he, in a recent interview with the
U.S. magazine the Time, talked nonsense that if the people are let to know
that hideous crimes of foreigners are on
the increase, this will help him in good performance of his duty as
metropolitan governor.
This is an open challenge to public in Japan and abroad critical of him
and a very foolish ruse to conceal the
criminal nature of his remarks and justify them.
His outbursts are nothing but a ridiculous and shameless behaviour.
It is a disgrace for Japan that such a mentally deranged politician as
Ishihara stays in the Japanese political
circles.
Ishihara who is swimming against the trend of the times is bound to
face a stern judgement by the unbiased
public.
There is no change in DPRK foreign policy
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- As regards the recent contact between the
DPRK Foreign Minister and the
German Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in Berlin, some dishonest
elements let media under their control release
misinformation that in the contact Germany put a sort of "pressure" on the
DPRK.
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a sheer sophism.
The commentary goes on:
The DPRK Foreign Minister made clear its principled stand toward 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.
Nevertheless, some dishonest forces spread a fiction in a bid to attain
their sinister political aim to tarnish the
ever growing international authority and image of the DPRK and
internationally isolate and stifle it.
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 mutual respect for
sovereignty and equality.
This behaviour of some anti-DPRK dishonest forces who are ignorant of
such elementary principle governing
international relations is as foolish as trying to sweep the sea with a broom.
With nothing can they impair the international authority and image of
the DPRK.
There is no change in the DPRK's foreign policy.
The DPRK government will in the future, too, adhere to the independent
foreign policy of establishing and
developing friendly and cooperative relations with all countries which
respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and are
friendly to it in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
Chief of NDFSK Pyongyang mission interviewed
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Pak Kwang Gi, chief of the Pyongyang
mission of the National Democratic
Front of South Korea (NDFSK), was interviewed by KCNA yesterday on the
occasion of the 40th anniversary of
the heroic April 19 Popular Uprising .
He said that the April uprising was a massive anti-U.S. and
anti-dictatorial national salvation resistance, in
which the South Korean people fought for new independent and democratic
politics, system and life, thus toppling
the Syngman Rhee regime.
He went on:
Although 40 years have passed since the resistance, the U.S. still
keeps pro-U.S. stooges in office, driving
them to the strengthened fascist rule and madcap war exercises targeted
against the north. As a result, a
touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the Korean peninsula.
The dictatorial group of the "people's government" has increased
economic dependency, trampling down the
vital rights of the people, while more stringently enforcing the "security
law" against them.
Anti-U.S. struggle for independence is an avowed form of the movement
for the nation and democracy and a
short cut to solving all problems.
Underscoring the need to combine a resolute struggle for democracy
against dictatorship with the struggle for
independence against the U.S., he declared that the NDFSK would join the
people from all walks of life in the
struggle to put an end to the colonial fascist rule through a fierce mass
struggle, holding aloft the blood-stained
banner of the April 19 uprising and bring earlier the dawn of independence,
democracy and reunification.
Japan's attempt to evade responsibility for past crimes assailed
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
assails the Japanese reactionaries for
seeking to evade the responsibility for the crimes related to "comfort
women for the army."
The article says:
The Japanese kidnapped nearly 200,000 Korean women and reduced them to
sexual slaves for the "imperial
army." This was a hideous crime against humanity which could be committed
only by the Japanese imperialists.
Recalling that the Japanese government seeks to gloss over these
crimes, the article demands the government
own due responsibility for the crimes and make a state apology and
compensation for them.
Noting that Japan has not yet redressed its past crimes related to
"comfort women for the army," leaving this
serious issue of history unsettled, the article holds that this fact alone
is enough to bring Japan to international justice
on charges of shielding war crimes.
It goes on:
The crimes related to "comfort women for the army" committed by the
Japanese in the past were so barbarous
war crimes against humanity that even an offer of the whole territory of
Japan would not be sufficient to redeem
them.
The Japanese government can never cover up these crimes.
If Japan continues to behave as today, defying the demands of the
Korean people and world progressives for
the redress of its past, it will have to pay a very high price.
If it whiles away time, avoiding the settlement of its past, the DPRK
will take a proper option as a victim.
U.S. grave challenge to DPRK-U.S. normalization process
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Associated Press reported that the U.S.
State Department imposed penalties
on Changgwang Corporation of North Korea and other countries on Friday for
"knowingly engaging in the export
of military technology".
This is an undisguised interference in the issue pertaining to the
independent right of a sovereign state and an
unjust behaviour contrary to the spirit of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
This "sanction" was announced at a time when pending issues related to
the improvement of the DPRK-U.S.
relations, including the issue of delisting the DPRK as a "sponsor of
terrorism" are under discussion.
We cannot but take a serious view of this as it is a virulent challenge
to the process for the normalization of the
DPRK-U.S. relations.
The United States is committed to lifting economic sanctions against
the DPRK under the DPRK-U.S. agreed
framework. The U.S. announced the step of lifting some of economic
sanctions against the DPRK in September last
year but none of them has been done.
If the U.S. is to honor its commitment under the agreed framework, it
should lift not only those sanctions but
the remaining ones.
The U.S., however, imposed an additional "sanction" upon the DPRK, far
from waiving sanctions. This
compels us to doubt again the U.S. will to implement the agreed framework.
As far as the "deliberate export of
military technology" is concerned, it is not an issue which allows the
United States to decry someone. Being the
world's biggest arms exporter, the U.S. has neither justification nor face
to slander others.
Frankly speaking, it is no exaggeration to say that all wars including
military conflicts and disputes on the earth
today are largely attributable to the U.S. export of military technology
and arms.
It is a base and shameless hypocrisy that the United States is keeping
mum about the arms buildup and export of
military technology and arms of itself and other big countries and trying
to incriminate the options of independent
countries.
The United States should lift all its "sanctions" against the DPRK,
mindful that its unfair behaviors may spark
new confrontation in international relations and bring unpredictable
adverse consequences to the DPRK-U.S.
relations.
China presents meteorological facilities to DPRK
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- The State Meteorological Bureau of China
presented facilities to the
Hydro-Meteorological Service of the DPRK.
The facilities were handed to the service by Chinese ambassador to the
DPRK Wang Guozhang and embassy
officials today.
Present there were director of the Hydro-Meteorological Service Ko Il
Hun and officials concerned.
The participants looked round the facilities presented.
Saying that cooperation between the two countries in the meteorological
field is part of Sino-Korean friendship,
the ambassador expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative
relations would further develop.
He expressed the hope that those facilities will help toward the
socialist construction of the Korean people.
Three-point charter of national reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Political parties, organizations and
figures of many countries participated in an
international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of
national reunification from March 20 to
April 10.
Among them were Luis Mateo Munos, general secretary of the Socialist
Party of Peru, Eleazar Gutara Maravi,
chairman of the National Restoration Party of Peru, Simeon Ignatev,
chairman of the Sofia city committee of the
Anti-fascist Union of Bulgaria, Youssef Faisal, general secretary of the
Communist Party of Syria, Taoufik
Muhanna, international secretary of the Nationalist Socialist Party of
Syria in Lebanon, and Moustafa al Sayed, head
of the department of political relations in Lebanon region of the
revolutionary council of the central committee of the
Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fatah), who signed the signature
paper on behalf of their parties. The
general secretary of the Socialist Party of Peru said his party would
always support in the future, too, the righteous
struggle of the Worker's Party of Korea and the Korean people for the
independent and peaceful reunification of the
country.
Meanwhile, the Egypt-Korea Friendship Association, Bivert Desuza,
Minister of Amerindian Affairs of
Guyana, and Stanry Luis, head of the Presidential Teachers University of
Guyana, Carlos Loca, member of the
political committee and secretary of international affairs of the American
Popular Revolutionary Alliance of Peru,
and Bim Bahadur Tamang, member of the central committee of the Nepal
Congress Party, participated in the
signature campaign.
National symposium on Juche idea held in Tajikistan
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- A Tajik national symposium on the Juche
idea was held in Dushanbe on the
subject of "idea and theory of Juche and practice for realization of
popular masses' cause of independence" on April
8 and 9 on the occasion of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the
President Kim Il Sung.
A floral basket in the name of the participants in the symposium was
laid before the portraits of the President
Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The chairman of the February 16 Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
Named After General Kim Jong Il made
a report on the subject of "Juche idea is the great banner for realization
of the popular masses' cause of
independence."
He said in his report that the Juche idea is a unique man-centred
philosophy most correctly reflecting demand of
the times and aspiration of the popular masses and its greatness and truth
have been proved in practice.
He stressed the need to further deepen the study of the Juche idea to
build an independent Tajikistan.
Speakers at the symposium called for accelerating the popular masses'
cause of independence by further
deepening the study and dissemination of the Juche idea and applying it to
the reality of Tajikistan.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the symposium.
The letter expressed the determination of the participants to enlarge
the group for the study of the Juche idea in
all provinces and districts of the country and further strengthen the study
and dissemination of the Juche idea in
Tajikistan.
An appeal to all the study groups of the Juche idea in the world was
adopted at the symposium.
The appeal called upon all the Juche idea study groups all over the
world to deeply study the Juche idea, widely
propagandize it all over the world and apply it to the practice of the
revolution of their own countries.
For Spanish-speaking people
kim jong il recibe carta de participantes en sesion de consejo de iiij
pyongyang, 19 de abril (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il recibio
el dia 17 una carta de los participantes en la
15 sesion del consejo del instituto internacional de la idea juche.
la carta dice en particular:
la 15 sesion del consejo fue un foro de gran significado que hizo
blance de los resonantes exitos logrados en el
siglo 20 con actividades de estudio y divulgacion de la idea juche y que
manifesto nuestras decisiones de lograr en el
nuevo milenio la victoria total de la causa de la independencia.
el respetado presidente kim il sung, por sus inmortales hazanas
realizadas ante la epoca y la historia, estara vivo
para siempre como el sol del juche en el corazon de los pueblos
progresistas del mundo y los adeptos de la idea
juche.
la causa del juche iniciada por el presidente kim il sung la lleva
adelante su excelencia respetado kim jong il.
su excelencia exactamente igual al presidente kim il sung en la idea,
la direccion y rasgos conduce a la victoria la
causa de la independencia de las masas populares, gracias a lo cual el sol
del juche lanza sus rayos mas esplendidos
a todos los rincones del mundo.
al constatar directamente la realidad bulliciosa de la construccion de
potencia del juche en la rpd de corea
asimilamos mas hondamente la verdad de la idea y la teoria de su excelencia
de que es invencible el socialismo como
ciencia y llegamos a sentir una vez mas profundamente que solo el
socialismo coreano centrado en las masas
populares es el socialismo mas solido, ventajoso y dinamico en este mundo.
la gran idea juche es la bandera que debe enarbolar la humanidad
tambien en el siglo 21 como en el siglo 20.
tomaremos por firme credo la idea juche y desarrollaremos con mas vigor
las actividades de estudio y
divulgacion de esta idea entre amplios pueblos de varios continentes y
paises del mundo conforme a la realidad de
hoy en cambio para de este modo hacer brillar con la verdad del juche el
siglo 21.
ishihara no podra evitar severa sentencia, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 19 de abril (atcc) -- el gobernador de la metropoli de tokio
ishihara no cesa de vomitar maldiciones.
recientemente produjo la indignacion de la opinion interna y externa al
hablar de "pukson" (corea del norte),
"sangokujin" (hombres procedentes de taiwan y corea y sus descendientes),
"actos criminales por extranjeros" y la
"rebelion" en tokio. hace unos dias en una conferencia de prensa con
"times", revista de ee.uu. peroro de que se
debe lograr que los habitantes sepan que "aumentan los actos criminales y
brutales de los extranjeros" para ayudar su
labor de gobernador de metropoli.
esta ridicula y descarada peroracion es un abierto desafio a la opinion
interna y externa que lo denuncia y un
sofisma para encubrir y justificar el caracter criminal de lo dicho.
el japon debe sentir verguenza al contar con tal figura que padece de
trastorno mental en los circulos politicos.
ishihara que nada contra la corriente de la epoca no podra evitar una
severa sentencia de la justa opinion publica.
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