DPRK News Apr 20
Kim Jong Il sends gift to Fidel Castro Ruz
Kim Jong Il sends gift to Fidel Castro Ruz
Inter-Korean summit talks hailed abroad
Talks between Kim Yong Nam and Fidel Castro Ruz held
Yang Hyong Sop meets foreign guests
Iranian ambassador gives reception
Pyongyang boasts grand people's study house
Democratic policies enforced
Moves for biochemical war by U.S. and S. Korean rulers assailed
Japan urged to think twice
U.S.-S. Korea war maneuver under fire
U.S. and S. Korean warmongers' preparations for war blasted
Rodong Sinmun on "election" in S. Korea
U.S. practical measure for nuclear weapons reduction called for
Korea-Armenia Friendship Association formed
Poems praising Kim Il Sung created in different countries
For Spanish-speaking people
Kim Jong Il sends gift to Fidel Castro Ruz
Havana, April 18 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent a gift to
Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of
the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the
Council of State and President of the
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.
The gift was handed to Fidel Castro Ruz by Kim Yong Nam, President of
the presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, on Monday.
Expressing thanks to Kim Jong Il for the gift, Fidel Castro Ruz wished
him good health and happiness.
Kim Jong Il sends gift to Fidel Castro Ruz
Havana, April 18 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from Fidel Castro Ruz, first
secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba,
President of the Council of State and President
of the Council of Ministers of Cuba.
Fidel Castro Ruz handed the gift to Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, on Monday.
Inter-Korean summit talks hailed abroad
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The inter-Korean summit talks which will
be held in June is creating a great
stir among the international community.
R. K. Shastri, secretary of the central committee of the All-India
Forward Bloc, stressed in his statement that
the signed agreement on holding the north-south summit talks is a victory
of the policy put forward by the great
leader Kim Jong Il to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of
the country through great unity of the
whole nation.
Kim Jong Il set forth the five-point policy of great national unity to
carry out the instructions given by the
President Kim Il Sung for national reunification and this policy is
enjoying full support from all the Koreans in the
north, south and abroad, he said, and went on:
If the north-south summit talks are to be held in conformity with the
desire of all the Korean people, the South
Korean authorities should, first of all, repeal the "security law," a
roadblock in the way of Korea's reunification,
and shift the anti-communist confrontation policy into reconciliation
policy for alliance with the north.
The proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo
put forward by President Kim Il Sung
is the most fair and reasonable one for Korea's reunification under the
condition in which different systems exist in
the north and the south of Korea.
O. P. Mantri, secretary general of the Asian Regional Committee for
Supporting Korea's Reunification, in his
statement pointed out that the inter-Korean summit talks should be held in
accordance with the three principles of
national reunification and the 10-point programme of the great national
unity brought out by President Kim Il Sung
and the policy of national reunification of the respected Kim Jong Il so
that they may bring joy to all the Korean
people who earnestly desire the reunification of the country.
He called upon the South Korean chief executive to deal with the talks
on the principle of national independence
and with sincere stand on relieving pain of the fellow countrymen.
Talks between Kim Yong Nam and Fidel Castro Ruz held
Havana, April 18 (KCNA) -- Talks between Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, and Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State
of the Republic of Cuba, were held in
Havana on Monday.
Present at the talks were Paek Nam Sun , DPRK Foreign Minister, and
others and the DPRK ambassador to
Cuba, and Ricardo Alarcon De Quesada, president of the National Assembly of
People's Power, Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura, vice-president of the Council of State, Carlos Rage
Davila, vice-president of the Council of State
and secretary general of the executive committee of the Council of
Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Minister of
Foreign Trade, Carlos Valenciaga, member of the Council of State, Jose
Armando Guerra Menchero, vice-Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and the Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.
Kim Yong Nam at the talks conveyed regards of General Secretary Kim
Jong Il to Fidel Castro Ruz.
Fidel Castro Ruz expressed deep thanks for this and asked Kim Yong Nam
to convey his heartfelt greetings of
comradeship and wishes for good health and a long life to Kim Jong Il.
The talks proceeded in a comradely and friendly atmosphere.
Yang Hyong Sop meets foreign guests
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a talk with the Indonesian friendship
delegation led by Rahmawati
Sukarnoptri, president of the Sukarno Educational Foundation and
chairperson of the Indonesia-DPRK Friendship
and Cultural Interchange Association, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
The head of the delegation said that the friendship between Indonesia
and the DPRK is everlasting as it was
provided by presidents Sukarno and Kim Il Sung, the preceding leaders of
the two countries.
Yang Hyong Sop also met Vishwanath, director general of the
International Institute of the Juche Idea, and his
party.
Iranian ambassador gives reception
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Mohammad Ganjidoost, ambassador of the
Islamic Republic of Iran to the
DPRK, gave a reception on Wednesday on the occasion of Sun's Day.
Invited to the reception were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly, Paek Hak Rim, Minister of People's Security, Ri Won Il, Minister
of Labour and chairman of the
Korea-Iran Friendship Association, and others.
The ambassador said that he remembered the efforts made by the
President Kim Il Sung, founder of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, for the development of the friendly
relations between the two countries.
The friendly and historic talks held between the leaders of the two
countries during Islamic leader of Iran Seyed
Ali Khamenei's Korea visit deepened and developed the mutual relations of
the two countries, he noted.
Referring to the exploits performed by Kim Il Sung for the development
of bilateral friendly relations, he
expressed thanks to General Secretary Kim Jong Il for strengthening the
relations of the two countries still further
by carrying forward the President's policy and line.
Yang Hyong Sop said in his speech it is the expression of the Iranian
people's reverence and trust in the fatherly
leader President Kim Il Sung that the Iranian friends commemorate Sun's Day
every year together with the Korean
people.
He further said:
The Korea-Iran relations with a long tradition were forged by the
President and are based on the intimacy
between him and Iranian leaders. Today, the relations are further
developing thanks to the deep care of the great
leader Kim Jong Il.
Pyongyang boasts grand people's study house
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The Grand People's Study House in
Pyongyang is operating as a main center
for the intellectualization of the whole society in the DPRK.
The Grand People's Study House opened to public in April Juche 71
(1982). It is capable of keeping 30 million
books.
The house has works of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary
Kim Jong Il, all kinds of publications
and technical documents released in the DPRK, including those on social
science, technical engineering, special
technology and literature as well as foreign books on science and
technology and periodicals, etc.
It can accommodate 12,000 visitors a day.
They can receive lectures on relevant subjects and read necessary books.
The house has a reading room of at least 5,000 seats, 800-seat lecture
room, two 400-seat lecture rooms, two
180-seat rooms and two 90-seat rooms equipped with visual and audio
facilities, and twelve recorded lecture rooms.
The rooms are equipped with video tape recorders, TV sets, recorders,
film projectors, slides and other
educational facilities.
Lecture is a main form of education in the house. It is properly
combined with briefing, question and answer,
recorded lecture and reading.
Lectures on scientific theories, scientific and technological workshops
and foreign language training course are
also available there.
The house lends books not only to visitors but to those who order them
by correspondence and organizes
travelling lectures and dissemination of new technologies at factories and
construction sites.
The development of the Grand People's Study House into a center for the
dissemination of science and
technology and cultural information among working people of all social
standings, youth and students of the DPRK
is ascribable to the wise guidance and loving care of Kim Il Sung and Kim
Jong Il who have provided the Korean
people with the best opportunity of learning.
Kim Il Sung initiated the building of a house in the heart of Pyongyang
to enable all the people to study and
named it "Grand People's Study House" after its completion.
Kim Jong Il set out orientations and ways of building the house and saw
to it that best materials, equipment and
furniture were provided to it.
He has sent more than 617,300 books, video cassettes and many
facilities of 442,530 varieties to the house
over the last nearly two decades.
Democratic policies enforced
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea promulgated
the labor law and the law on sex
equality, established the new educational system and enforced other
democratic policies after the liberation of the
country.
The WPK put preferential efforts on establishing the democratic labor
system of the working class.
At that time, the working class called for removing the remnants of the
colonial slave labor of the Japanese
imperialists and establishing the democratic labor system at an early date.
The President Kim Il Sung put forward the issue of enacting the labor
law at an early date at the 8hth session of
the provisional people's committee of North Korea in June Juche 35 (1946).
Accordingly, the WPK sent officials and members of party organizations
of all levels to factories and
enterprises to discuss and explain the draft labor law.
"Labor law for the workers and office employees in North Korea" was
published on June 24, 1946 after a
nation-wide debate on the draft labor law.
Specified in the law were fundamental ways of improving the social and
economic conditions of the working
class including the introduction of eight-hour working system, paid leave
for two weeks and social insurance.
The WPK, after the promulgation of the law, has enhanced the function
and role of the people's power organs
and strengthened legal control over the implementation of the labor law.
The WPK published the "Law on sex equality in North Korea" on July 30,
Juche 35 (1946) so that women
might have equal rights with men, free from the ideological leftovers of
the Japanese imperialists and feudal
customs.
With the promulgation of the law on sex equality, women, a half of the
population, have been completely
liberated from the centuries-old feudal status and taken an active part in
the building of a new country as the proud
ones responsible for the state and society.
The WPK completely abolished the colonial slavery educational system of
the Japanese imperialists and
established a new educational system in conformity with the demand and
desire of the Korean people.
Thus, the regular school system and the study-while-working system of
various forms have been established.
In 1946, 77 percent of school-age children were enlisted in the 6-year
elementary educational network and at least
556,000 working people in the adult educational network.
Moves for biochemical war by U.S. and S. Korean rulers assailed
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean Asia-Pacific
Peace Committee made public a
statement on Wednesday denouncing the U.S. and the South Korean ruling
quarters for their frantic preparations for
a biochemical war.
The U.S. and the South Korean warmongers are spreading the rumour about
fictitious "threat of biochemical
weapon attack" from the north, the statement said, and went on: Lurking
behind it is their wicked intention to isolate
the DPRK and legalize their preparations for a biochemical war under the
pretext of the threat.
They started a provocative and aggressive war exercise, "reception,
staging, onward-movement and integration
exercise." Timing with it, they are staging biochemical war exercises in
different parts of South Korea. Such frantic
war moves should never be tolerated.
The Korean people will never remain an onlooker to the sinister moves
of the U.S. and South Korean ruling
quarters, who crack a smile of reconciliation at negotiating table and
sharpen knife against the dialogue partner
behind it, but take a self-defensive, counter-measure.
The U.S. and South Korean warmongers should stop at once the reckless
moves for a biochemical war, which
will bring earlier their destruction, keeping in mind the saying "curses,
like chickens, come home to roost."
If they persistently resort to the preparations for a biochemical war
under the pretext of fictitious "threat of
biochemical weapon" of the DPRK despite of its repeated warnings, they will
be held wholly responsible for all the
consequences arising therefrom.
The statement expressed the belief that the world peace-loving people
and international anti-war and peace
organizations would clearly see the danger of their adventurous moves to
ignite a biochemical war and actively turn
out in the struggle to check and frustrate them.
Japan urged to think twice
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Japan in the "draft 2000 diplomatic blue
book" said that it keeps intact its
"balanced policy of dialogue and deterrence" in establishing relations with
the DPRK.
In this regard Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary:
The establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan
is, in essence, an issue of developing
new good neighborly ties in conformity with the interests of the two
peoples and the requirements of the times on
the basis of Japan's liquidation of the crimes committed by it in Korea in
the past. A key point in this is Japan's
liquidation of the past.
Therefore, the DPRK-Japan talks which were resumed with so much effort
should focus on the issue of
Japan's liquidation of its past.
Japan seems to seek any "concession" from the DPRK through "deterrence"
and thus get the "upper hand" in
the "dialogue," but it can never achieve this aim.
If Japan truly wants the improved relations between the two countries,
it should honestly reflect on and fully
compensate at an early date for the misfortune and pain, disaster and
damage it inflicted upon the Korean people
during its military occupation of Korea. Japan should show this position
and will at the DPRK-Japan talks, too.
Japan is well advised to think twice, clearly mindful of the
irretrievably serious consequences to be entailed by
this provocative statement.
U.S.-S. Korea war maneuver under fire
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary lashes out at the aggressive
war exercise called "reception, staging, on-ward movement and integration
exercise" the U.S. is staging together
with the South Korean warmongers.
The commentary terms this exercise as a reckless military drill aimed
to throw a wet blanket over the ardent
desire of the Korean people for national reunification, escalate
confrontation and ignite the second Korean war.
Recalling that whenever there were mounting desire for reunification
and signs of detente on the Korean
peninsula, the U.S. deliberately aggravated the situation and opted for
harassing peace, the commentary notes: It is
because of the U.S. that the Korean peninsula remains the biggest hot spot
and a region fraught with the greatest
danger of war in the world.
A war exercise and peace can never go together.
If the U.S. truly wishes peace on the Korean peninsula and improved
relations between the north and the south,
it must halt all the military maneuvers targeted against the DPRK, refrain
from driving the South Korean
warmongers to moves to invade the north and withdraw its forces from South
Korea.
The "reception, staging, on-ward movement and integration exercise"
launched by the U.S., turning its face
from those issues, is a serious action against the Korean reunification and
peace which will only complicate the
situation and throw hurdles in the way of improving the relations between
the DPRK and the U.S. and between the
north and the south.
U.S. and S. Korean warmongers' preparations for war blasted
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and the South Korean warmongers'
stepped up preparations for a
bio-chemical war under the pretext of "coping" with "threat of bio-chemical
attack" from someone are premeditated
moves for a war intended to inflict not only nuclear calamities but
bio-chemical disasters upon the Korean nation,
says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
The U.S. and the South Korean warhawks have systematically stepped up
the preparations for a bio-chemical
war in South Korea in the past, the commentary notes, and goes on:
All this goes to prove that they have made the use of bio-chemical
weapons in the second Korean war an
established fact and its preparations have entered a dangerous phase.
Their much talk about "threat of bio-chemical attack" from the DPRK
which has nothing to do with the
bio-chemical weapons is part of their moves to stifle and isolate it as it
was the case with their fuss about "nuclear
threat" and "missile threat." This is nothing but a pretext to justify
their preparations for a bio-chemical war.
The U.S. and the South Korean authorities should immediately stop such
reckless moves as preparations for a
bio-chemical war, clearly mindful that they will lead them to self-destruction.
Rodong Sinmun on "election" in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The results of the 16th "national
assembly election" held in South Korea on
April 13 show that none of the political parties, ruling or opposition,
could hold the majority of the parliamentary
seats and the "United Liberal Democrats" failed to win the minimum 20 seats
enough to form the parliamentary
negotiating body (parliamentary group), making it impossible for it to
properly play its role as a political party in the
"National Assembly".
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
The recent "election" was characterized by a Rowdyism of political
threat, repression, fraud and artifice. The
failure of any political party in South Korea to attain its target for
"seats" clearly shows how the South Korean rulers
and right-wing reactionaries are isolated and rejected by the people.
The balloting rate in the "election" which took place amid utter
indifference of the people was no more than 57.2
percent, the lowest in its history. This is a clear indication that the
South Korean people are turning their back upon
the traitorous corrupt politics of the ruling quarters and craving for new
politics, new system and new life.
Through the "election" the South Korean people demonstrated their
unbreakable will and determination to put an
end to the colonial fascist rule of the U.S. and set up an independent and
democratic regime for reunification.
As the "election" ended in the defeat of the conservative political
parties, the political chaos in South Korea is
inevitable.
U.S. practical measure for nuclear weapons reduction called for
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Russia's approval of the "START-2" is a
manifestation of its will for
disarmament and the U.S. should take a practical step for the reduction of
nuclear weapons.
The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK stressed this in an
answer to a question put by KCNA
today as regards the Russian State Duma's recent approval of the "START-2."
He further said:
The international community appreciates the recent approval as a step
forward for practical disarmament and
calls for pushing ahead with the disarmament process and complete abolition
of all nuclear weapons on the earth.
The U.S., however, is working hard to amend the "ABM treaty" in a bid
to set up the "national and theatre
missile defense" systems, seeking a military edge and a uni-polar world.
The U.S. attempt is denounced by the international community as an
anachronistic one that sparks another arms
race and upsets strategic stability of the world.
Now that Russia approved the "START-2," we demand the U.S. completely
dismantle and pull out its nuclear
weapons from South Korea as a practical step for the reduction of nuclear arms.
There is no change in the DPRK's principled stand on a comprehensive
disarmament, including overall and
complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
We will fully support all international efforts and steps for
disarmament and peace.
Korea-Armenia Friendship Association formed
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The Korea-Armenia Friendship Association
was formed here on April 12 with
due ceremony.
Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural
Relations with Foreign Countries, was
elected chairman of the association.
Poems praising Kim Il Sung created in different countries
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Public figures of different countries
wrote and published many poems with
one mind to revere the President Kim Il Sung as the eternal sun of
humankind for all ages.
Jose Castro Poso, chairman of the National Association of Writers and
Artistes of Peru, in his poem praised
Kim Il Sung, founder of socialist Korea, as the eternal sun shining with
gold colors not only in Korea but also in the
world, banner of victory and sun of all people.
Madagascan Yvonne Razanamasy said that the world is commemorating Sun's
Day, an auspicious holiday
common to humankind, most significantly with great joy and pride. His
immortal exploits and noble traits will
remain forever in the hearts of humankind, he said.
A Syrian Hudarl Homsy said that the DPRK is a country where Kim Il
Sung's thought is shedding rays like
sunshine and his birth anniversary is a glorious holiday in the mind of people.
Salim Abdul Sharif, secretary of the basic people's congress of Murzuq
city, Libya, wrote that Kim Il Sung is
the sun shining all over the world and he reverentially presents a bunch of
beautiful roses to him, the eternal sun.
Cuban poet Carmelo Garcia Fernandez hoped that Kim Il Sung would be
alive forever in the hearts of
humankind to dye the whole world for good with red glow of socialism.
For Spanish-speaking people
parte norcoreana envia aviso telefonico a la surcoreana
pyongyang, 20 de abril (atcc) -- por encargo jang jae on, presidente
del cc de la asociacion de la cruz roja de la
republica popular democratica de corea envio ayer a la parte surcoreana un
aviso telefonico de sostener a las 10 a.m.
del proximo 22 (sabado) en la region de la parte surcoreana de phanmunjom
el contacto preparativo para consultar el
procedimiento practico concerniente al historico encuentro de pyongyang y
las conversaciones de nivel supremo
entre el norte y el sur de corea segun la propuesta de la parte surcoreana.
vocero de minrex declara
pyongyang, 20 de abril (atcc) -- la ratificacion de rusia del "tratado
de reduccion de armas ofensivas estrategicas
-2" es la manifestacion de su posicion de realizar el desarme y ee.uu. debe
tomar las medidas practicas para reducir
las armas nucleares.
subrayo asi el vocero del ministerio de rr.ee. de la republica popular
democratica de corea al responder hoy a la
pregunta de un reportero de la agencia telegrafica central de corea
formulada en relacion con la reciente ratificacion de
dicho tratado por la duma de rusia.
el vocero senala:
la sociedad internacional evalua la presente medida de rusia como un
progreso para el desarme real y demanda
dar impulso a tal proceso para lograr la eliminacion completa de todas las
armas nucleares en el globo terraqueo. sin
embargo ee.uu. al perseguir la supremacia militar y el mundo unipolar
maniobra obstinadamente para enmendar el
"tratado de limitacion de misiles de interceptacion" con la intencion de
establecer el sistema "estado y teatro de
defensa misil".
tal intencion de ee.uu. que es la anacronica tendente a ocasionar la
nueva carrera armamentista y perturbar la
estabilidad estrategica del mundo, es objeto de la unanime censura y
condenacion de la sociedad internacional.
insistimos en que ya que rusia ratifico el "tratado de reduccion de
armas ofensivas estrategicas - 2" ee.uu. debe
eliminar y retirar todas sus armas nucleares de sudcorea como una medida
practica para la reduccion de armas
nucleares.
es invariable nuestra posicion de principios de realizar el desarme
global incluida la abolicion general y completa
de las armas nucleares.
apoyaremos activamente todos los esfuerzos y medidas internacionales
para el desarme y la paz.
grave desafio a avance de relaciones rpdc-ee.uu., comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 20 de abril (atcc) -- segun ap, el departamento de estado
estadounidense adopto el dia 14 la "medida
de sancion" a una compania de la rpdc y otro pais so pretexto de "estar
involucrado en la exportacion de la tecnica
militar".
esto es una intervencion abierta en el problema que pertenece al
derecho independiente de un estado soberano y
un injusto comportamiento que contraviene al acuerdo basico rpdc-ee.uu..
tal medida de "sancion" publicada coincidiendo con la discusion de los
problemas pendientes para la mejora de
relaciones de dos paises incluyendo el de tachar en la lista de "paises de
apoyo al terrorismo" la rpdc constituye un
grave desafio al avance de las relaciones bilaterales.
el levantamiento de la sancion economica contra la rpdc constituye el
deber de ee.uu. segun el acuerdo basico
entre dos paises. estados unidos publico en septiembre del ano pasado la
medida parcial de levantamiento de sancion
economica. pero hasta la fecha no la ha cumplido nada.
ee.uu. para cumplir con su deber segun el acuerdo debe ejecutar la ya
tomada y tomar la medida restante para
levantarla por completo.
sin embargo, hoy toma otra medida de "sancion" que irrita mucho a la
rpdc. no podemos menos que dudar de la
disposicion de ee.uu. en cuanto al cumplimiento del acuerdo basico
concertado con la rpdc.
siendo el primer exportador de armas en el mundo estados unidos no
tiene motivo ni honra de acusar a la rpdc
de "exportacion premeditada de tecnica militar".
francamente dicho, las guerras y los conflictos militares de hoy en el
globo terraqueo se deben en mayor
proporcion a la exportacion de la tecnica militar y armas de ee.uu.
pero, descaradamente ee.uu. no habla de aumento armamentista y la
exportacion de la tecnica militar y armas de
si mismo y las demas potencias, pero acrimina el derecho a opcion de los
paises soberanos. es un acto abyecto e
hipocrita.
estados unidos debe tener presente de que sus actos injustos pueden
generar una nueva confrontacion en las
relaciones internacionales y ocasionar las consecuencias imprevisibles en
sus relaciones con la rpdc y retirar todas
las medidas de "sancion" hostiles a esta.
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