DPRK News Apr 22
Madagascan President sends floral basket to DPRK embassy
1st preparatory contact for inter-Korean Pyongyang meeting and summit talks
SPA delegation leaves for Amman and Syria
Belgian parliamentary delegation arrives
Reception given at Cuban embassy
Stones donated to construction of monument in Korea
S. Korean ruler's urged to promote repatriation of unconverted long-term
prisoners
NDFSK's declaration on April-May struggle issued
Japan's preparations for biological and chemical war assailed
RIJI supports north-south agreement
Rodong Sinmun calls for working hard in Kanggye spirit
KCNA slams Ishihara's outbursts
U.S. assailed for its sinister intention
Postcards commemorating Sun's Day distributed in S. Korea
Korean people's cause of reunification supported
Juche idea study society formed in Australia
Peruvian national symposium on Juche idea held
For Spanish-speaking people
Madagascan President sends floral basket to DPRK embassy
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- Madagascan President Didier Ratsiraka sent a
floral basket to the DPRK embassy in Antananarivo on the occasion of Sun's
Day. Upon his authorization, the acting foreign minister who is secretary
of State for National Security visited the DPRK embassy and conveyed the
floral basket to the Korean ambassador on April 14. Conveying it, he said
the Madagascan government and people share pleasure with the Korean people
commemorating Sun's Day. He hoped that under the wise leadership of the
great leader Kim Jong Il the idea, lines and policies of the President Kim
Il Sung would be successfully carried forward and accomplished. He prayed
for the eternal life of Kim Il Sung.
1st preparatory contact for inter-Korean Pyongyang meeting and summit talks
Kaesong, April 22 (KCNA) -- The first preparatory contact took place in the
portion of the south side at Panmunjom this morning to discuss working
procedural matters related to the historic inter-Korean Pyongyang meeting
and summit talks. Present there were three representatives led by a
vice-ministerial level official from each side. At the contact both sides
made key addresses clarifying their stands. Head of the north side Kim
Ryong Song said that the preparatory contact was arranged after the
agreement on having the historic inter-Korean Pyongyang meeting and summit
talks at a time when the ardent desire and aspiration of the whole nation
for national reunification are growing stronger than ever before after its
division has lasted more than half a century and it greeted the year 2000.
The north and the south reaffirmed the three principles of national
reunification clarified in the July 4 joint statement and agreed to have
the Pyongyang meeting and summit talks, he said, adding this is an
important event of landmark significance in improving the inter-Korean
relations and settling the reunification issue as it reflects the nation's
will and aspiration for independence. It is beyond doubt that a successful
holding of the projected meeting and talks would open an epochal phase in
achieving national reconciliation and unity and bringing earlier peace and
reunification, he said, and continued: In order to make the Pyongyang
meeting and summit talks yield good fruits it is necessary to completely
drop the old habit and approach and promote everything from a new stand
toward reunification. He expressed the expectation that the representatives
of both sides, deeply conscious of their responsibility before the nation,
would reach the earliest possible agreement on the working procedural
matters at the preparatory contact to give all the fellow countrymen a
bright hope for national independence, unity and reunification. At the
contact both sides agreed to continue at the next contact the discussion on
the working procedural matters related to the inter-Korean Pyongyang
meeting and summit talks. It was agreed to have the second preparatory
contact at Thongil Pavilion in the portion of the north side at Panmunjom
at 10:00 a.m. on April 27.
SPA delegation leaves for Amman and Syria
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly (SPA) led by vice-chairman Jang Chol left here today to
participate in the 103rd meeting of the inter-parliamentary union to be
held in Amman and visit Syria. The delegation was seen off at the airport
by Ryo Won Gu, vice-chairwoman of the SPA, officials concerned and Haissam
Saad, charge d'affaires ad interim of Syria here.
Belgian parliamentary delegation arrives
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- A parliamentary delegation from various
political parties of Belgium led by Willy Burgeon, honorary president of
the Wallon regional parliament of Belgium, arrived here today. It was
greeted at the airport by Ji Jae Ryong, vice-department director of the
Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea and deputy to the Supreme
People's Assembly.
Reception given at Cuban embassy
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- Eduardo Sanchez Pena, military attach of the
Cuban embassy here, gave a reception on Friday at the embassy on the
occasion of the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban people in the
Playa Giron battle and the 68th anniversary of the foundation of the heroic
Korean People's Army. Invited to the reception were Ryo Chun Sok,
vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces, generals and officers of the
KPA. Charge d'affaires ad interim of the Cuban embassy Nirsia Castro
Guevara and the embassy officials were present. Speeches were made at the
reception.
Stones donated to construction of monument in Korea
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The Portuguese Committee for the Study of
Kimilsungism donated a high-grade stone to the construction site of the
monument to the three-point charter of national reunification. The stone
was handed to an official concerned on the spot yesterday by Rui Matos
Dias, chief of the Portuguese Group for the Study of Kimilsungism on a
visit to the DPRK. Carved in the stone, a processed natural granite, are
the letters "Korea is one." The Cultural Information Center on the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lausane, Switzerland, donated a
building stone to the construction of the monument to the three-point
charter of national reunification on April 8. The chief of the center
handed it to an official of the DPRK mission in Switzerland.
S. Korean ruler's urged to promote repatriation of unconverted long-term
prisoners
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The Promotion Committee for Repatriation of
Unconverted Long-Term Prisoners in South Korea called a press conference on
Thursday in Seoul and urged the South Korean authorities to promote the
problem of the repatriation of the unconverted long-term prisoners,
according to a radio report. Meanwhile, members of the organization went to
the "Ministry of Unification" of South Korea and lodged a protest against
it for refusing to accept the application for contact with the north. Last
March the DPRK measure committee for rescuing unconverted long-term
prisoners in South Korea proposed to hold a joint meeting of the concerned
organizations in the north, south and abroad in a third country in April.
The promotion committee demanded the "Ministry of Unification" of South
Korea allow its participation in the joint meeting in response to the
proposal.
NDFSK's declaration on April-May struggle issued
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The youth and student department of the
central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK)
on April 19 released a declaration on its April-May struggle, according to
Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation. The declaration called on
the one million students to rise up in a fierce anti-U.S. and
anti-dictatorial resistance in South Korea, a colonial tundra, in the same
spirit as was displayed by the April 19 and May 18 uprisers. Recalling that
the U.S. who engineered the brutal crackdown upon the April 19 Uprising and
the May 18 Uprising still remain the vicious enemy of the students and
other people of South Korea, the declaration called for concentrating the
April-May struggle on the U.S. and exerting all efforts to put an end to
the U.S. colonial domination, interference and economic plunder. Today
democracy is savagely violated under the treacherous "people's"
dictatorship, the declaration noted, calling for escalating the
anti-dictatorial struggle under the slogans of repeal of the "security law"
and the dissolution of the "Intelligence Service" and the release of
prisoners of conscience. Victory in the April-May struggle and in the
student movement depends on developing it to be a mass one, the declaration
underscored the need to adopt slogans and methods of struggle which may
command support and sympathy from broad masses of students and thus
escalate their struggle into a mass one. Pointing out that the joint action
for solidarity with the youth and students of different circles is an
urgent call of the times, the declaration called upon the students to
actively solidarize with the workers in their general strike and intensify
the positive and vigorous joint action for solidarity with people from all
walks of life, not ignoring them for vacillating in struggle and being
minority and ostracizing them for lacking enthusiasm in action.
Japan's preparations for biological and chemical war assailed
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defence Agency recently put forward
a plan to form a special unit in the ground "Self-Defense Force" to "cope
with" biological and chemical weapons and started a concrete examination of
it.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary: The
Japanese reactionaries are floating the rumour that their plan to create a
special unit is aimed to "counter" the use of biological and chemical
weapons by "terrorists" and "guerrillas" in densely populated cities. But
this ruse is intended to hide their true design and their criminal moves
for a biological and chemical war and create a social environment for
stepping up the development and production of those weapons. Well informed
of the efficiency and capability of the biological and chemical weapons,
Japan has long prepared this war. What remains to be done is just to invent
a proper pretext for legally mass producing those weapons and let the
"Self-Defense Forces" use them for overseas invasion. Their hue and cry
over "terrorists" or "guerrillas" is nothing but a subterfuge to accelerate
the preparations for a biological and chemical war under the pretext of
"infiltration" from the DPRK as they did in the past. Japan's projected
creation of a special unit to "cope with" biological and chemical weapons
is designed to bring disasters of this war to the Korean people and realize
its ambition for reinvasion, the commentary concludes.
ARIJI supports north-south agreement
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The Asian Regional Institute of the Juche
Idea (ARIJI) on April 13 released a statement supporting the north-south
agreement. Noting that the north and the south of Korea, reaffirming the
three principles of national reunification, agreed to hold the north-south
summit talks in Pyongyang in the middle of June, the statement expressed
full support for this agreement. The statement went on:
"This is the fruition of the wise leadership of his excellency Kim Jong Il,
the great leader, who is making tireless activities to carry out the
instructions of the great leader President Kim Il Sung for national
reunification. This is another great exploit performed by him for the
sacred cause of national reunification. "Considering that Korea should be
reunified according to the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal
Republic of Koryo put forward by the great leader President Kim Il Sung, we
strongly demand the South Korean authorities assume proper posture and
right stand on achieving the reunification of the country with sincerity to
successfully hold the inter-Korean summit talks."
Rodong Sinmun calls for working hard in Kanggye spirit
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a joint article
in a daily and Kulloja titled "Let us work hard in Kanggye spirit".
The article describes the Kanggye spirit as a spirit needed by the times in
socialist Korea and an invincible revolutionary spirit born of the great
perfect unity. There is nothing impossible when one works in this spirit,
the article notes, and goes on: The essence of the spirit is the
indomitable fighting spirit of resolutely defending the party, the leader
and socialism despite the most regorous trial. The Kanggye spirit created
under the most difficult conditions during the "arduous march" is pervaded
with the spirit of absolutely worshiping the leader and devotedly defending
him, the spirit of devotedly implementing his orders without fear of death,
the spirit of self-reliance and the spirit of revolutionary optimism.
Herein lie the inexhaustible vitality of the Kanggye spirit and the reason
why it is regarded as the spirit of the times symbolic of socialist Korea.
For its staunch and noble nature the spirit has demonstrated its great
might in carrying out the Korean revolution. It was because of this spirit
that the Korean people neither shrank nor retreated in face of ordeals
during the "arduous march". This invincible revolutionary spirit has given
great encouragement to the workers' party of Korea in pulling through grim
ordeals. The WPK saw in the struggle of the workers in Jagang Province the
inflexible heroic spirit of the Korean people. And their struggle further
deepened the faith that our revolutionary line is entirely just. The
history in which the Kanggye spirit was created is a history of the noble
perfect unity in which the great Kim Jong Il and the Korean people have
pulled through the ordeals with one mind and purpose. The Kanggye spirit is
a full embodiment of the spirit of independence of Kim Jong Il, a crystal
of his conviction of certain victory and revolutionary optimism and an
invincible revolutionary spirit born of his army-first politics. There is
nothing impossible when one works in this spirit, the article says, and
continues: To live and struggle in this spirit is essential for
consolidating the politico-ideological position of Korean-style socialism
as firm as a rock. If we are to firmly defend the ideological position of
socialism, we should never abandon this wonderful revolutionary spirit no
matter which way the wind may blow. Stressing the need to fully display the
Kanggye spirit, the article says: A full display of this spirit is a
decisive guarantee for emerging ever-victorious in the acute confrontation
with imperialism. The work to display the Kanggye spirit should be steadily
deepened in all fields of the revolution and construction and in all
aspects of social life. Calling for glorifying the Kanggye spirit as the
eternal fighting spirit of Kim Il Sung's nation, the article stresses: A
final victory is in store for the Korean people who are living and fighting
in this spirit.
KCNA slams Ishihara's outbursts
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- An endless string of ultra-nationalist
outbursts recently let loose by Tokyo metropolitan governor Ishihara, an
ultra right-wing reactionary, is strongly censured not only by political
parties, cabinet ministers and non-governmental organizations and other
public circles of Japan but by other peoples of Asia. There are some points
in his remarks which must not be overlooked. As already known, Japan is now
involved in the inter-governmental full-dress talks with the DPRK which are
aimed at establishing diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan. It
was against this background that Ishihara did not bother to make very
provocative remarks, contemptuously calling the DPRK "Hokusen" in Japanese
and challenged domestic and foreign denunciation of them with impudent
excuses and a torrent of jargons, instead of making an apology for them.
This can never be tolerated as it is a revelation of Japan's attempt not to
admit its past crimes but justify them and an expression of malignant
hostility towards the DPRK and its people. What matters is that such a
fanatic ultra-nationalist as Ishihara is allowed to hold an official post
after emerging on the political arena of Japan and unhesitatingly reel off
an endless string of criminal remarks. It is noteworthy that in this regard
the chief executive of Japan on April 17 clarified his stand saying that
"he was not in a position to comment on the remarks made by a local
government boss." It is under such patronage of the Japanese government
authorities that Ishihara continues bandying about such provocative words.
That is why this is not Japan's internal issue of little importance but is
creating a big furore as a serious political and diplomatic issue directly
related to the political future of Japan. If Japan once again turns to
militarism and fascism, it will bring a final destruction to Japan.
Ishihara is well advised to stop deceiving electors of Japan any more and
apologize for his reckless remarks.
U.S. assailed for its sinister intention
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The U.S. assistant secretary of state was
reported to have said at a recent press conference that it is the U.S. idea
to support Japan's bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council
but not to back India's bid. In this regard Minju Joson today says in a
signed commentary: Japan is the only country that neither honestly reflects
on its crime-woven past nor apologizes for it. The U.S. is backing Japan
so that it may appear as a full-fledged "master" on the international arena
despite the fact that it has neither made due post-war compensation as a
defeated country nor shaken off the disgrace of an "enemy state."
Underlying here is a sinister intention of the U.S. The U.S. is putting
Japan desperately seeking to sit on the UNSC on the back in a bid to use
its potentials for the realization of Washington's strategy for world
domination. Such a country as Japan with an inglorious and immoral past is
not entitled to sit on the UNSC. Moreover, the UNSC permanent seat is not
to be occupied with the approval and support of such an individual country
as the U.S. The U.S. should refrain from acts of backing and encouraging
the "enemy state's" bid for the UNSC permanent seat to realize its strategy
for world domination. Such practice is a mockery and insult to the sacred
UN.
Postcards commemorating Sun's Day distributed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- Postcards commemorating Sun's Day were
distributed in dwelling houses in Kwangju, Mokpho, Ryosu and other regions
on the occasion of the 88th birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung,
according to Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation. Seen in the
upper part of the front of the postcard which is issued by the April 15
comradeship society was a picture of President Kim Il Sung against the
background of his native home at Mangyongdae and in its lower part were
letters reading "President Kim Il Sung is the eternal sun of the nation. We
respectfully pray for the eternal life of President Kim Il Sung." Written
in the back of the postcard were letters reading "let all of us turn out in
the sacred struggle for national reunification upholding the three-point
charter of national reunification put forward by the great President Kim Il
Sung " against the background of groups of sculptures who wear bands
carrying letters "independence," "peaceful reunification" and "great
national unity" on their heads.
Korean people's cause of reunification supported
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- A joint communique adopted at the second
meeting of the progressive parties in European and Asian regions held in
Istanbul expressed support for the Korean people's cause of national
reunification. The joint communique stressed that the U.S. troops should be
withdrawn from South Korea and the U.S. and the South Korean authorities
should accept the three-point charter of national reunification, a most
realistic and reasonable way indicated by the DPRK.
Juche idea study society formed in Australia
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on April 11 in Melbourne
to form an Australian Society for the Study of the Juche Idea on the
occasion of Sun's Day. A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was
adopted at the meeting.
Peruvian national symposium on Juche idea held
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The Peruvian national symposium on the Juche
idea for genuine life of humankind and social progress in the 21st century
was held in Lima on April 12 on the occasion of Sun's Day. The symposium
heard a report titled "the Juche philosophy is the unique man-centred
philosophy which indicated the right way for building a new world and
shaping man's destiny." A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was
adopted at the symposium. A declaration of the symposium stressed that the
immortal Juche idea is the unique man-centred philosophy and the great
banner of the struggle for the present era, era of independence, which
makes it possible to meet man's intrinsic desire for independent life and
development as the master of the world and his own destiny. Socialism is
the idea and banner of struggle of the people who are struggling for
independence and the socialist society is the most developed society
confirming with man's intrinsic desire for a worthy life, the declaration
said. The declaration expressed full support and solidarity to the Korean
people in their just struggle to build a powerful socialist country and
achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
For Spanish-speaking people
tonteria de ishihara, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 22 de abril (atcc) -- el gobernador de la metropoli de tokio,
ishihara, elemento reaccionario ultraderechista del japon no cesa de
vomitar maldiciones ultranacionales que causan la censura de la opinion
interna y externa y la energica protesta de los partidos politicos,
ministros y las organizaciones civiles del japon y la indignacion de los
pueblos asiaticos. su disparate no es una cuestion simple.
como es conocido por todo, el japon asiste a las conversaciones principales
intergubernamentales con la rpdc para la normalizacion de sus relaciones
diplomaticas con esta. precisamente en este momento, ishihara vomito
maldiciones muy provocativas llamando a la rpd de corea "pukson" (el norte
de corea). para colmo, en vez de pedir disculpa a la opinion interna y
externa que le denuncia repite las descaradas excusas y las maldiciones
criminales. esto es, en su esencia, el intento de negar y justificar los
crimenes del pasado del japon y manifestacion de la hostilidad a la rpdc y
su pueblo. asi su disparate es nunca perdonable. otro problema es lo
siguiente: como el ultranacionalista fanatico ishihara puede ocupar la
posicion oficial en la escena politica del japon y decir sin escrupulo
tales tonterias. al respecto el dia 17 la autoridad del gobierno japones
dijo: "no estoy dispuesto a comentar la palabreria del responsable de un
gobierno local", a lo cual prestamos atencion. bajo tal apoyo de la
autoridad del gobierno japones, ishihara no cesa de vomitar maldiciones
desafiadoras que producen sensacion como serio problema politico y
diplomatico relacionado directamente con su futuro politico. el camino del
militarismo y fascistizacion que vuelva a escoger el japon conducira a la
derrota final de este pais. ishihara debe dejar de enganar a los electores
japoneses y pedir disculpa por sus maldiciones.
primer contacto preparativo para encuentro y conversaciones de alto nivel
norte-sur
kaesong, 22 de abril (atcc) -- el primer contacto preparativo para
consultar los procedimientos practicos concernientes al historico encuentro
de pyongyang y conversaciones de nivel supremo entre el norte y el sur de
corea tuvo lugar hoy por la manana en el sector sur de phanmunjom. en el
contacto participaron tres delegados con el a nivel de viceministro como
jefe de cada parte. ambas partes usaron palabra exponiendo sus posiciones.
el jefe de la parte norte kim ryong song expreso la esperanza de que en el
contacto preparativo los delegados de ambas partes bien conscientes de su
responsabilidad asumida ante la nacion se acuerden pronto en los problemas
de procedimiento practico para dar a todos los coreanos una clara
expectativa en la independencia y la unidad de la nacion y su
reunificacion. en la ocasion ambas partes decidieron continuar en el
proximo contacto el debate en torno a los problemas de procedimiento
practico relativo al encuentro de pyongyang y conversaciones de nivel
supremo entre el norte y el sur. acordaron reanudar a las 10 a.m. del dia
27 de abril en el pabellon thong-il del sector de la parte norte de
phanmunjom el segundo contacto preparativo.
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