DPRK News April 23
DPRK delegate speaks at UN human rights meeting
Int'l organization representative supports inter-Korean summit talks
Investigation into massacre of Vietnamese people urged in S. Korea
Ishihara's outbursts assailed
U.S. bellicose forces' false propaganda assailed
DPRK delegate speaks at UN human rights meeting
Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- The DPRK delegate made a speech at the
56th meeting of the U.N. commission
on human rights on April 10. The delegate stressed the need to
internationally prevent the recurrence of such crimes
against humanity as sexual abuses against women.
he continued:
Today the violation of women is prevalent in different armed
conflict-torn regions of the world. This has been
continued till now due to the Japanese army's sexual assaults on Korean and
other Asian women during the second
world war and Japan's failure to fully redress its past.
The Japanese authorities are seriously mistaken if they think they can
play down Japan's extra-large crimes in the
past and get them buried into oblivion in history with such artifices as
"civilian fund" and "letter of apology."
He strongly demanded the Japanese authorities comprehensively
investigate and make public the truth about
human and material losses Japan inflicted upon the Korean people in the
past, punish those responsible for them and
make a state apology and compensation for its past at an early date.
Int'l organization representative supports inter-Korean summit talks
New Delhi, April 21 (KCNA) -- Debkumar Ganguli, secretary of the office
of Asia-Pacific region of the world
federation of trade unions, in his statement on April 12 said that the
opportunity given to the South Korean chief
executive to visit the DPRK clearly shows the magnanimity and charisma of
the great Kim Jong Il, the lodestar of
national reunification. If the South Korean authorities have a sincere will
to have a dialogue and achieve reunification,
they should, first of all, make a policy switchover, he said, adding:
They must drop their anti-communist confrontation policy and pursue a
policy of alliance and reconciliation with
communists, abolish the anti-reunification fascist "security law" which
obstructs national unity and reunification and
set free the pro-reunification patriots behind bars.
Investigation into massacre of Vietnamese people urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- The committee for investigation into
truth behind massacre of innocent people in
the Vietnam War which comprises over 10 civic organizations such as the
international democratic solidarity, the
lawyers association for democratic society and the catholic human rights
committee called a press conference in Seoul
on April 20 to denounce the "ROK" army for its massacre of Vietnamese
people and demand an investigation into its
truth, a South Korean paper said. The committee said mass killings of the
Vietnamese civilians committed by the
"ROK" army have been disclosed one after another, as evidenced by the
confession made by former "ROK" army
company commander Kim Ki Thae of these atrocities during the Vietnam War.
He said that his company staged a search operation in a village of the
central region of Vietnam in November 1966
and arrested and shot to death 29 defenceless young people and over 50
women and aged people.
The committee demanded the "government" make an formal apology to
Vietnam for the massacre and called for
forming a civilian and "governmental" joint investigation group including
figures of civic organizations to fully probe
the truth.
Ishihara's outbursts assailed
Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary denounces Tokyo metropolitan
governor Shintaro Ishihara for having made contemputuous remarks against
the DPRK. Ishihara scornfully called the
DPRK "Hokusen" in Japanese in his television appearance on April 16. The
remarks of the Tokyo metropolitan
governor, a dastardly anti-communist element and fanatic militarist, are an
intolerable crime as they tarnished the
dignity and honor of the DPRK, the commentary says, and goes on:
This is a clear indication that national chauvinism of looking down
upon and insulting the Korean nation still
remains in the mind of the Japanese reactionaries.
The Japanese government, if it has a proper political view and
willingness to improve relations with the DPRK,
should never gloss over and connive at Ishihara's behaviour but call him to
account. Doing so would help create an
atmosphere for the DPRK-Japan talks and improve the bilateral relations.
If such grave anti-DPRK behaviour persists in Japan, it will put the
DPRK and Japan in a serious situation, far
from improving their relations.
The Korean people treasure the DPRK's dignity and authority more than
anybody else. Ishihara should make an
official apology to the Korean people, being heavily responsible for his
criminal deeds.
The Japanese authorities should take an immediate step to prevent such
reckless deeds as his against the DPRK
and Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan).
U.S. bellicose forces' false propaganda assailed
Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- U.S. warmongers recently let Asian Wall
Street Journal float the false rumour
that the north and south of Korea "do not hope for reunification for
internal reasons such as expenses for reunification
and imbalance between both systems." In this regard Minju Joson today says
in its signed commentary: This is nothing
but a false propaganda of those keen on the permanent division of Korea.
The national reunification of Korea has not yet been achieved not
because of "expense" or "imbalance between
systems" but because of interference and obstructions to the solution of
the issue of reunification by foreign forces
including the United States.
The United States, chiefly responsible for the tragic division of
Korea, is a strumbling block in the way of Korea's
reunification.
The United States has never been interested in peace on the Korean
peninsula and its reunification.
It is its view that if reconciliation, unity, peace and reunification
are achieved on the Korean peninsula, it will
deprive Washington of any justification for its continued military presence
in South Korea and, furthermore, endanger
the realization of its strategy for domination over this region. That is
why the U.S. warmongers are taking much pain
to spread false rumours in a bid to create distrust between the north and
south of Korea and seek a pretext for the
permanent U.S. military presence in South Korea.
The reunification of Korea is the trend of the times and the need of
history.
Nobody can dampen the desire of the Korean nation for reunification.
The United States should know well that if it continues hindering
Korea's reunification against the trend of history
it will not escape from a stern judgement by the Korean people.
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