DPRK News April 25
Congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il
Partial visa exemption accord signed between DPRK and Malaysia
Reception given on army day
U.S. warned not to meddle in other's affair
Army day observed
Evening gala held
Japan urged to make formal apology
Foundation of regular revolutionary armed forces
Congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
congratulatory letter from the military
attaches' corps here on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the
foundation of the heroic Korean People's Army.
The letter was delivered on Monday to Kim Il Chol, Minister of the
People's Armed Forces, by Vu Dinh Thang,
doyen of the military attaches' corps and military attach of the embassy of
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Meanwhile, congratulatory letters and gifts to Kim Jong Il were
conveyed to an official concerned by the military
attaches of embassies of Vietnam, Iran, Russia and Peru.
Partial visa exemption accord signed between DPRK and Malaysia
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- A partial visa exemption accord between
the governments of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea and Malaysia was signed in the building of the
Foreign Ministry of Malaysia on April 20.
It was inked by Kim Ja Ryong, DPRK ambassador to Malaysia, and Datuk
Abdul Kadir Mohamad, general
secretary of the Malaysian Foreign Ministry.
Reception given on army day
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces
gave a reception yesterday on the
occasion of the 68th anniversary of the foundation of the heroic Korean
People's Army.
KPA colonel general Ryo Chun Sok in his speech said that the history of
the KPA is a history of the indefatigable
guidance of the great leader Kim Il Sung and the respected Supreme
Commander Kim Jong Il over the KPA.
He noted that Kim Jong Il set forth the unique idea of attaching great
importance to the army that the army is
precisely the party, the state and the people and has strengthened and
developed the KPA into a matchless army.
Doyen of the military attaches corps here Vu Dinh Thang, military
attach of the Vietnamese embassy, speaking at
the reception, warmly congratulated the officers and men of the KPA on its
68th foundation anniversary on behalf of
the military attaches corps.
Noting that today the KPA is reliably defending the socialist homeland,
he expressed the firm belief that under the
wise guidance of Kim Jong Il the Korean people and people's army would
register great achievements in socialist
construction and in the struggle to accomplish the cause of the independent
and peaceful reunification of the country,
overcoming temporary difficulties.
U.S. warned not to meddle in other's affair
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- The United States will "continue to urge
North Korea to stop providing shelter to
Japanese terrorists who have been in the country following their 1970
hijacking," a senior state department official said
on April 18, adding the demand would continue to be a condition for the
north to be taken off the list of countries the
U.S. says are sponsoring terrorists, according to foreign news reports.
This lays bare the vicious U.S. plan to continue to unreasonably brand
the DPRK as a "terrorist state" in a bid to
isolate and stifle it.
Strictly speaking, "Yodo" plane case and the issue of members of the
Japanese "Red Army" is not the problem that
allows U.S. interference.
The DPRK stand on "Yodo" plane case caused by left-wing students and
the issue of them was already clarified
through the KCNA statement issued on April 4, 1970.
The DPRK can never play the role of an agent of the Japanese police. It
is the consistent stand of the DPRK that it
will send members of the "Red Army" back to Japan any time if the Japanese
authorities provide them with freedom of
their political activities.
As far as those members of the "Red Army" are concerned, they sought
asylum in the DPRK for political reasons.
To protect political exiles is in line with the universal declaration on
human rights and is a legitimate right of a
sovereign state recognized by the international law.
The historical facts have proved that those members of the "Red Army"
who had taken refuge in our country have
not been engaged in any terrorism but the U.S. has been hell-bent on the
smear campaign against the DPRK under the
pretext of that issue.
Nevertheless, the U.S. continues pushing for the "extradition of
terrorists." This is an unpardonable deliberate act
to keep the DPRK listed as a "sponsor of terrorism" in a bid to tarnish its
international authority and isolate and stifle it.
The U.S. is the world's biggest kidnapper as it has kidnapped and
allured a large number of people from different
countries before disguising them as "exiles." Yet, the U.S. is shameless
enough to keep the DPRK, which has nothing
to do with terrorism, listed as a "sponsor of terrorism." This is all the
more intolerable.
The U.S., which lured even a diplomat of other country into "exile" in
broad daylight, dares to meddle in the issue
of members of the "Red Army" raising a hue and cry over "terrorism."
This imprudent behavior of the U.S. suggests that it is arrogantly
acting an "international gendarme."
The U.S. is well advised to properly judge the situation and drop its
bad habit to do harm to other countries under
unreasonable pretexts.
Army day observed
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Papers here today editorially observe the
68th anniversary of the heroic Korean
People's Army.
Rodong Sinmun in an editorial titled "Our people's army will always
glorify its honor as the army of the party, the
army of the leader" says the nearly 70-year long victorious and glorious
history of the KPA is a history in which it has
demonstrated its might as the army of the Worker's Party of Korea, the army
of the leader.
The greatest historic feat performed by the great leader Kim Il Sung on
behalf of the party, the revolution, the
country and the people was that he provided a sure guarantee for
strengthening and developing the KPA into the eternal
army of the party, the army of the leader with his clairvoyant farsighted
wisdom, the editorial notes, and goes on:
The glorious history of the heroic KPA which has demonstrated its
dignity as the army of the party, the army of
the leader is adorned with the outstanding and tested leadership of the
respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.
The army-first politics, a completely new and unique mode of politics
in our era, is a most effective and perfect
political mode whereby the KPA has been successfully trained as the army of
the party, the army of the leader and the
revolution and construction steered to one victory after another.
The KPA is an invincible army which is in the indestructible perfect
unity with Kim Jong Il and a proud
revolutionary army which fights the way he does.
Today the spirit of Juche Korea determined to win certain victory by
dynamically advancing towards a high
eminence of a powerful nation, holding high the banner of socialism, is the
militant spirit of the KPA which has grown
stronger to be the army of the party, the army of the Supreme Commander.
The immortal feats Kim Jong Il has performed in the army building by
training well the KPA into the army of the
party, the army of the leader with his army first politics and providing a
sure guarantee for the victorious advance and
accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche will shine forever
together with the history of the prospering and
developing socialist Korea.
Minju Joson carries an editorial titled "KPA under iron-willed
brilliant commander is ever victorious".
Evening gala held
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- An evening gala of the Ministry of the
People's Armed Forces was held last
evening on Jonsung Square in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 68th
anniversary of the heroic Korean People's
Army.
The square was in a festive mood.
Present there were Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political
department of the KPA, Kim Yong Chun, chief
of the general staff of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's
Armed Forces, and generals, officers and men
of the KPA.
The participants extended highest glory and congratulations to the
respected Marshal Kim Jong Il, who is
glorifying the exploits performed by the great leader President Kim Il Sung
in the army building from generation to
generation with army-first leadership, dancing to the tune of "Song of Best
Wishes" and "Song of Three Prides," etc.
KPA vice-marshals and leading officials of the Ministry of the People's
Armed Forces joined servicemen in
dancing, turning the square into a veritable sea of dancers.
Chanting revolutionary slogans and singing the song "We Will Devotedly
Defend the Headquarters of Revolution"
in chorus, the servicemen of the KPA made their firm determination to
reliably guarantee and complete with arms the
revolutionary cause of Juche, which was pioneered with arms.
Japan urged to make formal apology
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- What is prerequisite for Japan in
redressing its past wrongs done against the
DPRK is to sincerely repent of all misfortune, sufferings, disasters and
damage it inflicted upon the Korean people and
make a formal political apology carrying its will not to repeat its past,
observes Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary.
Material compensation without apology is not a repentance of the past
but a mere economic deal, the commentary
says, and goes on:
Japan should make a thorough and clear apology for its past crimes.
To this end, it is imperative for the chief executive of Japan to make
a direct apology for its past wrongs and
specify it in a legal document.
Japan's apology should be a specific formal one to the DPRK.
Whether Japan has a will to stipulate its apology in a final document
related to opening diplomatic relations
between the two countries or not is a criterion showing whether it is ready
or not to show before the international
community its will not to repeat its past aggression by fulfilling its
international commitment in practice, not with empty
words.
Japanese diet should also adopt a resolution on apology.
Only this type of apology can convince people that Japan is honest in
its repentance of its past and command
recognition from them.
The prospect of the DPRK-Japan normalization process will hinge, after
all, on how Japan makes an apology and
how it redresses its past and this will estimate the moral value and
conscience of Japan.
Foundation of regular revolutionary armed forces
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea accomplished
the historic cause of army building
by reorganizing the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) which was
founded on April 25, 1932 into regular
revolutionary armed forces, while leading the building of a new society
after liberation.
The President Kim Il Sung laid down the principle of building a regular
revolutionary army with sons and
daughters of workers and peasants and other working people, anti-Japanese
revolutionary fighters being its backbone,
in his speech made before military and political cadres on august 20, Juche
34 (1945).
Guided by this principle, the WPK energetically pushed ahead with the
work to strengthen and develop the KPRA
into regular revolutionary armed forces.
There were many bottlenecks and difficulties in the process of founding
the regular armed forces.
Korea at that time lacked military and political cadres equipped with
modern military science and technology and
the material foundation for the army building was also weak.
But the WPK tackled all the problems from the stand of Juche.
It saw to it that anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters steeled in the
hard-fought anti-Japanese armed struggle played
a key role in building revolutionary armed forces and the training of
military and political cadres was made in
conformity with the specific conditions of Korea.
The Pyongyang Institute, the Mother Institution for Training Military
and Political Cadres, was founded in
February 1946 to be followed by the appearance of the central security
officers school.
Many core military and political cadres were produced by those military
schools to positively contribute to the
creation of the KPA, regular revolutionary armed forces.
The WPK channelled efforts into building core units of the regular
revolutionary armed forces and organizing new
units of different arms and services needed for the building of a
revolutionary army.
Security officers training centers were established in various local
areas with graduates from the Pyongyang
institute as their core officers and their branches created.
A battalion, companies, platoons and squads were organized under each
branch.
The Korean aviation association was formed through the merger of local
aviation associations and developed to be
an air corps.
Cadres of naval forces were trained to lay the foundation of naval units.
The core units, units of various arms and services of the regular army
were created under the leadership of the
WPK.
Full preparations were thus made for strengthening and developing the
KPRA into a regular army.
On the basis of these arrangements, Kim Il Sung proclaimed the birth of
the KPA, regular revolutionary armed
forces, at the parade of the KPA held on February 8, Juche 37 (1948).
The Korean people thus came to have their own strong revolutionary
armed forces.
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