DPRK news APr 29
>Singing gathering held in S. Korea on Sun's Day
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>DPRK-South Africa Friendship Association formed
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>KCTU vows to wage may struggle
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>Withdrawal of U.S. forces from S. Korea urged
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>KCNA refutes sycophantic remarks of S. Korean ambassador to Japan
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>DPRK wrestlers catch gold medals
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>AAPSO favours memorandum of DPRK Foreign Ministry
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>Singing gathering held in S. Korea on Sun's Day
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The Hwipharam band in Seoul held a singing
>gathering on April 10 on the occasion of Sun's Day, Seoul-based radio Voice of
>National Salvation reported. The gathering was timed to coincide with the
>opening of the 18th April Spring Friendship Art Festival. The head of the band
>addressing it called for regarding the gathering as part of the Pyongyang
>festival and singing praises of the respected President Kim Il Sung, though
>they were not able to participate in the festival.
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>The program of the gathering which began with the chorus of the immortal
>revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Il Sung" included "The Leader Will
>Always Be With Us", "Our Leader" and other songs.
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>DPRK-South Africa Friendship Association formed
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The DPRK-South Africa Friendship Association was
>formed here on April 27 on the occasion of the sixth national day of the
>Republic of South Africa. Acting chairman Mun Jae Chol of the Korean Committee
>for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries was elected chairman of the
>association at the inaugural meeting.
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>A speech was made at the meeting and a congratulatory message to South African
>President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was adopted.
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>KCTU vows to wage may struggle
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
>(KCTU) decided to hold a rally for a total strike marking the 110th May Day,
>the international holiday of workers the world over, in Seoul on April 29, a
>Seoul-based radio reported. Participating in the rally will be unionists of
>the KCTU, peasants and students, more than 20,000 in all.
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>At the same time, the KCTU declared that it would hold large-scale rallies in
>Seoul and 14 other cities across South Korea and launch into may struggle in
>real earnest.
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>Withdrawal of U.S. forces from S. Korea urged
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- Dailies here today in signed commentaries echo
>voices demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. forces stationed overseas growing
>louder worldwide. The Minister of Home Affairs and Justice of Panama at a
>press conference recently rejected the theory on the presence of a foreign
>army for the security of Panama and its canal while the Guatemalan government
>refuted the U.S. attempt to station its army under the pretext of "helping"
>prevent drug trafficking and forest fire.
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>Rodong Sinmun demands the U.S. drop its anachronistic policy of stationing its
>forces overseas rejected everywhere.
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>It goes on: A climate is now being created for the reconciliation between the
>north and south of Korea and peace on the Korean peninsula. This offers best
>opportunity for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea.
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>The Korean people do not want to see the U.S. remaining their sworn enemy. An
>earlier withdrawal of its forces, the better for the U.S. either.
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>The U.S. attitude towards the pullback of its forces from South Korea will
>serve as a yardstick showing whether it stands for peace or not.
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>Minju Joson says the U.S. forces' withdrawal from South Korea would contribute
>to the global peace and security and bring about a positive change in untying
>the long-standing knots of DPRK-U.S. relations.
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>The U.S. is well advised to face up to the trend of the times and make a right
>decision.
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>KCNA refutes sycophantic remarks of S. Korean ambassador to Japan
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- South Korean ambassador to Japan Choe Sang Ryong
>was reported to have let loose a strange piffle at the Japanese Press Club on
>April 26 that "The United States has always played an important role in
>deterring war and preserving peace in East Asia and the Korean peninsula."
>This sophism is nothing but sycophantic and treacherous outbursts intended to
>veil the criminal nature of the U.S. aggressive Asian strategy and preach the
>necessity of the U.S. troops in this region, particularly the U.S.
>forces'presence in South Korea.
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>It is an invariable aggressive design and criminal strategy of the U.S. to
>provoke a war against the DPRK and use the Korean peninsula as a springboard
>from which to contain Asian powers and thus hold hegemony in the continent.
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>To this end the U.S. has amassed its huge forces in Asia and massively shipped
>sophisticated lethal weapons in South Korea in particular, and is staging
>DPRK-targeted reckless joint military exercises without a let-up with the
>South Korean warhawks, always escalating the tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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>The U.S. forces' presence in South Korea is a main factor of harassing peace
>and stability on the peninsula and a stumbling block in the way of national
>reunification, the supreme task of the Korean nation.
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>An immediate withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea is a prerequisite
>to putting an end to the cold war and guaranteeing lasting peace and stability
>in Korea.
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>This has presented itself as an urgent issue now that a climate is being
>created for reconciliation between the north and south and peace on the Korean
>peninsula.
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>If the South Korean authorities value this hard-won atmosphere, they should
>stop talking about the necessity of the U.S. troops' presence and swim with
>the trend of the times critical of its injustice.
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>DPRK wrestlers catch gold medals
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- Korean wrestlers Jin Ju Dong and Ri Yong Sam
>placed first at the 14th Asian freestyle wrestling championship to win gold
>medals. Jin Ju Dong and Ri Yong Sam came first in the respective 54kg and 58kg
>matches.
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>Kim Kwang Il bagged a bronze medal in the 63kg match.
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>Prior to the championship, Jin Ju Dong and Ri Yong Sam placed first in the
>qualifying competition for the 27th Olympics.
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>AAPSO favours memorandum of DPRK Foreign Ministry
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>Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization
>(AAPSO) issued a statement on April 22 supporting the memorandum of the
>Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK which exposed the GIs' mass killings
>of civilians during the last Korean War. The GIs' massacres were a wanton
>violation of the war law and regulations including the Geneva convention, the
>statement said, and continued:
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>It cannot be overlooked that the GIs used biological and chemical weapons,
>internationally-banned mass lethal weapons. This has been fully proved by
>POWs, victims, eyewitnesses and international organization investing group.
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>It has been also proved through declassified documents that the then U.S.
>defense secretary ordered to stage the germ warfare.
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>The AAPSO supports the Korean people demanding a thoroughgoing investigation
>into the crimes committed by GIs during the Korean War and establishment of
>special tribunal to severely punish the criminals under the international law.
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>comite nacional coreano por defensa de paz envia carta
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>pyongyang, 28 de abril (atcc) -- el comite nacional coreano por la defensa de
>la paz (cncdp) envio ayer a las organizaciones del movimiento por la paz del
>mundo una carta exhortandoles a desarrollar ampliamente el movimiento
>antibelico y por la paz para frenar las aventureras maquinaciones de
>provocacion de guerra bioquimica de los imperialistas norteamericanos y los
>belicistas sudcoreanos. en estos dias estos imperialistas y belicistas so
>pretexto de hacer frente a la supuesta "amenaza de ataque de armas
>bioquimicas" de la rpd de corea aumentan las fuerzas armadas para la guerra
>bioquimica de las tropas norteamericanas ocupantes de sudcorea y del "ejercito
>nacional" de esta y no cesan de desarrollar ejercicios militares conjuntos de
>toda clase para esta guerra, por una parte, y por la otra ofrecen la vacuna
>anticarbunco en las unidades de las tropas yanquis y suministran hasta caretas
>antigases a dichas tropas y familiares de funcionarios de embajada, senala la
>carta y continua:
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>todo hecho demuestra que ee. uu. y sudcorea se proponen desencadenar en la
>peninsula coreana una guerra bioquimica global contra norcorea y lo llevan a
>la practica.
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>hoy en sudcorea existen decenas de depositos de armas bioquimicas y esta
>almacenada gran cantidad de armas quimicas binarias que corresponden a las
>nucleares en la efectividad.
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>con la aprobacion del acuerdo entre el norte y el sur de corea ahora los
>coreanos en el pais y el ultramar y los pueblos del mundo amantes de la paz
>desean unanimemente que se elimine la guerra fria en la peninsula coreana y se
>abra una nueva fase de la paz y la reunificacion pacifica alli.
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>precisamente en este momento ee. uu. y las autoridades surcoreanas recurren
>con frenesi a las conjuras de guerra bioquimica desarrollando nuevo ejercicio
>belico de caracter provocativo llamado "entrenamiento conjunto de refuerzo en
>el periodo de guerra" y un ejercicio de guerra bioquimica.
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>todo esto no se puede tolerar jamas.
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>exhortamos fervientemente a los pueblos del mundo amantes de la paz y
>organizaciones internacionales antibelicas y por la paz a desarrollar
>ampliamente el movimiento para frenar tales maquinaciones aventureras de
>provocacion de guerra bioquimica.
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>"rodong sinmun" denuncia campana anticubana de ee.uu.
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>pyongyang, 28 de abril (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en un comentario
>individual de hoy denuncia a ee.uu. que desata vilmente campana de presion
>sobre cuba en cuanto al derecho humano. el comentario senala:
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>en la 56 reunion de la comision de derechos humanos de las naciones unidas
>sesionada el dia 18 en suiza ee.uu. logro aprobar una "resolucion" anticubana
>a fin de hacer un hecho consumado el "asunto de los derechos humanos" en la
>mayor de las antillas y arreciar sancion y presion sobre este pais socialista.
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>ee.uu. interviene descaradamente en los asuntos internos de cuba acusandola
>arbitrariamente del "asunto de los derechos humanos". esto es un atentado a la
>soberania de cuba.
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>ee.uu. es el pais que ocupa el primer lugar en la violacion de los derechos
>humanos en el globo terraqueo, siendo asi acusa a cuba y otros paises del
>"asunto de los derechos humanos". verdaderamente esto es un abuso de la
>palabra.
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>ee.uu. desata campana anticubana a fin de censurar a este pais, entenebrecer
>la imagen de este y justificar su criminal politica de bloqueo de decenas de
>anos y asfixiarlo.
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>ee.uu. debe conocer que no puede lograr esta finalidad y renunciar su
>intervencion en los asuntos internos de cuba.
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>periodicos demandan retiro de tropas yanquis de sudcorea
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>pyongyang, 29 de abril (atcc) -- hoy los periodicos de esta capital dedican
>comentarios al hecho de que en estos dias en la arena internacional se eleva
>la voz de repudio a la presencia de las tropas norteamericanas en el ultramar.
>recientemente, el ministro del interior y la justicia de panama, en una rueda
>de prensa rechazo la pretencion de mantener las tropas extranjeras para la
>seguridad de panama y su canal. tambien guatemala repudio la intencion de
>ee.uu. de mantener sus tropas en su territorio a rotulo de "contribuir" a la
>prevencion del narcotrafico y el incendio forestal.
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>el comentario del diario "rodong sinmun" senala:
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>ee.uu. debe abandonar su anacronica politica de mantenimiento de tropas en el
>ultramar repudiada unanimemente.
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>ahora que se crea un ambiente para la reconciliacion del norte y el sur y la
>paz de la peninsula coreana sera la mejor oportunidad para el retiro de las
>tropas norteamericanas de sudcorea.
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>no deseamos que ee.uu. siga siendo enemigo jurado de la nacion coreana.
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>cuanto mas rapido sea el retiro de las tropas estadounidenses tanto mas
>beneficioso sera para este pais.
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>la actitud de este pais en cuanto a esta retirada servira de un criterio para
>verificar la posicion sobre la paz.
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>el comentarista del periodico "minju joson" senala:
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>el retiro de las tropas norteamericanas de sudcorea contribuira a la paz y la
>seguridad del mundo y producira un viraje positivo en las complicadas
>relaciones rpdc-ee.uu. de largo tiempo. ee.uu. debe ver correctamente la
>corriente de la epoca y tomar la justa decision.
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>atcc comenta lenguaje de "embajador" de sudcorea en japon
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>pyongyang, 29 de abril (atcc) -- segun una informacion, choe sang ryong,
>"embajador" de sudcorea en el japon dijo el pasado dia 26 en el club de
>periodistas del japon: "tanto ayer como hoy ee.uu. se arroga el importante
>papel para frenar la guerra y preservar la paz en asia oriental y la peninsula
>coreana". es una expresion traidora para encubrir el caracter criminal de la
>estrategia asiatica agresiva de ee.uu. y predicar la utilidad de la presencia
>de las tropas norteamericanas en dicha region.
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>ee.uu. persigue la invariable ambicion agresiva y estrategia criminal.se
>propone provocar la guerra de agresion a norcorea, refrenar y controlar a las
>potencias asiaticas tomando por trampolin la peninsula coreana y asi ocupar la
>posicion heguemonica.
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>para este fin, ee.uu. coloca enormes fuerzas armadas en asia, traslada a
>sudcorea gran cantidad de armas de exterminio de tipo moderno y desarrolla sin
>cesar en cooperacion con los belicistas surcoreanos los temerarios ejercicios
>militares para agudir a norcorea, exacerbando asi permanentemente la situacion
>de la peninsula coreana.
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>la presencia de las tropas norteamericanas en sudcorea es el factor principal
>que perturba la paz y la seguridad de la peninsula coreana y el obstaculo
>principal que impide la reunificacion de la patria que es tarea suprema
>nacional.
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>la retirada inmediata de las tropas norteamericanas de sudcorea constituye una
>cuestion fundamental para poner fin a la guerra fria en la peninsula coreana y
>preservar la paz y la seguridad duraderas.
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>esta cuestion se presenta imperiosamente hoy dia en que se crea una atmosfera
>para la reconciliacion entre el norte y el sur de corea y la paz en la
>peninsula coreana.
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>si las autoridades surcoreanas aprecian este ambiente que se prepara a costa
>de tantos esfuerzos no deberan hablar de la utilidad de la ocupacion de las
>tropas norteamericanas sino incorporarse a la tendencia de la epoca a debatir
>su injustedad.
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