DPRK News May 8
DPRK-Australian diplomatic relations reopened
4th preparatory contact held
"War commemoration" moves assailed
Anachronistic illusion
World Day of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Three-point charter of reunification supported abroad
Improving layout of fields is work of lasting significance
S. Korean comes over to N. Korea
U.S. hit for its ado about "threat from N. Korea's missile threat"
For Spanish-speaking people
DPRK-Australian diplomatic relations reopened
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- A communique on reopening diplomatic
relations between the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea and the Commonwealth of Australia was released here today.
It said: The DPRK and the Australian governments agreed to reopen the
temporarily suspended diplomatic
relations at ambassadorial level to develop the friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries on the
principle of mutual respect for sovereignty, non-interference in other's
internal affairs, equality and reciprocity.
Both sides will soon appoint their ambassadors, the communique said.
4th preparatory contact held
Panmunjom, May 8 (KCNA) -- The 4th preparatory contact for a historic
Pyongyang meeting and summit talks
was held at the Thongil Pavilion in the north side's portion of Panmunjom
on May 8.
At the contact the north side put forward realistic and flexible
offers, taking into full consideration opinions of the
south side.
But, the two sides failed to reach a consensus of views and produce a
final agreement.
It was agreed to have the next contact when the south side informs the
north side of its proposed date with
willingness to positively respond to the north side's flexible offer.
"War commemoration" moves assailed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification
of the Fatherland published a
statement on sunday denouncing the U.S. and the South Korean authorities
for planning to "commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the Korean War."
Branding the "commemorations" as a premeditated move to distort the
history of their criminal aggression war and
unleash a second aggression war on the Korean peninsula, the statement said:
The U.S. imperialists are distributing to primary, middle and high
schools across the United States posters
advertising non-existent "southward invasion" by someone.
Meanwhile, the South Korean authorities are going to conduct
"commemorations" on a large scale including the
building of a "cenotaph" to the U.S. war dead on the Rimjin River.
The facts clearly show that they are shamelessly and desperately
attempting to distort the history in a bid to totally
reverse the truth behind the Korean War of aggression and cover up their
foul colors as war provokers and aggressors.
It is as clear as noonday that their war "commemorations" are part of
the criminal war preparations. Through such
moves, the U.S. and the South Korean authorities intend to distort the
nature of the last Korean War, prevent the
war-weariness and evasion of conscription, which are prevalent in South
Korea, and, in the event of contingency,
collect mercenary troops from different countries.
We will never overlook such criminal moves of the U.S. and the South
Korean authorities distorting the history of
the Korean War with a huge amount of fund and many war criminals involved.
It is our unshakable determination and will to bring to the stern court
of history and punish those criminals who
provoked the Korean War and make them pay due compensation for it.
Anachronistic illusion
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- An aide of Bush, the republican candidate
for U.S. President, recently said that if
Bush is elected, he will keep the U.S. forces in East Asia at the level of
100,000 to cope with "threat" from North
Korea and pursue the U.S.-Japan-South Korea triangular military alliance.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary notes his utterances are a
revelation of the grave attempt of the
U.S. bellicose elements to intensify the moves of aggression and war on the
Korean peninsula and its surrounding
areas.
The U.S. bellicose elements never let a chance pass by without saying
to the same effect, the commentary says,
and goes on:
Their remarks justifying the presence of the U.S. forces in East Asia
and pursuing the U.S.-Japan-South Korea
triangular military alliance are aimed at creating conditions and
circumstances for their strategy of domination over the
DPRK and Asia by force.
The alleged "threat from North Korea" is a downright lie and a
deceptive signboard to pursue the policy of stifling
the DPRK and strategy of domination over Asia.
The U.S. strategy of domination over Asia is an anachronistic illusion
which is doomed to destruction, countered
by countries in this region. The U.S. is well advised to stop such foolish
acts.
World Day of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- May 8 is World Day of Red Cross and Red
Crescent.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent movement set the birthday of Henry
Dunant, pioneer of the Red Cross
movement, as World Day of Red Cross and Red Crescent to commemorate it
every year.
The Red Cross movement regards it as its basic task to protect the
human life from war, all sorts of armed
conflicts, natural disasters, etc. and stabilize the living of victims on a
worldwide scale and actively encourages
international and regional bonds of cooperation and solidarity among the
forces involved in the movement in this field.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is
conducting its activities in Korea, too, to
remove the aftermath of natural disasters and stabilize the living of
people in the afflicted areas.
Three-point charter of reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- Worldwide support to the three-point charter
of Korea's reunification is growing
with each passing day.
A ceremony of starting the international signature campaign for
supporting the charter was held in Denmark on
May 1.
An appeal of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and
Peace in Korea calling for staging the
signature campaign was read out at the ceremony.
That day the signature paper was signed by 80 odd people.
Meanwhile, members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Guinea
also participated in the signature
campaign.
Bonamou Martin, first vice-president of the assembly, on April 19
signed the signature paper on behalf of the
assembly members, 114 in all.
Improving layout of fields is work of lasting significance
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are firmly convinced that
the appearance of all fields of Korea
will radically change as they befit the land of socialist Korea in the near
future and the day will surely come when they
live an affluent life free from food problem under the wise guidance of
General Secretary Kim Jong Il, says Rodong
Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
It is Kim Jong Il's long-term plan for improving the layout of fields
not only to bring new land under cultivation to
increase grain production and realise comprehensive mechanization of farm
work but to radically change the appearance
of the land won back by the President kim il sung as befits the land of
socialist Korea and liquidate once and for all the
remnants of feudal landownership.
This unique plan has been translated into a shining reality in Kangwon
and north Phyongan provinces.
He has wisely led the officials and workers involved in the work to
carry it out not in a passive way but as an
undertaking of lasting significance for the prosperity of the generations
to come.
He has wisely instructed them to finish projects one by one to register
earliest possible successes as was the case
with all other work.
Bright is the prospect of land leveling and rezoning initiated by the
Worker's Party of Korea the article notes, and
concludes: The appearance of all fields in the DPRK will change beyond
recognition in the near future as there are the
wise leadership of Kim Jong Il and our people's army and people rallied
single-heartedly around him.
S. Korean comes over to N. Korea
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- South Korean Ri Ki Won, 54, came over to the
North Korea a few days ago.
Before his defection he was in charge of equipment maintenance in a
joint tramcar stock company. Availing
himself of his foreign tour, he succeeded in coming over to the north.
Hailing from Inchon, he graduated from the engineering college of
Hanyang University in 1974 and worked at
different enterprises.
Referring to the motive of his defection, he said he was tired of
living in the unfair South Korean society where
money decides everything. He said he decided to come over to the northern
half of Korea, a society for the people and
the nation, to live a worthy life.
U.S. hit for its ado about "threat from N. Korea's missile threat"
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- Recently the United States slandered the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea in
a bid to avoid the daily growing international criticism of the "National
Missile Defense" system.
The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK today issued a
statement denouncing the U.S. for its
anti-DPRK diatribe.
He said.
No one can be fooled by the U.S. tricks. The DPRK will never remain an
onlooker to the U.S. moves to violate
the nation's sovereignty and dignity.
The U.S. moves to set up the "NMD" are very reckless and dangerous ones
aimed at upsetting the world's
strategic balance and getting the unchallenged nuclear upper hand at
present. So, they invite unanimous curses and
denunciation from broad segments of world people.
The U.S. ruling quarters are working hard to establish it at any cost
despite public criticism at home and abroad.
The U.S. is making much ado about the "threat from North Korea's
long-range missile" to this end.
It tried to play down the significance of the launch of satellite
Kwangmyongsong 1, the first of its kind, in the
DPRK, describing it as a "mini satellite for test." It is nowadays
describing the launch of satellite as the long-range
missile launch, claiming that the "missile defense" is designed to cope
with the DPRK's long-range missile
development, not aiming at Russia and china.
It is reckless enough to think that people will be taken in by its
endless string of lies and this will help convince the
countries concerned and the world public of this "NMD".
It is seriously mistaken, though.
It keeps thousands of nuclear missiles in different parts of the world
on a permanent basis. It is a height of
impudence for such a country as the U.S. to set up "missile defense"
networks on the plea of the DPRK's satellite
launch.
If satellite launch presents itself as a problem, not only the DPRK but
all other satellite-launching countries,
including the U.S., should discontinue launching satellites.
The same is the case with missile.
If the U.S. truly feels any threat from the DPRK's missile, it should
stop posing grave military threat to the DPRK
forthwith.
It is also commitment of the U.S. side that should have been fulfilled
under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
The U.S. has to spend tens of billions of dollars on developing the
"NMD." If it stops posing military threat to the
DPRK, however, it will save more money.
This notwithstanding, the U.S. is opting for spending a huge amount of
money for the "NMD". In the long run,
this U.S. intention cannot be construed otherwise than a move to attain
another greater strategic purpose under the
pretext of "threat" from the DPRK.
The issue of the DPRK cannot be any pretext and a ploy for a
bargaining. The U.S. should be mindful of this.
For Spanish-speaking people
crpp publica declaracion
pyongyang, 8 de mayo (atcc) -- el comite por la reunificacion pacifica
de la patria publico el dia 7 una declaracion
en la cual senala que la farsa de "conmemoracion del 50 aniversario del
estallido de la guerra coreana" que preparan los
imperialistas norteamericanos y las autoridades surcoreanas constituye una
maquinacion premeditada para tergiversar
su criminal historia de guerra agresiva y desatar la segunda guerra de
agresion en la peninsula coreana.
la declaracion senala:
los imperialistas norteamericanos distribuyen en las escuelas
primarias, secundarias y superiores de todo su
territorio hasta pancartas anunciando la "teoria de agresion al sur" de la
rpdc y las autoridades surcoreanas construyen
un "monumento" a soldados estadounidenses en la cercania del rio rimjin,
dando asi gran impulso a la farsa de
"conmemoracion" del 50 aniversario del estallido de la guerra coreana.
todos los hechos demuestran claramente que ellos recurren a descaradas
maniobras de tergiversacion de la historia
tratando de ocultar el verdadero aspecto de la guerra de agresion a corea y
encubrir su verdadera faz de provocador de
guerra y de agresor.
es muy evidente que tal farsa de "actos y conmemoracion" del 50
aniversario del estallido de la guerra coreana es
un eslabon de las maquinaciones de preparacion belica que perpetran con la
criminal finalidad de tergiversar el caracter
de la pasada guerra coreana, detener la idea pesimista sobre la guerra y la
evasion del servicio militar que prevalecen en
ee.uu. y surcorea y de volver a incorporar, en caso de emergencia, a los
mercenarios de varios paises a la guerra
coreana.
no estaremos jamas con brazos cruzados ante las criminales
maquinaciones de tergiversacion de historia de guerra
coreana que perpetran ellos al malgastar enormes fondos y movilizar hasta
numerosos criminales de guerra.
tenemos la firme decision de llevar a los provocadores de la guerra
coreana a la severa sentencia de la historia para
que asuman la responsabilidad penal y hagan la merecida recompensacion.
reanudanse relaciones diplomaticas rpdc-eua
pyongyang, 8 de mayo (atcc) -- quedo publicada hoy en esta capital la
informacion sobre la reanudacion de
relaciones diplomaticas entre la republica popular democratica de corea
(rpdc) y los estados unidos de australia (eua).
los gobiernos de la rpdc y los eua acordaron reanudar las relaciones
diplomaticas a nivel de embajador para
desarrollar la amistad y cooperacion entre dos paises en el principio de
respeto mutuo a la soberania, no intervencion en
los asuntos internos, igualdad y beneficio mutuo y acreditar pronto sus
embajadores, senala la informacion.
cuarto contacto preparatorio para encuentro y conversaciones norte - sur
phanmunjom, 8 de mayo (atcc) -- el cuarto contacto preparatorio para el
historico encuentro de pyongyang y las
conversaciones de nivel supremo tuvo lugar hoy en el pabellon thongil en la
zona de la parte norte de phanmunjom.
en la ocasion la parte norte presento proyectos realistas y flexibles
que toman en suficiente consideracion la opinion
de la parte sur.
pero, ambas partes no llegaron al acuerdo final por no haberse logrado
el acercamiento de opiniones.
acordaron sostener el siguiente contacto segun la parte sur nos
notifique la fecha con la disposicion de tratar
positivamente nuestro proyecto flexible.
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