DPRK News May 14
U.S. moves to establish "missile defence" system
U.S. schemes to cover up truth about mass killings
Traffic accidents claim many lives in S. Korea
Korean book and handicraft exhibition held
Korea's reunification supported abroad
GIs' massacres condemned
Reception given for Ri Song Hui
Withdrawal of U.S. forces from S. Korea urged
For Spanish-speaking people
U.S. moves to establish "missile defence" system
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary
denounces the United States for
refusing to drop its stand on its nuclear development and moves to
establish a "missile defence" system, though it is
censured and condemned for it worldwide with a UN conference to reexamine
the "nuclear non-proliferation treaty" as
a momentum.
The DPRK cannot but take a serious note of desperate moves of the U.S.
to stifle the DPRK by force of arms
under the pretext of its "missile threat," the commentary says, and continues:
The U.S. seeks to realize its wild ambition to militarily stifle the
DPRK by deploying new types of sophisticated
strategic weapons in its mainland and northeast Asia under that pretext and
strengthening its military and strategic
position there.
Its immediate aim is to contain its potential rivals and big powers and
establish its unchallenged domination over
the Asia-Pacific region.
These moves of the U.S. cannot but spark a new arms race, a missile
race. The U.S. loudmouthed "missile threat"
from the DPRK is aimed at justifying its moves to establish the "missile
defence" system.
And the U.S. is working hard to establish this system by amending the
"anti-ballistic missile treaty" through a
bargaining with a country. The U.S. only seeks to draw water to its mill at
the expense of others.
If the U.S. persists in its moves to establish the criminal "missile
defence" system at the DPRK's expense under
the pretext of its "missile threat," the situation will get more complicated.
Those, who try to use the DPRK's "missile issue" as a bargaining chip
in dealing with the U.S., are well advised
to come to themselves.
Independence is vital to the DPRK. It is the DPRK's will and consistent
principle to respond to a dialogue with a
dialogue and counter force with force.
U.S. schemes to cover up truth about mass killings
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) - A spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department
on Friday announced that the
"U.S. military investigation team" decided to lengthen the time of probing
the truth behind the mass killings in
Rogun-ri, South Korea, which had been initially scheduled to be completed
by June 25, according to a radio report
from Seoul.
He said that through interviews with over 100 people, the
"investigation team" came to "believe that something
tragic happened in Rogun-ri at the outset of the war."
However, it has been decided to prolong the period of investigation
because of "conflicting testimonies" made by
U.S. war veterans and South Korean survivors of killings at that time, he
said ambiguously.
The announcement came right after a statement of AP refuting the false
report of the U.S. newspaper Stars and
Stripes intended to falsify the truth about the mass killings by the U.S.
aggression forces in Rogun-ri.
It shows how desperately the U.S. is working to cover up the truth
behind the case.
The U.S. had set as many as eight months for this investigation in a
bid to cover up the truth behind the mass
killings. They are now talking about the "prolongation of the investigation
time" without defining its limit. This is, in
essence, nothing but a cunning trick to keep their crimes buried into
oblivion for ever.
Traffic accidents claim many lives in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- 703,000 people were killed or wounded in
traffic accidents in South Korea last
year, a radio report from Seoul said.
This is an increase of 39 percent over the previous year.
South Korea is the highest in traffic accident rate in the world as its
number of deaths per 10,000 vehicles is four
times that of the United States and six times that of Japan.
1,350 traffic accidents occur in different roads of South Korea every
day, leaving 1,900 wounded and 25 dead,
the radio reported.
Korean book and handicraft exhibition held
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- A Korean book and handicraft exhibition was
held in Trinidad and Tobago on
May 3 to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the start of General Secretary
Kim Jong Il's work at the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
On display were famous works of the President Kim Il Sung and General
Secretary Kim Jong Il and Korean
books and handiwork.
The speaker of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago in
his speech said that the exhibition would
mark an important occasion for the development of bilateral relations in
the field of culture.
Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- A Russian political party and Bangladeshi
organizations participated in the
international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter of
Korea's reunification from April 20 to May 5.
The signature paper was signed by chairperson of the Party for Peace
and Unity of Russia Sazhi Umalatova on
behalf of the party, the National Worker's Federation of Bangladesh Abudul
Kader on behalf of 120,000 members and
supporters and chairman of the Bangladeshi Students' Union Obeydur Rahman
on behalf of 210,000 members.
GIs' massacres condemned
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- The Bangladeshi Solidarity Committee for
Supporting Korea's Reunification and
the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship Association on May 7 released a joint
statement supporting the memorandum
published by the DPRK Foreign Ministry to disclose the truth behind the
GIs' mass killings during the Korean War.
The statement said that the U.S. can never evade the responsibility for
the mass killings of millions of innocent
people during the Korean War.
It called upon the united nations to make an investigation into the
U.S. crimes, noting that the U.S. troops abused
its name.
An international tribunal should be set up to investigate the GIs'
atrocities and punish those criminals under the
international law, it held.
Reception given for Ri Song Hui
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- A reception was given by the DPRK
government yesterday in honor of Ri Song
Hui, who placed first at the 13th Asian Women's Weightlifting Championship.
Vice-premier Jo Chang Dok, addressing the reception, said that the
success achieved by Ri was a great deed and
pride of the Korean nation which demonstrated to the world the heroic
spirit of the Korean people who are building a
powerful and prosperous nation and country, rallied close around General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
In her reply ri said that thanks to the great care of Kim Jong Il who
trained her, a daughter of an ordinary worker,
to be a weightlifter she set a new world record and won the 13th Asian
Women's Weightlifting Championship title.
I would repay the great care by placing first at games without fail in
the future and winning the world champion
title, she said.
Withdrawal of U.S. forces from S. Korea urged
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- A fighter bomber "A-10" of the U.S.
aggression air force in South Korea
dropped without any advance notice a bomb on the sea off Maehyang-ri,
Ujong-myon, Hwasong county of Kyonggi
Province, on May 8, leaving inhabitants wounded and window panes of houses
broken.
In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says the U.S.
forces in South Korea do not "protect" the
South Korean people but bring tremendous damage to their lives and properties.
The commentary goes on:
This incident once again clearly proves that the U.S. forces in South
Korea are the root cause of disasters there as
they impose sufferings and misfortunes upon the South Korean people.
No one can vouch that the South Korean people would not suffer similar
human and material damage in the future,
too, as long as the U.S. aggression forces are allowed to stay in South
Korea and are hell-bent on war exercises
targeted against the DPRK.
The South Korean authorities should stop their anti-national flunkeyist
and traitorous acts of begging for the
permanent presence of the U.S. forces in South Korea and take measures for
their withdrawal from there.
For Spanish-speaking people
informacion de secretariado de comite por reunificacion pacifica de patria
pyongyang, 13 de mayo (atcc) -- el comite por la reunificacion pacifica
de la patria hizo publica ayer la informacion
no. 806 de su secretariado condenando a las autoridades surcoreanas que
luego de acumular enorme cantidad de armas
bioquimicas dan espuelas a sus maquinaciones de preparacion belica.
la declaracion senala en particular:
los arsenales en secreto estricto estan llenos de armas quimicas. por
eso las autoridades surcoreanas se pusieron el
ano pasado a "neutralizar" unas de las armas quimicas de propiedad
debilitada en la fabrica construida para este fin en la
region de yongdong, provincia de chungchong del norte.
luego de hacer un hecho consumado el uso de armas bioquimicas en la
segunda guerra coreana los imperialistas
norteamericanos y las autoridades surcoreanas trasladan mayor cantidad de
estas armas a surcorea del territorio
estadounidense y desde finales de la decada de 1960 promueven de modo
intensivo la investigacion para el desarrollo
de esas armas y su produccion en surcorea.
condenamos severamente como actos criminales antinacionales y
antieticos las maquinaciones de las autoridades
surcoreanas que se coligan con los imperialistas norteamericanos para
impulsar freneticamente sus preparativos de
guerra bioquimica.
la acumulacion de tan enorme cantidad de esas armas revelada esta vez
prueba que la "amenaza de ataque de armas
bioquimicas" de alguien de que ellos vociferan hasta la fecha es puramente
para inducir en error la opinion interna y
externa y encubrir sus criminales maquinaciones encaminadas a producir esas
armas y desatar la guerra bioquimica.
las autoridades surcoreanas deben poner de inmediato fin a tales
maquinaciones que acarrearan catastrofe
irremediable a toda la nacion y la humanidad.
seminario internacional apoya lucha de pueblo coreano
pyongyang, 13 de mayo (atcc) -- tuvo lugar del pasado 2 al 4 en
bruselas el seminario internacional de los partidos
politicos revolucionarios del mundo sobre el tema "imperialismo,
fascistizacion y fascismo", en el cual los delegados
del partido comunista bolchevique de toda la union, el partido comunista
kpml (r) en suecia, el partido comunista de los
pueblos de espana y otros partidos exteriorizaron apoyo a la justa causa
del pueblo coreano.
en el seminario fue aprobada la resolucion de apoyo a la lucha del
pueblo coreano.
la situacion de la peninsula coreana se torna cada dia mas tensa debido
a las incesantes maquinaciones de
aislamiento y supresion y de provocacion de nueva guerra de los
imperialistas yankis contra la rpd de corea, senala la
declaracion y continua:
hoy dia el partido del trabajo y el pueblo de corea promueven
victoriosamente la causa del socialismo con la
bandera roja de la revolucion en alto sin vacilacion alguna en medio de las
conjuras de aislamiento y supresion de los
imperialistas y las calamidades naturales repetidas durante los ultimos anos.
el gran camarada kim jong il, secretario general del ptc practica la
politica de dar prioridad al ejercito para unir a
todo el pueblo tomando por pilar al ejercito popular y asi defender el
regimen socialista e impulsar la construccion
socialista. con esta politica hizo superar las mas severas pruebas y
preparo un trampolin para la construccion de
potencia en corea.
defender hoy el socialismo de corea es el sublime deber internacional
de los partidos politicos y pueblos
progresistas del mundo.
denunciamos categoricamente las maquinaciones de los imperialistas
destinadas a aplastar corea socialista y
exteriorizamos irrestricto apoyo y solidaridad con la justa causa del ptc y
el pueblo coreano para defender el socialismo
y lograr la reunificacion independiente y pacifica del pais.
en el seminario participaron los delegados de mas de 70 partidos
politicos y organizaciones de lucha procedentes
de mas de 40 paises, entre otros el partido comunista de cuba, partido
popular revolucionario lao y partido del trabajo
de belgica.
contacto de expertos de comunicacion e informacion para ejecucion de acuerdo
norte-sur
phanmunjom, 13 de mayo (atcc) -- el contacto de los expertos de
comunicacion e informacion de ambas partes de
corea para la ejecucion del acuerdo norte-sur tuvo lugar hoy en la zona
surena de phanmunjom.
en la ocasion dabatieron los problemas de comunicacion e informacion
para asegurar el historico encuentro de
pyongyang y las conversaciones de nivel supremo entre ambas partes de corea
y acordaron continuar la discusion sobre
los detallados problemas practicos en el proximo contacto.
acordaron sostener a las 10 a.m. del 17 del mes corriente en el
pabellon thong-il de la zona nortena de
phanmunjom el proximo contacto.
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