DPRK News May 15
Kim Jong Il receives gift from Danish delegation
American religious leader arrives
Ri Ki Won welcomed by Pyongyangites
Appearance of Pothong River-side changes beyond recognition
Japan's dream of overseas aggression flayed
KCTU protests against unreasonable measure
CSDS vows legislation movement
Rodong Sinmun calls for boosting south-south cooperation
For Spanish-speaking people
Kim Jong Il receives gift from Danish delegation
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from a Danish friendship delegation
on a visit to Korea.
The gift was conveyed to an official concerned by Anders Kristensen,
chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Firendship
Association, who is heading the delegation.
American religious leader arrives
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- Rev. Franklin Graham, American religious
leader and son of Dr. Billy Graham,
and his party arrived here today.
They were greeted at the airport by Kang Yong Sop, chairman of the
central committee of the Korean Christian
Federation.
Ri Ki Won welcomed by Pyongyangites
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- A meeting of Pyongyangites was held today
to welcome Ri Ki Won, 54, who
came over to the North Korea a few days ago via a third country. Before his
defection he was in charge of equipment
management at a joint tramcar stock company of South Korea.
He was awarded an order of the DPRK, prize money and a souvenir at the
meeting.
Choe Yun Sik, vice-chairman of the Pyongyang city people's committee,
in his welcome address stressed that Ri's
defection is an expression of deserved resistance to the South Korean
society and earnest yearning after the Korean
style socialism centred on the popular masses.
He said Ri will enjoy an independent and creative life to his heart's
content together with the people in the DPRK,
a people's paradise which will demonstrate the might of a powerful
socialist nation before long.
Ri Ki Won in his reply speech said the miserable situation of South
Korea, which is now suffering a big
turbulence owing to the economic depression and trusteeship is the
inevitable result of the U.S. colonial enslavement
policy and the South Korean rulers' flunkeyist traitorous moves and corrupt
politics.
He noted that what impressed him most in the north was that all the
state policies are for the sake of the working
people. He said such social system of people's welfare is the fruition of
General Secretary Kim Jong Il's noble politics
of love and benevolence.
Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the DPRK has become an unchallenged
powerful country in ideology and
politics in the international arena, he said.
He expressed his determination to devote himself to the struggle for
national reunification and building of a
powerful socialist nation.
Appearance of Pothong River-side changes beyond recognition
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- Pothong River side is visited by many
working people, school youth and children
every day.
There they relax, singing and dancing, boating and playing Korean
chess, Yut game, etc.
The Pothong River flows through Pyongyang. Before the liberation of
Korea, this river was known to be a cursed
river as it brought only misfortune to inhabitants when it rose during
rainy season.
A flood hit the city in Juche 31 (1942), leaving at least 2,000
hectares of farm land and over 1,500 houses
submerged and claiming many human lives.
But after liberation the river turned into a picturesque river under
the wise guidance of the President Kim Il Sung.
President Kim Il Sung initiated the Pothong River improvement project.
He attended the ceremony to mark the
start of the project on May 21, Juche 35 (1946), where he personally took
up a shovel, breaking the ground.
Pyongyangites removed at least 420,000 cubic metres of earth and built
a total of 5,000 metres of embankments.
The project was completed in a matter of 55 days, though the Japanese
imperialists could not finish it even in 10 years.
The completion of the project completely freed the inhabitants along
the river from flood damage.
In the subsequent period Pothong river-side was put into more
beautiful, neat and modern shape thanks to on-site
guidance given by Kim Il Sung several times and devoted efforts of citizens.
About 10 kilometre-long canal was built to be linked with the Pothong
river and there appeared along the canal
pleasure parks covering an area of some 300 hectares.
There appeared on either side of the river Changgwang, Chollima, Rakwon
and other modern streets with
high-rise buildings standing in rows and the People's Palace of Culture,
the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, the ice rink
and the Changgwang Health Complex and other monumental edifices.
The Korean people erected the monument to the Pothong river improvement
project on Mt. Ponghwa on the bank
of the river on May, Juche 60 (1971) to commemorate the historic day when
Kim Il Sung took up a shovel at the head
of the people who turned out to build a new country.
Japan's dream of overseas aggression flayed
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries say in public
that they stand for peace, opposed to
war, but behind the scene are whetting their swords for overseas aggression
to hurt others, says Rodong Sinmun today
in a signed commentary.
The commentary goes on:
It is evidenced by their call for the revision of the constitution and
"counter-measures to cope with possible crisis."
They are going to rewrite the war-renouncing article of the present
constitution and institute a wartime law which will
provide for mobilizing all the human and material resources of the country
in a war of aggression any time.
This is a dangerous move to scrap the war-renouncing article of the
constitution which has been maintained for the
form's sake since the end of the war and openly pave the way for overseas
aggression.
The Japanese militarists have never dropped their ambition of overseas
aggression since their defeat but steadily
escalated arms buildup for reinvasion under the signboard of "peace."
Their attempt to evade an apology and compensation for the crimes of
the Japanese imperialists in the past even
today when more than half a century has passed since the end of the war is
prompted by their dangerous design to
repeat their past wrongs.
Their "counter-measures to cope with emergencies in areas surrounding
Japan" are nothing but military steps to
reinvade Korea. They are threatening even a "preemptive attack" on the DPRK.
The Japanese reactionaries should bear in mind that their
double-dealing tactics and rhetoric without any sincere
apology and compensation for their past crimes would bring them to nowhere.
KCTU protests against unreasonable measure
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities announced on
May 12 that they do not allow the
South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) to commemorate the May 18
Kwangju Uprising and hold a
rally to vow a general strike, according to a South Korean newspaper.
The South Korean rulers charged that a commemoration meeting of the
20th anniversary of the Kwangju Uprising
in 1980 and a rally to vow a general strike from May 29 to June 5, which
would be held by the KCTU, are fraught
with a "danger of violent acts."
In particular, their move to crack down on the struggle of the KCTU is
timing to coincide with their attempt to
revise the "law on assembly and demonstration" for the worse.
In this regard, the KCTU made public a protest statement on the same
day and denounced the move of the South
Korean authorities as a "severe encroachment on the basic rights of people"
and a "declaration of tough suppression on
general strike" and declared that it would resolutely counter it.
The organisation said that it would call an emergency press conference
on May 15 as regards the anti-social labour
policy of the "government" and "clarify the policy of a powerful struggle
against the government."
CSDS vows legislation movement
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- The Citizens' Solidarity for Democratic
Society in South Korea decided to
conduct a campaign for legislation to bring to light the irregularities of
the authorities, according to a radio report from
Seoul.
The organisation at a press conference on May 12 said that it would
urge the 16th "National Assembly" to enact
legislation related to bribery, and opened to the public its contents.
The legislation contains rules on punishing an illegal bribery.
Rodong Sinmun calls for boosting south-south cooperation
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- It fully accords with the present situation
and the desire and call of the people for
building a rich and strong new society to expand and develop south-south
cooperation on the principle of collective
self-reliance, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article dealing with
matters related to south-south cooperation.
It goes on:
South-south cooperation represents new international economic relations
based on the common aspiration and
interests of the developing countries. Now is the time to develop
south-south cooperation with all potentials and
possibilities.
Collective self-reliance is one of the important ways of developing
south-south cooperation. This can be explained
by the specific conditions of the developing countries.
Given that the imperialists' moves for "globalization" and the old
international economic order have brought
catastrophic consequences and tremendous losses to the developing
countries, collective self-reliance provides an
important way of making the unfair old international economic order defunct
and establishing new south-south
economic relations.
The imperialists are now working hard to disunite the south countries
and weaken the groundwork of south-south
cooperation and spoil the climate for it. This situation calls on the south
countries to reaffirm the political willpower and
commitment to south-south cooperation and revitalize the driving force for
this.
In order to make south-south cooperation more practical and effective
it is imperative to lead this process to
establishing south-south economic relations. Priority should be given to
the process of systematizing and
institutionalizing south-south cooperation first in sectors for social
wellbeing, including education and public health, in
particular, to establish economic relations peculiar to the south
countries, quite different from those among the
developed countries.
It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to strive to develop south-south
cooperation on the principle of collective
self-reliance.
The DPRK will in the future, too, fulfil its noble responsibility and
commitment to boost south-south cooperation.
For Spanish-speaking people
en rusia y bangladesh apoyan tres cartas de reunificacion de patria
pyongyang, 15 de mayo (atcc) -- del 20 de abril al 5 de mayo un partido
politico de rusia y las organizaciones de
bangladesh participaron en la campana internacional de recogida de firmas
de apoyo a las tres cartas de reunificacion de
la patria.
la presidenta del partido por la paz y unidad de rusiasazhi umalatova
firmo en representacion de su organizacion y
el presidente de la federacion nacional de obreros de bangladesh abudul
kader y el presidente de la union de estudiantes
de bangladesh obeydur rahman lo hicieron representando respectivamente a
120 mil y 210 mil miembros de sus
organizaciones.
"rodong sinmun" senala necesidad de ampliar cooperacion sur-sur
pyongyang, 15 de mayo (atcc) -- ampliar la cooperacion sur-sur a base
del principio de la autoconfianza colectiva
conviene enteramente a la situacion de hoy y la demanda y aspiracion de los
pueblos a acelerar la edificacion de la
nueva sociedad rica y prospera, asi senala hoy el diario "rodong sinmun" en
un articulo individual y se refiere a los
problemas que se presentan para desarrollarla.
el articulo continua:
la cooperacion sur-sur es la nueva relacion economica internacional que
conviene a aspiracion e intereses comunes
de los paises en vias de desarrollo.
ahora es el tiempo en que estos paises deben ampliarla y desarrollarla
al movilizar todas sus potencialidades y
posibilidades.
la autoconfianza colectiva que se aviene a la situacion en que se
encuentran los paises en vias de desarrollo es un
importante medio para ampliarla y desarrollarla.
hoy que en estos paises se producen consecuencias catastroficas y
sufren grandes danos debido a las conjuras de
"globalizacion" de los imperialistas y el viejo e injusto orden economico
internacional la autoconfianza colectiva es un
medio importante para hacer impotente este orden y establecer las nuevas
relaciones economicas sur-sur.
en la actualidad los imperialistas maniobran perversamente para
debilitar la base y ambiente de cooperacion sur-sur
al desunir a los paises del sur.
en esta condicion es importante que los paises del sur reafirmen su
voluntad politica y su compromiso respecto a la
cooperacion sur-sur para reforzar la fuerza impulsora a esta.
a fin de garantizar la capacidad practica de la cooperacion sur-sur y
elevar su eficacia se debe orientar este proceso
al establecimiento de las relaciones economicas sur-sur.
en particular, se debe dar prioridad al proceso de hacer institucional
y estructural la cooperacion sur-sur desde el
sector de bienestar social como la ensenanza y salud publica y establecer
las relaciones economicas a la manera de los
paises del sur distinta a la de los paises desarrollados.
luchar por ampliar y desarrollar la cooperacion sur-sur a base del
principio de la autoconfianza colectiva es la
invariable posicion de la rpd de corea.
en el futuro tambien la rpd de corea hara su responsabilidad y deber en
la sublime labor para ampliar y desarrollar
la cooperacion sur-sur.
en pyongyang lider de religion de ee.uu. y su comitiva
pyongyang, 15 de mayo (atcc) -- el pastor franklin graham, lider de
religion de ee.uu. quien es hijo del doctor billy
graham y su comitiva llegaron hoy a esta capital.
los huespedes fueron acogidos en el aeropuerto por kang yong sop,
presidente del comite central de la federacion
de cristianos de corea.
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