DPRK News May 16
Greetings to Norwegian King
FM meets American religious leader
Army-people joint meeting held
Land leveling and rezoning completed
U.S. Defense Secretary's bellicose remarks
Week of DPRK-Iran friendship opens
War exercises in Seoul
Anti-U.S. struggle of S. Korean students
Ishihara's remarks assailed
Imperialists' anti-socialist moves
Probe into truth of Kwangju incident called for
Japan's double-dealing tactics assailed
For Spanish-speaking people
Greetings to Norwegian King
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- President of the presidium of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong
Nam yesterday sent a message of greetings to King of Norway Harald the 5th
on the occasion of its National Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the King, government and
people of Norway on this day and
wished the country prosperity.
FM meets American religious leader
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the DPRK, today met and had a
talk with Rev. Franklin Graham, American religious leader and son of Dr.
Billy Graham, and his party.
Present there were Kim Kye Gwan, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
officials concerned.
This evening, the Foreign Minister gave a reception in honou of the
American religious leader and his party at the
Mokran House.
Army-people joint meeting held
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- An army-people joint meeting to donate
tractors and chemical fertilizers to
cooperative farms in North Phyongan Province took place in Sinuiju on May 15.
Present at the meeting were over 100,000 men and officers of the KPA
three services, agricultural workers and
people of broad sections in North Phyongan Province.
At the meeting, a certificate of donating tractors and fertilizers to
cooperative farms in the province in the name of
the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces was conveyed.
Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the KPA,
said in his report that the Supreme
Commander Kim Jong Il saw to it that tractors and fertilizers were donated
to cooperative farms in North Phyongan
Province which finished the land rezoning project.
It is an expression of his great expectation that the army and people
will join efforts to boost agricultural
production in the standardized fields, the reporter said, and went on:
The people's army joined efforts with people to rezone a vast land of
over 50,000 hectares in a matter of months
and create a great miracle in the era of the worker's party.
He called upon the people and servicemen in the province to effect
innovations in this year's agricultural
production.
He called upon all the people and the KPA soldiers to steadily improve
the layout of the fields to completely
change the appearance of the country.
Land leveling and rezoning completed
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The appearance of the land in North
Phyongan Province, the northwestern part of
the DPRK, has changed beyond recognition.
Not only the cooperative fields on the west coast from the 40 km-long
Unjon plain and Pakchon plain to
Ryongchon plain but the fields in in-between and mountainous areas from
Kwanha plain in Nyongbyon and Handure
plain in Thaechon to Hongnam plain in Uiju have turned into a vast expanse
of fertile rice fields.
At least 50,000 hectares of rice fields were leveled and rezoned into
standardized fields, each with a thousand or
hundreds of Phyong (one Phyong is six square feet).
Thousands of hectares of land came under plough after the disappearance
of a lot of ridges between paddies and
swamps.
This great change in the land in north Phyongan province is a shining
fruition of the gigantic and bold operation
and plan of the great leader Kim Jong Il.
After finding great possibilities of increasing grain production at
present in the land leveling and rezoning project,
he wisely led the overall project. He set the target and stages of the
project and clearly taught details of the project such
as order of work to be done, the area of a field and even the issue of
increasing the fertility of the rezoned fields. He
saw to it that necessary forces and means for carrying out the project were
sent there and it was undertaken as a
movement involving the entire party and army and all the people.
As a result, the gigantic nature-transforming project was successfully
completed under the difficult conditions
where the province was hard pressed for everything.
Farming preparations are now in full swing in these fields.
U.S. Defense Secretary's bellicose remarks
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Cohen let loose
bellicose outbursts at a press conference,
ballyhooing about the DPRK's "missile issue," according to the May 11 issue
of the Japanese Asahi Shimbun.
Calling for the U.S.-Japan-South Korea strengthened "security
cooperation," he asserted that the U.S. and South
Korea would "maintain military readiness to cope with an emergency" and it
is "necessary to sustain strong deterrent
force."
This cannot be construed otherwise than extremely reckless remarks
intended to exacerbate the situation on the
Korean peninsula and vitiate the atmosphere for dialogue.
The situation prevailing on the peninsula can be characterized by the
unprecedented trend of dialogue,
reconciliation and detente.
The north-south agreement was adopted and the talks are under way
between the DPRK and the U.S. and the
DPRK-Japan intergovernmental full-dress talks are to be open in Tokyo soon.
If those dialogues are to make progress, it is necessary to refrain
from such bellicose outbursts intended to spoil
the atmosphere for dialogue.
This time Cohen again vociferated about strengthened tripartite
military alliance of the U.S., Japan and South
Korea for a war of aggression against the DPRK, disclosing the U.S. ever
more undisguised intention to isolate and
stifle the DPRK and bring it under its military control.
This is nothing but a revelation of anachronistic way of thinking
inherent only in such bellicose elements whose
mode of existence is war.
What should not be overlooked is a crafty ruse of the Japanese
reactionaries. They are cooperating with the U.S.
in its hypocritical policy of pursuing in actuality showdown with the DPRK,
while paying lip-service to dialogue with
it.
This was proved by the claim of Japanese media that Japan-U.S.-South
Korea "security cooperation is getting
closer, which is intended to support bellicose remarks of Cohen made at the
press conference.
Week of DPRK-Iran friendship opens
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- A week of DPRK-Iran friendship was set to
mark the 11th anniversary of Korea
visit of Seyed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
An opening ceremony was held here on May 15.
Present on invitation were Iranian ambassador to the DPRK Mohammad
Ganjidoost and embassy officials.
Minister of Labour and chairman of the DPRK-Iran Friendship Association
Ri Won Il, vice-chairwoman of the
Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Hong Son Ok,
officials concerned and working
people in the city were present.
Speeches were made at the ceremony.
War exercises in Seoul
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The South Korean authorities reportedly
announced that they would stage various
war exercises in and around Seoul from May 15 to 20.
The exercises include "exercise of dealing with chemical, biological
and radioactive pollution," "tactical training,"
"night march" and "training of controlling city roads" by tanks and armored
cars, which are designed to calm down the
anti-U.S., anti-"government" sentiments of South Korean people and their
aspirations for reunification growing to
coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising.
Anti-U.S. struggle of S. Korean students
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- More than 100 students of Seoul National
University, Korea University and other
universities in Seoul, South Korea, staged a demonstration in front of the
U.S. embassy on May 15, according to
Yonhap News from Seoul.
They shouted anti-U.S. slogans, waving placards accusing the United
States of interfering in next month's
inter-Korean summit talks and killing civilians during the Korean War and
the 1980 Kwangju Uprising.
They also denounced the bombing exercise by the U.S. aggression forces
in the sea off Maehyang-ri, Hwasong
county, Kyonggi Province that injured residents and caused property damage.
They held a demonstration, urging the
U.S. side to make an official apology and attempting to raid on the U.S.
embassy.
The police, upset by the students' protest, moved to the U.S. embassy
and rounded up over 90 students from in
anti-U.S. raid on the U.S. embassy.
Ishihara's remarks assailed
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- Japanese Tokyo metropolitan governor
Ishihara in an interview with the chief of
the Tokyo bureau of the U.S. magazine the Time said that he "felt no need
to apologize" for a series of his
controversial remarks made this year. He went the length of claiming that
his remarks were "helpful" to his political
activities and exerted "positive effect" on them.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
By justifying his remarks Ishihara seeks to liquidate by force of arms
foreigners residing in Japan, the Koreans, in
particular, in the event of "contingency," considering them to be main
enemies, the target of violence.
This is a concentric manifestation of the heinous militarist aggressive
design of the Japanese reactionaries to
dominate Korea by force of arms and exterminate the Koreans.
We cannot but take a serious note of Ishihara's refusal to make an
apology for his remarks which is aimed to
zealously instigate the Japanese militarists to repeat their past crimes.
After all, his remarks are little short of agitating a war against the
DPRK. That is why Ishihara's utterances should
not be overlooked.
As a big stick should be used to kill a wolf, merciless blows should be
dealt to the Japanese militarists.
If the Japanese reactionaries resort to any slightest military action
to encroach upon the national dignity and rights
of the Koreans in Japan and hurt the DPRK, it will deal crushing blows to
them to prevent them from repeating such
action.
Imperialists' anti-socialist moves
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The imperialists, swimming against the
trend of independence, leave no stone
unturned to destroy socialism in a bid to realise their wild ambition to
dominate the world but their moves are bound to
go awry.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
In recent years the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces have desperately
intensified political, economic and military
offensives to suffocate the socialist countries, it notes, and goes on:
The U.S. has resorted to every possible means and method such as
economic sanctions and military pressure to
isolate and stifle the DPRK, a socialist bulwark, while putting increased
pressure upon several countries including
Cuba.
Socialism is fully supported by the popular masses and getting stronger
ideologically and politically as it represents
an ideal in line with the nature and demands of the popular masses as
independent beings. The imperialists are getting
much upset by this advance of history.
Noting that the imperialists can never succeed in their anti-socialist
moves, the article says this is because the old
cannot defeat the new.
The more desperate anti-socialist moves of the imperialists will only
invite stronger protest and resistance of the
popular masses against them and encourage them to strengthen unity and
solidarity and put up a more dynamic struggle
against those moves.
The anti-socialist moves of the imperialists will only precipitate
their doom.
It is foolish dream for the imperialists to try to get rid of the abyss
of bankruptcy caused by their anti-socialist
moves, the worst economic crisis, political confusion and moral corruption,
the article says, and stresses:
With nothing can the imperialists ever dampen the aspiration of the
popular masses after socialism and stem the
trend of history.
Probe into truth of Kwangju incident called for
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- At least 300 members of the "National
Alliance for Democracy and Reunification"
and the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a rally in Seoul on
the occasion of the 20th anniversary of
the Kwangju Popular Uprising, a Seoul-based radio reported.
At the rally the participants denounced the U.S. aggression troops for
killing many innocent civilians in Rogun-ri
and other areas during the Korean War and being chiefly responsible for the
Kwangju massacre in 1980. They
demanded a probe into the truth about the Kwangju incident, the immediate
withdrawal of the U.S. forces from South
Korea and the revision of the "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement."
At the end of the rally they staged a street march.
Japan's double-dealing tactics assailed
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries recommended the
session of the house of
representatives held on April 10 to adopt a diet resolution to the effect
that Japan will not invade other countries again.
They are working hard to woo the three ruling parties -- the Liberal
Democratic Party, the Komei Party and the
conservative party -- to draft a document called "no war declaration" and
seek its diet passage before the upcoming
Okinawa summit of developed nations and "declare" it to the world.
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary dismisses these moves as
Japan's intention to chant "anti-war" slogans
before an international summit which will draw world attention, in a bid to
cover up its true colors as an aggressor and
go under the mask of a "pacifist state."
Although Japan has what it calls a "peace constitution," it has pursued
state policies of converting itself into a
military power and realizing overseas expansion under that signboard and
put spurs on the moves to implement them,
the commentary notes, and goes on:
If Japan truly stands against war, it should fully redress its
disgraceful past. This would be the only contribution
Japan can make to the world peace.
Japan is well advised to stop mocking at the world, clearly mindful
that with no rhetoric without liquidation of its
past can it convince world public.
For Spanish-speaking people
palabrerias opuestas a dialogo, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 16 de mayo (atcc) -- segun el periodico japones "asahi
shimbun" que salio el 11 de mayo, cohen,
secretario de defensa norteamericano, en la entrevista con los reporteros,
cacareo de la necesidad del fortalecimiento de
la "cooperacion de seguridad" entre ee.uu., japon y surcorea, del
"mantenimiento de la disposicion militar para el caso
de emergencia" de ee.uu. y surcorea y de la "gran fuerza disuasiva".
estas palabrerias belicosas echadas so pretexto del "problema de
misiles" de la rpdc hacen mas tensa la situacion de
la peninsula coreana y echan agua fria al ambiente de conversaciones.
hoy la situacion de esta peninsula se inclina a la direccion del
dialogo, la reconciliacion y la distension.
se aprobo el acuerdo entre el norte y el sur de corea, estan en marcha
las conversaciones entre la rpdc y ee.uu., y
se reanudaran pronto en tokio las conversaciones intergubernamentales de la
rpdc y el japon.
para el exito de estas conversaciones se debe abstener de las palabras
y los actos belicosos e irritantes de enturbiar
su ambiente.
pero, cohen cacareo ruidosamente del fortalecimiento de la alianza
militar tripartita ee.uu.-japon-surcorea para la
guerra de agresion al norte y revelo abiertamente la intencion de aislar y
aplastar a la rpdc y suprimirla militarmente.
esto es la demostracion del pensamiento anacronico de los belicistas que
toman la guerra por modo de su existencia.
lo que no podemos pasar por alto es la taimada artimana de los
reaccionarios japoneses que se incorporan a la
politica de enfrentamiento y dialogos de ee.uu. con respecto a rpdc.
en esta vez, en la entrevista con cohen, los medios de prensa del japon
apoyaron sus palabrerias belicosas
subrayando "se profundiza la cooperacion de seguridad" entre el japon,
ee.uu. y surcorea".
terminado acondicionamiento de terrenos en provincia de phyong-an del norte
pyongyang, 16 de mayo (atcc) -- la provincia de phyong-an del norte en
noroeste de corea ha cambiado de su
fisonomia.
se convirtieron en parcelas standarizadas de mil o cientos de phyong
(unidad de superficie equivalente a 3.3058
metros cuadrados) mas de 50 mil hectareas de tierras labrantias de las
llanuras de unjon con 40 kilometros de largo, de
pakchon, de ryongchon, etc. de la zona costera del mar oeste y de las
llanuras kwanha en nyongbyon, handre en
thaechon, hungnam en uiju, etc. de las regiones medianas y montanosas.
desaparecieron los desordenados linderos de arrozales y los charcos y
se obtuvieron miles de hectareas de nuevos
terrenos.
este cambio se debe al proyecto y la operacion audaz y de vision al
futuro del gran dirigente kim jong il.
el encontro la gran reserva del aumento de produccion de cereales en la
epoca actual en el acondicionamiento del
terreno y definio la meta y las etapas de esta obra de la provincia.
tambien indico concretamente el orden del trabajo, el
tamano de parcelas y hasta el problema de la fertilidad de los terrenos
acondicionados y asi dirigio sabiamente todo el
proceso de la obra. por otra parte, hizo concentrar las fuerzas y los
medios necesarios y movilizarse en esta obra todo el
partido, todo el ejercito y todo el pueblo.
como resultado, se llevo a cabo exitosamente la magna obra de
transformacion de la naturaleza aunque faltan de
todo y es dificil la situacion.
ahora, en las parcelas arregladas se activa la preparacion del cultivo
para este ano.
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