DPRK News May 17
2nd working-level contact for communications and news coverage held
Gift to Kim Jong Il from American religious leader
Talks between delegations of WPK and CPC
Ishihara's reckless utterances
S. Koreans claim damages
U.S. attempt to hide truth about massacres
Projected more retrogressive revision of fascist law flayed
U.S. urged to renounce position of strength
More cases of wiretapping disclosed
U.S. air force's use of uranium bullets probable
Anti-U.S. march called for
Revision of "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" urged
Symposium on experience in building WPK held in Madagascar
Korean people's struggle supported abroad
For Spanish-speaking people
2nd working-level contact for communications and news coverage held
Panmunjom, May 17 (KCNA) -- The second working-level contact for
communications and news coverage to
implement the north-south agreement took place at the Thongil Pavilion in
the north side's portion of Panmunjom
today.
At the contact the north side put forward a reasonable working
procedural draft related to communications and
news coverage of the historical Pyongyang meeting and the north-south
summit talks.
Both sides basically reached an agreement on working procedures related
to communications and news coverage
through an exhaustive consultation and decided to resolve a series of other
pending working issues through further
discussion with the advance team of the south side in Pyongyang.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from American religious leader
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from Rev. Franklin Graham,
American religious leader and son of Dr. Billy Graham, on a visit to the DPRK.
The gift was handed to DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun by Rev.
Franklin Graham.
Talks between delegations of WPK and CPC
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Talks between the delegation of the
Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and the
delegation of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) were held here today.
The two sides informed each other of party activities and exchanged
views on developing the friendly and
cooperative relations between the two parties and on a series of matters of
mutual concern.
The WPK side was represented by Kim Yang Gon, department director of
the Central Committee of the WPK and
officials concerned, on the other side were the delegation of the CPC led
by Rolando Alfonso Borge, member of the
central committee and director of the ideology department of the CPC and
Jose Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban
ambassador to the DPRK.
Ishihara's reckless utterances
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Japanese Tokyo metropolitan governor
Ishihara, a typical ultra-right reactionary of
Japan, in a recent lecture asserted that "it is the best security to
produce efficient weapons and sell them to foreign
countries," according to the Japanese Mainichi Shimbun.
A series of militarist and ultra-nationalist outbursts let loose by
Ishihara recently created a public furore. This time
he went the length of openly calling for the production and export of
sophisticated weapons under the plea of
"security," thus betraying the invariable design of the right-wing
reactionaries of Japan to convert it into a military
power and launch aggression overseas.
This agitation cannot but spark public anger.
The issue of Japan's "security" is incompatible with its export of weapons.
It does not stand to reason to export weapons on account of "security."
This is little short of Japan's intention to abandon its much
publicized "three principles of arms export."
The "three principles of arms export," in fact, exist in name only.
Realities in Japan where the specter of militarism is haunting go to
prove that the Japanese authorities'
loudmouthed "contribution to peace" is nothing but hypocrisy and their hue
and cry over the DPRK's "missile threat"
is no more than a sheer ruse intended to draw water to their mill.
Through arms sale the Japanese reactionaries seek to make profits,
secure their military clout and expand the
sphere of their influence and thus build a springboard from which to launch
aggression overseas.
What merits attention is the attitude of the United States which shuts
its eyes to these militarist moves of Japan.
The U.S. feigns ignorance of Japan's moves to become a military power,
while getting extremely nervous about other
countries' efforts to strengthen self-defence capabilities and blatantly
interfering in them like an international gendarme.
This behaviour cannot be construed otherwise than support to them.
The Japanese reactionaries should stop frantically escalating their
moves for Japan's conversion into a military
power and aggression overseas and threat to peace under the patronage of
the U.S.
S. Koreans claim damages
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Residents in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county,
Kyonggi Province, claimed
damages against the "Ministry of National Defense" of South Korea on May
14, a Seoul-based radio reported.
When ministry officials came to the village allegedly to make a
fact-finding survey, villagers showed them damage
by the bombing exercise of the U.S. air force and demanded removal of the
firing range of the U.S. aggression troops
and compensation.
The bombing exercise staged by the U.S. air force in the firing range
in the sea off Maehyang-ri on May 8, caused
great damage, leaving seven villagers injured and walls of hundreds of
dwelling houses cracked.
U.S. attempt to hide truth about massacres
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The Measure Committee for Probing the Truth
Behind the GIs' Massacres of
Innocent Civilians In Rogun-ri bitterly censured the U.S.'s attempt to hide
the truth about their atrocities, according to
a South Korean newspaper report.
The members of the committee who are victims of GIs' massacres stated
that "the U.S. government should neither
belittle nor cover up mass killings but announce results of investigation
as quickly as possible," refuting the
misinformation carried by the U.S. newspaper The Stars and Stripes that the
testimonies made by eyewitnesses lacked
credibility and there was no systematic order for firing.
The chairman of the committee urged the U.S. government to take
understandable measures including an official
apology and compensation.
Projected more retrogressive revision of fascist law flayed
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Recently the South Korean authorities
disclosed their plan to make a more
retrogressive revision of the existing "law on assembly and demonstration,"
a fascist law, and use it for suppression of
the people.
In this regard, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces
this move as an unpardonable crime
against democracy as it is intended to totally block legitimate activities
of the patriotic organizations and stamp out the
democratic freedom and rights of the South Korean people.
The commentary says:
This move reveals the sinister attempt of the South Korean ruling
quarters to check the workers' strikes and
solidarity struggle of the students which are likely to gain momentum in
the future and bind patriotic militant
organizations and people from all walks of life to a fascist repressive order.
It is foolish of the South Korean ruling quarters to try to prolong
their remaining days through fascist actions at the
point of bayonet. This will only touch off bitterer popular anger and
resistance.
They are well advised to bear in mind their fascist tyranny will only
precipitate their own self-destruction.
U.S. urged to renounce position of strength
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The United States should renounce its
anachronistic approach to the Korean issue
on the basis of its outdated conception of the Cold War era, says Rodong
Sinmun today in a signed article.
It is entirely due to the U.S. unreasonable policy of strength towards
Korea that abnormal relations between the
DPRK and the U.S. remain unsettled for half a century until now, the paper
says, and goes on:
The U.S. National Security Council, in a worked-out draft of "U.S. new
strategy for 21st century," declared that
the U.S. would continue to follow the "win-win strategy" and "policy of
interfering in other countries' disputes." This
hints that the U.S. has designated the Korean peninsula as a region where
the next war may break out in the world.
Worse still, the council in its recent report said that "some of the
U.S. forces should be stationed in the Korean
peninsula for security in East Asia even after the peninsula is reunified."
It is an open threat to the DPRK and a
concentric expression of the U.S. position of strength to handle the Korean
issue.
Under the pretext of the DPRK's "nuclear and missile threat" the U.S.
is massively shipping sophisticated
weapons into South Korea and getting Japan involved in the moves to
establish the "Theatre Missile Defense" system,
while strengthening the U.S.-Japan-South Korea military alliance.
The moves only reveal the U.S. wild design to dominate Korea as a whole.
The Korean peninsula was divided owing to the U.S. military occupation
of South Korea and acute political and
military confrontation persists on the peninsula due to the U.S. military
presence and policy of division. That is why
the U.S. military occupation of South Korea should be terminated, reckless
war games against the DPRK be
discontinued and all lethal weapons be removed from South Korea.
More cases of wiretapping disclosed
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- It has been recently disclosed again that
private telephone messages are
wiretapped by repressive machines in South Korea such as "police" and
"prosecution," a Seoul-based radio reported.
33 cases of wiretapping by those machines have been disclosed since
last November.
The police purchased equipment worth 920 million won for surveillance
and wiretapping of telephone messages to
intensify crackdown on people.
These machines took over secret call numbers of at least 4,050 cellular
phones and walkie-talkies from
Tele-communication companies from January 1997 to June last year to observe
the movements of those under watch.
U.S. air force's use of uranium bullets probable
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Wilson, who was a pilot of a U.S. air force
fighter and is now a member of the
world peace movement organization, asserted it was probable that planes of
the U.S. air force used uranium bullets
during strafing exercises in areas around its firing range in Maehyang-ri,
Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province,
according to a radio report from Seoul.
He said this on May 15 when visiting the Committee of Measures for
Compensation for Damage Done To
Inhabitants By Bombing Exercises of the U.S. Air Force.
Disclosing that when strafing to destroy tanks, planes "A 10" of the
U.S. air force use live bullets whose heads are
charged with radioactive uranium, he noted everyone was warned not to touch
live bullets littered about the coastal area
near the firing range.
The measure committee is going to request a specialized institution to
thoroughly detect radioactive substance on
those live bullets.
Anti-U.S. march called for
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National
Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK)
on May 10 issued an "appeal to all the people," reflecting the people's
grudge and resentment at the U.S.'s monstrous
crimes, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the May 18 Kwangju Uprising.
The uprising was a heroic deed which demonstrated the indomitable
spirit and matchless courage of the Korean
nation in the fight against injustice and resistance which opened a new
horizon for the struggle for independence
against the U.S. in the history of revolutionary movement in South Korea,
said the appeal.
The appeal called on all the people to learn from the heroic spirit and
indomitable stamina of the May resistance
fighters and courageously turn out in a struggle to fully probe the truth
behind the U.S.'s massacre of May 18 uprisers
and mass killings of innocent civilians committed by them during the Korean
War.
It called for making a breakthrough in the grand anti-U.S. march to put
an end to the crimes of the U.S. and their
colonial rule over South Korea through the struggle on the occasion of the
20th anniversary of the uprising.
A press conference was held at the Pyongyang mission of the NDFSK
yesterday as regards the issue of the
appeal.
Revision of "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" urged
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The people's movement for revision of the
shackling South Korea-U.S. "status
of forces agreement" yesterday held a rally in front of the U.S. embassy in
Seoul and demanded revision of the
agreement, according to a radio report from Seoul. The movement involves
120 civil organizations including the
Citizens Federation for Economic Justice and the Citizens' Solidarity for
Democratic Society.
The rally was attended by victims of atrocities in Iksan, North Jolla
Province, in 1950, who demanded a probe
into the truth behind the massacres of civilians by the U.S. aggression
troops during the Korean War and
compensation.
The movement in a letter of protest addressed to the U.S. President
charged it is an impudent delaying tactics to
maintain the extra-territorial status of the U.S. troops in South Korea
that the U.S. unilaterally postponed the
negotiations for revision of the "status of forces agreement," which were
scheduled to resume in April.
After the rally the movement pitched a tent in front of the U.S.
embassy to go on a stay-in strike and a clash with
police is expected.
Symposium on experience in building WPK held in Madagascar
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- A joint symposium of Madagascan progressive
political parties on experience
gained in building the Worker's Party of Korea was held in Antananarivo on
May 6.
Among those present were leaders of the Party of the Congress for the
Independence, the Monima Socialist
Organization, the Socialist Progressive Party, the United Party of Struggle
and the Workers and Peasants Struggle
Party of Madagascar.
The national secretary of the party of the congress for the
independence in his speech said that the WPK founded
by the great leader Kim Il Sung is known as a veteran, militant and
revolutionary party with a long history.
Experience of party building and work established by Kim Il Sung and
Kim Jong Il, the great leaders, is valuable
wealth that progressive political parties of the world should learn from,
he stressed.
The administrative secretary of the action for the renaissance noted
that the experience in WPK building is a
textbook for all political parties of the world that aspire after socialism.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the symposium.
Korean people's struggle supported abroad
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Laurent Desire Kabila, President of the
Democratic Republic of Congo, when he
met with the Korean ambassador to his country on May 10, said that he would
invariably support the DPRK
government in its struggle to achieve the reunification of the country and
this is his faith.
Reaffirming unconditional support to the three-point charter of Korea's
reunification, he stressed that the U.S.
troops should get out of South Korea and the reunification of Korea should
be achieved by the Korean people
themselves.
Hassan Ibrahim Habibi, first vice-president of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, told a delegation of the DPRK Foreign
Ministry on May 10 that the interference of foreign forces is the main
factor of aggravating the situation of the Korean
peninsula and that the DPRK government's position and measures for ensuring
peace and stability in the region and
achieving reunification are just.
For Spanish-speaking people
segundo contacto de expertos de comunicacion e informacion para ejecucion de
acuerdo norte-sur
phanmunjom, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- el segundo contacto de los expertos de
comunicacion e informacion para la
ejecucion del acuerdo norte-sur tuvo lugar hoy en el pabellon thong-il en
la zona norte de phanmunjom.
la parte norte presento el racional proyecto de procedimientos
practicos relativos a la comunicacion e informacion
para asegurar plenamente el historico encuentro de pyongyang y las
conversaciones de nivel supremo norte-sur.
ambas partes acordaronlos principalmente mediante la consulta sincera y
se pusieron de acuerdo con consultar y
confirmar unos problemas practicos pendientes despues de llegada a
pyongyang del grupo de avanzada de la parte sur.
temerario acto militarista, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- segun el periodico japones "mainithi
shimbun" hace unos dias, ishihara,
gobernador de metropoli de tokio, dijo en una conferencia:
"la suprema seguridad es producir y exportar armas modernas al
extranjero". ese representante de los reaccionarios
ultraderechistas del japon recientemente profirio en repetidas veces
palabrerias de caracter militarista y ultranacionalista
provocando censura del publico. esta vez instigo abiertamente la produccion
y exportacion de armas modernas so
pretexto de la "seguridad" revelando asi la intencion de los reaccionarios
derechistas del japon de convertir el japon en
potencia militar y agredir al extranjero. la "seguridad" del japon y la
exportacion de armas son incompatibles.
es ilogico intento de exportar armas bajo el rotulo de la "seguridad".
esto es la intencion de anular sus nominales "tres principios de
exportacion de armas".
la realidad japonesa donde reina fantasma militarista demuestra que la
"contribucion a la paz" de que hablan tanto
sus autoridades no pasa de ser hipocrita y especialmente la peroracion de
"amenaza de misiles" de la rpd de corea es un
acto descarado de perseguir sus intereses.
los reaccionarios japoneses tratan de ganar dolares mediante la
exportacion de armas y agrandar sus influencias
militares y la esfera de su poder y, a la larga, preparar el trampolin de
agresion al ultramar.
lo que atrae atencion es que ee.uu. guarda silencio ante tal
maquinacion militarista de los reaccionarios japoneses.
en cuanto a otros paises que fortalecen su poderio autodefensivo se pone
nervioso e interviene abiertamente y actua de
gendarme internacional. pero finge ignorar la conversion del japon en una
potencia militar.
esto es apoyarlo. no podemos considerarnos de otra manera.
los reaccionarios japoneses deben poner de inmediato fin al acto de
amenazar a la paz con los esfuerzos freneticos
por la conversion en potencia militar y agresion al ultramr al amparo de
los estados unidos.
ee.uu. no debe tratar con posicion de fuerza problema de corea, senala "rodong
sinmun"
pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- ee.uu. debe abandonar la actitud
anacronica de tratar el problema de corea con la
caduca posicion de la epoca de guerra fria, asi senala hoy el periodico
"rodong sinmun" en un articulo y continua:
las relaciones anormales entre la rpd de corea y ee.uu. no se han
resuelto hasta la fecha. esto se debe enteramente a
la injusta politica de fuerza de ee.uu. hacia ella.
el consejo de seguridad nacional de ee.uu. elaboro el proyecto de
"nueva estrategia para el siglo 21", que estipula
que en el nuevo siglo ee.uu. tomara tambien la "estrategia de
enfrentamiento a dos guerras" y "practicara de continuo la
politica de intervencion en los conflictos de otras naciones". esto insinua
que ese pais americano define la peninsula
coreana como lugar de estallido de la proxima guerra en el mundo.
para colmo, el informe elaborado y publicado recientemente por el
consejo de seguridad nacional de ee.uu. enfatiza
que en el caso de reunificarse corea se debe mantener durante un tiempo las
tropas norteamericanas para la seguridad
del este asiatico", lo cual constituye la amenaza abierta a la rpdc y la
demostracion clara de su posicion de fuerza en el
tratamiento del problema coreano.
bajo el pretexto de la "amenaza nuclear" y "la de misiles" de la rpdc,
ee.uu. introduce en gran tamano las armas de
punta en el sur de corea e incorpora al japon en el establecimiento del
sistema "teatro de defensa misil", asi como da
acicate al fortalecimiento de la alianza militar tripartita con japon y
surcorea, mostrando asi la ambicion de dominar a
toda corea.
debido a la ocupacion del sur de corea por ee.uu. y por su politica de
division corea se dividio y se creo el agudo
enfrentamiento politico y militar en la peninsula coreana.
por lo tanto, para eliminar de raiz tales desgracias hay que poner fin
a la ocupacion militar del sur de corea por las
tropas estadounidenses, y a los aventureros ejercicios de guerra contra la
rpdc y eliminar completamente todas las
armas homicidas en el sur de corea.
conversaciones entre delegaciones de ptc y pcc
pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- las conversaciones entre las
delegaciones del partido del trabajo de corea y del
partido comunista de cuba se sostuvieron el dia 17 en esta capital.
ambas partes se informaron del estado de las actividades de sus
respectivos partidos e intercambiaron opiniones
sobre el ulterior desarrollo de las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion
entre los dos partidos y una serie de problemas
de interes mutuo.
participaron por la parte coreana kim yang gon, jefe de departamento
del cc del ptc y otros funcionarios interesados
y por la parte cubana la delegacion del pcc presidida por rolando alfonso
borge, miembro del cc y jefe de departamento
de ideologia del pcc y jose manuel inclan embade, embajador de la republica
de cuba en la rpdc.
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