DPRK News May 18
Kim Jong Il visits Pukjung Machinery Complex
Yang Hyong Sop meets Cuban party delegation
5th north-south preparatory contact held
Annual meeting of Peruvian committee
Yugoslav embassy officials visit Sinchon Museum
Reminiscences of Kim Il Sung published in Romania
Japanese delegation joins in signature campaign
Ishihara's trumpeting under fire
Co-chairmen of Pomchonghakryon meet
S. Korean people vow to defend Tok Islet
Spirit of Kwangju uprisers alive
Massive anti-U.S. struggle called for
U.S. use of depleted uranium bullets verified
20th anniversary of Kwangju popular uprising commemorated
Rodong Sinmun on army-first politics
Reptile media's attempt to deny truth behind GIs' killings refuted
Kim Jong Il visits Pukjung Machinery Complex
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il provided
on-site guidance to the Pukjung
Machinery Complex in North Phyongan Province on May 16.
He went first to the monument to the on-the-spot guidance of the
president Kim Il Sung.
He said that the place, which once produced cart wheels by use of
blowers at best, has been turned into a reliable
large-size machine-building base. The undying revolutionary exploits of the
president will shine forever.
Then, he went to its production processes including the youth workshop
and the engine-assembling workshop to
encourage its workers in their efforts.
He acquainted himself in detail with the production at the complex.
He said that the workers of Pukjung have greatly contributed to
developing the shipbuilding industry of the
country and consolidating the independent national economy by manufacturing
various types of engines, compressors,
refrigerators and other machines and producing ordered equipment for
different domains of the national economy and
highly praised their exploits.
More highly efficient engines needed for the building of modern fishing
and cargo ships should be supplied to
further develop fishing industry and marine transport in our country
surrounded by seas on three sides, he said.
In order to produce more modern machinery commensurate with the 2000s,
he added, it is imperative to push
ahead with the technical transformation aimed to update all production
processes and work with redoubled energy to
introduce new technology as required by the party's idea of giving great
importance to science.
He stressed that it was important to thoroughly ensure profitability in
production, raise the quality of goods and
increase the endeavors to observe the technical rules and standard
regulations of operation.
He urged the Pukjung workers to turn out more high-quality machines and
ordered equipment conducive to the
building of a powerful nation as they have unconditionally carried out any
difficult tasks assigned to them by the party
in an indomitable spirit.
He was accompanied by chief secretary of the north Phyongan provincial
committee of the Worker's Party of
Korea Kim Phyong Hae, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee Kim Kuk Thae
and Kim Yong Sun and first vice
department directors of the party central committee.
Yang Hyong Sop meets Cuban party delegation
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the
political bureau of the Worker's Party
of Korea (WPK) Central Committee and vice-president of the presidium of the
Supreme People's Assembly, met and
had a talk with the delegation of the Communist Party of Cuba headed by
Rolando Alfonso Borge, member of the
central committee of the CPC and director of its ideology department, at
the mansudae assembly hall today.
Present there were Choe Jin Su, vice department director of the C. C.
of the WPK, and Jose Manuel Inclan
Embade, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.
The head of the delegation said Cuba and Korea are comrades-in-arms in
the same trench in the struggle against
U.S.
He expressed firm conviction that Korea would surely be reunified
according to the three-point charter of national
reunification put forward by the respected leader Kim Il Sung and the
five-point policy of great national unity of the
great leader Kim Jong Il.
5th north-south preparatory contact held
Panmunjom, May 18 (KCNA) -- The 5th preparatory contact for the
historic Pyongyang meeting and the
north-south summit talks was held in the south side's portion of Panmunjom
today.
At the contact both sides reached a consensus of views on all the 15
working procedural matters, including the
composition of a delegation to the Pyongyang meeting and the summit talks
and its size, modality of talks and the
number of their rounds, their agenda, its itinerary in Pyongyang, dispatch
of an advance team of the south side, travel
procedures, provision of facility and guarantee of personal security, and
formally adopted the "north-south working
procedural agreement for the implementation of the April 8, 2000
north-south agreement."
Both sides separately signed the texts of the agreement and exchanged them.
According to the agreement, the delegation of the south side to the
Pyongyang meeting and the summit talks will
comprise 130 suite members and 50 reporters.
They agreed with to have "on reaffirming the three principles of
national reunification clarified in the historic July 4
North-South Joint Statement and realizing national reconciliation and
unity, exchange, cooperation, peace and
reunification" as the agenda of the meeting and talks.
It was decided that the south side would send a 30-member advance team
to the north 12 days before the opening
of the Pyongyang meeting and summit talks.
Stipulated in the agreement are working procedural matters related to
the provision of facility, guarantee of
personal safety and communications and news coverage, etc.
Concluding the contact, the head of the north side underscored the need
for both sides to respect the agreement and
sincerely implement it and thus successfully open the historic Pyongyang
meeting and summit talks and bring them to a
fruitful close to meet the expectations and desire of the nation.
With this important event of the nation at hand, both sides should
spare no effort and cooperation to create a good
atmosphere for the meeting and talks, he stressed.
The adoption of the agreement following the announcement of the
historic April 8 north-south agreement amid the
great expectation and concern of the 70 million fellow countrymen made it
possible to successfully open the
north-south Pyongyang meeting and summit talks, the first of its kind in
the history of national division spanning more
than half a century and bring a hope and joy to all the compatriots in the
north, south and overseas who ardently aspire
after national reunification.
Annual meeting of Peruvian committee
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- An annual meeting of the Peruvian Committee
for Supporting the Independent
and Peaceful Reunification of Korea was held in Lima on May 10.
Secretary general of the committee Felix Fernandes Torres in his report
referred to the immortal exploits of the
president Kim Il Sung who devoted his whole life to the independent and
peaceful reunification of the country.
The three principles of national reunification, the 10-point program of
the great unity of the whole nation and the
proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo put forth
by him are the most fair and realistic
proposal for Korea's reunification.
Saying that General Secretary Kim Jong Il formulated those three ways
for Korea's reunification as three-point
charter of national reunification, he expressed full support and solidarity
with policies of national reunification set forth
by him and the struggle of the Korean people to implement them.
The annual meeting reviewed the work of last year and elected a new
leadership.
Yugoslav embassy officials visit Sinchon Museum
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Milorad Kosovac, charge d'affaires ad
interim of Yugoslavia, and embassy
officials visited the Sinchon Museum yesterday on the occasion of the
Yugoslav day of constitution.
The guests looked round exhibits and visual aids of the museum which
show atrocities of the U.S. aggressors
who massacred innocent people most cruelly in Sinchon.
They went round a air-raid shelter of the former Sinchon county
committee of the Worker's Party of Korea and a
powder magazine in Wonam-ri which bears witness to the brutality,
viciousness and cruelty of the aggressors, and a
tomb of 5,605 patriots, a tomb of 400 mothers and a tomb of 102 children
killed by the U.S.
They laid bouquets before the tombs and observed a moments' silence.
Reminiscences of Kim Il Sung published in Romania
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Vol. 2 of part 1 the anti-Japanese
revolution of reminiscences of the president
Kim Il Sung "With the Century" was published by Copertex Publishing House
in Romania on May 10.
The book in its preface wrote that the publishing house brings out the
reminiscences to hand down through
generations the immortal exploits of Kim Il Sung who devoted all his life
to the freedom and happiness of the people
and the victory of revolution.
Japanese delegation joins in signature campaign
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Nagano, Japan,
Prefectural People's Council for Supporting
the Independent and Peaceful reunification of Korea on a visit to the DPRK
participated in the international signature
campaign for supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
Koji Ito, representative member of the council who is heading the
delegation, signed the signature paper on behalf
of council members on May 16.
Ishihara's trumpeting under fire
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Japanese Tokyo metropolitan governor
Ishihara in a recent lecture held in Kohu
city asserted that "it is the best security to produce efficient weapons
and sell them to foreign countries."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a
"fanciful brainchild" of Ishihara, trumpeter of
"war merchant," intended to remove Japan's legal "barrier" banning arms
export and sell lethal weapons on an
extensive scale in a bid to bring a windfall to monopoly capitalists.
His outbursts that someone should be "destroyed" and china be "split
into small countries" were prompted by his
fanatic militarist aggressive design to push Japan into a war and thus let
monopoly capitalists rake huge profits through
arms sale and realise its wild dream to dominate Asia, the commentary
notes, and goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries registered a "high-rate economic growth" by
getting a windfall through the massive
supply of war materiel to the U.S. aggression troops during the Korean and
Vietnamese wars. Ishihara is acting a war
trumpeter of these reactionaries who are looking forward to this windfall.
If their wicked design for aggression is left unchecked, the world will
be embroiled in military clashes and
maelstrom of war and humankind will meet unspeakable calamities. No
illusion should be harbored about the Japanese
militarists and vigilance be heightened against their moves for aggression,
concludes the commentary.
Co-chairmen of Pomchonghakryon meet
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The 10th meeting of co-chairmen of the
National Alliance of Youth and Students
for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon) was held in Pyongyang,
Seoul and Tokyo between May 10 and
12 by way of exchanging facsimile messages.
At the meeting they discussed agenda items such as reviewing the work
done by Pomchonghakryon last year,
adopting a working plan for Juche 89 (2000) and amending its program and rules.
Referring to successes made by Pomchonghakryon last year, they said it
confirmed the three-point charter of
national reunification as the only program for national reunification and
set it as a cardinal task for reunification to
implement it. They noted that its organizations in the north, south and
abroad encouraged the 70 million Korean people
in their struggle for national independence and the country's reunification
by waging a joint struggle to check and
frustrate the moves of the U.S. and the South Korean authorities for war
and confrontation and have the "security law"
repealed.
A resolution was adopted at the meeting. It called for realising brisk
three-way contact at any cost through a
widespread struggle for independent exchange this year and thus turn the
"11th pan-national rally, 2000 grand festival
for reunification" and the "10th grand festival for reunification of
Pomchonghakryon" to be organized on the occasion
of the 55th anniversary of Korea's liberation into a plaza of nationwide
dialogue for reunification.
A special resolution "the youth and students in the north, south and
abroad should become the vanguard in the
struggle to devotedly implement the three-point charter of national
reunification" and the appeals "let us bring about a
new turn in the movement for the country's reunification by
Pomchonghakryon's united might this year, which will
mark the 55th anniversary of the country's liberation and see the 10th
grand festival for reunification of
Pomchonghakryon" and "let us form a 'nationwide ad hoc committee for
investigation into the truth behind GIs' mass
killings' to expose the crimes of the U.S. imperialists" were adopted as a
joint document at the meeting.
S. Korean people vow to defend Tok Islet
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The Tok Islet Fellowship Society vowed to
stage a campaign to defend Tok Islet
on May 14 against the backdrop of a struggle mounting among the South
Korean people infuriated at the Japanese
reactionaries' ever more undisguised claim to Tok Islet, inseparable part
of Korea, according to a Seoul-based radio
report.
The chairman of the society declared it would launch the campaign to
convince the public that Tok Islet to which
Japan has an eye to get mining right is part and parcel of Korea.
It is said that the campaign is to be participated in by all the
inhabitants of the islet.
Spirit of Kwangju uprisers alive
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Permanent member Yun Song Sik of the
Consultative Council of Former South
Korean Politicians In the North for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification
yesterday had a press interview with
KCNA on the 20th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising.
Although the Kwangju Popular Uprising was resistance that flared up in
a region, it was shining part of the history
of the South Korean popular resistance and a striking demonstration of the
firm will of the patriotic people in the south
who aspired after independence, democracy and reunification, he said, and
went on:
It helped the South Korean people drop strong illusion about the United
States. Following this event the struggle
of the South Korean people was targeted against U.S. This was a great
turning point in the movement of the South
Korean people.
Saying that the road ahead of the South Korean people remains thorny as
long as the U.S. troops are stationed in
South Korea, Yun declared the day of reunification is bound to come thanks
to the struggle of the awakened South
Korean people.
With no desperate efforts can the reactionaries get the Kwangju tragedy
buried into oblivion or dampen the spirit of
the Kwangju uprisers cherished deep in the people's mind.
Massive anti-U.S. struggle called for
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 20th anniversary of the
heroic Kwangju Popular Uprising
which took place in South Korea in May 1980.
On this occasion papers here today call for a massive anti-U.S.
struggle for independence, democracy and
reunification.
Rodong Sinmun in an editorial describes the uprising as a just
anti-U.S., anti-fascist resistance against the U.S.
colonial rule and the revival of the "Yusin" fascist dictatorship and for
independence and democracy of the South
Korean society and national reunification. It also describes it as a
massive armed uprising during which all the
Kwangju citizens waged a death-defying struggle against fascist violence.
It goes on:
The uprising failed in the face of the brutal armed suppression on the
part of the U.S. and their stooges, but it dealt
a telling blow at the colonial fascist rule of yankees and gave a strong
impetus to the anti-U.S., anti-fascist struggle of
the South Korean people and the national liberation struggle of the
oppressed people around the world.
The South Korean people should push ahead with an anti-U.S. struggle
for independence to put a period to the
U.S.'s military occupation and domination over South Korea and decisively
frustrate the warmongers' moves for the
provocation of war of aggression.
Anti-U.S. struggle for independence should be waged in close
combination with a struggle against the traitors who
do harm to and sell the interests of the country and nation in league with
outsiders.
The South Korean students and people of other social strata should turn
out in a struggle against aggressors and
traitors to realise the desire of the Kwangju uprisers without fail.
Minju Joson in an editorial notes that the reunification of the country
is the supreme national task of all the Koreans
in the north, south and abroad that brooks no further delay.
It calls for a nationwide struggle for the realization of the desire
for independence, democracy and reunification.
U.S. use of depleted uranium bullets verified
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- It has been verified that U.S. planes used
live bombs during their bombing
exercise on May 8 near a firing range in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county,
Kyonggi Province of South Korea, according
to a radio report from Seoul.
The South Korean "Ministry of National Defense" and the U.S. forces
side in South Korea admitted that at that
time U.S. air force plane "A-10" dropped 6 live "MK 82" bombs on waters 500
metres west of the firing range.
Splinters of this bomb are known to scatter as far as one km from where
it explodes, claiming human lives.
Meanwhile, Wilson, an ex-pilot of a U.S. air force fighter, while
visiting Maehyang-ri on May 15 said he found
depleted uranium bullets on its sea-side.
20th anniversary of Kwangju popular uprising commemorated
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- A meeting of Pyongyangites was held today
to mark the 20th anniversary of the
heroic Kwangju Popular Uprising.
Present at the meeting were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the central committee of the Korean
Social Democratic Party, Ryo Won Gu,
presidium member of the central committee of the Democratic Front for the
Reunification of the Fatherland, and other
officials concerned.
The Kwangju Popular Uprising was a just anti-U.S., anti-fascist
resistance for independence and democracy of
the South Korean society and national reunification against the U.S.
colonial rule and the revival of the "Yusin" fascist
dictatorship. The uprising was a life and death armed uprising against
fascist violence, participated in by all the citizens
of Kwangju.
Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee,
addressed the meeting first.
Recalling that the youths, students and people of Kwangju rose in a
popular uprising on May 18, 1980 and
dauntlessly fought against the ferocious "martial army" with arms captured
from its soldiers, he said the uprisers kept
Kwangju city under their perfect control and defended it for ten days.
He went on:
Scared by this, the U.S. mobilized more than 70,000 "ROK" army
soldiers, at least 150 tanks and armored
vehicles, over 100 artillery pieces and planes and even missiles under
their control to turn Kwangju city into a sea of
blood. At least 5,000 uprisers were killed and over 14,000 wounded in a
little over 10 days.
Through the uprising the South Korean people clearly realized that the
U.S. is, indeed, ferocious ogres who do
not hesitate to savagely massacre South Korean people in order to achieve
their aggressive design and maintain their
colonial ruling system.
Today the U.S. is not only persistently pursuing the policy to stifle
the DPRK but are imposing immeasurable
misfortune and sacrifices upon the South Korean people, still lording it
over South Korea.
The South Korean people cannot get rid of miserable colonial slavery as
long as the U.S. is allowed to stay in
South Korea.
The people from all walks of life including youths and students of
South Korea should put up a more vigorous
struggle to probe into the truth behind the crimes committed by the U.S. in
different parts of Korea such as Rogun-ri,
Yongdong county, and Kwangju and force the U.S. to pay deserved
compensation for them and turn the whole of
South Korea into a theatre of a fierce struggle for independence against
the U.S.
They should carry on a strenuous struggle to liquidate flunkeyist and
traitorous forces who impose misfortune and
sufferings upon the nation and deliberately throw obstacles in the way of
the independent development of the nation
and national reunification in a bid to prolong their remaining days in
reliance on outside forces and put an end to their
corrupt politics.
He was followed by other speakers.
Rodong Sinmun on army-first politics
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- It is the most distinguished exploit General
Secretary Kim Jong Il has performed in
the world political history that he established a new political mode called
army-first politics, says Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed article.
It goes on:
The army-first politics calls for solving all the problems in the
revolution and construction on the principle of
giving top priority to the military and pushing forward the cause of
socialism as a whole with the people's army as the
pillar of revolution. This is the most unique political mode unprecedented
in the world history.
This is the best political mode in the era of independence and the
leadership mode replete with the warmest love for
the people and unbounded loyalty and dedication to the cause of
independence and the cause of socialism.
The validity and vitality of the politics have been proven in practice
under the present complicated situation.
The imperialists carried out barbarous bombing in wanton violation of
sovereignty of independent states after
sparking the Persian Gulf War and the Kosovo crisis.
However, they could not perpetrate this against the DPRK but suffered
only disgrace.
Such vicious economic blockade and sanctions of the imperialists and
severe natural disasters would bring down
others hundreds of times. Thanks to the army-first politics the DPRK has
hewed this thorny path victoriously and
steadily consolidated its economic foundation for building a powerful nation.
The world came to realize through the political and diplomatic
confrontation between the DPRK and the
imperialists that the army-first politics guarantees independent diplomacy.
This politics serves as an all-powerful treasured sword for building
socialism and an example of independent
politics.
The army-first politics precisely means a political mode to be adopted
by the countries aspiring after independence.
This politics provides a sure guarantee for carving out the destiny of
the country and the nation and bringing a
bright future to them.
Reptile media's attempt to deny truth behind GIs' killings refuted
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The AP released a story on May 13
challenging the report carried by the weekly
magazine U.S. News and World Report denying the GIs' mass killings in
Rogun-ri to echo other reptile paper tenor.
Repeatedly defending the truth and scientific accuracy of its reports
about massacres in Rogun-ri, AP quoted the
New York Times as reporting on May 13 that army investigators have
confirmed the central finding that the American
soldiers killed refugees near the hamlet of Rogun-ri.
AP cited hard facts to refute the wrong assertion of the reptile media
that those who testified to mass killings were
not present at the unit and on the scene at that time. AP also reported
that Edward Daily, an ex-soldier of U.S. troops,
has shown an AP reporter documents, including a worn old army driver's
license, in support of his contention he was
in the 7th cavalry's h company to refute the assertion of reptile media.
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