DPRK News May 30
Kim Yong Nam greets Italian President
Spokesman of DPRK FM on talks between DPRK and Britain
Advance team of South Korea arrives
U.S. branded as chieftain of aggression and war
Juche philosophical outlook on world
New films produced
International Children's Day marked
RIMPAC 2000 under fire
Villagers around U.S. air force firing range claim damages
Silly rumour afloat in S. Korea refuted
DPRK FM spokesman on recent DPRK-U.S. talks in Rome
Scientific forum of Korean social scientists in Japan
Italian academic figure on vitality of Juche idea
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Kim Yong Nam greets Italian President
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of
the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
President of Italy, on the occasion of its
National Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the President, government
and people of Italy and expressed belief
that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would
expand and develop in various domains.
It sincerely wished the President and people of Italy greater success
in their work for prosperity of the country.
Spokesman of DPRK FM on talks between DPRK and Britain
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- The spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry
today answered a question put by
KCNA as regards the recent talks between working diplomats of the DPRK and
Britain held in Pyongyang.
Talks between working diplomats of the DPRK and Britain were held in
Pyongyang from May 16 to 20, he said,
and continued:
The recent talks are a continuation of the earlier dialogue.
Both sides had an exhaustive discussion on the issues of developing in
depth the bilateral relations in various fields
in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and confidence and reached a
consensus of views on a series of matters.
We will as ever make positive efforts to develop the relations with all
the countries which respect our sovereignty
and are friendly to us, including Britain.
Advance team of South Korea arrives
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- An advance team of the south side for
preparations for the historic Pyongyang
meeting and inter-Korean summit talks arrived here today.
The team was met by officials concerned.
U.S. branded as chieftain of aggression and war
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government made public a
memorandum on Tuesday disclosing the
real aggressive and war aims sought by the United States in its efforts to
falsify the truth of history.
The memorandum, published on the occasion of the half centenary of the
Korean War, brands the U.S. as a
provoker of this war.
It says:
What the U.S. really sought in provoking the Korean War (June 25,
1950-July 27, 1953) was to expand its
sphere of military domination to the whole Korean peninsula, considering it
as an advance base for carrying out its
anti-communist strategy and Asian strategy.
Macarthur, the then commander-in-chief of the U.S. Far East command,
said he always regarded Korea as a
military advance base of tremendous importance. (February 4, 1957, issue of
the U.S. newspaper the New York
Times) he also stressed that conquest of Korea as a whole would enable the
U.S. to cut off the only and one supply
line linking Soviet Siberia to the south and control the whole area between
Vladivostok and Singapore. (page 148 of
Herschel Meyer "Modern History of the United States")
After visiting South Korea as a special envoy of the U.S. President to
inspect the process of converting it into a
military base Wedemeyer, a U.S. Lieutenant General, reported that if
Korea's reunification and independence were
allowed, it would constitute great threat to the overall interests of the
U.S. It is advisable for the U.S. to expand its
military occupation to the whole Korea, he added. (page 18 of the Japanese
book "U.S. Military Strategy In the Far
East")
Pointing out that the U.S. had a vital stake in igniting the Korean War
as it was undergoing a serious economic
crisis, the memorandum says:
Though the U.S. reaped fabulous profits during the World War II, its
economy faced a serious recession in 1949.
The Japanese book "Korean War" said in its page 128 that the Korean War
was a way out of the U.S. economic
crisis.
On the accelerated preparations of the U.S. for the war, the memorandum
says:
In May 1949 the then U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Muccio, told
"Defence Minister" Sin Song Mo and
"Minister of Home Affairs" Kim Hyo Sok of South Korea: as there is the
United States behind you, everything will go
well. We hope that you will trust us and carry out our recommendations and
instructions faithfully. A solution to any
problem is the strength. This solution can be provided only by the U.S.
strength and you should solve this problem as
quickly as possible. (page 113 "Collection of Documents Proving the Korean
War Provoked by the U.S. Imperialists"
Pyongyang)
The U.S. and Syngman Rhee of South Korea frantically stepped up arms
buildup with a goal to gain an "upper
hand of ten to one" over the north's armed forces.
On July 18, 1949, Rhee, in a letter sent to Jang Myon, South Korean
"ambassador" to the U.S., said that South
Korea would train and equip 100,000 standing troops, 200,000 reservists and
100,000 policemen, 400,000 in all, for
"national defence."
Johnson, chief of the E.C.A. office in the "ROK," testified at the U.S.
budget committee of the House of
Representatives on May 19, 1950 that "100,000 South Korean soldiers
equipped with U.S. weapons and trained by
the U.S. military advisers group were already ready to go into action at
any time." (page 40 of the Japanese version of
the U.S. book "Who Started the Korean War")
Macarthur testified that the U.S. amassed all military supplies and
weapons in the area along the 38th parallel to
attack North Korea on the eve of war. At the senate hearing held from May 3
to 14, 1951 he disclosed that "ROK"
army kept supplies and equipment in places near the 38th parallel and it
did not build position in its rear. (Austrian
paper Volksstimme dated July 16, 1990, page 69 of the Japanese version of
the U.S. book "Who Started the Korean
War" and page 96 of the Japanese version of the U.S. book "The History of
the Korean War")
The "ROK" army committed a total of 2,617 cases of armed provocations
in the whole area along the 38th parallel
in the year of 1949.
The U.S. mapped out the operation plan for "northward expedition" and
the "NSC-68" strategic plan for a special
action to be taken at the time of war.
This plan was worked out and accepted at the joint meeting of the U.S.
State Department and the joint chiefs of
staff by the order of Truman in January 1950 and ratified at the U.S.
National Security Council on April 2 and handed
to the South Korean authorities as it was in early 1950 before the outbreak
of the Korean War. (the U.S. paper the
New York Times dated April 13, 1964)
Upon getting everything ready to provoke the war against the north, the
U.S. and Syngman Rhee lost no time to
put the plan into practice.
On his arrival in South Korea as Truman's special envoy, Dulles
inspected the 38th parallel on June 17, 1950 and
came back to Seoul on June 18 where he instructed Syngman Rhee to "start an
attack on the north while conducting the
counter-propaganda that North Korea invaded the south first."
He appeared at the South Korean "National Assembly" on June 19 to state
that "the U.S. was ready to offer all
moral and material assistance to South Korea in the fight against
communism." (page 4 of the Japanese book "Who Is
Aggressor")
Macarthur said at the meeting of the U.S. senate foreign relations and
armed services committee held in May 1951
that the North Korean army was deployed very far from the 38th parallel,
adding that was the deployment for defence,
not for attack, according to a "secret report" of the South Korean
"ambassador" to the United States.
Flying corps of the U.S. air force already began military action on
June 25, 1950 and indiscriminately bombed the
areas of the northern half of Korea from June 26 and the U.S. 7th fleet
launched military operations in the seas off
Korea on the same day.
The U.S. played cunning tricks to falsify the truth of its war of
aggression and justify its undisguised armed
intervention by abusing the name of the United Nations.
It cooked up a "resolution" on branding the DPRK as an "aggressor" at
the meeting of the UN Security Council on
June 25.
The then U.S. President, Truman, quoting the "resolution" calling for
the full-scale involvement of the U.S.
forces in the Korean War, said the security council asked all the member
nations of the UN to render all forms of
assistance for implementation of the "resolution." He admitted that he
ordered the U.S. navy and air force to assist and
support the "ROK army" under such situation. (the U.S. newspaper
Minneapolis Times July 23, 1950)
The U.S. let the meeting of the UN Security Council adopt on July 7 a
"resolution" which called for allowing
U.S. forces to go under "UN forces" helmets and putting troops of its
satellite countries under its control.
In fact, such "resolutions" were fabricated in the absence of the
representative from the DPRK in violation of
article 32 of the UN charter which calls for inviting a party to a dispute
under consideration to participate in the
discussion relating to the dispute. Moreover, they were passed in the
absence of the Soviet representative in Breachof
article 27 of the UN Charter which provides for adoption of any decision on
procedural matters, by an affirmative vote
of 7 members of the UNSC including the concurring votes of its 5 permanent
members.
The U.S. thus shifted the responsibility for the outbreak of the war
onto the north under the abused UN name
from the outset of the war and employed every possible means and method in
the war. It mobilized one third of its land
force, one fifth of its air force and most of its pacific fleet to the war
and even armed forces of 15 satellite states under
the name of "UN forces."
The U.S. is chiefly to blame for breaking all articles stipulated in
the Armistice Agreement which serve as a
prerequisite for ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula.
Article 60 of the AA stipulates that within three months after the
Armistice Agreement is signed and becomes
effective, a political conference of a higher level of both sides be held
by representatives appointed respectively to settle
through negotiation the questions of the withdrawal of all foreign forces
from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the
Korean question, etc.
On July 28, 1953, the day after the conclusion of the AA, U.S.
secretary of state Dulles openly declared that the
U.S. would walk out of the political conference after lapse of 90 days and
the U.S. side, in actuality, deliberately
threw obstacles in the process of the DPRK government-proposed preparatory
talks held in October that year in
Panmunjom for the political conference and unilaterally walked out of the
meeting, thus bringing the talks to a rupture.
Subsequently it breached the articles of the AA that bans the
introduction of military hardware and combat materiel.
At a hearing of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee held in
February 1960, the then U.S. army chief of
staff, Lemnitzer, confessed that through scores of years of sustained
efforts the U.S. succeeded in scrapping paragraph
13 D of the AA and came to have new type equipment in South Korea.
The U.S. also completely paralyzed the functions of the Military
Armistice Commission and the Neutral Nations
Supervisory Commission tasked to discuss and solve violation of the AA.
The U.S. troops in South Korea are the root cause of the danger of a
new war, the memorandum notes, and goes
on:
The United States signed the "mutual defense treaty" with South Korea
on August 8, 1953 and shifted the 8th
U.S. army command and the "UN command" to South Korea from Japan
respectively in July 1955 and July 1957 in a
bid to massively beef up offensive forces for a new war against the DPRK.
The U.S. House of Representatives at a meeting held in May 1975 to
examine the budget for national defense
disclosed that at least 1,000 U.S. nuclear weapons were already deployed in
South Korea. Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives Ronald Dimlongz admitted at the congress that the United
States introduced at least 1,000 nuclear
weapons and deployed 54 planes capable of carrying nuclear bombs in South
Korea, according to the reports of
"Hapdong News" June 3, 1975 and Jiji on June 20, 1975.
The United States has ceaselessly perpetrated espionage and
provocations against the DPRK since the armistice.
In January 1968, the U.S. armed spy ship "Pueblo" was captured while
conducting espionage after illegally
intruding deep into the territorial waters of the DPRK.
The U.S. belligerent forces worked out many operation plans to attack
the DPRK which have been steadily
amended and supplemented.
In a recent year the U.S. worked out even a plan for the second war of
aggression on the Korean peninsula called
"operation plan 5027-98", a more perfect one than the previous one.
The ceaseless U.S.-South Korea joint military drills are aimed to round
off the operation plans under the simulated
conditions of an actual war.
The U.S. design to provoke a new war of aggression finds a more vivid
expression in its moves to knock into
shape the "triangular military alliance" grouping the United States, Japan
and South Korea.
The DPRK government has made every sincere effort in order to replace
the state of armistice by durable peace on
the Korean peninsula from its unshakable peaceloving stand, the memorandum
notes, and demands the United States
immediately stop its moves to start a new war, drawing a proper lesson from
its shameful defeat in the last Korean
War, and dismantle the "UN command" and withdraw its forces from South
Korea at once as required by the
resolution of the 30th UN General Assembly.
Juche philosophical outlook on world
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- The Juche idea established a new
man-centred philosophical outlook on the
world.
That the world is dominated and reshaped by man is a new viewpoint on
the world in relation to man, which was
clarified by the Juche philosophy.
The Juche idea shows a new viewpoint and attitude to the world, on the
basis of man's position and role as master
of the world.
The viewpoint and attitude to the world shown by the Juche idea are
those with which the world is approached by
focussing on man, the master of the world.
Taking a man-centred attitude towards the world means approaching the
world from the viewpoint of interests of
man, the master of the world.
The world should naturally be approached from this angle because man is
the master of the world.
Man is the most precious being in the world, and his interests are more
valuable than any others in the world.
Everything in the world has its value only when it serves man.
Approaching the world by focussing on man means dealing with the change
and development of the world mainly
on the basis of the activity of man who transforms it.
Man is the most powerful being in the world, and man alone is capable
of transforming the world. It is man and
none other that requires its transformation and performs this work. Man
acts upon and transforms the world as he
desires, drawing on the objective laws.
The world is changed for the benefit of man only by his energetic activity.
The Juche viewpoint and attitude to the world are truly revolutionary
in that they enable men to transform the
world and shape their destiny independently, creatively and consciously,
with a high degree of awareness that they are
masters of the world and their own destiny.
The Juche world outlook is based on the philosophical principle that
man is the master of everything and decides
everything.
New films produced
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Recently the Korean Film Studio produced
part 12 of the feature film "Forest
Sways".
The film was created against the background of the army-people joint
meeting held in Beidadingzi at the victorious
end of the arduous march made during the anti-Japanese revolutionary war.
It truthfully depicts the superb strategy of the President Kim Il Sung
and his warm love for soldiers, the
unshakable view on the leader with which the anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong
Suk defends the headquarters of the
revolution and fighters' noble sense of obligation and comradeship.
The feature film "Women Crew of Train" deals with the heroic struggle
of the young women crew of a train. They
successfully ensure the wartime transport by devoting all their efforts and
wisdom to it to implement the strategic plan
of the President during the Fatherland Liberation War.
The studio also produced "Son Back Home." It depicts a soldier of the
Korean people's security forces who
succeeds in coming back home by remaining true to his revolutionary faith
to the last in South Korea. The enemy
arrests him, adrift in a rough storm in the sea while performing his
military duty. Among the recently produced films is
"White Smoke" depicting a young researcher who succeeds in developing a new
type of a crusher at a thermo power
plant in his efforts to devotedly work like his father who died while at work.
The April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army produced several
feature films, including "Wives of
Officers".
The film deals with the warm love the wives of officers at a forefront
unit shows for its soldiers as their real
mothers and sisters would do though they differ from each other in their
ages, living environment, characters and
aptitude. Through this portrayal it tells the cinema-goers that they are
not merely housewives but soldiers belonging to
one and the same family of the revolutionary army who are ready to share
their lives and death with their husbands in
the trench.
International Children's Day marked
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's
Palace of Culture today to
commemorate the 50th Day of International Children which falls on June 1.
Chon Yon Ok, chairwoman of the central committee of the Korean
Democratic Women's Union, in her report
recalled that it was decided to commemorate June 1 as an International Day
of Children the world over.
This marked a historic occasion of strengthening unity and solidarity
among the mothers of the world in the sacred
struggle to defend peace from imperialism, protect the lives and health of
the children and promote their happiness and
sound development and a starting point to bring about a new turn in the
work to solve the women's problem and bring
up the rising generation, she said, and went on:
In the DPRK the matter of bringing up the younger generation and the
issue of succession to the revolutionary
cause of Juche were successfully solved and the centuries-old desire of the
mothers to bring up their children well came
true.
The President Kim Il Sung, possessed of the noblest view on the rising
generation, devoted everything to them
and the bright future of Korea all his life.
Kim Jong Suk, a communist revolutionary fighter who remained intensely
loyal to the President's Juche-oriented
revolutionary idea and leadership over the upbringing of the rising
generation, made indefatigable efforts to bring up
the children well in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle
and in the days of building a new country.
The work to bring up the younger generation has reached a new higher
stage under the wise guidance of the great
leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il has dynamically guided the work to further consolidate and
develop the system of educating and
bringing up the children in conformity with new requirements of the
developing Korean revolution which accelerates
the cause of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea and to prepare
the children as fine successors to the
revolutionary cause of Juche in keeping with the requirements of the
socialist pedagogy.
Our lovely children growing up to be future pillars of Korea will
stoutly succeed to the revolutionary cause of
Juche and prove themselves young loyalists in the dynamic march to build a
powerful nation, she stressed.
Among those present at the meeting were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president
of the presidium of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly and alternate politburo member of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea,
Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and others, wives of
foreign diplomats here and foreign
women.
After the meeting an art performance was given by kindergartners in
Pyongyang.
RIMPAC 2000 under fire
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary
rails against the U.S. for
launching the largest-ever RIMPAC 2000 joint military maneuver in the sea
off Hawaii.
Though this kind of drill is an annual event, RIMPAC 2000 is something
unprecedented in scale, the commentary
notes, and goes on:
This is a dangerous saber-rattling intended to realize its design to
dominate Asia.
RIMPAC 2000 is targeted against the DPRK. It is the core of the U.S.
Asian strategy to hold military supremacy
over Asia by retaining its military grip on the Korean peninsula and using
it as a springboard.
Pointing out that the maneuver is part of its moves to stifle the DPRK,
the commentary says the U.S. warmongers
intend to hurl huge multinational forces into the Korean front as they did
in the last Korean War to blitz.
They can get nothing from their frantic war exercise aimed to chill the
climate for the inter-Korean dialogue and
negotiations and escalate military tension and danger of war.
The U.S. is well advised to stop at once this provocative war exercise,
properly judging the trend of history and
realities.
Villagers around U.S. air force firing range claim damages
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- More than 2,160 residents in 10 villages
around the U.S. air force firing range in
Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province, South Korea, claimed damages
against the authorities on May 23,
according to a radio from Seoul.
They demanded a compensation of 21.61 billion won, saying that the
bombing exercise by the U.S. air force in
the firing range on May 8 wounded villagers and destroyed hundreds of
dwelling houses.
Silly rumour afloat in S. Korea refuted
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- "Samsongdang," a South Korean publishing
company, is spreading the rumour
that it "exclusively signed a contract with the publications export and
import company of the DPRK on the transfer of
the right of book publication and joint publication".
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a
provocative false propaganda against the north.
The commentary says:
At the outset of the year South Korean publications carried articles
saying "Samsongdang" had agreed with the
company concerned of the DPRK on the issue of book publication and signed a
"contract" with it.
But this was dismissed by the north as a sheer fabrication intended to
achieve a sinister aim.
As a matter of fact, the DPRK's company has never agreed on such issue
with the South Korean publishing
company and, accordingly, there is no such "contract."
Clarifying this stand, the DPRK demanded South Korea stop such false
propaganda which would adversely affect
the north-south relations.
Nevertheless, the company published the DPRK's books, clamorous about
the "signing of the contract," far from
making apology to it.
This cannot be construed otherwise than a deliberate action to reap
profits, taking advantage of the popular
attention focused on the north.
"Samsongdang" should clarify the truth behind its publication of the
DPRK's books and apologize and
compensate for its infringement of the DPRK's copy a right and stop
deliberately abusing the DPRK's name, the
commentary warns.
DPRK FM spokesman on recent DPRK-U.S. talks in Rome
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the
DPRK today answered a question
put by KCNA as regards the recent DPRK-U.S. talks held in Rome.
Recalling that the DPRK-U.S. vice-minister-level talks were held in
Rome from May 24 to 30 as a continuation of
their regular talks, the spokesman said:
At the talks both sides had an in-depth discussion on pending issues
between the two countries including the
implementation of the measures of lifting economic sanctions against the
DPRK announced by the U.S. in September
last year, focusing on the issue of U.S. compensation for the loss of
electricity caused by the delayed provision of light
water reactors, the issue that was taken up by the New York talks last March.
Both sides shared the view that the issues discussed should be put into
practice at an early date to improve the
bilateral relations.
They agreed to hold multi-faceted talks to continue to discuss the
pending issues.
Scientific forum of Korean social scientists in Japan
Tokyo, May 29 (KNS-KCNA) -- A scientific forum of Korean social
scientists in Japan was held at the Tokyo
metropolitan headquarters assembly hall of the General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on May
27 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Chongryon.
Speakers said that the policy of line-switchover put forth by the great
leader Kim Il Sung is the most shining one
of his exploits in the leadership over the movement of Koreans in Japan and
a historic event which opened an epochal
phase in the movement and destinies of Koreans in Japan.
They referred to theoretical and practical matters in bringing about a
new leaping progress in the movement of
Koreans in Japan under the leadership of the respected leader Kim Jong Il.
Italian academic figure on vitality of Juche idea
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Guiseppe Amata, Italian representative for
the Study of the Juche Idea, referred to
the vitality of the Juche idea at a meeting held on May 15 to inform it of
the 15th board meeting of the International
Institute of the Juche idea which was held in Pyongyang in April.
Representatives at the board meeting pointed to the profundity and
vitality of the Juche idea and expressed their
determination to make a more active study and propaganda of the Juche idea,
he said.
The great achievements made by the Korean people in building a powerful
socialist nation under the wise guidance
of the great leader Kim Jong Il show the great viability of the Juche idea,
he stressed.
It is the international duty of the progressive peoples to encourage
the Korean people to advance along the road of
socialism they chose by themselves, he said, adding he as a follower of the
Juche idea would make a more positive
study and propaganda of the Juche idea in close combination with the
realities of Korea.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- More political parties and organisations of
different countries joined in the
international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of
Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by Eduardo Mora Valverde, coordinator of
the central committee of the People's
Party of Costa Rica, on May 24 on behalf of party members and supporters,
Rashid Gabala Ali, director of the general
relations department of the Liberal Party of Egypt, on May 27 on behalf of
500,000 party members and Alejandro
Rosales, chairman of the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's
Reunification, on May 19 on behalf of members
of the committee and the Lazaro Cardenas Trade Union Front.
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