TODAY'S NEWS (August.20.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Korean people's struggle for national reunification supported
* U.S. condemned for crime of erasing evidences of mass killings
* Abolition of S. Korean "SL" urged
* Congratulatory message to Sri Lankan Prime Minister
* Wreaths laid before grave of Kim Po Hyon
* Juche idea study center inaugurated abroad
* Cancellation of war exercise against DPRK urged
* Who is resorting to nuclear threat
For Spanish-speaking people
* dado a conocer plan de ejercicios militares conjuntos sudcorea-ee.uu.
* parte de pyongyang delegacion gubernamental de rpdc
* secretariado de crpp demanda liberacion de estudiantes patrioticos
Korean people's struggle for national reunification supported
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Martin Lotscher, chairman of the Swiss
Committee for Supporting Korea's
Reunification, on a visit to the DPRK, was interviewed here by KCNA on Aug. 17.
Referring to his impressions of Korea, he said that what impressed him
most in Korea was the reunion of
separated families and relatives in the north and the south amid the deep
interests and attention of all Koreans.
It is an epochal event that the visiting groups of separated families
and relatives were exchanged in the north and
the south at the same time as specified in an article of the north-south
joint declaration, he said, and went on:
The reunion was possible because the Korean people have the great leader.
The great leader Kim Jong Il put forward the idea that love for and
trust in the people is the core of the benevolent
politics and has always pursued genuine politics for people.
The future of the Korean people who absolutely worship and follow Kim
Jong Il is bright and rosy.
The mightiest means of the Korean people is single-hearted unity. The
Korean people are now upholding his
leadership, firmly united around him.
The Swiss Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification extends full
support and firm solidarity to the Korean
people in their dauntless struggle for socialist construction and national
reunification even under the persistent threats of
the imperialists.
U.S. condemned for crime of erasing evidences of mass killings
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the north headquarters of
the Nationwide Special Committee
for Probing the Truth Behind the GIs' Massacres released a statement on
Saturday strongly denouncing the United
States for removing evidences of mass killings.
In the early 1970s the U.S. forces in South Korea removed out with
technical means empty cartridges, splinters
and other evidences of mass killings in Rogun-ri committed by GIs during
the last Korean War. This serious criminal
deed was brought to light recently by testimonies of South Korean
inhabitants and the technical survey of the scene and
its surrounding areas conducted by the "investigation team for probing the
truth behind massacres in Rogun-ri".
In this regard people at home and abroad strongly condemn it as a deed
intended to bury into oblivion the case of
mass killings forever, the statement said, and went on:
The United States has not yet uttered a word of apology to the families
of the victims of the Rogun-ri case
demanding apology and compensation, but attempted to wipe out the evidences
of those massacres.
However, the monstrous crimes committed by the U.S. aggressors against
the Korean nation during the Korean
War can never be covered up.
The north headquarters of the nationwide special committee strongly
demands that the U.S. not attempt to evade its
responsibility for such crimes by erasing evidences but frankly admit them,
punish their organizers and executors and
make an apology and compensation to the Korean nation.
Abolition of S. Korean "SL" urged
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The Amnesty International, an
organization of human rights, in a statement on
August 17 called for the release of all the prisoners of conscience in
South Korea, according to Kyodo News.
The statement urged the South Korean authorities to revise or abolish
the "Security Law".
Many political prisoners are still behind bars and the repressive "SL"
invoked for their imprisonment has not yet
been revised drastically, it said, demanding those facts and situation of
those prisoners be disclosed.
Congratulatory message to Sri Lankan Prime Minister
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK
cabinet, sent a congratulatory message
to Ratnasiri Wickremanayake on his appointment as Prime Minister of the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries would grow
stronger and develop in the interests of the two peoples and sincerely
wished the Prime Minister success in his
responsible work for stability and prosperity of the country.
Wreaths laid before grave of Kim Po Hyon
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials and
working people yesterday laid wreaths
before the grave of Kim Po Hyon, grandfather of the President Kim Il Sung
and an ardent patriot, in Mangyongdae on
the occasion of his 129th birth anniversary.
Seen at the grave was a wreath sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Choe Yong Rim, Kim Jung Rin
and others.
Laid before the grave were wreaths with bouquets in the name of the
Central Committee of the Worker's Party of
Korea, ministries, national institutions, educational and press organs,
party and power bodies and farms in the city of
Pyongyang.
The participants paid a silent tribute to Kim Po Hyon, recalling his
noble life.
Juche idea study center inaugurated abroad
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A center for the study of the Juche idea
was inaugurated at Chingiskhan
College of Mongolia on August 14.
Its purpose is to study the basic principles and contents of the Juche
idea and the success and experience the
Korean people have achieved by applying the idea and propagandize them to
central Asian countries and Mongolia.
Cancellation of war exercise against DPRK urged
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The spokesman of the Committee for the
Peaceful Reunification of the
Fatherland released a statement on August 19 as regards the projected
U.S.-South Korea "Ulji-Focus Lens" war
exercise. If the South Korean authorities truly want the improved
north-south relations and peace on the Korean
peninsula, they should take a step to cancel the large-scale joint military
drill against the north as unanimously
demanded by people at home and abroad, the statement said, and went on:
The planned military exercise is evidently betrayal to the north-south
agreement and an open provocation against
the north, partner of dialogue.
The CPRF strongly condemns such reckless military provocative moves of
the U.S. and the South Korean
authorities, in the name of the 70 million fellow countrymen and the
peace-loving people of the world aspiring after
peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula.
They should be clearly mindful that if they persistently stage the
drill, disregarding the present north-south
relations developing toward reconciliation, unity and reunification in
conformity with the expectation of the whole
nation it will turn back the present situation to that before the
publication of the June 15 north-south joint declaration,
bringing all contacts, dialogue, visits and cooperation between the north
and the south to stagnation at a bound.
Who is resorting to nuclear threat
Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The United States is viciously scheming
to make the fiction of the "DPRK's
suspected development of nuclear weapons" a fait accompli in a bid to find
a pretext for sanction and pressure upon the
DPRK, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
The U.S. conservative hard-liners are peddling the fiction of "nuclear
suspicion " and "depot of parts of nuclear
warheads" to shift the responsibility for non-fulfillment of the DPRK-U.S.
agreed framework on to the DPRK, the
commentary says, and goes on:
Objects of "suspected development of nuclear weapons" loudmouthed by
U.S. hard-liners are all military
establishments and important economic facilities.
We have built many underground economic structures with a view to
countering the U.S. continued military threat
of aggression. We do not conceal this. It is a just measure for self-defence.
The United States has no qualification for talking about someone's
"nuclear threat".
The United States has stockpiled and deployed many nuclear weapons in
South Korea and around it.
We are always exposed to the U.S. nuclear threat. It is all the more
because the United States has not implemented
the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework. Worse still, the U.S. nuclear warmongers
openly expressed their intention to use
nuclear weapons under the pretext of the "threat" from the DPRK.
It is clearly specified in the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework that the
United States shall not use nuclear weapons
nor threaten the DPRK with them. The U.S. announcement about use of nuclear
weapons is a frantic violation of this.
The nuclear threat is coming from the United States. The United States
is the very one who is resorting to nuclear
threat.
For Spanish-speaking people
dado a conocer plan de ejercicios militares conjuntos sudcorea-ee.uu.
pyongyang, 19 de agosto (atcc) -- segun cablegramas extranjeros, la
"comandancia de las fuerzas combinadas
surcoreano - norteamericanas publico el dia 17 el plan de librar del 21 del
mes en curso al primero de septiembre el
simulacro "ulji focus lens" bajo el rotulo de "mejorar la capacidad de
operacion conjunta de los ejercitos en el caso de
emergencia".
a las maniobras se incorporaran 13 mil efectivos norteamericanos en
sudcorea, 3 mil 800 efectivos de reserva en el
territorio norteamericano, la isala guam, japon, etc., y 56 mil efectivos
surcoreanos.
parte de pyongyang delegacion gubernamental de rpdc
pyongyang, 19 de agosto (atcc) -- partio hoy de esta capital por via
aerea la delegacion gubernamental de la rpdc
presidida por el embajador itinerario del ministerio de rr.ee. jong thae
hwa a la decima ronda de conversaciones
principales intergubernamentales rpdc-japon que se efectuara en el japon.
secretariado de crpp demanda liberacion de estudiantes patrioticos
pyongyang, 19 de agosto (atcc) -- el secretariado del comite por la
reunificacion pacifica de la patria publico el dia
17 la informacion no. 808 denunciando a las autoridades policiacas de la
ciudad de seul que recientemente arrestaron al
presidente del consejo general de estudiantes de la universidad tanguk y
otros cuadros de consejo de estudiantes en
virtud de la "ley de seguridad".
segun informacion, las autoridades policiacas de seul perpetraron tal
represion pretextando que el presidente del
consejo general de estudiantes de la universidad tanguk, el presidente de
la sociedad de estudiantes de la facultad de
ingenieria y otros cuadros del consejo de estudiantes, durante las
elecciones de cuadros de consejo de estudiantes del
ano pasado "distribuyeron la coleccion de datos que embellecen norcorea" y
luego de ser electos actuaron como
miembros de la "federacion de los consejos generales de estudiantes
universitarios de sudcorea" y "elogiaron" la rpdc.
la informacion senala:
cuando se da sentir como nunca tendencia a la reconciliacion, unidad y
reunificacion entre el norte y el sur, las
autoridades policiacas de sudcorea arrestan y reprimen a los estudiantes
patrioticos en virtud de la "ley de seguridad"
que define la rpdc como "organizacion anti-estatal" pretextando las cosas
del ano pasado. esta es una traicion a la
ejecucion de la historica declaracion conjunta norte-sur de corea.
el objetivo de la represion en cuestion es bloquear la opinion publica
inclinada a norcorea, fomentar el
enfrentamiento con norcorea y dar freno a la ejecucion de la declaracion
conjunta norte-sur hoy que distintos sectores
de la poblacion surcoreana llegan a conocer mejor la realidad de norcorea
por los frecuentes contactos y viajes entre
ambas partes.
si las autoridades surcoreanas se proponen ejecutar con lealtad dicha
declaracion deben abolir la infame "ley de
seguridad" opuesta a la reunificacion, correspondiendo a la demanda de la
nueva epoca y poner inmediatamente en
libertad a todos los jovenes estudiantes arrestados injustamente.
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