TODAY'S NEWS (August.25.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* 10th round of DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks closes
* Head of DPRK govt. Delegation to DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks
interviewed
* DPRK govt. Delegation hosts reception for Japanese counterpart
* 2nd day competitions of junior Taekwon-do championships
* Aid equipment to DPRK from UNDP
* WPK's invariable stand of attaching great importance to youth
* DPRK government delegation welcomed by Chongryon
* More vigorous movement for national reconciliation and unity called for
* National meeting of School Youth League and Children's Union
* National memorial service for Kim Hyok
* Joint international struggle for peace called for
* Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated in Guyana
* Indonesian political party supports three-point charter of Korea's
reunification
* Construction of basic food production centers progresses apace
* New stamp
* Japanese right-wing reactionaries' provocation flailed
10th round of DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks closes
Kisarazu, August 24 (KCNA) -- The 10th round of DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks closed in
Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, today.
Present at the talks were the members of the DPRK government delegation
headed by Jong Thae Hwa, roving
ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the members of the
Japanese government delegation headed by
Kojiro Takano, ambassador of the Foreign Ministry for negotiations on the
establishment of Japan-DPRK diplomatic
relations.
The talks proceeded in a good atmosphere.
Meanwhile, a joint communique on the 10th round of DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks was issued
in Tokyo on Thursday.
Noting that the 10th round of DPRK-Japan intergovernmental full-dress
talks was held in Tokyo from August 21
to 24, the communique said:
1. Both sides had earnest discussions on an early establishment of
good-neighborly friendly relations from the
common stand to improve the DPRK-Japan relations and in the spirit of
deepening mutual confidence between the
DPRK and Japan.
2. Both sides exchanged their frank opinions on all issues between the
DPRK and Japan, including the redress for
the past, on the basis of the success achieved at the talks between the two
foreign ministers held in Bangkok in late
July, the first of their kind in history.
And both sides had discussions aimed at materializing exchange and
visits in the political, economic, cultural and
other fields to serve the purpose of promoting the mutual understanding
between the DPRK and Japan.
Both sides shared the view on pushing forward exchange between the
diplomatic authorities of the two countries
as part of it.
They also shared the view that exchange between civilian businessmen is
desirable.
3. Both sides confirmed the need to promote the DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks in the future, too,
and agreed to have the 11th round of intergovernmental full-dress talks in
October in a third country to be chosen by
both sides.
Head of DPRK govt. Delegation to DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks
interviewed
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Japanese right-wing reactionaries
committed unprecedentedly malicious
anti-Chongryon and anti-DPRK rowdyism in front of the central hall of
Chongryon (General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan) in Tokyo with the opening of the 10th round of the
DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks as a
momentum.
Minju Joson today carries a signed commentary in this connection.
The rowdyism committed by right-wing hooligans of Japan is an
outrageous act intended to slander and threaten
Chongryon, the dignified overseas compatriots organization of the DPRK, and
an undisguised hostile act against the
DPRK, the commentary says, and goes on:
Such blatant rowdyism timed to coincide with the DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks can not be
considered as an accidental crime perpetrated by an individual or a group.
This is an unpardonable challenge to the DPRK which has made every
sincere effort to improve the relations
between the DPRK and Japan and a deliberate and premeditated act to chill
the desire of domestic and foreign peoples
for the normalized relations between the two countries.
The DPRK is a dignified and sovereign country where the leader, the
party and the masses are single-heartedly
united and Chongryon is a compatriots organization which conducts legal
activities in Japan and is recognized and
supported by many countries and peoples around the world.
The DPRK will regard any provocation to Chongryon as a hostile act
against the DPRK and resolutely react to it.
The Japanese police authorities should arrest all the criminals
responsible for the provocation, strictly punish them
and take necessary measures to prevent the recurrence of similar crime.
DPRK govt. Delegation hosts reception for Japanese counterpart
Kisarazu, August 24 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government delegation, staying
in Japan for the tenth round of
DPRK-Japan intergovernmental full-dress talks, hosted a reception in honor
of its Japanese counterpart in Kisarazu,
Chiba Prefecture, today.
Invited to it were the members of the Japanese government delegation
led by Kojiro Takano, ambassador of the
Foreign Ministry for negotiations on the establishment of the Japan-DPRK
diplomatic relations.
The members of the DPRK government delegation headed by Jong Thae Hwa,
roving ambassador of the Foreign
Ministry, were present.
Also on hand were chief vice-chairman Ho Jong Man and vice-chairman Nam
Sung U of the central standing
committee of Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan).
2nd day competitions of junior Taekwon-do championships
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The second day competitions of the 5th
World Junior Taekwon-do
Championships took place at the Taekwon-do Hall yesterday.
The day saw matches in men's sparring individual in 58, 63 and 70 kg
class, women's team pattern, women's
pattern individual in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade and women's sparring
individual in 48 and 60 kg class.
The following are some results of the matches:
Men's sparring individual
58 kg class
1: Kim Kwang Hyon (DPRK)
2: Urbanek Jaroslav (Czech)
3: Konstantin Yurikov (Russia)
Olkiewicz Konrad (Poland)
Women's sparring individual
48 kg class
1: Ha Ryon Bok (DPRK)
2: Vera Nemcova (Czech)
3: Mariya Yachenko (Russia)
Maria Undurraga (Argentina)
Women's pattern individual
First grade
1: Kang Alexandra (Russia)
2: Dilorom Muritdinova (Uzbekistan)
3: Pak Hyang Mi (DPRK)
Ana Coronel (Argentina)
Second grade
1: Jong Son Hui (DPRK)
2: Julie Marie Goneau (Canada)
3: Yuliya Boreiko (Russia)
Chew Siew Chin (Malaysia)
Third grade
1: Ro Song Hui (DPRK)
2: Alexandra Novikova (Russia)
3: Flyora Bektemirova (Uzbekistan)
Aid equipment to DPRK from UNDP
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- UNDP provided the DPRK with aid
equipment needed for the recovery from
damage in its agricultural field.
A hand over ceremony was held at the Nampho port yesterday.
David Morton, resident coordinator of the United Nations and resident
representative of UNDP in the DPRK,
conveyed the equipment to vice-Minister of Agriculture Kim Jong Ryang.
WPK's invariable stand of attaching great importance to youth
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- It is an invariable stand of the
Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) to attach great
importance to youth, Rodong Sinmun on Thursday said in a signed article
dedicated to the fourth anniversary of the
famous work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "Let Us Exalt the Brilliance
of Comrade Kim Il Sung's Idea on the
Youth Movement and the Achievements Made Under His Leadership."
The work comprehensively elucidates the ideas and theories on the youth
movement clarified by the President Kim
Il Sung and the exploits performed by him for the development of the youth
movement and elaborates on the principled
issues arising in its development.
It is the basic idea of the work that the youth league should remain a
youth league of Kim Il Sung for all ages and
the Korean youth movement should steadily develop as a youth movement of
Juche as indicated by him.
The article went on:
The WPK's politics of attaching great importance to the youth is now
fully enforced in the course of building a
powerful nation.
The slogan "Love the youth " put up by Kim Jong Il has been
successfully carried out to increase the concern of
the whole party, all the people and the entire society for the youth.
The vitality of the politics of attaching great importance to the youth
is demonstrated by the fact that great efforts
are directed to training the youth as revolutionaries, they are led to
admirably perform their role as vanguard in the
struggle to defend and exalt Korean-style socialism and unbounded love is
shown for them.
DPRK government delegation welcomed by Chongryon
Tokyo, August 24 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting of the General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan
(Chongryon) was held at the Korean Hall of Chongryon in Tokyo on Wednesday
to welcome the DPRK government
delegation which is taking part in the 10th round of DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks.
Invited to the meeting were members of the delegation headed by roving
ambassador of the Foreign Ministry Jong
Thae Hwa.
First vice-chairman So Man Sul, chief vice-chairman Ho Jong Man and
other officials of the central standing
committee of Chongryon were present.
So Man Sul and Jong Thae Hwa made addresses at the meeting before an
art performance was given by Korean
schoolchildren.
The central standing committee of Chongryon gave a luncheon for the
delegation that day.
More vigorous movement for national reconciliation and unity called for
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Chief Pak Kwang Gi of the Pyongyang
mission of the National Democratic
Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a statement yesterday on the occasion
of its 31st foundation anniversary.
He said:
The foundation of the revolutionary party for reunification, the
predecessor of the NDFSK, on Aug. 25, Juche 58
(1969) was a successful materialization of the idea and theory on building
a party of Juche and a historical declaration
which heralded a new start of the revolutionary movement in the South
Korean society.
The NDFSK set it as its main political program to put an end to the
U.S. colonial rule over South Korea and
establish a regime based on national independence and defined it as the
general goal of the movement for the nation and
democracy to turn the South Korean society independent and democratic and
achieve national reunification and has
waged a strenuous struggle to realize them.
Thanks to its positive activities, the man-centered Juche idea, the
guiding idea of the times, has taken a firm root in
South Korean people's mind, it has become their unanimous desire to follow
the idea and there have emerged great
many patriotic vanguard fighters and core members of movements fully
equipped with the Juche idea.
Under the guidance and influence of the NDFSK, many independent
organizations were formed, ranks of the
revolutionary movement rapidly grew stronger and the movement for
independence, democracy and reunification is
getting more popular and viable day by day on a solid organized basis. As a
result, the revolutionary movement in the
South Korean society is confidently advancing toward victory.
The NDFSK will introduce the great leader Kim Jong Il's brilliant
ideas, leadership and noble virtue and the
immortal exploits performed by him for national reunification to the South
Korean people from all walks of life in a
more active and diverse way. And it will guide them to hold Kim Jong Il in
high esteem as the destiny of the nation and
lodestar of national reunification and remain loyal to his leadership.
The NDFSK will channel all its efforts into the implementation of the
June 15 south-north joint declaration.
National meeting of School Youth League and Children's Union
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of active instructors
of the school youth and the Children's
Union was held at the People's Palace of Culture on August 23 and 24.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of
the Supreme People's Assembly of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the
Central Committee of the Worker's Party of
Korea, officials concerned, model instructors of the school youth and the
Children's Union from across the country
and officials of the Kim Il Sung socialist youth league.
The meeting reviewed the achievements and experience gained in the work
of school youth and children under the
leadership of the party and discussed tasks and ways to fully prepare all
the school youth and children as true youth
vanguard and children's lifeguard of the party boundlessly loyal to the
great leader Kim Jong Il and dependable
builders of a powerful nation.
Its participants listened to the recorded instructions given by the
President Kim Il Sung on the work of School
Youth League and Children's Union from his concluding speech "On some tasks
for improving education in schools"
made at the meeting of the political committee of the Central Committee of
the Worker's Party of Korea on may 3,
Juche 63 (1974).
A report of first secretary of the central committee of the league Ri
Il Hwan was followed by speeches.
A letter of pledge to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
National memorial service for Kim Hyok
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 70th death anniversary of
Kim Hyok, a communist
revolutionary fighter of Korea.
Kim Hyok was a young man with a strong sense of justice and ardent
desire for learning, but had to experience a
miserable fate as an intellectual of a colony.
It was not until the summer of Juche 16 (1927) when he went under the
leadership of the President Kim Il Sung
that he could turn over a new leaf in his life to find himself worth living.
He became a member of the "down-with-imperialism union" and played a
pivotal role at the Anti-imperialist Youth
League and the Young Communist League of Korea. A member of the first party
organization, he worked as chief
editor of Bolshevik, a revolutionary publication, and a commanding officer
of the Korean Revolutionary Army.
He energetically conducted propaganda about the greatness of Kim Il
Sung among the people of broad segments
including youth and students in rural areas.
A revolutionary poet with burning passion, he created the revolutionary
hymn "Star of Korea" carrying the ardent
wish of all the fellow countrymen.
This song was the first hymn dedicated by the Korean people to their
leader. It was a great revolutionary song
heralding a new history of the Korean revolution in which Kim Il Sung was
acclaimed as its leader and the leader and
the masses were united as one in mind.
While carrying out the task assigned to him by President Kim Il Sung,
he encountered with the enemy who
surprised him at a secret rendezvous in Harbin. Having exchanged fire with
the enemy, he jumped from the third floor
of the building, resolved to die for the President's safety.
A national memorial service for him was held at the People's Palace of
Culture today to commemorate his 70th
death anniversary.
Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces, said in his
memorial address:
The noble revolutionary life of Kim Hyok, a communist of younger
generation, is a brilliant model for all of us,
which tells how a revolutionary soldier of Juche type should safeguard his
leader and live and fight for the country and
revolution.
All the servicemen and working people including the party members
should vigorously travel a new long journey
of the revolution, actively learning from the steadfast revolutionary
outlook on the leader and the total dedication to the
revolution Kim Hyok, Cha Kwang Su and other fighters of the first
generation of the Korean revolution had.
Present at the memorial service were Hong Song Nam and other senior
party and state officials.
Pyongyang-based newspapers today dedicate articles to this anniversary.
Joint international struggle for peace called for
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- All the peace-loving forces the world
over should launch a joint international
struggle to achieve durable peace, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
article.
The reality clearly shows that the world cannot be in peace as long as
there are forces who pursue wrong ideas and
policies intended to encroach upon the independence of other countries and
nations and dominate them, the article
notes, and goes on:
Begging for peace is as foolish as helping the anti-peace forces in
their dangerous war moves. Peace can be won
only through struggle. This is a bitter lesson taught by the human history
stained with dark smoke of war.
In order to defend peace it is imperative for all countries and nations
to firmly maintain independence and struggle
against the wrong ideas and policies designed to violate the independence
of other countries and nations.
The paper underscores the need to settle the internal affairs of their
countries and nations by their own efforts.
The imperialists' policy of strength should never be tolerated, it
says, adding there can be genuine peace only
when people fight against the imperialists' policy of strength at the risk
of their lives.
All the peace-loving forces should unite and never tolerate the
high-handed practices and privilege of the
imperialists in the international arena but struggle to achieve the
independence and democratization of the international
community, it concludes.
Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated in Guyana
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- A Guyanese preparatory committee was
formed to celebrate the 52nd
anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the 55th
anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
An inaugural meeting was held in Georgetown on Aug. 18.
The Minister of Public Service of the Presidential Office of Guyana
said in his speech that the DPRK has become a
politically, militarily and economically powerful country under the wise
leadership of the President Kim Il Sung and
the General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The general secretary of the Good Green Guyana said the WPK has won
only victories over the last 55 years,
adding that this was possible because Kim Il Sung had always put forward
right policies and lines and Kim Jong Il has
wisely led the struggle to carry them out.
The Minister of Public Service of the Presidential Office and the
leader of the Good Green Guyana were elected
co-chairmen of the preparatory committee and the general secretary of the
party was elected first vice-chairman of the
committee at the meeting.
The preparatory committee set a celebration period from Aug. 19 to Oct.
20 and decided to hold various political
and cultural functions during the period.
Indonesian political party supports three-point charter of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The Indonesian United Party of diversity
participated in the international
signature campaign supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
Its chairman Nurdin Purnomo signed the signature paper on behalf of its
400,000 members on Aug. 16.
Construction of basic food production centers progresses apace
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The construction of modern basic food
production centers is making headway
in the DPRK.
The calls of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea
published with the approach of its 55th
anniversary appealed to all provinces of the country to build solid modern
basic food production centers before the
anniversary.
Production will be kept at a high rate at these centers equipped with
modern facilities for the production of bean
paste and soy and all other automatic production processes.
North and south Hamgyong provinces are taking the lead in this
construction.
The construction of many structures is close to completion and the
manufacture of equipment and its installing
have been carried out 80-90 percent in these provinces.
Meanwhile, many technical innovation proposals of great value have been
introduced to production. Boilers are
being reconditioned. Fuel is gasified to ensure more than 98 percent
combustion efficiency. Designing an automatic
control system for the production of soybean malt has been completed.
Jagang and Kangwon provinces are pushing all the projects ahead of
schedule, hastening the projects to enlarge
the existing buildings and the disassembling of the equipment and
manufacture of new modern ones to replace them.
South Hwanghae and north Phyongan provinces and other provinces are
finding package solutions to all problems
in the construction of those centers such as manpower organization,
guidance to construction and manufacture of
equipment.
Enormous is the work to be done. Scores of tanks each weighing 10 tons
should be dismantled, several
storehouses and set-ups be built and at least 100 sets of equipment of
scores of types be manufactured. Not a few
difficulties and bottlenecks lie before the builders.
But builders in all the provinces are successfully pushing ahead with
the projects in the revolutionary spirit of
self-reliance with a goal to complete them before the founding anniversary
of the party.
New stamp
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications has recently issued a stamp
portraying Rev. Moon Ik Hwan (June 1, 1918-January 18, 1994), a winner of
the National Reunification Prize for his
contribution to the cause of Korea's independent and peaceful reunification.
The prize was conferred upon him on August 15, 1990, the 45th
anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese
military rule.
He visited Pyongyang from March 25 to April 3, 1989 and was received in
audience by President Kim Il Sung.
Japanese right-wing reactionaries' provocation flailed
Kisarazu, August 24 (KCNA) -- Jong Thae Hwa, roving ambassador of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who led
the DPRK government delegation to the 10th round of the DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks had a press
conference in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, Thursday.
Present there were reporters of Japanese newspapers, news agencies and
TV broadcasting institutions, foreign
correspondents in Tokyo and DPRK reporters.
Jong Thae Hwa briefed them on the 10th round of the full-dress talks.
He first touched upon the issue of Japan's apology, the core of Japan's
redeem for its past. The Japanese side said
it "would handle the issue within the parameters of Murayama's statement,"
but in his statement he had in mind all the
Asian countries which Japan invaded and occupied in the past, Jong said,
and continued:
Korea was under the Japanese imperialists' longest military rule among
Asian countries and suffered severest and
tremendous pain and damage. Therefore, repentance within that parameters is
not enough, and it is hardly acceptable to
the Korean people.
He called attention to the facts that millions of Korean people lost
their lives and Korea was plundered of huge
amount of its cultural relics and deprived of even its national soul during
the Japanese imperialists' unprecedented
military occupation and rule. Therefore, the Korean people can never accept
an "apology" expressed by saying
"Owabi," the term included in "Murayama's statement," which is commonly
used by one after hurting others by
accidental blunder or by careless mistake, he noted.
Referring to the issue of compensation, he held that Japan's insistence
on "property claim against Japan" goes to
prove that Japan is not repenting of its past crimes at all as it is based
on the brigandish logic that the Japanese
imperialists' aggression and military occupation of Korea were "lawful acts."
Recalling that the Japanese imperialists inflicted immeasurable human,
material and spiritual damage upon the
Korean people in pursuance of their inhuman policy of suppression, he said
that the DPRK side clarified once again at
the talks that the lives of millions of Koreans and blood, sweat and tears
shed by them and their deep-seated grudge can
never be handled by the method of "property claim against Japan."
He stated: But for the Japanese imperialists' military occupation and
rule over Korea, the Korean people would
have not undergone the pain of national division for over half a century.
Therefore, Japan should own a due
responsibility for this and compensate for enormous damage it has inflicted
upon the Korean people by consistently
pursuing the policy of isolating and stifling the DPRK after its defeat, he
said.
Turning to the issue of cultural treasures, he said:
Given the stark historical fact that Japan destroyed and looted a lot
of cultural treasures of Korea as it pleased
pursuant to the policy to obliterate the Korean nation after invading and
occupying Korea in the past, the DPRK side
strongly urged the Japanese side not to deny the criminal acts under the
pretext that they "obtained them by legitimate
means" but make a due apology for their crimes and, at the same time, make
a material compensation for the destroyed
ones and return all the looted ones.
Pointing to the issue of compensation to the Koreans in Japan and the
guarantee of special status to them, he said
that the majority of Koreans now residing in Japan are those who narrowly
escaped deaths from all sorts of hard labour
and national humiliation after being kidnapped or taken away to Japan by
force by the Japanese imperialists under
various pretexts of "compulsory military service" and "labor conscription,"
and their descendants. They are most
miserable victims of Japan's occupation of Korea, he said, and continued:
They have remained victims of all manifestations of the hostile policy
of national discrimination pursued by the
Japanese authorities until today since the liberation of Korea. The DPRK
side clarified that in view of the seriousness
and importance of the issue, it would handle the issue related to them not
as an issue related to the legal status of
Koreans in Japan but as "an issue related to the compensation to the
Koreans in Japan and the guarantee of special
status to them."
Recalling that Japan is working hard to adopt the "bill on prefectural
suffrage" at any cost despite the fact that the
DPRK clarified its stand at the 9th round of the full-dress talks that it
would never allow the farce of "suffrage" which
encroaches upon the sovereignty of the DPRK, denies the national identity
of the Koreans in Japan and sparks
disturbances and confrontation among Koreans in Japan and in the local
society of Japan, he said that the DPRK side
explicitly told the Japanese side at the talks that this was an intolerable
attitude.
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