TODAY'S NEWS (September.25.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Revision of "status of forces agreement" demanded in S. Korea
* Parliamentary delegation of Italy to visit DPRK
* Friendly meeting with delegation of Canadian Communist Party (M-L)
* KCNA on remarks of S. Korean Foreign Minister
* Korea's reunification, common task of nation
* Outstanding judgement
* Shortage of food continues in DPRK
* Congratulatory letter and gift to Kim Jong Il
* Kim Yong Nam meets Canadian party delegation
For Spanish-speaking people
* a responder con resuelta lucha a desafio de imperialistas
* apertura de 5 campeonato mundial de taekwondo de juniores
Revision of "status of forces agreement" demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- The promotion headquarters for the
2000 people-to-people
meeting urging the revision of the "South Korea-U.S. Status of Forces
Agreement" and the relocation of
the U.S. army unit in Puphyong, which consists of civic and social
organizations in Inchon, sent letters
to the South Korean chief executive and U.S. President Clinton and two U.S.
presidential candidates
respectively on Sept. 22 in demand of the revision of the "status of forces
agreement" and the relocation
of the U.S. army unit in Puphyong, according to radio no. 1 from Seoul. The
headquarters in the letters
said that the "agreement" encroaches upon the sovereignty of South Korea,
and demanded 13 articles of
it be immediately revised, including the reduction of "the scope of rights
to deal with criminal cases" and
insertion of an article related to "environmental matters."
It also urged the relocation of the U.S. army unit in Puphyong which is
comprised of at least 10
soldiers, saying that it occupies an area of 500,000 square metres in the
central city, causing a great
hinderance to traffic and environment.
Parliamentary delegation of Italy to visit DPRK
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- A parliamentary delegation of Italy
headed by president of
the chamber of deputies Luciano Violante will soon visit the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea at
the invitation of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.
Friendly meeting with delegation of Canadian Communist Party (M-L)
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting with a delegation
of the Communist Party
of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) was held by the Korean Society for Cultural
Relations with Foreign
Countries on September 24. Invited there was the CPC (M-L) delegation led
by its national leader
Sandra Bains.
Present were vice-chairman of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations
with Foreign Countries
Kim Jin Bom who is also chairman of the Korea-Canada Friendship Association
and members of the
association.
The participants conversed in a cordial atmosphere with each other on
further developing the
friendly relations between the two peoples.
KCNA on remarks of S. Korean Foreign Minister
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- It was reported that South Korean
Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Trade Ri Jong Bin in a "speech" at the U.N. General Assembly
session said that the historic
Pyongyang meeting in June last was arranged as a "result of the 'engagement
policy' of the South
Korean government." It is, indeed, preposterous.
It is an unpardonable remark which lays an artificial obstacle in the
way of implementing the June
15 north-south joint declaration that reaffirms the three principles for
national reunification clarified in
the July 4 north-south joint statement and aspires after national
reconciliation and unity, exchange and
cooperation and peace and reunification. and it gets on the nerve of the
dialogue partner.
Some conservative forces of South Korea had said this or that about the
June 15 north-south joint
declaration since its publication but none of them had openly told the same
as he did in the U.N. arena.
His remarks, which reverse black and white, throw a wet blanket over
the nation's aspirations for
reunification and cast a dark cloud on reconciliation and unity between the
north and the south.
The historic Pyongyang meeting and the publication of the north-south
joint declaration in June are
a shining fruition of the resolution and will of the leaders of the north
and the south and the aspirations
and desire of the 70 million nation for reunification.
The South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade could not have
been unaware of this stark
fact.
However, he made such remarks because he has double-faced ulterior
intention.
The historic Pyongyang meeting was hailed in the international arena
including the U.N.
millennium summit and world's attention is turning to the northern half of
Korea.
He, getting nervous of this fact, seeks to mislead the public opinion
to save face. And his remarks
are intended to earn international support for the already-ruined
"engagement policy" and realize it at any
cost.
But it is a folly.
The "engagement policy" he mentioned is none other than a variety of
the "sunshine policy" aimed
to hurt the dialogue partner of the same blood with the help of outsiders.
Anti-reunification separatists should be awakened from their foolish
day dream and drop a dagger
carrying under their belt.
The South Korean politicians should not put ideology, idea and system
to the fore but do something
helpful to achieving the independent reunification of the country with a
patriotic stand.
When he went out in the international arena with bloody tax collected
from the people, he should
have done good things for national reunification wanted by the people and
the nation. if he pursues the
confrontation policy of doing harm to the same nation in collusion with the
foreign forces, he will never
escape a stern trial by the nation.
If the South Korean authorities truly value the successes of the
historic Pyongyang meeting and
have willingness to implement the June 15 north-south joint declaration
they should not talk about the
"engagement policy" and the like and throw a wet blanket over the
development of the inter-Korean
relations any longer but do work for the common interests of the nation in
the spirit of national
independence.
It is too plain that if they continue taking the road of confrontation
with the dialogue partner, turning
a deaf ear to our repeated advice, it will exert serious consequences upon
the favourably developing
inter-Korean relations.
The South Korean authorities should think twice before doing something
and clearly know that they
will be responsible for all the consequences to be entailed by their
reckless acts.
Korea's reunification, common task of nation
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) --Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
article stresses that the
banner of national reunification is that of struggle common to the nation.
The article says:
It is, first of all
Because the reunification of the country is the cherished desire and
common cause of the Korean
nation.
The reunification is the vital demand and the supreme task of the
Korean nation suffering
misfortunes and pain caused by national division.
Our national reunification is intended to realize the national
independence, achieve the development
and prosperity common to the nation and thus make all the countrymen enjoy
a happy and worthy life in
a reunified country. therefore, it is natural for the Korean nation to
unite as one with the same purpose in
the struggle for the country's reunification, and the banner of
reunification is a banner of the common
struggle of the nation and a banner of great national unity.
It is also because the reunification is the cause of the nation not for
removing classic contradictions
or antagonism between systems within the nation but for achieving the
national unity and realizing its
independence on a nationwide scale. Any class and strata should not place
their interests before the
common interests of the nation now that the reunification of the country
presents itself as a supreme task
of the nation.
If the Koreans reject and antagonize each other, questioning their
differences instead of working to
realize their common cause as members of the homogeneous nation, it will be
impossible to achieve the
great national unity and reunify the country.
All the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas
should firmly unite under the
banner of national reunification, the banner of patriotism, irrespective of
differences in ideology,
system, political view and religious belief and transcending the interests
of classes and stratas.
The Korean people should work harder to achieve the independent and
peaceful reunification of the
country, rallied close around the leader Kim Jong Il and under the banner
of the five-point policy of
great national unity clarified by him.
Outstanding judgement
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- There are many great men in human
history who won fame
for their outstanding judgement. But no other great men in the world are so
distinguished as the leader
Kim Jong Il who gives the clearest answers to all the problems in the
revolution and construction.
His judgement is characterised by comparison and analysis of any
problem in a wide and deep way
beyond human imagination and the most quick and correct conclusion.
Defending the sovereignty and dignity of the country by smashing the
imperialists' isolation and
suffocation moves by the strength of army-first politics, overcoming
difficulties and building a firm
spring board for the construction of economically powerful country and
achievements in political
diplomacy with the enemies are all unthinkable without the extraordinary
judgement of Kim Jong Il who
set forth the most splendid proposals, looking through the changing
situation in a moment.
He immediately solved the difficult problems during his recent
on-the-spot guidance to several
factories and enterprises including the Huichon Machine Tool Plant. This
fact proves eloquently how
outstanding his judgement on the essence and correlations of intricate
problems is.
It is thanks to his distinguished judgement of finding the most
effective way of solving vast
problems that he ensured profitability in the economic work, built large
and small hydroelectric powers
through mass movements to solve the shortage of electricity pushed forward
the campaign for potato
farming and the large-scale rezoning of land to bring a new turn in the
agricultural production.
With this clearcut judgement he solved all the problems in such a way
that may be flawless in the far
future.
His clairvoyant wisdom and judgement have been proved by the settlement
of theoretical and
practical matters arising in the party, state and army building and the
youth problem, the guidelines of
the present scientific research work, the direction of economic
development, ways of improving and
strengthening land management and the plan for urban and rural construction.
His ability of judgement beyond human imagination is based on his
extraordinary ability and
outstanding character.
Shortage of food continues in DPRK
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- The director of the agricultural
department of the Ministry of
Agriculture of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a statement
today as regards serious
damage in the agricultural sector caused by this year's drought, heat and
typhoon. He said:
The precipitation in the whole areas during the sowing period of rice
and maize, the main crops,
dropped 40-50 percent as compared with the annual average precipitation
and, worse still, it rained little
in some areas for 40-50 days.
Owing to the long spell of drought water storage at reservoirs reached
3-18 percent of the plan and
paddy and non-paddy fields of north and south Hwanghae provinces, north and
south Phyongan,
Kangwon and south Hamgyong provinces, major granaries, could hardly be watered.
As a result, rice transplanting across the country was delayed more
than one month and rice was not
transplanted in some areas.
Worse still, as serious drought and abnormal high temperature continued
till mid-august, paddy
fields dried up, rice roots rotted and maize withered to die. as a result
harvest is little expected in many
paddy and non-paddy fields.
The amount of grain yield reduction caused by serious drought and heat
is more than one million
tons, about 360,000 tons of rice and 660,000 tons of maize.
This was confirmed on the spot by international organizations on the
mission of humanitarian aid in
the DPRK.
Some 140,000 hectares of arable land, including at least 46,000
hectares of paddy fields and more
than 76,000 hectares of non-paddy fields, were swept away, buried in silt
and inundated by two strong
typhoons some time ago.
Owing to the typhoon damage, the yields of rice and maize are expected
to drop at least 405,000
tons.
The amount of the lost grain caused by natural disasters including
drought, heat and typhoons in
our country this year is estimated at more than 1.4 million tons in all.
Therefore, it is certain that the shortage of food will continue next
year, too.
The DPRK government, consistently maintaining the policy of attaching
importance to agriculture,
is taking practical steps to remove the aftereffects of the natural
disasters and stabilize the life of the
people in the afflicted areas.
The Korean people will in the future, too, make every possible effort
to keep the agricultural
production at a steady rate at an early date and secure a sustained food
security, overcoming the
difficulties in their way.
Congratulatory letter and gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
a congratulatory letter
and a gift from the national leader of the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist) on the occasion
of the 55th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The letter and gift
were handed to Kim Yang
Gon, department director of the WPK central committee by Canadian party
leader Sandra Bains on a
visit to Korea.
Kim Yong Nam meets Canadian party delegation
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, politburo member of the
Workers' Party of
Korea central committee and President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, met
and conversed with a delegation of the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist) led by its national
leader Sandra Bains at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today. The head of the
delegation said on the
occasion that the great leader Kim Jong Il is brilliantly carrying forward
the revolutionary cause of the
respected Kim Il Sung. He has united the people as one to advance
socialism, she noted.
During the stay in Korea they were moved to see the signal achievements
the Korean people are
making in the building of a powerful nation on the occasion of the 55th wpk
birthday, she said.
Noting that the Korean people have made great achievements in their
efforts for national
reunification under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il, she said their cause
would surely win under his
invincible leadership.
For Spanish-speaking people
a responder con resuelta lucha a desafio de imperialistas
pyongyang, 24 de agosto (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en un
articulo de hoy subraya que las
consignas del cc del partido del trabajo de corea de responder hasta el fin
con el firme espiritu de lucha al
desafio de los imperialistas infuden gran fuerza y animo a todos los
pueblos progresistas, amantes de la
paz y aspirantes a la independencia. los imperialistas suenan siempre con
agredir a otros paises y crujen
los dientes por morderlos. su naturaleza y brutalidad son invariables,
senala el articulo y continua:
hay que oponer el firme principio revolucionario a la astucia de los
imperialistas y la resuelta lucha a
su brutalidad.
con este principio se puede idear el medio de hacer frente a las armas
nucleares de los imperialistas y
resolver con toda seguridad todos los asuntos que se presenten en la
construccion de nueva sociedad,
sin depender de su "ayuda" sino con el espiritu de autoconfianza.
si las fuerzas progresistas del mundo con el firme espiritu de lucha
frustran por doquier las
maquinaciones de agresion y saqueo de los imperialistas, se profundizaran
mas sus contradicciones
internas y las entre si trayendo la ruina final. debe ser resuelta la lucha
antimperialista.
si hoy cedemos un paso a los imperialistas lo debemos hacer en lo
adelante diez, cien pasos.
cuando los imperialistas traen el nubarron de guerra debemos tomar con
mas firmeza arma de lucha
justa.
en la arena internacional hay que poner al desnudo la naturaleza y
crimenes de los imperialistas.
las fuerzas progresistas del mundo deben juntar voces para denunciar a
los imperialistas. entonces
estos no podran estar en paz en cualquier lugar del mundo.
apertura de 5 campeonato mundial de taekwondo de juniores
pyongyang, 24 de agosto (atcc) -- fue inaugurado ayer el 5 campeonato
mundial de taekwondo de
juniores en el centro de taekwondo en pyongyang. en el presente campeonato
de mayor envergadura en
la historia toman parte los juniores taekwondistas de cinco continentes del
mundo. este festival
internacional de arte militar contribuira a consolidar y desarrollar sin
cesar la federacion internacional de
taekwondo a que estan afiliados 50 millones y dara fuerza y estimulo a los
pueblos aspirantes a la
construccion de un nuevo mundo libre y pacifico.
el campeonato tiene lugar en corea que es cuna de este arte militar. en
el participan choe jung hwa,
secretario general de la fit, y otros huespedes de honor y mas de 600
taekwondistas procedentes de mas
de 30 paises.
a la ceremonia de inauguracion asistieron el ministro de cultura kang
nung su, hwang pong yong,
presidente del comite coreano de taekwondo, coreanos en el ultramar y
representantes diplomaticos de
varios paises en la rpdc.
haciendo uso de la palabra kang nung su expreso la conviccion de que el
campeonato contribuira a
estrechar el lazo de amistad entre las asociaciones nacionales y los
taewondistas de todos los paises y a
desarrollar la cultura de la humanidad.
subrayo que en el futuro tambien, el pueblo coreano hara todos los
esfuerzos por fortalecer y
desarrollar la amistad y solidaridad con los pueblos progresistas del mundo
y la fraternidad y solidaridad
con 50 millones de taekwondistas a base del noble ideal de la
independencia, la paz y la amistad.
choe jung hwa en su intervencion de felicitacion dijo que el presente
evento sera el orgullo de los
taekwondistas y amateurs de este deporte de todo el mundo y sirvira de una
importante oportunidad para
heredar el taekwondo ortodoxo y contribuir al fortalecimiento y desarrollo
de la fit.
llamo a todos los taekwondocas verdaderos del mundo a unir las fuerzas,
consolidar y desarrollar
con la fuerza de justicia el caracter ortodoxo y la pureza de taekwondo y
ampliar y fortalecer la fit.
al termino del acto de inauguracion hubo la representacion ejemplar de
los maestros y jugadores de
corea y la competencia de la primera jornada del campeonato.
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