TODAY'S NEWS (October.05.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* KCNA on U.S. Defense Secretary's remarks
* Syrian charge d'affaires ad interim hosts reception
* Commemorative stamps published
* Cuban ambassador gives reception
* Japan had better redress its past before anything else
* World Day of Teachers observed
* Symposiums held in different sectors
* National symposium held to mark 55th anniversary of WPK foundation
* Functions held in celebration of WPK founding anniversary
* WPK praised by Indian political leader
* CILRECO issues bulletin
* Samsong temple shines again
* Rodong Sinmun on rosy future of WPK
* Rodong Sinmun on crisis of imperialism
* Political program for national reunification
* Seeds of trouble should not be sown against nation
CNA on U.S. Defense Secretary's remarks
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Cohen's renewed
clamor about "threat
from the north" is inviting public criticism after his remarks disclosing
the U.S. intention to keep its
forces in South Korea indefinitely made during his trip to southeast Asian
region including South Korea
and Japan in September created quite a furore.
Cohen in his lecture given in Washington on October 2 was reported to
have asserted "North Korea
still remains a potential military threat to South Korea."
His assertion should not be simply overlooked as he officially
expressed this view at a time when
the process for north-south reconciliation and cooperation and dialogues
between the DPRK and United
States have entered a new phase.
Two aims are sought by U.S. right-wing forces in persistently spreading
the rumour about "military
threat" from the DPRK. One of them is to permanently keep the U.S. troops
in East Asia and maintain
its military supremacy in this region by chilling the atmosphere of
inter-Korean reconciliation and
cooperation and stopping the peace process on the Korean peninsula. The
other aim is to calm down the
anti-U.S. feelings rapidly mounting in South Korea.
It goes to prove that the U.S. oft-repeated words "dialogue and
cooperation" are nothing but sheer
hypocrisy.
Multi-faceted dialogues are now under way between the DPRK and the
United States and the
special envoy of the chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission is
expected to visit the
United States in the near future.
The attempt of the U.S. right-wing forces to put the brake on the
development of the inter-Korean
relations and the DPRK-U.S. relations under the absurd pretext of "military
threat" from the DPRK
cannot be construed otherwise than an anachronistic act.
They should give up their old way of thinking intended to bring the
inter-Korean relations and the
DPRK-U.S. relations back to the era of the Cold War.
Syrian charge d'affaires ad interim hosts reception
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Haissam Saad, Syrian charge d'affaires
ad interim to the DPRK,
hosted a reception Wednesday on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the
Worker's Party of Korea
(WPK).
Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the political bureau and secretary
of the Central Committee of
the WPK, Kim Yang Gon, department director of the C.C., WPK, Kang Jong Mo,
Minister of Foreign
Trade and chairman of the DPRK-Syria Friendship Association, and Minister
of Foreign Trade, Kang
Nung Su, Minister of Culture, and others were present there on invitation.
Haissam Saad in his speech said that the WPK founded by the great
leader Kim Il Sung has
strengthened and developed to be an invincible party under the wise
guidance of the great Kim Jong Il.
The ties between the Arab Socialist Baath Party and the WPK which were
forged on the basis of
comradeship through a common struggle are special ones as they were
provided by President Hafez al
Assad and Kim Il Sung, eternal leaders.
These ties are being successfully carried forward by leaders President
Bashar al Assad and Kim
Jong Il, he stressed.
Choe Thae Bok, in his speech said that the traditional friendly and
cooperative ties provided and
brought into full bloom by Kim Il Sung and Hafez al Assad are now being
further consolidated and
developed thanks to the close ties between the great leader Kim Jong Il and
the respected Bashar al
Assad.
The Korean people will in the future, too, make every possible effort
to continue to favorably
develop the friendly and cooperative ties between the DPRK and Syria true
to the intention of Kim Jong
Il, he said, stressing:
The worker's party and people of Korea will as ever support the Arab
Socialist Baath Party and the
Syrian people in their just cause to recover Arab territories including the
Golan Heights and to see fair
and comprehensive solution of the Middle East problem.
Commemorative stamps published
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications issued a sheet
carrying three kinds of stamps and another variety of stamp on the
threshold of the 55th anniversary of
the Worker's Party of Korea.
Printed in the sheet are portraits of the President Kim Il Sung and
General Secretary Kim Jong Il
and great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
Written on the stamps are words "the foundation of the Worker's Party
of Korea" and "55th
anniversary." The mark of the WPK and the party founding museum are printed
on the stamps.
Two kinds of commemorative envelopes were also published.
Cuban ambassador gives reception
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Cuban ambassador to Korea Jose Manuel
Inclan Embade hosted
a reception yesterday on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the
Worker's Party of Korea.
Invited to the reception were Kye Ung Thae, politburo member and
secretary of the Central
Committee of the WPK, and officials concerned.
The ambassador said in his speech that the preparatory committees were
organized in many
countries to celebrate the significant holiday of the fraternal Korean
people. It is an expression of
solidarity with the struggle of the Korean people who are overcoming all
the difficulties, he said, and
continued:
The relations of comradely friendship and solidarity existing between
the two peoples and the two
parties are based on the intimacy between Supreme Commander Fidel Castro
and the great leader
President Kim Il Sung and they are steadily developing under the deep care
of the great leader Kim Jong
Il, General Secretary of the WPK.
The Cuban people are admiring the efforts of the fraternal Korean
people to build a powerful nation
in this land under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il who is administering
the politics of army-first
leadership to creditably implement the behest of Kim Il Sung.
Kye Ung Thae said in his speech that the fraternal Cuban people are now
registering great successes
in socialist construction holding aloft the revolutionary slogan "Let us
defend the country, revolution
and the gains of socialism " more firmly united around the respected Fidel
Castro and Raul Castro.
It is an intention of Kim Jong Il and the steadfast stand of the WPK to
strengthen and develop the
ties of friendship, solidarity and cooperation between the two parties and
the two peoples, he said, and
went on:
We will in the future, too, closely cooperate with the Cuban comrades
to further develop the
traditional friendly relations between the two parties, armies and peoples
based on the close intimacy
between the leaders of the two countries.
Japan had better redress its past before anything else
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today in an article accuses
Japan of impudently
busying itself with its diplomacy to seek a permanent membership of the UN
Security Council.
Japan is not qualified to sit on the UNSC, the article notes, and goes on:
Japan should redress its past. This is a task it should fulfil before
making a bid for permanent
membership.
The Japanese imperialists occupied Korea through a brigandish armed
invasion, committed
unprecedentedly hideous crimes and perpetrated aggression, murder, arson
and plunder in many
countries of Asia during World War II.
Nevertheless, Japan has not yet settled its criminal past though more
than half a century has passed
since the end of the war. Its intention to evade the redress for its past
is to repeat its history of
aggression.
Many countries of the world are deeply concerned about Japan's moves
for overseas aggression
and heightening vigilance against Japan.
Japan seems not to know where it stands.
It is quite foolhardy for it to make a bid for permanent membership of
the UN Security Council
without redressing its past crimes.
If Japan truly wants to win trust from the international community, it
should redress its wrong past
as early as possible.
World Day of Teachers observed
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today devotes a signed
article to the World Day of
Teachers.
It says that on this day the Korean teachers note with deep emotion
that they have admirably
discharged their mission and duty under the world's best socialist
education system.
The article goes on:
The teachers in the DPRK are highly praised as professional
revolutionaries and state concern and
social respect for them are increasing as days go by.
With the position and role of educators rising, great achievements are
reported in education and the
DPRK is being praised by the world people as a country of education.
Symposiums held in different sectors
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Symposiums of the Ministry of the
People's Armed Forces and
the media were held here as similar ones are going on in various sectors to
mark the 55th anniversary of
the Worker's Party of Korea.
At the symposium held in the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces
speakers said that the WPK is
demonstrating its dignity as a great party which has set a brilliant
example in building a revolutionary
party in the era of independence and performed immortal exploits in
carrying out the cause of socialism.
The WPK is an ever-victorious party steering the Korean revolution to
glory with the great
army-first politics and it has successfully pulled through stern ordeals by
putting forward the people's
army as a pillar and driving force of revolution, they said.
They called upon all the soldiers to firmly guarantee the cause of the
party and socialism with arms
and thus perform the role of an engine in accomplishing the revolutionary
cause of Juche.
At the media symposium speakers said that the media is demonstrating
its might as an ideological
weapon in educating masses and inspiring them in the implementation of the
party policies under the
wise leadership of the WPK.
They looked back on the road covered by the revolutionary media of the WPK.
They called upon the mediapersons to become absolute worshippers and
death-defying vanguard
fighters of the great Kim Jong Il so as to fulfil their duty as excellent
educators, brave propagandists,
loyal spokesmen and active implementers in Kim Jong Il era.
National symposium held to mark 55th anniversary of WPK foundation
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- A national symposium was held at the
people's palace of culture
yesterday to mark the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK).
Present there were secretary of the WPK Central Committee Choe Thae Bok
and vice-president of
the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK Yang Hyong Sop
who are alternate
members of the political bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and others
and a delegation of the
Association of Korean Social Scientists in Japan.
The symposium was addressed by Ri Chang Hwa, first deputy rector of Kim
Il Sung Higher Party
School, Choe Chil Nam, editor-in-chief of Rodong Sinmun, Pak Ryong Mun,
chief secretary of the
WPK committee of Kim Il Sung University, Thae Hyong Chol, president of the
Academy of Social
Sciences, Ri Tong Su, chief secretary of the Sunchon city committee of the
WPK, Ri Thae Bong,
editor-in-chief of Joson Inmingun, An Kyong Ho, director of the secretariat
of the Committee for the
Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, and Ri Sung Jae, secretary of the
Pyongyang city committee of
the WPK.
The speakers said that under the wise guidance of the great leaders Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il the
WPK has been built into a new party of the working class, a revolutionary
party of Juche type, and it
has brought about a fundamental turn in the party building of the working
class and set a brilliant
example.
It was stressed at the symposium that what is most important in this
example of global significance
set by the WPK is that it has been built into a party of the leader the
unitary idea and leadership of which
have been successfully achieved, a mass party deeply rooted among the
popular masses, a genuine
people's party which serves the people and a totally independent party.
Functions held in celebration of WPK founding anniversary
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held by working people's
organizations in
celebration of the 3rd anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's
election as General Secretary of the
Worker's Party of Korea and the 55th anniversary of the foundation of the
party.
Speakers at the meetings referred to the feats performed by the great
leaders President Kim Il Sung
and General Secretary Kim Jong Il in building the party of Juche type.
The meeting of members of trade unions called on all of them to take
the lead in the drive to build a
powerful nation, recalling that leader Kim Jong Il has shown deep interest
in the work of trade unions
and led it to contribute to achieving the cause of the party in each period
of the revolutionary
development.
Speakers at the meeting of members of the Union of Agricultural Workers
and agricultural workers
pledged themselves to bring about a great revolutionary boost in
production, saying that it is one of the
main thrusts of the WPK to satisfactorily solve the people's problem of
food by increasing the
agricultural production at an early date.
The meeting of members of the Women's Union underscored the need to
prepare all its members as
vanguard for building a powerful nation who are ready to devote themselves
to the party and the leader
by learning from indomitable communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk,
noting that the Korean
women are admirably carrying on the revolution and construction, turning
one of the two wheels of
revolution, responsible for the country.
Meanwhile, a fine art exhibition of the Korean People's Army opened on
the threshold of the 55th
anniversary of the WPK foundation.
WPK praised by Indian political leader
New Delhi, October 3 (KCNA) -- D. Biswas, general secretary of the
central committee of the
All-India Forward Bloc, was interviewed by the KCNA correspondent to India
on Sept. 28 on the
threshold of the 55th anniversary of the foundation of the Worker's Party
of Korea.
The general secretary praised the respected Kim Jong Il as a
distinguished thinker and theoretician
of our times endowed with far-sighted wisdom, a peerless politician and an
outstanding military
strategist who leads the cause of independence to brilliant victory with
his iron will, matchless grit and
prominent commanding art and a great popular leader who devotes his all to
the country and people.
As the WPK has Kim Jong Il as its General Secretary, it has grown to be
a steel-strong party which
always emerges victorious in the revolutionary struggle, giving steady
continuity to the tradition of
Juche, he said and went on:
Kim Jong Il was the first in history to expound the unique idea that a
party of the working class
should be a party of a leader and fully embody it, thus making an immortal
contribution to the cause of
strengthening and developing the WPK to be a party of the great leader Kim
Il Sung.
The WPK under the tested leadership of Kim Jong Il will win one victory
after another in the
future, too, and admirably discharge its mission and role as a guide of the
Korean revolution, he
stressed.
CILRECO issues bulletin
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The secretariat of the International
Liaison Committee for the
Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO) issued bulletin no. 306 on Sept. 27.
The bulletin in an article titled "Progress in reconciliation between
north and south after Pyongyang
summit" said that positive changes took place in the Korean peninsula after
the announcement of the
north-south joint declaration and that such achievement was made on the
basis of the three principles of
independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
When peace process in the Korean peninsula is being affirmatively
stepped up, the international
community should respect the right to self-determination of the Korean
people and reject any outside
interference in internal affairs of the Korean nation, it said, and continued:
The U.S. troops' occupation of South Korea is a major obstacle in the
independent and peaceful
reunification of Korea.
The U.S. administration should not confine itself to issuing a
statement hailing the process of
reconciliation and relaxation which began in the Korean peninsula but show
its support in practice.
The CILRECO appeals to the world peace-loving and progressive forces
and the international
community to support the achievements in the process of inter-Korean
reconciliation and decisively
reject obstructive actions.
The bulletin also edited articles titled "International signature
campaign for supporting the
three-point charter of Korea's reunification" and "Recent achievements in
DPRK external affairs."
Samsong temple shines again
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Samsong Temple in Mt. Kuwol in South
Hwanghae Province
has been reconstructed.
The temple was the oldest one in Korea in which the people had held
memorial services to Tangun,
father of Korean nation from ancient Korea. From late Koryo dynasty
memorial services had been given
for Tangun, his father Hwan Ung and grandfather Hwan In here. It had been
reconstructed in the
middle of the 15th century and such similar service went on till late Ri
dynasty.
It was burned to ashes by the Japanese who strove to obliterate Tangun
in Korean history.
President Kim Il Sung, in his lifetime, referring to the historical
remains in Mt. Kuwol related with
Tangun, proposed restoring Samsong Temple to its original state.
True to his earnest requests, leader Kim Jong Il guided the
reconstruction project.
The restored Samsong Temple includes the main building, Samsong shrine,
and, with it as a center,
Yongbin and Yanghyon shrines on the right and left, and below, an office
building and a lodging house
facing each other, and gable-roofed gate.
Rodong Sinmun on rosy future of WPK
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today devotes more than
half a page to a signed
article saying that the Worker's Party of Korea has been steeled to be an
invincible party through the
"arduous march" despite the stern ordeals.
The article notes that the harsh trials during the "arduous march" and
forced march marked a turning
point which enabled the WPK to take on more distinct shape as an
iron-willed party.
Referring to the fact that through the "arduous march" the
determination and will of the party to be
true to the socialist cause to the end became more unshakable, the unity
and cohesion of the party grew
stronger than ever before and a new turn was made in the working method and
style of the party, the
article goes on:
The WPK gained more than what it lost during the "arduous march." The
WPK has become an
invincible iron-willed party in the course of leading the Korean revolution
to victory despite challenges
of history. This is the most precious gain of the Korean revolution which
no amount of money can ever
buy.
The invincibility of the WPK precisely means the greatness of the
respected leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il wisely led the party to invariably preserve the
revolutionary character as a party of the
great leader Kim Il Sung, the article notes, and goes on:
It is the firm will of Kim Jong Il to strengthen and develop the WPK to
be an eternal party of Kim Il
Sung.
Kim Jong Il energetically led the work to uphold and glorify Kim Il
Sung's idea of party building
and his achievements made in it generation after generation during the
"arduous march" and forced
march. It is the principle Kim Jong Il consistently maintained during the
"arduous march" that the
revolutionary idea and achievements of Kim Il Sung should be inherited 100
percent and the revolution
and construction should be carried out exactly as Kim Il Sung did, true to
his intention.
The might of the WPK could significantly increase thanks to the great
army-first politics of Kim
Jong Il.
His benevolent politics and all-embracing policy were a main source
which enabled the party to get
rooted more deeply among the popular masses despite the trials of the
"arduous march."
Rosy is the future of the WPK steeled and seasoned through the "arduous
march," the article
concludes.
Rodong Sinmun on crisis of imperialism
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The more serious crisis imperialism
faces, the more reactionary
and aggressive it becomes in its nature and the more desperate it gets in
its moves to maintain its
existence, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
Above all, the imperialists are facing the most serious economic
crisis. Once the imperialist
countries "prospered" by dint of rich natural resources, vast colonies and
unlimited exploitation and
plunder. But they are now suffering from economic stagnation and chaos
worsening owing to the
exhaustion of natural resources, financial shortage and marketing difficulties.
The crisis of the imperialists gets from bad to worse due to the
mounting contradiction and
antagonism among them.
A ever-fierce scramble is going on among the imperialist powers to meet
their economic interests
now that their sphere of influence and markets have decreased considerably.
The United States is working hard to build a unipolar world of American
style, styling itself the
"only superpower". But other western powers are seeking separately to build
a new economy and form
a military bloc of their own style, while rejecting the U.S. monopolistic
domination.
The crisis of the imperialists is also deepening due to the
ever-aggravating internal contradiction.
They are resorting to extreme adventures in a bid to tide over the crisis.
Above all, they intend to bridge over the crisis by getting the upper
hand of strength and launching
aggression and war.
The United States spent more than 45 billion dollars to carry out a
computer simulated test and
subcritical nuclear test in a bid to improve nuclear warheads. It is going
ahead with its plan to establish
the "missile defense" system.
The imperialists are seeking to continuously keep and expand the NATO
and other aggressive
military blocs and concentrating mobile strike forces and so on, on the
regions of military and strategic
importance.
Their loudmouthed "globalization" is part of their moves to tide over
the crisis.
"Globalization" is bringing catastrophic consequences to different
countries of the world.
Political program for national reunification
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
describes "10-point
program of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the
country" published by the
President Kim Il Sung as a great political program to achieve the
independent and peaceful reunification
of the country by closely uniting the whole nation as one and strengthening
the driving forces for
reunification under the banner of great national unity.
The ten-point program comprehensively deals with not only the general
target and ideological basis
of great national unity and its principles but specific ways of
accomplishing the cause of national
reunification through national unity, the article says, and continues:
The great leader set out in the program the patriotic idea calling for
achieving the great unity of the
whole nation, transcending the difference in ideology and system in order
to achieve the independent
and peaceful reunification of the country, thus enabling anyone desirous of
patriotism and reunification
to turn out in the struggle for national unity.
The general goal of the program is to found an independent, peaceful
and neutral unified state.
The program calls for taking patriotism and the spirit of national
independence as an ideological
basis for great unity and sets it as a principle of the great national
unity to promote co-existence,
co-prosperity and common interests and subordinate everything to the cause
of national reunification.
Specifically clarified in the program are issues of protecting the
material and spiritual wealth of
individuals and organizations and encouraging their use for the promotion
of great national unity and
achieving understanding, trust and unity of the whole nation through
contacts, visits and dialogue,
strengthening the solidarity of the whole nation on the road of
reunification and honoring those who
have contributed to the great unity of the nation and the cause of national
reunification.
Seeds of trouble should not be sown against nation
Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- The joint meeting of the government,
political parties and
organizations of the DPRK invited political parties, organizations and
personages of South Korea to the
celebrations of the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea,
evoking a lively response at home
and abroad.
Political parties and organizations in South Korea have positively
responded to this invitation,
hoping for visit to Pyongyang.
But, some quarters in South Korea are dismissing our invitation as
"premature," "politically
motivated" and "strategy for united front," prompted by a deliberate
intention to lead the public opinion
to declining the invitation.
As noted in the invitation letter, our invitation is intended to
further push the inter-Korean relations,
which are favourably developing in the spirit of the historic Pyongyang
meeting and the June 15 joint
declaration, to reconciliation, cooperation and reunification.
It is non-sensical for them to term it "premature."
The heads of the north and the south already had a historic meeting and
the June 15 joint
declaration, a milestone of the nation in 2000s, was adopted and
multi-faceted dialogues, contacts,
cooperation and exchanges including ministerial talks, talks between
military authorities, exchanges of
visiting groups of separated families and relatives and tourists' groups,
relinking of Sinuiju-Seoul
railways and opening of roads, etc. are making brisk headway in the noble
spirit of the declaration.
The north side's delegation to the 3rd round of the north-south
ministerial talks recently held on Jeju
Island attended a festival organized by people on Jeju Island at the
request of the south side and even
made a congratulatory address there.
All this is landmark events which are the first of their kinds since
the 55 years of the split of the
country and nation and hardly imaginable even a few months ago.
Such being the hard fact, some people in the south term the north
side's invitation to the holiday
according to the nation's customs and tradition as "premature." This can
not be construed otherwise than
remark which can be made only by those who are unable to face up to the
reality.
If a thing should be done as they claim when the north and the south
will be able to enjoy a holiday
together?
As far as "politically motivated" and "strategy for united front" are
concerned, they are no more than
groundless charges.
The invitation extended by us to South Korean political parties,
organizations and individual
personages to visit Pyongyang is only intended to invite fellow countrymen
to enjoy the holiday in the
north together.
Why are they interpreting the north side's sincere invitation and kind
gesture as "politically
motivated" and "strategy for united front?"
This cannot be construed otherwise than a behaviour proving that they
have neither intention to
implement the joint declaration nor an idea of developing the north-south
relations into those of
reconciliation and cooperation.
If an invitation extended to South Korea to enjoy a holiday together is
a "strategy for united front,"
should the meeting held between the heads of both sides and talks between
their authorities be termed a
"strategy for united front"?
If they will not come to the north, claiming that attending the holiday
is to implement the "strategy
for united front," we will hardly know how they will hold dialogues with
us, implement the joint
declaration, the supreme political agreement, and realize the reunion
between separated families and
relatives.
They should know time is running out and a chance does not always
present itself.
We hope they will not sow seeds of trouble among fellow countrymen nor
will they lament their
folly.
Political parties, organizations and individual personages in South
Korea should not miss the rare
chance.
We will welcome anyone wishing to visit Pyongyang no matter in what
form and capacity he may
come.
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