TODAY'S NEWS (November.12.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Economic cooperation between DPRK and Cuba
* Kim Jong Il eulogized
* Dialogue and maneuverings are incompatible
* Japan accused of its misbehaviour
* 4th meeting of 18th congress of Chongryon central committee held
For Spanish-speaking people
* segundo contacto de expertos de cooperacion economica norte-sur
Economic cooperation between DPRK and Cuba
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- A protocol of the 20th
intergovernmental meeting of the
economic, scientific and technological consultative committee of the DPRK
and Cuba was signed in Havana
on Nov. 8.
The signing ceremony was attended by members of the DPRK government
economic delegation headed
by Kang Jong Mo, Minister of Foreign Trade, and the Korean charge
d'affaires ad interim to Cuba from the
DPRK side and Ricardo Cabrisas Luis, Cuban Minister of Government, and
officials concerned from the
Cuban side.
The protocol was signed by Kang Jong Mo and Ricardo Cabrisas Luis.
A protocol on commodity exchange for 2001 between the two governments
was also signed on the same
day.
Kim Jong Il eulogized
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- It was entirely attributable to the
seasoned leadership of the great
Kim Jong Il that the north-south joint declaration was released, said Guy
Dupre, secretary general of the
International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea, who
is on a visit to the DPRK, in an
interview with KCNA on Nov. 10.
He said:
The idea that reunification of Korea should be achieved by Koreans
themselves is quite right. So the
reunification should be realized by Koreans, not by any foreign forces.
The mass gymnastic display and art performance proved that Korea has
single-hearted unity which is
stronger than an atomic bomb.
Kim Jong Il's warm love for people and the Korean people's absolute
worship for him are just the core
of the unity.
Kim Jong Il is the great sun and leader who indicates the road ahead of
humankind in the 21st century
and enjoys boundless respect from all people.
In the belief that the Korean people true to his leadership would
achieve great success in the building of a
powerful socialist nation, he hoped that Korea would certainly be reunified
according to mode of federation.
Dialogue and maneuverings are incompatible
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The large-scale Japan-U.S. joint
combined war exercise being
staged in Japan from November 2 to 18 is an open provocation and grave
challenge to the DPRK, points out
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
This is the first field exercise to be held under the simulated
"emergency in the areas surrounding Japan"
after the adoption of the law related to the "Japan-U.S. Defense
Cooperation Guidelines" (war law) last year.
Involved in the exercise are the three services of Japan's "Self-Defense
Forces", the U.S. troops stationed in
Japan, forces of the U.S. pacific fleet and other vast armed forces and
even non-military personnel and
facilities of Japan.
Japan and the U.S. have so far staged many military drills, but there
has been no such combined war
exercises as the current one involving vast armed forces and the three
services of the army. The fact shows
that it is the very dangerous war gamble aimed at unleashing a war of
aggression from A to Z, the author of
the article says, and goes on:
Japan's "emergency law" means just a war law. The current joint
combined exercise is intended to
improve the joint military operations of Japan's "SDF" and the U.S. forces
for actual war under the pretext of
"coping with emergency in the areas surrounding Japan."
The U.S. takes this opportunity to drag Japan in its military action
and thus realize its military domination
and control over Asia. Meanwhile, the Japanese reactionaries seek to put
into practice the overseas aggression
by the "SDF" in the way of taking active part in the U.S. military
operations and thus attain their militarist
design.
Both of Japan and the U.S. regard Korea as the first target for their
aggression on Asia.
Such developments compel us to be doubtful about the attitude of the
U.S. and Japan calling for
"dialogue" and "improved relations".
Dialogue and war exercise are incompatible.
The U.S. and Japanese bellicose forces should discontinue such reckless
war gambles aimed at
unleashing a war behind the curtain of "dialogue" and "improved relations."
Japan accused of its misbehaviour
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Japan is impudently giving
"admonition" to keep member states
of the European union from establishing diplomatic ties with the DPRK.
Some time ago, the Japanese Foreign Minister, at the talks with an EU
senior official in charge of
security affairs, raised the "nuclear and missile issue" and the "issue of
abduction" in a bid to put the brake on
the movement of EU member states to have diplomatic ties with the DPRK.
Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today says:
It is a sinister deed intended to drag European countries in the
outdated anti-DPRK "cooperation" and
thus attain its insidious political purpose.
EU member states are expressing their willingness to establish
diplomatic relations with the DPRK,
which is the affirmative developments. The improvement of relations between
the DPRK and EU member
states is harmful to nobody as it will develop the relations in different
fields and help ensure peace and
security in Asia and the rest of the world.
That is why such movements have been hailed in Asia, Europe and the
rest of the world.
EU member states are now accelerating its movement toward the
improvement of relations with the
DPRK.
Japan will never check this advance with the "suspected abduction" it
is frequently raising a hue and cry
over like a dog barking at moon.
The Japanese authorities is well advised to recall a saying that the
dog barks, the caravan goes on.
It is an exercise of sovereignty based on the independent judgement and
decision for EU member states
to establish the diplomatic ties with the DPRK. Nobody has right or need to
middle in this issue.
If Japan has truly willingness to improve the relations with the DPRK,
it should, above anything else,
settle the keynote problems it should do, instead of doing such dirty
misbehaviour.
The most urgent task of Japan in solving the DPRK-Japan relations is to
liquidate its past.
The settlement of the past is a prerequisite to the improvement of the
bilateral relations, and with this
matter unsettled, is it impossible to establish the bilateral relations.
If Japan continues to peddle with the fiction of "suspected abduction"
for somebody's sympathy and
attain its sinister purpose, it will only reveal its political and moral
inferiority.
4th meeting of 18th congress of Chongryon central committee held
Tokyo, November 10 (KNS-KCNA) -- The 4th meeting of the 18th congress
of the central committee of
the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) was held
at the Korean hall in Tokyo on
November 9.
The meeting discussed the first agenda item "on greeting the 19th
congress of the general association of
Korean residents in Japan with brilliant patriotic success by doing well
the work among broad segments of
compatriots in conformity with a new favourable situation" and the second
agenda item "on convening the
19th congress of the general association of Korean residents in Japan."
First vice-chairman of the central standing committee of Chongryon So
Man Sul in his report on the first
agenda item highlighted the need to make all efforts for making the 19th
congress of Chongryon a congress
of victors and a congress for providing a new milestone to the movement of
Korean residents in Japan in the
21st century.
Mentioning the successes the Korean people achieved in the construction
of a powerful nation and
landmark events in the efforts to achieve national reunification and in the
international arena, he said that the
dramatic events in 2000 are a brilliant fruition of the outstanding
leadership ability of the respected Kim Jong
Il and the valuable gains the people in the homeland rallied close around
Kim Jong Il in one mind and purpose
made.
He continued:
Broad segments of compatriots will be led to make all their efforts to
hold Kim Jong Il in high esteem
and preserve the Juche character and national character so as to greet the
19th congress of Chongryon which
will be held in Tokyo in May 2001, with a new upsurge and brilliant success
in the patriotic work of
Chongryon.
Ho Jong Man, chief vice-chairman of the Chongryon central standing
committee, made a report on the
second agenda item "on convening the 19th congress of the General
Association of Korean Residents in
Japan."
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
For Spanish-speaking people
segundo contacto de expertos de cooperacion economica norte-sur
pyongyang, 11 de noviembre (atcc) -- el segundo contacto de expertos de
cooperacion economica
norte-sur tuvo lugar del 8 al 11 del presente en esta capital.
en esta ocasion ambas partes discutieron los proyectos de acuerdo sobre
la proteccion de inversiones, la
prevencion de dobles impuestos, las formalidades para la solucion de
disputas entre companias y la
liquidacion necesario para preparar la garantia institucional de la
cooperacion economica norte - sur y llegaron
a la identidad de criterios.
decidieron que los cuatro acuerdos seran firmados y aprobados por los
jefes de delegacion de ambas
partes en la 4 ronda de conversaciones a nivel de ministro norte-sur.
acordaron esforzarse por ampliar y desarrollar la cooperacion economica
entre el norte y el sur para lograr
el desarrollo equilibrado de la economia nacional segun la historica
declaracion conjunta norte-sur.
_______________________________________________________
KOMINFORM
P.O. Box 66
00841 Helsinki - Finland
+358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.kominf.pp.fi
_______________________________________________________
Kominform list for general information.
Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news.
Subscribe/unsubscribe messages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_______________________________________________________
