TODAY'S NEWS (November.17.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Gift to Kim Jong Il
* Kim Yong Nam meets delegation of CPG
* Proposal for founding DFRK supported
* Mines massively laid in S. Korea
* Army-first policy vital to single-hearted unity
* Japan's inconsistent diplomacy
* Musical collection program developed
* DPRK History Society on illegal "Ulsa five-point treaty"
For Spanish-speaking people
* obras musicales por computacion
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
a gift from the delegation
of the Communist Party of Greece.
The gift was handed to Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the political
bureau and secretary of the
Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, by Orestis Kolozof,
member of the political bureau and
international secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of
Greece who is heading the
delegation of the party on a visit to the DPRK.
Kim Yong Nam meets delegation of CPG
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, member of the political
bureau of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea and President of the presidium of
the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, met and had a talk with the delegation of the Communist Party of
Greece (CPG) headed by Orestis
Kolozof, member of the political bureau and international secretary of the
central committee of the party, at
the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
At the meeting the head of the delegation said that the high authority
of the respected leader Kim Il Sung
and the great leader Kim Jong Il is well known to the world revolutionary
people.
Noting that the DPRK is working world-startling miracles under the
banner of socialism, he said that the
CPG would extend full support to the Korean people in the efforts for the
country's reunification.
Proposal for founding DFRK supported
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The Malta-Korea Friendship Association
in a statement issued on
November 6 on the occasion of the month of supporting the proposal for
founding the Democratic Federal
Republic of Koryo expressed the belief that Korean reunification would be
certainly achieved.
The statement said:
The proposal for founding the DFRK, a realistic one for Korean
reunification, is an important element of
the three-point charter of national reunification set forth by President
Kim Il Sung and formulated by leader
Kim Jong Il.
This encourages the Korean people in their struggle for national
reunification.
The statement expressed full support and firm solidarity with the
Korean people in their struggle for
national reunification.
Mines massively laid in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The Green Federation asserted that
about 70,000 anti-personnel
mines are laid underground in 21 places including major parks and suburbs
of Seoul and other big cities in
South Korea, according to Seoul-based MBC.
The Green Federation said that there are mines in four places in
Kyonggi and south Kyongsang
provinces each, three in South Chungchong Province, two in Pusan and South
Jolla Province each and in
Seoul, Taegu, Ulsan, north Kyongsang and north Jolla provinces and Kangwon
Province in South Korea.
Meanwhile, as regards the assertion made by the Green Federation, the
joint chiefs of staff of the South
Korean Army admitted that at least 75,000 mines are placed underground in
39 rear areas, according to a
report of "Radio No. 1."
Army-first policy vital to single-hearted unity
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The army-first policy of the respected
Kim Jong Il is vital to our
single-hearted unity, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It goes on:
He made the great history of the army-first policy, thus achieving the
strongest single-hearted unity of the
revolutionary ranks. This is a shining undying feat performed by him in the
century.
The army-first policy of the Worker's Party of Korea has served as a
source of the unprecedentedly
ardent worship of our servicemen and people for the leader.
Fully convinced of the truth that there is neither fatherland nor
Korean-style socialism without the
army-first policy, the Korean people entirely entrust their destiny to Kim
Jong Il, the architect of the
army-first policy of the WPK, and trust and follow him like heaven.
This policy has also served as a decisive factor of building up the
revolutionary ranks into powerful
forces devotedly defending the leader and a powerful weapon whereby to
achieve the perfect unity between
the servicemen and people in the aspect of ideological, spiritual and moral
traits.
The Korean people will uphold his revolutionary army-first leadership
with loyalty and thus glorify
forever the revolutionary history of the WPK as a history of victory of
single-hearted unity.
Japan's inconsistent diplomacy
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Recently differences surfaced among
political forces in Japan over
Japan's policy towards the DPRK and its media are strongly critical of the
government's inconsistent
diplomatic posture.
Commenting on Japan's policy towards the DPRK, the Asahi Shimbun said
that "one can hardly see
Japan's diplomatic will to deal with the Korean peninsula from an
independent stand and play any role in Asia
in the 21st century." It added that it is difficult to expect any progress
in the Japan-DPRK negotiations, etc. If
the political leadership finds itself in confusion which should set out a
diplomatic guideline at the momentous
turn of the century.
As the paper pointed out, it is universally known that Japan's
diplomacy has existed as a mere appendage
to the diplomatic policy of the United States as it lacked any clear goal
and consistent principle and this found
its manifestation in an anachronistic hostile policy towards the DPRK, in
particular.
Japan has insisted on fictitious and groundless issues, evading the
liquidation of its past crimes, its top
priority for the normalization of the relations with the DPRK, under this
or that pretext. In this way it has
deliberately created obstacles to the DPRK-Japan talks though the century
is drawing to a close.
No wonder, the world people often describe Japan as a "country without
diplomacy." It is ridiculous and
deplorable that Japan, feeling proud of its "international role" in the
international arena, is making a bid for
the permanent membership of the UN Secretary Council. It is quite natural
that this resulted in the confusion
among the political circles of Japan.
This political chaos related to Japan's policy towards the DPRK is
attributable to the wrong policy of the
Japanese government towards the DPRK. Japan should opt for liquidating its
past crimes among other things
if it is to settle the confusion and reach a consensus of political views.
Musical collection program developed
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The Korean Computer Center and the
Literature and Art Press
Group recently co-produced the musical collection program "Samilpho."
Inputted into the program are at least 4,000 pieces of songs,
instrumental music and music for vocalists,
etc, which have so far been created in the DPRK.
The "Samilpho" program helps use all scores from songs to orchestral
scores.
It is also possible to print musical notes by using the program which
automatically plays music according
to harmonic symbol and rhythm.
Music can be searched according to the title of a song, the name of a
composer and poet and the date of
its composition.
This program is very instrumental in permanently preserving music art
of the country and musical
heritage of the nation.
DPRK History Society on illegal "Ulsa five-point treaty"
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The history Society of the DPRK
published an article on
Thursday 95 years after the Japanese imperialists forged the "Ulsa
five-point treaty" on November 17, 1905
to extort sovereign rights from Korea.
In the article titled "'Ulsa five-point treaty' is an unconcluded,
illegal false document" it discloses once
again the illegality of the "treaty".
Rodong Sinmun today gives one whole page to the article.
In its first part the article refers to the shameless and brigandish
deeds committed by the Japanese
imperialists to forge the "treaty".
The "call for conquering Korea" was zealously advocated in Japan just
after the "Meiji restoration."
Availing themselves of this situation, the Japanese imperialists were
hell-bent on the moves to turn Korea into
their colony under the pretext of "protecting" its independence from
aggression by big powers.
At a cabinet meeting on October 27, 1905, they reached an agreement on
reducing Korea to a
"protectorate" of Japan and set early November for forcing a "protectorate
treaty" upon Korea. It was under
this brigandish, shameless and aggressive plan that the "Ulsa five-point
treaty" was rigged up and
announced.
Their brigandish deeds found their manifestation in the fact that they
threatened and blackmailed the king
of Korea, the highest representative of the feudal government of Ri
dynasty, and ministers of its government
and took the seal of the Foreign Minister away to stamp the "treaty" willfully.
The Japanese imperialists pressed ministers of the Korean government to
allow the conclusion of the
"treaty" whose original copy was worked out by Japan, concocted its
approval, forced stamping on the treaty
and announced the signing of the treaty unilaterally.
In the second part the article says the "Ulsa five-point treaty" is an
illegal and false document devoid of
any modalities of a treaty.
This "treaty" lacked elementary modalities as a treaty such as title,
signature of the king and the print of
the national seal, which are important procedures for putting a treaty into
effect, and credentials of a
representative.
It was mainly because the feudal government of the Ri dynasty
resolutely opposed its signing as it would
be a victim to it and the Japanese imperialists disregarded the
requirements of international law while resorting
to military threat and coercion.
The third part of the article deals with the resistance struggles waged
by the Koreans to nullify the
"treaty" and the conclusion based on international law branding it as illegal.
Enraged at the news of the illegal "treaty" forged by the Japanese
imperialists, the Korean people
strongly protested against their aggressive moves and the deeds of the Ulsa
five traitors and rose in a
vigorous resistance against them. Various forms of resistance struggles for
the abrogation of the "treaty"
evidently proved that the Korean nation had never recognized it.
It was also recognized by the world community that the "treaty" was an
illegally fabricated document.
There were many worldwide arguments based on international law declaring
this "treaty" null and avoid. In
1906 a French scholar Francis Rey made public a paper in this connection
for the first time. This issue was
also dealt with in a report submitted by the law college of Harvard
University in 1935, which set up a
committee for the study of international law and had several years of
discussions on it, and at a meeting of the
UN International Law Commission on the treaty law in 1963.
The "Ulsa five-point treaty" is a false document forged and proclaimed
willfully by the Japanese
imperialists through coercion and blackmail by force of arms in disregard
of state-to-state relationship and
international law. It is a historical evidence fully disclosing the
unprecedentedly shamelessness and
brigandish nature of the Japanese imperialists in the past and today,
stresses the article.
For Spanish-speaking people
obras musicales por computacion
pyongyang, 17 de noviembre (atcc) -- recientemente el centro de
computacion de corea y el complejo de
editoriales arte y literatura terminaron de redactar "samilpho", obras
musicales por computacion.
la coleccion contiene mas de 4 000 canciones, tonadas instrumentales y
de acompanamiento para musica
vocal creadas hasta la fecha en corea.
el programa "samilpho" ofrece todas las partituras desde canciones
hasta musica orquestal.
el programa posibilita el acompanamiento automatico segun las notas
armonicas y el ritmo y es capaz de
imprimir las partituras y de registrar las partituras por titulos de
canciones, nombres de compositores y
autores de letras de canciones y anos de su creacion.
el programa puede conservar las obras y patrimonios musicos nacionales.
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