November.18.2000 Juche 89
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of hero Kim Ki Ok
* Greetings to Omani Sultan
* DPRK ambassador to Singapore appointed
* Japan urged to reflect on its wrongs committed in century
* Early solution to Mideast issue called for
* Source of history-making miracles
* National meeting held
* DPRK-U.S. military talks held
* Year to be specially recorded in history of movement for Korean
reunification
* Support to people's struggle for independence called for
Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of hero Kim Ki Ok
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il yesterday
sent a wreath to the bier of hero of the republic Lieut. General of the KPA
Kim Ki Ok, lecturer at the victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum,
expressing deep condolence over his death.
Greetings to Omani Sultan
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Qaboos Bin Said
al Said, Sultan of Oman, on the occasion of its National Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the sultan, government and
people of Oman on this occasion.
It wished the sultan and people greater success in the work for the
prosperity of the country.
It expressed conviction that the friendly relations between the two
countries would develop on good terms.
DPRK ambassador to Singapore appointed
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Kang Tal Son was appointed as
Ambassador E.P. of the DPRK to Singapore, according to a decree of the
presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.
Japan urged to reflect on its wrongs committed in century
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson yesterday carried a signed
article captioned "Japan is the only country that has not yet settled its
crimes in the century."
Debt in the century should be paid off in the century, the article said,
and continued:
Many countries have joined in the current "review of the century", but
Japan is persistently swimming against this trend.
In the 20th century Japan committed hideous crimes against Asian people,
the Korean people in particular.
Far from redressing its crime-woven past, the Japanese reactionaries are
obstinately scheming to repeat such history.
Due to their moves, humankind has to greet a new century without seeing
the complete settlement of the crimes committed in the present century.
The DPRK has made consistent and sincere efforts to terminate the
belligerent relations between the DPRK and Japan in the 20th century and
greet the new century.
But Japan is negative to responding to this.
Japan is foolish enough to contend that the DPRK has no option but to
improve relations with it. Japan is running amok to realise its wild
ambition for reinvasion, indifferent to the settlement of its past, the
principal issue that should be settled first of all.
Japan should bear in mind that as long as Japan does not settle its past
crimes committed against the Korean people, it will remain an eternal sworn
enemy of the Korean people.
Early solution to Mideast issue called for
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a signed article
yesterday asserted that the Mideast issue should be solved most
comprehensively and fairly.
Even after the cease-fire agreement was made on Oct. 17, Israel is
persisting in causing bloodshed in violation of the agreement and shifting
the responsibility for it onto the Palestinian side, the article noted, and
continued:
There is a just principle of peace already laid down for the solution to
the Mideast issue including the Palestinian problem. That principle calls on
both sides in dispute to settle it through a sincere agreement on the
"peace-for-land" principle.
Israel's act of sidestepping and evading the principle cannot be
construed otherwise than pursuing only its design for territorial expansion,
opposed to the fair solution to the Mideast issue.
If Israel does not observe the cease-fire agreement, clashes will
continue to drive the Mideast peace process to a collapse.
It is an exercise of the sovereign right of the Palestinian people to
found an independent state of Palestine.
Source of history-making miracles
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are performing amazing
miracles and exploits in socialist construction despite all sorts of
tempests of history and all this has its source in the trust placed by the
respected leader Kim Jong Il in them, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
article.
The article goes on:
Kim Jong Il is the supreme incarnation of trust and love.
Ever since he began steering revolution he has pursued the policy of
trust under the uplifted slogan "Let's build a new society by virtue of
trust and love." The Korean people have thus grown to be a heroic people who
can do anything.
Kim Jong Il's trust serves as an ideological and moral source of
strength whereby the Korean people can set exceptionally high goals and
undertake work audaciously.
The construction of minor power stations, large-scale land leveling and
rezoning projects, revolution in potato cultivation, fish culture and all
other gigantic projects now under way in the DPRK can be carried out only by
the Korean people who have nurtured pluck and gut thanks to the trust of Kim
Jong Il.
His trust serves as a source of strength whereby the Korean people can
achieve signal successes despite any trial and fully display all their
wisdom and energies in working history-making miracles.
The Korean people built the Anbyon Youth Power Station and other
monumental edifices in the spirit of revolutionary soldiers despite manifold
difficulties although they were hard pressed for everything. They did so
with the single-hearted desire to live up at any cost to the trust placed by
Kim Jong Il in them.
The leader absolutely trusts the people and they work astonishing
miracles, inspired by this trust. This is a real picture of the DPRK and
this guarantees a bright future of the country, the article concludes.
National meeting held
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held Friday to
mark the 55th anniversary of the Korean Democratic Women's Union (KDWU) and
the 30th anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung's on-site guidance to the
central committee of the union.
Present at the meeting were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the central
committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, union officials and women from all
walks of life.
After the liberation of the country Kim Il Sung founded the North Korean
Democratic Women's Union, a mass political organization of the women, on
November 18, Juche 34 (1945) on the basis of noble feats and experience
gained during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
He visited the building of the central committee of the union on
November 24, Juche 59 (1970) and told officials that the central committee
should more energetically push ahead with the work to revolutionize the
women.
Pak Sun Hui, chairwoman of the c.c., KDWU, in her report said that the
foundation of the union enabled the Korean women to make a genuine
contribution to the building of a new country as an organized force backed
by their political organization and the Korean women's movement to enter a
new road of progress under the leadership of the WPK.
The President worked hard for the uniform progress of the Korean women's
movement, rallying all the women under a democratic flag and seeing to it
that women's organizations were founded throughout the country. In January
Juche 40 (1951) he developed the North Korean Women's Democratic Union to be
the Korean Democratic Women's Union, a mass political organization grouping
all the women in the north and the south, the reporter said, and continued:
The great Kim Jong Il elucidated an orientation and ways of finally
solving the women's problem at a historic time when the issue of modeling
the whole society on the Juche idea was brought into limelight and
energetically led the work to resolve it.
In hearty response to the idea and intention of the President the great
communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk ushered in the golden days of
the women's movement in the DPRK and wisely led the Korean women to cherish
the spirit of devotedly safeguarding the leader, she said.
DPRK-U.S. military talks held
Panmunjom, November 17 (KCNA) -- General officer-level talks were held
here today between the sides of the Korean People's Army and the U.S. forces
as regards the issue of opening some portions of the demilitarized zone.
The KPA side was represented by senior colonel Pak Rim Su of the
Panmunjom mission of the KPA and the U.S. forces side by major general
Michael M. Dunn.
As already reported, talks between the defence ministers of the north
and south of Korea took place on Jeju Island between September 25 and 26 to
implement the June 15 joint declaration adopted at the inter-Korean summit.
It was proposed at the talks to open some portions of the Military
Demarcation Line and the DMZ through which railways and road will pass to
relink the north and the south, and put them under the control of the north
and the south sides and ensure safety in the projects there.
This was a matter to be discussed between the KPA side and the U.S.
forces side, signatories to the Armistice Agreement, as required by the
agreement.
Therefore, the KPA side proposed to work out a supplementary agreement
of the AA related to the projects so as to militarily and legally guarantee
the issue of relinking the railways and road between the north and the
south, and had several working contacts with the U.S. forces side at
Panmunjom to this end.
A draft agreement discussed at the working-level contacts so far was
finally confirmed and ratified at the general officer-level talks held today
between the two sides.
The agreement was signed by Pak Rim Su and Michael M. Dunn.
The agreement said that both sides will open some portions of the
Military Demarcation Line and the demilitarized zone through which
Sinuiju-Seoul railways and Kaesong-Munsan road will pass and put those
portions under the control of the north and the south in accordance with the
Armistice Agreement.
According to it, both sides will allow the armies of the north and the
south to consult and deal with the technical issues concerning the opening
of some portions of the DMZ and military problems arising in the portions
under the control of the north and the south in conformity with the
armistice agreement.
The agreement said it goes into effect from the date of its ratification
at the general officer-level talks in Panmunjom.
The agreement on opening some portions of the demilitarized zone and
placing them under the control of the north and the south reached between
the signatories to the Armistice Agreement provides a legal guarantee for
the north and the south to consult and settle the technical problems
concerning the relinking of the Sinuiju-Seoul railways and Kaesong-Munsan
road.
Year to be specially recorded in history of movement for Korean
reunification
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- The year 2000 is marked by significant
events in the history of the Korean people's struggle for independent and
peaceful national reunification.
The historic Pyongyang meeting, north-south summit and the June 15
north-south joint declaration are the greatest successes in the
reunification movement since the country was divided into two parts over
half a century back.
The north-south joint declaration published at the Pyongyang meeting
between the two heads of the north and the south is displaying its
tremendous vitality.
A series of ministerial and Red Cross talks between the north and the
south have been held in the north and the south to implement the joint
declaration.
And the high-level military talks and the talks between the Foreign
Minister of the north and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the
south, which were aimed to discuss mutual cooperation in external relations
and on the international arena, were held. A delegation of south media
organizations visited Pyongyang and a joint communique of media
organizations in the north and the south was published.
The project to relink the severed railways and roads between the north
and the south, the table-tennis game for reunification and the north's State
Symphony Orchestra's performance in Seoul, etc, bolstered up the whole
nation's enthusiasm for reunification.
This year the north and the south showed the nation and the world their
will to trust and unite with each other, free from mutual misunderstanding
and the stand of confrontation.
Separated families and relatives in the north and the south had an
emotion-charged reunion in Pyongyang and Seoul, the first of its kind in
over 50 years, on the occasion of the August 15 liberation day. And over 60
unconverted long-term prisoners, products of division and confrontation,
returned to the DPRK in early September under the blessings of the whole
nation.
The athletes of the north and the south jointly entered the 27th Sydney
Olympics to be cheered by more than 100,000 spectators and the north-south
joint resolution "peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula"
was adopted at the plenary meeting of the 55th UN General Assembly to
command widespread support of the international community.
A special mention should be made of the fact that General Secretary Kim
Jong Il sent gifts to President Kim Dae Jung and members of several
delegations of the south side, which visited Pyongyang, on the occasion of
Chusok (autumn festival).
These noteworthy events this year greatly help bring earlier national
reunification, the cherished desire of the nation.
Support to people's struggle for independence called for
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- It is one of the important tasks of the
Non-Aligned Movement to give positive support to the just struggle of the
people for independence and sovereignty, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed
article today.
It goes on:
Non-aligned and developing countries which have taken the road of
independent development, freed from imperialist and colonialist domination,
should positively support and encourage the struggle of the people for
national independence. And the people fighting for national independence
should extend help to those people who have already won independence in
their efforts for sovereignty and progress through their struggle.
This is the law of development of the people's just cause.
Support of the non-aligned and developing countries to the struggle of
the people for national independence presents itself as a more urgent issue
in view of the imperialists' moves for aggression and interference and is
helpful to accomplishing the cause of global independence.
The people's struggle for independence and sovereignty, the struggle to
free themselves from imperialist domination and subordination, is part of
the struggle for global independence.
To support this struggle is the noble international duty of non-aligned
and developing countries in the cause of independence against imperialism.
The movement for support and solidarity with the people in the struggle
for independence and sovereignty will strengthen the solidarity of the
non-aligned movement and all anti-imperialist independent forces. It is also
favourable to the preservation of world peace.
The Korean people will make all efforts to firmly defend the noble idea
and principle of the Non-Aligned Movement and promote its unity. They will
sincerely support the just struggle of the people for independence and
sovereignty.
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