TODAY'S NEWS (March.12.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS]
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Rodong Sinmun on reckless remarks of U.S. official
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Paek Nam Sun meets permanent under-secretary of FCO of United Kingdom
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Greetings to 7th Congress of LPRP
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Proposal for holding world conference supported
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Korean stamp corporation
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DPRK government cultural delegation leaves
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Gift to Kim Jong Il
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Working consultation held between inter-Korean trade unions
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Working-level talks held between peasants' organizations in north and south
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Vice-president of SPA presidium meets British guests
For Spanish-speaking people
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el vicepresidente honorario pak song chol declara
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"rodong sinmun" se refiere a principio de respeto a soberania
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consignas de este ano
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Rodong Sinmun on reckless remarks of U.S. official
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary accuses the United States of trying to use "issues of kidnapping
and terrorism" as a lever to bring pressure upon the DPRK. An official of
the U.S. State Department, when meeting with a visiting "group of relatives
of Japanese nationals allegedly abducted," said that the "U.S. does not have
any intention to remove North Korea from the list of countries it believes
are sponsoring terrorism."
The DPRK can not but clarify its stand once again as the U.S.
persistently keeps the DPRK on its list of terrorist-supporting countries,
the commentary says, and continues:
The DPRK has nothing to do with kidnapping and terrorism and it has
consistently opposed all forms of these acts.
The U.S. is not entitled to talk about "terrorism" as it is a terrorist
kingpin. This is clearly evidenced by its airstrikes against Yugoslavia and
its recent large-scale air-raids on Iraq.
It is now escalating its military drills in South Korea and Japan, while
beefing up its forces there. All this is aimed at committing state terrorism
against the DPRK.
It is foolish, indeed, for the U.S. to try to achieve a sinister aim by
using "issues of kidnapping and terrorism" as a lever to pressurize the
DPRK.
Pressure is not a solution to any problem. If the U.S. comes out with
pressure and high-handed practices against the DPRK's patience it will have
no option but to strongly react to it.
The U.S. is well advised not to resort to dirty moves but face up to the
reality and think twice over them.
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Paek Nam Sun meets permanent under-secretary of FCO of United Kingdom
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, minister of foreign affairs
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met and conversed in a
friendly atmosphere with permanent under-secretary of the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom John Kerr and his party who paid a
courtesy call on the former on sunday.
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Greetings to 7th Congress of LPRP
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers'
Party of Korea sent a message of greetings to the 7th Congress of the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party yesterday. The WPK Central Committee in the
message said that it believes that the 7th Congress of the LPRP would mark
an important occasion in the struggle of the party to strengthen the party,
further consolidate the people's democratic system and achieve the
prosperity of the country.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations
between the two parties and the two peoples would grow stronger in the
future, the message wished the congress great success in its work.
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Proposal for holding world conference supported
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, group for the
study of the Juche idea held a meeting on March 2 to support the appeal
adopted at the seminar on the Juche idea for the independent development of
Africa in the 21st century. The chief of the group, addressing the meeting,
fully supported the appeal which calls for holding a world conference of
organizations for the study of the Juche idea and its followers the world
over next year to celebrate the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il, a guide of
the cause of independence in the 21st century, as a grand political festival
of progressive humankind.
Meanwhile, the Peru national association for the study of Kimjongilism
held a meeting on the same day to support the appeal adopted at the seminar
on the Juche idea for the independent development of Africa in the 21st
century.
The meetings adopted letters to the international institute of the Juche
idea in support of the convocation of the world conference.
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Korean stamp corporation
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Today is the 55th anniversary of the
publication of DPRK postage stamps (March 12, 1946). During the period, the
Korean stamp corporation created and published over 4,000 kinds of postage
stamps reflecting politics, economy, culture and nature, national customs
and facts of international significance.
Recently it made a multimedia program based on stamps.
It is the only stamp creating centre in the DPRK.
It deals with and sells stamps, postcards, stamp yearbooks, handbooks
and collections of stamps.
It is located in the centre of Pyongyang. Stamps are designed by gifted
artists and national contests of stamp designs held on the occasion of
national holidays.
Best designs presented are brought out as stamps.
Korean stamps draw the attention of many philatelists and fans for their
sound contents and good quality of printing.
Stamp "Mt. Kumgang", "wisteria-flower and pup" and other stamps were
highly appreciated at international stamp exhibitions.
The Korean stamp corporation joined International Philatelic Federation
in June Juche 54 (1965).
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DPRK government cultural delegation leaves
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government cultural delegation
led by Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the committee for Cultural Relations
with Foreign Countries, left here today to visit Pakistan, Cambodia, Laos,
Egypt and Ethiopia. The delegation was seen off at the Pyongyang Railway
Station by Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the committee, Mahmoud Mohamed
Farag Zain, Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK, Kim San, Chanpheng Inthavanh
and Dubale Belihu, charges d'affaires ad interim of the Cambodian, Lao and
Ethiopian embassies here.
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Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) - Permanent under-secretary of the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom John Kerr presented a gift to
leader Kim Jong Il. It was conveyed to foreign minister Paek Nam Sun by John
Kerr on a visit to the DPRK.
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Working consultation held between inter-Korean trade unions
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- A working consultation between the
General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and the South Korean
Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of South Korean Trade
Unions was held on Mt. Kumgang on March 10-11. At the meeting they discussed
such issues as setting up a solidarity organization of north and South
Korean workers for reunification so as to implement the June 15 north-south
joint declaration to the letter and strengthen solidarity and unity between
them and organizing functions for marking the first anniversary of the
declaration. On Sunday they released a joint statement of north and south
Korean workers denouncing the Japanese reactionaries' moves to tamper with
history.
The joint statement recalled that recently the Japanese reactionaries
wrongly described in history textbooks for middle schoolers the illegal and
invalid "Korea-Japan annexation" as justifiable one and the past aggressive
pacific war as a "war for the liberation of colonies." And they are seeking
to bury into oblivion the vicious crimes Japan committed in that war of
aggression, making no mention about them, the joint statement said, and went
on:
It would be a foolish dream to be dreamt only by the militarist maniacs
of Japan preoccupied by fever of reinvasion if they think such heinous
crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against humanity in the past
can be erased through distorted history textbooks.
The representatives of the north and South Korean workers urge the
Japanese reactionaries to stop such moves at once and make an apology and
compensation to the Korean nation for the past crimes.
The north and south Korean workers will never remain a passive on-looker
to the Japanese reactionaries' impudent moves to distort history and revive
militarism but staunchly smash them through a continued and valiant joint
struggle.
The statement expressed the belief that trade unions in different
countries which value justice and peace would express full solidarity with
the north and south Korean workers in their struggle to check the Japanese
reactionaries' moves to twist the history and make them apologize and
compensate for them.
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Working-level talks held between peasants' organizations in north and south
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Working-level talks between the Union of
Agricultural Workers of Korea and the National Federation of Peasants
Associations of South Korea were held on Mt. Kumgang from March 10 to 11.
The talks discussed such issues as holding a north-south peasants' seminar
on reunification and folk sports games, etc. On the occasion of the first
anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
It released a joint appeal to all the peasants and fellow countrymen at home
and abroad on March 11 as regards the Japanese reactionaries' moves to
tamper with history.
The appeal dismissed the Japanese reactionaries' attempt to infuse
militarism and idea of overseas aggression into the Japanese middle
schoolchildren through distorted history textbooks in a bid to realise their
old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" at any cost as an
intolerable and dangerous criminal act.
It appealed to the peasants to condemn the Japanese imperialists' cruel
moves to obliterate the nation and let all the fellow countrymen never
forget them, roundly expose the illegality and falsehood of all the
"treaties" and "conventions" fabricated by them and disclose to the world
the Japanese reactionaries' political plots.
It underscored the need to unfailingly force Japan to make an apology
and compensation for all the crimes it committed against the Korean people
in the past.
It called for rejecting the Japanese reactionaries' moves to launch
reinvasion and firmly defending the dignity and interests of the Korean
nation.
It expressed the conviction that all the Asian people who underwent all
sorts of calamities and misfortune due to the Japanese imperialists and the
world progressives would extend positive solidarity to the Korean peasants
in their struggle to frustrate the Japanese reactionaries' moves to distort
history.
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Vice-president of SPA presidium meets British guests
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Dae, vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and conversed with John
Kerr, permanent under-secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of
the United Kingdom, and his party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today. On
the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Britain and the DPRK,
John Kerr said that he will work hard for the improved bilateral relations.
Fully supporting the adoption of the north-south joint declaration, he
hoped for its smooth implementation.
Present on the occasion were vice-minister of foreign affairs Choe Su
Hon and officials concerned.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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el vicepresidente honorario pak song chol declara
pyongyang, 12 de enero (atcc) -- siempre nos uniremos gustosamente con
todas las fuerzas y las personas que liberadas del antiguo concepto de
enfrentamiento apoyan la declaracion conjunta norte-sur y se disponen a
ejecutarla, senalo asi pak song chol, vicepresidente honorario del presidium
de la asamblea popular suprema de la republica popular democratica de corea
en una declaracion oral publicada el dia 11 en apoyo a la propuesta y el
llamamiento del acto del ano 2001 para abrir por cuenta propia de la nacion
coreana la puerta de reunificacion y continua:
el acto fue un foro de gran significado que expuso al pais y el
extranjero la firme posicion y voluntad del partido del trabajo de corea y
el gobierno de la rpdc de hacer del presente un ano historico que abrira una
coyuntura trascendental para la reunificacion independiente de la nacion.
el acto sirvio de un motivo que estimulo vigorosamente a toda la nacion
coreana a la gran marcha nacional para ejecutar la declaracion conjunta
norte-sur del 15 de junio e infundio con mas firmeza a ante nacion esperanza
y fe en la reunificacion independiente.
la llave principal para adelantar la causa de la reunificacion de la
patria que continua de siglo en siglo reside en ejecutar cabalmente la
declaracion conjunta.
las autoridades y politicos del norte y el sur deben mantener la firme
posicion de independencia nacional en la solucion del asunto de la
reunificacion de la patria y sostener la invariable posicion de lograr la
unidad y cooperacion de la nacion en repudio a colaboracion con las fuerzas
extranjeras y a la dependencia de estas.
todos los coreanos en el norte y el sur de corea y el ultramar, segun el
llamamiento del acto, deben producir nuevo auge en el cumplimiento de la
causa de reintegracion de la patria durante el "periodo del movimiento por
la promocion de la reunificacion nacional del 15 de junio al 15 de agosto"
para manifestar la autentica fisonomia de una sola nacion y su voluntad de
reunificarla y hacer del presente un "ano para abrir por cuenta propia de la
nacion coreana la puerta de reunificacion".
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"rodong sinmun" se refiere a principio de respeto a soberania
pyongyang, 12 de enero (atcc) -- el periodico "rodong sinmun" en un
articulo individual de hoy subraya que mejorar las relaciones exteriores con
todos los paises que respetan la soberania es la politica exterior -que es
la materializacion de la linea de independencia- del partido del trabajo y
el gobierno de la republica popular democratica de corea. esta posicion y
actitud elevaran la autoridad y el derecho a la palabra de corea en la
escena internacional, estimularan vigorosamente el establecimiento de las
sanas relaciones internacionales y contribuiran con eficacia a la paz, la
estabilidad, la prosperidad y el desarrollo del mundo.
al mantener el principio de respeto a la soberania todos los paises y
pueblos del mundo podran establecer relaciones de amistad y buena vecindad y
vivir en buena armonia y lograr la prosperidad y desarrollo comunes, por
encima de las diferencias de ideologia, ideal y regimen politico.
el respeto a la soberania constituye una base y un principio del
desarrollo de las sanas relaciones entre estados.
la violacion a la soberania es el acto criminal que engendra las
relaciones hostiles entre los paises, que perturba la paz y la estabilidad
del mundo y que obstaculiza el desarrollo de la civilizacion de la
humanidad.
el intento de dominar y subyugar a otros y de sacar provechos de las
desiguales relaciones internacionales es de modo pensar anacronico. un pais
que se comporta asi se pondra fuera de la epoca siendo objeto de la condena
y repudio del mundo.
no hay motivo por el cual no se pueda mejorar las relaciones exteriores
con los paises capitalistas.
el respeto a la soberania es la garantia fundamental de la verificacion
de la independencia, la paz y el desarrollo del mundo.
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consignas de este ano
pyongyang, 12 de enero (atcc) -- la rpdc ha empezado el ano 2001 con la
primera y vigorosa marcha del nuevo siglo enarbolando las consignas "
abramos el camino del avance del nuevo siglo con aquel impetu con que
triunfamos en la 'marcha penosa' " y " hagamos del presente un ano de nuevo
avance de la construccion de potencia economica del siglo 21 ". las
consignas reflejan la firme voluntad del partido del trabajo de corea de
desplegar plenamente la superioridad del socialismo coreano con aquel
espiritu e impetu con que defendimos y consolidamos el socialismo durante
los ultimos anos en que todos eran escasos y dificiles.
el ptc se propone abrir el camino del avance del nuevo siglo al
desplegar mas plenamente la superioridad del socialismo coreano en todos los
dominios de la revolucion y la construccion y dar nuevo impulso a la
construccion de potencia.
la potencia en que se despliegue plenamente la superioridad del
socialismo coreano es el paraiso socialista donde todo prospere y el pueblo
viva sin tener nada que envidiar en el mundo.
el ano pasado el pueblo coreano bajo la situacion dificil del pais logro
grandes exitos en la construccion de potencia al trabajar con la
indoblegable voluntad y tocando el tambor del gran auge de chollima.
subsisten todavia no pocas dificultades economicas.
pero las consignas de este ano presentadas en el editorial conjunto de
los periodicos del partido, el ejercito y la juventud estimulan grandemente
al pueblo coreano que lleno de confianza y optimismo acelera el camino del
avance en la construccion de potencia.
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