TODAY'S NEWS (April.30.2001 Juche 90) [CONTENTS] * High-level EU delegation to visit DPRK * S. Korean police assailed by Hanchongryon * Inaugural declaration of young workers society for democracy issued * DPRK paddlers prove successful * KCNA on S. Korean national defence minister's diatribe against DPRK * Korea's reunification called for * Rodong Sinmun on 100 days of Bush administration * Greetings to Queen of Netherlands * Mangyongdae visited by endless stream of people * Japan's distortion of history under fire For Spanish-speaking people * dirigente kim jong il presencia comedia ligera * vocero de cc de fgsc declara * conferencia de vanguardistas juveniles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ High-level EU delegation to visit DPRK ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- A high-level delegation of the European Union led by Joran Persson, President of the European Council and Prime Minister of Sweden, Javier Solana, high representative for common foreign and security policy of the EU, and Chris Patten, commissioner for external relations of the European commission, will shortly visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ S. Korean police assailed by Hanchongryon ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) on April 23 issued a statement as regards South Korean police's walking away Pae Min Gyun, chairman of the general student council of Konkuk University, according to a news report. The statement said that the police action is aimed to bar the Hanchongryon's struggle to check the increase of registration fee and secure educational finance from enlisting support from broad segments of people and gaining in scope and strength. ��� The statement branded the police's illegal arrest of a deputy to Hanchongryon for the mere reason that he is a member of the "enemy-benefitting organization" as an intolerable anti-reunification action and demanded the police authorities release Pae at once and punish those responsible for it and make an official apology for it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inaugural declaration of young workers society for democracy issued ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The young workers society for democracy in the new century issued an inaugural declaration in South Korea on April 17, according to a news report. The declaration said that the young workers will hold high the flag of independence against the U.S. in order to drive out the U.S. imperialists, the root cause of all evils in South Korea. ��� It will hold high the flag for social democracy to shatter the anti-reunification plots of the fascist repressive group and the conservative forces seeking for the continued division of the country, disorganize the "intelligence service" and abolish the "security law", the declaration said. ��� "We will hold aloft the flag of the struggle for reunification to enable the Korean nation to live in an eternally prosperous society," it said, calling upon the workers to take the lead in the struggle for achieving national reunification. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DPRK paddlers prove successful ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Paddlers of the DPRK placed second in the women's team event at the 46th World Table-Tennis Championship which is being held in Osaka, Japan. They competed with the Chinese paddlers in the final after defeating the South Korean counterparts in the semi-finals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA on S. Korean national defence minister's diatribe against DPRK ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Tong Sin, minister of national defence of South Korea, at the National Assembly interpellation on April 25, asserted that there should be a clear conception of the principal enemy as "North Korea is a force posing potential and direct threat." This is an extremely malignant anti-DPRK diatribe aimed to drive the inter-Korean relations to confrontation as it is contrary to the spirit of the north-south joint declaration which calls for settling the issue of national reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation. ��� As far as the logic of "principal enemy" is concerned, there is no reason to talk about this now that the joint declaration is in the process of its implementation because the logic is nothing but a product of the old era when the successive south Korean military authorities including those in the period of military dictatorship incited confrontation with the north. ��� Some forces in South Korea are persistently clinging to the concept of confrontation, going against the trend of the times and the desire of fellow countrymen. This goes to prove that they are anti-national forces who are displeased with the efforts for inter-Korean reconciliation and reunification. ��� This was proved by the "reception, staging, onward movement and integration" exercise staged by the South Korean military authorities together with the U.S. bellicose elements. ��� It is nobody's secret that the recent military exercise was staged under the simulated conditions of a real war to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK according to the "operation plan 5027-98", a scenario of the second Korean war of aggression. ��� This logic of "the principal enemy" was touted again by the South Korean military quarters, timed to coincide with South Korean troops' participation in such dangerous military exercise. The DPRK can never remain a passive onlooker to this grave anti-national, anti-reunification remark intended to cool down the inter-Korean relations developing in favour of reconciliation, unity and reunification, quite contrary to the spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Korea's reunification called for ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO) called upon all the political parties and organizations, international organizations and progressive people who love peace and justice and other peace-loving forces of the world to have a deep understanding of the gravity of the new situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula and immediately stop the united states and the South Korean bellicose elements from doing new military provocations and upon the international community to take urgent steps to discharge its responsibility for actively promoting peace and reunification in this region and ensuring world peace and security. The CILRECO said this in an extraordinary appeal to the world progressive forces and peace-loving forces on April 23. ��� The appeal said that the joint military exercise staged by the united states and the South Korean military authorities is a wanton violation of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and a grave provocation seeking to vitiate an atmosphere of detente and reunification on the Korean peninsula which had been created with much effort after the inter-Korean summit meeting in particular. ��� It dismissed the behaviour of the South Korean authorities who launched the war exercise against the DPRK, together with the united states, as a grave perfidy to the north-south joint declaration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rodong Sinmun on 100 days of Bush administration ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article on 100 days of Bush's office says that since the day he took office he has betrayed his true colours as a fanatic advocate of the policy of strength as he has been keen on aggression and war, harassment of peace and world domination. This nature of Bush is evidenced by the fact that he took an undisguised belligerent attitude to pursue an aggressive and strong-arm foreign policy backed by strength, the article observes, and continues: ��� What he said in his inaugural address disclosed his ulterior intention to put U.S.-style strong-arm order into practice and signified his first step as he put spurs to arms race and arms buildup. ��� The Bush administration has drastically increased military expenditure and stepped up its adventurous development and production of nuclear weapons in a bid to hold military hegemony through the establishment of the "missile defense" system. ��� The U.S. true nature as a rogue state has been brought into bolder relief since the emergence of the Bush administration. The Bush ruling quarters seek to contain such big countries as China and Russia and put the world under their unchallenged domination. ��� Bush's true colours as a harasser of peace also found a vivid manifestation in the fact that he supported the reactionary forces contrary to the desire of those people to see the peaceful settlement of regional disputes. ��� The Bush administration's hawkish, aggressive and belligerent nature was strikingly manifested in its policy towards the DPRK in particular. ��� The ulterior aim of the administration's hard-line policy towards the DPRK is to cool down the DPRK-U.S. relations, push them to the state of acute confrontation and stifle the DPRK by force of arms. ��� Its reactionary domestic and foreign policy resulted in harassing peace and security and increasing the danger of war in different parts of the world. Bush's arbitrary practice was a major factor of it. What is dangerous is the fact that his arbitrary practice is fully reflected in his administration's foreign policy and this seriously affects the international relations. ��� It is due to the U.S. indeed that the world has hardly seen even a single tranquil and peaceful day over the last 100 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings to Queen of Netherlands ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings on April 27 to Queen Beatrix of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the occasion of its national day. The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in political, economic, cultural and other fields in the common interests of the two peoples. ��� It wished greater success to her in her work and health and happiness to her and her family. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mangyongdae visited by endless stream of people ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Mangyongdae now in spring is visited by a ceaseless stream of Korean and foreign visitors these days. Their number reaches over 10,000 a day. Mangyongdae, situated about 12 km southwest of the center of Pyongyang, is the time-honoured place where President Kim Il Sung was born and spent his childhood. ��� Korean people built the area into a revolutionary site with boundless respect and reverence for the president. ��� There are the president's native home, the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum, triumphant return ferry, study site, Sunhwa School, etc. ��� The president got out of the Mangyongdae gate when he was 14 and waged the great anti-Japanese war to achieve the cause of national liberation and returned to this historical home after 20 years. ��� The monument at the triumphant return ferry on the Sunhwa River tells the anecdote of the day. ��� Visitors can learn about the president's revolutionary career and exploits of struggle of his family members comprehensively and systematically at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum. ��� The president, who embarked upon the road of revolution in his teens and liberated the fatherland in his thirties, defeated the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being strongest in the world in his forties and built a powerful socialist country on this land. he performed immortal exploits for the global peace and human cause of independence. ��� So, Mangyongdae is known as a time-honoured place always visited not only by Koreans but world revolutionary people who deeply venerate President Kim Il Sung. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Japan's distortion of history under fire ��� Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Committee for Investigation into the Damage Done by the Japanese Imperialists During Their Occupation of Korea today released a statement condemning the Japanese government for approving some time ago history textbooks, in which historical facts are falsified, despite strong opposition of the Asian people and persistently working to make a retrogressive revision of the textbooks. The statement says: ��� It is an undeniable historical fact that after illegally occupying Korea, Japan harshly plundered it of material and cultural treasures, forcibly took away a great number of young and middle-aged Korean people for hard labour and as cannon fodder for a war of aggression and forced many Korean women into sexual slavery, maltreating and brutally killing them. ��� Japan's aggression and plunder brought tremendous disasters and losses to other Asian people, too. ��� Japan's moves to twist the content of its history textbooks, accordingly, prove that the Japanese government has not got rid of its mode of thinking and ambition for domination in the era of militarism when it looked down upon the Korean and other Asian people. ��� The Japanese government is poised to use the twisted history textbooks in the education of the younger generation. It was against this backdrop that there are dangerous developments in Japan= a Japanese university professor said that "the history of comfort women was a history of toilet" and scores of dietmen visited the Yasukuni Shrine in groups. ��� This goes to prove that Japan, far from drawing a lesson and repenting of its crime-woven history, is making reckless efforts to gratify at any cost the ambition to dominate Asia it failed to do in the past. ��� The issue of history textbooks can never be an internal issue of Japan. ��� With no desperate efforts can Japan twist or erase its shameful crime-woven history. it can never evade its legal and moral responsibility for its past crimes. ��� The Korean people will never forget the misfortune and sufferings the Japanese imperialists imposed upon them, but certainly make Japan pay a very high price for them. ��� The Japanese authorities should apologize for their distortion of history in textbooks, which is an insult to the Koreans and other Asian nations, and own responsibility for the ensuing consequences. ��� We solemnly call upon the Asian people and world conscience to struggle in unity against Japan's undisguised moves to distort history and revive militarism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Spanish-speaking people ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dirigente kim jong il presencia comedia ligera ��� pyongyang, 30 de abril (atcc) -- el dirigente kim jong il, secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea, presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea y comandante supremo del ejercito popular de corea presencio el dia 28 del actual en el teatro artistico mansudae junto con los militares del epc la comedia ligera "que brille la juventud" creada por los artistas de los estudios cinematograficos de corea. le acompanaron en verla los secretarios kim kuk thae y choe thae bok, el jefe de departamento de propaganda y agitacion jong ha chol, del comite central del ptc, kang sok sung, presidente del instituto de la historia del partido del cc del ptc, kang nung su, ministro de cultura, choe chil nam, redactor jefe de la editora del periodico "rodong sinmun", kim ki ryong, director general de la agencia telegrafica central de corea, cha sung su, presidente del comite nacional de radio y television de corea, ri yong chol, jang song thaek y ju kyu chang, primeros subjefes de departamento del cc del ptc y hyon chol hae y pak jae gyong, generales de ejercito del epc. ��� la comedia ligera toma por contenido principal la heroica lucha de los miembros de la brigada de choque juvenil infinitamente fieles a la causa del partido, quienes construyeron excelentemente la carretera "chongnyon yongung" en el periodo de severas pruebas en que todo era dificil y escaso. tras verla el dirigente kim jong il dijo que nuestros jovenes son creadores de milagros quienes irguieron con el espiritu de autoconfianza gigantescas creaciones de eterna duracion y enseno que estos jovenes dispuestos de la gran capacidad espiritual constituye nuestro gran orgullo. ��� en el pasado los creadores y artistas de los estudios cinematograficos de corea en acato a la linea y la politica del partido en materia de literatura y arte autoctonos crearon un gran numero de peliculas de alto nivel ideo-artistico para educar de modo revolucionario a los militantes del partido y otros trabajadores y asi estimularlos activamente a la revolucion y la construccion, enseno el y manifesto conviccion de que ellos produciran auge ininterrumpido en la creacion de peliculas revolucionarias. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vocero de cc de fgsc declara ��� pyongyang, 30 de abril (atcc) -- el vocero del cc de la federacion general de los sindicatos de corea hizo publica el dia 28 una declaracion en relacion con que las autoridades surcoreanas toman medidas injustas de no permitir bajo condicionamiento absurdo la presencia de ri kyu jae, vicepresidente de la confederacion de sindicatos surcoreanos y presidente de la reunificacion de la patria en el acto del primero de mayo por reunificacion que los obreros del norte y el sur de corea se proponen efectuar en el monte kumgang por primera vez despues de dividido el pais. ri kyu jae es el responsable de la parte surcoreana al acto. la declaracion dice en particular: ��� tal medida que toman las autoridades surcoreanas cuando todo el mundo desea que se ejecute cuanto antes en corea la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio y asi se abra una nueva coyuntura para la solucion del problema de la reunificacion de la patria constituye un obstaculo para el logro de dicho acto por la reunificacion y un desafio al justo movimiento por la reunificacion de todos los obreros y las personalidades pro-reunificacion de sudcorea por la ejecucion de dicha declaracion. el cc de la fgsc denuncia resueltamente el comportamiento injusto de las autoridades surcoreanas como un imperdonable acto que interpone obstaculo en los esfuerzos justos de todos los obreros del norte y el sur de corea por apoyar dicha declaracion y lograr bajo su bandera la reunificacion del pais y que frena la ejecucion de dicha declaracion. ��� es muy claro que las autoridades surcoreanas cuestionan la participacion de ese individuo inocente en dicho acto volviendo a pegarle la etiqueta de violador de la "ley de la seguridad estatal" para llevar al fracaso el presente acto del primero de mayo por la reunificacion de los obreros del norte y el sur. ��� las autoridades surcoreanas deben anular sus injustas medidas contra ri kyu jae, vicepresidente de la css y asegurar todas las condiciones a todos los delegados de la parte surcoreana para que puedan participar en el acto arriba mencionado para apoyar y ejecutar la declaracion conjunta del 15 de junio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ conferencia de vanguardistas juveniles ��� pyongyang, 30 de marzo (atcc) -- tuvo lugar ayer en el palacio cultural del pueblo en esta capital la conferencia nacional de la marcha general de la bandera roja del socialismo de los vanguardistas juveniles. estuvieron presentes kim yong nam, presidente del presidium de la asamblea popular suprema, hong song nam, primer ministro del consejo de ministros y otros. ��� participaron los heroes e innovadores juveniles quienes realizaron proezas en la obra de construccion de la potencia socialista, destacados jovenes estudiantes, funcionarios de la union de la juventud, heroes y benemeritos juveniles de la generacion anterior. ��� los participantes escucharon el discurso grabado en voz viva del gran lider presidente kim il sung pronunciado el 19 de marzo del 47 (1958) de la era juche en la conferencia nacional de jovenes constructores socialistas "sobre las tareas de la juventud en la construccion socialista". ��� en la conferencia se dio lectura al mensaje de felicitacion del comite central del partido del trabajo de corea dirigido a los participantes. ��� el mensaje de felicitacion senala: ��� en los grandes exitos que hacen brillar la historia de avance de la bandera roja del pueblo coreano estan impregnadas las hazanas de los jovenes. ��� el cc del ptc da alta apreciacion a los grandes exitos que lograron los participantes en este evento y todos los jovenes con una infinita lealtad al partido, el lider, la patria y el pueblo en la delantera de la lucha por la victoria de la causa socialista y por la prosperidad de la patria. ��� los participantes y todos los jovenes deben desplegar la energica lucha por acoger con un elevado entusiasmo politico y brillantes exitos laborales el dia del sol y la fiesta de febrero del ano 2002 y hacer del ano proximo un ano mas brillante en la historia del partido del trabajo y el pueblo de corea. ��� en la conferencia ri il hwan, primer secretario del comite central de la union de la juventud socialista kim il sung presento el informe. ��� el se refirio a que bajo la direccion del partido y el lider el movimiento juvenil coreano ha avanzado con vigor por el camino del juche con la bandera roja y anadio que la idea de la bandera roja y la idea de dar importancia a la juventud del lider padre las lleva adelante el gran dirigente kim jong il. ��� dijo que la gran confianza y amor de este sirven de una fuerza motriz de la vida eterna que infunde a los jovenes de corea el credo, la voluntad, la infinita fuerza y el animo y subrayo la necesidad de acelerar con vigor la marcha de la bandera roja del socialismo para hacer del presente lleno de esperanza un siglo del gran dirigente kim jong il. ��� los jovenes deben hacer de la defensa a ultranza al lider una consigna de accion y practica y llevar adelante con firmeza la unidad monolitica de la revolucion coreana, recalco. ��� los jovenes deben ser combatientes vanguardistas en la revolucion de priorizacion militar, destacamentos de vanguardia, brigadas de choque en la construccion de potencia economica del nuevo siglo, subrayo. ��� en la conferencia hubo intervenciones. ��� los jovenes deberan cumplir satisfactoriamente su honrosa mision y deber asumidos en la construccion de la potencia jucheana, senalaron los oradores. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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