TODAY'S NEWS (May.04.2001 Juche 90)
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Japanese authorities' move to distort history condemned
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Third Pyongyang Symposium on Medical Science
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Guarantee of S. Korean workers' vital rights called for
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Former unconverted long-term prisoners meet with army soldiers
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DPRK hard hit by long spell of drought
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KCNA assails Japan's attempt to revise constitution
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U.S. to deploy special helicopters in S. Korea
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S. Korean Ministry of Unification's unjust behaviour slammed
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S. Korea asks for U.S. missile launchers
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Credentials presented to Kim Yong Nam
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Foreign Ministry spokesman assails U.S. report on terrorism
For Spanish-speaking people
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constituyen comites preparatorios por dia de sol
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abierta agitacion de guerra
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tarea principal de construccion economica de este ano
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Japanese authorities' move to distort history condemned
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Women's Association for Solidarity
with Asian Women issued a statement on May 3 in connection with the Japanese
authorities' formal approval of a controversial junior high school history
textbook draft through examination. The statement said:
��� The textbook, which was passed through examination by the Japanese
ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology, denied
Japan's responsibility for the past pacific war with an absurd logic that it
was not a war of aggression but a "war to liberate" Asian countries, and
embellished and justified the brutal acts committed by the Japanese army,
not containing any words repenting of the colonial domination and the
"comfort women for the army". The association vehemently denounced the
Japanese authorities' move, regarding it as an intolerable insult to the
Korean women, victims, the Korean and Asian peoples and a vicious challenge
to justice and human conscience.
��� The Japanese authorities should stop their move to distort history and
their hostile policy toward the DPRK, make a sincere apology and
compensation for all the past crimes against the Korean people and write
about the anti-ethical crimes of Japan including the issue of comfort women
in the history textbooks as they were, so that the rising generation may not
repeat the shameless past.
��� To do so would be good for the present and future of Japan.
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Third Pyongyang Symposium on Medical Science
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The Third Pyongyang Symposium of compatriots
at home and abroad on medical science took place at the People's Palace of
Culture on May 2 and 3. The symposium involved an invitation lecture and a
scientific seminar.
��� At the symposium doctors at home and those from the United States,
China, Japan and Canada presented nearly 100 valuable treatises on the
achievements and experience gained in developing medical science and in the
preventive and curative health care.
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Guarantee of S. Korean workers' vital rights called for
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- Students under the "National Student
Struggle Committee" held a rally in Seoul on April 30 demanding the
guarantee of workers' vital rights, Seoul-based Radio No. 1 reported. They
criticized the authorities for their unjust policy, charging that
restructuring threatens the vital rights of the workers.
��� At the end of the rally they held a demonstration.
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Former unconverted long-term prisoners meet with army soldiers
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) --Fformer unconverted long-term prisoners,
pro-reunification patriotic fighters, met with soldiers of the Korean
People's Army on May 3. They talked to each other about the genuine life of
revolutionary soldiers, their revolutionary faith and military service.
��� The former prisoners told soldiers how they fought in prison to remain
true to human conscience and obligation and how they enjoy a genuine human
life in the homeland.
��� The soldiers said that they will learn from the noble spiritual world of
the pro-reunification patriotic fighters and follow practical examples set
by them so as to make positive contributions to the building of a powerful
country.
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DPRK hard hit by long spell of drought
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- Crops in the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea are badly affected by a long spell of drought. Due to the high air
pressure that has persisted in Huabei, China, Korean west sea and south sea
since last March there has been little rainfall in the DPRK since March 3
when it was registered 6 mm on an average. The rainfall on March 14 stood at
3 mm on an average.
��� To be exact, drought has persisted for more than 60 days since early
March.
��� To go back to historical records, Pyongyang was hit by drought from
March 3 to May 4 in 1928, drought lasted for 63 days from March 1 to May 2
in 1982 and for 58 days from March 1 to April 27 in 1993.
��� Precipitation from last March 1 up to this date is registered 15mm on an
average in all parts of the country, only 18 percent of 83 mm, the annual
average. precipitation in north and south Hwanghae provinces on the west
coast, in particular, was registered 9 mm, the lowest in rainfall
observation.
��� Drought has persisted for 58 days in all parts of north and south
Hamgyong provinces on the east coast, doing huge damage to various fields of
the national economy.
��� Results of the soil survey showed that 8-15 cm deep soil of the farm
land in all parts of the country remained dry, going far beyond the
germination limit. Most of the sown seeds have already dried up.
��� A forest fire is reported in an unbroken chain.
��� Forest fires broke out in scores of cities and counties including
Thongchon, Phyonggang, Cholwon, Ichon and Phangyo counties, Kangwon
Province, Tokchon and Sunchon cities, Hoechang, Maengsan and Unsan counties,
South Phyongan Province, and north and south Hwanghae provinces, north and
south Hamgyong provinces, Jagang Province and Pyongyang in April, thus
causing a huge loss of forest resources, satellite information said.
��� As communication networks were cut off by forest fires, various forms of
accidents broke out one after another, hard hitting various fields of the
national economy.
��� Drought is expected to persist till the first part of May.
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KCNA assails Japan's attempt to revise constitution
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- Secretary general of the Liberal Democratic
Party of Japan Yamazaki proposed a draft amendment to the constitution of
Japan which calls for rewriting the war renouncing article 9 and other
articles of the constitution, stirring up public furore. In the draft
amendment worked out by him, such points which ban Japan's possession of the
three services of armed forces and do not recognize the right of
belligerency are deleted and the "right to collective self-defence" is
openly asserted in article 9 of the constitution, so far claimed to be the
"peace constitution."
��� Japan may claim it can modify its constitution according to the actual
situation of the country as it is a sovereign state, but there are serious
matters at issue which can never be allowed from the political and military
viewpoints.
��� If the constitution is rewritten as claimed by him, a solid legal
groundwork will be laid for Japan to emerge as a military power, unhindered,
and launch overseas aggression so as to realise its ambition for aggression
without redeeming its crime-woven history.
��� It is a stark fact that Japan has been keen to turn itself into a
military giant since its defeat in the war and revised the "peace
constitution" bit by bit, by restoring the right to participate in a war and
the right of belligerency through the adoption of the law related to the
"Japan-U.S. defence cooperation guidelines" in recent years.
��� It is also nobody's secret that the right-wing forces of Japan have long
asserted the repeal of the "peace constitution."
��� However, the draft amendment to the constitution openly and formally
presented by such a guy as the secretary general of the ruling LDP to
justify Japan's moves to become a military power can never be overlooked as
it characterises the political and military tendency of the present Japanese
government.
��� When Japan is constitutionally allowed to possess regular armed forces
and exercise the right to collective self-defence, it is certain that it
will become a military power and launch the reinvasion of Asia in pursuance
of the U.S. strategy for world domination. This is quite obvious in view of
Japan's past history and its present political and military tendency.
��� Japan's dangerous attempt to modify the constitution should be
decisively checked.
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U.S. to deploy special helicopters in S. Korea
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The U.S. military decided to deploy six
mh-47e of the latest type for nocturnal special operations, the May 2 issue
of the South Korean newspaper Hangyore said. The U.S. military and the South
Korean authorities agreed upon and signed the decision on April 26. Those
helicopters are to be deployed in a U.S. military base in the southeastern
part of South Korea in the near future.
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S. Korean Ministry of Unification's unjust behaviour slammed
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The south headquarters of the National
Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the south headquarters of the
National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification and
the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils separately issued
statements in protest against the Ministry of Unification's refusal to
permit Ri Kyu Jae, chairman of the Reunification Committee of the South
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), to participate in the May day
meeting of workers in the north and the south for reunification at the head
of a delegation of the KCTU to it, according to a news report. The refusal
is a mockery of the June 15 joint declaration and a blatant challenge to the
70 million fellow countrymen aspiring after reunification as it is an act of
blocking solidarity and unity between the workers in the south and the
north, the statements said.
��� They demanded an immediate abolition of the "Security Law" and expressed
the will to fight against any moves against the June 15 joint declaration.
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S. Korea asks for U.S. missile launchers
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The South Korean military authorities have
implored the united states to provide missile launchers of new type,
standard, which is to be used for "Theatre Missile Defence" system. This
fact was disclosed on April 25 by air defense, a U.S. internet site dealing
with military affairs, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported.
��� The air defense quoted the U.S. office for defense and security
cooperation's document dated April 23 as saying that the military
authorities of South Korea asked the U.S. to sell three launchers, mk-41,
and its spare parts worth 98 million dollars.
��� this makes local military experts cast a doubt as to south korea's
joining the u.s. in establishing the "tmd" system.
��� and it also hints that the policy of south korea, which was to refuse
the u.s. call for its participation in the "TMD" has possibly changed, the
news report said.
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Credentials presented to Kim Yong Nam
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- Josue I. Villa, new ambassador of the
Philippines to the DPRK, presented his credentials to Kim Yong Nam,
President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, at the
Mansudae Assembly Hall today. The president had a talk with the ambassador
after receiving the credentials.
��� Present there was Pak Kil Yon, vice-minister of foreign affairs.
��� Foreign minister Paek Nam Sun met the ambassador who paid a courtesy
call on him on the same day.
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Foreign Ministry spokesman assails U.S. report on terrorism
��� Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the
DPRK today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the recent U.S. attack
against the DPRK over the issue of terrorism. The U.S. State department in
an "annual report on terrorism" released on May 1 termed the DPRK a
"terrorism-sponsor." It pulled up the DPRK on groundless charges that the
DPRK gave a shelter to members of the "red army" of Japan in the past and it
might have sold arms to terrorist organizations in other countries.
��� The DPRK government has consistently maintained the principled stand to
combat all forms of terrrorism and any form of support to it.
��� In the DPRK-U.S. joint statement made public last October the U.S.
declared its political will to declassify the DPRK as a "terrorism sponsor."
this notwithstanding, The anti-DPRK diatribe renewed by the new U.S.
administration despite Washington's earlier promise is little short of an
open expression of its design to persistently pursue hostile policy towards
the DPRK in violation of the statement.
��� It is foolish enough for the U.S. to slander the DPRK over the issue of
terrorism.
��� The DPRK is fully prepared to react to any U.S. attitude.
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constituyen comites preparatorios por dia de sol
��� pyongyang, 4 de abril (atcc) -- con motivo del 15 de abril -cumpleanos
del gran lider presidente kim il sung fueron constituidos el comite
organizativo en ucrania y los comites preparatorios en francia y checo. en
los actos constitutivos fueron electos como presidentes de los comites oleg
grachov, secretario del comite central del partido comunista de ucrania,
andre obri, presidente de la asociacion de amistad franco-coreana y jiri
jarka, presidente de la asociacion de amistad checo-corea paektusan.
��� estos comites decidieron efectuar los mitines, encuentros, proyecciones
filmicas y otras diversas actividades por esa efemeride.
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abierta agitacion de guerra
��� pyongyang, 4 de abril (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en el numero
de hoy inserto un comentario en relacion con que las capas belicosas de
ee.uu. fortalecen las maniobras para desatar la segunda guerra coreana
calificando a la rpdc de su "enemigo principal no.1". el comentario senala
en particular:
��� blare, comandante en jefe del ejercito estadounidense en la region del
pacifico durante su reciente permanencia en sudcorea profirio las palabras
belicosas de que la rpdc es el "enemigo principal no.1 de ee.uu." y aquella
podria atacar con misiles a sudcorea y el japon.
��� las palabras belicosas de blare coinciden con que la administracion de
bush recurre mas que nunca a la politica intransigente de aplastar a la rpdc
y habla de la "cooperacion" de caracter agresivo con el japon y sudcorea, lo
cual es una revelacion de la intencion de ee.uu. de tomar de todas maneras
el camino del enfrentamiento y la guerra contra la rpdc.
��� ee.uu. al inculcar al japon y sudcorea la hostilidad a la rpdc trata de
fortalecer la alianza militar tripartita y tomarla como trampolin para
provocar la nueva guerra agresiva y utilizar a las fuerzas aliadas como
brigadas de choque.
��� infunde a los reaccionarios japoneses el rumor del "golpe de misiles" de
la rpdc al japon para que este dirija a la rpdc la punta de agresion al
ultramar y asi se adhiera activamente al sistema de la agresiva alianza
militar tripartita.
��� en el fortalecimiento de esta alianza sudcorea se presenta como lo
problematico porque ahora impera el ambiente de reconciliacion y cooperacion
entre el norte y el sur.
��� por eso los actuales gobernantes estadounidenses inculcan a los
surcoreanos la idea de dar mas prioridad al "sistema de cooperacion" y las
"relaciones de alianza" entre ee.uu. y sudcorea para detener la mejora de
las relaciones norte-sur.
��� el objetivo de visita de blare a sudcorea tendria que ver con esto. lo
prueba el hecho de que blare peroro ante los surcoreanos el rumor del "golpe
de misiles a sudcorea" por la rpdc. de esta manera ee.uu. pretende crear en
sudcorea el ambiente de enfrentamiento con la rpdc y devolver la corriente
de reconciliacion entre el norte y el sur al enfrentamiento para alcanzar su
objetivo agresivo.
��� la rpdc esta bien dispuesta a hacer frente categoricamente a la politica
de intransigencia y aplastamiento de ee.uu.
��� si las capas belicosas de ee.uu. salen a toda costa al enfrentamiento y
la guerra le asestara el golpe de represalia mil veces mayor.
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tarea principal de construccion economica de este ano
��� pyongyang, 4 de enero (atcc) -- la republica popular democratica de
corea presento como tarea principal de la construccion economica de este ano
impulsar la reconstruccion a base de la tecnica moderna del conjunto de
economia nacional a la par de arreglar las bases economicas existentes y
elevar al maximo su poderio. para este fin, se renovaran audazmente por la
tecnica moderna todas las fabricas y empresas y se construiran nuevas bases
productivas a base de la ciencia y tecnica ultramoderna.
��� en el dominio de vanguardia de la economia nacional se dara impulso a la
construccion de las centrales hidroelectricas de gran tamano, se normalizara
en un nivel alto la generacion electrica y se incrementara al maximo la
produccion del carbon.
��� se encauzara la fuerza a la modernizacion de los equipos de las fabricas
metalurgicas para operar la innovacion en la produccion de hierro y acero y
se arreglara y se reforzara el transporte ferroviario a fin de asegurar
satisfactoriamente la creciente demanda sobre el particular.
��� en el dominio de la industria ligera se producira mayor cantidad de
articulos de primera necesidad y alimentos basicos que se necesitan
apremiantemente para la vida del pueblo.
��� en la agricultura se dara de continuo gran impulso a operar la
renovacion de semillas y de cultivo de patatas y se incrementara activamente
el area de sembradas de doble cosecha. ademas se prestara mayor atencion a
la cria de peces de gran productividad, en particular de siluro y se echaran
las firmes bases ganaderas a base de tecnica moderna.
��� por otra parte se dara gran impulso a la gran obra de geotransformacion,
particularmente al arreglo de terrenos de la provincia de hwanghae del sur y
la contruccion del canal kaechon-lago thaesong y se construiran mas
instalaciones de cultura, servicio publico y salud publica como hospitales,
casas de reposo y recuperacion y mas viviendas modernas.
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