TODAY'S NEWS (May.20.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS]
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Kim Jong Il inspects KPA battalion
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International fact-finding group leaves
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U.S. move to form new army brigades
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New U.S. military strategy slammed
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S. Korean police suppression of students condemned
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Observance of principle of national sovereignty called for
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U.S. branded as rogue state of worst type in world
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Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of Han Ju Gyong
For Spanish-speaking people
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gran direccion es firme garantia para reunificacion de patria
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unidad asegura avance victorioso de causa socialista
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ha de ser frenada peroracion antinorcoreana, comentario de atcc
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Kim Jong Il inspects KPA battalion
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il inspected a battalion
under KPA unit no. 863 on May 19. Accompanying him were KPA generals Hyon
Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee Kim Kuk
Thae and others.
��� He looked round a revolutionary relics room at the battalion and learned
how it has striven to implement instructions given by President Kim Il Sung
during his on-the-spot guidance. greatly satisfied to see that its soldiers
have done a lot of things in all aspects including the work to increase the
combat capacity and manage the unit, he highly praised their deeds.
��� He acquainted himself with the performance of the battalion's duties and
saw soldiers' military training.
��� He noted with great satisfaction that all its soldiers have grown to be
a-match-for-a-hundred fighters firmly armed with the party's Juche-based
military tactics and set forth important tasks which would serve as a
guideline in further increasing the combat capacity of the unit.
��� Then he went to an education room, bedroom and entertainment and
logistic facilities and stressed that the commanding officers should always
show deep concern for the living of soldiers with warm love for them.
��� It is an expression of noble patriotism that the soldiers of the
battalion have turned mountains around the barracks into a dense forest, he
said, adding: The ideological and spiritual world of the heroic KPA, the
army of the leader, the party and the revolution, is, indeed, noble and
beautiful.
��� He instructed the battalion to plant more fast-growing trees around the
barracks for rest and entertainment activities of soldiers.
��� He enjoyed an art performance given by soldiers.
��� He gave a pair of binoculars, an automatic rifle and a machine-gun to
the battalion as gifts and posed for a photograph with them.
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International fact-finding group leaves
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- The international group to probe the truth
behind GIs' war crimes headed by former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark
left here yesterday. It was seen off by Choe Jong Hwan, vice-chairman of the
Korean Democratic Lawyers Association, at the airport.
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U.S. move to form new army brigades
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) - The U.S. army is attempting to organise
brigades based on a "new conception," which can be deployed in the Korean
peninsula from the mainland within four days, under the pretext of "coping
with an emergency," according to a report. It was reported that two brigades
would be formed by next year and the maneuverability and fire power of these
brigades would be much greater than the existing brigades to play the role
of a U.S. army task force.
��� This clearly proves that the bush administration is working hard to
ignite the second war of aggression in Korea.
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New U.S. military strategy slammed
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- The United States recently expressed its
intention to modify its "win-win strategy" with a view to increasing the
"efficiency" of its combat forces and adopt a new military strategy calling
for shifting the main U.S. forces to East Asia. In this regard, Rodong
Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
��� This new strategy presupposes starting a war of aggression.
��� It is a product of its moves for confrontation in the Asia-Pacific
region and an extremely dangerous strategy intended to push the situation in
the region to the brink of war.
��� The "win-win strategy" worked out by the U.S. imperialists in 1991 is a
strategy for a war of aggression as it calls for simultaneously carrying out
wars on the Korean peninsula and in the mid-east.
��� The proposed modification of this strategy is aimed to stifle the DPRK,
contain big powers in the Asia-Pacific region, exercise its political and
economic influence and have a military edge in a bid to emerge as a de facto
ruler over the East Asian region.
��� It is an unchangeable ambition of the U.S. imperialists to stifle the
DPRK by force and take a grip on the whole of Korea and thus carry out their
strategy to invade Asia, using it as a springboard.
��� In order to realize this design they proposed the modification of the
"win-win strategy" and seek to shift even the military forces deployed in
Europe, the mid-east and other regions to the Asia-Pacific region.
��� They have so far left no means untried to destroy socialism in Korea but
in vain. Such being the hard reality, the bush administration is poised to
mount a military attack on the DPRK, pursuant to the hard-line policy to
stifle it.
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S. Korean police suppression of students condemned
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, the South Korean police
headquarters announced that legal actions would be taken against graduates
and students of a university in Seoul, for the mere reason that they formed
an organization, distributed copies of a "document praising the north" and
used them for teaching materials. Commenting on it, Rodong Sinmun today
says:
��� This is little short of a ruthless repression of students and people's
free choice of idea and free political activities. it is an intolerable
anti-national criminal act of throwing a wet blanket over the fellow
countrymen's desire for the reunification of the country and challenging the
DPRK.
��� The desire of the Koreans for national reconciliation and unity and
reunification is very strong now, the commentary notes, and goes on:
��� It shows the great vitality of the historic June 15 North-South Joint
Declaration, which was solemnly proclaimed at home and abroad, as it calls
for achieving the independent reunification of the country by the united
efforts of the Korean nation, responsible for it.
��� However, the South Korean police authorities are incriminating and
repressing students' activities beneficial to the implementation of the
declaration, instead of encouraging them. This cannot but be an act of
undisguisedly denying dialogue and reunification.
��� We bitterly denounce such repressive move, branding it as an intentional
and criminal act of going against the spirit of the joint declaration and
putting the brake on its implementation.
��� National reunification is the greatest desire and the most urgent task
of all the Koreans in the north, south and abroad at present. Turning aside
this issue and standing in the way of its solution will be condemned as a
never-to-be-condoned crime.
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Observance of principle of national sovereignty called for
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- If the Korean nation is to achieve its
reunification, it should reject foreign forces and abide by the principle of
national sovereignty, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The
article goes on:
��� As the struggle of the Korean nation for its reunification is a struggle
for establishing national sovereignty throughout Korea, no other nation can
replace Koreans in this cause and they can never achieve it by depending on
others.
��� It is due to the outsiders who do not wish to see Korea reunified and
their followers at home that the Korean nation still remains the world's
only disgraceful divided nation without achieving reunification.
��� What is important for maintaining the principle of national sovereignty
is to wage a resolute struggle against foreign forces' interference in the
internal affairs of the Korean nation and their moves for aggression.
��� When the Koreans unite and struggle with a will to put an end to the
division and establish national sovereignty throughout the country, the
foreign aggressor forces will become impotent and the national
reunification, the cherished desire of the nation, will surely be achieved.
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U.S. branded as rogue state of worst type in world
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with a signed
article terming the United States the rogue state of the worst type in the
world. Referring to the U.S. government's number of "grounds" to label other
countries as "rogue states", the article says:
��� The first is the development of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons
and missiles.
��� However, the U.S. is the very country which is to blame for them.
��� It ranks first in the world in the number of nuclear, biological and
chemical weapons and missiles. It surpasses all other countries by far in
their quantity and destruction power. it is the criminal state of the worst
type which inflicted the most fatal calamities upon humankind by use of
these weapons.
��� It dropped atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus becoming the
only and sole country in the world which used nuclear weapons against
humankind for the first time in history.
��� During the Korean War, it repeatedly tried to use nuclear weapons.
��� The second is "terrorism-sponsor."
��� In an "annual report on terrorism", the U.S. department of state on May
1 listed some countries as "terrorism-sponsor states". Quite contrary to
their advertisement, the criminal sponsor of international terrorism is none
other than the United States.
��� Acting as if it were a "judge of terrorism," it, listing other countries
as "terrorism-sponsor states," puts pressure upon them and uses armed forces
against them under this or that pretext.
��� After its appearance, the Bush administration committed several rounds
of air bombings against Iraq.
��� The U.S. is condemned as the rogue state of the worst type in the world
for its reckless misbehaviours which cannot be imagined by other countries.
��� Its military actions against Yugoslavia two years ago contravened the
international law and norms of international relations.
��� The Bush administration's recent official announcement that it would not
comply with the "Kyoto protocol" is the reckless act of a rogue country
which unhesitatingly commits any unjustifiable acts for its own sake.
��� Such arbitrary and strong-arm practices of the United States will not
work in the present world.
��� Humankind will certainly bring the U.S. to the court of history and
severely punish it.
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Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of Han Ju Gyong
��� Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il yesterday sent a wreath
to the bier of lieutenant general of the KPA Han Ju Gyong, lecturer at the
victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, expressing deep condolences
over his death.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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gran direccion es firme garantia para reunificacion de patria
��� pyongyang, 20 de enero (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" inserto en
el numero de hoy un articulo senalando que no se puede pensar al margen de
la destacada direccion del gran general kim jong il en la nueva epoca de
apogeo de hoy de la causa de la reunificacion de la patria. el articulo
continua:
��� bajo la destacada y dinamica direccion del gran lider presidente kim il
sung la empresa de reintegracion de la nacion coreana recorrio el camino de
la victoria superando multiples obstaculos y dificultades.
��� esta causa iniciada y dirigida por el gran lider la lleva adelante
brillantemente el estimado general kim jong il quien al considerar la
reunificacion de la patria como mision de toda su vida hace todos sus
esfuerzos por llevarla a efecto.
��� el ano pasado fueron efectuadas las conversaciones norte-sur de nivel
supremo y aprobada la declaracion conjunta norte-sur que es un jalon de la
reunificacion de la patria.
��� estos eventos son productos de su voluntad patriotica.
��� el estimado general con sus actividades ideo-teoricas cientificas que
reflejan la realidad y la aspiracion del pueblo ilumina esplendidamente el
camino del movimiento de la reunificacion de la patria.
��� la victoria lograda en este movimiento de la nacion coreana es la
victoria de su idea y linea en esta materia.
��� con su destacada direccion orienta el movimiento de la reunificacion de
la patria por el unico camino de la victoria.
��� la sabiduria de su direccion reside en lograr la victoria al reforzar el
sujeto de la reunificacion de la patria y asegurar la superioridad decisiva
de las fuerzas de independencia nacional para rechazar las fuerzas foraneas.
��� bajo su direccion el movimiento de la reunificacion de la patria saldra
ciertamente victorioso.
��� con las infinitamente nobles virtudes y magnanimidad el conduce a la
nacion coreana a la lucha por la reunificacion de la patria.
��� el gran general disfruta de absoluta confianza de la nacion coreana.
��� bajo su direccion es indispensable la victoria de la causa de
reintegracion de la nacion coreana.
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unidad asegura avance victorioso de causa socialista
��� pyongyang, 20 de enero (atcc) -- el periodico "rodong sinmun" en el
numero de hoy inserto un articulo individual subrayando que el avance
victorioso de la causa socialista, causa de independencia puede ser
asegurado solo por la lucha unida de las masas populares aspirantes a esta
causa. el articulo continua: la unidad es el prin.
��� de la politica socialista.
��� de la revolucion que las masas del pueblo trabajador lograron en la
lucha sangrienta contra la explotacion y la opresion de la clase dominante y
el regimen explotador. y el avance victorioso por las fuerzas unidas de los
pueblos es el socialismo. de menospreciar y debilitar aunque en lo minimo la
unidad es inevitable que el socialismo pierda su vitalidad.
��� la unidad es arma y bandera de lucha que deben tomar y enarbolar todos
los pueblos que abogan por la independencia.
��� " unamonos los pueblos del mundo que abogan por la independencia " es la
consigna internacionalista que los pueblos progresistas del mundo deben
enarbolar tambien en el siglo 21.
��� todos los paises y naciones y los pueblos que abogan por la
independencia deben unirse firmemente y desplegar la lucha comun bajo esta
consigna para destruir el caduco orden internacional desigualitario y
contradictorio, fraguado por los imperialistas, y establecer y desarrollar
las nuevas relaciones internacionales basadas en la independencia e
igualdad.
��� cuando los pueblos del mundo se unan para desplegar la lucha tenaz con
la bandera del antimperialismo y de la independencia en alto las
maquinaciones dominacionistas del imperialismo se tornaran vulnerables y
seguira hacia adelante la causa de la verificacion de la independencia en
todo el mundo.
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ha de ser frenada peroracion antinorcoreana, comentario de atcc
��� pyongyang, 20 de febrero (atcc) -- en estos dias algunas fuerzas de
surcorea profieren palabras muy malsanas en torno al problema de la "visita
de cumplimiento a seul". al no ver con buenos ojos la ejecucion de la
historica declaracion conjunta del 15 de junio y el desarrollo de las
relaciones norte-sur tendentes a la reconciliacion y cooperacion ellas ponen
algun "condicionamiento previo" a la "visita de cumplimiento" e incluso
disparatan sin escrupulos que esta no debe ser lograda.
��� el "presidente" anterior quien en un tiempo habia propuesto las
"conversaciones cumbre" del norte y el sur se atrevio a hablar del problema
de la "seguridad fisica", la "cosa desafortunada que pueda ocurrir" y de
otras cosas similares.
��� al mismo tiempo el cabecilla militar de surcorea declara que no puede
retirar la teoria de "enemigo principal" y asi fomenta el enfrentamiento con
el norte.
��� estas palabras malsanas se vomitan desenfrenadamente y se pronuncian
abiertamente incluso en la "asamblea nacional".
��� de eso no podemos menos que extranarnos.
��� de hecho, algunas fuerzas de surcorea no tienen la voluntad de tener
contacto con nosotros sino se proponen frenar la ejecucion de la declaracion
conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio con el proposito de llevar las relaciones
norte-sur al enfrentamiento que se puede ir a una coyuntura imprevisible.
��� en fin es una provocacion premeditada.
��� es claro para todos que en tales circunstancias las relaciones norte-sur
no pueden progresar favorablemente ni tampoco los puntos de acuerdo entre
ambas partes podran ejecutarse debidamente segun lo previsto.
��� definimos el presente como un ano para abrir la puerta de reunificacion
con las fuerzas unidas de nuestra nacion y nos esforzamos activamente por
realizar la historica declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio.
��� esta posicion nuestra suscita el unanime apoyo y reaccion positiva de
los habitantes de distintos sectores de surcorea.
��� algunas fuerzas de surcorea al nadar contra la corriente de la epoca y
al proferir las muy malsanas palabras anti-norcoreanas no podran sacar nada
provecho sino una ignominiosa derrota.
��� ellas deben cesar de inmediato tales peroraciones ridiculas y
temerarias.
��� como ya declaramos mas de una vez, nos esforzaremos bajo todos los
aspectos por ejecutar la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio al
mantener la fidelidad historico encuentro de pyongyang. pero en el caso de
que no la cumplan actuaremos sin piedad.
��� la responsabilidad del caso en que en lo adelante las relaciones
norte-sur sufran contratiempo y la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de
junio no se cumpla recaera enteramente sobre los provocadores y otros
sujetos que tratan con simpatia y tolerancia a estos.
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