June.02.2001 Juche 90
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Utterance of U.S. secretary of defense accused
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Martyrs and their wives interred together
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KCNA slams Japan's moves for aggression
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International Children's Day observed
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S. Korean air force exercise under fire
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Japan's intention for revision of LAW under fire
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Students and workers meet former unconverted long-term prisoners
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Solidarity with survivors of Japan's sexual slavery called for
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S. Korean unionists' struggle goes on
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Loving care shown by Kim Jong Il for Hamhung city
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Utterance of U.S. secretary of defense accused
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- U.S. secretary of defense Rumsfeld
addressing a recent closed meeting of the armed service committee of the
U.S. House of Representatives said that the bush administration is now
working out a new flexible military strategy to cope with an "inevitable
occurrence of unexpected situation" such as a Korean War. In this regard
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says:
��� His utterance clearly suggests what the administration seeks on the
Korean peninsula is a new war.
��� The United States has not given up an ambition for world domination by
"force" and is working hard to achieve it.
��� The present situation where the united states is making the outbreak of
the second Korean war a fait accompli in a bid to realize its design once
again convinces the Korean people of the greatness and vitality of the
army-first politics of the Workers' Party of Korea.
��� Thanks to the army-first politics of the wpk the people's army and
people of Korea have a fixed will. If the enemy opts to start a new war at
any cost, the army and people of the DPRK will deal a telling blow to him by
displaying the strength they have so far built. It is their will and
resolution.
��� There is no need to explain what consequences this devastating strike
will bring. The U.S. had better bear this in mind and have a right option.
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Martyrs and their wives interred together
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Dead wives were buried in their husbands'
graves at the patriotic martyrs cemetery in Sinmiri on the outskirts of
Pyongyang. Interred at the cemetery are those who died while devotedly
fighting for the liberation of the country and working for socialist
construction and national reunification, cadres of the party, state and
army, and officials who performed feats in scientific, educational, public
health and culture and art fields.
��� Leader Kim Jong Il, gifted with warm love for comrades, saw to it that
the cemetery was built in the 1980s and stone pictures of martyrs were
attached to the graves in September Juche 87 (1998). And he instructed this
year that dead wives of martyrs should be buried in their husbands' graves.
��� This is an expression of his unbounded love and deep trust in
revolutionary comrades and their children.
��� As of the end of may, remains of over 100 wives were buried in their
husbands' graves at the cemetery.
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KCNA slams Japan's moves for aggression
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Nakatani, director general of the Japan
Defense Agency, told the security committee of the house of representatives
on May 31 that "cooperation from the self-defense forces is needed for the
U.S. troops, if they are exposed to danger in the event of contingency in
areas surrounding Japan." and he urged the government to allow the exercise
of right to the collective self defense through the revision of the
constitution.
��� This proves that Japan is accelerating the moves to legalize the
overseas aggression by the "SDF", a shock brigade in executing the U.S.
world strategy, pursuant to the bush administration's policy of "giving
importance to Japan." At the same time, it shows the Japanese politicians
are veering to the right so fast as to call for adopting militarisation as a
state policy.
��� The present constitution of Japan bans, in principle, the possession of
an army, the use of armed forces against any other country, and the exercise
of "right to collective self-defense" intended for joint military actions
with its allies.
��� In spite of it, Japan keeps, in actuality, an army called "SDF", and has
laid a groundwork for joint military actions such as the "guidelines for
U.S.-Japan defense cooperation", reducing the pacific constitution to a mere
name. What remains to be done by Japan at present is only to rewrite
articles of the constitution in favour of militarisation.
��� What cannot be overlooked is that the U.S. and Japan are in collusion
with each other over the issue of the "right to collective self-defense".
��� The former and new U.S. ambassadors to Japan recently called for the
U.S. cooperation in this matter. Such call was repeated this time by the
director general of the Japan defense agency. It is because the U.S. and
Japan have the same interests.
��� The U.S. seeks to use Japan as a shock brigade for the implementation of
its world strategy while the latter schemes to launch reinvasion of the
Asia-Pacific region with the help of the former.
��� Japan is well advised to ponder over the catastrophic consequences to be
entailed by its vaulting ambition for militarisation. The U.S., too, had
better refrain from the criminal conspiracy with Japan.
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International Children's Day observed
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- The 51st June 1 International Children's Day
was significantly marked in the DPRK. A friendly gathering of Korean and
foreign women and children in Pyongyang took place at Mangyongdae fun fair
on Friday.
��� Present there were secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea central
committee Kim Jung Rin and others.
��� Wives of foreign diplomatic envoys here and other women and children of
different countries were invited.
��� The gathering began with a song and dance "holiday of children, flower
buds," and a march and a rhythmic gymnastics were performed by children.
��� Then the participants played toy-picking, tug-of-war, Thongil train
running, archery and other sports and amusement games, deepening the
friendship.
��� On the same day, children across the country enjoyed their holiday in
parks, pleasure grounds and kindergartens, giving art performances and
playing sports and amusement games.
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S. Korean air force exercise under fire
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- The South Korean air force announced that it
would stage a five day-long "2001 exercise for supporting air battles" from
May 30 to be participated in by all its units and "examine its results". In
this regard, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
��� Participating in the exercise billed as a "drill for the best
maintenance and the increase of the capacity for arms support" are F-4 and
F-16 and other type fighters, training planes and transport planes of
different types and helicopters. specially selected "elite ground crews and
arms handlers" are set to undergo training under the simulated conditions of
an actual war.
��� To stage a drill of fitting planes with live ammunition and assembling
bombs and examining its results under the simulated conditions of an actual
war is a very dangerous development to be seen only on the eve of a war.
��� This is a challenge to the joint meeting of political parties and
organizations in the DPRK that discussed immediate measures and made an
important proposal for opening the door of reunification by the efforts of
the Korean nation on the occasion of the first anniversary of the
publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and also a
provocation to the north.
��� The basic idea of the declaration is to realise the country's
reunification independently by the Korean nation's efforts in the north and
the south, the main agent of reunification.
��� In order to achieve the independent reunification, the north and south
should get reconciled and united and reject the foreign interference in the
internal affairs of the nation.
��� Nevertheless, the South Korean military authorities are favouring
foreign aggressor forces' hostile policy toward the DPRK and giving spurs to
the arms buildup and the modernization of military hardware targeted against
it.
��� Traitors to the nation cannot go scotfree while attempting to block the
implementation of the declaration after rejecting fellow countrymen's offer
for reconciliation and cooperation and joining hands with foreign forces.
��� If they bring the north-south relations back to the state of
confrontation and tension before the adoption of the declaration, they will
meet irretrievably serious consequences.
��� The South Korean military authorities will have to be entirely
responsible for them.
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Japan's intention for revision of LAW under fire
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary
assails the Japanese reactionaries for working hard to revise the "law on
cooperation in U.N. peace-keeping operations" so that the Japan
"Self-Defence Forces" (SDF) may use weapons in those operations as they
please. This is intended to let the SDF use weapons at random in any region
of the world under the signboard of "peace-keeping", the commentary says,
and goes on:
��� The Japanese reactionaries leave no means untried for overseas
aggression.
��� Japan's "peace constitution" exists in name only.
��� Japan has all conditions for undertaking a war of overseas aggression.
the adoption of a new legislation for the implementation of the "guideline
for Japan-U.S. defence cooperation" led to the restoration of the SDF's
right of belligerency and the right to participate in a war.
��� When SDF is allowed to use weapons as it pleases broad, the SDF can
launch overseas invasion in real earnest.
��� The Japanese reactionaries' projected revision of the law is chiefly to
serve the purpose of permitting the servicepersons of SDF to use weapons
overseas. Through this they seek to stage military operations in any part of
the world, which precisely means Japan's overseas invasion.
��� As seen above, their moves for overseas invasion have entered the phase
of its realization. If they begin overseas invasion, they will not be able
to escape the same miserable doom as what the Japanese imperialists met for
committing a war of aggression in the past.
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Students and workers meet former unconverted long-term prisoners
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Teaching staff and students of Kim Il Sung
University and Kim Chaek University of Technology and workers of the
Pyongyang Garment Factory and Pyongyang Changgwang Garment Factory
separately met with former unconverted long-term prisoners, the patriotic
fighters for reunification. Former unconverted long-term prisoners, strong
in faith and will, are leading a happy life after their return to the
socialist homeland from South Korea last September.
��� At the meeting they recalled that they emerged victorious remaining true
to the last to the sense of obligation as revolutionary soldiers despite
physical torture and appeasement of the enemy aimed at their conversion for
scores of years. They could do so because there were the deep care of
President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and their determination to live
not to be ashamed of themselves before the Workers' Party of Korea and the
leaders and their comrades-in-arms and parents, brothers and sisters, they
added.
��� Students and workers vowed to prepare themselves as human bombs
devotedly defending Kim Jong Il on the first line like pro-reunification
patriotic fighters and become heroes and heroines of the times in building a
powerful nation.
��� Former unconverted long-term prisoners enjoyed a colorful performances
staged by students and workers and spent a pleasant while singing together
with them.
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Solidarity with survivors of Japan's sexual slavery called for
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Jong Yon Jin, chairperson of the "committee
for justice and restoration of honor of 'comfort women for the army' and
victims of forced labor by the imperial Japanese army in the U.S." which
represents the suit filed by victims of the "comfort women for the army" and
forced labor in the U.S., held a press conference in South Korea on May 29,
according to Seoul-based Yonhap News. Jong at the press conference accused
the Japanese government of trying to turn down by all means the suit filed
to the federal district court in Washington by 15 survivors of the "comfort
women for the army" against the Japanese government in demand of its
official apology and proper compensation.
��� Jong also accused the U.S. government of delivering a written opinion to
the court supporting Japan's letter unreasonably dismissing the suit.
��� Jong called upon the authorities and all circles, political and
academic, and civil organizations of South Korea to solidarize with
survivors of the "comfort women for the army" who filed the suit.
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S. Korean unionists' struggle goes on
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Over 3,000 unionists under the South Korean
Confederation of Trade Unions (Minjurochong) held a meeting in Seoul on June
1 demanding a halt to lay-off and an early passage of the bill on the
improvement of people's living through the "national assembly", according to
Seoul-based radio 1. Chairman of Minjurochong Tan Pyong Ho, addressing the
meeting, said that the "national assembly" remaining a bulletproof
"parliament" over the last one year failed to take up the bill on the
improvement of people's living including the bill on the protection of
mothers.
��� The organization threatened to enter from June 12 into an all-out
struggle calling for a stop to restructuring and passage of the bill on the
improvement of people's living.
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Loving care shown by Kim Jong Il for Hamhung city
��� Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il showed loving care for
Hamhung city to help it speed up the modernization of its youth goat farm
and economic development and improve the standard of its citizens' living.
True to Kim Jong Il's noble intention to create pasture in different parts
of the country and breed a lot of goats, officials and working people in the
city built a road extending over 60 km, created pasture on its either side,
and constructed many production buildings, modern houses, welfare and
service facilities and six power stations in a short span of time. As a
result, there appeared a workers' district specializing in goat farming.
��� Kim Jong Il showed loving care for the city in high recognition of their
devoted service.
��� Present at the meeting held at the Hamhung Grand Theatre yesterday to
convey this solicitude were senior party and state officials including Kye
Ung Thae, Choe Thae Bok and Yon Hyong Muk, leading officials of party and
power bodies and economic organs in South Hamgyong Province, employees of
the Hamhung Youth Goat Farm, officials and working people in the city.
��� Also present there were chief secretaries of provincial, city and county
committees of the WPK and chairmen of provincial people's committees.
��� Speakers at the meeting represented the determination of the officials
and working people in Hamhung to implement to the letter the party's policy
on massively raising grass-eating animals to supply more meat and milk to
the people.
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