TODAY'S NEWS (June.15.2001 Juche 90)
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1st anniversary of north-south joint declaration observed
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Cuban embassy officials visit Sinchon Museum
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Report on mass killings of civilians and list of victims found in S. Korea
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DPRK national flag appears in Pusan
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Calls issued for implementation of joint declaration
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Exhibition hall of works on Juche idea visited
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Yun Yong Gi dies
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Greetings to Kim Jong Il from Chongryon CSC
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Letter of thanks to Kim Jong Il from NDFSK
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U.S. arms buildup assailed
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Grand seminar on national reunification held
For Spanish-speaking people
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primer saludo de fiesta de ano nuevo a pueblo
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responsabilidad recae sobre ee.uu.
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naturaleza agresiva de ee.uu. y su ambicion dominacionista
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1st anniversary of north-south joint declaration observed
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- Papers here today editorially observe the
1st anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. Rodong Sinmun
says that the past one year covered by the Korean nation since the
publication of the declaration was a worthwhile year in which all the fellow
countrymen took a big stride forward in the movement for reunification, full
of joy to greet the era of independent reunification, and meaningful days
when the validity and vitality of the declaration have been demonstrated to
the full.
��� The paper says:
��� During the last one year, the Korean people clearly proved that every
Korean wants reunification and there is nothing impossible when the whole
Korean nation struggles with one aim.
��� The whole Korean nation has deepened the national confidence and
promoted reconciliation and unity under the uplifted banner of the
declaration.
��� A decisive factor of a great change made in the movement for the
country's reunification over the last one year is the extraordinary
leadership ability and energetic activities of leader Kim Jong Il.
��� All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad are faced with a
sacred task to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the
country and open up the road of eternal prosperity of the nation at an early
date, the paper notes, and goes on:
��� What is the most important is to have a position and attitude of
respecting the declaration and sincerely implementing it.
��� The experience in the past one year teaches a lesson that if Koreans
remain true to the declaration everything goes well and if one backpedals
his earlier promise the declaration will remain nothing but a sheet of waste
paper.
��� National independence is a guiding idea of the times of independent
reunification.
��� One should have a firm stand to realize the country's reunification by
the concerted efforts of the Korean nation, see through the aggressive
attempt of the foreign forces, sternly reject them, mobilize enormous
potentials of the nation with genuine conscience of fellow countryman and
thus achieve the country's reunification.
��� The situation inside and outside the Korean peninsula is favourably
developing nowadays.
��� Only the U.S., displeased with the process of the reconciliation of the
Korean nation, persists in reckless moves to escalate tensions.
��� It is high time the U.S. behaved with reason.
��� The U.S. should not run wild, seized with the ambition for hegemony, but
do things helpful to the implementation of the declaration for reunification
of the Korean nation as a party directly responsible for the division of the
Korean peninsula.
��� Minju Joson in an editorial calls for opening the door of independent
reunification by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.
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Cuban embassy officials visit Sinchon Museum
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- Cuban ambassador to the DPRK Esteban
Lobaina Romero and his embassy officials yesterday visited the Sinchon
Museum in South Hwanghae Province on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of
the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification. They looked round
the exhibits and visual propaganda materials showing the most barbarous mass
killings of innocent people by the U.S. imperialist aggressors in Sinchon
during the temporary strategic retreat in the last Korean War.
��� They went round the anti-air raid shelter of the then Sinchon county
party committee, the powder store in Wonam-ri, graves of 5,605 patriots and
400 mothers and 102 children who were brutally killed by Yankees.
��� They laid bouquets before the graves before observing a silent tribute.
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Report on mass killings of civilians and list of victims found in S. Korea
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- A field-investigation report on the mass
killings of civilians committed by the army and police in South Korea during
the past war as well as a list of victims were found in the underground
archives of the "National Assembly" after the lapse of more than 40 years,
according to Yonhap News from Seoul. Jon Kap Gil, an assemblyman from the
democratic party, opened this to the public on June 11.
��� According to the report, a special committee for investigation into the
truth behind the mass killings of civilians was formed in accordance with a
decision of the fourth plenary session of the "national assembly" in 1960
and a fact-finding group was sent to the scenes and carried out
investigation from May 31 to June 10 of the same year.
��� The group worked out a "report on the mass killings of civilians," a
list of those killed and "stenographic records of the committee for
investigation into the truth behind the mass killings of civilians".
��� The result of investigation conducted in 42 places of five provinces put
the number of civilian victims only at 8,522. Losses of lives and properties
caused by the army and the police before and after the June 25 war are
serious in the areas investigated by the committee and the number of victims
reported to the committee from localities is on the increase.
��� The special committee requested the "administration" to institute "a
special law on dealing with the murder of civilians" in an effort to sternly
punish those responsible for the damage done to the lives and properties of
guiltless people and establish a system of compensation to the victims.
��� But before a step was taken, the may 16 military coup d'etat took place
and the stenographic records, the report and the list of victims had been
left in the underground archives, not being transferred to the repository
keeping records of the "national assembly."
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DPRK national flag appears in Pusan
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- The national flag of the DPRK appeared at
universities in Pusan on the occasion of the first anniversary of the June
15 Joint Declaration, according to a Seoul-based CBS report. The general
student council of Dong-a university displayed a large wall-paper, on which
a DPRK national flag and a unified flag of Korea are painted, on a wall of
the building of the college of natural science on June 11.
��� The council announced its plan to continue to display the DPRK
flag-decorated wall-papers at each college during the week of commemorating
the first anniversary of the declaration.
��� The Pusan-Gyeongsang College displayed on June 13 a wall-paper carrying
a DPRK flag and the unified flag of Korea and Korea maritime university
displayed a large wall-paper carrying a picture of leader Kim Jong Il and
the unified flag of Korea at its old main building, etc.
��� Meanwhile, universities in Pusan decided to conduct propaganda
activities among citizens and campus meetings to accelerate the movement for
reunification at each university on June 15 in the week of commemorating the
joint declaration.
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Calls issued for implementation of joint declaration
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- The solidarity for implementing the
south-north joint declaration in South Korea on June 7 made public calls to
be upheld in the period of June 15-August 15 movement for promoting national
reunification, according to a news report. They said that implementation of
the June 15 joint declaration is patriotism and moves to obstruct it are a
treachery and called upon all the people to unite to implement the
declaration.
��� They called upon all the people to make tangible contributions to the
implementation of the joint declaration= those with strength devote
strength, those with knowledge dedicate knowledge and those with money
donate money.
��� They urged the U.S. to drop its hardline policy towards the north
obstructive to the implementation of the declaratin and withdraw its troops
from South Korea.
��� They called for putting an end to U.S.-toeing diplomacy, pursuing
independent politics and rejecting anti-reunification moves through
all-people struggle.
��� They called upon people of all strata to unite as one to carry out the
joint declaration under the banner of patriotism.
��� National reunification is sure to come, they said, calling upon all the
people to rise up to implement the joint declaration and glorify the 21st
century as the century of national reunification.
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Exhibition hall of works on Juche idea visited
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- The military attaches corps here yesterday
visited the exhibition hall of works on the Juche idea on the occasion the
37th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the c.c., the
Workers' Party of Korea. They looked round photos, autographic manuscripts
and other exhibits showing his undying feats, being briefed on the fact that
he who has a rare perspicacity, boundlessly broad vision, rich knowledge and
faculties of inquiry, conducted energetic ideological and theoretical
activities to write many works, while leading the revolution and
construction.
��� At the end of the visit, they made an entry in the visitor's book.
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Yun Yong Gi dies
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- Former unconverted long-term prisoner Yun
Yong Gi, the indomitable pro-reunification patriot and man of strong faith
and will, died of cerebral infarction, caused by the aftermath of various
diseases he got in South Korean prisons, at the age of 74 on June 13, Juche
90 (2001). According to the obituary, he was born into a tenant's family in
South Korea and led a inhumane life under the fascist rule of the U.S.
imperialist aggressors and their stooges after the liberation of Korea.
��� He joined in a Kyonggi provincial guerrilla unit and bravely fought with
the enemies in the period of the fatherland liberation war. later He worked
as a party worker and an official of the General Federation of Trade Unions
of Korea thanks to the high political confidence and care of President Kim
Il Sung. he devotedly fought for the country's reunification.
��� He was arrested by the enemy and suffered in jail for 40 years. He did
not give in to the hangmen who forced "ideological conversion" upon him.
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Greetings to Kim Jong Il from Chongryon CSC
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA0 -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a message of
greetings from the central standing committee of the General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) today on the occasion of the first
anniversary of the historic Pyongyang meeting and the June 15 North-South
Joint Declaration. Recalling that Kim Jong Il arranged the historic meeting
of the heads of the north and the south which culminated in the publication
of the north-south joint declaration, a milestone for national
reunification, and thus did such a great work which could not be realised in
55 years since the division of the country, the message describes this as a
most shining feat to be recorded in the history of the movement for national
reunification.
��� After the Pyongyang meeting, the movement for national reunification
entered a new phase in which it is advancing, guided by your idea and
leadership art and proves successful thanks to your virtue and the desire
for national independence to solve the issue of reunification by the
concerted efforts of the Korean nation under the banner of the joint
declaration is growing stronger among the compatriots at home and abroad,
the message says, and continues:
��� The cause of national reunification is certain to be achieved and the
Korean nation in the 21st century will surely greet a new era when a
reunified and prosperous Korea will emerge and a great history of reunified
nation will be made as long as the Koreans hold you in high esteem as the
lodestar of independent national reunification and a central figure for the
great unity of the whole nation.
��� All the Chongryon officials and compatriots in Japan will vigorously
join in the nation-wide grand march for reunification to open up the door of
reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation under the banner
of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration provided by you.
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Letter of thanks to Kim Jong Il from NDFSK
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il today received a letter
of thanks from the central committee of the National Democartic Front of
South Korea on the occasion of the first anniversary of the historic
Pyongyang meeting and the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint
Declaration. The letter says that the Pyongyang meeting arranged by Kim Jong
Il, the great leader of the nation, which resulted in the publication of the
declaration last June, marked a historic event to be recorded in the history
of the movement for national reunification.
��� The letter says: you, endowed with outstanding idea, tested leadership
art and noble virtue, have led the cause of national reunification to
victory, thus performing great exploits to be always recorded in the history
of the nation.
��� You provided a landmark for national reunification, enabling the Koreans
to declare to the world their will to put an end to the history of national
division and glorify the 21st century as Kim Jong Il's great century which
will see the rise of a reunified, powerful and prosperous Korea and open up
a bright prospect of carrying out the cause of national reunification by the
concerted efforts of the Korean nation under your leadership.
��� As the cause of national reunification is led by you, the movement for
national reunification is making progress, guided by your idea and thanks to
your leadership art and proving successful thanks to your virtue.
��� The NDFSK central committee will consolidate its organization and ranks
of the movement for reunification as invincible ranks intensely loyal to
your idea and leadership and make the worship of you by people from all
walks of life prevail in South Korea.
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U.S. arms buildup assailed
��� Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, a senior official of the
U.S. department of defense talked about the deployment of aegis ships on the
East Sea of Korea. He asserted that this was necessary because the "military
threat" from the DPRK has not been reduced even after the inter-Korean
summit talks. In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says:
the U.S. plan to deploy aegis ships on the East Sea of Korea is intended to
shift the blame for the escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula and in
other Asia-Pacific regions on to the DPRK and use it as a pretext for
increasing the strength of armed forces and securing "strong justification"
for establishing the sphere of military domination in this region.
��� The commentary goes on:
��� The U.S. moves are clearly designed to contain the neighbouring
countries in this region, fully ensure the sphere of its military domination
and threaten the DPRK militarily.
��� With nothing can the U.S. cover its true colours as a disturber of peace
and stability in the Asia-Pacific region and evade the responsibility for
the escalating tensions in the region. The DPRK can never remain a passive
on-looker to the arms buildup stepped up by the U.S. under the pretext of
"threat" from the DPRK. The DPRK will decisively react to the U.S. arms
buildup targeted against it.
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Grand seminar on national reunification held
��� Kosong, June 15 (KCNA) -- A grand seminar on national reunification on
the theme "June 15 Joint Declaration and Nation's Tasks" took place on Mt.
Kumgang today with a large attendance to mark the 1st anniversary of the
declaration. Present there were representatives of political parties and
organizations in the DPRK including the Workers' Party of Korea, the Korean
Social Democratic Party, the Korean Chondoist Chongu Party, the c.c., the
Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, the Committee for
the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the General Federation of
Trade Unions of Korea, the Kim Il Sung socialist youth league, the union of
agricultural workers of Korea, the Korean Democratic Women's Union, the
Korean Students Committee, the Korean National Peace Committee, the Korean
Democratic Lawyers Association, the General Federation of the Unions of
Literature and the Arts of Korea, the Korean General Federation of Science
and Technology, the Korean Christian Federation, the Korean Catholic
Association, the Korean Buddhist Federation, the Korean Religious Believers
Council and the Korean Social Scientists Society.
��� Also present were representatives of political parties and organizations
of South Korea including the Democratic Party for New Millennium, the Grand
National Party, the Democratic Workers' Party, the south headquarters of
Pomminryon (National Alliance for the Country's Reunification), the south
headquarters of Pomchonghakryon (the National Alliance of Youth and Students
for the Country's Reunification), the South Korean Federation of University
Student Councils, the All-People Council for National Reconciliation and
Cooperation, the Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June
15 North-South Joint Declaration and Peace on the Korean peninsula, the
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions,
the General Federation of Peasants Associations, the Federation of Women's
Organizations, the Teachers Union, the "National Alliance for Democracy and
Reunification", the General Federation of Christians, the "National Catholic
Alliance for Justice" and the central headquarters of Chondoism.
��� A delegation of Koreans in Japan, delegations of the General Association
of Koreans in China and the International United Confederation of Koreans, a
representative of the U.S. regional headquarters of Pomminryon, and other
representatives of overseas compatriots from Japan, Europe and Americas were
on hand.
��� Congratulatory speeches were made at the seminar.
��� Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the national reconciliation council and
chairman of the north side's preparatory committee for the June 15-August 15
movement for the promotion of national reunification, in his congratulatory
speech said that the declaration is a patriotic banner reflecting the
unanimous aspiration and desire of all the fellow countrymen who value the
dignity of the nation and earnestly want the reunification of the country
and a great reunification programme for national independence.
��� He expressed the belief that the current seminar would become a meeting
pooling the patriotic will of the 70 million fellow countrymen, a historic
gathering to achieve national unity and reconciliation and redouble their
efforts and would mark an occasion of a great turn in opening a new chapter
in the Korean nation's history of the movement for national reunification.
��� The seminar adopted a joint communique on the grand seminar on national
reunification marking the first anniversary of the declaration and a joint
statement denouncing the Japanese authorities for working hard to distort
history in textbooks.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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primer saludo de fiesta de ano nuevo a pueblo
��� pyongyang, 15 de enero (atcc) -- en el acto de escolares y ninos por el
nuevo ano 90 (2001) de la era juche los ninos rindieron su primer saludo a
los padres, hermanos y hermanas. desde las antiguedades, segun la costumbre
propia de la nacion coreana, los inferiores hacen reverencia a sus
superiores con motivo del primer dia del ano nuevo.
��� el pueblo coreano trata con sublime veneracion a su lider y su
dirigente. por eso rinde cada ano primer saludo de fiesta de ano nuevo al
gran lider presidente kim il sung y al respetado dirigente kim jong il, con
el honor y felicidad infinitos de vivir enalteciendolos como padre de la
nacion.
��� tal costumbre convertida en un ambiente de toda la sociedad no es
excepcional tampoco en el acto de los escolares y ninos por el ano nuevo.
��� pero en el acto por el nuevo ano 2001 los escolares y ninos hicieron
reverencia a sus padres antes que a su dirigente a quien enaltecen como
padre de todo el pais.
��� he ahi un motivo.
��� a finales del ano pasado, al enterarse de los preparativos de la funcion
artistica de ano nuevo de los escolares y ninos, el dirigente kim jong il
enseno cordialmente que independientemente de la costumbre anterior estos
deben saludar primeramente a sus padres quienes realizan hazanas laborales
en la construccion socialista.
��� el dirigente kim jong il al decir que el nuestro es un pueblo excelente,
el mismo disfruta de la mayor fortuna de tener a un gran pueblo y no hay que
escatimar nada para este no cesa de tomar el camino de la direccion sobre el
terreno para el fomento del bienestar del pueblo.
��� tambien el primer dia del presente ano hizo que el pueblo recibiera el
primer saludo y continuo el camino de su direccion sobre el terreno a la
unidad del ejercito para la tranquilidad del pueblo y la felicidad de los
ninos precisamente cuando estos bailaban y cantaban.
��� por eso en toda la extension del pais, resuena la cancion de los ninos
"el general al frente y los ninos al campamento".
��� asi el lider se siente orgulloso de la fortuna de tener al gran pueblo y
este canta la fortuna de enaltecer al gran lider.
��� he aqui la autentica fisonomia de la sociedad coreana con la unidad
monolitica del lider y el pueblo.
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responsabilidad recae sobre ee.uu.
��� pyongyang, 15 de mayo (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en el numero
de hoy inserto un comentario condenando a baradei, director general del
organismo internacional de energia atomica quien en una reciente entrevista
con un periodico extranjero trataba de descargar a la rpdc la
responsabilidad de postergacion de la construccion de reactores de agua
ligera. el comentario senala en particular:
��� el principio que ha de ser mantenido estrictamente en la labor del oiea
es la neutralidad e imparcialidad.
��� pero, el director general del oiea en adhesion a la politica hostil a la
rpdc de la administracion de bush de ee.uu. hizo disparate tergiversando la
verdad, lo que afecta solo la autoridad y confianza de este organismo
internacional.
��� ee.uu. no ejecuta sinceramente el acuerdo basico rpdc-ee.uu. concertado
el 21 de octubre de 1994.
��� segun el acuerdo ee.uu. se responsabiliza de construir dos reactores de
agua ligera con capacidad de un millon de kw (cada uno) para entregarlos
hasta el ano 2003 a la rpdc.
��� pero, debido a la actitud falta de sinceridad y maquinaciones
obstructoras de ee.uu., hasta hoy a 7 anos de la aprobacion de dicho acuerdo
la construccion de reactores de agua ligera que es asunto clave se estanca y
no se sabe cuando culminara.
��� la dilata de proposito ee.uu. para impedir el desarrollo de la industria
de energia nuclear independiente de la rpdc, debilitar las potencialidades
economicas y militares de esta y aplastarla con fuerzas.
��� no podemos menos que senalar particularmente que se presenta seriamente
el problema de la indemnizacion sobre la perdida de energia electrica de la
rpdc debido a la tactica de dilacion intencional de ee.uu.
��� tenemos el derecho a recibir la compensacion de ee.uu. por el respecto y
ejerceremos hasta el fin este derecho.
��� es invariable la disposicion de la rpdc de ejecutar con sinceridad el
acuerdo basico firmado con ee.uu.
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naturaleza agresiva de ee.uu. y su ambicion dominacionista
��� pyongyang, 15 de marzo (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en el numero
de hoy inserto un comentario denunciando a los belicistas imperialistas
norteamericanos que acusan sin ton ni son a la republica popular democratica
de corea y arrecian su politica hostil y complot de aislamiento y
aplastamiento a ella. el comentario senala:
��� ee.uu. lanza gran reto a la situacion de la peninsula coreana que
comenzo a dar sintoma de relajamiento. esto demuestra la ambicion
dominacionista y la naturaleza agresiva de ee.uu. de aplastar con las
"fuerzas" y militarmente a la rpdc y constituye una revelacion de la
siniestra intencion de destruir el dialogo norte-sur y frenar el movimiento
de la nacion coreana por la reunificacion.
��� el imperialismo norteamericano es el fautor de la division de corea y el
obstaculo principal de la paz y la reunificacion del pais.
��� es invariable su ambicion agresiva de aplastar con las "fuerzas" a la
rpdc al cerrar con estas el camino de la paz y la reunificacion de corea.
��� la bandidesca "politica de la fuerza" del imperialismo norteamericano es
incapaz de amedrentar al pueblo coreano que considera la dignidad y la
soberania de la nacion mas valiosas que su vida.
��� estamos preparados tanto para el dialogo como para la guerra.
��� tenemos temperamento de responder con la ultraintransigencia a la
intransigencia de los enemigos, con el golpe mil veces mas duro al golpe de
los provocadores.
��� los imperialistas norteamericanos deben renunciar su agresiva politica
de hostilidad a la rpdc y ejecutar sinceramente el acuerdo basico
rpdc-ee.uu.
��� ee.uu. al perseguir su enfrentamiento con la rpdc traera graves e
irremediables consecuencias de que debe responsabilizarse enteramente.
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