TODAY'S NEWS (June.16.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS]
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Kim Jong Il inspects KPA naval unit No. 597
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Joint documents adopted at grand seminar on national reunification
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Greetings to Queen of UK
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U.S. to blame for delay in lwr project, says KCNA
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Anniversary of June 15 Joint Declaration observed
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KCNA on sinister plot concerning nuclear issue
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Letter to Kim Jong Il from former unconverted long-term prisoners
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Equatorial Guinean parliamentary delegation here
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DPRK delegations leave
For Spanish-speaking people
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vocero de comite de medidas de resarcimiento de danos por inundaciones de
rpdc responde
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establecimiento de relaciones diplomaticas entre rpdc y holanda
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dirigente kim jong il recibe cestos de flores, presentes y cartas de
felicitacion
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Kim Jong Il inspects KPA naval unit No. 597
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il inspected unit No. 597
of the KPA navy on June 15. He was accompanied by KPA generals Ri Myong Su,
Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
��� He began his inspection by seeing a monument to the on-the-spot guidance
of President Kim Il Sung and the room for the education in the revolutionary
history.
��� He stressed that as the historic relics and materials associated with
the revolutionary activities of the president are the valuable revolutionary
heritage which will be handed down forever with the history of the navy,
they should be well preserved and managed and effective education through
them should be carried on.
��� He looked round warships to learn in detail about the performance of the
unit's duty.
��� He noted with great satisfaction that sailors of the unit have grown up
to be fighters of an invincible fleet and put forth important tasks which
would serve as a guideline in strengthening the naval force of the country.
��� He then inspected entertainment, educational and logistic facilities to
show a warm care of their living with paternal affection.
��� Special attention should be paid to the food and sleep of sailors, he
said, stressing the need to improve supply service for them to suit their
features.
��� He appreciated a performance of choruses given by thousands of sailors
and their families.
��� He was greatly satisfied to see all the sailors of the unit fully
prepared as men strong in ideology and faith.
��� He gave them an automatic rifle as a gift and had a photo taken with
them.
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Joint documents adopted at grand seminar on national reunification
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A grand seminar on national reunification
held on Mt. Kumgang yesterday to mark the 1st anniversary of the June 15
Joint Declaration adopted a joint communique on the seminar and a joint
statement denouncing the Japanese authorities for working hard to distort
history in textbooks. The joint communique said that the seminar was
attended by representatives of various political parties and organizations
of the north and the south, over 200 from each side, 20 representatives of
overseas compatriots from various regions, and more than 250 personages as
observers.
��� The communique said:
��� The participants in the seminar that took place on the theme "June 15
Joint Declaration and Nation's Task" were unanimous in saying that the
declaration is one for independence, peaceful reunification and great
national unity and a joint programme and a joint landmark for the country's
reunification which the Korean nation should hold fast to in the new
century.
��� They said that in order to implement the June 15 Joint Declaration to
the letter all the fellow countrymen should closely unite transcending the
differences in ideology, idea and system from a firm stand to independently
solve the reunification issue by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation
and all the organizations and personages in the north and the south and
abroad should work hard to achieve solidarity.
��� They underscored the need to activate the multi-faceted cooperation and
exchanges and settle humanitarian issues in conformity with the desire of
the nation between the north and the south to consolidate national
reconciliation and confidence among compatriots. They also called for
holding multifarious campaigns and events one after another in the "period
of June 15-August 15 movement for the promotion of national reunification"
to make a positive contribution to glorifying this year as a year of opening
the door of reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
��� The joint statement strongly condemned the Japanese right-wing
conservatives' moves to tamper with history as an unpardonable criminal move
to justify the past crimes committed against the Korean nation and revive
militarism and thus realize their ambition for reinvasion. Noting that with
nothing can Japan justify its aggression and plunder, it said that the only
way out for it is to make honest apology and due compensation for them.
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Greetings to Queen of UK
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, on the occasion of her official birthday . The message extended
warm congratulations to her on the occasion of her official birthday.
��� In the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the
two countries would develop in conformity with the desire and interests of
the two peoples in the new century, the message wished the Queen good health
and happiness.
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U.S. to blame for delay in lwr project, says KCNA
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The executive of the Korean Peninsula
Energy Development Organization (KEDO) is taking an improper attitude toward
the compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the delay in the lwr
project. Executive director of the KEDO Kartman said at a recent press
conference in Seoul that the Pyongyang side is also responsible for the
delay in the lwr project and that compensation for the loss of electricity
caused by the delayed project is unacceptable because there is no provision
calling for compensation in the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
��� His remark is very short-sighted and irresponsible given KEDO's mission
to handle technical matters related to the construction of two LWRs, each
1,000 mw (e), by the year 2003.
��� His shameless assertion is intended to evade the U.S. responsibility for
the delay in the LWR project and force the DPRK to observe the agreed
framework unilaterally. The DPRK nuclear freeze and the U.S. LWR provision
are stipulated as simultaneous actions in the agreed framework.
��� If the DPRK had developed its nuclear power industry independently, not
bound to the agreed framework, it would not have suffered any power shortage
but have created an atomic energy generating capacity of 2,000 mw(e) by the
year 2003.
��� Respecting the agreement with the U.S. and taking into consideration a
letter from the u.s. president assuring the DPRK that lwr power plants with
a capacity of 2,000 mw (e) would be completed by the year 2003, the DPRK
sacrificed its nuclear power industry, sustaining a huge economic loss.
��� It is not secret that the U.S. deliberately delayed the project from its
outset putting up a number of unreasonable conditions and laid one
artificial obstacle after another, instituting even a regulation at the
congress calling for putting the brake on the LWR project.
��� It is due to the U.S. insincere attitude and obstructive moves that it
is hard to guess when the lwr project will be completed though it is nearly
seven years since the agreed framework was signed.
��� Then who should compensate for the huge economic loss caused by the
delayed project?
��� It is the universally recognized norm in the international relations
that the loss caused by the non-compliance with an agreement should be
compensated by the side which failed to observe it. The same is true of the
sensitive politico-economic issue of the u.s. provision of LWRs to the DPRK
in return for its freeze of nuclear facilities.
��� The KEDO executive director with a long political career must know it
very well. He, however, is falsifying the stark fact in a bid to help the
U.S. evade its responsibility to compensate for the electricity loss. this
is little short of an act of damaging the confidence in the U.S. in the
inter-state relations.
��� Given the agreed framework and the U.S. President's letter of assurance,
the U.S. is certain to fail to fulfil its commitment. Under this situation
the U.S. should unconditionally compensate for the electricity loss.
��� In this regard, the DPRK clarified more than once its resolute position
on this matter after releasing a detailed report on the too much delay in
the lwr project.
��� The DPRK explicitly states once again that it can no longer suffer an
enormous loss of electricity, unilaterally bound to the agreed framework.
��� The KEDO executive should clarify its position toward the issue of
compensation resulting from the failure to fulfil the commitment.
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Anniversary of June 15 Joint Declaration observed
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A reception was held at Mt. Kumgang Kotel
yesterday to commemorate the first anniversary of the June 15 Joint
Declaration. Present at the reception were representatives of political
parties and organizations in the DPRK including the Workers' Party of Korea,
the Korean Social Democratic Party, the Chondoist Chongu Party and the c.c.,
the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland.
��� Also present were representatives of political parties and organizations
and figures from all walks of life of South Korea including the Democratic
Party for New Millennium, the Grand National Party, the Democratic Workers'
Party and the south headquarters of Pomminryon (National Alliance for the
Country's Reunification).
��� On hand were a delegation of Koreans in Japan and delegations and
delegates of overseas compatriots.
��� Speeches were made at the reception.
��� Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the National Reconciliation Council and
chairman of the North Side Preparatory Committee for the June 15-August 15
Movement for the Promotion of National Reunification, said that the grand
seminar on national reunification is a grand gathering of the nation in
which views on national reunification were exchanged in an open-hearted way
and a historic event that demonstrated that the country's reunification can
be achieved by the efforts of the Korean nation itself.
��� Pak Yong Ryul, manager of the General Federation of Christians of South
Korea, noted that all those present at the seminar shared the same view that
implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration means opening up a new era
of independence and peace and that in the 21st century, the fellow
countrymen should get rid of colonial misfortune and division made in the
20th century.
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KCNA on sinister plot concerning nuclear issue
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A high-ranking official of the U.S. State
Department recently said that as the nuclear program of Pakistan is free
from strict control, its capacity may be proliferated to such countries as
North Korea. It is nonsense that the united states, the very one who
proliferated nuclear weapons in our planet and the nuclear war criminal who
used nuclear weapons against humankind, expressed "concern" over someone.
��� The foreign minister of Pakistan strongly rejected the U.S. allegation
that his country was related to the export of nuclear technology.
��� The director of the pacific forum of the U.S. centre for strategic and
international studies and former U.S. ambassador to South Korea Bosworth
said that North Korea was more faithful to the implementation of the Geneva
agreed framework than the U.S. and there was not enough evidence proving
Pyongyang's non-compliance with the agreed framework. Their remarks proved
that the U.S. "concern" was groundless.
��� The U.S. pulled up the DPRK over "proliferation of nuclear capacity" in
a bid to shift the responsibility for unilaterally delaying the
implementation of the agreed framework onto the DPRK.
��� As already reported, the agreed framework is now facing such a serious
crisis that should no longer be over looked with 2003 at hand and the U.S.
is entirely to blame for this.
��� However, the U.S. has not taken any substantial urgent measure, failing
to adopt a self-examining and responsible attitude and stand toward the
destiny of the agreed framework, but has pursued a sinister aim to turn the
world public in its favour at any cost under the pretext of "nuclear
suspicion" in the DPRK and elevate its negotiating position.
��� The U.S. should act with discrection, pondering over what consequenses
its sinister plot will bring to the DPRK-U.S. relations and international
relations as a whole.
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Letter to Kim Jong Il from former unconverted long-term prisoners
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Friday received a
letter from former unconverted long-term prisoners, patriotic
pro-reunification fighters, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the
historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. The letter says:
��� You arranged the historic Pyongyang meeting, the first of its kind in 55
years of national division, and made public the June 15 North-South Joint
Declaration to open up a bright vista for national reunification and saw to
it that we were repatriated to the socialist fatherland.
��� It was you who instilled inexhaustible energy and courage into us, so
that we might fight unyieldingly, remaining true to our faith and principle
to the last.
��� We did only what we should do. however, you highly praised us and made
tireless efforts for our repatriation to the homeland. No matter how bitter
our sufferings in the south were they can not stand in comparison with your
efforts exerted for our repatriation.
��� Thanks to your profound love and care, now we find ourselves happiest,
feeling as if we are again in youth after our rebirth.
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Equatorial Guinean parliamentary delegation here
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the House of
Representatives of the people of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea led by
its chairman Sabmon Nguma Owono arrived here today. The delegation was
greeted at the airport by choe thae bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, and officials concerned.
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DPRK delegations leave
��� Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A Korean film delegation led by Jo Chan Gu,
vice-minister of culture, left here today to participate in the 23rd Moscow
International Film Festival, a KCNA delegation led by its deputy director
general Han Song Bok to participate in the world congress for information
cooperation to be held in Russia and a delegation of the Korean Democratic
Women's Union led by Pak Sun Hui, chairwoman of its central committee, to
visit Thailand and Laos.
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vocero de comite de medidas de resarcimiento de danos por inundaciones de
rpdc responde
��� pyongyang, 16 de enero (atcc) -- al responder a la pregunta de un
reportero de la agencia telegrafica central de corea relativa a la carta de
disculpa que hizo llegar el comite "cap anamur", organizacion de asistencia
no gubernamental de alemania por el disparate del ex-representante de su
oficina en pyongyang, el vocero del comite de medidas de resarcimiento de
danos por inundaciones de la republica popular democratica de corea dijo
ayer como sigue: como se ha conocido ya, el comite "cap anamur" tomo las
medidas de revocar a norbert vollertsen, ex-representante de su oficina en
pyongyang al reconocer que el acto de este ajeno a la labor de asistencia
contraviene al principio de asistencia humanitaria de su organizacion.
��� no obstante eso, norbert en el camino de regreso a su pais ofrecio una
"conferencia de prensa" en la cual tergiverso gravemente la realidad
diciendo que los materiales donados a la rpdc "se usan exclusivamente" para
otros fines y se atrevio a proferir palabras difamatorias al regimen
socialista de la rpdc.
��� en fin, el trato de divulgar algunas opiniones malsanas en la
desesperada intencion de remediar la miserable situacion en que se halla
siendo revocado al cabo de hacer travesuras en la rpdc.
��� al respecto "cap anamur" hizo llegar una carta en la cual senala: la
locura del representante revocado no puede representar jamas la posicion de
su organizacion, se le pide sinceramente disculpa al pueblo coreano,
respetara el regimen de la rpdc, observara las leyes y ordenes de esta y a
traves de la labor de asistencia contribuira activamente al desarrollo de
las relaciones binacionales.
��� en el futuro tambien nosotros no perdonaremos jamas a quienes desacatan
la soberania de la rpdc.
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establecimiento de relaciones diplomaticas entre rpdc y holanda
��� pyongyang, 16 de enero (atcc) -- fueron establecidas relaciones
diplomaticas entre la republica popular democratica de corea y el reino de
holanda y fue publicado ayer el comunicado conjunto sobre el particular que
senala: tuvieron lugar el 20 de diciembre del 2000 y el 15 de enero del 2001
en la haya conversaciones entre los delegados de los ministerios de rr.ee.
de la rpdc y el reino de holanda.
��� las conversaciones fueron preparadas a traves del intercambio de las
cartas de los cancilleres de ambos paises relativas al establecimiento de
las relaciones diplomaticas.
��� en ellas las partes acordaron establecer las relaciones diplomaticas a
nivel de embajador entre la rpd de corea y el reino de holanda a base de los
convenios de viena sobre las relaciones diplomaticas y las relaciones
consulares.
��� las partes manifestaron la esperanza de que el establecimiento de las
relaciones diplomaticas entre ambos paises ofrezca oportunidad mas favorable
para desarrollar eficazmente las relaciones bilaterales y profundizar la
consultacion sobre los problemas de interes e inquietud mutuos.
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dirigente kim jong il recibe cestos de flores, presentes y cartas de
felicitacion
��� pyongyang, 16 de febrero (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il con
motivo de su cumpleanos recibio el dia 15 un cesto de flores y una carta de
felicitacion del cuerpo de agregados militares y un cesto de flores de los
funcionarios encargados de asuntos culturales y de amistad de las embajadas
de varios paises en la republica popular democratica de corea. recibio
cestos de flores, presentes y cartas de felicitacion de los representantes
diplomaticos de rusia, china, india, vietnam, libia, iran, camboya,
palestina, laos, siria, egipto, nigeria, indonesia, etiopia, polonia,
rumania, pakistan y yemen y de las embajadas de china y etiopia.
��� recibio cartas de felicitacion, regalos y ramos de flores de los
agregados militares de las embajadas de vietnam, rusia, cuba, egipto e iran
y cartas de felicitacion del coordinador de la onu y representante del
programa de las naciones unidas para el desarrollo, el representante del
fondo de las naciones unidas para la infancia y el representante interino
del programa mundial de alimentos, en la rpdc.
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