TODAY'S NEWS (June.20.2001 Juche 90)
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Kim Jong Il appreciates performance of servicemen's family art circle
members
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Hunger strike in S. Korea
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Title of Hero of Labour awarded to Hong Chang Su
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Indian embassy officials help Korean farmers
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Korean people's cause of national reunification supported abroad
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GIs' mass killings of civilians under fire
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U.S. urged to dispel DPRK's doubt about its intention
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Paek Nam Sun meets new Belgian ambassador
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Credentials from new ambassador of Belgium to DPRK
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 appreciates performance of servicemen's family art circle
members
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Tuesday appreciated a
performance given by KPA large combined unit no. 567 servicemen's family art
circle members who came back after a performance tour of front units. He was
accompanied by KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and other
general officers, secretary of the WPK central committee Kim Kuk Thae,
director of the information and instruction department of the WPK central
committee Jong Ha Chol and others.
��� In their repertoire the performers sonorously sang of their great pride
and happiness of stoutly growing and struggling as women revolutionaries who
are reliably performing an important role in the revolution under the warm
loving care of Kim Jong Il and successfully represented the unshakable faith
and will of the servicemen's family members to devote their lives to the
sacred struggle to devotedly defend the headquarters of the revolution and
achieve the final victory of the Korean revolution and the cause of national
reunification together with their husbands who are with arms in hands.
��� At the end of the performance Kim Jong Il acknowledged the enthusiastic
cheers of the performers and audience and congratulated the art circle
members on their successful performance.
��� He expressed great satisfaction with their performance tour of front
units, highly praised them and expressed thanks to them.
��� Highly praising the army again for conducting brisk family art
activities and energetically pushing forward the revolutionization of
servicemen and their families, he advanced highly important tasks which
would serve as a guideline in popularizing art activities.
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Hunger strike in S. Korea
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- All the unionists of the CBS of South
Korea went on an indefinite hunger strike on June 18, Seoul-based MBC
reported. The strike started according to the June 12 decision of the
central committee of the trade union that all the unionists including those
in the technical sector should go on strike. The trade union has waged the
struggle for 9 months from last October in demand of the wage hike, system
reform, etc.
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Title of Hero of Labour awarded to Hong Chang Su
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- The title of Hero of Labour of the DPRK
was awarded to Hong Chang Su, the first Korean world pro-boxing champion in
Japan. Hong, a pro-boxer under the General Association of Korean Residents
in Japan (Chongryon), emerged winner in the super fly category of the world
championships of the world boxing council held in Japan in August last year
and retained his world championship in a match he had with a challenger in
Seoul last May. An awarding ceremony took place at the Mansudae Assembly
Hall yesterday.
��� Present there were Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly, officials concerned, and Hong's party.
��� After a decree of the presidium of the DPRK spa was read out at the
ceremony, the title of Hero of Labour, the gold medal (hammer and sickle)
and the order of National Flag First Class were awarded to Hong Chang Su who
made great contributions to demonstrating the authority of the socialist
homeland and the might of Chongryon by retaining the world pro-boxing
championship.
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Indian embassy officials help Korean farmers
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Binanda Kumar Gogoi and
officials of the Indian embassy here helped the farmers of the Korea-India
Friendship Kalchon Cooperative Farm in Nampho on June 19 in weeding in a
maize field. During a break they talked to each other, sang songs and
danced, deepening the feelings of friendship.
��� The Indian guests handed aid materials to the farm.
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Korean people's cause of national reunification supported abroad
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Solidarity meetings for support to the
decision of the joint meeting of the political parties and organisations in
the DPRK to pave the way for national reunification by the concerted efforts
of the Korean nation were held in Madagascar and Tanzania on June 8 and 9 on
the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the publication of the north-south
joint declaration. Speeches were made at the meetings.
��� Rakotomandimby Selestine, national chairman of the socialist progressive
party of Madagascar, said that leader Kim Jong Il arranged the historic
Pyongyang meeting and made sure that the joint declaration which indicates
the way of national reunification was published, and performed the undying
exploits in the history of the movement for national reunification by
leading the nationwide work to implement the declaration.
��� He stressed the need to lift the voices of solidarity to positively
support the Korean people in their struggle to achieve the reunification of
the country with the world progressives loving justice and peace in the
"June 15-August 15 period of the movement for the promotion of national
reunification."
��� Francis Fanuel Lyimo, chairman of the Tanzanian national coordinating
committee of the Juche idea study groups, expressed the belief that the
independent and peaceful reunification of Korea will be achieved on the
basis of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and urged the united
states to drop the hostile policy towards the DPRK, withdraw its troops from
South Korea and do things helpful toward Korea's reunification.
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GIs' mass killings of civilians under fire
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- All the Koreans are simmering with bitter
curses and hatred against the murderers, upon hearing the news that the
truth behind mass killings of civilians was disclosed in South Korea, says
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. A report on the truth behind
mass killings of civilians and a list of victims during the Korean war were
discovered in an underground archives of the "national assembly" of South
Korea recently after the lapse of over 40 years.
��� The U.S. imperialist aggression forces were behind those mass killings,
the commentary says, and goes on:
��� The history of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces' presence in South
Korea that has lasted for over half a century was a history of mass killings
of civilians.
��� They are brutes in human skin and the sworn enemy of the Korean nation.
��� The South Korean people should no longer allow themselves to suffer
national disaster, misfortune and disgrace due to those brutes.
��� The South Korean people should value the dignity and sovereignty of the
nation and mercilessly punish the aggressors infringing upon them to
demonstrate their mettle.
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U.S. urged to dispel DPRK's doubt about its intention
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed
commentary on U.S. President Bush's statement issued on June 6 as regards
the resumption of negotiations with the DPRK. The commentary says:
��� It is noteworthy that the new U.S. administration proposed to resume
DPRK-U.S. dialogue which it unilaterally had put under suspension for four
months, but the DPRK cannot but remain vigilant against its real intention.
��� The U.S. side, while proposing to resume negotiations without
preconditions, unilaterally set out and opened to the public topics of
discussion such as the so called nuclear, missile and conventional armed
forces-related issues of the DPRK before both sides sat together.
��� The DPRK cannot but interpret the U.S. administration's "proposal for
resuming dialogue" as unilateral and conditional in its nature and hostile
in its intention.
��� The grave situation prevailing in the DPRK-U.S. relations is a product
of the U.S. vicious hostile policy towards the DPRK.
��� The DPRK's conventional armed forces which have been built up as a
measure for self-defence to cope with reckless military threats from the
united states and its allied forces, can never be a subject of discussion.
��� If the U.S. wants the DPRK's "reduction of conventional armed forces",
it should, first of all, withdraw its armed forces from South Korea.
��� If the U.S. has a true will to have a dialogue with the DPRK it should
adopt as topics of discussion practical issues related to the implementation
of the agreed points of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and the DPRK-U.S.
joint communique which both sides had already committed themselves to
fulfil.
��� The most realistic and urgent issue related to the implementation of the
AF is for the united states to handle in a responsible manner the issue of
compensating for the loss of electricity caused by the delay in the LWR
provision.
��� It is the position and demand of the DPRK that the U.S. should dispel
its doubt as to whether the United States has a political will to drop its
hostile policy toward the DPRK and discuss and settle the pressing issue of
compensating for the loss of electricity.
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Paek Nam Sun meets new Belgian ambassador
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the
DPRK, met and conversed with Koenraad Rouvroy, new ambassador of Belgium to
the DPRK who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall
today.
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Credentials from new ambassador of Belgium to DPRK
��� Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of
the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Koenraad
Rouvroy, new ambassador of Belgium to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly
Hall today. Present there was Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of foreign affairs.
��� After receiving credentials, Kim Yong Nam conversed with the ambassador.
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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 principio fundamental y el cordon umbilical de la
politica socialista.
��� el socialismo es la conquista 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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