TODAY'S NEWS (June.30.2001 Juche 90)
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DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on case of border transgressors
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Talks held between foreign ministers of DPRK and Australia
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Japan's moves to emerge as military power under fire
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Truth about killings of civilians disclosed in S. Korea
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U.S. troop pullout from S. Korea urged
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Japan's distortion of history assailed by Korean historians
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Greetings to Burundian President
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Greetings to foreign minister of Jordan
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Kim Jong Il greets Jiang Zemin
For Spanish-speaking people
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dirigente kim jong il presencia comedia ligera
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vocero de cc de fgsc declara
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conferencia de vanguardistas juveniles
DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on case of border transgressors
���Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry
on Friday answered a question put by KCNA as regards foreign news reports
about the "issue of refugees". He said:
��� Some South Korean and western media have reported that the UN high
commissioner for refugees office in Beijing granted refugee status to a
citizen of the DPRK, Jang Kil Su and his family who illegally crossed its
border with china, and whisked them off to a third country. the case is a
down-the-line plot motivated by an insidious political purpose.
��� To be correct, Jang Kil Su and his family are not refugees but those who
illegally crossed the border.
��� When the country was under the difficult conditions those ordinary
people crossed the border to go to china, ready to come back once conditions
in the homeland get better.
��� However, the dishonest forces and intelligence agents of South Korea
displeased with the north-south reconciliation have long employed every base
means to take such border transgressors to South Korea so as to use them for
a insidious political purpose. the same is true of the current case.
��� To invent a pretext for the exile of Jang's family, they took in him to
produce anti-DPRK "drawings" to be carried by South Korean publications and
then warned that he and his family might be punished because of them after
their deportation.
��� Such anti-DPRK smear campaign has been launched at a time when the
desire of all the Koreans for national reconciliation, unity and
reunification is growing stronger with the first anniversary of the June 15
North-South Joint Declaration as a momentum. we cannot but maintain
heightened vigilance over this dishonest action.
��� This time china officially confirmed that there is a handful of border
transgressors but no issue of refugee between the two countries.
nevertheless, the UNHCR office in Beijing disguised those transgressors as
"refugees", evidently at somebody's backstage manipulation and for a certain
purpose.
��� The UNHCR office pays no deep attention to millions of real refugees
whose number is increasing everywhere in the world, but talks so loudly
about an ordinary issue related to the DPRK where the people are united
single-heartedly. Such unfair action and interference in its internal affair
can never be tolerated.
��� The DPRK does not persecute nor punish at random those who went wrong in
the past.
��� It is reported that Jang and his family have left china at present, and
we will watch which is their final destination.
��� The UNHCR office illegally dealt with the issue of those border
transgressors, the issue beyond its authority, and thus laid obstacles in
the process of the inter-Korean reconcilation and incited confrontation on
the Korean peninsula. It should be entirely held accountable for it.
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Talks held between foreign ministers of DPRK and Australia
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Talks between DPRK foreign minister Paek
Nam Sun and his Australian counterpart Alexander John Gose Downer were held
in Canberra on June 28. At the talks both sides informed each other of the
situation of their countries and exchanged views on the issue of developing
the bilateral relations, regional and international issues and other issues
of mutual concern.
��� They also discussed the issues of further expanding and developing the
friendly relations between the two countries in conformity with the new
century and reached a consensus of views on them.
��� Present at the talks were the DPRK Foreign Minister's party, the DPRK
ambassador to Australia and officials concerned of the Australian Foreign
Ministry.
��� At a ceremony that took place prior to the talks, the two foreign
ministers signed a joint press statement on opening their embassies in
Pyongyang and Canberra.
��� The joint press statement said that the DPRK would open its embassy in
Canberra in 2001 and Australia its embassy in Pyongyang in the fiscal year
2002/2003.
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Japan's moves to emerge as military power under fire
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Japan has already agreed with the united
states to hold a vice-minister level consultative meeting of foreign and
defence authorities of the U.S. and Japan for a joint analysis of the
situation in the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean peninsula and a
comprehensive discussion on ways for strengthening the "bilateral defence
cooperation." Japan decided to propose the creation of a working officials
consultative council under the military authorities of the two countries to
examine new ways for the "adjustment of their defence capabilities."
��� In this regard Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary:
��� This clearly indicates that the Japanese reactionaries are seeking to
use the strengthened "Japan-U.S. alliance", i.e. closer bilateral military
ties and cooperation, as a decisive lever to convert Japan into a military
power and realize overseas expansion.
��� As the United States is insisting that Japan should play a greater
"role" for "security" in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan is getting more
zealous in its efforts for increasing its military force, taking this as a
golden opportunity to secure a legal justification for pushing ahead with
these moves.
��� The reality goes to prove that Japan is rushing headlong toward overseas
aggression and reinvasion of Asia in a bid to realize the old dream "Greater
East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," openly revealing its militarist design,
backed by the United States.
��� The militarization of Japan seized with the wild ambition for "supremacy
of Asia" would seriously endanger the peace and security in the Asia-Pacific
region and the rest of the world. It is, therefore, necessary to decisively
check and frustrate Japan's militarist moves for aggression.
��� Japan should drop its foolish attempt to emerge as a military power and
launch a war for overseas aggression with the help of others.
��� Those moves will only precipitate Japan's self-destruction.
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Truth about killings of civilians disclosed in S. Korea
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The People's Committee for Probe into the
Killings of Civilians in the Korean War obtained a U.S. confidential
document disclosing one more case of mass killings committed by the South
Korean army and police during the Korean War that broke out on June 25,
1950, Seoul-based MBC reported. According to the document containing GI's
testimony, the army and police shot to death 300-400 civilians, including a
teenage girl, on Sindong pass in Chilgok county, North Kyongsang Province of
South Korea, in August 1950
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U.S. troop pullout from S. Korea urged
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, chairman of the
People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru, made public a
statement on June 23 on the occasion of the month of international
solidarity with the Korean people. Noting that true to the behests of Kim Il
Sung, eternal president of the DPRK, leader Kim Jong Il is wisely guiding
the sacred struggle to reunify the country by the united efforts of the
Korean nation without outside interference, the statement said:
��� In Pyongyang in June last year the inter-Korean summit was arranged and
the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration published thanks to Kim
Jong Il's will and bold decision.
��� Not a little progress has been made in the implementation of the joint
declaration over the past one year.
��� However, the U.S. imperialists still keep a large number of their troops
armed with nuclear weapons in South Korea. And they are frequently staging
military exercises for an aggression on socialist Korea under the pretext of
preventing an "invasion by the north" while persistently obstructing the
implementation of the inter-Korean joint declaration.
��� Since the north and the south of Korea declared they would reunify the
country independently by the concerted efforts of the nation, there is no
more ground for the U.S. forces to remain in South Korea. The U.S. forces
should get out of South Korea at once.
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Japan's distortion of history assailed by Korean historians
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A symposium of historians denouncing the
Japanese authorities' moves to tamper with history was held at the Grand
People's Study House under the sponsorship of the history society of the
DPRK. Speeches were made under such titles as "reactionary theory of
'mimanamiyake' is sophism to justify history of Japan's domination of
Korea," "Japan's crafty distortion of history to cover up its criminal
history of aggression of Korea in middle ages," "Japanese authorities'
tampering with history to justify and whitewash Japanese imperialists'
occupation of Korea and colonial rule over it," "Japanese reactionaries'
distortion of Korean people's independent movement for modernization and
history of their struggle against aggression," "truth behind the U.S.
imperialists' provocation of Korean War and Japanese reactionaries'
distortion and denial of their involvement in war" and "Japanese
reactionaries' crime of whitewashing their history of wars of overseas
aggression."
��� Referring to the fact that retrogressively revised history textbooks
grossly distorted the history of early Korea-Japan relations, the speakers
disclosed that this is intended to justify the history of Japan's aggression
and domination of Korea.
��� Saying that those new textbooks did not mention at all the criminal
atrocities committed by Japan against the Korean people, the speakers said
that the hiding of such hideous crimes as cruelly killing millions of
Koreans, drafting more than 6 million young and middle-aged Koreans by force
and reducing nearly 200,000 Korean women to sexual slaves for the "imperial
army," the biggest crime committed by the Japanese imperialists during their
military occupation of Korea, is intended to cover up those crimes and evade
the responsibility to settle the past.
��� The Japanese reactionaries wrote that the Korean War broke out due to
the "invasion" by the DPRK although it was provoked by the U.S.
imperialists. This is a reflection of the dastardly stand of the Japanese
authorities accustomed to currying favour with their master from long ago
and a crafty trick to conceal their true colours as war accomplice.
��� Referring to the Japanese authorities' criminal acts of whitewashing the
history of wars of overseas aggression launched by Japan, the speakers
dismissed them as an intolerable mockery of the Korean people and those in
the Asia-Pacific region and a brigandish act of reversing justice and
injustice.
��� They strongly urged the Japanese authorities to immediately withdraw
those history textbooks and write new ones based on historical facts to meet
the requirements of the times.
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Greetings to Burundian President
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on June 27 sent a message of
greetings to Burundian President Pierre Buyoya on the occasion of the
national day of Burundi. The message warmly congratulated the president, the
government and the people of Burundi on the occasion and wished the
president and the people success in their work for the national unity and
the peace and prosperity of the country.
��� The message expressed the conviction that the friendly relations between
the two countries would develop on good terms in the new century, too.
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Greetings to foreign minister of Jordan
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, DPRK minister of foreign
affairs, sent a message of greetings to Abdallah al-Hatib upon his
reappointment as foreign minister of Jordan. The message expressed the
belief that the friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries
would continue to develop on good terms.
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Kim Jong Il greets Jiang Zemin
��� Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent a message of
greetings today to Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the central committee
of the Communist Party of China, on the occasion of its 80th anniversary.
The message says:
��� I, on behalf of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and
on my own behalf, extend warmest congratulations to you and, through you, to
the c.c. the Communist Party of China, all the members of your party and
other Chinese people on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the CPC.
��� The foundation of the CPC was a landmark event which opened a new phase
in hewing out the destiny of the Chinese people.
��� With the CPC foundation the workers and other working masses of china
came to have a genuine leadership political organization defending and
realizing their class and national interests for the first time in history
and have since traversed a glorious road of struggle and creation under the
banner of the party.
��� By leading an arduous revolutionary struggle against foreign aggressors
and reactionaries at home for the last eight decades the CPC achieved the
victory of the people's revolution, built new socialist china in the vast
land of china and has brought about great progress and changes on the road
of China's advance and its reunification.
��� The feats the CPC has performed by leading the brave and hard-working
Chinese people are a great honour and pride for all the CPC members and
other Chinese people.
��� Without the CPC leadership the Chinese people cannot think of their
dignity, pulsating china today and its hopeful morrow.
��� We are rejoiced as over our own over the great achievements made by the
CPC and the Chinese people in the efforts for creation, construction and the
reunification of the country and sincerely congratulate them on their
achievements.
��� Today the Chinese people have embarked upon the road of making a new
advance to achieve a higher goal in building modern socialism with Chinese
characteristics under the leadership of the c.c., the CPC with you at the
core.
��� We wholeheartedly wish the CPC and the fraternal Chinese people greater
victory and success in their future struggle to carry out the highly
important tasks set forth by the party and extend firm solidarity to the
Chinese people in their just struggle for the reunification of the whole
country.
��� The friendship between the parties and peoples of the two countries is a
precious one which was forged and brought into bloom by their preceding
leaders.
��� It is the invariable stand of our party to steadily consolidate and
develop the long-standing DPRK-China friendship.
��� We are convinced that the traditional DPRK-China friendship will as ever
grow stronger and develop in the new century, too, thanks to the joint
efforts of the parties and peoples of the two countries.
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dirigente kim jong il presencia comedia ligera
��� pyongyang, 30 de abril (atcc) -- el dirigente kim jong il, secretario
general del partido del trabajo de corea, presidente del comite de defensa
nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea y comandante supremo
del ejercito popular de corea presencio el dia 28 del actual en el teatro
artistico mansudae junto con los militares del epc la comedia ligera "que
brille la juventud" creada por los artistas de los estudios cinematograficos
de corea. le acompanaron en verla los secretarios kim kuk thae y choe thae
bok, el jefe de departamento de propaganda y agitacion jong ha chol, del
comite central del ptc, kang sok sung, presidente del instituto de la
historia del partido del cc del ptc, kang nung su, ministro de cultura, choe
chil nam, redactor jefe de la editora del periodico "rodong sinmun", kim ki
ryong, director general de la agencia telegrafica central de corea, cha sung
su, presidente del comite nacional de radio y television de corea, ri yong
chol, jang song thaek y ju kyu chang, primeros subjefes de departamento del
cc del ptc y hyon chol hae y pak jae gyong, generales de ejercito del epc.
��� la comedia ligera toma por contenido principal la heroica lucha de los
miembros de la brigada de choque juvenil infinitamente fieles a la causa del
partido, quienes construyeron excelentemente la carretera "chongnyon
yongung" en el periodo de severas pruebas en que todo era dificil y escaso.
tras verla el dirigente kim jong il dijo que nuestros jovenes son creadores
de milagros quienes irguieron con el espiritu de autoconfianza gigantescas
creaciones de eterna duracion y enseno que estos jovenes dispuestos de la
gran capacidad espiritual constituye nuestro gran orgullo.
��� en el pasado los creadores y artistas de los estudios cinematograficos
de corea en acato a la linea y la politica del partido en materia de
literatura y arte autoctonos crearon un gran numero de peliculas de alto
nivel ideo-artistico para educar de modo revolucionario a los militantes del
partido y otros trabajadores y asi estimularlos activamente a la revolucion
y la construccion, enseno el y manifesto conviccion de que ellos produciran
auge ininterrumpido en la creacion de peliculas revolucionarias.
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vocero de cc de fgsc declara
��� pyongyang, 30 de abril (atcc) -- el vocero del cc de la federacion
general de los sindicatos de corea hizo publica el dia 28 una declaracion en
relacion con que las autoridades surcoreanas toman medidas injustas de no
permitir bajo condicionamiento absurdo la presencia de ri kyu jae,
vicepresidente de la confederacion de sindicatos surcoreanos y presidente de
la reunificacion de la patria en el acto del primero de mayo por
reunificacion que los obreros del norte y el sur de corea se proponen
efectuar en el monte kumgang por primera vez despues de dividido el pais. ri
kyu jae es el responsable de la parte surcoreana al acto.
��� la declaracion dice en particular:
��� tal medida que toman las autoridades surcoreanas cuando todo el mundo
desea que se ejecute cuanto antes en corea la declaracion conjunta norte-sur
del 15 de junio y asi se abra una nueva coyuntura para la solucion del
problema de la reunificacion de la patria constituye un obstaculo para el
logro de dicho acto por la reunificacion y un desafio al justo movimiento
por la reunificacion de todos los obreros y las personalidades
pro-reunificacion de sudcorea por la ejecucion de dicha declaracion.
��� el cc de la fgsc denuncia resueltamente el comportamiento injusto de las
autoridades surcoreanas como un imperdonable acto que interpone obstaculo en
los esfuerzos justos de todos los obreros del norte y el sur de corea por
apoyar dicha declaracion y lograr bajo su bandera la reunificacion del pais
y que frena la ejecucion de dicha declaracion.
��� es muy claro que las autoridades surcoreanas cuestionan la participacion
de ese individuo inocente en dicho acto volviendo a pegarle la etiqueta de
violador de la "ley de la seguridad estatal" para llevar al fracaso el
presente acto del primero de mayo por la reunificacion de los obreros del
norte y el sur.
��� las autoridades surcoreanas deben anular sus injustas medidas contra ri
kyu jae, vicepresidente de la css y asegurar todas las condiciones a todos
los delegados de la parte surcoreana para que puedan participar en el acto
arriba mencionado para apoyar y ejecutar la declaracion conjunta del 15 de
junio.
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conferencia de vanguardistas juveniles
��� pyongyang, 30 de marzo (atcc) -- tuvo lugar ayer en el palacio cultural
del pueblo en esta capital la conferencia nacional de la marcha general de
la bandera roja del socialismo de los vanguardistas juveniles. estuvieron
presentes kim yong nam, presidente del presidium de la asamblea popular
suprema, hong song nam, primer ministro del consejo de ministros y otros.
��� participaron los heroes e innovadores juveniles quienes realizaron
proezas en la obra de construccion de la potencia socialista, destacados
jovenes estudiantes, funcionarios de la union de la juventud, heroes y
benemeritos juveniles de la generacion anterior.
��� los participantes escucharon el discurso grabado en voz viva del gran
lider presidente kim il sung pronunciado el 19 de marzo del 47 (1958) de la
era juche en la conferencia nacional de jovenes constructores socialistas
"sobre las tareas de la juventud en la construccion socialista".
��� en la conferencia se dio lectura al mensaje de felicitacion del comite
central del partido del trabajo de corea dirigido a los participantes.
��� el mensaje de felicitacion senala:
��� en los grandes exitos que hacen brillar la historia de avance de la
bandera roja del pueblo coreano estan impregnadas las hazanas de los
jovenes.
��� el cc del ptc da alta apreciacion a los grandes exitos que lograron los
participantes en este evento y todos los jovenes con una infinita lealtad al
partido, el lider, la patria y el pueblo en la delantera de la lucha por la
victoria de la causa socialista y por la prosperidad de la patria.
��� los participantes y todos los jovenes deben desplegar la energica lucha
por acoger con un elevado entusiasmo politico y brillantes exitos laborales
el dia del sol y la fiesta de febrero del ano 2002 y hacer del ano proximo
un ano mas brillante en la historia del partido del trabajo y el pueblo de
corea.
��� en la conferencia ri il hwan, primer secretario del comite central de la
union de la juventud socialista kim il sung presento el informe.
��� el se refirio a que bajo la direccion del partido y el lider el
movimiento juvenil coreano ha avanzado con vigor por el camino del juche con
la bandera roja y anadio que la idea de la bandera roja y la idea de dar
importancia a la juventud del lider padre las lleva adelante el gran
dirigente kim jong il.
��� dijo que la gran confianza y amor de este sirven de una fuerza motriz de
la vida eterna que infunde a los jovenes de corea el credo, la voluntad, la
infinita fuerza y el animo y subrayo la necesidad de acelerar con vigor la
marcha de la bandera roja del socialismo para hacer del presente lleno de
esperanza un siglo del gran dirigente kim jong il.
��� los jovenes deben hacer de la defensa a ultranza al lider una consigna
de accion y practica y llevar adelante con firmeza la unidad monolitica de
la revolucion coreana, recalco.
��� los jovenes deben ser combatientes vanguardistas en la revolucion de
priorizacion militar, destacamentos de vanguardia, brigadas de choque en la
construccion de potencia economica del nuevo siglo, subrayo.
��� en la conferencia hubo intervenciones.
��� los jovenes deberan cumplir satisfactoriamente su honrosa mision y deber
asumidos en la construccion de la potencia jucheana, senalaron los oradores.
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