TODAY'S NEWS (July.29.2001 Juche 90)
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Powell's projected tour of S. Korea protested
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Preparatory committee of Koreans in Russia formed to welcome Kim Jong Il
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Japan urged not to adopt distorted history textbooks
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Earlier national reunification called for
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Museum that bears witness to GIs' crimes
For Spanish-speaking people
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mitin y exhibicion de fotos por 42 aniversario de triunfo de revolucion
cubana
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dirigente kim jong il envia cesto de flores a embajada de cuba
Powell's projected tour of S. Korea protested
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- U.S. State Secretary Powell's projected
tour of South Korea is protested in Seoul, according to a news report. At
least 400 members of the joint measure committee for checking the "Missile
Defense" system (MD) and realizing peace held a rally in the street in front
of the "Christian Youth Hall" in Seoul on July 27 in protest against
Powell's Seoul visit. Then they marched along the street holding placards
reading "We oppose Powell's South Korean visit" and "We oppose MD."
At the end of the demonstration they gathered in front of the U.S.
military base in Ryongsan, Seoul, demanding a stop to the MD and the return
of the base.
Earlier, more than 50 members of the organization held a press
conference at the airport where he was supposed to arrive, to protest
against his visit.
The organization was reported to have planned to stage a demonstration
in the vicinity of the "government" building and "chongwadae" where Powell
is expected to visit and hold a rally and an overnight one-by-one
demonstration in front of his lodging quarters and thrust a letter of
protest to him.
The national alliance for democracy and reunification in a statement
released on July 27 in protest against Powell's South Korean visit held that
"the organization strongly rejects the South Korean tour by the State
Secretary of the United States, the world's biggest rogue state that defies
the Korean nation's desire for reconciliation and reunification and pushes
the MD.
Preparatory committee of Koreans in Russia formed to welcome Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The United Confederation of Koreans in
Russia formed a preparatory committee in Moscow on July 27 to welcome leader
Kim Jong Il. Ri Tong Chol, chairman of the confederation, was elected
chairman of the preparatory committee.
The committee adopted a decision calling on Koreans' organizations in
the capital and various other regions to hold meetings to warmly welcome Kim
Jong Il's historic Russia visit, present a congratulatory message and letter
wishing him success in the visit and organize grandiose functions to welcome
and see him off.
Japan urged not to adopt distorted history textbooks
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The council of chairmen of the 16 city and
provincial education committees of South Korea on July 24 decided to send
letters to more than 3,270 regional education committees of Japan, urging
them not to adopt the distorted history textbooks, Seoul-based radio no. 1
reported. The council held that the educationists should teach a correct
history to students and refuse to adopt and use the distorted history
textbooks.
Earlier national reunification called for
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- Reunification means patriotism and a way
out while division means treachery as it leads to ruin, says Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed article. A primary task before all the Koreans in the
north and the south and abroad is to achieve national reunification, the
article notes, and continues: This is because national reunification is the
unanimous and urgent desire of all the fellow countrymen.
The Korean nation has been a homogeneous nation for thousands of years,
having the same language and custom.
It was since the U.S. imperialist aggressors' military occupation of
South Korea that the Korean nation has remained divided into the north and
south and undergone misfortune and pain for more than half a century.
National reunification is the primary task of our nation also because it
is the supreme task of the nation related to the destiny of the nation.
The continued division of the country is widening the differences
between the north and the south.
The Juche character and national identity are preserved in the DPRK but
in South Korea all things peculiar to the nation are disappearing in all the
fabrics of social life due to the imperialists' ideological and cultural
poisoning.
Even the written and spoken language and the way of life are becoming
Americanized, Japanized and westernized.
It is the unchangeable criminal intention of the U.S. imperialists to
keep Korea divided into two parts forever and use South Korea as a
springboard from which to launch a war of aggression to seize the whole of
Korea and the rest of Asia.
Museum that bears witness to GIs' crimes
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) - The Sinchon Museum in Sinchon county, South
Hwanghae Province, is drawing many Korean and foreign visitors as it indicts
the U.S. imperialists and their stooges for their monstrous atrocities. An
unusually greater number of people visited the museum in June that marked
"June 25, the day of struggle against U.S. imperialism" and in July which
marks "July 27, the day of victory in the war".
In just 50-odd days of their occupation of Sinchon when the Korean
People's Army was making a temporary strategic retreat during the Korean War
the U.S. imperialist aggressors killed in cold blood more than 35,000
civilians or a quarter of its population.
The barbarous mass killings perpetrated by GIs in Sinchon put the
atrocities of the Hitler fascists into the shade.
They roped the legs of Ju Chun Il, model worker of the Sinchon Rice
Mill, to the two separate carts and drove them in the opposite direction,
thus killing him on the spot by tearing his limbs off.
They gouged out the eyeballs of civilians, men and women, young and old,
and cut off their noses and ears, slaying them. Not content with this, they
stripped women naked and drove wooden sticks into their wombs, killing them
in cold blood. GIs' brutalities baffled human imagination.
Saying that the babies were happy enough to be with their mothers, GIs
separated the babies from their mothers and detained them in another
warehouse.
They poured petroleum over the hungry babies scratching ground and walls
with their fingers and threw torches there, burning all of them to death.
Ju Sang Won, who was 5 years old at that time, narrowly escaped from
death. As a lecturer at the museum he used to tell visitors with bitter
anger that he keenly realized the U.S. imperialist aggressors are heinous
ogres and two-legged beasts.
These thrice-cursed brutalities were not committed in Sinchon only.
Not content with killing Koreans with bullets and bombs everywhere they
went in the northern half of Korea, GIs buried people alive, chopped them to
pieces with axes and knives and even used poisonous gas and germ weapons to
kill them.
They killed in cold blood more than 1.1 million innocent civilians in
different parts of South Korea including Rogun-ri, Yongdong county, North
Chungchong Province.
The Korean people and the officers and men of the Korean People's Army
can never forget those brutalities committed by the GIs during the last
Korean War but renew their pledge to take revenge upon them.
KPA soldier Choe Song Hun stated that if the U.S. imperialists again
ignite a war of aggression the soldiers of the people's army will take a
thousand-fold revenge upon them.
For Spanish-speaking people
mitin y exhibicion de fotos por 42 aniversario de triunfo de revolucion
cubana
pyongyang, 29 de diciembre (atcc) -- tuvieron lugar ayer en esta capital
el mitin y la exhibicion de fotos por el 42 aniversario del triunfo de la
revolucion cubana. participaron pyon yong rip, ministro de educacion y
presidente del comite coreano de solidaridad con cuba, ri song ho,
vicepresidente del comite de relaciones culturales con el extranjero y otros
funcionarios y trabajadores capitalinos.
fueron invitados jose manuel inclan embade, embajador de la republica de
cuba en la rpdc y otros miembros de esta sede diplomatica.
en el mitin fueron intercambiados los discursos.
con anterioridad, los participantes recorrieron las fotos que muestran
los exitos que ha logrado el pueblo cubano en varios dominios durante estos
42 anos posteriores al triunfo de la revolucion.
dirigente kim jong il envia cesto de flores a embajada de cuba
pyongyang, 29 de diciembre (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il envio
hoy un cesto de flores a la embajada de la republica de cuba en la rpdc con
motivo del 42 aniversario del triunfo de la revolucion cubana. el cesto de
flores fue entregado a jose manuel inclan embade, embajador cubano.
en la cinta del cesto de flores se lee: "felicito calurosamente el 42
aniversario del triunfo de la revolucion cubana. kim jong il".
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