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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 06:18:08 +0100
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Subject: [Juche Insurrection] Xinhua: August 7th 2001
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Peoples Daily - Xinhua - Peoples Republic Of China.
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1) Seoul Repatriates Serviceman to Pyongyang
2) Kim Jong Il Leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow
3) DPRK Slams Japan's Bid to Wreck Victims' Meeting by Denying Entry
4) Russian City's Vice Mayor Assassinated in Novosibirsk
1) Seoul Repatriates Serviceman to Pyongyang
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SEOUL, August 7 (Xinhua) -- South Korea repatriated a soldier
to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday three
days after he drifted into a South Korean river while fishing.
The serviceman named Sgt. Lee Sung-hun crossed the inter-Korean
border at the truce village of Panmunjom at around 12 a.m. Monday
after a formality between DPRK army and the United States Force
Korea.
Lee was found exhausted and unarmed on a narrow waterway near
the demilitarized zone by South Korean military last Saturday and
he demanded to be sent back to the DPRK.
Lee is the fifth DPRK soldier South Korea has repatriated at
his request since 1994. Enditem
2) Kim Jong Il Leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow
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MOSCOW, August 7 (Xinhua) -- Ending his two-day stay in St.
Petersburg, Kim Jong Il, head of the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea (DPRK), left the second biggest city of Russia for Moscow
on Tuesday, beginning a return trip to his homeland from a nearly
two-week historic journey by train in Russia.
Before saying Good-bye to the Russian northern capital, Kim met
St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev on bilateral economic
cooperation and invited him to visit the DPRK, according to
Russian mass media.
Accepting Kim's invitation, Yakovlev told Kim that he also
intends to make a visit to South Korea this year. Kim proposed
that Yakovlev "compare impressions" on South Korea and the DPRK.
On Tuesday, before quitting St. Petersburg, Kim visited the
Piskaryov memorial cemetery to see the graves of more than a
million people, who died of famine and disease during the
Leningrad blockade of World War II.
He laid a wreath bearing a Korean language tribute "To the
heroic defenders of Leningrad, from Kim Jong Il," and made an
entry in a book of distinguished visitors.
Kim also inspected the Kirov plant before leaving the city in
his armored train.
On Monday, Kim held talks with Yakovlev in the Smolny Palace,
and they agreed that there is potential for the development of
economic cooperation, in particular, in the machine-building
sphere and in the construction of reactor and boiler equipment.
He also visited the Leningrad Metal Plant producing energy
equipment and was shown around several historic monuments.
After attending a series of cultural activities in Moscow on
Tuesday, Kim will leave for the Siberian city of Novosibirsk
Wednesday for a two-day stopover. Enditem
3) DPRK Slams Japan's Bid to Wreck Victims' Meeting by Denying Entry
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PYONGYANG, August 7 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday rapped the Japanese
government for denying a DPRK delegation entry into Japan to
attend an international meeting.
Hong Son Ok, chairman of the DPRK Measure Committee for
Demanding Compensation to
"comfort women for the (Japanese) army" and the victims of the
Pacific War, told a press conference here that Japan's decision
was designed to obstruct the victims of the war who will expose
the war crimes committed by Japanese imperialists against the
Korean people, and thwart the just actions of the progressive
forces in Japan.
The decision was an insult to the war victims, a challenge to
human justice and conscience, and an undisguised hostile action
against the DPRK.
The DPRK delegation planned to attend the gathering for victims
of Japan's war atrocities, sponsored by some Japanese civilian
groups. The Japanese government refused to let the delegation
enter Japan on grounds that the gathering might be turned into a
forum to condemn Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro's
planned visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.
Hong noted that the Korean people are fully justified to demand
reparations from the Japanese authorities for their sufferings,
pains and losses caused by Japan's occupation of their country for
nearly half a century, during which 6 million able-bodied men were
forced into slave labor, 200,000 women were abducted to serve as
sex slaves for the Japanese army, and still more people were
killed.
The Japanese government should take the legal and moral
responsibilities for Japan's crimes in the past and fulfill its
international obligation by making apologies and compensation, she
added.
If the Japanese authorities thought they could hide Japan's
past crimes against the Korean people from the world public, and
stop the just actions by the Japanese progressive forces settling
accounts with Japan's wartime past, they would be seriously
mistaken, Hong said. Enditem
4) Russian City's Vice Mayor Assassinated in Novosibirsk
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MOSCOW, August 7 (Xinhua) -- In a flood of 24 bullets vice
Mayor of the Russian Siberian city of Novosibirsk Igor Belyakov
was shot dead by a masked gunman on his way to work Tuesday
morning, Interfax news agency reported.
Belyakov, head of the Department of Commodity Market in the
city administration, was killed en route from his countryside home
to his office in the municipal administrative building at about 8:
00 a.m. local time, the Novosibirsk region interior department was
cited as saying.
An unidentified gunman in camouflage and a balaclava cap broke
into the road and shot several times at the car when his driver
slowed down the Volga car approaching a narrow section of the road.
After the driver jumped out of the car during the shooting, the
assassin came up closer and made a fatal shot in Belyakov's head
through the windshield, then fled composedly, the department said.
The police arrived at the site after Belyakov's driver reported
the assassination by phone, and found 24 cartridge cases from a 5.
45-mm automatic gun over there, according to the department.
A join team from the police and the regional prosecutor's
office was formed to investigate the incident.
Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has assumed personal
control over the investigation into the murder, said a ministry
spokesman.
Novosibirsk is on the list of visiting cities of the top leader
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Il,
who is making a nearly two-week official visit to Russia along the
Trans-Siberian Railway.
On Wednesday, Kim's train will leave Moscow where he is
enjoying an extensive cultural activity day, and make its final
long stopover in Novosibirsk, the venue of Tuesday's murder.
Russian security authorities have tightened safety measures in
places where Kim would pass or stay, as the police received bomb
threats by phone against the railway stations upon Kim's arrival
in and departure from Moscow.
At present, the cities' security forces have been kept at alarm
for any emergency, according to the Interior Ministry. Enditem
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