TODAY'S NEWS (August.07.2001 Juche 90)
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Rodong Sinmun on DPRK-U.S. negotiation
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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's work marked in Japan
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U.S. troops' pullback from S. Korea called for
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DPRK places first in four-nation soccer tournament
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Development of DPRK-Russia friendship hailed
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Bush administration's anti-DPRK policy under fire
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All Korean people wait for Kim Jong Il's return home
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Independent national reunification called for
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KPA soldier comes back
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Japan's unwarranted attitude assailed
For Spanish-speaking people
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tergiversacion de historia y prensa japonesa, comentario de atcc
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esencia agresiva de proyecto de "defensa de oceano atlantico" de ee.uu.
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Rodong Sinmun on DPRK-U.S. negotiation
��� pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- The United States is recently spreading
the rumour that the DPRK-U.S. negotiation fails to proceed due to the DPRK,
regarding the "resumption of dialogue" between the DPRK and the U.S. In this
regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
��� We cannot but clarify our principled position once again.
��� Our position is that if the U.S. wants the DPRK-U.S. negotiation, it
should be held on an equal footing on the basis of the principle of
independence and impartiality.
��� If the U.S. seeks to hold dialogue on the premise of "verification" and
"inspection" of our "nuclear and missile" issue and "reduction of
conventional armed forces," we will never comply with it.
��� The new U.S. administration has an ulterior intention to use the
DPRK-U.S. dialogue as a lever to bring pressure to bear on the DPRK.
��� It is our invariable position to approach good will with good will and
respond to a hard line with a super hard line.
��� If the Bush administration has a real intention to hold dialogue with
us, it should drop its hostile policy toward us and accept our fair and
aboveboard proposal for dialogue.
��� From our invariable principled position we will watch the attitude of
the new U.S. administration toward the "resumption of dialogue."
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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's work marked in Japan
��� Pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- A lecture meeting was held in Tokyo on
July 28 on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's
famous work "The Juche philosophy is an original revolutionary philosophy".
Vishwanath, director general of the International Institute of the Juche
Idea, gave a lecture under the subject "The Juche idea changed the course of
my life."
��� He said the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung teaches that man
is the master of his destiny and he has the power to shape his destiny.
��� A great many Juche idea study groups are active in different countries
at present, he added.
��� He mentioned the validity and vitality of the Juche idea, stressing the
importance to study this idea and put it into practice so as to remould man
and transform the world better.
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U.S. troops' pullback from S. Korea called for
��� pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- A master key to removing the root cause
of a war and ensuring lasting peace on the Korean peninsula is the
withdrawal of the U.S. forces from South Korea, says Minju Joson today in a
signed commentary. It goes on:
��� Lasting peace has not yet been achieved and unstable situation continues
on the Korean peninsula although nearly half a century has passed since the
signing of the Korean armistice agreement. It is ascribable to the U.S.
hostile policy toward the DPRK and its forces' occupation of South Korea
which militarily backs the policy.
��� The U.S. is now left with no justification to keep its troops in South
Korea any longer, given that an agreement on non-aggression and the June 15
Joint Declaration were signed between the north and the south of Korea, the
Cold War came to an end and the former soviet union disappeared from the
international arena.
��� If the U.S. drops its hostile policy toward the DPRK, agrees to
replacing the armistice agreement by a peace agreement and pulls its forces
from South Korea, it is possible to ensure peace and stability on the Korean
peninsula and create an atmosphere whereby to achieve national reunification
by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
��� If the U.S. truly wishes peace and reunification of Korea, it should
earnestly respond to the proposal for signing a peace agreement with the
DPRK and clarify its will to pull its forces out of South Korea.
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DPRK places first in four-nation soccer tournament
��� pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- The DPRK football team came first in the
four-nation soccer tournament held in Shanghai from August 3 to 5. The
tournament brought together the DPRK, China, Kuwait and Trinidad and Tobago.
��� The DPRK handed a 7-5 defeat to china and 6-5 defeat to Kuwait at the
final.
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Development of DPRK-Russia friendship hailed
��� Pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- Personages of Russia expressed in their
congratulatory messages and letters the conviction that the traditional
DPRK-Russia relations of friendship and cooperation would grow stronger. The
chairperson of the eastern European center for the support and solidarity to
the DPRK said it is great pleasure and inspiration to them that true to
President Kim Il Sung's cause, leader Kim Jong Il has tirelessly worked
heart and soul to strengthen the friendship between the DPRK and Russian
peoples.
��� Vitaly Ignatenko, director general of Itar-Tass, expressed the belief
that the meeting of the leaders of Russia and the DPRK which have
traditional ties of friendship, would give a powerful impetus to the
development of bilateral cooperation in different fields.
��� The scientific secretary of the Russian Youth Association for the Study
of the Juche Idea said that the Russia-DPRK summit marked a very important
momentum in ensuring peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region and
developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two peoples.
And he was convinced that the traditional friendship between the two
countries with a long history would further strengthen, he added.
��� Yu.V. Vanin, section chief of the institute of the oriental studies of
the Russian Academy of Sciences, hoped that the traditional friendship and
cooperation between the Russian and Korean peoples would grow stronger.
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Bush administration's anti-DPRK policy under fire
��� Pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held in Ireland and
Pakistan on July 27 and 28 on the occasion of the month of international
solidarity with the Korean people. The chairman of the Workers' Party of
Ireland in his report at the meeting said the Korean people valiantly met
all challenges of the U.S. and its satellites, achieved a great victory and
thus greatly encouraged the world progressives in their struggle.
��� Denouncing the Bush administration's anti-DPRK policy, he said that the
Korean people, singleheartedly rallied around their leader with confidence
in the validity of their cause, will as ever emerge victorious.
��� He called upon the movements, organizations, progressive personages and
people of Ireland and the progressives of other countries who love peace and
justice to reveal the dangerous and reactionary nature of the bush
administration's belligerent hostile policy toward the DPRK and conduct a
vigorous campaign to build up public opinion critical of that policy.
��� Speaking at the meeting in Pakistan, the secretary general of the
Karachi branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association expressed full
support for the Korean people in their just struggle to thoroughly implement
the north-south joint declaration.
��� A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting in Pakistan.
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All Korean people wait for Kim Jong Il's return home
��� pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- News of leader Kim Jong Il's external
activities has thrown all the Korean people into an ecstasy of immense joy.
They are focusing their attention on his every dynamic activity,
singleheartedly loyal to him.
��� They deeply respect and venerate Kim Jong Il as their leader. This
absolute worship of him is growing more ardent with his foreign tour as a
momentum.
��� Every Korean, young and old, man and woman, is pointing to every place
of vast Russia on the world map visited by him, his heart going out to him.
��� Let us get ready to make a report of loyalty to him on the day he is
coming back from his foreign tour. Let us devote our wisdom and enthusiasm
to our work to please him with miracles and innovations.
��� This call can be heard from the simple Koreans in every nook and corner
of the country.
��� The people throughout the country are marking every day with high
political zeal and shining labor achievements and performing feats in every
field of the national economy.
��� Signal successes are reported from such important fields of socialist
economic construction as power, coal and metal industries and railway
transport and similar upswing is also reported from other domains.
��� The country's economic conditions still remain difficult due to the
natural disasters that lasted for several consecutive years and the moves of
imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK. To add to its difficulties,
torrential rain that followed the severest drought in 1000 years left
various areas on the east and west coasts inundated and tens of thousands of
hectares of farmland, houses for thousands of families and public buildings
submerged or destroyed.
��� But the people have risen up in a persevering spirit to overcome those
difficulties.
��� They are eagerly waiting for Kim Jong Il to return in good health from
his fruitful foreign tour.
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Independent national reunification called for
��� pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- The Korean nation is responsible for
settling the issue of national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a
signed article. The article goes on:
��� The issue of Korean reunification should be settled independently by the
concerted efforts of the Korean nation responsible for it.
��� It is because the country's reunification is the job for the Korean
nation and a cause to be carried out by the nation itself. The issue belongs
to the Korean nation as it is related to its destiny. It is, therefore,
quite natural for the Korean nation to be responsible for settling the
issue.
��� The Korean nation should be responsible for the national reunification
also because it is the nation's internal issue related to its sovereignty.
��� It is the Korean nation's internal issue of reunifying its territory
divided by the outside forces and relinking its blood ties severed by them
and establishing national sovereignty throughout Korea. The internal issue
of a nation pertains to its right of self-determination. Every nation has
the right to independently carve out its destiny according to its own
requirements and will, fully responsible for the destiny.
��� It is the Korean nation who is undergoing misfortune and pain due to the
division and it is, therefore, the Korean nation who wishes national
reunification with vital interests in it.
��� It is none other than the Korean nation who has strength to carry out
the cause of national reunification and it is also the Koreans who will live
in a reunified land.
��� The Korean people alone can be responsible for national reunification as
a driving force of it.
��� The reunification of our country is an undertaking for the Korean nation
itself and it can be achieved only by the driving force of the nation.
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KPA soldier comes back
��� pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- Ri Sung Hun, a corporal of the Korean
People's Army, who was swept to the south side's portion by unexpected flood
while he was on a military duty on august 4, came back to the socialist
homeland through Panmunjom 11:00 today. He crossed over the demarcation line
in Panmunjom and loudly shouted "Long live respected supreme commander
comrade Kim Jong Il" .
��� He was warmly welcomed by his revolutionary comrades and servicemen's
families.
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Japan's unwarranted attitude assailed
��� Pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- A press conference was held at the
People's Palace of Culture here today to accuse the Japanese authorities of
unreasonably refusing to allow the entry into Japan of a delegation of the
DPRK measure committee for demanding compensation to "comfort women for the
army" and the victims of the pacific war to participate in meetings to hear
testimonies to the past crimes related to the Japanese imperialists'
forcible drafting. At the press conference Hong Son Ok, chairperson of the
committee, issued a statement denouncing the Japanese authorities for
barring the delegation from participating in the meetings.
��� According to the statement, the delegation of the committee made up of
victims to the past crimes related to the Japanese imperialists' forcible
drafting and sexual slavery by the old Japanese army, and their protectors
and those concerned was supposed to take part in the meetings to hear
testimonies of victims of the DPRK to be held in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and
other places of Japan in early August at the invitation of citizens'
organizations of Japan for demanding postwar compensation.
��� But the Japanese authorities reportedly decided to refuse to permit the
entry of the delegation into Japan for fear that its participation might
turn the meetings into a platform denouncing prime minister Koizumi's
projected visit to Yasukuni Shrine.
��� This means the Japanese reactionary ruling quarters' admittance of their
unjust moves to evade the past liquidation and militarize Japan as they are
becoming a target of strong protest of the world including those Asian
countries that fell victim to its aggression. It also reveals before the
international community how immoral the Japanese government is and how
closed and chauvinist Japan is, the statement said, and went on:
��� If the Japanese authorities calculate that their dastardly refusal to
permit the delegation's entry into Japan would prevent the unethical crimes
committed against the Korean people in the past from being disclosed before
the world and hold in check the just activities of the Japanese progressive
forces demanding the liquidation of the past, they are seriously mistaken.
��� The committee strongly denounces the Japanese government's behavior as
an unpardonable insult to the past victims of Korea, a grave challenge not
only to all the Koreans but to justice and human conscience and an
undisguised hostile act against the DPRK.
��� After the statement was issued, answers were given to questions put by
reporters.
��� The press conference was addressed by victims to the Japanese
imperialists' crimes in the past.
��� Kwak Kum Nyo, a victim related to the "comfort women for the army",
condemned the Japanese government's refusal to allow the entry of victims
into Japan as an unpardonable insult to her and all the victims related to
the "comfort women for the imperial Japanese army" and another human rights
violation.
��� An Song Duk and Choe Ik Chon, victims to the forcible drafting, bitterly
denounced the Japanese government's unwarranted attitude, saying that the
miserable slave labor forced upon them was sufferings not only they but all
the Korean people underwent under the Japanese imperialists' military
occupation and colonial rule they will surely force the Japanese government
to make due apology and compensation for Japan's inglorious past.
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tergiversacion de historia y prensa japonesa, comentario de atcc
��� pyongyang, 7 de marzo (atcc) -- en estos dias los paises asiaticos y
otros varios paises del mundo elevan voces de censura y protesta en torno al
asunto de sancion oficial de manual de historia del japon porque este pais
pretende enmendar el manual de historia en direccion de tergiversar su
historia de agresion a corea y los demas paises de asia y de justificar sus
actos criminales perpetrados en el pasado. esto quiere decir que el japon no
se propone reflexionar ni en lo elemental de sus crimenes antieticos
cometidos contra los paises asiaticos en el siglo 20 sino trata de repetir
su historia de agresion.
��� por esta razon la sociedad internacional y su prensa cuestionan la
tergiversacion de historia del japon y exigen que este pais aborde con una
discreta actitud este problema.
��� los politicos, intelectuales y todos los demas japoneses tienen el
ineludible deber historico de educar a los integrantes de la nueva
generacion con una correcta concepcion de la historia de acuerdo con la
aspiracion de la humanidad al siglo 21 pacifico.
��� sin embargo, en vez de hacer reflexion sincera en el asunto de
tergiversacion de la historia, ahora en el japon se manifiestan abiertamente
las injustas insistencias de las fuerzas derechistas como "acto de maltrato
a si mismo" e "intervencion en los asuntos internos". en la actualidad los
japoneses mayoritarios no se enteran del verdadero aspecto de tal situacion.
��� el problema de la tergiversacion de historia, ligado directamente con la
peligrosa ambicion ultranacionalista y militarista de llevar de nuevo el
japon a la guerra de agresion y la ruina no se presenta como una seria
cuestion socio-politica en este pais, lo que tiene que ver grandemente con
la actitud de la prensa japonesa.
��� el asunto del manual de historia del japon ha causado la poderosa
resistencia a los paises asiaticos y la protesta y censura de los
intelectuales concienzudos del japon.
��� pero, por el respecto la mayoria de los organos de prensa del japon
guardan silencio y aun peor, el periodico "sankei shimbun" se apresura a
defender la descarada insistencia de las fuerzas derechistas para justificar
la tergiversacion de la historia. asi es la situacion de la palabra del
japon.
��� mientras la prensa tome tal actitud es inevitable que el pueblo y la
opinion publica del japon no cobren conciencia sino se conviertan de nuevo
en victimas de la politica fascista y la guerra de agresion como en el
pasado periodo del imperialismo japones .
��� por eso, los ex-militares del "ejercito kwantung" del japon que en el
pasado fueron lanzados a la guerra de agresion se reunieron el dia 2 en el
ministerio de ensenanza y ciencia donde advirtieron que la tergiversacion de
la historia puede traer la repeticion de la historia de agresion.
��� si la prensa del japon se preocupa verdaderamente del porvenir de su
pais y aprecia los intereses de su pueblo debe romper silencio irresponsable
con respecto al problema de la tergiversacion de la historia para orientar a
las masas a la justicia y la conciencia.
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esencia agresiva de proyecto de "defensa de oceano atlantico" de ee.uu.
��� pyongyang, 7 de marzo (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en el numero
de hoy inserto un articulo poniendo al desnudo la invariable ambicion de ee.
uu. de tomar la heguemonia mundial. el articulo senala en particular:
��� el proyecto de "defensa del oceano atlantico" de ee.uu. como una
ampliacion de "defensa nacional antimisil" implica la nueva intencion
estrategica.
��� el proyecto de "defensa nacional antimisil" es para formar el poderoso
sistema de "defensa antimisil" para interceptar en el espacio aereo los
misiles de "enemigos" y "proteger" a estados unidos.
��� para este fin, ee.uu. exige la enmienda del "tratado sobre misiles
antibalisticos "tmab" concertado con la ex urss en el ano 1972 pretextando
que este tratado no es capaz de dar plena garantia a preservar la
"seguridad" de su pais.
��� el proyecto de "defensa del oceano atlantico" es la "estrategia de
alianza de misil en el universo" para recibir el apoyo de los paises aliados
al establecimiento del sistema de "defensa nacional antimisil".
��� el proyecto de "defensa nacional antimisil" es para realizar su
intencion estrategica de perseguir la hegemonia y dominar con las fuerzas el
mundo.
��� los estados unidos impulsan con mas energia el establecimiento del
sistema de "defensa nacional antimisil" e intentan fortalecer el control
sobre los paises aliados.
��� esto es precisamente el proyecto para la "defensa del oceano atlantico".
��� los estados unidos tratan de ampliar hasta europa la esfera de la
"defensa nacional antimisil" para recibir el apoyo y cooperacion de dichos
paises y aislar a rusia.
��� el proyecto de "defensa del oceano atlantico" ejercera influencia sobre
los paises miembros de la otan de europa y otros numerosos paises, destruira
el equilibrio estrategico del mundo y creara nuevo caos.
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