August.08.2001 Juche 90
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U.S. urged to opt for signing peace agreement
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Gifts to Kim Jong Il from Russian personages
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Letter of protest to Bush
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Revolutionary martyrs cemetery on Mt. Taesong
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Greetings to President of Singapore
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U.S. obstructions to tour of Mt. Kumgang assailed
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Answers given by spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry
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U.S. urged to opt for signing peace agreement
��� Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The Korean peninsula is not yet free from
the danger of war although nearly half a century has passed since the
signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement (KAA), says Rodong Sinmun today in
a signed commentary. Explaining its main reason, the commentary says that it
is due to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its forces' presence
in South Korea which militarily backs the policy.
��� The U.S. unilaterally derailed the Geneva conference called to seek the
withdrawal of all the foreign forces from Korea after the signing of the KAA
and has consistently pursued the policy of military confrontation with the
DPRK, while systematically increasing the number of its troops present in
South Korea for nearly half a century.
��� The root cause of a war on the Korean peninsula is the U.S. imperialist
aggression forces present in South Korea.
��� It is already publicly recognized that U.S. combat forces are deployed
in South Korea to launch an offensive against the north.
��� Bellicose forces of the Bush administration are deploying new task
forces and sophisticated operational equipment in and around South Korea
under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK. As seen above, the U.S. troops
present in South Korea are the main forces which deteriorate the situation
and pose a threat to peace and security on the Korean peninsula.
��� The adoption of a peace agreement between the DPRK and the U.S. and the
withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea are prerequisites for
defusing the tensions, creating an atmosphere of lasting peace on the
peninsula and improving the DPRK-U.S. relations.
��� The U.S. troops are left with no justification to stay in South Korea
any longer and there is no reason to refuse to adopt a peace agreement,
given that the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. came to
an end long ago and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration is at the
phase of its implementation.
��� Everything depends on the U.S. attitude.
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Gifts to Kim Jong Il from Russian personages
��� Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Personages of Russia presented gifts to
leader Kim Jong Il in congratulation of his official visit to Russia. Among
them were I.A. Slujai, chairman of the Moscow war Veterans' Committee of
Russia, I.I. Sannikov, member of the Russian War and Military Service
Veterans' Committee, A. Danilov, editor-in-chief of the Russian paper
Veteran, A.K. Nikonov, curator of the Russian National Military Museum, V.P.
Zhukov, president of Partnor-1 Company of Russia, and the National Flight
Technological Center of Russia.
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Letter of protest to Bush
��� Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The International United Confederation of
Koreans (International Kothongryon) sent a letter to Bush on August 2 in
protest against the U.S. hindrance to the implementation of the June 15
North-South Joint Declaration on the occasion of the June 15-August 15
period of the movement for promoting national reunification. The U.S.
interference in the internal affairs of Korea arouses concern over the fate
of the Korean peninsula, the letter said, and went on:
��� The allegation that the DPRK "threatens" the U.S. is little different
from the ambition of a wolf to devour a sheep. It is no more than an
unrealizable dream.
��� We lodge strong protest with the U.S. against hindering the
implementation of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration under
the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK.
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Revolutionary martyrs cemetery on Mt. Taesong
��� Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- There is a revolutionary martyrs cemetery
on Mt. Taesong in the suburbs of Pyongyang, where the fallen anti-Japanese
revolutionary fighters are entombed. They belonged to the first generation
of the Korean revolution who devoted their all to the struggle for the
liberation of the country and the freedom and happiness of the people from
the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle (October 1926-August 1945).
��� The cemetery is called the revolutionary martyrs cemetery on Mt.
Taesong.
��� It was built in October Juche 64 (1975) and rebuilt and enlarged in
October Juche 74 (1985) as a grand monumental edifice four times as big as
the previous one.
��� Most of the area of the cemetery is decorated with granite and there are
monuments showing the fighting exploits of the martyrs.
��� At the entrance to the cemetery there is the gate, and a little onward
lie more than 400 large stairs along the slope before the memorial pillars.
��� If you climb up passing through the pillars, you will reach the ground
of sculptural groups. Standing on each side are sculptural groups which
concentrically show the history of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
��� If you go up further, you will each the education ground and find a
monument to President Kim Il Sung's handwriting, another monument inscribed
with a paean, group sculptures and a wreath-laying stand with a medal of the
DPRK hero carved in relief.
��� Standing in the busts district are busts of more than 120 anti-Japanese
revolutionary martyrs against the background of a red flag which is depicted
grandiosely.
��� If one climbs the cemetery, he can enjoy a bird's eye of view of the
Kumsusan Memorial Palace where Kim Il Sung is preserved in state and a
panoramic view of Pyongyang.
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Greetings to President of Singapore
��� pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to
President S. R. Nathan of Singapore on the occasion of its national day. The
message extended congratulations to the President, government and people of
Singapore on the national day and wished the president success in his
responsible work for the progress and prosperity of the country.
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U.S. obstructions to tour of Mt. Kumgang assailed
��� pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- If the United States persistently hampers
the tour of Mt. Kumgang, it will meet a protest not only from the Korean
people but from the world peace-loving people and will be held wholly
responsible for all the ensuing consequences. A spokesman for the Korean
Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said this in a statement issued today
denouncing the U.S. administration for working hard to put the tour into
stagnation and foil it.
��� He went on to say:
��� The tour of Mt. Kumgang was arranged thanks to the noble patriotic
desire and great compatriotic decision of the DPRK to realize the wishes of
the South Korean people to see Mt. Kumgang, a famous mountain of the nation,
even once and achieve the great unity of the nation to make a short cut to
national reunification. It has been promoted as a work for non-governmental
cooperation between the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and the Hyundai
Business Group of South Korea.
��� The Mt. Kumgang tour which began in November 1998 was warmly welcomed at
home and abroad and has been turned into a nationwide work to pull down the
barrier of division and give momentum to the desire for national
reunification.
��� While the tour was making progress, the historic Pyongyang meeting of
the heads of the north and south was held and the June 15 North-South Joint
Declaration published. Therefore, the Mt. Kumgang tour is not a mere tour
but a foundation and a starting point for the development of the present
inter-Korean relations and has been a work common to the whole nation.
��� But the U.S., which has stood in the way of the peace and reunification
of the Korean peninsula after occupying South Korea by force of arms, was
not pleased with the tour from its very start.
��� Since the emergence of the bush administration, the moves to obstruct
the tour have reached their height for which all means and methods have been
employed.
��� The U.S. has been engaged in a wholesale campaign to derail the tour. It
spread a false rumor that the DPRK is "using the payment for the tour for a
military purpose." To make this sound plausible, it asserted that the DPRK
is using the payment for it for the "missile development" and the "threat
from the DPRK has got more serious than last year."
��� Bosses of the U.S. department of state, intelligence service and
military summoned the South Korean officials concerned to put pressure upon
them, resorted to all sorts of obstructions to the tour and created a
terror-ridden atmosphere to scuttle it.
��� In particular, the commander of the U.S. forces in South Korea and other
brasshats undisguisedly brought pressure to bear upon Hyundai Business Group
that has undertaken the project out of the ardent desire to contribute to
national reconciliation, unity and reunification, while wantonly meddling in
it.
��� Meanwhile, the U.S. instigated some right-wing conservatives and
reactionary media of South Korea to slander and hamstring the tour of Mt.
Kumgang.
��� Under its wirepulling, those right-wing conservatives are making every
possible effort to foil the tourism, claiming that it is "profitless
business" and "a drain on resources."
��� All the facts clearly show that the main obstacle to promoting the
north-south reconciliation and unity and cooperation such as the Mt. Kumgang
tour in line with the interests and desire of the Korean nation is none
other than the united states which keeps South Korea under its military
occupation.
��� We take a serious note of the U.S. hindrance to the nationwide work
going on between the north and the south of Korea, and bitterly denounce it
on behalf of all the Koreans.
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Answers given by spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry
��� pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry
gave answers to questions put by KCNA today in connection with the United
States' recent clamour about the resumption of the DPRK-U.S. dialogue. He
said:
��� U.S. Secretary of State Powell, touring various Asian countries some
time ago, said to the effect that the U.S. is waiting for an official
response to its proposal for dialogue.
��� In the June 18 statement of the spokesman for the foreign ministry and
at several New York contacts that took place in the subsequent period the
DPRK clarified its principled stand toward the resumption of the DPRK-U.S.
dialogue to the U.S. side and has already made an official response to the
U.S. proposal for dialogue.
��� We can not tolerate the slanderous remarks made by the bush
administration against the DPRK's supreme headquarters at the time of its
emergence.
��� We can never accept the agenda items of the talks unilaterally raised by
the U.S. out of its intention to disarm the DPRK and stifle it and will not
respond to the talks with the U.S. before it withdraws the items.
��� The resumption of the DPRK-U.S. dialogue will be possible when the
present U.S. administration drops its anachronistic mode of thinking that
belonged to the Cold War era and its stand is, at least, identical to the
stand taken by the Clinton administration in its last period.
��� We make it clear once again that the DPRK-U.S. dialogue has not yet been
resumed entirely because the U.S. side has not cleared the DPRK, the
dialogue partner, of its worries.
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