TODAY'S NEWS (August.23.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS]
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Japan urged to redress its past
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U.S. moves for establishing MD condemned
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U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK assailed
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Monument to three charters for national reunification
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Russian paper praises Kim Il Sung
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Rodong Sinmun on Kim Jong Il's undisputed prestige
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Greetings to Ukrainian President
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Gift to Kim Jong Il from British party
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KCNA on U.S. call for "resumption of dialogue with DPRK"
For Spanish-speaking people
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ee.uu. no debe acusar a rpdc
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ee.uu. debe abandonar politica de enfrentamiento
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bandera de unidad nacional y reunificacion de patria
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Japan urged to redress its past
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- The Japanese authorities are further
budging from their commitment to redress Japan's past as evidenced by their
recent refusal to allow the entry into Japan of the delegation of the DPRK
Measure Committee for Demanding Compensation To "Comfort Women for the Army"
and the Victims of the Pacific War. This attitude comes under fire by a
signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun today. The commentary says:
��� Japan can never get confidence of the international community unless it
settles its past crimes.
��� It was a vivid expression of its hostile policy towards the DPRK that
Japan refused to allow the entry into Japan of the DPRK delegation only.
��� The DPRK is a highly dignified independent sovereign state.
��� The DPRK will strive to improve relations with even those countries
which had once been hostile to the DPRK if they respect sovereignty and give
up their hostile policy towards it. But the DPRK will certainly make those
forces, which persistently pursue an unfriendly and hostile policy towards
it, pay for their wrongs.
��� Japan's expression of enmity towards the DPRK before the international
community was as foolish an act as lifting the axe to cut its own foot.
��� The hostile policy persistently pursued by the Japanese authorities
towards the DPRK compels the DPRK to take a corresponding measure.
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U.S. moves for establishing MD condemned
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- Public figures of India and Bangladesh
issued statements as regards leader Kim Jong Il's answers given to questions
put by Itar-Tass. The general secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) said in a statement that his answers made
a great contribution to smashing the U.S. attempt to build a unipolar world
and defending peace and security in the world.
��� The general secretary of the All-India Small Newspapers Association said
on August 10 that it is nonsensical to claim that North Korea is
"threatening" the United States with missiles and it is a mockery of the
world peace-loving people.
��� If the U.S. continues to push forward the establishment of the missile
defense system despite the unanimous opposition of the world, it will invite
its own isolation and self-destruction.
��� The secretary general of the Bangladesh-DPRK Friendship Association said
in a statement that it is none other than the U.S. that is now threatening
peace and security on the Korean peninsula and, furthermore, in the
Asia-Pacific region. The world people demand the U.S. withdraw its troops
and military equipment from South Korea, he added.
��� In order to ensure peace in Asia, it is necessary for Japan not to side
with the U.S. imperialists' policy of aggression, he stressed.
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U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK assailed
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- Radio Voice of Russia on August 20 aired
its commentator's article calling for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from
the Korean peninsula. Noting that the United States is going to turn South
Korea into its strategic vantage in the Asia-Pacific region, the commentary
says:
��� 85,000 of over 100,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Asia-Pacific region
are present in Japan and South Korea.
��� They have nuclear weapons hundreds of times as powerful as A-bombs that
reduced Hiroshima and Nagasaki to debris.
��� Japan and the U.S. are extending the sphere of their military alliance
as far as the Korean peninsula, Taiwan and the far east.
��� The U.S. intends to have not only a nuclear club but a missile space
shield in the Asia-Pacific region. Such military policy of the U.S. makes
the situation in the region unpredictable.
��� That is why the DPRK, China and Russia, together with southeast Asian
countries, are strongly opposed to the U.S. plans to establish national
missile defense system and theatre Missile Defense system that may harass
world and regional stability.
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Monument to three charters for national reunification
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- The arch style monument to the three
charters for national reunification was built at the entrance to Thongil
Street in Pyongyang. The monument 30 m high covers an area of more than
100,000 square metres. It is rich in national style and perfect in formative
artistic depiction.
��� The monument with a tower body and platforms clearly reflects all the
fellow countrymen's desire for reunification.
��� Upper part of the tower body depicts a mark of three charters engraved
with letters reading "three charters," a Korean map and magnolia designs. On
both sides of each platform stand group sculptures which are on the themes
of the three principles of national reunification, the proposal for founding
the democratic federal republic of Koryo, the ten-point programme of the
great unity of the whole nation and the slogan "Long Live Reunified Korea."
��� The monument depicts two women, their arms stretched out as if to
embrace each other and shout "Long Live Reunification" this clearly proves
that reunification is the greatest desire and supreme task of the nation
whose implementation brooks no further delay.
��� The same posture of the two women in Korean national costumes
intuitively tells that the north and the south are one and the same nation
who lives in the same territory with the same mind.
��� There are rooms which have displays of more than 700 commemorative
stones dedicated by party and state heads and progressive figures of scores
of countries and overseas compatriots wishing the reunification of the
Korean peninsula.
��� Standing in the education ground is the monument to President Kim Il
Sung's proposition on national reunification.
��� There is a garden covering 8 hectares around the monument.
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Russian paper praises Kim Il Sung
��� Moscow, August 21 (KCNA) -- The Russian paper Patriot in its 32nd issue
carried an article entitled "star of freedom, August 15 is the day of
Korea's liberation", illustrated by a picture of President Kim Il Sung
delivering a speech upon his return home in victory. On August 15, 1945, the
anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of the Korean people led by him
was victoriously concluded and the cause of building a socialist state, a
new socialist society, started in this land with a long history, the article
says, and goes on:
��� New Korea, born on this day, is a country where the most advanced idea,
morality, life and humanity have been embodied.
��� The Arch of Triumph at the foot of beautiful Moran Hill in Pyongyang was
erected to commemorate the day when he liberated the distress-torn country
and returned home in triumph after defeating the Japanese militarist
occupiers by leading the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.
��� He was the great genius and the most prominent great man in the history
of the nation and the world.
��� He regarded himself as the true son of the people and the personifier of
the people's desire and boundless creative power from the first step of his
activities.
��� Rare is such a great man as he who was possessed of the capability of
theoretically popularizing the most profound philosophical principle and
idea and waged the stubborn, meticulous and thorough revolutionary struggle
every day.
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Rodong Sinmun on Kim Jong Il's undisputed prestige
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's recent historic
visit to the Russian Federation firmly convinced the Korean people that he
is the great revolutionary and outstanding leader who enjoys highest
prestige in the world and Korea is demonstrating its might as Kim Il Sung's
Korea to the world as it is led by Kim Jong Il, says Rodong Sinmun today in
a signed article. It says:
��� It is under the guidance of Kim Jong Il that the DPRK is demonstrating
its might as an ideologically, politically and militarily powerful country
and it is being glorified as invincible socialism blazing a new path of the
era of independence. The absolute prestige of Kim Jong Il, a rare statesman
and the great man of general type, represents the dignity and honour of the
DPRK.
��� Saying that Kim Jong Il's politics has a history of nearly 40 years, the
article goes on:
��� Kim Jong Il's absolute prestige as a world veteran statesman who leads
the times is unthinkable without his decades-long political history and his
exploits performed in this period.
��� He has pursued army-first politics, the most perfect political mode in
the history of world politics, thus protecting the destiny of the country
and socialism and hewing the road to be followed by humankind's common cause
of independence. It is an immortal exploit performed by Kim Jong Il as a
peerlessly great statesman.
��� The imperialists have resorted to ceaseless military blackmail and
aggression moves in recent years to stifle the DPRK which was undergoing
rigorous trails.
��� Holding in high esteem the great commander endowed with iron will and
grit and superb strategy, the Korean people have been able to decisively
shatter all the moves of the imperialists for aggression and honorably
defend sovereignty and dignity of the country.
��� The Russian people accorded cordial hospitality to Kim Jong Il with high
respect, warm friendship and deep trust in him and hundreds of millions of
people around the world expressed boundless reverence and respect for him
during his Russia visit. It clearly shows what high international prestige
he enjoys.
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Greetings to Ukrainian President
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to
President Leonid Kuchma on Wednesday on the occasion of the 10th anniversary
of the national day of Ukraine. In the belief that the excellent relations
of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would continue to
develop on good terms, the message wished the president success in his
responsible work for peace and stability of the country and the people's
well-being.
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Gift to Kim Jong Il from British party
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from
the British Socialist Labour Party. It was handed to an official concerned
by Eloisa Joan Rule, member of the national executive committee of the
party, on a visit to Korea.
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KCNA on U.S. call for "resumption of dialogue with DPRK"
��� Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- Officials of the Bush administration are
building up public opinion in a bid to create impression that the U.S. is
deeply interested in the resumption of dialogue with the DPRK, saying that
the U.S. "has willingness to resume unconditional dialogue with the DPRK."
The U.S. secretary of state, during his recent junket to various Asian
countries, spoke to the effect that the U.S. is waiting for the DPRK's
official response to its proposal for dialogue and a spokesman for the U.S.
State Department also clarified the stand that the U.S. has willingness to
have an exhaustive dialogue with the DPRK without any precondition.
��� Such concern recently expressed by the Bush administration for the
resumption of the dialogue with the DPRK prompts the DPRK to comment on the
U.S. present policy toward the DPRK and its true approach towards a dialogue
with the DPRK.
��� The U.S. has not yet withdrawn those agenda items for negotiations it
had unilaterally put up before both sides sit together although it is
calling for the resumption of unconditional negotiations.
��� Those agenda items are unacceptable as they are unilateral and hostile
in their nature. Even the demand for the reduction of the DPRK's
conventional weapons for self-defence is included there:
��� It is quite clear that the dialogue can hardly be resumed unless those
agenda items are withdrawn. As already clarified by the DPRK the DPRK-U.S.
dialogue has not yet been resumed due to the U.S. hostile policy toward the
DPRK. It is the DPRK's steadfast stand that the dialogue can be resumed only
when the present U.S. government drops its anachronistic way of thinking in
the era of the cold war and at least takes a stand identical to that of the
Clinton administration in its last period.
��� During the Clinton administration the DPRK and the U.S. published the
Geneva DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and the New York DPRK-U.S. joint
communique in which they agreed to remove the source of long-standing
mistrust, confrontation and misunderstanding and normalize the bilateral
relations. And both sides, accordingly, promised each other to fulfil
political, moral and legal obligations to terminate hostile relations, build
confidence and clear the other side of its worries.
��� The DPRK has so far remained faithful to the agreed framework by
honestly keeping its promises made to the U.S. to freeze its nuclear program
and suspend its missile launch.
��� The bilateral relations witnessed a series of ups and downs due to the
U.S. insincere compliance with the AF. But the DPRK-U.S. dialogue was
provided with a momentous opportunity to solve pending issues in the last
period of the Clinton administration. The bilateral relationship reached
such a level that the then U.S. secretary of state visited Pyongyang and
even the U.S. President's DPRK visit was projected.
��� If both sides had continued constructive dialogues from the stand of
mutual respect and understanding, the issue of the DPRK-U.S. relations
related to ensuring peace on the Korean peninsula would have already been
solved on a considerable level now that the Cold War came to an end and the
world greeted the new century.
��� All this means that the DPRK-U.S. dialogue which proceeded in real
earnest from 1994 laid in principle a basic foundation to settle issues
related to the bilateral relations and other key international political and
security issues until the end of 2000, the last year of the 20th century,
despite a number of difficulties in that period.
��� Afterwards, there was a transfer of power in the U.S. if the new
administration had pursued a consistent foreign policy in the interests of
the American people and the United States of America, not wedded to the
foreign policy in the period of the Cold War prompted by partisan interests,
such disturbing developments as "examination of the policy toward the DPRK"
and "suspension of dialogue" which resulted in the deterioration of
bilateral relations would not have occurred.
��� After wasting nearly half a year the Bush administration, under domestic
and foreign pressure, declared the U.S. willingness to "resume dialogue" as
if it did the DPRK a favour and is now talking about an "unconditional
dialogue". But its real attitude and stand do not show any true willingness
for dialogue.
��� If the U.S. is truly interested in the issue of resuming dialogue with
the DPRK, it should, first of all, show its will for dialogue in practice.
��� The U.S. should clarify in principle its stand that it will not
undermine the basic foundation built up with so much effort through previous
bilateral talks. This will be a touchstone judging whether the U.S. has
willingness for dialogue or not.
��� In other words, it should drop its hostile attitude toward the DPRK and
adopt a stand identical to that of the Clinton administration in its last
period at least.
��� To merely talk about "resumption of dialogue" and repeat the story that
it is someone's turn to kick the ball is nothing but an empty talk intended
to deceive the international community.
��� This stand of the DPRK is by no means a unilateral precondition and it
represents the principle for fairest bilateral talks proved in the entire
period of the DPRK-U.S. relations.
��� The DPRK has consistently abided by this principle in dialogue with the
U.S. and this will remain unchanged in the future, too.
��� It is still the U.S. side's turn to kick the ball.
��� The DPRK will closely follow the U.S. future attitude.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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ee.uu. no debe acusar a rpdc
��� pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- en una reciente audicion del senado
norteamericano, wolfowitz, subsecretario de defensa norteamericano hablo de
la necesidad de incrementar fondos necesarios para el establecimiento del
sistema de "defensa antimisil", sobre todo para el desarrollo de las armas
aereas de radar en el espacio aereo de la peninsula coreana pretextando la
"amenaza de misiles" de la rpdc. el periodico "rodong sinmun" inserto en el
numero del dia 22 un comentario senalando que la "amenaza de misiles" de la
rpdc de que hablo el sin prueba alguna ni teoria justificable constituye una
provocacion y un desafio intolerables contra esta. el comentario senala:
��� la estrategia asiatica de ee.uu. es aplastar con las fuerzas a la rpdc y
tomar la peninsula coreana por trampolin estategico militar para agredir y
dominar a asia.
��� lo que llama atencion es que los belicistas norteamericanos tratan de
colocar surcorea y su contorno dentro de su esfera de "defensa antimisil"
para fortalecer su ofensiva militar sobre la rpdc. los imperialistas
norteamericanos tratan de formar una red de misiles contra la peninsula
coreana y buscar algun pretexto para dar primer golpe cuandoquiera a la
rpdc.
��� no podemos estar con brazos cruzados ante el hecho de que ee.uu. trata
de emplazar los poderosos medios de ataque de misiles en el espacio aereo
sobre la peninsula coreana para emprender un ataque militar contra la rpdc
pretextando la supuesta "amenaza de misiles" de esta.
��� reforzaremos nuestras contramedidas de autodefensa.
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ee.uu. debe abandonar politica de enfrentamiento
��� pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- el periodico "rodong sinmun" en el
numero de hoy inserto un comentario condenando a ee.uu. que arma
abiertamente alborotos de ejercicio belico contra la republica popular
democratica de corea y trata de organizar 4 "brigadas de combate para el
golpe rapido" bajo el pretexto de "enfrentar al supuesto conflicto en la
peninsula coreana y la region de asia -pacifico". el comentario senala:
��� esto demuestra que ee.uu. hace un hecho consumado la provocacion de la
segunda guerra coreana.
��� despues del fin de la guerra fria, ee.uu. presento como tarea principal
de su estrategia militar la "solucion del conflicto regional" bajo la nueva
situacion internacional.
��� la actual administracion norteamericana trata de fortalecer la
confrontacion de la fuerza en la peninsula coreana y la region de
asia-pacifico luego de definirlas como escena principal para la realizacion
de esta estrategia.
��� el lugar de confrontacion principal es la peninsula coreana.
��� los imperialistas norteamericanos han ubicado enormes fuerzas armadas en
el sur de corea y su contorno. no satisfechos de ello tratan de desplegar
alli nueva flota de portaaviones y unidades aerotransportadas y de
infanteria de marina.
��� en los ultimos anos, organizaron las unidades de golpe movil
reorganizando las fuerzas aereas norteamericanas ocupantes de la region de
asia-pacifico en 10 unidades de expedicion, segun la estrategia de
enfrentamiento de la fuerza en la peninsula coreana.
��� ee.uu. desarrolla junto con las autoridades militares surcoreanas el
ejercicio conjunto de desminado y otros de guerra con el objetivo de
completar la operacion de trasladar con rapidez las nuevas fuerzas armadas
al sur de corea.
��� no cabe duda de que las fuerzas belicistas norteamericanas que ya
declararon como "enemigo principal no.1" a la rpdc desataran en un momento
una guerra agresiva contra esta.
��� detras de la cortina del "dialogo" ee.uu. se prepara para disparar el
fusil y el canon contra la rpdc.
��� ee.uu. debe distinguir claramente la realidad y abandonar su temeraria
politica de enfrentamiento.
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bandera de unidad nacional y reunificacion de patria
��� pyongyang, 23 de julio (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" inserto en
el numero de hoy un articulo senalando que la reunificacion de la patria es
una empresa inspirada en el amor a la patria y a la nacion que puede
realizarse solo por la lucha patriotica de toda la nacion. el articulo
senala:
��� el espiritu del patriotismo de la nacion coreana es la solida base
ideo-espiritual para la gran unidad pannacional y la fuerza impulsora de la
lucha por la reunificacion de la patria.
��� entre el norte y el sur hay las diferencias de ideologia y regimen y
otras diversas disparidades. pero la reunificacion de la patria es la tarea
mas primordial de la nacion coreana.
��� de veras el amor a la patria y a la nacion es una gran bandera que une a
todos los coreanos en el norte y el sur y en el ultramar para la gran
empresa de la reunificacion de la patria superando las diferencias de
ideologia, regimen, criterio politico y creencia religiosa y los intereses
de las clases y capas particulares.
��� la del gran general kim jong il es la sublime politica de amor a la
patria y a la nacion, y la abarcadora.
��� el general kim jong il con la bandera del amor a la patria y a la nacion
en alto ha conducido sabiamente la lucha por la gran unidad nacional y la
reunificacion de la patria.
��� el partido del trabajo de corea y el gobierno de la rpdc han hecho todos
sus esfuerzos por realizar la reunificacion de la patria conforme a la
circunstancia historica en que las relaciones norte-sur y el movimiento por
la reunificacion de la patria han entrado en una nueva etapa nunca vista.
��� la nacion coreana desarrolla una energica lucha por frustrar con las
fuerzas unidas de la nacion el desafio y las maquinaciones obstructoras de
las fuerzas extranjeras y las opuestas a la reunificacion.
��� todos los coreanos aceleraran con mas vigor la marcha de la
reunificacion independiente en acato al noble proposito del amor a la patria
y a la nacion del gran camarada kim jong il.
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