December.01.2001 Juche 90
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U.S. urged to stop hostile moves against DPRK
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Day of Sun in 2002 to be commemorated worldwide
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Over 160 anti-DPRK espionage flights
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Newly unearthed remains of patriotic martyrs buried
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20,000th issue of Rodong Sinmun marked
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More meetings to bring new peak to production
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Vigorous struggle against anti-reunification forces called for
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Rodong Sinmun on idea of attaching importance to writing brush
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Greetings to Lao President
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KEDO executive director and his party arrive
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Japanese reactionaries' suppression of Chongryon assailed
U.S. urged to stop hostile moves against DPRK
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is escalating its hardline
policy to threaten and stifle the DPRK, while persistently pushing forward
its moves to establish the Missile Defence system (MD) and contemplating
about the deployment of anti-missile radars in South Korea. In this regard
Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
��� These are dangerous anti-peace moves as they are intended to escalate
the tensions and increase the danger of war on the Korean peninsula.
��� The U.S. scheduled deployment of anti-missile radars in South Korea is
aimed at mounting missile attacks on the DPRK any time.
��� What is more ridiculous is that the U.S., which has recently deployed
huge combat forces and put them in an offensive posture against the DPRK, is
demanding the latter reduce its "missile and conventional forces."
��� This is a gangster-like logic intended to totally disarm the DPRK and
swallow it up with ease.
��� This compels the DPRK to maintain its maximum vigilance against the U.S.
undisguised hostile moves.
��� The DPRK's missile development is one of the reliable self-defensive
measures to smash the imperialists' moves to stifle the DPRK by force of
arms and defend socialism.
��� The DPRK is fully ready to cope with any crisis on its own initiative
and will deal merciless blows to the enemies coming in attack on it.
��� It is the revolutionary spirit and unique mode of counter-action to
reciprocate good faith and counter a hardline policy with the toughest
stand.
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Day of Sun in 2002 to be commemorated worldwide
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Preparations for commemorating the Day
of the Sun (April 15), the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, and
February 16, leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, in 2002 are making brisk headway
worldwide. Functions held in various countries and international meetings
adopted appeals and a special resolution calling for holding multifarious
commemorations of the days as holidays common to humankind.
��� Participants in the seminar on the Juche idea for the independent
development of Africa in the 21st century and a special meeting of the Latin
American and Caribbean Regional Committee to Support the Reunification of
Korea held in Uganda and Colombia proposed to hold a world conference of
organizations for the study of the Juche idea and its followers throughout
the world and organize a grand "meeting for congratulating the sun of the
21st century" on these occasions.
��� The 8th meeting of the executive committee of the board of the
International Institute of the Juche Idea adopted a special resolution
calling on the Juche idea study organizations of all the continents and
countries to make tangible contributions to this grand festival and to
arrange visits to the sacred temple of Juche by delegates of the study
organizations of all levels and hold a world conference on the Juche idea.
��� Organizations for the study of the Juche idea, friendly organizations
and prominent figures in many countries released statements in support of
such proposal and special resolutions and held meetings to issue
declarations, resolutions and working plans.
��� The Asian regional preparatory committee was inaugurated in Kathmandu,
Nepal, to commemorate the day of the sun in 2002 and greet the "meeting for
congratulating the sun of the 21st century" and the first preparatory
committee of that kind was formed in Poland.
��� Then followed the inauguration of preparatory committees under different
names in over 50 countries including Russia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Syria,
Mongolia, Jordan, Guinea, Congo, Denmark, Spain and Peru.
��� These committees group senior officials of parties and governments and
prominent political and public figures including the chairman of the
Madagascan national assembly, the Tanzanian minister of natural resources
and tourism and the Guinean minister of territorial administration,
localization and security.
��� The committees are active in the diverse work to study and explain the
immortal feats of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and strengthen the
international solidarity with the Korean people.
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Over 160 anti-DPRK espionage flights
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist warmongers
committed over 160 cases of aerial espionage against the DPRK in November,
according to military sources. More than 30 espionage flights were made by
U-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane, P-3 patrol plane and E-3
commanding plane.
��� EH-60 electronic warfare helicopters reconnoitered targets of the DPRK
in the areas along the military demarcation line from Nov. 9 to 20.
��� They also staged more aerial war exercises against the DPRK.
��� At least 500 fighter bombers and assault planes were involved in the war
exercises held in the sky above Wonju, Phyongchang and Kunsan areas from
Nov. 26 to 28.
��� All this fully reveals the heinous attempt of the U.S. imperialists to
render the situation on the Korean peninsula extremely tense and ignite a
new war of aggression.
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Newly unearthed remains of patriotic martyrs buried
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The remains of patriotic martyrs which
had been unearthed in Sinchon county, South Hwanghae Province, were buried
in the huge grave of patriots beside the Sinchon Museum with due ceremony on
November 30. They were brutally killed by the U.S. imperialists in October
Juche 39 (1950), in the period of temporary strategic retreat of the Korean
People's Army during the Korean War.
��� Among the remains are skulls with spikes, hoes and clamps stuck in them
and other skulls clearly showing the traces of foreheads and crowns into
which large nails were driven, skulls bearing traces of bullet wounds,
broken arm and leg bones and remains of pregnant women and children.
��� Sin Tong Bok, chief secretary of the Sinchon county committee of the
Wo1kers' Party of Korea, said in a memorial address that though many years
have passed since that time, the remains bear witness to the monstrous
atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressors, the most ferocious
ogres and the sworn enemy of the Korean people, who kill people for
pleasure.
��� Noting that their aggressive and brigandish nature can never change and
they are becoming more cunning and vicious as the days go by, he urged all
the Korean people to fight the U.S. imperialists and class enemies to the
end, keenly aware of the bitter lesson drawn from Sinchon and the truth of
the class struggle.
��� Speakers said that the Korean people would mercilessly punish the u.s.
imperialists, the brutes, and force them to pay for the blood shed by the
martyrs with deep rancor.
��� After a funeral poem was recited, the remains were buried in the grave.
��� Wreaths, bouquets and flowers were laid before the grave.
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20,000th issue of Rodong Sinmun marked
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the people's
palace of culture yesterday to commemorate the 20,000th issue of Rodong
Sinmun. Present there were Choe Thae Bok, Jong Ha Chol and Kim Ki Nam,
secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Rodong
Sinmun was inaugurated on November 1, Juche 34 (1945).
��� Choe Chil Nam, editor-in-chief of Rodong Sinmun, in his report said that
the founding of the newspaper provided the WPK with a powerful ideological
weapon with which to train all its members and other working people as
revolutionaries of Juche type and vigorously push ahead with the Korean
revolution and the human cause of independence under the banner of the great
Juche idea.
��� Recalling that ever since its first issue Rodong Sinmun has invariably
shared the same destiny with the founder-leader of the party true to his
idea and line and the party's policies, the reporter noted that this is the
highest pride and the most gratifying review of the history of 20,000 issues
of the party's newspaper.
��� President Kim Il Sung worked heart and soul to strengthen and develop
the party's newspaper to be an efficient revolutionary newspaper of Juche
type till the last moment of his life, he said, adding that the newspaper
has enjoyed its greatest success in its development under the leadership of
Kim Jong Il since the 1970s.
��� It is an outstanding exploit Kim Jong Il performed in the history of
leading the party's newspaper that he brought about a signal turn in writing
editorials in the 1970s, thus effecting a radical change in its activities.
��� He called for implementing to the letter the tasks Kim Jong Il put
forward in his letter to the participants in the 8th congress of the Korean
journalists union to creditably carry out the honorable mission of Rodong
Sinmun as the eternal newspaper of the party and the leader.
��� All the journalists and editors would dynamically advance, united close
around Kim Jong Il, vigorously wielding the writing brush of the revolution,
and thus successfully carry out the mission as an ideological
standard-bearer devotedly defending the leader, he said.
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More meetings to bring new peak to production
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- More meetings of workers and peasants
were held in different parts of the DPRK to vow to bring a new peak to
production and construction, holding high the torchlight of Ranam. The
meetings at the Pukchang Thermal-Power Complex, the Chollima Steel Complex,
the Pyongyang Coal Mining Machine Plant, the Pongsan Cooperative Farm in
Anbyon county, Kangwon Province, and others expressed the determination to
demonstrate the might of Juche Korea again in building a powerful and
prosperous nation, holding high the first torchlight of the revolutionary
advance in the new century.
��� The meetings called upon workers and peasants to wage a vigorous
struggle to bring a new era of prosperity as they overcame hardships of the
"arduous march" and the forced march and opened the road of advance for
building a powerful nation in the revolutionary spirit of soldiers and
Kanggye spirit under the army-based leadership of the Workers' Party of
Korea.
��� They called for stepping up the revolutionary advance of the new
century, holding high the torchlight of Ranam, so as to build Kim Jong Il's
powerful nation in this land.
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Vigorous struggle against anti-reunification forces called for
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
calls upon all the compatriots in the north, south and abroad to turn out in
the vigorous nation-wide struggle to sweep away the anti-reunification
forces inside and outside Korea who challenge forces standing for national
independence and reunification. The article goes on:
��� Foreign domination and interference and the moves of the
anti-reunification forces are the root cause of acts detrimental to the
national unity and independent reunification and a cancer-like factor of
blocking them.
��� Only when they are rooted out, can our nation survive and achieve
reunification, unity and prosperity.
��� The pro-reunification patriotic forces can preserve the historic June 15
North-South Joint Declaration, the precious achievement made in the efforts
to achieve national independence and reunification, and create favorable
conditions for attaining the reunification of the country by the Korean
nation's efforts only when they bind the separatists hand and foot through a
united struggle.
��� The more desperately the foreign forces and the anti-reunification
forces work to stamp out the movement for the independent reunification of
the Korean nation, the higher the compatriots should hold the banner of
national independence.
��� No force on earth can ever overpower the united independent forces of
the Korean nation.
��� The whole nation should unite close under the banner of great national
unity and firmly build up and strengthen in every way the driving force for
the country's reunification.
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Rodong Sinmun on idea of attaching importance to writing brush
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, today in an editorial dedicated to
the publication of its 20,000th issue calls on the journalists and pressmen
to instigate the building of a powerful country in the party's idea of
attaching importance to the writing brush. The foundation of Rodong Sinmun
on November 1, 1945, provided a powerful ideological weapon to resolutely
defend the cause of the leader, the editorial says, and continues:
��� The WPK's idea of attaching importance to the writing brush is the
unique idea based on the principle of the Juche idea that man decides
everything and there is nothing impossible when his idea is set in motion.
And it is a powerful idea that puts forward the press work as the main front
of ideological work and enhances the role of the socialist press in every
way to push ahead with revolution and construction.
��� As there is no limit to the might of the popular masses awakened
politically and ideologically, so there is no limit to the ideological might
of the revolutionary writing brush.
��� The path covered by Rodong Sinmun is the history of worshipping and
defending the leader, which has proudly recorded the glorious revolutionary
history of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.
��� It is because of having them at the head of the party and revolution
that Rodong Sinmun could powerfully display its militant might as the organ
of the socialist ruling party during the period from its foundation to the
publication of its 20,000th issue.
��� Kim Jong Il set a shining example in leading revolution to victory,
always loving the writing brush along with arms.
��� He sent an immortal letter "journalists and other pressmen are
ideological standard-bearers firmly defending our idea, system and cause" to
the journalists and pressmen, so that they may have a powerful weapon to
display the might of the writing brush more fully and proudly to meet the
requirement of the present era.
��� The press media including Rodong Sinmun should hold higher the banner of
the Juche idea in response to the letter and conduct media activities to
make the sound of drums louder all over the country to build a powerful and
prosperous country, stresses the editorial.
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Greetings to Lao President
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today sent a message of
greetings to Lao President Khamtay Siphandone on the occasion of the 26th
anniversary of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The message extended
warm congratulations to the president and, through him, to the government
and people of Laos on the occasion.
��� Noting that the Lao people have displayed patriotism and the spirit of
self-reliance and fortitude, thus overcoming all the difficulties and
ordeals and achieving many successes in defending and building their country
under the correct leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP)
over the last 26 years, the message said that the Korean people are
sincerely rejoiced over them.
��� Expressing the belief that the traditional friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries would invariably consolidate and develop
in the new century, too, in conformity with the desire and interests of the
two peoples, the message wished the fraternal Lao people greater success in
their work to implement the decision adopted at the 7th congress of the LPRP
and turn the country into a modern industrial country, closely rallied
around the LPRP led by Khamtay Siphandone.
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KEDO executive director and his party arrive
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Charles Katman, executive director of
the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), and his party
arrived here today.
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Japanese reactionaries' suppression of Chongryon assailed
��� Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang mass meeting took place at
the People's Palace of Culture today to denounce the Japanese reactionaries
for cracking down upon the general association of Korean residents in Japan
(Chongryon). On Nov. 29 the Japanese reactionaries ransacked the central
standing committee of Chongryon as well as the Tokyo metropolitan
headquarters and the western Tokyo headquarters of Chongryon with the
mobilization of hundreds of prosecution and police agents.
��� Speaking at the meeting, Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the central committee
of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, condemned their search
as a gangster-like provocation to Chongryon and Koreans in Japan and a
premeditated and base political suppression.
��� Dismissing this crime as the most arrogant and unwarranted political
crackdown upon Chongryon since its formation, he said this is stirring up
bitter national resentment and hatred not only among the Chongryon
organizations and the 700,000 Koreans in Japan but among all the Korean
people and sparking worldwide anger.
��� What is arousing our bitterer resentment is that the Japanese
reactionaries' suppression of Chongryon constitutes a wanton infringement
upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and a grave insult to it, he
noted.
��� He branded the Japanese reactionaries' suppression of Chongryon as a
political campaign to undermine it and an undisguised challenge to the DPRK
and bitterly denounced it with surging national wrath and resentment.
��� They should stop at once their reactionary and hostile acts against the
DPRK, stop at once the dastardly and tyrannical suppression of Chongryon,
unconditionally and promptly set free the unreasonably arrested officials of
Chongryon and compatriots in Japan and make deserved apology to the Korean
nation for their crimes.
��� Then the floor was taken by representatives of students, agricultural
workers and women.
��� They noted that the Japanese reactionaries' fascist crackdown is an
unpardonable atrocity adding to the crimes committed by Japan in the past.
The Korean people will surely force Japan to pay not only for the blood shed
by their forerunners but for the crimes perpetrated by Japan today, they
stated.
��� The people in the north, they declared, will join all other compatriots
in South Korea and abroad in the struggle to decisively foil the Japanese
reactionaries' anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon campaign.
��� Among those present at the meeting were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president
of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of
the central committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, O Ik Je,
vice-chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the
Fatherland, Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's
Committee, and others.
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