TODAY'S NEWS (December.14.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS] * Seminar held * Murder of S. Korean professor confirmed * Struggle against imperialism called for * Exhibition of British books and scientific and technological invention held * Honorary diploma and gold medal awarded to Kim Jong Il * U.S. accused of its crimes * Japanese authorities' suppression of Chongryon denounced * Final damming completed * Greetings to President of Switzerland * Destruction of statues of Tangun under fire For Spanish-speaking people * kim jong il recibe diploma honorario y medalla de oro de peru * declaracion de vocero de consejo de reunificacion de nacion de tangun * imperialismo es enemigo perverso de causa de independencia de humanidad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seminar held ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- A seminar of officials and members of trade unions took place here yesterday to mark the 30th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "On the Character and Tasks of the Trade Unions in a Socialist Society." The work is his speech at the fifth congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea on December 14, Juche 60 (1971). ��� It specifies all the tasks facing the trade unions and ways of carrying them out, including the contents of ideological education and issues of imbuing the unionists with the Juche idea, leading them to have collectivism, communist attitude toward labor, hatred for the exploiting system and ardent love of the socialist system and a high level of technique and skill and encouraging them to carry out their economic tasks. ��� It was pointed out at the seminar that the idea of defining trade unions as ideological education organizations, training unionists as true revolutionaries through the intensified education of them in the Juche idea and building the trade unions into organizations that share the destiny with the party is the idea of building a mass organization of the working class, the first of its kind in history. ��� It was also noted there that over the last three decades the trade unions have performed their mission and duty as befitting the transmission belt linking the Workers' Party of Korea with the masses and its outer organization to greatly help model the whole society on the Juche idea, fully proving the justness and vitality of the work of the president. ��� Present at the seminar was secretary Kim Jung Rin of the central committee of the WPK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Murder of S. Korean professor confirmed ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The doubtful death professor Choe Jong Gil of the law college of Seoul National University was reported to have met during severe questioning in the CIA in 1973 on the charge of "espionage" was confirmed as murder by a CIA agent, according to Seoul-based Radio No. 1. The committee for probing the truth about the questionable death claimed that it had testimonies and evidence to prove it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Struggle against imperialism called for ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Imperialism is malicious challenger to the human cause of independence, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. Imperialists, styling themselves "protectors of human rights," "advocates of humanitarianism" and "apostle of peace," carry guns behind their coats and look for more targets of their aggression and plunder, it says, and goes on: ��� Imperialists leave no stone untried to poison people ideologically. ��� Imperialists' ideology and culture are meant to achieve this aim. ��� The imperialists are trying to make the people who aspire after independence victims of their ideological and cultural poisoning. ��� In case they fail to do so, they do not hesitate to suppress the people by physical force. ��� The United States is attempting to bisect the world into two parts and set one against another on the plea of "combating terrorism." ��� Its attempt at escalating "war against terrorism" serves as a potential tinderbox of the third world war in the new century. ��� The imperialists cry out for "globalization" in a bid to set up a global order of neo-colonialist exploitation, plunder and domination. ��� The realities clearly prove that the imperialists are the main obstacles lying in the way of the human cause of independence. ��� The human cause of independence can make a victorious advance only when a vigorous anti-imperialist struggle is waged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Exhibition of British books and scientific and technological invention held ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of British books and scientific and technological invention was held at the grand people's study house yesterday on the occasion of the first anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and the UK. Present there were Jon Yong Jin, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries who is also chairman of the Korean Committee for Friendship with the British People, Jong Thae Gyong, vice-president of the Grand People's Study House, officials concerned and working people in the city. ��� Present at the exhibition were James Edward Hoare, British charge d' affaires ad interim, and embassy officials here. ��� Speeches were made there. ��� Its participants saw books introducing the UK and materials showing scientific and technological invention and other successes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Honorary diploma and gold medal awarded to Kim Jong Il ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Honorary diploma and gold medal were awarded to leader Kim Jong Il by the Huancayo Provincial Council of Peru. They were handed to an official of the DPRK embassy in lima on Dec. 4 by Dimas Aliaga Castro, governor of the province and mayor of the city. ��� Written on the diploma are letters "we have the honour to present this diploma to he Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea who has made a valuable contribution to the development of the Peruvian national culture, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his election as supreme commander of the Korean people's army." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. accused of its crimes ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- It was disclosed recently that the U.S. military commanded an operation to put down the anti-U.S. resistance of Jeju islanders in South Korea in 1948. In this regard Minju Joson today runs a commentary branding the U.S. imperialist aggressors as the sworn enemy as they have brought misfortune and sufferings to the Korean nation. ��� The uprising of Jeju islanders was just as it reflected the ardent desire and fixed will of the South Korean people to build a unified independent country by the nation itself, free from outsiders' domination and intervention, the commentary says, and goes on: ��� Owing to the above-said massacre by the U.S. imperialists, a quarter of the population in the island were brutally killed in a little more than two years. The present reality calls for a more vigorous struggle to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from South Korea. ��� The Korean people will wage the anti-U.S. struggle for independence as a nation-wide movement and surely make the U.S. pay for such crimes and drive its forces out of South Korea without fail. ��� The U.S. imperialists should apologize to the Korean nation for the brutal quelling of the April 3 Popular Uprising of Jeju islanders and withdraw its forces from South Korea at once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Japanese authorities' suppression of Chongryon denounced ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The organization of socialists in the mediterranean issued a statement on Dec. 6 denouncing the Japanese authorities for their suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). The statement condemned the Japanese authorities' recent crackdown upon Chongryon as a wanton violation of human rights, freedom and international law and an infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and reiterated support for Chongryon. ��� Noting that their suppression was a political plot to destroy Chongryon and a crime against the Koreans in Japan, biggest victims of Japan's forcible draft during its military occupation of Korea, the statement urged them to stop at once the crackdown upon Chongryon and solve all problems raised by their unwarranted measures, as required by human rights, freedom and international law. ��� The Nepal-Korea Friendship Association in a statement on Dec. 3 noted that it could not repress its bitter resentment at the Japanese authorities' search of the central and local headquarters of Chongryon, an overseas citizens organization of the DPRK, with the mobilization of hundreds of policemen. ��� We bitterly denounce the Japanese authorities for their reckless abuse of the sacred national rights of the Korean people and demand Japan drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK and properly treat the independent Koreans in Japan, it said. ��� The France-Korea Friendship Association in a statement on Dec. 6 denounced the Japanese authorities' wanton violation of the democratic national rights, dignity and independent rights of the Koreans in Japan as a political suppression of Chongryon and extended firm solidarity to Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan. ��� The Madagascar-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee in a letter of protest sent to the Japanese government on the same day assailed its crackdown upon Chongryon as a gross infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and urged them to immediately stop all the hostile acts against the DPRK and Chongryon and unconditionally release the unreasonably arrested Koreans. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Final damming completed ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Hydro-power station builders of Korea have completed the final damming of the Kumjingang Power Station. Its builders in Jongphyong county who began the final damming early in September have erected a dam as huge as one for a big power station by use of millions of cubic metres of gravel, sand and clay. ��� The 100-kilometre-long river Kumjin flows from Mt. Paek in Hamju county, South Hamgyong Province, and empties into the sea off Jongphyong county. ��� The construction of the dam caused a big lake to appear on the upper reaches of the river, making it possible to supply sufficient water to more than 4,500 hectares of paddy and non-paddy fields and generate much electricity. ��� The electricity to be generated by the power station where equipment assembling is being stepped up at the final stage and the power stations whose construction is now under way down it would be enough to provide lighting to the dwelling houses, operate local industrial factories in the county and ensure the heating of dwelling houses for more than 3,000 families in the township. ��� Efforts are made to decrease the width of the river so as to put more than 500 hectares of land under the plough, turn the lake into a fish farm and build the area into a holiday resort. ��� The county is building an excursion boat for the pleasant rest of working people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings to President of Switzerland ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on Dec. 11 sent a message of greetings to Kaspar Villiger upon his election as President of Switzerland. In the message Kim Yong Nam said that he was pleased to note that the relations between the DPRK and Switzerland are developing in various fields. ��� It wished the president success in his responsible work for promoting the well-being of the people of Switzerland and wished him good health and happiness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Destruction of statues of Tangun under fire ��� Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the council for reunification of Tangun nation today released a statement bitterly denouncing pro-American anti-communist Christian organizations in South Korea for the destruction of statues of Tangun as despicable immoral vandalism of insulting the ancestral father of the nation and an anti-national, anti-reunification crime designed to wreck national reconciliation and unity and escalate confrontation and tensions. Pro-U.S. anti-communist Christian organizations such as "the Federation of Christians," "the Council of Evangelism," "the Forum of Churchmen" and "the Council of Christian Leaders" destroyed statues of Tangun and are now busy conducting a smear campaign against the north over the issue of Tangun. ��� The statement said: ��� Thanks to the correct policy of the government of the DPRK it was scientifically ascertained that Tangun, who had been known as a mythical being, actually existed and the reconstruction of King Tangun's mausoleum on an expansion basis on the highest level is the pride of the nation. ��� Any Korean should make every effort to protect and glorify the excellent traditions of the Tangun nation with such national pride. The afore-said Christian organizations in South Korea, however, heaped intolerable abuses on the DPRK that found out the ancestral father of the nation and built his mausoleum and "the Alliance for the Movement of Hongik Culture" keeps destroying statues of Tangun in different parts of South Korea. ��� If those organizations continue destroying statues of Tangun and inciting confrontation, ignoring the repeated warnings of the fellow countrymen, they will meet a stern judgment by history and the nation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Spanish-speaking people ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kim jong il recibe diploma honorario y medalla de oro de peru ��� pyongyang, 14 de diciembre (atcc) -- el dirigente kim jong il recibio el diploma honorario y la medalla de oro del consejo de la provincia de huancayo del peru. dimas aliaga castro, gobernador y alcalde de esta provincia lo entrego el dia 4 a un funcionario de la embajada de la republica popular democratica de corea en su pais. ��� en el diploma se lee: "a su excelencia kim jong il,secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea quien hizo una valiosa contribucion al desarrollo de cultura nacional del peru, con motivo del 10 aniversario de su eleccion como comandante supremo del ejercito popular de corea". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ declaracion de vocero de consejo de reunificacion de nacion de tangun ��� pyongyang, 14 de diciembre (atcc) -- el vocero del consejo de reunificacion de la nacion de tangun en una declaracion de hoy condena severamente a las organizaciones cristianas proyanquis y anticomunistas de sudcorea que destruyen las figuras de tangun, calificandolo de un insulto al fundador de la nacion y de un crimen antinacional y anti-reunificacion, orientado a danar la reconciliacion y unidad de la nacion y a exacerbar la confrontacion y la tension. ��� la declaracion senala en particular: ��� la "federacion de cristianos de sudcorea", el " consejo de evangelismo", el "foro de sacerdotes" y el "consejo de lideres cristianos" actuaron locamente al destruir las figuras de tangun y desatan una campana anti-rpdc vinculando con esta el problema de tangun. ��� por la correcta politica del gobierno de la rpdc fue comprobada cientificamente la existencia de tangun conocido como un mito y fue reconstruida y ampliada en el nivel mas alto la tumba de tangun. esto es un orgullo y dignidad de la nacion. ��� los coreanos con tal dignidad y orgullo de la nacion deben hacer todos los esfuerzos por mantener y llevar adelante las excelentes tradiciones de la nacion de tangun . pero esas organizaciones proyanquis y anticomunistas vierten blasfemias contra la rpdc que hallo al fundador de la nacion y construyo la tumba de este y cometen fechoria de destruir las imagenes de tangun construidas en distintas regiones de sudcorea por la "asociacion del movimiento cultural de hong-ik". ��� si las entidades religiosas de surcorea arriba mencionadas siguen destruyendolas y persiguen la confrontacion con la rpdc pese a las repetidas advertencias de la nacion, no podran evitar la severa sentencia de la historia y la nacion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ imperialismo es enemigo perverso de causa de independencia de humanidad ��� pyongyang, 14 de diciembre (atcc ) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en un articulo individual de hoy senala que el imperialismo es el perverso desafiador a la causa de independencia de la humanidad y continua: los imperialistas se autodenominan "defensor del derecho humano", "humanitarista" y "apostol de la paz". pero de hecho, buscan oportunidad de arrojar el lazo de esclavitud y desatar la guerra de agresion y pillaje a otros paises. ��� ellos maniobran desesperadamente para inculcar su ideologia y cultura, es decir droga ideologica a la humanidad. ��� si no les surte efecto el metodo de infiltracion ideo-cultural, recurren a los abiertos actos de represion por las fuerzas armadas. ��� ee.uu. pretende dividir el mundo en dos partes antagonicas so pretexto del "antiterrorismo". ��� la "guerra contra el terrorismo" que pretende ampliar ee.uu. puede servir de mecha para la tercera guerra mundial en el nuevo siglo. ��� los imperialistas tratan de establecer, a traves de la "globalizacion", un orden neocolonial de explotacion, saqueo, dominacion y subyugacion. ��� la realidad demuestra claramente que los imperialistas obstaculizan la causa de independencia de la humanidad. ��� esta empresa puede avanzar con todo exito solo a traves de la vigorosa lucha antimperialista. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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