AP. 31 January 2002. North Korea's withdrawal from nuclear treaty inspires communist poets.
SEOUL -- One poem lauded it as an "Announcement to humankind." Another poet penned, "Motherland, call your son to fight." These days, North Korean poets are inspired by an unusual topic: the communist government's Jan. 10 decision to withdraw from the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, North Korea's official news agency, KCNA, reported Friday. Since its withdrawal, communist scribes "have written many revolutionary and militant poems and words of songs, which rouse working people to a sacred battle to annihilate the enemies," KCNA said. "I shout" and "Burning sea of resistance, billow angry waves" were among poems lauding the decision to quit the global arms control treaty and crediting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with "tirelessly pursuing the great army-based policy to save mankind from nuclear holocaust," it said. Poets penned such verses as "I will report to the supreme commander," "We put the U.S. imperialists to death," and "Hatred to the enemies," KCNA said. In a separate dispatch, KCNA reported that new anti-U.S. posters "with high ideological and artistic value" have been put up in the streets of Pyongyang and on the walls of villages promoting the confrontation with the United States. The caption of one poster reads, "Let us defend the sovereignty, right to existence and dignity of the country and the nation in a do-or-die spirit," it said. KCNA said the United States threatens the world "with dollars and nuclear weapons," and the North's withdrawal from the nuclear treaty was "a bomb-like declaration pungently accusing the United States of its arrogant, brazen-faced and high-handed practice." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------------------------------------- Macdonald Stainsby http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international -- In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
