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Torrential Rains Hit DPRK
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Heavy rains poured in many parts of the DPRK from August one to three, influenced by the low pressure created in the middle of the West Sea of Korea.
The precipitations in Sepho, Hoeyang, Kosong and Phyonggang areas of Kangwon Province and Paechon and Yonan areas of South Hwanghae Province were respectively 322mm, 303mm, 244mm, 225mm, 224mm and 177mm on August two alone.
The Kumgang and Sepho areas of Kangwon Province and Songchon area of South Phyongan Province experienced downpours of 127mm, 120mm and 108mm respectively in 00:00-03:00, 12:00-15:00 and 15:00-18:00 on the same day.
In particular it rained in torrents in Kumgang County for 9 hours.
For the three days rainfalls of over 150-300 mm were observed in areas of Kangwon, North and South Phyongan and South Hwanghae provinces and rainfalls of more than 50mm in over 10 cities and counties.
It rained heavily in most parts of the DPRK on July 20, 21, 24 and 25.
The recent downpours inflicted heavy losses to various sectors of the national economy including agriculture and to the people's living in the relevant areas.
KCNA Brings to Spotlight Lee Myung Bak Group's Fin de Siecle Symptoms
Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- The fin de siecle symptoms of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors in south Korea are brought to spotlight against the backdrop of the daily mounting actions of people against his sycophantic and unpopular policy.
All major political "commitments" and "policies" which the traitor noisily advertised since his campaigning have been thrown into the dumping ground of history, driving his group to the worst political and ruling crises.
The traitor peddled the "great canal project" as a core element of his "election commitments" under the watchword of economic recovery and improvement of the people's livelihood. But finding no way to tone down the opposition to the project despite any brainstorming, "Chongwadae" was compelled to shelve it of its own accord and decided not to discuss it inside the "government."
All his "commitments" and "policies" related to the economic and social fields including privatization of public fields and "campus autonomy" are facing protests from broad strata of people as they proved to be unpopular ones serving the specified circles only. The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions called a general strike in the wake of the strikes of members of trade unions of the Solidarity of Freight Transport Workers and the Building Machine Industrial Workers. These actions are developing into all-people strikes in urban and rural areas as well as on campus and in worksites amidst the strong support of people from all walks of life.
His watchword "No nukes, opening and 3,000 dollars" met strong public protest and denunciation at home and abroad soon after its appearance for its traitorous and anti-reunification nature. It is even censured and rejected by south Korean conservatives and American politicians. Lee now finds himself in such a hot water that he dares not spell this disturbing watchword again.
As far as the "pragmatic diplomacy" which the traitor peddled during his junkets to big powers is concerned, it also proved bankrupt as it is branded as "diplomacy calling for drain on resources" and "servile diplomacy" little short of selling off all interests of the nation.
Looking back on world history, no "government" failed in all its policies in just three months after its emergence as the Lee "government" did.
The traitor's "diplomacy of offering tributes," "servile diplomacy" touched off the south Koreans' resistance for independence, democracy and reunification reminiscent of the June popular uprising in the past. This struggle is escalating into an anti-U.S. and anti-"government" struggle, precipitating the downfall of the regime. All chief secretaries of "Chongwadae" and Cabinet ministers tendered their resignations, shaking the regime to its very foundation. The support rate for Lee Myung Bak has steadily sunk to reach the lowest level less than 10 % at present.
The traitor is now thrown into extreme uneasiness being holed up in "Chongwadae" which looks no better than a house in mourning.
This is a deserved treatment and stern punishment meted out by history to those who are keen to prolong their remaining days with the help of outside forces, their backs turned on the nation.
Lee group has such temerity as to try to find a way out of the present crisis in challenging the people's mindset and desperately cracking down upon the people just as the fascist dictators did in the past.
Clean indifferent to the people's demand for the total renegotiations on the beef import, the traitor is orchestrating such deceptive farce as "additional negotiations" while reading the U.S. face. In the meantime, he is hurling police and right-wing gangsters' organizations to brutally crack down upon the people in their just actions.
These actions are, however, more saliently revealing the fin de siecle symptoms of the doomed. The people from all walks of life are growing stronger in their will to struggle and those who staged angry protests in June are likely to rise in stronger resistance in July.
As the saying "A family nearing its end has frequent fights" goes, there is fierce free-for-all in the group of traitors over the cause of the ruling crisis and the issue of responsibility for it.
The south Korean newspaper Hangyore said that the Lee "government" has betrayed all fin de siecle symptoms in just 100 days after its emergence.
The traitor has serious symptoms of a political sleep-walker. He says this today and that tomorrow as everything does not go the way he expects.
People's mindset represents the will of Heaven and anyone turning his back on it is bound to meet ruin.
It can be said that 100 days of the group's office marked, in fact, its end and Lee is no more than a living dead in terms of politics.
It is by no means fortuitous that south Koreans were unanimous that "100 days of Lee's office is as boring as 100 years," a manifestation of their disillusion and indignation at the traitor.
The south Korean people will more courageously turn out in the righteous struggle to throw overboard the traitorous Lee Myung Bak "government" hell-bent on sycophancy and treachery and achieve independence, democracy and reunification.
U.S. to Offer Food to DPRK
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- As already reported, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States of America discussed the food aid issue at negotiations held in Pyongyang on May 6 and 7 to cope with the worldwide food crisis.
Accordingly, the U.S. government officially announced its decision to offer 500,000 tons of food to the DPRK on May 16.
100,000 tons are to be offered through NGOs in the U.S. and the remaining 400,000 tons through the WFP. Experts of the parties concerned will soon meet in Pyongyang to ensure the delivery of the first shipment of food before late June.
The DPRK is ready to provide all technical conditions necessary for the food delivery.
The food aid of the U.S. government will help settle the food shortage in the DPRK to a certain extent and contribute to promoting the understanding and confidence between the peoples of the two countries.
Spokesman for KPA Navy Command Issues Statement
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Navy Command of the Korean People's Army issued the following statement on Friday blasting the moves of the south Korean military authorities to "protect" the "northern limit line" at any cost:
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the south Korean armed forces at a confirmation hearing of the "National Assembly" on March 26 blustered that he would "defend the northern limit line in the West Sea as a line based on the conception of the territory under any circumstances".
His provocative outbursts are very dangerous and treacherous ones as they are not a simple expression of an individual view but openly reveal the wild ambition of the south Korean authorities.
His vow to defend the "northern limit line" devoid of any legal validity betrays the intention of the south Korean military to put into practice the already worked out scenario for invading the north.
The "northern limit line" on which the south Korean military has insisted as a shield is a bogus line as it was unilaterally drawn by the U.S. imperialists right after the ceasefire without any agreement with the DPRK side.
The south Korean warlike forces are now taking very disturbing military moves, vociferously asserting that the "northern limit line defends five islands in the West Sea" and "Yonphyong Islet is like a dagger to be thrust into one's throat while Paekryong Islet the one to be thrust into one's side".
Military brasshats including the chief of the General Staff of the Navy have held operational confabs on measures to defend the "northern limit line" to the end one after another in these areas.
On March 18 the south Korean trigger-happy forces deployed more destroyers and guard ships in the frontline waters in the West Sea of Korea.
On March 26 they infiltrated 14 warships deep into territorial waters of the DPRK side southeast of Ssanggyo-ri, Kangryong County, South Hwanghae Province on 13 occasions. The number of warships that intruded into those waters reached 5 or 6 on a daily average.
In the meantime, fighter bombers and armed helicopters are kept fully ready to go into action any moment. They also issued an order to batteries of 155 mm caliber howitzers and various type guided weapons deployed on the above-said five islets to be ready to go into action.
Combined firepower drills for "striking and destroying" warships of the Navy of the Korean People's Army and drills for tactical naval maneuvers are staged on Paekryong, Taechong and Yonphyong Islets and in waters around them almost everyday.
A situation in which an armed conflict may break out any moment is prevailing in the frontline waters in the West Sea due to the reckless military provocations of the south Korean military warmongers.
Any attempt on the part of the south Korean military authorities to "protect" the "northern limit line" at any cost would only spark off a clash in the said waters.
The DPRK has so far made every sincere effort for the solution of the issue of the MDL in the West Sea fraught with the danger of military conflict.
A particular mention should be made of the fact that it arranged a series of military talks including the defence minister-level talks and repeatedly advanced most reasonable and realistic proposals for the implementation of the north-south agreement on setting up "a special zone for peace and cooperation in the West Sea" and fixing joint fishing waters and peace waters there.
The south Korean military authorities, however, accepted none of those proposals and have been keen on how to defend the controversial "northern limit line."
The south Korean warlike forces will not escape the nation's curse and condemnation but will have to pay a dear price for their continued escalation of the tension quite contrary to the trend of the June 15 era of reunification.
The Navy of the Korean People's Army will neither pardon the south Korean military authorities' moves to keep the illegal bogus line as the maritime military boundary nor remain an on-looker to the reckless military provocation committed by warships of the south Korean army in the inalienable territorial waters of the DPRK side.
They should not misjudge the patience and self-restraint of the DPRK but immediately stop the intrusion of warships into its territorial waters.
Should the arrogance of the south Korean forces lead to military provocations, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will mercilessly wipe out the provocateurs.
The south Korean military warmongers had better behave with discretion.
Chairman of South Headquarters of Pomchonghakryon Arrested in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- The south Korean security authorities arrested Yun Ki Jin, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon), on the charge of violating the ill-famed "National Security Law" (NSL) on Feb. 27, according to the south Korean MBC.
The "security investigation squad" of the Seoul Police Office took this tyrannical action for the mere reason that he dispatched a representative of youths and students to the 10th pan-national rally of the 1999 grand festival for reunification when acting as chairman of the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils and "praised the north" through Internet and printed materials in the subsequent period.
Minju Joson Ridicules Theory of "U.S. Century"
Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) -- The United States should forgo military high-handed and arbitrary practices, bearing deep in mind that the theory of the "U.S. century" is nothing but a daydream. Minju Joson Tuesday observes this in a signed commentary.
It goes on: The Monroe Doctrine advocated by the U.S. till now has been completely abandoned.
Movements have become brisk in the Latin-American region once called "tranquil backyard" to establish the relations of diversified political and economic cooperation with various countries in line with the worldwide trend of multi-polarization, free from the sphere of U.S. unchallenged domination. This has brought the trend towards independence and socialism against the U.S. to spotlight.
What is noteworthy is the fact that it is not the Latin-American region only where the U.S. influence is sinking. The world public is unanimous in the view that the U.S. is gradually losing its "unchallenged authority" and "influence" in the international arena at the hands of its rivals.
The U.S. worked hard to seek a way of demonstrating its strength and dominating the world by beefing up its military muscle. But it is a stark reality that its strength is steadily waning and its influence gradually dwindling in the international arena quite contrary to its will.
The U.S. is sadly mistaken if it calculates it can rule the world with a stick. The stick policy enforced by the U.S. more desperately would only trigger off the stronger resistance of the international community against it and stoke anti-Americanism worldwide, throwing it into a deeper political quagmire.
It is as clear as a pikestaff that the "U.S. century" is bound to come to an end due to its military arbitrary actions just as violence and tyranny drove so powerful ancient Roman Empire into the abyss of ruin.
Japan's Hostile Policy toward DPRK Bound to Fail
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- This year is characterized by Japan's pursuance of extreme policy of confrontation with the DPRK in a bid to go without settling its past crimes, seek a basic way out in realizing its ambition to emerge a military giant and launch reinvasion and tide over its deepening political and economic crisis, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes this in a signed article. Stressing that this policy failure is unavoidable, the article goes on: This year Japan has intensified more frantically than ever before its smear propaganda and diplomatic offensive against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and tightened sanctions against the DPRK in a bid to impair their prestige and dignity over the abduction issue. It, in collusion with the U.S., has worked hard to put the DPRK under the military siege and stage a comeback to Korea.
The reckless hysteria of the Japanese reactionaries was nothing but the desperate wriggling of political dwarfs and ferocious militarists driven into a dilemma, as they are at a loss to find a right path for the state to follow in the new century.
Japan's pursuance of extreme hostile policy toward the DPRK this year could not help stem the trend on the Korean Peninsula toward detente, reconciliation and cooperation. In the meantime, the DPRK's prestige and dignity have been exalted.
Japan has left no means untried to put a brake on the process of improving the DPRK-U.S. relations but in vain. There occurred changes as evidenced by multifaceted dialogue and contacts between the DPRK and the U.S.
Japan, on the contrary, has found itself deep in the mire of international isolation.
Serious differences surfaced in the Japan-U.S. relations, too.
Japan's moves to lay an international siege to the DPRK and tarnish its prestige and dignity have proved futile this year.
The failure of Japan's hostile policy toward the DPRK this year is attributable to the fact that Japan blindly followed the U.S. without independence and behaved impertinently guided by the militarist way of thinking.
U.S. Double Standards in Nuclear Issue Assailed
Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- The chief executive of the United States, taking issue with Iran's nuclear activities, let loose the absurd remark that if Iran forced its nuclear armament, the third world war would break out.
Urging the U.S. to prove in practice its stand against the outbreak of another world war and nuclear proliferation, if it truly stood against them, a Minju Joson analyst Tuesday says:
The U.S. calls into question the nuclear activities of "hostile countries" while keeping mum about the nuclear weaponization of its allies. A typical example is its double-dealing act of supporting Israel's nuclear weaponization.
This year the U.S. signed an agreement on cooperation in the nuclear field with a country remaining outside the NPT.
Such double-dealing nuclear policy of the U.S. has given rise to displeasure in the international community and its unfair approach to the issue of nuclear nonproliferation has laid a stumbling block in the worldwide efforts for nuclear disarmament.
The U.S. does not pursue a unitary standard and consistency in its nuclear policy. It only abuses it for its strategy to dominate the world.
Not much penetration is needed to see why it called Iran to account again for its nuclear activities, throwing together balderdash about the outbreak of the third world war. The U.S. is examining a military option as a countermeasure in case Iran's nuclear issue would not be solved as it wants. What the U.S. seeks through the spread of the rumor in the international community about Iran's nuclear weaponization and ensuing outbreak of the third world war is to use it as a pretext for a military attack on Iran. The spread of the rumor about the nightmarish third world war in the international community is also aimed to drag passive countries deeper into its intensified sanctions against Iran.
The U.S. policy in handling sensitive political issues which require responsibility in a careless manner to meet its own interests is, in fact, pushing the world into a nuclear arms race. This proves that the U.S. is a dangerous nuclear criminal bringing the era of a new nuclear arms race, the cold war which will spark off the third world war.
Rodong Sinmun on Cultural and Emotional Life in Songun Era
Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- All the Party members and other working people should turn out to bring about a fresh turn in establishing the sound way of cultural and emotional life in the whole society, regarding it as an important political task for glorifying the era of Songun, says Rodong Sinmun today in an editorial.
The Korean people should take the lead in cultural and emotional life, too, as they live in the homeland of great idea steering the era, that of the Songun politics, the editorial says, and goes on:
To make the noble style of cultural and emotional life prevail over the country is an important work for bringing the advantages of Korean socialism into full play, and it is a major way for making fresh leaps and innovations in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
It is the true picture of our society that all the people enjoy a highly civilized and emotional life, helping and leading each other forward, closely rallied as one around the Party and the leader.
Wherever loud singing can be heard, revolution is sure to emerge victorious, and wherever rich emotion and militant optimism are brimful, one can witness miracles and innovations.
The militant and optimistic, cultural and emotional life of the Korean People's Army has become a model of socialist way of cultural and emotional life in the era of Songun. All the people should spruce up their units and houses, manage the economic life assiduously and methodically and always live and work full of optimism and joy, conducting militant art activities just as servicemen and their families do.
Japan's Shameless Moves to Deny Its Past Crimes under Fire
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a by-lined article condemns the Japanese reactionaries for leaving no stone unturned to deny Japan's crime-woven history and evade their responsibility for it.
It goes on: Japanese ultra-right conservatives conveyed a written protest to the U.S. embassy in Tokyo demanding the withdrawal of the resolution adopted by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee urging the Japanese government to make an official apology for forcing women into sexual servitude for the Imperial Japanese Army. Their action is a base one intended to deny Japan's aggression and keep it buried into oblivion in history.
Japan's moves to deny and falsify the historical facts are an intolerable challenge to justice and human conscience.
The Japanese reactionaries' claim that Japan had never forced women into sexual slavery is a sheer lie and an artifice to shirk the responsibility for the crime.
What is more intolerable is that the Japanese reactionaries are working hard to use the voices demanding Japan make an apology and compensation for the crimes ringing out louder from among the Korean people and other Asians as a good opportunity to stoke bitterness towards the DPRK among Japanese.
The Japanese reactionaries are persistently raising the issue of abduction which had already found a solution, while keeping mum about the issue of "comfort women" for the Imperial Japanese Army. They are driving the DPRK-Japan hostile ties to an extreme pitch of tension, insisting that it is impossible to improve the bilateral relations without resolving the abduction issue.
The on-going fascist crackdown upon the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and Koreans in Japan is a deliberate and premeditated political provocation aimed at showdown with the DPRK in all aspects.
The Japanese reactionaries' outrageous suppression of Chongryon only adds to the crimes perpetrated by Japan against the Korean people.
The Japanese reactionaries are talking about "anger" and the like over the world's mounting protest and condemnation of the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. This is little short of calling on the Japanese to more vigorously wield militarist swords in the samurai spirit, remaining undeterred by the just voices of the world.
The present times are the era of independence against imperialism, and peace. The rash acts of the Japanese reactionaries will lead Japan to isolation and self-destruction only.