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CPRK Denounces Military Exercises of S. Korean Puppet Forces
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet group is staging frantic anti-submarine exercises in the West Sea of Korea with huge armed forces of the three services of the puppet army and the marine corps and different war equipment such as destroyers, submarines and fighters involved.
A particular mention should be made of the fact that during the period of the exercises that will last from August 5 to 9 the group is set to stage even ground, naval and underwater firing drills targeted against the DPRK in the waters near five islets in the sea where the armed forces of the north and the south are standing in sharp confrontation with each other.
The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea in its information bulletin No. 962 issued on Thursday branded the exercises as an unpardonable challenge to the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and a premeditated military provocation to ignite a war against it. It went on:
What should not be overlooked is that the group is challenging the DPRK while calling for "staging the exercises", defying the DPRK's notification of its resolute stand that it would counter the exercises with powerful physical counterstrike. This is the last-ditch effort of those who are running reckless in the war gamble, unaware of what ensuing destructive end it will meet.
These ceaseless war drills being staged by the group in league with the United States remind one of the eve of the last Korean War when the puppet army committed military provocations in the areas along the 38th parallel almost every day.
The army and people of the DPRK are closely watching the every move of the Lee Myong Bak group of traitors and if the puppet warmongers dare ignite a war they will mercilessly destroy the provokers and their stronghold by mobilizing most powerful war tactics and offensive means beyond imagination.
KPA Not to Be Bound to Modalities and Methods of Talks
Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces side sent a notice to the DPRK side on June 26 to the effect that it would explain "results of investigation" into the "Cheonan" case.
The DPRK side clarified the principled stand of its army and people to open the north-south high-level military talks for the purpose of probing the truth behind the case.
The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors, however, has persistently turned down the DPRK's realistic proposal, far-fetchedly asserting that the case is an issue to be dealt with under the Korean Armistice Agreement.
Meanwhile, the U.S. forces side repeatedly requested the DPRK side to hold the DPRK-U.S. military general-level talks, underlining the need to make "joint efforts to prevent the recurrence of the tragic incident".
In this connection the head of the DPRK side to the DPRK-U.S. military general-level talks sent the following reply notice to the U.S. forces side on July 9:
The DPRK side will not be bound to modalities and methods of talks if they are helpful to probing the "Cheonan" case in an objective and scientific way.
The DPRK still regards the opening of the north-south high-level military talks as the best way for settling the issue.
It decided to take note of the U.S. forces side's proposal to discuss the "Cheonan" case at the DPRK-U.S. military general-level talks now that the south Korean authorities are turning down the proposal made by the DPRK with magnanimity.
The DPRK side, first, advances a modified proposal on holding a senior colonel (colonel)-level working contact at Panmunjom at ten on July 13, to discuss the issues concerning the opening of the DPRK-U.S. military general-level talks.
This proposal is a manifestation of the unshakable will of the army and people of the DPRK to probe the truth behind the "Cheonan" case in an objective, scientific and fair way.
If the U.S. forces side truly stands for a solution to the warship case and peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, it should seriously respond to this proposal carrying the good faith and magnanimity of the army of the DPRK.
KCNA Marks 10th Anniversary of Inter-Korean Declaration
Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency made public a detailed report titled "Those swimming against the June 15 era of reunification are bound to face a stern punishment by the nation" on Monday, one day before the 10th anniversary of the historic North-South Joint Declaration.
The following is the gist of the report:
The June 15 joint declaration, provided by the north and the south of Korea at the outset of the 2000s, is a grand milestone and an immortal great programme for reunification as it brightened the prospect of the nation while fully reflecting its will and desire for reunification.
The publication of the declaration made the atmosphere of reunification prevail all over the country. Severed blood vein and territory were reconnected, the tour of Mt. Kumgang launched on a full scale and the Kaesong Industrial Zone developed, thus bringing great pleasure to all Koreans.
But the inter-Korean relations have been bedeviled uncontrollably since the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors came to power in south Korea in Feb. 2008.
In a little more than two years since its seizure of office, the Lee group, keen on the sycophancy toward the U.S. and the scheme to stifle the fellow countrymen, brought the north-south relations to a total collapse. Its deliberate and systematic moves against reunification are the hideous treachery that can never be pardoned.
The group of traitors totally denied the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, its action programme, and turned the inter-Korean relations back to the relationship of acute confrontation.
At the "presidential inauguration ceremony" traitor Lee Myung Bak set forth the watchword "no nukes, opening and 3 000 dollars" as the "policy towards the north". This is a vicious policy of confrontation with fellow countrymen intended to stile the DPRK, a version of the U.S. policy towards the DPRK which is aimed to disable the DPRK's nuclear weapons and bring "change" in its system and thus topple it.
Pursuant to this policy, the group of traitors slandered and nullified the historic declarations the keynote of which is "By our nation itself", the idea of national independence, as soon as it took office.
It was, in fact, a revelation of the sinister intention to deprive the south Korean people of their spiritual mainstay for reunification movement and hamstring the nationwide progress of the June 15 era for independence, peace and great national unity.
Traitor Lee told at a press conference in the U.S. that "the ultimate goal is to achieve the unification under the system of liberal democracy", thus revealing his ulterior intention for "confrontation in systems" and "unification of systems".
In order to put into practice the "policy toward the north" the traitorous clique came out as a shock-brigade in carrying out the U.S. scheme to stifle the DPRK with two main levers--the nuclear issue and the "human rights issue".
The group of traitors has frantically pushed ahead with the preparations for a war against the DPRK in league with the U.S., claiming that to secure the "military superiority over the north" is the shortest way to lead the DPRK to "abandonment of nuclear program first" and "reform and opening".
It brought the inter-Korean dialogue and cooperation to total suspension by employing conspiratorial and deceptive tricks.
It has intensified the frantic moves for confrontation with the DPRK, thus spoiling the atmosphere of dialogue. After all, such actions led to closure the Red Cross liaison office in Panmunjom, which had been kept for several decades since the outset of 1970s, and the direct phones, which had been used as communication means between the north and the south, to severance.
The group also put a ban on the June 15 joint events for reunification, which had been regularly held between the north and the south, and meetings for reunification between people of different circles from the north and the south, including the May Day joint event of workers.
After laying down the "four principles on the work with the north", the Lee group suspended the inter-Korean cooperation projects and cut off the south Koreans' tour of Mt. Kumgang under the pretext of the "case of Mt. Kumgang tourist" that occurred in July 2008.
Though the DPRK showed its positive willingness and decision for improved inter-Korean relations, dialogue and cooperation, the group of traitors turned down all the affirmative proposals of the DPRK and frustrated even the non-governmental exchange and cooperation, bringing up groundless conditionality. It asserted that neither improvement of relations nor cooperation between the north and the south can be expected unless the nuclear issue is settled and there can be no "contact only for meeting."
Later, the group worked out the very provocative scenario for war of aggression on the DPRK called "Emergency Ruling Plan-Puhung" and has made desperate efforts to carry it into practice.
Since the case of sinking of the south Korean puppet navy's warship occurred in March this year, the group of traitors has made every possible effort to use this case to tide over its serious political crisis by turning the atmosphere of the "elections to local self-governing bodies" favorable for it and isolate and stifle the DPRK internationally.
But the above-said elections resulted in giving a stern judgment of the south Korean people to the traitors going against the trend of the times.
History has already sentenced to death the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors equal to the "five traitors of 1905", branding them as "group of traitors in 2010". The group is bound to meet its destruction anytime.
Definite are the validity and invincibility of the June 15 joint declaration, the supreme reunification programme of the nation, as it comprehends all Koreans' aspiration and desire and its scientific accuracy and truth are guaranteed.
The grand march of the June 15 era vigorously advancing under the banner of "By our nation itself" can never be checked no matter how frantically such reactionaries of history as the Lee Myung Bak clique of traitors may try, and the nation's cherished desire for reunification will be surely realized in the near future.
Unbreakable DPRK-China Friendship to Last Foreve
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are now immensely pleased with the exciting news of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's unofficial visit to the People's Republic of China.
His visit to China this time marked a historic event that strikingly demonstrated that the friendship forged by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries in the bloody battles of the arduous revolutionary struggle and cultivated by them as a common asset is unbreakable and great, indeed, and it is the ever-lasting one which has steadily developed generation after generation.
The DPRK-China relations have developed into the unprecedentedly particular and solid friendly relations as the two countries are not only geographically close to each other but also firmly linked with each other by the bonds of militant friendship and genuine trust.
The peoples of the two countries were linked with each other by the unbreakable comradely relations in the course of the struggle against the Japanese imperialists.
The revolutionaries and peoples of the two countries fought shoulder to shoulder during the civil war in China after the defeat of the Japanese imperialists, consolidating the ties of internationalist moral obligation and friendship forged in the bloody anti-Japanese war.
The party, government and people of China sent their sons and daughters to the Korean front under the banner of "resisting America and aiding Korea, safeguarding the home and defending the motherland" despite a lot of difficulties in the early period of their nation-building when the Korean people were waging the Fatherland Liberation War against the aggression of the U.S. imperialists.
Vast plains, mountains and rivers, streets and villages of the two countries are closely associated with the blood shed by the peoples of the two countries in the fierce and bitter battles and amidst ordeals and stories about heroic feats and beautiful stories about their friendship linked them by their common destiny.
The tradition of blood-sealed ties and friendly relations between the two countries forged on the front of the class struggle against imperialism has steadily grown stronger on the basis of the particularly comradely trust and revolutionary obligation of the leaders of the two countries.
The tradition of the DPRK-China friendship provided by President Kim Il Sung together with the leaders of the elder generation of China is being carried forward and developed on a new higher stage thanks to the leaders of the two countries.
Kim Jong Il visited China in June 1983 as his first historic foreign visit. In the new century, too, he repeatedly visited China, performing immortal feats in the annals of DPRK-China friendship.
The several visits paid by the collective leadership of the new generation of China including Hu Jintao to the DPRK confirmed the unshakable will of the two parties and governments to develop on a higher stage the friendly relations provided by the revolutionary forerunners.
The DPRK and China have supported each other concerning domestic and foreign policy matters and closely cooperated with each other in their efforts to put them into practice.
The Pyongyang event for relaying the torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the events held to mark the "year of DPRK-China friendship" last year on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of DPRK-China diplomatic relations provided a new occasion in injecting vitality into boosting the friendship and exchanges in various fields between the two peoples and developing the bilateral relations.
The WPK and the Government of the DPRK have made positive efforts to consolidate and develop the DPRK-China friendship which has long-standing historic roots and tradition with the fraternal Chinese people who have sent unreserved support and encouragement to them in their just cause.
The DPRK-China friendship will steadily grow stronger generation after generation as it was forged in the crucible of the bloody revolutionary struggle on the basis of the common desire and aspiration of the two peoples and stood all sorts of tests and trials of history.
The Six-Party Talks -Outlining a true restart By John W. Lewis and Robert Carlin
¡áA lot has changed since the Six-Party Talks with North Korea began almost eight years ago.
¡áFor starters, Pyongyang has now conducted two nuclear tests, making its nuclear status much less ambiguous.
¡áConsequently, Washington must adjust its goals in any future negotiations with the North--especially its stance that Pyongyang must first denuclearize.
In recent weeks, several senior diplomats from several different countries have indicated that the Six-Party Talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program will resume shortly. That's the good news. The bad news is that these long-awaited talks will come up short--yet again--unless they undergo a serious reality check.
Originally created to deal with an earlier nuclear crisis in 2002, the multi-party negotiations were intended to replace, and improve upon, the 1994 U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework, which froze Pyongyang's fissile production program in an attempt to prevent the North from getting nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, whatever promise these talks first held vanished in October 2006 when North Korea decided to attempt a nuclear test. And any remaining shreds of promise disappeared completely last May with Pyongyang's second nuclear test.
So the North Korea we are dealing with today (i.e., a de facto nuclear weapon state) is much different than the North Korea we were dealing with in 2002 (i.e., a country whose nuclear status was ambiguous). Making matters worse, we have painted ourselves into a corner by vowing that we will never "accept" Pyongyang as a nuclear-armed state.
Escaping from this corner will require a delicate, but not impossible, diplomatic dance. We don't have to give up our ultimate goal of denuclearizing North Korea and bringing it within the confines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But we do have to free ourselves from out-of-date thinking so we can actually tackle this challenge instead of merely posturing about it.
Without a doubt, in 2010, the diplomatic dance is far more difficult than it was before October 2006. The dilemma is that Pyongyang has likely concluded that Washington can neither wrest away its nuclear weapons status nor build enough international pressure to convince it to do so. Most critically, North Korea's two nuclear tests appear to have transformed the country's self-image and bargaining strategy. Pyongyang sees no reason to heed the call for negotiations explicitly designed to relieve the regime of what it worked so long and hard to achieve.
Put another way, the last eight years of talks may have convinced Pyongyang that Washington will never be able to force the North into giving up its tiny, but politically crucial, nuclear stockpile. This may also signal that the space for negotiations has narrowed, and that there is less room to find the golden midpoint: Giving Pyongyang enough of what it wants (i.e., prestige, security, respect, and/or material rewards) so that it will surrender its nuclear weapons.
Things never should have gotten so bad, but numerous failed policies since 2002 have produced consequences that cannot be erased by U.S. presidential cycles. In other words, simply because a new president is sworn into office doesn't mean the other players will blindly accept an offer to turn back the clock or indulge U.S. attempts to press the "reset" button.
So what do we do now? For starters, Washington needs to accept the reality that North Korea is a country with nuclear weapons; that there is--in the short term at least--little we can do about it; and that continuing to focus on denuclearizing Pyongyang gains us nothing. In fact, the only way to advance U.S. interests on the nuclear issue with North Korea is to admit that the ground has shifted. We don't have to shout it from the rooftops, but getting the North to abandon its nuclear weapons program cannot remain our overriding objective, as crucial as that might seem. Rather, it's time we refocused our work, keeping the nuclear problem on the agenda but not letting it completely dominate our approach.
To move forward constructively, we should first resume efforts by several U.S. administrations--from Reagan to Bush to Clinton--to prod the North into becoming a state more fully integrated into the global community. That will take years of hard work, conducted simultaneously on several fronts, but we had better get on with it. Next, we need to sit down and talk with the North Koreans to better refine our assumptions about what will work and what won't work.
Waiting around for significant political change in Pyongyang to solve our problems is the longest of long shots. North Korea as we know it isn't going to disappear any time soon, and the problems that flow from its anomalous policies won't lessen if Washington keeps banging its collective head against the same old wall.
CPRK Rebukes Japanese Sankei's False Report about DPRK
Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Thursday as regards an extremely mean and clumsy misinformation released by the Japanese Sankei Shimbun recently to hurt the DPRK:
On March 3 the paper posted on its Internet a report that there took place a "food robbery" in the northern region of the DPRK, claiming that the Information Center for Solidarity with NK Intellectuals, made up of such human scum as traitors and defectors to the south, obtained the "information from local inhabitants." The information center is under the patronage of the south Korean puppet authorities.
What is more intolerable is that the above-said paper even asserted that the incident occurred on February 16 in a bid to make the story about the "incident" sound politically plausible.
What Sankei Shimbun reported is a sheer fabrication. No train loaded with food had ever passed through the said area the day it claimed the "incident" took place and before and after that day. Moreover, there occurred no such incident as "food robbery."
The people of the DPRK are now out in the dynamic all-out charge to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation under the great Songun leadership and their single-minded unity has grown stronger than ever before.
All kinds of wild rumors spread by tricksters are nothing but ridiculous rhetoric let loose by those who are afraid of the might of Songun and the single-minded unity in the DPRK and displeased with the victorious advance of the drive for building a thriving nation.
Great irony is that the Sankei Shimbun is so nervous about gathering misinformation about the DPRK that it chose to echo the nonsensical talk made by human scum, lost to shame.
But no one would lend an ear to the above-said misinformation.
Those keen on the smear campaign will have to pay a dear price for their wrong doings.
Building of Confidence between DPRK and US Called for
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- The general review of the process of the six-party talks proves that the issue of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can never be settled in such way as discussion by the parties concerned and the talks will bring nothing even if they may be resumed, says Minju Joson in a signed commentary Tuesday.
It is the principled stand of the DPRK that the source of the nuclear issue should be removed in order to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula as a whole, the commentary says, and goes on:
Conclusion of a peace treaty and the building of confidence between the DPRK and the U.S. would help establish institutional mechanism for peace on the peninsula to remove the danger of outbreak of war and create atmosphere favorable for the denuclearization and thus smoothly solve all the problems.
For the six-party talks to be resumed, it is essential to remove the factor of having torpedoed the talks by any means.
If the DPRK goes out for the six-party talks, being subject to sanctions, they would be reduced to the talks between "defendant" and "judge" rather than equal talks stipulated in the September 19 Joint Statement.
Unilateral demand for discussion of the issue of denuclearization at the above-said talks is a rude action of defying common sense, the commentary says, adding: The parties to the talks should discern the root cause of the issue and strive to create atmosphere for removing it.
Adherence to Three Principles of Reunification Called for
Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- The three principles of national reunification --independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity-- set forth and consistently maintained by the Workers' Party of Korea are unchangeable principles of national reunification.
Rodong Sinmun Friday says in a signed article carried in this regard:
These principles serve as the most just reunification programme and a charter for reunification common to the nation as they call for independently solving the issue of national reunification on the principle of national self-determination free from outside interference, reunifying the country by peaceful means without resorting to the use of armed forces and promoting the great unity of the whole nation irrespective of ideology, ism and system.
The issue of national reunification should be solved strictly on the three principles no matter how the situation and environment may change in the future.
The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing it, thoroughly embody the three principles of national reunification and clearly indicate the way of solving the issues of the inter-Korean relations and the reunification on those principles.
If the south Korean authorities truly wish the improved inter-Korean relations and peace and reunification, they should respect the said declarations and clarify their will to implement them.
Absolutely intolerable are treacherous and anti-reunification acts such as violating the spirit of the inter-Korean declarations and standing in the way of their implementation.
All Koreans at home and abroad should never tolerate any anti- reunification act of negating the inter-Korean declarations and obstructing their implementation but decisively foil them by their concerted efforts.
The DPRK will as ever firmly abide by the above-said three principles in the struggle for improving the inter-Korean relations and achieving national reunification.
All Koreans Called upon to Remain True to Idea of "By Our Nation Itself"
Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- All the Koreans at home and abroad are called upon to cherish the faith that there is nothing impossible when they struggle in the idea of "By our nation itself" and intensify the movement for national reunification under the uplifted banner of it.
The idea of "By our nation itself" is instilling strong desire for reunification and patriotism into the Koreans.
The above-said idea has displayed great vitality by imbuing all the Koreans ardently desiring the country's reunification with strong will and energy to achieve it without fail in the spirit of independence and unity, rejecting outside forces. The signal successes made in the movement for the country's reunification in the June 15 era of reunification are the shining fruition of the idea of "By our nation itself".
The June 15 joint declaration has commanded warm support and approval from all the Koreans for its patriotic nature and truth of the above-mentioned idea, its basic spirit, and its exceptionally great attraction.
The prevailing situation urgently calls on the Koreans to unite closer than ever before and pool efforts to bring about a fresh phase in the development of the movement for national reunification.
All the Koreans should deeply grasp the validity of the above-said idea and carry on a vigorous struggle for firmly preserving and thoroughly implementing the June 15 joint declaration. This is the only way of establishing the sovereignty of the nation and achieving peace, reunification and prosperity of the nation.
Joint Press Release by KAPPC and Hyundai Group
Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A joint press release between the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and the Hyundai Group of south Korea was made public on Monday.
The release says: Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, on August 16 granted a long audience to and had a cordial talk with Hyon Jong Un, chairperson of the Hyundai Group, and her party on a visit to Pyongyang, and complied with all her requests.
Accordingly, the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and the Hyundai Group will execute as follows:
1. It was decided to resume the suspended tourism of Mt. Kumgang as soon as possible and launch the tour of Pirobong, the highest peak in the mountain.
All necessary facilities and security for tourism will be reliably provided according to the special measure taken by Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission.
2. It was decided to restore land passage of the south side's personnel through the Military Demarcation Line and their stay in the north side's area as they were according to the spirit of the historic October 4 declaration.
3. It was decided to resume the tourism of Kaesong soon and energize the operation of the Kaesong Industrial Zone as the land passage through MDL is put on a normal basis.
4. The Hyundai Group decided to begin tourism of Mt. Paektu in accordance with the progress of its preparations.
5. It was decided to provide reunion of separated families and relatives from the north and the south in Mt. Kumgang on the day of Chusok (harvest moon day), a folk holiday of the Korean nation, this year.
Both sides expressed will to improve the north-south relations and further develop the cooperation for the common prosperity of the nation under the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.
KCNA Detailed Report on Truth about Crimes Committed by American Journalists
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday released a detailed report laying bare the facts about the crimes committed by the American journalists who were arrested for having illegally trespassed into the border of the DPRK and committed hostile acts against it for which they were tried.
According to it, at dawn of March 17 unidentified two men and two women covertly crossed the River Tuman to intrude into its bank of the DPRK side in Kangan-ri, Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province. The two women were arrested on the spot.
The arrestees were confirmed to be Chinese-American Laura Ling, 32, correspondent of the Current TV, and south Korean-American Seung-Un Lee, 36, editor of the Current TV.
The investigation proved that the intruders crossed the border and committed the crime for the purpose of making animation files to be used for an anti-DPRK smear campaign over its human rights issue.
The preliminary investigation proved that they had a confab on producing and broadcasting a documentary slandering the DPRK with Mitch Koss, executive producer of programming of the Current TV, David Neuman, president of programming, and David Harleston, head of the Legal Department of Current TV, and other men in Los Angeles, U.S. in January.
A trial of the accused was held at the Pyongyang City Court from June 4 to 8.
At the trial the accused admitted that what they did were criminal acts committed, prompted by the political motive to isolate and stifle the socialist system of the DPRK by faking up moving images aimed at falsifying its human rights performance and hurling slanders and calumnies at it.
In the name of the DPRK the Central Court determined ten years of hard labor according to Provision 69 of the Criminal Code and four years of hard labor according to Provision 233 of the Criminal Code for the accused Laura Ling and Seung-Un Lee and sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor according to Provision 44 of the Criminal Code.
The prison term is counted from March 22, 2009, when the accused were detained and it was pronounced that the judgment is unappealable.
The criminals admitted and accepted the judgment.
We are following with a high degree of vigilance the attitude of the U.S. which spawned the criminal act against the DPRK.
Japan Can Never Evade Responsibility for Its Past Crimes against Humanity
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- A former member of the SS of fascist Germany was recently reported to stand trial for his role in massacring 29,000 Jews at a Nazi concentration camp in Poland during the Second World War.
Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a signed commentary in this regard: The perpetrators of the crimes against humanity are destined to face judgment of history and meet a miserable end any time.
Recalling that the Japanese imperialists committed hideous crimes against humanity by enforcing the darkest colonial fascist rule in history over Korea for almost half a century and brutally suppressing and killing Koreans, the commentary notes: Japan can never evade the blame for the crimes committed by it against humanity in the past as the statute of limitation is not applicable to these crimes under international law.
It goes on: History records not a few perpetrators of the above-said crimes but no country has made such desperate efforts to evade the responsibility for crimes, refusing to admit and reflect on them, like Japan.
Japan has run the whole gamut of mean and brazen-faced tricks to keep the hideous crimes committed against humanity buried into oblivion in utter disregard of law, ethics and morality.
Japan now finds itself in a bottomless abyss of international isolation after being censured by the world public for persistently denying the above-said crimes against humanity and perpetrating rash acts to go without liquidating its crimes.
Japan will neither win public support nor get international confidence nor will have any future unless it redeems its past crimes against humanity.
The army and people of the DPRK will never forget those crimes of Japan no matter how much water flows under the bridge and no matter how often generations are replaced by new ones. They will certainly force Japan to pay for the blood shed by the Koreans to the last.
History will surely mete out a stern judgment to Japan for the above-said crimes.
Rodong Sinmun Refutes UNSC's "Presidential Statement"
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a recent statement vehemently refuted the UNSC's "presidential statement" condemning the DPRK's satellite launch. It clarified its resolute political decision that it would never participate in the six-party talks but bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way.
Rodong Sinmun Sunday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
The decision made by the DPRK is the most just and timely independent countermeasure to cope with the prevailing grave situation.
The UNSC brought the issue of the DPRK's satellite launch up for discussion and condemned it, dancing to the tune of the U.S. and its followers. This was an unpardonable rash act quite contrary to the principles of sovereign equality and impartiality, ground for the existence and activities of the UN, and outer space treaty.
The UNSC, defying the principles of sovereign equality and impartiality, tabled and discussed the DPRK's launch of satellite for peaceful purposes although it was legitimately conducted after going through procedures under international law. This was an intolerable mockery of the Korean people and extremely hostile acts against the DPRK which can never be pardoned.
The commentary cites facts to prove that the action taken by the UNSC was the height of partiality, double-standards and arbitrary practices.
It goes on: The spirit of respect for sovereignty and sovereign equality stipulated in the September 19 joint statement for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula serves as the basis and the life and soul of the six-party talks. The DPRK was quite just when it declared that it will never participate in the six-party talks which are reduced to a platform for encroaching upon its sovereignty and forcing it to disarm itself and bringing down its system.
The military threat escalated by the hostile forces, taking issue with and challenging even the satellite launch for peaceful purposes, compels the DPRK to further increase its nuclear deterrent.
The DPRK will bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defence, guarantee for the protection of the country's sovereignty, right to existence and supreme interests.
The day will surely come when those resorting to partiality, double-standards and arbitrary practices meet punishment of the history.
Spokesman for Foreign Ministry on Peaceful Settlement of Darfur Issue
Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Sunday gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA in connection with the International Criminal Court's issue of an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president:
The International Criminal Court on March 4 issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president on the suspicion of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in the area of Darfur in Sudan.
The court's decision to arrest the head of state who was legitimately elected with the support of the Sudanese people is arousing the deep concern of the international community as it is an unheard-of wanton encroachment upon the sovereignty of a sovereign state.
The Darfur issue is an internal issue of Sudan and it is, therefore, not a matter which allows foreign forces to interfere in it and settle it by hurting the dignity of the Sudanese people.
It is a super-state act to lord it over sovereign states and freely interfere in their internal affairs in disregard of their sovereignty. Such practice will only disturb the stability of the international relations and wreck the world peace.
The Darfur issue should be settled in a peaceful way on the principle of respecting the sovereignty of the Sudanese people.
DPRK blames South Korea for deteriorating inter-Korean relations
PYONGYANG, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean government was to be blamed for chilling the inter-Korean relations, the official KCNA news agency quoted a statement issued by a reunification organization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as saying on Thursday.
"The deteriorated inter-Korean relations are entirely attributable to the sycophancy and treachery and anti-DPRK confrontation pursued by the Lee Myung Bak group," the National Reunification Institute (NRI) said in an "indictment."
The South Korean government unilaterally stopped the tour of Mt. Kumgan, selectively restricted visits to the DPRK and imposed provocation against the system of the DPRK, all of which caused worsening relations between the two Koreas, the NRI said.
It warned that "extreme crisis will happen" if South Korea does not drop its hostile policy against the DPRK.
Relations between Pyongyang and Seoul have turned sour since February when conservative president Lee Myung Bak took office pledging to get tough with the DPRK. The DPRK has cut off all official contacts with South Korea.
U.S. Forces' Air Raids on Syria and Pakistan Flayed
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces made an air strike at civilian objects in the territory of Syria 8 kilometers away from the border of Iraq on October 26 and later perpetrated an air raid on a tribal region of the southern part of Waziristan, Pakistan, killing civilians.
These facts clearly prove that the U.S. unilateral high-handed and arbitrary practices have recently reached an extreme phase.
Minju Joson today observes this in a signed commentary.
It brands the U.S. large-scale military attacks on other countries and its mass killings of civilians as unpardonable unethical atrocities and inhuman crimes.
The U.S. continued military attacks on Syria and Pakistan are a wanton encroachment upon the sovereignty and territorial integrity guaranteed by international law and the UN charter and undisguised state-sponsored terrorism, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The United States has totally defied international law and all orders related to the international relations in perpetrating military actions and is justifying them under the pretext of "war on terrorism".
This is, in fact, little short of a declaration that the U.S. may commit any aggression and war to infringe upon the sovereignty of any country by striking any target any moment, if necessary, and all countries of the world can be targets of its military attack.
It is needless to say that if such extremely brigandish and hegemonic theory of the U.S. is allowed to hold sway, this will have a serious impact on the just development of the international community and the guarantee of global peace.
International law and the basic rules and norms of the international relations are getting toothless due to the U.S. evermore wanton infringement upon state sovereignty and terrorism. This reality today awakens all the countries and peoples of the world to a new principle governing security.
The U.S. would be well advised to roll back at once its anachronistic, high-handed and unilateral policy which will only precipitate its final doom.
And now the Great Depression-Barry Eichengreen
The Paulson Plan, whatever its final form, will not end the crisis quickly. Unemployment will rise but will the most serious credit crisis since the Great Depression bring about a new depression? Here one of the world¡¯s leading economic historians identifies the relevant Great-Depression lessons. We won¡¯t see 25% unemployment as in the 1930s, but double digits are not out of the question.
A couple of months ago at lunch with a respected Fed watcher, I asked, ¡°What are the odds are that US unemployment will reach 10% before the crisis is over?¡± ¡°Zero,¡± he responded, in an admirable display of confidence. Watchers tending to internalise the outlook of the watched, I took this as reflecting opinion within the US central bank. We may have been in the throes of the most serious credit crisis since the Great Depression, but nothing resembling the Depression itself, when US unemployment topped out at 25%, was even remotely possible. The Fed and Treasury were on the case. US economic fundamentals were strong. Comparisons with the 1930s were overdrawn.
The events of the last week have shattered such complacency. The 3 month treasury yield has fallen to ¡°virtual zero¡± for the first time since the flight to safety following the outbreak of World War II. The Ted Spread, the difference between borrowing for 3 months on the interbank market and holding three month treasuries, ballooned at one point to five full percentage points. Interbank lending is dead in its tracks. The entire US investment banking industry has been vaporised.
And we are in for more turbulence. The Paulson Plan, whatever its final form, will not bring this upheaval to an early end. The consequences are clearly spreading from Wall Street to Main Street. The recent performance of nonfinancial stocks indicates that investors are well aware of the fact.
So comparisons with the Great Depression, which have been of academic interest but little practical relevance, take on new salience. Which ones have content, and which are mainly useful for headline writers?
First, the Fed now, like the Fed in the 1930s, is very much groping in the dark. Every financial crisis is different, and this one is no exception. It is hard to avoid concluding that the Fed erred disastrously when deciding that Lehman Bros. could safely be allowed to fail. It did not adequately understand the repercussions for other institutions of allowing a primary dealer to go under. It failed to fully appreciate the implications for AIG¡¯s credit default swaps. It failed to understand that its own actions were bringing us to the brink of financial Armageddon.
If there is a defence, it has been offered Rick Mishkin, the former Fed governor, who has asserted that the current shock to the financial system is even more complex than that of the Great Depression. There is something to his point. In the 1930s the shock to the financial system came from the fall in the general price level by a third and the consequent collapse of economic activity. The solution was correspondingly straightforward. Stabilise the price level, as FDR did by pumping up the money supply, and it was possible to stabilise the economy, in turn righting the banking system.
Absorbing the shock is more difficult this time because it is internal to the financial system. Central to the problem are excessive leverage, opacity, and risk taking in the financial sector itself. There has been a housing-market collapse, but in contrast to the 1930s there has been no general collapse of prices and economic activity. Corporate defaults have remained relatively low, which has been a much-needed source of comfort to the financial system. But this also makes resolving the problem more difficult. Since there has been no collapse of prices and economic activity, we are not now going to be able to grow or inflate our way out of the crisis, as we did after 1933.
In addition, the progress of securitisation complicates the process of unravelling the current mess. In the 1930s the Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation bought individual mortgages to cleanse bank balance sheets and provide home owners with relief. This time the federal agency responsible for cleaning up the financial system will have to buy residential mortgage backed securities, collateralised debt obligations, and all manner of sliced, diced and repackaged paper. Strengthening bank balance sheets and providing homeowners with relief will be infinitely more complex. Achieving the transparency needed to restore confidence in the system will be immensely more difficult.
That said, we are not going to see 25% unemployment rates like those of the Great Depression. Then it took breathtaking negligence by the Fed, the Congress and the Hoover Administration to achieve them. This time the Fed will provide however much liquidity the economy needs. There will be no tax increases designed to balance the budget in the teeth of a downturn, like Hoover¡¯s in 1930. Where last time it took the Congress three years to grasp the need to recapitalise the banking system and provide mortgage relief, this time it will take only perhaps half as long. Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson and Barney Frank are all aware of that earlier history and anxious to avoid repeating it.
And what the contraction of the financial services industry taketh, the expansion of exports can give back, what with the continuing growth of the BRICs, no analogue for which existed in the 1930s. The ongoing decline of the dollar will be the mechanism bringing about this reallocation of resources. But the US economy, notwithstanding the admirable flexibility of its labour markets, is not going to be able to move unemployed investment bankers onto industrial assembly lines overnight. I suspect that I am now less likely to be regarded as a lunatic when I ask whether unemployment could reach 10%.
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.