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South Side Chiefly to Blame for Incident at Mt. Kumgang Resort
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- A south Korean who came to tour Mt. Kumgang was shot to death by a serviceman of the Korean People's Army at around 4:50 a.m. on July 11. A spokesman for the Guidance Bureau for Comprehensive Development of Scenic Spots issued a statement on Saturday in this regard.
The DPRK feels regretful at this, the statement notes, and goes on:
As for the cause of the incident, it occurred because the south Korean tourist trespassed on the area under the military control of the north side, going beyond the tourist zone.
A particular mention should be made of the fact that the south Korean tourist intruded deep into the area under the military control of the north side all alone at dawn, going beyond the clearly marked boundary fence, even his shoes got wet.
When a KPA serviceman spotted him and ordered him to stop, he did not obey the order but began to run away. He kept running although the KPA serviceman repeatedly shouted at him to stop, even firing blank bullets. The KPA serviceman could not but open fire at him.
The responsibility for the incident entirely rests with the south side.
The south side should be held responsible for the incident, make clear apology to the north side and take measures against the recurrence of the similar incident.
Nevertheless, the south side authorities unilaterally announced that they would suspend the tour of Mt. Kumgang for the time being, a challenge to the north side.
As it is an intolerable insult to the north side, it will take a measure not to accept south Korean tourists until the south side makes proper apology for the recent incident and takes measures against the recurrence of such incident.
As the cause of the incident is very clear and the north side has already confirmed the scene of the incident together with personnel of the Hyundai side right after its occurrence, it cannot accept the south side's proposal for inspecting the area of the north side for investigation.
Anniversary of June Popular Resistance in S. Korea Observed
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday dedicates a signed article to the 21st anniversary of the June popular resistance in south Korea.
The June popular resistance was a massive anti-U.S., anti-fascist popular resistance of the south Korean people aimed at putting an end to the U.S. imperialists' policy of colonial enslavement and the military fascist dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo juntas, achieve independence and democracy in south Korea and realize national reunification, the article notes, and goes on:
The resistance shook the U.S. imperialists' colonial ruling system to its very foundation and dealt telling blows at the south Korean military dictators.
Since its seizure of power, the Lee Myung Bak group is persistently depending on foreign forces, instead of seeking national independence, and rushing headlong into fascism, instead of seeking democracy, and permanent division, instead of working hard for reunification, while paying no heed to the demands of the nation and the south Korean people.
The traitorous clique's brutal suppression of the candlelight actions of the south Korean people against import of American beef goes to prove that the policy of terror, the fascist rule dating back to the period of military dictatorship has been restored. Traitor Lee's coming to power in south Korea was an intolerable mockery of those who fell in the resistance and brought misfortune to its people who ardently desire independence, democracy and reunification.
The south Korean people will not be able to escape greater misfortune and pain and the whole nation will not be free from disasters as long as Lee is allowed to stay in power. The spirit of the above-said resistance is still alive in the minds of the south Koreans. The present reality of south Korea reminds one of the situation in June 21 years ago.
It is truth that patriotism is sure to prevail over treachery, democracy defeat fascism and forces for reunification are sure to win victory over the separatists.
Victory is in store for the south Korean people who are waging a dynamic struggle against Lee Myung Bak with the same spirit and mettle as displayed by the participants in the June popular resistance in their heroic struggle, concludes the article.
Holding High June 15 Joint Declaration Called for
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- The June 15 joint declaration serves as a programme for national unity as it calls on all Koreans who love the country and the nation to pool their efforts. It is also a great programme for independent reunification in which the Koreans committed themselves to reject outsiders and achieve independent and peaceful reunification of the country by the efforts of the Korean nation.
Rodong Sinmun Friday observes this in a signed article.
It goes on: The joint declaration serves as a programme for national unity as it encourages the whole nation to turn out with vigor in the efforts to carry out the cause of great unity with patriotic will and intention.
The idea of "By our nation itself" clarified in the joint declaration encourages the Koreans to work for reconciliation and unity with ardent patriotism, it being the most ardent patriotic idea.
It would be quite impossible to think about achieving the reconciliation and unity of the Korean nation growing stronger as the days go by for independent national reuification without the joint declaration which instilled patriotism into the Koreans.
All the fellow countrymen who love the country and the nation should oppose and reject the south Korean conservative ruling forces' policy of flunkeyism and dependence on foreign forces and cooperation with them with the idea of "By our nation itself" as an ideological weapon to meet the requirements of the joint declaration and further intensify the struggle to achieve the national reconciliation and unity.
The joint declaration is the great programme for independent reunification in which the north and the south committed themselves to reject foreign forces and achieve reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
The joint declaration serves as guidelines of the era because it put forward national independence, absolute truth in achieving national reunification and carving out the destiny of the nation, as genuine patriotic idea which can be supported and followed by all the fellow countrymen in the north and south and overseas who have differing ideologies, the article concludes.
Key Resolve and Foal Eagle Joint Military Exercises Begin in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist bellicose aggressor forces and south Korean forces started Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises for aggression on Mar. 2, according to a military source.
More than 12 000 U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in south Korea have been ordered to be combat ready and over 6 000 U.S. troops were deployed in forefront bases in south Korea after being transferred from their overseas bases. In another development, more than 9 000 have been placed on alert in waters.
On Feb. 28 Nimitz entered Pusan Port in the wake of the entry of Ohio equipped with more than 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles into it on Feb. 20. A landing craft entered Pusan Port on Mar. 1. On Feb. 26 a transport ship fully loaded with marine equipment entered Jinhae Port.
Nimitz's entry into Pusan Port was timed to coincide with the entry of guided missile destroyers into Phyongthaek Port and Chaffee and John S. McCain into Tonghae Port.
F-15 and F-16 fighter bombers, F/A-18, MC-130 and KC-135s were deployed in Osan air force base and airfields in Kunsan in south Korea after being transferred from the U.S. mainland and its overseas bases.
The naval and air forces of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces are keeping themselves ready to participate in the exercises after being deployed in waters and areas around the Korean Peninsula including Japan and Guam.
Along with such huge aggressor troops the three services and marines of south Korea, the "Homeland Defence Reserve Forces" and police, administrative organs, and major military and civilian enterprises there have been placed on alert at the same time.
The above-said exercises aim at the rapid deployment of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and south Korean forces, the formation of combined forces and commando operations against the DPRK for another Korean war.
An extremely dangerous situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the frantic war moves of the U.S. imperialists and south Korean forces.
U.S. Forgets Pueblo Lesson
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Fourty years have passed since the U.S. armed spy ship Pueblo was seized by seamen of the Korean People's Army.
The Pueblo was captured on January 23, Juche 57 (1968) while spying on military and state secrets of the DPRK after intruding into its territorial waters in the East Sea of Korea up to 7.6 miles from Ryo Islet near Wonsan.
The U.S. imperialists, far from admitting their crime, reacted to this deserving punishment with a military threat to the DPRK, claiming that their ship was seized in the "open sea" and it did not commit an espionage act.
In face of the super stiff attitude of the DPRK determined to answer the retaliation" of the enemy with retaliation and an all-out war with an all-out war, the U.S. administration was forced to sign a document solemnly apologizing for the espionage and hostile acts committed by its spy ship and giving assurances that it would not let any warship intrude into the territorial waters of the DPRK in the future.
However, even before the ink was dry on the paper of apology signed by them, the U.S. imperialists illegally sent their large-size spy plane EC-121 in April 1969 and spy helicoptor OAH-23G in August 1969 into the air space of the DPRK, which were brought down by the KPA while committing espionage and hostile acts.
But, after drinking the bitter cups of setback, they have continued committing espionage on the DPRK, including the incident of a reconnaissance helicopter in December 1994.
The U.S. bellicose forces have of late massed reconnaissance planes of different types in and around south Korea and lengthened their flying hours while beefing up the forces of electronic operation and information espionage.
"U-2" high-altitude strategic reconnaissance planes of the U.S. forces in south Korea committed air surveillance, photographing and electronic reconnaissance on the whole area of the DPRK on more than 300 occasions and the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean army carried out aerial espionage on 2,250 occasions or more in total last year alone.
It is the temperament of the Korean people never to tolerate the encroachment upon the sovereignty of the nation.
If the United States heads for increased tension, persisting in espionage acts against the DPRK, they will be unable to evade the lot of the Pueblo.
U.S. Persistent Hostile Policy toward DPRK under Fire
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The whole Korean nation has waged a vigorous struggle to achieve the peace and peaceful reunification of the country this year. Nevertheless, the situation of the Korean Peninsula still remains tense. This is entirely attributable to the U.S. anachronistic hostile policy of aggression toward the DPRK.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
Noting that the U.S. policy toward the DPRK, the policy of aggression based on its military power, is the main factor of escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula, the article goes on: The "RSOI", "Foal Eagle" and "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises staged in south Korea by the U.S. bellicose forces were war moves against the DPRK, which showed that there is no change in the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
This year the U.S. has sped up arms buildup on a large scale to invade the DPRK, including the introduction into the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding areas of dangerous preemptive nuclear strike means. It is needless to say that such actions are as good as dangerous provocative moves wrecking the atmosphere for peace on the Korean Peninsula and driving the situation to the brink of war.
The U.S. occupation of south Korea is a vivid manifestation of its hostile policy toward the DPRK and the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea are an executor for putting into practice this policy of aggression on the DPRK.
The U.S. has instigated the south Korean warmongers to the confrontation and military actions against the fellow countrymen in a desperate attempt to sow discord among Koreans and check their desire for national reunification.
It has worked hard to further gear the south Korean army to the military vassal system, talking about the south Korea-U.S. "alliance" at such confabs as "annual security meeting" and "security policy initiative meeting". It has also offered the south Korean bellicose forces a huge amount of lethal equipment under the signboard of "cooperation in security" to set them on the confrontation with the fellow countrymen.
The U.S. bellicose forces' policy of aggression on the DPRK is the root cause of ruining the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and a source of aggravation of the tension and outbreak of war.
Rodong Sinmun Terms "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" Hypocritical
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Japan's "three non-nuclear principles" remain in name only and are nothing but window-dressing to cover up its wild ambition for nuclear weaponization. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
The Japanese authorities pulled the wool over the eyes of the international community, talking a lot about those "principles", but they have frantically pushed ahead with the moves to turn Japan into a nuclear base and its nuclear weaponization, the article notes, and goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries noisily tout the above-said "principles" as a decoration advertising what they called "peaceful stand" but none of them reflect it.
The hypocrisy of the "three non-nuclear principles" is clearly evidenced by the fact that Japan has turned into a nuclear base of the U.S.
There is a "regime" between Japan and the U.S. whereby one side should have a prior consultation with the other side when shipping nukes into the Japanese territory. But the Japanese government has never exercised its right to inspect U.S. warships entering Japanese ports whether they carry nuclear weapons or not.
At the tacit connivance of the Japanese government and under its patronage U.S. warships and planes carrying nukes frequent Japan with a "prior consultation" as a subterfuge.
The hypocrisy of these "principles" also finds its expression in the fact that Japan worked out a plan for nuclear weaponization and has since pushed it forward as a state policy.
Japan's ambition to go nuclear is clearly proved by the fact that the Japanese Foreign Ministry worked out a confidential document calling for acquiring the "capability to manufacture nuclear weapons" as early as in 1969.
Japan had more than 50 nuclear power plants as of the end of 1998 churning out nuclear waste enough to produce a lot of plutonium every year. Not content with this, Japan has purchased a huge amount of plutonium from Britain and France for years.
Japan's technology of manufacturing nukes and developing delivery means have reached the world's top level.
The Japanese reactionaries are keen to make an effective use of nukes for realizing their wild ambition for overseas expansion, thinking that Japan suffered a defeat after invading other Asian countries because it was weak and had no nuclear weapons.
They would be well advised to stop flouting the international community with those hypocritical "principles."
Rodong Sinmun on U.S. "Anti-terrorism War" Doomed to Failure
Pyongyang, September 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday runs an article upon the lapse of six years since the 9/11 incident broke out and an "anti-terrorism war" was declared in the United States.
Predicting that the day is not far off when the indiscreet "anti-terrorism war" of the U.S. with a gloomy prospect will prove a total fiasco and come to an end, the author of the article says:
The world may outwardly appear to have changed in favor of the United States, but it is the United States itself which is in flame and a scream is coming from there.
The U.S. is racing headlong in the aggressive "anti-terrorism war" but only shameful defeat and death await it.
As of September 18 about 3,790 U.S. soldiers had been reported dead and close to 28,000 wounded. Deserters and lunatics are on the increase in the U.S. units. The number of the mentally deranged soldiers has gone beyond 40,000.
The U.S. has also suffered incredible economic and financial losses. A survey panel of U.S. congress announced that the fund disbursed by the U.S. in the "anti-terrorism war" had run to a healthy 610 billion US dollars as of June this year since the outbreak of the 9/11 incident in 2001, of which 450 billion US dollars were squandered in the Iraqi war.
The U.S. debt and financial crisis and the crisis of trade deficit have reached alarming levels in the "war on terrorism" that has been continuing for years.
The reactionary "anti-terrorism war" has also brought a big political loss to the U.S.
With the aggressive and dangerous nature of the war revealed more glaringly as the days go by, the U.S. finds itself an object of bitter denunciation and rejection in the world.
The bankruptcy of the "anti-terrorism war" immediately means the end of the policy of strength of the U.S. The 21st century will be the century of the total fiasco of this policy.