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Pillage of Korean Cultural Assets by US Imperialists
Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- More than 130 pieces of historic relics that belong to the Ri Dynasty were put up at an auction in Michigan, United States, some time ago.
The relics, including art works, furniture and ornaments, are what the U.S. imperialists took away from the Deogsu Royal Palace in Seoul during the past Korean War.
The articles for sale at auction were just a small part of their loot.
A large number of Korean cultural assets such as Koryo celadon, metal craftworks and furniture are on display at museums and art galleries in Washington, New York and many other cities of the Unites States.
According to data available, the U.S. imperialists destroyed or took away tens of thousands of cultural assets, with some 6,700 pieces of priceless historic relics included, from history museums of Korea during their temporary occupation of the northern part of Korea.
They despoiled the Korean Central History Museum of several thousand pieces of cultural assets, the Myohyangsan History Museum of Buddhist relics, including several hundred Buddhist images, and craftworks and the Haeju History Museum of more than a hundred pieces of relics.
They also robbed Yongmyong Temple on Moran Hill, Songbul Temple on Mt. Jongbang and other Buddhist temples of many historic relics, including gold statues of Buddha and Buddhist images.
Besides, they pillaged several hundred ancient tombs in the area of Jongbaek-dong, Rangnang District, Pyongyang, of thousands of relics and ransacked even houses of their heirlooms.
The U.S. imperialists destroyed, seized and burnt up many cultural assets in the southern part of Korea, too. The historic relics they snatched from the History Museum of the Kyongbok Palace and the Art Gallery of the Deogsu Palace in Seoul total more than 7,200.
The United States is obliged to send all the loot back to Korea without condition and apologize and compensate to the Korean people for the enormous spiritual, cultural and material damages and losses it inflicted upon them.
CPRK Spokesman Urges Lee Myung Bak to Stop Its Rash Acts
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Traitor Lee Myung Bak of south Korea, during his recent junket to Canada, met with the chief executives of the United States, Japan and other countries to beg them for "international cooperation" over the issue of a warship sinking. He flew to Panama and Mexico to solicit high-ranking officials of Central American countries for "support" to the smear campaign of south Korea and faked up even a "special declaration".
Worse still, the puppet group is making desperate efforts to prod the UNSC into cooking up a conspiratorial document shifting the blame for the case of the warship sinking on to the DPRK and "denouncing" it.
A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea in a statement on Wednesday condemned the south Korean puppet conservative group for working with bloodshot eyes to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK while peddling the case of the warship sinking even at the international forum though it is beset with too many doubts and contradictions to convince anyone.
The statement went on:
What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. is fanning up the racket to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK over the warship case while zealously backing the puppet group.
The U.S. is seeking to do harm to the DPRK after bringing the case up for discussion at the UN Security Council while supporting the puppet forces. Lurking behind this is a strategic aim to expand the sphere of its domination and influence on Northeast Asia and step up the moves for aggression and war by retaining a firmer grip on its junior "allies."
No matter how desperately the group of traitors may work to make profound confusing of right and wrong in collusion with the U.S. in a bid to get rid of a predicament, it can neither hide the truth nor escape denunciation from the public at home and abroad.
If the group of traitors and the U.S. force the UN Security Council to cook up a document pulling up the DPRK even a bit through sordid collusion and nexus, the army and people of the DPRK will regard it as an intolerable and grave infringement upon its dignity and will not rule out a just do-or-die battle to protect the sovereignty of the country.
The Lee Myung Bak group had better stop its rash acts, pondering over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its anti-DPRK smear campaign.
"Cheonan" Case Dismissed as Sheer Fabrication
Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- A DPRK delegate, addressing the Geneva Disarmament Conference on June 3, said that the case of warship "Cheonan's" sinking was, to all intents and purposes, "a conspiratorial farce" and "charade" orchestrated by the south Korean authorities at the U.S prodding.
He said: The south Korean authorities have linked the above-said case with the DPRK since its very outset without any material evidence under the zealous patronage of the U.S. and finally announced the "investigation results" asserting that the warship was sunken by a "torpedo attack" of the DPRK and are now foolishly working to prod the UN Security Council into slapping even additional "sanctions" against it, crying out for "punishment" and "retaliation."
As already clarified, the DPRK has nothing to do with the above-said case, he noted, and continued:
As universally known, the DPRK is busy waging a general offensive to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation in 2012.
From the viewpoint of common sense that development presupposes peace, peaceful international environment is more urgently required by the DPRK than in any other time.
Whoever has reason can have strong doubt about south Korea's assertion that the DPRK was involved in the above-said case.
Such shocking case as the sinking of the warship "Cheonan" is required only by the south Korean authorities making desperate efforts to hold in check the progress of the DPRK through a campaign against it.
Invariable is the stand of the DPRK government to build a solid peace-keeping regime in the Korean Peninsula and denuclearize it, he declared, and went on:
The earlier conclusion of a peace treaty on the peninsula still in the state of ceasefire would help build confidence necessary for the denuclearization as soon as possible.
The conclusion of the peace treaty provides the only reasonable and realistic way for realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula.
US Flailed for Charging DPRK with Nuclear Proliferation
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- U.S. President Obama blustered that north Korea is the biggest concern as far as worldwide nuclear proliferation is concerned.
The U.S. secretary of State, when interviewed by a TV broadcasting service, listed the DPRK as a dangerous state posing a potential nuclear threat, while talking sheer nonsense that north Korea could try whatever it possibly could as it already had access to nukes.
The U.S. assistant secretary of Defense for Policy at a hearing held at the Senate Armed Services Committee grumbled that there is an increasing danger of north Korea's possible attack on the U.S. mainland with long-range missiles.
Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
It is foolhardy and preposterous for the U.S. to run the whole gamut of wordplays in a bid to charge the DPRK with "nuclear proliferation".
The commentary cites facts to prove that the DPRK has never posed any nuclear threat to other countries but, has been exposed to the U.S. constant nuclear threat for a long time.
If the U.S. has a true willingness to avert a nuclear war and ensure peace, it should substantially cut down its nuclear weapons, without letting loose rhetoric, and refrain from any act of sparking off a fresh arms race, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The U.S. hypocritical talk about "reduction of nuclear weapons" is just a version of the theory of bolstering up modern nuclear hardware, the theory of nuclear threat.
It is the ulterior aim of the U.S. to threaten the whole world with nuclear and non-nuclear weapons and mount a preemptive attack on any target any moment. Herein lies the reactionary and dangerous nature of the U.S. frantic moves for bolstering up strategic offensive weapons including modern nuclear weapons behind the scene of "nuclear disarmament".
It is quite natural for the DPRK to bolster up its war deterrent now that the U.S. is getting hell-bent on developing and bolstering up modern strategic offensive weapons under the pretext of non-existent "nuclear threat" from the DPRK and no one can find fault with it.
Israel's Moves to Disturb Mideast Peace Assailed
Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- Some days ago Israel announced its plan to build Jewish apartments in east Kuds. This is a deliberate and premeditated provocation aimed at torpedoing the indirect talks with Palestine.
Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes this in a signed commentary.
It goes on:
Israel does not want Mideast peace and a solution to the Palestinian issue but only seeks territorial expansion.
Israel is grabbing one portion of the Palestinian territory after another by building Jewish apartments in the area under its occupation on a large scale in a bid to put the area in its possession.
The expansion of "Jewish settlements" is not a mere issue of building apartments but a very acute and serious political and national issue for the Palestinian people because it is a matter of meekly leaving their inviolable territory to the tender mercy of the aggressors or defending it.
Palestine regards a stop to the expansion of "Jewish settlements" as a fundamental condition for the resumption of peace talks. This is quite a just proposal in the light of the nature and purpose of the talks and from a logical and practical viewpoint.
It is the core issue of ensuring peace in the Mideast to force Israel to take hands off the illegally occupied Arab territories. Without this action on the part of Israel is it impossible to establish an independent state of Palestine or achieve Mideast peace.
It is shameless rhetoric for Israel, an aggressor and territorial grabber, to assert that the expansion of "Jewish settlements" is inevitable because of population growth.
Just is the action of the Arab countries to achieve Mideast peace on the "peace-for-land principle".
The Korean people will as ever positively support the Palestinian and other Arab people in their just struggle, concludes the article.
Reunification by Federal Formula Called for
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- The best way of realizing the reunification of Korea in a reasonable manner is to found a unified state of the nation by federal formula based on one nation and state and two systems and governments.
Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes this in a signed article. It goes on:
The proposal for achieving reunification by federal formula is the peace-loving way for reunification which is conducive to guaranteeing global peace and security as well as ensuring durable peace on the Korean Peninsula.
This proposal is the just and fair way for reunification as it neither ensures the predominance and interests of either the north or the south nor does harm to any side.
Huge armed forces of the north and the south of Korea are standing in acute confrontation along the Military Demarcation Line, leaving the peninsula fraught with the danger of war all the time. Under such situation, it is as plain as pikestaff that any try for "unification of systems", not reunification by federal formula would give rise to another war.
There is no reason for the north and the south of Korea to fight against each other as they are one nation. They should choose the reunification based on federation which would make it possible to reunify the country in a peaceful way, not a war which would bring ruin to the whole nation.
The proposal for achieving reunification based on federation is the only way of reunification for the Korean nation.
All the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should turn out as one this year which marks the 30th anniversary of the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and more dynamically conduct the patriotic struggle to realize the proposal for achieving reunification based on federation and thus bring about a decisive turn in the struggle to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
South Korea Renews Offer of Liaison Offices
By CHOE SANG-HUN, New York Times
SEOUL, South Korea ? President Lee Myung-bak renewed a proposal on Monday that South and North Korea open liaison offices in each other¡¯s capitals to facilitate dialogue.
Opening liaison offices in Seoul and Pyongyang would create the first standing channel of official contact between the two Koreas, which remain divided by a heavily armed border after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a permanent peace treaty.
North Korea did not immediately respond to Mr. Lee¡¯s offer.
When Mr. Lee first made the proposal in April 2008, not long after his inauguration, North Korea dismissed it as a ¡°shallow trick¡± to disguise his hard-line approach on the North. The North also rejected an American offer to establish offices in Pyongyang and Washington in the 1990s, when the United States began its efforts to end the North¡¯s nuclear weapons development.
The mood in Seoul appears to have improved, however, after North Korea in its New Year¡¯s message on Friday skipped its usual diatribe against the South Korean leader and said its commitment to improving ties with South Korea remained ¡°unshakable.¡±
¡°We need to build a channel for constant dialogue between the South and the North,¡± Mr. Lee said in his nationally televised New Year¡¯s address on Monday. ¡°In the new year, we must create a turning point in the South-North relations.¡±
Mr. Lee later told reporters that by ¡°a channel of constant dialogue,¡± he meant high-level liaison offices.
The cautiously upbeat mood in Seoul was bolstered when the Choson Sinbo, a Tokyo-based newspaper considered a conduit for Pyongyang, said on Friday that the North¡¯s New Year¡¯s message may herald a ¡°dramatic event¡± in inter-Korean relations.
The report led South Korean media to speculate that the two Koreas may be arranging a meeting this year between Mr. Lee and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il. Mr. Lee¡¯s office has denied reports that the two sides held a series of secret meetings to discuss a possible encounter.
Both the North Korean New Year¡¯s message and Mr. Lee¡¯s address reaffirmed the fundamental differences over the North¡¯s nuclear weapons program.
Mr. Lee urged North Korea to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament talks ¡°so the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula makes progress and a floodgate of South-North Korean cooperation can open in earnest.¡±
North Korea indicated that it will consider giving up its nuclear weapons only after it has improved ties with Washington and no longer feels threatened by the United States.
In his Monday speech, Mr. Lee also proposed excavating the remains of tens of thousands of South Korean soldiers killed during the war and buried in major battle sites in the North. Bringing them home would be a symbolic gesture of reconciliation in 2010, which marks the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the war.
Repatriation of the dead would be less sensitive politically than the long-standing South Korean desire to bring home hundreds of South Korean prisoners of war believed to still be alive in the North, as well as hundreds of South Korean fishermen allegedly kidnapped to the North after the war.
Between 1995 and 2005, North Korea cooperated with the United States to find the remains of American war dead in such famous Korean War battle sites as Unsan and the Chosin Reservoir in a deal that brought the impoverished country millions of dollars.
Relations between Seoul and Pyongyang worsened after Mr. Lee took office in early 2008 and halted large food shipments pending progress in dismantling the North¡¯s nuclear weapons program.
Rodong Sinmun on U.S. Failure in Its "Anti-Terror War"
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces have fought the reckless "anti-terror war," utterly disregarding the capability and will of the people aspiring after independence and having no elementary consideration of their ability, too much obsessed with the idea of "military technological superiority." Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article.
It goes on: No doubt this is a hopeless war for the U.S. It has failed to put under its control the struggle of the anti-U.S. resistance forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, adding to the toll of its troops, as it was not aware of its big ideological, moral and military weak points, contending that it could win the "anti-terror war" if it only goes superior in weaponry and military technology.
The U.S. forces ignited the Afghan and Iraqi wars all of a sudden, pinning much hope on their latest type weapons. These weapons, however, failed to play a decisive role.
The U.S. forces are serving in the army to have their individual selfish desires realized. This is one of their ideological and moral weak points.
They are operating hundreds of military bases in many countries and regions, having too many military targets and too long a front. This is also one of their vulnerable points.
They also failed to calculate that where independence is infringed upon, there always comes resistance and where there is resistance there always comes a revolutionary struggle.
The U.S. forces are now pushing the "anti-terror war" to a catastrophe, their energy waning, the article says, adding that the failure in the "anti-terror war" means a failure in their strategy based on strength.
The worldwide fierce anti-U.S. movement against the "anti-terror war" is bringing the U.S. position of being the world's "only superpower" to a rapid decline and precipitating the process of global independence, concludes the article.
US offers to talk directly to N.Korea
WASHINGTON (AFP) - In a policy shift, the Obama administration said it is prepared to hold direct talks with North Korea in a bid to bring Pyongyang back to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations.
The administration -- which has conditioned talks with North Korea on Pyongyang's agreeing to return to a nuclear deal it quit in April -- made the offer after consulting partners China, South Korea, Japan and Russia, on Friday.
"We had consultations with our partners in the six-party process," Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley told reporters at the daily news briefing.
"We are prepared to enter into a bilateral discussion with North Korea, but it's important to characterize it properly," Crowley added.
"It's a bilateral discussion that (is) hopefully... within the six-party context, and it's designed to convince North Korea to come back to the six-party process and to take affirmative steps towards denuclearization," he said.
Crowley denied the move amounted to a significant policy change, but suggested it amounted to a tactical shift when he called it a "short-term" measure to bring the reclusive Stalinist state back to talks.
He said it is too early to say when and where envoys such as Stephen Bosworth, the pointman for North Korea in President Barack Obama's administration, and his deputy Sung Kim would meet their North Korean counterparts.
"Given the consultations that we have, given the invitation that was extended (from North Korea for direct talks), we'll make some decisions, you know, in the next couple of weeks," Crowley said.
He was referring to consultations that Bosworth had with his counterparts from China, South Korea and Japan during a tour of Asia in the last week. Kim stayed on in Asia to consult with his Russian counterpart.
Bosworth gave no hint of a change in plan when he spoke in Tokyo on Tuesday.
On August 25, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States would sit down with the North Koreans only if they agreed to return to six-party disarmament talks.
North Korea quit the six-way talks grouping in April in protest at UN censure of a rocket launch. The UN Security Council then tightened sanctions on North Korea after it staged an underground nuclear weapons test in May.
The United States has long said that any bilateral talks would come only within the framework of six-party talks, which also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
The six-party consultations came after North Korea began to soften its posture recently and sought bilateral talks with Washington, while attempting to scrap the six-way talks aimed at ending its nuclear ambitions.
But Pyongyang said last week it had reached the final stages of enriching uranium and was also building more plutonium-based atomic weapons.
A senior State Department official told reporters on the condition of anonymity that "it will probably be Ambassador Bosworth" who meets with the North Koreans.
"I wouldn't say it's imminent, probably not before UNGA," the official added.
He was referring to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York at the end of September in New York. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama are expected to discuss North Korea there with their international partners.
Story of "Chain Reaction" Spread by U.S. Blasted
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is now spreading in countries around the DPRK the rumor that "chain reaction" may occur in Japan and south Korea unless the DPRK's access to nukes is checked. This is nothing but sheer speculation as it is departure from reality, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary.
When a country is exposed to very potential and serious nuclear threats and when it finds no other way to cope with them, it is compelled to have access to nukes as its last resort, the commentary notes, citing facts to prove that Japan and south Korea have long been under the U.S. "nuclear umbrella".
The commentary goes on:
Japan and south Korea are provided with the U.S. "nuclear umbrellas," while keeping huge U.S. troops in their lands. Therefore, one can safely say that they are practically armed with nuclear weapons.
But quite different is the case with the DPRK.
The DPRK has never been provided with any nuclear umbrella by outsiders to cope with the U.S. nuclear threat.
Only danger of war will increase when one of the two hostile parties is armed with nuclear weapons or protected by a "nuclear umbrella" while the other remains defenseless, having none of them.
The DPRK's access to nukes helped keep a nuclear balance in Northeast Asia even in the least, thus making it possible to deter a war.
The arithmetic logic that Japan and south Korea may go nuclear because the DPRK has had access to nukes is an expression of ignorance of those who are utterly insensitive to the reality. This is only part of a clumsy psychological warfare launched against the DPRK's access to nukes, concludes the commentary.
CPRK Secretariat Releases Detailed Report on Truth about Death of Roh Moo Hyun
Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Tuesday released a detailed report on the truth about the death of Roh Moo Hyun, former "president" of south Korea.
According to the detailed report, Roh's death was not a suicide but a politically motivated, premeditated and deliberate terror and murder orchestrated by the United States and the pro-American conservative forces of south Korea.
A prelude to the operation for "killing Roh Moo Hyun" started already during the "presidential election" in 2002. This operation got evermore undisguised with his visit to Pyongyang and the publication of the historic October 4 declaration in 2007 as a momentum and entered the phase of its full implementation after the conservative group came to power with the "regime" change last year.
The Lee Myung Bak group was so keen on the extreme political revenge that it pressurized Roh to pay for the past decade when the "power" was in the hands of the progressive forces. It had gone mad with the operation to "kill Roh Moo Hyun," overturning everything achieved in the period of the former "regime" and purging en masse those related to the "government for people," etc.
A plot hatched by the Lee group was to brand Roh and his close associates as "forces behind" candlelight demonstrations.
The group made with bloodshot eyes secret investigation into them but failed to secure any evidence enough to label them "forces behind" candlelight demonstrations.
When the above-said operation repeatedly proved futile, the group hatched a fresh plot to use irregularities and corruption as the last charge for dealing a fatal blow at him.
At the special instructions of traitor Lee Myung Bak more than ten confidants of Roh Moo Hyun and his wife, children, brother-in-law, niece's husband and others were taken to the prosecution one after another to be subject to intensive questioning. Later, even Roh was taken to Seoul under escort from Kimhae. He was questioned day and night at the "Supreme Prosecutor's Office".
The puppet prosecution, totally reduced to a waiting maid of the fascist dictator, deliberately made even the information about the case known to the "Grand National Party" and media, though it remained unconfirmed at the phase of investigation, thus perpetrating all sorts of personal libels against Roh and bringing disgrace to him. The ultra-right conservative knockers went the lengths of openly forcing him into "suicide."
Unable to endure scornful feelings, Roh finally killed himself as a manifestation of his curse and resistance.
The United States had long kept him on the "list of those to be killed", regarding him as undesirable person. Roh thus fell victim to the U.S. policy for colonial domination as he stood in the way of implementing it.
His death caused by the group of traitors was a politically-motivated sinister retaliation against the forces standing for independent reunification through alliance with the north and an unprecedentedly brutal violence to scrap the inter-Korean declarations and stifle the forces supporting them, the report said, declaring that the entire nation will surely make the Lee Myung Bak gang of man-killers to pay for the never-to-be-condoned crime.
South-South Cooperation Called for
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- South-South cooperation is the work to be done by developing countries themselves to promote the joint development and prosperity and interests.
Rodong Sinmun Friday observes this in a signed article:
Economic independence represents a material foundation to guarantee the sovereignty and independence of each country.
The people of many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America gained political independence free from the colonial yoke and embarked upon the road of independent development after the Second World War.
But the people of not a few developing countries have not yet achieved economic independence and are facing a series of economic difficulties in the building of a new society.
At present the imperialists are pursuing a predatory policy aimed at meeting their own interests at the sacrifice of the interests of developing countries by taking advantage of their unchallenged position in the international economic relations.
In consequence, resources of developing countries and the fruits of labor of their people are sold to capitalist countries at giveaway prices. The foreign debts of developing countries are now snowballing and their people are subject to hard living.
Only when developing countries develop South-South cooperation can they get rid of imperialists' economic subjugation and dependence upon them and successfully build an independent national economy.
Successful progress in this cooperation would help bring the present old and unfair international economic system to collapse and build instead a new and fair international economic order.
Developing countries have the common interest in realizing the said cooperation for their common conditions and aspirations.
They have huge human resources and inexhaustible natural resources as well as experience and technologies good enough for exchange among themselves.
They are sure to realize South-South cooperation if they make a proper use of all conditions and possibilities and make joint efforts.
The vitality of the said cooperation is clearly proven in practice.
KCNA Demands Closure of U.S. Secret Prisons
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The special rapporteur for torture issue of the UN Human Rights Council and the UN special envoy for human rights and anti-terrorism, addressing the recent 10th meeting of the council, declared that an international investigation would be conducted into the secret prisons operated by the United States.
They denounced the atrocities committed by the U.S. as the "most horrible acts," asserting that they would not allow the U.S. to evade its responsibility for them with ease on account of the replacement of the U.S. administration and that the investigation should be continued till everything has been clarified.
This is a proper step taken by the international community against the U.S. which has committed ceaseless human rights abuses in different parts of the world under the signboard of "war on terrorism."
The U.S. set up a secret prison in Guantanamo of Cuba in the wake of the "September 11 incident" and established such prisons in different countries of the world and even on warships.
It arrested many people and has kept them in custody for a long period, ruthlessly violating their freedom and human rights.
26,000 people are now detained, without having even a chance to stand a fair trial, the most elementary human rights.
They are put to beating, sleep depravation, water boarding, sexual torture and other forms of mediaeval torture. Guiltless people are disappearing without being known to the outside, while undergoing unbearable pain.
These are the hideous human rights abuses quite contrary to the humanitarian principles of modern international law including the "Geneva Convention" and international law on human rights.
Precisely for this reason the International Committee of the Red Cross in a report in 2007 defined the U.S. atrocities as "cruel and inhuman contempt of personality" and "torture."
What merits a serious attention is that the U.S. is trying to keep the secret prisons censured by the world.
This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. attorney general, while announcing the "new standard for the operation of the facilities for 'suspected terrorists'" in Guantanamo on March 13, blustered that it is inevitable to operate these facilities in a way to tighten national security.
These outbursts cannot but sound very surprising as they are let loose without let-up under the pretext of "examining" the closure of the secret prison in Guantanamo.
During the office of the Bush administration the U.S. left no means untried to cover up the operation of secret prisons with such crafty words as "national security".
The new U.S. administration is echoing such words only to reveal its intention not to close them.
The U.S. had better close as early as possible the secret prisons ill-famed for lots of human rights abuses.
Struggle under Slogan "Let Us Live Not Merely for Today But for Tomorrow!" Called for
Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls for vigorously carrying on the struggle for the bright future of the socialist fatherland under the uplifted slogan "Let us live not merely for today but for tomorrow!"
The Korean revolution was pioneered and has advanced victoriously thanks to the peerlessly great men who looked after the destiny of the country and the nation with noble responsibility and showed warm loving care for the future, the editorial says, and goes on:
We should certainly materialize the Party's intention and decision to fling open the gate to a thriving nation in 2012 in which falls the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung in order to demonstrate to the world the bright future of the revolutionary cause of Juche and Songun Korea.
It is the great outlook on the revolution, the outlook on the future of General Secretary Kim Jong Il that the revolution is the cause to keep the love for the people flourish and that one should devote everything to the future of the country and the happiness of all generations to come although one may not enjoy life's pleasure in one's generation.
We should adorn every moment of our lives with praiseworthy feats to keep pace with Kim Jong Il who is making ceaseless journey of the Songun leadership with noble patriotic devotion.
The anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners are the first generation of the Korean revolution who thoroughly embodied the revolutionary view on life of living not merely for today but for tomorrow and set an example of how to bring into full bloom the love for the future.
Only when the rising generations successfully inherit the noble spirit and the fighting traits displayed by the revolutionary forerunners, can they successfully carry forward the lifeline of the revolution and our country prosper forever.
We should leave clear footprints of patriotism to be remembered long by the generations to come in today's worthwhile struggle creating a new history of a great revolutionary surge.
The future of Songun Korea is immensely bright and there are no revolutionary people as the Korean people who struggle and advance full of great ambition and hope for the future.
The on-going general advance for building a great prosperous powerful nation is sure to triumph as long as there are the seasoned and tested leadership of the great Party, the invincible revolutionary armed forces and the single-minded unity cemented in the crucible of the Songun revolution and the mental power of all the servicepersons and people stronger than a nuclear weapon.
Founding Anniversary of Pomminryon Marked in Seoul
Pyongyang, December 2 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) held a meeting in Seoul on Nov. 30 to mark the 18th anniversary of its formation.
Present there were members of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon and figures of different circles.
Ri Kyu Jae, chairman of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon, in a speech made at the meeting said that one's stand and attitude toward the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration is a touchstone showing whether one stands for reunification or for division.
Whoever denies these historical declarations for reunification can never escape bitter resentment and curse of the fellow countrymen, he warned.
He declared that the South Headquarters of Pomminryon would achieve the country's reunification without fail by focusing the actions on the anti-Lee Myung Bak struggle and fully implementing the above-said declarations under the uplifted banner of "By our nation itself."
Congratulatory messages from the North Headquarters, Overseas Headquarters and the Joint Secretariat of Pomminryon were introduced and a resolution was read out at the meeting.
The resolution noted that Pomminryon, regarding the idea of "By our nation itself" as its lifeline, is filled with the resolution to fulfill the mission it assumed before the times and the nation no matter how desperate the anti-reunification forces may become in their moves.