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CPRF Spokesman Answers Question Put by KCNA
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF) on Monday gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA as regards the issue of inter-Korean summit talks touted again by the present chief executive of south Korea, when interviewed by Kyodo News:
As known, the summit meetings took place twice between the north and the south and produced important declarations.
However, Lee Myung Bak totally negated and ignored the summit meetings and declarations which were unanimously hailed and supported by the whole nation and world.
It is preposterous, therefore, for him to talk about the summit talks.
It is absolutely intolerable to overturn the north-south declarations on account of the change of power as it is a rude behavior betraying the lack of any elementary morality and a blatant act of chilling the desire of the whole nation. It is quite clear that it is impossible to sit at the negotiating table with such man.
Worse still, he asserted that the nuclear issue should be discussed at the north-south summit talks despite the fact that the issue is now being settled at the six-party talks. This proves that he seeks a sinister aim.
The issue of summit talks peddled by Lee cannot be construed otherwise than a ploy to evade the responsibility for having bedeviled the inter-Korean relations, get rid of the situation where he stands isolated at home and abroad and mislead the public opinion.
Lee Myung Bak would be well advised to clarify his stand towards the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration before talking about the summit talks.
DPRK Opposes All Forms of Terrorism and Any Support to It
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on June 10.
The statement says:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK is authorized by its government to state as follows:
Frequent terrorist acts being perpetrated in different parts of the world seriously threaten human lives, social stability and international peace and security.
The international community is becoming increasingly vocal, expressing indignation at these acts and denouncing them and calling for closer cooperation among countries in the struggle against terrorism.
The DPRK government has consistently maintained the stand to resolutely oppose all forms of terrorism and any support to it, guided by the man-centered Juche idea and the idea of its foreign policy-- independence, peace and friendship.
It clarified that it would cooperate with Russia in the struggle against organized crimes and international terrorism in the July 19, 2000, DPRK-Russia Joint Declaration and the August 4, 2001, DPRK-Russia Moscow Declaration. It also declared that it would support and encourage international efforts to combat terrorism in the October 6, 2000, DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement and the October 12, 2000, DPRK-U.S. Joint Communique.
The DPRK government repeatedly clarified its firm stand to oppose terrorism whenever there occurred such grave terrorist acts as bomb attacks on the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998, the September 11 incident in the U.S. in 2001, the bomb attack in Bali, Indonesia in October 2002 and the bomb explosion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in May 2003.
The positive stand of the DPRK to combat terrorism can find its expression in the fact that it has kept steps with the international efforts to fight terrorism in practice.
The following facts can be served as typical examples of this: The DPRK supported anti-terrorism measures taken by the UN forums including the adoption of the UNGA Resolution on Measures to Eliminate Terrorism on December 12, 2000 and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy on September 8, 2006 and the implementation of the UNSC Resolution 1373 on September 28, 2001. It took the initiative of acceding to international conventions on combating terrorism such as the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons including Diplomatic Agents in November and December 2001.
The DPRK on March 31, 2004 reported to the committee organized according to the UNSC Resolution 1267 the fact that it has no relations with Taliban and Al-Qaeda or individuals, groups, businesses and organizations related to them and it has sincerely implemented the measures taken according to the resolution and other related resolutions.
When the DPRK ship "Taehongdan" was attacked by pirates in the sea off Somalia on October 30, 2007 its crew routed terrorists with the help and cooperation of U.S. forces. This became a symbol of the DPRK-U.S. cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
The DPRK fully supports the international community in its efforts to establish an international legal mechanism to combat terrorism and will actively cooperate with it in taking effective measures for it.
It will take active part in the international efforts to prevent substance, equipment and technology to be used for the production of nukes and biochemical and radioactive weapons from finding their ways to the terrorists and the organizations that support them and faithfully fulfill its duty in the field of non-proliferation as it committed itself in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 3, 2006 and agreements made at the six-party talks.
Upon the authorization of the government, the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarifies that the DPRK will firmly maintain its consistent stand of opposing all forms of terrorism and any support to it and fulfill its responsibility and duty in the struggle against terrorism as a dignified member of the United Nations, in the future, too.
Conference of North, South Korean Men of Press Held
Mt. Kumgang resort, May 9 (KCNA) -- A conference of men of the press from the north and the south of Korea for implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration took place here on Thursday and Friday.
Attending it were members of the Press Panel of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and the Press Headquarters of the South Side Committee.
The conference discussed the orientation of immediate activities to be conducted by media persons in the north and the south for opening a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity with the pen of reunification and patriotism. A joint resolution was adopted there.
It said that under the banner of "By our nation itself" media persons in the north and the south should dynamically wage the media activity for reunification, resolutely reject the confrontation and war moves of the separatists at home and abroad and defend the security of the compatriots and peace of the country.
It called upon men of the press in the north and the south and abroad to further strengthen the solidarity among media persons and other people of different strata at home and abroad desiring after peace and reunification, intensify the press activities for removing the legal and institutional mechanisms obstructive to the national reconciliation, unity and reunification and take the lead in glorifying the June 15 era of reunification.
Lee Myung Bak Regime's Sycophancy towards U.S. and Anti-DPRK Confrontation Hysteria Blasted
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday carries its commentator's article exposing and denouncing the Lee Myung Bak regime's sycophancy towards the United States and anti-DPRK confrontation hysteria.
The following are excerpts from it:
The Lee Myung Bak regime of the Grand National Party that emerged in south Korea recently is becoming undisguised in its sycophancy towards the U.S. and confrontation with the DPRK, blatantly swimming against the trend of the era of independent reunification.
Lee and his gentries are letting loose such spate of sophism as "priority to the south Korea-U.S. relations", "complete settlement of the north's nuclear issue" and "pragmatism," crying out for making up for "the lost decade" in a bid to overturn all what has been achieved between the north and the south of Korea since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
Lee Myung Bak, in particular, is getting vocal in the nuclear racket, making no scruple of talking such nonsense as "it is impossible to head for reunification and hard to improve the south-north relations unless nukes are dismantled." This reminds one of traitor Kim Young Sam's utterances that he "would not shake his hand with the one who has access to nukes."
The minister of Unification is also behaving disgustingly, asserting that he would adjust the speed, scope and ways for the development of the inter-Korean relations depending on the progress made in the efforts to settle the "north's nuclear issue".
Meanwhile, the conservative ruling forces of south Korea are kicking up a wholesale campaign of purge against the progressive pro-reunification forces in a bid to quell people's desire for achieving reunification through an alliance with the north and stoke confrontation with it among them. They are, at the same time, getting frantic with war exercises for invading the north and "human rights racket" in collusion with outside forces.
This indicates what extent the anti-north confrontation hysteria of the Lee Myung Bak regime has reached.
As far as Lee Myung Bak is concerned, he is a conservative political charlatan who took the office of the mayor of Seoul from the ticket of the GNP after doing business since the period of the "Yusin" fascist dictatorial regime. No wonder, he revealed his true colors as a sycophant towards the U.S. and anti-north confrontation advocator as soon as he came to power.
The anti-north confrontational nature of Lee and the ruling conservative forces was brought to light when they advocated the so-called "no-nukes, opening and bringing the per capita income to 3000 dollars" as their "policy towards the north." The above-said piffle is nothing but a very absurd and ridiculous jargon as they cried out for the north's "complete nuclear abandonment" and "opening" as preconditions for the improvement of the north-south relations. This is little short of an anti-reunification declaration as it is aimed at sacrificing the interests of the Korean nation to serve outside forces, pursuing confrontation and war and driving the north-south relations to a collapse.
Lee and his gentries are raising a hue and cry over what they called "nuclear threat from the north", vociferating that "the north's access to nukes is impermissible" and the "priority should be given to the complete nuclear abandonment".
These are reckless remarks made by those who know nothing about the background against which the nuclear issue surfaced on the Korean Peninsula and its essence, the root cause of the nuclear threat and the agreements adopted at the six-party talks.
The successive "governments" of south Korea have not shown any worry about the fact that the U.S. openly deployed in south Korea nuclear weapons enough to kill the Koreans hundreds of times but supported it and zealously joined in the U.S. nuclear war maneuvers against the DPRK.
It was the first thing done by Lee after becoming the "president" that he let the U.S. bring its super-large nuclear-powered carrier and nuclear submarines and other ultra modern nuclear hardware to south Korea and staged nuclear war exercises for invading the DPRK with outside forces. He is also contemplating participating in the dangerous "PSI" and "MD" which even his predecessors hesitated to do so.
He seems not to know properly about the contents of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The denuclearization of the peninsula is not an issue between the north and the south but an issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and an international issue involving south Korea. That was why the six-party talks were arranged.
He is making a mess of the process to denuclearize the peninsula by echoing what others utter like parrot as he knows nothing about why the nuclear issue was spawned in the peninsula, what compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear deterrent and why the DPRK calls for the denuclearization of the peninsula.
The Lee Myong Bak regime should not forget the lessons drawn by his American master and the preceding regimes that met shameful setbacks after pressurizing the DPRK to "dismantle nukes first."
The DPRK is not such state which will meekly yield to the pressure of someone to unilaterally dismantle the nuclear deterrent, a product of great Songun and a shield for justice and peace. It is quite self-evident that what Lee, a pro-U.S. stooge, uttered cannot have any impact on making the above-mentioned nuclear deterrent an object of bargaining.
His call on "the north to dismantle its nukes first" is nothing but a declaration of confrontation and a war declaration as it throws a hurdle in the way of the settlement of the nuclear issue, far from helping solve it, and does harm to the north-south relations and disturbs peace.
The word of "opening" uttered by Lee is an intolerable provocation to the dignity and system of the DPRK.
As far as "opening" is concerned, the DPRK has never closed its door but keeps its door opened to the U.S., a hostile country, to improve its relations with it.
It is none other than the U.S. and the present ruling forces of south Korea who are clinging to the moves to blockade against and isolate the DPRK.
The U.S. has enforced the unprecedented policy for isolating and stifling the DPRK on the strength of such evil laws as the "Trading with the Enemy Act" and "Law on Terrorism" and south Korea has zealously joined it in executing them.
The Lee Myung Bak regime, in particular, is opting to shut the door of the inter-Korean relations, which have favorably developed since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, after laying down what it called "four principles for pushing forward the policy towards the north".
Lee's accusations against the DPRK over its "human rights situation" is a revelation of his ignorance of the DPRK and, at the same time, a deliberate political provocation to incite hostility and mistrust between fellow countrymen and push the north-south relations to those of confrontation.
In fact, "human rights abuses" are rampant in south Korea under the military occupation of the U.S.
A particular mention should be made of the fact that no sooner had the Lee Myung Bak regime emerged than it kicked up a campaign of cracking down upon progressive pro-reunification forces under the pretext of "pro-north," asserting this is aimed at purging remnants of the preceding "leftist government." People thus term it a "neo-fascist regime", "government seeking only public peace" and a "reactionary regime."
It finds fault with the system in the DPRK, talking about the "opening" and "human rights." This is an impertinent act that can be perpetrated only by those who are ignorant of the basic principle of the inter-Korean relations on which both sides agreed to stop slandering each other and interfering in each other's internal affairs.
The present south Korean authorities have gone so far as to implore their U.S. master to help lead the DPRK to "opening" and raise a hue and cry over its "human rights situation" even on the international arena, hell-bent on crying out for "opening" and "improved human rights record".
"Opening" much publicized by the Lee regime indicates that it seeks to tarnish the dignified system in the DPRK, push the north-south relations to those of confrontation and, furthermore, sell off the whole of the Korean Peninsula to the outsiders lock, stock and barrel.
Lee also floated the story about bringing someone's "per capita income to 3,000 dollars", making a mockery of the DPRK. This has brought to light his true colors as a vicious political charlatan and imposter.
Lee and his gentries are letting loose a spate of honey-coated words that they will help the DPRK raise per capita income to 3,000 dollars within 10 years if it scraps nukes and opens itself to the world.
It is ridiculous for them to pretend to show "generosity," finding fault with the self-supporting national economy in the DPRK and the living conditions of its people despite the fact that south Korea has colonial economy dependent on the U.S. This is a sort of political caricature.
They are so foolish as to talk about "national income" of someone though they are in such bad shape as to be busy begging for foreign capital due to the bankruptcy of economy and the livelihood of the people in south Korea as soon as they took office. This is enough to make even a cat laugh.
What merits attention is that the Lee Myung Bak group said it would borrow money from the Western countries and add even the money to be paid by Japan to the DPRK as reparation for its past crimes to the funds to be used for "aiding the north."
If he has an iota of the sense to discern things, he should know who helps whom and who is obliged to whom.
Lee had better mind his own business before "worrying" about someone else.
The DPRK will be able to live as well as it wishes without any help from the south as it did in the past. But it will follow how the south side will live, turning its back on the north side and standing in confrontation with it.
Lee is exploiting the noble north-south cooperation projects for co-prosperity of the nation in a bid to meet his sinister political purpose, thus bringing into bolder relief his true colors as a disturber of reconciliation and cooperation and an enemy standing in the way of reunification and prosperity.
Such sophism about "no nukes, opening and 3,000 dollars," a provocation to the DPRK, is nothing but the most despicable jargon and a daydream as it saliently reveals the anti-reunification and treacherous nature of the Lee's regime.
Lurking behind those remarks is reactionary "pragmatism."
There have been a series of regime changes in south Korea but it was only traitor Lee Myung Bak who openly declared at home and abroad that he would put the inter-Korean relationship within the framework of the diplomatic relations and subordinate it to them in handling the issues related to it.
Lee's seizure of power created a thorn bush in the way of the inter-Korean relations and this cannot but have an adverse impact on the situation in and around the Korean Peninsula.
Lee's regime has become frantic in establishing triangular relations of military alliance with the U.S. and Japan while tightening the nexus with them. This has escalated the tension in and around the peninsula, increasing the danger of a nuclear war.
Should traitor Lee Myung Bak opt for confrontation, subservient to the outsiders after scrapping the inter-Korean declarations and agreements, the DPRK will have no option but to change its approach toward the south.
Moreover, the DPRK will never allow anyone to make a preemptive attack on it in a bid to destroy its dignified system, its lifeline.
It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to develop the north-south relations and achieve independent reunification, peace and prosperity in line with the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.
The DPRK will as ever make every possible effort to keep the June 15 era of reunification going but mercilessly meet the challenges of a handful of absent-minded traitors swimming against the trend of the times and sternly punish them in the name of the nation.
Lee Myung Bak should not misjudge the patience and silence so far kept by the DPRK.
The Lee regime will be held fully accountable for the irrevocable catastrophic consequences to be entailed by the freezing of the inter-Korean relations and the disturbance of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula due to its sycophancy towards the U.S. and its moves for confrontation with the north.
Anniversary of March 1 Popular Uprising Observed
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an editorial to the 89th anniversary of the March 1 Popular Uprising in which it calls upon all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to wage a more dynamic struggle for independence against outside forces with firm belief and optimism about a rosy future of the nation and thus usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity of the country.
The editorial says: The nationwide uprising waged by all patriotic people 89 years ago was a great patriotic event as it fully demonstrated the Korean nation's strong spirit of independence against outside forces and heroic mettle and dealt a severe blow at the harsh colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists.
The cause of national reunification is a patriotic one of establishing national sovereignty throughout Korea. The tragedy of national split forced by the U.S. imperialists upon the Koreans is going on in this new century. The U.S. has imposed all sorts of misfortune and sufferings upon them, keeping south Korea under its occupation for more than six decades. It is still desperately pursuing a hostile policy towards the DPRK and persisting in its reckless moves for aggression, trampling underfoot the unanimous will and desire of the Koreans for independence and reunification of the country.
The Japanese reactionaries are reviving militarism, dreaming of a comeback to Korea. They are frantically staging campaigns against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, zealously peddling the "abduction issue," which had already found a solution, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
National reunification, peace and prosperity would be unthinkable without the struggle for independence against outside forces.
Today the struggle of the Koreans for independence against outside forces represents a nationwide patriotic and sacred struggle against the U.S. and Japan to decisively frustrate the moves of the U.S. and Japanese aggressive forces and pave the way for the reunification of the country by the concerted efforts of all Koreans.
All the fellow countrymen should wage a courageous struggle for independence and national reunification against the outside forces, true to the idea of national independence and the June 15 joint declaration, a patriotic banner.
"By our nation itself" serves as a militant banner and a treasured sword of victory to be held aloft to accomplish the cause of national independence and national reunification.
Rodong Sinmun on Cornerstone of National Reunification
Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- National independence is the unchangeable cornerstone in the movement for national reunification. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
In order to victoriously advance the cause of national reunification, it is important to firmly maintain the principle of settling all problems with the stand for national independence, the article says, and goes on: A nation is responsible for its destiny and nobody can replace it in carving out its destiny.
Dependence on outsiders can never solve the question of national reunification.
The independent stand which the Korean nation should maintain in the June 15 era of reunification is the stand of placing the dignity and interests of the nation above anything else and settling the question of national reunification by united efforts of Koreans.
"By our nation itself" is the consistent idea of national independence, the idea that calls for solving the problem of reunification, the issue of the nation, in keeping with the will and interests of the nation by Koreans themselves, free from outsiders' interference.
The afore-said idea clarified in the June 15 joint declaration is a banner of the times the Korean nation should invariably hold high.
The stand of national independence should be manifested in the resolute struggle against the treachery of the flunkeyist traitors hindering the national reconciliation and unity in collusion with outside forces while turning aside from the trend of the times toward the independent reunification.
All Koreans should conduct a vigorous struggle in firm solidarity to put an end to the existence of legal and institutional mechanisms harmful to the development of the north-south relations and national reunification.
The most vivid expression of patriotism for the Korean nation is to work hard to achieve the national reunification by the might of the nation itself under the banner of national independence, the article stresses.
Rodong Sinmun on Trend of Times toward Global Independence
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- There may be turns and twists in the way of the advance of history but the main direction of the development of history can never change and no force on earth can stem the trend of the world toward independence.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article. It goes on:
This year the world progressive countries and people have waged a worldwide vigorous struggle against the imperialists' military intervention and war, domination and subjugation and for global independence under the banner of independence against imperialism.
What drew public attention in the international arena this year was that the movement of the developing countries has been noticeably intensified to resolutely counter the unilateral high-handed and arbitrary practices of the imperialists contrary to the trend of the times by their concerted efforts.
The 62nd session of the UN General Assembly and the annual meeting of foreign ministers of the non-aligned movement and other international meetings held this year provided them with occasions to powerfully demonstrate the might of the unity in the campaign to check and foil the unreasonable sanctions and pressures being imposed by the U.S. and other Western countries upon the sovereign states.
The summit meeting of the South Africa Development Community was held in Lusaka from August 16 to 17 with attendance of heads of state and government of the member nations of the organization.
The meeting discussed a series of issues such as ensuring regional peace and stability and eradicating poverty. It ended with adopting several documents.
The member nations of the MERCOSUR held a summit at which they agreed to call on the regional countries to widely use their national currencies instead of U.S. dollar in trade. They reorganized the South American Community, an organization for regional cooperation whose ultimate aim is to realize the integration of South America, into the South American Union and set up its permanent secretariat.
This year also witnessed an intensified positive movement of the Latin-American countries to counter by concerted efforts the U.S. move to found the "American Free Trade Zone" intended to establish domination over economy and trade.
The above-mentioned movements eloquently prove that the activities of the developing countries to settle the issues arising in the struggle to build a new society and achieve regional stability and development by concerted efforts have gained in scope and strength, making big progress this year.
Progress made in the efforts to achieve regional integration, stability and development this year is a clear indication of the trend of the times toward global independence.
Implementation of Three Tasks for Korea's Reunification Urged
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- The struggle for implementing the tasks of attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity is a sacred and patriotic struggle to glorify the June 15 era of reunification and accelerate the cause of national reunification.
Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article.
Noting that a key to successfully glorifying the June 15 era of reunification in the idea of "By our nation itself" is to thoroughly implement the above-said three tasks, the article goes on:
It is an important task facing the Korean nation to firmly maintain the stand of giving importance to the nation.
The Koreans should put the demand and interests of the nation above anything else and, on this basis, develop the inter-Korean relations and the reunification movement in the idea of "By our nation itself".
All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should cherish deep in their minds the pride and self-confidence of being a member of the sagacious and resourceful Korean nation with the history of 5,000 years and warm patriotism to preserve the Juche character and national character and firmly defend the dignity and interests of the nation.
It is also important to hold loft the banner of defending peace.
The imperialists have made no scruple of launching military attack on sovereign states, regardless of the UN and international laws, only to realize their interests for aggression and domination. But no aggression forces dare spark off a war on the Korean Peninsula. This is entirely attributable to the Songun politics. Therefore, the Songun politics is the genuine banner of defending peace that the Korean nation should hold high.
It is necessary to achieve the unity of the whole nation.
The unity of all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should be strengthened in every way under the banner of "By our nation itself". And it should be thoroughly oriented to achieving the national reunification, the supreme task of the Koreans. It is urgent to whip up the atmosphere of reconciliation and unity among the Koreans and develop onto a new high stage the solidarity and unity of reunification movement organizations of different strata with the All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration as a matrix.
And all Koreans should heighten their vigilance and decisively smash the despicable moves of the pro-American reactionary forces in south Korea who stand against the unity of the nation and the cause of independent reunification, negating the idea of "By our nation itself" and giving importance to outsiders and cooperating with them.
International Kim Il Sung Foundation Established
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- The International Kim Il Sung Foundation was established with due ceremony at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Wednesday.
Present there were Vice-President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, Vice-Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi, Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin, Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade Ri Ryong Nam, President of Koryo Bank Pak Yong Chil, Vice-Chairman of the Korean Social Scientists Society Rim Hoe Song and officials concerned.
Also present were members of the delegation of the International Kim Il Sung Foundation headed by Chairman Johnny Hon, who is chairman of the Global Group of Britain.
The chairman of the foundation in a report at the ceremony noted that the purpose of the foundation is to ensure successful awarding of the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" and contribute to the study and dissemination of the Juche idea worldwide, global peace and the cause of independence.
It is the mission of the foundation to widely disseminate the idea of President Kim Il Sung among the world people, he added.
He vowed to make a tangible contribution to the cause of building a peaceful and independent new world which was started by the President.
Kim Yong Jin in a congratulatory speech expressed thanks to Chairman Johnny Hon and the council of the foundation for having made positive efforts to establish the foundation.
He wished the foundation great success in its work, expressing hope that it would make the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" most dignified prize and greatly contribute to the study and dissemination of the Juche idea and accomplishment of the human cause of independence.
Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's Foreign Policy
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will make every possible effort to ensure peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia and the world, invariably regarding it as an important principle of its external activities to defend peace.
Rodong Sinmun Saturday observes this in a signed article.
It goes on: Ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula is very important for keeping peace in the world at present.
If a new war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, the powers around it cannot but get involved in it whether they like it or not due to its military and strategic importance. In that case the fallout of the war may extend not only to the Asia-Pacific region but also to all other parts of the world.
The Korean Peninsula is the region fraught with the greatest danger of war in the world. There is no legal and institutional mechanism for averting a war on the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK and the U.S. have been technically at war for several decades and it has reached a more dangerous phase due to the moves of the U.S. imperialists for war. The Korean Peninsula has become the primary target of the Japanese reactionaries' oversea aggression. The U. S. imperialists' means of nuclear strike are targeted on the DPRK round-the-clock and their nuclear war exercises are being escalated. In consequence, a nuclear war may break out on the peninsula any moment due to the moves of the U.S. imperialists.
It is entirely thanks to the DPRK's peace-loving stand and its efforts to ensure peace that a war has not broken out in Korea and peace has been preserved there though the situation there remains so tense.
The DPRK is striving hard to ensure durable peace in Korea, while frustrating all incessant moves of the imperialists for war, pursuant to its policy of giving importance to military affairs, the policy based on the philosophy on army that peace can be guaranteed with arms only, concludes the article.
Cold-blooded Massacre of Korean People by Japanese Imperialists
Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The Korean people still curse the brutal slaughter of Koreans by the Japanese imperialists with the Kanto great earthquake as an occasion.
The earthquake which occurred in Kanto area on September 1, 1923, caused a serious socio-political crisis in Japan. In an attempt to avoid the crisis, the Japanese imperialists slew Korean residents in Japan en masse.
The Japanese reactionary government failed to take relief measures for the killed and wounded and other victims triggered off by the tremor. It evoked deeper discontent of the people with the government. In an effort to divert the attention of the people elsewhere, it concocted false rumours, saying that Koreans set fire and thus instilled national antagonism in the minds of the Japanese people.
The King of Japan declared a martial law by a "royal decree" and Rentaro Mizuno, then minister of home affairs, ordered to slay Koreans throughout the country through the Hunabashi Naval Radio Station in Chiba Prefecture.
Right-wing gangsters as well as soldiers and policemen desperately searched for Korean people and killed them in a cold-blooded method beyond the human imagination according to the dictate of the "martial law command."
Sakaguma Kikawa, a Japanese woman who witnessed the then slaughter, testified: "When a young woman was disemboweled, a six-seven-month old embryo wriggled. Seeing her genital organs being driven with a bamboo spear, I was stricken dumb and shrank back. Thinking that our fellow countrymen committed such cruelty, I had never felt disgraceful so much as a Japanese."
Kenjiro Arai, who was a policeman in the Honjo Police Station, Saitama Prefecture, had this to say: "Members of the self-defence corps and policemen pulled down children first from a truck and stood them in a row to behead under the eyes of their parents. And then, they roped the parents one by one on wooden wall and pillars to chop them with Nippon swords. Those with no sword sawed their limbs. The floors of the police station having been turned into a sea of blood, one could not move even a step without boots."
Only in a few days towns and villages of Japan were drenched with the blood of more than 23,000 innocent Korean people.
The nefarious massacre is the tip of the iceberg out of the monstrous crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people.
The Korean people will certainly make Japan pay for the massacre committed by the Japanese imperialists in the bygone days.
KPA Panmunjom Mission Issues Statement
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Senior colonel-level talks between the militaries of the DPRK and the U.S. were held at Panmunjom on Friday at the request of the DPRK side.
At the talks the Korean People's Army side strongly protested and denounced the U.S. forces side for officially announcing its plan to stage "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises in south Korea from August 20 and notified it of the statement of the KPA Panmunjom Mission clarifying the stand of the army of the DPRK to strongly react to it.
The statement says: Despite a warning issued by the DPRK side through a statement of the chief of the KPA Panmunjom Mission on July 13 the U.S. military is set to stage the above-said military exercises to gratify its military ambition.
This clearly indicates that the U.S. is not concerned for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula at all and does not want the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula nor detente and lasting peace on it.
At a time when there prevails an urgent situation where huge armed forces of the other belligerent party may come in attack on the DPRK, pursuant to the plan for war exercises of the U.S. military, the KPA responsible for the security of the country cannot remain a passive onlooker to it, doing nothing.
The KPA will actively put into practice its earlier statement that it will do all it can to round off the powerful striking means to cope with the large-scale war maneuvers to be staged against the DPRK.
The U.S. will be held wholly responsible for the catastrophic impact the above-said saber rattling will have on the implementation of the Fe.13 agreement and the six-party talks.
It is our hope that south Korea will behave with discretion, bearing in mind that should it drive its soldiers as bullet shields for the U.S. forces as it did during the last Korean war, yielding to the U.S. demand, Koreans will suffer again the shameful disaster of a fratricidal war.