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KPA Command Order Army to Keep High Alert
Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army released the following report on Monday as regards the kick-off of the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises for aggression by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces:
In a statement already issued, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army strongly demanded the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers stop at once the projected criminal and reckless Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises, branding them as war exercises for aggression, test nuclear war maneuvers aimed at mounting a preemptive surprise attack on the DPRK.
Nevertheless, the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces finally launched the joint military exercises for aggression on March 8, defying this just demand of the DPRK.
Pursuant to the emergency order issued that day, huge armed forces of the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops stationed in south Korea and other overseas bases started to move and the troops of the three services of the puppet forces, local administrative organs, the "Homeland Defense Reserve Forces", the "Civilian Defense Corps", police and military and civilian enterprises of south Korea are ready to go into action all at once.
Prior to the start of these war maneuvers, the U.S. imperialists deployed many groups of warships including guided-missile destroyers, nuclear-powered submarines and dock landing craft in the east, west and south seas of Korea, and these groups are ready to stage combined naval maneuvers, landing operation exercises and exercises for countering maritime intrusion in coordinated operations with the first, second and third fleets of the south Korean puppet navy.
Fighter-bombers and pursuit-assault planes are flying into south Korea one after another from their bases in Japan, and flying corps of the U.S. 7th Air Force present in south Korea are staging madcap exercises for intensive strikes at targets in the depth of the DPRK, close air support, air battle and naval support in coordinated operations with flying corps of the puppet air force, inciting a war atmosphere.
This evermore undisguised adventurous saber-rattling is creating such tense situation on the Korean Peninsula that a war may break out anytime.
The Supreme Command of the KPA issued the following order to cope with the grave situation prevailing in the country:
1. The men and officers of the KPA on the frontline and coastline and those standing on air guard should reliably defend the outposts of the country so as to repel at a single stroke any attempt of the aggressors to make a preemptive strike.
2. The units of the three services of the KPA should keep themselves fully ready to go into action in order to blow up the citadel of aggressors once the order is issued.
3. All the men and officers of the KPA and the members of the Korean People's Security Forces, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards should undergo intensive training in the spirit of Mt. Paektu in each drill ground with the will to wipe out the enemy and keep themselves highly alerted to mercilessly crush the aggressors should they intrude into the inviolable sky, land and sea of the DPRK even 0.001 mm.
4. All the people across the country should make a great leap forward in the general charge to build a thriving socialist nation, their hearts burning with hatred against the enemies, each holding a rifle in one hand and a hammer or a sickle in the other.
The order of the KPA Supreme Command is the most just measure for self-defence to devotedly protect the headquarters of the revolution and the prosperity of the country and the eternal happiness of the people from the reckless moves of the war maniacs for aggression.
The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK who regard the dignity and sovereignty of the nation as dearer than their own lives will clearly show what miserable end the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers will meet if they dare ignite a war of aggression.
New Phase in Independent Reunification Called for
Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- The Overseas Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration issued a statement on Feb. 12, calling for brilliantly decorating this year as a year of opening a new phase of independent reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
Since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, the reunification programme common to the nation, the Korean nation has ushered in the new era of reconciliation and unity, and the movement for national reunification has developed into the nation-wide movement involving all Koreans in the south and the north and overseas, the statement said, and continued:
The present conservative ruling forces of south Korea, however, have checked visits, contacts and multilateral cooperation between the south and the north while totally denying the joint declaration and suppressed pro-reunification movement organizations and escalated confrontation, tension and war crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
The prevailing grave reality compels the Korean compatriots to meet the challenge of anti-reunification forces and turn out in the more nationwide movement for national reunification.
The committee will invariably defend and implement the inter-Korean declarations, the banner of patriotism.
It will do its utmost to successfully hold the joint national event marking the 10th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration as a nation-wide grand festival for reunification participated in by all political parties, organizations and figures of different strata in the south and the north and overseas, the statement stressed.
DPRK Warns S. Korean Authorities of Anti-DPRK Operation
Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK National Defence Commission issued a statement on January 15 which reads in full:
It was reported by foreign press that the south Korean authorities recently worked out what they called "Emergency Ruling Plan-Puhung" to cope with a sort of "emergency" in the DPRK.
The south Korean newspaper Munhwa Ilbo on January 13 did not bother to open to media the plan reportedly worked out by tricksters of the south Korean "Ministry of Unification" handling issues of the inter-Korean relations and the "National Intelligence Service" in top secrecy from the autumn last year to its end.
This provocative plan reportedly puts into a concrete form the contents of the vicious scenario for toppling the system in the DPRK. After classifying the categories of "emergency" which is unimaginable in the DPRK and can never happen here into "incident", "coup d'etat", "revolt of inhabitants" and others the plan calls for deliberately "fostering and hyping them to the maximum" with an aim to bring down the dignified socialist system in the DPRK and putting into force even "administrative measures" to cope with them.
The "Emergency Ruling Plan-Puhung" is a plan for bringing down the socialist system in the DPRK unilaterally worked out by the south Korean authorities while the already publicized "OPLAN 5029" is a scenario for toppling the system in the DPRK jointly drafted by the American master and his stooge with an aim to bring it to a "collapse."
The army and people of the DPRK regarded from the outset the improved north-south relations and the resumption of dialogue touted by riff-raffs of south Korea including its chief executive as sheer hypocrisy and have followed their rhetoric with vigilance without even a moment's slackness.
They did so because it was none other than the south Korean authorities who have played a double game since they designated fellow countrymen as "a principal enemy," insisting on the cooperation with outsiders even today when the desire and demand of the Koreans for peace and reunification are growing strong throughout Korea.
Looking back on history, no sooner had the south Korean authorities come to power than they negated the two historic declarations, gains common to the nation, and cried out for "unification under liberal democracy". They unhesitatingly cried out for even "preemptive attack on the north" while kicking up an "anti-north human rights racket" and anti-DPRK psychological campaign.
Under the prevailing grave situation, the National Defence Commission of the DPRK responsible for the security of the socialist system in the DPRK and its defence, is authorized to clarify internally and externally the iron will and tough stand of the army and people of the DPRK as follows:
1. The south Korean authorities should immediately disband the present "Ministry of Unification" and the "National Intelligence Service" of south Korea, the architects of the treacherous, anti-reunification and anti-peace "Emergency Ruling Plan-Puhung", and promptly take due measures to severely punish the prime movers of the said reckless plan for confrontation at the nation's trial.
It is the steadfast stand of the army and people of the DPRK that there can be neither national reconciliation and cooperation nor improved inter-Korean relations as long as such plot-breeding mechanisms as the present "Ministry of Unification" and the "National Intelligence Service" are left intact in south Korea.
2. Once the reckless provocative plan of the south Korean authorities to bring down the supreme headquarters of our revolution and the dignified socialist system is completed and put into practice, there will start a sacred nationwide retaliatory battle to blow up the stronghold of the south Korean authorities including "Chongwadae" that have led the drafting of the plan and backed it.
This battle will be a nationwide and all-out just struggle with all the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and abroad including our revolutionary armed forces.
3. The south Korean authorities should bear in mind that they will be thoroughly excluded from all the forthcoming dialogues and negotiations to improve the inter-Korean relations and ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula unless they make sincere apology for the crimes committed against the DPRK before the whole nation.
They should clearly understand that whoever incites distrust and confrontation, instead of working for national reconciliation and cooperation, and seeks war and division, not peace and reunification, is fated to meet a merciless punishment by the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu.
KPA Navy Sets up Firing Zone on MDL
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Navy Command of the Korean People's Army Monday released a statement clarifying the stand of the Korean People's Army to defend by a physical force the extension of the Military Demarcation Line the DPRK set in the waters of the West Sea of Korea.
The statement said:
A dangerous situation still prevails in the waters of the West Sea of Korea due to the deliberate military provocations of the warmongers of the military and conservative forces of south Korea despite our repeated warnings.
The frequent intrusions of the warmongers of the south Korean military into the territorial waters of the north side in the West Sea of Korea have recently developed into adventurous bombardments.
The warmongers of the military and the conservative forces of south Korea are seeking to preserve the illegal "northern limit line" through their premeditated military provocations and going so foolish as to insist that the waters south of it are their territorial waters and make them an established fact.
The Navy Command of the KPA states as follows in order to cope with the grave situation prevailing in the waters of the West Sea of Korea:
1. In order to counter the reckless military provocations of the warmongers of the south Korean military our navy declares the waters on the extension of the Military Demarcation Line in the West Sea under the control of our army as a peacetime naval firing zone of coastal and island artillery units of the KPA.
2. All fishing boats and warships are required to take security measures by themselves in that zone to protect themselves.
3. We re-clarify at home and abroad that there exists no illegal "northern limit line" except the extension of the Military Demarcation Line in the waters of the West Sea of Korea declared by the DPRK.
Joint Appeal Released by Inter-Korean Organizations
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The Council for the Reunification of Tangun's Nation of the north side and the Council for the Peaceful Reunification of Tangun's Nation of the south side Tuesday issued a joint appeal, 104 years after the fabrication of the "Ulsa (1905) Five-point Treaty" by the Japanese imperialists.
The appeal said that the Korean nation with a long history of 5,000 years had been totally deprived of the country's sovereignty and forced into slavery under the harsh colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists since they faked up the above-said illegal and invalid treaty in a brigandish manner at the point of bayonet and unilaterally announced it.
The appeal said: Japan is waiting for a chance to stage a comeback to Korea, promoting visits to "Yasukuni Shrine", a symbol of aggression, shamelessly tampering with history and pursuing the moves to grab Tok Islet, etc. far from making due apology and reparation for its past crimes still today. Moreover, it is persistently standing in the way of the reunification of the Korean nation.
Noting that the reality urgently requires the 70 million Koreans to get united close as one and force Japan to redeem all its past crimes and thus defend the dignity and sovereignty of the nation and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification, the above-said organizations made the following appeal to all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas:
Let us force Japan to settle all its past crimes and demonstrate the independence and dignity of the nation under the uplifted banner of "By our nation itself."
The year 2010 marks the lapse of a century since the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" was fabricated by the Japanese imperialists.
Let all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad fix the year 2010 as a "year of nationwide anti-Japanese joint struggle" and wage a dynamic mass movement for forcing Japan to make apology and reparation for its hideous past crimes.
Let us decisively frustrate Japan's moves to revive militarism and stage a comeback to Korea.
Let us never allow such treachery of the "five traitors of 1905" of modern type as sycophancy and reliance upon foreign forces.
Let us dynamically advance the June 15 era for reunification through the great unity of the nation.
Whoever is a member of Tangun's nation truly loving the country and nation and aspiring after reunification should place the national interests above anything else and unite close irrespective of ideology, ism, political view and religious belief to achieve independent reunification, peace and prosperity.
Let us foil the anti-reunification acts of fostering distrust and confrontation between fellow countrymen and achieve national unity on the principle of promoting each other's confidence and reconciliation.
Implementation of Inter-Korean Declarations Called for
Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- It is the consistent stand and unchangeable will of the DPRK to thoroughly implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and thus bring the joy of national reunification to all Koreans as early as possible.
Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article. It goes on:
It is the best way of achieving national reunification independently and peacefully on the principle of great national unity to thoroughly implement the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.
The DPRK has recently taken a series of bold measures to settle the abnormal inter-Korean relations quite contrary to the trend of the times and promote national unity and cooperation and reunification.
All its efforts are made to implement the above-said declarations.
The DPRK's measures for improving the inter-Korean relations are creating favorable conditions and environment for implementing the above-said declarations.
In order to improve the inter-Korean relations it is necessary to rejoin severed national ties and promote confidence between the north and the south through contact, dialogue, reconciliation and cooperation.
Only when the north and the south make a switchover in their relations from those of distrust and confrontation to those of trust and reconciliation is it possible to achieve national reunification through the concerted efforts of all the Koreans.
The DPRK will as ever spare no efforts to realize national reconciliation and unity and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country holding high the banner of the inter-Korean declarations, concludes the article.
KCNA Report on Shining Successes Made in 150-day Campaign
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released a report Thursday in connection with the shining victory won by the army and people of the DPRK in the 150-day campaign.
According to the report, the campaign plan was carried out at 112 percent, taking the country as a whole.
The industrial production showed a 1.2-fold increase over that in the same period last year and hundreds of objects were commissioned or underwent technological updating in that period.
The production of steel, rolled steel and Juche iron jumped several times as compared with that in the same period last year.
The workers of the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex generated 1.4 times as much electricity as that in the same period last year while those of the East Pyongyang Thermal Power Station, the Chongchongang Thermal Power Station and the Sunchon Thermal Power Station produced more electricity than planned.
In the field of coal industry the coal production swelled 1.5 times over that in the same period last year.
More than 1,200 reserve coal cutting faces were secured to contribute to the increase of coal production.
In the field of railway transport the freight transport assignment was carried out at 118 percent.
A high-pitched drive was waged at the mines in the Tanchon area to effect a surge in production.
The field of machine-building industry timely provided necessary machines and equipment to various domains of the national economy. The quota for the production of machine tools was honored at 126 percent, that of generators at 114 percent, that of motors 122 percent and that of transformers 120 percent.
The Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex, the February 8 Vinalon Complex and other industrial establishments in the field of chemical industry stepped up the coal gasification projects and technological updating and waged a drive to surpass the record production level, thus increasing the production of a variety of chemical goods.
The workers in the field of forestry boosted the timber production 1.5 times as against that in the same period last year while the field of building-materials industry raised the cement production 1.4 times.
The field of light industry achieved successes by directing efforts to boosting the production of mass consumer goods.
The targets of the campaign were hit in August by the Ministry of Mining Industry, the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, the Ministry of Electronics Industry, the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport, the Mining Machine-Building Industry Guidance Bureau, the Tideland Reclamation Guidance Bureau, the Salt Industry Guidance Bureau and other units. At least 1,000 factories and enterprises including the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Silk Mill, the Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory, the Ryongam Mine, the Unhung Mine, the Samsu Forestry Station and the Manpho Spinning Mill fulfilled their yearly assignments ahead of schedule.
Rice-transplanting, maize-planting, weeding and so on were carried out qualitatively in right season thanks to the devoted efforts of the agricultural workers and with the support of the whole country and all the people, bringing about a bumper crop.
The construction of the Huichon Power Station made rapid progress as nationwide efforts were focused on it to complete it till 2012.
The soldier builders worked such a miracle as carrying out in a matter of a few months the amount of work that would have taken several years at an ordinary pace.
The construction of the Kumyagang Power Station, the Ryesonggang Power Station, the Orangchon Power Station and the Paektusan Songun Youth Power Station also made brisk headway thanks to the dynamic drive of servicepersons, builders and members of the youth shock brigades, making it possible to complete them earlier than scheduled.
Those engaged in reclaiming the tideland on Taegye Islet wound up in the main the gigantic nature-remaking project as vast as the West Sea Barrage.
The construction of houses for 100,000 families made headway in Pyongyang under a grandiose plan for the construction of the capital city.
The Nyongwon Power Station sprang up in the upper reaches of the River Taedong as a monumental structure in the era of Songun and went operational and there appeared the Taedonggang Tile Factory as a comprehensive centre for the production of building materials. Among those which started their operations are a new pit at the February 8 Jiktong Youth Coal Mine, the belt-conveyer inclined shaft at the Ryongdae Coal Mine, the heat ray reflection glass production process at the Taean Friendship Glass Factory.
This period witnessed the appearance of modern buildings with all amenities for creating art works, performing activities and entertainment such as the North Hwanghae Provincial Art Theatre and the Songdowon Youth Open-Air Theatre.
Many buildings including Mansudae Street, the Majon Hotel and the Sohung Gymnasium sprang up one after another to add shine to the era of Songun.
The May 11 Smeltery was reconstructed on an expansion basis to be a model production unit impeccable in all aspects.
The Kujang Fish Farm put breeding processes on a modern and scientific basis and boosted its capacity, opening a bright prospect of rapidly increasing the production of freshwater fish.
Various provinces registered successes in the efforts to build new general food processing factories equipped with modern facilities relying on their locally available raw and other materials or rebuilt the existing factories following the example set by the Samilpho Special Products Factory.
Scientists and technicians launched satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 by their own efforts and with their own technology, enabling the country to proudly rank itself among the countries capable of launching satellites.
The CNC machine tool-building industry as exemplified by CNC-"Ryonha Machine" made its appearance like a comet before the world, powerfully demonstrating the spirit of Songun Korea dashing ahead toward a thriving nation on the basis of ultra modern science and technology.
The members of the shock brigades of scientists and technicians and technical innovation shock brigades of factories and enterprises across the country made a lot of scientific inventions and realized more than 9,000 technical innovation proposals.
This period also saw the production of such masterpieces as feature films "White Gem" (parts 1 and 2) and "The Country I Saw" (parts 2 and 3) and many other literary and art works.
The shining victory of the 150-day campaign goes to clearly prove the great Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Spokesman for KPA Panmunjom Mission Denounces Projected U.S.-S. Korea Joint Military Exercises
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army issued a statement on August 15 denouncing the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises to be kicked off by the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors on August 17.
The statement said: The maneuvers for a nuclear war projected by the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors are by no means a demonstration of military muscle of defensive nature as they are not aimed at coping with someone's "threat" and defending the "security" on the Korean Peninsula.
To insist that the military exercises are of "defensive" nature is nothing but sheer sophism. This story may fool those imbeciles who know nothing about politics and military affairs or naive children who have just started learning the four rules of arithmetic.
Through these nuclear war exercises the American master and his servant seek to openly call for escalating their "sanctions" and "pressure" upon the DPRK and put them into practice. They are maneuvers for a war of aggression against the DPRK to all intents and purposes.
It is ridiculous for the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors to contemplate acting a shock force in the projected nuclear war exercises and become more zealous in the confrontation with fellow countrymen though it is not in a position to properly exercise the prerogative of the supreme command over the army, to say nothing of political sovereignty.
The U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors would be well advised to ponder over what consequences their reckless acts would entail in the future.
Traitor Lee Myung Bak, a poor stooge, intends to offer dear sons of the nation as bullet shields for aggressor forces, pursuant to the sinister scenario of his master to dominate the world at the sacrifice of others, without letting his soldiers shed blood. For this crime Lee will be cursed and denounced by the nation for all ages.
Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we re-clarify the stand of the KPA on the above-said nuclear war exercises.
Should the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group threaten the DPRK with nukes, it will retaliate against them with nukes. If they threaten the DPRK with missiles, it will react to them with missiles. If they tighten "sanctions" and push "confrontation" to an extreme phase, the DPRK will react to them with merciless retaliation of its own style and an all-out war of justice.
The U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group should clearly understand that it is the iron will and resolute stand of the KPA to go into action anytime to mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and this is by no means an empty word.
Prospect of Working Contact and KIZ Entirely Depends on Future Attitude of South Side
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the General Bureau for Central Guidance to the Development of the Special Zone issued a statement on Friday in connection with the fact that the working contact on the Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) has been pushed to the phase of breakdown due to the insincere attitude on the part of the south Korean authorities.
The south side, displeased with the working contact from its very beginning, reluctantly responded to the contact and brought to light its confrontational nature at the fourth contact, the statement noted, and went on:
The south side not only totally denied the discussion on the main agenda item, raising a spate of issues irrelevant to the revision of the contracts on the KIZ, the main subject of the contact, but far-fetchedly asserted it could not accept the just request of the north side, oft-repeating extremely wrong assertions and unreasonable sophism. The south side's rude and insincere attitude is an intolerable mockery and challenge to the sincere efforts of the north side and, at the same time, a deliberate and premeditated provocation intended to drive the working contact to breakdown and torpedo the business in the KIZ.
The inter-Korean relations have been driven into catastrophe and the military tension has reached an extreme phase but the north side made every possible effort to prevent the KIZ from being badly affected by the situation. The north side advanced constructive proposals on reexamining and renegotiating the measures for special treatment taken to suit the changed situation and present reality and arranged a special working contact even under the situation where the relations between the authorities of both sides were totally suspended.
Nevertheless, the south side behaved quite contrary to the gesture of the north side, defying its sincere efforts.
This clearly proves that the south Korean authorities do not have even an iota of intention to solve the issue of the KIZ but is only keen to lay the blame for the deplorable situation at the door of the north side and put the zone under collapse.
The north side felt disillusioned with the south side from the very beginning of the contact with the south side and was compelled to seriously reconsider the issue of whether it would continue the contact with such ungrateful and impolite counterpart or not.
Although the south side is touting the so-called "three principles", they are nothing but hypocrisy. The south side totally negated the historic June 15 joint declaration, asserting the "observance of the existing agreement," raised issues irrelevant to the working contact, talking about "politics-business separation" and working hard to bring the KIZ under collapse, advocating "increased competitiveness and future-oriented."
Now that the south Korean authorities are challenging the DPRK, defiling the latter's magnanimity and sincerity, it cannot but express apprehensions as to whether it is possible to seek a negotiated settlement of the issue through the working contact on the KIZ or not. In case the south side fails to honestly approach the working contact, the north side will go according to its decision as it has already clarified. The prospect of the working contact on the KIZ and the zone will entirely depend on the future attitude of the south side.
All Koreans Called upon to Struggle for Establishing Sovereignty
Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- The establishment of sovereignty provides a sure guarantee for the existence and development of a nation.
Rodong Sinmun Sunday observes this in a signed article.
The struggle to achieve the national sovereignty is accompanied by an acute confrontation with the reactionary forces standing in its way, the article notes, and goes on:
The imperialists are keen to hold in check the struggle of each country and nation to establish sovereignty.
The U.S. imperialists are apt to invent absurd pretexts for interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and do not hesitate to commit even military invasion against sovereign states in disregard of international law.
The spearhead of their aggression to deprive other countries of their sovereignty is directed to the DPRK, a bulwark for defending independence from imperialism.
Under the situation where the U.S. is posing constant nuclear threat to the DPRK after openly designating it as a target of its nuclear attack, it is entirely just for it to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way under the banner of Songun and as to do so is a sovereign right and an essential requirement of the times and the nation for protecting the destiny of the nation.
The U.S. is now scheming to deprive the DPRK of its right to develop outer space and use it for peaceful purposes.
The Japanese reactionaries are now persistently kicking up an anti-DPRK campaign, vociferating about the nonsensical "abduction issue" and "missile launch" while shelving their past crimes.
The Lee Myung Bak conservative regime in south Korea is zealously joining its U.S. and Japanese masters in their anti-DPRK campaign after singling out the confrontation with fellow countrymen as a policy, bereft of even the slightest intention of valuing the sovereignty and dignity of the nation.
The reality requires all Koreans who love the country and the nation to intensify the struggle for smashing the moves of the reactionary forces at home and abroad and establishing the national sovereignty. The age-old desire of the Korean compatriots is sure to come true only when all of them turn out as one in the above-said nationwide struggle and display ardent patriotism in it, concludes the article.
Anniversary of Kwangju Popular Uprising Observed
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Though much water has flown under the bridge since the heroic Kwangju popular uprising of the south Korean people, the spirit and noble soul of the participants in the righteous uprising who fought courageously braving death live on and are powerfully inspiring the south Korean people in their dynamic struggle for independence against the U.S., democracy against dictatorship and for national reunification.
Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article dedicated to the 29th anniversary of the uprising.
The Kwangju popular uprising was a just resistance against the U.S. and fascism as its participants fought for national sovereignty, social democracy and the reunification of the country against the fascist rule of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean military gangsters and, at the same time, a massive armed uprising whose participants stood up in a do-or-die spirit against the merciless armed suppression by the dictatorial power, the article notes, and goes on:
The uprising taught a bitter lesson that the U.S. imperialists are not the "protectors" and "friends" of the south Korean people but the violators of sovereignty and democracy, ferocious aggressors and man-killers and it is quite impossible to achieve the independent development and progress of the society, national unity and reunification as long as such gang of robbers are allowed to go scot-free, and once a struggle is launched, it should be carried on dynamically to its victory and only by doing so is it possible to win a final victory.
None of the desires of the resistance fighters in those days, ie an independent, democratic new society and national reunification has come true up to this date.
The national dignity and sovereignty of the south Korean people are trampled down and democracy and human rights wantonly violated still today due to outsiders and traitors just as what happened 29 years back.
The people from all walks of life in south Korea should intensify the struggle for independence against the U.S., the struggle for driving the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops out of south Korea, and disclose and condemn and thoroughly foil the moves of the group of traitors to increasingly depend on foreign forces in a bid to sacrifice the national interests to serve them.
It is a law of history that justice is sure to win and no force on earth can hold in check the south Korean people's righteous struggle for independence, democracy and reunification.
UNSC's "Presidential Statement" Rebuked
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and its followers finally took an action against the DPRK's satellite launch by abusing the UN Security Council despite the DPRK's repeated warnings. This was the most unbearable insult and unpardonable crime against the DPRK as it encroached upon its sovereignty and dignity.
Minju Joson Wednesday says this in a signed commentary.
The DPRK's successful satellite launch conducted according to its Juche-oriented policy for the development of outer space can never be called into question by others, the news analyst observes, and goes on:
The UNSC should have taken issue with those countries which launched more satellites than other countries first if it considers a satellite launch as a crime. But a satellite launch has never been tabled and dealt with at the UNSC.
It is something surprising and strange that the above-mentioned double-standards are openly applied in the UN whose charter clearly lays down the principle of sovereign equality and non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. What matters is that the UNSC plays a puppet role in handling international issues as it pleases to meet the political interests of a few specified countries.
The U.S. shuts its eyes to even violations of international law by its stooges but makes much fuss about legitimate activities conducted by independent countries. This brigandish logic of the U.S. was applied to handling the issue of the DPRK's launch of satellite for peaceful purposes and the UNSC fully accepted it.
Under such grave situation the only way for humankind to survive is to build its own strength and rely on it.
Big powers are gravely mistaken if they think that their high-handed and arbitrary practices will work on the DPRK and their foolish dream will come true.
The people of the DPRK will judge every matter in the interests of the country and the nation no matter what others may say and will never tolerate any act of ignoring the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK.
Those who have pursued a hostile policy toward the DPRK will be held fully accountable for all the ensuing consequences.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Rejects Anti-DPRK "Resolution"
Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA on Monday as regards the adoption of an anti-DPRK "resolution" at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council:
Another anti-DPRK "resolution" peppered with lies and fabrications was adopted at the 10th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council as what happened last year.
This is a product of the plot being hatched by the EU and Japan each year to achieve a sinister political aim.
The West is taking much pain to maintain the outdated, biased and confrontation-minded special rapporteur system in a bid to continue behaving as if it were a "judge" even in the newly-organized UN Human Rights Council.
Japan is acting as ever a shock brigade in kicking up the anti-DPRK human rights racket in an effort to cover up its hideous human rights abuses committed against the Korean nation in the past.
The DPRK, as it did in the past, resolutely and categorically rejects such "resolution" cooked up by the charlatans keen to selectively pull up those countries antagonized by their master, while keeping mum about his human rights abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Human rights precisely mean the sovereignty of a country.
It is a daydream to do harm to the DPRK's sovereignty through plot-breeding and pressure.
Dynamic Advance of Cause of National Reunification Called for
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Sunday in an editorial dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the March First Popular Uprising (March 1, 1919) calls for smashing the blatant challenge of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad by dint of united efforts of the nation and dynamically accelerating the advance of the cause of national independence.
The uprising was the eruption of the pent-up resentment and grudge of the Korean nation who suffered bitter humiliation and mistreatment under the brutal "military rule" of the Japanese imperialists.
The participants in the uprising who fell down shedding blood called for national sovereignty. A grave obstacle, however, is now lying in the way of struggle for realizing it, the editorial notes, and goes on:
As the U.S. imperialists, who occupied south Korea in place of the Japanese imperialists, have pursued the strategy for dominating Korea, the reunification of the country has not yet been realized even in the 21st century and there persists tension on the Korean Peninsula.
Japan which brought immeasurable misfortune and disaster to the Korean people in the past is whetting sword for reinvasion while distorting its history of aggression and becoming undisguised in its wild ambition to grab Tok Islet, far from making an honest apology and reparation for its heinous crimes indelible down through generations.
The Lee Myung Bak group which grabbed power last year is getting frantic with the moves for the north-south confrontation, turning its back on the nation and totally negating the June 15 joint declaration, great programme for independent reunification, and the October 4 declaration.
The reality requires the Korean nation to stage a strenuous struggle against the moves for confrontation and war of the separatists at home and abroad.
It is necessary to raise higher the flame of struggle for independence against foreign forces.
The Korean nation should resolutely reject the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK, dynamically stage the nationwide struggle to drive out the U.S. aggressor forces from south Korea, check and frustrate the moves of the U.S., Japan and south Korea for organizing the "triangular military alliance" and the reckless racket of warmongers at home and abroad for a war of aggression against the north and turn out as one in the struggle for peace against war to defend peace on the Korean Peninsula.
It is also necessary to raise higher everywhere the Koreans live the flame of anti-Japanese struggle for disclosing and condemning the Japanese reactionaries' criminal attempt to distort the history of aggression and grab Tok Islet and foiling their hostile moves towards the DPRK.
All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should never pardon the Lee Myung Bak regime bringing misfortune and disaster to the nation while going against the trend of the times in collusion with foreign forces and wage more unflinching struggle to eliminate the group of traitors.
There are grave manifold difficulties and trials in the way of the Koreans struggling for the national sovereignty but nothing can block the advance of the times.
DPRK Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Dismisses U.S. Wrong Assertion
Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- Wrong views and assertions were floated in the United States recently to create the impression that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the issue to be settled only when the DPRK shows nuclear weapons.
A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tuesday issued a statement turning down this assertion intended to mislead the public opinion.
The statement recalled that at the six party talks held on September 19, 2005, the six parties agreed to denuclearize not only the northern half of the Korean Peninsula but the whole of it and, to this end, the United States committed itself to terminate its hostile relations with the DPRK, assure it of non-use of nuclear weapons and clear south Korea of nukes, etc.
It continued: We consented to the September 19 Joint Statement, not prompted by the desire to improve the relations through denuclearization, but proceeding from the principled stand to realize the denuclearization through the normalization of the relations. Our aim to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula is, above all, to remove the U.S. nuclear threat to the DPRK that has lasted for the past half century.
The nuclear issue surfaced on the Korean Peninsula because of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its nuclear threat resulting from it, and the hostile relations are not attributable to the nuclear issue.
It is a twisted logic to assert that the bilateral relations can be improved only when we show nukes before anything else, and this is a distortion of the spirit of the September 19 Joint Statement.
As clarified in the joint statement, the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula should be strictly realized in a verifiable manner.
Free field access should be ensured to verify the introduction and deployment of U.S. nukes in south Korea and details about their withdrawal and there should be verification procedures to inspect on a regular basis the possible reintroduction or passage of nukes.
As proven in practice, the basic way of implementing the September 19 Joint Statement under the situation where there is no mutual confidence is to observe the principle of "action for action".
This principle can never be an exception as far as the issue of verification is concerned.
It is necessary to simultaneously verify the whole Korean Peninsula at the phase where the denuclearization is ultimately realized according to the said principle.
When the U.S. nuclear threat is removed and south Korea is cleared of its nuclear umbrella, we will also feel no need to keep its nuclear weapons.
This precisely means the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and it is our invariable stand.
We will never do such a thing as showing our nuclear weapons first even in 100 years unless the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK are fundamentally terminated.
If the nuclear issue is to be settled, leaving the hostile relations as they are, all nuclear weapons states should meet and realize the simultaneous nuclear disarmament. This is the only option.
Japan Disqualified to Participate in Six-Party Talks
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Japan is an uninvited guest and troublemaker as it poked its nose into the six-party talks just to attain its sinister aim. Any wicked troublemaker is bound to be disqualified to participate in any talks.
Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary blasting Japan for talking nonsense as regards the six-party talks. It goes on:
Japan is working hard to underscore the importance of its presence at the said talks at any cost but this is an impertinent deed.
Japan has neither qualification nor face to talk about the talks.
It was none other than Japan which overturned even the agreed points without any trouble though they had already been stipulated in the document.
Other parties to the talks are fulfilling their commitments under the October 3 agreement, not regarding it as a burden.
It is only Japan that has doggedly refused to honor its commitment in violation of the agreement.
It not only refused to fulfill its commitment but disturbed other parties to the talks in implementing the agreement overtly and covertly while attending them.
When the United States was intending to take the DPRK off the list of "state sponsors of terrorism," Japan was busy with diplomacy aimed to persuade and implore the former not to do that. Japan's ulterior aim is to bar the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula from being solved and put spurs to the moves to turn it into a military giant under that pretext. It is mean, indeed, for Japan to try to turn the six-party talks into a platform for attaining its selfish aim.
There is no need to allow the above-said troublemaker to sit at the negotiating table any longer as it is seeking an ulterior purpose, impertinently involving itself in the six-party talks.
North-South Joint Seminar Held
Pyongyang, November 13 (KCNA) -- A north-south joint seminar denouncing Japan's moves to distort history and seize Tok Islet was held in Pyongyang on Thursday.
Attending it were historians and personages concerned from the north and the south of Korea and delegates of several movement organizations in south Korea.
Reports were followed by speeches at the seminar.
The reporters and speakers said that the Japanese reactionaries' distortion of history and suppression of Koreans in Japan and their moves to seize Tok Islet have reached a more dangerous phase in the new century.
The gravity of such acts lies in that they are perpetrated in an increasingly organized manner by use of state power, pursuant to the Japanese authorities' deliberate stratagem, they held.
They vehemently denounced the Japanese reactionaries' moves as a wanton violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation and a dangerous act to launch militarist reinvasion.
All the Koreans in the north and the south of Korea and abroad should never tolerate Japan's criminal moves but resolutely counter them by their concerted efforts under the banner of "By our nation itself," they urged.
The stand and attitude to the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration serve as touchstone distinguishing harmony from confrontation and reunification from division, they noted, adding that whoever truly stands for reunification should support those declarations and sincerely implement them.
They underlined the need for all the Koreans to do their utmost to foil the moves of reactionaries at home and abroad keen on doing harm to the dignity and sovereignty of the nation and accelerate national reunification by their concerted efforts.
A joint resolution was adopted at the seminar.
Japan's Measure for Extension of "Sanctions" against DPRK under Fire
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), called a press conference at the Korean Hall in Tokyo on October 10 and released a statement denouncing the Japanese authorities' another extension of "sanctions" against the DPRK.
The statement referred to the unwarranted decision to extend "sanctions" against the DPRK for six months made by the Japanese government at a meeting of cabinet ministers on October 10.
Everyone knows that the "sanctions" only deteriorate the DPRK-Japan confrontation and bilateral relations, the statement noted, and went on:
The Japanese authorities' politically-motivated suppression of Chongryon and human rights abuses against Koreans in Japan under the cloak of "sanctions" are unpardonable fascist violence.
We once again demand the Japanese government immediately repeal the unwarranted "sanctions" going against the world public opinion and the trend of the times and take sincere approach to the issues of settling the past and normalizing the DPRK-Japan relations in the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
In particular, we strongly demand the Japanese authorities stop the politically-motivated suppression of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan and human rights abuses against them and lift embargo on the ship "Mangyongbong-92" and regulation banning reentry into Japan of all Koreans in Japan at once.
11th Pyongyang International Film Festival Opens
Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- The 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival was opened with due ceremony at the Pyongyang International Cinema House on Wednesday.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, officials concerned, creators and artistes in the field of movie industry, working people in the city, delegations, delegates and honorary guests of different countries including the DPRK and international jury members.
Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys of various countries and staff members of their embassies and missions of international organizations here.
Kang Nung Su, minister of Culture who is chairman of the organizing committee of the festival, in his opening address referred to the fact that the Pyongyang International Film Festival has made steady progress, boosting the bonds of cooperation and friendship among countries and peoples in the movie field and promoting the sound development of movies in the world. He wished the participants in the festival successes in their activities.
A congratulatory speech was made by British delegate Derek Elley.
International jury members of the festival were introduced there.
Also introduced were full-length, documentary and short films contributed to the festival and the films to be specially screened.
The organizing committee of the festival hosted a reception in honor of the participants in the festival at Yanggakdo International Hotel this evening.
Joint Statement Issued
Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- The North, South and Overseas Side Committees for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration today issued a joint statement 63 years after the end of the Japanese imperialists' vicious colonial rule over the Korean nation.
Japan has not yet admitted the thrice-cursed crimes it committed against the Korean people but is getting more frantic in distortion of its history of aggression, moves to grab Tok Islet and political suppression of Koreans in Japan, the statement charged.
Some countries have made an apology and reparation to the nations and individuals who suffered from the Second World War, but Japan, far from making reparation, is whitewashing its history of aggression and crimes and openly betraying its scheme for reinvasion, the statement said, and noted:
Worse still, Japan is claiming that Tok Islet, part of inalienable territory of Korea, belongs to it.
Japan's brutal suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and Koreans in Japan is also an unbearable illegal crime, a revelation of its extreme hostility toward the Korean people.
The crimes it committed against the Korean people for more than 100 years cannot be forgotten and erased no matter how much water may flow under the bridge.
If Japan does not want to see itself isolated in the international community, it should make an apology and reparation for having imposed numerous human and material losses upon the Korean people and put an immediate halt to the distortion of history, scheme to grab Tok Islet and repression of Koreans in Japan.
On the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of national liberation we will decisively frustrate Japan's aggression and provocation and wage a dynamic struggle by the concerted efforts of the whole nation till the Japanese authorities have made an apology to all the Koreans and the world people for the historic crimes they committed against the Korean nation and liquidated them.
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.