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March First Popular Uprising
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- Ninety-one years has elapsed since the March First Popular Uprising took place in Korea.
It was a nationwide patriotic struggle to achieve the liberation of the country from the Japanese imperialists' rule and win the sovereignty of the nation.
After illegally occupying Korea early in the 20th century the Japanese imperialists had infringed upon the Korean nation's dignity and sovereignty with a mediaeval military rule, turning the whole land of Korea into a large prison without bars.
The Korean people's grudge and resentment against their heinous colonial rule finally burst into a nationwide uprising on March 1, Juche 8 (1919).
It started in Pyongyang. Patriotic students of Pyongyang Sungsil Middle School, turned into a strong base of the anti-Japanese independence movement by indomitable revolutionary Kim Hyong Jik, and thousands of people gathered in the playground of Sungdok Girls' School at noon and listened to "Declaration of Independence" before taking to the streets to stage a fierce demonstration, chanting "Long live the independence of Korea!" and "Japanese and their army, out of Korea!"
The number of demonstrators multiplied soon into more than 100,000 in spite of the Japanese imperialists' brutal crackdown.
The demonstration spread over not only the whole country but also Manchuria, Shanghai, Maritime Province, Hawaii, etc.
Korean people who had suffered a miserable lot of an enslaved nation took part in the uprising in all parts of the country irrespective of occupation and religious faith, age and sex.
Within three months since the start of the uprising, more than two million people of all social strata joined the uprising and demonstrations and riots totaled over 3,200 times till the end of the year.
The March First Popular Uprising was a historical event which demonstrated the Korean people's independent and patriotic spirit of not tolerating outsiders' rule.
US Urged to Drop Its Cold War-Style Way of Thinking
Pyongyang, February 1 (KCNA) -- The assistant secretary of the U.S. State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs recently blustered that the United States has "maintained security and stability" in the East Asia-Pacific region for the last half a century and "the military forces" forward deployed in the Asia-Pacific region "should be continuously kept to defend peace and stability". And he claimed that "there can be no error in the fixed resolution to fulfill the commitment to defense", asserting that the U.S. will actively cooperate with south Korea "to modernize the military alliance."
Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
This is a revelation of the U.S. Cold War-style way of thinking which turns away from the issues of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and ensuring peace there as it brought to light the U.S. sinister intention for permanent military presence in the Asia-Pacific region including south Korea and its vicinity and invasion of the DPRK.
It was entirely thanks to the peace-loving DPRK's persevering efforts that a war has been averted and peace been preserved on the Korean Peninsula where the situation has constantly been pushed to the brink of a war.
The U.S. talk about "necessity" of its forces' presence in the Asia-Pacific region and "modernization of military alliance" with south Korea is nothing but an attempt to stifle the DPRK by force and hold unchallenged military hegemony in the region.
It is the U.S. bellicose forces' attempt for aggression to ignite a new Korean war with the method of preemptive strike by mobilizing the U.S. modern task forces.
The "fulfillment of the commitment to defense" and the "keeping of the U.S. forces" touted by the U.S. clearly prove once again that it seeks to retain edge of strength and put into practice its strategy for preemptive attack at any cost.
The U.S. would be well advised to coolly face up to the reality, dismantle the Cold War structure created by it in Northeast Asia as soon as possible and stop the reckless military rackets.
Guidelines for Improvement of Inter-Korean Relations, National Unity
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- The joint New Year editorial, published by leading newspapers of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, says that the Korean nation should crown Juche 99 (2010) that marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration as a year of opening a new phase of independent reunification by paving a way for improving inter-Korean relations and actively promoting national reconciliation and cooperation.
The North-South Summit and the publication of the June 15 joint declaration in 2000 marked a historic event of great significance in accomplishing the cause of national reunification.
Under the banner of the joint declaration, a new era of independent reunification has been opened and unprecedented successes achieved in the development of inter-Korean relations and the national reunification movement.
Though the inter-Korean relations had been aggravated last year, an atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation between the north and the south has been created by active and bold measures and sincere efforts made by the DPRK in order to make a turning-point in national reunification.
The previous ten years since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration followed by the publication of the October 4 declaration for its implementation, during which the Korean nation has advanced along the road for independent reunification, peace and prosperity, has clearly confirmed that these declarations are the most reasonable reunification programmes and the ideal of "By our nation itself" is the very national spirit and the one and only ideal in the June 15 reunification era.
Unshakable is the DPRK's stand that it will improve the north-south relations and open a way for national reunification on the basis of the historic declarations.
The present situation shows that only when the south Korean authorities respect the declarations and seek dialogue and improvement of relations between the two halves of Korea and all the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and abroad strengthen solidarity and collaboration, can the national reunification movement be developed.
The Korean nation should build up the atmosphere of independent reunification, reconciliation, cooperation and unity on a nationwide scale to greet the 10th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration and the 30th anniversary of the proposal for the founding of the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo.
Holding high the slogan "Let the entire nation unite under the banner of north-south joint declarations and achieve national reunification at the earliest date!" the entire Korean nation will frustrate all challenges of the anti-reunification forces and step up the grand nationwide march toward reunification.
Pomminryon Issues Joint Resolution
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) issued a joint resolution in the north and the south of Korea and abroad on Nov. 20 on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of its formation.
The resolution noted that Pomminryon has always taken the lead in the reunification movement of the fellow countrymen for defending the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--and the inter-Korean declarations and carrying them into practice.
It stressed that Pomminryon would further promote the national reconciliation and cooperation and strengthen the solidarity and unity with all the pro-reunification patriotic forces at home and abroad by strictly adhering to and implementing the inter-Korean declarations in order to defend peace of the country and open up a new phase of independent reunification.
Pomminryon will also ensure the organic relation and joint action with All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration and heighten the vigilance against the separatist forces' crafty moves to split and estrange the pro-reunification patriotic forces, it said.
The resolution said that the organization would categorically reject all sorts of confrontational concept, including the watchword "no nukes, opening and 3,000 dollars" which denies the inter-Korean declarations, encroaches upon the other party's system and dignity and incites the national confrontation, and decisively check all the joint military exercises and war moves staged with foreign forces.
It will fight it out to get such anti-reunification and anti-national evil laws and institutional barriers as the "National Security Law" abrogated, realize the legality of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon and ensure the release of the unreasonably arrested pro-reunification patriots, it said.
The resolution also stressed that Pomminryon would expand itself and further consolidate the solidarity of the north, south and overseas parties.
Next year is a significant year marking the 10th publication anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration and the 20th birthday of Pomminryon, it noted, saying: Pomminryon will glorify 2010 as a year of shining victory in which its movement is developed and a new epochal turn for the national unity and independent reunification brought under the banner of the inter-Korean joint declarations.
Improvement of Inter-Korean Relations Brooks not Delay
Pyongyang, October 29 (KCNA) -- To improve the inter-Korean relations is an urgent task whose fulfillment brooks not a moment's delay, observes Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article. It goes on:
Independent reunification, peace and prosperity of the Korean nation would be unthinkable without the improvement of the inter-Korean relations. The DPRK remains consistent in its stand to achieve national reunification through reconciliation and unity of the nation.
It is impossible to successfully implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration unless the ongoing confrontation between the north and the south is terminated as the situation surrounding the Korean Peninsula remains tenser and more complicated than ever before, the article notes, and goes on:
Only when the confrontation between the north and the south is brought to an end is it possible to defuse the military tension and achieve national reconciliation and unity. If the inter-Korean relations turn into those of confidence and reconciliation from those of mistrust and confrontation, there will be an atmosphere favorable for national reconciliation and cooperation.
The Koreans should not allow under any circumstances any foreign force's attempt to interfere in the issue of the inter-Korean relations and realize its aggressive and hegemonic ambition. They are fully capable of solving their issues by themselves as required by their will and wishes and this was proved in practice in the June 15 era of reunification.
Any attempt to shun from the undertaking to improve the inter-Korean relations and shelve it cannot be construed otherwise than an artifice to perpetuate the national division and pursue the confrontation between the north and the south. This practice will leave an indelible stain on the history of the nation after being branded as treachery.
All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should give momentum to the atmosphere of reconciliation and inject fresh energy into the movement for reunification and thus put further spurs to the process to improve the inter-Korean relations.
Statement by H.E. Mr. PAK KIL YON at the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Chairman of the Delegation of the Democratic People¡¯s Republic of Korea at the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
New York, 28 September, Juche 98(2009)
Mr. President,
At the outset, I, on behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People¡¯s Republic of Korea (DPRK), would like to congratulate you, Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on your election as President of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
At the same time, I wish to express my expectation that your skillful stewardship will lead the current session to a success.
Mr. President,
The 64th session of the UNGA will mark an end of the first decade of a new century the humankind ushered in with a great deal of anticipation and aspiration. One of the major tasks facing the UNGA this year is to take an impartial review of the first decade and set the correct path ahead.
The humankind has yet to realize its long-cherished desire to thrive in a peaceful and equitable world free from war, while its hopeful aspirations are confronted with a host of serious challenges one after another.
The Afghan war is in escalation whereas the Iraqi war is still at a loose end. The cold wind of nuclear arms race is blowing even before opening the negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
Avian influenza is not completely subdued. Yet a new strain of A/H1N1 flu is sweeping the world.
This year the world is undergoing much warmer globe than last year and witnessing more stagnant economies and much more people out of work everywhere.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has become more arrogant, resulting in further inequality and prevalent double standards in international relations.
We need to direct serious attention to this prevailing reality when we review the first decade of the new century.
Mr. President,
The DPRK, under the leadership of the great General KIM JONG IL, has now entered a new phase of the state building.
The great, prosperous and powerful nation as we say is a country in which national power is strong, everything thriving and the people living happily with nothing to envy in the world.
To build such a country was the lifetime wish of the great leader of our people, President KIM IL SUNG and to open the gate of the thriving nation by 2012 which marks the centenary of his birth is the invariable will of the DPRK government and people.
The main task before us in the next 3 years is to concentrate all efforts on the building of an economic power which is the last height of building a great, prosperous and powerful nation.
The Korean peninsula remains as ever in a state of armistice. But now that we possess a dependable nuclear deterrent, we can possibly prevent war and defend peace.
For over half a century our country was compelled to produce bullets first rather than sweets while suffering from nuclear threats and danger of war posed by hostile forces, but today we have settled down to channel our main efforts into the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation. To all intents and purposes, this is completely attributable to the Songun-based politics unfolded by the great General KIM JONG IL.
When our country turns into an economic power, it will create a new impetus to the economic development of the region. Our strife for economic building will constitute a significant element in the efforts of the international community to attain the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Mr. President,
We have never denied the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world.
The denuclearization is the behest of President KIM IL SUNG and nuclear-free world is a long cherished-desire of humankind.
The Korean people are holding the sovereignty and peace of the country dearer than any other people and nation of the world, proceeding from the characteristics of its historical development.
The DPRK has done everything it could to realize the peaceful reunification of the country, remove nuclear threats and source of war and secure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.
We initiated the denuclearization of Northeast Asia and the Korean peninsula and advanced the proposal on replacing the Armistice Agreement with a peace agreement and the proposal of adopting the DPRK-US non-aggression treaty.
However, our effort has not received due response from the United States (US). The US considers the Korean issue only in the light of its Asian strategy and dose not want to see the entire Korean peninsula denuclearized. Thus, it resulted in increased nuclear threats against the DPRK.
The arbitrariness of the US finds its expression in arguing that the DPRK must not launch even a peaceful satellite. The UNSC is being abused by this arbitrariness.
We came to the conclusion that so long as the US does not change its nuclear policy as at present time, we have no other option but to rely on our dependable nuclear possession to ensure nuclear balance of the region, if we are to preserve peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula depends on whether or not the US changes its nuclear policy towards Korea. In order to realize the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the US administration must discard old concept of confrontation and show the ¡°change¡± in practice, as it recently stated on several occasions.
Mr. President
We do not pursue nuclear arms race.
The mission of our nuclear weapon is to deter a war. We will only possess nuclear deterrent to such an extent as to deter military attack and its threat against our country.
The deterrence will be directly proportional to the threat on the Korean Peninsula, as in Europe and elsewhere.
The DPRK, while in possession of nuclear weapons, will act in a responsible manner in management, use and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons as well as in nuclear disarmament.
We share the position of all peace-loving countries including the non-aligned countries in opposing nuclear war, nuclear arms race and proliferation of nuclear weapons.
¡°Sanctions¡± are now imposed on us in the name of United Nations (UN) on the grounds that we possessed nuclear deterrent.
It may be recalled that the UN was born in the country which produced the first nuclear weapon and all five permanent member states of the UNSC are nuclear powers.
Had these countries shown sincerity in nuclear disarmament long time ago and refrained from arbitrary act of selectively taking an issue with the peaceful satellite launch of other country, the nuclear-related situation of the world may have evolved differently.
The DPRK attaches importance to sovereignty and equality enshrined in the UN Charter.
The principle of sovereignty and equality is also the reason that we joined UN as a member. Unfair and unequal sanctions will never be recognized nor accepted.
It is the stand of the DPRK government to react to the dialogue with a dialogue and respond to the ¡°sanctions¡± by strengthening nuclear deterrence. If the US comes to dialogue with ¡°sanctions¡±, we will also participate in the dialogue with bolstered nuclear deterrence.
Mr. President,
Thanks to the broad-minded bold decision of the great General KIM JONG IL, the north-south relations have entered a new phase on the Korean peninsula.
In a little more than one year, the north and the south had to undergo turns and twists owing to differences in each other¡¯s position towards the historic June 15 Joint Declaration and October 4 Declaration which were recognized and supported by the UNGA.
However, our earnest and magnanimous efforts have paved a way for a turning-point to achieve common conception of these grand programs for reunification.
The inter-Korean economic cooperation, including operation of the Kaesong industrial complex, is back on normal track and separated families are able to be reunited.
The DPRK government will, in the future, too, continue to make all possible efforts to materialize national reconciliation and unity and bring earlier the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, under the banner of ¡°by our nation itself.¡±
Mr. President,
It is the common understanding of all member states to reform UN as required by a new century.
At present, the most anachronistic organ in UN is the UNSC.
The unequal relations by which the strong nations had ruled the weak nations in the past half a century still remain in the structure of the UNSC and it is none other than the rules of procedure of this Council where democracy is least developed.
Today the General Assembly is the only place in UN where the voices of international community can be correctly reflected and democracy ensured.
In order to strengthen the role of UN in conformity with the requirement of the times and the changed situation, it is important to thoroughly democratize the UNSC and decisively raise the authority of the General Assembly.
In restructuring the UNSC, we should debate first on the feasible issues such as expansion of non-permanent members of the UNSC on the principle of fully ensuring the representation of the non-aligned and other developing countries which account for majority of the UN member states.
In enhancing the authority of the General Assembly, we need to discuss the issue of submitting to the UNGA for approval the decisions of the UNSC and, in particular, all the decisions related to the principle of sovereign equality of the UN Charter.
UN is required to have proper criteria and principle for debating human rights issue.
The UN Charter recognizes the rights of national self-determination and choice, the principle of non-interference in internal affairs and all international human rights instruments set the non-politicization of human rights as their elementary principles.
But now in UN, some debates are running counter to this.
Any attempt to make an issue of systems of specific countries and to interfere in their internal affairs under the disguise of the ¡°protection of human rights¡± is, in itself, a violation of human rights denying the right of people of those countries to choose their own system.
UN should pay attention to the fact that on its human rights agenda there are only ¡°problems¡± of small countries without mentioning about big countries, the west and European countries.
Due attention should also be given to the reality in which the role of non-aligned and other developing countries is enhanced on the international arena.
International efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals and address the central issues of UN like global economic crisis and climate change urgently call for active participation of a broad spectrum of developing countries including non-aligned movement.
Mr. President,
The foreign policy of the DPRK, as in the past and now, so also in the future, will be committed to the principles of independence, peace and friendship.
The DPRK government will make active efforts to further strengthen and develop friendly and cooperative relations with all UN member states under these principles and discharge its full responsibility in defending peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world.
Thank you.
All Koreans Called upon to Preserve Their National Self-Esteem
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- A people strong in national self-esteem can defend the sovereignty and dignity of the nation and achieve the prosperity and development of the country and the nation while meeting any challenge. This is the truth taught by history.
National self-esteem serves as a powerful weapon for every country and nation to protect themselves and achieve prosperity.
There is nothing impossible if one is confident that one's nation is not inferior to other nation and one has the determination to defend and demonstrate the dignity of the nation to the last and the faith and will to dedicate oneself to one's nation.
In the new century some countries allowed themselves to be reduced to a scene of genocide after being derived of their sovereignty, exposed to military strikes of imperialists, mainly because they lacked national self-esteem.
The Korean people have covered the most arduous and thorny path which no country has ever done.
On this path they stood in fierce military and political confrontation with the imperialists, experienced bitter adversities and underwent economic difficulties and hardships in living caused by repeated natural disasters.
Possessed of strong national self-esteem, the Korean people could foil the high-handed policy of the imperialists to stifle the DPRK with the toughest measures.
All the miraculous successes achieved by the Korean people this year are the brilliant fruition of the strong national self-esteem peculiar to them.
The stirring reality in which great leaping advances and changes are taking place everywhere clearly testifies to the fact that the national self-esteem of the Korean people serves, indeed, as strong mental power to create everything from scratch and a powerful weapon for frustrating any pressure and sanctions of the imperialists.
DPRK to Fulfil All Its Responsibilities to Protect Peace and Security
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will boost its friendly and cooperative relations with the countries in the region and fulfil all its responsibilities to protect the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the region in line with the idea of its foreign policy--independence, peace and friendship in the future, too.
The head of the delegation of the DPRK said this at the 16th ministerial meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum held in Thailand on July 23.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the ARF, he noted, adding that it has clearly demonstrated its vitality in this period.
The ARF has traversed the road of meaningful development as it observed the principle of respect for sovereignty and equality, he pointed out, and continued:
It is the Cold War-minded logic lingering on the peninsula to assert that anyone having different ideology and social system is liable to become an object of enmity and strangulation. The tense situation prevailing on the peninsula is arousing serious apprehension inside and outside Korea.
Noting that what is important for seeking ways for settling the situation is to have correct understanding of the nature and root cause of the situation, he clarified some points related to this.
The situation prevailing on the peninsula goes to prove that the United Nations Security Council not only lacks democracy but has gone beyond the tolerance limit in the application of double standards and in the aspect of partiality and in acting a servant for those perpetrating high-handed practices, the speaker noted, and went on:
The DPRK's nuclear deterrent is by no means a lever for invading or threatening others but war deterrent for protecting the peace and security on the peninsula in the true sense of the word.
He expressed hope that the members of the ARF would have proper understanding of the nature and root cause of the peculiar situation on the peninsula and invariably adhere to the objective and principle laid down by it 15 years back.
Mammoth Pyongyang Rally Denounces UNSC "Resolution"
Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang city rally was held at Kim Il Sung Square Monday to denounce the United Nations Security Council's "resolution on sanctions" cooked up at the instigation of the U.S. imperialists.
Attending the rally were senior party, army and state officials, the chairman of a friendly party, leading officials of the party, armed forces and power organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons, youth and students and people from all walks of life, more than 100,000 in all.
Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in a speech said that the UNSC finally adopted an anti-DPRK "resolution on sanctions" at the instigation of the U.S. over the DPRK's second nuclear test, another grave provocation. This is, in essence, a wicked pressure offensive launched by the U.S. imperialists to disarm the DPRK, strangle its economy and undermine its ideology and system, he held, adding:
The UNSC's "resolution on sanctions" is an intolerable mockery of the dignity of the Korean people and an arrogant criminal act of wantonly violating its sovereignty.
The DPRK has so far done what it should do despite the ceaseless "sanctions" on the part of the imperialist allied forces. These "sanctions" prompted it to augment its national power, far from "weakening" it. This clearly proves that no enemy's anti-DPRK "sanctions" racket is workable and it is ridiculous and foolish for the U.S. to try to bring down the DPRK through "sanctions."
The hostile forces will sustain a bitterer setback and defeat if they persist in the moves for putting sanctions upon the DPRK and stifling it, misjudging the tough stand taken by the army and the people of the DPRK as "brinkmanship."
No matter how desperately the U.S. imperialists and other hostile forces may work to isolate and blockade the DPRK, a full-fledged nuclear weapons state, it will remain unfazed. In case the enemies foolishly attempt to blockade the DPRK it will respond to it with resolute and deadly blows, considering it as a war action.
The DPRK will steadily advance along the path of independence chosen by itself and will win a final victory in the confrontation with the U.S. whether it has flanks or not and whether it receives international aid or not.
Pak Jae Gyong, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces who spoke on behalf of the Korean People's Army, vehemently denounced the UNSC "resolution" as a serious provocation, a wanton violation of the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK and its people.
He warned that the KPA will mercilessly frustrate any attempt to check, inspect, examine and blockade any ship and object for which the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised with powerful military retaliatory blows.
Under the present situation where the KPA is technically at war with the U.S. imperialists as the Armistice Agreement has lost its legal binding force the KPA will promptly exercise the right to preemptive strike to beat back the enemies' slightest provocation. It will deal telling blows at the vital parts of the U.S. and wipe out all its imperialist aggressor troops no matter where they are in the world.
The Japanese militarists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors and other lackeys of the U.S. imperialists should stop running wild, well aware that they will never be able to escape a stern punishment by the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK if they keep going reckless.
Then the floor was taken by representatives of workers, agricultural workers, intellectuals and youth and students.
KPA Panmunjom Mission Clarifies Revolutionary Armed Forces' Principled Stand
Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army issued a statement Wednesday in connection with the fact that the unstable situation created in Korea due to the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors' reckless moves to "fully participate" in the U.S.-led PSI is now inching close an extreme phase where a war may break out any moment.
The present rulers of the U.S. including Obama egged the south Korean puppets on to participate in the PSI, asserting that it is necessary to turn the PSI into a "lasting international regime," the statement noted, and continued:
This is a wanton violation and clear negation of not only international law but the Korean Armistice Agreement which bans "any form of blockade" against the other belligerent party.
The Lee group has unhesitatingly taken the step of "fully participating" in the PSI, blindly yielding to its master as it is steeped in sycophancy and submission to the marrow of its bones.
In view of this situation the Panmunjom Mission of the KPA clarifies the following principled stand of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK:
1. Our revolutionary armed forces, as they have already declared, will regard the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors' "full participation" in the PSI as a declaration of war against the DPRK.
Accordingly, they will regard any hostile actions against the DPRK, including checkup and inspection of its peaceful vessels, as an unpardonable encroachment on the DPRK's sovereignty and counter them with prompt and strong military strikes.
2. The Korean People's Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer since the present ruling quarters of the United States, keen on the moves to stifle the DPRK, plugged the south Korean puppets into the PSI at last, denying not only international law but the AA itself and discarding even its responsibility as a signatory to the agreement.
In case the AA loses its binding force, the Korean Peninsula is bound to immediately return to a state of war from a legal point of view and so our revolutionary armed forces will go over to corresponding military actions.
3. For the present, we will not guarantee the legal status of the five islands under the south side's control (Paekryong, Taechong, Sochong, Yonphyong and U islands) in our side's territorial waters northwest of the extension of the Military Demarcation Line in the West Sea of Korea and safe sailing of warships of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces and the south Korean puppet navy and civilian ships operating in the waters around there.
It is illogical for the DPRK to unilaterally meet the requirements of fair international law and the bilateral agreement since the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors have reneged on them. Nothing is graver mistake than to calculate that the American-style Jungle law can work on the DPRK.
They should bear in mind that the DPRK has tremendous military muscle and its own method of strike able to conquer any targets in its vicinity at one stroke or hit the U.S. on the raw, if necessary.
Those who provoke the DPRK once will not be able to escape its unimaginable and merciless punishment.
Unreasonable Suppression of Pomminryon Protested in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Members of the South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) and human rights organizations in south Korea called a news conference in Seoul on May 9, protesting against the Lee Myung Bak group's unreasonable crackdown upon the arrested members of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon.
Speakers at the conference said it is unprecedented and evidently illegal that the "Intelligence Service" has treated those members as criminals though the facts about "crime" were not confirmed nor warrants for their arrest issued.
They declared that civic and public organizations including the South Headquarters of Pomminryon would form a "preparatory committee for the joint measure committee of civic and public organizations to counter the suppression of Pomminryon" and vigorously wage a joint counteraction.
A press release, read out at the conference, urged the court to clearly see through the reckless suppression by the IS and take a proper action against it.
Earlier on May 7, the action headquarters of the 17th-term south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) made public a statement branding the authorities' wholesale suppression as a challenge to the whole nation desirous of independent reunification.
Hanchongryon will launch a stronger struggle for forcing the Lee Myung Bak regime to step down in face of the authorities' anti-reunification moves and stand in the van of the struggle to get the "National Security Law," an outdated evil law, abrogated in unison with the people from all walks of life, the statement declared.
The South Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration and its affiliated organizations released statements on May 8 denouncing the recent repression as a premeditated and intentional action of the Lee regime seeking to save itself from the ruling crisis by creating a new terror-ridden atmosphere.
They stated that all the non-governmental organizations for the reunification movement aspiring after inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation and reunification of the country strongly urge the Lee regime to stop at once the unreasonable suppression of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon.
26th April Spring Friendship Art Festival Opens
Pyongyang, April 10 (KCNA) -- The 26th April Spring Friendship Art Festival was opened with due ceremony here on Friday.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, and others, officials concerned, working people and artistes in Pyongyang.
It was also attended by foreign artistes, Korean artistes overseas and delegations of different countries, diplomatic envoys, representatives of international organizations and various embassy officials here, foreign guests and overseas compatriots staying in the DPRK.
Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su, chairman of the organizing committee of the festival, delivered an opening address.
He warmly welcomed foreign artistes and Korean artistes overseas who came here to participate in the 26th April Spring Friendship Art Festival taking place in Pyongyang at a significant time when the Korean people are commemorating the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as the greatest holiday of the nation.
He recalled that the festival has developed into a grand international gathering of the progressive artistes desirous of genuine culture and arts and a stage of friendship for boosting the cultural exchange and cooperation among countries generation after generation.
Noting that the festival will provide artistes of different countries of the world with a meaningful occasion of swapping successes and experience gained in the creation of national arts and contributing to the development of human culture and arts, guided by the noble idea of independence, peace and friendship, he expressed the belief that the participants in the festival would achieve great successes in their performing activities.
Bai Shuxiang, vice-president of the China Federation of Literature and Art Circles, and Boris Teblin, head of the State Academy Ensemble Named after Sveshnikov of Russia, made congratulatory speeches.
Then, Korean artistes in costumes of different countries presented graceful dances reflecting the ardent yearning and profound reverence of all people for Kim Il Sung to the tune of "Song of Mangyongdae".
Seen on the background of the stage were scenes showing Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il watching performances given during the festivals and receiving artistes from different parts of the world who participated in the festivals.
A performance was given by Korean artistes at the opening ceremony.
KCNA Report on DPRK's Accession to International Space Treaty and Convention
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The KCNA made public a report today that the DPRK acceded to the international treaty and convention on space.
According to it, recently the DPRK acceded to the "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies" and the "Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space."
The DPRK's accession to the said treaty and convention will contribute to promoting international confidence and boosting cooperation in the scientific research into space and the satellite launch for peaceful purposes.
In another development, the DPRK informed the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Maritime Organization and other international organizations of necessary information for the safe navigation of planes and ships according to relevant regulations as part of its preparations for launching Kwangmyongsong-2, an experimental communications satellite, by carrier rocket Unha-2 which was made public by the Korean Committee of Space Technology recently.
DPRK's Principled Stand on Denuclearization of Korean Peninsula Reiterated
Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors has neither face nor qualification to talk about the nuclear issue of someone.
A spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said this when answering the question put by KCNA Monday as regards the recent misbehavior of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors over the issue of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
It is the unshakable stand already clarified by the DPRK that it will never show its nuclear weapons unless the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy towards the DPRK and the latter is completely free from the former's nuclear threat, he added.
Citing facts, he assailed the group for groundlessly finding fault with the above-said principled stand of the DPRK.
All these facts glaringly reveal the treacherous nature of the group blindly following its American master's hostile policy toward the DPRK and ruckus for nuclear threat although it is unaware of the essence and scope of the issue of denuclearizing the peninsula, he noted, and continued:
By nature, the nuclear issue surfaced on the Korean Peninsula and has been hyped because the puppets secretly introduced lots of nuclear shells to south Korea, pursuant to the U.S. nuclear policy of "neither denying nor admitting," and deployed or designated even striking means for their application.
He clarified the following principled stand of the KPA, accusing these traitors of dare saying this or that about the DPRK's just stand and assertion about the nuclear issue while covering up the crimes they have committed against the nation:
The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors should clearly understand that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is by no means an issue of "dismantling the north's nuclear weapons."
The DPRK will never "dismantle its nuclear weapons" unless nukes in south Korea are dismantled to remove the nuclear threat from the U.S.
The Lee group should not forget that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula should be realized through the verification in the whole peninsula under any circumstances.
If it is true that there are no nukes in south Korea and no nuclear threat is posed to the DPRK as claimed by the U.S. and the Lee group, there is no reason whatsoever for them not to positively respond to the call for the nuclear verification of the whole of south Korea.
The Lee group should know well that the only way of eliminating nukes under the present situation where the hostile relations persist is for those parties concerned that have nukes to opt for nuclear disarmament simultaneously.
No one knows when the hostile policy desperately pursued towards the DPRK in disregard of the desire for an end to the state of ceasefire will lead to a nuclear war. It is the height of shamelessness for one belligerent party to urge the other belligerent party to unilaterally dismantle its nuclear weapons under such situation.
The Lee group should stop acting a disgusting stooge serving its American master after meddling in the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
The nuclear weapons of the DPRK with the mission to save the nation and defend the country will discharge to the last their special mission and duty as a precious treasured sword common to the nation as long as the U.S. anti-DPRK nuclear war racket persists in south Korea and in its vicinity and the confrontation with the DPRK is escalated by the Lee group, pursuant to the above-said ruckus.
2009 to Be Year of New Revolutionary Upsurge
Pyongyang, January 5 (KCNA) -- The hope-filled New Year has dawned in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea where the torch of the new revolutionary upsurge kindled by General Secretary Kim Jong Il is blazing across the country like a prairie fire.
Now the Korean people are full of great enthusiasm to launch a general offensive dynamically, sounding the advance for opening the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful nation, united closely around the Workers' Party of Korea as at the time when the great Chollima upsurge was brought about in the post-war years.
Kim Jong Il kindled the torch of a new revolutionary upsurge in Kangson on December 24 last year. It is a great event that will bring about a momentous turning point in the development of the WPK and the revolution as in December Juche 45 (1956) when President Kim Il Sung set the great Chollima Movement in motion.
Herein lies the WPK's invariable will to build a powerful socialist country that ensures the eternal prosperity of the nation under the blue sky of the country highly dignified with Songun and hand it down to posterity by racing against the time in the spirit and the mettle of having overcome manifold difficulties and built on the war debris a strong country independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence through a great Chollima upsurge.
The Korean people will certainly build a great, prosperous and powerful nation in the socialist country, the greatest patriotic heritage of President Kim Il Sung, by giving full scope to the indomitable spiritual strength and using all the potentials that they have cultivated and built in the flames of Songun and thus making a giant leap forward on all fronts through the great revolutionary upsurge.
U.S. Recognizes DPRK as Nuclear Weapons State
Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. government ranked the DPRK among nuclear weapons states.
The recent annual report of the U.S. Defense Department said "The rim of the great Asian Continent is already home to five nuclear powers: China, India, Pakistan, the DPRK and Russia".
It is the first time that the U.S. officially recognized the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state and announced it in its government report.
Inter-Korean Joint Declaration Described as Powerful Weapon for Independent Reunification
Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- The historic discourse given by General Secretary Kim Jong Il to Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Minju Joson, the organ of the DPRK government, on September 5 serves as immortal guidelines that the Korean nation should steadily hold fast to in the efforts for independent reunification, peace and prosperity of Korea.
Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article.
In the work Kim Jong Il clarified the most infallible and realistic way for achieving the national reunification, the supreme urgent task of the Korean nation, and opening up the road for unified development and prosperity of the nation, the article notes, and goes on:
The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration are banner of struggle and weapon of invincibility that the Koreans should hold high in their efforts to realize the independent reunification of the country.
The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors is malevolently challenging the cause of independent reunification while negating the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration, but this is no more than miserable last-ditch effort of the discarded of history whose days are numbered. Steadfast is the will of the nation to defend and implement the above-said declarations and win victory in the cause of national reunification despite any storms and outrageous challenge.
The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration are an indestructible banner for the accomplishment of the cause of independent reunification that the Koreans should always and invariably hold high as in the past, so in the future, too.
Implementation of October 4 Declaration Called for
Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- The adoption of the declaration on October 4 in 2007 at the historic Pyongyang summit marked an event to be
specially recorded in history as it provided an occasion to bring about a landmark turn in the movement for national reunification.
Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article carried on the occasion of the first anniversary of the publication of the Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity.
The October 4 declaration serves as a reunification programme common to the nation as it paved a wide avenue for all Koreans who love the country and the nation to bring earlier the reunification of the country, while promoting reconciliation, unity and cooperation under the banner of the June 15 joint
declaration, the article says, and goes on:
General Secretary Kim Jong Il signed the historic October 4 declaration, thus indicating the most correct way of achieving independent reunification and peace and prosperity by the concerted efforts of the Koreans, and has provided energetic leadership for bringing about a victorious advance in the movement for national reunification. This is an undying feat performed by him in the history of the nation.
The declaration reflects the unanimous desire and wishes of all Koreans to achieve independent reunification and peace and prosperity by the concerted
efforts of the Koreans.
The Lee Myung Bak group is talking about "co-existence and co-prosperity" and "dialogue" but, in actuality, busy fanning up the atmosphere of the inter-Korean confrontation, slandering and negating the June 15 joint declaration and October 4 declaration which indicate a clear way for achieving national reunification and national prosperity.
The people from all walks of life in south Korea should intensify the struggle against Lee Myung Bak, bearing in mind that their life and future
depend on the struggle for smashing the Lee group's anti-reunification racket for confrontation.
All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad will surely accomplish the historic desire for national reunification by the concerted efforts of the
Koreans by holding fast to the above-mentioned declarations.
1st Anniversary of Publication of October 4 Declaration Marked
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held in Pyongyang on Friday to mark the 1st anniversary of the publication of the historic October 4 declaration.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, chairpersons of the friendly parties, leading officials of power organs and social organizations, officials of ministries and national institutions, people from all walks of life in Pyongyang and overseas compatriots.
Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in his report said that the historic October 4 declaration is action guidelines and a programme for implementing the June 15 joint declaration as the above-said historic declaration comprehensively indicates overall ways for developing the inter-Korean relations, achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula, co-prosperity of the nation and the country's reunification, guided by the main spirit of the June 15 joint declaration.
He stressed that the adoption of the October 4 declaration which fully reflects the desire and wishes of the nation made it possible for the north and the south to expand and develop the economic cooperation for the balanced development of the Korean nation's economy and co-prosperity on the principle of common interests and co-prosperity and mutual accommodation and positively conduct multi-faced cooperation for glorifying the time-honored history and advantageous culture of the nation.
He referred to the fact that General Secretary Kim Jong Il has wisely steered the patriotic movement of all Koreans for reunification to implement the October 4 declaration with his tireless energetic leadership.
The reporter called on all the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas to set store by and consolidate the good results gained through the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and hold higher the banner of "By our nation itself."
He also underlined the need for the Koreans of all strata in the north and the south and overseas to strongly reject the servile sycophantic and treacherous acts of the south Korean conservative ruling forces and their confrontational moves against the nation and reunification and decisively frustrate all sorts of interference and arbitrary practices of foreign forces.
He called for expanding and strengthening All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration, a solidarity organization for nationwide reunification movement grouping different political parties and organizations and figures at home and abroad, and boosting the solidarity among Koreans in the north and the south and overseas.
He underlined the need for all of them to positively support the independent politics of attaching importance to the nation, Songun politics and intensify the nationwide struggle for independent reunification and peace and prosperity of the country.
Anniversary of Publication of October 4 Declaration Observed
Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- A seminar took place here on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the publication of the historic October 4 declaration.
Present there were Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, Ryu Mi Yong, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Korean Chondoist Chongu Party, Kim Wan Su, director of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, leading officials of public organizations, officials concerned and working people in Pyongyang.
Speeches were made by Kim Yong Dae, Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, An Kyong Ho, director of the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, Ri Jong Hyok, director of the National Reunification Institute, and Ro Song Sil, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union.
Speakers said that the adoption and publication of the "Declaration for Development of the North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity" in October last year provided a firm guarantee for more energetically advancing the June 15 era of reunification, adding that the declaration absolutely supported and approved by the public at home and abroad was a shining embodiment and precious fruition of the outstanding idea and leadership of Kim Jong Il.
They explained and proved that the said declaration is a practical common document as it indicates a true way of upholding and embodying the idea of "By our nation itself" enshrined in the June 15 joint declaration and a banner putting strong impetus to the independent development and reunification of the nation.
The declaration serves as highly important guidelines for bringing about a new phase in developing the inter-Korean relations and achieving national reunification as it indicates overall practical ways and measures for adhering to the June 15 joint declaration and positively embodying it and boosting those relations in the direction of reunification on the basis of mutual respect and confidence.
Explaining that the October 4 declaration is a peace declaration which calls for putting an end to the military hostile relations between the north and the south, defusing tension and ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula, they referred to measures for implementing it.
They underscored the need for all Koreans to turn out in the struggle to implement the above-said declarations under the uplifted banner of Songun and thus shatter the moves of the separatist forces at home and abroad and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification through their concerted efforts.
Foreign Ministry's Spokesman on DPRK's Decision to Suspend Activities to Disable Nuclear Facilities
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday in connection with the stumbling block laid by the United States in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula by refusing to implement the October 3 agreement of the six-party talks. The statement said:
Under the October 3 agreement stipulating the practical measures to be taken at the second phase for the implementation of the September 19 joint statement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula the DPRK was committed to presenting a nuclear declaration and the U.S. was also committed to writing the DPRK off the list of the "state sponsors of terrorism."
The DPRK has honored its commitment by presenting the nuclear declaration on June 26. But the U.S. failed to delist the DPRK as a "state sponsor of terrorism" within the fixed date for the mere "reason" that a protocol on the verification of the nuclear declaration has not yet been agreed upon. This was an outright violation of the agreement.
No agreements reached among the six parties or between the DPRK and the U.S. contain an article which stipulates the verification of the nuclear declaration of the DPRK as conditionality for delisting it as a "state sponsor of terrorism."
As far as the verification is concerned, it is a commitment to be fulfilled by the six parties at the final phase of the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula according to the September 19 joint statement.
It should be verified that there are no U.S. nuclear weapons in and around south Korea and that there has been neither new shipment nor passage of those weapons.
This verification and the verification of the DPRK's fulfillment of its commitments should be done at the same time. This is the principle of "action for action".
All that was agreed upon at the present phase was to set up verification and monitoring mechanisms within the framework of the six parties.
The U.S., however, raised all of a sudden an issue of applying an "international standard" to the verification of the nuclear declaration, abusing this agreed point. It pressurized the DPRK to accept such inspection as scouring any place of the DPRK as it pleases to collect samples and measure them.
The "international standard" touted by the U.S. is nothing but "special inspection" which the IAEA called for in the 1990s to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and caused it to pull out of the NPT in the end.
The U.S. is gravely mistaken if it thinks it can make a house search in the DPRK as it pleases just as it did in Iraq.
The U.S. insistence on the unilateral inspection of the DPRK is a brigandish demand for unilaterally disarming the DPRK, the other belligerent party, by discarding its commitment to the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula the core of which is to remove the U.S. nuclear threat according to the September 19 joint statement.
The DPRK's intention to denuclearize the peninsula is to remove the nuclear threat from the Korean nation, not to have a bargaining over the DPRK's nuclear deterrent.
For whom is the six-way structure necessary if the six-party talks are reduced to a platform for a big country to trifle with a small country as it does at present?
This time the U.S. postponed the process of delisting the DPRK as a "state sponsor of terrorism" under the pretext of verification even after officially declaring internally and externally that the DPRK is not a "state sponsor of terrorism". This is little short of admitting that the list is not related to terrorism in actuality.
The DPRK does not care whether it continues remaining on the list of "those countries which are disobedient to the U.S."
The U.S. is now keen to gravely encroach upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.
Now that the U.S. breached the agreed points, the DPRK is compelled to take the following countermeasures on the principle of "action for action":
First, the DPRK decided to immediately suspend the disablement of its nuclear facilities that had been underway according to the October 3 agreement.
This step took effect on August 14 and the parties concerned have already been notified of this.
Second, the DPRK will consider soon a step to restore the nuclear facilities in Nyongbyon to their original state as strongly requested by its relevant institutions.
Spokesman for KPA Unit Stationed in Area of Mt. Kumgang Issues Special Statement
Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the unit of the Korean People's Army stationed in the area of Mt. Kumgang issued today a special statement in connection with the unsavory incident that occurred in the area of Mt. Kumgang on July 11 in which an unidentified south Korean tourist was shot to death after illegally intruding into the area under the military control of the north side.
We still do not know for what purpose the killed tourist crossed the boundary fence which bans free access in early dawn and what the tourist was going to do after intruding deep into the said area.
Whatever the cause of the incident might be, our side already expressed regret at it through a relevant organ, taking into consideration the fact that the tourist was a compatriot although the tourist met death due to the tourist's own mistake.
But no sooner had the incident occurred than the south Korean puppets, as if they had been waiting for the incident to occur, went so imprudent as to kick up a reckless racket of confrontation with the north almost every day, misleading the public opinion at home and abroad.
Traitor Lee Myung Bak and other men in authority of the puppet government including those concerned of the "Ministry of Unification" are taking the lead in this campaign and it is joined in by the "Grand National Party" and other conservative political parties and organizations.
On July 31 Han Sung Su, puppet prime minister, again made his appearance in an official event where he behaved so ridiculously as to demand the north "punish" the one responsible for the incident and make an understandable "clarification."
We can not but say what we should do, given that the Lee Myung Bak group keeps making much fuss, slandering us just like a guilty party filing the suit first.
The recent racket kicked up by the Lee group is nothing but a deliberate anti-DPRK confrontational ruckus launched by the group on the basis of the fiction cooked up on its own presumption and judgment in a bid to achieve a sinister aim.
A soldier of the KPA spotted the above-mentioned unidentified intruder into the area under the military control of the north side at around 4:50 a.m. on July 11 in a place about 800 m north of the boundary fence.
The soldier who was on combat duty at that time asked the intruder to stop several times according to the relevant regulations in order to ascertain the identity, given that it was too early for the soldier to judge from which direction the intruder came and discern whether the trespasser was a man or a woman.
The trespasser, however, began to flee away, disregarding the soldier's repeated demand. This compelled the soldier to fire even blank shots in an effort to stop the intruder at any cost. Defying this, the intruder ran away so quickly that the soldier was compelled to open fire at the intruder, killing intruder in the end.
This is the truth quite contrary to the Lee group's propaganda.
Frankly speaking, we have so many things that require clarifications but the tourist met death after illegally intruding into the area under the military control of our side.
Nevertheless, the Lee group is urging us to make "apology" and "probe the truth" while making desperate efforts to make the public believe that the KPA soldier took an "excessive counter-action" against the intruder in the area under the military control though the soldier was well aware that the intruder was an unarmed tourist who was on a walk at dawn.
Worse still, they behaved so shamelessly as to visit this or that country in a bid to arrange even a "joint survey of the scene" through "international cooperation".
It is our stand that as far as the fact-finding probe is concerned, this request was fully met when the personnel of the south side permanently stationed at Mt. Kumgang tourist resort inspected the scene, confirmed the dead and took over the body.
Therefore, we interpreted the racket kicked up by traitor Lee Myung Bak right after the occurrence of the incident as a foolish and clumsy behavior betraying his ignorance of military affairs as he has never served in the army and termed it a deliberate anti-DPRK confrontational move to bring the inter-Korean relations to a graver phase.
The Lee group is making much fuss that what the soldier of the KPA did was a wanton violation of the law on the tour of Mt. Kumgang and the agreement on entry, exit and stay in the tourist resort reached between the north and the south though it was a legitimate military action. Clear is an aim sought by the group through this.
The group is working hard to lay the blame for the incident at the door of our side.
Traitor Lee is kicking up all these rackets, absurdly linking the incident that occurred due to the intruder's mistake with the "vital right of people" and hyping and falsifying the incident. This is another politically motivated charade to evade the responsibility for having made the vital rights of south Koreans a victim of American cattle infected with mad cow disease and divert the criticism of him to us.
The reality shows that traitor Lee Myung Bak is driving the frozen inter-Korean relations to a catastrophic phase and he has reached the phase of completely hamstringing the implementation of the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration after going beyond the phase of negating these declarations.
In view of such grave provocation of the Lee Myung Bak group as persisting in its reckless anti-DPRK confrontational racket after unilaterally suspending the tour of Mt. Kumgang under the pretext of the recent case the spokesman for the above-said unit of the KPA made it clear that the unit is authorized to take the following measures:
We will expel all the persons of the south side staying in the Mt. Kumgang tourist area we deem unnecessary.
We will more strictly limit and control the passage of the persons and vehicles of the south side through the Military Demarcation Line to enter the area of Mt. Kumgang.
We will take strong military counter-actions against even the slightest hostile actions in the tourist resort in the area of Mt. Kumgang and the area under the military control from now on.
The statement warned that in case the present inter-Korean relations reach a catastrophic phase, the Lee Myung Bak group will be held entirely accountable for this before the times and the nation.
Lasting Peace on the Korean Peninsula Called for
Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Leading papers today in editorials carried 58 years after the U.S. imperialists provoked the Korean war of aggression call for meeting the challenges of the war forces at home and abroad and ensuring lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Rodong Sinmun says that the Korean War ignited by the U.S. imperialists on June 25, 1950 was a brazen-faced and brigandish war of aggression to put Korea under their colonial rule and, furthermore, conquer Asia and the rest of the world and the most barbarous war of genocide in the history of wars.
The U.S. has ceaselessly stepped up the arms build-up and joint military exercises targeted against the DPRK in wanton violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement since the outset of the new century, far from drawing a bitter lesson from its defeat in the Korean War and making a switchover in its policy of aggression toward the DPRK. It is instigating the puppet warmaniacs to confrontation and war against fellow countrymen. Since its seizure of power in south Korea the Lee Myung Bak group has boosted its cooperation with outside forces in the war moves, swimming against the trend of the times towards detente and peace. The bellicose moves escalated by the Lee Myung Bak regime in collusion with outside forces are throwing a stumbling block in the way of achieving peace and the reunification of the country and increasing the danger of the second Korean War.
The situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula at present requires all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas to unite close and wage a vigorous nationwide struggle to defend peace, the daily says, calling on all Koreans to hold aloft the banner of Songun and protect the dignity and sovereignty of the country and the nation and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification.
The daily underscored the need for all Koreans to stand on the same front of the struggle for peace against war and smash every move of the U.S. for a war of aggression against the DPRK, a grave threat to the peace on the Korean Peninsula, and the every reckless move of the Lee Myung Bak group, its lackeys, to ignite a war of aggression against the north.
Minju Joson stresses that no force on earth can ever arrest the struggle of the Korean nation to defend peace and achieve independent reunification under the uplifted banner of Songun.
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Preservation of Peace on Korean Peninsula Called for
Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- If a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula again, it will certainly develop into a nuclear war to threaten the very existence of the nation. It is, therefore, the most urgent task to be fulfilled by the whole nation for protecting its existence and security and achieving the reunification of the country to defend peace from a war. Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.
It goes on: The entire nation should frustrate the moves of the bellicose forces at home and abroad to provoke a war of aggression against the north and intensify the struggle for peace against war in order to ensure peace on the peninsula.
The struggle for peace against war means a just and patriotic struggle to defend the cradle for the nation and a sacred struggle to pave the way for national reunification and the independent development of the nation.
All Koreans should stand up against the U.S. criminal war maneuvers and arms build-up threatening the existence and future of the nation and isturbing peace and blocking the reunification of the country and its moves to escalate the military pressure upon the DPRK and resolutely frustrate them.
The south Korean people should wage a vigorous struggle for independence against the U.S. and for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces and thus force the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, the root cause of national misfortune and pain, to quit south Korea as early as possible.
They should, at the same time, intensify the struggle to check and foil the moves stepped up by the Lee Myung Bak group to boost the cooperation with foreign forces in war maneuvers and its reckless actions for a war of aggression against the north, hell-bent on sycophancy towards the U.S. and confrontation with fellow countrymen. All Koreans in the north and the south should turn out in the nation-wide patriotic struggle to remove the danger of war and defend peace.
The idea of "By our nation itself" serves as a powerful weapon in the struggle for peace against war.
All Koreans at home and abroad should
firmly unite as one in the above-said idea and thoroughly smash the criminal moves of the U.S. and the Lee group, its lackeys, to provoke a new war by the concerted efforts of the nation.
Conference of Educators of North and South Held
Mt. Kumgang Resort, May 30 (KCNA) -- A conference of educators of the north and the south for implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration took place at Mt. Kumgang resort on May 29 and 30.
Speeches were made at the conference on the subject "On the immediate tasks facing the educators of the north and the south to open up a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration".
Speakers recalled that educators in the north and the south have conducted brisk activities to implant the desire for reunification and patriotism into the minds of the rising generation and broad masses, pooling the will and wisdom for the peace and reunification of the country.
They underscored the need for the above-said educators to wage a dynamic struggle to uphold and implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration under any circumstances and remove all legal and institutional barriers standing in the way of achieving national unity and reunification.
They called on the educators of the north and the south to firmly join hands and participate in the positive activities to glorify the June 15 era of reunification in the future, too.
A joint press release was issued at the conference.
South Headquarters of Bomminryon Meets
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification (Bomminryon) held the second general meeting of its 10th-term Central Committee on April 20.
A resolution read out at the meeting dealt with the dynamic nationwide struggle to get the U.S. forces withdrawn from south Korea and achieve the peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
The Lee Myung Bak group, in league with the U.S. imperialists, is becoming all the more undisguised in the moves for confrontation with compatriots, defying the unanimous desire of the fellow countrymen for reunification and, at the same time, intensifying the suppression of the progressive forces, it charged.
The South Headquarters of Bomminryon will more firmly uphold the June 15 joint declaration and more thoroughly implement it and make voices of "By our nation itself" ring louder on this land as the conservative ruling forces become undisguised in their moves against reunification, it said, stressing the need to set June 15 as the day of "By our nation itself" and powerfully demonstrate the nation's will for reunification.
It underscored the need to struggle to check the moves of the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak group keen on tightening the "military alliance," strengthen the solidarity among Koreans in the south and the north and abroad and consolidate the solidarity and alliance of patriotic people from all walks of life in this land as firm as a rock.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Slams Dishonest Forces' Violence in Tibet
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Thursday as regards cases of violence in Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region of China:
There occurred assault, robbery, arson and murder in the above-said city recently.
This has touched off indignation and condemnation among all Chinese people as it was committed by Tibet separatists in an organized manner at the prodding of dishonest elements.
Tibet is part of an inalienable territory of China.
The DPRK government strongly denounces the unsavory elements for their moves to seek "independence of Tibet" and scuttle the upcoming Beijing Olympics and supports the Chinese government in its efforts to ensure social stability and the rule of law in Tibet and defend the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people.
KCNA Ridicules U.S. Mandarin's Reckless Remarks
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, Lefkowitz, special envoy for North Korean human rights issue of the U.S., was impudent enough to poke his nose into the nuclear issue, only to bring shame to himself.
What he uttered is nothing but rubbish which admits of no argument as it only provoked wry laughter.
But what merits attention here is that some American guys who do not know even where they stand, to say nothing of the way the world goes, are watching for a chance to scuttle the processes to settle the nuclear issue and improve the DPRK-U.S. relations, displeased with them.
According to the International Herald Tribune, a few hard-line officials in charge of national security at the office of the vice-president and the State Department were reported to have asserted a more confrontational approach towards the DPRK.
It was in this context that Lefkowitz underlined the need to include the human rights issue in the agenda items of the six-party talks and complained that China and south Korea are not pressurizing north Korea at the American Enterprise Institute, a center of conservatives.
This assertion was, in every respect, prompted by a dangerous attempt to sacrifice the process for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula directly related to the interests of the U.S. and other countries concerned and the peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia for meeting their selfish purpose as it is a revelation of their extreme uneasiness created by their impending political bankruptcy.
As well known, the U.S. conservative hardliners led by neo-conservatives are now seized with extreme uneasiness and anxiety, marginalized in the political arena for the catastrophic consequences entailed by their extreme and subjective way of thinking.
They have neither anything new nor future.
Lefkowitz, Bolton and others are keen to misuse the process for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula for achieving their political ambition under the slogan of hard-line and conservative policy which has already proven bankrupt inside the U.S. Nothing is graver mistake and crime against history than this.
The hackneyed methods used by the U.S. during the Cold War will never work on the DPRK although they may work on others. The six-party talks cannot be treated the same as the "Helsinki process" under any circumstances.
The agreements reached at the six-party talks on the principle of simultaneous action and progress made in this course are welcomed by all countries. Lefkowitz and others who seek to scuttle them cannot escape public censure and jeer.
The reality goes to prove that the negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue remains the general will of the international community and the trend of the times.
We would like to question them what they really seek by turning back the clock.
Such nonsensical remarks would never help stem the trend of the times.
Now that the denuclearization process has reached an important phase the U.S. should refrain from irresponsible remarks that may deflect it from its focus and countries concerned should thoroughly abide by the principle of "action for action."