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Rodong Sinmun: Reconciliation and Unity--Key to National Reunification
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a bylined article on Thursday stresses that national reconciliation and unity are the key to Korea's reunification.
The cause of reunifying Korea means, in essence, a nationwide cause whereby to connect the vein of the nation divided into the north and the south by outsiders and realize their unity, the article says, adding:
The national reconciliation and unity serve as an asset for laying solid foundation of reunification and prosperity.
Due to the national division by outside forces, differing ideologies and systems have existed in the north and the south of Korea, but they can never be reason and conditions for the Korean nation to fail to achieve its reconciliation and unity.
To promote national reconciliation and unity is an important way for settling the issue of the national destiny independently and peacefully by the united efforts of the Koreans.
The national reunification is a nationwide independent cause that can be accomplished only by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation. No one can replace the Koreans in the struggle for national reunification.
It is none other than the Koreans who want to see the national reunification and should play the role of its performer and will get benefits from it. Only when all Koreans unite themselves closely as the driving forces of national reunification and strengthen the forces in every way, is it possible to realize the country's reunification successfully.
The stirring reality in the June 15 era of reunification that made long strides in the idea of "By our nation itself" clearly proves that the Korean nation can smash the moves of the separatists at home and abroad and vigorously advance the national reunification movement when all its members get reconciled and united with each other, well aware of their position and role as the master responsible for national reunification.
Rodong Sinmun on Kim Jong Il's Feats for National Reunification
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il was the father of the nation, peerless patriot and outstanding leader who performed immortal feats in the cause of the country's reunification with his great patriotic devotion since he embarked on the sacred road of the struggle for the country and the nation.
Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a bylined article.
Kim Jong Il was always with President Kim Il Sung in the efforts for national reunification, considering it his greatest duty to allay the cares of the President who could hardly get to sleep, because of the protracted pain resulting from the national split, the article notes, and goes on:
He comprehensively systematized the immortal feats the President performed in the cause of the country's reunification and formulated the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great national unity and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo as the three charters for national reunification. This reflected his iron will to carry forward the cause of national reunification of the President 100 per cent and accomplish the country's reunification the way he did.
Scientific and realistic ideas and policies for national reunification set forth by Kim Jong Il in every period and at every stage, his indefatigable enthusiasm, ardent patriotic will, indomitable spirit and outstanding leadership served as an engine that made it possible for the movement for the country's reunification to firmly preserve its Juche-oriented character and victoriously advance despite of the U.S. imperialists' persistent moves to perpetuate the national division and to stifle the DPRK.
At the turn of a new century Kim Jong Il provided the historic north-south joint declaration, a milestone for the country's reunification in the 21st century. This immortal feat put the inter-Korean relations which repeated the vicious cycle of antagonism and confrontation on an orbit of harmony and reunification and also gave a strong spurs to the overall reunification movement.
His ardent love for the nation and noble virtues ushered in a new epoch of the great national unity.
It is necessary to more dynamically advance the movement for the country's reunification by carrying forward the ideas of the President and Kim Jong Il and the immortal feats performed by the peerlessly great persons. This is a sure guarantee for victory.
All the Koreans should stage a nation-wide struggle upholding the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration as a great reunification programme and thus accomplish the historic cause of the country's reunification at any cost and translate into reality the lifelong desires of the President and Kim Jong Il for reunification without fail.
Unity of Democratic Forces for Reform of S. Korea Is Key to Victory
Pyongyang, November 16 (KCNA) Only when the democratic forces for reform in south Korea wage a struggle in close unity, can they overcome the desperate challenges of the conservative forces and achieve the final victory.
Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a bylined article.
New politics and life are the demand of the popular masses who aspire after new things against the old conservative rule. The struggle of the south Korean people, therefore, is sure to triumph, it noted.
The present "government" in south Korea has pursued the policy of depending on foreign forces and the fascist dictatorial rule. As a result, the dignity and sovereignty of the people have been mercilessly violated and democracy and human rights been abused in the south Korean society, it said.
It continued: The south Korean ruling forces took power by deceiving the people with such false commitment as "economic recovery". They, however, failed to guarantee the majority of the popular masses the rights but forced them into poverty while defending the interests of a few privileged classes.
It admits of no argument what will be the result of the maneuvers of the ruling forces who keep to the reactionary conservatism while quenching the people's desire for new politics and life.
No one can help those old conservative forces from being ousted from the stage of history by the united struggle of the people aspiring after independence.
The results of the recent election for Seoul mayor showed that the broad democratic forces for reform in south Korea can surely win victory if they wage a struggle in unity no matter how desperately the conservative group may resort to tricky and high-handed practices and fascist oppression.
Kim Jong Il Sends Message of Condolence to Bereaved Family of Pak Yong Gil
Pyongyang, September 27 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Monday sent a message of condolence to the bereaved family of Pak Yong Gil, widow of Rev. Mun Ik Hwan, over her death from illness.
The message said:
Upon hearing the sad news that Pak Yong Gil, widow of Rev. Mun Ik Hwan, died from illness, I express deep condolence to the bereaved family of the deceased.
Pak Yong Gil passed away to our sorrow before seeing the spring of reunification she had longed for so much but the patriotic soul she devoted to the national concord and reunification will always be remembered by all the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and abroad.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Slams Ulji Freedom Guardian
Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Wednesday issued the following statement denouncing the U.S. and the south Korean authorities for kicking off the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises:
The United States and the south Korean authorities kicked off extremely provocative and aggressive Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises targeted against the DPRK despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK.
This saber-rattling started by the U.S. in collusion with the south Korean authorities is maneuvers for a nuclear war against the DPRK which brought to light their invariable hostile aim to stifle it by force of arms.
This is entailing such adverse consequences as vitiating the atmosphere of dialogue created with much effort in reflection of the unanimous desire and wishes of the people at home and abroad for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and straining the situation.
The U.S. is staging exercises for a war of aggression against its dialogue partner while putting up signboard of dialogue. This incoherent behavior on the part of the U.S. is only adding to the skepticism about whether it is sincere towards dialogue or not.
It is preposterous for the U.S. to urge the DPRK to refrain from bolstering its nuclear deterrent, while whetting its swords for a war of aggression behind the scene of dialogue.
It is very ill-boding that the U.S. let "a special action unit" participate in the on-going joint military exercises as it is one tasked to detect and destroy nuclear weapons of the DPRK.
The prevailing situation goes to prove that the U.S. is not set to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and negotiations but seize an opportunity to deprive it of nuclear deterrent by a brigandish method.
It is self-evident that the DPRK should put spurs to bolstering its nuclear deterrent for self-defence both in quality and quantity to cope with this situation.
Invariable is the stand of the DPRK to preserve peace and denuclearize the peninsula through dialogue and negotiations.
No attempt on the part of the U.S. to do harm to the DPRK by force of arms can go with dialogue. This will only face the mode of merciless counteraction of Korean-style.
Three Principles of Korean Reunification
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il published a celebrated work "Let Us Struggle Resolutely to Implement the Three Principles of National Reunification" on July 14, Juche 61 (1972.)
At that time not only all the Koreans but governments, political parties and public organizations of other countries and international organizations fully supported the July 4 joint statement adopted between the north and the south of Korea, the keynote of which is the three principles of national reunification -- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
But the then south Korean authorities, who had agreed with the three principles, changed their position. They arrested and even killed pro-reunification people, alleging that the U.S. forces in south Korea were not outside forces and that confrontation without dialogue turned into confrontation with dialogue.
By publishing the work, Kim Jong Il accused them of refusing to implement the joint statement.
He also gave comprehensive answers to such theoretical and practical matters of implementing the three principles as taking substantial measures to relax the acute military situation and remove the source of a war on the Korean Peninsula and achieving great national unity, irrespective of difference in thought, ideology and social system.
The three principles have displayed its great influence as guidelines for national reunification under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Through the effort for implementing the principles, pro-reunification organizations in the north, south and abroad have joined hands and conducted activities for the country's reunification. The Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification and the Pan-national Alliance of Youth and Students for Korea's Reunification were also formed.
In particular, the June 15 joint declaration based on the three principles was adopted at the historic north-south summit in Pyongyang, the first of its kind since the division of Korea, to provide the nation with a landmark of reunification.
The declaration ushered in a new era of reconciliation and cooperation between the two parts of Korea and led to the adoption of the October 4 declaration to be entailed by events signal in the north-south relations and in the effort for national reunification.
Now, however, the present south Korean regime is totally negating the three principles and joint declarations, while pursuing policies of pro-U.S. flunkeyism and confrontation with the north.
Law on Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Law on Special Zone for International Tour adopted on May 31 is as follows:
Chapter I. Keystone of Law on Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang
Article 1. Mission of Law on Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang
The DPRK Law on Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang shall contribute to turning Mt. Kumgang into a world-famous special tourist zone by properly setting up a system and order in the development of the Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang (hereinafter called Special Zone for International Tour) and its management and operation.
Article 2. Status and Position of Special Zone for International Tour (SZIT)
SZIT is the special area for tour in the DPRK where it is possible to freely conduct tour and economic activities related to it.
SZIT shall include the Township of Kosong County, some area of Onjong-ri, Lagoon Samil, Sea Kumgang area, Inner Kumgang area of Kumgang County and some area of Thongchon County in Kangwon Province.
Article 3. Principle for the Development of SZIT
It is the state policy to turn the world famous Mt. Kumgang into a special zone for international tour.
The state shall turn Mt. Kumgang into a comprehensive tourist zone capable of achieving various purposes of tour and playing diverse functions and positively develop tour.
Article 4. Principle for Encouraging Investment and Ensuring Conditions for Economic Activities
Foreign juridical persons, individuals and economic bodies can invest in SZIT.
South Koreans, overseas Koreans and relevant institutions and organizations of the DPRK can invest in SZIT.
The state shall actively encourage investment in SZIT and provide preferential conditions for economic activities to the investors.
Article 5. Principle for Protecting Properties
The state shall protect by law the invested fund and income gained legally and rights granted to an investor.
Article 6. Manager of SZIT
The management board for special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang (hereinafter called Management Board for SZIT) shall manage SZIT under the coordinated guidance of the Central Guidance Agency of Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang (hereinafter called the Guidance Body for SZIT).
Article 7. International Exchange and Cooperation
The state shall boost exchange and cooperation with international tourist bodies and foreign tourist organizations for the work in SZIT.
Article 8. Application of Law and regulations
Development and management of SZIT, tour and tourist industry and other economic activities shall be subject to this law and regulations and detailed rules for its enforcement.
Chapter II. Management of Special Zone for International Tour
Article 9. Position of the Guidance Agency of Special Zone for International Tour
The agency is a central guidance agency that guides the development of SZIT and its management and operation in a coordinated manner.
Article 10. Duty and Authority of the Guidance Agency of Special Zone for International Tour
The guidance agency shall conduct the following work:
1. It shall guide the work of the Management Board for SZIT.
2. It shall work out detailed rules for the enforcement of the Law and Regulations of the Law on SZIT.
3. It shall examine and approve the master plan for the development of SZIT.
4. It shall receive and keep copies of designs for the construction of objects.
5. It shall administer taxes of SZIT.
6. Beside it shall undertake the work entrusted to it by the state.
Article 11. Position of the Management Board for SZIT
The management board is a field executive body which manages SZIT.
The chief of the management board is chairman.
Article 12. Duty and Authority of the Management Board for SZIT
The management board shall conduct the following work:
1. It shall work out and implement the master plan for the development of SZIT.
2. It shall survey, develop and manage tourist resources.
3. It shall organize information service for tour, invite tourists and plan tourism.
4. It shall keep order and protect persons and their properties in SZIT.
5. It shall let out land and buildings.
6. It shall invite investment, approve enterprise set-up, register it and give license for business.
7. It shall register the right to use land, buildings and vehicles.
8. It shall provide manpower necessary for business activities.
9. It shall sanction construction and examine the completion of projects.
10. It shall manage infrastructure of SZIT.
11. It shall protect environment and take fire fighting measures in SZIT.
12. It shall render cooperation in ensuring the entry and exit of persons and transport means and taking things inside and outside SZIT.
13. Beside it shall undertake the work entrusted to it by the management board.
Article 13. Organization and operation of the Joint Consultative Organization
There can be in SZIT a joint consultative organization made up of representatives of the Management Board for SZIT, investors and enterprises.
The Joint Consultative Organization shall discuss and settle important issues arising in the development and management of SZIT and business operation.
Article 14. Management of entrance and exit in SZIT
Visa exemption shall be in force in SZIT.
The persons and transport means entering SZIT from outside the territory of the DPRK can go in and out free from visa through the designated passage with passports or passes that replace them.
The order whereby one can go in and out of SZIT via other regions of the DPRK and the order whereby one can go in and out of other regions of the DPRK from SZIT shall be established separately.
Article 15. Inspection and quarantine
The persons, animals and plants and transport means going in and out of SZIT shall be subject to passage inspection, customs inspection and quarantine inspection of hygiene and animals and plants.
The inspection and quarantine body shall ensure a speedy inspection and quarantine by scientific and technical means so that they may not disturb security and entry and exit in SZIT.
Article 16. Environmental management
SZIT shall ban the cutting of trees in the scenic forests and the construction of buildings and facilities that may damage scenic beauty including scenic spots, pine groves on seaside, beaches, mysterious rocks and cliffs, elegant and wonderful shapes of mountains and scenic islands and such natural monuments and famous historic sites as caves, waterfalls and sites of old walls or hinder the environmental protection. It shall meet such standard of environmental protection as the allowed level of discharge of contaminated materials, noise and vibration.
Article 17. Use of communication means
SZIT shall ensure the free use of such communication means as mail, telephone, fax and Internet.
Chapter III. Tour and Tourist Service
Article 18. Tourist
SZIT shall provide tour to foreigners.
Citizens of the DPRK and south Koreans and overseas compatriots can also tour in SZIT.
Article 19. Forms and methods of tour
Tour shall involve diverse forms and methods such as mountaineering, sightseeing, sea bathing, recreation, experience, amusement, sports and treatment.
Tourists can enjoy tour in SZIT in freedom.
Article 20. Environment and conditions for tour
The Management Board for SZIT shall provide tourists with good environment and ample conditions so that they may enjoy a high level of tour.
Article 21. Service for tourists
Investors can set up diverse facilities in SZIT such as lodging-house, restaurant, shop, casino, golf course, night club and medical treatment and amusement halls and offer diverse service for tourists.
Article 22. International events
SZIT can host diverse events such as international meeting, expo, exhibition, seminar, art performance and sports games.
Article 23. Transport
The guidance agency and the Management Board for SZIT shall build an international airport, harbor and tourist railways and roads to fully provide tourists with convenience in transport.
Chapter IV. Establishment, Registration and Operation of Enterprise
Article 24. Establishment of Enterprise
An investor can independently or jointly invest in the field of infrastructural construction for the development of SZIT and tourist business such as travel service, lodging, catering, casino, golf course, amusement and public service facilities and establish diverse enterprises.
Article 25. Implementation of the Master Plan for the Development of Special Zone for International Tour
SZIT shall be developed according to its master plan.
An investor shall meet the requirements of the master plan of SZIT when building infrastructure or establishing an enterprise there.
Article 26. Approval of Enterprise Establishment and Its Registration
An investor shall receive an approval from the Management Board for SZIT for enterprise establishment before setting up and operating an enterprise there.
Upon getting a license for business, an investor shall complete the registration of an enterprise, tax and customs in the appointed period.
Article 27. Approval of Infrastructural Construction
The Guidance Agency of Special Zone for International Tour shall approve infrastructural construction such as airport, railways, roads, harbor and power station for the development, management and operation of SZIT.
It shall encourage the investment in the field of infrastructural construction such as airport, railways, roads, harbor and power station, in particular.
Article 28. Establishment of Branch, Agent and Agency
Branch, agent and agency can be set up in SZIT.
In this case they shall be subject to the approval from the Management Board for SZIT.
Article 29. Opening of Bank Account
An enterprise and individuals can open and use account at banks of the DPRK or foreign banks established in SZIT.
Article 30. Exchange of Securities of Foreign Currency
An enterprise and individuals can exchange securities of foreign currency at the designated place in SZIT.
Article 31. Contract on Insurance
An enterprise and individuals can be insured by insurance companies of the DPRK or foreign countries established in SZIT.
Article 32. Disposal of Sewage
An enterprise shall have in place facilities to protect environment such as modern purifying centre, settling basin and dumping ground and sanitary facilities and purify or dispose of waste water so that it may not hinder tourism and environmental protection.
Chapter V. Provision of Conditions for Business Activities
Article 33. Employing Manpower
An enterprise in SZIT can employ manpower from the DPRK or the south side and overseas compatriots.
Article 34. Currency in SZIT
Convertible foreign currency shall be circulated in SZIT.
Varieties of convertible foreign currency and the standard currency shall be decided by the guidance agency for SZIT under an agreement with the institution concerned.
Article 35. Carrying foreign currency in and out of SZIT, its remittance and taking out properties
One can freely carry foreign currency into and out of SZIT and remit the legally gained profits and income.
An investor can take out of the territory of the DPRK the properties brought into SZIT from other countries and the properties legally gained in SZIT after his or her business term has expired.
Article 36. Tax
An enterprise and individuals in SZIT shall pay taxes as stipulated in the relevant law and regulations.
The enterprises in the specially encouraged fields such as the construction of airport, railroads, roads, harbor and power station shall be exempted from taxes or shall pay reduced taxes.
Article 37. Taking Things inside and outside
One can freely take things required for business inside and outside SZIT except for anything banned.
Article 38. Exemption of tax and objects subject to tax payment
Preferential tax system shall be in force in SZIT.
Materials necessary for the development of SZIT and enterprise management and office and household supplies of the specified scope shall be exempted from taxes.
Tariff shall be imposed on those who sell the things exempt from tax outside SZIT or bring those things restricted by the state into SZIT.
Article 39. Provision of conditions for entry and exit of persons and transport means and taking things inside and outside SZIT
The Management Board for SZIT and the relevant institution shall fully provide conditions for the entry and exit of persons and transport means and carrying things in and out so that the development of SZIT and business activities may not be hindered.
Those who enter or leave SZIT through the designated airport shall not pay airport fee.
Chapter VI. Sanctions and Settlement of Disputes
Article 40. Sanctions
Those who caused hindrance to the management and operation of SZIT and the tour of the zone or caused damage to enterprises or individuals in violation of this law shall restore them to their original state or make compensation or shall be fined depending on their violation.
Those who encroach upon the security of the DPRK or seriously violate the social order shall own administrative or criminal responsibility according to the relevant law.
Article 41. Settlement of Disputes
Any differences that crop up as regards the development, management and operation of SZIT shall be settled through discussion between the parties concerned.
Those cases hard to settle through consultation shall be solved through arbitration procedure agreed upon between the parties concerned or through the legal procedure of the DPRK.
DPRK Delegate on Putting End to All Forms of Terrorism
Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will discharge its responsibility and duty to fundamentally put an end to all forms of terrorism and build a peaceful and prosperous world in the future, too.
The DPRK delegate reiterated this stand at the session of the Ad Hoc Committee on International Terrorism of the UN General Assembly on April 11.
Terrorism is rampant in different parts of the world despite the international community's efforts against it, he said, noting that military aggression and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states and serious human rights abuses committed under the pretext of "war on terrorism" are being connived as just.
Armed invasions of sovereign states and massacres by the U.S. in different parts of the world, the Middle East in particular, are typical of state terrorism and human rights violation, he said, adding:
Every international effort against terrorism should be made in line with the objective and principle of the UN Charter and relevant international laws, and such actions as armed invasion of sovereign states under the pretext of "war on terrorism" should not be allowed in any case.
The DPRK delegation considers that the Comprehension Convention on International Terrorism, now under making, should include the ways for preventing terrorism by state army. It also reckons that the UN Special High-level Meeting on Counter-Terrorism will be helpful to correctly confirming the root cause of terrorism and taking relevant steps.
The DPRK government firmly maintains the consistent stand of opposing all forms of terrorism and any support to them.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Denounces US Military Attack on Libya
Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Tuesday as regards the U.S. military attack on Libya:
The U.S. launched a military attack on Libya in collusion with some Western countries on March 19.
It openly interfered in the internal affairs of Libya, sparking off a civil war, and then cooked up a deceptive resolution by abusing the authority of the UN Security Council. It finally perpetrated indiscriminate armed intervention in the country, going beyond the limits of the resolution.
The DPRK strongly denounces this as a wanton violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent state and a hideous crime against humanity in gross breach of the dignity of the Libyan people and their right to existence.
Such war action can never be justified and should be halted at once.
The world is witnessing almost everyday the miserable death of a great many peaceable citizens and unspeakable disasters caused by two wars launched by the U.S. in the new century.
Not content with this, the U.S. sparked a fresh war disaster in order to bring about a regime change in the country incurring its displeasure under the spurious signboard of "protecting civilians" and put the natural resources of Libya under its control.
The U.S. does not hesitate to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and launch armed invasion by abusing the UN name in disregard of the sovereignty of independent states. Such high-handed and arbitrary practices of the U.S. have become a root cause of harassing world peace and stability at present.
The present Libyan crisis teaches the international community a serious lesson.
It was fully exposed before the world that "Libya's nuclear dismantlement" much touted by the U.S. in the past turned out to be a mode of aggression whereby the latter coaxed the former with such sweet words as "guarantee of security" and "improvement of relations" to disarm itself and then swallowed it up by force.
It proved once again the truth of history that peace can be preserved only when one builds up one's own strength as long as high-handed and arbitrary practices go on in the world.
The DPRK was quite just when it took the path of Songun and the military capacity for self-defence built up in this course serves as a very valuable deterrent for averting a war and defending peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
KPA Mission Statement on US-S. Korea Joint Military Exercises
Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers are finally launching the DPRK-targeted Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military maneuvers in disregard of the national agreement and the Armistice Agreement.
In this regard, the Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army released the following statement on Sunday:
As already planned, the huge armed forces of the U.S. imperialist aggressor army and the south Korean puppet army went into combat readiness against the DPRK. Nuclear aircraft carrier and other groups for naval operations were deployed in the waters around south Korea. Flying corps for attack including strategic bombers are on a standby to go into action according to their aggression war method mainly based on air warfare.
Such dangerous military maneuvers pose a serious challenge to the demand and desire of all Koreans to defuse the tension on the Korean Peninsula and bring about a new turn for independent reunification, peace and prosperity.
The present situation clearly shows why the south Korean group of traitors intentionally brought to rupture the preliminary talks for north-south high-level military talks, provided with much efforts to ease the military tension on the Korean Peninsula.
Under this situation, the Panmunjom mission of the KPA, upon authorization, clarifies the principled stand of the army and people of the DPRK:
1. Since they announced that Key Resolve and Foal Eagle are aimed to "destroy" the system of the DPRK in "contingency" its army and people will go into an all-out offensive to put an end to the U.S. imperialists' military occupation of south Korea and the anti-popular ruling system of the group of traitors.
It is a daydream of a fool to hope for "contingency" and "collapse" of the Korean-style socialist system, chosen and built by our people themselves.
Such tragicomic fancy can be harbored only by the ignorant knowing nothing about our army and people.
There will be only world-startling great changes and miracles in the DPRK which is dashing toward the eminence of a thriving nation by dint of single-minded unity.
It is quite natural for the army and people of the DPRK to go into an all-out offensive to finally destroy those daringly challenging its dignified socialist system.
2. Now that it has been revealed that the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military maneuvers are to examine the practicability of the adventurous "plan on local war" against the DPRK, the army and people of the DPRK will respond to reckless provocation by the aggressors with an all-out war at any time.
The "plan on local war" of the U.S. imperialists and the group of traitors is an anti-DPRK scenario worked out allegedly to cope with "provocation of different types" from someone.
This plan is a product of the U.S. imperialists' cunning strategy to weaken and bring down their rival through continued military provocation and pressure.
The DPRK has the unbreakable unity of the army and people around the headquarters of the revolution. All its people, with the matchless revolutionary strong army of Mt. Paektu, are in full readiness to penetrate and destroy any provocation and aggression tactics at a stroke.
If the aggressors launch provocation for a "local war" the world will witness unprecedented all-out counteraction on the part of the army and people of the DPRK. It will also see such merciless counteraction as engulfing Seoul in sea of flames, whereby to smash every move for confrontation with unimaginable strategy and tactics.
3. Since Key Resolve and Foal Eagle are aimed at removal of the DPRK's nuclear weapons and missile, its army and people will counter the nuclear blackmail by the aggressors with our own nuclear deterrent and their missile threat with our own missile striking method.
The reality proves that the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean group of traitors are the very one spoiling the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as they hurl all sorts of nuclear attack means, including group of warships loaded with nukes and corps of strategic bombers, in south Korea and its vicinity under the pretext of the said joint military maneuvers to pose a nuclear threat to the DPRK.
It also fully reveals that the present U.S. administration's call for nuclear-free world is nothing but a showy signboard.
As been already declared, the army and people of the DPRK will return bolstered nuclear deterrent of our own style for the continued nuclear threat by the aggressors and our own missile striking action for their vicious attempt to eliminate our missiles.
Peace is of value to the DPRK. Detente is also what it steadily desires and needs.
However, its army and people will take resolute military counteractions now that the U.S. imperialists and the group of traitors responded to the DPRK-proposed wide-ranging dialogue and negotiations for peace and detente with military actions for aggression.
CPRK Urges S. Side to Honestly Respond to Proposal for Dialogue
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Friday gave an answer to a question put by KCNA in connection with the fact that the north side proposed the south side to have dialogues including talks between authorities and took measures of good faith according to the joint statement of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations.
He recalled that after the joint statement was released the CPRK in a statement of its spokesman formally proposed the south side to have dialogue in order to realize the important proposal clarified in the joint statement and sent to it notices containing technical measures one after another.
He went on: There is no ground whatsoever for the south side to refuse to accept the recent proposal for dialogue as it did not attach any conditionality to the dialogue and its date and venue, etc. are specified in it and it has sufficient modality and procedures for conducting the dialogue.
The south Korean authorities, however, have not shown any willingness to respond to this proposal under this and that pretext since the very outset. They are taking a negative stand towards it, repeating only the words that "there is no sincerity."
As regards the north side's step of good faith, they were compelled to agree with the issue of opening the Panmunjom Red Cross liaison channel but they took a cool attitude towards the restart of the work of the office of the Consultative Council for North-South Economic Cooperation, under absurd pretexts. They have not yet sent personnel of the south side to the office and barred the use of its building.
This made the north side feel uncomfortable though it made such proposal of good faith.
As far as "sincerity" is concerned, there is no such sincere proposal as the one advanced by the north as it clarified that it is ready to meet anyone anytime and anywhere without any precondition to tide over the grave situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and improve the north-south relations.
The south Korean authorities are talking about "counter-proposal" but the north has neither received any formal proposal from them nor known anything about it.
It is the stand of the north that the south side should come out for dialogue and discuss all the issues at the negotiating table, not making irrelevant remarks.
There is nothing the north and south sides cannot settle if they sit face to face open-heartedly.
The door of dialogue is open.
The south side would be well advised to have a proper stance, though belatedly, and honestly respond to the north side' proposal for dialogue and measures of good faith.
DFRK Spokesman Slams US, Japan and S. Korea's War Moves
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea issued a statement on Friday denouncing the U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppet forces for further stepping up the moves to tighten the military nexus and ignite a war against the DPRK than ever before under the pretext of the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
The U.S. staged the largest-ever combined exercises with the south Korean puppet forces in the East and West seas of Korea with aircraft carrier involved under the pretext of the warship sinking incident and the Yonphyong Island shelling incident. It also staged joint military exercises with Japan in waters close to the peninsula, letting officers concerned of the south Korean puppet forces and the Japan "Self-Defense Forces" observe them, the statement noted, and went on:
They have intensified the moves to tighten their nexus for aggression and knock into shape a triangular military alliance among them under the pretext of the situation on the Korean Peninsula. This shows with added clarity for what purpose they triggered off the warship sinking case and the Yonphyong Island shelling incident.
The recent development clearly indicates that the Japan-south Korea system of joint military actions and the triangular military alliance with the U.S. imperialists as an axis have already come into being to go operational.
The dangerous nexus between the U.S. and its followers only results in straining the situation on the peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia, sparking off a new arms race and increasing the danger of war worldwide.
The U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppet forces would be well advised to properly know about Songun Korea and behave themselves as it inflicted shameful setbacks and bitter defeats upon the aggressors of two imperialisms in the past big wars fought against them in the last century and is now demonstrating its honor and dignity in the nuclear stand-off with the imperialist allied forces.
The reckless military nexus and the anachronistic moves to knock into shape the triangular military alliance are bound to go bust in face of the trend of the times towards justice and peace.
NPCK Blasts US-S. Korea Combined Military Exercises
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The National Peace Committee of Korea issued a statement on Sunday as regards the fact that the United States and the south Korean puppet group finally kicked off the largest-scale combined military exercises aimed at armed invasion of the DPRK in the West Sea of Korea.
The madcap aggression war exercises launched by them in the sea and the sky near the extension of the Military Demarcation Line in the West Sea of Korea are putting the Korean Peninsula at a state of ultra-emergency while creating the grave situation whereby peace and security are exposed to serious threat, the statement points out, and says:
The West Sea of Korea is the most acute and sensitive area where military conflict might break out anytime due to the illegal "northern limit line" unilaterally drawn by the U.S. and the ceaseless provocation of the south Korean puppet group.
However, the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group kicked off in this area the military exercises with huge aggression armed forces including nuclear powered carrier involved before the recent smoke of shelling disappeared. This is no more than an attempt to find a pretext for aggression and ignite a war at any cost.
In October last they planned to stage the frantic anti-DPRK war games with U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington again involved in the West Sea of Korea only to be checked by the unanimous protest at home and abroad. But this time they carried such scheme into practice at last under the pretext of the Yonphyong Island incident.
It is the height of folly for the U.S. and the puppet group to browbeat the DPRK with such nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
The U.S. and the puppet group of traitors will be wholly held accountable for having escalated the tension in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia and wrecked the regional peace and security with their reckless war maneuvers.
CPRK Secretariat Denounces S. Korea for Fabricating Spying Case
Pyongyang, November 16 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet Seoul District Police Agency on Nov. 9 announced misinformation that a former leading member of the Committee for National Reunification of the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils conducted espionage acts at various directives from the north, calling to task the fact that he had legitimately participated in the reunification functions and working contacts of youth and students from the north and the south from 2003.
The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea in its information bulletin No. 967 on Tuesday denounced it as an unpardonable anti-reunification and treacherous crime intended to foster the fascist terror-ridden situation under the pretext of security in south Korea in a bid to calm down the ever-mounting desire of the people of different circles for reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south and independent reunification and escalate confrontation between compatriots.
The information bulletin says:
The anti-reunification ultra-right conservatives of south Korea are now distorting the past discussions and contacts for reunification between the youth and students from the north and the south as a "lever for receiving directives" from someone and making a false report that "all kinds of data related to the student movement were delivered to the north." This goes to prove again that they are persistently seeking to obliterate the reunification movement of youth and students in south Korea.
It is also little different from an open declaration that in order to attain its ulterior political aims the puppet group will brand as spies all of those who visited the north and met compatriots there in the past years and incriminate their activities as "illegal" and "enemy-benefiting" to make them target of fascist suppression.
Worse still, such conspiratorial farce called the spying case was orchestrated again some days before an international meeting in south Korea. This more clearly revealed that the south Korean ruling conservative forces have no willingness to have dialogue and improve the relations between the north and the south but intend to stir up the international anti-DPRK opinion and confront with the DPRK to the last.
Neither national reconciliation and unity nor democratization of society and the independent reunification of the country can be expected unless the anti-DPRK smear campaign is decisively checked and the fascist repressive moves terminated immediately in south Korea.
Kim Jong Il Receives Delegation of CPC
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on Monday received a delegation of the Communist Party of China led by Zhou Yongkang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and secretary of the Central Commission of Politics and Law of the CPC, on a visit to the DPRK.
Present there were Kim Yong Il and Kim Yang Gon, alternate members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK.
On behalf of the collective leadership of the CPC including General Secretary Hu Jintao, Zhou Yongkang once again warmly congratulated Kim Jong Il on the successful holding of the WPK conference and on his reelection as general secretary of the WPK and on its 65th birthday. Then he presented Kim Jong Il with a gift prepared by the delegation.
He thanked for this and asked Zhou Yongkang to convey his greetings to the collective leadership of the CPC including Hu Jintao. Kim Jong Il had a warm and friendly talk with Zhou Yongkang.
After receiving him, Kim Jong Il hosted a luncheon for the guests.
North-South Red Cross Working Contact Made
Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- An inter-Korean Red Cross working contact was made in Kaesong Friday.
At the contact the DPRK side recalled that it actively proposed arranging the reunion of separated families and relatives on the occasion of the Harvest Moon Day, guided by noble compatriotism and the spirit of humanitarianism. This was an expression of the DPRK's good will to promote reconciliation and unity and its positive intention to open a new phase of peace and reunification by settling the serious situation prevailing between the north and the south and implementing the north-south joint declarations, it stressed.
Then the DPRK side advanced a technical proposal regarding the date of arranging the reunion of separated families and relatives, its scope and the exchange of lists of those to be involved, etc. on the occasion of the Harvest Moon Day.
At the contact both sides agreed to hold the reunion of separated families and relatives at Mt. Kumgang resort from Oct. 21 to 27, have the next round of the working contact in Kaesong on Sep. 24 and further the discussion on other technical matters related to the reunion.
North-South Parties Issue Appeal on "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty"
Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- The Korean Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Labor Party of south Korea issued a joint appeal to all the Koreans Monday as regards the lapse of a centenary since the Japanese imperialists fabricated the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" by force to "legalize" their military occupation and colonial rule over Korea.
It recalled that the Japanese imperialists fabricated by force different kinds of treaties of aggression such as the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" in disregard of elementary requirements of international law and pursued colonial repressive rule for more than 40 years, imposing a miserable slave life upon the Korean nation and vandalizing and looting many cultural relics, treasures and natural resources of Korea.
A centenary has passed since the fabrication of the aggressive treaty but Japan has dodged sincere apology and reparation for its past crimes, it noted, and continued:
The recent statement made by the Japanese chief executive was nothing but half "apology" as it excluded the DPRK, an empty talk as it did not mention any reparation. It was another mockery of the Korean nation and remarks deceiving it.
The Japanese reactionaries, far from drawing a lesson from their blood-stained history of crimes, are openly pursuing the moves to grab Tok islets, distort history and convert Japan into a military power and policies of discrimination and contempt against the Koreans in Japan and rushing headlong into nuclear weaponization.
All the Koreans should unite as one irrespective of idea, ism and system under the patriotic banner of struggle against Japan, be they in the north and the south and overseas, and thus wage dynamic solidarity actions to force Japan to pay for the crimes committed against the Koreans for a centenary this year, the "year of joint anti-Japanese struggle".
The two parties in their appeal ardently called on all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas to unite close and more dynamically turn out in the struggle for national reunification and the joint anti-Japanese solidarity actions this year, the 10th anniversary of the historic June 15 joint declaration and the centenary of the fabrication of the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" which brought national ruin to the Koreans.
DPRK-US Military Working Contact Made
Pyongyang, July 15 (KCNA) -- A DPRK-U.S. military senior colonel (colonel)-level working contact was made in Panmunjom on Thursday for the purpose of probing the truth behind the case of warship "Cheonan's" sinking in a fair way.
At the contact both sides discussed working procedural matters for opening the DPRK-U.S. military general-level talks in Panmunjom concerning the "Cheonan" case.
Agreed at the contact were such technical matters as the date and venue of talks and the formation of delegations. Both sides also agreed to adopt "On probing the truth behind 'Cheonan' case in an objective and scientific way" as the agenda of the talks.
Clarifying the principled stand that field investigation by an inspection group of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK should precede under any circumstances to ensure the successful opening of the general-level talks as an agreement was reached on technical matters including the agenda of the talks, the Korean People's Army side stressed as follows at the contact:
Voices skeptical about and critical of the "results of investigation" into the "Cheonan" caseŁ¬an unprecedented anti-DPRK conspiratorial farce orchestrated by the south Korean puppet authorities, are heard not only from south Koreans but also from members of the "joint investigation team".
The UNSC recently concluded the discussion on the "Cheonan" case by publishing a "presidential statement" devoid of substance, a clear proof of the lack of scientific accuracy and objectivity of the "results of investigation" announced by the south Korean puppet authorities.
The U.S. forces side proposed talks, asserting that it conducted "a special investigation" into the case, but the DPRK side, its dialogue partner, has not yet been to the scene of the incident, much less conducting investigation.
It is elementary practice for the parties concerned to conduct investigation before handling a case at the talks.
If the U.S. forces side is truly interested in the settlement of the case, there is no reason for it to refuse the DPRK's proposal as it is entirely in line with the purport of the DPRK-U.S. military general-level talks for the fair solution of the "Cheonan" case.
The U.S. forces side's refusal of the DPRK's just proposal would render the distrust and stand-off between the two sides more acute and the situation in and around the Korean Peninsula tenser.
The DPRK side will closely follow how the U.S. forces side will handle the issue of the NDC inspection group's field investigation, the KPA side said, strongly urging the U.S. forces side holding the prerogative of the supreme command over the south Korean army to fully fulfill its responsibility.
The U.S. forces side, however, insisted on "informing the results of investigation into the case" representing the wrong stand of the south Korean puppet authorities only throughout the contact.
The KPA side reiterated the stand that the NDC inspection group's field investigation should take place first under any circumstances in order to probe the truth behind the case.
Both sides agreed to hold the second round of the DPRK-U.S. military senior colonel-level working contact concerning the "Cheonan" case in Panmunjom around July 20.
KCNA on Tremendous Damage Done to DPRK by US
Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released the following report Thursday to expose all forms of crimes the U.S. imperialists committed against the Korean people up to now since their occupation of south Korea:
Six decades have passed since the U.S. imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, unleashed a war on this land, where they were leading a peaceful happy life.
The U.S. imperialists, chieftain of evils, committed the most barbarous and hideous crimes against the Korean people ever in the world history of wars during the last Korean War.
They committed thrice-cursed genocide, destruction and pillage during the war. They have regarded new People's Korea as a thorn in the flesh ever since their occupation of south Korea. They have persistently pursued an unprecedentedly harsh policy of isolating and stifling the system of the DPRK in wanton violation of the UN Charter and publicly accepted norms of international law, thus doing inestimably tremendous damage to it.
The Committee for Investigation into Damage Done by the U.S. to the Northern Half of Korea summed up all human and material damage brought by the U.S. imperialists to the northern half of Korea for the past six decades since they landed in south Korea on Sept. 8, 1945.
The total damages amount to 64 959 854 million U.S. dollars.
This calculation is based only on old records and official testimonies made by survivors. So it is presumed that there are much more damage that has not been ascertained.
The total amount will be incalculable if political, moral and cultural damages caused by slandering the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK, destruction of treasures of lasting value including revolutionary sites, historic sites and relics and other precious cultural assets, infliction of moral pressure on the Koreans through the moves for a new war and threats of preemptive nuclear attack and vicious bourgeois ideological and cultural poisoning are included.
With nothing can the U.S. make full compensation to the DPRK for the damage it caused to the DPRK by impeding Korea's reunification after illegally occupying south Korea and, accordingly, inflicting moral pain and misfortune upon the Korean people for more than half a century-long tragic division and hindering the unified political, economic and cultural development of the north and the south of Korea.
The crimes committed by the U.S. imperialists against the DPRK are something beyond human imagination in view of their scope and protracted, barbarous and shameless nature.
The Korean Central News Agency releases a report on the newly surveyed and ascertained damage done by the U.S. imperialists to the northern half of Korea in order to disclose all forms of crimes committed against the Korean people and force them to pay for all of them.
Massacres aimed to exterminate the Korean nation
The most serious damage done to the northern half of Korea by the U.S. imperialists was the monstrous killing of a great number of peaceable inhabitants.
Since their occupation of south Korea, the U.S. imperialist aggressors had perpetrated ceaseless attacks, gun and rifle firing and terrorism against areas north of the 38th parallel in order to destabilize the new country for the people advancing toward socialism and nip it in the bud, thus killing or abducting more than 13,900 people before the war.
The shuddering massacre of civilians the U.S. imperialists committed in the northern half of Korea after igniting the Korean War was unprecedentedly harsh barbarism in wanton violation of international laws on protection of civilians in time of war and publicly accepted wartime laws and regulations.
At least 1,231,540 peaceful inhabitants were cold-bloodedly killed by the U.S. imperialist brutes in the northern half of Korea during the three-year war.
During their temporary occupation of Sinchon County, the U.S. imperialist ogres killed a quarter of the county population. The number of the people killed by them in the whole period of the war stood at least 401,940 in Hwanghae Province, more than 162,180 in South Phyongan Province, over 129,390 in Kangwon Province, at least 116,220 in North Phyongan Province, over 115,300 in South Hamgyong Province, more than 82,020 in North Hamgyong Province and at least 64,240 in Jagang Province.
The U.S. imperialist brutes indiscriminately killed more than 157,840 inhabitants in Pyongyang alone.
Another thrice-cursed crime committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressors during the war was the large-scale germ warfare strictly banned by international law and the massive use of chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction.
From late January to late March of 1952 the U.S. imperialists dropped germ bombs full of flies, fleas, bugs, mosquitoes and other harmful insects in over 400 places in the northern half of Korea more than 700 times, thus spreading dreadful malignant and acute epidemic viruses including pest, cholera, smallpox and epidemic hemorrhagic fever.
The poisonous gas bombs dropped as part of ill-famed germ warfare and chemical warfare claimed more than 50,000 people in the northern half of Korea including 1,379 inhabitants in Nampho City.
The U.S. imperialists, in utter disregard of the international convention on the treatment of POWs, killed at random POWs of the DPRK side and even used them as guinea pigs, not content with maltreating them.
The American barbarians launched a wholesale man-slaughter operation, wounding more than 2,463,090 and crippling at least 294,020 out of them. They are now under the state protection with no working ability, their hearts burning with towering hatred for the U.S. imperialist murderers and the strong determination to take revenge upon them.
A lot of people were abducted or went missing after being taken in by the U.S. imperialist aggressors' propaganda amidst the war holocaust. This left an indelible scar in the nation's history.
Even after it signed the Armistice Agreement, yielding to the heroic Korean people, the U.S. committed non-stop military attacks, assaults, terror and sabotage operations against the DPRK on the eastern and western coasts and on the land and in the air, leaving more than 24,910 people killed, abducted or wounded.
The U.S. imperialists carried out a terrorist operation against an airliner flying in the air above the Caribbean Sea in Oct. 1976, killing DPRK officials working in the field of the external affairs. This stripped naked their true colors as murderers before the world.
The U.S. imperialists killed or wounded a total of at least 5,060,770 civilians of the DPRK: 1,247,870 killed, 911,790 abductees and more than 391,740 reported missing.
According to damages calculated by international practices, they total 26,168,823 million U.S. dollars: 16,533,396 million for the dead, abductees and missing people and 9,635,427 million for the wounded and disabled when taking their possible working years and expected earnings, interest for the compensation unpaid and change in the U.S. currency value into due consideration.
These damages, however, do not include damages for organized and group human rights abuses such as assault and rape of women which the U.S. imperialists committed regardless of whether they were aged or juvenile or pregnant during their temporary occupation of the northern half of Korea.
It is elementary conscience and obligation of human being for an assailant to apologize and compensate to his victim. This also serves as a moral basis for peace of humankind and sound development of the international community even in light of relations among countries.
The U.S., however, requested Cuba to pay an indemnity to the tune of 62,333,333 U.S. dollars for its each pilot who met a death after intruding into the territorial air of Cuba in the mid-1990s. But it has persistently sidestepped the compensation to the Korean people for indiscriminately killing Koreans, doing harm to their lives and health and destabilizing their life, far from uttering even a word of apology.
In fact, damage done by the U.S. imperialists to the lives of the people in the northern half of Korea is hideous crimes unprecedented in human history in the light of the territory and population of the country and unpardonable from international legal and ethical points of view. The Korean people, therefore, have legitimate right to force them to pay for these crimes to the last.
Indiscriminate Destruction and Plunder
The destruction and plunder committed by the U.S. imperialists in the northern half of Korea surpassed by far those committed during the world war in the light of their scope and savage nature.
Property damages done to the Korean people by the U.S. for the past six decades total 16,703,169 million U.S. dollars.
The material and economic damages were summed up on the basis of internationally recognized calculation method.
The U.S. imperialists massively infiltrated terrorists and saboteurs into the northern half of Korea which was alive with the construction of a new country after the liberation. Those gangsters destroyed 3,029 blocks of peaceful structures including industrial establishments and dwelling houses, devastated and burned 1,073 hectares of cultivated land and 1,630 hectares of forests and looted properties and household articles of citizens including more than 1,069 cattle and pigs and thousands of heads of other domestic animals, to say nothing of state and public properties.
Property damages caused by the U.S. imperialists in the northern half of Korea up to the period before the start of the war amounted to 20,281 million U.S. dollars.
During the Korean War the U.S. imperialist aggressors reduced the cities and villages in the northern half of Korea to debris, in breach of war laws and regulations banning attack or bombardment on peaceful cities, villages, dwelling houses and buildings by any means. This war represented a history laying bare the brutality of the U.S. imperialist aggressors and their crimes.
Blustering that they would wipe 78 cities of north Korea off the surface of the earth, the U.S. imperialist aggressors massively bombed and shelled the whole territory of the northern half of Korea and even used internationally banned napalm bombs and bio-chemical bombs, thus turning its whole territory into wilderness of cinders and ashes.
The atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialists on the ground and in the sea and air resulted in severely destroying 50,941 buildings of industrial establishments, 28,632 school buildings at all levels, 4,534 public health buildings including hospitals and clinics, 579 scientific research institutions, 8,163 printing and cultural institutions and 2,077,226 dwelling houses. 7,491 churches, chapels, cathedrals and other buildings for religious services disappeared. This brought the total number of severely damaged buildings to 2,416,407.
Railways extending 4,879 km, roads extending 4,009 km and bridges totaling 1,109 km and 1,489 locomotives, 4,803 trucks and 6,281 fishing boats and ships were destroyed, and 1,715 reservoirs and relevant facilities were blown up or destroyed, causing tremendous human, material and environmental damage.
563,755 hectares of cultivated land were devastated and more than 155,500 hectares of paddy and non-paddy fields lost and millions of domestic animals were slaughtered or looted including 369,101 heads of cattle and 764,604 pigs.
Valuable national cultural heritages were ruthlessly vandalized or looted: 40,755,640 volumes of ancient and old books, documents and data including ancient books listed as national treasures more valuable than billions of dollars were burnt or plundered.
The inhabitants in the northern half of Korea lost most of all their personal properties during the devastating war.
Everything in the northern half of Korea was so severely destroyed that the U.S. imperialists predicted that Korea would not rise again even in 100 years.
Property damages caused by the U.S. imperialists to the northern half of Korea during the war reached 16,661,622 million U.S. dollars.
This proves that the Korean war of aggression launched by the U.S. imperialists was the most barbarous and destructive war ever fought in the world history of wars.
In the postwar period, too, the U.S. committed ceaseless provocations on the land and in the air and sea. It systematically infiltrated terrorists and saboteurs into the DPRK to destroy or burn peaceful facilities. In this course it inflicted 21,266 million U.S. dollar worth of damage upon it.
After defeating the aggressors the Korean people built with dignity a socialist power from scratch in a short span of time by their own efforts. But unspeakable was the aftermath of the indiscriminate destruction of the DPRK's economic foundation by the U.S. imperialists before and after the war.
The U.S. imperialists' sabotage deterred the normal development of the economy. This caused a productivity loss of 10,896 million U.S. dollars before the war and 5,461,460 million during the war.
Availing itself of this opportunity, the DPRK has to state that the U.S. is obliged to pay for many crimes.
Even in the early period of building a new country after its liberation, the Korean people used a lot of raw materials, funds and manpower for rehabilitating reservoirs to supply a large amount of electricity to the south Korean people and full irrigation water to the area of South Yonbaek from the compatriotic step.
The U.S. military authorities, however, collected a fabulous amount of water and electricity charges from the peasants of the said area and other south Korean inhabitants but have not properly paid to the DPRK for them.
They also issued at random currencies amounting to nearly 28.7 billion won by taking advantage of the situation in which the north and the south used common "Korean bank notes" after the liberation of the country and made them circulate in the areas of the northern half of Korea. In this way they plundered it of lots of foods, aquatic products and large quantities of natural resources including fuel and raw materials, thus throwing a big hurdle in the way of the Korean people's building of a new society.
The U.S. imperialists also brought enormous damage to the northern half of Korea by conducting the bio-chemical warfare on a large scale to seriously polluting the ecological environment.
The poisonous substance and germ sprayed by the U.S. imperialists over the areas of the northern half of Korea inflicted big damage on the lives and properties of the Korean people and living environment.
In the postwar period, too, they massively sprayed defoliant in the areas along the Military Demarcation Line to contaminate the air and inflict big damage on the growth of crops and animals and plants of the DPRK side. The amount of damages done by them reaches 4 448 million U.S. dollars.
A long period was required and a fabulous amount of funds were spent to restore to its original state the environment destroyed and polluted by the U.S. imperialists.
For example, the DPRK government was compelled to disburse enormous fund for decades only to combat epidemic hemorrhagic fever pathogens spread by the U.S. imperialists during the Korean War.
The amount of economic damages caused by the U.S. imperialists' environmental degradation and contamination in the areas of the northern half of Korea reaches nearly 505,356 million U.S. dollars.
The U.S. can never evade the responsibility for having inflicted big material and economic damage and losses on the Korean people much bigger than those in the world war and laid serious obstacles to the social development and economic construction in the northern half of Korea.
Product of the U.S. Policy of Isolating and Stifling the DPRK
The U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK is a policy of state-sponsored terrorism aimed at bringing down the dignified Korean-style socialist system chosen by the Korean people.
Since it divided Korea into two, the U.S. has ceaselessly committed all forms of war provocations, focusing on the moves to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
The U.S. imperialists committed hundreds of thousands of cases in wanton violation of the Military Armistice Agreement as evidenced by the infiltration of their armed spy ship "Pueblo" into the territorial waters of the DPRK. They have escalated military confrontation and screwed up tension on the Korean Peninsula while getting frantic with exercises for a war of aggression against the DPRK under various codenames every year including Team Spirit, Foal Eagle and Ulji Focus Lens aimed at mounting a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK.
Their increased war threat laid big hurdles in establishing a new society and building socialism in the northern half of Korea and hindered the planned and balanced development of the national economy, compelling it to allocate huge additional funds.
The Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government were compelled to put forward the line of putting all the people under arms and turning the whole country into a fortress to cope with the U.S. moves for igniting a new war. They had no choice but to carry on economic construction and defence upbuilding simultaneously while directing big efforts to civilian defence training at all times. This did damage worth 2,380,186 million U.S. dollars to the economic development and the improvement of the standard of people's living.
The U.S. imperialists' economic sanctions and blockade have been the keynote of their policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
It has been subject to their most protracted and harshest sanctions and blockade in the world.
The successive U.S. rulers have persistently applied systematic and overall economic sanctions and blockade against all sectors including trade, finance, investment, real estate, insurance, transport, post and telecommunications and visits of people for more than a half century to isolate and suffocate the DPRK firmly adhering to independence under the uplifted banner of socialism.
The U.S. started slapping economic sanctions and blockade against the DPRK and other socialist countries after faking up the "the Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Area" (COCOM) in November 1949. It has intensified economic sanctions and blockade against the DPRK year by year by invoking more than 20 laws including "the Trading with the Enemy Act" and "Export and Import Bank Act," all unilaterally fabricated in wanton violation of international law.
From the 1990s, difficult years when the socialist movement suffered a temporary setback, in particular, the U.S. formed the imperialist allied forces to totally isolate and stifle the DPRK, a socialist fortress, and left no means untried to achieve their purpose. All these moves were unimaginably vicious.
In July 1996 the U.S. cooked up such conspiratorial mechanism as the so-called "Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-use Goods and Technologies" to replace the COCOM which collapsed after the end of the Cold War. It worked hard to totally suffocate the economy of the DPRK through the international sanctions by applying the above-said arrangement to every case.
The U.S. has become evermore reckless in its offensive for international pressure on the DPRK in the new century.
It kicked off a frantic nuclear racket after listing the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil". It listed the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism" after faking up fictitious cases. After running the whole gamut of sheer intrigues such as "counterfeit notes", "human rights abuses" and "drug trafficking" the U.S. prodded its satellite countries into knocking into shape and effectuating PSI and the "Regional Maritime Security Initiative" aimed at maritime blockade. Through this campaign for collective sanctions and blockade the U.S. escalated the pressure and blackmailing against the DPRK.
The U.S. persistent sanctions and blockade badly affected every sector of the peaceful economic construction in the DPRK. Damages are on the steady increase.
The U.S. behavior is indescribably base. It froze properties of not only state and public institutions of the DPRK but its citizens. It even prevented individual persons from inheriting properties and froze insurance money. Not content with this, it blocked remittance and prohibited the sending of parcels.
The U.S. most vicious moves to stifle the economy of the DPRK found their manifestation in the sanctions against trade and financial transaction.
It banned not only its businesses but its civilians from having any dealing with businesses and citizens of the DPRK. It put pressure on those countries, businesses and individuals having economic relations with the DPRK, disturbing trade. DPRK traders were subject to U.S. watch and control wherever they went.
These obstructions to free trading activities caused the DPRK to suffer enormous losses in export and import aimed at developing the nation's economy and improving the standard of people's living.
In case the DPRK banks settle accounts with those of other countries in U.S. dollars, the U.S. enforced vicious financial sanctions, unconditionally freezing the relevant funds at U.S. banks. This rendered it impossible for the DPRK to make any settlement in international markets, causing big financial losses in its business.
The U.S. is putting pressure on other countries not to extend any credit or give economic assistance to the DPRK and barring even individuals from making any investment in it. It is also pressurizing its satellite countries not to sell any new equipment or transfer technology to the DPRK.
Worse still, the U.S. did not hesitate to commit such piracy as seizing by force of arms DPRK trading ships when they were sailing in the open seas the free sailing in which is allowed by international law and confiscating their cargo as evidenced by the forcible search of its trade cargo ship "Sosan" carried out by the U.S. in the open seas near Yemen in broad daylight by prodding Spain.
The U.S. moves to economically stifle the DPRK and bring down its system found their vivid manifestation in the fact that it deliberately delayed and scuttled the provision of light war reactors and delivery of heavy oil, the hardcore commitments under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework adopted in October of 1994.
The U.S. dragged on the construction of light water reactors and the provision of heavy oil, deliberately laying hurdles from their outset, and finally suspended both of the jobs which it had conducted for form's sake. This shameless action of the U.S. caused the power industry of the DPRK to suffer electricity losses amounting to astronomical figures and brought awful consequences to the national economy and the people's living after the adoption of the said agreed framework. Due to the U.S. delay in the construction of light water reactors and suspension of the provision of heavy oil the DPRK suffered the loss amounting to 1,165,008 million US dollars.
Immeasurable is the damage the Korean people suffered owing to the economic sanctions and blockade, the products of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK. But the damages brought to light bring the total amount of the accurately estimated damages incurred by the U.S. to the DPRK for six decades up to 2005 to 13,729,964 million U.S. dollars.
The DPRK's building of a thriving nation was impeded due to the "resolutions on sanctions" the U.S. cooked up by instigating the UNSC, calling into question the launch of satellites for peaceful purposes in recent years and labeling the nuclear test conducted by it in a legitimate manner to defend the supreme interests and sovereignty of the country a "threat to peace." These damages are yet to be calculated.
The despicable economic sanctions and blockade perpetrated by the U.S. for more than a half century are the illegal and brigandish crimes and a wanton encroachment on the sovereignty of the state with no ground in the light of international law.
Nevertheless, the U.S. has neither compensated for such base crimes nor repented of them. It is defiling the inviolable dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK by faking up the case of warship "Cheonan" just like a thief crying "Stop the thief!" and working with blood-shot eyes to impose disasters of a nuclear war on this land.
The U.S. has used the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula for systematically isolating and stifling the DPRK, not for ensuring peace there. It deliberately derailed the six-party talks. Persistently sidestepping the peaceful co-existence with the DPRK, the U.S. is fostering division and confrontation between the north and the south and hindering the uniform development of the Korean nation, ceaselessly doing unspeakable damage to the former.
All these facts once again clearly prove that the U.S. imperialists are the vicious and barbarous aggressors, murderers, shameless wreckers of peace and the sworn enemy of the Korean nation.
The more reckless the U.S. becomes in its moves to hurt the dignified DPRK, far from apologizing and compensating for its crimes committed against the Korean nation, the higher the hatred of the army and people of the DPRK for it will mount and the stronger they will grow in their resolution to take revenge upon it. The provokers will get nothing but merciless destruction and death for their political and military confrontation.
The army and people of the DPRK who have grown to be matchless revolutionary ranks under the leadership of the Party and the leader will never pardon the crimes of the U.S. imperialists but force them to pay a thousand-fold price for them. They will bolster up the deterrent for self-defence in every way under the banner of Songun, firmly defend the peace in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world and build a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation on this land without fail.
DPRK Permanent Representative Sends Message to President of UNSC
Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- Sin Son Ho, permanent representative of the DPRK at the UN, sent the following message to Claude Heller, president of the UNSC, on Tuesday as regards the grave situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula:
On May 20, 2010, the United States and the south Korean authorities released the "investigation result" that forcibly linked the sinking of the south Korean warship "Cheonan" with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The DPRK straight away and totally rejected the "investigation result" and clarified its position that it has nothing to do with the incident, proposing that it will dispatch to the site of the incident its own inspection group of the National Defence Commission in order to conduct an objective evaluation on the "investigation result".
It would be very useful to remind ourselves of the ever more increasing international doubts and criticisms going beyond the internal boundary of south Korea, over the "investigation result" from the very moment of its release.
As days go by, the objective and scientific military analysis and the environment surrounding the incident reveal that the incident is a fabricated scenario, purely out of political and military purposes of the U.S.
The key to resolving the case lies in that the DPRK which is the victim takes an opportunity to verify and confirm the "investigation result" on a scientific and objective basis.
It is imperative for the United Nations Security Council not to step into the same situation as it was once misused as a tool of high handedness and hegemony of the United States by giving legitimacy over to its armed invasion into Iraq, based on a single word of lies of Powell in February 2003.
The United Nations Security Council is strictly duty bound to adhere to the principles of respect for sovereignty and impartiality of UN Member States, as enshrined in the UN Charter.
The United Nations Security Council is an organization with the securing of the global peace and security as a lifeline in its mission. If the United Nations Security Council, as an organization of such a mission, is in its genuine wish for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, where a touch and go situation has been created due to the incident of "Cheonan", it should take, first of all, measures that can lead the U.S. and south Korea to receive the inspection group of the National Defence Commission as already proposed by the DPRK, the victim, to help verify the "investigation result".
By doing so, the United Nations Security Council should give utmost priority to bringing to light the very truth of the incident, on an impartial and objective basis.
In case the unilaterally forged "investigation result" is put on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council and open to be debated without the verification of the directly victimized party, it will be more than clear that the sovereignty and security of the DPRK is infringed upon, and by then no one would dare imagine how serious its consequences would be with regard to the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.
On this occasion I would like to enclose herewith a copy of the answer by the spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry dated 4 June 2010 and kindly request you to circulate it as document of the United Nations Security Council.
National Defence Commission Issues Statement
Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK National Defence Commission issued a statement today as regards the sinking of warship "Cheonan" of the south Korean puppet navy.
The statement reads:
We had already warned the south Korean group of traitors not to make reckless remarks concerning the sinking of warship "Cheonan" of the puppet navy.
Nevertheless, the group of traitors had far-fetchedly tried to link the case with us without offering any material evidence. It finally announced the results of the joint investigation based on a sheer fabrication, which assert that the warship was sunken by our torpedo attack, in a bid to mislead the public opinion inside and outside Korea.
It is, at the same time, crying out for "punishment" and "retaliation" internally and foolishly seeking to prod the international community into applying additional "sanctions" against the DPRK.
What matters is that traitor Lee Myung Bak is taking the lead in such anti-DPRK smear campaign, even daring slander the headquarters of our revolution.
Meanwhile, Kim Thae Yong and other gangsters of the south Korean puppet military accustomed to flattery and blind obedience echo Lee Myung Bak's outbursts. This smear campaign is fanned up by Ryu Myung Hwan and other ultra-rightist conservatives of south Korea.
This is also joined by the U.S. and Japanese aggressors who are making desperate efforts to keep their hostile policy towards the DPRK on its orbit.
We would like to question them so busy linking the above-said case with the DPRK why they don't link with it the death of a puppet army soldier, crashes of fighter plane and gunship of the puppet navy and air force and the sinking of a civilian fishing boat that occurred one after another almost simultaneously.
It is the age of science and technology.
As a swollen balloon is bound to break, any lie is bound to be brought to light no matter how hard one may try to make it sound plausible.
What is evident is that the sinking of warship "Cheonan" can never be construed otherwise than a "conspiratorial farce" and "charade" orchestrated by the group of traitors in a deliberate and brigandish manner to achieve certain political and military aims because only 46 soldiers met miserable deaths while officers survived the case.
This being a hard reality, they are pointing a dirty accusing finger at us like a thief crying "Stop the thief!"
It is a trite method of the successive south Korean puppet regimes to fake up a shocking case and use it for floating a story about "north wind" whenever they find themselves in a crisis.
These days they are using for this plot even "deserters from the north" who had found their ways to a dumping ground and human scum.
The National Defence Commission of the DPRK responsible for the defence of the country and the security of the nation clarifies the principled stand of our army and people in view of the grave situation where the sinister plot of the group of traitors may lead to reckless actions against us.
1. As the group of traitors declared that the sinking of the warship "Cheonan" is linked with us, the NDC of the DPRK will dispatch an inspection group to the spot of south Korea to verify material evidence concerning the linkage.
The group of traitors should produce before the dignified inspection group of the DPRK material evidence proving that the sinking of the warship is linked with us.
We remind the group of traitors in advance that there should be not a shred of doubt about the material evidence to be produced before the inspection group.
2. Our army and people will promptly react to any "punishment" and "retaliation" and to any "sanctions" infringing upon our state interests with various forms of tough measures including an all-out war.
The all-out war to be undertaken by us will be a sacred war involving the whole nation, all the people and the whole state for completely eliminating the strongholds of the group of traitors who orchestrated "the conspiratorial farce" and "charade" and their followers and building instead a reunified power in which the whole nation emerges powerful and prosperous.
The tough countermeasures to be taken by us will prove to be practical actions of justice for dealing unpredictable sledge-hammer blows at the group of traitors who blocks national reconciliation and unity and stirs up an atmosphere of confrontation in the south Korean society.
3. Now that the group of traitors declared what it called "decisive actions", we will brand any small incident that occurs in the territorial waters, air and land where our sovereignty is exercised including the West Sea of Korea as a provocation of confrontation maniacs and react to it with unlimited retaliatory blow, merciless strong physical blow.
It is our invariable iron will to react to "retaliation" with more powerful retaliation and to "punishment" with indiscriminate punishment of our style.
Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we sternly warn the U.S. and Japanese authorities and riff-raffs, their poor lackeys, to act with discretion.
The world will clearly see what dear price the group of traitors will have to pay for the clumsy "conspiratorial farce" and "charade" concocted to stifle compatriots.