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Special Report of Political Bureau of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, January 12 (KCNA) -- The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea issued the following special report on Thursday:

The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee solemnly announces that it has decided as follows, reflecting the unanimous desire and ardent request of all party members, service personnel and people to hold the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal leader of the Party and the revolution, glorify his sacred revolutionary life and undying revolutionary feats forever and surely carry to completion the revolutionary cause of Juche started in Mt. Paektu:

1. The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il will be laid in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, the sacred temple of Juche.

2. The statue of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il will be erected with respect.

3. February 16, the greatest auspicious holiday of the nation when the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il was born, will be instituted as the Day of the Shining Star.

4. Portraits of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il with smile on his face and towers to his immortality will be built across the country.

Rodong Sinmun/ Any Threat and Blackmail Will Not Work on DPRK

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. should draw due lesson from its bankrupt hostile policy towards the DPRK for this year and take a right choice.
Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a bylined article.

This year the U.S. made persistent and vicious efforts to isolate and stifle the DPRK as never before, the article notes, and goes on:
Violence, terror, psychological warfare and the like are main methods of aggression employed by the U.S. imperialists at present. The U.S. imperialists would put the strong-arm policy to the fore or use the methods of terror and psychological warfare before anything else in keeping with situation and object and, if necessary, combine such ploys. Anyhow, what they have attached special importance is the way of threat and blackmail. But such way could never work on the DPRK.

The conclusion the Korean people came to this year again is that they should heighten the vigilance against the cunning double-dealing tactics of the U.S. to the maximum and resolutely take tougher attitude toward the tough policy of the U.S. warmongers.

The DPRK will always emerge victorious in the battle to defend socialism as it has the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu, the people with firm will and faith that they are sure to win in the fight with the enemy and the invincible army fully prepared in politico-ideological and military technical aspects.

National Unity Is Key to Peace and Reunification--Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) -- All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration, in its recent appeal marking the 4th anniversary of the October 4 declaration, called upon the people from all walks of life at home and abroad to promote the national unity under the banner of the north-south joint declarations.

Recalling this fact, Rodong Sinmun Sunday says in a bylined article:
The appeal gives all Koreans the faith in the independent reunification, peace and prosperity, arousing them to the grand nationwide march for independent reunification.

The national reunification is an undertaking to terminate the foreign forces' domination and interference, completely realize the sovereignty of the nation, remove the distrust and contradiction between the north and the south and achieve national unity.

A key problem in realizing national reunification will be smoothly settled if the north and the south get harmony with each other and all Koreans pool their will and efforts to achieve great national unity.

National reunification is an independent cause involving all Koreans that can be realized by their concerted efforts.
It is none other than the Korean nation that wants its reunification. It is also the Korean nation that should carry out this historic task and will enjoy benefit from national reunification.

To achieve the national unity is an urgent demand for preserving peace of the country and steadily advancing the June 15 era.
All Koreans should take concerted action and join hands for the nation's great cause, irrespective of class and strata, affiliation and ism.

Nothing can match the strength of the united nation and no force can check the advance of the reunification movement by all Koreans closely rallied under the banner of national independence and patriotism.

China Calls for Resumption of Six-party Talks

Pyongyang, September 16 (KCNA) -- China's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called for the resumption of the six-party talks on Wednesday.

Speaking at the ongoing session of the Board of Governors of the IAEA in Vienna, Cheng Jingye said the six-party talks are instrumental in propelling the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and safeguarding peace and stability in Northeast Asia. An early resumption of the talks conforms to interests common to parties concerned.

Cheng stressed that it is China's invariable stand to solve issues in a peaceful way through dialogue and negotiations.
China will maintain mutual understanding and coordination with parties concerned and the international community and make joint efforts with them to accelerate the denuclearization process of the peninsula and ensure a durable peace and stability in the region, Cheng added.

Open Letter to U.S. and S. Korean Authorities

Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The United States and the south Korean authorities are contemplating staging again adventurous Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises from August 16 to 26 despite the unanimous desire of the people at home and abroad for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

In view of such situation sparking another danger of war on the peninsula, the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army Sunday sent the U.S. and the south Korean authorities the following open letter reflecting the unanimous will of the army and the people of the DPRK:

Peace is the strong desire and invariable requirement of the army and the people of the DPRK.
It is, however, long since the situation on the peninsula inched close to a touch-and-go situation, after going beyond the fragile state of armistice.

Such trend of the situation is attributable to the hostile policy enforced by the U.S. toward the DPRK, failing to match its words with its deeds and the anti-DPRK policy of confrontation followed by the south Korean authorities, toeing its line. It is, at the same time, a direct product of the evermore undisguised war hysteria kicked up by the military warmongers against the north, pursuant to it.

The Ulji Freedom Guardian is part of this hysteria for a war of aggression against the north.
This can be explained by the fact that the projected joint saber-rattling will be dangerous war maneuvers to be staged by the U.S. and the south Korean military warmongers in accordance with newly revised and supplemented war scenario against the north. This can also be evidenced by the fact that the projected joint exercises would be all-out nuclear war maneuvers involving modern war hardware including improved nuclear attack means and huge aggressor forces and even local administrative organs and non-governmental enterprises.

What should not go unnoticed is the fact that they are going to stage such reckless saber-rattling though they must know well the resentment and hatred of the servicepersons and people of the DPRK and their determination to take revenge upon the military warmongers of south Korea for their hideous provocations are running high.

The KPA Panmunjom Mission is authorized to raise the following principled demands to the U.S. and the south Korean authorities in view of the prevailing grave situation:

1. The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should show the DPRK the will for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula by making a bold policy decision to cancel the projected joint military exercises.

If they stage actions of blackmailing against the other party by mobilizing even the group of super-large nuclear aircraft carrier and strategic nuclear strike flying corps, while urging someone to show sincere attitude towards denuclearization, this will amount to breaching the principle of simultaneous action for denuclearization.

The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula cannot be achieved by denuclearizing one side only.
This should be comprehensive and fair denuclearization including the removal of nuclear threats to the DPRK.

The army and people of the DPRK are not what they used to be in the past. They do not hide that they have had access to nuclear deterrent powerful enough to protect themselves.

If the other party launches a nuclear war, the DPRK is ready to counter it with nukes. It is its solemn declaration.
The U.S. and the south Korean authorities had better face up to the changed situation and properly understand who their rival is. They should show their willingness to denuclearize the peninsula in the eyes of the world by canceling the projected nuclear war exercises.

2. By canceling the exercises the U.S. and the south Korean authorities should make a bold practical decision to replace the armistice system by a peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula.

War and peace can never go together.
Nothing is more shameless political artifice than showing such poor double-dealing tactics as making preparations for a war behind the scene while paying lip-service to peace and dialogue.

The annual repetition of such war provocation actions as the Ulji Freedom Guardian would only keep the evil cycle of mistrust and confrontation and this is bound to lead to a war.

The U.S. and south Korea are gravely mistaken if they think they would remain safe in case of a war on the Korean Peninsula.
If a war breaks out, the DPRK will lose the military demarcation line and gain national reunification, the cherished desire of the nation. The DPRK is full of confidence and optimism about it.

If the U.S. has true willingness to replace the armistice system by a peace-keeping mechanism, it should show its practical willingness to do so at home and abroad as a big power by canceling the joint military maneuvers for this year at least.

3. The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should officially show their willingness to normalize the DPRK-U.S. relations and the inter-Korean relations by canceling the projected joint military exercises.

The normalization process should begin with ending the hostile relations.
To call for reconciliation, cooperation and improvement of relations and then to stage war exercises to do harm to the other side would be the height of double-dealing tactics.

The U.S. incurred the towering grudge of Koreans and the south Korean authorities ruined the June 15 era, bringing untold pain to the people. But the army and people of the DPRK are ready to subordinate everything to the great cause of peace, reunification, reconciliation and cooperation.

The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should no longer commit such a policy error as misjudging the will of the DPRK.
Upcoming August 15 is supposed to offer a new watershed for the improvement of the relations between the north and the south. In the light of the public expectation for this, it would mean the total denial of the improvement of the relations if they start the joint military exercises against the DPRK from Aug. 16.

Frankly speaking, as far as the issue of improving the DPRK-U.S. relations and the inter-Korean relations is concerned, the U.S. and south Korea is more pressed for time than the DPRK.

The DPRK has so far followed its path without having had its relations normalized with the U.S. and south Korea and it will thrive and live better off in the future, too.

They must officially make public their willingness to cancel the military exercises targeted against the army and people of the DPRK, if they want to normalize the relations with the DPRK.

The army and people of the DPRK remain unchanged in their will and stand to counter the said exercises with the toughest stand.
The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should behave with discretion, cogitate and choose a wise way-out at the crossroads of dialogue or confrontation and peace or war.

The army and people of the DPRK look forward to a positive response to their just call.

CPRK Opens to Public Notice to Chongwadae of S. Korea

Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) tried to send an urgent notice to the south Korean authorities through Panmunjom today in connection with the fact that "Paekgol unit" of the south Korean puppet forces and other forefront units are committing heinous provocations defiling the dignity of the leadership of the DPRK and its system and army.
But the puppet authorities did not accept the notice of the DPRK side under the unreasonable pretext as they felt guilty for what they have done.

Under this situation the CPRK decided to open to public the notice addressed to Chongwadae.
The notice said:

According to south Korean media, "Paekgol unit" in Cholwon, south Korean Kangwon Province and other forefront units set up slogans heaping malignant slanders and calumnies on the dignity of the leadership of the DPRK and its system and army in their barracks and posts and on military facilities and walls and are inciting extreme hostility toward it.

This is one more unpardonable hideous provocation and a declaration of a war against the DPRK.
When the south side's military set up and fired at the targets hurting the dignity of the leadership of the DPRK, it warned the south side of its gravity. It also strongly demanded the south side immediately make apology, punish the prime movers and take measures to prevent the recurrence of similar incident.

The south side, in fact, apologized to the DPRK, describing it as an "inappropriate happening" and saying it "took relevant measures in the units."
The recent hideous provocations prove these were just lies and that Chongwadae and senior military officers were the architects of the provocations.

The south side should immediately make apology for the recent provocations, punish the prime movers, remove all the foul slogans and stop reckless provocations at once.

If the south side continues to connive at the provocations defiling the dignity of the leadership of the DPRK and its system and army, the DPRK will resolutely counter them with an all-out military retaliation and merciless measures for punishment as it had already warned in statements.

Kim Jong Il Pays Unofficial Visit to China

Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission (NDC), paid an unofficial visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) from May 20 to 26 at the invitation of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and president of the PRC.

He was accompanied by Kim Ki Nam and Choe Thae Bok, members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the C.C., the WPK; Kang Sok Ju, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and vice-premier of the Cabinet; Jang Song Thaek, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and vice-chairman of the NDC; Kim Yong Il, Pak To Chun and Thae Jong Su, alternate members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the C.C., the WPK; Mun Kyong Tok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., the WPK and chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK; Ju Kyu Chang, alternate member of the Political Bureau and department director of the C.C., the WPK; Kim Kye Gwan, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs; and Ji Jae Ryong, DPRK ambassador e. p. to China.

Chinese party and state leaders warmly welcomed Kim Jong Il who visited China again for strengthening and developing the DPRK-China friendship sealed in blood and accorded him cordial hospitality with utmost sincerity.

Kim Jong Il separately met and had talks with Hu Jintao, and Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang, who are members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the CPC.

Upon his arrival at Beijing Kim Jong Il was greeted by Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the CPC and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC; and leading officials of national organizations and Beijing Municipality.

He received a bunch of fragrant flowers from a child.
He had a conversation with Jia Qinglin.
Jia Qinglin warmly welcomed Kim Jong Il's visit to China on behalf of the CPC, the government of the PRC and the Chinese people upon the authorization of General Secretary Hu Jintao.

He noted that Hu Jintao and leading officials of the collective leadership were looking forward to the meeting with Kim Jong Il, attaching utmost importance to his China visit.

Kim Jong Il cordially met with Hu Jintao in Beijing on May 25 and held talks with him.

Present at the talks from the Chinese side were Xi Jinping, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the CPC and vice-president of the PRC; Ling Jihua, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC and director of the General Office of the C.C., the CPC; Dai Bingguo, state councilor; Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., the CPC; Yang Jiechi, minister of Foreign Affairs; Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Committee; Chen Deming, minister of Commerce; Liu Jieyi, deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., the CPC; and Liu Hongcai, Chinese ambassador e. p. to the DPRK.

Present there were Kang Sok Ju, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet; Kim Yong Il, alternate member and secretary of the C.C., the WPK; and Kim Kye Gwan, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs.

Kim Jong Il's visit to China is of particularly weighty importance in developing the traditional friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries on a higher stage, Hu Jintao noted, warmly welcoming his visit to China on behalf of the Chinese party, government and people.

He extended kind greetings to all the Korean people in their dynamic drive to open the gate to a thriving nation in 2012, the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, in hearty response to the spirit of the historic conference of the WPK.

Noting that the China visit paid by Kim Jong Il nine months after his two visits to China last year clearly proves what great importance he is attaching to the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship provided by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries, Hu Jintao highly appreciated the devoted service rendered by Kim Jong Il for the steady development of the bilateral friendship. Hu Jintao stressed that Kim Jong Il's appraisal of the changes taking place in China, making a long trip to the Northeastern and Huadong regions of China, was boundless encouragement and full support to the struggle of the Chinese people.

Kim Jong Il said that he was pleased to meet Hu Jintao again and expressed deep thanks to him for having sent senior officials in the capital as far as the railway station on the border to warmly receive and accord him cordial hospitality during his visit. He extended warm congratulations to all the members of the CPC and people of China on the 90th anniversary of the party.

Kim Jong Il gave his impressions of the visit to the Northeastern and Huadong regions of China making steady progress full of dynamism.

Kim Jong Il said that during his visit he could witness for himself the dynamic progress in the rapidly changing land of China through the achievements made in the economic and cultural fields and in the domain of the cutting-edge science and technology in its vast land.

The top leaders of the two parties and countries informed each other of the situation in their countries and had an open-hearted exchange of views on boosting the relations between the two parties and countries and reached a full consensus of views in a comradely, sincere and friendly atmosphere.

They shared the view that it is the common sacred responsibility which no others can perform instead and steadfast stand to carry forward and develop down through generations the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations which have covered the 60 odd year-long proud and historic path and have been put on a new higher stage.

They recognized that according to the agreement the leaders of the two parties and countries reached after their meeting in Changchun last year the governments and peoples of the two countries have striven to put the issues into practice in various fields.

It is favorable for more dynamically pushing forward socialist construction in the two countries, better protecting and promoting the common interests of the two sides and regional peace, stability and prosperity to boost the bilateral relations in various fields including high-level visits, brisk exchange of human culture and expansion of experience swap and mutually beneficial cooperation, they said, and discussed a series of measures to this end and reached an agreement.

It is the requirement of a new period and new situation to strengthen the unity between the two parties and countries and advance the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations with the era, Hu Jintao said, noting that the CPC and the PRC government will creditably discharge the historic responsibility for steadfastly carrying forward the baton of the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship associated with the noble soul of the revolutionaries of the elder generation of the two countries.

The Chinese side is set to inject fresh life and viability into the Sino-DPRK friendship and promote and put spurs to the development of the Sino-DPRK good neighborly relations of friendship and cooperation and boost them in wider dimension by pooling efforts with the DPRK side and thus bring greater wellbeing to the two countries and peoples and make a greater contribution to peace, stability and prosperity in Northeast Asia and, furthermore, in the rest of the world, Hu Jintao noted.

The DPRK-China friendship with a long history and tradition with the two countries linked by the same mountain and rivers is unbreakable as it stood all storms and tests and it will remain evergreen no matter how much water may flow under the bridge and how frequently one generation is replaced by another, Kim Jong Il said, re-clarifying the invariable will and determination of the WPK and the DPRK government to boost the friendly and cooperative relations in conformity with the noble intention of the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries and the desire of the two peoples.

Kim Jong Il expressed thanks to the party and government of China for having consistently set store by the DPRK-China friendship in the light of the strategic importance and from a prospective angle and having positively supported the Korean people in their struggle to defend socialism and achieve the prosperity of the country.

He reiterated the will to exert every possible effort for further consolidating the bonds of fraternal friendship enshrined in the minds of the two peoples and dynamically boosting the bilateral friendship, the common treasure of the two countries, in various fields.

Appreciating the new successes being made by the Chinese people in the efforts to accomplish the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, he said that the Korean people are rejoiced as over their own success over the fact that everything is going well in China, their neighbor.

At the talks the two sides highly estimated the fact that the good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation between the two countries grew stronger after a series of historic meetings held between the top leaders of the DPRK and China in recent years and expressed mutual support and solidarity with the two parties and peoples in the struggle for socialist construction and national reunification.

Hu Jintao highly appreciated the positive measures taken by the DPRK to defend stability and peace, develop economy and improve the standard of people's living, wishing the Korean people greater success in socialist construction under the wise leadership of the WPK led by Kim Jong Il.

He supported the Party, government and people of the DPRK firmly preserving socialism and exploring the road of development suited to its reality, expressing belief that the whole Party, the country and the people would achieve shining successes through a dynamic struggle, single-mindedly united around Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il expressed expectation that the Chinese people would win steady new victories in the historical course of furthering the building of the party's ability to govern, realizing scientific outlook on development and building a harmonious society under the guidance of the CPC with Hu Jintao as its general secretary, wishing them signal achievements this year, the first year of the 12th five-year plan.

Both sides had a sincere and in-depth exchange of views on international and regional issues of mutual concern, the situation in Northeast Asia, in particular.

Recognizing that the adherence to the goal of denuclearization on the whole Korean Peninsula, peaceful settlement of the issue through dialogue including the resumption of the six-party talks and the elimination of obstructive elements conform to the overall interests of Northeast Asia, the two sides shared views on making good understanding and coordination.

Hu Jintao hosted a banquet in welcome of Kim Jong Il's China visit at the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday evening.
Present there on invitation were Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Kang Sok Ju, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Yong Il, Pak To Chun, Thae Jong Su, Mun Kyong Dok, Ju Kyu Chang, Kim Kye Gwan, Ji Jae Ryong and embassy officials.

Present there were senior Chinese party and state cadres including Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, He Guoqiang, Zhou Yongkang, Liu Qi, Guo Boxiong, Ling Jihua, Wang Huning, Dai Bingguo, Wang Jiarui, Yang Jiechi, Zhang Ping and Chen Deming and Liu Hongcai.

Speeches were made by Hu Jintao and Kim Jong Il at the banquet.
The banquet proceeded in amicable atmosphere full of comradely and friendly feelings.

An art performance specially prepared by Chinese artistes was given to welcome Kim Jong Il's visit to China.
The colorful performance given by famous national art groups and domestic and international concours winners included numbers such as Chinese songs "My Motherland", serial songs of "A Dream of Red Mansions", world famous music and Korean songs "Nostalgia" and "Blooming Worksite".

Kim Jong Il conveyed a floral basket in congratulation of the successful performance.

He exchanged warm farewell with the leading officials of the collective leadership of China including Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping.
Hoping to meet Kim Jong Il again, Hu Jintao wished him greater success in his important work for realizing the cause of building a rich and powerful nation.

Kim Jong Il met with Premier of the State Council Wen Jiabao and had a cordial conversation with him at the state guest house on May 25.

Wen said he was very much pleased to see again Kim Jong Il in good health, adding that the current tour made by Kim Jong Il was the same as the one done by President Kim Il Sung 20 years ago.

Kim Jong Il said that this visit was the seventh one in the new century, noting that the Chinese party, government and people showed him cordial hospitality every time he came.

He conveyed militant greetings of the C.C., the WPK and the NDC of the DPRK to the Chinese party, government and people.

On May 26 he visited the Shenzhou Digital Company on the outskirts of Beijing, accompanied by Li Keqiang.
After going round the company, he highly appreciated a lot of successes of the scientists and researchers in researches into cutting-edge science.

He said that both the DPRK and China need to learn from each other and exchange experience in many aspects and heartily wished the Chinese people fresh and greater achievements in the great work for building a comprehensively well-off society in the spirit of the 17th Congress of the CPC.

Li Keqiang gave a luncheon for Kim Jong Il.
Jia Qinglin, Liu Qi and other senior officials of China were present at Beijing Railway Station to see off Kim Jong Il returning home.

He successfully concluded his unofficial visit to the PRC and started on his way home in safety, receiving warm farewell from senior party and government officials of China including Dai Bingguo and Wang Jiarui who accompanied and guided him with sincerity in the whole period of the visit.

His current visit to China for steady development of the DPRK-China friendship was successfully conducted under the special care and cordial hospitality of Hu Jintao and the party and government of China.

Kim Jong Il was satisfied at the results of the visit and expressed his heartfelt thanks for the cordial hospitality accorded to him by Chinese senior party and government officials.

DPRK Supreme People¡Çs Assembly Meets

Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- The Fourth Session of the 12th Supreme People¡Çs Assembly of the DPRK was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Thursday.
Present there were deputies to the SPA.
Also attending it as observers were officials of party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions and those in the fields of science, education, culture and arts, public health and media.

The Session discussed the following agenda items:
On the work of the DPRK Cabinet in Juche 99 (2010) and its tasks for Juche 100 (2011)
On the results of the implementation of the DPRK state budget for Juche 99 (2010) and its state budget for Juche 100 (2011)
Organizational matter

Deputy Choe Yong Rim, premier of the DPRK, made a report on the first agenda item.
He said that last year witnessed the signal advance in making the national economy Juche-oriented and the solid foundation for a drastic turn in developing the light industry and agricultural production. Big successes were made in development of science and technology, cultural construction and other fields, he noted.

He referred to the concrete tasks for this year, stressing the need to remarkably increase the production of consumer goods and attain the goal of grain production without fail to bring about decisive turn in improving the standard of people¡Çs living. Production should be increased in the economic field as a whole while steadily pushing ahead with the drive to put the national economy on a modern basis, he added.

Deputy Pak Su Gil, vice-premier and minister of Finance, made a report on the second agenda item.
He noted that last year¡Çs state budget revenue was overfulfilled 1.3 percent and the state budgetary expenditure was implemented at 99.9 percent. The revenue increased 7.7 percent while the expenditure swelled 8.2 percent over the previous year, he said, adding: The state budgetary allocations for light industry and agriculture last year showed 10.9 percent and 9.4 percent increase respectively as compared with that in the previous year. The state budgetary expenditure for the pilot domains of the national economy, basic industrial domains and capital construction last year went up 8 percent and 12.9 percent respectively over the previous year.

8.1 percent greater financial disbursement than the previous year was made for the field of science and technology and 6 percent bigger fund than that in the previous year was spent for the implementation of the popular policies.
15.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure was spent for national defence last year.

He further said: This year the state budgetary revenue is expected to grow 7.5 percent over last year¡Çs and the state budgetary expenditure is expected to show an 8.9 percent increase over last year. Huge funds will go to the light industry, agriculture, etc. and 15.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure will be spent for national defence.

Speakers at the Session pointed out that the Cabinet¡Çs work last year and the implementation of the state budget were properly reviewed and summed up. This year¡Çs tasks have been clearly laid down and the state budget correctly shaped in such a way as to give full play to the advantages of the socialist system in the DPRK, they said, expressing full support and approval of them.

They also manifested their will to push ahead with the general offensive for bringing about a decisive turn in building a thriving nation by increasing the political and military power of the country in every way and intensifying the drive for great surge for improving the standard of people¡Çs living.

The Session adopted with the unanimous approval of deputies the SPA decision "On approving the report on the work of the DPRK Cabinet and the results of the implementation of the DPRK state budget for Juche 99 (2010)" and the DPRK SPA ordinance "On the DPRK state budget for Juche 100 (2011) ".

Then the Session discussed the organizational matter.

Deputy Jon Pyong Ho was recalled from member of the DPRK National Defence Commission due to the transfer to other post and Deputy Pak To Chun was elected to fill the vacancy.

Deputy Ri Myong Su was appointed as minister of People¡Çs Security of the DPRK NDC.

Deputy Jang Pyong Gyu was elected chairman of the SPA Legislation Committee to fill the vacancy.

Deputy Ri Thae Nam was relieved of vice-premier of the Cabinet for his health reason.

Anti-War Peace Rally in L.A, Chigago, Was.DC, SFO

On March 19, thousands of people took to the streets to demand an end to U.S. war and military intervention abroad and funding for people’s needs at home. Mass demonstrations took place in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and many other cities across the United States and the world. Below are some initial reports.

Over 60 Korean-Americans in the Los Angeles rally participated in the anti-war peace rally at the Hollywood area on the 19th day of March, 2011. They chanted "Peace Treaty Now!", "No War, Yes Peace!" "One Korea-Yes, Two Koreas-No" while they were marching on the Hollywood and Sunset Streets.

Thousands take to the streets on the 8th
anniversary of the Iraq war to demand:
End the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Stop the bombing of Libya!


Los Angeles

Photo: Travis Wilkerson
Thousands of people hit the streets in Los Angeles in a spirited, youthful demonstration to stop the wars. Led by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, including active-duty soldiers and marines, the march of well over 4,000 people chanted, “Money for jobs and education, not for wars and occupation!

A huge student contingent from high schools and community colleges in Long Beach, Orange County and L.A. participated, along with large numbers from the Muslim community. Speakers included Vietnam Veteran Ron Kovic, students, teachers, union leaders and anti-war activists. Chris Shiflet, the lead guitarist for the Foo Fighters, spoke and played a song.

The ANSWER Coalition initiated the March 19 protest in Los Angeles. Over 100 additional community and progressive organizations endorsed the action.

San Francisco

Despite cold, steady rain, 1,800 people marched and hundreds more rallied in San Francisco demanding an end to the wars and occupations around the world and the war on working people here. Speakers at the opening rally condemned the launching of a new war against Libya, which had begun just hours before.
A strong contingent from UNITE HERE Local 2, the SF hotel workers union, helped lead the march, which ended with a massive picket line in front of the boycotted Westin St. Francis hotel at Union Square. The demonstration was organized by the March 19 Coalition, which was initiated by the ANSWER Coalition.

Washington, D.C.

Members of March Forward! and Veterans for Peace are arrested in front of the White House.photo by Bill Hughes
Over 1,500 people participated in a veterans-led civil resistance action initiated by Veterans for Peace that led to the arrest of 113 people at the White House. The ANSWER Coalition, March Forward! and many other organizations supported the event.

At the rally in Lafayette Park, Brian Becker, the national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, said: “The U.S. government never tells the people that ‘we? are going to invade or bomb another country in order to control and exploit its natural resources—especially oil and natural gas—or the labor of the occupied people. That is, of course, the truth. But no mother or father would allow their child to go to war for the crass function of exploitation. The U.S. government always states that each Pentagon invasion or bombing attack is for humanitarian rather than imperial objectives.

“Today, on the eight anniversary of the criminal invasion of Iraq, the United States, Britain and France are poised to begin a massive bombing of Libya--again, they say, for noble, humanitarian reasons. That is a lie that we must expose. Libya is the largest producer of oil on the African continent and the imperialists want to re-conquer the country and its resources. We, in the ANSWER Coalition, stand against any military action against Libya. The Libyan people, and they alone, must be the masters of their own destiny.?

Ryan Endicott from March Forward! speaks in Washington, D.C. Photo by Roger Scott
Caneisha Mills, an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, also addressed Libya in her talk, saying: “The U.S. government claims it will bring democracy and freedom to Libya; these are the same terms used to invade Iraq! After the massive and ongoing slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan we know that is not true!?

Ryan Endicott, a member of March Forward! and an Iraq war veteran who served in Ramadi, told the crowd: “We know firsthand that our enemy is not the people of Iraq, who for eight years have been struggling to survive a brutal occupation. It is not the people of Afghanistan who for over a decade have been struggling to survive a brutal occupation. The biggest threat to the people of the United States is not thousands of miles away, but hundreds of yards away, right here in the White House, in the Pentagon, on Wall Street. It’s the bankers that take our homes, the CEOs that lay off from our jobs only to take million dollar bonuses.?

Chicago

On March 19 in Chicago, 1,000 people marched on Michigan Ave. to demand an immediate end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Protesters carried signs that read "No War on Libya!" and "Stand Against War and Racism: Money for Jobs and Education, Not War!" A very popular chant was "End, End the War! Tax, Tax the Rich!"

The many contingents in the march included Palestine solidarity groups, free Bradley Manning activists, youth and student contingents, many neighborhood peace groups and the ANSWER Chicago contingent, which carried Egyptian and Wisconsin flags, and a banner that read: "From Egypt to Wisconsin to Chicago ... : Time to Fight Back!"

Protests also took place around the country, including in Phoenix, Arizona; Fort Bragg, Fresno, Laguna Hills, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, California; Evergreen, Colorado; New Haven, Connecticut; Daytona Beach, North Miami and Orlando, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dubuque and Iowa City, Iowa; Boston, Massachusetts; St. Paul, Minnesota; Biloxi, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Keene, New Hampshire; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Highland Park, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Eugene and Portland, Oregon; King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Austin, Dallas and Houston, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; Racine, Wisconsin.

Over 60 Korean-Americans participated in the Hollywood rally.Photo by minjoktognshin

Korean-Americans participated in the Los Angles anti-war peace rally.Photo by minjoktongshin


[News Source : ANAWER & Minjok-Tongshin 2011-03-19]

DPRK Proposes Inter-Korean Parliamentary Contact

Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- The Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK Wednesday sent the south Korean parliament a letter proposing parliamentarian contact and negotiations. The proposed contact and negotiations were clarified in the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea's appeal to all Koreans.

The letter noted that the DPRK proposed contact and negotiations of lawmakers between the SPA and the south Korean parliament out of the steadfast will to defuse the acute situation of the Korean Peninsula, improve the north-south relations and open up a new phase for peace and reunification. Any member of the Korean nation should never turn aside from the present grave situation, it noted.

The parliament representing the people's mindset should lend an ear to the voices of all the fellow countrymen desirous of the improved north-south relations and their dialogue, the letter said, adding: It is quite natural for the parliaments of the north and the south to sit face to face to discharge their responsibility and duty now that military talks are to be opened between the two sides.

The letter expressed hope that the south Korean parliament would positively respond to this sincere proposal and appeal.

Meanwhile, the Korean Social Democratic Party and the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, the National Reconciliation Council, the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and other public organizations and religious organizations of the DPRK sent letters calling for response to the proposed north-south dialogue to the ruling and opposition parties and organizations of south Korea.

North Side Sends Notices to South Side

Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, the chairman of the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society and the chief of the north side to the Consultative Office for North-South Economic Cooperation separately sent notices to the Ministry of Unification of the south side, the president of the south Korean Red Cross and the chief of the south side to the Consultative Office for North-South Economic Cooperation on Monday.
They formally informed them of the practical measures as clarified in the important proposal set forth in the recent joint statement of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations and the statement issued by a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea as regards the measures for putting it into practice.

They proposed having a working contact for talks between the authorities of the north and the south in Kaesong on January 27 and talks between the Red Cross organizations of the north and the south in Munsan, the area of the south side, on February 1. They informed them that the Panmunjom Red Cross liaison channel would be reopened from January 12 and the above-said office would be regularly operated.

Democratization of UN Called for

Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- It is an important and urgent task of the times for establishing a new fair international order to democratize the United Nations, observes Rodong Sinmun Friday in a signed article.

The UN is an international body which was established to prevent the recurrence of such war disaster as the Second World War but it has still failed to ward off wars and disputes worldwide, the article notes, and goes on:
If the UN is to play a leading role in defending global peace, promoting the development of the international community and establishing a new fair international order it is necessary to democratize it through reforms.

Only when the UN is democratized, is it possible to ensure equality in the international relations and fairly settle all the international issues.

What is essential for doing so is to expand the UNSC reflecting the world power structure in 1945.
The most important requirement for reforming the UNSC is to ensure the full representation and interests of the non-aligned and other developing countries.

The UNSC should be reformed in such a way as to make sure that it is represented by all regions on an equal basis, the representation of the non-aligned and other developing countries which account for the overwhelming majority of the UN member nations is fully ensured and its activities are opened to the public to the utmost. Only then will the UN be able to satisfactorily perform its mission and role as an international body.

What is also important for democratizing the UN is to raise the authority of the UN General Assembly.
Only when the UN General Assembly is given the mandate to discuss key international matters such as the issue of ensuring global peace and security and finally examine such major resolutions of the UNSC as those on sanctions and use of armed forces, in particular, is it possible to ensure impartiality in UN activities and this will contribute to holding in check highhanded and arbitrary practices of individual countries.

Statement of South Headquarters of Pomminryon

Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) released a statement on Nov. 20 to mark the 20th anniversary of the formation of Pomminryon.

The statement said that all Koreans are filled with confidence and will to get united under the banner of "By our nation itself" and achieve the independent reunification, peace and prosperity on the occasion of the said anniversary.

After its formation Pomminryon has steadily advanced along the road of national independence and great national unity despite the persistent repressive moves on the part of the U.S. and the anti-reunification forces, it noted.

Underlining the need to realize the national reconciliation and unity through strict implementation of the inter-Korean declarations and wage an anti-U.S. struggle for independence on a wider scale, the statement called on all the fellow countrymen to get united under the banner of "By our nation itself" to achieve the national reunification at an early date.

Koreans Called upon to Give Momentum to Atmosphere of Dialogue

Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The south Korean authorities should take a sincere attitude and stand toward the north-south dialogue, away from the anachronistic concept of confrontation, and immediately stop their reckless military provocations aimed to threaten and hurt the dialogue partner, urges Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article.

What is of paramount importance for successfully promoting dialogue and cooperation between the north and the south is to give further momentum to the atmosphere of dialogue, the article notes, and goes on:

The issue of paving the way for dialogue presents itself as a particularly important issue today when the north-south political and military confrontation has reached the worst phase due to the present south Korean authorities' anti-reunification moves.

The humanitarian cooperation including the reunion of separated families and relatives that were arranged thanks to the sincere efforts made by the DPRK provided the north-south relations with an opportunity to get rid of catastrophe. The DPRK is now making every possible effort to bring about fundamental improvement in the north-south relations by giving momentum to the hard-won atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation.

This is clearly exemplified by the fact that the DPRK advanced reasonable proposals for normalizing the reunion of separated families and relatives and vitalizing humanitarian cooperation at the recent north-south Red Cross talks and proposed to hold the north-south working military talks to put under control the serious situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and pave the way for reconciliation and unity.

Now is the time for the north and the south to boost humanitarian cooperation and resume the tour of Mt. Kumgang and thus mend the deteriorated north-south relations at an early date by promoting dialogue with a sincere attitude and stand.

The south Korean authorities, however, maintain its attitude and stand toward the north-south dialogue quite contrary to those taken by the DPRK.

They are sticking to their insincere attitude and stand, chilling the unanimous desire of the nation for brisk dialogue and cooperation between the north and the south.

It is essential to stop all provocative acts against the dialogue partner in order to give momentum to the atmosphere of dialogue.

There still go on in south Korea anti-DPRK hostile acts which reached a reckless phase due to the conspiratorial case of warship sinking.

The south Korean warlike forces are staging ceaseless anti-DPRK war exercises under various codenames, while crying out for "deterring provocations" and "taking up a posture to cope with them."

It is imperative to remove as early as possible the stumbling block laid in the way of north-south dialogue by the south Korean authorities, the article concludes.

North-South Military Working Talks Held

Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- The north-south military working talks were held in the south side's portion of Panmunjom on Sept. 30 in connection with the fact that the south Korean conservative bellicose forces' scattering of anti-DPRK leaflets and their intrusion into the territorial waters of the DPRK side have reached a grave phase.

Senior Colonel of the KPA Ri Son Gwon, head of the delegation of the DPRK side, said that serious problems which can never be overlooked have cropped up recently in implementing the military agreements that were adopted between the two sides according to the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for carrying it out.

The south side perpetrated provocations against the DPRK recently by instigating conservative diehard reactionary organizations to massively scatter leaflets in the western sector of the front including Rimjin Pavilion in Phaju City of Kyonggi Province and Kanghwa Islet and the central sector of the front including Cholwon area of south Korean Kangwon Province, etc.

These provocations are lashing the army and people of the DPRK into fury and the artillery units of the DPRK in the front areas, in particular, are getting fully ready to strike the spotted centers for scattering leaflets.

Then he accused the military authorities of the south side of infiltrating a great many warships belonging to the second fleet of the puppet navy and even those belonging to the Maritime Police into the territorial waters of the DPRK side. He also denounced them for letting them stand in confrontation with the DPRK's guard craft on routine duty, unhesitatingly perpetrating such grave provocations as threatening the safety of their seamen.

He strongly urged the south side to apologize for the provocations committed by it against the DPRK on the ground and in the sea at a time when the inter-Korean relations are at serious crossroads and severely punish their chief culprits and take responsible measures to prevent the recurrence of the above-said provocations.

At the talks the south side talked about "responsible measures" as regards the "Cheonan" case and made such wrong assertions about "discontinuation of criticism of authorities" and "halt to escalating the tension in the West Sea" as a response to the DPRK's just accusations.

Dismissing these assertions, the DPRK side declared that it is foolish to talk still about the cheap farce orchestrated by the south side itself which had been censured by the public at home and abroad and it was nothing but a disgusting plot of the top class criminals to evade the stern judgment of the times and history at any cost.

In this context the head of the delegation of the DPRK side clarified its following principled stand:
The authorities of the south side have not yet complied with the DPRK's proposal for sending an inspection group of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK to the scene of the incident because they feel fearful of the grave crimes committed by them and afraid of the disclosure of them.

The same can be said of "discontinuation of criticism of authorities" and "halt to escalating the tension in the West Sea" raised by the south side.

Had they respected and implemented the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing it, the issue of "criticizing authorities" would not have cropped up and had the south side not turned down the DPRK's just proposal for establishing a special zone for peace and cooperation in the West Sea as specified in the October 4 declaration, in particular, armed conflicts and the escalation of tension in the said waters would not have occurred.

In closing the DPRK side pointed to the principled matters arising in defusing tension on the Korean Peninsula and achieving peace and prosperity common to the nation.

If the south side fails to immediately stop the provocations being perpetrated by it against the DPRK on the ground and in the sea, it will not be able to evade the responsibility for the ensuing disastrous consequences, it warned.

Papers on Contributions of Kim Il Sung to Chinese People's Revolutionary

Pyongyang, September 15 (KCNA) -- Leading papers Wednesday carry articles dealing with the contributions made by President Kim Il Sung to the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese people on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the publication of his work "Let Us Actively Support the Chinese People in Their Revolutionary Struggle."

Recalling that the President rendered unreserved assistance to the Chinese people to help them win victory in their revolution after the country's liberation in the wake of his 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolution, papers note that this noble sense of international obligation turned the friendship between the two countries into special and unbreakable one.

The President, who had underscored the need to strengthen revolutionary unity of the Korean and Chinese peoples on several occasions, made public his talk "Let Us Actively Support the Chinese People in Their Revolutionary Struggle," clarifying his revolutionary stand to support the Chinese revolution at the cost of blood.

According to his crucial measure, many fine military and political cadres and members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) were dispatched to new battle areas in Northeast China.

Revolutionaries and armed units of Korea eliminated remnants of the Japanese imperialists and puppet Manchukuo army, wealthy landowners, rebels and lackeys not only in the area of Yanbian but in Southern and Northern Manchuria and areas near Jilin, thereby frustrating the attempt of the Chiang Kai-shek clique to "egg counter-revolutionary forces on to rise in a rebellion and join the Kuomintang army" and creating favorable conditions for the liberation of Northeast China.

He made sure that Korea performed the role of a solid state rear for the war for the liberation of Northeast China and the victory of the Chinese revolution.

Strategic materials were transported from Korea and many units and personnel were sent to battle areas in Northeast China via areas of Korea.

He solved all the problems raised by Chinese representatives on the spot during their visit to Korea and provided lots of war supplies including various types of weapons, ammunition, explosives, medicines, materials for military uniforms and shoes on several occasions. He clearly indicated the way of winning a victory by giving strategic and tactical advices and expressing valuable views in each important period of the war for the liberation of Northeast China.

Hundreds of thousands of young Koreans displayed matchless heroism and self-sacrificing spirit in battlefields in Northeast China including Siping, Jilin, and Shenyang, performing signal feats.

The DPRK-China friendship forged with the comradely sense of obligation and fraternity grew stronger through the Chinese people's movement for resisting America and aiding Korea.

The traditional friendly relations provided by the President together with the leaders of the elder generation of China are steadily growing stronger in the new century, conclude papers.

Appeal to All Koreans

Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea made public an appeal to all the Koreans on Friday on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Korea's liberation.

The appeal says:
The Koreans have waged a strenuous movement for national reunification for a long period since Korea's liberation on August 15, 1945.

It was against the backdrop of this movement that the three principles of national reunification were published as the July 4 Joint Statement and the way was paved for dialogue for reunification.

The historic publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration that startled the whole world at the watershed of a new century, in particular, marked a great event which instilled into the Korean nation new hope and dawn of reunification.

Dark clouds of confrontation and war are gathering thick over this land which once had blue sky promising reunification thanks to the June 15 joint declaration. South Korea is now going back to the past dark era of ill-famed military fascist dictatorship as the reunification movement is considered as a heretic one and the confrontation with fellow countrymen is pursued as a "national policy" there.

South Korea and the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula are packed with means for a nuclear war of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces hell-bent on saber-rattling for a war of aggression against the DPRK.

The East, West and South Seas of Korea are disturbed by war exercises and strongly reek of powder smell.
In order to get rid of the present misfortune the Koreans should decisively foil foreign forces' moves for aggression and interference and resolutely defend the sovereignty and dignity of the nation.

All Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should decisively check and frustrate the moves for confrontation and war by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet warmongers keen to bring an unspeakable nuclear disaster to the Korean nation and defend peace on the Korean Peninsula.

The historical lessons till now and the prevailing situation eloquently prove that the road indicated by the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration is the only way to be followed by the Korean people and there can be peace, reunification and prosperity only when the declarations are implemented.

All the fellow countrymen should bravely frustrate the desperate moves of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad and achieve national reunification as early as possible in an effort to turn August 15 national liberation into August 15 reunification.

The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea ardently calls on all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to greet significant 2012 as a historic year of opening the gate to national reunification reflecting their unanimous desire and will.

Should the anti-reunification forces in south Korea persistently opt to ignite a war, backed by foreign forces, we will make a clean sweep of the group of traitors to the nation through a powerful and decisive counteraction and achieve the historic victory of national reunification, declares the appeal.

FM Spokesman on Presidential Statement of UNSC on "Cheonan" Case

Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Saturday gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA as regards the issue of the presidential statement of the United Nations Security Council on the "Cheonan" case:

The south Korean authorities brought up the case for discussion at the UNSC, but it concluded the discussion on this issue by issuing its presidential statement devoid of any proper judgment and conclusion without adopting any resolution on it.

A particular mention should be made of the fact that the UNSC took heed of the reactions of the countries concerned including the DPRK which clarified that it had nothing to do with the case.

The discussion could not have ended up otherwise as the UNSC hastily tabled and handled the case before the truth of the case has been probed.

This clearly proves what a foolish calculation the U.S. and south Korea made when they were recklessly behaving in so great haste to do harm to the DPRK for no reason.

We take note of the presidential statement saying that "the Security Council encourages the settlement of outstanding issues on the Korean Peninsula by peaceful means to resume direct dialogue and negotiation through appropriate channels."

The "Cheonan" case should have been settled between the north and the south without referring it to the UN.
The DPRK remains unchanged in its stand to probe the truth about the case to the last.

The south Korean authorities should strictly preserve the scene of the incident including the state of seabed as they were till the inspection team of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK reaches there.

The recent development in which the overall situation on the Korean Peninsula reached a point of explosion in a moment due to a conspiratorial farce once again reminds us of the danger of the present cease-fire and the urgency to establish a peace-keeping regime.

The DPRK will make consistent efforts for the conclusion of a peace treaty and the denuclearization through the six-party talks conducted on equal footing.

If the hostile forces persist in such provocations as demonstration of forces and sanctions in contravention of the presidential statement which calls for "avoiding conflicts and averting escalation" on the Korean Peninsula, they will neither be able to escape the DPRK's strong physical retaliation nor will be able to evade the responsibility for the resultant escalation of the conflict.

KCNA Indicts US-S. Korea for Fabricating "Cheonan" Case

Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released Monday the following indictment laying bare the truth about the case of sunk warship:
One month has passed since the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors announced the "results of investigation" into the case of the sunken south Korean puppet navy warship "Cheonan".

The U.S., in conspiracy with the south Korean group of traitors, cooked up the "story about a torpedo attack by the north" in a bid to shuffle off the responsibility for the sinking of the warship upon the DPRK. It referred the case to the UN, getting all the more undisguised in its moves to stifle the DPRK. But their despicable attempt proved futile.

Public is becoming increasingly vocal negating the "results of investigation" and criticizing the real culprits of the case and provocateurs worldwide.

The Korean Central News Agency releases an indictment dismissing the case of the sunken warship "Cheonan" forged by the U.S. and the Lee group of traitors as an unpardonable infringement upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and laying bare the truth about it:

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The "story about a torpedo attack by the north" is a sheer fabrication as it is devoid of scientific accuracy.
As for the 1.5 meter-long propelling body, it is what dozens of U.S. and south Korean warships equipped with up-to-date radars failed to find out in more than 50 days of search operations. But they claim it was suddenly netted by a civilian fishing boat, something incredible and not understandable either.

The group of traitors even produced a video showing the propelling body being netted by the fishing boat and helicoptered, and then took it to the UN in a bid to justify it. But it is clear to everybody that such video showing "the retrieval" of this mysterious thing can hardly serve as evidence proving the propelling body of the torpedo.

A screw of propelling axis and an engine, etc. which they alleged were used for breaking "Cheonan" into two were neither bent nor damaged.

Yun Tok Yong who headed the "joint investigation team" said its American and Australians concerned were "surprised" to learn that the propelling body was in very good shape.

There is a rumor in south Korea that the story about the retrieval of the propelling body is just like asserting that "a stone picked up at roadside dates back to the Old Stone Age."

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces claimed that the property of the metal used in making the propelling body is just the same as that of "the north's training torpedo" obtained 7 years ago and its design is also same as the design introduced in the "north Korea's torpedo brochure." This is sheer sophism.

Yun, when announcing the results, said that no comparison was made in the metal property between the two torpedoes.
As for the brochure which he said he saw for himself, puppet Minister of Defence Kim Thae Yong later said that "it was recorded on CD", an indication that this "evidence" is also doubtful.

As far as "No.1" written on the propelling body is concerned, there is need to call attention to the fact that the north and the south use the same language. If there is possibility that it was written in the writing style of the north it is similarly possible that it can be written in the style of the south. The puppet authorities, deliberately defying the stark reason, persistently asserted that it was written in the north's style. They have consistently dodged analysis of the felt-tip pen used for writing it.

Kyunghyang Daily News of south Korea dated June 1, referring to the scientific discrepancy of the letter, said:
The boiling points of general-use ink are 138.5¡É, 110.6¡É and 78.4 ¡É. Had the propelling body been heated up to 300¡É it might have been melted away.
If the paint of the hull had burnt away, the letter "No. 1", too, might have done so. This is science. But high temperature-resistant paint burnt away while low temperature-resistant ink remained.

The group of traitors presented "evidence" proving that absorptive found in the bow, stern, funnel and other parts of the ship is aluminum oxides that was found in the propelling body of the north's torpedo. This is unscientific.

They asserted that this substance is a byproduct of fine aluminum powder that was mixed with the gunpowder in a bid to increase the effect of their propaganda that the warship was broken into pieces by the "north's torpedo attack", adding that this substance turned into non crystalline substance due to intense heat at the time of "explosion" and contact with cold sea water.

A test and analysis of it conducted by a Korean professor at Virginia University of the U.S. at the request of a National Assemblyman from the south Korean Democratic Party proved that not all fine aluminum powder turn to crystalline substance in that case.

The professor made public a paper on this test and sent it to the UN.
Much upset by this, the "joint investigation team" officially admitted its investigation error at a session of the "National Assembly" on June 11.

Survivors of the sunken "Cheonan" said that they smelt no gunpowder at the time of sinking. But the puppet forces insisted on the "story about a torpedo attack by the north", turning down for no reason the public opinion about the possible formation of aluminum oxides in the course of the firing of artillery pieces from the warship.

The "investigation results" are censured by south Koreans and the world public for their contradictions and doubtful points.

The Solidarity for Democratic Society and the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification, the progressive organizations of south Korea, together with a Korean organization in the U.S. sent letters to the member nations of the UN Security Council on June 11 and 14.

The letters totally negated the "story about the north's torpedo attack," saying that had the "north's torpedo" exploded near "Cheonan", its fragments might have embedded in the warship body, leaving some deaf and some with broken bones, etc.

Fluorescent lamps of "Cheonan" remain intact and not a shoal of sand eels was found dead in the waters where the warship sank. Such humors as "magic fluorescent lamps" and "intelligent sand eel shoal in waters off Paekryong Islet" are rampant in south Korea, a refutation and derision of the authorities' "investigation results".

Non-confidence in the "government" grows strong even among government officials.

It is by no means fortuitous that they held even a meeting in the building of the "ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade" on June 7 to "brace themselves up to be ready mentally to cope with rational suspicions" about the "story about north's torpedo attack".

The June 17th issue of Chinese Huan Qiu Shibao carried an article "Was 'Cheonan' sunk by torpedo" contributed by a Chinese expert on military strategic affairs. It said:
It seems to me that it is hard to agree with the conclusion that "Cheonan" sunk by an explosion caused by a torpedo attack in view of "evidence" produced by the south Korean side only at present.

When the ship sank, broken into two, the U.S. and the south Korean navy were staging joint anti-submarine exercises in those waters.
It is hard for a warship to enter the waters where exercises were at their height as lots of underwater sound detectors were at work.

Moreover, the rival and target of search were submarines of the north. The south Korean side claimed that the north's mini-submarine sent the warship to the bottom of the sea but it has not released any record proving that the submarine moved to the waters where "Cheonan" sank, much less explanation about how it remained undetected after making its way to the said waters despite many-fold blockade and quietly left without leaving any trace after firing a torpedo. Only God knows about it.

One of crucial "evidence" produced by the south Korean side so far is the propelling body of the torpedo. Much more evidence is needed to link the propelling body to the above-said case.

The Russian Moskovskii Komsomolets on May 28 said that Russia and China do not believe in the "investigation results" at all. They lack lots of other possible evidence and facts and are full of contradictions.

The "objective investigation" touted by the U.S. and the south Korean authorities is a product of the plots hatched by the U.S. and the Lee group.

U.S. President Obama in his telephone dialogue with traitor Lee on April 1 said that he would actively "cooperate" with south Korea in "investigating the case" and U.S. forces Commander in south Korea Sharp told the puppet ministry of Defence that he would not "spare utmost support".

So, personnel and equipment for the fabrication of the case were flown to south Korea from the U.S. and hardware and even troops of the U.S. forces in south Korea and the U.S. Pacific Fleet were involved there.

The U.S., in fact, took over the work and ruled the roost even interfering in the fields which south Korea could take charge of.

The U.S. and the group of traitors included south Korean civilians and foreigners in the "civilian-army joint investigation team" in a bid to ensure the "objectivity" of the "investigation process" but those civilians were, in fact, excluded from the investigation.

An expert recommended by the Democratic Party of south Korea could not obtain even a single piece of information about the investigation schedule and particulars concerning the participation in the investigation from the military. The information available was that he was told to stay on ship "Tokdo" on Paekryong Islet till the end of the investigation.

The puppet military even kept the details of the formation of the "investigation team" and its line-up in top secrecy.
Commenting on this, An Kyu Baek, National Assemblyman from the Democratic Party, said that it is becoming clear that "civilians" are used as waiting maids to blindfold the civilian members of the investigation team and stop their ears.

Activities of foreigners involved in the "joint investigation team" were nothing but a screen to hoodwink people.

The June 6 issue of the Russian newspaper Forum M S K/. ru reported that "more than half of the 'international joint investigation team'" were Americans and the rest were made up of those from Britain and other countries"

Russian Internet News Ruskie Novosti reported on June 1 as follows:
Groundless "evidence" produced by the "investigation team" is sparking off serious criticism.

The first question is why only U.S. allies are included in the "investigation team" and why such countries as Russia and China were not invited to participate in the investigation. Moreover, the proposal for the dispatch of an inspection group of the DPRK was turned down for no clear reason.

What is not understandable is that south Korea, far from proving its arguments and evidence after the announcement of the "investigation results", kicked off hysteria, crying out for "retaliation" and "punishment" and then, stepping back from its earlier stand, gradually began talking about "apology" and "punishment of those responsible".

On June 5 an American Seoul correspondent said that all of the foreigners accounting for more than half of the members of the investigation team were experts from those countries which sent troops to the Korean war in the past, except one Swedish. There is suspicion that they were ordered to keep mum about the case.

Britain still keeps mum even though it received official request for the notification of its experts participating in the "investigation". Canada announced that it would send experts on May 16, four days before the announcement of the "investigation results". But nothing is known if they arrived in south Korea and if they participated in the "investigation" or not.

Sweden was said to have given technical help only, not involving itself in clarifying who is responsible for the case.

The head of the "investigation team" said that "experts" from the U.S. and Australia had no history of surveying sea bottom to look for a torpedo. This arouses strong doubt as to their "expertness".
The U.S. and the Lee group concealed or modified those data unfavorable for the "story about north's torpedo attack".
The waters where the "Defense Ministry" said the incident took place is about 1.6 km away from those recorded in the automatic communications system of the puppet navy and low waves and mild weather in the waters near the scene of the incident were registered by civilian weather stations while high waves and bad weather were registered by the military. Why "Cheonan sailed close to Paekryong Islet, away from his routine course, how it was possible for it to sail about 1 km more if it had been really hit by a torpedo and cut into two pieces, giving rise to a big column of water. Data about this are not mentioned in the "investigation results" at all.

Animation files of TOD showing the warship at the time of sinking, a crucial point in probing the truth, a gas turbine room situated in the place where the warship was broken into two pieces and a diesel engine are all excluded from the "investigation", much less being known to the public.

TOD files taken by puppet army outposts on Paekryong Islet and in areas around it contained photos of the ship before and at the time of its sinking. But those showing it at the moment the incident took place are not available. Only available was a file lasting for only 1 minute and 20 seconds at first. But it was increased to 40 minutes in face of the public criticism. Additional scenes were also made public later under continued stronger pressure. This proves that the animation file showing the warship at the crucial moment is missing.

Ri Jong Hui, National Assemblywoman from the Democratic Labor Party, on May 19 said that the "Defence Ministry" told a whopping lie when it said it had no TODs showing the bow and stern of "Cheonan" at the moment of their split and sinking, mentioning the names of those who watched those files.

The "joint investigation team" made public that a gas turbine room and engine were directly hit by the "north's torpedo". But the gas turbine room, a key factor in investigation," was lifted only on May 19, just before the announcement of the "investigation results."

Asked why a gas turbine room and diesel engine are not included in the "investigation results" with the engine still left under the sea, an official of the "joint investigation team" concerned openly rejected investigation, saying that "investigation has been conducted enough to presume the cause of the incident."

The Special Committee for "Cheonan" of the Democratic Party recently requested the puppet authorities to make public 63 data including records of situation of Cheonan, records of exchange of messages, report, track chart, TOD animation files, analysis of retrieved fragments, etc. This proves that so many data are kept under seal by the group of traitors.

The U.S. and the group of traitors made no scruple of cooking up "evidence" to make the "story about north's torpedo attack" an established fact.

The lifted stern of the ship was transported to the place near Taechong Islet and special warfare brigade and salvage team were hurled there allegedly to "confirm the net" but there is increasing suspicion that they tried to remove evidence and distort information.

The permanent representatives of the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification of south Korea in a joint statement on June 11 said that the military authorities deliberately hid TOD files and the chairman of the "Joint Chiefs of Staff" was not in his commanding and control room, got drunken at the moment of occurrence of the case. This proves that the military said only lies. The statement added that they can not repress astonishment at the military as it hoodwinked and made a mockery of not only the south Korean people but the world by deliberately concealing facts and cooking up lies in a bid to dodge its responsibility.

It is exactly the U.S. and traitor Lee who encouraged to do so.

The U.S. state secretary during her visit to south Korea to express the U.S. support for the "investigation results", said that the "400 page investigation report" was full of objectivity and persuasive facts".

Former U.S. Secretary of State Powell at the UN Security Council blamed Iraq for its access to weapons of mass destruction. This was a whopping lie.

National Assemblymen from opposition parties on June 12 demanded the puppet minister of Defence to present the "400 page report" referred to by the U.S. state secretary. But he only said "such report is not available".

Right after the occurrence of the incident traitor Lee talked about "thorough-going investigation" and "full revelation without shred of doubt". But now he keeps mum about so much date kept under secret. This is a deliberate negligence which proves that he is a chief culprit of the case.

The U.S. and the Lee group of traitors completely ignored and flatly refuted the world criticism of them, when investigating the case.

The broad public of the world have become vocal blaming the U.S. and the south Korean authorities for the case from its outset and demanding the international community punish them.

A reconnaissance source of the Russian Pacific Fleet clarified that it was true the "Cheonan" was sunk by a torpedo but it was not sunk by the "north's torpedo" but by a special torpedo fired by a small diving machine of the latest nuclear-powered submarine of the U.S. forces.

The May 27th issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda quoting a captain of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, said that the recent case is an invention of those who sought to deceive the international community. The U.S. is a "skillful director" in this field. There is the need to recall that the U.S. deceived the UN with false information before launching an Iraqi war. The Cheonan case was also a work of the U.S.

An American journalist said he confirmed that a wrecked German torpedo was found in the waters where the ship sank but Germany said it has never delivered weapons to north Korea, adding that the story about the north's torpedo attack is a classical deceptive operation.

A Swiss newspaper on May 27 reported that some American experts say that the warship sank by a "torpedo fired by the north". This is similar to the assertion made by former U.S. Secretary of State Powell at the UN General Assembly where he blamed Iraq for its access to weapons of mass destruction.

The June 1st issue of Indonesian newspaper Kompas noted that "Cheonan" was likely to be sunk by the U.S. forces' submarine. There is the need to remind that a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine was on a secret combat duty in the waters near Paekryong Islet on the very day the incident took place.

KBS of south Korea on June 7 reported as follows:
AP reported that south Korea and the U.S. were staging large-scale anti-submarine exercises on the very day "Cheonan" sank.

A spokesman for the "U.S. forces in south Korea" was reported to have said that south Korea and the U.S. conducted the exercises from 10 p.m. the day before the sinking of the ship to 9 p.m. the next day in the waters 120 km away from where the warship sank.

U.S. forces' warships including two U.S. destroyers staged mobile exercises regarding a submarine of the south Korean navy as an imaginary target.

A spokesman for the "south Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command" was reported to have confirmed that a sound detector was at work at the time the ship sank.

It is the first time that the anti-submarine exercises staged at the time of the ship's sinking were open to public through briefing. On April 7 KBS reported that the U.S. and south Korea kept in secrecy the fact that a submarine of the U.S. forces sank in waters very close to the waters where "Cheonan" sank, adding they did so because they were afraid of their U.S. submarines' presence in waters around Paekryong Islet for surprise attacks on north Korea in case of emergency from being brought to light and were fearful of touching off anti-Americanism among south Koreans.

The Headquarters of the Movement for the Withdrawal of the U.S. Forces of south Korea said on April 17 that the stern of "Cheonan" was raised, an indication that it was not sunk by an explosion, adding:
The most suspected assailant is a U.S. forces submarine. The U.S. ambassador to south Korea made great haste to tour the waters at issue with the U.S. forces commander in south Korea. This was something unprecedented. And a south Korean diver died while working in waters presumed to be where U.S. forces submarine sank, not where "Cheonan" sank. The U.S. forces' divers were keen on looking for something in those waters, paying no heed to the sunken "Cheonan". All this increases doubts.
This reminds one of saying "Criminal is bound to visit the scene of crime".

All this goes to prove that the above-said case was a farce orchestrated by the U.S. and the south Korean group of traitors in a deliberate and purposeful manner to cover up their crime and lay the blame for it at the door of the DPRK side.

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Lurking behind the assertion about the "torpedo attack by the north" made by the United States and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors are the sinister political aims sought by them through the case and the sordid inside story about the collusion and nexus for achieving them.

This is clearly evidenced by the fact that the U.S. and the group of traitors have closely cooperated in taking "follow-up measures" in the wake of faking up the "results of investigation."

No sooner had the "results of investigation" been made public on May 20 than U.S. President Obama instructed the U.S. forces to be ready for "deterring future aggressions from north Korea" in a coordinated operation with the south Korean puppet army. He thus created the impression that "threat from north Korea" and the resultant "security unrest" in the region have reached an extreme phase.

As a result, the United States and Japan immediately agreed on the issue of transferring the Futenma U.S. forces airfield in Okinawa.

The U.S. secretary of State toured south Korea and Japan to support the "results of investigation" and referred to the "very dangerous situation" on the Korean Peninsula. A confab among the United States, south Korea and Japan is making progress in real earnest to tighten the military alliance to cope with "a contingency on the Korean Peninsula."

The issue of extending the "transfer of the right to command wartime operations" to south Korea was tabled at U.S. Congress and an open discussion was made between the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group to bring the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet to the West Sea of Korea under the pretext of large-scale joint military exercises.

It was in this context that the U.S. Department of Defense openly disclosed its plan to work out an "Asia-Pacific strategy report", new security guidelines centering on East Asia till October this year and further tighten the sphere of domination over this region in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific era.

The ultra-right conservative forces including the secretary general of the "Grand National Party" have frantically kicked up such "north wind" racket as declaring all-out confrontation with the DPRK, likening the "Cheonan case" to the "Sept. 11 incident" and crying out for learning from the U.S. method of combating terrorism and the like.

When the "north wind" scenario of the U.S. and the puppet group proved totally bankrupt through the "elections to the local self-governing bodies" and their plot to prod the international community into "tightening the sanctions" against the DPRK was scuttled, they raised even the issue of relay telecasting of World Cup games to brand the DPRK as "a criminal state" only to become a laughing stock of the world.

When looking back on history, Hitler did evil deeds after faking up "the Reichstag fire case", Japan embarked upon the road of invading China after fabricating the "Marco Polo Bridge incident" and the U.S. escalated its war of aggression against Vietnam by cooking up the "Gulf of Bac Bo incident".

Foreign figures of various circles and media of the world including U.S. commentators are now comparing the case of "Cheonan" sinking with the "Gulf of Bac Bo incident" in August 1964.

A Canadian figure said the "Cheonan case" was another "Gulf of Bac Bo incident", adding that it reminds one of "an aggressor accusing his victim in a bid to justify his policy of aggression under the pretext of self-defense".

Alexandr Zhevin, chief of the Korean Affairs Study Centre of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on June 8 there were many contradictory points in the "Cheonan" case, adding:
There is even an assertion that the case was a politically motivated provocation.

Experts cite the tragic case that happened in the Gulf of Bac Bo in 1964 as an example. At that time the U.S. escalated the Vietnam War, claiming that a U.S. destroyer was attacked.

Then, I would like to cite what happened some years ago as an instance.
Seven years ago, the U.S. president and the U.S. secretary of State deceived their people and allies and, furthermore, the whole world by insisting that there were WMDs in Iraq and invaded it. But no WMDs are to be seen there even today after the lapse of seven years.

Ria-Novosti of Russia reported on May 26 as follows:
At first glance everything on the patrol ship of south Korea looks very simple.

That is the point at issue. East Asian countries remember well how similar cases took place. The same can be said of the KAL case of south Korea. In 1983, a south Korean Boeing with passengers aboard intruded into the territorial air of the USSR 650 km away from its air route for no reason and was shot down.

The flow of time disclosed that KAL pilots regularly worked for the CIA and photographed the territory of the USSR.
As everybody understands, anyhow, official hypothesis does not give answers to all questions and everything is very similar to a provocation.

Such comments of the world public and history tell that the "Cheonan" case was a farce in which the United States and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors employed the same trite method to the Korean Peninsula as aggressors did after hatching a plot whenever they found themselves in a pretty fix and unhesitatingly did foolish things under that pretext.

The U.S. and the south Korean clique of traitors sought the following aims in using the case for branding the DPRK as a "criminal state" and hyping the "threat from north Korea" to make it sound real: first, to prove successful in "the elections to the local self-governing bodies" at hand in south Korea and the Congressional mid-term election slated to take place in November for the purpose of ensuring the stability of the regime and stay in power and second, to successfully pursue the policy of "strategic patience" and the policy of confrontation with fellow countrymen to destroy the environment for international investment in the DPRK and stifle it. A particular mention should be made of the fact that the U.S. calculated it could threaten China and Russia and tighten the master-servant relations with its allies in the Asia-Pacific region.

The farce orchestrated by the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak group is fated to go bust. The public in various parts of the world is becoming vocal critical of their plots.

The Arab Socialist Party of Egypt said in a statement issued on May 29:
The United States and the south Korean authorities forged the case of sunk warship and are staging an anti-DPRK campaign by linking it with the DPRK, pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. The "Cheonan" case is a farce, a product of the collusion and tie-up between the present south Korean authorities keen to stifle the DPRK firmly defending its sovereignty and dignity and tone down the angry public opinion of south Korea to tide over their ruling crisis and the U.S. working hard to strengthen its strategic position in Northeast Asia.

Georgi Toloraya, director for Korean Platform of the Institute for Economic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in his interview with ITAR-TASS on May 26: The present worst crisis on the Korean Peninsula in two decades after the end of the Cold War can be characterized by the fact that it was deliberately faked up by the south Korean authorities. This action taken according to a script is obviously of political nature, ie it is aimed to isolate and weaken north Korea.

Alexandr Vorontsov, chief of the Section for Korean Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on June 10 in his article titled "The secret of the south Korean Patrol Ship:"

The moves of the United States and the south Korean authorities after the publication of the "results of investigation" into the "Cheonan" case give strong impression that the moves were taken by them according to the carefully prearranged "scenario". South Korea regarded it as its "ideal plan" to use the case for increasing the "pressure on the north" through the UN Security Council and is taking much pain to plug China and Russia into it. There is already the U.S. view that the case created the possibility of better meeting the U.S. military and political interests in the areas close to China.

Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban revolution, said on June 4 that the U.S. cooked up the "Cheonan" case to hold its hegemony in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world. The U.S. is resorting to such arbitrary practices as posing military threats to the DPRK, Iran and other countries which incur its displeasure, misleading the world public with lies and plots against these countries, he noted.

Russian Internet News Ruskie Novosti said in an article titled "U.S. trace left on 'torpedo of the north'":
The escalated tension on the Korean Peninsula is not beneficial to both the north and the south. Only the U.S. gets benefits from it.

Now that the U.S. is stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan, it seeks to use "other's hand" after making a switchover in its tactics. In other words, it seeks to put the burden of stifling north Korea on the shoulder of south Korea while "preserving its image". Its another calculation was that it could put China in an awkward position and tear north Korea off China.

The June 9th issue of the Hong Kong newspaper Asia Times said that the "Cheonan" case was a revelation of a foolish attempt of the U.S. and south Korea to drive a wedge between north Korea and China whose relations are developing favorably with each passing day.

It continued:
The "Cheonan" case is a campaign targeted against China. The U.S. recent strong support for the south Korean authorities is aimed to isolate China in Asia.

China finally realized that the "Cheonan" campaign was a curtain raiser to Obama's policy for re-intervention in Asia.
The June 8th issue of the Chinese Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao said:
The "Cheonan" case was more badly required by the U.S. than any other countries.

Now that the U.S. presence and role in Northeast Asia are becoming increasingly questionable, the "Cheonan" case offered Washington a good pretext for beefing up its military presence in the region.

The regime of the Democratic Party of Japan, yielding to the U.S. pressure, was compelled to change its stand and reconsider its relations with Washington. Through the "Cheonan" case the U.S. not only boosted its relations with south Korea but influenced Japan to move, thus hitting two birds with one stone.

Referring to the aims sought by the Lee group through the case, the paper commented: "First, to divert elsewhere the people's attention second, elicit sympathy from broad world public and point an accusing finger at north Korea and third, tighten alliance with the U.S. What is clear is that the Lee regime sought through this case to make south Korea a geo-political partner of the U.S. and a diplomatic mainstay in Northeast Asia and put stronger international pressure upon north Korea."

The director general of the Finnish Commun Forum Information Agency in a statement issued on May 20 said that the Lee regime might have orchestrated the case for its politically-motivated purpose to escalate the tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The DPRK can never take a military action against its fellow countrymen in the light of its political ideal.
It is a country based on justice and no military plot against this country is workable.

All facts go to clearly prove that the "Cheonan" case was a conspiratorial farce orchestrated by the U.S. and the Lee group of traitors to serve their foolish political and military purposes to tarnish the daily rising prestige of the DPRK and isolate it in the international arena.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet clique have ceaselessly perpetrated all forms of hostile acts against the DPRK for nearly six decades since the ceasefire in 1953. Typical examples are "Pueblo" incident and EC-121 large spy plane incident. This being a hard reality, they have run the whole gamut of intrigues to flee from the responsibility for these crimes.

But the truth about these cases was brought to light and the criminals faced a stern judgment of justice.
The "Cheonan" case was a conspiratorial farce and charade orchestrated by the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors of south Korea to achieve their political purposes.

It is the lesson taught by history that the U.S. fabrication of cases is bound to be followed by aggression and interference.
It is the U.S. which fishes in troubled waters, taking advantage of the confrontational hysteria kicked up by the south Korean group of traitors who level their guns at innocent fellow countrymen in the wake of the outbreak of the case.

The U.S. and the south Korean warlike forces should not miscalculate.
The DPRK will probe the truth behind the "Cheonan" case to the last and will never tolerate any provocation of the hostile forces but certainly force them to pay for all their crimes.