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DPRK FM Spokesman on Implementation of Agreement Adopted by Six-Party Talks
Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry released the following statement Friday as regards the implementation of the October 3 agreement adopted by the six-party talks:
The October 3 agreement has entered a new phase in its implementation thanks to the DPRK's sincere efforts.
The disablement of the nuclear facilities in the DPRK has been done more than 80 percent as of now and it implemented the agreed point that calls for presenting an accurate and complete nuclear declaration.
The DPRK took the measure of completely blowing up the cooling tower of the pilot atomic power plant, in particular, going beyond the phase of disablement.
This constitutes a step taken out of good will, a proof of the DPRK's will for the denuclearization, as it means that it has taken in advance the action to be done at the phase following the dismantlement of the nuclear facilities.
The other participating parties of the six-way talks should join the DPRK in its efforts by honestly fulfilling their commitments.
The U.S. published the measure for political compensation according to the October 3 agreement, but the measure for taking the DPRK off the list of "state sponsors of terrorism" has not yet taken effect due to its procedural factor and the measure for putting an end to applying the "Trading with the Enemy Act" against the DPRK has not been implemented to the full in the light of its substance, though the U.S. claims it came into force.
The commitments of the five parties to make economic compensation have been fulfilled just 40 per cent as of now.
A party whose chief delegate had seconded the above-said agreement by raising his hand at the six-party talks is refusing to participate in the undertaking to implement it, but it is still connived at.
The DPRK is ready to cooperate in verifying the nuclear declaration but is maintaining the basic principle that the principle of "action for action" should be observed.
By origin, the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula in line with the September 19 joint statement presupposes its verification. The fulfillment of the commitments by all participating parties including the U.S. should be verified without exception.
Only when all the participating countries accurately wind up the fulfillment of their commitments, is it possible to see the full implementation of the October 3 agreement and only then can the discussion of the issues at the next phase make smooth progress.
This is the basic requirement of the principle of "action for action" and the consistent stand of the DPRK.
All Koreans Called upon to Remain True to Idea of "By Our Nation Itself"
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- Nothing is more powerful than the spirit of "By our nation itself" for the Koreans. For them to pool their strength is the only way of achieving independent reunification and peace and prosperity. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
It goes on: Only when all the fellow countrymen who love the country and nation struggle in firm unity under the uplifted banner of independence, guided by the idea of "By our nation itself" is it possible for them to achieve peace and prosperity and national reunification.
The past 8 years since the above-said idea was enunciated witnessed landmark successes unprecedented in the history of the inter-Korean relations and the movement for reunification.
In the course of holding aloft the banner of "By our nation itself" all the Koreans keenly realized that the Koreans in the north and the south belong to the same nation and came to have stronger conviction that nothing is impossible for them if they pool their strength and they can surely achieve national reunification, long-cherished desire of the nation.
To advance under the banner of "By our nation itself" is by no means a smooth sailing.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is rapidly deteriorating due to the blatant challenge of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets to the trend of the times towards national independence and great unity and a big hurdle is lying in the way of developing the inter-Korean relations and advancing the movement for independent reunification.
All Koreans should wage the above-said movement and the struggle against the U.S. and war by their concerted efforts, guided by the above-said idea, the banner of patriotism.
They should not tolerate any slightest element that runs counter to the idea of "By our nation itself." It is necessary to decisively foil the moves of the outsiders and the Lee Myung Bak group to chill the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity by their concerted efforts.
Rodong Sinmun Calls for Maintaining Korean Way of Life
Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) -- All party members and other working people should more thoroughly apply the Workers' Party of Korea's slogan "Let us live our own way!" in all fields of the revolution and construction today when the Korean revolution has entered a new historic turning point. Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in an editorial.
The slogan reflects General Secretary Kim Jong Il's unshakable faith and will to accomplish the Korean revolution under the banner of the Juche idea no matter which way the wind may blow and how the situation may change.
Its validity and inexhaustible vitality have been fully manifested in the Korean revolution and construction over the past decades, the editorial says, and goes on: The DPRK and its people are now demonstrating their dignity as an independent power which any enemy cannot dare to provoke and as the revolutionary people with a strong sense of national pride and indomitable mental power.
The tragic reality in many countries which are undergoing sufferings after falling a victim to the imperialists' arbitrary and high-handed practices and their scheme for "globalization" clearly shows that the road chosen and followed by the Korean people themselves is quite right.
No matter how the world may change and what way others may choose we should advance the revolution and construction our own way in our own right mind.
More thoroughly applying the said slogan is a very important work to advance the Korean revolution started in Mt. Paektu along the road of Juche forever, and upholding the slogan is an important requirement of the struggle to bring earlier the final victory in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
All party members and other working people should hold higher and thoroughly apply this slogan and thus demonstrate the independent dignity and the revolutionary stamina of Songun Korea advancing under the banner of the Juche idea.
Military Commentator Blasts Outbursts of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korean Forces
Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the south Korean Forces at a "confirmation hearing at the National Assembly" on March 26 pulled up the north over what he called "nuclear threat" and went the lengths of threatening that they would make a "preemptive strike" at its nuclear bases with precision guided weapons when necessary. This is little short of a declaration of a war against the DPRK.
A military commentator declared this in his article entitled "South Korean military authorities should behave with discretion".
We do not interpret the above-said outbursts as an accidental slip of tongue, the article noted, adding that what he cried out for fully represents the new policy of the present south Korean authorities towards the north.
The article continued: The threat that the south Korean forces will make a "preemptive strike" at the nuclear bases of the compatriots is a manifestation of the political immaturity and military ignorance as he does not know how our nuclear weapons were manufactured and at what they are targeted. What he uttered is nothing but a servile attitude betraying the sycophancy and submission towards his master as the guy echoed his brigandish assertion in a bid to put it into practice.
In the light of the position of the south Korean military authorities the above-said outbursts are nothing but sheer nonsense and nothing surprising to us but the Korean People's Army cannot but clarify its principled stand as regards them as they represent the present south Korean authorities' new policy of the confrontation towards the DPRK.
As we have clarified more than once, a preemptive strike is by no means a monopoly of the one party on the Korean Peninsula where there goes on the state of neither war nor peace.
Our revolutionary armed forces always keep themselves battle ready as they have followed all military moves of the south Korean forces with vigilance.
They will counter any slightest move for "preemptive strikes" at their nuclear bases with more rapid and more powerful preemptive strikes of their own mode.
It is the traditional method of counteraction and militant mettle peculiar to our revolutionary armed forces to return fire for fire and counter any hard-line step with the toughest measure.
The Korean People's Army whose mission is to defend the socialist country under the banner of Songun will not remain an onlooker till the warmongers make a "preemptive strike".
They should bear in mind that once the more powerful preemptive strike of our own mode be launched, it will not merely plunge everything into flames but reduce it to ashes.
All the expected north-south dialogues will be totally suspended unless the south Korean military authorities clarify their stand to retract the outbursts calling for "preemptive strike" and apologize for them.
It is our consistent avowed stand that dialogue and war cannot go together.
It is illogical to sit at the negotiating table with the party which unhesitatingly called for preemptive strikes after beefing up its aggressor forces for the provocation of a war and staging large- scale joint military exercises with outside forces.
The prevailing grave situation compels our revolutionary armed forces to take such a strong measure as strictly banning the passage of the south Korean authorities including military personnel through the Military Demarcation Line as an immediate step.
The KPA has so far allowed the passage through the MDL which has remained tightly closed for the last more than half a century irrespective of persons from the stand to promote reconciliation and unity between compatriots and prosperity and interests common to the nation.
But there is a limit to our tolerance.
Nothing is more foolish than to continue allowing those trigger-happy elements to enter our territory as they threaten to make no scruple of mounting a preemptive attack on us.
The south Korean military authorities will be held wholly accountable for the serious impact the above-mentioned outbursts will have on the development of the north-south relations.
History howed more than once what a miserable end those who defied the demand of the times and the desire of the nation met.
The south Korean military authorities had better face up to the situation and behave with discretion.
DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts Anti-DPRK "Resolution"
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Saturday as regards the adoption of an anti-DPRK "resolution" at the 7th session of the UN Human Rights Council:
The session held on March 27 criticized the DPRK's "human rights situation" and adopted a "resolution" on extending the tenure of office of a ghost-like special rapporteur one year.
The "resolution" was bulldozed past the session with the help of some dishonest forces, the EU and Japan being main players, pursuant to the U.S. moves against the DPRK. This is a politically-motivated document as it is full of sheer lies and fabrications.
The adoption of the anti-DPRK "resolution", the most vivid manifestation of the act of politicizing human rights, selectivity and double-standards, is to serve the political purpose of tarnishing the image of the dignified DPRK and eliminating its ideology and system.
The "resolution" is little short of paralyzing the universally accepted deliberation function of the council to handle the human rights situation in all countries on an equal footing as it calls for retaining the post of special rapporteur for an individual country, a leftover of the already defunct UN Human Rights Commission.
25 countries out of the 47 member nations of the council said no to the "resolution." This fact goes to prove that the "resolution" lacks both impartiality and objectivity and its objective is also questionable.
As far as the human rights are concerned, blame should be laid on the U.S., the worst human rights abuser, as it has unhesitatingly committed aggression against sovereign states and massacred civilians there, on Japan which has evaded its responsibility for the past hideous crimes against humanity and on other Western countries plagued with all kinds of human rights abuses.
Human rights precisely represent sovereignty.
Human rights are firmly guaranteed legally and institutionally in the Korean-style socialist society centered on popular masses, and its people fully enjoy genuine freedom and rights in all fabrics of social life.
The DPRK sternly refutes the "resolution" as it is a product of the anti-DPRK political plot hatched by the EU and Japan at the prodding of the U.S.
The "resolution" will only result in scuttling the cooperation between the UN Human Rights Council and the DPRK and aggravating their mistrust and confrontation and the U.S., the EU and Japan will be held fully accountable for all the unpredictable consequences.
DPRK Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Blasts U.S. Delaying Tactics in Solution of Nuclear Issue
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement Friday blaming the U.S. for the deadlocked implementation of the October 3 agreement of the six-party talks:
The implementation of the October 3 agreement of the six-party talks is at a deadlock due to the behavior of the U.S.
The U.S. has not fulfilled its commitments as regards the lifting of the sanctions within the agreed period but insisted on its unreasonable demands concerning the nuclear declaration, thus throwing hurdles in the way of settling the issue.
As clarified in the statement issued by the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 4, the DPRK worked out a report on the nuclear declaration and informed the U.S. side of this in November last year. And when the U.S. proposed to have a further discussion on the content of the report with the DPRK, the latter has shown so far such magnanimity as responding to such negotiations.
Simple is the reason why the DPRK responded to the negotiations on the issue of the nuclear declaration.
The Bush administration was so absurd as to raise the issue of "suspected uranium enrichment" in 2002, scuttling the DPRK-U.S. dialogue and straining the situation to an extreme pitch of tension. This pushed the DPRK to its access to nuclear weapons in the end.
The DPRK rendered necessary sincere help in clarifying the issue raised by the U.S. side, taking into consideration the face of the Bush administration which was to blame for the former's access to nuclear weapons.
When the U.S. side claimed that the issue of "suspected uranium enrichment" can be solved if the DPRK tells about whereabouts of the imported aluminum tubes, the DPRK took such a measure as an exception as allowing U.S. experts to see even sensitive military objects and providing them with samples.
And when the U.S. side was the first to raise the issue of the "suspected nuclear cooperation with Syria," it asked the DPRK to reconfirm its commitment not to proliferate the nuclear technology as the relevant object of Syria was destroyed by the bombing of Israel, making it unnecessary to clarify it any longer.
This "suspicion", too, had nothing to do with the DPRK. But it was so broadminded as to meet this request as a part of its sincere efforts to help implement the October 3 agreement.
The DPRK has sincerely taken part in the negotiations taking the face of the U.S. side into consideration.
However, the further the negotiations went on, the greater disappointment the attitude of the Bush administration brought to the DPRK.
The U.S. side is playing a poor trick to brand the DPRK as a criminal at any cost in order to save its face.
The DPRK can never fall victim to the Bush administration's move to justify its wrong assertion.
Explicitly speaking, the DPRK has never enriched uranium nor rendered nuclear cooperation to any other country. It has never dreamed of such things.
Such things will not happen in the future, too.
Should the U.S. delay the settlement of the nuclear issue, persistently trying to cook up fictions, it will seriously affect the disabling of nuclear facilities which has been under way so far with a great deal of effort.
Rodong Sinmun Calls for Holding Higher Banner of "By Our Nation Itself"
Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- "By our nation itself" serves as a powerful mental weapon for achieving independent reunification, peace and prosperity, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article.
It is the only just way of attaining the full sovereignty of the country and the nation, exalting the dignity and honor of the nation and achieving peace and prosperity of the country and the nation to achieve the reunification of the country by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation on the principle of national independence, the article notes, and goes on:
Only when the principle of national independence is maintained can the rights and interests of the nation be defended, the destiny of the nation be carved out independently in line with the will and wishes of the nation, the sovereignty be fully exercised in the international arena and external relations be developed on the principle of full equality and mutual benefit.
The Korean nation is the driving force in the struggle to hew out the destiny of the nation and its might lies in great national unity.
Only when the great unity of the whole nation is achieved on the principle of national independence can the Korean nation become a genuine master responsible for carving out its destiny and dynamically push forward independent reunification, peace and prosperity.
All the fellow countrymen came to deeply realize that "By our nation itself," indeed, provides a basic guarantee for independent reunification, peace and prosperity and a lifeline, while grasping the validity and vitality of the idea of "By our nation itself." That is why "By our nation itself" serves as a banner powerfully encouraging all Koreans in their struggle for independent reunification, peace and prosperity.
Implementation of October 4 Declaration Called for
Pyongyang, January 5 (KCNA) -- The slogan "Open up a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity by pooling the efforts of our nation!" which was put up by the joint New Year editorial is the very just and realistic one for national reunification as it encourages the fellow countrymen to vigorously conduct a nationwide struggle for independent reunification and peace and prosperity under the banner of "By our nation itself".
Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a signed article.
It goes on: The slogan is the one for independence and reunification and patriotism as it reflects the firm will and desire of all the Koreans to achieve the cause of national reunification and independently carve out the destiny of the nation under the banner of national independence.
It is a slogan for a nationwide struggle as it clarifies the common tasks and targets for the Koreans to accomplish at present and powerfully encourages them in their efforts to honor them.
The slogan appeals to the whole nation to implement the October 4 Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity.
Only when the declaration is strictly implemented is it possible to eradicate the leftovers of the era of confrontation and develop the inter-Korean relations into those guided by the spirit of "By our nation itself" and open up a new chapter of the national history, peaceful and prosperous, in name and reality.
The slogan which calls for ushering in a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation indicates the orientation and goals of the struggle to implement the declaration this year and powerfully encourages all the fellow countrymen in their drive to implement them, concludes the article.
National Meeting Marks Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Assumption of KPA Supreme Commandership
Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture Sunday to celebrate the 16th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
Attending there were senior party, army and state officials, chairpersons of friendly parties, officials of party and armed forces organs and power bodies, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, officers and men of the KPA, officials in the fields of science, education, culture and art, public health and the press, men of merits and working people in Pyongyang.
KPA General Kim Kyok Sik, chief of the KPA General Staff, in a report at the meeting said that Kim Jong Il's assumption of KPA supreme commandership was an epochal event which provided a sure guarantee for the future development of the Korean revolutionary armed forces and the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche and it was a great national jubilee of weighty significance for the destiny and future of the country. His assumption of office as head of the revolutionary armed forces made it possible for the KPA to invariably preserve its revolutionary nature as the army of the party and the leader and steadily advance through generations the Juche cause of building the army, started and led to victory by President Kim Il Sung, and for the army and the people of the DPRK to successfully accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche by reliably carrying forward the Songun history and tradition of the Korean revolution, the reporter said.
The period from the 1990s up to now occupies a particularly important place in the history of guidance over the army by Kim Jong Il who has led to victory the Juche cause of building the army in the van of the Korean revolutionary armed forces for decades, the reporter pointed out, and said:
In the grimmest period of ordeals the Korean revolution had to undergo, the KPA grew to be a matchless revolutionary elite army, and our country, which had been reduced to a ruined nation as it had no strong army one century ago, is now demonstrating its might as an impregnable military power which no formidable imperialist enemies dare provoke. The credit for this signal miracle goes to Kim Jong Il, a genius of military affairs who has been held in high esteem as the supreme commander.
Kim Jong Il's Songun politics, the politics of independence and genuine patriotism, gave a birth to the June 15 joint declaration, an embodiment of the noble idea of "By our nation itself", and provided the "Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity", thus opening a bright prospect for the Korean nation advancing toward the building of a reunified, rich and strong country. And it markedly enhanced the dignity and position of Songun Korea in the international arena and immensely strengthened the international solidarity with the Korean revolution.
With his great Songun idea and energetic Songun leadership Kim Jong Il has trained the KPA to be the first standard-bearer and the main force of the Juche revolution, thus bringing about a miraculous victory in the struggle to defend socialism and uild a great prosperous powerful nation and laying a solid foundation for the eternal prosperity of Kim Il Sung's Korea. These immortal exploits of his will remain long with the WPK's history of army building and the proud annals of the DPRK.
The reporter stressed that all the people should dynamically wage an all-out drive to open the door for a great prosperous powerful nation without fail in the year which marks the 100th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung and thus reenergize the economy of the country as a whole including its pilot domains and basic industries and accelerate the drive for making innovations in agriculture and the light industry so as to bring about a decisive turn in improving the standard of the people's living.
Chief of KPA General Staff on Tense Situation on Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- The situation of the Korean Peninsula still remains tense owing to the U.S. invariable war moves, said General of the Korean People's Army Kim Kyok Sik, chief of the KPA General Staff, in his report at the national meeting held here Sunday to celebrate the 16th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the KPA.
All the facts, he said, show that the U.S. is talking about "dialogue" and "negotiation" but it is actually scheming to "destabilize" the DPRK's system by all vicious means and methods while resorting to the moves to invade the DPRK.
He further said: We are paying deep attention to the fact that the U.S. mobilizes Japan and other satellite forces to persistently pursue the hostile policy toward the DPRK. If the hostile forces refuse to stop the large-scale war exercises and huge arms buildup, we will resolutely counter such actions with more powerful means.
DPRK's Consistent Principled Stand to Fight against All Forms of Terrorism Reiterated
Pyongyang, November 8 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released Thursday the following detailed report on the recent pirate attack on the DPRK-flagged trading ship "Taehongdan" in waters off Somalia:
On Oct. 29, 2007 when it was anchored at roads ready for departure after discharging cargo at Mogadishu Port, Somalia the ship came under a surprise attack by seven armed pirates disguised as guards.
All the crewmen were detained at a steering room and an engine room.
The pirates demanded the crewmen pay a ransom of 15,000 U.S. dollars and navigate to the waters designated by them, opening fire to threaten them.
The sailors, however, remained unperturbed under this dangerous situation created all of a sudden. They fought to beat back the pirates' attack.
They switched on an automatic warning device and waged a fierce gunfight against the pirates after seizing weapons from two terrorists who were standing guard over the engine room.
As the steering room was occupied by the pirates, they sailed towards the open sea by use of steering engine for emergency operation and life boat compass, while battling on to overpower the remaining pirates.
In the meantime, upon receiving a SOS sent by the ship, an institution concerned in the DPRK officially informed the International Maritime Organization and the Piracy Reporting Centre of the IMB stationed in Malaysia of the incident and asked for help.
At the request of the above-said centre, U.S. navy's destroyer James E. Williams and a helicopter rushed to the scene and helped the DPRK sailors in fighting, threatening the pirates over walkie-talkie.
As a result, at around 16:30 on Oct. 30, i.e. about 20 hours after the start of the fight, the pirates dropped arms and surrendered. The ship was completely recaptured by its sailors.
One pirate was killed and six crewmen of the DPRK were wounded in the fight.
A surgeon of the U.S. destroyer provided first-aid treatment and other medical service to our wounded crewmen.
Our cargo ship made a safe voyage to its destination through a regular sea route.
The pirates' recent armed attack on our trading ship was a grave terrorist act perpetrated against a peaceful ship.
It is the consistent principled stand of the DPRK government to oppose all sorts of terrorism.
As shown by our crewmen through their actions, it is the disposition of the Korean people to fight out any terrorist act on the spot though they are empty-handed.
We feel grateful to the United States for its assistance given to our crewmen.
This case serves as a symbol of the DPRK-U.S. cooperation in the struggle against terrorism.
We will continue to render international cooperation in the fight against terrorism, in the future, too.
June 15 Joint Declaration, Landmark for Independent Reunification
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The June 15 joint declaration is the landmark for independent reunification which the Korean nation should always uphold in developing the inter-Korean relations and reunifying the country, declares Rodong Sinmun in an article Tuesday.
Noting that the joint declaration indicates a realistic way of applying the principle of national independence by the efforts of the nation itself in accomplishing the cause of national reunification, the author of the article says, and goes on: The idea of "By our nation itself" contained in the joint declaration is the hardcore of the joint declaration. Represented in it is the resolute idea of national self-determination to achieve the reunification of the country by the nation's own efforts.
The question of national reunification, an internal issue of the nation, cannot be resolved in conformity with the will and interests of the nation by submitting to and relying on outside forces. The reunification of the country can be achieved under all circumstances only when the will and interests of the nation are put before everything and everything is oriented to it in the spirit of "By our nation itself".
The idea of "By our nation itself" reflects the purpose and desire of the members of the nation to get united as fellow countrymen of the same ancestry, regardless of differences in idea, ideal and system.
The Korean nation has created one cultural tradition with one language, inheriting the same blood for long five thousand years. It can well achieve unity, if it depends on its character and patriotic spirit.
The validity and vitality of the joint declaration have been proved clearly in practice.
It is thanks to the joint declaration that the Korean nation, over the last seven years, has brought the changes of the times-- reconciliation, unity and national cooperation--putting an end to distrust and confrontation through a nationwide patriotic movement for reunification. It has laid a solid foundation to rejoin the nation's severed blood and territorial veins and open up a new era of reunification and prosperity by the efforts of the nation itself.
Immovable is the status of the joint declaration. The reunification movement of the Korean nation which has entered a period of new upswing will certainly emerge victorious when it dynamically advances along the road of national independence and the road of national unity indicated by the joint declaration.
Rumor about "Secret Nuclear Cooperation" between DPRK and Syria Dismissed
Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA today as regards the rumor about "secret nuclear cooperation" between the DPRK and Syria spread by some media of the United States:
Recently, the New York Times and some other media of the United States spread the rumor about the DPRK's secret nuclear cooperation with Syria. This is sheer misinformation.
The DPRK solemnly declared in October 2006 that, being a responsible nuclear weapons state, it would never allow nuclear transfer, and has stood by its words.
The DPRK never makes an empty talk but always tells truth.
The above-said story is nothing but a clumsy plot hatched by the dishonest forces who do not like to see any progress at the six-party talks and in the DPRK-U.S. relations.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Blasts "Ulji Focus Lens"
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- If the U.S. persists in its military hostile actions against the dialogue partner, the DPRK will take strong counter-measures different from the stand for dialogue it has so far maintained. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK warned this in an answer given to the question put by KCNA Tuesday in connection with the joint military exercises launched by the U.S. in south Korea against the DPRK.
He went on: The U.S. kicked off the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises together with the south Korean military from August 20 despite the concern of the international community and the repeated warnings of the DPRK. These war maneuvers are a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK as they are targeted against the DPRK, to all intents and purposes.
The ceaseless saber-rattling being staged by the U.S. and the south Korean authorities against the DPRK, turning aside from their commitments to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and peace there, compels the DPRK to suspect the real aim sought by them in their much-touted "negotiated settlement of the issue" and "confidence-building".
The DPRK is ready both for dialogue and confrontation.
North-South Agreement on Visit of President Roh Moo Hyun to Pyongyang Released
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The following north-south agreement on the visit of President Roh Moo Hyun to Pyongyang was released:
The North-South Agreement on the Visit of President Roh Moo Hyun to Pyongyang
President Roh Moo Hyun will visit Pyongyang from August 28 to 30 under an agreement between Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Roh Moo Hyun, president of the Republic of Korea.
The meeting between the top leaders of the north and the south will be of weighty significance in opening a new phase of peace on the Korean Peninsula, co-prosperity of the nation and national reunification by expanding and developing the inter-Korean relations onto a higher stage in accordance with the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and in the spirit of "By our nation itself".
Both sides agreed to hold a contact for making arrangements for the summit meeting in Kaesong as early as possible.
August 5, 2007
Kim Yang Gon /// Kim Man Bok
Director /// Director
United Front Department /// National Intelligence Service
north side /// south side
True to the intention of /// True to the intention of
the superior authority /// the superior authority
North-South Military Working-Level Talks Held
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- The north-south military working-level talks were held at the Thongil House in the portion of the north side in Panmunjom on Tuesday.
Present there was the delegation of the north side led by Korean People's Army Senior Colonel Pak Rim Su.
At the talks the head of the north side's delegation accused the south Korean authorities of conducting a psychological warfare against the DPRK by use of handbill-scattering equipment and a variety of broadcasting media. He sited facts to prove that they are craftily slandering the headquarters of the revolution in the DPRK and the socialist system of Korean style by mobilizing even anti-DPRK organizations.
He went on to say: Both sides agreed to stop all propaganda and psychological operations against the other side on June 4, 2004 and reaffirmed on May 11 this year that they would more strictly abide by and implement the north-south military agreement already adopted. Nevertheless, the south side is persisting in the new form of psychological operation. This is an unpardonable criminal act of scrapping the bilateral military agreement.
The attitude of the south side is a traitorous act of swimming against the trend of the June 15 era towards reconciliation, unity and reunification and an anti-peace move to deliberately dampen the aspiration and wishes of the whole nation to prevent the danger of war and achieve durable peace.
The anti-DPRK psychological warfare of the south side is a military provocation timed to coincide with the intrusion of south Korean naval warships into the territorial waters of the north side which is being perpetrated in the West Sea of Korea almost everyday.
The head of the delegation of the north side demanded the south side admit that all its psychological operations are a wanton violation of the bilateral agreement and make a formal apology to the north side. He, at the same time, urged the south side to immediately disband all the anti-DPRK organizations involved in the new psychological operations, severely punish their main culprits and take responsible measures against the recurrence of such psychological operations against the DPRK.
The south side admitted the fact that such psychological operation was conducted against the DPRK and reiterated that it would take steps against the recurrence of such case.
The talks discussed other issues arising in the implementation of the joint press release adopted at the 5th north-south general-level military talks.
Rodong Sinmun on Root Cause of Last Korean War
Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists' occupation of south Korea was a root cause of the Korean war in every way.
Rodong Sinmun Sunday stresses this in a signed article carried 57 years after the outbreak of the Korean war by the U.S. imperialists.
Recalling that the U.S. imperialists started on putting into practice their scheme for aggression on Korea with the intrusion of aggressor ship "General Sherman" into the River Taedong in 1866, the article says: It was an extension of the scheme that they occupied south Korea after the Second World War and divided Korea into two.
The 38th parallel line was set as the line dividing Korea into two, a product of the U.S. imperialists' wild ambition for aggression on Korea and the selfish tacit approval of allied nations. It was the line of grudge as it allowed the U.S. imperialists to occupy south Korea.
Having secured a justification to set their foot of aggression in the Korean Peninsula under the pretext of controlling the "allotted operational line", the U.S. imperialists militarily occupied the whole area of south Korea and got started on the moves to provide a framework for carrying out the Korean war.
On September 11, 1945, they set up the "U.S. military government," appointing the commander of the 7th infantry division of the U.S. forces as its governor and the commander of the U.S. military police as chief of its police office.
They trained "pivots" of the south Korean army and reorganized south Korea's "national defense guard" into the "national defense forces" in September 1948 and classified it into the ground, naval and air forces in November. In May of 1949, they organized five divisions and one brigade involving all branches of arms and specialized service and in June organized the "metropolitan" garrison command and one division to enlarge the ground armed forces to 22 regiments under eight divisions.
In order to modernize the military equipment of the south Korean army with aggression aims, the U.S. imperialists offered south Korea 110 million U.S. dollars of "military aid" enough for fully arming at least 50,000 soldiers in 1949. They also granted U.S.-made M-1s and carbines to the south Korean army units, thus equipping 93.7 percent of the south Korean army with modern arms.
The root cause of the Korean War lies in the fact that the U.S. imperialist gangsters made the 38th parallel line the artificial division line and illegally occupied south Korea by force of arms. The war was started by the U.S. imperialists' attack on the northern half of Korea on June 25, 1950.
Fifty odd years have passed after the war and nearly 20 years after the end of Cold War. However, the U.S. imperialists are still now keeping their occupation of south Korea while running desperately amuck to provoke a second Korean war.
The U.S. imperialists are greatly mistaken. If they ignite a war on this land again, the army and people of the DPRK will bravely turn out to root out the source of the war.
Spokesman for Foreign Ministry on Issue of Remittance of De-frozen Fund of DPRK
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA on Tuesday as regards the issue of remittance of the de-frozen fund:
Recently some media institutions of the U.S. floated the rumor that the DPRK is resorting to delaying tactics, persistently raising stronger demand for the remittance of its de-frozen fund in Banco Delta Asia in Macao in a bid to mislead the public opinion.
This is a wrong assertion distorting the essence of the situation.
The DPRK's stand and demand for the lifting of financial sanctions have been consistent since the outset of the emergence of the issue.
There was a promise that the DPRK would start implementing the Feb. 13 agreement on the measures to be taken at the preliminary phase on the premise that financial sanctions against the DPRK are lifted.
What the DPRK has demanded since the outset is that sanctions should be lifted to enable it to freely remit fund as it did before.
To this end, the work is now underway to remit the fund in Banco Delta Asia in Macao to the DPRK account in a third country.
The DPRK is ready to move to suspend the operation of its nuclear facility pursuant to the Feb. 13 agreement once the fund is remitted.
The DPRK will immediately invite a working-level delegation of the IAEA and have an in-depth discussion with the U.S. side on the measures to be taken after the suspension of the operation of the nuclear facility.
Once the Feb. 13 agreement enters the phase of its implementation, the DPRK's will to honor it will be clearly proven in practice.
Pyongyang Declaration, Banner of Victorious Socialist Cause
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Fifteen years have passed since the historical Pyongyang Declaration was published.
On April 20, Juche 81 (1992), the representatives of political parties in different countries over the world adopted the Pyongyang Declaration titled "Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" in reflection of the desire of the progressive humankind to invariably take the road to socialism.
Upon its publication, progressive political parties around the world signed one by one, supporting it as a militant banner reflecting the desire of political parities and people for socialism.
The Korean people and world progressive humankind have hardened their confidence in the victory of the socialist cause over the last years.
This year the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) and People's Liberation Front of Sri Lanka and others signed the Pyongyang Declaration.
Kim Jong Il, with his energetic ideological and theoretical activities, has published famous works including "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" and "Socialism Is a Science" to clarify the scientific accuracy and truth of socialism and indicate the tasks and way for the resurrection and victorious advance of the world socialist movement.
The revolutionary people across the world are venerating him as the leader of the world socialist movement who has wisely led the Korean people with the great Songun politics to frustrate all sorts of challenges of the imperialists and reactionaries and to defend and develop the socialist cause.
The Good Green Guyana, Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru and other various political parties have acclaimed him as honorary leader of their organizations for his energetic guidance over the global cause of independence.
And many political parties including the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Bangladesh People's League and New Communist Party of Britain adopted his famous works as must books of their parties.
The number of the signatories to the declaration totals more than 270.
The Pyongyang Declaration, which confirms the truth and justice of the socialist cause and the inevitability of its final victory, instills the conviction of victory and revolutionary spirit into the minds of the world people advocating independence.
June 15 All-Korean Committee Meets in China
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the June 15 All-Korean Committee was held in Shenyang of China on Mar. 8 and 9.
Present at the meeting were a delegation of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration headed by its Chairman An Kyong Ho, a delegation of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration headed by its Chairman Paek Rak Chong and a delegation of the Overseas Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration led by its Co-Chairmen Kwak Tong Ui and Mun Tong Hwan.
The meeting referred to the fact that the committee advanced the movement for independent reunification last year and sincerely discussed measures for conducting the reunification movement on the principle of attaching priority to national dignity and interests under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and waging a more dynamic movement for freeing the country from all war threats and creating a peaceful environment for national reunification this year.
It underscored the need for the north, the south and the overseas sides to hold the national joint event to mark the seventh anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration in Pyongyang and August 15 event for reunification in the south side's area and give further momentum to the solidarity movement involving organizations of people in different fields and circles, hold multifarious functions for reunification to be attended by people from all walks of life in the places to be agreed upon and wage a positive movement to set June 15, the historic day the joint declaration was published, as a commemoration day common to the nation on the basis of the shared understanding that the June 15 joint declaration serves as a milestone in the reunification movement this year, too, as they did in the last year.
A special statement in the name of the June 15 All-Korean Committee was adopted at the meeting to denounce the Japanese authorities' brutal suppression of Koreans in Japan and their militarist ambition.
It urged the Japanese government to drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK, opt for building a peace-keeping mechanism in Northeast Asia and immediately stop its brutal suppression of Koreans in Japan, a primitive crime.
A joint press release on the results of the meeting of the June 15 All-Korean Committee was made public at the meeting.
Meeting of Frontrunners of Songun Revolution Opens
Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- A meeting of frontrunners of the Songun revolution was opened at the April 25 House of Culture in Pyongyang Monday. Present there were senior party, army and state officials, Cabinet members, officials of the party, armed forces and power organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons and frontrunners in the fields of economy, science, education, literature and art, sports, public health and media.
A congratulatory message of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea to the participants in the meeting was read out there.
The message said that the DPRK's access to nuclear deterrent was an epoch-making event in the history of the Korean nation as it provided a sure guarantee for putting an end to outsiders' aggression and interference and bringing eternal prosperity to the country. It was also the most shining victory won in the tempest of the Songun revolution.
In the last two years our army and people have made successes greater than what was done in the past several years in the economic construction and thus put the national economy as a whole on an orbit of steady upswing, the message noted, and said: The Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the WPK highly praise all the officers and men of the Korean People's Army and the people for having worked hard to strikingly display the might of Songun Korea.
Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, delivered a report at the meeting.
The reporter said that the Korean revolution, which was pioneered and emerged victorious with the help of arms under the banner of the Juche idea, has greeted the golden days of its development under the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il.
What is the most admirable success made in the general march for the Songun revolution, he said, is that the biggest efforts were channeled into increasing the nation's military capabilities for self-defence, thus making it possible for the DPRK to demonstrate its might as a socialist military power.
Referring to the successful nuclear test the DPRK conducted with its own efforts and technology on the threshold of the significant anniversary of the WPK last year, he said:
This helped the DPRK secure a reliable military guarantee for its prosperity and, as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state, greatly contribute to defending global peace and security.
Today the DPRK has the invincible revolutionary army and powerful war deterrent. So we can declare confidently with high pride that we carried out all what should be done to defend ourselves and Songun Korea has become secure for all ages.
The DPRK has taken the steadfast position of a power in political and ideological and military aspects. At last, an emotion-charged era of struggle has set in when our army and people should push ahead with the building of a socialist economic power after definitely rounding off the "Arduous March" and the forced march.
Now is the time for them to unite as one in mind under the banner of Songun, bring into full play the inexhaustible potentials they have built up in the do-or-die spirit and effect a great surge on all fronts of building a great prosperous and powerful nation.
"Let us make a general advance toward the peak of a great prosperous powerful nation, full of confidence and pride of being the victors of the Songun revolution!" This is the militant slogan that we should hold high.
All the servicepersons and people should speed up the general march for the Songun revolution this year marking significant revolutionary holidays and thus eternally glorify the immortal revolutionary history and feats of President Kim Il Sung and fully display the invincibility of the Songun revolution advancing under the leadership of Kim Jong Il and the spirit of the powerful and prosperous country.
We should value the single-minded unity, the greatest gain of the Korean revolution, and cement the unity of the entire party and army and all the people based on the revolutionary comradeship around the leader whenever the situation turns out to be tense and difficult tasks may face them in the revolution and construction.
It is also imperative for us to more thoroughly arm ourselves with the great Juche idea, the Songun idea, firmly preserve its purity and steadily push forward the revolution and construction along the road of Songun guided by the Juche idea.
Underlining the need to keep directing big efforts into increasing the nation's military capabilities for self-defence with the KPA as a core, taking the Juche-based Songun idea and line as immutable guidelines of our Party and revolution, the reporter continued:
We should continue to give top priority to the development of the national defence industry, a material basis of the military capacity, with the transparent viewpoint that one can live without drops but not without bullets. And it is necessary to let all the people
learn the military affairs with sincerity and turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress by making the spirit of attaching importance to the military affairs prevail over the whole society.
The main task facing us at present is to shore up the economy as early as possible and radically improve the standard of people's living by concentrating all possible efforts, the reporter said, and stressed:
We should demonstrate once again the spirit of the courageous army and people of the DPRK and the mettle of Songun Korea determined to find itself in the van of the world through the on-going gigantic advance for building an economic power.
Speeches were made at the meeting.
The meeting continues.
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Choe Thae Bok on DPRK's Contribution to Global Peace
Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- As a full-fledged nuclear weapons state, the DPRK has become able to make a great contribution to protecting global peace and security. Choe Thae Bok, alternate Politburo member and secretary of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea, stressed this in a report at the meeting of frontrunners of the Songun revolution which opened at the April 25 House of Culture on Monday.
Referring to the successful nuclear test conducted by the DPRK with its own efforts and technology last year, he said:
Today the DPRK has the invincible revolutionary army and powerful war deterrent. So we can declare confidently with high pride that we carried out all what should be done to defend ourselves and Songun Korea has become secure for all ages.
The DPRK has taken the steadfast position of a power in political and ideological and military aspects. At last, an emotion-charged era of struggle has set in when our army and people should push ahead with the building of a socialist economic power after definitely rounding off the "Arduous March" and the forced march, he added.
Japan Hit for Moves to Disorganize Chongryon and Korean Community
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) --A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea issued a statement Sunday in connection with the fact that the moves of the Japanese reactionaries to obliterate the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), a sacred overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK, and the Korean community in Japan are reaching the worst phase, going beyond the limit. From the outset of the year the reactionaries in the land of Japs set in motion hundreds of armed policemen to search again the Hyogo Prefectural Commercial Association of Chongryon and arrest its official, the statement said, and went on:
What merits a serious attention is that, not content with bedeviling Chongryon and Koreans in Japan, the reactionaries are branding them as "potential terrorist" in a bid to invent a pretext for taking legal actions against them under the notorious "Anti-Subversive Activities Act".
The reactionaries in the land of Japs are engaging themselves in unethical and inhumane plots and suppression against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan, taking off even the veil of the "law" and "human rights" much touted by them. Lurking behind it is their heinous political intention to justify by all means the extreme sanctions against the DPRK taken to toe the U.S. line and tarnish the daily-growing dignity of the DPRK and remove Chongryon and the Korean community from Japan at any cost by taking advantage of this opportunity.
Provoking the dignity of Chongryon means violating the sovereignty of the DPRK, and to deprive the Korean residents of their rights immediately means to encroach upon the right of the Korean nation.
If the reactionaries of the island country, toeing the U.S. line and seeking a foolish political delusion to provoke someone, continue to be hostile toward the DPRK, Chongryon and Koreans in Japan, the Korean working class and trade union members will deal a stern punishment and strong retaliation on them.
They would be well advised to clearly see through the reality, stop at once the unethical and inhumane persecution and suppression of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan and adequately apologize and compensate for the crimes Japan committed against the Korean nation in the past.
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Japanese Authorities Urged to Stop Suppression of Chongryon
Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon) in south Korea reportedly made public a statement on Jan. 9 demanding the Japanese authorities immediately halt suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). In May last year the Japanese authorities attached the label of "violation of the law on drug use" to a Korean woman in Japan as she brought medicines necessary for her health for the visit to the homeland. In November they went the length of searching her house and facilities related to Chongryon under the pretext that the medicines may be used in manufacturing biological weapons.
The statement charged that with the above-said case as a start, they are more desperately intensifying the suppression of Chongryon and Korean residents in Japan in various forms.
Crackdown on Chongryon and Korean residents and encroachment upon their rights, which have been committed under the patronage of the Japanese authorities, are prompted by Japan's scheme to revive militarism in a bid to trample on the Korean nation again and seize hegemony over Northeast Asia, it said, and went on:
The South Headquarters of Pomchonghakryon will conduct offensive solidarity struggle to foil the Japanese authorities' suppression of Chongryon and Korean residents under the banner of "By our nation itself."
We will wage a vigorous struggle, in close solidarity with compatriots at home and abroad, to frustrate the Japanese authorities' infringement upon the dignity of the Korean nation.
Japan's Attempt to Scuttle Six-Party Talks Blasted
Pyongyang, December 11 (KCNA) -- High-ranking officials of Japan including the chief executive vociferated that it "does not recognize north Korea's access to nukes" and "it can never allow north Korea to participate in the six-party talks with the status of a nuclear weapons state." This behavior is, in essence, little short of opposing the DPRK's participation in the above-said talks and nothing but an act of an imbecile unable to understand the trend of times as it lacks any elementary political view and judgment. Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed commentary.
It goes on: The DPRK has neither developed nor possessed nuclear weapons to be recognized by somebody.
As a matter of fact, Japan has posed a serious threat to the DPRK, protected by the U.S. "nuclear umbrella". It is a real intention of Japan to use the talks not for finding a fair solution to the nuclear issue but for achieving its sinister
political aim.
That is why Japan is busy with shuttle diplomacy to attain its purpose come what may, far-fetchedly insisting that the "abduction issue" should be a main agenda item of the talks.
The six-party talks are meant to deal with the nuclear issue in name and reality, not for discussing the "abduction issue" which has nothing to do with the former. If Japan is interested in the settlement of the "abduction issue", it should, to begin with, admit the forcible drafting and abduction of more than 8.4 million Koreans committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past and honestly apologize and compensate for them.
Japan is no more than a swindler, unqualified to participate in the talks.
A Japanese delegation's appearance in the venue of the talks would be nothing helpful to the talks. It is quite obvious that the delegation will only raise irrelevant issues at the talks to create complexity in the discussion and make them waste time. The non-participation of Japan in the talks would help the talks proceed with less inconvenience.
Japan's obstruction to the resumption of the talks would only invite international isolation, the commentary concludes.
U.S. Termed Chief Nuclear Criminal
Pyongyang, November 13 (KCNA) -- South Korea has turned into the biggest nuclear outpost in the Far East with stockpiles of more than 1,000 U.S. nuclear weapons of different types including A-bombs, nuclear shells and warheads, nuclear mines, backpack nukes and Neutron bombs and their delivery means. This fact clearly proves that the U.S. is chiefly to blame for having posed the threat of a nuclear war to the Korean Peninsula. A spokesman for the Korean National Peace Committee declared this in a statement released on Nov. 13, 20 years since the U.S. announced that it would deploy in south Korea "Lance" missiles capable of carrying neutron bombs.
The statement said: It was none other than the U.S. that introduced nukes into south Korea for the first time and turned it into a nuclear arsenal and a nuclear outpost.
It has barred the denuclearization of the peninsula and put the Korean nation in the constant danger of a nuclear war.
It is quite preposterous for the U.S. to take issue with the DPRK over its nuclear deterrent for just self-defence, while keeping mum about the criminal nuclear arms build-up it has perpetrated for years.
The U.S. is contemplating shipping into south Korea not only tactical nuclear weapons but strategic nuclear weapons in case of contingency on the Korean Peninsula, more frantically stepping up its moves for a nuclear war under the pretext of the DPRK's possession of nuclear deterrent. This patently proves that the U.S. nuclear ambition not only remains unchanged but poses an increasing danger.
All Koreans should turn out in the struggle to frustrate the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK and launch a nuclear war and stage fierce anti-U.S. resistance in different parts of the country.
The U.S. should drop its foolish aim to bring the Korean people to their knees and withdraw its forces and all its nuclear war equipment from south Korea without delay.
DPRK Successfully Conducts Underground Nuclear Test
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released the following report: The field of scientific research in the DPRK successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions on October 9, Juche 95 (2006) at a stirring time when all the people of the country are making a great leap forward in the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.
It has been confirmed that there was no such danger as radioactive emission in the course of the nuclear test as it was carried out under a scientific consideration and careful calculation.
The nuclear test was conducted with indigenous wisdom and technology 100 percent. It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the KPA and people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defence capability.
It will contribute to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the area around it.
Appeal to All Koreans
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland issued an appeal to all the Koreans at home and abroad on Saturday 140 years since soldiers and people in the Walled City of Pyongyang sent the U.S. imperialists' aggression ship General Sherman to the bottom of the River Taedong through their patriotic resistance against the U.S. The U.S. moves for aggression against Korea that started in the mid-19th century has not ceased in this century but reached a more reckless phase, it said, and stressed:
The 140-year-long history of the U.S. aggression of Korea has reached its final stage as it stands in the nuclear stand-off with the DPRK which is sure to emerge victor.
The U.S. is the primary target of the Korean nation's struggle and to check and frustrate the U.S. moves for aggression is the primary goal of the nationwide struggle.
The people from all walks of life in south Korea should give vent to the wrath and resentment pent-up for centuries to trigger off anti-U.S. resistance like a volcano and turn out as one in the struggle to drive the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces out of south Korea at an early date.
Let the south Korean people resolutely shatter the U.S. domination and intervention and its followers' treacherous moves with the transparent consciousness of national independence!
Let us bring the pro-U.S. sycophantic traitors opposing the restoration of the "right of wartime operation command" to justice!
Further lift voices critical of the moves for the transfer of the U.S. military base for aggression and the building of a new one!
Decisively reject the conclusion of the "Free Trade Agreement" with the U.S. which is aimed at economic aggression against south Korea and colonial annexation!
Let us resolutely fight for protecting the soul of the nation from the poisoning of the Yankee culture!
Let us thoroughly shatter the moves of the U.S. and its followers to revive the pro-U.S. "regime" in south Korea!
Let the whole Korean nation positively support and uphold the great Songun policy and strong self-defensive deterrent force which deal deadly blows at the aggressors and serve as a treasured sword for defending the Korean nation from war!
If the U.S. imperialists ignite another war of aggression by intruding the second and third General Sherman, the army and the people of the DPRK will in the name of the whole nation shower fire of revenge on the aggressors with the staunch spirit and invincible strength cemented by the force of Songun and thus send them to the bottom of the Pacific.
Let all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad triumphantly settle accounts with the U.S. for its 140-year-long history of aggression by the concerted efforts of the nation and bring earlier the dawn of independence, reunification and prosperity with the national pride and honor of having the matchless capability for self-defence under the great Songun leadership!
Rodong Sinmun on Danger of RIMPAC War Gamble
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- The RIMPAC-2006 joint military exercises are overall military operations and a preliminary war aimed to take a preemptive attack on the DPRK n view of their period, contents, characters and scale. Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article, and goes on:
The U.S. imperialists described the military exercises as those for guaranteeing "security of sea routes" and countering "terrorism". This is nothing but a sophism to cover up and justify the criminal nature, purpose and danger of the exercises.
The exercises are part of preparations for a new war in line with the U.S. aggressive Asia strategy and a gamble for the provocation of the second Korean war.
The U.S. warmongers began to stage the RIMPAC joint military exercises on June 25, when they ignited the Korean war 56 years ago. This clearly suggests that the U.S. imperialists are seeking to provoke a new war again to invade the DPRK instead of drawing due lessons from their defeat in the past Korean war. During the exercises they are practicing comprehensive military operations such as firing of missiles and guns, landing of marines and sweeping of mines. They are attempting to emasculate the war deterrent of the DPRK with large-scale attacks from sea and air and occupy it with ease as they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Participating in the exercises are armed forces of those countries actively following and supporting the U.S. policy of aggression against the DPRK. They have participated almost in all the RIMPAC military exercises and practiced the way of combat activities according to the U.S. military strategy of aggression on the DPRK. When a war breaks out in the Korean Peninsula they will be the first to commit their armed forces to the Korean front.
As the facts show, the U.S. imperialists are seeking to trigger another Korean war under the pretext of "anti-terrorism" and "peace-keeping" and inveigle multi-national armed forces into the Korean front as they did in the past Korean war. In this way they are trying to realize in the new century their ambition for aggression on Korea which they failed in the 1950s. Herein lies the danger of the joint military exercises.
Mammoth Anti-U.S. Rally Held
Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- Hundreds of thousands of Pyongyangites from all walks of life met at Kim Il Sung Square Sunday on the occasion of "June 25, the day of the struggle against U.S. imperialism". Present there were Pak Pong Ju, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and other cadres and working people and youth and students in the city.
Pang Chol Gap, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, took the floor first. He said: On June 25, 1950 the U.S. imperialists launched an all-out armed invasion to destroy the young DPRK and realize their ambition for world supremacy. But they had to sign the Korean Armistice Agreement, yielding to the army and people of the DPRK.
The U.S. has persistently pursued its hostile policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK and provoke another war against it, keeping south Korea under its military occupation for more than 50 years after the war, far from drawing a proper lesson from the shameful defeat it suffered in the last Korean war.
The U.S. reckless and dangerous war moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK have created such a grave situation on the orean Peninsula that a war may break out any moment.
What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. is going to start large-scale joint military exercises in the waters of the Pacific from June 25, the day it provoked the Korean war in the last century.
"RIMPAC-2006" the U.S. and its followers have launched with huge troops and latest war means involved are dangerous maneuvers for a war of aggression targeted against the DPRK under the pretext of "ensuring security" in sea routes and "jointly combating terrorism."
The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it thinks it can bring the Korean people firmly defending socialism of Juche under the banner of Songun to their knees and realize its ambition for domination and aggression by dint of its high-handed and arbitrary practices and force.
The army and people of the DPRK will closely follow every U.S. move with a high degree of revolutionary vigilance.
Should the U.S. imperialists ignite another war of aggression on this land, we will mobilize all the political and ideological might and military potentials built up generation after generation under the guidance of the great Songun brilliant commander and mercilessly wipe out the enemies and victoriously conclude their stand-off with the U.S.
Representatives of different social standings, speaking at the meeting, said that now is the time for us to conclude our stand-off with the U.S., adding that should the U.S. ignite another war of aggression oblivious of lesson taught by the last Korean war, the Korean people would wipe out the aggressors to the last man with tremendous war deterrence and uproot the cause of war from this land.
Poem "We will Settle Accounts" was recited at the rally.
The poem reflects the solemn declaration of the army and people of Songun Korea that should the U.S. imperialists use nukes against the Korean nation, they will make hundreds of times stronger nuclear strike at them and thus inflict final destruction upon the aggressors.
The participants staged a mammoth anti-U.S. demonstration, chanting slogans "We vehemently denounce the U.S. imperialists' monstrous crimes against the Korean nation!", "The U.S. imperialist aggressors, quit south Korea at once" etc.
Rodong Sinmun on Failure to Conduct Inter-Korean Trial Train Operation
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -The south Korean authorities are now provocatively shifting on to the north side the blame for the failure to conduct the north-south trial train operation as scheduled on May 25. In this regard Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary denounces it as an incomprehensible and reckless act. Recalling that at the inter-Korean general-level military talks held before the trial train operation, the south side turned its face from the issue of fixing a sea boundary in the waters of the West Sea, the most urgent and essential issue for ensuring security in the field of military affairs between the north and the south, the commentary says:
It shows that the south Korean authorities were going to use the trial train operation merely for their political purpose.
The ultra-right conservatives of the south Korean Grand National Party committed a grave, provocative and reckless act of burning the flag of the DPRK, a dignified symbol of our state, in front of Kwanghwamun of Seoul and in Phyongthaek with the approaching of the trial train operation. This unpardonable criminal act was openly committed with the tacit connivance of the police authorities.
What is ridiculous is that as regards the failure, the south Korean authorities have talked about the "examination" of the issue of providing "raw materials and other supplies for light industry" and "materials for railways". We cannot but regard their way of thinking immature and shameless as they are clinging to a shallow trick to lend credence to their move to shift the responsibility for the failure.
Such being the case, we are in a position to blame the south side for the failure to conduct the trial train operation between the north and the south. The south Korean authorities should make an apology for defiling our national flag and severely punish those responsible so as to prevent the reoccurrence of such grave provocations.
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S. Korea to Blame for Abortive Trial Train Operation
Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -The south Korean authorities should take their military and the ultra-right conservatives of the "Grand National Party" to task for the abortive trial train operation, force them to pay for their crimes and apologize for defaming the flag of the DPRK and sternly punish those responsible for it, urges Minju Joson Sunday in a signed commentary. The south Korean authorities are obliged to keenly realize their responsibility for the abortive north-south trial train operation and take practical measures to meet the expectation of the nation. But they have gone so rash as to find fault with the north, the commentary notes, and goes on:
They are uttering unsavory words falsifying truth in a bid to mislead public opinion just as a thief crying "Stop the thief!" This cannot but be a very serious development as it throws a stumbling block in the way of improving the inter-Korean relations.
The responsibility for the abortive trial train operation between the north and the south entirely rests with the south side because it failed to prevent disturbing developments, making the trial operation abortive. Therefore, the south Korean authorities should do what they should do, though belatedly.
This notwithstanding, they have gone so clumsy as to talk about the issue of providing "raw materials and other supplies for light industry" and "materials for railways", not content with shifting the blame on to the others, far from taking to task their own military.
The north-south economic cooperation is not a simple economic and business matter but the nation's common undertaking to achieve reconciliation, unity, reunification and prosperity. No success can be expected if the inter-Korean economic cooperation is regarded as a sort of give-and-take business. If the south Korean authorities try to use the inter-Korean cooperation for meeting their sinister political purpose, oblivious of this, they will meet nothing but censure.
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KPA Side Refutes South Side's Smear Campaign over Abortive Trial Train Operation
Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -The authorities and officials concerned of the ruling and opposition parties of south Korea are vying with each other to vociferously assert that the north side is to blame for the failure of the north and the south to conduct the trial train operation on May 25 as scheduled. In this connection a spokesman for the north side delegation to the Inter-Korean Military Talks on Saturday issued a statement clarifying the stand of the Korean People's Army.
The statement said: The north-south trial train operation proved abortive because the establishment of a "peace mechanism" on the Korean Peninsula and revitalization of inter-Korean cooperation and exchange, much touted by the south side on official and unofficial occasions, turned out to be nothing but an empty talk full of lies and deception and it was foolish enough to use the trial train operation for its political purpose in violation of the principle it agreed with the north side as regards the project of reconnecting the north-south railways.
The above-said trial operation could not be conducted also because the south side failed to exert sincere efforts to ensure that the north and the south properly conduct economic cooperation and exchange in line with the agreement already reached between them so that the KPA may take steps for military guarantee keeping pace with them.
At the north-south general-level military talks held so far we explained enough to convince the south side that if the inter-Korean rail and road links are to be properly reconnected and cooperation and exchange make successful progress on the principle of ensuring the common prosperity of the nation and meeting its common interests, it is most urgent to defuse the military tension and ensure lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.
We clarified our stand that if the south side is truly interested in opening to traffic the railways and roads aimed at relinking the severed blood ties of the nation and ready to take measures for military guarantee for it, it should take up among other things such basic issue of defusing the military tension as the issue of preventing clashes in the waters of the West Sea at the inter-Korean military talks arranged by use of precious time and otherwise, it is impossible to properly settle any issue arising between the north and the south.
It was quite obvious that the KPA could not allow the peaceful trial train operation under the present situation that such rowdyism as burning flags of the DPRK, a dignified symbol of our state, was perpetrated in Seoul and Phyongthaek in broad daylight at the tacit connivance of the police authorities quite contrary to the trend of the June 15 era.
The south side should not busy itself falsifying reality and creating impression that all the responsibilities for the case rest with the north side but make due efforts to fulfill its responsibility.
It should clearly understand that all issues arising in the inter-Korean relations can be properly solved only when it makes a responsible option to buckle down to defusing the military tension that may stop overall cooperation and exchange in a moment and settling such core military issue as clashes in the waters of the West Sea.
The KPA will closely watch the future attitude of the south side.
CPRF Spokesman on Failure to Conduct Trial Train Operation
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The south side was wholly to blame for the failure to conduct the trial train operation as the south Korean military totally sidestepped the solution of pending issues, priorities in ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula. The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said this in a statement issued Friday slamming the south Korean authorities for unhesitatingly conducting a smear campaign against the north over the failure to have the trial train operation Thursday.
The statement said: What is most urgent for guaranteeing peace on the Korean Peninsula at present is to correctly fix a sea boundary for the purpose of preventing military clashes in the waters of the West Sea.
Precisely for this reason the north proposed this issue at the general-level military talks held before the north-south trial train operation and has made every sincere effort to this end.
But the military side of the south evaded the settlement of the issue for a groundless reason despite our repeated proposals and patient efforts, thus making it impossible for the north and the south to take security steps in any field.
The trial train operation could not be conducted also because of an unpardonable provocation of the ultra-right conservative forces of the "Grand National Party" of the south against the north.
They staged such rowdyism as torching the flag of the DPRK, a dignified symbol of our state, in broad daylight at the tacit connivance of the south Korean police authorities with the trial train operation between the north and the south just around the corner as an experimental work for inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation.
We cannot but take to task such clumsy attitude taken by the south Korean authorities as talking about the issue of providing "raw materials and other materials for light industry" and "materials for railways," when arguing about the blame for the failure to conduct the trial train operation.
We hold that if the south side is to question who is to blame for the abortive trial train operation, it should take to task nobody but the bellicose forces of its military and the GNP ultra-right conservatives and properly settle their crimes.
Patriotic Movement for Great National Unity Called for
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -The patriotic movement for great national unity is now gaining in scope and strength to be a nationwide movement thanks to the positive support and participation of Koreans from all walks of life. This is a brilliant embodiment of President Kim Il Sung's idea of great national unity. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article. It goes on: This idea is the most just idea of great national unity as it calls on all classes and social strata to place the common wishes and interests of the nation above anything else and unite close irrespective of ideology, ism, political view, religion, property status and social position in order to uphold and achieve national independence. The above-said movement is a national patriotic movement for defending and realizing the national independence.
It is based on the Korean nation's unshakable faith and will to struggle to the last for independence and dignity. For this reason the movement is now strengthening the driving force of the nation, increasing the might of national unity while putting a powerful impetus to the overall movement for independent reunification. This movement requires all Koreans to unite close as one for meeting the common wishes and interests of the nation.
Patriotism is the ideological basis of the movement. It is the movement that helps heighten the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity nationwide, reenergize the activities for solidarity and unity being conducted by the organizations of the reunification movement involving people of different circles and increase the role of the "June 15 national joint committee", a nationwide solidarity organization of the reunification movement.
The movement also helps meet the vicious challenge of the anti-reunification forces with the might of national unity.
The pro-U.S. conservative forces in south Korea are now colluding with each other to usurp power through the next presidential election and bring back the era of confrontation between the north and the south. The above-said movement is strong enough to frustrate the ambition and challenge of the anti-reunification conservative forces.
North Side's Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration Meets
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- A general meeting of the north side's committee for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration took place in Pyongyang on Mar. 30. Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly who is also honorary co-chairman of the north side's committee, Kim Ki Nam, vice-chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland who is secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Ro Tu Chol and Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, and Ryu Mi Yong, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Korean Chondoist Chongu Party, who are honorary co-chairpersons of the north side's committee and An Kyong Ho, chairman of the north side's committee, vice-chairmen and members of the committee, members of the sub-committees, members of the North Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification and the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification and officials concerned.
The meeting discussed its agenda item "On the orientation of activities of the north side's committee to energetically conduct the three-point patriotic movements under the banner of 'By our nation itself'".
An Kyong Ho made a report which was followed by speeches. The reporter and speakers said that in the last one year the "June 15 joint national committee" has played an important role in conducting the movement for national reunification as required by its mission and duty as a nationwide organization for national reunification.
They called upon those who love the country and the nation to keep pace and cooperate with one another to widen the scope of solidarity activities on the principle of subordinating everything to the efforts to accomplish the cause of national reunification, irrespective of ideology, system and party affiliation, political view and religious belief. To this end it is necessary for the committee to intensify the movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity and thoroughly implement the June 15 joint declaration true to the idea of "By our nation itself", they noted. A resolution was adopted at the meeting.
Then followed the discussion of an organizational matter. The meeting held a by-election of honorary co-chairpersons, vice-chairpersons and members of the north side's committee.
Extraordinary Meeting of Co-Chairmen of Pomminryon Held
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- An extraordinary meeting of co-chairmen of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) of the north, south and overseas sides was held Tuesday by way of exchanging facsimile messages. The meeting attended by the co-chairmen of the north, south and overseas headquarters of Pomminryon discussed the orientation of the movement for national reunification for 2006.
A report was made there.
The meeting recalled that last year all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad waged a dynamic struggle to realize the cooperation for national independence, peace against war and reunification and patriotism under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and formed the June 15 national joint committee while representatives of non-governmental organizations and authorities in the north and the south visited Pyongyang and Seoul to hold grand festivals for reunification in grand style. This year marks the lapse of 140 years since USS "General Sherman's" intrusion into Korea, 30 years since the start of the "Team Spirit" joint military exercises and 40 years since the conclusion of SOFA, the meeting said, calling upon Pomminryon to join all the fellow countrymen who love peace and desire reunification in the drive to resolutely check the reckless war moves of the anti-reunification forces and remove the root cause of a nuclear war from this land through a nationwide struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces.
The meeting called upon Pomminryon to achieve solidarity and alliance with all the forces supporting the June 15 joint declaration and deal telling blows at the pro-U.S. conservative forces including the Grand National Party keen to prolong their remaining days while currying favor with the United States.
A resolution adopted at the meeting said that this year Pomminryon will take the lead in the three-point patriotic movement under the slogan "Let's wage a dynamic patriotic movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity under the uplifted banner of 'By our nation itself'!"
The resolution noted that Pomminryon would conduct a vigorous movement for independent reunification through nationwide solidarity and alliance under the banner of "By our nation itself" and make it a tradition to grandly celebrate June 15 when the historic joint declaration was published as the "day of by our nation itself".
Pomminryon will wage a persistent struggle to have the "National Security Law" abolished in south Korea and the south headquarters of Pomminryon and Pomchonghakryon (the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification) and the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils legalized and further strengthen solidarity and unity with broad mass movement organizations to steadily expand its organization.