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KCNA Commentary: "U.S. Pacific Century" and Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. recently made public a new defense strategy the keynote of which is to maintain its "position as a world leader".
Timed to coincide with this, the U.S. military warlike forces made the story about "provocation and threat" from the DPRK an established fact, talking about "worst scenario" and "uncertainty".

What does this mean?
The Asia-Pacific region is now becoming a center of world forces.
The U.S. is keen to make the 21st century a "U.S. Pacific century" in a bid to emerge an emperor of the world.

The "U.S. Pacific century" is, in essence, a new version of the U.S. foreign policy to monopolize the political and economic interests in Asia-Pacific region.
In a word, the U.S. announcement of its new defense strategy is aimed at formally spelling out a war strategy of putting importance to Asia-Pacific and directing its spearhead to the DPRK and China.

Its goal is to intensify the military infiltration and interference in the region by sparking a crisis and escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula. Its ultimate purpose is to pressurize China, its biggest strategic rival, by force of arms and control Asia-Pacific and keep world supremacy.

It is part of the U.S. scenario that it is providing military support and encouragement to south Korea, Japan and other allies, while overstating "threat" from the DPRK.

The dangerous and reactionary nature of the U.S. new defense strategy lies in its moves to deter other powers from exercising their influence over the region and enlarging their beat by force and build an order of U.S.-led imperialist domination.

The U.S. unlimited imperialist greed and military adventures are posing a grave menace to peace and stability in the region and increasing the danger of a new Cold War there.

The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it thinks it can make the 21st century a U.S.-led 'Pacific century" from an outdated hegemonic viewpoint.
The U.S. would be well advised not to forget the historical fact that it drank a bitter cup of defeat in Korea last century.

The 4th Media’s Exclusive Report from Pyongyang, DPRK -by Kiyul Chung
An Introductory Note on Kim Jong Il’s Legacy and His “Military First Politics”

On December 21, the Beijing-based April Media Group, particularly its English website the 4th Media was officially invited to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to cover their entire National Funeral from December 22 to 31. It’s a very special honor and extraordinary privilege for a still newly-launched independent media like The 4th Media which began only last fall in 2010.

The 4th Media is one of the very few foreign media outlets present in Pyongyang at the moment while most of the other global mainstream foreign medias are absent here, except for several resident foreign media such as Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, Kyoto News Agency, AP, and Reuters.

Therefore, in realizing of its exclusive privilege and honor of this first official visit to DPRK, The 4th Media plans to cover the entire National Funeral-related events, stories, and to present DPRK situation, etc., particularly aims to cover ordinary citizens’ feelings, thoughts and deep sorrows which seem almost uncontrollable and thereby heartbreaking.

In order for our global readers to be able to make their own judgments on the present situation of DPRK and her 25 million population’s genuinely sorrowful feelings from the sudden loss of their “great leader, Kim Jong Il”. I am going to report things as they are from what I see, hear, learn, experience, read, watch and conversations directly with Korean people here whomever I may meet and/or encounter with throughout my stay until Dec. 30.

It seems that DPRK people are now facing one of the most challenging, heartbreaking, sorrowful and difficult moments in their over 60 years of national history which began in September, 1945.
The sudden and permanent departure of their “comrade supreme commander” from his so much beloved people is still surreal to most. The “comrade supreme commander” (“弥绊荤飞包悼瘤”) is the title that Korean people used most frequently in reference of Kim Jong Il, according to Rodongxinmun (痔匝沔冥: Workers Party of Korea’s official organ).

The “comrade supreme commander” is not here with his people anymore physically. However, as almost every Korean I’ve met here so far says, his legacy seems not go away easily at all.
Just as in the language of Chinese, Vietnamese, and many other friendly governments’ official eulogies, the yearning “Kim Jong Il will be immortal” that the majority Korean people and many good international friends around the world have genuinely wished for seems stay quite a longtime to come.

As long as the majority Korean population continue to gather around Kim Jong Il’s “sun portraits” (骷逭呃) to mourn and remember his legacy, it seems his “human-centered anti-imperialist, self-determination, self-reliance, self-defense,” i.e., DPRK’s Juche (瘾赭) philosophy, both for his own nation and the world may continue in the future as well.

His “military first politics” (嗷馅镔鼋) seems to be the most symbolic trade mark for the last ten some years, which sounds somewhat never-heard-before and looks like a combination of words which seem mutually-exclusive and remote from each other. The term is indeed unprecedented in the history of human vocabulary.
That could possibly explain why this term, ”military first politics”, has become not only one of the globally foremost-known political vocabularies but also one of the most controversially-debated political concepts at the same time for the last ten some years as well.

For our readers’ sake, I would like to make a brief introductory note on this DPRK-born military strategy in the following:
While the US-made, in fact, US-fabricated so-called “North [Korea’s] Nuclear Issue” has become one of the most controversial global affairs in the world’s power politics for the last twenty years, Kim Jong lL’s “military first strategy” has earned its honor but together with an extreme degree of demonization.

Indeed it’s been one of the most controversial, suspicious and particularly most demonized concepts of both national and global politics mainly among US/West-led global imperialists’ camps, particularly in their faithful mouthpieces, i.e., the globally-monopolized corporate-run media.

This concept, together with DPRK’s structural thereby chronic issues of “food, energy and power shortage” for ten some years, has been therefore often despised, laughed at, and not seriously taken at all by the world since the timing of its historic birth in mid 1990s right in the midst of their “great suffering period” was when the whole nation went into an unprecedented, unbearable, unknown, untested challenges and trials.
Then almost the whole world predicted DPRK’s “soon-to-be-collapse within next two three years.”

They despised and made fun of Kim Jong Il’s military first policy by pointing out the fact that most of his people had suffered with hunger, cold, and isolation.
However, the world’s majority population wouldn’t probably have any idea why they’ve had to go through for almost 70 years now often unbearable, unspeakable and unprecedented sufferings the humanity seem to have never experienced before in its entire history.

To say the least, the world’s most population has been literally excluded from the Korea’s Division History US has forcibly imposed upon the whole Korean population since September 1945.

The world doesn’t remember either the History of Korean War in 1950-53 from which up to 4 million Korean lives including more than 2 million civilian populations (then from its only about 20 million total population) from both north and south were completely destroyed.
The whole nation, particularly the northern part of Korean peninsula had been completely ruined.
After the war in major cities in the north, particularly Pyongyang the capitol city of DPRK, “there were no buildings whatsoever left to stand” but the “two fractured ones” only.

As the world may remember from one of the most recent indiscriminate criminal carpet bombings against defenseless both Libyan military and civilian populations for over 200 some days, the three years of nonstop, indiscriminate criminal “carpet bombing” which later was also introduced to the Vietnam War was the major cause.

Since then, the almost completely destroyed, i.e., the already-annihilated and then DIVIDED from the grain-rich south, the north has been economically blockaded and separated while US has kept its tens of thousands of military troops equipped with tens of hundreds of most sophisticated nuclear weapons including its Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

That complete ECONOMIC SANCTION including financial and trade sectors has never stopped till this very day in addition to US’s ongoing “isolation and strangulation” policy together with its nonstop military threats while it boasts of its “Right to Use Nuclear Weapons First against Non-nuclear entities.”

That military threats didn’t come alone, however. It’s come all the time with the “demonization propaganda” against the north since September 1945 when they occupied the south with the infamous General MacArthur’s “Occupation Army” against the JUST LIBERATED land from the 40 years of Japanese colonial rule.

As noted before, the world’s most population may not necessarily know and understand some of these above-mentioned historical facts of yesterday and today in regard to WHY DPRK people have suffered from the over 60 years of ‘structural thereby chronic food, energy and power shortages.” Now, back to the present, to make a long story short, Kim Jong Il didn’t pay any attention to them. He didn’t waste any of his time by bickering with them. Instead he had continued to go forward with his determination which had never been undeterred throughout his rule.

Kim Jong Il’s “not seriously taken at all, looked strange, not brilliant” leadership, however, not only had been proven that he was absolutely correct but also conversely made his opponents and despisers either incorrect or fun of instead.
This has become more apparent and noticeable only after Bush’s notorious “cowboy imperialism” which destroyed both Afghanistan and Iraq.

This was when more number of peoples around the world began to pay more serious attentions and respects onto Kim Jong Il’s leadership, particularly his “military first politics.”

In regard to the brilliance, credibility, relevance, strategically profound wisdom, great predictability or foreseeability to defend DPRK from US-led military attacks with their own independent military (both deterrent and offensive) powers and thereafter to continue their “self-determined national socioeconomic policies and developments,” Kim Jong Il’s once-despised leadership and his “military first politics” had been proven absolutely correct. It’s been proven by the very fact that it did stop US-led arrogant and aggressive “gangster imperialism” which is funded by “disaster capitalism” for the sole benefit of “military industrial complex.”

As globally-publicized more so now after Libya, this gangster imperialism has been first and foremost accompanied by a very deceptive and hypocritical “humanitarian imperialism.”
The humanitarian imperialism which is the latest version of “cultural imperialism” can be much more easily explained in the context of the so-called imperialists’ “soft power.”

The very lethal and omnipresent “soft power” of the US/West has been carried out by their global media empires which have completed to monopolize the entire global mainstream media outlets.
Those are the very tools the US/Western power has used most for their GLOBAL MEDIA DECEPTION through their continued “manufacturing consents” by which the process of demonization, i.e., war propaganda, is being done.

Of course, they do it all the time, as they’ve done it against DPRK, China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran and so on in the name of the so-called “freedom, democracy and human rights.”
Then their next usual course, if and whenever they have enough fabricated pretexts and justifications for them to invade any sovereign nations, is the use of their “military power,” i.e., the so-called “hard power” against independent-minded, self-determined and anti-imperialist nations and organizations around the world.

Kim Jong Il’s legacy and his “military-first politics” can be better understood from this angle. His leadership, particularly in the context of his brilliant military strategy which has been proven prophetically correct now much more than any other times.

This is much more real and true in the world’s “anti-imperialist self-determination” (阢皎砘瘾) camp, particularly in many third world countries where Kim Jong Il’s “extremely courageous, profoundly wise and creative application of Juche philosophy” had earned a broad scope of supports, respects, and admiration.

Kim Jong Il’s “sun-gun (military first) politics” had further proven to be correct when the collapsing processes of former Soviet Union and its Eastern European Socialist Bloc had been proceeded throughout 1990s.
It’s been proven much more correct particularly when US-led neoliberal economic “globalization” policy of “disaster capitalism” which has been often followed by US-led NATO military power has ruined the world’s most economies and completely destroyed those sovereign nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq and now Libya throughout 2000s.

After the Libya crisis in 2011, Kim Jong Il’s military first strategy seems to have earned a genuine sense of admirations and even a deep sense of reverence around the globe, particularly many third world anti-imperialist and self-determined nations, organizations and peoples.
His brilliant, wise, strategically prophetic thereby preventive military preparedness or national self-defense readiness, in defending and even defeating the “gangster imperialism” in the name of so-called “humanitarian concerns,” as they did in Libya most recently, now against Syria and Iran, earned him more genuine respects and followers.

The more, the frequent and the vicious US/Israeli/West-led military attacks against sovereign but militarily-weak or defenseless nations which are resource-rich and/or strategically-crucial, the more, the deeper, and the genuine the degree of reverence and admiration of Kim Jong Il’s “military first self-determination, self-reliance and independence” philosophy and politics seem to have gotten further consolidated.

The 4th Media’s Exclusive Reports directly from Pyongyang over the next 8 days will continue in the form of hourly, daily reports of and from the people here.
It’ll report, as plain as possible, their sea of tears, thunderstorm-like cries, but rededication of their already-made deep commitments to further the Kim Jong Il-led “military-first, self-determination, independent economic development” policy.

The 4th Media

KCNA Commentary Rejects U.S. "Asia-oriented Policy" as Policy of Aggression
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The United States is zealously seeking to expand the sphere of its domination over the Asia-Pacific region.
Such scheme was more clearly revealed before and after the APEC Summit and the 6th East Asian Summit.

On November 17 U.S. President Obama, speaking at the Australian parliament, manifested the stand that top priority would be given to the Asia-Pacific region in carrying out the U.S. diplomatic and security policy.

He also promised to strengthen the relations with the ASEAN and its individual members on Nov. 19 when attending the East Asia Summit for the first time as the U.S president.

The U.S. secretary of State, too, in her lecture made in Honolulu, Hawai, on Nov. 10, said that the U.S. would pivot its diplomatic and economic policy to the Asia-Pacific region and the 21st century would be "U.S.' Pacific century".

The U.S. secretary of Defense said that the U.S. would remain a Pacific nation in the future.
This is a U.S. formal declaration on the "priority Asia-Pacific policy", and it goes to clearly prove that the U.S. set the Asia-Pacific region as the main target of its strategy for domination over the world.

The Asia-Pacific region has become a center of international politics and economy.
The U.S. regards it as a matter closely related to satisfying its endless greed to realize its domination over this region.

Lurking behind the "priority to Asia" touted by the U.S. is its design to take an active hand in the problem of the Asia-Pacific region and tighten its domination and control over it.

The U.S. has long dreamed of its domination over Asia. It is the consistent view of the U.S. that the Pacific and Asia should come into its possession like Texas and California states. Such view had been expressed before and after the Second World War.

The U.S. seeks to realize this ambition at any cost in the present 21st century.
To this end it is scheming to intensify the control and domination over the Asia-Pacific region by military and economic means. Such scheme has been confirmed by the following facts: The U.S. has strengthened the security alliance with Japan, south Korea and others and decided to keep its armed forces in Australia. It has also pushed forward the "diplomacy over human rights" for interference while meddling in regional bodies' activities and attempted to frame up U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative.

What does "return to Asia" by the U.S. in North America mean?
This means that the U.S. intends to make Asia serve it, not Asians.
The masters of the Asia-Pacific region are the people in this region.
But, the U.S. pursues its aggression policy for domination over the region, talking about "return to Asia" and "priority to Asia". This is a wanton encroachment upon independence of the regional people.

The U.S. will remain a gate-crasher of Asia if it does not drop its design for domination over the region.
The 21st century will never be "U.S.' Pacific century".

"Occupy Wall Street" Demo Goes Worldwide
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- The demonstration, erupted in the United States against the exploitation and oppression by capital, is rapidly spreading all over the world.
On October 15 "Occupy Wall Street" demos took place all at once in more than 1500 cities in 80 odd countries and regions.
Protesters blamed the financial crisis now sweeping Europe mainly on the greedy financial capitalists and corrupt politicians.

In Rome of Italy hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, shouting slogan "Occupy Wall Street". This created confusion, leaving service facilities closed and subway traffic stopped.

In Berlin of Germany tens of thousands of protesters took demonstration, marching toward the Chancellor's Office.

In Tokyo of Japan protesters marched along streets, carrying placards with such letters as "Occupy Tokyo" and "End to poverty". Shout "Show that society changes if the poor lift up their voice" was heard from among the demonstrators.

In Sydney, Melbourne and other major cities of Australia thousands of people took part in the Occupy Wall Street demonstration.

Emergency alert was issued in major cities of various countries due to those demos and there were clashes between the police and protesters.
Analysts say that this situation sweeping the world, an eruption of the wrath on the greed of capital and economic inequality, shows the reality of the capitalist system put in peril.

Joint Academic Seminar Held
Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- A joint academic seminar for checking Japan's invasion of Tok Islets and urging Japan to redress its past was opened in Pyongyang and Seoul on Monday on the lapse of 101 years since the Japanese imperialists' fabrication of the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty."

It was expected to hold the seminar in Kaesong with the north, the south and overseas sides present, but the south side authorities disallowed the participation of the south side delegation in the seminar, compelling them to hold it separately.

The north-side academic seminar took place at the Central Hall of Workers.
Present there were members of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and various sub-committees, the North Headquarters of the Pan-National Alliance for Korea's Reunification and the Pan-National Alliance of Youth and Students for Korea's Reunification and officials in the fields of social science, education and media.
Prior to the seminar, a letter of solidarity sent by the Overseas Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration was read out.

The issue of defending the territory and sovereignty of Korea is a nation-wide task, the letter said, calling on the political parties, organizations and personages in the north, the south and abroad to firmly solidarize with each other in the struggle to check Japan's reinvasion and urge Japan to redress its past.

The floor was taken by Ri Jong Hyok, chairman of the Academic Sub-Committee of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration, Kim Chun Sil, member of the Committee on Measures for Compensation to Former Korean "Comfort Women" for Japanese Army and Drafting Victims, and Ho Jong Ho, member of the Academic Sub-Committee of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration.

Proving that Tok Islets are part of the inviolable territory of Korea, they bitterly denounced Japan for its moves for reinvasion and called upon all Koreans to carry on their vigorous actions for checking and foiling its scenario for grabbing Tok Islets.

The sexual slavery for the Japanese imperialists is unpardonable, they noted, calling on the Korean women to force Japan to pay for the disgrace suffered by them.

Drawing attention to the persistent moves to distort the history in Japan, they called upon all Koreans to turn out in the struggle to force it to settle its past wrongdoings.
Then, papers on the above-said theme and texts of speeches from the south and overseas sides were introduced at the seminar.

A joint appeal of the North, South and Overseas Sides Committees for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration was adopted at the seminar.

DPRK to Start Legal Disposal of S. Side's Real Estates in Mt. Kumgang Resort
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The Guidance Bureau of Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang of the DPRK released the following report now that it has become impossible to hold negotiations with the south side's businessmen due to the south Korean authorities' unjust obstructions. The DPRK set July 29 as a deadline for holding the negotiations.

As already opened to public, the DPRK promulgated a law on special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang of the DPRK following three-year suspension of the tour of the mountain due to the south Korean authorities. Then it took measures allowing the south Korean businesses to register their businesses and properties again and make up their minds either to take part in international tour or adjust their properties. The DPRK also provided several opportunities for them to hold negotiations with the DPRK.

This was an expression of sincerity and magnanimity as it was a measure taken as compatriots to protect the property right and interests of the south side's businesses.

The south Korean authorities, however, obstructed the negotiations between the DPRK and the south side's NGO business groups for the adjustment of properties. A few days ago, they proposed north-south authorities' working talks in a bid to totally elbow out NGOs from the negotiations.

The DPRK side conveyed its stand that it can hold authorities' working talks on condition that the south side brings NGO groups to the Mt. Kumgang resort and start adjusting properties even though it was well aware of the ulterior aim sought by it.

The south Korean authorities, however, misled public opinion for no good reason, saying that the DPRK rejected the north-south authorities' working talks. They neither sent NGO groups nor showed up themselves.

This proves that the "protection of property right" of the south side's businesses touted by the south Korean authorities are empty talks and the proposed authorities' working talks are nothing but a trick to block the adjustment of properties and scotch international tour and the south Koreans' resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang.

The DPRK side notified the south side that it would start the legal disposal of the south side's properties according to its law unless the south side responds to the negotiations for the adjustment of the properties by July 29.

Now that it has become impossible to hold negotiations due to the unreasonable obstructions of the puppet group, the Guidance Bureau declares that it would start the legal disposal of all the real estates and other properties of the south side inside the special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang.

The DPRK notified Hyundai of this decision at Mt. Kumgang resort so that it can be conveyed to the south side's businesses. It also informed the south Korean authorities of the decision through a Panmunjom channel.

The period of undergoing the procedures for the legal disposal of the south side's businesses' properties is three weeks and those concerned of the south side are obliged to witness the proceedings.

The disposal period can be extended if necessary so as to offer the south side's businesses the opportunities of taking part in international tour or leasing, transferring and selling their properties.

Those businesses whose entry into Mt. Kumgang resort is difficult due to the authorities' obstruction can entrust the matter to a third party. They can meet the DPRK side in a third place for the registration and disposal of their properties or can choose other ways.

Those businesses which failed to take part in the legal disposal of the properties within three weeks shall be considered as having given up their property right and their properties shall be disposed of according to the law on special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang.

Those real estates shall be used for international tour after going through necessary procedures.
The responsibility for the prevailing situation entirely rests with the south Korean authorities.

These measures taken by the DPRK fully conform with the DPRK law and the international usage and therefore, the south side has no right to appeal against them.

S. Korean Authorities Accused of Disturbing Businessmen' Work to Adjust Properties
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Guidance Bureau of the Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Tuesday as regards the negotiations for the adjustment of real estate of the south side in Mt. Kumgang resort:

The DPRK recently took measures to let those concerned of the south side enter Mt. Kumgang resort to discuss the issue of adjusting real estates there and do business and property registration again and either take part in the international tour at their will or dispose of their properties by way of lease, transfer and sale according to a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on setting up the special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang and the DPRK law on special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang.

This was prompted by the purport to resume the tour at an early date and show the nation's famous mountain to an increasing number of people at home and abroad and meet the interests of the south side's businesses under the situation where the suspension of the tour drags on due to the unjust behavior of the south Korean authorities.

The south authorities, however, approached the measures taken by the DPRK with insincerity. They deliberately blocked the south side's businessmen from entering Mt. Kumgang resort for the adjustment of their properties. In face of the DPRK's criticism and protest by businesses, the authorities brought with them only a few businesses out of more than 30 businesses holding real estate in Mt. Kumgang resort. And they, insisting on authorities' negotiations only, prevented the businesses from meeting those from the north side and did not allow them to speak out at the negotiating table.

There were two attempted negotiations for the adjustment of the properties in Mt. Kumgang resort but the north side could not have an opportunity to properly talk to NGO businessmen of south side.

Taking into consideration the embarrassing position of the south side's businesses suffering undeserved damage due to the authorities' arbitrary practices, the north side decided to finally clinch the above-said issue by giving them more time till July 29.

The south Korean authorities, far from feeling responsibility for it, stuck to their unreasonable stand, talking about "retract of the law on special zone", "breach of south-north agreement" and "infringement upon property right". They even proposed authorities' working talks, revealing their attempt to elbow out NGO businesses and have the negotiations for the adjustment of properties and those for the tour to themselves.

Meanwhile, they talked about "sticking to the existing stand" on the issue of resuming the south Koreans' tour, an issue drawing attention of domestic and foreign public, thereby betraying their ulterior design to build a higher barrier.

The DPRK declared the area for tour of Mt. Kumgang as a special zone for international tour and enacted a special law according to it. This was a legitimate measure taken to cope with the south Korean authorities' unilateral suspension of the tour for three years under an absurd pretext.

As for "breach of agreement" and "infringement upon the right to properties", it was none other than the south side which breached and scrapped the agreement reached between Hyundai and the DPRK and it was again the south Korean authorities who caused the DPRK and the south side's businesses such big losses.

The DPRK and Hyundai made the tour of Mt. Kumgang successful, by cooperating with each other. But the south Korean authorities unilaterally suspended it without any consultation with the parties concerned and have so far stood in the way of resuming it.

As far as the case of a tourist which the south Korean authorities put up as a pretext for suspending the tour is concerned, the south side was entirely to blame for the case as it was an incident that took place because the south side failed to put its personnel under proper control and thus the tourist illegally trespassed on the area under the military control of the north side.

The south side also failed to pay a large portion of money it owed to the north side for the tour of Mt. Kumgang.
There is no room to talk about the north-south agreement at present and it has already become a dead paper.

Under this situation the DPRK invested the Hyundai with the right to do south Koreans' tour under the new law on the special zone and offered the south side's businesses the opportunity to hold negotiations for the protection of their properties. This was the biggest favor shown by the DPRK.

In fact, the DPRK's sovereignty is exercised over the special zone for international tour of Mt. Kumgang. So, the adjustment of properties in this area can be done under the DPRK's law and it does not require any discussion with the south side.

The south Korean authorities, however, behaved arrogantly and disturbed the work to adjust the properties, reminding one of a thief crying "Stop the thief!" An aim sought by them is to torpedo the international tour and block the resumption of the south Koreans' tour of Mt. Kumgang.
This petty trick will no longer work on anyone.

The south Korean authorities should allow the entry of the south side's businesses holding their properties in Mt. Kumgang resort by July 29 so that they may do business and property registration and decide to take part in the international tour or lease, transfer or sell their properties.

On this premise, the DPRK will consider authorities' working talks proposed by the south side authorities.
The DPRK is ready for both international tour and resumption of the south Koreans' tour.

If the south Korean authorities try to use the working talks between authorities, defying the just demand of the DPRK and elbowing out NGO businessmen, as a lever for disturbing the implementation of the above-said law and the adjustment of the properties of the south side's businesses, the DPRK will not accept the authorities' working talks but take strong legal measures to dispose of the south side's properties as it had already declared.

Rodong Sinmun Calls on All Koreans to Remain True to June 15 Joint Declaration
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Preserving the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration is a militant task facing all the Korean people, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a by-lined article.

It goes on: Preserving the said declarations presents itself as a very important practical task now that the present conservative authorities of south Korea are making desperate efforts to scrap them in wanton violation of them.

The south Korean conservative group, which had been displeased with the June 15 era of reunification, openly refused to implement the north-south declarations as soon as it came to power, asserting that the new regime "is not obliged to implement" what the former regime agreed.

The south Korean conservative authorities not only torpedoed all the dialogues that had been under way to implement the inter-Korean declarations but challenged the sustained efforts made by the DPRK to hold dialogue for improving the inter-Korean relations and ushering in a new phase of peace and reunification.

The reality goes to prove that the denial and scrapping of the inter-Korean declarations precisely mean the collapse of the inter-Korean relations and an attempt to ignite a nuclear war.

The grave situation prevailing in Korea at present when the inter-Korean relations have reached the worst phase proves that if the prevailing crisis is to be defused and independent reunification, peace and prosperity are to be achieved it is necessary to decisively frustrate the anti-reunification actions of the south Korean conservative group and firmly preserve and implement the historic declarations.

All the Koreans in the north, the south and abroad are responsible for doing so. The implementation of the said declarations can never be expected as long as the south Korean conservative group is allowed to stay in power. The fate of the Korean nation hinges on how to preserve and implement them.
The destiny of the Korean people depends on preserving and implementing the declarations.

CPRK Denounces Lee Myung Bak's Provocative Remarks against DPRK
Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea gave an answer to a question put by KCNA Wednesday as regards the provocative remarks made by traitor Lee Myung Bak against the DPRK during his recent visit to Germany.

On May 8 Lee at the round-table talks with compatriots and a press conference held during his junket to Germany, the first leg of his European tour, blustered that the north's nukes are obstructive to unification, urging it to "dismantle" them, and asserted that it should "apologize" for the warship sinking case and the Yonphyong Island shelling case. He went the lengths of crying out for "the punishment of what he called "provocation" as regards even the anti-DPRK conspiratorial case orchestrated by him in the past.

He groundlessly pointed an accusing finger at the DPRK, finding fault with its system. He also let loose a string of foolish invectives inciting despicable confrontation of systems, talking about the pull-down of the Berlin Wall.

The spokesman branded this as a blatant provocation against the system and dignity of the DPRK and an intolerable mockery of the public opinion at home and abroad and the DPRK's positive efforts for dialogue.

He went on: Lee, not content with kicking off the anti-reunification confrontation racket in south Korea, made such reckless remarks overseas. This was nothing but the last-ditch effort to chill the ever-growing atmosphere of dialogue, ward off the criticism of him for the collapse of the inter-Korean relations and the failure of his policy toward the north and justify his anti-DPRK nuclear racket and the moves to escalate the confrontation with it.

The puppet group was so preposterous as to describe the DPRK's "apology" for the above-said two cases as an option for crossing the threshold of inter-Korean dialogue. This revealed its ulterior intention to challenge the DPRK to the end, without having any dialogue with it. The group's outbursts raising someone's "dismantlement of nukes" as a precondition for dialogue are no more than a ridiculous attempt to disarm the DPRK and realize the ambition for invading it in collusion with the U.S.

The group is seeking to import the mode of reunification applied by a foreign country, bewildered by it. This is as foolish an act as expecting the sky to fall.

The Korean Peninsula is not Germany.

The puppet group is dreaming of such a contingency as what happened in Germany but it was south Korea where regimes collapsed several times due to such contingencies as the April 19 Popular Uprising that broke out on the peninsula.

Great irony is that Lee, a stooge serving the U.S. in its moves for a nuclear war, is going busy with hectic diplomacy over the issue of opening what he called a nuclear summit in south Korea, the world's biggest advanced base for a nuclear war and largest nuclear arsenal.

The world people still remember well that he declared the policy of toeing the U.S. and the policy of confrontation with fellow countrymen when he was coming to power and blustered that it was all right not to have inter-Korean dialogue during the tenure of his office.

The DPRK cannot but seriously consider its stance maintained so far as it has become clear now that the mean declaration made by Lee was put into practice and he is set to stand in confrontation to the last.

It is quite self-evident that nothing can be expected from a dialogue with such a man keen on confrontation with fellow countrymen, blinded by a foolish dream.

The DPRK will never pardon those hurting its dignity and system and making a mockery of them but take merciless and strong counter-actions against them.

The confrontation of the systems will only lead to a war.
If a war breaks out on this land, it will be the Korean nation's just and sacred patriotic war for national reunification.

Lee would be well advised to behave himself, properly understanding the disposition of the DPRK and the reality.

Rodong Sinmun -"Cheonan" Case Is Product of US-S. Korea Conspiracy
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The "Cheonan" warship sinking case was consequent on the U.S. and the south Korean authorities' scheme to bring the north-south relations to collapse and escalate the tension in the Korean Peninsula and then ignite a war against the DPRK.
The DPRK major newspaper Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a bylined article.

The persistent "probe" into the case made by the south Korean authorities only shows that it was the most hideous conspiratorial farce, a slush farce orchestrated by themselves, the article says, adding:
It has been one year since the warship sinking case. In the period the south Korean authorities had to return to their senses and repent of their anti-reunification crime. But they use the case as a means for refusing the north-south dialogue, going against the trend of the times.

At the inter-Korean military working-level talks opened in February, they insisted on adopting "Responsible measures over the sinking of 'Cheonan' by an explosion and the shelling of Yonphyong Island and giving assurances against additional provocations" as agenda of the talks, despite the magnanimity repeatedly shown by the DPRK. In this way they brought to rupture the dialogue, focus of the attention by all Koreans and the world people.

Though claiming that "the door is open to dialogue," the south Korean authorities are still raising "admission and apology" over the "Cheonan" case and the shelling incident as a pre-condition for dialogue in a desperate attempt to oppose its resumption.

The reality irrefutably shows why the south Korean authorities orchestrated the "Cheonan" case and how they bedeviled the north-south relations and escalated the tension in the Korean Peninsula with the case as a pretext.

The "Cheonan" case is just the worst provocation unprecedented in history as it pushed the inter-Korean relations to total bankruptcy and the situation of the Peninsula to the brink of war.

With nothing can the south Korean authorities cover up the truth about the conspiratorial case and their treacherous crime whereby the north-south relations were brought to collapse and the Korean Peninsula fraught with danger of nuclear war.

DPRK Red Cross Chief Once Again Sends Notice to His S. Korean Counterpart
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The south side is evading the repatriation of all the inhabitants of the DPRK now in custody in south Korea and a face-to-face confirmation of those four persons whom it claimed expressed their intention to "defect" to the south. The chairman of the C.C., the DPRK Red Cross Society Tuesday once again sent a notice to the president of the south Korean Red Cross strongly demanding it.

Taking issue with the south side∏s serious mockery of the families of the unreasonably detained inhabitants and the DPRK over the issue of their repatriation, raising a hue and cry over the repatriation of 27 inhabitants and an objective confirmation of the "free will" of the four inhabitants, the notice held that its refusal to arrange the face-to-face confirmation of the four persons proves that the expression of the "will to defect" touted by the authorities of the south side is a sheer fabrication and is nothing but allurement and abduction.

Recalling that the south Korean authorities proposed to let those who had fled to south Korea meet people from the DPRK side face to face in the past, the notice said it is self-contradictory for them to say they cannot arrange such meeting at present under an absurd pretext.

The confirmation by a third person and video claimed by the south Korean chief executive are unrecognizable, the notice held.

It once again strongly urged the south side to stop making an unreasonable insistence but come out to the conference room of the former Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Panmunjom, bringing with it those four inhabitants it claimed expressed their "will to defect" and respond as early as possible to the Red Cross working contact with the DPRK side.

If the south Korean authorities persistently sidestep the face-to-face confirmation, the DPRK side will recognize the south side∏s assertion about "defection" as a plot for allurement and abduction and take resolute measures against it, the notice warned.

DPRK RC Proposes Urgent Talks over Repatriation of Inhabitants
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The chairman of the C. C., the Red Cross Society of the DPRK Monday sent a notice to the president of the south Korean Red Cross proposing to have an urgent north-south Red Cross working contact to discuss the issue of sending back the DPRK inhabitants and a ship now in custody in south Korea.

The notice expressed deep regret at the south Korean authorities for their intention to keep four out of the 31 inhabitants under the pretext of false "defection" despite the repeated demand of the DPRK side. It said:
The south side's outrageous inhuman action is touching off anger among the people of the DPRK. The public at home and abroad is closely following how it will handle this case, concerned about the impact it will have on the north-south relations.

As for those four persons whom the south Korean authorities claim expressed their intention to "defect" to the south, they have no ground whatsoever to do so in light of their socio-political circumstances and family background. Their families, relatives and colleagues absolutely vouch for them.

It suggested to have the contact at the conference room of the former Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission at Panmunjom at 10:00 a.m. on March 9 to accurately confirm the issue of "defection" and realize the early repatriation of all of those in custody.

Three officials concerned including a member of the C.C., the Red Cross Society of the DPRK as well as family members of those four persons will go to the working contact to make face-to-face confirmation, the notice said. It asked those related to the Red Cross of the south side to bring those four persons concerned to the working contact.

DFRK Committee Appeals to All Koreans
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea issued an appeal to all the Korean people Friday.

The appeal said that it was fortunate, indeed, that the danger of war in which fire was returned for fire last year was defused temporarily thanks to the DPRK's positive efforts but this danger still persists.

Endless outbursts inciting confrontation with the other side are heard from the south and ceaseless north-targeted saber-rattling is going on there, the appeal noted, and continued:
Dialogue and negotiations are the only way for averting a war, defusing confrontation and improving the inter-Korean relations.

What is essential in the inter-Korean dialogue is dialogue between the authorities with real power and responsibility. A lot of important matters related to the vital interests between the north and the south await solutions and most of them should be settled by the authorities.

Environment for dialogue and negotiations has already been created and their doors remain open to them to sit at a negotiating table to have a candid discussion.

There is no reason for the south Korean authorities to refuse to respond to the DPRK's proposal for wide-ranging dialogue.
We appeal to the south Korean authorities to discard useless misgivings and prejudice and honestly come out for all the proposed north-south dialogues without delay and any condition.

We courteously call upon the politicians in the north and the south to actively conduct bilateral and multilateral negotiations to fulfill their mission and duty before the times and the nation.

We propose contact and negotiations between lawmakers of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the National Assembly of south Korea to settle the grave situation prevailing between the north and the south and seek the way for the nation to follow.

The south Korean authorities should not block but actively encourage free visit, contact and cooperation between personages of various circles of the north and the south including politicians, businessmen, religionists and media persons.

All the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should turn out to resolutely frustrate the moves of the warlike forces at home and abroad to ignite a war, a threat to the security and peace of the nation.

The U.S. is chiefly to blame for the present tragedy of the Korean nation.
If the U.S. government truly stands for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, it should not instigate the south Korean authorities to escalate confrontation but refrain from acts of deepening the mistrust between the north and the south and increasing the danger of war on the peninsula.

It is necessary to vehemently repudiate the evermore undisguised military nexus among south Korea, the U.S. and Japan and shatter the moves of the Japanese militarists to stage a comeback to Korea.

We call upon all the countries concerned and the peace-loving people of the world to pay deep attention to the situation on the peninsula and extend unreserved support to the joint statement of the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK and the positive measures taken to put it into practice.

Joint New Year Editorial
Bring about a Decisive Turn in the Improvement of the People's Standard of Living and the Building of a Great, Prosperous and Powerful Country by Accelerating the Development of Light Industry Once Again This Year
Today we are greeting the year 2011, a year filled with hope, a year of new prosperity, after glorifying the stirring first decade of the 21st century as a decade full of great victories.

The last was a decade when we invariably defended the ideas and cause of President Kim Il Sung, a decade full of creations and miracles when we built a solid springboard for achieving the status of a great, prosperous and powerful country. In the crucible of the complicated 21st century, our country has always stood in the limelight of the world, at the forefront of anti-imperialist independence.

Our service personnel and people, who have written a heroic epic of victory after victory under the energetic leadership of General Kim Jong Il, are full of ambition for a brighter future and confidence in sure victory.

Last year 2010 was a year of great changes, when miraculous events that provided a picture of a prosperous tomorrow took place one after another.

Our Party's strategy of the building of a great, prosperous and powerful country is the most scientific and realistic. Our onward march of last year for a great upsurge was propelled as General Kim Jong Il had planned and intended, and came to wonderful fruition as he had visualized. Korea does what it is determined to do?this immutable truth was confirmed by the reality.

The promising future and invincibility of our Party and revolution were fully demonstrated through the grand political events of last year noteworthy in the history of our nation.

The Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea that was convened amidst the mounting political enthusiasm of our people and the great interest of the world proved to be a major milestone in the development of our Party eternally into the party of President Kim Il Sung and in the enhancing of its leadership authority to the maximum. That the fundamental guarantee for carrying forward and accomplishing the cause of the Party, the Juche revolutionary cause, was provided is a great glory for our service personnel and people.

The celebrations held on the highest standard and in a characteristic way greeting the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Party vividly demonstrated in front of the eyes of the world the might of the single-minded unity and invincible military strength that reached a new high. Notwithstanding the complicated situation, our public sentiment remained stable on a high level, and the will of the service personnel and people to stoutly follow the long road of revolution under the leadership of the Party grew stronger. There are no party and people in the world as great as ours, which have an ever-victorious history and a highly promising future.

In the crucible of the onward march of last year for a great upsurge, a road was opened definitely for remarkably improving the people's standard of living at an earlier date.

The Party's call for channeling everything into improving the people's standard of living stirred the whole country and brought about thrilling sounds of victory in all the hard-fought projects for a great upsurge. Under the wise leadership of the Party the projects for modernization were promoted dynamically in the industrial sectors related to the people's living, such as light industry, chemical industry and metal industry, opening a bright prospect of mass-producing the Juche-based steel, fibre and fertilizer. Hundreds of major projects including the Taegyedo tideland reclamation and Ryesonggang Youth Power Station No. 2 were brought to completion, and spectacular scenes in the Songun era unfolded in various parts of the country. The establishment of foundations for realizing the ideals of a great, prosperous and powerful country we have so long desired is a precious achievement made in the onward march for a great upsurge.

Last year witnessed the spirit of Songun Korea dashing toward the world.

World-shaking, brilliant achievements were made in such fields of latest science and technology as information and nuclear technologies through the high-pitched drive to push back the frontiers of science and technology. Kim Il Sung University, Hamhung University of Chemical Engineering and other institutions of training talents were refurbished splendidly as required by the era of the knowledge-based economy. The mass-based culture and art were developed onto a new high stage, and works of art and literature with perfect ideological and artistic qualities, like the light comedy "An Echo among the Hills," were produced one after another. These are a source of great pride to our country, a socialist cultural giant. Infinitely bright is the future of our country as all the people are giving free rein to their thoughts and feelings in a bid to make their great Party and Kim Il Sung’s Korea admired by the world.

Last year was a historic year, when the outstanding leadership ability of General Kim Jong Il, who is translating his grand plan for achieving prosperity into reality, was demonstrated on the highest level.

Our drive of last year to build a thriving nation was conducted under extremely tense situation and vicious sanctions of the enemy. Our Party's idea is that of offensive, and its mode of making revolution is also that of offensive. The will of the great General to defend the dignity of the nation to the last in any storm and stress remained steadfast, and his art of leading the whole army and all the people to a dauntless offensive was quite extraordinary and adroit.

Etched in the chronicle of General Kim Jong Il's leadership for a great upsurge in 2010 are on-site guidance trips of forced march beyond human imagination. During the whole year from its outset, he continuously visited the battlefields for a great upsurge across the country, including the construction site of the Huichon Power Station, rousing Party organizations and officials to action and giving fullest play to the mental strength of service personnel and people. Following the great General, who continued his field guidance trips day and night, braving the biting cold and sultry weather, heavy rain and snowstorm, the harmonious whole of service personnel and people rose up, kindling raging flames of great innovations and leap forward. Two rounds of his visit to China in the limelight of the world were historic, in that they put the traditional relations of friendship between Korea and China onto a new stage and created an environment favorable for our revolution.

Our cause of building a great, prosperous and powerful country will make steady progress toward the historic milestone set up by the respected General?this is the conviction our service personnel and people etched in their hearts in the worthwhile struggle of last year. The forthcoming decades of the 21st century will continue to shine as decades of great victories of sophisticated and experienced Kim Jong Il's style of politics.

New Year 2011 is a year of general offensive, when a radical turn should be brought about in the building of a thriving nation by kindling more fiercely the flames of great upsurge in improving the people's standard of living.

General Kim Jong Il said:
"We should bring earlier the bright future of a thriving nation by making continuous innovations and advance, full of confidence in victory."

Our people's struggle to put up the plate of a powerful nation at the gate of the dignified Kim Il Sung's Korea has entered an important phase.

Next year we will be greeting the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung. President Kim Il Sung is the founding-father of socialist Korea and the pioneer of the cause of building a Juche-oriented powerful nation. His lifetime instructions are tantamount to the programmes of the Party that must not be contravened to the slightest degree. We should launch an all-out, vigorous offensive for a breakthrough to realize the wish of the President to build a prosperous country, and thus greet the centenary of his birth as the greatest holiday of Kim Il Sung's nation and a great event of humankind.

Ours are a heroic people who carry out without fail whatever they are determined to do, and an indomitable people who never mark time even for a moment in the struggle to realize their lofty ideals. The world is now witnessing what great miracles are being wrought by our service personnel and people who, full of great ambition, are rushing toward the status of a powerful country, invincible and prospering.

This year's general offensive is a continuation of the grand onward march for improving the people's standard of living, and its new, higher stage.

We have already made a big stride in implementing our Party's ambitious strategy for improving the people's standard of living. We are now faced with the urgent task to consolidate and develop the already achieved successes in order to raise the people's standard of living to the level appropriate to a great, prosperous and powerful country. It is a steadfast stand of our Party that the improvement of the people's standard of living should be regarded as the most important issue, the highest goal of its struggle, and carried through to the end. We should make the whole country reverberate with the echoes of continued innovation and advance, echoes of general offensive, for a bright future, when people will enjoy all kinds of blessings to their hearts' content.

"Bring about a decisive turn in the improvement of the people's standard of living and the building of a great, prosperous and powerful country by accelerating the development of light industry once again this year!"this is the militant slogan we should uphold in speeding up the onward march for a great upsurge in the New Year.

Light industry is the major front in the general offensive of this year.

Now we have built up key industries and a strong force of scientists and technicians that support the revolution in light industry, and we have accumulated valuable experiences of putting light industry on the stage of upturn against all odds. To accelerate the development of light industry is a mature requirement and most pressing task for building the country into an economic giant.

Today the stand on light industry is an important matter directly related with the attitude toward the people and the Party and with the viewpoint of the revolution. We should make sure that this year, a year of light industry, the whole country seethes with efforts to give priority to and concentrate everything on the sector of light industry.

The modern light-industry factories, splendid producers of consumer goods serving as models in the new century, all of which our Party built at great cost, are precious assets for the improvement of the people's standard of living. The sector of light industry should pay first and foremost attention to making the factories and enterprises associated with the Party's warm care keep their production running at a high level. It should focus on the production of primary consumer goods and other necessities widely used in life, and expand and augment the overall production of other consumer goods. Respect for people and patriotism find expression in bringing about a radical improvement in the quality of consumer goods. The sector of light industry should turn out commodities that would be favoured by people, immaculate by any standard and competitive on the world market. It is also necessary to increase the kinds of consumer goods to meet people's diverse demands and tastes.

Continuous efforts should be directed to putting the production of consumer goods on a modern, scientific basis. It is our Party's plan to press ahead with the upgrading of light industry, not partially but in an all-round way, not on an ordinary standard but on a standard of cutting edge, and with a sight set far ahead into the future. The upgrading of light industry should be carried on effectively by employing the finish-one-by-one method. Officials and workers in this sector should steadily improve the level of their technical skills so that they can adeptly operate CNC-based and other modern equipment and meet the scientific and technological requirements in their production and business activities.

Local industry has a considerable share in the country's output of consumer goods. Upholding the torch of a revolution in local industry General Kim Jong Il kindled in Changsong, all the people should launch a campaign to bolster up the local-industry factories across the country. It is important to follow the examples of Hoeryong and Kanggye in developing local industry as suited to one's actual conditions and tapping all the locally available raw and other materials to run local-industry factories at full capacity.

Public and nationwide concern for light industry should be heightened. True to the Party's policy of attaching great importance to light industry, raw and other materials, fuel and funds necessary for this sector should be provided in good time and in sufficient amounts. A great effort should be channelled into putting the production of raw and other materials on a Juche-oriented, domestic basis. The drive for August 3 consumer goods production, which is demonstrating its vitality in making a revolution in light industry, should be more vigorously conducted, and units, as many as possible, should launch a drive to markedly increase the production of daily necessities. A revolution should be brought about in commodity supply and public catering service to make the people-oriented policies of the Party pay off.

The present grand onward march for the improvement of the people's standard of living demands that a full-scale offensive be launched in the overall economic front.

Now our Party expects the officials and working class in the vanguard sectors of the national economy, the sectors of basic industry, to become the starting fire, like the heroic working class of the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, in making the flames of the great upsurge flare up more fiercely in improving the people's standard of living. Achieve the victory of the great upsurge with the faith, mettle and practical abilities of the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex?this is a call of our Party.

Rapid increase in coal production leads to the mass-production of fertilizers, fibres, electricity and steel. The sector of coal-mining industry should concentrate effort on the coal mines with large deposits and favorable mining conditions and develop new coal fields in order to radically increase the output of coal. The whole country should assist the coal-mining sector with a sense of responsibility so as to inspire the coal-miners' morale. The sector of electric-power industry should direct efforts to running the generating facilities at full capacity at all times, and improving and perfecting the system of power transmission and supply. The officials and working class in the sector of metal industry, while consolidating the great victory achieved in perfecting the Juche-based steel-making system, should attain without fail the high target of iron and steel production. Railway transport is the pilot of the national economy. A drive for increased transport should be more vigorously conducted to satisfy the growing, overall demand for transport by the national economy, and the whole country should turn out in upgrading railways radically.

A revolution in light industry is just a revolution in chemical industry. The renovated large-scale chemical-industry bases in the Hamhung, Namhung and Sunchon areas should put their production on a normal track, thus turning out more fibres, plastic goods, various kinds of basic chemical goods, fertilizers and agrochemicals indispensable to improving the people's standard of living.

The agricultural front is the lifeline for solving the problem of people's living. We should take bringing about an innovation in agricultural production as the key to giving full play to the advantages of our style of socialism and opening the gates of a thriving country. The agricultural sector should thoroughly implement the Party's policies of seed revolution, double cropping, revolution in potato farming and soybean farming, and actively introduce advanced farming methods and techniques including organic farming. Competition should be vigorously pressed on to drastically boost unit-area grain yield by learning after the model units that are realizing with credit the Party's far-reaching plan of rural construction. Today, our Party appeals for a revolution in aiding the countryside. Upholding the intention of the Party to solve the food problem without fail, state investment in the agricultural sector should be radically increased. All sectors and all units should give priority to the provision of materials necessary for farming in advance of farming processes.

The Songun era of great upsurge is a thrilling age, when monumental structures for people's happiness are being set up in a way larger than ever before. The construction of the Huichon Power Station, the coal gasification project in Hungnam, the construction of 100, 000 flats in Pyongyang and other major construction projects should be accelerated to the maximum for their completion at the earliest date possible. It is essential to ensure the quality of structure on the highest level cherishing the lofty feeling of patriotism to take responsibility for the safety of the projects and guarantee their absolute quality for all eternity. Production of building materials should be radically boosted, and the work of building modern bases for building-materials production vigorously pushed ahead.

An important way to accelerate the speed of the onward march for a great upsurge in the whole of economic construction is to continue to intensify the drive of breaking through the cutting edge.

It is our Party's idea of breaking through the cutting edge that all sectors should surpass in the shortest time the scientific and technical standards the world has reached and stand in the van of the age of knowledge-based economy, on the basis of experience of having secured supremacy in the CNC technology. It is necessary to actively learn after the Huichon Ryonha General Machine Factory which is rushing forward in the van of the drive to push back the frontiers of science and technology. The intense drive of breaking through the cutting edge should be waged not only in the machine-building industry but in all other industrial sectors and not only in central industry but in local industry. The fields of core, basic technologies and cutting-edge science and technology, including information technology, nano technology and bioengineering, should be developed radically, and science and technology brought close to production. Strong national self-respect that we will beat others in the competition of science and technology and self-confidence that we can crush the enem's blockade of science and technology by dint of the campaign for pushing back the frontiers of science and technology should overflow in our hearts. Scientists and technicians should vigorously wage a campaign of brains, a technological campaign, to produce research findings of great value that are conducive to the revolution in light industry and the development of the national economy, and everyone should take an active part in the mass technical innovation movement.

The principle of self-reliance should be applied thoroughly. Structures built with our own efforts and wisdom are soundly based, highly profitable and surely prospective. We should be persons strong in the spirit of self-reliance, who make a sturdy dash only in reliance on their own strength, like the Taegyedo tideland reclaimers who carried out the instructions of President Kim Il Sung despite the shortage of everything. We should develop and harness underground resources abundant in our country as much as we can to secure raw materials and funds needed for the improvement of the people's standard of living and the building of the country into an economic giant.

Improving the economic management becomes more urgent at the moment, when the national economy is put on the trajectory of revitalization. Enterprise management should be undertaken in a scientific and profitable way and in line with the principles of the socialist economic management of our own style, and a strict discipline observed in planning, finance and labour administration in all the units.

Greater efforts should be made to spruce up the overall looks of the country as appropriate to a thriving nation.

Those who transform their sectors and units in a revolutionary way with a broad and innovative vision of looking out over the world while keeping their feet firmly planted on their own land are the genuine builders of a thriving nation. The sector of education should raise the quality of education and improve the teaching conditions and environment in line with the requirements of the IT era, so as to develop ours into a world-class country of intellectual elite. The sector of literature and the arts should ensure that many excellent works of the times which are clear in the ideological principle and political stand and are down to earth, which can serve as textbooks for socialist education, are produced. The medical workers should add further brilliance to the advantages of the socialist free medical service by rendering sincere devotion to the care for the people's health and developing the medical science. A hot wind of sports should be raised in all parts of the country to make Songun Korea widely known as a football and sports power.

Boundless devotion to the cause of building a great, prosperous and powerful country is displayed in the undertakings to spruce up the country including land development and city management. The landscaping and afforestation should be done on a long-term basis and in a scientific way, and everyone should turn his or her native place and workplace into a socialist fairyland. Nationwide efforts should be channelled into drastically improving the roads. Cities should be designed and built in our own style as suited to the local characteristics and the global trend of development. Pyongyang, the capital of the revolution, should be built into a pollution-free city covered with verdure, into a magnificent world-class city.

A decisive guarantee for this year's successful general onward march is in raising the Party's leadership role in every way.

This year will be the first worthwhile year since the Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The spirit of the conference is a spirit of single-hearted unity to invariably defend the centre of unity and leadership despite the passage of time, an indomitable spirit of forced march to brave a multitude of hardships and build a prosperous and powerful nation and a spirit of continuous revolution to accomplish the revolutionary cause under the leadership of the great Party. At present the building and activities of our Party should be conducted with this spirit as a starting point and be consistent with it.

The Party's leadership system should be established more thoroughly in politics, the military, the economy and all other sectors. The entire Party should be built up into an ideologically pure entity and an organizational whole, which shares life and death with the leader to the last and into the ranks of death-defying vanguards who translate the leader's intention into brilliant reality.

Our Party wants all its organizations to be powerful and lively organizations that lead the onward march for improving the people's standard of living in the van. The habit of the Party organization and the administration carrying out revolutionary tasks as a harmonious whole and the principle of conducting all the economic activities in a way of doing political work should be applied thoroughly to Party work. The Party organizations should fully get acquainted with the public sentiment as required by the revolutionary mass line, intensify the work with people accordingly and deal with problems arising in the people's living in a responsible manner.

It is our Party's way of work to conduct ideological work more vigorously when the tasks to be tackled are huge and the enemy's moves become more vicious. The Party organizations at all levels should undertake education in the Juche idea and Songun idea in a consistent and intensive way to make the ideological position of our style of socialism rock-firm. They should train the Party members and other working people to be stalwart revolutionaries in the Songun era who are possessed of the spirit of defending the leader unto death, the spirit of national self-respect, the spirit of self-reliance and the love of and devotion to the future. They should briskly conduct mass-based cultural and artistic activities that are very appealing and refreshing, and continue to conduct the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement.

We should further strengthen the militant might of the People's Army as we hold fast to our Party's line of the Songun revolution.

At present the Juche-oriented cause of army building is making dynamic progress on a new, high stage.

The People's Army should bring about a fresh radical turn in all military and political work by faithfully supporting the leadership of the great Songun commander Kim Jong Il this year that marks the 20th anniversary of his assumption of the KPA supreme commandership and the 15th anniversary of the launch of the movement of winning the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment.

The People's Army should firmly carry forward the precious tradition of absolutely trusting and following the Party and the leader and defending them unto death under the slogan "Let us defend with our very lives the Party Central Committee headed by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il!" We should establish more soundly the monolithic command system of the Supreme Commander in the whole army, and deepen the Party's political work incessantly to defend and add brilliance forever to its revolutionary character as the army of the leader and the Party.

Today's training is a forge that produces tomorrow's war hero. The entire army should conduct intense combat training in an atmosphere of actual battle as required by the tense situation so as to reliably prepare all the officers and men to be all-round officers and a-match-for-a-hundred combatants who support our Party's will of Songun by force of arms.

It is necessary to improve the command and management of units by giving priority to the strengthening of company and amply demonstrate the militant spirit and looks of the revolutionary elite army by enforcing strict military discipline. The entire army should achieve unity between officers and men and combination of military work with political work more thoroughly under the slogan that calls on it to become one comrade, and always take the lead in strengthening unity between army and people in every way. The People's Army should remain highly alert with the Juche-oriented view of war and the fighting spirit with which to annihilate the enemy.

The spirit of the People's Army resemblant to its great Supreme Commander is the Paektu spirit of offensive, and the mode of its counteraction of justice is the prompt, merciless and annihilatory action. It will not in the least pardon those who impair our absolute dignity and socialist system even a bit and violate our airspace, territory and waters even an inch, but discharge at any cost the historic mission it has assumed on behalf of the country and the nation with matchless arms. When the People's Army rushes forward holding banner as befits the main force of the revolution, the whole of society will be vibrant with life and seethe with the spirit of great upsurge. It should build monumental structures of lasting value and be a model that leads civilians with the revolutionary soldier spirit, soldier temperament and soldier culture in the major theatres of the campaign to build a great, prosperous and powerful country.

The defence industry is a source of the mightiness of Songun Korea and a reliable guarantee for the improvement of the people's standard of living. The sector of defence industry should continue to admirably perform its mission as a pacemaker in the campaign to break through the cutting edge and a locomotive that leads the overall economy.

It is necessary to radically improve the style and way of work in line with the requirements of the new era of the Songun revolution.

"Fight and create as befit the descendants of President Kim Il Sung!"--this is our motto. We should work optimistically with lofty aims, high ideals and great courage as our President did. We should add lustre to each moment of the age of great upsurge with the indomitable disposition to perform without fail even what others say is impossible, the daring spirit of creating world-shaking things and the revolutionary way of work of doing everything perfectly so that it can bring benefits even to the coming generations.

Success in the grand onward march for improving the people's standard of living depends on officials, the leading personnel. They should not merely support Party policies but be doers who translate them into reality and fighters who carry out the tasks assigned by the Party most excellently, most sincerely, most faithfully and most perfectly and at the risk of their lives. Like the officials of the March 5 Youth Mine, they should set ambitious, long-term goals and plan every type of work methodologically so as to revolutionize the administration of their respective units. Everyone should realize his or her beautiful ideals to the last with boundless attachment to his or her province, county, village and workplace.

The robust contingent of young people is the main force for national defence and socialist construction. Young people should display mass heroism to the full in every theatre of the campaign for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation, flying high the flag of Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League. Young people in the Songun era should burn their hearts with the great ambition and passion to shoulder the heavy burden of the motherland and seize supremacy in the cutting-edge technologies.

The working people's organizations should concentrate their efforts on ideological education for enlisting the mental strength of their members, and intensify a variety of mass movements including socialist emulation and shock-brigade movement.

Last year our nation's movement for the country's reunification made dynamic progress even in the face of the vicious challenges of the separatist forces inside and outside.

The 10th anniversary of the June 15 Joint Declaration and the 30th anniversary of the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo were marked significantly in the north, south and abroad, powerfully demonstrating the ardent desire of the nation for reunification. The more time passes by and the more ordeals and hardships crop up, the stronger the fellow countrymen's will to reunify their country independently is growing.

Last year the south Korean conservative authorities revealed their true colours as the minion of war and anti-reunification, confrontation maniac. In collaboration with the outside forces they incessantly hatched anti-DPRK plots and perpetrated north-targeted war moves, scuttling the inter-Korean dialogues and national reconciliation. Their reckless and wild behavior stirred up surging indignation of the whole nation. It is entirely thanks to our Songun politics of love of the country and the nation and our persevering efforts that war was deterred in the Korean peninsula and a series of humanitarian activities were conducted between north and south even under the touch-and-go situation.

The new decade of the 21st century is the years of hope, years of reunification and prosperity, when the tragedy of national division must be brought to an end.

Today there is no more vital task than national reunification for the Korean people. The stand of attaching importance to the nation, the stand toward independent reunification, is the touchstone by which to distinguish patriotism from treachery.

This year we should launch a more determined campaign to improve inter-Korean relations and reunify the country under the slogan, "Let all Koreans in the north, south and abroad join efforts and bring a new phase of independent reunification!"

Confrontation between north and south should be defused as early as possible.

The south Korean authorities should scrap the anti-reunification policy of confrontation with the fellow countrymen, which is subjected to unanimous denunciation and rejection at home and abroad, and take the road of respecting and implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration. They should immediately discontinue the anti-DPRK smear campaign and the crackdown on the patriotic forces aspiring after reunification, which are hindering national reconciliation and unity and which run counter to reunification.

The danger of war should be removed and peace safeguarded in the Korean peninsula.

If a war breaks out on this land, it will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust. The entire nation should rise up as one in the sacred, just and patriotic struggle against war and for defending peace in the Korean peninsula. It is imperative to check the north-targeted war exercises and arms buildup of the bellicose forces at home and abroad that seriously threaten national security and peace. Collaboration with outside forces leads to war and national ruin. The entire nation should never tolerate the criminal moves of pro-US war hawks who stake their fate on foreign forces and drive the situation to the brink of war in collusion with them.

Dialogue and cooperation should be promoted proactively.

Active efforts should be made to create an atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation between north and south by placing the common interests of the nation above anything else. Free travel of and exchanges between people from all walks of life should be ensured and cooperation projects encouraged, to contribute to improving inter-Korean relations and to achieving reunification.

The North-South Joint Declaration is a banner of independent reunification which all the fellow countrymen should invariably hold high and a milestone of national prosperity. A rosy future will be in store for our nation when all its members in the north, south and abroad hold fast to the declaration and the ideal of By Our Nation Itself, its basic spirit, as the lifeline of the national reunification movement, and thoroughly implement it.

The developments last year witnessed in the international arena show that the imperialist high-handedness and arbitrariness cannot make sense any longer and nothing can check the current of the times moving along the road of independence. The DPRK is consistent in its stand and will to achieve peace in Northeast Asia and denuclearization of the whole of the Korean peninsula. We will, in the future, too, strive to develop relations of friendship and cooperation with countries that are friendly towards us and achieve global independence under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship.

The cause of our Party that has followed the victorious road generation after generation and century after century is now registering one victory after another with greater vigor and vitality. To review the one-hundred-year history of Kim Il Sung's Korea, there has been no era like today when our nation's dignity is exalted so highly and confidence in the future is so absolute in the hearts of our people.

The gates of final victory are in sight. Our Party's militant appeal for putting spurs after spurs to the general onward march of the revolution is a banner of great innovation to rise up to the world by jumping at one go over the stages which have been followed by others, a banner of patriotic loyalty to realize without fail in our generation President Kim Il Sung's desire for building a thriving nation. We will staunchly advance till the day of final victory by uninterruptedly setting spurs to Chollima in the Songun era for a leap forward and general offensive.

Let us all bring about a decisive turn in the building of a great, prosperous and powerful country in high spirits, firmly rallied around the Party Central Committee headed by General Kim Jong Il.

KCNA Warns against US-S. Korean Puppet Group's Rash Acts
Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency is authorized to release Sunday the following report:

The south Korean puppet group, far from drawing a lesson from the deserved punishment it faced for its reckless firing of shells into the territorial waters of the DPRK side around Yonphyong Island, is getting more frantic in military provocations and war moves under this pretext.

The puppet group staged the largest-ever madcap combined exercises together with the U.S. in waters of the West Sea of Korea with its nuclear carrier flotilla involved right after the shelling incident on Yonphyong Island. It plans to stage large-scale combined naval maneuvers with huge armed forces of the U.S. Seventh Fleet including its nuclear submarines involved in the near future.

It noisily announced that firing exercises would be staged at 29 places in the East, West and South seas of south Korea simultaneously from Monday.

Taechong Island, one of the five islands in the West Sea very close to the territory of the DPRK, is included in them.

The puppet forces are loudly advertising that they would fire shells into the territorial waters of the DPRK side from Yonphyong Island, i.e. in the same direction they did when committing the recent provocation. This indicates how frantic they have become in their provocative acts.

They are getting very busy massively introducing latest weapons including MLRS and missiles into Yonphyong Island to reinforce the fire power and installations and stage a take-shelter drill.

The puppet military war-like forces were reported to have already worked out the so-called "retaliatory plan" which calls for sparking off an armed clash after getting on the nerves of the DPRK militarily and taking a large-scale counter-action under this pretext and designated Yonphyong Island as an ignition point to put it into practice.

This indicates that the Lee Myung Bak group is set to orchestrate the second Yonphyong Island incident at any cost and ignite a war come what may under this pretext.

The puppet group is so hell-bent on the moves to escalate the confrontation and start a war that it is recklessly behaving, bereft of reason.

The war-like forces including the new puppet defence minister vociferated about the "principal enemy" and the like while daring take issue with even the leadership of the DPRK. They blustered that they would make a "precision strike" at artillery positions of the DPRK and "reduce them to ashes" by modifying the "rules for battles" and setting in motion all the war means including aircraft. They went the lengths of letting loose outbursts that they would use the defence positions on the five islands in the West Sea as springboards for attack from which to strike the strategic targets deep inside the territory of the DPRK including Pyongyang.

The frantic provocations on the part of the puppet group are rapidly driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an uncontrollable extreme phase.

No one can predict to what extent the situation will deteriorate in the future.

The DPRK is now maintaining a maximum self-possession and self-control.
If an all-out war breaks out between the north and the south, it will seriously affect peace and security not only on the Korean Peninsula but in the rest of the region.

Public opinion at home and abroad and the parties concerned are called upon to pay a serious attention to the daily worsening situation on the peninsula and properly understand who is a provocateur and who is a defender of justice.

The U.S. and the puppet group would be well advised to stop acting rashly, pondering over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their reckless military provocation.

KPA Supreme Command Issues Communique
Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army Tuesday released the following communique:

The south Korean puppet group perpetrated such reckless military provocation as firing dozens of shells inside the territorial waters of the DPRK side around Yonphyong Islet in the West Sea of Korea from 13:00 on Nov. 23 despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK while staging the war maneuvers for a war of aggression on it codenamed Hoguk, escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula.

The above-said military provocation is part of its sinister attempt to defend the brigandish "northern limit line," while frequently infiltrating its naval warships into the territorial waters of the DPRK side under the pretext of "intercepting fishing boats."

The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK standing guard over the inviolable territorial waters of the country took such decisive military step as reacting to the military provocation of the puppet group with a prompt powerful physical strike.

It is a traditional mode of counter-action of the army of the DPRK to counter the firing of the provocateurs with merciless strikes.

Should the south Korean puppet group dare intrude into the territorial waters of the DPRK even 0.001 mm, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will unhesitatingly continue taking merciless military counter-actions against it.

It should bear in mind the solemn warning of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK that they do not make an empty talk.
There is in the West Sea of Korea only the maritime military demarcation line set by the DPRK.

Blood-sealed DPRK-China Friendship Will Be Evergreen
Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- Leading newspapers Monday editorially observe the diamond jubilee of the entry of the Chinese People's Volunteers into the Korean front. They say that the CPV's entry into the Korean front is a striking demonstration of the friendship and unity and solidarity between the Korean and Chinese peoples sealed in blood, a living example of the friendly relations among countries.

Rodong Sinmun notes that the CPV's entry into the Korean front is brilliantly recorded in the history of anti-imperialist revolutionary struggle common to the two countries' peoples and the annals of the DPRK-Chine friendship.

It goes on: The CPV's entry was not only precious assistance, political and military, to the Korean people in their struggle against the common enemy but a manifestation of noble internationalist spirit.

The heroic war of resistance of the CPV made a great contribution to the victory in the Korean people's great Fatherland Liberation War.

The entry recorded in the history made a big contribution to defending the revolutionary people's cause of independence against imperialism, the cause of socialism, protecting the peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, consolidating the blood ties of the Korean and Chinese peoples and strengthening the unity and solidarity among the world progressive forces.

The militant friendship and noble spirit of cooperation displayed by the CPV fighters during the war serve as motive power putting spurs to boosting the friendship between the DPRK and China. The Korean people will always remember the precious feats and beautiful deeds of the CPV fighters.

It is entirely in line with the desire and interests of the two peoples and beneficial for ensuring peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world to boost the traditional DPRK-China friendship.

Unshakable are the stand and will of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people to steadily boost this friendship. The WPK and the Korean people will make positive efforts to dynamically develop the friendship in depth in the future, too.

Minju Joson says that the DPRK-China friendship will as ever grow stronger thanks to the concerted efforts of the two peoples and it will always remain shining along with the history of the DPRK-China friendship.

Conference of WPK to Be Held Sep. 28
Pyongyang, September 21 (KCNA) -- The Preparatory Committee for the Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea made public as follows as regards the party conference:

The meetings of delegates of the party committees of the Korean People's Army and provincial (political bureau), city (district) and county party committees took place to elect delegates to the conference of the WPK against the background of a high-pitched drive for effecting a new great revolutionary surge now under way on all fronts for building a thriving nation with the historic conference of the WPK and its 65th birthday approaching.

The meetings of delegates of the party committees of the KPA and provincial (political bureau) party committees elected General Secretary Kim Jong Il as delegate to the conference of the WPK representing the unanimous will of all the members of the party, servicepersons of the KPA and people.

The meetings elected working people and officials who have displayed patriotic devotion at the work sites for effecting a fresh revolutionary surge, remaining intensely loyal to the party and revolution as delegates to the conference.

The meetings once again powerfully demonstrated the might of our revolutionary ranks in which all the servicepersons and people are single-mindedly united around the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il.

The conference of the WPK for electing its supreme leadership body will take place in Pyongyang on Sept. 28.

DPRK Contributes to Development of NAM
Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Since the Democratic People's Republic of Korea joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on August 25, Juche 64 (1975), its government has played an active role to develop the anti-imperialist revolutionary movement aspiring after independence.

The birth of the NAM marked a crucial occasion in strengthening the revolutionary forces of the world. With it playing an important part in the international arena, the imperialists have found obstacles in having their own way.

Upset by the NAM becoming a powerful force advancing the history of humankind along the road of independence, the imperialists have pursued "globalization", trying to sow discord among its members and press them to accept Western-style democracy, multi-party system and polycentrism.

President Kim Il Sung, with a deep understanding of the situation, published such famous works as "The Non-Aligned Movement Is A Mighty Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forces of Our Times" and "For the Development of the Non-Aligned Movement" to clarify the principles and tasks for promoting the unity of the NAM and invigorating the effort for global independence.

The DPRK government, on the instructions of the President, strived hard to frustrate the imperialists' moves for alienation and maintain the unity of the NAM in the international arena, including its summits and conferences of foreign ministers.

The DPRK, in line with the ideas of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and under his leadership, is still making a great contribution to preventing the split-up of the movement and advancing it in accordance with its noble mission and goal.

KCNA Commentary Rebukes Asahi Shimbun's Anti-DPRK Diatribe
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Recently the Japanese Asahi Shimbun carried serial articles on the false "story about the DPRK's collapse", letting loose a string of unspeakable invectives slandering the DPRK which is giving spurs to building a thriving nation.

This is an unpardonable action committed by those, displeased with the achievements made by the DPRK in building a thriving nation, to tarnish the image of the DPRK, and a reckless action perpetrated by the paid trumpeter, the reactionary reptile paper dancing to the tune of the U.S.

The vicious anti-DPRK false propaganda kicked off by Japanese media which had already been reduced to political plot-breeding organs was a provocation perpetrated in pursuance of the Japanese reactionaries' hostile policy towards the DPRK.

Asahi Shimbun, acting a political maid and paid trumpeter, has taken an active part in the malignant smear campaign against the DPRK while joining hands with anti-DPRK groups. This is as foolish an act as digging its own grave, oblivious of the original mission of media, as it styled itself a champion of justice and truth in the past.

The recent provocative editorial program of the paper offers an undeniable proof that it has been reduced to a reptile paper little different from Sankei Shimbun, an ultra right-wing paper.

It is none other than Asahi Shimbun that has become desperate in spearheading the campaign to execute the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and the anti-DPRK campaign launched by the Japanese authorities pursuant to its policy.

In recent years this paper has interfered in the DPRK-related issues on the international arena with unusual zeal and has kept itself busy misleading the international public opinion over the DPRK even begging help from riffs-raffs.

Those who contributed dirty articles to the paper were ultra right conservatives of the U.S. and Japan who are steeped in anti-DPRK sentiment to the marrow of their bones without exception and, it is, therefore, quite natural that only anti-DPRK vituperation can be heard from them. What matters here is why this paper has become so desperate in the anti-DPRK campaign.

It is prompted by its calculation that it can please its U.S. master and right-wing forces in Japan by hurting the prestige and dignity of the DPRK and fanning up bitterness towards the DPRK in the Japanese society.
In a word, Asahi Shimbun could not conceal its true colors as a dirty reptile paper which was bribed for conducting propaganda against the DPRK.

But the Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK propaganda will get them nowhere.
No one in the world will lend an ear to their anti-DPRK rhetoric and the drive of the people of the DPRK to build a thriving nation is an epoch-making cause which no one can block.

Tricksters of Asahi Shimbun should not misjudge the trend of the times and they will have to pay dearly for their politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK.

Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Totally Refutes G-8 Declaration
Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA Tuesday as regards the G-8 summit declaration criticizing the DPRK over the "Cheonan" case:

We vehemently and totally refute the declaration adopted at the G-8 summit held in Canada on June 25 and 26 in which its participants pulled up the DPRK, though indirectly, referring to south Korea's "results of investigation" into the "Cheonan" case.

The "results of investigation" are arousing ever-more hot arguments not only in the international community but inside south Korea.
They are beset with so many doubts and contradictions that a committee was set up in the "National Assembly" of south Korea to investigate the case but it has not yet concluded its work.

Moreover, the south Korean side persistently turns its face away from the invariable demand for receiving the inspection group of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

Heads of state of G-8, however, hastily handled the case in a deliberate manner only to prove that they sought a sinister political purpose.
G-8 gave its way to G-20 and is heading for a cemetery of history as it has been reduced to an evil group blindly conniving at and defending its allies, far from taking principle and truth as a standard.

NDC Spokesman Slams Reference of "Cheonan" Case to UN
Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the National Defence Commission of the DPRK had already officially clarified the principled stand of the army and people of the DPRK on the sinking case of the south Korean puppet navy's warship in waters of the West Sea of Korea.

He also dismissed the assertion of the south Korean group of traitors that the ship was sunk by a torpedo attack of the DPRK and the "results of investigation" faked up to support it as a sheer anti-DPRK "conspiratorial farce" and a "charade".

The political, social, academic and press circles of south Korea, favoring the principled stand of the DPRK, are growing increasingly suspicious about the "results of investigation" announced by the "joint investigation team" in which it claimed it was done on an objective and scientific basis.

There is even strong opinion that the ship was sunk by the U.S.
Not only China closely following the situation around it but also Russia which dispatched an investigation group to the spot of south Korea assert that it is difficult to find out any evidence proving that the ship was sunk by a torpedo of the DPRK.

The group of traitors, however, went the lengths of bringing the investigation results to the UN, the far-fetched assertion that the ship sinking was linked with the DPRK.

The spokesman gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Friday in this regard:

The development proves that the group of traitors has finally gone into action against the DPRK at the instigation of its master, defying our warnings.

Accordingly, the army and people of the DPRK will take merciless counter-actions as it had already clarified internally and externally because the group dared opt for infringing upon the dignity and security of the army and people of the DPRK and its supreme interests.

The army of the DPRK is a powerful revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu which does not make any empty talk.
Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we will closely watch once again how the UNSC whose basic mission is to ensure global peace and security will react to the "conspiratorial farce" and "charade" orchestrated by the group of traitors.

People still remember that the UN, yielding to the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices, recognized the "existence of weapons of mass destruction", a fiction, and okayed its gangster-like armed invasion of Iraq.

The UN should no longer allow itself to be reduced to a platform for tolerating such unjust anti-DPRK "conspiratorial farce" and "charade".

There is no reason whatsoever for the group of traitors to refuse to receive the inspection group of the NDC if the results of the investigation into the case are objective and scientific enough to be referred to the UN forum.

The DPRK remains unchanged in its strong demand that the group of traitors receive its inspection group without delay and produce evidence without a shred of doubt in its eyes.

The group of traitors will never be able to escape a miserable end mired in the pitfall of "conspiratorial farce" and "charade" orchestrated by itself.

CPRK Accuses S.Korea of Linking Ship Sinking with North
Pyongyang, May 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued a statement on Friday assailing the south Korean puppet forces for releasing extremely provocative "results of the investigation" into the sinking of a warship of the south Korean puppet navy in a bid to hurl mud at the north.

The statement noted that the publication of the above-said "results of the investigation" is another extremely ridiculous charade staged by the puppet group in a bid to hurt the dignity of the DPRK, steadily tighten the "sanctions" against it, harm and suffocate it in conspiracy with its U.S. and Japanese masters, much upset by the might of the Republic advancing by leaps and bounds toward a thriving nation.

The Lee Myung Bak group, while working with bloodshot eyes to escalate confrontation with fellow countrymen, drew the conclusion from the day the case occurred that the warship was "sunken by the north" and has since conducted intensive investigation on its basis to hatch a plot, the statement said, and went on:

In the course of nearly two month-long investigation the puppet group fabricated what it called "circumstantial evidence" with conjecture, supposition and random guess. It just produced fragments and pieces of aluminum whose origin remains unknown as "evidence," becoming the target of derision.

Greatly irony is that it deliberately linked the case with the north, talking about the results of the analysis of composition of the unidentified "evidence" without any marking and its size and type.
This is nothing but a shameful deed of those keen on escalating the confrontation with the north.

The Lee group's assertion that the above-said case is linked with the north is the last-ditch effort of those who face destruction as it is a premeditated and deliberate plot to tide over a serious crisis created due to the total failure of its domestic and foreign policies and smoothly stage the "elections to the local self-governing bodies" in a bid to maintain the fascist rule and bring the inter-Korean relations to a collapse.

The puppet forces are now kicking up such fuss as creating atmosphere reminiscent of a wartime situation in south Korea, blustering they would not "rule out a war" and crying out for "counter-measures", urgently evacuating the personnel, equipment and materials of the south side from the areas of the north side and issuing top secret order for taking steps for personal safety and making preparations for withdrawal.

This racket reminding one of an eve of a war goes to prove that the group's recent publication of the "results of investigation" was not a mere clarification of the sinking of the warship but a carefully calculated provocation to seek a pretext for igniting a war of aggression against the north together with outside forces.

The puppet group has created such grave situation on the Korean Peninsula that a war may break out right now.

Pursuant to the statement issued by a spokesman for the National Defence Commission, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea solemnly declares as follows, speaking for the DPRK government authorities:

Firstly, from now on the DPRK will regard the present situation as the phase of a war and decisively handle all matters arising in the inter-Korean relations to cope with it.

Secondly, in case the puppet group opts for "counter-action" and "retaliation" under the pretext of the sinking of the warship, the DPRK will strongly react to them with such merciless punishment as the total freeze of the inter-Korean relations, the complete abrogation of the north-south agreement on non-aggression and a total halt to the inter-Korean cooperation undertakings.

The DPRK will never pardon anyone hurting its supreme dignity and doing harm to it, warned the statement.

CPRK Bring Charge against S. Korean Group
Pyongyang, May 19 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea released an indictment Wednesday blasting the south Korean puppet conservative group for its criminal act of having bedeviled the north-south relations since the emergence of its conservative regime in south Korea.

Branding the south Korean puppet conservative group as one of most wicked traitors who bedeviled the north-south relations to serve outsiders, a gang of vicious anti-reunification elements who dampened the nation's desire for reunification, a diehard traitorous clique who scuttled the inter-Korean cooperation and dangerous warmongers keen to bring nuclear war disasters to the Koreans, the indictment cites facts to prove its crimes.

No sooner had the conservative group taken office than declared the "theory of prioritizing south Korea-U.S. relations" as a top priority task and the general strategy of its domestic and foreign policies, thus making the inter-Korean relations totally dependent on the south Korea-U.S. relations, the indictment notes, and goes on:

In over two years of his office the puppet traitor visited his American master, doing only things harmful to the inter-Korean relations.

The puppet group malignantly defiled and played down the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, pushing the inter-Korean cooperation to a collapse in the end.

The smear campaign launched by the puppet group against the DPRK in the wake of the sinking of its warship reached the height of its confrontation and war moves.

When the above-said accident occurred, the group regarded it as a golden opportunity for pushing the north-south relations to a catastrophe. Making the fiction that the accident "was caused by the north" a fait accompli from its beginning, the group cried out for "countermeasure" and "retaliation". It even went the lengths of talking about not ruling out a war.

The puppet group is seriously mistaken if it thinks it can weather crisis and prove successful in the upcoming "elections to local self-governing bodies" by misleading the public opinion through such trite campaign as straining the situation and bedeviling the inter-Korean relations.

The DPRK sets store by the north-south relations but will never tolerate the puppet group's confrontation and war moves. Should the group of traitors ignite a war together with the U.S. at any cost, the DPRK will mete out merciless and resolute punishment to the warmongers, warns the indictment.

KCNA Blasts Japan's Ambition for Territorial Expansion
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- It was reported that Tok Islets would be marked as part of Japan's territory in textbooks of all social subjects to be used at elementary schools of Japan from 2011.

According to the information officially announced recently by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan about the textbooks that reportedly passed through the "committee for examining the results of textbook screening," Tok Islets are formally marked as part of "Japan's territory" in textbooks of five subjects for elementary schoolers and maps have the islets marked inside the boundary of Japan's territorial waters.

This indicates the next phase of realizing the Japanese reactionaries' militarist ambition as it is part of their militarist moves being stepped up according to their state strategy for stoking the idea of overseas aggression generation after generation.
The education of the younger generation guarantees the future of a country and the policy of its ruling authorities at a corresponding time is reflected in the contents of the education.

It is Japan's important policy goal to infuse the militarist idea of overseas aggression into the rising generation and hurl it into a war of overseas aggression.
It is precisely for this reason that Japan worked out contents of education and policy in such a way as to extol the "advantages" of the Yamato nation and eulogize a war and depicted the invasion of Asia by the Imperial Japanese Army as a "just liberation war".

In new guidelines on teaching for elementary and middle schoolers Japan officially announced that it would designate Tok Islets as part of the territory of Japan.

It also mulls re-designating Tok Islets as part of the territory of Japan in textbooks of all social subjects in the wake of doing so in textbooks of three subjects already in use at elementary schools. This has brought into bolder relief the attempt of Japan to orientate the overall education of the rising generation to instilling the idea of reinvasion into it.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is playing the role of a shock brigade in instilling the idea of grabbing other's territories into the younger generation.

The ministry has openly asserted from long ago that the part dealing with Tok Islets should be rewritten in all new textbooks to be published according to the so-called "screening principle" which calls for bringing home to youngsters the fact that Tok Islets are part of territory of Japan.

It defined it as a duty of middle schools to teach the students that Tok Islets are part of an inviolable territory of Japan and underscored the "need to deepen the students' understanding of the territory of Japan."

Not a few successive authorities of the ministry asserted that "all Japanese students should be taught Tok Islets are part of Japan's territory," "there are too many self-tormenting textbooks in Japan" and "it is very good that such expressions as comfort women for the army and forcible drafting dwindled in the textbooks". The present minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, too, did not bother to say that Tok Islets are "part of the inviolable territory of Japan".

It is the true aim sought by the Japanese reactionaries to systematically implant the ambition for territorial expansion into the rising generation, let it nurture revanchism with a militarist view on history and thus play a leading role in launching reinvasion of Asia.

It is tragedy that Japan is oblivious of the lesson taught by its past defeat.
Militarism will invite nothing but destruction.

US-S. Korea Accountable for Derailing Process for Denuclearization
Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The reckless moves of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities to ignite a nuclear war have again torpedoed the process for peace and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The Korean Central News Agency released a memorandum on Tuesday denouncing the U.S. for posing a threat of a nuclear war to the DPRK and pursuing a hostile policy toward it and the south Korean authorities for following a reckless policy, pursuant to it.

The memorandum says:

Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises being staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces mean a total denial of the process for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as they are a test nuclear war of aggression against the DPRK aimed at posing the biggest nuclear threat to it.

The U.S. and the south Korean authorities assert that the exercises do not pose any problem as they are "annual ones" and "defensive ones" being not of offensive nature. This is as ridiculous as claiming that even robbery becomes just if it is committed every year.

This saber-rattling is the latest version of Team Spirit recorded in history as a test nuclear war for provoking the second Korean war.
With nothing can the warmongers deny the aggressive nature of the above-said war maneuvers as a test nuclear war aimed at preempting a strike at the DPRK.

It is quite illogical for the DPRK to sit at the negotiating table with hostile forces to discuss the issue of dismantling the self-defensive nuclear deterrent as they are brandishing a nuclear sword to mount a surprise attack on it, while paying lip-service to dialogue.

The test nuclear war for posing a serious nuclear threat to the DPRK is an extension of the U.S. invariable policy to stifle the DPRK.

Looking back on history, the U.S. has only pursued a policy to bring down the system in the DPRK, not seeking any solution to the issue based on the respect for sovereignty, as far as its relations with the DPRK are concerned.

The U.S. foolish policy to put into practice the policy to stifle the DPRK behind the scene of denuclearization got more undisguised during the Bush administration.

The U.S. whipped up an atmosphere of international sanctions while describing the launch of Kwangmyongsong-2 as a missile launch. This convinced the DPRK that the present administration does not want to see things going well in the DPRK and it is little different from the preceding administration in pursuing the hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The U.S. maximized the nuclear threat to the DPRK by kicking off such test nuclear war as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises and is going in the direction of tightening the economic sanctions against the latter, taking issue with the activities of the Korea Taepung International Investment Group and the State Development Bank.

The process for denuclearization cannot make any progress unless the U.S. gives up its sinister intention to bring down the system in the DPRK and stifle its cause, wasting time behind the curtain of denuclearization.

The process for denuclearizing the peninsula has been put at a stalemate entirely because of reckless sycophancy of the south Korean authorities toward the U.S. and their moves to escalate the confrontation of systems as they have created confusion and hurdles in the way of solving the nuclear issue, asserting that "the north should dismantle its nukes first" as a servant executing the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Even after the DPRK took a series of positive and bold measures to improve the inter-Korean relations recently, the puppet authorities put the above-said assertion as a precondition for warming the inter-Korean relations, scuttling the efforts to settle the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and escalating the confrontation between the north and the south.

The group of traitors declared "liberal democracy" as "a principle and orientation for unification" right after their seizure of power. They are cooperating with the U.S. in the efforts to realize their scenario to bring down the system in the DPRK and achieve "unification of systems," while asserting that the north should dismantle its nukes first, pursuant to that "principle."

The inter-Korean relations can never improve and there can be no environment for solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula as long as the south Korean authorities go mad with standing in the way of the process for denuclearization and kicking up a treacherous nuclear war racket, blinded with the wild ambition to achieve "unification of systems," a sheer delusion.

No settlement of the issue on the peninsula can be expected unless the most fundamental issue, ie a war or peace, is solved.
The U.S. should take substantial steps to put an end to the state of war, hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S., a military and political root cause of the nuclear issue and the nuclear threat, and build confidence between them.

Joint Presidium of Pomminryon Meet
Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- The 11th meeting of the Joint Presidium of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) was held in the north and the south and abroad on Feb. 28 by way of exchanging facsimile messages.

The meeting reviewed the activities for the reunification movement conducted by Pomminryon last year and discussed the tasks and ways for struggle this year.

A report was made at the meeting.
It highlighted the devoted struggle waged by Pomminryon under the banner of "By our nation itself" to foil the moves of the separatists at home and abroad and advance the era of reunification opened in the course of adoption and implementation of the historic June 15 joint declaration.

It referred to the tasks to be fulfilled by Pomminryon to hold high the slogan "Let the entire nation unite under the banner of north-south joint declarations and achieve national reunification at the earliest date!" this year and ways to do so. It went on:
We should, first of all, hold higher the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and make positive efforts to open the way for improving the inter-Korean relations.

Whoever loves the country and is willing to come out to the struggle for the reunification movement being concerned about the future of the nation should advance hand in hand along the path for national reunification irrespective of partisanship, affiliation and past doings.

We should make positive efforts to get the "National Security Law" abolished, ensure the free discussion and activities for reunification, realize the legalization of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon and reenergize contacts and visits between the north and the south.

It is necessary to frustrate the moves of the separatists for confrontation with fellow countrymen, oppose the U.S. aggression, intervention and high-handedness and firmly defend the independent dignity of the nation and the security of fellow countrymen under the uplifted banner for independent reunification and the flag for peace against war.

All political parties, organizations and figures in the north and the south and abroad should get together to significantly mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the historic June 15 north-south joint declaration and thus demonstrate the firm will of all fellow countrymen to open a new chapter for the independent reunification, peace and prosperity under the banner of the joint declaration.

The report called upon all the people to dynamically struggle to brilliantly adorn 2010 as a year for bringing about a new phase for the independent reunification under the banner of the said declarations.
A resolution was adopted at the meeting.

North Committee for Implementing June 15 Declaration Meets
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- A general meeting of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration was held here on Tuesday.

Present there were Honorary Co-Chairpersons of the committee Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice-Premier Ro Tu Chol, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the C.C., the Korean Social Democratic Party, and Ryu Mi Yong, chairwoman of the C.C., the Chondoist Chongu Party, and An Kyong Ho, chairman of the committee, vice-chairpersons of the committee and its members, members of its various sub-committees and officials concerned.

The meeting discussed its agenda item "On the tasks for bringing about a new phase of independent reunification this year, the 10th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration."

An Kyong Ho delivered a report at the meeting to be followed by speeches.
The reporter said that all the Koreans boundlessly revere and follow General Secretary Kim Jong Il and dynamically advance towards the morrow of a reunified nation full of conviction and optimism.

He called on all the Koreans to conduct nationwide struggle to open a new phase of independent reunification this year, holding aloft the slogan "Let the entire nation unite under the banner of north-south joint declarations and achieve national reunification at the earliest date!"

An appeal to all the Koreans was adopted at the meeting.

The appeal pointed out that the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration are programmes for reunification common to the Korean nation and the most ennobling banner of patriotism.

The road of "By our nation itself," the path of national independence, is the only genuine way all the fellow countrymen have followed and will do so in the future, too, the appeal noted, calling on all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to remain true to the idea of independence, the idea of "By our nation itself", decisively reject the south Korean authorities' sycophantic and treacherous theory of giving priority to foreign forces and firmly protect the dignity and interests of the nation.

It underscored the need for the people from all walks of life to join hands, irrespective of ideology, political view and religious belief, work hard to achieve national reconciliation and foil the obstructive moves of the anti-reunification forces and positively reenergize visits and contacts between people of various strata in the north and the south and their multi-faceted cooperation.

We have the pleasure to courteously propose holding grand events common to the nation to be participated in by all political parties and organizations and personages of various strata in the north and the south and abroad desirous of national unity and reunification on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the historic June 15 joint declaration, the appeal stressed.

New Year Juche 99 (2010) to Be Year of Great Changes
Pyongyang, January 4 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which sent off a year when the people's ideals had been realized, is entering the new year Juche 99 (2010).

The Korean army and people are now determined to surely open the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful nation in 2012 that marks the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung by making a great leap again this year under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il, after kindling the torch of a new great revolutionary upsurge, continued the forced march of on-the-spot guidance through the year and brought the mental strength of the people into full play to work unprecedented miracles in the building of a thriving nation. At the end of last year, he kindled the flame for the new year's drive while providing field guidance to the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex.

Mirrored in the field guidance was his firm belief that the entire people including the workers would continue adding luster to the era of the great upsurge by distinguishing themselves in building a thriving nation.

The inspiring slogan of the Workers' Party of Korea "Bring about a radical turn in the people's standard of living by accelerating the development of light industry and agriculture once again this year that marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea !" stirs the entire people's hearts.

The Korean people are in high spirits, resolved to hit the targets in all fronts for the building of an economic power without fail, thus recording this as a year of great changes in the annals of the building of a thriving nation with the pride of being victors who wrote a new brilliant history of a great revolutionary upsurge.

The Korean people will dynamically conduct an all-Party and nationwide drive for improving the people's living this year to make a greater upsurge and adorn this as a prosperous year filled with the people's happiness.

S. Korean Anti-DPRK "Human Rights" Racket Flailed
Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppets were recently reported to have become one of the co-sponsors of the so-called "resolution on human rights situation in the north" and voted for it at the UN.

Minju Joson Tuesday observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard:
This was another unpardonable politically motivated provocation to the DPRK.
The "human rights" racket kicked up by them only betrays their ignorance about the DPRK and, at the same time, it is no more than a ridiculous political charade which can be staged only by those who do not know where they stand.

Lurking behind the anti-DPRK human rights racket persistently kicked up by the puppets even in the international arena, quite unaware of others' derision, is a sinister political aim to chill the hard-won atmosphere favorable for improving the inter-Korean relations and bedevil them.

Facts go to patently prove that the puppets are a group of traitors opposed to reunification steeped in the idea of confrontation in the political system and the consciousness of stand-off with fellow countrymen and bitterness towards them to the marrow of their bones.
The above-said racket kicked up by them to attain such sinister political aim only brings into bolder relief their despicable true colors.

They would be well advised to bear in mind that their frantic row to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK would only precipitate their bitter defeat and destruction.

Disclosed Japan-U.S. Collusion for Nuclear Attack on DPRK under Fire
Pyongyang, October 28 (KCNA) -- Recently Reuters reported about the information declassified at the national archives of George Washington University that the United States and Japan reached an agreement on allowing U.S.-made nuclear weapons into Japanese territory when U.S.-Japan Security Treaty was revised in 1960.

Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
This clearly testifies to the fact that there was a secret agreement on the use and transport of nuclear weapons between the U.S. and the government of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan besides the document made known to the public.

It is not the first time that the above-said secret agreement between Japan and the U.S. on the introduction of nuclear weapons to Japan was disclosed, the commentary says, and goes on:
Japan made desperate efforts to slander and do harm to others while pretending to be upright and honest as far as the nuclear issue is concerned. But this time it was brought to light that this country was busy colluding with the U.S. in its strategy for nuclear assault on the DPRK after discarding such international commitment as the "three non-nuclear principles" behind the scene. How shameful and cynical it is.

There is practically no other country that can match Japan in running the whole gamut of wrongdoings such as deceiving others to draw water to its mill and blaming others.

It is Japan that adamantly refuses to settle its crime-woven past though the world is so strongly demanding it do so and it is again Japan that is rushing headlong into nuclear weaponization under the pretext of "denuclearization".

The LDP of Japan should be held accountable for making the country suffer so bitter disgrace before the international community and rendering the regional situation so disturbing.

Reunion of Separated Families of North and South Begins
Pyongyang, September 28 (KCNA) -- The reunion of separated families and relatives of the north and the south began at Mt. Kumgang Resort on the occasion of the Harvest Moon Day.
Those from the north side had a group reunion with their kin from the south side on Sept. 26.

When the reunion started, those from the north and the south exchanged greetings and news of their families.
The Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society gave a reception for the separated families and relatives from the north and the south on the same day.

Those from the north side had a family reunion with their kin from the south on Sept. 27 and exchanged their pent-up inmost thoughts.

KPA Supreme Command Orders Army, People and Country to Be on Special Alert
Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army made public the following report Monday as regards the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors kicked off the large-scale Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises for aggression despite of the DPRK's repeated warnings and strong protest and denunciation of the public at home and abroad:

The adventurous war maneuvers for aggression to be staged from August 17 to 27 will massively involve more than 10,000 U.S. imperialist aggression troops based in south Korea and overseas, at least 56,000 troops of the puppet army including those of corps, fleets and air division-level commands and above them and, over 400,000 members of puppet administrative organs and military and non-military businesses and other huge forces and all sorts of lethal means.

What merits special attention is that the saber-rattling is base on the new scenario for more vicious joint operation to invade the DPRK replacing the "OPLAN 5027", scenario for the second Korean war of aggression.

The said provocative exercises are a blatant challenge and grave threat to the peace on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia as they are aimed to launch aggression and mount a surprise preemptive strike on the DPRK in the light of their contents, nature and scale, to all intents and purposes.

The army and people of the DPRK will never remain a passive on-looker to the prevailing touch-and-go situation where dark clouds of a nuclear war are gathering to hang heavily over the inviolable territory of their country.

It is the invariable stand and attitude of the KPA to react to the enemy's arms with artillery pieces, "sanctions" with merciless retaliation and "confrontation" with an all-out confrontation.

The KPA Supreme Command issued the following order, proceeding from its sacred mission to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the nation and devotedly safeguard the socialist homeland of the DPRK:
1. The entire army, all the people and the whole country shall be put on a special alert from August 17, 2009.
2. The units of the KPA three services and all members of the Korean People's Security Forces, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards shall closely follow all the moves of the aggressors with high revolutionary vigilance and make an immediate strong attack on perpetrators of any hostile act of intruding the sky, land and seas of the country.
3. All the people shall bring about a new leaping forward in the 150-day campaign to step up the building of a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation in tense and mobilized posture as required by the present acute situation.

The order of the KPA Supreme Command is a just self-defensive measure to protect the supreme interests of the country and nation from the reckless moves of the warmongers to invade the DPRK.

Should the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets commit even the slightest military provocation infringing upon the DPRK's sovereignty, its revolutionary armed forces grown stronger with the might of Songun will mount a merciless and prompt annihilating strike at the aggressors with all offensive and defensive means including nuclear deterrent involved.

Juche Idea, Root of Songun Idea
Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- The Songun idea, the source of the invincible strength of the Korean army and people, has the principles of the great Juche idea as its root.
The Songun idea is based on the principle of the Juche idea on defending and realizing the independence of the popular masses, country and nation.

The Juche idea regards the independence as life of the social human- being, country and nation and demands that all the problems arising in the revolution and construction should be solved independently.
The Songun idea is an out-and-out independent idea. It, proceeding from the Juche idea, calls for attaching importance to arms, strongest weapon for defending and realizing independence, and for accomplishing the independent cause of popular masses in strict reliance on it.

Fully embodied in the Songun idea is the principle of the Juche idea on intensifying the driving force of the revolution and enhancing its role.
The Juche idea regards the mighty driving force of the revolution as the basic factor for the victory in the revolution. It thus demands that the driving force be strengthened and its role enhanced so as to settle all the problems arising in the revolution and construction.

The Songun idea based on this principle is a scientific revolutionary line on firmly building the motive force of the revolution with the revolutionary army as the core and model and raising its role remarkably.
It also is based on Juche-based theory on ideology on holding the thought of people as the main in the revolution and construction.

The Juche idea elucidates that the ideological consciousness plays the decisive role in the activities of people. On the basis of this, it has put forward the Juche-based theory on ideology.
The Songun idea demands that the revolutionary soldier spirit of the revolutionary army be generalized in the whole society to push ahead with the revolution and construction and holds that the might of arms is precisely ideological and spiritual strength of the revolutionary army.

Embodied in the Songun idea is the principle of the Juche idea on firmly ensuring the leader's guidance over the revolution and construction.
The Juche idea demands of establishing the revolutionary outlook of Juche with the outlook on the leader as its core and carrying on the revolution and construction under the monolithic guidance of the leader.

The Songun idea is the revolutionary idea with the main stress on the leader. It expounds that all the members of the society should uphold the idea and guidance of the leader with the revolutionary army as a model and thoroughly establish the Songun leadership system, the monolithic guidance system of the leader.

As seen above, the Songun idea is an idea which has been developed in depth on the basis of the principles of the Juche idea and is the guideline of the Songun revolution which makes it possible to embody the theories and principles of the Juche idea and to meet their requirements to the fullest.

North-South Working Contact Made
Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- The north-south working contact for the revision of contracts on the Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) was made in Kaesong on Thursday.

At the contact the north side noted with concern that the north-south relations which had favorably developed since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration have reached the phase of catastrophe and even the KIZ symbolic of the June 15 era was thrown into a serious crisis and clarified a principled stand and advanced concrete proposals for improving the operation in the KIZ as required by the changed inter-Korean relations and in line with the actual conditions.

The north side asserted that it called for the reexamination and renegotiations of the business in the KIZ because there was no reason for keeping any longer the preferential measures which had been taken in the spirit of "By our nation itself" now that the historic north-south joint declarations were totally negated.

Recalling that many enterprises of the south side are operating in the KIZ at present to gain big profits whereas the north side has not received payments at a proper level as far as land use tax, wages for workers of the north side and tax on the zone, etc. are concerned, the north side advanced draft amendments to the contracts on land use tax, wages, taxes, etc. in the KIZ.

Return of Cultural Treasures Looted by Japan in Past Urged
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- A "joint inter-Korean Buddhist mass for urging Japan to return the cultural treasures looted by the Japanese imperialists" was held at the Kwangbop Temple on Mt. Taesong on Friday.

Present there from the north side were officials of the Central Committee of the Buddhist Federation of Korea and the National Believers Association of the federation and from the south side officials of the National Council of the south Korean Buddhist Jogye Order and the Committee for Recovering Books that Record Royal Events Kept in the Room of the King of Korea and those concerning the Movement for Recovering Cultural Treasures.

Speeches were made at the mass to be followed by the reading of a joint paper of prayer and adoption of an anti-Japanese joint statement.
The statement strongly urged Japan to behave with discretion, clearly understanding the grudge of the Korean people toward Japan and their will, and immediately stop the reckless moves to grab Tok Islet and launch militarist reinvasion and unconditionally return cultural treasures of the Korean nation.

KCNA Rebukes Japan's Moves to Go Nuclear
Pyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries have become all the more undisguised in their moves to go nuclear.
Former Minister of Finance Nakagawa blustered on April 5 and 19 that "it would be better to hold discussion on nuclear weapons" and "nuclear weapons can be coped with in kind only."
The recently released book "How strong 'SDF'" says that "the most effective means for becoming a self-reliant country is to go nuclear."
An operation to bring approximately 1.8 tons of nuclear substance from France is already underway.

This indicates that the militarist tendency guided by the theory that "a country should have access to nukes to become a militarily ordinary country" prevails in the Japanese society and that the Japanese reactionaries' moves for nuclear weaponization have entered the phase of full implementation.

Japan is a war criminal state whose possession of the three services and capability to fight a war and belligerency is banned. However, this country has persistently sought arrogant wild ambition to have access to nukes, not content with just denying "the Pacifist Constitution."

In the mid-1950s Japan introduced nuclear technology from the U.S. to massively build nuclear facilities at home. In 1967 when it made public "three non-nuclear principles" it kicked off basic researches into the country's own nuclear policy and in 1969 it worked out a clandestine document calling for "Japan's possession of the capability for manufacturing nuclear weapons." Since 1995 it has conducted study into nuclear weaponization in real earnest.

In fact, by the mid-1970s Japan was capable of manufacturing nuclear weapons in just three months. At present it has a potential strong enough to manufacture more than 1,000 nuclear bombs in just a few weeks, once it has a will.

Japan has reached such a level that it can rival world military powers in terms of the technology for manufacturing nuclear weapons, the technology for developing their carrier means and stockpiling of nuclear substance. It has all conditions necessary for producing nuclear weapons in the shortest possible time.

This was evidenced by the remarks made by Ozawa who was the leader of the Liberal Party as of April 2002 that "Japan was capable of making thousands of nuclear bombs if it has a will."
Japan's moves to go nuclear are directly related to the Japanese reactionaries' scenario for aggression as they are keen to turn their country into a military giant in a bid to launch overseas expansion and reinvasion.

Japan has channeled major efforts into building strong military muscle as evidenced by the massive production of combat equipment, launch of satellites for military purposes and introduction of a missile defense system, etc.

Japan has stepped up the moves to equip the SDF with sophisticated and ultra-modern weapons in full gear, assuming offensive nature as they are aimed at radically increasing its maneuverability and striking capability and operational capability on the ground and in the sea and in the air.

Having become fully capable of fighting a war in terms of the strength of the ground, maritime and air SDFs and their technical equipment, Japan is now talking about having access to nukes. This is designed to realize its old dream of the "Greater East-Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" by launching reinvasion with nukes.

The Japanese militarists think that Japan suffered a defeat in the war because it did not have nuclear weapons.
Obsessed by extreme revanchism to revenge the defeat and ambition for overseas expansion, the Japanese reactionaries have pushed forward nuclear weaponization by hook or by crook for years to attain their purpose.
Having technology and means necessary for manufacturing nuclear weapons, Japan can launch reinvasion any time aboard a nuclear war chariot.

Japan pushed ahead with its "Nishina programme" for the production of nuclear weapons to realize its nuclear ambition already during the Second World War. Its nuclear war maniacs are now raising a hue and cry over "threats" from someone. This is nothing but a ridiculous and foolish ploy to justify its nuclear weaponization before the international community.

The Japanese militarists' persistent moves for the nuclear weaponization, a threat to the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia, would only compel the army and people of the DPRK to further bolster the nuclear deterrent for self-defense to protect the global peace and stability.

Meeting of Co-chairmen of Pomchonghakryon Held
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- The 19th meeting of co-chairmen of the north, south and overseas sides to the Pan-national Alliance of Youth and Students for Korea's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon) was held on March 31 by way of exchanging facsimile messages.

The meeting reviewed the work done by Pomchonghakryon last year and discussed an action orientation and tasks for this year.
A report was made at the meeting.

The report referred to the fact that last year Pomchonghakryon properly saw through the nature of the Lee Myung Bak conservative ruling forces and disclosed their true colors in time and joined all members of the nation in courageously waging the anti-U.S., anti-Lee Myung Bak struggle.

The report noted that the organization waged a dynamic movement to embody the spirit of "By our nation itself" in all its activities, regarding the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration as signposts for reunification.

The report proposed tasks to be fulfilled by Pomchonghakryon to energetically intensify the patriotic movement for national reunification for the purpose of firmly upholding and sincerely implementing the historic north-south joint declarations this year.

The report set the period from June 15 to October 4 as the "period of the youth and students movement for implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration" and stressed the need to wage an intensive mass movement for implementing the declarations.

Pomchonghakryon should take the lead in the struggle to resolutely frustrate the traitorous and anti-reunification idea and war moves of the conservative ruling forces, get all the fascist laws including the "National Security Law" repealed and have the reunification movement organizations legalized, it noted, and went on:

Pomchonghakryon should fully support the struggle of the overseas headquarters against the behavior of the Japanese authorities violating the rights of Koreans in Japan and trampling down upon their national dignity, in particular, and briskly conduct multifarious activities including the movement to defend Tok Islet.

The report underlined the need for Pomchonghakryon to channel primary efforts into education, information service and the work to strengthen the organization and boost solidarity with different circles and organizations and the solidarity among the north, south and overseas sides in order to launch a dynamic struggle against the evermore undisguised moves of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad to escalate confrontation with compatriots and their fascist suppression.
A joint resolution was adopted at the meeting.

All Koreans Called upon to Preserve National Character
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The advantageous national character of the Koreans is a foundation for achieving the great national unity and national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article.

It is only the national character that can serve as a foundation for achieving the great national unity and national reunification irrespective of differences in systems, ideologies, isms, political views and religious faith, classes and strata between the north and the south, the temporary phenomena caused by the national split, the article notes, and goes on:

It is the common mentality of every member of a nation to love his nation and value the national character. If all Koreans regard this national identity as a basis, they can unite as one irrespective of the differing ideologies and systems between the north and the south and reunify the country.

The community of the nation was formed and has been consolidated through its history spanning 5 000 years is strong enough to overcome the above-mentioned differences in ideologies, isms and systems. This is clearly evidenced by the great vitality of "By our nation itself" which reflects the spirit of national independence and patriotism. The June 15 era of reunification instills into all the fellow countrymen conviction and optimism that the cause of national reunification is sure to win only when they preserve and glorify the national character.

The adoption of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration provided all the fellow countrymen with an opportunity to preserve the homogeneity and identity of the Korean nation. The hearts of the Koreans in the north and the south are burning with the patriotic enthusiasm to achieve the national unity and reunification though they differ in ideologies and systems. The course of the advance of the June 15 era of reunification that witnessed the strengthening of the process of national reconciliation and unity and the development of the movement for national reunification in the idea of "By our nation itself" proves that if all Koreans pool their intention and will by preserving the national identity peculiar to them, they can surely attain unity and reunification no matter how desperately foreign forces may hamstring the efforts to attain reunification.

All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should positively turn out in the struggle to preserve and glorify the national character, bearing deep in mind that the national character serves as a precious asset for accomplishing the cause of national reunification advancing under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the Oct. 4 declaration.

Implementation of Inter-Korean Declarations Called for
Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) -- All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should never allow any slightest deviation from the inter-Korean joint declarations but conduct a more dynamic struggle to foil any move to scrap them in response to the call made by the joint New Year editorial, urges Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article.

The present reality urgently calls upon all the Koreans at home and abroad to uphold the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, great programmes for independent reunification common to the nation, as a banner of patriotism, the article says, and goes on:

How to approach the historic inter-Korean joint declarations is a touchstone distinguishing reunification from division and patriotism from treachery.

To defend the above-said declarations and work hard to implement them is the bounden duty of the people who struggle to achieve national reunification, the greatest desire of the nation, as their top priority task. Negating them and deviating from them quite contrary to it are nothing but moves of the group of traitors to perpetuate confrontation and division.

The implementation of the historic inter-Korean joint declarations precisely means pro-reunification patriotism but deviation from them leads to treachery.

The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration are a milestone for national reunification that all the Koreans should always hold aloft. The faithful implementation of those declarations alone can guarantee independent reunification, peace and prosperity and a rosy future of the nation.

S. Korean Puppet Plot-Breeding Group's Anti-DPRK Sabotage Moves Disclosed
Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- The moves of the puppet plot-breeding group of south Korea to sabotage the DPRK have recently reached an extremely reckless and dangerous phase. A spokesman for the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK issued a statement Thursday in this regard.

The statement said: It is well known that traitor Lee Myung Bak totally negated the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, great programmes for national reunification, and pushed the north-south relations to stalemate as soon as he came to power.
The evermore vicious moves to destabilize and bring down the DPRK are now being put into practice in such a despicable manner as to baffle human imagination behind the scene.

The puppet National Intelligence Service is now being reorganized into an all-powerful fascist plot-breeding mechanism little different from the "Central Intelligence Agency", which earned ill fame in the past, under the signboard of increasing its function. All the intelligence-gathering and plot-breeding organs in south Korea are now locked in the war minus gunfire against the DPRK.

Recently secret agents were routed while being active in the DPRK to carry out their missions to collect environmental samplings including soil, water, tree leaves and dust, etc. in the major munitions industrial areas in order to gather its nuclear-related information as instructed by a puppet intelligence-gathering and plot-breeding institution. Also checked and frustrated was the plot to gather party, state and military secrets and lure some officials working in important fields of the DPRK into defecting to other country after enlisting a corrupt Korean woman residing in China as a spy and letting her pay private visit to it to carry out the above-said mission.

The above-said ministry exposed and frustrated a plot to form a secret "underground church" with an eye to rally dishonest and hostile elements behind an organization under the guise of religion. It also checked and foiled one after another attempts to lure and abduct ex-convicts and corrupt elements and coax them into defecting to other country in a bid to set up a "centre" fabricating misinformation about "human rights abuses" in the DPRK.
The anti-DPRK broadcasting services and "the anti-north leaflet-scattering movement" financed by the puppet authorities have become more frantic in their operations.

The anti-DPRK smear campaign is not confined to this.
Shortly ago, a person surnamed Ri was discovered and arrested while being active to carry out the terrorist mission given by a south Korean puppet intelligence-gathering organization to do harm to the safety of the top leader of the DPRK.
According to the disclosure, he crossed the border in violation of the law and order early this year. He was absorbed by an agent surnamed Hwang serving an intelligence organ of south Korea who had the mission to rally dishonest elements after finding his way into an area near the border of the DPRK.

The south Korean puppet intelligence-gathering and plot-breeding institution let him undergo necessary training and go back to the area of the DPRK with the mission to gather information about the courses and the period of the field guidance by the top leader of the DPRK. The organization sent him speech and acoustic sensing and pursuit devices for tracking the movement of the top leader and even violent poison in the end.

This case goes to prove that the south Korean puppets have gone the lengths of resorting to thrice-cursed methods to dare harm the headquarters of the DPRK, hell-bent on inciting confrontation with the DPRK.

The weak are apt to employ such despicable terrorist method like a stray cat when they find themselves in an inferior position in the showdown with their rival in the political and military aspects.

The puppet terrorist and plot-breeding group, however, are going reckless, not aware of who their opponent is.
No one can be out of vigilant watch by the state security organ of the DPRK which has the single-minded unity of the people as the source of its invincible strength.

The enemies would be well advised to draw a lesson from the fact that their moves to spy, sabotage and destabilize the DPRK which have rapidly escalated this year have been exposed and frustrated one after another.

They are seriously mistaken if they think that the DPRK uses only shield as its weapon.
It is our duty and mission to ferret out and deal a merciless blow at anyone who dares give his eye-teeth for the headquarters of the Korean revolution no matter from where he makes such attempt.

Traitor Lee Myung Bak and his intelligence-gathering and terrorist group should clearly understand that the treasured sword of the state security organ of the DPRK, whose mission is to safeguard its leader, system and people as its life and soul, shows no mercy for the enemies.

Unity, Strong Weapon for Shaping Destiny Independently
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- All the members of the Korean nation should closely unite as one to realize the reunification of Korea. This is because unity is the mode of existence of the nation and the fundamental guarantee for national reunification.

If a nation is separated, failing to be united, the social group, the community of destiny, that means the nation can not be maintained and it goes to ruin in the end. This is truth shown by the history of the Korean nation.

The Korean nation, which had realized the importance of unity in bitter tears, forced into the lot of a ruined nation, could create a new history of national unity thanks to President Kim Il Sung.

It was priceless results of the might of unity that they defeated the Japanese imperialists and achieved national liberation under the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front and the young DPRK shattered the myth of the "mightiness" of U.S. imperialism which boasted of its being "the strongest in the world" and defended the sovereignty of the country.

The tradition of great national unity is now being successfully carried forward by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
He set forth the idea of great national unity that the whole nation in the north, the south and overseas should get united under the banner of patriotism and the banner of national reunification, irrespective of differences in idea, system, political view and religious belief, transcending the interests of classes and social strata, if the country is to be reunified.

The splendid achievements recorded in the history of the nation's movement for reunification prove that great national unity is the only powerful weapon for national reunification and prosperity.

After the publication of the historical June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, fellow countrymen in the south confirmed their will to promote reconciliation and unity and reunify the country, visiting Pyongyang and Mts. Paektu and Kumgang.

In Korea today which is opening up the glorious heyday of the June 15 reunification era, smashing the challenges of the imperialist allied forces by dint of Songun, the idea of "by our nation itself" is calling the whole nation to the righteous patriotic struggle for the national unity.

Troubles still lie in the way of the Koreans for achieving national unity and reunifying the country owing to the confrontation moves against reunification of the outside forces and flunkeyist treacherous forces following their lead.

The Korean people will vigorously carry on the struggle for national reunification and prosperity, holding aloft the banner of unity, under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.