Paek Nam Sun meets standing vice-FM of Vietnam
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun today
met and conversed with Vu
Khoan, standing vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, and his party
who paid a courtesy call on him.
Greetings to Jordanian PM and FM
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the cabinet
of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, sent a message of greetings to Abdul Rauf al Rawabidah
on his reappointment as Prime Minister
of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun to
Abdallah al-Hatib on his
reappointment as Foreign Minister.
The messages expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries would
further develop and wished them new success in their responsible work for
the stability and prosperity of the
country.
Korean books presented to Nepal
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of presenting Korean books
was held in Kathmandu on
January 20.
Conveyed at the ceremony were famous works of the President Kim Il Sung
and General Secretary Kim Jong
Il, including the "Kim Il Sung's Works," "Kim Il Sung's Selected Works" and
"Kim Jong Il's Selected Works,"
and other Korean books.
Kesab Lal Shresta, member of the central committee of the Communist
Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) and
deputy head of the party school, said that the party central committee
decided to put main stress on ideology and
conduct the vigorous ideological education among the party members and people.
To this end, it resolved to furnish the party school and local party
organizations with celebrated works of the
great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and books on the history of the
Korean revolution above anything else
and widely disseminate them, he added.
Kim Jong Il's birthday to be celebrated abroad
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The preparatory committees to celebrate
the 58th birthday of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il were inaugurated in Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan.
The first secretary of the c.c., the Bulgarian Communist Party and the
first secretary of the c.c., the Communist
Party of Kyrgyzstan were elected chairmen of the preparatory committees.
A preparatory committee of Guinea was formed in Conakry on January 14.
The preparatory committees decided to hold various celebration events.
Chongryon officials meet Italian ambassador
Tokyo, January 25 (KNS-KCNA) -- Chief vice-chairman Ho Jong Man and
vice-chairman Nam Sung U of the
central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents
in Japan (Chongryon) met and
conversed with the Italian ambassador to Japan on January 24 as regards the
establishment of diplomatic relations at
ambassadorial level between the DPRK and Italy.
Saying that the opening of diplomatic relations between Italy and the
DPRK is supported and welcomed by
many countries, the ambassador hoped for more brisk exchange in the
political, economic and cultural fields
between the two countries.
The chief vice-chairman said that Chongryon officials and Korean
residents in Japan were also pleased with the
establishment of these relations, calling for boosting the friendship and
exchange between Chongryon and the Italian
embassy in Tokyo with this event as a momentum.
Cambodian party delegation visits DPRK embassy
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Khmer Combatants
Party for Mulinaka and Liberty of
Cambodia led by chairman Prum Neak Reach paid a congratulatory visit to the
DPRK embassy in Phnom Penh on
January 21 on the occasion of the 58th birthday of General Secretary Kim
Jong Il.
The delegation laid a floral basket before the portraits of the
President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim
Jong Il and paid their respects to them.
The head of the delegation said to the ambassador that his party deems
it great pride and honor to have had the
special relations of friendship with the great Worker's Party of Korea and
will do its utmost to develop these
precious relations throughout generations to come.
It is entirely the brilliant fruition of Kim Jong Il's wise army-first
politics that Korean socialism is winning
victory after victory under the present complex situation, he added.
Extra-mural activities of schoolchildren brisk
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- Korean schoolchildren are now conducting
brisk extra-mural activities
during the winter vocation.
They are consolidating the knowledge acquired through lessons, building
up their physical strength and doing a
lot of work beneficial to society and collective through colourful
extra-mural activities.
An increasing number of schoolchildren are visiting children's palaces
and houses built in different parts of the
country every day to acquire general knowledge about basic sciences and
improve sports techniques and skills at
music, dance and fine arts according to their taste and aptitude.
Youth league and children's union organizations of schools are
arranging visits and excursions to revolutionary
sites, museums, exhibitions and grand monuments.
Schoolchildren in Pyongyang and Ryanggang Province are making
excursions to the native home of President
Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae and Jong Il Peak.
Through their visits or excursions they are deeply grasping the history
of revolutionary activities of the
President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and widening their
knowledge of Korean history,
geography and culture.
Meetings with heroes of the republic, public discussions on books and
on experience gained by honor students
are also organized these days.
Schoolchildren are also conducting various social and political
activities including brass band and art
propaganda team activities at factories, enterprises and construction sites
where production and construction are
stepped up in response to the joint New Year editorial.
Folk games such as kite flying, shuttlecock and top spinning, and
skating and sledding of schoolchildren are
also conspicuous in Pyongyang and local areas.
Miserable end of aggressors
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S.'s armed spy ship "Pueblo"
anchoring at the river taedong
flowing through Pyongyang, is now visited by an endless stream of people
from all walks of life and servicemen
despite freezing cold in January, in the depth of winter in the DPRK.
The ship was captured by the navy of the Korean People's Army on
January 23, Juche 57 (1968) while
committing espionage after illegally intruding into waters off Wonsan on
the east coast of Korea, as instructed by the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Preserved aboard the ship are historical evidence, including an
integrated intelligence cabin equipped with
sophisticated spying devices and equipment.
When the spy ship was captured, the U.S. threatened to "take back
'Pueblo' even by use of force," bringing the
situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war.
The DPRK reacted to this by declaring that it would return retaliation
for "retaliation" and an all-out war for an
all-out war.
In December of the same year, the U.S. was compelled to fully admit
that it violated the DPRK's territorial
waters and apologize for it and sign a document giving assurances that it
would not repeat such crimes.
The then U.S. president Johnson confessed that it was the only document
of apology ever to be signed by the
U.S. in its history.
The history of the U.S.'s invasion of Korea goes back to 1866 when the
U.S. ship "General Sherman" invaded
Korea.
The ship committed arson, plunder and espionage in the area along the
River Taedong. Infuriated by this, the
people in the walled city of Pyongyang sent it to the bottom of the river
by applying a "fire stratagem."
A monument to the sinking of "General Sherman" stands on the bank of
the river.
"Pueblo" is anchoring just in front of this monument.
It is the mettle of the Korean people to mercilessly punish those
violating the sovereignty of the country and
dignity of the nation.
Japan's plan to create commando force blasted
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary denounces the plan of the
Japan defense agency to create a commando force belonging to the ground
"Self-Defence Force."
Dismissing this as part of Japan's moves for reinvasion, the commentary
observes its plan to create a
commando force with well-trained soldiers is intended to carry out overseas
military operation by surprise naval
attack and landing operation.
It continues:
The operations of the projected Japanese commando force are targeted
against the DPRK. This is evidenced by
the Japanese reactionaries' open assertion that the commando force is "to
cope with the penetration of armed
guerrillas from North Korea."
Having converted the relations between Japan and the DPRK into
belligerent ones, the Japanese reactionaries
are waiting for a chance to unleash a war for re-conquest of Korea.
It is the spirit of samurais that they never unsheathe their swords
before hurting someone. Having inherited this
spirit, the Japanese reactionaries can reinvade Korea any moment.
If Japan is allowed to move as now, a war between the DPRK and Japan is
unavoidable.
If they dare reinvade Korea, the Korean people and the people's army
will wipe them out to the last one.
The Japanese reactionaries' projected creation of commando force is as
foolish an act as precipitating their own
destruction.
Independent and peaceful reunification of Korea supported
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The 22nd meeting of the Josho Regional
Council for Supporting the
Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea was recently held in Nagano
Prefecture, Japan.
The meeting summed up the council's activities for 1999 and adopted its
action programme for 2000 and a
resolution.
The program underscored the need to further expand the movement for
full support and solidarity with the
Korean people's struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of
the country. It called for vigorously
promoting the activities urging Japan's apology and compensation for its
past crimes, withdrawal of the U.S. troops
from South Korea and a conclusion of peace accord between the DPRK and the
United States.
The resolution disclosed the Japanese authorities' anti-DPRK campaign
and their moves to turn Japan into a
military power and embellish its past, which are getting all the more
pronounced these days.
It said that they would activate the solidarity movement for peace and
stability of the Korean peninsula, the
establishment of Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations and the independent and
peaceful reunification of Korea in the
New Year.
U.S. aircraft carrier's call at Pusan port
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson on Wednesday pointed out
that a U.S. aircraft carrier's call at
Pusan port of South Korea is not merely for "rest" and "supply of goods" to
its sailors but for a new war against the
DPRK.
Recently the U.S. forces command in South Korea announced that an
aircraft carrier belonging to the 3rd fleet
of the U.S. pacific fleet command would stay at Pusan port from January 26
to 30.
Commenting on it, the paper described this pirate ship's first access
to South Korea as part of DPRK-targeted
war preparations.
The South Korean ruling quarters are running amuck to stifle the DPRK
militarily in "cooperation" with
outsiders, the paper noted, and said:
The carrier's call at South Korea is part of the U.S.-South Korea
"cooperation" against the DPRK and it is a
dangerous move to unleash a war.
We have already solemnly declared that we will deliver decisive
counterblows to those who infringe upon the
sovereignty and dignity of our fatherland.
If the enemies finally ignite a war against the DPRK, ignoring our
warnings, they will be destroyed by
mercilessly annihilating strike.
Group for defending sovereignty over Tok Islet formed
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- A ceremony took place at sea off Tok
Islet on January 23 to form a
civilians' group for defending sovereignty over the islet, a radio report
from Seoul said.
Over 500 citizens at the ceremony renewed their determination to arouse
public attention to Tok Islet and defend
sovereignty over it through frequent visits to it.
They condemned the South Korean "government" for always taking a
humiliating and incompetent attitude to
the Japanese government.
A resolution adopted at the ceremony urged the South Korean
"government" to nullify the reactionary "fisheries
accord" and the Japanese government to immediately stop the moves to apply
Japanese census registration to the
islet.
Tok Islet belongs to Korea
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- A campaign for applying Japan's census
registration to Tok Islet with the
approval of the authorities is now being conducted in Shimane Prefecture,
Japan.
The Japanese government is inciting the campaign, saying "there is no
problem."
Doctor of history Kim Un Thaek of Kim Il Sung University in an
interview with KCNA said that it is a
premeditated and provocative act of aggression to occupy the islet, an
inalienable land of Korea.
He continued:
Tok Islet, part of the territory of Korea, consists of two islets (east
and west islets) on the East Sea of Korea
surrounded by some 30 reefs situated in 131 degrees 52 minutes 40 seconds
of east longitude and 37 degrees 14
minutes 18 seconds of north latitude.
The islet, along with Ullung Islet, has historically existed as
inalienable part and parcel of the Korean territory
since it was discovered by Koreans.
The islet, along with Ullung Islet, belonged to Silla dynasty in the
name of Usanguk in the period of the three
kingdoms (Koguryo, Paekje and Silla) on the Korean peninsula and it had
since been under the administrative
jurisdiction of the then Uljin county in the period of Koryo and ri dynasties.
The islet has been recorded as a traditional land of Korea in
historical materials of Korea including "true records
of king Sejong" (completion in 1454) and "geography" and in historical
materials of Japan including "Korean
coastal hydrographic collection," "Tanguksonji" (ancestral Korea map) and
"Shimane Prefecture map."
The islet is recorded as the territory of Korea in the "Korean
hydrographic map" and "Japanese hydrographic
map" published by the navy of Japan between 1886 and 1920, a naval map
published in 1887 and the "historical
map of new Japan" edited by the ministry of education in 1931.
In 1693 Japan's feudal government in a paper sent to the Shimane
prefectural governor instructed him to hand
over a document confirming Ullung and Tok islets do not belong to Japan to
An Ryong Bok, a Korean on a visit to
Japan for the settlement of the claim to islets.
Japan's allegation that Tok Islet belongs to it is merely based on the
fact that Japan unilaterally annexed the islet
and released a public notice of Shimane Prefecture in 1905 when it occupied
Korea.
The Potsdam Declaration and the Cairo Declaration clarified that the
territory of Japan was limited to four proper
islands and some other islands to be decided on by the allied countries and
Japan was deprived of the ownership of
all the prewar Japan-controlled islands, which the doctor said proves Tok
Islet clearly belonged to Korea.
The campaign for applying Japan's census registration to Tok Islet was
motivated not only by the Japanese
reactionaries' covetousness for rich natural resources in its waters but
also by their ulterior intention to lay a firm
foothold for territorial expansion and comeback to Korea, he stressed.
Tok Islet is inalienable part and parcel of Korea to which no one can
raise claim.
S. Korea: "ULD" breaks with "DP"
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The "United Liberal Democrats" of South
Korea on Tuesday announced
breakaway from the "Democratic Party" in "policy cooperation," a radio
report from Seoul said.
The "ULD" secretary general said that continued mutual cooperation is
meaningless since the "DP" refused to
recognize his party and that the "ULD" will join hands with the opposition
"Grand National Party."
He also hinted that his party would not rule out possibility of its
withdrawal from the coalition "government"
according to the times and circumstances. And he announced that the "ULD"
calls off the talks between the chief
executive and Kim Jong Pil due on Thursday.
The "Citizens' Solidarity for General Elections" on January 24 made
public a list of 67 persons considered to be
disqualified candidates, among them Kim Jong Pil, present "National
Assembly" speaker Pak Jun Gyu and 14 other
members of the "ULD."
Enraged at this list, the "ULD" has expressed its strong distrust in
the present ruler and the "DP," complaining
that the "DP" and the "Chongwadae" might be involved in making the list.
Election-related struggle expanded
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The Federation of South Korean Trade
Unions reportedly issued a
statement on January 24 as regards the announcement of the list of
disqualified candidates by the "Citizens'
Solidarity for General Elections" (CSGE).
Fully supporting the announcement, the federation in the statement
urged all the political parties to accept the
will of the people with modesty.
It declared that it would continue the campaign for opposing nomination
of anti-worker candidates and defeating
them and, at the same time, campaign for "pro-reform and pro-worker
politicians."
Meanwhile, the Kwangju Religionists Council for Peace involving
Buddhists, Catholics and Christians in
Kwangju released a statement on the same day supporting the CSGE's
announcement.
Students of five universities in Inchon called a joint press conference
at which they declared that they would join
civic organizations in the campaign for defeating candidates.
Corrupt politics in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- As a civic organization of South Korea
released a list of 67 "undesirable
figures" out of the candidates for the upcoming "National Assembly
election" shortly ago, the South Korean political
circle finds itself in such a chaos as a disturbed honeycomb.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary observes:
It is the first time that such a strong anti-candidate campaign was
launched in South Korea before the election. It
is a natural outcome of the corrupt politics.
Those in power in South Korea are traitors without exception who have
betrayed the country and nation for
their personal wealth and luxury. Like their predecessors the rulers of the
self-proclaimed "people's government"
have enforced a traitorous rule, going against the people's aspiration
after independence, democracy and
reunification.
The on-going campaign is an eruption of the South Korean people's
disappointment and wrath at the corrupt
politics and treacherous rule.
It is the unanimous feeling of the South Korean people that they can
expect nothing from the corrupt politics.
For Spanish-speaking people
isla tokdo pertenece a corea
pyongyang, 27 de enero (atcc)-- en estos tiempos en el departamento de
shimane del japon, bajo la aprobacion
de las autoridades, registran sus antepasados como los oriundos de la isla
tokdo en el mar este de corea.
el gobierno japones lo estimula activamente calificandolo de "nada
problematico".
kim un thaek, doctor en historia de la universidad kim il sung, en sus
declaraciones a un corresponsal de la
agencia telegrafica central de corea, dijo que esto es un pleaneado y
provocativo acto agresivo orientado a apoderarse
de la isla tokdo, sagrado territorio de corea.
historicamente las islas tokdo y ulung son partes inseparables de
corea, explorados por los coreanos.
lo prueban las "cronicas de sejong" del ano 1454, el "libro de
geografia" y otros datos historicos de nuestro pais
y "cronica hidrografica de litoral de corea", "tanguksonji" (mapa de corea
antigua) "cronica del departamento de
shimane" y otros datos japoneses.
la registran como territorio coreano "cronica hidrografica de corea" y
"cronica hidrografica del japon" del
ministerio de las fuerzas navales del japon publicadas entre los anos
1886-1920, el mapa de marina confeccionado y
publicado en 1887 y el "mapa de historia del nuevo japon" redactado por el
ministerio de ensenaza en 1931.
el fundamento teorico segun el cual dicha isla petenece al territorio
japones es que en 1905 en que el japon
ocupo el territorio coreano, el departamento de shimane publico
unilateralmente la integracion de la isla a su
territorio.
la declaracion de potsdam y la declaracion de el cairo senalan que el
territorio japones lo componen 4 islas
principales y unas islas definidas por los paises aliados y le privan al
japon del derecho a posesion de todas las islas
que poseia antes de la guerra, dijo el doctor y subrayo que evidentemente
entonces la isla tokdo pertenecia al
territorio coreano.
los reaccionarios japoneses registran a sus antepasados como los
oriundos de la isla tokdo para saquear los
abundantes recursos naturales de sus areas maritimas y proveer del mas
firme trampolin para la expansion territorial
y nueva agresion a corea.
la isla tokdo pertenece a corea. nadie puede negar este hecho.
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