TODAY'S NEWS (September.26.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Joint communique on 1st working-level contact for north-south economic
cooperation released
* Joint communique on inter-Korean military talks
* Friendly meeting with delegation of Iran
* Korean books presented to Guyana
* S. Korean ambassador to U.S. criticized
* Unconverted long-term prisoners meet with Ri In Mo
* Film show on anniversary of revolution in Yemen
* Japan, U.S. flayed for tampering with situation of Korean peninsula
* Issue of carrying forward revolutionary cause solved
* WPK is creditable vanguard unit in accomplishing global cause of
socialism
For Spanish-speaking people
* ex presos de larga condena no abjurados se reunen con ri in mo
* primer contacto de expertos economicos norte-sur de corea
* informacion conjunta sobre conversaciones entre ministro de fap de rpdc
y ministro de dn de rc
Joint communique on 1st working-level contact for north-south economic
cooperation released
Seoul, September 26 (KCNA) -- The first working-level contact for
north-south economic
cooperation was held in Seoul on Sept. 25 and 26 to implement the agreed
points clarified in the historic
north-south joint declaration.
Present from the north side were members of its delegation led by Jong
Un Op, department director
of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and suite members and from the south side
those concerned including
chief delegate Ri Kun Gyong.
The keynote speeches were made by the heads of both delegations at the
contact.
The head of the north side's delegation said that the current
working-level contact was an important
occasion in providing an institutional guarantee for north-south economic
cooperation to develop the
national economy in a proportionate way. He set forth principles to be
observed by both sides in signing
an agreement on protecting investments and an agreement on preventing
double taxation.
The contact discussed draft agreements and released a joint communique
on the first working-level
contact for north-south economic cooperation.
The joint communique reads:
The north and the south held a working-level contact for economic
cooperation in Seoul from
September 25 to 26, Juche 89 (2000) to expand and develop economic
cooperation and provide an
institutional guarantee for the balanced development of the national economy.
The contact agreed to arrange the institutional guarantee including the
protection of investments and
the prevention of double taxation at an early date according to the
agreement reached at the inter-Korean
ministerial talks for the implementation of the June 15 north-south joint
declaration.
Both sides made a sincere discussion of the agreement on protecting
investments and the agreement
on preventing double taxation and decided to discuss on differences in the
draft agreements at the second
contact.
Both sides shared the view that it is necessary to make an agreement on
the procedures of solution
to disputes of business affairs and the settlement of accounts and agreed
to discuss it at the future
working-level contact according to the agreement of the inter-Korean
ministerial talks.
It was agreed to hold the second contact in Pyongyang on October 18,
Juche 89 (2000).
Joint communique on inter-Korean military talks
Jeju, September 26 (KCNA) -- Talks between the Minister of the People's
Armed Forces of the
DPRK and the Defence Minister of the Republic of Korea were held on Jeju
island in South Korea from
September 25 to 26 to militarily ensure the implementation of the June 15
north-south joint declaration
adopted at the historic inter-Korean summit.
Present at the talks from the north side were five delegates led by
vice marshal of the Korean
People's Army Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces of the
DPRK, and from the south
side, five delegates headed by Jo Song Thae, Minister of Defence of the ROK.
Sharing the view that the issue of giving necessary military guarantee
should be urgently settled
before anything else under the situation in which the work for the
implementation of the June 15
north-south joint declaration has been progressing in real earnest since
its adoption, the two sides agreed
to the following points.
1. Both sides agreed to do their utmost to implement the June 15
north-south joint declaration
signed by the leaders of the north and the south and to positively
cooperate with each other so as to settle
the military issues arising in ensuring visits, exchange and cooperation
between civilians.
2. Both sides shared the view that it is most important to completely
eliminate the danger of war on
the Korean peninsula by easing military tensions and achieving a lasting
and durable peace there and
agreed to make joint efforts.
3. Both sides agreed to allow people, vehicles and facilities to come
into the demilitarized zone of
each side for the present so that they can start projects of laying
railways and a road linking the north
and the south and guarantee their security. And it was agreed that
working-level officials of both sides
will meet early in October to push ahead with details related to this.
4. It was agreed to deal with the issue of fixing areas under control
of the north and the south by
opening the military demarcation line and demilitarized zone along the
railways and road linking the
north and the south, on the basis of the armistice agreement.
5. Both sides reached an agreement on holding the second round of talks
in the north in the middle
of November.
Friendly meeting with delegation of Iran
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting with members of
the delegation of the
organization of culture and Islamic relations of Iran was held here on Monday.
Invited there were members of the delegation headed by Mohammad Salar,
general director for Asia
and Oceania, and Mohammad Ganjidoost, Iranian ambassador to the DPRK.
Also present were vice-chairman Kim Jin Bom of the Korean Committee for
Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries, the vice-chairman of the Korea-Iran Friendship
Association and other officials
concerned.
The participants conversed with each other and saw an art performance
given by artistes of the two
countries, deepening the feelings of friendship.
Korean books presented to Guyana
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- Famous works of the President Kim Il
Sung and General
Secretary Kim Jong Il and Korean books were presented to Guyana.
The books were conveyed to the Guyanese Minister of Education at the
presentation ceremony held
on September 20.
In a speech the Minister said that he was happy to be presented with
works written by Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il and many books showing Korean history and culture on the
meaningful occasion of the
55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea and expressed thanks for
this in the name of the
Guyanese government.
S. Korean ambassador to U.S. criticized
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- Citizens' organizations in South
Korea criticized the South
Korean ambassador to the United States for willing to take a concessive
posture at the future
negotiations on the revision of the S. Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces
Agreement," according to Radio
No. 1 from Seoul.
The Green Federation on September 23 said it would demand the recall of
the ambassador, noting
that despite the demand of the people to insert an article on environment
in the "agreement" because of
serious environment damage caused by the poisonous materials dumped by the
U.S. troops, he was
going to make a concession to the U.S.
The people's movement for revision of the unfair S. Korea-U.S. "Status
of Forces Agreement" in a
statement asserted that the ambassador is to blame for it.
Unconverted long-term prisoners meet with Ri In Mo
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- Unconverted long-term prisoners,
indomitable
pro-reunification patriotic fighters, on Monday met with Ri In Mo who is
known as the incarnation of
faith and will.
They exchanged greetings with ri in mo with great joy at the meeting
with him.
Ri, a former war correspondent of the Korean People's Army, had been
imprisoned in South Korea
for 34 years before being repatriated to the north in March Juche 82 (1993).
He recovered his health and is leading a happy life in a luxurious
house with his family after his
return to the DPRK.
Seeing his present life, the unconverted long-term prisoners were
deeply moved at the benevolence
and love shown by the party and the leader.
Film show on anniversary of revolution in Yemen
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- A film show was held here on Monday
to mark the 38th
anniversary of the revolution in Yemen.
Invited to the show were charge d'affaires Fahmi Jafar Saif and members
of the Yemeni embassy
here.
Present were Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for
Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries and chairman of the Korea-Yemen Friendship Association,
and other officials
concerned and Pyongyangites.
The participants saw a Korean feature film "We Met Again on Mt. Myohyang."
Japan, U.S. flayed for tampering with situation of Korean peninsula
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- The "two-plus-two meeting" of defence
and foreign
ministers of Japan and the United States was held in New York on Sept. 11.
At a joint press conference after the meeting U.S. Secretary of State
Albright said that "We are
committed to ...while addressing concerns of the international community
about North Korea's nuclear
and long-range missile programs."
Director General of the Japan Defence Agency Torashima raised again the
non-existent DPRK's
"nuclear and missile issue", asserting that "North Korea has not changed
its military stance and it is still
believed to have deployed ballistic missiles."
Commenting on this fact, Minju Joson today says that the Japanese and
U.S. reactionary
conservative forces' loudmouthed "instability" and "uncertainty" in the
Asia-Pacific region is a total
distortion and fabrication.
The news analyst goes on:
The situation on the Korean peninsula has rapidly changed since the
historic Pyongyang meeting
and the publication of the June 15 joint declaration and exerted good
influence on the peace and security
in northeast Asia and, furthermore, in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest
of the world.
However, the United States and Japan alone are misbehaving themselves,
turning their back on
such reality.
This is because they do not want improved inter-Korean relations from
the viewpoint of their
strategic interests.
The United States is afraid that if the inter-Korean relations are
improved, it would lose its military
control over this region. Japan is going not to remain an onlooker to the
failure of its attempt to turn
Japan into a military giant and realize its wild ambition for overseas
expansion with the backing of the
United States. This is well illustrated by the fact that the United States
and Japan agreed to set up a
"defense coordination mechanism" to "cope with instability and uncertainty"
in the Asia-Pacific region.
It is the real intention of the U.S. and Japan to artificially strain
the situation on the Korean
peninsula to put the brake on the implementation of the north-south joint
declaration and draw water to
their mill.
They are swimming against the trend of the times only to reveal their
despicable true colors as the
enemy of peace and humankind.
Issue of carrying forward revolutionary cause solved
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea
brilliantly solved the issue of
carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche, the issue of a successor
in the 1970s.
In this period, a shift in generations took place in the Korean
revolution and the subjective and
objective conditions for settlement of the issue of carrying forward the
revolutionary cause matured in
Korea.
Under the leadership of the great Kim Jong Il, the revolutionary cause
the President Kim Il Sung
started and pushed forward victoriously was greeting its best days from the
latter half of the 60s to the
first half of the 70s.
Kim Jong Il worked at the WPK Central Committee from June Juche 53
(1964) and conducted
energetic activities to cement the party, state and army.
He developed in depth the Juche idea founded by the President and
formulated it as the guiding idea
of our era and remarkably strengthened the WPK's militant might and
leadership ability by establishing
the monolithic ideological system of the party.
And he wisely led the socialist construction to convert the DPRK into a
powerful country of
independence, self-sustenance and self-reliance in defence, and brought the
heyday of Juche-based art
through the revolution of literature and art.
He found himself always among people to unite the whole society into
one big family.
All the people and the party members, who experienced his natural
talents as a great thinker and
theoretician, politician, military man and fatherly leader of the people,
called him "dear leader,"
absolutely trusting him.
They composed and sang songs of praise carrying loyalty and reverence
for him and sent written
petitions and letters to the WPK Central Committee in the early 70s,
wishing to hold him in high esteem
as a successor to Kim Il Sung.
The issue of a successor was discussed at the eighth plenary meeting of
the fifth central committee
of the party which was held in February Juche 63 (1974).
The meeting elected him successor to the President, reflecting the
unanimous aspirations of the
whole party and all the people.
The WPK proudly reviewed the brilliant solution of the issue of
carrying forward the revolutionary
cause at the sixth party congress in October 1980.
WPK is creditable vanguard unit in accomplishing global cause of
socialism
Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) is
a vanguard unit
which blazed a new path for the accomplishment of the global cause of
socialism and set a brilliant
example in it, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It goes on:
The WPK, with infinite loyalty to socialism, the human cause of
independence, has made a great
contribution to the global cause of socialism under the guidance of the
great leader Kim Il Sung and the
respected leader Kim Jong Il.
It comprehensively systematized the socialist theory of Juche and
firmly defended it from moves of
the enemies including the modern revisionists.
The WPK saw through into the dangerous nature of modern revisionism at
the very days of its
appearance and waged the resolute struggle against it. And it built up
original socialist theory based on
the Juche idea, thus putting socialism on a new scientific foundation and
comprehensively expounding
the socialist theory of Juche.
Another contribution made by the WPK for the accomplishment of the
global cause of socialism is
that it has resolutely defended the socialist cause against modern social
democracy.
Kim Jong Il published several famous works including "the Historical
Lesson in Building
Socialism and the General Line of Our Party" and "Abuses of Socialism Are
Intolerable" at a time when
the socialist cause faced a great setback due to the revival of capitalism
in some countries, thus clearly
showing the road to be followed by the socialist cause in our times.
Another exploit performed by the WPK in accomplishing the global cause
of socialism is that it
turned the struggle to revive socialism into a common struggle of the world
revolutionary parties and
peoples.
The WPK has also resolutely defended and exalted the socialism of
Korean style and thus
powerfully encouraged the world revolutionary people to the struggle for
the accomplishment of the
socialist cause.
The WPK will as ever creditably discharge its international duty as a
vanguard unit with infinite
loyalty to socialism, the human cause of independence.
For Spanish-speaking people
ex presos de larga condena no abjurados se reunen con ri in mo
pyongyang, 26 de septiembre (atcc) -- los ex-presos de larga condena no
abjurados, indoblegables
combatientes patrioticos de reunificacion, se reunieron ayer con ri in mo,
personificacion de la
conviccion y la voluntad.
con gran alegria intercambiaron saludos con ri in mo.
este, ex corresponsal de guerra del ejercito popular de corea quien
llevo la vida carcelaria de 34 anos
en el sur de corea regreso al norte en marzo del 82 (1993) de la era juche.
al ver a ri in mo quien retornado ya con anterioridad al norte recupero
la salud para disfrutar de una
vida dichosa con sus familiares en una vivienda magnifica los visitantes
quedaron muy conmovidos de
la gran benevolencia del partido y del lider.
primer contacto de expertos economicos norte-sur de corea
seul, 26 de septiembre (atcc) -- se sostuvo los dias 25 y 26 en seul el
primer contacto de trabajo para
la cooperacion economica norte-sur de corea a fin de ejecutar los puntos
acordados en la historica
declaracion conjunta de ambas partes.
participaron por la parte norcoreana los miembros de la delegacion
presidida por jong un op, jefe de
departamento del ministerio de comercio exterior y otros acompanantes y por
la parte surcoreana el
delegado jefe ri kun gyong y otros interesados.
los jefes de las delegaciones de ambas partes pronunciaron discursos de
base.
el jefe de la delegacion de la parte norte dijo que el presente
contacto de trabajo sirve de un
importante motivo para preparar una garantia institucional de la
cooperacion economica de ambas partes
encaminada al desarrollo equilibrado de la economia nacional y presento los
problemas de principios que
deben observar ambas partes en la concertacion del acuerdo de proteccion de
inversiones y el acuerdo de
prohibicion de doble imposicion de impuestos.
en el contacto se desarrollo la discusion sobre los proyectos de
acuerdo y quedo publicado un
comunicado conjunto del primer contacto de trabajo para la cooperacion
economica norte-sur.
el documento senala:
el norte y el sur, a fin de preparar la garantia institucional para la
ampliacion y el desarrollo de la
cooperacion economica y el desarrollo equilibrado de la economia nacional
efectuaron en seul del 25 al
26 de septiembre del 89 (2000) de la era juche el contacto de trabajo para
la cooperacion economica.
en el contacto de trabajo acordaron preparar en un corto tiempo la
garantia institucional entre otros la
proteccion de inversiones y la prevencion de doble imposicion de impuestos
segun el acuerdo de las
conversaciones a nivel de ministro para la ejecucion de la declaracion
conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio.
ambas partes hicieron sincera discusion sobre el acuerdo de proteccion
de inversiones y el acuerdo
de la prevencion de doble imposicion de impuestos y decidieron acordar en
el segundo contacto las
divergencias reveladas en los proyectos de los acuerdos.
ambas partes llegaron a la unanime comprension de que es necesario
preparar un acuerdo sobre el
procedimiento de la solucion del litigio entre firmas y la liquidacion y
decidieron consultarlo en el
proximo contacto de trabajo segun el acuerdo de las conversaciones
norte-sur a nivel de ministro.
acordaron efectuar en pyongyang el 18 de octubre del 89 (2000) de la
era juche el segundo contacto.
informacion conjunta sobre conversaciones entre ministro de fap de rpdc
y ministro de dn de rc
jeju, 26 de septiembre (atcc) -- tuvieron lugar del 25 al 26 en la isla
jeju de surcorea conversaciones entre
el ministro de fuerzas armadas populares de la republica popular
democratica de corea y el ministro de
defensa nacional de la republica de corea a fin de asegurar militarmente la
ejecucion de la declaracion
conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio aprobada en el historico encuentro de
los lideres de ambas partes.
participaron por la parte norte 5 delegados encabezados por el
vicemariscal del ejercito popular de
corea kim il chol, ministro de fap de la rpdc y por la parte sur igual
numero de delegados dirigidos por jo
song thae, ministro de defensa nacional de la rc.
en las conversaciones ambas partes al llegar a la identidad de
criterios de que se requiere
apremiantemente corresponder la labor de garantia militar necesaria a la
circunstancia en que despues de
aprobada la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio se da impulso
decisivo a la labor para su
ejecucion acuerdan como sigue:
1. ambas partes acuerdan hacer maximos esfuerzos por ejecutar la
declaracion conjunta norte-sur del
15 de junio aprobada por los lideres del norte y el sur y cooperar
activamente para solucionar los
problemas militares que se presentan en el aseguramiento del viaje,
intercambio y la cooperacion de los
civiles.
2. ambas partes llegan a la unanime comprension de que deviene la mas
importante cuestion
eliminar por completo el peligro de guerra mediante el alivio de la tension
militar y el logro de la paz
estable y duradera en la peninsula coreana y acuerdan hacer esfuerzos
comunes, para este fin.
3. ambas partes acuerdan, por inmediato, permitir la entrada de las
personas, vehiculos y equipos
en la zona desmilitarizada de cada parte y propiciar la seguridad a fin de
dar inicio a las obras de la via
ferroviaria y la carretera que ligan el norte y el sur e impulsar los
problemas detallados en el encuentro de
los expertos de ambas partes a principios de octubre.
4. acuerdan ir resolviendo a base del acuerdo de armisticio el problema
de establecer las
jurisdicciones del norte y del sur al abrir la linea de demarcacion militar
y la zona desmilitarizada
alrededor de la ferrovia y la carretera que ligan el norte y el sur.
5. ambas partes acuerdan efectuar a mediados de noviembre en la region
de la parte norte la segunda
ronda de conversaciones.
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