January.19.2002 Juche 91
[CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of Im Rok Jae * Independent reunification called for in S. Korea * Over 30,000 literary works created in decade * Dangerous fever of war under fire * U.S. imperialists' crafty strategy for aggression by proxy assailed * KCNA on Japan's reckless provocation * KCNA on unreasonable assertion * 50th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's work observed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of Im Rok Jae Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent a wreath to the bier of Labour Hero, academician, prof. and dr. Im Rok Jae, president of the Central Cotanical Garden and concurrently president of the academy of Forestry Science, on Friday expressing deep condolences over his death. Im died of acute myocardial infraction at the age of 81 on January 17, Juche 91 (2002). He was alternate member of the WPK central committee and deputy to the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Independent reunification called for in S. Korea Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils (Sochongryon) in South Korea reportedly published a "letter of the 2002 Sochongryon meeting for proclaiming the independent reunification to implement the June 15 joint declaration" on Jan. 12. The letter said that all the Koreans should turn out in the struggle to reunify the country by their united efforts, taking the idea of independent reunification, the main spirit of the joint declaration, as the banner of reunification that should be upheld by the entire nation. The U.S. imperialists recently declared this year as a "year of war" and are resorting to the hardline policy toward the north while strengthening the south korea-u.s.-japan military "cooperation", it pointed out, and declared: We students will wage a vigorous struggle to check the U.S. imperialists and their allies' aggression and war moves and remove the threat of war, and turn out in the campaign to drive out the U.S. forces which are chiefly responsible for national division and committing plunder after occupying this land. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Over 30,000 literary works created in decade Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- At least 30,000 literary works such as poems, novels and juvenile stories of high ideological and artistic value have been created under the wise leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea in the last decade since the publication of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Theory of Juche-based Literature". The work published on Jan. 20 Juche 81 (1992) deals under an integral system all theoretical and practical issues arising in the development of Juche-oriented literature such as its fundamental mission and character, issues related to the tradition of revolutionary literature and art and the inheritance of national literature and art, essence and character of Juche-oriented realism, the depiction of the leader of the revolution, the theory of seed of a literary work and principles governing depiction and the issue of popularizing literature. The decade witnessed the creation of over 20 serials of the cycle of novels "immortal history" and "immortal guidance" and the full-length novel "on the road of loyalty." they deal with the immortal revolutionary feats performed by President Kim Il Sung, leader Kim Jong Il and the anti-Japanese war woman hero Kim Jong Suk. The same period also saw the appearance of more than a thousand novels including full-length novels such as "ardent desire", "Mt. Paekkum" and "blood-stained earth" and literary works based on real stories. They help arm working people with a revolutionary outlook on life and speed up the socialist march under the red flag. Poets have created over 20,000 poems of diverse genres representing the feelings of the people in our times. Many novels and poems created for children in the period fully reflect their mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dangerous fever of war under fire Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defence Agency is busy re-examining the present "defence program" and working out a "defence program" aimed to be carried out till the year 2005 and a new 2006-2010 "mid-term arms build-up plan." Minju Joson today observes: This is a proof that Japan tries to take an active part in the settlement of international disputes in an attempt to show off as a military and political power and meet "state interests" through military actions. The news analyst says: Japan is trying to emerge a war state capable of carrying out overseas aggression, not for self-defence. It is the final aim of the Japanese reactionary ruling quarters to have the same "right" and capacity as those of the united states that does not hesitate to use huge armed forces when it thinks they are necessary for meeting "state interests" and for establishing a sphere of domination. Japan is about to emerge an enemy of humankind in the 21st century. The Japanese reactionaries should cool down their heads overheated with fever of war and ponder with reason over the ensuing consequences of their moves for overseas aggression. No country wants Japan to be a war state, but it wants Japan to be a pacific country. no country tolerates Japan's moves to become a war state. The moves escalated by the Japanese reactionaries for a war of aggression in defiance of the unanimous will and demands of the international community will only precipitate their self-destruction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. imperialists' crafty strategy for aggression by proxy assailed Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article calls upon the peace-loving people of the world to resolutely struggle to check and frustrate the U.S. imperialists' crafty strategy for aggression by proxy. The U.S. world strategy is one for aggression and war designed to control the anti-imperialist independent forces by force of arms and put the world under its domination and control, the article says, stressing that one of the U.S. important methods of carrying out the strategy is aggression by proxy. It goes on: The U.S. is now using Japan in Asia, Israel in the middle east, Kossovo separatists in Yugoslavia and NATO member nations in west Europe as its proxies for aggression. The U.S. imperialists are pursuing their wily purpose through the strategy for aggression by proxy. It is to strengthen domination and control over its allies, satellites and puppets to seize major land of resources and military points of the world. It is also to dominate and subordinate other countries through proxies and drive them out as shock brigades against other countries in an "emergency". The U.S. imperialist aggression by proxy is, in essence, the craftiest method of aggression that has been long used to make other countries fight against each other and fish in troubled waters. The aggression by proxy is now becoming more vicious and brigandish. The U.S. is not only resorting to direct aggression operations but also making its allies, satellites and puppets its proxies in aggression operations in a bid to escape from its present crisis and realize its ambition for world supremacy. The U.S. imperialist strategy of aggression by proxy poses a great threat to humankind. It is rendering regional situation strained, infringing upon the independence and sovereignty of countries and nations, harassing peace and security and increasing the danger of war. The intensified U.S. aggression by proxy is owing to its most serious crisis ever in history. The U.S. economic potential is too weak to support its reckless policy of strength. This is why the U.S. is trying to use its allies, satellites and puppets for intensifying aggression by proxy. In order to prevent war and protect world peace, it is imperative to check and frustrate the U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression and war and, to this end, smash their strategy for aggression by proxy as well as their policy of strength. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA on Japan's reckless provocation Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries have persisted in their anti-DPRK hostile moves since the beginning of the year as evidenced by their act of searching its cargo ship for no reason. On Jan. 7 the Japanese authorities searched a DPRK cargo ship, asserting that they received a "telephone message". In the wake of the incident it was confirmed by the security authorities and media that this was misinformation which had been provided by an unidentified jobless loafer. But the Japanese authorities are putting spurs to beefing up maritime "self-defense force", persistently floating the fiction of "threat from North Korea", instead of making an apology for this diatribe. Such move is a grave encroachment upon the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity and a reckless provocation made by those hell-bent on the anti-DPRK smear campaign. The Japanese reactionaries seem to have become extremely arrogant after openly setting out on the road of overseas expansion by taking advantage of the "September 11 incident". They do not bother to encroach upon the sovereignty of independent states even in violation of the generally accepted international laws. What Japanese maritime forces are doing in coastal waters from the Asia-Pacific region to the Indian ocean is reminiscent of the piracy committed by the Japanese imperialists' fleet of aggression in the past. This is a very serious development as it clearly indicates to the international community once again that the Japanese reactionaries are only keen to realize their old dream of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", far from repenting of the war of aggression committed in the past. The army and people of the DPRK will never allow Japan, to start a war of overseas aggression once again with the Korean peninsula as a springboard as it committed indelible crimes against the Korean people in the past. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA on unreasonable assertion Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- Recently some media, predicting the DPRK-U.S. relations this year, conveyed what They called views of U.S. experts on the Korean peninsula that the inspection of the nuclear facilities of the DPRK should be made from the middle of the year according to the plan to push forward the building of the light water reactors. This is an unreasonable assertion that reflects the viewpoints of impure elements keen to distort the basic spirit of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and the principles that should be maintained in putting it into practice and shift the responsibility for the delayed construction of lwrs on to the DPRK. The basic spirit of the framework is that the U.S. is obliged to provide the DPRK with the light water reactors in return for the DPRK's freezing of nuclear facilities and the two sides agreed to abide by the principle of simultaneous honest implementation of their obligations. In the wake of the publication of the framework the DPRK has fully implemented its obligation, suffering a huge loss caused by the freeze of the independent nuclear power industry. The U.S. side, however, pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK, has implemented none of its obligations properly laid down in the framework. The insincere attitude and stand of the U.S. side has seriously delayed the construction of the lwrs which it had promised to provide to the DPRK by the year 2003. It is told that the project is likely to be completed by the year 2008. Under the situation the U.S. side is to blame for all the problems related to the implementation of the agreed framework. It is quite natural that the U.S. side should make compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the delayed construction of the lwrs. It is quite unfair to try to unilaterally force the inspection of the nuclear facilities upon the DPRK, a victim, ignoring all the facts and truth. This is, in the final analysis, a criminal attempt to put political pressure upon the DPRK. The fate of the agreed framework entirely depends upon the attitude of the U.S. side. The U.S. side should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and adopt a substantial measure to make an immediate compensation for the loss of electricity to the DPRK before anything else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 50th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's work observed Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- A meeting of Pyongyangites took place at the People's Palace of Culture today to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "On making good preparations for universal, free medical care." The president published the work on January 20 Juche 41 (1952) during the hard-fought fatherland liberation war and in November of the same year took a historical measure to publish a decision of the cabinet on the introduction of universal and free medical care throughout the northern half of Korea on January 1, Juche 42 (1953). Minister Kim Su Hak of public health made a report at the meeting. He said the work is a famous work, the first of its kind in history, to give a comprehensive answer to a theoretical and practical issue arising in providing the working masses with a right to medical care. It served as a highly important guideline in setting up the man-centred, best public health system in Korea and accelerating the building of Juche-based socialist public health, he said. The universal, free medical care, he noted, is a popular measure that could be adopted only by the president who devoted his all to the people, guided by the maxim "believing in the people as in heaven" and the most vivid expression of his unbounded love for the people. The wise guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea resulted in adopting the public health law of the DPRK in Juche 69 (1980) and providing a legal guarantee for the final settlement of the issue of the health care of the working masses, he said, and went on: Leader Kim Jong Il indicated the orientation and way of putting the public health care onto a higher level to meet the new requirements of the developing revolution and took one wise measure after another to develop the universal, free medical care. Today in Korea the mortality rate decreased as low as to one-fourth as compared with that before the liberation of Korea in August 1945 and the average life expectancy nearly doubled. He underscored the need to boost medical services, improve in a revolutionary way the diagnosis and medical treatment methods to meet the demands of the developing modern science and technology and fully ensure the material conditions needed for medical service and thus effect a new revolutionary turn in health care. Present at the meeting were secretary Choe Thae Bok of the WPK central committee and other leading officials. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
