KCNA News excerpts-17 May 2000 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Korean Central News Agency DPRK News Excerpts 17 May 2000 -Japan: Ishihara's reckless utterances -South Koreans claim damages -U.S. attempt to hide truth about massacres -U.S. urged to renounce position of strength -More cases of wiretapping disclosed -U.S. air force's use of uranium bullets probable -Anti-U.S. march called for -Revision of "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" urged -Symposium on experience in building WPK held in Madagascar -Korean people's struggle supported abroad -Noticias en Espanol Japan: Ishihara's reckless utterances Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Japanese Tokyo metropolitan governor Ishihara, a typical ultra-right reactionary of Japan, in a recent lecture asserted that "it is the best security to produce efficient weapons and sell them to foreign countries," according to the Japanese Mainichi Shimbun. A series of militarist and ultra-nationalist outbursts let loose by Ishihara recently created a public furore. This time he went the length of openly calling for the production and export of sophisticated weapons under the plea of "security," thus betraying the invariable design of the right-wing reactionaries of Japan to convert it into a military power and launch aggression overseas. This agitation cannot but spark public anger. The issue of Japan's "security" is incompatible with its export of weapons. It does not stand to reason to export weapons on account of "security." This is little short of Japan's intention to abandon its much publicized "three principles of arms export." The "three principles of arms export," in fact, exist in name only. Realities in Japan where the specter of militarism is haunting go to prove that the Japanese authorities' loudmouthed "contribution to peace" is nothing but hypocrisy and their hue and cry over the DPRK's "missile threat" is no more than a sheer ruse intended to draw water to their mill. Through arms sale the Japanese reactionaries seek to make profits, secure their military clout and expand the sphere of their influence and thus build a springboard from which to launch aggression overseas. What merits attention is the attitude of the United States which shuts its eyes to these militarist moves of Japan. The U.S. feigns ignorance of Japan's moves to become a military power, while getting extremely nervous about other countries' efforts to strengthen self-defence capabilities and blatantly interfering in them like an international gendarme. This behaviour cannot be construed otherwise than support to them. The Japanese reactionaries should stop frantically escalating their moves for Japan's conversion into a military power and aggression overseas and threat to peace under the patronage of the U.S. South Koreans claim damages Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Residents in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province, claimed damages against the "Ministry of National Defense" of South Korea on May 14, a Seoul-based radio reported. When ministry officials came to the village allegedly to make a fact-finding survey, villagers showed them damage by the bombing exercise of the U.S. air force and demanded removal of the firing range of the U.S. aggression troops and compensation. The bombing exercise staged by the U.S. air force in the firing range in the sea off Maehyang-ri on May 8, caused great damage, leaving seven villagers injured and walls of hundreds of dwelling houses cracked. U.S. attempt to hide truth about massacres Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The Measure Committee for Probing the Truth Behind the GIs' Massacres of Innocent Civilians In Rogun-ri bitterly censured the U.S.'s attempt to hide the truth about their atrocities, according to a South Korean newspaper report. The members of the committee who are victims of GIs' massacres stated that "the U.S. government should neither belittle nor cover up mass killings but announce results of investigation as quickly as possible," refuting the misinformation carried by the U.S. newspaper The Stars and Stripes that the testimonies made by eyewitnesses lacked credibility and there was no systematic order for firing. The chairman of the committee urged the U.S. government to take understandable measures including an official apology and compensation. U.S. urged to renounce position of strength Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The United States should renounce its anachronistic approach to the Korean issue on the basis of its outdated conception of the Cold War era, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It is entirely due to the U.S. unreasonable policy of strength towards Korea that abnormal relations between the DPRK and the U.S. remain unsettled for half a century until now, the paper says, and goes on: The U.S. National Security Council, in a worked-out draft of "U.S. new strategy for 21st century," declared that the U.S. would continue to follow the "win-win strategy" and "policy of interfering in other countries' disputes." This hints that the U.S. has designated the Korean peninsula as a region where the next war may break out in the world. Worse still, the council in its recent report said that "some of the U.S. forces should be stationed in the Korean peninsula for security in East Asia even after the peninsula is reunified." It is an open threat to the DPRK and a concentric expression of the U.S. position of strength to handle the Korean issue. Under the pretext of the DPRK's "nuclear and missile threat" the U.S. is massively shipping sophisticated weapons into South Korea and getting Japan involved in the moves to establish the "Theatre Missile Defense" system, while strengthening the U.S.-Japan-South Korea military alliance. The moves only reveal the U.S. wild design to dominate Korea as a whole. The Korean peninsula was divided owing to the U.S. military occupation of South Korea and acute political and military confrontation persists on the peninsula due to the U.S. military presence and policy of division. That is why the U.S. military occupation of South Korea should be terminated, reckless war games against the DPRK be discontinued and all lethal weapons be removed from South Korea. More cases of wiretapping disclosed Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- It has been recently disclosed again that private telephone messages are wiretapped by repressive machines in South Korea such as "police" and "prosecution," a Seoul-based radio reported. Thirty-three cases of wiretapping by those machines have been disclosed since last November. The police purchased equipment worth 920 million won for surveillance and wiretapping of telephone messages to intensify crackdown on people. These machines took over secret call numbers of at least 4,050 cellular phones and walkie-talkies from Tele-communication companies from January 1997 to June last year to observe the movements of those under watch. U.S. air force's use of uranium bullets probable Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Wilson, who was a pilot of a U.S. air force fighter and is now a member of the world peace movement organization, asserted it was probable that planes of the U.S. air force used uranium bullets during strafing exercises in areas around its firing range in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong county, Kyonggi Province, according to a radio report from Seoul. He said this on May 15 when visiting the Committee of Measures for Compensation for Damage Done To Inhabitants By Bombing Exercises of the U.S. Air Force. Disclosing that when strafing to destroy tanks, planes "A 10" of the U.S. air force use live bullets whose heads are charged with radioactive uranium, he noted everyone was warned not to touch live bullets littered about the coastal area near the firing range. The measure committee is going to request a specialized institution to thoroughly detect radioactive substance on those live bullets. Anti-U.S. march called for Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on May 10 issued an "appeal to all the people," reflecting the people's grudge and resentment at the U.S.'s monstrous crimes, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the May 18 Kwangju Uprising. The uprising was a heroic deed which demonstrated the indomitable spirit and matchless courage of the Korean nation in the fight against injustice and resistance which opened a new horizon for the struggle for independence against the U.S. in the history of revolutionary movement in South Korea, said the appeal. The appeal called on all the people to learn from the heroic spirit and indomitable stamina of the May resistance fighters and courageously turn out in a struggle to fully probe the truth behind the U.S.'s massacre of May 18 uprisers and mass killings of innocent civilians committed by them during the Korean War. It called for making a breakthrough in the grand anti-U.S. march to put an end to the crimes of the U.S. and their colonial rule over South Korea through the struggle on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the uprising. A press conference was held at the Pyongyang mission of the NDFSK yesterday as regards the issue of the appeal. Revision of "ROK-U.S. status of forces agreement" urged Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The people's movement for revision of the shackling South Korea-U.S. "status of forces agreement" yesterday held a rally in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul and demanded revision of the agreement, according to a radio report from Seoul. The movement involves 120 civil organizations including the Citizens Federation for Economic Justice and the Citizens' Solidarity for Democratic Society. The rally was attended by victims of atrocities in Iksan, North Jolla Province, in 1950, who demanded a probe into the truth behind the massacres of civilians by the U.S. aggression troops during the Korean War and compensation. The movement in a letter of protest addressed to the U.S. President charged it is an impudent delaying tactics to maintain the extra-territorial status of the U.S. troops in South Korea that the U.S. unilaterally postponed the negotiations for revision of the "status of forces agreement," which were scheduled to resume in April. After the rally the movement pitched a tent in front of the U.S. embassy to go on a stay-in strike and a clash with police is expected. Symposium on experience in building WPK held in Madagascar Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- A joint symposium of Madagascan progressive political parties on experience gained in building the Worker's Party of Korea was held in Antananarivo on May 6. Among those present were leaders of the Party of the Congress for the Independence, the Monima Socialist Organization, the Socialist Progressive Party, the United Party of Struggle and the Workers and Peasants Struggle Party of Madagascar. The national secretary of the party of the congress for the independence in his speech said that the WPK founded by the great leader Kim Il Sung is known as a veteran, militant and revolutionary party with a long history. Experience of party building and work established by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the great leaders, is valuable wealth that progressive political parties of the world should learn from, he stressed. The administrative secretary of the action for the renaissance noted that the experience in WPK building is a textbook for all political parties of the world that aspire after socialism. A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the symposium. Korean people's struggle supported abroad Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Laurent Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when he met with the Korean ambassador to his country on May 10, said that he would invariably support the DPRK government in its struggle to achieve the reunification of the country and this is his faith. Reaffirming unconditional support to the three-point charter of Korea's reunification, he stressed that the U.S. troops should get out of South Korea and the reunification of Korea should be achieved by the Korean people themselves. Hassan Ibrahim Habibi, first vice-president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, told a delegation of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on May 10 that the interference of foreign forces is the main factor of aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula and that the DPRK government's position and measures for ensuring peace and stability in the region and achieving reunification are just. NOTICIAS EN ESPANOL segundo contacto de expertos de comunicacion e informacion para ejecucion de acuerdo norte-sur phanmunjom, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- el segundo contacto de los expertos de comunicacion e informacion para la ejecucion del acuerdo norte-sur tuvo lugar hoy en el pabellon thong-il en la zona norte de phanmunjom. la parte norte presento el racional proyecto de procedimientos practicos relativos a la comunicacion e informacion para asegurar plenamente el historico encuentro de pyongyang y las conversaciones de nivel supremo norte-sur. ambas partes acordaronlos principalmente mediante la consulta sincera y se pusieron de acuerdo con consultar y confirmar unos problemas practicos pendientes despues de llegada a pyongyang del grupo de avanzada de la parte sur. temerario acto militarista, comentario de atcc pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- segun el periodico japones "mainithi shimbun" hace unos dias, ishihara, gobernador de metropoli de tokio, dijo en una conferencia: "la suprema seguridad es producir y exportar armas modernas al extranjero". ese representante de los reaccionarios ultraderechistas del japon recientemente profirio en repetidas veces palabrerias de caracter militarista y ultranacionalista provocando censura del publico. esta vez instigo abiertamente la produccion y exportacion de armas modernas so pretexto de la "seguridad" revelando asi la intencion de los reaccionarios derechistas del japon de convertir el japon en potencia militar y agredir al extranjero. la "seguridad" del japon y la exportacion de armas son incompatibles. es ilogico intento de exportar armas bajo el rotulo de la "seguridad". esto es la intencion de anular sus nominales "tres principios de exportacion de armas". la realidad japonesa donde reina fantasma militarista demuestra que la "contribucion a la paz" de que hablan tanto sus autoridades no pasa de ser hipocrita y especialmente la peroracion de "amenaza de misiles" de la rpd de corea es un acto descarado de perseguir sus intereses. los reaccionarios japoneses tratan de ganar dolares mediante la exportacion de armas y agrandar sus influencias militares y la esfera de su poder y, a la larga, preparar el trampolin de agresion al ultramar. lo que atrae atencion es que ee.uu. guarda silencio ante tal maquinacion militarista de los reaccionarios japoneses. en cuanto a otros paises que fortalecen su poderio autodefensivo se pone nervioso e interviene abiertamente y actua de gendarme internacional. pero finge ignorar la conversion del japon en una potencia militar. esto es apoyarlo. no podemos considerarnos de otra manera. los reaccionarios japoneses deben poner de inmediato fin al acto de amenazar a la paz con los esfuerzos freneticos por la conversion en potencia militar y agresion al ultramr al amparo de los estados unidos. ee.uu. no debe tratar con posicion de fuerza problema de corea, senala "rodong sinmun" pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- ee.uu. debe abandonar la actitud anacronica de tratar el problema de corea con la caduca posicion de la epoca de guerra fria, asi senala hoy el periodico "rodong sinmun" en un articulo y continua: las relaciones anormales entre la rpd de corea y ee.uu. no se han resuelto hasta la fecha. esto se debe enteramente a la injusta politica de fuerza de ee.uu. hacia ella. el consejo de seguridad nacional de ee.uu. elaboro el proyecto de "nueva estrategia para el siglo 21", que estipula que en el nuevo siglo ee.uu. tomara tambien la "estrategia de enfrentamiento a dos guerras" y "practicara de continuo la politica de intervencion en los conflictos de otras naciones". esto insinua que ese pais americano define la peninsula coreana como lugar de estallido de la proxima guerra en el mundo. para colmo, el informe elaborado y publicado recientemente por el consejo de seguridad nacional de ee.uu. enfatiza que en el caso de reunificarse corea se debe mantener durante un tiempo las tropas norteamericanas para la seguridad del este asiatico", lo cual constituye la amenaza abierta a la rpdc y la demostracion clara de su posicion de fuerza en el tratamiento del problema coreano. bajo el pretexto de la "amenaza nuclear" y "la de misiles" de la rpdc, ee.uu. introduce en gran tamano las armas de punta en el sur de corea e incorpora al japon en el establecimiento del sistema "teatro de defensa misil", asi como da acicate al fortalecimiento de la alianza militar tripartita con japon y surcorea, mostrando asi la ambicion de dominar a toda corea. debido a la ocupacion del sur de corea por ee.uu. y por su politica de division corea se dividio y se creo el agudo enfrentamiento politico y militar en la peninsula coreana. por lo tanto, para eliminar de raiz tales desgracias hay que poner fin a la ocupacion militar del sur de corea por las tropas estadounidenses, y a los aventureros ejercicios de guerra contra la rpdc y eliminar completamente todas las armas homicidas en el sur de corea. conversaciones entre delegaciones de ptc y pcc pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- las conversaciones entre las delegaciones del partido del trabajo de corea y del partido comunista de cuba se sostuvieron el dia 17 en esta capital. ambas partes se informaron del estado de las actividades de sus respectivos partidos e intercambiaron opiniones sobre el ulterior desarrollo de las relaciones de amistad y cooperacion entre los dos partidos y una serie de problemas de interes mutuo. participaron por la parte coreana kim yang gon, jefe de departamento del cc del ptc y otros funcionarios interesados y por la parte cubana la delegacion del pcc presidida por rolando alfonso borge, miembro del cc y jefe de departamento de ideologia del pcc y jose manuel inclan embade, embajador de la republica de cuba en la rpdc. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org 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