Korean Central News Agency exerpts 4/26/00 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Democratic People's Republic of Korea KCNA News Excerpts April 26 2000 -S. Korean students stage sit-in strike -Former U.S. ambassador's baloney on 1980 Kwangju Uprising -Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad -Early opening of diplomatic relations between Japan and DPRK urged -International community urged not to allow Japan to violate justice -Japan's anti-DPRK campaign assailed -Spokesman of DPRK FM assails U.S. anti-Cuba campaign -Mass killings during Korean War under fire -DPRK FM memorandum supported abroad -New York Times on mass killings of "political prisoners" S. Korean students stage sit-in strike Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Students of 20 universities of South Korea went on a sit-in strike of various forms all at once in protest against the authorities' increase of registration fee, a Seoul-based radio reported. Those of six universities including Ehwa Woman's University had their hair cut short or staged a sit-in strike in tents in token of their protest. Those of 14 universities across South Korea on sit-in strikes inside them expressed their will to continue the struggle till their demands are met. Reporting this, the radio said that the educational administration will remain in chaos for quite some time at the 14 universities due to the sit-in strike as there is no sign that the students will discontinue the strike sooner or later. Former U.S. ambassador's baloney on 1980 Kwangju Uprising Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Gleysteen who was a U.S. ambassador at Seoul when the Kwangju Popular Uprising took place in South Korea in May 1980, speaking at a function held in Los Angeles, U.S. on April 22, said that he was convinced that the quelling of the Kwangju resistance was decided on by Chun Doo Hwan and permitted by "President" Choe Kyu Ha, a Seoul-based radio reported. His base remarks are aimed at shifting all the responsibility for the Kwangju massacre on to the South Korean ruling quarters and freeing the U.S., the principal culprit and manipulator of the hideous crime, from all the crime. It is an open secret that Gleysteen, in a message sent to the U.S. State Department from Seoul on May 23, 1980, said his embassy allowed the South Korean authorities to use in Kwangju those forces under the U.S.-South Korea combined forces command. It is also a well-known fact that after the Kwangju massacre, Wickham, the then commander of the U.S. aggression troops stationed in South Korea, said that the "establishment of the Chun Doo Hwan regime was one of the most successful in the U.S. policy toward South Korea after the October incident (shooting Park Chung-Hee to death)." It has been fully proven by the two facts that it was the U.S. who plunged Kwangju into a sea of blood. It is a trite habit of the U.S. to shift the responsibility for all their crimes on to the South Korean rulers. The South Korean people will make the U.S., the culprit of the crimes, pay a very high price. Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Political parties and organizations of Russia, Italy, Syria, Congo, Madagascar, Pakistan, Guinea, Bulgaria, Peru and Indonesia participated in the international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification from April 10 to 20. The signature paper was signed by O. Shenin, chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chairman of the International Committee for Unity and Friendship with Peoples, on behalf of one million members= V. I. Anpilov, chairman of the executive committee of "Working Russia" Movement, on behalf of 200,000 members= V. M. Smirnov, chairman of the National Salvation Front of Russia, on behalf of 10,000 members= N. A. Andreyeva, general secretary of the central committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and Vladimir Tolstikov, chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK and chairman of the East European Center for solidarity and support with the DPRK, on behalf of their respective party and organization. Among the signers were the secretary general of the Monima Socialist Organization of Madagascar on behalf of 18,980 members, the national chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Madagascar on behalf of 700,000 members, the national chairman of the Militant Action Party for Sovereignty of Madagascar on behalf of 10,740 members, the national chairman of the Socialist Progressive Party of Madagascar on behalf of 970,000 party members, the director of Nansan senior middle school in Antananarivo on behalf of teachers and students, the first administrative secretary of the Party for Unity and Progress of Guinea authorized by the general secretary of the party on behalf of 450,000 party members, the army chief of staff and the navy chief of staff and the commander of the Security Forces of Guinea on behalf of their servicemen, the director of the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea, the president of the Society for the Study of the Juche Literary Idea of Guinea, the chairman of the Guinea-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group, the chief of the Guinean Group for the Study of Kimjongilism on behalf of their organizations, Michele Capuano, general secretary of the People's United Democratic Left Wing of Italy and chairman of the Italian Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with Peoples, on behalf of 8,500 members, Osvaldo Pesce, general secretary of the Unified Communist Party of Italy, Paolo Pioppi, secretary general of the Italian Committee for the Reunification and Peace of Korea, Alberto Moreno, general secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Peru (Red Motherland), Emil Khriaktov, chairman of the Communist Party of Bulgaria "Georgi Dimitrov", the chairman of the Pakistan Socialist Party, the secretary general of the Lahore branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association, the secretary of the Pakistan Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the secretary general of the Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions, the secretary general of the Pakistan Organization for Afro-Asian People's Solidarity and the general secretary of the Pakistan Kissan committee on behalf of their parties and organizations. In Indonesia general directors of different companies signed the signature paper on behalf of their company members. The signature paper was also signed by the chairman of the Syria-Korea Friendship Association and the chairman of the Congolese Committee for Supporting the Proposal for Founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo. Early opening of diplomatic relations between Japan and DPRK urged Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- A letter of request to the Japanese Prime Minister was adopted at the sixth meeting of the Japan-DPRK friendship Okayama prefectural people's forum held in Okayama Prefecture on April 1. The resumption of the Japan-DPRK talks was desired by the Japanese people, the letter said, and went on: The division of the Korean peninsula was caused by Japan's colonial rule over Korea and its war of aggression against the peninsula in the first half of the 20th century. The continued split of Korea is attributable to the fact that Japan, pursuant to the U.S. Korea policy, has always been hostile to the DPRK and has joined Washington in its policy of keeping Korea divided into the north and the south. A new order will be established between Japan and the DPRK, free visit between them be possible and "doubt" will be naturally cleared only when a policy of dialogue and cooperation is adopted instead of Japan's old wrong policy toward the DPRK to open the diplomatic relations between the two countries. We strongly demand the Japanese government pursue an independent diplomacy and liquidate before the end of this century the wrongdoings committed in the century and establish diplomatic relations with the DPRK. International community urged not to allow Japan to violate justice Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- A representative of the International Educational Development Organization, speaking at the 56th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 13, urged the international community not to allow Japan to bring disgrace to the victims and violate justice. He said that the world is disappointed at the United States' attitude of not demanding compensation to the victims of Asian disasters, while supporting the plan of the German government to compensate to the victims of European disasters. All the countries are obliged to admit the enslavement and other war crimes and compensate for them, he noted, adding: World WarII cannot be considered as ended unless the victims receive compensation from the Japanese government, and they are still disgraced by Japan. He stated that the victims will not abandon their lifelong demand for justice, holding that Japan should not be allowed to play any role on the international arena unless their demand is met. Japan's anti-DPRK campaign assailed Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Japanese anti-DPRK plot-breeding bodies, the "Liaison Council of Victims' Families", the "National Council for Rescuing Japanese" and "the Council of Local Assemblymen" kicked up an anti-DPRK row in Seoul on April 18 with the South Korean "Council of Families of those Kidnapped by North" allegedly to "cooperate" in an "early repatriation of them", a news radio report said. This anti-DPRK campaign launched by Japanese militarist forces and South Korean anti-communist conservative forces at a time when the intergovernmental talks between the DPRK and Japan are under way is aimed at injuring the dignity of the DPRK, isolating it internationally and fomenting anti-DPRK sentiment among the peoples of Japan and South Korea in a bid to torpedo the talks and perpetuate the division of Korea. During their occupation of Korea the Japanese imperialists kidnapped or walked away 6 million young and middle-aged Koreans under the name of "labour draft" or "conscription" and took away nearly 200,000 women as "comfort women for the army," and unconverted long-term prisoners are illegally detained in South Korea. These are the only issues to be settled between the DPRK and Japan and between north and South Korea. This notwithstanding, the Japanese reactionaries and the South Korean anti-DPRK forces are chiming in with each other in the smear campaign over "kidnapping" or "those kidnapped by the north." This is just like a thief crying "stop the thief " The Japanese reactionaries had better apologize for kidnapping millions of young and middle-aged Koreans to kill them in slave work sites and war shambles during their occupation of Korea before talking about the fictitious "kidnapping" and the non-existent people "kidnapped by the north." And the South Korean authorities should send without delay the unconverted long-term prisoners back to the north. Nobody will pay attention to their loudmouthed "issues of kidnapping" and "those kidnapped by the north". One's evil doings are will rebound on oneself. Spokesman of DPRK FM assails U.S. anti-Cuba campaign Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an answer given to a question put by KCNA today assailed an anti-Cuba human rights resolution adopted at the 56th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 18. Recalling that the Cuban government and public are strongly denouncing the adoption of this resolution as another charade staged under the U.S. behind-the-scene wire-pulling, he said: It is well known to the world that over the last 40 years since the victory in the Cuban revolution the U.S. has pursued a policy of political isolation and imposed economic sanctions and blockade upon socialist Cuba in a bid to stifle it. Many Cuban people have been brutally murdered or crippled and Cuba has suffered huge economic losses due to the U.S. terrorism and subversive and sabotage activities. The anti-Cuba campaign launched by the U.S. again over the "human rights issue" is, in fact, an encroachment upon the sovereignty of an independent country and a violation of human rights as it is part of the anti-socialist moves to hurl mud at the Cuban revolution and stifle it. The DPRK strongly condemns any moves of the U.S. against socialist Cuba and will always extend full support and solidarity to the government and people of Cuba in their just struggle to defend the sovereignty and independence of the country and national dignity and socialism. Mass killings during Korean War under fire Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- It was disclosed recently in the course of probe into the U.S.'s brutal mass killings of civilians in Yongdong that by the U.S. order the "ROK" army and South Korean police massacred without trial at least 2,000 "political prisoners" in Yongo-ri, Jichon-myon, Chilgok county of North Kyongsang Province. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that those mercilessly killed were patriots who fought against the U.S.'s colonial military rule and traitor Syngman Rhee's treacherous anti-reunification policy. It was a crime to imprison those patriots as "criminals" and impose all manner of persecution and suffering upon them, the commentary says, and goes on: Not content with this, the U.S. herded soldiers of the "ROK" army and police into massacring without trial those patriots who earnestly desired national independence and reunification . The U.S. and their stooges indiscriminately killed not only patriotic people but also war refugees in a bid to recover from their repeated setbacks in the war and calm down the anti-U.S., anti-"government" sentiment. They should fully probe the truth behind massacres hitherto concealed and make public them. The Korean nation will surely make the aggressors and traitors pay a thousand times for the blood shed by the fellow countrymen not only during the Korean War but up to this date since the U.S. forces' occupation of South Korea. DPRK FM memorandum supported abroad Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The general secretary of the United Party of Struggle of Madagascar sent a letter to the UN Secretary General on April 17 in support of the memorandum issued by the DPRK Foreign Ministry on March 21. The letter said that the U.S. could never avoid the responsibility for the unethical mass killings committed by GIs against innocent civilians during the Korean War. It asserted that as the U.S. forces committed the brutal killings in the name of "UN forces" the UN should feel due responsibility for them, dissolve the "UN forces command" in South Korea and take a practical measure to let the U.S. forces withdraw from there and thoroughly investigate the criminals and seriously punish them. Mohamed Samba Kebe, secretary general of the National Confederation of Guinean Workers, in a statement issued on April 6, denounced the mass killings committed by the GIs during the Korean War on behalf of members of his organization. New York Times on mass killings of "political prisoners" Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The New York Times dated April 21 carried a report of AP on mass killings of "political prisoners" committed by the South Korean "ROK" army and police during the last Korean War. The paper said: In the early period of the Korean War the "ROK" army and police murdered at least 2,000 "political prisoners" without trial and U.S. army officers frequently witnessed them. These facts were disclosed by the declassified U.S. military documents and testimonies made by witnesses. The new specific disclosure made by AP and a South Korean researcher proves the assertion of some historians that in the middle of 1950 when the "ROK" army was fleeing in face of the advancing North Korean army, a large number of "political prisoners" were arrested by their "government" to be killed in secret, and this was obviously aimed at blocking the cooperation between the left-wingers and the communist army. The paper also referred to testimonies of witnesses, saying the disclosure of these facts has been barred for scores of years due to the successive military rulers of South Korea and brought to light recently by families of the victims. ================================================================= 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 ================================================================= nytas-04.27.00-23:52:41-27925