Regarding another provocative military-political fuss and saber-rattling by the U.S. near the borders of the DPRK

STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CC AUCPB

Regarding another provocative military-political fuss and saber-rattling by the U.S. near the borders of the DPRK

From 25 June to 27 July, traditionally in the DPRK and a number of countries that support the independent and autonomous political and economic policy of the DPRK is conducted a Month of Solidarity in joint struggle against American imperialism. June 25, 1950 – was the beginning of the Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people under the leadership of the great general Kim Il Sung against the U.S. armed forces and the armed forces of their satellites. July 27 – marks the victory of the Korean people in this terrible massacre against the armed with the latest military equipment U.S. aggressors who wanted to end the DPRK as a sovereign socialist state. That was the first time the Americans in its entire period of existence lost a military campaign in disgrace. It ended with the signing of a truce, and not a peace treaty between the DPRK and the U.S., because North Korea and South Korea, whose territory still has many thousands of U.S. troops, and technically the United States is actually still at war with the DPRK (North Korea). Korea, due to the Americans was divided along the 38 th parallel into two states. A NATION is divided and is eager for reunification. Numerous appeals by the leadership of DPRK to the leaders of the United States over the past 57 years to sign a peace agreement have been fully rejected. Perhaps the U.S. can never forgive itself for the shame of defeat from a small newly born socialist country in North-East Asia. Probably, the Americans still cherish the hope to gain revenge for the long-standing defeat, and every year with manic urgency several times a year near the borders of Korea, organize a demonstration of its military power, together with its loyal subjects "allies."
Here and now near the borders of North Korea is a demonstration of intimidation against the DPRK.
From July 25 in the Sea of Japan are being held for a period of 4 days, a joint large-scale military "exercise" by the U.S. and South Korea. The nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington and 20 other ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy, as well as 100 aircraft and 8,000 troops are taking part. The second stage of the "exercises" will be held in the Yellow Sea. Robert Gates (Secretary of Defense) called these exercises "an open letter for the DPRK, with the demand to renounce nuclear weapons." Such increased aggressiveness and arrogance by U.S. officials due to the use of false pretext against North Korea - the provocative sinking by the armed forces of the USA of the South Korean warship Cheonan, which the unprovenly falsely accused North Korea of doing.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the new sanctions by the U.S. and saber rattling are "primarily directed against the North Korean leadership and its assets." The U.S. "aims to isolate the leadership of the DPRK to apply pressure on it and force North Korea to stop the development of its nuclear energy".
The visit by Hillary Clinton, along with Robert Gates, to the border post in Panmundzhon and the viewing of North Korean positions in binoculars is clearly provocative.
The statements by Clinton and Gates that the new (stifling) sanctions against North Korea – “will not affect the population of North Korea, but that they are directed against the North Korean authorities," sound beyond naive and even foolish, and suggest a profound misunderstanding of the essence of socialist Korean society.
The weakening by the day "great power" America does not want to take into account the monolithic unity of the leaders and people of the DPRK which is stronger than any weapon that can not be separated from one another, and that every citizen of the DPRK is ready to give their life in defense of the Korean revolution and personally its Supreme Commander Comrade Kim Jong Il. So hysterical another show of force by the United States near the borders of the DPRK only shows the historical unconscious of Americans who shamefully lost the Korean War in 1950-1953. Apparently HISTORY has taught nothing to the ambitious dirty sack full of fake worthless green papers, soiled by blood and sweat of those who are robbed by the U.S. constantly and everywhere around the world. Americans are also afraid of the future inevitability of the unification of the Korean nation as a weakening of its bridgehead in Northeast Asia. And the rising giant in the third world - IRAN – is making the United States very worried. Not without reason during the international World Cup football hysteria, the Americans quietly pulled into the Mediterranean huge armed forces, but still not decided to start a military conflict. Therefore, with frenzied rage they attack the DPRK, struggling to set alight the wick of a fire of a world nuclear carnage on the Korean peninsula. The only thing stopping them is the possession by the DPRK of its own nuclear weapons as a powerful deterrent to any aggressor.
We, the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, sincerely wish our brotherly people of the DPRK success in all their tasks of socialist construction, as well as a swift solution on reunification of the Korean nation.
We firmly believe, dear Korean friends, in YOUR successes, in YOUR monolithic UNITY and a swift powerful rebuff to any aggressor.
Long live the heroic people of the DPRK, the people-worker, a nation-builder, the people-warrior!
Long live the glorious Armed Forces of the DPRK equipped with nuclear weapons!
Long live the military and political headquarters of the Korean revolution led by the Great Kim Jong Il!
Long live the growing struggle of the peoples of the world against imperialism!
Long live world peace!

N.A. Andreeva

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB)

Statement of JISGE and ASSPUK on the occasion of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
London 27th July
Today the ASSPUK and JISGE issued a joint statement on the 57th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation war of the Korean people against the US imperialist aggressors.
TheFatherland Liberation War was a real David and Goliath struggle as the US imperialists threw in huge armed forces and the troops of their satellite countries.The US imperialists used barbaric methods of warfare outdoing the Hitler nazis.They used germ and chemical warfare and carried out horrendous massacres.All these failed to subdue the Korean people who under the wise leadership of the great revolutionary Marshal Kim Il Sung achieved a great victory.
The forces of the heroic KPA defeated the so called "Invincible US 24th Divsion",taking its commander General Dean prisoner.The KPA turned Height 1211 into a hill of hearbreak for the US imperialist aggressors.
The KPA and Korean people fought in the revolutionary spirit of self reliance.It was their efforts that were primary in defeating the US imperialist aggressors.
The great revolutionary leader Marshal Kim Il Sung said
In this great struggle our people fought determindedly as one in
mind under the correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominous defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs"

In the Fatherland Liberation War commanded by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung reactionary bourgeois military theory was smashed by the Juche orientated revolutionary military strategy and theory.The Fatherland Liberation War ended in victory due to the Juche orientated military tactics and Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader supreme commander Marshal Kim Il Sung.It inspired national liberation and revolutionary movements all over the world and started US imperialism on its decline.
Today the US imperialists and fascist south Korean puppets and others are running wild to start a second Korean war but they should know that the Korean people under the uplifted banner of Songun and the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il will inflict a defeat a 100 and a 1000 times greater than in the 1950s.
ASSPUK
JISGE

National Meeting Marks 57th Anniversary of Victory in War

National Meeting Marks 57th Anniversary of Victory in War

Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium Monday to mark the 57th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War. Present there were senior Party, army and state officials, the chairperson of a friendly party, officials of party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, those of the Korean People's Interior Forces, officials in the fields of science, education, culture and arts, public health and media, war veterans, heroes and heroines, servicemen's families, those who performed merits in assisting the army, overseas Koreans staying in the socialist homeland and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front. July 27, Juche 42 (1953) is the day of the victory the army and people of the DPRK won by defeating the U.S. imperialists in the three year-long hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung. In this war they protected the independence of the country and the sovereignty of the nation from the imperialist allied forces' aggression, shattered the myth of "mightiness" of the U.S. imperialists, who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world, and brought the beginning of the downhill turn for them. KPA Vice Marshal Kim Yong Chun, vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and minister of the People's Armed Forces, said in a report delivered at the meeting that the victory in the war was a miracle recorded in the history of modern war, a product of the Juche-oriented military idea and strategy, matchless pluck and outstanding commanding art of the President. Under the outstanding leadership of Kim Il Sung the Korean people won a shining victory in the war, honorably defending the glorious DPRK and the gains of the revolution, frustrating the moves of the U.S. imperialists for a new world war and protecting the security and peace of mankind, the reporter noted, and continued: The undying feats the President performed by winning the victory in the war and the ever-victorious tradition of heroic Korea have been steadfastly carried forward generation after generation under the outstanding Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il. He made a scientific analysis of the international environment and the rapidly changing situation of the Korean revolution at a time when a stern ordeal befell the country and the nation. He, on this basis, enforced Songun politics in all fields on a new higher level, the politics which calls for giving priority to military affairs and regarding revolutionary armed forces as main forces, thereby providing a firm political and military guarantee for final victory in the confrontation with U.S. This great victory clearly testified to the fact that eternal are the ever- victorious history and tradition of the army and people of the DPRK who have Kim Jong Il at the helm of the Songun revolution and there is no force on earth that can overpower the might of the Korean people single-mindedly united around him. The U.S. should realize that its war of aggression like the Korean War started by it on June 25 is bound to end in the victory of Songun Korea just as it ended in the victory of the Korean people on July 27. The DPRK will further bolster its nuclear deterrence in a new advanced manner to cope with the increasing nuclear threat of the U.S. This is a legitimate sovereign right of the DPRK and a mode of merciless counteraction of its revolutionary armed forces as they have always emerged victorious in the fight against the enemies by displaying the pluck and offensive spirit of Mt. Paektu. Should the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors finally ignite a new war of aggression in Korea despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, it will mobilize the tremendous military potential including its nuclear deterrence for self-defence and thus wipe out the aggressors and blow up all their strongholds. By doing so it will clearly show what a real war will look like and completely eradicate the root cause of war.

Co

Solidarity Resolution adopted at meeting

SOLIDARITY RESOLUTION We particpants in the meeting to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the Koreanpeople in the Fatherland Liberation call upon the US imperialists and southKorean puppets to immediately cancel the planned war exercises in the Westand east of Korea scheduled for July 25th to July 28th. These are a violation of the DPRK 's sovereignity and a threat to peace in Asia and the world. Futhermore we condemn the US imperialists for piling on more sanctions on theDPRK and also demand the cancellation of the aggressive Ulji Focus exercises in August. signed particpants in the meeting.

Statement in support of NDC Statement

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITCS UK



London 24th of July 2010 Juche 99

Today the Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK and Juche Idea Study Group
of England issued a joint statement in support of the statement of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
It is entirely just and correct that the DPRK should take measures to defend itself against the ever increasing and mad cap provocations of the US imperialists and south Korean puppets which coincide with the piling of yet more sanctions on the DPRK in order to stifle its socialist system.
The US imperialists and south Korean puppets are running wild with different war exercises against the DPRK such as the navy drills due to start tomorrow and the Ulji Freedom Guardian" joint exercises and joint anti-submarine exercises in the West Sea of Korea from August 16 to 26.These are a wanton challenge to peace and a gross violation of the sovereignity of the DPRK.
They are a perfidious attempt to intimidate the DPRK and also to stifle the Korean style socialism that guarantees a independent and creative life to the people. It is the right of independent nations to self defence including all means at their disposal.We support the just stand of the DPRK NDC ,representing the will of the Korean people and safeguarding and protecting the interests of the DPRK and entire Korean nation ,to wage a sacred retaliatory war.

Yankees get out of Korea now you dont belong there
Stop the war exercises now
Victory to the DPRK,the independent Juche socialist power !
Down with US Imperialism.

ASSPUK
JISGE

Statement denouncing Clinton visit and War Exercises

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
London 23rd of July 2010 Juche 99

The ASSPUK,JISGE and UK KFA today issued a joint statement condemning the visit of US war chieftains Clinton and Gates to Korea coinciding with the annoucement of new sanctions against the diginified DPRK and aggressive war exercises against the DPRK.

Clinton and Gates have no right to interfere in Korea and should have stayed at home.Clinton maliciously slandered the DPRK .In fact the DPRK has followed path of independence and self reliance to become a powerful socialist country that is independent, self supporting and self defending.The DPRK is entering an era of prosperity.It has abolished taxation and people enjoy free education,free medical care and other great benefits.
However south Korea is a wretched neo colony occupied by brutish US agggressor troops where national spirit is trampled down.South Korean people live in poverty and the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.It is the US imperialists who divided Korea and continue to do so.

We denouce strongly the war exercises and new sanctions against the DPRK .The US imperialist sanctions against the DPRK will be frustated owing to the socialist independent national economy of the DPRK and self reliance.
The war exercises are a wanton challenge to peace and an infringement of the DPRK sovereignity. They are aimed at threatening and intimidating the DPRK and stifling the Korean style socialist system centred upon the popular masses .These aggressive mad cap war exercises not only threaten the DPRK but threaten peace and sovereignity in the whole of Asia.
We demand the US imperialists and south Korean puppets stop these
war excercises at once.
HANDS OFF THE DPRK
US IMPERIALISTS OUT OF KOREA.

NDC States to Counter US-S. Korea War Exercises with Nuclear Deterrence

NDC States to Counter US-S. Korea War Exercises with Nuclear Deterrence

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces finally went into reckless actions against the DPRK after having frantically pushed ahead with the moves to stifle the DPRK under the pretext of the "Cheonan" case. A spokesman for the DPRK National Defence Commission issued a statement on Saturday clarifying the principled stand of the army and people of the DPRK in this regard. It said: The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces are planning to stage joint naval exercises in the East Sea of Korea from July 25 to 28, the "Ulji Freedom Guardian" joint exercises and joint anti-submarine exercises in the West Sea of Korea from August 16 to 26 and different ceaseless joint naval exercises from late in August to early in September and other drills. All these war maneuvers are nothing but outright provocations aimed to stifle the DPRK by force of arms to all intents and purposes. If the publication of the results of investigation into the "Cheonan" case which was faked up by the U.S. imperialists at instigation of their puppet forces was the first reckless military provocation to the DPRK, the joint naval maneuvers they are to stage even with nuclear strike means involved under the pretext of the above-said case amount to an unpardonable second military provocation to the DPRK, the statement noted, and continued: The chief architect of the warship case seems to send a "message as deterrence" to somebody while staging offensive exercises under the pretext of the forged case after falsifying its truth. This is as reckless an act as waking up a sleeping tiger. The DPRK National Defence Commission re-clarifies the following principled stand as regards this abnormal situation where the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are threatening this land with a nuclear war under the pretext of the "Cheonan" case: The army and people of the DPRK will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces. The more desperately the U.S. imperialists brandish their nukes and the more zealously their lackeys follow them, the more rapidly the DPRK's nuclear deterrence will be bolstered up along the orbit of self-defence and the more remote the prospect for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula will be become. The army and people of the DPRK will start a retaliatory sacred war of their own style based on nuclear deterrent any time necessary in order to counter the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces deliberately pushing the situation to the brink of a war. Now that the U.S. imperialists are persisting in their direct military provocations in gross violation of the spirit of the September 19 joint statement in which they promised not to attack or invade the DPRK with either nuclear or conventional weapons, it is a natural option of the army and people of the DPRK to take corresponding all-out retaliatory measures. The army and people of the DPRK will take all steps to the last to thoroughly probe the truth behind the case under the situation where the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces persistently and deliberately link the DPRK with the "Cheonan" case. It is a legitimate and sovereign right to protect the honor and dignity of the DPRK for them to probe the truth about the despicable "fabrication" and "charade." The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces will keenly realize what high price they will have to pay for their reckless military provocation rendering the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the worst phase under the pretext of the "Cheonan" case.

Statement denouncing Clinton visit and US war exercises

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
London 23rd of July 2010 Juche 99

The ASSPUK,JISGE and UK KFA today issued a joint statement condemning the visit of US war chieftains Clinton and Gates to Korea coinciding with the annoucement of new sanctions against the diginified DPRK and aggressive war exercises against the DPRK.

Clinton and Gates have no right to interfere in Korea and should have stayed at home.Clinton maliciously slandered the DPRK .In fact the DPRK has followed path of independence and self reliance to become a powerful socialist country that is independent,self supporting and self defending.The DPRK is entering an era of prosperity.It has abolished taxation and people enjoy free education,free medical care and other great benefits.
However south Korea is a wretched neo colony occupied by brutish US agggressor troops where national spirit is trampled down.South Korean people live in poverty and the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.It is the US imperialists who divided Korea and continue to do so.

We denouce strongly the war exercises and new sanctions against the DPRK .The US imperialist sanctions against the DPRK will be frustated owing to the socialist independent national economy of the DPRK and self reliance.
The war exercises are a wanton challenge to peace and an infringement of the DPRK sovereignity.They are aimed at threatening and intimidating the DPRK and stifling the Korean style socialist system centred upon the popular masses .These aggressive mad cap war exercises not only threaten the DPRK but threaten peace and sovereignity in the whole of Asia.
We demand the US imperialists and south Korean puppets stop these
war excercises at once.
HANDS OFF THE DPRK
US IMPERIALISTS OUT OF KOREA.

Statement on AI's slanders against DPRK superior socialist public health service system

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

London 22 July 2010 Juche 99
Today the ASSPUK and Juche Idea Study Group of England issued a joint statement in defence of the superior socialist public health service system of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea refuting the false and malicous material released by the so called "Amnesty International" . The DPRK has a proud public health service established in the flames of war in January 1953.It was legally consolidated in 1960 and 1980 by laws passed by the Supreme Peoples Assembly.

Members of our group can testify to the superiority of the DPRK public health system because they have recieved first class medical treatment free of charge.Moreover the World Health Organisation praised the DPRK health system as "the envy of the world".

The DPRK socialist public health service system is completely free of charge at the point of need.The DPRK abolished taxation in 1974 and Korean people do not pay prescription charges or NI contributions etc.All costs are borne by the state.

"Amnesty International" , an instrument of the cold war set up to discredit the socialist countries and undermine international democratic organisations, is spreading lies about the DPRK and its dignified Korean style socialist system.It has become a shock brigade of the US imperialists
in their pyschological warfare against the DPRK.


We call on world progressives and Juche idea followers to rally around the
DPRK and defend the Juche socialist system even more.

ASSPUK
JISGE

LET US INTENSIFY THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST, ANTI-US STRUGGLE-KIM IL SUNG

KIM IL SUNG

LET US INTENSIFY THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST, ANTI-US STRUGGLE

Article Published in the Inaugural Issue of the Theoretical Magazine Tricontinental,

Organ of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America

August 12, 1967

Two years ago the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America was inaugurated in Havana, the capital of Cuba.

It was an event of enormous importance. The aims and ideas of this organization have aroused the sympathy of hundreds of millions of Asians, Africans and Latin Americans and are exerting a profound influence on the great changes taking place in the world today.

The peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, who had been oppressed and plundered by Western capitalism and imperialism for centuries, have risen courageously and taken their place on the stage of history. The strong tide of national liberation is rising with an irresistible force. Hundreds of millions of people on the three continents are fighting for their freedom and are struggling to defend the revolutionary achievements they have already won. The colonial system of imperialism is rapidly disintegrating.

Imperialism is making desperate attempts to retain its former positions and regain its lost ground. As the dying hour of imperialism draws closer, the struggle is intensifying further. Thus, the peoples cannot but continue their struggle, holding high the banner of anti-imperialism, until imperialism is totally wiped off the face of the earth.

The newly independent countries which have thrown off the yoke of imperialism are confronted with the very difficult and important tasks of defending their national independence, carrying forward the revolution and aiding the liberation struggle of the peoples still chained by imperialism. The peoples who have won their independence must fight to crush the subversive activities of foreign imperialism and the domestic forces of reaction, tear down their economic strongholds, strengthen the revolutionary forces, set up a progressive social system and build an independent national economy and national culture. Only in this way can they protect the gains of the revolution, achieve the prosperity of their countries and nations and contribute to the common struggle of the peoples of the whole world to bury imperialism.

Asia, Africa and Latin America comprise 71 percent of the world’s land surface. These continents are inhabited by more than two-thirds of the world’s population and are blessed with inexhaustible natural resources. Imperialism has grown and become fat by grinding these peoples down and robbing them of their riches. Even today imperialism is squeezing tens of billions of dollars in profits from these areas every year. Once Asia, Africa and Latin America are completely freed from old and new colonialism, there will not be an imperialist Western Europe and an imperialist North America.

The struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America against imperialism and colonialism is a sacred liberation struggle for hundreds of millions of oppressed and humiliated people; it is also a great battle to cut the life line of world imperialism. This struggle and the revolutionary struggle of the international working class for socialism are the two major revolutionary forces of our times, and they join into one stream which will carry imperialism to its grave.

The imperialists cannot bestow independence upon the colonial peoples. Is there any need to prove the falsity of the imperialists’ declaration that the Western world can help the peoples of the three continents to achieve independence and progress and can coexist with a free and independent Asia, Africa and Latin America? The imperialist leopard cannot change his imperialist spots, and he never will. Imperialism will exploit, oppress and plunder the people until it meets its doom.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that they will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with a good will. Where there is oppression, there is bound to be resistance. It is inevitable that the oppressed peoples should fight for their emancipation. As long as imperialism plunders and oppresses small and weak nations by force, it remains an inalienable right of the oppressed nations to rise up in arms and fight against the aggressors.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious. Is it not true that the line of seeking unprincipled compromise with imperialism only tends to encourage its aggressive actions and increase the danger of war? Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. Genuine peace cannot be achieved unless a struggle is waged against those who break the peace, unless the slave’s peace is rejected and the oppressors’ rule overthrown. We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only denouncing imperialism but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. This is a line of compromise in an inverted form. Both have nothing to do with a genuine anti-imperialist struggle and only help the imperialist policy of aggression and war.

It is most important, when fighting against imperialism, to concentrate the attack on US imperialism, the ringleader of world imperialism.

By stretching out its aggressive tentacles all over the world, US imperialism has become the common enemy of all peoples of the world, There is no country on earth whose sovereignty is not violated by US imperialism; there is no country which is free from the menace of US imperialist aggression. The US imperialists are brutally suppressing the liberation struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America and constantly perpetrating acts of aggression and subversion to re-enslave the newly independent countries. Bluntly revealing their true colours as gangsters, the US imperialists are waging a war of aggression against a socialist country and interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries by force of arms. Over the past 20-odd years since the end of World War II, not a day has gone by which has not witnessed the flames of aggression and war kindled by US imperialism. US imperialism is, indeed, the most heinous and shameless plunderer known to history. It is the US imperialists themselves who are causing peoples all over the world calling for peace, independence and progress, to unite in a common front against US imperialism.

The peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America have common interests and are in a position to support each other in their anti-imperialist, anti-US struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free, Asia cannot be free; driving the US imperialists out of Asia will benefit the liberation struggle of the African and Latin-American peoples. Victory over US imperialism on one front will sap its strength and facilitate victory on other fronts by that much. If the US imperialist forces of aggression are defeated in any part of the world, it will be a very good thing for all the peoples of the world. It is necessary, therefore, to form the broadest possible anti-US united front to isolate US imperialism completely, and strike it in unison wherever it extends its talons of aggression, This alone will make it possible to disperse and weaken the force of US imperialism to the maximum and to lead the people with their unquestionably superior power to defeat US imperialism on all fronts.

For more than 20 years the US imperialists have been occupying the southern half of our country. They have enforced colonial rule in south Korea and turned it into a military base for their aggression against the whole of Korea and Asia. In spite of their ignominious defeat in the aggressive war against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the US imperialists have not yet given up their aggressive design to conquer the whole of Korea and are unceasingly planning to unleash another war in Korea. The supreme task of the Korean people at this time is to liquidate the colonial system of US imperialism in south Korea, accomplish the national-liberation revolution and reunite the country. For the Korean people to achieve the cause of national liberation, forces must be prepared along three fronts: strengthen the socialist forces in north Korea; increase and augment the revolutionary forces in south Korea; and develop the international revolutionary movement and strengthen solidarity with it. North Korea is the base of the Korean revolution. The successes of socialist construction there encourage the south Korean people in their anti-US, national-salvation struggle and stimulate the preparation of revolutionary forces in south Korea. We are striving to strengthen and develop the revolutionary forces in north and south Korea and, at the same time, to cement solidarity with the international revolutionary forces. The Korean people support the struggle of the peoples of all countries against US imperialism, and regard it as support for their own cause of liberation. We maintain that all the anti-imperialist forces of the world should unite in a joint struggle against US imperialism, and we have been working consistently to achieve this goal.

The US imperialists are more afraid of the united strength of the revolutionary peoples of the world than of anything else. That is why they are resorting to all kinds of tricks to obstruct the formation of an anti-US united front and are using the strategy of conquering small, weak countries one by one. This strategy of US imperialism must be thoroughly frustrated. The Asian, African and Latin-American countries have differing social systems, and there are many parties and groupings with divergent political views there. But all these countries, parties and groupings—except the stooges of imperialism—have a common interest in opposing the imperialist forces of aggression headed by US imperialism. The difference in social systems and political ideas can never be an obstacle to united struggle and concerted action against US imperialism. No one must be allowed to divide the anti-US united front or refuse joint action, claiming primary importance for his own specific national or partisan interests. Such an act will only benefit imperialism led by US imperialism and harm the revolutionary peoples.

It is very important in the joint struggle against imperialism to defend the revolution which has already triumphed.

It is an internationalist duty of all the revolutionary peoples to fight to defend the gains of the Cuban revolution. Revolutionary Cuba represents the future of Latin America, and its very existence encourages the peoples of that continent in their liberation movement. The triumph of the Cuban revolution is striking evidence that imperialism is doomed and that the national-liberation revolution and people’s revolution will assuredly triumph in our times. It is for this very reason that the US imperialists hate and fear this small island country so much. They are trying to strangle the Republic of Cuba. The peoples of Latin America and the progressive peoples of the whole world must do everything in their power to foil the US imperialists’ blockade policy against the Republic of Cuba and frustrate their preparations for a military invasion of Cuba.

Today the Vietnamese people’s war of resistance for national salvation against the US expeditionary forces has become the focal point of the anti-imperialist struggle. The US imperialist forces of aggression and the anti-imperialist, peace-loving forces of the world are having a showdown in Vietnam. The US troops are suffering one defeat after another in face of the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese people and are being driven into a corner. Contrary to the expectations of the US imperialists, the Vietnam war has become a grave for the aggressors. The Vietnamese people’s war of resistance for national salvation is another graphic example that a people who are determined to defend their independence and freedom at any cost, and who have the support of the peoples of the whole world, cannot be defeated.

At present, the US imperialists are escalating the war, continuously reinforcing their own military strength in South Vietnam, bringing in more troops from their satellite countries, and perpetrating the extensive aerial and artillery bombardment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

The Vietnamese people, through their heroic struggle, are shouldering the enormous burden of resisting the aggression of the most barbarous and most heinous imperialism of modern times. They are fighting not only to defend their independence and freedom, but also to safeguard world peace and security. Once US imperialist aggression against Vietnam is checked and frustrated, US imperialism will sink like the setting sun and the situation will be more favourable for the peoples of all countries fighting for peace, independence and progress. The peace-loving peoples of the whole world have a duty to give all forms of aid to the Vietnamese people, and the Vietnamese people are entitled to receive it. The peoples of the socialist and the newly independent states and the peoples of all countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the rest of the world should make the greatest efforts to broaden the anti-US united front, to aid the Vietnamese people in their war of resistance for national salvation and, through concerted action, check US imperialist aggression. No one has the right to force a solution of their internal affairs on the Vietnamese people. The US armed forces of aggression must withdraw from Vietnam and the Vietnamese question must be settled by the Vietnamese people themselves.

We must neither underestimate nor overestimate the strength of US imperialism. US imperialism can still commit many crimes. But it is on the decline. Today when US imperialism is behaving most outrageously, its vulnerability is more evident than ever before. The Korean people know what US imperialism is. Our people have fought US imperialism, and defended their country against its aggression. The Korean war showed that US imperialism is by no means invincible, and that it is quite possible to fight it and defeat it. The triumph of the Cuban revolution again proved this truth under conditions which were different from ours. The Vietnamese people’s war of resistance for national salvation also clearly confirms this truth.

US imperialism is doomed to complete destruction. Through a unified struggle against imperialism headed by US imperialism, the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America will build a new, independent and prosperous Asia, Africa and Latin America, and will make a great contribution to world peace and to the liberation of mankind.

UK KFA statement refutes lies about DPRK health system

K KFA STATEMENT-LIES ABOUT THE DPRK HEALTH SYSTEM
Recently the BBC and other imperialist news agencies carried a false report about the DPRK health service system viscously slandered it.The
reports quoted Anmesty International which does not have any competence to comment on
medical and health matters as it supposedly concerned with human rights.The report is aiming at slandering the DPRK superior socialist public health
system,denying and denigrating the DPRK's achievements and inciting hostility to the DPRK.It is part and parcel of a campaign turn public opinion against
the DPRK in order to prepare people for a war against the DPRK.It is part of the evil ideological warfare against the DPRK and Juche socialism.

In actual fact recently the UN World Health Organisation praised the DPRK health service system as being
the envy of the developing world with no shortage of doctors or nurses.

In the DPRK free medical care was introduced in 1953.This was backed up by legalisation in 1960 and the Public Health law in 1980.All treatment is
free of charge including medicines and transport to hospital.The DPRK has nearly 30 doctors per 10,000 of population and plenty of hospital beds.

In the DPRK GPs dont just sit in clinics but actively go out and make rounds to visit people in local areas.This is known as the section doctor
system.
  Pyongyang has an excellent maternity hospital with 1300 beds and a  fleet of ambulances and cars.  On several occasions heliocopters have
been used to transport patients to the hospital. Maybe if they were in London, they would get told to take a taxi!
 This maternity hospital is quite a wonderous achievement of socialist construction.  320 pairs of triplets have been born in the
Pyongyang Maternity hospital.  Some of the triplets only weighed 1.7kg but thrived
thanks to the excllent care athe hospital. In fact, out 300 foreign babies have been born in it as well as one south Korean baby

Spending on public health has increased consistently in the DPRK.

UK KFA fully condemns the media and Amnesty International for their false and baseless report.

WHAT IS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL?
It has long been documented that Amnesty International is linked to the CIA.It gets 20% of its funds from the US.AI was set in the 1960s as
part of the Cold War against the socialist world.
            In the 1991 Gulf War AI published reports that Iraqi soldiers had killed Kuwaiti babies in incubators.Later this story was shown to
be false and was forged by a US public relations agency.

KCNA described Amnesty as "a henchman and a political mouthpiece of the U.S., abandoning its impartiality and
principle"

AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM

AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM

Speech made by A.A. Mayevsky at a meeting with a delegation of the Korean Association of Social Sciences (KASS)

Dear Comrades! We, Ukrainian Bolsheviks, members of the CC Ukraine Buro of the AUCPB, have been closely following the events surrounding the Korean Peninsula, and the escalating of tensions by the South Korean authorities, headed by the traitorous puppet regime of Lee Myung-bak and the standing behind him U.S. in connection with the sinking of the corvette Cheonan of the puppet Navy in South Korea on March 26, 2010 which for some unknown reason, broke in two and sank in the coastal waters between the islands and Peknendo and Techondo on the Korean west sea.
The so-called International Investigation established by the authorities of South Korea on May 20 issued a "report on the results of the joint investigation”, which announced to the world the “version of the torpedo attack by North Korea" that the corvette Cheonan sank as a result of a torpedo attack by the DPRK.
In the Commentary of the military observer newspaper “Rodong Sinmun" dated May 27, the true picture of this "torpedo attack by the DPRK” was revealed and shown that this version is an absurd fabrication by the south Korean traitorous clique and is aimed at worsening relations between the DPRK and South Korea that plays into the hands of aggressive imperialist USA.
The area where the Cheonan went down is a disputed area between the North and the South, the south Korean authorities themselves bragging that double-and triple-detection systems and controls have established here. And, despite this, they invented the version of events that a small North Korean submarine rounded the peninsula, went undetected by the Cheonan which was then struck by a torpedo weighing 1.7 tons, whereas such a submarine can only carry a torpedo weighing no more then 300 kg. It should be noted that during this period this area of the sea was crowded with a variety of corvettes, submarines and air reconnaissance means participating in the joint US-South Korean military exercise "Foal Eagle" which had reached its peak by that time. Evidence suggests that the wreck of the Cheonan had deviated from its regular route, and despite the risk of collision with underwater rocks, it had entered into an area only 25 meters deep, and that after the incident, all the survivors of the Cheonan were ordered to stay quiet. They were also forbidden to use mobile phones and meet with other people, not to publish the logbook, or records of communication and photographic materials. As a result of the sinking of the “Cheonan" 46 young sailors were killed who had drowned in their underwear, and yet, all the officers on the corvette managed to monopolise the lifeboats and jackets and jumped into the sea, as if they knew in advance of an impending sinking of the ship.
The version sucked from a finger about a torpedo attack by a North Korean submarine has been thrown into doubt, even by the South Korean media, which say that not only the corvette “Cheonan” went down, but also the “Lee Myung-bak government."
With its provocation by the sinking of the corvette Cheonan and blaming the North Korean side, the regime of Lee Myung-bak almost brought the North and South of Korea to the brink of war.
"Such actions by the clique of traitors - as noted in the announcement by the General Staff of the Korean People's Army on May 29, 2010 - are an act of total denunciation of the historic Joint Declaration of the North and South of 15 June 2000, which is a common achievement of the entire Korean nation, and the implementation of its program - the Declaration of the North and South from October 4, 2007. These actions are also very serious crimes, pushing inter-Korean relations to a state of war ".
The South Korean rulers refused to accept the inspection group of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK to determine the true cause of the sinking of the corvette Cheonan, fearing exposure of their filthy-gutter slander.
All this has been done with one aim in mind - to prevent the reunification of the Korean people, divided by the 38 th parallel as a result of the occupation of south Korea by U.S. forces after the Second World War. The U.S. and their puppets suffered a severe defeat in the war against the DPRK of 1950-1953, which was the Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people, but they managed to keep the artificial division of Korea on the 38 th parallel, and to continue the occupation of the South, turning the Korean Peninsula into the largest nuclear arsenal in the Far East.
The U.S. are also displeased with the independent policy pursued by the people of the DPRK under the leadership of the WPK headed by outstanding leader of our time, Comrade Kim Jong Il, a policy aimed both at building a prosperous socialist society in the DPRK and the reunification of the Korean nation into one state.
O June 15, 2000 between North and South Korea the historic Joint Declaration was signed and on October 4, 2007 - Declaration of the North and South as a program for implementing the Joint Declaration. A merging between North and South had begun, along with the resumption of dialogue between citizens and separated families, etc.
To stop the process of closer ties, Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea a few years ago, with the full complicity and support of the United States was "elected" (in fact, placed into the presidential chair by his U.S. masters). He is a puppet ruler of South Korea, conducting pro-American policies, policies against the fundamental interests of the Korean people for their unification.

It is the DPRK and Cuba, despite the temporary defeat of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe that have remained loyal to their socialist choice and pursue an independent foreign and internal policy, without submitting to the dictates of the United States.
This example of two freedom-loving peoples really annoys the U.S. imperialists who are committing all types of provocations, in order bring the Korean and Cuban people to their knees.
The provocation over the sinking of the Cheonan serves this purpose.
The U.S. seeks to completely control the situation in this region of the world and to “turn Japan and South Korea into more obedient servants," says the press statement by the representative of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on May 29.
"If the south Korean puppets commit the slightest provocation against the DPRK, - notes the commentary of the military observer newspaper Rodong Sinmun on 27 May - the DPRK will immediately respond with devastating retaliation, and thereby build a unified Korea, which will eliminate any kind of dregs of humanity and where a united prosperous powerful nation will live."
We wish the people of the DPRK under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il with honour to face this challenge and achieve their cherished dream - the reunification of the Korean nation into a powerful and prosperous state.

***


Workers are looking for a way out of the crisis in the rise of the strike struggle for their rights.

And the imperialists - in starting another war and conflict, are creating all sorts of provocations. Anger and indignation throughout the world by military action of Israel's attack on the “freedom flotilla", which sought to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Palestinian people of Gaza, for a few years already under the Israeli blockade. 9 people, as a result of this barbaric action by the armed to the teeth aggressive militarism of Israel (which has nuclear weapons), were killed and dozens injured.
The artificial crisis and tension in connection with the sinking of the South Korean puppet corvette "Cheonan, the belligerent rhetoric of U.S. President Barack Obama, contributed to, including and the fall of the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers led by Yukio Hatoyama, who said that he was resigning, as he unable to fulfil his election promise of moving U.S. military base from Okinawa. The U.S. are here too trying to impose on their Japanese and South Korean allies governments that are more flexible and convenient for U.S. imperialism.

Concluding my brief remarks, once again I want to note that the strong position of the leadership the DPRK headed by the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the mighty forces of the DPRK, equipped with nuclear weapons of defence as a result of the Songun policy (the policy of priority in military affairs, the policies formulated by the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, and developed further in the writings and practices of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, which corresponds to Lenin's conclusion that every revolution is only worth anything if it can defend itself), is certainly cooling the belligerence of the South Korean and U.S. military.
Today the people of the DPRK, as well the people of Cuba are at the forefront of the struggle of workers throughout the world for their liberation from imperialist bondage.
We wish the Korean people, the Workers' Party of Korea led by the Great Kim Jong Il, further success in this struggle.
We are with you, dear comrades!


A. Mayevsky, secretary of the CC AUCPB,
editor of “Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda"

June 13, 2010, Kiev

LET US SHATTER IMPERIALIST MOVES TOWARDS AGGRESSION AND WAR AND SAFEGUARD PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE-KIM IL SUNG

KIM IL SUNG

LET US SHATTER IMPERIALIST MOVES TOWARDS AGGRESSION AND WAR

AND SAFEGUARD PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE

A Speech at a Banquet in Honour of Delegates to the World Conference of Journalists against

Imperialism and for Friendship and Peace

July 3, 1983

Esteemed Delegates,

Comrades and Friends,

The World Conference of Journalists against Imperialism and for Friendship and Peace which opened amid great expectations and intense interest from progressive journalists and people the world over, is working successfully thanks to the exalted spirit of coopera­tion and sincere efforts of all of you delegates.

Our people are very happy that here in our capital city of Pyong­yang, where the Anti-US World Journalists’ Conference was held 14 years ago, another global meeting of progressive journalists has con­vened to oppose imperialism, safeguard peace and strengthen friend­ship and solidarity among peoples.

Allow me to welcome warmly all of you delegates who have come from the various continents, bringing with you the noble ideas of anti-imperialism, friendship and peace and warm feelings of friendship for our people.

It is highly significant that progressive men and women of the world’s press have gathered together here to promote fraternity, exchange experience and discuss their tasks and action programme.

This world conference of journalists will mark an important stage in destroying imperialist manoeuvres aimed at aggression and war, defending global peace and security and achieving the people’s cause of independence.

All you journalists and people of the press from various countries attending this World Conference of Journalists against Imperialism and for Friendship and Peace, are the close friends and dependable comrades-in-arms of our people. Progressive people of the press throughout the world have stood in the ranks with our people in the fight against imperialism and for independence, and have worked actively in support of our people’s struggle for the independent, peaceful reunification of our country and the building of socialism. During this Month of Joint Struggle against US Imperialism, when our people are marking the 30th anniversary of the historic victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, numerous foreign journalist delegates and people of the press have come to our country to condemn US imperialism and raise the call for justice, peace and independence. This support brings tremendous encouragement to our people.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to the justice- and peace-loving progressive people of the world press for their positive support and encouragement for our people’s revolutionary cause.

Comrades and friends,

The world situation is more complex and tense now than ever before. Owing to the aggressive imperialist move to provoke war peace is being disturbed in many parts of the globe, the danger of a new war has increased and the sovereignty of countries and nations is being violated.

The US imperialists, who seek world hegemony, are openly resorting to “power politics”; they are increasing their armaments and reinforcing their forces of aggression on a large scale, while at the same time scheming to strengthen the aggressive military bloc of NATO, deploy new types of nuclear weapons in Europe and expand their aggressive military bases in many parts of the world, including the Indian Ocean. The US and other imperialists are intensifying their aggressive activities intended to unleash a new war in various areas of the world. In the Middle East and Southern Africa the imperialists are instigating Zionists and South African racists to increased aggres­sion and intervention, and in Central America they are perpetrating heinous armed interventions and subversive activities against coun­tries which have achieved national independence and chosen the road to independence against imperialism.

The US imperialists’ moves to provoke a new war are assuming a very grave and dangerous character in the Far East , which includes our country. In accordance with their aggressive Asian strategy, they are expanding their military bases in and around south Korea and shipping in a huge amount of nuclear weapons and other sophisticat­ed means of war, while accelerating the formation of a US-Japan-south Korea triangular military alliance. The US imperialists, who have stationed armed forces of aggression numbering more than 40,000 men in south Korea and shipped in over 1,000 nuclear weapo­ns and many other weapons of mass destruction, are now staging one large-scale war exercise after another directed against our Republic. Recently they have even been trying to deploy neutron weapons in south Korea , which has provoked the unanimous protest and denunci­ation of the peoples of the world. South Korea has thus now become a most dangerous powder keg and a US nuclear war base. In our country an extremely tense situation has been created which may spark off a war at any moment.

Because of the US-led imperialists’ activities, the world’s people now stand at the crossroads of war or peace, enslavement or indepen­dence. The most urgent and solemn task now confronting the pro­gressive people throughout the world is to oppose aggression and war and safeguard peace and independence.

It is the unanimous desire of the world’s people to live peacefully in a world free from aggression and war, subjugation and oppression. Only when peace is secured can the peoples of all countries success­fully apply their creative labour to building a new and happy society.

Averting war and safeguarding peace is a particularly urgent problem for the peoples of the newly-emerging countries. The political independence already achieved by these peoples is only the first step towards complete national independence and the building of a new society. Political independence can be securely safeguarded and con­solidated only when it is guaranteed by economic independence. For the newly-emerging peoples to consolidate their national indepen­dence and build a new and happy society, they must eliminate the famine and poverty left behind by the colonialists and build a sound, independent national economy. The people need peace, not war, in building a new society. When a lasting world peace is guaranteed, the newly-emerging peoples will be successful in their struggle for the complete independence of their countries and the building of a new society.

World peace can be ensured and safeguarded only through the struggle against imperialism.

All the peace-loving people of the world should unite closely under the banner of independence against imperialism and wage a resolute struggle against the aggressive imperialist moves aimed at war. They should direct a particularly intense attack against the US imperialists, that main force of aggression and war, and heinous strangler of peace and independence, in order to prevent the US from recklessly invading other countries and sparking off wars. The world’s people should strive to check and frustrate the manoeuvres of the US and other imperialists to expand their stocks of armaments and reinforce their armed forces, and should compel them to with­draw their aggressive military bases and armed forces from the terri­tory of other countries. They should also strive to break up all mili­tary blocs, to establish and expand nuclear-free peace zones in many areas of the world, and achieve general and complete disarmament.

The world’s people should fight vigorously for freedom and inde­pendence, strive to liquidate all forms of colonialism and dominationism, achieve the ultimate and complete liberation of the nations, and cling fast to independence, thus making the whole world indepen­dent. Not until the independence of the whole world is established will the danger of war be completely banished and a durable peace guaranteed throughout the globe, and only then will humanity be able to live in happiness and contentment in a safe and prosperous world.

The progressive people of the press are righteous warriors striving to oppose all social evils and injustices and to realize the people’s aspirations and desires. They should fight determinedly against aggressive imperialist moves aimed at war and in defence of peace and independence, in order to fulfil the lofty mission and role assigned to them by history and the people at the present time.

In the hands of progressive people of the press the pen should be a mighty weapon wielded against the imperialists, and their writings should serve as denunciations of the enemies of peace. Progressive people of the press the world over should sharply expose imperialists’ activities aimed at expanding armaments and reinforcing armed forces and should scathingly condemn the unpardonable crimes of US imperialists who are bent on driving mankind into nuclear holo­caust. They should expose the aggressive nature and crafty neocolonialist methods of imperialism, forcefully oppose its ideological and cultural infiltration and all manner of reactionary propaganda and decisively repel the enemy’s reactionary ideological offensive with a revolutionary counteroffensive.

They should inform the whole world of the just struggles of the peoples fighting against imperialism for peace and independence, they should raise the cry of international solidarity and make every possible effort to render positive support and encouragement to the embattled peoples.

Friendship and solidarity are the common aspirations of the peo­ples who are fighting for peace and independence, and a sure guaran­tee of victory. The progressive people of the world can fully realize their desires and ideals only when they firmly unite politically and develop close economic and technological cooperation by strengthen­ing their bonds of friendship under the banner of anti-imperialism and independence.

Through their activities, the progressive people of the press should create favourable international conditions for the unity and coopera­tion of the world’s progressive peoples and give extensive publicity to the achievements and experiences of the people in the anti-imperi­alist struggle and the building of a new society.

The newly-emerging peoples are now achieving great successes in their endeavours to build a new society and have acquired a lot of experience and many techniques which they can exchange as they cooperate with each other. The progressive men of the press should give wide publicity to the experience gained by the people and their successes in building a new society, and thus contribute actively to the development of economic and technological interchange and cooperation among the newly-emerging nations and the establish­ment of a prosperous new world.

If the progressive men and women of the press in all countries are to discharge their noble mission and responsibility, they should fur­ther increase their unity and cooperation. In line with their lofty ideas of friendship, solidarity and cooperation, they should visit each other, share their experiences, strengthen their solidarity, cooperate closely and keep pace with each other in their professional activities.

It has been the consistent foreign policy of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to fight against imperialism, safeguard peace and independence and strengthen the ties of friend­ship and solidarity with the peoples of all countries.

As in the past, so in the future, the Korean people will firmly adhere to their steadfast anti-imperialist stand and fight positively to oppose aggressive US imperialist activities aimed at war and to safe­guard world peace and security.

Our people will actively support and encourage all the peoples who are fighting for a common goal on the anti-imperialist front. We strongly support the peoples of all countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, including those in the Middle East, Southern Africa and Central America, who are fighting to oppose imperialism and domi­nation by all forces, to attain national independence and build a new society; we proclaim our firm solidarity with the European peoples in their struggle to ease tension and strengthen peace and security in Europe.

The struggle of the Korean people for the country’s reunification is a major link in the chain of the struggle to check and frustrate aggressive US imperialist manoeuvres aimed at war and to safeguard world peace and security. The withdrawal of US troops from south Korea and the reunification of Korea is the only way to eliminate this source of war and maintain the peace in Korea and the Far East and, in addition, bolster global peace and security.

The main obstacle to Korea ’s independent, peaceful reunification at present is the occupation of south Korea by the US imperialist army of aggression and interference by the US in our internal affairs. If the US imperialists were to pull out of south Korea and stop med­dling in our affairs, the people of north and south Korea would join hands and reunify the country peacefully through their own efforts. With the active support and encouragement of the progressive people of the world, we will drive the US imperialist army of aggression out of south Korea and achieve the independent, peaceful reunification of the country, thus realizing our national aspiration and, at the same time, fulfilling our important duty to the international cause of inde­pendence against imperialism.

The DPRK Government and the Korean people will strive to strengthen their unity with the peoples of the socialist and nonaligned countries and other progressive people of the world and to promote friendly and cooperative relations with all countries which are friend­ly towards our country.

In firm unity with their progressive foreign colleagues, the Korean people of the press will wage a resolute struggle and contribute actively to humanity’s sacred common cause of building a new world, free of imperialism, colonialism, aggression and war.

The progressive people of the press are the proud pioneers of our times, brave public and political figures. The progressive people of the world press should unite firmly under the banner of anti-imperial­ism, friendship and peace and vigorously pursue their revolutionary writing activities, so that the voice of justice may ring out more loud­ly throughout the globe.

My hearty wishes to you delegates and the progressive men and women of the press throughout the world for great success in your work, and here at this gathering overflowing with revolutionary ardour and friendship, allow me to propose a toast:

To the triumph of the cause of independence against imperialism, To the lasting peace and security of the world, To the friendship and solidarity of the world’s peace-lovers, To the health of you delegates and the world’s progressive people of the press, and:

To the health of all comrades and friends present here.