Rodong Sinmun Brands Capitalist Society as Reactionary

Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- The working masses' desire to lead an independent life free from the capital domination can never come true in capitalist society, says Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a bylined article.

It is an inevitable phenomenon that working people in capitalist countries continue to stage protests almost every day in demand of their vital rights and freedom, the article notes, and goes on:

In capitalist society "democracy" is enforced for a tiny handful of the exploiters but dictatorship for the working masses. Capitalist countries advocate the bourgeois parliamentary system and multi-party system as a symbol of "democracy", but in actuality big monopolists control government behind the scene.

Genuine freedom can never be expected in capitalist society where the capitalist class rule over everything while the working masses are excluded from the political life.

In this society inequality in material life is getting more serious though a great abundance of material wealth is produced. The poor are getting ever poorer and the rich ever richer. This is the reality of capitalist society.

Capitalism is a rotten and ailing society as it is "heaven" for the rich but it is "hell" for the poor. It is quite natural that such society has been rejected by the people.

The growth of capitalist material wealth is widening the gap between the rich and the poor, bringing capitalism into bottomless crisis.

Now is the era of independence in which the popular masses have become masters of their own destinies and put the world under their control. This shows it is the law governing development of history that a society based on individualism goes over to a society based on collectivism. -0-

KCNA Rebukes U.S. Human Rights Racket against DPRK

Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- The United States recently held in Washington "a meeting of foreign policy-makers who are concerned about human rights situation in north Korea."

This is an imprudent behavior of the worst human rights abuser.

The U.S. styles itself a human rights judge in the international arena. It is ridiculous for it to take issue with human rights performance in other country as it ruthlessly abuses rights of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in the U.S.

One should be righteous before admonishing others.

The U.S. is troubled by human rights issue as proven by the Occupy Wall Street demo.

Political freedom and democracy are restricted in the U.S. legally and institutionally.

Elementary right to existence is not guaranteed and the rich get richer and the poor poorer as the days go by, becoming a problem plaguing the society.

In actually, the gap between the rich and poor has become most serious in recent years in the U.S.

Poor mental and cultural life is fostered institutionally, driving people into degeneration, despair and crime.

Isn't the U.S. a country with poor human rights as all sorts of evils including gun-related and drug crimes stalk throughout the land.

It is preposterous for the U.S. to take issue with someone's "human rights issue."

Clear is the aim sought by the U.S. in kicking up the human rights racket.

It regards the independent countries as a thorn in the flesh and is kicking up human rights racket in international arena to tarnish the image of the DPRK.

Those in the U.S. who approach the DPRK with hostility had better face up to the human rights situation in the DPRK with reason.

In a word, "human rights issue" does not exist in the DPRK.

It is the steadfast policy of the DPRK government to promote the well-being of the people.

All the people are fully enjoying genuine freedom and rights thanks to the popular policy of the state which guarantees their rights in a responsible manner.

The whole country forms a big harmonious family in which all the people help and lead each other forward. The U.S. is set to deceive the world through another "human rights offensive" against the DPRK, but people of other countries have not shut their eyes.

The U.S. is well advised to immediately stop speaking ill of human rights situation in the DPRK. -0-

Experimental LWR Construction under Way in DPRK: FM Spokesman

Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following statement Wednesday on the DPRK's just nuclear activities for peaceful purposes:

The peaceful use of nuclear energy is the legitimate right of a sovereign state recognized by international law. It also serves as the only way for solving the acute electricity problem in the DPRK as it has vast nuclear energy resources.

The DPRK made up its mind to build its own light water reactor according to its economic development strategy given that there was no prospect for getting LWRs whose delivery was promised from outside.

The construction of experimental LWR and the low enriched uranium for the provision of raw materials are progressing apace in reliance on solid foundation of the self-supporting national economy and the country's latest science and technologies making leaping progress.

The DPRK announced at home and abroad the every phase of its nuclear activities for peaceful purposes geared to the production of electricity because it had nothing to afraid of nor hide. It also clarified its flexible stand that any concerns that may arise may be discussed at the six-party talks and it can convince the world of the peaceful nature of those activities through the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The U.S. and its allies, however, groundlessly took issue with the DPRK's just nuclear activities for peaceful purposes, deliberately laying a stumbling block in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and negotiations.

They slandered the DPRK's peaceful nuclear activities while spreading the false stories of "suspicious enrichment in the past" and "nuclear spread". They are even making far-fetched assertions that those activities are a "violation" of the September 19 joint statement and a "stumbling block" in the way of realizing denuclearization.

The guarantee of the DPRK's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy had been recognized as the prerequisite preconditions for denuclearization from the outset of the negotiations for settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. That's why the U.S. committed to providing LWRs to the DPRK in the first article of the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework. It was also for the same reason that the respect for the DPRK's right to the peaceful use of the nuclear energy and the provision of LWRs were stipulated in the first article of the September 19 joint statement adopted in the six-party talks.

Countries outside the NPT are conducting nuclear activities for peaceful purposes. This is a stark reality.

This being a hard fact, the hostile forces are charging that the DPRK's independent construction of LWR and the uranium enrichment are contrary to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. This is aimed to render illegitimate the DPRK's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and deter it from exercising the right.

The right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy is an issue vital for the sovereignty and development of the DPRK and, therefore, neither concession nor compromise should be allowed.

The present international situation proves that the unwarranted acts of taking issue with the legitimate right of sovereign states as well as tolerating their violation while reading other's face would entail catastrophic consequences.

The process for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is undergoing turns and twists. This is attributable to the U.S. which is preoccupied with encroaching upon the DPRK's sovereignty and deterring the DPRK from making peaceful development while defaulting on its commitments and duties.

The September 19 joint statement stipulates the U.S. commitments to fundamentally ending the nuclear threat and hostile relations and building lasting peace mechanism on the whole Korean Peninsula.

The prospect for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can open only when all the countries concerned honor their commitments in the joint statement on the principle of simultaneous actions.

The DPRK is ready to resume the six-party talks without preconditions and implement the joint statement in a phased manner on the principle of simultaneous actions.

Pressing unilateral demand on others while not doing what they should do can never be tolerated and the attempt to render the DPRK's peaceful nuclear activities illegal or delay them for an indefinite period will prompt resolute and decisive countermeasures. -0-

UK KFA denounce south Korean war exercises

UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION


The UK Korean Friendship Association wishes to add its voice to the condemnation of the south Korean puppet regime for holding aggressive war exercises on the occasion of the anniversary of the Yongphyong island incident .
The south Korean puppet warmongers have made war-like and bellicose statements about attacking the DPRK , including its commanding posts and their supporters. This is extremely reckless and the height of folly . Such moves could easily spark off a full-scale war which could spread beyond the boundaries of Korea within a short space of time.
The Yongphyong island incident of November 23 2010 arose because of the imposition of the illegal and unilateral "northern limit line " and the provocation of the south Korean military . The actions taken by the DPRK were legitimate self-defence and were made after giving fair warnings to south Korea. The south Korean authorities were ultimately responsible for the loss of life that occurred because they ignored the rules of engagement and basic health and safety requirements by keeping civilians in a front-line combat zone.
Instead of learning from the incident and taking relevant measures to reduce tension and ensure peace by confidence building the south Korean puppets continue along the path of confrontation and provocation.
We, UK KFA , condemn the war like mentality of the south Korean puppets and their provocations and call for them to desist from war exercises in the west sea and indeed the whole of south Korea at once.
UK KFA

ASSPK, JISGE and UK KFA slam US-SK "Free Trade Agreement

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

Today the Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK together with the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the UK Korean Friendship Association issued a communique denoucing the south Korean puppet regime of Lee Myung Bak for concluding the so-called "Free Trade Agreement " with the United States.
The south Korea-US FTA is a disastrous pact which sells off the last remaining shreds of economic sovereignty that south Korea . The FTA will reduce south Korea to extreme dependency on the US . It will ruin industry and agriculture in south Korea forcing millions into bankrupcy , unemployment and poverty.The FTA is a product of the insane globalisation of the imperialists. It is also a result of the anti-popular dependent policy of the south Korean puppet clique of Lee Myung Bak who are saturated with the most abject kind of flunkeyism and continually lick the boots of their masters the US imperialists .
Whilst south Korea becomes more and more dependent on the US imperialists, the DPRK building an independent national economy and firmly preserving the Juche and national character.
We in the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA support the just struggle of the south Korean people for the abrogation of the south Korea-US FTA and furthermore condemn the Lee Myung Bak puppet regime for its harsh repression of anti-FTA protestors

ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

Speech of Staffordshire KFA at the KFA international meeting

SPEECH DELIVERED BY STAFFORDSHIRE KFA TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION HELD IN LONDON ON NOVEMBER 19TH 2011 First of all may I extend a warm welcome to the KFA President, to the KFA international delegates, to the DPRK diplomatic staff and to the UK KFA members gathered here today. I trust that your time at the KFA international meeting in London will be productive and successful. 2012, as we all know, will be the 100th Birth Anniversary of President KIM IL SUNG and the 70th birthday of the Chairman KIM JONG IL. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has made an epochal turn in the effort to build a Great, Powerful & Prosperous Socialist Nation by the year 2012. The goals of the Korean people to construct the prosperous and powerful socialist country will be realized in conjunction with the 100th birth anniversary of President KIM IL SUNG and the 70 birthday of Chairman KIM JONG IL. The 100th Birth Anniversary of President KIM IL SUNG and the 70th Birthday of the Chairman KIM JONG IL are not only major events for the Korean people but are the common jubilees for the whole of progressive humanity. Right across the world.people of various nationalities and from different political traditions will be celebrating the birth anniversaries of KIM IL SUNG and of KIM JONG IL in a grand manner as the festival of global independence and anti-imperialism. The UK KFA and all the friends of Korea in Britain will be actively mobilizing so to make February 16th and April 15th 2012 celebrations spectacular occasions The situation around the Korean peninsula remains tense. Only in October 2011, the United States and south Korea conducted large-scale military exercises codenamed "Hoguk". As a form of intimidation against the DPRK, the United States and the Li Myoung Bak clique are carrying out continuous war games such as "Team Spirit" & "Foal Eagle". The United States and its obedient servant south Korea has over the past decade turned their backs on dialogue with the DPRK and is pursuing the policy of confrontation. We must always remember that the DPRK faces hourly and daily the threat of invasion from the world's superpower. Approximately there are about 1,000 nuclear weapons and 40,000 troops stationed in south Korea by the US. Already the Obama Administration is talking about repeating its Middle Eastern strategy in regard to north Korea. So the Songun Politics of KIM JONG IL of attaching importance to arms in the defence of the revolutionary gains and sovereignty of Peoples Korea has proven its validity. For sixty six years the Korean people have endured the misery of national division perpetuated by the United States and by the south Korean puppet regime. Korean reunification looked like a realistic prospect with the June 2000 north-south declaration. Today to call for reunification on the streets on Seoul or anywhere else in south Korea is considered a crime. Under Li Myong Bak, hundreds of thousands of reunification & pro-democracy activists and trade unionists have been jailed. As partisans of Korean solidarity, we must raise the issue of the lack of human rights in south Korea and campaign for the boycott of the Li Myoung Bak dictatorship by democratic public opinion, as the Apartheid regime in south Africa was isolated in the 1980s. November marks the 12th anniversary of the establishment of the Korean Friendship Association.Over the decade the KFA has become the authoritative and authentic friendship body promoting solidarity with the DPRK. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the KFA was to spread an understanding of the DPRK among an audience of millions, particularly young people through the medium of the Internet and other sources. The KFA is now regarded as the voice of Peoples Korea, a tribune of truth against a background of distortions and lies which are produced about the DPRK by the Western media. Here in the host country for this international meeting, the UK KFA has considerably consolidated itself over the years. The UK KFA has a strong presence on the net with a number of websites and blogs and has branched out on to Face book. Aswell as conducting work on the net, the UK KFA has been active on the non-virtual sphere too, with the holding various public meetings and DPRK photo & literature exhibitions. The UK KFA has even held demonstrations and pickets outside the US and south Korean embassies regularly. Our success are due to activities of the UK KFA Head Delegate and the KFA membership in Britain. Recently the UK KFA has been able to setup regional branches in other parts of Britain. The UK KFA now has branches in Yorkshire/North East and in Staffordshire. My local county KFA branch is centred in the city of Stoke On Trent has a small but loyal core of members. We aim to establish more KFA branches throughout the UK in the near future. We in the UK KFA and international KFA have alot to be proud of in our track record of furthering the cause of Korean friendship. But there are still areas where we can improve our work. The KFA international forum was the focal point for exchanging suggestions, comments and for asking questions. The forum made the KFA members feel part and parcel of the association, so it needs to revived and activated. The KFA could arrange on-line conferences on a regular basis. As a friendship organisation we should cooperate with other anti-imperialist, anti-war movements and engage with the trade unions. The KFA should continue to strengthen its commercial and cultural activities as a means of promoting understanding and goodwill with the DPRK. Speaking of understanding, the KFA's primary duty is to overcome the psychological warfare which is waged by imperialism against Socialist Korea. We must be aware of the fact that demonization of an anti-imperialist country( which has occurred in some Arab countries) by the Western media, is a step towards aggression. To counter this dis-information campaign carried out by the imperialists in regard to the DPRK, we launch a truth offensive, so that the average man and woman in western countries are familiar with the facts about Peoples Korea. For instance the UK KFA published a small leaflet refuting anti-DPRK propaganda in a clear and direct manner, without any jargon. From this international meeting the KFA ,both in the UK and worldwide, will advance on a solid foundation and will surely gain greater successes in our vital work. KOREA IS ONE!

Speech of UK KFA Official Delegate to KFA International Meeting

Comrades and friends
without a doubt the 100th birth anniversary of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is an event of vast and great significance not only for KFA members and Juche idea followers but also for the entire revolutionary peoples of the world and indeed the whole of humanity.

The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung was a towering giant of the international communist movement and world revolution.
The great leader President Kim Il Sung was the heroic partisan leader , the mighty general of Mt Paektu ,of the anti Japanese war who defeated the million strong Kwantung army of Japanese imperialism . He was ever- victorious iron willed commander of the anti US war in the 1950s. Thus the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung defeated 2 imperialisms in one generation. He is the founder of Juche Korea and led the Korean people to perform great miracles. His life and work spanned most of the 20th century As the Korean historian and writer Mr Baik Bong said the achievements of comrade Kim Il Sung were so vast it was difficult to write about . It was like being a small boat on the big ocean.
The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is best known as the founder of the immortal Juche idea. This idea itself was not born within the confines of a quiet study or a library but in the raging battlefields of the anti Japanese armed struggle. The anti-Japanese war lasted 20 years. The Anti Japanese Peoples’s Guerrilla Army later the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army fought the Japanese imperialists without compromise or hestitation ,without ceasefires or deals with the Japanese imperialists, without orders to dump arms etc. The anti-Japanese armed struggle
was the fiery crucible of the Juche idea and the Songun idea .
The Juche idea is based on a simple but profound concept that the people are the master of the revolutionary struggle and work of socialist construction. It is derived from the experience of the great leader comrade
Kim Il Sung who discovered the great truth that you need to rely on the people, that the revolution comes from deep inside the masses not a few factionalists indulged in empty talks . Putting it succinctly he said
“In a nutshell the idea of Juche means that the master of the revolution and work of construction are the masses and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and construction.In other words,one is responsible for the for one’s own destiny and one has the capacity for hewing out ones own destiny"
Such a profound truth !
The Korean revolution under the revolutionary banner of Juche surged ahead . Relying on the strength of the masses united firmly around the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung they were able to defeat Japanese imperialism, winning he independence of Korea and smashing the feudalism and the remanents of Japanese imperialism by vigorously carrying out the anti-imperialist anti-feudal revolution, then going over to the socialist revolution. This also brilliantly embodied the great leader President Kim Il Sung’s concept of continous revolution, a unique Juche-based theory on socialist construction.
The Korean people under the banner of the Juche idea and under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung defeated the US imperialists in the Fatherland Liberation War . After the war reconstruction took place at a stunning rate with industrial output growth hitting 36% per annum (probably a world record) and they built an advanced socialist system centred on the popular masses. Thus the Juche Idea is a great revolutionary idea.It has led the Korean people to perform vast miracles. They have built a socialist state which is an example to all who aspire to socialism and communism,a socialist power of independence,self sufficiency and self defence. The Juche idea is a powerful anti imperialist and communist revolutionary idea leading the world revolution to victory.

The Juche idea fully correlates the international and national tasks of the proletariat. It teaches that in order to carry out the world revolution the best way to carry out the revolution in one’s own country . Some people claim that communism and nationalism are totally and irreconcilably opposed to each other but Juche shows the national and international tasks can be combined.

The Juche idea is the brilliant revolutionary banner that lights the way to class,national and human liberation. It a bold idea empowering the masses with the capacity to change their destiny. The Juche idea is the most enduring legacy of the great leader President Kim Il Sung.
Another very important and enduring legacy is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , the land of Juche. Believing the precept the “People Are My God” the great leader President Kim Il Sung ensured the the fundamental principle was to put the living standard of the people first. Thus the DPRK built a unique people-centred socialism. The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung made sure that there were legal guarntees for the right to work and the right to eat. The DPRK has free education at all levels starting with small children in kindergarten right up to university
level ( in capitalist countries such as the UK students have to pay heavy university fees) . Health care is also free . Housing is free as well. Taxation was abolished in1974. When I have visted the DPRK I have never seen homeless people or beggars. This is a miracle worked by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. Reactionaries and the like hate to hear this but the DPRK is indeed a socialist people's paradise created by the great leader President Kim Il Sung.
The DPRK upheld the red flag of socialism when renegades and traitors threw it down. Contuining the leadership of the great leader President Kim Il Sung , the Songun supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il ensured the DPRK marched along the road of socialism and independence under the Songun revolutionary leadership.
The great leader President Kim Il Sung has been praised by the revolutionaries and
people of the whole world Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz former president of Cuba said that he retrospects Comrade Kim Il Sung, a staunch revolutionary, outstanding leader and great man known to the world who had devoted his all to the liberation of the country, human progress and the peace and welfare of the world people till the last moments of his life since he embarked on the road of revolution in his early years. The message noted that the feats performed by him to develop the fraternal and friendly ties between the parties, governments and peoples of the two countries will remain immortal.

President Raul Castro Ruz
"The conference of the Workers Party of Korea infused us with great ardour to always hold fast to Marxist-Leninist principles and step up our protracted and ardouous struggle

Sihanouk of Cambodia "The great exploit of Premier Kim Il Sung is indeed one of those rare torchlights which illumines the road to the final and complete liberation of Asia,Africa and Latin America"

Gamal Abdel Nasser leader of the United Arab Republic "The UAR people people will cherish great sympathy and friendlysentiments towards the Korean people express full support for and firm solidarity with the Korean people in their struggle for the the withdrawal of the the US army from south Korea"

Sam Nujoma of SWAPO (later head of state of independent Namiba)
"In the struggle against imperialism we are relying on the line clarified by Premier Kim Il Sung in his treatise "Let Us Instensify the Anti Imperialist,anti US Struggle.
We are making endeavours to cement solidarity among world revolutionary peoples in the anti US anti imperialist struggle"

Let us join with the world peoples in saluting the life of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung . The best tribute we can make is by increasing the ranks of the KFA and the Juche idea followers.

WIDEHAN SURYONG KIM IL SUNG DONGJI MANSE !

S. Korea Tops List of World′s Children Traffickers

S. Korea Tops List of World′s Children Traffickers

Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The present south Korean authorities topped the list of those which sold children to the United States.

Half of the children smuggled to the U.S. last year were from south Korea, according to the recent survey by the U.S. Department of State.

The south Korean authorities have made profits by selling a great number of children to other countries every year.

This is one of examples that show the miserable plight of south Korean children under the group of traitors' unpopular rule.

The smuggling of children is an intolerable crime. -0-

Provokers Will Have to Pay Dearly: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, November 27 (KCNA) -- An extremely grave political and military tension has prevailed on the Korean Peninsula.

The U.S. and the south Korean military warmongers kicked off large-scale anti-DPRK war rehearsal on the five islands and their surrounding waters in the West Sea of Korea on November 23.

Taking place again in the west sea is the same military action as was at the time of the provocation from Yonphyong Island shaking the world one year ago.

Shells are fired in direction to the DPRK's territorial waters and the West Sea area is clouded with smoke of cannons due to madcap military exercises for fratricidal war.

All Koreans are enraged at such extra-large political and military provocation by the group of traitors oblivious of lesson taught by the Yonphyong Island shelling.

The rehearsal is of bellicosity in term of its purpose.

The military warmongers asserted that the rehearsal was aimed to review their "perfect readiness for counteraction and to show their will to decisively punish "not only the base of provocation but also commanding posts of all echelons including supporters in the north" with the combined forces of three services in case the DPRK starts a military action.

It is the height of impudence for the provocateurs to talk about the base of provocation by somebody.

Last year's Yonphyong Island shelling was a legitimate self-defensive step against the provocateurs who dared to make a clumsy fire on the inviolable territorial waters of the DPRK despite its army's advance warning.

The south Korean warmongers' anti-DPRK war rehearsal, launched on the first anniversary of the shelling, is intended to escalate the confrontation with compatriots and ignite a war against the DPRK at any cost.

They have already turned the area of five islands in the West Sea into a stronghold for military showdown with the DPRK, a base for attack on it, and renewed the operation posture in this area.

Changed were the operational guidelines of the Command for Defense of Islands in Northwest Sea of the puppet army, stemmed from the Marine Corps Command after the Yonphyong Island incident, and its operation theatre was expanded. The Command for Defense of Islands in Northwest Sea was allowed to conduct any operation on its own initiative in case of "provocation" by someone in Paekryong and Yonphyong islands, etc.

The military warmongers concentrated their armed forces and various kinds of war equipment on the five islands in the west sea and reinforced marine corps and warships. In the meantime they frequently staged drill of dropping depth-bombs and let maritime patrol plane P-3C make close flights above the waters around the islands.

What can not be overlooked is the fact that involved in the rehearsal were the puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff, Command for Defense of Islands in Northwest Sea, Naval Force Operation Command, Air Force Operation Command and huge armed forces of the three services.

All the facts go to prove that the south Korean warmongers seek to commit a new military provocation in the west sea and then lead it to an all-out war against the DPRK.

They must be aware that a small military clash in the Korean Peninsula may lead to a total war all at once.

So, the above said rehearsal is very dangerous developments.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces, however, are sadly mistaken.

Things will turn out quite differently now that they, oblivious of the lesson from the Yonphyong Island shelling a year ago, have made a frontal challenge to the DPRK, daringly impairing its dignity.

The flames of the Yonphyong Island will turn into those of thousand-fold revenge to reduce the stronghold of the group of traitors into ashes.

Only miserable end awaits those getting hell-bent on reckless confrontation and war moves.

They will have to pay dearly for what they do. -0-

KCNA Commentary Decries U.S.-S. Korea FTA

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- The clan of traitors of south Korea unhesitatingly signed up the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., a crime putting the "five traitors in 1905" into the shade. The "Grand National Party" railroaded the "motion calling for ratification of south Korea-U.S. FTA" through the puppet National Assembly on Tuesday.

This was an act of treachery little short of offering the sovereignty of the south Korean economy to the U.S. and bringing disaster to the nation.

Peasants and civic and social organizations of south Korea strongly reject it, saying it amounts to "death sentence to agriculture and peasants".

FTA dealt a heavy blow on the south Korean peasants, putting their lives at stake.

Surplus agricultural and livestock products of the U.S. will flood the south Korean markets, replacing less competitive south Korean products. This will naturally cause farming families loss of profits and heavy debts.

The south Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Foods said the effectuation of FTA will bring damages in agriculture and fishery for the 15 years to 12 668.3 billion won. Stockbreeding is expected to suffer most with its loss anticipated to total 7 299.3 billion won for the same period.

FTA will totally overturn the foundation of south Korean agriculture.

After taking power, the conservative group of south Korea has imposed immeasurable damage upon peasants by opening the markets for foreign agricultural and livestock goods including American beef, launching the project of improving four large rivers which deprived farmers of their lands and building U.S. military bases that devastated territory.

FTA is an extremely serious crime which destroys south Korean agriculture and putting the lives of the south Korean peasants in harm's way.

However, the conservative group is brazen-faced enough to advertise that south Korea will benefit from the FTA.

With no honeyed words can it ever cover up its hideous crime against the nation.

The traitors seek to prolong their dirty remaining days as politicians by selling the people's right to existence.

The sovereignty and right to existence of the south Korean people can never come true as long as the group of traitors is allowed to stay in power. -0-

Statement of Swiss Korea Committee and Swiss Juche Idea Study Group -translated

PRESS COMMUNIQUE

the Swiss Korea Committee and the Swiss Juche idea study group:
Support the warning of the KPA Supreme Command to the South Korean warmongers
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25th November 2011


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The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army (KPA), established on 24 November, a serious warning to the South Korean military. The South Korean warmongers on 23 November in the area of ​​5 Islands and surrounding waters in the Korean West Sea maneuvers
preparation for a war against the Democratic People's Republic Korea (DPRK) conducted. Get involved with maritime, air and were Ground forces and warships of the South Korean puppet army.
The U.S. imperialists are involved with some of her in South Korea units stationed troops in these criminal Anti-DPRK war maneuvers.
The provocateurs have the lesson from the incident in-Yonphyong Learned anything last year and now threaten the DPRK in the same sea area with the "willingness to counter-action" and "attacks on command posts," KPA if the military action in defense of the territory of
DPRK undertake.
As is well known, the KPA during the Yonphyong incident-a legitimate military action to
Self-defense carried out.
If the South Korean war fanatics again the territorial waters DPRK attack and injure and even a ball or a Fire grenade at them, which is on the island sparked Yonphyong Fire on the Chongwadae ("Presidential Palace" in Seoul) and skip the criminal gangster nest of traitorous lackeys of U.S. imperialism burn out once and for all.
The South Korean Kriegsprovokateure of them are in the inflamed go under fire.
The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK are always ready to fight to any provocation of the enemy to destroy!
Our two organizations decided to support all of the DPRK in self-defense measures taken.

Swiss Korea Committee
Swiss Juche idea study group

ASSPUK and JISGE hail KPA Supreme Command statement

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
www.uk-songun.com
London 25 November Juche 100(2011)
The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK and the Juche Idea Study Group of England wish to voice our support for the statement of the Korean Peoples' Army Supreme Command issued on November 24th in regard to the reckless provocations of the south Korean puppets in regard to the anniversary of the Yongphyong island incident on November 23rd .
We support the just stand of the DPRK revolutionary armed forces to defend the independence and sovereignty of the DPRK as manifested by the KPA Supreme Command statement . The KPA is defending the people-centred socialist system of the DPRK and peace in Asia and the world.
Last years so called Yongphyong incident arose because of the reckless action of the south Korean neo-colonial puppet fascists spurred on by the US imperialists. They committed the intolerable provocation of shelling the DPRK causing damage to buildings. They continuing shelling the DPRK for five hours despite more than one
warning. This was a provocation of a very grave nature , in fact an act of war against the Democratic People's Republic. Thus the action taken by the KPA of the DPRK on November 23 2010 was an entirely correct and just one.
Not learning their lessons, the south Korean puppets backed by the US imperialists carried out provocative exercises and made war-like statements against the DPRK . We condemn the south Korean puppet fascist regime for this. The stance of the KPA Supreme Command to destroy the stronghold of the puppet traitors is a revolutionary anti-imperialist one based on the Songun idea and the will of the Korean people to defend independence and socialism.
DOWN WITH THE SOUTH KOREAN PUPPET WARMONGERS!
KOREA IS ONE !
YANKEE GO HOME

ASSPUK
JISGE

Statement of the JISGE UK KFA and ASSPUK in support of DPRK Foreign Ministry statement on human rights

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
www.uk-songun.com
London November 25 Juche 100(Juche 100)

The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK, the UK Korean Friendship Association and the Juche Idea Study Group of England issued a joint statement in support of the rejection by the DPRK Foreign Ministry of the so called resolution on "human rights" adopted at the 66th session of the UN .
We support the DPRK Foreign Ministry statement issued on the 24th of November rejecting the nonsensical UN resolution on human rights. It is actually a violation of the UN charter for the UN to interfere in matters of internal policy in member states of the UN.
It is obvious to all that the resolution was the product of the United states and its
puppets and satellite states as well as the capitalist and imperialist countries. Rather than the DPRK being a human right violator it is the US imperialist and western capitalist countries that have the biggest human rights problems. It is the US that is suppressing the anti-capitalist protestors with riot police and pepper spray and the UK threatened to use plastic bullets against students. In the capitalist countries of the west millions are denied the right to work and there are many people homeless and sleeping on the streets.The US has also invaded many countries and used torture on anti US people.

It is the US and other western countries that need to put their own house in order before they criticise others.
HANDS OFF THE DPRK
ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

UK KFA report of the KFA International Meeting

The UK Korean Friendship Association hosted the international meeting of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) on November 19th 2011. The title of the meeting was 'Glorifying the 100th birth Anniversary of the Great Leader KIM IL SUNG" It was held at the Marchmont Centre in central London.

It was attended by Alejandro Cao De Benos president of the KFA, Bjornar Simonsen international counsellor of the KFA and delegates of the following countries , UK,Spain, Norway, Netherlands,Germany Switzerland , France and Malta. Messages and speeches were also received from the following countries, Mexico, Catalonia , New Zealand , Italy, Germany,Macedonia and Venezuela. Regrettably the UK Foreign Office prevented delegates from Pakistan, Bangladesh , Thailand and Russia from attending.It is not clear whether this was bureaucracy or politically motivated
A message from the DPRK Embassy ,London was received and also a message from Zo Il Min of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea.
During the morning session which was KFA only. The meeting was opened by the KFA Official delegate UK who welcomed delegates to London. Alejandro Cao De Benos then made the keynote speech which was followed by that of Bjornar Simenson , KFA international counsellor ,speeches were also made by the KFA Official delegate UK, of Staffordshire KFA. and Martin Lotscher of the Swiss-Korea Committee. Messages and speeches from Germany, Italy, Mexico , New Zealand and Catalonia were read out. A message of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea was read out.
Alejandro Cao De Benos said in his speech that
"Frequently people around the world talk about 'personality cult' or 'state religion', but out of their ignorance they cannot understand that the admiration and the lapel pin on the heart of every Korean comes from genuine respect towards a great man that did so much for others but never thought of himself. This is why is our duty and honor to safeguard the works and life of Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, to spread this knowledge worldwide and shield Korea, the country of Juche against any enemy attack.

KFA, intellectual army of President KIM IL SUNG and General KIM JONG IL has a history of only 10 years, but it has won the support of many people that wants to develop friendship and solidarity ties with DPRK. With the recent incorporation of KFA Bangladesh and KFA Pakistan, and our new branches in Mexico, Venezuela and Chile we amount for more than 15.000 members and following the footsteps of our Great Leaders we are making the impossible possible. With our very limited resources we had achieved to raise our voice in the mass media that before was monopolized by USA, and every interview, conference or video display you organize is having a domino effect that reach thousands of people. For that reason to be active and contribute to our cause can really make a huge difference even if we may think that our work is insignificant"

UK KFA delegate said in his speech said
"The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung was a towering giant of the international communist movement and world revolution.
The great leader President Kim Il Sung was the heroic partisan leader , the mighty
general of Mt Paektu ,of the anti Japanese war who defeated the million strong Kwantung army of Japanese imperialism . He was ever- victorious iron willed commander of the anti US war in the 1950s. Thus the great leader comrade
Kim Il Sung defeated 2 imperialisms in one generation. He is the founder of Juche Korea and led the Korean people to perform great miracles. His life and work spanned most of the 20th century As the Korean historian and writer Mr Baik Bong said the achievements of comrade Kim Il Sung were so vast it was difficult to write about . It was like being a small boat on the big ocean"


Stafforshire KFA said
"The situation around the Korean peninsula remains tense. Only in October 2011, the United States and south Korea conducted large-scale military exercises codenamed "Hoguk". As a form of intimidation against the DPRK, the United States and the Li Myoung Bak clique are carrying out continuous war games such as "Team Spirit" & "Foal Eagle". The United States and its obedient servant south Korea has over the past decade turned their backs on dialogue with the DPRK and is pursuing the policy of confrontation. We must always remember that the DPRK faces hourly and daily the threat of invasion from the world's superpower. Approximately there are about 1,000 nuclear weapons and 40,000 troops stationed in south Korea by the US. Already the Obama Administration is talking about repeating its Middle Eastern strategy in regard to north Korea. So the Songun Politics of KIM JONG IL of attaching importance to arms in the defence of the revolutionary gains and sovereignty of Peoples Korea has proven its validity. For sixty six years the Korean people have endured the misery of national division perpetuated by the United States and by the south Korean puppet regime. Korean reunification looked like a realistic prospect with the June 2000 north-south declaration. Today to call for reunification on the streets on Seoul or anywhere else in south Korea is considered a crime. Under Li Myong Bak, hundreds of thousands of reunification & pro-democracy activists and trade unionists have been jailed. As partisans of Korean solidarity, we must raise the issue of the lack of human rights in south Korea and campaign for the boycott of the Li Myoung Bak dictatorship by democratic public opinion, as the Apartheid regime in south Africa was isolated in the 1980s. November marks the 12th anniversary of the establishment of the Korean Friendship Association.Over the decade the KFA has become the authoritative and authentic friendship body promoting solidarity with the DPRK. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the KFA was to spread an understanding of the DPRK among an audience of millions, particularly young people through the medium of the Internet and other sources. The KFA is now regarded as the voice of Peoples Korea, a tribune of truth against a background of distortions and lies which are produced about the DPRK by the Western media. Here in the host country for this international meeting, the UK KFA has considerably consolidated itself over the years. The UK KFA has a strong presence on the net with a number of websites and blogs and has branched out on to Face book. Aswell as conducting work on the net, the UK KFA has been active on the non-virtual sphere too, with the holding various public meetings and DPRK photo & literature exhibitions. The UK KFA has even held demonstrations and pickets outside the US and south Korean embassies regularly. Our success are due to activities of the UK KFA Head Delegate and the KFA membership in Britain. Recently the UK KFA has been able to setup regional branches in other parts of Britain. The UK KFA now has branches in Yorkshire/North East and in Staffordshire. My local county KFA branch is centred in the city of Stoke On Trent has a small but loyal core of members. We aim to establish more KFA branches throughout the UK in the near future. We in the UK KFA and international KFA have alot to be proud of in our track record of furthering the cause of Korean friendship. "

A message was adopted to the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il .

In the afternoon there was a public meeting joined by members of the UK KFA , progressive personalities and the general public as well media. Alejandro Cao De Benos made a powerful speech introducing the DPRK and the work of KFA . He gave a short outline of the DPRK's history. He explained many of the ideas,lines and policies of the DPRK . One part of the talk that I found very important was that Alejandro explained that it was south Korea that had shelled the DPRK for 5 hours a year ago , thus causing the Yongphyong island incident. Many questions were asked provoking wide ranging discussion Questions were on all sorts of topics, the economy,living standards, the DPRK's diplomatic relations, the relationship of the DPRK to the world revolution. One asked about the DPRK's Mansudae housing construction project and was deeply impressed by it.

U.S., Worst Rogue State in World

Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, a 14-year-old student committed suicide in New York unable to endure long torment by rascals, sparking off public furor.

In the United States misdeeds are steadily and drastically increasing and they become diverse in style and form.

Especially, misconducts rampant at schools have become a serious trouble in the country.

In recent years, 77 percent of students throughout the country have undergone or are undergoing spiritual and physical torment by rascals, according to the survey of the U.S. Department of Justice.

160 000 students have reportedly refused to go to school for fear of violence.

It is universal in the U.S. that students go to school with guns. According to the recent survey, 100 000 students now bring guns to school with them. Thus, gun-related crimes are reported one after another from schools.

Meanwhile, gangsters have openly committed all sorts of crimes in the U.S., causing great social unrest and terror-ridden atmosphere.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on October 21 announced that there are about 33 000 groups of gangsters across the country at present.

The said figures and facts go to clearly prove that the U.S. is a hotbed of social evils. -0

CPRK Hits at Military Exercises in S. Korea

CPRK Hits at Military Exercises in S. Korea

Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Thursday released its information bulletin no. 987 as regards the anti-DPRK war exercises launched by the south Korean military warmongers.

The bulletin said:

The puppet military warmongers of south Korea kicked off large-scale military rehearsal around Yonphyong and Paekryong islands on Wednesday under the pretext of coping with someone's "provocation" with the first anniversary of the Yonphyong Island shelling case as a momentum.

Involved in it are the puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff, Command for Defense of Islands in Northwest Sea, Naval Force Operation Command, Air Force Operation Command and other commanding bodies and all branches of arms and services of the puppet forces including three services and marine corps.

The puppet group also bribed human scum keen on hostility toward fellow countrymen and riff-raffs with money and things to let them conduct such burlesques as "memorial service" and "ceremony for unveiling memorial" in Yonphyong Island, Taejon and other areas, inciting consciousness of confrontation and war fever.

Especially, Defense Minister Kim Kwan Jin, in a "commanding notice" to the puppet army units, showed his hysteric madness with vexation at the bitter defeat they suffered after provoking the DPRK on Yonphyong Island last year just like a puppet knowing no fear of the tiger. He claimed that they have got vexed with burning hatred over the past one year and that they should punish not only the base of provocation but also supporting forces.

The anti-DPRK confrontation racket of the puppet group is one more bellicose action against the people at home and abroad hoping for peace on the Korean Peninsula and an unpardonable provocation to the DPRK.

As for last year's Yonphyong Island shelling case it was caused by preemptive firing of those engrossed in confrontation and provocation.

It is the south Korean puppet military group which was the first to mount shelling on the territorial waters of the DPRK, and it is also the group that made more bellicose response to the DPRK's repeated warnings.

There will be no one in the world who remains a passive onlooker to those setting fire at one's own house.

It is too natural that provocateurs are punished.

They are seriously mistaken if they think they will go scot-free after they commit provocation in the future, too.

The puppet group is kicking off the sinister confrontation racket, instead of drawing due lesson from last year's Yonphyong Island shelling case. Such action will bring itself to shame and reveal its colors as a war hawk more glaringly.

The reality clearly shows that "flexibility of the policy toward the north" much touted by the group is no more than wordplay to deceive the public opinion.

The puppet group has only the extreme hostility toward fellow countrymen and sinister intention to go for confrontation and war with the DPRK.

Its reckless confrontation moves are a last-ditch effort to arrest the daily growing demand of the south Korean people for switchover in the policy toward the north, quell the desire for reunification through alliance with the north and free itself from the wretched plight into which it has been driven at home and abroad due to its serious ruling crisis.

The army and people of the DPRK are now in full readiness to go into action and annihilate the enemy, with surging indignation at the evermore pronounced anti-DPRK smear campaign and war moves of the puppet group.

If the puppet bellicose elements provoke from Yonphyong Island again, the island will entirely disappear and the citadel of the enemy be reduced to ashes by the merciless and annihilating strike of the Korean People's Army, the strike more powerful than the previous one.

Only miserable fate will await those keen on reckless confrontation and war moves.

The puppet group had better stop the foolish moves, if it does not want to see nightmare of the Yonphyong Island shelling case again. -0-

Capitalism Existing for 1 Percent of Rich Must Go to Ruin--KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- Working masses' anti-Wall Street protests have continued unabated, shaking the capitalist system down to its roots.

Riot police are hurled to put down the protests but only fell short of blocking the masses' advance.

This has stoked fears among the rulers of the capitalist countries.

This proves capitalism is reactionary system and ailing society where the rich get ever richer and the poor ever poorer as a 1 percent tiny handful of exploiters oppress toiling masses making up 99 percent of the population.

A recent opinion poll conducted in the U.S. showed the majority of Americans voiced resentment against the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. In the poll jointly conducted by the Washington Post and ABC TV, over 6 out of 10 respondents said the rich-poor gap is widening in economic aspect. The income disparity between the people in the upper brackets of income and the rest of Americans is now all time high since the great depression about 70 years ago.

The income of wealthy people grew about 275 percent for the past 28 years. In 2010 the number of the poor increased by 7 million from 10 years ago.

The widening gap between the 1 percent rich and the 99 percent poor is an inevitable result of the structural contradiction of capitalism.

The history of capitalism is characterized by the accumulation of wealth by monopoly tycoons. In this course a crucial change took place in the relations of class forces, sharpening contradiction and conflict.

In the capitalist society the well-to-do people get ever richer while the poor are reduced to extreme poverty. The rich take to itself products and almost all wealth of the society, wallowing in luxury while the toiling masses languish in hunger and poverty. The people are degenerated, becoming slaves of money and the broad masses suffer from unemployment, hunger and poverty.

It has become frequent occurrences in the capitalist countries for even the middle classes to lose properties due to bankruptcy and unemployment and join the poor.

A big group of the unemployed are in the making in the Western countries bogged by financial and debt crises.

The rulers and monopoly capitalists are talking rhetoric about "class cooperation" and "welfare policy" to calm down the daily worsening socio-class contradiction in the capitalist countries.

Cooperation between the exploiting class and the grassroots people in the capitalist society is sheer sophism little short of a wolf and a sheep living in the same pen as friends.

It is an inevitable process of the historical development that the people intensify their actions to win the right to existence and democracy against the arbitrary practices of the monopoly capitalists.

The widening gap between the rich and the poor will escalate the people's protest against it.

Capitalism can never solve its socio-class contradiction by itself but will meet a final ruin by the people's actions for independence. -0

KPA Supreme Command Warns S. Korean Military Not to Act Rashly

Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army announced the following report on Thursday as regards the anti-DPRK war exercises launched by the south Korean military on five islands and their surrounding waters in the West Sea of Korea:

The puppet military warmongers of south Korea, keen in confrontation with fellow countrymen, kicked off large-scale anti-DPRK war rehearsal on the five islands and their surrounding waters in the West Sea of Korea at 13:00 Wednesday.

Involved in the rehearsal are the puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff, Command for Defense of Islands in Northwest Sea, Naval Force Operation Command, Air Force Operation Command and other commanding bodies, strike flying corps, fleets of warships, artillery units and other huge armed forces.

Some of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces present in south Korea took part in it.

The military warmongers dared to announce that the rehearsal is aimed to remind the DPRK of victims and lesson from the Yonphyong Island Shelling and review their "perfect readiness for counteraction." It is also intended to show their will to decisively punish "not only the base of provocation but also commanding posts of all echelons including supporters in the north" with the combined forces of three services in case the DPRK starts a military action, they asserted.

As for last year's Yonphyong Island shelling, it was a legitimate self-defensive step against the provocateurs who dared to make a clumsy fire on the inviolable territorial waters of the DPRK despite its army's advance warning.

This being a hard reality, they launched the anti-DPRK war rehearsal far from drawing due lesson on the first anniversary of the shelling. It is little short of a new political and military provocation to the army and people of the DPRK.

Such disgusting behavior by the military warmongers, who go recklessly without knowing about the present trend of situation and their domestic condition, will arouse criticism and ridicules from among the people at home and abroad.

They should not forget the lesson taught by the Yonphyong Island Shelling one year ago.

They should be mindful that If they dare to impair the dignity of the DPRK again and fire one bullet or shell toward its inviolable territorial waters, sky and land, the deluge of fire on Yonphyong Island will lead to that in Chongwadae and the sea of fire in Chongwadae to the deluge of fire sweeping away the stronghold of the group of traitors.

The DPRK revolutionary armed forces are in full readiness to go into a decisive battle to counter any military provocation. -0-

DPRK Rejects 'Resolution on Human Rights'

Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Thursday as regards the anti-DPRK "resolution on human rights" adopted at the 3rd Committee of the 66th UN General Assembly:

The adoption of the "resolution" is a trite political trick employed by the U.S. and its followers hostile toward the DPRK every year.

As usual, the DPRK resolutely rejects the "resolution" which is the height of politicization, double standard and selection of human rights and consistent with falsity and fabrication.

With any desperate efforts the hostile forces can never check the DPRK's advance nor break its people's rock-firm faith in socialism.

Their anti-DPRK smear campaign over the human rights issue will arouse only disillusion and ridicules from among the world people as they are criminals who have violated human morality by ruthlessly trampling down the sovereignty of other countries under the pretext of "protection of human rights" and cracking down on their peoples' just struggle for vital rights. -0-

Capitalist Society Termed Reactionary

Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- No matter how much the imperialists and those speaking for bourgeoisie talk about "liberty" and "rights", capitalist countries can never guarantee the popular masses genuine liberty and rights, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a bylined article.

It discloses that capitalism is the worst exploiting system and the harshest oppressive system in human history as it ruthlessly tramples down upon the desire and wishes of the popular masses for independence.

The article goes on:

Capitalist society is an unpopular society where a tiny handful of the capitalist class rules over the toiling masses who account for the majority of people in the society, having to itself state power and means of production.

The bourgeois deprive the toiling masses of liberty and rights and violate them in the capitalist society where power is almighty. It is the mode of existence to keep themselves alive and a basic political method to consolidate their class and privileged position.

Money is almighty in the capitalist society where dignity and rights of human beings are decided by money.

Capitalism is not a liberal society advertised by the imperialists but an unequal society, a society ruled by dictatorship.

Political life is getting reactionary, spiritual and cultural life is poor and material life is deformed in capitalist society, a factor of aggravating social inequality and contradictions.

Even scholars of the West admit that the inhumane capitalist society has no future as it is ridden with serious contradictions and inequality. Capitalism is fated to go to ruin as it is an unpopular society violating the freedom and rights of the popular masses. -0-

Rodong Sinmun Supports People Fighting Exploitation and Suppression

Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) -- Capitalism and imperialism will naturally accompany oppression and people are bound to rise up against it, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a bylined article.

It goes on:

The working masses rose up in the capitalist countries to fight the arbitrary practices of the monopoly capitalists and win the right to existence and democracy.

Protests sweeping the different parts of the world are a clear reminder of the resentment and bitterness to the reactionary and unpopular capitalist system.

The people's actions are aimed to win independence against capitalism and imperialism, hegemonic forces trampling down on them.

Capitalism and imperialism are systems of exploitation quelling the desire and wish of the popular masses for independence. They are the most despotic oppression systems in human history, a combination of class domination and national oppression.

The capitalist society is an unpopular one based on the private ownership and ensuing extreme individualism.

A handful of exploiting class takes hold of all the means of production and social wealth there which they use as a means for exploiting and plundering the toiling masses.

The development of IT industry in the capitalist society will only sharpen the class contradiction and stand-off as it further intensifies the exploitation of the employed workforce by capital.

Capitalism and imperialism keep to intensifying class and national oppression to survive ruin and maintain and expand supremacy.

The imperialists are bound to meet the people's resistance for independence. -

Ever-growing Struggle against FTA

Ever-growing Struggle against FTA

On November 3 some 5,000 people from different social standings including workers, farmers, youth and students held in Seoul a rally for checking the conclusion of the Free Trade Agreement with the US.

The participants noted that the damages due to the FTA conclusion cannot be estimated and asserted that they should check by all means the FTA conclusion which sells off the people's right to existence to foreign forces, lock, stock and barrel.

After the rally the participants launched a demo.

The demonstrators marched toward the “National Assembly” building chanting such slogans as “Let us smash the GNP hell-bent on ratifying the FTA in the NA!” and “We oppose the FTA!”.

They undauntedly fought in face of the fascist policemen who ran amuck in suppressing them firing water cannons.

Candlelit rallies against the FTA conclusion take place almost everyday throughout south Korea.

On November 4 candlelit rallies to denounce the GPN’s moves to forcefully railroad the motion calling for FTA ratification were held in Seoul and Busan with the members of civic organizations, popular masses including workers, farmers, youth and students, housewives and opposition personages attended.

On November 5 and 6 candlelit rallies were held in Seoul under the sponsorship of the “All-people Movement Headquarters to Check the Conclusion of South Korea-US FTA”.

The FTA conclusion will make south Korea a complete colony of the US, the participants condemned and called for waging the struggle to the last by the concerted efforts of all people in order to foil the ratification of the ruinous FTA.

Let Us Defend Right to Existence with Struggle

On November 13, there took place the 2011 national workers’ rally for checking the south Korea-US FTA and inheriting martyr Jon Tae-il at the plaza before the Seoul City Office.

Participated there were some 20,000 workers affiliated to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and figures from opposition parties, the National Federation of Peasants Associations, the National Teachers’ Union, the National Problems Institute and other civic organizations.

Now in the society the conglomerates get the biggest benefits in history whereas the workers are going more miserable and the people's living is further deteriorated due to the authorities’ moves to conclude the FTA with the US amidst the people's right to existence getting totally trampled down, the participants denounced.

The representative of the Democratic Labor Party and the chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions said that now is the high time to frustrate the FTA conclusion which enforces the people's sacrifice and to wage the dynamic struggle to overthrow the government and the Grand National Party. They asserted that the workers will launch the struggle to dissolve the GNP and dethrone the government in solidarity with all like-minded forces if the moves to conclude the humiliating FTA persist.

Meanwhile, an all-people candlelit rally against the FTA was held at the same plaza that day under the sponsorship of the All-People's Movement Headquarters to Check South Korea-US FTA with tens of thousands people of all walks of life including the workers from across south Korea and opposition assemblymen.

As long as the current government which stakes its fate on the pro-US sycophancy is in power, the people's right to existence can never be secured.

Only with the undaunted struggle they can realize the democratic rights and true living.

KCNA Commentary on Rumor about 'Nuclear Cooperation'

Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Some dishonest forces are deliberately spreading the rumor that the DPRK is helping Iran in manufacturing nuclear weapons.

Some time ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), instigated by the U.S. and other Western countries, floated the rumor about "nuclear cooperation" between the DPRK and Iran. Then the hostile forces have spread fabricated data to make this rumor sound plausible. They even cited the outdated facts, rejected by the international community in the past, and talked nonsense that "hundreds of north Korean technicians, who took part in manufacturing nukes and missiles, have visited Iran on the shift via a third country to offer technological assistance."

The U.S.-led hostile forces have always found fault with the peaceful nuclear activities of those countries going against their grain and with their cooperation in the nuclear field.

What the forces seek in spreading the rumor about the DPRK's "nuclear cooperation", which is nonexistent, while escalating the offensive against Iran is to brand the DPRK as a "nuclear criminal" by linking it with the nuclear issue of Iran.

The story about "nuclear cooperation" is part of the hostile forces' trite slandering and deceptive tricks intended to put pressure on the DPRK.

There is no creditability in it.

Over the West's skepticism about the nuclear cooperation with the DPRK, Iranian diplomats said that Iran needs no foreign experts since it developed its own nuclear base and that Iran's nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.

Nevertheless, the hostile forces are persistently clamoring about the DPRK's "cooperation". This is a revelation of their wicked criminal scheme to justify the campaign for sanctions on the DPRK over the nuclear issue and spoil the atmosphere of dialogue created in the Korean Peninsula.

In words they call for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region including the peninsula but, in action they go against the dialogue and detente.

Any attempt to tarnish the external image of the DPRK with slander and plot will come to failure in the end.

Plot-breeders had better stop their foolish attempt at once. -0-

KCNA commentary on police suppression of OWS

Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Amid the Occupy Wall Street demo growing stronger in different parts of the United States, the police have kicked up a sweeping campaign of repression while dispersing the protesters.

On Nov. 16 the police authorities in New York hurled policemen in dispersing protesters.

As a helicopter circled above the park where protesters set up tents to stage sit-in strike, creating terror-ridden atmosphere, the police thronged to the park and cleared all the tents by force.

The police arrested more than 200 of those strikers protesting the evacuation.

Similar breakup campaign was also conducted in Oakland, Portland and other cities.

Enraged at such repression, the protesters reportedly declared that they would soon stage a large-scale demo.

Foreign media reported that tension is prevailing in Wall Street again.

The U.S. would frequently advocate "defense" of human rights including freedom of assembly and demonstration. However, it is now arresting and detaining at random the popular masses who rose up in the struggle against exploitation and repression by capital.

This frantic racket of crackdown is a vivid expression of hypocrisy of the U.S.-style "freedom" and "human rights", and it clearly shows the world that the U.S. is a grave yard of human rights. -0-

Rodong Sinmun Calls for Intensified Struggle for Sovereignty

Pyongyang, November 13 (KCNA) -- Sovereignty is the inviolable right of all countries and nations to independently live and act, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a bylined article.

It is, in essence, the rights of each country and nation to adopt their line and policy in keeping with their own people's interests and their specific conditions and independently solve any problem by the efforts of their own people, the article says, and goes on:

Exercise of sovereignty can be realized only through struggle.

What is most important here is to intensify the struggle against imperialism.

The imperialists try to block the road toward global independence. All the progressives should wage an uncompromising struggle with the imperialists to reliably defend sovereignty of their countries and nations under the uplifted banner of independence.

It is also necessary to develop self-supporting national economy.

Independence of each country and nation can be realized only when it is based on the self-supporting national economy. If not, any country will have to read other's face whenever it adopts a policy and curry with other in its foreign activities.

It is particularly important to bolster self-reliant defense capability.

Self-defense is a sovereign right of each country and nation. Strong national defenses help keep independence, but if a nation is weak in defense capability, it would fall prey and slave to the aggression forces.

Without strong self-reliant military power is it not possible to win in the struggle against imperialism nor defend country and nation nor protect security of people. This is the stark reality at present.

The DPRK will invariably pursue the Songun politics, the independent politics and strive to establish sound international relations and achieve world peace and victory in the cause of global independence. -0-

SOCIALISM IS THE LIFE OF OUR PEOPLE-KIM JONG IL

KIM JONG IL





SOCIALISM IS THE LIFE OF OUR PEOPLE



Talk with the Senior Officials of the Central Committee

of the Workers' Party of Korea

November 14, 1992





Over the recent years the imperialists and reactionaries have been resorting to every scheme possible to stifle our country, which is advancing invariably holding the banner of socialism under the leadership of the Party and the leader. The more desperate the enemy is in his attempt, the higher we must hold the banner, crushing the enemy’s counterrevolutionary offensive by means of revolutionary offensive.

Although the imperialists and reactionaries are making desperate attempts to obliterate socialism on the earth, socialism is cherished as deep as ever in the hearts of the revolutionary people all over the world and is advancing on its track. Socialism is the ideal of humanity and that socialism achieves victory is a law of the development of history. No matter how desperately they attempt to stamp out socialism, the imperialists and reactionaries cannot reverse the tide of history. Today the revolutionary people of the world, under the banner of the Pyongyang Declaration, are fighting resolutely to defend and advance the cause of socialism. The struggle for socialism is being waged not only in those countries where socialism has collapsed but in the capitalist countries. It is doubtless that the manoeuvring of the imperialists and reactionaries will be frustrated and socialism will make an uninterrupted advance and emerge victorious in the long run by the struggle of the revolutionary parties and people of the world.

With an unshakable faith in the victory of socialism, we must approach the present situation on an optimistic point of view and staunchly defend the cause of socialism.

Socialism is the life of our people. Whether our people remain alive or die, i.e., whether they lead an independent and creative life as masters of the state and society or become the slave of others, getting maltreatment and contempt, depends on whether they defend socialism or not. As the song goes, socialism defended means victory and socialism abandoned means death. Whatever the difficulties and trials, we must never abandon the socialism we chose and are building by our efforts.

In order to defend and advance the cause of socialism, we must apply the Juche idea in all fields of revolution and construction in a thoroughgoing way.

The Juche idea is the ideological foundation of socialism and the only guiding ideology of revolution and construction. Our style of socialism centred on the masses is based on the Juche idea and embodies this idea; it is Juche-orientated socialism. Socialism devoid of ideological foundation and perfect guiding ideology cannot be called genuine socialism and it might be frustrated, unable to check the anti-socialist schemes of the imperialists and reactionaries. This is shown graphically by the lesson of those countries where socialism was frustrated and capitalism has been restored. Our socialism is advancing victoriously unperturbed amidst the continuing vicious moves of the imperialists and reactionaries just because it is based on the Juche idea and guided by this idea. While socialism is the life of our people, the Juche idea is the life of our socialism.

We must staunchly defend the Juche idea from the infiltration of the bourgeois reactionary ideological trend of all hues, steadily develop it and apply it in a thoroughgoing way in all fields of revolution and construction.

The course of building socialism is the course of applying the Juche idea and socialist and communist societies are those modelled on that idea.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung authored the idea in his early years and has applied it in all fields of revolution and construction with all consistency. He leads revolution and construction and lives his life in our own way. The anecdote concerning the colour of suiting illustrates graphically how firm his Juche-orientated stand is. Once our officials suggested to him that he have his suit made of the material of a certain colour, saying that suits made of such material were now in fashion. He told them fashion should follow him, not the other way round.

We must cherish the Juche idea as our faith and apply it in all sectors of revolution and construction thoroughly so as to add further lustre to our style of socialism centred on the masses, the Juche-orientated socialism.

In order to defend socialism and exalt its brilliance, we must further consolidate the single-hearted unity of the leader, the Party and the masses.

The leader, the Party and the masses form a body in which they share their destiny. Their firm unity based on ideology, will, morality and obligation is a guarantee for the invincibility of the cause of socialism. We must rally all people around the Party and the leader more firmly, thus incessantly consolidating the might of the single-hearted unity.

In defending socialism in the present times it is of great importance to check the abuses of every description the imperialists and bourgeois restorationists are levelling against socialism and bring the righteousness and advantages of the socialist cause home to Party members and other working people.

The imperialists and those who have restored bourgeois society are abusing socialism, calling it "totalitarian", "barracks-like" and "administrative-commanding". This is illogical, reactionary sophistry devoid of theoretical foundation. What are the bourgeois restorationists themselves doing now, those who are abusing socialism? They have disbanded communist parties and force everything on the lower echelons by invoking presidential decrees.

They are slinging mud at socialism and if we fail to lay bare the reactionary nature of their "theory", some people not prepared ideologically might become sceptical of socialism. We must disclose the reactionary nature of their "theory" and equip Party members and other working people with the socialist ideology.

I am going to write and make public in the near future a treatise criticizing their abuses of socialism. The sector of theoretical information, too, must produce many articles that lay bare the reactionary nature of the theory of the imperialists and bourgeois restorationists against socialism and explain the truthfulness and advantages of the socialist ideology and theory. Our Party expounded all theoretical problems arising in the practice of the socialist revolution and socialist construction including the problem of the three revolutions--ideological, technological and cultural--the problem of achieving oneness of mind of the leader, the Party and the masses; also the problem of properly combining centralism and democracy and strengthening the people's democratic dictatorship. When we reveal the reactionary nature of the abuses of socialism hurled by the imperialists and bourgeois restorationists as we stand on the ideas and theories our Party put forward for the socialist revolution and socialist construction, we will be able to greatly encourage the people who are making an effort to check the imperialists' and reactionaries' machinations and defend socialism.

We must also write articles on the limitations of the theories authored by the earlier writers of classics so as to give our Party members and other working people a correct understanding of the originality and superiority of the socialist ideology and theory of our Party.

Marxism-Leninism is a revolutionary ideology created reflecting the requirements of the revolutionary practice of the working class in the days of pre-monopoly capitalism and imperialism. History has advanced far and the times have changed since then. We are now in a new era of independence, when the popular masses, as the masters of history and their own destiny, carve out history and their destiny independently and creatively. The authors of Marxism had no experience of building socialism, and it is the same with Lenin. Owing to the limitations of the conditions of their times and their practical experiences the socialist theories put forward by the authors of Marxism-Leninism could not go, in some cases, beyond the limit of prediction and supposition.

For all their limitations, we must not take a nihilistic approach to Marxism-Leninism or cavil at their authors. We must recognize the exploits Marx, Engels and Lenin performed for mankind and respect them. Thanks to the creation of Marxism-Leninism, the socialist theory developed from fantasy to science; the working class was able to have a guiding ideology for the first time in history and they could struggle vigorously against capital and for class emancipation, national liberation and socialism. Respecting the authors of the theories is an obligation on us in view of the principle of the juniors of the revolution respecting their seniors.

When writing articles about the limitations of Marxism-Leninism we must not fail to explain the exploits their creators accomplished. Only then can we give a correct understanding of Marxism-Leninism to the people and deal a blow to the imperialists and bourgeois restorationists who are caviling at this ideology.

In order to correctly write about the limitations of the theories expounded by Marxism-Leninism, one must have a good knowledge of the originality and superiority of the revolutionary ideology of our Party, the Juche idea. The Juche idea is an original idea and perfect revolutionary theory of communism the great leader created reflecting the requirements of the new era of history, the era of independence. If we clarify the originality and superiority of the Juche idea effectively, then the limitations of the theories of Marxism-Leninism will be revealed on its own accord.

The officials in the field of theoretical information should study the Juche idea hard and learn in depth its originality and superiority. They should also study classical works like The Capital to become well-informed of Marxism-Leninism.

Songs of high ideological and artistic qualities should be created in a large number. Such songs instil faith in the cause of socialism and strong will in the hearts of the people encouraging them to greater efforts. Don't Advance, Night of Pyongyang is one of these songs. This song will encourage the soldiers of the Korean People's Army and our people even in days of war. I still feel strength welling up whenever I listen to the song. A man must know how to appreciate the songs. There cannot be life divorced from song. In the days of war not only songs but also broadcasting encourage the soldiers and people. During the Second World War Yuri Levitan, an announcer of the Soviet Union, broadcast the reports of the Supreme Headquarters, rousing the Soviet soldiers and people to victory in the war. He became famous for his broadcasting. Furious, Hitler ordered that Levitan should be the first to be killed after the occupation of Moscow. Our announcers, too, do their job efficiently. They will do their share as they should in time of war.

These days the sector of the art of music has produced many songs of high ideological and artistic qualities. Don't Advance, Night of Pyongyang is an excellent song for its high ideological and artistic qualities. So is If Our Mother Party Wishes. The text of the latter song is written well.

In future the musical art sector must create many songs which become a national treasure with high ideological and artistic qualities. Songs of this kind are not something special. They are those the leader and the people enjoy singing. Except for the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, the artistic organizations now fail to produce such songs in a great number. These organizations must produce many songs of national treasure with material based on life. In order to create these songs, one must make it a habit to produce them to be pleasant with the materials derived from life. One cannot produce excellent songs if one proceeds from a subjective desire to create songs of national treasure. If songs describe life and people enjoy singing them, they become national treasures. To achieve this, creative workers must absorb themselves in the lives of people and get themselves fully acquainted with the people's aspiration and demands.

Songs must be portrayed well. If a song is not portrayed well, it cannot prove its worth no matter how excellent it is.

CPRK Flails S. Korean Authorities′ Moves to Intercept Websites

Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea released its information bulletin No. 986 Thursday to condemn the south Korean authorities' desperate efforts to intercept websites praising the DPRK.

The bulletin said:

The south Korean puppet clique is nowadays trying to intercept the pro-north websites praising the DPRK and calling for alliance and reunification with it after forming a joint investigation group made up of the prosecution, police, broadcasting communication commission and others.

It declared a "war against the pro-north websites", crying that the number of those websites has rapidly increased every year to reach the level of threatening the system. It is clamping down on those websites at random while harshly repressing the organizations and persons who posted on Internet articles and animation files lauding the DPRK.

Such fascist moves are one more rude violation of human rights and treacherous deed, and they are an extension of the campaign for confrontation with the DPRK.

This action is nothing but a last-ditch effort of those driven into a tight corner as it is aimed to arrest the desire for alliance and reunification with the DPRK growing stronger in south Korea and tide over the ruling crisis by quailing the progressive forces obstructive to the maintenance of power.

In the present era when the Internet was spread over the whole world the south Korean authorities punish its users, branding them as "elements benefiting the enemy". This rude violence is a deed of going against civilization, and it clearly shows how ruthlessly human rights are violated in south Korea.

They are heinous anti-reunification fanatics keen on confrontation with fellow countrymen and indifferent to even elementary human rights, the worst violator of human rights and dusts of history that should be removed without delay.

Faith and conscience can never be quelled with fascist repression and people's desire cannot be checked with bayonet and prison.

The puppet group should stop at once its foolish repressive campaign aimed at arresting the south Korean people's desire for alliance and reunification with the DPRK, squarely seeing their mindset and the trend of the times. -0-

Class Contradiction Can Never Be Settled in Capitalist Society--Rodong Sinmun

Class Contradiction Can Never Be Settled in Capitalist Society--Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Social and class contradiction can never be settled in capitalist society, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a bylined article.

The recent demos, which swept over the world under such slogans as "We oppose to capitalism", "Give us jobs", "Elimination of poverty" and "We are 99%", have made a great impact on capitalist countries, the article says, adding:

Those mass demos staged in metropolises of capitalist countries are a result of the extremely sharpened social and class contradiction that the rich get ever richer and poor get ever poorer.

"We are 99%" is one of the slogans raised by working people in capitalist countries in their demos. It means that the privileged circles accounting for less than one percent of population seize the most of social property while working masses accounting for 99% suffer from destitution and poverty.

The demos are not sporadic ones but global ones as they were premeditated and popularized on a worldwide scale. They are little different from a social and political quake that crippled the governments of capitalist countries. These global demos struck fear into the governments of capitalist countries which boasted of their development.

The demos prove that the more capitalism develops the wider and sharper gap between poor and rich and the social and class contradiction become, thus bringing earlier its bankruptcy.

The advocators of capitalism have so far argued, peddling the theory of "class cooperation" and the "third choice", that it is possible in capitalist society to remove class contradiction and make a compromise between classes.

But, the present reality proves that such argument is groundless. In capitalist society the social and class contradiction does not decrease but is growing more acute with each passing day.

Capitalism is not a society desired by humankind. Sweeping over the world is the wind of making overall analysis of and rejecting capitalism. -0-

Socialism Advances Full of Vigor and Energy

Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il in his famous work "Socialism Is a Science" proved the truth and invincibility of socialism in an all-round way, saying that it is as alive as ever in the minds of the people.

He affirmed that socialism, the ideal and revolutionary banner of the popular masses struggling for independence, is sure to be revived and win in the end.

The scientific accuracy of his strong affirmation has been proved in practice.

Socialism is greeting a new heyday after dealing a heavy blow to capitalism.

More than 270 political parties are struggling to defend and advance the socialist cause under the banner of the Pyongyang Declaration.

It has become the irreversible main trend of the times to reject capitalism and aspire after socialism.

Social conversion from capitalism to socialism is taking place in Latin America which suffered much more damage by American-style "globalization" than other regions.

Absolute superiority of socialism over capitalism has been clearly proved in the revolutionary practice to overturn the old and create the new.

Socialists, working class, oppressed people and nations in different countries are holding aloft the banner of socialism, breaking the chain of capitalism.

The reality goes to prove that the trust of the world people in socialism is growing deeper.

Socialism has gained rich experience and lesson in the course of overcoming painful setback and ordeals and is advancing full of vigor and energy with the broader and firmer class foundation.

All the forces are aspiring after socialism, the forces protecting peace against war of aggression and advocating democracy, freedom, equality and justice and the forces loving the country and defending the people's right and interests.

The present era is that of a historical turn in which capitalism is itching close to the end and the world people are dynamically advancing along the road of independence and socialism.

Korean-style socialism centered on the popular masses, man-centered socialism, is the most scientific, advantageous and powerful one.

The history of modern Korea is that of victorious socialism in which the nation's dignity and sovereignty have been reliably defended in the do-or-die showdown with capitalism.

It is the miracle of history that the DPRK, which is standing in showdown with the U.S. imperialists in the crucible of acute confrontation between socialism and capitalism, could push forward socialist construction and bring about a turning phase of the grand advance for prosperity.

Peoples of many countries are struggling to revive the socialist movement with the firm resolve to take the road of socialism while looking up to the DPRK as the beacon of hope. This fact goes to prove it is right and proud that the DPRK carved out and has defended Korean-style socialism according to its faith and resolution no matter how and what others do. Anyone with discretion recognizes that the road chosen by the DPRK is right.

In the DPRK all the people are closely united as one on the basis of the revolutionary obligation and comradeship and help and lead each other forward on the principle of one for all and all for one.

This picture is unthinkable in capitalist society, and it is the highest pride of our society and the source of the Korean people's great happiness and invincible strength. -0-

Thoughts "Socialism Is a Science"

A few days has passed since November 1st which was the 17th anniversary of the briiliant work of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il " Socialism Is A Science "
http://www.uk-songun.com/index.php?p=1_47_SOCIALISM-IS-A-SCIENCE-KIM-JONG-IL

I read through the work the other night and it is brilliant. Without any doubt or contradiction the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was the only leader of a socialist country and ruling party to firmly assert the validity of socialism in the difficult period of the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR . The work is at least equal in stature to the "Communist Manifesto" or Lenin's "Imperialism " . Everyone should read this work.

Some quotes from the work
Socialism is a science. Socialism has been frustrated in a number of countries, but scientific socialism is as alive as ever in the minds of the people. The imperialists and reactionaries are fussing about the "end of socialism", with regard to the events in some countries, which had been building socialism. The renegades of socialism try to justify their despicable betrayal, claiming that the ideal of socialism itself is invalid. However, the truth cannot be concealed or obliterated. The crumbling of socialism in various countries does not mean the failure of socialism as science but the bankruptcy of opportunism, which has corrupted socialism. Although socialism is temporarily experiencing a heart--rending setback because of opportunism, it will without fail be revived and win ultimate victory for its scientific accuracy and truth.



The exploiter class and their stooges put forward the "theory of class cooperation" and tried to block the struggle of the exploited working masses against exploitation and oppression. Within the communist movement, reformists and revisionists demanded "class cooperation" and seriously harmed the revolutionary movement, Today, traitors to socialism are also clamoring for a return to capitalism, harboring illusions about capitalism and expecting "aid" and "cooperation" from the imperialists. History shows that to expect "good will" or "class cooperation" from the exploiter class is to make a mess of the revolution.