Pyongyang,
August 30 (KCNA) -- Some Western European countries have opposed the
export of cableway equipment to be installed at ski resort on Masik Pass
in the DPRK, dancing to the tune of the U.S. move to stifle the DPRK.
To justify their acts, they are contending that the construction of
the ski resort is aimed to give good publicity to its social system and
that the equipment belongs to "luxury goods" whose export to the DPRK is
banned under the UN "sanctions". They are even making such remarks that
it is unbelievable that ordinary people of the DPRK use ski resort on
Masik Pass and ski is what only high-class people do.
This is an intolerable mockery of the social system and the people
of the DPRK and a serious human rights abuse that politicizes sports and
discriminates against the Koreans.
The "democratic countries" advocating "equality of all people",
"defence of human rights" and "freedom" are unhesitatingly resorting to
criminal hostile act of violating the dignity of a sovereign state in
the eyes of the international community in a bid to deprive Koreans of
their elementary right to enjoy a cultural life.
Ski resort on Masik Pass is a popular sports facility whose
construction is under way under the plan of the Workers' Party of Korea
to provide youth and other people with highly civilized living
conditions.
Its users are the Koreans who are creating happiness with their own
hands by relying on their own efforts as the master of the country as
well as tourists and sports fans from countries around the world.
No wonder, the special adviser to the Secretary General of the
United Nations on Sports for Development and Peace, when interviewed by
the south Korean Chungang Ilbo on August 23, expressed sympathy with the
popular policies enforced in the DPRK, saying that he had good
impressions of the DPRK during his visit to the country. The state is
deeply concerned about sports which have become part of the daily life
of the people and sports facilities are in wide use in the DPRK, he
said. He added that sports facility which caught his greatest interest
was ski resort on Masik Pass, noting that when completed, the resort is
supposed to receive foreign tourists as well as south Korean tourists
like Mt. Kumgang resort.
Skiing is one of sports events loved by all people, men and women, young and old, in lots of countries around the world.
There are thousands of ski resorts in various regions of the world and their users number tens of million.
Not only countries with good natural and geographic conditions for
skiing but also tropical countries direct efforts into developing ski
events.
Swiss people were fond of skiing despite poverty in the past
centuries and lots of Swiss are engaged in the business of developing
ski now.
It is self-deluding to say that ski belongs to those high-class people.
Countries which styled themselves "highly civilized nations" have
spoiled its own dignity and image in the world's eyes, under the
pressure by the U.S. bent on the hostile policy toward the DPRK. This
can not but be a tragedy.
No matter how desperately the U.S. and other hostile forces may
resort to despicable acts in the international arena, pursuant to their
high-handed and arbitrary practices, ski resort on Masik Pass will
appear imposingly as a symbol of the high civilization of Korea and its
heroic spirit. -0-
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