CPRK Spokesman Urges S. Korean Authorities Not to Miss Opportunity for Improving North-South Relations

    Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The news that Marshal Kim Jong Un personally guided a match for examining the men's football of the National Sports Team to take part in the 17th Asian Games sparked off a big splash at home and abroad.
    He said that the participation of the DPRK's sportspersons in the games would serve as an important occasion in improving the relations between the north and the south and defusing distrust and that they should positively contribute to promoting reconciliation and unity of fellow countrymen through the games. All Koreans keenly realize his firm will for reunification and noble patriotism through these meaningful words.
    The decision made to send a players group and cheerleading squad to the games reflects the noble intention to rev up the atmosphere of the event to be hosted by fellow countrymen and make the games serve as an important occasion in improving the north-south relations and defusing distrust even though the situation remains tense and confrontation grows acute.
    A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) in a statement Wednesday said that the DPRK is speeding up the preparations, expecting that the games would be more enlivened with the participation of the DPRK's players group and cheerleading squad and that they would greatly contribute to mending the stalled north-south ties and promoting national reconciliation and unity.
    At the recent working-level talks the DPRK advanced the most realistic and reasonable proposals with due consideration into the present situation of the north-south relations while complying with the international practice over such technical matters as the scope of players group and cheerleading squad, travel course, means of transport, accommodation and cheering.
    As for the expenses for stay, we even envisaged using our own ship and letting it anchor in Inchon Port for lodging and boarding to lessen the burden of the south side.
    Only to find fault with the participation of the DPRK players group and cheerleading squad in the games and argue each other, wasting time without elementary understanding of the good faith of the DPRK and its efforts cannot but be viewed as a shameless act of inviting criticism and disgrace from public at home and abroad.
    If the north and the south continue finding fault each other over trifling issues at a time when the relations between the two sides are at the lowest ebb, it will never be possible for them to unravel even one of the so many tangled knots.
    If there happens such an abnormal situation where the DPRK's players group and the cheerleading squad are unable to take part in the games to be held in Inchon, an area close to the Military Demarcation Line, this will leave an indelible disgrace to the Koreans and all generations to come.
    No one should make such dishonest attempt to misuse the pure sports activities for meeting political purposes.
    Growing stronger in the country are expectation and interest of the people in the players group and cheerleading squad which are to take part in the games amid the sports enthusiasm that sweeps across the country.
    The south Korean authorities should neither miss the golden opportunity for mending the north-south relations nor cast doubt as to the sincere will of the DPRK to take part in the games to contribute to national reconciliation and unity.
    They should not try to judge it with a hostile conception.
    We will patiently approach the issue of sending the players group and cheerleading squad to the games from the viewpoint of actively contributing to achieving reconciliation and unity of the fellow countrymen and promoting friendship and peace among various countries in Asia and the rest of the world. -0-

Imperialists Have No Qualifications to Talk about Human Rights: Rodong Sinmun

 Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Confrontation and contradiction among countries are getting so serious over the human rights issue that they are spilling over into military conflicts. The imperialists are to blame for these situations. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in an article.
    By origin, they have neither qualifications nor face to talk about human rights, the article notes, and goes on:
    The "human rights" touted by them are nothing but a watchword to realize their strategy for world domination. They are regarding the "human rights issue" as a lever for undisguised encroachment upon sovereignty of other countries and interference in their internal affairs.
    They are interfering in internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of "defending human rights". Their tentacles are being stretched to all fields from state politics to social life.
    They are trying to bring down even the social systems of other countries under the pretext of the "human rights issue". Anti-imperialist independent countries are the main targets of the imperialists' interference.
    Their double-dealing attitude over the human rights issue is aimed to politicize the "human rights issue" of the relevant countries and mobilize their followers to put international pressure on them in a bid to achieve regime change.
    They are regarding the "human rights issue" as a lever for political pressure and a pretext for sanctions and blockade in order to attain their purposes. They are also zealously helping those undesirable elements discontented with the social systems of the relevant countries and encouraging them in activities against their governments under the pretext of "defending human rights".
    With no rhetoric can the imperialists justify or conceal the hypocritical and aggressive nature of their talk about "human rights". -0-

Rodong Sinmun Calls for Intensifying Anti-U.S., Anti-Imperialist Class Education

   Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet group of traitors have become evermore undisguised in their moves to stifle the DPRK. This reality calls for waging a more dynamic class struggle against imperialism. Rodong Sinmun Monday says in an editorial.
    It goes on:
    The class education is an important work related to the destiny of the country, revolution and socialism.
    Only when we conduct the class education to raise the people's class consciousness uninterruptedly, is it possible to preserve the revolutionary principle and nature of socialism to the last and victoriously advance the revolution and construction under any difficult and complicated circumstance and condition.
    What does the tragic situation that socialism collapsed and capitalism was restored in some countries in the 1990s show?
    To neglect and weaken the class education is as foolish an act as digging one's own grave by oneself.
    If the ideological and class positions are pulled down, the revolutionary ranks will be disorganized, the economic and cultural positions collapse and, worse still, the gains of the revolution achieved with blood will be lost. This is a serious lesson taught by history and reality.
    The banner of Songun put up by the DPRK is the most steadfast banner of independence against imperialism and the banner of class struggle. It should always hold the arms of revolution and class in the present drive for defending socialism.
    The Korean revolution will never neglect and weaken the class education no matter how much water flow under the bridge and no matter how frequently a generation is replaced by a new one. -0

ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA support DPRK NDC warning against reckless moves of the US imperialists and south Korean puppets

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
www.uk-songun.com
             London 21st of July Juche 103(2014)
       The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK, Juche Idea Study Group of England and UK Korean Friendship Association today issued the following joint statement in support the recent statement of the DPRK National Defence Commission Policy Department  on the reckless moves of the US imperialists and their south Korean puppets;
        We support the statement of the Policy Department of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) warning the US imperialists and south Korean puppets not to take issue with the legitimate self defence measures of the DPRK as it reflects the just and correct anti.imperialist stance of the DPRK .
          The recent rocket-firing drills of the KPA Strategic Rocket Force have been a great success. This have been to simply increase the self-defence capablities of the DPRK in the face of intensified US imperialist provocations and threats . No other has the right to take issue with this . Those who criticise the DPRK forget that there are over 30,000 US imperialist troops plus 1,000 nuclear weapons.
                           Last year the US and south Korea carried out military exercises virtually consecutively and this year the US again carried out "Foal Eagle/Key Resolve " and brought nuclear bombers to Korea again. The US has one of the largest arsenals of missiles in the world and carries out missile tests all the time. As the DPRK NDC statement says the arrogant attitude of the US imperialists in taking issue with the DPRK rocket tests carried out on its own soil are "nothing but a shameless act of a burglar rudely behaving in face of the master of a house trying to protect his house by himself." This eloquently sums up the brazen hypocritical and two -faced mentality of the US  which has set itself up as not only a world policeman but also an international judge and jury.
                         Regrettably some countries have allowed themselves to be sucked into the moves of the US imperialists against the DPRK . These unprincipled countries which include a country that frustrated socialism and another country which is pursuing "reform" and "opening " even compete with each other to embrace the ugly south Korean puppet regime of Park Geun Hye and flirt with it.
              It is the just revolutionary anti-imperialist and independent stance of the DPRK to take retaliatory against the ever intensfied anti DPRK moves of the US imperialists . We applaud this
ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA              

ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA support DPRK Foreign Ministry statement on the UNSC

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
www.uk-songun.com
                                London  21st of July Juche 103(2014)

The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK, the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the UK  Korean Friendship Association issued a joint statement in support of the statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry of the 19th of July;
                   Our organisations,the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA , strongly support the statement made by the DPRK Foreign Ministry on the 19th of July. It is our considered position that the UN Security Council has no right to take issue with the rocket and missile launches of the DPRK as these are an issue related to the sovereignty of the DPRK . It is ridiculous to assert that the DPRK needs some kind of permission from a supra-national body of the big powers in order to defend itself .
    The UNSC has increasingly become a plaything , a marionette of the US bereft of impartiality and good sense . The UNSC has never criticised or called into question the large number of US-led military exercises in south Korea nor the huge build-up of military hardware in south Korea. Recently the US brought a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Korean waters but no one peep was heard from the UN Security Council about this !

         As the UNSC serves the ends of the US imperialists the DPRK is left with no choice but to continue to augment its self-defence capablities and to increase the nuclear deterrent nuclear force.

            If the situation on the Korean peninsula boils over to conflict it will be the fault  of the US and its followers.

ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

U.S. and S. Korean Authorities Warned of Their Reckless Acts

Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Policy Department of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK on July 20 issued a statement condemning the U.S. and its followers for kicking up a campaign over the DPRK's legitimate measures to bolster up its capability for self-defence.
    The statement said:
    Strategic force units and other units of the ground, naval and air and anti-air forces of the Korean People's Army have recently conducted a series of drills with various missions under the conditions of an actual war to bolster up the capability for self-defence such as the ones for ultra-precision tactical rocket firing and firing drills of diverse artillery pieces.
    The service personnel and the people of the DPRK are greatly encouraged by the signal successes made in these drills of KPA units.
    The peace- and justice-loving people in the world are expressing admiration at the shinning successes of the service personnel and the people of the DPRK.
    It is against this backdrop that only the U.S. and its ally the Park Geun Hye group and some other undesirable forces are behaving mischievously, revealing their sinister intentions.
    The U.S. grumbled as if tactical rockets of the KPA had gone into actions to strike its mainland, claiming "north Korea is posing an unusual and special threat to the U.S."
    It is terming the routine drills of the KPA a politically-motivated low-profile provocation and successive military threats to the allies in the region.
    The south Korean authorities are echoing the U.S. claim by asserting the tactical rocket firing and firing drills of artillery pieces by the KPA are a retaliation against their refusal of the DPRK's special proposal and its government's statement, a dangerous provocation to escalate the military tensions and a deliberate threat to them.
    They went the lengths of letting the UN Security Council, a mechanism which has lost its impartiality long ago, kick up much fuss in a bid to mislead public opinion.
    Some weak-willed countries are blindly joining in such odd charade. Clinging to the malodorous coattails of the U.S., they are going so reckless as to vie with each other to hug poor-looking Park Geun Hye.
    In view of all these ridiculous ruckuses being staged by making profound confusion of right and wrong, the Policy Department of the NDC of the DPRK once again serves a strong warning to the U.S. and the south Korean authorities, their prime movers, reflecting the voices of the service personnel and the people of the DPRK.
    The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should properly know what words "provocation" and "threat" mean before wagging their tongues.
    If the tactical rocket firing of the KPA is a "provocation" to the U.S. and a threat to regional stability and peace, then what should be said of the countless number of strategic missiles launched by the U.S. and the DPRK-targeted war drills frequently staged by it together with the south Korean military gangsters after bringing its forces to other country?
    The real provocations and threats made to the Korean peninsula are the whole gamut of political and military moves being pushed forward by the U.S., pursuant to its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its belligerent military strategy.
    In other words, the reckless intrusions into the waters of the DPRK side perpetrated by the warmongers of the south Korean military almost every day at the instigation of the U.S. are typical provocations.
    The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should not resort to brazen-faced brigandish acts reminiscent of a thief brandishing a club.
    The U.S., an arch criminal making provocations and threats, is kicking up high-intensity war drills for aggression every day in the land, waters and sky of other country. The U.S. and the south Korean authorities who are hell-bent on confrontation with the compatriots in the north at the former's beck and call are terming the military drills for self-defence conducted by the DPRK in its own land, waters and sky a "provocation" and a "threat." What are suitable words to accuse such impudent and brigandish behavior?
    This is nothing but a shameless act of a burglar rudely behaving in face of the master of a house trying to protect his house by himself.
    Such hooliganism may work somewhere else but can never work in this land being safeguarded by the service personnel and people of the DPRK.
    The more desperately the U.S. and the south Korean authorities resort to gangster-like hostile acts, the more deadly retaliatory actions of Korean style they will face. This will be like a bolt from the blue.
    The DPRK has already done everything it could to mend the north-south relations and achieve the reunification, peace and prosperity of the country through its crucial proposal and open letter in January, special proposal in June and government statement in July.
    What remains to be done at present is to make a final choice.
    The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should no longer behave recklessly, daring talk about "provocation" and "threat" from someone.
    If they persist in doing so, all the self-defensive deterrent forces of the DPRK will keep themselves fully ready to punish all undesirable forces in the world, strikingly demonstrate its invincible might and strongly counter their moves through its practical retaliatory actions of justice. -0-

UK KFA on the 61st anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War against US imperialism

UK KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

 London July 20th July 2014

The UK Korean Friendship Association today issued the following statement on the upcoming 61st anniversary of the Korean people's great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War against the US imperialists.

                  The Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War) was provoked by the US imperialist aggressors on the 25th of June 1950 but ended in a great victory for the Korean people led by the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung, the all triumphant and incomparable brilliant commander .
                                                                                       The US imperialists went to great lengths to crush a small nation in east Asia, to crush a successful people's revolution. They mobilised not only the miserable south Korean Syngham Rhee south Korean fascist  puppets but also the troops of 15 satellite countries including the UK (to our shame and dishonour). The US imperialists used the most barbarous methods to try and beat the Korean people into submission so they could colonise all of Korea and turn into a strategic base against the Soviet Union  and  China. They heavily bombed the DPRK , massacred civilians indiscriminately , and used germ and chemical weapons . However neither barbarity nor overwhelming military might nor superior technology could bring the heroic Korean people to their knees as they were led by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and had the Juche idea as their guide.
                   The US imperialists were forced to conclude an armistice on the 27th of July 1953 without succeeding in their aim of destroying the DPRK . As the US general Clark who signed the armistice concluded it was an armistice without  a victory. The US imperialists had over 400,000 troops killed , wounded or captured in the Fatherland Liberation. Even their own doctored casualty figures showed that the US imperialists lost 6 times as many troops in the 3 years of the Korean War then they did in the 12 years of the so-called "War of Terror". Thus it was a truly massive defeat for US imperialism , the ripple effect of which  was to create a big upsurge in the anti-imperialist national liberation movement throughout the world.
                                         The DPRK though much smaller in size than the US won a great victory due to the Juche-orientated  military tactics of the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung. It was an example of a small country defeating a big power.
         UK KFA congratulates the Korean people and their supreme leader Marshal Kim Jong Un  on the 61st anniversary of their great victory.
                         Now that is more than 60 years since the guns fell silent  it is time for a lasting peace. The Korean Armistice Agreement should be replaced with a permanent peace treaty and US forces withdrawn. The south Korea authorities should accept the excellent proposals for peace and reunification from the DPRK National Defence Commission that are on the table .
UK KFA