Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean Children's Union members, who inherited the glorious revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese Children's Corps, grow up to be the revolutionary talents, knowledgeable, virtuous and healthy, and the pillars for the future of prosperous Korea, under the loving care of the peerlessly great men. -0-
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Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- A solidarity resolution supporting the righteous struggle of the working class and trade union members of the DPRK was adopted at the 18th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) held in Rome of Italy.
The resolution said that the trade union representatives from different countries attending the 18th Congress extend active support and solidarity to the struggle of the Korean working class and trade union members.
It stressed that the WFTU highly appreciates the efforts of the Korean working class and trade union members who are taking the lead in the advance for the comprehensive development of socialist construction, braving ordeals and challenges by dint of self-reliance.
The Korean people's struggle for the victorious advance of socialism gives great inspiring strength to all trade unions and progressives of the world that oppose the imperialists' aggression and interference and aspire to independence, it pointed out.
It noted that the WFTU expresses full support to the self-defensive and just steps taken by the DPRK to defend the country's sovereignty and right to development and put an eternal end to the danger of war in the Korean Peninsula and the region.
Saying it is the important mission of the WFTU to oppose imperialism and dominationism and strive to build a peaceful and just world, the resolution noted that the WFTU appeals to the trade unions, international organizations and progressive forces across the world to fully support and encourage the Korean working class and trade union members in their efforts to expedite socialist construction. -0-
Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a floral basket to Raul Castro Ruz in celebration of his birthday.
The floral basket bearing the august name of Kim Jong Un was conveyed to an official of the Cuban Foreign Ministry on June 3 by the DPRK ambassador to Cuba.
Written on the ribbons of the basket were letters reading "Good health to respected Comrade Raul Castro Ruz". -0-
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2022.6.1.
Recently, the U.S.-ASEAN special summit was held in the U.S.
As had been expected, the U.S. has again loudly aired the “free and open Indo-Pacific”, “maintenance of rules and norms” and the importance of creating peaceful environment.
According to the assertion made by the U.S., the freedom in the Indo-Pacific region is being restricted, “rules” and “norms” are being violated, and peace and stability are being undermined.
Then, who is the real mastermind who hampers the joint development and causes the instability of situation in the Asia-Pacific region?
Chines media are giving an answer to this question.
“Global Times” laid bare the ulterior intention of the Biden administration to keep on implementing the Indo-Pacific strategy and drive the ASEAN countries into the competition with China, and warned that the U.S. bid to create “NATO” of Indo-Pacific version as well as camp confrontation would not be achieved in Asia.
The Overseas Network also carried a commentary which points out that the countries in the region are not the geopolitical chessmen of the U.S., and that the U.S. would fail in winning over the ASEAN countries by honeyed words.
Recently, Chinese media criticized the U.S. for sparing no efforts to foment discord and hinder cooperation between the ASEAN countries and China. They are also stressing that the Biden administration would better do more work necessary for cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Also on the increase is the skepticism of the international society over the “rules” and “norms” which are unilaterally advocated by the U.S. for the realization of its own goals.
Some time ago, the Russian foreign minister has also ridiculed the U.S. and the West’s advocacy for “rule-based world order”, saying that nobody has either seen or drawn up this kind of “rules”.
In order to maintain its hegemonic position, the U.S. attempts to undermine the international and regional cooperation in pursuit of the camp confrontation in every part of world but its attempt would not evade the rejection of the international society.
The so-called ‘World Socialist Website ‘ (WSWS) of the Trotskyite ‘International Committee of the Fourth International' (actually one of numerous ‘Fourth Internationals' ) carried an hostile anti-DPRK article titled ‘Covid 19 cases compound economic crisis in North Korea ‘ by one Ben McGarth .
The article is illustrative of how some on the Left ( of course there are many exceptions ) mindlessly and uncritically parrot the lies of the imperialist mainstream media about People’s Korea when they should know better. Throughout the article the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) is constantly referred to as ‘North Korea ‘ rather than its correct title DPRK or Juche Korea or Socialist Korea . This is just copying the mainstream media and is no different to them . The article does not mention Juche or Songun once .
The article also copies cliches from the mainstream media such as ‘impoverished ‘ and ‘isolated ‘ neither of which are true . The DPRK’s closure of the border in January 2020 was a just and correct measure to prevent the inroad of Covid 19 into the country and kept it free from Covid 19 for over 2 years. Curiously the WSWS article tries to link as yet unconfirmed missile tests with both the DPRK’s closure of the border and the outbreak of fever in the DPRK . Strange thinking which mirrors that of the mainstream media .
WSWS quotes both the south Korean puppet regime and also ‘ Radio Free Asia ‘(RFA) , the latter is correctly described as ‘a mouthpiece for US imperialism’ but WSWS quotes them anyway !.
The article claims that the DPRK faces both an ‘economic crisis ‘ and ‘food shortages' but does not say where the figures for the supposed economic crisis come from and admit the evidence for the food shortage is from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) !!! . Does WSWS think that the CIA (and RFA ) are objective sources ?.
In fact the DPRK has a socialist planned economy which does not know the words ‘economic crisis ‘ . This year , in April , despite the intense imperialist sanctions and the closure of the border the DPRK completed the construction of 10,000 new flats in the Songwha area of Pyongyang as well as 800 new homes in Kyongru-dong in Pyongyang , Another 10,000 new homes are under construction in the Hwasong district of Pyongyang .
The DPRK is also rapidly overcoming the Covid 19 outbreak as of today 4th of June there were only 73,000 new cases compared to the peak of 392 ,000 on the 15th of May . The death toll is 71 , a fatality rate of 0.002 percent . Compare this to south Korea which has over 24,000 deaths from Covid 19 .
Whilst some groups in the West have theorised and polemicised about socialism , People’s Korea has successfully built socialism for the past 70 or so years, without any substantial outside help ,under the banner of self-reliance and the great Juche Idea.
What the article goes to prove is that the fake Left are just bad as the imperialist bourgeois mainstream media in slandering the DPRK and that even the so-called 'better Trotskyites' are agents of imperialism and counter-revolutionaries.
