DPRK EXPRESSES ITS WILL TO MAKE EVERY POSSIBLE EFFORT TO PRESERVE PEACE AND SECURITY IN ASIA

Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong, head of the DPRK

Delegation to the 21st ministerial meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum, made a speech on Aug. 10. The situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula greatly affects the preservation of the peace and security in Asia, he said, and continued:

The situation on the peninsula remains serious. The escalation of the tensions there is not helpful to us. Nevertheless, there are some people who do not know who should be forced to restraint oneself to defuse the tensions.

Some people consider the DPRK's access to nukes as a factor of escalating the tensions, but it was not its choice. The DPRK's decision to have access to nuclear deterrent was the one it was compelled to make due to the U.S. hostile policy, ceaseless military pressure and nuclear threat that lasted for more than half a century since its founding.

Our nukes are the war deterrence in the true sense of the words. Some people claim that the rocket firing drills of the army of the DPRK escalate the tensions but they had better understand, to begin with, which side stages decisively larger-scale and more frequent military drills to threaten the other side.

The joint military drills being staged by the U.S. in south Korea are extremely provocative in their nature and go beyond in their tolerance limit in the danger of war. The recent joint military drills involved landing, air strikes and commando operations to "occupy Pyongyang".

In order to defuse the tensions, the DPRK government put forward proposals calling for stopping each other's military hostilities several times this year alone and has made efforts to do so. However, the U.S. has not yet responded to them.

It is long since the DPRK put forward more fundamental ways for defusing the war danger on the peninsula and in its vicinity and ensuring lasting peace. In the belief that to defuse the tensions on the peninsula and reunify the country by federal

Formula is the way of substantially contributing to the peace and security in Asia, the DPRK will make every possible sincere effort to do so.

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S UNION OF KOREA (DWUK) SPOKESWOMAN SLAMS SEXUAL SLAVERY FOR GIS IN S. KOREA

Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- A spokeswoman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea (DWUK) released a statement Friday denouncing the sexual slavery committed by the U.S. imperialist aggression troops in south Korea. The Wall Street Journal in its recent article said that sex stations have been installed and operated in villages of U.S. military bases in south Korea at tacit connivance of the puppet government, the statement noted, and continued:

The majority of the women taken to the stations were those driven into dire poverty or those who were abducted by gangsters and sold off. They cannot walk out of the villages once they go into them. The south Korean puppet government directly controls the villages and mobilizes police to prevent women from running away. It called the women in the villages "patriots" and told them not to cause any trouble with GIs.

"Comfort women for the U.S. forces" are said to number thousands in south Korea.

The sexual slavery for the U.S. imperialist aggression troops is little short of the hideous sexual slavery enforced by the Japanese imperialists against Korean women in the past. This is an intolerable insult to the Korean women and a wanton encroachment upon the dignity of the Korean nation.

The Central Committee of the DWUK brands the sexual slavery committed by the U.S. imperialist aggression troops against south Korean women as one of the unpardonable, most hideous human rights abuses of modern version. Since they set their foot in south Korea, GIs did not hesitate to commit all kinds of abnormal and shuddering crimes against women and this was connived at and encouraged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet authorities.

Nothing has changed in the miserable situation of the south Korean women since the present chief executive took office in Chongwadae but shuddering sexual assaults against women have become all the more undisguised.

There is no such despicable group of traitors like the south Korean puppet forces as they behave so cowardly as to offer fellow women as sexual slaves for the foreign occupation troops and shield their sexual slavery.

As long as the U.S. aggression troops are present in south Korea and the group of pro-U.S. lackeys stay in power, the history of shame will go on and south Korean women can never get rid of the sexual slavery.

The U.S. and the puppet forces should apologize for the sexual slavery for the U.S. forces in south Korea and own full responsibility. South Korean women and other people of all social standings should actively turn out in the struggle to drive the U.S. aggression troops, the root cause of misfortune and pain of Koreans, out of south Korea and settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Koreans.

KIM JONG UN GIVES FIELD GUIDANCE TO CHONJI LUBRICANT FACTORY

Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Chonji Lubricant Factory.

He was briefed on the history of the factory.

He said with deep emotion: "Visiting the factory established thanks to the undying patriotic feats of leader Kim Jong Il, the one handed down to the younger generation as results of the hardships experienced by himself, I feel very sorry for failing to show him this modern splendid factory even once. This factory is a posthumous one."

Noting that this factory alone clearly shows how many seeds Kim Jong Il sowed for the building of a rich and powerful country, he said in an excited tone that everybody should never forget the devoted efforts made by Kim Jong Il for the country and its people for decades.

He looked round the analysis room, general production control room, lubricant work team, grease work team and other places of the factory to learn in detail about technical specifications of production processes and production there.

He highly appreciated the factory as the one in which all production processes were put on an automatic, IT and unmanned basis and the digitalized one which fully established a computerized coordinated production system.

Pleased that the factory is turning out with indigenous efforts and technology the products for which it relied on import in the past period, he instructed it to wage a dynamic drive for boosting the production of quality lubricant and grease required by all types of vehicles and providing them to various fields of the national economy in the future.

Saying that the quality of goods produced by the factory is as good as the imported ones, he called for steadily improving the technical specifications of the lubricant and grease so that they may have international competitiveness.

He gave precious instructions for managing and operating the factory.

Noting that it is something to be proud of to have the modern Chonji Lubricant Factory of world level, he said again it was really pity that he failed to show Kim Jong Il this factory.

He showed such loving care for Kye Chol Ryong, manager of the factory, and its officials as expressing thanks to them on the spot in the name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea for having worked hard to implement the party policies, always bearing them deep in mind.

Expressing expectation and conviction that the workers of the factory would glorify in practice the behests of Kim Jong Il by rapidly boosting the production, he had a photo session with its employees.

He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Ri Jae Il and Han Kwang Sang.

KIM JONG UN GIVES FIELD GUIDANCE TO CHOLLIMA TILE FACTORY

Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Chollima Tile Factory.

He looked round the mosaics depicting smiling President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il newly erected in the compound of the factory and the monument to the field guidance given by them and he expressed satisfaction over the successful erection of the mosaics.

He went round the newly-built room dedicated to the history of the factory.

He told the officials to make a new history of the factory by keeping production going at a high rate, adding that he gave an instruction to the KPA to operate the factory to which Kim Jong Il attached great importance.

Stressing the need to make the heroic working spirit displayed in the post-war period of great Chollima upsurge run high at this factory in order to supply in good time the building materials needed by great socialist construction sites, he proposed naming the factory located in Kangson, hometown of Chollima, Chollima Tile Factory.

Going round various places including adhesives and tile production shops, digital natural color spray printing room and tile exhibition, he learned in detail about the production and new products development.

He highly praised the officials and employees of the factory for displaying patriotic devotion to overfulfill this year's tile production plan set higher than any other years.

He expressed great satisfaction, noting that the factory is the one strictly based on Juche and a patriotic one as it is capable of keeping its production on a normal footing, unaffected by any worldwide economic upheaval and the longer one watches the factory, the more attractive and useful it looks.

He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the factory.

He instructed the factory not only to satisfactorily meet the domestic demands for tiles but further boost their production and improve their quality so that they might be exported to other countries.

He underlined the need to diversify color and size of tiles and continue directing great efforts to the work for developing new products suited to the sentiments and fashion of the Korean people and required for various uses.

He had a photo session with labor innovators, saying that the Party Central Committee firmly believes the workers of the factory would fully display the same work style and spirit as done in the period of great Chollima upsurge.

He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Ri Jae Il, Han Kwang Sang and Kim Jong Gwan.

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL REPORT ON
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: NEWS ANALYST

Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. State Department on July 28 in an annual report on international religious freedom for 2013 groundlessly pulled up the DPRK over its religious situation.

It enlisted the DPRK as a "country of special concern" as regards the religious issue, while groundlessly pulling it up, claiming that genuine religious freedom is not guaranteed in north Korea and religious activities of individuals and organizations are harshly suppressed.

It is a height of hypocrisy for the U.S. to cry out for religious freedom as it has been engrossed in regime changes and destabilization activities in those countries that court its displeasure while going under the mask of religion.

During the last Korean war the U.S. mercilessly killed many religionists through indiscriminate air raids and bloody slaughter and destroyed more than 1 900 church complexes.

Before the liberation of Korea, the U.S. infiltrated Underwood and other operatives under the mask of religion and worked hard to instill flunkeyism toward the U.S. and American lifestyle into the Koreans. It did not hesitate to commit such despicable act as instigating those wicked elements trained by them to carry out an armed rebellion aimed at bringing down the party and social system of the DPRK.

The U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK is still going on under the mask of religion.

Innumerable are the crimes committed by the U.S. in violation of religions in different parts of the world.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and other reactionary ruling quarters of the U.S. worked with blood-shot eyes to crack down on Islam and bring down the social systems in Islamic countries under the pretext of "war on terror", not content with describing Islam as fascism.

It was none other than American hooligans who burned Koran and threw it into the toilet bowl and indecently behaved towards female Muslims who regard human ethics as holy.

In the DPRK religious belief and freedom are fully guaranteed by its constitution and all conditions are provided and guaranteed by law so that believers can freely practice religions at will.

Various reports released as annual farces in the U.S. are nothing but clumsy farces to tarnish the image of the DPRK and they are a vivid manifestation of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.

As long as the U.S. persists in its hostile acts against the DPRK, the latter will inflict harsher punishment on those who commit crimes against the law of the DPRK under the mask of religion.

KCNA COMMENTARY DISCLOSES AGGRESSIVE NATURE OF
U.S.-S. KOREA JOINT MILITARY DRILLS

Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The British magazine The Week on July 25 said that U.S. special units are involved in the U.S.-south Korea joint military drills such as the annual Foal Eagle to get ready to intrude into the DPRK.

It is hard to describe the joint military exercises as "defensive" under the situation where the U.S. and south Korea are staging drills for infiltrating commandoes into the DPRK, the magazine noted.

This brought to light once again the fact that the U.S. and south Korea's claim that those joint military exercises are of "defensive nature" is no more than a fig-leaf to cover up their aggressive nature.

The DPRK is by no means frightened by these joint maneuvers. But they can never be overlooked in the light of their targets and programs.

The U.S. hurled precision strike weapons, special units, etc. into various military drills such as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle annual events.

The "emergency plan for attacking the north", OPLAN 5029 and other war scenarios worked out by the U.S. are aimed to bring down the political system in the DPRK after kicking off a riot by infiltrating special units.

The U.S. which succeeded in bringing down social systems in other countries through wars by use of special forces is pinning hope on such method for igniting the second Korean war.

Prompted by the above-said scenarios, the U.S. is hurling special units into ceaseless military drills under various codenames on the Korean peninsula and in its vicinity.

This year the U.S. staged the largest-ever Max Thunder combined air drills aimed at an all-out air strike at the DPRK in the wake of the Ssangryong large-scale joint landing drills at a time when the Foal Eagle joint military exercise reached its height.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet army let more than 100 various type fighters and planes including F-15s, F- 16s, FA-18s, C-130s and AWACS E-737s and more than 1 400 troops stage drills for air battle, "striking the bases of provocation", air refueling operations and dropping supplies for special forces under simulated conditions of their infiltration into the depth of the DPRK.

As seen above, the U.S. has openly staged provocative war drills aimed at bringing down the social system in the DPRK with huge troops for aggression and even special forces involved.

However, it is describing them as "defensive" and "annual" ones. This is nothing but a deceptive artifice to cover up the aggressive nature, essence and danger of the war drills targeting the DPRK and a mockery of the Korean people and other peoples aspiring after peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world.

While staging war drills aimed at invading the DPRK and bringing down its social system, the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are terming the DPRK's regular drills for self-defence "provocations". This is just like a guilty party filing the suit first.

The situation clearly proves that the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are the very provocateurs and arch criminals harassing peace and escalating the danger of a war on the peninsula.

A grave situation is now prevailing on the peninsula due to the evermore undisguised war provocations of the hostile forces.

Self-restraint and concession before an enemy brandishing a dagger precisely means self-ruin.

The more openly the U.S. reveals its wild ambition to stifle the DPRK by force of arms, the stronger measures the latter will take to foil it.

Kim Jong Un Sends Gifts to Employees of Kosan Fruit Farm

Kosan, July 31 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un sent gifts to the families of employees of the Kosan Fruit Farm who moved to new houses.

Visiting the farm on July 23, he said that world-startling changes have taken place thanks to the members of the Construction Shock Brigade 618 and employees of the farm who are making devoted efforts to keep the promise made with leader Kim Jong Il, and congratulated the couples of discharged soldiers on moving to new houses and had a photo taken with them. Later he showed such warm loving care as sending articles for cultural use to more than 2 000 families of the farm.

A meeting for conveying the gifts took place at the farm on Thursday.