Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Construction Site of Apartment Houses for University Educators

Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), gave field guidance to the construction site of apartment houses for educators of Kim Chaek University of Technology near completion.

Watching the skyscraping apartment houses of a sailing ship style, he said that they look very nice as their outer walls are decorated with tiles. He expressed great satisfaction, noting that they are the structures which reflect the WPK's idea of attaching importance to science and talents and the ones to which formative art of architecture has been fully applied and monumental edifices demonstrating the daily developing architecture of Songun Korea before the whole world.

He said, his face beaming with a broad smile, that they look more attractive when their outer walls are covered with heated reflection glass as required by the design, adding that he felt relieved of long fatigue when thinking that educators of Kim Chaek University of Technology would be provided with the apartment houses to be proud of before the world before long.

Going round flat No.1 on the fourth floor of block No. 2, shop and restaurant and other service facilities being built on the ground floor of the apartment houses, he learned in detail about the construction.

Dropping in at various rooms including drawing room, couple room, kitchen and study, he looked at the surface of wall and floor with attention and highly appreciated the quality of construction. Seeing an arch like pillar of the entrance between corridor and drawing room, he said that it would look peculiar when it was fitted with decorative board.

Underscoring the need to furnish the flat with every trifling thing necessary for living, he told officials to let the educators devote themselves to the work for training talents and scientific and researches without any inconvenience in their living.

Pleased that the service facilities including shop and restaurant are under construction as required by the design, he instructed officials of the unit which would operate them to come out to check and make advance preparations for providing service when the apartment houses are completed.

He underlined the need to simultaneously push forward the arrangement of environment including greening work as the day of completion of the project is drawing near.

Saying that the longer one watches the apartment houses for educators of Kim Chaek University of Technology, the more fashionable they look and they will appear more attractive when one watches them from the opposite side of the Taedong River, he stressed that the structures which are suited to the modern architectural beauty and which meet the requirements of the Juche and national characters, originality and convenience have appeared in the era of the Workers' Party.

He highly praised the soldier-builders at the construction site for doing their work well as a model unit in the nation's construction in hearty response to the call of the Party Central Committee.

Saying that it is the pride of the WPK and the country to have KPA Unit 267 which rushes to wherever the party calls it to work and devotedly implements the task in the best quality by the fixed date, he gave it the highest appreciation, calling its service personnel modern day Chollima riders racing against time in ushering in a great heyday of building a rich and powerful country.

He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the KPA General Political Bureau, Han Kwang Sang, department director of the C.C., the WPK, and Army Lieut. General Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the National Defence Commission.

Kim Jong Un Visits Construction Sites of Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage Again

Pyongyang, August 13 (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, provided field guidance to the construction sites of Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage again.

Looking round various places of the construction sites, he learned in detail about their construction.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the frame projects were completed and the interior construction is also close to completion thanks to the devoted efforts of the soldier-builders though it was not long since the project started.

He said that what pleased him, in particular, in the construction of the two buildings was that the party's policy of preserving the originality by avoiding repetition and ready-made formula in architecture is being thoroughly implemented.

"The park being built in the compound of the baby home and orphanage looks peculiar and nice, indeed, and a child-care room, education room, amusement room, intelligence game room, treatment room, etc. have been distributed in such a manner as to be convenient for child care, education and living and their construction is very high in quality", he said.

Noting that not only a physical exercise room but outdoor and indoor wading pools are being built to meet the requirements of the children's growth, he said children would like them very much when they are completed.

He instructed officials to decorate the interior of the buildings to suit children's minds.

He underlined the need to build well all playgrounds and living places including the park to help develop the intellectual faculties of the children and let them have good moral virtues.

He repeatedly told officials to construct well the baby home and orphanage located in the best places so that they may fully demonstrate the party's love for the rising generation and the future and the superiority of the socialist system in the country.

He said that it is the intention of the Party Central Committee to build well baby homes and orphanages like Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage in each province in the future so that the orphans can stoutly grow up, receiving the best education under the best living conditions.

He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the KPA General Political Bureau, Han Kwang Sang, department director of the C.C., the WPK, and Army Lieut. General Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the National Defence Commission.

Kim Jong Un Guides Match for Examining Women's Football of National Sports Team to Participate in 17th Asian Games

Pyongyang, August 12 (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, guided a match for examining the women's football of the National Sports Team which will take part in the 17th Asian Games.

The National Sports Team played the match with the April 25 Team.

It trounced its rival 8:0.

He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the women's footballers of the National Sports Team displayed team spirit, fair play and persevering fighting spirit and gave an instruction to bring the football technique on a higher level by rounding off the sports technique, tactical system and the training method of Korean style.

He expressed expectation and conviction that the women's footballers of the National Sports Team would fully display the dignity and honor of Juche Korea in the international games to be held in the future by putting greater spurs to training.

Among the spectators were Hwang Pyong So, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior officials of the party and army and service personnel of the KPA.

Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Machine Plant

Pyongyang, August 10 (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 machine plant managed by Jon Tong Ryol.

Kim Jong Un went round the monument to the field guidance given by leader Kim Jong Il, the room devoted to the education in the revolutionary history and the room dedicated to the history of the plant.

He said that the plant which was established by President Kim Il Sung after personally initiating its construction and choosing its site, foreseeing the nation's development of the machine-building industry is associated with the devoted efforts Kim Jong Il made by visiting it several times and clearly indicating the road to be followed by it.

Going round the processing shop, general assembling shop and other places of the plant, he learnt in detail about production and its management and operation.

Watching the cutting-edge machine products being assembled at the plant, he praised its workers for successfully building them with their own efforts and technology.

He said that the plant should fulfill its plan without fail through a high-pitched drive for keeping production going at a high rate and make thorough preparations for hitting a higher production goal.

"To this end it is necessary for the plant to dynamically push forward the work for updating the aging equipment and modernizing and automating the production processes", he said, instructing it to grasp the main link and accelerate the updating by determining the proper order of priority for it.

Noting that it is not easy to update the plant, he underscored the need to elaborately and scrupulously push ahead with the work like going up one step after another, not being carried away by impatience.

Saying that the quality is as important as the quantitative indices in production, he called for making a dynamic drive for improving the quality of products.

Noting that many more modern machines are required by various fields at present, he called for operating machines in full capacity by taking thorough measures for the supply of materials and told the officials to channel efforts into improving the supply service for the workers.

He set again the targets to be attained by the plant in the future and specified tasks and ways for doing so.

He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Ri Pyong Chol, Han Kwang Sang, Jo Chun Ryong, Hong Yong Chil and Jang Chang Ha.

Kim Jong Un Watches Men's Volleyball Game

Pyongyang, August 10 (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, watched men's volleyball game between the General Bureau of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Land and Maritime Transport.

He waved back to the enthusiastic cheers of the players and spectators.

The two teams fully displayed their volleyball technique.

The team of the General Bureau of Civil Aviation won the game.

Kim Jong Un was pleased with the successful match.

He said that it is necessary to positively conduct mass sports activities in the future, too, in order to make everybody actively contribute to labor and defence with strong physical body. He set forth tasks for doing so.

Among the spectators were Kang Ki Sop, Rim Kwang Ung and other leading officials of the General Bureau of Civil Aviation, Kang Jong Gwan, Chon Kwang Sik and other leading officials of the Ministry of Land and Maritime Transport, commanding officers of the KPA and senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.

Songun-based Leadership and Korea’s Liberation

On August 15, 1945, the Korean nation was freed from the bitter fate of colonial slaves of the Japanese imperialists. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), the father of socialist Korea, achieved the historic cause of national liberation by dint of Songun-based leadership.

Kim Il Sung provided a powerful ideological and theoretical banner for achieving the cause of national liberation by creating the Juche idea and Songun idea.

He set out on the road of revolutionary struggle to liberate his country in his early teens, and in June 1930 put forward the line of the anti-Japanese armed struggle based on the principles of the Juche idea and Songun idea, at a meeting of Korean revolutionaries held at Kalun in Northeast China.

It was a correct line that scientifically analyzed the nature of imperialism and reflected accurately the realities of Korea and many other colonial countries across the world in those days.

Owing to the aggressive and predatory nature of imperialism, it never withdraws of its own accord from the colonies but mainly resorts to violence to maintain its colonial rule. Therefore, the peoples of colonies, only when they take arms in their hands, can become the masters of their destinies free from the lot of slaves, and carve them out independently and creatively.

It was a historical review of the anti-Japanese struggle in Korea at that time. The Korean people, who found themselves at the crossroads of life and death, rose up to fight against the cruel colonial rule by the Japanese imperialists. People from all walks of life waged constantly mass struggles against the Japanese imperialists across the country, but met with many a setback under the barbarous repression by Japanese armed forces. Bourgeois nationalists of Korea dreamed of gaining independence of the country by making “compromise” with Japanese imperialism or seeking help from great powers. Their naïve dreams were impossible. They were too ignorant of the imperialist nature.

Kim Il Sung put forward a line of liberating Korea neither by relying on outside forces nor by peaceful means, but by Koreans’ own efforts and by waging armed struggle on the basis of the Juche idea and Songun idea. Since then the national liberation struggle of Korea could be firmly put on the scientific and correct road.

Kim Il Sung achieved the country’s independence by preparing the powerful forces of Songun revolution and vigorously exercising Songun-based leadership.

On April 25, 1932, he founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army, the predecessor of the Korean People’s Army. It was a significant event that marked the birth of the main force of the Korean revolution, the core force of the Songun revolution, and the beginning of his Songun-based leadership.

In the course of expanding and strengthening the AJPGA he developed it into the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army and built it up as an invincible military ranks through the fierce battles against the Japanese army. The KPRA, under his command, dealt heavy blows to the Japanese army in the battles of Pochonbo, Jiansanfeng, Hongtoushan and many others with unique strategy and tactics.

While strengthening the KPRA, he rallied the broad masses around it to further expand the forces of the Songun revolution. He founded in May 1936 the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland, an anti-Japanese national united front organization, in order to firmly unite the masses of all strata on the basis of the worker-peasant alliance and mobilize their unfathomable strength for achieving the cause of national liberation. After the founding of the ARF, all the patriotic, anti-Japanese forces of Korea could rally firmly as one under the banner of national liberation and further strengthen the struggle.

He paid special attention to achieving army-people unity in the whole course of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, thus consolidating the force of the Songun revolution as firm as a rock. In those days he put forth an aphorism, “As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.” The KPRA fighters protected the lives and properties of the people at the cost of their lives, true to his intention, and the people aided the KPRA with all sincerity. It constituted one of important factors that made the KPRA, without state backing and assistance from a regular army, always throw the powerful Japanese imperialists on the defensive whenever they fought battles.

Relying on the reliable forces, he organized the final operations for liberating the country. Under his order issued on August 9, 1945, to start general offensive, the KPRA launched the operations for final campaign against the enemy and the people in the homeland joined in them, with arms in hands, harassing the Japanese army in the rear. At last the Japanese imperialists were defeated and the Korean people achieved their country’s liberation on August 15, 1945.

The achievements President Kim Il Sung accomplished in liberating Korea with the Songun-based leadership will shine forever in the history of the anti-imperialist national liberation struggle of the world.

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.

US HOSTILE POLICY TOWARDS THE DPRK

Recently, the US makes a great fuss about the possession of nukes by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It claims that as the DPRK has possessed nuclear weapons, the situation on the Korean peninsula has become aggravated and so it has been forced to pursue a policy hostile against the country.

To begin with conclusion, it is a far-fetched theory that distorts the facts and history, a scheme to camouflage the origin and unjustness of its DPRK policy.

The US hostile policy towards the DPRK is deep rooted.

Far before the outbreak of the “nuclear issue” on the Korean peninsula, the US had pursued a hostile policy towards the DPRK.

The end of the Second World War led to the opening of a cold war between the East and the West. The US felt the necessity to check the Soviet “southward advance” in Asia and have a springboard for invading the Eurasian continent. For these purposes, it gave birth to a demarcation line on the 38^th Parallel on the Korean peninsula, and occupied its southern half as a “liberator” on the excuse of “disarming” Japanese troops.

From that day on, the US has pursued a hostile policy towards the DPRK to realize its strategy of dominating Asia by swallowing the whole of Korea with south Korea as a springboard.

The US has defined the DPRK, from the day of its inception, as its enemy state and refused to recognize its sovereignty. In the last century it established diplomatic relations with the USSR and other socialist countries in the Eastern Europe, whose guiding ideology and system were different from its own, but it refused to call the DPRK by its official name, much less establishing diplomatic relations with it. This has been unprecedented in the international relations.

Its hostile policy towards the DPRK has really been tenacious. No countries in the world have been technically in a war with each other for 60 years after fighting an actual war like the US and the DPRK. After the Korean war (1950-1953) the US systematically ran against the articles of the armistice agreement and prolonged the state of armistice intentionally. In November 1953 the US National Security Council met and defined it as its ultimate goal in Korea to turn south Korea into its military ally and prevent “communization” of the whole of Korea while maintaining armistice until the realization of “pro-US unification” of the Korean peninsula. Accordingly, it intentionally scuttled in June 1954 the Geneva Conference for peaceful settlement of the Korean question, and turned the cold shoulder to the many peace proposals and initiatives advanced by the DPRK, like those of concluding a peace treaty between the DPRK and US (1970s), of holding three-party talks that would include south Korea as well (1980s), of establishing a new peace mechanism (1990s) and of declaring the cessation of hostilities (2000s). This cannot be construed otherwise than an intention to approach the DPRK as a belligerent, as an enemy.

The US has already worked out various types of war scenarios for invading the DPRK at a time of emergency and enforcing military government, like operations plans 5029, 5030 and 5012. For their execution, it has staged various joint war games in south Korea for several decades, changing their names, like Focus Retina, Freedom Vault, Team Spirit, Key Resolve, Foal Eagle and Ulji Freedom Guardian.

These are not all produced by the US hostile policy towards the DPRK.

In the early 1950s, when socialist system was yet to be established in the DPRK, the US began to impose harsh economic sanctions on it by invoking COCOM. By putting the country on the list of the enemy tariff areas, it has frozen the DPRK’s funds in other countries, hindered its external transactions and schemed to prevent its access to external markets. Worse still, it has enlisted even international organizations in imposing economic sanctions and blockade on the country. What is clear is that it has imposed harsh economic sanctions and blockade on the DPRK far before the outbreak of the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula.

Besides, it has long invested a large sum of money to espionage, ideological and cultural infiltration and internal disintegration aimed at overthrowing the system of the DPRK.

Historical facts show that the US hostile policy towards the DPRK is not a product of the DPRK’s possession of nukes, but the latter’s possession of nuclear weapons is a product of the formers’ hostile policy.

For the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula to be solved, the US must first revoke its hostile policy toward the DPRK, which is the source of the problem.

CHILDREN’S DREAM HOUSE

Recently the Songdowon International Children’s Camp was renovated in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Wonderland

Since olden times Songdowon on the coast of the East Sea of Korea has been noted for the vast expanse of sandy beach and dense pine forests. Blending in with the natural landscape the children’s camp is literally a beautiful painting.

The buildings were uniquely designed to suit children’s sentiments–Children’s Hall of International Friendship, playing field, gym, open-air wading pool, outdoor archery field, aquarium and aviary. All decorations in each camping house make children feel like stepping into a fairyland, among them lights on the ceiling coming in all shapes such as half moon, circle, five-point star and triangle. The aquarium draws the campers into a sea of fishes. The murals in the auditorium of the above hall depict a butterfly fluttering its wings, animating children and adults alike. The aviary with a lamp in the shape of a bird’s nest has a room for exhibiting stuffed birds including goshawk, the national bird of the DPRK. In the Marine Animal Section children fall into ecstasy as they are touching flatfish, shellfish, sea cucumbers and the like with their hands.

The children’s camp has all conditions necessary for satisfying the varying needs of talented guests. Campers can sing songs in the modernly-equipped theatre in the Children’s Hall of International Friendship or at Karaoke rooms. In the 4-D cinema and electronic recreation rooms they get lost in fantastic dreams. Future stars are playing football and volleyball and shooting arrows in the playing fields.

Ri Jong Ung from Kyongam Secondary School No. 1 in Sariwon, North Hwanghae Province said:

“I must be in a dream. The sun goes up and down as usual, but it is such great fun here day and night that I can hardly sleep. The beds, quilts and wallpapers are all what I have seen in a dream.”

Paradise for Children

The children’s camp has become a focus of international attention, not simply because of its splendour. More and more foreigners are envious of the fact that it is the country where children are kings and all their dreams come true.

First, all the costly things in the camp—buildings, facilities, equipment and apparatuses—are freely accessible to the campers.

Han Hyang Ok, a Korean resident in a European country, said:

“I have been on holiday at various camps in Eastern Europe and an international children’s camp in Asia, but I think this is the best one. Enjoying myself in the Songdowon International Children’s Camp, I have felt that it is the one and only paradise for children in the world, their ideal holiday resort.”

Second, it is a holiday home for children of working people, unlike those for children of millionaires or privileged elite in other countries. Most of the campers are children of workers, farmers, coalminers, army officers and other ordinary people, and some of them are orphans.

Kye Ju Song from Pyongyang Secondary School No. 1 said:

“Seeing me off, my mother said in tears that she was very happy to see me, son of workers, leaving for the first-term camping at the best camp in the world.”

Kim Yong Sim from Nampho Orphans’ Secondary School said:

“For this term there are many children from orphans’ schools. It would be a pipedream for orphans in other countries to go on holiday at such a wonderful camp. We should like to extend our grateful thanks to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.”

Third, this is all in accordance with the consistent policies of the ruling party and government of the DPRK.

In a speech he delivered in June 2012 at the meeting of the Korean Children’s Union held in celebration of the 66^th anniversary of its founding, Kim Jong Un said that to the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK, dear KCU members are treasures more valuable than billions of tons of gold and represent their hope and future.

With such ennobling love for children he initiated renovation of the Songdowon International Children’s Camp and visited the construction site several times, taking all possible measures to build it into a world-class camp.

Foreign children, too, are welcome to this paradise.

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 over fulfill 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.