A Special Event in the History of the WPK

Last April the Fourth Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang.

                      Kim Jong Il Venerated as Eternal General Secretary of the WPK

The Fourth Conference of the WPK adopted a decision on holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem

as its eternal general secretary and adding lustre to his brilliant career and the immortal exploits

he performed in building the Party, in reflection of the unanimous will of all the Party members,

service personnel and the people.

Kim Jong Il, while leading the WPK for scores of years, accomplished undying exploits in

Party building.

From the outset of his working at the Party Central Committee in the 1960s he paid close

attention to achieving the unity of the whole Party in ideology and purpose. In the 1970s he

advanced a programme of modelling the entire Party on the Juche idea, the revolutionary

ideology President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Party, had created, and applied himself to its

implementation. Thanks to his energetic leadership the WPK has been consolidated into an

integral whole in ideology, organization and action, acting in unison around one centre, and

under monolithic ideology and leadership system.

He made sure that the WPK kept to its revolutionary principles in a consistent and

thoroughgoing way.

In the 1990s President Kim Il Sung passed away, and socialism collapsed in several countries.

Availing themselves of this opportunity, the imperialist allied forces focused their anti-socialist

offensives on Korea. As a result, Korea literally suffered from the worst hardships and

difficulties. But Kim Jong Il showed no vacillation in leading the Party straight along the road of

socialism. He formulated his original Songun politics based on the Songun idea Kim Il Sung

authored together with the Juche idea, as the basic political mode of socialism and brought it into

full application, thus greatly contributing to the defence of the country’s sovereignty, dignity and

socialism as well as global peace and security. Thanks to his Songun politics Korea has

developed into a political and military power nobody would dare to attack and ushered in an

epochal phase in its efforts to build a thriving socialist country.

Kim Jong Il made constant efforts to strengthen and develop the WPK into an invincible party

which struck roots deep among the masses, a mother party which is knit together with them.

He ensured that the Party reflected the demands and aspirations of the people in its lines and

policies to the utmost and defended their interests in every way. This made it possible for the

Party to have grown into an experienced, seasoned and ever-victorious party which steadily

pursues the implementation of the cause of socialism, without making any mistakes or deviations

in mapping out and implementing its lines and under the absolute support and trust by the

people.

The exploits he performed in strengthening and developing the Party are indeed one of the

most precious heritages he left for the country and people and constitute eternal foundations for

the Party’s future filled with victory.

The proclamation made at the Fourth Conference of the WPK that he is its eternal general

secretary is a clear demonstration to the world public that his ideas and cause are ever-lasting

and will be carried forward to completion.

                                        Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the WPK

The WPK’s Fourth Conference elected Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of Korea, its first

secretary.

Kim Jong Un who is identical with Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in ideology, leadership and

virtues is carrying out the ideas and lines of his predecessors, without the slightest vacillation. It

is his unshakeable faith and will that he will hold them in high esteem as eternal leaders of the

Party and state, implement their ideas and cause to the letter without any concessions or

vacillations and thus build a thriving socialist country. With the noblest sense of loyalty and moral obligation to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he ensured the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where they lie in state was renamed the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and roused all Party members, service personnel and people to the struggle to fulfil their lifetime instructions.

He is possessed of the fervent love for humanity and a noble outlook on the people and

administers benevolent politics, all-embracing politics. His personality as a genuine people’s

leader who shares sweets and bitters with them excites everyone’s praise and admiration.

Endowed with all the virtues and qualifications becoming a modern statesman and the ability to

look out over the world and century, and called as the youngest state leader in the world, he is

leading the nationwide drive to develop Korea into a thriving socialist power. He also resolutely

smashes the imperialist acts of aggression and challenges and makes the greatest contributions to

the defence of peace in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world, upholding the banner of

Songun.

Under his leadership the WPK and the Korean people will as ever follow the road of

independence, Songun and socialism.

The WPK will always emerge victorious under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

 Kim Jong Il and Hyundai Group

Chairperson Hyon Jong Un of the south Korean Hyundai Group and her party visited

Pyongyang in December last year to express their condolences over the death of Kim Jong Il.

Praising As a Pioneer of Inter-Korean Cooperation

Jong Ju Yong, one of the tycoons in south Korea, prided himself on his successful career.

One day he had an opportunity to read the work titled Let Us Reunify the Country Independently

and Peacefully Through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation Kim Jong Il made public in April

1998. Kim Jong Il clarified in his work his idea of great national unity that if anyone, even

though he is a big capitalist, has a national conscience and a will to achieve the country’s

reunification, he should join hands with him and advance for national reunification.

Greatly impressed by the leader’s idea, Jong visited the north in June 1998. During his stay in

the north he visited his native home he had longed for waking or sleeping, had an emotional

reunion with his relatives and enjoyed a pleasant time on Mts. Kumgang and Myohyang,

celebrated mountains in Korea.

He visited Pyongyang again in October that year and had the honour of meeting Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il granted Jong’s requests in relation to the tourism on Mt. Kumgang and others,

and said that the north and south should strengthen the cooperation with each other based on the

love for the country and nation, stressing that he was always willing to join hands with anyone

who was desirous of making the nation prosperous and the fellow people well-off.

Since then Jong, as he had written in his reminiscences Born on this land, made up his mind

to dedicate the remainder of his life to the inter-Korean economic cooperation. To this end, he

established the Hyundai Asan and contributed to reconciliation and cooperation between the

north and south, including the project for Mt. Kumgang tourism.

Kim Jong Il highly appreciated his deeds and met Jong and his party that visited Pyongyang

afterwards. He readily accepted their proposals and held Jong high as a pioneer of promoting

inter-Korean economic cooperation.

Patriotic Mind to Be Inherited

Jong Ju Yong, who put his heart and soul into the economic cooperation between the north

and south out of his patriotic mind, died in March 2001 due to a sudden collapse of his health.

Upon receiving the news of his death, Kim Jong Il dispatched a delegation to Seoul to

convey a message of condolence to the Hyundai Group and the bereaved family.

At that time, the south Korean media commented that it was the first of its kind in the history

of Korea after its division, that it was unprecedented in the south to witness such a funeral

reminiscent of that for a head of state, a mourning atmosphere pervading the whole of south

Korea, though the deceased was a head of business conglomerates. They continued that this was

what Honorary Chairman Jong Ju Yong of Hyundai deserved for his course of life for the sake of

national reunification.

When an indoor stadium was newly built on the Pothong River in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Il

named it Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Indoor Stadium in recognition of his service to the national

reconciliation and economic cooperation.

The Korean leader met on several occasions Chairman Jong Mong Hon who followed his

father in promoting the inter-Korean economic cooperation, and encouraged him to undertake

the work in a daring manner, solving all the problems raised by him. When Jong, who was

devoting himself to the inter-Korean economic cooperation, died unexpectedly, Kim Jong Il

sent a message of condolence to his bereaved family.

He also met Hyon Jong Un, chairperson of the Hyundai Group, on several occasions who

took the road of developing the economic cooperation between the north and south, true to the

will of her husband, and infused her with trust and encouragement to remain faithful to the

undertaking as wished by the deceased.

Hyon Jong Un expressed her profound condolences over the sudden and regretful death of

Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the reconciliation and cooperation of the Korean nation and

reunification of the country.

She wrote in mourners’ book that the Chairman of the National Defence Commission who

worked hard for national reconciliation and cooperation will be remembered for ever. 

Spokesman for Ministry of Post and Telecommunications Denounces Lee Myung Bak Group′s Smear Campaign

Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) – The group of rat-like Lee Myung Bak, hordes of the worst traitors, is making its desperate efforts, sticking to its bad habit of escalating the confrontation with fellow countrymen.

The group is busy staging a new farce and smear campaign against the DPRK over the damage done by jamming.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA in this regard on Friday:

According to the formal announcement by the politicians including the chairman of the Broadcasting and Communication Committee and media of south Korea, all parts of south Korea had been in mayhem due to jamming for 16 days from April 28 to mid-May.

More than 670 planes and 110 odd ships suffered from jamming.

There was the possibility of big accidents likely to claim big casualties. Airplanes, subject to jamming just before landing, had to divert their courses and circle in the air before landing in horror.

Drone S-100 of the south Korean navy on its test-flight was jammed and suddenly struck like a "missile" the vehicle which controlled it, leaving several people dead and seriously wounded. There were such accidents in which aircraft belonging to the U.S. forces in south Korea and the south Korean army could not fly properly during war exercises targeted against the north and were forced to land hastily.

There were a lot of abnormal happenings in which control systems of sailing warships of the south Korean navy and many civilian ships were paralyzed due to the troubled GPS satellite navigation system and lost their directions. It is not easy to guess the mayhem as south Korean warships which should be in the waters south of the Military Demarcation Line were detected to be on the land of South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK. A 29 000-ton class passenger ship and oil transport lost their courses and they were in the danger of bumping against each other. There occurred such cases for several consecutive days in which fishing boats during their operations sailed beyond fishing grounds toward the north.

It was reported that on the ground, the main communication system used by the puppet army units was jammed, compelling it to switchover to an emergency wire and wireless communication system which was supposed to use as a reserve one.

The sky, land and seas of south Korea are in utter confusion due to this jamming plus mad-cow disease.

It is said that the Heaven knows who does the most evil thing and metes out punishment to him. No wonder, there is a rumor in south Korea that the group of traitors is paying a dear price for its thrice-cursed crimes.

What matters is that the group of traitors, which was so stunned by such terrible mayhem that it kept mum for sometime, came to its senses, though belatedly, and began staging the above-said farce and smear campaign against the DPRK.

At first, the group was so stupid as to assert radio signals seemed to come from the north but later denied itself the story, saying this was not scientifically confirmed for fear of something.

Then the group said in the end it was clear those signals came from Kaesong. Recently it spread misinformation that the north used a vehicle-shape means for jamming the GPS imported from Russia and stopped the jamming operation under the influence of China which was allegedly urged by Lee to tell the north to halt it.

Rat-like Lee Myung Bak group is behaving like sleep-walking patients.

In a word, the group is sticking to its inveterate bad habit of accusing others in a bid to shake off the disgrace.

When an attempt to send a "written protest " to the DPRK in the name of the chairman of the puppet Broadcasting and Communication Committee and Media was frustrated, puppet forces are busy visiting the International Telecommunication Union and the International Civil Aviation Organization, etc. as part of their ridiculous diplomacy.

As an old fable of Korea says, for one trying to pass the buck for one's wrongs to others is an attribute peculiar to a rat.

It is well known to the world that after fabricating the Cheonan warship sinking case, the Lee group deliberately brushed aside so many suspicions raised at home and abroad and labeled it the case "linked with the north".

It was brought to light that the group wrote letters "No. 1" on the propelling body of the torpedo in a bid to prove that the case was "linked with the north" and it was recorded in the history of nation as unprecedentedly hideous fabrication. The group, however, failed to drop that bad habit.

When the system of the financial computer network of the "Agricultural Cooperative" of south Korea was thrown into the worst state of paralysis in April last year to cause a loss to the tune of a hundred million won and suffer disgrace in the eyes of the world, the puppet group instructed the puppet intelligence service and prosecution to draw a conclusion that they were caused by the " north" and hastily make it public.

At that time even members of the cooperative, the victim, asserted that the above-said announcement was a hasty conclusion as it lacked a scientific ground and even the security planning board of the puppet army formally clarified that the above-said happenings could not be described as an attack of the north Korean military. All these things took place later.

It also took place shortly ago that the Lee group blamed the north for even the "cyber-terror against the election management committee," a product of the mean scramble of the ruling party for power, only to suffer bitter disgrace.

Looking back on history, it was none other than the rat-like Lee group that foolishly behaved to put under control all untoward incidents, big and small, which happened inside south Korea due to wrong politics by spreading stories that the north was linked with them.

What is obvious is that all the misinformation that something was done by the north and something was linked with it floated by the group finally turned out to be a farce and fabrication for escalating confrontation with compatriots without an exception.

The story about the north's jamming spread by the group of traitors is nothing but a desperate effort to shirk off even a bit the heavy responsibility for its thrice-cursed high treason.

The group is making its last ditch-efforts to escape punishment for its crimes but it should know that it is too late.

What remains to be done by the group is to make apology to the whole nation and the world and commit suicide.

The group stuck to its inveterate bad habit of shifting the blame for the scandals committed by its clan onto compatriots. This once again fully revealed that the Lee group is no more than a group of rats in human skin.

The group should bear in mind that evil doers are bound to suffer greater misfortune and disasters. -0- 

Spokesman for Ministry of Post and Telecommunications Denounces Lee Myung Bak Group′s Smear Campaign

Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) – The group of rat-like Lee Myung Bak, hordes of the worst traitors, is making its desperate efforts, sticking to its bad habit of escalating the confrontation with fellow countrymen.

The group is busy staging a new farce and smear campaign against the DPRK over the damage done by jamming.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA in this regard on Friday:

According to the formal announcement by the politicians including the chairman of the Broadcasting and Communication Committee and media of south Korea, all parts of south Korea had been in mayhem due to jamming for 16 days from April 28 to mid-May.

More than 670 planes and 110 odd ships suffered from jamming.

There was the possibility of big accidents likely to claim big casualties. Airplanes, subject to jamming just before landing, had to divert their courses and circle in the air before landing in horror.

Drone S-100 of the south Korean navy on its test-flight was jammed and suddenly struck like a "missile" the vehicle which controlled it, leaving several people dead and seriously wounded. There were such accidents in which aircraft belonging to the U.S. forces in south Korea and the south Korean army could not fly properly during war exercises targeted against the north and were forced to land hastily.

There were a lot of abnormal happenings in which control systems of sailing warships of the south Korean navy and many civilian ships were paralyzed due to the troubled GPS satellite navigation system and lost their directions. It is not easy to guess the mayhem as south Korean warships which should be in the waters south of the Military Demarcation Line were detected to be on the land of South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK. A 29 000-ton class passenger ship and oil transport lost their courses and they were in the danger of bumping against each other. There occurred such cases for several consecutive days in which fishing boats during their operations sailed beyond fishing grounds toward the north.

It was reported that on the ground, the main communication system used by the puppet army units was jammed, compelling it to switchover to an emergency wire and wireless communication system which was supposed to use as a reserve one.

The sky, land and seas of south Korea are in utter confusion due to this jamming plus mad-cow disease.

It is said that the Heaven knows who does the most evil thing and metes out punishment to him. No wonder, there is a rumor in south Korea that the group of traitors is paying a dear price for its thrice-cursed crimes.

What matters is that the group of traitors, which was so stunned by such terrible mayhem that it kept mum for sometime, came to its senses, though belatedly, and began staging the above-said farce and smear campaign against the DPRK.

At first, the group was so stupid as to assert radio signals seemed to come from the north but later denied itself the story, saying this was not scientifically confirmed for fear of something.

Then the group said in the end it was clear those signals came from Kaesong. Recently it spread misinformation that the north used a vehicle-shape means for jamming the GPS imported from Russia and stopped the jamming operation under the influence of China which was allegedly urged by Lee to tell the north to halt it.

Rat-like Lee Myung Bak group is behaving like sleep-walking patients.

In a word, the group is sticking to its inveterate bad habit of accusing others in a bid to shake off the disgrace.

When an attempt to send a "written protest " to the DPRK in the name of the chairman of the puppet Broadcasting and Communication Committee and Media was frustrated, puppet forces are busy visiting the International Telecommunication Union and the International Civil Aviation Organization, etc. as part of their ridiculous diplomacy.

As an old fable of Korea says, for one trying to pass the buck for one's wrongs to others is an attribute peculiar to a rat.

It is well known to the world that after fabricating the Cheonan warship sinking case, the Lee group deliberately brushed aside so many suspicions raised at home and abroad and labeled it the case "linked with the north".

It was brought to light that the group wrote letters "No. 1" on the propelling body of the torpedo in a bid to prove that the case was "linked with the north" and it was recorded in the history of nation as unprecedentedly hideous fabrication. The group, however, failed to drop that bad habit.

When the system of the financial computer network of the "Agricultural Cooperative" of south Korea was thrown into the worst state of paralysis in April last year to cause a loss to the tune of a hundred million won and suffer disgrace in the eyes of the world, the puppet group instructed the puppet intelligence service and prosecution to draw a conclusion that they were caused by the " north" and hastily make it public.

At that time even members of the cooperative, the victim, asserted that the above-said announcement was a hasty conclusion as it lacked a scientific ground and even the security planning board of the puppet army formally clarified that the above-said happenings could not be described as an attack of the north Korean military. All these things took place later.

It also took place shortly ago that the Lee group blamed the north for even the "cyber-terror against the election management committee," a product of the mean scramble of the ruling party for power, only to suffer bitter disgrace.

Looking back on history, it was none other than the rat-like Lee group that foolishly behaved to put under control all untoward incidents, big and small, which happened inside south Korea due to wrong politics by spreading stories that the north was linked with them.

What is obvious is that all the misinformation that something was done by the north and something was linked with it floated by the group finally turned out to be a farce and fabrication for escalating confrontation with compatriots without an exception.

The story about the north's jamming spread by the group of traitors is nothing but a desperate effort to shirk off even a bit the heavy responsibility for its thrice-cursed high treason.

The group is making its last ditch-efforts to escape punishment for its crimes but it should know that it is too late.

What remains to be done by the group is to make apology to the whole nation and the world and commit suicide.

The group stuck to its inveterate bad habit of shifting the blame for the scandals committed by its clan onto compatriots. This once again fully revealed that the Lee group is no more than a group of rats in human skin.

The group should bear in mind that evil doers are bound to suffer greater misfortune and disasters. -0- 

Korean Jurists Committee Issues White Paper Denouncing  U.S. Application of Double Standards against DPRK

Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The American-style logic of strength is undisguisedly applied at the UN Security Council due to the U.S. application of double standards, gravely infringing upon the independent rights of sovereign countries including the DPRK. The Korean Jurists Committee Thursday made public a white paper denouncing these practices.

The white paper discloses the criminal aims of the anti-DPRK campaign staged by the U.S. by wire-pulling the UNSC and its reactionary nature.

The U.S. anti-DPRK campaign amounts to the most shameless act of aggression as it denies the ideology and system in the DPRK and stifle it and realize its ambition for dominating the whole of Korea, the white paper notes, and goes on:

The U.S. has frantically lobbied to get the UNSC adopt "resolutions on sanctions" against the DPRK by applying double standards. This is a criminal scenario to implement its policy for dominating the whole of Korea with ease, taking advantage of the situation created due to the change in the balance of international forces after the demise of the era of the Cold War and the environment in the international arena where it can resort to high-handed and arbitrary practices, styling itself "the world's only superpower," in particular.

The U.S. should be viewed as an absolute entity and any country and any international body should obey its instruction and it has the right to claim it and disregard international bodies. This is the U.S. way of thinking and its stance as the "world's only superpower" on the international organizations after the demise of the era of the Cold War. Even UNSC permanent members are taking attitudes of conniving at the practices of prioritizing their own interests rather than assuming responsibility for preserving world peace and security. This makes the U.S. application of double standards more undisguised.

The white paper deals with illegality of the "resolutions on sanctions" against the DPRK cooked up by the U.S. at the UNSC by applying its double standards.

All the anti-DPRK "resolutions" cooked up by the U.S. at the UNSC are products of its anti-DPRK moves to antagonize the DPRK and pressurize it and illegal ones fabricated in disregard of the universally accepted international laws.

Their illegality lies firstly in that they blatantly disregarded the requirements of the UN Charter in the light of their purpose and motive.

As far as the DPRK's nuclear test is concerned, it is a measure for self-defence to cope with the U.S. nuclear threat from A to Z. If the issue is to be properly settled, the UNSC should take issue with the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and its nuclear threat to the DPRK, to begin with.

Moreover, there is no ground whatsoever for the UNSC to handle the issue of the DPRK's satellite launch.

The UNSC, however, took a wrong step of taking issue with the DPRK's satellite launch only by applying the double standards, acting beyond the mandate invested in it by the UN Charter under the U.S. pressure.

Their illegality lies secondly in that they were fabricated in violation of the principle of the UN activities which calls for respecting the rights and duties of the member states stemming from the international treaty and strictly basing themselves on it.

After acceding to the international space treaties before launching satellites for peaceful purposes, the DPRK exercised its right as a sovereign state regarding space, strictly observing the commitments stipulated in the treaties as a member of them.

If this was wrong, there can be only the conclusion that the above-said treaties were wrong and all the satellites launched by members of the treaties after acceding to them were wrong.

As it is the inveterate stand of the U.S. to view and approach everything done by the DPRK from its viewpoint of confrontation, it has systematically used the UN for internationalizing its hostile viewpoint and policies that the use of nuclear energy and space development for peaceful purposes should be unconditionally checked as they may lead to bolstering the military muscle, a threat to it.

The U.S. should bear in mind that it can neither disarm the DPRK nor stifle it economically by dint of UNSC "resolutions on sanctions" which lack any propriety of international laws in a bid to bring down the ideology and system chosen by the Korean people, the white paper stresses, and continues:

If the legitimate sovereign right of the DPRK is infringed upon even a bit by dint of UNSC presidential statement or resolutions or by dint of worse ones, the DPRK will vehemently oppose and repudiate them.

The Korean Jurists Committee, expressing expectation that all judicial institutions and organizations and jurists of the world would echo the Korean people's voices of justice critical of the U.S. application of the double standards, strongly urges some states not to blindly follow the U.S. in its hostility towards the DPRK, under the influence of its high-handed and arbitrary practices. -0-

Korean Jurists Committee Issues White Paper Denouncing  U.S. Application of Double Standards against DPRK

Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The American-style logic of strength is undisguisedly applied at the UN Security Council due to the U.S. application of double standards, gravely infringing upon the independent rights of sovereign countries including the DPRK. The Korean Jurists Committee Thursday made public a white paper denouncing these practices.

The white paper discloses the criminal aims of the anti-DPRK campaign staged by the U.S. by wire-pulling the UNSC and its reactionary nature.

The U.S. anti-DPRK campaign amounts to the most shameless act of aggression as it denies the ideology and system in the DPRK and stifle it and realize its ambition for dominating the whole of Korea, the white paper notes, and goes on:

The U.S. has frantically lobbied to get the UNSC adopt "resolutions on sanctions" against the DPRK by applying double standards. This is a criminal scenario to implement its policy for dominating the whole of Korea with ease, taking advantage of the situation created due to the change in the balance of international forces after the demise of the era of the Cold War and the environment in the international arena where it can resort to high-handed and arbitrary practices, styling itself "the world's only superpower," in particular.

The U.S. should be viewed as an absolute entity and any country and any international body should obey its instruction and it has the right to claim it and disregard international bodies. This is the U.S. way of thinking and its stance as the "world's only superpower" on the international organizations after the demise of the era of the Cold War. Even UNSC permanent members are taking attitudes of conniving at the practices of prioritizing their own interests rather than assuming responsibility for preserving world peace and security. This makes the U.S. application of double standards more undisguised.

The white paper deals with illegality of the "resolutions on sanctions" against the DPRK cooked up by the U.S. at the UNSC by applying its double standards.

All the anti-DPRK "resolutions" cooked up by the U.S. at the UNSC are products of its anti-DPRK moves to antagonize the DPRK and pressurize it and illegal ones fabricated in disregard of the universally accepted international laws.

Their illegality lies firstly in that they blatantly disregarded the requirements of the UN Charter in the light of their purpose and motive.

As far as the DPRK's nuclear test is concerned, it is a measure for self-defence to cope with the U.S. nuclear threat from A to Z. If the issue is to be properly settled, the UNSC should take issue with the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and its nuclear threat to the DPRK, to begin with.

Moreover, there is no ground whatsoever for the UNSC to handle the issue of the DPRK's satellite launch.

The UNSC, however, took a wrong step of taking issue with the DPRK's satellite launch only by applying the double standards, acting beyond the mandate invested in it by the UN Charter under the U.S. pressure.

Their illegality lies secondly in that they were fabricated in violation of the principle of the UN activities which calls for respecting the rights and duties of the member states stemming from the international treaty and strictly basing themselves on it.

After acceding to the international space treaties before launching satellites for peaceful purposes, the DPRK exercised its right as a sovereign state regarding space, strictly observing the commitments stipulated in the treaties as a member of them.

If this was wrong, there can be only the conclusion that the above-said treaties were wrong and all the satellites launched by members of the treaties after acceding to them were wrong.

As it is the inveterate stand of the U.S. to view and approach everything done by the DPRK from its viewpoint of confrontation, it has systematically used the UN for internationalizing its hostile viewpoint and policies that the use of nuclear energy and space development for peaceful purposes should be unconditionally checked as they may lead to bolstering the military muscle, a threat to it.

The U.S. should bear in mind that it can neither disarm the DPRK nor stifle it economically by dint of UNSC "resolutions on sanctions" which lack any propriety of international laws in a bid to bring down the ideology and system chosen by the Korean people, the white paper stresses, and continues:

If the legitimate sovereign right of the DPRK is infringed upon even a bit by dint of UNSC presidential statement or resolutions or by dint of worse ones, the DPRK will vehemently oppose and repudiate them.

The Korean Jurists Committee, expressing expectation that all judicial institutions and organizations and jurists of the world would echo the Korean people's voices of justice critical of the U.S. application of the double standards, strongly urges some states not to blindly follow the U.S. in its hostility towards the DPRK, under the influence of its high-handed and arbitrary practices. -0-

Flames of Pochonbo

On June 4, 1937, flames flared up over the night sky of Pochonbo in the northern area of

Korea. Under the commandership of General Kim Il Sung, the Korean People’s Revolutionary

Army (KPRA) made an assault on Pochonbo.

With Kim Il Sung’s signal shot, the KPRA guerrillas rushed into the city to strike the

Japanese police substation and set fire to the sub-county office, fire hall and various other

enemy’s administrative centres. In the streets floodlit by the flames sheets of the “Ten-Point

Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland,” made by the general, and

“proclamation” were pasted, and leaflets and manifestos were scattered.

Shouting “Our army has come!”, “General Kim Il Sung is here!” and “Long live the

independence of Korea!” the citizens suffering from the cruel oppression of the Japanese

aggressors, thronged to the streets. Kim Il Sung waved back to the cheers of the crowd and made

a speech appealing for resistance against Japanese imperialism.

The Battle of Pochonbo was a great event that discouraged the Japanese imperialists who had

been strutting as if they were the lords of Asia.

During their military occupation of Korea (1905-1945) the Japanese imperialists were making

preparations for starting a war of aggression on the China proper by scheming the July 7 Incident

(1937). To this end they intensified the fascist repression of the Korean people more than ever

before, to solidify their rear. Especially they strengthened the guard around the northern border

areas of Korea in an attempt to prevent the advance of the KPRA into the homeland and its

influence on the Korean people at home. The Pochonbo area was surrounded by a vast forest

connected with the area of Changbai, China, the major theatre of the KPRA’s activities. So the

Japanese imperialists set up over 20 police organs and built forts every two km and a new guard

road along the border. It was, therefore, greatly significant that the KPRA broke through this

strict cordon and made a gun shot behind it.

The Japanese army and police officers, who were struck by the attack like a bolt from the

blue, confessed such things as, “We feel as if we had been struck hard on the back of the head,”

and “We feel the shame of watching the haystack we had been carefully building for a thousand

days go up in flames in an instant.” Mass media in Korea and foreign countries including Japan,

China and the former Soviet Union reported the victory of the KPRA in its homeland advance

under such banner headlines as, “Guerrilla Movement into the Northern Area of Korea” and

“Guerrilla Warfare in the Northern Area of Korea.” The whole world was amazed by the fact

that the Korean guerrillas had punished the Japanese imperialists severely on the frontier of

Korea, a small colonized nation in the East.

The flames of Pochonbo heralded the dawn of the liberation of Korea, convincing the Korean

people that Korea was still very much alive and that they were capable of fighting and achieving

the liberation of Korea.

That was the darkest period for the Koreans. Under the brutal fascist oppression and

depredatory atrocities of the Japanese imperialists the Koreans were forced the lot of medieval

slaves. All sorts of evil laws were produced so as to obliterate national characteristics in every

way. Koreans were forcibly banned not only to speak and write in Korean but also to change

their Korean names in Japanese style. The Korean nation literally stood at the crossroads of life

and death.

At that time Kim Il Sung, commander of the KPRA, made an advance into the homeland to

infuse fresh life and courage into the Koreans’ spirit that was dying.

The Battle of Pochonbo encouraged the Korean people greatly. After the battle the

independence movements became activated in the homeland, and the young people were eager to

join the anti-Japanese guerrilla army. Koreans respected Kim Il Sung as their leader and savior

of the national liberation and firmly believed that he would bring the day of liberation of Korea.

On August 15, 1945, Koreans at last liberated their country after defeating the Japanese

imperialists.

Another historic significance of the Battle of Pochonbo was that it demonstrated at home and

abroad a sure will of the Korean revolutionaries, who pioneered the revolution with arms and

would advance it by dint of arms.

The battle was an ordinary raid, which combined the use of small arms and a speech designed

to stir up public feeling. However, that small battle made a great impact on the world because it

showed the truth that the armed imperialists and colonialists should only be fought with arms to

emerge victorious in the revolution for national liberation.

In the initial days when he set out on the road of the revolution, Kim Il Sung discovered the

truth of Songun that the military power guarantees the victory of the revolutionary cause and the

national independence and prosperity. On its basis he set forth the line of the anti-Japanese

armed struggle, and founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (April 25, 1932), an

armed force to carry it out. He constantly intensified the KPRA, led the anti-Japanese armed

revolution to victory and finally achieved the liberation of Korea.

Leader Kim Jong Il carried forward the Songun ideology and cause of President Kim Il Sung

and established the Songun politics in all fields of society, thereby safeguarding the socialist

system in the DPRK from the vicious stifling offensive of the imperialist allied forces at the end

of the 20th century and ushering in a new era of building a thriving socialist country.

Now the Songun revolutionary cause of the DPRK is firmly carried out by Kim Jong Un,

supreme leader of the DPRK.