Monday, August 21, 2006

Foreign News

American media can be insufferable to those participating in serious intellectual dialogue. I have found my self checking a variety of foreign media sources; the most recent pages added to my checklist include Korean Central News Agency of DPRK, Aljazeera.Net, Islamic Republic News Agency, and even the New York Times. They are all unique outlets, as all are, compose of different humans whom are as unique as snow flakes (at least for the time being, anyway).

For now, let us look at a few samplings of the Korean Central News Agency, reporting from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It appears reunification with South Korea is the only promise the dictator has left to promise his people.
S. Korea-U.S. Joint Military Exercises under Fire
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises to be staged by the U.S. and south Korean armies from August 21 are a very dangerous military action and a test war aimed to complete the battle commanding and operational system of the aggressor forces for the provocation of a new Korean war and easily attain the purpose of the war. A commentary of Rodong Sinmun today says this.
It goes on:
The U.S. bellicose forces have been advertising the joint military drill as an annual one and, on the other hand, claiming that it is necessary for the "prevention of a war" but they can cover its aggressive nature and danger with nothing.
There is no validity in somebody's "military threat" and the "prevention of a war" loudmouthed by the U.S.
The whole nation in the north and the south of Korea are firmly advancing towards reunification in the idea of "By our nation itself." In the historical point of view, we had never infringed upon the security of the U.S. and, practically, there is nothing threatening the U.S.
It is foolish behavior that the U.S. imperialists are trying to cover the criminal nature, purpose and danger of the drill with the advertisement of worn-out "threat of southward invasion" although they are escalating the tension of the Korean Peninsula. The "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises are very serious anti-DPRK war racket both in view of their scale and period.
The U.S. imperialists are going to stage the exercises despite the unanimous opposition at home and abroad. It indicates that their attempt to unleash a war of aggression on the Korean Peninsula at any cost enters more dangerous phase. The above-said exercises are a precedent operation for the provocation of a war of aggression against the DPRK. The U.S. war-like forces should clearly know that any military racket can neither frighten the Korean people nor attain their aggressive purpose.
The U.S. imperialists are well advised to stop the military gambling against peace which is driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a war.

All Koreans Called upon to Crush For. Aggressor Forces through National Cooperation
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The force of national cooperation represents the might of independence and unity capable of meeting any challenge of foreign aggressors. The Korean nation should resolutely meet the challenge of foreign aggressors through national cooperation under the uplifted banner of national independence under the present tense situation, observes Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article. It goes on:
The national cooperation provides the Koreans in the north and the south with the best way of foiling the vicious moves of the foreign forces for aggression, defending the peace of the country and bringing about a steady surge in the movement for national reunification.
The force of the national cooperation represents the might of the spirit of struggling for independence against foreign forces. If the Korean nation strong in self-esteem holds high the banner of independence, it can frustrate any moves of foreign forces for aggression. Peace and security can be preserved on the Korean Peninsula only when Koreans realize the national cooperation under the banner of independence. The national cooperation precisely means unity. The Koreans will display their inexhaustible strength if they go united to foil the moves of the foreign forces for aggression, putting aside their differences. Now that the U.S. and Japan work together to bring down the DPRK, the Koreans in the north and the south are called upon to unite close and conduct joint actions to protect the common interests as they are commonly interested in the issue of protecting peace from war. No foreign forces, however ferocious they are, dare ignite a war on the Korean Peninsula, if all Koreans come out to denounce the moves of the foreign forces for aggression and take united actions against them.
National cooperation serves as the only option for the Korean nation now that foreign forces have become frantic in their moves to start a war of aggression on this land and bring a disaster of a nuclear war to the Korean nation.
All the Koreans should realize effective national cooperation under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration in order to make a great contribution to foiling the moves of the foreign forces for aggression, defending the peace of the country and bringing earlier the independent reunification.

Japan's Hostile Policy toward DPRK and War Moves under Fire
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The Japan-Korea Society for Scientific and Educational Interchange released a statement on July 23 to denounce Japan for indulging in war moves involving all kinds of massive military maneuvers, following the U.S. lead, while raising a hue and cry over "threat" from someone. It sharply branded the U.S. and Japan as the chief culprits posing threat to peace and security. We will make all efforts with other forces and people of broad strata demanding peace to check Japan's dangerous acts, the statement said.
It demanded (of) the Japanese government strive to see that direct dialogues are held between the DPRK and the U.S., the parties to the Korean Armistice Agreement, and a peace agreement is signed between them and talks are resumed between the governments of Japan and the DPRK.
It also demanded the Japanese government take decisive measures against sanctions and all manner of assaults infringing upon the rights of Koreans in Japan and stop following the U.S. in the "relocation" of its troops and beefing up "capability of attacking enemy's bases".

Forces' Bombing of Tok Islet and Mass Killing of Civilians under Fire
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist aggressors bombed Tok Islet and killed civilians on June 9, 1948. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes that this was not bombing perpetrated by mistake as they claimed, but a deliberate and carefully pre-arranged man-killing. The news analyst goes on:
At that time the side of the U.S. aggression forces hushed up the case by asserting that the plane wrongly bombed the fishing boats by mistaking them for rocks and the United States and the south Korean authorities worked hard to keep the truth about the case buried into oblivion for about 60 years.
The U.S. imperialists have committed ceaseless brutal mass killings of south Koreans beyond human imagination but they have never clearly admitted and apologized for them.
When a south Korean girl was shot to death in Kunsan and a woodman was killed in Phaju, Yankees defended the killers, asserting that they mistook them for a duck and a pheasant. When the truth about a mass killing of civilians committed in Rogun-ri, Yongdong County, North Chungchong Province, was disclosed a few years ago, the U.S. asserted that it was an unexpected miserable tragedy and an unplanned killing. This is the true colors of the U.S. imperialist aggressors.
No excuse made by them can ever convince one. Truth is bound to be probed. More than six decades of the U.S. imperialist aggressors' presence in south Korea represent a history of the most hideous brutalities as it has imposed upon the south Korean people nothing but misfortune, pain and death. Such monstrous crimes as the recently disclosed bombing of Tok Islet and mass killings of civilians will not cease and there will break out another bloody war of aggression on this land as long as these aggressor forces remain in south Korea, the news analyst stresses.

Just two more headlines:
U.S. Urged to Halt Its Moves to Invade DPRK
(August 17)
KCNA Blasts Military Adventure of U.S. and South Korean Warmongers (August 18)

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