Unyielding Action for Democracy South Korean people’s action for democracy in south Korea is getting intense as the year is drawing to close. The committee for promoting the release of prisoners of conscience and organizations of citizens and students held a rally outside Cheongwadae on Dec. 16 to demand the release of prisoners of conscience. Prior to the rally, they marched from Gwanghwamun Plaza to Cheongwadae, chanting slogans in demand of immediate release of all conscientious prisoners. The conscientious prisoners including the KCTU chairman Han Sang-geun and a member of former Unified Progressive Party Lee Seok-gi have been imprisoned during the period of Park Geun-hye’s office, they charged. They said that the people as well as the civic and religious groups are demanding release of the conscientious prisoners.                                                       At the rally speakers said that the present chief executive should make a bold decision on the release, a

The Korean people are greeting the centenary of the birth of Kim Jong Suk, the anti-Japanese war heroine, amid the irresistible yearnings for her. Her life was the brilliant one of the revolutionary who dedicated her all to the country’s liberation, people’s happiness, unity of the nation and national reunification, true to high intention of President Kim Il Sung.   National reunification was her supreme desire and goal of her life and struggle. After the country’s liberation, she felt painful national division caused by the U.S. as the Korean nation has lived harmoniously in one territory with the same cultural tradition for 5 000 years. He was full of determination to reunify the country as soon as possible and deliver the south Korean people from the U.S. invaders. One day after the end of the historic Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organization in North and South Korea held in April of 1948, she met with south Korean women delegates to ac

Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The May 18 Memorial Foundation of south Korea recently disclosed that the result of information found in a university library in the U.S. confirmed the fact that the U.S. planned to bomb Kwangju City at the time of May 1980 Kwangju Popular Uprising. It was also disclosed through the "newsletter on the situation during the May 18 Kwangju Uprising", kept at a puppet air force archive, that two days before launching the operation for quenching the Kwangju Popular Uprising the U.S. was expected to hurl MC-130 special operation transporter plane and that surveillance of Kwangju citizens was carried out through the use of the plane even after the uprising. Also made public was the fact that the U.S. planned to deploy AWACS from Kaneda U.S. air force base in Okinawa of Japan and carriers Midway and Coral Sea in waters off south Korea. A commentary of Rodong Sinmun says that this points to the undeniable historical facts that the chieftain which

Great Lifetime of Peerless Patriot With the approach of sixth anniversary of Leader  Kim Jong Il ’s demise, south Korean people are recollecting great lifetime of the leader who had dedicated his all to the country’s reunification. For him, the cause of national reunification is not the work of reuniting territory or population of the north and the south of Korea but the supreme patriotism related to eternal prosperity and happiness of the Korean nation His scientific and realistic ideas and orientations for reunification in each period and at each stage, his indefatigable enthusiasm and ardent patriotic will, indomitable stamina and sagacious leadership were the powerful impelling force that the movement for national reunification could maintain its Juche characteristic and make a steady progress in the face of the U.S. stubborn moves to perpetuate the national division and strangle the DPRK.   His outstanding leadership produced the  June 15  reunification era which excite

The U.S. and south Korean belligerent forces are going to stage the largest-ever joint aerial drill Vigilant Ace simulating invasion of north Korea from Dec. 4 to 8. More than 230 fighters of different missions including the ultramodern stealth fighters F-22 Raptor, F-35A, F-35B and other fighters of the U.S. forces and fighters of the south Korean air force and over tens of thousands of troops including 12 000 U.S. troops are to be involved in the drill.                                 The U.S. and south Korean war-thirsty forces are touting the drill is the largest ones unprecedented in history and it would be a considerable military pressure upon north Korea. What should not be overlooked is that they stage the rehearsal to perfect joint operational capability of actual war for making precision strikes at key objects in north Korea. It palpably shows the drill has a provocative and aggressive nature Broad segments of south Korean people are critical of the south Korean aut

For the Right to Existence of Workers The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) launched a sit-in on Nov. 23 in demand of the right to existence of workers. At a press conference in front of the National Assembly building, the KCTU declared that it is starting a sit-in for the realization of five priority tasks, the abolition of evil labor law and enactment of the law on labor reform. The five priority tasks are aimed to build anti-labor society served for capitalism and the government into a fair one, they said, contending that it is an obligation of the government to ensure sure guarantee of three-point labor rights.    The speakers demanded the immediate revision of labor law including the law on trade unions in order to build society where labor is respected and the right to the activities of trade unions is guaranteed. The KCTU made public a press release. A press release made public there declared that they would strongly protest and denounce those political