BRITISH SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE FOR PEACE AND REUNIFICATION ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA .   30th of January 2018 The British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula today issued the following statement ;    Following the proposals of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN in his 2018 New Year Address many significant steps towards relaxing tensions on the Korean peninsula and securing an atmosphere of reconciliation and renewed inter-Korean co-operation were taken.Thanks to active step taken by the DPRK, inter-Korean high-level talks was held in Panmunjom, symbol of national division, with the result the north-south communication lines that had been shut down are now resumed and a door to dialogue that had been stalled is opened. A delegation for field survey visited south Korea to ensure the performance of north Korean art troupe to be given in south Korea with the 23rd Winter Olympics as an occasion and also a delegation of the south side vis...

Bright Lodestar of National Reunification A new policy for mending inter-Korean relations clarified by Supreme Leader   Kim Jong Un   in his historic New Year Address is evoking lively response among the public at home and abroad.    Upon hearing his New Year Address, the south Korean people keenly realize he is the sun of the Korean nation and the lodestar of national reunification. He said, in his New Year Address, that the prevailing situation demands that now the north and the south improve the relations between themselves and take decisive measures for achieving a breakthrough for independent reunification without being obsessed by bygone days and no one can present an honorable appearance in front of the nation if he or she ignores the urgent demands of the times. In his New Year Address, he elucidated the issue of easing the acute military tension between the north and the south, creating a peaceful environment on the Korean Peninsula, establishin...

Action worsening inter-Korean ties The U.S. is   fomenting inter-Korean confrontation at a time when the world expresses positive support to north Korea’s proposal and sincere efforts to repair north-south relationship.        Of late, the U.S. announced its dispatch of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier   Ronald Reagan   in Japan and   Carl Vinson   in U.S. mainland to the Korean Peninsula. It plans to dispatch   Stennis   to the west Pacific Ocean. The U.S. reinforced fighters of different missions and troops in the U.S. mainland to the US air bases in south Korea and Japan. It is dispatching three helicopters carriers transporting a division-class U.S. Marine Corps in contingency to the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. relocated   EC-130H   in Yokotami air base in Japan to Osan air base in south Korea on Jan. 15 and plans to deploy the U.S. special operation unit in south Korea during the Winter ...

Stop acts running against improvement of inter-Korean ties! Thanks to active step taken by the DPRK, inter-Korean high-level talks was held in Panmunjom, symbol of national division, with the result the north-south communication lines that had been shut down are now resumed and a door to dialogue that had been stalled is opened. A delegation for field survey visited south Korea to ensure the performance of north Korean art troupe to be given in south Korea with the 23rd Winter Olympics as an occasion. However, south Korean die-hard conservative forces, seized by submission toward the U.S. and confrontation with the fellow countrymen, are spouting a string of rubbish destroying climate for national reconciliation and improvement of inter-Korean relations. The conservative parties including the Liberty Korea Party and mass media are vociferous about applying sanctions and pressure for north Korea's abandonment of nuke, while painting north Korea's sincere efforts as ...

Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- An appeal to all Koreans at home and abroad was adopted at the joint conference of the government, political parties and organizations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea held on Wednesday. They called upon all Koreans with the strong will to make this auspicious year an eventful year noteworthy in the history of the nation by pooling the efforts of our nation as follows: Let us turn out as one in the nationwide drive to improve the north-south relations and make a breakthrough for independent reunification, true to the noble patriotic intention of the peerlessly great man! It is the steadfast will of all Koreans who have turned out for implementing the noble intention of the peerlessly great man to bring great changes to the north-south relations as early as possible and make a new history of independent reunification. Let us rapidly improve the north-south relations and pave a wide avenue to rosy future of the nation which will be reu...

                                                            Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- A joint conference of the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK took place in Pyongyang on Wednesday to carry out the tasks for national reunification set forth by respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address. Present there were representatives of the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK, including Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Yong Chol and Ro Tu Chol, the chairman of a friendly party, officials of public organizations, officials of the North Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration, the north headquarters of the Pan-National Alliance for Korea's Reunification and the Pan-National Alliance of Youth and Students for Korea's Reunification and the Consultative Council for National...

Some analysis of the developments in inter-Korean relations . As usual the mainstream media have misinformed people about the nature of what is going on . It has been falsely said that the DPRK has opened talks with south Korea because of the 'sanctions ' or ' it is simply ' a tactic to gain time' . This is a mean slander on the DPRK's sincere efforts for Korean reunification and for peace. As a matter of fact over decades the DPRK has tabled hundreds , if not thousands of reunification proposals. Even just before the Korean war broke out in June 1950 the DPRK had been working towards peaceful reunification and had sent emissaries to south Korea on the 7th of June . President KIM IL SUNG had put forward the proposal for a confederation of the north and south at the 4th congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and had also held the historic north-south talks in July 1972 . Chairman KIM JONG IL held the inter-Korean summit in June 2000 with then south Korean ...

Precondition for National Reunification In his New Year Address for 2018, Supreme Leader   Kim Jong Un   said that a climate favorable for national reconciliation and reunification should be established in order to repair frozen inter-Korean relations and create environment conducive to national concord. Now the unity of the Korean nation is a pressing task. The atmosphere of national reconciliation and reunification never comes by itself. It is realized through contact, travel, cooperation and exchange. The north and the south should remove mutual misunderstanding and distrust through wide-ranging contact, visit, cooperation and exchange thus fulfill their responsibility and role as the motive force of national reunification. All legal and institutional mechanisms should be removed in south Korea in order to create conditions and environment conducive to inter-Korean reconciliation and reunification. The south Korean authorities should put a definite end to acts t...

Campaign for arresting Lee Myung-bak South Koreans of all strata   conducted a campaign for arresting Lee Myung-bak in various parts of Seoul on Jan. 6. A candlelight action took place around Lee's house under the sponsorship of the Headquarters of All-People Action to Punish Lee Myung-bak and "Commando for Seizing MB". Attending it were civilians of various strata from across south Korea. The participants held a demo from Hakdong Station to Lee's house before holding a candlelight rally. They encircled Lee’s house to hold the candlelight rally, raising cry in demand of his confinement.     Four rivers have been seriously contaminated by Lee, they said.    Speakers at the rally said that there are many reasons for arresting Lee Myung-bak such as irregularities and corruption, crackdown upon media and import of American beef. Lee was greedy for money during his tenure of office and he was indifferent to the people suffering dire pover...

The Family Movement for Realizing Democracy held the 1152nd Thursday rally in Seoul on January 4 to demand the release of prisoners of conscience and repeal of the "Security Law". Recalling that unjust regime was toppled and a new regime emerged last year, speakers there deplored that there are still prisoners of conscience. They will concentrate all their efforts to make the year 2018 as the year of releasing all conscientious prisoners, they noted. Urging the court to acknowledge that the "Security Law" is problematic, they called on the public to struggle to get it repealed. They expressed their will to carry on their struggle for the release of prisoners of conscience and the repeal of SL, chanting slogan “Immediately set free all conscientious prisoners!”.

Supreme Leader   Kim Jong Un , in his New Year Address for 2018, noted that the north and the south of Korea should work together to ease the acute military tension and create a peaceful environment on the Korean Peninsula.    Now broad segments of south Korean people fully support the historic New Year Address made by the Supreme Leader who set forth   ways and means   to improve the relations between the north and the south and take decisive measures for achieving a breakthrough for independent reunification without being obsessed by bygone days. Through its commentary, the Headquarters of the South Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration noted that it offers positive support to Chairman   Kim Jong Un ’s New Year Address in which he said on joint efforts for détente and peace on the Korean Peninsula. It continued that it gives full support to north Korea’s proposal that makes it possible to mend frozen inter-Korean ties and creat...

Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The happy environment for the north-south reconciliation, created by the great magnanimity and initiative measures taken by the DPRK, has greatly excited all the Koreans including those in the south. The international community is also positively appreciating the efforts made by the north and the south, hoping to see the trend of detente persisting on the Korean Peninsula. At this time, ill-boding remarks chilling the atmosphere for reconciliation are heard from south Korea, upsetting the people. That was uttered by the south Korean chief executive at the new year press briefing. The south Korean chief executive said that the beginning of the south-north dialogue can be described as the effect made by the U.S.-led sanctions and pressure and President Trump played a big role, showing his willingness to express thanks to him. He even made such rubbish that the north was led to dialogue to open up the chapter for "the north's denuclearizati...

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, in his New Year Address for 2018, pointed out that to improve inter-Korean relations as soon as possible, the authorities of the north and the south should raise the banner of national independence higher than ever before, and fulfill their responsibility and role they have assumed for the times and the nation. National independence is the basis for resolving the national issues and the lifeline of the national reunification movement. To adhere to the stand for national independence serves as an important way for settling the issue of the north-south ties. Submission to and dependence on foreign forces are an ideological poison and way to national ruin that make a nation subservient to the strong and benumb. If a nation does not believe in its strength and ability and takes to national nihilism, it is bound to follow flunkeyism and depend on foreign force. Inter-Korean relations are, to all intents and purposes, an internal matter of our nation, w...

The  British Solidarity Committee for  Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula welcomes the positive outcome of the north -south talks at Panmunjom which represented a significant break though in inter-Korean relations and the struggle for reunification . It is positive that the DPRK will send a team to the Winter Olympics . At the talks the two sides agreed to pursue reunification on the Juche -orientated principle of 'By Our Nation Itself' , rejecting the interference of outsiders . This positive outcome is not a result of concessions but the fruit of Songun politics and the DPRK's nuclear deterrent! KOREA IS ONE ! US OUT OF KOREA !

                                                          Panmunjom, January 9 (KCNA) -- Inter-Korean high-level talks were held on Tuesday at the "house of peace" in the south side portion of Panmunjom amid great expectations and interests of all the fellow countrymen and people at home and abroad. Present there were a delegation of the north side led by Ri Son Gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country of the DPRK, and a delegation of south side with Minister of Unification Jo Myong Gyun as chief delegate. At the talks the north and south authorities discussed in earnest the principled issues arising in successfully holding the 23rd Winter Olympics in south Korea and improving the inter-Korean relations, and adopted the following joint press release. Joint press release of inter-Korean high-level ta...

The British Solidarity Committee For Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula issued the following statement in support of the Reunification Proposals made in the 2018 New Year address of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the supreme leader of the Korean people . In his New Year Address dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN made significant and epoch making proposal for peace and independent reunification on the Korean peninsula . In particular he proposed to dispatch a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics held to be held in south Korea . He stressed that military tension on the Korean peninsula should be reduced and that the DPRK and south Korea should work together to create a peaceful environment. This can be done in practice by the south Korean authorities discontinuing nuclear war exercises with the US that target the DPRK. The fundamental principle to be maintained is that of independence . The south Korean authorities must stop depending on outsiders particularly the US...

Pyongyang, January 3 (KCNA) -- Upon authorization of  Kim Jong Un , Supreme Leader of the Workers' Party of Korea and the State and the army, the chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country (CPRC) of the DPRK made public the following stand of the DPRK on Jan. 3 in response to the south Korean Chongwadae's official stand toward our proposed dispatch of our delegation to the Phyongchang Olympic Games and remarks made by President Mun Jae In at the state council meeting: Comrade  Kim Jong Un , chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, upon receiving a report that the south Korean Chongwadae officially supported and welcomed his stand toward the participation in the Phyongchang Olympic Games and the issue of the improvement of the north-south relations he clarified at the 2018 New Year Address and that at the first state council meeting on Jan. 2 President Mun Jae In personally expressed active support...

Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address said that this year is significant both for the north and the south as in the north the people will greet the 70th founding anniversary of their Republic as a great, auspicious event and in the south the Winter Olympic Games will take place. He went on: In order to not only celebrate these great national events in a splendid manner but also demonstrate the dignity and spirit of the nation at home and abroad, we should improve the frozen inter-Korean relations and glorify this meaningful year as an eventful one noteworthy in the history of the nation. First of all, we should work together to ease the acute military tension between the north and the south and create a peaceful environment on the Korean peninsula. The south Korean authorities should respond positively to our sincere efforts for a detente, instead of inducing the exacerbation of the situation by joining the United States in...

Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un made the New Year Address for 2018. The full text of the New Year Address reads: Dear fellow countrymen and brave service personnel of the People's Army, Dear compatriots, Today, recollecting with great pleasure and pride and deep emotion the proud achievements we performed last year through our diligent and worthwhile labour and sincere efforts and by the sweat of our brow, we are all seeing in the new year 2018 with fresh hopes and expectations. Greeting the hope-filled new year, I wish the families across the country good health, happiness, success and prosperity. I also wish that the beautiful dreams of all our people, including the hopes of our children in the new year, would come true. Comrades, As I look back upon last year, when I worked strenuously on the road of achieving national prosperity, gaining great strength and wisdom from the pure minds of the dauntless people who invariably truste...