Civil organizations including the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration have waged various kinds of actions by having one-man demonstration, holding news conferences and releasing statements in demand of cancellation of south Korea-US joint military exercise and withdrawal of the US hostile policy toward north Korea.      Potential military clash in the Korean Peninsula is due to insistent US policy hostile to north Korea and the US has showed no sign of withdrawal of its hostile policy, they sharply criticized.    They strongly urged the US, which is responsible for division of the Korean Peninsula and armistice system, to cancel the joint military rehearsal.   The Promotion Committee for August 15 Meeting held a news conference in Seoul. It shed light on nature of the joint military exercise aiming at mounting a preemptive strike on north Korea and destroying north Korean system. They express their will to intensify dy...

        It has been 68 years since the DPRK displayed fireworks of victory after defeating the US which boasted of being the "strongest" in the world. The DPRK’s miraculous triumph achieved in the three year-long Fatherland Liberation War is unthinkable apart from rare strategic wisdom and military leadership of President Kim Il Sung. The US employed schemers and warlike generals of imperialism who earned an ill-fame during the past wars. The President thwarted their reckless military intentions with his outstanding military wisdom and stratagem. The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was the brilliant one of the President’s Juche-based military idea and art of war. Thanks to his seasoned leadership, strategy and tactics, the KPA and the DPRK people defended the country to demonstrate the dignity and honor of the nation throughout the world by displaying matchless self-sacrificing spirit in the war against the US. The world said with high appreciation that Pres...

  A few days ago, 1500th Wednesday demonstration was held outside the old Japanese embassy in Seoul to condemn sexual crimes committed by the Japanese army during the World War  Ⅱ . 1565 members of anti-Japanese organizations from over ten countries including south Korea, Japan, US, Canada, Germany, France and Indonesia took part in in the demonstration.       They mentioned in the statement that it is the longest demonstration, the saddest and the proudest one in the world which were held on 1500  occasions . They strongly demanded Japan ’ s admission of war crimes, a thoroughgoing investigation into issue of sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, an official apology and legal compensation for the sexual slavery victims and strict punishment of those who are responsible for it.  

  Former south Korean public procurator general Yun Seok-yol finds himself in dire predicament as his wife’s mother was arrested on suspicion of violation of medical law and his wife’s literary piracy of treatise.   He reproached the south Korean authorities’ labor policy and is being buffeted by criticism of the public by saying a 120 hour-long working is okay if necessary.   The 120 hour-long working will not support the health of workers. It is longer than working hour at Auschwitz concentration camp in the past, the Democratic Party and Justice Party and  sharply criticized Yun. South Korea is recognized as a “place of overwork” in the world.    For two years hundreds of south Korean workers have been killed from overwork. His uninformed remarks show that he views the workers as no more than cows and horses and a robot operating at capacity. It shows that south Korea is a land barren of human rights in which those who have a half-baked view on...

  A few days ago, Gwangju citizens held a rally in demand of withdrawal of the US forces in south Korea and halt to south Korea-US joint military maneuver. The US forces, the very one responsible for Korea’s division and occupying forces, have stationed in south Korea over seven decades. We must wage a dynamic drive against the US not to check the advance of the south Korean people desirous of peace and reunification. Let’s make an unyielding struggle against the US in demand of withdrawal of its hostile policy towards north Korea and cancellation of south Korea-US military game, the citizens appealed. They strongly demanded the withdrawal of the US hostile policy towards north Korea and the US troops in south Korea and immediate cancellation of north Korea-targeted joint military drill, saying that pullout of the US forces from south Korea and dissolution of south Korea-US alliance are the on...

      The picture denounces Japan for specifying in defense white paper its dominium over Dok islet which is an inviolable territory of Korea. Japan, making frantic efforts for reinvasion of Korea, is a variable virus of militarism which is more dangerous than worldwide malignant epidemic Covid-19.  

  Broad spectrum of south Korean people raise their voices in demand of dissolution of the People ’ s Power Party. South Korean women and pro-unification organizations strongly reprimanded the opposition PPP ’ s assertion of closure of the Ministry of Unification and Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. It shows their contempt for women and anti-national attitude toward reunification.   The closure of the Ministry of Unification and Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is their brainchild to speak against its rival for upcoming presidential election. The opposition party, which abuses the south Koreans and women for its political interests and creates discord among them, should be dissolved, they said. Meanwhile, academic and civil organizations strongly point out the US force was occupation army not liberation army after Korea ’ s liberation. The term  “ occupying forces ”  was specified on  “ Proclamation No. 1 of the U.S. Army Forces, Paci...

Risky war game   Despite the strong protest by the public at home and abroad, the US revealed its attempt to launch south Korea-US joint military exercise in August.  It shows the US regards the Korean Peninsula as a right place for war game and has the fate of Korean nation in hand for its military supremacy. Nevertheless, the south Korean military has taken part in the US-led multinational military rehearsals and stressed the need to conduct the joint military drill at the meeting of brass hats of the military under the pretext of “north Korea’s threat”.    It is the reckless military confrontation to wreck peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and drive the situation to the brink of war. It can never be overlooked as the war game puts the security of the Korean Peninsula in peril.  It stands to reason that civil organizations and people of various circles launch a dynamic drive for cancellation of the joint military exercise and against the US war ...

  Broad segments of south Koreans strongly demand a break of summit meeting with Japan for distorting its past history and evading responsibility for it. Thirty eight civil organizations including the Gwangju Headquarters of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration held a news conference. At the news conference, they said Japan has not made an apology for its war crimes while distorting its past history, it marked Dok islet as its territory in its map and specified its dominium over Dok islet in its defense white paper, it is going to use "the flag of rising sun shedding rays" as a rooter’s pennant and is twisting the fact of Hashima colliery. The summit meeting with Japan, which does not loose even a word of apology for its war crimes and history distortion, is crow-eating diplomacy and it is tantamount to acquitting Japan like south Korea-Japan agreement concluded in 2015. Japan is going to make wrong use of Tokyo Olympic Games to realize its ...

Stop south Korea-US joint military game   A few days ago, the National Promotion Committee for Cancellation of South Korea-US Joint Military Drill and Development of Inter-Korean Relationship waged march for peace in demand of cancellation of south Korea-US joint military maneuver. The marchers shouted  “ stop south Korea-US joint military drill ”  and many citizens in Yeoncheon joined their march. After the end of march, the organization declared various kinds of struggle to be launched and future action plan to wage the struggle in demand of cancellation of south Korea-US joint military drill. Broad spectrum of south Korea people and the civil organization of all strata make a dynamic anti-US struggle for the cancellation of south Korea-US joint military drill and withdrawal of THAAD. March for peace in demand of cancellation of south Korea-US joint military drill  

  The National Promotion Committee for Cancellation of south Korea-US Joint Military Drill which was formed with participation of fifty civil organizations held a press conference outside the US embassy to proclaim the holding of candlelight rally.    The US has conducted frequent military drills in south Korea to take military supremacy and disturb peace of the Korean Peninsula, it said at the press conference. The Pentagon’s declaration of the military game sparks surging indignation of the south Koreans. Saying that we cannot dance to the US tune anymore, they declared action plan of candlelight resistance in demand of cancellation of south Korea-US joint military drill scheduled in August. Broad segments of people fully support the dynamic action of the organizations.   Stop the south Korea-US military drill!  

  Civil organizations including the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and the National Promotion Committee for Suspension of South Korea-US Joint Military Drill and Development of Inter-Korean Relations wage a various anti-US struggle through commentary, march for peace and anti-US meeting in demand of withdrawal of the US force in south Korea and cancellation of the south Korea-US joint military drill. The south Korea-US military game is not a matter of scale but nature. Germ warfare crimes of the US troops in south Korea is becoming more undisguised, they condemned. The US incites security unrest by blocking inter-Korean relations, they strongly demanded the US stop the south Korea-US military maneuver which is a preemptive strike against north Korea and withdrawal of the US troops in south Korea before talking about diplomacy and dialogue. Meanwhile, a civil organization held a seminar on  “ the dangerousness o...

  Ahead of Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan persists in the use of "the flag of rising sun shedding rays", symbol of imperialism, and marked Dok islet as territory of Japan in the map.      Japan is a thick-skinned nation. Japan is going to open Olympic Games in the face of world pandemic to make a stride to militarism by legalizing its dominium over Dok islet and justifying its past of aggression. In the process of preparations for the Olympic Games, Japan betrays once again the true colors of a state of war criminal.   It is modern-day militarism and Nazi criminal state of Asian version which is going to misuse Olympic to attain its sinister political goal. Japan should face up to the reality.    Today is not the 1940s when Japanese imperialists occupied the Asian continent, advocating “peace in the Orient”. If Japan, buoyed with ambition for seizure of territory and militarism, denies its crimes committed in the past, it would face great fury and curse fr...

  The specification of implementation of resolution on sanctions against the DPRK, the DPRK’s nuclear abandonment and issue of human rights in a joint statement issued at the G7 summit will be deterrent to pushing ahead the south Korean authorities’ policy toward north Korea, mass media and analysts commented.    The implementation of resolution on sanctions against the DPRK, the DPRK’s nuclear abandonment and issue of human rights are sensitive issues unacceptable to north Korea. The joint statement betrayed south Korea has no intention to carry out any policy toward north Korea, the mass outlets noted.    A the joint statement specified issues that would spark strong backlash of north Korea, the south Korean authorities’ policy toward north Korea went up in smoke and it is clear that it would end in fiasco, experts in north Korean affairs described. 

  The opposition People’s Power Party buckles down to carrying out a “change” and “reform”. The PPP, which nominated a man in his 30s as its head of the party, visited Gwangju and other places under the signboard of “coexistence” and “integration” to carry out the “reform”. However, it is a hackneyed political farce and flimsy way of thinking to butter up the people to win their favor. Whenever the election is at hand and it finds itself in a pretty fix, the conservative forces have been loud-mouthed about “change” and “reform”. Nothing has undergone a change in the end.    Quite contrary to their remarks, it goaded on “north Korea’s involvement in Gwangju popular uprising”.     It stands to reason that broad segments of south Koreans hurl mud on the PPP which remains unchanged. The quality of conservatives, seized with greed for power, remains untouched.   Its trick to attract the people is becoming cunninger.  

  On 3rd of July, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a large-scale national labor meeting in Seoul with the attendance of 8000 unionist. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is planning general strike with the participation of 1.1 million workers in Nov. The meeting was held as a part of advance preparations.  The south Korean authorities promised that it would change part-time job into full-time one and ensure jobs and safety of the workers but they did not keep any of it, they condemned. They demanded abrogation of part-time job, prevention of industrial disaster, raise of minimum wages and ensure trade union activities at the meeting.     National labor meeting   In demand of ensuring the right to live and freedom of trade union activities  

  Civil organizations including the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and the Progressive Solidarity held a meeting on the occasion of the 21 st  anniversary of publication of June 15 joint declaration. They inaugurated the August 15 Conference Committee for Promotion of Independence, Peace and Unification of the Korean Peninsula. They flailed the US for disturbing the implementation of inter-Korean declarations and straining situation of the Korean Peninsula. They demanded withdrawal of the US hostile policy toward north Korea, dismantlement of military nexus between south Korea, US and Japan and cancellation of joint military exercise. They urged the south Korean authorities to give up military alliance with outsiders but implement inter-Korean declarations.    They issued their action plan; they will demand cancellation of south Korea-US joint military game, stand opposed to revision of Japanese Constitution and military nexus bet...

  Of late, south Korean mass outlets and experts in north Korean affairs comment in their own way the source and background of the deadlocked DPRK-US ties. The DPRK makes no response to Washington’s request because the US administration’s hostile policy toward the DPRK remains unchanged, Washington’s policy sticks to strategic patience of the Obama administration, they analyzed.      Given that the US prefers showdown with the DPRK to dialogue, it is clear that the DPRK would not comply with the US request. The US has claimed it would not hold dialogue for only dialogue’s sake. The DPRK pointed out that option is not a monopoly of the US, they noted.

Twenty seven years have passed since President  Kim Il Sung  passed away. On the day, the Korean nation and world progressive mankind look back upon the President’s imperishable achievements with intense yearning for him.     His 80 odd year-long life is adorned with that of great person who led the 20th century as the victorious century of the anti-imperialist cause of independence and the socialist cause with his rare ideology, unique leadership and lofty personality.   He, who embarked on the road of revolution in his teens, elucidated the truth of Juche that independence is the lifeline of a nation and one should make revolution independently and creatively with one’s own faith. He roused the Korean nation to a war against Japan to take back the country from the Japanese imperialists.    He led the Fatherland Liberation War against the allied forces of imperialism broken out in the 1950s to victory, thus honorably defended the sovereignty and digni...

  Twenty seven years have elapsed since President  Kim Il Sung  left his last autographic sign on a document related to the national reunification. Greeting the day, the AINDF vanguard fighters and patriotic people across south Korea pray for immortality of President  Kim Il Sung  who had dedicated his indefatigable efforts to national independent reunification and happiness of the Korean people throughout his life and offer homage to him. His historic signature “ Kim Il Sung July 7, 1994 ” mirrors his noble patriotism, lifelong desire, unbounded devotion and imperishable achievements. From the very day of national division caused by the foreign forces, he had devoted his time and energy to hand down a reunified country to the Korean nation until the last moment of his life. He was the benevolent father of the nation and lodestar of national reunification who led the cause of national reunification to victory with his outstanding leadership. He advanced idea of ...

  South Korean people of different strata make a stubborn action against the US. A few days ago, the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration held a national reunification meeting to demand suspension of the US hostile policy towards north Korea and the south Korea–US joint military maneuver. The deterioration of inter-Korean ties is attributable to the obstructive moves of the US and the south Korean authorities’ pro-US sycophantic attitude, they denounced the south Korean authorities for making no progress in mending inter-Korean relations and being busy studying face of the US.  The civil organizations including the Pan National Alliance for Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Cooperation and Business Association of Kaeseong Industrial Park urged the south Korean authorities to promote independent policy towards north Korea, rejecting the outsiders’ interference in Korea’s unification. The Reunification Committee of South Gyeongsang Pro...