Some days ago, the organizations for peace against war and the residents at Soseong-ri in Seongju County carried out the 12th pan-national action for peace on the lapse of five years of deployment of THAAD in south Korea.   In denunciation of deployment of THAAD Introduction of THAAD and construction of its base are on the way under the protection of the police and president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol claims on normal operation of THAAD base and its additional deployment, they noted. The participants renewed their determination to launch an unrelenting campaign for withdrawal of THAAD, shouting slogans "For peace against THAAD", "Stop construction of the base", "Withdraw THAAD" and "Opposition to south Korea-US-Japan alliance".    

Misty Prospect   Some days ago, the People's Power Party and the Party for the People declared the merger of the two parties into one. It is not amazing. The merger of two parties is inevitable as the June 1 local election is at hand. There are shadows of dissension due to clash of interests of the two parties. There are signs of withdrawal from the Party for the People.   The relationship between Yoon Suk-yeol and Ahn Churl-soo is on the confines of explosion as Yoon nominated the candidates for minsters of new cabinet with those close to him. Ahn grumbled for Yoon's nomination. The road ahead of Yoon and Ahn is full of thorns. Trouble and friction between the two parties are unavoidable. It is apparent to all that the merger of two parties will be short-lived.    

  Informal decision for candidate for ministers of the Yoon Suk-yeol regime was concluded. The Yoon regime's sycophancy toward the US has been revealed. The pro-US elements were informally designated as the candidates for the Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs.   It is well known that the successive conservative regimes have advertised pro-Americanism and been consistent with submission to the US. In this respect, it is not surprising that the candidates for ministers of foreign and security affairs with pro-Americanism were nominated. The consequences to be entailed by it would be grave.   The pro-US sycophancy is the nature of those who were nominated as the candidates for ministers steeped in pro-Americanism and enmity toward compatriots to the marrow of their bones. It is as plain as a pikestaff that worn-out hostile policy toward north Korea would be repeated again in the Yoon regime. It is not accidental that the Korean Peninsula would be ...

Intense struggle against Yoon's policy   President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol breached his commitment of labor made during the days of the presidential race and is inclined to conglomerate. His stance triggers sharp backlash from the labor circle. The labor organizations including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions put the blame on the Yoon group supporting the business groups at the large-scale rallies and press conferences.   They demanded betterment of labor conditions, claiming Yoon's economic commitments are the policy for the business groups. The laborers are launching an unrelenting campaign carrying placards "right to labor without discrimination", "good labor conditions", "change of unequal system" and "regular jobs without part time jobs". The Yoon regime is deaf to the laborers' voices and intends to suppress the KCTU by branding its righteous struggle as an illegal one.                 ...

  The Yoon Suk-yeol' faction has divulged its pro-US and Japanese proclivities. Some days ago, the Yoon group met with the US special representative for north Korea who visited south Korea and reeled off a string of rubbish such as watertight bilateral cooperation and close understanding. Yoon had a luncheon with the US special representative for north Korea in camera and pledged himself to improve south Korea-US relations. As soon as he won the presidency, he talked his master over the telephone, paid visit to the US military base in Pyeongtaek and dispatched a delegation to the US to consult its future policy with the US. From the days of presidential candidate, Yoon is a pro-US man through and through and south Koreans are struck dumb by his submissive attitude toward the US. The US administration is contented with his attitude and pats Yoon on the head, while saying "great expectation" and "thick cooperation".   Pro-American and pro-Japanese proclivities are...

Laughable joint military rehearsal   Of late, the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier  Abraham Lincoln  made its way into international waters of the Korean Peninsula to carry out a joint military exercise with the maritime "Self-Defense Force" of Japan. The exercise was aimed at detection and interception of north Korean ballistic missiles. The brass hats of the south Korean military and commander of US armed forces in south Korea got on the aircraft carrier to exchange information of north Korea and had a confab to cope with contingency in the Korean Peninsula. The joint military game, timed to coincide with this, was another adventurous provocation against north Korea.   However, it is ludicrous act. The Korean People's Army has tremendous military muscle enough to deter any dangerous military provocation and it is ready to drive any attack of the enemy. It is strategic option and inflexible determination of north Korea to beef up powerful nuclear war deterrence b...

  Some days ago, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a large-scale meeting in denunciation of south Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's labor policy.   What Yoon has mentioned for a month was anachronistic and absurd. The upcoming five years should the era of laborers not Yoon, they said. If Yoon comes in touch with the business groups and capital, the KCTU would launch a dynamic action together with 25 million laborers, it noted. The Yoon regime should give up its policy for the business groups and against the laborers and the KCTU would wage a stubborn action to hammer out the extreme inequality, the KCTU pointed out in a resolution.    The meeting is a preview of sharp conflict between the Yoon government and laborers and the Yoon government would be troubled with it from the outset of its term, south Korean mass outlets commented.      

Square of Celebration (3)   Hopeful square promising bright tomorrow   In general, a square is called as the epitome of a nation and capital. We can tell the present and tomorrow of a nation through various kinds of events and socio-political activities held at the square.   Kim Il Sung  Square is the one of hope which instills into all Koreans the confidence in grandeur and brilliance of the DPRK and eternal national prosperity.      The sunny images of the President and the Chairman at the square wish the DPRK led by  Kim Jong Un  a rosy future. The torch of Tower of Juche Idea, the acme in the history of human thoughts, on the opposite side of the square tells that the ray of Juche provides a sure guarantee for everlasting prosperity of all generations and happy tomorrow. My heart throbs with national pride of being a member of the DPRK ushering in an era of our state-first principle when the flag of the DPRK is hoisted in tune with n...

  The south Korean military went insane. South Korean defense minister Seo Wook spouted a flurry of jargons about preemptive strike on north Korea at a reform ceremony of the strategic command of missile.    He is out of his mind to talk about the preemptive attack upon north Korea, a powerful nuclear weapons state. The military's bellicosity reaches to the extreme. The military has made frantic attempt to reorganize units to cope with "threat of north Korea" and conducted joint military exercises under various codenames. It has revised and supplemented operational scenarios against north Korea in conspiracy with the US and Japan.   It is an idle boast of the military for fear of north Korea's tremendous military strength. In addition, it is an open provocation of wrecking peace to drive the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the dangerous phase in cahoots with the foreign force. It is the height of the military's impudence to talk about peace and security with ...

  President  Kim Il Sung  is the eternal sun of Juche. With the birthday of the President, bright future of Korea is in store for the Korean nation.   We respectfully pay the highest tribute to the President who built a thriving country for the Korean nation.                                                                                   A member of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration   Reminiscence of President  Kim Il Sung , an encyclopedia of justice, truth and love for the country, comprehensively dealing with the sacr...

Square of victorious parade   A square representing a nation shows history of the nation. Some of them remain as vestiges of history and some of them are full of ups and downs. The squares of Korea recorded in national history were stained with the grief of stateless nation, bitter sacrifices and frustration. Thanks to the peerlessly great men, the DPRK dropped the curtain on bitter tragedy and has written a new page of the squares. Splendid march of victory was played at  Kim Il Sung  Square from the beginning. The columns of parade of the young DPRK passed the square shouting "Long live Marshal  Kim Il Sung !" at the top of their voices. The Korean People's Army made the US imperialists who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world and its vassal forces fell like the setting sun in the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, which could be called confrontation between rifle and A-bomb.   Since the first parade of war victory,  Kim Il Sung  Squ...

On the threshold of the Day of the Sun, Park Soo-churl, the representative of the AINDF Pyongyang Mission made public an article titled "Square of Celebration". The article will be introduced in serial form.     Square of Celebration (1)   There is  Kim Il Sung  Square in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The name of the square is the chief attraction in view of political importance and dignity and it has rocked the world with magnificent events. When I stand at the square, I feel proud of being a member of the nation blessed with illustrious leaders and I am sure of rosy future of the Korean nation.   Greeting the Day of the Sun, I am of a mind to speak of my excitement whenever I take part at the events held in the square.     Square brilliant with august name of great person   Every nation has its capital and squares. There are famous squares with long history and some of them are well known with its size...

  On April 9, the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration had a grand march for independence and peace to stop the south Korea-US joint military game.   In demand of discontinuance of joint military drill   Withdraw the joint military game   We denounce president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol for playing a leading role in backing the US pressure on north Korea. The US is the chieftain that is going to unleash a war on the Korean Peninsula, they censured. Inter-Korean ties and the future of the Korean Peninsula which the Yoon government is mapping out are gloomy. There are pro-US and Japanese elements and confrontation maniacs to the marrow of their bones around Yoon. The Korean nation who is desirous of independence, reunification and peace is our support. Let's march forward to build an independent, peaceful and reunified nation in the Korean Peninsula, they appealed.    

  South Korean Defense Minister Seo Wook's reckless rhetoric about "preemptive strike" on north Korea sparks off indignation of broad spectrum of south Korean people. He is out of his sense as he dares to say south Korea would mount a preemptive attack against north Korea which is possessed of powerful nuclear muscle. I wonder whether he has elementary conception about nuclear weapons and nuclear war or not. The horrible history of fratricidal war should not be repeated in the Korean Peninsula. This is the stand of north Korea. To be frank, north Korea leaves south Korea out of account as south Korea, a mere cannon fodder of the US, has no wartime operation control. North Korea strengthens its war deterrence to avert a war and defends its national sovereignty. The south Koreans are under uneasiness and fear and peace is not settled in the Korean Peninsula owing to the south Korean confrontation maniacs' excessive sense of crisis and persecution complex under the signb...

In demand of thoroughgoing investigation   Some days ago, a public meeting was held in demand of strict investigation into ferry Sewol disaster, punishment on those who are responsible for it and building up of a safe society in Seoul to mark the 8th year of sinkage of the ferry.     South Koreans demand thoroughgoing investigation. They had a march with yellow ribbons from Chongro to the Seoul municipal office. They strongly demanded admission of violence, sincere apology, strict investigation, punishment on those who are responsible for it and building of a safe society where victims are protected after sinking of ferry Sewol disaster.

Flower and Butterfly   One summer day in 1970, during his on-the-spot guidance tour, Chairman  Kim Jong Il  stayed at a lake for a short time. Observing for a good while the scenery of the lakeside where various beautiful flowers were in bloom, he told accompanying officials that if they looked carefully at the movement of bees and butterflies, they could easily tell which flower was fragrant, and that such a logic works just in human life as well. He went on to say that as a flower with fragrance attracts bees and butterflies warm-hearted Party officials alone can be friendly. The fragrance of a Party official just means humanity and human feelings, he noted. Listening attentively to him, the officials realized anew the logic of life and that of Party work through the single natural phenomenon. Looking round them, the leader said: Bees and butterflies come to fragrant flowers because the flowers have nectar which is the main sustenance of their life. The flowers give off...

Manure and Fruit   One May day in 1973 Chairman  Kim Jong Il  had a talk with some officials. He told the officials: What is most important for Party officials in acquiring a correct method of work and the art of leadership is to have the spirit of serving the people and the spirit of self-sacrifice. They should obediently devote their all to the revolution. He went on to say that Party officials' efforts were not well noticed by people because their efforts were like underground manure helping crops grow. He added: Party officials should not intend to show their faces in doing anything but go deep among the masses mixing themselves with the latter and substantially backing and actively encouraging administrative and economic officials in their work so as to achieve a success. His words constituted a valuable guideline awakening Party officials to the motto of their work and life.    

             South Korean workers launch a dynamic struggle for their right to live and labor liberation. Following pictures show their struggle.     Struggle against the People's Power Party insulting the disabled   Struggle for the right to labor and higher wages   Struggle for the guarantee for right to labor in transport service   Workers urge the south Korean authorities to ensure fair right to labor    

              South Korean people from all social standings and civic organizations wage a vigorous action for peace and against war including the aggressive south Korea-US joint military maneuver aggravating the situation of the Korean Peninsula. These are pictures showing the struggle of the south Korean people.   South Korea is not a war base for the US. The above photo shows the activities of organization for independence and peace against deployment of war hardware and military bases.   Students carrying placards against south Korea-US joint military drill     A press conference for peace and discontinuance of joint military maneuver   Stop joint military exercise wrecking peace of the Korean Peninsula    

                These are pictures showing broad spectrum of the south Korean people's action against the south Korea-US joint military exercise.   Stop preemptive strike on north Korea! Stop joint military maneuver!     Stop building up war base for the US in the Korean Peninsula!     In condemnation of south Korea-US joint military game!       In demand of discontinuance of joint military drill inviting war in the Korean Peninsula    

Anti-war struggle for peace   The US and the south Korean military are hell bent on the joint military drill against the north. Of late, the Progressive Federation of University Students of South Korea held a press conference in demand of discontinuance of the US-south Korea joint military game and ardently appealed to prevent war and keep peace before the building of the US embassy in Seoul. Meanwhile, the National People's Action had a peace meeting for independence demanding permanent discontinuance of the US-south Korea joint military drill in Seoul. Preemptive strike cannot but produce an all-out war, the conservatives and Yun Seok-yol have been talking nonsense as "preemptive strike" because of their reliance on security and the interest of the US, censuring him reeling off "preemptive strike", the participants disclosed. They made a resolution to turn out in the struggle against the joint military game, saying that the military exercise is conducted for w...

  The progressive organizations stage activities to rouse broad spectrum of the people to anti-Yun-Seok-yol struggle. The Korean Confederation of the Trade Union held a meeting in Seoul the other day and strongly denounced Yun and his party showing his pro-plutocratic character and his attempt to put pressure upon workers. Yun had said something like "strictly punish the KCTU enjoying an extraterritorial privilege" and "thoroughly investigate the unlawful rally and take legal action". Saying that the  5 years by Yun will become hellish, under the uplifted slogans of "guarantee of the equal right to work", "guarantee of stable employment" and "guarantee of regular occupation", the KCTU made a decision to open a laborer meeting for succession of Cheju popular uprising spirit, a rally for acquirement of the right to work, a Korean workers' meeting for resistance to the repeal of "the law to punish enterprise which caused grave dis...

  Lately, Japan deleted and amended the expressions which described labor conscription forced by it and comfort women for Japanese imperial army in the textbooks which will be used at high schools next year. Japan openly revealed its black attempts to teach students that colonial domination over Korea was legal. It shows that Japan has self-justified and imperialist nature, civil organizations in south Korea sharply criticized Japan's moves of distorting historical facts. The political circles including the Democratic Party and the Justice Party demanded Japanese authorities to apologize and correct its past deed, expressing their strong regrets at Japan's stance

  Of late, the People's Action held a meeting for independence and peace in demand of discontinuance of the south Korea-US joint military game in Seoul. The preemptive strike will surely turn into an all-out war. The conservative group and president-elect Yun Seok-yol's rubbish talk of preemptive strike which is unconcerned with the south Koreans is for their interests and profits of the US, the participants stressed. The military exercise is aimed at a war. A shot of gun would lead to loss of human lives in the Korean Peninsula and northeast Asia called a powder keg. To stop the south Korea-US joint military exercise is to keep the existence of the people's lives, they noted. Opposition to preemptive strike on north Korea and military drill