WORLD´S IDEOLOGICAL AND GEOPOLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS CULMINATE AT KOREAN PENINSULA.
DPRK HAS PROPOSED FOR A FEDERATION IN KOREAN PENINSULA. THE OBSTACLE IS US MILITARY PRESENCE IN SOUTH KOREA.
OFFICIAL NORTH KOREAN VISIT TO RUSSIA AND CHINESE PRESIDENT´S VISIT TO DPRK CHANGED POWER STABILITY OF THE WORLD.
COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DPRK AND CHINA IN OCTOBER 2005 STRENGHTENED GEOPOLITICAL STABILITY IN NORTHEAST ASIA.
THE SIX-PARTY TALKS CONTINUED IN 2008, A BREAK IN 2009.
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General features. Contemporary history in nutshell.
Korean peninsula was divided after the Korean War in the early fifties. The imperialist forces with the arms of USA fighted under the flag of United Nations. In this war imperialist powers were defeated. However, the country was splitted. Two states were established, socialist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. The ideological contradiction between these countries still continues in spite of workers´ co-operation in both Koreas.
During the war the US with its allies committed serious war crimes. These crimes have come to daylight first in June 2001 in New York in the session of the Ttruth Commission Tribunal.
Listening intently to the evidence were over two dozen jurists from 17 countries. Twelve of these countries participated in the 1950-1953 war against Korea. After four sessions of deliberating over the testimony, this jury unanimously found the U.S. government and military guilty of 19 counts of war crimes committed against Korea from 1945 until 2001. See link in the end of this page.
Korean people on both sides would rather have only one state. The state of north Korea, North-Korean Workers´ Party of Korea, south Korean citizens´ movement National Democratic Front of south Korea and the Trade Unions of South Korea support the reunification. USA and their puppet regime in South Korea are the only obstacle in forming united Korea.
There is a heavily constructed military borderline between the Koreas. It has been built by Americans and south Koreans.
No peace agreement has been made after the Korean war.
The war continues in form of propaganda. North Korea appears as the first anti-imperialist force in the world. There is clear logicism in this idea. North Korea is a strong country and her political ideology is crucially based on anti-imperialism.
USA has blaimed north Korea for hiding some kind of superarms. North Korea produces and sells ordinary weapons in order to support its food supply. Other countries buy these weapons. The arms trade is nowadays a normal procedure. Also other countries have arms, especially NATO. NATO has also the most horrible mass destruction weapons. Accusations about superarms have been heard elsewhere and they sound amusing... It is more serious that imperialism uses commercial coercions against north Korea and searches for excuses to begin violence.
The DPRK has a strong people´s army. The army works mainly for welfare of civilians. The meaning of the army and purpose for investments to the army have got in the bourgeois media a completely distorted form.
North Korea excavates tunnels and builds other underground constructions. In the end of 1998 USA suspected on this basis the DPRK for dangerous military plans like it has done when Libya builds her water maintenance system. In January 1999 USA demanded for arms control in the underground srturctures. In March 1999 north Korea accepted the inspections because they have nothing to hide.
Nothing interesting was found. Yet the DPRK had already earlier promised to stop starting of their graphite-moderated nuclear plants in order to express goodwill. USA promised in an official agreement of 1994 to deliver oil or to build light water plants for DPRK. The promises were nothing but a fraud. Even the International Atomic Energy Agency is involved in this fraud.
Because of several successive bad years in the nineties and floods North Korea has had an emergency. A lot of people were starving. Exceptional weather conditions and bad productivity of soil may have been crucially caused artificially by enemies of North Korea. According to the big noise by the western media the poor productivity of agriculture is caused by socialism. Media does not pay attention on weather conditions or the criminal embargo manipulated by USA.
People of north Korea work efficiently for the agriculture. This efficiency has been noted also by the UN officials. People from towns and cities go regularly to countryside to work on fields for harvests.
The international relief fund systems are controlled by capitalism. Of course, they have not been interested in the emergency in this particular case. Both north and south Koreas have suffered because of weather conditions. South Korea gets the external aid automatically, north Korea not a all. In the eighties there was a correpongind emergency caused by floods in south Korea. North lent their hand immediately and unselfishly.
In case of any kind of help to north from governmental levels there have been efforts to connect it to political terms. Additionally, where were the declarations of the so called human right organizations in this situation?
Democratic People´s Republic of Korea has oil wells. Already for several years the country has offered oil resources to be used for the need of the world. No results so far. Capitalists would let people die sooner than have commercial relations with a socialist country.
The DPRK is a developed and industrialized socialist community with high standard of social knowledge and education.
The Korean socialism is based on the Juche ideology. Jucheism does not in every respect follow the traditional dialectical materialism. In the Marx´s Feuerbach-Hegel synthesis Juche shifts a bit towards Hegel. The traditional Marxim -Leninism may have turned a bit towards Feuerbach. The social psychological aspect is in Juche especially important. The Party officials in north Korea have strict rules not to set themselves above people. They must work among people, with them and at the same level, with help and advice if necessary.
General secretary Kim Jong Il´s Army-first (Songun) -politics has made the country especially strong. Readiness for defence is on the anti-imperialist ideological basis and on military high-tech extremely high. At the same time soldiers work on farms and on different civil jobs and projects. The Army-first -politics has been succesful. It is not only a question of defense but of all the socialist building work. On the other hand, strong north Korean army has so far guaranteed peace at the Korean peninsula. Recently the Army First -politics has got a new and more comprehensive name: Songun Idea.
Democratic People´s Republic of Korea celebrated its 50years anniversary in August 1998 by launching a satellite. Parts of the carrier rocket dropped into sea without danger as it is planned to happen in this type of an operation. The western media began to fabricate propaganda about a missile test. Would the DPRK really test a missile towards Japan? An absurd idea.
In spring 2001 north Korean agriculture was damaged by draught. In summer 2001 there were floods in the northen part of the country. Foreign embassy staffs in Pyongyang have worked at several Korean farms and they have also given material aid. In 2003 the views of agriculture are better.
A new species of willow of high economic value is now being widely bred in different parts of the DPRK. Traditonal farms have been added with big ostrich farming and new goat cattles.
In January 2002 Norway informed that it will help to develop hydroelectric power in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
In August 2002 the construction of Kumjingang Dam and Kumjingang Youth Power Station no. 6 was completed. In May - June 2003 several new power plants began to produce electiricity. In July 2003 a big hydro-power station was completed in Oranchon.
In 2002 - 2004 there are plans to make some amendments in the internal economic system of the DPRK. These changes do not mean any kind of shifting to market economy, not to mention capitalism.
In September 2002 DPRK has designated Sinuiju, on the border with China, a Special Administrative District having its own independent administration, legislation and justice systems. This special area does not have anything to do with the north Korean political system. The Sinuiju project is targeted to advance DPRK´s western currency balance for foreign trade.
At the same time these type of arrangements - not new in north Korea - will strenghten security and stability in northeast Asia.
A similiar special administative region is in the end of 2002 coming true in Gaesong, especially for south Korean industrial enterprises. In November 2002 The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK promulgated a decree on setting up Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone.
In October 2002 the DPRK admitted that it has enriched uranium. Of course, because the DPRK was in the nineties about to start their own nuclear plants. The DPRK had stored the enriched nuclear fuel according to the IAEA norms as agreed in the agreement of 1994. No sensation.
The western media lifted up a story of "north Korean nuclear weapons" in October 2002. Yet the DPRK officials never admitted that kind of a program to exist. The "sources" are nothing but American assumptions. On the other hand, the U.S. has betrayed the framework agreement of 1994.
Quite obviously the U.S. has never removed their nuke warheads in south Korea.
In October 2002 the DPRK was obliged to withdraw form the 1994 framework agreement and to begin plans for switching on their own nuclear plants.
In October 2002 The U.S. began to fabricate pretexts for attack on north Korea with an false issue of "the DPRK nuke program". The key word seems to be "enriching uranium". The DPRK has to make plans for starting their own graphite-moderated power plants and for that purpose it is necessary to enrich uranium more than there is stored.
For their own propagandist purposes the US and the western media have created a lie: "North Korea has addmitted existence of their nuclear arms program". On October 17th, 2002, according to a south Korean newspaper, north Korea had emphasized that it has not violated the agreement of 1994.
The "evidence" for DPRK nukes consists of faked satellite photos. Almost all the heavy military equipment of the DPRK is deep in mountains. The Koreans hardly would keep them in sight for satellites.
The DPRK is ready to discuss about her nuclear weapons program, but all the issue concerns time before 1994 and future.
In 2003 relations between the DPRK and the U.S. may be worse than for ever. The DPRK has obviously no other choice than to get ready for war.
In the official stament in October 2002 the DPRK made itself very clear to the special envoy of the U.S. President that the DPRK was entitled to possess not only nuclear weapon but any type of weapon more powerful than that so as to defend its sovereignty and security. This sentence did not mean that the DPRK has an ongoing nuke program.
The DPRK has all the time been ready for honest talks with the U.S.
The DPRK-Russia joint work started on December 3th, 2002 to survey railway structures between Wonsan and Mt. Kumgang according to a note of understanding concerning reconstruction and modernization of the east coastal railways of Korea signed between the DPRK Ministry of Railways and the Russian Ministry of Railway Transport.
In December 2002 the DPRK decided to start the operation of its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon to generate electricity as a result of the prevailing situation. Assembling the erlier stored fuel rods began immediately. The reactors began to run in February 2003.
The years 2003/2005 mean north Koreans optimistic views when building internal structures and working for the reunification. However, there is a shadow of fear of American threat. However, that threat is opposed in addition to DPRK and its military forces, also by crucial part of south Korean governmetal quarters and by the overwhelming majority of south Korean people. South Korean present and future presidents have with strong words condemned US pressure on north Korea.
Leaders of North and South want peace. However, they know that an appropriate discussion contact between the DPRK and the USA is the crucial key for stability and peace.
According to military experts a nuke attack on north Korea would automatically cause total destruction of US nuke missile bases on south Korean soil, disaster in south Korea and a catastroph widely in northeast Asia.
In January 2003 China and Russia recommended the US to give security guarantees to the DPRK.
All international control systems have demanded north Korea to stop developing the necessary own energy production. At the same the US resolutions intend also to deny energy import. This situation is absurd.
In January 2003 DPRK withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This act may be seen as an honest answer to the "international community", who allows nukes for the U.S. in practice to all other countries except north Korea. The DPRK has no intention to produce nukes but it has appropriate technical readiness for this purpose.
At first the DPRK rejected the idea of negotiating its nuclear problem in a new Five-plus-Five format. Face-to-face negotiations between the United States and the DPRK on an equal basis is the fairest way to resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean Central News Agency reported on January 29th, 2003.
In order to protect its loaded and running reactor the DPRK was obliged to issue right for first-strike attack in case guarantees for peace are not confirmed.
Direct dialogue between the parties concerned is the only effective solution to the nuclear issue of the DPRK, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman reiterated in Beijing on February 13th, 2003, saying the UN Security Council should not get involved in seeking a solution to the DPRK nuclear issue at the current stage.
The US has said not to use violence against the DPRK. However, the north Korean intelligence services have revealed ready plans for US nuke attack.
The U.S. is busy forward-deploying long-range fighter bombers to mount preemptive attacks on the DPRK. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense on March 4th, 2003 said that 24 fighter bombers were moved to Guam Island.
In March 2003 the DPRK was obliged to begin military maneuvers because of the sharpening confrontation with the US. However, these maneuvers are very small compared with the joined US-South Korean military activities at the same time.
April 5th, 2003. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea told that it will not accept any resolution the United Nations Security Council might adopt on its nuclear issue.The DPRK has among many other countries lost its confidence on the UN because of the Iraqi war.
The DPRK has all the time demanded for mutual talks with the US. However, the DPRK wants security guarantees, which may be provided by Russia and China. US position in world´s politics has weakened because of the unlegal war on Iraq. The talks were held on April 23rd, 2003 in Beijing.
According to US officials the DPRK admitted existence of their nuke program. They lied.
The US propaganda tries to create an idea of the DPRK being a nuke attack threat. This is an absolutely absurd idea. North Korea would never hurt its Chinese, Russian or south Korean friends and, in fact, not any other country. The DPRK has always been a victim of attacks, never an aggressor.
In 2003 it seems apparent that strong north Korean politics is going to win the American agressions. The nuclear problems will quite obvioulsy be solved peacefully. This result has been all the time the goal of the DPRK and all Korean people.
In 2003 both Russia and China repeated their strong opposition against U.S. military aims at Korean peninsula.
In connection of Chinese president Hu Juntao´s visit to Russia in the end of May 2003 it became clear that China and Russia demand for securing energy maintenance of the DPRK and nuke-free Korean peninsula. Violent attempts to solve the problems were strictly ruled out.
A US congressional delegation visited Pyongyang in the turn of May-June 2003. After their return they claimed that the DPRK had admitted the existence of a nuke program. A lie again.
The heads of South Korea and Japan agreed in their meeting in June 2003 not to accept any kind of violent activities against the DPRK.
The U.S. speaks of "sanctions" against the DPRK. Yet the U.S. cannot carry out any more remarkable activities against north Korea without support by China and Russia. The geopolitical situation of China and Russia related to Korea on the other hand and to USA in the other hand is in sharp contradiction with co-operation with the U.S. Just on the contrary. Because of their own interests China and Russia must be in this quarrel on DPRK´s side.
Kim Jong Il met on July 14th, 2003 Dai Bingguo, the visiting Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister, who is also a special envoy of the Chinese government. The talks ended to positive views on solving peacefully the nuclear problem at Korean peninsula. The necessary security guarantees seemed possible.
The U.S. efforts to stifle the DPRK economically fail, especially because China and Russia do not support those arrogant aims. In July 2003 the government of China decided to donate 10,000 tons of diesel oil to the DPRK. At the same time the government of Russia promised to supply food stuffs.
In July 2003 the U.S. publiced its plan 5030 for attack on the DPRK. This is no news. USA has made that kind of plans continuously since 1953.
In July 2003 the DPRK celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ceasefire agreement, victory and ending of the Korean war.
In the beginning of August 2003 Pyongyang told South Korea that it accepts multilateral talks to solve the nuclear issue.
Quite obviously the DPRK had got the necessary unofficial security guarantees from China and Russia. However, the DRPK will not accept any kind of a UN fraud like in the Korean war.
A high-level military delegation from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) visited the DPRK in August 2003 as guests of Jo Myongrok, first deputy chairman of the DPRK Defense Commission and director-general of the Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army. The delegation had talks also with Kim Jong Il.
The six-party talks (DPRK, ROK, Russia, China, Japan and USA) on the DPRK's nuclear issue took place in Beijing August 27th - 29th , 2003.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea told on August 28th, 2003 that it is interested in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and does not intend to own nuclear weapons. This statement refers to existence of U.S. nukes in South Korea. According to USA these geopolitically significant multi-edge warheads have been removed but there is no evidence.
In spite of unchanged sharp official stances of both DPRK and USA obviously some progress took place in talks on August 29th, 2003. According to Chinese FM ´s private words the DPRK promised to give up the presumed nuke plans. Accordingly, the U.S. told that it will not use military power against the DPRK. Also south Korean sources referred to the progressive features. However, officially the DPRK blaimed USA for unconcerned stance on the talks. After all, at least on official level the dangerous rethorics remained. Yet, on the background there may have been some positive processes... The DPRK was ready for further discussions with USA but considered multilateral talks useless.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is interested in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and does not intend to own nuclear weapons, sources quoted Head of Russian Delegation Alexander Losiukov as saying in Beijing on August 28th, 2003.
The DPRK emphasizes that the nuclear problem at Korean peninsula has been caused by the U.S. alone. The DPRK entitles itself right for nuke deterrent because there is no alternative for defensing the country. The DPRK Supreme People´s Assembly confirmed this principle on September 3rd, 2003.
In September 2003 new cabinet was formed in the DPRK. Kim Jong Il continues as chairman of the National Defence Committee.
The 55th anniversary of the DPRK was spent on September 9th, 2003. China, Russia, Vietnam, Laos and several other countries sent their congratulary messages to Kim Jong Il.
In September 2003 the International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution, urging North Korea to "completely dismantle" its nuclear arms efforts. China said the latest resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on the North Korean nuclear issue is "imbalanced" and does not address North Korea's security concerns.
In the 58th U.N. General Assembly in September 2003 stances of Russia and USA on Korean issue were in sharp contradiction with each other. Russia insists for extended security guarantees for the DPRK - including the U.S. USA definetly denied these guarantees.
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on October 2nd, 2003 as regards a rumor afloat in the international arena that the nuclear facility in Nyongbyon stopped its operation and the six-way talks on the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. will resume in October or November. Dismissing this as totally groundless, he continued: "As we have already declared, the DPRK resumed nuclear activities for a peaceful purpose, i.e. it fired up the 5 MW nuclear reactor in Nyongbyon and is now stepping up the preparations for the construction of a graphite-moderated reactor. As part of it, the DPRK successfully finished the reprocessing of some 8,000 spent fuel rods."
President Bush said on October 19th, 2003 for the first time that the United States, China and other nations may try to defuse a crisis with North Korea by offering Pyongyang written security assurances in exchange for a commitment to "scrap its nuclear weapons program".
The DPRK was ready to consider US President George W. Bush's recent remarks on offering some written security assurance to the DPRK to solve the nuclear issue, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said on October 25th. 2003. Yet the heavy military readiness on both sides should be dismantled simultaneously.
In October 2003 the DPRK UN delegate demanded reform of the UN Security Council. At this very moment the Security Council is not able to guarantee security for any country.
On October 30th, 2003 Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, received the Chinese state delegation led by Wu Bangguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.
China and the DPRK agreed in Pyongyang in principle to continue the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue.
The DPRK participated World Summit on the Information Society on Dec. 11th, 2003 in Geneva. The DPRK delegates joined the Cuban angle of view. An information society, an intellectual society for all can be built only when all the people can fully benefit from the information and communication technology and take an active, independent and creative part in all the fabrics of social life with high intellectual faculties.
The customs regulations of the Kaesong Industrial Zone were adopted according to a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The decision dated December 11, 2003 consists of five chapters and 43 articles.
December 29th, 2003. Arrangements for the next round of the six-way talks should be oriented towards making "words-for-words" commitments and reaching an agreement on actions to be taken at the first phase, said a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in an answer given to a question put by KCNA as regards the recent DPRK visit of the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of China.
In January 2004 an U.S. delegation visited Yongbon nuclear plant. However, no news from the talks front. The DPRK insists simulteneous giving up of weapons with USA like it was in August 2003. Additionally, Japanese PM´s visit to the monument of Japanese fascists in Yasukuni made North Korean, South Korean and Chinese participants angry just before the new turn of the talks.
According to South Korean sources on January 17th, 2004 the U.S. will draw its military from Soul up to 2006.
The newest round of the six-way talks was in Beijing on February 25 - 28 2004. These talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue ended with the six sides reaching consensus on setting up a working group and on the next round of talks.
In spring 2004 the U.S. persistently increases tension in Korea. The U.S. forces in south Korea have started Foal Eagle joint military maneuvers and Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration exercises with south Korean troops in defiance of strong protest of the Korean people and other people across the world. The rehearsals are, both in name and in reality, extremely adventurous and dangerous war exercises aimed at launching a forestalling attack on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Kim Jong Il paid an unofficial visit to China from April 19 to 21, 2004 at the invitation of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of China. The high level talks focused for further developing of mutual co-operation on all fields of life.
The working group of the participants of the six-way talks for the Korean nuclear problem met in Beijing in May 2004. No results. However, yet nobody expected any progress at this stage.
May 2004. The Japanese Prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the DPRK. The official Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary, "The meeting and talks proceeded in a sincere and candid atmosphere." "The meeting and talks between the top leaders of the DPRK and Japan mark an important and historic event in improving confidence,improving the relations between the two countries and promoting peace and stability in Asia and the rest of the world," said the commentary.
In May-June 2004 USA reduced the amount of troops in South Korea. However, at the same time the U.S. increased air carriers and other types of heavy weaponary in northeast Asia.
On June 14th, 2004 the DPRK reiterated that it is necessary to settle issues with the United States through a one-to-one agreement under the principle of simultaneous actions.
In the end of June 2004 the second working group meeting for the third round of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear was held in Beijing. The process continues.
July 2nd, 2004. Jakarta. US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korean Paek Nam Sun discussed the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula during a 20-minute meeting.
On July 24th, 2004 the U.S. made a childish proposal to the DPRK by promising "food aid if the DPRK gives up nuke program". Yet there is no confirmation of the existence of such an arms program. Secondly there is no hunger in the DPRK. The DPRK rejected that idiotism right away.
In August 2004 the DPRK expressed that "discussions" with the contemporary U.S. regime are impossible and useless.
In the end of September 2004 the DPRK announced that it had produced certain amount of plutonium. Plutonium can be used when building a fusion bomb. It is a question of an obligatory deterrent because of continuing threatenings by the U.S.
October 18th - 20th, 2004 A delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea led by Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly , paid an official goodwill visit to the People's Republic of China at an invitation of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the State Council of the PRC on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of DPRK-China diplomatic relations. Kim Yong Nam was accompanied by members of the delegation Ri Ju O, minister of Light Industry, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Yong Jae, vice-minister of Foreign Trade, and the suite.
In November 2004 the excutive director of Korean Energy Developement Organization visited Pyongyang.
UN/FAO report confirmed in December 2004 that the harvest in the DPRK in 2004 was the best for past years. According to the FAO there are still problems because of lack of energy and spare parts for tractors.
In January 2005 the DPRK sent 150 000 dollars to victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. The amount of money was not very big if compared with all international help but it was a real sacrifice related to the foreign currency funds of the DPRK.
January 2005. The U.S. Congress delegation led by Vice-Chairman of the Armed Services Committee of its House of Representatives Curt Weldon visited the DPRK.
February 2005. The people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have made a great success in socialist economic construction in the first month of the year. Pronounced is the success registered in the agricultural sector, the main front of the socialist economic construction in 2005.
February 10th, 2005. Accusing the United States of seeking to topple its political system and threatening it with a nuclear stick, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said it is suspending its participation in the six-party talks on the nuclear issue for an "indefinite period". In this connection the DPRK was forced to strenghten its nuke deterrent. The DPRK proposed for direct talks with the U.S. USA did not accept that proposal.
February 19th, 2005. The DPRK's deputy representative to the United Nations Han Song Ryol called on the United States to promise peaceful coexistence and noninterference in his country's internal affairs as a precondition for returning to the negotiating table.
April 11th, 2005. The session of People´s supreme assembly noted that the budget of the year 2004 was successfully completed in spite of increased military expences caused by the U.S. threat. The increased expences were covered by additonal revenues given by state companies and cooperatives.
June 2005. Nuclear Threat to DPRK Must Be Removed First: Rodong Sinmun.
The United States is now making a mockery of the international community, letting loose a string of balderdash that the DPRK's abandonment of its nuclear program is immediately the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and it would get rid of international isolation and gain economic benefits, if it returns to the six-party talks and drops its nuclear program. A Rodong Sinmun analyst Tuesday says that this cannot be construed otherwise than a sinister attempt to worsen the situation by confusing the nature of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and the way of its solution. If the whole of the peninsula is to be nuclear-free, the nuclear threat of the U.S. must be removed before anything else and confidence be built between the DPRK and the countries concerned, the analyst notes, and continues:
To this end, the United States should, first of all, give up its hostile policy to bring down the system in the DPRK through a nuclear war and withdraw all its nuclear weapons from south Korea. The withdrawal of the U.S. nuclear weapons must be confirmed, under all circumstances, through verification. Any nuclear pullout without it is meaningless.
The nuclear weapons possessed by the DPRK are deterrent to defend the sovereignty and security of the country from the U.S. preemptive nuclear attack. They will automatically become unnecessary, if the nuclear threat of the U.S. fundamentally disappears from the peninsula. The six-party talks should be a place seeking a package mode for fairly realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula on this principle.
The U.S. claim that if the DPRK came to the six-party talks and showed its will to drop its nuclear program and fulfilled this, it would get a lot of benefits is a wrong logic denying the nature of the six-party talks and the basic way of solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
The days are gone when the give-and-take way of solution was discussed at the six-party talks. Now that the DPRK has access to the nuclear weapons, the talks should become a place of disarmament talks for the participating countries to settle the issue on equal stand and status.
The U.S. should have a correct understanding of the six-party talks and not try to use the venue of the talks as a leverage to attain its sinister aim by putting the DPRK in the dock as a "nuclear criminal."
The U.S. should correct the wrong view of the nature of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and its peace and security and do what it should do, such as renunciation of its design to topple the system of the DPRK and withdrawal of its nuclear threat to the latter.
July 9th, 2005. Vice Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korean Kim Kye-gwan and US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, who are heads of their countries' delegations to the six-party talks, agreed to open the fourth round of the six-party talks in late July, 2005.
July 26th, 2005. The six-way talks in Beijing began again. There was a glimpse of hope in the air this time, because the U.S. had changed its attitude to be a bit more realistic. However, the talks failed again and they ended on August 7th, 2005.
September 2005. The six parties to the Korean Peninsula nuclear talks adopted a joint statement, in which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea promised to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs. According to commitments in this connection the DPRK will get the necessary energy compensation at this stage in form of oil and transfer of electricity from South Korea, according to the joint statement later also new type of nuclear technology.
October 2005. The 60th anniversary of Workers´ Party of Korea was celebrated with high profile. A lot of state-level foreign guests. Especially China highlighted this occasion.
October 2005. Democratic People´s Republic of Korea and Peoples´ Republic of China inked a historical document on close mutual economic cooperation.
The six-way talks began once again in Beijing on November 9th, 2005. The talks conluded on November 11th without practical results. However, the process will be continued.
July 2006. The DPRK carried out missile tests conducting carefully international legislation. As an independent country the DPRK has right to missiles and satellites.
October 2006. The DPRK made a nuke test. This act was necessary in order to have really working nuclear deterrent. After the joint declaration issued by the Beijing six-party talks in September 2005 the U.S. has done everything possible to break the meaning of that declaration. Hence threat against the DPRK was imminent.
November 2006. Pyongyang warned Soeul not to admit with the U.S. provocatory orders conerning sanctions against the DPRK. The sanctions set by the UNSC against DPRK did not have great significance because they were restricted and did not concern any important North Korean trade articles. China and South Korea ignored control of those sanctions.
November 2006. The DPRK promised to return to the six-party talks.
November 2006. Pyongyang accused the U.S. for deploying nukes in South Korea.
December 2006. The six-party talks were held in Beijing. No essential progress. However, mutual talks between DPRK and USA and DPRK and South Korea may promise something in future.
February 2007. At least a preliminary agreement was reached in the six-party negotiations in Beijing. The DPRK will dismantle its nuclear faciltities and it will get the demanded amount of energy from other parties. A very important step forward was that the DPRK and the U.S. will have bilateral talks for full diplomatic ties.
March 2007. The six-way negotiations and the bilateral talks between the DPRK and the U.S. continued but they were terminated for handling of technical-type issues.
April 2007. The DPRK tied the closing and inspection of its Yongbyon reactor to clearing 25 million dollars the US Treasury froze September 2005 at Delta Asia Bank of Macao.
May 2007. The first Inter-Korean railway test-runs were completed.´
June 2007. The by the U.S. inlegally frozen Northkorean funds in Delta Asia Bank were released.The DPRK invited IAEA technical delegation to inspect DPRK nuclear facilities.
July 2007. The Yongbon reactor was shut down.
July 2007. A new round of the six-way talks in Beijing were held without substantial results. The north Korean negotiator asked the U.S. to fulfil its commitment of 1994 to deliver a light water power plant to the DPRK.
August 2007. Torrential rains and floods caused serious damages in the DPRK.
September 2007. A remarkable step forward was reached in the DPRK-US bilateral talks in Geneve. The hostilies for 50 years seemed to be possible to be overcome.
September 2007. The DPRK and Japan had talks in Ulan Bator in order to improve bilateral relations.
September 2007. The 59th anniversary of the DPRK was feted. Especially China and Russia paid attention on this anniversary.
October 2007. Meeting of DPRK leader Kim Jong Il and ROK president Roh Moo-hyun in Pyongyang was an important milestone on the way to promote peace in Korea and also for pushing forward the reunification process. Joint declaration was signed.
October 2007. The joint communique of the six-party negotiators in Beijing was a promising step forward in order to maintain peace in northeast Asia. The DPRK dismantles its nuclear facilities and gets in return energy and economic aid.
November 2007. The inter-Korean Prime Minister meeting in Seoul was a success. Both reunification and peace process advanced.
February 2008. The famous New York Symphony Orchestra gave peformance in Pyongyang.
June 2008. The U.S. promised to remove the DPRK from the list of "terrorist sponsors" and lifted economic sanctions, but failed to keep that promise.
September 2008. The DPRK feted its 60th anniversary.
October 2008. The United States removed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from terrorism blacklist.
March 2009. The U.S. and Republic of Korea held the most massive military maneuvers at Korean peninsula.
April 5th, 2009. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched communications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket at local time 11:30 (02:30 GMT).
April 2009. Because of the frantic attitudes by West and Japan towards the legal launching of the carrier rocket the DPRK withdraw from the six-party negotiations, asked the IAEA persons to leave the country and said it would begin again building of nuclear energy.
May 2009. The DPRK conducted successful nuclear test.
May 2009. The U.S. -promoted "PSI" -agreement caused danger of war at Korean peninsula. DPRK vessels were threatend, corresponondingly the DPRK gave up the truce of 1953.
June 2009. The UNSC ruled new sanctions on the DPRK concerning especially weapons export.
August 2009. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Pyongyang and met with Kim Jong Il. The two American journalists, who were detained in the DPRK in March, were released.
August 2009. The demarcation zone between the DPRK and ROK was opened for ground traffic as an important result of friendly talks with Kim Jong Il and the leader of South Korean Hyundai Group. Hence, common sense and good will won politics of the South Korean political hardliners.
August 2009. A high level DPRK delegation met in Soeul with President if Republic of Korea and with South Korean unification Minister.
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Relations work with the strong state.
The DPRK is an important center of anti-imperialism in the world.
Problems and progress.
Some more features.
According to the bourgeois propaganda Christian people are persecuted in north Korea. In May 2000 an American religious leader - Franklin Graham, famous Bill Graham´s son, visited Pyongyang and met top leaders of the DPRK.
In 2001 and 2003 there have been constructive contacts between the DPRK and different western Christian societies.
A delegation of the United Methodist Church of the U.S. led by its bishop Joel Martinez arrived Pyongyang in July 2002. The delegation was greeted at the airport by Kim Ki Hyong, vice-chairman of the central committee of the Korean Christians Federation.
The delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church headed by Archbishop Kliment, first vice-chairman for foreign affairs, visited the DPRK in June 2003.
U.S. Reverend Franklin Graham visited the DPRK in August 2008.
The power media has distorted the picture of north Korea. The country goes on well. The Juche political idea has a large support and the spirit in building the country is good. There have been problems, but they have been and they will be overcome. People in north Korea are optimistic.
North Korean economy is not based on money. Yet in this particular situation the Korean funds unlegally freezed by USA in American banks were useful in order to handle the energy problem and to improve the food maintenance.
The DPRK will not be led to a western-type high mass consumption. The planned Korean economy is directed to produce welfare by saving, not by wasting. On the other hand, there are neither unemployment nor drug problems in north Korea.
North Korean foreign politics is civilized. The DPRK sends systematically polite and friendly congratulations to state level election winners and political appointments to all countries in the world. Internal affairs of other countries are not criticized. Unfortunately, this high level of handling reciprocally People´s Korea does not come true in the west. Especially US and Finnish media stir up intentionally bad-will against north Korea by dishonest articles and TV-programs. Level of this obscenity is so low that Korean officials do not descend down to reply.
The bourgeois propaganda uses to call the DPRK a "Stalinist" country. Some questions occur: What is "Stalinism". It is hard to understand the contents of this word. Is it something like "Castroism"?
Korean revolution began independently in 1925.
Lenin was a great person. Kim Il Sung was also a great person. Yet the SU does not exist any more. The DPRK exists.
North Korea and the USSR did not have close ties. No high level SU leader never visited the DPRK. Instead, Mr. Putin visited the DPRK in 2000.
So... where is the connection between the DPRK and comrade Stalin?
The DPRK never joined the SEV. That is why the north Korean socialism did not collapse with east European socialisms. In spite of the weather circumstances and commercial blockade problems in the nineties the north Korean country, the nation and the system go strong.
On the human Korean Juche-socialism, see International Institute of the Juche Idea
More information:
Democratic People´s Republic of Korea
DPRK press releases and special information.
US crimes. Truth Commission Tribunal
National Democratic Front of South Korea
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