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By Jim Lobe




WASHINGTON - The administration of President George W Bush is finding itself increasingly beleaguered by growing charges by retired intelligence and foreign service officers that administration hawks exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq in order to press Washington into war.
The White House was forced to admit earlier this week that Bush's assertion during his State of the Union address in late January regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged attempts to buy uranium in Africa for a supposed nuclear arms program was based on flawed intelligence and should have been omitted from the speech.
But a growing number of lawmakers and independent analysts are suggesting that the uranium report - which was actually based on crudely forged documents supposedly provided by an Italian intelligence agency - may be just the tip of the iceberg of an effort by neo-conservative and right-wing hawks centered primarily in the Pentagon and around Vice President Dick Cheney to skew the intelligence to make their case for war.
"The Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture of the military threat with respect to Iraq," according to Gregory Thielmann, who served as the director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), until last September.
Contrary to the repeated assertion by Bush and other top officials, he said, "As of March, 2003, Iraq posed no major military threat to the United States," Thielmann, a 25-year foreign service veteran, told a standing-room only press conference at the National Press Club.
He added that the administration's public statements about Iraq's biological and chemical weapons capabilities, stockpile of Scud missiles, and ties to al-Qaeda were also misleading and often based on distortions of what the intelligence community itself was saying.
His charges and the growing attention being paid to them come on the heels of similar charges by another retired foreign service officer, ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had been sent by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to Niger to check out the reports of Iraq's purchase of uranium "yellowcake".
In a television interview, Wilson, who was Washington's highest-ranking diplomat in Baghdad during the first Gulf War in 1991, said that he was stunned when Bush referred to it in his State of the Union address and concluded that its mention was part of a broader effort to influence public opinion. "It really comes down to the administration misrepresenting the facts on an issue that was a fundamental justification for going to war," he told the Washington Post. "It begs the question, what else are they lying about?"
These questions - which have been echoed by other retired intelligence officers, such as the CIA's former top counter-terrorism analyst, Vincent Cannistraro - are clearly beginning to worry the administration, particularly because of growing doubts as well about the duration and dangers posed by the US occupation of Iraq.
After the administration's assurances that US troops would be greeted by Iraqis as liberators, armed resistance to their presence appears to be rising steadily, with the US Central Command reporting an average of 13 armed attacks against forces each day. Some 30 US soldiers have been killed since May 1, when Bush declared the war over, and officials are actively studying the possibility of adding to the 145,000 troops there.
According to a new survey of public opinion released on Wednesday, just 23 percent of Americans say that the military effort in Iraq is going very well, down from 61 percent in late April. Doubts about the occupation naturally feed into concerns about how the US got there.
"If the American people conclude that American soldiers have died because the administration has lied, it will be extremely serious," according to Joseph Cirincione, an arms control specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "American public opinion is clearly shifting on this issue." He said that he didn't see how the Republicans and the administration could avert a major investigation.
Bush, who had hoped that his "victory lap" around sub-Saharan Africa this week would highlight his "compassionate conservatism" for the folks back home, has been dogged by questions from reporters about his State of the Union allegations since he arrived at his first stop in Senegal.
At a joint press conference with South African President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria, he deflected a question about it. "There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world peace and there is no doubt in my mind the United States along with our allies and friends did the right thing in removing him from power," he said, adding, "I'm confident that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
As several Democratic lawmakers called for a full-scale Congressional investigation, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld was also asked at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee whether the administration exaggerated the threat. "The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit [of weapons of mass destruction, or WMD]," he said. "We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9-11 [September 11]."
But Rumsfeld's statement only raised new questions for analysts who have documented the administration's claims about Baghdad's WMD capabilities. Cirincione described Rumsfeld's latest assertion as "shocking". "Administration officials repeatedly said that they had new evidence [in the run-up to the war]."
Indeed, when he heard Bush's uranium reference, Thielmann said he "wondered what new evidence had come into the administration". But, when he realized that it was based on the already-discredited Niger report, he said he felt a "combination of surprise and disgust". "This administration has a faith-based attitude to intelligence," he said, which, simply stated, consisted of, "We know the answers. Give us the evidence the support those answers."
Thielmann was particularly dismissive of some Republican attempts to defend the administration. The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Tom DeLay, told reporters on Tuesday in response to the White House admission that the uranium story was false that it was "very easy to pick one little flaw here and one little flaw there". "A little flaw here, a little flaw there," said Thielmann, "and pretty soon you've fostered a fundamentally flawed view of reality".
Cirincione said that the administration's failure to find any evidence of WMD or Scud missiles despite scouring more than 200 priority sites over the past three months made it clear that the UN weapons inspectors, whose work was often mocked by administration officials, actually fulfilled their intended purpose quite well.
The administration, including even Secretary of State Colin Powell - who, according to Thielmann shielded INR from political influence - made increasingly specific claims about the intelligence it said it had about Iraq's WMD in the immediate approach to the war - in what Cirincione described as a "conscious effort to discredit the inspectors". "They had to eliminate the viable alternative to going to war," he said.
Thielmann said that in working-level discussions between analysts from different agencies, consensus about the intelligence would generally be achieved. But, as the analyses made their way to higher levels, the consensus would drop away, with the CIA and DIA tending to demur. "I can only assume this was in response to [political] pressure," he said.
(Inter Press Service)

 

...less clothes than he used to. Eh, Airic?

The same old story; Himmler and Goering deserted the original Fuhrer as the allied troops closed in and he was holed up in his bunker. Hillariously, he expelled them from the Nazi Party as Soviet tanks were a few hundred yards from the bunker.

Jesus Christ. You socialists really make me laugh.

Here, let me help you out:

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Greetings to Sudanese President
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Sunday sent a message of greetings to Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashin, President of Sudan, on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the revolution in Sudan. The message sincerely wished the president and people of Sudan greater success in their work to defend the sovereignty of the country and territorial integrity and achieve progress and prosperity.


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Greetings to President of Democratic Congo
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on June 23 sent a message of greetings to major-general Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of its independence. Sincerely wishing the president, government and people of Democratic Congo great success in their work to defend the country's sovereignty and achieve national unity and peace, the message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger.


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Conclusion of non-aggression treaty between DPRK and U.S. urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The South headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification on June 26 issued a statement titled "U.S. plan for a nuclear war against the north brings about the second June 25 war. Let us all turn out in the anti-U.S. and anti-war movement for the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty between North Korea and the U.S.", according to a news report. Such a war as was on June 25, 1950 should not break out again in this land, the statement said, adding that the second June 25 war means national extermination.
To conclude the treaty is the only way to overcome war crisis on the Korean peninsula, the statement noted.


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Mass rallies held
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Mass rallies took place in North Phyongan, Jagang, South Hwanghae and North Hamgyong provinces on June 29 on the occasion of "June 25, the Day of Struggle Against the U.S. Imperialists." Chairmen of provincial people's committees and representatives from all walks of life in their speeches at the rallies bitterly denounced the U.S. imperialists for massacring more than 4.2 million innocent Korean people in an unprecedentedly brutal way during the last Korean war.
Many years have passed since the ceasefire, but the U.S. imperialist aggressors are still pursuing their hostile policy toward the DPRK and bringing clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula in a bid to realize their sinister ambition far from drawing a lesson from their bitter defeat in the last Korean war, they said.
They solemnly warned that if the U.S. bellicose forces unleash another war in sacred Korea, oblivious of their bitter lesson from the Korean war, the army and people of Korea who have grown to be invincible ranks under the leadership of illustrious great men and woman of Mt. Paektu will turn out as one to deal a merciless sledge-hammer blow and a shameful setback to the aggressors and their followers.


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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's work observed
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to the 20th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "On the Korean People's Struggle to Apply the Juche Idea". The work is a historic work which proudly reviews the history of the Korean revolution that emerges ever-victorious under the banner of the Juche idea and a monumental library once again clearly proving the justness of the revolutionary cause of Juche and its sure victory.
Ours is the cause of Juche and the way we have followed is the road of Juche opened by the president, the article says, and goes on:
The road of Juche is ever-victorious and the idea and feats of the president serve as an eternal boon to accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Kim Jong Il has steered the Korean revolution to one victory after another the way the president did. Kim Jong Il's wise leadership found a vivid manifestation in that he has remarkably strengthened the driving force of revolution as required by a new era and brought about a new turn in the developing revolution in reliance upon its might.
The DPRK increased the driving force of the revolution in every way and built a powerful socialist nation of independence, self-sustenance and self-defence on this land with its might. This is the immortal feat performed by the president.
The whole party and the entire army and all the people should uphold Kim Jong Il's idea and leadership in a do-or-die spirit, displaying the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and devotedly carrying out his instructions. This single-hearted unity serves as a sure guarantee for the victory in the struggle to smash the imperialist's moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and in the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation in the new century.
The wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, who has led the Korean revolution along the road of Juche, is clearly demonstrated by the fact that he has built up the military power strong enough to accomplish the president's cause.
In recent years Kim Jong Il has strengthened the Korean People's Army into invincible forces, consolidated our national defence industry and built up the military power strong enough to beat back any imperialist aggression by providing dynamic Songun revolutionary leadership.
It is thanks to the invincible self-defensive military power and the strong military deterrent force built up under the leadership of Kim Jong Il that the DPRK has vigorously advanced along the road of Juche chosen by its people themselves while defending the sovereignty of the nation and its vital rights even under the present situation where the imperialists are engrossed in high-handed practices and aggression and wantonly violating the sovereignty of countries and nations.


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U.S. dastardly moves against DPRK assailed
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Under the coercion of the United States the tenth ministerial meeting of the ASEAN regional forum held in Phnom Penh recently adopted its "president's statement" containing the part referring to the Korean peninsula that reflected Washington's unilateral assertion only. The U.S. is keen to refer the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula to the UNSC in a bid to have its president's statement adopted for increased pressure upon the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Monday dismisses this as a wanton violation of the purpose of the forum and its principles adopted at the second ministerial meeting of the forum held in August 1995.
The commentary goes on:
The U.S. misused the forum for forcibly adopting the statement that reflects its unreasonable assertion calling for interference in the internal affairs of the DPRK and pressure upon it. This was prompted by its sinister intention to increase international pressure upon the DPRK.
It is preposterous and unreasonable for the U.S. to try to bring the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula up for discussion at the UNSC and force it to take stronger measures. This is a very insolent, provocative and dangerous move.
The UN is by no means a body that should allow a big country to control and pressurize small countries to meet its interests and aim.
The UN should not be misused to serve the purpose of the U.S. policy of pressurizing the DPRK.
If the UNSC is to deal with the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, it should blame the U.S. for having spawned the issue and escalated the tensions on the principle of impartiality.
It is none other than the U.S. which openly listed non-signatories to the NPT as targets of its preemptive nuclear attacks, unilaterally scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and the DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement and wantonly violated the NPT and all other international agreements.
The UNSC should strongly blame the U.S. for those criminal responsibilities.
The U.S. intention to use the un as means of putting pressure upon the DPRK over its nuclear issue and secure a justification for provoking a new Korean war would only create an uncontrollable situation.


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Greetings to President of Burundi
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on June, 28 sent a message of greetings to Domitien Ndayzeye, President of Burundi, on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of its independence. Kim Yong Nam wished the president and people of Burundi success in the work for the national unity and the peace and prosperity of the country and expressed belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms.


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Medical dictionary developed
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has recently developed a classified medical vocabulary dictionary in an effort to put the general medical services on it basis. It contains about 30,000 vocabularies which standardize and encode the classification of diseases and related health problems, various examinations, medicines and other subsidiary diagnoses. These are essential for the comprehensive computerization of medical services.
With the classification of diseases, function, disability and health corresponding to that fixed by the world health organization, the dictionary concretizes and subdivides them to suit the actual conditions of the country.
It makes it possible to exchange information in scientific and quick diagnosis and treatment through computer networks among relevant sections of hospitals.
It gives English name and abbreviation to each vocabulary.
It is also used for the computerization of general hospital management including the management of manpower, finance, equipment and medicines.


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Royal blood-fresh
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The royal blood-fresh, an herbal health food produced by the Korea Pugang Pharmaceutic Company, is attracting worldwide interests. It is a traditional health additive made on a hi-tech basis from secret recipes of the olden royal palace of Korea.
It facilitates complete cure of numb limbs, hemiplegia, speech disorder, giddiness, headache, cerebral thrombosis, high or low blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, etc. it is also good for preventing aging.
According to dr. Jon Sung Hun, director of the company, it has been applied to millions of patients at home and abroad over the last 20 years and the results proved that its efficacy is more than 95 percent.
It was highly appreciated at several international expositions.
It was awarded the Wipo Gold Medal in April Juche 91 (2002).
Dr. Gamila Moussa, First Deputy Minister of Health of Egypt, said that the royal blood-fresh is the best blood purifier and thrombus dissolver in the world.
Dr. and prof. Issam Hasanacha, dean of the pharmaceutical faculty of Damascus University of Medicine of Syria, had this to say:
"According to our 3-year-long records of clinical tests, the efficacy of the royal blood-fresh, though it is a health food, is far better than any other medicines such as streptokinase, atroxofilis, urokinase, euphilin, cavinton, notrophil, musk, bezoars, etc.
It was also awarded the gold tower by the Ministry of Public Health of Tunisia and registered as a marvelous health food by the Ministry of Health of Syria.
It finds markets in some 20 countries including China, Russia, Germany and Canada.
The Ugarit Pharmaceutical Company of Syria imports raw materials to produce royal blood-fresh under the license of the Pugang Pharmaceutic Company.
The company is located in Pothonggang district, Pyongyang.
Its telephone number is 850-2-18555 (3818514), fax number 850-2-3814544 and e-mail address pugangsilibank.com.


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Regulations on development of Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone adopted
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Regulations on the development of Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone were adopted to properly establish a system and order in developing the tourist zone and help turn the mountain into the world's famous natural and ecological tourist zone according to the law on Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone. The regulations were adopted as decision no. 106 of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK dated May 12, Juche 92 (2003). They have 24 articles.
The regulations specify the selection of developers, the classification of tourist areas, working out of a master plan for development, the distribution of enterprises and the provision of conditions for development.
The Central Tourist Zone Guiding Organ shall select developers according to the agreement reached between the north and the south.
The zone shall be divided into scenic spots touring district, accommodation and service district and industrial district.
A developer shall work out the master plan for development.
It shall correctly reflect a plan for using land in the zone, a plan for infrastructural construction, plans for district development and phased investment and a plan for pushing forward undertakings, etc.
The zone shall be developed by a developer according to its approved master plan. The construction of any buildings or facilities which may destroy natural scenery, natural monuments and historical relics or pollute environment shall not be allowed In the zone.
Expenses for the evacuation of buildings and their annexes in the zone, their transfer and the resettlement of residents shall be covered by a developer.
Infrastructural construction in the zone shall be undertaken by a developer. He may build it in collaboration with other investors or by transferring it to other person or placing the project in other's charge.
An enterprise or investor willing to carry out a project shall submit a relevant design to the tourist zone management institution and get a permit for the construction.
The Central Tourist Zone Guiding Organ shall be immediately informed of any discovery of historical relics made in the process of developing the zone.
The organ shall handle the relics after reaching an agreement with an institution concerned.
If necessary, a developer may make contracts with institutions, enterprises and organizations concerned in the DPRK through the Central Tourist Zone Guiding Organ to have manpower, materials and water provided.
A developer has business rights in such sectors as tourism, infrastructural construction, energy supply, transport, storage, and advertisement. These rights may be transferred to a third party or left to it to exercise them.


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Regulations on developing Kaesong Industrial Zone adopted
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Regulations on developing the Kaesong Industrial Zone were adopted to establish a strict system and order in the zone and help effectively develop the zone according to the law on the Kaesong Industrial Zone. They were adopted by decision no. 102 of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on April 24, Juche 92 (2003).
They have 19 articles.
They specify points related to the working out of a master plan for development, infrastructural construction, business distribution, provision of conditions for development, developers' rights, etc.
According to them, developers shall be selected by the central industrial zone guiding organ. The master plan for developing the industrial zone shall be worked out by developers, reflecting a plan for utilizing land, a plan for infrastructural construction, a plan for phase investment and promotion of work, etc.
Infrastructural construction in the industrial zone shall be undertaken by developers and they may jointly undertake with other investors or build through transfer and consignment such infrastructure as power, telecommunications and water supply facilities, if necessary.
The construction of infrastructure linking the industrial zone with the area outside it shall be undertaken by the Central Industrial Zone Guiding Organ.
Developers may transfer the right to use land and lease buildings in the industrial zone to businessmen or investors according to their purpose.
In case historic relics and remains are discovered in the course of developing the industrial zone, the Central Industrial Zone Guiding Organ shall be informed of them and they shall be dealt with through negotiations with the relevant institution.
A developer shall have rights in the fields of infrastructural construction, energy supply, transport, storage, advertisement, etc. in the industrial zone. A developer may transfer and leave their business rights to the third party if necessary.


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Regulations on business operation in Kaesong Industrial Zone
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Regulations on establishing and operating enterprises in the Kaesong Industrial Zone were adopted according to the Law on the Kaesong Industrial Zone. Tthey are aimed to establish a strict order on setting up, registering and operating enterprises in the zone to provide conveniences for business activities.
The regulations adopted as decision no. 103 of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on April 24, Juche 92 (2003) has 32 articles.
They specify points related to investors, forms of establishing an enterprise and its rules, investment period and forms, customs, the scope of business activities, distribution of profits, notice about the disorganization of an enterprise, etc.
According to the regulations, Koreans in the south and overseas, corporate bodies, individuals and economic organizations of other countries may invest in the fields of industry, construction, transport, telecommunications, science and technology, commerce, banking, tourism, etc. in the industrial zone.
Setting up enterprises in the fields of infrastructural construction, light industry and ultra-modern science and technology shall be specially encouraged in the industrial zone.
An investor may invest in the industrial zone independently or in collaboration with other investors to establish enterprises of diverse forms.
An enterprise shall have its rules and management staff and employees necessary for business activities and set up a fixed business house.
The registered capital shall be over 10 percent of the total fund invested.
An investor shall submit a written application for establishing an enterprise to the industrial zone management organ. It shall specify the total fund invested, registered capital, type of business and its scope, investment period, annual income and profits, etc. with an enterprise rules, a letter of confirmed capital credit, etc. attached to it.
The investment period may be extended for six months.
Investment may be made in cash and kind and by right of property, etc. and in this case the value of the property invested and the right of property shall be estimated at international market price at the given time.
An investor shall submit an application for business registration to the industrial zone management organ after investing registered capital or the amount in excess of it.
According to the rules, an enterprise may issue stock, bond, etc. bring materials necessary for the business activities into the industrial zone without restriction or take goods produced and purchased in the industrial zone out of the zone. An enterprise may make contracts with organs, enterprises and organizations in the DPRK through the central industrial zone guiding organ and purchase materials necessary for the business activities or sell products and process raw material and other materials and parts on commission.
Its settlement of accounts shall be made bi-annually or yearly. It shall create reserve fund after paying its fixed income tax from its profits.
An enterprise to be disorganized shall submit a notice about disorganization to the industrial zone management organ and open it to the public within ten days from the notification.
The enterprise that has operated for over 15 years shall be exempted from its income tax for excess profits.
The enterprise that applied for its disorganization shall not dispose of its properties at its own will before its accounts are settled. In case branch offices, business offices and individuals intend to make profits in the industrial zone, they shall be registered at the industrial zone management organ.


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Regulations on Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone adopted
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Regulations on the establishment, registration and operation of enterprises in Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone were adopted according to the law on Mt. Kumgang Tourist Zone. The regulations that have 34 articles are aimed to establish a proper order and provide every convenience for investment and other business activities. They were adopted as decision 107 of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on May 12.
The regulations specify issues such as investors, objects to be invested in, forms of setting up enterprises, period and forms of investment, the scope of business activities, distribution of profits, notification of the disorganization of enterprises.
According to the regulations, South Koreans and overseas Koreans shall make investments in the tourist zone and foreign corporate bodies, individuals and economic bodies may also invest in it.
An investor shall invest in such tourist sectors as travel service, accommodating service, amusement and service facilities and the construction of infrastructural facilities related to them as well as pollution-free ultra-modern scientific and technological field such as software industry.
Investments in tourist sectors and the construction of infrastructure related to them shall be encouraged but those which may pollute or change the natural and ecological environment of Mt. Kumgang shall be restricted or banned.
An investor may set up enterprises of various forms and operate them on his own or in collaboration with other investors and the registered capital shall be over 10 percent of the total fund invested.
An enterprise shall conduct activities within the scope of the permitted type of business and shall have facilities enough for the environmental protection and sanitation.
An enterprise may issue stock or bonds according to its rules and bring in necessary materials to the zone or take manufactured goods and purchased materials out of the zone without restriction.
Goods shall be taken into and out of the zone according to prior notice.
An enterprise may make contracts with any institution, enterprise and organization in the DPRK through the Central Tourist Zone Guiding Organ, introduce materials necessary for business activities and sell manufactured goods and may process raw and other materials and parts on commission.
The settlement of accounts at an enterprise shall be made bi-annually or yearly.
An enterprise shall create a reserve fund only after paying its fixed income tax from its profits. It may annually raise reserve fund equivalent to 5 percent of its profits till it reaches 10 percent of the registered capital.
And it may use it only for increasing the registered capital and making up for financial loss.
An enterprise may allocate its profits to financiers and this allocation shall be made with net income, ie. money that has been left after its income tax is paid and a reserve fund is created from its profits.
An enterprise to be disorganized shall submit a notice of its dissolution to the tourist zone management institution after discussing and deciding it at its board meeting or at the general meeting of financiers.
An enterprise that has operated for more than 15 years shall be exempted from paying its income tax for excess profits.
No one shall be allowed to dispose of the properties of the enterprise, which has sent a notice about its disorganization, at one's own will. Properties left after accounts are settled with an enterprise may be disposed of inside the tourist zone or be taken to areas outside the DPRK.
In case branch offices, business offices or individuals intend to make profits in the zone they shall be registered at the tourist zone management institution. In this case the institution shall issue a relevant registration card.


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DPRK government light industry delegation leaves
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A DPRK government light industry delegation led by Ri Ju O, Minister of Light Industry, left here today to visit Russia. The delegation was seen off at the airport by Min Il Hong, Vice-Minister of Light Industry, and Andrei Karlov, Russian Ambassador to the DPRK.


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Kim Yong Nam meets Nigerian Ambassador
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Monday met and had a talk with outgoing Alhaji Daudu Sulaiman, Nigerian Ambassador to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall. Kung Sok Ung, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials concerned were present there.


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kim jong il presencia la suite de coro "larguisimo camino del songun"
pyongyang, 30 de junio (atcc) -- el dirigente kim jong il, secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea, presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea y comandante supremo del ejercito popular de corea, junto con los oficiales y soldados del epc, presencio el dia 29 la funcion "larguisimo camino del songun (priorizacion militar)", suite de coro creada por el coro benemerito del epc. es el solemne himno a la revolucion y la inmortal cancion monumental de la epoca actual que hizo balance brillante de la historia del songun del dirigente kim jong il que ocupa una especial posicion en la historia de la nacion coreana.
mediante la funcion los ejecutantes cantaron con gran emocion el larguisimo camino del songun que el dirigente tomo con la ferrea conviccion y voluntad, la decision a ultranza y el ferviente amor al pueblo y mostraron bien el firme impetu del ejercito y el pueblo de corea que avanzan hacia el triunfo final de la revolucion jucheana bajo la bandera del songun.
el comandante supremo dio respuesta con la mano levantada a los ejecutantes y espectadores quienes lanzaban aclamaciones entusiastas hacia el y felicito los exitos de funcion.
manifesto una gran satisfaccion de que los creadores y artistas del coro benemerito, con la infinita fidelidad al partido y la revolucion, crearon una excelente suite de coro perfecta en lo ideologico y artistico y evaluo altamente los exitos de creacion de ellos.
expreso esperanza de que en el futuro tambien los artistas del coro benemerito del epc sembraran el ardiente amor al lider, el partido y la patria, el credo y la voluntad indoblegables en el corazon de todos los militares y habitantes y cumpliran excelentemente su sagrada mision de trompeteros de la epoca del songun, y presento las tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para desarrollar mas energicamente las actividades de creacion del arte revolucionario.
le acompanaron en verla kim yong chun, jefe del estado mayor general del epc, kim il chol, ministro de las fuerzas armadas populares y otros miembros de mando del ejercito, los secretarios kim kuk thae y jong ha chol y otros funcionarios del cc del ptc.


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diccionario electronico de los terminos medicos
pyongyang, 30 de junio (atcc) -- el sector de salud publica de corea presta gran fuerza a la informatica general de las actividades de servicio medico. lo prueba bien el diccionario electronico de los terminos medicos desarrollado por el ministerio de salud publica.
el diccionario registra mas de 30 mil terminos estandarizados y hechos en signos, alusivos a la clasificacion sobre los nombres de diagnosis por cada seccion especializada de medicina clinica, sintomas de enfermedad, los nombres del ensayo y examen de todo genero, los nombres de medicamentos y otros nombres de diagnosis adicional.
especialmente, concreta mas conforme a las condiciones reales del pais la clasificacion de los nombres de enfermedades, la obstruccion funcional, la salud y los nombres de medicamentos aun acordandola con la clasificacion de la organizacion mundial de la salud.
tambien, hace que todas las secciones correlacionadas de los hospitales realicen satisfactoriamente el intercambio de informatica por la red de computacion haciendo que se aseguren la cientificidad y la prontitud en la diagnosis y la cura.
da la clasificacion por sectores y etapas para dar ayuda practica al compartimiento del expediente clinico electronico y al aseguramiento de la continuidad en la curacion de clientes, la nota de ingles y la abreviatura a cada termino.


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encuentro de familiares y parientes separados del norte y el sur de corea
kumgangsan, 28 de junio (atcc) -- el septimo encuentro de los familiares y parientes separados del norte y el sur de corea tuvo lugar en el monte kumgang. segun el acuerdo de las entidades de la cruz roja del norte y el sur, el dia 27, los familiares y parientes de ambas partes se encontraron colectivamente.
los familiares y parientes de la parte norte dijeron a los surcoreanos consanguineos sobre la digna vida de que disfrutan en la patria socialista en que se aplica la politica de amor y confianza, la abarcadora del dirigente kim jong il.
los de la parte sur expresaron profundas emociones sobre las medidas populares del partido del trabajo y el gobierno de la republica popular democratica de corea.
el dia 28, los familiares y parientes separados de ambas partes se encontraron por unidad de la familia.
ellos departieron en un ambiente armonioso y tomaron juntos comidas profundizando el sentimiento consanguineo.
expresaron voluntades de contribuir activamente a lograr la reunificacion de la patria con las propias fuerzas de la nacion enarbolando la bandera de la declaracion conjunta del 15 de junio y se fotografiaron juntos.
los de la parte norte ofrecieron a los consanguineos surcoreanos panos y mesas de cumpleanos e intercambiaron prendas de recuerdo.
por otra parte, el comite central de la asociacion de la cruz roja de la rpdc ofrecio un banquete en honor de los familiares y parientes separados del norte y el sur.
estos presenciaron una funcion del conjunto circense de la parte norte.


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se podra causar un estado irremediable
pyongyang, 30 de junio (atcc) -- en la x reunion a nivel de ministro del foro de la region asiatica sostenida recientemente en phnom penh ee.uu. obligo aprobar la "declaracion del presidente" que refleja su insistencia unilateral en un articulo referente a la peninsula coreana. a continuacion, urde llevar el problema nuclear de la peninsula coreana al consejo de seguridad de la onu para fortalecer mas la ofensiva de presion contra la republica popular democratica de corea por medio de aprobar una "declaracion del presidente de consejo de seguridad". esto es una flagrante violacion al objeto y principios de actividades de ese foro aprobados en la ii reunion a nivel de ministro del foro de la region asiatica convocada en agosto de 1995.
asi senala el periodico "rodong sinmun" en un comentario individual de hoy y continua.
ee.uu. maniobra para discutir el problema nuclear de la peninsula coreana en el consejo de seguridad de la onu y tomar las medidas de intensiva presion, lo que es un acto peligroso y provocativo que carece de la justeza y la legitimidad.
la onu no es un lugar en que para realizar sus intereses y objeto un pais grande gobierna y presiona a un pais pequeno. ella no debe ser utilizada a favor de la politica de presion de ee.uu. contra la rpdc.
el consejo de seguridad de la onu debe verificar justamente la responsabilidad de ee.uu., fautor del surgimiento del problema nuclear de la peninsula coreana y la agravacion de la situacion.
este pais violo flagrantemente el tratado de no proliferacion nuclear y otros acuerdos internacionales, en particular definio abiertamente como blanco de primer ataque nuclear a los paises desprovistos de armas nucleares que firmaron el tnpn, no ejecuto sino anulo unilateralmente el acuerdo basico y la declaracion conjunta concertados con la rpdc.
el consejo arriba mencionado debe cuestionar y fustigar seriamente tales responsabilidades criminales de ee.uu.
si este pais intenta utilizar la onu como palanca de presion nuclear contra corea y hallar un "pretexto" de la provocacion de la nueva guerra coreana, podra causar un estado irremediable.
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Don't the trolls have any better way to spend their time than post stuff like this Eric clown just afflicted us with? Or are they being paid to do this all day long? I knew the unemployment rate under Bush was disgraceful, but I didn't realize that it was bad enough to lead people into jobs like that.

Kim Jong Il nominated as candidate for 11th SPA
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Electorate meetings took place at all constituencies across the country to nominate candidates for deputies to the 11th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK. 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, was nominated as a candidate for the SPA at the meetings held at all the constituencies.
Each meeting courteously proposed to nominate Kim Jong Il as a candidate for the 11th SPA at each constituency as unanimously desired by all the voters.
The voters fully supported and approved the proposal reflecting the unanimous will of all the servicemen and civilians. The meetings declared that Kim Jong Il has been nominated as a candidate for the 11th SPA.
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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's demise commemorated
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- A memorial meeting of youth and students in Pyongyang "the leader will always be with the young people thanks to the general" took place before the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill of Pyongyang on July 6 on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of his demise. The meeting began with an ode and song "strong yearning". Ri Hang Jun, secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, said in a speech that Kim Jong Il opened a new history of perpetuating the memory of the president, reflecting the ardent longing of the youth and students and all other people for him and their strong desire to hold him in high esteem as the eternal sun of Juche.
Young people from all walks of life renewed their determination to devotedly defend Kim Jong Il and uphold the Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea in the van, always keeping in mind the president's behests on holding Kim Jong Il in higher esteem.
Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the c.c. of the league, and others were present at the meeting.
A memorial stage of agricultural workers "the fatherly leader is still with our farmers in Yonbaek plain" was held in Ohyon-ri, Yonan county, South Hwanghae Province on the same day.
Sung Sang Sop, chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, said in a speech that Kim Il Sung devoted all his efforts to the development of the country's agriculture and the happiness of the people, always mixing with the farmers, adding that he was the father of the people peerless in history.
There was a presentation of art pieces including a female vocal solo "the leader is without an equal in the world", a mixed duet "the general is identical to the leader" and women's quintet "fully ripe rice sways on either side of the road to the front". It successfully represented the revolutionary enthusiasm of the agricultural workers.


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Committee for Remembering Kim Il Sung formed in Britain
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- A British Committee for Remembering President Kim Il Sung was formed with due ceremony in London on July 3. At the ceremony, Andy Brooks, General Secretary of the C.C., the New Communist Party of Britain, was elected chairman of the committee.
The committee set a memorial period from July 3 to 30 and decided to hold a memorial meeting, seminar, film show, photo exhibition and other events in the period.


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Day of Korean people's war victory to be marked in Egypt
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- A preparatory committee was formed in Egypt to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (July 27). Yehia Jakariya Khairallah, chairman of the Egyptian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
The committee decided to arrange seminars on famous works of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and their enduring feats, a celebration meeting, film show, photo exhibition and other events on the occasion of July 27.


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Greetings to Nepalese King
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal, on Sunday. Warmly congratulating the king on his birthday, Kim in the message wholeheartedly wished him greater success in the work for national stability and prosperity.


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It introduced into agriculture
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- The agricultural sector is focusing on it and its introduction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Agronomists of the computer centre at the Academy of Agricultural Science have already gained some successes in the work -- the comprehensive estimation of the country's land resources productivity, dividing of agro-ecological zones, crop growth forecast, distribution of varieties, selecting of the right time to manure and cultivate crops during the sowing and rice-transplanting season and according to farming operations, decision of a crop estimate and so on.
These research hits are now available to the agricultural producers across the country through the network.
They were applied last year to the farming of the Migok Cooperative Farm in Sariwon city, North Hwanghae Province.
This year South Hwanghae and other provinces will benefit from them.
Ri Yong Gu, director of the computer centre, said that the application of high technology to agricultural production is not only an important potentiality for increasing the country's agricultural production under the present investment environment but a prerequisite to the it industry.
The Ministry of Agriculture plans to launch the it-based output increase programme as a nationwide undertaking and is working on the application of agricultural information.


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U.S. attempt to abuse name of UN blasted
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- The United States recently distributed copies of its "draft statement" critical of the DPRK among member states of the U.N. security council in a bid to have a "statement of its president" adopted and desperately lobbied for achieving its objective. But its bid proved futile due to the opposition of some countries. Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed commentary in this regard.
The commentary says:
Such move of the United States is an act of disregarding the principles of the U.N. Charter as it branded the DPRK's just measures to defend its sovereignty as unjust ones by making a profound confusion of the relations between the arch criminal, who spawned the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, and its victim.
Through this the U.S. sought to convince the international community of the danger of nuclear development" in the DPRK and pit the U.N. against Pyongyang in a bid to get a justification for pursuing its policy of aggression against the DPRK.
It is none other than the United States that compelled the DPRK to build up a strong physical deterrent force. The U.S. is persistently pulling up the DPRK over its "nuclear issue" and working hard to bring it up for discussion at the U.N. in a bid to get it take any "step" against Pyongyang while keeping mum about the nuclear weaponization of Japan, Israel and its other allies. This clearly indicates its unjust act of applying "double standards" in handling the nuclear issue, away from the principle of impartiality.
The DPRK and the United States are committed to respect the U.N. Charter and abide by all its principles as members of the U.N. All its member states are equal and none of them has the right to impose its will and demand upon other member states.
It is an insult and a mockery of the U.N. for the U.S. to attempt to take any "measure" against the DPRK through the U.N. forum.
If the U.N. Security Council takes any "action" critical of the DPRK contrary to its stand and interests, as demanded by the U.S. it will leave an indelible blot on the U.N. history as it will be little short of encouraging U.S. arbitrary practices and moves for hegemony.
Pressure or blackmail will not help solve the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. Dialogue and negotiations are the only way of settling it.


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"Theory of principal enemy" peddled by S. Korean military refuted
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement on July 6 accusing the South Korean military authorities of vociferating again about the "theory of principal enemy" in a bid to bedevil the inter-Korean relations. The statement says:
The "Ministry of National Defence" of South Korea in teaching materials titled "moral education" distributed among frontline units called not only the government, the army and the citizens in the north but South Koreans and the world peace-loving people supporting the north "principal enemies".
The "theory of principal enemy" can never go together with the "policy of peace and prosperity."
Although the South Korean authorities are talking about a "policy of peace and prosperity", they are, in fact, pursuing confrontation and war. This is clearly evidenced by their loudmouthed "theory of principal enemy."
The South Korean military authorities are calling the fellow countrymen in the north "principal enemies" while treating the U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, the outsiders, like an ancestral tablet. This is, however, nothing but the shriek of the doomed.
The advocacy of the "theory of principal enemy" will only bring war, disaster and self-destruction. The South Korean military authorities should know well that they will be held entirely accountable before the nation for the irretrievably serious consequences to be entailed by their fresh racket.


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KCNA lays bare true colours of Japan as war criminal state
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- The "remembrance, responsibility and future" fund of Germany on June 30 declared that it has paid reparations to the tune of 2.3 billion euro to 1.37 million victims to forced labor of 70 countries of the world including Russia and Ukraine from June 2001 to June 2003. It is said that the fund will continue compensating till 2005, with the funds coming from the federal budget and private companies of Germany.
As is well known, Germany, a war criminal state in Europe, has sincerely paid reparations and made compensation for scores of years to those nations and individuals that fell victim to fascist Germany in one way or the other during the Second World War after deeming it a state responsibility to compensate for the war crimes and apologizing for them.
According to information available, Germany paid 122.3 billion mark equivalent to 7,900 billion yen as reparations by the end of the 20th century.
But the attitude taken by Japan, another war criminal state in Asia, is quite the opposite.
Japan has paid only 356, 552.07 million yen in compensation according to article 14 a of the San Francisco Peace Pact which stipulates that "Japan admits that it has to compensate allies for damage and sufferings it inflicted upon them during the war" and bilateral treaty and agreement signed in the subsequent period.
Japan had refused to apologize to the Asian people for its crimes committed against them for half a century. Only on the 50th anniversary of its defeat it made a "repentance" for mere form's sake through the so-called "Statement of Murayama (the then prime minister)."
It was no more than a verbal repentance and apology. Japan has not made any sincere compensation or reparation for mental, human and material damage it did to the Korean people.
During its colonial military rule over Korea the Japanese imperialists forcibly drafted more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans and killed over one million Koreans.
A special mention should be made of the fact that they forced more than 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army and killed many of them in cold blood.
The Japanese imperialists indiscriminately destroyed or looted valuable cultural heritages handed down by ancestors and plundered Korea of natural resources and products without limit.
The crimes committed by Japan in the past are too many to enumerate. Yet, there is no prospect of Japan's redress for them though nearly 60 years have passed since its defeat.
Even in this new century Japan is talking about a "peace state," a "normal state" and "future", keeping mum about the aggression and plunder it committed against Korea and other Asian countries. On the contrary it is keen to emerge a military power and launch expansion overseas.
This is clearly evidenced by the fact that on July 4 shortly after it was reported that Germany has made fresh efforts to carve out its future after getting understanding from countries around it by liquidating its gloomy past, Japan was so brazen-faced as to approve at its diet a bill on dispatching heavily armed self-defence force to Iraq.
Japan is getting more zealous than any other countries in supporting the U.S. in its strategy to stifle the DPRK over the "nuclear issue." This poses a great threat not only to the Korean peninsula but to the rest part of Asia.
japan is greatly mistaken, however.
The Korean nation is by no means what it used to be in the past and Asia today is not what it was in the past, either.
The army and the people of the DPRK will resolutely foil Japan's moves to launch reinvasion of Korea under the uplifted banner of Songun to protect the peace and stability on the peninsula and in the rest of Asia.


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Greetings to President of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on July 3 sent a message of greetings to Hugo Chavez Frias, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the occasion of its Independence Day. In the belief that the friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries would grow stronger in the future, the message sincerely wished the president fresh success in his work for protecting the sovereignty of the country and the well-being of the people.


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kim jong il dirige sobre terreno la labor de varios sectores de ciudad de kanggye
pyongyang, 7 de julio (atcc) -- el dirigente kim jong il, secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea y presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea dirigio sobre el terreno la labor de varios sectores de la ciudad de kanggye. el dirigente recorrio la posada kanggye, historico edificio donde se alojo el presidente kim il sung cuando recorrio en marzo de 1923 el camino de mil ries de estudio hacia mangyongdae.
al recorrer el lugar de construccion de la central hidroelectrica juventud hungju no. 2 que se construye abajo del rio jangja evaluo altamente las orgullosas proezas de los miembros de la brigada de choque juvenil quienes aceleran energicamente la construccion de la central en etapa final.
una vez construida esta planta de gran potencia sera posible realizar mas satisfactoriamente la electrificacion de la ciudad de kanggye, senalo el y presento las tareas que se presentan para anticipar la construccion de la central.
visito la fabrica de alimentos basicos de kanggye donde recorrio el taller de salsa y pasta de soya, la sala de manejo de computacion y otros varios procesos de produccion para enterarse de los detalles del estado de los equipos tecnicos y de produccion.
acto seguido, recorriendo el interior y el exterior de la planta avicola de hungju que se construye sobre el area total de mas de 20 hectareas presento las tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para desarrollar trascendentalmente la avicultura.
el secretario general visito el centro de genetica de conejo de kanggye nuevamente erguido donde hizo conocimiento concreto del estado de construccion y de cria y cuidado y enseno que este centro es un centro de genetica que dispone de los procesos de produccion basados en la ciencia y tecnica modernas y fue construido con una firme base de pienso.
al visitar el hotel inphung de kanggye reconstruido enseno encarecidamente la necesidad de asegurar las mas excelentes condiciones de vida a los habitantes que viven en el nuevo siglo.
acto seguido, dirigio sobre el terreno la escuela secundaria heroe de jangjasan no. 1 de kanggye de la honrosa bandera roja de dos veces.
recorrio la tabla de presentacion de heroes y la de noticias de puestos y otros especiales medios visuales en pasillo la sala de unecistas, la de educacion en la conciencia clasista y la defensa de la patria, la de computacion, la de musica, la de suministro de leche de soya, la de maestros y otros varios lugares y participo en la clase de fisica de los alumnos del segundo grupo del tercer grado para enterarse minuciosamente del estado de la labor de ensenanza y educacion de la escuela.
senalo que la labor de formacion de generaciones es la importante que decide la prosperidad o decadencia del pais y presento las tareas programaticas que se presentan en la labor de ensenanza y educacion.
el dirigente obsequio piano y numerosas computadoras a la escuela.
acto seguido, miro el panorama de la ciudad de kanggye en que esta rebosando de la vitalidad del socialismo.
al mirar las avenidas extendidas limpiamente en las orillas del rio jangja que se ha convertido en un gran lago artificial, las creaciones construidas nuevamente en la epoca del songun y los orgullos aspectos de los ciudadanos que van al lugar de trabajo, llenos del romanticismo y la alegria, se mostro muy satisfecho de que la ciudad de kanggye se ha convertido en la de paraiso.
los habitantes de la provincia de jagang quienes se hicieron mil veces fuertes a traves de la "marcha penosa" y la marcha forzada, acondicionaron con sus fuerzas propias toda la ciudad y aldeas como un paraiso de felicidad, dijo el y evaluo altamente el entusiasmo patriotico de los funcionarios, miembros del partido y los demas trabajadores de la provincia, valientes precursores quienes abren con inflexible voluntad el nuevo siglo lleno de esperanza.
le acompanaron el secretario responsable del comite del ptc en la provincia de jagang yon hyong muk, el secretario kim kuk thae y los primeros subjefes de departamento jang song thaek y choe chun hwang, del cc del ptc.


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recomiendan a kim jong il como candidato al diputado a la aps
pyongyang, 7 de julio (atcc) -- las asambleas de los votantes para elegir a los candidatos para diputados a la xi legislatura de la asamblea popular suprema de la republica popular democratica de corea tuvieron lugar en todos los distritos electorales del pais. las asambleas eligieron al dirigente kim jong il, secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea, presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la rpdc y comandante supremo del ejercito popular de corea como candidato para diputado a la aps.
propusieron cortesmente elegirlo como candidato para diputado a la xi legislatura de la aps en sus respectivos distritos electorales recogiendo un unanime deseo de todos los votantes.
todos los electores expresaron entero apoyo y aprobacion a la proposicion de todos los oficiales y soldados del epc y los demas habitantes.
en las asambleas fue declarado que el dirigente fue elegido candidato para diputado a la xi legislatura de la aps de la rpdc de los respectivos distritos electorales.
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japon, pais criminal de guerra de asia - comentario de atcc -
pyongyang, 7 de julio (atcc) -- el fondo "la recordacion, la responsabilidad y el futuro" de alemania publico el 30 de junio que en el periodo de junio de 2001 a junio de 2003 habia hecho indemnizacion de 2 300 millones de euros para 1 370 000 personas danadas por el trabajo forzoso en el pasado de 70 paises incluidas rusia y ucrania. y expuso la disposicion de continuarla hasta el ano 2005 a traves del presupuesto federal y los fondos recolectados de las companias privadas de alemania. segun estadisticas, el valor de remuneracion de alemania hasta finales del siglo xx llega a 122 300 millones de marcos (7.9 billones de yenes en moneda japonesa).
?que actitud toma japon, pais criminal de guerra de asia?
no pasa de ser 356 552 070 000 yenes la suma total que este pais isleno indemnizo segun el articulo 14 (a) del tratado de paz de san francisco en que "japon reconoce su deber de recompensar a los paises aliados por los danos y sufrimientos causados en la guerra" y segun los posteriores tratados y convenios bilaterales.
los imperialistas japoneses, durante su dominacion militar colonial sobre corea, se llevaron por coercion a mas de 8 millones 400 mil jovenes y adultos coreanos y asesinaron a mas de un millon.
para colmo, secuestraron a 200 mil coreanas para ofrecerlas como esclavas sexuales a los efectivos japoneses y asesinarlas cruelmente.
tambien, destruyeron y saquearon a diestro y siniestro y se apropiaron de los preciosos patrimonios culturales, inmensos recursos naturales y productos de corea.
pero, hasta la fecha a cerca de 60 anos del termino de la segunda guerra mundial japon no da ni un hilo de perspectiva para la liquidacion de sus actos criminales de tamano ultragrande.
hoy en dia, ese pais isleno se adhiere mas activamente que nadie a la estrategia de ee.uu. de aplastar la republica popular democratica de corea bajo el pretexto del "problema nuclear", lo cual constituye una gran amenaza a la peninsula coreana y toda la region asiatica.
pero, japon se equivoca.
la nacion coreana no es la de ayer y asia de hoy no es la de ayer.
el ejercito y el pueblo de corea, con la bandera del songun (priorizacion militar) en alto, quebraran tajantemente las garras de nueva agresion de japon y preservaran la paz y la seguridad de la peninsula coreana y el resto de asia.
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We ran out of his medication; that is why he is worse than usual today.

Even weighted corpses float back to the surface.
It is rejoicing to see that more and more rotten Bush lies are bloating and achieving buoyancy towards the public. The media whores won't be able to cover up the stench this time.
I got a Champagne bottle chilling in the fridge.

Then don't force people to hard sell you in order to do the right thing.

Blame yourself.

"Then don't force people to hard sell you in order to do the right thing.

Blame yourself."

Well I for one do take some consolation that we were so difficult to sell on widespread mass murder committed by our troops against people that did nothing to us halfway around the world.

I am proud to have been very very opposed to placing our troops in harms way without conclusive evidence that it was our obligation to do so.

And I take great pride that the collective efforts of the anti-war movement was enough to force the bush administration to nix the shock and awe strategy, to force them to provide some 'real' justification, which they were unable to find and thus started just making crap up.

And i will rejoice the day bush's lies come back to stab him in the eye. I will be celebrating in the streets.

By the way, what part of 6000+ civilians dead, a couple hundred of our boys, and the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today is 'the right thing'?

Do you sleep safer at night now than you did before? Do you enjoy the luxuries the american way of life affords you more now, knowing that our promises to bring these things to a war torn afghanistan/iraq just shortly after bombing the holy fuck out of them was completely based off lies and empty promises? Do you think anyone in iraq feels safer now than they did before? Warfuckers will say i'm apologizing for saddam and that i would have him back in power, and that is not true, but you must realistically view the situation and ask yourself, have we made anything at all better from this, for anyone? I think a rational inspection of the repurcussions of our actions will lead you to the conclusion that no, nothing we've done over there has made anything even one bit better, here, there, or anywhere else in the world.

" Do you enjoy the luxuries the american way of life affords you more now, knowing that our promises to bring these things to a war torn afghanistan/iraq just shortly after bombing the holy fuck out of them was completely based off lies and empty promises? "

When did anyone ever promise the "luxuries the american way of life " to Afganistan? We didn't make any deal with them in order to gain their permission to take out the Taliban. "bombing the holy fuck out of them", which was hardly the case to begin with was based on the Taliban actively supporting and protecting the savages that attacked us. What would you have had us do? Oh, let me guess, send in a police force to bring Bin Laden to "justice".

Pathetic.

By the way, what part of arab history and sociology leads you to believe that Afganistan is even remotely capable of handling 21century civilization and democracy?

And, no I don't neccessarily feel safer per se, but I do feel good knowing there's one less despot slaughtering his own people for sport and just waiting for a chance to fuck us in some way.

Oh, and, how long have you been operating under this particular delusion that you and your ilk somehow forced the downgrade of Shock and Awe?

...dishonest Troll Tactic #101 & 102 - if you can't refute an argument, or in this case article, with facts and logic then attack the source.

Also he used another Troll Tactic of Posting a Ten Mile Long string of Crap to further Spam the Thread.

Good Show Airic. You are demonstrating more clearly than I could that you have NO LEGITIMATE Counter Argument.

BUSH LIED AND PEOPLE DIED. AND ARE STILL DYING AS YOU READ.

therefore I err.

"Bush Bit in Ass by Lies"

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"There was no argument to refute."

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Of course there was an argument to refute. It's the same argument everyday. Day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day we bring up the same old, worn out arguments. We could care less if the whole world has moved on, we have our feet firmly planted in the quicksand and we're staying for the endurance. That's because we have principle, something these trolls know nothing about. Why, if it weren't for us, the world would have exploded by now, and then where would we be? Probably at some corporate coffee shop sipping on a cuppachino. I'm thirsty. Let's sit around and talk about it.

That was me. Aren't I clever? My mommy thinks so!

No, we're not you. We don't want anything to do with you. You and your fascist friends need to go away. This is a message board for community activists like ourselves so that we can discuss and organize. Please leave us alone.

I just love having conversations with myself.

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Nothing like combining abysmal ignorance and racism in the same posting, Iggy - although that is nothing new as far as right wingers on this board are concerned. So the Afghans are incapable of "democracy," eh? Seems to me I've heard that argument before - used to justify the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the Israelis theft of Arab land in Palestine. By the way, how do you define democracy anyway - what we have here, where bosses and "managers" rule the places where most people spend most of their time as absolute kings, queens or dictators, and we get to choose once every year between two corporate financed stooges for President? Even then, the ruling class nullifies the result if they don't like it, as happened in Florida.
To clear up your ignorance, Professor Iggy, Afghanistan is not an Arab country, and the nearest Arab country is hundreds of miles away. Afghans belong to a number of ethnic groups, and the most common language is Persian (Farsi). The country's culture is similar in some ways to neighboring Iran. Or perhaps you think Iran is an Arab country, too? Ignorance is bliss, and you seem to be as well informed on world events in general as you are on Afghanistan.

It's easy to critize. What's your solution?

I've been asking these anarchists and socialists that question for years.

Although they won't outline it for you, their solution goes something like this:

-Stage a bloody revolution
-Kill all the rich people and take their wealth and land
-Give all that wealth and land to the rest of the 6 billion people on Earth so we can all be poor. (it still remains to be seen, if they would actually redistribute the wealth. More likely than not they'd keep it for themselves, that they'll tell you they want to give it to the poor)
-Lock into prisons, or kill anyone that disagrees with them.

That's the main points. Maybe we can get them to expand on these for us?

I doubt it though.

...we get a government HONESTLY ELECTED that actually follows the Constitution for a change?

Wouldn't that be a breath of fresh air?

Of course then you would have to look for honest work. Eh, Airic?

You mean that thing that obligates the current regime to put down (violently if necessary) any coup d'etat you and you ilk decide to stage?

Well, if they're not following the Constitution, then you guys should have no opposition, eh? So go ahead and push forward with you plans.

I also love how you try to put me off as some sort of Govt agent, when YOU yourself are here spreading your tripe daily.

Perhaps you'd like to be honest with the folks here, and tell us all what it is YOU do for a living?

...have a Government that follows the Constitution frighten you that much?

Guilty Conscience?

Who's interpretation of the Constitution? YOURS?

Yes. That frightens me.

YOU actually frighten ME.

...the penalty for Treason is Hanging.

"And I look forward to the day you're hanging by your neck."

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Then I'll proudly swing for it. I regret that I have only one life to give for my beliefs.

So come try to make good.

...Psychotic.

frescairic
running out of Ammo
Going Psychotic
frescairic
running out of Ammo
Going Psychotic
frescairic
running out of Ammo
Going Psychotic

TILT!

TILT!

TILT!

CORE DUMP

CASCADE FAILURE

!@#$%%^^ ^*87

"BUSH LIED AND CHILDREN DIED."

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uh.......

You're sorta going a little nuts here.

Take a time out.

It's cool.

I might as well since you have run out of ammo.

"fresca"

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"Read your last post and tell us who's crazy."

YOU!

what do you do for a living?

... a substantive argument, I point it out, and you keep on Spinning.

I'm not impressed by your mind games.

They have zero effect.

Back to PsyOps School for you.

TILT

Play Again?

What's that you say? You're ashamed of your occupation? I can't hear you man, speak up!?

What is your title on the org chart, Eric?

"You're not fooling anyone with that statement. I've already been told by my PsyOps commander that I'm better than 1,000 micrograms of LSD."

Thanks for letting everyone know who YOU work for, mole.

...got an owie?

Dingo, should we take it that,by your silence, you REALLY are a paid shill? Or are you just some pathetic ideologue just that wants to be heard?

"Dingo, should we take it that,by your silence, you REALLY are a paid shill?"

Oh, and you're NOT one?

Dingo
by Eric • Friday July 11, 2003 11:00 AM



"I'm not impressed by your mind games."

You're not fooling anyone with that statement. I've already been told by my PsyOps commander that I'm better than 1,000 micrograms of LSD.

whooop whooop

"The sooner you accept that the majority of what you say is only worthy of ridicule, the better off you'll be."

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So what is your title in the chart. You do have a chart. Or is it a chain
of command?

now we want to know what you do for a living?

those disablity checks pay the rent?

Might as well be talking to a brick.

And I am a artist. I don't recieve anything from IMC but the use of their board. I try not to abuse it. In fact, I've given them money to help them out because I have it to give.

...Patriot.

Some of us are motivated by things other that merely the acquisition of money.

"The Patriot must always be ready to defend his Country from his government."
----- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Dingo, should we take it that,by your silence, you REALLY are a paid shill? "

Why on earth would anyone come here and paint those he claims to side with in such a ludicrous light?
Whether he's paid or not, is not the issue. But surely his online persona is by design and, as much as I realize he must be in league with some group who thinks they are on my side, the lying is repugnant.

I'd rather they quit trying to help.

Dio is CLEARLY THE shill on the baord.

So, what else is new?

for your honesty. I appreciate that. You're a real person.

"Dio is CLEARLY THE shill on the baord."

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For YOUR honesty. I would wholy tend to agree with you. Dingo must be a member of some fanatical political group. He is without a dout, the shill.

"He is without a dout, the shill."

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Dingo
by Eric • Friday July 11, 2003 11:00 AM



"I'm not impressed by your mind games."

You're not fooling anyone with that statement. I've already been told by my PsyOps commander that I'm better than 1,000 micrograms of LSD.

"You're not fooling anyone with that statement. I've already been told by my PsyOps commander that I'm better than 1,000 micrograms of LSD."

Unsubstantiated Allegation

This is all I have.

My solution to Iggy's ignorance? He should spend more time reading serious books and less time watching Fox News and the Jerry Springer Show. Also, I meant to type that we choose between two corporate stooges for President once every four years; I wouln't want to appear as ignorant of basic facts as some of our right wing trolls.

How do you know where Iggy gets his news? Do you know him?
Anyway, way to work the Stooges referance in there in a post about Iggy.

It just so happens that I DO get my news from Fox, you assclown. Mind your own business.

That macho trip really doesn't suit you, Airey. Maybe your boss should slip you a 'calmative' before you start really dragging your knuckles. You remind me of the Three Amigos the FBI sent to screw with the Peace movement in SF: testosterone-crazed hot heads. Where are THEY now?

(wheeze!) cough cough (gasp!)
Organize!
Organize!
(wheeze!) cough cough (gasp!)
(wheeze!) cough cough (gasp!)

"(wheeze!) cough cough (gasp!)"

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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...............

"Bush Knew Iraq Info Was Dubious" reads the CBSNews.com headline. Last night, as a Google search shows, the same story was titled "Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False." It turns out that the story says nothing of the sort. The reference is to Bush's statement, toward the end of his 2003 State of the Union address, that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/eveningnews/main560449.shtml

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Bush+Knew+Iraq+Info+Was+False%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

So now there's this big brouhaha about just how this 16-word sentence got into a 5,500-word speech. Did the CIA know? That's a silly question. The CIA is a big organization; not everyone in it knows the same things. The Associated Press reports National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says that "if CIA Director George Tenet had any misgivings about that sentence in the president's speech, 'he did not make them known' to Bush or his staff." But CBS reports that "CIA officials warned members of the President's National Security Council staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa." Of course, Bush didn't "make the flat statement"; he merely cited a British report, which turned out to be false. CBS acknowledges that "the statement was technically correct."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=2&u=/ap/20030711/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Democrats, showing again their complete lack of perspective, are trying to turn this to their political advantage. "Campaigning in New Hampshire, Democrat Howard Dean demanded the resignation of any Bush administration official or federal government employee who failed to tell the president that claims about Iraq buying uranium from Africa were false," reports the Associated Press. Of course, the story seems to be that no one told Bush, which means that Dean is demanding the resignation of the entire federal government--which may end up vindicating another State of the Union claim that I'd thought was phony, namely "The era of big government is over."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39551-2003Jul10.html

John Kerry also got into the act. The haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam, "said he is not prepared to draw a conclusion on whether the administration deliberately misled the country about the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but said his 'level of concern is very high,' " reports the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40403-2003Jul10.html?nav%253Dhptop_tb

The subtext of all this is the claim some Dems have been making for some time now, namely that Bush "misled" the country into war. But it is logically impossible for the SOTU snafu to support this claim. Bush delivered the speech on Jan. 28, 2003--109 days after Congress voted to go to war. Are Kerry and the others who voted "aye" going to claim that they somehow knew what the president was going to say more than three months in advance? What are they, psychic?

they didn't know that they didn't know. But they thought they knew and killed thousands of those savage arabs.......
Oh and there was all that oil so it's ok now. Let's move on ok?
Except for the dead and wounded; they get to stay that way.

such is life
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Dio - How have you managed to evade the men in the white jackets?

GW Bush doesn't lie.

You must be confusing him with his predecessor, Bill Clinton, a pathological liar.

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he perjures himself to oblivion. He and his ilk are beyond redemption; keeping on lying is their only escape trail.
Once you're sober BA, check in with Delusional Anonymous.

"You've obviously been hanging with Circle Jerk, Dio, X, and other truth denying lefties."

"I realize that it's a hard pill for a lefty to swallow,..."

Why are you so against left-handed people? Idiot.

If "scottie" insults you BA that is because it is "Ted" (i am sure he does other nicks as well) in disguise.
Im guessing some young school kid with too much time on his hands and too little brains in his head.

"If "scottie" insults you BA that is because it is "Ted" (i am sure he does other nicks as well) in disguise."

UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATION

"Im guessing some young school kid with too much time on his hands and too little brains in his head.

UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATION

For more on logic at your level, try reading "Logic for Mental Defectives."