S. Korean Workers Stage Protest

Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Those forcibly discharged by the south Korean puppet group and part time workers have been on a sit-down action under the motto "99 percent plaza of hope for a society free from lay-off and part-time jobs" in Seoul since March 10.

Its participants held a press conference near Chongwadae on March 21 at which they denounced the puppet authorities for their moves to enforce man-killing part time jobs and lay-off against workers.

At the press conference, they deplored it is very difficult for the above-said people to live every day.

They urged the authorities to abrogate the law on part-time jobs and lay-off which forces people to wander about streets.

The serious problem of lay-off and part-time jobs was caused by the present regime, they said, urging Lee to own responsibility for this situation and settle it without delay.

Then, they staged an action in demand of an interview with traitor Lee.

Public Is Best Judge(rumoured death of Lee Myung Bak)

Public Is Best Judge

Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- A rumor that south Korea's Lee Myung Bak was dead had swept throughout the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Saturday.

In this regard, Tokko Hyon Song, living in Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, told KCNA:

"I will feel relieved if Lee Myung Bak dies as the rumor says. The article carried by the daily Rodong Sinmun Sunday is indicative of public sentiments. I believe that resentment toward the Lee group of traitors has turned to be the rumor.

As there is a saying 'the public is the best judge', the Lee group, heinous traitors to the nation, will find no a shelter in this land and sky."

Jong In Bok, living in Phyongsong City, South Phyongan Province, said:

"Even if Lee Myung Bak, little different to a beast, died, it is needless to pin hope on the south Korean regime. But, the rumor represents the surging indignation against the Lee group.

The public has already sentenced a death penalty to Lee. Now, death only awaits him."

S. Korea Bogged by Household Debt Crisis

S. Korea Bogged by Household Debt Crisis

Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Household debt has now reached an all-time high of nearly one trillion U.S. dollars in south Korea.

The debt that had annually increased over 5 percent from 2000 now totals 929 billion U.S. dollars beyond the internationally set danger line.

Debt for each household amounts to more than 1.7 times its yearly average income, topping the world list.

40 percent of household debt was what the families loaned from the banks with their houses as collateral.

As the householders' income shrank and the house prices decreased more than 15 percent as against the past period under the influence of the economic downturn, the banks are now finding it unable to get back even the principal, to say nothing of interests.

This is an inevitable product of the unpopular economic policy of Lee Myung Bak who pushed the economy into bankruptcy and the people's lives into destitution. It is the unanimous public opinion that the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections will serve as a harbinger heralding the puppet group's ruin. -0-

Rages at S. Korean Regime Run High among Workers of DPRK

Rages at S. Korean Regime Run High among Workers of DPRK

Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- Upon hearing the news of the hideous provocation committed again by south Korea's Lee Myung Bak regime against the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership, all workers at the Chollima Steel Complex in the DPRK hardly repress their surging indignation.

Ju Kyong Chol, a workshop head, told KCNA:

"The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors made another hideous provocation at a time when the Korean Peninsula is under the touch-and-go situation due to the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises jointly kicked off by the south Korean military and the U.S. forces.

The group's arch crime, committed when the DPRK was seized with grief over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il, is still arousing anger from among the fellow countrymen.

We can no longer endure such provocations."

Ra U Gil, a member of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, said:

"Now that our own-style sacred war was declared against the group of traitors, we will turn out in the war with a hammer in one hand and a rifle in the other to wipe out the enemy.

Those who hurt the dignity of the supreme leadershi