Papers Call for Demonstrating Mettle of Heroic Workers of Juche Korea

Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- Leading newspapers of the DPRK Wednesday dedicate editorials to the May Day, the international holiday of the workers in the world.
The DPRK's heroic struggle characterized by great victory and epochal changes and the strong spirit of today's socialist Korea advancing with pride toward a bright future in the face of all tempests of history are associated with the patriotic devotion made by the Korean workers, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:
The workers of Juche Korea are ardent patriots strong in ideology and faith and fighters of self-reliance who invariably take the path of independence and socialism, always following the Party in the ordinary and stormy days.
Self-reliance is just the traditional fighting spirit of the workers and an ever-victorious treasured sword for building a powerful socialist nation.
The events of great significance in the history of the nation and the eye-opening successes in all sectors of socialist construction like economy and culture witnessed in the course of foiling the moves of the hostile forces to stamp out the DPRK's rights to sovereignty, existence and development clearly proved how strong the Korean workers' spirit of self-reliance and self-development is.
Self-reliance is just the mettle and working manner peculiar to the workers of Juche Korea.
Unshakable is the will of the workers to strenuously advance along the road of the Juche revolution under the guidance of the Party, holding higher the banner of independence, though they have to take a long and thorny path of revolution.
Minju Joson calls on all workers to demonstrate to the whole world the revolutionary mettle of the workers of Juche Korea by dynamically stepping up the on-going general onward march of self-reliance for developing the DPRK into a powerful socialist country, united single-mindedly around Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. -0-

Workers in North and South Call for Implementing North-South Declarations

Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the south Korean Federation of Trade Unions, organizations of workers in the north and the south, released a joint statement on Wednesday, the 129th May Day.
The statement noted that the workers in the north and the south declare their firm will to take the lead in the path toward peace, prosperity and independent reunification on the 129th May Day, the international holiday of the workers of the world.
Expressing solidarity with the devoted efforts of all the fellow countrymen for independence and peaceful reunification and declaring their will to always stand together in the van of the struggle for implementing the Panmunjom Declaration and the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration by dint of the firm solidarity the workers in the north and the south which have unanimously kept for 20 years, the statement said as follows:
We will pave a broad avenue toward implementation of the historic Panmunjom Declaration and the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration by getting united under the banner of By Our Nation Itself.
All the workers in the north and the south will courageously turn out in the struggle for ending the present stalemate and making a new engine for implementing the declarations.
In order to keep the north-south relations from going back to the ones in the era of tension and confrontation in any case, the workers in the north and the south will do their best in taking the lead in creating the environment and conditions for implementing the declarations.
We will get united under the banner of By Our Nation Itself that definitely prioritizes the understanding and demands of the nation and become an engine for ushering in a new era of peace, prosperity and independent reunification.
We will resolutely fight against all attempts to nullify the historic Panmunjom Declaration and the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration.
We, workers, should take the lead in putting an end to the pain resulting from national division and ushering in a new era of peace, prosperity and independent reunification.
We will never tolerate any act of inciting conflict and confrontation and violating the interests of the nation but resolutely fight against it.
For the present, we should declare the period between April 27 and September 19 as a "period of the struggle for implementing the north-south declarations" and create conditions and environment for thoroughly implementing the historic declarations.
We will further harden the solidarity between the workers in the north and the south and pioneer a new-level workers' movement for national reunification.
We will further develop the workers' movement for reunification, following the path indicated by the historic Panmunjom Declaration and the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration.
We will make tangible contributions to expanding the nation-wide movement for reunification by making ceaseless efforts for the political, mass-based and organizational development of the reunification movement. -0-

Total withdrawal of part-time job!

Total withdrawal of part-time job!

On Nov. 10, a rally of workers took place under the sponsorship of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in Seoul. 

About 60 000 workers from across south Korea took part in the rally to renew their victory in the general strike.

Retrogressive labor policy by family-controlled conglomerates and business groups, defunct labor commitment and stationary old legacies: expectation of the government is changing into disappointment and despair, the KCTU deplored.  

It would transform the south Korean society in the spirit of the candlelight resistance and it is a sound succession to spirit of Chun Tae-il in 1970, it noted.

Prior to the rally, eleven trade unions including the Metal Workers Trade Union and the Mart Trade Unions held meetings outside the Cheongwadae and Seoul.   

At the rally the KCTU declared a joint action against 1.1 million part-timers from Nov. 12 to 16 and planned to open mass rally on Dec. 1 in Seoul.  

Anniversary of Anti-Japanese Trade Union Marked

Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung formed the Anti-Japanese Trade Union in Jilin on Aug. 25, Juche 17 (1928).

The organization was the first revolutionary mass one of the Korean working class whose guiding principle was the Juche idea and which educated broad segments of workers and vigorously aroused them to the struggle to implement the Juche-based revolutionary line.

The President founded the trade union, a unified mass organization of the working class, after the liberation of the country on the basis of the precious tradition of the construction of mass organization created in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolution and thus united the working class as a force.

With his rare ideological and theoretical wisdom and energetic leadership leader Kim Jong Il defended the idea and leadership exploits of the President for the construction of mass organization and brought about a great heyday of the construction of trade union and its activities.

The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has led the trade union, which developed under the guidance of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, to take the lead in the great advance to invariably preserve the revolutionary nature and bring earlier the final victory of revolution.

Kim Jong Un awarded a precious title of heroic Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class to the Korean working class.

A meeting to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Japanese Trade Union took place at the Central Hall of Workers Friday. -0-

Joint Statement of Trade Unions in North and South of Korea

Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and south Korea's Federation of Trade Unions and Confederation of Trade Unions issued a joint statement on June 15, the 18th anniversary of the historic June 15 joint declaration.

The statement said that the June 15 joint declaration, which all Koreans including the workers in the north and the south had firmly defended and implemented, was led to the Panmunjom declaration at last and the emotion of June 15 developed into the joy and passion of April 27 and then set the entire nation agog with excitement of May 26.

Expressing full support for the two inter-Korean summits in Panmunjom and the adoption of the April 27 declaration again, the organizations of workers in the north and the south are filled with enthusiasm and will to take the lead in making a new history, a new era of peace and reunification, it added.

Noting that all Koreans are now faced with the historic task of the nation to end the history of division and subordination, which has lasted for over 70 years, and realize the independent reunification, the statement said:

Workers in the north and the south will discharge in the van the duty facing the nation at the historic turning point that our nation brought by its own efforts, overcoming the hill of ordeal and crisis.

It is the most primary task for co-existence and co-prosperity of the nation to put an end to the history of mistrust and confrontation and establish a durable peace-keeping regime on this land.

A total end should be put to the state of war which stopped on July 27, 1953. Moreover, a peace accord should be concluded to completely terminate the war crisis and realize lasting peace.

At the historic turning point made in 73 years of division, the workers in the north and the south will do their best to settle the historic task facing our nation.

All the workers in the north and the south will take the lead in getting the armistice agreement abrogated and realizing a peace accord.

Today the idea of By Our Nation Itself, clarified in the June 15 joint declaration, was developed into the principle of national independence in the Panmunjom declaration.

The party most responsible for peace and reunification is just our nation.

The workers in the north and the south will conduct all their activities strictly in the spirit of By Our Nation Itself and the principle of national independence and stand in the van of struggle to decisively reject domination and interference of outsiders obstructive to peace and reunification.

They will resolutely struggle against any attempt to impair the Panmunjom declaration and do their best for the unceasing implementation of the declaration.

The statement expressed the firm resolve of all the workers in the north and the south to dynamically usher in a new era of peace and independent reunification. -0-

Enlarged Plenary Meeting of C.C., GFTUK

Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The 6th enlarged plenary meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) took place here on Wednesday.

Present there were members and alternate members of the C.C., GFTUK and officials of the federation.

The meeting discussed how to carry out the tasks set forth by the respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un at the Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

A report was made at the meeting before speeches.

The reporter and speakers said that trade union organizations at all levels should conduct the political and ideological education in an offensive way to make all the union members deeply grasp the spirit and tasks of the Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh WPK Central Committee and the essence and validity of the Party's new strategic line and inspiringly arouse them to their implementation.

They also mentioned the problems arising in conducting various mass movements to implement the Party's economic policies to the letter.

They expressed the will to fully display the revolutionary spirit of the heroic Korean working class in the struggle to implement the decisions of the April 2018 Plenary Meeting of the WPK Central Committee. -0-

S. Korean Authorities' Anti-Reunification Act Will Face Curse and Censure: GFTUK Spokesman

Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- The Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Trade Unions of south Korea were going to send a message to the General Federation of Trade Inions of Korea (GFTUK) in congratulation of its 72nd founding anniversary, but it was not realized due to the anti-reunification act of the puppet authorities.

The puppet Unification Ministry threatened the Confederation and the Federation to delete expressions like "national meeting for peace and reunification of the country and the improvement of the north-south relations", charging that "national meeting" means "a political event".

A spokesman for the GFTUK in a statement Thursday denounced this as an unpardonable challenge to the desire and wish of the workers of south Korea and all other Koreans for national reconciliation, unity, peace and reunification and a traitorous act aimed to sever the fraternal ties between the fellow countrymen.

The puppet authorities even found fault with the title of the national meeting and hindered the dispatch of the congratulatory message. This can not but be considered as an attempt to make the north-south relations the monopoly of the authorities and to stand against the nation's movement for reunification, the statement said, and went on:

The situation clearly proves that nothing has changed from the days of fascist dictatorship by the group of conservative traitors even though there has been a regime change in south Korea, and the new regime has nothing different from the preceding regimes in using despicable and crafty methods as it trumpets about "exchanges" outwardly but hampers the solidarity activities of organizations of people of various social standings in the north and the south behind the scene.

Greater crime will cause more miserable end.

The puppet authorities keen on despicable submission toward outsiders and confrontation with the fellow countrymen can never evade curse and censure by the whole nation determined to open up the heyday of nationwide reunification movement. -0