Truth about S. Korean Authorities' Human Rights Abuses Disclosed

 Pyongyang, November 11 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute Tuesday released a detailed report indicting the south Korean puppet regime for its hideous crimes against humanity and human rights abuses on the lapse of 200 days since the ferry Sewol disaster in south Korea.
    It said:
    On board at the time of sinking were 476 passengers including 325 students of Tanwon High School of Ansan City, Kyonggi Province who were on their field tour to Jeju Island.
    Just 172 were rescued and 304 and the ferry buried at sea.
    According to survivors and witnesses, after a loud bang the ferry began to gradually tilt one hour later. It went down to the seabed six hours later.
    When the ferry was sinking, its captain and crewmen shouted over loud speaker "Passengers stay put" and "Don't move", taking no measures.
    Then they changed their uniforms into plain clothes and escaped from the ferry like alley cats.
    The puppet maritime police were tasked to rescue the passengers but patrol boat No. 123 under the Mokpho Maritime Police Agency picked the captain and crewmen only on board before disappearing.
    Only personnel affiliated to a non-governmental rescue company who had a contract with the police in advance on a payment basis were allowed to have access to the sinking ferry while civilian divers were prevented from conducting any operation to rescue passengers.
    Those of the puppet military mobilized for the rescue operation deliberately neglected it, complaining that it was too dark under water and its current too fast.
    They thus missed all chances to rescue the survivors after the sinking of the ferry.
    The horrible tragedy which put 304 passengers plus the ferry to the bottom of the sea turned the whole of south Korea into a mourner's house all of a sudden.
    It was against this backdrop that the puppet regime perpetrated inhuman and unethical acts of mocking and insulting the victims, stunning all people.
    The puppet prosecution and police refused to deliver dead bodies to their bereaved families in good time, preventing them from properly holding funerals for them.
    The present chief executive invited her American master to visit south Korea and kowtowed to him in gorgeous dress, utterly indifferent to the atmosphere at the mourner's house. She orchestrated a burlesque of consoling a sham "bereaved family."
    Coteries of the "Saenuri Party" turned down the demands of people of various strata that the opposition parties and bereaved families be granted the right to investigate and prosecute if the truth about the ferry Sewol tragedy is to be properly probed.
    When bereaved families visited the "National Assembly" to lodge a protest, they expelled them at random.
    Those coteries cried out for "a strong retaliation," groundlessly claiming that the ferry Sewol accident was "caused by north." They were busy cooking up "a story about north wind," insisting that the north was fostering a "conflict in the south."
    They in collusion with right-wing conservative organizations went the lengths of branding those bereaved families demanding the probe into the truth about the accident and the punishment of those responsible for it as "agitators" and "dealers in dead bodies" and mocking at those bereaved families on hunger strike.
    Gangsters of the said organizations insulted the bereaved families by calling them "Reds instructed by the north" and "second Kwangju rioters" and asserting that "Reds may be let die."
    The report said the ferry Sewol tragedy is not a product of vices perpetrated by a vicious ship owner or by a few persons concerned with maritime transport but an inevitable outcome of the anti-human rights and unpopular policy of the puppet regime from A to Z.
    It went on:
    The puppet authorities did not conduct a proper safety inspection of the ferry before okaying its navigation, though it was in a bad shape. Worse still, they overlooked the inability of its captain and crewmen to work aboard it, though they were disqualified to do so.
    When the sinking accident broke out, the authorities floated the story that it was attributable to the reckless money making by Yu Pyong On, former chairman of the Semo Group who owned the ferry.
    They orchestrated Yu's escape and search operation for him and found only a dead body which was so seriously disfigured that it was hard to confirm whether he committed suicide or was killed and shifted the blame for the accident onto him. They tried to hush up the case by punishing a few fries including the captain at a trial.
    When drowning passengers were crying out for help, the puppet authorities were busy evading responsibility.
    The boss of Chongwadae became a target of criticism and derision for being absent in her office for 7 hours even after she was informed of the ferry sinking accident.
    When public criticism of Chongwadae was mounting higher, she made a reluctant "apology," shedding "crocodile tears" dozens of days later. This sparked off greater uproar among people. She only staged such farce as sacrificing the puppet prime minister.
    Various disasters occurred one after another in south Korea in the wake of the ferry Sewol disaster, driving its society into a panic.
    The report continued:
    The puppet group is trumpeting about someone's "human rights" though it turned south Korea into a tundra of human rights and veritable hell. This is, indeed, the height of shamelessness and an unpardonable mockery at human rights.
    With no rhetoric can the south Korean authorities evade the responsibility for the ferry Sewol disaster. They had better honestly apologize for the hideous crimes against human rights and people and come out to a court.
    If the puppet group persists in its crafty moves to conceal the truth about the disaster, it will spark off bitterer resentment and denunciation among the people of all social standings in south Korea and the group will not escape a disgraceful ruin in face of resistance of broad masses, the report warned. -0-

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Ever-mounting Struggle against the Regime

Ever-mounting Struggle against the Regime

For probing the truth about the ferry Sewol calamity

On September 27, there took place a big rally at Seoul Plaza demanding the probe of the truth about the ferry Sewol calamity.

Attending it were tens of thousands of people of various circles from across south Korea including the bereaved families, farmers, members of civic organizations and citizens.

Speakers there censured the chief executive for seeking to cover up the truth of the disaster.

Though lots of questions were arouse, nothing was clarified yet, so how can they stop the struggle, they noted.

They asserted that they can never make a safe society without probing the truth so they can never retreat in the struggle for enacting a special law.

They pointed out to the struggle spreading throughout south Korea and called on all the people for the continuing struggle till the truth is probed.

After the rally, the participants launched a demo.

Against the regime’s move to open the rice market

The National Federation of Peasants Associations and other farmers’ organizations in south Korea held a rally in Seoul on September 27 denouncing the puppet regime’s move to open the rice market.

They criticized the regime saying that the total opening of rice market is little short of renouncing agriculture.

They asserted that the regime claims it would protect agriculture with high tariff, but it cannot withstand the pressures from foreign countries.

They stressed they would turn out in the struggle to check the opening of rice market in order to defend the food sovereignty and the right to existence.

Prior to this, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions called a press conference in Seoul on September 24 in which it announced a worker-peasant solidarity struggle to check the regime’s move for opening the rice market.

Meanwhile, farmers in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province and other parts launched struggles against the puppet regime’s move to open the rice market.

Workers’ struggle

On September 25, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions clarified that it would wage the struggle against the regime’s anti-people misrule.

It claimed that it would fix the institution of a special law on the ferry Sewol calamity and gaining the rights to existence and labor as the key aims for the present.

It noted that it would conduct, in particular, an all-people struggle on November 1, the 200^th day since the Sewol disaster.

It stressed it would also launch large-scale struggles to frustrate the privatization of medical service and the revision of public servants’ pensions

Oratorical Meeting Held by Trade Union Officials, Members

Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- An oratorical meeting was held by officials and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea at the Central Hall of Workers on Wednesday to celebrate the 17th anniversary of leader

Kim Jong Il's election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the 69th founding anniversary of the glorious WPK.
    Nam Chun Bin, chairman of the primary organization of the federation of Pyongyang Railway Station, in an oratory "Strong Roots" eulogized the greatness of President Kim Il Sung who accomplished the historic cause of the party founding without delay in the liberated country on the basis of party building successes and experience gained in the flames of the hard-fought anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
    In an oratory "Undying Feats" Ro Man Gi, worker of the February 8 Jikdong Youth Coal Mine, highly praised Kim Jong Il for building the WPK into the party of Kim Il Sung and a genuine mother party which takes care of the destiny of the popular masses in a responsible manner.
    In oratories "Great Defender" and "Korean Speed" Won Kyong Ok, trade union explainer of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum, and Ryu Chang Sun, trade union lecturer of the Pyongyang Railway Maintenance Team, said that Marshal Kim Jong Un is arousing the Korean people to create the Korean speed startling the world people while preserving and carrying forward the revolutionary traditions of the WPK.
    In an oratory "We Know Nobody but You" Kim Un Jong, trade union lecturer of the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, vowed to carry forward and accomplish the cause of Mt. Paektu under the leadership of the party just as the first and second generations of the revolution did to feature the grim road of the revolution with victory and glory under the leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. -0-

KCNA Releases Detailed Report on Truth about Crime of American

KCNA Releases Detailed Report on Truth about Crime of American

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released the following detailed report on Saturday:
    Recently another American was arrested and tried for committing criminal acts against the DPRK.
    A due legal judgment was passed on the American for his crime committed as part of the U.S. anti-DPRK human rights campaign and he admitted his crime and accepted the judgment.
    However, officials of the present U.S. administration responsible for his crime took issue with the just legal action taken by the DPRK like a guilty party filing the suit first. They raised unreasonable "human rights issues" in a foolish attempt to cover up the crimes perpetrated by Americans.
    Upon the authorization, the KCNA discloses the truth behind the crimes committed by American Miller Matthew Todd.
    He was sentenced to six years of hard labor at a trial held on September 14. He entered the DPRK as a tourist on April 10, 2014 and rudely behaved, tearing off his tourist visa when he was going through formalities for entry at Pyongyang Airport. So, he was put in custody by a relevant organ.
    The results of the investigation made it clear that he did so not because of simple lack of understanding and psychopathology but deliberately perpetrated such criminal act for the purpose of directly going to prison after being intentionally reprimanded by a legal organ of the DPRK, pursuant to the present U.S. administration's anti-DPRK campaign, spying on "human rights" performance and making it known to the world.
    On the basis of this investigation the DPRK Supreme Public Prosecutors Office issued warrant of arrest for Miller Matthew Todd and accused him of criminal responsibility according to Article 64 of the Criminal Law of the DPRK and put him in custody.
    According to the preliminary examination, Miller Matthew Todd left a university halfway and remained jobless in Yongdungpho District, Seoul City of south Korea. There he had inveterate hostility towards the DPRK while systematically listening broadcasting programs and reading publications of the U.S. and south Korea slandering the DPRK.
    He believed that people in the DPRK have neither freedom nor human rights and if they disobey the government they would be subject to a miserable prison life. So, he had a foolish idea of spying on prison and human rights situation while experiencing "prison life" after intentionally committing crimes in violation of the law in the DPRK.
    He tried to find a way for entering the DPRK. It was his calculation that when he kicked up a fuss tearing off tourist visa while going through formalities for entry as a tourist he would be arrested by a relevant organ and taken to "prison". So, he applied for tour through a travel agency in the U.S.
    Prompted by the intention to refurnish his image before finding his way to "prison" he had prepared a memo book in advance. It contained the following sentences: "I seek a political asylum. I am seeking refuge after failing in my attempt to collect information about the U.S. Government. I am planning to open to public information like Snowden."
    He, at the same time, prepared iPad and iPod he claimed containing important information about the military bases of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in south Korea which he gathered by having access to internet and papers containing invectives against the north let loose by defectors from the north he obtained by visiting them.
    According to the already worked out scenario, he tore off his tourist visa while going through formalities for entry and insisted that he came in pursuit of "refuge" and he sought "political asylum".
    He confessed during the preliminary examination that he tried to meet American Kenneth Bae who had been sentenced to hard labor if he succeeded in going to "prison" and have negotiations for Bae's "release" and become "witnesses" together with Bae disclosing the "human rights" situation in the DPRK after leaving prison.
    As proved by his confession, the crime committed by Miller Matthew Todd was prompted by his sinister political aim to deliberately slander the DPRK in the light of his aim, preparations and implementation of his plan.
    He perpetrated the above-said acts in the hope of becoming a "world famous guy" and the "second Snowden" through intentional hooliganism. This is an intolerable insult and mockery of the DPRK and he, therefore, deserved a punishment.
    What mattered was that his crime timed to coincide with the reckless remarks made by officials of the present U.S. administration including Secretary of State Kerry terming the dignified DPRK a "country of evil" over its rocket firing and elections to power bodies in March and April this year, and the smear campaign over its "human rights issue."
    What he committed was espionage coming under Article 64 of the Criminal Law of the DPRK.
    This case of the American helps the army and people of the DPRK recollect what miserable end American spies met after being arrested before infiltrating into the prisoners' camp where a lot of American POWs including Dean, commander of the 24th Division of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, were in custody, for the purpose of spying on it during the last Fatherland Liberation War.
    Much water flowed under the bridge and old generation was replaced by a new one but the shameful tradition of the U.S. in which it was hit hard and sustained heavy setbacks by the DPRK historically and the latter's proud tradition in which it meted out a stern judgment to the former, the kingpin of plot-breeding, are given steady continuity and these law-governed two traditions will last forever.
    The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office of the DPRK brought the Supreme Court an indictment against the American as the truth about the crime committed by the accused was confirmed by his statement and evidence.
    The Supreme Court of the DPRK held a trial of him on Sept. 14.
    There was no pleading by the counsel as the accused rejected it and the trial was held in camera according to his request.
    At the trial he admitted that he committed the crimes, prompted by his political motive to personally spy on the "human rights" situation in the DPRK and disclose it in a bid to isolate and stifle the DPRK's system.
    The Supreme Court of the DPRK sentenced Miller Matthew Todd to six years of hard labor according to Article 64 of the criminal law.
    The army and people of the DPRK are now watching with vigilance the forces behind the scene as Miller's crime was committed in pursuance of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and strongly calling for ferreting out all those who dare provoke the dignified DPRK and meting out a merciless punishment to them, no matter who they are and where they are.
    The disgusting U.S. which is behaving in the international human rights arena as if it were an inborn "judge" and those who are acting like tiger moths, talking about "human rights" pursuant to its line will not be able to escape a judgment by the era and history and the present U.S. administration clinging to the evil repugnancy toward the DPRK and its inveterate hostile policy toward the latter will not be able to evade the responsibility for the recent case of the American. -0-

Trade Union Officials Hold Seminar

  Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Officials of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea held a seminar on the education in Kim Jong Il's patriotism, faith, working class viewpoint and morality at the Central Hall of Workers Thursday.
    The participants heard papers dealing with the significance and validity of the idea clarified by Marshal Kim Jong Un on the education in Kim Jong Il's patriotism, faith, working class viewpoint and morality and the issues arising in conducting the 4-point education in a unique manner among the trade union members.
    The floor was taken by Hyon Sang Ju, chairman of the C.C., the federation, Kim Kyong Su, chairman of the Pyongyang City Committee of the federation, Kim Un Chol, chairman of the Cabinet Committee of the federation, Jang Kum Chol, chairman of the Academy of Social Sciences Committee of the federation, and Ri Sung Gwon, chairman of the Ministry of Railways Committee of the federation.
    The speakers said that the idea advanced by Kim Jong Un on 4-point education serves as important guidelines to be held fast to in the ideological work of the federation at present, and it is the basic task of the federation to firmly prepare all trade union members to be the true patriots thoroughly applying Kim Jong Il's patriotism into practical activities.
    They underlined the need to put up mosquito nets so that the imperialists' ideology and culture and alien trend of life would not be instilled into trade union members, and wage a dynamic struggle to thoroughly root out all non-socialist practices.
    Trade union members should have the steadfast spirit of defending the country and turn out in the decisive struggle to resolutely shatter the moves of the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppet group of traitors to ignite a new war, they noted.
    The federation should dynamically conduct the 4-point education among trade union organizations and members and thus successfully perform its honorable mission as reliable helpers and defenders of the party in the general advance of the Songun revolution, they stressed.
    Present at the seminar were trade union officials and members and workers. -0-

National Reunification Institute Reveals U.S. Criminal Colonial Rule over S. Korea

National Reunification Institute Reveals U.S. Criminal Colonial Rule over S. Korea

  Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute in a memorandum it released Wednesday in the run-up to the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Korea revealed the crimes the U.S. committed by inflicting unbearable misfortune and pain on the south Korean people through its colonial rule.
    Nearly 70 years covered by south Korea after the liberation of Korea were a history of disgrace in which it has been thoroughly dependent on the U.S. in the political, military, cultural, economic and all other fields with its political sovereignty and the right to existence wantonly violated by the U.S.
    South Korea is a colony of the U.S. with its political sovereignty violated by the U.S., the memorandum said, and went on:
    The U.S. is the ruler over south Korea as it has decided everything in south Korea since the liberation of Korea.
    The south Korean regime was installed according to the will of the U.S. and pro-U.S. stooges who were groomed by the U.S. were elected as "presidents" to faithfully serve the U.S. This is the stark reality in south Korea.
    The puppet regime is unable to exercise the elementary right to sovereignty as it kowtows to the U.S. The relations between the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are master-servant relations, those of domination and subjugation.
    The right to command the armed forces in south Korea has been exercised by the U.S. under brigandish military treaties imposed by the U.S. on south Korea since the south Korean army was organized as a colonial mercenary army.
    After the present conservative regime took power in south Korea, the U.S., by taking advantage of the chief executive's ignorance of the military affairs, pushed the situation in south Korea to the brink of a war and created "insecurity" through various forms of north-targeted war drills in its persistent bid to extend again the transfer of the right to command the wartime operations.
    As a result, the present south Korean chief executive, who committed herself "not to extend again the transfer of the right to command the wartime operations" during her "presidential campaign" in 2012, could not but stage the farce of imploring the U.S. to extend the right to command the wartime operations, seized by extreme "security uneasiness". Therefore, it was decided shortly ago to extend the transfer to the period after 2020.
    The memorandum noted that the U.S. employed all sorts of mechanisms, means and methods to turn south Korea into its permanent colony and military base in a bid to realize its ideological and cultural domination over south Korea. It continued:
    The U.S. is distributing anti-DPRK books, publications and literature that preach the corrupt American way of life, Yankee culture in different parts of south Korea. And it is pressurizing the south Korean authorities to reduce the institutional mechanism for limiting the showing of foreign films and screen more U.S. films, claiming that movies are very effective for disseminating the idea of worship towards the U.S. and the American way of life.
    Owing to the U.S. cunning and vicious ideological and cultural domination, the south Korean people's consciousness of independence and national culture and their beautiful manners and customs were stamped out and the idea of flunkeyism and subjugation and corrupt American culture and way of life are prevalent in the south Korean society.
    Noting that south Korea is a colony totally dependent on U.S. economy, the memorandum went on:
    The south Korean economy has been reduced to an empty one due to the protracted U.S. colonial enslavement policy. It finds itself in such miserable position that it always suffers an acute shortage of raw materials and funds and undergoes marketing difficulties.
    South Korea depends on the U.S. and other foreign countries for 87-100 percent of raw materials and fuel needed for industrial production, for 70 percent of spare parts and materials and for 100 percent of core technology and resource technology for the production of goods.
    Multinational capitals in the U.S. found their ways into south Korea by various forms and methods such as direct investment, indirect investment, loan, technical cooperation and joint bank and are raking up excessive colonial profits, being granted all sorts of special privileges by the puppet forces.
    The puppet forces can never get rid of such miserable plight as colonial stooges and the south Koreans cannot escape disgrace, misfortune and pain as long as the U.S. colonial domination and their sycophancy toward it and treachery persist, the memorandum concluded. -0-

Suppression of S. Korean Confederation of Trade Unions under Fire

    Pyongyang, July 13 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions made public a statement against the public security authorities' suppression of the confederation, according to the south Korean on-line paper Thongil News on July 9.
    The police raided the houses of the incumbent director for reunification and the former chairman for reunification of the confederation, the statement noted, branding it as a deliberate suppression to tide over the ruling crisis after the ferry Sewol disaster.
    At least 10 searchers were involved in the search of just one house, an act pursuant to a plan to find other charges as the suspicions about them were too unreasonable, the statement held, and went on:
    It is impossible to expect anything from the present regime which relies on the outdated suppressive mechanism to get rid of crisis.
    The confederation would strongly react to the suppression. -0-