Park Geun Hye Should Be Buried in Cemetery as Soon as Possible: Spokesman for DPRK Organization

  Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Joint National Organization of Working People issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing Park Geun Hye, a trouble-maker of the nation, for spitting out venoms in her "address marking August 15".
    She said in an address the north must follow the change of the international community, the statement noted, and went on:
    What she uttered is nothing but sophism of a person without elementary faculty of judging her fellow countrymen.
    What should be changed is none other than south Korea, a colony of the U.S. as it has to serve and follow the U.S. whether it likes or not, and Park Geun Hye as she is steeped in confrontation with fellow countrymen to the marrow of her bones.
    What all the Koreans want and expect is to wipe out sycophants and traitors such as Park from the members of the nation to the last one.
    Park also cried out for "purge". Purge is an essential means for the puppet forces to prop up their regime as they resort to repression and bestial suppression.
    Park grumbled that the north is "wrecking peace and going against south-north integration" while not responding to the "proposal for dialogue".
    If she had been sincere in her proposal for dialogue, she would have buckled down to creating an atmosphere for it.
    From the outset of the year, Park and her group, however, have escalated confrontation totally going against the resumption of dialogue.
    This time, she trumpeted about the inviolable nuclear issue of the DPRK once again. Not only all the Koreans but the world public regards the DPRK's nuclear deterrence as a treasured sword for protecting the peace of the country and security of the nation.
    Only Park is denying this universally accepted truth.
    She vociferated about the trite "north's deed" peppered with intrigues and fabrications. She unhesitatingly said that the north is "threatening security" through "cyber attack".
    She wagged her venomous tongue to let loose a spate of invectives such as "provocation and threat" and to say the north will "invite isolation and ruin by itself".
    It is Park who does not know even the conception of provocation and threat.
    Though belatedly, she should study the conceptions of provocation and threat and acknowledge herself to have been a chieftain committing provocation and threat on this land.
    She talked rubbish that "an opportunity is being given now", trumpeting about the July 4 joint statement.
    We would like to ask Park who dared talk about the July 4 joint statement.
    Does she sympathize with the principle of independence that calls for settling all the issues arising between the north and the south, large and small, from the stand of attaching importance and giving priority to the nation without dependence on foreign forces and free from their interference?
    Does she approve the principle of peaceful reunification that reflects the patriotic spirit of protecting the living place of fellow countrymen from war disaster and guaranteeing the co-prosperity of the nation?
    Has she willingness to accept the spirit of By Our Nation Itself and the principle of great national unity, which is the nation's mode of existence the key point of which is that division leads to ruin and reunification to powerful nation, and engine of improving north-south relations?
    If she stands before the solemn questions of all Koreans, she will get ablush as she has so far become all the more hysteric going against all of them.
    Resentful is that she talked crafty venoms as if she were interested in settling the issue of "separated families" which had already gone bankrupt. Lurking behind this is her ill purpose to calm down the people's mindset against her self-opinionated and shameless unpopular rule.
    This time, she talked nonsense that she would create "world ecology peace park" in the Demilitarized Zone to make it a "new axis for realizing cooperation".
    Nonsensical is her call for creating the "peace park" in the biggest hotspot in the world, where the worst confrontation persists and a war may break out any moment.
    She also made all kinds of spurious remarks.
    Explicitly speaking once again, she should set right the bad situation in south Korea before caring for and discussing the life of someone.
    No matter how glittering make-up she may put, it is too late to prevent the foul smell from reeking off from her body interwoven with sycophancy, treachery, confrontation and hostility.
    What she should do for the nation is to leave Chongwadae, the doghouse of the U.S., shut her unshapely mouth and get her crime-ridden body buried in the ceremony at an early date. -0-

79th Plenary Meeting of C.C., GFTUK Elects New Chairman

Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The 79th Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) took place here Monday.
    The meeting discussed an organizational matter.
    Chairman Hyon Sang Ju was relieved from his post for his old age and Ju Yong Gil was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK. -0-

Park Geun Hye Accused of Her Reckless Tongue-lashing

Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The Joint National Organization of Working People of the DPRK released a statement on Saturday denouncing south Korean Park Geun Hye's ceaseless reckless tongue-lashing against the DPRK.
    The DPRK has seriously advised and warned Park Geun Hye of her reckless tongue-lashing, terming it a source of trouble for the nation, the statement said, adding:
    However, Park has not yet come to reason but is still keen on letting loose invectives against the DPRK.
    Reprimanding her once again for the wrong way of thinking she had when she was foul-tongued on July 20 as she is politically illiterate, ignorant of even common knowledge, the statement went on:
    Park talked rubbish that the "biggest hurdle" lying in the way of achieving peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is the "north's nukes."
    Park, however, should know what the real hurdle is.
    In a nutshell, the actual stumbling block is the U.S. and her group blindly following it, not the DPRK's nukes.
    She should bear in mind that peace on the Korean peninsula is harassed by the U.S. moves for aggression and war and stability there is disturbed by the confrontation and hostility being incited by her and her group of traitors moving according to her skirt swishing.
    Ridiculing her claim that the DPRK is "developing nuclear weapons in disregard of the living of its citizens", pursuant to the line of developing the two fronts simultaneously, the statement urged her to be well aware of the weighty significance of the DPRK's line, to begin with.
    The line is the wisest choice to foil the U.S. and its followers' desperate moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and promote wellbeing of the people and accelerate the building of a thriving nation, it noted, and went on:
    The DPRK's nukes protect its people's destiny from the constant moves of the U.S. and its stooges for aggression and nuclear war and huge funds for building of conventional force go to the improvement of the people's living standard. This is the essence of the above-said line.
    The people of the DPRK enjoy all social benefits given by the state -- free education, free healthcare and provision of houses.
    She is bound to feel ashamed as she would get to know that the national incomes advertised by her regime and the U.S. is no more than petty ones when they are compared with the social benefits in the DPRK.
    Park was so impudent as to say that her regime would "actively support the economic development" in the DPRK by "cooperating with the international community" if it makes a strategic decision to "dismantle its nukes."
    The people of the DPRK have dynamically advanced along the road of prosperity by their own efforts.
    Park, seized with sycophancy toward the U.S., had better concern herself about the crippled economy of south Korea that depends on the U.S.
    She claimed the "unification" pursued by her is "the ultimate solution" in an effort to mislead the public opinion by creating impression that such complicated issues as "nukes, human rights and provocation" were spawned by the DPRK. She had better drop such a pipe dream.
    The issues that should be settled are neither the issue of the DPRK's nukes, a treasured sword common to the nation, nor the "human rights issue" which can never exist in its popular masses-centred society.
    What should be halted urgently is the U.S. nuclear blackmail and threat against the DPRK, human rights abuses in south Korea, a human rights tundra where fascist dictatorship is rampant, and all the political and military provocations being perpetrated every day by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet military warmongers against the DPRK.
    Park once again self-exposed through her reckless remarks that she is no more than a hideous confrontation maniac rare to be found in the world. Park is doomed to ruin like her father who met a miserable death as he betrayed the nation. -0-

Against the Labour Policy

On July 4, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions waged anti-government struggle in protest against the south Korean authorities’ policy against the workers. About 35 000 manufacturing, public and financial workers of the trade unions participated. Nearly 20 000 manufacturing workers of Joint Struggle Headquarters held a rally at the plaza of the Seoul Station and declared joint general strike. The retrogressive revision of wage system and employment condition by the south Korean “government” is for the expansion of part-time job and mass dismissal, they noted in the joint statement. They insisted that the “government” should accept their demands such as reduction of working hours and wage increase and also stop the revision of labor market structure. They declared that there would be general strike of manufacturing workers against the revision of labor market structure on July 22 and simultaneous rallies of all branches throughout south Korea. At the end of the rally they marched, shouting slogans “Punish Park Dictatorship!”, “Check the Revision of Labor Market Structure!”                                       Meanwhile, 15 000 public and financial workers of Joint Struggle Headquarters held a rally in Seoul in demand of stopping the revision of labor market structure and privatization of the public. Holding slogans written “General Strike! Punish Park Geun-hye!”, “Achieve Basic Labor Right”, they condemned the Park regime who has made desperate bid to realize anti-workers policy. They insisted that the south Korean authorities are forcing only dismissal and intensive work without wage increase and are depriving the trade unions of rights to negotiate.                                   In essence, the “Normalization of Public Institution” and “Reforms in the Financial System” advertised by the “government” are aimed at turning the public institutions into moneymaking means, they denounced. Asserting that the authorities, who have spent tremendous money on the “Four Major Rivers Restoration Project”, are scheming to place the responsibility of it on the public workers, they appealed to the workers to launch the struggle against the anti-workers policy such as privatization of the public. At the end of the rally, the workers marched to Cheonggye Square. (4)

Trade Union Members Swear Allegiance

                                                       

Taean, July 2 (KCNA) -- There took place an oath-taking of workers and trade union members before the statue of President Kim Il Sung in Taean District, Nampho City on Thursday in commemoration of the 21st anniversary of his demise.
    Present there were Ri Il Hwan, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials of the trade union, workers and other trade union members.
    The participants laid a floral basket and bouquets before the statue of the President and paid tribute to him.
    A letter of pledge was read out at the meeting.
    It called for holding the President in high esteem as the sun of Juche, eternal leader of the revolution and glorifying his revolutionary life and exploits down through generations. -0-

Deplorable State of S. Korean Workers Disclosed

  Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute issued a white paper Wednesday disclosing the miserable state of south Korean workers attributable to the puppet forces' unpopular rule.
    The number of the unemployed has shown an exponential increase in recent years, becoming a serious social problem, the white paper said, and went on:
    The number was over 3.5 million in 2013 which rose to at least 4.5 million in 2014 and more than 500 000 of them gave up employment. And the number of underemployed increased to 10 million from 8 million in the period.
    What is all the more serious is the problem of jobless young people.
    Earlier this year the rate of young people without job was 21.8 percent, an increase from the time of massive unemployment that was caused by group bankruptcy after 1997 currency run. The rate was estimated to be higher than the average unemployment rate among the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and regions.
    University graduates without jobs showed a record high of 2.75 million.
    The severity of youth unemployment in south Korea can be seen in the fact that youth are giving up love, marriage and childbirth plus housing and getting relations with people.
    This notwithstanding, the present chief executive is enticing young people into going abroad, saying they can get jobs only when they go abroad.
    But young south Koreans only meet national humiliation and contempt and miserable death.
    The proportion of part-time workers under less than a year contract has reached 37.1 %, the highest among major capitalist countries and in the region.
    What is all the more deplorable is the pervasive "status system" which says children with part-time worker parents have to be part-timers.
    The white paper revealed the fact that south Korean workers are doing labor under extremely poor working conditions.
    According to data underreported by the south Korean relevant authorities, the number of victims of industrial disaster was over 90 900 or more than 240 on a daily average across south Korea last year and among them the number of those who suffered from accidents were more than 83 200 and victims of occupational disease by harmful materials were over 7 600.
    The mortality rate due to industrial disaster topped the world list being 2 or 4 times higher than that in major capitalist countries.
    CNN in an article introducing south Korea in August last year said weekly work hours of workers in south Korea is 12 hours longer than an average work hours of people in other parts of the world, adding daily sleeping hours of south Korean workers are less than six hours.
    Yet, they fail to get even the minimum wages for doing hard work.
    In south Korea where the jungle law prevails, employment crime whereby the rights of workers are mercilessly violated is ubiquitous.
    What is all the more serious is that teenagers, the disabled and women are taken as "labor force easy to be hired with meager wage".
    Child labor is internationally banned but teenagers are subject to harsh forced labor in south Korea today.
    74.2 percent of teenagers working in the service fields in Seoul are doing slave labor without contract. Exploitation of the disabled is making people tremble with horror as it is beyond human imagination.
    According to a report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the rate of women taking part in economic activities and their employment rate, ages 25 to 54, are 62.8 percent and 61.2 percent each, the lowest among the member countries and in the region.
    What is all the more problematic is the serious sexual violence committed against women workers at work sites.
    In March this year the British magazine Economist ridiculed at the worst discrimination against south Korean women in the world.
    A broad segment of the toiling masses of south Korea are protesting against the present authorities' unpopular labor policy that benefits the big businesses.
    More than 20 workers committed suicide unable to stand suppression of trade unions and lay-off after the present regime took office.
    Workers are staging sit-ins, risking their lives.
    Getting all the more fierce is protest of workers against the unpopular rule by the authorities keen on intensifying suppression.
    All facts go to clearly prove that south Korea is the world's worst tundra of human rights and a dark society where democracy and human rights can not be found.
    However, the present south Korean ruling quarters slander the most advantageous labor system in the DPRK where genuine popular policies are enforced and speak ill of those who are working abroad with an intention to be helpful to the system. This is a ridiculous provocative act.
    The puppet forces should clearly understand that their anti-DPRK "human rights" racket in collusion with outsiders will precipitate their destruction. -0-

S. Korean Regime's Anti-DPRK "Human Rights" Racket Assailed

  Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea on Thursday made public a statement accusing the south Korean puppet group of kicking up a frantic anti-DPRK racket.
    The south Korean puppet authorities let subsidized institutes and anti-DPRK "human rights" bodies made up of riff-raffs spout a litany of such invectives as painting those workers sent by the DPRK to different countries for external economic cooperation as "ones engaged in slave labor" and "subject to exploitation."
    They, at the same time, brought the "human rights" issue of workers of the DPRK overseas for discussion at the meeting with the U.S. and Japanese delegates to the six-party talks held in Seoul late in May though it had nothing to do with the nuclear issue and agreed to use the matter as a "new subject for pressing the north." They are making desperate efforts to achieve their sinister aim by instigating the U.S. and other hostile forces and international bodies.
    The statement branded the racket as an unpardonable challenge to defame the dignity and image of the DPRK and intolerable insult to the overseas workers devoting themselves to the building of a thriving nation.
    It is the height of shamelessness for Park Geun Hye, descendant of the notorious "yusin" dictator, and her group to vociferate about the human rights of the overseas workers of the DPRK, the statement noted, and went on:
    Their anti-DPRK "human rights" racket is nothing but the desperate efforts of those who are much upset by the DPRK making a dynamic advance, powerfully demonstrating its might before the whole world as a matchless military power and nuclear power for self-defence.
    All the workers of the DPRK will surely smash the sinister anti-DPRK "human rights" racket of the south Korean puppet group, hordes of rare traitors. -0