Workers and Members of GFTUK Meet

Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- A meeting of workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) took place beside the monument to the sinking of the U.S. imperialist aggressors' ship General Sherman on Wednesday on the occasion of the June 25, the day of struggle against the U.S. imperialists.
Present there were Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, officials concerned, officials of trade unions, workers and members of the trade unions.
Kim Myong Gum who witnessed the atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialists made a speech.
She referred to the mass killings perpetrated by them in Sinchon during the period of the temporary strategic retreat of the Korean People's Army during the Fatherland Liberation War.
She bitterly condemned the U.S. imperialists as a group of beasts in human skin and sworn enemy with whom one can not live under the same sky.
The floor was taken by other attendants.
They said that running high was the Korean people's will to take revenge upon the U.S. imperialists who are still working hard to hamstring the DPRK's efforts to achieve the independent reunification of the country and its prosperity.
Young speakers declared that in case the U.S. imperialists ignite a war of aggression at any cost, the young people would turn out in a sacred war of justice alongside the People's Army to wipe out the aggressors and turn the den of evils into ashes so that no one may survive on our planet by fighting an unimaginably retaliatory warfare.
They called for demonstrating once again the stamina and mettle of the heroic Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class in the on-going 200-day campaign in the spirit of dealing a merciless sledge-hammer blow at the U.S. imperialists. -0-

US, the chief criminal of Gwangju massacre

US, the chief criminal of Gwangju massacre

Members of the Korea Solidarity for Independent Reunification and Democracy in south Korea held rally before the White House on May 18 together with the Association for Supporting Prisoners of Conscience of the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy in the US.

The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of the Gwangju uprisers who laid down their lives in the fight for independence and democracy against the fascist military dictatorship.

At the rally speakers said that 36 years have elapsed since the Gwangju uprising and accused Chun Doo-hwan, the ringleader of manslaughter, of denying the brutal massacre of resistance fighters, far from apologizing for it.

In order to embellish the history of autocracy, the south Korean chief executive has distorted the history textbook to belittle the spirit of Gwangju popular uprising, they denounced.

What we should not forget is the fact that the US was behind the massacre in Gwangju because it was impossible to mobilize armed forces without the US approval at that time, they noted, adding: Though it was disclosed that the US approved the military involvement before the massacre, the US has still denied it.

They disclosed that the US conducted experiments on anthrax and botulinus germ as well as Zika virus and the US is going to make its military bases for biochemical warfare.

The US troops in south Korea have committed innumerable crimes in south Korea and the Gwangju massacre is one of them, they added, the south Korea authorities have winked at the GIs’ crimes.

They demanded the withdrawal of the US troops from south Korea.

A statement was read out.

It said the organizations in south Korea and abroad would intensify actions against the US and war.

Open up a fresh era for the popular masses!

There took place a workers rally, mass rally in Gwangju, south Korea on May 14 for inheriting the spirit of the 36th anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju Popular Resistance under the sponsorship of the Confederation of Trade Unions and the Solidarity for Progress.

Attending it were workers, peasants, youth and students, more than 3 000 in all and lawmakers from the opposition parties.

The participants released a resolution.

It said the successful April general election which punished the arrogance of the present regime by the strength of the people is requiring a more positive action.

They said that they should be honorable before the spirits of the fallen uprisers by encountering stubbornly with illegal acts of the current regime.   

At the rally speakers called upon workers and masses to get united to build a world where the south and the north live together, world where workers can work freely, peasants produce freely and all people are happy.

At the end of the rally the participants made a grand march

CPRK Secretariat Accuses Park Geun Hye of Turning S. Korea into Veritable Hell

 Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) released a white paper Monday accusing the Park Geun Hye group of traitors in south Korea of the unheard-of hideous fascist suppression it has committed since it took power.
    The white paper says:
    Park Geun Hye worked overtly and covertly to eliminate from the political arena the Unified Progressive Party, which set it as its programme to achieve independence, democracy and reunification, after labeling it as an "unconstitutional pro-north political party." When she found it hard to carry out her sinister design, being faced with torrential public criticism, she cooked up a conspiratorial plotted rebellion case to finally dissolve the party, which had conducted legitimate activities for 15 years, in December, 2014.
    Not content with harshly suppressing the Teachers Union (Jongyojo) founded in 1989, she, terming it the "heart of followers of the north", "enemy inside south Korea", finally outlawed the union by labeling it as an "organization benefiting the enemy."
    The Park group let gangsters storm and illegally search the office and houses of members of the South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) in broad daylight, confiscate their personal belongings, arrest its core member on his sickbed and impose all mental and physical sufferings on its secretary general by dragging him here and there with his hands cuffed.
    Shortly ago, her group sentenced the advisor to the South Headquarters of Pomminryon, who had been released after serving 35 years in jail, to imprisonment despite his advanced age on charges of violation of the "Security Law" for his possession of "literature benefiting enemy."
    The Bar Association for Democratic Society was investigated by the puppet prosecution authorities for the mere reason that it played a crucial role in probing the truth about the spying cases in south Korea such as the case of the People's Revolutionary Party and the case of the National Democratic Youth and Students League cooked up during the Park Chung-hee military dictatorship and declaring those involved in them not guilty.
    A Jonju parish priest of the south Korean Catholic Priests' Council for Justice was subject to unbearable mistreatment and suppression for reading the mass demanding the resignation of Park Geun Hye who was elected "president" through election-rigging.
    Ro Su Hui, vice-chairman of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon, was put behind bars after being sentenced to heavy penalties for visiting Pyongyang to express condolences over the demise of leader

Kim Jong Il, a great loss to the nation. Members of the Korea Solidarity for Independent Reunification and Democracy were detained on charges of advocating national reunification.
    In March last year a representative of the civic organization was sentenced to 15 years in jail for making a knife attack on the U.S. ambassador to south Korea as an expression of his anger and protest against the U.S. standing in the way of Korea's reunification and staging madcap war rehearsals for invading the north.
    An increasing number of people in south Korea are arrested every year on charges of violation of the "Security Law" such as "praising and encouraging the north", "joining enemy benefiting organizations", "offering facility" and "hatching plots."
    Politically motivated investigation is conducted legally and openly in south Korea only under the pretext of "combating terrorism" and ensuring "security."
    According to data made public at the puppet National Assembly, the information investigation organs including the puppet Intelligence Service received 82 245 445 secret communication data without official warrants during the three years from 2012 to 2014. This means more than 75 000 data on a daily average and 1.6 cases of investigation into every person in three years.
    Park Geun Hye forcibly banned Jaju Minbo, a progressive internet paper of south Korea.
    During eight months of her office, she deleted more than 23 790 articles on websites on charge of violation of the "Security Law" and forcibly shut down hundreds of websites.
    Park expelled an overseas Korean woman from south Korea on the charge of "praising and encouraging the social system in the north" for the mere reason that she uttered such words as "taste of the beer of the north is good and its rivers are very clean" while giving her impression of the DPRK as what she saw there. It was again Park who hatched all sorts of despicable plots by mobilizing the puppet Intelligence Service against a overseas compatriots organization for disclosing the truth behind the crimes related to the ferry Sewol disaster.
    The Park group's operation for strangling democracy reached at its height in mercilessly suppressing the demonstrations and rallies of workers, farmers and other people from all walks of life in south Korea all out to protect their right to live from the puppet authorities' unpopular rule.
    According to the official data released by the puppet Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, those who were walked away at the venues of rallies and demos in Seoul in 2013 increased more 6.5 times over those in the previous year.
    All the facts go to prove that Park is the ferocious fascist putting the preceding dictators into the shade.
    Park can never escape a stern punishment for the thrice-cursed crimes she committed by turning south Korea into a huge prison, tundra of democracy and veritable hell of appalling confusion through her unprecedented fascist dictatorial rule after grabbing power through illegal methods, the white paper concluded. -0-

GFTUK Spokesman Urges S. Korea to Send Back to DPRK Workers Abducted

  Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) in a statement on Friday denounced the Park Geun Hye group of traitors for mobilizing the gangsters of the "Intelligence Service" to let them commit the thrice-cursed crime of alluring and abducting in group the woman workers who were working at an overseas restaurant.
    The statement continued:
    The shameless and unethical criminal act is a product of the foolish ambition and the heinous policy of escalating confrontation with the DPRK pursued by the Park Geun Hye group to undermine the single-minded unity of the DPRK and realize the ambition for "unification of social systems".
    The recent gangster-like act of abducting the women of the DPRK working overseas after reaching dark tentacles to them proves that traitor Park Geun Hye's confrontation-minded paranoia has already gone beyond the danger line as it was the most vicious politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK.
    The statement vehemently denounces in the name of all the workers in the northern half of Korea the Park Geun Hye group of traitors who allured and abducted in group the women workers of the DPRK in broad daylight and strongly demanded the Park group to send them back unconditionally and immediately.
    If the Park group wants to prolong its remaining days, it has to apologize before the nation for the group abduction of those women of the DPRK, send them back immediately and unconditionally and sternly punish those who were involved in the abduction and those who manipulated it backstage, the statement concluded. -0-

Inexorably condemn Park Geun-hye and the ruling Saenuri Party going against public sentiment

Inexorably condemn Park Geun-hye and the ruling Saenuri Party going against public sentiment

Action slogans on the 20th “general election”

Dear fellow countrymen!

Sternly punish Park Geun-hye and the Saenuri Party, the heinous enemy of democracy, nation and people through ballot!

Turn the people’s pent-up indignation at the Park regime into a stern judgment of the Saenuri Party!

Take a vote to make Park hell-bent on the revival of “yusin” dictatorship as a living political corpse and put an end to the ruling conservatives’ life!

There are no hope of a new politics and life speaking for the public sentiment as long as the conservative ruling quarters remain in the saddle.  

Overthrow the old political landscape by inflicting a disastrous defeat upon the Saenuri Party!

Knock the Saenuri Party, the minion of the Park regime clinging to the policy against the people, democracy and reunification!

Don’t be taken in by Park who broke her presidential commitments and settle accounts it with punishment of the Saenuri Party.

Overthrow the political landscape through an active poll!

Cast ballots against the Saenuri Party killing 99 percent of people for the sake of 1 percent of conglomerate!

Women voters should ostracize Park and her henchman the Saenuri Party violating woman’s beauty and ideal.

Do away with Park and the Saenuri Party scheming to liquidate the progressive forces under the pretext of “following the north” in the name of the nation!

Put an end to the pro-US conservative regime by turning the approaching general election into a nationwide action against the US!

Eradicate Park and the Saenuri Party, faithful stooges to Washington and tyrant to the people!

Make all the polling booths into the theaters of denouncing capital crimes of Park and the Saenuri Party.

Check the Uncle Sam’s foxy interference in the election!

Cast ballots for the candidates who value the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration and advocate inter-Korean reconciliation, cooperation and peace!

Success in the election depends on cohesion and single candidacy.

Do not weep with disunion but make the cheerful laughter after winning the election in unity.

Make the forthcoming election into a platform for punishing the Saenuri Party through the ballot! 

Propaganda Department of the AINDF Central Committee

March 24, 2016

Seoul

Spokesman for C.C., GFTUK Assails U.S. and S. Korean Authorities' Reckless Moves

 Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) in a statement on Saturday vehemently condemned on behalf of all the workers the U.S. imperialists and the Park Geun Hye group of traitors of south Korea for their heinous moves to get the sun eclipsed, not content with running amuck in the reckless moves to invade the DPRK.
    The statement said:
    If the enemies ignite a war, the DPRK's working class will join the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army in the battle to blow up the den of the Park's regime, liberate the southern part of Korea and build a new society for the working people there, tightly holding arms of the revolution instead of hammer.
    The world will see how the service personnel and people of the DPRK including the working class firmly rallied behind the outstanding Songun brilliant commander punish the provocateurs who have committed the shuddering acts against the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and win the final victory in the confrontation with the U.S. and a great war for national reunification.
    The U.S. imperialists, the sworn enemy, and the Park Geun Hye group of traitors will pay a dear price for the high treason committed against the Korean people. -0-