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International tribunal opens

Korean Central News Agency

Release Date: 7/25/2003

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. crimes in Korea was held on July 24 under the co-sponsorship of International Democratic Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People. The tribunal will give a relevant decision upon the U.S. after prosecuting it for all kinds of crimes including the most barbarous aggression, plunder, massacre and destruction in human history it has ceaselessly committed in the Korean Peninsula, bringing the Korean people indescribable misfortune and pain for over a century.

Delegations and delegates participating in the International Conference first formed the international joint justice team and the international joint prosecution team to operate the Pyongyang International Tribunal.

They chose Jitendra Sharma, president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, as presiding judge and Athanasios Pafilis, executive secretary of the World Peace Council, Miguel Madeira, president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Marcia De Campos Pereira, president of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Paulette Pierson, honorary chairman of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea, Valentin Pacho, deputy general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, as judges. The international joint justice team has 25 other members.

The international joint prosecution team has Beth S. Lyons, representative of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers at the U.N. as chief prosecutor and George Katsiaficas, president of Peaceisland Foundation of the United States of America, Lorne Gershuny, representative of the People's Front Organization of Canada, Im Wan Sik, vice-chairman of the Korean Democratic Lawyers' Association, Alejandro Cao De Benos, chairman of the Spain Association for the Friendship with Korea, Aleksandr Brezhnev, member of the east European Regional Group for Probing the Truth behind GIS' Atrocities, as prosecutors.

Beth S. Lyons, George Katsiaficas, Lorne Gershuny and Im Wan Sik on behalf of the prosecution team presented an indictment against the U.S. crimes in Korea.

In the indictment they bitterly denounced the U.S. crimes as a gross violation of international law and the un charter, its embodiment.

The trial continues.