North Korea Weekly (Mar. 5 - Mar. 11, 2007)
ROK National Intelligence Service
o Inside North Korea
(Mar. 6) North Korea’s Rodong Shinmun contended, “Bourgeois ideology and culture are the most reactionary as they benumb the minds and physical bodies of human beings and stand in the way of social progress.” It went on to say, “The imperialists are craftily working to infiltrate anti-imperialist independent countries and socialist countries with bourgeois ideology and culture, asserting that a bourgeois ideological and cultural offensive is sufficiently effective to bring down those countries that they deem hard to subdue by dint of nuclear weapons.”
(Mar. 7) The North Korean Central News Agency propagandized, “The Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly recently announced a government ordinance on the adoption of the Underground Railroad Act. With the adoption of the Underground Railroad Act, the material and technical foundation of the underground railway sector was strengthened to meet the requirements for realistic development and the achievements of modern science and technology were actively accommodated, which provided a solid legal basis for continuous development of underground rail transportation.”
(Mar. 7) The North Korean Central News Agency reported, “Kim Jeong-il, accompanied by Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea Choi Tae-bok, Vice Marshal of the Korean People’s Army Kim Il-cheol and others, attended a performance of ‘Blue Sky Over My Country (Part on Dawn).’ He expressed great satisfaction with the artists’ creation of a masterpiece in the era of Songun [military-first] and added that the astounding progress made in Juche-based art is clear evidence of the validity and great vitality of the WPK’s literary and art policy.”
(Mar. 8) The North Korean Central News Agency reported, “A national meeting to mark the 97th observance of International Women’s Day was held on March 8 at the People’s Palace of Culture and was attended by Vice Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Command Yang Hyeong-seop, Secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK Kim Joong-rin and others. In her commemorative report, Pak Soon-hee, chairperson of the Central Committee of the North Korean Democratic Women’s Union, stated, ‘Under the leadership of Kim Jeong-il, the women’s movement in North Korea is in its heyday of self-development. The wisdom and heroic spirit of the North Korean women in the Songun era must be held high once again in this meaningful struggle to completely open the door to the prosperity of the fatherland.’”
(Mar. 10) North Korea’s Central Broadcasting Station reported, “While the entire nation is vigorously supporting the steel sector, cabinet ministries and central government agencies loaded hundreds of tons of scrap metal onto more than 100 vehicles on March 9 to be transported to Chollima Steel Complex.”
o Outside North Korea
(Mar. 5) North Korea’s Rodong Shinmun contended, “The Japanese reactionaries are running amok in their repressive actions against Jochongnyeon, the pro-North Korean residents’ league in Japan, and against Korean compatriots in Japan, which is an intolerable infringement on the sovereignty of the DPRK. We must demonstrate our will for a merciless revenge hundreds and thousands of times greater to remind them that it will only bring closer their time of destruction, and they must act with discretion.”
(Mar. 7) In an interview, a spokesperson for North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, “When a resolution was recently brought to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House condemning the Japanese army’s crimes against the so-called comfort women, Japanese Prime Minister Abe contended that there is no evidence to support that the Japanese army coerced the comfort women, and has completely denied the crimes against them. What the Japanese authorities are pursuing by zealously protecting the war crimes of their ancestors is the resurrection of Japanese militarism. The crimes of the Japanese army against the comfort women must be settled without delay.”
(Mar. 11) North Korea’s Rodong Shinmun emphasized, “At this moment, the US imperialists are clinging to psychological schemes and maneuvers for ideological and cultural infiltration to erode from within the ‘socialism in our style,’ and we must counter this with revolutionary ideological offensives.”
o Inter-Korean Issues
(Mar. 6) North Korea’s Pyongyang Broadcasting Service blasted, “A few days ago, South Korea’s Minister of Defense visited the Korean Retired Generals & Admirals Association, which is the gathering place of ultra-right conservative retired military persons, and made abusive remarks, labeling North Korea as the archenemy. This is an intolerable act of treason that recalls the Dark Ages of military fascism and the instigating of confrontation with members of the same race.”
(Mar. 9) North Korea’s Pyongyang Broadcasting Service contended, “The South Korean people must further forcefully launch the struggle objecting to the treacherous conclusion of an FTA, and crush the aggressive and predatory attempts of the United States.”
(Mar. 10) In a statement, a spokesperson for North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland contended, “The RSOI [Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration] joint military exercise is a deliberate conspiracy to defeat the peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, to once again close the door on the improvement of inter-Korean relations and to march toward war. US and South Korean authorities must abandon the anachronistic exercise for an invasion of North Korea. Otherwise, the South Korean authorities shall bear full responsibility for the consequences.”
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