SYRIA - NO TO IMMEDIATE U.S./NATO WAR THREAT

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Spokespeople from the NATO countries and their loyal media outlets have seized upon a massacre at Houla, Syria, to mobilize for open imperialist military intervention against the Syrian government and — and no one should doubt this — against the people of Syria. NATO governments have already begun expelling Syrian diplomats.

There seems to be no doubt at this time — May 29 — that a massacre took place. There is, however, much confusion about who exactly carried out the massacre. The corporate media is blaming the killings on the Syrian government and calling for foreign intervention. The Syrians, however, deny that their armed forces or police have taken part, blame the killings on the armed opposition and have themselves condemned the killings and are organizing an investigation.

While we have no special knowledge about what did or didn't happen, we do have a treasury of knowledge of how the imperialists have manipulated such events in order to justify a war or intervention on a "humanitarian" basis. It is this type of manipulation that anti-war and anti-imperialist forces should be most on the alert for.

The most recent such manipulation was in Libya last year, when the imperialist powers claimed there would be a "massacre" of civilians in the city of Benghazi, a center of monarchist opposition to Moammar Gadhafi, if there were no NATO intervention. This supposed threat became the pretext to win U.N. backing for a "no-fly zone" in Libya. France and Britain, with enormous U.S. logistical support, turned this "no-fly zone" into a military assault on the pro-Gadhafi regime and overthrew it, leaving Libya prey to the Western oil and energy monopolies.

In January 1999, the imperialists used the "Racak massacre." A group of reactionary commandos were killed in a gunfight with Serb military and police forces in the town of Racak, in the Kosovo province of Serbia. The reactionaries dressed the dead fighters up as civilians and claimed they were executed at close range. A few news media — Le Figaro (Jan. 20, 1999) and a year later the Berliner Zeitung (March 24, 2000) — exposed the more obvious inconsistencies in the “massacre” myth. A Finnish team led by Helena Ranta also discovered that all 23 dead were killed by gunfire at a distance. (See “Hidden Agenda: The U.S./NATO takeover of Yugoslavia,” International Action Center, 2002)

Nevertheless, NATO spokespeople and the corporate media spread the lie that there had been a massacre of civilians. U.S. and NATO forces used this pretext to justify 78 days of bombing of Serbia and the dismemberment of what remained of Yugoslavia.

Groups such as Amnesty International have put out statements calling for the U.N. Security Council to move "beyond condemnation" of the Syrian regime. Let's keep in mind that Amnesty International is currently partnering with Madeline Albright, to demand that NATO defend women in Afghanistan. As Secretary of State Albright stated in an interview with Leslie Stahl that she felt that the death of 1/2 million children in Iraq was "Worth it".

There is no possible justification for imperialist intervention in Syria, whatever happened in Houla. NATO’s own bombing campaign in Afghanistan regularly kills civilians (See Miami Herald, May 29), but no one dares raise these crimes before the United Nations. NATO’s hypocrisy is all too familiar. The media campaign around Houla should put the anti-war movement on alert that the imperialists are preparing right now for another intervention.

We reprint here the Syrian government's side of the Houla story, slightly edited from a statement released by Damascus:

Makdessi: Syria will establish Investigative Committee on Houla Massacre

(Dp-news)

“Syria will establish an investigative committee on the Houla massacre, to issue results within three days,” said Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jihad Makdissi in a press conference on May 27.

Makdissi has categorically denied responsibility of the Syrian forces for the massacre that took place in al-Houla area in Homs Province.

Makdissi also condemned in strongest terms this terrorist massacre against the Syrian civilians as he condemned the accusation that Syrian forces had done that.

"The Syrian state is responsible for protecting civilians according to the constitution and Syria preserves its right to defend its citizens," he said.

Makdissi stressed that no tanks or artillery entered al-Houla town and the law enforcement members never left their positions, rather they were in a state of self-defense.

"A military judicial committee was formed to conduct an investigation and the results will be announced in three days," Makdissi added.

The suspicious coincidence between the attacks in parallel with the visit of U.N. Special Envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, is a slap in the face of the political process, said Makdissi, adding that the brutal killing is alien to the ethics of the Syrian army.

He said that those who committed the killing are not the army but the armed terrorist groups.

The spokesperson added that what happened doesn't serve the interests of the Syrian state, stressing that "We don't trade with the Syrian blood." Makdissi stressed that there is no justification for carrying weapons against the dignity of the state whatever the political excuse, indicating that the terrorism and crimes increased since Syria's approval of Annan's plan because they don't want to make the plan a success.

The spokesperson for the Syrian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry said that the armed terrorist groups committed more than 3,500 violations of Annan's plan, adding that "non-stability is a good environment for terrorists. … There are al-Qaeda and Takfiris but we won't allow them to make use of this environment no matter how long the confrontation takes." Makdissi stressed that the solution to the crisis in Syria lies in lending a helping hand to the Syrian government.

Makdissi indicated that Syria wants a truce and his government is committed to Annan’s plan.

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KCNA Calls for Vigilance against Imperialists′ Food Domination Strategy

Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- A worldwide food crisis is threatening mankind.
Nearly a billion of people in the world are suffering from malnutrition and millions of children die of hunger every year.
The food prices in the world skyrocketed 71 percent in one year from July 2010 to July 2011.
Every year more than 10 million children are seriously undernourished and half of them die of hunger.
Food prices steadily rise and the number of people suffering from chronic hunger is on the daily increase.
The worldwide food crisis is attributable to the imperialists' food domination strategy.
The imperialists leave no stone unturned in their moves to put food production and supply system in other countries in confusion.
The fluctuation of food prices is attributable to the politicization of food.
The politicization of food is aimed at using food as an important lever for implementing foreign policy strategy of a country by taking advantage of its property as a strategic material and thus influencing other countries and, furthermore, putting other countries under its control.
In the middle of the 1970s when the agricultural production increased thanks to the successful green revolution and the food prices dropped, the imperialists began making arrangements for a food war to control all the food stocks behind the scene and flout the destiny of mankind.
Protectionism which Western countries have persistently pursued is a typical policy for food domination.
Pursuant to this policy, Western countries blocked developing countries from advancing to their markets by applying high tariffs on farm products.
Meanwhile, they enforced export subsidies system whereby their farm products were dumped on the markets of developing countries.
Consequently, the farm products of developing countries were nudged out of international food markets, creating striking imbalance. The West controlled markets and manipulated food prices as it pleased.
So, an increasing number of countries opted to import "cheap" food of the West or depending on its aid rather than investing money in agriculture.
Under the signboard of "aid" and "fund for debt relief" the imperialists used "surplus farm products" created through protectionism as a bait for imposing the West's view of value on developing countries.
A sum total of such "aid" and "fund for debt relief" was less than one fourth or one fifth of the loss suffered by developing countries due to the unfair trade with the West.
Monopoly capitalists' grabbing of farm land caused a serious hindrance to the world food production and was another factor of skyrocketing food prices.
Through their predatory protectionism and farmland grabbing, the Western imperialists have taken the bulk of the world food products and many developing countries including African countries, main food exporters in the 1960s and the1970s, were reduced to food importers.
Bio-fuel production brisk in the U.S. and other Western countries is worsening the food crisis.
The U.S. pays six billion U.S. dollars and Europe four billion Euros as subsidies every year to encourage monopolies in the race for bio-fuel production.
It is reported that an ordinary car in the U.S. needs 200kg of corn to produce bio-fuel for its tank.
The quantity of grain consumed by machines in the U.S. and Europe is equivalent to the food for half billion people.
The mass production of bio-fuel in 2007 reduced the amount of reserve grain to the lowest in several decades whereas food prices sharply rose.
It is the unanimous view of the news analysts that the main target of the unprecedented bio-fuel policy of the U.S. and the West are OPEC member nations.
State monopoly capitalism is the arch criminal which sparked off the present food crisis as it creates disorderly speculation and extremely chaos under the reign of the jungle law.
In 2008 when a financial crisis broke out in the U.S. owing to the collapse of real estate market and it hit the capitalist world as a whole, the monopoly capitalists sought a way out of it in investing money in food production, not in metal and energy industries which required relatively high advance payment and invited danger.
Taking advantage of the food instability, not only food monopolies but various other monopolies vied with each other in throwing themselves into food speculation.
This resulted in the competition in money-making by food and the leapfrogging of food prices.
It is none other than the monopoly capitalists who gained big profits by bringing food disaster to mankind.
At present when the imperialists are deepening the food crisis in a desperate bid to threaten the lifeline of mankind and subjugate other countries and nations, to settle the food shortage is not just a matter of eating but an issue on which hinges whether a nation protects its sovereignty and dignity or becomes slaves.
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
Self-sufficiency in food is the only way out. It is necessary to meet the imperialists' challenge by concerted efforts.
It is the genuine way of solving the food problem for a nation to do farming well by its own efforts in its own land and attain self-sufficiency in food. -0-

KCNA Accuses U.S. of Human Rights Abuse

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Pyongyang, May 23 (KCNA) -- The KCNA Tuesday issued an indictment accusing the U.S. of its unethical human rights abuses.
The indictment said:
The political rights of the majority of the toiling masses are being wantonly violated by money and power in the U.S. styling itself "Heaven of liberty and democracy".
An election in the U.S. can be described as a contest in wasting money.
The midterm election held in November 2010 was reported to be the most expensive election in the U.S. history as 3.98 billion U.S. dollars was squandered for it.
The presidential election to be held this year is also expected to be a competition in money. U.S. President Obama, candidate from the Democratic Party, raised 45 million dollars in February and 53 million dollars in March. The fund for reelection of Obama is estimated to be 120. 01 million dollars.
Freedom of speech, secrecy of correspondence, inviolability of human body and other civic rights are openly violated under the pretence of "national security" in the U.S.
The U.S. Senate adopted an act on protecting cyber space as national property on June 24, 2010. In February last year BBC recalled that the U.S. frequently cried out for ensuring freedom of internet, labeling those countries taking measures to control internet "closed society". It accused the U.S. of contemplating making a legitimate framework to control internet in its mainland.
U.S. airports introduce full-body scanners for travelers under the pretext of security.
The U.S. authorities' brutal suppression of participants in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the U.S. last year vividly showed the reality of the U.S., tundra of human rights.
The police authorities responsible for protecting rights of citizens of the U.S. are earning an ill fame as main culprits of violence and human rights abuses.
U.S. prisons have turned into medieval torture chambers and hells on earth.
The rights to food, clothing and housing, the most elementary human rights, are mercilessly suppressed in the American society where money is everything and the jungle law governs.
According to a survey of the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of the people living under poverty line across the country reached 49.1 million as of the end of 2011. The number of homeless people who cannot afford to live in their own houses because of high housing rent reached 636 000 last year. It is said that more than 51 000 people sleep under the open sky every day in Los Angeles City, California, known as "a city of homeless people".
The number of the unemployed in April this year stood at 12.5 million owing to the ever-deepening economic crisis. Among them 5.1 million people are the long-term unemployed.
According to a report released by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sept. 19, 2011, more than one million crimes of violence were committed in the U.S. in 2010.
"Equality for all" much touted by the U.S. is nothing but a deceptive slogan and all forms of discrimination getting pronounced in the U.S. wantonly with each passing day mercilessly trample down upon the equality of people.
The consequences of deeply rooted racial discrimination are vividly manifested in all fabrics of social life.
Women and children in the U.S. are withering in the mire of social evils.
Ceaseless violence against women fully betrays the fin de siecle tendency in the barbarous American society.
The number of the poor children across the country is more than 15 million.
The number of those children subject to violence every year is over three million, counting only those formally registered.
The U.S. human rights abuses spilled over to different parts of the world, imposing immeasurable misfortunes and sufferings upon other countries and nations.
The U.S.-led "anti-terror war" that has lasted for more than a decade is unprecedented state-sponsored terrorism and hideous human rights abuse.
This is clearly proved by the "anti-terror war" now engulfing Pakistan in the wake of Afghanistan and Iraq. This has become a war of genocide as it takes the lives of guiltless civilians.
The U.S. is maltreating and torturing prisoners after setting up secret prisons abroad. This is the wanton violation of the international laws on human rights and humanitarianism.
The U.S. has cruelly trampled down upon the freedom of religion and faith of other nations.
It ceaselessly resorts to the moves to bring down governments of other countries and terrorism against democratic figures of various countries. They constitute a wanton violation of national rights and human rights abuses.
The U.S. organized more than 40 terrorist groups specializing in subversive acts and murder in a bid to stifle the Cuban revolution and financially backed them.
For more than a century, the U.S. hatched plots to overthrow governments of many countries including Nicaragua, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq to realize its ambition for domination.
In the period from 1961 to 1976, it conducted at least 900 assassination and terror operations against world famous politicians and foreign government officials.
The U.S. is the worst rogue state in terms of human rights abuses as it has perpetrated the most serious human rights abuses at home and abroad.
This being a hard reality, the U.S. is apt to kick up human rights rackets in the international arena and politicize human rights issues, build up public opinions over them and internationalize those issues in a bid to use them as a lever for pressurizing other countries. This is like "the guilty party filing the suit first".
It is none other than the U.S. which should be brought to the world human rights court. -0-

Danger of U.S. Moves to Lay Siege to Asia Disclosed

Danger of U.S. Moves to Lay Siege to Asia Disclosed

Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is focusing on Asia as regards its policy for the building of military bases abroad, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a bylined article.
The Asia strategy of the U.S. imperialists is to keep and expand the domination in the region by counting on strength and realize the ambition for world supremacy, the article says, and goes on:
The U.S. is creating lots of military bases in Asia. It is the invariable ambition of the U.S. warlike forces to stifle the DPRK by force. So, it is building lots of military bases for aggression in south Korea and its surrounding areas.
Now the U.S., Japan and south Korea are stepping up the formation of the triangular military alliance.
The U.S. tries to restrain other powers from exercising influence and expanding the sphere of power in the region and play the role of a "superpower".
It intentionally fosters arms race and Cold War to invent an excuse for aggression and interference and expand its power sphere worldwide.
The tightened military alliance among the U.S., south Korea and Japan is a nexus for aggression of the DPRK and, at the same time, a move to establish the structure of military stand-off.
The U.S. military bases in Asia gravely threaten the peace and security in the region.
If the U.S. imperialists continue to rush headlong into the moves for aggression and war against anti-imperialist independent countries, while expanding military bases in Asia, they will not be able to escape the final destruction. -0-

Europe Hobbled by Financial Crisis

Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The financial crisis that started in Greece has spread to the whole Europe, sparking off social uneasiness as there is no hope for its solution.
Public is of the view that the Greek financial crisis has had serious impacts on the European economy and its way out is not yet in sight.
The Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT recently announced Greek national debt hit 355.6 billion euros (467.08 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011.
Germany public deficit was 25.3 billion euros (33.8 billion dollars) last year and in Spain deficit increased 14.2 percent from the last year, occupying the 68.5 percent of the GDP.
Unemployment rate is increasing amid towering national deficit.
Greek jobless rate hit a new record high at 21 percent in December 2011.
Some 365,900 more people became unemployed in Spain this quarter, reaching to a record 5,639,500 while in Britain its rate was 2.65 million in the December-February period.
Many people are committing suicide in despair to rid them of hard life caused by the unjust austerity policy and lay-off measure taken by the authorities.
Early in April a 77-year old man shot himself to death in a square in Athens.
The reason was that his living condition was pushed to the lowest level due to the ceaseless austerity measure by the authorities.
Meanwhile, in a northern area of Italy a building contractor committed suicide at last being dunned for his debt and a Moroccan emigrant burnt himself to death as not receiving his wage for months.
The reality clearly proves that capitalist society is, indeed, a cor

Drug-Abuses Rampant among U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan

Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Drug abuses prevalent among American troops in Afghanistan are troubling the U.S. government and military, being jeered by the international community.
A recent AP report said eight American soldiers in Afghanistan were confirmed to have died of drug abuses in 2010 and 2011.
This was disclosed when the U.S. Army Command in Afghanistan investigated 56 American soldiers on the suspicion of drug processing and use.
The number of the soldiers who were tested positive for heroine increased to 116 in fiscal 2010 from 10 in fiscal 2002.
During more than a decade of the U.S. occupation, opium cultivation and drug smuggling have run rampant in Afghanistan, degrading the country to a drug-producer.
That is not the sole major cause of drug addicts increasing among the American soldiers.
The soldiers being hurled to an "anti-terror war" in Afghanistan suffer from extreme uneasiness and fear day in, day out.
The U.S. death toll from the attacks by the resistance forces that have become unabated since the beginning of the war stands at more than 1 850.
Melancholy and fear have become common diseases among the American soldiers there.
The U.S. military bases are prescribing a drug as medicine to treat the disease which is only giving rise to the number of drug addicts.
Now the U.S. soldiers widely use the drug calling it "Afghani dip".
Afghanistan is turning into a huge grave of the drug-addicted U.S. troops.
This is natural for the U.S. to face such a result as it has defied the unanimous demand of the international community for an immediate stop to the reckless war of aggression and withdrawal of its troops. -0-

AUCPB on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung

In the socialist countries A GREAT DATE On April 15, in many countries around the world a significant date is marked - the centenary of the birth of the Great Leader - Kim Il Sung – the DPRK’s Eternal President, - A great military leader - the liberator of Korea from Japanese slavery (Restoration of the Fatherland Day celebrated August 15, 1945) - Creator of the Korean People's Army (celebrated on April 25, when Kim Il Sung formed Korean People's Revolutionary Army in 1932, which became later the foundation of the Korean People Army) - Founder of the first socialist state in north-east Asia (September 9, 1948) - Creator of the Juche idea and Songun policy developer, - Creator of the Workers' Party of Korea (October 10, 1945). Comrade Kim Il Sung was born into a poor peasant family in a suburb of Pyongyang , Mangyongdae. His childhood was spent under the patriotic and revolutionary influence of his parents. In early 1925, Kim Il Sung, left his homeland occupied by the Japanese (1905 - 1945.), vowing to return only in a liberated Korea . In October 1926, he and his revolutionary-minded students formed the Down With Imperialism Union (DWIU). Kim Il Sung proclaimed the Juche idea as a revolutionary ideology and theory of building a socialist society, and more - the idea as a way of Songun revolution - by force of arms. Around the Kim Il Sung formed a significant group of revolutionary-minded youth, which grew rapidly in numbers and matured in the fight against the Japanese invaders. In difficult conditions, a shortage of ammunition and weapons, clothes and food, the guerrillas under the leadership of Kim Il Sung formed the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, which carried on a savage anti-Japanese armed struggle, supported by the population of Korea . Finally, in 1945, long-awaited peace was delivered to the long-suffering land of Korea . Under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, rising from the ashes of the Japanese colonial slavery and the destruction of World War II , Korea embarked on unifying the Korean Peninsula . But world imperialism, in the face of the U.S. occupied after World War II , South Korea and refused to withdraw its troops from the Korean peninsula, and began to build in South Korean military bases and established the Republic of Korea with a pro-American puppet government. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung started intensive construction of a socialist state in the north of the Korean peninsula - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea . Thus Korea was divided into 2 parts by the Americans along the 38th parallel. From the very outset of the division of Korea through the fault of the U.S. the Great Leader made every effort for its reunification. He proposed the Programme for great national unity, a proposal for founding of the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo - three charters of national reunification, and created a foundation for the unification of Korea . National unification was the greatest dream of President Kim Il Sung. And on the eve of his last day (July 8, 1994) he worked on a document to unite the country and put his signature underneath it. To this day, the U.S. has put up enormous resistance to the implementation of the unification of the Korean nation. World imperialism, represented by the United States would not "tolerate" the presence of a socialist state on the Korean peninsula. On June 25, 1950 U.S. troops, with the participation of 15 countries of the U.S. satellites, as well as the South Korean Army and the Japanese of the old Japanese army (more than 2 million troops of the armed forces) committed armed aggression against the DPRK with the use of a huge number of new types of military equipment. Thus began the three-year Fatherland Liberation War. The young republic thanks to the genius of generalship of Kim Il Sung and the patriotic spirit of the people, united around the great commander, was able to not only survive, but also to provide decent resistance to the imperialist predator who unleashed a war against the DPRK. The Koreans took captive more than 1.5 million men of arms, and shot down and captured more than 12,000 aircraft. For the first time in its history the United States were defeated by small newly-born socialist Korea . An armistice agreement was signed on July 27, 1953 (and not a treaty) and is still the subject of political speculation in the U.S. and fueling the desire for the imperialist hawks to take revenge for their defeat in the past. The United States during the past 60 years, have been trying to destroy the DPRK, and wipe out its unconquered people, with constant provocations and demonstration of its military power and the latest tools of modern warfare, not to mention the hosted by the U.S. economic blockade of the DPRK the holding of so-called "military exercises" in cooperation with the South Korean puppets, as well as espionage and the use of global media feeding slanderous material about the lives of people in the DPRK. But the firm Juche leadership of socialist construction, the implementation of Songun politics, the monolithic unity of the Leader of the People, the Party and the Army has created an impregnable fortress for any aggressor. On the day of the 80th anniversary of the Great Leader in Pyongyang , the Pyongyang Declaration was published, "Let us defend and advance the cause of socialism", which to date more than 270 political parties and movements have signed. This declaration gave a powerful impetus to the socialist movement in the world and its development along a new line, confirming the idea that socialism is the ideal of humanity, calling for the progressive parties of the world to unite and fight for a new rebirth and rise of the socialist movement. Over the years, under country's leadership and the party under President Kim Il Sung, the DPRK has powerful steps forward, becoming an industrial power and successes made in developing agriculture, despite the presence of a very small amount of land suitable for agricultural use (80% of Korea is mountainous). In 1958, the DPRK established a socialist system. The Constitution of the DPRK provides citizens the right to receive free housing from the state (in the form of separate apartments for each family), education and modern health care for every citizen of the country. In Korea there are no taxes. During the years of socialist construction, a lot of industrial enterprises were built, new sectors of the economy were organized, agriculture was developed thanks to the reconstruction of land and the introduction into circulation of new crops that have not previously been used in Korea (potatoes, for example). Many monumental buildings have been built glorifying the exploits of the Koreans in peaceful labour as well as praising the union of the sickle, hammer and brush (peasants, workers and intellectuals), a beautiful monument to the JUCHE idea in the centre of Pyongyang , a monument with a height of 170 meters - the highest in the world. North Korea has become one of the most beautiful cities in the world with a clean atmosphere. Korean townspeople do not know what smog is. The state takes fatherly care of every citizen from birth to old age. Very elderly people on behalf of the country have a rich table covered and celebrate with relatives and neighbours. Why do I emphasize these seemingly not so important moments, when talking about the merits of KIM IL SUNG? Because a head of state is judged by his deeds and his real concern for every human life of the country and their welfare. Kim Il Sung with paternal love, loved his people, and therefore enjoyed great affection of his people, who often met him at the enterprises, cooperatives, scientific institutions, army units. In other words, he was always with the people. Because Koreans called him the FATHER of the nation and his birthday is always celebrated as the Day of the Sun. Kim Il Sung was very humble in life, extremely polite and considerate to the other party. He was an outstanding politician of his time, a revolutionary, military leader, theoretician and a gifted practitioner of socialist construction. The Juche idea is now being studied by many revolutionaries and discussed at ongoing international congresses and conferences. Many countries have established a Society for the Study of the Juche idea. At two of these congresses worked our secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB, Comrade Zelikov - At the International Congress in Colombo ( Sri Lanka , 2002) and in Paris (2003). This year's World Congress for the Study of the Juche idea is going to Pyongyang and is timed for the 100th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. The Great Leader has published many papers on the theory and practice of socialist construction and excellent personal chronicle "With the Century", a highly artistic eight-volume work, telling the life in the anti-Japanese struggle and life and struggle to build socialism. The great leader was an internationalist, and provided spiritual and material assistance to the peoples of many countries in their national liberation and anti-imperialist struggle. During his life, the Great Leader met with political and community leaders from 136 countries around the world. He has numerous awards from political parties, heads of states, research institutions and universities, international organizations and specialized UN agencies. One of the merits of the Great Leader is that he had prepared a dignified replacement in the face of Great Kim Jong Il, who multiplied the achievements of the DPRK, led the country into the category of the world's nuclear powers, thus took on a preventive factor in the face of constant threat of U.S. attack on the DPRK. The great merits of Kim Jong Il do not pale in comparison with the value of outstanding work of the Great Leader. Everything today that Korea has achieved is a result of realization of the plans and ideas of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. The brainchild of Kim Il Sung is the Korean People's Army, meeting on April 25 its 80th anniversary. We congratulate everyone on this jubilee date who is part of the Armed Forces of the DPRK. The soldier - a warrior, the soldier - a builder of socialist society. The KPA is not only a reliable defender of the peaceful labour of the citizens and socialism, but also a powerful main force in the building of socialism. The nuclear-armed KPA vigilantly stands guard over the peace against the threat of a new world war being unleashed by dying imperialism. Today at the helm of socialist People's Korea now stands leader Comrade Kim Jong Un. Recent events have shown that the Americans relying on the longed-for change in DPRK policy is not necessary. The DPRK under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un firmly continues the course of socialist construction, designed by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, very successfully continued by the great leader Kim Jong Il and has taken the run towards acceleration in the construction of a prosperous socialist state by Comrade Kim Jong Un. Beautiful Korea , is a country of morning calm! Its flies like the Winged Horse Chollima Statue, forward to the starry heights of a highly developed socialist state, showing an example of independent development of all people who choose the path of socialism. As for imperialism, it is threatening mankind with nuclear war, showing his teeth, and bristling, gradually leaving the stage of history, giving way to a future society - communism. Congratulations on the remarkable date - the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung - National Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un and in the face of him - the heroic Korean people. We wish good health to every Korean, success in work and in the service for the sake of advancing the country towards socialism for the sake of peace on earth, for the sake of civilization. CC AUCPB