KCNA Commentary Decries U.S.-S. Korea FTA

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- The clan of traitors of south Korea unhesitatingly signed up the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., a crime putting the "five traitors in 1905" into the shade. The "Grand National Party" railroaded the "motion calling for ratification of south Korea-U.S. FTA" through the puppet National Assembly on Tuesday.

This was an act of treachery little short of offering the sovereignty of the south Korean economy to the U.S. and bringing disaster to the nation.

Peasants and civic and social organizations of south Korea strongly reject it, saying it amounts to "death sentence to agriculture and peasants".

FTA dealt a heavy blow on the south Korean peasants, putting their lives at stake.

Surplus agricultural and livestock products of the U.S. will flood the south Korean markets, replacing less competitive south Korean products. This will naturally cause farming families loss of profits and heavy debts.

The south Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Foods said the effectuation of FTA will bring damages in agriculture and fishery for the 15 years to 12 668.3 billion won. Stockbreeding is expected to suffer most with its loss anticipated to total 7 299.3 billion won for the same period.

FTA will totally overturn the foundation of south Korean agriculture.

After taking power, the conservative group of south Korea has imposed immeasurable damage upon peasants by opening the markets for foreign agricultural and livestock goods including American beef, launching the project of improving four large rivers which deprived farmers of their lands and building U.S. military bases that devastated territory.

FTA is an extremely serious crime which destroys south Korean agriculture and putting the lives of the south Korean peasants in harm's way.

However, the conservative group is brazen-faced enough to advertise that south Korea will benefit from the FTA.

With no honeyed words can it ever cover up its hideous crime against the nation.

The traitors seek to prolong their dirty remaining days as politicians by selling the people's right to existence.

The sovereignty and right to existence of the south Korean people can never come true as long as the group of traitors is allowed to stay in power. -0-

U.S., Worst Rogue State in World

Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, a 14-year-old student committed suicide in New York unable to endure long torment by rascals, sparking off public furor.

In the United States misdeeds are steadily and drastically increasing and they become diverse in style and form.

Especially, misconducts rampant at schools have become a serious trouble in the country.

In recent years, 77 percent of students throughout the country have undergone or are undergoing spiritual and physical torment by rascals, according to the survey of the U.S. Department of Justice.

160 000 students have reportedly refused to go to school for fear of violence.

It is universal in the U.S. that students go to school with guns. According to the recent survey, 100 000 students now bring guns to school with them. Thus, gun-related crimes are reported one after another from schools.

Meanwhile, gangsters have openly committed all sorts of crimes in the U.S., causing great social unrest and terror-ridden atmosphere.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on October 21 announced that there are about 33 000 groups of gangsters across the country at present.

The said figures and facts go to clearly prove that the U.S. is a hotbed of social evils. -0-

Capitalism Existing for 1 Percent of Rich Must Go to Ruin--KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- Working masses' anti-Wall Street protests have continued unabated, shaking the capitalist system down to its roots.

Riot police are hurled to put down the protests but only fell short of blocking the masses' advance.

This has stoked fears among the rulers of the capitalist countries.

This proves capitalism is reactionary system and ailing society where the rich get ever richer and the poor ever poorer as a 1 percent tiny handful of exploiters oppress toiling masses making up 99 percent of the population.

A recent opinion poll conducted in the U.S. showed the majority of Americans voiced resentment against the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. In the poll jointly conducted by the Washington Post and ABC TV, over 6 out of 10 respondents said the rich-poor gap is widening in economic aspect. The income disparity between the people in the upper brackets of income and the rest of Americans is now all time high since the great depression about 70 years ago.

The income of wealthy people grew about 275 percent for the past 28 years. In 2010 the number of the poor increased by 7 million from 10 years ago.

The widening gap between the 1 percent rich and the 99 percent poor is an inevitable result of the structural contradiction of capitalism.

The history of capitalism is characterized by the accumulation of wealth by monopoly tycoons. In this course a crucial change took place in the relations of class forces, sharpening contradiction and conflict.

In the capitalist society the well-to-do people get ever richer while the poor are reduced to extreme poverty. The rich take to itself products and almost all wealth of the society, wallowing in luxury while the toiling masses languish in hunger and poverty. The people are degenerated, becoming slaves of money and the broad masses suffer from unemployment, hunger and poverty.

It has become frequent occurrences in the capitalist countries for even the middle classes to lose properties due to bankruptcy and unemployment and join the poor.

A big group of the unemployed are in the making in the Western countries bogged by financial and debt crises.

The rulers and monopoly capitalists are talking rhetoric about "class cooperation" and "welfare policy" to calm down the daily worsening socio-class contradiction in the capitalist countries.

Cooperation between the exploiting class and the grassroots people in the capitalist society is sheer sophism little short of a wolf and a sheep living in the same pen as friends.

It is an inevitable process of the historical development that the people intensify their actions to win the right to existence and democracy against the arbitrary practices of the monopoly capitalists.

The widening gap between the rich and the poor will escalate the people's protest against it.

Capitalism can never solve its socio-class contradiction by itself but will meet a final ruin by the people's actions for independence. -0-

Capitalist Society Termed Reactionary

Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- No matter how much the imperialists and those speaking for bourgeoisie talk about "liberty" and "rights", capitalist countries can never guarantee the popular masses genuine liberty and rights, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a bylined article.

It discloses that capitalism is the worst exploiting system and the harshest oppressive system in human history as it ruthlessly tramples down upon the desire and wishes of the popular masses for independence.

The article goes on:

Capitalist society is an unpopular society where a tiny handful of the capitalist class rules over the toiling masses who account for the majority of people in the society, having to itself state power and means of production.

The bourgeois deprive the toiling masses of liberty and rights and violate them in the capitalist society where power is almighty. It is the mode of existence to keep themselves alive and a basic political method to consolidate their class and privileged position.

Money is almighty in the capitalist society where dignity and rights of human beings are decided by money.

Capitalism is not a liberal society advertised by the imperialists but an unequal society, a society ruled by dictatorship.

Political life is getting reactionary, spiritual and cultural life is poor and material life is deformed in capitalist society, a factor of aggravating social inequality and contradictions.

Even scholars of the West admit that the inhumane capitalist society has no future as it is ridden with serious contradictions and inequality. Capitalism is fated to go to ruin as it is an unpopular society violating the freedom and rights of the popular masses. -0

Rodong Sinmun Supports People Fighting Exploitation and Suppression

Rodong Sinmun Supports People Fighting Exploitation and Suppression

Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) -- Capitalism and imperialism will naturally accompany oppression and people are bound to rise up against it, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a bylined article.

It goes on:

The working masses rose up in the capitalist countries to fight the arbitrary practices of the monopoly capitalists and win the right to existence and democracy.

Protests sweeping the different parts of the world are a clear reminder of the resentment and bitterness to the reactionary and unpopular capitalist system.

The people's actions are aimed to win independence against capitalism and imperialism, hegemonic forces trampling down on them.

Capitalism and imperialism are systems of exploitation quelling the desire and wish of the popular masses for independence. They are the most despotic oppression systems in human history, a combination of class domination and national oppression.

The capitalist society is an unpopular one based on the private ownership and ensuing extreme individualism.

A handful of exploiting class takes hold of all the means of production and social wealth there which they use as a means for exploiting and plundering the toiling masses.

The development of IT industry in the capitalist society will only sharpen the

U.S. Police Quells Occupy Wall Street Demos

Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Amid the Occupy Wall Street demo growing stronger in different parts of the United States, the police have kicked up a sweeping campaign of repression while dispersing the protesters.

On Nov. 16 the police authorities in New York hurled policemen in dispersing protesters.

As a helicopter circled above the park where protesters set up tents to stage sit-in strike, creating terror-ridden atmosphere, the police thronged to the park and cleared all the tents by force.

The police arrested more than 200 of those strikers protesting the evacuation.

Similar breakup campaign was also conducted in Oakland, Portland and other cities.

Enraged at such repression, the protesters reportedly declared that they would soon stage a large-scale demo.

Foreign media reported that tension is prevailing in Wall Street again.

The U.S. would frequently advocate "defense" of human rights including freedom of assembly and demonstration. However, it is now arresting and detaining at random the popular masses who rose up in the struggle against exploitation and repression by capital.

This frantic racket of crackdown is a vivid expression of hypocrisy of the U.S.-style "freedom" and "human rights", and it clearly shows the world that the U.S. is a grave yard of human rights. -

DPRK Solidarity With Syria

Kim Jong Il Sends Message of Greeting to Syrian President
Pyongyang, November 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, Tuesday sent a message of greeting to Bashar Al-Assad, president of Syria and regional secretary of the Arab Baath Socialist Party, on the 41st anniversary of the corrective movement in Syria.

The message said:

I extend warm congratulations to you and the friendly Syrian people on the occasion.

The corrective movement conducted under the leadership of Hafez Al-Assad was an event of historic significance for the Syrian people in their struggle to build a prosperous new society.

Hoping that you and your government would achieve successes in the work for defending the country's sovereignty, security and stability, I sincerely wish you good health and happiness and the Syrian people steady progress and prosperity. -0

yongyang, November 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Tuesday sent a message of greeting to Bashar Al-Assad, president of Syria, on the 41st anniversary of the corrective movement in Syria.

Kim in the message heartily wished the Syrian people steady success in safeguarding the country's peace and stability and achieving the socio-economic development under the correct leadership of the president. -0-