Satellite Launch- Happy Event of the
Nation
The
successful launch of the artificial satellite ¡°Gwangmyongsong
2¡± by Songun
South
Korean media organs are vying with each other to report on the satellite launch
of the DPRK.
They
extolled that the successful satellite launch squarely showcased the daily
growing might of the DPRK under such headlines as ¡°North Korea consolidating
its position as the 10th satellite launcher country¡±, ¡°the
successful launch of the satellite by the north is of great political import¡±
and the like.
They
analyzed that the satellite launch meted out a sledgehammer to the
They
estimated in particular that the successful satellite launch of the DPRK
brought about a realistic springboard for a jumping at one go in building an
economic power.
The
media praised it as ¡°a proved science and technology of the north, a lever for
jumping at one stroke¡± saying that the DPRK verified through the satellite
launch the efficacy of the self-reliance based on the science and technology.
And they reported that
Meanwhile,
the south Korean people from different social
standings are actively struggling against the moves of the
Civic
organizations including the People for Peace and Reunification, the South
Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country¡¯s Reunification and the
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held the 115th anti-US
solidarity rally in front of the US embassy in Seoul on April 14 to declare
that the north¡¯s satellite launch is an exercise of the right of an sovereign
state for the peaceful use of the outer space and is never a matter to be
discussed at the UNSC by the US and its followers.
Representatives
of the Solidarity for Progress in
The
civic and pro-reunification movement organizations branded full participation
in the ¡°WMD Proliferation Security Initiative¡± pursued by traitor Lee Myong-bak as a criminal act that triggers military clashes
on the
Reality of the Gap between the Rich and
the Poor in
These
days the gap between the rich and the poor in
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Income
In
1997 there were 10 social brackets divided in accordance with their income
level where the income of the richest was 5.7 times more than that of the
poorest, but now it rose to 14.5 times.
At
present there are 3.17 million people including one million officially
registered jobless men who are seeking job roaming over the street, and over 8
million part-timers and over 6 million
independent businessmen who eke out amid the worries of being fired or
bankrupted any time with the income less than half the average wage of regular
employees.
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Housing
Now
the homeless families in
Those
who rove over the streets without even such huts are increasing every year and
in
On
the contrary, 1.05 million households which are less than 6.6% of the total own
more than 5 luxury houses on average.
The
price of a super-luxury apartment house with the 170m2 floor space,
allegedly the smallest, in Samsong Dong, Gangnam District in
A
member of the ¡°Public Health and Welfare Committee¡± in the south Korean ¡°National
Assembly¡± published on April 9, 2009 a data indicating that the number of the
homeless had drastically increased in 2008 just after the Lee Myong-bak regime set out. He further explained; ¡°the number
of the vagrants is the largest ever. It is turned out that 94% of them are
handicapped, psychopathic patients, senile patients so that their health
condition is in severe danger.¡±
According
to the data of the Ministry of Welfare as of February 2009 the number of the
vagrants increased to 14,288 in 2008.
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Education
At
present it costs more than US$ 115,000 for education from kindergarten to high
school graduation in
The
annual enrollment fees were US$ 5,000 in government-run universities and US$
8,300 in private ones on average last year which means 20% increase more than
that of previous year to arouse big rage and indignation among students¡¯
parents.
Children
of rich families receive extracurricular studies at special schools spending
over US$ 500 every month whereas 1.2 million poor children are doing piecework
on the street not affording the schooling.
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Medical care
Now
in
While
the rich spend millions of dollars for medical treatment abroad, the grass
roots cannot afford the medical treatment in time so that various diseases are
rampant; the number of meningitis patients has increased more than twice since
traitor Lee Myong-bak came to office.
In
particular, 101 of 100,000 people at 20s, 284 of 100,000 at over 70s are
tuberculosis patients making
Suicides
are on steady increase every year due to the ever-expanding gap between the
rich and the poor in
The
south Korean people from different social strata are
now turning out to overthrow the Lee Myong-bak regime
which further aggravates the ruinous social bipolarity by pursuing
¡°pro-conglomerate policy¡±, lamenting the ever expanding gap between the rich
and the poor.