Great Leadership on the Building of an Economic Power

These days the south Korean mass media highly praise leader Kim Jong Il who victoriously leads the struggle of the people in the DPRK to build an economic power by the great Songun leadership.

The south Korean media promptly reported the news of Kim Jong Il’s field guidance to several domains of the national economy including his on-the-spot guidance to the building site of Ryesonggang Hydropower Station as his first leg of this year and his looking round of the programs presented to the 18^th National Program Contest and Exhibition.

They gave focal attention to the news that he visited Jagang Province again on the historic occasion of the 10^th anniversary of the Ganggye Spirit created by him and provided field guidance to several factories and other units serving for the people's dietary life in the province.

They unanimously asserted that it is the revelation of the people-loving policy of Kim Jong Il who regarded the improvement of the people's life as the “foremost state undertaking”.

South Korean major internet newspapers including “Jajuminbo” and “Ryunhap News” introduced far and wide the proud reality of the DPRK which victoriously speeds up the building of an economic power under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il under such titles as “North Korea of 2008, leaping forward to an economic power” and “Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong Il led the north’s advance for economic building vibrant with the Taecheon Spirit of 2007”.

Let Us Ostracize the Treacherous “Regime” by Force of the People

- Unabated struggle against the import of American beef

South Korean people's struggle against the Lee Myung-bak gentries’ policy of opening market to American beef is growing fiercer day by day.

On May 23 a rally was held under the sponsorship of the “National Federation of Student Councils of Oriental Medicine Universities” at Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul and a large-scale candlelit rally was staged against the import of American Beef under the theme “Let the people judge the mad cow, mad policy and mad regime” on May 24.

Present there were some 25,000 people including members of different social organizations, citizens and students.

The participants condemned the current “regime” for imposing the calamity of “mad cow disease” upon the people and warned that if traitor Lee Myung-bak opens the beef market in favor of the US government and the US stock breeders he would hardly escape the stern judgment of the people.

Afterward, the participants launched a candlelit march toward Chongwadae shouting slogans such as “We oppose the import of American beef fraught with the danger of mad cow disease!” and “Let us march toward Chongwadae to impeach Lee Myung-bak!”.

The security authorities, much flustered, drove huge number of police force to suppress the demonstration wielding shields and shooting water canon, and took away dozens of demonstrators.

Infuriated at this, the demonstrators immediately launched a sit-in chanting slogans “Down with dictatorship!” and the struggle lasted till the next morning.

- Struggle for achieving the right to existence and realizing the genuine education

On May 24 the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions sponsored a rally at the Yoido Park in Seoul to vow an all-out struggle to check the market-based reform and privatization of the public sectors with more than 20,000 people including its unionists and members of various organizations attending.

The participants expressed their will to fight against the authorities’ policy of privatization in public sectors including education, public health, medical service, press and finance, and staged anti-“government” struggle shouting slogans “Let us win the major rights of labor!” and “Abolish irregular jobs!”.

On the same day a national teachers’ rally was held at Yoido demanding the revocation of the anti-people market-based reform of education pursued by the Lee Myung-bak gentries. Present there were some 10,000 people including members of the National Teachers’ Union and members of social organizations, teachers and students from across south Korea.

The participants condemned the government’s anti-people policy of education which destroys the foundations of education and imposes only pains on the students, claimed that the government should bend an ear to the people's demand for free and compulsory education and take immediate measures for it.

At the rally a performance denouncing traitor Lee Myung-bak’s education policy was staged.

The south Korean people will intensify the struggle against traitor Lee Myung-bak who sells off the interests of the nation and enforces only disaster and pains upon the people.