THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No. 56/22 July 6, 2022
1. President Kim Il Sung and Chinsonnyo Moran
2. Two Realities in Stark Contrast
3. Crimes Done by U.S. Imperialists in Korean War
4. Who Is the Main Culprit of Racial and Cultural Obliteration?
5. Two Firs and More Than Ten Thousand Trees
President Kim Il Sung and Chinsonnyo Moran
President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) met about 70 000 foreigners and kept close relationship with many of them in his lifetime.
Among them is Chinsonnyo Moran, a daughter of a diplomat of Indonesia.
A Wish Has Come True
In April 1965 Indonesia was engrossed in excitement as Premier Kim Il Sung of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea whom the world people admired as a legendary hero was visiting the country.
Among the Indonesian officials who received him at that time was the then charge d’ affaires ad interim of the Indonesian embassy in the DPRK.
His fellow people’s praise of Kim Il Sung left a deep impression on him.
After his return to Pyongyang his wife gave birth to a daughter.
He hoped the DPRK leader would name his daughter.
Having learned about his wish, Kim Il Sung named his daughter Chinsonnyo Moran and sent him an autographic note, reading, “I recommend Chinsonnyo Moran.”
“President Kim Il Sung Is My Eternal Real Father.”
After naming her, President Kim Il Sung bestowed warm love upon her. As she grew up, her longing to see him grew more intense.
In February 1983 she wrote a letter to Kim Il Sung.
Very pleased to read her letter and see her photos, he recalled her father with deep emotion. Then he sent a reply and gifts to her and her family.
In September that year she visited the DPRK with her mother thanks to the measure taken by President Kim Il Sung.
Though he was very busy meeting many foreign delegations that were on a visit to the DPRK to attend the celebrations of the 35th founding anniversary of the DPRK (September 9, 1948), he managed to spare time for them.
When he met them the President explained the meaning of her name, saying: Chinsonnyo means friendship between the two countries and Moran, a beautiful peony flower; there is a hill named Moran which was named so because the chain of its peaks looks like a just blown peony blossom.
To Moran who expressed her gratitude Kim Il Sung said: In the future, too, we will exchange letters and stay in intimate and good terms; next time you come to my country with your father we will have a talk in a family atmosphere.
That day he had a photo taken with them and gave them his presents.
Moran said, “Today is the happiest day in my life. I think there will not be another day like this even if I live 100 more years. President Kim Il Sung, great benevolent leader, is my eternal real father.”
Seven years later, on hearing that Moran was going to be married, Kim Il Sung sent her his wedding gifts including a folding screen and material for her clothes.
Two Realities in Stark Contrast
Against the backdrop of ever-increasing damage from COVID-19 in the United States which boasts of its modern civilization, the number of children infected with malignant virus is also on constant increase, adding to social apprehension.
Recently, U.S. Pediatrics Society and Children’s Hospital Association have issued a report that since the outbreak of COVID-19, the number of infected children has mounted to 13.6 million in the U.S.
In the U.S., more than 440 children have lost their lives due to the COVID-19 crisis. This year, 5.7 million children have been infected.
This means that 67, 200 more children have been infected compared to the same period of last year. In the U.S., the number of infected children accounts for 18.9% of all infection cases.
It is said that in several states including Florida, Texas, and Georgia, and beyond, an average of 330-odd infected children is hospitalized every day. It is also said that the number of orphans who have lost their parents due to the malignant virus disease reaches over 200,000.
In this regard, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency carried an article titled “U.S. 200,000 ‘COVID-19 Orphans’ Interrogate Washington’s Conscience”. It condemned as follows:
200,000 orphans belong to low-income class, non-white families and ethnic minorities from their birth. They have dropped out of schools and have chosen the paths to drugs and violence. But Washington is reluctant to take any legal measures or issue any administrative orders to save them.
It continued to say that the U.S. politicians are much more concerned about preserving the economy than the lives of people, and they are more interested in running stock markets than anti-epidemic work. It also ridiculed that “COVID-19 orphans” shattered the dream of the U.S., and this is a sad thing for the “superpower”.
The children who should grow up with dreams of happiness are forsaken by the society, and they fall victim to the malignant virus. Such a miserable reality enables us to predict the gloomy future of the American society.
This is in stark contrast to the happy life our children are enjoying under socialist system.
In May this year, the inflow of malignant virus activated maximum emergency anti-epidemic system in our country. Thus the period of trial, so harsh that can be called as great upheaval since the founding of our country, befell us. In these days, our Party and State took several measures of love for our children. This touched all people’s hearts.
On May 15, a few days after the shift to maximum emergency anti-epidemic system, a special order of the Party Central Military Commission was issued. According to the order, the strong medical team from the Korean People’s Army (KPA) got involved in the tense struggle to stabilize the supply of medicines throughout the country. Even at this critical juncture, Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory never stopped its production of infant milk powder and rice powder for children across the country.
The situation was so tense with actions being taken to supply people in quarantine with medicines, food, fuel and subsidiary food. Despite this, trucks loaded with infant milk powder, rice powder with the brand of “Kkotmangul” (flower bud) and fish were running to all baby homes, children’s homes, primary and secondary boarding schools across the country. Every family shed emotional tears before this.
Though everything is difficult and in short supply, our country is providing all students throughout the country with new school uniforms and stationery at state’s expense. This measure can be taken only by our Party and state which have fixed the love for posterity and future as its policy.
Our people extend their deep gratitude to our Party and state which bring the laugher to our children and make their beautiful dreams come true. And they are vigorously advancing towards the future with confidence in victory.
Crimes Done by U.S. Imperialists in Korean War
Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- During the Korean War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953), the U.S. imperialist aggressors had destroyed and plundered precious cultural assets of the Korean nation in different parts of the DPRK.
In 1951, the U.S. air pirates dropped bombs at random on Yujom Temple, the largest one of the four famous temples in Mt Kumgang, thus destroying more than 40 buildings, stone lantern, nine-storied pagoda and other cultural heritages at the temple. They also reduced to ashes Yongmyong Temple in Pyongyang, Pohyon Temple in Mt Myohyang, Sokwang Temple in Mt Ko and Jangan, Phyohun and Singye temples in Mt Kumgang.
The Pubyok Pavilion in Pyongyang, the Puyong Pavilion in Haeju City, the Tongmyong House in Songchon County of South Phyongan Province, the Nam Gate in Kaesong City, the Nam Gate in Uiju County of North Phyongan Province, the Wisong House in Huichon City of Jagang Province, etc. were destroyed by the bombing attack of the U.S. imperialists.
The U.S. imperialists used the three tombs in Kangso, the national treasure of the country, as an ammunition depot and the Ryonggang twin-pillared tomb as a prison. They committed an unpardonable atrocity of destroying the Tomb No. 3 in Anak.
The U.S. imperialist aggressors plundered many cultural assets in the temporary occupation areas of the DPRK.
They attacked the then State Central History Museum in Pyongyang for a week to plunder thousands of pieces of precious cultural heritages, including 100-odd pieces of national treasure-level historical relics.
They also plundered tens of thousands of historical relics at history museums in Wonsan, Hamhung, Haeju and other parts of the DPRK as well as many historical remains at temples.
They dug out hundreds of tombs in the area of Jongbaek-dong, Rangnang District of Pyongyang City, early in November 1950 to steal thousands of pieces of historical remains.
They even stormed into inhabitants' houses to loot such heirlooms as Koryo ceramics, precious metals and gold rings and personal ornaments.
Who Is the Main Culprit of Racial and Cultural Obliteration?
At the recent 50th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, there has been a debate over the report drafted by the special rapporteur on violence against women.
At the session, some countries pointed out that human rights violation against the indigenous women and girls is going rampant in the Western countries such as the U.S., Canada and Australia, and called for the attention of UNHCR to this issue.
Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and first and second clause of Article 22 of United Nations Declaration of Rights for Indigenous People stipulate that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, and states shall take measures to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.
Racial and cultural obliteration against indigenous people have been perpetrated for centuries under the strong support and tacit approval of the governments of the Western countries, self-proclaimed advanced states of human rights.
As part of cultural assimilation policy towards indigenous people, the U.S. established 350-odd boarding schools for native Americans in the secluded regions between 19th and 20th century. The U.S. detained a large number of the native children to forcefully separate them from their parents, families and regional societies before forcing them into toilsome labor.
In Australia, too, more than 100,000 aboriginal children, including girls, were reduced to slaves in the past period. They are still falling victim to grave human rights violation by the racial discrimination policy and inequity in juridical execution pursued by their government.
As we enter this year, the aboriginal people, 3.3% of the total population, take 29% of the total detainees due to the selective and prejudiced execution of the law by the police. This staggering fact is just the tip of the iceberg of the serious human rights issue this country is faced with.
Last year, more than 1,200 remains of the children were found in various parts of Canada including a graveyard of 200-odd remains of indigenous Canadian children. Some time ago, 93 remains of the children were found at the site of the boarding school for indigenous people which was run in the last century, thus drawing a great concern from the international society.
This is not all.
In the last century, Japan occupied Korea by force for 40-odd years and ran amuck to annihilate the Korean nation. With a gangster-like logic that “Koreans should obey the Japanese law or die”, it turned all the Koreans into slaves, forced them to change their names into Japanese ones, abducted and forcibly drafted countless Korean women to reduce them to sexual slaves of the Japanese imperial army.
Notwithstanding these facts, the successive governments of Japan, far from admitting, apologizing and compensating for the past super-class crime against humanity, have shirked their responsibilities with lame excuses and history distortion.
Moreover, it is applying a discriminatory policy of not ensuring the rights of the Korean residents in Japan- the immediate victims of the Japanese colonial rule and its descendants- in all fields of the social life including education and healthcare.
The institutional and systematic obliteration of race and culture perpetrated by the U.S. and the Western countries have continued for centuries and generations. Today, it has developed into all sorts of variants to generate racial, national and religious conflicts and increase the instability in the world.
The above facts prove that these countries are the main culprits of racial and cultural obliteration, and that the respect for human rights and observance of human rights conventions touted by them are no more than hypocrisy.
The international society should thoroughly investigate all the inhumane crimes committed by the U.S. and the Western countries in the past and the present, and bring them before the court of justice.
Kim In Guk, Researcher of Korean Association for Human Rights Studies
Two Firs and More Than Ten Thousand Trees
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Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, planted two firs in the Hwasong area in Pyongyang in a tree-planting ceremony of the participants in the Second Conference of Secretaries of Primary Committees of the Workers’ Party of Korea (above). Now the construction of another ten thousand flats is underway in the area. True to his noble intention to cover the whole country with thick forests, the Korean people planted more than ten thousand trees there in just a matter of several days (below).