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No 38/23 May 9, 2023
1. U.S. Deceptive Policy on Africa Is Bound to Fail
2. Japan Must Immediately Abandon Its Criminal Attempt to Discharge Nuclear Waste Water
3. Online Education Proves Effective
4. Rangnang Museum—Showcase for Old Culture
U.S. Deceptive Policy on Africa Is Bound to Fail
Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) -- An article published by international affairs analyst Jong Il Hyon Sunday under the title of "U.S. deceptive policy on Africa is bound to fail" reads as follows:
The U.S. high-ranking politicians' recent frequent visits to Africa are drawing the attention of the international community.
The visits by the high-ranking politicians of the U.S. administration such as vice-president, secretary of State and secretary of Treasury numbered nearly 20 times this year alone, which proves that the Biden administration has made overall reevaluation of the geopolitical value of Africa and has put the new African strategy into the full-scale working stage.
The world people are watching with astonishment and doubt the moves of the Biden administration, quite contrary to the Trump administration which insulted Africa with indecent words.
Essence of New African Strategy
In August last year, the U.S. announced a new African strategy calling for further strengthening cooperation with the African countries in the fields of democracy, security, economy and so on for the next five years, enumerating the geopolitical importance of Africa such as rapid population growth, rich natural resources and influence in the UN arena.
The high-ranking politicians of the White House who recently visited Africa as if to prove the authenticity of the new strategy spouted a string of gorgeous words and made various kinds of promises of cooperation as if they would make a great contribution to defusing the economic crisis and ensuring security and social development in African countries.
However, from a close look at the words and actions they have taken on the spots, one can easily see what the new U.S. African strategy is aiming at.
The secretary of Treasury, the first U.S. official who flew to the region this year, stressed the need to impose a cap on the prices of Russian gas and oil while blaming food crisis on the continent on Russia wherever he went. And in Zambia, he tried to shift the responsibility for the debt crisis of the region to China, saying that China's "positive cooperation" is necessary to solve the external debt problem in the country.
The secretary of State who visited Niger also incited the anti-Russian atmosphere by pulling up Russia over its military activities in the West African region, and the vice-president, who visited Ghana and Zambia, which were experiencing the worst debt crisis in Africa, gave a wide publicity to the "transparent aid" from the United States and the "danger" of the Chinese investment.
After all, the utterances of the high-ranking officials of the U.S. administration remind one of the statement in the new African strategy published by the U.S. last year to the effect that Russia and China are creating instability and challenging the international order to meet their interests in Africa.
All facts prove that the new African strategy of the U.S. is never for the African countries but to contain and hold hegemony over China and Russia which are exercising increasing influences in the region and thus to provide a springboard for realizing its world strategy.
Independence is irresistible trend of times
The ever-increasing high-handed and arbitrary practices by the U.S. seeking hegemony in Africa have touched off ever-increasing denunciation and rebuff by the countries in the region.
South Africa, the chair country of BRICS, this year, commenting on the U.S. concerns over the naval joint military exercises his country planned to stage together with China and Russia in the waters off its country in January, officially clarified its stand during the U.S. Treasury Secretary's visit to the country that the exercises are natural and independent activities for the development of the relations with China and Russia. South Africa staged the joint military exercises in the February 17-27 period as scheduled and is making positive efforts for the successful host of the BRICS summit slated for in August this year despite the issuance of the warrant of arrest for President Putin by the International Criminal Court.
A member of the parliament of Ghana, concerning the U.S. vice-president's demanding the Ghanaian government ensure the rights to homosexuals, asserted that "the human rights record of the U.S. vice-president and his country is stunning and there is nothing for Ghanaians to learn from it".
The leader of the Social Party of Zambia said that what the U.S. seeks in Africa is its geo-political and economic interests, not democracy and human rights. It's for them, not for us.
The independent stand of the African countries rejecting high-handed and arbitrary practices of a specified big power and aspiring after the establishment of just international order is clearly evidenced by their efforts to solve all issues to suit to their specific situations and to meet their own interests.
At the 36th ordinary session of the assembly of heads of state and government of the African Union held in Addis Ababa in February this year the chairman of the Union Committee appraised the achievements made in the work of defusing civil wars and political instability in Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya last year, in compliance with the principle of "solution of African issues by Africans", and called on the UN Security Council to set right the present international order of excluding Africa.
The situation proves that the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices based on hegemony do not work on the African continent.
The French newspaper Le Monde in an article titled "The end of domination over Africa, switchover to independent Africa" analyzed the recent situation in Africa and concluded that a new era is coming to the continent by the vigorous struggle of the regional countries under the slogan of "Africa by Africans".
The more desperate efforts the U.S. makes to maintain the outdated international order, the more glaringly it will expose its poor plight, and its moves to seize African countries will face failure thanks to the growing desire and awareness of the regional countries for independence.
Japan Must Immediately Abandon Its Criminal Attempt to Discharge Nuclear Waste Water
Japanese government is attracting soaring criticism and opposition both at home and abroad as it persists in its plan to discharge the nuclear waste water of Fukushima nuclear power plant within this year.
Japanese fishermen are putting up strong resistance to their government and Tokyo Electric Power Holding Incorporation for their plan to unilaterally discharge the nuclear waste water, abandoning the promises they made several times that they would not discharge the nuclear waste water without seeking understanding from the concerned parties.
A person in fishery business in Iwaki city of Fukushima prefecture deplored that the livelihood of fishermen cannot be restored to the original state, once the nuclear waste water is discharged into the sea, and blamed the government for its insufficient explanation and improvised policy.
Moreover, mayors in Fukushima prefecture held a meeting and agreed to adopt a special resolution on the coming May 11. The resolution, reflecting the general will of the 77 cities in the 6 prefectures of Tohoku region, would call for the government to make a positive response to obtain the consent from the people.
Currently, more than 40% of the Japanese population oppose the plan of their government to discharge the nuclear waste water, and more than 90% of them have acknowledged that it will bring negative impact, and protests continue unabated. Such facts clearly reflect the public sentiments in Japan.
Meanwhile, the neighboring countries are also on the close lookout for Japan’s attempt to discharge nuclear waste water.
China warned that Japan’s decision to discharge nuclear waste water will bring an unimaginable danger to the global marine environment and the lives of humankind.
China also made a strong assertion that Japan should fulfil its international duty faithfully by discharging the nuclear waste water in an open, transparent and safe manner.
The China-Russia joint declaration released on March 21, also expressed a serious concern over Japan’s plan to discharge the nuclear waste water and demanded that Japan should accept the long-time surveillance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and relevant countries, and protect the marine environment as well as the people’s “health-related rights and interests” in respective countries in an efficient way.
At the G7 Meeting of Ministers in charge of Climate, Energy and Environment held in mid-April, Japan schemed to mislead the public opinion as if it had won support from the member states for discharging nuclear waste water but it ended up with a tragicomedy. They have refuted Japan’s assertion, saying that “Japan’s discharging of waste water is not welcome.”
According to a poll carried out by one country, 93.21% of world people expressed strong opposition to Japan’s discharging of nuclear waste water.
In particular, with regards to Japan’s assertion that it has decontaminated most of 60-odd kinds of radioactive nuclides contained in the nuclear waste water, 90.28% of the respondents in the poll replied that it lacks credibility, and 86.45% of them criticized Japan for the disposal of the radioactive waste water, saying that it is unscientific and is not transparent.
Japan should not turn a blind eye to the serious concern from the international community, and abandon its criminal attempt to discharge the nuclear waste water at once.
Online Education Proves Effective
Online education is conducted briskly in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is pursuing the goal of making all its people well-versed in science and technology.
Those in the photo are workers at the Ponghwa Chemical Works learning in the lecture room at the factory through the study-while-you-work online system. Some of them aspire to take courses at several universities.
In the course of acquiring knowledge through this system, the workers have presented ideas for technical innovation and become skilled workers, promoting the development of their factory.
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Rangnang Museum—Showcase for Old Culture
The Rangnang Museum is located in Rangnang District in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The museum keeps historical relics and remains, which show the Rangnang Civilization created by the people of Ancient Joson (early 30th century BC–108 BC) in its late period and their descendants.
It is composed of a history section, a folk game section and a leisure area, and more than 2 000 pieces of relics and remains representing the relevant period are on display there.
Many people visit it every day and have a good time experiencing the old culture.
The museum was inaugurated in September last year.
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