THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 44/23 May 25, 2023
1. U.S.-Japan-South Korea Information Sharing under Fire
2. Southeast Asia Should Not Be Proxy War Theatre for U.S.
3. United States Encouraging Child Labor
4. Working Class of Korea
U.S.-Japan-South Korea Information Sharing under Fire
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Kang Jin Song, an international affairs analyst, released the following article under the title "The establishment of the U.S.-Japan-south Korea tripartite information-sharing system will lead to tripartite sharing of crisis" on May 25:
The U.S., Japanese and south Korean chief executives met in Hiroshima on May 21 to discuss new sinister measures for tightening their military cooperation, talking about the DPRK's "threat and provocation".
In the "brief talks" that took only less than two minutes, the hostile forces discussed the tripartite security cooperation such as "the real-time sharing of north Korean missile alert information."
It is a well-known fact that nine years ago the U.S. cooked up the Tripartite Information Sharing Agreement (TISA) by pressurizing Japan and south Korea, thus officially instituting the triangular cooperation in the military field for the first time.
The U.S. has given top priority to the sharing of military information on the DPRK in strengthening the tripartite military cooperation and has steadily pushed forward with it. Recently, it has underpinned behind the scene the restoration of the Japan-south Korea General Security of Military Intelligence Agreement (GSOMIA) which was on the verge of abrogation.
However, it is impossible to ensure the real-time tracking of movements of the strategic rivals in Northeast Asia with TISA, which allows the sharing of information only via the U.S, and with GSOMIA, which allows only requested exchange of information. This is a trouble of the U.S.
The U.S., for this reason, seeks to connect the command and control systems of the U.S. forces in Japan, the U.S. forces in south Korea, the "Self-Defense Forces" of Japan and the south Korean forces to its Indo-Pacific Command and thus build a system for real-time sharing of military information.
The U.S., Japanese and south Korean chief executives were committed to the real-time sharing of missile alert information in Phnom-Penh of Cambodia in November last year and recently reaffirmed it again. This goes to prove that the project for establishing a tripartite information sharing system is being pushed forward at the final stage.
Recently floating is the rumor that the U.S., Japanese and south Korean defense authorities would finally conclude an agreement on tripartite information sharing on the occasion of the Shangri-La Dialogue to be held in early June. This is not fortuitous.
What is the aim sought by the U.S. in pushing forward with the establishment of the tripartite information sharing system with Japan and south Korea on a top priority basis?
In recent years the U.S. has lavished its investment on forming the triangular military alliance between the U.S., Japan and south Korea, an "Asian version of NATO", in Northeast Asia which is of core military strategic significance in carrying out its Indo-Pacific strategy.
The ever more frequent deployment of the U.S. strategic assets in Northeast Asia and the U.S.-Japan-south Korea joint military exercises are taking place at the level of the military alliance.
In particular, the U.S. president called the south Korean chief executive to the White House in April to declare the establishment of the "nuclear consultative group" and even Japan is planning to take part in it. This proves that the triangular military cooperation between the U.S., Japan and south Korea will soon be shaped into a NATO-style nuclear cooperation alliance.
Furthermore, such new function as real-time tripartite sharing of information will be added to the cooperation, which means the emergence of the actual U.S.-Japan-south Korea military alliance with the single nerve centre in Northeast Asia.
The master and its stooges, hell-bent on pursuing hegemony, overseas expansion and confrontation with the DPRK, work hard to acquire integrated military information images without any blind spot in the Asia-Pacific region including Northeast Asia. It is as clear as noonday for what purposes they will be used.
Military and political blocs of exclusive and confrontational nature such as AUKUS, Five Eyes and QUAD, the products of the U.S. ill-minded divisive military and foreign policy, are now located more densely in the Asia-Pacific region than any other regions, exposing peace and security of mankind to grave threats.
Another military alliance is to appear in the region where the confrontation between powers is escalating. This further stirs up the international community's uneasiness and concern.
Moreover, the military bloc with such extremely dangerous perfect multiple functions as NATO-style multi-party nuclear cooperation and real-time sharing of military information will appear just in Northeast Asia. This is heightening the vigilance of regional countries including the DPRK to the maximum.
The U.S. vicious scenario for confrontation is the most serious threat to global peace and security as it seeks to invent a "pretext" for fabricating the U.S.-Japan-south Korea military bloc by violating the inviolable security of the DPRK and to secure its military edge in the Asia-Pacific region by cooking up the "Asian-version NATO."
The DPRK and the righteous international community will never tolerate the anti-peace grouping by the U.S. and its followers but frustrate the hostile forces' wrong choice step by step with powerful strength.
The U.S. and its followers will get more and more exposed to security crisis facilitating its final ruin for its frantic moves to tighten their military alliance against the DPRK and expand the war drills for aggression. This is an equation characterizing the present dynamic structure of the Korean Peninsula.
If the U.S. and its stooges add a new variable called the tripartite information sharing system to this invariable equation, crisis sharing, instead of information sharing, will turn out as a functional value.
Southeast Asia Should Not Be Proxy War Theatre for U.S.
Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- Ri Jong Su, an international affairs analyst, released the following article under the title "Southeast Asia should not be a proxy war theatre for the U.S." on May 24:
A raging wind of the new Cold War raised by the U.S. is displacing the warm air in the Southeast Asia region.
In January, the U.S. Navy's amphibious assault ship Makin Island appeared in Singapore to resume the joint military exercises two years after. In late February to early March, the Cobra Gold joint military exercises, largest-ever in 10 years, were staged in Thailand. And in April, the Balikatan joint military exercises were launched in the Philippines with involvement of huge armed forces, including over 12 000 U.S. troops. Involved in the exercises was a live-shell firing drill staged in the South Sea of China for the first time.
In 2022 alone, military exercises staged by the U.S. armed forces in the South Sea of China were more than 100 times and their reconnaissance activities were more than 1 000 times. And the deployment period of the U.S. nuclear carrier strike groups increased from 4 to 6 days in 2021 to more than 10 days. Moreover, a U.S. nuclear carrier, a huge steel monster which is as high as a 23-storey building and as large as four football fields, appeared in Thailand on April 24 for the first time in over 10 years.
What should be paid attention to is that the U.S. military infiltration, which had been confined mainly to joint military exercises with individual countries and the provision of military equipment, is now leading to the formation of a new alliance sphere linking its junior allies like Japan and Australia with Southeast Asian countries.
At the (two+two) diplomatic and defence authorities' talks held with the Philippines on April 11, the U.S. agreed to expand the multilateral marine security activities with "its like-minded companions" in the South Sea of China and boost cooperation with AUKUS. It also officially took up the issue of establishing the three-party cooperation mode of the U.S., the Philippines and Japan or the U.S., the Philippines and Australia during the Philippine president's visit to the U.S. from April 30 to May 4.
Military cooperation between countries should be welcomed when it is aimed at promoting peace and stability in those countries and regions, but the U.S. seeks other intention.
After the Second World War, the U.S. which had fattened off through aggression and war, regarding it as an ideological prop, the "manifest destiny" given by God, to invade and annex other countries, has put other countries on the altar of proxy wars in creating and maintaining a unipolar world where it is playing the role of "MP" and "judge".
The U.S. has put spurs to establishing the triangular military alliance with Japan and south Korea under the "crescent plan", which is for forming a "semi-lunar encirclement sphere" from Japan to south Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Vietnam, Thailand and Pakistan against socialist countries, from late 1953. Meanwhile, it set up various forms of security alliance one after another including ANZUS in 1951, SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) in 1954 and CENTO (Central Treaty Organization) in 1955. Such customs are now carried forward by QUAD and AUKUS.
Under the baton of the U.S., NATO is continuing "advance to east" to press Russia like a tank free from braking on the continent of Europe. The U.S.-led "advance to west", which is leading to Taiwan and Southeast Asia through Japan, south Korea and Australia, is being made in a real earnest in the Asia-Pacific region. In this situation, Japan decided to open the liaison office of NATO in its country on the recommendation of the U.S., which clearly proves that "pincer of east and west" to be surely led to building of "NATO of Asian version" is going into the stage of implementation.
All these acts of disturbing the world show that the U.S. is reviving the specter of "Nixon Doctrine" of making Europeans fight with Europeans in Europe and Asians with Asians in Asia.
The present era is the one of independence and no region in the world, to say nothing of Southeast Asia, wants to become a theatre of proxy war for the U.S.
The reality goes to clearly prove that the U.S. is the ringleader burying seed of distrust, antagonism, confrontation and conflict against the common desire of the Southeast Asian countries aspiring after peaceful environment and stable economic development and the chieftain driving the whole region into extreme instability and bringing a war.
The countries in the Southeast Asia should heighten vigilance against the U.S. moves to turn the region into the theatre of proxy war for maintaining its hegemonic position and oppose and reject them, thus fulfilling their responsibility and role in defending genuine peace, stability and justice.
United States Encouraging Child Labor
The situation of illegal child labor in the U.S. is now getting worse.
According to the recent U.S. media report, the State of Arkansas passed in March a bill to remove the stipulation that children between 14 to 15 needed work permit before they got a job, and Ohio legislature has allowed children of the same age group to work until 9 p.m., much longer than the working hours permitted by the federal law.
Also in Minnesota and Iowa, the bills that would relax the provisions of the Child Labor Laws are going through enactment procedure. The number of child workers employed by the local enterprises has reached as many as 250,000 across the country.
All the above clearly indicates that the issue of child labor and exploitation is becoming more serious in the U.S. and the moves to legalize the illegal child labor is getting ever more blatant.
In the U.S., child laborers under 10, younger than the minimum age for employment, often get injured or even killed by various accidents during their employment in illegal work.
Protecting the rights of a child is of particular importance among human rights issues.
The human rights issue is in essence about ensuring human rights, which is attained through the medium of national laws.
However, in the American society, the barren land of humanity where egoism, jungle law and money-talks mentality prevail, even children are regarded as an object of exploitation and oppression by the ruling class and the capitalists, and thus the children fade away in the course of backbreaking labor to eke out a living rather than receiving social and legal protection.
The tragedy is that the U.S. administration is going to legalize the current situation of immoral and inhuman child labor instead of providing legal guarantee for the children’s human rights.
The reality shows that the ensuring of genuine human rights can by no means be compatible with the political goals of the ruling class and the mercenary interests of the capitalists in the U.S. claiming to be an “exemplary human rights state.”
A human being should be given precedence over politics and conscience and morality over the law.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted at the UN General Assembly in 1989 stipulates that children should be protected from all kinds of abuses and be provided with the rights to education and rest. The U.S., however, has yet to sign the Convention.
It is ironical that the U.S., which pays no heed to “human rights” of its own children, finds fault with “human rights”, especially the rights of the children in other countries, having no scruples about interfering in their internal affairs and overthrowing the governments.
Thanks to the politics of noble love for posterity of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who feels the happiest and most rewarded at the bright laughter of the younger generation, the happy life and beautiful dreams of our children are coming true by dint of pure conscience rather than legal obligation, by noble morality rather than the tradition of a country of courteous people as well as by the beautiful custom of the country rather than the social requirement. They are ever-blooming while the children enjoy such social benefits as the universal compulsory free education, the system for nursing and upbringing of children and the universal free health care.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that a moment’s delay in the work for our coming generation will result in the tenfold and hundredfold procrastination in the advance of the country, and that nothing could be given higher priority than the caring of the country’s future generation. Though pressed for time with many state affairs, he personally assumed the responsibility of the gardener who grows the future of the country, bestowing all sorts of love and affection upon the children.
There are many countries in the world, and all with children. But no other children in the world are happier than our children who fulfill their beautiful dreams and give full play to their potential thanks to the warm blessings of the sun in the most civilized and up-to-date educational and living environment.
In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea the working class is called the core unit of socialist construction and the nation’s “eldest son.”
In the latter half of the 1950s, when the country was undergoing difficulties, the working class at the then Kangson Steel Plant produced 120 000 tons of rolled steel from a blooming mill with a rated capacity of 60 000 tons, thus initiating the Chollima Movement. In response to it, the working people across the country launched a mass innovation drive, Chollima Workteam Movement, thus achieving the socialist industrialization of the country in a matter of 14 years.
By availing themselves of the collapse of socialism in several countries in the closing years of the 20th century, the imperialists concentrated their anti-socialist offensive on the DPRK. In this trying period, the working class of the country defended socialism and provided a solid springboard for building a powerful socialist country while revitalizing their country’s economy.
Today they are setting up modern factories in various parts of the country and stepping up the work of putting the economy on a Juche-oriented, modern, scientific and IT basis as required by the developing times.
They also play the role as fully-fledged masters of the state and society.
Workers in the difficult and challenging sectors of the national economy, including coal and ore miners, lumberjacks, fishermen and weavers, are elected to the Supreme People’s Assembly (parliament) and local people’s assemblies, participating in administering the state affairs. At the elections to the county, city and provincial people’s assemblies held in July 2015, General Secretary Kim Jong Un cast ballots for candidates, who were workers from the Ryonmot Trolley Bus Station and Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex.
The title of Labour Hero and other state decorations are awarded to those who have worked honestly at their posts for scores of years or have made a great contribution to developing the country’s economy.
Eight-hour work day, regular holidays, maternity leave, provision of working conditions and environment and supply of labour protection materials and nutrients are guaranteed by law. Factories and enterprises are furnished with bases for cultural life.
In the country the lives and health of the working class are a matter of national concern, a matter of paramount importance. The matter concerning the lives and health of the workers are discussed before production starts, and officials of production units go among the workers to acquaint themselves with the latter’s demands and mental agony and solve them in time–this is a primary process of their work.
On May Day state dignitaries including senior officials of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea visit dormitories and workplaces of the workers, and celebrate the holiday with them, enjoying artistic performances and playing sports games with them. This has become a convention in the country.
On the day the country’s newspapers and TV give wide publicity to the innovative successes brought about by the working class, and artistic groups stage congratulatory performances for the labour innovators.
The country does not hesitate to make investment for the sake of the working class, and it provides them with much benefit.
This is eloquently proved by the fact that new flats in Changjon Street and Kyongru-dong built in the central parts of Pyongyang were provided to ordinary workers free of charge.
Kim Jong Un visited the family of a worker at a city landscaping station and the family of a weaver of the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill who moved to new flats in Changjon Street, and blessed their future. Under his guidance, wonderful workers’ hostels were built at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill, Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill and others.
Among those, who moved to the luxury houses in the Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District built in Pyongyang, were a weaver and a trolley bus driver.
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