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I came across this odd little article on an Italian-language (Telegram) channel – a straight translation from the original Korean into Italian. As the Korean News in the North is flexible and dynamic – not all stories make it into English translation – so I need to be vigilant. I thought this is interesting as Trump’s usual denial of just how unpopular he is seems to be fraying around the edges!
On a slightly different note, there was an English man called “Stephen Bachelor” who travelled to South Korea and joined a Buddhist monastic order. Indeed, I believe he eventually met the woman who would become his wife – at the time a Buddhist “nun”. Upon returning to the UK he established a Buddhist College in Devon – but as the years went by he started to describe himself as an “atheist” who do not believe in any form of religion or mysticism. He even banned Buddha statues from his meditation rooms – and when my teacher – Richard Hunn – was invited to teach, he also banned all incense. Of course, Buddhism is not a religion with the Buddha being described as “non-theist” (he said gods only seem to exist until believers realise they are non-existent). Yes – monotheism was unknown in the Buddha’s time – so it is interesting to consider what exactly it was that Mr Bachelor was reacting to? Did he think Buddhism was a religion – and the Buddha a god? Is this what they were teaching in South Korea?
US soldiers, regardless of skin-colour, are “racist” in that they are trained by the US education system to view Asians as being racially inferior. Furthermore, The Japanese, being equally “racist” – view Okinawans as second-class citizens as many of them are of ethnic Chinese origination (Okinawa used to be a tributary State of the Chinese empire) – and this is why the US is permitted to retain a military base on Okinawa. The Japanese do not care what happened to the Okinawans – and the US do not care what they do to the Okinawan people.
The U.S. assertion to backbite the status of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state has no legally binding force and no one will be bound by the U.S. unilateral rhetoric.
The forces, which have remained most hostile to the DPRK and expressed through undisguised speech and behaviour their sinister intention to be most outrageous in the present and future, should stop slandering the just policy of the DPRK for self-defence and, in particular, give up the daydream about “denuclearization”.
We are now eyeing the course of the dangerous evolution of the nuclear alliance against the DPRK.
All acts of shaking the security of the DPRK and the region down to the roots, including the expansion and development of aggressive military blocs sharing nukes, the conduct of various military drills premised on the use of nuclear weapons and the constant deployment of nuclear strategic assets, clearly prove the justness and legitimacy of building a solid nuclear shield of the DPRK.
Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly, attended the unveiling ceremony.
Also present there were Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and officials concerned of the DPRK, Charge d’Affaires ad Interim Vladimir Topeha and staff members of the Russian embassy, Russian guests, bereaved family members and members of the diplomatic corps here.
The guard of honour of the Korean People’s Army lined up before the memorial tablet.
Speeches were made at the unveiling ceremony.
The images of the dedicated soldiers so brave on the hard-fought battlefields silently dwelt in their individual photos on display but it seems that the cries they let out at their last moments throwing themselves into the enemy pillboxes and committing suicide with their last bullets and grenades still resound as an echo of eternal life, moving all the visitors, young or old, to tears.
The visitors feel great emotion surging inside them, seeing the undying pictures showing what the heroes wished and desired at their last moments and realizing how they laid down their lives to save their sacred honour as soldiers of the Korean People’s Army, turning their love for their beloved parents, wives and children into their hardened will to annihilate the enemy.
Going around the outdoor captured weaponry exhibition area, they recollect with great pride the feats of the warriors who demonstrated the ideological and spiritual superiority and invincible mettle of the Korean People’s Army by inflicting merciless death on the aggressors on alien battlefields by dint of Korean-style tactics.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 