The 35th anniversary of the founding
Of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea was marked from September 7 to
in the presence of 270 delegations
Tom 116 countries. A two-person dele-
Sation led by Jack Phillips and including

national arena with pride, as a full-
fledged independent and sovereign

state.”

The Canadian delegates visited the
demarcation line at Panmunjom during
their stay and reported to their party in

Threats from South concer Korea

Canada the grave concern by the people
of the DPRK at the increasing build-up of
military might by U.S. imperialism in
South Korea.

Returning to Canada (while Jack Phil-
lips resumed his assignment in Prague)

Nancy McDonald, represented the

‘Ommunist Party of Canada in Pyon-
8yang on the occasion.
_The foreign guests attended a grand
Versary meeting Sept. 8, at which
Pak Sung Chul, vice-president of the
DPRK reported on achievements in the
Country from the dark days of Japanese
Mperialist rule and the U.S. invasion of
1950, up to the present. He spoke of the
Mational proposals made by the DPRK
fo Teunification of the whole country.
_On September 9, foreign guests, along
With leaders of the DPRK Government,
the Workers’ Party of Korea and of the
med forces, were present at a banquet,
Which was addressed by Kim II Sung,
President of the DPRK and General Sec-
"etary of the Workers’ Party.
Stating that the Korean people would
| ihite with the peaceloving peoples of the
| World to preserve peace and prevent nu-
| war, Kim II Sung said, with regard
| 10 the significance of this anniversary:
With the establishment of the Re-
| ia our people, for the first time in
| "Story, became a dignified people who
dependently hew out their destiny as
"tue masters of the state and society, and

place,

Bombing ‘scripted’ — DPRK

PYONGYANG — The Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea
has rejected Burmese assertions
that persons connected with the
DPRK played any role in the Oc-
tober 9 bomb blast in Rangoon
which took the lives of 17 visiting
officials from South Korea, in-
cluding four cabinet ministers.

Burma unilaterally broke dip-
lomatic relations with the DPRK
on Nov. 4.

Ina statement the next day, the
DPRK ministry of foreign affairs
call it ‘‘surprising and regrettable
that the Burmese Government
without any prior notice to us
took such a unilateral step on the
basis of groundless material.”
The statement noted that ‘‘as
soon as the bomb blast took
authorities put the blame on the
north without a shred of evi-

dence. Nor have the Burmese
authorities made public the re-
sults of their ‘‘investigation’’, or
what due legal procedures were
followed in the cases of the
“‘suspects’’.

The statement calls the Bur-
mese diplomatic action “‘unjust
and irresponsible’. Saying that
the DPRK had “‘nothing to do
with the incident,”’ it states: ‘‘We,
by nature, have never resorted to
individual terrorism and
assassination and such a thing is
alien to us.”’

The Burmese Government
took the step at a time when
north-south confrontation and in-
tensified military provocations in
the front line area are creating an
atmosphere resembling that on
the eve of war on the Korean
peninsula, the statement charged.

the South Korean

| ur country appeared on the inter-

By JAMES LEECH
In the exciting book, Ten Days That Shook the World,
U.S. writer John Reed recorded for the enrichment
Of people everywhere the history-making days of the
Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917. Reed pre-
‘Served the sights, sounds, emotions and the very actions
people including V.I. Lenin who led the way over that
i Watershed of human progress.
‘Sixty-six years have passed since those unforget-
: le days when the first victorious proletarian revolu-
os in the history of mankind took place,”’ began G. V.
OManov, speaking at the 66th anniversary 1n the vast,
Modern and filled to capacity, Kremlin Palace of Con-
“Sses on November 5 this year.
‘Te Aurora’s shot,’’ he said, referring to the Cruiser
a | hat Signalled the attack on the seat of government in
f} <°trograd, ‘heralded what Vladimir Lenin described as
the greatest and hardest transition in history” ey the
| jetsition from capitalism to socialism. And it is no
ger in anybody’s power to arrest it!”
a Omanov spoke of the multitudinous changes and ad-
ances in the years since 1917. He dwelt in detail on
blems and expectations in economic achievement;
4nd that is the topic of another analysis. Such is the case
Well with the struggle to raise the level of ideology.
€ stressed, however, that ‘‘the ideological training of
} de viet people and the fostering in them of class-
termined high vigilance and a readiness to defend the
‘ountry from all encroachments” remains the principle
of activity of the whole Party. This is coupled with
“© Unceasing efforts of the Soviet Union for success 1n
.Mament negotiations. :
U For four years running,’ Romanov said, “the Soviet
hion has been persistently proposing to prevent a new
*nd risky round in the arms race. In the course of the past
© years at the Geneva talks we have been advancing
Re Constructive initiative after another either to free
alin of nuclear weapons, medium-range and tactical
nucle Or to substantially lower the level of opposing
Ron forces on the principles of equality and equal
ye
he While, the USA is “‘just doing its number”’ at Geneva,
flex; ud Soviet leader Yuri Andropov put forward
leg proposals to take into account the legitimate
begin: ® of the other side. He warned that if the USA
“SRS to deploy missiles in western Europe counter-

‘No one can hold back
the course of history’

Nan McDonald told the Tribune that on
this 35th anniversary, the people of the:
DPRK truly had something to celebrate.

“‘When you consider the suffering and
ruin inflicted by the U.S. military on the
country and the people in the Korean
war of 1950-53,”’ she said, “‘it’s not only
amazing but impressive what the Korean
people have accomplished in such a
short period.”

Pyongyang is a beautiful, a modern
city, its department stores well stocked
with consumer items, which the people
are obviously well able to afford,
McDonald said.

‘Their main concern,”* she said, ‘‘is
the threat of war launched from the
south, and beyond that, world nuclear
war. They are for reunification of their
country and removal of the threat posed
by the present 40,000-strong U.S. troop
build-up, and the placement of nuclear
weapons, south of the demarcation lines.
It’s a terrible threat hanging over all the
DPRK has been able to create.”

‘During our visit there on the 35th an-
niversary, McDonald explained, ‘‘any-
where you might point, the colorful crea-
tive manifestation of a million people in
Kim Il Sung Square, the cultural events,
the mass gymnastics, the superbly artis-
tic Pyongyang metro stations — where
you travel for pennies — it all showed the
Korean people as a hard-working, dis-
ciplined people of labor and culture.”

Backgrounder

measures will inevitably follow.

His words were echoed two days later ina sunny, mild
November 7 on Moscow’s Red Square by Soviet De-
fence Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, who said:

“The Communist Party and the Soviet State persis-
tently translate into reality the Leninist foreign policy
aimed at strengthening peace, curbing the arms race and
expanding and deepening co-operation between states.

‘The countries of the socialist community,” he said,
‘«march along the road to building a new life together
with the Soviet Union. Loyal to their internationalist
duty, the CPSU and the Soviet people do and will do all

possible to support the peoples who have cast off the must be radically lowered but in such a manner as to
colonial yoke and have chosen ‘the path of socialist leave the ratio of forces between them unchanged.”

The Soviet Union proposes:
e No new U.S. missiles should be deployed in

development and all the peoples who are fighting for
their national liberation and social progress.”

Marshal Ustinov charged that ‘‘the United States and
its NATO allies pursue ... a policy which runs counter
to the cause of peace and freedom of peoples.”’ That is a
challenge to the policies of the Government of Canada,
which has never disowned NATO’s aggressive policies
or its anti-Soviet orientation.

Europe.

exceptions.

ary superiority over us ... The Soviet Armed Forces
vigilantly and efficiently stand on guard to defend the
great acquisitions of the October Revolution.”

The message of the Soviet Government, its ruling
Communist Party, and of the multi-million organizations
of the Soviet people speaking out for peace and human

missiles.

Communist Party leader and President of the USSR, on
the eve of the 66th anniversary.

“We have displayed and are displaying flexibility in

as regard

Moscow’s Red Square on Nov. 7th.

e Account should be taken on both sides of all the
nuclear weapons of the corresponding range, without

e The Soviet Union is ready to agree to reduction of
medium-range missiles in Europe to identical levels for

‘No one can hold back the course of history,’ Us- wo sad : : So
: come : +. the es both as regards delivery vehicles (missiles
tinov said. ‘‘We shall not allow anyone to achieve milit and aircraft) and warheads.

e In the event of a mutually acceptable agreement,
including renunciation of deployment.of new U.S. mis-
siles, the USSR would liquidate, not redeploy its surplus

e From the time of an agreement there will cease to be
progress, was stated clearly by Yuri Andropov, deployment of SS-20 missiles in eastern USSR as well.

e The USSR is undeviatingly observing its
moratorium announced a year and a half ago on deploy-
In answers to the newspaper Pravda on October 27, ment of medium-range nuclear weapons in its European
- Andropov said: part. .
Yuri Andropov dismissed the idea that U.S. deploy-
seeking concrete solutions while insisting on but one ment would force the USSR to make concessions in the
imperative requirement: the balance of forces in Europe talks: ““The appearance of new American missiles in
s medium-range nuclear arms must not be dis- western Europe will make a continuation of the present
rupted. The level of these arms on both sides can and talks in Geneva impossible.”

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