By TOM MORRIS

The government of the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea has issued a 10-point plan calling for the reuni-
fication of the country. Divided along north-south lines
at the 38th parallel since 1945, Korea has been a world

point.and seat of tension in Asia.

In 1950-53 a bloody war was fought in which U.S.,
: ian, Australian, Turkish, and British forces were
volved. Since 1953 the division of the country has been
established under an armistace agreement with a
Socialist state.in the north and a U.S.-backed dictator-
ship in the south. As part of the Armistace, some 55,000
U.S. troops are permanently stationed in the south which
has, in addition, a huge standing army of its own.

The DPRK reunification plan.calls on the United

States to negotiate the replacing of the 1953 Armistace
Agreement with a peace agreement and abandon its
long-standing position of ‘‘two Koreas’’. It argues that
the two Koreds line has resulted in a concept of perma-
nent division of the nation, the turning of the south into a
Virtual colony and, as recent events have shown, severe
Tepression against all opponents of the government.
__ “The question of Korea’s reunification resolves itself
Into the question of ending foreign domination and inter-
ference, winning the complete sovereignty of the Korean
Nation, removing distrust and antagonism between north
and south and achieving national unity,”’ the DPRK says
in a preamble to its 10 points.

It holds that ‘‘the country should be reunified by
founding a Confederal Republic through the establish-
Ment of a reunified government ... in which the two
Sides are represented on an equal: footing and under
which they exercise regional autonomy respectively
with equal rights and duties.”

The 10 points upon which the DPRK proposes to
begin the process of reunification and normalization are:

1. the country should be a fully independent and
Sovereign state and a non-aligned nation which is not a
Satilite of any of any other nation and does not depend on
any foreign forces.

2. A fully democratic social and political system
Should be developed which opposes dictatorship and
guarantees peoples’ rights and liberties. The confederal
State should ensure political, social, religious freedoms,
a free press, freedom of speech and assembly and the
right of all citizens to travel freely across the country.

3. Economic cooperation and: exchange between
North and south to ensure the development of an inde-

Pendent national economy should be instituted. This
Section outlines forms of cooperation of state-run, col-
lective and private enterprises and development of
Natural resources.

4. North-south exchange and cooperation in the fields
Of science, culture and education be established to en-
Sure uniform progress.

5. The re-opening of traffic and communications, re-
Storation of a highway and rail links as well as air and Sea
Services between the two zones.

6. Ensure the stability of livlihood for all the people by
guaranteeing jobs, equal conditions for rest, a wage sys-
tem and a unified price and taxation policy.

7, The removal of military confrontation should be
achieved and a unified armed force set up. The plan calls
for 4 mutual reduction in north-south military strength,
dismantling of military installations along the demarca-
tion line and creation of a national army under the lead-
ership of a unified confederal government.

8. The national rights of thousands of overseas Ko-
Teans should be protected with full guarantees for their
Treturn home should they wish.

Twenty-seven years after the end of the Korean war, proposals are being advanced for the reunification of the country.

The 1950-53 conflict involved troops from nearly 10 nations before an armistace was signed.

9. The country’s foreign relations should be re-
established with the removal of past unequal treaties.
The plan sees the two zones continuing separate inter-
national relations in a limited way but with coordination
and developing unity.

10. The unified state should develop friendly relations

with all countries sticking to its-line of neutrality and a

- policy of non-alignment. It would persue the principles

of independence, non-interference, equality, mutual be-
nefit and peaceful co-existence.

The DPRK has suggested the confederal state be
named the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Gail Teixeira, one of
three members of Guyana’s official Elections Commis-
sion, has resigned in protest over what she describes in a
press statement as a ‘‘fraudulent’’ vote.

‘*As a member of the Commis-
sion’’, Teixeira writes, ‘I wish to
disassociate miyself from the en-
tire process of the elections that
have led up to the defilement of
our people’s fundamental right to
vote in a free and fair election.”’

The former People’s Progres-
sive Party Commission member
then describes the ways in which
the ruling People’s National Con-
gress party of Prime Minister
Forbes Burnham rigged the Dec.
15 election to produce his ‘‘major-
ity’’ victory.

“‘T went all over the East Coast Demerara and George-
town on Dec. 15 and was beseiged by hundreds of people
who thronged me with their I.D. cards. They informed
me that they had gone to vote but were refused their
right. The expressions on their faces of anguish, pain and
anger will never be removed from my memory. Every

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GAIL TEIXEIRA

- one of them said with hurt and disbelief in their voices,

“‘T want to vote, I want to vote for the Party of my choice,
but I cannot’! Surely only those who had remained clois-
tered in comfortable offices could deny what happened
all over Guyana on that historic day.

‘*All the things that I warned the Commission before-
hand would happen, unfortunately came to pass. When
111,500 names were removed from the preliminary lists,
I stated that until the lists could be seen and examined
properly over a long period of time for objections and
claims, one could not erase the suspicion that thousands
of legitimate voters were removed from the lists and
were therefore disenfranchised. The directions that the
Commission gave to the Presiding Officers on Dec. 12,
left it to these officials to decide whether the polling
agents would accompany the boxes. .

“‘] warned that there would be a repetition of the 1973
elections and that no polling agent, would be allowed to

do so. I foresaw the intervention of the military taking
over the ballot boxes and warned the Commission. De-

_ cember 15 saw the military in full command. However, I

never envisaged that the Counting Agents for the
People’s Progressive Party would not have been allowed
to be present for the counting of the votes. This alone
makes the elections illegal and invalid.

‘Asa member of the Commission, I was refused entry
to the Ruimveldt Multilateral School. The letter of my
appointment to the Commission by President Chung in
1979 and the letter from the Chairman of the Commission
permitting me to enter all polling stations and counting
centres, was not accepted. This refusal alone de-
monstrated clearly what respect and importance is ac-
credited to the Commission by those in office.

“‘I wish to denounce the elections results as totally
fradulent having resulted from the most devious and
undemocratic means yet used in this country’s history. .
Asamember of the Commission, I wish to have it known
that the worst fears of the Guyanese people have been
realized. I also wish to disassociate myself from the
Commission which has allowed its powers to be eroded
and has abrogated its responsibility to the Guyanese
people. In doing so, I cannot remain a member of sucha
Commission:and therefore, submit my resignation.”’

The People’s Progressive Party, in denouncing the
PNC ‘victory’, has said it will proceed to name its
elected members to the National Assembly and the Reg-
ional Councils.

‘‘This decision,’ The PPP said, ‘“despite the blatant
rigging of the Dec. 15 election, is based on the fact that
the corrupt minority PNC regime must be prevented by
all means from realizing its true intentions —- namely to
make Guyana into an authoritarian one-party state. . ..

The PPP sees its role in the National Assembly and
regional councils as one of utilizing the limited pos-
sibilities to fight for the extension of parliamentary
democracy. It also intends to reinforce its parliamentary
work with an intensification of its activities outside
parliament in defence of people’s living standards and
their civil and political rights.

LONDON — Britain’s Trade
Union Council has calculated that
3.5 million people are jobless, not
2.1 million officially admitted by
government statistics.

The TUC figures are based on
several groups of factors:

Nearly one million people want
to work but aren’t registered un-

employed. A 1978 survey showed
24% of Britain’s jobless were not
registered. Another independent
survey turned up the same figure
but also revealed the proportion
for women was 45% not regis-
tered.

Because part time workers are
on the increase, but do not regis-

ter, the full number of people not
registered is estimated at 988,507.
Added to this there are those on
short time and on layoff. If they
register to claim benefits, they are
left out of the unemployment
statistics.

The TUC claims there are
221,000 people on short time.
They also say that all the man-

power training schemes keep
another 270,000 people off the
official jobless roles.

All this brings the jobless total,
says the TUC, to a devastating
3,465,000. It means days lost
through unemployment amount
to 674 million (compared with 30
million days lost through strikes
in 1980).

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