Korea: Kim Jong Il and Single-hearted Unity

Korea: Kim Jong Il and Single-hearted Unity

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a country in which the leader, the Party and the masses of the people are firmly united into one.

Then what underlies this single-hearted unity and why is it so solid?

Everything in the world is composed of and develops with a nucleus at its center, the same goes to the unity if society.

That center is, of course, the leader. All the people being rallied firmly around the leader, the center, as a community with one ideology and with one purpose sharing the same destiny-this is single-hearted unity.

During nearly half a century since Kim Jong Il started working at the Central Committee of the WPK (June 19, 1964), the guiding force of the Korean society, the single-hearted unity has been consolidated to the maximum in Korea .

He conducted energetic ideological and theoretical activities, thus presenting outstanding ideologies and theories which gave answers to the questions raised by the era. He formulated the Juche idea, authored by President Kim Il Sung, the founding father of socialist Korea , as the guiding ideology of the era.

His brilliant ideological and theoretical wisdom was demonstrated further during the worldwide political tempest at the end of the 20th century. Socialism collapsed in several countries. And taking advantage of this turmoil, the imperialists directed all their energies to stifling socialist Korea . At this juncture, Kim Jong Il formulated Songun politics, a mode of politics unprecedented in the history of human politics, as the basic mode of socialist politics, and made headway against the severe difficulties of the times by dint of Songun politics.

On the other hand, he made public a large number of works, such as Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable, Socialism Is a Science and Giving Priority to Ideological Work Is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism, encouraging the Korean people to turn out resolutely for safeguarding socialism and building a socialist thriving nation even in the worst situation as they cherished the truthfulness and invincibility of socialism as their unchangeable conviction.

The Juche idea and the Songun idea, which he raised as the guiding ideals of the cause of independence, arouse great sympathy and support from the broad sections of people of the world.

The reason why the Korean people support Kim Jong Il with one mind and one will is because he is possessed of outstanding leadership ability.

Since he started working at the Central Committee of the WPK, Korea has witnessed epoch-making changes. Korea developed into a socialist industrial state, and the world-class West Sea Barrage was built across an 8-kilometer section of the West Sea of Korea. The Korean society is shining its brilliance as a socialist one, where people are masters of everything and everything serves them.

The world realized more keenly the prominent leadership ability of Kim Jong Il in the 1990s, when Korea was suffering unprecedented difficulties.

In July 1994 President Kim Il Sung died, the US-led imperialist forces imposed sanctions and blockade against the country, and natural calamities hit the country for several consecutive years. In this worst situation, Kim Jong Il held higher the banner of Songun and overcame all the difficulties by raising the army as a pillar of the socialist cause and the main force of the revolution and enhancing its role. Under his Songun leadership, the KPA has become a matchless army, fully ready for both attack and defense, and the DPRK an invincible powerful state, which has acquired reliable war deterrent.

He led the service personnel to stand in the van of settling economic difficulties and the civilians to create innovations and perform feats of labor in all sectors and units by emulating the former’s indomitable spirit. As a result, even under the severe circumstance Korea has set up a springboard for the building of a thriving nation and opened a bright vista for the opening of the gates of the thriving nation in 2012, the year that marks the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung.

Thanks to Kim Jong Il’s outstanding political savvy and ability, the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration (2000) and October 4 Declaration (2007), milestones of Korea’s reunification, were adopted, opening a bright vista for the reunification. With the international position and dignity of Songun Korea being raised day by day, the imperialist’s encirclement of the DPRK was smashed to pieces, and the world witnessed a surprising event of over 20 countries, including Western ones, establishing diplomatic relations with the country.

The people’s conviction and will that victory and glory are in store for them when they support his leadership single-heartedly have become immutable.

Kim Jong Il’s ennobling personalities and virtues have captured the hearts of Koreans.

He consistently administers benevolent politics which moves everybody.

Affection between comrades is unity and the more genuine and ardent the affection is, the more unstained and solid the single-hearted unity becomes-this is his view.

Once he inspected a power station construction project in a northern mountainous area of the country. At that time he paid more attention to the dwelling houses in the part to be submerged than to the building of the power station. He had houses better than the original ones built for the local people, and when they were moving to the new houses, he sent them daily necessities.

Most recently he ordered a helicopter to take off in order to rescue the ten people who had been thrown into danger in the West Sea of Korea while hunting seashells.

It is not accidental that Koreans call their leader father and entrust their destiny entirely to him.

Socialist Korea, where all the service personnel and people are rallied firmly around their leader Kim Jong Il-there is no force in the world that can match the might of this single-hearted unity.

Obama Overruled 2 Top Lawyers on War Power in Libya

Obama Overruled 2 Top Lawyers on War Power in Libya*

18 Jun 2011

2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.

Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, had told the White House that they believed that the United States military’s activities in the NATO-led air war amounted to “hostilities.” Under the War Powers Resolution, that would have required Mr. Obama to terminate or scale back the mission after May 20.

But Mr. Obama decided instead to adopt the legal analysis of several other senior members of his legal team — including the White House counsel, Robert Bauer, and the State Department legal adviser, Harold H. Koh — who argued that the United States military’s activities fell short of “hostilities.” Under that view, Mr. Obama needed no permission from Congress to continue the mission unchanged.

Presidents have the legal authority to override the legal conclusions of the Office of Legal Counsel and to act in a manner that is contrary to its advice, but it is extraordinarily rare for that to happen. Under normal circumstances, the office’s interpretation of the law is legally binding on the executive branch.

A White House spokesman, Eric Schultz, said there had been “a full airing of views within the administration and a robust process” that led Mr. Obama to his view that the Libya campaign was not covered by a provision of the War Powers Resolution that requires presidents to halt unauthorized hostilities after 60 days.

“It should come as no surprise that there would be some disagreements, even within an administration, regarding the application of a statute that is nearly 40 years old to a unique and evolving conflict,” Mr. Schultz said. “Those disagreements are ordinary and healthy.”

Still, the disclosure that key figures on the administration’s legal team disagreed with Mr. Obama’s legal view could fuel restiveness in Congress, where lawmakers from both parties this week strongly criticized the White House’s contention that the president could continue the Libya campaign without their authorization because the campaign was not “hostilities.”

The White House unveiled its interpretation of the War Powers Resolution in a package about Libya it sent to Congress late Wednesday. On Thursday, the House speaker, John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, demanded to know whether the Office of Legal Counsel had agreed.

“The administration gave its opinion on the War Powers Resolution, but it didn’t answer the questions in my letter as to whether the Office of Legal Counsel agrees with them,” he said. “The White House says there are no hostilities taking place. Yet we’ve got drone attacks under way. We’re spending $10 million a day. We’re part of an effort to drop bombs on Qaddafi’s compounds. It just doesn’t pass the straight-face test, in my view, that we’re not in the midst of hostilities.”

A sticking point for some skeptics was whether any mission that included firing missiles from drone aircraft could be portrayed as not amounting to hostilities.

As the May 20 deadline approached, Mr. Johnson advocated stopping the drone strikes as a way to bolster the view that the remaining activities in support of NATO allies were not subject to the deadline, officials said. But Mr. Obama ultimately decided that there was no legal requirement to change anything about the military mission.

The administration followed an unusual process in developing its position. Traditionally, the Office of Legal Counsel solicits views from different agencies and then decides what the best interpretation of the law is. The attorney general or the president can overrule its views, but rarely do.

In this case, however, Ms. Krass was asked to submit the Office of Legal Counsel’s thoughts in a less formal way to the White House, along with the views of lawyers at other agencies. After several meetings and phone calls, the rival legal analyses were submitted to Mr. Obama, who is a constitutional lawyer, and he made the decision.

A senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about the internal deliberations, said the process was “legitimate” because “everyone knew at the end of the day this was a decision the president had to make” and the competing views were given a full airing before Mr. Obama.

The theory Mr. Obama embraced holds that American forces have not been in “hostilities” as envisioned by the War Powers Resolution at least since early April, when NATO took over the responsibility for the no-fly zone and the United States shifted to a supporting role providing refueling assistance and surveillance — although remotely piloted American drones are still periodically firing missiles.

The administration has also emphasized that there are no troops on the ground, that Libyan forces are unable to fire at them meaningfully and that the military mission is constrained from escalating by a United Nations Security Council resolution.

That position has attracted criticism. Jack L. Goldsmith, who led the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration, has written that the administration’s interpretation is “aggressive” and unpersuasive, although he also acknowledged that there was no clear answer and little chance of a definitive court ruling, so the reaction of Congress would resolve it.

Walter Dellinger, who led the Office of Legal Counsel during the Clinton administration, said that while “this is not an easy question,” Mr. Obama’s position was “both defensible and consistent with the position of previous administrations.” Still, he criticized the administration’s decision-making process.

“Decisions about the lawfulness of major presidential actions should be made by the Department of Justice, and within the department by the Office of Legal Counsel, after consultation with affected agencies,” he said. “The president always has the power of final decision.”

Other high-level Justice lawyers were also involved in the deliberations, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. supported Ms. Krass’s view, officials said.

Matthew Miller, a Justice Department spokesman, said, “Our views were heard, as were other views, and the president then made the decision as was appropriate for him to do.”

* Url:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/world/africa/18powers.html

Occupation bulldozers demolish Palestinian homes in Negev

Occupation bulldozers demolish Palestinian homes in Negev*

NEGEV (PIC) 17 June -- Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished three residential structures in the villages of Karnab and Faraa, two unrecognised villages of Negev in southern occupied Palestine, as part of the occupation efforts to cleanse the Negev of Palestinian Bedouins. Head of the regional council of unrecognised villages, Ibrahim al-Waqili, said ... "For the Zionist Ministry of Interior to choose this this time for the demolition is an indication that they aim to destroy man not walls,"... pointing out that the occupation authorities chose the time of final secondary exams to carry out such demolitions to demolish the hopes of affected students of passing their final exams.

* Url:http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bc

Cabinet expected to curtail Barak's power to veto West Bank settlement construction

Cabinet expected to curtail Barak's power

to veto West Bank settlement construction*

Haaretz 17 June

Anticipated decision would move control of World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division from Agriculture Ministry to Prime Minister's Office -- The cabinet is expected to vote on Sunday to curtail Defense Minister Ehud Barak's authority to supervise construction in West Bank settlements. The proposal would revoke Barak's right to veto West Bank construction by the World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division. The division budgets NIS 25 million a year for this purpose.

* Url:http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
cabinet-expected-to-curtail-barak-s-power-to-veto-west-bank-settlement-construction-1.368137

State moves to expand settlement on Palestinian land confiscated by Jorda

State moves to expand settlement on Palestinian land confiscated by Jordan*

Haaretz 17 June

Israel is pushing ahead with a plan that would legitimize construction on land near the settlement of Ofra in the West Bank. The Supreme Court ruled as early as 1979 that settlements may not be built on confiscated private Palestinian land. The move's legal foundation appears to hinge on the fact that it was the Jordanians, not the Israelis, who confiscated the land - before Israel took over the West Bank during the Six-Day War in 1967. Jordan had confiscated land from the villages of Ein Yabrud and Silwad to build a military camp.

* Url:http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
state-moves-to-expand-settlement-on-palestinian-land-confiscated-by-jordan-1.368136

Hackers again break into Senate website

Hackers again break into Senate website*

WASHINGTON | Wed Jun 15, 2011

(Reuters) - Hackers broke into the Senate's public website for the second time in a week but were prevented from getting any sensitive data, a security spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The Senate's website had also been hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution.

This attack was similar in that hackers broke into the public site and downloaded information, said Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms. The Sergeant at Arms Office provides security for the Senate.

"They're getting nothing but the attacks continue," said Bradford. "We've been able to stay ahead of the hackers and keep them out of the main Senate network."

The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website over the weekend and announced the hack in a tweet on Monday. Lulz, whose name derives from Internet slang for "laugh out loud," tweeted on Wednesday but has not mentioned hacking the Senate website.

Recent weeks have seen a long string of embarrassing hacks. The International Monetary Fund has been hit, as have Lockheed Martin Corp, Citigroup Inc, Google and Michaels Stores.

Lulz has claimed hacks into websites owned by Sony Corp as well as U.S. Public Broadcasting Service and Fox.com. Fox is a unit of News Corp.

* Url:http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/us-cybersecurity-usa-senate-idUSTRE75E62U20110615

CIA website hacked by Lulz Security

CIA website hacked by Lulz Security*

The public website of the US Central Intelligence Agency has gone down after the hacker group Lulz Security said it had launched an attack.

16 Jun 2011

Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for recent attacks on the Senate, Sony Corp, News Corp and the US Public Broadcasting System television network.

The CIA site initially could not be accessed from New York to San Francisco, and Bangalore to London. Later in the evening service was sporadic.

"We are looking into these reports," a CIA spokesman said.

Lulz Security has defaced websites, posted personal information about customers and site administrators, and disclosed the network configurations of some sites.

Security analysts have downplayed the significance of these attacks, saying the hackers are just looking to show off and get as much attention as possible.

In the case of the CIA attack, hackers would not be able to access sensitive data by breaking into the agency's public website, said Jeffrey Carr, author of the book Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld.

"All they're doing is saying 'Look how good we are,'" Mr Carr said. "These guys are literally in it for embarrassment, to say 'your security is crap.'"

Lulz only made claims that it attacked www.cia.gov, and there was no evidence that sensitive data in the agency's internal computer network had been compromised.

There also were no apparent links to more serious network security breaches recently at the International Monetary Fund and Lockheed Martin Corp. Lulz Security has not been linked to those incidents.

Lulz, whose members are strewn across the globe, announced the attack shortly before 6pm East Coast time.

"Tango down," the group Tweeted, pointing to www.cia.gov.

Although the group, also known as Lulz Boat, fashions itself more as pranksters and activists than people with sinister intent, its members have been accused of breaking the law and are wanted by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

Lulz broke into a public website of the US Senate over the weekend and released data stolen from the legislative body's computer servers.

In May, the group posted a fake story on the PBS website saying that rapper Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand. Shakur was murdered in 1996.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8578704/CIA-website-hacked-by-Lulz-Security.html