Daily Report East Asia

FBIS-EAS-88-16] CONTENTS 19 August 1988

NORTHEAST ASIA

Japan

ROK’s Kim Yong-sam Continues Visit -_ , | ieatanatiesieliaiteaniiameanss Holds News Conference .................. — atnieltnamasinsititaniianens ' Meets Parties’ Leaders ......

Dietman Urges Aid for Sakhalin Koreans — iitaieseninttenienintin

Government Opposes USSR Salmon Fishing Ban Sciieeeiipmniinntn 7

Soviet Submarines Spotted Off Rebun Island | soenseieneenieaiiniadiatiiaiataatiea

Takeshita, Emperor Send Condolences to Pakistan Foreign Minister To Attend Funeral Takeshita Visits Pakistani Em .ssy |

Okinawan Group Urges End to Military Exercises /OA/JNAW 4 /IMES I18 Aug/

Republican Delegates Interviewed on Japan Ties | - |

Officials Named To Monitor Gulf Cease-Fire

Government Signs Trade Pact With Albania

Nakasone Plans Visit to Europe in September

Foreign Minister Uno Pays Visit to Mexico = /cross-reference/

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar To Host Asia-Pacific Basin Meeting

North Korea

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Japan

ROK's Kim Yong-sam Continues Visit

Holds Ne: s Conference OW 1808121888 Tokyo KYODO in Enelish 0759 GMT 18 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 18 KYODO—Kim Yong-sam, leader of South Korea's No 2 opposition party, said Thursday South Korea's achiever ent in bringing about democra- tization, coupled with current international circum- stances, may allow it to play a greater role in stabilizing the region.

South Korea 1s also prepared to hold talks with North Korea to discuss measures related to reunification of the divided Korean peninsula, Kim said in a news confer- ence at the Foreign Correspondents’s Club of Japan

Kim, leader of the Reunification Democratic Party, said South Korea has, as a result of democratization, become “a couniry of peace” and is putting great efforts into overcoming the “cold war mentality and the culture of militarism.”

The world ‘nust realize that South Korea does not serve as the “front line in the cold war and ideological con- frontations” any more, Kim said.

He proposed the establishment of a Northeast Asian parliamentary conference with six states-—the United States, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea, China and Japan—which would deal with issues of peace among the members. This would virtually cover much of the world’s political problems, he said.

Kim said that through such a conference the Northeast Asian region could be changed from an “arena of cold war confrontation” to one of “international reconcila- tion.” South Korea does not have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union or China.

Kim cited three steps in realizing reunification of Korea first, both governments must be democratic, second, the forces accelerating this movement must be democratic. and third, both parts of the nation must implement democratization.

Kim, well aware of the vast differences in all aspects of life in the two parts of Korea, said, “We must never give up in spite of difficulties” in an effort *9 realize this “long-term proposition.”

While appreciating the contribution of South Korean students tc the “awakening of democracy” in the nation, he said they should not be making decisions on questions of state importance such as the reunification issue, which he said should be left in the hands of the government.

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“Antiregime, and antigovernment movements can be tolerated, but not antistate actions,” Kim added. How- ever, he was totally against suppressing the students, and said he could not condone any military intervention to deal with them.

South Korea will be able to sustain the status quo even after the end of the Olympic games, scheduled to begin September |7 in Soul, he said.

Regarding the issue of corruption among officials, Kim said “emotion is high” on this matter in South Korea at present, and expressed the wish that former president Chon Tu-hwan would volunteer information on a cor- ruption scandal involving members of his family.

Kim arrived Wednesday for a week-long stay al the invitation of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club

Meets Parties’ Leaders OW 7908051988 Tokyo AYODO in English 0443 GMT 19 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. if KYODO—The leader of Japan's No 3 opposition party Friday told Kim Yong-sam of South Korea that he supports Kim's proposal to establish a Northeast Asian parhamentary conference, a party official said.

Saburo Tsukamoto, chairman of the Democretic Social- ist Party (DSP), held a 40-minute meeting with Kim, president of the second-ranking Opposition party in South Korea, the Reunification Democratic Party, at the DSP head office in Tokyo.

Kim told Tsukamoto that he thinks North Korea will welcome the idea of establishing a Northeast Asian conference of six states—the United States, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea, China and Japan, the DSP officials said.

Kim was quoted as saying North Korea 1s afraid of being isolated and that it wants dialogue with South Korea and the U.S.

Kim proposed the establishment of the conference at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on Thursday.

Tsukamoto said 1; 1s important for peace in Northeast Asia that North Korea not be isvlated

DSP Vice Chairman E1ichi Nagasue told Kim it would be meaningful for relaxation of tensions in Asia if political parties were to discuss reduction of conven- tional forces in Northeast Asia and the Pacific.

Kim agreed with Nagasue and said that parliamentary- level talks would be significant.

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Kim arrived Wednesday on a week-long visit to exchange views with Japanese political leaders.

Kim later met Masayoshi Ito, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Executive Council, at a Tokyo hotel over lunch.

Ito supported Kim's proposal to set up a Northeast Asian parliamentary conference for peace and stability in the region, LDP officials said.

Kim said North Korea is positive toward the idea of iniproving relations with the United States, saying Pyong- yang has simulianeously notified Seoul and Washington that it wall attend a meeting on Friday with legislators from the south in the truce village of Panmunjom

He said he 1s also ready to go to Beying, Moscow and Pyongyang to improve relations between North and South Korea but said the plan is not firm yet.

Dietman Urges Aid for Sakhalin Koreans OW 1808084588 Tokyo KYODO in English OS 14 GMT 18 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 18 KYODO—Problems concerning Kor:an residents on Sakhalin Island, held by the Soviet Unicn since the end of World War II, should be resolved hurriediy because they are now in their 70s or Os, a member of a Diet interparty group on the issue said Thursday.

Kozo Igarashi, who visited South Korea from August |4 to 17 as rpresentative of the group, said he felt deep sadness and resentment on behaif of families whose relatives still live on the island, north of Japan.

Igarashi, a Japan Socialist Party Dietma~ who was the first JSP Central Executi' e Committee member to visit South Korea, told a press conference in the Diet that the parliamentary group 1s helping the Korean residents on Sakhalin to meet South Korean relatives in Japan and to visit their homeland via Japan. South Korea has no diplomatic ties with the Soviet Un:on.

Tens of thousands of Koreans were forced to go to Sakhalin during the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule of Korea when the southern half of Sakhalin was held by Japan.

Some 43,000 Koreans have remained there since the Soviets took over the territory from Japan.

The 1|70-member parliamentary group was established in July last year. Igarashi atte:.ded the 19th conference held in Taegu on Monday ci an association of families whose relatives live in Soviet and Chinese territory.

Igarashi said he will convey his impressions of his visit to Soviet Embassy officials in Tokyo.

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Government Opposes USSR Salmon Fishing Ban OW 1808121588 Tokvo KYODO in Enelish 0854 GMT 18 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 18 KYODO—Japan will ask the Soviet Union to withdraw a proposal to impose a total ban on Japanese salmon fishing on the high seas in the North Pacific, the Fisheries Agency said Thursday.

Japan will make the request at a meeting to be held in Moscow in September, agency officials said.

Japan will claim that the current Japan-Soviet Fishery Cooperation Treaty endorses the right to fish for salmon by Japanese fleets in the open seas outside the Soviet 200-mile territorial waters, the officials said.

The Soviet Union has proposed to allow Japanese fleets to operate inside the Soviet 200-mile zone in exchange for compensation payments and provided they observe a ban on fishing in the high seas to protect salmon stocks.

The Japanese negotiators will sound out the Soviet side on the terms of this proposal, the officials said

The Soviet side demanded the ban on the grounds that unintentional Japanese catches of young salmon have depleted Soviet salmon resources and that Japanese high-seas fishing has made Soviet supervision of Japa- nese compliance with quotas difficult.

In the case of Japanese fishing in the open seas in the North Pacific, possible disputes over quotas would be under the jurisdiction of the Japanese judiciary, the officials said.

If Japanese fleets fish for salmon inside the Soviet 200-mile waters, their operations would come under Soviet supervision and judicial purisdiction, they said.

The Japanese side has rejected the Soviet arguments, saying that the size of Soviet salmon catches has far surpassed that of Japanese fleets and that the Soviet Union should not blame the dwindling fish resources on the Japanese high-sea operations.

Japanese negotiators will seek a Soviet understanding on the issue, by briefing the Soviet side on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning Japanese fishing fleets from the U.S. 200-mile waters in connection with unin- tentional taking of U.S. marine Mammals in Japanese driftnets, the officials said.

Catch quotas in the U.S. waters had accounted for about 70 percent of Japan's annual salmon haul.

The negotiators will appeal to the Soviet side to permit Japanese high-sea operations, saying that the proposed total ban would deal a devastating blow to Japanese salmon fishermen, they said.

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The Japanese officials hinted that they might accept the Soviet proposal to permit Japanese fishing inside the Soviet 200-mile waters in exchange for compensation payments, depending on the operational conditions the Soviet Union would demand from the Japanese side.

Soviet Submarines Spotted Off Rebun Island OW 1808103088 Tokvo KYODO in English 0941 GMT 18 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 18 KYODO—Two Soviet nuclear- powered submarines were spotted Thursday morning Sailing on the surface off Rebun Island, Hokkaido, the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) said.

A “Delta” class nuclear-powered submarine, capable of being armed with ballistic missiles (SSBN), and a “Charlie” class nuclear-powered submarine that can Carry cruise missiles were seen by a destroyer and an antisbmarine plane of the MSDF. They were off the island northwest of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island.

According to MSDF officials, the submarines were sail- ing through the Soya Strait in the direction of Viadi- vostok at a speed of nine knots per hour.

The “Delta” class SSBN, with a displacement of | 1.000 on, is capable of being armed with 12 sea-launched ballistic missiles and has six torpedo tubes.

Delta submarines are rarely seen sailing on the surface, and <he last such sighting by the MSDF was in December 1983.

Takeshita, Emperor Send Condolences to Pakistan OW 1808150788 Tokyo KYODO in English 1010 GMT 18 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 18 KYODO—Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita on Thursday telegrammed his condo- lences to Pakistan on the sudden death of its president Mohammad Ziaul Haq, government officials said.

“| have learned with deep sorrow the news of the sudden death of president Ziaul Hag,’ Takeshita said in the telegram sent to Pakistan's Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

“Recalling his valuable contrib: tion to the enhancement of cordial relations between our two countires as well as his contribution to the world, I would like to convey my deepest sympathy and most sincere condolences,” Takeshita said.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi also sent a iele- gram on behalf of Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno, who ts currently in Mexico on a four-day official visit.

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“| recall that the late president made every endeavor to promote the cordial relations between our two countires,”’ he said.

Uno has changed his itinerary and will attend the funeral! of Zia to be held in Islamabad on Saturday.

Emperor Hirohito also sent a telegram to the acting Pakistan president, deeply regretting Zia’s death.

The emperor met Zia when the Pakistan president visited Japan as a state guest in July 1983.

Foreign Minister To Attend Funeral OW 1808095988 Tokyo KYODO in English 0859 GMT 18 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 18 KYODO—Japan will send For- eign Ministc; Sosuke Uno to Islamabad to attend the funeral of President 71au! Haq to be held there Saturday. a chief governmen. spokesman said Thursday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi told reporters that Uno, now in Mexico, will change his itinerary and go direct to Pakistan via New York.

Uno 1s scheduled to arrive in Islamabad 1n the day of the funeral, Obuchi said.

Uno was originally scheduled to return to Tokyo via San Franc:sco on Saturday.

Uno issued a statement in Mexico City on Wednesday local time and said he deeply regretted the sudden death of the Pakistan president.

Uno said he hopes the Afghan issue will be solved in line with accords Pakistan and Afghanistan reached in Gen- eva earlier this year with the United States and the Soviet Union as their guarantors.

“The Japanese Government will exert efforts for stabii ity in that region,” the foreign minister added.

Takeshita Visits Pakistani Embassy OW 1908050688 Tokyo KYODO in English 0350 GMT 19 Aug 84

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 19 kYODO—Prime Minister Noboru Takeshina visited the Pakistan Embassy on Friday to express his condolences over the death of President Mohammad Ziaul Haq.

After signing his name in a book in front of Zia’s photo, Takeshita told Pakistani Embassy officials that he will further promote friendly relations between the two cou:i- tries.

Zia was killed in a plane crash Wednesday.

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Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno will visit Islamabad on Saturday to represent Japan at Zia’s funeral.

Okinawan Group Urges End to Military Exercises OW !808053488 Naha OKINAWA TIMES in Japanese /8 Aug 88 Morning Edition p 1

[Text] A delegation of representatives from cities, towns. and viilages in central Okinawa, headed by Nakagusuku Village Head Morishige Arakaki requested the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Agency on |7 August to ask that the U.S. military discontinue its series of exercises and training, which have intensified since the beginning of 988. Responsible officials of the two government offices, who met the delegation, said that “the bases cannot function without the understanding of the loca! communities. We ought to think of ways to harmonize that relationship.” They admitted that the exercises were excessive and indicated that the U.S. military would be admonished on the matter.

At the Defense Facilities Administration Agency, the delegation was met by Senior Liaison Officer Shigenobu Ohara. To the protest of the delegates that the intensifi- cation of U.S. military exercises, such as training at Fukuchi Dam and parachuting exercises at Yomitan Auxiliary Airfield, amount to “imprudent exercises,” Ohara said that “although exercises are allowed under the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, harmony 1s still neces- sary. They cannot be conducted without the understand- ing of the local people.” He also indicated that he will continue to call for prudence on the part of the US. Armed Forces. At the Foreign Ministry, Planning Officer Toshimitsu Mori also stated that “the bases cannot function without the understanding and cooperation of the localities. We have to deal with mat ors with a sense of balance.” When queried by Kadena Town Mayor Yoshihama on the question of the transfer of the F5 units from Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Mori explained that “I believe this has nothing to do with the U.S.-Philippine base negotiations. Rear support in Clark Air Base 1s said to be insufficient. As to the destination, this 1s military secret.”

On the question of acrobatic flying, the delegates pointed out that “since this 1s banned on bases in the mainland, this represents discrimination against Okinawa.” No answer was giver to this. They also suggested that “the Defense Facilities Administration Bureau alone cannot deal with the situation sufficiently. The Foreign Ministry should also set up a branch office.”

In a news conference after making the represen:..tions, the delegates stated, “Why cannot exercises be main- tained at the same level as on the mainland? The transfer of the F5’s will only make overcrowded Kadena Air Base even more dangerous. We believe that, from the point of view of rear support, Kadena 1s being considered as < ne of the choices. Regarding the question of stunt flying. we intend to make even stronger representatsons to the Japan-U.S. Joint Committee to consider the matier.”

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Republican Delegates Interviewed on Japan Lies OW 1808) 20088 Tokyo KYODO in English 0601 GMI 18 Aug 8d

{By Shiro Yoneyama]

[Text] New Orleans, Aug. 17 KYODO—U_S.-Japan rela- tions have been sound under President Ronald Reagan and will remain so if George Bush wins the presidential election in November, delegates to the Republican Party Convention here said in interviews with KY ODO News Service on Wednesday.

“| have a great deal of respect for what the Japanese have done.” said Sterling Sechrist, commissioner of the Medina, Ohio County Board of Commussioners. “The Japanese work hard.”

The Ohio delegate also said the Japanese economy has been successful because “government and business are not adversarial.”

Others also assessed U.S.-Japan relations favorably

“| feel we have a good relationship with Japan.” said Kathryn Hartlen, of Akron, Indiana.

She said she welcomes Japanese investment in her state because it means “more jobs and a tremendous boost” to the state.

Laura Fortune, a delegate from Virginia, said, “We, the Americans, should work as hard as the Japanese.” A primary school teacher, Fortune, $7, said her Virginia school district has a student exchange program with Japanese schools.

“They (U.S.-Japan ties) are in good hands under Presi- dent Reagan,” commented Robert Gates, a 67-year-old attorney from Columbia City, India.va. He expressed the hope that the relations will remain ‘trong under a Bush administration.

In interviews on the convention (loor, these and other delegates stressed the economy, defense, drugs’ and education as priority issues in the election. Bu aj, off- cially confirmed as the party's candidate ca Wednesd4y. will face Demociatic Party candidate Michael Dukakis

The Reagan administration’s ““N_ to Drugs” campaign 1s “a positive step.” said Edward Redd, a delegave from Boston, Massachusetts, the state of which Dukakis 1s governor.

“The economy 1s a very important issue,” said Sechrist a former banker.

“Tm very much interested in defense and the economy,” said Richards, the alternate delegate from New Mexico

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Redd. saying U.S.-Japan relations have been strength-

ened, related nat he was surprised by caricatures of

black people in mannequins used in Japanese stores and remarks by Michio Watanabe. a senior official of the

ruling Liberal Democratic Party, about the attitude of

blacks toward bankruptcy that was taken by some US Congress members as a racial slur.

“I'm cisappointed,” said Redd who is black. “I like sushi, and | travel to Japan. The world is more interde- pendent.”

When asked about the state of U.S.-Japan relations. 70-year-old Richards said, “I don’t look back. | look forward,” an apparent reference to the Pacific war

Officials Named To Monitor Gulf Cease-Fire OW 1808102788 Tokvo KYODO in Enelish 0707 GMI IS Aug 88

[Text] Mexico, Aug. 18 KYODO—The Japanese Gov- ernment has decided to send a Foreign Ministry official to he!p monitor the Iran-Iraq ceasefire as a civilian member of the United Nations riiiitary observer group. an official accompanying Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno revealed here Thursday.

Jiro Okuyama, who 1s in charge of policies concerning the United Nations, will arrive in Tehran around August 24 and will he!p with communications between the Iranian Goverr.ment and the U.N. ceasefire monitoring group, as well as becoming involved in planning activi- tres for the group, the off-cial said.

Jiro Mizuno of Harvard University’s Research (enter for International Affairs will also join the group as a civilian member and assist with problems concerning law, the Foreign Ministry official said.

The United Nations m itary observer group wi!) consist of 350 members, five of them civilians

This is the second time since June, when an official was sent to help monitor the Soviet withd-awal from Afghan- istan, for the Japanese Government to send people to U.N groups involved in monitoring regional disputes.

Government Signs Trade Pact With Albania OW'1908044788 Tokyo KYODO in English 0322 GM1 19 Aug 88

[Text] Tokyo, Aug. 19 KYODO—Japan and Albania guve signed a trad and payments agreement to expand bilateral transactions, the Foreign Ministry said Friday

The sigiing was conducted by Parliamentary Vice For- eign Minister Takujiro Hamada and Alban:a’s Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Kostandin Hoxha on Thursday in the Albanian capital of Tirana, according to the ministry.

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The pact is expected to promote Japan's imports ot chromium trom Albamia. which is the second-largest exporting country of the rare metal after South Atrica

Hamada, currently on an 8-day tour of 3 East European countries including Albania. is the first high-ranking Japanese official to visit the ceantry since diplomat relations between Tokyo and Tirana opened in 198!

Nakasone Plans Visit to Europe in September OW 1808145388 Tokvo KYODO in Enelihs 1200 GM IS Aug SS

[Text] Tokyo, Aug 18 KYODO—Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone will visit West Ger- many, Britain and Sweden tor |! days trom September 14 tor talks with their leaders and deliver speeches. his aides said Thursday

They said Nakasone in office trom 1982 to 1987 would like to exchange views with political and business leaders in the three European countries on East-West relations before he meets Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachey in Moscow again in November

Nakasone met Gorbachey last month and 1s scheduled to meet him again in November with former US. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and tormer French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing

He will leave Tokyo for West Berlin on September |4 and deliver a speech at the Japan-German ( enter there on Sep.ember 16

A meeting with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl! is also planned, the aides said

Nakasone 1s scheduled to meet British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London on September 19 He wil! also meet Kissinger and Crscard d'Estaing there

In Sweden, he will pay a courtesy call on King Carl \VI Gustat and meet Swedish Groovernment leaders. the aides said

Foreign Minister ‘no Pays Visit to Mexico

For KYODO and Mexican reportage on the visit to Mexico of Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno, including his meetings with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid and Foreign Secretary Supulveda Amor, see the Mexico section of the 18 August Latin America DAILY REPORT aad subsequent issues.

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Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar To Host Asia-Pacific Basin Meeting OW 1808085388 Ulaanbaatar International Service in English 0910 GMT 17 Aug 88

[Text] The second regional conference of UN associa- tions of Asia-Pacific countries will be held in Ulaanbaa- tar in mid-September. Twenty regional countries as well as countries of East Europe and Cuba are expected to take part in it.

The conference will censider many issues on the role and tasks of rational associations on implementing the peace initiatives and ensuring comprehensive security in the area. It will also consider ways and means of promoting the UN decisions on disarmament and peaceful solution of crisis situations, and the task for the association in mobilizing publ+- opinion in the (?regionzi) countnes in favor of buudging a nuclear weapons-free and nonviolent world.

The conference is also expected to deal with economic cooperation issues and realization of a new international economic order. The Mongolian public is confident that the outcome of the conference will improve strongly mutual! understand: 1g and trust «mong regional states.

North Korea North-South Parliamentary Talks Held

Joint Meeting Begins SK19°5022088 Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean 0130 GMT 19 Aug 88

[Text] The meeting between the delegates of the North and the South for preparations for a joint North-South parliamentary talk have begun at Panmunjom

The meeting between the delegates of the North and the South for preparations for joint North-South parliamen- tary talks began at 1000 [0100 GMT] in Tongilgak. a building un our side at Panmunjom.

Today's meeting is being realized according to the pro- posal made at the conference of the standing committee of the DPRK SPA on 20 July to discuss the issue of taking practical measures to ease tension and ensure durable pcace on the Korean peninsula and the issue of pubjishing a nonaggression declaration betveen the North and the South by holding joint North-South joint parliamentary talks during August.

The proposal for the convocation of joint North-South pa*liamentary talks 1s a patriotic step eiucidating reason- able methods for practically easing tensior., for eliminat- ing the danger of war, and for creating an atmosphere of trust. This proposal has evoked absolute support and welcome by our people and the peace-loving people of the world.

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The area around Tongilgak, our side's building at Pan- munjom 1s congested by a number of domestic and foreign reporters who came to cover the meeting on the

spot.

Our delegation, including delegate Chon Kum-chol who is the nead, greeted the celegation of the South side and exchanged greetings

At 1000 [0100 GMT] sharp, the delegations of the North and the South entered the meeting site arranged in Tongilgak. Delegate Chon Kum-cho!, head of the dele- gation, and delegates An Pyong-su. Y: Tong-chol, Y: Chu-ung and Pak Mun-chan of our side participated in the meeting and five delegates from the South side participated

The meeting. which 1s being realized amid the attention of our people and the peaceloving people of the world, will discuss the rssues of practical, working-level proce- dures which will be raised in holding a joint North-South parliamentary tal

Currently, the delegations of both sides are exchanging views. The meeting continues

Delegates Discuss Procedures SK190804 3588 Pyongyane ACNA in English 0426 GMT 19 Aug 88

[Text] Panmunjom August 19 (KCNA}—The meeting of delegates of the North and the South for preparations fer a North-South joint parliamentary meeting began at the “Tongilgak™, the tuilding of our side at Panmunjom, at ten this morning.

Today's meeting was arranged as the July 20 meeting of the standing committee of the Supreme People’s Assern- bly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea dis- cussed the problem of taking practical measures to case the tension and preserve a durable peace on the Korean peninsula and proposed to hold a North-South joint parliamentary meeting within August to discuss the issue of publishing a joint Cer‘aration on non-aggression between the North and the South.

The proposal for the convocation of a North-South joint parlamentar, meeting aroused unreserved support and welcome from our people and the peaceloving people of the world as a patriotic peace initiative which clarifies the reasonable way to ease tension, remove danger of a war and create an atmosphere of trust in our country in actuality.

“Tongilgak”’, the building of our side at Panmunjom, ts surrounded with a large number of home and fereign reporters who “ave come to cover today’s meting.

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Deputy to the SPA Chon Kum-chol, head of our side's

delegation to the Panmunjom meeting, and delegates of

our side met and exchanged greetings with the South side's delegates.

At 10:00 the delegates of the two sides entered the meeting room arranged at “Tongilgak”.

Present at the meeting on our side were delegate Chon Kum-chol who is heading our side's delegation, and other delegates An Pyong-su, Yi Tong-chol, Yi Chu-ung and Pak Mun-chan and on the south side were five delegates.

The meeting which opened, drawing attention of the Korean people and the peaceloving people of the world, discussed issues Of working procedures arising in open- ing a North-South joint parliamentary meeting.

Procedures for Full Talks Suggested SK19080S4088 Pyongyang Domestic Service in Korean 0200 GMT 19 Aug 88

[Text] A meeting between delegztes from the North and the South in preparation for a North-South joint parlia- meniary meeting 1s being held in Panmunjom. At the meeting, Chon Kum-chol, head of our side's delegation. made a speeci: first. He said:

Delegates: Toviay, amid the g.eat expectation of the people at home and abroad we have sat down together here with the heavy mission of preparing for a North- South joint parliamentary meeting. Our meeting to pre- pare for a parliarmentary joint mecting can be said to be an encouraging development in achieving national rec- onciliation and trust and in opening a path of peace and peaceful reunification.

Rejoicing over the fact that a meeting to prepare for a North-South jomt parliamentary meeting has been achieved today, I welcome you, members of the South side’s National Assembly, who are participating in this

Z #« mcciing.

As everyone knows, this year 1s not only a significant year from a viewpoint of the entire nation from a viewpoint of the North and the South, and in many other ways, but 1s also an important year in which we politi- cians should take a greater step forward than ever before to put an end to the history of confrontation and division and to achieve great national unity and reunification.

This year, all of our breth<en urgently want a new turning point for detente and peace to be provided on our Korean peninsula at any cost and a new phase for reconciliation and reunification to be opened between the North and the South.

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However, in today’s reality, confrontation and tensicn have become more acute with each passing day, running counter to the desire and aspirations of our brethren, and this has aroused great apprehensions from the people of the world.

Although people have talked about peace a lot, in the North and the South the huge armed forces are still in sharp confrontation with each other across the Military Demarcation Line. In addition, today’s unstable situa- tion has reached an extremely dangerous stage in which the fire of war may be ignited even by a small, accidenta! cause. War 1s not beneficial for anyone in the North or the South. We must seek all possible means for both the North and the South to avoid becoming the miserable vicums of a war in which one side cannot swallow the other, and one side cannot be swallowed by the other and in order to rescue the nation from ruin

The question of the Olymy.c games, which are only | month away, 1S nol a mere sports issuc, bul a serious political issue related to the future road of reunification in Our country. Therefore. this question should be rap- idly resolved in conformity with the common interests of the nation and th» desire for reunification

Indeed, both the question of nonaggression and the question of the Olympics are urgent and important questions of the nation that arise on the road of reunit- cation and are urgent tasks that cannoi cllow even a momentary delay

If and when we politicians, who discuss state affairs and who participate in political affairs, look on with folded hands at this urgent and important problem that 1s related to the destiny of the nation, how can we proudly say before the nation that we have performed our duty as politicians”

At the grave moment that determines the destiny of the brethren. pol:tecians ir. the North and the South must prevent such an unfortunate situation as confrontation, tension, and armed conflict from continuing any longer and must make a new start for reconciliation, trust, peace, and reunification

Proceeding from, such a stand, last 20 July our SPA Standing C“mmiuitee made ai important initiative to hold a Norch-South joint parliamentary meeting. We deem it fortunate that you. side expressed understanding of our proposal and has agreed to the holding of a joint parliamentary meeting

If a jornt declaration of nonaggression 1s announced at the North-South joint parliamentary meeting, and if the question of the Oiympics ts resolved in conformity with the common interests of the nation at the meeting. 1 will, without doubt. open an epochal phase for national reconciliation and unity and for peaceful reunification

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If a North-South joint parliamentary meeting is held and, thus, if the pending issues are successfully resolved there, North-South relations will develop on a new foundation in conformity with the common interests of the natrc~ 7nd the desire for reunification. In this way, the wide-ranging personnel and material eX 6) ZS um. COOPeration between the North and the So will te opened.

You, mauonal assemblymen, our nation and the people of the world are keenly waiching our meeting today with deep interest.

Those of us who are participaiing in today’s meeting should smoothly carry out the tasks laid before us by combining wisdom and strength. I admit that through already exchanged letters and policies announced by political parties, we basically reached an agreement on and commun position toward the form of the North- South parliamentary conference.

Under these circumstances, I think what should be discussed and resolved at today’s meeting is the issue of practical worktng-level procedures for holding the first joint North-South parliamentary conterence and the management of the conference.

The issue of a working-level procedure for holding a joint North-South parliamentary conference was already clar- ified in our letter dated 9 August. Therefore, at today’s meeting, I would like to put forward a draft of an agreement on holding the first joint North-South parlia- mentary conference and on managing it, and would like io discuss this draft.

Nov., I would like to mention the draft of agreement.

The draft of agreement on holding and managing the joint North-South parliamentary conference:

Proceeding from the desire to ease tension between the North and the South, to ensure peace, to proimote national unity, and to expedite national reunification, the DPRK SPA and the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, having the same opinion about holding a joint North-South parliamentary conference (hereinafter called