The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 532
As I will be on international travel from the USA to Indonesia, I can not foresee for sure when I will be able to post the next material. This relates both to the Saturday translations as well as to the next editorial.
Norbert Klein
Editor of the Mirror
“Phnom Penh: Cambodia and North Korea signed two agreements on 1 November 2007 during a four-day visit of Mr. Kim Yong Il, the Prime Minister of North Korea, to Cambodia.
“Mr. Kim Yong Il arrived in Cambodia on Thursday morning where he was first welcomed by Samdech Akak Moha Senapadei Dekchor Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia, diplomats of friendly countries in Cambodia, officials of the Royal Government, and thousand of students and other people at Phnom Penh International Airport.
“Mr. Cham Prasidh, Senior Minster and the Minister of Commerce, signed with Mr. Rim Kyong Man, Minister of the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Trade, an agreement on promoting the protection of investors, and Mr. Suong Heng, Acting Minister of the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport, signed with Mr. Rim Kyong Man an agreement on maritime transportation. Samdech Hun Sen and Mr. Kim Yong Il presided over the signing ceremony of the agreements, after bilateral talks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
“Mr. Khieu Kanharith, the Minister of Information, said in a conference that Mr. Kim Yong Il raised three important points to strengthen the relations between Cambodia and [North] Korea for the present time and for the future.
“The first point is the request to strengthen the political relations by sending delegations at all levels, to exchange experience with each other, while in the meantime the [North] Korean Government invited Samdech Hun Sen for an official visit to its country at an appropriate time. The second point is to increase relations in trade, where the North Korean Prime Minister pointed out the purpose of participating in the cooperation in the technique of small and medium scale electricity generation and the production of agricultural products and products of fisheries. The third point is that the North Korean Prime Minister requested mutual support in politics, especially the exchange of opinions on important international issues to which the two countries pay attention, such as the mutual support at the United Nations on movements of not entering into any associations with ASEAN in order to avoid pressure by a number of big powers on developing countries.
“Mr. Khieu Kanharith said that Mr. Kim Yong Il also pointed to his efforts to solve problems on the Korean peninsula through the six-country conferences which made the United States change its position by not declaring that North Korea is its enemy. He also pointed to the relations between North Korea and South Korea, where both countries made efforts towards peaceful reconciliation on 15 June, where both sides agreed on a declaration on legal procedures and processes which may lead to reconciliation.
“Mr. Kim Yong Il announced that North Korea will definitely implement this 15 June declaration.
“In the bilateral talks, Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen accepted the invitation to visit North Korea at an appropriate time, and he also agreed on the three points raised by North Korea. Samdech Prime Minister also encouraged both sides to implement the agreements signed in the past few years, on technology, cultural exchange, and exchange of information.
“Samdech Prime Minister admired the soft attitude of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the six-side talks which led to an agreement on 13 February 2007. He also admired the attitudes of all the six countries that participated in the talks which made the process successful.
“Samdech Prime Minister said that Cambodia considered the tension on the Korean peninsula not to be related to the six countries, and the issues of North Korea and Japan only, but all countries in Southeast Asia always worry about these tensions. Samdech stated that we congratulate the meeting of the two Koreas (2-4 October 2007) which led to a very important agreement, and we support the proposals that Korea prepares to send to the United Nations, on the process of peaceful reconciliation.
“Samdech Hun Sen stated that Cambodia congratulates the change in relations between the United States of America and North Korea, and we would like to thank North Korea for supporting the candidacy of Cambodia to be a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in 2007-2008.
“Mr. Khieu Kanharith said that both sides also thanked each other for the preparations to spend financial resources to repair the embassies of the two countries in both countries.” Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1482, 2.11.2007
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Friday, 2 November 2007
Areyathor, Vol.14, #1282, 2-3.11.2007
- Prince Thomico Says Funcinpec Won’t Be Able to Get Even One Leg of a Seat in the Next Term Elections, and the Cambodian People’s Party Will Increase the Number of Seats to 95 [if monarchists and democrats still continue to be split]
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1482, 2.11.2007
- Cambodia and North Korea Sign Two Agreements
- 6,205 Pieces of Unexploded Ordnance Collected [by officials] from Houses of Scavengers and Handed over to CMAC [Poipet, Banteay Meanchey]
Many Sawmills Destroy Trees in Oral Mountain Animal Refuge [Kompong Speu]
Khmer Machas Srok, Vol.1, #48, 2-3.11.2007
- Opposition Leader Demands National Election Committee to Check and Solve Complaints Timely [over irregularities in checking voters’ names and voters’ registrations]
- Rong Chhun [president of Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association] Demands Government Reduce Prices of Goods
Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #6182, 2.11.2007
- North Korean Prime Minister Visits Cambodia; Samdech Akak Moha Senapadei Dekchor [Hun Sen] Greeted Him at [Phnom Penh] Airport
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.14, #3301, 2.11.2007
- Sam Rainsy: National Bank of Cambodia Prints Money for CPP to Conduct Election Campaign and Fuel Companies Pay Only 20% of Tax to State
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4426, 2.11.2007
- North Korean Prime Minister Arrives in Cambodia for Four-Day Visit
- Prince Thomico Accuses Funcinpec of No Longer Being a Sihanoukist Party [because Princess Arun Rasmei is selected as Funcinpec prime ministerial candidate to challenge Prince Ranariddh]
Sralanh Khmer, Vol.3, #541, 2.11.2007
- Officials Confiscate Sarpordormean Serei [The Free Press Magazine, with cartoons of the Prime Minister, the retired King, and a judge of the Khmer Rouge tribunal on its front cover, saying, ‘If you, judge of the ECCC, touch our King, we’ll kick your ass out from Cambodia!’ The magazine also recalls the murder of Piseth Pelika – a Cambodian actress who died in June 1999, allegedly having had an affair with the Prime Minister]
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