Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit no. 667
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected
KPA unit no. 667.
After receiving a salute at the unit, he heard about its performance of
duties.
He noted with great satisfaction that the officers and men of the unit
have defended the socialist homeland like
an impregnable fortress with intense loyalty to the party and the revolution.
Looking round the well-arranged compound of the barracks thickly
covered with trees of various kinds and trim
buildings, he said that all places where soldiers live are as clean as a park.
The revolutionary spirit and noble patriotism with which soldiers are
keeping their posts and mountains and
rivers of the country in good shape are praiseworthy traits which can be
displayed only by the KPA, he noted.
Then, he went to the education room, bedroom, mess hall and other
places of the unit to acquaint himself with
details of ideological education of soldiers and supply services.
He was satisfied with the fact that the unit has not only provided good
conditions for the ideological education
of soldiers and their entertainment but also used them in an effective way
and equipped itself with convenient supply
facilities for their life.
It is very good that love of officers for soldiers has become deeper
with the generalization in the whole army of
the "day for soldiers" initiated by the commanding officers of KPA unit no.
576, he said, and urged all KPA
commanders to direct primary attention to supply services so as to provide
precious soldiers with the best living
conditions.
He expressed the conviction that all the soldiers of the unit would
reliably defend the socialist system and
motherland with arms like an impregnable fortress, and gave an automatic
rifle to it as a gift.
He posed for a photograph with them.
Greetings to Sudanese Minister of Foreign Relations
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, sent a message of greetings to
Mustafa Osman Ismail on his reappointment as Sudanese Minister of Foreign
Relations.
The message expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries would be
developed on good terms in the future, too, and sincerely wished him
success in his responsible work.
Choe Thae Bok meets Cuban delegation
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly,
today met and had a conversation with the delegation of the National
Assembly of People's Power of Cuba headed
by Jose Luis Toledo, president of the Permanent Commission of
Constitutional and Juridical Affairs, at the
Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Present there were Pak Kwan O, member of the SPA legislation committee,
and Jose Manuel Inclan Embade,
Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.
Head of the delegation wished the Korean people greater success in the
struggle for socialist construction under
the wise leadership of the great leader Kim Jong Il upholding the behest of
the great leader Kim Il Sung.
Talks between parliamentary delegations of DPRK and Cuba
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Talks between the delegations of the
Supreme People's Assembly of the
DPRK and the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba were held at the
Mansudae Assembly Hall on
Sunday.
At the talks both sides exchanged views on developing the friendly and
cooperative relations between the two
assemblies and a series of matters of mutual concern.
Present there were deputy Pak Kwan O, member of the SPA legislation
committee, deputy Cha Sung Su,
vice-chairman of the Korea-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary Group, and other
officials concerned and members of
the Cuban delegation headed by Jose Luis Toledo, president of the Permanent
Commission of Constitutional and
Juridical Affairs, and Jose Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.
Greetings exchanged between DPRK and Vietnam
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Messages of greetings were exchanged
between President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam and Vietnamese President
Tran Duc Luong on January
30 on the occasion of the half centenary of the establishment of diplomatic
relations between the two countries.
Expressing the belief that the traditional friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries would
further strengthen and develop for peace and security in Asia and the rest
of the world, the messages wished the two
peoples greater success in their work for the prosperity of their countries.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun and his Vietnamese counterpart
Nguyen Manh Cam, who is
deputy prime minister, also exchanged greetings on the occasion.
Diplomatic ties between DPRK and Vietnam 50 years old
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Papers here dedicate articles to the
50th anniversary of the establishment of
diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Vietnam.
Rodong Sinmun says that the friendship between the two peoples is a
precious one which was provided by Kim
Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people, and Ho Chi Minh, the leader
of the Vietnamese people.
Based on the sense of revolutionary obligation of the late leaders of
the two countries, the DPRK-Vietnam
friendship has stood the test of history and strengthened and developed in
the common struggle against the
imperialist aggression and for the victory of the socialist cause, it
notes, and goes on:
The two peoples hope that their ties of friendship will as always
develop on good terms.
Minju Joson says that the Korean people will as ever make active
efforts to develop the traditional friendly and
cooperative relations with the people of Vietnam.
Vast standardized fields appear in North Phyongan Province
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Vast standardized fields are making
their appearance in North Phyongan
Province in the northwestern part of the country as a result of a
successful land leveling and rezoning.
Thanks to the devoted efforts of soldiers of the people's army and
working people who were all out to carry out
the grand nature-harnessing policy of the Worker's Party of Korea, at least
29,000 hectares of fields were readjusted
in a matter of several months. As a result, many ridges between patches,
ditches and water ponds disappeared and
an estimated 1,000 hectares of fields were brought under plough.
In the hander plain of Thaechon county alone, some 13,130 patches were
leveled and rezoned into more than
3,250 standardized fields and over 60 hectares of land were obtained. And
over 1,130 km of ridges that divided rice
patches shrank to more than 500 km. There appeared 44 km of more roads on
fields and over 90 km of more
waterways.
Working people in the province, soldiers and land builders from across
the country waged a high-pitched drive
to finish the difficult and vast project in good time despite the
unfavorable conditions in winter. They could achieve
such success by making a rational use of machines and other means suited to
the topographical features, relying on
their own efforts to pull through difficulties and hardships lying in their
way. They thus completed the first-stage
project for land readjustment originally scheduled to be finished till this
spring. As a result, a vast expanse of fertile
plateau spread in the intermediary areas in the province, including
Thaechon county, Kusong city and Uiju county,
where so many patches were to be seen before.
Giving on-the-spot guidance to the land leveling and rezoning project
in the province on January 24, the great
leader Kim Jong Il highly appreciated soldier-builders and working people
for their successful completion of the
vast project in a short span of time in the revolutionary spirit of
fortitude. And he set forth the tasks to be carried out
by the province in giving a major face-lifting to the appearance of the
land and increasing agricultural production
through a more powerful land readjustment.
The working people in the province and people's army soldiers are
speeding up their canter march to finish all
the land leveling and rezoning projects there before the rice-transplanting
this year.
April 15 technical innovation shock brigades
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The April 15 technical innovation shock
brigades were formed 20 years ago
in the DPRK.
They were organized at all factories and enterprises in Juche 69 (1980)
to solve urgent scientific and technical
problems arising in production and business activities in time to
contribute to the Juche orientation, modernization
and scientification of the national economy.
Supporting the Worker's Party of Korea's line of attaching importance
to science, they have invented and
introduced into production at least 1,816,800 new technical innovation
proposals to contribute to the development of
the science and technology of the country during the past 20 years.
In the field of power industry, they rendered great benefit to the
country by increasing the efficiency of the
generating equipment at large hydro-power and thermal power stations and
solving scientific and technical problems
arising in building minor power plants.
In the field of coal industry, modern machines and advanced coal mining
methods were invented and introduced
to raise productivity and liberating the workers from heavy physical labor.
The brigades also made a big contribution
to coal gasification at the Anju area, thus opening a bright prospect for
establishing a new power industry.
Technicians and workers in the field of metal industry completed the
method of iron production by means of
oxygen heat and continuous roughing technology and successfully solved many
scientific and technical problems
arising in regeneration and use of rollers and so on.
The technicians and workers in the field of machine-building industry
developed and completed a 6,000 cubic
metre oxygen plant, a 10,000-ton press, 125,000 kilowatt hydro-power
generators, large-size boilers,
numerically-controlled machine tools, various robots and automation
elements and devices, contributing to making
machines and equipment precise, large-sized, high-speed and automatic.
Many successes were achieved in putting production and business
activities on a scientific basis at factories and
enterprises by utilizing modern technical means including computer and
internal closed-circuit TV.
Poster exhibition
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- A poster exhibition was opened. The
show is aimed at encouraging the
public to carrying out the tasks put forward by the joint New Year editorial.
On display there are some 70 posters presented by the artists at the
Mansudae Art Studio, the Central Fine Art
Studio and the Pyongyang University of Fine Arts.
"Long live the ever-victorious Worker's Party of Korea ", "glorify this
year, the WPK's 55th anniversary, with
signal victory in the crucible of greatly increased activity of Chollima ",
"forward in the second Chollima advance
under the banner of three-revolution " and other works call for the whole
party, the entire army and all the people to
rise up as one to make a great advance in the building of a powerful nation
by overcoming manifold difficulties and
highly displaying the mettle of socialist Korea this year.
Japan warned of possible suspension of DPRK-Japan dialogue
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary dismisses an unprecedented
anti-DPRK smear campaign going on across Japan at a time when there is a
sign of moves for the improved
DPRK-Japan relations as a premeditated and intentional provocation. The
DPRK can never overlook this, says the
commentary.
Drawing attention to the fact that this campaign was kicked off in the
wake of the formation of an "organization
for rescuing those abducted" with riff-raffs, including local dietmen,
coupled with a false propaganda over
"suspicion of kidnapping" dreamed up by the South Korean authorities, the
commentary goes on:
The Japanese abducted and walked away at least 6 million Koreans during
their colonial occupation of Korea.
But, the Japanese right-wing reactionaries shelved this issue and are
getting more frantic in the anti-DPRK smear
campaign over the non-existent "suspicion of kidnapping" only to fully
reveal their shamelessness and mental
derangement.
They seek in this to put pressure upon the Japanese government and
authorities till government authorities raise
the "issue of kidnapping" as a "prerequisite" for the improvement of the
DPRK-Japan relations in consideration of
the "people's feeling," under the impact of frantic anti-DPRK smear
campaign. They are making much fuss about
the "issue of kidnapping" in a bid to use it as a bargaining chip. This is
nothing but their ulterior political intrigue to
isolate and stifle the DPRK.
If the Japanese authorities are truly willing to improve relations with
the DPRK, they should not connive at the
right-wing reactionaries throwing a wet blanket over the efforts to improve
the bilateral relations.
We cannot but doubt the Japanese authorities' loudmouthed will to
improve the relations.
Japan should know well the unabated anti-DPRK smear campaign over the
"issue of kidnapping" may block the
channel of dialogue arranged with so much efforts.
Sophism to hide true nature of S. Korean society
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The South Korean rulers and media under
their control are busy slandering
even the socialist system in the north, touting the "development" of the
South Korean society. Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a presumptuous and
preposterous jargon which can convince no
one.
Such sophism let loose by them in a bid to cover up their corrupt
anti-working people rule only lays bare their
true colors as brazen-faced and wicked traitors, the commentary notes, and
goes on:
In South Korea there are 13 million poor people below the poverty line
and 1.5 million prostitutes.
It has 1.1 million psychotics, a record high in Asia.
The South Korean society is a society where misanthropy and the jungle
law prevail but the DPRK is a paradise
based on human respect and love.
In our society based on man-centred Juche idea there is blood
relationship in which all the people share life and
death, bitters and sweets, helping and leading each other forward.
Beautiful traits unimaginable in the South Korean society are in full
bloom among our people though their life
remains hard due to the vicious moves of the imperialists and their
followers to stifle the DPRK and years of natural
disasters.
It is quite natural that the South Korean people's longing for the
north is growing stronger as days go by.
Rodong Sinmun on true nature of S. Korean society
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a lengthy
article dealing with the true nature of
the South Korean society.
Describing the South Korean society as a veritable hell, the article
says: It is a shame to the Korean people as
well as to humankind that in this world there exists such a veritable hell
as the South Korean society where national
dignity and sovereignty are ruthlessly trampled down and the elementary
freedom and rights seriously violated.
The article cites concrete facts to prove that the United States is the
real ruler of South Korea and its society has
turned into a huge "prison without bars," a society where the rich get
richer and the poor poorer.
The article continues:
The U.S. has the real power in all spheres, including politics, the
economy, the military and culture in South
Korea. It is the U.S. which installs a "government" in South Korea, chooses
its "President," sets out its internal and
external policy guidelines, supervises and controls everything related to
them from their shaping to their
implementation.
UPI said that all the South Korean "government" activities are
conducted by numerous institutions in South
Korea under the direct control of the "U.S. Department of State."
South Korea is a society under fascist dictatorship where people are
denied elementary freedom and rights.
The ill-famed "security law" is an almighty fascist law suppressing
even the slightest freedom of expression and
human rights. It deprives the people of elementary democracy and rights to
existence and stamps out freedom of
thinking, conscience and free speech and press and art activities. The law
also bans the just struggle of the South
Korean people for independence, democracy and reunification.
South Korea has a dense network of machines for suppressing people,
including the "Intelligence Service",
fascist prosecution and police. It is a hideous fascist society where
people are exposed to armed crackdown and
terrorism, a terror-ridden society where fellow countrymen are dying out.
This is what the "democratic politics" of
the present rulers has brought to South Korea.
The U.S. predatory colonial policy has done serious damage to the South
Korean economy.
There are over 8 million jobless people in South Korea.
13 million people are below the poverty line. Taxes and commodity
prices are skyrocketing. Each head of the
population has to pay more than 2 million won as taxes this year.
The "people's" ruling quarters have built a society where those who
lead a dissolute life get richer.
The value of the property of at least 140 senior officials increased by
one hundred million won respectively in
the first year of the office of the "people's" ruling quarters.
The South Korean people can never get rid of the present sufferings as
long as South Korea remains a colony of
the U.S. and the corrupt politics is allowed to reign.
"KCTU" calls for legalization of its branch
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The cargo transport workers union under
the freight federation of the South
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) is struggling for the
legalization of its new branch, a radio report
from Seoul said.
On January 27 the union massed container cars in a place of Pusan and
moved them slowly on an expressway,
causing troubles in unloading at the port.
The union has planned to escalate its struggle from January 28 and go
on a general strike from February 2.
Challenge to S. Korean ruler's "Democratic Party"
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The "United Liberal Democrats" of South
Korea held a meeting on January
27 and announced that it would give up joint ruling party and joint
"government" with the "Democratic Party," said a
Seoul-based radio.
At the meeting the acting president of the "United Liberal Democrats"
said in vexation that the "Democratic
Party" of the present ruler did not insert the issue of "a constitutional
revision for the parliamentary cabinet system"
in the program and landed the "ULD" in trouble by bearing on the activities
of civil organisations which worked out
and made public the list of disqualified candidates for "election of
assemblymen." He called for no more counting on
"cooperation with the ruling camp," "joint recommendation of candidates" or
joint "government."
He declared that the "ULD" would no longer beg the joint ruling party
for the implementation of commitments
to "parliamentary cabinet system."
This challenge of the "ULD" has brought into great uneasiness the
"Democratic Party" which may make up the
majority of seats only by allying itself with the "ULD" in the "election of
assemblymen."
For Spanish-speaking people
kim jong il senala necesidad de hacer de la nuestra una industria autoctona
que no
tenga desperfecto en siglo 21
pyongyang, 31 de enero (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il,
secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea
y presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular
democratica de corea, al dirigir sobre terreno la
labor del sector industrial de la provincia de phyong-an del norte, subrayo
que se debe promover con vigor la labor
para hacer de la coreana una industria autoctona que no tenga desperfecto
tampoco en el siglo 21.
del 25 al 28 el hizo un recorrido por la fabrica de maquinaria de
rakwon, la fabrica de maquinas herramientas de
kusong, la mina juventud "5 de diciembre", la fabrica de cojinetes de
ryangchaek, la fabrica de calzados y la fabrica
textil de sinuiju y otras fabricas y empresas para enterarse de los
detalles de la produccion e indico las tareas que se
presentan ante ellas.
en la fabrica de maquinaria de rakwon hizo un recorrido por el letrero
con las ensenanzas del estimado
presidente kim il sung y el monumento a su direccion sobre el terreno y
otros materiales historicos.
se encontro con los heroes ho chon hak, hwang sun hwa y jang hong jun
quienes figuran entre 10 miembros del
partido de rakwon quienes apoyaron el partido y el lider al producir en las
condiciones muy dificiles, en pleno acato
al proposito del presidente kim il sung, la granada de mano en el periodo
de la guerra y la bomba de agua,
excavadora y otras maquinas en postguerra partiendo del cero y con sus
hijos que ocupan puestos de trabajo de sus
padres del taller de fundicion para estimularlos.
subrayo que los obreros de rakwon deben manifestar plenamente tambien
en el futuro el espiritu revolucionario
de autoconfianza y servir de modelo a todo el pais poniendose en la
delantera de la segunda gran marcha de
chollima.
seguidamente el dirigio sobre el terreno la fabrica de maquinas
herramientas de kusong. al recorrer varios
talleres se mostro muy satisfecho de que se produce gran cantidad del torno
de manejo numerico, taladro y otras
maquinas herramientas de tipo moderno y presento las tareas que se
presentan ante la fabrica.
el dirigente kim jong il recorrio la recien construida mina juventud "5
de diciembre", la fabrica de cojinetes de
ryangchaek, la fabrica de calzados y la fabrica textil de sinuiju y les
indico las concretas tareas.
se fotografio como recuerdo junto con los innovadores laborales de la
fabrica de maquinaria de rakwon, la
fabrica de maquinas herramientas de kusong y la fabrica de cojinetes de
ryangchaek.
se entero del estado del conjunto de labores del sector industrial de
la provincia a base de lo cual se reunio con
los funcionarios dirigentes de las importantes fabricas y empresas y les
presento las tareas que sirven de guia para
mejorar la administracion y manejo de las fabricas y empresas y registrar
un nuevo viraje revolucionario en la labor
economica.
le acompanaron kim phyong hae, secretario responsable del comite del
partido del trabajo de corea en la
provincia de phyong - an del norte, kim kuk thae y kim yong sun,
secretarios del cc del ptc y los primeros subjefes
de departamento del cc del ptc.
kim jong il inspecciona unidad no.667 de epc
pyongyang, 31 de enero (atcc) -- el gran dirigente camarada kim jong
il, secretario general del partido del trabajo
de corea, presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular
democratica de corea y comandante
supremo del ejercito popular de corea inspecciono la unidad no.667 del epc.
el comandante supremo kim jong il, luego de recibir saludo mediante la
guardia de honor en la unidad, se entero
del cumplimiento de su mision.
se mostro muy satisfecho de que con la fervorosa fidelidad al partido y
la revolucion los oficiales y soldados de
la unidad defienden como muralla de acero la linea de defensa de la patria
socialista.
hizo un recorrido por la sala de educacion, el dormitorio, el comedor y
otros lugares para enterarse de los
pormenores de la educacion ideologica y la intendencia para los militares.
se mostro regocijado de las suficientes condiciones que se usan
eficientemente para la educacion ideologica y la
vida cultural de los militares y de las instalaciones de intendencia
acondicionadas comodamente para la vida de estos.
dijo que es una cosa buena que se eleva mas el grado del amor de los
oficiales por los soldados con la
generalizacion en todo el ejercito del "dia para estos" por iniciativa de
los miembros de mando de la unidad no. 576
del epc y subrayo que todos los oficiales deben dedicar primordial atencion
a la intendencia para brindar mejores
condiciones de vida a los soldados que no se pueden cambiar por nada.
el comandante supremo kim jong il dio como recuerdo el fusil automatico
a los militares de la unidad y se
fotografio junto a estos.
conversaciones de delegaciones de rpdc y cuba
pyongyang, 31 de enero (atcc) -- conversaciones de las delegaciones de
la asamblea popular suprema de la rpd
de corea y de la asamblea nacional del poder popular de cuba tuvieron lugar
el dia 30 en el palacio de los congresos
mansudae.
en ellas ambas partes tuvieron un intercambio de opiniones sobre el
desarrollo de las relaciones de amistad y
cooperacion entre dos asambleas y una serie de otros problemas de interes
mutuo.
estuvieron presentes alli por la parte coreana el diputado pak kwan o,
miembro de la comision de legislacion de
la aps, el diputado cha sung su, vicepresidente del grupo parlamentario de
amistad corea-cuba y otros funcionarios y
por la parte cubana los miembros de la delegacion de la anpp presidida por
jose luis toledo, presidente de la comision
de asuntos constitucionales y juridicos y jose manuel inclan embade,
embajador de cuba en la rpdc.
vocero de minrex de rpdc se refiere a conversaciones rpdc-ee.uu. en berlin
pyongyang, 31 de enero (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de relaciones
exteriores de la republica popular
democratica de corea respondio el dia 30 a la preguntas de un reportero de
la atcc formulada en relacion con el
termino de las conversaciones entre la rpdc y ee.uu. en berlin como sigue:
del 22 al 28 de enero tuvieron lugar en berlin las conversaciones a
nivel de viceministro como continuacion de
las regulares que venian celebrandose entre la rpdc y ee.uu.
en ellas se discutieron el problema de visita de alto nivel de la rpdc
a washington y otros que conciernen a
ambos paises.
ambas partes tomaron por meta las conversaciones de alto nivel en
washington. acordaron volver a efectuar a
finales de febrero en nueva york las conversaciones a nivel de viceministro
a fin de crear las condiciones y el
ambiente favorables para aquellas para seguir discutiendo con profundidad
los actuales problemas entre otros el de
eliminar la rpdc en la "lista de los paises de apoyo al terrorismo".
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