TODAY'S NEWS (March.15.2001 Juche 90)
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U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK under fire
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Third Kimilsungia show to open
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Establishment of diplomatic relations between DPRK and Germany hailed
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Japanese A-Bomb damage investigation delegation meets with Korean A-Bomb
victims
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Pyongyang center for cultural exchange set up in India
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New literary works created
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"Song of Seasons"
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U.S. moves for nmd condemned in S. Korea
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Dangerous U.S.-Japan military nexus under fire
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Remains of late Han Tok Su buried in martyrs cemetery
For Spanish-speaking people
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primer saludo de fiesta de ano nuevo a pueblo
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naturaleza agresiva de ee.uu. y su ambicion dominacionista
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tercera exhibicion de kimilsungia
U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK under fire
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist warmongers have
become all the more pronounced in their hostile policy towards the DPRK to
isolate and stifle it, while groundlessly pulling it up. In this regard
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
The U.S. takes a defiant attitude towards the situation on the Korean
peninsula which began witnessing a sign of detente. This clearly indicates
its aggressive nature and ambition to stifle the DPRK by force of arms and
its black-hearted intention to torpedo the dialogue between the north and
south and put the brake on the movement of the Korean nation for
reunification.
The U.S. imperialists are chiefly responsible for the division of Korea
and a stumbling block in the way of peace and reunification of the country.
Their aggressive design to block peace and reunification of Korea and
stifle the DPRK by force of arms remains unchanged.
It is foolish, indeed, for the U.S. to work hard to stifle the DPRK by
force of arms.
The U.S. imperialists' brigandish "policy of strength" can never go down
with the korean people who value the dignity and soveregnity of the nation
more than their life and soul.
We are fully prepared for both dialogue and war.
It is our determination to react to the enemy's hardline stand with the
toughest position and take thousand-fold revenge on aggressors.
The U.S. imperialists are well advised to drop their aggressive hostile
policy towards the DPRK and honestly implement the DPRK-U.S. agreed
framework.
If they keep to the road of confrontation with the DPRK, it will bring
irrevocable consequences. The U.S. will have to be entirely responsible for
them.
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Third Kimilsungia show to open
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The third Kimilsungia show will be held
here from April 12 to 18, Juche 90 (2001) on the occasion of Sun's Day, the
birthday of president Kim Il Sung. It will be sponsored by the Korean
Kimjongilia Federation.
The show will bring together all the units, working people and school
youth and children from across the country, overseas compatriots and
horticulturists and flower lovers of different countries, which are
cultivating Kimilsungia.
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Establishment of diplomatic relations between DPRK and Germany hailed
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- Werner Schulwese, chairman of the
Communist Party of Germany, when meeting with the representative of the DPRK
interests section there on March 8, warmly welcomed the establishment of
diplomatic relations between Germany and the DPRK. This success is the
result of the wise guidance of leader Kim Jong Il and a great victory of the
foreign policy of the DPRK, he noted. It is, at the same time, a historic
event which demonstrated the authority of socialist Korea by frustrating
imperialists' blockade against the DPRK, he said, and continued:
The Communist Party of Germany will boost the militant ties with the
workers' party and people of Korea in the future, too.
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Japanese A-Bomb damage investigation delegation meets with Korean A-Bomb
victims
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- Members of the Japanese A-Bomb damage
investigation delegation headed by Shigekazu Sato, deputy director-general
of the Asian and Oceanian affairs bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, met with Korean A-Bomb victims here yesterday. At the meeting the
Korean victims recalled how they fell victim to A-Bomb disasters in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how seriously they have suffered from them.
The Japanese government is obliged to compensate all A-Bomb victims from
both political and moral points of view because this problem was caused by
Japan's forcible drafting of Koreans and its past war of aggression, they
charged, demanding the japanese government not turn its blind eyes to the
sufferings of the victims but own its responsibility for them and make state
compensation to them at an early date.
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Pyongyang center for cultural exchange set up in India
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Centre for Cultural
Exchange was recently established in Tamil Nadu state, India. The centre
will be operated by mediapersons of the country reflecting the Indian
people's trust and friendship towards the Korean people.
The centre will disseminate the great Juche idea and widely introduce
the reality of Korea through bookshops of eight companies in different parts
of the country.
R. Rada Krishna Mechi, managing director of the Indian new century book
company, was elected chairman of the centre.
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New literary works created
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- Many literary works of different themes
have been created in the DPRK this year. Noteworthy among them are cinematic
and TV stories.
Cinematic story "couple manager and manageress" tells that couple
manager and manageress of local industrial factories operate their factories
in a competitive way.
Cinematic stories include "a woman unable to live other way" which
portrays a manageress of a chicken farm and "people in Jagang Province"
which shows the spiritual world and working manner of people in Jagang
Province who built minor power stations during the period of the "arduous
march".
Other cinematic stories "flower blooming on stone," "decade before and
after" and "waiting for forest" depict Hyon Yong Ra, researcher at the
non-ferrous metal institute under the academy of sciences, Kim Yu Bong, a
collier at the February 8 Jikdong Youth Coal Mine, and Ri Ung Chan, a ranger
at the forest management station in Kangdong county, Pyongyang, who are a
heroine and heroes of our times.
TV story "on behalf of the DPRK" under production deals with the devoted
service of judicial officials and public prosecutors who defend the security
of the fatherland and lives of the people.
Other works tell about the revolutionary fighting spirit of officials
and Mt. Kuwol, a famous mountain in Korea.
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"Song of Seasons"
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The folk dance suite "Song of the
Seasons" created by the Prestigeous Phibada Opera Troupe is a collection of
dance pieces about Koreans' diligence and folk customs as are typical to
every season. Each piece is spiced with distinctive flavour and all add up
to the vivid effect: Koreans' harmony, beautiful characteristics,
cleanliness, diligence and optimism. The suite begins with a dance on the
yut game, a folk play on the New Year's day, and develops into "the dance
welcoming the first full moon" and "torchlight dance" for the 15th of lunar
January= "greeting the spring" that depicts the men ploughing and the women
sowing on the fields of spring bathed in haze with skylarks warbling= and
the pieces concerned with the folk games of the Tano festival (5th of Lunar
May), such as "swinging girls" representing the women's desire to be free
from the shackles of patriarchal feudalism, "wrestling dance" and "masque
dance."
It also includes "at the side of a stream" that shows the women washing
their hair and men their hoes in the crystal-clear water after their second
weeding in summer= "harvesting" in which a boy and a girl coo their love on
opposite sides of a scarecrow, in the middle of their harvesting= "girls
picking shellfish"= "hunting"= and "peasant music dance."
The suite exhibits distinctive national music and gorgeous traditional
costumes in a truthful representation of Korean customs.
The several-year-old suite is still popular with the audience.
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U.S. moves for nmd condemned in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- At least 100 members of eight anti-U.S.
organizations including the people's action movement for revision of the
inequitable S. Korea-U.S. "status of forces agreement" held a rally beside
the U.S. embassy in South Korea on March 13 to denounce the United States'
moves to build the "National Missile Defense" (NMD) system, according to MBC
from Seoul. They strongly condemned the U.S. for "bringing the non-existent
threat from the north" into bold relief for its world supremacy and the
profits of arms industry and building the nmd system under this pretext.
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Dangerous U.S.-Japan military nexus under fire
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The new U.S. administration is getting
feverish in its efforts to tighten its military alliance with Japan. The
U.S.-Japan military nexus is aimed to realize their ambition to invade the
DPRK at any cost.
At the request of the United States the Japan Defence Agency recently
decided to set up a working-level institution aimed to comprehensively
discuss security policies, formation of armed forces, etc. of the two
countries and on this basis, a group in each service of the "self-defence
forces."
The agency is contemplating closer "technical cooperation" with the
united states related to the development of patrol plane of the next
generation.
The U.S. imperialists are hard at work to increase the capacity to
attack the DPRK in case of "emergency" on the Korean peninsula and smoothly
carry out the wartime U.S.-Japan joint operation with the help from Japan.
At "security" talks held in New York in September last year, the U.S.
and Japanese military and diplomatic authorities agreed to go ahead with
joint technological researches into the "Theatre Missile Defence System,"
asserting that "the situation remains uncertain and instability persists in
the Asia-Pacific."
They also agreed to establish a mechanism made up of four committees and
groups to coordinate joint military operations in "emergencies" in areas
surrounding Japan.
The administration singled out closer military alliance with Japan as a
main link in the chain of the moves to carry out the strategy to stifle the
DPRK and is now moving in this direction.
But the international community is opposed to the U.S.-Japan military
nexus, terming it a development detrimental to the detente on the Korean
peninsula.
It is foolish and rash for the U.S. to try to stifle the DPRK through
the military tie-up with Japan.
The tightened U.S.-Japan military nexus will only compel the Korean
people to heighten revolutionary vigilance and increase the DPRK's
self-reliant defence capability.
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Remains of late Han Tok Su buried in martyrs cemetery
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The remains of the late Han Tok Su,
chairman of the central standing committee of the General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) were buried in the patriotic martyrs
cemetery in the suburbs of Pyongyang. He was deputy to the Supreme People's
Assembly and a twice Labour Hero of the DPRK. A guard of honor of the Korean
People's Army lined up in the cemetery.
Attending the ceremony were senior party and state officials, heads of
friendly political parties, leading officials of power organs and public
organizations, citizens and bereaved family members, Chongryon officials and
compatriots from Japan.
Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, made a condolatory address
there.
Noting that leader Kim Jong Il saw to it that Han Tok Su's remains were
buried by the side of his wife's in the cemetery, the speaker said: This
represents his highest appraisal of Han and his noblest sense of
revolutionary obligation.
Han enjoyed the happiest and worthwhile life under the particular
political trust and warm loving care of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong
Il, he said.
Ho Jong Man, chief vice-chairman of the Chongryon central standing
committee, in his condolatory address, said that Chongryon officials and
compatriots in Japan would strengthen Chongryon into a patriotic
organization of overseas Koreans intensely loyal to Kim Jong Il by
creditably carrying forward the feats compatriots of the first generation
achieved in the patriotic activities.
The remains of the dead were buried in the grave amid the playing of a
dirge and the firing of a volley.
Senior party and state officials and bereaved family members spread
earth over the coffin.
A wreath from Kim Jong Il was placed before the grave.
Also laid were wreaths in the name of the spa presidium and the cabinet
of the DPRK, the central committee of the Democratic Front for the
Reunification of the Fatherland, friendly political parties, the Chongryon
central standing committee, organizations related to overseas compatriots
affairs, public organizations and other organs.
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pyongyang, 15 de enero (atcc) -- en el acto de escolares y ninos por el
nuevo ano 90 (2001) de la era juche los ninos rindieron su primer saludo a
los padres, hermanos y hermanas. desde las antiguedades, segun la costumbre
propia de la nacion coreana, los inferiores hacen reverencia a sus
superiores con motivo del primer dia del ano nuevo.
el pueblo coreano trata con sublime veneracion a su lider y su
dirigente. por eso rinde cada ano primer saludo de fiesta de ano nuevo al
gran lider presidente kim il sung y al respetado dirigente kim jong il, con
el honor y felicidad infinitos de vivir enalteciendolos como padre de la
nacion.
tal costumbre convertida en un ambiente de toda la sociedad no es
excepcional tampoco en el acto de los escolares y ninos por el ano nuevo.
pero en el acto por el nuevo ano 2001 los escolares y ninos hicieron
reverencia a sus padres antes que a su dirigente a quien enaltecen como
padre de todo el pais.
he ahi un motivo.
a finales del ano pasado, al enterarse de los preparativos de la funcion
artistica de ano nuevo de los escolares y ninos, el dirigente kim jong il
enseno cordialmente que independientemente de la costumbre anterior estos
deben saludar primeramente a sus padres quienes realizan hazanas laborales
en la construccion socialista.
el dirigente kim jong il al decir que el nuestro es un pueblo excelente,
el mismo disfruta de la mayor fortuna de tener a un gran pueblo y no hay que
escatimar nada para este no cesa de tomar el camino de la direccion sobre el
terreno para el fomento del bienestar del pueblo.
tambien el primer dia del presente ano hizo que el pueblo recibiera el
primer saludo y continuo el camino de su direccion sobre el terreno a la
unidad del ejercito para la tranquilidad del pueblo y la felicidad de los
ninos precisamente cuando estos bailaban y cantaban.
por eso en toda la extension del pais, resuena la cancion de los ninos
"el general al frente y los ninos al campamento".
asi el lider se siente orgulloso de la fortuna de tener al gran pueblo y
este canta la fortuna de enaltecer al gran lider.
he aqui la autentica fisonomia de la sociedad coreana con la unidad
monolitica del lider y el pueblo.
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pyongyang, 15 de marzo (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en el numero
de hoy inserto un comentario denunciando a los belicistas imperialistas
norteamericanos que acusan sin ton ni son a la republica popular democratica
de corea y arrecian su politica hostil y complot de aislamiento y
aplastamiento a ella. el comentario senala:
ee.uu. lanza gran reto a la situacion de la peninsula coreana que
comenzo a dar sintoma de relajamiento. esto demuestra la ambicion
dominacionista y la naturaleza agresiva de ee.uu. de aplastar con las
"fuerzas" y militarmente a la rpdc y constituye una revelacion de la
siniestra intencion de destruir el dialogo norte-sur y frenar el movimiento
de la nacion coreana por la reunificacion.
el imperialismo norteamericano es el fautor de la division de corea y el
obstaculo principal de la paz y la reunificacion del pais.
es invariable su ambicion agresiva de aplastar con las "fuerzas" a la
rpdc al cerrar con estas el camino de la paz y la reunificacion de corea.
la bandidesca "politica de la fuerza" del imperialismo norteamericano es
incapaz de amedrentar al pueblo coreano que considera la dignidad y la
soberania de la nacion mas valiosas que su vida.
estamos preparados tanto para el dialogo como para la guerra.
tenemos temperamento de responder con la ultraintransigencia a la
intransigencia de los enemigos, con el golpe mil veces mas duro al golpe de
los provocadores. los imperialistas norteamericanos deben renunciar su
agresiva politica de hostilidad a la rpdc y ejecutar sinceramente el acuerdo
basico rpdc-ee.uu.
ee.uu. al perseguir su enfrentamiento con la rpdc traera graves e
irremediables consecuencias de que debe responsabilizarse enteramente.
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pyongyang, 15 de marzo (atcc) -- se montara en esta capital la tercera
exhibicion de kimilsungia. la exhibicion se efectuara del 12 al 18 de abril
del 90 (2001) de la era juche con motivo del dia del sol - cumpleanos del
gran lider presidente kim il sung bajo auspicios de la federacion de
kimjongilia de la rpdc.
en ella tomaran parte todas las unidades, trabajadores, jovenes y ninos
escolares del pais y coreanos en el ultramar que la cultivan, especialistas
y aficionados de la planta decorativa de varios paises del mundo.
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