TODAY'S NEWS (August.10.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il meets Jong Mong Hon
* Jong Mong Hon goes back
* DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks to be held
* 3rd home visit of Japanese women in Korea to take place
* Rakrang tilery commissioned
* Tours revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu
* Great banner of national unity and reunification
* Letter of protest to PM of Japan
* 7th Pyongyang Film Festival to be held
* Korean national preparatory committee formed
* DPRK wrestlers prove successful in wrestling
* "International Kim Il Sung Prize"
* Chun Doo Hwan military junta's fabrication of fiction of "north's
invasion" disclosed
* Release of prisoners of conscience urged
* KCNA urges Japan not to spread militarist trend
For Spanish-speaking people
* kim jong il recibe en audiencia a huespedes surcoreanos
* septimo festival de cine de pyongyang
* constituido comite preparatorio coreano por 15 festival mundial de
juventud y estudiantes
Kim Jong Il meets Jong Mong Hon
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on August 9
received chairman Jong Mong Hon
of Hyundai Asan board of directors from South Korea, and his party on a
visit to Pyongyang.
Jong's party included chairman Ri Ik Chi of Hyundai securities,
president Kim Yun Gyu of Hyundai Engineering
Construction, president Kim Chung Sik of Hyundai Merchant Marine and
vice-president Kim Ko Jung of Hyundai
Asan.
On hand was chairman Kim Yong Sun of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace
Committee.
Kim Jong Il expressed thanks to chairman Jong Mong Hon and his party
for having brought with them a total of
1,500 head of cattle in three batches carrying their sincerity and had a
conversation with them in an amicable
atmosphere.
He gave a luncheon for them and posed for a photograph with them.
Jong Mong Hon goes back
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Jong Mong Hon, chairman of the South
Korean Hyundai Asan board of
directors, and his party today went back via Panmunjom.
They were seen off at Panmunjom by Kang Jong Han, secretary general of
the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace
Committee, Jong Un Op, chairman of the National Economic Cooperation
Federation, and officials concerned.
DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks to be held
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The tenth round of DPRK-Japan
intergovernmental full-dress talks will be held
in Tokyo from August 21 to 25.
The talks will be attended by the DPRK government delegation headed by
Jong Thae Hwa, roving ambassador of
the Foreign Ministry, and the Japanese government delegation headed by
Kojiro Takano, ambassador of the Foreign
Ministry for negotiations for the establishment of Japan-DPRK diplomatic
relations.
The talks will discuss the issue of Japan's settlement of its past and
other issues related to the improvement of the
bilateral relations.
3rd home visit of Japanese women in Korea to take place
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The third home visit of Japanese women
in Korea will be made from
September 12 to 18 according to the agreement between the organs concerned
of the DPRK and Japan.
The visit will contribute to the promotion of mutual understanding
between the two peoples.
Rakrang tilery commissioned
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The Rakrang tilery was commissioned in
Thongil Street of Pyongyang.
The tilery is a contribution from the Hyundai Group of South Korea.
A ceremony of commissioning the tilery was held on the spot on August 9.
Present at the ceremony were Kang Jong Hun, secretary general of the
Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee,
officials concerned and employees of the tilery.
Jong Mong Hon, chairman of Hyundai Asan board of directors, and his
party were on hand.
Speeches were made there.
At the end of the ceremony, its participants looked round the
production processes of the tilery.
Earlier, chairman Jong Mong Hon and his party went round the
construction site of the Pyongyang gymnasium.
Tours revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The delegation of South Korean media
organizations visited the secret camp on
Mt. Paektu, a sacred place of revolution, in Ryanggang Province on August 9.
They looked round the log cabin which housed the headquarters where the
President Kim Il Sung led the Korean
revolution and the time-honored native home where General Secretary Kim
Jong Il was born.
Hearing an explanation about how Kim Jong Il, a peerlessly great man,
was born as a great son of guerrillas, they
looked round historical relics preserved in the native home with good care.
At dawn, they climbed Mt. Paektu and commanded a bird's-eye view of the
majestic sunrise over it.
They took cable-cars to enjoy a bird's-eye view of Lake Chon before
coming down to its shore and spent a
pleasant time there.
They toured various revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.
Great banner of national unity and reunification
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The five-point policy of great national
unity serves as the banner of national
unity and reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
Great national unity is the foundation of national reunification and
reunification can be achieved only by the
concerted efforts of the nation, the article notes, and goes on:
Great national unity should be based on the principle of national
independence.
The Korean nation's cause of reunification is precisely the cause of
national independence. If the whole nation
unites in perfect harmony, it will be the reunification of the country.
The nation should unite under the banner of patriotism and national
reunification.
Strongest patriotism for the Korean nation today is a dedication to
reunification.
Great national unity for reunification, a patriotic cause, should be
achieved on the basis of ardent love of the
country and the nation.
In order to achieve the great unity of the Korean nation it is
imperative to improve inter-Korean relations.
A favourable atmosphere for national reconciliation, unity and
reunification has been created between the north and
the south.
If inter-Korean relations make progress from the present starting
point, not making setback, the Korean nation will
be able to bring the dawn of reunification by its concerted efforts.
In order to achieve the great national unity, all the Koreans in the
north, south and abroad should promote mutual
visits, contacts and dialogue and strengthen solidarity.
The five-point policy of the great national unity is a charter of
national unity which helps all the compatriots unite
under the banner of national independence and patriotism and achieve
national reunification, the cherished desire of the
nation.
It is inevitable in history that Korea will be reunified by the
concerted efforts of the nation.
Letter of protest to PM of Japan
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) --Tthe DPRK Anti-Nuke Peace Consultative
Council of A-bomb Victims sent a
letter of protest to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori Tuesday, 55 years
after the drop of A-bombs over Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
Urging an apology and compensation to Korean A-bomb victims residing in
the DPRK, the council in the letter
said:
A-bomb victims in the DPRK are persons who were taken away to Japan for
"labour," "military service" and other
purposes during its military occupation of Korea in the past, and their
descendants.
So it is a legal and moral duty of the Japanese government to make an
apology and compensation to them.
However, the Japanese government has refused to offer aid to those
victims in the DPRK only though it instituted
"law on aid" for A-bomb victims.
The victims in the DPRK can hardly repress their anger at this
prejudiced behavior.
If the Japanese government refuses to do what it should do, turning
aside the demand of the present times, it will
meet a bitterer condemnation of the world community.
The DPRK Anti-Nuke Peace Consultative Council of A-bomb victims
strongly urges you, the Prime Minister of
the Japanese government, to lend an ear to protest and condemnation of
victims in the DPRK and take necessary
measures in a responsible manner.
We will continue our struggle until our just demand is met.
7th Pyongyang Film Festival to be held
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The 7th Pyongyang Film Festival of
non-aligned and other developing
countries will be held from September 13 to 21.
The festival to be organized in the idea of independence, peace and
friendship will involve competition,
informative screening, retrospection and special screening and film market.
The jury of the competition will judge lengthy feature films and short
and documentary films.
Excellent films will be awarded gold, silver and bronze torch prizes.
Festival prizes also include scenario,
production, shooting, fine art, music and acting (male and female) prizes.
The festival is to bring together participants from more than 40 countries.
Korean national preparatory committee formed
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The Korean national preparatory
committee for the 15th World Festival of
Youth and Students was formed in Pyongyang on July 27.
Ri Il Hwan, first secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung
Socialist Youth League, was elected
chairman of the preparatory committee.
The festival is to be held in Algeria in the summer of 2001 under the
slogan "Let us wage the struggle for
anti-imperialism, peace, solidarity and development throughout the world."
DPRK wrestlers prove successful in wrestling
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- DPRK wrestler Jo Yong Son picked up a
gold medal in the 63 kg division at
the 8th International Freestyle Wrestling Tournament for "Budayev Prize"
held in Ulan-ude, Russia.
So Kwang Myong placed second in the 54 kg division and Kang Kum Chol
third in the 58 kg division.
Jo Yong Son also won the prize for the best wrestler of the tournament.
"International Kim Il Sung Prize"
Pyongyang August 10 (KCNA) -- The "International Kim Il Sung Prize"
Council made public a decision recently.
According to it, the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" was awarded to
Dorank Assifat Diasseny, director general of
the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and Minister
in charge of National Defence of the
Guinean Presidential Office.
The prize was instituted to meet the ardent desire of the world
progressive figures and people to glorify for all ages
the immortal exploits performed by the President Kim Il Sung on behalf of
humankind.
This prize was initiated by Vishwanath, former secretary general of the
Indian Society for the Study of the Juche
Idea.
Vishwanath and other prominent figures of the world organized the
"International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council and
instituted the prize in April Juche 82 (1993).
The prize is awarded to prominent political and public figures who have
earnestly followed the Juche idea and
worked hard to embody it and made distinguished contributions to the
struggle to achieve global independence and
peace.
This prize is awarded to one person every year under a decision of the
council on the occasion of the birth
anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, Sun's Day.
A certificate of merit, gold medal and souvenir (precious metals) go to
every recipient of the prize.
The first prize winner is Shuhachi Inoue, former director general of
the International Institute of the Juche Idea
(IIJI) and Honorary Professor and Doctor at Rikkyo University.
This prize also went to T. B. Mukherjee, Honorary President of the
Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea who
is also vice-director general of the IIJI= Kenichi Ogami, secretary general
of the IIJI= and Jose Francisco Aguilar
Bulgarelli, general secretary of the Popular Force organized in Costa Rica,
vice-director general of the IIJI and
chairman of the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea.
Chun Doo Hwan military junta's fabrication of fiction of "north's invasion"
disclosed
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- A team of the Munhwa Broadcasting
Corporation (MBC) for the production of
a special program on August 15 liberation day recently obtained a testimony
and evidence proving that the Chun Doo
Hwan new military junta intentionally cooked up the fiction of the "north's
invasion" to seize power in 1980, according
to the MBC from Seoul.
The MBC said:
In May 1980, the new military junta headed by the then "commander for
public security" Chun Doo Hwan
asserted that they received from the research room of the Japanese cabinet
information that the north was going to
invade the south between May 15 and 20 in that year and, on its basis,
escalated the enforcement of the "martial law."
But, the recently obtained data go to prove that that was a sheer lie.
According to data, the head of the team in charge of the Korean
peninsula of the then research room testified to the
fact that "there was no information about possible invasion from the north
and he never provided any information."
Meanwhile, the South Korean general staff of intelligence in its
"report on the analysis of the theory of the north's
invasion" on May 10, 1980 said there was no particular sign just before the
outbreak of the war and the theory of the
north's invasion lacked credibility in view of the situation at that time.
Conveying this story, the MBC claimed there is a strong suspicion that
the new military junta led by Chun Doo
Hwan intentionally spread the rumour about the "north's invasion" to take
power.
Release of prisoners of conscience urged
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Voices of civic organizations calling
for the release of prisoners of conscience
and the solution of the issue of wanted persons are growing louder,
according to the Christian Broadcasting Service
from Seoul.
Saying that there are still many prisoners of conscience and hundreds
of people are on want list, the "Family
Movement for Realizing Democracy" held that keeping prisoners of conscience
behind bars under the "Security Law"
goes against the trend of the times.
The movement demanded the authorities set free the prisoners of
conscience at an early date, reminding them that a
lot of them are suffering from serious illness like cancer of the lung.
Accusing the authorities of being keen only on the pardon and
reinstatement of corrupt politicians, the Citizens'
Solidarity for Realizing Human Rights urged them to be active for the
solution of the issue of prisoners of conscience.
The organizations threatened to stage a powerful struggle unless their
demand is met.
KCNA urges Japan not to spread militarist trend
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Eight ministers of the Japanese cabinet
including the Minister of Justice and the
director general of the Defence Agency reportedly planned to make an
official visit to the "Yasukuni Shrine" on August
15, the day when Japan was defeated in World War II.
Their plan is a sort of insult to the peoples of Korea and other
countries in Asia who suffered immeasurable
damage due to the Japanese aggression and military occupation in the past
and an anachronistic action which may
arouse concern over the militarization of Japan in the international community.
"Yasukuni Shrine" is symbolic of Japanese militarism, where top-class
war criminals including Tojo who inflicted
unbearable disasters upon humankind are entombed.
Whether one visits it or not can be a touchstone showing the attitude
of the Japanese politicians toward the past
war of aggression. So the foresighted politicians of Japan concerned about
its future have always approached the visit
to it with prudence because it leads the Japanese society to the rightwing
and militarization.
Japanese cabinet ministers' plan to make an official visit to it,
ignoring such political and social problems, cannot
be construed otherwise than a move to float the militarist trend in the
Japanese society and instill a reactionary view on
history into the people.
The Japanese politicians should face up to the reality and act with
discretion.
Militarism is a trend whose inhuman nature has already been proved and
rejected by history.
For Japan the revival of militarism precisely means self-destruction.
For Spanish-speaking people
kim jong il recibe en audiencia a huespedes surcoreanos
pyongyang, 10 de agosto (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il recibio
en audiencia el dia 9 a jong mong hon,
presidente de hyundai asan de sudcorea y su comitiva= ri ik chi, presidente
de valores hyundai, kim yun gyu,
presidente de construccion mecanica de hyundai y asan, kim chung sik,
presidente de barcos mercantes hyundai y kim
ko jung, vicepresidente de firma de hyundai asan de visita en pyongyang.
estuvo presente kim yong sun, presidente del comite coreano por la paz
de asia y el pacifico.
el dirigente kim jong il expreso agradecimiento al presidente jong mong
hon y su comitiva quienes llevaron en 3
ocasiones 1 500 reses imbuidas de sinceridad y sostuvo una platica cordial
con los huespedes.
ese dia el dirigente kim jong il ofrecio un almuerzo en honor de los
visitantes y se fotografio junto a estos.
septimo festival de cine de pyongyang
pyongyang, 10 de agosto (atcc) -- el septimo festival de cine de
pyongyang de los paises no alineados y otros en
vias de desarrollo se efectuara del 13 al 21 de septiembre que viene.
el festival se celebrara bajo el ideal de la independencia, la paz y la
amistad, dividido en las secciones siguientes:
concurso, informacion, exhibicion especial y de recordacion y mercado.
en la seccion de concurso se examinan y se evaluan las peliculas
ficciosas de largo y corto metraje y documentales.
a las mejores peliculas se otorgan los premios "antorcha" de oro, plata
y de bronce que son los principales del
festival y los premios de guion, direccion, filmacion, bellas artes, musica
y de interpretacion (ambos sexos) que son
los individuales del festival.
mas de 40 paises confirmaron su participacion en el festival.
constituido comite preparatorio coreano por 15 festival mundial de juventud y
estudiantes
pyongyang, 10 de agosto (atcc) -- quedo constituido el 27 de julio en
esta capital el comite preparatorio coreano
por el 15 festival mundial de la juventud y estudiantes.
como presidente del comite fue electo ri il hwan, primer secretario del
cc de la union de la juventud socialista kim il
sung.
el 15 festival se efectuara en el verano del 2001 en argelia bajo el
lema " despleguemos en ambito mundial la lucha
contra el imperialismo y por la paz, la solidaridad y el desarrollo "
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