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DPRK-Russia agreement on scientific cooperation signed
 ��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- An agreement on scientific cooperation
between the DPRK Academy of Sciences and the Siberia branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences was signed in Novosibirsk on March 22. Present on the
occasion were members of the delegation of the DPRK Academy of Sciences
headed by vice-president Kang Tong Gun and president of the Siberia branch
Nikolai Dobretsov and officials concerned.

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Performance of Russian presidential orchestra hailed
 ��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Russian artistes gave their premiere here
yesterday delighting the Korean people. The visiting group of Russian
artistes includes the presidential orchestra of the Russian Federation, the
chorus of "the Kremlin, Moscow" museum and singers of the State Academy
Grand Theatre. 
��� Leader Kim Jong Il invited them to visit Pyongyang.
��� The presidential orchestra of the Russian Federation is well known to
the Korean people for its successful performance given for Kim Jong Il
during his visit to Russia in August last year. He was greatly satisfied to
see the performance.
��� The orchestra with a long history encouraged the Soviet army and people
with revolutionary and militant music pieces to achieve victory in the
patriotic war. 
��� The orchestra is highly proud of participating in the concert given on
the Red Square where a military parade was held to celebrate the victory in
the war. 
��� The chorus of "the Kremlin, Moscow" museum is recognized as one of the
best art organizations in Russia. Its main mission is to ensure state
functions together with the presidential orchestra.
��� Among the Russian artistes are many artistes well-known to the world.
��� Colonel P. B. Obshankov, composer of the presidential orchestra of the
Russian Federation, is its chief conductor and People's Actor of Russia.
��� Russian Merited Actress l. Rudakova, singer of the State Academy Grand
Theatre, is a world famous singer.
��� She was highly praised by Kim Jong Il for her successful presentation
given for him last year.
��� Among the art envoys of the Kremlin are many talented actors and
actresses and artistes of world fame.
��� When interviewed at the airport, lieutenant general Sergei Streigin,
head of the orchestra and commander of the garrison of the Kremlin, said
that they came to Pyongyang carrying with them the deep respect of the
Russian President for Kim Jong Il.
��� The orchestra would present the same numbers as were performed for Kim
Jong Il in Moscow last year, he added.

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Indonesian President to visit DPRK
 ���Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Megawati Soekarnoputri, President of the
Republic of Indonesia, will shortly pay an official goodwill visit to the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the invitation of Kim Yong Nam,
President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.

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U.S-S. Korea joint maneuvers attacked worldwide
 ��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Bulgarian and Ugandan organizations
condemned the U.S. and the South Korean authorities for their aggressive
large-scale joint military exercises. The Bulgaria-Korea Friendship
Association and the Bulgarian Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification
said in a joint statement on March 20 that the current joint maneuvers
surpass the "Team Spirit" joint military exercises in scale while causing a
grave situation on the Korean Peninsula.
��� Such reckless military provocations made by bush and the South Korean
authorities may spark off a war, the statement said, adding: This is
scuttling the agreed points of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration for
Korea's reunification.
��� The Uganda-DPRK Friendship Association in its statement on March 21
demanded that the U.S. stop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and withdraw
its aggression forces from South Korea at once. The statement also urged the
South Korean war hawks to refrain from joining in the U.S. moves to stifle
their fellow countrymen by force of arms and stop all deeds of going against
the spirit of the joint declaration.

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Russian presidential orchestra gives its premiere
 ��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The visiting Russian presidential
orchestra gave its premiere at the April 25 House of Culture yesterday.
Enjoying the performance were vice marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim
Il Chol, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and
minister of the People's Armed Forces, Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, artistes and working
people in the city.
��� Also among the audience were lieutenant general Sergei Streigin,
commander of the garrison of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russian ambassador to
the DPRK Andrei Karlov and staff members of the embassy.
��� The performance raised its curtain with the playing of the national
anthems of the DPRK and the Russian Federation.
��� Russian artistes put on the stage solos, choruses and orchestras.
��� The performers vividly represented themes and content of songs with
peculiar tone color and rich voice.
��� Female soloist Pudakova sang well Korean song "It is socialist land of
bliss" in Korean, delighting the audience. She was highly praised by leader
Kim Jong Il for singing well at a performance given for him last year.
��� Russian artistes represented in a peculiar manner the Russian people's
warm love for their country, their traditional way of life and national
emotion in choruses "Kalinka" and "Gloria" and other numbers.

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Modern village built
 ��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- There is Poman-ri in Sohung county, North
Hwanghae Province, by one side of the Pyongyang-Kaesong Motorway. With some
100 houses and public buildings standing in rows at the foot of a sunny
hill, a fish farm covering scores of hectares and realigned paddy fields of
standardized shapes, the village reminds one of a fairyland. A house for one
family has three living-rooms and a drawing room with a bathroom attached.
It has also a store, toilet and pens suited to the rural conditions.
��� Two power stations capable of producing several hundreds of kw of
electricity were built in the Sohung River flowing through the paddy fields.
It is providing lighting and heating service to the fish farm and the seat
of the ri. 
��� On the hill behind the village there is an orchard covering scores of
hectares where fruit trees come into bloom in spring and bear rich fruits in
autumn. 
��� Leader Kim Jong Il looked round the fish farm, dwelling houses and power
stations in last July and praised it as a land of bliss in the era of the
workers' party. 

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U.S.-S. Korea joint military exercises denounced
��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- More rallies were held in various parts of
the DPRK to condemn the large-scale joint military exercises of the U.S.
imperialists and the South Korean warmongers. Speakers at the rallies held
at the Ryongsong Machine Complex, the June 4 Rolling-Stock Factory, Kim
Hyong Jik University of Education and Sariwon University of Geology termed
the unprecedented war exercises being staged by the U.S. imperialists, the
sworn enemy of the Korean people, and their stooges very brigandish and
vicious moves to destroy the man-centered socialist system, the life and
soul of the Korean people, and deprive the Korean working class of an
independent and creative life.
��� The U.S. imperialists and their stooges are working hard to unleash a
war against the north, while staging large-scale joint military exercises
but this is no more than the desperate efforts of fools, they said, adding
that the DPRK has a will and capability strong enough to mercilessly strike
and wipe out any intruders into the DPRK no matter from where they are
coming. 

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Anti-DPRK war gambles slammed
��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The joint military maneuvers, now being
staged by the war hawks at home and abroad, are an aggressive war game aimed
at a surprise attack on the DPRK, says Rodong Sinmun today in a commentary.
Those warmongers are describing the joint military exercises as "defensive",
but it is no more than sophism to cover up their offensive nature, the news
analyst says, and goes on:
��� It is as clear as noonday that the exercises conducted by the U.S.
imperialists and the South Korean bellicose elements are intended to stifle
the DPRK by military muscle. but, they are seriously mistaken.
��� The Korean people are not so a weak nation as it was. under the care of
the ironwilled commander, the army and people of Korea have grown to be
invincible army and people with high self-respect and guts and strength
enough to defeat any aggressors.
��� The present anti-DPRK moves of the U.S. imperialists bring home to the
Korean people the validity of the army-based policy shaped by the Workers'
Party of Korea, which has cemented the fortress of revolution as firm as a
rock, and harden their determination to bravely fight against the enemies
and make them pay a high price for their crimes.
��� If the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean warmongers unleash a war
against the DPRK, it will lead them to self-destruction.

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U.S. warned against its hardline policy toward DPRK
��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- If the U.S. imperialist aggressors spark
off another Korean War, it will mean a dead march of Americans and bring a
miserable end to the "only superpower", warns Rodong Sinmun today in a
signed commentary. After listing the DPRK as "part of an axis of evil", Bush
visited South Korea to examine war preparations. And a U.S. "nuclear posture
review" was disclosed before the ongoing largest U.S.-South Korea joint
military exercises were launched. The facts go to prove that the DPRK is a
main target of the U.S. imperialists' "anti-terrorism" strategy, an
aggressive world strategy, and war hysteria of the hawkish Bush group
seeking to stifle the DPRK by force of arms has reached an extremity, the
commentary says, and goes on:
��� The U.S. warmongers are seeking to browbeat the DPRK, posing a threat of
nuclear attack and kicking up a war racket. But it will only heighten the
Korean army and people's spirit of national independence and harden their
will to annihilate the enemy.
��� Our army and people respect Kim Jong Il, the peerlessly brilliant
commander, as the great leader and supreme commander. Our revolutionary
armed forces, once an order is issued in the event of emergency, will reduce
all the aggressors to forlorn wandering spirits with the mobilization of all
their potentials. 
��� The DPRK, where all the people have been armed and every part of which
has been turned into an impregnable fortress, has nothing to fear and will
remain impervious to any attack of aggressors.
��� The Korean army and people regard the U.S. imperialist warmongers'
frantic military maneuvers as nothing but a military game staged by those
who look like a puppy knowing no fear of the tiger. But they strongly assert
that the DPRK should demonstrate its military might to those war hawks and
settle accounts with them this time.
��� Their hearts are burning with anti-U.S. sentiment and revengeful
thought. 
��� The hawkish Bush group should renounce its arbitrary practices and wild
dream for hegemony and drop its anti-DPRK hardline policy, if it is
concerned about the destiny and future of the United States.


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SPA chairman back home
��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly, and his party, who had visited Russia, came back
home today. They were greeted at the airport by vice-chairman of the Supreme
People's Assembly Jang Chol and Russian ambassador to the DPRK Andrei
Karlov. 

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Mongolian party delegation arrives
��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Mongolian People's
Revolutionary Party led by its General Secretary D. Idevkhten arrived here
today. It was greeted at the airport by Pak Kyong Son, vice department
director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials
concerned and Mongolian ambassador to the DPRK Janchivdorjyn Lombo.

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Talks held between WPK and MPRP delegations
��� Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Talks between the delegations of the
Workers' Party of Korea and the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party were
held in Pyongyang today. At the talks, the two sides informed each other of
the activities of their parties and exchanged views on boosting the friendly
relations between the two parties and the two countries and on a series of
matters of common concern.
��� Present at the talks on the DPRK side were secretary of the WPK Central
Committee Kim Ki Nam and officials concerned and on the Mongolian side were
members of the delegation led by D. Idevkhten, General Secretary of the
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, and Janchivdorjyn Lombo, Mongolian
ambassador to the DPRK. The talks proceeded in a friendly atmosphere.


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