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Korean Central News Agency Extracts. Kim Jong Il sees performance given by troupe of of CPLA ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- General Secretary of Kim Jong Il saw a performance given by the song and dance troupe of the general political department of the Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army on a visit to the DPRK at the Ponghwa Art Theatre yesterday. Artistes of the troupe expressed thanks to him after presenting a floral basket to him in profound reverence. ��� He was accompanied by Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the Korean People's Army, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, Kim Kuk Thae, Jong Ha Chol, Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yong Sun, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, senior officials of the party and the army and cultural, art and press institutions and creators and artistes of the armed forces organs. ��� Also present there were Wang Ahaohai, head of the troupe, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the embassy, Chinese students and trainees in the DPRK. ��� The performance raised its curtain with the chorus of the immortal revolutionary hymn "song of General Kim Il Sung." ��� Put on the stage were colorful numbers sincerely prepared by the artistes of the troupe with friendly feelings towards the Korean people. Its repertoire included a chorus "defending Huanghe," men's group dance "crossing steep mountain," soprano "beautiful is my native land pamir" and the Korean songs "soldiers live near marshal," "a flower girl" from the revolutionary opera "a flower girl" and "a broad bellflower." ��� Through their performance, the artistes vividly represented the energetic endeavours of the Chinese army and people to defend the country and create a new life and strikingly demonstrated the might of the traditional relations of friendship between the two armies and peoples. ��� The performance closed with the chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and the mixed group dance "friendship dance of the China-DPRK armies." The performance replete with the DPRK-China friendship was acclaimed by the audience. ��� Kim Jong Il sent a floral basket to the performers congratulating them on their successful presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA on S. Korea's decision to introduce U.S.-made fighters ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- The South Korean "Ministry of National Defence" decided to select F-15K of the U.S. Boeing Company as the type of fighters of the next generation on April 19, a Seoul-based radio reported. This decision can never be tolerated as it is an act contrary to the basic spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the atmosphere for reconciliation and cooperation now prevailing on the Korean Peninsula after the publication of the joint press release on April 5 this year. It is also an action going against the positive trend toward warming up the temporarily frozen inter-Korean relations. ��� Today all the Koreans in the north, south and abroad ardently hope for national unity and the reunification of the country. ��� Accordingly, what is needed in South Korea is an atmosphere of national reconciliation, not an atmosphere of confrontation and war caused by lethal weapons outsiders seek to sell, instigating it to kill fellow countrymen. ��� What matters is that the South Korean military authorities caved in to the pressure of the U.S. munitions monopolies and turned down the nation's vital demand for peace. ��� The U.S. does not hesitate to sacrifice other country and nation for its own benefit. Pressed by it, the "Ministry of National Defence" of South Korea decided to introduce U.S.-made fighters, which is a concentric expression of its pro-U.S. toadyism. ��� As is known, the U.S. has forced South Korea to purchase such type of fighters worth 5,800 billion won with taxes collected from the south Korean people in a bid to bring profits to the U.S. munitions monopolies. ��� Worse still, the U.S. is seeking to inflict a nuclear holocaust upon the Korean nation by selling to South Korea scores of such fighters capable of carrying nukes. ��� Regarding South Korea as an operational base for its Asia strategy, nuclear strategy, the U.S. is scheming to deploy in local areas in advance the latest fighters to be used for putting this strategy into practice. Such moves can not but be a time fuse to spark fresh military confrontation on the peninsula. ��� The U.S. sale of weapons to South Korea will be censured by the Korean people and the world people as it will delay the peace process in the peninsula and aggravate the situation in the Asia-Pacific region. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kim Il Sung's ceaseless field inspection of KPA units ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung had covered a total of 182,668 Kms to make field inspection of over 3,120 units of the three services of the Korean People's Army from the liberation of the country to the last period of his life, according to compiled information. The president put forward the four-point programme for increasing the political and military might of the Korean People's Army, a regular army, and inspected more than 460 units of the KPA for its implementation from February, Juche 37 (1948) to June Juche 39 (1950). ��� He set out original military ideas and war tactics such as the ideas of firmly ensuring the politico-ideological, strategic and tactical advantages of the army, properly combining large unit operation and small unit operation, regular army battles and guerrilla battles and successfully fighting mountain warfares and night operations during the last Fatherland Liberation War and ceaselessly inspected the front, leading the units of the three services of the KPA and their sub-units to victory in the war. ��� He traveled at least 32,548 kms to make field inspection of more than 520 units of the three services of the KPA and their sub-units for strengthening the revolutionary armed forces in the 1960s. ��� The president, on a scientific insight into requirements of the modern warfare in the middle of the 1970s, put forward an original five-point policy the keynote of which is staunch revolutionary spirit, peculiar and superb tactics, steel-strong physical body, marksmanship of never missing targets and iron military decipline and provided ceaseless field guidance to units of the three services of the KPA and their sub-units in their efforts to implement it to the letter. ��� Leader Kim Jong Il always accompanied the president on field guidance from may Juche 49 (1960) when he inspected the 105 tank division to April 25, Juche 83 (1994), the last period of his life, when he visited KPA unit no. 564. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reception given by Egyptian ambassador ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK Ahmed Ramy hosted a reception at the embassy on April 23 on the occasions of the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 70th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. In a speech the ambassador said that Kim Il Sung, who founded the Juche idea and successfully led the Korean people's struggle to achieve the liberation, progress and prosperity of the country and greatly inspired and supported the people of other countries in their struggle to achieve the national independence, is always alive in the hearts of the Korean people and the world progressives for the immortal feats he performed on behalf of the country, the people, the times and history. ��� Kim Il Sung strengthened and developed the friendly relations between the two countries after establishing the close relationship with Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, he said, adding: ��� The Egyptian government is supporting the Korean people in their struggle to achieve the reunification of the country, the greatest desire of the nation. ��� He hoped that the friendly Korean people would achieve the prosperity of the country under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il. ��� Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in a speech said that the birth of Kim Il Sung was a historic event that opened up a broad avenue for the country and the people to realise the national revival and prosperity and promised a bright prospect of accomplishing the human cause of independence he said that the relations between the two countries are traditional and historic relations of friendship provided by Kim Il Sung in his lifetime with Mohamed Hosni Mubarak. The Korean people will exert positive efforts to further consolidate and develop the friendly and cooperative relations with Egypt in the future, too, he stressed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30th anniversary of Korean Revolution Museum marked ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- 30 years have passed since the erection of the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill and the opening of the newly built Korean Revolution Museum on April 24, Juche 61 (1972) thanks to the unanimous desire of the Korean people and progressive humankind to hold him in high esteem. Thus immortal monuments have been provided to resolutely defend and glorify the glorious revolutionary history of the president and the revolutionary traditions of the Workers' Party of Korea generation after generation. ��� The president visited the newly opened museum and looked round all the show-rooms crystallizing the 100-year history of the Korean revolution, ascertaining precious materials. ��� Mansu Hill where his statue is standing serves as a sacred place for the Korean people and the world progressives to worship the sun. More than 1,241,247,600 Korean people, overseas compatriots and foreign friends visited the place to express reverence for him in the past 30 years. ��� In this period, visitors of the museum totalled at least 16,169,000 and foreigners over 67,000. Preserved at the museum are over 200,000 pieces of precious materials. ��� A meeting was held yesterday to commemorate the 30th anniversary. ��� Present were Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and other officials concerned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 70th anniversary of KPA celebrated ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Events are taking place one after another to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. Performances of workers and clerks' family art circles from across the country were given at the Pyongyang Grand Theater and the East Pyongyang Grand Theater on April 23. ��� Put on the stage were a poem and chorus "the Korean People's Army, the army of Mt. Paektu", drum and chorus "the army-based leadership is best" and other numbers. The performers highly praised the greatness of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il who is leading the cause of building a powerful socialist nation to victory with his unique army-based policy and showed the strong faith and will of the Korean people to uphold his leadership with loyalty. ��� A meeting of youth and students in Pyongyang with anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters and DPRK heroes was held here on the occasion of the anniversary. ��� On the same day, the economic and commercial councilors corps here visited the Revolutionary Museum of the ministry of the people's armed forces and the military attaches corps here was invited to the film show hosted by the ministry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S party delegation meets former unconverted long-term prisoners ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Members of the delegation of the Workers World Party of the U.S. led by Deirdre Griswold, member of the secretariat of its national committee, met with Kim Tong Gi and Hong Myong Gi, former unconverted long-term prisoners who are known as men of strong faith and will, at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel yesterday. At the meeting, Kim and Hong said that the former long-term prisoners had kept their pledge to the party and the leader, while undergoing mental and physical sufferings beyond human imagination behind bars, and devoted themselves to the motherland more precious than their lives. ��� Noting that leader Kim Jong Il put forward them as patriotic champions of reunification and bestowed deep love and benevolence upon them, they said there is no enemy to be afraid of and nothing impossible to do when people have the revolutionary faith and will to follow only Kim Jong Il. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cyprian crewmen observe KPA birthday ��� chongjin, April 23 (KCNA) -- Crewmen of a Cyprian-flagged ship met at Chongjin Port on the east coast of Korea today to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. At the meeting speakers said that the Korean People's Revolutionary Army founded by President Kim Il Sung on April 25, 1932, had long waged a hard-fought struggle, by relying on the people as there were no state support nor backup, so as to defeat the Japanese imperialists and achieve the liberation of Korea. ��� They noted: ��� After the liberation of the country it developed into regular armed forces, the Korean People's Army, under the wise guidance of the president. The KPA brought the U.S. imperialist aggressors who were boasting of being the "strongest" in the world to their knees in the last Korean War and demonstrated to the world the dignity of the Korean people. ��� Under the wise leadership of General Kim Jong Il the KPA has grown up to be the strongest armed forces in the world powerful enough to defeat any formidable enemy at a stroke and reliably defend the country and the people, they said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Army-people unity in DPRK ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- The army and people in the DPRK love and help each other as they do their own flesh and blood. In February last servicemen of the unit of the Korean People's Army to which Pak Yun Du belongs threw themselves into a house in flames to protect people's lives and property. ��� People in Thongchon county, Kangwon Province, miraculously saved a 5-year-old son of an officer of the KPA, who suffered third degree burns on 78 per cent of his body. ��� It is commonplace in the society that soldiers of the people's army save children from drowning in rivers at the cost of their lives and people sincerely assist the army. ��� The trait of unity between the army and people dates back to the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle organized and led by President Kim Il Sung. ��� The Korean People's Revolutionary Army could fight against the Japanese imperialists for a long period without a home front nor any aid from outside and achieve the national liberation and the DPRK could defeat the allied forces of the U.S.-led imperialists in the Korean war, thus defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and shattering the "myth" about the mightiness of the U.S. the unity between the army and people was one of the important factors of the victories in the wars. ��� This traditional trait is given fuller play thanks to leader Kim Jong Il's army-based policy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gift to Kim Jong Il from Swedish delegation ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from the delegation of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association on a visit to the DPRK. The gift was handed to an official concerned by head of the delegation Birgita Lindstrom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Plenipotentiary representative of President of Russian Federation here ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovski, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the far east federal district, and his party arrived here today. They were met at the airport by Yon Hyong Muk, member of the DPRK national defence commission, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of foreign affairs, officials concerned, Andrei Gennadievich Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the embassy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wreath laid before Liberation Tower ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovski, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the far east federal district, and his party laid a wreath before the Liberation Tower today. Present at the ceremony were Yon Hyong Muk, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of foreign affairs, officials concerned, Andrei Gennadievich Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the embassy. A wreath in the name of the plenipotentiary representative was laid before the tower. They paid a silent tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Soviet army. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pulikovski pays homage to Kim Il Sung ��� Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovski, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the far east federal district, and his party visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where President Kim Il Sung lies in state for perpetuity to pay tribute to him today. On hand were Yon Hyong Muk, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission, vice-minister of foreign affairs Kung Sok Ung, officials concerned, Russian ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Gennadievich Karlov and embassy officials. ��� A floral basket in the name of Pulikovski was laid before the statue of Kim Il Sung. The participants paid homage to the president. ��� They looked round with keen interest orders and medals he received from various countries, the mourning hall, the train and car he used for on-site guidance and foreign tour and in the last period of his life. ��� The plenipotentiary representative made an entry in the visitor's book. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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