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Korean Central News Agency Extracts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kim Jong Il meets Pulikovski ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- General Secretary of Kim Jong Il yesterday met Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovski, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the far east federal district, and his party on a visit to the DPRK. He courteously conveyed congratulations from Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, to Kim Jong Il and presented his gift to him. ��� Kim Jong Il expressed thanks for this and had a talk with him in a warm and friendly atmosphere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kim Yong Nam meets delegation of UMNO ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly who is member of the political bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, met with the delegation of the United Malays National Organization of Malaysia (UMNO) led by datuk ahmad Zahid Bin Hamidi, member of its supreme council, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall yesterday. Pak kyong son, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, was present there. ��� Noting that the UMNO and the Malaysian people fully support the workers' party and people of Korea in their struggle to reunify the country peacefully by federal formula on the principle of national independence, the head of the delegation said that they would work hard to develop the friendly ties between the two parties and the two countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talks held between Korean, Dominican party officials ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Talks were held here yesterday between Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, and Miguel Mejia, secretary general of the united left movement of Dominica. At the talks both sides informed each other of their party activities and exchanged views on the matter of developing the friendly ties between the two parties and a series of issues of mutual concern. ��� The talks proceeded in a friendly atmosphere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KPA, revolutionary armed forces ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army. On the occasion all the officers and men of the people's army and people look back with deep emotion upon the proud course of the revolutionary armed forces replete with victory and glory. ��� Seven decades ago President Kim Il Sung founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the first genuine army of the people in the history of Korea, to wage a protracted and hard-fought struggle against the Japanese imperialists and accomplish the historic cause of the country's liberation. ��� After the liberation of Korea in August 1945 the KPRA grew to be the KPA, the regular armed forces. ��� The servicemen displayed matchless self-sacrificing spirit and mass heroism in the three-year-long Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953) to defeat the U.S. imperialist aggressors who had boasted of being the "strongest" in the world and creditably safeguarded the sovereignty of the country and the nation and their dignity. ��� The KPA that won the wars against the two formidable imperialist enemies has grown to be an invincible army under the guidance of supreme commander Kim Jong Il. ��� He has pursued the army-based policy to train the KPA as the main force of the revolution, lead the struggle to defend socialism to victory and remarkably increase the nation's military potential. ��� In the 1990s when the imperialist campaign to isolate and stifle the DPRK was at its height and a dangerous situation was prevailing in the country the KPA gave full play to the revolutionary spirit of soldiers to perform shining feats in the defence of the country and socialist construction. ��� The rare wisdom, outstanding politico-military ability and matchless grit of the supreme commander are the source of the tremendous combat power of the KPA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCNA slams Japan's call for right to collective self-defense ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- The economic and fiscal policy minister said monday the right to collective self-defense is inherent to a country and Japan's war-renouncing constitution should be revised. In this regard, Kyodo said, "it is rare for a serving cabinet member to comment on revising the constitution." ��� Such happening in Japan is arousing deep apprehension among the world public as it means that the Japanese militarist and ultra-nationalist forces' moves for overseas military aggression have entered the phase of being legalized and adopted as a policy through a constitutional revision. ��� In 1946 when a discussion was made on a new constitution at the Japanese diet, the then prime minister Yoshida expressed opposition to war and the right of belligerency based on the "right to self-defense", confessing that many recent wars including the Sino-Japan War and the Pacific War were carried out under the cloak of the right to self-defense. ��� As Yoshida admitted, the "right to collective self-defense" was intended to launch an overseas aggression. That was why Japan's "peace constitution" after the Pacific War codified the renunciation of the right of belligerency based on the "right to self-defense". ��� However, Japan, which remains listed as an "enemy state" by the UN charter, is now letting its cabinet members call for the legalization of the war doctrine, claiming the face and right of "normal state" which is recognized by nobody. ��� If Japan truly wants to be recognized by the world community as a normal state, it should make an honest repentance and apology for the crimes committed in the last century, far from calling for the aggressive "right to collective self-defense". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Plenipotentiary representative of Pres. of Russian Federation here ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovski, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the far east federal district, and his party arrived here yesterday for a visit to the DPRK at the invitation of chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newspapers on feats of KPA ��� Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Newspapers here dedicate editorials to the 70th birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army. 70 years covered by the Korean Revolutionary Armed Forces are a glorious history in which the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu has upheld the idea, cause and tradition of its founder and leader with arms. Those years are also a proud history in which the army has developed with President Kim Il Sung's Juche-based military idea and strategy as its lifeline, says Rodong Sinmun. ��� Thanks to the president's idea of army building and the unique military idea and theory of leader Kim Jong Il, who has creditably carried forward and developed it, the KPA could advance along the untrodden path of its development without the slightest vacillation and ups and downs, the paper notes, and says: ��� 70 years of our army are a glorious history in which it has protected the lifeline of the Korean revolution as the first line defender of its headquarters, a proud history in which it has taken the lead in upholding the guidance of its leader as the main agent of the Juche-oriented revolution, and a history in which as the world's strong army it has defended the banner of socialism at the outpost of the fiercest anti-imperialist struggle. ��� Today our people's army led by Kim Jong Il is demonstrating its honour as the invincible revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu that gives steady continuity to the tradition of Juche. ��� Our army takes his idea and guidance as its lifeline while personifying his disposition, and fights the way he does. The KPA commanded by him is the invincible armed forces which fight life and death battles till victory. They are without parallel in the world as they are possessed of matchless military might and have successfully achieved the unity between officers and men and between the army and people and are fully capable of combining military affair and politics. ��� They have won only victories one after another under the uplifted red flag. We should carry forward this proud history and tradition to steadily strengthen the KPA into an invincible revolutionary army of Kim Jong Il and achieve a final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche with its might. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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