Gift to Kim Jong Il from Cuban leaders
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
a gift from Fidel Castro Ruz,
President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers
of the Republic of Cuba, on the occasion
of the New Year.
The chief of protocol of the Cuban Foreign Ministry conveyed the gift
to the Korean ambassador to Cuba on
January 14.
He said that Fidel Castro Ruz asked him to give Kim Jong Il best wishes
for his good health and successes in
the leadership over the struggle for the happiness of the Korean people in
the New Year, too.
Meanwhile, Raul Castro Ruz, Minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed
Forces, presented a gift to Kim Jong
Il on the same occasion.
Achievements of Korean youth
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 54th anniversary of the
Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth
League.
On this day, the Korean youth look back with deep emotion on their
achievements recorded in the annals of the
Korean revolution advancing victoriously under the banner of Juche.
Young Korean communists and patriots waged the arduous anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle commanded by
the President Kim Il Sung in the darkest period of the Japanese imperialist
colonial rule, thus performing immortal
exploits which will always shine in the history of the Korean nation.
Many revolutionary forerunners including Kim Hyok, Cha Kwang Su and Kim
Jin took part in the
anti-Japanese war with arms in their hands to set fine examples as a young
vanguard.
The Democratic Youth League of Korea was founded on January 17, Juche
35 (1946), after the liberation of the
country. It was a unified mass organization which could mobilize the Korean
youth to devote themselves to the
building of a new country.
Brilliant exploits were performed by them during the grim Fatherland
Liberation War (1950-1953) fought to
repel the U.S.'s armed invasion. During this period the indomitable spirit
of the Korean youth was highly displayed
by a large number of youths including heroes Ri Su Bok, Kang Ho Yong, Jo
Kun Sil and heroine An Yong Ae.
It was in the same spirit that was displayed by them that those heroes
in the 1990s including Kim Kwang Chol
and Han Yong Chol dedicated their lives to save their comrades and heroes
Kim Chol Jin and Jong Kwang Son
came back to their units after emerging victorious in the fight against the
enemy in its rear.
The Korean youth have performed labour feats in socialist construction,
too.
Young men and women wrought such a miracle as completing the laying of
over 80 km-long broad gauge
railways from Haeju to Hasong in a matter of 75 days at the end of the 1950s.
Many monumental edifices, including the west sea barrage, the laying of
railways in the northern part of the
country, Kwangbok Street, Thongil Street are also associated with the
exploits performed by the youth.
Many athletes including Jong Song Ok have demonstrated the nation's
honor at international matches.
All this was the result of the devoted efforts made by the Korean youth
to eternally remain loyal to the two great
leaders and repay their trust with brilliant successes.
They are playing the role of a shock brigade in building a powerful nation.
They are performing feats in different fields of the national economy
such as the Pyongyang-Nampho
Motorway project under the slogan "Let all of us become heroes in a drive
to glorify the 55th anniversary of the
party foundation "
Carton paper workshop
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- A carton paper workshop has recently
started operation at the Pyongyang
Cigarette Paper Factory under the Korean Cigarette Industry Company.
Even though the workers at the factory were pressed for needed
materials, they tried strenuously to set up a
building on an area of thousands of square metres and manufactured highly
efficient drafting paper machines and
other facilities to succeed in installing the carton production process,
the first of its kind in the country.
The completion of the project is a meaningful contribution to the
strengthening of the material and technical
foundation of the cigarette industry.
Happy event in islet village
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- A happy event was reported from an
islet village at the West Sea of Korea.
Triplets were born in the family of Ro Pyong Hwan and Kim Hye Suk who
are working at the integrated reed
farm of Sindo county, North Phyongan Province, on January 13.
But people on the islet could not send the mother and her babies to a
maternity hospital due to the frozen
seaway.
Upon hearing this from a relevant organ General Secretary Kim Jong Il
took such a benevolent step as
instructing it to helicopter them to the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. On
arrival at the islet, its medical workers
examined mother and her babies and took a first-aid measure. Meanwhile, the
ministry of public health made full
arrangements to receive them, keeping in frequent touch with them.
The mother and her triplets were thus safely helicoptered to Pyongyang.
Every step is taken for the treatment of them who are under profound
care at the hospital.
Rodong Sinmun on "cabinet reshuffle" in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Tthe recent "cabinet reshuffle" in
South Korea is just like replacing rafters
of a house supported by rotten pillars by new ones, observes Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed commentary.
Upon assuming his office, the self-styled "people's" ruler scoffed at
his predecessor's frequent "cabinet
reshuffle" and committed himself not to do such thing.
However, there were a series of "cabinet shake-up" and replacement of
"ministers" shortly after he came to
power.
His recent appointment of a new "prime minister" and a partial cabinet
reshuffle only go to prove his unstable
position, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The self-proclaimed "government for the people" is in a serious crisis
internally and externally due to the
contradiction and conflict escalating among the ruling quarters over the
"suspected deluxe clothes bribery," "the case
of inducing the mint trade union to strike," "declassified documents on the
gag on the press," "constitutional
revision" and the issue of founding a new party, etc.
The "cabinet reshuffle" is aimed to bridge over such ruling crisis.
The South Korean chief executive's appointment of Pak Thae Jun, former
"president of the United Liberal
Democrats" as "Prime Minister" is aimed to divert elsewhere the people's
resentment at the rulers who plunged
economy into the mire of bankruptcy and put them under the yoke of the IMF
mandate.
The "cabinet reshuffle" was a shocking drama orchestrated by him to
save the political situation turning
unfavorable to him in the run-up to the "National Assembly election" due in
April.
However, the situation will not develop as he wishes. The days of the
traitorous "government" are numbered as
the people are fully determined to topple it.
Guideline of struggle for 2000 adopted in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Seoul-based radio Voice of National
Salvation quoted the north Kyongsang
provincial committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea as
saying that the members of the society to
greet the year 2000 formed in Andong city adopted a "guideline of struggle
for the year 2000" at a meeting held on
December 25, declaring that the year 2000 would be a glorious year, in
which a new turning point would be made in
the history of the struggle to transform the South Korean society and the
reunification movement.
The guideline said that leader Kim Jong Il represents the destiny of
the Korean nation and a great lodestar of the
country's reunification, calling on the people to become true satellites
following and upholding Kim Jong Il in any
adversity and courageously pave the way for revolution, taking the Juche
idea as a precious sword to carry it out.
It also appealed to them to devote themselves to the sacred struggle
for reunification with the three-point charter
for national reunification as the unique banner of reunification and
intensify the struggle for the withdrawal of the
U.S. troops from South Korea holding high the banner of independence
against the U.S.
S. Korean trade unions' struggle for wage hike
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade
Unions held a meeting on
January 14, demanding 15.2 percent wage increase, a radio report from Seoul
said.
It said that it is inevitable to increase the workers' wage as it is
far behind the normal living costs.
Meanwhile, the "Federation of Korean Trade Unions" decided to turn out
in the struggle for wage hike.
The unionists of the Seoul Subway declared the management side's "plan
for restructuring" null and void
saying it was worked out without the agreement of the trade union's
negotiating members and demanded its
withdrawal.
Cause of national reunification will surely be achieved
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- As General Secretary Kim Jong Il, who is
best in ideology, leadership and
virtue, is leading the Korean people's cause of national reunification, its
victory is in store for them, says Rodong
Sinmun today in a signed article.
Thanks to the outstanding leadership of the great leaders the Korean
people could advance the reunification
movement, smashing the maneuvers of the anti-reunification forces, the
article says, and goes on:
The three-point charter of national reunification and the five-point
policy of the great unity of the whole nation
are the banner of national reunification that the Korean people should
adhere to and carry through in the movement
and the justest and realistic program of the movement.
Kim Jong Il's outstanding and tested leadership surely guarantees
accomplishment of the cause of national
reunification. It is the great fruition of his wise leadership that such a
nationwide organization for the reunification
movement as the national alliance for the country's reunification was
formed and every year pan-national rally is
held, stirring up the ardent desire of the entire Korean nation for
national reunification.
His benevolent politics, all-embracing politics, has infinite
attraction and influence which rouse all the Korean
people to the movement for national reunification.
Love and trust are the essence of his politics. His is the
all-embracing politics consistent with noble human love
and patriotism. He embraces anyone who has national conscience and wants
reunification even though he was an
anti-communist element, a capitalist or a religionist. It is the specific
virtue of the Marshal as a man of earnestness
and justice that once he trusts in a man, he believes in him to the last.
The great unity of the nation is a credible guarantee for national
reunification. Nationwide reconciliation and
unity are being achieved under the banner of national independence and
reunification held up by the Marshal.
Japan urged to honestly liquidate its past wrongdoings
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Recently the ruling Liberal Democratic
Party of Japan, when examining the
issue of compensating foreigners in Japan who were either servicemen or
civilian employees of the imperial army,
adopted the policy of including those of North Korean origin in the
category of the people to receive back pay.
Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
Japan's past wrongdoings cannot be liquidated through the payment of a
petty amount of money. It is possible
only when Japan makes a governmental apology and compensation for all the
human and material losses brought by
it to the Korean people in the past. It is preposterous for Japan to insist
on paying money only to servicemen and
civilian employees of the imperial army.
Japan has done nothing to mend its past wrongdoings against the DPRK.
During its more than 40 year-long occupation of Korea, it took away at
least 6 million young and middle-aged
people for slavery labour and killed some one million Korean people. It
also drafted nearly 200,000 Korean women
as "comfort women for the army," who were killed or crippled as sexual
slaves. And it plundered Korea of
hundreds of thousands of pieces of national treasure and cultural relics,
which the Korean people had inherited from
their ancestors, and huge quantities of natural resources and products. The
amount of material loss brought by the
Japanese imperialists to the Korean people ran into astronomical figures.
We will surely make the Japanese government pay for the human and
material losses inflicted by Japan upon the
Korean people regardless of the passage of time and the replacement of
generations.
Japan-U.S. dangerous war exercise
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defense Agency reportedly
announced on January 14 that the
"Self-Defense Forces" and the U.S. military in Japan will hold joint
computer simulation exercise for a contingency
in areas surrounding Japan for 9 days from February 16.
It is said that a contingency scenario in areas surrounding Japan will
be adopted for the first time with the
exercise, in which some 5,000 ground, maritime and air "Self-Defense
Forces" personnel and some 1,350 U.S.
military personnel in Japan will be participating as, a momentum.
Kyodo News reported that it is believed that a contingency on the
Korean peninsula will be supposed in the
upcoming exercises.
The Japanese reactionaries are scheming to complete a new plan for
reconquest of Korea while holding the
exercise in league with the U.S.
For Spanish-speaking people
evento jubiloso en aldea islena
pyongyang, 17 de enero (atcc) -- el dia 13 de este mes nacieron
trillizas en una familia obrera que trabaja en una
granja combinada de junco del distrito sindo de la provincia de phyong-an
del norte. esto constituye un nuevo evento
jubiloso en esta aldea islena del mar oeste de corea. los padres de las
bebes se llaman ro pyong hwan y kim hye suk.
los habitantes estaban impacientes de no poder transportar con barco a
las bebes y su mama al hospital
especializado por la helada ruta maritima.
el gran dirigente kim jong il recibio esta informacion por medio de un
organismo correspondiente y tomo una
medida bondadosa de enviar un avion a esa isla.
los medicos de la casa de maternidad de pyongyang enviados al lugar
examinaron el estado de salud de las
bebes y su madre y tomaron medidas de emergencia necesarias. por otra
parte, el ministerio de salud publica hizo
preparativos perfectos para acogerlos en la capital teniendo frecuentes
vinculos con el mismo lugar.
las trillizas y su parida fueron transportadas por avion sin accidente
a pyongyang.
en la actualidad los medicos de la casa de maternidad de pyongyang
hacen todos los esfuerzos sinceros tomando
medidas activas de asistencia para la salud de las transportadas.
camarada kim jong il recibe presente de camarada fidel castro ruz
pyongyang, 17 de enero (atcc) -- el gran dirigente camarada kim jong il
recibio con motivo del ano 2000 el
presente del camarada fidel castro ruz, presidente de los consejos de
estado y de ministros de la republica de cuba.
el jefe de protocolo del ministerio de rr.ee. de cuba lo entrego el dia
14 al embajador de la rpd de corea en su
pais.
por otra parte, el gran dirigente camarada kim jong il recibio tambien
el presente con igual motivo del camarada
raul castro ruz, ministro de las fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de cuba.
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