Congolese delegation here
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the transition National
Council of Congo led by its
president Justin Koumba arrived here today.
It was met at the airport by Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly, and officials
concerned.
Floral basket laid before statue of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Congolese President Denis Sassou
Nguesso sent a floral basket to the
statue of the President Kim Il Sung which stands on Mansu Hill.
The ribbon hanging from the basket read: "The great President comrade
Kim Il Sung will live forever." A
delegation of the transition National Council of Congo led by its president
Justin Koumba laid a floral basket before
Kim Il Sung's statue and paid homage to him today.
Present there were Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK, and others.
Preparatory committees formed abroad
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees for celebrating
the 58th birthday of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il have been formed in many countries.
Deputy prime minister in charge of the Royal Palace of Cambodia, Kong
Sam Ol, was appointed as chairman of
the Cambodian preparatory committee on the instruction of King Norodom Sihanouk.
The speaker of the National Assembly of Madagascar, the former
president of the Party of the Congress for the
Independence of Madagascar and the chairman of the Madagascar-Korea
Friendship and Solidarity Committee were
selected as co-chairmen of the preparatory committee of Madagascar, the
chairman of the State Standing
Investigation Committee of Tanzania as chairman of the national preparatory
committee of Tanzania, and the national
chairman of the National Movement of the Genuine Lumumbist Combatants of
Democratic Congo as chairman of
the preparatory committee of Democratic Congo.
The preparatory committees plan to hold various events including film
shows and photo exhibitions, and
actively introduce the leadership exploits of General Secretary Kim Jong Il
through mass media during the
celebrating period.
Solidarity with Korean people expressed in Italy
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The Italian Committee for the
Reunification and Peace of Korea held an
annual meeting in Rome on Jan. 15 and discussed and decided issues on
expanding and strengthening the
organization and developing its solidarity activities onto a new higher level.
Present at the meeting were Roberto Gabriele, general secretary of the
Central Committee for Peace and
Socialist Movement in Italy and vice-chairman of the International Liaison
Committee for Reunification and Peace in
Korea and other personages from all walks of life including representatives
of social organizations of Italy.
It was said at the meeting that the recent establishment of diplomatic
relations between Italy and the DPRK calls
for bringing an epochal turn in movement for solidarity with the Korean people.
A letter of solidarity to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted there.
A statement was also adopted and an action program for this year was
discussed and decided there.
The statement demanded the South Korean authorities remove the
"security law" and the concrete wall in South
Korea, which block Korea's reunification, and guarantee free travels
between the north and south.
It also demanded that the U.S. withdraw all its military personnel and
weapons from South Korea, dismantle its
military bases there, immediately dissolve the illegally faked up "UN
command" and strip the U.S. soldiers of the
UN helmets at once.
Literature praising Kim Jong Il scattered
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- About 100 copies of literature highly
praising General Secretary Kim Jong
Il as the lodestar of national reunification were scattered on the road
before the Masan "city office" on the morning of
January 2 on the New Year, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation
quoted the south Kyongsang provincial
committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (Hanminjon) as
saying.
Pictured in the front of the literature is the rising sun giving out
red glow above Mt. Paektu and under the title
"We Pray for Long Life and Good Health of Marshal Kim Jong Il, the Sun of
the 21st Century" "Song of General
Kim Jong Il" is brought into bold relief.
Printed in the back are letters "Reunification dawns with the sunrise
of the new millennium. Let us work hard to
bring earlier the day when we will welcome Marshal Kim Jong Il, the sun of
the nation and lodestar of reunification,
in the square of reunification the new millennium society for national
reunification" against the background of
workers, peasants, youth and students greeting the sun with hearty cheers.
U.S. anti-DPRK smear campaign dismissed
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is floating a strange rumour
that the DPRK has already rounded
off the "bomb explosion test" whose results are "applicable to nuclear bomb
detonating test."
Dismissing this, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
The U.S. is making much fuss after dreaming up a sheer cock-and-bull
story. This is aimed to make "nuclear
and missile threat from North Korea" a fait accompli and support its
assertion that its moves to establish the "missile
defense" system is a "measure necessary" to cope with this "threat."
The U.S. seeks through the "missile defense" system to deploy missiles
in its mainland and different regions
and countries of the world in a bid to have a military edge over other powers.
At the same time, it tries to draw world public attention to the DPRK
and divert elsewhere watchful eyes
focussed on Washington. But this can not go down with anyone.
The U.S. is chiefly to blame for the nuclear and missile threat. It is
the U.S. which tops the list of nukes and
missiles.
The U.S. is in the belligerent relationship with the DPRK.
It has neither declared a halt to providing nuclear umbrella to South
Korea nor shown any willingness to
withdraw its troops from South Korea.
Its nuclear weapons and missiles, wherever they are deployed, will be
targeted at us. The U.S. should stop its
reckless moves to establish the "missile defense" system and drop its wild
dream of world domination.
Prompt repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners urged
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The president of the International
League of Women for Peace and Freedom
in a letter to the South Korean "Minister of Unification" said that the
ILWPF, which is struggling against violence
and injustice and for the defence of peace, is making active efforts for
peace in the Korean peninsula, the most
unstable region in the world, with great concern about its situation.
The letter expressed full support to the "agreement on reconciliation,
non-aggression, cooperation and exchange
between the north and south" adopted on Dec. 13, 1991, and demanded the
South Korean authorities actively
implement the agreement.
It demanded they repatriate the unconverted long-term prisoners, who
are detained under the "law on
supervision for public peace", to the DPRK unconditionally and immediately.
Recent collections of cultural relics
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The Korean Folklore Museum now displays
a recent collection of cultural
relics from Koryo (918-1392) and the Ri dynasty (1392-1910).
The collection gives a glimpse of Korean customs and craftsmanship.
Among them, the finest articles of academic interest are a celadon tray
with relievoed child figures, a celadon
bowl, a brass mirror with a relievoed twin-dragon design, a brass kettle,
as well as women's padded jacket, padded
pajamas and footware.
The celadon tray with relievoed child figures, 18.5 cm across and 6.8
cm tall, is elegant in shape, color and
design. It gradually becomes wide slanting from the bottom that joins the
wide-flung top at a nearly vertical angle,
the whole effect reminiscent of a full-blown flower. The jade-green tray
has a relievo of three adorable children
capering in the grapevines.
The celadon bowl, 14.5 cm across and 6 cm tall, is an enticing jade
green, coated with transparent glaze. It is a
major source of knowledge about early-Koryo celadon.
The brass mirror with a twin dragon relievo is a round, relatively
large mirror, 23.7 cm across that is preserved
in perfect original state without any trace of damage. The front side is
smooth and well polished enough to mirror
any object, while the back side has a hook for a string in the middle, the
hook surrounded by two flying dragons in
bold relief.
The brass kettle, 23.5 cm tall, has a round body with a long thick neck
and a spout and handle on opposite side,
thus giving an admirable symmetrical effect.
The women's padded jacket and sleeping-gown from the Ri dynasty were
collected from Singwang-ri in Haeju
city, South Hwanghae Province. Made of silk, the jacket is 66 cm long and
larger-sized than others of its kind. It is
believed that these relics belong to the later 15th and early 16th
centuries, in view of the age of the tomb from which
they were discovered and their styles. This fashion of dress is visible
only in the tomb murals of Koguryo (277
bc-ad 668), but these dresses are the only real mementos ever discovered,
therefore of academic value.
A pair of shoes was also unearthed at Singwang-ri, the first ever kind
of footware from a Ri-dynasty tomb.
This confirms that the dead were apparently provided with necessary objects
such as shoes in the early period of the
ri dynasty. Through this an idea of every phase of life in those days can
be gained.
S. Korean rulers hit for their move to erect Syngman Rhee's bust
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the central committee
of the Democratic Front for the
Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement today in connection with
the furore caused by the recent passage
of the "bill on erecting" a bust of Syngman Rhee through the "National
Assembly" of South Korea.
Originally the South Korean rulers tried to pass the "bill" through the
"National Assembly" in 1998 which
marked its 50th anniversary. They failed to do so in face of strong
opposition from public circles of South Korea.
This time they decided to erect Syngman Rhee's bust at the building of
the "National Assembly" by railroading
the "bill" in the absence of 118 "assemblymen" from the ruling and
opposition parties.
This is clear evidence that the present "people's government" of South
Korea is following in the footsteps of the
Syngman Rhee pro-U.S. sycophantic and treacherous regime as such move is
intended to openly call back the
departed soul of the traitor who met a miserable end, sternly judged by the
South Korean people for his hideous
crimes against the country and the nation, the statement said, and continued:
It must not go unnoticed that such move was taken by them at a time
when public circles are becoming more
critical of the present chief executive who initiated to build a "memorial"
for Park Chung-hee, a pro-Japanese,
pro-U.S. stooge, and held the post of the "honorary chairman" of the
"memorial society for Park Chung-hee".
The central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of
the Fatherland brands these base moves
of the self-proclaimed "people's government" rulers as an intentional
anti-national criminal act to call back the
departed soul of the pro-U.S., pro-Japanese ringleaders and virulent
challenge to the aspiration and desire of all the
fellow countrymen for independence, democracy and reunification, and
bitterly denounces them.
Today the South Korean rulers are keen on eulogizing traitors to hurt
public feelings. They seek in this to curry
favour with the pro-U.S., pro-Japanese forces and garner "votes" from them
in the "National Assembly election"
slated for April.
They should know well what a miserable end their predecessors met and
discontinue at once such a despicable
farce as erecting Syngman Rhee's bust and building "memorial" for Park
Chung-hee.
DPRK FM spokesman on U.S. missile interceptor test
Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the DPRK answered a
question put by KCNA today as regards the recent U.S. test of missile
interceptor.
The test has been unanimously described by foreign news reports, as
part of the U.S. drive to develop
"National Missile Defense" system on a full scale, he noted, and said:
What matters is the U.S. assertion that such drive is intended to cope
with non-existent "missile threat" from the
DPRK and other countries.
The DPRK and the U.S. are now negotiating a solution to the issues of
common concern including the missile
issue. To create a favorable atmosphere for the negotiations as well as for
successful high-level talks between the
two countries, the DPRK took an initiative of declaring moratorium on
missile test-fire in September last.
However, the U.S. conducted the test of missile interceptor this time.
It is one more grave challenge to
magnanimity and good faith shown by the DPRK in its efforts to settle the
outstanding issues through negotiations.
The U.S. behavior has compelled the DPRK to take our moratorium into a
serious consideration.
We will make an appropriate decision, watching its future movement.
For Spanish-speaking people
autor de amenaza de armas nucleares y de misil
pyongyang, 22 de enero (atcc) -- en estos dias los ee.uu. difunden
rumor extrano de que la rpdc termino
"prueba de explosion de la bomba" que pueda "utilizarse en la prueba de
detonacion de la bomba nuclear".
el diario "rodong sinmun" en el numero de hoy senala que tal rumor
tiende a hacer un hecho consumado la
"amenaza de armas nucleares y misil" de la rpdc y propagar que su complot
de establecimiento del sistema de
"defensa misil" constituyen "medidas necesarias" para enfrentar tal amenaza.
la finalidad con que ee.uu. persigue el establecimiento de ese sistema
es ocupar la supremacia militar al
desplegar misiles en su pais y otras regiones y paises del mundo, senala el
comentario y anade que con sus intrigas
trata en vano de concentrar la atencion de otros paises a la rpdc y eludir
la mirada de vigilancia dirigida a si mismo
pero no convencera a nadie.
el comentario senala:
ee.uu. es autor de la amenaza de armas nucleares y misil.
es un poseedor de un mayor numero de armas nucleares y misil en el
mundo. es un pais en relaciones
beligerantes con la rpdc. no ha anunciado su renuncia sobre el ofrecimiento
de su paragua nuclear a surcorea ni trata
de retirar sus tropas de esta. las armas nucleares y misiles de ee.uu. no
importa donde esten ubicados se esgrimen
contra la rpdc.
ee.uu. debe poner fin a sus temerarias maquinaciones del
establecimiento del sistema de "defensa misil" y
renunciar su ambicion de dominar el mundo.
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