Kim Yong Nam meets Congolese delegation
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK, met and conversed with a delegation of the Transition
National Council of Congo led by its
president Justin Koumba who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae
Assembly Hall today.
The head of the delegation said that President Denis Sassou Nguesso has
always told Congolese officials the
special friendship with the great leader Kim Il Sung and emphasized before
them the need to develop the friendly
relations with the DPRK led by the great leader Kim Jong Il.
Saying that the difficulties and trials the DPRK is undergoing due to
the imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle
it and repeated natural disasters are temporary ones, he said that the
Korean people would surely overcome them and
emerge victorious.
Yang Hyong Sop meets Vietnamese guests
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, today met and conversed with Vu Khoan, standing
vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Vietnam, and his party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Vu Khoan said that they are grateful to the President Kim Il Sung for
positive support and encouragement to the
Vietnamese people in their struggle for national salvation.
The Vietnamese people wish the Korean people with revolutionary and
strong will greater success in their
efforts to step up the second grand Chollima advance and achieve national
reunification, he stressed.
Floral basket to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
a floral basket from Congolese
President Denis Sassou Nguesso on his birthday.
It was handed today to President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam
by President of the Transition National Council of Congo Justin Koumba on a
visit to the DPRK.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
a gift from Vu Khoan, standing
vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, and his party on a visit to
the DPRK.
It was handed to Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun by the standing
vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Aid materials from Chinese embassy
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Chinese embassy here presented aid
materials to the Thaehyang coal
mine under the Anju Coal Industry Management Bureau.
The materials were handed over to the coal mine by Chinese ambassador
Wan Yongxiang and embassy officials
yesterday.
The ambassador said that the Korean people are promoting the second
grand Chollima march under the
leadership of Kim Jong Il. He noted they admire the Korean people for the
fighting spirit of advancing
unhesitatingly in the face of difficulties.
Saying that they regard the present hardships of the Korean people as
their own, he hoped the workers of the
Thaehyang coal mine would greet the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party
of Korea with greater achievements in
coal production.
Korean nationals in China to celebrate Kim Jong Il's birthday
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- A preparatory committee of the General
Association of Koreans in China
was formed on January 15 to celebrate the 58th birthday of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Yang Yong Dong, chairman of the association, was elected chairman of
the preparatory committee.
The committee decided to hold colorful celebration functions such as
meeting, photo and book exhibition and
film show.
DPRK-Vietnam diplomatic relations marked
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here yesterday to
mark the 50th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Vietnam.
Invited to it were standing vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam
Vu Khoan and his party, Vietnamese
ambassador to the DPRK Do Thi Hoa and embassy officials.
Present were vice-Minister of Education Jon Kuk Man, who is also
chairman of the DPRK-Vietnam Friendship
Association, officials concerned and working people in the city.
Speeches were made at the meeting.
Paektusan Cup sports contest opens
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Paektusan Cup sports contest of
officials at ministries and national
institutions opened with the approach of the 58th birthday of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Attending the contest are 80 odd teams from ministries and national
institutions, which will compete in the
events of basketball, volleyball, table-tennis, tug-of-war and hurdle race.
A ceremony of opening the contest was held at the table-tennis
gymnasium in Chongchun Street here on
Thursday.
Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the central committee of the General
Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, made an
address there, which was followed by speeches.
The speakers called for, through the contest, demonstrating the might
of Korean socialism under which mass
sports activities are brisk in the whole society, and whipping up an
atmosphere of the auspicious February holiday.
National meeting of agricultural workers held
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of agricultural
workers was held in Pyongyang between
January 26 and 27.
Present at the meeting were senior party and state officials including
Hong Song Nam and Kye Ung Thae and
agricultural workers and officials of related sectors.
The meeting discussed the tasks and ways to bring about a revolutionary
turn in agricultural production this year
by thoroughly implementing the agricultural policy of the Worker's Party of
Korea.
Ri Ha Sop, Minister of Agriculture, delivered a report, which was
followed by speeches by many participants.
The meeting underscored the need to bring about a radical improvement
in seed selection essential for boosting
the agricultural production and continue to vigorously push ahead with
double cropping.
It also called for applying the Juche farming method in which the
peasants' will is fully reflected and whose
validity and vitality have been proved and increasing the overall
agricultural production, including massive breeding
of grass-eating domestic animals and fish farming under a long-term plan
and production of vegetable, fruits,
industrial crops and silk worms.
The meeting underlined the necessity to complete all the on-going land
leveling and rezoning in North Phyongan
Province to make it pay off in the first farming after the completion of
the project, make farsighted preparations for
similar projects in South Hwanghae Province and energetically push forward
the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong
Waterway project.
KCNA on S. Korean ruler's "carrot and stick" strategy
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The "carrot and stick" strategy is the
core of the South Korean authorities'
policy toward the DPRK.
The present South Korean chief executive, in an appearance on a special
CNN program at the outset of the
month, asserted that "both carrot and stick should be used, that is to say
if the north keeps its promise, the south will
give corresponding aid to it, if not, the latter will make the former pay a
bitter price."
His "carrot and stick" strategy is just like both sides of a coin. It
is, in essence, nothing but a reactionary and
criminal stratagem to serve a sinister politico-military purpose to
destabilize the north and destroy it.
His "carrot" strategy is aimed to lead the north to "reform and
opening" in a bid to achieve the above-said aim.
The South Korean warmongers do not bother to threaten that if the
"carrot" strategy does not work on the north,
they will use a "stick to make it pay a bitter price."
But, flourishing a "stick" is as foolish an act as lifting an axe only
to drop it on one's own foot.
As seen above, the "carrot and stick" strategy means a strategy of
confrontation with the north intended to bar
national reconciliation and unity and a treacherous and criminal move to
bring all sorts of misfortunes and sufferings
to the compatriots.
This strategy is an offspring of the "engagement policy" or the
"sunshine policy."
The South Korean authorities borrowed the "engagement policy" from the U.S.
The South Korean chief executive, in his "special lecture" given on
June 30, 1998, said that the United States
had escalated its engagement with the soviet union for 19 years,
maintaining an unshakable security posture, which
resulted in leading the Soviet empire to collapse without a single gunshot
and bringing democracy to eastern Europe.
And he did not conceal the fact that the "sunshine policy" was a copy
of such policy.
The U.S., on the basis of its experience in leading the former soviet
union to breakdown, has followed the
"carrot and stick" policy toward the DPRK in recent years in a bid to bring
the same tragedy to the Korean people.
As the South Korean authorities are apt to parrot what their American
master says, they exactly copied the U.S.
"carrot and stick" strategy to make it the core of the policy of
confrontation with the north.
For its reactionary nature, the U.S. dictated "carrot and stick"
strategy is bound to go awry and to be thrown
into the dustbin of history.
Move to call back departed soul of traitors condemned
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The spokesman of the National
Democratic Front of South Korea issued a
statement on January 22 denouncing the moves of Kim Dae Jung clique to
erect a "bust" of Syngman Rhee and a
"memorial" for Park Chung-hee, Seoul-based radio Voice of National
Salvation said.
The statement said that Syngman Rhee and Park Chung-hee were the
traitors who, as servants of the United
States and Japan, sold off the country and the nation and imposed untold
misfortune and pain upon the people.
Kim Dae Jung clique's moves to praise them is an unpardonable
anti-national criminal act against many patriots
and civilians killed by such traitors, the statement said, and went on:
Kim Dae Jung's moves to call back the departed soul of Rhee and Park
reveal his true colors as a pro-U.S.,
pro-Japanese stooge more clearly.
They are intended to bridge over the present ruling crisis and garner
more votes in the coming "general
elections" for the 16th-term "National Assembly."
Kim Dae Jung should immediately stop the moves, as demanded by the
people, and step down from power at
once.
Murder resulting from inhuman treatment
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Death of Kim Ryang Mu, permanent
vice-chairman of the south
headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, did
not come simply due to his illness but is
an outcome of the South Korean rulers' anti-reunification confrontation
policy and inhuman treatment, observes
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
The South Korean authorities blocked his Pyongyang visit, turning down
the north's humanitarian offer to let
him receive treatment at a medical institution in the north.
Worse still, they worked hard to punish him at any cost after issuing a
"warrant of arrest" to him on charges of
"violating the security law."
This was a direct murder of him for they deliberately worsened his
deplorable condition, much upset by his
devoted service for patriotic cause of reunification, the commentary notes,
and goes on:
We vehemently denounce the South Korean rulers' barbarities which
caused his too early death, considering it
as a grave challenge to the nation's desire for reunification, justice and
humanitarianism.
They, in fact, do not belong to our nation but are anti-reunification
elements keen on confrontation and division
and murderers and hooligans who do not have even an iota of patriotism and
humanitarianism.
The South Korean rulers can never evade responsibility for having
deliberately put him to a critical condition
and finally taken his life.
Large-scale joint naval exercises to be held
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and South Korean authorities
scheme to stage provocative
large-scale joint military exercises in the sea surrounding the Korean
peninsula early in February, according to a
radio report from Seoul.
They said that a U.S. flotilla consisting of a nuclear aircraft carrier
of latest style, aegis cruiser, 3 destroyers and
9 offensive nuclear submarines will stage "high-speed naval maneuvers," a
"submarine search drill" and other
military exercises together with the South Korean navy.
It is said that the U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier has already arrived
at the open sea near the East Sea of Korea and
aegis cruiser will call at the Pusan port in South Korea between Jan. 29
and 30.
The fact reveals once again that the U.S. and the South Korean rulers
are warmongers preoccupied with war
preparations against the north and the very ones who obstruct national
unity and reunification.
DFRF c.c. sends letter to "NADR" in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Democratic
Front for the Reunification of the
Fatherland today sent a letter to the "National Alliance for Democracy and
Reunification" in South Korea as regards
mass killings committed by the U.S. during the last Korean War.
The mass killings of civilians were a product of intentional and
premeditated acts for national obliteration, the
kind that could be committed only by human butchers who were steeped in the
idea of looking down upon other
nations to the marrow and whose mode of existence was aggression and
slaughter, the letter says, and continues:
The Korean people should square accounts with the criminal murderers on
behalf of the dignity and honor of
the nation.
The present situation calls upon all the Koreans, not a few victims and
organisations, to turn out to make the
U.S. pay a high price for the mass killings.
With a view to meeting the urgent demands of the situation we have
requested the "fact-finding committee of the
DFRF" that has conducted intensive investigation into the criminal
atrocities of the U.S. since its foundation in the
period of the last Korean War to inform political parties and organisations
in South Korea including your
organisation, and those of overseas Koreans of the data on mass killings by
the U.S. in the North Korea and wish
to keep in step with them.
Calling attention to the proposal laid down in an appeal of the DPRK
political parties and organisations urging
the north and south to inaugurate a "nationwide ad hoc committee for
investigation into mass killings committed by
GIs" so as to let all the fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad
play a main role in settling the matters
related to the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty, including probe
into the truth behind the mass killings, trial
of criminals, punishment of pro-American traitors and compensation for
damage, in the interests of the nation, we
hope that your organisation will take an active step to this end.
New stamps
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- More recently the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications has issued
three stamps that deal with scenic spots of Mt. Paektu.
The stamps present the dinosaur-shaped rock, eagle-shaped rock and
owl-shaped rock on the mountain.
Mt. Paektu, (its height 2,750 m) is the highest mountain in Korea.
Located northeast of Samjiyon county,
Ryanggang Province, it shares boundary with China.
Mt. Paektu, called the ancestral mountain, is one of Korea's five
celebrated mountains. It came into being after a
volcanic eruption about one million years ago. On its summit is Lake Chon,
formed in the volcanic crater. Around
the lake are Janggun Peak and many other peaks towering more than 2,500
metres high. Formed with pumice and
covered with snow all the year round, the top of the mountain looks white,
hence it got the name Mt. Paektu
(white-capped mountain).
President Kim Il Sung led the long-standing anti-Japanese revolutionary
war in and around the mountain to win
national independence.
It better known as a symbol of the fighting spirit of Korean people.
Traditional art festival
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The 10th "February 16 art prize"
individual contest is going on in the
capital city of Pyongyang.
Participating in the finals are more than 70 professional artistes and
teachers and students of art schools at all
levels who were singled out through preliminaries.
The contest has traditionally been held as an art festival every year
from 1991 with the auspicious February
holiday as an occasion.
The Ministry of Culture, its sponsor, promotes the replenishment of
artistes and the improvement of their skill
through the festival.
The contest can be participated in by artistes above 17 years old from
art troupes, teachers and students from art
schools at all levels, overseas Korean artistes and foreign artistes as
they wish.
It is divided into vocal music, instrumental music and dances and
participants perform compulsories and
optional.
The jury consists of doctors, professors and artistes famous in art field.
Prize winners will be awarded diplomas, medals and art degrees.
More than 3,500 people have participated in the contest so far.
Winners numbered over 300 artistes at home and overseas including
people's artistes Jo Hye Gyong and Ri
Yong Ok of the Mansudae Art Troupe and Choe Yong Dok and Song Jong Ae of
the Kumgangsan Opera Troupe
under the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
Among "February 16 art prize" winners are international prize winners
including merited artiste Ho Kwang Su
of the Mansudae Art Troupe who won a prize at the vocal solo contest of the
10th Chaykovski International Concour
in 1994.
Korean people determined to glorify October
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are now speeding up
the general advance for the New
Year, upholding the slogan "glorify this year, the WPK's 55th anniversary,
with signal victory in the crucible of
greatly increased activity of Chollima. "
October 10 this year marks the 55th anniversary of the foundation of
the Worker's Party of Korea.
October also has a number of days of historic significance in party
construction and activities.
The Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU), the historical root of the WPK,
was formed on October 17, Juche
15 (1926).
The principle of independence put forward by DIU became the principle
of the construction and activity of the
WPK and communists of new generation brought up by DIU were very
instrumental in party founding.
The Onsong Area Party Organization, the first revolutionary party
organization in the homeland, was
inaugurated on October 1, Juche 19 (1930), which was a major turning-point
in promoting the anti-Japanese
struggle of people in the homeland in the period of the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle.
The great leader Kim Jong Il was elected General Secretary of the
Worker's Party of Korea on Oct. 8, Juche 86
(1997).
This event marked an epochal occasion in turning the WPK into the
eternal party of its founder, the President
Kim Il Sung and developing it into an invincible, powerful party.
Kim Jong Il's famous works "The Worker's Party of Korea Is the Party of
the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung" and "The Worker's Party of Korea Organizes and Guides All the
Victories of Our People" were published in
October.
That is why the Korean people are proud of working harder to glorify
October.
For Spanish-speaking people
atcc comenta estrategia de enfrentamiento con norcorea
pyongyang, 28 de enero (atcc) -- la estrategia "zanahoria y latigo"
constituye el contenido principal de la politica
de enfrentamiento de las autoridades surcoreanas contra la rpdc.
el maximo gobernante de sudcorea en una entrevista concedida al
programa especial de la cadena de television
cnn de estados unidos a principios de enero del ano en curso vocifero:" se
valdra a la vez de zanahoria y latigo, si el
norte cumple su compromiso le dara ayuda correspondiente y en el caso
contrario hara que aquel pague el alto
precio.
la estrategia "zanahoria y latigo" del gobernante surcoreano es igual a
dos caras de la moneda y en su esencia,
no pasa de ser una artimana reaccionaria y criminal que parte de la malsana
finalidad politico - militar de
descomponer desde adentro la rpdc y aplastarla.
en una palabra la estrategia "zanahoria" tiende a inducir la rpdc a la
"reforma y apertura", descomponerla desde
adentro y destruirla.
los belicistas surcoreanos declaran abiertamente que se valdran del
"latigo" para que el norte pague el alto
precio" en el caso en que no le sea eficiente la estrategia de zanahorias.
pero esto es un acto tan absurdo como
suicida.
asi la estrategia "zanahoria y latigo" constituye la de enfrentamiento
con el norte y de oposicion a la
reconciliacion y la unidad de la nacion y una maquinacion criminal y
antinacional que acarrea a los coreanos toda
clase de desdichas y penalidades.
la mencionada estrategia es una derivada de la "politica de contacto",
"politica de rayos solares".
la "politica de contacto" del gobernante sudcoreano procedio de estados
unidos.
al perorar en una "conferencia especial" efectuada en el 30 de junio de
1998 de que "el imperio de la union
sovietica se derrumbo y la europa oriental se hizo democratica sin tirar
una sola bala porque los estados unidos
mantuvieron la invariable postura de seguridad y siguieron ampliando
durante 19 anos el intercambio con este pais",
el maximo gobernante surcoreano declaro que tal es la "politica de rayos
solares".
los estados unidos que lograron derrumbar la union sovietica pretenden
aplicar este precedente a la rpdc
valiendose estos anos de la politica de dos caras "zanahoria y latigo".
como de la chimenea de sudcorea sale el humo del fogon de estados
unidos, la estrategia de "zanahoria y latigo"
de este ultimo se convirtio en la base de la politica principal de aquella
de enfrentamiento con norcorea.
por su naturaleza reaccionaria esta estrategia que esta vigente segun
la orden de su amo norteamericano no podra
evitar fracaso y se convertira en un desecho de la historia.
ee.uu. y surcorea planean maniobras navales de gran envergadura
pyongyang, 28 de enero (atcc) -- segun una informacion radial procedente
de seul los imperialistas
norteamericanos y los dominantes surcoreanos pretenden librar a principios
de febrero en el area maritima proxima a
la peninsula coreana maniobras conjuntas provocativas de gran envergadura.
ellos anunciaron que la flotilla de portaaviones norteamericana
compuesta por el portaaviones de propulsion
nuclear de tipo ultramoderno, crucero "aegis" y 3 destructores, y 9
submarinos de propulsion nuclear de ataque
librara junto con las fuerzas navales de surcorea "maniobras navales de
gran velocidad" y "ejercicio de deteccion de
submarinos" y otros. segun trascendidos, un portaaviones norteamericano de
propulsion nuclear llego al area
internacional del mar este y el crucero "aegis" entrara en el puerto de
pusan de surcorea entre los dias 29 y 30 del
mes en curso.
todos los hechos demuestran una vez mas claramente que los
imperialistas norteamericanos y los dominantes
surcoreanos son belicistas obsesionados en preparativos de guerra de
agresion al norte y obstruccionistas de la
unidad nacional y la reunificacion de la patria.
cc de fdrp envia carta
pyongyang, 28 de enero (atcc) -- el cc del frente democratico para la
reunificacion de la patria (fdrp) envio el dia
28 una carta a la "alianza nacional por la democracia y la reunificacion de
la nacion" de sudcorea en relacion con los
genocidios cometidos por los imperialistas norteamericanos contra los
habitantes inocentes en el periodo de la pasada
guerra coreana.
la carta senala en particular:
las masacres en cuestion fueron actos premeditadamente perpetrados por
los jiferos humanos que son
adiestrados en el chovinismo nacional y toman la agresion y el exterminio
por medio de existencia.
el pueblo coreano debe saldar cuenta de las atrocidades de los asesinos
para la dignidad y honor de la nacion.
la realidad exige que todos los coreanos para no hablar de unas
victimas ni de entidades se levanten audazmente
en la lucha por ajustar la cuenta general de las atrocidades de asesinato
de los imperialistas yankis.
segun esta exigencia urgente, a traves de la "comision de investigacion
del fdrp" que organizada en el periodo de
la pasada guerra coreana desarrollo la averiguacion concentrada sobre los
crimenes de los imperialistas yankis
informamos a vuestra organizacion y otros partidos politicos y
organizaciones de sudcorea y en el extranjero de los
datos de atrocidades de asesinato perpetradas por los yankis en la parte
norte de la republica y vamos a tomar la
accion conjunta.
volvemos a hacer mencion del proyecto de llamamiento de los partidos
politicos y organizaciones de la rpdc de
constituir el norte y el sur el "comite nacional de investigacion especial
para el esclarecimiento del verdadero aspecto
de atrocidades de asesinato de las tropas yankis" para que todos los
coreanos en el norte y el sur de corea y el
extranjero se hagan duenos de resolver, de acuerdo con los intereses
nacionales, los problemas relacinados con la
dignidad y soberania de la nacion como la investigacion del verdadero
aspecto de atrocidades de asesinato de los
imperialistas yankis, el juicio de los criminales, el castigo a traidores
proyankis y la indemnizacion de los danos y
esperamos que vuestra organizacion tome activas medidas para su efecto.
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