>Kim Jong Il sends gifts
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent
>gifts to the members of the youth
>league and the children's union of senior middle schools in the excursion
>of the "250-mile journey for national
>liberation," by plane on Wednesday.
> The excursion is going on to mark the 75th anniversary of the "250-mile
>journey for national liberation" made
>by the President Kim Il Sung.
> A gift-conveying ceremony was held in Hwaphyong county on the same day.
> Present there were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of
>the Worker's Party of Korea, Ri Il
>Hwan, first secretary of the c.c., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League,
>and officials concerned.
> The ceremony was addressed by Kim Jung Rin.
> He said that the gifts carry the great trust and expectation of the
>respected Marshal Kim Jong Il for the
>excursionists and all school youth and children of the country to firmly
>take the road of the Juche cause, a long way
>of revolution, pioneered by the Generalissimo Kim Il Sung.
> Saying that it is the just obligation and most honorable duty of school
>youth and children to repay with loyalty
>the great love and solicitude of the Marshal, he called upon them to bear
>deep in mind the love and trust and firmly
>prepare themselves as reliable young vanguard and children's lifeguards of
>the party infinitely loyal to the
>revolutionary cause of Juche.
>
>
>
>Kim Yong Nam greets Sri Lankan President
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
>of the Supreme People's
>Assembly of the DPRK, today sent a message of greetings to Chandrika
>Bandaranaike Kumarathunga, President of
>the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, on the occasion of the 52nd
>anniversary of its independence.
> The message expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative
>relations between the two countries would
>further expand and develop in the common interests of the two peoples and
>sincerely wished the President greater
>success in her work for progress and prosperity of the country.
> Meanwhile, premier of the DPRK cabinet Hong Song Nam and Foreign
>Minister Paek Nam Sun respectively
>sent messages of greetings to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Sirimavo R. D.
>Bandaranaike and Foreign Minister
>Lakshman Kadirgamar.
>
>
>
>Jo Chang Dok interviewed on serious shortage of electricity
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Vice-premier Jo Chang Dok of the DPRK
>cabinet answered a question put
>by KCNA as regards the recent serious shortage of electricity in the DPRK.
> He said: Today the Korean people are picking up the pace of the general
>advance for the building of a powerful
>nation under the wise guidance of the Worker's Party of Korea in the wake
>of the publication of the joint New Year
>editorial.
> The powerful nation we are building means a thriving socialist nation
>with strong national power where the
>people live with nothing to envy.
> As the world acknowledges, our politico-ideological and military
>potentials are strong enough to become a
>powerful nation. If we concentrate our efforts on economic construction, we
>will be able to build an economically
>powerful nation in a few years to come.
> The serious shortage of electricity, however, hampers socialist
>economic construction in the DPRK.
> Electricity is main power for the national economy and lifeline of
>economic growth.
> Sufficient supply of electricity makes it possible to boost industry
>and agriculture and improve the people's
>standard of living.
> The serious shortage of electricity keeps us from meeting the growing
>needs in all sectors of the national
>economy, greatly hampering production and construction.
> There has never been such shortage of electricity as today in the DPRK.
> We are not to blame for this difficulty in the way of our economic
>growth. It is entirely attributable to the moves
>of the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces to stifle the DPRK.
> By nature, the DPRK is rich in resources to generate electricity. It
>has potentials enough to satisfy the demands
>for electricity by itself in various domains of the national economy.
> It is well known to the world that the DPRK supplied electricity to
>South Korea out of the compatriotic stand
>right after the August 15 liberation of Korea from the Japanese colonial
>rule and repeatedly offered to supply
>electricity to South Korea after the war.
> As the economy has gained in scope, the need for electricity has
>increased. With a view to satisfying the
>ever-growing need for electricity we put forward the policy of building a
>Juche-based nuclear power base long ago
>and went ahead with the policy.
> If the building of an atomic power plant to be equipped with
>graphite-moderated reactors relying on locally
>available abundant fuel had been promoted as scheduled, the problem of
>electricity would have already been solved
>successfully and electricity would not have been in such short supply as today.
> The DPRK's building of nuclear power base was for peaceful purposes
>such as economic construction and
>people's living, not for threatening any one. It had nothing to do with the
>development of nuclear arms.
> The U.S., however, put pressure upon the DPRK, calling for "sanctions"
>and "punishment" over the
>non-existent "suspected development of nuclear arms." When the anti-DPRK
>campaign did not work, it made a
>compromise offer to build light water reactors if the DPRK stops building
>nuclear power base.
> With a view to relieving concern about "suspected development of
>nuclear arms," a fiction spread by the U.S.
>and demonstrating the will and efforts for denuclearization and peace the
>DPRK took a step of freezing the building
>of nuclear power base, though it had already been under way.
> The U.S. should have responded to such sincere efforts of the DPRK by
>pushing ahead as scheduled with the
>construction of a power plant with two light water reactors and lifting
>economic sanctions against the DPRK as it
>had promised under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
> In fact, it was only the DPRK that suffered losses due to its
>unilateral freezing of the building of nuclear power
>base. The U.S., however, has not honestly fulfilled its commitments.
> Due to the unreasonable U.S. delaying tactics the LWR construction is
>not likely to be completed even in 2010,
>to say nothing of 2003, the deadline.
> The U.S. blatant violation of the agreement is a manifestation of a
>policy of new type to stifle the DPRK.
> Now that the U.S. fails to honor its commitments in good faith, the
>DPRK can no longer pin any hope on that
>construction nor can it remain a passive onlooker to it.
> The frozen building of nuclear power base has already caused a loss of
>tens of billions of KWH of electricity,
>bringing immeasurably adverse effects on the national economy and the
>people's living.
> The Korean people and the people's army, greatly infuriated by this,
>are unanimously pushing for
>compensation for the loss and strongly asserting that the Juche-based
>nuclear power building be pressed ahead with
>as originally scheduled.
> Even in view of the international regulations it is a common sense and
>usage for one to feel responsibility and
>make compensation for the damage done to the other in violation of the
>agreement.
> The U.S. should own responsibility for having caused such acute
>shortage of electricity in the DPRK and
>brought enormous economic losses to it and make compensation for them in
>any form.
> This is an irreversible principled demand and a legitimate sovereign
>right of the DPRK, the victim.
> If the U.S. does not fulfil its commitments but persistently pursues
>the policy of stifling the DPRK, the DPRK
>will be left with no option but to go its own way.
> Then, it will be too late for the U.S. to regret for its act.
>
>
>
>Basketball stars of DPRK
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, DPRK basketball players
>Ri Myong Hun and Pak Chon
>Jong were awarded gold watches bearing the august name of President Kim Il
>Sung.
> They are loved and respected by the people for their spectacular
>successes in many national and international
>games.
> Ri Myong Hun of the DPRK men's basketball team Uroe is a top-notch
>player recognized by the world's
>basketball circles. He participated in more than a hundred international
>games and netted scores of points in each
>match. He earned fame as the best player in Asia at the Asian Basketball
>Championships held in Indonesia in 1993.
> He, 2.35 metres in height, is the tallest among the world's basketball
>players. He is acclaimed by basketball
>fans and experts for his good skills at laying up of shot, rebound and dunk.
> Pak Chon Jong who is a seeded player of the basketball team of the
>April 25 sports group of the Korean
>People's Army also distinguished himself in scores of international
>basketball games.
> He cut a conspicuous figure in a match with the USA college quintet by
>continuously succeeding in gaining a
>three-point score with his skillful organizational ability and lightning
>play. He is known as a world basketball star
>for netting over 30 points in each match.
> The great leader Kim Jong Il made sure that they were awarded gold
>watches in high recognition of the
>successes made by them in games as world basketball stars through which
>they exalted the honor of the country.
> They are now intensifying the training to repay the deep trust and
>expectation of the country with their greater
>achievements.
>
>
>
>Pyongyang metro
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang metro is a big player in
>the city traffic.
> It was opened to traffic in 1973.
> The completion of multi-phase projects in the subsequent period brought
>its total length to at least scores of km.
> Its railways lead to the main streets of the capital before branching
>off in four directions. Its network covers 7
>districts of the city.
> There are 17 underground stations.
> The stations' names are very meaningful and rich in their contents.
> The station, which was built in the place where the President Kim Il
>Sung made his first historic speech after his
>return to the liberated homeland in triumph, is named Kaeson station.
>Jonsung station is associated with the
>immortal exploit he performed by leading the three year-long fatherland
>liberation war to victory.
> All the stations including Kwangbok, Puhung, Konguk, Thongil and
>Yonggwang stations stand in historic
>places in residential districts.
> All stations boast their architectural beauty.
> The interior of the stations decorated with over 100 large murals and
>100-odd pieces of sculptures and
>embossed carvings are reminiscent of an art museum.
> Large-sized mosaic murals and patchworks, including "country of Juche"
>and "paradisiacal Pothong River"
>depicting a dignified appearance and developing feature of the DPRK, are in
>perfect artistic harmony. Conspicuous
>are chandeliers colorfully decorated with hundreds of thousands of beads
>and peculiar lamps hanging from the
>ceilings of magnificent halls.
> Both surface and underground stations are adequately air-conditioned.
> More underground railways are expected to be laid in Pyongyang in near
>future.
>
>
>
>DIU is historic root of WPK
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- October 10 this year marks the
>significant 55th anniversary of the
>foundation of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK).
> The WPK is the banner of all victories and glories of the Korean people.
> Although it is 55 years old, the history of its building began 74 years
>ago when the Down-with-Imperialism
>Union (DIU) was formed.
> The DIU was formed by the President Kim Il Sung on October 17, 1926.
> It was the first revolutionary organization of young communists of
>Korea who turned out in the struggle for
>national and class liberation in the idea of anti-imperialism, independence
>and sovereignty.
> Early in the 1920s the Korean communist movement was being engrossed
>only in sectarian strife for
>"hegemony" without having any unified action program.
> The nationalist movement was little different from it.
> The President who was searching for a new way of struggle under such
>circumstances founded the DIU with
>young people and set forth a new action program.
> Its program was aimed at destroying the Japanese imperialists and
>achieving liberation and independence of
>Korea and building socialism and communism there in future.
> It was also aimed at overthrowing all hues of imperialism and building
>communism worldwide.
> It was an independent revolutionary program which reflected most
>correctly the urgent requirements and
>long-cherished desire of the Korean people and comprehensively laid down
>orientation and targets of the
>anti-Japanese national liberation struggle and the Korean communist
>movement and principles to be observed for
>achieving them.
> The program set forth by the DIU became a kernel of the program of the
>WPK, its principle of independence a
>principle of the WPK in its building and activities and young communists
>whom the DIU began to train became a
>backbone for founding the WPK.
> This indicates that the WPK sprang from the roots of the DIU.
>
>
>
>NDFSK Pyongyang mission visit international friendship exhibition
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Chief Pak Kwang Gi and members of the
>Pyongyang mission of the
>National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) visited the international
>friendship exhibition on Feb. 1 to
>mark the 58th birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
> Preserved at the exhibition located at the foot of Mt. Myohyang are
>hundreds of thousands of gifts presented to
>the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il by heads of
>party, state and government, personages
>from every background and organizations of over 170 countries and
>compatriots in South Korea and abroad.
> The members of the mission made a bow before the wax figure of the
>President in the wax figure hall.
> After the inspection, Pak Kwang Gi wrote in the visitor's book that the
>vanguard fighters of the NDFSK would
>wage a vigorous struggle for independence against the U.S., for
>democratization against fascism and for national
>reunification, bearing in mind the pride of having the great Marshal Kim
>Jong Il praised by the world as the leader of
>the nation.
> That day they enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the landscape of
>snow-covered Mt. Myohyang and looked round
>historical sites and relics.
>
>
>
>KCNA on Japan-U.S. computer simulation exercises
>
> Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Preparations for a contingency in areas
>surrounding Japan have been
>pushed forward in Japan.
> The Japan defense agency announced that Japan's "Self-Defence Forces"
>(SDF) and the U.S. military in Japan
>
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