>
>Kim Yong Nam receives credentials from new Beninese ambassador
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Michel Adechian, newly appointed Beninese
>Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK, presented his credentials to Kim Yong Nam,
>President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, at the
>Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
> Present there was Pak Tong Chun, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
> Kim Yong Nam had a talk with the ambassador after receiving the
>credentials.
>
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>Yang Hyong Sop meets special envoy of Cuban President
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
>presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic
>of Korea, today met and had a friendly talk with Alberto Velazco San Jose, a
>special envoy of Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and
>President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, at the Mansudae
>Assembly Hall.
> Present there were Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jose
>Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK.
>
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>Kim Yong Nam meets Pakistani ambassador
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
>of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with Pakistani
>Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK Fazal Ghafoor who paid a farewell call on him at
>the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
> Present there was Pak Kil Yon, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
>
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>Palestinian ambassador hosts reception
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Shaher Mohammed Abdlah, Palestinian
>ambassador to the DPRK, yesterday hosted a reception on the occasion of the
>birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
> Addressing the reception, the ambassador said:
> Kim Jong Il was born on Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of the revolution,
>and grew up, hearing gun reports during the anti-Japanese war. In that course
>he nurtured an iron will and qualities as a brilliant commander and a strong
>and noble will to accomplish the Korean people's revolutionary cause of Juche.
>He went on to say:
> Under his wise and seasoned leadership the Korean people have developed
>advanced technology and made such a miracle as launching a satellite on their
>own efforts despite manifold difficulties. This is a good example showing
>small countries what they should do to be free from the imperialist and
>colonial domination on their own efforts.
> The Palestinian Arab people greatly treasure the friendly and cooperative
>relations with the DPRK. I am firmly convinced that the friendship between the
>two countries provided by President Yasser Arafat and our brother the
>President Kim Il Sung will further develop under the leadership of General
>Secretary Kim Jong Il, he stressed.
> Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme
>People's Assembly, in his speech said that Palestinian friends' celebration of
>the February holiday with the Korean people is a manifestation of the
>Palestinian people's deep respect and reverence for Kim Jong Il.
> We will make strenuous efforts to continue to develop the friendly and
>cooperative relations with Palestine on good terms, true to his intention, and
>stand firm on the side of the Palestinian people in their indomitable struggle
>to win back their legitimate national rights including the right to return to
>their homeland and the right to found an independent country, he emphasized.
> Among those present on invitation were Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun,
>department director of the Central Committee of the WPK Kim Yang Gon and other
>officials concerned.
>
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>National symposium on birthday of Kim Jong Il
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- A national symposium marking the 58th
>birthday of General Secretary Marshal Kim Jong Il was held at the People's
>Palace of Culture yesterday.
> Present were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and others.
> The symposium heard speeches on the subjects of "the respected comrade Kim
>Jong Il is the great leader who is glorifying the socialist fatherland of
>Juche with his army-first politics," "the wise leadership in strengthening the
>party and enhancing its leading role in conformity with the new era of the
>Juche revolution," "the peerlessly brilliant commander who trained the
>people's army as an invincible army replete with the spirit of devotedly
>defending the leader" and "the outstanding guidance in making a breakthrough
>in building a powerful nation with the second grand chollima advance."
> The speakers said that the army-first political mode of Kim Jong Il is a
>political mode of training the army as the pillar of revolution on the
>principle of giving priority to the military and enhancing its role to the
>maximum so as to bring about a new great advance in accomplishing the cause of
>socialism as a whole.
> They went on:
> The authority and might of the Worker's Party of Korea, led by him, will
>be strengthened in every way and shine long and the future of the Korean
>revolution under the leadership of the great party is promising.
> His exploits in having trained the people's army as a strong army of
>devotedly defending the leader to safeguard the destiny of the nation and
>carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche will shine for
>all ages.
> The speakers highly praised the greatness of Kim Jong Il who aroused all
>the people to the second grand Chollima advance with his outstanding ability
>of leadership in the arduous days of ordeals to open a new era of prosperity
>on this land.
> They pointed to his exploits in opening a new historic turning-point in
>carrying out the cause of global independence.
> They said that it is the basic guarantee for glorifying the new century as
>the great one of Kim Jong Il to hold him in higher esteem and strengthen our
>country as a socialist fortress of Juche where his idea has been completely
>embodied true to the last instructions of the fatherly leader Kim Il Sung.
>
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>China delivers all amount of food and coking coal to DPRK
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- 150,000 tons of food and 400,000 tons of
>coking coal with which the Chinese government decided in June last year to
>provide the DPRK free of charge were 4all delivered as of Feb. 2.
> In recent years, the Chinese government provided food, oil and other aid
>materials on several occasions to the DPRK which is suffering from temporary
>difficulties caused by the isolation and suffocation moves of the imperialists
>and natural disasters.
> The current provision of aid materials by the Chinese party and government
>again in accordance with the tradition of Korea-China friendship with which
>the two countries help each other at the time of difficulties will be a
>precious encouragement to the Korean people in their efforts to build a
>powerful nation under the wise leadership of the great Kim Jong Il.
>
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>Aid equipment to DPRK from UNDP
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Aid equipment needed for the recovery
>from natural disasters in agricultural sector came to the DPRK from the UNDP.
> The equipment was delivered with due ceremony here today.
> Present there were Hong Myong Ryol, vice-Minister of Agriculture, and
>officials concerned and David Morton, resident coordinator of the UN and
>resident representative of the UNDP.
> Speeches were made at the ceremony.
> Its participants looked round the equipment.
>
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>Torch lit at Rakwon Machine Plant
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- A new torch was lit at the Rakwon Machine
>Plant in the DPRK.
> It was lit by General Secretary Kim Jong Il during his on-site guidance to
>the plant on January 27.
> Calling upon the workers there to design and manufacture more machines and
>equipment of the latest type in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance to
>set an example to be followed by the entire country, he said that a new torch
>should be lit at the plant with a long history to make the whole country hum
>with activities.
> The new torch represents fresh creation and innovation made by the workers
>there in the spirit of devotedly safeguarding the leader, the do-or-die spirit
>and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude, the spirit
>displayed in all grim annals of the Korean revolution.
> During the Fatherland Liberation War Juche 39 (1950)-Juche 42 (1953)
>workers of the factory at that time including 10 party members made hand
>grenades empty handed to carry out wartime production tasks. They manufactured
>various types of machines and equipment including excavators and water pumps
>on the ruins after the war and thus became well-known across the country for
>creating such miracles.
> Young workers of the plant, by carrying forward their style of work, made
>an oxygen plant with their own technology and efforts in the 1980s, thus
>demonstrating its tradition of self-reliance all over the country.
> The plant, once a small factory, has been turned into a leading machine
>producer of the country.
> The torch held aloft by the workers of the plant is based on the
>revolutionary spirit of self-reliance displayed by people in Jagang province
>during the "arduous march" and the forced march and the Kanggye spirit which
>represents mass heroism. It was kindled after a torch was lit by the workers
>of the Songjin Steel Complex which gave origin to the same great chollima
>advance as that in the 1950s after the war in Korea.
> The torch lit at the Rakwon Machine Plant will give a great impetus to the
>second grand chollima advance the Korean people are now making in the Kanggye
>spirit, following the torch lit at the Songjin Steel Complex.
>
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>Friendly meeting held
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural
>Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Iran Friendship Association on
>Thursday held a friendly meeting here on the occasion of the 21st anniversary
>of the victory of the Islamic revolution of Iran.
> Invited to the meeting were Iranian ambassador to the DPRK Mohammad
>Ganjidoost and embassy officials.
> Hong Son Ok, vice-chairperson of the committee and vice-chairperson of the
>association, and other officials concerned were present there.
> The participants saw an art performance given by schoolchildren of
>DPRK-Iran friendship Pyongyang Sosong Senior Middle School no. 1 and talked
>with each other, deepening friendly feelings.
>
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>Sports contest for Paektusan Cup
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- A sports contest for Paektusan Cup is
>being held in Pyongyang and local cities.
> Players selected from national and local sports groups are participating
>there.
> More than 20 sports events including basketball, volleyball, table-tennis
>and handball take place according to the seasonal conditions.
> This contest has been an annual event to mark the auspicious February
>holiday since Juche 66 (1977).
> The contest in which tens of thousands of players participated for more
>than 20 years made a great contribution to the sports development of the
>country.
> In this period many sportsmen and sportswomen renewed the previous records
>of the DPRK in sporting events.
> Over the last five years, the contest has taken place without a let-up in
>spite of the difficult economic situation where the country was hard pressed
>for everything.
> In this course three players chalked up world records, six renewed Asian
>records and scores of players improved the national records.
> The players are improving sports techniques through national championships
>and the contests for Mangyongdae Cup, Pochonbo Cup and Jonsung Cup along with
>the contest for Paektusan Cup.
>
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>Letter to Hanchongryon
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Kim Il Sung
>Socialist Youth League yesterday sent a letter to the South Korean Federation
>of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) calling on the South Korean
>students to take an active part in forming a "nationwide ad hoc committee for
>probing the truth behind the GIs' massacres."
> The letter noted that mass killings of civilians by the U.S. during the
>Korean war was the most brutal and barbarous massacre and worst violation of
>human rights that is unjustifiable.
> Saying that martyrs who fell down shedding blood during the April 19
>Uprising in 1960 and those who called for the spring of Kwangju in 1980 were
>all young students, the letter called for all the students in the north and
>south to work off the grudge of our parents and brothers who fell down in cold
>blood, asking for a thousand-fold revenge.
> It called on the South Korean students who have always bravely fought in
>the van of the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification to
>display the same spirit to take the lead in probing the GIs' murders and
>punishing them.
> The letter expressed the belief that when the committee involving large
>numbers of organizations in the north and south is formed, the Korean nation
>will settle the murder case by the U.S. and give vent to the pent-up grudge of
>the nation.
>
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>Remarks of U.S. Secretary of State blasted
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Albright pulled up
>the DPRK over what she called nuclear and missile issues in a recent speech at
>Russia's diplomacy academy. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary
>dismisses this as a nagging of an unskilled diplomat which only betrays the
>true intention of the U.S. The remarks of the senior official of the U.S.
>administration in charge of foreign affairs disclosed the attempt of the U.S.
>to internationalize the Korean issue, the commentary notes, and continues:
> The U.S. is trying to woo Russia at any cost to subscribe to its
>development of the aggressive "National Missile Defence" system and also seek
>the Russian parliament's ratification of "Start-2."
> The U.S. is going to use the issue of the non-existent "nuclear and
>missile threat from the north" as a card to persuade Russia and as a pretext
>to provoke a war of aggression against the DPRK. Its aim is to use
>multi-national forces in a war against the DPRK under the name of UN.
> It is not the DPRK but the U.S. which proliferates nuclear weapons and
>missiles.
> It is a brigandish logic and far-fetched assertion for the U.S. to raise a
>hue and cry over the "nuclear and missile threat" by someone.
> The U.S. is well advised to halt its persistent anti-DPRK diatribe and
>mind its own business.
>
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>Russia demands development of good-neighborly relations with DPRK
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- The willingness to further expand and
>develop the DPRK-Russia friendly and cooperative relations was confirmed
>during the visit to Pyongyang from February 9 to 10 of the Russian Foreign
>Minister, Igor Ivanov, and his party.
> A DPRK-Russia treaty of friendship, good-neighborliness and cooperation
>was signed here during the visit.
> The Russian side appreciated this treaty as an important document which
>would occupy a page in the history of the friendly relations between the two
>countries.
> In various events held here Igor Ivanov reiterated Russia's stand to
>develop the bilateral relations in the spirit of the treaty.
> He said that there are many fields to improve relations between Russia and
>the DPRK, and stressed the need to direct efforts to the development of these
>relations.
> He continued:
> It is necessary for the peoples of the two countries to develop exchanges
>in the fields of science, culture and education, and Russia is ready to abide
>by the spirit of this newly concluded treaty.
> The Russian Foreign Minister wrote in the visitor's book at the Kumsusan
>Memorial Palace that the Russian Federation strongly calls for the development
>of reciprocal and good-neighborly relations with the DPRK.
> During his stay in Pyongyang he expressed deep reverence for President Kim
>Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people.
> He visited Mangyongdae and wrote in the visitor's book that he came to
>know well how deeply the Korean people are revering President Kim Il Sung who
>made great contribution to the strengthening of the Russia-DPRK relations.
> He also wrote in the visitor's book at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace that
>President Kim Il Sung is always alive in the hearts of the Russians as an
>ardent champion of the friendship and cooperation between the two peoples.
>
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>KCNA on remarks of chairman of U.S. joint chiefs of staff
> Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- It was reported that the chairman of the
>U.S. joint chiefs of staff, Henry Shelton, speaking before a recent senate
>armed services committee meeting, said that the U.S. has deployed better
>tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery as well as improved attack
>helicopters, aircraft and Patriot missile defense systems in South Korea.
> This is a very serious development which will drive the military situation
>on the Korean peninsula to the escalated tensions as it is a provocative
>criminal act proving that the U.S. is clinging to an ever more bellicose tough
>policy toward the DPRK.
> The United States is talking rubbish about what it called "challenge" and
>"threat," absurdly asserting that the DPRK was to blame for the failure to
>solve the issue of guaranteeing peace on the Korean peninsula. We cannot but
>take a serious note of the fact that it is using this as a pretext for beefing
>up its military presence in South Korea.
> It is quite unreasonable that a small country that cannot be compared with
>the U.S., the self-proclaimed only superpower in the world, in terms of
>military potentials is posing "threat" to it.
> We have never infringed upon the interests of the U.S. nor threatened its
>security.
> The U.S. is insisting on the "threat from North Korea," refusing to drop
>the outdated anti-DPRK hostile policy, in a foolish bid to achieve its
>military aim to overpower the DPRK by "force."
> What cannot be overlooked is the fact that as Shelton said, the U.S. is
>making full preparations to hurl its Okinawa-based marines into the Korean
>peninsula on a short notice and dispatch even its forces to it from its
>mainland, while beefing up its forces in South Korea.
>
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