Kim Jong Il sends wreath on death of party official
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent a
wreath, expressing his deep
condolence on the death of Jon Yong Hun, alternate member of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of
Korea.
It was laid before his grave in the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery today.
Greetings to amir of state of Kuwait
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber
al-Sabah, Amir of State of Kuwait,
yesterday on the occasion of the National Day and the liberation day of the
country.
Sincerely wishing the Amir and people of Kuwait success in their work
for the prosperity of the country, the
message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations
between the two countries would continue to
be boosted.
Meanwhile, premier of the cabinet Hong Song Nam and Foreign Minister
Paek Nam Sun separately sent
messages of greetings to Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah, heir to
the Amir and Prime Minister of
Kuwait, and Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber, first deputy prime minister and
Foreign Minister.
WPK secretary meets U.S. party delegation
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party
of Korea, today met and conversed with the delegation of the Worker's World
Party of the United States headed by
Brian Becker, member of its secretariat.
At the meeting the head of the delegation said that the Korean people
are firmly defending socialism despite the
continued isolation and suffocation moves of the imperialists, adding this
is attributable to the tested leadership of
the WPK led by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
He noted that his party would continue to wage a vigorous struggle for
the pullback of the U.S. forces from
South Korea and intensify the movement for solidarity with the WPK.
U.S. party delegation sojourns in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Worker's World
Party of the United States headed by
Brian Becker, member of its secretariat, yesterday visited the Pyongyang
mission of the National Democratic Front
of South Korea (NDFSK).
Pak Kwang Gi, chief of the mission, at the meeting, expressed thanks to
the Worker's World Party of the
United States for having extended support and solidarity to the NDFSK in
its struggle for independence, democracy
and reunification and informed the delegation of the South Korean people's
struggle against the U.S. and fascism
and for democracy and national reunification.
The head of the delegation recalled that the party has struggled
against the military dictatorship in South Korea
and the U.S. forces' occupation of South Korea and evinced its
determination to further strengthen support and
solidarity to the Korean people's struggle for national reunification.
That day the delegation visited the family of Jong Song Ok, world
"queen of marathon."
Floral baskets to DPRK embassies
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets were sent to DPRK
embassies by governments, political
parties, organizations and officials of the political, public and press
circles of many countries on the occasion of the
birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Among them were the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba,
the central committee of the
Communist Party of Vietnam, the People's Party and the Funcinpec Party, the
Ministers' Council, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of Cambodia, Chea Dim, acting
head of State of Cambodia, Norodom Ranariddh, President of the National
Assembly of Cambodia, and Hun Sen,
Prime Minister of Cambodia, the deputy prime minister who is also Minister
of Agriculture of Egypt, the chairman
of Consultative Council of Egypt, the general secretary of the National
Progressive Unionist Party of Egypt, the
vice-chairman and the general secretary of the Misr Fatah Party of Egypt,
the central committee of the Lao Women's
Union and the Workers Home of Iran.
Reception given by military attach of Russian embassy
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A reception was given by Vladimir
Dombrovski, military attach of the
Russian embassy here, at the Taedonggang club for the diplomatic corps on
Feb. 23 on the occasion of the "Day of
Defenders of Motherland."
Invited to the reception were Lt. Gen. Pak Sung Won and officers of the
Korean People's Army, diplomatic
envoys and military attaches of foreign embassies here.
Russian ambassador to Korea Valery Denisov and embassy officials were
present.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Annual meeting of Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- An annual meeting of the Korea-Cuba
Solidarity Committee was held here
on Feb. 23.
Present there were Minister of Education and chairman of the solidarity
committee Pyon Yong Rip,
vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries Kim Jin Bom and members
of the solidarity committee.
The charge d'affaires ad interim of the Cuban embassy here, Nirsia
Castro Guevara, and embassy officials were
on hand.
The meeting reviewed last year's work of the committee for
strengthening friendship and solidarity with the
Cuban people who are triumphantly advancing socialism despite the blockade
of the imperialists and discussed this
year's action program of the committee.
Proclamation of cooperative republic of Guyana marked
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A commemoration meeting was held here
on Feb. 23 in the name of the
Korea-Latin America and Caribbean Region Friendship Association and the
Korea-Guyana Friendship Association
on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the
Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Present there were Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee
for Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries and chairman of the Korea-Latin America and Caribbean Region
Friendship Association, members of the
Korea-Guyana Friendship Association and working people in the city.
Speeches were made and a message of greetings to the President of
Guyana was adopted at the meeting.
Greatness of Kim Jong Il praised
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- V. Tyulkin, first secretary of the
central committee of the Russian
Communist Worker's Party on a visit to the DPRK, in an interview with
reporters highly praised the greatness of
General Secretary Kim Jong Il who is leading the socialist cause to victory.
He said that during his stay he witnessed all the Korean people
vigorously advancing, breaking through
hardships and difficulties, rallied close around the great Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il has devoted himself to accomplishing the cause of
revolution pioneered by the President Kim Il
Sung, he said, and went on:
Kim Jong Il has instilled into the Korean people and all communists
strength and courage with his energetic
ideological and theoretical activities. He is a worldwide statesman and a
staunch defender of the socialist cause.
After the demise of the President the imperialists blared that Korean
socialism would advance no longer, but
Korean socialism has been firmly defended and is vigorously advancing under
the leadership of General Secretary
Kim Jong Il.
Historic events in expanding and strengthening party organizations
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- The struggle for the foundation of the
party in Korea has a long history.
The President Kim Il Sung formed the society for rallying comrades, the
first party organization, in Kalun,
China in 1930 and rapidly expanded party organizations with the society as
an umbrella organization.
He maintained a principled stand concerning the party building. He
called for adhering to the Juche-oriented line
against flunkeyism and dogmatism, and creating primary organizations of the
party in Korea, first of all, and, on
this basis, organizing the party central body and proclaiming the party
foundation in future.
He dispatched members of the society for rallying comrades to the area
on the northern tip of Korea along the
River Tuman and different areas of Manchuria to form party organizations.
In autumn, 1930 he went to Onsong county, North Hamgyong Province, and
personally guided the formation
of the party organizations in Korea.
He dispatched the Pukson (northern part of Korea) political operatives'
group, which was made up of excellent
political officers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, to the
northern part of Korea in 1937 with a view to
rallying communists active in different areas and hardcore people and
educating them and steadily expanding party
organizations.
As a result, party organizations were active not only in the
anti-Japanese armed ranks but in the border area on
the northern tip of Korea and its western and central parts, in eastern and
southern Manchuria and various areas of
Japan where Koreans lived.
His organization of the party committee of the KPRA was followed by the
creation of the eastern Manchuria
party operative committee, the party operative committee in the homeland
and the Changbai county party committee.
U.S.-S. Korea joint war exercise denounced
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
commentary denounces the U.S. and
the South Korean authorities for staging a joint surprise air strike
operation in and around Kyonggi Province, South
Korea, a few days ago.
Involved in the war drill were scores of military helicopters,
brigade-level "surprise air strike" units and various
types of war equipment including "Cobra" attack helicopters and "Black
Hawk" helicopters of the U.S. aggressor
forces and the "air operation command of the South Korean ground force."
It was aimed at massively helicopter ground units into the "rear" of
the "enemy" under the cover of the attack
helicopters to "isolate and destroy" the motorized units of the "enemy" and
then going over to a large-scale
"counterattack operation."
Noting that the exercise was of very provocative and offensive nature
like the " Foal Eagle" and "Ulji focus
lens" joint military drills, the commentary goes on:
What merits particular attention is that the South Korean authorities
have already worked out a large-scale plan
to attack the north and are working hard to round off the plan and put it
into practice.
What cannot be overlooked is the fact that the joint war maneuver was
timed to coincide with the U.S. and
Japanese reactionaries' computer simulation military exercise staged in
Japan to cope with an "emergency" on the
Korean peninsula.
This was not an accidental coincidence but a premeditated and
intentional DPRK-targeted war drill staged within
the framework of the triangular military alliance.
The aggressive triangular military alliance grouping the U.S., Japan
and South Korea is moving on the track for
an aggression against the DPRK.
The U.S. and the South Korean authorities are well advised to think
twice over the serious consequences to be
entailed by those frantic war maneuvers and stop running wild.
Literature praising Kim Jong Il scattered in S. Korea
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Many copies of literature highly
praising General Secretary Kim Jong Il
were found scattered in the U.S. 8th army base in Ryongsan, Seoul,
according to Yonhap News February 23.
A U.S. army officer concerned confessed that literature warmly
congratulating Kim Jong Il on his 58th birthday
and highly lauding him was scattered by an unidentified man in front of the
entrance no. 8 of the southern sentry
district inside the base around midnight on Feb. 20.
Similar literature was found behind the Ryongsan library inside the
base at the same time.
The U.S. army, much upset by this, is busy making a strict
investigation and check-up on those coming and
going.
S. Korean "MPs'" mass killings disclosed
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- The February issue of the South Korean
magazine Mal reported that more
evidence of mass killings committed by military police of South Korea
during the Korean War has been discovered.
It said that remains of innocent civilians and more than 1,400
political prisoners in Taegu prison who were
massacred by the military police have been exhumed and identified one after
another in an abandoned mine shaft on
a hill and at the Kachang dam at present in Kyongsan city of North
Kyongsang Province and other places.
A mass killing was committed by military police in a shaft of the
abandoned mine on a hill in Kyongsan city in
mid-August 1950, it said, quoting Ri Pok Myong, 71, as saying when a
factory was built in the 1980s in this area
there might be at least 10,000 remains in my estimation, though it was hard
to count them all as bones were in
disorder.
Ordinary people were indiscriminately murdered after their arrest at a
time when "political prisoners" in Taegu
prison were killed, it added.
It also disclosed mass killings of innocent inhabitants by reactionary
organizations which were active in
different parts of South Korea.
DPRK-Indonesia agreement signed
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- An agreement on the promotion and
protection of investment between the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Indonesia was
signed in Djakarta on Feb. 21.
It was signed by Minister of Foreign Trade Kang Jong Mo on behalf of
the DPRK government and Minister of
Industry and Trade Jusuf KalLaon behalf of the government of the Republic
of Indonesia.
Joint seminar held in Yugoslavia
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A joint seminar of Yugoslav left-wing
political parties on the army-first
revolutionary leadership feats of General Secretary Kim Jong Il was held in
Belgrade on Feb. 17 on the occasion of
his 58th birthday.
Present there were delegations and delegates of political parties
including the Worker's Party of Yugoslavia, the
Socialist People's Party of Yugoslavia and the League of Communists of
Yugoslavia-Communist Party of Serbia.
The speakers said that Kim Jong Il's army-first politics is based on
the revolutionary philosophy that the army
is precisely the party, the people and the state and this is a unique
political mode which solves all the issues arising
in the revolution and construction on the principle of giving priority to
the military affairs and gives prominence to
the army as the pillar of revolution so as to push ahead with the socialist
cause as a whole.
They expressed belief that as long as there is Kim Jong Il's
outstanding and tested army-first revolutionary
leadership, the Korean people and the people's army will in the future,
too, win victory after victory in the
confrontation with the imperialist and dominationist.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the seminar.
The letter said that they are struck with admiration for him who,
through his army-first revolutionary leadership,
is dealing a total blow to the vicious moves of the imperialist fascist
forces to dominate the world and enslave the
world people.
The powerful military strength of the DPRK built up under his
leadership provides a surest guarantee for
preventing the U.S. from venturing to attack, the letter said.
Juche idea study group formed in Yugoslavia
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the Yugoslav
Group for the Study of the Juche
Idea took place in Belgrade on Feb. 16, the birthday of General Secretary
Kim Jong Il.
The president of the Worker's Party of Yugoslavia at a meeting pointed
to the originality of the Juche idea
which was fathered by the President Kim Il Sung and has been developed and
enriched by Kim Jong Il and the
achievements made by the Korean people by applying it.
The inauguration of the group in Yugoslavia on the occasion of his
birthday is a great inspiration to the genuine
communists of Yugoslavia, he added.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
For Spanish-speaking people
reunion anual ordinaria de comite coreano de solidaridad con cuba
pyongyang, 24 de febrero (atcc) -- tuvo lugar ayer en esta capital la
reunion anual ordinaria del comite coreano
de solidaridad con cuba.
participaron pyon yong rip, ministro de ensenanza y presidente de este
comite, kim jin bom, vicepresidente del
comite de relaciones culturales con el extranjero y otros miembros de aquel
comite.
estuvieron presentes nirsia castro guevara, encargado de negocios a.i
de la republica de cuba en la rpdc y
miembros de esta sede diplomatica.
la reunion hizo balance de la labor del pasado ano de fortalecer la
amistad y solidaridad con el pueblo cubano
que construye con exito el socialismo en medio del bloqueo imperialista y
discutio el plan de actividades del comite
para este ano.
30 aniversario de proclamacion de republica cooperativa de guyana
pyongyang, 24 de febrero (atcc) -- con motivo del 30 aniversario de la
proclamacion de la republica cooperativa
de guyana tuvo lugar el dia 23 un mitin conmemorativo en esta capital, bajo
auspicios de la asociacion coreana de
amistad con la region latinoamericana y del caribe y la asociacion de
amistad corea-guyana.
participaron kim jin bom, vicepresidente del comite de relaciones
culturales con el extranjero y presidente de la
primera asociacion, los miembros de la segunda asociacion y otros
trabajadores capitalinos.
el acto escucho discursos y aprobo mensaje de felicitacion al
presidente de la republica cooperativa de guyana.
permanencia en pyongyang de delegacion de pmo de ee. uu.
pyongyang, 24 de febrero (atcc) -- la delegacion del partido mundial de
los obreros de ee. uu. presidida por
brian becker, miembro del secretariado de este partido visito el dia 23 del
actual la representacion del frente
democratico nacional de sudcorea (fdns) en pyongyang.
en la ocasion el representante pak kwang gi expreso agradecimiento al
pmo de ee.uu. por su apoyo y solidaridad
con la lucha del fdns por la independencia, la democracia y la
reunificacion y le informo de la lucha del pueblo
surcoreano contra el imperialismo norteamericano y el fascismo y por la
democracia y la reunificacion de la patria.
el jefe de la delegacion se refirio a la lucha que libraron en el
pasado contra la dictadura militar en sudcorea y la
presencia en esta parte de corea de las tropas norteamericanas y manifesto
la disposicion de su partido de fortalecer
tambien en el futuro apoyo y solidaridad con la lucha del pueblo coreano
por la reunificacion de la patria.
el mismo dia la delegacion visito la familia de la atleta jong song ok,
"princesa de maraton" del mundo.
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