DPRK News April 12
Foreign diplomats visit Mangyongdae and other places
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Indonesia visit marked
National fine art exhibition opens
Peruvian diploma and medal awarded to Kim Il Sung
Peruvian diploma and medal awarded to Kim Jong Il
Seminars on Kim Il Sung's exploits
Efforts to realize global independence and strengthen NAM reiterated
Ishihara's outbursts under fire
Samjiyon Revolutionary Battle Site
Advertisement of "human rights," means of aggression and plunder
Korea's reunification supported
U.S. hit for moves to establish "NMD"
Plan of cultural exchange between DPRK and Mongolia signed
Medical invention and hi-tech exhibition
Working-level contacts proposed
Foreign diplomats visit Mangyongdae and other places
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Foreign diplomatic envoys and resident
representatives of international
organizations in the DPRK visited Mangyongdae yesterday on the occasion of
Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of
the President Kim Il Sung.
They looked round the native home in Mangyongdae where the President
was born and the historic relics
preserved at the home and the revolutionary sites on Mangyong Hill.
And then they went to see the construction site of the monument to the
three-point charter of national
reunification at the entrance of Thongil Street, Pyongyang, and planted
trees around the monument.
On the same day the military attaches corps here visited the
international friendship exhibition located on famous
Mt. Myohyang and the economic and commercial councilors' corps here visited
the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site
in Pyongyang where the first ordnance factory of the country had been situated.
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Indonesia visit marked
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition and a film show were
held at the People's Palace of
Culture on Tuesday 35 years after General Secretary Kim Jong Il paid a
historic visit to Indonesia accompanying the
President Kim Il Sung.
Vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Yang
Hyong Sop and officials concerned
were present.
Also present there were members of an Indonesian government cultural
delegation led by Minister of State for
Tourism and Art Hidajat Djaelani who are staying here to participate in the
18th April Spring Friendship Art Festival
and Indonesian ambassador to the DPRK Buchari Effendi and embassy officials.
Speeches were made at the photo exhibition.
On display at the exhibition hall are pictures of Kim Il Sung
conducting energetic external activities amid warm
welcome of the Indonesian government and people and pictures showing the
revolutionary activities of Kim Jong Il
during the historic Indonesia visit accompanying him.
Also displayed there are pictures showing the friendly relations
between the DPRK and Indonesia.
Then the participants saw a Korean documentary film "the Great Leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung Meets Heads of
State and Prominent Figures of Foreign Countries" part 1 (March
1949-January 1969).
National fine art exhibition opens
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- A national fine art exhibition opened at
the Korean Art Gallery on Tuesday to
commemorate Sun's Day.
On display are over 100 fine art works of high ideological and artistic
value. Among them were photographs
showing the brilliant revolutionary feats of the President Kim Il Sung and
the great personality of General Secretary
Kim Jong Il.
Seen on the front of the hall was a Korean painting "Sun of All People"
portraying Kim Il Sung who performed
the immortal exploits of significance in human history for the times and
revolution, the fatherland and people.
Exhibited are an oil painting "Spring of 1939," Korean paintings "the
Great Leader Meets Workers of Rakwon"
and "the Great Leader Walks Along Farm Fields Until the Last Moment of His
Life" and other fine art works
reflecting the immortal revolutionary exploits of the President who led the
anti-Japanese war to victory and turned
Korea into the homeland of Juche, independent, self-supporting and
self-reliant in national defence.
Put on show are Korean paintings "Spring of Forefront" and "Being the
Real Father of Family of the Whole
Country" representing the great personality of Kim Jong Il who leads the
Korean people to build a powerful nation
with the army-first politics.
Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su made an opening address.
Peruvian diploma and medal awarded to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The council of Lince city in Peru decided
to award an honorary diploma and
medal to the President Kim Il Sung on the occasion of Sun's Day, his birth
anniversary.
The mayor of the city handed the diploma and medal to the DPRK
ambassador to Peru at a ceremony on April
5.
He prayed for immortality of the President, saying it is for the first
time that the city council decided to award an
honorary diploma and medal to foreign masters.
Written on the diploma were words "the council of Lince city awards
this honorary diploma to his excellency
Kim Il Sung, President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in
high appreciation of his great feats
contributed to world peace and culture."
Peruvian diploma and medal awarded to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The council of Lince city in Peru decided
to award an honorary diploma and
medal to General Secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of Sun's Day.
The mayor of the city handed the diploma and medal to the DPRK
ambassador to Peru at a ceremony on April
5.
It is for the first time that the city council decided to award them to
foreign masters and it is an honor and
happiness o all the citizens to award the diploma anf medal to Kim Jong Il,
he added.
Written on the diploma were words "the council of Lince city awards
this honorary diploma to his excellency
Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK national defence commission, in high
appreciation of his great feats contributed
to world peace and culture."
Seminars on Kim Il Sung's exploits
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held in Pyongyang on the
occasion of the 88th birth
anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
At the seminar of youth league organizations, speakers said that in the
whole course of leading the Korean
revolution Kim Il Sung considered it as a cardinal task to bring up the
young as revolutionaries and raise their role in
the revolution and construction, and consistently pursued the policy of
giving importance to the youth work, adding:
As a result, the Korean youth movement has steadily advanced along the
road of Juche.
Speakers at the seminar held by trade unions mentioned the noble
exploits the President performed in
strengthening and developing trade unions. They said that his unique idea
and theory of building trade unions has
been further developed and enriched under the outstanding guidance of
General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Speakers at the seminar held by agricultural workers' union
organizations said that Kim Il Sung performed
immortal exploits in the building of the Agricultural Worker's Union by
setting out the Juche-oriented idea and line
of building a revolutionary peasants organization and comprehensively
systematized them, thus clearly indicating the
road to be followed by the union.
Speakers at the seminar held by the women's union organizations said
that Kim Il Sung is a benevolent father
who, possessed of the noblest view on the younger generation, brought up
children as reliable successors to the
Juche revolutionary cause.
Efforts to realize global independence and strengthen NAM reiterated
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, who
was heading its delegation, in
his speech made on April 8 at the conference of foreign ministers of
non-aligned countries held in Colombia,
underlined the need to strengthen south-south cooperation.
Recalling that the 12th NAM summit defined it as the basic orientation
of activities of the nam to establish new
and fair international relations, he said that this posed itself as an
issue on which the rise or fall of its member states
hinges.
He said:
The DPRK regards it as the avowed principle of its foreign policy to
invariably adhere to the fundamental
principle and idea of the NAM.
This is the unshakable will and determination of the great leader of
the Korean people Marshal Kim Jong Il who
is determined to glorify the immortal exploits made by the President Kim Il
Sung in strengthening and developing
this movement into one which represents the independent forces in the
present times.
The DPRK has adhered to the principled stand on regarding its
sovereignty as the life and soul and not allowing
any high-handed and arbitrary practices.
Underscoring the need for this conference to examine the implementation
of the decisions made at the Durban
summit and take measures henceforth, Paek Nam Sun set out the following
matters that merit primary attention:
First, it is necessary to further increase the position and role of the
NAM as the united political forces to handle
the changing international situation.
It will be effective to jointly reaffirm the political will and stand
of the movement concerning the decisions made
at the Durban summit such as UN reform, disarmament, foreign occupation and
foreign military bases,
compensation for damage done by suzerain states and human rights, etc.
Second, it is essential to increase the pivotal role of the movement in
leading its member countries to take proper
measures to counter "globalization."
The movement should exert fresh efforts to strengthen south-south
cooperation and step up the work to map out
NAM development strategy and the strategy of negotiating with the north in
the direction of creating favourable
conditions and environment for establishing south-south economic relations
and a fair international economic order
on the occasion of the NAM summit in Havana.
Third, it is necessary to further strengthen NAM solidarity to defend
the sovereignty of its member nations.
In this regard, it is of urgent necessity for the movement to set it as
its political initiative to make the UN summit
for the new millennium declare the principle of respect for sovereignty as
the supreme principle governing
international relations, and carry it out.
The DPRK will as ever faithfully fulfil its noble mission for global
independence and the strengthening and
growth of the NAM and make all its efforts to establish a new and fair
international order, Paek Nam Sun
concluded.
Ishihara's outbursts under fire
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Tokyo metropolitan governor Shintaro
Ishihara reportedly made dangerous
outbursts again on April 9 babbling that "we can expect Sangokujin (people
from Taiwan or Korea or their
descendants) and other foreigners to riot in the event of a disastrous
earthquake," getting on the nerves of the
DPRK.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.
The commentary goes on:
His remarks fully show that the moves of the Japanese reactionaries to
fan up the anti-DPRK hostility in the
Japanese society to utmost pitch and bring the DPRK-Japan relations to a
serious confrontation have reached an
extremely reckless stage.
His remarks also remind us of the great Kanto earthquake in 1923. The
Korean people still remember the
massacre committed by the Japanese imperialists at that time.
His remarks are not his personal view.
If the Japanese authorities have an intention to improve the relations
with the DPRK, they should not allow the
moves to lead the situation to the high pitch of tension picking a quarrel
with the Korean residents in Japan like
today.
If the hostile relations between the DPRK and Japan persist and are
aggravated, it will not bring anything good
to Japan.
If the Japanese reactionaries suppress the Korean residents in Japan
and invade Korea again under any pretext
the Korean people will surely revenge upon them and the Japanese
imperialists who brought measureless misfortune
and sufferings and disasters to the Korean people in the past a hundred and
thousand fold.
Ishihara should bear the responsibility for his remarks and make an
official apology to the Korean people.
The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised not to go berserk.
Samjiyon Revolutionary Battle Site
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The Samjiyon Revolutionary Battle Site is
situated in the Mt. Paektu area in
the northern part of Korea.
Samjiyon means three lakes in the forest.
It was built up as a center for education in the revolutionary
traditions and an open-air museum 20 odd years
ago.
The President Kim Il Sung conducted revolutionary activities in this
area in May Juche 28 (1939) when he was
waging the struggle against the Japanese imperialist aggressors who
occupied Korea.
There is the Samjiyon grand monument which comprises a statue of the
President, groups of sculptures and a
tower of torchlight.
The statue represents the President looking at mountains and streams of
the fatherland with a pair of binoculars
in his hand standing on a rock against the background of Mt. Paektu, a holy
mountain of the revolution. Standing on
its left and right sides are groups of sculptures, which are depicting
soldiers and people with firm pledge to liberate
the country at an early date holding the President in high esteem as great
lodestar of the nation and reverence for
him.
Some groups of sculptures show soldiers of the Korean People's
Revolutionary Army who were battling
against the enemy, marching and camping.
Especially, the granite sculpture "bugler informing of advance," which
was the background of a group of
sculptures representing battle and forward march, was awarded people's
prize for its high ideological and artistic
value in September 1988.
There is also the revolutionary museum in which historic relics and
data on the whole period of the
anti-Japanese armed struggle including the battle in the Musan area are
systematically displayed.
More than 370 relics and data are exhibited in the museum, which has
the general review room and 8 other
rooms.
The museum was built like a log cabin in good harmony with the nature
and weather of the area around the
lakes.
Advertisement of "human rights," means of aggression and plunder
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The imperialists and their mouthpieces
are now more loudly shouting the
slogan "defence of human rights" than ever before in a bid to deceive the
popular masses as if capitalist society is
"humanitarian society" and calm down the complaints and resistance of the
oppressed people, says Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed article.
It goes on:
Modern capitalism is going to ruin within and without because
deformation in material life, poverty in mental
and cultural life and reactionary political life are rapidly worsening and
fight for existence is becoming fiercer among
the capitalist countries.
Seized with uneasiness and bewildered by this situation, the
imperialists and their mouthpieces are hell-bent on
argument about "human rights" to prevent collapse of capitalism and prolong
their privileged position by creating
illusion about capitalism.
Their argument about "human rights above national rights" and "human
rights without border" is a sophism to
find a pretext for invasion and plunder of other countries and nations and
interference in their internal affairs and
pressure upon them.
The imperialists are going to use the issue of human rights for their
purpose of domination, which is expressed
in instructing other countries with a standard of human rights. Their
objects are those anti-imperialist and
independent countries and those countries situated in strategic vantages.
The U.S. is talking about the "human rights" issue in the DPRK with a
view to tarnishing socialism and finding
a pretext for invasion of the DPRK.
Korea's reunification supported
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The conference of foreign ministers of
non-aligned countries held in Colombia
reaffirmed its support to the Korean people's cause of reunification.
The final document adopted at the conference noted that the Korean
peninsula is still divided into two despite the
Korean people's aspiration and desire for reunification.
The document reaffirmed support to the Korean people in their struggle
to reunify the country through dialogue
and negotiations according to the three principles of national
reunification stipulated in the north-south joint
statement (July 4, 1972) and on the basis of the "agreement on
reconciliation, non-aggression, cooperation and
interchange between the north and south" adopted in Feb. 1992.
It stressed that to ensure a durable peace and security on the Korean
peninsula is important not only for the
prosperity of the Korean people but for peace and security of northeast
Asia and the rest of the world.
U.S. hit for moves to establish "NMD"
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The moves stepped up by the U.S. recently
to establish the "National Missile
Defense" system (NMD) worldwide are to have a monopolistic control over the
Asia-Pacific region, over northeast
Asia in particular, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
The commentary continues:
The U.S. loudmouthed "missile threat" from the DPRK is nothing but a
fiction it faked up in a bid to justify its
unilateral arms buildup and, in essence, a product of its strategic design
to contain China and Russia militarily.
The U.S. moves to establish the "NMD" are pregnant with potential danger.
It is as clear as noonday that its establishment would create a serious
situation where the strategic balance in
northeast Asia would be upset and a new missile race sparked to lead to the
outbreak of the second cold war
worldwide.
That is why the world including China and Russia is strongly opposed to
the U.S. moves to establish the
"NMD."
Russia and China warn the U.S. that they will jointly build a missile
defense network to make the U.S. moves
powerless if it backs out of the ABM treaty, while going ahead with the
moves to establish the "NMD."
The U.S. is well advised to discontinue its foolish moves at once,
mindful of the serious consequences to be
entailed by its anachronistic moves for the "NMD."
Plan of cultural exchange between DPRK and Mongolia signed
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The plan of cultural exchange between the
governments of the DPRK and
Mongolia for Juche 89-91 (2000-2002) was signed here today.
The plan was inked by Hong Son Ok, vice-chairperson of the Committee
for Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries, and Damdiny Byamba, Mongolian ambassador to the DPRK.
Medical invention and hi-tech exhibition
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The 6th national exhibition of medical
inventions recently took place in
Pyongyang.
It displayed an all-time leading stock of hi-tech medical hits, new
medicines, methods of diagnosis and
treatment and hi-fi medical apparatuses, and high-lighted the high-running
revolutionary spirit of self-reliance in
view of unprecedented economic hardship.
The medico-biological institute under the Academy of Medical Science
has evolved a gene-engineering approach
to industrialization of the production of hepatitis b vaccine, the
angiographic research section of Kim Man Yu
Hospital produced a form-memory helicoid alloy and its guiding device, and
the medical apparatus institute
displayed a new non-hypodermic injection.
The exhibits included a new hemostatic, anodyne and Koryo antibiotic
ophthalmic from Pyongyang Maternity
Hospital, potato glucose from South Hamgyong Province, new substitutes for
consumer medicine from Jagang
Province as well as artificial blood vessels, artificial dura mater and the
dermatological hospital's freezing device.
The exhibits total some 5,200 items.
Working-level contacts proposed
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The north headquarters of the
pan-national ad hoc committee for probing truth
behind GIs' mass killings today sent a message to relevant organisations in
South Korea and abroad, carrying a
detailed proposal for working-level contacts of people in the north, south
and abroad for the formation of the
pan-national ad hoc investigation committee.
The message calls for working-level contacts of the north, south and
overseas investigation committees in
Beijing around early may in an effort to form at an early date the
"pan-national ad hoc committee for probing truth
behind GIs' mass killings" for handling matters related to the dignity of
the nation such as a joint investigation of
people in the north, south and abroad into the truth behind U.S. aggression
forces' mass killings of people, a trial of
the criminals, punishment of pro-u.s. Traitors to the nation and demand for
compensation in the interests of the
Korean people, the victims.
According to the message, the agenda item of the contacts is supposed
to be "on formation of 'pan-national ad
hoc committee for probing truth behind GIs' mass killings'" and the number
of participants in the contacts will be
3-5 each from the north, south and abroad.
In the message the north headquarters expressed expectation that the
relevant organisations in South Korea and
abroad will show an affirmative response to the contacts.
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