DPRK News May 5th
Press conference at Russian embassy
Kwak Pom Gi meets Kyoto MK Group President
Senior DPRK officials meet foreign guests
2nd Pyongyang medical science symposium
Solidarity meeting with Japanese visiting group
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work observed
Army-first politics is mode of leadership of brilliant commander
KPA grows into invincible army
Association for Restoration of Fatherland 64 years old
DPRK FM spokesman reiterates stand on terrorism
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported
Kim Il Sung's reminiscences released in Russia
Korean books presented to Guyana
Press conference at Russian embassy
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A press conference was held at the Russian
embassy here yesterday on the
occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Soviet people's victory in the
great patriotic war.
Present there were media-persons in Pyongyang and foreign diplomatic
envoys, military attaches and press
officials of various embassies here.
Ambassador Valery Denisov and staff members of the Russian embassy were
on hand.
Vladimir Dombrovski, military attach of the Russian embassy, addressed
the conference.
He recalled that the heroic soviet army and people crushed the Hitler
fascist group and achieved great victory in the
patriotic war and mentioned its historic significance.
Kwak Pom Gi meets Kyoto MK Group President
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Vice-premier Kwak Pom Gi of the DPRK cabinet
today met and conversed with
Yu Pong Sik, president of the Kyoto MK Group of Japan, and his party.
Senior DPRK officials meet foreign guests
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly (SPA), met and conversed with the Angolan government delegation
headed by Antonio Goma, vice-Minister
of Public Works and Urban Affairs of Angola, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall
today.
Vice-president of the presidium of the SPA Kim Yong Dae met with Leo
Boyce Mcleay, member of the Federal
Parliament of Australia, and his party.
Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the SPA, met with a delegation of the
Poland-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group
led by Cezary Stryjak, member of the Polish Sejm and chairman of the group.
Present there were Hong So Hon, chairman of the Korea-Poland Friendship
Parliamentary Group, and
Mieczyslaw Dedo, charge d'affaires ad interim of Poland here.
2nd Pyongyang medical science symposium
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The 2nd Pyongyang medical science symposium
of Koreans at home and abroad
was held at the People's Palace of Culture on May 3 and 4.
Attending the symposium were Choe Chang Sik, chairman of the central
committee of the Korean Medical
Association, officials concerned and medical scientists, technicians and
health service workers.
Present were also a delegation of Korean Medical Workers in Japan led
by Choe Chang Rok, advisor to the
Korean Medical Workers Association in Japan= a delegation of Korean Medical
Workers in China led by Prof. Sim
Chol Gwan of the hospital attached to the medical college of Yanbian
University in China= a delegation of Korean
Medical Workers in the United States led by Pak Mun Jae, advisor to the
U.S. Christian Association for Medical
Mission= and Jong Arina Nikolayevna, representative of the Korean Medical
Workers in Uzbekistan.
Congratulatory speeches were made at the symposium by the chairman of
the central committee of the Korean
Medical Association, heads of the delegations from the United States and
China, and the vice-chairman of the Korean
Medical Workers Association in Japan who is chief of its general affairs
department.
They said that interchange of precious research achievements and
experience made by Korean medical scientists,
educationists and workers at home and abroad in scientific research and
medical service would be helpful to solving the
urgent theoretical and practical problems raised in public health and
improving the medical service for the Korean
people.
Presented at the symposium were scores of valuable papers introducing
the achievements and experience made by
Korean medical scientists at home and abroad in medical research and
medical service for treatment and prevention.
The participants in the symposium adopted a letter of thanks to General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
They in the letter said the credit for the successful symposium, which
was held in a peculiar style when the
fatherland was undergoing hardships, goes to the deep love of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il for Korean medical
workers at home and abroad. And they expressed the determination to raise
the medical science and technology of
Korea to the world standard in the near future and thus repay his love.
Solidarity meeting with Japanese visiting group
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A meeting for solidarity with the Okinawa
peace and amity visiting group of Japan
for peace and friendship was held here on May 4.
Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations
With Foreign Countries, in his speech
said that the U.S. has deployed its large troops and military bases in
South Korea and Okinawa over half a century
according to its aggressive Asia-Pacific domination strategy, threatening
the DPRK militarily and posing a grave
danger to peace and security in northeast Asia.
It is an urgent requirement of the times to wage a powerful joint
struggle for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops and
military bases from South Korea and Okinawa, he said.
Head of the visiting group Masahide Ota who is the former governor of
Okinawa Prefecture, said he thinks that the
issues of Korea's reunification and stability on the Korean peninsula
should be settled by the north and south sides
independently in a peaceful way on the principle of great national unity
and Japan, the U.S. and other countries should
sincerely help settle the issues.
He continued:
It has been shown in several documents and materials that the culture
and art of Okinawa were greatly influenced
by Korea and both sides had historically deep relations.
In this sense, we hope our Korea visit will mark an important occasion
for the improvement of the Japan-DPRK
relations.
At the meeting a joint appeal was made public.
The meeting was followed by a joint art performance of Korean and
Japanese artistes .
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work observed
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
observes the 9th anniversary of the
publication of the celebrated work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "Our
Socialism Centred On the Masses Shall Not
Perish."
The work clarifies that Korean socialism is man-centred socialism, the
embodiment of the Juche idea, and
invincible socialism under which its superiority and vitality are fully
displayed in all aspects of social life and the
leader, the party and the people are single-heartedly united.
Recalling that over the last 9 years since the publication of the work
Korean socialism did not collapse quite
contrary to the expectation of the imperialists and reactionaries but has
grown stronger and advanced more
dynamically, the article says:
Man-centred Korean style socialism is displaying its tremendous
vitality and might thanks to the new grand
Chollima advance.
This new grand Chollima advance is a striking demonstration of the
inexhaustible might of Korean socialism
advancing on the strength of ideology.
It is the strong faith cherished by the Korean people in the course of
the arduous struggle that defending socialism
means victory and abandoning it means death.
The Korean people are now effecting a revolutionary upturn breaking
through stern ordeals. This indefatigable
struggle proves that the might of socialism advancing on the strength of
idea is inexhaustible.
This advance also powerfully demonstrates the might of our socialism
built on the solid foundation of the
independent economy.
Army-first politics is mode of leadership of brilliant commander
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- It is the mode of leadership peculiar to the
Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il to
increase military power and the overall national strength of the country by
pursuing army-first politics.
The army-first politics means solving all the problems in the
revolution and construction and putting forward the
army as the pillar of the revolution on the principle of attaching priority
to military affairs to push ahead with the
socialist cause as a whole. This serves as the most effective political
mode in Korea.
Kim Jong Il clarified long ago the plain truth that an army guarantees
peace and socialism, the army is precisely the
party, the people and the state, and a strong army can defend socialism.
After defining the army-first leadership as the
basic political mode, he has channelled primary efforts into strengthening
revolutionary armed forces, thus bringing
golden days in the development.
In recent years the Korean people have been able to emerge victorious
in the confrontation with the imperialists
despite manifold difficulties and trials. Credit for this goes to Kim Jong
Il's command over the army. He has given
high prominence to the Korean People's Army as the most faithful
revolutionary ranks, reposing deep trust in it.
In a little more than five years from the time the President Kim Il
Sung demised, the nation's greatest loss, to the
end of last year, Kim Jong Il visited 490 units of the KPA for on-site
guidance by covering at least 51,960 kilometers.
Whenever he visited KPA units, he imbued the servicemen with awareness
of their mission as a revolutionary
army and high class consciousness and took operational measures to counter
any military provocations of the enemy,
settling all the problems in increasing its combat capability.
As a result, the army has grown to be an army strong in ideology and
faith, displaying its invincible might in any
confrontation with the imperialists and firmly defending the socialist
homeland.
At the same time, he has led the KPA to successfully play its role as
the vanguard in socialist construction.
The KPA servicemen built many edifices of eternal value in different
parts of the country, overcoming economic
difficulties in the do-or-die spirit and the spirit of self-reliance during
the "arduous march" and forced march.
The KPA has thus become a model for the whole state and society in the
DPRK. All the people are learning from
the fighting spirit and traits of the revolutionary army and doing their
best for increasing the defence capability of the
country.
It is thanks to the army-first leadership of the Supreme Commander that
the KPA is exalting its honor as a resolute
defender of the socialist cause, creator of the people's happiness and the
hardcore force of the revolution.
KPA grows into invincible army
Cairo, May 3 (KCNA) -- Ali Hassan, management department director of
the Ministry of Defence and Military
Production of Egypt, had an interview with a KCNA correspondent in Cairo on
April 22 on the occasion of the 68th
anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.
The revolutionary armed forces of Korea founded by President Kim Il
Sung won great victories in the two
righteous wars against the Japanese and U.S., he said, and continued:
The KPA holding Kim Jong Il, successor to Kim Il Sung, in high esteem
as the KPA Supreme Commander and
chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission has grown into an
invincible army with powerful offensive and
defensive means.
The people and army of the DPRK led by Kim Jong Il will in the future,
too, reliably defend the sovereignty of the
republic and surely build a powerful nation in the near future.
Association for Restoration of Fatherland 64 years old
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 64th anniversary of the
Association for the Restoration of the
Fatherland (ARF), an underground revolutionary organization in the period
of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
It was the first permanent anti-Japanese national united front
organization founded in the middle of the 1930s in
Korea.
It was a nationwide united front grouping workers, peasants, youth and
students, intellectuals, patriotic landlords,
capitalists and men of religion.
The ARF had its program, declaration and rules.
The President Kim Il Sung drew up the ten-point program, rules and the
inaugural declaration for the association
in breaks during endless arduous marches and hard-fought battles.
The program called for mobilizing the entire Korean nation to overthrow
the Japanese and establish a genuine
people's government, organizing a revolutionary army and enforcing
democratic policies such as the nationalization of
industries, the agrarian reform, the eight-hour day for the workers, the
equality between the sexes and the free
compulsory education.
The declaration called on all the Korean people to unite close and turn
out in a sacred war for the liberation of the
country from the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists.
The President called a meeting to found the ARF in May Juche 25 (1936)
at which he announced its birth.
Its participants elected Kim Il Sung chairman of the ARF, representing
the unanimous will of the Korean people.
The meeting decided to publish the Samil Wolgan (March 1st) as the
organ of the ARF.
The birth of the association gave a new origin to the national unity as
it put the demands and interests of the nation,
not specified class and section, above anything else.
DPRK FM spokesman reiterates stand on terrorism
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Department of State issued an
annual report on "patterns of global
terrorism" on May 1, which still brands the DPRK as a state sponsor of
terrorism and which says it is subject to
economic sanctions by the U.S.
The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in an answer to a
question put by KCNA today in this
regard bitterly denounced the U.S. for groundlessly taking issue with the
DPRK again.
He said:
The DPRK government that values justice and peace has always been
opposed to all manner of terrorism and any
support for it. The international community acknowledges and supports such
a principled stand of the DPRK.
The U.S. is the source and sponsor of global terrorism.
It is a height of arrogance for such a country as the U.S. to brand
other countries as "state sponsors of terrorism,"
acting as a "judge of terrorism," and take issue with the DPRK.
As shown by experience, the recently-published report is part of a U.S.
attempt to describe the countries that
refuse to give in to its power politics and demand for domination and the
countries that take the road of independence
as "state sponsors of terrorism" and isolate and stifle them politically,
economically and militarily.
DPRK-U.S. negotiations for improved relations are now under way at
which a series of outstanding issues such
as an issue of "terrorism" are discussed. Under the situation the U.S. took
issue with the DPRK again over this issue,
which is a clear indication that the U.S. policy to isolate and stifle the
DPRK under the pretext of "terrorism" still
remains unchanged.
The U.S. can never hurt the DPRK by keeping it on the list of "sponsors
of terrorism."
By nature, the DPRK does not care whether it is on the list or off the
list.
The discussion on the removal of the DPRK from the list at the
DPRK-U.S. negotiations started as the U.S.
invited a DPRK high-level delegation to the U.S. and has cried out for the
"improvement of bilateral relations."
The U.S. should put an immediate stop to a foolish attempt to do harm
to the DPRK by slandering the DPRK over
the issue of "terrorism" and get any concessions from it and ponder over
the grave consequences of the anachronistic
policy hostile toward the DPRK.
That will benefit the U.S. itself.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Communist Party
of Bulgaria on April 28 issued a
statement in support of the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
The statement noted that the charter was the most reasonable and
realistic proposal to reunify the country at an
early date without any interference of foreign forces.
The party backs the demand of the world public for the immediate
withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South
Korea, it said, and added:
The c.c. of the Communist Party of Bulgaria declares in the name of
provincial and local party organizations and
12,000 party members that it participates in the international signature
campaign for supporting the three-point charter
of Korea's reunification.
Kim Il Sung's reminiscences released in Russia
Moscow, May 3 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for releasing vol. 8 (continuing
edition) of part 1 the anti-Japanese
revolution of the President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century"
took place in Moscow on April 21.
The general director of the Ruski Laritet Publishing House in his
speech said that Kim Il Sung was the greatest
man in the world and though he passed away, the struggle for the final
victory of socialism is successfully going on in
Korea and the cause pioneered by the President is being carried forward.
A ceremony for releasing a collection of poems "Three Commanders of Mt.
Paektu" and books "Miracle in Korea"
and "Flying Up Toward Sun" was also held on the same day.
Korean books presented to Guyana
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for presenting Korean books was
held at the building of the Guyanese
National Defence Force on April 20.
At the ceremony the DPRK ambassador to Guyana conveyed famous works of
the President Kim Il Sung and
General Secretary Kim Jong Il and other books to Joseph G. Singh, chief of
staff of the Guyanese Defence Force.
The chief of staff in his speech said that through the valuable books
they would grasp the outstanding military
ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the great achievement made under
their leadership over army building and
learn from the proud history of the Korean People's Army.
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