TODAY'S NEWS (July.10.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Yong Nam meets Libyan guests
* Greetings to governor-general of commonwealth of Bahamas
* Hong Song Nam meets Libyan secretary and his party
* Gift to Kim Jong Il
* Wreaths laid before Kim Hyong Jik's statue and grave
* Letter to Kim Jong Il
* Months of maritime sports begin
* Reception in honor of Libyan guests
* Talks between DPRK and Libyan foreign ministers
* Ideological and theoretical exploits of Kim Il Sung
* Kim Hyong Jik, indomitable revolutionary fighter
* Japan's anti-DPRK charade
* Arboretum carries people's best wishes
* Kim Il Sung's external activities brilliantly recorded in world
political history
* Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
* Korean people's cause of national reunification supported abroad
For Spanish-speaking people
* japon debe abandonar malsana intencion politica, comentario de atcc
* kim hyong jik, indoblegable combatiente revolucionario
Kim Yong Nam meets Libyan guests
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, today met and had a talk with Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham,
secretary of the general people's
committee for foreign liaison and international cooperation of the Great
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and
his party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Present there were Kim Yong Il, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
other officials concerned, Ahmed Amer al
Muakkaf, secretary of the people's bureau of the Great Socialist People's
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the DPRK.
Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham said at the meeting that the friendship
between the two countries forged by
Moammer El Gaddafi and Kim Il Sung has a long history.
The close cooperation between the two countries proved that nothing can
break the friendly relations between
them, he said, adding Libya hopes these ties will further expand and develop.
Greetings to governor-general of commonwealth of Bahamas
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, sent a message of greetings on July 8 to Orville Alton Turnquest,
governor-general of the commonwealth of
Bahamas, on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of its independence.
The message congratulated the governor-general and people of Bahamas on
the 27th anniversary of the
independence of Bahamas and wished him success in his work for the
prosperity and progress of the country.
Hong Song Nam meets Libyan secretary and his party
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK
cabinet, today met and conversed with
Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham, secretary of the general people's committee
for foreign liaison and international
cooperation of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and his
party at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Present there were Kang Jong Mo, Minister of Foreign Trade, Kim Yong
Il, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs,
officials concerned and Ahmed Amer al Muakkaf, secretary of the people's
bureau of the Great Socialist People's
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the DPRK.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the secretary of the general
people's committee for foreign liaison and international cooperation of the
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya.
The gift was handed to Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun by secretary
Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham on a visit
to the DPRK.
Wreaths laid before Kim Hyong Jik's statue and grave
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state, officials, working
people and school youth and children
today laid wreaths before the statue of Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable
revolutionary fighter and outstanding leader of
the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, in Ponghwa-ri,
Kangdong county, on the outskirts of
Pyongyang and before his grave in Mangyongdae on the occasion of his 106th
birth anniversary.
Wreaths sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il were laid there.
Senior party and state officials including Kye Ung Thae, Kim Chol Man,
Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and
Choe Yong Rim were present there.
Wreaths and bouquets were placed before his statue and grave in the
name of the Central Committee of the
Worker's Party of Korea, the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of
the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, the DPRK cabinet, ministries, national institutions, working
people's organizations and educational organs.
Wreaths were also laid before his statues in Sakju county, North
Phyongan Province and Junggang county,
Jagang Province.
Letter to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
letter from Choe Hong Hui, president
of the International Taekwon-do Federation, on Saturday on the occasion of
the 6th anniversary of the passing away of
the President Kim Il Sung.
President Kim Il Sung was a peerlessly great man whom the Korean people
acclaimed for the first time in the
history of thousands of years and a great benefactor of him and 50 million
orthodox Taekwon-do players, the letter
said.
Kim Jong Il, who is identical with the President, is a tender-hearted
father of the Korean nation and the sun and
lodestar of national reunification, the letter noted.
The north-south summit was held for the first time 55 years after the
division of the country and the north-south
joint declaration made public, which is the great result of his
broad-minded magnanimity, his firm will to reunify the
country in our era and his idea of the national reunification, said the letter.
The letter expressed the determination to work hard to put into
practice the pledge made before Kim Il Sung and
Kim Jong Il to make contributions to national reunification through Taekwon-do.
Months of maritime sports begin
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- July and August are months of maritime
sports in Korea.
Meetings for opening maritime sports months were held in Pyongyang,
provinces, cities and counties (districts) on
July 2 and 9. Swimming and wading pools have been wonderfully built
everywhere in the country.
At the meetings it was stressed that all school youth and children
should firmly prepare themselves for labour and
the national defence to be more diligent in studies and loyal to their
organizations and thus grow into the reliable
successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche.
The meetings were followed by swimming matches.
Reception in honor of Libyan guests
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The government of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea yesterday gave a
reception in honor of the secretary of the general people's committee for
foreign liaison and international cooperation of
the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and his party at the
Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun in his speech said that the friendship
between the DPRK and Libya based on the
particular intimacy between the President Kim Il Sung and Colonel Moammer
El Gaddafi, leader of the great
September 1st Revolution, is invariably and favourably developing even
under the complicated international situation.
Noting that the Korean people are sincerely rejoiced over the successes
made by the government and people of
Libya in their work to build a free and prosperous Libya, he extended
support and solidarity with the struggle of the
Libyan people.
The Korean people will strive to strengthen and develop the friendly
and cooperative relations with Libya in
accordance with the good experience and traditions established in the
anti-imperialist struggle, he said.
Secretary Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham said in his speech that although
the U.S. is holding back the normal
development of the two countries, the two peoples will surely realize the
common cause.
He continued:
Libya will develop the existing bilateral relations between the two
countries on the basis of the relations provided
by Colonel Moammer El Gaddafi and the eternal President Kim Il Sung.
The friendly relations between Libya and the DPRK will continue
developing amid the concern of the leader of the
Korean people Kim Jong Il, who is carrying forward the cause of the eternal
President Kim Il Sung.
Talks between DPRK and Libyan foreign ministers
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Talks between Paek Nam Sun, Foreign
Minister of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, and Abdulrahman Mohamed Shalgham, secretary of the
general people's committee for foreign
liaison and international cooperation of the Great Socialist People's
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, were held at the
Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang yesterday.
At the talks both sides informed each other of political situation of
their countries and exchanged views on the
development of relations between the two countries and a series of matters
of mutual concern.
Present at the talks were DPRK officials concerned, the Libyan
secretary's party and Ahmed Amer al Muakkaf,
secretary of the people's bureau of the Geat Socialist People's Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya to Korea.
Ideological and theoretical exploits of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Works of the President Kim Il Sung are
being published in Korea.
The publication of "Kim Il Sung's Works" containing his major works was
completed with 50 volumes in April
Juche 86 (1997).
"Complete collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" containing all his works
compiled in chronological order has been
published since April Juche 81 (1992). Supplemented with his works into
which new researches have been made, the
collection has 31 volumes at present.
He published more than 3,070 major works in the whole period of his
revolutionary activities.
He conducted his ideological and theoretical activities in
revolutionary practice, not in study.
He made public nearly 60 works including his first work "Down with
Imperialism" in days of the anti-Japanese
revolution, providing the guidelines precious in speeding up the victory of
the anti-Japanese national liberation
struggle.
He published over 320 works during the period of the Fatherland
Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953), thus
arousing the army and people to victory.
He made public nearly 2,700 works to give perfect answers to all
theoretical and practical questions in carrying on
the Korean revolution and human cause of independence during the period of
building a new democratic Korea,
post-war reconstruction and socialist construction of different stages.
Kim Hyong Jik, indomitable revolutionary fighter
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 106th birth anniversary of
an indomitable revolutionary fighter
Kim Hyong Jik.
He embarked upon the road of revolution with the spirit of "aim high"
in his early years and devotedly struggled
for the liberation of the country and the happiness of people to the last
moments of his life.
Kim Hyong Jik was the outstanding leader of the Korean national
liberation movement and the great pioneer in
changing the course of the struggle from the nationalist movement to the
communist movement.
He inaugurated the Korean National Association on March 23, 1917, at
Hakdanggol, Pyongyang, to develop the
national liberation movement to a higher stage.
This association was an anti-Japanese underground revolutionary
organization which was transparent in
anti-imperialist stand and national independent stand and biggest in its
scale and activity scope in Korea.
After its inauguration, he developed the national liberation movement
in Korea to a new stage of development by
putting forward the idea that people should have the spirit of national
independence, enlarging as well as expand
strengthen organisation and a policy that they should wipe out the armed
enemy with arms and performing the immortal
exploits in the struggle for this.
Indeed, his life was the brilliant one of an ardent patriot who devoted
his all to the independence of the country and
the prosperity of all generations to come.
Therefore, his revolutionary exploits will shine for all ages.
His statues are standing in Kangdong county, Pyongyang, Sakju county,
North Phyongan Province, Junggang
county, Jagang Province, and other places associated with his immortal
revolutionary exploits.
And his revolutionary museums and monuments were built in different
places and his relics are preserved.
Several units and schools have been named after him.
Among them are Kim Hyong Jik University of Education, Kim Hyong Jik
People's Hospital and Kim Hyong Jik
county.
Feature films, including "The Green Pine Tree," "Dawn" and "The
Untrodden Path," showing his revolutionary
life and struggle were created.
Japan's anti-DPRK charade
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government reportedly decided
to mention "missile threat from
North Korea" in a special statement to be adopted at the Okinawa summit of
major nations.
The Japanese authorities seek a despicable and wicked aim in floating
again the fiction of "missile threat," a
product of their hostile policy towards the DPRK, in a bid to build up
public opinion through an international fora.
Japan is a thrice-cursed criminal state which imposed immeasurable
disasters, misfortune and sufferings upon the
Korean people while enforcing an unprecedented military rule during its
occupation of Korea in the past.
Though more than half a century has passed since then, Japan has
neither made any apology or compensation to
the Korean people nor honestly reflected on its past crimes.
Japan, far from drawing a proper lesson from its history of bloody war,
is stepping up arms buildup after
throwing off the mask of "pacifist state" in a bid to realize its old dream
of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere." It
is also busy with the retrogressive revision of the constitution for its
overseas aggression. Japan cites "missile threat
from North Korea" as a justification for these moves.
The Japanese authorities' ulterior aim to bring "missile threat" from
the DPRK to the Okinawa summit of major
nations for discussion is to tarnish the international authority and image
of the DPRK, mislead the world public opinion
urging Japan to honestly reflect on its past crimes and justify its moves
to become a military power.
This sinister and wicked intention of Japan is intolerable as it is an
unbearable insult and mockery of the Korean
people and the international community.
If Japan truly wishes to fulfil its obligation and responsibility as a
member of the international community it should
clearly redeem its crimes committed against the Korean people and humankind
in the past, instead of trying to achieve
its sinister aim by wooing others.
Japan is well-advised to face up to the trend of the times and drop its
anachronistic anti-DPRK hostile policy.
Arboretum carries people's best wishes
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- There is a wonderful arboretum near the
Kumsusan Memorial Palace in
Pyongyang.
At least 500,000 trees and flower plants of some 260 species are
growing in the arboretum covering 100 hectares.
Among them are 11,700 flower trees of 54 species. Plants of various
species including woody plants are
harmoniously distributed in well-systematized plant zones.
This arboretum bears witness to the best wishes of the Korean people
and the world revolutionary people for the
eternal life of the President Kim Il Sung.
Flowers loved by him in his lifetime and rare trees found in the places
where he visited have been transplanted
there by the sincere efforts of people.
A zelkova tree weighing over 10 tons was transplanted by officials of a
national institution and a family from
Kangdong county, Pyongyang, transplanted with all sincerity over 1,000
magnolia trees there.
Pupils of senior middle schools across the country make nests and send
them to the arboretum every year to let
birds of various species fly in the area.
In the arboretum there are lots of rare plants sent by many figures of
China, Russia, Mongolia and other countries
including the chairman of the Danish Dendrologists Association.
It also received 200 Siberian rowan trees sent by the people in the
village of internationalist soldier Ya. T.
Novichenko.
Overseas compatriots made sincere contributions to the arboretum.
A Korean style park will appear in the center of the arboretum before long.
Thanks to these devoted efforts of the Korean people and the world
progressive people the arboretum will not only
add to the scenic beauty of the sacred temple of Juche but serve as a
wonderful center for scientific research and a
cultural recreation ground for people.
Kim Il Sung's external activities brilliantly recorded in world political
history
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- On the occasion of the sixth anniversary
of the passing away of the President Kim
Il Sung (July 8, 1994) the Korean people and the world progressives look
back with deep emotion on the exploits the
President performed through his energetic external activities in the idea
of independence, peace and friendship, the feats
brilliantly recorded in the world political history.
In the whole period when the President was active as head of the
Worker's Party of Korea and the state, he met
with at least 70,000 figures of 136 foreign countries irrespective of their
ideologies and ideal, political views and
religious beliefs.
Among them were more than 230 heads of state and government including
Stalin, Mao Zedong, Sukarno, Tito,
Ho Chi Minh, Mitterrand and Houari Boumedienne.
In June Juche 83 (1994) alone, the last year of his life, the President
energetically worked, meeting former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter and other foreign delegations and personages on some
20 occasions.
He spent several hours, discussing with Carter important issues of
bringing about a radical turn in the efforts for
peace and security on the Korean peninsula and the world.
He also participated in the 85th inter-parliamentary conference and
other international meetings where he made
speeches such as "for a free and peaceful new world" and "preventing war
and preserving peace are the burning tasks
of mankind" to elucidate principled problems in accomplishing the human
cause of independence.
Answering the questions raised by the Washington Times, the Japanese
politico-theoretical magazine Sekai, the
French newspaper Le Monde and many other foreign media, the President gave
scientific answers to the problems
arising in building a new independent world free from war and aggression.
The President covered over 522,440 km to visit the former Soviet Union,
China, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Vietnam,
Algeria and other countries and thus left ineffaceable marks to shine long
in history.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Tajik and Guyanese organizations took part
in the international signature
campaign to support the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
All the members of the Tajik February 16 Association for the Study of
the Juche Idea named after "general Kim
Jong Il" signed the signature paper on July 3.
Meanwhile, Hitraka Dass, coordinator of the Guyanese Women's
Organization for People's Progress, signed the
paper on behalf of its 12,000 members on June 28.
Korean people's cause of national reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- 15 political parties and organizations
including the Latin American and Caribbean
Regional Committee to Support the Reunification of Korea and the Communist
Party of Peru (Red Motherland) issued
a joint statement, the Egyptian Committee for the Study of Idea of Juche a
statement and the general secretary of the
Arab Art, Culture and Information Association of Egypt, the vice-chairman
and secretary of the All India Committee of
Veterans, the former chairman of the Nigerian Journalists Union and the
chairman of the Swiss Committee for
Supporting Korea's Reunification issued statements separately in support of
the Korean people's cause of national
reunification.
The peace-loving people of the world assert that the reunification of
the country, the cherished desire of the Korean
nation, should be achieved by the method of founding the federal republic
according to the principles--independence,
peaceful reunification and great national unity--agreed upon between the
north and the south, said the statements.
The statements expressed the belief that the Korean people would surely
achieve the prosperity of the country and
national reunification under the wise leadership of the great leader Kim
Jong Il.
For Spanish-speaking people
japon debe abandonar malsana intencion politica, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 10 de julio (atcc) -- segun trascendidos, el gobierno
japones decidio incluir en la declaracion especial a
aprobarse en la cumbre de okinawa de paises principales la frase "amenaza
de misiles de la rpd de corea".
sale otra vez con esta ficcion, producto de la politica hostil a la
rpdc con la maligna intencion de divulgarla en la
arena internacional.
el japon es un pais criminal imperdonable que acarreo a nuestro pueblo
innumerables calamidades, desdichas y
penalidades al practicar en el pasado en corea la dominacion de ocupacion
militar inaudita.
sin embargo hasta la fecha a mas del medio siglo de aquel entonces no
pide disculpa ni hace indemnizacion a
nuestro pueblo ni reflexion sincera de su pasado criminal.
en lugar de sacar las lecciones debidas de su pasada historia manchada
con sangre se quita hasta la mascara de
"estado pacifico" con el fin de realizar el antiguo sueno de "esfera de
coprosperidad de gran asia oriental" y da espuelas
al aumento armamentista, recurriendo a la enmienda en peor de la
constitucion que permita emprender la agresion al
ultramar so pretexto de la "amenaza de misiles de la rpdc".
las autoridades japonesas tratan de mencionar en la declaracion
especial de la cumbre de okinawa la "amenaza de
misiles de la rpdc" para denigrar prestigio exterior y la imagen de la
rpdc, apaciguar la opinion mundial que demanda
reflexion sincera del japon de su pasado crimen y justificar su conversion
en potencia militar.
esta maligna intencion del japon es un insulto y burla intolerables a
nuestro pueblo y a la sociedad internacional.
si el japon desea de veras cumplir con su obligacion y responsabilidad
como un miembro de la sociedad
internacional no debe perseguir su malsano objetivo al acusar a otro sino
saldar cuenta de sus crimenes cometidos en el
pasado contra el pueblo coreano y la humanidad.
el japon debe distinguir correctamente la tendencia de la epoca y poner
fin a su anacronica politica hostil a la rpdc.
kim hyong jik, indoblegable combatiente revolucionario
pyongyang, 10 de julio (atcc) -- hoy se cumple 106 aniversario del
nacimiento del indoblegable combatiente
revolucionario kim hyong jik.
con el gran proposito emprendio temprano el camino de la revolucion y
lucho resueltamente por la restauracion de
la patria y la felicidad del pueblo hasta el ultimo momento de su vida.
fue destacado dirigente del movimiento de liberacion nacional de corea
y gran precursor del giro del movimiento
nacionalista al comunista.
con el fin de llevar a una etapa mas alta el movimiento de liberacion
nacional fundo el 23 de marzo de 1917 la
asociacion nacional coreana en el valle hakdang de la ciudad de pyongyang.
la anc, en aquel tiempo en corea fue la organizacion revolucionaria
clandestina antijaponesa de mayor dimension y
esfera de actividades con la firme posicion antimperialista y de
independencia nacional.
despues, kim hyong jik la amplio y fortalecio y presento la idea sobre
la importancia de tener el espiritu de
independencia nacional y la orientacion de lucha por derrotar con armas al
enemigo armado y realizo inmortales proezas
en la empresa por realizarlas situando el movimiento de liberacion nacional
de corea a una nueva etapa de desarrollo.
de veras, la de kim hyong jik fue la brillante vida del ferviente
patriota quien dedico todo lo suyo por la
independencia del pais y la prosperidad de las generaciones venideras.
por eso sus hazanas revolucionarias brillan de generacion en generacion.
sus estatuas de bronce se encuentran en el distrito de kangdong de la
ciudad de pyongyang, el distrito de sakju de
la provincia de phyong-an del norte, el distrito de junggang de la
provincia de jagang, etc., donde estan impregnadas
sus inmortales proezas revolucionarias.
tambien en varios lugares estan acondicionados los museos de historia
revolucionaria, construidos monumentos a
esta y conservados objetos historicos.
ademas, un instituto superior pedagogico, un hospital popular, un
distrito y otras unidades asi como escuelas se
llaman con su nombre.
fueron fabricadas las peliculas dedicadas a su vida y lucha
revolucionarias, entre otras "el pino verde", "aurora" y
"camino de la madrugada"
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