TODAY'S NEWS (July.12.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Greetings to President of Sao Tome and Principe
* FM meets new FAO representative
* Chinese ambassador hosts reception
* Maritime sports brisk in DPRK
* WPK's efforts for final solution of rural question
* S. Korean unionists stage protest
* Seminar on Juche idea in Indonesia
* Compensation for loss of electricity
* Serial poem to Kim Jong Il published by Syrian figure
* Floral basket laid before Portrait of Kim Il Sung
* Indian organizations support three-point charter of Korea's
reunification
For Spanish-speaking people
* gran obra de transformacion de naturaleza de eterna duracion
* ha de ser solucionado problema de indemnizacion por perdida electrica,
comentario de atcc
Greetings to President of Sao Tome and Principe
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on July 8 sent a message of
greetings to Miguel Trovoada, President of
Sao Tome and Principe, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its
independence and proclamation of the
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe.
In the message he extended warm congratulations to the President,
government and people of Sao Tome and
Principe.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations
between the two countries would continue to
develop, he sincerely wished the President, government and people of Sao
Tome and Principe greater success in their
work for the country's prosperity.
FM meets new FAO representative
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister of the DPRK Paek Nam Sun
today received a letter of
credentials from Omar Salah Ahmed, newly appointed representative of the UN
Food and Agricultural Organization in
Korea.
After receiving the credentials, Paek conversed with the representative.
Chinese ambassador hosts reception
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Wang Guozhang, Chinese ambassador to the
DPRK, yesterday hosted a
reception on the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the Korea-China treaty
of friendship, cooperation and mutual
assistance.
The ambassador in his speech said that 39 years ago, the respected
premier Zhou Enlai of the Chinese people and
the President Kim Il Sung of the Korean people signed the treaty in the
interests of the two peoples desirous of
strengthening solidarity, deepening the friendship and promoting
cooperation and defending peace.
He referred to the vitality of the treaty.
Recalling the General Secretary Kim Jong Il's unofficial visit to China
in May last, he noted that the historic visit
paid by him at the turn of the century carried weighty importance in
further promoting mutual understanding,
friendship, trust and cooperation between the two parties and countries and
developing the traditional relations of
friendship. The Chinese people are sincerely rejoiced over the great
successes the Korean people have achieved by
making the vigorous second great Chollima advance in the revolutionary
spirit of self-reliance and fortitude despite
difficulties, united close around the Central Committee of the Worker's
Party of Korea headed by Kim Jong Il and
wish them greater achievements, he stressed.
Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, in his address said that Korea-China friendship is
favorably developed under the deep care of the
great leader Kim Jong Il and the respected Jiang Zemin.
Noting that Kim Jong Il paid the historic unofficial visit to China
following his call at the Chinese embassy in
Pyongyang in March last, which marked a landmark event in the development
of the Korea-China friendly relations, he
expressed the belief that the friendship provided and cultivated by the
preceding leaders of the two countries would be
developed on good terms thanks to concerted efforts of the two sides in the
future, too.
Under the leadership of the communist party of China headed by the
respected Jiang Zemin the Chinese people
have made big successes in the work to achieve social stability and unity
and realize the modernization of the country,
he said, and continued: The Korean people are rejoiced over the Chinese
people's achievements as over their own and
sincerely hope that everything will go well in China in the future, too.
Maritime sports brisk in DPRK
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Maritime sports are brisk in the DPRK these
days.
Opening ceremonies of the month of maritime sports were held in
Pyongyang and local areas on July 2 and 9.
"Jonsung Cup" contests in 10 maritime sports events such as swimming,
water polo and diving are at their height
in Phyongsong, Tokchon and other areas.
The competition has brought together hundreds of players selected from
sports groups in Pyongyang and every
province.
Also brisk is maritime sports activities of school youth and children
and working people.
Beaches, swimming pools and other maritime sports facilities are
abustle with those who train their bodies and
minds through such sports activities as swimming, diving, flying hand-flags
and boating, etc.
Drawing particular attention are swimming programs for school youth and
children. Swimming contests of various
forms are organized according to the specific conditions of each local area.
Those in Pyongyang are distinguishing themselves in competition in
swimming across the hundreds of metres
wide River Taedong.
Lectures, workshops and experience sharing seminars are organized and
posters pasted up to give momentum to
maritime sports.
Maritime sports are greatly encouraged in Korea bounded on three sides
by seas.
Every July and august are designated as months of maritime sports to
popularize them. Seashores and rivers
including Songdowon, Majon, Soho and Sinpho on the east coast and Wau Islet
on the west coast are available for
swimming and maritime sports.
Swimming pools are built at schools at all levels and maritime sports
are disseminated among children according to
their ages.
Maritime sports clubs built in different areas are also making a
positive contribution to the popularization of the
sports.
WPK's efforts for final solution of rural question
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- After the cooperativization of agriculture
had been completed, the Worker's Party
of Korea set a final solution of the rural question as an important
strategic task of socialist construction.
The struggle for the final solution of the rural question was
consistent with the work of carrying out the tasks laid
down in the famous work of the President Kim Il Sung "Theses On the
Socialist Rural Question In Our Country"
published in Feb. Juche 53 (1964).
Clarified in the theses are the essential content of the rural question
under socialism, basic principles and tasks to
solve it, position and role of the county in building socialism in the
countryside and so on.
The WPK adopted the theses as its program to build socialism in the
countryside at the eighth plenary meeting of
its fourth central committee and mobilized the whole party and all people
to implement the theses.
Above all, the party pushed ahead with the ideological, technical and
cultural revolutions as the main tasks of
building socialism in the countryside. At the same time it intensified the
working-class leadership of the peasantry,
assistance of industry to agriculture, and support of towns to the
countryside in every way. In order to consolidate
rural position many hardcore workers and discharged soldiers were
dispatched to the countryside and investments in
the rural areas steadily increased.
Modern farming machines, chemical fertilizers and agricultural
chemicals were increasingly supplied and many
agro-technicians and experts trained at state expense. The agricultural tax
in kind was annually abolished from Juche 53
(1964) to Juche 55 (1966) and capital construction in the countryside
stepped up at state expense.
The party put big efforts to enhancing the role of the county, a
regional base in the construction of a socialist
countryside.
Therefore, a great change has been brought in the work for the final
solution of the rural question.
The ideological, technical and cultural standard of agricultural
workers was elevated and the number of
agro-technicians and experts increased up to a level of one per ten farmers
in 1990.
In more than three decades after the publication of the theses the
number of tractors serving the countryside
increased six times and trucks five times. The material and technical
foundations of agriculture have been firmly laid
with the successful promotion of industrialization and modernization of
agriculture.
Fundamental changes have taken place in the material and cultural lives
of the agricultural workers and conditions
are ripe for converting cooperative property into all-people property.
S. Korean unionists stage protest
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade
Unions (KCTU) on July 8 held a rally
with at least 3,000 unionists attending to vow to resist riot police
crackdown and protect the right to strike, according to
Yonhap News of South Korea.
Addressing the rally, KCTU chairman Tan Pyong Ho branded the repeated
police crackdown upon the Lotte Hotel
Trade Union and the strike of the Medical Insurance Trade Union as a
premeditated operation to push "restructuring"
and the retrogressive revision of the "labor standard law" in the second
half of the year. He stressed that the KCTU
would sustain its struggle in the days ahead.
The KCTU demanded the authorities totally amend the policy of
"restructuring" based on neo-liberalism, stop the
suppression of trade unions, unseat the "chief of the national police
office" and the "Minister of Labor" and arrest the
president of Lotte Group and the chief director of the Medical Insurance
Public Corporation.
Earlier, the Federation of Banking Office Clerks Unions and the Public
Transport and Service Trade Union staged
rallies in Seoul to denounce the authorities for riot police crackdown.
Seminar on Juche idea in Indonesia
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- A seminar on the Juche idea was held at
Bungkarno University in Indonesia on
July 5 on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the passing away of the
President Kim Il Sung.
Present there were Rahmawati Sukarnoputri, president of the Indonesian
Sukarno Foundation of Education, and
academic figures.
Noting that the Juche idea founded by Kim Il Sung is a great idea, the
speakers said he made clear the truth that
any country should be built, believing and depending on the strength of its
nation.
Everybody should believe in his strength, the strength of his people as
the Juche idea requires and dependence on
outside forces leads a country to division and to ruin in the end, they
stressed.
They said that the Juche idea has been further developed and enriched
as a great idea by leader Kim Jong Il.
Compensation for loss of electricity
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- At a recent executive council meeting of
the Korean Peninsula Energy
Development Organisation (KEDO) held in New York a leading official of KEDO
caviled at the DPRK's just proposal
calling for the compensation for the loss of electricity caused by the
delayed provision of light water reactors (LWR).
He asserted that "the concept of compensation cannot be accepted" and
"there is no idea to compensate."
An outright challenge to the DPRK's just proposal, this piffle clearly
indicates that KEDO does not know where it
stands.
The basic mission of KEDO organized by the U.S. under the DPRK-U.S.
agreed framework is to perform its
technical role of providing LWRs to the DPRK within the time limit.
In the final analysis, the U.S. is the DPRK's main partner in the work
related to the LWR provision.
The U.S. is chiefly to blame for the indefinitely delayed construction
of LWRs which it is committed to provide to
the DPRK by 2003 under the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
The U.S. has dragged out the LWR construction on this or that pretext.
In consequence, no one can tell when it
will be completed and the DPRK has suffered a huge loss of electricity due
to this delay.
The U.S., too, fully admitted this and expressed its willingness to
discuss it at future talks.
As seen above, the issue of compensation for the loss of electricity
caused by the delayed provision of LWRs
should be solved between the DPRK and the U.S. it does not allow KEDO's
interference.
KEDO had better stop meddling in other's affair and mind its own
business. The U.S. should compensate for the
loss of electricity caused by the delayed LWR construction.
If the issue of compensation for the loss of electricity fails to find
a smooth solution, the DPRK will be left with no
option but to restart its independent nuclear power industry.
Serial poem to Kim Jong Il published by Syrian figure
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Dr. Riyad Suleiman Iwad, member of the
political bureau of the Socialist
Unionist Party of Syria and director of its research department, dedicated
a serial poem (five pieces) to General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Noting that Kim Jong Il is an iron-willed commander, the poem says that
thanks to the great courage of the
commander the joy of life prevails in the happy DPRK and its people are
demonstrating its dignity as a guardian of the
world revolution with swords of justice in hands when the world is greatly
disturbed by saber-rattling.
It sings praises of his bright smile, his great care and his
revolutionary steps.
It is thanks to his sunny smile that the life in the DPRK is cheerful
and its blessed people sing of their happiness.
The poem says: thanks to his smile the DPRK will be brilliant and
eternal like the sun.
The poet praises Kim Jong Il's great care as a powerful sword to beat
enemies, a bright beacon to steer the era and
a red banner to lead humankind.
Pointing out that his revolutionary history began in the log cabin in
the secret camp on snow-capped Mt. Paektu,
the poem emphasizes that people, revolution, era and history are advancing
as guided by him.
Praising Kim Jong Il as a guardian of the red flag, the poem notes that
red flags flew high in the sky over the
DPRK when those were brought down one by one in eastern European countries.
The red color represents a glow in the sky over Mt. Paektu and that is
why the DPRK is called a country of red
flag and strong faith which means socialist Korea, it says.
Floral basket laid before Portrait of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- The Organization of Solidarity of the
Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America
laid a floral basket before the Portrait of the President Kim Il Sung on
July 5 on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of
his passing away.
Present at the function were secretary general of the executive
secretariat and members of the organization, the
Korean ambassador to Cuba and embassy officials.
The participants laid a floral basket before the portrait of the
President hung on a wall of the organization building
and paid tribute to him.
The secretary general said that the revolutionary life of President Kim
Il Sung who performed brilliant exploits for
the cause of freedom and liberation of peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin
America will go down in the history of his
organization.
Indian organizations support three-point charter of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- The signature paper supporting the
three-point charter of Korea's reunification
was signed on July 4 by chairman of the All-India Youth Federation Sitaram
Sharma on behalf of 2,500,000 members,
by former member of the autonomous council of Delhi A. K. Chawhan on behalf
of 50,000 residents in Kalyanpri,
Delhi State, by general secretary of the All-India Veteran Committee A. P.
S. Chawhan on behalf of 10,000 veterans
and by the president of Namata Barati International School of India on
behalf of teaching staff and students.
For Spanish-speaking people
gran obra de transformacion de naturaleza de eterna duracion
pyongyang, 12 de julio (atcc) -- ahora, en la rpd de corea se da gran
impulso a la construccion del canal
kaechon-lago thaesong que es una gran obra de transformacion de la
naturaleza de eterna duracion.
se trata de una enorme obra para suministrar suficientemente agua para
riego e industrial a la region occidental por
medio de construir la esclusa en el rio taedong de la comuna de taegak,
ciudad de kaechon y formar canal de corriente
natural de 160 km.
la obra se impulsa pese a la escasez de las maquinas y equipos,
combustible y materiales de distintos generos.
se construyen en su mayoria por la fuerza humana el canal de 160 km,
una esclusa, decenas de tuneles fluviales y
tubos subterraneos y numerosos estructuras.
el tamano de la obra del canal es 5 veces mayor que la obra de
irrigacion de la provincia de phyong-an del sur
destinada a suministrar agua al lago yonphung y 4 veces mayor que la obra
de irrigacion de kiyang destinada a llevar
agua del rio taedong al lago thaesong.
en el pasado se operaron grandes bombas en cientos de estaciones de
bombeo para llevar agua de las zonas bajas a
los embalses de grandes y pequenos tamanos. pero, cuando se termine la obra
del canal arriba mencionado mas de 20
embalses se llenaran espontaneamente de agua del rio taedong por que se
hallan mas abajo que el canal. entonces seran
innecesarios mas de 380 estaciones de bombeo y mas de 530 bombas de agua y
se ahorrara mucha electricidad.
ademas se solucionara por completo el problema del agua para el granero
de la region occidental y se construiran
las centrales hidroelecticas de mediano y pequeno tamanos en la esclusa de
taegak y en el canal y se crearan condiciones
para desarrollar la piscicultura.
la formacion de un nuevo "rio" entre el rio taedong y el rio chongchon
hara mas hermoso el paisaje del territorio
nacional.
ha de ser solucionado problema de indemnizacion por perdida electrica,
comentario
de atcc
pyongyang, 12 de julio (atcc) -- en el consejo ejecutivo de la
organizacion para el desarrollo de la energia en la
peninsula coreana (kedo) sesionado recientemente en nueva york la autoridad
de esta entidad contravino a nuestra
propuesta concerniente al problema de indemnizacion por la perdida
electrica ocasionada por el atraso de la
construccion de reactores de agua ligera, al declarar: "no se puede aceptar
el criterio de indemnizacion y no tiene idea de
compensar".
esto es un desafio a nuestra justa propuesta y un comportamiento del
todo injusto de la kedo.
la kedo es una corporacion que organizo ee. uu. para construir los
reactores de agua ligera y ofrecerlos a la rpd de
corea segun el acuerdo basico concertado con la rpdc. la kedo debe jugar el
rol practico para ofrecernos dentro del plazo
fijado reactores de agua ligera.
ee. uu. es la contraparte principal de la rpdc en la labor relativa al
ofrecimiento de reactores de agua ligera.
recae enteramente sobre ee.uu. la responsabilidad de la gran dilacion
de la construccion de los reactores de agua
ligera porque debe entregarnos hasta el ano 2003, segun el acuerdo arriba
mencionado.
ee. uu. posterga bajo tal o cual pretexto la construccion de reactores
de agua ligera. nadie sabe hasta cuando se
prolongara la obra, debido a lo cual la rpdc sufre gran perdida electrica.
tambien ee. uu. lo reconocio enteramente y dijo que lo discutira en las
conversaciones ulteriores.
asi el problema de la compensacion de la perdida electrica ocasionada
por la dilacion del ofrecimiento de reactores
de agua ligera compete a ee.uu. no a la kedo.
esta organizacion debe limpiar su nariz y dejar de intervenir en las
cosas ajenas. ee.uu. debe hacer compensacion
de la perdida electrica causada por la dilacion de la construccion de
reactores de agua ligera.
si este problema se complica no podemos menos que poner en
funcionamiento nuestra congelada industria de
energia nuclear independiente.
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