TODAY'S NEWS (July.14.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Floral basket to Korean embassy
* Gift to Kim Jong Il from Polish FM
* Rodong Sinmun calls for great national unity
* Documentary films
* Kim Il Sung's work published
* Books helpful to education in revolutionary traditions published
* Foreign figures visit DPRK embassies
* Pothong gate
* Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported in Russia
* Rodong Sinmun on national independence
* Month of solidarity with Cuban people observed
For Spanish-speaking people
* rpdc: documentales de tesoro nacional
* periodicos conmemoran mes de solidaridad con pueblo cubano
* establecidas relaciones diplomaticas entre rpdc y filipinas
Floral basket to Korean embassy
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk sent a
floral basket to the Korean embassy
in Phnom Penh on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the President Kim
Il Sung's passing away.
A delegation of the Ministry of Royal Palace of Cambodia headed by Kong
Sam Ol, deputy prime minister, visited
the Korean embassy on July 8 and laid a floral basket before the portraits
of the President Kim Il Sung and General
Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Written on a ribbon of the floral basket were letters reading "Highest
tribute to H.E. Generalissimo Kim Il Sung,
President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Norodom Sihanouk,
King of the Kingdom of Cambodia."
On the occasion the deputy prime minister said that the Cambodian
people would make all their efforts to further
develop friendly relations between the two countries established by Kim Il
Sung and Norodom Sihanouk.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Polish FM
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Poland.
The gift was handed to the DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun by
vice-Minister Radoslaw Sikorski who is
leading the delegation of the Foreign Ministry of Poland on a visit to Korea.
Rodong Sinmun calls for great national unity
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Nothing can breaker repress the Korean
people's desire and will to reunify the
country through unity of the whole nation, says Rodong Sinmun today in a
signed article.
Stressing that the nation's might is that of unity and its destiny is
decided by the unity, the article says:
The Korean people are a homogeneous nation strong in patriotism and
unity. They had lived for many years as one
nation, strengthening its identity.
In order to defend their national identity as a homogeneous nation and
independently carve out its destiny, the
Korean people should join the severed blood ties of the nation as one and
regain its identity as a homogenous one.
Strong driving force of the nation should be built up to reunify the
country. To this end, it is important to achieve
the great unity of the whole nation.
Great national unity should be achieved on the principle of national
independence. Only then, is it possible for the
Korean nation to become true master of its destiny and a great motive and
decisive force for the reunification and
prosperity of the country.
As the trend of the times can hardly be stemmed, nothing can break the
Korean nation's will for unity and
reunification.
Documentary films
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Documentary films of national value
recording the revolutionary activities of the
President Kim Il Sung have been produced in Korea.
More than 40 documentary films have seen the light over the last six years.
Among them is the documentary film "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung Meets with Heads of State and
Prominent Figures of Foreign Countries" giving a record of his external
activities (parts 1-7).
The film tells the viewers that the President met with over 70,000
heads of party and state and prominent figures
from 136 countries from March Juche 38 (1949) till the last moments of his
life.
It also records the facts that he made 54 official and unofficial
visits to 87 countries for 685 days.
Documentary films "The Great Life in 1994", "The Fatherly Leader Among
Working Class" and "The Fatherly
Leader Among Agricultural Workers" impressively deal with the exploits the
President performed by energetically
giving on-the-spot guidance to at least 18,000 units across the country for
some 17,800 days.
There are also documentaries comprehensively recording memorial
meetings held in Korea and various parts of the
world after the President's passing away such as "The Great Leader Comrade
Kim Il Sung Is Immortal" and the
documentary film giving facts from his reminiscences "With the Century".
Kim Il Sung's work published
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung's immortal work "On
the Three Principles of National
Reunification" was published in booklet by the Natun Bangla Publishing
House of Bangladesh on July 5.
This is his talk to South Korean representatives who came to Pyongyang
to participate in the high-level political
talks between the north and south on May 3, Juche 61 (1972).
In the talk he laid down the three principles--independence, peaceful
reunification and great national unity--to
provide a great program for reunification.
The booklet in its preface says that the issue of Korean reunification
should be solved not only in the interests of
the Korean people but for regional security and world peace.
Noting that the President set forth the three principles of national
reunification which serve as a cornerstone of
Korean reunification, the booklet says that these principles are
demonstrating their great vitality as the days go by for
their fair and aboveboard, reasonable and realistic nature.
Books helpful to education in revolutionary traditions published
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Several publishing houses in the DPRK have
brought out many books helpful to
education of working people in the revolutionary traditions.
The books make a comprehensive and in-depth depiction of the glorious
revolutionary history and immortal
exploits of the President Kim Il Sung and profound contents of the
revolutionary traditions of Juche, a national treasure
of eternal value of the Korean revolution achieved under his leadership.
The Worker's Party of Korea Publishing House has printed "short
biography of the President Kim Il Sung."
In the book the revolutionary activities of the President are divided
into 12 periods.
Souvenir memo-books helpful to the visitors to the revolutionary battle
sites and historic places in Ryanggang and
north Hamgyong provinces and the education in the revolutionary traditions
have also come off the press.
The Science and Encyclopedia Press Group has brought out "The Major
Chronological Table of the Revolutionary
Activities of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" (6) which deals in a
chronological order with the revolutionary
activities conducted by the President from October Juche 69 (1980) to July
Juche 83 (1994), and the Kum Song Youth
Press Group "The Reminiscences of Anti-Japanese Guerrillas" (4) for the
Children's Union members of senior middle
schools.
Among those that have seen the light are many books based on the
revolutionary traditions, including those on the
spirit of devotedly defending the leader displayed by the young communists
in their struggle under the banner of
"Down-with-Imperialism Union" and the struggle waged by the Saenal
Children's Union.
Foreign figures visit DPRK embassies
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Foreign figures, including Sazhi
Umalatova, chairperson, and Shashbiashbili,
first vice-chairman, of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia and the
Minister of Information and Culture of Ethiopia,
separately visited the DPRK embassies in their capital cities on the
occasion of the sixth anniversary of the passing
away of the President Kim Il Sung.
They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the full-length figure
portraits of the great leaders Kim Il Sung and
Kim Jong Il and bowed to them in humble reverence.
Meanwhile, the President of the c.c. of the Lao Women's Union and the
vice-president of the central committee of
the Lao Front for National Construction, etc, visited the DPRK embassy in
Vientiane.
They laid floral baskets before a picture of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong
Il standing on Mt. Paektu and paid tribute to
them.
Pothong gate
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- The Pothong gate standing on the bank of
the River Pothong flowing through the
central part of the capital city of Pyongyang is one of the historic relics
listed as national treasure.
The gate was erected as a western gate of Pyongyang in 586 when Koguryo
was building the walled city as its
capital.
It was repaired in 1406 when the wall was rebuilt and the present
structure was built in 1473. It underwent repairs
several times afterwards.
The gate is made up of the substructure and the two-storied pavilion
resting on it.
The substructure, 7.6 m in height, was laid with trimmed granite blocks
with arched gateway, 4.4 m in width and
4.55 m in height, in its middle part. The front of the gateway used to be
barred by a solid wooden gate reinforced with
rows of iron rivets.
The pavilion is a loft building with crane-shaped roof of double eaves.
As a gateway opening out to the northwest of the walled city of
Pyongyang, the Pothong gate was of great
importance throughout the periods of the Koguryo, Koryo and Li dynasties
because it occupied a vital situation both
from the standpoint of national defence and of day-to-day traffic.
In 1592 when the Imjin patriotic war was fought the Korean people and
soldiers dashed in through the gate and
dealt a crushing blow to the enemy troops, liberating the walled city.
Solid and elegant in its architectural style, the gate adds to the
scenic beauty of its surrounding areas. From olden
times the gate has been called a gate to send off guests and prized by the
people as one of the eight famous sights of
Pyongyang.
The ancient Pothong gate is in good shape thanks to the nation's policy
to preserve the cultural relics.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported in Russia
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Political party leaders and organizations
of Russia participated in the international
signature campaign to support the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by secretary of the central committee of
the Communist Worker's Party of Russia
Yuri Terentiev, chairman of the All Russia Socio-Political Movement
"Communists, Working Russia-USSR" V.
Grigoriev, chairman of the executive committee of the Soviet Congress of
Russian Workers, Peasants, Specialists and
Clerks A. Nokolayev on July 4.
Also participating in the signature campaign on the same day were
organizational secretaries of Kalmyk Republic
and Moskva, Yaroslav, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Tula and Veronezh regional
committees under the Communist Worker's
Party of Russia, the chairman of the council of the Tyumen region under the
Soviet Congress of Workers, Peasants,
Specialists and Clerks of Russia, and the organizations of the Communist
Worker's Party of Russia of 17 republics,
territories and regions.
Rodong Sinmun on national independence
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed
article stressing that what is important in
realising national reunification, the supreme task of the nation, is to
maintain the principle of national independence,
which is the core of settlement of the national issue.
There is no more urgent task of the Korean nation than to achieve
national independence, the article says, and goes
on:
National reunification is the issue of reuniting the bisected nation
and achieving nation-wide independence.
The principle of national independence constitutes the core of
settlement of the national issue because it is an idea
of independence reflecting the common demand and interests of the nation.
The north and south of Korea should carve out the destiny of the nation
independently. Independence is the only
way of the nation to live and achieve reunification.
The issue of reunification calls for maintaining independence in the
movement for reunification. The maintenance
of independence makes it possible to settle all the problems in the
movement for reunification in conformity with the
independent demand and basic interests of our nation and on its strength.
The Korean nation has the ability to resolve by itself the issue of
national reunification, an internal affair of the
nation.
Our nation, strong in patriotism and high in the spirit of
independence, has bravely fought in defence of the
independence of the country and the nation.
No one can break the will of our nation to reunify the country in an
independent and peaceful way and no force can
block the vigorous advance of our fellow countrymen toward national
reunification.
Month of solidarity with Cuban people observed
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Papers here carry articles extending full
support and solidarity to the just cause of
the Cuban people on the occasion of the month of solidarity with the Cuban
people.
Rodong Sinmun says the month of solidarity will mark a significant
occasion in manifesting the Korean people's
firm support and solidarity with the just cause of the Cuban people and
further strengthening the militant and comradely
friendship and solidarity between the two peoples.
Today the Cuban people are steadfastly holding aloft the banner of
socialism, smashing every move of the
imperialists to isolate and stifle their country, the daily notes, and goes on:
The slogans "Motherland or death, we will win" and "Socialism or death,
we will win" clearly show how strong
the Cuban people's confidence and will are.
Cuban boy Elian's recent return to his motherland from his detention in
the United States is another brilliant
victory won by the Cuban people with a staunch will and spirit to fight for
justice to the last despite whatever
difficulties and adversities.
Korea-Cuba friendship based on the warm comradeship and intimate
relations between the great leader Kim Il
Sung and the respected Fidel Castro Ruz is steadily growing stronger and
developing.
The Korean people will in the future, too, fully support the just cause
of the Cuban people and advance shoulder to
shoulder with them in the common struggle to defend national sovereignty
and socialism, the paper stresses.
Meanwhile, Minju Joson points out that further developing the
friendship and solidarity and cooperative relations
between Korea and Cuba is in full line with the vital demands and interests
of the two peoples and greatly conducive to
the common cause of the world revolutionary people for independence and
socialism against imperialism.
For Spanish-speaking people
rpdc: documentales de tesoro nacional
pyongyang, 14 de julio (atcc) -- en la republica popular democratica de
corea fueron fabricados numerosos
documentales de tesoro nacional referidos a las actividades revolucionarias
del gran lider presidente kim il sung.
en los ultimos seis anos se rodaron mas de 40 documentales. entre estos
figuran 1-7 partes del "encuentro del gran
lider camarada kim il sung con jefes y otras renombradas personalidades de
los paises extranjeros" que recopilan sus
actividades exteriores .
el documental contiene las actividades que desde marzo del 38 (1949) de
la era juche hasta el ultimo periodo de su
vida el presidente desarrollo al encontrarse con mas de 70 mil jefes del
partido y el estado y personalidades de distintos
sectores de 136 paises del mundo.
se refiere a la visita oficial y extraoficial del presidente a 87
paises extranjeros realizada durante 685 dias en 54
ocasiones.
los documentales "el ano 1994 de la gran vida", "el lider padre se
halla junto con la clase obrera", "el lider padre se
encuentra junto con trabajadores agricolas" y otros muestran con gran
emocion las hazanas que realizo al visitar de
orientacion mas de 18 mil unidades del pais durante mas de 17 800 dias.
entre los documentales figuran "el gran lider camarada kim il sung sera
inmortal" (varias partes) que sintetiza actos
de recordacion desarrollados en el pais y extranjero despues de su
fallecimiento y el otro que recopila el contenido de su
memoria "en el transcurso del siglo".
periodicos conmemoran mes de solidaridad con pueblo cubano
pyongyang, 14 de julio (atcc) -- los periodicos de esta capital en sus
articulos de hoy dedicados al mes de
solidaridad con el pueblo cubano exteriorizan irrestricto apoyo y
solidaridad con la justa causa de este.
el diario "rodong sinmun" senala:
el mes de solidaridad servira de un importante motivo para patentizar
el irrestricto apoyo y solidaridad del pueblo
coreano con la justa causa del pueblo cubano y consolidar la amistad y
solidaridad combativas y camaraderiles entre
ambos pueblos.
hoy el pueblo cubano frustra a cada paso las conjuras de aislamiento y
supresion de los imperialistas y mantiene de
continuo con firmeza la bandera del socialismo.
las consignas "patria o muerte, venceremos" y "socialismo o muerte,
venceremos" demuestran claramente el credo
y voluntad del pueblo cubano.
el recien regreso a la patria del nino cubano elian gonzalez de ee.uu.
es la brillante victoria dada por la firme
voluntad ideologica del pueblo cubano que para la justicia lucha hasta las
ultimas consecuencias sobreponiendose a
todos los obstaculos y dificultades.
no cesa de desarrollarse la amistad coreano-cubana basada en la
profunda amistad camaraderil y las relaciones de
amigo entre el gran lider camarada kim il sung y el respetado companero
fidel castro ruz.
en el futuro tambien el pueblo coreano apoyara activamente la justa
causa del pueblo cubano y avanzara mano a
mano con este en la lucha comun por defender la soberania del pais y el
socialismo.
el periodico "minju joson" senala que el mayor desarrollo de las
relaciones de la amistad, solidaridad y cooperacion
existentes entre la rpdc y cuba conviene enteramente a la demanda e
intereses fundamentales entre los pueblos de ambos
paises y constituye un gran aporte a la causa comun de los pueblos
revolucionarios del mundo por la independencia
antimperialista y el socialismo.
establecidas relaciones diplomaticas entre rpdc y filipinas
pyongyang, 14 de julio (atcc) -- quedo publicado el 12 de julio en
manila el comunicado conjunto sobre el
establecimiento de las relaciones diplomaticas entre la republica popular
democratica de corea y la republica de filipinas.
el comunicado conjunto senala:
basandose en los principios de la carta de la onu y los principios de
derechos internacionales universalizados como
el respeto a las leyes nacionales, el poder del estado y la integridad
territorial, el respeto mutuo a los convenios
internacionales de que son signatarios ambos paises y la no intervencion en
asuntos internos, la igualdad y el respeto
mutuo de los estados y comprometiendose a desarrollar las relaciones de
amistad y cooperacion entre ambos paises el
gobierno de la rpdc y el gobierno de la republica de filipinas acordaron
establecer las relaciones diplomaticas a nivel de
embajador entre ambos paises a partir del dia de firma del comunicado conjunto.
por encargo de sus respectivos gobiernos jo in chol, embajador
extraordinario y plenipotenciario de la rpdc en el
reino de tailandia y domingo siazon, ministro de rr.ee. de la republica de
filipinas firmaron el comunicado conjunto.
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