TODAY'S NEWS (August.04.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il directs industrial sector in North Hamgyong Province
* Kim Yong Nam receives credentials from newly appointed ambassador of
Morocco
* Congratulations to President of Bolivar Republic of Venezuela
* Congratulations to Mongolian prime minister
* National students sports games for "September 5 Cup"
* Kim Jong Il's idea of attaching great importance to science supported
* Projected hometown visit of Koreans under Chongryon hailed
* Film show and photo exhibition on National Day of Morocco
* WFP donates aid equipment
* Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's celebrated work commemorated
* China donates equipment to DPRK hydro-meteorological service
* Ancient military science book
* Korean people's cause of national reunification supported
* Ishihara's outburst assailed
For Spanish-speaking people
* kim jong il dirige sobre terreno labor de provincia de hamgyong de
norte
* pma dona equipos a rpdc
* administracion meteorologica de china dona equipos a su homologa de
rpdc
Kim Jong Il directs industrial sector in North Hamgyong Province
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave
on-the-spot guidance to the industrial sector
in North Hamgyong Province on August 1 and 2.
His inspection involved the Kim Chaek Iron Works, the March 17 Power
Station, newly-built minor power
stations, a saltern now under construction in Orang county, the Chongjin
Fish Farm and other industrial
establishments.
The first leg of his inspection was the Kim Chaek Iron Works, the
nation's metallurgical giant.
Looking round the furnace shop, the hot rolling shop and other
processes, he acquainted himself in detail with the
production.
Then he met model junior officials and innovators, convened a
consultative meeting of leading officials of the
works and put forward tasks to increase its production capacity and keep
the production going at a high rate.
He saw an art performance given by the travelling art agitation troupe
of the works and highly appreciated its
members for their revolutionary and militant agitating activities.
The next leg of his visit was the March 17 Power Station.
After learning about the electricity production there, he noted with
great satisfaction that the workers and
technicians of the power station produced a lot of electricity, thus
greatly contributing to the prosperity and
development of the country.
He then moved to the Kimchol Power Station and other newly-built minor
power stations to guide the work there.
He acquainted himself in detail with their construction, production of
electricity and its use.
He also visited the saltern which is close to completion.
After learning about details of its overall construction, he set forth
tasks to put salt production on a modern and
scientific basis.
He thus got familiar with the overall situation in the province and, on
this basis, advanced highly important tasks
which would serve as guidelines in significantly developing the industry in
the province.
He said that rapid industrial development in the province is of weighty
importance in the nation's overall economic
development.
He proposed tasks to fully satisfy the growing needs for iron and
steel, build many minor power stations to solve
the electricity problem, boost the production of machinery, develop
medium-and small-scale and inshore fishing and
sea culture to increase aquatic products and improve supply service for
workers.
Noting that the success of the party policies hinges on the officials
who command the revolution today, he called
on them to keep the organizational and political work ahead of other
affairs to match the elated enthusiasm of the
workers.
The visiting party included Ri Kun Mo, chief secretary of the north
Hamgyong provincial committee of the WPK,
Kim Kuk Thae, secretary of the C.C., the WPK, Pak Nam Gi, chairman of the
State Planning Commission, first
vice-directors of departments of the party central committee and officials
concerned.
Kim Yong Nam receives credentials from newly appointed ambassador of Morocco
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received credentials from
Mimun Mehdi, newly appointed Ambassador
E.P. of the Kingdom of Morocco to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall
today.
Present there was Pak Tong Chun, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Then, the President had a talk with the ambassador.
Congratulations to President of Bolivar Republic of Venezuela
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, sent a congratulatory message on Thursday to Hugo Chavez Frias
upon his reelection as President of the
Bolivar Republic of Venezuela.
The message extended warm congratulations to him on his reelection as
President of the Bolivar Republic of
Venezuela through the general election held in the country on July 30.
It expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations
between the two countries would grow stronger
and develop and wished the President great success in his responsible work
for the progress and prosperity of the
country.
Congratulations to Mongolian prime minister
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK
cabinet, sent a congratulatory message
to Nambarin Enkhbayar upon his appointment as Prime Minister of Mongolia.
In the belief that the traditional relations of friendship and
cooperation between the two countries would grow
stronger and develop in conformity with the interests and desire of the
peoples of the two countries, the message
sincerely wished the Prime Minister success in his responsible work for the
improvement of the standard of the
people's living and for the prosperity of the country.
National students sports games for "September 5 Cup"
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- National students sports games for
"September 5 Cup," an annual event in the
DPRK, took place in Hamhung from July 25 to August 2.
Participants, divided into university and college groups, competed in
football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis,
handball, tennis, defence sports and rhythmic gymnastics events.
Kim Il Sung University came first in football, volleyball, table
tennis, tennis and women's handball matches in the
university group.
Kim Jong Il's idea of attaching great importance to science supported
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- K. L. Kapoor, general secretary of the
All-India Newspaper Employees
Federation, issued a statement on July 28 in support of the idea of the
great leader Kim Jong Il on attaching great
importance to science.
He said:
Kim Jong Il, in the course of leading the Korean revolution for many
years, published such famous works as "Let
Us Effect a New Turn in Development of Science and Technology," clearly
indicating ways of developing science and
technology.
Even in the difficult period of the "arduous march" which would bring
other countries down a hundred times, Kim
Jong Il directed great efforts to the work to reinforce modern research
centers at the Academy of Sciences and
universities, further expand the ranks of scientists and technicians and
provide them with better working and living
conditions.
Under his wise guidance the Korean scientists and technicians succeeded
in launching satellite Kwangmyongsong
1 with their own efforts and technology, thus giving confidence of victory
to the world revolutionary people and
bringing fear to the imperialists.
The Korean people will certainly build a prosperous and powerful nation
as long as there are his wise guidance
and the scientists and technicians loyal to the party and the leader.
Projected hometown visit of Koreans under Chongryon hailed
Tokyo, August 2 (KNS-KCNA) -- So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the
central standing committee of the
General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), warmly
welcomed the agreement on realizing
hometown visit of Koreans under Chongryon, which was reached at the first
round of north-south ministerial talks.
He at a press conference held in Tokyo on August 1 said that the
agreement is a shining fruition of the historic
Pyongyang meeting and the north-south joint declaration.
It is a deserved proper right for the overseas. Koreans to wish to
visit their hometowns and meet with their
families and relatives who have lived separated from them, he said, and
continued:
We will form a visiting group of compatriots under Chongryon so that
they may visit their hometowns according
to the agreement reached at the north-south ministerial talks, and hope
that the hometown visit will take place as soon
as possible in this significant year, the 55th anniversary of Korea's
liberation.
We expect that the South Korean authorities will take an appropriate
step to realize the hometown visit of
compatriots under Chongryon as soon as possible according to the agreement.
He called upon all the Koreans in Japan to firmly unite and vigorously
advance full of conviction to implement the
historic north-south joint declaration, new milestone for national
reunification.
Film show and photo exhibition on National Day of Morocco
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- A film show and a photo exhibition were
held yesterday on the occasion of the
National Day of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Mimun Mehdi, new Moroccan ambassador to the DPRK, was invited.
Present there were Ri Song Ho, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee
for Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries, officials concerned and working people in the city.
The participants saw a documentary film introducing the national
culture of Morocco and looked round photos
showing the history, culture, customs and natural landscape of Morocco.
WFP donates aid equipment
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- The World Food Program donated aid
equipment including light trucks and
water pumps needed for tree planting and land management in the DPRK.
A presentation ceremony was held in Pyongyang yesterday.
The equipment was delivered to officials concerned by Douglas Broderick
of the mission of the WFP here.
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's celebrated work commemorated
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Let
Us Carry Out the Great Leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" serves as a
militant banner and a treasured sword for
the movement for national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a
signed article dedicated to the third
anniversary of its publication.
It says:
He in the work comprehensively reviewed President Kim Il Sung's history
of guidance over reunification and
glorified his idea and line of reunification and his immortal exploits as
the nation's most precious heritage and a solid
boon to national reunification.
The respected Kim Jong Il clarified the importance of the three
principles of national reunification, the 10-point
program of great unity of the entire nation and the proposal for founding
the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo,
advanced by the President, in the national reunification movement and
formulated them as a three-point charter of
national reunification in which basic principles and methods of achieving
reunification are systematized and
consummated.
In the work he solemnly clarified the revolutionary will of the
Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and the Korean
people to carry forward the cause of national reunification started and
steered by Kim Il Sung and reunify the country
in our generation at any cost.
Also elucidated in his work are overall questions of principles and
tasks to be settled to carry out the President's
line and policies on national reunification including issues of maintaining
the principle of national independence and
building up the nation's internal force to achieve national reunification
and the issue of reunifying the country
peacefully and applying a federal formula to do so and the principled stand
of the WPK concerning it.
In the work he also referred to urgent matters that present themselves
in practice to achieve the country's
independent and peaceful reunification.
Reflected in the work are Kim Jong Il's patriotic will and desire to
replace the north-south relations of distrust and
confrontation by those of trust and reconciliation and thus achieve
national unity and cohesion and create an
international environment for Korea's reunification in order to bring
earlier peace and peaceful reunification to the
Korean peninsula.
An article of Minju Joson says Kim Jong Il's work representing his iron
will to achieve national reunification true
to the noble intention of the President serves as a driving force
powerfully encouraging all the fellow countrymen in
their nationwide drive for national reunification.
China donates equipment to DPRK hydro-meteorological service
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- The Chinese State Meteorological Bureau
donated equipment for receiving
satellite telecommunications, computers and other equipment to the
hydro-meteorological service of the DPRK.
Chinese ambassador to Korea Wang Guozhang and embassy officials handed
equipment to the service on the spot
on August 3.
Present there are Ko Il Hun, director of the hydro-meteorological
service of the DPRK, and officials concerned.
The Chinese State Meteorological Bureau's donation of equipment this
time in the wake of its presentation in April
this year against the backdrop of the daily deepening DPRK-China friendship
will help develop the
hydro-meteorological work in the DPRK.
The participants looked round the donated equipment.
Wang Guozhang said that the Sino-Korean friendship provided by Mao
Zedong and Kim Il Sung, the
revolutionaries of the old generation of the two countries, is now growing
stronger and developing under the guidance
of President Jiang Zemin and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
These feelings of friendship are cherished deep in the hearts of the
two peoples, he said, adding that it is an
invariable stand of China to develop the friendly and cooperative relations
between China and the DPRK.
Cooperation in the scientific and technological sector between the two
countries is an important factor of boosting
the friendly relations, he said, expressing belief that the friendly and
cooperative relations in the hydro-meteorological
sector would grow stronger and develop.
He wished the Korean people greater success in the hydro-meteorological
sector under the wise guidance of Kim
Jong Il.
Ancient military science book
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Korea boasts of its national heritage --
the "Military Science Book."
The two volume military drill book was authored by Jang Ji Hang,
Minister of Justice and director of the military
training school in 1785.
The first volume of the book deals with methods and order of training.
In the part "instructions on drill ground" of the book he writes about
the procedures of soldiers' entry into the drill
ground, the method of forming columns, the order of action according to
various signals, the position to be occupied
by soldiers the moment the enemy appears and order of firing, battle of
pursuing fleeing enemy, the order to be
observed by units when camping and the method of estimating drill results.
The part "training" of the book deals with methods of drilling by
lowest units at military barracks such as
formation of columns of soldiers when using swords and spears, methods of
taking positions and the orders of
sending signals and firing at the attacking enemy.
The "instructions on night drill" elaborate on the institution of
countersign and the method of ambushing,
patrolling and fighting night battle. The "instructions on battle at fort"
deal with methods of fighting inside a fort.
In the "instructions on naval battle" the author writes about the order
for seamen to get aboard a ship and the
methods of fighting enemy ships.
The second volume of the book gives picture-accompanied explanation of
war methods dealt with in the drill
pictorial book at that time.
Among over 100 pictures there are significant historical materials
including pictures showing instructions on
fighting at the Namhan Hill fort and the formation of combat ranks.
This "book" is preserved well as the nation's precious heritage.
Korean people's cause of national reunification supported
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- The Korean people's cause of national
reunification was supported by officials
of international and regional organizations on the occasion of the 47th
anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland
Liberation War.
Chango Machyo, senior adviser to the President of Uganda who is
director of the board of the International
Institute of the Juche Idea, in a statement on July 25 said that the
President Kim Il Sung made all his efforts for the
country's reunification.
Kim Il Sung put forward the three principles of national reunification,
the ten-point program of the great unity of
the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal
Republic of Koryo, opening a bright vista of
the reunification of the Korean peninsula and these are fully supported by
the world's people as well as all the Korean
people for their fairness, he noted, and went on:
The great leader Kim Jong Il provided a strong pillar of Korea's
reunification by formulating as three-point charter
of reunification the line and policies of national reunification set forth
by Kim Il Sung and is wisely leading the Korean
people's struggle for the reunification of the country.
Abdul Rahman Matar, chief of information of the permanent secretariat
of the Organization of Socialists in the
Mediterranean, in a statement on the same day expressed full support and
solidarity with the vigorous struggle of the
Korean people for national reunification under the wise leadership of Kim
Jong Il.
Ishihara's outburst assailed
Tokyo, August 2 (KNS-KCNA) -- Representatives of the central standing
committee of the General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and the Tokyo metropolitan
headquarters of Chongryon and the Women's
Union visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Office on July 27 and lodged a strong
protest with Tokyo Metropolitan
Governor Shintaro Ishihara for reiterating hostility toward the DPRK.
Laying bare the essence and gravity of his repeated anachronistic and
challenging remarks, they strongly
demanded that he apologize for his serious insult to the authority and
dignity of the DPRK and the Korean people and
cancel his remarks at once.
For Spanish-speaking people
kim jong il dirige sobre terreno labor de provincia de hamgyong de norte
pyongyang, 4 de agosto (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il,
secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea y
presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular
democratica de corea dirigio los dias primero y 2 del
actual sobre el terreno la labor del sector industrial de la provincia de
hamgyong del norte.
durante su visita de orientacion el dirigente kim jong il recorrio la
fundicion de hierro kim chaek, la central electrica
"17 de marzo", plantas electricas de medianos y pequenos tamanos nuevamente
construidas, la salina en construccion
en el distrito de orang, criadero de peces de chongjin y otras varias
fabricas y empresas.
el dirigente kim jong il dirigio sobre el terreno la fundicion de
hierro kim chaek, gran base metalurgica del pais.
al recorrer los talleres de alto horno y laminado en caliente y otros
varios procesos se entero de los detalles del
estado de produccion.
se encontro con destacados cuadros primarios e innovadores y convoco
una reunion consultiva de los funcionarios
dirigentes de la fundicion en la cual indico las tareas que se presentan
para aumentar la capacidad productiva y
normalizar en un alto nivel la produccion en esta empresa.
vio la funcion del equipo de agitacion artistica movil de esta empresa
y evaluo altamente sus actividades
revolucionarias y combativas.
al recorrer la central electrica "17 de marzo" hizo conocimiento del
estado de la generacion electrica y se mostro
muy satisfecho de que los obreros y tecnicos de este plantel generaron gran
cantidad de electricidad contibuyendo asi
grandemente al robustecimiento y desarrollo del pais.
al dirigir sobre el terreno la central electrica kim chaek y las demas
de medianos y pequenos tamanos nuevamente
construidas se entero de los pormenores del estado de su construccion, la
generacion electrica y del estado de su uso.
al dirigir sobre el terreno la salina en etapa de culminacion se entero
de los pormenores del estado de construccion
en su conjunto e indico las tareas que se presentan para la modernizacion y
la colocacion sobre base cientifica de su
produccion.
luego de hacer conocimiento de la situacion general en que se halla la
provincia de hamgyong del norte presento las
tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para desarrollar trascendentalmente
la industria de esta provincia.
dijo que el rapido desarrollo de la industria de esta provincia reviste
un gran significado para el desenvolvimiento
economico del pais en su conjunto.
presento las tareas de cubrir con satisfaccion la creciente demanda
sobre el hierro y acero, construir mas plantas
electricas de medianos y pequenos tamanos para solucionar la demanda sobre
la electricidad, aumentar la produccion de
maquinas, desarrollar la pesca de mediana y pequena escala y cultivo
maritimo para aumentar productos acuaticos y
mejorar la labor de intendencia para los obreros.
el dirigente kim jong il dijo que hoy el destino de la politica del
partido depende del papel de los miembros de
mando de la revolucion y senalo la necesidad de anteponer la labor
organizativa y politica conforme al elevado
entusiasmo de los obreros.
le acompanaron ri kun mo, secretario responsable del comite del partido
del trabajo de corea en la provincia de
hamgyong del norte, kim kuk thae, secretario del cc del ptc, pak nam gi,
presidente del comite estatal de planificacion,
primeros subjefes de departamento del cc del ptc y otros funcionarios.
pma dona equipos a rpdc
pyongyang, 4 de agosto (atcc) -- el programa mundial de alimentos (pma)
dono a la republica popular democratica
de corea camiones de pequeno tamano, bombas de agua y otros equipos
necesarios para la repoblacion forestal y
administracion territorial.
tuvo lugar el dia 3 en esta capital acto de donacion.
douglas broderick de la representacion del pma en la rpdc los entrego a
funcionarios interesados.
administracion meteorologica de china dona equipos a su homologa de rpdc
pyongyang, 4 de agosto (atcc) -- la administracion meteorologica de
china dono a la direccion meteorologica e
hidrologica de la rpd de corea equipos de recepcion de telecomunicaciones
de satelite, computadoras y otros.
wang guozhang, embajador de la republica popular china en la rpdc y
otros miembros de esta sede diplomatica los
entregaron el dia 3 sobre el terreno.
estuvieron presentes ko il hun, jefe de la direccion meteorologica e
hidrologica y otros funcionarios coreanos.
los equipos donados esta vez con los enviados en el pasado mes de abril
por la administracion meteorologica de
china como reflejo del profundo sentimiento de amistad coreano-china harann
aporte al desarrollo de la labor
meteorologica e hidrologica de nuestro pais.
los participantes vieron los equipos donados.
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