TODAY'S NEWS (August.08.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Congratulations to Singaporean President
* Chairman of S. Korean Hyundai Asan board of directors here
* Paek Nam Sun meets new Indian ambassador
* Kim Yong Sun meets chairman of S. Korean Hyundai Asan board of
directors
* Gift to Kim Jong Il from Jong Ju Yong
* S. Korean media delegation visits different places of Pyongyang
* Vietnamese FM hosts reception
* Mass rallies held to vow to carry out calls of C.C., WPK
* People's Artist Choe Song Ryong
* Land of songs
* U.S. urged to face up to reality
* Japan to make redress for its past top priority of its diplomacy
* Probe into truth behind GIs' mass killings urged
* KCTU vows to launch powerful struggle
* Intensified anti-imperialist struggle called for
* Anniversary of ASEAN observed
For Spanish-speaking people
* delegacion de organos de prensa de sudcorea recorre varios lugares de
pyongyang
* hay que enarbolar bandera de lucha antimperialista
Congratulations to Singaporean President
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, sent a message of greetings to President S.R. Nathan of Singapore
on August 5 on the occasion of the 35th
anniversary of its National Day.
Extending congratulations to the President, government and people of
Singapore, Kim in the message wished
Nathan success in his work for progress and prosperity of the country.
Chairman of S. Korean Hyundai Asan board of directors here
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Jong Mong Hon, chairman of the South
Korean Hyundai Asan board of
directors, and his party arrived in Pyongyang today via Panmunjom.
They were warmly greeted by Jong Un Op, chairman of the National
Economic Cooperation Federation, and
officials concerned with kindred feelings.
Paek Nam Sun meets new Indian ambassador
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Foreign Minister of the
Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, today met and conversed with Binanda Kumar Gogoi, newly-appointed
Indian Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK,
who paid a courtesy call on him.
Kim Yong Sun meets chairman of S. Korean Hyundai Asan board of directors
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Chairman Kim Yong Sun of the Korean
Asia-Pacific Peace Committee today met
with Jong Mong Hon, chairman of the South Korean Hyundai Asan board of
directors, and his party on a visit to
Pyongyang at the People's Palace of Culture.
Present there were Kang Jong Hun, secretary of the Korean Asia-Pacific
Peace Committee, and officials
concerned.
A conversation proceeded in an atmosphere overflowing with compatriotic
feelings.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Jong Ju Yong
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from Jong Ju Yong, Honorary
Chairman of Hyundai Group.
The gift was conveyed to chairman Kim Yong Sun of the Korean
Asia-Pacific Peace Committee by Jong Mong
Hon, chairman of the South Korean Hyundai Asan board of directors.
S. Korean media delegation visits different places of Pyongyang
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Minister of Culture and Tourism Pak Ji
Won and the delegation of South
Korean media organizations jointly headed by chairman of the Newspaper
Association and Hangyore president Choe
Hak Rae and chairman of the Broadcasting Association and KBS president Pak
Kwon Sang visited different places of
Pyongyang yesterday.
The delegation was accompanied by Kang Nung Su, chairman of the DPRK
Information Committee, Cha Sung
Su, chairman of the DPRK Radio and TV Broadcasting Committee, and Kim Sang
Ho, vice-chairman of the central
committee of the Korean Journalists Union.
The delegation visited king Tongmyong's mausoleum in Pyongyang.
Being briefed on the mausoleum of king Tongmyong, father of Koguryo, a
thousand-year-long powerful country
in the east, it looked round the monument to the reconstructed mausoleum of
king Tongmyong, stone sculptures, the
Jongrung Temple and other historic relics of the mausoleum.
The delegation also visited the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace,
welcomed by children.
Schoolchildren at Korean dance, Kayagum and other circle rooms showed
it their happy features of fully
displaying their talents and hope and growing up as the pillars of future
who will live in a reunified country.
The delegation enjoyed a music and dance performance given by art
circle members at the theatre of the palace.
That day the delegation looked round Pyongyang metro and the Sangwon
Cement Plant.
Vietnamese FM hosts reception
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Nguyen Dy Nien, Vietnamese Foreign
Minister, hosted a reception yesterday at
the Vietnamese embassy here upon winding up his Korea visit.
Invited there were Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, vice-Minister of
Foreign Affairs Pak Kil Yon and officials
concerned.
Present were the Vietnamese Foreign Minister's entourage, Vietnamese
ambassador to Korea Do Thi Hoa and
embassy officials.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Mass rallies held to vow to carry out calls of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Mass rallies were held in south Hwanghae,
south Hamgyong and north
Hamgyong provincial seats yesterday to carry out the calls of the Central
Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea
published in the run-up to the 55th anniversary of the WPK.
The reporters and speakers at the mass rallies said that all the party
members and other working people, upon
receiving the calls of the Central Committee of the WPK, are firmly
determined to successfully carry out the tasks set
forth in the calls.
They highlighted the need for all officials and working people to hold
fast to the line of giving top priority to
ideology, equip themselves with the spirit of devotedly defending the
leader and becoming human bombs, thoroughly
establish the trait of giving great importance to the army and display to
the full the traditional trait of army-people unity
with a view to thoroughly implementing the calls.
They also called on the scientists and technicians to devote their
wisdom and energies to solving urgent scientific
and technological problems in the economic development and the improvement
of the standard of the people's living.
All the officials, party members and other working people should
vigorously advance to greet the Grand October
Festival in the crucible of greatly increased activity of Chollima, firmly
convinced that they are sure to emerge
victorious as long as they are wisely guided by the great leader Kim Jong
Il, they stressed.
People's Artist Choe Song Ryong
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has many noted painters, among
them People's Artist Choe Song
Ryong.
Choe graduated from Pyongyang University of Fine Arts in Juche 55
(1966) and has worked as a painter for 30
odd years. He has devoted his talents, wisdom and energies to the creation
of fine art pieces and the training of
reserves.
He has produced over 500 fine art works so far to contribute to
enriching the garden of Juche-oriented fine arts.
Scores of his works, including Korean paintings "Bear on Mt. Paektu,"
"Lotus Flower and Kingfisher" and
"Taedong River in February," were highly estimated at international shows.
He also created "Pyongyang Thriving
under the Guidance of the Party," "Pyongyang Rising from the Ruins" and
other scores of works to be listed as
national treasure.
Choe trained a number of reserves while working as a teacher and a
department head at Pyongyang University of
Fine Arts.
Kim Pyong Nam, deputy general-director of the Central Fine Art Studio
and Kim Tong Hwan, an office head of
the Mansudae Art Studio, are among more than ten holders of honorary titles
and academic degrees.
Meanwhile he gave a systematic education to two-four years old children
to be widely known as "little painters."
Those little painters include O Un Byol, Hwang Kum Chol, Han Song Il,
Kim Kyu Gwon and Kim Mo Ran, who
are well known at home and abroad.
He wrote such textbooks and references as "Technique of Korean
Painting" and "Basis for Single-stroke
Technique of Korean Painting" to contribute to perfecting the traditional
technique of Korean painting.
He, a "Kim Il Sung Prize" winner, is now working as head of the Korean
painting section of the central committee
of the Korean Artists Union.
Land of songs
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yu Jong, member of the Future Music
Society of South Korea, published
an article titled "A Land of Songs" extending salutation to the north,
according to Seoul-based radio Voice of National
Salvation.
Kim Yu Jong wrote:
Watching performances given by a schoolchildren's art troupe and an
acrobatic troupe from Pyongyang in Seoul, I
once again realized that the north is a "land of songs," indeed.
In the north everyone's program starts with songs and ends with songs.
Streets in the north in mornings resound with schoolchildren's brass
band music and songs of joy and optimism
can be heard from all construction and other work sites where a worthy life
is built. Songs are also heard from the
brightly lit flats in evenings.
The author pointed out that songs of the north reflect the noble mental
world characterized by love of the country,
trust in the Worker's Party of Korea and boundless veneration for their leader.
Kim described the songs of the north as a nutrient to keep life in
beautiful bloom and a tonic to add fragrance to it.
It is thanks to the peerlessly great man that the songs in the north
inspire the people in their life and struggle, the
author noted, and continued:
President Kim Il Sung made a long journey of the bloody anti-Japanese
battles with songs and won one victory
after another right after liberation in the June 25, 1950 war, in the
post-cease-fire period and the period of socialist
construction, singing songs.
The President's will has been inherited by leader Kim Jong Il.
Regarding music as a means of making a
revolution, he discovered the leadership philosophy among songs.
He has united the people as one and trained the people into those who
have iron will and faith and are responsible
for creation and changes with the help of songs.
The north will emerge victorious and thrive forever thanks to songs.
U.S. urged to face up to reality
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Members of the U.S. Republican Party in
an election "platform" released on
July 31 made a series of "commitments" to "deter actions of aggression and
check the spread of weapons of mass
destruction" on the Korean peninsula.
In this connection Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says:
Conservative hard-liners of the U.S. Republican Party in their
"platform" described the DPRK as one seeking
aggression and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, but the reality
is quite contrary to it.
The DPRK has spared no efforts to prevent war and preserve peace on the
Korean peninsula, the commentary
says, and goes on:
Conservative hard-liners of the U.S. Republican Party do not want the
negotiated settlement of the Korean
problem.
They stand for recourse to force to settle it.
They consider use of force as the only way for the settlement of all
problems and think only when they do so can
they enlist support for their Presidential election campaign which is just
around the corner.
However, they should know that they are making a serious political mistake.
The logic of strength does not work on the DPRK.
The DPRK is prepared for both dialogue and war.
If the U.S. intends to settle the Korean problem by military means, the
DPRK will strongly react to it to defend its
dignity and sovereignty.
Conservative hard-liners of the U.S. Republican Party are well advised
to do soul-searching for their irresponsible
actions which only strain the DPRK-U.S. relations and heighten vigilance of
the DPRK, and make a switchover in
their hostile policy towards the DPRK, though belatedly.
Japan to make redress for its past top priority of its diplomacy
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Japan has recently intensified its
diplomatic moves to sit on the UN Security
Council (UNSC) with the UN General Assembly slated to open in September.
Japan betrayed its ulterior bid for the permanent membership of the
UNSC by getting a point underscoring "the
necessity of reforming the UN" laid down in the declaration of the G-8
summit held in Okinawa. It announced that it
would dispatch an official of its Foreign Ministry to the UN headquarters
to have an "exhaustive discussion on the
overhaul of the UNSC" at the UN General Assembly.
As everybody knows, the UN is a sacred world body aimed to discuss
important matters related to global peace
and security against war.
Japan should do things helpful to global peace and security if it
wishes to fulfil its responsibility as a permanent
member of the UNSC.
However, Japan is censured as a root cause of disturbing world peace
and security for seeking to become a
military and nuclear power.
For Japan to sit on the UNSC it should abandon such aggressive and
bellicose attempt and win trust from the
world people.
One of the most urgent things to be done by Japan to get trust from the
international community is to fully redress
its crime-woven past.
Japan's redress for its wrongs done against Korea in the past is not
only a political matter but an issue whose
solution is indispensable for getting its status as a member of the
international community.
Yet, Japan has not settled its past but is making a desperate bid for
the UNSC permanent membership, showing its
bulgy moneybag off. This cannot but be a mockery of the UN and the world
people.
Japan should bear in mind that the permanent membership of the UNSC is
not something to be sold or bought nor
can international trust be won by bribery.
A top priority job to be done by Japan to sit on the UNSC is to
honestly redress its inglorious past and win
international trust.
Probe into truth behind GIs' mass killings urged
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The "Society of Families of Victims to
Mass Killings of Civilians During the
War" of South Korea declared that it would lodge a petition to the South
Korean "National Assembly" urging the
enactment of a law on investigating the truth behind all mass killings of
civilians during the Korean War, Seoul-based
Radio No.1 said.
The organization charged that the truth behind mass killings in
Munkyong, Hamphyong and other areas of South
Korea has not been disclosed as the "National Assembly" handled only some
individual cases, sidestepping the
enactment of a law on investigating the truth behind all mass killings of
civilians.
KCTU vows to launch powerful struggle
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade
Unions at a press conference held on
August 4 vowed to launch a powerful struggle, according to the Munhwa
Broadcasting Corporation in Seoul.
Noting that proper steps have not yet been taken since the violent
police crackdown upon the strike of the unionists
of Lotte Hotel, the organization declared that it would launch a struggle
with a rally to frustrate moves for suppression
and demand the reinstatement of the workers in custody or wanted by police.
Tan Pyong Ho, chairman of the organization, demanded the chief of the
"National Police Office" step down,
bearing responsibility for the violent crackdown upon the strikes of the
unionists of Lotte Hotel and an insurance
company.
Intensified anti-imperialist struggle called for
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article
stresses the need to lift higher the
banner of the anti-imperialist struggle.
The article says:
There are opinions in the world nowadays that changes taking place on
the international arena are a sign of the
changing nature of imperialism and, therefore, an anti-imperialist struggle
may be given up.
The anti-imperialist struggle should continue as ever.
It is wrong to assert that the imperialists' aggressive nature has
changed, cheated by their jargon of "peace" and
"human rights."
If there be any change as far as imperialism is concerned, it is a
change in its method of aggression, not in its
aggressive nature.
Giving up an anti-imperialist struggle precisely means capitulation to
imperialism and despicable betrayal of the
popular masses' cause of independence.
Referring to issues in the anti-imperialist struggle, the article says:
The popular masses should never tolerate the ideological and cultural
poisoning by the imperialists, but resolutely
counter it with a strong revolutionary ideological offensive.
They should also strictly guard against the imperialists' jargon of
"peace" and "human rights."
Real peace and human rights can be ensured only when they firmly
maintain anti-imperialist independent stand.
They should decisively smash the imperialists' "globalization"
strategy. "globalization" is no more than a
cunningly veiled strategy to build a unipolar world and dominate it.
The popular masses should react to "globalization" by further
strengthening the Juche character and national
character.
Calling for not yielding to the imperialists' sanctions and military
pressure, the article stresses:
Maintaining a firm anti-imperialist stand is the only way to win in the
confrontation with the imperialists.
The people advocating independence should clearly understand the nature
of what is happening in the world and
raise higher the banner of the anti-imperialist struggle.
Only then can they victoriously advance the human cause of independence
and build a free and peaceful world.
Anniversary of ASEAN observed
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed
article to the 33rd anniversary of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The ASEAN is playing an important role in achieving stability and
social development in southeast Asia, the article
says, and goes on:
The ASEAN has grown to be a regional cooperative organization handling
overall matters existing among its
member nations including politics, economy, culture and security.
It has entered a new stage in its development in recent years. Progress
is being made, above all, in the economic
field.
Its member nations set it as its main target to establish a free trade
zone and introduce a single currency and are
working hard to achieve it.
In its political field, the ASEAN is solving crucial problems including
regional security, with top priority given to
the sovereignty and dignity of its member nations.
Its member nations are now advancing, optimistic and confident of the
future.
For Spanish-speaking people
delegacion de organos de prensa de sudcorea recorre varios lugares de pyongyang
pyongyang, 8 de agosto (atcc) -- pak ji won, ministro de cultura y
turismo y la delegacion de organos de prensa de
sudcorea encabezada por el cojefe choe hak rae, presidente de la asociacion
de periodicos y presidente del periodico
"hangyore" y el tambien cojefe pak kwon sang, presidente del "sistema de
emisoras de radio de corea" y presidente de
la asociacion de radios recorrieron ayer varios lugares de esta capital.
acompanaronla kang nung su, presidente del comite de informacion de la
republica popular democratica de corea,
cha sung su, presidente del comite nacional de radio y television de corea
y kim sang ho, vicepresidente del cc de la
union de periodistas de corea.
la delegacion recorrio la tumba del rey tongmyong en la ciudad de
pyongyang.
al escuchar la explicacion sobre la tumba del rey tongmyong, primer rey
de koguryo que fue una potencia en el
oriente durante un mil de anos los visitantes vieron el monumento a la
reconstruccion de esta tumba, esculturas de
piedra, templo jongrung y otras reliquias historicas.
ademas la delegacion visito el palacio de ninos y escolares de
mangyongdae siendo objeto de acogida por parte de
los ninos escolares.
en las salas de grupos de danza coreana y de kayagum y otros los
huespedes vieron los aspectos felices de los
ninos escolares que al desplegar a sus anchas su vocacion y deseo crecen
como futuros encargados de la patria
reunificada.
en el teatro del palacio la delegacion observo la representacion de
canciones y danzas de los miembros del grupo
artistico.
el mismo dia la delegacion recorrio el metro de pyongyang y la fabrica
de cemento de sangwon.
hay que enarbolar bandera de lucha antimperialista
pyongyang, 8 de agosto (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" inserto en
el numero de hoy un articulo individual
senalando la necesidad de enarbolar la bandera de la lucha antimperialista.
el articulo se refiere al hecho de que en estos dias se difunden
erroneos rumores de que las cosas sucedidas en la
escena internacional demuestran el cambio de la naturaleza del imperialismo
y permiten la renuncia de la lucha
antimperialista y continua:
la lucha antimperialista debe seguir invariablemente.
es erroneo el pensar como si hubiera cambiado la naturaleza agresiva de
los imperialistas porque estos portan
enganosas versiones de la "paz" y el "derecho humano".
la naturaleza agresiva del imperialismo no se cambia sino el metodo de
agresion de este.
la renuncia de la lucha antimperialista significa justamente la
capitulacion al imperialismo y la bochornosa traicion a
la causa de independencia de las masas populares.
al referirse a los problemas que se presentan en la lucha
antimperialista el articulo senala:
no se debe permitir jamas la penetracion ideo-cultural del imperialismo
sino frustrarla con la resuelta ofensiva
ideologica revolucionaria.
debe guardarse estrictamente de la "paz" y el "derecho humano" de que
vociferan ruidosamente los imperialistas.
la paz y el derecho humano en el verdadero sentido de la palabra se
podran asegurar solo cuando se mantenga la
firme posicion antimperialista e independiente.
se debe frustrar categoricamente la estrategia imperialista
"globalizacion" que no pasa de ser un vistoso camuflaje
de la estrategia de dominio por unipolarizacion mundial.
se debe responder con el fortalecimiento del espiritu juche y la
nacionalidad a la estrategia de "globalizacion" de los
imperialistas.
tras senalar la necesidad de enfrentarse resueltamente a la sancion y
la presion militar de los imperialistas el articulo
subraya:
la llave de la victoria en el enfrentamiento con estos reside en la
firme posicion antimperialista.
los pueblos que abogan por la independencia deben ver justamente la
esencia de las cosas que ocurren en el mundo
y enarbolar la bandera de la lucha antimperialista.
solo de esta manera podran llevar adelante victoriosamente la causa de
independencia de la humanidad y construir
un mundo libre y pacifico.
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