TODAY'S NEWS (August.21.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Gift to Kim Jong Il from head of UNESCO
* DPRK ambassador to Syria appointed
* Kim Yong Nam meets director general of UNESCO and his party
* Gift to Kim Jong Il
* Photo exhibition of Koguryo murals opens
* Korea's famous waterfalls
* Light comedy "Let's Always Be Cheerful" staged
* KCNA on Sankei Shimbun's mud-slinging at DPRK
* U.S. plan for permanent presence of its forces rejected
* Preparatory committees inaugurated in Ecuador
For Spanish-speaking people
* crpp exige cese de simulacro "ulji focus lens"
* ee.uu. es fautor de amenaza nuclear
Gift to Kim Jong Il from head of UNESCO
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the director general of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Matsuurs Koichiro, director general of UNESCO on a visit to Korea,
conveyed the gift to an official concerned.
DPRK ambassador to Syria appointed
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Hyong Jun was appointed as the DPRK
Ambassador E.P. to the Syrian
Arab Republic, according to a decree of the presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly of the DPRK.
Kim Yong Nam meets director general of UNESCO and his party
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met and conversed with
Matsuura Koichiro, director general of the
UNESCO, and his party on a visit to the DPRK at the Mansudae Assembly Hall
today.
Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and chairman of the DPRK
national committee of the UNESCO,
and other officials concerned were present.
The director general at the meeting said that he came to know well
about the achievements made by the Korean
people in different fields under the wise leadership of the great leader
Kim Jong Il and, especially, achievements in
educational and cultural sectors are a model of the developing countries.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the visiting delegation of
the Finnish National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea.
Its secretary general Pekka Rantala, head of the delegation, conveyed
the gift to an official concerned.
Photo exhibition of Koguryo murals opens
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- An opening ceremony of photo exhibition
of koguryo murals was held at the
Korean Central History Museum yesterday.
Present at the ceremony were Kang Nung Su, Minister of Culture, and
Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign
Affairs and chairman of the DPRK national committee of UNESCO, officials
concerned and working people in
Pyongyang.
Matsuura Koichiro, director general of UNESCO, and his party were also
present there.
Speeches were made at the ceremony.
Its participants looked round photos of Koguryo murals whose colors
remain unfading even after the lapse of
more than a thousand years and which are distinct and beautiful in drawing
techniques and unique in their themes and
well composed to match walls.
Korea's famous waterfalls
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- There is famous Pakyon falls in Korea
visited by many people every day.
Situated in the gigantic granite ravine between Mt. Chonma and Mt.
Songgo, Kaesong, it is widely known
together with Kuryong falls on the world's famous Mt. Kumgang and Taesung
falls on Mt. Solak.
It is 37 metres high.
At the foot of the waterfalls there is Komo pond 40 metres across. It
has been coned out by the cascading water
and over which protrudes a round rock called Ryong rock at the western
shore of the pond. On a hill east of the Komo
pond stands the Pomsa pavilion.
At the head of the waterfalls there is Pakyon pond 8 metres across. As
a large rock stands high strangely in the
middle of the pond shaped like a calabash, water rushes against the rock
before falling down.
Sound of waterfalls is reminiscent of thunder.
The waterfalls presents a superb scenery in all seasons.
All species of flowers are in full bloom on rocky cliffs surrounding
the waterfalls in spring, it is covered with
green foliage in summer, maples turn red in autumn and frostwork is seen in
winter.
There are over the falls famous historic remains including a
10-kilometre-long wall, the Kwanum Temple and the
Taehung Temple dating back to the period of Koryo dynasty.
The President Kim Il Sung visited there in August Juche 46 (1957).
Touring the falls, Pukmun (north gate) and the Kwanum Temple, he said
that the Pakyon falls is a famous site
with splendid historic remains and instructed that it should be built well
into a place for the cultural recreation of
working people.
Pakyon falls and its surrounding area serve as a recreation ground for
working people.
Light comedy "Let's Always Be Cheerful" staged
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The light comedy "Let's Always Be
Cheerful" produced by creators and
artistes of the April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army was staged
at the Mansudae Art Theatre yesterday.
Kim Yong Nam, Hong Song Nam and other senior party and state officials
and working people in the city
appreciated the performance.
The light comedy represents the revolutionary spirit of servicemen and
their families who cheerfully pull through
all difficulties in their way, though it is thorny, firmly convinced that
they are sure to win as long as they are under the
leadership of the respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.
It relates the story about how the wives of officers in a unit came to
participate in an art contest among art circles of
families of officers of the whole army, the first of its kind in its history.
KCNA on Sankei Shimbun's mud-slinging at DPRK
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Recently the Japanese Sankei Shimbun
malignantly slung a spate of mud at the
DPRK.
It asserted that the DPRK has "repeated international outrages" and
"began striding across the world without
liquidating any of them on the occasion of the inter-Korean summit talks".
It was ridiculous enough to express even
"apprehensions," saying "indeed, situation in East Asia remains extremely
threatening."
Sankei Shimbun's commentary does not deserve even a passing note as it
is nothing but outbursts let loose by
those who are much upset by the ever growing might of the DPRK and, at the
same time, a foolish and despicable
attempt to put a brake on the process for improving the DPRK-Japan relations.
It is disgusting to note that there exists in the civilized society at
the turn of the 21st century such base newspaper
as Sankei Shimbun which is neither progressive nor conservative but
hell-bent on making groundless diatribes and
playing tricks.
In the world press there are mediapersons who style themselves
conservatives or media institutions which call
themselves conservatives.
But there is no such newspaper as Sankei Shimbun which, misleading
public opinion with a twisted view of value
and logic intended to profoundly confuse right and wrong and speaking for
the reactionary forces, has turned into a
disgraceful political waiting maid.
Sankei Shimbun can neither be called a newspaper reflecting public
opinion nor a conservative one.
It is the mission of the press to carry true reports and convey truth
and this is vital to its activities. Any newspaper
cannot escape objective censure as a reptile and deceptive paper, if it
ignores truth and spreads false stories. This is true
of Sankei Shimbun.
As everyone knows, whenever the DPRK faced an ordeal in recent years
Sankei Shimbun persistently spread
stories about "crisis" and "collapse," thus delighting ultra-right
reactionary forces. Did the DPRK really collapse as this
paper predicted?
On the contrary, the international dignity of the DPRK as a member of
the international community is rapidly rising
and "striding across the world" as admitted by the group of hack writers of
Sankei Shimbun.
After all, they have become amaurotic persons who neither discern
realities nor analyze developments as they have
been engrossed only in base mud-slinging and plot-breeding.
No malicious slander and calumny can conceal truth.
U.S. plan for permanent presence of its forces rejected
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Doug Bandow, an expert on Korean affairs
at the U.S. Cato Institute in
Washington, in a report titled "Defusing of tensions in South Korea? Threat
to the anachronistic presence of U.S.
troops in South Korea" published on August 17 asserted that it is a big
mistake for the U.S. to seek the permanent
presence of its forces in South Korea.
Now that the relations between the north and south are improving at a
speed beyond one's expectation, "the U.S.
seems to aim at keeping its troops in South Korea at any cost", he noted,
adding that the U.S. logic calling for the
permanent presence of its forces in South Korea is little convincing.
He stressed that the "north-south relations should be decided by the
two sides."
Preparatory committees inaugurated in Ecuador
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- A Guayaquil preparatory committee and a
Cuenca preparatory committee of
Ecuador were inaugurated separately on August 9 and 11 to celebrate the
52nd anniversary of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea.
At the inaugural meetings vice-chairman of the Latin American and
Caribbean Regional Committee to Support the
Reunification of Korea and chairman of the Guayaquil branch of the
Ecuadorian Committee for Supporting Korea's
Independent and Peaceful Reunification Alva Chavez was elected chairman of
the Guayaquil preparatory committee,
and chairman of the Cuenca branch of the Ecuadorian Committee for
Supporting Korea's Independent and Peaceful
Reunification Osvaldo Larriva Alvarado chairman of the Cuenca preparatory
committee.
The meetings decided to hold multifarious functions to mark the day.
For Spanish-speaking people
crpp exige cese de simulacro "ulji focus lens"
pyongyang, 21 de agosto (atcc) -- el vocero del comite por la
reunificacion pacifica de la patria hizo publica el dia
19 una declaracion senalando que si las autoridades surcoreanas desean de
veras la mejora de sus relaciones con el
norte y la paz de la peninsula coreana deben tomar medidas para cesar de
inmediato en su ejercicio belico de agresion al
norte "ulji focus lens" segun la unanime demanda interna y externa del pais.
la declaracion continua:
este simulacro de gran envergadura es una evidente traicion al acuerdo
norte-sur y una abierta provocacion contra
la rpdc, contraparte del dialogo.
el crpp denuncia categoricamente en nombre de 70 millones de coreanos y
los demas pueblos del mundo aspirantes
a la paz y la reunificacion de la peninsula coreana las temerarias
maquinaciones de provocacion armada de ee.uu. y las
autoridades surcoreanas encaminadas a desarrollar el simulacro contra la rpdc.
los ee.uu. y las autoridades surcoreanas deben darse clara cuenta de
que si desarrollan por fin el simulacro dando
espalda a las relaciones norte-sur de hoy que tienden a lograr la
reconciliacion, unidad y la reunificacion conforme a la
esperanza de toda la nacion la situacion retornara al estado anterior a la
declaracion conjunta del 15 de junio poniendo
en interrupcion el contacto, dialogo, viaje y colaboracion entre el norte y
el sur.
ee.uu. es fautor de amenaza nuclear
pyongyang, 21 de agosto (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" inserto
ayer un comentario condenando a ee.uu. que
hace de su teoria de "sospecha de desarrollo de armas nucleares" por la rpd
de corea un hecho consumado y maniobra
vilmente para tomarla por un pretexto de la sancion y la presion contra ella.
el comentario dice en particular:
las fuerzas ultraconservadoras de ee. uu. acusan a la rpdc de la
supuesta "sospecha nuclear" y "almacenamiento de
las partes de ovijas nucleares" con la siniestra intencion de imputarnos la
responsabilidad de no ejecutar el acuerdo
basico concertado con la rpdc.
los objetos de la "sospecha de desarrollo de armas nucleares" de que
hablan ruidosamente dichas fuerzas de ee.uu.
son instalaciones militares e importantes objetos economicos de la rpdc.
hemos construido numerosas estructuras economicas subterraneas para
hacer frente a la incesante amenaza de
agresion militar de ee.uu. no lo ocultamos porque ellas se deben a la justa
medida para defedernos.
ee.uu. no tiene calificacion de hablar de "amenaza nuclear" de la rpdc.
porque ha almacenado y colocado en
sudcorea y su contorno numerosas armas nucleares.
la rpdc es objeto de la permanente amenaza nuclear de ee.uu. la siente
mas porque este no ejecuta el acuerdo basico
firmado con la rpdc.
lo que no podemos pasar por alto es que los maniacos nucleares de
ee.uu. exponen abiertamente su intencion de
usar hasta las armas nucleares pretextando la "amenaza" de la rpdc.
segun acuerdo basico con la rpdc ee.uu. no debe usar las armas
nucleares ni amenazar con estas a ella.
la arrogante declaracion de ee.uu. de usar armas nucleares constituye
una flagrante violacion a dicho acuerdo.
la amenaza nuclear no proviene de la rpdc sino de ee.uu. que es fautor
de esta amenaza.
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