August.26.2000 Juche 89
[CONTENTS]
* Greetings to Moldovan President
* Gift to Kim Jong Il
* Gift to Kim Jong Il from vice-chairman of national committee of CPPCC
* Honorary medal and gift to Kim Jong Il from Alcochete municipality of
Portugal
* Anniv. of Kim Jong Il's start of revolutionary activities at university
marked
* Halt to acts against DPRK-Japan talks demanded
* Chongryon official visits Russian embassy in Tokyo
* KCNA on Japan's invariable ambition of reinvasion
* Juche idea praised
* Japanese militarists' unchangeable aggressive nature
* Kim Il Sung praised by Egyptian figure
* 5th World Junior Taekwon-do Championships enter its 3rd day
* Unconverted long-term prisoners praised
Greetings to Moldovan President
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium
of the
Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on August 23 sent a message of
greetings to
Moldovan President Peter Luchinsky on the occasion of its National Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the President and the
people of Moldova on
the occasion.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations
between the DPRK and
Moldova would as always develop on good terms, the message wished the
President success in
his responsible work for the prosperity of the country and the well-being
of its people.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the
visiting group of the "Peace Boat" of Japan on a visit to the DPRK.
The gift was handed to an official concerned by head of the visiting
group Tatsuya
Yoshioka, director of its executive committee.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from vice-chairman of national committee of
CPPCC
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from Ye
Xuanping, vice-chairman of the national committee of the Chinese People's
Political
Consultative Conference, on a visit to the DPRK.
The gift was handed by the vice-chairman to an official concerned.
Honorary medal and gift to Kim Jong Il from Alcochete
municipality of Portugal
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
an honorary
medal and gift from the Alcochete municipality of Portugal.
Miguel Boieiro, Mayor of Alcochete who is on a visit to the DPRK,
handed the medal and
gift to an official concerned.
Noting that this honorary medal is awarded only to world-famous great
men, he recalled the
council of the municipality on Aug. 2 decided to award the medal to Kim
Jong Il for his
distinguished contributions to the Korean revolution and the world
revolution and the
municipality had prepared the gift since last March.
Anniv. of Kim Jong Il's start of revolutionary activities at
university marked
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- A national symposium was held at the
People's Palace
of Culture here on Friday to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of
General Secretary Kim
Jong Il's revolutionary activities at Kim Il Sung University.
Kim Jong Il conducted his revolutionary activities at the university
from September 1, 1960
and performed enduring feats for the accomplishment of the revolutionary
cause of Juche.
Attending the symposium were secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea
Central Committee
Choe Thae Bok, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly Yang
Hyong Sop, vice-premier Jo Chang Dok, officials concerned and officials of
party, military and
power bodies, scientific, educational, cultural and art and press organs,
revolutionary site and
relics curators, officials of party cadre-training institutions and the
youth league, and teachers
and researchers of the university.
Speeches were made by chief secretary of the University Party Committee
Pak Ryong Mun,
president of the Academy of Social Sciences Thae Hyong Chol, first deputy
director of Kim Il
Sung Higher Party School Ri Chang Hwa and others.
The speakers described Kim Jong Il's activities at the university as a
historic event of
weighty significance in carrying forward to completion the revolutionary
cause of Juche.
They referred to the ideological and theoretical activities he
energetically conducted, firmly
determined to more deeply grasp the revolutionary idea of the great leader
President Kim Il Sung
and prepare himself to assume the responsibility for the Korean revolution
during his
worthwhile days at the university.
Meanwhile, a national seminar of students was held on August 24 and 25
to commemorate
this anniversary.
Hundreds of students made public their papers at the seminar divided
into ten odd sections
such as the economics, history, philosophy, mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Halt to acts against DPRK-Japan talks demanded
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- There were some disturbances in Japan
intended to chill
the atmosphere of DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks in Tokyo when they
were under way
drawing domestic and foreign attention.
Signed commentaries carried in papers today in this connection dismiss
them as improper
behaviors intended to bar the DPRK-Japan talks from making any progress and
put a brake on
the talks. They warn against any other disturbances intended to torpedo the
DPRK-Japan talks.
Rodong Sinmun urges the Japanese reactionaries and mass media serving
them to face up to
the changing reality and properly understand the mindset of public at home
and abroad and
refrain from any acts to chill the atmosphere of the DPRK-Japan talks.
What should not go unnoticed is that media of Japan pulled up the DPRK,
its dialogue
partner, in a bid to vitiate the atmosphere of the talks, floating
groundless rumours while the
talks were under way, the commentary says, and goes on:
The media of Japan should own heavy responsibility for the adverse
impact their behaviour
will have on the DPRK-Japan talks.
The DPRK can not pass over the undisguised hostile rowdyism perpetrated
by right-wing
circles of Japan outside the building where the talks were held.
They called the DPRK delegation "mobs" under its very eyes. This is the
height of
indecorum bereft of elementary common sense and morality.
This rowdyism was a premeditated, organized group evil-doing.
Its political aim was to get on the DPRK's nerves in order to escalate
tensions and torpedo
the talks.
The DPRK-Japan talks will go its own way despite unabated disturbances
in Japan.
Minju Joson urges Japan to ponder over the consequences to be entailed
by its improper
behaviors intended to vilify and provoke its dialogue partner quite
contrary to common sense
and practice.
Chongryon official visits Russian embassy in Tokyo
Tokyo, August 24 (KNS-KCNA) -- So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the
central standing
committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan
(Chongryon), on Thursday
visited the Russian embassy in Tokyo to express condolences over the deaths
of the crewmen of
the Russian nuclear-powered submarine "Kursk."
He expressed deep condolences to the bereaved families and the Russian
people over the
deaths of the crewmen.
He observed a moment's silence in memory of the victims and made an
entry in the
condolence book.
KCNA on Japan's invariable ambition of reinvasion
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defence Agency reportedly
decided to carry
out at an early date the restructuring of its ground "Self-Defence Force"
(SDF), an item included
in its "defence program" for the year 1995, and began to put the finishing
touches on it.
What should not be overlooked is the fact that the Japanese
reactionaries do not bother to
assert that such hasty restructuring of its ground "SDF" is aimed to
"redeploy its troops, which
have been concentrated to contain Russia, in the western area to cope with
threat from North
Korea."
This is an indication that the Japanese reactionaries' moves to round
off their preparations to
reinvade Korea have gone beyond the danger line.
In recent years they are, in fact, rounding off the wartime system and
militarization across
Japan and laying foundations for reinvasion one by one through the
restoration of rights to
participate in a war and right of belligerency, legalization of overseas
dispatch of its troops and
institution of "Kimigayo" and "Hinomaru" as its national song and flag.
They are now attempting to introduce air-refueling aircraft and create
even an "anti-guerrilla"
force.
After adopting hypocritical "no war declaration" in last May, the
Japanese reactionaries have
sought to revise the present constitution and frantically stepped up
preparations for reinvasion
behind the curtain.
They should know that reinvasion will lead Japan to ruin.
Juche idea praised
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- Pekka Rantala, secretary general of the
Finnish National
Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, was interviewed by reporters at
the end of his
Korean visit.
Giving his impressions of the DPRK, he said that he grasped more deeply
the greatness of
the respected Kim Il Sung who created the Juche idea and performed immortal
exploits on behalf
of the era and humankind.
He went on: The Juche idea is a great revolutionary theory indicating
the way of life and
struggle to the world progressive people aspiring after independence. That
is why today the
world revolutionary people continue to visit Korea to study the Juche idea
and witness its great
vitality evidenced by the amazing progress in the DPRK.
The Juche idea is now being successfully carried forward and developed
by the great Kim
Jong Il.
The Korean people are waging a vigorous struggle, firmly convinced of
future despite the
complicated and difficult situation because Kim Jong Il is wisely leading
them to victory.
This reality of Korea convinces me once again that the DPRK has a
bright future as long as
there are the great leader, idea and people, he stressed, adding:
The Juche idea, a great revolutionary theory for human liberation,
indeed, serves as an
immortal banner and an all-powerful treasured sword in the era of independence.
Japanese militarists' unchangeable aggressive nature
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese militarists' aggressive
nature is becoming
all the more pronounced day by day, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
article.
The article goes on:
Ministers of the Japanese cabinet made official visits to the "Yasukuni
Shrine," which has
served as a spiritual base to incite the militarist idea of aggression for
many years.
This serves the purpose of undisguisedly spreading militarism in the
Japanese society.
The Prime Minister and other senior officials of the Japanese
government are letting media
report their "respects" and "homage" to the war criminals who are entombed
at the shrine in a
bid to describe "aggression" as intended for "peace" and "justice". They
are also instilling into
the Japanese the idea that only those who take the lead in the war can be
entombed there to be
"respected" even after their death.
In history textbooks and all other books without exception the Japanese
reactionaries have
described the war of aggression committed by the Japanese imperialists as
one aimed to
"liberate" Asia from aggression by western big powers and bring "peace" to
Asia, and tried hard
to cover up all the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists by
claiming that they enforced
a "good rule" in Asian countries. This is a brigandish logic.
Japan is now interpreting the provisions of its "peace constitution" as
it pleases and is free
to dispatch the "Self-Defence Forces" overseas.
It has gone the length of openly revealing its intention to build a
"SDF" military base in an
Asian country.
It is planning to stage a comprehensive military drill in Tokyo
metropolis under the pretext
of "preventing disasters". It is expected to be participated in by division
size units of "SDF's"
three services, various types of vehicles, warships and fighter planes and
nearly 100
institutions.
What should not be overlooked is that the training will be staged under
the command of the
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the "SDF" as advocated by Tokyo
metropolitan governor
Shintaro Ishihara, an ultra right-wing element.
Japan is keen on continuously pushing ahead with the joint
technological research with the
United States to establish the "Theatre Missile Defence" system and further
increasing its
military spending.
Japan's ambition of reinvasion has become an established fact.
Its first target is the Korean peninsula.
But Japan is oblivious of the lesson of history.
Japanese imperialism was defeated not because of its weak strength but
because it swimmed
against the trend of history.
Kim Il Sung praised by Egyptian figure
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- Chairman Yehiya Zakaria Hairalah of the
Juche Idea
Study Committee of Egypt released a statement on Aug. 21 on the occasion of
the 52nd
anniversary of the DPRK.
He in the statement said the President Kim Il Sung is the founder of
socialist Korea.
He continued:
Since its foundation the DPRK has advanced along the most correct and
glorious road, the
path of independence, under the outstanding leadership of Kim Il Sung,
defending its dignity
and sovereignty.
All the great events and brilliant exploits which have adorned the
modern history of Korea
from a colonial semi-feudal society to progress and prosperity today are
associated with his
August name.
The cause of building a socialist state led by the President who
started the revolutionary
cause of Juche is being confidently carried forward and steadily developed
in depth by the great
leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Il Sung's cause of nation-building will remain shining long with
the annals of the
Juche cause, and the DPRK will eternally prosper as Kim Il Sung's Korea
under the wise
leadership of Kim Jong Il.
5th World Junior Taekwon-do Championships enter its 3rd day
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- The following are the results of the
third day
competitions of the 5th World Junior Taekwon-do Championships now under way
here.
Women's sparring individual
42 kg class
1: Kim Jong Ae (DPRK)
2: Lyudmila Kostikova (Russia)
3: Nigara Yunusova (Uzbekistan)
Serrano Ana Soledad (Argentina)
Over 60 kg class
1: Ana Coronel (Argentina)
2: Petra Tosnarova (Czech)
3: Kim Nam Hui (DPRK)
Anton Diana (Canada)
Men's sparring individual
52 kg class
1: Ri Chol Rim (DPRK)
2: Anton Shamanin (Russia)
3: Georgi Damian Godoy (Argentina)
Charalampos Mouratidis (Greece)
Over 70 kg class
1: Batista Jonathan (Argentina)
2: Sergios Basanides (Greece)
3: Andrei Parokhin (Russia)
Murawiecki Lukasz (Poland)
Women's team demonstration
1: DPRK
2: Poland
3: Russia, Uzbekistan
Women's demonstration individual
1: Kisiel Martyna (Poland)
2: Ro Song Hui (DPRK)
3: Flyora Bektemirova (Uzbekistan)
Petra Tosnarova (Czech)
The competitions were followed by an awarding ceremony for some events
of the second
and third day competitions.
The following are the results of men's sparring individual in 63 kg and
70 kg class and
women's sparring individual in 60 kg class at the second day.
Men's sparring individual
63 kg class
1: Kang Sang Jun (DPRK)
2: Igor Amelin (Kazakhstan)
3: Angutingdag Tityussen (Greenland)
Abdellahi Aziz (Canada)
70 kg class
1: Vasily Popov (Russia)
2: Kuspit Tomasz (Poland)
3: Jake Goldsmith (New Zealand)
Feruz Ibragimov (Uzbekistan)
Women's sparring individual
60 kg class
1: Kim Un Sim (DPRK)
2: Nadezda Bidlasova (Czech)
3: Anna Ivanova (Russia)
Anabel Lobglio (Argentina)
Unconverted long-term prisoners praised
Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- The world public is highly praising the
unconverted
long-term prisoners in South Korea, who have fought unyieldingly for scores
of years behind
bars, true to the vow made to the fatherland and the revolution, as men of
strong faith and will.
The secretary general of the executive secretariat of the organization
of solidarity of the
peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America in a letter to the president of
the UN Commission on
Human Rights said that he highly praised and respected the unconverted
long-term prisoners
who are boundlessly loyal to their fatherland and people and have firm faith.
The Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful
Reunification of
Korea, the Italian Committee for the Reunification and Peace of Korea, the
Ugandan Railway
Workers' Federation and the All-India Agricultural Workers Union separately
issued statements.
The Mexican Fellowship Union to Honor the Memory of President Kim Il
Sung, the
Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification and the Mexico-DPRK
Friendship
and Cultural Exchange Association issued a joint statement, and the
chairman of the Austrian
Committee to Support Korea's Reunification made public a statement.
Recalling that an "ideological conversion" was imposed upon the
unconverted long-term
prisoners and they were put to brutal torture for scores of years behind
bars and they have been
subjected to unbearable mental and physical harassment in the subsequent
period, too, after
being defined as "those under supervision for public peace," they stressed
that though belatedly,
they should be allowed to spend the remaining years of their lives in their
hometowns at the
earliest possible date where their parents, brothers and sisters, wives and
children are awaiting
them.
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