TODAY'S NEWS (August.28.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il visits Kalma rest home in Wonsan
* Greetings to Fidel Castro Ruz
* Messages exchanged between FMs of DPRK and Cuba
* Gift to Kim Jong Il from Russian party leader
* Greetings to Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam from Fidel Castro Ruz
* Hong Song Nam meets Italian guests
* Young Koreans pay homage to Kim Il Sung
* Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated abroad
* Cuban embassy officials pay respects to Kim Il Sung
* FM of DPRK sends condolences to his counterparts of different countries
* Meeting held to mark Youth Day
* Youth to act shock brigade in building powerful nation
* Feats of young Koreans
* Young people take lead in building powerful nation
* Whole nation urged to come out for Korea's reunification
For Spanish-speaking people
* kim jong il recorre casa de reposo de kalma de wonsan
* mensaje de felicitacion a fidel castro
Kim Jong Il visits Kalma rest home in Wonsan
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited
the Kalma rest home in Wonsan, which
has been built by soldiers of the KPA.
The rest home, which looks like a large passenger ship cleaving a
boundless expanse of water, is one more gift
presented by him to servicemen with his benevolent love and another
monumental edifice in the era of the great
army-first politics.
The rest home with a total floor space of over 30,000 square metres has
well-appointed bed rooms, a gymnasium,
a library, a dining room, an entertainment hall, a sauna, a barber's shop,
a hair-dressing salon and other cultural and
service facilities.
Soldier-builders successfully completed the vast laborious project
including the construction of a 19-storied main
building and a gymnasium in less than two years.
Looking round the outside and inside of the rest home for hours, he
learned about details of its construction.
He was greatly satisfied to see the rest home built so qualitatively as
to remain flawless even in the distant future
and equipped with such modern facilities.
He gave high appreciation and thanks to the soldier-builders for
performing brilliant feats again in the construction
of the rest home despite difficulties and trials.
He put forward highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines
in the management and operation of the
rest home, saying that all conditions should be provided and diverse
cultural activities organised for holiday makers so
that they may spend pleasant and meaningful days.
He met and gave warm pep-talks to the soldier-builders of the rest home
before having a souvenir picture taken
with them.
He was accompanied by secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK Kim
Kuk Thae, chairman of the Central
Control Commission of the WPK Pak Yong Sok, department director of the WPK
Central Committee Jong Ha Chol,
first deputy department directors of the WPK Central Committee Ri Yong
Chol, Pak Song Bong and Jang Song Thaek
and KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
Greetings to Fidel Castro Ruz
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the
Worker's Party of Korea, Chairman of
the DPRK National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean
People's Army, together with Kim
Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly,
on August 21 sent a message of
greetings to Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the central committee of
the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the
Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic
of Cuba, on the occasion of the 40th
anniversary of the establishment of DPRK-Cuba diplomatic relations.
The message extended warm comradely greetings to Fidel Castro Ruz and,
through him, to the central committee
of the CPC, the government and people of Cuba on this occasion.
It noted:
Over the past 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations
the two countries have steadily consolidated
and developed the friendly relations, supporting and cooperating with each
other on the road of realizing the cause of
socialism.
We believe that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation
between the two countries whose vitality has
been proved in all ordeals of history would further strengthen and develop
in the common struggle for independence
against imperialism and for socialism in the future, too.
We take this opportunity to wholeheartedly wish you greater success in
your responsible work, expressing
invariable support and solidarity with the fraternal Cuban people in their
struggle to defend their motherland, the
revolution and the gains of socialism.
Messages exchanged between FMs of DPRK and Cuba
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister of the DPRK Paek Nam
Sun exchanged messages of
greetings with his Cuban counterpart Pelipe Perez Roque on the occasion of
the 40th anniversary of the establishment
of DPRK-Cuba diplomatic relations.
The messages said that the two countries forged the bonds of friendship
in accomplishing the common cause of
independence against imperialism and for socialism and have steadily
strengthened and developed them.
They expressed solidarity for the just cause of the two peoples and
wished the foreign ministers success in their
work.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Russian party leader
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a
gift from Sazhi Umalatova,
chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, on a visit to the DPRK.
The gift was handed over to an official concerned by the chairperson.
Greetings to Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam from Fidel Castro Ruz
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the
Worker's Party of Korea, Chairman of
the DPRK National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean
People's Army, together with Kim
Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly,
received a message of greetings from Fidel
Castro Ruz, first secretary of the c.c., the Communist Party of Cuba,
President of the State of Council and President of
the Council of Ministers of Cuba, on August 19 on the occasion of the 40th
anniversary of the opening of diplomatic
relations between the DPRK and Cuba.
In the message Fidel said he was pleased to send on behalf of the Cuban
party and government fraternal greetings
to Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam on this occasion.
It said:
Over the past years the republic of Cuba and the DPRK have stood in the
common trench of fight against
imperialism and dynamically advanced the sacred cause of building socialist
society.
In the long period the relations between the two countries and the two
peoples have grown stronger, and we are
firmly determined to steadily strengthen and develop these relations in the
future, too.
I take this opportunity to reaffirm our unshakable resolution to
invariably support the Korean people's noble
intention to achieve the peaceful reunification of the country, their
cherished desire.
I also wholeheartedly wish you fresh success in your work and happiness
in good health.
Please accept highest consideration.
Hong Song Nam meets Italian guests
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK
cabinet, met and conversed with
Giancarlo Elia Valori, secretary general of the Italian Institute of
International Relations, Luciano Benetton, president of
Benetton Group of Italy, and his party on a visit to the DPRK in a friendly
atmosphere at the Mansudae Assembly Hall
today.
Giancarlo Elia Valori said that everything goes well in the DPRK under
the wise guidance of the great Kim Jong
Il, and sincerely hoped that the Korean people's cause of national
reunification would be achieved at an early date.
He expressed the belief that the friendly relations between Italy and
the DPRK would continue to develop.
Young Koreans pay homage to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Officials of the youth league and youth
and students of the DPRK visited the
Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay respects to the President Kim Il Sung on
Sunday on the threshold of the Youth
Day.
The visitors entered the hall where the statue of the President is
standing and then went upstairs to make deep
bows before him who is preserved in state.
At the mourning hall of the palace they looked round the portrait of
the President with smile in his face against the
background of the red flag and bronze relievos showing the Korean people
and the world's progressives.
Then they went round a train used by him for his on-site guidance and
foreign tours and a car used in the last
period of his life.
Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated abroad
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- A national preparatory committee of
Democratic Congo was formed in
Kinshasa on August 19 to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea and the 55th
anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
The national chairman of the National Movement of the Genuine Lumumbist
Combatants of Democratic Congo
was elected chairman of the preparatory committee at its inaugural meeting.
The meeting set a celebration period from September 9 to October 15 and
decided on the action program of the
committee to be conducted in the period.
Meanwhile, a Madagascan preparatory committee was inaugurated in
Antananarivo on August 21 to celebrate the
55th birthday of the WPK.
The national secretary of the Party of the Congress for the
Independence of Madagascar was selected as chairman
of the committee at its inaugural meeting.
The meeting decided on the committee's action program.
Cuban embassy officials pay respects to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Jose Manuel Inclan Embade and
officials of the Cuban embassy
here on Sunday visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the President Kim
Il Sung lies in state on the occasion of
the 40th anniversary of the establishment of DPRK-Cuban diplomatic relations.
At the palace the visitors went upstairs and paid homage to the
President in deep reverence for him who made
immortal contributions to global peace and the human cause of independence.
Then they looked round orders and medals he received from different
countries.
They also went round the mourning hall, a train used by him for his
on-site guidance and foreign tours and a car
used in the last period of his life.
The ambassador wrote in the visitor's book that the great leader Kim Il
Sung is a close comrade-in-arms of the
Cuban people and an eternal friend of supreme leader of the Cuban
revolution Fidel Castro Ruz and that his
revolutionary exploits will shine forever.
The visitors planted trees in the arboretum of the palace.
FM of DPRK sends condolences to his counterparts of different countries
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the DPRK, sent messages of
condolences to Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed Bin Mubarak
al-Khalifa, Omani Foreign Minister Qaboos
Bin Said al Said who is concurrently Sultan of Oman, Foreign Minister of
the United Arab Emirates Rashid Abdullah
al-Nuaymi and Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber
al-Thani.
In the messages Paek said that upon hearing the sad news that a
passenger plane of Gulf Air crashed on August
23, causing losses of all passengers and crew aboard, he expressed
heartfelt sympathy and condolence to the
governments and people of those countries and to the bereaved families.
Meeting held to mark Youth Day
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here on Sunday to
mark the Youth Day.
Present at the meeting were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Worker's
Party of Korea Central Committee, Yang
Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
of the DPRK, and other senior
officials and officials concerned and youth league officials and youths and
students in the city.
Ri Il Hwan, first secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung
Socialist Youth League, made a report at the
meeting.
The reporter noted that the great leader Kim Il Sung founded the Young
Communist League of Korea on August
28, Juche 16 (1927) and the respected Kim Jong Il saw to it that this day
was instituted as the Youth Day.
With the formation of the YCLK the glorious history of the Korean youth
movement started and its brilliant
traditions were established, he stressed, and continued:
Kim Il Sung's idea of attaching great importance to the youth is now
being most successfully put into practice by
Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il has put the Korean youth movement on a new higher stage
with his politics of giving great importance
to the youth while leading the worker's party and the revolution of Korea.
He has strengthened the youth league into the eternal league of Kim Il
Sung and has showed deep political trust
and warm love for the young people and led them to fully discharge their
mission as young vanguard in the revolution
and construction.
In conclusion the reporter called upon all the young people to prepare
themselves to become the most loyal subjects
with the absolute worship of Kim Jong Il and human bullets and bombs to
take the van in devotedly defending the
headquarters of the revolution, to think and act only in accordance with
the WPK's idea and intention and reliably carry
forward the tradition of single-hearted unity.
Youth to act shock brigade in building powerful nation
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in an editorial dedicated
to the 9th anniversary of the Youth
Day notes that the glorious path covered by the Korean youth movement is
adorned with the heroic exploits of the
young people who have taken the lead in carrying out the idea and intention
of the Worker's Party of Korea and the
leader.
The editorial says:
The great Kim Jong Il is the supreme leader of the Korean youth
movement who has wisely led the work with
young people with absolute trust in and love for them.
He has successfully applied the President Kim Il Sung's idea of
attaching great importance to the youth, ushering
in an era of efflorescence in the Korean youth movement.
The slogan "Love the youth " reflects his noble intention and will to
give the young people strength and courage
and train them as the driving force of the Korean revolution, a shock
brigade and vanguard in socialist construction.
The youth should be intensely loyal to Kim Jong Il's idea and
leadership with absolute worship of him and
staunchly struggle for the ultimate victory of the revolution with firm
faith in the socialism of Korean style.
The WPK's trust and expectation for the youth is very great.
The party expects them to do their share for building a powerful
nation. All the youth should become young heroes
by devoting themselves to the vigorous drive to build a powerful nation.
Youth should make continuous innovation and advance full of confidence
of sure victory and optimism to bring
earlier a bright future, bearing deep in mind that the building of a
powerful nation is on their shoulders.
Feats of young Koreans
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The DPRK commemorates as Youth Day
August 28 when the President Kim Il
Sung formed the Young Communist League of Korea 73 years ago.
It was in Juche 80 (1991) that this day was set as Youth Day.
On this occasion, people are recalling with deep emotion the feats the
young Koreans have performed, always
playing a vanguard role in the annals of history.
The young communists, the first generation of the Korean revolution,
started a new history of the communist
movement under the guidance of Kim Il Sung. Through the arduous
anti-Japanese armed struggle, they achieved the
historic cause of national liberation by giving a telling political and
military blow to the Japanese aggressors.
After the liberation of the country on August 15, 1945, the young
Koreans played an important role in building a
new society in the enforcement of democratic reforms such as agrarian
reform and nationalization of major industries,
the emulation drive for increased production, anti-illiteracy campaign and
other campaigns.
During the 1950-1953 Korean War started by the U.S. the young people
displayed matchless bravery and mass
heroism in the sacred fight against the enemies and thus reliably defended
the sovereignty and dignity of the country
and the nation.
After the war they performed enormous feats in the efforts to
rehabilitate the devastated factories and rural areas
and other protracted struggles, which will remain long in the history of
the country.
In the 1980s alone they built a large number of monumental edifices,
among them the world-level west sea
barrage, 250 km-long northern railways and the ore-dressing plant no.3 of
the Komdok mine with an annual capacity
of ten million tons.
In particular, they successfully completed in a little more than two
years over 260 projects such as the construction
of houses for more than 20,000 families in Kwangbok Street, a sports
village in Chongchun Street, and the
150,000-seat May Day Stadium. They thus ensured the smooth holding of the
13th World Festival of Youth and
Students, demonstrating the heroic stamina of the young Koreans.
In recent years when they have been hard pressed for everything because
of the imperialists' isolation and
suffocation moves and repeated natural disasters, they have made great
feats in major projects, including the
construction of the 40 km-long Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway, Kaechon-Lake
Thaesong Waterway and salterns in
different parts of the country by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit
of self-reliance.
In this way the young Koreans are displaying their wisdom and courage
to the full.
Young people take lead in building powerful nation
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The Korean young people are greeting the
Youth Day which falls on today
with signal labour achievements.
Deep trust is reposed in the young people, successors to the
revolutionary cause and a most active contingent in
society, and are put forward as a shock brigade in building a powerful nation.
That is why, they are registering signal progress in production and
construction in hearty response to the calls of
the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea in which it appealed
to them to devote themselves to the
vigorous drive to build a powerful nation and glorify their lives with
loyalty and feat.
Now they are undertaking the gigantic Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway
construction project.
They removed at least 12.6 million cubic metres of earth, spread over
950,000 cubic metres of sand and gravel on
the roadbed and carried out more than 100,000 cubic metres of concrete
tamping in a year after its start. As a result, the
40 odd km-long roadbed scores of metres wide has taken shape in the main
even under the difficult conditions where
they have been hard pressed for everything. They are now dynamically
pushing ahead with paving and the construction
of set-ups.
The WPK Central Committee called on them to successfully finish the
construction of the motorway, a grand
monumental edifice, before its 55th anniversary.
The young builders in charge of the projects for switching
Kanggye-Rangrim and west Hamhung-Soho railways
over to electric traction are working hard to finish them ahead of schedule.
The young builders undertaking the Kanggye-Rangrim railway project have
spread at least 10,000 cubic metres of
gravel in the 72 km-long section and replaced tens of thousands of sleepers
by new ones in a short span of time.
As a result, the project is progressing at its final stage.
Fresh innovations are also effected by the young builders in the second
stage project of the Anbyon Youth Power
Station and other power stations to solve the country's problem of electricity.
Fish, poultry and pig farms now under construction across the country
are now being completed one by one
thanks to the devoted efforts of young people.
Their feats are reported everyday from major construction sites
including the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway
project.
Whole nation urged to come out for Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The national division that violates the
sovereignty of the nation and blocks its
uniform development should be terminated without delay, says Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
Korea's reunification is an important issue vital to the Korean nation
and its supreme task.
The sovereignty of the Korean nation would have been unthinkable
without achieving the reunification of the
country.
With the country remaining divided artificially by the foreign forces,
the Korean nation has suffered untold
misfortune, hardships and losses.
A man deprived of sovereignty looks more dead than alive and when a
nation loses sovereignty it cannot enjoy true
dignity and a worthy life and is bound to suffer only shame.
The Koreans have learned this truth through their bitter experience in
the period of the Japanese military
occupation.
Korea's reunification is a key issue related to the destiny and the
development of the Korean nation.
Continued division would cause serious national heterogeneity and throw
obstacles in the way of national
reunification.
The uniform development of the country blocked by its continued split
would bring irreparable tremendous losses
to the nation.
Pointing out that the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim
Jong Il have vigorously advanced the
movement for national reunification, the article notes:
Now that a bright prospect is opened for Korea's reunification all the
compatriots in the north, south and overseas
should turn out in a grand march of the nation for reunification and put
spurs to the movement for Korea's reunification
and thus contribute to achieving the historic cause of reunification.
For Spanish-speaking people
kim jong il recorre casa de reposo de kalma de wonsan
pyongyang, 28 de agosto (atcc) -- el gran dirigente, camarada kim jong
il, secretario general del partido del trabajo
de corea, presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular
democratica de corea y comandante supremo
del ejercito popular de corea recorrio la casa de reposo de kalma de wonsan
construida recientemente por los militares
del epc.
la casa de reposo que se asemeja a un gran barco de pasajeros surcando
el inmenso mar es una creacion
monumental de la gran epoca de dar prioridad al ejercito, un regalo
permeado del gran amor del comandante supremo
kim jong il a los militares del ejercito popular.
tiene un area arquitectonica de mas de 30 mil metros cuadrados y cuenta
con dormitorios, gimnasio, biblioteca,
comedor, lugar de recreacion, sauna, barberia, peluqueria y otras
excelentes instalaciones de cultura y de servicio
publico.
los constructores militares terminaron con exito en un corto tiempo de
menos de dos anos la vasta y dificil obra
incluyendo el edificio principal de 19 pisos y el gimnasio.
el comandante supremo kim jong il recorrio durante largas horas el
interior y exterior de la casa de reposo para
enterarse en detalle del estado de construccion.
se mostro muy satisfecho de que la casa de reposo se haya construido
cualitativamente de modo que no tenga lo
desperfecto aun en un futuro lejano y se haya dotado de excelentes equipos.
evaluo altamente a los militares que volvieron a realizar brillantes
hazanas en la construccion de la casa de reposo al
superar las dificultades y contratiempos y les dio agradecimiento.
dijo que hay que asegurar con suficiencia todas las condiciones y
organizar diversas actividades de cultura para que
los vacacionistas disfruten de timpos alegres y significativos y presento
las tareas programaticas que sirven de guia para
la administracion y gestion de la casa de reposo.
se encontro con los militares participantes en la construccion de la
casa de reposo para estimularlos cordialmente y
se fotografio junto a ellos.
le acompanaron kim kuk thae, secretario del cc del ptc, pak yong sok,
presidente de la comision de control del cc
del ptc, jong ha chol, jefe de departamento del cc del ptc, ri yong chol,
pak song bong y jang song thaek, primeros
subjefes de departamento del cc del ptc y los generales de ejercito del epc
hyon chol hae y pak jae gyong.
mensaje de felicitacion a fidel castro
pyongyang, 28 de agosto (atcc) -- el camarada kim jong il, secretario
general del partido del trabajo de corea,
presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular
democratica de corea y comandante supremo del
ejercito popular de corea, junto con el camarada kim yong nam, presidente
del comite permanente de la asamblea
popular suprema de la rpdc envio el dia 21, en ocasion del 40 aniversario
del establecimiento de las relaciones
diplomaticas entre la rpdc y cuba, un mensaje de felicitacion al camarada
fidel castro ruz, primer secretario del comite
central del partido comunista de cuba, presidente del consejo de estado y
del consejo de ministros de la republica de
cuba.
el mensaje senala que envia un cordial saludo camaraderil al camarada
fidel castro ruz y por su conducto al cc del
partido comunista de cuba, el gobierno y el pueblo de cuba con motivo del
40 aniversario del establecimiento de las
relaciones diplomaticas entre corea y cuba y continua:
durante estos 40 anos posteriores al establecimiento de las relaciones
diplomaticas nuestros dos paises no han
cesado de consolidar y desarrollar las relaciones de amistad apoyandose y
cooperando en el mismo camino para la
realizacion de la causa del socialismo.
estamos convencidos de que las tradicionales relaciones de amistad y
cooperacion trabadas entre ambos paises
cuya vitalidad fue comprobada en medio de todas las pruebas de la historia
se fortaleceran y se desarrollaran tambien en
el futuro en la lucha comun contra el imperialismo y por la independencia y
el socialismo.
aprovechamos la oportunidad para expresar invariable apoyo y
solidaridad con la lucha del hermano pueblo cubano
por defender la patria, la revolucion y las conquistas del socialismo y
para desear sinceramente a usted mayores exitos
en su labor responsable.
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