TODAY'S NEWS (September.01.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il meets chief delegate of south side
* Gift to Kim Jong Il
* Greetings to Vietnamese President
* Joint communique on 2nd round of north-south ministerial talks
* Solidarity with Korean people expressed in Portugal
* .S. commit air espionage on DPRK
* Vietnamese National Day observed
* Meeting for Japan-DPRK friendship held in Japan
* Glorifying Korea of Juche under great party's leadership
* Stronger Non-Aligned Movement called for
* Kim Il Sung's noble comradeship
* Papers observe Libyan Arab people's day of revolution
For Spanish-speaking people
* espionajes aereos de ee.uu.
* periodicos subrayan necesidad de fortalecer movimiento de no alineacion
* kim jong il recibe a delegado jefe de parte sur
* kim jong il recibe presente de delegacion de periodico de laos
Kim Jong Il meets chief delegate of south side
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il today
met Minister of Unification Pak Jae
Gyu, chief delegate of the delegation of the south side to the 2nd round of
the north-south ministerial talks.
Secretary Kim Yong Sun of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party
of Korea was on hand.
Pak Jae Gyu conveyed President Kim Dae Jung's greetings to Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il expressed thanks for this and conversed with Pak Jae Gyu in
a cordial atmosphere.
Kim Jong Il gave a breakfast in honor of Pak Jae Gyu and had a picture
taken with him.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received
a gift from a delegation of Passason,
the organ of the central committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
The gift was handed to an official concerned by its editor-in-chief
Khamkay Viengsavanh on a visit to Korea.
Greetings to Vietnamese President
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Tran Duc Luong, President of
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on
the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the republic.
The message extended warm congratulations to the Vietnamese President
and, through him, to all the people of
Vietnam on the occasion.
Over the last 55 years the Vietnamese people have achieved great
successes in the struggle to defend national
independence and sovereignty and build socialism under the leadership of
the communist party of Vietnam, the
message noted.
Expressing the belief that the traditional friendly and cooperative
relations between the two countries will continue
to grow stronger and develop in the interests of socialism and the two
peoples, the message wished the President
success in his responsible work.
Joint communique on 2nd round of north-south ministerial talks
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The second round of the north-south
ministerial talks which opened here
amid the expectation and concern of people at home and abroad came to an
end today.
At the talks, progressive measures were raised to implement the agreed
points of the historic north-south joint
declaration. Both sides agreed on presented proposals in view of
reconciliation and cooperation, unity and
reunification.
The head of the north side's delegation and the chief delegate of the
south side released a joint communique on the
second round of the inter-Korean talks.
It reads:
The second round of the north-south ministerial talks was held in
Pyongyang from August 29 to September 1,
Juche 89 (2000).
At the talks, both sides underlined again the weighty significance of
the June 15 north-south joint declaration and
estimated it for producing good results.
They reaffirmed their willingness to strive together to sincerely
implement the north-south joint declaration and
agreed on the following practical items.
1. The north and the south will exchange two more visiting groups of
separated families and relatives within this
year.
Working matters related to this will be soon discussed by the Red Cross
organisations of the north and the south.
In addition, they will discuss matters arising in promoting correspondence
between separated families and relatives and
others.
2. The north and the south will strive to defuse the tensions and
ensure peace.
In this connection the talks recommend the relevant fields to have
talks between the military authorities of the two
sides at an early date.
3. The north and the south will secure an institutional guarantee
including the ensuring of investment and the
prevention of double taxation in order to expand and develop economic
cooperation.
A working-level contact of experts of both sides will be held within
September in this connection.
And the south side will examine the issue of providing on a credit food
to the north side on the principle of mutual
help, given the fact that it is suffering from repeated natural calamities,
and push ahead with its implementation.
4. The north and the south will have a working-level contact for
relinking the railways between Sinuiju and Seoul
and opening the road between Kaesong and Munsan within September to discuss
the matter of ground-breaking
ceremonies, etc.
5. The north and the south will jointly push forward the work to
prevent the flood damage in areas along River
Rimjin at an early date.
6. The north and the south will send tourist groups, each having about
a hundred persons, to the area of each side
from mid-September to early October to enable them to tour Mt. Paektu and
Mt. Hanna.
7. The north and the south will have the third round of the north-south
ministerial talks on Mt. Hanna from
September 27 to 30, Juche 89 (2000).
The size of the delegation of each side to the talks will be determined
according to its convenience.
Solidarity with Korean people expressed in Portugal
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting for friendship and
solidarity with the Korean people was held at
the 37th Historil international handicrafts exhibition in Portugal on August 21.
Invited to the meeting were delegates of 20 odd countries to the
exhibition, including the DPRK delegation of the
general exhibition bureau.
Addressing the meeting, Acasio Libeiro, coordinator of the exhibition
organizing committee, said that the Korean
people are now working hard to build the best socialist country in the
world under the wise guidance of the great Kim
Jong Il despite difficulties.
We hope that they will reunify the country at an early date in
accordance with the proposal of founding the
Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo advanced by the President Kim Il Sung
and lead a happy life, he said.
U.S. commit air espionage on DPRK
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. committed at least 170 cases
of aerial espionage on the DPRK in
August with strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes involved on
different missions, military sources said.
On August 28 an overseas-based P-3 patrol plane made flights in the
skies above the east and west seas of Korea
to spy on our coast and seabed.
On August 30, U-2 made flights in the skies above Tojok Islet, Phochon
and Sokcho areas of South Korea on an
espionage mission against the DPRK. The number of round-the-clock espionage
flights by this high-altitude strategic
reconnaissance plane totaled more than 40.
Vietnamese National Day observed
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition and a film show
were held at the Korean Committee for
Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries on Thursday to mark the 55th
anniversary of the National Day of Vietnam.
Invited to them were ambassador Do Thi Hoa and staff members of the
Vietnamese embassy here.
Vice-Minister of Education Jon Kuk Man, who is chairman of the
Korea-Vietnam Friendship Association, and
officials concerned were present together with citizens.
The participants looked round photos introducing Vietnam and saw a
Vietnamese documentary film on its
development.
Meeting for Japan-DPRK friendship held in Japan
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The national exchange meeting for the
development of Japan-DPRK
friendship--the 24th national meeting of Japanese teachers for the study of
the Juche idea was held in Japan on Aug. 26
and 27.
Tadao Oishi, secretary general of the Liaison Council of the Society of
Japanese Teachers for the Study of the
Juche Idea, in his report said the publication of the June 15 north-south
joint declaration is a world historic event which
put an end to the more than half a century long east-west Cold War. As the
implementation of the declaration leads to
peace not only on the Korean peninsula but in northeast Asia, the Japanese
people should conduct widespread activities
to support it, he said.
Referring to the talks for the establishment of Japan-DPRK diplomatic
relations, he urged Japan not to raise such
unreasonable preconditions as "suspected kidnapping" and "suspicion of
missile" but discuss the issue of redressing its
past with sincerity, to begin with.
He stressed the need to more widely conduct activities for the study
and dissemination of the Juche idea, set right
the wrong understanding of the Japanese history, improve the education in
history and rectify the policy of
discrimination against the national education at the Korean schools and
called for making efforts to greet the 21st
century as a century of Japan-DPRK friendship.
His report was followed by speeches.
The meeting heard a lecture "situation around the Korean peninsula and
our task." reports and speeches were made
at panel discussions on theories, education and practice and activities for
Japan-DPRK friendship.
A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted there.
Glorifying Korea of Juche under great party's leadership
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate editorials
to the 40th anniversary of General
Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of revolutionary activities at Kim Il Sung
University.
An editorial of Rodong Sinmun says that the course of Kim Jong Il's
glorious revolutionary activities is a brilliant
history of an outstanding thinker and theoretician, a master of
extraordinary leadership art and invincible and
iron-willed commander, who has performed immortal exploits to shine in the
century by devoting himself to the
motherland and people and to the successful progress of the socialist cause
true to the intention of the President Kim Il
Sung.
It was his immortal exploits made in glorifying Korea that he has
firmly defended and comprehensively developed
and enriched the President's revolutionary idea.
It was thanks to Kim Jong Il that the revolutionary idea of Kim Il Sung
was formulated as an integral system of
idea, theory and method of Juche and it came to shed its rays as an eternal
guiding idea in the era of independence and
the DPRK came to fully demonstrate its might as an ideologically powerful
country.
He created the history of a peerless patriot and great genius of
creation and construction by radically changing the
appearance of the country with his indefatigable energetic leadership.
The course of his activities is a glorious one in which he brought
about a new turn in the country with his noble
patriotic spirit. Radical changes have thus taken place in the political,
economic, cultural, military and all other fields of
the revolution and construction.
The revolutionary spirit of soldiers and the spirit of Kanggye were
highly displayed and a solid springboard was
laid to build a powerful state in such difficult periods as the "arduous
march" and forced march.
All this would have been unthinkable without his leadership.
The sovereignty of our nation will remain inviolable and our country
will always stand as an impregnable fortress
as long as he leads the Korean people.
An editorial of Minju Joson says that his cause is the greatest, the
noblest and invincible, calling for bringing the
revolutionary cause of Juche to shining completion under his clear-sighted
army-first leadership.
Stronger Non-Aligned Movement called for
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate articles to
the day of the Non-Aligned Movement
(NAM).
Rodong Sinmun in a signed article says that the NAM has grown into a
strong anti-imperialist revolutionary force
to reckon with in our times and a driving force in building an independent
new world.
The Cold War came to an end but the imperialists remain unchanged in
their offensives against the progressive
countries under the signboards of "peace," "democracy" and "human rights"
and have grown more ferocious in them,
the article notes, adding this calls for strengthening and developing the NAM.
Saying that the issue of paramount importance is to firmly and
invariably adhere to the fundamental idea and the
principle governing the activities of the movement, the article observes:
If the movement changes its idea and action
program, its inherent nature will change and it will be impossible to keep
it alive, either.
It is the only way for the nam to fulfil its mission and role as a
great political force in the next century, too, to
strengthen the unity and solidarity of the movement.
It calls for preserving the purity of the movement, defending world
peace and security from the imperialists'
arbitrary and high-handed practices and establishing a new international order.
Minju Joson underscores the need for the member countries of the NAM to
counter the imperialists' moves for
split and alienation with a strategy of solidarity under the uplifted
banner of independence against imperialism. The
DPRK will as always make positive efforts to strengthen and develop this
movement, it says.
Kim Il Sung's noble comradeship
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- From old times, a safe is known to
keep such things as money, important
documents and other valuables.
But, the safe used by the President Kim Il Sung was something for the
purpose quite different from others'.
One day in Juche 83 (1994) when the Korean people were in profound
grief over the unexpected demise of the
President, officials concerned unlocked the safe he had used for a long
time in his office.
It contained nothing but two envelopes of letters he received from
revolutionary comrades-in-arms and a picture he
had taken with Kim Chaek.
Kim Chaek was one of his revolutionary comrades-in-arms, who assisted
the President in the revolutionary work,
holding such important posts as vice-chairman of the People's Committee of
North Korea and vice-premier of the
DPRK cabinet after the liberation of the country in Juche 34(1945) and
commander of the front during the Fatherland
Liberation War. He passed away in January 1951.
The officials were deeply touched by the noble comradeship of the
President who had long kept with good care the
picture and letters, unable to forget even in dreams the revolutionary
comrades with whom he shared the idea and
purpose.
Here is another story telling about his warm love for revolutionary
comrades-in-arms.
It happened when the President came back to his native home after the
liberation of the country, that was 20 years
after he left there. His grandparents asked him to shift the graves of his
parents to the homeland from the alien land
where they died while struggling for the liberation of the country.
On hearing this, he told them his intention to find out before anyone
else the bereaved children of those comrades
who fell in the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. Later he found all of
them in different areas and built a
revolutionary school for them.
He also saw to it that the revolutionary martyrs' cemetery and the
patriotic martyrs' cemetery were built to hand the
revolutionary comrades' spirit and exploits performed in the struggle down
to posterity and he found out all those at
home and abroad related to his revolutionary activities and met them in his
lifetime. These facts show the unbounded
comradeship of the President who valued his comrades more than a thousand
pieces of gold.
Papers observe Libyan Arab people's day of revolution
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Papers today observe the 31st
anniversary of the Libyan Arab people's
victory of the great September 1st Revolution.
Rodong Sinmun in a signed article says that patriotic soldiers and
people of Libya achieved the victory of the
revolution on September 1, 1969 by overthrowing the feudal dynasty under
the leadership of Colonel Moammer El
Gaddafi.
It goes on:
The Libyan Arab people have strong anti-imperialist spirit and desire
for independence.
The imperialists have incessantly conducted vicious anti-Libya
campaigns, regarding independent Libya as a thorn
in their flesh.
The Libyan Arab people are pushing ahead with the building of a new
life, while consolidating the victory of the
revolution despite the imperialists' political and military pressure and
economic blockade.
Pursuing an anti-imperialist independent, non-aligned foreign policy,
Libya has developed friendly and
cooperative relations with Arab and various other countries of the world.
The Korean people extend full support and firm solidarity to the Libyan
Arab people in their just struggle to defend
the country's sovereignty and the nation's dignity and build a new life.
The Korean people will as ever make sustained efforts to strengthen
Korea-Libya friendship.
Minju Joson in a signed article says that the friendship between the
two peoples of the DPRK and Libya is
growing stronger and developing day by day as it was forged through the
common struggle for independence and
peace against imperialism.
For Spanish-speaking people
espionajes aereos de ee.uu.
pyongyang, 1 de septiembre (atcc) -- segun una fuente militar, en
agosto los imperialistas norteamericanos
perpetraron mas de 170 espionajes aereos contra la rpd de corea con la
movilizacion de aviones de reconocimiento
estrategico y tactico de distintas misiones.
el 28 de agosto el avion patrullero "p-3" procedente de una base en el
ultramar sobrevolo los mares este y oeste de
corea para perpetrar espionaje sobre la costa y el fondo del mar de la rpdc.
el 30 de agosto el avion de reconocimiento estrategico de gran altura
"u-2" sobrevolo la zona de la isla tokjok,
phochon y sokcho para perpetrar espionaje sobre la parte norte de corea.
el numero de espionajes aereos de dia y noche perpetrados por el avion
"u-2" llega a mas de 40 ocasiones.
periodicos subrayan necesidad de fortalecer movimiento de no alineacion
pyongyang, 1 de septiembre (atcc) -- hoy periodicos de esta capital
consagraron articulos al dia de no alineacion.
el del diario "rodong sinmun" senala:
hoy, el movimiento de los no alineados se ha convertido en las
poderosas fuerzas revolucionarias antimperialistas
de nuestra epoca, que nadie puede menospreciar, fuerzas principales de la
construccion de un nuevo mundo
independiente.
se puso fin a la guerra fria, pero es invariable y se hace mas brutal
la ofensiva que bajo el rotulo de la "paz",
"democracia" y la "defensa de los derechos humanos" perpetran los
imperialistas contra los paises progresistas.
esto requiere fortalecer mas que nunca este movimiento.
lo mas importante en ello es mantener invariablemente el ideal
fundamental y los principios de actividades del
movimiento.
el movimiento al enmendar su ideal y cambiar el rumbo de sus
actividades no podra mantener su caracter propio
dejando de existir.
la unica garantia para que el movimiento cumpla con su mision y papel
de poderosas fuerzas politicas tambien en
siglo que viene es consolidar cohesion y unidad de su fila.
es importante asegurar la pureza del movimiento, prevenir la
arbitrariedad y el despotismo de los imperialistas,
preservar la paz y la seguridad del mundo y establecer un nuevo orden
internacional.
el periodico "minju joson" exhorta a todos los miembros del movimiento
noal a enarbolar la bandera de la
independencia antimperialista y oponer la estrategia de unidad a las
maquinaciones de division y discordia de los
imperialistas y subraya que la rpdc, tambien en el futuro, hara todos sus
esfuerzos activos por el desarrollo del
movimiento.
kim jong il recibe a delegado jefe de parte sur
pyongyang, 1 de septiembre (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il
recibio hoy en audiencia al ministro de
reunificacion pak jae gyu, delegado jefe de la parte sur a la segunda ronda
de las conversaciones a nivel de ministro
norte-sur de corea.
estuvo presente kim yong sun, secretario del cc del partido del trabajo
de corea.
el delegado jefe pak jae gyu transmitio el saludo del presidente kim
tae jung dirigido al dirigente kim jong il.
este expreso agradecimiento por el respecto y sostuvo una platica
cordial con el visitante.
ofrecio un desayuno en honor del delegado jefe pak jae gyu y se
fotografio junto a el.
kim jong il recibe presente de delegacion de periodico de laos
pyongyang, 1 de septiembre (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il
recibio presente de la delegacion del periodico
"passason", organo del comite central del partido popular revolucionario lao.
el redactor jefe de este periodico y jefe de la delegacion khamkay
viengsavanh de visita en la rpd de corea lo
entrego a un funcionario coreano.
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