September.02.2000 Juche 89
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il visits Jagang Province
* Anniversary of end of World War II observed
* UNICEF grants aid equipment to DPRK
* Delegation of south side leaves
* Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated in Sri Lanka
* Vietnamese ambassador gives reception to mark National Day
* Papers welcome return to fatherland of unconverted long-term prisoners
* Kim Yong Nam leaves to participate in new millennium U.N. summit
* Repeal of "SL" urged in S. Korea
* Unconverted long-term prisoners reunite with their families and
relatives
* Unconverted long-term prisoners pay homage to Kim Il Sung
* Unconverted long-term prisoners back to fatherland
* Greetings to President of Slovakia
Kim Jong Il visits Jagang Province
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited
Jagang Province
from August 28 to 31 to direct the work in different domains of its
national economy. The units
given his on-site guidance include the Kanggye Precision Machine Complex,
the Kanggye
Silk-Spinning Mill, a power station, a forestry station, cooperative farms
and a school.
He went first to the Kanggye Precision Machine Complex to see how its
workers work and
expressed satisfaction with their production of high-quality machines
before highly appreciating
their successes.
Then, he called at shops of the Kanggye Silk-Spinning Mill to acquaint
himself with its
production and set forth tasks to increase the output of silk thread.
The next leg of his visit was the Hungju Youth Power Atation newly
built on river Jangja
and a village of modern dwelling houses equipped with electric appliances.
He acquainted himself with the construction of the power station and
its management and
operation before highly appreciating the builders' feat.
He went round the village of model dwelling houses built in Hungju-dong
where
electrification has been realized.
Visiting a discharged soldier's house to learn about his living
conditions, he said that each
household in this village should be provided with uptodate tv sets. and he
posed for a picture
with his family members.
Then he moved to a village of the Songgan Forestry Station and said the
village looks like a
picture.
He also inspected Jangphyong and Mudok co-op farms in Janggang county
and the Songha
Sericultural Cooperative Farm in Songgan county.
After learning about the farming, stock-breeding and sericulture there,
he praised the
farmers for their devoted efforts.
He also provided on-site guidance to the Songgan Senior Middle School
in Songgan
county. He looked round a classroom, laboratory and other facilities of the
school and learned
about how students are educated.
He had a picture taken with teachers and students of the school.
He also posed for a photograph with a merited road maintenance worker
of the Songgan
county road management corps and her family on a pass, highly appreciating
their patriotic
devotion.
He appreciated an art performance given by school children in Jagang
Province.
He, on the basis of having acquainted himself in detail with the
overall work in the
province, put forth highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines
in putting the
national economy in the province on a higher plane.
He highly appreciated the fighting spirit and traits of the workers and
other people in Jagang
Province, the creators of the great spirit of Kanggye, noting that they are
performing miracles
and feats every hour, taking the lead also in the all-out charge for
building a powerful nation.
He also proposed tasks to keep production going at a high rate, boost
the electricity and
grain production, develop stock-breeding and sericulture, improve land
management and the
standard of people's living.
He was accompanied by Yon Hyong Muk, chief secretary of the Jagang
Provincial
Committee of the WPK, Jon Pyong Ho and Kim Kuk Thae, secretaries of the
c.c., the WPK,
and its first vice-department directors.
Anniversary of end of World War II observed
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The members of the Russian Embassy
here laid
wreaths before the Liberation Tower and the cemetery of fallen Soviet
soldiers in Sadong
district, Pyongyang, on Friday on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of
the end of the Second
World War. Standing at the tower and the cemetery were guards of honor of
the Korean
People's Army.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremonies were charge d'affaires
Alexander Timonin and staff
members of the Russian Embassy.
Amid the playing of music wreaths were placed at the tower and the
cemetery in the name of
the embassy.
The participants paid a silent tribute to the Soviet soldiers who fell
in the battles for the
liberation of Korea.
UNICEF grants aid equipment to DPRK
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) sent
the DPRK aid equipment needed for health service. A ceremony of presenting
the equipment
was held here on Friday.
Z. Karim, acting representative of the UNICEF office in the DPRK,
handed it over to an
official concerned.
Delegation of south side leaves
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the south side with
Minister of
Unification Pak Jae Gyu as chief delegate left here on Friday after
participating in the 2nd round
of the north-south ministerial talks. It was seen off at the airport by the
delegates of the north
side to the talks. A children's union member presented a bouquet to the
chief delegate of the
south side's delegation.
While staying here, the delegation appreciated the folk dance suit
"Song of Seasons",
cruised on the River Taedong and toured several places of the city.
It also visited the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace and the
mausoleum of king
Tangun.
Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated in Sri Lanka
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- A Sri Lankan preparatory committee was
inaugurated
in Colombo on August 25 to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the DPRK and
the 55th
anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The Minister of Vocational
Training and Rural
Industries of Sri Lanka was selected as honorary chairman of the
preparatory committee at its
inaugural meeting, while the Minister of Civil Aviation as its chairman.
The committee decided to hold various events such as Korean book and
photo exhibition on
the occasion of September 9 and October 10, the anniversaries.
Vietnamese ambassador gives reception to mark National Day
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK Do
Thi Hoa
hosted a reception on Friday to mark the 55th anniversary of the National
Day of Vietnam.
Invited to the reception were secretary of the presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly Kim
Yun Hyok, vice department director of the c.c., the Workers' Party of Korea
Choe Jin Su,
vice-minister of Foreign Affairs Pak Kil Yon, vice-chairperson of the
Committee for Cultural
Relations with Foreign Countries Hong Son Ok and officials concerned.
Diplomatic envoys of different countries to the DPRK were also present
on invitation.
Do Thi Hoa said in his speech that the Vietnamese party and government
have always set
store by the traditional relations of friendship between the two peoples of
the DPRK and
Vietnam based on the intimacy between the respected President Kim Il Sung
and President Ho
Chi Minh.
The Vietnamese party, government and people always remember the
precious mental and
material aid rendered by KimIil Sung and the Korean party and government to
Vietnam in the
anti-U.S. struggle and the cause of building and defending the country, the
ambassador said.
He expressed the firm belief that the fraternal Korean people, under
the leadership of
General Secretary Kim Jong Il, would make greater success in socialist
construction,
overcoming hardships and ordeals, and in their efforts to achieve the
independent and peaceful
reunification of the country.
Speaking next, Kim Yun Hyok referred to the great achievements the
Vietnamese people
have made in their efforts to achieve the complete independence and
unification of the country
and build a prosperous socialist Vietnam under the leadership of the
communist party over the
past 55 years after the foundation of the republic.
The DPRK-Vietnam friendship is a precious friendship fostered by Kim Il
Sung, the great
leader of the Korean people, and Ho Chi Minh, the great leader of the
Vietnamese people, he
said, adding:
The Korean people always set store by the friendship with the
Vietnamese people and will
continue to work hard to steadily develop it in the interests of socialism
and the two peoples.
Papers welcome return to fatherland of unconverted long-term
prisoners
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- Papers here editorially welcome 63
unconverted
long-term prisoners of South Korea coming to the fatherland today as men of
faith and
indomitable fighters. The repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners
marks an important
occasion of demonstrating to the world the strong will and stubborn mental
power of the Korean
nation neither to compromise nor yield to injustice, Rodong Sinmun says,
and goes on:
Such a world historic event as the return of unconverted long-term
prisoners to the DPRK is
a shining fruition of the love, comradely sense of obligation and immense
magnanimity shown
by the great leader Kim Jong Il for revolutionary soldiers and the
indefatigable efforts exerted by
him for their repatriation.
He is the tender-hearted father who, regarding it as his natural
disposition to believe in the
people as in god, has valued the nation more than anything else and devoted
all his efforts to the
prosperity of the country and the nation.
Praising the unconverted long-term prisoners as true revolutionaries
totally dedicated to the
party and the fatherland and model fighters boundlessly loyal to the
popular masses' cause of
independence, he has spared no efforts to bring them under his loving care
and bestow all
happiness and honour upon them.
The historic repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners is an epic
of Kim Jong Il's
warm love for soldiers and clear evidence showing the vitality of the
benevolent politics, the
all-embracing politics of taking responsible care of their destiny to the
end with his outstanding
leadership and great humanity.
The unconverted long-term prisoners coming back to the fatherland are
revolutionaries
boundlessly loyal to the party and the leader and men of strong faith and will.
They are possessors of the revolutionary outlook on the leader and the
revolutionary view
on life, indomitable fighters and revolutionary optimists who do not know
pessimism in
whatever adversity.
Minju Joson says that the repatriation of a group of unconverted
long-term prisoners once
again teaches a truth that it is the noblest attribute for a man to keep
faith and conscience and one
can enjoy a worthy life only when he remains true to them to the last,
adding they showed this in
practice.
Kim Yong Nam leaves to participate in new millennium U.N.
summit
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the
presidium of the
DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and his party left here today by air to
participate in the new
millennium U.N. summit which will be held in New York. They were seen off
at the airport by
Kim Yong Dae, vice-president of the presidium of the SPA, Kim Yun Hyok,
secretary of the
spa presidium, Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign Affairs, officials
concerned, foreign
diplomatic envoys and representatives of international organizations here.
Repeal of "SL" urged in S. Korea
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The recent opinion poll conducted by
the association
for reunification of the "citizens federation of economic justice" among
145 "national
assemblymen" over the issue of reunification said that 96.5 percent of the
respondents asserted
that the "Security Law" should be revised or repealed, according to the
South Korean newspaper
Chosun Ilbo. Some of them held that "the law itself should be totally
repealed."
In reference to the issue of repatriating unconverted long-term
prisoners to the north, the
absolute majority of the "assemblymen" urged an "unconditional
repatriation" and as regards the
revision of the South Korea-U.S. "status of forces agreement" they asserted
the total revision
including return of the U.S. military bases and fixation of their rental
period.
Answering the question as to how to understand the north, 94.5 percent
of the
"assemblymen" were of the view that "the north should be regarded as an
object of co-existence
and cooperation."
Unconverted long-term prisoners reunite with their families and
relatives
Panmunjom, September 2 (KCNA) -- Unconverted long-term prisoners had
emotional
reunions with their families and relatives today at the Thongil House in
Panmunjom upon their
return to the north. In front of the house families and relatives were
waiting for the moment to
hug their fathers, grandfathers and husbands coming to the north.
As unconverted long-term prisoners crossed the demarcation line at
Panmunjom at last and
came close to the house, their families and relatives rushed to throw
themselves into their arms.
voices calling their fathers, husbands and children before their emotional
reunions reverberated
far and wide.
Sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces of
unconverted long-term
prisoners bowed to their fathers, brothers and uncles whom they had awaited
for scores of
years.
The unconverted long-term prisoners were at a loss for words for a
while in face of this
dream-like reality of embracing their families and relatives in their arms.
They shared warm feelings with their kinsmen whom they have met after
scores of years of
separation.
Unconverted long-term prisoners pay homage to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The unconverted long-term prisoners
who came back
to the fatherland today visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay homage
to the great leader
President Kim Il Sung. They were wrapped in yearning for the president whom
they believed in
and followed as their mainstay for a long time in prison.
They passed the hall where the statue of the president is standing and
went upstairs to make
deep bows to him who is preserved in state, moved to tears.
They looked round orders and medals he received from different
countries, the wailers' hall
that reminds people of those days when the whole country was in profound
grief at the loss of
the father of the nation, a train used by him for his on-site guidance and
foreign tours and a car
used in the last period of his life.
They were accompanied by Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed
Forces, Choe
Thae Bok, secretary of the central committee of the Workers' Party of
Korea, Yang Hyong Sop,
vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, and others.
They left their impressions in the visitor's book.
Unconverted long-term prisoners back to fatherland
Panmunjom, September 2 (KCNA) -- Unconverted long-term prisoners in
South Korea,
men of strong faith and will came back to the fatherland, which they have
longed for even in
dreams, via Panmunjom today. The area of the north side in Panmunjom was
crowded with
many citizens of Kaesong who turned out with flowers in their hands to
welcome the
praiseworthy sons of the fatherland who powerfully demonstrated the strong
faith and will of
the Korean nation at home and abroad.
At 10 a.m. all the 63 unconverted long-term prisoners crossed over the
demarcation line at
Panmunjom.
Among them were the unconverted long-term prisoners who were carried on
wheelchairs
and stretchers.
At that moment, the crowd enthusiastically welcomed the indomitable
pro-reunification
patriotic fighters, waveing bunches of flowers and raising cheers.
Children and working women gave them bunches of flowers and put
garlands, around their
necks.
Minister Kim Il Chol of the People's Armed Forces, secretary Choe Thae
Bok of the central
committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice-president Yang Hyong Sop of
the presidium of
the Supreme People's Assembly, secretary Kim Yong Sun of the WPK central
committee,
officials concerned and leading officials of the party and power organs in
Kaesong warmly
greeted and hugged them.
The unconverted long-term prisoners visited the monument to the
autograph of the great
leader President Kim Il Sung reflecting his noble patriotism.
Then, they had emotional reunions with their families and relatives at
the Thongil House
whom they have never forgot even a moment for a long period of separation.
Party and state senior officials met and conversed with the unconverted
long-term prisoners
back to the fatherland in a cordial atmosphere overflowing with warm kinship.
Kim Il Chol said he was authorized by the respected supreme commander
Kim Jong Il to
warmly welcome the unconverted long-term prisoners who came to the fatherland.
He told:
The great Kim Jong Il saw to it that they were warmly congratulated,
noting with great
satisfaction that they came back to the north while devoting themselves to
the patriotic struggle
for reunification with unbounded loyalty to the party and the revolution
and immutable faith and
indomitable will.
U Yong Gak, on behalf of the unconverted long-term prisoners, said
words of salute to the
people in the DPRK.
He said that they made a heartfelt bow of thanks to Kim Jong Il who
paved the way for their
repatriation to the north.
They boarded cars and left for Pyongyang amid enthusiastic welcome from
Kaesong
citizens. Similar welcome was accorded to them by people from all walks of
life along the
almost two hundred kilometer-long route from Kaesong, Sariwon and other
places to
Pyongyang.
Greetings to President of Slovakia
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the
DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Aug. 29 sent a message of greetings to Slovak
President Rudolf Schuster. He in the message extended warm congratulations
to the president,
the government and the people of Slovakia on the day of its constitution,
its national holiday.
Expressing the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations
between the two countries
would further strengthen and develop in their mutual interests, he sent
high consideration to the
president.
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