TODAY'S NEWS (October.03.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Nigerian ambassador to DPRK gives reception
* Kim Jong Il's work published in Ethiopia
* National photo exhibition opens
* Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway construction medal instituted
* Symposiums held to commemorate 55th anniversary of WPK
* 33rd volume of "Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" published
* National book exhibition opens
* Japan's moves for overseas aggression assailed
* Japan's moves to legislate on "suffrage" denounced
* International support to three-point charter of Korea's reunification
* Land leveling and rezoning begin in South Hwanghae Province
* Epic on army-first politics of WPK
* Anniversary of Guinean Independence observed
* heroic epic "arduous march"
* Letter to S. Korean political parties, organizations and individual
personages handed to south side
* Jong Mong Hon leaves
* Delegation of north side returns
For Spanish-speaking people
* rpdc: iniciado arreglo de tierra de provincia de hwanghae de sur
* editado tomo 33 de "obras completas de kim il sung"
* entrega a parte surena cartas dirigidas a partidos, organizaciones y
personalidades
Nigerian ambassador to DPRK gives reception
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Nigerian ambassador to the DPRK Alhaji
Daudu Sulaiman
hosted a reception yesterday on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of
Nigerian Independence.
Invited there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of
the Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee
for Cultural Relations
with Foreign Countries, Ri In Gyu, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
officials concerned.
Diplomatic envoys of various countries here were also present on
invitation.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Kim Jong Il's work published in Ethiopia
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous
work "the Worker's
Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" was
published in booklet at a
commercial printing house of Ethiopia on Sept. 21 on the occasion of the
55th anniversary of the
foundation of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Ways of accomplishing the leader's cause of party building were
comprehensively indicated in the
work published on October 2, Juche 84 (1995).
National photo exhibition opens
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A national photo exhibition opened to
celebrate the 55th
anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
On display there are over 240 photos showing immortal revolutionary
feats performed by the
President Kim Il Sung on behalf of the fatherland and people, the era and
revolution and the
revolutionary activities of the great leader Kim Jong Il, who has
strengthened the party and successfully
carried forward and promoted the revolutionary cause of Juche with his
experienced and tested
leadership.
Among them are photos titled "the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is
the founder of the Worker's
Party of Korea, a Juche-oriented revolutionary party" and "the great leader
comrade Kim Jong Il
declares the modeling of the whole society after the Juche idea as the
supreme program of the WPK,"
etc.
There are also photos reflecting the indomitable spirit of the Korean
people and proud achievements
made in the revolution and construction under the wise leadership of the WPK.
An opening ceremony was held at the People's Palace of Culture on
October 2.
Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway construction medal instituted
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A decree of the presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly of
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on instituting the
Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway
construction medal was promulgated on September 13.
The Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway has been completed thanks to the
indomitable struggle of
young builders on the threshold of the 55th anniversary of the foundation
of the Worker's Party of
Korea. It is one of the best monumental creations in the era of the
workers' party.
The decree says that the medal has been instituted to convey long the
feats performed by the
builders of the motorway in their heroic struggle by displaying wisdom and
courage and honor them
with a state citation.
Symposiums held to commemorate 55th anniversary of WPK
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Symposiums to commemorate the 55th
anniversary of the
Worker's Party of Korea were held at the Ministry of People's Security and
in the field of railway
transport on October 2.
It was stressed at the symposiums that the 55 years covered by the WPK
represent a history of
victory in which the party has strengthened and developed to be an
ever-victorious revolutionary party
of Juche type, and a period in which an immortal contribution has been made
to the cause of socialism.
They praised the idea and theory of building a party of Juche as a
guideline brightly indicating the road
of building a party of the working class in our era.
The symposium held at the Ministry of People's Security said it was
under the wise leadership of
the WPK that the people's security organ has grown to be a political guard
of the party and a people's
guard firmly maintaining the political security of the party and fully
guaranteeing the independent and
creative life of the people despite trials of history.
Speakers at the symposium held in the field of railway transport
referred to the wise leadership
provided by the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il,
who set forth the
Juche-oriented idea and theory on railway transport and strengthened and
developed the once backward
railway transport to be an independent modern one in a short span of time.
33rd volume of "Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" published
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- The 33rd volume of "Complete Collection
of Kim Il Sung's
Works" was brought out by the Worker's Party of Korea Publishing House on
the occasion of the 55th
anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK).
The book is a library of the immortal Juche idea which systematically
and comprehensively deals
with famous works of the President Kim Il Sung in chronological order.
It contains 28 immortal works including speeches, conclusions and talks
made by the President
during the historical period from February to December Juche 53 (1964).
The book includes "Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our
Country," "On Enhancing the
Party Spirit, Class Spirit and Popular Spirit of Leading Functionaries and
Improving the Management of
the National Economy," "On Improving and Strengthening the Work of the
Working People's
Organizations" and other works which clarify issues of improving and
developing land management and
commercial work and waging a dynamic struggle to achieve national
reunification.
National book exhibition opens
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A national book exhibition opened to
celebrate the 55th
anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
On display there are books, magazines, newspapers and other
publications, more than 38,000
volumes of over 21,500 varieties, printed in the DPRK. Those published by
Chongryon and various
countries of the world are also exhibited.
The hall is divided into an introductory wing, 15 wings of press
institutions, the wing of
Chongryon and the distribution wing.
On display in the wing of the Worker's Party of Korea Publishing House
are works of the great
leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il including "Complete Collection of Kim
Il Sung's Works," "Kim Il
Sung's Works," reminiscences "With the Century," "Kim Jong Il's Works,"
books on the revolutionary
traditions and social and political books.
Literary and art books adapted from famous masterpieces created by Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,
full-length novels, part of the libraries "Immortal History" and "Immortal
Guidance", full-length and
medium-length novels and opera full scores are exhibited in the wing of the
literature and art press
group.
An opening ceremony was held at the Grand People's Study House yesterday.
Japan's moves for overseas aggression assailed
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today in a signed commentary
condemns the
Japanese reactionaries for working hard to round off the wartime system and
modernize the
"Self-Defence Forces" (SDF).
The aim sought by Japan in seeking to round off the wartime system
through the institution of the
"law on emergency" and desperately accelerating the modernization of the
"SDF" in cooperation with the
United States is to provoke a new war for invading the Korean peninsula and
other Asian and Pacific
countries, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The Japanese reactionaries are watching for a chance to stifle the DPRK
by force of arms in order to
put the Korean peninsula and vast areas of the Asia-Pacific under their
control. For this, they require a
legal guarantee for carrying out a war of aggression and military power.
Their intensified moves for the institution of the "law on emergency"
and the modernization of the
"SDF" are to serve this purpose.
Terming such moves for overseas aggression anachronistic ones, the
commentary urges the
Japanese reactionaries to face up to the trend of the times and behave
themselves.
Japan's moves to legislate on "suffrage" denounced
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- The Japanese authorities are working to
legislate on the "local
suffrage" to foreigners permanently residing in Japan at an extraordinary
diet session. Assailing this,
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
The majority of the foreigners permanently residing in Japan are
Koreans. The projected "bill on
local suffrage" is a sinister bill intended to impair the dignity and
rights of our compatriots in Japan,
create split and antagonism within the Korean community and undermine the
General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan, a dignified organization of overseas citizens of
the DPRK.
Those moves of the Japanese authorities are nothing but a political
plot to dampen the desire for
national unity and reunification growing stronger on the Korean peninsula
as days go by in keeping with
the spirit of the north-south joint declaration.
This legislation on "suffrage" is, in essence, a replica of the
Japanese imperialists' policy of
obliterating the Korean nation pursued in the past as it negates the
national identity of our compatriots in
Japan and seeks to naturalize and assimilate them to Japanese.
The Japanese authorities' talk about "improved DPRK-Japan relations" is
quite contradictory to
their moves to legislate on "suffrage".
This only increases the DPRK's doubt about the Japanese authorities'
will to "improve the
DPRK-Japan relations".
A prerequisite to improving those relations is for Japan to redress its
crimes.
One of the core issues is to grant a special status to the Koreans in
Japan.
International support to three-point charter of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Indian organizations participated in an
international signature
campaign supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by Brinda Karat, General Secretary of
the All-India Democratic
Women's Association on behalf of its 5,200,000 members and B. J. Jola,
chairman of the Delhi Study
Group of India on behalf of its 2,500 members.
Land leveling and rezoning begin in South Hwanghae Province
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Land leveling and rezoning have begun in
South Hwanghae
Province on the threshold of the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of
Korea (October 10).
The completion of this gigantic nature-transforming project would
remove over 400,000 patches of
paddy fields and ridges between them extending about 30,000 km throughout
the province and bring
thousands of hectares of new land under cultivation.
This project which started in the wake of the land leveling and
rezoning projects in Kangwon
Province and North Phyongan Province is to be carried out under an
ambitious far-reaching plan of the
great leader Kim Jong Il to change the appearance of land in the province
beyond recognition as befitting
the land of socialist Korea.
He acquainted himself with detail of the project ranging from sizes of
fields to be rezoned to areas
of the project, its design and deadline and the issue of repairing
bulldozers and provided every necessary
condition for undertaking it.
Projects have started first in Pyoksong, Unryul, Yonan, Chongdan and
Paechon counties.
Land builders in all the provinces, soldiers of the Korean People's
Army and working people in the
province are excavating tens of thousands of cubic meters of earth with the
help of bulldozers and other
machines while pushing ahead with the adjustment of waterways and land
leveling, building of ridges
between paddy fields and river improvement project.
Epic on army-first politics of WPK
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun on Monday carried an epic
titled "On peak of
20th century" written by Kim Man Yong, which says the army-first politics
of the Worker's Party of
Korea is a banner for winning one victory after another.
The WPK could stand on the peak of the 20th century and shed its rays
under the army-first
leadership of the respected leader Kim Jong Il, the epic noted.
It continued:
He has constantly inspected the front, braving severe snowstorm, rain
and wind, breaking the
imperialists' encirclement and bringing about a revolutionary turn
throughout the country.
The journey made by him for his army-first leadership is associated
with the leader's love for the
people and their longing and veneration for him.
It was thanks to this journey that there have emerged the most
beautiful people in the world who are
devoting their all to defending and following the leader, and mountains
have turned into famous
mountains in the era of the army-first politics and the society has been
converted into a more beautiful
one where the army-first politics is enforced on the basis of
single-hearted unity.
Possessed of boundlessly warm love of the future, Kim Jong Il has
regarded multitudes of pain as
luck and blessing.
Even in ordeals he has provided gigantic edifices and monuments in the
20th century to greet the
21st century with the best gifts of the worker's party.
The people extend thanks to the WPK which has protected the destiny of
the nation and brought a
rosy future to the nation through the great army-first politics on the peak
of the 20th century, and the
country offers glory to Kim Jong Il.
Anniversary of Guinean Independence observed
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today dedicates a signed
article to the 42nd
anniversary of the independence of Guinea.
The proclamation of the Republic of Guinea was an event of epochal
significance as it brought a
radical turn in the destiny of the people who had long been oppressed by
foreign forces, the article says,
and goes on:
Since the proclamation of the republic a qualitative change has taken
place in the Guinean people's
life and its non-aligned policy has enjoyed support from the international
community.
The Korean people have good feelings towards the Guinean people who
strive to build a new,
independent and prosperous society opposed to the imperialists' interference.
In the belief that the friendly relations between the two peoples would
grow stronger, the Korean
people sincerely wish the Guinean people greater success in their future
efforts for the prosperity and the
development of the country.
heroic epic "arduous march"
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates its two
whole pages to the
political essay "We will never forget," a heroic epic on the "arduous
march" which is part of the
revolutionary history of the great Marshal Kim Jong Il.
The "arduous march" covers the past 6 years when the people's army and
the people of Korea
under his leadership have heroically crossed the sea of blood and tears and
death line in their crucial
struggle to defend socialism and build a powerful nation.
The revolutionary history in which the "arduous march" was made is an
immortal epic on Kim Jong
Il who defended the great leader Kim Il Sung and successfully realised the
cause of perpetuating the
memory of the leader with arms and a song of Kim Jong Il who defended the
socialist homeland and
saved human destiny.
Saying that the "arduous march" undertaken by the Korean people in the
last years of the 20th
century was the greatest ordeal in the history of a country and a nation
and in human history, the essay
refers to hardships experienced by the Korean people, keeping back bitter
tears.
The essay says that over the past six years, the Korean people wept
tears to be shed over a thousand
years and experienced ordeals to be pulled through for a thousand years and
accomplished what should
be achieved for a thousand years.
It gives particular emphasis to the fact that the politics of attaching
great importance to the army has
served as a banner of victory which steered the times and the history
characterized by the "arduous
march."
Thanks to Kim Jong Il's army-first politics, landmark changes have
taken place in political,
economic, cultural and all other fields, to say nothing of the military
field, and there arrived a new era of
army-first politics to bring about radical changes in all aspects, people,
society, struggle and life, the
essay says, adding that the army-first politics is a supreme strategic
programme for building a powerful
independent nation which is held aloft by the Korean nation for the first
time under the leadership of the
great Supreme Commander.
The essay further says:
The Kanggye spirit, the spirit of "arduous march" was born of the drive
for self-reliance, a fruition
of the army-first revolutionary leadership. The Kanggye spirit created
amidst stern ordeals is the spirit of
overcoming difficulties, the spirit of creation and the spirit of
revolutionary optimism taught by Kim
Jong Il and the birth of this spirit was a historical event which gave the
momentous origin to the building
of a powerful nation.
Over the last six years, he longed for the people while they longed for
him and they stood the
tempests of hard battles, the essay says, adding that the "arduous march"
which created new perfect
unity between the leader and the people based on this longing provided the
mainstay of faith to always
remain unshakable and invincible on this land.
The greatest victory gained by the "arduous march" is that Kim Jong
Il's absolutely authoritative
helmsmanship and powerful political system were fully verified and
universally recognized and advent
of the great Kim Jong Il's era which will lead the 21st century is the
world historic outcome of the
gigantic march, the essay says, concluding= No force on earth can bar the
Korean people from making
an onward march for victory in the revolutionary spirit of the "arduous
march" and the DPRK will
always remain a powerful nation.
Letter to S. Korean political parties, organizations and individual
personages handed to south side
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A liaison delegate of the north side
handed to the south side at
Panmunjom today a letter in the name of the joint meeting of the
government, political parties and
organizations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea inviting
political parties, organizations and
individual personages of South Korea to Pyongyang on the occasion of the
55th anniversary of the
foundation of the Worker's Party of Korea.
The letter was sent to the Democratic Party for New Millennium, the
Grand National Party, the
United Liberal Democrats, the Democratic People's Party, the New Korean
Party for Hope, the
Democratic Worker's Party, the presidential office of Chongwadae, the State
Affairs Coordinating
Office of the Administration, the National Alliance for Democracy and
Reunification, the south
headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification, the
Korean Confederation of
Trade Unions, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, the All-People Council
for National
Reconciliation and Cooperation, the National Federation of Peasants
Associations, the South Korean
Federation of University Student Councils, the South Korean General
Federation of National Artists,
the South Korean Federation of Women's Organizations, the Family Movement
for Realizing
Democracy, the Citizens' Solidarity for Democratic Society, the Citizens'
Federation for Economic
Justice, the Environment Movement Association, the Citizens' Solidarity for
Reforming the Press, the
National Federation of Economists, the Buddhist Order Council, the Round
Buddhism, the South
Korean Christian General Federation, Sungkyunkwan, the South Korean
Catholic Central Council, the
central headquarters of Chondoism and Taejonggyo.
Jong Mong Hon leaves
Kosong, October 3 (KCNA) -- Chairman of the Hyundai Asan board of
directors of South Korea
Jong Mong Hon and his party left here today by ship.
Delegation of north side returns
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the north side led by
Jon Kum Jin, senior
councilor of the DPRK cabinet, returned here after attending the third
round of inter-Korean ministerial
talks.
It was met at the airport by Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su, director
of the secretariat of the
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland An Kyong Ho and
officials concerned.
For Spanish-speaking people
rpdc: iniciado arreglo de tierra de provincia de hwanghae de sur
pyongyang, 3 de octubre (atcc) -- con motivo del 55 aniversario de la
fundacion del partido del
trabajo de corea (10 de octubre) quedo iniciado el arreglo de tierra de la
provincia de hwanghae del sur.
con esta labor de gran transformacion de la naturaleza la provincia
obtendra miles de hectareas de
nueva tierra cultivable al desaparecerse mas de 400 mil parcelas de arroz y
casi 30 mil kilometros de
linderos.
esta obra que se efectua luego del arreglo de tierra en las provincias
de kangwon y de phyong-an del
norte se desarrolla tambien por la gran audacia y proposito del gran
dirigente kim jong il de cambiar por
completo el aspecto de la tierra de dicha provincia como la de corea
socialista.
el tuvo un conocimiento detallado sobre el tamano de parcelas, areas de
arreglo, el aseguramiento de
diseno y de plazo y la reparacion de buldozer y aseguro todas las
condiciones necesarias.
la obra se desarrolla primero en los distritos de pyoksong, unryul,
yonan, chongdan y paechon.
los constructores de tierra de todas las provincias, militares del
ejercito popular de corea y todos los
trabajadores de la provincia con la movilizacion de todos los medios
mecanicos, remuevan decenas de
miles de metros cubicos de tierra al mismo tiempo que impulsan el arreglo
de canal y de parcelas, la
construccion de linderos y el reajuste fluvial.
editado tomo 33 de "obras completas de kim il sung"
pyongyang, 3 de octubre (atcc) -- con motivo del 55 aniversario de la
fundacion del partido del
trabajo de corea se dio a luz el tomo 33 de las "obras completas de kim il
sung" en la editora del ptc. las
"obras completas de kim il sung" son el ciclo de la inmortal ideologia
juche en que aparecen sistematica
y globalmente las obras clasicas del gran lider, presidente kim il sung
segun cronologia.
este tomo recoge sus 28 trabajos inmortales entre otros discursos,
discursos resumen, charlas,
realizados por el presidente kim il sung durante el periodo que abarca
desde febrero hasta diciembre del
ano 53 (1964) de la era juche.
se destacan "tesis sobre el problema rural socialista en nuestro pais",
"para elevar el partidismo, el
espiritu clasista y el caracter popular de los trabajadores dirigentes y
mejorar la administracion de la
economia nacional", "para mejorar y fortalecer las labores de deporte y
educacion conforme a la
demanda de la realidad en desarrollo", "sobre el mejoramiento y la
intensificacion de la labor de las
organizaciones de trabajadores" y otras obras que aclaran los problemas
para mejorar e intensificar las
labores de administracion territorial y del comercio y para desarrollar la
dinamica lucha por la
reunificacion de la patria.
entrega a parte surena cartas dirigidas a partidos, organizaciones y
personalidades
pyongyang, 3 de octubre (atcc) -- el delegado de enlace de nuestra
parte entrego hoy en
phanmunjom a la parte surena las cartas a nombre de la reunion conjunta del
gobierno, partidos politicos
y organizaciones de la republica popular democratica de corea que invita a
los representantes de partidos
politicos y organizaciones y personalidades individuales de sudcorea a
visitar a pyongyang en ocasion
del 55 aniversario de la fundacion del ptc.
los destinatarios son los siguientes:
el partido democratico del nuevo milenio,
el partido hannara,
la alianza liberal democratica,
el partido democratico nacional,
el nuevo partido de sudcorea de esperanza,
el partido de trabajadores democraticos,
el gabinete de los secretarios de la presidencia de la casa azul,
el gabinete de coordinacion de asuntos estatales de administracion,
la alianza nacional por la democracia y la reunificacion de la nacion,
la direccion surena de la alianza pannacional por la reunificacion
de la patria,
la confederacion de sindicatos surcoreanos,
la federacion de sindicatos surcoreanos,
el consejo pannacional por la reconciliacion y colaboracion de la
nacion,
la confederacion nacional de sociedades de campesinos,
la federacion de consejos generales de estudiantes universitarios de
sudcorea,
la federacion general de artistas nacionales de sudcorea,
la federacion de las organizaciones mujeriles,
el consejo del movimiento de las familias por la democratizacion,
la participacion solidaria de ciudadanos por la sociedad democratica,
la alianza de ciudadanos por la justicia economica,
la alianza del movimiento del medio ambiente,
la solidaridad de ciudadanos por la reforma de palabra,
la alianza nacional de economistas,
el consejo de las organizaciones de budistas,
el budismo circulante,
la federacion general de cristianos de sudcorea,
songgyungwan,
el consejo central de los catolicos de sudcorea,
la direccion central de chondoistas,
la religion de adoracion a tangun y otros.
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