TODAY'S NEWS (October.27.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Yong Nam meets foreign delegations
* Greetings to President of Turkmenistan
* Greetings to Federal President of Austria
* Greetings to Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
* Gift to Kim Jong Il from c.c., Worker's Party of Turkey
* National championships open
* Cuban ambassador to DPRK arranges friendly get-together
* U.S. infiltrate fighter planes into air above DPRK
* Reception given on Day of UN
* 11th national computer program contest and exhibition
* Minju Joson on Japan's short-sighted thinking
* National seminar on independence and sovereignty of Democratic Congo
held
* Consultative meeting of presidium of CILRECO
* Unconverted long-term prisoner on care of motherland
* Samsong Temple on Mt. Kuwol
* Floral basket laid before portraits
* Meeting held to hear report of fact-finding group on Korea visit
* Int'l signature campaign supporting three-point charter of Korea's
reunification
Kim Yong Nam meets foreign delegations
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, separately met and had a talk with the delegation of the
Worker's Party of Turkey and the
delegation of the new Communist Party of Great Britain at the Mansudae
Assembly Hall today.
Present there were the delegation of the Worker's Party of Turkey
headed by chairman of the party
central committee Dogu Ferincek and the delegation of the new Communist
Party of Great Britain headed by
general secretary Andy Brooks.
On the occasion Dogu Ferincek said that the DPRK is a country where the
party and popular masses are
united in one mind, expressing belief that the Korean people would in the
future, too, achieve shining
successes in socialist construction under the leaders of the great Kim Jong Il.
During the visit to the DPRK he witnessed great achievements made in
socialist construction, Andy
Brooks said.
He noted he expressed the belief that the Korean people would terminate
the division of the country and
achieve national reunification in the near future.
Greetings to President of Turkmenistan
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly of the DPRK, on Oct. 23 sent a message of greetings to
President of Turkmenistan
Saparmurad Atayevich Niyazov on the occasion of its National Day.
The message wished the President and people of Turkmenistan great
success in the work to protect the
sovereignty of the country and the national identity and achieve economic
prosperity and expressed belief that
the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to develop
on good terms.
Greetings to Federal President of Austria
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly of the DPRK, on Oct. 26 sent a message of greetings to
Federal President of Austria
Thomas Klestil on the occasion of its National Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the President, government
and people of Austria on this
occasion.
It sincerely hoped that the President and people of Austria will make
greater success in their work for the
prosperity and development of the country and he will enjoy good health and
happiness.
Greetings to Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK
cabinet, sent a message of
greetings to James Fitz Allen Mitchell, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and
the Grenadines.
The message congratulated the Prime Minister and people of St. Vincent
and the Grenadines on the 21st
anniversary of its independence and expressed belief that the friendly
relations between the two countries
would continue to develop on good terms.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from c.c., Worker's Party of Turkey
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The great leader Kim Jong Il received a
gift from the central
committee of the Worker's Party of Turkey.
The gift was conveyed to an official concerned by Dogu Ferincek,
chairman of the central committee of
the Worker's Party of Turkey, on a visit to the DPRK.
National championships open
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- National championships opened in the
Democratic People's Republic
of Korea.
They will be held in Pyongyang and Hamhung, Sariwon and other local
cities. The participants will
compete in scores of events including basketball, football and marathon race.
An opening ceremony took place at Hamhung Stadium yesterday.
It called on the officials in the field of physical culture and sports
and players to further develop the
country's sports technique and glorify it with good results in sports games.
Cuban ambassador to DPRK arranges friendly get-together
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Cuban ambassador to the DPRK Jose
Manuel Inclan Embade
yesterday arranged a friendly get-together at his embassy on the occasion
of the 11th anniversary of the
publication of the great leader Kim Jong Il's work "Answers to Questions
Raised by the General Director of
Granma, the Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba."
Present on invitation were Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of
the Central Committee of the
Worker's Party of Korea, and officials concerned.
The participants in their conversations underscored the significance
and invincible vitality of the work
and the need to further consolidate and develop the friendly and
cooperative relations between the two
countries.
They watched a Cuban documentary film.
U.S. infiltrate fighter planes into air above DPRK
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. infiltrated two fighter planes
deep into the air above
Phanmun county, Kaesong, in the western sector of the front on Oct. 26 all
of a sudden.
As soldiers of the Korean People's Army took a prompt self-defensive
measure, the fighter planes flew
back to Kanghwa Island.
This incident was a product of the deliberate and premeditated moves of
the U.S. warlike forces to
aggravate the daily improving situation on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. military authorities should own full responsibility for the
consequences to be entailed by this
grave military provocation and apologize to the DPRK for it.
Reception given on Day of UN
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- David Morton, resident coordinator of
the United Nations and
resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme here,
gave a reception yesterday on
the occasion of the Day of the UN.
Present on invitation were Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, officials concerned and
diplomatic envoys of foreign countries here.
Present there were representatives of international organizations and
their staff members.
Speeches were made at the reception.
11th national computer program contest and exhibition
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The 11th national computer program
contest and exhibition were
opened at the three-revolution exhibition yesterday.
On display were at least 270 valuable programs developed by scientific,
educational and specialized
program development institutions, computer experts and program makers of
industrial establishments.
The contest and exhibition are divided into program contest, program
exhibition and a computerization
exhibition of ministries and national institutions.
Minju Joson on Japan's short-sighted thinking
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A national education institute under
the Ministry of Culture of Japan
was reported to have discussed a problem related to the moral condition of
the Japanese students and decided
to develop a new school method and teaching materials needed for the moral
education as a measure to solve
it.
In this connection, Minju Joson today says in a signed commentary: We
do not know what sort of moral
issue Japan intends to solve. But one thing is clear. Japan is shelving the
issue of its redress for its past
crimes, a most serious moral problem pending an urgent solution.
The commentary goes on:
The Japanese right-wing reactionaries are evading their moral
responsibility for redressing its past crimes
and reflecting this stand in history textbooks without any modification.
If Japan, considerate of its future, truly wishes to see the sound
moral development of the rising
generation, it should know well what is most urgent. Any short-sighted
action will only invite misfortune.
It is a priority task for Japan to redeem its past crimes.
Solutions to all problems such as challenges of Japan's diplomacy,
moral education of students, etc,
depend on the fulfillment of this priority task.
Japan is well advised to face up to the reality and make a right
judgement and decision.
National seminar on independence and sovereignty of Democratic Congo held
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A national seminar on the Juche
idea-oriented independence and
sovereignty of Democratic Congo was held in Kinshasa on the occasion of the
55th anniversary of the
Worker's Party of Korea.
In his opening address at the seminar the Minister of Public Works and
Technical Education of
Democratic Congo said that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has
become a country strongest in
independence, a dignified country which no one can dare provoke as it takes
the Juche idea, a new
man-centred philosophical idea, as its guiding idea.
Its participants heard speeches on the subjects "philosophical
principle of the Juche idea",
"socio-historical principle of the Juche idea" and "Democratic Congo's
social emancipation as taught by the
Juche idea".
A letter to the great leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the seminar.
Consultative meeting of presidium of CILRECO
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A consultative meeting of the presidium
of the International Liaison
Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO) was held in France
on Oct. 14 and 15.
The meeting reviewed the international signature campaign for
supporting the three-point charter of
Korea's reunification which was conducted at the initiative of the CILRECO,
and discussed the future action
program.
It said that the participation of more than a hundred million people of
many countries in the five
continents in the campaign in a short span of time clearly showed that the
three-point charter is the most fair
and aboveboard and reasonable programme indicating the way of Korea's
reunification and the world people
unanimously want the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea.
The meeting underscored the need to more vigorously conduct on a
worldwide scale the movement for
supporting the three-point charter mounting through the international
signature campaign and build up
international public opinion exposing and denouncing the moves of the
anti-reunification forces.
It stressed the need to inquire and confirm the future action program
of the CILRECO in conformity with
the requirements of the changed situation and agreed to discuss the
measures related to this at the next
presidium meeting.
A statement of the presidium was adopted at the meeting.
The statement called for invigorating activities to give positive
momentum to the present reconciliation
process on the Korean peninsula and condemn the anti-reunification forces
who are displeased with it.
It called upon the progressive forces and other peace-loving people of
different countries to undertake a
dynamic international solidarity movement for supporting Korea's
reunification through the implementation
of the three-point charter of national reunification.
Present at the meeting were former President of Portugal Francisco Da
Costa Gomes, Honorary
Chairman of the World Peace Council Romesh Chandra, chairman of the Wallon
district council of Belgium
Willy Burgeon and president of the International Association of Democratic
Lawyers Amar Bentoumi, who
are also Honorary Chairmen of the International Liaison Committee for
Reunification and Peace in Korea,
and vice-chairmen of the CILRECO.
Unconverted long-term prisoner on care of motherland
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Ri Jong, An unconverted long-term
prisoner, made public a note
"Grateful motherland that saved my life twice".
In the note he said that for our fellow countrymen the care of the
motherland precisely means the loving
care of the great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Under their deep
loving care, I was saved twice from
a critical situation, he noted, and continued:
On June 28, 1950 when a tank of the advancing people's army made its
way through an iron gate of
Sodaemun prison in Seoul to save patriots I was among them. As the oldest
unconverted long-term prisoner
aged 89, I was reborn under the loving care of Kim Jong Il, the care of the
motherland.
I could return home because I was firmly convinced that Kim Jong Il
would certainly look for me.
Those who live believing in the great leaders are, indeed, the happiest
people and only they can become
strong men.
Samsong Temple on Mt. Kuwol
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Samsong Temple on Mt. Kuwol, a famous
mountain of Korea, has
been reconstructed.
The temple was the oldest one in Korea in which the people had held
memorial services to Tangun, father
of the Korean nation, from ancient Korea. From late Koryo dynasty memorial
services had been given for
Tangun, his father Hwan Ung and grandfather Hwan In.
Samsong Temple covering more than 4,000 square meters has its main
building, Samsong shrine,
Yanghyon shrine for training good-natured sages and Yongbin shrine for
receiving guests, Jonsa shrine for
keeping incense and various materials for memorial services, lodging house
of temple keepers and
gable-roofed gate.
The Samsong shrine where memorial services were made for Tangun, Hwan
Ung and Hwan In, is a
multi-colored building with a gable roof and double eaves.
There are a portrait of Tangun in the center of the shrine and
portraits of his grandfather and father on its
western and eastern sides.
The portrait of Tangun shows the dignity, strong disposition and wisdom
as a ruler of the country.
The President Kim Il Sung, in his lifetime, referring to the historical
remains on Mt. Kuwol related with
Tangun, proposed restoring Samsong Temple to its original state which was
burned to ashes in the 1920s by
the Japanese imperialists in pursuance of their policy to erase Tangun from
the Korean history.
The great leader Kim Jong Il visited Mt. Kuwol in September, Juche 86
(1997) and gave a concrete
instruction on finishing the reconstruction of Samsong Temple at an early date.
He acquainted himself with the completion of the temple last August and
settled issues in preserving it
one by one.
It is one of the important state policies to take good care of national
culture heritages in Korea.
Floral basket laid before portraits
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- general secretary d. Biswas and
secretaries of the central committee
of the all-india forward bloc paid a congratulatory visit to the DPRK
embassy in new delhi on oct. 20 on the
occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea and the
74th anniversary of the formation of
the down-with-imperialism union.
The visitors laid a floral basket and bouquets before the portraits of
the great leaders President Kim Il
Sung and general secretary Kim Jong Il and paid respects to them.
Meeting held to hear report of fact-finding group on Korea visit
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Nagoya, Japan, on
Oct. 13 to hear a report
from the Aichi Prefecture, Japan, fact-finding group to probe the truth
behind the forcible drafting of Koreans
on its. Korea visit.
Introduced there were some of the testimonies video-recorded by a
cameraman Nakashi Ito during his
visit to the DPRK as a member of the group.
He elaborated on the probe conducted by the group into the disclosed
fact that the Japanese imperialists
forcibly took at least 1,230 people in Hamgyong Province to the Handa
aeroplane works in Nakashima
during their occupation of Korea.
Int'l signature campaign supporting three-point charter of Korea's
reunification
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- An international signature campaign
supporting the three-point
charter of Korea's reunification has been conducted worldwide. The keynote
of the charter is the three
principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme of great unity
of the whole nation and the
proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo.
The campaign was launched last March in response to the initiative and
call of the secretariat of the
International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea.
It has been participated in by at least 500 political parties and
organizations, friendship and solidarity
bodies in over 100 countries, regional and international organizations and
personages in political, economic,
scientific, media, military and other fields.
A total of 156.55 million people took part in the campaign in little
over 7 months. At least 80 million
from 15 Asian countries, more than 55 million from 35 African countries,
over 8 million from at least 30
American countries, more than 9 million from 20 European countries, over
200,000 from Oceania and
millions of people from international organizations.
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