TODAY'S NEWS (November.29.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Greetings to Palestinian President
* Talks held between Kim Yong Nam and Sam Nujoma
* Namibian President sojourns in Pyongyang
* Greetings to Barbadian Prime Minister
* Inter-sector talks held between DPRK and Namibia
* Palestinian people's just cause supported
* General Kim Jong Il Fellowship Society of Peru formed
* DPRK ambassador to India appointed
* "Diploma to great men of the year 2000" awarded to Kim Jong Il
* Senior party and state officials visit families of unconverted
long-term prisoners
* Historical relics well preserved
* S. Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement" burnt in effigy
* Strong national pride
Greetings to Palestinian President
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK
Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Yasser Arafat,
President of the State of
Palestine, chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation
Organization and head of the
Palestine National Authority, yesterday on the occasion of "the day of
world solidarity with the Palestinian
people".
The message extended solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian
President and people to retake their
legitimate national rights and achieve durable peace in Mideast.
Saying that the Korean people wish the Palestinian people great victory
in their just struggle to found an
independent state with Kuds as its capital, it expressed the belief that
the bonds of friendship and solidarity
between the two peoples would steadily develop.
Talks held between Kim Yong Nam and Sam Nujoma
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Talks between Kim Yong Nam, President
of the presidium of the
DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, and Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic
of Namibia, were held at
the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
At the talks both sides briefed each other on the situation of their
countries, exchanged views on the need
to expand and develop the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation
and issues of common concern and
shared the same view on the discussed issues.
Present there were Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Il Chol,
Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun,
Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kung Sok
Ung and officials concerned
from the DPRK side and Defence Minister Erikki Nghimtina, deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Information
and Broadcasting Tuliameni Kalomoh, special adviser to the President Iyambo
Indongo, secretary to the
President Ndeutala Angolo, Namibian Ambassador E.P. to China Hopelong
Ipinge and other officials from
the Namibian side.
Namibian President sojourns in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the cabinet
of the DPRK, sent a
message of greetings to Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Auther.
Congratulating the government and the people of Barbados on the 34th
anniversary of its independence,
the message wished the Prime Minister success in his work.
Greetings to Barbadian Prime Minister
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Namibian President Sam Nujoma on an
official goodwill visit to
the DPRK today visited the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong
and laid a wreath before it.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were the President, Defence
Minister Erikki Nghimtina, deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Information and Broadcasting Tuliameni
Kalomoh, Namibian Ambassador E.P.
to China Hopelong Ipinge and other members of his party.
Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK, Kang
Nung Su, Minister of Culture, and others were also present there.
A guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up before the cemetery.
A wreath was laid in the name of the President after the national
anthems of the two countries were
played.
The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of the
anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters.
The President and his party inspected the three-revolution exhibition
today.
After being briefed on the successes achieved by the Korean people in
socialist construction through the
ideological, technical and cultural revolutions, they looked round wings of
the exhibition with deep interest.
The President also went to the Mansudae Art Studio.
Meanwhile, some members of his party visited the Pyongyang maternity
hospital and the Pyongyang
embroidery institute.
Inter-sector talks held between DPRK and Namibia
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Inter-sector talks between the DPRK
and the republic of Namibia
were held here today.
Talks were held between Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Il
Chol and Defence Minister
Erikki Nghimtina and between vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kung Sok Ung
and deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Information and Broadcasting Tuliameni Kalomoh.
Present at the talks were colonel general Ryo Chun Sok of the Korean
People's Army, other officials
concerned and Namibian Ambassador E.P. to China Hopelong Ipinge and other
suite members.
The talks took place in a sincere and friendly atmosphere.
Palestinian people's just cause supported
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean people extend firm
solidarity and militant salute to the
fighting Palestinian people on the day of world solidarity with the
Palestinian people, says Rodong Sinmun
today in a signed article.
It goes on:
The movement for solidarity with the Palestinian people has become a
world trend.
It is the need of the times to solve the Palestinian issue at an early
date. The Palestinian issue should be
solved before anything else to achieve Mideast peace.
It is an inviolable sovereign right for the Palestinian people to take
back the legitimate national rights
including the right to self-determination and the right to found an
independent state.
The DPRK deems it an international duty to support the cause of the
Palestinian people.
The Korean people will as always positively support and encourage the
Palestinian people in their just
cause of terminating Israel's occupation of the territory of Palestine and
winning back their legitimate national
rights.
General Kim Jong Il Fellowship Society of Peru formed
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The General Kim Jong Il Fellowship
Society of Peru was formed
in Lima on November 24 on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the great
leader Kim Jong Il's election as
Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
Jose Castro Pozo, secretary general of the National Association of
Writers and Artists of Peru, was
elected chairman of the society. He said at the meeting that it was the
unanimous desire of its members to
know about Kim Jong Il and Korean socialism and learn from the successes
made by the Korean people in
the revolution and construction so as to apply them to the specific
conditions of Peru.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
The letter says:
We are firmly convinced that Kim Jong Il, who has wrought miracles in
the struggle to build a powerful
nation of Juche and bring earlier the reunification of Korea, is the man to
steer the 21st century.
The letter says that the members of the society, who love freedom,
peace and progress, will deeply study
the idea, leadership and immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il and thus awaken
broad masses, steadily expand the
organization and conduct a variety of work including solidarity activities
with a view to accelerating the
victorious advance of the cause of independence and escalating the movement
for friendship and solidarity
with the Korean people.
DPRK ambassador to India appointed
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Jang Kwang Son was appointed as the
DPRK Ambassador E.P.
to the Republic of India, according to a decree of the presidium of the
Supreme People's Assembly of the
DPRK.
"Diploma to great men of the year 2000" awarded to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The "diploma to great men of the year
2000" was awarded to the
great leader Kim Jong Il in Pakistan. It said that the diploma has been
conferred upon him for his special
contribution to peace and solidarity.
An awarding ceremony was held in Karachi on November 25.
Mahmoud Ali, Minister of the Federal Government of Pakistan, in his
speech said that the people of the
DPRK have successfully solved all the issues by themselves under the wise
and dynamic leadership of Kim
Jong Il, thus greatly encouraging the oppressed people of the world in the
struggle for accomplishing the
human cause of independence.
Senior party and state officials visit families of unconverted long-term
prisoners
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Kye Ung Thae, Choe Thae Bok, Yang
Hyong Sop and other
senior party and state officials yesterday visited the families of
unconverted long-term prisoners, indomitable
patriotic fighters for reunification.
After their coming to the socialist homeland in September last, they
are now leading a happy life in
harmony with their families and neighbors at modern houses newly furnished
in the center of Pyongyang.
They were told by senior party and state officials that the great
leader Kim Jong Il is in good health and
always showing deep concern and loving care for their health and living.
They expressed their boundless reverence and deep thanks to him.
Senior party and state officials looked round living rooms, studies,
kitchen utensils and bathrooms and
conversed with unconverted long-term prisoners and their families.
Historical relics well preserved
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The Wang Kon Mausoleum Cultural Relics
Management Office in
Kaesong has recently registered good results in its activities.
The office has made it a routine to keep in good repair the mausoleum
of King Wang Kon, founder of
Korea's first unified state of Koryo (918-1392), stone sculptures and other
related relics.
This year, tiled roofs of the ancient relics have been painted red and
blue to keep them in their original
state and flagstones were paved on the floor.
The surroundings of the relics are kept in good order.
Green belts have been added and the buildings spruced up.
S. Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement" burnt in effigy
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The people's action for the revision
of the shackling South
Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement" at a rally held in Seoul on
November 25 once again demanded the
United States immediately revise the "agreement," according to MBC of South
Korea.
The organization accused the U.S. of its very passive approach to the
negotiations on the revision of the
"agreement" and the recent serious environmental pollution caused by its
military bases.
Participants in the rally burnt the existing "agreement" in effigy.
Meanwhile, farmers from Phaju city present at the rally demanded the
U.S. forces side pay for the recent
damage done to agricultural produce by its tanks and make an apology for it.
Strong national pride
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The people's action for the revision
of the shackling South
Korea-U.S. "Status of Forces Agreement" at a rally held in Seoul on
November 25 once again demanded the
United States immediately revise the "agreement," according to MBC of South
Korea.
The organization accused the U.S. of its very passive approach to the
negotiations on the revision of the
"agreement" and the recent serious environmental pollution caused by its
military bases.
Participants in the rally burnt the existing "agreement" in effigy.
Meanwhile, farmers from Phaju city present at the rally demanded the
U.S. forces side pay for the recent
damage done to agricultural produce by its tanks and make an apology for it.
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