TODAY'S NEWS (December.01.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Kim Jong Il inspects dam construction site and farm
* Greetings to Lao President
* Greetings to Romanian President
* Sojourn of 2nd visiting group of separated families and relatives of
south side in Pyongyang
* Reception for visiting group from south
* Reception for visiting group from north
* Sojourn of north's second visiting group in Seoul
* Talks between DPRK and Japanese delegations
* Kim Il Sung praised
* Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work commemorated
* Meeting held to celebrate 25th anniversary of LPDR
* Over 150 cases of aerial espionage committed
* Romanian charge d'affaires ad interim hosts reception
* Friendly meeting with Russian pupils held
* Decade of victory for Korean people
* Exhibition of successes in construction of Youth Hero Motorway opens
* Japan's militarist moves
* Fingertip-painted crab
* Meeting of Pomminryon headquarters of Koreans in Japan held
* More organizations for study of Juche idea formed
* Young Koreans assaulted in Japan
* Ministry of People's Armed Forces exhibition of gifts opens
Kim Jong Il inspects dam construction site and farm
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on
November 30 gave on-the-spot
guidance to the dam construction site of the Kumjingang power station and a
raw material base farm in
Hamhung city.
He was accompanied by secretary Kim Kuk Thae and first vice department
director Pak Song Bong of
the WPK Central Committee.
He was greeted on the spot by chief secretary Ri Thae Nam of the south
Hamgyong provincial committee
of the WPK, chairman Kim Phung Gi of the south Hamgyong provincial people's
committee, chief secretary
O Ki Sok of the Jongphyong county committee of the WPK and other leading
officials of the province and
county.
He first gave on-the-spot guidance to the dam construction site of the
Kumjingang power station in
Jongphyong county.
After learning about the details of the construction, he expressed
great satisfaction over the fact that the
people in the county are carrying out by themselves the construction
project as huge as the building of a large
hydraulic power station.
When a dam is completed in the upper reaches of the River Kumjin which
has rich water resources, and a
big man-made lake appears ,it will be possible to build 17 power stations
in tiers to generate a great amount of
electricity, sufficiently irrigate tens of thousands of hectares of paddy
and non-paddy fields along the River
Kumjin and bring hundreds of hectares of land under the plough.
He said the people in the county wrought such a great miracle with
empty hands at the hardest time when
they were hard pressed for everything and highly praised them for what they
had done without being known
to others.
He said heroism the people in Jongphyong county displayed in damming
the river by carrying earth on
their back was praiseworthy and that this indomitable fighting spirit fully
demonstrates the faith and will of
the people to build a powerful nation by their own efforts and their
militant spirit.
He then went to a new raw material base farm built in Hamhung city.
He was much pleased to learn that the working people in the city
carried out such a grand
nature-harnessing project as building a dam across Lake Kwangpho to turn
hundreds of hectares of land that
had been under water for a long time into a fertile field and to produce
plenty of grain, and highly praised
them for their feats.
He said the newly built raw material base should be used well so as to
improve the diet of the citizens of
Hamhung and put forward tasks to do so.
He said South Hamgyong Province was important for the nation's economic
development and expressed
belief that the province would continue to take the lead in a grand march
to effect a revolutionary upswing.
Greetings to Lao President
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme
People's Assembly, today sent a message of greetings to Khamtay Siphandone,
President of Laos, on the
occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Under the correct leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party,
the Lao people have made great
successes in their efforts to defend the gains of revolution and
consolidate and develop the people's
democratic system in the spirit of patriotism and self-reliance, the
message said.
The Korean people are rejoiced over them and wish the Lao people
greater success in their work to
achieve social progress and prosperity of the country and successfully
greet the 7th congress of the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party, it added.
It expressed belief that the traditional relations of friendship and
cooperation between the two countries
would grow stronger and develop in the interests of the two peoples and the
cause of socialism.
Greetings to Romanian President
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the
presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a
message of greetings to Emil
Constantinescu, President of Romania, on November 29 on the occasion of its
National Day.
The message expressed warm congratulations to the Romanian President on
the National Day and wished
the Romanian people peace, stability and progress.
It expressed the conviction that the relations between the DPRK and
Romania would further expand and
develop in mutual interests.
Sojourn of 2nd visiting group of separated families and relatives of south
side in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The members of the second visiting group
of separated families and
relatives from the south side had family-to-family reunions at Pyongyang
Koryo Hotel today.
They shared warm feelings, conveying their home news and regards from
their kinsmen in a harmonious
family atmosphere.
The group visited the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace and looked
round the Pyongyang metro,
Mansudae Art Studio and Jangchung Cathedral.
Reception for visiting group from south
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Red Cross
Society of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea today hosted a reception for the second visiting
group of separated families and
relatives from the south side at the Mansudae Art Theater.
Invited there were members of the visiting group led by Pong Tu Wan,
vice-president of the South
Korean Red Cross.
Present at the reception were Ho Hae Ryong, vice-chairman of the
central committee of the Red Cross
Society of the DPRK, Choe Yun Sik, vice-chairman of the Pyongyang City
People's Committee, and
officials concerned.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Reception for visiting group from north
Seoul, December 1 (KCNA) -- Pak Jae Gyu, South Korean Minister of
National Unification, today
hosted a reception in honor of the second visiting group of separated
families and relatives from the north
side.
Invited there were the members of the visiting group led by Jang Jae
On, chairman of the central
committee of the Red Cross Society of the DPRK.
Speeches were made there.
Sojourn of north's second visiting group in Seoul
Seoul, December 1 (KCNA) -- Members of the north side's visiting group
of separated families and
relatives had family reunions with their kinsmen in Seoul today.
They conveyed tidings from other kinsmen and talked to each other,
enjoying a pleasant time in a
harmonious family atmosphere.
On the same day, the group visited the Lotte World Folklore Museum.
Talks between DPRK and Japanese delegations
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Korean Society for
Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries held talks with the visiting delegation of the People's
Council for Promoting the
Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the DPRK in
Pyongyang today.
Present at the talks from the Korean side were Mun Jae Chol, acting
chairman of the Korean Society for
Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and officials concerned, and
from the Japanese side members of
the delegation of the People's Council for Promoting the Establishment of
Diplomatic Relations between
Japan and the DPRK led by Tomiichi Murayama, ex-Prime Minister of Japan and
chairman of the council.
At the talks the Korean side said that the DPRK-Japan relations are
lagging behind in view of the trend of
the times and the desire of the two peoples, adding that the issue of
improving the DPRK-Japan relations
could be solved only on the basis of Japan's sincere apology to the Korean
people for all sorts of damage and
crimes committed by Japan in the past and its redress for its past crimes
which should be honest enough to
convince the Korean people.
However, Japan has not redeemed its past wrongdoings though half a
century has passed since the
liberation of Korea but has persistently enforced a hostile policy towards
the DPRK, the Korean side noted,
and continued: That is why Japan should clearly know about the DPRK and the
Korean people today.
It is the deserved and inviolable right of the DPRK and its people, the
victim, to make Japan apologize
and compensate for its past crimes. Opening diplomatic relations between
the DPRK and Japan is unthinkable
without the latter's sincere apology and compensation for its past crimes.
The Japanese side shared the view that there should be an apology and
compensation by Japan for its
military domination over Korea.
Kim Il Sung praised
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- General secretary Tavee Viriyatoon of
the Social Development
Coordinating Center of Thailand in an interview in Pyongyang said he was
convinced that the Korean people
could build a beautiful, prosperous and powerful country as they were led
by the President Kim Il Sung, the
greatest man.
It is the honor and pride of the Korean people as well as the world
progressives aspiring after
independence to uphold Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as the leaders, he
noted, and added:
The progressive humankind highly praises Kim Il Sung as the great sun
because he founded the Juche
idea, an outstanding guiding idea of the times, and indicated the road to
be followed by humankind.
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work commemorated
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on November 30 to
commemorate the 10th
anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous
work "Theory of Dancing Art".
The work, guided by the Juche idea, gives a classic formulation of the
mission and the orientation of
developing socialist dancing art and the principles and ways of applying
them to the creation and
representation of dances.
It also clarifies the basic demand of the study of dance notation and
the uniqueness and superiority of
Korean-style dance notation.
Pak Kyong Sil, chairperson of the central committee of the Korean
Dancers Union, said in her report that
with the publication of Kim Jong Il's famous work "Theory of Dancing Art"
Korean creators and artists and
the progressive men of culture in the world came to have a great programme
of socialist dancing art for the
first time in history and a firm guiding principle to be held fast to in
developing the revolutionary and popular
dancing art conducive to realising the independence of the popular masses.
After publishing his work "Theory of Dancing Art," Kim Jong Il has
wisely led a drive to carry it out,
she said.
Many dance pieces including solo dance "Victory of Revolution Is in
Sight" and dance "Drum Dance"
and large-scale dance pieces including dance suit "Army and People Have One
Mind to Uphold the General"
and legendary dance drama "Touch-me-not" were produced as masterpieces in
the era of the army-first
revolution.
In particular, the mass gymnastic display and artistic performance "the
Ever-victorious Worker's Party of
Korea" celebrating the 55th anniversary of the founding of the WPK is
praised as a great masterwork of the
times.
To defend and exalt forever the immortal leadership exploits performed
by Kim Jong Il in the field of
dancing art is the general task to be carried out in the field of dancing
art, the reporter said.
Meeting held to celebrate 25th anniversary of LPDR
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here yesterday to
celebrate the 25th anniversary
of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Present there were Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean
Committee for Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries, Hong Son Ok, vice-chairperson of the DPRK-Laos
Friendship Association and
vice-chairperson of the committee, officials concerned and working people
in the city.
Invited there were Khamkheng Sayakeo, Lao ambassador to the DPRK, and
members of the embassy.
Speeches were made and a message of greetings to the Laos-DPRK
Friendship Association was adopted
at the meeting.
Over 150 cases of aerial espionage committed
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. committed over 150 cases of
aerial espionage against the
DPRK in November with the mobilization of strategic and tactical
reconnaissance planes on different
missions such as "U-2," "RC-135," "RC-12" and "RC-7b," according to
military sources.
On November 30, a Japan-based "RC-135" strategic reconnaissance plane
flew over areas along the
forefront south of the Military Demarcation Line to commit aerial
photographing and electronic
reconnaissance of the DPRK.
And a "U-2" high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane and a "P-3"
anti-submarine patrol plane
perpetrated aerial espionage and underwater search, flying over areas along
the forefront and the east and
west seas of Korea.
The number of their espionage cases in November only totaled more than 40.
Meanwhile, the U.S. mobilized South Korea-based "RC-12" and "RC-7b"
tactical reconnaissance planes
under a daily plan to commit reconnaissance of areas along the front and
coastal areas of the north.
Romanian charge d'affaires ad interim hosts reception
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Neculai Cotlogut, Romanian charge
d'affaires ad interim to the
DPRK, hosted a reception at the Taedonggang Club for the Diplomatic Corps
yesterday on the occasion of
the national holiday of Romania.
Invited there were Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri
Song Ho, vice-chairman of the
Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials
concerned and diplomatic envoys
from different countries here.
Speeches were made there.
Friendly meeting with Russian pupils held
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting with pupils of the
school at the Russian embassy
here was held at DPRK-Russia friendship Moranbong Senior Middle School no.
1 yesterday.
Present there were a vice-chairman of the DPRK-Russia Friendship
Association, officials concerned and
staff members of the Russian embassy here.
The participants looked round several laboratories and practice rooms
at the school and enjoyed an art
performance staged by schoolchildren.
They sang and danced together and played amusement and sports games.
Decade of victory for Korean people
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The Korean people achieved a proud
victory by emerging from the
severest trials in the 90s.
Several years of natural disasters and the collapse of the socialist
market brought serious consequences to
the Korean economy as a whole. Taking a mean advantage of this, the
imperialists intensified their moves to
isolate and stifle the DPRK in every way.
Production decreased in all economic sectors due to lack of power, raw
and other materials and
equipment, seriously affecting economic development and rendering it
impossible to meet people's demand
for daily necessaries. Regular food supply was suspended and people had to
take food substitute.
The situation was several times harder than that right after the
three-year war in the 50s during which
everything had been destroyed.
In the 90s the Korean people went into a national mourning over the
loss of the President Kim Il Sung.
The world worried about the future of Korea. However, the Korean people
did not waver but rose like a
phoenix.
The great leader Kim Jong Il smashed the enemies' military pressure and
row over "nuclear inspection"
with his stiff stand and defended the dignity of the nation and socialism
with his iron will and prodigious grit.
He led the "arduous march" and the forced march to a victory by
pursuing the unique army-first policy
and provided a spring-board from which to build a powerful nation.
Under his wise leadership the Korean people advanced with revolutionary
faith and optimism.
The whole country was pervaded with the revolutionary spirit of
people's army soldiers who built the
Anbyon Youth Power Station during the period of rigorous trials and with
the noble spirit of self-reliance and
fortitude displayed by the people in Jagang Province.
This was a great demonstration of the Korean people's indomitable will
and faith.
Satellite Kwangmyongsong no. 1 was made and launched by Korean
scientists and technicians.
This heralded the start of the building of a powerful nation. This also
provided the world people with a
good opportunity to entertain a new view on the future of Korea.
Urgent scientific and technical problems including the completion of
the Juche-based method of
producing iron by oxygen blowing have been resolved, the construction of
Pyongyang-Nampho 40 odd
km-long Youth Hero Motorway and the expansion project of the Thaechon area
electricity production base
completed and many other monumental edifices built.
The country has taken on new looks with unprecedented land development
including the construction of
September 9 Street, Kumnung tunnel no.2, Chongryu bridge and Kwangmyongsong
saltern and the land
leveling and rezoning of more than 200,000 hectares in Kangwon, north
Phyongan and other provinces.
And the international prestige of the country has rapidly risen.
A clear proof of this is that Italy, Australia, Philippines and many
other western countries established or
resumed diplomatic relations with the DPRK and European countries made a
definite promise to establish
diplomatic relations with it.
Korea has tided over the trials of the 90s and defended the banner of
socialism with the might of the
single-hearted unity of the leader, the party and the masses. Its future
will be brighter in the 21st century.
Exhibition of successes in construction of Youth Hero Motorway opens
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of successes in the
construction of the Youth Hero
Motorway opened.
On display are visual aids showing the immortal leadership exploits of
the respected leader Kim Jong Il
related to the construction and heroic exploits performed by the youth
shock-brigaders in the construction of
the motorway and many other materials.
An opening ceremony was held at the central youth hall yesterday.
Ri Il Hwan, first secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung
Socialist Youth League, in his
opening speech said that Kim Jong Il assigned the youth league the task to
carry out the construction of the
motorway and showed profound trust and love for it in the whole period of
the construction and young
people displayed their revolutionary spirit to the full from the day of the
ground-breaking to the day of its
completion.
Japan's militarist moves
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Japan's three ruling coalition parties
(Liberal-Democratic, Komei
and Conservative) reportedly agreed on November 28 to have a "meeting to
discuss the elevation of the status
of the Defence Agency." The meeting will discuss such issues as raising the
agency to the status of
"ministry", allowing the "minister" to institute regulations and decrees
and developing Japan's armed forces
into a full-fledged regular army.
This means that Japan's ambitious militarist moves to take full status
as a military power have been
adopted as a state policy.
Japan is advancing step by step to realize its design to fully
militarize itself.
Last year it adopted and put into effect the law related to the updated
"guidelines" that legalizes Japanese
military actions abroad. These days it is seeking to revise the
constitution which bans a war.
Under article 9 of its constitution called "peace constitution", Japan,
a war criminal state, is prohibited
from having regular ground, naval and air forces and conducting collective
military actions against other
country.
But when the Defence Agency is made a "ministry" and the right to
collective self-defence" is allowed,
the constitution of Japan will be invalid before the revision.
That is why such attempt to raise the status of the Defence Agency is
denounced as a very dangerous
one.
Politicians of Japan zealously assert that there will no revival of
militarism in Japan as its people are no.1
victim to it. Of course, anti-war forces and farsighted statesmen in Japan
are concerned about militarism.
As militarism has been adopted as a policy, it is as clear as noonday
that Japan will unhesitatingly go out
for overseas aggression if militarism holds sway over the country.
Fingertip-painted crab
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- In the Korean Art Gallery, the
fingertip ink painting "A Crab" by
Yang Ki Bun (1843-1897) is a source of public curiosity.
Its fingertip strokes are so delicate and vivid as to be taken for a
brushwork, even beating the
single-stroke masters agape. It was one of the ten folds of a screen (167
cm by 19.35cm).
It depicts a crab crawling along on the seashore overgrown with swaying
reeds and a crawfish above
hurrying the opposite way, tagged along the right-hand edge with a subject
poem that runs: "An armored
warrior with a sharp edge weapon is swaggering on the seaside".
With vigorous yet graceful lines and admirable light and shade, it
trots out a goggle-eyed crab with sharp
toes and a pincer-hand at the ready, sheltered by the hard-shell back.
Probably fearing an encounter with the pompous "king", the crawfish is
scurrying away in a vivid scene
of humor. The reeds are so lifelike that one seems to hear their swishing
sound in the breaking wind.
Yang was a grass-roots painter born in Junghwa, Pyongyang.
He had a lifetime flair for flower-and-bird paintings that splurged on
diverse themes and open-minded
strokes.
His other exhibits in the gallery are "Reeds and Wild Geese", "A
Peony", "A Red Plum" and
"White-breasted Geese" which justify his mature prominence in the
Ri-dynasty (1392-1910) art history. In
his age, his works were among the palace decorations.
Meeting of Pomminryon headquarters of Koreans in Japan held
Tokyo, November 29 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting of officials and secretaries
of the headquarters of
Koreans in Japan of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification
(Pomminryon) was held in
Shimota, Shizuoka Prefecture, on November 27 and 28.
Chairman of the headquarters Choe Il Su in his report laid stress on
the need to wage a more active
movement of Pomminryon for reunification to meet the requirements of the
present favourable situation
according to the decision of a recent extraordinary meeting of co-chairmen
of Pomminryon.
He noted that Pomminryon should further arouse all the fellow
countrymen to supporting and
implementing the historic north-south joint declaration in solidarity,
cooperation and unity with all the
reunification movement organizations at home and abroad and expand and
strengthen the driving force of the
country's reunification.
More organizations for study of Juche idea formed
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- More organizations for the study of the
Juche idea have been
formed in different countries amidst brisk study and dissemination of the
Juche idea.
This year alone, national organizations and groups for the study of the
Juche idea were inaugurated in
Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mongolia, Lebanon, Mali, Democratic Congo,
Morocco, Egypt, Guyana,
Ecuador, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, Austria, Russia, Romania, Germany and
Australia.
National committees for the study of the Juche idea were formed in
Romania and Democratic Congo.
The Tajik February 16 Group for the Study of the Juche Idea Named After
General Kim Jong Il was
renamed the Tajik national Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea Named
After General Kim Jong Il.
A number of groups, societies and committees for the study of the Juche
idea were inaugurated in
Guyana, Austria, Lebanon, Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Russia,
Germany, Egypt, Morocco,
Ecuador and Australia.
Especially, groups for the study of the Juche idea were formed
according to social standings in Lebanon,
Morocco, Nepal and Cambodia.
Young Koreans assaulted in Japan
Tokyo, November 29 (KNS-KCNA) -- Japanese gangsters assaulted young
Koreans in Japan, killing
one and wounding others, according to a news report of Joson Sinbo November
29 published in Japan.
On November 25, about 30 Japanese gangsters attacked four young Koreans
on a car on the Nishikasai
road, Edokawa ward, Tokyo Metropolis.
After surrounding the car, the gangsters hit Korean Jang Yong Su on the
head with a metal bar and
stabbed him in his ribs, killing him, and knifed others, seriously wounding
them.
Ministry of People's Armed Forces exhibition of gifts opens
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of the People's Armed
Forces exhibition of gifts
opened.
The exhibition is situated in the western part of Pyongyang. It has
been built in modern architectural
style.
Displayed in its over 30 halls are at least 1,300 art works of national
value out of the gifts presented to
the great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il by officers and men of the
Korean People's Army on every
sun's day and other important occasions.
Exhibited in halls on the ground floor are historic photos of Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il seeing gifts
which were examined by them several times and art works praised by them.
Gifts to Kim Il Sung are displayed in halls on the first floor and
those to Kim Jong Il on the second floor
on the historicist and scientific principles.
Typical of the works winning the admiration of visitors are the Korean
jewel painting "Devoted
Defence", feather craft work "Native Home in Mangyongdae", wooden
handicraft "Spirit of Korea" and glass
bead painting "Kimjongilia Vase".
The Korean jewel painting "Devoted Defence" has a five-point star
bearing a portrait of Kim Jong Il in its
center above Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu, the sacred mountain of the Korean
revolution. This depicts the
transparent view of the servicemen of the people's army on their Supreme
Commander.
The glass bead painting "Kimjongilia Vase" is done with 1,942 mosaics
which consist of 216,000 color
glass beads, each two mm in diameter. These figures symbolize Feb. 16,
1942, his birthday.
Wooden handicraft "Spirit of Korea" was made of 500-year old tree. It
truthfully represents a tiger in the
shape of the Korean map supported by the globe.
Feather craft work "Native Home in Mangyongdae" is a flawless artistic
depiction of Kim Il Sung's
native home with 41,500 feathers.
All the gifts on display reflect the high praises lavished by the
officers and men of the people's army on
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the immortal exploits performed in the
cause of army building, and their
best wishes for a long life in good health.
The exhibition bears witness to the single-hearted unity of the Korean
People's Army, characterized by
the supreme commander's love for his soldiers and their loyalty to him.
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