TODAY'S NEWS (December.21.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Foreign diplomats visit museum
* Protocol of 14th meeting of DPRK-Russia joint fisheries commission
signed
* Independent reunification of Korea called for
* Wise leadership of Kim Jong Il praised
* Life of Kim Jong Suk praised
* Message of sympathy to Azerbaijani Prime Minister
* Vigilance against U.S. new "strategy for 21st century" called for
* Kim Jong Il's endless trips for on-site guidance
* Okryugum
* S. Korean workers stage general strike
* Wreath laid before Kim Jong Suk's bust
* Inter-Korean military working-level talks held
For Spanish-speaking people
* incesante direccion sobre terreno de gran dirigente kim jong il
* hay que elevar vigilancia contra "estrategia de siglo 21" de ee.uu.
Foreign diplomats visit museum
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Diplomatic envoys of different
countries and representatives of
international organizations here visited the revolutionary museum of the
Ministry of the People's Armed
Forces yesterday 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 and the 83rd birth anniversary of the
great communist
revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
They looked round materials and relics on display with keen interest.
At the end of the visit, Cuban ambassador Jose Manuel Inclan Embade
said it is thanks to the wise
leadership of the great Kim Jong Il that the Korean People's Army is
demonstrating its might as revolutionary
armed forces all over the world.
Protocol of 14th meeting of DPRK-Russia joint fisheries commission signed
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- A protocol of the 14th meeting of the
DPRK-Russia joint fisheries
commission for cooperation in the field of fishing industry was signed in
Pyongyang yesterday.
Present at the signing ceremony were members of the DPRK delegation to
the commission and members
of the delegation of the National Fisheries Committee of the Russian
Federation.
Independent reunification of Korea called for
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The north-south joint declaration which
was published in June last
is a manifesto of national independence which solemnly declared the Korean
nation's will to independently
open up a new era in its history, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
Noting that national reunification is an independent cause which should
be achieved by the efforts of the
Korean nation, the article says:
It is certain that the Korean nation who is victim to national division
and desires reunification more
fervently than anybody else should come out to carry out the cause of
reunification, responsible for it.
No outside forces should be allowed to meddle in the cause of national
reunification as it is an
independent one.
It is a stark fact that the issue of national reunification has not
been solved though half a century has
passed since Korea's division chiefly because of foreign interference in
the internal affairs of the Korean
nation.
National reunification should be achieved independently by the efforts
of the Korean nation under all
circumstances.
Koreans can certainly pool their will and efforts to achieve
independent reunification. Though the north
and the south have the differing ideologies and systems, nothing is dearer
to the Koreans responsible for
reunification than ardent patriotism that should be placed above any ideology.
Only when all the thinking and activities are based on patriotism is it
possible for the north and the south
to unite as one and the same nation and carve out the destiny of the nation
independently.
Wise leadership of Kim Jong Il praised
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- V.I. Anpilov, chairman of the
executive committee of the
"Working Russia" Movement, highly praised the great leader Kim Jong Il.
In an interview he had with the KCNA correspondent in Moscow on Dec. 18
to mark the 9th anniversary
of Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army,
the chairman said:
It is thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il that the Korean
people have firmly defended socialism
despite the imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and
socialist Korea led by him is invincible.
The cause of global socialism is sure to win victory under his guidance.
His army-first line is the most correct one for defending the destiny
of socialism in the world.
Only victory and glory are in store for the Korean people faithful to
his army-first revolutionary
leadership.
Life of Kim Jong Suk praised
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held by the Group for the
Study of the Juche Idea
of Comrade Kim Il Sung of Teachers of the Golden Grove Primary School of
Guyana and the Group for the
Study of the Juche Idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung of the Old Kampala Higher
Middle School of Uganda on
December 12 and 14 to commemorate the 83rd birth anniversary of the great
communist revolutionary fighter
Kim Jong Suk.
Speakers at the seminars said that there have been many famous women
commanders in history but no
such woman commander as Kim Jong Suk who performed great feats in the
nation's history can be found.
They stressed that her life was short but it was a very admirable and
brilliant life replete with her
unbound devotion to the leader, high sense of revolutionary obligation,
comradeship and unflagging tenacity,
modesty and simplicity.
Message of sympathy to Azerbaijani Prime Minister
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK
cabinet, sent a message of
sympathy to Artur Tair Ogli Rasizade, Prime Minister of the Republic of
Azerbaijan.
Upon hearing the sad news that Baku and its surrounding areas were
recently hit by successive
earthquakes which claimed heavy casualties, the message expressed deep
condolences to the Prime Minister
and, through him, to the people of the country and the bereaved families.
The message sincerely hoped that the government and the people of
Azerbaijan would recover from the
earthquake damage as early as possible.
Vigilance against U.S. new "strategy for 21st century" called for
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The U.S. new "strategy for the 21st
century" recently announced
by the U.S. Department of Defense is, in essence, a dangerous military
strategy as it was based on the
reexamined and formulated nuclear strategy in the era of the Cold War, says
Rodong Sinmun today in a
signed commentary calling on the world revolutionary people to heighten
vigilance against it.
What merits attention in the strategy is that a nuclear strategy was
singled out as a new key element of the
U.S. policy for world domination in the 21st century and developing
countries were made its main targets,
the commentary notes, and goes on:
This indicates that for all its talks about the departure from the Cold
War the United States is, in fact,
poised to spark a new cold war and keen on the moves to establish a "new
world order" and realize
"globalization" in the 21st century by the nuclear strategy.
This strategy is targeted against the Asian region, the Korean
peninsula, in particular.
This is evidenced by the fact that the united states plans to bring in
at least 690,000 strong reinforcements
of three services and marines of the U.S. forces in case of "emergency" on
the Korean peninsula.
The United States should clearly know that the DPRK can never be a
target of its nuclear weapons and
armed forces.
The DPRK is ready for both dialogue and war.
The world revolutionary people should remain highly vigilant against
the U.S. nuclear strategy and
policy of strength, well aware of its unchangeable aggressive nature and
dangerous design to dominate the
world in the 21st century.
Kim Jong Il's endless trips for on-site guidance
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il has made
endless trips for on-site
guidance to bring prosperity to the country.
This year he has visited many units in various parts of the country
including Jagang, south and north
Hamgyong, north Phyongan and south Hwanghae provinces.
He inspected the dam construction site of the Kumjingang Power Station
and a farm built for raw
material supply in Hamhung city on November 30, the land leveling and
rezoning project in South Hwanghae
Province and unit no. 350 of the Korean People's Army on December 5 and
newly-built industrial
establishments in Pyongyang on December 7.
He regards the increase of military strength as the most important
state affair.
He has inspected KPA units of arms and services without rest to take
care of servicepersons' training and
living down to details.
Whenever he visits a KPA unit he acquaints himself, first of all, with
soldier's living conditions, pays
attention to even a trifling matter and takes warm care of them as their
parents would do.
He visited soldier-builders to encourage the KPA to bear the brunt of
the work to build a powerful
nation.
The KPA has remarkably increased its combat capability, while
performing heroic feats in economic
construction.
KPA soldiers built the Anbyon Youth Power Station, the Naephyong Power
Station, the Youth Hero
Motorway and other monumental edifices by highly displaying the
revolutionary spirit of soldiers under the
slogan "Let us take charge of both defence of the country and socialist
construction " and they completed the
construction of modern model factories for the development of fish farming
and stockbreeding in a short span
of time.
Firmly determined to build a powerful nation in the near future, he
ceaselessly provided on-site guidance
to power stations, saltern construction sites, iron works, mines, textile
factories, machine plants and forestry
stations.
Wherever he went he gave instructions to complete all projects as grand
monumental edifices and
advanced concrete tasks and ways to keep the production going at a high
rate and manage and operate
factories in a rational way.
He also solved knotty problems of producer masses, thus bringing about
innovations in every
workplace.
He gave unremitting on-site guidance to different places to enable
people to live well off, regardless of
bad weather, rugged roads and remote places.
All the creations made recently to improve the standard of the
servicepersons and people's living
including catfish, chicken and pig factories, an ostrich farm and fish
farms are associated with his immortal
leadership feats.
Okryugum
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Okryugum is one of the Korean national
musical instruments of
diverse style and sound.
It was manufactured in the 1970s on the basis of characteristics of
national stringed instruments such as
Kayagum. This musical instrument was named Okryugum for its clear and sweet
sound.
Okryugum is widely used in solo performance. Its player participates in
orchestral music.
It has an unequilateral hoof-shaped resonance box and legs.
There are a round resonance hole, 33 strings and several sound
adjusting devices on the top of the box.
It is played with fingers.
It is widely used not only by professional art troupes such as the
Mansudae Art Troupe and the State
National Art Troupe but by ordinary people.
Many Okryugum players are being trained at different music education
institutions such as the national
musical instrument faculty of Pyongyang University of Music and dance.
Kim Kil Hwa's Okryugum solo performance and Kim Kil Hwan's Kayagum solo
presentation were
given at the Yun I Sang Concert Hall recently.
Both were successful.
Especially, Kim Kil Hwa's performance of popular songs, mainly music of
Korean folk songs, and
instrumental music deeply impressed the audience.
S. Korean workers stage general strike
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Communications Trade
Union went on a
general strike on Dec. 18, according to Seoul-based MBC.
The organization announced a total strike in work-sites across South
Korea, asserting that the authorities
and the management's unilateral restructuring and total privatization plan
are unacceptable.
Meanwhile, the National and Housing Bank Worker's Unions called
extraordinary meetings of their
deputies at the head offices of the banks on Dec. 17 and threatened to call
a general strike if their management
carry out the restructuring.
Wreath laid before Kim Jong Suk's bust
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Women of various embassies and
missions of international
organizations here today laid a wreath before the bust of the great
communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong
Suk in the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong on the occasion
of her 83rd birth anniversary.
After laying the wreath they observed a moment's silence in memory of
the anti-Japanese heroine Kim
Jong Suk who was boundlessly loyal to the President Kim Il Sung and devoted
her life to the sacred cause
for national liberation and the freedom and happiness of the people.
Written on the ribbon hanging from the wreath are letters "may the
revolutionary exploits of the great
communist revolutionary fighter comrade Kim Jong Suk be immortal "
Inter-Korean military working-level talks held
Panmunjom, December 21 (KCNA) -- The third round of the north-south
military working-level talks
was held at the Thongil House in the north side's portion of Panmunjom
today to militarily ensure the
implementation of the historic June 15 north-south joint Declaration.
Present at the talks were the military working-level delegation of the
north side led by senior colonel Yu
Yong Chol and the military working-level delegation of the south side led
by brigadier general Kim Kyong
Dok.
At the talks the head of the north side's delegation referred to the
previous talks before noting that in
order to make the talks successful in the future it is necessary to drop
the conception of hostile confrontation,
refrain from all military actions threatening the other party and act up to
one's words. It is possible to provide
a sure military guarantee for the implementation of the joint Declaration
only when these principles are
observed, he added.
Serving a strong warning to the south side upon the authorization, he
recalled that the "Ministry of
National Defence" of the south side in the "white paper on national defence
for 2000" on December 4 defined
the north, the other party to the dialogue, as the "principal enemy" and
Declared it at home and abroad.
He continued:
In the joint declaration signed by the heads of the north and the south
both sides agreed to independently
settle the issue of national reunification by the concerted efforts of the
nation and shared the view at the first
round of the north-south defence ministers' talks, too, that the fellow
countrymen should never fight each
other. Nevertheless, the south side defined the north as the "principal
enemy." This is an undisguised perfidy
to and an unpardonable challenge to the inter-Korean agreements already
Declared at home and abroad.
He strongly protested and denounced such hostile policy of the south
side, branding it as a declaration of
all-out confrontation between the armies of both sides and a grave criminal
move to preserve the conception
of confrontation in the Cold War era and thus chill the fellow countrymen's
desire for reunification and bring
the inter-Korean relations back to those in the past.
This act of inciting confrontation compels the north side to doubt
whether it is possible to agree upon and
implement such important matters as removing the military demarcation line
and opening the demilitarized
zone, he said.
In conclusion he strongly demanded that the south side withdraw the
anti-national conception of
"principal enemy" as soon as possible if it is truly willing to sincerely
Implement the joint declaration.
For Spanish-speaking people
incesante direccion sobre terreno de gran dirigente kim jong il
pyongyang, 21 de diciembre (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il no
cesa de dar direccion sobre el
terreno para lograr la prosperidad y fortalecimiento del pais. este ano
realizo visita de orientacion a numerosas
unidades de distintas localidades del pais entre otras las provincias de
jagang, ryanggang, hamgyong del norte
y el sur, phyong-an del norte y hwanghae del sur. en los ultimos dias
dirigio sobre el terreno el lugar de
construccion del dique de la central hidroelectrica del rio kumjin y la
granja productora de materias primas de
la ciudad de hamhung (el 30 de noviembre), la labor de arreglo de la tierra
de la provincia de hwanghae del
sur y la unidad no. 350 del ejercito popular de corea (el 5 de diciembre) y
las fabricas y empresas construidas
en la ciudad de pyongyang (el 7 de diciembre).
el comandante supremo kim jong il considera el fortalecimiento de las
fuerzas armadas como el mas
importante de los asuntos del estado.
el no ceso de inspeccionar las unidades en varias armas y tropas del
epc para enterarse de los pormenores
del entrenamiento y la vida de los militares.
al visitar las unidades del epc, ante todo hizo conocimiento de las
condiciones de vida de los militares y
se preocupo hasta de los asuntos menores para dispensarles amor y atencion
fraternales.
tambien fue a los lugares de construccion de que se hacian cargo los
militares del epc y los oriento a
ponerse al frente de la construccion de la patria rica y poderosa.
como resultado el epc ha podido fortalecer extraordinariamente su
capacidad de combate y realizar
hazanas heroicas tambien en la construccion economica.
los militares del epc con la consigna " encarguemonos tanto de la
defensa de la patria como de la
construccion socialista " y al desplegar plenamente el espiritu militar
revolucionario levantaron las creaciones
monumentales tales como las centrales hidroelectricas "juventud" de anbyon
y de naephyong y la carretera
chongnyon yongung.
tambien las fabricas modelo para el desarrollo de piscicultura y
ganaderia del pais se construyeron a la
moderna en un corto espacio de tiempo.
el dirigente kim jong il con la firme voluntad de culminar en un futuro
cercano la construccion de potencia
dio la direccion sobre el terreno a los lugares de construccion de planta
electrica y salina, la fundicion de
hierro, minas, la fabrica textil, la fabrica de maquinaria y la empresa
forestal.
en todos los lugares adonde llego el dio ensenanzas para hacer de todos
los objetos de construccion
creaciones de eterna duracion y presento las tareas y medios concretos para
normalizar la produccion y hacer
racionalmente la administracion y gestion de la fabrica.
dio soluciones a su debido tiempo a los problemas por los cuales
calentaban la cabeza las masas
productoras y las oriento a registrar innovaciones en todos los centros de
trabajo.
el dio infatigable direccion sobre el terreno sin hacer remilgos a los
dias desfavorables ni a los caminos
arduos y accidentados ni a las zonas muy apartadas con el fin de hacer
holgada la vida del pueblo.
estan impregnadas las inmortales hazanas de direccion del dirigente kim
jong il en las recien construidas
fabricas de siluros, gallinas, cerdos, avestruces, criaderos de peces y
otras creaciones que serviran para la
mejora de la vida de los militares y los habitantes.
hay que elevar vigilancia contra "estrategia de siglo 21" de ee.uu.
pyongyang, 21 de diciembre (atcc) -- el diario "rodong sinmun" en un
articulo individual de hoy senala
que la nueva "estrategia del siglo 21" publicada por el departamento de
defensa norteamericano es, en su
esencia, la muy peligrosa estrategia militar trazada a base de la revision
de la nuclear de la epoca de la guerra
fria y subraya que los pueblos revolucionarios del mundo deben elevar la
vigilancia contra ella.
el articulo continua:
lo que llama la atencion en esta estrategia es que ee.uu. hizo
nuevamente politica la estrategia nuclear
tomandola por elemento clave para la hegemonia mundial en el siglo 21 y
definio a los paises en vias de
desarrollo como blanco principal de su ataque nuclear.
la nueva estrategia en cuestion de ee.uu. demuestra que este habla de
que ha retrocedido de la guerra fria,
pero de hecho se propone levantar el viento de la nueva guerra fria tambien
en el siglo 21 y realizar con la
estrategia nuclear el "nuevo orden mundial" y la "globalizacion".
la punta de lanza de la nueva "estrategia del siglo 21 " esta dirigida
directamente a la region asiatica,
particularmente a la peninsula coreana.
con esto tiene que ver el intento de ee.uu. de despachar a titulo de
refuerzo mas de 690 mil efectivos de
las fuerzas terrestres, navales y aereas y la infanteria de marina en el
caso de emergencia de la peninsula
coreana.
ee.uu. deben tener presente de que la rpdc no puede ser objeto de su
ataque de armas nucleares ni de su
uso de fuerza. la rpdc esta lista tanto para el dialogo como para la guerra.
los pueblos revolucionarios del mundo deben elevar la vigilancia ante
la invariable agresividad y la
peligrosidad de los estados unidos que se proponen realizar en el siglo 21
la hegemonia mundial con su
estrategia nuclear, politica de fuerza.
_______________________________________________________
KOMINFORM
P.O. Box 66
00841 Helsinki - Finland
+358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.kominf.pp.fi
_______________________________________________________
Kominform list for general information.
Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics.
Subscribe/unsubscribe messages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_______________________________________________________
