TODAY'S NEWS (December.27.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Removal of concrete wall demanded
* Successful art exhibition
* Plan to hurl police into scene of sit-in strike blasted
* Anniversary of Korean Buddhists Federation marked
* Reception given at Chinese consulate general
* Rodong Sinmun on north-south joint declaration
* Papers call for giving full play to advantages of Korean socialism
For Spanish-speaking people
* comite preparatorio nacional de peru por nacimiento de dirigente kim jong
il
* periodicos subrayan necesidad de desplegar superioridad de socialismo
coreano
Removal of concrete wall demanded
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- The All India Indo-Korean Friendship
Association and the Indian
Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification issued a joint statement on
December 19 demanding the
removal of the concrete wall. The statement said:
The Korean nation's desire for reunification is daily mounting after
the north-south summit and the
publication of the north-south joint declaration, but there still remains
the concrete wall built by the South
Korean authorities in the area south of the military demarcation line on
the Korean peninsula.
The concrete wall is a symbol of national division and the
confrontation between the north and south and
a product of the united states' "two Koreas policy" as it stands as a
physical barrier keeping the blood ties of
the nation severed and the country divided into two.
It is only the Korean nation on our planet that is undergoing all sorts
of misfortune and sufferings due to
its split caused by outside forces.
The All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association and the Indian
Committee for Supporting Korea's
Reunification strongly demand that the concrete wall built in the 20th
century be pulled down as early as
possible for the reunification of Korea.
Successful art exhibition
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of art works of Kim Song
Min, Kim Il Sung Prize
winner, people's artiste and labour hero, is going on at the Pyongyang
International House of Culture. He
created a portrait of President Kim Il Sung with a sunny smile on his face
in July Juche 83 (1994), thus
winning the admiration of the world.
Displayed at the exhibition are more than 50 works including figure
paintings and landscapes, etc.
His works draw particular attention of visitors for the depiction of
people of diverse character, masterly
strokes representative of the spirit of the times, striking contrast in
colours, dynamic rhythm and daring
conception.
Among them is a Korean painting "Smelters In the Past" which was
appreciated as the best Korean
painting in the 1980s. This was his maiden work that entered the national
exhibition.
The work truthfully depicts the slave labour of smelters to show how
the Korean people were driven
hard like beasts of burden under the Japanese imperialists' military
occupation.
Also on display there are paintings listed as national treasures such
as "A Flash Lightning Over Lake
Chon On Mt. Paektu," which vividly portrays the majestic and beautiful view
of Lake Chon and a strong
flash lightning over it. Over the past 25 years he has produced more than
600 Korean paintings, enriching the
treasure house of the Juche fine art.
At present he is deputy director of the Mansudae Art Studio and
chairman of the central committee of the
Korean Painters Union.
Plan to hurl police into scene of sit-in strike blasted
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- The Trade Union of Banking Industry of
South Korea in an
emergency statement on Dec. 23 demanded that the authorities withdraw at
once a plan to hurl police into the
scene of the sit-in strike called by unionists of the national bank and
housing bank, a Seoul-based radio report
said. Recalling that among at least 20,000 members of the bank trade unions
now on strike are more than
8,000 women, the organization warned that the authorities and the bank
management will be held responsible
for all the consequences to be entailed by the police crackdown.
Anniversary of Korean Buddhists Federation marked
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- A meeting took place here yesterday to
mark the 55th anniversary
of the Korean Buddhists Federation. Present there were office-bearers of
the central committee and
provincial, city and county committees of the federation, chief priests of
temples across the country, monks
and believers in Pyongyang and guests from different organizations.
Pak Thae Hwa, chairman of the c.c, the Korean Buddhists Federation,
made a report.
He said that they are greeting the anniversary of the federation at a
time when all the fellow countrymen
are working hard to achieve national unity and the reunification of the
country after the Pyongyang meeting
and the publication of the June 15 north-south joint declaration.
He reviewed the work done by the federation over the last 55 years and
proposed the tasks to be fulfilled
to implement the declaration.
Reception given at Chinese consulate general
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- A reception was given at the Chinese
consulate general in
Chongjin on December 26 on the occasion of the New Year Juche 90 (2001).
Present on invitation were Pak
Su Gil, chairman of the North Hamgyong Provincial People's Committee, and
officials concerned.
Consul general Liu Zhigang and staff members of the consulate general
were present there.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Rodong Sinmun on north-south joint declaration
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed
article says that north-south
summit talks were held for the first time since the country was bisected by
the splitting machinations of the
outside forces, the north-south joint declaration with national
independence as its keynote was adopted and a
bright prospect of national reunification opened on the Korean peninsula
this year, the last year of the 20th
century. The north-south joint declaration brought about landmark events
which were beyond imagination in
the north-south relations and the movement for national reunification in
the past, the paper notes, and goes
on:
It is a declaration of national independence which helps settle the
reunification issue independently, a
declaration of national unity which helps promote trust and achieve harmony
among fellow countrymen and a
reunification-oriented declaration which helps conduct the movement for
national reunification purposefully.
The joint declaration is a product of leader Kim Jong Il's ardent will
for reunification and great patriotic
unity and a manifestation of his matchless courage and magnanimity.
Members of the nation find themselves worth living today and feel proud
and honoured while working
for national reunification. The whole nation should hold high the banner of
national independence.
Why should the Korean nation with such high self-respect and
resourcefulness entrust its destiny to
others? When the whole nation has the will to achieve national
reunification by its concerted efforts, no
outside forces can meddle in our internal affairs and the movement for
national reunificaiton will see the day
of its final completion.
Attitude towards the north-south joint declaration is a touchstone that
distinguishes between patriotism
and treachery. The declaration should be respected and implemented with
sincerity.
The whole nation should unite under the banner of national independence
and the banner of patriotism
and jointly strive to achieve national reunification.
Only when the will and interests of all members of the nation are
unified and their minds pooled can
national reunification be achieved with success.
The entire nation should attain great national unity and make all
efforts for national reconciliation and
reunification with the pride of being born in this land.
Papers call for giving full play to advantages of Korean socialism
Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- Today is the day of the Socialist
Constitution of the DPRK. On
this occasion Pyongyang-based newspapers carry editorials stressing the
need to give full play to the
advantages of Korean-style socialism the DPRK Socialist Constitution was
proclaimed on December 27,
Juche 61 (1972).
The constitution codifies the victory and achievements won by the
Korean people in the revolution and
construction and lays down the principles to be abided by in state and
social life and tasks to be carried out in
socialist construction.
It was renamed Kim Il Sung Constitution after being amended and
supplemented at the Supreme
People's Assembly in September 1998.
The President Kim Il Sung's Juche-based idea on state building and his
exploits for it are codified in this
constitution.
In its editorial Rodong Sinmun says that Korean socialism is the
genuine and best socialism desired by
the people.
The advantages of Korean socialism find their expression, first of all,
in the fact that it is people-centred
socialism where the masses of the people are masters of everything and
everything of society serves them.
It is also society strong in Juche character and the national character
and socialism under which all the
members of society are firmly rallied as one in mind around their leader.
The undisputed advantages of this Korean socialism have been fully
displayed under the outstanding and
tested leadership of the respected Kim Jong Il, the editorial says, adding:
The course of building socialist Korea into a powerful and prosperous
country in the 21st century will be
that of giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system.
Minju Joson calls for striving to apply the constitution in all spheres
of state and social life.
For Spanish-speaking people
comite preparatorio nacional de peru por nacimiento de dirigente kim jong il
pyongyang, 27 de diciembre (atcc) -- tuvo lugar el 19 en lima el acto
constitutivo del comite preparatorio
nacional del peru por el 59 aniversario del nacimiento del gran dirigente
kim jong il. como presidente de este
comite fue electo angel castro lavarello, presidente del instituto cultural
y de amistad peruano coreano.
en el acto fueron discutidos planes de festividades.
periodicos subrayan necesidad de desplegar superioridad de socialismo
coreano
pyongyang, 27 de diciembre (atcc) -- hoy es el dia de la constitucion
socialista de la rpdc. con motivo de
esa efemeride los periodicos de esta capital insertaron editoriales
subrayando la necesidad de desplegar
plenamente la superioridad del socialismo coreano.
la constitucion socialista de la rpdc fue promulgada el 27 de diciembre
del 61 (1972) de la era juche.
la constitucion socialista refrenda juridicamente la victoria y los
exitos logrados en la revolucion y la
construccion por el pueblo coreano y defiene los principios de la vida
social y estatal y las tareas que se
presentan en la construccion socialista.
ella fue proclamada como constitucion kim il sung luego de enmendada y
complementada en la asamblea
popular suprema celebrada en septiembre de 1998.
ella refrenda por ley la original ideologia y las hazanas del gran
presidente kim il sung en materia de
construccion estatal.
el diario "rodong sinmun" senala que el socialismo coreano es uno
autentico y mas ventajoso que
corresponde al deseo del pueblo y continua:
la superioridad del socialismo coreano reside ante todo en que este es
el socialismo centrado en las masas
populares en que estas son duenas de lo todo de la sociedad y todo esto
sirve para ellas.
otra superioridad reside en que este socialismo es la sociedad con
fuerte espiritu juche y nacionalidad, en
la que se logro con firmeza la unidad monolitica de todos sus integrantes
en torno a su dirigente.
hoy la superioridad absoluta del socialismo coreano se manifiesta
plenamente por la destacada y probada
direccion del respetado camarada kim jong il.
la lucha por lograr la gran prosperidad de corea socialista en el siglo
21 sera precisamente la lucha por
desplegar bajo todos los aspectos la superioridad del regimen socialista.
el periodico "minju joson" senala la necesidad de desarrollar con vigor
la lucha por materializar la
constitucion en todas las esferas de la vida social y estatal.
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