TODAY'S NEWS (April.13.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS]
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Kim Jong Il inspects industrial establishments in Hamhung
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Photo exhibition and film show held
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Campaign for newspaper reform starts in S. Korea
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Iranian charge d'affaires hosts reception
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Participants in art festival pay tribute to Kim Il Sung
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Palestinian ambassador hosts reception
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U.S. anti-DPRK diatribe assailed
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Foreign guests visit third Kimilsungia show
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Kim Jong Il issues order on promoting military ranks
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Performances given by foreign artistes and overseas Korean artistes
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Ceremony of three services of KPA held
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Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of late Yu Suk Gun
For Spanish-speaking people
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vocero de ministerio de industria pesquera declara
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modernas plantas avicolas
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rpdc: nevada y frio intensos
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Kim Jong Il inspects industrial establishments in Hamhung
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) - Kim Jong Il inspected industrial
establishments in Hamhung on April 11. He went first to the Ryongsong
Machine Complex.
He went round a monument to on-the-spot teachings of President Kim Il
Sung, the large machine tool plant, the steel-casting shop no. 1 and other
places to acquaint himself in detail with their production.
He noted with great satisfaction that the workers and technicians of the
complex are daily effecting miracles and innovations to build a powerful
nation and highly estimated them for their great contributions to laying the
foundation of the Juche-based self-supporting national economy and realising
the industrialisation of the country.
Pointing out that the complex is playing a very important part in the
drive to realise the Workers' Party of Korea's cause of building a powerful
nation, he set forth highly important tasks to be carried out by it.
He said that its workers should manufacture and supply in time ordered
facilities needed by various domains of the national economy and, at the
same time, produce more compressors and equipment for construction sites and
industrial establishments.
He laid stress on pushing ahead with the technical modernisation to
equip all production processes with latest facilities and on carrying out an
effective drive to introduce new advanced technology.
After enjoying an art performance given by the mobile art agitation
squad of the complex, he praised it for engaging itself in new and effective
political and economic agitation.
The second leg of his inspection was the Songchongang Electric Goods
Factory.
He looked round production processes to acquaint himself in detail with
the manufacture of electric goods and the technical outfit of the factory.
He said that the factory plays an important part in realising the
electrification of the country as it manufactures motors, generators and
other electric goods and set forth specific tasks which must be fulfilled by
it.
Kim Jong Il looked round the narrow-gauge railways between Hamhung and
Majon which have been switched over to elelctric traction.
After listening to a report on the railway electrification, he got on
the newly manufactured electric locomotive and train and learned in detail
about their mechanism, performance and use.
Saying that as a large number of workers live in Hamhung it is
important, above all, to take good care of their living, he underscored the
need for the officials of the party organisations and administrative and
economic bodies and industrial establishments in the province and the city
to provide every facility to them in their devoted services for the party
and the revolution.
Kim Jong Il was accompanied by first vice department directors of the
C.C. of the WPK.
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Photo exhibition and film show held
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Foreign Trade held a
photo exhibition and a film show at the Taedonggang Club for the diplomatic
corps on April 12 on the occasion of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of
President Kim Il Sung. Present on invitation were economic and trade
officials of foreign embassies here.
Present there were Ri Ryong Nam, vice-minister of foreign trade, and
officials concerned.
After looking round photos, they watched the Korean documentary film
"the great life in 1994."
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Campaign for newspaper reform starts in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- The people's action for newspaper reform
which groups 156 civic and public organizations in South Korea launched a
full-dress campaign for a newspaper reform after holding a ceremony of
declaring independence of newspapers in Seoul, Taejon, Kwangju and other
areas on April 7, the Seoul-based MBC reported. The organization decided to
strongly react to biased reports and coercive newspaper reading so as to
achieve independence of newspapers and, at the same time, push forward the
moves to revise the law on periodicals, create a press development committee
of the "national assembly" and improve the system for putting newspaper
marketing on a normal footing.
That day the participants in the ceremony conducted a ten million
signature campaign calling for a newspaper reform and staged a satirical
drama before marching on streets.
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Iranian charge d'affaires hosts reception
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Gholamali Yahyazadeh, charge d'affaires
ad interim of the Iranian embassy here, hosted a reception at the embassy
yesterday on the occasion of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of President
Kim Il Sung. He said in his speech that the birth of Kim Il Sung was the
beginning of a new great history.
The meeting between leaders of Iran and Kim Il Sung added one page to
the history of the two countries, he said.
Foreign minister of the DPRK Paek Nam Sun said in his speech that Kim Il
Sung was the national liberator and an elder statesman of high repute
recognized by the world for his distinguished contribution to the human
cause of independence.
The relations between the DPRK and Iran are based on the intimacy forged
between Kim Il Sung and leaders of Iran and they are now growing stronger
under the deep care of leaders of the two countries, he said.
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Participants in art festival pay tribute to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Government cultural delegations and
delegates of various countries, foreign guests and artistes and overseas
Korean artistes participating in the 19th April Spring Friendship Art
Festival yesterday visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where President Kim
Il Sung lies in state for perpetuity and paid tribute to him. The visitors
bowed in veneration to the president who looks as in his lifetime before
being shown round the mourning hall.
They saw the train he used for his on-site guidance and foreign trips
and the car used by him in the last period of his life.
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Palestinian ambassador hosts reception
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Palestinian ambassador to the DPRK Shaher
Mohammed Abdlah hosted a reception at his embassy on April 12 on the
occasions of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, and
the 8th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as Chairman of the
National Defence Commission of the DPRK. The ambassador in his address said
that the president set forth a correct ideology which serves as a guideline
for the Korean people and the world people. That is why sun's day is
cherished in the hearts of the people loving justice and peace, he added.
He continued:
The Palestinian people would remain loyal to the militant and friendly
bonds the ground of which was provided by Kim Il Sung, the eternal president
who was in fraternal relationship with President Yasser Arafat. These
friendly relations are continuing to develop thanks to Kim Jong Il.
Kye Ung Thae, member of the political bureau and secretary of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in his address said that
Kim Il Sung made great efforts in his lifetime for the development of the
friendly relations with the Palestinian people and that Kim Jong Il is
paying deep attention to the realisation of the Palestinian people's just
cause.
The DPRK will as ever extend positive support to the Palestinian
people's just struggle to retake legitimate national rights including the
right to repatriation, the right to self-determination, the right to
establish an independent state with Kuds as its capital, he said.
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U.S. anti-DPRK diatribe assailed
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- The new U.S. administration is persisting
in its anti-DPRK campaign in a bid to invent a pretext to establish the NMD.
In this regard Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says: U.S. President
Bush at a recent joint session of the U.S. congress talked about a "missile
threat" from the DPRK, terming it a "rogue state."
The "missile threat" peddled by the U.S. is nothing but sheer sophism.
Given that the U.S. threatened the DPRK after deploying aggression armed
forces including a large number of missiles in and around South Korea, DPRK
had no option but to develop missiles to cope with the threat. This is an
issue pertaining to the sovereignty of the DPRK.
The U.S. persistent moves to infringe upon the sovereignty and dignity
of the DPRK under an absurd pretext compel the DPRK to take corresponding
measures.
Its counter-measure to protect the sovereignty and dignity of the
country is not bound to anything and has no limit in its scope and strength.
As the DPRK representative clarified at the session of the U.N. disarmament
commission, the DPRK has potentials, capabilities and will to take such
measure.
Even if this counter-measure results in sparking an arms race between
the DPRK and the U.S. and scrapping all the provisions agreed upon between
two sides, the DPRK will have nothing to fear. It has little to lose. But
that will bring unpredictable consequences to the U.S. for which is will
have to be fully responsible.
The DPRK wishes peace but never begs for it.
The DPRK never says empty words. The U.S. it well advised to bear this
in mind and immediately stop its provocations, hostile acts and moves to
stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
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Foreign guests visit third Kimilsungia show
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Foreign diplomatic envoys, military
attaches' corps and cultural attaches of foreign embassies here visited the
third Kimilsungia show yesterday on the occasion of Sun's Day, the birth
anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. The guests looked round Kimilsungias
on display, being briefed on them which are in full bloom, carrying the
reverence of the world people and Korean people for him.
Meanwhile, cultural attaches of foreign embassies here visited the
Jonsung Revolutionary Museum.
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Kim Jong Il issues order on promoting military ranks
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Supreme commander of the Korean People's
Army Kim Jong Il issued an order on promoting military ranks of leading
officers of the KPA on April 13, Juche 90 (2001). The order says he ordered
to promote military ranks of leading officers of the KPA on the occasion of
Sun's Day, firmly believing that they would as ever firmly guarantee the
security of the country and the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms and
actively contribute to the efforts to open up the way of building a powerful
socialist nation true to the army-first revolutionary leadership of the
Workers' Party of Korea as the hard core of the Korean revolutionary armed
forces.
One leading officer was promoted to colonel general, three leading
officers were promoted to lieut. Generals and 15 to maj. generals, according
to the order.
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Performances given by foreign artistes and overseas Korean artistes
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- The 19th April Spring Friendship Art
Festival is successfully going on after its opening in Pyongyang on April
10. Programs staged on April 12, the second day of the festival, included
songs reflecting humankind's boundless veneration for President Kim Il Sung
and their ardent desire to follow leader Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st
century.
The state academy ensemble of the Ministry of Interior of Russia sang
the Korean songs "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong
Il" in solo and chorus, deeply touching the audiences.
Also put on the stages that day were many Korean songs such as "Thunder
on Jong Il Peak" by a male soloist of the Mongolian troupe of famous actors
and actresses and its male trio "Let's Support Our Supreme Commander with
Arms," a male solo "Song of Comradeship" by the Vietnamese musicians' group,
"Single Mind" by a female soloist of the art troupe of the Japan-Korea
society for musical and artistic interchange, etc.
Pilar Garcia Idalgo, who is heading the Spanish art troupe, presented
"Song of Peace and Freedom," her own words and music, and many other
artistes from different countries including Malaysia and Moldova
demonstrated their high artistic skills.
The Romanian, Kazakh and Indonesian art troupes and the Indian dancers'
group staged dances truthfully depicting the customs of life of their
countries.
A piano solo by the French art troupe and a trumpet solo by the German
musicians' group were highly acclaimed by audiences for their refined
recital.
Overseas Korean artistes put on the stage colorful pieces including a
dance "Let's Fly across Clouds to Greet the Star of Dear General" by Korean
artistes in China and a solo dance "Janggo Dance" by artistes of the
International United Confederation of Koreans.
Colorful circus numbers were staged by acrobats from different
countries.
"Hand Feats" by acrobats of the Ukrainian acrobatic troupe, "Feet Feats"
by Mongolian acrobats and "Pigeon Feats" by the French magicians' troupe
were warmly applauded by spectators for their enchanting skills. While
performing an acrobatic piece, a Cambodian acrobat presented a scene of
displaying the flags of the DPRK and Cambodia unfurled, thus excellently
depicting the friendly relations between the two countries.
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Ceremony of three services of KPA held
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- A solemn ceremony of officers and men of
the three services of the Korean People's Army was held in the plaza of the
Kumsusan Memorial Palace today to pay respectful homage to President Kim Il
Sung and vow loyalty to Kim Il Sung and supreme commander Kim Jong Il on the
occasion of Sun's Day. Present at the ceremony were Jo Myong Rok, director
of the general political department of the KPA, Kim Yong Chun, chief of its
general staff, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces,
commanders of all services and arms of the KPA and its soldiers.
The participants raised their hands in salute to the president in
deepest veneration.
Jo Myong Rok said in a speech that the officers and men of the people's
army would hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem as an eternal leader no matter
how much water may flow under the bridge and glorify his noble revolutionary
life and immortal revolutionary exploits down through generations.
Unanimously responding to Jo's speech replete with the unshakable faith
and will of the revolutionary army, the officers and men of the KPA solemnly
pledged themselves to become the first line standard-bearers and a shock
brigade in upholding the army-first revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il
and firmly guarantee the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche
by force of arms.
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Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of late Yu Suk Gun
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il today sent a wreath to
the bier of the late Yu Suk Gun, a winner of "Kim Il Sung Order," Labor
Heroine, people's scientist, candidate academician, professor, doctor and
room chief of the medical and biological research institute of the academy
of medical science, expressing deep condolences over her death.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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vocero de ministerio de industria pesquera declara
pyongyang, 13 de enero (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de la
industria pesquera de la republica popular democratica de corea hizo publica
hoy una declaracion oral proponiendo de nuevo a la parte sur sostener pronto
el contacto de los expertos de pesca norte-sur acordado por ambas partes
para entablarlo en la zona del monte kumgang. luego de expresar la esperanza
de que la parte sur responda activamente a esta propuesta y brinde
cooperacion a esta el vocero dijo:
en la cuarta ronda de conversaciones a nivel de ministro norte-sur
efectuada a finales del ano pasado en pyongyang nuestra parte adelanto la
proposicion de ofrecer a la parte sur una parte de la pesqueria de la parte
norte en el mar este de corea.
en el "acto del ano 2001 para abrir la puerta de la reunificacion con
las fuerzas propias de la nacion" efectuado el pasado dia 10 en pyongyang se
manifesto la esperanza de que la propuesta sincera de la parte norte llegara
cuanto antes a los pescadores de la parte sur.
esto partio de la concepcion de autenticos hermanos y compatriotas segun
la cual para lograr la coprosperidad nacional no se debe distinguir el norte
y el sur ni anteponer los intereses economicos.
el problema de la cooperacion norte-sur en la esfera de la industria
pesquera se presento ya a principios de la decada de los 70 por iniciativa
de la parte norte.
despues, en varias ocasiones la parte norte se esforzo activamente por
llevarlo a efecto.
reconocemos que la labor de cooperacion de pesca norte-sur debe
realizarse sin demora en la nueva circunstancia de hoy en que se ha puesto
en el orden del dia el problema de la cooperacion economica a resueltas del
historico encuentro de pyongyang de los maximos dirigentes de ambas partes y
de la aprobacion de la declaracion conjunta norte-sur del 15 de junio para
promover el desarrollo equilibrado de la economia nacional y la cooperacion
y el intercambio en la esfera economica.
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modernas plantas avicolas
pyongyang, 13 de enero (atcc) -- se reconstruiran a la moderna las
plantas avicolas de mangyongdae, sopho, ryongsong, sungho y hadang de esta
capital. los planes de las obras preven eliminar con audacia los equipos y
edificios caducos y transformarlos.
una vez terminadas las obras todos los procesos productivos de estas
grandes granjas avicolas se controlaran por computadoras.
seran establecidos ordenadamente las bases de aseguramiento y sistemas
de suministro de piensos y nuevas bases de elaboracion de pienso combinado.
se introduciran las nuevas variedades que permitan rebajar la norma de
consumo de pienso y elevar la productividad de huevos.
estas granjas avicolas contribuiran a mejorar la vida alimentaria de los
capitalinos.
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rpdc: nevada y frio intensos
pyongyang, 13 de enero (atcc) -- en corea desde finales del ano pasado
continuan la nevada y el frio intensos.. en todas las regiones del pais
hasta el dia 10 cayo la nieve de mas de 4-5 veces mayores que los anos
ordinarios.
particularmente en la region de la provincia de kangwon la cantidad de
nieve caida llego a 130-150 cm y en la provincia de hwanghae del sur a 85
cm.
esta mayor cantidad de nevada se ha registrado por primera vez a partir
de 1994.
en pyongyang y la provincia de phyong-an del sur ayer la temperatura
minima fue de 27-30 grados bajo cero, es decir 14-16 grados menos que los
anos ordinarios.
en las provincias de ryanggang y jagang y otras regiones internas
septentrionales la temperatura es de 30- 37 grados bajo cero.
varios dominios de la economia nacional padecen de las consecuencias de
la nevada y el frio intensos.
en algunas regiones de las provincias de kangwon y hwanghae del sur
ocurrieron aludes de nieve que paralizaron el transito y las redes de
comunicaciones.
se preve que en el futuro sigan la nevada intensa y el frio glacial en
todas las regiones del pais.
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