TODAY'S NEWS (May.29.2001 Juche 90)
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Iranians help Korean farmers
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National day of Ethiopia marked
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DPRK-Slovak protocol signed
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Japan's distortion of history condemned in India
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Contributions to computer education highly estimated
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Farm famous for stock-breeding
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U.S. denounced for defending Japan's sexual slavery
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Rodong Sinmun calls for rejecting dependence on foreign forces
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Greetings to secretary general of OAU
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IAEA delegation leaves
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IPPNW co-president arrives
For Spanish-speaking people
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mitin y exhibicion de fotos por 42 aniversario de triunfo de revolucion
cubana
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dirigente kim jong il envia cesto de flores a embajada de cuba
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en varios paises comites preparatorios por 16 de febrero y dia de sol
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Iranians help Korean farmers
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Charge d'affaires A. I. Gholamali
Yahyazadeh and staff members of the Iranian embassy here on Monday visited
the Korea-Iran Friendship Saenal Cooperative Farm in Sinchon county, South
Hwanghae Province. They helped farmers in hastening rice-transplanting while
waging a drive to overcome the damage caused by a long spell of drought and
high temperature.
��� They handed aid materials over to the farm.
��� During a break they appreciated an art performance and talked with
farmers, deepening the feelings of friendship.
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National day of Ethiopia marked
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Dubale Belihu, charge d'affaires A.I. of
the Ethiopian embassy here, hosted a reception at the Taedonggang club for
the diplomatic corps on Monday to mark the tenth anniversary of the national
day of his country. Invited to the reception were vice-president of the
presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop and officials
concerned.
��� Diplomatic envoys of different countries here were also invited.
��� Speeches were made there.
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DPRK-Slovak protocol signed
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- A DPRK-Slovak intergovernmental protocol on
the international agreements concluded between the DPRK and former
Czechoslovakia was signed here on Monday. It was inked by vice-minister of
foreign affairs of the DPRK Choe Su Hon and Jan Soth, director general of
the section for bilateral cooperation of the Slovak Foreign Ministry.
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Japan's distortion of history condemned in India
��� New Delhi, May 27 (KCNA) -- Trade unions of India made public
statements condemning Japan for its moves to distort historical facts in
textbooks. The All-India Trade Union congress in a statement on May 22
bitterly denounced the Japanese authorities for working hard to considerably
distort, embellish and cover up the crimes Japan committed against the
Korean people for over 40 years of its illegal occupation of Korea.
��� The statement recalled that in the period the Japanese imperialists
suppressed and shot many patriotic Koreans to death. They also took away
nearly 200,000 Korean women as "comfort women for the army" and forced them
into sexual slavery.
��� The Japanese authorities should apologize and compensate for such
unprecedented shameless crimes committed against the Korean people in the
past, it held.
��� The centre of Indian trade unions in a statement on May 23 disclosed the
above said crimes and condemned as a shocking outrage the Japanese
authorities' approval of history textbooks in which most of the crimes were
deleted.
��� The centre, the statement said, scathingly denounces Japan's moves to
twist history and extends its full support and solidarity to the Korean
people in the campaign to expose its past crimes.
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Contributions to computer education highly estimated
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent gifts to officials,
teachers, researchers and workers who have contributed to the development of
computer education. Those at computer educational and scientific
institutions wrote, compiled and published scores of kinds of teaching
materials for newly organized computer classes in a matter of two months. It
would take several years to do so at an ordinary pace.
��� Kim Jong Il highly praised them for having written good teaching
materials. a meeting took place on Monday to convey his gifts.
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Farm famous for stock-breeding
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- People in Kubin-ri, Kangdong county,
Pyongyang, are very successful in stockbreeding. This stockbreeding farm is
putting a main emphasis on breeding goats.
��� Eleven out of its 13 workteams are stock-breeding teams.
��� There are more than 4,300 head of goats. 1,800 were added to the total
head of goats on the farm this year alone.
��� Every team has air-conditioned goat pens, 150 square meters each, and
veterinarian's rooms. The farm has more than 1,300 hectares of natural
pasture and over 250 hectares of artificial pasture. It is fully equipped
with feed processing facilities.
��� The modern milk processing shop produces an average of 2.5 tons of sour
milk and 500 kg of cheese and yogurt every day.
��� The increase of production of meat and milk resulted in a several-fold
rise in the farmers' cash income.
��� The Kubin-ri was once known as an area unfit for crop cultivation as 80
per cent of it consists of steep mountains and soil is shallow in depth and
barren. But today it has turned into a rich farm widely known for successful
stock-breeding.
��� Leader Kim Jong Il sent to the farm superior breeds of goats and more
than 10 species of good grass seeds and modern facilities to produce cheese
and sour milk.
��� The prospect of the farm is very good.
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U.S. denounced for defending Japan's sexual slavery
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Papers today denounce the federal district
court in Washington for turning down the collective suit mounted by
survivors of the former "comfort women for the army" in the Asian region
against the Japanese government in demand of compensation and taking an
attitude in favor of the Japanese government's view. Rodong Sinmun in a
signed commentary recalls that the system of "comfort women for the army"
established by the Japanese imperialists was the biggest-ever crime against
humanity, noting that it was quite natural for them to file such a
collective suit.
��� The commentary says:
��� The court dismissed the collective suit, asserting that it is
unreasonable to talk about Japan's past crimes as it has the privilege of
exemption from responsibility as a sovereign state, its government had
already cleared all suits related to the war scores of years ago, and,
moreover, the U.S. court has no right to handle the suit.
��� An attitude and stand toward the issue of "comfort women for the army"
are a criterion showing whether the U.S. respects human rights or not.
��� However, the U.S. styling itself "human rights champion" is siding with
the Japanese government, turning a blind eye to the issue. This is little
short of defending the Japanese imperialists' past aggression and even
covering up crimes related to the "comfort women for the army".
��� The ulterior aim of the U.S. is to give a shot in the arm of Japan now
in the soup over the issue of liquidating its past in a bid to draw Japan
closer to its side and use Japanese as a "shock brigade" in implementing its
Asia-Pacific policy for the realization of its strategy for world
domination.
��� The U.S. unwarranted attitude can never be tolerated.
��� Defending war crimes is as good as instigating them.
��� Japan is also well advised to come to its senses.
��� If Japan continues clinging to the U.S. apron-strings, openly evading
the liquidation of its past, it will only bite the dust.
��� Minju Joson in a commentary says that the U.S. decision to dismiss the
collective suit is an expression of its criminal attempt to woo Japan to
play the role of a shock brigade in realizing its strategy for world
domination at any cost, giving no consideration to the issue of the "comfort
women for the army."
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Rodong Sinmun calls for rejecting dependence on foreign forces
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean nation should hold high the
banner of national independence, rejecting dependence on foreign forces in
order to solve the issue of national reunification by itself, says Rodong
Sinmun today in a signed article. The article goes on:
��� The banner of national independence is the main key to the settlement of
the national issue and a basic cornerstone of the principle of national
reunification.
��� There can be no national reunification without the principle of national
independence. When the Korean nation fails to maintain the principle of
national independence, it cannot solve the issue of national reunification
any time, get rid of foreign domination and subordination and avoid the fate
of a ruined nation. In any case the Korean nation should firmly maintain the
principle of national independence. Only then, can it achieve national
reunification on which its destiny depends and its prosperity.
��� The banner of national independence is a touchstone which distinguishes
between patriotism and treachery and between reunification and division.
��� National reunification is the greatest patriotism. The Korean nation's
patriotic will for reunification should be displayed in subordinating
everything to the cause of national reunification under the uplifted banner
of national independence.
��� It is no more than word-juggling to talk about reconciliation, unity and
reunification, pursuing dependence on foreign forces without consciousness
of national independence. dependence on foreign forces is a treachery to the
nation and an anti-national act which makes havoc of the destiny of the
nation.
��� The stand of national independence at present should be shown in
conducting a vigorous movement for independent reunification under the
banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
��� The article calls upon all Koreans in the north, the south and overseas
to wage a more powerful movement for national independence and reunification
in the spirit of the joint declaration so as to achieve independent and
peaceful reunification of the country in the near future.
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Greetings to secretary general of OAU
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, foreign minister of the DPRK,
sent a message of greetings to Salim A. Salim, secretary general of the
organization of African unity, on the start of the formal work of the
African Union. The message expressed the belief that the union would ensure
peace and stability in this region and greatly contribute to achieving
common prosperity of the African continent by mobilizing and utilizing great
potentials and rich natural resources.
��� The message wished the union a great success in its work for peace and
progress on the continent.
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IAEA delegation leaves
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the International Atomic
Energy Agency left here today by air after participating in the 16th round
of negotiations for the implementation of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework.
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IPPNW co-president arrives
��� Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -Mary-Wynne Ashford co-president of the
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and her party
arrived here today.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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mitin y exhibicion de fotos por 42 aniversario de triunfo de revolucion
cubana
��� pyongyang, 29 de diciembre (atcc) -- tuvieron lugar ayer en esta
capital el mitin y la exhibicion de fotos por el 42 aniversario del triunfo
de la revolucion cubana. participaron pyon yong rip, ministro de educacion y
presidente del comite coreano de solidaridad con cuba, ri song ho,
vicepresidente del comite de relaciones culturales con el extranjero y otros
funcionarios y trabajadores capitalinos.
��� fueron invitados jose manuel inclan embade, embajador de la republica de
cuba en la rpdc y otros miembros de esta sede diplomatica.
��� en el mitin fueron intercambiados los discursos.
��� con anterioridad, los participantes recorrieron las fotos que muestran
los exitos que ha logrado el pueblo cubano en varios dominios durante estos
42 anos posteriores al triunfo de la revolucion.
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dirigente kim jong il envia cesto de flores a embajada de cuba
��� pyongyang, 29 de diciembre (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il
envio hoy un cesto de flores a la embajada de la republica de cuba en la
rpdc con motivo del 42 aniversario del triunfo de la revolucion cubana. el
cesto de flores fue entregado a jose manuel inclan embade, embajador cubano.
��� en la cinta del cesto de flores se lee: "felicito calurosamente el 42
aniversario del triunfo de la revolucion cubana. kim jong il".
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en varios paises comites preparatorios por 16 de febrero y dia de sol
��� pyongyang, 29 de enero (atcc) -- en suecia, finlandia y polonia fueron
constituidos comites preparatorios por el 16 de febrero (cumpleanos del gran
dirigente kim jong il) y el dia del sol (dia de nacimiento del presidente
kim il sung). los actos constitutivos eligieron a los presidentes de los
comites y discutieron y aprobaron planes de diversas actividades dedicadas a
estas efemerides.
��� por otra parte en colombia, nigeria y tanzania fueron constituidos
comites preparatorios por el 16 de febrero.
��� los comites difinieron el periodo de festividad y decidieron efectuar
diversas actividades.
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