TODAY'S NEWS (June.13.2001 Juche 90)
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Kim Jong Il appreciates performance of servicemen's family art circle
members
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Success of Korean sportspersons
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UK National Day commemorated
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Foreigners help build monument to reunification charter in DPRK
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Implementation of north-south joint declaration called for
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Committee for U.S. troops affairs studies formed in S. Korea
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Russian National Day observed
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Dangerous U.S. war moves assailed
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Etiquette and rites in Korea
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U.S. branded as aggressor and plunderer
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 appreciates performance of servicemen's family art circle
members
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Tuesday appreciated
again a performance given by KPA unit no. 233 servicemen's family art circle
members who came back after a performance tour of front units. He was
accompanied by KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and other
general officers, secretary of the WPK central committee Kim Kuk Thae,
director of the information and instruction department of the WPK central
committee Jong Ha Chol and others.
��� The servicemen's family art circle members, honoured with the first
place at the fourth KPA servicemen's family art circle contest, gave
energetic performances during their tour of forefront units and thus greatly
contributed to fully imbuing servicemen and their families with the
revolutionary spirit of soldiers and encouraging them in their dynamic
struggle in the new century.
��� At the end of the performance kim jong il acknowledged the enthusiastic
cheers of the performers and audience and congratulated them on their
successful performance.
��� He expressed great satisfaction with their performances at front units.
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Success of Korean sportspersons
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Korean weightlifters won 14 gold medals
and 1 silver medal in the 4th world students weightlifting championships
held in Slovakia from June 8 to 10. Gold medal winners are as follows:
��� Boy Kim Chol Min in the 56 kg category lifted a total of 270 kg (a
snatch of 120 kg and a jerk of 150 kg), boy Im Yong Su in the 62 kg category
295 kg (a snatch of 132.5 kg and a jerk of 162.5 kg), and boy Hwang Chol Hui
in the 69 kg category 312.5 kg (a snatch of 137.5 kg and a jerk of 175 kg),
while girl Ri Song Hui in the 58 kg category lifted a total of 227.5 kg (a
snatch of 102.5kg and a jerk of 125kg) and girl Jon Myong Hui in the 69 kg
category 215 kg (a snatch of 90kg and a jerk of 125kg).
��� The championships brought together more than 100 weightlifters from 25
countries.
��� Meanwhile, So Chang Il placed second in the 54 kg division of freestyle
wrestling in the 15th Asian wrestling championships held in Ulaan Baatar on
June 9.
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UK National Day commemorated
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting was held at Pyongyang
Moranbong Senior Middle School no. 1 yesterday on the occasion of the
official birthday of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland (National Day). Invited to the meeting were James Edward
Hoare, UK charge d'affaires here, his party and British guests staying in
Korea.
��� Present were Jon Yong Jin, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for
Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and chairman of the Korean
Committee for Friendship With the British People, officials concerned,
teachers and students of the school.
��� The participants looked round various practical training rooms of the
school and saw an art performance given by the students and deepened
friendly feelings, playing sports and amusement games and talking with each
other.
��� On the same day, a UK exhibition of scientific and technical books and
photos was held at the chollima house of culture to mark the National Day.
��� Displayed at the exhibition hall were books and photos showing recent
scientific and technological achievements of Britain and the people's life.
��� Vice-chairman Jon Yong Jin, officials concerned and British guests were
present there.
��� The participants looked round the exhibits after speeches were made.
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Foreigners help build monument to reunification charter in DPRK
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Foreign embassy officials in charge of
cultural and friendly relations in Korea Tuesday visited the construction
site of the monument to the three-point charter of national reunification on
the occasion of the first anniversary of the north-south joint declaration.
They went round the construction site, being briefed on the wonderful
progress of the construction of the historic monument which will hand down
to posterity the immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and
leader Kim Jong Il for national reunification.
��� And they looked round the quality stones sent by international
organizations, foreign friends, and Korean organizations and individuals in
the north, south and abroad for the construction of the monument.
��� They worked and sang with builders to encourage them.
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Implementation of north-south joint declaration called for
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The vice-chairman of the National
Democratic Front of South Korea issued a statement yesterday on the
threshold of the first anniversary of the publication of the historic June
15 North-South Joint Declaration, Seoul-based Radio Voice of National
Salvation said. He said that leader Kim Jong Il performed immortal exploits
by arranging the Pyongyang meeting and ensuring the declaration was adopted
and published.
��� With the adoption of the declaration the Korean nation could declare
that it would put an end to the distress-torn history of national division
and remain great Kim Il Sung's nation, reunified and prosperous, in the 21st
century, he noted, and went on:
��� Kim Jong Il is the maker of history of reunification and the bright sun
of national reunification who indicated basic principles and ways of solving
the reunification problem and paved the way for national reunification.
��� The statement called upon all the people who value the destiny of the
nation and want reunification of the country to turn out as one in the noble
patriotic struggle to implement the declaration true to the idea and
leadership of Kim Jong Il, the sun of the nation and the lodestar of
national reunification.
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Committee for U.S. troops affairs studies formed in S. Korea
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A Committee for U.S. Troops Affairs
Studies, a juridical organisation in charge of the crimes of the U.S.
troops, was formed in South Korea on June 8, according to Yonhap News from
Seoul. It was said that the committee consisting mainly of 11 lawyers under
the bar association for a democratic society was formed to cope with the
issue of the U.S. troops more organisationally and systematically and work
to revise even the shackling "status of forces agreement".
��� The committee will deal with the destruction of environment, accidents
and all other crimes by the U.S. troops and find out lawsuits against the
U.S. troops to use them as well-grounded materials for the revision of the
"status of forces agreement".
��� Meanwhile, citizens' organisations including the green federation, the
people's action for the revision of the shackling South Korea-U.S. "status
of forces agreement," and the headquarters of the movement against the U.S.
troops' crimes hailed the formation of the committee, saying it will give a
strong impetus to strength in legal struggle including suits against to the
U.S. troops.
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Russian National Day observed
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Russian ambassador to the DPRK Valery
Denisov gave a party at the embassy on June 12 on the occasion of its
National Day. Invited to the party were Ri Kwang Gun, minister of foreign
trade, Ryo Chun Sok, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, and
officials concerned.
��� Speeches were made at the party.
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Dangerous U.S. war moves assailed
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary
denounces the United States for working hard to tighten alliance with Japan.
The commentary says:
��� An agreement on a "new negotiating framework" will be reportedly reached
at the U.S.-Japan summit talks due late June. If a "vice ministerial-level
consultative body" is formed, "negotiations" will take place once in every
2-3 months, in which U.S.-Japan coordination would be strengthened on
various issues from the U.S. "Missile Defense" program to the issue related
to North Korea and others, and the U.S.-Japan alliance get stronger.
��� The commentary observes:
��� Big efforts exerted by the bush administration to strengthen the
alliance with Japan are chiefly aimed to make the best use of the military
and economic potentials of Japan in carrying out the U.S. Asia-Pacific
strategy.
��� The U.S. call for Japan's exercise of the "right to collective
self-defence" is, in essence, designed to draw Japan into a war of
aggression to be started by the U.S. under the signboard of the U.S.-Japan
joint military action.
��� This undisguised call is an interference in the internal affairs of
Japan and an expression of the U.S. dominationist stand from which it
regards Japan as its "protectorate".
��� Nevertheless, the Japanese authorities are going to allow the exercise
of this right, as urged by the U.S. the Japanese government is working in
the direction of legalizing the exercise of this right by making a volt-face
in its position.
��� The Japanese ruling quarters' frantic moves for the exercise of the
"right to collective self-defence" are aimed to justify the participation in
a war of aggression and expand the sphere of operation of the Japanese armed
forces worldwide.
��� It is the invariable design of the Japanese reactionaries to realize
their ambition for reinvasion of Asia with the U.S. backing.
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Etiquette and rites in Korea
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Etiquette and rites are diverse in Korea
called an eastern country of good manners. For Koreans there is strict
etiquette of respecting seniors and remaining dutiful to one's parents.
��� They politely bow to elders and have their heads slightly drooped down
towards their friends or nod to them as a sign of greeting.
��� Traditional Korean rites include wedding ceremony and celebrations of
one's first or sixtieth birthday.
��� Wedding ceremonies usually take place at the houses of the bride and
bridegroom separately. In some cases two families have a joint wedding
ceremony. on that day families, relatives and friends of the newly-wed
couple wish them a happy life, singing, dancing and telling stories.
��� The couple has souvenir photos taken.
��� The custom of monogamy is strictly observed and intermarriage is
prohibited in Korea.
��� Sons and daughters arrange ceremonies on the occasion of sixtieth
birthdays of their parents.
��� On such occasions children present new dresses to their parents and
arrange a feast to congratulate them.
��� It is the common practice for the families to celebrate the birthdays of
their members.
��� A feast is arranged on the first anniversary of a child's birth. that
day, parents prepare a simple table for their child, wishing him or her
happiness.
��� A funeral service usually lasts for 3 days in Korea.
��� Participants in the service dig a grave, place a coffin in it and then
properly cover it with earth. The dead body is also cremated according to
the wishes of the deceased and the bereaved families.
��� Participants in memorial services for the deceased place bunches of
flowers on the graves and observe a moment's silence in memory of the dead.
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U.S. branded as aggressor and plunderer
��� Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun yesterday in a signed lengthy
article denounced the bellicose bush administration for persistently
resorting to adventurous war moves and the policy of military intervention
for world domination. Citing historical facts to prove that the U.S. was an
aggressor and plunderer from the time it came into being, the article noted:
It can be said that the history of U.S. imperialism is that of struggle for
existence under the jungle law.
��� The article continued:
��� The aggressive and predatory nature of U.S. imperialism remains
unchanged and it is becoming more arrogant. "Peace" and "democracy" touted
by it are nothing but a fig leaf to cover up its sinister policy of
aggression.
��� "Progress" and "prosperity" advertised by the U.S. are a product of its
limitless plunder.
��� The U.S. imperialists are neither "friend" of progressive humankind nor
"cooperator" in the efforts for prosperity and development.
��� they only smack of strong smell as aggressors and looters.
��� The U.S. imperialists are the most impudent aggressors and plunderers in
the world.
��� Their nature will never change before their death. if there be any
change for them, it is not a change in their aggressive nature but in their
method of aggression. They are becoming more cunning and malicious.
��� There can be no U.S. imperialism apart from aggression and plunder. As
long as state monopolistic capitalism governs the U.S., the U.S.
imperialists' aggressive and predatory nature will never change.
��� The world people should clearly know this and should not have any
slightest illusion about the U.S. imperialists but hold aloft the banner of
anti-imperialist struggle.
��� The U.S. imperialists are not fabled nor fearful beings.
��� When all anti-imperialist independent forces of the world firmly unite
to wage a stubborn struggle against the U.S. imperialists, they can stop
them from running amuck and foil their strong-arm and hegemonistic policy.
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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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