TODAY'S NEWS (June.22.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS]
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Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit and catfish factory built by servicemen
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Vietnamese embassy officials help Korean farmers
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Preparatory committee of Koreans in Germany formed
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National fine art exhibition opens
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U.S. troop pullout from S. Korea urged
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Anti-U.S. meetings held
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Anecdotes about Kim Il Sung (3)
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Rodong Sinmun on invincible class position
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Medical supplies from Egypt
For Spanish-speaking people
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vocero de minrex de rpdc declara
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construccion de capital de rpdc
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Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit and catfish factory built by servicemen
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Thursday inspected KPA
unit no. 983. He was accompanied by KPA generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae
and Pak Jae Gyong.
��� After hearing a report on the situation from the commander of the unit,
he learned about the performance of its duty and saw soldiers in training.
��� He was greatly satisfied to see all the soldiers firmly prepared
politically and ideologically, in military technique and physically to be
a-match-for-a-hundred fighters capable of reliably defending the socialist
homeland. he set forth highly important tasks which would serve as a
guideline in further increasing the combat capability of the unit.
��� He gave the soldiers of the unit an automatic rifle as a gift and had a
picture taken with them.
��� The next leg of his field guidance was the catfish factory built by KPA
large combined unit no. 567.
��� This modern catfish factory with a total plottage of more than 15,000
square meters will annually produce hundreds of tons of catfish by an
industrial method and thus greatly contribute to improving the soldiers'
diet.
��� Kim Jong Il went round the interior and the exterior of the factory and
acquainted himself in detail with its construction and breeding.
��� He highly praised the unit for its feats, saying that it is, indeed, a
great success that the unit built a modern catfish factory up to world
standards by its own efforts.
��� He spoke highly of the unit's exploits once again, noting that it built
many edifices conducive to the prosperity and development of the country
including the Rimjingang Power Station No. 1 during the "arduous march" and
successfully completed the modern catfish factory by its own efforts.
��� He went round the factory and proposed highly important tasks which
would serve as a guideline in putting breeding on a scientific and intensive
basis to sharply increase the production of freshwater fishes.
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Vietnamese embassy officials help Korean farmers
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- Vietnamese ambassador do Thi Hoa and
embassy officials here Thursday helped members of the Korea-Vietnam
Friendship Jamjin Cooperative Farm in weeding in a maize field. During a
break, they sang and talked with the farmers, deepening friendly feelings.
��� The embassy officials handed aid materials to the farm.
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Preparatory committee of Koreans in Germany formed
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- The society for cooperation among Koreans
in Germany formed a preparatory committee for commemorating Sun's Day, the
birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, and celebrating the birthday of
leader Kim Jong Il on February 16, 2002, in Rudesheim, Germany, on June 12.
Jang Il Jung, chairman of the society, was elected chairman of the
preparatory committee.
��� The committee decided to hold various functions including a meeting and
a photo exhibition.
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National fine art exhibition opens
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- A national fine art exhibition opened on
the occasion of "June 25, Day of Struggle against U.S. Imperialists".
Displayed at the exhibition are paintings depicting the immortal exploits of
President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il including Korean paintings
"Supreme Commander on Height in Flames," "There can be no World without
Korea."
��� Also on display there are oil paintings "For Fatherland" and "Land and
Soldier," which represent mass heroism, ardent patriotism and unyielding
fighting spirit displayed by soldiers of the people's army and people of
Korea during the fatherland liberation war against U.S. imperialist
aggressors, and Korean painting "We will take revenge on brutes thousand
times" and others.
��� Drawing attention of visitors are fine art pieces depicting the
brutality of the U.S. imperialists and posters on the revolutionary spirit
and militant traits of the Korean people's army and people.
��� An opening ceremony took place at the People's Palace of Culture
yesterday.
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U.S. troop pullout from S. Korea urged
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- Pak Kwang Gi, chief of the Pyongyang
mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea, had an interview
with domestic and foreign reporters here yesterday on the threshold of "June
25 day of struggle against the U.S. imperialists." He mentioned about the
issue of the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea, the point of
the present situation.
��� Saying that the U.S. troops in South Korea are an aggression army which
backs the U.S. colonial rule over South Korea by force of arms and tries to
put the whole area of the Korean peninsula under the colonial control
through the war of aggression on the north, he disclosed gi crimes.
��� He called attention to the facts that during the last June 25 war the
U.S. army reduced towns and rural villages to ashes with the indiscriminate
bombing and massacred many innocent people and that it has committed
murderous crimes against the South Korean people. The U.S. is not an "ally
sealed in blood" nor a "friendly nation" of South Korea but the most
outrageous and shameless aggressor and enemy state, he said.
��� The U.S. army is also keen to unleash a war of aggression on the north,
ceaselessly aggravating tensions on the Korean peninsula and an obstacle to
national reunification, the cherished desire of the Korean nation, he said,
and went on:
��� The recent proposal for resumption of the DPRK-U.S. dialogue made by the
Bush administration is not a dialogue aimed to dispel mistrust and
misunderstanding between both sides but a no-dialogue proposal designed to
block negotiations by it proposing issues to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
��� The U.S. troops in South Korea should immediately stop their criminal
atrocities and war moves against the north in South Korea and be withdrawn
at once, taking along their nuclear and other lethal weapons.
��� He expressed the belief that the progressives, political parties,
organizations and international organizations which aspire after and value
sovereignty, independence and social progress would bitterly denounce gi
crimes and provocations to ignite a new war and lift up just voices for the
withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea.
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Anti-U.S. meetings held
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- Meetings to condemn the U.S. and meetings
to vow revenge upon it were held by working people's organizations of Korea
yesterday on the occasion of the "June 25 day of struggle against U.S.
imperialists". A meeting of unionists to condemn the U.S. took place on the
bank of the River Taedong, where "Pueblo", a U.S. imperialist armed spy
ship, is on show.
��� Speakers denounced the U.S. imperialist aggressors for reducing cities
and villages to heaps of ashes with huge armed forces and combat equipment
for three years of the Korean War and murdering innocent people in the most
brutal way in the world history of war.
��� Noting that the U.S. imperialists have turned South Korea into a
man-slaughter house and killed many innocent people, they condemned the U.S.
imperialist aggressors for committing murderous atrocities in the country.
��� A meeting of agricultural workers to vow revenge upon the U.S. was held
by Poku reservoir in Sinchon county, South Hwanghae Provicne. The speakers
said that the U.S. imperialist aggressors massacred 35,000 guiltless
civilians, or a quarter of Sinchon county population, for about 50 days in
the period of the strategic retreat.
��� An anti-U.S. meeting of mothers took place at a valley of chestnut trees
in Wonam-ri of the county. The speakers said that the imperialists took
children off the bosom of their mothers to put them into a store and poured
gasoline over them and burned them to death and fired machine guns and threw
hand-grenades over mothers, killing all of them.
��� The participants in the meetings loudly shouted slogans reflecting their
firm will to take a thousand-fold revenge upon the U.S. imperialist
murderers, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, and speed up the
reunification of the country.
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Anecdotes about Kim Il Sung (3)
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- There is an anecdote about 400 million won
earmarked for geological prospecting. Premier Kim Il Sung met with an
official in charge of copper prospecting in Autumn of Juche 42 (1953).
Copper prospecting started in the northern part of the DPRK from the period
of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953). But the result of prospecting
was not so good. When the official asked for an additional allocation of 100
million won, the premier said that the state would additionally spend 400
million won for the job. And he added that if copper deposit was not found
even after spending all the money, prospecting workers had better erect a
monument inscribed with letters "younger generations, don't touch here as
there is no copper deposit here " so that coming generations might not
suffer any loss though prospecting in those times might bring losses. the
nation's leading copper mine made its appearance in this area later.
��� There is also an anecdote about the request made to a stubborn fellow.
��� An important meeting was held in summer of Juche 46 (1957), presided
over by premier Kim Il Sung.
��� When the meeting was about to close, an official of the mine requested
the premier to provide the mine with trucks for supply service.
��� As regards this, the premier told him to transport supplies by use of
refrigerator Waggons according to a decision of the cabinet.
��� The official, however, begged the premier to supply several trucks,
explaining the conditions of the mine. on hearing this, the premier with a
smile on his face said:
��� You insist that I violate the law. But even the premier cannot be above
the law of the state.
��� The last anecdote in this story is about 400,000 bricks.
��� Kim Il Sung visited the reconstruction site of the Pyongyang Textile
Mill shortly after the end of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953). At
that time officials told him that 400,000 bricks were needed to finish the
reconstruction as early as possible.
��� Lost in thought for a while, the premier asked the commander of the unit
of the Korean People's Army mobilized for the reconstruction. The premier
asked him how many soldiers were participating in the reconstruction, how
many bricks could be if a soldier recovers 5 old bricks and how many if each
does 10. Not only the officer answering the questions but officials were
struck with admiration at the questions. By putting just three questions the
premier found a solution to the issue of 400,000 bricks.
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Rodong Sinmun on invincible class position
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- The more vicious the imperialists' moves
to stifle socialism of Korean style become, the more furious the class
hatred of the Korean people for them grows and the more invincible the class
position of the Korean revolution becomes, says Rodong Sinmun today in a
signed article. Recalling that the class position of the Korean revolution
has been steadily cemented in the struggle to defend the banner of
socialism, the article goes on:
��� The Korean people are greatly proud of achieving a brilliant victory in
defending socialism against the imperialists in the 20th century with high
class self-respect and sense of superiority and firm faith in socialism.
��� The Korean people have more firmly consolidated their class position
through the struggle to devotedly defend the leader.
��� The firm principle with no slightest concession or forgiveness in
defending the authority and exploits of the leader and the uncompromising
spirit of fighting fearless of death in defence of his idea and line are
prevailing in our revolutionary ranks.
��� The Korean people have further consolidated the socialist class position
as firm as a rock through the struggle to resolutely smash the ideological
and cultural poisoning of the imperialists.
��� The uncompromising spirit of struggle against the imperialists and class
preparedness are growing firmer among the Korean people. This is basic
guarantee which makes it possible to display the political and ideological
might of our revolutionary ranks.
��� The Korean people are consolidating their class position through the
struggle to step up socialist economic construction.
��� They are giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system in
our country and consolidating the class position as firm as an iron wall
through the struggle to more firmly build the national economic power
corresponding with the era of army-first politics.
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Medical supplies from Egypt
��� Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- The DPRK received medical supplies sent by
the Red Crescent Society of Egypt in humanitarian aid. The supplies were
handed by Ahmed Fawzi, charge d'affaires ad interim of Egypt to the DPRK, to
a field concerned on June 2
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vocero de minrex de rpdc declara
��� pyongyang, 22 de febrero (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de
relaciones exteriores de la republica popular democratica de corea hizo
publica ayer una declaracion oral concerniente a la politica de la nueva
administracion de ee.uu. sobre corea. el texto completo de la declaracion
oral es el siguiente:
��� ahora en los ee.uu. en torno al problema de la politica sobre corea se
manifiestan diversos criterios a los cuales no podemos menos que tratar con
seriedad.
��� los equipos de diplomacia y seguridad de la nueva administracion de
ee.uu. vociferan ruidosamente de tomar la "postura de intransigencia" con
respecto a la rpdc. al respecto dijeron: la anterior administracion de
clinton andaba inducida por norcorea y se limitaba a dar provecho a esta: la
nueva administracion a diferencia de la anterior practicara la "politica de
engrane" y perseguira el "acercamiento por etapas" y la "reciprocidad
condicional y estricta".
��� esto nos excita siendo nueva revelacion de la intencion agresiva y
bandidesca de ee.uu. de doblegar con el metodo de "fuerza" nuestra voluntad
luego de volcar las relaciones rpdc-ee.uu. del periodo anterior encaminadas
a la reconciliacion, la cooperacion y la mejora de vinculos de conformidad
con la tendencia internacional a la paz y la estabilidad.
��� si esto se convierte en la posicion oficial de la nueva administracion
de ee.uu. sobre la rpdc la cuestion sera muy critica.
��� en el pasado las partes de la rpdc y los ee.uu. acordaron a traves del
acuerdo basico de ginebra y el comunicado conjunto de nueva york eliminar
las fuentes de la desconfianza, la confrontacion y el malentendido de largo
tiempo y normalizar las relaciones y asi ambas partes asumen la obligacion
de eliminar las relaciones hostiles, fomentar la confianza y disipar la
preocupacion mutua.
��� sin embargo, los ee.uu. hablan del "condicionamiento" y el "acercamiento
por etapas". en fin esto quiere decir que ee.uu. accedera a la mejora de sus
relaciones con la rpdc y hara lo que debe hacer solo cuando esta tome
iniciativa.
��� en otra palabra ee.uu. exige que seamos primeros en desarmarnos por
completo. es muy estupida la idea de que esta demanda suya seria aceptada
por la rpdc.
��� solo cuando a traves de sus medidas de accion para eliminar
efectivamente las relaciones hostiles ee.uu. de garantia de que la seguridad
de la rpdc no se ve amenazada, podremos eliminar la preocupacion de los
ee.uu. por la seguridad.
��� esta es la invariable posicion de la rpdc.
��� en cuanto a la "reciprocidad" de que habla ee.uu. este pais no nos dio
nada gratuitamente sino nos ocasiono danos.
��� tambien el acuerdo basico rpdc-ee.uu. esta asegurado estrictamente por
las medidas de accion simultanea de ambas partes y segun este documento la
rpdc tiene hasta la fecha congeladas las instalaciones nucleares destinadas
a la produccion de electricidad.
��� pero ee.uu. no ha cumplido debidamente su obligacion ocasionandonos
hasta la fecha enormes perdidas.
��� no se puede hablar definidamente hasta cuando se prolongara la
construccion de reactores de agua ligera cuya terminacion fue prevista hasta
el ano 2003. no se ha presentado tampoco el programa de suministro de aceite
pesado para el nuevo ano fiscal que se inicio el 22 de octubre del 2000.
��� ee.uu. debe recompensar la perdida de energia electrica que ha sufrido
la rpdc debido a la dilacion de la construccion de reactores de agua ligera.
��� si ee.uu. no cumple sinceramente el acuerdo basico como hasta la fecha
no es necesario que sigamos aferrandonos a este documento. consideramos que
es insignificante la existencia del organismo del desarrollo de energia en
la peninsula coreana porque no se sabe hasta cuando continuara la
construccion de reactores de agua ligera.
��� ee.uu. debe saber claramente que la rpdc no puede esperar
indefinidamente.
��� es logica de bandido tambien la intencion de perseguir el
establecimiento del "sistema de defensa nacional de misil" a fin de detener
la "amenaza de misil" de la rpdc al calificar a esta de "estado pillastre"
sin librarse del antiguo modo de pensar hasta hoy que acogio el nuevo siglo
de la autentica paz tras despedir el siglo 20 manchado de sangre por la
guerra y el enfrentamiento.
��� durante el periodo pasado adelantamos proyectos racionales como el de
interrumpir el lanzamiento de misil de largo alcance mientras se
desarrollaran negociaciones de este respecto al tomar en cuenta la alegacion
de que el misil de la rpdc para la autodefensa constituye amenaza a los
ee.uu.
��� nuestra parte le ha formulado en reiteradas ocasiones la proposicion
razonable de que si el lanzamiento de satelite de la rpdc que no pasa de ser
un puro desarrollo cientifico-tecnico con fines pacificos constituye un
problema para la seguridad de los ee.uu. podremos aceptar el lanzamiento por
procuracion y de que puesto que la exportacion de misil de la rpdc es para
ganar divisas, mientras se asegure la recompensacion de divisas
correspondientes podremos cesar en esta transaccion.
��� pero la nueva administracion de ee.uu. no quiere conocer con seriedad de
este respecto.
��� no estaremos restringidos por nuestra proposicion concerniente al
problema de misil adelantada durante el mandato de la administracion
anterior porque no existe ningun acuerdo entre la rpdc y los ee.uu.
��� decidimos interrumpir el lanzamiento del misil de largo alcance mientras
se desarrollen las negociaciones de este particular, pero no podremos
prolongar indefinidamente el cese de este lanzamiento.
��� no podremos estar indiferentes ante las cosas que frenan solo el
desarrollo cientifico-tecnico de la rpdc.
��� siempre estamos listos para todos los casos.
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construccion de capital de rpdc
��� pyongyang, 22 de febrero (atcc) -- se promueve vigorosamente la
construccion para renovar la fisonomia de pyongyang, capital de la republica
popular democratica de corea. en un corto espacio de tiempo a partir de este
ano se levantaran decenas de miles de viviendas, escuelas, jardines
infantiles, casas- cuna y redes de comercio y otros servicios publicos en
las calles centricas de la ciudad, el reparto thong-il que es la puerta sur
de la capital, alrededores de la carretera chongnyon yongung de mas de 40
kilometros y cercanias de la ciudad.
��� todos los edificios se construiran segun proyectos trazados comodamente
para la vida de los habitantes y adecuados al gusto de la epoca.
��� tambien, se construiran, se reconstruiran y se modernizaran las bases
productoras de refresco, carne y huevos que contribuiran a la vida de los
capitalinos.
��� se construyen la fabrica de cerveza taedonggang con capacidad productiva
anual de decenas de miles de kilolitros y la fabrica de siluro con un area
arquitectonica total de mas de 15 000 metros cuadrados
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