From: "Juche 86" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:13:28 +0100 To: "Juche Insurrection" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Juche Insurrection] Novosti (RIA) Aug 6th NOVOSTI (Russian Informationa Agency) - August 6th 2001 ========================================== http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm 1) NORTH KOREAN LEADER DROPS IN AT BEER BREWERY IN ST. PETE 2) NORTH KOREAN LEADER TREATED TO "LA SYLPHIDE" AT MARIINSKY THEATER 3) KIM OFFERS LENINGRAD METALWORKING PLANT ORDER IN NORTH KOREAN POWER INDUSTRY REVAMP 4) KIM WALKS SILENT AROUND ST. PETE'S OLD FORTRESS 5) KIM JONG-IL TO STOP IN NOVOSIBIRSK FOR 24 HOURS ON HIS WAY HOME 6) KIM JONG IL ADMIRES THE FINE CONDITION OF THE HERMITAGE 7) KIM CHONG-IL'S VISIT TO SAINT PETERSBURG INCLUDES INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES 8) NORTH KOREAN LEADER HAS INTERNET ACCESS EVEN ON THE TRAIN 9) PETERSBURG OFFERS NORTH KOREA PROJECTS OF INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION 10) USA EXPECTS PYONGYANG TO RESUME TALKS WITH WASHINGTON AFTER KIM JONG IL'S VISIT TO MOSCOW 11) KIM JONG-IL CHANGES ST.PETERSBURG AGENDA 12) KIM JONG IL ARRIVES IN ST. PETERSBURG 13) KIM JONG-IL LEAVES FOR ST. PETERSBURG FROM THE LENINGRADSKY RAILWAY STATION, IN HIS SPECIAL TRAIN 1) NORTH KOREAN LEADER DROPS IN AT BEER BREWERY IN ST. PETE ST. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 6, RIA NOVOSTI - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, currently on a visit to Russia, today dropped in at the Baltika beer brewery in St. Petersburg, only to stay there four times as much time as had been initially planned. RIA Novosti was told by Baltika spokespeople that instead of the planned 20 minutes, the North Korean leader and his entourage spent an hour-and-a-half at the facility. During his tour of Baltika, with Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev as his guide, Kim Jong-il showed a keen interest in the techniques and the equipment used in the process of making beer. The North Korean leader said that the construction of several beer breweries is planned in his country and that British equipment will be purchased for them. Kim Jong-il said that he would like Baltika to act as a consultant to Korean counterparts, reports the brewery's press service. He also expressed his support for Baltika's plans to build a production facility in Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East. "You will be closer to us this way," he added. On tasting several beer varieties, the North Korean leader distinguished Parnas and Baltika No. 7, revealed company spokespeople. 2) NORTH KOREAN LEADER TREATED TO "LA SYLPHIDE" AT MARIINSKY THEATER ST. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 6. /From RIA Novosti's Karina Nasonova/ - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, now in St. Petersburg, has been invited tonight to the Mariinsky Theater to see a production of the ballet "La Sylphide." However, no extraordinary security measures have been taken in connection with the foreign VIP guest's visit, say theater administrators. The only inconvenience that the general public has to put up with tonight is entering the building through metal detectors. Despite the North Korean leader's appearance at the Mariinsky Theater, tickets for Monday's performance were freely accessible at its box office. The Mariinsky administration is hopeful that Kim Jong-il will appreciate and enjoy their "La Sylphide." 3) KIM OFFERS LENINGRAD METALWORKING PLANT ORDER IN NORTH KOREAN POWER INDUSTRY REVAMP ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. /Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, RIA Novosti correspondent/. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il believes the Leningrad Metalworking Plant, or LMZ, could join other Russian companies handling his order to revamp North Korea's power industry, AO LMZ's engineering director Vladimir Kondratyev told RIA Novosti after Kim Jong-il visited the plant's rotor facility Monday. According to Kondratyev, Kim Jong-il was told of the range of products LMZ was prepared to sell to North Korea. Also, the North Korean leader was shown the comment his father had written in the company's Guests of Honor book back in 1961. Kim Jong-il, too, signed the book and promised to enlarge on the comment during his next visit to the plant. Kondratyev disclosed the North Korean leader expects to visit the plant again "on a return trip" from his upcoming European tour. Kim Jong-il put off the discussion of specific joint projects LMZ could take part in until the next visit. Maria Aleyeva, a spokeswoman for the Silovye Mashiny corporation, told RIA Novosti the North Korean leader was most interested in manufacturing turbines for hydroelectric and nuclear power plants during the visit to LMZ. 4) KIM WALKS SILENT AROUND ST. PETE'S OLD FORTRESS ST. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 6. /From RIA Novosti's Anna Novak/ - Divers made painstaking search of the Neva bottom and Sts. Peter and Paul's Fortress moorage before Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader, came to the site after a riverboat trip. Bad weather made Marshal Kim cancel a trip to the Piskarev memorial cemetery, morning. Now, he walked about in the rain, undaunted, under a huge blue umbrella a bodyguard was holding for him, says Boris Arakcheyev, director of St. Petersburg's local history museum, who accompanied the visitor on his informative outing. The eminent sightseer climbed the Naryshkin bastion to admire a panorama of the Neva, opening from there, and examine an old cannon which makes a shot every noon on a custom established the day the city was founded. The guest of honour ignored the Mint to go straight to Sts. Peter and Paul's Cathedral and see the graves of Peter the Great, Russia's first Emperor, and Nicholas II, the last. He heard out a guide's story of the cathedral and its decor. Kim Jong-il spent half an hour in the fortress museum never to utter a word, and left it ten minutes past 5 pm by car, accompanied by a motorcade, says Mr. Arakcheyev. Sts. Peter and Paul's Fortress is the oldest architectural ensemble of St. Petersburg. Peter the Great laid its foundation stone in 1703 5) KIM JONG-IL TO STOP IN NOVOSIBIRSK FOR 24 HOURS ON HIS WAY HOME NOVOSIBIRSK, AUGUST 6, 2001. /RIA NOVOSTI/. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who is on a visit to Russia will stop on his way back to Pyongyang in Novosibirsk, a large industrial and scientific center in West Siberia, for 24 hours. The Novosibirsk region administration informed RIA Novosti that the special train with the North Korean delegation is to arrive there August 11. According to preliminary data, the high-ranking guest will be offered to visit the Nuclear Physics Institute, an aviation enterprise and the Railway Transport Academy, but the program will be coordinated with North Korean representatives. RIA Novosti was informed that journalists will again be prohibited to cover the North Korean leader's visit to this city, as it was July 31, when on its way to Moscow Kim Jong-il's train made a 20-minute stop in Novosibirsk. However, there was almost nothing to cover then - the North Korean leader did not even get off the train. 6) KIM JONG IL ADMIRES THE FINE CONDITION OF THE HERMITAGE ST.PETERSBURG, August 6./RIA Novosti corr. Anna Novak/. The North Korean leader Kim Jong Il who personally supervises the development of culture and arts in his country was enraptured by the fine state of the Hermitage, the museum's press service reported to RIA Novosti. During the excursion Kim Jong Il visited those very halls where he had first been with his father Kim Il Song in 1959. Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage, one of the world's largest historic and arts museum, showed to the North Korean leader the halls that have been recently restored. As the Hermitage press service noted, Kim Jong Il was deeply impressed by the Throne hall opened after restoration two years ago and the Malachite hall where the restoration of the parquet was completed several days before. The North Korean leader also visited the Italian and the Spanish halls. The Hermitage collections are situated in the Russian emperors' former main residence - the Winter Garden. At 12 PM local time Kim Jong Il went out to the balcony of the Pavilion hall to enjoy the sight on the Neva river and the ensemble of Peter and Paul fortress founded by Peter I in 1703 and to hear the famous shot fired from the gun of the fortress and marking the noon. The excursion of the North Korean leader in the museum lasted for an hour. Kim John Il left his record in the honourable guests' book. 7) KIM CHONG-IL'S VISIT TO SAINT PETERSBURG INCLUDES INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. From RIA Novosti. Correspondent Vyacheslav Kalashnikov. During his time in Saint Petersburg, the North Korean leader will visit large industrial enterprises. The acting director of the AO "Leningrad Metal Works" (LMZ) Valeriy Kondratiev told RIA Novosti that on Monday Kim Chong-Il will meet LMZ's administration. The North Korean leader will hear about the history of the plant and its products; he will see a book featuring signatures of the plant's celebrated visitors. His father Kim Il-Sung signed this book when he visited St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) in 1961. Kim Chong-Il will also visit the rotor workshop where 1000-MW turbines for the Busher nuclear power plant in Iran are produced. According to Valeriy Kondratiev, only two 105-MW hydroturbines were produced for North Korea by his plant. The order was placed in 1955. On Tuesday morning Kim Chong-Il will visit OAO "Kirov plant" that manufactures "Kirovets" tractors. 8) NORTH KOREAN LEADER HAS INTERNET ACCESS EVEN ON THE TRAIN MOSCOW, August 6. From RIA Novosti. Correspondent Alexey Berezin./ Kim Chong-il is an active Internet user. A Russian passenger on the same special train with Kim Chong-il told RIA Novosti that during his trip to Russia the Korean Leader stayed on the Web. The train is equipped with a GPS among other high-tech devices. The carriage with the North Korean leader features a large electronic map showing the train's route. Electrical power comes from the second carriage that has a power-generating unit. The first carriage hosts the Russian delegation, including the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern federal district of Russia Konstantin Pulikovskiy who accompanies the visitor. The carriage that is also a garage is located in the middle of the train. Even thought its sides are doors that go up, it looks just like any other carriage. The service personnel occupy the last two carriages. The Russian passenger said that the trip has been uneventful with one exception: when the train was passing the lake Khasan kids threw a stone into a window and broke it. A bulletproof window behind the broken one stayed intact. 9) PETERSBURG OFFERS NORTH KOREA PROJECTS OF INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION SAINT PETERSBURG, August 6, RIA Novosti correspondent - The Russian "northern capital," Petersburg, offers projects of industrial cooperation to North Korea. They were in the centre of attention of the conversation between the city governor Vladimir Yakovlev and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il which took place on Monday in Petersburg. As was stated by Yakovlev, Petersburg is ready to offer the DPRK the projects in the sphere of the alternative power industry, ship-building, instrument-making industry and other industries of the city. Apart from that, the higher educational establishments of Petersburg are ready to accept students from the DPRK. In the conclusion of the conversation the governor proposed to organise guest performances in Pyongyang of the Petersburg ballet with a special programme - Stars of the Petersburg Ballet. This programme has never been shown in Asia. 10) USA EXPECTS PYONGYANG TO RESUME TALKS WITH WASHINGTON AFTER KIM JONG IL'S VISIT TO MOSCOW WASHINGTON, August 6, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Arkady Orlov/--George W.Bush's administration is eager to resume talks with the North Korean government, especially those related to the North Korean missile program. This accounts for the States' interest in Kim Jong Il's visit to Russia, reports the Monday issue of the US News and World Report weekly. Citing diplomatic sources in Washington, the magazine points out that the North Korean leader might have travelled to Russia to consult about resumption of a dialogue with South Korea and Bush's proposal to resume talks with the USA. North Korea may hold similar consultations with its other ally -- China -- during the September visit to Chinese Chairman Jiang Zemin to Pyongyang. After that, North Korea may finally resume talks with the USA, stresses the weekly. 11) KIM JONG-IL CHANGES ST.PETERSBURG AGENDA ST. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 6, 2001. /From RIA Novosti Correspondents Dina Danilova and Nadezhda Kartseva/ -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has put off his Monday visit to the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg. RIA Novosti was told that the change was caused by rainy weather. RIA Novosti learned from the Memorial Museum of the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery (place of burial of victims of the German Nazi troops' siege of Leningrad in 1941-1944) that sources close to the North Korean leader do not exclude that he might visit the memorial on Tuesday. Kim Jong-il is staying in a luxury suite at the Sheraton Nevksy Palace Hotel. RIA Novosti was told by the hotel administration that among the people who stayed in that suite in the 8 years of its existence were Princess Margaret, sister of the British Queen, American film actress Jane Fonda, American media tycoon Ted Turner, famous Russian musicians Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya, as well as British singer Sting. At noon local time Kim Jong-il is expected at the Hermitage, which is one of the world's biggest historical art museums. After the excursion round the Hermitage he will meet with governor of the city Vladimir Yakovlev. Kim Jong-il arrived in St. Petersburg from Moscow by special train on Monday. 12) KIM JONG IL ARRIVES IN ST. PETERSBURG ST. PETERSBURG, August 6, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Nadezhda Kartseva/--Visiting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived in St. Petersburg at 9:00 Moscow time on Monday to familiarize himself with local industry, works of art and places of interest. The track that St. Petersburg's Moskovsky terminal prepared for Kim's armoured train was flanked by two other trains. Suburban train service was stopped until 10:00. St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev and presidential plenipotentiary to the Northwestern Federal District Viktor Cherkesov met the high guest on the platform. According to RIA Novosti's information, Kim's immediate plan is to visit the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery and lay flowers to the Motherland Monument by the graves of almost 500,000 victims of Leningrad's fascist blockade of 1941-1944. Later on, the North Korean leader will pay a visit to the Hermitage, known as one of the world's largest historical and art museums, and view the works of art and the interior design of the Winter Palace, the Russian tsarist residence that houses the Hermitage collection. Other events on Kim's St. Petersburg schedule include visits to the city's industrial giants -- the Leningrad Metal Works and the Kirov plant -- and a trip to the Mariinsky Theatre to watch La Sylphide. 13) KIM JONG-IL LEAVES FOR ST. PETERSBURG FROM THE LENINGRADSKY RAILWAY STATION, IN HIS SPECIAL TRAIN MOSCOW, August 6, 2001 /from RIA Novosti correspondent Christina Rodrigues/ -- DPRK leader Kim Jong-il, who is on an official visit to Russia, left for St. Petersburg on Sunday. As a RIA Novosti correspondent reports, the train of the North Korean leader set off from the Leningradsky Railway Station on Sunday at 22:55, Moscow time. Kim Jong-il was accompanied by three submachine gunners to his train. At the railway station the DPRK leader was seen off by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandr Losyukov and other officials. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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