From: "Juche 86" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:33:56 +0100 To: "Juche Insurrection" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Juche Insurrection] Novosti: August 9 2001 NOVOSTI (Russian Information Agency) http://www.rian.ru/rian/intro.cfm August 9th 2001 ----------------- {{{Contents}}} 1) VISITS TO MUSEUMS TO DOMINATE KIM JONG-IL'S UNOFFICIAL AGENDA IN MOSCOW 2) KIM VISITS RUSSIA: PROS AND CONS 3) VLADIMIR PUTIN AND NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-IL HAVE BRIEF MEETING IN KREMLIN ON WEDNESDAY 4) RUSSIAN VICE PREMIER: CONCRETE CONTRACTS WERE NOT DISCUSSED DURING KIM JONG-IL'S VISIT TO RUSSIA 5) ONLY A FEW TV CHANNELS WILL BE ALLOWED TO MAKE FOOTAGES OF KIM JONG IL'S STAY IN NOVOSIBIRSK 6) KIM JONG-IL LEAVES MOSCOW BY SPECIAL TRAIN 7) NORTH KOREAN LEADER'S TRAIN IS NOT THREATENED WITH DELAY IN MARITIME TERRITORY WHERE CYCLONE WASHED AWAY TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD SECTOR 8) DPRK LEADER KIM JONG-IL CANCELLED VISIT TO STATE TRETYAKOV GALLERY 1) VISITS TO MUSEUMS TO DOMINATE KIM JONG-IL'S UNOFFICIAL AGENDA IN MOSCOW ================================================= MOSCOW, August 8, 2001 /from a RIA Novosti correspondent/ -- On Wednesday, visits to museums will take the greater part of the unofficial programme of Kim Jong-il's stay in Moscow. As is expected, the North Korean leader will visit the Diamond Fund Exhibition, the Armoury of the Moscow Kremlin and the Tretyakov Picture Gallery (the greatest collection of Russian art). Possibly, Kim Jong-il will make a sight-seeing tour of the city in a car. In the evening, at six o'clock, Moscow time, the distinguished guest will leave the capital; his special train will set off from the Yaroslavsky station to Pyongyang along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Since the official part of the visit is over, the distinguished guest will stay not in the Kremlin's guest residence where he lived on August 3-5, but in the Metropol Hotel, one of the most prestigious hotels in Moscow. As RIA Novosti was told in the administration of the Metropol Hotel, Kim Jong-il will stay at the presidential apartment of more than 90 square metres which is fitted out with a satellite television, means of communication and a reliable security system. The cost of this de-luxe three-room presidential apartment is $2,500 a day. The North Korean leader crossed the Russian border in the area of the Hasan Station, Maritime Territory, on July 26, and after a nine-day trip along the Trans-Siberian Railway, he arrived at the Yaroslavsky Railway Station late in the evening on August 3. During his stay in Russia, the leader of the DPRK held negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. His last long stop in the territory of Russia will be in Novosibirsk. As is expected, the North Korean leader will arrive home on about August 20. 2) KIM VISITS RUSSIA: PROS AND CONS ================================= MOSCOW, August 8 /From Zakhar Tomilchenko, RIA Novosti analyst/ - Stations blocked off, dozens of suburban trains cancelled and interurban desperately behind schedule, and lots of other problems set Russian nerves on edge with Kim Jong-il's railway journey across the country. Diplomats and political activists interviewed by RIA Novosti are far more optimistic than the people-in-the-street about the North Korean leader's visit. They think Moscow gained with it, even despite all headaches with unprecedented safety measures on which North Korea had insisted. Though it encounters many problems and stumbling-blocks, an inter-Korean dialogue is going on, and Russia has to keep abreast with the developments if it is to retain influence on the Koreas, and on the entire Northeast Asia, for that matter, point out diplomats. Next, Marshal Kim's reception proves that Moscow is willing to encourage Pyongyang's contacts with the world, in which both sides are interested. Such contacts promote predictable and understandable North Korean policies, and help to bring down tensions bred by the exaggeratedly secretive Pyongyang and by Western phobias over the North Korean missile programme, a Russian diplomatic officer said to RIA Novosti. He highlighted Marshal Kim's indicative reassurance that his country would cling to its ballistic missile test moratorium up to 2003. A declaration signed in Moscow to sum up his visit describes the missile programme as peace-oriented, and denies dangers it offers to other countries--provided they reckon with North Korean sovereignty. North Korea cannot avoid domestic political changes through which many countries came within the last ten years in all parts of the world, experts on Asia said to our reporters. Such changes are often explosive in totalitarian countries, and need influences from without to proceed on civilised lines. What Russia is doing in that field certainly pursues not only its own or North Korean but global interests, said our interviewees. A simple fact shows that Moscow efforts are not wasted, point out diplomats. As he was starting his trip across Russia, Kim Jong-il conspicuously avoided contacts with newsmen, and was accordingly portrayed as a sinister shadow on an endless silent roam of his armoured train. As soon as the guest reached Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russian television coverage of his sojourn became more extensive and acquired a human touch as Kim went sightseeing, visited industrial companies, mixed with local people, cracked jokes, and smiled to newsmen at St. Pete's Moscow railway station. He went so far in his benevolence as to utter a few faltering Russian phrases. Russia is maintaining economic contacts with North Korea to offer its spectacular research achievements and technological facilities and knowhow in exchange for North Korean workforce. This partnership not only benefits the two but promotes Russian links with South Korea, which leads third countries as they invest in Moscow-Pyongyang ties, experts say emphatically. Russia is involved in efforts to revive inter-Korean railway transport, severed fifty years ago. Economic contacts are more impressive there than anywhere else, say our informed interviewees. If the Transsiberian Rail becomes part of the project after Marshal Kim travels it, the railway will offer passenger trips and freight deliveries from Europe to South Korea on an ambitious low-cost project which has earned approval at many national tops. Close on seventy industrial projects were implemented in North Korea with Soviet assistance. As far as RIA Novosti knows, Moscow and Pyongyang agreed to update them with capital inflow from third countries, South Korea being no exception. Thermal power plants require more urgent improvements than any other projects, what with bad wear and tear. Investment arrangements will be settled with an account for a Soviet debt to South Korea, which Russia inherits as the USSR's legal successor. A part of the debt can be paid in kind with updating efforts on North Korean-based enterprises built with Soviet aid. The companies will take part in joint South-North ventures with Russian updating outlays accounted for as the debt is paid. Moscow and Seoul are now debating the prospective arrangement. Russia is partner to an ambitious and expensive project for a mainline from the Kovykta gasfield in Siberia's Irkutsk Region to South Korea via China and North Korea. To take many years and US$11 billion, the project did not come for detailed discussion while Kim Jong-il was in Moscow as it concerned third countries. North Korea's leader merely confirmed that his country stood to gain by the project. 3) VLADIMIR PUTIN AND NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-IL HAVE BRIEF MEETING IN KREMLIN ON WEDNESDAY ============================================== MOSCOW, August 8. /RIA Novosti correspondent/. Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had a brief meeting in the Kremlin on Wednesday, RIA Novosti was told in the presidential press-service. The conversation took place before Kim departed from Moscow. 4) RUSSIAN VICE PREMIER: CONCRETE CONTRACTS WERE NOT DISCUSSED DURING KIM JONG-IL'S VISIT TO RUSSIA =============================================== MOSCOW, August 8, 2001. /From Alla Isayeva, RIA Novosti correspondent/. Vice Premier Ilya Klebanov announced to journalists on Wednesday that no bilateral contracts in military technical or power engineering spheres were discussed during the visit to Russia of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. According to Klebanov, Kim Jong-il was shown the latest achievements and possibilities of Russian specialists at the defence complex and space industry plants. The Deputy Premier remarked that the North Korean leader said he would decide on the directions of bilateral cooperation development on the basis of what he had seen. Ilya Klebanov said that North Korea scares many people in the world but, according to him, Russia considers that it is necessary "to cooperate and not to be scared". According to him, this will promote collective security consolidation and enhancement of joint responsibility. Klebanov said now the Russian side is waiting for the end of the year when the regular Russian-Korean intergovernmental commission meeting will be held and decisions on the concrete cooperation prospects will be probably taken. 5) ONLY A FEW TV CHANNELS WILL BE ALLOWED TO MAKE FOOTAGES OF KIM JONG IL'S STAY IN NOVOSIBIRSK ========================================== NOVOSIBIRSK, August 8, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Maria Gavrilova/--Only a few TV channels will be allowed to make footages of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his stay in Novosibirsk, reports the press service of the Novosibirsk regional administration, which says the list of channels has not been drawn up yet. No representatives of printed media will be allowed near the North Korean delegation. The North Korean leader and his entourage, which comprises from 90 to 100 officials, are expected to stay in Novosibirsk for 24 hours. It will be Kim's last prolonged stopover in Russia on his way home. Kim's armoured train is due at the Novosibirsk Glavny railway station on August 11 at 7:00 Moscow time. Part of the Korean delegation arrives in Novosibirsk on Wednesday to reconcile the program of the high guest's visit, which will probably include a meeting with Governor of the Novosibirsk region Viktor Tolokonsky and trips to the Science Town of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chkalov aircraft assembly association and the Railway Transport Academy. It is still unclear if Kim will meet with representatives of the local Korean diaspora and relatives of Yakov Novichenko, who is known to have saved the life of his father Kim Il Sung back in 1946. During a 20-minute stopover in Novosibirsk on his way to Moscow on July 31, Kim didn't show up on the platform where Novichenko's widow and children stood waiting for him but asked that a trunk with presents be handed over to them. 6) KIM JONG-IL LEAVES MOSCOW BY SPECIAL TRAIN ============================================ MOSCOW, August 8. /RIA Novosti/ - Kim Jong-il left Moscow by special train, 18.03. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, other officials of the host country, and North Korean ambassadorial officers saw him off at the Yaroslavl railway terminus. Accompanying the North Korean leader were his bodyguards and three Russian security men with automatics. 7) NORTH KOREAN LEADER'S TRAIN IS NOT THREATENED WITH DELAY IN MARITIME TERRITORY WHERE CYCLONE WASHED AWAY TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD SECTOR =============================================== VLADIVOSTOK, August 8, 2001. / From Larisa Beloivan, RIA Novosti correspondent /. North Korean leader's train is not threatened with delay in the maritime territory (the Russian Far East) where the cyclone washed away a sector of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. It was explained to RIA Novosti in Vladivostok department of the Far East railroad that the main line was not seriously damaged by torrential rains up to Ussuriysk and Kim Jong-il's train will turn further to the direction of Hasan, the station on the Korean border. By now the traffic is halted in the Sedanka station sector in the environs of Vladivostok. The bridge was washed away there and 200 workers are repairing it now. 8) DPRK LEADER KIM JONG-IL CANCELLED VISIT TO STATE TRETYAKOV GALLERY ========================================================= MOSCOW, August 8, 2001 /from RIA Novosti correspondent Kristina Rodriges/ -- DPRK leader Kim Jong-Il cancelled Wednesday his visit to the Tretyakov Picture Gallery in the Russian capital. According to informed sources, the North Korean leader will head for the Yaroslavski railway station straight from his room in the Moscow Metropol Hotel. At 6 p.m., Moscow time, his bullet proof train will start back to Pyongyang. The Great Leader will make his last stop in Russia in Novosibirsk. Kim Jong-Il is expected to return to his motherland in the end of the second decade of August. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
