From: "Juche 86" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:44:24 +0100 To: "Juche Insurrection" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Juche Insurrection] Novosti: 14 August 2001 NOVOSTI - Russian Information Agency August 14 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1) TRANSPORT POLICE REFUTES REPORTS OF SOME MASS MEDIA THAT A MAN WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY NORTH KOREAN LEADER'S SPECIAL TRAIN 2) KIM JONG-IL GIVES RECEPTION TO MARK KOREA'S LIBERATION FROM JAPANESE COLONIAL DOMINATION IN TRAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1) TRANSPORT POLICE REFUTES REPORTS OF SOME MASS MEDIA THAT A MAN WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY NORTH KOREAN LEADER'S SPECIAL TRAIN IRKUTSK, August 14, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Alexander Batalin/ -- The transport police of the Irkutsk Region (Siberia) has refuted reports spread by some mass media that a local resident had been knocked down by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's special train. The RIA Novosti correspondent learned from the Interior Affairs transport department of Irkutsk Region that the man was knocked down not by the armoured train, but the shunting locomotive that followed it. The accident took place on Monday at about 23 o'clock local time at Meget station some 30 km from Irkutsk soon after the special train passed through the station. When crossing over the railway track Alexander Babich, 52-year-old worker of a local hardware plant, was knocked down by the locomotive that followed the special train and died on the spot. The Interior Ministry is specifying all the details of the accident. No criminal case has as yet been opened on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 2) KIM JONG-IL GIVES RECEPTION TO MARK KOREA'S LIBERATION FROM JAPANESE COLONIAL DOMINATION IN TRAIN KHABAROVSK, AUGUST 14, 2001. /From RIA Novosti Correspondent Yevgeny Bugayenko/ North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is giving a gala reception in his train to mark the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial domination. RIA Novosti learned from the apparatus of the Russian President's plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District that Kim Jong-il had invited members of the Russian delegation led by Konstantin Pulikovsky, the Russian President's plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, to the reception. The celebration and gala reception are held in the Korean international government train which is on its way from Moscow to Hasan (a railway station in Primorye Territory on the North Korean border). Observers note that this is the first time in the history of North Korea that the country's leader is marking the Anniversary of Liberation abroad. In connection with the Korean national holiday marked on August 15, Konstantin Pulikovsky conveyed to Kim Jong-il cordial congratulations from the people of Russia and from himself personally. Pulikovsky wished the North Korean leader happiness and good health, and successes and prosperity to the people of the republic. _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
