From: "Juche 86" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:29:33 +0100 To: "Juche Insurrection" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Juche Insurrection] Novosti: August 15 2001 NOVOSTI - Russian Information Agency August 15 2001 1) VLADIMIR PUTIN HIGHLY ASSESSES RESULTS OF MEETINGS WITH KIM JONG-IL 2) KIM JONG-IL GIVES A GALA RECEPTION IN THE TRAIN 3) KIM JONG-IL GIVES THUMBS-UP TO WIDE-GAUGE RAIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1) VLADIMIR PUTIN HIGHLY ASSESSES RESULTS OF MEETINGS WITH KIM JONG-IL MOSCOW, August 15, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent/ Vladimir Putin has highly assessed the results of his meetings in Pyongyang and Moscow with Kim Jong-il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea. The Kremlin press-service reported on Wednesday that President Putin had sent a telegram of congratulation to Kim Jong-il on the occasion of North Korea's national holiday -- Anniversary of Liberation. The message, in part, notes that the summit meetings in Pyongyang and Moscow had given a strong impulse to the further development of all-round cooperation, the consolidation of traditional relations of friendship and mutual understanding between the two countries. Vladimir Putin stressed that that complies with the true interests of the peoples of Russia and Korea and promotes peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in North-East Asia. "Marking the anniversary of Korea's liberation from colonial yoke, we at the same time revere the memory of our fellow-compatriots who gave their lives for victory in World War II and for Korea's freedom," says President Putin in his message. The presidential press-service reported that the telegram was handed to Kim Jong-il by Konstantin Pulikovsky, the Russian President's plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, who is accompanying the North Korean leader on his trip home after conclusion of the official part of his visit to Russia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 2) KIM JONG-IL GIVES A GALA RECEPTION IN THE TRAIN KHABAROVSK, August 15. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Yevgeny Bugayenko/. For the first time, DPRK leader Kim Jong-il will celebrate the day of liberation of Korea from the Japanese colonial domination not at home but in Russia. On this occasion he will give a gala reception in a special train going along the Transsiberian Mainline. Kim Jong-il invited members of the Russian delegation headed by plenipotentiary representative of the Russian president in the Far Eastern federal district Konstantin Pulikovsky, reported the office of the representative. Informed sources point out that up to now Kim Jong-il and his late father, Kim Il Sung, used to mark August 15 in Korea. Although the Korean people was liberated from the Japanese colonialism by the Soviet Army, this is officially mentioned now only on the "Liberation" monument in the centre of Pyongyang. That is why the celebration of the Korean Liberation Day by Kim Jong-il in Russia attracts special attention.-O- (lio/ter) 15/08/01 09:40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 3) KIM JONG-IL GIVES THUMBS-UP TO WIDE-GAUGE RAIL MOSCOW, August 15, 2001. /RIA Novosti/. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has given his thumbs-up to Russian specialists laying a wide-gauge rail line across North Korea, like in Russia, so that with a link-up between the Trans-Siberian Railway and Korea's narrow gauge lines trains do not waste time on wheel changing, Alexander Tselko, Russia's First Deputy Railway Minister told a news conference in Moscow after signing on the day before an agreement to build a trans-Korean line to link up with the trans-Siberian line. According to Tselko, a wide gauge line will be laid along the preferable eastern route bypassing Pyongyang, which is the hub of North Korea's narrow gauge network. A group of 30 specialists from Russia's Ministry of Railways is ready to go to North Korea to explore a 960-kilometre stretch, which is planned to be used for connecting the Trans-Siberian Railway with the south of the Korean peninsula. A fundamental decision on this question was recorded in a Moscow declaration signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. An agreement between the railway departments of the two countries spells out details of the project and its implementation, Tselko noted. _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
