TODAY'S NEWS (August.17.2001 Juche 90)
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Inter-Korean round-table talks held
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Friendly gathering with Chinese delegation
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Meeting with S. Korean businessmen
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Reception given by Indian ambassador
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Religionists of north and south meet
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Representatives of inter-Korean workers meet
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Anti-U.S. meetings held in S. Korea
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Adherence to independent stand called for
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Japanese chief executive's visit to "Yasukuni Shrine" assailed
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Kim Yong Nam meets Congolese government delegation
For Spanish-speaking people
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editado tomo 35 de "obras completas de kim il sung"
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dirigente kim jong il recibe cartas de felicitacion de equipos de jugadores
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ee.uu. no debe obstaculizar turismo al monte kumgang
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Inter-Korean round-table talks held
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Round-table talks were held between
members of the national reconciliation council of the north and the
all-people's council for national reconciliation and cooperation of the
south at the people's palace of culture on august 16. Present there were
vice-president of the national reconciliation council Kim Ryong Song,
co-chairman of the all-people council for national reconciliation and
cooperation Ri Pyong Ung and members of both councils.
��� At the talks they pointed to the successes made by the fellow countrymen
in the work to promote the cause of independent reunification in response to
the decision of the 2001 meeting held in the north early this year, the
first year of the new century, at which 2001 was set as the "year to open
the door of reunification by the efforts of the Korean nation" and the
period from June 15 to August 15 as a "June 15-August 15 Period of the
Movement for Promoting National Reunification"
��� They stressed the need for the two organizations to undertake a dynamic
struggle for national reconciliation and unity from the stand of national
independence and thus make positive contributions to achieving the great
unity of the whole nation and bringing earlier the independent reunification
of the country.
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Friendly gathering with Chinese delegation
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering with the members of
a friendship delegation of Jilin Yuwen middle school of china was held at
Changdok School yesterday. Present on invitation were the members of the
delegation headed by Zhen Shuzhe, party deputy secretary of the Jilin city
education committee.
��� Officials concerned and teachers and students of the school were on
hand.
��� The guests laid a floral basket before the statue of President Kim Il
Sung at the school in the name of the delegation and made a bow.
��� The participants went round various educational facilities of the
school, enjoyed an art performance given by its students and talked with
each other, deepening friendship.
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Meeting with S. Korean businessmen
��� pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Members of the national economic
cooperation federation met with South Korean businessmen at the People's
Palace of Culture on August 16. They exchanged views on expanding
cooperation in the economic field in conformity with the desire of the
fellow countrymen for reunification.
��� They laid stress on contributing to the prosperity of the nation with
national cooperation and north-south cooperation, not cooperation with
foreign forces, in the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration and
developing the national economy with the steady relationship of businessmen.
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Reception given by Indian ambassador
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Binanda Kumar Gogoi, ambassador of the
Republic of India to the DPRK, hosted a reception at the Taedonggang Club
for the diplomatic corps yesterday on the occasion of the 54th anniversary
of the independence of India. Invited to the reception were Kang Nung Su,
minister of culture, officials concerned and diplomatic envoys of various
countries here.
��� Speeches were made at the reception.
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Religionists of north and south meet
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Religionists of the north and the south
of Korea met at the People's Palace of Culture, in the building of the
Korean Chondoist Chongu Party, at Kwangbop Temple on Mt. Taesong, Jangchung
Cathedral and Pongsu Church yesterday. Present there were office bearers,
monks and believers of Confucianism, Chondoism, Buddhism, Catholicism and
Christianity.
��� They talked to each other after having joint prayer services, joint
masses and other rituals.
��� Referring to sufferings the nation has undergone for more than half a
century due to the division caused by outside forces, they clarified the
will of the believers in the north and the south to make concerted efforts
to achieve great national unity in keeping with the faith, purpose and ideal
of religion under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and thus
positively contribute to achieving the reunification of the century and
prosperity of the nation.
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Representatives of inter-Korean workers meet
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Representatives of workers from the
north and south of Korea met at the People's Palace of Culture yesterday.
Chairman Ryom Sun Gil of the central committee of the General Federation of
Trade Unions of Korea, vice-chairman Ho Yong Gu of the (South) Korean
Confederation of Trade Unions and vice-chairman Kwon Won Phyo of the
Federation of (South) Korean Trade Unions and other representatives of
workers from the north and south of Korea recalled that the workers in the
north and south of Korea have always waged a joint struggle for national
reunification in solidarity with each other. they informed each other of the
efforts of labor organizations in the north and south of Korea to contribute
to the reunification of the country.
��� They underscored the need for labor organizations in the north and south
of Korea to push ahead with a more vigorous campaign for national
reunification in solidarity with each other in order to implement the June
15 joint declaration, a great program of national reunification, to the
letter.
��� They shared the view that it is important to operate well the
"north-south council of workers for national reunification," a solidarity
organization for national reunification inaugurated in march last and had
discussions on the ways.
��� They said the chief obstacle to national reunification is outsiders. The
workers in the north and south of Korea should take the lead in the struggle
against the anti-reunification forces including U.S. and Japanese
imperialisms so as to reunify the divided country at an early date, they
added.
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Anti-U.S. meetings held in S. Korea
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The reunification solidarity of South
Korea held a meeting in Seoul on August 14 with the attendance of more than
5,000 people to denounce the U.S. for obstructing the implementation of the
June 15 joint declaration, Seoul-based Yonhap news reported. The
organization in a statement accused the U.S. of pushing forward the MD
system and forcing South Korea to buy its weapons, which causes uneasiness
on the Korean peninsula, while refusing dialogue with the north.
��� Prior to the meeting, three organizations including the people's action
for revising the shackling South Korea-U.S. "status of forces agreement"
held a meeting in Seoul at which they denounced the oil leakage in the
Ryongsan U.S. military base and demanded the total return of the base.
��� Meanwhile, more than 100 students under the South Korean Federation of
University Student Councils attempted to hold a demonstration to the U.S.
embassy before participating in the meeting.
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Adherence to independent stand called for
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Preserving the Juche character and
national identity provides a fundamental condition for a country to carry
out the revolution and construction in conformity with its actual conditions
and the desire and needs of its people, says rodong sinmun today in a signed
article. In order to maintain and exalt the Juche character and national
identity, it is necessary to firmly maintain an independent stand. What is
important here is to struggle against foreign interference and pressure and
repudiate flunkeyism and dependence on outsiders, the article notes, and
goes on:
��� The stronger pressure imperialists and dominationists put upon a country
or nation aspiring after independence, the more firmly it should maintain
its stance and implement its line and policy to the letter.
��� However small and backward a country may be, it should have high
national self-respect and stronger conviction of victory and confidently
advance along the road chosen by it.
��� It is also important for maintaining an independent stand to reject and
oppose flunkeyism and dependence on outsiders.
��� If one takes to flunkeyism, he only thinks of copying other's things,
while refusing to see his own.
��� This will result in gradually benumbing people's independent ideological
consciousness and eventually making their creative ingenuity wither away in
the revolution and construction.
��� Each country and nation should make it a rule to preserve independence
and equality in foreign relations.
��� Only then can a country or a nation protect its dignity and exercise its
rights.
��� All countries and nations can establish the Juche character and national
identity and advance the revolution and construction successfully only when
they steadfastly maintain an independent stand.
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Japanese chief executive's visit to "Yasukuni Shrine" assailed
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The Japanese chief executive's visit to
the "Yasukuni Shrine' on August 13 comes under fire by a signed commentary
of Rodong Sinmun today. The commentary says:
��� Those entombed in the shrine are war criminals who made themselves
infamous for wars of aggression and plunder against Korea and other
countries. Among them is top-class war criminal Tojo.
��� His visit to the shrine is an insult to those countries and peoples that
fell victim to the Japanese imperialists' aggression and is nothing but an
expression of his intention to embellish and repeat Japan's crime-woven
past.
��� While visiting the shrine, he paid "tribute" to the war deads, thus
describing them as "patriots" and "heroes."
��� Through this he seeks to create an atmosphere of visiting the shrine in
Japan and prepare all the Japanese as a "shock brigade" ready to go into a
militarist war of reinvasion.
��� The Japanese reactionary ruling circles have become bold enough in the
new century to work hard for the revival of militarism in utter disregard of
the desire and requirements of the world and relations with other countries.
��� No one can predict what consequences they, obsessed with such
ideological viewpoint and way of thinking, will bring to the world. Japan
has emerged in the new century to be the source of disasters.
��� The Japanese chief executive's recent visit to the shrine will make
Japan stand further isolated and lead it to destruction.
��� If the Japanese rulers put spurs to the moves to revive militarism,
Japan will have no future.
��� They are well advised to ponder over to what a pitfall they are pushing
Japan.
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Kim Yong Nam meets Congolese government delegation
��� Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium
of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met and conversed with the
Congolese government delegation headed by Nkomdi Mbaki, minister of public
work, territorial arrangement, town planning and housing, at the Mansudae
Assembly Hall today. Present was Choe Jong Gon, minister of city management.
��� Nkomdi said that during its stay in the DPRK, the delegation came to
know well about achievements the Korean people have made in different fields
and immortal leadership exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung.
��� He expressed the firm conviction that the Korean people would achieve
great success in the building of a powerful nation under the wise guidance
of leader Kim Jong Il.
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For Spanish-speaking people
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editado tomo 35 de "obras completas de kim il sung"
��� pyongyang, 17 de febrero (atcc) -- la editora del partido del trabajo
de corea dio a luz el tomo 35 de "obras completas de kim il sung", coleccion
de la inmortal idea juche que compila de manera sistematica y globalmente
por orden cronologico las obras del gran lider, presidente kim il sung. el
tomo contiene 23 obras clasicas entre otros informes, discursos, discursos
resumen, conferencias y charlas del presidente kim il sung de marzo a
octubre del 54 (1965) de la era juche.
��� sintetiza las ideas, teorias y orientaciones que el presento para
fortalecer en lo politico, economico y militar nuestras fuerzas
revolucionarias y acelerar la causa de reunificacion de la patria y el
movimiento revolucionario del mundo.
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dirigente kim jong il recibe cartas de felicitacion de equipos de jugadores
��� pyongyang, 17 de febrero (atcc) -- el gran dirigente kim jong il
recibio cartas de felicitacion que le dirigieran con motivo de su cumpleanos
los equipos de jugadores de varios paises participantes en el decimo
festival internacional de patinaje artistico sobre hielo por el "premio
paektusan". los jefes de los equipos de patinadores artisticos sobre hielo
de rusia, china, ucrania, belarus, gran bretana, checo y francia las
entregaron a un funcionario pertinente de corea.
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ee.uu. no debe obstaculizar turismo al monte kumgang
��� pyongyang, 17 de mayo (atcc) -- se dio inicio al turismo al monte
kumgang en noviembre de 1998 partiendo del noble ideal fraternal de
satisfacer el deseo de los surcoreanos de ver al famoso monte kumgang y de
contribuir a la reconciliacion y la gran unidad nacional para lograr la
reunificacion de la patria. pero, ee.uu. obstaculizo desde el principio en
todas las direcciones el turismo al monte kumgang.
��� a fin de frustrar el turismo al monte kumgang iniciado como trabajo de
cooperacion no gubernamental en el periodo del cierre de las relaciones
norte-sur ee.uu. intervino directamente en este trabajo diciendo que "se
destina exclusivamente para los gastos militares" el costo del turismo.
��� el 28 de diciembre de 1998 cuando se dio inicio al turismo al monte
kumgang en cooperacion con hyundai, el periodico japones "yomiuri shimbun"
informo que perry, coordinador de la politica con respecto a corea de ee.uu.
de visita en sudcorea a principios del mismo mes se preocupo de que enorme
suma de dinero remesado a la rpdc a costa del turismo al monte kumgang
podria utilizarse enteramente como gastos militares y que de acuerdo con eso
las autoridades surcoreanas pusieron freno a la remesa del grupo hyundai a
la rpdc.
��� el periodico japones "sankei shimbun", en el numero del dia 2 de febrero
del ano 2001, informo que "el gobierno y el circulo militar en el periodo
del mandato de clinton se preocuparon del uso para fines militares de los
fondos de hyundai y por eso, en noviembre del ano pasado la comandancia del
ejercito norteamericano ocupante de surcorea expreso protesta por ese
respecto en entrevista con un representante del grupo hyundai".
��� el 27 de marzo de 2001, schwats, comandante del ejercito norteamericano
ocupante de surcorea, en el senado de ee.uu. dio testimonio de que "la
amenaza de norcorea se ha hecho mas critica que el ano pasado, norcorea
libra ejercicios militares intensivos y compra armamentos" tratando de
insinuar manosamente el uso exclusivo para gastos militares del costo de
turismo del grupo hyundai.
��� (periodico surcoreano "kyonghyang sinmun", 29 de marzo de 2001.)
��� el 4 de enero de 2001, un investigador encargado de asuntos asiaticos
del buro de investigacion del congreso norteamericano, senalo: "ahora, el
gobierno y el pueblo de washington y el circulo militar se preocupan
grandemente del posible uso para fines militares del costo del turismo
remitido a norcorea por el grupo hyundai. la administracion de bush tratara
de manera critica estas transacciones.".
��� ("radio de ee.uu. para asia libre" 4 de enero de 2001).
��� todos los hechos demuestran que ee.uu. disgustado de la reconciliacion,
cooperacion y la reunificacion del norte y el sur se oponia, desde el
principio, al turismo al monte kumgang interviene en cada asunto para poner
obstaculo.
��� ee.uu. y sus seguidores deben asumir la entera responsabilidad del caso
en que se interrumpa o se frustre el turismo al monte kumgang.
��� ee.uu. debe dejar de obstaculizar el turismo al monte kumgang que se
desarrolla dentro de la nacion coreana.
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