TODAY'S NEWS (October.18.2001 Juche 90)
[CONTENTS] * Evening galas of youth and students * Japanese society for Japan-Korea agricultural interchange formed * CILRECO secretary general visits NDFSK Pyongyang mission * 3rd Japan-DPRK seminar on education held * Gift to Kim Jong Il from Vietnamese delegation * Agreement signed between governments of DPRK and Vietnam * Gift to Kim Jong Il from Chinese delegation * Jong Ha Chol meets Chinese delegation * Telephone message to chief of south side delegation For Spanish-speaking people * dirigente kim jong il inspecciona unidad de aviacion no.288 de epc * declaracion de vocero de minrex de rpdc * comunicado conjunto de cc de ptc,cmc de ptc y cdn de rpdc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evening galas of youth and students ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Evening galas of youth and students were held in Pyongyang and local areas yesterday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Down-With-Imperialism Union. Looking back on President Kim Il Sung's immortal exploits of declaring the new start of the Korean revolution with the formation of the DIU and ushering in the building of a revolutionary party of Juche type, youth and students danced to the tune of songs including "Long live generalissimo Kim Il Sung" and "Hold aloft the flag of DIU" at the monument to party founding, the tower of the Juche idea, the Pyongyang Grand Theatre, the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium and other places of the capital. ��� Evening galas were also held in provinces, cities and counties yesterday. ��� The galas showed the faith and will of the youth and students to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started by Kim Il Sung to the last under the army-first leadership of Kim Jong Il. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Japanese society for Japan-Korea agricultural interchange formed ��� Tokyo, October 16 (KNS-KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of the Japanese Society for Japan-Korea Agricultural Interchange was held in Tokyo on Oct. 13. The society has been developed from the Japan-Korea Society for Friendship and Exchange of Agriculture and Peasants, which was organized in 1985, to meet the requirements of the new century. It will conduct activities to further expand non-governmental exchange between the two countries, particularly, survey, research and technical exchange in the field of agriculture, and to make a great contribution to establishing diplomatic ties between Japan and the DPRK as early as possible. ��� Addressing the ceremony, Masao Yoshita, chairman of the former Japan-Korea Society for Friendship and Exchange of Agriculture and Peasants, said that the present task of Japan is to establish Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations. He noted he would conduct positive non-governmental activities for Japan-DPRK friendship and make efforts to help the Japanese government understand the importance of the activities. ��� At the ceremony Masao Yoshita was elected chairman of the society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CILRECO secretary general visits NDFSK Pyongyang mission ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Guy Dupre, secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO), visited the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) yesterday. Chief Pak Kwang Gi and members of the mission greeted him and talked with him. ��� The chief informed him of the NDFSK activities and expressed thanks to the CILRECO for its positive activities for international solidarity and support for Korea's reunification. ��� Guy Dupre said that the CILRECO would conduct more active movement for international solidarity and support for the just struggle of the NDFSK and South Korean people for national reunification. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3rd Japan-DPRK seminar on education held ��� Tokyo, October 16 (KNS-KCNA) -- The 3rd Japan-DPRK seminar on education was held in Tokyo on Oct. 13 on the subject of "defusing of discrimination against the right to national education and early normalization of Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations." Present there were Norio Fukuoka, head of the international and organizational departments of the Japan Teachers' Union, Ku Tae Sok, chairman of the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan, Kiyo Nakagoji, president of the Japan-Korea Society for Scientific and Educational Interchange, teaching staff of Japanese schools and educationists under the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). ��� A reporter and speakers at the seminar said that it is an inviolable right to give national education to sons and daughters of Koreans in Japan and that to ensure it is the moral and legal responsibility of Japan which had deprived Koreans of language, letters and names after militarily occupying Korea. ��� They underscored the need to treat the Korean schools like Japanese schools, grant an educational subsidy to the Korean schools on the same level as that of the Japanese private schools, accept the U.N. proposals and recommendations on ensuring the right to national education, adjust the national law of Japan and so on in order to defuse the national discrimination. ��� It is important to intensify the activities for supporting the peaceful reunification of Korea, they said, calling for early normalization of the Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gift to Kim Jong Il from Vietnamese delegation ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Vietnamese government economic delegation on a visit to the DPRK. The gift was handed to an official concerned today by Mai Van Dau, vice-minister of trade who is heading the delegation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Agreement signed between governments of DPRK and Vietnam ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- An agreement on the 4th meeting of the inter-governmental committee for economic, scientific and technological cooperation between the DPRK and Vietnam was signed in Pyongyang today. It was signed by Ri Ryong Nam, vice-minister of foreign trade of the DPRK, and Mai Van Dau, vice-minister of trade of Vietnam. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gift to Kim Jong Il from Chinese delegation ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from the office of Qiushi, the politico-theoretical journal of the central committee of the Communist Party of China. The gift was handed to Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, today by Gao Mingguang, president of the office who is heading its delegation on a visit to the DPRK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jong Ha Chol meets Chinese delegation ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, today met and had a talk with the delegation of the office of Qiushi, the politico-theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led by its president Gao Mingguang. Present there were Ryang Kyong Bok, editor-in-chief of Kulloja, the political and theoretical magazine of the WPK Central Committee, officials concerned and Chinese ambassador to the DPRK Wang Guozhang. ��� The head of the delegation said that during their visit, they could keenly feel the close friendship between the two parties and peoples of china and the DPRK. We will work hard for China-DPRK friendship which was provided by chairman Mao Zedong and President Kim Il Sung and which is being further developed under the care of Jiang Zemin and Kim Jong Il, he added. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Telephone message to chief of south side delegation ��� Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Ryong Song, head of the north side delegation to the north-south ministerial talks, today sent a telephone message to Hong Sun Yong, chief of the south side delegation, in connection with the fact that the authorities' talks due on Mt. Kumgang on October 19 will not be held as scheduled. Recalling that the south side repeated unreasonable assertions unacceptable to anyone while groundlessly taking issue with the sincerity of the north side, the message said: ��� Your side suddenly "discussed measures to cope with the movement of the north army" and put the whole army and police on "emergency alert" one week before the exchange of the fourth visiting groups of separated families and relatives and the Seoul visit of the Taekwon-do exhibition team. This is quite contrary to the fundamental spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the points agreed upon at the fifth north-south ministerial talks. ��� Worse still, it is a hostile act toward our side that your side brought more air force from the U.S. under the pretext of filling up the "military vacuum" with the humanitarian visit just ahead, though your side talks about the importance of the "issue of separated families." ��� Your side is hell-bent on distorting the fact through media in the wake of the unreasonable moves. This is a perfidy to the dialogue partner. It is designed to evade the responsibility for the present situation. ��� Our side considers that the present difficulties created by your side should be removed as soon as possible. ��� Proceeding from this stand, our side demands your side immediately take steps to create circumstances and atmosphere acceptable to the dialogue partner by all forms of efforts if your side has a willingness to respect the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration and make reconciliation and unity with the north. ��� We assure you that if your side shows a positive response to this just demand of ours, we are ready to exchange the visiting groups of separated families and relatives and the Taekwon-do exhibition teams anytime. ��� We also consider that talks, agreed upon between the two sides, should be held. ��� As regards the forthcoming north-south authorities' talks to pep up Mt. Kumgang tourism, your side should no longer obstruct the holding of the talks over the issue of their venue which is not in accord with the agenda. ��� Out of the stand to provide the progress of dialogue between the north and the south at any cost, our side proposes to hold the authorities' talks to pep up Mt. Kumgang tourism on October 25 because it is impossible to hold as scheduled the talks slated for October 19 on Mt. Kumgang. We also proposes to hold on Mt. Kumgang the 2nd meeting of the north-south committee for the promotion of economic cooperation on November 5 and the 6th north-south ministerial talks on October 28 as scheduled. ��� We expect that your side will affirmatively respond to our reasonable proposal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Spanish-speaking people ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dirigente kim jong il inspecciona unidad de aviacion no.288 de epc ��� pyongyang, 18 de junio (atcc) -- el dirigente kim jong il, secretario general del partido del trabajo de corea, presidente del comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea, y comandante supremo del ejercito popular de corea inspecciono el 15 de junio la unidad de aviacion no. 288 del epc. le acompanaron los generales de ejercito ri myong su, hyon chol hae y pak jae gyong del epc. ��� el dirigente kim jong il, guiado por el jefe de la unidad, recorrio la lapida a la direccion sobre el terreno del gran lider presidente kim il sung y dijo que la mayor de las hazanas realizadas por el lider es haber fundado el heroico ejercito popular de corea y haberlo fortalecido como invencibles fuerzas armadas. ��� escucho el informe del jefe de la unidad sobre el cumplimiento del deber de la unidad y recorrio el salon de ejercicios con armaduras y sala de estudio para enterarse de los detalles del estudio y el entrenamiento de los pilotos. ��� senalo que estos deben hacer una parte de su vida y regimen estar perfectamente listos para el vuelo y adelanto las tareas programaticas para fortalecer la combatividad de la unidad. ��� al recorrer la sala de educacion, dormitorio, comedor, cocina, deposito diario y otros varios lugares atendio cordialmente la vida de los pilotos. ��� se encontro con los pilotos para entrerarse del estado de vestido y de otros detalles de su labor y vida y vio una funcion artistica de ellos. ��� evaluo altamente el espiritu revolucionario de los pilotos que viven cada momento realizando proezas con la disposicion revolucionaria de dedicar su juventud y vida para el partido, la revolucion, la patria y el pueblo y los estimulo calurosamente. ��� dejo como recuerdo el fusil automatico para los militares de la unidad y se fotografio junto a estos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ declaracion de vocero de minrex de rpdc ��� pyongyang, 18 de junio (atcc) -- el vocero del ministerio de relaciones exteriores de la republica popular democratica de corea hizo publica hoy una declaracion en relacion con que bush, presidente norteamericano publico el pasado dia 6 la declaracion de reanudar las negociaciones con la rpdc. el vocero dijo: ��� es una cosa que se debe considerar el que la nueva administracion de ee.uu. haya propuesto reanudar el dialogo que interrumpio ella misma unilateralmente durante 4 meses, pero nos guardamos de su verdadera intencion. la parte norteamericana habla de reanudar las negociaciones sin condiciones previas, pero fijo unilateralmente la agenda de ellas y la dio a conocer antes de que ambas partes se sientan a la misma mesa. ��� consideramos que en fin la agenda formulada por ee.uu. siendo relacionada con las armas nucleares y misiles, las fuerzas armadas convencionales de la rpdc persigue la finalidad de desarmar a esta a traves de las negociaciones. ��� asi ee.uu. esgrime condiciones que no puede aceptar jamas la rpdc. esta actitud nos provoca preocupacion y duda de si este pais desea dialogar sinceramente o no y tiene la voluntad de resolver el problema a traves del dialogo o no. ��� los dialogos entre los estados soberanos deben ser logrados sobre la base equitativa e igualitaria lo cual es una demanda elemental reconocida internacionalmente. ��� lo prueban los hechos de que los dialogos desarrollados en el pasado entre la rpdc y los ee.uu. dieron resultados que convinieron a los intereses de ambas partes y que contribuyeron a la mejora de sus relaciones. ��� en tal sentido, se puede considerar que la presente "propuesta de reanudacion del dialogo" de la administracion norteamericana es unilateral y condicional en su caracter y hostil en su intencion. ��� tenemos la finalidad de dialogar con los ee.uu. para discutir y tomar las medidas encaminadas a eliminar la desconfianza y el malentendido entre ambas partes y asi colocar las relaciones bilaterales en la orbita normal conforme a los intereses reciprocos. ��� las fuentes de todos los problemas que se presentan en las relaciones rpdc-ee.uu. radican en la politica hostil de ee.uu. que constituye una gran amenaza para la rpdc. ��� si ee.uu. tiene, de veras, la voluntad de poner fin a su politica hostil a la rpdc y de dialogar con esta debera tomar, en la etapa actual, ante todo, por la agenda los problemas practicos para ejecutar fielmente los puntos convenidos en el acuerdo basico y el comunicado conjunto ya firmados por ambas partes. ��� las fuerzas armadas convencionales de la rpdc siendo medios de autodefensa para hacer frente a la grave amenaza creada por ee.uu. y las fuerzas aliadas de este no pueden ser jamas objeto de discusion antes de que por lo menos, las tropas norteamericanas se retiren de surcorea. ��� ee.uu. debe abandonar su malsana intencion de formular intencionalmente tales demandas irreales y desigualitarias y de imputar de esta manera a la rpdc la responsabilidad de la interrupcion de las negociaciones. ��� en la etapa actual el problema que se presenta como una tarea mas realista y primordial en lo tocante a la ejecucion del acuerdo basico rpdc-ee.uu. cuyo esqueleto es el ofrecimiento de los reactores de agua ligera de este por la congelacion de la instalacion nuclear de aquella es responder con responsabilidad a la grave situacion en que se posterga en gran medida el ofrecimiento de los reactores de agua ligera. ��� ahora por la dilacion del ofrecimiento de los reactores de agua ligera esta en peligro el destino del acuerdo basico. ��� como medidas para superar esta situacion consideramos que el problema de indemnizacion de la perdida de energia electrica por la dilacion del ofrecimiento de reactores de agua ligera ha de ser escogido como agenda primordial de las negociaciones, como lo hemos propuesto ya a la parte norteamericana. ��� la parte norteamericana debe disipar la duda de la rpdc: ��� ee.uu. tiene o no la voluntad politica de renunciar su politica hostil a la rpdc y de discutir y resolver el apremiante problema de la indemnizacion de la perdida de energia electrica. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ comunicado conjunto de cc de ptc,cmc de ptc y cdn de rpdc ��� pyongyang, 18 de agosto (atcc) -- quedo publicado hoy el comunicado conjunto del comite central del partido del trabajo de corea, la comision militar central del ptc y el comite de defensa nacional de la republica popular democratica de corea. el comunicado conjunto senala: ��� el camarada kim jong il, secretario general del ptc, presidente del cdn de la rpdc y comandante supremo del ejercito popular de corea.regreso el 18 de agosto a la patria luego de terminar con exito su visita oficial a la federacion rusa. ��� el camarada kim jong il, al realizar un largo viaje de mas de 50 mil ri (10 ri equivalen a 4 kilometros) durante mas de 20 dias de permanencia en rusia, desplego dinamicas actividades exteriores y, a traves de encuentros y conversaciones con el presidente v.v. putin, profundizo mas las relaciones de amigo con este y fortalecio aun mas los lazos de amistad coreano-rusa, haciendo asi una inmarcesible contribucion a la historia de las relaciones de amistad de ambos paises. ��� la presente visita del camarada kim jong il a la federacion rusa se realizo muy exitosamente y trajo un excelente fruto, bajo la atencion particular de v.v. putin, presidente de rusia. ��� nuestro ejercito y pueblo estan muy agradecidos de que el presidente v.v. putin y el pueblo ruso, con sentimientos de alto respeto, intimidad y profunda confianza, brindaron la mas calurosa acogida y sincera hospitalidad al camarada kim jong il y expresan un profunda gratitud por ello. ��� la historica visita a la federacion rusa del camarada kim jong il sera registrada con brillantez en los anales de la amistad corea-rusia como un evento trascendental que marco una coyuntura del nuevo viraje para consolidar y desarrollar aun mas la tradicional amistad entre ambos paises. ��� el cc del ptc, la comision militar central del ptc y el comite de defensa nacional de la rpdc expresan la conviccion de que bajo la sabia direccion del gran camarada kim jong il todo el ejercito y el pueblo, con la bandera de priorizacion militar en alto, aceleraran vigorosamente la revolucion y la construccion y cumpliran con anticipacion la causa revolucionaria del juche, haciendo asi una mayor contribucion a impulsar la causa comun de la humanidad por la paz, la democracia, la independencia nacional y la 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