JANUARY.18.1997

[CONTENTS]

• Secy. Kim Jong Il replies to youth league officials

• Repeal of evil laws called for in S. Korea

• Paper on Japan's "Mode of defence"

• Press Review

• NDFSK calls for ouster of "Civilian" dictatorship

• Prelude to bloody suppression

• South Korean workers' struggle supported

• Kotohngryon preparatory comm. For celebrating 55th birthday of secy. Kim Jong Il

• Deep attention to S. Korean people's struggle called for

• Ksdp favors struggle in S. Korea

• Japan urged to come to talks for postwar settlement

• Rodong sinmun on militarist utterances

• Epic "Love Young people"

• S. Korea's continued military buildup

• Delegation of iaea here