Comrade Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit 938

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Comrade Kim Jong Il, supreme commander of the Korean people's army (KPA), on tuesday inspected KPA unit 938 entitled Kum Song lifeguard. He learnt about training and life of the unit's soldiers. He said all the commanding officers should always take good care of soldiers as their parents and brothers do. Seeing the soldiers' training, he was very satisfied that the servicemen of all arms have been trained into a-match

Comrade Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK national defence commission and supreme commander of the Korean people's army, on tuesday inspected KPA unit 938 entitled Kum Song lifeguard. He was accompanied by KPA vice marshal Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political department= KPA vice marshal Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA general staff= KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Kim Ha Gyu and Col. General Pak Jae Gyong. At two p.m. He arrived at the unit. He was met by KPA Col. General Jong Ho Gyun, maj. General kim Su Yon and other generals and officers as well as the unit's commanding officers. He warmly waved to the cheering soldiers and families. Conducted by the unit's commander, he looked round an education room, a bedroom, a diningroom and other places of the unit to learn about the living conditions of soldiers. He noted with great satisfaction that the commanding officers of the unit provide the soldiers with good boarding and lodging conditions through a well-organised economic life with a high sense of affection for their men. He urged all the commanding officers to take warm care of their men at all times with parental and brotherly feelings as the commanding officers of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army did. He then inspected the unit's combat technical equipment and saw a training of soldiers. He was very satisfied that the servicemen of all arms have been trained into a-match-for-a-hundred soldiers fully prepared politically and ideologically and in military technology, true to the workers' party of Korea's policy of turning the entire army into a cadre army and modernizing the entire army. He highly appreciated what the unit's commanding officers and soldiers have done, saying that they have made various inventions and considerably increased the combat power with military technology suitable to modern warfare and with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance. Then he, together with the companions, saw an art performance given by the unit's soldiers. He, pleased to see the servicemen engaging in training, study and life in a militant and optimistic way as the anti- Japanese guerrillas did, said no force can match the KPA strong in both ideology and military technology. Expressing the belief that the soldiers of the unit will continue uplifting the honor of the unit entitled Kum Song lifeguard, he gave the unit an automatic rifle and a pair of binoculars as a gift. He then had a picture taken with the unit's servicemen.

Comrade Kim Jomg Il visits revolutionary school

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK national defence commission and supreme commander of the Korean people's army, on Wednesday visited the mangyongdae revolutionary school and wished its teachers and students a happy new year. He was accompanied by KPA vice marshal Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political department= KPA vice marshal Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA general staff= KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Kim Ha Gyu= and Col. Generals Pak Jae Gyong and Kim Tae Sik. The visiting group also included Choe Thae Bok, alternate politburo member and secretary of the workers' party of Korea (WPK) central committee= Kim Ki Nam, member and secretary of the WPK central committee= Choe Ryong Hae, member of the WPK central committee and first secretary of the Kim Il Sung socialist youth league central committee= and Jang Song Thaek, member and first vice department director of the WPK central committee. At nine a.m. Comrade Kim Jong Il arrived at the school. Schoolchildren fastened a red tie around his neck and presented him with fragrant flowers. He was met by KPA general Kim Ryong Yon, maj. General kang Hyon Phil and other generals and officers and the senior officials of the school. He warmly waved to the cheering teachers and students and wished them a happy new year. The school, situated in historic mangyongdae, a holy land of revolution, was built by the great leader president Kim Il Sung. It is a school for bereaved children of fallen revolutionaries and a dependable base of training the elite reserves for the WPK and the revolution. For nearly 50 years since its foundation, the school has trained bereaved children to be true revolutionary soldiers intensely loyal to the party and the leader and greatly contributed to strengthening the WPK and the people's army. Conducted by the principal of the school, comrade Kim Jong Il went to the compound, received schoolchildren and looked round the statue of the president, a monument to the instructions given by the president at the school and a room for revolutionary history education. He recalled that from the postliberation days to the last moments of his life, the president worked heart and Soul to train the bereaved children of fallen revolutionaries into dependable heirs to the juche revolution and the backbone and elite force that carry forward the Korean revolution generation after generation. Under the president's warm care, the bereaved children who had been wandering about manchuria without parental care could grow up in the cradle of happiness to be the pillar of the country, he said. He went round lecture rooms and laboratories to learn about how the school was giving education. He said that in order to equip the students with much special knowledge and military technical knowledge, the quality of teaching should be improved and, at the same time, greater attention should be paid to such basic subjects as physics, chemistry and mathematics in step with the development of modern science and technology. He also looked round students' bedroom, dining room and education room to learn about their living conditions and showed warm loving care and favors. He then saw a file physical training of courageous and lively students and enjoyed an art performance together with other visitors. Seeing the students studying and living in a cheerful and optimistic way, he expressed great satisfaction with the fact that they were growing to be dependable workers of the country, fully prepared in politico-ideological and physical aspects and in military technique. He highly praised the teachers of the school for having remained loyal to the party and the leader and trained many able leading officials of the revolution for important posts of socialist construction and military cadres who are also prepared politically for national defence. The school has a heavy mission of training the backbone and elite force that creditably succeed the Korean revolution under the red flag, he said, and advanced important tasks for education and management of the school. He had a picture taken with the teachers and students of the school.

Comrade Kim Jong Il visits school

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Comrade Kim Jong Il, supreme commander of the Korean people's army, on Wednesday visited the mangyongdae revolutionary school and wished its teachers and students a happy new year. He looked round the statue of the great leader president Kim Il Sung, a monument to the instructions given by the president at the school, a room for revolutionary history education, lecture rooms and laboratories. He expressed great satisfaction with the fact that they were growing to be dependable workers of the country, fully prepared in politico-ideological and physical aspects and in military technique. He highly praised the teachers of the school for having trained many able leading officials of the revolution for important posts of socialist construction and cadres for national defence. The school, built by president Kim Il Sung, is a school for bereaved children of fallen revolutionaries and a dependable base of training the elite reserves for the WPK and the revolution. He was accompanied by Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political department, and Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA general staff.

S. Korean workers' struggle supported

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Employees of the Kim Jong thae general electric locomotive works held a meeting on December 31, 1996, and expressed full support for and solidarity with the South Korean workers in their struggle for the abolition of the "Amendments to the law on the agency for national security planning and labor laws". At the meeting the speakers said that the "Amendment bills" railroaded by the Kim Young Sam group through the puppet national assembly without the opposition camp's presence were vicious anti-democratic fascist ones ruthlessly trampling down the legitimate rights of the South Korean workers to assembly, Collective bargaining and collective action as well as their elementary right to existence. The "Amendment bills" were unprecedented ones designed to restore broad power to the ill-famed puppet ansp, the headquarters of intelligence and plots and to harshly repress the South Korean people's movement for independence, democracy and reunification and turn the South Korean society into a jail, they noted, and continued: It is entirely just and cannot be incriminated in any case that the South Korean workers and people, unable to remain an onlooker to the dark realities of the South Korean society where "The rich get richer and the poor poorer" and democracy and civil rights are mercilessly trampled down owing to the anti-popular policy of the Kim Young Sam fascist clique, have turned out in the struggle, chanting the slogan to overthrow the Kim Young Sam "Government". The South Korean workers should be mindful that with the traitor Kim Young Sam remaining in power they cannot extricate themselves from the miserable lot of the slaves of fascism and capital, push ahead with the already started struggle with redoubled efforts and overthrow the puppet traitor, the vicious enemy of the nation, through the powerful resistance.

NDFSK vows to overthrow "Civilian" government

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the national democratic front of South Korea (ndfsk) released a statement on December 30 in support of a protest of the South Korean people of all walks of life against the kim Young Sam fascist clique's singlehanded railroading of the reactionary anti-democratic "Amendment bills of the law on the agency for national security planning and labor laws" through the puppet national assembly, according to the radio voice of national salvation from Seoul. The statement says: The protests of workers, members of dissident organisations and students, more than one million in all, against the Kim Young Sam group's recent fascist outrage are the eruption of the resentment against the Kim Young Sam group that enacted evil laws, going against the will of the people, and a decisive struggle which is being staged to overthrow the "Civilian" dictatorial "Government" which has violated democracy. From the beginning the "Amendment bills" are all vicious documents of swindles which ignore the will of the people and give absolute power to the wicked "Civilian" dictatorial group. The recent singlehanded "Railroading" of amendment bills is directly related to the Kim Young Sam group's cunning attempt to stay in power. The Kim Young Sam group has created the unprecedented terror-ridden "New security-oriented rule" outdistancing the military dictatorship and engaged itself in the indiscriminate suppression of the democratic, pro- reunification forces, describing them as "Leftist pro- communist forces". Its open amendment of laws is a premeditated reactionary offensive for the institutional legalisation of a long-term office and a prelude to the wholesale repression of the workers and people of other strata. If the workers and other people remain an onlooker to the situation, deceived by the Kim Young Sam group and abandons their struggle in the face of threat and blackmail, they will get nothing and fall a victim to the "Civilian" dictatorship. The workers should overthrow the traitorous Kim Young Sam dictatorial "Government" and win their true rights, freedom and right to existence through a nation-wide struggle. The students and people from all walks of life should actively join in the struggle to overthrow the "Civilian" dictatorship with surging indignation at the anti-democratic act of the Kim Young Sam fascist group.

Floral baskets laid before statues of Pres. Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Ri Jong Sang, chief of the Pyongyang mission of the national democratic front of South Korea (NDFSK), and its members on Wednesday laid a floral basket and made a bow before the statue of the great leader president Kim Il Sung standing on mansu hill. They visited the revolutionary martyrs' cemetery on mt. Taesong yesterday, laid a bouquet of flowers before the bust of comrade Kim Jong Suk, an indomitable revolutionary communist fighter and an anti-Japanese heroine, and observed a moment's silence to the memory of her.

Kim Young Sam group hit for fascist laws

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The north headquarters of the national alliance for the country's reunification (pomminryon) and of the national alliance of youth and students for the country's reunification (pomchonghakryon) on January 1 issued statements denouncing the Kim Young Sam group of South Korea for their singlehanded railroading of the amendment bills on the "Law on the agency for national security planning and on labour laws" Through the puppet national assembly. The statements say that the Kim Young Sam group let the "National assemblymen" from the "New Korea party" ram the "Amendment bill on the law on the agency for national security planning" through a clandestine session of the national assembly, which is an unpardonable crime to strangle all the patriotic forces of South Korea fighting for independence, democracy and reunification and which is a last-ditch effort of the traitors. The South Korean rulers' brutal suppression of the protests of the South Korean people, including the students, is a crime added to their crimes, the statements warn. The statements urge the South Korean authorities to immediately nullify the unreasonably passed evil laws and put an immediate halt to the repression of the South Korean people's struggle.

Chief of NDFSK Pyongyang mission on massive struggle of S. Korean workers

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The massive struggle of the South Korean workers is a resistance against the fascist suppression and harsh exploitation and plunder. Ri Jong Sang, chief of the Pyongyang mission of the national democratic front of South Korea, made the remarks in his answer to the question raised by the KCNA on December 31 as regards the ever-growing struggle of the South Korean people from all walks of life against the singlehanded railroading of the reactionary "Amendment bills on the law on the agency for national security planning and on labor laws" in South Korea. The recent political burlesque of the Kim Young Sam "Civilian" fascist clique mirrors their ulterior intention to exercise broad power by law in setting more flexible working hours, stamping out the right of labor and creating unstability concerning employment so as to more ruthlessly violate their right to existence and democratic freedom, keep them in the fetters of harsh political nonright, hard toil and exploitation and strangle the forces fighting for independence, democracy and reunification, he said, and continued: Lurking behind the revision is the Kim Young Sam group's wicked and cunning intention to maintain and strengthen their "Civilian" dictatorial system which is in the grip of confused political situation and economic instability, and open a favourable phase for the "Presidential elections" of 1997 with the help of big businesses and the "Agency for national security planning" and stay in power. The South Korean people, who see through their trick and have been the target of suppression, have turned out in a massive struggle calling for the overthrow of Kim Young Sam and the resignation of the present "Government". This is their inalienable right for democracy and their elementary right to existence and entirely just. The ten million workers will wage a more powerful struggle against Kim Young Sam and "Government" in the teeth of the fascist violence of the "Civilian" dictatorship. No matter what sabre-rattling suppression the Kim Young Sam group may resort to, they cannot block the courageous struggle of the South Korean workers and people of other strata for right to existence and democratic freedom.

S. Korean professors vow to wage campaign for resignation of present "government"

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- More than 200 professors of the "National council of professors for democracy" held a rally in Seoul on December 30 for the immediate withdrawal of the "Laws on labor and the agency for national security planning", according to a radio report from Seoul. They in a statement called for the immediate resignation of the present "Government" and the ruling party, saying that the recently passed "Amendment bills of laws on labour and the ANSP" contain the anti-democratic provisions which were used for the suppression of workers and political repression during the past military dictatorship. In case those laws are not withdrawn, they will launch into the campaign for the resignation of the present "Government", they said.

Floral basket laid before Presidential Statue

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Working people, servicemen, youths and students across the country laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the statues of the great leader president Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the new year 1997. Those in Pyongyang visited the statue of president Kim Il Sung standing on mansu hill. Placed before the statue was a basket of flowers sent by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK national defence commission and supreme commander of the Korean people's army. Amid the playing of the basket-laying music floral baskets were laid in the name of the workers' party of Korea central committee, the DPRK central people's committee, the administration council (ac), the ministry of the people's armed forces, the ministry of public security, KPA units, commissions and ministries of the ac, the joint Korean children's union organizations, political parties, public organizations, central bodies, scientific, educational, cultural and art, public health and the press organs, and Pyongyang municipal party and power bodies, administrative and economic organs, working people's organizations, and industrial establishments and co-op farms in the city. Then working people, servicemen and youths and students were laying floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the statue. The baskets, bouquets and flowers were also laid before president Kim Il Sung's statues in other places of Pyongyang including Kim Il Sung university, Kim Il Sung political university, the ministry of public security and the Korean film studio. People, servicemen and youths and students in local areas, too, visited the statues of president Kim Il Sung in their hometowns to make deep bows.

Respects to Pres. Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Leading officials of party and government bodies, administrative and economic organs, central bodies and the people's armed forces units visited the Kumsusan memorial palace where the great leader president Kim Il Sung is preserved in state, on Wednesday to pay their deep respects to him on the occasion of the new year 1997. Among the visitors were vice-premiers of the administration council Kim Pok Sin, Kim Yun Hyok, Jang Chol and Kong Jin Thae. Placed before president Kim Il Sung's statue at the palace was a basket of flowers in the joint name of the central committee of the workers' party of Korea, the WPK central military commission, the central people's committee and the administration council of the DPRK. The visitors expressed deep respects up to the statue and then extended new year's greetings to the president, who is lying in state . The memorial palace was also visited by working people, Korean people's army soldiers and public securitymen in Pyongyang on the new year's day. They tendered new year's greetings to president Kim Il Sung and then looked round the train and car used by him.

Greetings to CC of Communist Party of Chile

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the workers' party of Korea sent a message of greetings yesterday to the central committee of the communist party of chile on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its foundation. The message said that the communist party has actively striven to defend the democratic right and vital interests of the working people and safeguard world peace and security in the past 75 years. The WPK expressed solidarity with the righteous cause of the communist party which is building an independent and popular party on principles of socilaism and independence against imperialism, it added. The message expressed the belief that friendly relations between the two parties would be expanded and developed in the future in accordance with the common idea for socialism and wished the communist party of chile great achievements in its activities.

Homage to Pres. Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The foreign diplomatic envoys and military attaches corps here on Jan. 1 visited the Kumsusan memorial palace where the great leader president Kim Il Sung is preserved in state, on the occasion of the new year. The guests paid homage to the statue of the great leader and made a bow before him. They saw with keen interest the train president used during his on-the-spot guidance and his visits to foreign countries and the car he used in the last period of his life. They made an entry in a visitors' book.

New Year's greetings to Secy. Kim Jong Il from Japan-resident Koreans

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The great leader marshal Kim Jong Il received telegrams on the occasion of the new year 1997 from the standing council of the federation of Korean workers in commerce in Japan, the central standing council of the association of Korean Young workers in commerce in Japan, the central standing committees of the Korean youth league in Japan and the union of democratic Korean women in Japan, other organizations and sub- organizations under the general association of Korean residents in Japan (chongryon), the Korea news service, the joson sinbo company, the hagu bookshop, the Korea-Japan export and import corporation, the tonghae trading company, ltd. And other business bodies, local headquarters of chongryon, the Chongryon central academy, Korean university and other Korean schools at all levels and compatriots from all walks of life in Japan. They extended warm greetings to marshal Kim Jong Il on the new year. They stressed the hearts of Korean residents in Japan are now filled with the faith that they will win as they are led by the respected general Kim Jong Il, who is identical to the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung in ideology, leadership and traits. And they expressed their firm determination to exert themselves to carry through the decision of the 17th congress of Chongryon and bring earlier the reunification of the country, in hearty response to the historic letter of the general. They sincerely wished marshal Kim Jong Il a long life in good health.