FEBRUARY.15.1997

[CONTENTS]

• Greetings to Secy. Kim Jong Il from Pres. Fidel Castro Ruz

• Gift to Secy. Kim Jong Il from CPC

• Press review

• Rodong Sinmun on s. Korea's inhuman act

• Sixth "Paektusan Prize" international figure skating tourney opens

• Banquet for diplomatic corps in Korea

• Korean educational and cultural TV broadcasting to be started

• Floral basket and congratulatory letter to Secy. Kim Jong Il

• "Brief biography of Comrade Kim Jong Il" published

• Korean jewel picture

• Monument to Secy. Kim Jong Il's guidance erected

• Story-telling sessions of youth and students held

• Minju Joson raps at Kim Young Sam group for war preparation

• Servicemen's art festival under way

• Floral baskets to Secy. Kim Jong Il from Libyan and Ghanaian heads of state

• Preparatory committees for Secy. Kim Jong Il's 55th birthday formed abroad

• Poem "Blizzard of the General" published

• Secy. Kim Jong Il elected honorary academician

• Secy. Kim Jong Il's works published in booklet in Austria

• Committee to support Korea's reunification formed in Romania

• Literature lauding Secy. Kim Jong Il appears in Seoul