Foreign diplomatic envoys visit Kim Il Sung University
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The diplomatic envoys and embassy officials of Romania, Poland, Hungary, China, Yugoslavia, Iran and Russia and the resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme here visited the revolutionary museum of Kim Il Sung University on the occasion of the 55th birthday of General Kim Jong Il.
Necolai Cotlogut, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Romanian embassy, said that the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il conducted brisk ideological and theoretical activities at Kim Il Sung University and got grasps on the revolutionary ideology of President Kim Il Sung.
Chinese Ambassador Qiao Zonghuai said that Kim Il Sung University won world-wide fame.
General Kim Jong Il conducted revolutionary activities with his distinguished ability and qualifications in his youth, he added.
Secy. Kim Jong Il's Work published in Syria
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- "The Workers' Party of Korea is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung", a celebrated work of General Kim Jong Il was published in booklet by the Dar Damascus Publishing House of Syria on January 27 with the approach of his 55th birthday.
The manager of the Publishing House said Secretary Kim Jong Il is a great man who has led the Korean revolution over the past 30 odd years, together with President Kim Il Sung, and sincerely wished him longevity on his 55th birthday.
Press review
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Papers here today carry an account of celebrations in different countries including news that honorary citizenship of Lima, Peru, was awarded to Secretary Kim Jong Il on his 55th birthday.
Papers give an account of symposiums held by men of the press and party cadre training officials on this occasion.
Papers carry articles on the fact that although President Kim Il Sung ratified a decree of the Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea "on instituting February 16, the birthday of the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il as a supreme national holiday" on February 7, 1992, it was not made public for three years because of the humbleness of General Kim Jong Il.
Rodong Sinmun carries news that preparations for the first exhibition of Kimjongilia progressed toward the final stage and the national art exhibition celebrating the February holiday was opened.
An article of the paper says that the Korean people keep deep in their mind mother Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese heroine, as a great paragon in defending the leader at the risk of life.
Kim Young Sam accused of election fund from Hanbo
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the South Korean opposition "National Congress for New Politics" in a statement February 3 said that there was an information that Kim Young Sam received from the Hanbo group an astronomical amount of money for "Presidential elections" in 1992, a Seoul-based radio said.
He urged Kim Young Sam to make it clear for the probation into truth behind the Hanbo scandal.
He also said that he had an information that some hardcore members of the "New Korea Party" received money amounting to several billion won from the Hanbo group and that the prosecution is hesitating to investigate it, however.
Proposal for joint conference favoured
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Ju Song Il, Chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, in a statement on Feb. 6 said that the proposal for convening a joint conference of political parties and organisations in the north, the south and overseas this year mirrored their patriotic stand and will.
Today there is no more urgent task of the Korean people than to realize national independence and defend peace, he noted, and continued:
"If the national cause of independence and peace is to be accomplished, joint action should be taken in the north, the south and abroad.
"To realize the solidarity of the whole nation for national independence and peace, political parties and organizations in the north, south and abroad should come out in noble solidarity, transcending their ideologies and ideas.
"We will actively meet and have open-hearted dialogues with all the organisations of South Korea and overseas to successfully convene a joint conference of representatives of political parties and organisations from the north, south and abroad this year, the 25th anniversary of the July 4 North-South Joint Statement, and wage the nationwide struggle for national independence and peace.
"We would like to take this opportunity to express the expectation that labor organisations and working people of South Korea will turn out in the nationwide struggle to achieve national independence and defend peace, condemning the criminal moves of the traitors and flunkeysts.
National art exhbn. celebrating February 16
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- A national art exhibition celebrating February 16 has opened on the occasion of the 55th birthday of General Kim Jong Il.
On show at the exhibition hall are some 60 pieces of Korean paintings, oil paintings and graphic paintings portraying the noble image of Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The Korean painting "The Great Leader President Kim Il Sung and the Dear Leader General Kim Jong Il on Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu" and "brilliant general, lodestar on Mt. Paektu", the Korean jewel painting "he says patriotism comes from good knowledge of homeland" and other pieces show well the greatness of Secretary Kim Jong Il who was born as the son of Mt. Paektu.
Also on display are the Korean painting "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Inspects a Company of Artillery Women" and the oil painting "Paternal Love Given to a Post" showing the army building exploits and noble virtues of General Kim Jong Il.
Kim Ki Nam, Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, made a speech at an opening ceremony of the exhibition held at the Korean art gallery on Thursday.
Sinister intention
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Some Japanese officials say Japan now has no plan to render food assistance to the DPRK and that the normalisation of bilateral ties is a precondition for economic assistance.
These remarks reveal the crafty intention of the Japanese reactionaries to put a brake on humanitarian assistance that is conducted in accordance with norms and usage of international relations and to use the humanitarian issue for their sinister political purposes.
Many countries and international agencies render food and other relief goods to the DPRK, which was hit by floods for the last two years. There is no political string to their humanitarian assistance.
It is only Japan that uses the food problem for pressure on the DPRK and raises a political issue such as "normalisation of diplomatic relations" as a precondition for economic assistance. This immoral behavior is a challenge to the humanitarian idea and principle recognised by the international community.
Japan has let no chance pass by without calling for "normal ties" with the DPRK. This issue has not been settled entirely because the Japanese authorities have not renounced their hostile policy toward the DPRK and have not sincerely atoned for their past crimes.
Lurking behind the precondition raised by them this time is a sinister intention to avoid renouncing their hostile policy toward the DPRK and atoning for their past crimes by crafty means.
A war criminal state that committed heinous crimes against the Korean people, Japan still refuses to atone for the past, though it is more than half a century since the war.
Japan must set out on postwar settlement without delay, mindful that the normalisation of diplomatic relations is a matter of choice but the postwar settlement is an unavoidable issue.
If Japan continues resorting to crafty moves, dreaming a daydream, it will bring into bolder relief its political and moral vulgarity and will face criticism from the Korean and other Asian people.
Paper urges U.S. to ponder it over
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today urges the United States to ponder it over as there are some moves in the U.S. that mar the spirit of the DPRK-U.S. framework agreement. An analyst of the paper says:
Recently, South Korean mass media said the Carnegie Foundation had worked out a report to the effect that the U.S. would continue placing Japan and South Korea under its "nuclear umbrella," which means the use of U.S. nuclear weapons in case of "conventional attack" on South Korea.
The voice of America also broadcast this news.
The report of the Carnegie Foundation reflects the high-handed attitude and nuclear policy of the U.S. toward the DPRK.
The continued placement of South Korea and Japan under U.S. "nuclear umbrella" indicates that the aggressive nuclear strategy of the U.S. remains unchanged in the post-Cold War period and is mainly targeted at the DPRK.
"Conventional attack" on South Korea is a groundless fiction.
It is very irresponsible for the U.S. to talk about the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula while the nuclear activity is frozen in the DPRK.
This is, in fact, as good as urging the DPRK to go its own way.
If the U.S. Does not intend to keep its commitment not to use nuclear weapons against the DPRK, we have no idea of keeping up our nuclear freeze. This is an issue that belongs to the exercise of our sovereignty.
If the implementation of the framework agreement and the moves for better ties between the DPRK and the U.S. are suspended due to the U.S. nuclear policy toward the DPRK, it will not be good for the U.S., either.
We will continue watching the U.S. attitude and act accordingly.
Impudent "human rights judge"
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- It has been reported that the U.S. State Department in an "annual human rights report" referred to "human rights problems" in some 190 countries and said the human rights situation in North Korea has not been improved.
The false "report" is a total distortion of the situation of the DPRK and a shameless interference in its internal affairs.
The United States tries to convince public opinion of "human rights problems" in the DPRK through its "annual human rights report" every year.
We can never remain an onlooker to this attempt.
There is no "human rights problem" in the DPRK where the leader, the party and the masses are united in one mind and step up their onward movement under the red flag of revolution.
The United States is not in a position to slander other countries over human rights issue.
It is ridiculous for the U.S. to act an "international human rights judge" while making no mention of human rights violations thriving in the U.S. the United States aims to use the "human rights issue" as a means of political pressure, threat and interference against the DPRK and other independent nations by misleading world opinion.
The U.S. attempt to spoil the image of the DPRK over "human rights issue" is futile.
The United States had better mind its own business.
Reception given in Mexico to celebrate Secy. Kim Jong Il's birthday
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The national executive committee of the Mexican Workers' Party gave a reception on February 1 to celebrate the 55th birthday of Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Alberto Anaya Gutierrez, coordinator of the national executive committee of the party made a speech at the reception.
He said Secretary Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the efforts for the reunification of korea, socialist construction and a worldwide movement to revive socialism with his brilliant ideas, theories and outstanding leadership.
He asked the head of a delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea to convey the best wishes of himself and all the members of the Mexican Workers' Party to Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Honorary citizenship of lima awarded to Secy. Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for awarding the honorary citizenship of Lima, Peru, to Secretary Kim Jong Il was held at the city hall of Lima on February 4 on the occasion of his 55th birthday.
The mayor of lima conveyed the certificate of honorary citizenship to the Korean Ambassador to Peru and said that it is an honor of the times to have Marshal Kim Jong Il as an honorary citizen of Lima.
The certificate says that the supreme leader of the Korean people his excellency Marshal Kim Jong Il is elected as an honorary citizen of Lima on the occasion of his 55th birthday.
Tri-continental peoples solidarity org. supports S. Korean workers
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The organization of Afro-Asian Latin American Peoples Solidarity sent a letter to South Korea's "confederation of trade unions" on January 21, supporting South Korean workers' protest against the retrogressive revision of the "labor law".
It expressed deep concern over the South Korean authorities' suppression of union leaders and workers who are struggling to have their just demand met and called on the international community to strengthen solidarity with them.
Senegalese preparatory committee for celebrating 55th birthday of Secy. Kim Jong Il formed
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the Senegalese preparatory committee for celebrating the 55th birthday of General Kim Jong Il was held on January 31.
At the meeting, Chairman Boubacar Seck of the peace movement of Senegal was elected honorary chairman of the committee and Chairman Babacar Samb of the Senegalese organization for friendship with the fraternal Korean people, chairman of the committee.
The committee adopted a joint statement concerning the inaugural meeting and celebration program.
Statement on hundreds of millions of won given to S. Korean politicians
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Jong Thae Su, chairman of the Hanbo group, stated that funds from tens of millions of won to hundreds of millions of won were given to some 30 politicians of ruling and opposition parties including Hong In Gil, "Assemblyman" from the "New Korea Party", a Seoul-based radio said.
Quoting the prosecution as saying that it could not open to the public Jong's statement for the sake of investigation, the radio added that this shows that he confessed much about his tieups with political power by funds.
NDFSK on truth behind secretive passage of laws in S. Korea
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The propaganda department of the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) issued a document on January 27 on the truth behind the Kim Young Sam regime's secretive passage of evil laws, the Seoul-based radio voice of national salvation reported. The document says in part:
The Kim Young Sam regime talks about "legitimacy" and "inevitability" of the revision of "Labor Laws" and "Law on the Agency for National Security Planning" in an attempt to calm down the public protests, but will not be able to conceal its sinister intention and the truth behind the criminal passage of the laws in the absence of opposition "lawmakers."
The secretive passage of eleven "bills" including the disputed ones is linked with the serious government crisis of the Kim Young Sam regime.
Kim Young Sam ordered the "government" and the ruling party to step up the enactment of evil laws, with a view to bridging over the serious crisis with "tough politics" and winning conservative-minded voters over to the ruling camp in the upcoming "presidential election."
Under his secret directive, the fascist "New Korea Party" railroaded eleven "bills" including the amendments of the two disputed laws under the chair of the "deputy speaker" in a predawn "parliamentary" session where "speaker" Kim Su Han and opposition "lawmakers" were absent.
Upon hearing the news about this secretive passage of laws, the opposition parties declared the evil laws null and void and announced that they would take strong legal and physical countermeasures. The labor interests including the "Korean Confederation of Trade Unions" and the "Federation of Korea Trade Unions" went on general strike, driving the "government" and the ruling party into a tight corner.
The international confederation of free trade unions and other international labor organisations issued statements of protest and all the South Korean people increasingly criticised the undemocratic enactment of evil laws. However, the heinous dictator, Kim Young Sam, endorsed and promulgated the evil labor laws on December 31.
The secretive passage of laws has not given a way out for the "civilian" dictatorship but will precipitate its ruin.
Whatever tricks Kim Young Sam's fascist "New Korea Party" may resort to, the people's struggle for democracy in society, the three rights of labor and national reunification will develop into a national uprising to destroy the "civilian" dictatorship, and Kim Young Sam will meet a more miserable end than the preceding dictators did for his heinous crimes against the nation and the people.
Most realistic proposal for reunification
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The proposal of a joint meeting of political parties and organisations in North Korea for convening a joint conference of representatives of political parties and organisations in the north, the south and overseas is the most realistic one reflecting the aspiration of the nation for the country's reunification, Rodong Sinmun today says, and continues:
The present acute situation of the Korean Peninsula makes it incumbent upon all the fellow countrymen to redouble efforts to realise national independence and preserve peace of the country.
The only right way of our nation to tide over the present difficulties and open a phase of peaceful reunification is to carry through the three principles of national reunification -- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
National independence is the preferential banner of all fellow countrymen to make this year a "year of solidarity of Koreans in the north, the south and overseas for national independence and peace".
All the Koreans should smash the South Korean rulers' dependent, flunkeyist and traitorous policy under the banner of national independence.
The solidarity of Koreans in the north, the south and overseas is the basic guarantee for national independence and peace.
It is the basic way of achieving national independence and preserving peace that all the patriotic pro-reunification forces in the north, the south and overseas unite close, transcending differences in ideology and system, political view and isms.
When representatives of all the political parties and organisations and individual persons in the north, the south and overseas who have will to realise national independence and preserve peace of the country, get together this year, the 25th anniversary of the publication of the historical July 4 Joint Statement, and reaffirm the three principles of reunification, a reunification program common to the nation, and consult measures for promoting mutual solidarity and unity, it will give a new hope for reunification to all fellow countrymen and open an epochal phase in accelerating peaceful reunification.
Symposiums mark birthday of Secy. Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Party cadre training officials and men of the press held symposiums on Feb. 6 to mark the 55th birthday of Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Speakers at the symposium of party cadre training officials explained the immortal exploits performed by Secretary Kim Jong Il.
They noted that Secretary Kim Jong Il viewed the party cadre training as important for the prospect and destiny of the party and revolution, fully developed in depth President Kim Il Sung's Juche-oriented idea and theory of cadre training as demanded by the party-building and the revolution and wisely led people to carry them out.
They vowed they would cherish the great national pride of making the revolution under the leadership of General Kim Jong Il and bring about a new turn in the work to carry out the party's cadre training policy under the red flag of revolution.
The speakers at the symposium of men of the press stressed that Secretary Kim Jong Il deepened the Juche-based idea of the press, defined the press as a powerful weapon of ideological work, initiated a revolutionary movement in newspapers, news services and publications and wisely led the media to contribute to the cause of modelling the whole society on the Juche idea.
They said the journalists and men of the press should carry out his ideas, intentions, orders and directives with absolute worship for him.
S. Korean women prepare gift for General Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Members of the patriotic women's association in Chungju city, North Chungchong Province, held a meeting in January and discussed an action program to celebrate the 55th birthday of General Kim Jong Il, according to the Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
They decided to make fancywork for General Kim Jong Il in the name of the association.
Letters "We will become rays of light to follow the respected General Kim Jong Il forever" will be embroidered against the background of the rising sun and its rays.
Below the letters will be an old pine tree, deer and cranes, symbols of longevity. The fancywork will be trimmed with 55 flowers of Kimjongilia, symbolic of the 55th birthday.
S. Korean defectors interviewed
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- Kuk Chol Jung, 36, and his wife and children, who defected to the north from South Korea some time ago, today met with home and foreign reporters at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel.
Kuk was born in Kwangchon-ri, Toksan-myon, Yesan county, South Chungchong Province. He and his wife, Ryu Kyong Ok had engaged in lighting fixtures manufacture in Seoul until they came over to the north.
They said that in south korea the privileged people are left unpunished even though they commit murder and the poor people are ignored even though they are mistreated and victimized. "out of the desire to leave such society, we have come to the north, under the respected General Kim Jong Il's administration for the people, together with our children," they said.
Revealing the corruptness of South Korean society, they said the South Korean people have no longer believed in Kim Young Sam and other South Korean authorities. It is their choice to topple the corrupt society and build a new society serving the masses, they said.
They noted that South Korean society, where the "government" authorities are taking the lead in amassing illicit wealth and fostering injustice and evil things, will surely collapse like Songsu Bridge and the Sampoong Store.
Kuk Chol Jung referred to the reverence for General Kim Jong Il ever growing among South Korean people.
He said:
"South Koreans unanimously say General Kim Jong Il's visit to Pamnunjom is a courageous action which can be done only by the nation's savior who deem the whole nation's pain his own and has a matchless grit and will to save the destiny of the fellow countrymen.
"It is only he who will save and defend the destiny of the nation. Nothing can block the South Korean people from tending towards the north guided by him."
He vowed to do his utmost to defend General Kim Jong Il at the cost of life as the people of the north do.
Ryu Kyong Ok said, "Everyone I have met was very kind to my family. In the future, I will work hard for General Kim Jong Il as a member of his family."
Joint greetings to int'l seminar
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Central People's Committee today sent a joint telegram of greetings to the international seminar on the Juche idea to be held in Tokyo.
It is a significant event that an international seminar on the 21st century and position of humanity is held now when it is required to build a new world that embodies the ideal of independence, peace and friendship, the telegram said.
The Juche idea clarifies that independence is the life of human beings and that unity and cooperation is their mode of existence, said the telegram, adding that the idea thus indicates the way of achieving independent development of the nation, promoting independence, peace, friendship and cooperation among all nations and peoples and building a new society and a new world suitable for the social attributes of human beings.
The message noted that the aspiration of people to create a new life as masters of their destiny will grow stronger day by day and that no force on earth can check the trend of the time toward independence.
The message expressed the belief that the seminar will enjoy full support and sympathy from the people of the world desirous of independence, social progress and a new life and greatly inspire their struggle. It wished the seminar great success.