Secy. Kim Jong Il enjoys art performances
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Secretary Kim Jong Il,
Chairman of the DPRK National Defence
Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's
Army (KPA), on Monday enjoyed the light comedy "Blessings"
performed by artistes of the KPA april 25 film studio and a
performance given by the art propaganda team of KPA large
combined unit 337.
The light comedy is based on the heroic efforts of
servicemen to work a miracle of Korea in the 1990s through
the construction of the anbyon youth power station.
The comedy shows the indomitable revolutionary spirit of
servicemen and their optimistic life. The Philosophical idea
of the comedy is that the great consanguinity between the
Supreme Commander and his men is the source of the
revolutionary spirit of servicemen.
The performance demonstrated the unshakable faith and
will and militant stamina of the army and the people to
complete the juche revolution under the Party's leadership.
The art propaganda team members put on stage art pieces
of various forms with a high degree of militant spirit,
appeal and impressiveness.
Their performance fully represented the noble mental and
moral traits of the KPA, which is famous for its unshakable
ideology and faith. It also demonstrated the effect of local
revolutionary and militant art propaganda on servicemen's
heroic struggle and feats.
Secretary Kim Jong Il expressed great satisfaction and
thanks to the creating staffs and artistes of the film
studio and the propaganda team for the light comedy that is
of great importance in cognition and education and for the
brisk art propaganda to instil the servicemen with fighting
spirit and courage.
He noted with high appreciation that they have produced
many films and light comedies of high ideological and
artistic value in line with the Party's Juche-based policy
of literature and art and conducted effective art propaganda
as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did, so that they could
actively encourage the servicemen and the people in the
efforts to strengthen the revolutionary army and implement
the party's military line.
He added that they are honorable guards in charge of the
ideological front for the modelling of the whole army on the
Juche idea.
He gave them important tasks for more brisk art
activities.
The audience included 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= Choe
thae Bok, Kim Kuh Thae, Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yong Sun,
secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea Central
Committee= and other senior officials of the party and the
army as well as servicemen.
President Kim Il Sung's birthday to be commemorated in Madagascar
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- The inaugural meeting of
the Madagascan national preparatory committee for
commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of the great leader
President Kim Il Sung was held in Antananarivo on March 12.
The Chairman of the Madagascar-Korea Friendship
Association and the Vice-chairman of the Madagascan
Solidarity Committee told the meeting that the revolutionary
people of the world are revering the respected President
Kim Il Sung as a genius of humankind and the great leader of
the world revolution and praying for his immortal life.
They said the revolutionary cause started by him has been
successfully carried forward by Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The Chairman of the Madagascar-Korea Friendship
Association was elected Chairman of the national preparatory
committee.
It was decided at the meeting to set the days from March
15 to April 15, 1997, as a month of commemoration and
organize various activities during the month.
South Korea's ceaseless military provocations denounced
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppets
are continuing grave military provocations under the pretext
of "threat from the north" to render the situation strained.
In this regard the Secretariat of the Committee for the
Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued its
information no. 731 monday.
The information said they are ceaselessly committing
grave military provocations in the western and central
sectors of the front in march following February and
frantically staging, in collusion with outsiders, various
war games against the fellow countrymen in the north.
Owing to the recklesss war moves of the United States and
the south Korean warmaniacs the situation in the Korean
Peninsula is so dangerous that a war may break out anytime
and peace of the country is confronted with a grave
challenge, it stressed, and went on:
The south Korean rulers are now making bellicose remarks
one after another and kicking up war rackets, intentionally
straining the situation. Their moves are not because of
"threat" and "provocation" by the north but because of their
insidious purpose of unleashing war as a way out of the
ruling crisis.
Confrontation and war can never be a way out for those on
the verge of death.
If the south Korean rulers persist in war in defiance of
the unanimous protest at home and abroad, it will only
precipitate their miserable downfall.
The Kim Young Sam group must act with discretion,
squarely seeing the invincible might of our people and the
people's army.
Rodong Sinmun on bellicose utterances of warmaniac
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- A few days ago, the traitor
kim Young Sam showed up at a "commissioning ceremony"
of the puppet air force academy, at which he blared that
they should maintain "alert readiness to cope with possible
military provocation by the north".
Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today
says:
These days, Kim Young Sam is more zealously inciting
the fever of confrontation and war against the north with
frequent visits to the academies of three services of the
puppet army, while continuing with war exercises. This is an
offspring of the extreme ruling crisis.
The Kim Young Sam group are on the verge of an inevitable
ruin for all kinds of treacherous crimes they have committed
while in office, for the retrogressive revision of fascist
laws and for their direct involvement in the largest-ever
financial scandal.
Some time ago, it was disclosed that Kim Young Sam's son
had exerted influence upon "state affairs as a whole", thus
enraging the south Korean people.
Home and foreign observers estimate that the traitor Kim
Young Sam is on the edge of death.
This is why the south Korean puppets are trying to get
out of this hopeless crisis by unleashing a war against the
fellow countrymen with outside forces.
It is a big miscalculation, if the Kim Young Sam group
intend to find a way out in intensifying the moves of
confrontation and war against the north.
The more frantically they make war preparations against
the north, the earlier the day will come when they will be
ruined.
Friendship gathering on Day of Pakistan
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- A friendship gathering took
place at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace in
Pyongyang on Monday to mark the day of Pakistan.
Invited to the gathering were Pakistani Ambassador to
Korea Rehmdil Bhatti and his Embassy officials.
The visitors went round the palace before they
appreciated an art performance.
Press review
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Papers here today frontpage
a report that Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the
Korean People's Army, on March 17 enjoyed a light comedy
"Blessings" performed by artistes of the KPA April 25 film
studio and a performance given by the art propaganda team of
KPA large combined unit 337.
Papers convey news that Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented
with a gift by the visiting delegation of the propaganda and
education ideological committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary
Party.
Rodong Sinmun carries an article headlined "recalling a
great man in Jilin" written by Lei Shufang, a chinese woman
who participated in the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle
with deep comradely amity with the great leader President
Kim Il Sung in her teens.
Under the title "to defend independence is the way of
patriotism", an aphorism of Secretary Kim Jong Il, the paper
edits articles in this regard.
Conspicuous in papers is news of land management in
spring progressing apace across the country.
A commentary of Rodong Sinmun denounces the traitor Kim
Young Sam for inciting a fever of war against the north at
the "commissioning ceremony" of the puppet air force
academy.
Conveyed in the press is news that the Kwangju and south
Jolla Provincial measure committee for defending democracy
published a declaration of 10,200 people of Kwangju and
south Jolla Province condemning Kim Young Sam.
Printed in Rodong Sinmun is information issued by the
Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification
of the Fatherland flailing the south Korean puppets for
keying up tensions with ceaseless grave military
provocations.
Minju Joson comes out with an article denouncing the
cabinet reshuffle carried out by the Kim Young Sam group.
Rodong Sinmun runs an article branding the start of U.S.
"Radio Free Asia" as a base move to realize its wild
ambition for dominating Asia and another article laying bare
the deceptive nature of the "welfare policy" in capitalist
society.
An article of Minju Joson analyzes the phenomenon of "the
rich getting richer and the poor poorer" in capitalist
society.
Party marks end of Korea visit of WFP officials
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Christian Lemaire, resident
coordinator of the United Nations here, gave a party on
Monday to mark the end of the Korea visit of the Executive
Director of the World Food Programme and her entourage.
Invited to the party were Vice-Premier Kong Jin Thae,
other officials concerned and diplomatic envoys accredited
to the DPRK.
Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the WFP, and her
entourage, Birgitta Karlgren, representative of the WFP, and
Runa Soerensen, acting representative of the United Nations
Children's Fund, were present.
Speeches were made at the party.
Party at Russian Consulate General
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- A party was given Monday at
the Russian Consulate General in Chongjin on the occasion of
the 48th anniversary of the conclusion of the agreement on
economic and cultural cooperation between Korea and Russia.
Invited to the party were Hyon Tong hyok, vice-chairman
of the north Hamgyong Provincial administrative and economic
committee, and officials concerned.
The Russian Consul General and officials of the consulate
general in Chongjin were present at the party.
Speeches were made there.
True colors of hack newspaper revealed again
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- The Japanese newspaper
Sankei Shimbun March 13 quoted a former "North Korean agent
in Japan" as saying it is true that "a North Korean agent
kidnapped a Japanese girl".
Needless to say, this is a base political drama to do
harm to the DPRK in cooperation with south Korea's puppet
Agency for National Security Planning.
An Ryong Jin, who they say was once a North Korea's
operative, has never been on the rolls of the DPRK.
We already know that the south Korean puppets are a group
of villians engrossed in mean acts and journalists of Sankei
Shimbun are hack writers bereft of the duty of the press. We
can hardly repress scorn at the nonsensical report made by
them in a far-fetched way.
As is known, the Sankei Shimbun has long since engaged in
false propaganda against the DPRK as a political waiting
maid of the south Korean puppets.
Last year and the previous year, they described the flood
damage in the DPRK as "exaggerated," quoting south Korea's
"National Unification Board" and "sources of South Korea".
Not content with this, they spread a lot of false rumors to
mislead public opinion, only to be denounced as "hack
writers" and "rubbish paper" by the unbiased world public.
The continued anti-DPRK smear campaign is motivated by a
plot of the south Korean puppets to bridge over the ruling
crisis by inventing a shocking case.
The south Korean political situation is now in a serious
crisis and confusion owing to the retrogressive revision of
"labour law" and the Hanbo loan scandal. The "civilian"-
veiled "government" is rejected by the people as "too old a
regime" and Kim Young Sam as a "dead man".
To find a way out, the south Korean puppets needed a
shocking case to divert public attention elsewhere, and the
sankei shimbun was used in the operation.
Judgement of Kim Young Sam demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- the Kwangju and South Jolla
Provincial Measure Committee for Defence of Democracy made
public a declaration of 10,200 people in Kwangju and south
jolla Province on Mar. 11, according to the newspaper
"Hangyore" based in South Korea.
The declaration carries "article to all people" with
slogans reading "We will bring Kim Young Sam and the new
Korea party to trial !", "Abolish evil laws !",
"Punish mastermind of Hanbo scandal !" and "liquidate
civilian-veiled dictatorship !" and so on.
In the article it warned the incompetent and corrupt Kim
Young Sam "regime", the "Agency for National Security
Planning" trying to stamp out human rights by revising
"law", and wicked businesses satisfying avarice with the
sacrifice of workers and minor enterprises that any forces
trying to turn back the wheel of democratic development will
not escape an iron hammer of history and justice.
The railroaded "labor laws" and "Law on the Agency for
National Security Planning" and the Hanbo incident are by no
means different cases but a structural matter produced by
social ruling power including the civilian dictatorial
power, security information agency and monopoly businesses,
the declaration said.
It appealed to all the people to turn out to realise
democracy and freedom in South Korea, establish respect for
human rights and sure employment and achieve peaceful
reunification of the nation.
No force on earth can break strength of Korea
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun March 17 came
out with a political essay entitled "pine tree on Nam hill
will remain green for ever".
The essay said that the strong spirit of the green pine
tree on Nam hill will be everlasting together with the
history of Kim Il Sung's nation, who will always remember
the three great men of mangyongdae, the glory of the Korean
nation.
In Korea, the green pine tree on Nam hill in mangyongdae
where the great leader President Kim Il Sung was born is
symbolic of the indomitable stamina of the Korean people to
continue the revolution.
The essay noted that this pine tree is not only a noble
spirit of Kim Hyong jik, an indomitable revolutionary
fighter who set forth the idea of "aim high" and embarked
upon the road of the revolution but also a witness of the
great devoted services made by President Kim Il Sung and
Secretary Kim Jong Il for the revolution, holding fast to
this idea generation after generation.
The essay stressed that the pine tree is a symbol of the
noble idea and optimism with which to bring the spring of
life at any cost. It further said:
The Korean revolution advances without any slightest
vacillation under any political offensive, economic
pressure and ideological and cultural infiltration on the
part of the imperialists, true to the idea of the red flag.
This is precisely the unbreakable stamina of the Korean
revolution which is advancing under the guidance of the
respected General Kim Jong Il and the spirit of the green
pine tree.
Herein lies the unshakable will of the Korean
revolutionaries who are determined never to become slaves
again but to live as masters of the independent nation
forever.
The pine tree is the invincible stamina of the Korean
people who are ready to carry forward and accomplish the
Korean revolution generation after generation.
Kim Hyong jik's idea of "aim high" is being fully
realised on this land, thanks to General Kim Jong Il, who is
firmly determined to make our country and motherland more
prosperous, true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung.
We will certainly win as we are guided by Secretary
Kim Jong Il, a peerless General who has fully personified
the spirit of the green pine tree on Nam hill.
No force on earth can break the strength of the
singlehearted unity of Korea around General Kim Jong Il and
the might of the pine tree.
We visualize great 21st century -- S. Korean's article
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Ri Un Song, member of the
south Korean society for future, published an article titled
"We visualize the great 21st century", Seoul-based radio
voice of national salvation said.
The author said in the article that the great 21st
century is forthcoming in the north.
Many countries and nations that had been oppressed in the
past are of view that the 21st century will be Kim Jong Il's
century in which the world becomes independent, peaceful,
democratic and prosperous with the reunified Korean
peninsula in the centre, he said.
On mt. Paektu President Kim Il Sung, the sun of the
nation, made clear for the first time what the world desired
by humankind is like, he said. He founded the great juche
idea, an anthropocentric idea which reflects the centuries-
old desire of humankind and considers man the master of the
world, opened up a new era of love and trust and reared the
first masters of the world. The author noted:
General Kim Jong Il, who is carrying forward the cause of
President Kim Il Sung, is a great pioneer and guide of the
century who is giving concrete shape to the future society.
The future of the 21st century, mirrored in the rising
generations of the north, is the most dignified, happy,
powerful, beautiful and optimistic.
With General Kim Jong Il's ideas as their motto and
outlook on life, they are living a dignified life even in
the "arduous march", convinced of victory.
Since their birth, they are fed, clothed and educated at
state expense.
They have become the masters of the 21st century under
the leadership of General Kim Jong Il, symbolic of the
future society, independent, creative and prospering.
He leads not only the Korean nation but all other people
around the world along the road of independence. This is why
he is praised by all the people as the guide of the 21st
century and their eternal savior.
Many nations on the globe have taken their choices,
no longer bullied by large countries, in the way general
Kim Jong Il does, and have shaped popular policies, learning
from the north's politics. The 21st century, which will be
permeated with his ideas and shining with his great image,
is in sight.
Greetings to Saharan Foreign Minister
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Kim Yong
Nam of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea sent a
message of greetings to Bachir Mustapha sayed upon his
appointment as Saharan Foreign Minister.
The message wished him success in his new office and
expressed the conviction that the friendly relations between
the two countries will continue to develop on good terms.
Gift to Secy. Kim Jong Il from WFP
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Secretary Kim Jong Il
received a gift from the World Food Programme.
The gift was handed to Vice-Premier Kong Jin Thae by
Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food
Programme, on a visit to Korea.
Secretary Kim Jong Il was also presented with a gift by
the Executive Director in her name.
WFP Executive Director inspects flood-hit areas
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Catherine Bertini,
Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), today
inspected flood-hit areas in Unpha County, north Hwanghae
Province of the DPRK, following her inspection of Rinsan and
Phyongsan counties of the Province Monday.
The Executive Director was accompanied by Vice-chairwoman
of the State Agricultural Commission Kim Yong Suk and
officials concerned and Birgitta Karlgren, representative of
the WFP to Korea.
She went round Unpha bridge and residential districts
around it devastated by flood before being informed of the
damage scale.
Then she met and talked with farmers at sites for the
rehabilitation of devastated farm lands, which is
progressing with wfp's assistance. She also visited a
nursery, a kindergarten and houses.
She said the inspection made her witness the catastrophic
consequences of the two years of natural disasters.
For the devastated Arable lands to be restored to
original state and capabilities to be created to decrease
possible flood damage in future, a lot of work such as
afforestation and embankment should be done, Bertini
stressed. This needs additional food supply from the world
community, she added.
In her speech at a banquet given to mark the end of her
visit to Korea Monday, she said that through the visit she
could confirm at first hand that the materials donated for
wfp activities in the DPRK have been successfully used.
It is important above anything else to render emergency
food supply amounting to 100,000 tons as called for by the
wfp this time, she said.
She called once again upon the donator nations and
international community to give much more humanitarian
assistance which will contribute to improving the food
situation.
The Executive Director and her party left here today.
UN delegation here
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the
Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations
arrived here today by air.