Zimbabwean President calls for peaceful reunification of Korea
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert G. Mugabe met with a government delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea headed by Vice-premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam on March 25.
The Zimbabwean President said that he hoped Korea would be reunified independently and peacefully.
Referring to the development of the friendly relations between Zzimbabwe and the DPRK, he said that he was rejoiced over great achievements made in Korea under the guidance of Secretary Kim Jong Il.
He noted with great pleasure that Secretary Kim Jong Il is creditably carrying forward the cause of the great leader President Kim Il Sung.
He expressed full support to all policies pursued by the DPRK.
President Kim Il Sung's work published in booklet in Nepal
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The Nepal-Korea Friendship Association published "Let Us Bring the Advantages of Socialism in Our Country into Full Play", a famous work of President Kim Il Sung, in booklet on the occasion of April 15.
The booklet said in its preface:
The world people are struggling to build a new independent and just society.
The Juche idea of Secretary Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people and an outstanding leader of the international communist movement, is a banner of struggle for independence to the revolutionaries.
His famous work "Let Us Bring the Advantages of Socialism in Our Country into Full Play" clearly indicates a correct orientation of the struggle of the working people for independence and the building of socialism and communism and their role in this struggle.
85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung to be commemorated in Cambodia and Yugoslavia
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees for commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of the great leader President Kim Il Sung (April 15, 1912) were inaugurated in Cambodia and Yugoslavia.
Princess Norodom Bophadevi was elected Chairwoman of the Cambodian preparatory committee.
Stevan Mirkovic, President of the presidency of the communist workers' movement of Yugoslavia, was elected Chairman of the Yugoslav preparatory committee at the inaugural meeting.
The meeting set a commemoration month and discussed schedules of functions.
Japanese reactionaries bereft of reason
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comments on the Japanese reactionaries' despicable acts to cover up the criminal nature of the "comfort women" issue.
Recently, the Chief of the Foreign Policy Deliberation Office of the Japanese Cabinet said there is no evidence for the forced recruitment of "Comfort Women for the Japanese Army" and the government authorities were not directly involved in their drafting.
Young lawmakers have said Japanese textbooks have wrong description of the "comfort women" issue and they would ascertain whether it is true or not.
Rodong Sinmun says it has been fully revealed by official documents and testimonies of those involved in the recruitment that it was planned and carried out by the Japanese government and military as their policy and a large number of women were drafted forcibly by government power.
By denying the "comfort women" issue, Japanese politicians revealed their intention to avoid the settlement of the past and repeat such a crime, the daily says, and continues .
Their efforts to delete even the unsatisfactorily described "comfort women" issue from middle school's history textbooks offer a glimpse of their real intention to imbue the rising generations with the militarist view of history and encourage them to reinvasion.
The Japanese authorities are now committing a crime again. They should know that their acts to justify Japan's past will bring calamities on them.
Reactionary venal media
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Hyon Chol, a son of Kim Young Sam, is now dodging presence at a "parliamentary hearing" he himself promised some time ago.
To this end he has put in motion a press counter-measure team, his private organization, and the puppet ministry of information, which are actively backing him.
The press counter-measure team and the puppet Ministry of Information are denounced by people as a reactionary media turning away from justice and truth and speaking for the anti-social crime of Kim Young Sam and his clan.
They have made the south Korean press degraded and reactionary in a bid to cover their traitorous colors.
Kim Young Sam took power with a political transformation of three parties into one and has more persistently faked up the press to mislead public opinion and deceive the popular masses with a view to reinforcing his fragile power foundation.
It is despicable and shameless that he allowed his son with no public office to influence political power. Kim Young Sam at the time of his "Candidate for President" activated Kim Hyon Chol's private organizations to cook up the press for his "election". After taking power he fattened his son's private organizations so that his son might play "a little President".
It is not surprising that the south Korean puppet Ministry of Information and its "Minister" have become a servant of the press counter-measure team and turned into a manipulator of the press.
This practically proves that an official "governmental organ" of the "civilian regime" is a private one related to the fate of Kim Young Sam.
Sycophantic treachery flailed
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA)-- The south Korean puppets' clamouring for continued presence of the U.S. troops in Okinawa and East Asia is aimed at persistently pursuing the policy of war against the northern half of Korea with the backing of outsiders and currying favor with their master, say papers here today.
The analyst of Rodong Sinmun, commenting on the sycophantic treachery, says:
At the talks with a Japanese ruling party delegation the south Korean puppets contended that the continued presence of the U.S. troops in Okinawa is necessary for immediately coping with the "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula as well as preserving peace and stability in the region. Their utterances are a reversed logic. The U.S. troops present in Okinawa play a pivotal role in the execution of the U.S. policy towards the DPRK. They are a source of the escalating tensions and the increasing danger of war on the Korean Peninsula.
Immediate response to the "contingency" on the lips of the south Korean puppets means the entry of the U.S. troops present in Okinawa into a new Korean war.
The south Korean puppets prattled that the presence of 100,000 U.S. troops in east Asia is an "international promise". Who made the promise with whom?
The East Asia-based 100,000 U.S. troops are to stifle the DPRK by force of arms and, furthermore, dominate the whole Asia.
Minju Joson in a signed commentary warns that if the south Korean puppets unleash a new war against the northern half of Korea, taking advantage of the aggressive policy of outside forces, we will deliver decisive counterblows to them.
Press review
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today reports that Secretary Kim Jong Il sent thanks to many units, officials, working people and students for their active contributions to building up better the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the great leader President Kim Il Sung is preserved in state.
The paper rounds up voices of south Korean intellectuals and publications highly praising Secretary Kim Jong Il given in the paper is news that preparatory committees for commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of Ppresident Kim Iil Ssung were inaugurated in different countries.
Tthe paper carries an article on loving care President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il bestowed on Dr. Jon Ju Sik, who was the chief of a department of Kim Hyong Jik Army Surgeon University.
The paper dedicates an article to the 60th anniversary of the Xigang meeting organised by President Kim Il Sung during the period of anti-Japanese armed struggle.
Under the title " holding the peerlessly great man in high esteem" Minju Joson carries an article entitled "he becomes father of children across the country", illustrated by a picture of Secretary Kim Jong Il seeing gifts for the students (March 28 1977).
Carried in the paper is the first part of a book "Kim Jong Il, the leader of the 21st century", which edits articles written by the editor-in-chief and the First Deputy Editor of the Russian paper "Patriot" on the occasion of the 55th birthday of Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Rodong Sinmun informs the readers that the 12th fine art exhibition of the Korean People's Army is open on the occasion of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 55th birthday of Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Papers carry news of seeding in the countryside.
Rodong Sinmun introduces the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement, ideological, technical and cultural, which is invigorated in various domains of the national economy.
Printed in the paper is information no. 733 issued by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland denouncing the Kim Young Sam group for suppressing the patriotic-minded students and people.
The paper in a commentary supports the spring struggle of bus trade unions for wage increase in 6 cities of south Korea.
Papers comment on the sycophantic treachery of the south Korean puppets who raved that the presence of the U.S. troops in Okinawa is necessary for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
Rodong Sinmun in a commentary denounces the Japanese reactionaries for foolishly scheming to cover up the crime against "comfort women".
The paper, analyzing Helsinki summit talks between Russia and the U.S., says that the divergence of view on the NATO expansion issue would not be solved easily.
Time-honored city
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a city with a long history and brilliant culture.
The city dates as far back as the first period of human civilization.
It was the capital of three dynasties of ancient Korea for nearly 3,000 years since King Tangun chose it as the capital of the first state of Korea he built more than 5,000 years ago.
Human beings have lived in this beautiful city since the Paleolithic age. Its evidence is the remains of ape-men found in caves at Huguri, Sangwon county. The remains are more than a million years old. Lots of remains of paleolithic and neolithic men and their dwelling sites have been discovered around the city.
King Tangun was born in Pyongyang, chose this ancient and beautiful city as the capital and worked heart and soul to build the nation.
Since then, Pyongyang was the capital of three dynasties of ancient Korea for nearly 3,000 years (third millenium B.C.-108 B.C.). After the collapse of ancient Korea, it remained a centre of politics, the economy and culture in northwest Korea as the capital of Raknangguk built by descendants of ancient Korea.
Its historic position and role were succeeded by the Koguryo dynasty, which lasted a thousand years as a strong nation.
Koguryo moved its capital to Pyongyang in 427, because it was the cradle of the Korean nation with a long history and culture.
The Koryo dynasty, the first unified state of Korea, attached importance to Pyongyang and rehabilitated it after Wang Kon founded Koryo in 918 with an ambition to restore Koguryo. This was mainly because Pyongyang was the cradle of the nation and the capital of King Tangun's Korea.
During the Ri dynasty, the city played an important role in the development of national history, remaining the largest centre in northwest Korea.
Preserved in Pyongyang are King Tangun's mausoleum and the mausoleum of King Tongmyong, the founder of the Koguryo dynasty, which have been reconstructed, as well as the fort on mt. Taesong, the walled city of Pyongyang and many other relics as witnesses of Korea's history of five thousand years.
Pyongyang today is the capital of Juche Korea and a holy land full of national identity.
U.S. delegation arrives
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the senate of the united states led by Senator Ted Stevens arrived here today.
The delegation was greeted at the airport by Kim Kye Gwan, Advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly(SPA) and Vice Foreign Minister,and officials concerned.
Kang Sok Ju meets U.S. delegation
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Kang Sok Ju, First vice Foreign Minister and Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, had a talk with the delegation of the senate of the united states at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today, when it paid him a courtesy call. Senator Ted Stevens is leading the delegation.
Present there were Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan, Advisory Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the SPA, and officials concerned.