Gift to Secy. Kim Jong Il from Thai parliamentary delegation
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from a delegation of the Thai parliament on a visit to Korea.
Head of the delegation Sophon Phetsawang, first deputy-Speaker of the House of Representatives of Thailand, handed the gift to Yang Hyong Sop, Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly.
Preparatory committees for 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung formed abroad
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees for commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung were formed in Togo and Benin on March 21.
Liwoibe Sambiani, Minister of Professional Development and Public Function, was elected Honorary Chairman of the Togolese preparatory committee and the Chairman of the Togolese Fellowship Society for Honouring the Memory of President Kim Il Sung its executive chairman.
General Secretary of the Construction Workers' Party of Benin Ali Houdou was elected Chairman of the preparatory committee of Benin.
Schedules of functions were discussed at the meetings.
Secy. Kim Jong Il receives badge and key from Peru
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il was awarded a commemorative badge of Emilio Valdizan National University of Peru and a key of Huanuco City of Peru.
Vice-President of the University Fernando Hernandez Rodriguez said that the preparatory committee for functions celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the foundation of the University decided to award its commemorative badge and the city key to the respected General Kim Jong Il, who has made great contributions to the development of education in Korea.
The University awards the city key to prominent figures of the world under the consent of the Huanuco City Hall on the occasion of the anniversary of its foundation.
Press review
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today reports that Secretary Kim Jong Il sent thanks to officials and working people who distinguished themselves in carrying out their revolutionary tasks.
Papers frontpage a report that Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Thai parliamentary delegation.
Preparatory committees for commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung were inaugurated in Benin and Togo, says the press.
Papers give prominence to the news that more than 10,000 students of 24 universities in Seoul staged an anti-"government" struggle.
Rodong Sinmun carries a signed article on the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung over the youth league.
Under Secretary Kim Jong Il's aphorism "like the leader, like the people", the paper edits articles.
Minju Joson carries an article about the loving care the three generals of Mt. Paektu bestowed on Ryo Un Hyong, who was a democrat of south Korea, and his family.
Appearing in the press is news that a national meeting of model stock breeders was held in Pyongyang.
Rodong Sinmun comes out with a commentary on a "confidential internal report" worked out by Kim Hyon Chol, a son of Kim Young Sam, to hush up his crimes.
A commentary of the paper accuses the U.S., Japan and south Korean puppets of trying to introduce new military equipment into south Korea.
Papers inform the readers that the delegate of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea told a meeting of the open-working group of the reform and opening of the UN Security Council that the United Nations must not strip Japan of the stigma of "enemy state".
Rodong Sinmun prints an article titled "the United States must work for peace in the Korean Peninsula".
Minju Joson in a monthly review of south Korean situation says that Kim Young Sam is floundering in the worst crisis.
Rodong Sinmun on s. Korea's corrupt society
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- It has been revealed in south Korea that Kim Hyon Chol, a son of Kim Young Sam, worked out a "confidential internal report" for the purpose of hushing up his crimes.
In a commentary Rodong Sinmun today says the fact indicates that south Korean political circles are in the clutches of Kim Young Sam and his son and south Korea is a corrupt society without justice and law.
Kim Hyon Chol in the confidential document, made public recently by reporters of the south Korean newspaper Dong-a Ilbo, urged the "leadership of the New Korea Party" including its "Chairman" to help him avoid a "parliamentary interpellation session" in such a way as appeasing the people and making a strategic use of the press.
Kim Young Sam has employed every conceivable means, not admitting what he and his son, the chief culprits of the Hanbo loan scandal, did, Rodong Sinmun says. His acts prove that his promise in a "statement to the people" that he would "let his son be prosecuted" if his son were found guilty was a downright lie.
S. Korea: 10,000 students' anti-"government" struggle
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- An estimated 10,000 students of 24 universities and colleges in Seoul staged an anti-"government" struggle Friday, a Seoul-based radio said.
At Seoul National University over 500 students held a rally urging the abrogation of the reactionary and fascist "labour law" and "law on the Agency for National Security Planning" as well as resignation of the regime.
400 students of Korea University met to vow to struggle for the resignation of the regime. They bitterly condemned the Kim Young Sam group's anti-national crime and irregularities and urged an immediate withdrawal of the present regime.
1,000 students at Yonsei University held a memorial service for their colleague Ro Su Sok on the first anniversary of his death. He was killed by the fascist clique last year while taking part in a demonstration. After the service they staged a memorial march.
Air espionage on some 180 occasions
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Forces committed air espionage on 180 odd occasions this month, or some twenty more than February's figure, military sources said.
On the 25th, fighter-bombers, assault planes and observation planes of the U.S. air force in south Korea and the puppet air force, some 650 all told, staged joint air drills for a preemptive surprise attack on the northern half of Korea.
On the 27th, U-2, RC-12, RF-4C, EH-60 and other strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes deployed in south Korea were sent to the sky above the forefront areas along the military demarcation line for espionage on the strategic targets and frontline and coastal areas of the north.
Who is escalating tensions?
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Military bosses of the United States, Japan and south Korea recently cried for the introduction of anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence
system in south Korea.
Rodong Sinmun today, commenting on this, says their scheme indicates that their military tie-up has reached a dangerous stage with each passing day.
The analyst further says:
The scheme of the U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppets to introduce new combat equipment into south Korea is a grave act of reinforcing armed forces and rendering the situation more strained in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia.
This is a move for the strengthened tripartite military alliance of the U.S., Japan and south Korea.
It is they who escalate tensions in Northeast Asia.
The "guarantee of security" on their lips is the escalating of tensions. And it is a smoke screen for their war preparations.
Criminal act increasing tension in Korea
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- U.S., Japanese and south Korean puppet military brass recently gathered in Seoul and discussed "ensuring security in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asian region" and introducing an anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence system into south Korea, according to a news report.
Their criminal act which may spark arms buildup and increase tension in the Korean Peninsula and the Northeast Asian region was an unpardonable war confab aimed at containing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea militarily by tightening the U.S.-Japan-south Korea military alliance.
Now the Korean Peninsula is in a timebomb situation due to war preparations by the U.S., Japan and south Korea.
As for the "issue of ensuring security in the Korean Peninsula", it is nothing but the issue of starting another war in Korea and a smoke screen for camouflaging their adventurous war preparations.
It is nobody's secret that combat equipment have been largely reinforced in south Korea under the pretext of "ensuring security in the Korean Peninsula", a variant of "emergency in the Korean Peninsula" the U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppets have never let any chance pass by without clamoring about.
This is well illustrated by the military bosses' attempt to introduce patriot missile system into south Korea from the U.S.
The introduction of the missile system may touch off competitions among powers in selling missile systems to south Korea, which will inevitably affect DPRK-U.S. missile negotiations and all the bilateral relations.
The U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppets must stop at once their criminal war preparations driving the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.
Kim Young Sam's craftily handling opposition parties
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- The south Korean political circles have been rocked by the recently disclosed plot hatched by Kim Hyon Chol, a son of Kim Young Sam, with his associates to hurt opposition party presidents with a "parliamentary interpellation session" yet to be opened.
As soon as a confidential document of the "civilian" regime related to the plot was discovered, opposition parties urged the puppet government and the ruling party to thoroughly probe the truth and sternly punish Kim Hyon Chol and others involved in it.
The plot is only the latest one in the litany of the Kim Young Sam group's anti-opposition moves.
Kim Young Sam, during the "Presidential election campaign", spread a rumor that Kim Dae Jung, he had called a "comrade in the struggle for democracy", was pro-communist and, recently, attempted to make public his "past wrongdoings" through the ruling party's "assemblymen".
Each time their irregularities were revealed, the Kim Young Sam group would take issue with opposition party members on corruption, in a bid to divert public attention elsewhere.
Kim Young Sam regards opposition parties as political bridesmaid necessary to describe the fascist "civilian" dictatorship as "parliamentary politics".
Such double-dealing practices as temporary compromise based on power, appeasement and elaborate calculation and plots behind the scene are the favorite methods of the Kim Young Sam group in handling the opposition parties.
The methods were employed in the retrogressive revision of the "labor law" and the plot to hurt the opposition presidents and avoid the "parliamentary interpellation session" is also based on the methods.
With such a despicable dictator as Kim Young Sam remaining in power, genuine opposition parties can never exist in south Korea, nor can even nominal "parliamentary politics" strike its roots there.
Exhibition of historical relics
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of historical relics opened at the Korean Central History Museum on Friday. The relics were contributed to the socialist homeland by Ri Kyong Haeng and his wife, Jon Sun Ok, who returned to the homeland from abroad. Ri is now close on eighty.
The couple, who had lived in an alien land as homeless people, subjected to all sorts of maltreatment and national humiliation, have gathered some 18,000 pieces of relics and materials since they came back to the socialist homeland.
Of the relics and materials, several hundred pieces of ceramics and metal goods dating back to the Koryo and Ri dynasties are on display.
They have collected the relics from many people with a strong sense of patriotism. They contributed some 200 pieces to the country on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the President Kim Il Sung and some 150 pieces on the occasion of the 55th birthday of the respected General Kim Jong Il.
The book "Korean Classical Music" is included in the historical materials. The contributions well show the Korean people's distinguished ability and excellent national culture and are helpful towards studying Korea's professional music in the 15th and 16th centuries.
NDFSK calls for frustrating repressive moves of Kim Young Sam group
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- The Worker-Peasant Department of the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on M00ch 25 made public an appeal calling upon the south Korean workers to turn out in the struggle to frustrate the Kim Young Sam group's moves for suppression of workers, according to the Seoul-based radio voice of national salvation.
A life worthy of man cannot be enjoyed under the "civilian"-veiled dictatorship which kills workers and fattens business groups, the appeal said.
It called upon the workers to become detonators and standard-bearers in a popular resistance to bury the "civilian"-veiled dictatorship, which is frantically cracking down upon the workers and stifling democracy, under the slogans "Dissolve the New Korea Party !" And "down with Kim Young Sam !"
25 million workers and their families should rise up as one and determinedly overthrow the Kim Young Sam group of dastard fascists who are trying to fetter workers to keep up the "civilian" dictatorship, it said.
It called for frustrating with rock-firm organisation,unity and powerful struggle of working class the "security-oriented" crackdown by Kim Young Sam seeking to disorganise and alienate workers and trample down their right to existence by force of arms.
It appealed to all the peasants, intellectuals, religionists and dissidents to pool their strength and launch a popular uprising to overthrow the Kim Young Sam dictatorship for the sake of the workers and people.
U.S. delegation ends Korea visit
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Senate delegation led by Ted Stevens left here today after winding up a two-day visit to Korea.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) gave a reception for the delegation on Friday.
During the visit the delegation discussed outstanding issues between the DPRK and the United States with Kim Kye Gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the SPA.
It went round the Tower of the Juche Idea, the Arch of Triumph, the Mansudae Assembly Hall, the Chilgol Branch Farm of the Mangyongdae district state farm and other places in Pyongyang.
U.N. delegation winds up Korea visit
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations left here today.
During its stay, the delegation went round flood-hit areas, consulted with representatives of international organisations and made preparations to call for new international cooperation in food, agriculture, medical service and other domains.
Gift to Secy. Kim Jong Il from U.S. Senator
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from Ted Stevens, head of the Delegation of the U.S. Senate.
Senator Ted Stevens handed the gift to a Korean official.