S. Korea should act with prudence

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppets are now loudly talking about south Korea's participation in the opening and closing ceremonies of the New Delhi conference of foreign ministers of non-aligned countries as a guest of the host nation, as if it attended them in the capacity of a guest of NAM. Over its participation in the ceremonies with no proper justification, they are claiming that south Korea's "diplomatic image has improved" and its "participation was of weighty importance". South Korea, totally subordinated by the imperialists in political, economic, military and all other domains, is ruled by tens of thousands of U.S. occupation forces. Its "government" is nothing but a colonial puppet regime. It is ridiculous for the puppets, with neither political sovereignty nor operation control of the "army", to argue about "diplomatic image" and NAM. NAM is a progressive movement rejecting all manner of domination and subjugation and aspiring after independence and is also a powerful revolutionary force of the present era standing opposed to imperialism. It is only too natural that such a movement has no room for the puppets of the imperialists. Following the policy of the imperialists and the dominationists for obliterating the characteristics intrinsic to NAM and disintegrating it, the puppets are trying to poke its nose into the movement. They are also seeking to court its master's good faith, improve its image and get out of the serious political and economic crisis and the plight of an international orphan by joining NAM. But the sacred principles and idea of NAM will never tolerate the vicious subversive acts and base goal of the imperialists, dominationists and their puppets. South Korea would be well advised to stand condemned by the people for their crimes against history and the nation, instead of resorting to vain efforts to join NAM.

Floral basket laid before portrait of President Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The Tri Continental People's Solidarity Organization in havana held a ceremony for laying a floral basket before the portrait of President Kim Il Sung at its building on the threshold of his 85th birth anniversary. Secretary General of the organization Ramon Pez Ferro laid the floral basket in the name of the organization. The participants paid reverence to President Kim Il Sung.

Floral baskets to Statue of President Kim Il Sung from Nepal

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The Nepal Communist Party (United Marxism-leninism) Central Committee and the Nepal Worker-Peasant Party Central Committee sent floral baskets to the Statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill on the threshold of his birth anniversary April 15. The baskets were laid by K.P. Oli, permanent member of the Central Committee and Representative of the Nepal Communist Party on a visit to Korea, and officials concerned on Friday. Written in the ribbons hanging from the baskets were letters reading "The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is immortal".

Foreign diplomats visit Kaesong area

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Foreign diplomats in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea visited Kaesong area on Apr. 11 with the approach of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. At Panmunjom they inspected the conference hall of the defunct military armistice commission, the room where armistice talks took place and the room where the armistice agreement was signed, and went around the monument to President Kim Il Sung's autograph built in front of the Thongil House in the northern portion of Panmunjom. Nigerian Ambassador to the DPRK Olugbenga Ayodeji Ashiru, who is the doyen of the diplomatic corps, said the monument to the autograph of Generalissimo Kim Il Sung will remain a national treasure of the Korean people for all ages. He expressed hope that Korea's reunification will be realized under the leadership of Secretary Kim Jong Il at an early date. The diplomats also visited the Koryo Museum and King Wang Kon's mausoleum, which show the time-honored Korean history, and saw the concrete wall built by the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets in the area south of the Military Demarcation Line. The Kaesong municipal administrative and economic committee gave a party for the diplomats on the same day.

National fine arts exhibition marks 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- A national fine arts exhibition was opened to commemorate the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. Put on display are over 90 pieces of fine art works including the Korean paintings "The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us" and "The eternal sun" showing that he will always live in the hearts of the Korean people and the world revolutionary people. The venerable features and noble virtues of the President, a great military strategist and a veteran, are vividly represented by paintings "In the Van of the Sacred Fatherland Liberation War," "General Kim Il Sung, ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander who defeated the U.S. imperialists," "Getting knee to knee with peasants" and others. Also exhibited are paintings portraying the greatness of the respected general Kim Jong Il and the image of comrade Kim Jong Suk, a communist revolutionary fighter. Jang Chol, Vice-Premier of the Administration Council and Minister of Culture and Art, made an opening address at the ceremony held at the Korean art gallery Friday.

Message to Secy. Kim Jong Il from Fidel Castro

Pyongyang, April 12 (kcna) - Secretary Kim Jong Il received a message on April 7 from comrade Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee, President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers, on the threshold of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz in the message said that he retrospects Comrade Kim Il Sung, a staunch revolutionary, outstanding leader and great man known to the world who had devoted his all to the liberation of the country, human progress and the peace and welfare of the world people till the last moments of his life since he embarked on the road of revolution in his early years. The message noted that the feats performed by him to develop the fraternal and friendly ties between the parties, governments and peoples of the two countries will remain immortal. It expressed the belief that the Korean people will continue to vigorously advance for national reunification and the socialist revolution in hearty response to the historic behests of Comrade kim il sung.

Preparations for 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung in Nigeria

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the Nigerian preparatory committee for commemorating the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung was held on April 2. Chairman Yemi Oyeneye of the Nigeria-DPRK Friendship Association was elected chairman of the committee at the meeting. A commemoration program was announced. A letter to Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

Press review

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Papers here today carry a message Secretary Kim Jong Il received from comrade Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, on the occasion of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. Rodong Sinmun reports that Secretary Kim Jong Il sent thanks to officials and working people for the communist traits displayed by them. Taking much space of papers are accounts of functions held at home and abroad on the occasion of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. Papers inform the readers that the Workers' Party of Korea publishing house brought out "Among the People" vol. 55, a collection of reminiscences of people from various social standings in Korea about the wise leadership and noble communist virtues of President Kim Il Sung. Carried in papers is news that senior party and state officials visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces organised a symposium on his greatness and working people's organisations held seminars and a poem-reciting meeting. Also seen in papers is news that a national fine art exhibition opened and official commendations were awarded to exemplary officials, youths and children. It is reported in Rodong Sinmun that a ceremony for unveiling the monument to the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung, Secretary Kim Jong Il and comrade Kim Jong Suk was held at a Korean People's Army unit. An account of a ceremony for unveiling a monument to the on-the-spot guidance of President Kim Il Sung held at the Pyongyang locomotives corps is also carried in the paper. Papers give accounts of brisk dessemination of the revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and carry what Korean working people said about this song.

Book "Among the People" vol. 55 published

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Book "Among the People" Vol. 55 was recently published by the Workers' Party of Korea publishing house. The book edits 20 stories about the communist virtue of President Kim Il Sung and his wise leadership over the revolution and construction. Some of them deal with the president's efforts to develop the national economy and improve the people's standard of living. Some others say that the President trained officials and workers to devotedly serve the country and people and bestowed great favors on families of anti-Japanese patriotic martyrs and revolutionaries of south Korea. Some stories say that the President found out Tangun as the ancestral father of the nation and that he was kind and open-hearted to common people and led a simple life.

Brigandish logic can never work

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with a commentary denouncing the U.S. Defense Secretary's undisguised revelation of the wild ambition for aggression on the north of the Korean Peninsula. He prattled that even if a lasting peace system is established on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. troops some 100,000 strong will be kept in south Korea, Japan and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S. troops will be continuously stationed after the "unification" of Korea. The daily says: His remarks show the U.S. invariable ambition to violate the sovereignty of the Korean people, invade the north of the Korean Peninsula and make the whole of Korea its colony. The Korean people want the reunification of the country in order to put an end to the colonial domination of the United States over south Korea and realise sovereignty on a nationwide scale. The sovereignty is the life and soul of the Korean people and nation. Now that the U.S. conservative hardliners continue revealing their brigandish ambition to encroach upon our sovereignty, we can never remain an onlooker. The Korean people have a strong sense of independence and will always decisively and mercilessly smash anyone who tries to trample underfoot their sovereignty and dignity. The brigandish design to conquer Korea with arms can never be realised. The United States must not resort to the brigandish logic but immediately withdraw its troops from the Korean Peninsula and its surroundings. The U.S. conservative hardliners had better act with discretion, clearly seeing the strength and will of the Korean people.

Historical relics exhibited

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA -- An exhibition of the cultural relics donated by a repatriated couple, Sin Jae Chon and Ri Sun Song, has been open at the Korean Folklore Museum since April 11. Exhibited at the hall are over 160 pieces of precious cultural relics they have collected from among private hands and donated to the socialist motherland several times. The 100 odd pieces of Koryo Celadon and bronze crafts and several dozen pieces of porcelain belonging to the Ri Dynasty are new discoveries in the world. Some pieces of Koryo Celadon worthy of national treasure draw special attention of the visitors for their peculiar colors, designs and shapes.

Senior party and state officials visit Mangyongdae

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Vice-Presidents Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol and Kim Pyong Sik and other senior party and state officials visited Mangyongdae, the sacred place of revolution, on April 11 on the occasion of the 85th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. They looked round the home where President Kim Il Sung was born and spent his childhood. They also visited the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum and the relics on Mangyong Hill. They recalled the sacred course of his revolutionary activities with yearning and reverence for him.

Food aid, "quad talks" are different things -DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA -- Thanks to a positive step of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, there will be a briefing in New York on April 16 in response to the U.S.-south Korea joint briefing on the proposed "quad talks". On the threshold of the briefing, however, strange assertions have come from the united states and south Korea. One of them is that only after the "four-way talks" are opened, food assistance to the DPRK can be discussed there. In this regard, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry told KCNA today: Raising such a condition is a dishonest and inhumanitarian behavior aimed at abusing food aid as a political weapon and securing a concession from the DPRK in the security issue. The food aid, which is a humanitarian issue, and the "quad talks" are different things. The latter is aimed at discussing the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula. If it is in concord with the matter of our security, we will accept it and if not, we will have no interest in it. If they think that the food problem decides whether we accept the "talks" or not, it would be a serious mistake. Now our food problem is very serious. But it is foolish to expect our system to be seriously affected by the problem. Our revolution has advanced over the past decades, undergoing greater trials than what we are suffering now. Our people well know that the food shortage has been caused entirely by devastating natural disasters, particularly by foreign hostile forces' protracted economic sanctions and blockade. So, our people have harboured bitter grudges against them. A row has been raised around Korea over "emergency in the peninsula" and "response to it", making our army and people Keep utmost vigilance. All the steps we may take over its possible consequences will be only too natural.