Gift to Secy. Kim Jong Il from Pakistan Prime Minister
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif.
The gift was handed to an official concerned by Pakistani Ambassador to Korea Rehmdil Bhatti.
U.S makes 150 espionage flights
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist aggressors have made some 150 flights for espionage on the north of Korea in July with sorties of various kinds of strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes, military sources said.
Espionage flights by a U-2 high-altitude strategic spy plane numbered more than 30 and those by an overseas-based RC-135 strategic spy plane and an E-3 early warning plane more than 10.
The U.S. imperialists' reconnaissance aircraft flew over frontline areas, Military Demarcation Line areas, the East and West seas of Korea for the purpose of espionage on the north's strategic targets and on its waters coasts, coastlines and frontline areas.
Madagascan Party leader hails Juche era, the Day of Sun
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- Rakotomandimby Selestine, National Chairwoman of the Socialist Progressive Party of Madagascar, released a statement on July 22 hailing the resolution "On exalting the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung's revolutionary life and immortal feats for all ages" adopted by the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, Central Military Commission, the DPRK National Defence Commission, Central People's Committee and Administration Council.
She said President Kim Il Sung was the great leader not only of the Korean people but of the world people.
She said her Party, together with the Korean people, will commemorate April 15, President Kim Il Sung's birthday, every year as the Day of Sun and venerate him as the sun of Juche.
"We will as ever continue fighting for the victory of the revolutionary cause of the Madagascan people, the cause of global independence, the cause of socialism, holding comrade Kim Il Sung and the respected comrade Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the great leaders of the Korean revolution and the world revolution," she declared.
Paper on fascist campaign in s. Korea
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- The Kim Young Sam fascist regime held a trial of students arrested for involvement in the new-term ceremony of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and demanded prison terms of up to five years for twelve of them.
The regime threatens to prosecute the officials of "Hanchongryon" who dispatched delegates to the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students as well as the delegates on charges of violation of the "National Security Law."
Rodong Sinmun today brands this as proof that the fascist campaign to stifle "Hanchongryon" has gone to the extreme.
The news analyst says:
It is well known that "Hanchongryon" takes independence, democracy and reunification as its objectives and has held its new-term ceremonies in a peaceful way every year.
It is only too natural that "Hanchongryon" should dispatch its delegates to the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students.
The puppets are making rash activities to stifle "Hanchongryon."
Fascist repression is not almighty.
The Kim Young Sam regime's repression is a last-ditch effort of the doomed.
14th WFYS opens in Havana
Havana, July 29 (KCNA) -- The 14th World Festival of Youth and Students was opened in Havana on July 28.
Present at the opening ceremony were more than 10,000 delegates of youth and students from 117 countries of the five continents including the 500-member Korean youth and student delegation, foreign guests and many citizens in Havana.
The Korean youth and student delegation entered the opening ceremony place, holding high the flags carrying portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il in the center of the rank.
Attending the opening ceremony held at the square in front of Havana University were 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, and other senior Party and Government cadres of Cuba.
Jonaa Kasheta, member of the International Coordinating Committee of the Festival and delegate of Namibia, in the opening address said that the 50-year history of the World Festival of Youth and Students is a history of the struggle for peace, friendship and the establishment of a fair socio-economic order and against the imperialists' policy of domination and intervention, expressing the belief that the festival movement will continue to strengthen and develop in the future.
The opening ceremony ended with a performance prepared by youth and students of Cuba on the occasion of the festival.
Press review
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- Papers here today frontpage news that Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Rodong Sinmun carries news that Secretary Kim Jong Il received telegrams from foreign Party leaders and memorial events were held on the occasion of the third death anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
Printed in the paper is a message of greetings the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent to the 7th Congress of the Leftist Political Parties in Latin America and Caribbean region.
Papers give an account of a meeting to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Secretary Kim Jong Il's on-the-spot guidance to South Hamgyong Province.
Printed in the press are articles on the revolutionary feats of Kang Pan Sok, a great mother of Korea, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of her death.
Rodong Sinmun conveys news of the joint efforts of the army and people to prevent drought damage.
Papers inform the readers that a local office of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization opened in Kumho area on July 28.
Rodong Sinmun runs a commentary denouncing the Kim Young Sam fascist clique for penalizing the students arrested on charge of opening the inaugural ceremony of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils.
Seen in the press is news that the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students was opened in Havana on July 28.
In a monthly review of the international situation, papers say that imperialists' policy of strength will fail.
KSC spokesman calls for unity of pro-reunification forces in s. Korea
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Korean Student Committee issued a statement today on the decision of dissident organisations in south Korea to exclude the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) from the pro-reunification events slated for August 15 this year.
The spokesman says:
The Kim Young Sam regime is employing every conceivable means to disunite the south headquarters of Pomminryon and "Hanchongryon" through the puppet Agency for National Security Planning (ANSP).
The exclusion of these organisations from the August 15 pro-reunification festival which is said to include broad segments of the masses is as good as denying the movement for independence, democracy and reunification.
What we should be watchful for is not only the Kim Young Sam regime's overt repression of the reunification movement but also the activity of the puppet ANSP, defence security command and other intelligence services to disunite the pro-reunification forces from within.
The fascist campaign in south Korea urges the pro-reunification, pro-democracy forces to unite closer than ever before.
These forces have shared weal and woe in the course of arduous struggle. They have more common points than differences and better conditions for unity than ever before.
The Korean Student Committee hopes that the dissident organisations in south Korea will resolutely smash the intrigues of the puppet ANSP and hold the August 15 events jointly with "Hanchongryon" and Pomminryon's south headquarters at a time when the downfall of Kim Young Sam regime is in sight.
Symposium on Secy. Kim Jong Il's work
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- A symposium of the DPRK philosophical society was held here on Tuesday to make a deep study of ideas and theories Secretary Kim Jong Il laid down in his celebrated work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction".
Speakers there stressed that preserving the Juche character and national character is a question of key importance on which depends the victory of the revolution and construction and it is a question vital to the destinies of the country and the nation.
They said that the national character of the revolutionary people is shaped and developed by a great leader, that the working class spirit and the national character are in unbreakable and close unity for their commonness and that the greatness of the leader is the most decisive factor in displaying the superiority of the nation.
The Korean people could become a great nation as they were led by President Kim Il Sung, the speakers stated.
They said the kernel of the Kim Il Sung nation's character is loyalty and filial piety to their leader, which is the best manifestation of its excellent character and a foundation of all its superiority.
Large-scale weapon import contract for war against north
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet clique made a contract with the United States for import of weapons worth more than 340 million dollars on July 15, according to a radio report from Seoul. The weapons from the United States include attack missiles and other attack equipment for the army.
The puppets' contract with the united states is a very ill-boding movement. This reveals that the Kim Young Sam group facing ruin are finding a way out of the crisis in igniting a war against the north with the backing of the U.S. imperialists, their master.
U.S urged to make sincere efforts for Korean reunification
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- Hanan Mollah, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and member of Parliament, and Shamin Paizwe member of the Central Executive Committee of the National Council of the Communist Party of India and Chief Editor of the Indian Newspaper New Age, were interviewed by the KCNA New Delhi correspondent on July 23 and 24 respectively with the approach of the 44th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
Hanan Mollah said the war was a just one of the Korean people for defending peace and the country's dignity and sovereignty.
The world's progressive people will always remember the world-historic exploits of President Kim Il Sung, who led the war to victory, he added.
Shamin Paizwe said Korea has not been reunified though some 40 years have passed since the ceasefire in the country. It is attributable to the Korea policy of the United States seeking a military purpose, he said, and continued:
Since the Cold War was terminated, the united states has found no reason to keep a large number of troops and mass destruction weapons any longer in south Korea.
The U.S. should reshape the Korea policy in keeping with the trend of the time and make sincere efforts for Korean reunification as demanded by the world peaceloving people.
Utterance intended to invade Korea again
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- Kato, Secretary General of the Japan Liberal Democratic Party, gave utterance to the real intention of the Japanese reactionaries to push ahead with the "review of the Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines" to achieve their wild design for reinvasion of Korea, according to a report.
During his foreign tour some time ago, he said that the review of the guidelines is to cope with an "emergency" in north Korea. He showed up at the Asahi TV broadcasting program on July 27 and justified his remarks, saying that most of people imaged an emergency in north Korea while consulting the review of the guidelines and that it is very sensible.
His utterance reveals that the Japanese reactionaries have constantly taken the Korean Peninsula for the first target in achieving their wild design for criminal overseas expansion and are taking an active part in the U.S. manoeuvres to stifle the DPRK under the pretext of "'emergency' in north Korea".
Blessed Korean women
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- A nine-article law on sex equality was promulgated in Korea on July 30, 1946.
This was a historic event which brought about a radical change in the Korean women's socio-political, economic and cultural position.
The law frees the Korean women from ages-old feudal oppression and humiliation and enables them to take an active part in political, economic and cultural activities of the country on an equal footing with men.
All women have the right to elect and the right to be elected. The proportion of women to the deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly is 20.1 percent.
The state provides women with conditions to work in different sectors of the national economy according to their ability and aptitude.
Women with more than three children work six hours a day and are paid as much as those who work eight hours a day.
Women are prohibited from doing difficult and hard labor.
Everywhere women work there are creches and kindergartens run at state and public expenses. Women enjoy benefits including paid maternity leave.
Thanks to these benefits from the state, female proportion to labor in the national economy is 49.5 percent and that to the ranks of technicians and specialists is 42.5 percent.
Memorial service for Kang Pan Sok
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang City Memorial Service for Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and an outstanding leader of the Korean communist women's movement, was held at the People's Palace of Culture today to commemorate the 65th anniversary of her death.
Kang Pan Sok performed feats undying in the history of the Korean nation, as a close revolutionary comrade-in-arms of Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the Korean anti-Japanese national liberation movement, and as a prominent leader of the Korean women's liberation movement.
She undauntedly fought for the bright future of the country and the nation and died at the age of 40 on July 31, 1932, failing to see the day of national liberation she wished so ardently.
Attending the service were Pak Song Chol, Kim Yong Nam, Kye Ung Thae, Yang Hyong Sop and other senior Party and state officials.
A memorial address was made there by Choe Song Suk, member of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee.
The speaker said:
"The life of Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter, was a brilliant life of a great woman revolutionary who devoted her all to national liberation and women's social emancipation."
"She rendered devoted assistance to activities of Kim Hyong Jik, a great revolutionary, as his wife and closest revolutionary comrade-in-arms, joining him in paving the arduous path of the revolution."
"She, a great mother of Korea, gave birth to the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung, the sun of the nation, to keep alive the Korean revolution. And she actively helped the great leader in his revolutionary activities, and thus made immortal contributions to pioneering the revolutionary cause of Juche."
"The strong revolutionary spirit and precious feats of Kang Pan Sok were also seen in the course of the strenuous efforts for implementing the line of anti-Japanese armed struggle put forward by comrade Kim Il Sung."
"She was an outstanding leader of the Korean women's movement, who brought about the beginning of the communist women's movement in Korea, and greatly contributed to the cause of women's social emancipation."
"Her bright image as a great mother of Korea and as an active revolutionary is kept deep in the minds of the Korean people and her august name will remain forever in the annals of the socialist fatherland."
Wreaths laid before statue and grave of Kang Pan Sok
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- Senior Party and state officials and citizens laid wreaths before the Statue of Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and an outstanding leader of the Korean communist women's movement, at the Chilgol Revolutionary Site and before her grave in Mangyongdae today to commemorate her 65th death anniversary.
Seen there were wreaths sent by Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremonies were Pak Song Chol, Kim Yong Nam, Kye Ung Thae and other senior Party and state officials.
Laid before the statue and grave were wreaths in the name of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, the DPRK Central People's Committee and Administration Council (AC), commissions and ministries of the AC, working people's organizations, national institutions, units of the Korean People's Army, scientific, educational, public health and press organs. Also laid were bouquets and wreaths in the name of Party and power bodies, administrative and economic organs, and farms in the city of Pyongyang.
The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of Kang Pan Sok.