Foreigners pay homage to President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Foreign visitors called at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Sunday to pay homage to President Kim Il Sung who is preserved in state there.
The visitors were Eason Jordan, President of the Newsgathering and International Network of the CNN of the United States= a delegation of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assemblymen's League for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Friendship= a Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly visiting group for Japan-Korea Friendship= and a Japan-Korea Friendship visiting group.
They made deep bows before President Kim Il Sung's Statue before paying homage to him who lies in state.
Then they went round the relics he had used, and wrote down in the visitor's book.
Greetings to Seychelles FM
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam sent a message of greetings to Jeremie Bonnelame upon his appointment as Foreign Minister of Seychelles.
The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further develop and sincerely wished him success in his new work.
Greetings to Albanian Prime Minister
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, acting Premier of the Administration Council, sent a message of greetings to Fatos Nano upon his reelection as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Albania.
Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam also sent a message of greetings to Paskal Milo upon his appointment as Foreign Minister of Albania.
Vice-Chairman of SPA Foreign Affairs Committee meets U.S. House Committee deligation
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Sok Ju, Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a talk with the visiting delegation of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives led by its Chairman Porter Goss at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on August 10.
DPRK youth and students delegation back home
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- The DPRK youth and students delegation led by Choe Ryong Hae, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, arrived here on August 10 after participating in the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Havana.
The delegation was greeted at the airport by Kim Tong Nyon, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, and Cuban Ambassador to Korea Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona.
Review of Rodong Shinmun
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today reports that Secretary Kim Jong Il sent thanks to people of all strata for assisting soldiers of the Korean People's Army involved in the betterment of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
The paper conveys news that Secretary Kim Jong Il received telegrams and letters from different countries during the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
The paper carries an article titled "Adherence to Juche character and national character is essential for socialist cause".
Flocks of white herons are flying at Mangyongdae, where President Kim Il Sung was born, according to the paper.
The paper edits an article contributed by Chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan Han Tok Su titled "I saw the immortal leader".
Carried in the paper is the interview of the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK with KCNA on the results of the preliminary meeting for the "four-way talks."
The paper conveys words of people at home and abroad and an article supporting the just struggle of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils.
Printed in the paper is an article titled "Pan National Rally, which has developed movement of national reunification nation-wide."
The paper in a commentary brands the visit to "Yasukuni Shrine" by the Japanese authorities as precipitating Japan's destruction.
The paper runs an article on the contradiction and antagonism within the western world.
Hanchongryong will rise up
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today criticises the Kim Young Sam regime's repression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) as an illegal white terrorism and unpardonable crime against the nation, democracy and reunification.
The regime brands Hanchongryon as "violent organisation benefiting the enemy" and punishes its affiliated students on charges of "involvement in enemy-benefiting organisation."
The news analyst says:
The attitude toward Hanchongryon is a touchstone distinguishing patriotism, reunification and justice from treachery, division and injustice.
The Kim Young Sam regime's bloody suppression of Hanchongryon, the vanguard of the movement for independence, democracy and reunification, reveals once again its ugly colors as a group of offenders against the nation, democracy and reunification.
The present situation requires the pro-reunification, pro-democracy forces of south Korea to join in the sacred struggle to defend Hanchongryon from fascist dictatorship's suppression and rescue the patriotic students from plots and evil laws.
Those who remain a passive onlooker to the fascist repression of guiltless patriotic students can never feel clean and clear before history and the nation. They themselves are not free.
Justice and patriotism belong to Hanchongryon, and so does victory. Hanchongryon will stand the trials with unbreakable courage and rise up as a stronger organisation.
Rodong Sinmun on Japanese officials' plan to visit Yasukuni Shrine
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionary rulers are going to visit the Yasukuni Shrine to mourn the war dead on the day of the Japanese imperialists' defeat in the war.
Commenting on the fact, Rodong Sinmun today says their visit to the shrine is a serious political matter showing the orientation of Japan's politics, in other words, whether Japan is breaking with its militarist past or seeking militarist aggression again.
The daily says:
The shrine is the ideological basis of Japanese militarism. Through the visit to the shrine, the reactionaries intend to imbue the Japanese people with revanchism and create an ideological atmosphere of militarist reinvasion.
Overseas expansion is an invariable ambition of the Japanese reactionaries. They have accelerated arms buildup, making military preparations enough to launch any kind of aggression war. What has to be done now is to make ideological preparations for mobilizing the Japanese people in case of overseas aggression.
This is why they have regularized the visit to the shrine as a policy in defiance of home and foreign public protest.
Their visit to the shrine can never be justified. It is a foolish act which only precipitates their doom.
If Japan persistently refuses to break with the crime-woven past, drawing no lesson from its history, Japan can never win trust from the world community.
Undesirable mouthpiece
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppets acted a "mouthpiece" for their sinister political purpose during the recent "preliminary quad talks", revealing their despicable colors again, according to media reports.
The preliminary talks were held in camera so that none of the four delegations had to make no announcement about the talks until an agreement was reached in discussion.
The puppets, however, told reporters about what was discussed at the talks, acting a "mouthpiece".
Their act was apparently aimed at hampering the progress of the preliminary talks.
They accused the north of "taking a passive attitude towards the preliminary talks". But the north has made all sincere efforts for the successful talks. It is the south Korean puppets who have taken a passive attitude towards the talks.
From the beginning, they have not been interested in the progress of the talks so that they could not advance a constructive proposal at the talks.
The fact shows that they are interested only in building up public opinion, not in the talks.
In a word, they are seeking only a propaganda effect, instead of making efforts for a solution.
Preserving Juche character and national character is nature of socialism
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il in his celebrated work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction" clarified that adherence to the Juche character and national character is nature of socialism.
This is a precious guideline that provides an ideological and theoretical basis for building socialism as the masses' true cause of independence and the cause of loving the country and the nation.
Rodong Sinmun stresses this in a signed article today.
The article says:
Maintaining the Juche character and national character is, above all, a practical requirement of socialism in which the struggle for independence is carried on with a nation-state as a unit. Each nation is responsible for carrying out the revolution in its country as well as shaping its destiny.
The revolution and construction of each country can not be carried out with any previous theory and frame and mechanical imitation of foreign things. Each country should do revolution by itself and at its will and should independently and creatively solve the problems arising in the revolution and construction in keeping with its people's demand and national qualities and its specific conditions.
Keeping the Juche character and national character is also an essential requirement of socialism that is advanced and accomplished by the masses themselves.
There are no people who do not love and value their country and nation and who like to see the dignity and soul of their nation trampled upon. So Juche character and national character of revolution and construction should be preserved if socialism is to be a true cause of realizing the masses' demand for independence and their interests and is to be pushed forward by themselves.
Only when doing so, is it possible for the masses to turn out as one in the struggle for socialism and continue their vigorous struggle for the victory of socialism under whatever conditions and circumstances.
Achievements in forestry
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Great efforts have been directed to forestry in Korea.a As a result of preferential prospecting, a new timberland where several ten thousand cubic metres of timber can be produced every year was found out.
Mine prop plants and some ten forestry stations are now under construction in northern and other areas.
Secretary Kim Jong Il published a historic letter "On further developing forestry" in August 1992.
The letter indicates tasks and ways of turning out large quantities of timber and other forest products by using the country's abundant forest resources in a comprehensive and effective way.
The foresters throughout the country are making strenuous efforts to fulfil the tasks.
In recent years they have planted some 741,315,000 saplings on 277,000 hectares of forests. They have also created timber forests, oil-bearing forests, reserved forests, ornamental forests, etc. By carrying on forest transformation in a far-sighted way.
The material and technical foundations of forestry have also been strengthened still further.
Wood processing factories have been built in Kanggye, Jonchon, Wiyon and other areas.
A modernly-equippedUunsan Forest Power Saw Factory has started operation and the May 8 and Musan forest machine factories have been streamlined.
White heroins visit Mangyongdae
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Some 1,500 white herons visit Mangyongdae, the time-honored holy land of revolution, every day.
The birds fly in flocks above President Kim Il Sung's native home, stay in forests on Mangyong Hill overnight and fly to the house at dawn. They sit on willow trees on the pond near the house before flying toward the River Taedong.
This phenomenon occurs every day, according to officials of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum.
This wonderful scene has been witnessed every year since this time three years ago after the death of the President.
Pine trees covered with white herons in summer remind one of a beautiful scene in winter in a fable.
Witnesses said the new sight of Mangyongdae shows that even the birds miss the president, who descended from heaven.
DPRK orders awarded to Japanese guests
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA)-- Orders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were awarded to japanese public figures at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on August 11 with due ceremony.
Present on the awarding ceremony were Chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee Kim Yong Sun and officials concerned.
According to decrees of the DPRK Central People's Committee, the order of friendship second class was awarded to Chairman of the Okayama Prefectural People's Forum for Japan-Korea Friendship Keisuke Tanimura, Chairman of the Saitama Liaison Council for the Study of the Juche Idea Shoji Yoshita, and Chairman of the Itsihara Society for the Study of the Korean Affairs in Jiba Prefecture of Japan Kosuke Tokita.
Joint information of DPRK-Swiss Foreign Ministry delegations
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- A joint information of the delegations of Foreign Ministries of the DPRK and Switzerland was released in Pyongyang on August 11.
The information referred to the Korea visit of the delegation of the Swiss Foreign Ministry led by Walter Fust, Director General of the Development, Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid.
It said that talks were held between delegations of foreign ministries of the DPRK and Switzerland.
It said:
At the talks, the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK expressed thanks to the Swiss Government for rendering sincere assistance to various domains of Korea in connection with the severe natural disasters in Korea.
The delegation of the Swiss Foreign Ministry admitted that the natural disasters in the DPRK are severe and it is urgently needed to give international food and other assistance to it.
The delegation expressed the view that the Swiss Government must render medium and long term aid to the agricultural, livestock and fruit-growing fields of Korea including the emergency assistance.
It was also pointed out that it is necessary for Switzerland to concentrate its assistance on North Hwanghae Province of Korea and, particularly, to expand the aid to agricultural and livestock field.
The DPRK and Switzerland expressed the willingness to further develop economic and trade relations and cooperate with each other in realising bilateral and multi-lateral cooperation with many countries of the world.
Kim Yong Sun meets Japanese guests
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Sun, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, on August 11 met and had a friendly conversation with Japanese guests on a visit to Korea at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
Among them were a delegation of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assemblymen's League for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Friendship headed by Chairman Shoichi Miyashita, a Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly visiting group for Japan-Korea friendship headed by Shigeyuki Matsunaga and a Japan-Korea friendship visiting group headed by Keisuke Tanimura, Chairman of the Okayama Prefectural People's Forum for Japan-Korea Friendship.