Servicemen pay homage to President Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- Officers and men of the Korean People's Army visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Tuesday to pay homage to President Kim Il Sung on the 49th birthday of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Among visitors were vice marshals of the Korean People's Army Jo Myong Rok, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Il Chol and Pak Ki So and commanders of KPA services and arms. Set up on sides of the Statue of President Kim Il Sung at the palace were flags of the Workers' Party of Korea, the DPRK and the KPA. guards of honor of KPA three services were lining up. The visitors expressed deep reverence up to the Statue and went upstairs to make bows to the President who lies in state. Then, they looked round a train used by the President for on-site guidance and foreign tour and a car used by him in the last period of his lifetime.

Juche era available in Korea

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- Juche era is available in Korea from September 9. The whole country was yesterday in deep emotion and joy at this great national event which records the Juche era with 1912 when the respected President Kim Il Sung was born as the sun of humankind, as the first year. The Korean people courteously printed the first Juche era on telegrams, documents and information addressed to Secretary Kim Jong Il, with deep gratitude, unfailing loyalty and devotion to him who ensured the continuation of President Kim Il Sung's history. On Tuesday national news agency and radios started broadcasting with Juche era and capital and local press organs published newspapers on which the Juche era was printed. All transport is operated according to this era. People began to use it in communications and other daily routine. In maternity hospitals across the country babies were given the date of birth with the Juche era.

Banquet given on DPRK birthday

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- The Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea arranged a banquet at the People's Palace of Culture on Tuesday to celebrate the 49th anniversary of the DPRK. Present there were Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol and other senior Party and state officials. Representatives and officials of foreign embassies in Korea were invited. Pak Song Chol, politburo member of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and Vice-president of the DPRK, made a speech at the banquet. He said the DPRK Government, under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung and the respected General Kim Jong Il, has firmly preserved the Juche character and national character in state activities, invariably upholding the banner of the Juche idea and thus built the best people-centred socialism, independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in defence, in Korea. Unshakable is the Korean people's faith and will to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started in Mt. Paektu forests, holding Secretary Kim Jong Il at the head of the revolution, and invincible is Korean socialism constantly developing on the most steadfast social and political foundations in which the whole country, all the people and army are united closely around the party and the leader in one mind, the speaker stressed. He stated that the DPRK Government and the Korean people will strengthen friendship, solidarity and cooperation with governments and peoples of all countries who defend independence against imperialism in the idea of independence, peace and friendship, advance the socialist cause and discharge their international duty and mission in the struggle for global independence.

Evening gala marks founding anniversary of DPRK

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- Evening gala of youth and students was held at different places of the capital including the Kim Il Sung Square, the Tower of the Juche Idea and the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on September 9, the 49th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The platform was taken by senior Party and state officials Pak Song Chol, Kim Yong Nam and Yang Hyong Sop and officials concerned. Seen in the platform was O Hyong Jin, Vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and head of the congratulatory group of Japan-resident Koreans to celebrate the founding anniversary. Invited to the gala were the members of the congratulatory group and other overseas Koreans on a visit to the socialist homeland and foreign diplomatic envoys here and foreigners. The participants danced to the tune of "Song of Declaration of the People's Republic", "Fly the national flag, our three-colored flag", "our Secretary Kim Jong Il" and "Our General is best". They sang and danced with the firm belief that the socialist cause of Juche will emerge victorious and the flag of the DPRK will flutter in a reunified country under the leadership of the respected General, defying any adversity.

Rodong Sinmun supports Hanchongryon in s. Korea

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- Some 400 students of the Kwangju-South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils held a meeting at the open-air square of Chosun University, at which they declared they would resume the struggle of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and hardened their determination to defend it resolutely. They branded as unwarrantable the threat of the south Korean regime to severely punish those students who rejoin Hanchongryon and evinced their firm determination to enlist former members of Hanchongryon who had seceded from it at an early date and thus extensively reinforce its organisation. Their determination shows that they are vanguards of the just patriotic struggle of the south Korean people, who do not yield to any bloody suppression by the Kim Young Sam group and that nothing can block their struggle to defend and strengthen their organisation, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today says, and continues: Their struggle is very just because it reflects the unanimous will and aspiration of the democratic forces in south Korea. The Kim Young Sam group are now suppressing and obliterating Hanchongryon, a vanguard organisation in the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification, in an attempt to find a way out of their serious crisis. Intensifying the crackdown is the last-ditch effort of those who are doomed. Justice can never be suppressed by arms. Hanchongryon and other pro-reunification democratic forces in south Korea will not lower their banner of struggle but relentlessly fight until their idea and cause are realised.

Remarks of Robert Bell

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA)-- Robert Bell, Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control at the White House National Security Council, on September 5 said "Korea is the one place in the world where the cold war has not ended" and "There has to be in the treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines an exception for Korea". Bell reportedly reiterated the U.S. position favouring an exception for Korea in using antitank mines. He said the United States will stand firmly by its policy to seek the Korean Peninsula as a geographic exception in the ongoing talks in Oslo. Calling for removal of mines for public opinion, the United States is seeking a "geographic exception" for south Korea where a large number of mines have been planted. The U.S. imperialists are raising the rumour about "threat from north Korea" to defend their vicious intention. Bell's remarks are an undisguised challenge to the just demand of opinion, and betray the dirty intention of the U.S. imperialist warmaniacs to keep hold on south Korea as a permanent colony and military base and unleash another war of aggression in the Korean Peninsula.

S. Korean magazine carries Secy. Kim Jong Il's letter to Mun Myong Ja

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- The south Korean magazine Mal carried in its August issue the letter that Secretary Kim Jong Il sent to Mun Myong Ja, a U.S.-resident Korean woman journalist, on July 13. The magazine carried the full text of the letter signed by Secretary Kim Jong Il, with his picture. It also introduced an article written by Mun Myong Ja upon receiving the letter. In the article Mun expressed her impressions, referring to the fact that General Kim Jong Il in the letter gave answers to her wanted questions. Summing up the letter, she said "It reiterated no change in the north's system." General Kim Jong Il stressed the three principles of national reunification, the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo and the 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country are guidelines which should be adhered to and implmented to the last by the Korean nation in the struggle for national reunification, Mun wrote. She said: clarifying the DPRK's position toward relations with the United States and Japan, the General stressed the settlement of the matter depends on their attitude toward the DPRK.

War preparations checkup group formed in s. Korea

Pyongyang, September--- ((KCNA)-- The south Korean puppet clique set up a military organisation called a group to check up preparations for war, according to a radio report from Seoul. The group is now hurrying up the work of specifying more than 50 wartime tasks. The radio said that the drafting of these wartime tasks would be completed till November and a general training of people, government officials and army soldiers would be carried out to verify its effectiveness. The fact reveals once again that the Kim Young Sam group, driven into a catastrophic crisis, are frantically trying to find a way out in unleashing a war against the north.

Loyalty and filial piety to leader, basis of Kim Il Sung's nation

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today says Secretary Kim Jong Il clarified in his famous work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction" that the loyalty and filial piety to the leader constitutes the basis of all the advantages of the Kim Il Sung's nation. The daily notes: The Korean people are giving full play to the advantages of the nation in the political, economic, ideological, cultural and moral fields on the basis of the loyalty and filial piety to the leader. The loyalty and filial piety to the leader is first of all the main source of the ideological and moral advantages of the Kim Il Sung's nation. The loyalty is the starting point of all thinking and activities of the Korean people and the basic kernel of ideology and idea. Apart from it, the Korean people who are proud of being those strong in ideology, faith and will are unthinkable and Kim Il Sung's Korea that is displaying its might as a country strong in ideology cannot be said. The loyalty is also the basis of the noble moral trait of the Korean people. All the noble communist trait prevalent in the Korean society is based on the loyalty and filial piety to the leader. It is also the source of the inexhaustible creative ingenuity and talents of the Korean people. Their ingenuity that is being fully displayed on all fronts of socialist construction is based on the loyalty and filial piety to the leader. The absolute loyalty and filial piety of the Korean people to the leader has been cemented with faith and will, conscience and morality through their experience in the long history of shaping the destiny of the country and the nation.

U.S. paper defends planted mines in s. Korea

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- The recent issue of a U.S. newspaper reportedly carried an editorial reflecting the ulterior intention of the U.S. to keep land mines planted in south Korea. A paper impudently said "The mines have been used for 50 years to protect the U.S. strategic interests and defend south Korea from invasion by north Korea." It also said that the mines are "part of defence line" for protecting the U.S. troops in south Korea and that "already-planted mines should be maintained." This shows how frantically the U.S. are seeking to persistently defend south Korea as mine area in defiance of the world public's strong demand for a ban to anti-personnel land mines.

First meeting of DPRK-Japan Red Cross Liaison Council held in Beijing

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- The first meeting of the DPRK-Japan Red Cross Liaison Council was held in Beijing from September 6 to 9. Present there were a DPRK delegation headed by Ri Song Ho, Vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society, and a Japanese delegation led by Tadaderu Konoe, Vice-director of the Red Cross Society. It discussed and confirmed humanitarian matters arising in realising home visits of Japanese women residing in the DPRK. From the humanitarian point of view, both sides agreed on realising the Japan visit of DPRK-resident Japanese women according to their hope and will. It was agreed that within one month after the first meeting, the first home-visiting group will visit Japan and this work will be continued in the future. Acknowledging that the first meeting is conducive to the discussion and solution of humanitarian matters arising between the two nations, both sides agreed to continue such contacts in the future.

Drifted KPA soldier to come back from s. Korea

pyongyang, september 10 (kcna) -- corporal jo kwang gon Of the korean people's army, who sank under the water by Accident to be drifted to the south on august 25, will come Back to the dprk through panmunjom on september 11.