Hero of DPRK Ri Ung Son's bust unveiled
Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- The Ryongpho Senior Middle School in Phangyo county was named after Ri Ung Son, a hero of the DPRK, and his bust was unveiled with due ceremony on the spot.
Ri Ung Son blocked the enemy's gun muzzle with his chest, opened up the route of charge and died a heroic death in a battle to reconquer height 345.4 in the period of the last Fatherland Liberation War.
Secretary Kim Jong Il made sure that the Ryongpho Senior Middle School in Phangyo county, Kangwon Province, the alma mater of Ri Ung Son, was named after him and his bust was built at the school.
At the ceremony the speakers vowed to carry forward the spirit of the heroes and martyrs as a new generation of the socialist homeland of Juche, a product of the blood and sweat of the revolutionary martyrs, and live and fight as they did.
51 unionists arrested in s. Korea
Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- The south Korean fascist clique cracked down upon the strike of unionists of the Changwon Tongil Heavy Industries Co. in south Kyongsang Province with the mobilisation of more than 2,000 policemen at dawn on September 14, a Seoul-based radio reported.
The unionists had been on a total strike from September 11 since a negotiation for wage hike and collective bargaining was brought to a rupture.
The fascist clique arrested 51 unionists, backing the company side.
Important guidelines in opening up new history of popular literature and arts
Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung delivered a concluding speech "On Developing Literature and the Arts and Activating Mass Cultural Work" at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea on September 16, Juche 36 (1947).
Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an article to the 50th anniversary of the publication of his work.
In the concluding speech the president said that writers and artists should apply the methods of realism to the creation of literary and art works so as to create a lot of popular works accurately describing the life, thoughts, feelings and wishes of the masses.
The author of the article says his instructions were very instrumental in developing literature and arts of Korea to meet the requirements of new developing realities, the ideological sentiments of the Korean people and their emotion, and they were a theoretical and practical basis of the eternal viability of popular literature and arts.
It was under the energetic guidance of the president that the literature and arts of Korea have steadily developed, pushing forward the revolution and construction, the signed article says, and continues:
Our Juche-based literature and arts have attained the height of prosperity under the wise guidance of the Respected General Kim Jong Il.
The literature and arts of Korea with the traditions of revolutionary literature and arts established by the President have brought about the "Renaissance of the 20th Century" in this land, traversing the road of glory under the guidance of the General, a genius of literature and art.
"The Flower Girl," "Sea of Blood," "Nostalgia," "Song of Anti-Japanese War" and other immortal classical masterpieces, as true textbooks for the revolutionary education of the Korean people, shine brilliantly in the history of Juche-based literature and arts under the wise guidance of the General.
Under his concrete guidance revolutionary dramas and operas and music and dance epics have come to light and a large number of monumental masterpieces of the times have been produced in the efforts to make revolution in film-making.
A multi-part feature film "the Nation and Destiny", which reflects the successes of the Juche-based literature and arts, is patent proof of the Juche-based cinematics greeting the best days.
Secretary Kim Yong Sun meets Japanese guests
Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Sun, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, met and had conversations with Japanese delegations at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Among them were a delegation of suprapartisan members of the House of Councillors for Agricultural Exchange led by member of the House of Councillors Masayuki Kunii, a delegation of the Hiroshima Prefectural headquarters of the New Socialist Party of Japan led by its vice-chairman Tatsuguni Komori and a delegation of the Kyoto Prefectural Assemblymen's League for the Promotion of Japan-Korea friendship led by director of the league and head of the group of Liberal-Democratic Assemblymen Takashi Ishida.
Present there was Ryang Tal Ju, vice-chairman of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.