Secy. Kim Jong Il goes round Mt. Kuwol

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, went round Mt. Kuwol which has been built into an excellent holiday resort for the people, a product of the efforts of soldier-builders, on September 23. He was accompanied by Chief of the general staff of the KPA Kim Yong Chun and generals of the KPA Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Ha Gyu and Pak Jae Gyong. Also present there were secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kye Ung Thae and Choe Thae Bok and First Vice-Director of a Department of the WPK Central Committee Ri Yong Chol. The commander of the unit told the Supreme Commander that the soldiers creditably fulfilled the project of building the mountain into a recreation ground for the people before the 52nd founding anniversary of the WPK, a task he had assigned to them. Secretary Kim Jong Il congratulated the soldier-builders upon their successes, and inspected the Mt. Kuwol recreation ground. Secretary Kim Jong Il went round various places of Mt. Kuwol all day long and learned in detail about the building of the recreation ground. He expressed great satisfaction over the conversion of Mt. Kuwol into an excellent recreation ground of eternal value, a fruit of the soldiers' sincere efforts and wisdom. He said that thanks to the people's army soldiers the instructions of President Kim Il Sung for the building of Mt. Kuwol into a recreation ground for the people were carried into a brilliant reality. He added that the soldiers have successfully built the Mt. Kuwol recreation ground as an excellent gift for the people and that the people will always remember their feats. He then climbed up the highest peak of the mountain and enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the well-known mountainscape and the surrounding areas. He put forward highly important tasks to better the recreation ground and manage it. He said that conditions needed for the recreation ground should be provided and that deep attention should be paid to choosing the mountaineering course in order that the young people can build up their bodies. He said Mt. Kuwol with peculiar scenic beauty is a pride of Korea and that the famous mountain should be widely introduced in various forms and methods.

Anti-Hanchongryon moves condemned

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- A press conference was called on Tuesday as regards the Kim Young Sam fascist clique's ever intensified repression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon). Kim Yong Do, Director of the Secretariat of the North Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification (Pomchonghakryon), told the conference that some time ago, Kim Jun Bae, Former Director of the Action Department of Hanchongryon, fell down from a high building to death due to the Kim Young Sam fascist clique. The repressive moves against Hanchongryon are no more than last-ditch efforts of the Kim Young Sam group for the Forthcoming "Presidential Elections", he said, stressing: Pro-reunification democratic forces in south Korea including Hanchongryon should fight in firm unity. A statement of the North Headquarters of Pomchonghakryon was read out at the press conference. The statement said that Kim Jun Bae's death was caused plainly by Kim Young Sam and will be avenged a thousandfold. It also urged the Kim Young Sam group to immediately stop the suppression of Hanchongryon and release all the arrested patriotic students.

Day of revolution in Yeman observed

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- A meeting took place here on September 23 to mark the 35th anniversary of the Day of Revolution in Yemen. Present at the meeting were Minister of General Education Kim Yong In, who is also Chairman of the Korea-Yemen Friendship Association, officials concerned and working people in the city. Mohamed Ali Ahmed Al-Khamry, charge D'affaires Ad Interim of the Yemeni Embassy here, and Embassy officials were present on invitation. Speeches were made at the meeting. A congratulatory letter to the Yemeni President was adopted.

Press review

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Papers here today report that Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), went round Mt. Kuwol which has been built into an excellent holiday resort for the people. Carried in Rodong Sinmun are photos of Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoying a bird's-eye view of Mt. Kuwol and looking round Woljong Temple and the three ponds. Under the banner titles "to defend great comrade Kim Jong Il is firm faith of revolutionary armed forces" and "absolute trust in and worship for great general Kim Jong Il" papers carry words of people of all strata about the news of the KPA conference of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) which adopted a resolution on recommending Secretary Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the WPK. Printed in Rodong Sinmun is an article titled "people extend glory to our general". Minju joson runs an article titled "general Kim Jong Il is our destiny" illustrated by a picture of Secretary Kim Jong Il, waving to the cheering million people in a parade to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK. Papers inform the readers that the workers in the domain of the power industry mark the day of electricity (Sep. 24). Carried in the press is a statement published by the North Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification denouncing the Kim Young Sam regime's suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils. Rodong Sinmun runs an article stressing that the removal of the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and the improvement of bilateral relations depend on the U.S. position and attitude. Minju Joson carries an article on the crime of Kim Young Sam, who intensified the corrupt political-economic fusion in south Korea.

Solution depends on U.S. position

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- The solution to the issue depends on what attitude and position the U.S. authorities take toward DPRK-U.S. relations, Rodong Sinmun today says. A signed article of the paper continues: The DPRK is ready to put an end to the hostile relations and improve its ties with the U.S. with leniency and good will. If the DPRK-U.S. ties are to be improved, the United States must dispel the outdated conception of the Cold War era and refrain from approaching the Korean issue from the position of strength. It is a foolish attempt to subdue and contain the DPRK with strong arm. Military threat and pressure will resolve nothing. In order to improve the DPRK-U.S. ties, the United States must do things helpful to peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula. If the U.S. truly wants peace and security on this peninsula, it must change its policy, conclude a Peace Agreement with the DPRK and establish a new peace mechanism. The U.S. must renounce its aggressive strategy toward Korea and decide to withdraw its forces from south Korea. The U.S. must rectify its policy of keeping the division of Korea and do what it should for reunification of Korea. The U.S. must not encourage or back the south Korean puppets in the anti-reunification moves and war preparations. If the U.S. truly wants to improve its ties with the DPRK, it must refrain from abusing and flouting our good will and magnanimity. We will watch the U.S. position and attitude.

Distinguished commander

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il is a distinguished, brilliant commander with boundless intellectual faculties and spheres of activities. What is special in his commanding art is the view of putting servicemen in main consideration. He considers that the key to victory in war is the servicemen, not weapons and that without them, the weapons are only iron pieces. He regards the servicemen as the driving force of the armed forces and wisely guided them to Fully play their role as masters, training them as a strong army. He, who grew up, inheriting the morale of the brilliant commander's family, is deeply versed in the military. One day, he visited a shooting range of the People's Army and showed the shooters how to hit the target right. He hit ten bottles 50 metres away with a pistol, five by the right hand and another five by the left hand. He then told the commanding officers and those who were accompanying him that officers may be wounded in right hand in battles so they should train left-hand shooting, too. When he visited a tank unit, he personally got in a tank and showed tankers how to operate the tank on slope and said tanks should be reshaped so that they may cross over big or small rivers. In a summer day, he went to an airfield and knew that commanding officers found it very difficult to ensure safe landing of a plane because of unexpected change of weather. Learning that the plane was due to land from the northern direction, he personally guided the plane to reach the ground from the southern direction. That time, there were lightning flashes and heavy showers in the northern sky but the southern sky was clear. As soon as the plane reached ground safely, there were thunders and flashes in the southern sky, too. The officers were deeply moved by his able commanding in a critical condition. When he called at a naval base, he joined seamen in voyage and planted the spirit of brave attack and combat in their minds with a complicated charter. And when he visited a munitions plant, he indicated ways of improving and completing military equipment as required by the Juche-based war method and by the situation. Guided by Secretary Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander with distinguished intelligence and outstanding commanding art, the Korean People's Army has become an invincible army.

Document for war preparation against north

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet regime distributed a document concerning a plan for war preparation against the north to all army units on September 22, according to a radio report from Seoul. The plan, which was made by the headquarters of joint chiefs of staff of the puppet army under the title "conception of joint operation of war theatre", is aimed at a forestalling attack on the north in case of "emergency." It envisages the introduction of new weapons system and a "radical reform of the military structure." As already reported, the puppet regime recently formed a military tool called "group for examination of war preparation" and put it in full operation.

Movements of U.S. warships

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- U.S. warships reportedly continue to move around waters near the Korean Peninsula these days. On the 22nd, the Coronado, the flag ship of the U.S. third fleet anchored in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Already seen at this port were six U.S. warships staying allegedly for "crewmen's rest and supplies", among them the nuclear aircraft carrier nimitz and two guided-missile cruisers of the third fleet. The Coronado will reportedly enter Jinhae of South Korea, where its commanders will meet counterparts of Japan's maritime "self-defense force" and the south Korean puppet navy to discuss next year's "rimpac" joint military exercises. Earlier, the U.S. aircraft carriers independence and constellation visited Otaru and Sasebo separately in a week in September. The blue ridge, the flagship of the U.S. seventh fleet, is expected to arrive in Hakodade early next month, the report said.

Korean social scientists in Japan meet

Tokyo, September 22 (KNS-KCNA) -- The Korean social scientists in Japan met in Tokyo on September 20 to have discussions on theoretical and practical questions and role of social scientists in bringing about a new change in the movement of Koreans in Japan through the embodiment of Secretary Kim Jong Il's historic letter to Chongryon and his work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction". Vice-Chairman Kim Su Sik of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in his speech said that social scientists should become Juche-type scientists who always conduct studies and propaganda as Secretary Kim Jong Il wishes. A letter to Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

Use of natural resources for medical treatment in Korea

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- The DPRK is developing on a wide scale natural resources to effectively use them for the improvement of people's health. Special survey teams and research centres were set up to ensure scientific development, analysis of components and use of mineral springs. More than 150 mineral springs have been developed so far across the country to be widely used for the promotion of working people's health. Sanatoria and holiday homes can be seen in almost all spots of spas, mineral water and other mineral springs, which proved to be effective in treatment. Kim Jong Suk Sanatorium is situated in famous Kyongsong hot spring in North Hamgyong Province. This sanatorium with a plottage of 700,000 square metres is specially effective in curing various diseases in convalescence. It has over 1,000 beds and can accommodate more than 500 outpatients a day. There are also special sections for stomach and bowels, women's diseases, arthritis, neuralgia, hypertension and other diseases and ten odd accessory sections. Mud, found in the lower reaches of the River Taedong and in east and west coastal areas, too, is being widely used for treatment. Sijungho sanatorium in Thongchon county, Kangwon Province uses mud as the main material for treatment in addition to maritime climate, sea water, lake water and others. The sanatorium provides over 250 units across the country with mud of several thousand tons a year.

Christians discuss reunification program

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Korean Christian Federation (KCF) held an enlarged plenum here on Monday to discuss thorough implementation of the tasks outlined in the work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" Secretary Kim Jong Il published on August 4, 1997. Kang Yong Sop, Chairman of the KCF Central Committee, delivered a report, which was followed by speeches. The reporter and speakers said the work, which indicates ways for national reunification based on three charters and calls for achieving great national unity on the principle of putting the nation's common interests above anything else with patriotism as the ideological basis of the unity, fully accords with the idea of all the Korean nation including christians desirous of love and national reconciliation and unity. They also said that those who love the country and the nation and are concerned for the destiny of the nation, whether they be in the north, in the south or abroad, should unite closely with each other for national reunification, irrespective of ideology, idea, religious belief, political view, class and stratum, categorically reject the anti-communist, anti-national confrontation sought by domestic and foreign separatists and thoroughly carry out the instructions for national reunification given by President Kim Il Sung, the father of the nation. They called on christians in the north, south and overseas to invigorate activities to strengthen three-way solidarity, thus promoting national independence and reunification which President Kim Il Sung wished so earnestly in his lifetime.

Pyongyang students condemn suppression of Hanchongryon

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Youths and students in Pyongyang met today to denounce the south Korean puppets' suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon). Jang Yong Chol, First Secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, and representatives of youths and students accused the south Korean rulers of trying to stifle Hanchongryon, a mass organization of students, and having killed Kim Jun Bae, Former Director of the struggle department of Hanchongryon. They said the murder by the Kim Young Sam regime shows how desperately it is trying to stifle the student organization. The Kim Young Sam regime has arrested some 320 leading members of Hanchongryon, took away some 200 guiltless students even from train and sent more than 700-strong riot police to Chosun University in Kwangju to turn the university into rowdyism. The speakers condemned the suppression of Hanchongryon as an anti-national act going against the people's desire for independence, democracy and reunification and as illegal gangsterism obliterating democracy and justice. They said that no matter how desperately the reactionaries of history may try, the south Korean students will surely win in their just, patriotic struggle. A statement was read out at the meeting. The meeting was attended by Choe Ryong Hae, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Youth League= Paek In Jun, Chairman of the North Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification= Paek Nam Jun, Director of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland= and other officials concerned.

Talks between delegations of WPK and APR

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Talks between a delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea and the visiting delegation of the Agrarian Party of Russia were held in Pyongyang today. At the talks, the two sides informed each other of the activities of their parties and exchanged views on the development of the relations between the two parties and a series of matters of common concern. Present on the talks were Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the WPK Central Committee= Ji Jae Ryong, Vice-Director of a Department of the WPK Central Committee= officials concerned and the delegation of the Agrarian Party of Russia led by its Chairman Mikhail Lapshin.