Floral baskets to General Secretary Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il received floral baskets from the Asian Regional Friendship and Solidarity Organisation, the Australia-DPRK Association for Friendship and Cultural Exchange, the Chairman of the Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, society for the study of Korean affairs, a delegation of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, the Chiba Prefectural Society for the Study of the Juche Idea in Japan and the Secretary General of the Liaison Council of the Society of Japanese Teachers For the Study of the Juche Idea on his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Pyongyang Declaration signed by 236 political parties
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Declaration "Let us defend and advance the socialist cause" which was published in April Juche 81 (1992) has been signed by 236 political parties of the world as of October 10.
The Bulgarian Communist Party signed it on Oct. 10, the 52nd anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Leaflets praising General Secretary Kim Jong Il appear in Seoul
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- Leaflets highly praising the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il were pasted up in a residential quarter of Seoul, south Korea, on Oct. 10, according to a radio report from Seoul.
Carried in leaflets were an article congratulating the 52nd anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea and letters "Long live the leader Kim Jong Il !."
War manoeuvres against north
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- A south Korean puppet naval fleet staged a large-scale military exercise in the West Sea of Korea from October 9 to 11, accoring to a foreign press report from Seoul.
The exercise, supported by flying corps, assumed the provocation against the north.
First Secretary of Kazak Communist Party pays congratulatory call at Korean Embassy
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan paid a congratulatory call at the Korean Embassy in his country on October 9 with a floral basket as regards the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
He said that the election of the respected comrade Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the WPK is a historical event for the strengthening and development of the WPK and the prosperity of the Korean people.
He sincerely wished the Korean people a greater success in the struggle for the reunification of the country and in socialist construction, rallied close around comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the WPK.
Kim Jong Il's election Kim Jong Il as WPK General Secretary hailed abroad
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il has been congratulated by many countries on his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Congratulatory committees and welcoming committees were formed in Egypt, Mali, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh.
The first deputy Minister of Trade and Supply of Egypt who is Chairman of the Administration Council of the Arab Art, Culture and Information Association of Egypt was elected Chairman of the Egyptian Congratulatory Committee, the General Secretary of the African Party for the Solidarity and Justice of Mali Chairman of the Malian Preparatory Committee for Support and Welcome, the General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea Chairman of the Equatorial Guinean Welcoming Committee, the Acting Secretary General of the Youth Union of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania Chairman of the Tanzanian Welcoming Committee, the Chairman of the Association for Studying and Disseminating the Juche Idea named after comrade Kim Jong Il of the Republic of Kazakhstan Chairman of the Kazak Committee for Welcomging His Election, and the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh Chairman of the Bangladesh National Committee for Welcoming His Election.
Letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from Ri In Mo
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il received a letter sent by Ri In Mo, the incarnation of faith and will, on October 9 in congratulation of his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
The letter says the election of the great general Kim Jong Il as WPK General Secretary is a great fortune of the Korean nation and a great event in the annals of the Korean revolution.
Since the death of the fatherly leader comrade Kim Il Sung, our Party members have upheld you general as General Secretary of our Party in their hearts and you have always been as General Secretary in the minds of our Party members and people, the letter notes.
Ri says in the letter that he has been enjoying infinite happiness and glory of upholding the general, living in the bosom of the general in the past five years and admiring the great politics of the general, moved to tears by the particular trust and loving care of the general.
The respected general always leads our Party to victory with his great idea and leadership and our Party members and people are holding the general in high regard as a mental pillar, says the letter. No force on earth can match such a great Party and revolutionary people, the letter stresses.
Kim Jong Il's election as WPK General Secretary hailed in Mongolia
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- A meeting and art performance for welcoming the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea were held at the Mongolian Officers House on October 8.
Present on invitation were the Korean Ambassador to Mongolia and Embassy officials.
Sch Surenjav, Chairman of the Mongolia-Korea Friendship Society, said in his speech that he extends warmest congratulations to comrade Kim Jong Il, the greatest leader of the present era, who has led state affairs as a whole and turned Korea into a powerful state as it is.
It is natural, the speaker stressed, that he should be elected General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
An art performance was given by the Mongolian Army Ensemble.
Congratulatory performances of schoolchildren
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- Art performances of schoolchildren were held at the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace, capital and local palaces and schoolchildren's halls to congratulate the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
A congratulatory performace "Glory to general Kim Jong Il, the respected father" was given by schoolchildren at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace on October 11.
Put on the stage were song and dance "Glory to father general", accordion trio "Our father marshal Kim Jong Il", female solo "Full of hope, future with general", and choruses "Always ready for general Kim Jong Il" and "Letter of best wishes from three million".
The performance was seen by Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol, Kim Yong Nam and other senior Party and state officials.
Invited to see the performance were foreign diplomatic envoyse, members of foreign delegations and foreigners on a visit to Korea.
Rodong Sinmun observes 50th founding anniversary of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an editorial to the 50th founding anniversary of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School.
The editorial says:
On this day, all our people are filled with feelings of deep reverence for the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung, who had brought up the bereaved children of revolutionaries to be creditable successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche with his noble revolutionary fidelity and are renewing their resolution to bring to accomplishment through generations the revolutionary cause of Juche started in the forests of Mt. Paektu, under the leadership of the respected comrade Kim Jong Il.
The school boasts of the unique idea of the three generals of Mt. Paektu on the education of bereaved children of revolutionaries and their undying leadership feats, the editorial notes.
The school is the cradle and palace of learning which trains the bereaved children to be creditable successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Although the country's situation was very difficult after the liberation, comrade Kim Il Sung built the school before anything else and found out one by one the bereaved children of the martyrs fallen in the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to educate them at the school.
Comrade Kim Jong Suk, a great communist revolutionary fighter, directed big efforts to training the bereaved children to be revolutionaries who would carry forward the revolution, true to the noble intention of comrade Kim Il Sung.
Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea on the education of bereaved children of revolutionaries and his feats have been shining thanks to comrade Kim Jong Il.
Referring to the course covered by the school over the past 50 years, the editorial continues:
Under the wise leadership of the Party and the leader, the school has successfully fulfilled its mission and duty as a palace of learning for the bereaved children and as a creditable base of training hardcore reserves of our Party and revolution.
The school has greatly contributed to strengthening the Workers' Party of Korea and the People's Army by bringing up the bereaved children to be true revolutionary soldiers intensely loyal to the Party and the leader.
A number of bereaved children who graduated from the school are playing a pivotal role at important posts of the Party, the state and the army and are successfully carrying out the tasks given by the Party.
Founding anniversary of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School marked
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- A meeting to commemorate the 50th founding anniversary of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School was held at the April 25 House of Culture today.
The school, founded on October 12, Juche 36 (1947), is a reliable centre to bring up the bereaved children of revolutionaries as the backbone of the Korean revolution.
A letter "Mangyongdae RevolutionarySschool is a centre for training the backbone that will succeed to the Juche blood" sent by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il to the teachers and students of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on its 50th anniversary, was read out at the meeting.
Present at the meeting were Jo Myong Rok, Director of the General Political Department of the Korean People's Army, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the general staff of the KPA, senior Party, government and army officials, graduates of the school, teachers, students and employees.
Kim Ryong Yon, President of the school, said in his report that the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung founded the school and gave 116 rounds of on-site guidance and 560 important teachings to the school until the last moment of his life to indicate the road ahead of the school.
The reporter went on:
Comrade Kim Il Sung personally visited the school on the new year's day in the last year of his life and earnestly asked the school to creditably prepare the students to be lifeguards of Kim Jong Il who would uphold him with rifles.
Under the wise leadership of the respected Supreme Commander comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, the school has greeted in the heyday of its development.
Comrade Kim Jong Il visited the school on 50 occasions and gave directions and teachings 170 times to effect a fresh revolutionary turn at the school. He came to the school on the morning of the new year's day of this year, breaking through snowstorms and indicated the ways and methods to improve the educational work and showed deep loving care to the teachers and students of the school, in addition to the loving care of comrade Kim Il Sung.
The school is also associated with the undying feats of the respected comrade Kim Jong Suk, a heroine of the anti-Japanese struggle and a woman general of Mt. Paektu.
The reporter refferred to the immortal achievements the shcool has scored for the fatherland and the people over the past 50 years.
Whenever the Korean revolution underwent rigorous trials, the bereaved children of revolutionaries upheld the ideas and leadership of comrade Kim Il Sung and comrade Kim Jong Il in the van and became fortresses and shields to defend the headquarters of the Korean revolution at the cost of their lives.
The school actively contributed to the development of our Party and revolutionary armed forces by bringing up the students to be competent revolutionary talents with rich knowledge and practical ability.
Graduates from the school played a pivotal role at major posts of the revolution and construction and are now working hard to carry to accomplishment the revolutionary cause of Juche as hardcore members of the Party, the state and the army.
Loyalty to the Party and the leader is the life and soul of the school and the proud tradition.
The reporter called upon all teachers and students of the school to firmly believe only comrade Kim Jong Il as their mental pillar and resolutely defend him in the spirit of rifles and bombs and the spirit of suicidal explosion.