"Foal Eagle"joint military maneuver under fire

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland on October 25 issued information bulletin No. 746 denouncing the projected "Foal Eagle" joint military maneuver of the south Korean and the U.S. against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The information says: Most of over 37,000-strong U.S. troops present in south Korea, the 650,000-strong army, and the U.S. aircraft carrier independence and other war means will be involved in the war gamble. In view of its size and character, the maneuver is a war exercise for a preemptive attack on the northern half of Korea. It is an open menace to us and a declaration of war as well. " Foal Eagle" maneuver is fraught with unprecedented danger. There is no guarantee that the Kim Young Sam group of traitors who are bereft of reason in the face of total destruction and collapse shall not unleash a war. We will take a serious view of the "Foal Eagle" maneuver of the bellicose elements at home and abroad and take a step corresponding to it. If they dare to ignite a war, we will fire back at them. If the U.S. and the south Korean stage the foal eagle joint maneuver, they will be held responsible wholly for the grave consequences arising therefrom.


Kim Jong Il's work published in Dominica

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The Solidarity Publishing House of Dominica published Kim Jong Il's famous work "Let Us All Live and Struggle Like Heroes" in booklet on October 15 to congratulate him on his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.


Kim Jong Il's election as Party General Secretary hailed

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- Pok Sam El, deputy Secretary of State for Civil Aviation of Cambodia, Sin Sabath, Chairman of the Cambodian Students Association and Chief of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of President Kim Il Sung of the Association and Tesfaye Habisso, Former Secretary General of the Council of Representatives during the transitional government of Ethiopia, recently published statements hailing Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Pok Sam El said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il most faithful to President Kim Il Sung is the leader of the WPK who has led the revolution and construction for over 30 years. General Secretary Kim Jong Il has made it an iron rule to lead all the fields of the revolution and construction in President Kim Il Sung's style, regarding it as his lifelong mission to accomplish the revolutionary cause started by the President, he said, and went on: General Secretary Kim Jong Il has perfectly impersonated the tested art of leadership, brilliant stratagem, matchless audacity, outstanding organizational ability and vigorous sweep of President Kim Il Sung. General Secretary Kim Jong Il is identical with President Kim Il Sung in virtues. Sin Sabath in a statement said that the WPK is now gaining fame as a mother Party, which is kindred with the people, the guide of the revolution and construction and the most veteran and tested Party ever in the world under the energetic leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. Tesfaye Habisso emphasized that under the wise leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, who has personified President Kim Il Sung's organizational ability, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is making progress in all fields and firmly defending socialism centred on the popular masses in defiance of anti-DPRK maneuvers of enemies.


Lee Hoi Chang refuses talks with Kim Young Sam

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- Lee Hoi Chang, a presidential candidate of the "New Korea Party" in south Korea, at a meeting held at a Party building on October 24 said that he would refuse tete-a-tete talks with Kim Young Sam if the prosecution does not launch an investigation into the slush funds of Kim Dae Jung, President of the "National Congress for New Politics", according to a radio report from Seoul. He held that Kim Young Sam should leave the "New Korea Party" so as to dispel the suspicion that "Three Kims "(Kim Young Sam, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Pil) have a political conspiracy in dealing with all cases including the slush fund of Kim Dae Jung.


General strike declared in s. Korea

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a meeting involving more than 5,000 unionists of the Kia Motor Co.,Ltd. in Seoul on October 25 to urge the authorities to withdraw the decision concerning court receivership, according to radio reports from Seoul. It also declared that if the authorities refuse to withdraw the decision, it would launch a nationwide general strike.


Silk banner to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from NDFSK Central Committee

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) sent a silk banner and a large folding screen of a poem to General Kim Jong Il in congratulation of his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. In the front of the silk banner are the august image of the General in the centre of a red field, a picture embroidery representing the ardent congratulations and loyalty of vanguard fighters of the NDFSK and south Korean people of all strata and letters "long live General Kim Jong Il, the sun of the nation". In the back of the silk banner are letters "our NDFSK vanguard fighters and south Korean people of all strata extend highest glory and congratulations to the respected General Kim Jong Il on your election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea". Carried in the folding screen is a poem on the national jubilee of the election of General Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea which was written in the form of a decimal song.


Rodong Sinmun on Japan's militaristic design

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, over 100 dietmen of Japan visited the Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the military souls. Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today says: The Japanese reactionaries intend to create through visits to the Yasukuni Shrine an ideological atmosphere for attaining their old design for "greater East Asia coprosperity sphere" which they failed in the past. They are describing the war dead as "heroes" and their crimes as "justice". This is why the recent visit to the Yasukuni Shrine was organised. It will only precipitate self-destruction. If the Japanese reactionaries are truly concerned about the prosperity of their country, they must discard their militaristic design.


Party for Sudanese military delegation

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave a Party here on Saturday in honor of the Sudanese military delegation on a visit to Korea. Invited to the Party were Hassan Abdel Rahman Ali, Minister of Defence who is leading the delegation, and members of the delegation. Kim Il Chol, First Vice Minister of the People's Armed Forces, and generals and officers were present.


Rodong Sinmun on "policy speech" of Kim Young Sam

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comments on the "policy speech" of Kim Young Sam read by the Prime Minister at the puppet national assembly session. Branding his speech as a poor scream of the traitor whose days are numbered, a news analyst of the paper says: In the speech, Kim Young Sam talked about "major policies for New Year" and "increase of defence capabilities" and liquidation of irregularities". It is self-evident that Kim Young Sam, a political charlatan and a fascist ignoramus cannot make any good policy. "Reunification, security and foreign policy" clamored about by Kim Young Sam is nothing but an anti-national, anti-reunification and anti-north confrontation and war policy. His popularity has fallen down to the ground for his misrule during his office, the retrogressive revision of fascist laws, the Hanbo scandals and the illicit accumulation of wealth of his second son, and he is now being isolated and rejected even by the administration and the ruling "New Korea Party". It is only too natural that the south Korean people brand his "policy speech" as the last scream of the living corpse at "Chongwadae".


Wreaths laid before Friendship Tower

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, the Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Administration Council laid wreaths before the Friendship Tower on Oct. 25 on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the entry of the Chinese people's volunteers into the Korean War. And wreaths were laid before the tower in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security and others. Present there were Vice-Premier Jang Chol and other officials and the Chinese Embassy officials. Party, government, administrative and economic organs in Pyongyang laid wreaths before the martyrs' cemetery of Chinese people's volunteers in Hyongjesan district on the same day. Meanwhile, wreaths were laid before the graves of martyrs of Chinese people's volunteers and monuments in local areas. The Chinese Embassy here and the Central Committee of the Association of the Chinese Residents in Korea laid wreaths before the Friendship Tower and the Martyrs' Cemetery of Chinese people's volunteers on the same day.


Party on 47th anniversary of entry of CPV into Korean War

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces hosted a party at Okryu Restaurant on October 25 on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the entry of the Chinese people's volunteers into the Korean War. Invited there were Chinese Ambassador to Korea Wan Yongxiang, Embassy officials, the visiting friendship delegation of the Foreign Ministry of China and other Chinese guests. Present were Vice-Premier Jang Chol and other officials concerned. Kim Jong Gak, Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces, in his speech at the party said that in the past Fatherland Liberation War, the peoples and armies of the DPRK and China jointly humbled for the first time in history the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world. He went on: "This powerfully demonstrated the might of the friendship and unity between the DPRK and China." "The entry of the CPV into the Korean War was a living example of the proletarian internationalist support which gave a great encouragement to the Korean people and People's Army soldiers and dealt an irretrievable defeat to the enemy." "The valuable DPRK-China Friendship, which was forged on the basis of the intimacy and revolutionary obligation between the preceding leaders of the two countries and which has overcome all trials is still developing on good terms, not affected by the changed situation." The speaker expressed the firm belief that the friendship would in the future, too, be invariably consolidated and developed generation after generation in accordance with the common aspirations and desire of the leaders of the two countries. Referring to the recent recovery of sovereignty of Hong Kong, the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and other historical events in China, the speaker wished China greater successes in the work to build a modernized socialist power with the Chinese characteristics and achieve the cause of reunifying the whole of the country. Speaking next, Chinese Ambassador Wan Yongxiang said that the Chinese Party and government have always supported the reasonable proposals of the DPRK Party and government for preserving peace and achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and would in the future, too, make every possible effort to defend and consolidate peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. "The Communist Party of China with comrade Jiang Zemin as a nucleus values the Sino-Korean friendship and the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries", he said, adding: "It is an invariable policy of the Communist Party and Government of china to further develop and consolidate the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries." "The Sino-Korean friendship, which has undergone all sorts of trials, will certainly shine down through generations amid the concern of the leaders of the new generation and thanks to the efforts of the two parties, the two governments and the two peoples", he declared.



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