Literature praising G.S. Kim Jong Il appears in s. Korea
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Wallpapers and literature praising Kim Jong Il on his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) appeared in different parts of south Korea, according to a report.
Written in a wallpaper which was pasted up in the campus of Hanyang University in Seoul on Oct. 10 were the letters reading: "Great honor and auspicious event in the five-thousand-year history of the nation !. Let us extend greatest glory to the WPK General Secretary Kim Jong Il !" And "Long live General Kim Jong Il, leader of the nation and lodestar of national reunification !"
A wallpaper in the name of the society for correct understanding of the north was pasted up on the wall of a building behind a bus stop in Kangnam district of Seoul.
It said: "Congratulations, the great leader Kim Jong Il was officially elected General Secretary of the WPK in the north on Oct. 8, Juche 86 (1997). Let us boast of the great auspicious and noteworthy event in the five-thousand-year history of the nation."
Wallpapers and literature in Pusan, Seoul and Taegu carried the words of "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and the letters reading: "Let us uphold and follow supreme leader of our nation General Secretary Kim Jong Il, let us hold him in high esteem for all ages ", and "Let us boast of the glory of the nation and the happiness of fellow countrymen ".
80th anniversary of Independence of Finland marked
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Pyongyang on Nov. 28 to mark the 80th anniversary of the independence of Finland.
Invited to the meeting were members of the visiting Finnish delegation of friendship and cooperation.
Kim Jong Suk, editor-in-chief of Minju Joson and Chairperson of the Korea-Finland Friendship Association, said in her speech that the Finnish people achieved the independence of the country from the yoke of outside forces on December 6, 1917.
The Finnish people expressed the understanding of and sympathy with the struggle of the Korean people for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country with feelings of peace and friendship and gave humanitarian assistance to the DPRK in connection with the repeated natural disasters, she noted, and went on:
"We will make all efforts to develop the friendly and cooperative relations with the world people including the Finnish people who love peace against war in the idea of independence, peace and friendship".
Pekka Leppanen, Chairman of the Finland-Korea Society and member of the delegation, said in his speech that although Finland and Korea are geographically far away from each other, the friendly relations between the two peoples have developed on good terms as the days go by.
The victorious advance of the Korean people is the result of the outstanding leadership of General Kim Jong Il, he said. He extended the warmest salute and congratulations to him on his election as the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
He expressed the belief that under the wise leadership of General Kim Jong Il the Korean people would successfully accomplish the cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung.
A congratulatory letter to the President of Finland was adopted at the meeting.
Before the meeting, participants looked round photos introducing Finland.
Party on National Day of Romania
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Neculai Cotlogut, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Romanian Embassy here, gave a party at the Taedonggang House of Diplomatic Corps on Nov. 28 on the occasion of the National Day of Romania.
Invited to the party were Kim Chang Ryong, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ryang Tal Ju, Vice-Chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and Vice-Chairman of the Korea-Romania Friendship Association, officials concerned and foreign diplomatic envoys in Pyongyang.
Speeches were made at the party.
Symposium on preserving Juche character and national character in creating fine art works
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Korean Artists Union held a symposium on preserving Juche character and national character in creating fine art works at the Mansudae Art Studio on Nov. 27.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il in his works including "On preserving the Juche character and national character of the revolution and construction" and "Theory of fine arts" clearly indicated the way to be followed by fine arts.
The symposium said with pride that the fine arts of the country has brilliantly effloresced and developed into the revolutionary and popular fine arts which correctly reflects the demand and aspiration of the people for independence under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.
The symposium discussed the measures to convey the undying feats of the party and the leader to posterity forever by continuing to create and build works and monumental edifices which portray the great personalities of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il.
R. S. on fascist suppression in s. Korea
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, the Kim Young Sam group issued advance warrants of arrest for the author of a textbook "I am first generation of reunification" for primary school pupils and for the chief editor of a publishing house, its publisher, on charges of violating the "national security law".
Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today says:
It clearly revealed once again that the Kim Young Sam group are the truculent enemy of reunification.
The national division, which has lasted for more than half a century, has inflicted immeasurable sufferings and misfortunes upon our fellow countrymen.
It is the greatest desire and unanimous aspirations of the whole nation to put an end to the national split and achieve the reunification of the country. Furthermore, the students in the north and the south unanimously want to become the last generation of division and the first generation of reunification.
Educators are obligated to bring dreams of children into bloom and lead them along a correct road. Accordingly, it is good, not criminal, that they have edited and published textbooks to guide the rising generation to reunification as educators of the divided country.
The Kim Young Sam group can survive under the structure of division. This is why they, upset by the textbook on reunification, are persecuting those who edited and published it, branding them as criminals.
However, it is the last-ditch effort of those who have no future and are doomed to ruin.
Soldiers' meeting on Day of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- A soldiers' meeting took place at the Kang Kon General Military Academy on Nov. 28 to mark the 41st anniversary of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Present there were teachers and students of the academy.
Cuban Ambassador Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona and military attache of the Cuban Embassy here Alfonso Rodriguez Perez were invited.
Speeches were made at the meeting.
Prior to it, the participants went round different facilities of the academy.
7.18 million personal records investigated in south Korea
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The "Agency for National Security Planning" (ANSP) and the "Defence Security Command" (DSC) in south Korea inspected almost 7.18 million personal records, which are kept by the police authorities, through a special communications network in the period of three years and a half till July this year in a bid to watch daily movements of people, according to a south Korean newspaper report.
The current law of south Korea prohibits other organs from seeing the personal records kept by police.
In order to intensify the suppression of people, however, the "civilian"-veiled regime has allowed the ANSP and the DSC free access to the police secret archives.
The DSC inspection of people through police materials in the period of three years and a half till July amounts to 5.06 million cases, far more than the ANSP.
The recently-revealed fact proves once again that the "civilian"-veiled regime has put the ANSP and the police as well as the special intelligence agency of the puppet army in motion to make an inspection of people.
R. S. on confidential document on sortie of U.S. troops in contingency on Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA)--Pyongyang-based newspapers today, commenting on a recently-revealed confidential document related to sortie of the Japan-based U.S. troops in "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula which had existed in the 1960s, declare that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will always sharply follow every movement of the U.S. warmongers with full military preparedness.
According to a recent report of the Japanese Mainichi Shimbun, it was agreed at negotiations for amending the U.S.-Japan "Security Treaty" in 1960 that the Japan-based U.S. troops could make an immediate sortie in "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula without any prior consultation with the Japanese government.
The analyst of Rodong Sinmun says:
We take a serious view of the document because it was discovered when the United States was further beefing up its forces and intensifying war preparations around our country.
The document convinces us that during the cold war era, the United States had been engrossed in war preparations to stifle the DPRK on the plea of preventing "southward advance" of the Soviet Union.
It is focussing its policy of strength on the DPRK. It schemes to exercise collective armed forces against the DPRK any time by setting in motion the new "U.S.-Japan defense cooperation guidelines" for coping with "contingency on the Korean Peninsula".
As the enemy tries to impose war upon us, presenting military threats and pressure to us, we cannot but attach great importance to the military.
This is because socialism and national security, our life and soul, are guaranteed by the idea and policy of attaching great importance to the military.
As long as the U.S. military threats and adventurous war preparations against the DPRK are not terminated, we will further increase the defence capabilities of the country with the highest revolutionary vigilance.
The United States must not misjudge our will and warnings but stop the military moves against the DPRK.
A signed commentary of Minju Joson warns that if the United States continues laying obstacles to peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula, our people will not overlook it.
"Military cooperation" obstructing Korea's peaceful reunification
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- South Korea is now trying hard to strengthen military cooperation with neighbours.
It is a very serious political issue that the south Korean puppets are seeking to further strengthen military cooperation with Russia and other neighbours.
Recently, a "Vice Defence Minister" of south Korea visited Moscow and signed an agreement on military technical cooperation between south Korea and Russia.
It is said that under the agreement Russia will pay most of its debts in such a way as supplyng combat equipment to south Korea.
The south Korean puppets have stated that the combat equipment from the neighbours would not be used as means of attacking a third country. But their statement is nonsense.
Their strengthened military cooperation with the neighbours coincides with their frantic military drills against the fellow countrymen in the north.
Various kinds of military drills including the large-scale joint manoeuvres codenamed "Foal Eagle" and military provocations against the north in the Military Demarcation Line areas are enough to show how frenzied they are getting in war preparations.
Their frequent war gambles have seriously endangered peace in the Korean Peninsula, angering all the Koreans who hope for the country's peace and peaceful reunification.
Russia's military cooperation with the south Korean puppets is a grave act which throws a snag in the way of the peninsula's peace and peaceful reunification.
In actuality, two battalions were formed in south Korea, armed with military equipment Russia had supplied to pay its debts, and deployed for actual war against the north.
We take the fact very seriously and Russia will be held wholly responsible for possible consequences.