Foreign Minister meets German delegation
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister, met and had a talk with the visiting delegation of the German Argo Action headed by chairwoman Ingeborg Schauble at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Dec. 12.
13th plenary meeting of youth league
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- The 13th plenary meeting of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League was held in Pyongyang.
Discussed at the meeting were the tasks of the organizations under the youth league to uphold the leadership of General Kim Jong Il with loyalty and apply the revolutionary spirit of soldiers to their work.
The meeting called upon the officials of the youth league organizations at all levels and youth and children to trust and remain loyal to General Kim Jong Il and establish the revolutionary trait of carrying through his orders and instructions.
The meeting appealed to the organizations and officials of the youth league to follow the staunch revolutionary character and militant stamina of the people's army.
Foreign councillors visit Korean Revolution Museum
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- Foreign Economic and Commercial Councillors' Corps in Pyongyang visited the Korean Revolution Museum on Dec. 12 with the approach of the 6th anniversary of General Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 80th birth anniversary of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
Chen Yufa, Economic and Commercial Councillor of the Chinese Embassy here and doyen of the corps, said that Kim Jong Suk embarked on the road of revolution in her early years, devoted all her life to the Korean revolution, upholding the leadership of President Kim Il Sung with loyalty and performed great feats.
He wished the Korean people greater achievements in the efforts to accomplish the socialist cause, following the brilliant life of Kim Jong Suk.
Members of the Jilin and Liaoning provincial trade missions of china here also visited the museum on the same day.
2nd meeting of liaison council of Red Cross Societies of Korea and Japan
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- The second meeting of the liaison council of the Red Cross Societies of Korea and Japan was held in Beijing on Dec. 11 and 12.
The meeting discussed the humanitarian matters between the DPRK and Japan, including working matters concerning the second home-visit of Japanese-Korean women.
The delegation of the DPRK Red Cross Society handed over to the delegation of the Red Cross Society of Japan a list of the Japanese women who will visit their home towns as the second batch and agreed to realise their home-visit in January next year in consideration of the Japanese side's reason.
The Red Cross Societies of the two countries decided to closely cooperate with each other to steadily materialise the home-visit of Japanese-Korean women.
Article to South Korean people
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- O Ik Je, who took up permanent residence in the northern half of Korea, published an "Article to the people in the southern half of the country" in Pyongyang on December 10.
O, former leader of Chondoism and permanent advisor to the "National Congress for New Politics" in South Korea, came over to the DPRK.
The article says:
Although I settled down permanently in the northern half of the country after saying goodbye to you the people in the southern half, I share patriotism with you.
I can hardly repress my serious apprehensions over the confused political situation of South Korea.
The present political system of South Korea has been corrupt because it has no proper political philosophy nor political ideology.
However, the northern half of the country is ensuring political stability and many-sided development, not wavering or undergoing internal conflicts even under the unheard-of grave circumstances in which the east European socialist camp collapsed, the western forces are intensifying operations to stifle it and natural disasters have repeatedly hit it for a few years.
This is because it has a correct political philosophy and political ideology, I think.
In the northern half, the Juche character and the national character are alive in all domains including politics, economy, military, culture and diplomacy as it is guided by the outstanding political philosophy and ideas of the leader Kim Jong Il.
In the southern half of the country, however, things are different. Its mountains and streams remain unchanged through generations and the people are none other than the descendants of Tangun. But, its masters are not the Koreans but foreigners. Its politics is controlled by outsiders, its economy is run with foreign capital and its national culture is exterminated by foreign patterns.
The northern half of the country never tolerates any foreign domination and interference and is recognised as a model of independent nations, while the southern half is a prototype of colonies which cannot make its existence even a single day without outsiders' patronage.
Dictatorship has continued in south korea devoid of independence since the country was liberated. As long as there exist the "National Security Law" and the "Agency for National Security Planning", two pillars which support dictatorship, neither democratic politics nor free discussion about reunification nor national unity can be ensured in the southern half.
My defection to the north is a determined action for reunification.
While in the north, I am moved to see that the desire of the people for reunification is ardent and the will of the authorities for reunification is steadfast.
Any member of the divided nation must work for reunification of the country.
Only those who are worried about the tragic division of the country and take part in the reunification movement can be praised as true patriots of the country and true statesmen of the nation.
Indeed, old generations have committed serious crimes before the nation by keeping the country divided for more than half a century.
Judging from the South Korean political situation before the "Presidential election", we can see the reunification issue in vacuum.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to say that, by taking a bold decision in the soon-to-be-held "15th Presidential election", You should not follow in the footsteps of the "14th election" which resulted in Kim Young Sam taking office at Chongwadae.
I request you to bear it in mind that your wise choice is to build an independent democratic government in the south.
50th anniversary of An Gil's death commemorated
Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- A memorial service of Pyongyangites was held at the People's Palace of Culture today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of An Gil, a communist revolutionary fighter.
An Gil was a competent military commander, excellent political worker and talented activist of the Workers' Party of Korea, who performed great feats in the anti-Japanese war and the cause of building a new country, cherishing the boundless loyalty to and absolute worship for President Kim Il Sung.
He participated in a great many battles in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle and carried through the strategic and tactical plans and policies of the President through superb military and political activities, thereby making a great contribution to the historic cause of national liberation.
After the liberation of the country he devotedly worked for the foundation of the WPK, the building of regular revolutionary armed forces, the prosperity of the country and national reunification, upholding the line of building a new country put forward by the President.
He died of an illness at the age of 40 on December 13 Juche 36 (1947).
Vice-Premier Jang Chol in the memorial address said An Gil's steadfast outlook on the leader, unbounded loyalty and devoted services to the country and people and noble communist traits are a valuable example to be followed by the Korean people.
All the party members, officers and men of the people's army and working people should cherish revolutionary outlook on the leader and absolute worship for him as the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners did, hold in high esteem General Kim Jong Il with revolutionary faith and pure and clean conscience and uphold his idea and guidance with a single heart of loyalty and filial piety, he added.
Present at the memorial service were Pak Song Chol, Kye Ung Thae, Jo Myong Rok, Yang Hyong Sop and other senior party and state officials.