Order of October Revolution awarded to G.S. Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The permanent presidium of the Congress of the People's Deputies of the USSR awarded the Order of October Revolution to General Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of his election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
A Vice-Chairman of the Permanent Presidium Ivan Sh. Shubilli said that it decided to award the order in high appreciation of the outstanding exploits performed by the great leader of the Korean people General Kim Jong Il for the international communist movement.
He noted that he was authorized to hand the order and its certificate to the DPRK ambassador to Russia.
Written in the certificate are words "the Order of October Revolution conferred upon comrade Kim Jong Il according to a decree of the permanent presidium of the Congress of the People's Deputies of the USSR."
The awarding ceremony was held in Moscow on December 11.
Exhibition of data on Kim Jong Suk's revolutionary activities opened
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- A hall which has been newly arranged in the three-revolution exhibition to exhibit data on the revolutionary activities of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk has opened with the approach of her 80th birth anniversary.
On display there are historical documentary photos, valuable art pieces and relics, booklets containing her words and other books.
The exhibition consists of four parts. What is particular is an education room in which visitors can watch video cassettes and films on her revolutionary activities and hold conversation and meetings with those related to her revolutionary activities.
The first two parts show Kim Jong Suk's revolutionary family, her childhood, activities as a leader of the young communist league and the children's corps in guerrilla zones and enemy-controlled areas. They also show heroic military and political activities she conducted for the liberation of the fatherland as a lifeguard of President Kim Il Sung after joining the Korean people's revolutionary army in Juche 24 (1935).
The third part shows her revolutionary activities for faithfully carrying out the line of the building of a new country put forward by the great leader after the liberation.
The last part shows distinguished exploits of the revolutionary mother, Kim Jong Suk, who made sure that General Kim Jong Il grew as future of Korea, inheriting the blood of Mt. Paektu and the Mangyongdae family, to successfully carry forward the Juche revolutionary cause started by the great leader.
An opening ceremony was held on Tuesday.
Present there were Pak Song Chol and other leading officials of the party and state.
Kye Ung Thae, politburo member and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in his opening address said that the opening of the exhibition is a significant event.
The immortal exploits of Kim Jong Suk, who defended the Korean people's happiness in having acclaimed the great leader for the first time in the nation's history of 5,000 years by safeguarding him at the risk of her life in the rigorous revolution, will be conveyed long with the prosperity of the Kim Il Sung nation, he stressed.
Seminars on 80th birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Ministries of the People's Armed Forces and of Public Security held seminars in Pyongyang on Tuesday with the approach of the 80th birth anniversary of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
The speakers at the seminars noted that one of her extraordinary feats for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche is that she definitely provided the brilliant tradition of defending the leader of revolution at the cost of life.
They said that as a competent officer of the Korean people's revolutionary army and an able underground worker, she fought in an indomitable spirit for victory of the anti-Japanese war and performed immortal feats for Juche-based army building after the liberation of the country.
They also said she worked day and night to make the Public Security men faithfully serve the people after the liberation.
They vowed to devotedly defend Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il as comrade Kim Jong Suk did.
Present at the seminars were Jo Myong Rok, Director of the General Political Department of the Korean People's Army, and Paek Hak Rim, Minister of Public Security.
R.S. slams Kim Young Sam regime for outrages against patriots
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today accuses the Kim Young Sam regime for escalating the suppression of South Korean people.
Recently, it sentenced to a prison term of four years Ri Jun Gu, Chairman of the National Reunification Committee of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) on the grounds that he led a "violent demonstration" during the inaugural ceremony of the fifth-term Hanchongryon in June. It also imprisoned eleven people including Pak Thae Hyon, Chairman of the Puchon Democratic Society of Young Workers because they formed the society and conducted pro-reunification activites. It charged them with the violation of the notorious "National Security Law".
In a commentary the daily says it was only too natural that Hanchongryon students demonstrated their patriotic will for reunification through the inaugural ceremony and their activities can never be branded as a "violent demonstration".
The daily continues:
It is the Kim Young Sam regime that should be punished.
It, prompted by the ambition for invading the north and unifying the country under the "liberal democratic system", is fostering confrontation and pursuing "north-south closed-door policy.
The fascist regime's suppression of patriotic-minded students and young workers is nothing but its last-ditch effort for emerging from the crisis.
S. Korea's securities company bankrupt
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The Dong Suh securities co., ltd., the fourth largest securities company in South Korea, went bankrupt on Dec. 12, a Seoul-based radio reported. Dealers have wanted to withdraw 20 billion won on a daily average, 60 billion won on dec. 11, due to a serious financial shortage. But the company was unable to repay their deposits.
Earlier, the Coryo Securities Corp. was also declared bankrupt.
The radio said, "the bankruptcy of large securities companies following tightness of money has frozen securities circles."
The fact shows that the South Korean economic situation is getting more serious.
Wetern style cannot be criterion of everything -- Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today accuses the imperialists of forcing their view of value and style on other countries and nations. The western style can never be a criterion now when each country and each nation is shaping its own destiny and making independent development, says the daily.
In an article the daily says:
The imperialists, who describe the western style as the yardstick for international life, put a yellow label on those nations that go against it and reduce them to the victims of their sanction and pressure. This shows their brazen-faced dominationist ambition.
The western-style democracy and equality the bourgeois politicians are advertising are only things for camouflaging the reactionary nature of the political mode of bourgeois dictatorship and the anti-social nature of the capitalist system.
"Human rights" is another style the imperialists use as means of interference and pressure against other nations, regarding it as international standards.
Western-style human rights is, in essence, bourgeois human rights. It is the privileged rights of a handful of those with money and power.
As each country has different history, political, economic, cultural development, life and style, there can never be any standards of human rights.
The imperialists are not entiled to talk about "human rights" because they do not give the working masses even elementary freedom, democracy and vital rights but pursue anti-social policies, racial and national discrimination, aggression and domination.
They are describing western culture as "model of human culture" and "universal culture" and advertising the western style of cultural life as standards of the world's cultural life.
They intend to degenerate the people ideologically and mentally and make the western culture prevail in the world by spreading the western culture and style of life in other countries.
Bourgeois culture benumbs the people's healthy thinking faculty, contaminates their mind and reduce them to mental cripples. It is also inhuman and unethic reactionary culture which makes the mental and cultural life poor.
The imperialists' advertisement of the western style of cutural life as the standards of the world's cultural life is an insult to humankind.
It is an act going against history that they embellish the western style and force it on the world to obliterate the Juche character and the national character of other countries and turn the world into a western-style "liberal world" under their control.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on 8th Summit Meeting of Organisation of Islamic Conference
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea answered a question put by KCNA on December 17 regarding the 8th Summit Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Tehran.
He was happy to hear that the recent meeting was successfully held in the interests of the Islamic countries, he said, and went on:
"I consider the recent meeting to be of weighty importance in strengthening the unity and solidarity among the Islamic countries and tiding over all manner of anti-peace challenges with concerted efforts.
"It is the unanimous desire and aspirations of the progressive peoples of the world to set up a new international order based on independence.
"We will always express firm solidarity with the peoples of the Islamic countries in their struggle to build a new world, peaceful and prosperous, on the basis of equality, justice and fairness."