Celebration meeting held in India

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in New Delhi on December 12 to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the election of General Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 80th birth anniversary of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk. The director of the Everest Publishing House in New Delhi said in his speech that he deemed it a great privilege and honor for his publishing house to bring out books "Three generals," "Brilliant Korea" and "Singlehearted unity of Korea". He further said: "The heoric Korean People's Army, which has its Supreme Commander in the person of his excellency Kim Jong Il, a peerlessly great man, is invincible revolutionary armed forces reliably defending peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world. "Only victory and glory are in store for the KPA which reliably defends the happiness of the people and the gains of the revolution under the wise guidance of his excellency Kim Jong Il. "Kim Jong Suk, mother of the revolution, was an indomitable revolutionary fighter, great politician and outstanding woman activist who took part in the anti-Japanese armed struggle organised and led by President Kim Il Sung, demonstrated her valour in all battles and safeguarded him at the risk of her life and, after the country was liberated, encouraged women to the building of a new country." A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

Ri Pok Jae Senior Middle School

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang-based Sopho Senior middle School was named after Ri Pok Jae, hero of the DPRK, and his bust was erected at the school. Ri Pok Jae, a public security man, devoted himself to defending portraits of the President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il and saving many passengers on duty in train. In March General Kim Jong Il remembered the heroic feats of Ri, a graduate of the school, and said that his example should be followed and his alma mater named after him. A ceremony of renaming the school and unveiling his bust took place on December 19. Present at the ceremony were Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang Municipal Administrative and Economic Committee, and Ri Ryong Son, Vice-Minister of Public Security.

Release of So Jun Sik and other prisoners of conscience in S. Korea urged

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- The International Centre of the Human Rrights Fund of Koreans in Japan made public a statement on December 17 denouncing the "civilian"-veiled fascist clique of South Korea for prosecuting detained So Jun Sik, chairman of the committee for human rights movement, for violating the "National Security Law," according to a report. It said that the detention of so, a human rights champion, was a retaliatory act against his opposing the authorities' brutal suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils and taking the lead in the human rights movement in South Korea. Recalling that whenever it was in the grip of the ruling crisis, the Kim Young Sam regime fabricated "security-related cases" to escape from the crisis, it pointed out that the regime detained so in a bid to extricate itself from the ruling crisis in such a way. It urged the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience including So Jun Sik and stop fabricating "security-related cases" aimed at prolonging the regime.

Removal of concrete wall demanded in Guyana

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- Guyanese public figures strongly demanded the removal of the concrete wall. Georgi Panon, Minister of Public Service of the Presidential Office of Guyana, said in a statement on December 12 that the concrete wall built in the area south of the Military Demarcation Line is a product of the Cold War and a physical barrier standing in the way of peace and peaceful reunification of Korea. By pulling down the concrete wall, a symbol of division, at an early date, the South Korean authorities must create a substantial atmosphere needed for building confidence between the north and the south of korea, easing the political and military confrontation between them and ensuring a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, he stressed. Samuel Walker, chairman of the Guyana Labour Union, said in a statement on December 15 that the wall is not a tank trap in view of size and form but an anti-reunification barrier aimed at perpetuating the division of Korea. Taking it into consideration that the concrete wall was built in the area south of the Military Demarcation Line under the jurisdiction of the U.S. forces present in South Korea, we call upon the United States to feel responsible for this and exercise influence for the demolition of the wall.

U.S. new nuclear strategy under fire

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- Of late the U.S. directed the spearhead of its nuclear strategy to the small countries who are out of favor with it from big countries, threatening that in case the "interests" of its allies are "violated" it would make a nuclear attack. In the recently-published new "guidelines" the U.S. adopted it as a policy to attack with nuclear weapons the small countries in case they use "bio-chemical weapons against the U.S." papers here today, commenting on this, say the new "guidelines" of the U.S. is, in essence, a new nuclear strategy worked out after re-examination of the nuclear strategy of the Cold War. This clearly shows that the new nuclear scenario of the U.S. has been worked out against developing countries, particularly those countries which are fighting for independence against imperialism, the news analyst of Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on: After the Cold War the U.S. has had no rivals in nuclear arms race, and big countries with nuclear arms are committed to no-use of nuclear weapons against one another. The U.S., therefore, should awake from a nuclear dream and seek a nuclear scenario no longer. The U.S. outcry over "attack by the small countries with bio-chemical weapons" and "encroachment upon the interests" of its allies is for nuclear preemptive strike at the countries which are fighting for independence against imperialism. No country on earth tries to pose menace to the security of the U.S. or attack it. The U.S. outcry cannot be justified in any case, and it does not stand to reason. The projected nuclear attack on the small countries brings into bolder relief the criminal nature and seriousness of the u.s. "strong-arm strategy", "new world strategy". If the U.S. wants to see peace and advancement of humankind in civilisation, it should stop pursuing the criminal nuclear policy. Minju Joson in a commentary says the U.S. focuses the nuclear strategy on the countries which go against the grain with it and the countries which hold high the banner of independence against imperialism, and with nothing can it realise its ridiculous nuclear strategy.

Gifts to G.S. Kim Jong Il from Cuban leaders

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- Gifts came to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from President Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, , as well as First Vice-President Raul Castro Ruz, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, with the approach of the new year. The Chief of protocol of the Foreign Ministry of Cuba conveyed the gifts to the Korean Ambassador to Cuba on Dec. 11. The Chief quoted President Fidel as saying that he wished General Kim Jong Il good health and achievements in his work in the coming year.

Books off the press

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- More books have come off the press in Korea to commemorate the 80th birth anniversary of the communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk. The literature and art press group brought out a collection of literary works "Osan Hill in Spring", a collection of short stories "Desire", a lengthy epic "I will return", a collection of musical works and anecdotes "Mother and Song" and an illustrated book of legends "Woman General who descended on Mt. Paekhak". The lengthy epic says that the image of mother Kim Jong Suk always remains in the hearts of the Korean people. The books deal with mother Kim Jong Suk's spirit of defending the leader, her strong sense of revolutionary obligation, warm love for people and lofty personality which were shown in the efforts to implement the Juche-based revolutionary lines advanced by President Kim Il Sung. The Kum Song Youth Publishing House published a book "Juvenile movement and comrade Kim Jong Suk", a collection of works "White apricot blossoms" and other books. They deal with Kim Jong Suk's warm love for new generations of the revolution and firm will of the Korean youths and children to become true sons and daughters unfailingly faithful to General Kim Jong Il as she desired.