Ghanaian President on Ghana-DPRK friendship
Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) -- "We hope that Korea will be reunified in the interests of her people," said Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings when he met the outgoing DPRK Ambassador.
The President stressed Ghana will value and further develop the fraternal relations of friendship and cooperation with Korea.
The Korean people, under the wise guidance of General Kim Jong Il, are staunchly defending the banner of socialism of their own style, he noted, and said:
The reality of korea clearly indicates the orientation to be taken by the Ghanaian people and all other African nations today.
Paleolithic remains discovered
Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) -- Remains belonging to the paleolithic age were discovered in korea recently.
Scientists at the Archaeological Research Centre under the academy of social science have discovered a hunting ground dating back to the mid-paleolithic age, 100,000 years ago.
The hunting ground was found on the north side of a lime hill 62 metres above sea level at the mouth of Mt. Koryong Valley in Rodong-ri, Sangwon county, Pyongyang municipality.
There are fifteen vertical caves in a row and many fossilized bones of animals were discovered in a middle cave.
The caves have four layers of moraine and the fossils were found only in the third layer.
Discovered in them were 2,000 fossil bones of 13 kinds of animals such as cave hyena, leopard, wolf, cervus nippon taiouanus and buffalo. These caves were used for hunting.
The Institute of the Human Evolution Development History of Kim Il Sung University found out over 590 pieces of paleolithic stone implements scattered in 66 places.
All of the stonewares discovered in and around Pyongyang were made of river gravels. They are on an average 11.4 cm in length, 9 cm in width, 5.7 cm in thickness and 600 grams in weight. One of them weighs 1.8 kg.
The stonewares included chopper, hammer, hatchet, stone for hunting (hurling stone), piercer, scratcher, puller and cutter.
The stonewares are mainly distributed in Pyongyang, particularly in Mangyongdae.
G.S. Kim Jong Il sends message of greetings to Pres. Fidel Castro Ruz
Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) - Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), sent a message of greetings to Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, on the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban revolution.
We are rejoiced over the fact that the fraternal Cuban people have waged a vigorous struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country and the gains of socialism and stabilize and improve the people's living in hearty response to decisions of the fifth congress of the party under your correct leadership, the message said.
It expressed the belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the parties, governments and peoples of the two countries would continue to strengthen and develop in the joint struggle for independence and peace against imperialism.
Floral baskets and congratulatory letters to G.S. Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a floral basket and a congratulatory letter from the foreign diplomatic corps here on the new year, Juche 87 (1998).
The floral basket and the congratulatory letter were handed to Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam by Algerian Ambassador to Korea Hanafi Oussedik on Dec. 29 on behalf of the corps.
The Ambassador wholeheartedly wished General Kim Jong Il a long life in good health on the new year 1998.
The military attaches corps here also presented a floral basket and a congratulatory letter to him on the same day.
They were handed to First Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Il Chol by Vu Dihn Thang, military attache of the Vietnamese Embassy, who is the doyen of the military attaches corps.
And congratulatory letters, bunches of flowers and gifts to him from military attaches of the Vietnamese, Egyptian, Iranian and Russian embassies and the Peruvian military attache were conveyed to the First Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces.