G.S. Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit no. 380
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il,
inspected KPA unit no. 380.
He was accompanied by Director of the KPA General Political Department Jo Myong Rok and KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Jong Chang Ryol.
In the operation command room, he heard a report on the situation from the unit's commander and learned about how the unit was performing its duty.
He highly praised the unit's officers and men for their feats.
He gave the unit important tasks to increase its fighting efficiency, saying that the KPA soldiers should resolutely defend the security of the country and the people, conscious of their honorable mission as makers and defenders of the people's welfare.
He then saw soldiers in a military training. He expressed great satisfaction with the growth of all the officers and soldiers of the unit into invincible combatants.
He learned about the construction of a hydro-electric power station by the unit's own efforts. He solved every problem in the construction.
He enjoyed an art performance given by the soldiers of a female company under the unit.
He highly appreciated their noble mental world and revolutionary way of life and gave them a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle.
He had a picture taken with the unit's soldiers.
14th meeting of Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League CC held
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- The 14th plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League was held in Pyongyang from January 23 to 25.
It discussed how the youth league organisations, upholding the slogan "Let us push ahead with the forced march for the final victory ", should carry through the tasks laid down in "let us accelerate the general march in the New Year under the guidance of the great party," a joint editorial of the newspapers Rodong Sinmun and Joson Inmingun.
Ri Il Hwan, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Youth League, delivered a report, which was followed by speeches.
Earlier, the meeting discussed organisational matters.
It relieved Choe Ryong Hae of his office as First Secretary of the Central Committee for his illness and replaced him with Ri Il Hwan.
Title of DPRK Hero awarded to Yon Hyong Muk
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- The title of Labour Hero of the DPRK was awarded to Yon Hyong Muk, Chief Secretary of the Jagang Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the Jagang Provincial People's Committee.
He built towns and villages tidily to preserve the socialist characteristics and erected many small- and medium-sized power stations of various types suited to the features of the region by mobilising party members and working people in the province and thus made distinguished contributions to resolving the country's acute shortage of electricity.
A decree of the DPRK Central People's Committee on awarding the hero title was published on January 23.
Fruit produced by benevolent politics
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- The second group of Japanese women in Korea will visit Japan for one week from Jan. 27.
Their visit has been arranged by the benevolent politics of General Kim Jong Il to meet even the last wish of the Japanese wives.
He opened the way of their hometown visit through several teachings, saying that people who live in korea, whether they are other nationals or have different lineage, should be looked after and all their wishes be realized.
Under his loving care the 15-member group visited Japan in November last year.
During the visit they told their families and relatives about their happy life that they had lived under his deep care without suffering discrimination.
Seeing the bright and cheerful looks of the members of the hometown visiting group, their families and relatives felt grateful to the leader Kim Jong Il for his politics. They presented letters of thanks and gifts to him, who looked after the Japanese wives with deep loving care and solicitude even their parents cannot give them.
The benevolent politics of the Workers' Party of Korea guarantees the happy life of all foreigners living in Korea.
Foreigners who stay in Korea for a while also enjoy the benevolent politics of our party. More than 6,500 foreign women received medical treatment and over 300 gave birth to babies at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and diplomatic envoys of Palestine, Cuba, Egypt and other countries and their families were given medical services.
Self-reliance, Korean way of revolution
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of example-setters in self-reliance is soon to be held in the capital city of Pyongyang.
The meeting will review the achievements and experience gained during the "arduous march" and discuss tasks and ways for accelerating the forced march this year for a final victory by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
Self-reliance has long been the way of revolution and life peculiar to korea.
In the 1930s anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, the first generation of the Korean revolution, had to fight against the Japanese imperialists, with neither state-backing home front nor support of a regular army. However, they made "Yongil Bombs" with empty hands and wrested weapons from the enemy to win in the war.
In the '50s the heroic Korean people and army won the war against two million-strong forces including the U.S. and troops from fifteen satellites.
The three-year war had reduced everything of Korea to ashes. The U.S. asserted that one hundred years would not be enough for korea to rise up again.
However, steel makers of korea ensured the first tapping 40 days after the war, by giving full play to self-reliance.
Equipment and facilities were rehabilitated in many industrial establishments in a short period.
Machine producers manufactured tractors and lorries with their own technology and efforts, while a Juche-based chemical fibre centre was built.
Among the achievements made by self-reliance are the West Sea Barrage, which was built on a rough sea extending eight kilometres in no more than five years, dressing plant no.3 with an annual capacity of ten million tons at the Komdok Mining Complex and 10,000-ton press weighing several thousand tons.
In recent years the gigantic Anbyon Youth Power Station took its shape even under the imperialists' economic blockade.
Korea's industry is unaffected by worldwide upheaval because it basically depends on domestic raw materials.
The Korean people have so far lived depending on themselves and will do so in the future, too.
National Day of India marked
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today observes the 48th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of India.
The Indian people since the proclamation of the Republic have made efforts to consolidate the national independence and achieve the independent development of the country, a signed article of the paper says, and goes on:
India, one of the founders of the non-aligned movement, has striven to strengthen the movement and developed relations with its neighbours.
The peoples of Korea and India have developed friendly relations from long time ago.
The Korean people are sincerely rejoiced over the success made by the Indian people in the building of a new society since the proclamation of the Republic and wish India greater prosperity.