G.S. Kim Jong Il revered by Choe Hong Hui
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- President of the International Taekwon-do Federation Choe Hong Hui, who had visited the socialist homeland to celebrate the birthday of tGeneral Secretary Kim Jong Il, expressed deep reverence for him.
He said:
General Kim Jong Il is indeed identical with President Kim Il Sung.
While staying in the homeland, I admired him again for his invariable loving care.
Without his bosom, the destinies of overseas Koreans are unthinkable.
I will devote my whole life to the President and the General, saviours of my life.
National preparatory committee formed in Guyana
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the national preparatory committee of Guyana for commemorating Sun's Day was held in Georgetown on Feb. 20.
April 15, the birthday of President Kim Il Sung, will be commemorated as Sun's Day from this year.
The Amerindian Minister of the Presidential Office and the leader of the Good Green Guyana were elected as honorary Co-Chairmen of the Committee and the General Secretary of the Good Green Guyana as Chairman of the committee.
New DPRK proposal supported
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The permanent secretariat of the organization of socialists in the Mediterranean issued a statement on Feb. 22 in support of the letter to the political parties and organizations of South Korea adopted at the joint meeting of the political parties and organizations of the DPRK.
The statement expressed full support and solidarity to the letter and called upon the political parties and organizations of south korea to accept and respond to this initiative and do all they can for early dialogue between the north and the south.
All socialist political parties and organizations in the Mediterranean will positively contribute to the efforts for national reconciliation, unity and reunification between the north and the south, the statement added.
Kaeson garment joint venture
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The Kaeson Garment Joint Venture situated in Mangyongdae district, Pyongyang, is a joint venture with the Jakajisa Company of Japan. It was commissioned on May 21, 1992. It specializes in padded clothes, jackets, one-piece dresses, shirts and other types of garments for children from the age of 3 to 16. It has an annual capacity of 140,000 pieces of clothing.
Credit is the company's primary concern. It is well-known for its strict keeping of delivery date. For its strong material and technical foundations - its modern equipment, it can produce any ordered children's garments within the set time. The cutting shop has mobile and fixed cutters, all highly productive and precise, and processing shops have high-speed power-driven sewing machines and overlocks. All production processes are based on detailed assembly-line.
The company has a competent technical staff. Able and experienced technicians and skilled workers mass-produce new types of garments. It has set a day of the week for technical studies= it passes on techniques to workers or arranges exchange of views on products to improve the workers' skills.
The company has overfulfilled its plans every year. In the few years to come, it plans to increase its production capacity considerably and make its equipment more up-to-date.
21st anniversary of proclamation of Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya observed
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to the 21st anniversary of the proclamation of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
The Korean people warmly congratulate the Libyan people on this anniversary and wish them new success in their future work, the daily says, and goes on:
With the proclamation the Libyan people have pushed ahead with the building of a new life since they overthrew the feudal dynasty and won victory in the revolution on September 1, 1969 under the leadership of colonel Moammer El Gaddafi, leader of the Great September First Revolution of Libya.
Over the past 21 years after the proclamation of Jamahiriya the Libyan people have smashed all the moves of the imperialists to obliterate the Libyan Revolution and defended its gains. Their just struggle is enjoying support from the progressive peoples of the world.
The Korean people will strengthen and develp the friendly and cooperative relations with the Libyan people in the struggle for independence against imperialism.
Honorary titles to G.S. Kim Jong Il abroad
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il was awarded the titles of honorary citizen of Arequipa, Coisco and Tumbes of Peru some time ago.
The Tumbes city council newly instituted honorary citizenship of the world for the first time and awarded it to him, breaking the custom of awarding certificates of honorary citizen to state leaders of world-wide fame and adepts.
The Mayor of Coisco, addressing a ceremony for nominating a honorary citizen held on Feb. 8, said that the Korean people had become a degnified and powerful people strong in independence thanks to the wise leadership of General Kim Jong Il and that it was a great honor and pride to award the honorary citizenship to him.
General Kim Jong Il was awarded dozens of honorary titles by many countries of the five continents.
Many cities including Granada of Nicaragua, Georgetown of Guyana, Kampala of Uganda, Antsirabe of Madagascar, Alepe of Cote D'ivoire and Guatape of Colombia registered him as their honorary citizens in the hope of his visit.
Nigeria awarded to him the title of patriarch of sunlight and spring water for the first time in its country.
The "sunlight" means that General Kim Jong Il is the eternal sun of the world people who illumines the dark earth with the light of Juche and leads humankind to the road of independence and the "spring water" means that he is the nutritious element and "oasis" that gives eternal life to everything of the world with his extraordinary wisdom, outstanding leadership ability and noble personality.
The Bangladesh People's League, the Party of Revolution of Benin, the People's Party of Costa Rica, the Socialist Party of Democratic Congo, the "peace to ocean" international committee, the Pan-African writers and artists' committee for peace and democracy and other political parties and organisations and international and regional organisations elected him their honorary chairman and honorary leader, praising him as a recognized leader who will lead the 21st century.
He was awarded the title of "Adept in 1994" by the association "Common Eurasian House" of Russia and the title of "Adept in 1997" by the Development and Assistance Association of Peru and the Peru Association for the Promotion of Development.
"The Nation and Destiny", typical of Korean film
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- Serials of multipart feature film "the Nation and Destiny", typical of the Korean film, have been released.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il met with its creators and actors and actresses recently and expressed great satisfaction with the fact that they created and completed serials of the film dealing with the life of the working class as a monumental masterpiece of high ideological and artistic value. He said the multipart feature film "the Nation and Destiny" was a national treasure that would be handed down along with the history of the Korean nation.
The seed of the serials on the working class is the "philosophy of molten iron", which means that as scrap iron is turned into red molten iron in the furnace, so a man with a chequered career grows up to be a loyal subject in the working class trained by the Workers' Party of Korea.
The 10-odd-part film gives a vivid representation of a furnaceman's family and those with different and complicated background and their growing to be members of a large harmonious family of the Kim Il Sung's nation, moved by the appeal and patriotism of the furnaceman's family.
The first four parts of the film "the Nation and Destiny" with Choe Hyon Dok as a hero were released in Juche 81 (1992), later followed by scores of parts with Yun Sang Min, Cha Hong Gi and Hong Yong Ja as heroes and heroine. Among them were a world-famous musician, men who were once a high-ranking officer of the puppet army, "government" official and religious leader in south korea, an unconverted long-term prisoner who is called the incarnation of faith and will and a Japanese-Korean woman.
The film gives an ideological and artistic depiction that the prosperity of a nation depends on a great leader and the socialist system is the best in the world.
General Kim Jong Il made sure that a multi-part feature film is produced on the basis of song "My country is Best", indicated the seed of the film with a profound philosophical meaning that the destiny of the nation is just that of an individual. He gave highly important instructions on 40 occasions in the first year of the production of the film.
DPRK flood damage rehabilitation committee on acute food problem
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the flood damage rehabilitation committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released a statement concerning the country's acute food problem caused by natural disasters.
The statement said:
Years of natural disasters in the DPRK have made a serious dent in the national economy, giving rise to grave aftereffects.
Particularly, the agricultural sector has been seriously damaged so that the food problem still remains acute.
For an early solution to the food shortage, all the people and servicemen were mobilized in farming from the beginning of last year.
Crop ruled good until June last year but they were damaged by a long spell of drought and high temperature above 30 degrees centigrade in July and August and the ensuing tidal waves, which caused losses of some 1.2 million tons of maize and some 600,000 tons of rice in the country.
The losses were confirmed by the joint on-site survey team of the UN food and agriculture organization and the World Food Program (WFP).
Last year's grain output decreased drastically, the unhulled grain being 2,685,000 tons and clean grain 2,148,000 tons.
The DPRK's annual need for grain is about 7,840,000 tons of which 4,820,000 tons are needed for food.
Of the decreased producation, 500,000 tons of early ripening crop were consumed in the June-October period, 200,000 tons of grain set aside as this year's seed and 855,000 tons alloted to farmers (the allocation was very low compared with the normal one). Besides, grain was distributed to industrial sectors, livestock domain, public catering service, workers and office employees. As a result, the total stock of grain was 167,000 tons as of January 1.
With this stock, 300 grams were distributed to each person on a daily average in January and 200 grams in February.
Even if 100 grams are distributed in March, the stock will run out in mid-March.
We hail the UN inter-agency consolidated appeal on Feb.
12 after the WFP made public on Jan. 6 a fresh appeal for 650,000 tons of food in assistance to the DPRK. We are also grateful to the international community including the WFP, the European Union, different countries and organizations willing to continue this year offering assistance, mainly food to the DPRK.
The international food aid will encourage our people in their efforts to eradicate aftereffects of the natural disasters and normalize production in agricultural and other sectors of the national economy.
Though the aftermaths of the disasters are serious, our people will make all efforts to solve the acute food shortage this year by successfully doing farming.