G.S. Kim Jong Il sees art works
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il saw art works portraying Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of the Korean revolution.
He saw with great satisfaction scores of art works representing the indomitable spirit and magnificent scenes of the mountain such as Korean paintings "lightning above Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu," "Rhododendron on Lake Chon," "Tiger Rock of Mt. Paektu," "Twin Rainbow Peak of Mt. Paektu" and "Flag-Shape Cloud above Janggun Peak" and extended thanks to artists of the Mansudae Art Studio.
He highly praised the artists and other employees of the art studio who created a large number of excellent art works representing the spirit of the WPK era, thus greatly contributing to providing a great heyday of fine art.
He said Mt. Paektu, which is the symbol of Korea and the cradle of the 5,000-year-long history of the nation, is the holy mountain of revolution where the WPK's glorious revolutionary tradition takes its deep roots and the dawn of national liberation broke. He also said the ancestral mountain has always been the banner of struggle, the banner of victory for the Korean people.
He noted that Mt. Paektu and its vicinity have turned into a school for education of the party members, working people and students in the revolutionary tradition established by President Kim Il Sung and that more art works representing the spirit of Mt. Paektu should be created to greatly contribute to carrying forward the tradition of Juche through generations.
He said the revolutionary art works are of weighty importance in the politico-ideological education and emotional education of the party members and working people.
He then gave highly important tasks for fully preserving the Juche character and national character of fine art.
Letter of thanks to trading ship "Amnokkang"
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on spot on March 1 to convey a letter of thanks of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) to the party members and other crewmen of the trading cargo ship "Amnokkang", who successfully made 100 sailings.
The letter of thanks was read out by Han Song Ryong, Secretary of the WPK Central Committee.
The letter said that the crewmen of the ship made the first sailing in November Juche 69 (1980) and overfulfilled their assignments of freight transport every year by operating and managing their ship well, benefiting the country and training able technicians.
It added that the crewmen with warm patriotism have done good things for the army and the people and contributed to increasing the external prestige of the country.
On-site guidance for prosperous country
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- The Korean people have turned out as one man in a struggle for creating greater miracles and innovations in socialist economic construction in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave six-day on-site guidance to Jagang Province, covering 2,400 kilometres distance breaking through a biting cold and snowstorm in January, which is inspiring the working people with a fresh strength and courage throughout the country.
He is continuing a long journey of on-site guidance for the prosperity and development of the country and the welfare of the people.
He gave on-the-spot guidance to 330 industrial establishments, cooperative farms, scientific research institutions and people's army units in the last three years or so.
In the period he gave on-the-spot guidance to some 270 units of the people's army, covering 29,600 kilometres distance.
He always says that he will become the Supreme Commander sharing sweets and bitters with his soldiers. He developed the people's army into an invincible army, finding himself among the soldiers even on holidays and Sundays.
He paid deep attention to the completion of major projects, including the Anbyon Youth Power Station and the Wolbisan Power Station, as well as the building of Mts. Kuwol, Chilbo and Jongbang and other scenic spots into cultural recreation grounds for the people.
He also looked round Kim Il Sung University, the three revolution exhibition, the national academy of sciences, national programme competitions and exhibitions and other places to give valuable instructions which would be guidelines in developing science and technology and the national economy.
His on-site guidance serves as a banner for consolidating the politico-ideological, economic and military fortresses of Korean socialism and for giving firm confidence in victory to the working people and the officers and men of the people's army.
Unemployment exceeds one million in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- The number of unemployment exceeded one million in South Korea in January owing to the coersive enforcement of the layoff system, part of the collateral conditions forced by the International Monetary Fund, according to a radio report from Seoul.
The number of unemployment officially available in January was 930,000 and, plus those who abandoned jobs, exceeded one million, the radio reported.
The puppet authorities officially admitted that two millions at the least will be unemployed in South Korea this year by the enforcement of the layoff system. The number of unemployment already reached 50 percent of the anticipated number in the first one month.
More than 3,300 business bodies go bankrupt in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- More than 3,300 business bodies went bankrupt in South Korea in January under the trusteeship of the international monetary fund, a Seoul-based radio report said. This is an all-time high in history.
The puppet, saddled with large foreign debts, are paying their debts with debts, aggravating the financial crisis and precipitating the bankruptcy of business bodies.
Invincible might of Korean mode of politics
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today stresses that the invincibility of the cause of Korean socialism lies in the fact that the Workers' Party of Korea is firmly adhering to and strictly applying the most correct mode of politics.
The WPK's mode of politics is the scientific one which most correctly reflects the essence of the socialist society and the law governing its development, and the most powerful one that is displaying the inexhaustible vitality in the revolution and construction, the daily says, and goes on:
The Korean mode of politics is to push ahead with the revolution and construction with the might of singlehearted unity, collectivism, give priority to the ideological work and break through all the difficulties with political and ideological might. It is also to solve all the problems in reliance on the advantages of the socialist system and the economic foundations of its own.
The immeasurable ordeals and difficulties are lying in our forced march for socialism. But more steadfast is the stand of the WPK to defend the line of independence and self-reliance to the last.
The WPK's mode of politics is just General Secretary Kim Jong Il's mode of politics.
He is the distinguished political leader of socialism in our era who is creating and successfully applying the most correct mode of politics of Korean style.
It is the steadfast political creed and revolutionary mode of the WPK to set in motion the might of singlehearted unity, the politico-ideological might and win the final victory of Korean socialism in reliance on the advantages of the socialist system and its own economic foundations.
Socialist fortress
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- The progressive humankind is now highly praising Korea as a socialist fortress, a beacon of hope.
The proof of this is that the number of foreign political parties that signed the declaration "let us defend and advance the cause of socialism" increased from 70 at the time of its publication in Pyongyang in April Juche 81 (1992) to 238.
Political party leaders and public figures of many countries are extolling Korean socialism to the skies on different occasions.
Leading officials of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia are paving the way for the party with Korea as a beacon of hope, saying that under the wise guidance of General Kim Jong Il, the outstanding thinker and theoretician, Korea has been turned into a socialist fortress and is shining forever as a fortress that no force can destroy.
Korean socialism has been firmly guaranteed by the reliable foundations of Juche-based politics, economy and national defence.
The firm socio-political basis in which the leader, the party and the masses are united in one mind, the solid independent national economy and the powerful defence capability show the invincibility of the Korean society.
In recent years the imperialists and the reactionaries resorted to every conceivable means to stamp out socialist Korea that is towering in the east.
The imperialists clamoured for unjustifiable nuclear inspection and economic sanctions and employed crafty methods for ideological and cultural infiltration, advocating "reform" and "opening". Korea was faced with food shortage and economic difficulties for years, owing to the repeated grave natural disasters.
The world worried over the life or death of Korea.
But Korea remains unchanged.
Korean socialism in which the idea and faith, feelings and emotion, destiny and future of the leader and the people are welded into one is more firmly consolidating and winning victory after victory whatever obstacles and difficulties may lie ahead.
Dialogue and negotiation, only way of reunification
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- The Asian Regional Committee to Support Korea's Reunification, the Communist Party and 20 other political parties and organisations of India made public a joint statement on Feb. 24 in support of the letter to South Korean political parties and organisations which was adopted at the joint meeting of the political parties and organisations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The statement fully supported the letter which proposed a measure for opening a new phase of inter-Korean relations and promoting national reunification.
South Korea should respect the three principles of national reunification, make a resolute decision to change the anti-north confrontation policy into pro-north reconciliation policy, abolish the "National Security Law", dissolve the "Agency for National Security Planning", stop joint military exercises against the north, the statement stressed.
Dialogue and negotiation are the only way for peaceful reunification of the country, it said. It urged South Korean political parties and organisations to express full support to the letter.