Songs praising General Kim Jong Il widely disseminated in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Members of the Hwipharam Band widely disseminated songs praising the greatness of General Kim Jong Il, according to Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoting the Seoul city committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea.
They set a month from the end of January as a period of celebration of February 16.
"Song of General Kim Jong Il" and other songs lauding his greatness were widely song.
Act against trend of reconciliation and reunification
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- In South Korea on who is not favourable to the improvement of north-south relations and reunification has been named head of office in charge of unification of the new "government".
In this connection the national alliance for democracy and reunification, the citizens federation for economic justice and other dissident organizations and figures in South Korea held rallies and made public statements protesting against his appointment.
In a commentary Rodong Sinmun today says:
We cannot but express concern and disappointment at the appointment of an undesirable person as head of office in charge of unification of the new "government" in South Korea, our dialogue partner.
He, supporting the successive rulers' anti-DPRK confrontation and war moves, lost no chance to groundlessly slander our policy of independent and peaceful reunification. He even described our fair policy for dialogue and negotiations as intended for "development of the revolutionary situation". He took the lead in raising the north's "nuclear issue" and in claiming that continued pressure should be put on the north to guide it to "reforms" and "opening."
Worse still, in frequent interviews with "social education broadcasting" he systematically and maliciously slandered and defamed our party and our system. For his heinous crimes against the country and the nation he has been disqualified from taking the "post of minister" and he has lost the right to exist as member of the nation.
We cannot understand how this special class anti-reunification element was named for the post of minister of the unification board. This naming makes us doubtful about the south side's will for dialogue and reunification.
We, who value dialogue and negotiations between the north and the south, will watch the future attitude of the south.
Valuable technological innovation proposals
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Valuable technological innovation proposals were recently introduced into production in Korea.
The Ryongsong Associated Machinery Bureau has introduced the method of cutting molten iron with pressure into production to save 70 percent of production cost compared with the previous oxygen cutting method.
The method of remelting slag with electricity is greatly contributing to saving hundreds of tons of coal and hundreds of thousands of kwh of electricity a year.
The Ranam Coal Machine Complex has introduced into production an efficient cutting method suitable to the existing equipment to process a large cogwheel of an ore crusher, one of the ordered equipment, at one time. The complex introduced more than 60 technological innovation proposals into production last year and saved 10,000 tons of coal and 576,000 kwh of electricity.
Railway transport workers have applied cement brake shoes to every wheel of carriages. The brake shoes are 3 times longer durable and 1.5 times more efficient than those made of pig iron.
The August 28 factory has introduced an electric slag furnace and an iron core induction furnace, decreasing the consumption of electric power 30 percent lower than the previous. In recent years it introduced hundreds of technological innovation proposals into production and produced 550 more loaders and 150 more electric cars for coal and ore mines, saving more than 800 tons of iron and steel and thousands of tons of coal.
The Kujang Area Coal Complex is increasing coal carriage two times the previous by a new transport method without using belt conveyers, winches and electricity in pits.
Pomminryon European headquarters supports DPRK proposal
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The European regional headquarters of the national alliance for the country's reunification (Pomminryon) made public a statement on March 1 in support of the proposal of a joint meeting of the DPRK political parties and organisations.
The statement expressed support for the letter to South Korean political parties and organisations which was adopted at the joint meeting and said that successive rulers of South Korea had banned the people's activities for reunification by dint of evil laws including "National Security Law".
South Korean political parties and organisations should accept the just proposal of the joint meeting for national independence, co-existence and co-prosperity, the statement emphasized.
Army, mainstay of revolution
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a political essay titled "mainstay of revolution."
The political essay says the theory that the army is the mainstay of revolution is an original, great Korean-style program of revolution which was provided by General Kim Jong Il for the first time in history, and an invincible revolutionary strategy of the Workers' Party of Korea for the final victory.
It goes on:
Bringing up the army into an invincible army to defend and accomplish the revolution is a great strategy for decisively frustrating the escalating offensive of imperialism, defending the headquarters of revolution, reliably safeguarding our socialist country and making the country more prosperous and is also a great revolutionary program for the final victory of the Juche revolution.
Defending and accomplishing the revolution with the army, the strongest in ideology, unity and militancy, as the main force and mainstay and making the whole society and the revolutionary forces elite and strong ones with the army as the core and model. Herein lies the profundity of the revolutionary strategy of the WPK and its great vitality.
The victory or defeat in confrontation with the counterrevolutionary forces is decided by the army taken by the party and the leader in their hands.
To annihilate those who dare to thrust their claws to the headquarters of the Korean revolution and become lifeguards of the supreme commander is the first mission and great honor of our army, the mainstay of revolution.
The army can never be matched in ideology, class consciousness, unity, combat power, fighting spirit and moral trait.
More than 50 years have passed since General Kim Jong Il was born as son of guerrillas and bright star of Mt. Paektu and over 30 years since he began the great leadership over the revolution. In the period he cultivated the strongest army in the world and built the eternal pillar of the Juche revolution with the idea of attaching importance to the military, the idea which was left over by President Kim Il Sung and woman General of Mt. Paektu Kim Jong Suk. As the sacred revolutionary cause of President Kim Il Sung has been successfully carried forward in the 20th century by the invincible party and army, the cause of General Kim Jong Il, the cause of Mangyongdae and Mt. Paektu, will continue creditably in the 21st century on the strength of them.
Famous paintings portraying Mt. Paektu
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The Mansudae Art Studio, a centre of creating fine art works in Korea, recently produced 40 odd fine art works portraying Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of the Korean revolution.
Mt. Paektu (2,750 metres high) in the northern part of Korea is the holy place of the revolution and the cradle of the history of the Korean nation where President Kim Il Sung waged the anti-Japanese armed struggle and brought the dawn of the liberation of the country.
Painters depicted the noted places and ever-changing weather phenomena of Mt. Paektu with diverse techniques of Korean painting.
The Korean painting "Lightning above the Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu" (145cm long and 97cm wide) created by people's artist Kim Song Min portrays a lightning above Mt. Paektu running into the Lake Chon, breaking through inky clouds.
The bright and sharp flash of lightning against a very black cloud seems to thunder and break gladiate cliffs around the Lake Chon.
The same-size Korean painting "Flag-Shaped Cloud above Janggun Peak" created by merited artist Ko Yong Gun portrays a fluttering flag-shaped cloud coloured red by glow above the Janggun Peak towering on the Lake Chon.
The same-size Korean paintings "Twin rainbow peak on Mt. Paektu" and "Tiger Rock of Mt. Paektu" vividly depict rocks of noted places with delicate and peculiar techniques.
Among art works are several large Korean paintings including "Red Glow over the Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu" (5m long and 1.8m wide) which was jointly created by people's artist Jong Yong Man and other painters.
Besides, the Korean paintings "Owl Rock of Mt. Paektu", "Bears' Hill Rock of Mt. Paektu" and "Eagle Rock of Mt. Paektu" are Reminiscent of a Zoo, and "Tank Gun Cloud above Hyangdo Peak" and "Warship Cloud above Haeppal Peak" shows natural wonders.
General Kim Jong Il saw these paintings and expressed great satisfaction with the creation of many fine art works of high ideological and artistic value, and gave thanks to the painters.
70th anniversary of Peasants' Union marked
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- March 10 is the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Peasants' Union.
A national meeting marking this anniversary was held in Pyongyang today.
It was attended by Vice-President Ri Jong Ok, Vice-Premier of the Administration Council Hong Song Nam and officials concerned as well as agricultural workers.
Kim Jung Rin, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in his report said that the peasants' union formed on March 10, Juche 17 (1928) was a new revolutionary peasants' organisation and a Juche-type revolutionary mass organisation in Korea.
"Basing himself on the experience gained in the formation of the peasants' organization during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle," the reporter noted, "The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung founded the Peasants' Union of North Korea after the country was liberated."
The reporter pointed out that the union was developed into the union of agricultural working people of Korea (UAWPK), a mass political organisation, in keeping with the changed situation of the peasants and the circumstances of the countryside.
The UAWPK has unfolded a new history of development in the peasants' movement by pushing ahead with the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, in the rural areas, the reporter said, adding:
To drastically increase agricultural production and completely solve the food problem is a revolutionary task facing the UAWPK and the agricultural workers.
He outlined tasks for the agricultural workers and the members of the UAWPK to do farming successfully this year, true to the party's agriculture-first policy.