National symposium on medical science

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- A national symposium on medical science took place here on Monday to mark the tenth anniversary since President Kim Il Sung gave teachings on improving public health at the 13th plenary meeting of the sixth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Papers on the enforcement of the section doctor system and its achievements and prospect were read at the symposium. Ten years ago, President Kim Il Sung put forward highly important tasks for improving public health and enforcing the section doctor system. It was explained at the symposium that the section doctor system is the most advanced health care system to suit the specific conditions of the country and the requirement of the law governing the development of public health. It pointed to the wide application of Koryo medical treatment methods and folk remedies, non-medication therapies and other methods suitable to the specific conditions of Korea and the physical characteristics of the Korean people to medical services for the people under the section doctor system. The symposium proves on a scientific and technological basis the advantages of the section doctor system and its prospect including study for the survey of health of families and the method of epidemiological analysis of disease and study for features of each family and corresponding medical service and method. 　　　

Egyptian preparatory committee formed to commemorate Sun's Day

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the Egyptian preparatory committee for commemorating the Sun's Day was held in Cairo on March 1. The statement on the formation of the committee issued at the meeting noted that President Kim Il Sung enjoys high praise as the sun of humankind for his distinguished contribution to the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence. Noting that it was decided to form the preparatory committee to significantly commemorate the Sun's Day as a great holiday of humankind, it said a commemoration period will be set from march 1 to April 15 and colourful events widely organized during the days. Ahmad Abdul Tawab, First Vice-Minister of Trade and Supply of Egypt, was elected chairman of the committee. 　　　

Rodong Sinmun on U.S. policy of strength

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with a signed article stressing that the United States can get nothing from the policy of strength it has persistently pursued. Recalling that a prospect has been opened for solving the Iraqi crisis peacefully through diplomatic negotiations, not with the use of strength sought by the united states, the author of the article says: No sooner had the Iraqi crisis occured than the United States took the lead in the campaign to solve it with the military strength, clamouring about “chastisement” and the like. In a bid to win support for its planned military attack on Iraq, it dispatched its secretaries of state and defense and its ambassador to the United Nations to different countries. However, their visits produced no desired pruition. This fact indicates how poorly the united states, which claims that strength is everything, is supported worldwide. U.S. strength-is-almighty champions are recklessly trying to demonstrate their strength on the Korean peninsula. However, the People's Army and people of Korea will never pardon them for their reckless acts. 　　　

"Song of Comradeship” popular among Korean people

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- “Song of Comradeship”, a song of trust in and love for comrades, is widely sung among the Korean people. The song was created in Juche 69 (1980) by a writer Ri Jong Sun and a composer Song Tong Chun. The song reflects the idea that one should remain true to one's pledge to the leader of revolution with the confidence in victory in the face of any difficulties and hardships. It reminds people of the whole course of the Korean revolution which was pioneered and advanced triumphantly on the basis of comradeship, and gives a representation of the noble, pure trust and love between the leader and his soldiers who share life and death, sweets and bitters in revolution and their sense of obligation. General Secretary Kim Jong Il said eternal companions, true comrades and genuine comradeship were necessary for the final victory of the revolution. He went on to say that when we had true comrades with one idea and purpose and the strength of the unity based on revolutionary comradeship and sense of obligation, we were not afraid of any formidable enemy, but could pull through any storm without difficulty. today the Korean people with their renewed pledge to share destiny with General Kim Jong Il who gave them a fixed faith and will are making the forced march for the final victory, singing the song loudly as a paean to the times. 　　

World public urge S. Korea to make policy switchover

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Foreign political parties, organisations and figures fully supported a new proposal for peaceful reunification which was put forward at a joint meeting of the DPRK political parties and organisations. Ten political parties and organisations of Bulgaria including the communist party of Bulgaria published a joint statement saying that the South Korean authorities should replace the anti-north confrontation policy with pro-north reconciliation policy and remove the concrete wall, symbol of division and confrontation. The statement urged them to abolish the “National Security Law” and dissolve the “Agency for National Security Planning” unconditionally and stop war exercises against the DPRK at once. The Tanzania-DPRK Friendship Association and the Tanzanian National Coordinating Committee of the Juche Idea Study Groups also made public a joint statement to extend full support and firm solidarity to the struggle of the Korean people to reunify the country according to the three principles of national reunification, the Ten-Point Program of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo. Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, Chairman of the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru, said in his statement that political parties and organisations of South Korea should positively respond to the just proposal of the DPRK. Korea's reunification at an early date is the ardent desire of the Korean people as well as humankind, he added. Randriamvao Mahubazaka, General Secretary of the United Party of Struggle of Madagascar, issued a statement saying that all the political parties, organisations and politicians of South Korea who love the country and nation and hope for reunification should reject outside forces and struggle for peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula in response to the just and patriotic proposal of the DPRK. The Maltese Committee for Supporting Korea's reunification and the Arab Art, Culture and Information Association of Egypt published statements and expressed the hope that wide-ranging dialogue between the north and south of Korea will be realized for an early reunification of the country. 　　　

Plunder by international capital in S. Korea

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today runs an article by prof. and dr. Ri Kun Hwan laying bare the plunder by international capital in South Korea. In an article headlined “claws of international capital tightening their grip of dependent economy” the author describes the international monetary fund as a tool of plunder under the control of the United States. He says: The IMF lays down such Brigandish collateral conditions as “adjustment of economsc strucgin reward for the rescue fund it granted to South Korea. One of the conditions is to liberalise capital and stock markets. The IMF forces the puppets to increase the foreign capital of civil financial institutions to 10 billion dlrs and foreigners' investment to 100 percent from 30 percent, close more than 10 of 30 general banking companies and adjust those enterprises whose capital is lacking. The demand is tempted by its ulterior intention to keep a firm hold on the artery of the South Korean economy and intensify its financial domination over it. The IMF also presses South Korea to reform financial structure as part of adjustment of economic structure and pursue an austerity policy. It forces the puppets to make both ends meet by collecting more taxes from the people and allocate less funds to education, culture and health services. It demands that the ban on unreasonable layoff be lifted, though South Korean businesses have observed it in a perfunctory way. Lurking behind the brigandish demand is an attempt to annex South Korean enterprises on a large scale, dismiss more workers from the companies already placed under its control and thus make fabulous profits. With the full implementation of the humiliating “memorandum of understanding” the puppets concluded with the IMF the South Korean economy is being further deteriorated and South Korean socio-political crisis and confusion are going from bad to worse. 　　　

Three Koryo medical books

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Korea has many valuable cultural legacies with a long history. Among them are three Koryo medical books (Hyangyakjipsongbang, uibangryuchwi and Tonguibongam) which deal with successes of the medical development. Those medical books, written by famous doctors in the period from 15th century to 17th century, had a strong influence on the nation's medical development in the middle ages and on medical development of other countries. Hyangyakjipsongbang crystalizes methods of medical treatment suited to Koreans' constitution. Described in the book in detail are names, features, taste and characteristics of several hundred kinds of medicinal herbs and pharmaceuticals rich in Korea, and picking time and method, and how to dry and keep them. It consists of 85 volumes= internal and external medicines (1-53), gynecology (54-66), Paediatrics (67-75) and Pharmacy (76-85). Compiled in it are 10,706 prescriptions for 959 diseases and 1,479 therapies by acupuncture and moxibustion. Also written in detail are fields of 694 pharmaceuticals in Korea, methods of selecting and applying medicines, and the method of processing 200 odd kinds of Koryo medicines. Uibangryuchwi deals with 95 diseases. In describing every disease it clarifies its cause and pathological symptoms and then gives therapies by medicines, acupuncture, moxibustion, hygience, etc. To cure it. Introduced in the book are more than 30,000 prescriptions, of which 5,400 are for women/s diseasepndgz1,380 for ophthalmology. It consists of the general review (three vols.) and details (263 vols.) with the total of 60,000 pages. Tonguibogam consists of 25 volumes and is divided into five parts, that is, four volumes of internal medicine four volumes of surgery, eleven volumes of various diseases, three valumes of decoction, one volume of acupuncture and moxibustion, and two volumes of catalogue. The book systematizes on an overall aspect the experiences and successes gained in the medical treatment by ancestors until early the 17th century and gives dosage of Koryo medicine and preventive therapies. It also examines the clinical experiences of various oriental medicine sects at that time and details Koryo medicine on the basis of pathological and anatomical successes. The three Koryo medical books, national treasures, have been greatly conducive to the development of modern medicine. 　　　

Cosmetics find public favourities

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- “Kumgangsan” (Mt.Kumgang), “Noana” (You and I) and “Meari” (echo) are brand names of Korean-made cosmetics. They are now exported in large quantities to Japan, Norway, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries for their special composition. They are produced at the Sinuiju Cosmetics Factory. Produced by making use of extracts of world-famous Kaesong Koryo Insam (ginseng), these cosmetics ensure well moisture and elasticity of the skin. They made the skin soft and smooth and are very effective in preventing skin inflammation. The factory is provided with reliable material and technical foundations for the production of “Noana”, “Kumgangsan”, “Meari” and other cosmetics. Laboratories and a research institute at the factory are staffed with experienced personnel. the variety of products totals more than 60. They include Cream, facial powder, hair oil, perfume, lotion, toilet soap and toothpaste. Technicians at the factory have recently succeeded in producing medicated cosmetics efficacious for curing skin diseases and protecting the skin. Officials and workers have also installed another soap-producing process relying on their own expertise and knowledge. This has enabled the factory to produce 3,000 tons of a variety of toilet soap every year. Out of a sheer desire to greet the 50th anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a great festival of socialist victors, the factory is carrying out its assignments by organizing production and operating equipment in such a way as to increase production and quality. 　　　

United States, manipulator of S. Korea's bubble economy

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Retired professor at economics Kim Hyok Chol in South Korea published an article entitled “the United States, manipulator of the bubble economy, unmasked,” according to the Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation. It is none other than the United States which worked out and manipulated a programme to make the South Korean economy a bubble-like economy, the author of the article said, and continued: The U.S. has pursued the policy of colonizing the South Korean economy over the past 50 odd years. The South Korean economy has been completely reduced to a U.S. appendage, an export-oriented economy based on the pattern of “import-procession-export” and a crippled economy which is operated under the manipulation of others and the influence of others' money. The United States has driven the South Korean economy into the worst financial crisis by employing roundabout pressure and financial colonial methods with the help of financial speculators in wall street. What it seeks in this is to integrate all aspects of the South Korean economic structure under the “economic sphere of the 21st century” controlled by it. It is trying to monopolize the capital, financial and labour markets of South Korea with poison-like d57 billion rescue funds as a bait. Due to the U.S. aggressive design, South Korea lost not only its economic sovereignty but also the policy-making function to the international monetary fund. The way out for the South Korean economy is to pursue independence, not dependence upon outsiders, and readjust its structures for economic independence instead of the structural coordination needed for the introduction of foreign capital. 　　　