National photo show marks Sun's Day
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- A national photo show opened here Thursday with due ceremony to commemorate Sun's Day.
On show are over 170 pictures showing the revolutionary activities and enduring feats of President Kim Il Sung including a photo of the President standing in a green garden with a bright smile in his face.
Among them are pictures of President organizing and leading the two revolutionary wars and the two social revolutions to victory and working heart and soul for national reunification and global independence and pictures of General Kim Jong Il's revolutionary activities and of the Korean people and servicemen pushing ahead with the forced march for the final victory under his guidance.
Jang Chol, Vice-Premier of the Administration Council and Minister of Culture and Art, made an opening speech.
Day of Republic of Guinea marked
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here Thursday to mark the 14th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Republic of Guinea.
Present there were Ri Song Ho, Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and Vice-Chairman of the Korea-Guinea Friendship Association, and officials concerned.
A speech was made before the adoption of a congratulatory message to the Guinean President at the meeting.
Anti-national atrocities in S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The South Korean police has arrested students for staging demonstrations in demand of a legal action against Kim Young Sam, according to reports.
This is an unpardonable anti-national atrocity which is enraging all the fellow countrymen.
During his assumption of office, Kim Young Sam committed many heinous crimes against the nation and plunged South Korea into a financial crisis. Accordingly, he must be brought before court for stern judgement by the nation.
It is only too natural that South Korean students are staging demonstrations in demand of a legal action against Kim Young Sam after forming death-defying groups for arresting him.
Nevertheless, the puppet police of the present regime styling itself as a "government for people" is ruthlessly cracking down upon students' demonstration. This frantic crackdown means that the present regime is backing Kim Young Sam, keeping mum about his indelible crimes.
The South Korean puppets should stop the brutal suppression of students at once, clearly mindful that if they go against the will of the people, they cannot go scotfree.
Rodong Sinmun on malicious remarks of national unification minister of S. Korea
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with a commentary on the insolent and malicious remarks of the "National Unification Minister" of South Korea in a recent interview with the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun.
Recalling that in the interview, he hurled slanders at the DPRK and prattled the "four-way talks" and the issue of separated families are at standstill owing to the north, the news analyst of the paper says:
His malicious remarks are an unpardonable provocation against the DPRK.
His finding faults with others will result in putting himself into a trap by himself.
Judging from all things, he is an ill-natured man.
People expected that a person, who is as truculent as his predecessor, would not reappear in South Korea.
But they are disappointed in his malicious remarks.
It is clear that if a bad-natured man is in charge of the Unification Ministry in South Korea, national reconciliation, unity and reunification cannot be achieved but the barrier of antagonism, confrontation and division will be higher.
The situation has already headed toward this direction.
This will bring nothing good to the present South Korean regime styling itself a "government for the people."
Any wound must be treated before it festers.
U.S. military presence in South Korea is unjustifiable
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The United States has renamed "stationary troops" instead of "UN Forces" according to the U.S.-South Korea "mutual defence past" to legalize its permanent military presence in South Korea.
Commenting on this, the news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today points out:
It is unjustifiable to give legality to the U.S. troops occupying South Korea by calling them "stationary troops" under the pretext of the "mutual defence pact." this "pact" itself is an illegal and unfair one running counter to the requirement of the international law and usage.
The paper goes on:
The U.S.-South Korea "mutual defence pact" and the U.S. military presence in South Korea, the legacies of the Cold War, are the root cause of a new war, keeping distrust and hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and instability on the Korean Peninsula.
Withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea is an urgent demand for peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the key to the Korean issue.
The faster the pullout of the U.S. troops, the better for the United States itself. It would not be good for the DPRK-U.S. dialogue if the United States keeps its troops in South Korea.
The United States should ponderover this.
Repatriation of pows urged
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- Sukomal Sen, General Secretary of the Trade Unions International of Public and Allied Employees, recently sent a letter of protest to the South Korean chief executive demanding the repatriation of old Kim In So, Ham Se Hwan and other unconverted long-term prisoners.
Expressing concern over the fact that some of them who were taken prisoners in the Korean War in the 1950's, are still kept in south korea even after their release, the letter said their shuddering sufferings cannot be overlooked.
The letter, in the name of the union, urged the South Korean authorities to immediately send those unconverted long-term prisoners back to the northern half of the country.
Commemorative stamps issued
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Communications of the DPRK issued eight kinds of sheets and one kind of individual stamp to commemorate Sun's Day.
Printed on the upper part of sheets are letters "commemoration of Sun's Day" and in the centre are portraits of President Kim Il Sung in his childhood and in his revolutionary activities.
On the lower part are pictures of time-honored Mangyongdae, Yuwen Middle School in Jilin of China, the Samjiyon Grand Monument in Ryanggang Province and pictures showing the cheering people with joy over the liberation of the country, the Korean people's great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War and advance in socialist economic construction.
Carried in the centre of stamps are portraits of President Kim Il Sung in the last period of his great life and in immortality with a bright smile, and on their lower part are a monument bearing an inscription of his autograph on national reunification-related document and a sea of flowers.
Portrayed in the individual stamp are his old home in Mangyongdae, the Tower of the Juche idea and flags of the party, state and army among kimilsungia and magnolia.
G.S. Kim Jong Il's long memory
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il is a prominent man with a long memory.
He remembers exploits of famous masters and small and great political events of all ages and countries, significance and definite numbers of all creations by mankind, and names, ages and birthdays of those people he met.
Once he appreciated a foreign film showing world war ii with a diplomat. After the film show he analysed merits and demerits of the film, quoting dialogues of the film, before asking the diplomat to give his impressions of the film.
The diplomat said that the film well depicted part of World War 11 which left 50 million people dead. General Kim Jong Il with a smile said that the number of the dead is not 50 million but 55 million to be exact, the number of the wounded is 90 million and two billion people of 60 countries participated in the war.
And he added data of the first world war in detail.
One day in late 1986, President Kim Il Sung asked officials how many U.S. troops participated in the "Team Spirit" nuclear war exercise which was staged every year from 1976. Nobody could tell the correct figure, but General Kim Jong Il answered the number of the U.S. troops who were mobilized in the annual exercise for 10 years.
The President was pleased with a light joke saying that there was everything in the "store of knowledge" of General Kim Jong Il and there may be a document on "cat's horn".
Boundless mental faculties of General Kim Jong Il come from his gifted memory.
Minju Joson on remarks of Japanese Prime Minister
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Prime Minister told the budgetary committee of the House of Councillors That Japan's colonial domination of the Korean Peninsula cannot be negated."
Commenting on his remarks, a news analyst of Minju Joson today says:
What is important is not word but deed.
His remarks are diametrically different from Japan's previous wrong attitude toward the past.
To repent of the past wrongdoings and draw a lesson from them is good for Japan itself, not for others.
From this point of view, the Japanese Prime Minister admitted Japan's past woven with crimes, we think.
It is no use to talk volubly with no act.
If the Japanese government sincerely admits its past history, it should show it in practice.
Only then can Japan dispel the deep-rooted anti-Japanese feelings of the Korean and other Asian peoples even a little.
The world will follow the future attitude of the Japanese government.
Korean people's cause of reunification supported
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- A joint meeting of Arab regional political parties on the situation of the Korean Peninsula was held in Syria with the attendance of delegates from 30 odd parties and fronts.
At the meeting the participants expressed full support to the Korean people in their struggle for national reunification.
A statement adopted at the meeting said that the U.S. troops should be pulled out from South Korea and any kind of war exercises against the north be discontinued in order to prevent recurrence of war in the Korean Peninsula and ensure a durable peace and achieve its reunification.
The reunification of the Korean Peninsula should be realized in accordance with the three charters of national reunification clarified by President Kim Il Sung, it stressed, calling for full support to the National Democratic Front and people of South Korea in the struggle for independence, democracy and reunification.