Sun's Day to be commemorated abroad
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Preparatory committees for commemorating Sun's Day were inaugurated in Zimbabwe, Luxemburg, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Brazil.
Chairmen of the committees were elected and programs for the commemoration discussed at the inaugural meetings.
Overseas Korean artistes perform in art festival
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Overseas Korean artistes have performed in the 16th April Spring Friendship Art Festival.
Korean artistes from Japan showed the strong resolution of Korean compatriots in Japan to uphold President Kim Il Sung as the sun of Juche and remain loyal to the leadership of General Kim Jong Il in song and dance "700,000 Koreans sing of Sun's Day" and chorus and dance "We'll follow General Kim Jong Il Forever".
A merited artiste Jong Ho Wol sang a song "The Sun is soaring over the country," dancing to the tune of the song.
And another merited artiste Choe Jae Dok performed a Jangsaenap solo "Ryonggangginari."
Korean artistes from China sang of the pride and happiness of the Korean nation in song and dance "Sun's Day Comes," female solo "Fortune of Korea" and tale and song "Let Us Boast of Our Country Proud of Three Generals."
The artistes of the international united confederation of Koreans performed a dance "We will hold the leader in high esteem forever," reflecting their willingness to always venerate President Kim Il Sung.
A female vocal solo "We are sons and daughters of the General," a solo dance "Bell and Fan Dance" and other numbers left deep impressions on the people in the homeland.
Suppression of Hanchongryon under fire
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued information bulletin no.759 denouncing the suppression of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), the suppression which has continued though the "civilian"-veiled fascist dictatorship came to an end in South Korea.
It said:
The South Korean "supreme public prosecutor's office" branded the sixth-term Hanchongryon as a "pro-north enemy-benefiting organization" in view of the "National Security Law" and decided to completely dissolve it, block its inaugural meeting and arrest all its participants.
It is intolerable that the present regime is calling Hanchongryon an "enemy-benefiting organization" and suppressing it as the preceding puppet regime did, while crying for "dialogue" and "cooperation."
The present authorities of South Korea should draw a lesson from the miserable end of the "civilian"-veiled dictators and discard the old way of thinking.
Protocol between DPRK and China signed
Beijing, April 10 (KCNA) -- A 1998 protocol of sports exchange between the DPRK State Physical Culture and Sports Commission and the Chinese State General Bureau of Sports was signed in Beijing on Apr. 8.
Korean ambassador to China Ju Chang Jun and Vice-Director of the General Bureau Xu Yinsheng signed the protocol.
Collection of President Kim Il Sung's works printed in Russia
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- "On the Proposal for Founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo," a collection of President Kim Il Sung's famous works, was brought out by the Paleya Publishing House of Russia.
G.S. Kim Jong Il's work published in Italy
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction," a famous work of General Kim Jong Il, was brought out in booklet by a publishing house of Italy on Apr. 6.
Printed in the booklet is his portrait.
Foreigners meet to commemorate April 15
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Cuba-resident representatives from the Revolutionary Forces Party of Dominica, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, the Communist party of paraguay, the communist party of chile,
The Communist Party of Colombia, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front of El Salvador, the Communist Party of Argentina and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia issued a joint communique in Havana on April 6 with the approach of Sun's Day.
The communique said the birth of President Kim Il Sung was an event which marked the beginning of socialist Korea's history and also an important event of particular note in the history of mankind.
Saying that the undying revolutionary exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung would shine along with the history of humankind, it extended glory to him.
It announced a decision to commemorate April 15 every year as a grand international political festival.
Korean senior party and state officials visit International Friendship Exhibition
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol and Kim Pyong Sik, vice-presidents of the DPRK, and other senior party and state officials visited the International Friendship Exhibition on April 11 with the approach of Sun's Day.
They laid a floral basket in the name of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and the Central People's Committee and the Administration Council of the DPRK and flowers and bowed before the statue of President Kim Il Sung in Hyangsan-up.
On display at the exhibition are more than 105,000 gifts to the President and General Kim Jong Il from progressive figures and organisations including party, state and government leaders of some 170 countries.
The visitors were deeply moved to see the gifts to the President, a peerlessly great man of the century, carrying the world people's deep reverence for him and precious gifts to General Kim Jong Il, the great sun of the 21st century, who is adding lustre to the era of independence.
Trade union members and agricultural workers pledge loyalty
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Trade union members and agricultural working people vowed to hold in high esteem President Kim Il Sung as the eternal sun of Juche and to remain loyal to the guidance of General Kim Jong Il on April 11 with Sun's Day at hand.
At a meeting the trade union members vowed to hold aloft the red flag of revolution associated with the whole life of the President and fully demonstrate the unbreakable faith and will of the heroic Korean working class in socialist construction by following the workers of the Songjin Steel Complex visited by General Kim Jong Il.
At a meeting the agricultural workers expressed their determination to do all farming as required by the Juche farming method and make great contributions to the full supply of food to the people to make the General happy.
Scorched earth operation of "civilian" regime reappears
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The South Korean three-dimentional operation to block and repress the meeting of deputies to the sixth-term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) is the reappearance of the scorched earth operation of the "civilian"-veiled dictatorship against Hanchongryon in method, form and degree of suppression, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed commentary today.
The news analyst goes on:
The intensified suppression of Hanchongryon on the part of the present self-styled "government of the people" in South Korea cannot be justified in any case.
To incriminate and suppress the patriotic-minded students who are conducting activities of their own accord in the idea of independence, democracy and reunification is a crime that can be committed only by the fascist maniacs who stake their fate on the suppression of the people.
We cannot remain a passive onlooker to the present "government's" suppression of Hanchongryon, which it describes as a "pro-north, enemy-benefitting organisation."
The present ruling quarters of South Korea should ponder over the grave consequences of the frantic suppression of Hanchongryon and other patriotic, democratic forces.
If they resort to man-hunting as the "civilian"-veiled dictators did, they will get nothing but curses and denunciation.