G.S. Kim Jong Il visits KPA unit
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited KPA Unit no. 604 on Saturday to congratulate servicemen on the 66th anniversary of the heroic KPA.
He was accompanied by Director of the KPA General Political Department Jo Myong Rok, Chief of the KPA General Staff Kim Yong Chun and KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Ha Gyu and Pak Jae Gyong.
General Kim Jong Il was enthusiastically welcomed by the unit's officers and men.
He warmly congratulated the KPA soldiers on the 66th anniversary of the KPA.
He looked round exhibits of the room for education in revolutionary history.
He then went to the operation command room to learn how the unit organises operations and performs its duty.
He gave the unit important tasks.
He had a look at combat technical instruments devised by soldiers and then saw a women's sub-unit in training.
He noted with deep satisfaction that the soldiers have grown into invincible combatants equipped with high fighting ability for modern warfare.
He gave them a machine gun, an automatic rifle and a pair of binoculars as gifts and posed for a picture with them.
He looked round a power station, fish farm, education room, barracks, dining hall and other cultural, educational and logistic facilities built by the unit.
He showed high appreciation for the soldiers' ardent patriotism, noting that they have kept the unit's compound and surrounding area as clean as a pleasure park and consolidated the unit's logistic bases.
He had a picture taken with the unit's officers and men.
G.S. Kim Jong Il meets senior Chongryon officials
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received chief vice Chairman Ho Jong Man and vice Chairman So Man Sul of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan who are staying in the socialist homeland on April 25.
On the occasion the senior Chongryon officials gave the warmest felicitations to General Kim Jong Ol and sincerely wished him good health and a long life, representing the loyalty and reverence of all Chongryon officials and 700,000 Koreans in Japan on Sun's Day and the 66th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army.
General Kim Jong Il expressed deep thanks for this and had a conversation with them.
He inquired after the health of Chairman of the Central Standing Committee Han Tok Su and other officials of Chongryon.
He gave a luncheon for Ho Jong Man and So Man Sul.
G.S. Kim Jong Il enjoys performance on Army Day
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed an art performance of the merited choir of the KPA song and dance ensemble together with servicemen and people on April 25, the 66th founding anniversary of the KPA.
Seeing the performance were Jo Myong Rok, Director of the KPA General Political Department= Kim Yong Chun, Chief of the KPA general staff= and generals of the KPA.
Also seeing the performance were secretaries Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam and other senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.
Present there were chief vice Chairman Ho Jong Man and vice Chairman So Man Sul of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan who are staying in the socialist homeland.
The programme of the merited choir included choruses "The Leader Came To the Post," "Song of the KPA," "Let Us Sing of the Army-People Unity" and "We Will Defend the Headquarters of the Revolution With Our Lives".
General Secretary congratulated the singers upon their successful performance and waved to the cheering audience.
KPA birthday celebrated by foreign crewmen
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- A meeting of crewmen of foreign ships was held at Nampho port on the west coast of Korea on Saturday to celebrate the 66th founding anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.
Present at the meeting were crewmen of a Thai-flagged ship, a Panamanian-flagged ship, delegates of Hong Kong and Cyprian ships anchoring at Nampho port.
Speakers said at the meeting that General Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander, personified great military idea, Juche-motivated war method, outstanding leadership art and noble virtues of President Kim Il Sung and performed immortal feats in building the Juche-oriented revolutionary armed forces.
They expressd the firm belief that the Korean people's army, led by General Kim Jong Il, will smash the aggressive moves of the imperialists, reliably defend the fatherland and be always invincible.
Korean people's just cause supported
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The proposal of the joint meeting of the DPRK political parties and organizations to pave the way for the north and south of Korea to unite and achieve national reunification independently has been unanimously supported and hailed by the world's peaceloving people.
Over 200 political parties and organizations and many public figures of more than 40 countries expressed support and solidarity for the proposal for putting an end to the history of division and settling the issue of national reunification, which was put forward in a letter to South Korean political parties and organizations.
Many political parties, organizations and public figures including over 20 Indian political parties and organizations, the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the organization of socialists in the Mediterranean and the Chairman of the Latin American Association of Jurists said in statements that the proposal is the most realistic proposal.
25 political parties of 15 countries including the Workers' Party of Mexico, the October 8 Revolutionary Movement of Brazil and the Sandinist National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, which participated in the second seminar of Latin American political parties on the building of a new society, made public a joint statement and expressed support and solidarity for the Korean people's just cause.
Press media of more than 60 countries introduced the detailed contents of the letter, which was adopted at the joint meeting, and urged the South Korean authorities to affirmatively respond to the just proposal of the DPRK.
Senior party and state officials visit KPA units
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Pak Song Chol, Kim Yong Nam, Jon Pyong Ho, Han Song Ryong, So Yun Sok and other senior party and state officials, leading officials of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, commissions and ministries of the Administration Council, working people's organizations and national institutions, chiefs of local party and power bodies and administrative and economic organs visited units of the Korean People's Army on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the heroic KPA.
They warmly congratulated KPA officers and men upon the significant national holiday, the birthday of the KPA.
They, being briefed on history of units, saw military and political trainings, supply service bases and their daily life full of revolutionary optimism.
They expressed the firm belief and expectation that the officers and men of the KPA would successfully carry out their honorable duty as the main force for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Meanwhile, people's delegations visited KPA units and national and local art troupes gave performances for them on Army Day.
Sun's Day commemorated in Mongolia
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for laying floral baskets before the Statue of President Kim Il Sung and a meeting were held in Altanbulag county, Tov Province, Mongolia on April 15, Sun's Day.
Floral baskets in the name of institutions and organizations were laid before the Statue.
Speakers stressed at the meeting that Mongolia-Korea friendship has reached a high level and is being further developed. And they will make all efforts to develop the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries, they said.
Celebrations of Army Day
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Celebrations of the 66th founding anniversary of the heroic Korean People's A1my took place in Pyongyang.
An "April 25 Celebration Performance" was given by artistes in Pyongyang at Kim Il Sung Square on April 25.
The performance was appreciated by officers and men of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Security Forces, Fatherland Liberation War veterans, persons of wartime meritorious services, disabled soldiers and working people in the city.
Put on the stage were vocal and instrumental music, circus, story-telling pieces and other colorful numbers.
Many participants joined in dancing hand in hand to the tune of delightful music.
The performance was performed with the warm feelings of army-people unity.
A joint meeting of youth and students in Pyongyang and KPA soldiers was held at the central youth hall on the same day.
Rodong Sinmun on labor policy of S. Korean regime
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today says the South Korean regime's labor policy does not become the name of "people's government."
The news analyst of the paper says:
Despite strong protests of workers, the South Korean authorities insist that the lay-off system should never be withdrawn.
They ask the workers to join in the "second-term labor-management-government committee" and to bear the sufferings.
They also issue one order after another to suppress the workers' righteous action for vital rights at the point of the bayonet.
The authorities insist on continuance of the lay-off system, though they are well aware that it will plunge South Korea into a flood of unemployment. This shows they aim to kill all the workers.
What the present regime that styles itself as "people's government" has done is that it blocked the workers' livelihood and cracks down on their struggle for existence.
Now that it is obvious that the present regime's labor policy is anti-social, the South Korean working people will never tolerate it.