Gift to G.S. Kim Jong Il from Chinese delegation

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the visiting delegation of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Deputy secretary of the provincial committee Sun Chunlan, who is heading the delegation, handed the gift to Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Ugandan government delegation pays respects to Pres. Kim Il Sung

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The Ugandan government delegation headed by Eriya Kategaya, first Vice-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, on Sunday visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where President Kim Il Sung is preserved in state. The guests paid their respects to the President before his statue and went up to the hall where he is preserved to make bows. They looked round the orders and medals which the President received from foreign countries and relics he used in his lifetime. The head of the delegation wrote in the visitors' book that President Kim Il Sung was a great leader who devoted himself to Korea's independence and freedom and the world's peace and that his exploits for humankind are immortal.

Talks between Korean and Ugandan government delegations

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Talks were held between government delegations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Uganda at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Sunday. Both sides discussed further developing the friendly relations between the two countries and exchanged views on some matters of common concern. Present at the talks on the DPRK side were vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam and officials concerned and on the opposite side were the members of the delegation headed by first vice-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Eriya Kategaya and Ugandan ambassador to the DPRK Frederick Alex Okecho.

Banquet given for Ugandan government delegation

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave a banquet for the Ugandan government delegation at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Apr. 26. Kim Yong Nam, vice-Premier and Foreign Minister, said in his speech that the relations of the two countries, based on the particular intimacy between President Kim Il Sung and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, are invariably developing on good terms under the complex international situation. He emphasized that it is President Kim Il Sung's behests and General Kim Jong Il's will to continue to develop bilateral friendship. "We highly praise the Ugandan government and people for their great success in the work for independent development of the country and social and economic progress and for the energetic efforts they are making for unity, cooperation, peace and prosperity of the African countries under the correct leadership of his excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni," he added. Eriya Kategaya, first vice-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who is leading the Ugandan delegation, said in his speech that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni visited the DPRK several times and the visits are an expression of his deep respect for President Kim Il Sung. Saying that whenever he visited the DPRK he witnessed new things, he expressed thanks for the DPRK government's sincere assistance to Uganda. Now the two countries are suffering temporary difficulties caused by natural disasters, he said. But the will of the two countries for cooperation is invariable.

Japanese reactionaries urged to stop acting rashly

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- If the Japanese reactionaries dare commit provocations for staging a comeback to Korea, the revolutionary armed forces will never tolerate them, but annihilate them completely. The Japanese reactionaries had better stop acting rashly, mindful that the warning is not an empty talk. Minju Joson April 26 stresses this, calling attention to the fact that the "Okazaki Institute" of Japan and the "Group for the Study of New Asian Order" of South Korea had disscussions on sending mine sweepers of the Japanese "Maritime Self-Defence Force" to the sea waters near the Korean peninsula in "emergency." In a commentary titled "They will never go scot-free" the news analyst describes the fact as a serious problem which must not go unnoticed, saying it proves that the Japanese reactionaries' moves for staging a comeback to Korea have reached the stage of practice. The "emergency" on the lips of the Japanese reactionaries is precisely "emergency" on the Korean peninsula, the commentary says, and goes on: They seek to stage a comeback to Korea as the first stage for realizing their old dream of the adventurous "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere." they are trying hard to find an excuse to send their aggression forces to Korea. We cannot remain a passive onlooker to the moves of the Japanese reactionaries for aggression on the DPRK in league with the South Korean puppets. Our revolutionary armed forces correctly aim at their target. Our army is in full readiness to destroy at one stroke even an aircraft carrier, let alone mine sweepers.

Korean working people respond to WPK calls

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Working people of Korea are turning out in the endeavours to implement the calls of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) which were published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the DPRK (September 9). The coal industrial sector including the Anju, Tokchon and Pukchang area coal complexes is increasing cutting faces and pushing ahead with production. Particularly, coal mines of the Pukchang area coal complex are producing some 100 more tons of coal each on a daily average than their daily assignments. The workers of the Kim Chaek and Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complexes, the Songjin and Chollima Steel Complexes and other metal industrial bases are continuously effecting innovation in the production of iron and steel of all sizes and qualities needed for different domains of the national economy. The railway transport sector, the pilot of the national economy, is increasing the hardness of rails and building bases for repairing locomotives and waggons to lay solid material and echinical foundations of rail transport. It is also briskly conducting the "drive for extra-haulage on schedule without accident to implement the decision of the 18th plenary meeting of the fifth Central Committee of the WPK." Thermal power stations across the country produced 100,000 more kwh of electricity in April compared with the same period of the previous month. They are still boosting the power production through scrupulous equipment and technical management. The agricultural workers are also concentrating efforts on immediate farming work to bring a turn in the agricultural production this year. The scientists and technicians are directing great efforts to solving scientific and technological problems concerning the economic work and the improvement of the people's living standard. The working people throughout the country are resolutely determined to make this year in which falls the 50th National Day, a year of new progress, a great revolutionary advance and a great turn in the Korean revolution by carrying through the calls of the Party Central Committee and effecting the great Chollima upsurge once again.

Power production up

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- A new progress has been made in power production of Korea. According to Kim Ki Ok, Director of the General Production Department of the Ministry of Power Industry, the power production increased by 117 percent during the first some twenty days of April above the average monthly production in the first quarter of the year. In the period the Pukchang and Pyongyang Thermal Power Complexes increased the power production by 130 percent and 110 percent each through scrupulous equipment and technical management and the East Pyongyang Thermal Power Station turned out tens of thousands of more kwh of electricity. The March 17 United Hydroelectric Power Station raised the power production by 270 percent in the same period by operating generating equipment in full capacity. The Hochongang and Jangjingang Power Stations also boosted the production by 120 percent each in this period through reformed cooling water system of generating equipment. Electricity produced by minor power stations across the country in the last 20 days or more is three times that in the corresponding period of last year.

"KCTU" vows to struggle for vital rights

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Ri Kap Yong, chairman of the South "Korean Confederation of Trade Unions" (KCTU) in a press conference on April 22 said that it would not participate in the second-term labour-management-government committee in case the present "government" takes no practical measure for a stop to layoff and removal of employment instability, a Seoul-based radio report said. He accused of the "government" authorities of being indifferent to vital rights of the workers, warning that if their demand is not met, they will stage a general strike in late May or early June as scheduled. Meanwhile, the "KCTU" held a rally of representatives of all regional labour unions in South Korea at the Myongdong Cathedral on April 23, at which it demanded the "government" discontinue unjust labour practice and take measures for stable employment.

Personal letter to G.S. Kim Jong Il from Ugandan President

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a personal letter from Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda. The personal letter was handed to vice-President Pak Song Chol on April 27 by Eriya Kategaya, first deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Uganda, on a visit to Korea.

Foreign Minister meets new Swedish ambassador

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam met and had a talk with Kjell Anneling, newly appointed ambassador e.p. of the Kingdom of Sweden to the DPRK who paid a courtesy call on him on April 27.

Vice President Pak Song Chol meets foreign guests

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Vice President Pak Song Chol today had a conversation with the visiting Ugandan government delegation led by Eriya Kategaya, first deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall. Present on the occasion were vice Minister Pak Kil Yon of Foreign Affairs and Ugandan ambassador to Korea Frederick Alex Okecho. On the same day, vice President Pak Song Chol had a talk with General Secretary D. Biswas of the Central Commitee of the All-India Forward Bloc. The General Secretary expressed his deepest respects to President Kim Il Sung. While staying in Korea, he learned much from the experience of the Workers' Party of Korea in party building and activities, he said. He expressed the conviction that the Korean people under the wise guidance of General Kim Jong Il would certainly win in the struggle for the final victory of socialism. He wholeheartedly hoped that the Korean people would realise without fail the instructions of President Kim Il Sung concerning national reunification. His bloc would in the future, too, stand firm on the side of the WPK and the Korean people, he added.

National memorial serivce on 10th death anniversary of Rim Chun Chu

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- A national memorial serivce took place at the People's Palace of Culture on April 27 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of Rim Chun Chu, a communist revolutionary fighter. Rim worked at important posts during the anti-Japanese armed struggle, after the liberation of the country and in the period of the fatherland liberation war. He took main posts of local party committees and national institutions during the building of a new society and worked as a politburo member and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-President of the DPRK. Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop in his memorial address said that Rim Chun Chu waged an energetic struggle to implement the Juche-based lines and policies set forth by the WPK in the party building, state activities, the cause of national reunification, external affairs and all other sectors till the last moment of his life. He further said: Rim Chun Chu widely introduced through internal organs and publications of Comintern the news of the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung and the struggle of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army during the anti-Japanese revolution. He wrote "recalling the anti-Japanese armed struggle period" and other reminiscences, a serial full-length novel "Young Vanguard" and many other books for education in revolutionary tradition, contributing to ascertaining and systematizing many data. He conducted revolutionary writting activities with pure loyalty to and moral obligation for the leader. Present at the memorial service were vice-presidents Pak Song Chol and Kim Pyong Sik and other senior party and state officials, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters and working people.

Gift to G.S. Kim Jong Il from Indian party

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Central Committee of the All-India Forward Bloc. The gift was handed to Kim Jung Rin, Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, by Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary of the All-India Forward Bloc Central Committee, on a visit to Korea.