Quotations of leader Kim Jong Il
Tokyo May 13 (Korea News Service) -- Korea News Service in Tokyo received many E-mail request to introduce quotations of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. So we introduce some of them. They are as follows.
"The popular masses are the teachers of all things."
"The popular masses have wise eyes."
"Able persons should be found in the masses."
"Work is done by people, and the revolution is made by the masses."
"Revolution is not made by people's class origins but with their thought."
"Trust trains people."
"If power is combined with trust, we can overcome even Heaven."
"Flatterers have honeyed mouths but hide daggers in their pockets."
"The art of moving people lies in the heart."
"The most precious thing in the world is not gold but man."
"There is an old saying that one pays 800 pieces of gold for a house and gives 1,000 pieces of gold to win a neighbor. But you cannot win a revolutionary comrade for 1,000 pieces of gold."
"Matters concerning the political lives of people cannot be rounded off."
"A person who cannot love people, cannot make a revolution."
"Unless you know how to love comrades, you cannot receive comradely love."
"Even if parents are revolutionaries, their children will not necessarily be revolutionaries."
"Where there is love, there is hate."
"If one knows oneself, one becomes a revolutionary, if one does not know oneself, one becomes a slave."
"Conscience is the mirror of action, and the measure by which to distinguish truth from untruth."
"A man's conscience is the same as his heart."
"It is a human virtue to repay other's kindness with kindness."
"The value of a new thing cannot be measured without a new measure."
"Without originality, nothing new can be created."
"The poverty of philosophy leads to the poverty of thought, and the poverty of thought leads to the poverty of creation."
"Literary style is a product of knowledge and enthusiasm."
"People see, hear, feel and receive things according to the degree of their knowledge."
"People can express themselves according to the degree of their knowledge."
"To love our things and treat them carefully is love for the fatherland and Juche."
"One must be an enthusiastic patriot before being a scientist."
"Even if you read foreign literature, your spirit should be your country's."
"True patriotism is in the struggle for fatherland unification."
"If we delayed even a step the education of the next generation, the advance of our fatherland will be delayed 10 steps."
"Words are the man."
"There are words behind words."
"If words are superfluous, vocabulary is poor."
"Speaking is in itself action."
"Literature is an art of words."
"A single revolutionary poem can be worth 10 million spears."
"Art is the product of thought and enthusiasm."
"Where there is life, there are music and songs."
"Human life without music like a garden without flowers."
"True poetic words can be found in the words of the people."
"The words of a song should be a fine poem."
"Schematization is a wall that separates literature from readers."
"The popular masses are the wisest critics."
"A person who does not know the beauty of flowers, cannot grow them."
"Enthusiasm is a great source of creation."
"My political philosophy is the Juche idea."
"Think a hundred times, and choose once."
"A person becomes strong when he knows himself, and becomes weak when he does not know himself."
"A person with a high thought and will, has a high character."
"One's beauty is not to be found in one's features but in one's thought."
"Cries without creation are like thunder without rain."
"If creation is discovery, imitation is repetition."
"Man's noblest joy is in creation."
"A miracle is not an accident given by Heaven, but a necessity given by the people."
"Speed is in the hearts of the popular masses."
Photo exhibition marks 50th anniversary of Indian Independence
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition was held in Pyongyang on May 12 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Independence of India.
Invited there were Indian ambassador to Korea Jagjit Singh Sapra and embassy officials.
Present were Ju Song Il, chairman of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and chairman of the Korea-India Friendship Association, and officials concerned as well as working people in the city.
Speeches were made at the exhibition.
The participants looked round photographs showing achievements made by the Indian people in scientific and technological, cultural, public health, military and other domains.
Sariwon Textile Mill
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- Sariwon city, south of the capital of Pyongyang, has a textile mill of national importance.
Deeply concerned with the people's clothing in his lifetime, President Kim Il Sung visited the Sariwon Textile Mill on May 24 years ago.
General Kim Jong Il devoted to the realization of the president's far-reaching plan, visited this factory twice, and taught the ways to change it into a powerful cloth-producing centre.
The factory has now developed into a comprehensive fabric-producing centre which produces billions of metres of various quality cloths every year.
The workers and technicians have further modernized the production processes through a massive campaign of technical innovation in order to increase fabric output and improve its quality and diversify patterns.
Now the factory is mass-producing many kinds of fabrics of pretty patterns and quality including materials for quality dresses and white shirts, waterproof fabrics, lining, checkers, printed cotton and resinous cloth.
Every year a number of weavers become skilful technicians under the educational system of studying while working.
The factory is perfectly provided with labour safety devices including dust removing apparatuses.
It also has a house of culture, a clinic, a nursery, a kindergarten and a shop for the weavers' convenience.
Now the factory workers are working harder in response to the calls of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee.
DPRK Foreign Ministry memorandum supported
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- Chita Bishwath, general secretary of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation, released a statement on May 6 to support the April 29 memorandum of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK laying bare the unjustness of the U.S. troops' occupation of South Korea.
He said that the United States has not implemented the resolution adopted at the 30th U.N. General Assembly session.
The United Nations must urge the United States to strictly implement the resolution, he noted.
He demanded that the South Korean authorities take an immediate measure to get the U.S. troops out of South Korea and that the united states make substantial contributions to the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the world.
Popular embroideries
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- Recently the embroidery group of the Mansudae Art Studio made a lot of embroideries of high ideological and artistic value.
An embroidery "Autumn-tinted Mt. Chilbo" (30 metres long and 3 metres high) and a double-sided embroidery "Pine tree and Crane" (1.85 metres long and 0.9 metres high) are popular among the people as masterpieces of national treasure value.
The embroidery "Autumn-tinted Mt. Chilbo" shows in a stereoscopic way the beauty of well-known Mt. Chilbo put on autumnal tints.
The embroidery made on the basis of original Korean-style embroidering is a typical one of Juche fine arts for the size and content of theme, vivid and concrete representation and high technique.
The embroidered pine tree and crane look like a real ever-green pine tree and crane, which are symbolic of good health and longevity from ancient times.
The embroideries are on display at the Korean art gallery.
The embroidery group of the Mansudae Art Studio is a dignified group with history spanning more than 20 years and competent creators.
"Wild Geese at Moonlit Night," "Tiger," "Fairy," "Crane on Lake," "Morning of Pyongyang" and many other embroideries produced by it were popular at home and abroad.
Korea has the Central Art Studio, the Pyongyang Embroidery Institute and embroidery bases in provinces, cities and counties as well.
Thousands of embroideries are produced by them every year.
G.S. Kim Jong Il inspects air unit
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected 860 of the KPA.
After receiving a salute from the commander of the unit, he inspected various places to learn about training in the unit.
He expressed his appreciation of the considerable achievements made by the commanding officers and other servicemen of the unit who have reliably defended the airspace of the country by increasing the unit's combat power, resolved to defend the socialist country at the cost of their lives.
He said: Our airmen unfailingly loyal to the party and the leader have devotedly fought a heroic, sacred fight against the invaders. Their feats will always be shining along with the country.
He also said that with the enemy escalating new war preparations, the air force is faced with a heavy duty for defending the territorial air of the country.
The supreme commander had a picture taken with servicemen of the unit.