Honorary chairman of Hyundai Business Group and his party here
Panmunjom, June 16 (KCNA) -- Honorary chairman Jong Ju Yong of the South Korean Hyundai Business Group and his party is heading for Pyongyang by land after crossing Panmunjom this morning.
They were warmly greeted at Panmunjom by vice-chairman Song Ho Gyong of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, chairman Jong Un Op of the National Economic Cooperation Federation and officials concerned.
Jong Ju Yong and his party have come with cattle symbolic of their compatriotic feelings.
Nobody can slander DPRK's missile policy = KCNA commentary =
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- There has been a rumour that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has "completed the development of missiles of a new type and deployed them for actual war."
The rumour is apparently aimed at impairing the DPRK's prestige and justifying the continued hostile policy towards it by making impressions that it has done what it should not do.
Some people of the United States are alleging that the DPRK is a leading "missile power" in the world and the "world's biggest missile exporter." they have raised the missile issue as a precondition for the easing of economic sanctions against the DPRK, the embargo which should be lifted under the DPRK-U.S. framework agreement. They have also contended that "frozen" development and export of missiles is vital to the improvement of the bilateral relations.
The missile issue is related to the sovereignty and existence of our people.
We are militarily confronted with the United States, which has the largest quantities of nuclear weapons, inter-continental ballistic missiles and other mass destruction weapons in the world.
What it really seeks in the efforts for preventing our missile development is to disarm and attack us any moment.
It is the consistent principle maintained by the DPRK government in national defence that as long as it remains subjected to military threat from outside, it should produce by itself and deploy military equipment to safeguard the security of the country and the people.
On this principle, we will continue developing, testing and deploying missiles.
With missiles of the united states, which is at war with the DPRK technically, aiming at our territory, we find no reason to refrain from developing and deploying missiles to counter them.
The discontinuation of our missile development is a matter which can be discussed after a peace agreement is signed between the DPRK and the United States and the U.S. military threat completely removed.
If the U.S. "concern" over our missiles is truly related to the peace and security of northeast Asia, the United States should immediately accept the DPRK-proposed peace agreement for the establishment of a durable peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula.
Our missile export is aimed at obtaining foreign money we need at present.
As the United States has pursued economic isolation of the DPRK for more than half a century, our resources of foreign money have been circumscribed. So, missile export is the option we could not but take.
If the United States really wants to prevent our missile export, it should lift the economic embargo as early as possible and make a compensation for the losses to be caused by discontinued missile export.
We will as ever put the interests of our state and the wellbeing of our people above anything else and never allow others to slander such a policy.
DPRK wrestlers catch seven medals in int'l game
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Korean wrestlers bagged three gold medals (54kg, 63kg, 69kg), three silver medals (54kg, 63kg, 76kg) and a bronze medal (58kg) at the Mongolian "Gobi" international freestyle wrestling competition.
Wrestler Ri Yong Sam (63kg) was awarded a special prize of the competition, which was participated in by some 80 wrestlers.
Patriotic proposal for great national unity
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The conference of political parties and organisations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea approached political parties, organisations and public figures in South Korea and overseas with a proposal to open "a grand festival for national reconciliation, unity and reunification" involving the north, south and overseas Koreans at Panmunjom on August 14 and 15.
Praising this as a patriotic proposal, Minju Joson says in a signed commentary today:
Opening the festival for great national unity will mark a favourable occasion for the north and south to remove distrust and misunderstanding and for the fellow countrymen to reconciliate and unite with each other.
All the fellow countrymen in the north, south and overseas are hardening their determination to carry through the five-point policy of great national unity clarified by General Kim Jong Il to open a decisive phase of national reconciliation and unity.
In order to make the festival an occasion in opening a phase of national reconciliation and unity, first of all, political parties, organisations and public figures in the north, south and overseas should all participate in it irrespective of political view, religious belief and position.
Successful opening of the festival depends entirely on our nation. Anyone with the spirit of the nation should come out to the work for national reconciliation and unity, transcending the differences in political view, religious belief, residence and position.
We are convinced that political parties, organisations and public figures in South Korea and overseas will respond to the patriotic proposal of political parties and organisations in the DPRK.
S. Korean workers' struggle favoured
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The international confederation of Arab trade unions and the Arab solidarity committee for support to the struggle of the South Korean people have recently released a joint statement supporting the struggle of the South Korean workers.
The statement referred to the anti-"government" struggle of the South Korean workers, as well as the criminal harsh suppression by the puppet clique.
It urged the South Korean authorities to stop suppression of the labor movement, call off unreasonable "labour laws" and guarantee the legitimate rights and democratic freedom of workers.
It called upon workers all over the world and international organisations to support the just struggle of the South Korean workers and put pressure on the South Korean authorities to release the arrested union leaders and put an immediate halt to the suppression of labor movement.
Korean painting created on reunification theme
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- An artist Kim O Song of the South Korean fine arts association created a Korean painting on reunification theme, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoted the Seoul city committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea as saying.
The theme of the Korean painting is "the new morning of reunification dawns with the sunrise at Mt. Paektu " drawn in the Korean painting are the sun soaring over Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu in the upper part and below it two men with head band reading "reunified country", standing on the torn stars and stripes with the fluttering flag of the Korean map on a blue ground which is symbolic of reunification, in hand.
The artist, who had finished his course at Hongik University, showed the Korean painting to the public on May 20. At that time he told his like-minded colleagues that the sunrise at Mt. Paektu is symbolic of the patriotic idea of reunification and unbreakable will of President Kim Il Sung who devotedly worked for national reunification all his life and the leader Kim Jong Il who stands true to his behests.
He added that the two men in the painting mean the hope-filled future of a reunified country that will be built by the great unity of the people in the north and south under the guidance of Kim Jong Il.
Proposals for meetings of North and South Korean students
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Efforts are being made for a significant meeting of students in the north and south of Korea within the framework of work for exalting this year as a "year of national independence and great unity" as said at the eighth meeting of presidium of the national alliance of youth and students for the country's reunification (Pomchonghakryon).
The student committees of universities and colleges in the northern half of Korea sent their South Korean counterparts letters carrying such proposals.
Students of Kanggye University of Agriculture and Forestry in Jagang Province proposed to their counterparts in Chungnam National University to have a meeting to boast of their own provinces.
They suggested that the students of the two universities should have the meeting at their university on august 28 where the students from the south will first "boast of south Chungchong Province", a plain area, and then the students from the north will "boast of Jagang Province", a mountainous area.
August 28 is observed as the "Day of Youth" in the northern half of Korea.
Students of Sariwon University of Education no. 1 named after Ri Kye Sun called upon students of Inchon college to have "the third meeting of students in the north, south and abroad for national independence and great unity" at the August 15 grand festival for reunification so as to spread the flames of the struggle for reunification all over Korea.
A coed Jong Min Ju of Inchon College is well known to people as "a bird of reunification".
Mass gymnastic display in Korea
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A peculiar mass gymnastic display of school youth and children in Pyongyang is being created in Korea to greet the 50th anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Its performers will demonstrate once again the DPRK's proud history of 50 years and the faith and will of the Korean people to accomplish the socialist cause.
It is a comprehensive sports art composed of gymnastics, background and music.
What is the most peculiar of them is the background.
Themes and ideas of works are well represented on pictures made up of tens of thousands of pieces of color paper. Spectators are struck with admiration for mysterious and superb depiction.
Up to 100,000 senior middle school students and primary school pupils may perform in the gymnastic display at a time.
In the course of this, they cultivate high discipline and collectivism and temper their bodies and minds.
The mass gymnastic display production was set up in Juche 60 (1971).
It has created many gymnastic masterpieces on a high ideological and artistic level.
Among them were seven people's prize winners including "Korea of Chollima," "Under the Banner of the Workers' Party of Korea," "Song of Korea" and "People Sing of the Leader."
The production received Kim Il Sung order, the highest order in Korea. And it has developed into an able creating staff with sports and art specialists including scores of people's and merited athletes.
It gives unified leadership over mass gymnastic displays all over the country.
Its creators have been dispatched to scores of countries to help them in creation of gymnastic displays.
Manmulsang of Kumgang mountains
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Manmulsang presents a peculiarly attractive scene with sheer cliffs and rocks of fantastic shapes among the senic wonders of the Kumgang mountains. You can reach it after a ten-odd-km drive from the Kumgangsan Hotel. It looks like an assemblage of all things in the world. Hence its name. Famous in the Manmulsang area are Samson (three-fairy) rock, Kwimyon (demonfaced) rock and Chonson (fairies-from-heaven) rock.
Samson rock consists of three rocks standing side by side behind Mansang pavilion at the entrance to Manmulsang. A little way from it is a big rock with a small rock on top of it. It is called Kwimyon rock because it looks like a demon. Rocks near the Samson and Kwimyon rocks look like pillars of queer shapes and have their interesting names and pines, wild cherries and azaleas rooted in their cracks decorate them beautifully in spring and autumn.
If you go to the left for a while through Chonil gate called the Kumgang gate of Manmulsang you can reach Chonson rock where, according to a legend, fairies, charmed by the beauty of the mountains, came down from heaven to play. The rock, which serves as an observatory, consists of four rock pillars and can accommodate ten people. It commands a view of peaks in the area of outer Kumgang, as well as the mysterious beauty of Manmulsang.
FM Kim Yong Nam meets Algerian ambassador
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam today met and had a talk with Algerian ambassador to Korea Hanafi Oussedik, who paid a farewell call on him.
Kim Yong Sun meets Jong Ju Yong and his party
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) - Kim Young Sun, chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, today met and had a conversation with Jong Ju Young, honorary chairman of the South Korean Hyondai Business Group, and his party in an atmosphere of compatriotic feelings at Mansude Assembly Hall.
Present were Song Ho Gyong, vice-chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, and officials concerned.