Kim Jong Il's nomination for SPA fully supported
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held at Kim Il Sung Political University and units of the Korean People's Army on Monday to support the nomination of General Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the KPA, for the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.
The head of the university and commanders of the units made reports at the meetings which were followed by speeches.
The reporters and speakers said Kim Jong Il's registration as spa candidate is an expression of the entire servicemen's deep trust and desire. It also reflected their unshakable faith and will to further strengthen the DPRK government and add lustre to their country and their fatherland, they stressed.
They noted that while leading the party and state affairs as a whole for scores of years Kim Jong Il has turned the DPRK into a powerful socialist country, independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in defence, by arousing the whole party, the entire army and all the people in the struggle for its prosperity and development.
Under his wise leadership the KPA is now demonstrating its invincible might as army strong in ideology, which is firmly armed with the Juche idea and a steadfast, revolutionary outlook on the leader, and as matchlessly strong army, the speakers stressed.
They called on all the servicemen to fully equip themselves with the spirit of devotedly defending their leader Kim Jong Il, spirit of human bombs and spirit of suicidal attack, enhance combat power of the units in every way through intensified military and political training, perform new feats in socialist construction and thus greatly contribute to making the Juche homeland more powerful and prosperous.
Independence Day of Democratic Congo marked
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The Korea-Democratic Congo Friendship Association sponsored a lecture meeting here on Monday to mark the 38th anniversary of the Independence of Democratic Congo.
Present there were vice-chairman of the association Kim Chun Gun and other officials concerned and citizens.
The vice-chairman gave a lecture on the subject "Democratic Congo Today".
Week of Indian film show begins
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A week of Indian film show began here on Monday with due ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Independence of India.
Present at the ceremony were Jo Chan Gu, vice-Minister of Culture and the Arts, officials concerned and citizens.
Ambassador Jagjit Singh Sapra and officials of the Indian embassy and foreign diplomatic envoys in Korea were on hand.
Speeches were made at the ceremony.
The participants saw an Indian movie.
On the same day, the Indian ambassador gave a reception.
Japan warned not to act rashly
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Right-wing conservative forces of Japan are calling for internationalisation of the "suspected kidnapping" issue in the wake of the publication of the final results of the DPRK's survey of the missing Japanese.
Rodong Sinmun today describes the call as a foolish act of those who are, bereft of reason, reversing black and white.
The news analyst says:
Japan occupied Korea and enforced a colonial rule for nearly half a century during which it killed more than one million people in cold blood, drafted over six million young and middle-aged people and reduced nearly 200,000 Korean women to sex slaves for the "Imperial Army".
In case the Japanese side foolishly tries to internationalise the fiction of "suspected abduction", we will internationalise the issue of crimes of Japan. Japan's past crimes and wrong stand and attitude concerning the crimes deserve worldwide discussions.
We will increase the scope of an international campaign to expose, and condemn the anti-ethical crimes of Japan.
More than once we warned the right-wing conservative forces of Japan that their attempt to do harm to us with the fiction will bring nothing good to them. The Japanese side should not ignore our warnings.
Five-point policy of great national unity hailed abroad
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The historic work of General Kim Jong Il "Let us reunify the country independently and peacefully through the great unity of the entire nation" has enjoyed worldwide supported.
In a little more than two months after its publication the work was hailed by 80 odd political parties and organizations in different countries and regional and international bodies and over 30 prominent figures in statements.
Party and state leaders of many countries including the Guinean President and the chairman of the Nepal worker-peasant party expressed support for it, when they met Korean ambassadors. They unanimously said they, through the work, came to know well that the stand and proposal of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government for national reunification are always fair and aboveboard and are clear and consistent. And they confirmed their will to strengthen solidarity with the stand and proposal.
Lecture meetings, reading sessions, discussion meetings, press conferences and seminars on the work were held at the Asian regional institute of the Juche idea and in Libya, Mexico, Russia, the Czech Republic and other countries.
The work was also widely reported by some 120 mass media in 60 odd countries.
Month of Korean film and photo show begins in Tanzania
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A month of Korean film show and photo exhibition began in Tanzania within the framework of the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
A ceremony for its start was held in Dar-Es-Salaam on June 20 under the cosponsorship of the Tanzania-DPRK Friendship Association, the Tanzanian National Coordinating Committee of the Juche Idea Study Groups and the Dar-Es-Salaam regional youth union.
The enduring feats performed by President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il in building the army and socialism were introduced at the ceremony.
The participants saw a Korean film "65th Birthday of Heroic Korean People's Army".
Predatory nature of imperialists remains unchanged
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The whole course of imperialist existence is a history of aggression and plunder and the aggressive and predatory nature of imperialism will never change as long as it exists.
Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed article today.
Imperialists regard neo-colonialist rule as the best way of their smooth infiltration into developing countries, the article says, and continues:
They are keeping hold on the key industries of the developing countries under the name of "aid" and "development" and earning fabulous profits with them under their thumb.
They are also binding those countries hand and foot through "loans."
They are now using the "aid" to the countries for forcing them to adjust their economic structure and change political system.
They take economic sanctions and pursue a policy of blockade against the countries which fail to meet their demand.
Exploitation and plunder after investment is a typical example of such vicious neo-colonialist plunder of modern imperialism to earn profits to the maximum without shedding blood.
Nevertheless, they claim that they are "helpers."
The predatory nature of imperialists has not changed at all. They employ more crafty technique.
Stop to repression of Hanchongryon urged
Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Kang Wi Won, chairman of the fifth-term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), started a hunger strike for an indefinite period in prison, urging the "government" authorities to stop defining Hanchongryon as "organization benefiting the enemy" and legalize it.
In this connection a society of supporters for Kang Wi Won made public a statement, a South Korean newspaper reported.
The statement contended that to crack down upon Hanchongryon just means to kill universities and the future of the nation.
The "government" should stop the suppression of Hanchongryon at once, it urged, calling upon people to join in the righteous struggle for legalization of Hanchongryon.