Kim Jong Il's nomination welcomed
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- A grand march of working youths and students in Pyongyang took place on July 19 to extend the greatest glory and felicitations to General Secretary Kim Jong Il, who has been nominated as a candidate for the Tenth Supreme People's Assembly.
The marchers left Kim Il Sung Square, singing in chorus the undying revolutionary paeans "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong Il" to the tune of a brass band. They marched through the streets of the capital city of Pyongyang, passing by Pyongyang Railway Station, the Arch of Triumph, the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium and the Tower of the Juche Idea. The songs they sang included "Thunder on Jong Il Peak" and "We will defend the headquarters of revolution with our lives."
Kim Il Sung honored
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- An international delegation of youths and students paid their respects to President Kim Il Sung on July 19 at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where he lies in state.
The delegation calls for pulling down the concrete wall built by the South Korean government authorities in an area south of the Military Demarcation Line.
Members of the delegation bowed to his statue before paying homage to the President who is preserved in state.
They looked round with keen interest foreign orders and medals awarded to the President and a train and car used by him. They made entries in a visitor's book.
Delegate of the Revolutions Youth Union of Syria Bassam Al-Haj Hussein, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Syrian embassy here, wrote that as they acclaimed President Kim Il Sung as their leader, the Korean people have become a great people and that his idea serves as guidelines for all the people around the world.
Iraklis Chabdaridis, delegate of the Communist Youth of Greece, wrote that President Kim Il Sung is well known to the world as the leader of the international communist movement and that his great achievements will shine long in world history.
New books about Kim Il Sung's exploits published
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Vols. 3, 4 and 5 of the library "Undying revolutionary exploits of great leader comrade Kim Il Sung" were recently brought out by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House.
Earlier, the introduction and the first two volumes of the book had been published.
The third volume "Successful completion of anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution" deals with the undying exploits of President Kim Il Sung, who put forward original theories, tactics and strategy of anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution on the basis of the Juche idea and brilliantly accomplished the great social revolution of a new style with tested leadership.
Carried in the fourth volume "Great Victory of Fatherland Liberation War" are the greatness and feats of the President, an outstanding military genius who frustrated the armed invasion by the U.S. imperialists, the boss of world imperialism, and their stooges, led the Korean people to win in the just Fatherland Liberation War and thus opened up a new phase in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle.
The fifth volume "Brilliant Victory of Socialist Revolution" tells about the immortal achievements made by the President, who built the most advantageous socialist system centred on the people on this land by wisely directing the socialist revolution under the uplifted banner of the Juche idea.
"ANSP" espionage abroad should be checked
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comments on espionage activities abroad of South Korea's "Agency for National Security Planning" (ANSP).
Recalling that a South Korean diplomat was arrested on an espionage mission and deported from Russia, the daily says:
The "ANSP" has never missed a chance to invent "cases of North Korean spies" and fooled public opinion. But it is the "ANSP" itself that engages in espionage activities.
"ANSP" agents failed to buy secret information from a Russian army officer in July 1993 and were arrested in an attempt to get Russia's nuclear technology last year.
The "ANSP" has conducted espionage activities in crafty ways in the Central Asian Region, too.
It has also collected dishonest people in various Asian countries for criminal activities against the DPRK.
Its agents are active also in major military and industrial establishments in the far east and other areas of Russia.
The United States, too, is a target of its activities. In September 1996 Pak Tong Il, a naval attache of the South Korean puppet embassy in the United States, was arrested while trying to collect U.S. naval secrets.
The facts require all countries and people to heighten vigilance against the intensified espionage activities of the "ANSP" in the world.
Brutal suppression of "Jongyojo"
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- The self-styled "people's government", when announcing that some teachers would be reinstated, demanded that they make a "law-abiding pledge" instead, a Seoul-based radio said.
The teachers were expelled from their schools for the mere reason that they joined the "National Teachers Union" (Jongyojo).
The demand is a mockery of the public call for the reinstatement of the dismissed teachers. It is, in essence, the continuation of the suppression of "Jongyojo."
"Jongyojo" was inaugurated in 1989, the fighting goal of which is to win the right of teachers to organisation and "conduct a genuine education for the nation, democracy and humanity."
The fascists of the "Sixth Republic" suspended the qualifications of more than 1,500 teachers who were hardcore members of "Jongyojo" in a bid to destroy the organisation.
The "people's government's" demand is as good as that of the preceding rulers for breaking with "Jongyojo."
By expressing its willingness to keep from being reinstated the "Jongyojo"-lining teachers who had participated in a movement for democracy in society and campus the "people's government" betrayed its ulterior intention to destroy "Jongyojo."
Rodong Sinmun on optimistic life of Korean people
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- No force on earth can block the powerful advance of the courageous Korean people who are fighting in close unity around General Secretary Kim Jong Il, loudly singing songs of the revolution, stresses rodong sinmun today.
In a by-lined article entitled "It is stamina of Korean people to always win, singing songs of revolution," the paper says:
Through songs of the revolution, the Korean people demonstrate their unshakable faith and spirit to make the revolution with loyalty to Kim Jong Il and devotedly safegaurd the leader.
They have carried on the protracted and rigorous Korean revolution, singing songs on the leader. Their noble spiritual world has been fully displayed in the sacred struggle to uphold Kim Jong Il.
Singing songs, they have defended Korean socialism, breaking through hardships and ordeals. Under whatever difficult conditions, they created things and built edifices, loudly singing songs.
They are now suffering from trials without precedent in history= the imperialists have tenaciously tried to isolate and stifle them= and years of natural disasters and economic difficulties have also harassed them.
It is impossible for others to endure such trials.
However, no ordeal can bring the Korean people into submission and deprive them of songs which are vital to them.
Songs are a motive force which encourages them to perform exploits and create things, optimistically looking forward to the bright future.
Guided by Kim Jong Il, they have become the most revolutionary people in the world.
S. Korean religionists urged to join in efforts for successful festival
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Korean Religious Believers Council released a statement today accusing the South Korean authorities of intentionally creating difficulties in the way of the participation of two patriotic organizations in the August 15 festival and banning their righteous, patriotic activities for the country's reunification.
The statement says the grand festival proposed by political parties and organizations of the north and supported by the entire nation is a non-governmental pro-reunification festival involving political parties, organizations and figures in the north, south and abroad and that the South Korean "Ministry of National Unification" has no ground to poke its nose into it.
Shamelessly, however, the South Korean authorities are saying they may consider the participation in the festival of only those who quit the south headquarters of Pomminryon (National Alliance for the Country's Reunification) and Hanchongryon (South Korean Federation of University Student Councils), the statement says, and continues:
What the South Korean authorities are seeking is to stifle the two organizations and check the unity and activities of the pro-reunification, pro-democracy forces in South Korea so as to prevent the opening of the festival.
All the religionists of the north who hope for national reconciliation, unity and reunification will never tolerate the anti-reunification forces' obstruction of the festival's successful opening. We expect that all the religious organizations and believers of the south that love justice and sincerely want national reconciliation, unity and reunification will join in the efforts for the successful festival.
Woman finds her legs 40 years after
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- A paraplegic woman has found her legs again more than 40 years after in Hamhung on the east coast of Korea. She is Hwang Jong Sun, 49, who is living in Tonghungsan district, Hamhung.
Jong Sun was crippled from malnutrition and infantile spinal tuberculosis while in Japan in the past. She was bereft of her mother at the age of six and repatriated to the socialist homeland with her aged father at the age of 14.
After her father died of geriatric disease later, she had no people to look after her.
She received treatment in hospital for scores of years under the free medical care.
And neighbouring people helped her much. Among them is a woman who devoted her sincerity to Jong Sun for nearly 20 years. She is Kim Kwi In, 55, who is working at a kindergarten in Tonghungsan district.
When she was taken to a hospital in January 1980, she was acquainted with Jong Sun, a girl in her thirties, in the same room. She looked after Jong Sun as her own flesh and blood while in the hospital. When she was released from the hospital a month after, she could hardly leave Jong Sun, choked with tears, behind her. This determined her to attend the unhappy girl all her life. She took the girl to her home and lived together.
Since then, she always served Jong Sn as a nurse, practical nurse and cook while continuing her job. She learned a manual treatment and cauterized the skin of Jong Sun with moxa as dictated by a doctor. She took vacations to climb up and down mountains and cross fields in local areas, making long journeys, pick up 100 kinds of flowers and make medicines. She catched even wild crows.
She shed tears inwardly and underwent sufferings.
In fact, she was faced with many personal problems when she lost her husband five years after her marriage. But she found human beauty and fragrance of life in her infinite devotion to a comrade.
At last her laudable sincerity set Jong Sun on her feet more than 40 years after. Jong Sun is now working as a medical worker at the South Hamgyong Provincial People's Hospital.
Underlying the miracle is the disinterested sincerity of medical workers of the provincial people's hospital, officials in the city and people in neighbourhood unit.
The rare-to-be-seen fact offers a glimpes of the features of Korean society in which all the members have formed a large harmonious family, helping and leading each other forward.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il showed high appreciation for the beautiful deed of Kim Kwi In and put political trust in her.
Agreement between governments of Korea and Pakistan adopted
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- An agreement on cooperation in marine transport between the governments of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was adopted here today.
Minister of Marine Transport Kim Yong Il and Pakistani ambassador to Korea Rehmdil Bhatti signed the agreement.