Floral basket to Kim Jong Il from Libya
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- A floral basket came to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from the leader of the Great September First Revolution of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Moammer El Gaddafi, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
On July 20, the secretary of the People's Bureau of Libya to Korea, Ahmed Amer Al Muakkaf, asked a Korean official concerned to convey the floral basket to Kim Jong Il.
Film preview held
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The Korean Film Studio released the sequel of the working class part 11 from the multi-part feature film "the Nation and Destiny."
The film gives an excellent portrayal of the great vitality of the benevolent politics of General Secretary Kim Jong Il who is responsible for the destiny of all the people and the beautiful and noble ideological and moral world of the people in the Chollima era.
A preview of the film took place at the People's Palace of Culture on July 20.
Seeing the film were senior party and government officials, leading officials of national institutions, anti-Japanese revolutionary war veterans and working people in the city.
S. Korean puppets' moves to block grand festival
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- Papers here today denounce the South Korean authorities' crafty moves to interrupt the August 15 grand pro-reunification festival and urge them to stop scheming to exclude pro-reunification patriotic organisations from the festival.
Recently, Kang In Dok, "Minister of National Unification" of South Korea, labeling the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification (Pomminryon) and the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) as "enemy-Benefiting organisations," set a condition that if their members are to participate in the festival, they should withdraw from their organisations.
Such behaviour is an act to intentionally bring the north-south pro-reunification festival to a rupture and another intolerable move of confrontation against the north, an analyst of rodong sinmun says, and goes on:
Kang, who is not supposed to take part in the festival, is trying to play the host, saying that some can participate in the festival and some cannot. This is nonsensical.
The festival without the south headquarters of Pomminryon and Hanchongryon is unthinkable at all. The sacred festival has no room for Kang In Dok and his clan of the "Ministry of National Unification" and his underlings.
If the South Korean authorities truly want a free contact between non-governmental organisations of the north and south and have willingness to hold the festival with success, they should abolish the "National Security Law," dissolve the "Agency for National Security Planning," take the label "enemy-benefiting organisations" off the south headquarters of Pomminryon and Hanchongryon and allow them to sponsor the featival.
Minju Joson says if the South Korean authorities continue trying to block the festival, they will be cursed and denounced by the nation.
DPRK proves successful in first world youth games
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- Korean boys and girls won a gold, six silver and three bronze medals in the first world youth games held in Moscow from July 13 to 19.
O Song Nam defeated a Russian wrestler in the 48 kg freestyle finals on July 17.
The DPRK finished second in the 42 kg freestyle wrestling event, women's 44 kg and 52 kg judo events, men's table-tennis team event, junior doubles and singles.
It also came third in the senior table-tennis singles and doubles and the 45 kg freestyle wrestling event.
Korean people's struggle favored
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- A friendly gathering took place in Copenhagen on July 13 during the month of international solidarity with the Korean people.
The secretary of the Copenhagen State Committee of the Danish Workers'Party, common cause, addressing the gathering, called for invariable support for the Korean people in their efforts for implementing the five-point policy of great national unity laid down by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
On July 14 the All-India Peace and Solidarity Organisation released a statement fully supporting a proposal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for reunifying the country independently and peacefully through the great national unity.
The resolution of the 30th UN General Assembly Session should be carried into practice at once so that the Korean people may settle the national reunification issue by themselves without the interference of outsiders, it added.
Ex-chairman of Hanchongryon on hunger strike
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- Ex-chairman Kang Wi Won of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) reportedly continues a prison struggle.
He has been kept in a Kwangju prison by the South Korean fascist clique.
On July 15 he fell unconscious after a 10-odd day hunger strike calling for a stop to describing Hanchongryon as an "enemy-benefiting organisation."
In July last year the fascist clique sentenced him to a prison term of five years on the charges of violating the notorious "National Security Law."
Public health
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The 50th anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is drawing nearer.
An epoch-making change has taken place in the public health sector of the country in the past 50 years.
The complete, universal free medical system and section doctor system have been introduced, average life expectancy is 74.5, mortality reduced one fifth as against that before the liberation of the country and the number of doctors per 10,000 people is 29.7. This is typical facts and figures showing the Korean public health system and its development.
The universal free medical system was introduced in January 1953 when the war was at its height. Since then, the people have lived without worries about expenses for diagnosis, medical treatment, operation, sick call, hospitalization and recuperation.
All the Korean people enjoy great additional benefits every year in medical examination, consultation and vaccination under preventive medical care.
There are people's hospitals and clinics in towns and the country, industrial establishments, fishing villages and forestry workers' villages. Maternity hospitals, dental preventive hospitals and other special medical service centres and pharmaceutical plants have been built in different parts.
The state is pushing ahead with the development of Koryo medicine, the traditional medicine of the country, to raise the rale of Koryo medical treatment in the preventive and curative work. The academy of Koryo medicine and other traditional medical institutes have been set up and the firm foundations for producing Koryo medicines laid.
Sanatoria have been built at mineral spring places so that means of natural treatment may be used efficiently for promoting the people's health.
The health of the working people is guaranteed by the public health law which was adopted in April Juche 69 (1980).
The Korean people are now enjoying a long life in good health under the ideal public health system, saying sixty is the prime of life and ninety is the first step into old age.
Rodong Sinmun on source of invincibility of Korean socialism
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- It is the steadfast creed and stand of General Secretary Kim Jong Il that if the party and the masses strengthen the bonds of kinship, they can defeat any formidable enemy and carry out any vast task.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article titled "kinship between party and masses, source of invincibility of our socialism."
The daily goes on:
Korean-style socialism is now shattering the vicious challenge of the imperialists and reactionaries and vigorously advancing along the road of its choice because the close bonds of kinship between the party and the masses have been established.
The blood tie between them is the main source which makes it possible to increase in every way the might of the Workers' Party of Korea, the guiding force of Korean socialism, and the main factor of bringing the inexhaustible strength of the Korean people into the fullest play.
The WPK has put forward the most correct lines and policies in each period of the developing revolution because it has united with the popular masses, and it has shared life and death with them all the time and guided Korean socialism to the straight road of victory because it has established the close bonds of kinship with the masses.
It is thanks to the close bonds of kinship with the party that the Korean people are becoming a powerful and dignified people, who regard the party's revolutionary idea as the only faith and live and struggle with it, and are hewing out their destiny independently and creatively.
Flesh-and-blood relations between the party and the masses have been strengthened in Korea and Korean socialism is winning victory after victory entirely thanks to the tested leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Rodong Sinmun flails Japanese authorities' obstructive moves
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today comes out with an article lashing out at the dastardly behaviour of the Japanese authorities in bringing the hometown visit of Japanese-Korean women to a rupture by deliberately greating hurdles in its way.
Branding their misbehaviour as an expression of their hostile policy toward the DPRK, the paper says:
Japan raised the issue of "people who abandoned their nationality" in a bid to lay hurdles in the way of hometown visits of Japanese-Korean women.
Contrary to its advertisement, however, the Japanese women married Korean youths forcibly taken to Japan when Korea was under the colonial rule by the Japanese imperialists and came to the DPRK together with their husbands who were returning to their homeland. Accordingly, they were removed from their family registers or thus lost their nationality automatically according to the Japanese law after their citizenship of the DPRK.
This notwithstanding, the Japanese government raised the issue of "people who abandoned their nationality" in a far-fetched way when the third hometown visit was put on the order of the day.
It tried to use their hometown visit for its ulterior design of an anti-DPRK propaganda campaign, not for humanitarianism.
When staying in Japan, the Japanese-Korean women unanimously praised the advantages of the socialist system of the DPRK which they have felt in their real life and said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il, who has provided them with a true life and happiness, is their real father.
Upset by this, the Japanese authorities invented the issue of "people who abandoned their nationality" in an attempt to lay artificial hurdles in the way of the hometown visit of Japanese-Korean women and bring it to a rupture.
Their dastardly behaviour devoid of elementary ethics, morality and human feelings is arousing bitter indignation among the Korean and world peoples.
S. Korean ULD leader throws down glove
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The traitor Kim Jong Pil, acting Prime Minister of the South Korean "government," showed up at the building of the "United Liberal Democrats" after the interval of three months to say that he won't budge a proposal for constitutional revision for a parliamentary cabinet system, the South Korean newspaper Hangyore said.
He added that the presidents of the two political parties agreed to and signed the proposal before the "Presidential Elections" last year.
By carrying it into practice he wants to become "Prime Minister" with unrestricted power, leaving the present ruler as dead as a dodo.
He also seeks in this to hold in leash Pak Thae Jun, President of the "ULD".
National character encouraged
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The national character is being maintained more firmly than ever before in Korea which is in the forced march for the final victory.
An exhibition of palhae relics was opened in Pyongyang recently to mark the 1,300th foundation anniversary of Palhae.
Palhae (698-926) was a Korean kingdom established in the land of ruined Koguryo by its surviving people and existed for nearly 230 years as a flourishing country in the east.
On display are nearly 300 pieces of relics which show the powerful national defence capability and the developed economy and culture of Palhae.
The Korean archaeologists have made a deep study of primitive culture and many relics and remains dating back to the period of Tangun and ancient Korea, which were discovered on the basin of Taedong River, systematized them scientifically and theoretically, thus formulating "Taedonggang Culture."
The naming of "Taedonggang Culture" implies that the broad area of middle and lower reaches of Taedong River centering on Pyongyang where cultural relics and remains dating back to ancient times from the early old stone age were found was one of the cradles and centres of human and ancient civilization.
The nation's precious cultural relies have been discovered and preserved well in the DPRK.
It has surveyed and unearthed historic relics and remains showing the long history, homogeneity and superiority of the nation. The Pothong gate in Pyongyang, the south gate in Kaesong, the Pohyon Temple on Mt.
Myohyang, the Jangan Temple on Mt. Kumgang and other relics and remains showing the history of the development of the national culture in the old stone age, ancient Korea, Koguryo, Koryo and Palhae were restored to the original state.
The Korean Central History Museum and other history museums have been arranged well in different parts of the country to enhance the national character of the Korean people.
And national costume and etiquette are encouraged in Korea.
Women wear Korean costume not only on holidays but on ordinary days and Koreans make it their daily routine to make a bow as a matter of courtesy.
It is a social trend for working people to have a rest with folk amusements including Korean chess games.
Cradle for the future generation
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- It has been said that child upbringing is burdensome to parents.
The child upbuilding system in the DPRK eases the burdens of rearing babies, nourishing the shoots of upbringing for the future generations.
Kim Jong Suk Nursery in the middle of Pyongyang is an institution for the care of infants whose mothers work outside home, entirely run at the expense of the state.
Educational programmes include singing, games and fairy tales in accordance with their ages. Increasingly its significance to child care, especially in relation to the development of their sentiment and intellect, has been emphasized. Healthy surroundings and proper medical supervision are of great value.
Kim Jong Suk Nursery and other institutions built across the country serve as centres for the upbringing of the future generations of Korea.