August.15.1998 Juche 87

[CONTENTS]

• August 15 festival opens

• August 15 grand pro-reunification festival opens at Panmunjom

• Rally for unity

• Reception given at Russian embassy

• '98 Pan-National Rally for Peace and Reunification of Country

• Seminars on Kim Jong Il's work held in different countries

• Congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il from Military Attaches' Corps

• Kim Jong Il receives message of greetings from Russian President

• Central People's Committee sends message of greetings to Russian President

• Rodong Sinmun lashes out at suppressive campaign in South Korea

• President Kim Il Sung is liberator of country

• National liberation, great victory

• Japan is still in dock

• Sanctions useless

• Papers dedicate editorials to liberation day

• 3rd Pomchonghakryon joint conference and meeting

• Pro-reunification art festival

• August 15 festival closes

• South Korean students arrested

• Struggle for release of prisoners of conscience in South Korea

• Floral baskets laid before President Kim Il Sung's statues

• Wreaths laid at revolutionary martyrs cemetery on Mt. Taesong