Preparatory committee for celebrating DPRK birthday formed in Mexico
Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- A committee was formed in Mexico on July 30 to welcome General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as head of state and prepare celebration of the 50th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
At its inaugural ceremony the Secretary General of the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Peaceful Reunification was elected Chairman of the committee and the Chairmen of the Mexico-DPRK Institute of Friendship and Cultural Interchange and the Mexican Fellowship Union to honor the memory of President Kim Il Sung its Vice-Chairmen.
An action program was published at the meeting.
Greetings to Macedonian Prime Minister
Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, Acting Premier of the Administration Council, sent a telegram to Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski, congratulating him on the National Day of Macedonia.
In the telegram Hong sincerely wished Crvenkovski success in his work for the prosperity of the country.
He also expressed the belief that the cooperative relations between the two countries would develop more favourably in the interests of the two peoples.
2nd round of working-level talks for August 15 festival held
Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- The second round of working-level talks was held on August 5 between the north, south and overseas preparatory committees for a "Grand Festival For National Reconciliation, Unity and Reunification."
The second round was held in the same way as the first round. The north and overseas preparatory committees accepted the agenda items proposed by the south preparatory committee whose delegates could not take part in the talks due to the obstructions of the South Korean authorities. The talks were to be held in Beijing.
It was agreed at the talks that Pomminryon (National Alliance for the Country's Reunification) shall play a leading part in the festival and the Keypoint of the festival be the '98 Pan-National Rally.
It was also stressed that a joint executive committee for the festival shall be composed of nine persons, three each from the north, the south and overseas, to run all events in a democratic way and a detailed program be confirmed finally at its first meeting.
An agreement was reached upon designs of the mark and flag of the August 15 grand pro-reunification festival.
Bright is prospect of reunification under Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed article saying that bright is the prospect of the country's reunification as General Secretary Kim Jong Il is leading the nation's struggle for great unity and reunification.
The Korean people are turning out in the nationwide movement for national reunification, full of conviction of victory entirely because Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the movement for national reunification, the paper says, and goes on:
He regards it as an iron rule to defend and carry out the Juche-oriented policies for national reunification put forward by President Kim Il Sung. That is why he respected Kim Jong Il in his celebrated work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" defined as the three charters of national reunification the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity= the Ten-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation= and the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo= which were clarified by the president, and set forth the three charters as the programme to be invariably maintained by the entire fellow countrymen.
He in his another famous work "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation" indicated the five-point policy of great national unity suited to the nation's desire for reunification and the specific conditions of the country, thus providing the highly important guidelines for promoting great unity of the Korean nation.
In line with the three charters of national reunification and the five-point policy of great national unity, which systematize and consummate in an integral way the fundamental principles and way of national reunification, the Korean nation has confidently waged a powerful struggle for great national unity and reunification with clear-cut goal and orientation.
Victory and glory are in store for the Korean people, who are vigorously struggling to achieve great national unity and reunification under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Japan's ambition for reinvasion
Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- Papers here today lash out at the Japanese reactionaries for their efforts for overseas expansion.
Japan has taken an active part in joint war maneuvers with the U.S. troops under the pretext of implementing the "Japan -U.S. defence cooperation guidelines" in a bid to increase the combat capacity of the "self-defence forces" and stage a comeback to Asia, Rodong Sinmun says in a commentary.
The daily goes on:
"Humanitarian activities" and "peace-keeping operations" on the lips of the Japanese reactionaries are something for concealing their moves for overseas aggression.
The U.S- Japan war exercises are mainly aimed at preparing operations to invade the DPRK. The Japanese reactionaries intend to invade the Korean peninsula first and expand their aggression on Asia with it as a foothold.
Japan 's moves for reinvasion have invited deep caution of the Korean and Asian peoples.
The Japanese reactionaries must liquidate the past wrongdoings and seek peace, not running amuck with the moves for reinvasion.
Minju Joson says that the unprecedented war racket of the Japanese reactionaries proves that Japan is trying to be fully prepared to launch a war of overseas aggression at any moment on the pretext of implementing the "Japan-U.S. defence cooperation guidelines."