Kim Jong Il receives Jong Ju Yong and his family

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, received Honorary Chairman of the Hyundai Business Group of South Korea Jong Ju Yong and his family on Friday. Present at the meeting were chairman Kim Yong Sun and vice-chairman Song Ho Gyong of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee. Kim Jong Il welcomed the Pyongyang visit of Jong Ju Yong and his family and had a cordial talk with them. Jong Ju Yong and his family deeply thanked General Secretary Kim Jong Il for his kind meeting with them. Kim Jong Il had a picture taken with them.

Collection of song words published in Japan

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- "Eternal bridge linked by songs," a collection of song words written by Poet Noboru Kameta who is member of the Japan-Korea Cultural Interchange Association, was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the DPRK. Carried in the collection are pictures of the President Kim Il Sung's Statue on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, Mangyongdae and the Tower of the Juche Idea and other pictures and the words of 50 songs. Words of songs "the Sun," "the Native place dear to heart," and "Hymn to the sun's day" praise President Kim Il Sung as the sun of humanity and the father of the people. "Future is brilliant," "Let us clap our hands," and other words loudly sing of the greatness of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. "With self-reliance" and "patriotism" laud the Korean people vigorously advancing toward socialism in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.

Anniversary of Korea-Yugoslavia diplomatic relations marked

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Yugoslav ambassador to Korea Djukic Ljubomir gave a cocktail party at the embassy on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Korea and Yugoslavia. Invited to the party were vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri In Gyu and officials concerned. Speeches were exchanged there.

WPK praised by foreign party leaders

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the guiding force of the Korean people, has become the invincible banner of victory in the struggle for building socialism and achieving the reunification of the country under the wise leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. Foreign party leaders stressed this in their congratulatory messages sent on the occasion of the 53rd birthday of the WPK. Leaders of political parties and organizations in Bangladesh said that the WPK is firmly defending socialism, chosen by itself at the time of its foundation, even under the present grim situation in which socialism and communist and workers' parties collapsed in some countries and an anti-socialist storm is blowing. Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Socialist Party of Romania, said that the WPK played and is playing an important role in the international communist and working class movement and its consistent and valiant struggle is an example to be followed by his party which is fighting against the imperialist and other reactionary forces and for the rebuilding of socialism. General Secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru Guzman Rivera Castaneda and General Secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of Peru (Red Motherland) Alberto Moreno said that the WPK, the centre representing workers, peasants and intellectuals, has developed into a militant and powerful party. They expressed the belief that the WPK would make greater success in the efforts to hit the righteous and noble aim of the Korean people under the tested guidance of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

U.S. imperialists' aerial espionage on DPRK

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist warmaniacs committed aerial espionage on the DPRK with strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes on different missions on more than 160 occasions in October, according to military sources. Aerial espionage by u-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane numbered more than 30. Overseas-based P-3 antisubmarine patrol plane committed espionage on the DPRK for four days and RC-135 strategic reconnaissance plane for two days. Four RC-12 tactical reconnaissance planes were engaged in aerial espionage for two days. This shows that the U.S. imperialist warmaniacs' preparations for a war against the DPRK have entered into an extremely reckless stage.

Rodong Sinmun on war games in S. Korea

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Warmaniacs at home and abroad staged a U.S.-South Korea joint military rehearsal on October 24 with Yokosuka, Japan, as a commanding post. On the 26th, they began "'98 Foal Eagle" joint manoeuvres and "'98 Hwarang" war exercise against the DPRK in South Korea and surrounding waters. Commenting on them, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun today says: The three-dimensional war games which are being staged simultaneously on the ground and in the sky and seas are a direct threat to and a grave provocation against the DPRK because they are very adventurous ones which assume an unprecedented danger in form and method, scope and content. The United States and the successive South Korean rulers have never staged such war exercises of various names simultaneously in a diversified and three-dimensional way. Involved in the war games are the U.S. troops present in South Korea and Japan and over 1.1 million army and irregular armed forces of South Korea and uptodate attack means and operational equipment including Kitty Hawk, a main aircraft carrier of the U.S. 7th Fleet. In the war manoeuvres, the warmaniacs at home and abroad seek to give a finishing touch to war preparations which have been stepped up and finally make a surprise strike at the DPRK. They are precisely a test war and preliminary war. We cannot but take a self-defensive measure against the war games. The United States and the South Korean rulers had better ponder over the serious consequences to be entailed by the war games.

Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon moves denounced

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union published a statement on Friday denouncing the Japanese reactionaries' frantic rackets against the DPRK and Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan). The statement said: The Japanese reactionaries let right-wing gangsters make attacks on Chongryon organs at all levels, make assaults on Korean compatriots in Japan almost every day, attack and set fire to the Chiba Prefecture headquarters hall of Chongryon and mercilessly murder an official of Chongryon. The statement bitterly condemned their moves as a grave provocation against the DPRK and an unpardonable crime of ruthlessly trampling underfoot and encroaching upon the national dignity and democratic rights of the Korean compatriots in Japan. Their anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon rackets will add a new crime to the arch crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people in the past, the statement said. It continued: If the Japanese reactionaries continue resorting to the anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon moves in defiance of our warnings, we will inflict a merciless punishment on them. The statement expressed the belief that the world progressive people and women's organisations will more vehemently denounce the anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon moves of the Japanese authorities.

29th plenary meeting of KDWU Central Committee

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The 29th plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union was held here on Oct. 29. The meeting laid stress on thoroughly implementing the important tasks given by General Secretary Kim Jong Il during his on-the-spot guidance to Taehongdan county on October 1, Juche 87 (1998). The reporter and speakers said that the instructions given by General Secretary Kim Jong Il during his personal guidance to the county is an important guideline which should be kept hold on in developing agriculture and improving and strengthening the county work. The meeting set forth a task to help Taehongdan county, carry out the historic on-site instructions of the marshal and stressed the need to make tangible contributions to building the county associated with the undying feats of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu into an ideal village.

10th anniversary of opening of NDFSK Pyongyang mission marked

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A press conference took place at the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on October 30 to mark the 10th anniversary of its opening. At the press conference chief Pak Kwang Gi of the Pyongyang mission of the NDFSK recalled the opening of the mission on October 31, Juche 77 (1988) and reviewed various activities it conducted over the last ten years. The loving care of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il for the Pyongyang mission of NDFSK is a revelation of noble love for the country and the nation of the two leaders to provide the 70 million fellow countrymen with a gift of national reunification at an early date, he said, and continued: the loving care will shine long in history of the revolutionary movement of NDFSK and patriotic-minded people of all walks of life. The brilliant realities of North Korea which is making a long drive without wavering in the face of the never-ceasing campaign of the imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK eloquently prove that victory and glory are guaranteed only by the heartfelt loyalty to the great leader. The Pyongyang mission of NDFSK will work harder to discharge its important mission and tasks, carry through the instructions of the President on national reunification and the five-point policy of great national unity laid down by the marshal and bring earlier the glorious day when the country is reunified, Pak Kwang Gi added.

Jong Ju Yong and his party leave

Panmunjom, October 31 (KCNA) -- Honorary Chairman Jong Ju Yong of the Hyundai Business Group of South Korea and his party went to the south via Panmunjom today. They were cordially seen off at Panmunjom by vice-chairman Song Ho Gyong of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, chairman Jong Un Op of the National Economic Cooperation Federation and officials concerned.

Joint meeting of Koreans in Japan

Tokyo, October 29 (KNS-KCNA) -- A joint meeting of officials and secretaries of the association of Koreans in Japan for peaceful reunification and the headquarters of Koreans in Japan of Pomminryon (National Alliance for the Country's Reunification) was held here in Tokyo on October 28. Chairman of the association of Koreans in Japan for Peaceful Reunification Ri Jong Hwal and chairman of the Pomminryon headquarters of Koreans in Japan Choe Il Su made reports there. They reviewed the achievements and experience made in their organizations' activities for this year and called for making a new progress in the work for national reunification by implementing to the letter the instructions of the Present Kim Il Sung on reunification and the policy of General Secretary Kim Jong Il on reunification. Referring to the action program for next year, they vowed to hold various events on major commemoration days and strengthen national unity among Koreans in Japan and solidarity with other organizations of overseas Koreans and prominent public figures.

Proposal for founding DCRK supported

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Poland on Oct. 21 on the occasion of the month of supporting the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo. Tadeusz Baukowski, first vice-chairman of the C.C., the Poland-Korea Association, in his speech said the whole world recognizes that the DCRK founding proposal advanced by the President Kim Il Sung is the most just and reasonable proposal for Korea's reunification. He said the great leader Kim Jong Il put forward the five-point policy of great national unity with the steadfast determination and will to accomplish the cause of Korea's reunification on the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity. Korea will be reunified because Kim Jong Il leads the party, state and army, he stressed.

LDP tries to possess intelligence satellite

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Nihon Keizai Shimbun on October 27 said that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is getting over-heated in its moves to possess an intelligence satellite, according to a report. The LDP "team for planning intelligence satellite" led by the President of its foreign affairs research council worked out an "overture" for introducing an intelligence satellite, the paper said. The "overture," which was announced on Oct. 26, cried for possessing an independent intelligence satellite to be used for reconnaissance on military facilities for the "purpose" of "preventing threat and crisis beforehand". It also mentioned "urgency" of satellite introduction and called for examining the purchase of the satellite or introduction of technology from the United States in order to introduce it till the year 2002 at the latest and requested the government to include the funds for introducing the satellite in the third supplementary budget of the present fiscal year or the budget of the next fiscal year, the paper reported. This shows how frantically the Japanese reactionaries are running amuck in the wake of the DPRK's launch of an artificial satellite.

Vain attempt

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Of late the Voice of America brought to light what had been discussed at secret talks held in wake island of the pacific between the then U.S. President and the then commander of the "UN forces" on October 15, 1950. The talks focused on the Korean War, and at the talks Macarthur suggested that the Korean War should be expanded to Manchuria and China and that the U.S. should be entitled to use an atomic bomb in the war, the radio said. Rodong Sinmun today, commenting on this, says: The talks prove that the U.S. was and is a wrecker of peace and security in Asia, including the Korean peninsula, as well as the prime mover of aggression. Nearly half a century has passed since then. The U.S. imperialists' wild ambition for invasion of Korea still remains unchanged, though. The U.S. seeks to provoke another Korean War, use a nuclear weapon without hesitation to conquer the whole of Korea and commit aggression on Asia with the region as its springboard. Another Korean War may break out any moment in the Korean peninsula as a result of the new war provocation moves of the U.S. and South Korea. If a war breaks out, it will soon spread beyond the boundary of Korea. The DPRK and the U.S. are in a state of war. A war may break out at moment unless there is a peace accord between the two countries and unless the U.S. withdraws its troops and nuclear arms. The U.S. wild ambition for domination over Korea and Asia cannot be realised at all. The u.s. Should be aware of this and make a bold decision concerning the signing of a peace accord with the DPRK and the withdrawal of its forces.

South Korean artists here

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A Seoul orchestra led by Choe Hak Rae, editorial writer of the South Korean paper Hangyore and Secretary General of the Unification and Culture Foundation, arrived here today to attend Yun I Sang concert for the country's reunification. The orchestra was cordially met at the airport by chief Kim Jong Ho of the Yun I sang music institute, Yun I Sang's widow Ri Su Ja, officials concerned and others.

Gift to Kim Jong Il from Hyundai Business Group Honorary Chairman

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a gift from Honorary Chairman Jong Ju Yong of the Hyundai Business Group of South Korea. Jong Ju Yong on a visit to Pyongyang conveyed the gift to chairman Kim Yong Sun of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.