Sunrise above Mt. Paektu, spirit of the north
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- Members of the Paektu society active in Mokpho expressed deep reverence for Marshal Kim Jong Il, appreciating a video "sunrise above Mt. Paektu" on October 25, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoted the South Jolla Provincial Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea as saying.
The video was picked up by chairman of the society Pak In Nam while on a trip abroad to visit his relatives early in September.
After seeing it, Pak said the sunrise above Mt. Paektu is the spirit of the north, the mettle of Marshal Kim Jong Il.
The spectators actively came round to his view and expressed their firm determination to valiantly fight to bring the day of reunification as early as possible, the radio reported.
Press conference at Russian embassy
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition and a press conference were held at the Russian embassy here on Tuesday to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of A. Pushkin.
Ambassador Valery Denisov spoke at the press conference.
Participants were told about Pushkin's life and activities and looked round the photos on display.
Party given by Chinese ambassador
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- Wan Yongxiang, Chinese ambassador to Korea, gave a party at the embassy on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the signing of an agreement on economic and cultural cooperation between the governments of the DPRK and China.
Invited to the party were vice-president Yang Hyong Sop of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, vice director of a department of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea Choe Jin Su, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign Trade Kim Pong Ik, vice-Minister of Culture Jo Chan Gu and officials concerned.
Speeches were made there.
Colonial servant's misbehaviour
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The South Korean ruling quarters recently made public the government budget in which they appropriated nearly dlrs 400 million in terms of the "defence cost sharing" for the "upkeep" of the U.S. troops present in South Korea. Thus, a total sum of costs for the upkeep of the U.S. troops including "direct aid fund" and "indirect aid fund" exceeds about dlrs 3 billion.
Commenting on this fact, Rodong Sinmun ( paper of Workers' Party of Korea) today says:
This clearly shows once again that the present South Korean ruling quarters are a group of dastardly traitors engaged in flunkeyist and treacherous acts as their preceding dictators were.
South Korea is undergoing great difficulties under the economic trusteeship of the International Monetary Fund. The South Korean authorities, however, are offering a huge sum of money collected from the people to the United States, their master. This shows that they have no intention to rehabilitate the devastated economy and improve the deteriorated life of the people but are trying to prolong their remaining days in reward for selling the interests of the nation to the united states, lock, stock and barrel.
This also proves that they scheme to unleash a war against the north at any cost in league with the U.S. imperialists.
Not content with selling the dignity and interests of the nation to outsiders and leaving land, economy and money to their mercy, they are rushing headlong along the road of fratricidal war hand in glove with the aggression troops. Indeed, they are a herd of heinous traitors without an equal in the world, who cannot be members of the nation.
Rajin Business school and Information Centre
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The Rajin Business School was built with the help of the UNDP and UNIDO and opened in September.
The educational programmes include tourism, business management, statistics, zone control, welfare service, customs regulations, taxation and finance.
People from different countries, including China, Russia and Mongolia as well as Korea, are admitted to the school.
The school terms range from six months to one or two years.
The Rajin Business Information Centre has also been established. Linked with the Pyongyang Information Centre, it collects or offers business information of the DPRK and other countries.
Probe into truth behind economic crisis demanded in S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The citizens' federation for democratic society, the citizens' federation for economic justice and other citizens' organizations in South Korea on November 22 urged the authorities to form a "special committee for probing the truth behind the catastrophic economic crisis," according to a South Korean newspaper.
The organizations said that the present economic bankruptcy has been caused by the wrong policy and in particular, the "Chongwadae" authorities are to blame for it. If the "national assembly" does not properly probe the truth behind the crisis, they will, through legal proceedings, clarify who are responsible for it, they declared.
They decided to submit to the "national assembly" a document of protest carrying the calls of over 3,200 citizens.
On November 6, those organizations in a ceremony declared that they would start the citizens' movement for probing the truth behind the economic crisis and punishing those responsible for it and have since conducted a signature campaign in streets.
Benevolent politics lauded
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- Secretary Ro Ji Un of the Young Women's Christian Association in South Korea published an article on the great vitality of the benevolent politics of Marshal Kim Jong Il, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation said.
The article says:
Marshal Kim Jong Il is a great statesman who has conquered the whole country in reliance upon love and confidence. The inexhaustible strength based on his politics of love and trust, benevolent politics, is a source of the building of such a powerful and prosperous country in the north as it is.
President Kim Il Sung gave social prominence to women, pursued a policy of attaching importance to women and provided them with all conditions to live and work with no worries. The Marshal has put forth all his energy to keep in fuller bloom the flowers of families and the country, the women whom the president put his heart and soul into training.
The strength of the masses who have grown under the benevolent politics of the marshal is so big and great that the north will soon appear before the eyes of humankind as a powerful and prosperous socialist country with a brilliant future.
Thanks to the great loving care and trust of the Marshal, the great sun of Juche, the Korean nation will remain the strongest nation in this planet forever.
Koguryo
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- 2,275 years have passed since the appearance of Koguryo, the first feudal state in Korea.
Koguryo (277 b.c.-668) has become a great pride of the Korean nation for its mightiness and high standard of development.
It was a powerful state of 1,000 years old with the largest territory in Korea's history, an area which was 2,400 km from the east to the west and over 1,600 km from the north to the south.
Its politics, defence, economy and culture were developed.
Koguryo enforced a feudalistic compulsory service system, and had a standing army 300,000 strong in peacetime. But, in time of war, it organized one million-strong army.
Its people with a strong spirit of independence had victoriously repulsed invasion by outsiders -- one million-strong invaders in 598, three million troops in 612 and over one million troops in 645 and 661-662.
In the July Salsu Battle of the year 612 in particular, they annihilated or captured alive more than 300,000 enemy troops in a day. It was a great victory unprecedented in the world history of war in middle ages.
With developed economy and great national strength, Koguryo approved itself a political and military power.
In the whole period of its existence Koguryo followed independent foreign and domestic policies and developed relations with neighbouring countries.
It became the most powerful state in northeast Asia in fifth-seventh centuries and played a big role in the historical development of Asia.
Algerian ambassador present his credentials to Kim Yong Nam
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- New Algerian ambassador e.p. to the DPRK Ahmed Amine Kherbi today presented his credentials to Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, at the Masudae Assembly Hall.
Present was Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs.
After receiving the credentials, Kim Yong Nam conversed with the ambassador.
Yang Hyong Sop meets Cuban ambassador
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today met and had a conversation with Cuban ambassador to Korea Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona who paid a farewell call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.