Who is responsible for nuclear proliferation?
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The United States decided to resume the production of tritium, the material of hydrogen bombs, according to a news report.
Referring to the decision, the U.S. Department of Energy said that tritium should be reproduced and supplemented to keep the efficiency of H-bombs now possessed by the United States.
This is a frontal challenge to and provocation against the international community aspiring after non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and striving for the building of a nuclear-free world.
H-bombs are the most barbaric lethal weapons which can plunge humankind into holocausts. Accordingly, they should have already been dismantled completely together with nuclear weapons.
Nevertheless, the U.S. is openly clamouring about the " maintenance of the efficiency of H-bombs." This eloquently proves that " nuclear non-proliferation" on the U.S. lips is nothing but hypocrisy and that the U.S. is the very country responsible for nuclear proliferation.
The U.S., vociferating about " nuclear non-proliferation" ,has wantonly interfered in the internal affairs of other nations as if it were an international inspector.
It is still loudly advertising the "suspected underground nuclear site" in the DPRK. Worse still, it is persistently urging the DPRK to accept cursed " inspections" of the site.
The U.S. behaviour is the height of shamelessness.
In the final analysis, " nuclear non-proliferation" and "inspections" clamoured about by the U.S. are no more than a trick to smell out the inside of others and disarm them.
The United States must stop the production of nuclear materials at once before advertising " nuclear non-proliferation."
Greetings to Nepalese King
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Nepalese King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev on the occasion of his 53rd birthday.
The message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will further develop in the interests of the two peoples. It wished him good health and happiness and greater success in his work for the prosperity and development of the country.
Scientific and technical successes of DPRK
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Great scientific and technical successes have been achieved in the DPRK this year.
One of the most prominent achievements was a successful launch of the first artificial satellite "Kwangmyongsong 1" into orbit.
It, a product of self-reliance, was made 100 percent with our own science, technology and design.
It is a great event which demonstrated the ultra-modern science and technology of the DPRK to the whole world.
There are also research successes showing how the national economy and science and technology of the DPRK have developed.
300 odd programs presented for the recent 9th national contest and exhibition of programs fully showed the level of development of the electronics and automation industry of the DPRK.
More than 5,000 manufactures of over 2,500 kinds presented for the 5th national exhibition of inventions and new technology held in may are part of new scientific and technical achievements.
The DPRK is effectively enlisting the wisdom and enthusiasm of the masses for the development of science and technology.
More than 30,000 valuable scientific and technical items were exhibited at the 13th national festival of science and technology held this year.
250 odd items of them were highly praised as ones helpful toward developing the national economy, science and technology of the country.
The DPRK is directing big efforts to developing its science and technology although it falls short of everything and faces difficulties.
53rd anniversary of KBF marked
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Pyongyang on December 26 to mark the 53rd anniversary of the formation of the Korean Buddhist Federation (KBF).
Most venerable Pak Thae Ho, chairman of the KBF, delivered a report.
He reviewed the 53-year-long history covered by the KBF to realise the ideal of building an earthly paradise on this land.
He said that, since the DPRK launched an artificial satellite, the United States and its followers, the South Korean authorities and the Japanese reactionaries, have brought dark clouds of war, clamouring about " missile launch" and "suspected underground nuclear site."
He called upon all the Korean Buddhists in the north, south and overseas to turn out as one man in the struggle to frustrate this dangerous racket.
He voiced full support for the recently published statement of the spokesman for the general staff of the Korean People's Army.
He stressed that "operation plan 5027" worked out by the United States is an out-and-out aggressive plan to unleash a second Korean War.
Kim Jong Il sends gifts to repatriates from Japan
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Il saw to it that Kim Dae Ryong, former vice-chairman of the Akita prefectural headquarters of Chongryon (General Association of Korean residents in Japan), his wife and family members can live in a luxurious house. He also valuable gifts to them.
They had returned to the socialist homeland some time ago.
Kim, 71, was born in Jeju island, South Korea. He worked as an official of the local organization of Chongryon for tens of years devoting all his wisdom and energy to the development of the movement of Koreans in Japan and patriotic work of Chongryon.
His wife Kim Sun I is a Japanese.
The gifts were handed on Dec. 24 by secretary Kim Yong Sun of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
After moving to a new house Kim said that such a benevolent and meticulous leader as Kim Jong Il cannot be found in any other countries.
High-efficiency accelerant of concrete hardening
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- A high-efficiency accelerant of concrete hardening is popular in the construction sector of Korea.
It helps speed up the concrete hardening three to five times over ordinary concrete.
It has been so far recognized that all prefab parts can be used after they are hardened with steam for 14 to 16 hours at the temperature above 75-85 degrees centigrade. But the hardening accelerant makes prefabs hard in the atmospheric temperature for a day. Particularly, the speed of concrete hardening (one to three days) is very fast. The speed of building increases 3.5 times in monolithic concrete tamping.
The hardening accelerant keeps reinforced bars from rust and makes concrete watertight, thus helping toward building structures including roads, bridges and tunnels.
It has been developed by Pak Chan Sik, a worker of the Pyongyang Mirim Concrete Block Factory.
The invention was recently awarded an honorary certificate and a medal by the world intellectual property organization.
He also gave much benefit to the country by creating different inventions and new techniques.