Working people resolve to build powerful nation
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- Meetings of working people are being held in different parts of Korea to vow to carry out the tasks set out in the Joint New Year Editorial calling for letting this year mark a turning-point in building a powerful nation.
Meetings held by employees of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, Hungnam Fertilizer Complex, Kim Jong Thae General Electric Locomotive Works and Pyongyang Silk Mill laid stress on giving full play to the revolutionary spirit of devotion and self-reliance in this year's worthwhile struggle to build a powerful nation.
The meetings called for overfulfilling plans for national economy by maintaining a steady rate of production and consolidating bases of self-reliance.
At a meeting, farmers of Hwasan Co-op Farm, Chongdan County, South Hwanghae Province, vowed to steadily improve the management and operation of the farm and to bring a turning-point in agricultural production including grain, vegetable, meat and fruit by doing farming scientifically and technically as required by the Juche farming method.
Chongryon officials meet to make their resolution
Tokyo, January 9 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting of officials of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) was held in Tokyo on Jan. 9 to make their resolution to work more vigorously in Juche 88 true to the highly important instructions of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the Chongryon central standing committee, made a report at the meeting.
He said that this year's work of Chongryon is a historic one for significantly adorning the last year of the 1900s when the fatherly leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung started and led the Juche-based movement of Koreans in Japan.
He called for making a turning-point in the patriotic work of Chongryon holding aloft the patriotic slogan, "Let us adorn this year as a year of turning-point in defending national character and strengthening the massive foundation of Chongryon " a letter to Marshal Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
Contained in the letter are the resolution to defend and add luster to Kim Il Sung's immortal exploits for the movement of Koreans in Japan and build up Chongryon into Marshal Kim Jong Il's overseas Koreans organization, a massive patriotic organization based on the steadfast ideological system and leadership system of Juche which will not waver in any adversity and difficulties.
Month of winter sports opens
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- An opening ceremony of a month of winter sports was held at the ice rink in Pyongyang on Sunday.
During the month schoolchildren will have skating and sledding contests and various other sports events at Panwol Islet Skating Rink in the capital and other skating rinks as well as march through a snowy road.
At the opening ceremony speakers said that all the schoolchildren should build up their soul and bodies more firmly during the month.
The ceremony was followed by figure skating exhibition bouts.
Opening ceremonies of a month of winter sports were held in all counties (districts), cities and provinces.
New Year resolve of February 16 Fellowship Society
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- Members of the February 16 Fellowship Society in Inchon reviewed their activities for disseminating the Juche idea and discussed the orientation of activities for the New Year at the end of last year, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation quoted the Kyonggi Provincial Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea as saying.
They proudly said that followers of the Juche idea increased even under the fascist suppression by the South Korean authorities and that no physical strength can block the attraction of the Juche idea.
They adopted a five-point guideline on activities for the study and dissemination of the Juche idea in the New Year.
The guideline laid stress on disseminating the Juche idea and organising diverse seminars on its truth and scientific accuracy.
Foreign Ministry spokesman refers to friendly relations with southeast Asian countries
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in his answer to a question put by KCNA today said that the establishment of diplomatic relations between the government of the DPRK and the government of his majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuall of Brunei Darussalam not only conforms with the interests and desire of the two peoples but also is in full accord with the interests of the Asian people who want to build a new Asia, independent and prosperous.
He pointed that the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries opened a broad way to develop cooperation and exchange between the DPRK and Brunei in political, economic, cultural and other fields.
The spokesman stressed that the DPRK will in the future, too, endeavour to develop good neighbouring relations with all countries that are friendly toward it on the basis of the idea of independence, peace and friendship especially with southeast Asian countries which are geographically near.
Efforts of Korean people to build powerful nation supported
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- The efforts of the Korean people to build a powerful socialist state were supported by political parties of Peru and a public figure of India.
Political parties of Peru in a joint statement wished the Korean people a great victorious advance in building a powerful nation under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea in the New Year 1999 defined as a year of a new turning point, a year of general advance.
The Korean people will certainly win victory in their struggle for building a powerful socialist state and the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, said the statement.
The statement called upon the political parties, organisations and people of all the countries who love justice and peace to take an active part in the solidarity movement for the reunification of Korea which was divided by outside forces.
N.K. Shukra, federal secretary of the All-India Federation of Peasants, in an interview with the KCNA correspondent referred to the achievements of the Korean people last year and wished them a new brilliant success in the New Year's struggle.
250-mile journey in his teens
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- Korean schoolchildren have begun to make excursions to revolutionary sites of "250-mile journey for learning" and "250-mile journey for national liberation" this year.
The excursions are made to mark the two 250-mile journeys taken by the President Kim Il Sung with a far-sighted plan for revolution in his teens.
He arrived in Mangyongdae, his home town, 14 days after he left Badaogou on March 16, Juche 12 (1923), when he was 11 years old, as his father told him that he must have a good knowledge of Korea for national liberation. His journey was a "250-mile journey for learning" which made him experience the misfortunes and sufferings of the Korean nation deprived of their state by the Japanese imperialists.
He, studying in the motherland, heard the news that his father Kim Hyong Jik had been arrested by the Japanese police, before he set out on a 250-mile journey again from Mangyongdae to Badaogou on January 22, Juche 14 (1925). He crossed the River Amnok to leave the homeland with a grim resolve not to return before Korea was liberated.
His lofty will for revolution on the 250-mile journey for national liberation and his pledge on the bank of the River Amnok have been materialized in this land as independent and prosperous socialism.
In order to hand down through generations his revolutionary exploits the Korean people have built his statues in Jonchon, Hwaphyong and Phophyong on the road of the 250-mile journey.
Revolutionary museums, Schoolchildren's Palace, monuments and markers have been built in Kaechon, Kanggye and other places.
The Phophyong Ferry, the Kanggye Post Office, the Kanggye Inn and other relics are preserved as they were.
Korean schoolchildren make excursions to the revolutionary sites of "250-mile journey for learning" and "250-mile journey for national liberation" every year with a view to following the lofty revolutionary spirit, ardent patriotism and strong will he had in his teens.
National reunification is call of history
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- National reunification is the call of history. Therefore, the moves of the present South Korean ruling quarters pursuing the anti-reunification policy against the trend of the times and the aspiration of the nation cannot be pardoned in any case, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today.
It continues:
Contrary to the nation's desire and aspiration for reunification, the South Korean rulers persist in taking the road of confrontation and war against North Korea where the fellow countrymen live.
For the Korean nation, nothing is more important than national reunification and no task is more urgent than it.
Division is the road to subordination and self-ruin. Only reunification is the road to independence, prosperity and a way out for the nation.
Korea is the same as an organism that can keep up its life only when it is united but cannot exist once it is separated.
Any Koreans who are anxious about the nation's destiny can not turn blind eyes to the call of history and the nation for reunification. This is high time that all Koreans at home and abroad closely united irrespective of differences in ideology, religious belief, political view, class and social standing and intensified the struggle to save the destiny of the country and the nation and reunify the fatherland.
As for the Korean nation, nothing is more honourable and worthwhile than to devote itself to national reunification.
To reunify the fatherland is precisely patriotism and the struggle for national reunification is a most praiseworthy patriotic one.
Those who contribute to the struggle for national reunification will enjoy love and respect from the nation and will be recorded in national history as pro-reunification patriots.
Hwang leads "people's government" to hell
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) -- Jong Song Il, a freelancer of South Korea, published an article entitled "'yellow dog' leading people to hell", said Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation.
The author of the article wrote:
From olden times, it has been told that a "yellow dog" leads people to the hell. Such a hellish dog has appeared in Seoul, striking terror and uneasiness into the hearts of people.
This dog is now roaming about "Chongwadae".
It is none other than Hwang Jang Yop who defected from the north to the south.
A few days ago, he gave a "lecture" at a joint meeting of permanent directors and directors of the central council of the students' military training corps.
In the "lecture," he praised the present "government's policy of engagement with the north" as "effective" and then cried that economic assistance to the north must be stopped because it would result in "replenishing" the north's strength and weakening the "strength" of the south. And he alleged that the north's slogan of building a powerful nation is aimed at getting "economic assistance" by "threatening" someone.
Worse still, he slandered the rewritten constitution of the north as undemocratic.
His rigmarole that he had never seen any constitution in the north cannot be construed otherwise than the height of folly. It is because he had acted as chairman of the legislative body of the north.
He went so far as to say, "the essence of the north's government is to wage a war" and "the north has the capacity and willingness to develop nuclear weapons. This is an absurd utterance which can be made only by Hwang.
In the "lecture," he branded the north as an "out-and-out principal enemy" and let loose the hokum that "it is imperative to overpower the north as early as possible to prevent a war."
The "Agency for National Security Planning" is wirepulling Hwang who is now in hiding at its secret room. It is said that a bad-natured dog must be bound with a short tether.
The act of the "people's government" in letting Hwang make a string of venomous remarks will only precipitate its own destruction.
Hwang is the very dog that leads the "people's government" to the hell.
Conducted by him, the "Agency for National Security Planning," "Chongwadae" and South Korea are going to the hell of ruin.
U.S. urged to pay dlrs 300 million for inspection
He said:
Our stand toward the "suspected underground nuclear facility" is consistent and clear.
The rumour about the "suspected underground nuclear facility" being spread by the United States on the basis of groundless "information" is a grave insult to the DPRK, a dignified sovereign state.
Therefore, we cannot allow any "inspection" of our underground facility.
However, if the United States pays 300 million dollars as a compensation for insulting the DPRK, we, taking into account the DPRK-U.S. relations, may allow a visit to the site in Kumchang-ri only once as an exception.
Accordingly, if the U.S. wants to make a visit to the site, it should make a compensation of 300 million dollars in cash. If it cannot do so for some reason, it may grant the DPRK economic benefits tantamount to the amount even in any appropriate form.
Our demand for compensation is very just because, once we open an object which is very sensitive in view of our national security to the United States which is technically at war with the DPRK, we cannot use it for its original purpose.
Nevertheless, the U.S., insisting that it cannot compensate, is linking the issue of dispelling the suspicion about the "underground nuclear facility" with the implementation of the DPRK's obligation under the DPRK-U.S.agreed framework.
We cannot but take a serious view of this fact.
Since the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework was adopted in October 1994, we have remained faithful to the agreement and, accordingly, we have never conducted any nuclear activities. It is the united states that is violating the agreement.
It has stubbornly imposed sanctions on the DPRK, invariably enforcing the hostile policy toward it in violation of the agreed framework. Moreover, it has not faithfully implemented its obligations including the supply of heavy oil and light-water reactors.
If the U.S. continues to delay implementing its obligations, linking the "suspected underground nuclear facility" with the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework in a far-fetched way, the DPRK will no longer have any interest in the agreement.
If the agreed framework is broken as a consequence, there is no help for it.
The United States would be well advised not to make any further false steps.