Greatness of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il praised
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Secretary general of the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council Vishwanath and his son Mukeshi Sharma on May 2 gave their impressions of Korea. Vishwanath said that his yearning for the President Kim Il Sung grew stronger during the visit to Korea and that he felt the President was the greatest man in the world. Referring to his honor of being received by the respected Kim Jong Il, he said that he was fully attracted by Kim Jong Il's noble personality.
Mukeshi Sharma said that while staying in Korea he deeply felt the greatness of President Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il. Brief as his visit was, he keenly felt that Korea was a country of mystery which could not be seen in other countries.
Letters praising Kim Jong Il mailed in S. Korea
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Copies of a letter praising General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the North Korea were mailed to 21 middle and high schools in Taejon of South Korea, according to a radio report from Seoul.
Sealed by the Taejon Post Office, they were distributed over May 6-7.
Meeting for study of Juche idea held in Japan
Tokyo, May 7 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting for the study of the Juche idea was held in Tokyo on April 30 under the co-sponsorship of the Japan committee for the Study of Kimilsungism and the Tokyo, Japan, Liaison Council for the Study of the Juche Idea to mark Sun's Day.
Present there were director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea (IIJI) Shuhachi Inoue, secretary general of the IIJI Kenichi Ogami, members of Juche idea study organizations and people of various social standings.
At the meeting, Honorary Professor at Saitama University Takao Kamakura and Kenichi Ogami made reports under the subjects "on my attendance at the African regional seminar on the Juche idea, peace and unity" and "on my visit to Korea commemorating Sun's Day."
Strike by S. Korean Kangwon industrial trade
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The Kangwon Industrial Trade Union in Phohang, North Kyongsang Province of South Korea, called an indefinite strike on Thursday, a radio report from Seoul said.
The strike was launched in demand of stop to lay-off and wage hike as all the eleven rounds of the union's negotiations with the management broke down.
Earlier, the union held a ceremony of inaugurating pickets and starting a general strike with an attendance of over 1,600 members.
Kim Jong Pil humiliated by students
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- "Prime minister" of South Korea Kim Jong Pil was attacked by students under the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, a Seoul-based radio said.
On Friday at least 30 students condemned Kim, chief architect of "Yusin," and the crimes of the "government for the people", chanting a slogan "we oppose restructuring," when he was about to get on a car after his "special lecture" at the postgraduate school of Chungnam National University.
Black-hearted intention should be dropped
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The chief executive of Japan was recently reported to have asserted at a joint press conference with the U.S. President that North Korea "fired a missile to fly over the territorial air of Japan" and that "it is yet to clear suspicion about the nuclear facility issue" and settle the "issue of the abducted Japanese." A signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun today has come down hard on this anti-DPRK diatribe.
Noting that it is the inveterate bad habit of the Japanese reactionaries to achieve their ulterior aim by faulting others, the commentary observes: We have never fired missiles to fly over the territorial air of Japan and have neither "issue of suspected nuclear facility" nor "issue of abducted Japanese."
The reactionary Japanese ruling quarters are getting hectic in their moves to equip the Japan "Self-Defence Forces" with more sophisticated medium- and long-range means of war, establish a war-time system and carry out the aggressive "Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defence Cooperation" on the pretext of coping with the "threat" from us. The aim sought by them in trying to make this sheer sophism intended to defame us sound as an established opinion is to tarnish the high authority and international prestige of our republic and isolate it.
The Japanese authorities are talking about "improved Japan-DPRK relations."
If these ties are to be improved, Japan should settle its past and rectify its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
However, they still persist in their insolent anti-DPRK smear campaign, refusing to take any option to resolve these fundamental issues.
No improvement can be expected of the DPRK-Japan relations under this situation.
Victory of just cause
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate articles to the 54th anniversary of the great victory of the Soviet people in the patriotic war after defeating Hitler group of fascists.
Rodong Sinmun says the Soviet people's victory demonstrated the superiority of socialism and its invincible vitality and gave a strong impetus to worldwide progress of socialism.
The paper goes on: 54 years have passed since World War II.
Danger of war still remains worldwide and the imperialists further intensify their reactionary offensive against socialism and peace, though.
The imperialists are making desperate efforts to turn back the wheel of history. However, they can never keep the people from advancing along the road to socialism and independence. For its validity socialism is sure to win.
Minju Joson says that the victory in the war against Germany was the victory of justice over injustice, the victory of the world peaceloving forces over dominationism and warhawks.