Greetings to Jordanian King
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message of greetings Monday to Jordanian King Abdullah Bin Hussein on the occasion of the 53rd Independence Day of Jordan. The message wished the King and the Jordanian people greater success in their work for the stability and prosperity of the country and peace in the Middle East and expressed the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would further develop.
Strengthening national armed forces
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today says that if the independence of a country and the sovereignty of a nation are to be defended, national defence capacities should be strong.
The paper goes on: The U.S. doctrine of war is to commit military aggression on any country weak in national power that goes against the grain with it and takes a stand against it. NATO military operations against Yugoslavia are motivated by the U.S. doctrine of war.
A country weak in national power is conquered by the imperialists. Peace is guaranteed by the power of the gun of justice. If a nation has not its own solid national defence industry and military power, it cannot but be a slave of imperialism.
It is the imperialists who are wolfish before the weak and impotent before the strong. They dare not provoke a strong country but commit without hesitation unreasonable military intervention and aggression on a country weak in national defence capacities.
The dignity, sovereignty and peace of a nation are guaranteed by its own strong military power.
Korea-Iran friendship week begins
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- A week of Korea-Iran friendship opened here on Monday with due ceremony. Invited to the ceremony were the visiting delegation of the organization of culture and Islamic relations of Iran led by its vice-president M.S. Nomani, Iranian ambassador to Korea Mohammad Ganjidoost and embassy officials. It was attended by Minister of Labour Ri Won Il, chairman of the Korea-Iran Friendship Association, vice-chairman Ri Song Ho of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials concerned and Pyongyangites.
Addressing the ceremony, Minister of Labour Ri Won Il said the government and the people of Iran have recently registered big success in the struggle to defend the gains of the Islamic revolution, achieve peace and security of the Persian gulf, step up the building of the national economy and improve the living standard of the people. The Korean people will do their utmost to glorify the tradition of friendship and cooperation between the two countries that has incessantly strengthened and developed for a long time on the basis of the intimate relations forged by the President Kim Il Sung with the top leaders of Iran, he noted.
Head of the Iranian delegation M.S. Nomani in his speech hoped the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples that have a long tradition in the struggle against imperialism would develop in all fields in the future. The Korean people could win in the revolutionary struggle as they were guided by the outstanding leadership of Kim Il Sung and are possessed of strong spirit, he said, and stressed that he is sure that the Korean people will bring about a new history of turn in the future, too, under the wise leadership of the great Kim Jong Il."
Guyanese Independence Day marked
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- A meeting to commemorate the 33rd Independence Day of Guyana was held on Monday in Pyongyang.
Present at the meeting were Choe Yun Sik, vice-chairman of the Pyongyang city people's committee and vice-chairman of the Korea-Guyana Friendship Association, members of the association and working people in the city.
At the meeting a speech was made and a message of greetings to Guyanese President Janet Jagan was adopted.
Members of WFP mission help farming
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Representative David Morton and members of the World Food Programme mission in Pyongyang helped the farmers of the Osin Co-op Farm in Taean district, Nampho, in their farming on Sunday.
They weeded a maize field together with farmers.
S. Korean unionists' struggle supported
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Korean Drivers and Fishermen Union sent a letter on Monday to the unionists of the "Federation of Public Transport and Service Trade Unions" (Konggongryonmaeng) in South Korea who are waging a powerful struggle for vital rights and democracy.
Upon hearing the news that unionists of Konggongryonmaeng including the Seoul Subway Trade Union and the "Korea Telecommunication Trade Union" are taking the lead in the April-May all-out struggle sponsored by the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, we express positive support and solidarity for their righteous struggle, the letter said.
Their call for overthrowing the "people's government" and gaining the three rights of labour is a very just demand for vital rights and democracy and their action is a righteous deed stemming from the will to live a true life as an independent human being, the letter said, and continued: All the unionists of the Korean Drivers and Fishermen Union bitterly denounce the fascist ruling quarters of the "government for the people" for groundlessly cracking down on their just struggle.
The way for the unionists of Konggongryonmaeng to retake the dignity of human being, enjoy a true life and achieve democracy is to put an end to the anti-social rule of the outside forces and flunkeyist traitors and build a new world of independence and democracy.
Kim Il Sung's experimental plot
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- The President Kim Il Sung who regarded it as a maxim to "believe in the people as in heaven" turned his residence garden into an "experimental farm" and cultivated it in order to make all the people across the country live well off in his lifetime.
On one June morning of Juche 66 (1977) the President who was going round the garden told an official in his company that trees and flowers of the garden should be transferred to other places to turn it into a bean experimental plot.
The official proposed to the President to set other place as an experimental plot and leave the garden as it was.
The President said he worried about insufficient supply of oil to the people and he was going to test bean cultivation by himself. That is why the garden was turned into an "experimental farm" called Kumsusan Experimental Plot. After making the garden a bean experimental plot, that year he went to the plot on 32 occasions to cultivate the crop and gave teachings on bean farming on 59 occasions.
When a bumper year visited the bean experimental plot, he called the chief secretaries of the provincial party committees and agricultural officials, organized a model and demonstration lecture at the plot and gave a lecture on bean farming for one hour and more. This shows how the Juche method of farming for bean cultivation was established at the plot.
He also did maize, fruit and parsley experimental farming at the Kumsusan Experimental Plot and put heart and soul into the study of them.
No head of state and leader but President Kim Il Sung turned residence gardens into an experimental farm for the people and created a scientific method of farming suitable for the natural features of the country.
NDFSK's open questionnaire to S. Korean chief executive
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- The propaganda department of the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on May 18 published an open questionnaire to the present South Korean chief executive on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the Kwangju Popular Uprising, Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation said.
The open questionnaire said: By defending the criminals of the Kwangju massacre, Kim Dae Jung distorted the historical significance and the bloody lesson of the May 18 Kwangju Uprising in 1980, thus unhesitatingly throwing a wet blanket over the struggle of the people for independence, democracy and reunification.
To defend the criminals of the Kwangju massacre is an insult to the soul of the May 18 Kwangju Uprising. Kim Dae Jung should unveil the guise of the "government for the people" and cast clear light on the crimes against the history and the nation that were committed in concert with murderers of the Kwangju Uprising.
We cannot but ask you Kim Dae Jung whether you know the significance of the May 18 Kwangju Uprising and stress its "inheritance."
From the Kwangju Popular Uprising, the people have drawn a bloody lesson that neither the democratization of South Korea nor national reunification can be expected unless the United States is driven out of this land.
If Kim Dae Jung has national dignity and conscience he will never connive at the fact that it is none other than the United States that wire-pulled the operation of the Kwangju massacre by Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo by mobilizing the forces under the U.S. army commander in South Korea and even the 7th U.S. fleet flotilla at the time of the May 18 Kwangju Uprising.
Ruthless suppression of the people of various social strata who turned out in the struggle for attaining independence, democracy and reunification in the spirit of the Kwangju Popular Uprising is the revival of the Kwangju massacre. Since he took office, Kim Dae Jung has brought fascism redolent of the Kwangju massacre.
Kim Dae Jung should clearly know that the traitorous, murderous, fascist rule will precipitate his destruction.
Merited artist Hwang Yong Jun
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- A show of landscape paintings produced by merited artist Hwang Yong Jun, painter of the Songhwa Fine Arts Center, is open at the Pyongyang International Cinema House. Put on display are Korean paintings "Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu," "Spring of Lake Samji," "Landscape of Mt. Kumgang" and 160 other paintings.
His paintings give deep impressions to the visitors for their marked individuality and deep national emotion. He has created over 2,500 works of high ideological and artistic value with the fine technique of Korean painting and peculiar method of description. Among them are 30 pieces of works worthy of national treasure.
He, hailing from Okchon county, North Chungchong Province, studied fine arts under adversity from his early years, but could not realise his desire to be a painter in South Korea.
He was embraced in the northern half of Korea during the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-july 1953) and followed the People's Army as painter in the war. After the war he made a positive contribution to developing fine arts and training reserves as a teacher at Pyongyang University of fine arts and in other positions.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent an 80th birthday table to him on May 20.
DPRK delegation to visit China
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea headed by Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, will soon pay an official goodwill visit to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the standing committee of the National People's Congress and the State Council of the PRC.
WPK's achievement in establishing monolithic ideological system
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Today is the 32nd anniversary of the publication of the President Kim Il Sung's work on establishing the party's monolithic ideological system.
On this occasion Rodong Sinmun carries a signed article on the feats performed by the Worker's Party of Korea in the work for establishing the monolithic ideological system in the whole party and society.
To guarantee the uniformity of ideology and leadership is the fundamental principle of the working-class party building and activities, the article says, and goes on: The working-class party is founded by the leader and strengthened and developed with his revolutionary idea as a blood vessel. Only his revolutionary idea should be made to prevail within the party and unity in ideology, purpose and action centering on him should be realized.
Ensuring the uniformity of ideology and leadership is a steadfast guarantee for carrying forward the leadership of the leader over the cause of socialism down through generations.
The WPK has trained a large contingent of Juche-type revolutionaries unfailingly loyal to the party and the revolution and made the revolutionary ranks the most integral whole of idea and purpose. It has also strengthened its leadership over the revolution and construction to effect a great turn in socialist construction. This is the achievement of the WPK in establishing the monolithic ideological system in the whole party and the whole of society.
The party's leadership is the life line of the revolution and construction.
To establish the party's monolithic ideological system is a firm guarantee for strengthening the party's leadership over the revolution and construction, enhancing its leadership role and militant function and triumphantly stepping up the revolution and construction.
Greetings to Guyanese President
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Guyanese President Janet Jagan on May 22 on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Independence of Guyana.
Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries will continue to develop on good terms, the message sincerely wished the Guyanese President and people great successes in their work for national unity and prosperity of the country.
U.S. President's special envoy here
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- William Perry, special adviser to U.S. President Clinton and his special envoy, and his party arrived here today.
They were met at the airport by and vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan.
Reception for U.S. President's special envoy
Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) -- A reception was given here this evening in honor of William Perry, special adviser and special envoy of U.S. President Clinton, and his party.
Present at the reception were Kang Sok Ju, first vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Choe Jin Su, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, Kim Kye Gwan, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Chan Bok, chief of the Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army, and officials concerned.
The reception was addressed by first vice-Minister Kang Sok Ju and special envoy William Perry. An art performance was given at the reception.