Letter to Kim Jong Il from Egyptian President
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a congratulatory letter from Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of his election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and the 54th WPK birthday.
The letter was handed to an official concerned on Friday by Egyptian ambassador here Mahmoud Mohamed Farag Zain.
Film show and friendly gathering
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry arranged a film show and a friendly gathering for officials of the Cuban embassy in Korea on Thursday at the Taedonggang club for the diplomatic corps to mark the 2nd anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and the 54th WPK birthday.
Invited were Cuban ambassador Jose Manuel Inclan Embade and embassy officials.
The participants saw the Korean documentary film "the great leader Kim Jong Il gives on-site guidance to different fields (May-June Juche 88)." Then they conversed with each other, deepening feelings of friendship.
The Cuban ambassador said that Kim Jong Il's election as WPK General Secretary was a landmark for the Korean revolution and all Koreans.
He is now wisely leading the Korean people's struggle for the building of a powerful nation, he added.
Pak Song Chol meets Chinese delegation
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Honorary Vice-President Pak Song Chol of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK had a friendly talk at the mansudae assembly hall on Friday with the delegation of the China-Korea friendship Association headed by its president Li Shuzheng.
Present at the meeting were vice-chairperson Hong Son Ok of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, who is also vice-chairperson of the Central committee of the Korea-China Friendship Association, other officials concerned and Minister-Councilor Li Bin of the Chinese embassy here.
The head of the delegation said that during the visit they were happy to see the achievements the Korean people made in production and construction under the wise guidance of the great Kim Jong Il in recent five years while overcoming all difficulties and hardships.
Indian ambassador gives reception
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Indian ambassador to Korea Jagjit Singh Sapra gave a reception at the embassy on October 8 on the occasion of the second anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and the 54th birthday of the WPK.
The ambassador said in his speech that the President Kim Il Sung, the founder of the WPK, was an outstanding statesman and true patriot who performed great exploits for the Korean people and progressive humankind of the world.
Marshal Kim Jong Il has led the WPK to establish a single-hearted unity in Korea and led the Korean people to make greater progress and development in various domains, so that Korea may take a full-fledged position in the international arena, he noted.
He said that Korea and India have closely cooperated in the international arena as member states of the Non-Aligned Movement, and India hopes that Korea will be reunified in a peaceful way.
Kim jung rin, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, noted in his speech that the Indian government and people have promoted national unity and harmony under the leadership of President K. R. Narayanan and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and made great achievements in economic development and social progress under the slogan of self-reliance.
India has greatly contributed to defending and strengthening the basic idea and principles of the Non-Aligned Movement as a founder country of the movement, and the Indian government has made positive efforts to defend the sovereignty of the country in the international arena and to ensure peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, he said, and added:
Korea will make all its efforts to develop the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
Floral basket laid before statue of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Haissam Saad, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Syrian embassy here, and embassy officials today laid a floral basket before the statue of the President Kim Il Sung standing on Mansu Hill with the approach of the 54th anniversary of the founding of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Written in the ribbon hanging on the floral basket were letters "the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us".
Malian government delegation arrives
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- A Malian government delegation led by Modibo Sidibe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and overseas compatriots, arrived here today.
The delegation was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun and officials concerned.
Floral basket to WPK Central Committee
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Communist Party of China sent a floral basket to the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea on the eve of the 54th anniversary of the founding of the WPK.
It was handed to an official concerned by Li Bin, Minister-Councilor of the Chinese embassy here today.
Floral baskets and congratulatory letters to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received floral baskets and congratulatory letters from foreign diplomatic envoys and embassies here on the occasion of the second anniversary of his election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and the 54th birthday of the WPK.
They were handed to official concerned by Cambodian, Lao, Libyan, Palestinian, Ethiopian, Syrian, Indonesian, Egyptian and Vietnamese diplomatic envoys.
He also received congratulatory letters from the acting resident representative of the UNDP and the resident coordinator of the Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
Anniv. of Kim Jong Il's election and birthday of WPK celebrated
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- A celebration stage of unionists and a celebration meeting of women's union officials and members were held on Friday on the occasion of the second anniversary of the election of the great leader Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and the 54th anniversary of the WPK.
The meetings stressed that the Marshal Kim Jong Il has strengthened and developed the WPK into the eternal party of the President Kim Il Sung, a revolutionary party of Juche type unwavering in any wind and an ever-victorious iron-willed party and cemented the unity of the party, the army and the people as firm as a rock over the past 35 years.
Dialogic poem "Sunrise," male solo "the Marshal Is on Forefront," oratory "the Mother Party" and other numbers put on the stage represent well the immortal exploits performed by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in building and developing the WPK.
Meanwhile, an evening gala of Pyongyang youth and students was held at Kim Il Sung Square in celebration of the second anniversary of the election of Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the WPK.
Present were Jon Pyong Ho and other senior party and state officials, working people in the city and overseas compatriots on a visit to the socialist homeland. Invited were foreign diplomatic envoys, representatives of international organisations and foreign guests.
Diplomatic envoys visit Party Founding Museum
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Diplomatic envoys and embassy officials of different countries, economic and trade councilor's corps in Korea visited the Party Founding Museum on October 7 and 8 on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and the 54th birthday of the WPK.
The guests looked round the historic relics listening to the explanation that the President Kim Il Sung stayed there right after the liberation of the country and founded the WPK and victoriously led the building of new Korea.
Palestinian ambassador Shaher Mohammed Abdlah said that the people are powerful as they have an excellent legacy like the party founding museum.
Ethiopian charge d'affaire ad interim Dubale Belihu said that the history of the WPK is the one of the revolutionary struggle of Kim Il Sung and it was his extraordinary feat that he put a writing brush in the mark of the party and define intellectuals as a component of the WPK.
The diplomatic envoys and embassy officials in Korea visited the international friendship exhibition and the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace while the military attaches' corps in Korea went to the Revolutionary Museum of the Ministry of Culture on October 8, the place associated with Kim Jong Il's leadership feats in the literature and arts.
The members of the military attaches' corps looked round the mock-up location streets of the Korean Film Studio and met with film actors and actresses on the same day.
Functions held abroad
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Symposiums on the work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "the Worker's Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" were held by the Russian Youth Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and in Uganda on Oct. 2 and 3 on the occasion of the second anniversary of his election as General Secretary of the WPK and the 54th birthday of the party.
It was stressed at the symposiums that President Kim Il Sung built the WPK in a far-sighted way so as to unswervingly carry forward the cause of the party generation after generation and Kim Jong Il is leading the WPK to victory.
A celebration meeting was held with attendance of Russian political and social figures at a building of the Union of Communist Parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on October 5.
Speakers said at the meeting that the achievements and experience of the WPK show well that if a party maintains the revolutionary principle, it can emerge victorious even when it confronts any formidable enemy and achieve great success in the socialist construction.
A Korean film show, book and photo exhibition and lecture were held in the Czech Republic and Nepal.
Reunification proposal supported
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- A solidarity meeting was held in Nepal on October 2 to mark the 54th birthday of the Worker's Party of Korea and the 19th anniversary of the proposal of founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo.
At the meeting Adhikari, member of the central committee of the Nepal Communist Party (UML) and member of the National Council, noted that the Korean people have been suffering tragedy and pains of national division for over half a century, forced by the U.S. and other imperialist powers. The Nepal people should extend invariable support to the Korean people in the just struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, he said.
He expressed the belief that the world imperialism will go to ruin while Korean socialism is sure to win under the leadership of the great Kim Jong Il, who will lead Korea reunified according to the DCRK founding proposal.
Z. P. Betwal, chairman of the Chitwan, Nepal, group for Supporting Korea's Reunification, said the diametrically different realities of the north and south of Korea clearly indicate that Korea should be reunified independently and in a peaceful way according to the DCRK founding proposal advanced by the President Kim Il Sung.
The South Korean authorities should pull down the concrete wall unconditionally and the U.S. should withdraw their troops from South Korea and immediately accept the just demand of the DPRK for replacing the armistice agreement with a peace accord, he held.
A message of solidarity to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
National defence power, right to self-defence
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- To build up defence power is the exercise of the right to self-defence, stresses a signed article of Rodong Sinmun today.
The international situation today compels the revolutionary countries to more firmly build up the defence power for their legitimate self-protection as never before, the article says.
The imperialists have declared it their "victory" that the cold war ended and the balance of forces broke out only to reveal their high-handedness and arrogance, observes the paper, adding that no one knows which country will fall next victim of invasion by the U.S. whose arrogance reached its height.
It goes on:
To build up strong defence power is a most important matter for the Korean people as they are building socialism in the upper part of the divided country in direct confrontation with the U.S., the chieftain of world reaction.
Therefore, it is the exercise of the right to self-defence for the DPRK to build up defence power.
The Korean people loves peace more than anybody else but does not beg for peace. It is their steadfast will to protect Korean-style socialism and consolidate and develop it to the last.
It is the national right to self-determination and the right to choice admitted by the UN, too.
The DPRK has built up its defence power very expensively.
The Korean people have strengthened the defence capabilities to the maximum fastening their belts.
The DPRK is steadfastly defending the fundamental interests of the revolution and the dignity of the country resolutely countering the imperialists' moves against socialism and the DPRK. This is attributable to the strong self-reliant defence power.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il pursues high-priority army policy, his main political method embodied in the revolution and construction.
It is the great vitality of the high-priority army policy that the DPRK has defended its sovereignty and has prevented the war from breaking out on the Korean peninsula despite persevering moves of the imperialist allied forces to stifle the DPRK politically, militarily and economically.
The DPRK will not change its attitude to build up self-reliant defence power.
U.S. apology and compensation urged
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland and the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland yesterday issued a joint statement urging the U.S. to make an apology and compensation for the disclosed massacre committed by the U.S. aggressor troops in South Korea during the last Korean War.
The joint statement said:
Despite the brutal murder by the U.S. troops, which had been kept secret for nearly 50 years, was verified as an irrefutable fact, the U.S. authorities are meanly scheming to becloud the truth behind the case, hush up public opinion and escape the responsibility for it, talking about "lack of evidence" and "sinister assertion."
The South Korean rulers are resorting to a traitorous move to cover up the murder case, spelling out a sophism that they hope "the case will not give evil influence to the South Korea-U.S. relations, the statement said, and continued:
The moves of the U.S. and the South Korean rulers are an unpardonable attempt to keep the murder case secret forever and calm down the growing anti-American sentiment in South Korea.
The massacre recently disclosed in Rogun-ri is no more than a part of the atrocities committed by the U.S. in Korea.
Fleeing to the south during the war, the U.S. savagely murdered 1,146 people in Suwon, over 2,060 in Chungju, over 600 in Kongju and Pyongthak respectively, over 2,000 in Buyo and Chongju respectively, 8,644 in Taejon, over 4,000 in Jonju, over 400 in Kunsan and Anyang respectively and over 800 in Thongyong.
A U.S. news reported on September 15, 1951 that the number of people killed by the u.s. Troops in South Korea amounted to one million.
The brutal massacre was committed by the U.S. troops in the North Korea, too. They murdered 35,383 innocent people in Sinchon, South Hwanghae Province, or a quarter of the county population for 52 days.
The U.S. should acknowledge the massacre in Rogun-ri, a stark fact, and compensate for it.
At the same time the U.S. should apologize and unconditionally compensate to the Korean people for the thrice-cursed murder, plunder and arson by their troops in South Korea for over 50 years and in the northern half of Korea during the past Korean War and should withdraw from South Korea, taking along their aggressor troops and all lethal weapons.
The South Korean rulers should immediately stop their base flunkeyist and treacherous acts of patronizing the massacre by the U.S. troops and selling out the dignity and interests of the nation.
Our fellow countrymen will make the U.S. aggressors pay for the blood of the Korean nation however long the time may pass.