Senior party and state officials pay homage to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, Hong Song Nam and other senior party and state officials visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay homage to the President Kim Il Sung yesterday, the 54th birthday of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Flags of the Worker's Party of Korea, national flags of the DPRK and military colors were set up and honor guards of the three services of the Korean People's Army were lining up on both sides of Kim Il Sung's statue.
The officials paid respects to the statue of the President and entered the hall where the President lies in state and made a bow to him in humble reverence.
They looked round orders and medals he received from different countries, a passenger train he used for on-the-spot guidance and foreign tour and a car he used in the last period of his life.
Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the Korean People's Army, and KPA marshal Ri Ul Sol, other KPA general officers and soldiers visited the palace.
Kim Jong Il's works published in Peru and Laos
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The famous works of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "the Worker's Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" and "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation" were published in pamphlet respectively by the Fredi Publishing House in Lima, Peru and by the Lao State Publishing House.
Floral baskets laid before Kim Il Sung's statues
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- People, soldiers and school youth and children across the country visited the statues of the President Kim Il Sung on sunday on the occasion of the 54th birth anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) to lay floral baskets.
Soldiers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) and working people in the capital city of Pyongyang visited the statue of the President on Mansu Hill.
There was a floral basket sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Working people from all walks of life laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers and made bows before the statue.
Meanwhile, a lot of people laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the statues of the President in Kim Il Sung University, the Korean Film Studio, the Pyongyang School Children's Palace and other parts of Pyongyang.
People from all walks of life and KPA soldiers across the country laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the statues of the President in their hometowns and paid homage to him.
Talks between delegations of WPK and PPP
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Talks between the delegations of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) were held here on sunday.
Both sides informed each other of activities of their parties and exchanged opinions on further developing the relations between the two parties and on series of matters of common concern.
Present there were Kim Yang Gon, director of a department of the c. c., the WPK and officials concerned and the members of the delegation of the PPP led by Sajjad Hussain Bokhari, chairman of the Committee of Foreign Relations.
Swedish delegation visits Jong Song Ok's family
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the Communist Party of Marxist-Leninists (Revolutionaries) of Sweden led by Anders Karlsson, chairman of the central committee of the party, on Sunday visited the world's marathon queen Jong Song Ok's family.
The head of the delegation said that the wise leadership of the great Kim Jong Il produced the world's marathon queen and that they would always stand by the Korean people.
The guests looked round the interior of the house presented by Kim Jong Il to her and her family as a gift and gave a souvenir to them.
Malian government delegation feted
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government gave a reception at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on sunday in honor of the Malian government delegation on a visit to Korea.
Addressing the reception, Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun said that the Malian government and people are making positive contributions to ensuring sub-regional peace and security and achieving the unified development of the continent, while working hard for national unity and the democratic development of the country.
It is the consistent stand of the DPRK government to further develop the friendly and cooperative relations with Mali in different fields, he noted. He expressed the belief that the good friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger and develop in the common interests.
Modibo Sidibe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and overseas compatriots, who is leading the Malian government delegation, in his speech said that friendship between Mali and the DPRK should be expanded and developed to suit co-relations between the two peoples in political, economic, cultural and other fields.
The Malian people have followed with deep interest the Korean people's struggle for the peaceful reunification of the country and have always stood by them, he said, stressing that they will extend active support and solidarity to the Korean people's cause of reunification in the future, too.
54th WPK birthday celebrated
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The 54th anniversary of the foundation of the Worker's Party of Korea was celebrated yesterday here and in local areas.
In the evening youth and students held evening galas in front of the monument to party founding, the tower of the Juche idea, the Pyongyang Grand Theatre, the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, the April 25 House of Culture and other places of Pyongyang.
They enjoyed the galas, dancing to the tune of songs "Long Live the Worker's Party of Korea," "Our Comrade Kim Jong Il," "the Pride of Our Party" and "We will hold our Marshal in high esteem."
Evening galas of youth and students took place in Chongjin, Hamhung, Wonsan, Kaesong and other counties, cities and provinces.
Music and dance performance "the Glorious Worker's Party of Korea" was given by the artistes of the Mansudae Art Troupe and other art performances at capital and local theatres.
A national music and dance performance was given here by working people.
Invincible Worker's Party of Korea
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The Korean people significantly celebrated the 54th birthday of the Worker's Party of Korea (Oct. 10, 1945), which is their guiding force.
It is thanks to the foundation of the WPK that the Korean people have victoriously carved out their own destinies with the reliable vanguard unit.
The Korean revolution has advanced through arduous struggle under the unprecedentedly complicated situation since the liberation of the country (August 1945).
Firmly maintaining the Juche character under this situation, the WPK has always put forward its lines and policies placing the requirement and interests of the Korean people above all.
In 1946, the WPK advanced the policy to carry out the agrarian reform on the principle of the confiscation without compensation and free distribution and to make the confiscated land peasants' private ownership, not the state property, so as to solve the land problem.
The policy was carried out without any turns and twists because it thoroughly defended the interests of the peasants and thus the land problem was successfully solved at the stage of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution in Korea.
After the war the agricultural cooperativization was completed in 4-5 years and the socialist industrialization was successfully carried out in 14 years thanks to the WPK, which set forth the Juche-oriented lines and wisely led the popular masses to its realization.
Therefore, all the lines and policies put forward by the WPK enjoy absolute support from the popular masses and the Korean revolution is vigorously advancing along the road of its own choice without the slightest deviation.
In recent years socialism collapsed in different countries and the imperialists' anti-socialist, anti-DPRK moves have continued. But Korea is firmly defending the socialist banner. This is also attributable to the WPK which advanced the Juche-oriented revolutionary lines and aroused all the people to carry them into effect.
So, the Korean people are vigorously hastening the second grand Chollima march following the "arduous march" and the forced march under the leadership of the invincible WPK.
Several projects completed
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Myongdang Fire-brick Production process has been commissioned at the Sangwon Cement Complex on the occasion of the 54th birthday of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Technicians and workers of the complex found out dolomite of high quality with their collective efforts and wisdom, succeeded in producing fire-bricks with additions rich in the country and successfully solved a scientific and technical matter of producing clinker without coke.
Basing itself on the success which is an epochal innovation in the development of fireproof material and cement industries, the complex newly built the Myongdang Fire-brick Production base so as to supply better fireproof material to different sectors of the national economy.
The dam of the Namgang Power Station, one more monument of the era of the worker's party, was completed.
The station is of weighty significance in protecting Pyongyang from being flooded and increasing power production.
The construction of Songha Power Station no. 3 and Rimsan Power Station no.2 in Songgan, and a wharf project of Taehung port and other projects were completed by the dynamic efforts of the working people in the second grand Chollima march.
S. Korean rulers' rigmarole about "human rights" condemned
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement on Sunday denouncing the South Korean rulers for instigating reptile organizations to bring a "human rights issue" before a "meeting of Non-Governmental Organizations" to be held in Seoul.
The statement says:
The human rights are being violated in South Korea where the foreign forces and flunkeyists and quislings are at large and patriotism and justice are being trampled down.
It is none other than the South Korean authorities who have kept POWs in South Korea, inflicting all sorts of persecutions and sufferings upon them. Those unconverted long-term prisoners should have been sent back to the north according to the international law and the Korean Armistice Agreement.
Such being the case, the South Korean rulers are raising a hue and cry over "human rights abuses" by the north in a bid to conceal human rights violations in South Korea, disparage the DPRK whose dignity and prestige are growing as days go by and to dampen longings of the South Korean people for the north.
The DFRF central committee strongly condemns the South Korean rulers' projected anti-DPRK campaign through the "meeting" as a premeditated provocation to impair the dignity and prestige of the DPRK and as a challenge to the desire of the fellow countrymen for the reconciliation and unity of the nation.
The South Korean rulers are well advised to immediately stop this anti-DPRK campaign.
If they finally conduct the anti-DPRK campaign at the "meeting of non-governmental organizations" despite our warnings, they will be held wholly responsible for all the grave consequences arising therefrom.
DCRK founding proposal, blueprint of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates a signed article to the 19th anniversary of the advancement of the proposal for founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo (DCRK) by the President Kim Il Sung at the sixth congress of the Worker's Party of Korea.
The proposal says that the country should be reunified by founding confederal republic through the establishment of a unified national government on the condition that the north and the south recognize and tolerate each other's ideas and social systems, a government in which the two sides are represented on an equal footing and under which they exercise regional autonomy with equal rights and duties.
The proposal for founding the DCRK is a bright blueprint which outlines the features of a unified state and the way of its realization, the article says, and goes on:
The proposal, taking the interests of the two sides into due consideration, comprehensively elucidates all matters arising in founding and operating a unified state including the principle and way of forming a confederal state, its characters and function, the duties and correlation of a unified government and regional governments, the name and administrative policy of a confederal state.
According to the proposal, the confederal state will be based on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments.
It is the most reasonable and realistic proposal to reunify the country, neither side conquering the other or being conquered, in conformity with the concrete conditions in which different ideas and social systems have existed in the north and south of Korea.
It is the reunification proposal of national independence which indicates a way of reunifying the country in a peaceful way by the efforts of the Korean nation, and the reunification proposal common to the nation which is acceptable to anyone who truly loves the country and the nation and wants reunification.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il has regarded it as an iron rule to defend and carry through the Juche-oriented lines and policies of national reunification advanced by the President and wisely led the struggle of the Korean people to realise the proposal for founding the DCRK.
Kim Jong Il has established strong pillars of reunification by formulating the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point program of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding DCRK advanced by the President as the three charters of national reunification.
In order to achieve the reunification of the country by realising the proposal for founding the DCRK under the leadership of Kim Jong Il it is imperative to firmly adhere to the principle of national independence, remove the danger of war from the Korean peninsula, ensure a lasting peace and achieve great national unity, transcending differences in idea, ideal and systems.
Greetings to central African President
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings on October 9 to Ange Felix Patasse upon his reelection as President of the Central African Republic.
The message wished the president success in his responsible work for the stability of the country and social progress, expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to strengthen and develop.
Agreement between DPRK and Malian governments
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- An agreement on promotion and protection of investment between the governments of the DPRK and Mali was signed here today.
The document was signed by Kang Jong Mo, Minister of Foreign Trade of the DPRK, and Modibo Sidibe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and overseas compatriots who is leading the Malian government delegation, authorized by each government.
Personal letter and gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a personal letter and gift from Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare.
The letter and gift were handed to Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, by Modibo Sidibe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and overseas compatriots, who is leading the Malian government delegation on a visit to the DPRK.
Gift to Kim Jong Il from delegation of PPP
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the visiting delegation of the Pakistan People's Party.
The gift was handed to an official concerned by Sajjad Hussain Bokhari, chairman of the committee of foreign relations of the PPP who is heading the delegation.
Talks between government delegations of DPRK and Mali
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Talks between the government delegations of the DPRK and Mali were held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Both sides exchanged views on developing the friendly relations between the two countries and a series of matters of common concern.
Present at the talks were DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun and officials concerned and members of the Malian government delegation led by Modibo Sidibe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and overseas compatriots.
Yang Hyong Sop meets foreign party delegations
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, today at the Mansudae Assembly Hall met and conversed respectively with the delegation of the Communist Party of Marxist-Leninists (Revolutionaries) of Sweden led by Anders Karlsson, chairman of its central committee, and the delegation of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led by Sajjad Hussain Bokhari, chairman of its foreign relations committee.
On the occasion, Anders Karlsson said that during his stay in Korea he visited several places where he saw the Korean people, rallied close around the great leader Kim Jong Il, registering great successes in the socialist construction despite all sorts of provocations and pressure by the imperialists. He praised the Korean-style socialism as a genuine socialism for working people.
Sajjad Hussain Bokhari said that the PPP has long kept a close friendly relations with the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK), and expressed the belief that the relations would grow stronger and develop in the future.
He wished the WPK and the Korean people greater progress under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Kim Yong Nam meets Malian delegation
Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, today met and conversed with the government delegation of Mali headed by Modibo Sidibe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and overseas compatriots, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
On the occasion, the head of the delegation said that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Mali have developed in different fields and the government and people of Mali would develop the relations still further.
He noted that he was rejoiced over the achievements made by the Korean people and expressed the belief that the Korean people would continue to make success under the leadership of the great Kim Jong Il.