Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election celebrated
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Many progressive political parties of the world significantly celebrated 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 anniversary of the WPK.
Kim Jong Il received messages of greetings and the congratulatory letters from senior officials of political parties including over 150 party leaders of over 70 countries such as India, Russia, the U.S. and Syria.
Party leaders and parties of various countries including the general secretaries of the Guinean Unified Progressive Party and the Egyptian National Democratic Party sent to the DPRK embassies floral baskets presented to him and party leaders of many countries paid congratulatory visits to the embassies.
The central committee of the Communist Party of China sent a floral basket to the Central Committee of the WPK.
Meanwhile, colorful functions including seminars on works and exploits, celebration meetings and lectures, round-table talks, photo and book exhibitions and film shows were organized by over 120 parties in at least 50 countries of the world including China, Cuba and Nepal. Several political party leaders of India and Libya issued statements.
The messages and speeches made at the functions said that the election of the great Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the WPK was a firm guarantee for the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche started by the President Kim Il Sung.
Under his guidance the WPK has become a most dignified and strongest party in the world and a force steering the socialist cause, they added.
Publications of political parties in various countries such as Laos, Vietnam and Tanzania widely introduced the outstanding leadership provided by Kim Jong Il and the immortal exploits performed by him in the course of strengthening and developing the WPK as an eternal party of President Kim Il Sung.
Kim Yong Nam meets CILRECO secretary general
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met and conversed with Guy Dupre, secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (CILRECO), at the mansudae assembly hall today.
On the occasion Guy Dupre said that the CILRECO is actively conducting a worldwide solidarity movement supporting the Korean people in their struggle to put the earliest possible end to the tragic division and realise the reunification of the country according to the three charters for the reunification of the country.
He stressed that the organization would as always expand and strengthen its movement to actively contribute to the noble cause of the Korean people to carry out the instructions of President Kim Il Sung for national reunification under the leadership of the great leader Kim Jong Il.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from Guy Dupre, secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea, on a visit to the DPRK.
The gift was handed by the secretary general to an official concerned.
Senior Korean officials meet Vietnamese ambassador
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Premier of the cabinet of the DPRK Hong Song Nam and Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met and conversed with Le Xuan Vinh, ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the DPRK who paid a farewell call on them at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Korea is sure to become powerful nation
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- V. Chikin, first secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Belarus who visited Korea, said that the DPRK would certainly be turned into a powerful nation as there are the outstanding guidance of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the heroic people with the indomitable fighting spirit.
He said:
Last year, the Korean people startled the world by successfully launching an artificial satellite made by their own efforts under the difficult situation. This shows the economic power of Korea is beyond human imagination. It is the fruition of the fighting spirit and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance of the Korean people who do not yield to difficulties that they have made great successes in construction by erecting many new edifices.
These successes could be achieved only under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il over the Korean people.
Seminar on Kim Jong Il's work held in India
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A seminar on General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous work "the Worker's Party of Korea Is a Juche-Type Revolutionary Party which inherited the glorious tradition of the DIU" was held in India on October 17 to mark the 73rd anniversary of the foundation of the down-with-imperialism union (DIU).
Present were the chairman and members of the Juche Idea Study Society of Delhi, Public Health Group of Delhi and university teachers.
The speakers said that the WPK is a Juche-type revolutionary party which inherited the tradition of the DIU founded by the President Kim Il Sung and that with the foundation of the DIU, the Korean revolution could triumphantly advance along the road indicated by him.
Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, the WPK is now developing into the party of Kim Il Sung, eternal President of the DPRK, and the invincible Juche-type revolutionary party and leading the Korean people's struggle for socialist construction and the independent and peaceful reunification of the country to victory.
Friendly meeting with Cuban embassy officials
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The department of international affairs of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea yesterday held a friendly meeting with Cuban embassy officials in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Answers to Questions Raised by the General Director of Granma, the organ of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba."
Invited were Cuban ambassador Jose Manuel Inclan Embade and embassy officials.
Present were Pak Kyong Son, deputy department director of the WPK Central Committee, and other officials concerned.
The participants saw a Korean documentary film and conversed with each other, deepening the feelings of friendship.
Greetings to Austrian Federal President
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Thomas Klestil, Federal President of the Republic of Austria, on the occasion of its national day.
The message extended congratulations to the Federal President on the National Day and sincerely wished him and people of Austria greater success in their work for the prosperity of the country.
Electrical appliances production center
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The June 1 Youth General Electrical Appliances Factory is situated in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, of Korea.
Called "youth factory," it produces over 450 kinds and various sizes of many control panels, distribution boxes, electrical control appliances, chandeliers and electrical daily necessities every year, thus greatly contributing to putting the national economy on Juche-oriented, modernized and scientific basis.
At the time of its foundation in March 1953, it had more than 40 employees including three technicians and produced only over ten kinds of small farm tools.
Now the factory has developed into a general electrical appliances production center with tens of branch factories and thousands of facilities.
Tens of thousands control panels of more than 230 kinds are being produced there every year as one of its major products.
It has a great technical potential= one technician for every three employees.
Its technical group developed a digital control device for machine tools and streamlined its production processes by itself already early in the 1990s to draw attention of experts and technicians.
It trains able technicians at a machine experts school and school for skilled workers.
Its products exported to scores of countries are very popular for their high quality and special features.
Over 50 kinds of chandeliers and lighting appliances and electrical daily necessities produced there are in great demand abroad.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-the-spot guidance to the factory in September and was greatly satisfied to see its workers and technicians producing a large number of good-quality electrical appliances.
Potato institute
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The Taehongdan Potato Institute has 50 hectares of experimental plots and sound material and technical foundations for research into the alpine varieties.
It is engaged in breeding and selecting non-virus potato seeds, completing methods of potato cultivation based on analysis of soil, producing compound microbial fertilizer and liquid manure, introducing potato separators and sowers, breeding big potato seeds, potato processing and placing potato farming on a scientific and modern basis.
It shares technical information with other countries. It has made spectacular achievements in research--among them a new unique method of testing and breeding non-virus potato seeds.
Hurdles have been cleared in potato processing. The Taehongdan Potato Processing Factory produces scores of kinds of potato food, including rice, noodle, bread, sausage, starch, liquor, soy sauce and dehydrated starch noodle. More than a hundred methods of potato cooking have been introduced.
Badge bearing Portrait of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The Korean people deeply revere the President Kim Il Sung as the eternal leader of the revolution.
This is clearly proved by the fact that all of them always have badges bearing the President's Portrait pinned on their chests with care even though five years have passed since his demise.
This is an expression of their strong admiration for his greatness and immortal exploits and a symbol of their unbreakable unity.
In the run-up to the fifth congress of the Worker's Party of Korea in November 1970, General Secretary Kim Jong Il proposed to make and confer the badge bearing the President's Portrait, which reflects the unanimous desire of the Korean people, to its delegates. He made sure that the preparatory committee for the congress undertook this work.
When the first badge was made, Kim Jong Il had it on his chest before any others.
At that time he said that one should have the badge on his heart, not on the right side of his chest.
Badges thus produced were awarded to the delegates to the congress before its opening.
The Korean people have since worn the badges on their chests, regarding it as their greatest pride and happiness to do so.
President Kim Il Sung always lives in the hearts of the Korean people as he represents their idea, faith, destiny and future.
That is why people unhesitatingly dedicate even their lives to protecting the badge from any danger.
There are many examples showing how people protected badges bearing the President's Portrait from fire and water.
In March last year 17 soldiers of the Korean People's Army died heroic deaths while protecting slogan bearing trees from an unexpected forest fire in a revolutionary site. They became heroes of the republic. In November of the same year 3 fishermen and 12 soldiers who had been adrift in the stormy sea because of an engine trouble kept the badges safe before meeting deaths. The title of the hero of the republic was posthumously awarded to them.
This shows the unshakable will of the Korean people to devotedly General Secretary Kim Jong Il, who is just like President Kim Il Sung.
Major threat to global peace and security
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The power politics and arbitrary practice of the imperialists and dominationists are the main threat to the global peace and security, observes Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It says:
The principle of justice and impartiality is ignored in the international relations, the principle of equal sovereignty vital to UN activities is shaken to its very foundation and serious armed intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states is practiced. All this is chiefly attributable to power politics and arbitrary practice.
The imperialist forces are entirely to blame for power politics and arbitrary practice.
The imperialists' power politics and arbitrary practice cannot but pose themselves as a most serious matter in the international relations as there are no military competitors and the balance of forces is upset.
The power politics and arbitrary practice pose a potential threat to the global peace and security because they are accompanied by the use of force.
This is well illustrated by the Balkan crisis.
Taking the air strike against Yugoslavia as a precedent, the imperialists will continue to resort to military threat and intervention in weak countries on this or that absurd pretext.
The Korean peninsula is exposed to the danger of power politics and arbitrary practice.
This is one of the reasons why they are a main threat to the global peace and security.
Following the Balkan crisis the U.S. designated the Korean peninsula as the next target of its military operation.
Power politics and arbitrary practice should never be allowed and connived at if the global peace and security are to be ensured.
Commendations awarded to Taekwon-do players and coaches
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for awarding state commendations to the players who placed first at the 11th World Taekwon-do Championships and to coaches was held here on October 26.
Taekwon-do players of the DPRK carried off 4 cups (including technical cups) and 15 gold medals and won in the total standings at the championships which was held in Argentina.
The Title of Labor Heroine was awarded to Jang Kyong Ok, who demonstrated the dignity and honor of Korea by giving a good account of herself at the 11th World Taekwon-do Championships and other international games, the titles of people's and merited sportsmen and sportswomen to a coach and players and orders to many players and coaches.
Wristwatches bearing the august name of the President Kim Il Sung were awarded to three persons.
Gifts of General Secretary Kim Jong Il were handed to players Kim Yong Sun and Paek Chun Ok.
"Foal Eagle" war maneuver assailed
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary assails the South Korean warmongers for launching together with the U.S. an aggressive "Foal Eagle" joint war maneuver throughout South Korea on Tuesday.
The commentary terms this as a vicious challenge to the unanimous aspiration and demand of the Korean nation for peace and reunification and a serious development further increasing the danger of war against the north.
It goes on:
The forces and equipment involved in the exercise are huge enough to undertake an all-out war. Its offensive nature is proved by the joint marine landing drill, joint naval special drill and air transport and strike exercise of the "air operation command" of the puppet army which has been newly organized as an offensive force.
Clear is the reason why "Foal Eagle" has spread its wings.
The "Foal Eagle" is an extension of the "team spirit", a test nuclear war against the north. It is aimed at bringing the military confrontation and tensions on the Korean peninsula to an extreme pitch and igniting the second Korean war without fail.
If the U.S. and the South Korean warmongers ignite a war of aggression against the north, the DPRK will mercilessly punish them by mobilizing all means and methods.
"Foal Eagle" joint military exercise denounced
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement on October 26 to denounce the "Foal Eagle" joint military exercise launched by the United States and the South Korean authorities throughout South Korea against the DPRK.
The statement said:
The war exercise which started on October 26 is participated in by over 35,000 U.S. troops including the U.S. aggression forces stationed in South Korea, the flotilla of the carrier "Kitty Hawk", the main carrier of the U.S. pacific fleet, and more than 500,000 "ROK army" forces.
Meanwhile, the joint provocative "99 Hwarang" war drill has been staged by civilians, officials and soldiers since Oct. 25.
The United States worked out the "operation plan 5027-98", a war scenario targeted against the DPRK, and is daily committing military provocations and war exercises against the north after massively reinforcing armed forces.
The "Foal Eagle" is a continuation of the anti-DPRK confrontation and aggression moves of the U.S. bellicose circles and the South Korean ruling quarters to stifle the socialist system of the DPRK.
The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in the name of the whole nation vehemently denounces the U.S. and the South Korean authorities for staging the reckless "Foal Eagle" war exercise against the north and bringing the Korean situation to the brink of war.
Unshakable is the stand of the people and people's army of Korea on the issue of war.
The U.S. and the South Korean authorities should stop rash acts clearly mindful of the will of the Korean people and army to deal a merciless and crushing blow to the enemies.
KCNA demands total abrogation of "security law"
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The anti-reunification and undemocratic fascist "security law" in South Korea is fated to be judged by history after being bitterly condemned by the public at home and abroad.
The abrogation of the "security law" is an irresistible demand of the times.
However, the South Korean authorities are defying this demand of the times and history, vociferating about "landmark revision of the security law."
For example, the South Korean chief executive on Oct. 22 put forward a "draft amendment to the law" which calls for rewriting or deleting just a few articles of the "law" and "Prime Minister" of South Korea Kim Jong Pil openly insisted at the "National Assembly" on Monday that the total repeal of the "security law" is impossible.
These are mockery of and challenge to the Korean nation and the world public that have ardently aspired after the democratization of the South Korean society and the independent reunification of Korea.
What the Korean people and the world progressives have consistently demanded is a total repeal of the "security law", not partial "amendment." Even the present chief executive himself also admitted this many a time in the past.
All the articles of the "security law" have served as leverage to stop the mouths and ears of the South Korean people and bind them hand and foot and has been the biggest obstacle to the democratization of the South Korean society and the reunification of the country.
It is entirely because of the unprecedented anti-reunification fascist "security law" that the hostile inter-Korean relations have gone from bad to worse.
The South Korean authorities should not resort to the farce of amending the "security law," mockery of the public at home and abroad, but totally repeal without delay the anti-national fascist law in compliance with the demand of the whole nation and the times.
S. Korean authorities' pro-Japanese move censured
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Citizens of Hanam in Kyonggi Province, South Korea, bitterly censured the authorities for attempting to erect a "monument" to a pro-Japanese element, a South Korean newspaper reported.
They demanded the authorities clarify their plan to erect even a "monument" to a pro-Japanese "poet" who committed treacheries after joining a Japan-controlled organization in 1943.
They declared that if the authorities go ahead with the pro-Japanese plan, defying this demand, they will take a more dynamic concerted action.
Total repeal of "security law" called for
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Citizens and civic organizations in Inchon, South Korea, the headquarters of the struggle for Korean nation, the campaign for 1,999-man declaration of Myongji University and other organizations issued declarations for the repeal of the "security law" before launching their struggle, according to a news report.
They said:
Abolish the "security law", an anti-reunification, unpopular and undemocratic law.
We support the hunger strike of the Inchon Catholic Priests' Council for the abrogation of the "security law."
The "security law", a leftover of the old era which has brought sufferings to the people for more than 50 years, must be totally scrapped.
1,999 and other students, professors and teachers of Myongji University demand the "security law" be totally abolished within this year.
We state that we will vigorously struggle till the day of the total abrogation of the "security law" which suppresses the political unity of workers and other people and their freedom of thinking and conscience and bars reunification, the ardent desire of the nation.
Japanese Foreign Minister's rubbish under fire
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Foreign Minister in a recent interview with a Japanese weekly magazine asserted that "Japan's 'three non-nuclear principles' remain unchanged." Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as nonsensical.
The commentary says:
The Japanese authorities claim that Japan is upright and integral as regards the nuclear issue, asserting the "three non-nuclear principles" are its invariable policy. However, it will convince no one.
It is well-known that Japan made a secret contract with the U.S. on allowing the shipment and passage of nuclear weapons behind the screen of "three non-nuclear principles."
Japan is fully capable of nuclear weaponization after acquiring the technology to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Advocates of nuclear-weaponization in Japan are openly asserting that the "only way" to cope with the "missile threat" by someone is to have nuclear weapons of its own.
Japan can realize nuclear weaponization any time. The "three non-nuclear principles" on their lips are nothing but a peace-veiled motto.
No matter how desperately Japan may try to paint itself as a "non-nuclear peace-loving state," ballyhooing about the "three non-nuclear principles," it can never cover up its nuclear ambition and its true colors as a militarist nation.
Japan should stop playing a clumsy trick, purify its dirty mind and drop its dangerous ambition to become a nuclear power.