Kim Jong Il's brief biography published in Nepal
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il's brief biography was published by the Nepal-Korea Friendship Association on October 10 on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
His portrait was printed on the first page of the book.
In the preface, the book said that the Korean people are vigorously advancing along the road of revolution under the uplifted banner of socialism, firmly convinced of the Juche idea, under the outstanding leadership of Kim Jong Il.
WPK visit lodging quarters for frontrankers of Chollima march
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Secretaries Choe Thae Bok, Kim Ki Nam and Kim Jung Rin and other senior officials of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea visited lodging quarters for the participants in the meeting of frontrankers of the 2nd grand Chollima march who arrived here yesterday and warmly welcomed them.
They expressed the belief that all the participants would play a pioneer's role in carrying out the plan of the WPK to build a powerful nation upholding the Marshal Kim Jong Il with loyalty and filial piety.
Korean book, photo and handiwork exhibition held
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- A Korean book, photo and handiwork exhibition was held in Changchun, Jilin Province, from October 9 to 18 and in Harbin city, Heilongjiang Province of China, from October 22 to 23 on the occasion of the 54th birthday of the Worker's Party of Korea.
On display there were famous works of the President Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il and Korean books, photos and handiwork showing the achievements made by the Korean people in the socialist construction.
Greetings to Tunisian President
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on October 29 sent a message of greetings to Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on his reelection as President of the Republic of Tunisia.
The message expressed the conviction that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms and sincerely wished the Tunisian President success in his work for the prosperity of the country.
Compatriots in U.S. demonstrate
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Compatriots affiliated with seven Korean organizations in the United States including the U.S. headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification on October 29 thronged to the South Korean "consulate general" in Los Angeles and staged a demonstration demanding the U.S. government apologize and compensate for GIs' massacre in Rogun-ri, according to a report.
In an open letter to the U.S. President and the South Korean chief executive, the demonstrators demanded that they honestly apologize for the massacre in Rogun-ri and punish those directly responsible for the killings and also those who try to hide the crime.
Plan to build former dictator's "memorial" opposed
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The April Revolutionary Society of South Korea issued a statement on October 13 denouncing the anti-social move of the present "government", according to the newspaper Hangyore on October 16.
The statement condemned the present chief executive's scheme to spend tens of billions of won collected from the people for the building of a "memorial" after taking the post of honorary chairman of the committee for the construction.
It held that as far as Park Chung Hee is concerned, there is nothing to "remember" about him who could not live on because of perfidy, treachery and dictatorship.
It demanded the chief executive dissolve at once the "memorial society" for Park Chung Hee and cancel the plan.
Damage done to Tangun's statues condemned
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman of the Council for the Reunification of the Tangun Nation in the DPRK issued a statement on sunday condemning some dishonest elements in South Korea for negating Tangun, the ancestral father of the Korean nation, and doing serious damage to his statues although he actually existed.
The statement said:
The South Korean authorities connive at and shield the criminal acts of destroying Tangun's statues, clamoring about "fear of involvement in religious dispute." This is nothing but a treachery of debasing the 5,000 year long history of the Korean nation founded by Tangun and challenging the movement for the unity and reunification of the nation.
The act of destroying Tangun's statues committed by some anti-communist elements under the patronage of the South Korean authorities is intended to dampen the South Korean people's wish to accomplish the cause of reunification of the Tangun nation, upholding the sun of the nation.
The statement dismissed the South Korean authorities' negation of Tangun's history and destruction of his statues as a dastardly treacherous act of shielding the past crime of the Japanese who described him as a fabulous person.
Noting that the council for the reunification of the Tangun nation will make all efforts to adhere to the Juche and national characters in the management and preservation of Tangun's relics and in academic researches into Tangun and achieve the unity and reunification of the nation, the statement expressed the hope that the Tangun religious associations and civic organizations in South Korea would actively join its struggle.
Day of start of Algerian revolution observed
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today devotes a signed article to the 45th anniversary of the start of the Algerian revolution.
The armed struggle which was launched in Algeria on November 1, 1954 was an eruption of the pent-up resentment of the Algerian people against the colonialists and an event that heralded their fresh start, the article says, and goes on:
The Algerian people increased armed contingents, dealing serious blows to the colonialists across the country and eventually winning victory.
They are exerting great efforts to develop the national economy.
The Algerian government and people are pursuing the anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist foreign policy and developing friendly and cooperative relations with various countries of the world including the non-aligned countries.
The friendly relations between the Korean and Algerian peoples are now favorably developing.
The Korean people will strive to develop these relations in the future, too.
Far-fetched assertions of U.S. and S. Korean authorities
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the U.S. and South Korean ruling quarters for trying to cover up killings of South Korean people committed by the U.S. aggression forces in different places during the Korean War.
The commentary says:
Now the South Korean people and the world progressives demand the U.S. admit, apologize and compensate for the GIs' massacre.
However, the U.S. makes the far-fetched assertion that there is neither evidence nor information to verify the truth. The South Korean rulers also make a petty trick to cover up the crimes of their master, saying that there is no clear evidence to be admitted by the U.S. side.
Such trick and far-fetched assertions of the U.S. aggressors and the South Korean traitors will work on nobody in this world today.
Quite clear is their real intention to cover up the massacre by GIs which has already been brought to light.
The U.S. seeks to continue killing South Koreans in the future, too, while the South Korean rulers are trying to remain their stooges in return for offering as ever fellow countrymen to the aggressors as playthings and hunting objects.
The Korean people should, therefore, make the U.S. pays for the blood shed by Koreans.
It is the only way out for the South Korean people to survive and for the nation to escape from disasters to wipe out the aggressors and traitors.
U.S schemes to provide war equipment to S. Korea
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Department of Defense announced a plan to sell 877 million dollars worth of war equipment to the South Korean authorities on October 29, according to a foreign press report. Among them are 20 "F-16" fighter-bombers and 29 multiple launch rocket systems.
It is very ill-boding that the plan was made public when the "Foal Eagle 99" war exercise targeted against the north is under way. This shows once again that the U.S. is zealously instigating the South Korean authorities to ignite a war against the north.
Stop to suppression of KCTU delegates demanded
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The South Korean rulers recently walked away Ri Hong Un, vice-chairman of the federation of metal trade unions, on the strength of the "security law" allegedly to "investigate" the activities of the delegation of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) which visited Pyongyang for the "soccer game of north-south workers for reunification" last August. They have argued that the delegation's inspection of several places of Pyongyang "was alien to the purpose of visit."
This is an anti-reunification criminal act to block non-governmental dialogue and contact between the north and south and pour the cold water over the nation's desire for reunification growing day by day, a spokesman of the c.c., the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea said in his statement sunday.
Asking how KCTU delegates' inspection in Pyongyang can be incriminated, the statement said:
However, the South Korean rulers are taking issue with the delegates' inspection of Pyongyang. This reveals that they are the villains without any elementary courtesy and common sense and the loathsome traitorous group who have neither will for reunification nor the fraternity.
Their intention is to break the South Korean people's desire for alliance and reunification with the north by incriminating and punishing the delegates who had done good things for the reconciliation and unity of the nation.
The South Korean rulers should immediately stop the suppression of the delegates, unconditionally release all the pro-reunification patriots imprisoned on unreasonable charges and totally abolish the "security law", an anti-reunification fascist law.
U.S. has axe to grind
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary slams senior U.S. officials for launching an anti-DPRK diatribe, while proposing to provide "aid" to Russia in the establishment of an anti-missile radar now under way in Irkutsk, Russia.
They claimed that the missile and nuclear development of the DPRK poses a "threat" to the U.S. as well as to Russia, so that their effort for "missile defence" is not against Russia, but against the "threat" from the DPRK.
Noting that their assertion is part of their despicable scheme to inveigle another country in the campaign against the DPRK under the absurd pretext of its "missile threat," the commentary goes on:
The U.S. is frantically pushing the move to establish the "missile defence" system. This is a gross violation of the Russia-U.S. "anti-ballistic missile treaty" and a declaration of new arms race, missile race. It is beyond doubt that this will result in adding a new powerful missile system to the U.S. nuclear means in East Asian countries surrounding the Korean peninsula to seriously upset the balance of strategic arms, build a complex structure of confrontation and breed a serious danger of war.
As many countries are taking a cautious approach toward this criminal move, the U.S. is raising a hue and cry over the "missile threat" from the DPRK in a bid to calm down the public censure.
The U.S. is going to establish the "missile defence" system at any cost by modifying the "anti-ballistic missile treaty" through a bargaining with Russia.
The U.S. has an axe to grind under the hypocritical signboard. With nothing can the U.S. conceal its criminal nature.
Effective sulphurous mud
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Scientists of the DPRK recently found very effective sulphurous mud in the Nampho area on the west coast.
A survey made by the group including Prof. And Dr. Kim Hak Jon confirmed that there is 800mg of sulphur per 100g of mud and its organic content is 5 percent and its colloid content 19 percent which is efficacious for the treatment of various diseases and useful for the production of cosmetics and fertilizer.
The mud is considered to be very good for the treatment of all sorts of traumatic infection, burn and scald, skin diseases and women's diseases as it contains no sand, few germs and has low heat conductance and is very sticky.
Extracted liquid is believed to be good for the treatment of internal diseases such as stomach, duodenum and liver troubles.
An application of mud by treating and preventive institutions, coop farms and service network proved to be 90 percent good for the treatment of at least 50 kinds of diseases and showed good results in producing seed ignescent substance and seed top-dressing fertilizer.
It can also be used for the production of lotion for steam bath, medical cream and so on.
Greetings to Prime Minister of Commonwealth of Dominica
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Edison James, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of its independence.
The message expressed the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms.
Greetings to Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, sent a message of greetings to Lester Bryant Bird, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of its independence.
The message wished for the progress and prosperity of the people of Antigua and Barbuda and the Prime Minister's success in his work.
Greetings to Algerian President
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the start of the Algerian revolution.
The message wished the Algerian President and people greater success in the work for the stability and prosperity of the country, expressing the belief that the traditional relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms in the future, too.
Meanwhile, premier hong song nam of the DPRK cabinet and Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun separately sent messages of greetings to Algerian Prime Minister Ismail Hamdani and Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf.