Mongolian Prime Minister arrives
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Mongolian Prime Minister Renchinnyamiin Amarjargal and his party arrived here this morning to visit the DPRK on the invitation of premier of the DPRK cabinet Hong Song Nam.
They were greeted at the airport by premier Hong Song Nam, officials concerned, the Mongolian ambassador here and embassy officials.
A welcome ceremony was held at the airport.
Senior officials of DPRK meet Mongolian PM and his party
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met Mongolian Prime Minister Renchinnyamiin Amarjargal who paid a courtesy visit to him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present there were Gavaagiin Batkhuu, Minister of Infrastructural development, Choinzongiin Sodnomtseren, Minister of Industry and Agriculture, Ochiryn Ochirjav, secretary of state of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, Damdiny Byambaa, Mongolian Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK, and other suite members.
Minister of foreign trade Kang Jong Mo, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kung Sok Ung and officials concerned were present there.
Meanwhile, premier Hong Song Nam met the Mongolian Prime Minister and his party who paid a courtesy call on him.
Talks between premier of DPRK cabinet and Mongolian PM
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, met and had talks with Renchinnyamiin Amarjargal, Mongolian prime minister, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
At the talks, both sides exchanged views on developing the friendly relations between the two countries and other issues of mutual concern.
Present there on the Korean side were Kang Jong Mo, Minister of Foreign Trade, and Kung Sok Ung, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned and on the Mongolian side were Gavaagiin Batkhuu, Minister of Infrastructural Development, Choinzongiin Sodnomtseren, Minister of Industry and Agriculture, Ochiryn Ochirjav, secretary of state for the Ministry of Foreign Relations, Damdiny Byambaa, Mongolian Ambassador E.P. to the DPRK, and other suite members.
The talks were held in an friendly atmosphere.
Gift to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from Mongolian Prime Minister Renchinnyamiin Amarjargal on a visit to Korea.
The Prime Minister handed the gift to Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on November 4.
Korean people's cause of national reunification supported
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- The people of Equatorial Guinea will as always stand by the Korean people, Stated President of Equatorial Guinea Obiang Nguema Mbasogo when receiving credentials from the new Korean Ambassador E.P. to the country on October 28.
He warmly congratulated the friendly Korean people on their great successes made in the socialist construction and the just cause of national reunification under the wise guidance of the respected Kim Jong Il.
Saying that the division of the homogeneous nation of the same blood and with the same cultural tradition should not be allowed to continue any longer, he hoped that Korea would be reunified as early as possible in conformity with the desire of the people in the north and the south.
The government and people of Equatorial Guinea, he declared, will extend invariable support and solidarity to the DPRK government and people in their struggle for the reunification of the country, in the future, too.
Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports renamed
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports has been renamed the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Committee of the cabinet under a decree promulgated by the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on Wednesday.
Country of many heroes of times
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- The number of heroes of the times is on a steady increase in the DPRK where the second grand Chollima march is in full gear to build a powerful country.
Recently, the title of labour hero was awarded to a collier Kim Yu Bong of the February 8 Jiktong Youth Coal Mining Conglomerate, a researcher Hyon Yong Ra of the nonferrous metal research institute of the National Academy of Sciences, forester Ri Ung Chan of the forest management station in Kangdong county, Pyongyang, and the chief Ho Yong Gu of a power station construction corps of the Taehongdan county integrated farm, Ryanggang Province.
While working in the hard and difficult fields for years, they have tided over difficulties in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance with intense loyalty and total dedication to the party, the leader, the fatherland and the people and performed distinguished feats in building a powerful nation.
The title of hero of the republic was conferred upon Jong Song Ok, who demonstrated the national dignity and spirit to the whole world by coming first at the women's marathon race of the 7th World Athletics Championship in September, and upon 15 soldiers of the Korean People's Army and workers who died after fully demonstrating the spirit of devotedly defending the leader while they were adrift in the stormy sea in march.
This year alone the nation produced scores of heroes and heroines. For example, manager Pak Ok Chun of the Tongdaewon Clothing Factory was awarded the title of twice labour heroine while the title of labour hero went to O Kyong Jo, a room chief of the farm machine institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science, Pak Ok Hui, chairwoman of the management board of the township cooperative farm in Janggang county, Jagang Province and Pyon Tok Sang, an engine driver of the Jongju locomotive corps of the Kaechon Railway Bureau, and Ri Ok Sil and her husband Kim In Bok of the art propaganda squad of Jagang Province.
It is thanks to the boundlessly noble benevolent politics of General Secretary Kim Jong Il that an increasing number of heroes and heroines of the times are being produced from among the ordinary people who defend socialism.
Kim Jong Il, leading the drive to overcome manifold difficulties, encouraged all the people to perform great heroic feats, saying it is the most worthwhile life of the independent human beings to live and struggle heroically.
As a result, the heroism of the Korean people is now being displayed to the full in the course of the second grand Chollima march, a follow-up of the arduous yet worthwhile revolution.
The party, army and people are united single-heartedly and running at a canter to hasten the building of a powerful nation. This is the true picture of the DPRK today.
Meeting of frontrankers of 2nd grand Chollima march closes
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- The meeting of the second grand Chollima march successfully closed today.
Speeches were made at the two-day meeting.
Speakers said that it was the lifeblood of the frontrankers of the grand Chollima march and a fundamental guarantee for building a powerful nation to uphold the idea and leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
They referred to the achievements and experience gained in their sectors and units in the course of accelerating the second grand Chollima march in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
They renewed their determination to vigorously run at a canter on a steed in the van of the second grand Chollima march and strive hard to creditably implement the party's plan for building a powerful nation in order to fulfil the tasks set forth in the congratulatory message of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
The meeting called on all the officials and working people to earnestly learn from indomitable struggle of Jong Song Ok, Kim Yu Bong, Pak Ok Hui, Ho Yong Gu, Hyon Yong Ra and Ri Ung Chan, paragons of loyalists in our era under the slogan of faith "Let's always be cheerful although our path is thorny."
A congratulatory group of the Korean Children's Union recited a congratulatory poem at the meeting.
A letter of pledge to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
Perfect unity between leader and people
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- There are many stories about the ties of kinship between the leader and the people in Korea.
It happened some days ago when General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave an on-site guidance to the newly built Kwangmyongsong saltern.
That day Kim Jong Il highly praised the officials and the workers for having performed feats by completing the gigantic nature-remaking project in a short period, and had a picture taken with innovators.
Among them were a couple of young builders and their little daughter.
They volunteered to work in the project in hearty response to the far-reaching plan of the Worker's Party of Korea and got married in the course of the construction. And when a lovely daughter was born, they named her Ryu So Gum (So Gum means salt in English).
On reaching the photographing site, Kim Jong Il approached them and asked their daughter "Are you Ryu So Gum?" and he wished her a happy future, patting her on the cheek.
Very satisfied with their deeds, he invited them to stand very close to him while having a picture taken.
This family was one of many families loved and blessed by him.
He spared time to visit new houses to which newly-wed couples had moved and took care of their living like their real father, during his on-site guidance in recent months.
While giving an on-site guidance to Taehongdan county in August, he visited the family of a discharged soldier and took deep care of every aspect of its living. He asked the couple about the expected baby and bestowed warm solicitude upon them.
And during his on-site guidance to the Hamhung disabled soldiers plastic daily necessaries factory, he met disabled soldiers there and their wives, gave a warm pep talk to them and had a picture taken with them.
Hence, the Korean people are running at a canter full of vigor under Kim Jong Il's wise leadership, holding him in high esteem as their real father.
Repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners called for
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Jang Jae On, chairman of the central committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society, on Wednesday sent a letter to Jong Won Sik, president of the Red Cross of South Korea, demanding the repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea.
The letter said:
The aged unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea are unable to properly move owing to complications of diseases caused by scores of years of prison life. No one can predict when they will lose their lives while toiling every day in such critical conditions to make ends meet.
This deplorable plight of the unconverted long-term prisoners is attributable to the fact that the South Korean authorities put them to harsh torture in prison, after forcing them to spend nearly all their lives there for their refusal to make "ideological conversion." Even at the end of their prison terms the authorities defined them as "those under supervision for public peace" and persecuted them mentally and physically.
It is an anti-national crime to greet a new millennium, leaving unsolved the issue of the unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea which drew world attention as the worst violation of human rights in the middle of the 1900s.
They should be repatriated to the DPRK without fail before the end of the century to find solution to the worst human rights issue called "issue of unconverted long-term prisoners" in South Korea. Only then can a good atmosphere be created for the reconciliation and unity between the north and south.
We strongly urge your side drop the outdated conception and take a measure to repatriate all the unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea to the north where their families eagerly wait for them, in compliance with their request.
Anniversary of UNESCO observed
Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Papers here today observe the 53rd anniversary of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
A signed article of Rodong Sinmun recalls that the UNESCO has strengthened cooperation among countries in the idea of building a civilized and peaceful world through the development of education, science and culture.
It goes on:
The UNESCO has put forward various proposals to consolidate peace and security in the world.
The UN General Assembly adopted a declaration "on peace and culture" and action programme on September 13 at the initiative of UNESCO. According to it, it set the year 2000 as an "international year of peace and culture," prompted by the desire to review the 20th century in which the organization was plagued with many wars and disputes, and greet a new peaceful century free from aggression and war.
The UNESCO's initiative for the global peace and security has enjoyed broad-based support of the world.
The UNESCO's position and role are becoming more important in the international arena.
Minju Joson in a signed article says that the DPRK has positive cooperation with UNESCO in education, science and culture.