DPRK-Japan Red Cross and inter-governmental preliminary talks to be held
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The DPRK-Japan Red Cross talks to solve humanitarian issues and director-level preliminary talks between the ministries of foreign affairs of the two countries for inter-governmental talks will be held in Beijing on December 19 and 20 separately.
Credentials to Kim Yong Nam
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Pierre Mpassi, newly-appointed Ambassador E.P of the Congo to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
After receiving the credentials, the president had a talk with the ambassador.
Chinese delegation helps in motorway construction
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The visiting delegation of the international liaison department of the c.c., the Communist Party of China led by its deputy head Ma Wenbao yesterday went to the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway construction site and conveyed aid materials sent by its department.
The head of the delegation said that the aid materials reflected not only their mind but the Chinese people's hearts, adding that the fraternity and friendship between the Chinese and Korean peoples are very deep.
He noted that as long as there are the Worker's Party of Korea led by Kim Jong Il and the youth who devote their blood in hearty response to the party's calls the DPRK will have a rosier future.
Letter to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a letter on Tuesday from the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the repatriation of Koreans to the socialist homeland from Japan.
The letter said that the repatriation of Korean nationals to the homeland from Japan was a happy event to be specially recorded not only in the Korean national history but in the world history of the overseas compatriots' movement. It was a historic event that fully demonstrated the superiority and great attraction of socialist Korea of Juche to the world, the letter said, and went on:
The fatherly leader Kim Il Sung opened the road of Korean nationals' return home from Japan and you respected Kim Jong Il took benevolent care of them, thus enabling them to get rid of the disgraceful life in an alien land and lead a new independent and worthy life.
The hearts of all the returnees from Japan are full of the strong faith that the homeland means precisely your warm care and the unshakable will to share their destiny with the homeland, keenly aware that they cannot live without your care, the letter noted, and continued:
We will as ever firmly defend socialist Korea, the true homeland, and make a tangible contribution to socialist construction in the homeland where the second grand Chollima march is in full gear to build a powerful nation.
Korean residents in Japan meet
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Korean residents in Japan met in Tokyo on Tuesday to mark the 40th anniversary of the repatriation of Korean nationals to the socialist homeland from Japan.
Introduced at the central meeting were messages of greetings from the central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, the committee for aiding overseas compatriots and the Joguk Publishing House on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the repatriation.
So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), said in his report that the fatherly leader Kim Il Sung opened the road of the repatriation of Korean nationals to the homeland from Japan to enable them to get rid of the unbearable national humiliation and maltreatment in Japan, an alien land, and lead a happy life under the care of their genuine homeland.
This was a brilliant fruition of the benevolent politics and compatriotic policy pursued by the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, he added.
Recalling that the respected Kim Jong Il solved all the issues related to the repatriation of Korean nationals in Japan, the reporter continued: Over the last four decades the returnees from Japan have led a new happy life and the Koreans in Japan have strenuously waged a patriotic movement, regarding the socialist homeland as the beacon of hope.
He called upon the participants to ardently love and defend as ever the socialist homeland on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the repatriation.
A letter of the central standing committee of Chongryon to the great leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
Meanwhile, a lecture was given by the central standing committee of Chongryon to mark this day.
The participants listened to the recorded lecture titled "the immortal leadership and great love to be handed down through generations with the history of repatriation."
Repatriation of Koreans in Japan marked
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Newspapers here today dedicate editorials to the 40th anniversary of the repatriation to the DPRK of Korean nationals in Japan.
They stressed that the successful return to the socialist homeland was the brilliant fruition of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il's Juche-oriented idea on the movement of overseas compatriots, their wise guidance and deep compatriotic love.
Rodong Sinmun says:
The repatriation of Korean nationals in Japan was praised worldwide as "grand exodus of the nation from capitalism to socialism" and "historic event of humankind in the 20th century." It was a great victory of the immortal Juche idea fathered by President Kim Il Sung and his idea on the Juche-oriented movement of overseas compatriots and the result of the noble compatriotic step and humanitarian policy of the Worker's Party of Korea and the DPRK government.
The whole course of their return was the great history of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's benevolent love for overseas compatriots who had been subjected to national humiliation and maltreatment.
Noting that those returnees have fully demonstrated their intense loyalty to the party and the leader, the fatherland and the people and their patriotic enthusiasm, the daily stresses:
The past four decades were years of loyalty to the party and the leader and years of patriotic activities for prosperity and development of the socialist homeland and national reunification.
Minju Joson says the repatriation was a great event fully demonstrating to the whole world that the DPRK is the genuine fatherland of all the Koreans at home and abroad.
Flag of Supreme Commander, banner of victory
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- December 24 marks the 8th anniversary of the election of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
On this day, the KPA servicemen are looking up to the flag of the Supreme Commander, their hearts swelling with the honor of holding him in high esteem at the head of the revolutionary armed forces.
The red flag of the Supreme Commander bears the Marshal's brilliant star.
He was awarded the title of the DPRK Marshal on April 20, Juche 81 (1992).
Since then, the only flag of the Supreme Commander in the world has fluttered in the van of the Korean revolutionary armed forces.
The flag is hoisted on the army day, during military parades and when he inspects KPA units and during their military drills.
The flag is an ever-victorious banner.
He has led the Korean People's Army and people to victory with his brilliant wisdom, outstanding strategy, iron will, unrivalled courage and distinguished leadership art.
When international reactionaries imposed "special inspection" and "sanctions" upon the DPRK over the "nuclear issue" early in Juche 82 (1993), the world was of the view that a military conflict on the Korean peninsula was unavoidable.
He, on the basis of a clairvoyant analysis of the situation, proclaimed a semi-war state to the whole country, all the people and the entire army to crop the enemy's feathers before hand.
A merciless punishment will be meted to those who encroach upon our sky, land and sea even 0.001 mm. This is an unwavering determination of Kim Jong Il and the will of the Korean people.
The situation remains tense on the Korean peninsula as it is beset with more acute issues than the gulf region and the Balkans. But, the enemies dare not invade the DPRK. This is because of his special qualities characterized by correct judgement, firm resolution and merciless strike.
He put forward the original idea that the army precisely means the people, the state and the party, and has energetically led the work to strengthen the army.
Over the last five years, he has inspected more than 430 units. He has covered at least 48,000 km to visit units of the three services and military academies at all levels. The KPA servicemen have demonstrated the spirit of annihilating the enemy, singing the song "We Will Emerge Victorious Flying Flag of Supreme Commander."
Only victory is in store for the DPRK flying the flag of the Supreme Commander.
KPA praised as invincible army
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Major general said Mohamad Sadaun, director of the general bureau of the Military Science of Egypt, was interviewed by the KCNA correspondent in Cairo on December 7 on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
He said that Kim Jong Il is not only a great politician but a Marshal possessed of outstanding qualification and traits as a brilliant commander.
He went on:
The Korean People's Army is fully prepared ideologically and in military technique and has grown to be strong armed forces equipped with powerful means of attack and defence.
Under the army-first leadership of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Il, the KPA will successfully carry out its mission and duty as an invincible army firmly defending the security of the country and people and as the pillar of the country guaranteeing the prosperity of the powerful nation.
Removal of concrete wall demanded
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The Madagascan Christian Democratic Union and the Trinidad and Tobago-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association issued statements on Dec. 7 and 8 in support of the appeal sent by the DPRK government, political parties and organizations to their counterparts all over the world 20 years after the concrete wall was built in the area south of the Military Demarcation Line across the Korean peninsula.
The statements said that the concrete wall, which was built by the South Korean authorities under the patronage of the U.S., is a symbol of the national division and confrontation between the north and south and a cursed barrier quite contrary to the will of all the Korean people for reunification.
They urged the South Korean authorities to immediately pull down the concrete wall.
Prerequisite for detente and removal of war danger
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The prerequisite for easing the tensions and removing the danger of war from the Korean peninsula at present is for the United States to give up its hostile policy toward the DPRK and sign a peace agreement with the DPRK, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
This is because the tensions and the danger of war are increasing in this region owing to the U.S. moves against the DPRK, the article notes, and goes on:
Detente has become a worldwide trend at large in the wake of the end of the Cold War but the tensions are growing on the Korean peninsula and a touch-and-go situation is prevailing there because of the U.S. moves against the DPRK.
The DPRK and the United States are in a state of cease-fire and the belligerent relations between them are going from bad to worse owing to the latter's policy and design to antagonize and invade the former and establish its unchallenged domination over the Korean peninsula.
The United States has unilaterally abrogated the Armistice Agreement and thus intentionally destroyed the institutional mechanism that had performed the function of restricting arms buildup, armed conflict and war on the Korean peninsula. Its ulterior aim is to exercise the right of military action, unhindered and unrestricted, to ignite another war in Korea.
The U.S. warmongers, talking about an "emergency" on the Korean peninsula these days, are strengthening the "quick reaction posture" of their forces in and around South Korea and hastening preparations to rapidly hurl their forces in the U.S. mainland into the Korean front. This indicates that outbreak of the second Korean war is imminent.
For the United States to abandon its persistent hostile policy toward the DPRK and conclude a peace accord with the DPRK is a prerequisite for defusing the tense situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula and preventing a war there.
It is daydream to expect peace from imperialists
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- It is a daydream to expect peace from imperialists.
Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in a by-lined article captioned "as long as imperialism is left intact, aggression and war will remain."
It goes on:
Imperialists never want peace.
Aggression, war and plunder are the nature of imperialism and its mode of existence. Peace, therefore, is the noose around the imperialists. They, far from making a present of peace to the people, leave no stone unturned to wreck it.
Now international reactionaries and renegades of socialism cry for living on good terms and cooperating with them rather than fighting. Their allegation is meant to give in to imperialists and serve them as slaves.
The renegades of socialism cry for compromise with imperialism because they fail to see through the aggressive, predatory and crafty nature of imperialism.
Imperialism still remains unchanged. Only its method of aggression and plunder has changed.
The popular desire for living in peace can come true only in the world minus imperialism. It can be realised only when the people fight up against imperialism.
One of the important matters in the anti-imperialist struggle for the present is to foil the imperialists' regional strategy and divide-and-destroy-one-by-one strategy.
No matter how formidable they may be, they become powerless, when confronted with the people united in one mind. Only when the people adhere to the principled stand on imperialism anytime and anywhere and fight against it, can they realize desire for peace without fail.
More materials of revolutionary activities of Kim Jong Suk on display
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- 20 more materials related to revolutionary activities and immortal feats of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk are on display at the Korean revolution museum.
They are photos and famous quotations telling the visitors that she energetically conducted revolutionary activities during the period of building a new state to carry out the President Kim Il Sung's line of the nation-building with intense fidelity to him.
Photos she had taken with Kim Il Sung and the great leader Kim Jong Il in March and September Juche 36 (1947) and other materials convey the immortal feats she performed by providing a sure guarantee for the succession to the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Other materials relate the story that she visited houses of farmers in Songsam-ri and Sinhung-ri, Taedong county, South Phyongan Province, in March and April Juche 35 (1946) to encourage farmers to creditably carry out the policy on agrarian reform and bring a bumper harvest to the distributed fields.
There is a photo of a dormitory of the Samhung Middle School, Taedong county, South Phyongan Province, the building that she visited in October 1947 to bring up the rising generation as reliable pillars in building a new state.
Also on display are materials related to the initiative taken by her to erect the statue of Kim Il Sung at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School for the first time in the country in reflection of the wishes of the pupils of the school.