Anniversary of India-DPRK Friendship Association marked
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A function took place at the DPRK embassy in New Delhi on Dec. 16 to mark the 30th anniversary of the formation of the all India Indo-Korean Friendship Association.
Displayed at the function place were photos of the respected Kim Jong Il inspecting units of the Korean People's Army and photos showing the brilliant life and revolutionary activities of Kim Jong Suk.
Secretary general of the association Om Prakash Mantri in his report said that the association could successfully conduct the work to promote friendship between the Indian and Korean peoples and strengthen solidarity between them entirely thanks to the meticulous care and wise leadership of the President Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il. It would make positive efforts to further strengthen this friendship and solidarity in the future, too, he added.
A message of greetings from the Korea-India friendship association was read out at the function, which was followed by congratulatory speeches.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted there.
Greetings to Kim Jong Il from Koreans in Russia
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The central association of Koreans in Russia sent a message of greetings to the great leader Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of his election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
The message noted that the respected Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander is a revelation of the intense loyalty and the iron will of the Korean people at home and abroad to hold him in high esteem and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started by the fatherly leader Kim Il Sung.
It expressed the resolve to entrust the destiny and future to Kim Jong Il and uphold and follow him with the purest conscience and sense of moral obligation, saying that all the honor and pride of the overseas compatriots are precisely the honor and pride of having Kim Jong Il, the invincible banner and future, at the head of revolution.
Chinese ship crewmen meet
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The crewmen of the Chinese ship "Hai Hua Leng 5" met at Wonsan port on the east coast of Korea to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the election of the great leader Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
Speakers said that the world people more deeply feel the greatness of the respected Kim Jong Il who is defeating the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces with his strategy, grit and will under the uplifted banner of socialism.
Noting that Kim Jong Il is taking care of his soldiers with parental love, they said that such Supreme Commander as him can be seen nowhere in the world.
They stated that the Korean people and army guided by him will always be invincible.
Demolition of concrete wall urged
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The Madagascar-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee and the Society for the Promotion of the Relations Between Austria and the DPRK issued statements separately in support of the appeal sent by the DPRK government, political parties and organizations to their counterparts of all countries, which demands the demolition of the concrete wall built by the South Korean authorities in the area south of the Military Demarcation Line.
The statements said that the tremendous concrete wall, the last outcome of the Cold War, remains in the area south of the MDL on the Korean peninsula today when the year 2000 is at hand. This is explained as the South Korean authorities' violation and challenge to peace and reunification, they noted.
They fully supported the demolition of the concrete wall, considering it to be the common cause of humankind for peace and reunification.
They strongly demanded the United States and the South Korean authorities unconditionally pull down the concrete wall and stop at once their moves to stifle the DPRK.
Gifts sent to Chongryon officials and patriotic businessmen
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the Korean hall in Tokyo on December 24 to deliver the new year gifts of the great leader Kim Jong Il to the officials and patriotic businessmen of the General Association of the Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), according to a report from the Korean News Service in Tokyo.
Addressing the meeting, So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the Chongryon central standing committee, said that the new year gifts were permeated with the deep trust and expectation of the respected Kim Jong Il who always treasures and loves the officials and compatriots of Chongryon.
He said that in the New Year Chongryon would cement its core stronghold, taking the work to establish the ideological and leadership system of Juche as its basic lifeline, and radically improve its method of working with the broad compatriots including the rising generations so as to lay the springboard for a new fresh upsurge in the movement of Koreans in Japan.
Chongryon commemorates birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk
Tokyo, December 24 (KNS-KCNA) -- A central lecture meeting was held on Dec. 24 at the Korean hall in Tokyo by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on the occasion of the 82nd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk.
Present there were So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the central standing committee of Chongryon, and other Chongryon officials.
The participants viewed a video lecture "immortal traces left during days of building a new country."
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election celebrated
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The 8th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army was significantly celebrated in different countries.
Various events including lecture meeting, rally, film show and photo exhibition were held in Democratic Congo, India, Guyana, Switzerland, Romania and other countries.
The speakers at the events stressed that Marshal Kim Jong Il is a brilliant commander possessed of distinguished qualification and personal trait and that the KPA has grown to be an invincible army guided by its Supreme Commander, the Marshal with superb intelligence and courage.
The Korean people are deeply respecting, worshipping and following him, they noted, adding that he is a people's leader, great man closely united with the popular masses as a harmonious whole.
A lecture meeting was held in Guyana, which adopted a congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il.
Meanwhile, various functions took place in Democratic Congo, India, Guyana, Switzerland and other countries to commemorate the 82nd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk.
S. Korean workers' struggle supported
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea issued a statement yesterday to support the struggle of the South Korean workers for the right to existence and democracy.
The massive struggle of the South Korean workers is an eruption of resentment at the deceptive labour policy and anti-social misrule of the authorities and an expression of their strong will to achieve the right to existence and democracy with struggle before the new millennium, the statement said.
It denounced the South Korean authorities for mobilizing riot police to suppress workers in peaceful rally and demonstration.
None of the South Korean successive rulers did make a gift of democracy and right to existence to workers and people, it pointed out, expressing the conviction that the workers will continue the vigorous struggle until their just demands are met.
U.S. occupation of S. Korea denounced
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary urges the United States to withdraw its forces from South Korea at an early date, noting that the U.S. occupation of South Korea, the leftover of the Cold War, can not be justified with any excuse.
Recently the U.S. colonial rule over the Panama Canal spanning nearly 100 years was terminated. This shows once again that the colonial rule of the imperialists can not be continued forever nor justified with anything, the commentary says, and continues:
The recovery of the Panama Canal is the result of the struggle of the Panamanian people for sovereignty of their country and the victory of the cause of justice.
The U.S. has justified its troops' occupation of South Korea under the pretext of the Cold War.
With the adoption of the agreement on non-aggression between the north and south of Korea, the logic of "deterrent to southward invasion" has come to convince no one.
The DPRK-U.S. agreed framework on joint efforts for the denuclearization, peace and security on the Korean peninsula was also adopted.
There is no justification for the U.S. occupation of South Korea.
Accordingly, the United States can not justify it with any excuse. It is employing every conceivable mean trick to justify the occupation but it only reveals its shamelessness as aggressor to the world.
Japan urged to clear away its past crimes
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Japan can not have the same qualification with other countries in international arena nor become a member of the world community unless it liquidates its past and purifies its bad conscience before the new millennium, warns Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It says:
Movements are seen in Germany and other countries to make 2000 a year of purified morality and conscience when a new springboard is laid for peace and the development of human civilization and the shameful past is cleared away for a fresh start. However, Japan's movement is in sharp contrast to them.
In the past, the Japanese imperialists unhesitatingly committed atrocities beyond human imagination, which outdistanced the fascist Hitler.
Japan has the impudence to deny its tremendous crimes it committed against other countries and nations. Its conscience and politics are based on the militaristic conception and, therefore, they are intended to repeat the past.
For such behavior, Japan has become a target of vigilance and isolation in Asia and the rest of the world and has been distrusted and rejected by the international community.
If politicians of Japan have conscience and morality they should feel shame at being condemned, ridiculed and humiliated for their refusal to liquidate Japan's past. If they are true statesmen and level-headed men they should show their determination and will as politicians under the present situation.
It is better for Japan to clear away its crimes and have clean mind rather than to suffer trouble, being shunned in the world community.
Japan may be trusted by the world community if it earnestly repents of its crimes and tries to liquidate them.
Immortal exploits in army leadership
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article says that the Marshal Kim Jong Il has led the Juche-based cause of army building and the cause of socialism to victory and glory for scores of years with the revolutionary philosophy of giving priority to the military affairs. His exploits in leading the army are a precious asset which guarantees the development and prosperity of the country and the nation, the article says, and goes on:
His exploits in leading the army are the decisive guarantee which makes the DPRK a militarily invincible nation, a lifeline which enables it to demonstrate its dignity as an ideologically powerful socialist nation and a motive force that brings about a new turn in socialist economic construction.
The DPRK has firmly established the commanding system of the Supreme Commander and the system of revolutionary army leadership in the whole army. It also has an invincible revolutionary army prepared in military technique and the solid foundation of self-reliant defence industry.
The Marshal has seen to it that the people's army has fully inherited the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit which was possessed by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners. He has also instilled steadfast class-consciousness and hatred for the enemy into the soldiers of the people's army and made sure that traits of unity between the officers and men and revolutionary comradeship are prevalent in the whole army.
The Korean people are firmly preparing themselves to be the genuine revolutionaries of Juche, learning from the ideological and mental world of the army.
In the DPRK, the people's army has performed great achievements in socialist construction not only as the defender of the country but also as the creator of the people's happiness.
Now the Korean people are thoroughly implementing the lines and policies of the party, making great innovations and successes in socialist construction as the people's army does.