Kim Jong Il sends wreath on death of party official
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent a wreath, expressing his deep condolence on the death of Jon Yong Hun, alternate member of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
It was laid before his grave in the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery today.
Greetings to amir of state of Kuwait
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, Amir of State of Kuwait, yesterday on the occasion of the National Day and the liberation day of the country.
Sincerely wishing the Amir and people of Kuwait success in their work for the prosperity of the country, the message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would continue to be boosted.
Meanwhile, premier of the cabinet Hong Song Nam and Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun separately sent messages of greetings to Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah, heir to the Amir and Prime Minister of Kuwait, and Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber, first deputy prime minister and Foreign Minister.
WPK secretary meets U.S. party delegation
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, today met and conversed with the delegation of the Worker's World Party of the United States headed by Brian Becker, member of its secretariat.
At the meeting the head of the delegation said that the Korean people are firmly defending socialism despite the continued isolation and suffocation moves of the imperialists, adding this is attributable to the tested leadership of the WPK led by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
He noted that his party would continue to wage a vigorous struggle for the pullback of the U.S. forces from South Korea and intensify the movement for solidarity with the WPK.
U.S. party delegation sojourns in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Worker's World Party of the United States headed by Brian Becker, member of its secretariat, yesterday visited the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK).
Pak Kwang Gi, chief of the mission, at the meeting, expressed thanks to the Worker's World Party of the United States for having extended support and solidarity to the NDFSK in its struggle for independence, democracy and reunification and informed the delegation of the South Korean people's struggle against the U.S. and fascism and for democracy and national reunification.
The head of the delegation recalled that the party has struggled against the military dictatorship in South Korea and the U.S. forces' occupation of South Korea and evinced its determination to further strengthen support and solidarity to the Korean people's struggle for national reunification.
That day the delegation visited the family of Jong Song Ok, world "queen of marathon."
Floral baskets to DPRK embassies
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets were sent to DPRK embassies by governments, political parties, organizations and officials of the political, public and press circles of many countries on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Among them were the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, the central committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the People's Party and the Funcinpec Party, the Ministers' Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Cambodia, Chea Dim, acting head of State of Cambodia, Norodom Ranariddh, President of the National Assembly of Cambodia, and Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, the deputy prime minister who is also Minister of Agriculture of Egypt, the chairman of Consultative Council of Egypt, the general secretary of the National Progressive Unionist Party of Egypt, the vice-chairman and the general secretary of the Misr Fatah Party of Egypt, the central committee of the Lao Women's Union and the Workers Home of Iran.
Reception given by military attach of Russian embassy
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A reception was given by Vladimir Dombrovski, military attach of the Russian embassy here, at the Taedonggang club for the diplomatic corps on Feb. 23 on the occasion of the "Day of Defenders of Motherland."
Invited to the reception were Lt. Gen. Pak Sung Won and officers of the Korean People's Army, diplomatic envoys and military attaches of foreign embassies here.
Russian ambassador to Korea Valery Denisov and embassy officials were present.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Annual meeting of Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- An annual meeting of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee was held here on Feb. 23.
Present there were Minister of Education and chairman of the solidarity committee Pyon Yong Rip, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Kim Jin Bom and members of the solidarity committee.
The charge d'affaires ad interim of the Cuban embassy here, Nirsia Castro Guevara, and embassy officials were on hand.
The meeting reviewed last year's work of the committee for strengthening friendship and solidarity with the Cuban people who are triumphantly advancing socialism despite the blockade of the imperialists and discussed this year's action program of the committee.
Proclamation of cooperative republic of Guyana marked
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A commemoration meeting was held here on Feb. 23 in the name of the Korea-Latin America and Caribbean Region Friendship Association and the Korea-Guyana Friendship Association on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Present there were Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and chairman of the Korea-Latin America and Caribbean Region Friendship Association, members of the Korea-Guyana Friendship Association and working people in the city.
Speeches were made and a message of greetings to the President of Guyana was adopted at the meeting.
Greatness of Kim Jong Il praised
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- V. Tyulkin, first secretary of the central committee of the Russian Communist Worker's Party on a visit to the DPRK, in an interview with reporters highly praised the greatness of General Secretary Kim Jong Il who is leading the socialist cause to victory.
He said that during his stay he witnessed all the Korean people vigorously advancing, breaking through hardships and difficulties, rallied close around the great Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il has devoted himself to accomplishing the cause of revolution pioneered by the President Kim Il Sung, he said, and went on:
Kim Jong Il has instilled into the Korean people and all communists strength and courage with his energetic ideological and theoretical activities. He is a worldwide statesman and a staunch defender of the socialist cause.
After the demise of the President the imperialists blared that Korean socialism would advance no longer, but Korean socialism has been firmly defended and is vigorously advancing under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Historic events in expanding and strengthening party organizations
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- The struggle for the foundation of the party in Korea has a long history.
The President Kim Il Sung formed the society for rallying comrades, the first party organization, in Kalun, China in 1930 and rapidly expanded party organizations with the society as an umbrella organization.
He maintained a principled stand concerning the party building. He called for adhering to the Juche-oriented line against flunkeyism and dogmatism, and creating primary organizations of the party in Korea, first of all, and, on this basis, organizing the party central body and proclaiming the party foundation in future.
He dispatched members of the society for rallying comrades to the area on the northern tip of Korea along the River Tuman and different areas of Manchuria to form party organizations.
In autumn, 1930 he went to Onsong county, North Hamgyong Province, and personally guided the formation of the party organizations in Korea.
He dispatched the Pukson (northern part of Korea) political operatives' group, which was made up of excellent political officers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, to the northern part of Korea in 1937 with a view to rallying communists active in different areas and hardcore people and educating them and steadily expanding party organizations.
As a result, party organizations were active not only in the anti-Japanese armed ranks but in the border area on the northern tip of Korea and its western and central parts, in eastern and southern Manchuria and various areas of Japan where Koreans lived.
His organization of the party committee of the KPRA was followed by the creation of the eastern Manchuria party operative committee, the party operative committee in the homeland and the Changbai county party committee.
U.S.-S. Korea joint war exercise denounced
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the U.S. and the South Korean authorities for staging a joint surprise air strike operation in and around Kyonggi Province, South Korea, a few days ago.
Involved in the war drill were scores of military helicopters, brigade-level "surprise air strike" units and various types of war equipment including "Cobra" attack helicopters and "Black Hawk" helicopters of the U.S. aggressor forces and the "air operation command of the South Korean ground force."
It was aimed at massively helicopter ground units into the "rear" of the "enemy" under the cover of the attack helicopters to "isolate and destroy" the motorized units of the "enemy" and then going over to a large-scale "counterattack operation."
Noting that the exercise was of very provocative and offensive nature like the " Foal Eagle" and "Ulji focus lens" joint military drills, the commentary goes on:
What merits particular attention is that the South Korean authorities have already worked out a large-scale plan to attack the north and are working hard to round off the plan and put it into practice.
What cannot be overlooked is the fact that the joint war maneuver was timed to coincide with the U.S. and Japanese reactionaries' computer simulation military exercise staged in Japan to cope with an "emergency" on the Korean peninsula.
This was not an accidental coincidence but a premeditated and intentional DPRK-targeted war drill staged within the framework of the triangular military alliance.
The aggressive triangular military alliance grouping the U.S., Japan and South Korea is moving on the track for an aggression against the DPRK.
The U.S. and the South Korean authorities are well advised to think twice over the serious consequences to be entailed by those frantic war maneuvers and stop running wild.
Literature praising Kim Jong Il scattered in S. Korea
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Many copies of literature highly praising General Secretary Kim Jong Il were found scattered in the U.S. 8th army base in Ryongsan, Seoul, according to Yonhap News February 23.
A U.S. army officer concerned confessed that literature warmly congratulating Kim Jong Il on his 58th birthday and highly lauding him was scattered by an unidentified man in front of the entrance no. 8 of the southern sentry district inside the base around midnight on Feb. 20.
Similar literature was found behind the Ryongsan library inside the base at the same time.
The U.S. army, much upset by this, is busy making a strict investigation and check-up on those coming and going.
S. Korean "MPs'" mass killings disclosed
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- The February issue of the South Korean magazine Mal reported that more evidence of mass killings committed by military police of South Korea during the Korean War has been discovered.
It said that remains of innocent civilians and more than 1,400 political prisoners in Taegu prison who were massacred by the military police have been exhumed and identified one after another in an abandoned mine shaft on a hill and at the Kachang dam at present in Kyongsan city of North Kyongsang Province and other places.
A mass killing was committed by military police in a shaft of the abandoned mine on a hill in Kyongsan city in mid-August 1950, it said, quoting Ri Pok Myong, 71, as saying when a factory was built in the 1980s in this area there might be at least 10,000 remains in my estimation, though it was hard to count them all as bones were in disorder.
Ordinary people were indiscriminately murdered after their arrest at a time when "political prisoners" in Taegu prison were killed, it added.
It also disclosed mass killings of innocent inhabitants by reactionary organizations which were active in different parts of South Korea.
DPRK-Indonesia agreement signed
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- An agreement on the promotion and protection of investment between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Indonesia was signed in Djakarta on Feb. 21.
It was signed by Minister of Foreign Trade Kang Jong Mo on behalf of the DPRK government and Minister of Industry and Trade Jusuf KalLaon behalf of the government of the Republic of Indonesia.
Joint seminar held in Yugoslavia
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A joint seminar of Yugoslav left-wing political parties on the army-first revolutionary leadership feats of General Secretary Kim Jong Il was held in Belgrade on Feb. 17 on the occasion of his 58th birthday.
Present there were delegations and delegates of political parties including the Worker's Party of Yugoslavia, the Socialist People's Party of Yugoslavia and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia-Communist Party of Serbia.
The speakers said that Kim Jong Il's army-first politics is based on the revolutionary philosophy that the army is precisely the party, the people and the state and this is a unique political mode which solves all the issues arising in the revolution and construction on the principle of giving priority to the military affairs and gives prominence to the army as the pillar of revolution so as to push ahead with the socialist cause as a whole.
They expressed belief that as long as there is Kim Jong Il's outstanding and tested army-first revolutionary leadership, the Korean people and the people's army will in the future, too, win victory after victory in the confrontation with the imperialist and dominationist.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the seminar.
The letter said that they are struck with admiration for him who, through his army-first revolutionary leadership, is dealing a total blow to the vicious moves of the imperialist fascist forces to dominate the world and enslave the world people.
The powerful military strength of the DPRK built up under his leadership provides a surest guarantee for preventing the U.S. from venturing to attack, the letter said.
Juche idea study group formed in Yugoslavia
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the Yugoslav Group for the Study of the Juche Idea took place in Belgrade on Feb. 16, the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The president of the Worker's Party of Yugoslavia at a meeting pointed to the originality of the Juche idea which was fathered by the President Kim Il Sung and has been developed and enriched by Kim Jong Il and the achievements made by the Korean people by applying it.
The inauguration of the group in Yugoslavia on the occasion of his birthday is a great inspiration to the genuine communists of Yugoslavia, he added.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.