Kim Jong Il inspects newly-built power station
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected a power station built by soldiers of Korean People's Army unit no. 380.
The soldiers of the unit successfully finished in a little over one year a difficult and vast power station project, including 2,000-odd-metre-long waterway tunnelling and building of a dam in the revolutionary spirit of soldiers and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.
General Secretary went round a generator room, a power distribution room and other places to acquaint himself with the construction and the production of electricity.
Noting that soldier-builders built a power station of eternal value, courageously overcoming hardships and difficulties at the hard time when they were hard pressed for everything, he appreciated this as a great success.
He highly praised their exploits and expressed thanks to them.
He said this was a miracle that could be wrought only by the Korean People's Army full of the revolutionary spirit of soldiers and highlighted the need for the whole society to actively follow the revolutionary and militant spirit of the army.
He stressed the need to manage the economic life of the unit more assiduously and provide soldiers with better living conditions and put forward highly important tasks to be carried out by the KPA to this end.
Italian Foreign Minister and his party arrive
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Lamberto Dini, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Italy, and his party arrived here today.
They were greeted at the airport by Pak Tong Chun, DPRK vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
Sustained efforts to preserve national customs
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The Korean people treasure the national customs and good manners in all aspects of social life.
Since olden times, the diligent and resourceful Korean people have created good customs.
Koreans' character, qualities, profound emotion and noble sentiment are fully reflected in their dietary, dressing and family customs, holiday making, folk games and etiquette of salutation. They prefer traditional Korean food on holidays such as lunar new year's day, Tano (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month) and the autumn festival despite several years of shortage of food.
Special attention is paid to dressing suited to their way of life. Women are encouraged to go in Korean long skirts and jackets.
Korean wrestling, swinging, seesawing and other amusements are played on folk holidays.
In daily life adults like to play Korean chess and Yut game while children are fond of spinning a top, flying kites, jumping over rope and playing shuttlecock and other games.
The good manners and customs of the Korean nation are being fully displayed. Parents, elders, the aged and children are respected and taken care of.
Customs of marking ceremonial occasions are suited to the socialist way of life.
Efforts are being exerted to pass the good manners and customs of the nation on to the rising generation.
Books on the national customs are coming off the press and mass media, including education and culture channel of TV give wide publicity to the good manners and customs.
DPRK has rosy future
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Every creation in the DPRK and spectacular achievements and great victories gained by its people are the precious fruition of the outstanding creative activities of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, says a signed article of Rodong Sinmun today.
It goes on:
It is the main feature of his outstanding creative activities that he does everything by a new and unique method. He creates everything in Korean style, the style of Juche, not copying foreign styles in any case.
All the creations made by him are distinct, unique and innovative in their nature.
Everything created under his leadership is the result of self-reliance.
Another feature of his outstanding creative activities is that they are very wide-range and diverse as they involve all fields of the revolution and construction in our era.
All realms of the world and all spheres of the revolution and construction are objects of his very wide-range and diverse creative activities.
They involve not only ideological and theoretical fields but party and state construction, economic and cultural construction and building of armed forces and so on.
His outstanding creative activities are characterized by the fact that he sets a high goal and most admirably attains it at an exceptionally high speed.
Unimaginably high is the speed at which he creates new things. Whatever he creates is of global significance. He creates the best things of great value not only at present but in the distant future of mankind.
Kim Jong Il is possessed of rare disposition and ability as a great genius of creation and construction. No one can match him in intellect and talent, organizational ability and leadership art, revolutionary zeal and sweep. Endowed with all this, he has performed so great exploits on behalf of the times and humankind as an unprecedentedly great master of creation.
The Korean people under the leadership of Kim Jong Il will continue building gigantic edifices in the future, too, that no one else can do.
S. Korean warmongers of retaliation without warning
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- As already reported, the navy command of the Korean People's Army on March 23 issued an important communique on declaring "order of navigating to and from five islands" as a follow-up measure related to the fixing of the military demarcation line at the West Sea of Korea.
But the South Korean warmongers in their "statements," let loose a torrent of provocative outcries that they can "not accept" the "order of navigating to and from five islands" and would "stick to the Northern Limit Line to the last."
These remarks flatly rejecting the order cannot be construed otherwise than a very serious development which may escalate the inter-Korean confrontation and drive once again the military situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war.
The military demarcation line at the West Sea of Korea which we have already declared is the most justifiable, reasonable and realistic one in full line not only with the Korean Armistice Agreement but with the international laws.
The Military Demarcation Line at the west sea should be respected as no one can deny it and the "order of navigating to and from five islands" be strictly observed.
No one can predict when and where something will happen if this order is not observed at the west sea.
If the South Korean warmongers violate the order and trespass on the military demarcation line at the West Sea of Korea even an inch, our revolutionary armed forces will strongly retaliate against them without warning.
S. Korean authorities' ridiculous farce assailed
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- A "cenotaph" to the GIs killed in the Korean War is expected to be erected near River Rimjin flowing through Phaju close to panmunjom under "full cooperation" from the South Korean authorities. The erection of the "cenotaph" is reportedly meant to mark 50 years since the U.S. launched a war of aggression against the Korean people.
Rodong Sinmun today in a commentary describes this as a burlesque to call back the departed soul of the GIs who died a dog's death in the war of aggression. It is intended to embellish the U.S. aggressors and incite a second war to invade the DPRK, the commentary notes, and goes on:
The South Korean authorities decided to erect the "cenotaph" to the U.S. war dead in South Korea which is dyed with the blood of those fellow countrymen killed by them and are keen on the project at a time when all the countrymen are shaking with burning hatred against the U.S. imperialist ogres and their pledge to take revenge upon them. This is an intolerable treachery.
This thrice-cursed crime can be committed only by flunkeyists, war servants and traitors without equal who are keen on currying favour with the U.S. and Japan, their masters, even by selling off the national pride and dignity.
History and the nation will never pardon and connive at this insult and mockery.
Japan hit for vicious anti-DPRK moves
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defense Agency and National Police Agency reportedly hatched a plot on March 25 to reexamine the agreement on the share of role between the "Self-Defense Forces" and the police in the "moving for public security" to use it for the anti-DPRK campaign.
Commenting on this, the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun March 26 said that the Defense Agency and the National Police Agency defined the main purpose of the reexamination as "countering the armed guerrillas of North Korea and etc." and agreed that the "Self-Defense Forces" would come to the forefront to "counter" the case.
The Japanese reactionaries are scheming to drastically widen the activity sphere of the "Self-Defense Forces" under the pretext of non-existent "intrusion by North Korean armed guerrillas."
Developments unfavorable to DPRK-Japan talks
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Inter-governmental full-dress talks between the DPRK and Japan for the establishment of diplomatic relations are near at hand.
The world public opinion shows great expectation and concern for the resumption of the talks, hailing it as fortunate. It is the unanimous wish of the world that the DPRK-Japan talks will proceed smoothly to open a new phase of peace and security in northeast Asia.
But there are highly disturbing developments before the talks.
Tokyo metropolitan governor of Japan Shintaro Ishihara on March 7 talked rubbish that "Japan would destroy North Korea at one blow." He might be aware what implications his anti-DPRK statement will have for the DPRK-Japan talks. His outbursts cannot be considered as his personal view only.
Kanji Nishio, chairman of the "Society for New History Textbook", in the book "the People's History" denied Japan's responsibility for an apology and compensation and revealed its wild ambition for overseas aggression.
The Japanese reactionaries are kicking up such a row as staging a drill under the simulated conditions of the "intrusion of mysterious ships" under the pretext of "taking security measures" for the G-8 summit.
Pursuant to its new strategy of "giving importance to the southwest," Japan is rapidly redeploying its "Self-Defense Forces" in the western region facing the DPRK and reorganizing them.
These facts make the people worry about the future of the talks.
The recent moves of the Japanese reactionaries suggest that they do not truly stand for a dialogue. They are seriously mistaken if they think they can expect understanding from their dialogue partner even after coming out to it with daggers in their belts.
If Japan truly wants a dialogue, it should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and honestly comply with the DPRK's just demand for its settlement of past wrongdoings.
Japanese reactionaries' moves against DPRK
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today in a signed commentary lays bare the deception of the Japanese reactionaries' argument about "suspected kidnapping."
A 9-year-old girl, who was missing in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture of Japan ten years ago, appeared in public as an adult, it says, and goes on:
The "suspected kidnapping" on the lips of the Japanese extreme right-wing reactionary forces is nothing but a product of their intentional and premeditated hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The Japanese extreme right-wing reactionary forces and mass media are now organizing a "society for assisting the kidnapped people," saying that a match written in Korean was found on the scene when they "investigated" a case of missing person, in a bid to slander and harm the DPRK. And they are openly distributing a book "history of the people", praising the blood-stained history of the Japanese imperialists who occupied Korea and other Asian countries by force of arms and committed unprecedented crimes.
This is one more crime that can never be pardoned.
The ulterior intention of the Japanese reactionaries, who are running amok in hostility toward the DPRK, is to escape the atonement for their past wrongdoings, realise their old dream of "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere" and lay an artificial obstacle in the way of the DPRK-Japan talks that has been arranged with so much effort.
Japan should stop a foolish act of doubling crimes, sincerely reflect on all its crimes of the past and apologize and compensate for them, which is a right conduct for Japan itself.
Kim Il Sung praised by Indian public figures
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Indian public figures praised the President Kim Il Sung for his ideological and theoretical exploits on the occasion of Sun's Day.
N. K. Shukra, joint secretary of the all-India peasants' union, in a statement on March 20 noted that Kim Il Sung is the great sun of revolution who indicated the path of the times and revolution and opened a new era of human history with his profound and unique ideas and theories.
When the Korean nation and the oppressed people of the world were hankering for the road of revolution, he founded the immortal Juche idea and indicated the right way of struggle by which the popular masses could carve out their destiny, he said.
He stressed that the great Juche idea will always display its vitality as the soul of Kim Il Sung's nation and the torch for the human cause of independence in the future, too, and Kim Il Sung will always live in the hearts of humankind as the sun of revolution with the brilliant rays of the Juche idea.
M. M. Verma, director of the Indian center of the UN studies, in a statement on March 21 said that the revolutionary idea of Kim Il Sung is the immortal revolutionary banner of the present times, era of independence, and the complete communist revolutionary theory.
He said that the Korean people have advanced without an inch of deflection or failure under the banner of the Juche idea and that the great sun in the era of independence will brightly shine forever in the hearts of humankind.