Czech ambassador visits Jong Song Ok's family

Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Czech ambassador to the DPRK Alexandr Karych and his wife visited the world “Marathon queen” Jong Song Ok's family yesterday. When they arrived, people's sportswoman Jong Song Ok, deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly and heroine of the Republic, and her family warmly met and conversed with them in a friendly atmosphere.
The ambassador looked round the house presented by the leader Kim Jong Il to Jong Song Ok and her family and gave them a souvenir.

Statement of S. Korean chief executive under fire

    Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The South Korean chief executive released a “statement” a few days ago with the approach of the “national assembly election” in South Korea. In the statement he said he “would do his best” to create an atmosphere for a “fair election,” while threatening to stringently check “election” irregularities.
    He, at the same time, “appealed” to the people not to abstain but go to the polls. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a green light given by the self-styled people's ruler to the operation to crack down upon those people opposed to the unfair “election” and a trick to appease voters in a bid to rig a “victory” in the election.
    Pointing out that civic organizations' “anti-nomination, anti-candidate campaign” is brisk in South Korea with the “election” at hand, the commentary goes on:
    Bewildered at their campaign, the South Korean authorities are making every possible effort to arrest the people's struggle after staging the farce of “revising the election law” and forming “investigation groups to prevent election-related violence,” etc.
    The South Korean ruling quarters are a group of traitors greedy for power, who are combining crackdown at the point of bayonet with appeasement and deception in a bid to dampen the South Korean people's desire for new politics and new system, the commentary notes, and continues.
    No matter how desperately they may work they can never come out of the dumping ground of history. neither bayonet-wielding nor appeasement can help them escape from a stern judgement by the people.

Anti-candidate campaign brisk in S. Korea

Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The “citizens' solidarity for general election” in South Korea at a press conference on March 26 declared that it would again make public another list of those to be defeated in the election in early April, according to a radio report from Seoul. A “national bus touring group” created by the organization made a week-long trip to different parts of South Korea till march 25 to conduct an anti-candidate campaign among people. Briefing on this was made at the press conference.
The radio said at least 80 candidates are presumed to be on the list of those to be defeated which the organization is going to announce again, rattling the nerves of the riff-raffs of the conservative political parties who are running for the “election.”

Symposium on experience in bulding of WPK held in Belarus

    Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- A symposium of leading officials of the Communist Party and public organizations of Belarus on the experience in the building of the Workers' Party of Korea was held in Minsk on march 25 on the occasion of Sun's Day. A keynote speech of Viktor Chikin, first secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, was followed by speeches by a number of attendants at the symposium.
    The speakers noted that Korea has achieved the single-hearted unity of the leader, party and masses and firmly defended socialism, bravely smashing the maneuvers of the imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK, under the outstanding and seasoned leadership of the leader Kim Jong Il. This teaches a precious lesson that even a small country can surely stand against the imperialist powers, they added.
    A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the symposium.
    The letter noted that Kim Jong Il has strengthened and developed the WPK into a genuine communist party loved and respected by the popular masses, by thoroughly embodying the Juche idea in party building and activity.
    The successes and experience gained in strengthening and developing the WPK serve as a precious textbook for the communists of Belarus and inspire them in the struggle to rebuild socialism, it stressed.

Struggle of Korean people supported by Namibian President

    Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Namibian President Sam Nujoma on March 19 received DPRK ambassador to Namibia Ro Min Su, a special envoy of the DPRK government who was participating in commemorations of the 10th anniversary of its independence. He said that the relationship between Namibia and the DPRK is the comradely relationship established in the protracted struggle and that under the leadership of the Kim Il Sung the DPRK government and people were unsparing of support to Namibia in its struggle for independence and building of a new society, which the Namibian government and people always remember and for which they are grateful.
    He expressed the belief that the Korean people will surely accomplish the cause of building a powerful nation in near future thanks to the outstanding and seasoned leadership of the Kim Jong Il who has set ideology, arms and science and technology as the three pillars of building a powerful nation and administered the army-first politics.
    He hoped that Korea would be independently and peacefully reunified at an early date free from the interference of any foreign forces according to the three-point charter of national reunification.

Check of U.S. anti-DPRK moves called for

    Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The United States is leaving no stone unturned to stifle the DPRK, considering it as one of its most important strategic goals to realize its ambition for world hegemony. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The U.S. warmongers have become noisier in their row about “nuclear threat” and “missile threat” from the DPRK than ever before.
    They claim that the “nuclear issue” of North Korea goes beyond the danger point and that if it is not checked, it may endanger the “security” of the United States, to say nothing of that in Asia.
    It is nonsensical to claim that the DPRK poses a military threat to the U.S. It is not the U.S. but the DPRK that is exposed to a military threat.
    The United States is stepping up war preparations while amassing aggression armed forces around the Korean peninsula under the pretext of the “military threat” from the DPRK.
    The 100,000-strong U.S. troops deployed in East Asia including South Korea and Japan are shock brigades and detachment for aggression against the DPRK.
    The United States is threatening the DPRK through large-scale war manoeuvres targeted against it.
    What merits attention is that the United States is escalating U.S.-South Korea, U.S.-Japan joint military exercises and changing the nature of all the drills into combined offensive operations.
    The situation on the Korean peninsula is leading to an extreme pitch of tension owing to the U.S. war manoeuvres.
    This compels the DPRK to increase its readiness to frustrate the U.S. war moves. For the DPRK to be fully prepared to fight is conducive to defending the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country and, at the same time, preserving peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world.

Issue of power successfully solved

    Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea gave top priority to solving the issue of power after the country's liberation. At that time many self-styled “communists”, “patriots” and “theoreticians” active in different parts of Korea and abroad gathered, setting out mixed ideas on solving the question of power.
    Some of them called for building a bourgeois republic while factionalists who took to flunkeyism and dogmatism asserted that a proletarian dictatorial government should be established and a socialist revolution be made.
    Under this complex situation the President Kim Il Sung wisely led the struggle to set up a government reflecting the desire and wishes of the Korean people in full consideration of specific features of the Korean revolution which he defined as an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution and on the basis of precious experience gained in the building of power during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
    The president saw to it that local people's committees were set up by the people themselves before the establishment of the central power organ.
    Provincial people's committees were organized in six provinces in the northern half of Korea in a matter of two months and then appeared people's committees in all cities, counties.
    Local people's committees of different levels were made up of representatives of patriotic people from all walks of life, the majority of them was workers and peasants.
    The president laid a framework of the central power organ by organizing ten north Korean administrative bureaus including industrial bureau, Transportation bureau, communication bureau, judicial bureau and security bureau capable of controlling local people's committees and coordinating the inter-domain and inter-provincial relations.
    On the basis of these preparations, the president established the North Korean Provisional People's Committee, the united central power organ, at the consultative meeting of representatives of democratic political parties, social organizations and administrative bureaus and people's committees in North Korea on February 8, Juche 35 (1946).
    The meeting elected him chairman of the North Korean Provisional People's Committee in reflection of the unanimous will and wishes of all the Korean people. The foundation of the committee enabled the Korean people to become the genuine master of the state and society for the first time in history to vigorously push ahead with the building of a new society.

Congratulations to Nepalese Foreign Minister

Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun sent a congratulatory message to Chakra Prasad Bastola upon his appointment as Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Nepal. Extending sincere congratulations to him, the message expressed the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger and develop in the idea of independence, peace and friendship and wished him great success at his new post.

Acupoint program

    Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The General Hospital of Koryo Medicine has recently succeeded in treatment by computer. It has developed a program for diagnosing and prescribing diseases in various parts of the human body.
    The program is very effective as it adopts excellent qualities of Koryo medicine in a professional manner.
    On the basis of automatic analysis of pulsation and inquiry, it makes it possible to spot the weak points of the body.
    The program synthesizes some 17,000 pieces of information achieved in practice of Koryo medicine and serves as an acupoint directory for quick probe into the causes of diseases.
    With successful years of experiment, it contributes greatly to curing colitis, gastritis, hypertension, diabetes and insomnia.

New stamps

Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunictions has recently issued three stamps (setenant) featuring Pongsan masque dance, a Korean folk dance of antiquity. This masque dance originated in northwestern Korea centring on Pongsan (Sariwon) towards the end of Koryo dynasty (918-1392). It further developed to meet the Korean people's evolving aesthetic tastes before it greeted its glory days in the late 19th century through the turn of the 20th century. Depicted are chuibari, ryangban and malttugi masque dances.
The dance is a precious heritage of Korean folk dance.