Message to Kim Jong Il from Russian President
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a message from V. Putin, President of the Russian Federation, on Monday on the occasion of Sun's Day.
Putin in the message extended congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the national holiday of the DPRK and wished good health and happiness to him and peace and prosperity to the Korean people.
He expressed the belief that the inter-state treaty concluded some time ago would contribute to further developing the long-standing tradition of friendship, good-neighborliness and cooperation between Russia and the DPRK.
He was convinced that deepening the bilateral relations conforms with the interests of peoples of the two countries and consolidating peace in Korea and northeast Asia, he added.
Sun's Day to be commemorated worldwide
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Preparations are made in different countries of the world to commemorate Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
Preparatory committees were formed in at least 50 countries, including Syria, Jordan, Guinea, Congo, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Colombia.
The preparatory committees set a period for commemoration and decided to hold multifarious functions during the period and widely propagandize the immortal exploits performed by the President for the human cause of independence.
National symposiums on his immortal revolutionary exploits and the great Juche idea were held in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal with a large attendance.
Seminars on the President's revolutionary life and the Worker's Party of Korea experience in its building took place in Moldova, Belarus, Peru and Madagascar and similar seminars are arranged in Guyana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Austria and other countries.
Commemorations including remember-the President meeting, rally, lecture meeting and film show are held in over 60 countries including Bulgaria, Thailand, Egypt, Ukraine and Democratic Congo.
Kim Il Sung praised by world people
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Political party and state leaders of different countries have expressed deep respects to the President Kim Il Sung, highly praising him as the eternal leader of humankind.
Pakistani President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar said President Kim Il Sung was a great leader who devoted his all to guiding the people of the DPRK to social progress and development.
General secretary of the c.c., the Communist Party of Peru (Red Motherland) Alberto Moreno said that President Kim Il Sung is always alive as a leader of the Korean people's anti-imperialist struggle and a model of the revolutionary faith and dignity for humankind.
Leader of the Amerindian action movement of Guyana peter Persaud said that the President Kim Il Sung made immortal contributions to the cause of global independence, holding the banner of independence against imperialism, and enjoyed deep respect and trust of the world's progressive people in the whole period of his revolutionary activities.
Oleg Shenin, chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, said that President Kim Il Sung was a most veteran leader in the 20th century and that he guided humankind to socialism while leading the revolutionary movement of different stages for 70 years.
Bangladeshi political party leaders stressed in a message in their joint name that President Kim Il Sung was a leader not only of the Korean people but also of the working and fighting people of all countries and that he remains always alive in the hearts of the world's revolutionary people.
Kim Il Sung's work off press in Nepal
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Nepal-DPRK Friendship Association and the Bhiswa Bhumi Press jointly brought out in booklet the President Kim Il Sung's celebrated work "For the Strengthening and Development of the Non-Aligned Movement" on the occasion of Sun's Day.
The booklet says in the preface that under Kim Il Sung's wise guidance the DPRK played an important role in the struggle to attain the goal of the nam and made a great contribution to the struggle for south-south cooperation and economic independence of developing countries.
A ceremony of releasing the work took place in Kathmandu on April 2.
The Minister of State for Public Health of Nepal said that Kim Il Sung's work is a precious textbook which should be taken as a guideline by peoples of the nam member nations and other developing countries. The world people are studying his idea, he added.
Reception given for participants in art festival
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The organizing committee of the 18th April Spring Friendship Art Festival gave a reception for the participants in the festival yesterday.
Invited to the reception were delegations, delegates and artistes from various countries and overseas. Korean artistes.
Chairman of the organizing committee Jang Chol, Minister of Culture Kang Nung Su and officials concerned were present there.
Jang made a speech at the reception.
Foreigners visit Paeksong Revolutionary Site
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Officials in charge of cultural and friendly relations of foreign embassies here visited the Paeksong Revolutionary Site on Monday on the occasion of Sun's Day, the birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
The site is situated in Phyongsong, South Phyongan Province. It is where Kim Il Sung University was located during the Fatherland Liberation War. In April, Juche 41 (1952) President Kim Il Sung called at the university and gave confidence in victory to its teachers and students and unfolded a grand plan for postwar rehabilitation and construction and socialist construction.
The visitors laid bunches of flowers before the President's statue at the site and paid their respects to him.
They looked round the place where the President made a historic speech before the teachers and students at that time, the Paeksong Revolutionary Museum, the then main university quarters, mess hall and others.
KCNA on Ishihara's outbursts
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Tokyo metropolitan governor Ishihara reportedly made one more dangerous outburst, addressing a ceremony at a garrison of the "Ground Self-Defence Force" in Tokyo.
He said, "we can expect Sangokujin (people from Taiwan or Korea or their descendants) and other foreigners to riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake." And he called on the "GSDF" to control such possible rioting.
His remarks are of heinous criminal nature as they are intended to repeat the 1923 shocking massacre of innocent Koreans and massively crack down upon Korean citizens in Japan.
The massacre of Koreans committed after the great Kanto earthquake in September 1923 was part of the monstrous crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists with national chauvinism.
Over half a century has passed since the defeat of the Japanese imperialists and Japan's apology and compensation for its past wrongdoings present themselves as a pending issue. The remarks made by Ishihara this time are intended to justify and repeat the massacre in Kanto, instead of reflecting on it. This shows he is an imbecile who does not have even an iota of sense of political development.
The Tokyo metropolitan governor's repeated anti-DPRK remarks are as good as an act of throwing a wet blanket over progress in the DPRK-Japan talks because they were made at a time when the improvement of the bilateral relations presents itself as a task of the times and the next round of the full-dress talks is to be held in Tokyo.
The real intention of Ishihara, who is a leading figure of the Japanese reactionary group and a prototype of ultra-nationalists and chauvinists, is to put a brake on the DPRK-Japan full-dress talks and incite anti-DPRK antagonism among the Japanese people so as to crack down upon Korean nationals in Japan and again drive the Korean people into a position of a ruined nation.
The Korean people will surely settle accounts with Ishihara over his anachronistic and criminal behaviour going against trend of the times.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Political parties, organizations and personages of different countries took part in the international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
On March 20 the signature paper was signed by the chairman and leadership members of the Belgian Labour Party on behalf of 100,000 party members and its supporters and by the chairman of the Anti-imperialist League of Belgium, the chairman of the youth movement under the Belgian Labour Party in behalf of members of their organizations and by the chief editor of the Belgian newspaper Solidaire on behalf of the newspaper office.
Participating in the signature campaign on march 22 were the general secretary of the c.c., the Communist Party of Malta, the chairman of the Maltese Committee for Support to Korea's Reunification and the chairman and the secretary general of the Malta-DPRK Friendship Association on behalf of their party and organizations and ten public figures of Malta.
On March 27 the paper was signed by the general secretary of the c.c., the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and its leadership members on behalf of more than 90,000 party members and supporters.
Public presentation on greatness of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of People's Security held a public presentation on the greatness of the President Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang yesterday on the occasion of Sun's Day, his birth anniversary.
It was stressed that the President was a great master of politics who strengthened the driving force of revolution in every way by achieving the single-hearted unity of the Worker's Party of Korea and the revolutionary ranks, an outstanding thinker and theoretician who founded the Juche-oriented idea of people's security and an iron-willed brilliant commander who led the class struggle in the era of independence to victory all the time.
The speakers said that it is the most brilliant exploits of Kim Il Sung in the 80 odd years of his revolutionary life that he firmly built up the driving force of revolution by realizing the single-hearted unity of the Worker's Party of Korea and the revolutionary ranks, for which he will always live as an extra ordinary master of politics.
It is one of his great contributions to accomplishing the revolutionary cause of the working class that he founded the Juche-oriented idea of people's security in conformity with the new requirements of the present times, they said, and continued:
He set forth the unique idea and theory on the building of a people's security institution and its mission and put them into practice.
He put forward the most correct line on the class struggle and realized it brilliantly during the whole historic period of his leadership over the Korean revolution.
They called upon all the people's security officials and men and officers of the people's security forces to glorify his immortal revolutionary exploits for all ages and uphold the army-first revolutionary leadership of the respected Kim Jong Il with loyalty.
U.S. and S. Korean authorities hit for joint military drill
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, the U.S. and the South Korean ruling quarters announced a plan to hold the "reception, staging, onward-movement and integration exercise" for a week from April 15.
Minju Joson today in a signed commentary terms the U.S. troops' mobile exercise projected by the warmongers at home and abroad under the simulated conditions of war as an extremely dangerous military maneuver aimed at escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula.
The commentary goes on:
This indicates that the U.S. and the South Korean ruling quarters are putting spurs to rounding off preparations for a war against the DPRK.
Through the drill they seek to acquire and perfect the mobile warfare method such as airlifting and deployment in South Korea of U.S. troops from overseas bases and the method of mounting a surprise attack on areas of the DPRK.
No one can predict when the exercise will go over to an actual war.
If the DPRK-U.S. relations and the inter-Korean relations are to be improved the U.S. and the South Korean authorities should, first of all, drop hostility against the DPRK and a foolish attempt to stifle it with strength.
Nevertheless, they continue rushing headlong into war and confrontation against the DPRK, not detente and peace on the Korean peninsula. This is a challenge to the unanimous aspiration and desire of the people at home and abroad.
They are well advised to face up to reality and stop their rash acts and discontinue at once the north-targeted war maneuvers which will bring only their self-destruction.
Great leadership over human cause of independence
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate articles to the 35th anniversary of the Indonesia visit of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il, accompanying President Kim Il Sung, paid a historic visit to Indonesia from April 9 to 21, 1965 to participate in commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the first Asian and African conference.
The President's visit to Indonesia was a great event of historic significance in creating a favourable international environment for the cause of Korea's reunification and strengthening unity and anti-imperialist solidarity among the new emerging countries, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:
Kim Jong Il's visit to Indonesia was the first foreign visit made by him after starting his work at the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea. It was a landmark event in the development of the DPRK's foreign relations and a historic visit that made an immortal contribution to the human cause of independence.
Through his energetic activities during his visit he put the DPRK's foreign relations on a new higher stage and greatly contributed to strengthening unity and solidarity among the new emerging forces and other anti-imperialist independent forces of the world, thus performing great exploits in giving impetus to the human cause of independence.
The validity and vitality of the ideas and theories advanced by Kim Jong Il during his visit to Indonesia 35 years ago have been clearly demonstrated in practice.
He clarified all the principled demands, tasks and ways for the development of international relations based on sovereignty, such as the issue of building driving force to make the world independent, the need for developing countries to achieve independent development, the issue of strengthening unity and solidarity among the anti-imperialist independent forces, the issue of strengthening and developing the Non-Aligned Movement and the issue of destroying the old international order and establishing instead a new and fair international order.
These are the undying feats performed by him in the world revolution and the human cause of independence.
The history of his external activities is a great history recorded with his brilliant feats made in the world revolution and popular masses' cause of independence.
Atrocities of "ROK" army disclosed
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Washington Post dated April 7 disclosed that the "ROK" army killed over 1,000 innocent people in a village in south Vietnam in 1966 when it joined the U.S. in the Vietnamese War of aggression, according to a South Korean Yonhap News report from Washington.
The "ROK" army also killed at least 650 inhabitants in a village near that one at the same time.
Earlier, the U.S. weekly Newsweek reported that the "ROK" army killed thousands of civilians in south Vietnam during the war.
Pyongyang metro
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang metro is one of major transport facilities for the citizens.
The metro was opened to traffic in September Juche 62 (1973) and its line has since been extended on three stages.
It has two lines, one from north to south and the other from east to west.
The lines branch off to cover different districts as well as the suburbs.
The metro has ground and underground stations.
Underground stations boast of artistic decorations of murals, sculptures and lighting which suit the name of stations.
Kwangbok station is decorated with sculptures showing the struggle and living of anti-Japanese guerrillas in defence of the President Kim Il Sung who liberated the country for the Korean people, and with murals 70 metres long and 3.6 metres high.
Yonggwang station reflects the glory of the Korean people living under the generous socialist system, holding Kim Il Sung in high esteem. Large murals "spring of Pyongyang" 80 metres long and 4 metres high are mosaiced on the right and left walls of the station. Numerous electric lights are suspending from the arch ceiling like the galaxy in the nocturnal sky and pillars and chandeliers represent firecrackers.
Konsol (construction), Hwanggumbol (golden field), Sungri (victory), Kaeson (triumphal return) and all other underground stations have architectural, aesthetic, ideological and artistic features.
The Pyongyang metro is a monumental edifice built with domestic designs, technique and materials.
Memorandum of DPRK FM supported abroad
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Political parties of Peru and Finland supported the memorandum made public on March 21 by the DPRK Foreign Ministry to denounce the GIs' crimes against humanity during the past Korean War (June, 1950-July, 1953) the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru in a statement on April 3 demanded the United States admit killing more than one million innocent civilians in the North Korea during the Korean War though belatedly, honestly apologize for the crime before the Korean people and human conscience and immediately make adequate compensation for it.
The statement stressed that governments, political parties, organizations and individual figures of all countries and the United Nations and other international organizations and human rights organizations that value justice, peace and human rights should make an active investigation into GIs' mass killings, install a special tribunal and punish the criminals according to the international law.
The For Peace and Socialism-the Communist Worker's Party of Finland in an appeal to the UN on March 31 noted that the criminal acts committed by GIs against people during the past Korean War should be thoroughly investigated and those responsible for them be tried.
The appeal said that the U.S. crimes during the Korean War are the wanton violation of the international laws, including the Geneva convention and the Hague convention, and war law and regulations.
S. Korean workers in strikes threatened
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The "people's government" of South Korea on Sunday released a joint statement in the name of the "Minister of Finance and Economy" and ten other "ministers or directors," menacing workers in strikes, a radio report from Seoul said.
The statement branded workers' strikes for vital rights as "illegal group action" and called for "legal actions" against them.
Earlier, on April 7 at a meeting of public security-related "ministers" a similar threat was made against workers in strikes and an order issued to arrest 15 leading unionists of Daewoo Motor Co.
Flower named after Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 2nd Kimilsungia Show will be open in Pyongyang on Apr. 12 on the occasion of the 88th birth anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
The show sponsored by the Korean Kimjongilia Federation is expected to be 2.5 times larger than the first show in the number of participants.
Kimilsungia was bred by Indonesian botanist bunt in Juche 53 (1964) after many years of his painstaking research.
The then Indonesian President named this flower Kimilsungia in April, Juche 54 (1965) in high recognition of the immortal feats performed by Kim Il Sung for the human cause of independence.
This flower has since been spread to all parts of Korea and scores of countries, including China, Japan, Bulgaria, Guinea, Zambia and Colombia.
Kimilsungia is a plant of orchid.
The stem stands vertically with its height being 30-70 cm and leaves unrolling. Deep pink and purple flowers come into bloom one after another for about 100 days. The flower is 7-8 cm in diameter.
Three white points are clearly seen in pedals. This differs from other flowers of orchid.
It can be propagated by the methods of dividing roots and cutting and planting sprouts and tissue culture.
In the DPRK reference books needed for the cultivation and propagation of the flower including "technology for cultivating Kimilsungia" have been brought out and many poems and songs on the flower created.
Motorway to be lined with flowering plants and shrubs
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 40-km-long Pyongyang-Nampho motorway project currently undergoes an ambitious program of tree-planting and greenery layout.
The footpath will be lined on either side by trees and swards two to three metres in depth and the motorway by trees, greenery and ornamental thickets scores of metres deep.
A total of one million trees will be planted and the area of 84,000 square metres of strips covered by 1.13 million flowering plants and shrubs. Already, 110,000 white popular and other trees are in planting. Some 60 species such as larch, nut pine, pink acacia and apple trees will be available.
A single row of roadside trees will stretch along throughout on either side, spaced ten metres apart, except on bridges. Behind them will be laid out flower-beds.
The greenery will be interspersed with shapely clusters of roses, junipers and aromatic trees, each 500 metres apart, which give a pleasing, diversified impression.
The surrounding orchards will be preserved and some more planted, including terraced vineyards.
Some sections of the motorway will be lined with flowering shrubs.
Greenery work becomes more brisk with the advent of spring.
Supplies of trees stream out of south Phyongan and all other provinces.
WPK's unshakable will to defend revolutionary traditions reiterated
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- It is the unshakable will and determination of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) to accomplish the Juche revolutionary cause by preserving the revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese struggle, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It goes on:
The Juche revolutionary cause can be accomplished only when the revolutionary traditions established by the President Kim Il Sung in the forest of Mt. Paektu are taken as a lifeline. This is the unwavering faith of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il, considering the anti-Japanese revolutionary traditions as a cornerstone of eternal value for the WPK and the revolution, has led the revolution and construction on the basis of them and firmly protected their purity.
A lot of his works including "Let Us Thoroughly Equip Ourselves With Brilliant Revolutionary Traditions of Our Party" and "Let Us Successfully Carry Forward the Juche-Oriented Revolutionary Traditions" reflect his steadfast stand and point of view that the anti-Japanese revolutionary traditions should be adhered to as the only lifeline of the Korean revolution and immeasurably precious treasures.
He has always instructed that the education in the revolutionary traditions should be steadily intensified in the Korean People's Army (KPA) and among the people so that they might live and work in the same revolutionary spirit of Mt. Paektu as the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters displayed.
The revolutionary spirit of Mt. Paektu is the spirit of being intensely loyal to the leader by dedicating everything to him, the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude and an indomitable spirit.
The KPA and the Korean people have dynamically advanced along the road of revolution, braving ordeals unprecedented in history. This has been possible entirely thanks to Kim Jong Il who has steered the revolution and construction by firmly preserving the anti-Japanese revolutionary traditions.
There is a long and thorny way for the revolution to cover. But we will surely build a people's paradise, a powerful socialist nation in Korea desired by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners by holding fast to the Juche-oriented revolutionary traditions.
Leader of Sri Lanka Communist Party arrives
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Darrel Chandra Raja Collure, general secretary of the central committee of the Sri Lanka Communist Party arrived here today on the occasion of Sun's Day.
He was met by Choe Jin Su, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, at the airport.
Foreign guests arrive
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Directors of the board of the International Institute of the Juche Idea arrived here today to participate in its 15th meeting.
Among them were Chango Machyo, senior advisor to the Ugandan President, Joseph F. Mbwiliza, chairman of the State Standing Survey Committee of Tanzania, Alva Chavez, secretary general of the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea, and his party, Garib Newaz, executive director, and Manik Lal Shrestha, deputy director of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, Bruno Amoroso, secretary general of the European Regional Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, Reggie Ranatunge, vice-Minister of Ports Development, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Sri Lanka and advisor to the Sri Lankan Society for the Study of Self-reliance, and his party, P. Malanuk, vice-chairman of the Ukrainian Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, Debabrata Biswas, Indian parliamentarian, and Mustafa Jaber, chairman of the Jordanian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea.
Spokesman for DPRK FM on DPRK-German contact
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today in an answer given to a question put by KCNA refuted false rumours spread by some forces as regards the recent contact made between the DPRK Foreign Minister and the German Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
He said:
On April 5 the DPRK Foreign Minister met with the German Minister of State for Foreign Affairs during his stopover at Berlin en route to Colombia to participate in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of non-aligned countries.
At the contact the DPRK side informed the other side of the recent situation in Korea, its proposals for national reunification and independent foreign policy and both sides exchanged views on matters of mutual concern.
The Foreign Minister of the DPRK clarified its principled stand on a series of issues raised at the contact and both sides reached a consensus of views that it is in bilateral interests to continue discussions on issues of mutual concern in the future, too.
But some forces let media under their control spread misinformation about the contact. They asserted that German side put sort of "pressure" on the DPRK in a foolish bid to attain their sinister political purpose.
Friendly relations are established and developed between states not by any "request" or "pressure" from someone under any circumstances. But they are opened between them in any case according to each other's independent decision and judgement on the principle of sovereignty, mutual respect and equality.
The DPRK government will as ever establish and develop friendly and cooperative relations with all the countries which respect its sovereignty and are friendly to it in the basic idea of independence, peace and friendship.
Jang Chol meets delegate of Belarus
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Jang Chol, chairman of the organizing committee of the 18th April Spring Friendship Art Festival, met and had a talk with Boris Ivanov, first vice-Minister of Education who is a government cultural delegate of Belarus, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
North headquarters formed
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland and other social organizations of the DPRK at a meeting held in Pyongyang today decided to form north headquarters of the pan-national ad hoc committee for probing the truth behind GIs' mass killings.
Yun Ki Bok, presidium member of the central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, was elected chairman of the north headquarters and Jo Kyu Il, director of its secretariat, its secretary respectively. And its members were chosen from the social organizations concerned.
It was stressed at the meeting that the formation of the north headquarters was prompted by the patriotic desire to make the U.S. imperialists pay for all the mass killings committed in Korea and help all Koreans live in the coming new millennium as a dignified nation. And the meeting stressed the need for the headquarters to keep in close touch with investigation committees in South Korea and overseas to fully probe criminal atrocities committed by the U.S. Aggression troops and disclose them, go ahead with activities to inaugurate a pan-national ad hoc investigation committee and wage a dynamic anti-U.S. joint struggle.
Delegation of Koreans in Japan here
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- A delegation of Koreans in Japan headed by Kwon Sun Hwi, vice-chairman of the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, arrived here today by air on the occasion of Sun's Day.