Greetings to Slovenian President
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, yesterday sent a message of greetings to Milan Kucan, Slovenian President, on the occasion of its Independence Day.
The message sent warm congratulations to the Slovenian President, government and people on the Independence Day and wished him and the Slovenian people success in their work for prosperity of the country.
It expressed the conviction that the relations between the two countries would continue to develop on good terms.
Meanwhile, premier of the DPRK cabinet Hong Song Nam and Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun respectively sent messages of greetings to their Slovenian counterparts Andrey Bayuk and Aloiz Peterle.
Film show
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea arranged a film show here today on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Invited there were foreign diplomatic envoys and members of the missions of international organizations here.
Present there were Minister Paek Nam Sun and vice-Minister Pak Tong Chun of foreign affairs and other officials concerned.
The participants saw a Korean documentary film "The Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il Is a Great Thinker and Theoretician" which records revolutionary activities of Kim Jong Il who has performed immortal exploits to shine long in history by developing and enriching the Juche idea, a great guiding idea in the era of independence, and giving perfect answers to questions arising in the political, economic, cultural and military and all other fields.
Independence Day of Madagascar marked
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) --Minju Joson yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of Madagascan independence.
The paper in a signed article said the Korean people extend warm congratulations to the Madagascan people on the 40th anniversary of independence.
The paper said:
The Madagascan people are now making efforts to achieve national unity, develop the national economy and build a new society in which justice and truth are realised.
Madagascar is pursuing policy of non-alignment externally and developing friendly and cooperative relations with other countries.
The Korean people are rejoiced over the successes made by the Madagascan people in the efforts to build a new society.
Believing that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would further develop, the Korean people wish the Madagascan people fresh success in their efforts to build a new society.
Korean books presented to Pan-African Movement
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Korean books were presented with due ceremony at the secretariat of the Pan-African Movement on June 16.
The DPRK ambassador conveyed famous works of the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il to acting general secretary K. David Mafabi.
The acting general secretary said that their celebrated works are the ideological and theoretical wealth of humankind for their theoretical and practical significance.
Japan urged to mind its own business
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries again came out with the issue of "six-party talks on 'security and cooperation' in the Korean peninsula and northeast Asia" and are busy with despicable solicitation diplomacy to put it into practice. This has come in for criticism by a signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun today.
The commentary says:
As already known to the world, Japan-proposed "six-party talks" allegedly aimed to discuss and settle the issue of the Korean peninsula by the concerted efforts of its neighboring countries are an interference in the Korean nation's internal affairs and a grave violation of its sovereignty as the real aim of the talks is to solve the Korean issue in Japan's interests.
Through the "six-party talks" the Japanese reactionaries seek to edge themselves into the Korean issue and fish in troubled waters, the commentary notes, and goes on:
They do not want peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula but only wish to see it divided forever. That was why whenever the desire for reunification mounted on the Korean peninsula they worked hard to chill it and incite division.
The "six-party talks" peddled by them again are intended to achieve their sinister political aim to bar the north and south of Korea from making their efforts for its independent reunification by poking their noses into its reunification issue.
The Japanese reactionaries are the sworn enemy of the Korean people and disturber of Korean reunification.
Japan is well advised to make a positive option to honestly settle its past and improve the DPRK-Japan relations, instead of staging poor solicitation diplomacy over the "six-party talks."
The DPRK will never pardon anyone seeking to achieve a sinister aim by getting involved in the issue of Korean reunification, the internal affair of the nation.
Japan had better properly judge the DPRK's will and stand and mind its own business.
Exhibition hall of works on Juche idea
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- A great number of people have visited the exhibition hall of works on the Juche idea in Pyongyang.
The exhibition hall opened in December, Juche 87 (1998).
Nearly 310,000 working people and school youth and children have visited the hall so far.
Exhibited in the hall in chronological order are more than 3,300 works written and published by the President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Among them are over 2,650 works out of at least 3,000 works published by Kim Il Sung during his revolutionary activities.
His first work is "Down With Imperialism" (Oct. 1926) and the last work is "On Bringing New Revolutionary Turn In the Socialist Economic Construction" (July 1994).
More than 670 works of the works published by Kim Jong Il are on display.
A sand table and works in foreign languages show that about 24,550,000 works were published in some 60 foreign languages in over 100 countries.