Greetings to Maldivian President
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, on July 25 on the occasion of its Independence Day.
The message extended warm congratulations to the President, government and people of the Maldives on the Independence Day.
Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two governments and peoples would grow stronger, it sincerely wished the President success in his work for the prosperity and development of the country.
Kim Il Sung's exploits lauded
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Solo Norbert Andriamorasata, national chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Madagascar, issued a press statement on July 17 to commemorate the sixth death anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
In the statement titled "We recall the exploits of President Kim Il Sung who built a people's country" he said:
Kim Il Sung was the first in history to advance the theory on building people-centred socialism and successfully put it into practice.
What is important among the feats performed by him while building Korean socialism centred on the popular masses is that he made the popular masses genuine masters of society, he saw to it that everything was made to serve the people and he built up the driving force of revolution by firmly uniting the masses around the party.
Korean socialism built by Kim Il Sung all his life is now being cemented as firm as a rock under the wise guidance of general secretary Kim Jong Il, the statement stressed.
Struggle against Japan's moves to grab Tok Islet called for
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article calls upon the Korean people to frustrate the Japanese reactionaries' moves to grab Tok Islet, a prelude to their reinvasion of Korea.
The article assails the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for claiming in its 2000-year "diplomatic bluebook" that Tok Islet is their "proper territory." This is a grave infringement upon the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation, the article says, and goes on:
Tok Islet has been part of Korea's territory since olden times.
According to historical materials and documents of Korea and Japan, Koreans discovered Tok Islet before 500 A.D. and have since used this as a fishing center.
A state measure was taken to bring Tok Islet under the jurisdiction of Uljin Prefecture, Kangwon Province in 512 A.D.
The Korean and Japanese geography books "Korean geography" and "Korea coastal pilot," etc. serve as evidence proving Tok Islet belongs to Korea.
The Japanese reactionaries once again laid bare their true colors as savage plunderers who stoop to nothing to achieve their design for territorial expansion when they raised this claim.
Japan's aim to grab Tok Islet is to loot natural resources abundant in the area surrounding the islet and build a military springboard on it from which to launch reinvasion of Korea.
The Japanese reactionaries' moves to grab Tok Islet have reached a very grave stage.
Recently the Japanese government took an administrative measure to apply Japanese census register to Tok Islet.
The three services of the Japan "Self-Defence Forces" secretly staged an "exercise of taking over Tok Islet" in Iojima recently.
They seek to let Japanese settle on the islet with their family registers and deploy "SDF" there under the pretext of "protecting" them.
The Japanese militarists' comeback to Tok Islet is near at hand.
Japan is keen on a war, not peace and watching for a chance for reinvasion of Korea.
The Korean people will never pardon the Japanese reactionaries' moves to grab Tok Islet, part of their inviolable territory.
The Japanese reactionaries should clearly understand the will of the Korean people and drop their absurd dream of grabbing Tok Islet.
Anniversary of Cuban people's armed uprising commemorated
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee cosponsored a rally and a photo exhibition here yesterday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the July 26 armed uprising of the Cuban people.
Present at the rally were Minister of Education Pyon Yong Rip who is also chairman of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee, vice-chairman Kim Jin Bom of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, officials concerned and working people in the city.
Cuban ambassador to Korea Jose Manuel Inclan Embade and embassy officials were invited there.
Speeches were made at the rally.
Before the rally, the participants looked round photos introducing Cuba.
Foreign diplomats visit war museum
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Officials in charge of cultural and friendly relations of foreign embassies here visited the victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum yesterday on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
The visitors looked round with keen interests historic relics, data and materials at the museum, being briefed on the brilliant victory the Korean people and army won in the war of justice under the wise guidance of the respected President Kim Il Sung.
Then they met and conversed with heroes and heroines of the DPRK.
Prior to their inspection of the museum, the visitors laid bunches of flowers before the sculpture "victory", the main theme of the monument to victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
Children's fine art exhibition under way
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A "talented children's fine art exhibition," the first of its kind, is going on at the Pyongyang International House of Culture amid keen interest of visitors.
On display there are at least 300 paintings done by O Un Byol, Hwang Kum Chol, Han Song Il, Kim Mo Ran, Kim Kyu Gwon, Son Yong Jin, Kim Il Song and Han Myong Jin who are well known at home and abroad.
They are classified according to the painters' ages ranging from 2 to 16.
Among those on display such drawings as crayon, marker and water-color painting "Grandfather's Centennial Birthday Party" done by Kim Kyu Gwon, Korean paintings "Snakehead" by O Un Byol and "Victory for Our Player" by Hwang Kum Chol, etc. have already been highly appreciated at a series of international fine art exhibitions.
The golden colored painting "A Double Rainbow Over Mt. Paektu" by Kim Il Song, the calligraphy "Single Mind" by Hwang Kum Chol, the Korean painting "Tiger" by Han Song Il and others were well received by various national fine art exhibitions.
These paintings won the admiration of the visitors for clever conception, peculiar composition and truthful depiction.
Those children are growing up to be promising artists through a systematic education.
O Un Byol, who is widely introduced through the documentary film "Five Years Old Painter O Un Byol" shown on television, the full-length novel based on a true story "Starlet" and a picture album and stamps, studies at the Korean painting faculty of Pyongyang University of Fine Arts.
Hwang Kum Chol is active at the National Fine Arts Studio.
Some time ago the great leader Kim Jong Il saw some 20 paintings by Han Myong Jin, 11, and praised him as a boy of rare talent.
Juche idea seminar held in Germany
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A seminar was held in Germany on July 15 under the subject "Juche idea and Korea."
Speakers at the seminar stressed that the Juche idea is a new, revolutionary idea centred on the popular masses, fathered by the President Kim Il Sung and developed in depth by General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea Kim Jong Il.
They mentioned originality of the Juche idea and its theoretical and practical significance, saying that the Korean people under the wise guidance of the respected Kim Jong Il are now dynamically building socialism with this idea as the guiding idea.
Highly praising the ideo-theoretical exploits and the greatness of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, they hardened the determination to intensify the activities of studying and disseminating the Juche idea.
Slogans put up by WPK
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea put forward slogans in every period and at every stage of revolutionary development to powerfully encourage the popular masses in the revolution and construction.
The revolutionary slogans have always become a banner of victory as they most correctly reflected the desire and demand of the popular masses and clearly indicated a correct orientation and target of struggle.
After the liberation of the country the party put forward the slogans "Factories to the workers" and "Land to the tillers ". They played a great role in carrying out the nationalization of the key industries and agrarian reform as they fully reflected the desire of the workers and peasants at that time.
In that period the party set out such slogans as "Let's greet the first spring in liberated Korea with increased production and don't let even an inch of land lie idle " to consolidate the success of the agrarian reform and lead all the democratic reforms to victory.
The slogans "Everything for the victory of the war ", "Let us defend every inch of the fatherland to the last drop of our blood " and "The rear is also the front " encouraged the whole army and all people to defend the country during the Fatherland Liberation War.
The slogans "Everything for the postwar rehabilitation and development of the national economy to strengthen our democratic base ", "Dash forward at the speed of Chollima " and "one for all and all for one " Became one of the main factors of accelerating the postwar rehabilitation and construction and the socialist industrialization.
The WPK laid down such slogans as "Let us meet the requirements of Juche in ideology, technology and culture ", "Let us produce, study and live as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did ", "Let us live our own way " and "Let us powerfully accelerate the general march of socialism in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude " to push forward socialist construction to victory without any twist and turn.
In recent years the party put forth the slogans "Follow up the 'arduous march' with a cheerful advance" and "Forwards for the forced march for final victory " under which the Korean people have made decisive breakthrough towards building a powerful nation.
This year the party laid down the slogan "Glorify this year, the WPK's 55th anniversary, with signal victory in the crucible of greatly increased activity of chollima " which powerfully encourages the Korean people in their dynamic drive.
Anniversary of Maldivian independence observed
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun here today dedicates a signed article to the 35th anniversary of the independence of the Maldives (July 26).
The Korean people extend friendly greetings to the Maldivian people on this day, the article says, and goes on:
The Maldivian people took the road of creating a new life after the independence of the country.
They have achieved many successes in their efforts to consolidate the political independence of the country and build new Maldives, while frustrating the imperialists' moves against the country.
Both the DPRK and the Maldives, being non-aligned countries, have developed friendly relations. The Korean people wish the Maldivian people greater success in their endeavors to build new, prosperous Maldives.
Anniversary of Cuban people's July 26 armed uprising observed
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate a signed article to the 47th anniversary of the July 26 armed uprising of the Cuban people.
Bullet-marks still left on the wall of the Moncada barracks clearly tell the people that the struggle of the Cuban people for freedom, independence and socialism was crowned with victory through an armed struggle, the article notes, and continues:
The Cuban people still remember the gun report at the Moncada barracks, which ushered in the dawn of socialism, though many years have passed since then.
Cuba is now engaged in the anti-imperialist struggle without gun-firing.
The Cuban people are firmly defending socialism under the leadership of the communist party of Cuba headed by Fidel Castro Ruz.
They are making successes in the socialist economic construction, overcoming difficulties despite the imperialists' persistent economic blockade.
The Korean people firmly believe that the Cuban people who are cementing the fortress of socialism as firm as a rock in the spirit of Moncada, will surely emerge victorious.
Minju Joson says nothing can block the Cuban people struggling to safeguard their motherland, revolution and socialism in the revolutionary spirit of Moncada.
Unpardonable act against implementation of north-south joint declaration flayed
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA)-- The South Korean Police Agency was reported to have threatened on July 23 to "arrest and investigate those people whose 'unlicensed' contact with the north on the occasion of August 15 liberation day is detected by it and stringently deal with those behind them."
It claimed that a typical example of the "unlicensed contact" with the north was the south side delegate's participation in the meeting of working officials held in Beijing early in May for the formation of a nationwide special committee for investigation into the truth behind GIs' mass killings.
This betrays its intention to crack down upon the south headquarters of the "nationwide special committee for investigation" which is spearheading the campaign to expose and condemn massacres of civilians by the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops in South Korea on charges of being a "backstage wire-puller."
The South Korean police authorities took the step to block any contact with the north and clamp down upon any movement for it at a time when all the fellow countrymen in the north, south and overseas are coming out to implement the historic declaration after supporting and hailing it. This is an unpardonable criminal act of putting a brake on the implementation of the declaration and challenging the drive to reunify the country independently by the concerted efforts of our nation.
This step is part of the anti-reunification, anti-national moves taken by those separatist forces at home and abroad displeased with our national unity and reunification because they are much upset by the developments today when the declaration has entered the phase of its full implementation and the anti-U.S. movement for independence is mounting in South Korea higher than ever before in the run-up to the 55th anniversary of Korea's liberation which will fall on August 15.
All the Korean people desirous of national unity and reunification bitterly denounce the anachronistic step taken by the South Korean police authorities, still pursuing north-south confrontation.
The historic north-south joint declaration cannot be implemented by sincere efforts of one party alone. It can bear good fruits only when both the north and the south and all the fellow countrymen unite and come out for reunification and patriotism.
If the South Korean police authorities treat those South Korean people who aspire after reunification as criminals and block their actions for reunification and patriotism against outside forces on charges of failure to get "approval," this act cannot be construed otherwise than an anti-national, anti-reunification act as it hinders the implementation of the declaration and runs counter to the process for improved north-south relations.
They must immediately withdraw their step of obstructing the implementation of the north-south joint declaration and refrain from cracking down upon the patriotic movement of South Korean people from all walks of life for reunification by linking them with the DPRK.
They must know that the entire nation and the world will follow their future attitude.
If they persistently take the road of confrontation, going against aspirations of all the fellow countrymen for great unity and reunification of the nation and the trend of the times, they will be wholly responsible for all consequences to be entailed by it.