August.16.2000 Juche 89

[CONTENTS]

• Greetings to President of Gabon

• Greetings to Indonesian President

• Congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il from Chongryon

• Congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il from NDFSK

• Relay groups carrying letters of loyalty start

• Evening gala of youths and students

• Foreigners visit Ssuksom revolutionary site

• Russian charge d'affaires ad interim hosts reception

• Reunion of separated families and relatives in Pyongyang

• Visiting group of separated families and relatives of south side sojourns in Pyongyang

• Separated families and relatives of both sides reunite with each other in Seoul

• New stamps

• DPRK ready to receive all unconverted long-term prisoners

• DPRK representative speaks at UN sub-commission meeting on human rights

• Day of great victory in battles for national liberation marked

• Pan-national rally held in S. Korea

• NDFSK debates on tasks to carry out north-south joint declaration

• Japan warned against tampering with history

• Three-point charter of Korea's reunification favored

• Society for study of Juche idea inaugurated in Russia

• Kim Jong Il's famous work published in Peru