Officials visit lodging quarters of unconverted long-term prisoners
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Party and state senior officials yesterday visited Pyongyang Koryo Hotel, the lodging quarters of the unconverted long-term prisoners who came to the socialist fatherland.
They included Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces and vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the WPK central committee, and Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly who are alternate politburo members of the c.c., WPK, Kim Jung Rin and Kim Yong Sun, secretaries of the WPK central committee, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the central committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, leading officials of public organizations and officials concerned.
They congratulated the unconverted long-term prisoners on their repatriation to the motherland under the warm care of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Il.
Complete collection of Kim Il Sung's works released
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House brought out vol. 32 of "Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works", a library of the Juche idea which systematically and comprehensively records in a chronological order famous works of the great leader President Kim Il Sung.
Contained in this volume are 30 works written by the president from October Juche 52 (1963) to January Juche 53 (1964), which include his speeches, concluding speeches and talks.
Russians pay respects to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Officials of the Russian Embassy here visited the statues of the great leader President Kim Il Sung in cities of Nampho, Wonsan and Haeju on Saturday to pay respects to him on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the end of World War II.
They laid bunches of flowers before the statues and made bows in deep reverence to the president who devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people, global peace and independence and the development of friendly relations among nations.
They also laid wreaths and bouquets before the liberation towers, monuments to the fallen soviet soldiers and their statues in those cities and paid a silent tribute to the memory of them who died in the sacred fight for the Liberation of Korea.
Death anniversary of Kim Po Hyon observed
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the grave of ardent patriot Kim Po Hyon, great-grandfather of the great leader Kim Jong Il, in Mangyongdae on Saturday on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of his death.
Seen at the grave was a wreath from Kim Jong Il.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Kye Ung Thae, Kwak Pom Gi and other senior party and state officials, servicemen and working people in the city.
Amid the playing of music wreaths and bouquets were placed before the grave in the name of the Workers' Party of Korea central committee, ministries, national institutions, units of the Korean People's Army, educational and press organs, and party and power bodies and farms in Pyongyang.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification hailed
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Communist Party of Chile joined in the international signature campaign supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
General Secretary Gladys Marin Milie signed the signature paper on behalf of the party on August 29.
WPK's benevolent politics praised
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Angel Castro Lavarello, chairman of the Peru-Korea Institute of Culture and Friendship, released a statement on August 29 as regards the repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners.
In the statement he praised those unconverted long-term prisoners as heroes, who overcame all sorts of torture, maltreatment and hardships for scores of years, cherishing only the deep trust of the great President Kim Il Sung and the sagacious leader Kim Jong Il.
Their repatriation is the result of the warmest love and solicitude of the respected Kim Jong Il who takes care of and protects each of the people to the last, the statement said, and went on:
Their repatriation is a demonstration of the great benevolent politics of the Workers' Party of Korea and of the faith and will of those trained by the WPK.
I am convinced that today unconverted long-term prisoners are coming into the care of the great leader Kim Jong Il but in the near future all people in South Korea will go under his benevolent care.
Strengthened solidarity with world people called for
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The calls of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea published in the run-up to its 55th anniversary expressed support and solidarity of the WPK and the DPRK government with the people in their struggle to defend national independence and sovereignty against exploitation and oppression by capital.
Saying that solidarity and unity are essentially required by the people's struggle for independence, Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article calls on the progressive forces to unite, support and solidarize with each other in the struggle to build a new world.
The imperialists and the reactionaries have talked a lot about the "end of socialism," describing it as the failure of the people's cause of independence, since the collapse of socialism in some East European countries, but the people's aspiration and call for independence are growing stronger than ever before.
This is evidenced by the ever-expanding and developing cause of independence including struggles for achieving class emancipation, national independence and the cause of national liberation, the struggle against imperialism and dominationism and all sorts of domination, subjugation and interference and the struggle for destroying the unfair international order and establishing a fair and equitable one, the article notes, and continues:
The popular masses should unite, support and solidarize with each other in order to steadily intensify such struggles.
It is the most effective strategy for the world people advocating independence to counter the imperialists' moves for split and alienation and their divide-and-rule tactics with the strategy of unity and solidarity. herein lies a sure guarantee for realizing global independence.
The Korean people will as always remain faithful to their sacred international commitments and further strengthen unity and solidarity with the people struggling to defend independence, the article concludes.