Kim Yong Nam and his party return home
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, and his party, who left Pyongyang to attend the new UN Millennium Summit to be held in New York, returned home today after canceling their plan to participate in the summit as regards the serious incident caused by the brazen-faced and brigandish obstructive moves of the U.S. administration authorities.
They were met at the airport by Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yun Hyok, secretary of the SPA presidium, Paek Nam Sun, Minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned and Wang Guozhang, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.
Spokesman for President of DPRK SPA interviewed in Frankfurt
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, and his party which had left Pyongyang to attend the UN Millennium Summit slated in New York had no alternative but to return home after canceling their plan to participate in it due to the unreasonable obstructions on the part of the United States. In this connection the spokesman for the President of the SPA presidium of the DPRK had a press conference with mediapersons of various countries of the world in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 5.
Present at the press conference were suite members of the President of the SPA presidium, and reporters of leading media of Germany, the U.S., Britain, Japan and other countries and South Korea.
Choe Su Hon, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs who is the spokesman for the President, released a statement.
The statement said:
The President of the spa presidium of the DPRK and his party which had been on transit in Frankfurt airport to attend the UN Millennium Summit were compelled to return home after canceling their plan to participate in it due to the unreasonable obstructions on the part of the U.S. side.
At the time the President and his entourage were about to board the already booked American Airliner "AA 176" after going through all transit formalities as per the publicly recognized regulation in Frankfurt airport on Sept. 4 those who style themselves U.S. Air Security Agents showed up there and treated them like criminals. They opened the luggage and hand luggage of all the suite members and pressurized them to undress and put off their shoes. They went the length of searching even such private regions of their bodies that baffle description.
They attempted to do such a rude thing against the President, too.
We lodged a strong protest with them against this after flatly rejecting such inspection on the spot and demanded they immediately report this to Washington.
The American Air Security Agents reappeared after their brief disappearance and said what they did was instructed by their superior. And they provocatively charged that anyone from North Korea and seven other countries labeled "rogue states" are unconditionally subject to the above said strict inspection, otherwise no one is allowed to board the plane.
They cancelled our seats in the plane without any prior agreement with us.
This rude provocation of the United States to the President of the spa presidium who represents the DPRK, a dignified UN member, is a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of an independent state, an intolerable abuse and insult to human rights and a blatant challenge to the exercise of rights by the member countries according to the UN Charter and the United Nations and the summit organized by it.
This is, at the same time, a high-handed act of ignoring the international law and international usage.
The incident cannot be construed otherwise than a deliberate and premeditated act conducted under a pre-arranged script of the U.S. administration.
The U.S. blocking of the entry of the President and his entourage into the U.S. even after issuing entry visas to them and inviting them even to a banquet to be hosted by President Clinton glaringly shows the sinister and cunning double-dealing trick of the United States.
All this goes to prove that the U.S. is a typical state of rogues.
We bitterly condemn this unreasonable act on the part of the U.S. as a flagrant violation and challenge to the UN Millennium Summit, the first of its kind in the history of the united nations, and the UN Charter.
The U.S. side should formally apologize for the serious act committed against the President of the spa presidium and will have to own full responsibility for all the ensuing consequences.
Floral basket to Kim Jong Il from Moammer El Gaddafi
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a floral basket from colonel Moammer El Gaddafi, leader of the great September 1st Revolution of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, with the approach of the 52nd anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The floral basket was handed to an official concerned by Taher al Muhdi Arifa, acting secretary of the people's bureau of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in Pyongyang, on Tuesday.
Palestinian ambassador gives reception
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Palestinian ambassador to the DPRK gave a reception on Tuesday on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the DPRK.
Invited to the reception were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Jang Chol, vice-chairman of the SPA, Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, Pak Tong Chun, vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials concerned.
Ambassador Shaher Mohammed Abdlah made a speech at the reception.
He said that he was very pleased to celebrate the anniversary of the DPRK founded by the eternal great leader President Kim Il Sung, together with the Korean people.
He went on:
The great leader Kim Jong Il is making an endless trip on on-the-spot guidance for the country's reunification and the prosperous future wished so much by the President, devoting all his efforts to the people. The whole world, therefore, looks up to him as the leader of the Korean nation.
Kim Jong Il ensured that the north-south summit was successfully held and unconverted long-term prisoners, loyal fighters who remained true to their faith were repatriated.
The ambassador extended warmest congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the anniversary of the DPRK and hoped that he would enjoy a long life in good health to continue wisely leading the friendly DPRK.
Vice-president Yang Hyong Sop in his speech said that the warm congratulations extended by the Palestinian people to the Korean people on the anniversary of the DPRK mean strong support and encouragement to them who are all out in building a powerful socialist nation under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il and a clear proof of the true and warm friendly bonds between the two peoples.
The friendship between the DPRK and Palestine, which is growing stronger with the flow of time, is based on the special relations the President forged in his lifetime with the respected President Arafat in the course of several meetings, he said.
Noting that Kim Jong Il has always paid deep attention to the development of friendly relations with the Palestinian people, who have pulled through all hardships and trials together with the Korean people, he said that the Korean people would make positive efforts to further strengthen and develop the friendly and cooperative relations with the Palestinian people in the future, too, true to the behest of the President and the intention of Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il's work published in booklet in Cambodia
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The famous work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il "The Worker's Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" was published in booklet on Sept. 1 by the Entrimiaec Publishing House of Cambodia.
The booklet in its preface says it is a great honor to publish in Khmer and disseminate the work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the glorious WPK.
Preparatory committee for celebrating DPRK anniversary formed in Mongolia
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- A Mongolian preparatory committee for celebrating the 52nd anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was inaugurated in Ulaan Baatar on Aug. 25.
The preparatory committee decided to hold colorful functions including a celebration meeting and a photo exhibition on the occasion.
Ceremony of handing over "no smoking torch" in southeast Asia held
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of handing over "no smoking torch" in southeast Asia was held at the DPRK embassy in New Delhi on September 1.
At the ceremony DPRK ambassador Pak Myong Gu informed its participants that the DPRK fixed a "week of no smoking campaign" and held various functions before handing over the torch to the assistant secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India.
Present at the ceremony were officials concerned of the southeast Asia regional office of the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
KCNA urges Japan to mull over its involvement in "TMD" development
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- As reported, the United States recently decided to temporarily suspend the development of the controversial "National Missile Defense" system (NMD), which has been a matter of great concern of the international community.
Terming this decision as a "well-advised attitude," the world is urging the U.S. not to temporarily suspend but totally withdraw the "nmd" system.
It is, however, only Japan that feels uneasy about the U.S. decision. Officials of its defence agency are racking their brains to assert that the "NMD" system of the U.S. and the "Theatre Missile Defence" system (TMD) now being jointly developed by Japan and the U.S. are different from each other.
Japan's contention is that the development of the "TMD" system should be continued regardless of the U.S. decision.
What should not be overlooked is that Japan is again citing a "missile threat" from the DPRK to justify its assertion.
This irrefutably proves that Japan seeks to develop and round off the "TMD" system at any cost under the pretext of this "threat" from the DPRK to hold military supremacy in East Asia.
The greatest destabilizing military factor in East Asia is not a "threat" from anyone, but the moves to develop the "TMD" system jointly stepped up by Japan and the U.S.
If the U.S. and Japan go ahead with the development of the "TMD" system, this will prompt other Asian countries to develop new types of weapons capable of destroying it or rapidly increase their strike capabilities.
This means a new arms race in East Asia and it will entail unimaginably serious disasters.
Greetings to Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The great leader Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, received a message of greetings from Fedel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, on Sept. 1 on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the DPRK.
Extending warmest and fraternal congratulations to Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam, the WPK and the government and the people of the DPRK on the occasion in the name of the communist party, the government and the people of Cuba, the message says:
Wisely guided by Kim Jong Il the Korean people are now working hard to fulfil the enormous tasks of developing the national economy, increasing defence capabilities and achieving independent and peaceful reunification of the country true to the behest of unforgettable President Kim Il Sung.
The Cuban people highly praise the Korean people's heroic and stubborn struggle.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to affirm you that the Cuban people who cherish the noble socialist idea as the fraternal Korean people do will as always take side with them in their struggle to defend sovereign rights, justice and their rights to peace and happiness.
I sincerely wish you good health and many successes in your responsible work.
Music and dance performance in welcome of unconverted long-term prisoners
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- A music and dance performance was given by artistes of the Mansudae Art Troupe at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre yesterday to welcome the unconverted long-term prisoners, indomitable patriotic fighters for reunification.
The performance was seen by senior party and state officials Kim Il Chol, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Jung Rin and officials concerned, families and relatives of the unconverted long-term prisoners and working people in the city.
Put on the stage beginning with the chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il" were piano duet and chorus "We Won Victory With Leader," and song and dance accompanied by Oungum "Dear General, Where Are You?" and chorus "No Motherland Without You" and other number.
The performers represented well the struggle of the Korean people who are adorning the arduous. Korean revolution with glory and victories, demonstrating to the world the dignity and honor of the motherland and the nation under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and the respected leader Kim Jong Il.
Male vocal solo "Ode to Faith and Will," female vocal solo "I Will Live Forever With the Motherland", dance "Victory of Revolution Comes In Sight" and female vocal solo "Reunification, Reunification" and other number reflect the indomitable spirit of the Korean people who have grown up as ideologically strong men and fighters strong in faith and will.
The performance was acclaimed by the audience for its high ideological and artistic level.
Okryu bridge
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Okryu bridge across the River Taedong in downtown Pyongyang was opened to traffic on August 13, Juche 49 (1960).
Linking the eastern and western parts of Pyongyang, it adds to the capital's beautiful scenery, flanked down the river with the 170-metre-tall tower of the Juche idea, the matching 150-metre-tall twin fountains and some historical relic units, and up the river with moran hill, one of Pyongyang's scenic attractions, and the picturesque Rungna Islet with the May Day Stadium on, the venue of the opening ceremony of the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students.
The bridge was built on the basis of all technical considerations including its correlation with the natural conditions of moran hill and artificial structures, particularly the Taedong bridge farther down the river. It survived the flood that struck the River Taedong area in the late 1960s.
Its either entrance is decked with two big square granite heads of balustrade and chandeliers, the granite embossed with an inscription of its name in President Kim Il Sung's handwriting. It was named Okryu (bead-like flow) by him.
It is some 700 metres long by 28.5 metres wide, and its motorway is separated from the pavement by lamp posts.
With inter-pier arches, the bridge is of unique architectural style blending with national flavor.
Over the four decades, the bridge has brought immense benefit to the nation's economic development and the citizens' comfort. It connects the major loops in Pyongyang and caters to commuter traffic between its east and west by means of trolley-bus and other services.
The bridge is a pride of Pyongyang citizens.
Letter of thanks to Kim Jong Il from unconverted long-term prisoners
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a letter of thanks on Sep. 4 from unconverted long-term prisoners, indomitable pro-reunification patriots, who received the national reunification prize.
The letter said:
It was not our exploits that we courageously pulled through incredible hardships, refusing to make an ideological conversion, but a bounden duty to be fulfilled by us sons of the country and soldiers of President Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il. Yet, you have bestowed all loving care and trust you could upon us. We would like to offer our deepest thanks to you for this.
Though we were put to unendurable torture in dark prison, we steadfastly followed the road of reunification and patriotism true to the great love, sense of obligation and will the President and you instilled into us to be our patriotic soul.
It is the Korean nation's greatest luck to have you, the greatest man, as our leader and it is the biggest fortune for us soldiers to advance along the road of revolution, holding you in high esteem.
In the letter they renewed their pledge to remain loyal to Kim Jong Il to the last moments of their lives and let their sons and daughters honor generation after generation what they leave unfulfilled and thus repay even a bit the great benevolence bestowed upon them by the marshal, the benefactor of their lives and a great teacher.
52nd DPRK anniversary marked in Guyana
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- A joint meeting of political parties and organizations of Guyana was held in Georgetown on Aug. 30 to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Robert Williams, general secretary of the Good Green Guyana, made a speech on behalf of his party.
He said the President Kim Il Sung, who rose as the sun of the nation when Korea was under the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists, organized the anti-Japanese armed struggle and liberated the country.
Today, thanks to the outstanding and tested leadership of the great leader Kim Jong Il Korea is displaying its might as an ideologically and militarily powerful country matchless in the world, he stressed.
The chairman of the Guyana Labour Union in his speech on behalf of the organization said that the heroic spirit, fighting strength and unity power of the Korean people were instilled and fostered by Kim Il Sung and consolidated by Kim Jong Il.
A congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
Great man and victors of strong faith
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Papers on Tuesday carried an article titled "Great Man and Victors of Strong Faith" hailing the return of unconverted long-term prisoners in South Korea to the socialist fatherland.
The article said:
It was thanks to the great leader Kim Jong Il, a man without a parallel in the world, that the unconverted long-term prisoners could emerge as ideologically strong men and victors of strong faith, and the source of their strong faith was their worship of and trust in the great man and his charm.
Their lives are characterized by the purest and most transparent faith and intense loyalty and the sense of obligation with which they defended the great idea.
They are the giants who emerged in the history as proud victors of faith in socialism after courageously weathering out the anti-socialist wind that swept the world.
Noting that their faith and will would have been unthinkable without Kim Jong Il, the article referred to the measures taken by him for their repatriation to the fatherland and his noble comradeship shown for them.
The article went on:
The repatriation of a group of unconverted long-term prisoners to the socialist fatherland to be specially recorded in the history as a miracle in the 20th century is the fruition of Kim Jong Il's great idea, warm love and noble sense of obligation.
A soldier who lives under the great care of Kim Jong Il, his destiny entrusted to him, would never feel lonely even on an isolated island, never be afraid of a hell and never yield to any violent storm.
Masses of people are subject of social history
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Juche philosophy clarifies from a new angle that masses of people are the subject of history.
It means that the masses of people stand in the center of history and a social movement is conducted by them.
The human history is the course of social movement of the masses of people, i.e. the course of the movement of its subject. Because it is the masses that require social development and it is also the masses that carry it out.
Without the masses there would be no social movement itself, nor would any progress of history be conceivable.
The masses of people are the masters of the revolution and construction and a decisive factor in transforming nature and developing society.
The masses have the most powerful creating ability in transforming nature and society.
It is thanks to the inexhaustible strength of the masses that everything in society is being created, history progresses and revolution is promoted.
The masses of people create material wealth by transforming nature and developing productive forces and accumulate ideological and cultural treasures of society.
The masses of people are the subject of history as everything in society is created by them and history is made and advances thanks to them.
The position of the popular masses and their power growing stronger through the transformation of nature and society will increase their positive influence over the socio-historical development that much.
Though popular masses are subject of history, they can be awakened and organized to take the position and play the role as an independent driving force of history only under the correct guidance of the party and the leader.
Number of organizations for study of Juche idea on increase
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- More organizations for the study of the Juche idea made their appearance in various countries of the world.
Some time ago, the Center for the Study of the Juche Idea was inaugurated at Chingiskhan College of Mongolia and the Society for the Study of the Juche Idea and the Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea were formed in Russia and Bangladesh.
New organizations for the study of the Juche idea appeared in at least 10 countries including Lebanon, Morocco and Egypt this year.
The last four years witnessed the emergence of more than 30 organizations for the study of the Juche idea amid the growing enthusiasm of the world progressive people to follow and study the Juche idea.
Those organizations group people from all walks of life, among them not only persons of academic circles and press, youth and students but senior party and government officials of respective countries. The organizations are conducting diverse activities to study and disseminate the Juche idea such as seminars, lecture meetings and distribution of information through the internet.
The organizations for the study of the Juche idea active in over 30 countries have held more than 200 national seminars, joint seminars and lecture meetings on the Juche idea this year.
More than 1,000 organizations for the study of the Juche idea have been active in at least 100 countries for the last 30 odd years since the "Group for the Study of the Works of Comrade Kim Il Sung" was formed in Mali in April, Juche 58 (1969).
As the study and dissemination of the Juche idea assumed a global dimension the International Institute of the Juche Idea was established in April 1978, the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea in February 1978 and the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea in September 1980, the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea in April, 1985 and the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea in October 1985.
These institutes have organized international and regional seminars every year and issued publications to explain and disseminate the Juche idea.
Defending independence against imperialism
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- It is an important task for the advance and victory of the people's cause of independence to wage an anti-imperialist struggle, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
In order to realize the common desire of humankind to live in a free and peaceful world, it is imperative to struggle for defending independence against imperialism, the article says, and goes on:
By nature imperialism is opposed to independence. Its mode of existence is to infringe upon the sovereignty of the popular masses.
The imperialists work hard to preserve their old order of domination and rule by force of arms and bring the world under their control.
They seek to establish political domination over the anti-imperialist independent countries and those countries which do not curry favour with them.
They are pushing forward the development of new types of nuclear weapons and the arms race under the signboards of "peace" and "disarmament."
What is important in the anti-imperialist struggle is to maintain a principled stand on imperialism.
Unity is a decisive guarantee for the victory in the struggle for independence against imperialism.
The driving force in the struggle for independence in each country is its people and all the anti-imperialist independent forces are the engine of the struggle for global independence against imperialism.
All the anti-imperialist independent forces in the world can surely destroy imperialism and build a new independent world if they unite close under the banner of the struggle for independence against imperialism irrespective of ideology, system and religious belief to shatter all the imperialist moves for division and alienation.