Intellectuals, lasting companions of Korean revolution

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of "Let us further enhance the role of intellectuals in the revolution and construction," a famous work of leader Kim Jong Il. On this occasion Rodong Sinmun and Minju Joson run signed articles stressing that intellectuals are lasting companions of the Korean revolution. In the work Kim Jong Il clarified the position and role of the intellectuals in the revolution and construction, original policy of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) towards intellectuals and issue of further strengthening the work among intellectuals. Rodong Sinmun says:
    The work serves as a guideline which put the position and role of the intellectuals in the revolution and construction on a new stage.
    The intellectuals represent a component of the driving force of revolution and a powerful force of the revolutionary struggle and social development.
    Without revolutionary intellectuals it is impossible to build up revolutionary ranks by awakening broad segments of people and push ahead with the noble work of building a prosperous country through dynamic economic and cultural construction.
    Only when the intellectuals share the destiny and purpose with their leader, can they make great contributions to the development of society as the independent driving force of revolution, the paper notes, stressing:
    An intellectual can not carve out his destiny and discharge his mission on behalf of the times and history, if he is not united with the leader in ideology, purpose, morality and obligation.
    Minju Joson calls on all the intellectuals to display their wisdom and energies and reliably support the building of a powerful nation of Juche with science and technology.

Kim Jong Il's work published in Trinidad and Tobago

Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous work "On thoroughly establishing the system of party leadership" was published in booklet by the heritage publishing house of Trinidad and Tobago on September 14. The work was released on April 28, Juche 68 (1979).

Preparatory committee for celebrating WPK anniversary formed in Ethiopia

Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of a preparatory committee was held by the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, group for the study of the Juche idea on Sep. 12 to mark the 55th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The meeting elected the head of the group chairman of the committee and decided on programme of functions to be held on the WPK anniversary.

Speech by head of DPRK delegation at Meeting of For. Ministers of Group 77

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The head of the DPRK delegation in his speech at the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Group 77 in New York on Sept. 15 reaffirmed that the DPRK will as always remain faithful to the noble aim and mission of the group 77 to establish a new international economic order based on justice, equality and impartiality. Special attention should be paid to the issues of displaying to the full the united power of the group 77 in the U.N. arena to meet new challenges of "globalization" and promoting the scientific and technological development of developing countries, he said.
    He called for taking practical measures to create international environment and conditions in favour of the economic growth and development of developing countries.
    He laid stress on establishing a fair international economic order and reforming the multi-purpose trade system and the international financial structure so as to expand preferential treatment and development loan to developing countries.
    The DPRK delegation considers that the issue of further strengthening the pivotal role of the U.N. in the analysis and the negotiations on international economic problems and in policy-making should be underscored in unison, he said.
    He expressed the belief that the U.N. General Assembly this year will be a meeting of significance in demonstrating the solidarity and cooperation of developing countries.

Japan is not qualified to sit on UNSC

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- It is not fitting for Japan to behave itself as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Instead, Japan must do what it should do above anything else, knowing where it stands. Rodong Sinmun today stresses this, commenting on the Japanese Foreign Minister's speech at the UN General Assembly session.
    The commentary says:
    The Japanese Foreign Minister said Japan is going to fully discharge its duty as befits a permanent UNSC member, making an effective use of its capability and experience in various fields such as disarmament and guarantee for human security.
    This shows that Japan, forgetful of its position, is impudently behaving itself as a permanent memeber of the UNSC.
    Japan contends that it has fully discharged its duty and role in the international arena. but its assertion is a lie.
    Capability of performance of international duty and role and standard of its appraisal are not decided by the amount of "contribution" to the UN or by economic potentials and military power.
    Japan is not eligible to occupy a permanent seat on the UNSC. It has made neither an apology nor compensation for the crimes it committed against the Korean people in the past.
    It is the height of sarcasm and shamelessness that Japan is behaving itself as a permanent UNSC member though it failed to do its past settlement, a top-priority issue, and get out of the disgraceful "enemy state."
    Such behaviour will further bring down the international confidence in Japan.
    Japan should clearly know where it stands and behave itself, squarely seeing the present situation.

National public presentation of science and technology held

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- A national public presentation of science and technology was recently held at Kim Chaek University of technology to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the movement of the "February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians". Presented there were at least 350 valuable scientific and technological data made by scientists and technicians who were active in different domains of the national economy in the recent few years. Among them were analysis of the cause of electric locomotive bogie destruction and measure for reinforcing the bogie, measure for protecting adhesion motor, technical reconstruction of oxygen plant and dressing of limonite dust ores and other technical problems whose solution is badly needed by railway transport and metal industry, and crushing technology through air current, rocking excavator and way of horizontal leaf mining and other successes gained in power and coal industries.
    Scientitic and technical successes gained in light industry included improvement of quality of footwear mould and technical reconstruction of vinyl chloride footwear injection process and production process of silk yarn. Also included there were data on breeding potato seed with no virus, establishing seed selection system and researching and introducing technology of overall potato processing.
    The "February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians" was organized in September Juche 64 (1975).
    The group of excellent scientists and technicians and university teachers has succeeded in more than 1,800 major researches over the last 25 years, thus greatly contributing to making the national economy Juche-oriented, modernized and scientific.
    It greatly helped establish technological process for production of large roller, complete the Juche-based iron-making method and develop large-capacity rectifier, a generator with a capacity of tens of thousands of kilowatts and 7,000 h.p. 8-axle electric locomotive and other modern machines. it also played a positive role in computerizing the comprehensive command of the water management of the River Taedong, weather forcasting, information of science and technology and operation and management of industrial establishments and other sectors.
    The shock brigade is now taking the lead in settling important scientific and technological problems at over 240 units in the major domains of the national economy.

New computer programs developed

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The Korean computer Center has developed new programs on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea (October 10). Among them are the operating system, Korean optical character recognition, Korean speech recognition and translation programs such as Korean input method editor.
    The Korean optical character recognition programme which needs latest technique has reached the recognition rate of 99.9 percent in printing and 95 percent in writing.
    The word recognition rate of the Korean speech recognition program is over 90 percent. The input words are more than 100,000.
    Multilingual translation program including Korean, Japanese, English and Chinese languages will be completed before long.
    The Korean-Japanese translation program and the Japanese-Korean translation program have been developed, winning public favour.
    The development of the English-Korean and Korean-English translation program is coming near completion.
    A signal success has been made in the research into Korean font and application program.
    Following this latest technology, a drive to bring the computer engineering across the country on to the world-level is being conducted in Korea.
    The prospect of Korean computer with scientists of twenties as the main force is bright.

DPRK Foreign Minister meets new Yugoslav ambassador

Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Paek Nam Sun, Foreign Minister of the DPRK, today met and conversed with Milorad Kosovac, new Yugoslav ambassador to Korea, who paid a courtesy call on him.

First-day meeting of second north-south Red Cross talks held

    Kosong, September 20 (KCNA) -- The first-day meeting of the second north-south Red Cross talks was held on Mt. Kumgang today to discuss humanitarian issues such as the exchange of visiting groups of separated families and relatives, the work of confirming whether they are alive or not and their addresses, exchange of correspondence, the issue of setting up and operating meeting rooms under the north-south agreement. At the talks the head of the north side stressed that two more visiting groups of separated families and relatives would be exchanged within this year by initiative efforts of the north side. in this connection, he set forth a reasonable proposal of the north side for the period and day of exchange and size of visiting groups.
    Presenting the proposal of the north side on the issue of confirming whether the separated families and relatives are alive or not and their addresses, exchange of correspondence and the issue of setting up and operating meetings rooms, he explained the stand of the north side on the humanitarian issues raised between the north and south including the matter of correcting deviations which have been made in the exhange of visiting groups in the past.
    The south side, too, brought forward its proposal on abovesaid issues.
    Both sides agreed to meet again after examining and discussing each other's stands.

For Spanish-speaking people

discurso de jefe de delegacion de rpdc en reunion de grupo de los 77

    pyongyang, 20 de septiembre (atcc) -- el jefe de la delegacion de la rpdc al hacer uso de la palabra el dia 15 del mes en curso en nueva york en la reunion de los cancilleres del grupo de los 77 senalo: la republica popular democratica de corea quedara fiel tambien en el futuro al sublime objetivo y mision del grupo de los 77 para establecer un nuevo orden economico internacional basado en la justicia, la igualdad y la imparcialidad.
    en la escena de la onu se debe manifestar vigorosamente la fuerza unida del grupo de los 77 para hacer frente a los nuevos desafios de la "globalizacion" y dar importancia especial a acelerar el desarrollo de la ciencia y tecnica de los paises en vias de desarrollo.
    tambien se debe tomar medidas de accion practica para crear condiciones y circunstancias internacionales favorables para el aumento y el desarrollo de la economia de los paises en vias de desarrollo.
    se debe establecer un equitativo orden economico internacional y reformar el sistema de comercio multilateral y la estructura monetaria internacional en direccion de ampliar el tratamiento favorecido y la financiacion para el desarrollo en los paises en vias de desarrollo.
    la delegacion de la rpdc considera que se debe subrayar el problema de fortalecer el papel centrico de la onu en la analisis, negociacion y elaboracion de la politica en cuanto a los problemas economicos internacionales.
    estoy convencido de que la asamblea general de la onu de este ano se hara una reunion de gran significado para manifestar la unidad y la colaboracion de los paises en vias de desarrollo.