Greetings to Chinese party and state leaders
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il together with President Kim Yong Nam of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and premier of the cabinet Hong Song Nam, sent a congratulatory message to Chinese party and state leaders Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the c.c., the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China and chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission, Li Peng, chairman of the standing committee of the PRC National People's Congress, and Zhu Rongji, premier of the PRC State Council, today on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the PRC.
Extending, in the name of the WPK and the DPRK government and the people, warm congratulations and greetings to the CPC, the government and the fraternal people of China on the anniversary, the message said:
Today the Chinese people, under the guidance of the communist party of China headed by respected Jiang Zemin, are working hard to implement the tasks laid down at the 15th party congress in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.
Signal achievements are being made in the socialist modernization drive with Chinese characteristics and stability and unity of the country hardened.
The People's Republic of China has consistently made sincere efforts for the unification of the whole country and significant contributions to defending global peace and security while pursuing its external policy of independence, sovereignty and peace.
We are rejoiced over the achievements of the Chinese people, wholeheartedly hoping that they will continue to make fresh successes.
It is the invariable position of the WPK and the DPRK government to set store by the Korea-China friendship and consolidate and develop it through generations to come.
We take this opportunity to express the belief that this traditional friendship will continue to strengthen and develop by the joint efforts of the two parties, governments and peoples and hope for prosperity and development of the PRC and happiness of the Chinese people.
Greetings to Nigerian President
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Thursday sent a message of greetings to Olusegun Obasanjo, president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Independence of Nigeria.
The message extended warm congratulations to the President, government and the people of Nigeria on the occasion.
It noted that over the past 40 years after the independence the Nigerian people have achieved many successes in the work to consolidate national unity and bring about economic prosperity and made positive contributions to the cause for peace and development of Africa.
It expressed the conviction that the good friendly and cooperative relations existing between the two countries would further strengthen and develop in the new century and wished the Nigerian President and people greater successes in their work for the prosperity of the country.
Message of sympathy to Cambodian Prime Minister
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Hong Song Nam, premier of the cabinet of the DPRK, sent a message of sympathy to Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
Upon hearing the sad news that the recent flood which hit many areas of Cambodia caused huge human and material losses, Hong Song Nam in the message expressed deep sympathy and consolation to the Prime Minister and, through him, to the people in the flood-stricken areas.
The message expressed the belief that the Cambodian people will recover from flood damage at an early date under the correct guidance of the respected King Norodom Sihanouk and the royal government and bring the living of the people in the flood-hit areas to normal.
Italian parliamentary delegation here
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- A parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Italy led by Luciano Violante, president of the chamber of deputies, arrived here today to visit the DPRK at the invitation of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK.
It was met at the airport by Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the SPA and officials concerned.
A function took place in welcome of the delegation.
Kim Jong Il's special envoy to visit U.S.
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Vice marshal Jo Myong Rok, first vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and director of the general political department of the Korean People's Army (KPA), will visit the United States from October 9, Juche 89 (2000) as a special envoy of the great leader Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the KPA.
He will be accompanied by Kang Sok Ju, first vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
During his visit to the U.S. he will meet and have an important talk with President Clinton. And the special envoy and his party will also meet the U.S. secretary of state to exchange with her views on issues related to bilateral relations.
His visit to the U.S. will mark an important occasion of contributing to the development of the DPRK-U.S. relations.
Symposiums to mark WPK birthday
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Symposiums are going on here as part of the commemorations of the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea. Symposiums of officials of party cadre training, educational and cultural and art institutions were held separately on September 29.
They dealt with the glorious history of the WPK in which it has grown stronger to be an invincible revolutionary party steeled and seasoned in the arduous revolutionary struggle for over half a century under the wise guidance of the great leaders President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Symposium of officials of party cadre training institutions noted that those institutions have trained a large contingent of cadres, the core elements of the party and leading members of the revolution, to firmly guarantee the development of the party and the victorious advance of the Korean revolution.
The speakers at the symposium of educational officials called upon them to perform their duty and role in educating the younger generation into communist revolutionaries of Juche type, boundlessly loyal to the great leader Kim Jong Il, by thoroughly applying the Juche-based idea of education into the socialist educational work and thus positively contribute to the building of a powerful nation.
Recalling that Kim Jong Il made literature and art serve as an ideological and moral weapon in bringing up the Korean People's Army and the people into those strong in faith and will and possessors of revolutionary optimism and inspired all of them in the sacred struggle to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche. The symposium of officials of cultural and art institutions hailed this as an immortal feat performed by him in the fields of culture and art.
3rd round of inter-Korean ministerial talks closes
jeju island, September 30 (KCNA) -- The third round of inter-Korean ministerial talks for the implementation of the north-south joint declaration which began on Jeju Island on Sept. 28 closed today.
At the talks both sides issued the following joint communique after making a positive assessment of the successful implementation of agreed points after the publication of the historic June 15 north-south joint declaration and vowing to continue to positively implement it:
The north and the south agreed to push ahead with the work to implement all the points already agreed upon between both sides for the implementation of the joint declaration and, at the same time, further a broad-based and in-depth discussion of the practical issues and sincerely implement them.
The Red Cross organizations of both sides for the solution of the issue of separated families and relatives will actively cooperate with each other to settle at an early date humanitarian issues including confirmation of whereabouts, exchange of correspondence and setting up of meeting rooms as well as the issues agreed upon at the second round of the talks.
Both sides appreciated the success of the first round of the working contact for providing institutional guarantee for economic cooperation and agreed to cooperate with each other to rapidly conclude the discussion of the issue of arranging the procedures for the solution to disputes and the system of settlement of accounts as well as the issues of protecting investment and preventing double taxation.
Both sides also agreed to separately study and implement the issue of inaugurating a "committee for promoting north-south economic cooperation" and the like if necessary in the future to keep pace with the growing cooperative relations in economic sector.
It was agreed to study and materialize the reasonable proposals on further promoting cooperation and exchange in the social, cultural, sports and all other sectors noted in the historic north-south joint declaration as part of celebrations of the first anniversary of the adoption of the declaration and the new millennium. Both sides agreed to hold the fourth round of inter-Korean ministerial talks from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 2000 and appoint the venue later.
Symposiums held in different countries to mark WPK birthday
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- A symposium of Peruvian political parties on the experience gained in Juche-based party building was held in Lima on Sept. 22 to mark the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Present at the symposium were leaders of different Peruvian political parties including the Socialist Party, the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students and the Revolutionary Socialist Party and political, public and academic figures and men of the press.
The speakers said that the Juche idea founded by the President Kim Il Sung is the most perfect revolutionary idea of the popular masses that represents the new era and that it evokes sympathy among a number of progressive political parties and the people all over the world and becomes the trend of the times.
They continued:
The 55-year history of the WPK is a history of the struggle for preserving and applying the Juche character.
The sagacity of the WPK's leadership lies in the fact that it has always made everything submit to the destiny of the Korean revolution and the nation.
It is the most brilliant feats performed by Kim Il Sung that he founded and developed a revolutionary party of new type guided by the Juche idea. The WPK will shine forever as Kim Il Sung's glorious party under the outstanding guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the symposium.
The letter said that it is entirely attributable to his tireless ideological and theoretical activities and outstanding army-first leadership that the WPK has been strengthened and developed into an ever-victorious party enjoying the absolute support and trust of the Korean people by creditably building socialism centred on the popular masses despite the vicious moves and threat of the imperialists and reactionaries to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
The letter extended support and encouragement to the WPK and the Korean people in their struggle to accelerate the building of a powerful nation and achieve the independent reunification of Korea by the concerted efforts of all the Korean people.
Similar symposiums were held by the group for the study of works of comrade Kim Jong Il of the Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana, the Guyanese Torchlight Taekwon-do Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung and the Juche Idea Study Society of Delhi, India, on Sept. 21 and 22.
A message of greetings and a letter to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the symposiums by the study group of the Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana and the Juche Idea Study Society of Delhi.
Reception on 51st anniversary of PRC
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Chinese ambassador to DPRK Wang Guozhang hosted a reception Friday on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
He referred to achievements made by the Chinese people after the foundation of the PRC.
He said that the Korean people are making great successes in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude to glorify the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) as a great festival of victors under the leadership of the great General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The Sino-Korean friendship which was provided by the leaders of the old generation of the two countries is deeply cherished by the two peoples, he said that it is the fixed policies of the Chinese party and government to steadily consolidate and develop this friendship.
He continued:
The May China visit of Kim Jong Il is of great significance in steadily developing the friendship in the new century.
The Chinese people, together with the Korean people, will make positive efforts to further develop the Sino-Korean friendship in the future, too.
Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in his address said that the PRC foundation was a historic event which brought an epochal turn in the Chinese people's history spanning thousands of years and the Chinese people converted formerly poor and backward China into a powerful socialist country in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude after its foundation.
The Chinese people have made successes in their socialist modernization drive with Chinese characteristics and in the struggle to achieve the unification of the country in hearty response to the decision made at the 15th congress of the Communist Party of China under the leadership of the party headed by Jiang Zemin, he said, adding: This shows that lines and policies pursued by the party and the government tally with the reality in China.
The Korean people are rejoiced over the successes made by the Chinese people as over their own, he said, wishing the Chinese people bigger success in their struggle to fulfil the task of the last year of the 9th 5-year plan.
Noting that the great leader Kim Jong Il visited China in May last and brought about a landmark event in putting the friendly relations between the two countries on a new stage, he said that the Korean people would work hard as ever to develop the DPRK-China friendship on good terms to meet the will and desire of the two peoples.
Spokesman of DPRK FM flays Japanese chief executive's claim to Tok Islet
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the recent claim of the Japanese chief executive that Tok Islet belongs to Japan.
He said:
It has been recently disclosed that Japanese Prime Minister Mori when asked about the stand of Japan on the issue of Tok Islet in an interview on Sept. 19, asserted that the islet is part of Japan's "territory." This is creating a great furore at home and abroad.
It is an established fact from a historical and international legal point of view that Tok Islet has been part of the inviolable territory of Korea from the olden times. No one can deny this.
We cannot but take a serious view of the fact that the Japanese chief executive unhesitatingly raised the claim to Tok Islet.
His assertion on Tok Islet fully proves that even today when the 20th century is nearing its end Japan is not abandoning its view on aggression of Korea and its militarist design for overseas expansion, that the Japanese authorities' loudmouthed "improved relations" with the DPRK is sheer hypocrisy and that their real intention is to take the road of reinvasion by repeating the crime-woven past.
History has already warned Japan that militarization and overseas aggression are a reckless adventure which precipitates its disgraceful ruin.
If Japan takes the road of overseas expansion again while resorting to the moves to turn Japan into a military giant, forgetting the lesson of history, it will not be able to escape fatal destruction as it is as foolish an act as jumping into fire with faggot on its back.
The Korean people are closely watching Japan's attempt at reinvasion and fully prepared to cope with any situation.
The Japanese authorities are well advised to stop acting rashly, facing up to the changed reality.
Anti-Chosun Ilbo campaign brisk in S. Korea
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- A campaign of boycotting Chosun Ilbo, an anti-national, anti-reunification newspaper, is now being conducted in various ways by public circles of South Korea, a local newspaper Hangyore reported.
The campaign involves "receipt of citizens' testimonies on false and distorted reports of Chosun Ilbo after the Kwangju movement for democracy in 1980," "exhibition of distorted reports of Chosun Ilbo" and "publication of a collection of articles favoring Japan carried by Chosun Ilbo during the Japanese imperialists' occupation of Korea."
In South Korea this campaign is called a movement for having a correct understanding of Chosun Ilbo.
The brisk movement is being spearheaded by the citizens solidarity against Chosun Ilbo, which was formed in Seoul on September 20 with several public organizations.
Japanese PM denounced for his blast
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Members of different South Korean political parties and organizations including the Democratic Labour Party, the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the headquarters of the Koreans movement for regaining Tok Islet held an anti-Japanese meeting in Seoul on September 28 to denounce the Japanese Prime Minister for claiming that Tok Islet is part of the Japanese territory, a local newspaper Hangyore reported.
Its participants demanded "Prime Minister Mori withdraw his reckless remark and sincerely apologize to the Korean nation for it." And they urged "the government not to stay calm any longer but strongly protest the Japanese government."
Japanese chief executive's claim to Tok Islet denounced
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Prime Minister when asked about "the stand of the Japanese government on the issue of Tok Islet" at a recent exclusive interview with a broadcasting corporation of South Korea, did not hesitate to assert it is Japan's "consistent stand" that "Tok Islet is an inalienable part of Japan's territory."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary vehemently denounces this as a wanton violation of the dignity and the sovereignty of the Korean nation and a reckless provocation.
Tok Islet is part of the inviolable territory of Korea and nobody can deny this from historical, geographical and international legal point of view, the commentary notes, and continues:
Our ancestors used the islet as a fishing center generation after generation since they discovered it before the year 500, according to historical data and documents. In the year 512 a national measure was taken to put the islet under jurisdiction of Uljin-hyon, Kangwon Province.
Tok Islet is also marked as part of the Korean territory in foreign maps.
The Japanese Prime Minister's outburst asserting the claim to Tok Islet is a very dangerous remark which should never go unnoticed.
In a nutshell, it again disclosed the sinister intention of the Japanese reactionaries to spark territorial dispute between Korea and Japan over Tok Islet and launch reinvasion of Korea under this pretext when an opportunity presents itself.
While calling for "dialogue" and "improved relations," Japan says that "it can not open diplomatic relations with the DPRK" pulling it up over the issue of "kidnapping" and "Tok Islet belongs to Japan." This double-dealing attitude of Japan only increases the DPRK's doubt about its true intention.
Japan should not play double-dealing tricks and eye for even an inch of land of the DPRK, urges the commentary.
WPK highly praised
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Diya Al Din Daud, general secretary of the Nasser Arab Democratic Party of Egypt, was interviewed by KCNA in correspondent Cairo on Sept. 24 on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
He said:
The foundation of the WPK by President Kim Il Sung was a historic event which brought about an epoch-making turn in the socio-political life of the Korean people.
The Korean people have built a new people-centered country in Korea, a land where backwardness and poverty once prevailed, and repelled the aggression by the imperialist allied forces, honorably defending the dignity of the nation and sovereignty of the country.
It is entirely thanks to the wise leadership of the WPK that the DPRK, independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence, has won one victory after another, meeting all sorts of challenges of history.
The WPK, which has grown stronger in the crucible of history, is now greeting golden days in its development as it has Kim Jong Il as its general secretary.
Korea's reunification and the cause of building a powerful nation are sure to be achieved under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Over 150 cases of U.S. aerial espionage against DPRK
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. committed at least 150 cases of aerial espionage against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September by mobilizing various types of strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes, according to military sources.
Among them were more than 40 flights by high-altitude strategic reconnaissance planes, anti-submarine patrol planes and electronic helicopters and over 100 flights by tactical reconnaissance planes.
On Sept. 29 U-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane flew above the area along the military demarcation line to spy on strategic targets in the DPRK.
Japan-based P-3 anti-submarine patrol plane flew above the east and west seas of Korea on Sept. 28 and 29 to carry out underwater espionage.