Bouquets laid before bust of Kim Jong Suk
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Jose Manuel Inclan Embade, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, and members of the embassy laid bouquets before the bust of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk at the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong on December 25 on the occasion of her 83rd birth anniversary.
After placing bouquets, they paid a silent tribute to her who made an immortal contribution to the sacred struggle for the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Kim Jong Il sends gifts to officials of Chongryon
Pyongyang, December 24 (KNS-KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Tokyo on December 23 to convey the new year gifts sent by the great leader Kim Jong Il to the officials of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and the patriotic traders and industrialists.
So Man Sul, first vice-chairman of the central standing committee of Chongryon, said in a speech that the gifts are associated with the deepest trust and the greatest expectation of Kim Jong Il for the officials of Chongryon and the patriotic traders and industrialists. He extended the highest glory and the warmest thanks to the leader.
Referring to the successes made in the work of Chongryon, he said that they are the result of the devoted services the Chongryon officials, patriotic traders and industrialists and compatriots have made, deeply convinced that they are sure to win if they trust and follow Kim Jong Il only.
He called on the officials of Chongryon and compatriots to energetically carry out the patriotic work of Chongryon in the new year Juche 90 as intended and wished by the leader.
Over 120 works of Kim Jong Il brought out
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The great leader Kim Jong Il published many works indicating the road to be followed by the Korean revolution and the world revolution, a result of his outstanding ideological and theoretical activities in the 1990s.
The Worker's Party of Korea Publishing House has brought out at least 120 works out of them.
Kim Jong Il clearly proved the inevitable triumph of socialism as a science at a time when socialism collapsed in a number of countries due to renegades of revolution in the early 1990s, taught a historical lesson in building socialism and set out tasks and ways to defend and glorify Korean-style socialism. This was an immortal contribution to saving the cause of socialism from a crisis and triumphantly advancing it.
Typical of those works are "Socialism Is a Science", "the Historical Lesson in Building Socialism and the General Line of Our Party", "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable", "Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish" and "Socialism Is Lifeline of Our People."
When the President Kim Il Sung demised, the nation's greatest loss, Kim Jong Il published "the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung Is Always With Our People", "Let Us Always Hold the Great Leader in High Esteem and Accomplish His Cause" and other famous works, thus inspiring them to implement his last instructions in order to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Kim Jong Il also authored many other famous works clearly teaching the truth of the great Juche idea and ways to embody it and giving lucid answers to the issues arising in political, military, economic, cultural and all other fields.
Sports tournament for Osandok Cup closes
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- A sports tournament for Osandok Cup which was opened on December 20 to mark the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk closed.
Its participants competed in at least 20 events including basketball, volleyball, table-tennis and marathon in Pyongyang and various local areas.
They displayed to the full their own sport methods and high technique.
Prizes were awarded to the sports teams and athletes, who distinguished themselves, at a closing ceremony held in Chongjin on December 24.
Christmas masses held
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Christmas masses was held at Pyongyang Pongsu Church yesterday.
Present there were Rev. Kang Yong Sop, chairman of the c.c., the Korean Christian Federation, ministers of the federation, churchmen and Christians in Pyongyang.
Also on hand were compatriots from South Korea and abroad and foreign Christians.
A sermon was made at the mass.
Christmas masses also took place at Chilgol Church and families across the country on the same day.
Japanese reactionaries' tampering with history
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The "Society to Make New History Textbook" made up of Japanese ultra right-wing elements published history textbooks describing "Japan's invasion of Asia as a liberation of it." In this regard a recent issue of the Japanese newspaper Akahata carried an article captioned "'Textbooks should not carry lies,' call of a historian and 60 educators."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses the Japanese reactionaries' move to tamper with history as a crime, adding that it is only too natural that their moves arouse apprehension and come in for criticism even in Japan, to say nothing of the international community.
Noting that the Japanese imperialists' Asian aggression was an undeniable hideous crime, the commentary says: Lurking behind such moves is their sinister intention not to redress its criminal past but to repeat it.
By teaching false history to the rising generation they seek to infuse the sense of "superiority of Yamado nation" and the awareness of war of aggression into them and drive them to overseas aggression.
The Japanese reactionaries should discard their black-hearted aim sought in tampering with the history and repent of its past crimes and honestly own their responsibility for them.
Many publications computerized
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Central Scientific and Technological Information Agency has recently computerized many publications.
Among them are "Friend of Scientists and Technicians," "Foreign Science and Technology Information Magazine," "1,000 Phrases of Common Sense in Life" and "Materials for Economy and Trade," an encyclopedia, books, magazines, materials for education and program bases.
Carried in "Friend of Scientists and Technicians" covering nearly 20 scientific and technological sectors are Korean, English, and five other languages and an exchange table, characteristic value of chemical elements, value of physical constants, calculated value of trigonometrical and logarithmic functions.
"Materials for Economy and Trade" contains practical materials and 50,000 common vocabularies needed in trading activities.
The publication is a mass medium which saves, reads and reproduces optical character, picture and speech information in a digital mode.
It is characterized by vivid expression and rich content.
All publications are high in effect and fast in publishing.
The computerized publications of diverse themes are contributing to the economic development of the country and the improvement of people's living.
Dismantlement of concrete wall urged
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Mamadou Ali Sampil, chairman of the Guinean Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, issued a statement to the press on December 14 in demand of the dismantlement of the concrete wall which bisects. Korea.
He said in the statement that it is an abnormal situation that the concrete wall, symbol of division, remains as yet when contacts and exchanges are now being expanded between the north and south of Korea and both of them are taking the road of reconciliation and cooperation. He went on:
If the United States and the South Korean authorities truly want the reunification of Korea, they should immediately demolish the concrete wall at a time when the atmosphere of peaceful reunification is surging into high tide.
The Guinean Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification demanded the U.S. and the South Korean authorities not throw a wet blanket over the atmosphere of reunification but pull down the concrete wall in practice and behave in favour of Korea's reunification.
We extend firm solidarity to the just struggle of the Korean people to pull down the concrete wall.
County well known to nation
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The Taehongdan county integrated farm situated at the foot of Mt. Paektu towering on the northernmost tip of the country is well known to the nation for several reasons.
Once Taehongdan was known to be away from haunts of men.
In may Juche 28 (1939) the President Kim Il Sung, personally leading the main force of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, advanced into the Musan area and wiped out Japanese aggressors in Taehongdan. So, this place is known as an anti-Japanese battle-site.
The monument to the victory in the Musan area battles and revolutionary battle-sites and historic relics which are well preserved draw an endless stream of visitors from across the country.
The nation's first state-run farm made its appearance there as a result of the huge land reclamation project carried out during the hard fought Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-july 1953).
The agricultural workers have turned their farm into a model despite unfavorable natural conditions in the alpine area.
The great leader Kim Jong Il visited the farm several times in the period of the "arduous march" when the country was hard pressed for everything. He instructed the farm to bring about a signal boost in potato cultivation and indicated a clear orientation and ways of turning the county into a socialist paradise.
The county built minor power stations on its own efforts to solve the acute shortage of electricity, thus setting an example for all other people to follow.
The head of the power station construction unit is among those six persons known to the country as heroes and heroines of the times.
Taehongdan county is exemplary in potato farming, too.
The county has a bright prospect of comprehensive mechanization as it has widely used trucks, tractors, potato planters, potato harvesters and other modern farm machines this year.
A modern pig farm and a potato starch factory were newly commissioned, one more example to other counties.
The county is proud of couples of discharged soldiers who volunteered to work there.
This March Kim Jong Il spared time to visit the family of a discharged soldier working on the Sodu branch farm. His wife asked the leader to name her baby expected a few months later.
Kim Jong Il proposed two names: Taehong for a son and Hongdan for a girl. He added that if they have a son and a daughter, their names will make Taehongdan.
In July last she gave birth to a girl named Hongdan.
Later, couples of discharged soldiers came to have hundreds of babies and vied with each other to name them Taehong and Hongdan.
Successive births of Taehong and Hongdan promise a brighter future of Taehongdan.
Federal formula, most reasonable way of Korea's reunification
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo put forward by the President Kim Il Sung in a report to the 6th congress of the Worker's Party of Korea is not to reunify the two differing systems into one but to set up a unified federal state by the concerted efforts of the north and the south, leaving the systems as they are.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article stresses that the proposal for reunification by federal formula is the best way of reunification that helps reunify Korea most quickly and easily in conformity with the will and interests of the nation and specific conditions of the country.
It is, first of all, because the proposal is a Juche-oriented and unique one suitable to the specific reality of Korea, the article says, and goes on:
One of the difficult problems in reunifying Korea is the long existence of the different ideologies and systems in the north and the south and the intention of any side not to give them up.
If they are based on the homogeneity of our nation and national identity, the different ideologies and systems may exist together in a national state and the issue of national reunification may be easily solved by national harmony and unity.
The proposal for reunification by federal formula is the best way of national reunification because it is the most fair and aboveboard one.
The article explains that the proposal fully meets the requirements for the unified development and prosperity of the country and the nation.
The proposal is the best way of reunification that gives scientific solutions to all problems arising in founding a federal state including the method of foundation, principle of formation, function and authority, the name of the country and character, the article notes, and adds:
Both sides in the north-south joint declaration in June last declared all over the world that they would orient toward reunification by federal formula, keeping alive the common features of the proposal for lower-level federation raised by the north and the proposal for confederation put forth by the south.
All the Korean people in the north, south and abroad should be out as one in the nation-wide struggle to realise the proposal for reunification by federal formula reflecting the three principles of national reunification.
Japan urged to drop its wrong attitude towards its past crimes
Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Japan can never improve its image in the international community as long as it Sticks to its wrong attitude towards the settlement of its past, swimming against the trend of the times, warns Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
It is an unpardonable mockery and affront to the international community and human conscience that Japan adamantly refuses to own its state responsibility for its past crimes and tries to clinch the issue of liquidating its past crimes by paying a trifling amount of money, the commentary observes, and continues:
Japan is so shameless as to refuse to honestly admit any of its crimes, apologize and compensate for them even now when it is about to see out the 20th century in which it committed unprecedented crimes against humanity.
This wicked attitude of Japan toward the settlement of its past was prompted by its intention to repeat its crime-woven past. The international community will never pardon this attitude of Japan.