Kim Jong Il visits artillery company
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) - Leader Kim Jong Il yesterday visited an artillery company under KPA unit no. 243.
He was accompanied by KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
After receiving a salute, he mounted a forward observation post to acquaint himself with the performance of the unit's duty.
He was greatly satisfied to see all the servicemen of the company trained to be one-match-for-a-hundred fighters through their strenuous efforts to thoroughly implement the party's military line of self-defence and firmly defending the country's defence line with intense loyalty and patriotism.
Then he went round an education room, bedroom, mess, bathroom, provision store and other places of the company.
He earnestly instructed all the officers to always pay primary attention to the supply service for the dear soldiers with warm love for them and thus provide the best living conditions to them.
He gave a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle to the company as gifts and had a picture taken with its servicemen.
The next leg of his inspection that day was a catfish factory built by KPA unit no. 534.
Expressing great satisfaction at the modern factory of world standard successfully built by the unit in a short span of time, he highly praised its feat.
After looking round the factory he advanced important tasks to be fulfilled to put fish breeding on a scientific and intensive basis and thereby sharply increase the production of freshwater fishes.
Underscoring the need to widely introduce the latest science and technology in order to steadily increase the productivity of fish breeding, he called for further intensifying the researches into the fish breeding ranging from breed to fish culture.
Kim Jong Il visits Kwail county, South Hwanghae Province
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il yesterday gave on-site guidance to Kwail county, South Hwanghae Province.
He was accompanied by secretary Kim Kuk Thae, first vice department directors Ri Yong Chol and Jang Song Thaek of the Central Committee of the WPK and generals of the Korean People's Army Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
He first went to the Sindae Farm of the Kwail county integrated fruit farm.
He looked round a monument to the on-site guidance of President Kim Il Sung and historical relics in the farm and mounted an observation platform to take a bird's eye view of the orchard stretching 40 km on the west coast.
Looking down over modern houses standing in rows between orchards and at the foot of hills, he learned in detail about the fruit production and fruit growing on the farm.
He expressed great satisfaction with achievements made by all the agricultural workers of the farm in the fruit production in hearty response to the on-site teachings given by the president and praised their feats.
He said that in order to increase the yield of fruit per hectare it is necessary to apply a lot of good quality manure to the orchards and put manuring and cultivation of fruit trees on a scientific and technical basis. He called for effectively conducting researches into high-yielding fruit seeds.
He laid stress on providing the farm with a sufficient number of tractors, trucks and other vehicles, sprayers and various types of farm machines.
Noting that the county is literally a county of fruits, he said that the precious wealth should be effectively used to positively contribute to improving the standard of the people's living.
Then he moved on to the Phogu Farm where the land realignment project was completed.
Feasting his eyes on the straight roads between fields, water channels and a vast expanse of paddy fields, he praised county officials and agricultural workers for having completed the vast project by themselves.
Saying it is very gratifying to see realigned land in the county which presents a beautiful landscape, clad in various kinds of fruit trees, he stressed that this is the true picture of the Korean socialist agricultural system based on collectivism.
He also went to the Ryongsupho Beach in the seaside of the county.
After hearing a report on the use of the beach from leading officials of the county, he acquainted himself in detail with the beach including the depth of water, the sea bed and saltiness.
He proposed a task to spruce up the beach, saying that the beach is very nice for swimming because water is very clear and sand is good.
He said that there should be a sufficient number of hotels and other service and catering facilities and ample conditions for transport so that a large number of people may take a rest and enjoy swimming there.
U.S. forces' pullback from S. Korea demanded
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- If the peace and peaceful reunification of the country are to be achieved in conformity with the desire and demand of the Korean nation, the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces should quit South Korea, first of all, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
The commentary goes on:
Tens of thousands of U.S. imperialist aggressor forces equipped with the latest type weapons are now present in South Korea.
Slamming the U.S. bellicose forces for seeking to justify their military presence there, the commentary observes:
"Threat from the north" they are citing as a pretext for their continued military presence in South Korea is a sheer fabrication and lie.
That is a sinister artifice intended to seek the U.S. forces' permanent presence in South Korea by painting them as a "war deterrent" and a "guardian of peace" and dominate the whole of Korea and, furthermore, northeast Asia.
The U.S. imperialists' military presence in South Korea is chiefly aimed to protect their aggressive interests and establish their hegemonistic position in the Asia-Pacific region, not to defend the South Korean people's interests.
The U.S. forces are not a "friend" of the South Korean people but their sworn enemy.
The U.S. imperialists have no justification to stay in South Korea and they can never cover up the criminal history of their occupation of South Korea stained with Koreans' blood.
The U.S. is well advised to behave itself, properly judging the Korean nation's will for independent reunification and immediately withdraw its forces from South Korea as unanimously demanded by the Korean nation.
Wreath laid before CPV martyrs' tomb
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- The visiting goodwill delegation of the general political department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army headed by major general Fan Yinhwa yesterday laid a wreath before the martyrs' tomb of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Hoechang county, South Phyongan Province.
A bunch of flowers was laid before the grave of Mao Anying there.
Present there were officers of the Korean People's Army and the military attache of the Chinese embassy here.
The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of the CPV fighters who fell in action during the Korean War (June 1950-july 1953).
The head of the delegation said that the Chinese people's volunteers, who rushed to the Korean front under the banner of "Resisting America and Aiding Korea, safeguarding the home and defending the motherland," forged deep friendship, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the army and people of Korea.
He stressed that the friendship between the two governments, peoples and armies of China and Korea would be everlasting as the Amnok River flows.
Anti-DPRK sabre-rattling blasted
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- The forces of the second division of the U.S. imperialist forces in South Korea launched a "large-scale maneuver" in the areas of Phaju, Uijongbu and Dongduchon of Kyonggi Province on May 8.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
The another anti-DPRK war exercise launched by the U.S. imperialist warhawks is a blatant challenge and provocation to the DPRK which has made every sincere effort for the peace and peaceful reunification of the country.
The bellicose Bush administration has threatened the DPRK by "force" from the very day it came to power, more frantically pursuing its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
It was prompted by its criminal intention to push the situation on the Korean peninsula turning favourable for national reconciliation, unity and reunification back to the state of confrontation before the publication of the north-south joint declaration in a bid to justify its military presence in South Korea and stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
Confrontation and war cannot go with reconciliation and peace.
The DPRK will never allow the U.S. imperialist aggressors to bring nuclear disasters to the Korean nation.
The United States should drop its anachronistic hardline policy to stifle the DPRK, halt its anti-DPRK war drill and withdraw its aggression troops from South Korea without delay.
Cultivation of medicinal herbs brisk in Korea
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- April and May, September and October have annually been marked in the DPRK as months for cultivating medicinal herbs since Juche 69 (1980).
A mass drive is now under way to create resources of medicinal herbs and gather in them.
According to Pak Yong Jin, department chief of the Koryo medicine production management bureau under the Ministry of Public Health, medicinal herbs and trees for medicinal use will be planted in areas covering thousands of hectares in the April-May period.
Medicinal herb offices and stations for conserving and propagating medicinal herbs across the country are planting crataegus pinnatifida, gingko, dogberry, and other trees for medicinal use, in areas of hundreds of hectares. a work is also going on to collect barks, flowers and roots of medicinal herbs needed for the production of drugs to suit the seasonal character.
Bases for cultivating medicinal herbs are found everywhere and foundations for their production gaining in scope.
Recently medicinal herb farms produced foxglove, salvia miltriorrhiza, job's tears, etc. and supplied them to hospitals and pharmaceutical factories across the country.
Some of them are exported to different countries.
KCNA slams U.S. religious organization's annual report
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- The "International Association of Religious Freedom" in the United States in its recent "annual report" cited sheer lies that "The North Korean government suppresses all religious activities" and "People are tortured and persecuted for believing in religion."
This is a base falsification of truth and an intolerable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, all intended to tarnish the image of the DPRK and invent a pretext for increasing international pressure upon it.
This association may issue an "annual report" every year which is its own business. but, it is intolerable that styling itself an organization leading world religion it does not bother to slander other countries and reels off a spate of sophism grossly misrepresenting the truth in the DPRK, in particular.
The association's arrogant and brazen-faced behaviour cannot but cast a doubt as to whether it is an organization active for the genuine "freedom of religion" or a religion-veiled plot-breeding body.
If it is the former, then its gospel must be "equality and charity."
Then, why does it falsify the reality in the DPRK and carry on a groundless smear campaign against it although prominent religious men from several countries including the U.S. praised it as a "society full of human love where all people enjoy equality?"
The association should face up to the reality in the U.S. before decrying the system in the DPRK.
The U.S. society they describe as a "heaven" for religious activities, talking about "equality and charity," is one where prevail such abnormal human psychology which paradoxically asserts that "Your happiness means my misfortune" and the jungle law that "I can survive only when I swallow up you."
It is quite clear that there can be no "equality and charity" in such socio-economic and politico-moral environment.
All these facts compel the KCNA to comment that the association spread lies at the political instigation of anti-DPRK hostile forces or itself has been reduced to a plot-breeding organization.
Full-length novel comes off press
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- Full-length novel "Square Where Military Parade Took Place" was recently published by the literature and art press group.
It is one of the cycle of novels "immortal history" dealing with the glorious revolutionary history of President Kim Il Sung which are being created by the April 15 Literary Production Unit of Korea.
The germ of idea in the novel is that a revolution is carried out by an army and it represents the destiny of the nation.
Based on moving historical facts, the novel deals with the tireless efforts made by the president to build regular revolutionary armed forces soon after the liberation of the country on August 15, Juche 34 (1945).
It tells how wisely he led the struggle to found the Workers' Party of Korea, establish the people's power and build the regular armed forces of the nation right after the liberation.
The novel recounts stories about how leading centres for building regular armed forces such as the Pyongyang Institute, a Parent Center for Training Military and Political Cadres, appeared one after another and ordinary people were trained to be commanding officers of the revolutionary army.
The book also deals with the fact that the president saw to it that the Korean people helped the Chinese people in their revolutionary war materially and morally and at the cost of blood.
In a matter of two years the core units for building a regular army were founded and their ranks rapidly expanded.
A military parade of elite units of the Korean revolutionary armed forces took place on the square on February 8, Juche 37 (1948).
The novel also impressively depicts energetic efforts made by the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk to build the revolutionary armed forces.
Japan's approval of distorted history textbook under fire
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- The History Society of the DPRK today issued a statement assailing the Japanese authorities for their extremely insolent attitude towards the issue of distorted middle school history textbook after officially approving them at a state examination.
The statement recalled that the Japanese authorities approved the distorted history textbook whose author again wrote about the story about "mimanamiyake" whose falsity has long proven and made profound confusion of the right and wrong describing that "Japan's colonial rule helped Korea in its modernization." the author completely deleted such stark a historical fact as the crimes related to the "comfort women for the army," the statement said, and continued:
The Japanese authorities, chiming in with the reactionary historians' sophism that representing crime-woven history of Japan as it was would mean "self-maltreating view on history," are taking an irresponsible attitude towards the issue, saying "the government is not in a position to rewrite the textbook as the writing was supervised by an individual organization or a company."
This reflects the Japanese authorities' stand to justify Japan's past crimes to the last and reveals their intention to infuse the idea of aggression into the young Japanese in a bid to realise the old dream of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."
The Japanese authorities' connivance at the distortion of history is not only a serious insult to the noble idea of education in history but a grave crime as it destroys the foundation of international relations.
The history society of the DPRK strongly demands the Japanese authorities immediately cancel their "approval" of the above-mentioned history textbook and take a decisive measure to teach objective historical facts to the young Japanese.