Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il praised in Russia
Moscow, June 25 (KCNA) -- The Paleya-Mishin Publishing House of Russia released books "Victor's Memory" and "Stars Shine with Sun" on the occasion of the first Sun's Day in the new century.
The book "Victor's Memory" was authored by Irina Pirogova, former political commentator of the newspaper patriot, after reading President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century". It deals with the author's impressions and the main contents of the reminiscences.
The reminiscences, which will be of weighty significance in distant future, too, is a very precious, ideological, mental and moral pabulum for the revolutionaries and those who are ready to set out on the road of revolution, the book says.
The book "Stars Shine with Sun" was also written by Irina Pirogova in praise of leader Kim Jong Il's greatness, attracted by his personality as a great man.
Elaborating on his wise leadership, enduring feats and noble personality, the author in the book says:
"Comrade Kim Jong Il is the sun which brightens the whole world. He will represent the history of the whole universe as he has made immortal contributions to the history of the 20th and 21st centuries."
Photo exhibition opened to mark birthday of CPC
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- A photo exhibition was opened to mark the 80th birthday of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Its opening ceremony was held at the People's Palace of Culture yesterday.
Present there were officials concerned, working people in the city and the Chinese ambassador and staff members of his embassy here and Chinese students studying in Korea.
Speeches were made at the ceremony.
Then, the participants looked round photos showing the history of the CPC.
U.S. hostile policy towards DPRK denounced abroad
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- Personages and organizations of different countries released statements on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
Seon Garland, president of the Irish Workers' Party who is also honorary president of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea, in his statement said that the joint declaration is a historic landmark indicating the principle and way for Korea's reunification.
The progressive people of the world have highly appreciated the declaration, unanimously recognizing that it was provided by the strong will, principle, broad magnanimity and bold decision of leader Kim Jong Il determined to implement the instructions of President Kim Il Sung for national reunification at any cost, he said.
Noting that the peace process on the Korean peninsula is in a serious crisis due to the U.S. hardline policy, he said that he joined all the progressives and anti-war peaceloving fighters of the world in strongly denouncing that policy.
He called on all the peace-loving people of the world to pay due attention to the serious crisis on the Korean peninsula caused by the U.S. anti-DPRK hardline policy and actively join in the struggle to check and frustrate it.
The Bangladesh-Korea Friendship Association and the centre of Indian trade unions in their statements expressed their full support to the joint declaration and strongly urged the bush administration to do things helpful to its implementation.
Korean people's cause of reunification supported
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- We hope that the north and the south of Korea would be independently and peacefully reunified at an early date, said Girija Prasad Koirala, prime minister of Nepal, on June 21 when meeting with the outgoing DPRK ambassador.
He said he was pleased to see the improved relations between the north and the south and the affirmative changes for the reunification of the Korean peninsula taking place after the historic Pyongyang meeting and the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
The Nepalese government supports the principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity laid down in the joint declaration and opposes the outside forces' interference in the internal affairs of other countries, he declared.
U.S. war moves condemned
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- Cha Sang Bo, vice-chairman of the General Association of Koreans in China, released a statement on Monday, which condemned the united states for ceaselessly committing war provocations against the DPRK, instead of drawing a serious lesson from its bitter defeat in the last Korean war and withdrawing its troops from South Korea.
The U.S. imperialist aggression forces still refuse to abandon their wild ambition to deprive the Korean nation of its dignity and sovereignty and make a victim of it in realizing their strategy of world supremacy, and are getting ever more pronounced in massive arms buildup and reckless war moves, the statement noted, and said:
If the U.S. stages an invasion of the DPRK again, oblivious of its defeat in the 1950s, the Korean nation will give vent to its pent-up wrath and hatred and take thousand-fold revenge upon the aggressors for deep-rooted rancour against the Yankees without fail.
Anti-U.S. rallies across country
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- Mass rallies "June 25, day of struggle against U.S. imperialists" were held in South Phyongan Province, North Hwanghae Province and Nampho yesterday.
Speakers said at the rallies that the Korean War ignited by the U.S. imperialists was a war of the most shameless aggression to stifle the DPRK in its cradle and to dominate Asia and the rest of the world and a war of the most brutal mass killings ever known in the world history of war.
The U.S. imperialist aggressors mobilized their armed forces of aggression as well as troops of 15 satellites in the Korean War to kill innocent people in a merciless and brutal way and destroy peaceful cities, villages, factories, rural and fishing villages, schools and hospitals, they said, and went on:
Although nearly half a century has passed since the ceasefire, the U.S. is resorting to the hostile policy toward the DPRK, offering a vicious challenge to the peace and reunification-oriented efforts of the DPRK, instead of drawing a proper lesson from its tragic defeat in the Korean War.
The Korean people will answer the U.S. imperialists' "hardline counteraction" with the toughest countermeasure and their anti-DPRK confrontation with merciless retaliation and will wipe out the aggressors to the last and vent the grudge of the nation if they provoke a reckless war.
Press statement on establishment of diplomatic ties between DPRK and Turkey
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- A press statement was released today on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Turkey.
The statement says:
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Turkey have decided to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level, prompted by the desire to develop friendly and cooperative relations on the principle of mutual respect for independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, equality and mutual benefit and non-interference in other's internal affairs. It was agreed to mark January 15, 2001 as the day of the opening of these ties.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries will contribute to deepening the mutual understanding and trust between the two peoples and developing the bilateral relations in various fields.