August.15.2001 Juche 90

[CONTENTS]

• Congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il

• Rodong Sinmun on U.S. real purpose of establishing MD

• 2001 Grand Festival for National Reunification opens

• Defence of independence leads to reunification

• Japan urged to compensate it past crimes

• S. Korean delegates here

• Damage by torrential rain increases

• Kim Jong Il replies Putin

• Wreaths laid before liberation towers and tombs of fallen soldiers of Soviet Army

• Wreaths laid before Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong