Floral baskets and congratulatory letters to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets and congratulatory letters were presented to leader Kim Jong Il by foreign diplomatic envoys here on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the DPRK.
They were conveyed to officials concerned by diplomatic envoys of China, Cuba, Cambodia, Libya, India, Vietnam, Laos, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Nigeria, Indonesia, Egypt, Romania, Iran, Poland and Syria.
Meanwhile, congratulatory letters to Kim Jong Il were handed to an official concerned by acting representatives of the UNICEF and the UNDP here.
Congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il from NDFSK
Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il today received a congratulatory message from the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the DPRK.
The message said that the NDFSK central committee extended the highest glory and the warmest congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the DPRK.
Recalling that the foundation of the DPRK signified a great victory of President Kim Il Sung's Juche-oriented line of building power and his outstanding leadership and a glorious birth of independent new Korea, the message pointed out that on the basis of the precious tradition of the Juche-oriented building of power in the crucible of the hard-fought anti-Japanese war, the president founded the DPRK, a people-centered state, on the liberated land, and successfully realised the nation's cherished desire for an independent and sovereign state.
Noting that the proud path covered by the republic is closely associated with the experienced and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il who has led Juche Korea to victory, remaining true to the president's cause of nation-building from his early age, the message said that Kim Jong Il, endowed with his brilliant wisdom and unusual insight, enriched and embodied the president's Juche-oriented idea and theory of nation-building, thus clearly indicating the road for Juche-oriented socialist Korea to follow, strengthening and developing the DPRK government to be a strong political weapon for accomplishing the cause of Juche and augmenting the driving force of the revolution as an impregnable bulwark, and this brought about a historic turn in building a powerful nation.
Under your wise leadership Juche Korea is fully demonstrating its invincible might before the world as an ideologically, politically and militarily strong power unaffected by any turmoil in the world, the message noted, and continued:
Indeed you represent the destiny of the country and the nation and are a symbol of victory and glory and a lodestar of national reunification.
Congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il, Kim Yong Nam and Hong Song Nam
Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- A congratulatory message was sent to Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, and Hong Song Nam, premier of the DPRK cabinet, by Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC, Li Peng, Chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC, and Zhu Rongji, premier of the state council of the PRC, on September 8 on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the DPRK.
The foundation of the DPRK 53 years ago enabled the Korean people to become the masters of the country to embark upon the shining road of building a new socialist state, the message said, and went on:
Under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the WPK the Korean people are now making strenuous efforts to build Korea into a strong socialist state in the new century in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard work and new ceaseless progress is being made in various fields of Korea.
This year the DPRK registered new achievements in economic construction, made a number of gratifying advances in foreign relations and made important contributions to deescalating the situation on the Korean peninsula, improving inter-Korean relations and defending regional peace.
We, a close neighbor of Korea, are sincerely rejoiced over the achievements made by you and wish you new steady successes in the future.
Today the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship is growing stronger as the days go by thanks to the joint efforts of both sides.
The leaders of the two countries are carrying forward the glorious traditions established by the proletarian revolutionaries of the old generation to frequent mutual visits and promote the constant development of the bilateral relations.
The Chinese people greatly set store by the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship.
Steadily consolidating and developing the traditional Sino-DPRK friendly and cooperative relations in the new century not only accords with the common desire and fundamental interests of the two parties, the two countries and the two peoples but is favorable to peace, stability and development in the region and, furthermore, in the rest of the world.
We, together with the DPRK side, will make every effort to continue strengthening and developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties, the two countries and the two peoples in the spirit of inheriting the tradition, orienting to the future, preserving good- neighborliness and friendship and strengthening cooperation.
Anniversary of DPRK's foundation observed
Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Papers today dedicate editorials to the 53rd anniversary of the DPRK.
Rodong Sinmun in an editorial says that the DPRK is the banner of the independence and prosperity of the nation and the eternal home of the Korean people.
It goes on:
The DPRK is the Juche-oriented power which demonstrates its dignity before the world as it holds President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem.
The DPRK is Kim Il Sung's Korea founded and glorified by the president and Kim Jong Il's country as it demonstrates its dignity and might under his leadership.
Kim Il Sung is the founder of the DPRK and the father of socialist Korea because he built the Juche-oriented country and the people-centered powerful socialist state on this land.
The dignity and honor of the DPRK are demonstrated to the full under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il is a peerless statesman and patriot for all ages whose great idea and policies enabled our country to emerge as an ideologically, politically and militarily strong power and our nation to demonstrate its dignity and might before the world.
The DPRK is a proud country which is dignified because of Kim Jong Il's high authority and an invincible state which demonstrates the single-hearted unity of the army and people around him.
Kim Jong Il enjoys exceptionally high authority as a veteran statesman of the world and a guardian of justice in the era of independence for his literary and military accomplishments extraordinary charismatic trait as a great man, the immortal feats he has performed by leading the Korean revolution and the popular masses' cause of independence to victory for decades and for his great contribution to the global peace and security.
Our single-hearted unity means the unity of the entire party and army and all the people in thought and purpose as they share the idea and intention with him, breathe the same breath with him and act as taught by him and it represents kindred ties as they share destiny with each other because of the noble sense of moral obligation and reverence.
The DPRK's future is rosy as it is ushering in a new era of a prosperous and powerful nation by the way Kim Jong Il does.
Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's high international prestige
Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Rodong sinmun today in a signed article deals with the DPRK's rising international prestige.
The DPRK's foreign policy based on independence and consistent with independence enjoys recognition, sympathy and welcome by the international community for its justice and universality, the article says, and continues:
Russian President Putin visited the DPRK last year for the first time as a Russian President at the invitation of leader Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Il paid an official visit to Russia, thus putting the DPRK-Russia friendly relations on a new higher stage.
Kim Jong Il paid an unofficial visit to China in January this year following his visit in may last year, and Chinese President Jiang Zemin paid an official good-will visit to the DPRK recently, thus giving further momentum to the DPRK-China friendly ties.
Thanks to the DPRK government's consistent foreign policy whose basic idea is independence, peace and friendship, most of the member states of the European Union and the EU recently established diplomatic relations with it.
In recent years, the DPRK has established diplomatic ties at ambassadorial level with several other countries.
Following the publication of the DPRK-U.S. joint communique last year, the then U.S. secretary of state visited Pyongyang to deliver the U.S. President's personal letter to Kim Jong Il.
This was something unprecedented.
The DPRK has covered a glorious path of victory, and its international prestige has remarkably risen.
Without Kim Jong Il's wise leadership, all these achievements would have been unthinkable.
Thanks to his absolute authority, the DPRK's international prestige is daily rising.
Wreaths laid before Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong
Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials, officers and men of the people's army and working people laid wreaths before the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong and the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery and floral baskets at the monument to victory in the Fatherland Liberation War on September 8, one day before the 53rd anniversary of the DPRK.
Seen on the wreath-laying stands of the cemeteries were wreaths sent by leader Kim Jong Il. A floral basket from him was seen before the main sculpture "victory" of the monument.
Present were Kim Yong Nam, Hong Song Nam, Kim Il Chol and others.
Wreaths were laid in the name of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and the DPRK cabinet and a floral basket was placed in the name of the C.C., the WPK and the Central Military Commission of the WPK.
Then wreaths and baskets of flowers were laid in the name of the ministry of the people's armed forces, working people's organizations, ministries, national institutions, units of the Korean People's Army and others.