20th Yun I Sang Concert closed

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The 20th Yun I Sang Concert which opened on Sept. 26 closed yesterday. Seeing the closing performance were chairman Jang Chol of the central committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, working people and artistes in the city.
    Also seeing it were Ri Su Ja, widow of Yun I Sang, and his daughter and embassy officials of Germany and Russia here.
    The program included woman's soprano and a trio for violin, cello and piano composed by Yun I Sang.

Reception given on anniversary of PRC

    Chongjin, September 29 (KCNA) -- The North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association gave a reception Friday evening on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Present on invitation were Liu Zhigang, Chinese consul general in Chongjin, and staff members of the consulate general.
    Present there were Kim Song Gwon, vice-chairman of the North Hamgyong Provincial People's Committee who is chairman of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association, and other officials concerned.
    Speeches were made there.

Japan's move to draw water to its mill under fire

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- Japan is not qualified to participate in the joint efforts of the international community to combat terrorism and all other unstable elements and preserve world peace and stability, said Minju Joson yesterday in a signed article entitled "Japan keen to benefit from other's disaster." The article went on:
    Japan is going hectic to take measures, underscoring the need for it to "cope with the threat of terror" after the recent large-scale attacks on the U.S.
    The U.S.- Japan joint military steps taken by Japan to join in the retaliation actions of the U.S. are a violation of Japan's existing law.
    The Japanese reactionaries seek a very sinister aim in their attempt to take active military actions for assisting the U.S. in breach of their existing law.
    They seek to promptly secure an institutional mechanism needed for the realization of their militarist ambition for aggression and pretexts for overseas expansion by disguising themselves as "anti-terror champions," when the world is upset by what happened in the U.S.
    It is the calculation of Japan that putting up the anti-terror slogan would help Japan easily pave the way for militarist overseas aggression without meeting protest and denunciation from the international community.
    This goes to prove that Japan is such a dastardly and wicked country as to craftily benefit from the disaster that shocked the world.
    This is just like fishing in troubled waters.
    Japan's joining in international military actions under the pretext of "anti-terrorism" would only adversely affect the efforts to preserve global peace and stability.
    It is the common task of the international community to solve the serious problem of terrorism.
    But Japan is not entitled to take part in actions for combating terrorism as it is an enemy state which committed crimes against humanity in the past but has not yet redressed them.
    What should be done by Japan now is to settle wrongs committed by it against mankind in the past.

KCNA urges IAEA to be impartial

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- Director general Mohamed Elbaradei at the annual conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened on September 17 said that "the IAEA is continuing to monitor the freeze on facilities in North Korea under the 1994 agreement between the United States and North Korea, but the agency is unable to verify the accuracy of North Korea's nuclear program" and a senior Japanese official was impudent enough to "urge North Korea to cooperate with inspections and to comply with its obligation under the safeguard agreement promptly and completely," Kyodo News said. This can not be construed otherwise than reckless acts of the riffraff to shift the responsibility for the non-compliance with the agreed framework on to the DPRK, defying international justice and impartiality, pursuant to the U.S. policy.
    As the DPRK clarified more than once, the issue of implementing the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF) allows no interference by others, as it is a matter to be solved between the two countries. If the IAEA conference wants to know who is to blame, it should, first of all, call the U.S. into question for being insincere in the implementation of the agreed framework.
    2003, the target year for the U.S. provision of LWR to the DPRK is near at hand.
    If the U.S. had remained sincere in implementing the AF, it would have been implemented to such a level as to enable the DPRK and the IAEA to start negotiations on verifying the accuracy and perfectness of the initial report on nuclear substance.
    Turning away from all these facts, the IAEA raised the unreasonable issue of inspection which had originally been expected to be discussed only after a considerable part of the LWR project was carried out and before the delivery of major nuclear-related parts. Evidently, this is an act of putting a brake on implementation of the af.
    Japan, in particular, should drop its bad habit of reading big powers' faces and pulling up others to meet its own interests.
    Japan has secretly stockpiled plutonium enough to make thousands of nuclear weapons and is accelerating the development of missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons despite the international community's strong protest and condemnation. It is, therefore, shameless and foolish for Japan to raise a hue and cry over someone's "fulfilment of obligation."
    In a word, some forces of Japan and the IAEA, hell-bent on the anti-DPRK hostile policy, have become so reckless as to be unable to distinguish truth from lies and preserve neutrality and impartiality.
    The IAEA should bear in mind that it should be impartial if it is to honestly remain true to international justice.

National musical instrument maker

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang, specially-made musical instruments company manufactures new varieties of national musical instruments while conducting research into preserving and adapting traditional instruments to contemporary needs. Established in Juche 57 (1968) as the central institute of musical instruments, it is staffed by dozens of researchers and skilled craftsmen. Korea's traditional instruments produce simple yet graceful, soft sounds representative of national tastes.
    The company's improvements include the minor Haegum (four-string fiddle) and the Kayagum (plucking instrument). It has diversified the Oungum (plucking instrument), invented in the early 1960s, into small, medium and large ones, and recently produced the bass Oungum.
    The plucking Okryugum is particularly popular with musicians and amateurs alike for its beautiful sounds similar to the jingle of gems. After its invention in the 1970s, it underwent a series of improvements up to 1998.
    The researchers have compiled "pictorial book of Korean national musical instruments" and other books on the same theme.

Phyongbuk Chicken Farm

Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The newly built Phyongbuk Chicken Farm is equipped with high-tech facilities. It employs computer-controlled processes from the production and supply of assorted feed through to egg production and meat processing. The farm has an annual production capacity of thousands of tons of meat and huge quantities of eggs. In the egg-hatching unit a single machine can handle 38,000 eggs. The chicks' breeding is controlled by computer and they weigh at least two kilogrammes within 40 days.
The meat-processing unit can deal with 1,000 chickens per hour, while the feed production unit also has a streamlined process.

KEDO delegation leaves

Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The delegation of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) left here today after participating in the high-level negotiations for the implementation of the agreement on the provision of light water reactors between the DPRK and the KEDO.

Greetings to President of Botswana

Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on September 25 sent a message of greetings to Fetus G. Mogae, President of Botswana, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its independence. Expressing the belief that the relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the idea of independence, peace and friendship in the new century, too, the message wished the president and people of Botswana great success in their work for the progress and prosperity of the country.

Jong Ha Chol meets Chinese delegation

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, met and had a conversation with the delegation of journalists of the Yonbyon Ilbo of China led by its editor-in-chief Xu Rongxi at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today. Present there was Kim Song Guk, chairman of the central committee of the Korean Journalists Union.
    Saying that the delegation was deeply impressed by the Korean people who are dynamically advancing, holding high the red flag under the slogan "Let us always be cheerful although our path is thorny," the head of the delegation noted that the people with this faith and spirit will surely overcome any difficulties.
    He expressed the belief that the Korean people would make great success in socialist construction under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.