Friendly relationship between kindergartens of DPRK and China established
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for establishing friendly relationship between the Pyongyang Okryu Kindergarten no. 2 and the Yanji City June 1 Kindergarten of China was held at the Pyongyang Okryu Kindergarten no. 2 yesterday.
Present at the ceremony were members of the c.c., the DPRK-China Friendship Association, officials concerned and its employees.
Present there were members of the good-will delegation of the Yanji city, China, People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries led by its vice-president Cui Yongjun, employees of the Yanji City June 1 Kindergarten and a staff member of the Chinese embassy here.
At the ceremony speeches on establishing the friendly relationship were made.
Then the participants looked round the kindergarten and enjoyed an art performance given by children.
Indian group for study of self-reliance formed
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The Indian group for study of self-reliance was inaugurated with due ceremony in New Delhi on Oct. 3.
Vishwanath, director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, said at the ceremony that the Juche idea was so creditably applied to reality that the DPRK has turned into a country strong in independence in the international arena and the man-centered social system has been established in the DPRK for the first time in history.
The editor of the newspaper Krishna Ebota was elected chairman of the group.
A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the ceremony.
Invincible WPK
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are now celebrating the 56th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea (October 10, 1945), their guiding force.
On this day the Korean people look back with deep emotion upon the proud road of struggle covered by the party.
56 years have passed since the WPK proclaimed its foundation but it is 75 years since the formation of the down-with-imperialism union at which the party began to take its root.
The WPK has developed into a seasoned veteran party in the arduous revolutionary struggle and construction work and the fierce struggle against the imperialists and all enemies. It has also grown to be an invincible revolutionary party which enjoys absolute support and trust from the people.
The party has opened up a new way for the popular masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, and made brilliant victories and tremendous changes in this course, thus performing immortal feats to be recorded in the history forever.
The party has been able to create an example of revolutionary party building and attain the great successes in the revolution and construction because it has become a party of the leader and formed the single-hearted unity with the popular masses.
The historic cause of developing the WPK into the eternal party of President Kim Il Sung has been successfully realized by leader Kim Jong Il. So, it can preserve its character as the revolutionary party of Juche type forever.
Kim Jong Il has been highly praised and respected by the people as an outstanding leader of the WPK and the revolution from his early years.
Nearly 40 years of his revolutionary activities are the immortal history in which he has created a model of present politics.
Koizumi's projected junket to S. Korea protested
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The headquarters of the people's movement for expelling excess consumption, the Association of Bereaved Families of Pacific War Victims, the Measure Council for the Issue of Volunteers and other citizens' organizations in South Korea agreed to conduct a signature campaign against the Japanese prime minister's projected junket to South Korea, according to Seoul-based MBC.
The organizations said that the Japanese prime minister should apologize and compensate before anything else for his approval of the distorted history textbooks and his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in defiance of public criticism at home and abroad.
The organizations announced that they would conduct a 10 million-signature campaign against his junket.
Leader of Thai Democratic Party on Korean issue
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Chuan Leekpai, leader of the Thai Democratic Party, met the DPRK ambassador to Thailand on Oct. 4 on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
He said that the world fully recognizes that President Kim Il Sung, founder of the WPK, made great contributions to the Korean revolution and the development of the world politics in his lifetime.
He said:
Leader Kim Jong Il has made tireless efforts for the well-being and prosperity of the Korean people and the world revolution. he is an experienced politician who deals well with political relations with different countries.
I am pleased that the friendly relations between Thailand and the DPRK have developed on good terms.
The June 15 North-South Joint Declaration is of weighty significance in reunifying Korea and ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the Korean issue should be solved according to it.
Kim Jong Il sends vehicles to light industry factories
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent vehicles to the Pyongyang Children Foodstuff Factory, the Kyongryon Aeguk Cider Factory and the Kangso Mineral Water Processing Factory.
This is an expression of his belief and expectation that the factories will contribute to the material and cultural life of the working people by bringing about a great improvement in the production of foodstuff and drink.
A meeting for conveying the vehicles was held on Tuesday.
Swedish charge d'affaires ad interim hosts reception
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Swedish charge d'affaires ad interim here hosted a reception at the embassy yesterday on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Invited were Ji Jae Ryong, vice department director of the central committee of the WPK, Choe Su Hon, vice foreign minister, and officials concerned.
Diplomatic envoys of Germany and Great Britain were also invited.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Homage paid to President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials, commanding officers of the Korean People's Army, servicemen of its three services, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters and people from all walks of life today visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay homage to President Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
A floral basket was placed before the statue of the president in the joint name of the WPK Central Committee, the Central Military Commission of the WPK, the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the cabinet of the DPRK.
After paying respectful homage to the statue of the president, they bowed in most profound reverence to him who lies in state for perpetuity.
They looked round orders and medals awarded to him by foreign countries, the portrait of him with a sunny smile on his face and bronze relievos in the mourner's hall and the train he used during his on-site guidance and foreign visits and the car he used in the last period of his life.
Papers call for demonstrating invincible might of WPK
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today runs an editorial captioned "Let us demonstrate the might of the party in the revolutionary advance in the new century" and Minju Joson an editorial titled "Let us dynamically speed up the socialist march of the red flag under the leadership of the great party" on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Rodong Sinmun says:
President Kim Il Sung founded the party of Juche type, the first of its kind in the history of a working class party building, 56 years ago. This is the most brilliant one of the immortal exploits performed by him.
The WPK has adorned the arduous years of the revolution in the 20th century with proud victories holding President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem. It is confidently steering the 21st century with its invincible might.
The party enjoys high dignity and authority as a party leading the new century. It is entirely attributable to the fact that it has Kim Jong Il at its head.
The party is a dignified party whose members are armed with the idea of Kim Jong Il.
His revolutionary idea is a successor to the revolutionary idea of Kim Il Sung and a perfect idea making it possible to achieve the independence of the popular masses century after century.
Prevailing throughout the party today is his revolutionary idea.
The WPK is a party around which the revolutionaries of Juche type, who absolutely follow his idea and are fully armed with it, are single-heartedly united. It is a party which holds fast to his idea as its lifeline and struggles going through thick and thin to put it into practice.
The WPK is an invincible party that thoroughly applies his politics in all fields of the revolution and construction, the editorial notes, and goes on:
Our party is praised as a great party leading the revolutionary advance in the 21st century to victory for his army-first politics, in particular.
The army represents the party in Korea. The army-first political mode of the WPK perfected and tested under the seasoned leadership of Kim Jong Il will remain unchanged no matter how the situation may change.
The WPK is a dynamic party that does everything in a fresh and innovative manner as required by the new century.
The WPK today has a bright future as it has features as a party leading the revolutionary struggle in the new century.
The WPK confidently steering the Juche-oriented revolution inspires all the people to win new victory.
It is the general task and consistent line of our party building to hold president Kim Il Sung in high esteem for all ages and to strengthen the WPK as an eternal party of Kim Il Sung.
The editorial calls for holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem with intense loyalty, glorifying the immortal feats performed by him in the party building generation after generation and wholeheartedly upholding his army-first politics.
It also underscores the need to dynamically accelerate the socialist construction under the party's leadership and thus build up powerful state economic potential commensurate with the 21st century, the new era of the army-first revolution.
Minju Joson calls upon all the working people to vigorously accelerate the socialist advance of the red flag under the leadership of the WPK rallied close around Kim Jong Il and thus build a powerful socialist nation at an early date and successfully accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.