Kim Jong Il visits Kumsusan Memorial Palace
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace Thursday morning and paid tribute to President Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the Day of the Constitution.
He was accompanied by Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the KPA, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the general staff of the KPA, Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, marshal of the KPA Ri Ul Sol and secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK Kye Ung Thae, Kim Kuk Thae, Choe Thae Bok, Jong Ha Chol, Kim Jung Rin and Kim Ki Nam, and staff members of the supreme command of the KPA.
Kim Jong Il paid respectful tribute to the statue of the president together with senior officials of the party and the army.
In the hall where the president lies in state for perpetuity, he paid homage to him in deepest reverence together with them.
Kim Jong Il visits KPA unit no.646
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il Thursday visited KPA unit no. 646. he was greeted by commanding officers of the unit on the spot.
He dropped in at the command post and acquainted himself in detail with the performance of the duty of the unit from its commander.
He expressed great satisfaction with the successful performance of the duty of the unit's soldiers and advanced highly important tasks that would serve as a guideline in further strengthening the heroic KPA into invincible revolutionary armed forces.
He went to the room for class education and a lecture room and saw the political work and training of soldiers. There he highly praised all the soldiers of the unit for growing to be combatants, each being a match for a hundred, firmly prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique through strenuous ideological education and training.
Then he moved on to different places of the unit including an education room, a bedroom and mess to take warm care of the living of soldiers with paternal love.
He appreciated an art performance given by the soldiers of a company under the unit.
Expressing great satisfaction with the company soldiers' successful art performance of high ideological and artistic value, he said that the KPA that conducts training, studies and lives as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did is a model in creating new culture.
He gave an automatic rifle to the soldiers of the unit as a gift and posed for a photograph with them.
That day he went round power station no.1227 built by large combined unit no.564 of the KPA.
Going round the interior and exterior of the power station including the generating room and power distribution room, he got familiar with details of the construction of the power station and the production of electricity.
He was greatly satisfied to learn that the soldiers of the large combined unit have built the modern power station by themselves to produce much electricity and highly praised their devoted service.
Celebration meeting held by Koreans in U.S.
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- A celebration meeting of the association of Koreans in southern region of the United States was held in Chicago on Dec. 18 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army and the 84th birth anniversary of the anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk.
Yun Kil Sang, chairman of the association, in his report at the meeting highly praised the immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il who set forth the original revolutionary army-based line and has strengthened the KPA into the invincible revolutionary armed forces and the greatness of his ideas, leadership and trait.
Yun noted that Kim Jong Suk was boundlessly loyal to President Kim Il Sung and devoted her all to the liberation of the country and the freedom and happiness of the people, performing brilliant feats in the history of the revolutionary struggle.
A congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
U. S. condemned for its withdrawal from ABM treaty
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Choe Sung Hwan, chairman of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon), reportedly denounced the united states for its decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty.
He in a statement released on Dec. 21 disclosed that the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty is aimed to "establish a U.S.-centered international order in the 21st century based on its unchallenged upperhand of strength".
"The theory of the north's threat does not exist in reality, so it is a fiction intentionally dreamed up by the U.S. for its supremacy," the statement noted, and continued:
It is the U.S. that may ruthlessly violate and destroy human lives and peace and international order in order to hold its supremacy and it is the world's common enemy and a real rogue state.
Hanchongryon strongly denounces the U.S. for its withdrawal from the ABM treaty and urges it to retract its decision at once.
Protest meeting in front of U.S. army command in S. Korea
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Members of the solidarity for implementing the south-north joint declaration, the "National Consultative Council of Evacuees", the Buddhist Human Rights Committee, the Consultative Council for Independent Reunification (Jathonghyop) and the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils and students held a meeting in front of the 8th U.S. army command in Ryongsan on Dec. 22 demanding nullification of the plan for the construction of apartment houses in the U.S. military base in Ryongsan, according to a news report..
Rev. Hong Kun Su, permanent chairman of Jathonghyop, said at the meeting that "they call for demand the U.S. troops' pullout, not transfer of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan. He urged the "government" and the "ministry of national defence" which waived sovereignty to open their eyes.
An old man Kwon Ju Han said that though he dies he cannot leave an inch of land to the mercy of the U.S. troops. He vented his rage, asking why they are reading the U.S. face to discuss their matter.
Kim Jong Il, executive chairman of the headquarters of the movement for demanding the return of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan, said he cannot permit any proposal but the return of the base in Ryongsan.
At the end of the meeting, the participants marched by the front gate of the U.S. military base in demand of nullification of the plan for the construction of apartment houses and conducted propaganda activities to inform residents in Ryongsan of the validity of the return of the U.S. military base.
New university appears in DPRK
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang University of Railways was reorganized into Pyongyang University of Transport.
It will function as a comprehensive center training scientists and technicians in the field of land transportation.
The city communication faculty having city transport course and vehicles operation course are added to the existing faculties and courses in the field of railway transportation in the university.
The city transport course will train scientists and technicians in the field of tramcar, underground train and trolley bus. Vehicle operation courses have been transferred from Pyongyang university of mechanical engineering and Pyongyang university of printing to the vehicle operation course of the new university to train those in that field.
The Ministry of People's Security, the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport, the Ministry of Railways and other units have become patrons of the university.
Folkcraft exhibition
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The Folkcraft exhibition is situated on the ground floor of the Pyongyang International House of Culture.
It was opened in Juche 77 (1988) when the construction of the house was inaugurated.
Many people including overseas Koreans and foreigners have visited there.
Displayed there are paintings, embroideries and straw goods created by the people's and merited artists and folk handicraft fans of the DPRK, traditional ceramic works, stone, lacquer, glass, wood, metal and fur handicrafts, national musical instruments, national costumes, luxuries, toys, ornaments and a variety of souvenirs.
All exhibits, exquisite and peculiar in shapes, catch eyes of visitors.
Also popular are Koryo celadons well known to the world from olden times, ganoderma from Mt. Paektu, an elixir of life, and traditional Korean women's dresses.