Kim Jong Il sees art performance given by KPA merited chorus
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il yesterday saw an art performance given by the merited chorus of the KPA at the Mansudae Art Theatre on the occasion of the New Year.
Among the audience were Kim Yong Nam, Jo Myong Rok, Hong Song Nam and other senior party and state officials.
Put on the stage were chorus numbers including "Cantata to Comrade Kim Jong Il."
The performance vibrant with militant spirit truthfully represented the unshakable faith and will of the army and the people to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, holding higher the red flag of the revolution.
Kim Jong Il waved to the enthusiastically cheering performers and audience and congratulated the chorus on its successful presentation.
Kim Jong Il visits Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Plant
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il, yesterday visited the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Plant to encourage the workers in their start of the production drive in the New Year.
He was accompanied by premier of the DPRK cabinet Hong Song Nam, secretaries of the central committee of the WPK Jon Pyong Ho, hHn Song Ryong, Jong Ha Chol and Kim Ki Nam and chairman of the state planning commission Pak Nam Gi.
After exchanging New Year's greetings with the officials present to receive him, he looked round the monument to the plant and the monument to the on-the-spot instructions given by President Kim Il Sung standing at the entrance of the plant.
Saying that, once a small ironworks, the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Plant has turned into the nation's leading machine-building centre under the wise leadership and loving care of the president, he added that the immortal revolutionary exploits of the president will shine forever with the history of the plant.
Looking round various production processes, he acquainted himself with the production performance there and encouraged the workers in their first high-pitched drive for increased production in the new year to glorify it as a year of a new leaping advance in building a powerful nation.
He was very pleased to learn that the workers and technicians of the plant are building modern electric locomotives with large traction power and passenger coaches with convenient and serviceable amenities by extensively waging a mass technical innovation movement true to the party's policy to modernize the railways of the country. And he praised their devoted services.
Underscoring the need to vigorously push forward the technical modernization to equip all the processes of the plant with uptodate facilities with a view to boosting the production of modern transport means for meeting the requirements of the new century and conduct a drive in a planned way to create new things from a new technical viewpoint on technology and in a new way of thinking, he set forth tasks and ways to do so.
Noting that the plant has an important duty and role to perform in order to solve the problem of the railway transport, the pilot of the national economy, he put forward important tasks to be fulfilled by the plant.
Pakistani ambassador hosts friendly gathering
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- Sultan Habib, Pakistani ambassador to the DPRK, arranged a friendly gathering at his embassy on January 4 on the occasion of the New Year Juche 91 (2002).
Present on invitation were Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of foreign affairs, and other officials concerned.
Speeches were made at the gathering.
Then the participants talked to each other about boosting the friendly relations between the two countries.
Korean people's struggle supported
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- Mouhammad Bouchiha, General Secretary of the People's Unity Party of Tunisia, met the DPRK ambassador to Tunisia some days ago.
He said he is well aware that leader Kim Jong Il has led the Korean people's struggle to build a powerful nation to victory with his army-based revolutionary policy, frustrating the imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK. He noted that Kim Jong Il's army-centered policy is, indeed, an effective way of attaining victory despite all sorts of difficulties.
He expressed conviction that the Korean people would achieve successes in their efforts to build a powerful nation and accomplish the cause of the country's reunification under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea with Kim Jong Il as its general secretary.
Abolition of "Security Law" demanded
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- The Kwangju and South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils in South Korea on January 3 strongly condemned the South Korean investigation authorities for forcibly taking away Kim To Hyong, acting chairman of the tenth-term federation and vice-chairman of the general student council of Chonnam National University, on charge of violating the "Security Law," according to a news report.
The federation declared that it would hold a rally to protest this action and demanded the abolition of the "Security Law" and the disorganization of the "public security investigation force."
Seoul citizens' meeting reviews implementation of June 15 joint declaration
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- The 2001 general meeting of Seoul citizens was reportedly held in Seoul on Dec. 31 last year to review the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration. It was sponsored by the solidarity for the implementation of the south-north joint declaration, the council to inherit the spirit of pro-reunification patriotic martyr Kim Ryang Mu and the Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils.
The meeting reviewed one year's activities conducted to smash the U.S. hardline policy towards the north and implement the joint declaration and vowed to wage a struggle in the New Year.
It also served as a forum to try the anti-reunification forces for working hard to frustrate the implementation of the joint declaration, depending on foreign forces, not seeking cooperation between compatriots.
A resolution adopted at the meeting charged that the implementation of the declaration is faced with a serious obstacle entirely because of the U.S., calling for an all-out struggle to foil the U.S. hostile policy towards the north.
It strongly demanded the "government" authorities stop all the military actions, among other things, and sincerely approach the south-north dialogue.
Japan's bad habit assailed
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- Japan, talking about "possible terrorism" during the forthcoming world football championships, is working hard to deliberately connect it with the DPRK. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today says:
The Japanese police office in a report on "the review of public security and its prospect" issued at the end of last year underscored the "need" to closely watch the moves of the DPRK, letting loose a string of speculations and nonsense that there might be terrorism from outside during the 2002 world football championships.
This is a symptom peculiar to the Japanese reactionaries seized with hostility towards the dprk.
They seek to attain a certain aim by taking advantage of the situation where the DPRK still remains on the u.s. list of "sponsors of terrorism" with the world football championships at hand.
They intend to use the championships as a good chance to launch a fresh anti-DPRK campaign throughout Japan. By doing so, they seek to round off the militarist fascist system now in the making in Japan and, at the same time, make all the Japanese regard the DPRK as the "arch enemy" and provide legal and institutional mechanisms to mobilize all the resources, manpower and material, needed for Japan's participation in the second Korean war to be ignited by the united states.
The groundless anti-DPRK smear campaign launched by Japan with the championships as a momentum only touches off bitterer anger and hatred of the Korean army and people against it.
Great national unity called for
Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- In order to bring about a decisive phase in the struggle for national reunification this year, the Korean nation should get united above all. Unity alone can advance the movement for reunification and is a decisive factor of its victory.
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a by-lined article.
It goes on:
The movement for national reunification which has been dynamically waged since the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration clearly proves that when the Korean people get united and build up thousand-fold strength they can eventually attain reunification.
The prevailing situation more urgently requires the unity of the Korean people than ever before.
The United States is persisting in its offensive to isolate and stifle the DPRK, groundlessly accusing it of "terrorism," "human rights issue" and "nuclear suspicion". It is aimed to tarnish the international image of the DPRK and egg the anti-reunification elements in South Korea on to prevent compatriots from getting united with each other.
There still go on in South Korea such abnormal developments as cracking down upon pro-reunification patriots on the charge of the violation of the "Security Law" and getting on the nerves of the fellow countrymen in the north by advocating the "arch enemy" theory. All this is intended to serve outsiders' purpose of creating seeds of discord among fellow countrymen in a bid to bar the Koreans from going united.
Once the nation is firmly determined to get united, it can shatter any moves of the anti-reunification elements and achieve great national unity.