Reckless remarks of "GNP" president condemned

    Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Ri Hoe Chang, president of the "Grand National Party" of South Korea, showed up at a "new year press conference" on Jan. 17 and made reckless remarks opposing the improvement of inter-Korean relations and taking issue with the DPRK. The secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said this in its information bulletin no. 814. He, bluffing as if he would be "president" from the beginning of the New Year, disparaged the present authorities' stand towards inter-Korean relations and clamoured for keeping the "three principles" such as "strategic reciprocity, national agreement and the verification of transparency" in inter-Korean relations, the bulletin said, and went on:
    Never should it go unnoticed that he dared pull up the DPRK, talking about "terrorism" and "the settlement of the issue concerning weapons of mass destruction," which gets on the nerve of the DPRK.
    He betrayed the true colours of his human scum fawning on the U.S. master.
    It is clear that if such an anti-reunification element as Ri Hoe Chang who does not care for the improvement of the inter-Korean relations and the peaceful reunification of the country comes into power, the June 15 joint declaration would not be implemented in conformity with the desire of the entire nation and the military tensions in the Korean peninsula be aggravated to bring about war holocaust.
    He should apologize to the nation for his anti-national crimes.
    The South Korean people should sternly judge and ostracize such anti-north, anti-reunification forces as Ri Hoe Chang for the implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.

Anecdotes about President Kim Il Sung     Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung went to a residential district of workers in Chongjin city at dead of night with his aide early in June Juche 59 (1970) during his on-the-spot guidance to North Hamgyong Province. After getting off the car he walked up and down different places there to see which way the wind blew.
    He came back to his lodging house after a long while.
    When examining the master plan for the construction of Chongjin city next day he told officials of the city to reconfirm the way wind blew.
    Looking towards an industrial area of the city, he said that the residential district of the city was enveloped in smoke coming from factory chimneys when wind blew. He instructed the officials to make a radical switchover in the city construction plan.
    One day Kim Il Sung saw a rare hen in his garden.
    It looked like an ornamental hen with the lower part of its leg covered with long different colored feathers.
    Seeing it with keen interest, he asked an official how many eggs the hen lays a year.
    On hearing from him that it lays about 80 eggs a year, the president said that he had no interest in that hen.
    He said he would come everyday to see any hen which lays many eggs even though it looked ugly. He earnestly told that there should be a hen capable of laying hundreds of eggs a year in order to supply more eggs to the people.
    While visiting a factory one hot summer day he stopped before a worker at welding.
    Hearing someone standing before him, the welder stopped working and rose to his feet, quite at a loss.
    When the president offered a handshake to him without reserve, appreciating what he has done, he stepped back hesitating to respond to it.
    But the president warmly shook the welder's hand, saying that there was no need for him to care as his hands were also stained with oil.

Leaflets praising Kim Jong Il scattered in Pusan

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Leaflets praising leader Kim Jong Il were scattered in eastern district, Pusan, South Korea, early in the morning of Jan. 1, stirring up people, Seoul-based radio voice of national salvation said. Written on the front of the leaflet (18 cm x 14 cm) are letters "We wholeheartedly wish the great general Kim Jong Il good health" against the background of his native home in the secret camp on Mt. Paektu. Also written on the reverse are the immortal revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and letters "It is a pride of the fellow countrymen and a fortune of the nation to have general Kim Jong Il, the sun of the nation. January 1, Juche 91 (2002). The patriotic fellowship society."
The leaflets were distributed among to inhabitants in the district and passers-by in a moment to deeply move them.

New type processing device developed

    Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- An electrolytic combined processing device was developed in the DPRK. Based on ultramodern technology this high precision device has a speed three or four times that of the existing electrolytic processing one and is capable of processing large-size materials.
    The electrode apparatus of the machine is 150 mm in diameter and 100-800r/min.
    It can move 1,400 mm lengthwise and 50 mm vertically. Its necessary electric pressure and current are 15v and 70a.
    This is widely used for processing all kinds of curved surface of moulds, outer surface of piston and internal surface of truck cylinder.

Buddhist rituals held

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Buddhist rituals were held at temples in the DPRK yesterday to mark the day of Buddha's attainment of great wisdom. Present there were office-bearers of the central committee of the Korean Buddhist Federation and its provincial, city and county committees, chief priests and monks of temples and believers. Speeches were made at the end of the rituals.
The speakers expressed their firm determination to conduct a vigorous drive to glorify this year that greets the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as a year of new surge in the building of a powerful nation, holding high the slogan set forth in the joint new year editorial on Jan. 1 and strengthen solidarity with all the Buddhists in the south and abroad and thus decisively smash the moves of the separatists at home and abroad to ditch the June 15 joint declaration and open up an epochal phase of independent national reunification.

Pyongyang Children's Foodstuff Factory

    Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Children's Foodstuff Factory is operating as a mother factory in this field. It was commissioned in Juche 60 (1971).
    With a total floor space of more than 13,000 square meters, the factory has all facilities for producing children's foodstuff. It has an annual production capacity of tens of thousands of tons.
    Its main products are milk powder for babies, nutritious rice powder, bean milk and so on.
    The factory produces more than ten kinds of nutritious powder made of vegetables, fish, kelp, etc.
    Bean milk and bean sour milk produced by the factory are directly transported to nearly 1,000 senior middle schools, primary schools, kindergartens and nurses in Pyongyang everyday.
    Even when the country's conditions were so difficult in the past several years that many people had to go food substitute this factory continued its production.
    It is the consistent state policy of the DPRK to put forward children as "king" of the country and give them special benefits.
    Visiting the factory last year, leader Kim Jong Il said that more children's foodstuff factories should be built to supply a sufficient amount of good nutritious foodstuff to all the children and clearly indicated ways to do so.

Rodong Sinmun on benevolent politics

    Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- The benevolent politics of leader Kim Jong Il is the eternal lifeline of the Korean people and a banner of prosperity for socialist Korea, Rodong Sinmun today in an editorial says, calling for applying the politics. The editorial goes on:
    It is his benevolent politics to embrace all the people, protect and take care of their destinies and spare nothing for their sake.
    As his politics is great, the political system of the DPRK was not shaken even a bit and the popular characters of the system were demonstrated and the song "my country is best" was sung among the people even in the rigorous ordeals of the "arduous march."
    His benevolent politics serves as the source of remarkably strengthening the political and ideological might of our revolutionary ranks and glorifying our fatherland as an ideologically strong country and life-giving water helping the Korean people value revolutionary obligation more than their lives and take a long road of revolution under his leadership.
    No matter what ordeals may come, the revolutionary obligation of our army and people to the leader will remain unchanged.
    This year which greets the two greatest national jubilees should be shined as a historic year of fully demonstrating the revolutionary stamina of the Korean people who, blessed with illustrious leaders generation after generation, remain faithful to the politics of their leader.
    What is most important in applying Kim Jong Il's benevolent politics is to step up the socialist economic construction and decisively improve the people's living standard.
    It is just Kim Jong Il's intention to lead our people best in the world to enjoy the most civilized and bountiful life to their hearts' content.
    We should firmly maintain the principle of giving priority to what is popular in all fields of social life including economic work.

Messages of greetings exchanged

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Messages of greetings were exchanged between Paek Nam Sun and Ismail Cem, foreign ministers of the DPRK and Turkey, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Paek said that the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries deepened the trust between the two peoples and created favorable conditions to develop bilateral relations in various fields.
Cem expressed the hope that the relations between the two countries would develop in the fields of mutual concern.

First board meeting of Pyongyang-Euro-Asia Joint Venture Company

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- The first meeting of the board of the Pyongyang-Euro-Asia Joint Venture Company was held at the People's Palace of Culture today. Present there were bin yang, president of the Holland Euro-Asia Group who is also director general of the board of the company, Kim Tong Gyu, president of the Pyongyang horticulture group who is vice-director general of the board, members of the board and officials concerned.
The meeting discussed a series of issues concerning the operation of the company and the construction of green house of vegetables and flowers.

Gift to Kim Jong Il

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from the president of the Holland Euro-Asia Group. The gift was handed to an official concerned by bin yang, president of the group on a visit to the DPRK.