Representative of Russian President to Far East Federal District here
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovski, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the Far East Federal District, arrived here today.
Arriving here in company with him were victor Andreyevich Tregubov, first deputy plenipotentiary representative of the president of the Russian Federation to the Far East Federal District, and officials of the ministry of foreign affairs, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Railway Transport, the Mission of the Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Russian President and other officials concerned.
The guests were met at the airport by Yon Hyong Muk, member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of foreign affairs, and other officials concerned, Russian ambassador to the DPRK Andrei Gennadievich Karlov and embassy officials.
Kim Jong Il meets new Chinese ambassador
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, today met new Chinese ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe.
Kim Jong Il had a conversation with him in an amicable atmosphere.
Industrial art exhibition opens
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- An industrial art exhibition, part of the Pyongyang art festival, opened at the People's Palace of Culture Saturday to celebrate February 16.
The exhibition will last till late April.
On display are over 900 pieces of designs for industrial products, architectural and environmental decorative designs, trademarks and various kinds of packing designs.
Attracting eyes of visitors are efficient machine tools including newly-developed numerically controlled milling machine and numerically controlled lathe ncs-400, and designs for rolling stock, passenger train, extra-large trolley bus and bus for farmers' rest in fields.
Architectural and environmental decorative designs include designs for renovating main buildings in the capital including Pyongyang Railway Station, the ice rink and the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, flower stand and celebration tower and decorating parks and recreation grounds.
Drawing interest of visitors are designs for household goods, daily necessaries and a variety of trademarks.
Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of Choe Yong Hwa
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il Saturday sent a wreath to the bier of Choe Yong Hwa, writer of the central committee of the Korean Writers Union, to express deep condolences over his death.
Trade union members meet
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- Trade union members met here yesterday to celebrate the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il.
Present there were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the c.c., the Worker's Party of Korea, and officials concerned.
Chairman Ryom Sun Gil of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea made a report, which was followed by speeches.
The reporter and speakers said that the birth of Kim Jong Il was a great fortune for the nation and a historic event which opened a bright prospect of accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.
The workers' party and people of Korea have firmly guaranteed the intense fidelity and succession to the revolutionary cause of Juche despite the upheavals of the 20th century, fully demonstrated the dignity and might of Kim Il Sung's Korea and opened a new history of building a powerful nation under the banner of the army-based policy as they have Kim Jong Il at the head of the party, the state and the army, they stressed.
They called upon all the trade union members to thoroughly embody the beliefs in the excellence of our leader, the correctness of our idea, the might of our army and the advantages of our system and speed up a grand revolutionary march on all fronts of socialist construction in the same fighting spirit as displayed in the 1950s and in the same style of work as demonstrated by the workers of Ranam.
That day a performance was given by workers' art circles in Pyongyang to celebrate February 16.
Foreign delegations and delegate here
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Central Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences led by its vice-president Alexander Zemidov and a delegation of the Harbin, China, Association for Supporting Propagation of Kimjongilia arrived in Pyongyang by air yesterday to participate in the 6th Kimjongilia show to be held on the occasion of the February holiday.
Meanwhile, a delegation of the Finland-Korea Association and Muhamad Kamal al Kadi, delegate of the Egypt-Korea Friendship Association, arrived here to participate in the "meetings to congratulate the sun of the 21st century".
Declaration on peace on Korean peninsula adopted
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- A joint council of civic and public organisations involving more than 200 organisations called a press conference at the press centre in Seoul on February 8 as regards a string of hostile remarks made by U.S. government officials against the DPRK before adopting a declaration on peace on the Korean peninsula, Seoul-based MBC said.
The organisation in the declaration demanded the U.S. government come out to negotiations with the DPRK for the stability on the peninsula, charging that Washington is persistently pursuing the hard-line policy toward the DPRK, putting its interests above anything else.
U.S. apology and reparation demanded
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- The all people's committee for a probe into the truth behind massacres of civilians before and after the Korean War and their reinstatement held an emergency press conference on Feb. 4 .
It groups 33 civic and public organizations including the Kanghwa association of bereaved families of the dead, the association of bereaved families of those killed by U.S. bombing at Iksan Railway Station and the "national council of labor movement organizations".
At the press conference speakers demanded the united states probe the truth about the mass killings of civilians, make an apology and reparation for the crimes.
The second statement of the committee was published at the press conference.
The statement said that a documentary film shown by BBC has proved that GIs' massacres of civilians committed in Rogun-ri and many other parts of South Korea were not accidental but premeditated crimes perpetrated by orders which deny the investigation reports of the U.S. Defense Department and the South Korea-U.S. joint fact-finding group.
It urged the U.S. to keenly feel the responsibility for the massacres of many civilians committed before and after the Korean War and make an apology and reparation for them and the "government" to probe from an independent stand the truth behind all the mass killings of civilians before and after the war and negotiate the matter with the U.S. with dignity.
At the press conference the committee issued its action program including a struggle for the enaction of a special law and the issues of bringing the U.S. war crimes to the U.N. commission on human rights and arousing international solidarity.
Statement of foreign ministry spokesman supported
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation issued a statement on February 5 in support of the statement of a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK.
The statement says:
Russia is preserving the friendly ties with the DPRK and increasing cooperation with it.
The DPRK is our neighbor and we cannot remain a passive onlooker to the destiny of the friendly people.
We bitterly denounce the U.S. policy of aggression against the DPRK.
We have studied with keen attention the statement of the spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry and express full support to it.
We are convinced that the Korean people will deal a counterblow at any attempt to disturb their peaceful life and defend the independence of their country.
Liars have short wings
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- A "fiction of missile threat from North Korea" based on an "explanation" of the Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the largest U.S. military complexes, is not based on an objective fact, but was dreamed up to serve the interests of the huge military complexes.
Minju Joson today in a by-lined commentary says this after the Washington Post disclosed the truth behind the U.S. loudmouthed "missile threat from North Korea."
The news analyst says:
The "missile threat from North Korea" is a product of the U.S. wrong hostile policy toward the DPRK to isolate it internationally and stifle it by force of arms.
If the U.S. truly wants to settle an international missile issue in the light of the security in the mainland, it should have called Japan's missiles into question.
The U.S., however, failed to call into question Japan's launch of rocket not only last year but this time.
This proves that the U.S. applies double standards as regards the missile issue.
The U.S. is spreading the fiction in a bid to put into practice its policy of stifling the DPRK.
Recently Bush branded the DPRK as a "country posing a threat of weapons of mass destruction." Not content with this, he went the length of listing it as a member of the "axis of evil". All this shows what an extent the U.S. anti-DPRK hostility has reached.
No country entertains what the U.S. says as it is. The U.S. has lost the popularity.
The U.S. should immediately stop telling lies to do harm to others. This behaviour is not suitable for the U.S.
Japan hit for preparing biological and chemical war
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries are openly stepping up the preparations for a biological and chemical war under the pretext of the DPRK's "threat of biological weapons" as major part of their moves for overseas aggression.
Commenting on it, Rodong Sinmun today says in a by-lined commentary:
The Japan defense agency in a recent "basic view on coping with biological weapons" said that the DPRK is seeking the "capacity of biological war" and having the structure needed for the manufacture of bacillus anthracies and other biological substance.
This was prompted by the ulterior intention of the Japanese reactionaries to launch overseas aggression with biological and chemical weapons, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
We have nothing to do with "biological weapons".
It is Japan that is chiefly responsible for the threat of biological weapons.
It was also Japan that brought great damage and holocaust to the Korean people and other Asian people by using biological and chemical weapons.
Japan is putting spurs to the moves to turn itself into a military power and moves for overseas aggression on the plea of the "logistic support" to the U.S. forces after the "September 11 incident".
It not only has the capacity to develop and produce biological and chemical weapons but seeks a biological and chemical war in actuality. It is peddling the DPRK's "threat of biological weapons" in a bid to hide this fact.
It is futile for the Japanese reactionaries to float false rumors about the DPRK and resort to tricks to conceal their true intention.
For Japan to try to launch overseas aggression is as foolish an act as jumping into the fire with fagot on its back.
Chinese ambassador gives reception
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- Chinese ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe gave a reception at the embassy yesterday in the run-up to the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il.
The ambassador in his speech said Kim Jong Il wisely led the party, the army and the people to victoriously conclude the "arduous march" and the forced march and creditably protect the sovereignty of the country, the dignity of the nation and the cause of socialism started by President Kim Il Sung.
The Korean people's successes in various fields were attributable to his guidance, he said, and went on: This shows that the Korean people led by him are sure to emerge victorious.
He sincerely hoped that the fraternal Korean people would continue to register greater success in the efforts to build a powerful nation and see a rosy future of a prosperous and happy country in the new century.
Premier Hong Song Nam of the DPRK cabinet in his reply said Kim Jong Il made sure that the Korean revolution steadily advanced to glorify the revolutionary history of President Kim Il Sung, built up the Workers' Party of Korea as the eternal party of Kim Il Sung and paved the avenue for the building of a powerful nation with his army-based revolutionary guidance.
Today the Chinese people under the guidance of the Communist Party of China with Jiang Zemin at the core work hard to open a new epoch-making phase in the nation's prosperity and the party building with the approach of the 16th party congress, he said.
He sincerely hoped that the Chinese people would gain greater success in the drive for socialist modernisation with Chinese characteristics.
We will, in the future, too, work hard together with the Chinese comrades to boost the DPRK-China friendship in the spirit agreed upon at the summit meetings and talks, he stressed.