"Meeting To Congratulate Sun of 21st Century" held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Members of the Thaeyang meeting on Jeju Island, South Korea, held a "Meeting To Congratulate The Sun of The 21st Century" on the occasion of Feb. 16, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il, according to Seoul-based Radio Voice of National Salvation.
At the meeting the speakers told about the honour of holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem, unanimously describing his birthday as the greatest holiday common to the Korean nation and the world people.
They vowed to regard his Juche idea as their maxim of life and struggle and become a bright light showing the path of the revolutionary movement in South Korea.
They also resolved to become the vanguard of the movement for reunification for pulling down the barrier of division, regarding his policy on reunification as a valuable guideline.
KCNA on U.S. deceptive call for "dialogue"
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Powell reportedly told at a joint press conference on Feb. 25 that the United States "would continue to pursue dialogue and negotiations with North Korea." This admits of no argument as it was a repetition of the call for "dialogue" made by U.S. President Bush during his recent South Korea junket. However, the DPRK cannot but reclarify its principled stand because this is frequently heard from among U.S. diplomatic authorities.
As already clarified, the DPRK's position is to resume the dialogue for the improved bilateral relations on the basis of the Bush administration's respect for the agreement reached between the DPRK and the preceding U.S. administration.
But, the Bush administration is more desperately pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK, far from respecting the bilateral agreement. worse still, it has made such remarks as denying the political system of the DPRK. This situation has caused the DPRK to lose any confidence in the U.S. and any justification to negotiate with the Bush administration.
The DPRK's stand on dialogue is to get its political system recognized by the U.S., not to allow itself to be disarmed or abandon its system.
Therefore, the DPRK made clear its stand that it can never respond to any "dialogue" called for by the Bush administration seeking a pretext for invasion while refusing to recognize the DPRK's system.
This position is neither "brinkmanship" claimed by the U.S. side nor a "prelude" to dialogue.
The U.S. argument about "dialogue" is, in a word, nothing but a camouflaged "big stick" logic and the Trojan Horse Tactics against the DPRK.
During his South Korea visit, Bush revealed a criminal intention to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and contain it by force, describing it as "most dangerous regime". This is clear evidence proving the deceptive nature of their call for "dialogue".
His call for "dialogue" is aimed to quell the mounting anti-U.S. sentiment of the South Korean people and the condemnation of the world public, triggered off by his war moves. It is also motivated by his insidious intention to disarm the DPRK while using "dialogue" as a lever of pressure upon it and unleash a war against it when an opportunity presents itself.
There is no guarantee that such call will not lead to an outbreak of war against the DPRK.
The DPRK will keep itself fully ready to fight the U.S. out.
Japanese reactionaries urged to behave with decorum
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries are stepping up their moves to turn their country into a military power and launch overseas expansion, while working hard to strengthen the U.S.-Japan military alliance.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
The Japanese government is going to present a "bill on countering armed attack" as part of the "emergency law," talking about "the possibility of Japan's security being disturbed." The top Japanese diplomat asserted that she would step up the Japan-U.S. negotiations on "security" including the issue of missile defence and the director general of the defence agency claimed that Japan should play a major role in establishing "NATO"-like "security organization" in Asia.
These remarks only reveal their true intention to openly launch aggression in line with the U.S. Asia strategy.
When looking back on history, Japan has been accustomed to invading other countries with the backing of big countries. It is clinging to a trite method to fish in troubled waters in the new century, two.
The Japanese reactionaries' sabre-rattling is aimed to realise at any cost their old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" which they failed to do in the past century.
However, they are seriously mistaken. The Asian people today are not what they used to be in the past century.
The Japanese reactionaries are well advised to behave with discretion, clearly mindful that launching overseas aggression is as foolish an act as jumping into fire with faggot on their back.
U.S. right-wing conservatives' outbursts under fire
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today in a signed commentary lashes out at the right-wing conservatives of the U.S. administration for letting loose a string of vituperation against the DPRK.
It says:
During his recent visits to Japan and South Korea Bush groundlessly pulled up the DPRK over the issue of "development of weapons of mass destruction" and the "possibility of supporting terrorists" and the administration authorities are echoing his remarks.
This is nothing but sheer sophism of the stupid guys.
The U.S. is the world's biggest possessor of nukes powerful enough to destroy humankind scores of times. It is also the world's biggest producer and exporter of military equipment. The U.S. topped the world list of value of arms export according to the data released by the research department of the U.S. congress last year.
The groundless abuses heaped upon the DPRK by Bush's cronies despite all those facts are aimed to bring charges of exporting weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles against the DPRK in a bid to justify their remarks about the "axis of evil" and divert the international criticism of the U.S.
We neither want a war nor avoid a war.
The people's army and people of Korea are fully prepared to cope with any aggression and confrontation. If the U.S. imposes a war upon them, they will not miss the chance but mercilessly punish its aggressors.
Anecdotes about Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung visited the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on December 14, Juche 47 (1958).
Also there were 50 children from the Nampho Revolutionary School who dropped in at it after visiting Mangyongdae.
The president posed for photographs with pupils of the two schools and appreciated an art performance and had meals with them.
Before leaving the school he was so kind as to ask them if they had any request.
A girl from the Nampho Revolutionary School asked him, taking his hand, to visit her school, too, adding that it was the ardent wish of all the teaching staff and pupils of the school.
The president accepted her request with pleasure and visited the school a week later to keep the promise he had given to pupils.
One day in November Juche 60 (1971) the president went to the Sariwon chicken farm.
Pointing at chicks at a chick house he asked a breeding girl how old they were and what was their growth rate.
The girl, tardy to answer, told him in a low tone that the growth rate was 97 per cent.
A farm official told the president that she raised the rate to nearly 100 per cent though it was 60 per cent in the first year of the 3 years of her work. Very pleased to hear that, the president repeatedly praised her.
He even spared time to have a photograph taken with her and other officials against the background of the chick house.
There is another anecdote about him.
On May 10, Juche 47 (1958) he took the tribune of a mass rally held on Hyesan square during his on-site guidance to Ryanggang Province.
Two first-year girls of the primary school presented him with bouquets.
After making his speech he invited the two girls to get on his car. He had a pleasant conversation with them asking their names, ages and birthdays and had photographs taken with them.
Later he, recalling the name of a girl and reminding an official that tomorrow will be her birthday, told him to send two photos to her that day so that she might receive them on her birthday.
The girl was greatly excited to receive the precious photos on her birthday.
Achievements of ultra-modern technology
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The 7th national invention and new technology exhibition is open in Korea.
More than 2,200 invention and technical achievements of over 1,400 varieties are exhibited in various forms of actual objects, models, diagrams, etc.
Among them are hundreds of ultra-modern technological achievements of nearly 50 varieties.
These are drawing the attention of people for their great practical value in various fields of the national economy.
Typical is a coal prospecting method by the magnetic field.
This method helps prospect for a coal seam deep and thin and its head without drilling or with drillings decreased. It takes 10 seconds to survey one point and three persons are able to survey an area of 30,000 to 60,000 square metres a day. Speed is 90 times over that of drill prospecting and the survey cost per ton of coal is one 230th.
Superplastic caridemetal made of pulverized ferroalloy common at home is of great practical value. The tool made of this material is four or six times more serviceable than an ordinary tool.
The semi-conductor laser therapeutic apparatuses "Chongryong-1" and "Chongryong-2" reach more than 90 percent of efficiency in treatment for at least 200 diseases of surgery, internal department, gynaecology, circulating system, ophthalmology, stomatology, etc.
Inter-Korean joint declaration hailed
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- A ceremony was held in Prague on Feb.23 to launch a signature campaign supporting the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and demanding an immediate withdrawal of the U.S. forces from South Korea.
Attending the ceremony were general secretary Miroslav Stepan and members of the c.c., the Czechoslovak Communist Party and party members across the country, chairman JIRI Jarka of the Paektu Czech-Korean Friendship Association and other personages of different circles, over 250 in all.
Declaring the start of the signature campaign, Stepan called for vigorously conducting the campaign in such forms and methods as holding of a rally and consultative meeting, adoption of resolution, and publication of statement or press statement.
Then the participants autographed the signature paper.
The paper noted that the united states still keeps Korea divided into two and the reinforced concrete wall was built at the U.S. instigation to bisect Korea.
Expressing full support to the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, it demanded an unconditional pullback of the U.S. forces from South Korea.
Bush's remarks rebuffed abroad
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea published a statement on Feb. 27 condemning bush for slandering the socialist system of the DPRK. This is little short of enforcing a system unacceptable to the Korean people and an intolerable interference in the DPRK's internal affairs, the statement said.
It also strongly denounced the sanctions imposed by the United States on the Korean people over the past years and the malignant attempts of Bush who is justifying the U.S. forces' presence in South Korea and laying obstacles in the way of Korea's reunification, the common interests and task of the Korean nation.
It expressed full solidarity with the DPRK's stand to defend national sovereignty.
Bush satirized in S. Korea
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- A song satirizing Bush was recently introduced through internet to be popular among students and workers, according to the Feb. 6 issue of the South Korean newspaper Daehan Maeil.
This song "rare cake" scoffs at Bush falling into a swoon with a cake in his throat. It was published on internet site titled "song and life" run by Yun Min Sok, a composer. Yun is well known among the South Korean people for "Jondaehyop March", "From Seoul To Pyongyang" and many other popular songs he created.
Dong-A Ilbo, too, reported about this song on the same day.
The newspaper said that the song is in rapid vogue on campus as it reflected the mind-set of the people critical of the U.S. diplomatic policy.
S. Korean students call for national unity
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Over 400 students under the Kwangju and South Jolla Provincial Federation of University Student Councils held a "meeting of students for independent national reunification to mark March 1 and accelerate the unity and reunification by the united efforts of the Korean nation" at Chosun University on Friday, according to a South Korean newspaper.
In a resolution adopted at the meeting, they said they would contribute to accelerating the national unity and reunification, clearly mindful that the June 15 south-north joint declaration is an invariable banner of students and a declaration of great national unity. They would conduct activities related to the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" to be given in Pyongyang and take an active part in such events as the June 15 grand national reunification festival to be participated in by various organizations from the north and south of the country and abroad, it declared.
Meanwhile, the federation clarified its will to turn out in the struggle for the return of the U.S. military base in Ryongsan, opposition to forced purchase of weapons, probe into the truth behind the massacres of civilians, anti-U.S. independence, withdrawal of the decision to define the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils as an "enemy-benefiting organization" and the abrogation of the "security law".
Hoeryong city people's library
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The Hoeryong city people's library is situated in downtown Hoeryong city, North Hamgyong Province, northern part of Korea.
The four-storeyed library opened on December 24, Juche 82 (1993).
Its total floor space is 2,700 square meters.
It has a collection of 300,000 volumes and over 800 seats.
It boasts of a lending room, a reading room for pupils and students of primary and senior middle schools, a question-and-answer room for scientists, technicians and experts, a mathematics room for students, a recorded and video lecture room, a micro film reading room and a film projection room.
And there are reading rooms according to foreign languages and standard of knowledge.
The library gives regular lectures on the matters needed for the development of information industry and on the scientific and technological matters showing the world trend of development.
Rare success in stock-breeding
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- A rare success was reported from a stock-breeding work-team of the Phyongryuk co-op farm in Kilju county, North Hamgyong Province.
At around 2:16 a.m. on February 16 an ewe brought forth a lamb weighing 5.6kg and at 6:00 a.m. a four-year Korean goat four kids.
President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il visited the farm two times and taught it how to breed many grass-eating animals and produce a good improved breed of sheep.
Very pleased to hear the news, the farmers and inhabitants described this multiplication as something rare because an ewe normally brought forth a lamb weighing about 3kg in the past.
Anniversary of law on agrarian reform observed
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate editorials to the anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's promulgation of the historic law on agrarian reform on March 5, 1946.
The promulgation of the law was the successful realization of the Korean farmers' century-old desire to do farming in their land to their heart's content and a historic event that opened a new chapter in solving the land issue, Rodong Sinmun in an editorial says, and goes on:
It is the consistent principled stand of the Workers' Party of Korea to solve the land issue in conformity with the lawful requirement of the developing socialist society. To give face-lifting to the whole land of the country as befitting the land of the socialist state is the WPK's basic orientation to solve the land issue of socialism.
It is an unshakable resolution and will of leader Kim Jong Il to defend and build up well this land liberated and bequeathed to the people by the president as a precious heritage and thus certainly accomplish the cause of building a powerful nation.
Land realignment is a worthwhile work to give face-lifting to the land of the country marked with the president's great footsteps as befitting the land of Kim Il Sung's Korea both nominally and virtually.
When the whole country and all the people turn out as one in the land realignment project to translate the desire of the president into a reality in this land according to the far-sighted plan of Kim Jong Il, we can further accelerate the building of a powerful nation.
Minju Joson calls upon all the officials and other working people in the agricultural field to turn out as one in the implementation of the WPK's policy on bringing a revolutionary turn in agriculture and thus boundlessly exalt the feats the party has performed in building the countryside and make positive contributions to the building of a powerful nation with markedly increased grain production.
Seed theory greatly instrumental in building powerful nation
Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The Korean people should hold fast to the seed theory, greatly instrumental in creation and changes, to achieve final victory in the struggle to build a powerful nation, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It goes on:
The seed theory is an original idea and theory as it clarifies that seed is essential for creation and changes and guarantees success in any work.
It serves as a powerful weapon in building a powerful nation because it lays down principles and methods of creation and changes.
In the early period of guiding the revolution and construction leader Kim Jong Il expounded the seed theory, revolutionized literature and art and the press and brought about new golden days in the revolution and construction.
The theory serves as a powerful weapon in creating everything new from an innovative view and advancing faster with exceptional zeal.
The theory calls for finding a new and peculiar seed and taking hold on it and cultivating it with care in any case.
The application of the seed theory would help avoid imitation and dogma and create something new and make innovations.
Only when a good seed is discovered, is it possible to do any work with exceptional creative zeal and excitement and carry out any task in the shortest possible time.
That is why the theory serves as a powerful means to build a powerful nation faster with extraordinary zeal.
It provides a sure guarantee for thoroughly ensuring profitability in all work.
If profitability is to be ensured it is necessary to make prior calculation and it should be based on grasping the core of the work. The theory also indicates ways of avoiding the dispersion of forces and repetition and method of efficiently doing everything.
Kim Yong Nam arrives in Kuala Lumper
Kuala Lumpur, March 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday by a special plane to pay an official goodwill visit to Malaysia at the invitation of the king of the country.
He was accompanied by foreign minister Paek Nam Sun, minister of foreign trade Ri Kwang Gun, president of the academy of sciences Ri Kwang Ho, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and other suite members.
A welcome function was held at the building of the parliament of Malaysia today.
Present there were Malaysian King Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Ibni al-Marhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail, prime minister Datuk Sri dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamed, senior officials of power organs, institutions of armed forces and ministries including the president of the parliament, the speaker of the senate and the minister of defence, officials concerned and diplomatic envoys in Kuala Lumpur.
Talks between Kim Yong Nam and Malaysian prime minister
Kuala Lumpur, March 4 (KCNA) -- Talks were held between Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, and Malaysian prime minister Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamed at the government building today.
The two sides informed each other of the situation in their countries and exchanged views on the issue of boosting the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries in the new century and international issues of mutual concern and reached a consensus of views on the matters discussed.
The DPRK side expressed its will to expand and develop those relations to meet the requirements and interests of the two peoples.
The Malaysian side supported the dialogue for reconciliation and reunification of Korea and its reunification by federal formula, expressing its stand that Korea's reunification is an issue that should be solved by the Korean people's efforts and foreign forces should not be allowed to interfere in it.
Present there were Kim Yong Nam's party and other suite members, Malaysian minister of rural development who is also acting foreign minister and other ministers and officials concerned.
Earlier, talks were held between Kim Yong Nam and Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamed.
Agreement signed between DPRK and Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, March 4 (KCNA) -- An inter-governmental agreement on cultural cooperation between the DPRK and Malaysia and an inter-governmental memorandum of understanding on the use of credit for Malaysia's export of palm oil to the DPRK were signed here today.
Present at the signing ceremony were Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, DPRK foreign minister Paek Nam Sun, Malaysian prime minister Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamed and minister of rural development Datuk Azmi Khalid who is also acting foreign minister and others.
The agreement and the mou were separately signed by Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and Ri Kwang Gun, minister of foreign trade, authorized by the DPRK government and Datuk Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, minister of culture, arts and tourism, and Datuk Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, minister of primary industries, authorized by the Malaysian government.
Kim Yong Nam meets prime minister of Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, March 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a talk with Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamed, prime minister of Malaysia, who paid a courtesy call on him today.
Present there were Paek Nam Sun, minister of foreign affairs, Ri Kwang Gun, minister of foreign trade, Ri Kwang Ho, president of the academy of sciences, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Kim Ja Ryong, DPRK ambassador to Malaysia, and other suite members.
Also present there were Malaysian minister of rural development Datuk Azmi Khalid who is also acting foreign minister, Abdul Majid Ahmad Khan, Malaysian ambassador to the DPRK, and other officials concerned.