Kim Jong Il inspects new chicken farm
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il provided field guidance to the Anju Chicken Farm newly built by servicemen of the KPA.
He heard a report on the successful completion of the farm from the commander of the unit which participated in its construction.
The farm with a total floor space of over 27,000 square meters is one more gift presented by him to the people with a strong desire to supply more meat and eggs to the army and the people.
After being briefed on the farm before its panoramic map, he looked round the exterior and interior of the farm covering scores of hectares reminiscent of rest homes to learn in detail about its construction and management and operation. he was greatly pleased to know that the soldier-builders have successfully completed the modern farm in such a short span of time in the spirit of devoted service to the people.
He highly praised the soldiers for their feats, saying that ardent patriotism of the soldier-builders who are bringing happiness to the people, has produced one more valuable treasure for the eternal prosperity of the country.
Recalling that the WPK and the people built modern chicken, catfish, duck, goat and cattle farms and other stock-breeding and fish farms in different parts of the country, thus laying a foundation for the building of a powerful nation with conviction of a bright future even in the period of "arduous march" and the forced march when the country was hard pressed for everything, he noted that this astonishing change clearly proves the stamina of Korea of Juche dynamically advancing towards new victory despite any trials.
A signal turn will be effected in the diet of the people if a work is minutely organized to make the stock-breeding centres constructed with much effort pay off and more stock and fish farms are built, he noted, calling on the whole party and army and all the people to energetically push forward this work.
He said it is an important revolutionary task for realising the centuries-old desire of the korean people to increase the production of meat, eggs, fish and other subsidiary foods and put forward important tasks that would serve as a guideline in bringing about a signal turn in putting the stockbreeding of the country on a new higher stage and improving the people's standard of living.
He was accompanied by Kim Kuk Thae, Jong Ha Chol and Kim Ki Nam who are secretaries of the WPK Central Committee and Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong who are generals of the KPA and others.
Grand festival for national reunification closes
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A grand festival for national reunification which opened in Mt. Kumgang to mark the second anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration was closed on June 15.
Multifarious functions took place that day.
At the festival representatives of different circles of the north and the south met to further strengthen the solidarity and unity in the efforts to achieve independent reunification.
Present at the meetings were representatives of social organizations in the north and south of Korea including the north headquarters of the national alliance for the country's reunification, the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, the reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and the peace on the Korean Peninsula, the all-people council for national reconciliation and cooperation and the seven religious orders.
The meetings discussed matters of opposing flunkeyism and the idea of depending on outsiders and calling on the people from all walks of life in the north and south to get united and take joint actions in the struggle for independent national reunification, taking the love for the motherland and the nation and the spirit of national independence as a basis of great unity.
The meetings also discussed issues of promoting the solidarity, unity, cooperation and exchange between inter-Korean organizations under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration, a landmark of national reunification.
An art performance and great chorus were given by artistes and representatives in the north, south and overseas at the festival.
An appeal to the 70 million fellow countrymen was adopted at the ceremony.
Whoever truly loves the country, works for the nation and aspires after reunification should positively support and set store by the declaration and devote his or her strength, wisdom, enthusiasm and efforts to the cause of implementing it to the letter, the appeal said, and continued:
No matter how the situation and the circumstances may change, it is necessary to firmly preserve the basic spirit of the joint declaration and, on this basis, turn the drive for achieving the cause of reunification into an irresistible trend of the history of the nation.
At the closing ceremony, speeches were made by Jong Hyon Chan, chairman of the "National Federation of Peasants Associations" of the south side, and Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the national reconciliation council of the north side.
That day representatives in the north and the south and overseas toured the Kuryong pond of Mt. Kumgang.
The south side hosted a reception for the representatives of the north and overseas to the festival that day.
Delegation of Korean social scientists society leaves for Sri Lanka
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Korean social scientists society led by its chairman Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, left here yesterday to participate in the world conference on the cause of independence in the 21st century slated to be held in Colombo.
The delegation was seen off at the airport by Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, and officials concerned and Chinese ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe.
Protest visits to S. Korean "Ministry of Justice"
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Members of South Korean organizations paid protest visits to the "Ministry of Justice" on June 12, according to a news report.
Among them were the measure committee for the release of detainees affiliated with Pomchonghakryon (National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification), supporters' association for this organization, a group of marchers of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils.
They thrust a letter of protest to the "Ministry of Justice" urging the withdrawal of the penal servitude passed on the directors of the secretariats of the south headquarters of Pomchonghakryon and its supporters' association.
They urged the withdrawal of the label of the "enemy-benefiting organization" attached to them, demanding an interview with the "Minister of Justice."
Guarantee of women's rights urged
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Members of at least 20 organizations reportedly held a press conference in Seoul on June 11 in connection with the inauguration of the measure committee to stop the government power's abuse of women's rights.
Those organizations included the catholic national alliance for justice, the women's catholic community, the South Korean Women's Fellowship Society and the "Law Council of the National Federation of Metal Industrial Workers Unions" and others.
They charged that the police searched women unionists after undressing them and held nuns in custody this year, adding such police violence against women is occurring in different parts of South Korea in an unbroken chain.
They demanded the resignation of the chief of the police station responsible for abuses of women's rights and an apology from the director of the police agency and decisive measures against their recurrence.
They threatened to conduct activities to reveal the police abuses of women's rights and undertake a widespread solidarity movement unless their demands are met.
Greetings to governor-general of the Bahamas
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- President Kim Yong Nam of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly on June 12 sent a message of greetings to Deim Ivy Dumont upon his appointment as governor-general of the Bahamas.
In the belief that the friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries would develop on good terms in the future, the message wished the governor-general success in his responsible work.
S. Korean authorities' anti-reunification action flailed
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- South Korean organizations reportedly condemned the authorities for disallowing south-side representatives' participation in the June 15 grand festival for national reunification.
Among them were the south headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification and the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification, the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, the Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils, the "reunification solidarity" and the council for independent reunification.
The organizations held that it is an undeniable right for all the members of the Korean nation to participate in the festival and it is a basic principle of the movement for reunification directly related to the intrinsic nature of the movement for national reunification.
The festival to be opened in Mt. Kumgang on the occasion of the second anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration will mark a chapter of national unity as it will prove once again the validity and vitality of the joint declaration and a chapter of the grand festival as it will demonstrate the will and spirit of the nation to reunify the country by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation, they added.
The organizations stressed that the grand festival would be a court meeting out a severe judgement to the anti-reunification forces at home and overseas keen to escalate the inter-Korean confrontation and tensions.
GIs' murder of S. Korean school girls denounced
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The headquarters for the promotion of the June 15 grand festival for national reunification under the solidarity for implementing the south-north joint declaration reportedly issued a statement on June 14, denouncing the U.S. forces in South Korea for driving an armored car over two school girls to death.
On June 13 the armored car for carrying a floating bridge under the engineer corps of the U.S. second division ran over the two girls aged 14 to death on a roadside in Kwangjok-myon, Yangju county, Kyonggi Province.
Recalling that more than 400 traffic accidents by GIs occurred every year but the number of exercise of South Korean courts' jurisdiction was below 10, the statement said, and noted:
This is attributable to the shackling South Korea-U.S. "status of forces agreement". The GIs will continue to commit murder unless the "agreement" is abrogated.
The statement demanded a thoroughgoing investigation into the case and an apology and compensation from the U.S. forces side to the bereaved families. It also demanded the "government" remain no longer an onlooker to the GIs' murder and other crimes and make all efforts for a "just exercise of sovereignty".
Tano festival commemorated in Korea
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Working people from all walks of life, youth and students in Korea yesterday spent the Tano festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month) with traditional pleasant folk games at recreation grounds and parks across the country including Mt. Taesong, Moran Hill, Mt. Chilbo, Mt. Jongbang and Mt. Kuwol.
Present there were leading officials, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, former unconverted long-term prisoners and overseas Koreans.
On the occasion of the Tano festival the first national TV Korean wrestling contest of working people for "bull prize" was held on picturesque Moran Hill in Pyongyang from June 13 to 15.
Participating there were 70 wrestlers selected from across the country. They competed irrespective of weight and age.
Eight strong wrestlers competed from 5 p.m. yesterday.
Kim Song Do, 39, from Pyongyang placed first, Ri Jong Chol, 42, from North Phyongan Province and Kim Ho Jong, 43, from South Hamgyong Province second and third respectively.
At an awarding ceremony a bull weighing 900 kg with a gold bell was awarded to the winner and a medium-size bull weighing 560 kg and a calf weighing 306 kg respectively to the runner-up and the wrestler who played third.
Meanwhile, the Chongryu restaurant, the Okryu restaurant, the Sinhung restaurant, the Kyongam restaurant, the Okgye restaurant and other service facilities served traditional national food for the Tano festival and local special foods, adding festivity of the holiday.
Russian political party participates in international signature campaign
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The party for peace and unity of Russia participated in the international signature campaign for supporting the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and demanding the immediate pullout of the U.S. troops from South Korea.
Its chairwoman Sazhi Umalatova signed a signature paper on behalf of 36,000 party members.
Simultaneous masses held
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Inter-Korean Buddhists' simultaneous masses took place to pray for national reunification marking the second anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration at temples across the DPRK on June 15 on the occasion of the second anniversary of the historic Pyongyang meeting and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
Present at masses were office bearers of the central committee and provincial, city and county committees of the Korean Buddhists Federation, chief priests of temples, monks and believers.
At masses rituals were followed by speeches and an address from the chairman of the South Korean Council of Buddhist orders was conveyed and a joint message was read.
Speakers at masses called on all the Buddhists to be aware of their noble mission and duty as those responsible for national reunification and make a tangible contribution to the noble cause of national reunification.
Unanimously stressing that genuine patriotism is to implement the declaration, they expressed their will to decisively smash the moves of outsiders and anti-reunification elements against the implementation of the declaration by the concerted efforts of all the Buddhists in the north, south and overseas.