Kim Jong Il inspects KPA unit no. 478
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il on June 15 inspected KPA unit no. 478.
President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il visited the unit on August 25, 1960 to kindle the first torch of the red-flag company movement and indicated the way of making the heroic KPA an army of the party and the revolution.
While going round the relics associated with the footsteps of the president, Kim Jong Il said the undying feats the president performed by devoting himself for the strengthening and development of the revolutionary armed forces all his life will shine for all ages.
Then he went round the servicemen's hall, library and other entertainment and education facilities to learn in detail about the politico-ideological work. After watching the servicepersons in training, he was greatly satisfied to see all the servicemen trained as indomitable combatants firmly defending the security of the country and the people and indicated the tasks that would serve as a guideline in increasing the combat power of the unit in every way.
He dropped in at the houses of officers Kang Nam Sik and Ri Song Gil of the unit to acquaint himself with their living down to details and had a cordial talk with them.
He was greatly satisfied to learn that their family tradition of attaching importance to arms has been carried forward generation after generation and said the KPA is invincible as such admirable commanding officers unfailingly loyal to the party and the revolution are reliably standing guard over every post.
he posed for a photograph with the servicemen of the unit.
The next leg of his inspection was a women's company under the unit.
He highly praised servicewomen for their total dedication to the noble work for the defence of the country.
He enjoyed an art performance given by the company servicepersons.
He gave the servicepersons of the company a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as souvenirs before posing for a photograph with them.
He was accompanied by KPA generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
Head of DPRK delegation refers to food security
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Minister of agriculture Kim Chang Sik, head of the DPRK delegation, on June 11 made a speech at the world summit on food in Rome.
He referred to a series of important measures taken by the DPRK to increase its governmental investment in agriculture with a view to eradicating the consequences of natural disasters of several consecutive years and decisively boosting the food production under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
He said the aid provided by the un food and agricultural organization, the international agricultural development fund and other international organizations to the DPRK in its efforts to put its agricultural production on a normal track has substantially helped to push its drive for food security and implement the action program of the world summit on food. He on behalf of the DPRK government expressed thanks to the governments of various countries, international organizations and individual figures for having provided such aid.
He noted that if the food security is to be achieved worldwide at an early date it is important, first of all, for all the governments to reconfirm their political will to implement the action program of the world summit on food in conformity with their specific conditions and abide by the principle of making the best use of their locally available potentials to this end.
Secondly, he called for giving priority to establishing fair relations of international trade and finance favorable for the achievement of food security for all and developing the international economic relations based on equality and mutual benefits.
The DPRK government will as ever maintain close relations of cooperation with FAO and other international organizations and their member nations in the efforts to achieve world food security and will make sustained efforts to implement the action program of the world summit on food, he concluded.
U.S. nuclear blackmail under fire
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The United States announced its decision to build a plant producing plutonium fuses for nuclear warheads and staged a subcritical nuclear test. This is an undisguised challenge to the world peace-loving people desirous of living in a world free from nuclear arms race and nuclear weapons, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
Recalling that it is the invariable ambition of the U.S. imperialists to mount preemptive attacks on other countries with nuclear weapons and dominate the world, the commentary continues:
The U.S. singled out the DPRK as its primary target. What merits serious attention is that after the U.S. imperialist warmongers listed the DPRK as part of the "axis of evil" and the target of its nuclear attack the U.S. Defense Department recently carried out computer mock exercises against the DPRK and other countries and even worked out a relevant top secret war scenario.
No one can predict when they will provoke a nuclear war against the DPRK. Any slackening of vigilance against their moves for a nuclear war would entail irrevocable consequences.
These desperate moves of the u.s. imperialist hawkish forces compel the DPRK to take corresponding measures. This is the legitimate sovereign right of the DPRK.
Solidarity meeting of Korean and Japanese workers
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- A solidarity meeting of Korean and Japanese workers was held in Pyongyang yesterday on the occasion of the second anniversary of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
Present at the meeting were Rim Kwang Nam, vice-chairman of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, officials concerned and members of the friendly visiting group of the Jugoku District Liaison Council of the Japanese Autonomy Workers' Union on a visit to Korea.
At the meeting speakers said that the joint declaration serves as a milestone for the reunification of Korea because it clarifies the fundamental principle and ways of reunification.
They said that it is important to strengthen solidarity of Korean and Japanese workers in realizing the reunification of Korea in accordance with the joint declaration.
The U.S. is the very one who blocks the implementation of the joint declaration designed for the reunification of Korea, they said, calling for putting an end to the presence of the U.S. troops in South Korea and U.S. interference in the internal affairs of Korea.
After the meeting the members of the friendly visiting group signed the signature paper for supporting the joint declaration and demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from South Korea.
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought observed
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson yesterday in a signed article observed the day of preventing global desertification and drought.
It said that the damage caused by desertification and drought in the world is not a problem confined to a country or a region but a serious world problem and a crucial issue threatening the very existence of humankind.
The DPRK has paid attention to preventing the devastation of land owing to drought and taken a series of positive measures to radically change the appearance of land, it noted, and went on:
The Korean people will promote international cooperation in the efforts to protect land, a boon common to humankind, and prevent desertification and drought.
Greetings to President of Seychelles
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a message of greetings to president of Seychelles France Albert Rene on June 13 on the occasion of the national day.
In the belief that the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would grow stronger in the future, too, the message sincerely wished the president greater success in his responsible work for the prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people.
New lime resources discovered in Korea
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Researchers of the geological prospecting faculty of Kim Chaek University of Technology in Korea have discovered new lime resources.
The resources are the good raw material of lime to be used in different domains of the national economy including construction, city administration, metallurgy, metal, chemistry and agriculture.
The raw material is called coal-limestone.
When coal-limestone is set on fire, it burns to lime of itself.
Good quality lime can be produced more simply than the previous method while saving much anthracite.
The researchers have confirmed that the resources are rich in the country.
Married couple of doctors
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Ri Jong Hu and Pak Kyong Hui are a pair of doctors and assistant professors in their forties.
The husband is the head of the metallurgical fuel engineering chair of the metallurgical engineering faculty of Kim Chaek University of Technology and the wife is the head of the industrial management chair of the information engineering faculty of the university of printing industry.
They have become teachers after graduating from Kim Chaek University of Technology in Juche 69 (1980).
They made great achievements in their scientific study, while teaching students.
Ri Jong Hu studied the physical and chemical character of constitutional elements of coal, one of undeveloped metallurgical fuels so as to lay a scientific foundation for coke production.
He gave profits to the state by increasing the proportion of local coal in coke production and improving its quality. He worked out over 10 national standards, which were instituted. He was awarded the doctorate of engineering in Juche 91 (2002).
Pak Kyong Hui completed and systematized a theory of "management of quality" and pioneered the subject of "management of quality," a major science of management engineering at universities of technology across the country.
She made a great contribution to completing the standard of "management and guarantee of quality."
She became a doctor of economics in Juche 89 (2000).
Besides, they wrote scores of treatises, textbooks and reference books for education and scientific research.
They also produced ten odd masters of science.
Ostrich farms built
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Ostriches, known to be raised in the tropical zone only, are now bred in Korea.
Ostrich farms were built in Pyongyang and various local areas.
General secretary Kim Jong Il inspected a new ostrich farm built in the suburbs of Pyongyang on December 7, Juche 89 (2000). Looking round scores of fattening pens and other buildings, he said that the farm is something to boast of before the world for its modern equipment and big production capacity.
The farm covers over 400,000 square meters. All the production processes of the farm ranging from breed raising to hatching, young ostrich raising and fattening are computerized.
Scientists in this field have achieved great successes in the researches into increasing the rate of egg-laying, fertilization and hatching per ostrich.
Signal progress has been made in the development of anti-epidemic medicines, effective feed and ostrich fattening in winter.
On the basis of these successes a drive for building ostrich farms is now under way in different parts of the country.
Ostrich farms appeared in Kaechon city and Yonthan county recently.
The massive ostrich breeding in the DPRK is the fruition of the devoted service of the Workers' Party of Korea to the people, a party which spares nothing for them.
KCNA calls for vigilance against Japan's overseas advance
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The Japanese maritime general staff recently dispatched two more warships to the Indian ocean under the pretext of fuel support to U.S. warships.
This merits serious attention as it is part of Japan's moves to escalate in real earnest the advance of its "self-defence forces" (SDF) overseas under the pretext of "anti-terrorism war."
What matters here is that the Japanese reactionaries' overseas dispatch of the SDF is being made legal in utter disregard of article 9 of the "peace constitution" which bans Japan's possession of army and renounces war.
Japan has already adopted a "law on special measures to combat terrorism," thus providing a legal guarantee for dispatching Japanese-flagged SDF warships and troops anywhere in the world once it determines, under the pretext of combating terrorism.
The Japanese fleet has been involved in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism military actions in the Arabic sea since early December last year when it was sent to the Indian ocean under the pretext of fuel support.
Japanese warships' going out to the Indian ocean means that the sphere of the SDF actions limited to the areas surrounding Japan has become limitless in reality.
Japan's dispatch of more warships after extending the term of their logistic support, keeping pace with U.S. prolonged military operations in Afghanistan, clearly shows what a reckless phase Japan's ambition for overseas expansion has reached it is the invariable ambition of Japan to realise its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and establish its unchallenged domination over Asia.
Asian and other people of the world are called upon to frustrate Japan's moves for overseas aggression with high vigilance against it.
Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of late Choe Hong Hui
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent a wreath to the bier of Choe Hong Hui, president of the International Taekwon-do Federation, on June 16, expressing deep condolences over his death.
Funeral of Choe Hong Hui held
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The public funeral of Choe Hong Hui, president of the International Taekwon-do Federation, took place here today.
Present there were the members of the funeral committee and officials concerned as well as family members and relatives of the deceased.
Also attending the funeral were compatriots staying in the socialist homeland.
Before carrying his coffin out of the house, his family members and relatives and members of the funeral committee mourned his death before his bier.
Amid the playing of a dirge, the hearse left for burial.
A funeral service was held at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery.
Choe Thae Bok, chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, made an address at the service.
Amid the playing of the dirge, his remains were placed in the grave and his family members and relatives and members of the funeral committee spread earth over them.
A wreath from leader Kim Jong Il was placed before the grave.
Also laid there were wreaths in the name of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, the cabinet, institutions, organizations, the International Taekwon-do Federation and the diplomatic corps here.
The participants in the funeral observed a moment's silence in memory of the deceased