Spanish organization introduces DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Spanish Association for Friendship with the Korean People set up a DPRK homepage widely introducing socialist Korea. This homepage was set up by chairman of the association Alejandro Cao De Benos in December Juche 89 (2000).
    It shows the national emblem of the DPRK and pictures of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il acknowledging the cheering crowds.
    The homepage consists of six chapters dealing with the politics, social life, the issue of reunification, tourism, history and geography of Korea. Edited in each chapter are relevant photos and their explanations. Also inserted in the homepage is a DPRK documentary film.
    This homepage is gaining popularity and the number of its users has reached over 40,000 in little more than one year.
    This year the chairman set up a homepage on the Juche-oriented literature and art of the DPRK in Tarragona, Spain, in January and, through a member of the association resident in China, another homepage introducing the DPRK in Chinese in February.

Kim Jong Il's comradeship praised

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners was a precious fruition of Kim Jong Il's strong sense of comradeship and his energetic and wise leadership. It was also a great event of worldwide significance that fully demonstrated the vitality and validity of the June 15 joint declaration. The vice-chairman of the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) said this in a statement on Monday marking the second anniversary of their repatriation, according to voice of national salvation from Seoul.
    The statement said:
    South Korean people have keenly felt that Kim Jong Il, who is creating a great epic of comradeship and human love, is the supreme incarnation of humanity, the sun of the nation and the benevolent father to whom the 70 million fellow countrymen entrust their destinies and future.
    The NDFSK will accelerate the nationwide march for the implementation of the joint declaration so as to realize the desire for the nation's independent reunification and bring earlier the day when they live a happy life under his benevolent care.
    Noting that other unconverted long-term prisoners are still kept in south Korea due to the moves of the anti-reunification elements, the statement held that they should be sent back to the north as early as possible in the spirit of the joint declaration and according to their will.

Birthday of DPRK marked abroad

Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Functions were held in different countries in the run-up to the 54th birthday of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Round-table conversations, seminars, photo exhibitions and film shows took place in Uganda, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea between August 16 and 24. On display at the photo exhibition halls were photos showing feats performed by President Kim Il Sung in building the country and by Kim Jong Il in pursuing the army-based policy.
Screened at the film shows were "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Gives On-Site Guidance to Various Domains", "New Korea" and other films.

Angolan President calls for Korea's reunification

Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- We hope that Korea will be reunified under the policy of Kim Jong Il, Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos said on august 30 when meeting the DPRK delegation led by vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop. The president expressed heartfelt thanks to Kim Jong Il for rendering disinterested aid of various forms to the struggle for independence and peace of Angola.
We are pleased to see the signal achievements Kim Jong Il has made in the efforts to reunify Korea and build a powerful nation by pursuing the army-centered policy, he said.

Meeting of pro-reunification patriots

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Former unconverted long-term prisoners, known as pro-reunification patriotic fighters, met in Panmunjom on Monday to vow loyalty to Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of their repatriation to the north from the south of Korea. They laid a floral basket and bouquets before the monument to President Kim Il Sung's autograph and paid homage to him.
    At the meeting they vowed to absolutely worship and follow Kim Jong Il only until the last moments of their lives and devote all their wisdom and energies to the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche as befitting men of faith and will, the name given by the party, the motherland and the people.
    That day, they met with servicemen at the Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army and asked them to perform higher feats in the defence of the country and military and political training. They gave an art performance for those servicemen.
    Earlier, they had a meeting with people from different walks of life in Kaesong.

Kim Jong Il sends gifts to participants in performance Arirang

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il sent gifts to the participants in the mass gymnastic and artistic performance Arirang, winner of Kim Il Sung Prize. Producers, performers and others successfully created and completed Arirang in a short span of time as a great masterpiece of the 21st century and a rare extravaganza in the era of army-based policy despite difficulties before the 90th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 70th anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. It was performed more than 90 times with great success.
    Kim Jong Il saw the performance Arirang three times and praised it as the greatest success of the Juche-oriented culture and art, the world's great masterpiece, a work listed as a national treasure and a flawless work. And he extended thanks to all the participants and sent gifts to them.
    A meeting took place at the May Day Stadium on September 2 to convey the gifts to them.
    Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Kang Nung Su, minister of culture, were on hand.
    Speakers at the meeting were unanimous in saying that the performance Arirang could be produced as the greatest treasure of human culture and art in the world entirely thanks to the brilliant wisdom, outstanding leadership and meticulous care of Kim Jong Il, a genius of creation and a great master of literature and art.

Anniversary of Koryo Songgyungwan Academy commemorated

    Kaesong, September 2 (KCNA) -- Koryo Songgyungwan Academy commemorated the 1010th anniversary of its foundation. The academy is situated in Kaesong city near the Military Demarcation Line. Kaesong was the capital of Koryo (918-1392), the first unified state in Korea.
    At that time, the academy functioned as a present-day university.
    President Kim Il Sung visited Songgyungwan Academy on May 5, Juche 81 (1992). He took measures to promote Kaesong college of light industry to university of light industry and name it Koryo Songgyungwan Academy as a successor to Songgyungwan Academy established during the Koryo dynasty as it was one of the oldest universities in the world. and he personally wrote the signboard of the university.
    Kim Jong Il made sure that a ceremony of naming the university was held as a grand national function and a monument bearing the autograph of the president erected on the university campus and sent there many educational and cultural facilities and educational equipment as gifts.
    A meeting took place on September 2 to mark the day.
    President Kim Hyo Gwan of the university said in a report that the Songgyungwan Academy that had long remained a mere historic site could demonstrate its glory in the present era entirely thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
    The university has trained a large number of light industrial specialists and technicians over the last decade.
    Jo Chang Dok, vice-premier of the cabinet, and Pyon Yong Rip, minister of education, were among those present at the meeting.

U.S. urged to honor its commitment under AF

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- If the United States hopes for maintaining the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework (AF) and improving the relations with the DPRK, it should drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK as required by the AF and show in practice its will to make compensation for the huge loss of electricity caused by the delayed provision of light water reactors (LWRs). Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary as regards the assertion made by the U.S. administration on August 7, when the ground concrete tamping for the light water reactor started. It blustered that the DPRK should accept the IAEA's nuclear inspection and if not, it would not provide the LWRs.
    Saying that the core point of the 1994 AF is the U.S. provision of LWRs to the DPRK by 2003 in return for the latter's freezing of its nuclear facilities, the commentary continues:
    The DPRK has fulfilled all its commitments under the AF more than 100. But the U.S. did nothing but starting ground concrete tamping belatedly. It is, therefore, a height of folly for the U.S. it to talk about a nuclear inspection under this situation.
    The U.S. threat and bluffing will never work on the DPRK.
    The U.S. should properly approach the DPRK, well aware of it.
    In the last half a century the U.S. bellicose forces only suffered a defeat, setback and shame while desperately working to contain the DPRK by force of arms.
    The most pending issue between the DPRK and the U.S. at present is how to abide by the AF, not a nuclear inspection.
    The issue of nuclear inspection will naturally be settled when the AF is implemented and the construction of LWRs makes successful progress.
    The U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK will get the U.S. nowhere. This is a lesson the U.S. should draw.

Korean Gardening Center

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Korean Gardening Center will sponsor the 3rd Pyongyang Flower Show from September 4 to 10. A variety of flowers cultivated by flower-lovers and horticultural groups, special wild flowers, bonsai, cut flowers, stuffings, horticultural craft works and others will be on display at the show.
    The center is the only horticultural base established in the country to build beautiful flower gardens of new type across the country and promote the exchange of horticultural techniques, the import and export of flowers and joint venture with other countries.
    Established in February Juche 88 (1999), the center is situated in Moranbong district, pyongyang.
    The center has rooms for researches into garden plants and the propagation of them, and a horticultural information room, a room for creating wood craft works and other rooms. It has its branches in all provinces.
    It has joint ventured with other countries in cut flowers, pot flowers, flower seeds, flower trees, bonsai, bulbs and tissue cultured plants and in flower cultivation techniques and its experience.
    The center collects and propagates selected flowers, introduces rich experience and cultivation techniques and regularly arranges flower shows at home and abroad.

Leech injection for treating thrombosis developed

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Researchers at the elementary research institute of the General Koryo Medical Hospital recently succeeded in developing leech injections good for treating cerebral thrombosis. The injection ensures smooth blood flow by reducing blood coagulability and dissolves thrombi so that cerebral nerve cells can quickly recover their functions.
    It is specially efficacious for treating cerebral concussion sequela, cerebral arterioscleroses, cerebral anemia and other troubles related to cerebral blood vessels.
    It is also good for reducing blood coagulability, expanding the blood vessels, dissolving fibers and relieving various symptoms caused by extravasated blood.
    It absorbs cerebral hematomas and relieves cerebral edemata, in particular, thus curing cerebral capillary vessel troubles and oxygen deficiency and providing favorable conditions for recovering nerve functions.
    The injection is good for treating and preventing acute cerebral thrombosis.

Withdrawal of U.S. troops from south Korea called for

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- If the north and south of Korea are to independently achieve the reunification of the country by improving their relations through their concerted efforts, they should put an end to the United States' interference in the issue related to the north-south relations and make its forces quit south Korea as early as possible. A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this in his answer to the question raised by KCNA today 57 years after the U.S. troops occupied south Korea right after the end of the second world war.
    He went on:
    The United States cites the south Korea-U.S. "mutual defense pact" as a pretext for its forces' occupation of south Korea but its presence is totally unjustifiable as it diametrically runs counter to the Korean armistice agreement (KAA) which calls for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea and principles of international law.
    The KAA clearly stipulates the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea and a resolution on this issue was already adopted at the 30th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
    This notwithstanding, the united states has kept south Korea under its military occupation for over half a century and sought the permanent presence of its forces. This is aimed to meet its strategic interest in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of northeast Asia.
    The U.S. is not pleased to see a good atmosphere of reconciliation and cooperation on the Korean Peninsula and improved north-south relations.
    This is because the U.S. calculated that if peace and reunification are achieved on the Korean Peninsula through the dramatic improvement of the north-south relations, it will be hard for it to dub the DPRK "a dangerous force" any longer or seek any pretext to keep its forces in south Korea.
    That is why the U.S. pretends to hail the north-south dialogue and sincerely hope for improved inter-Korean relations and, in fact, tries by hook or by crook to stop them from dealing with main issues in real earnest, confined to having ordinary exchange between them.
    Precisely for this reason the U.S. under the pretext of "cooperation" is forcing south Korea to get its approval of Seoul's every stand on issues related to the north-south relations and, in this course, is putting the brake on inter-Korean negotiations after staging the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercise to spoil the hard-won atmosphere of reconciliation between the north and south and thus deliberately strain the situation.
    This reality goes to prove that the U.S. troops stationed in south Korea are not a "guardian" of stability in this area but disturber of peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula and the main source of all sufferings and misfortune resulting from the split of the Korean nation

Greetings to Emir of Qatar

Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Monday sent a message of greetings to Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, Amir of the state of Qatar, on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of its independence. In the belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would develop on good terms, the message wished the people of Qatar great success in their efforts for the progress and prosperity of the country.

Foreign delegations and delegates here

Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Delegations and delegates of different countries arrived here today to participate in the 8th Pyongyang Film Festival of non-aligned and other developing countries. Among the arrivals were those from Laos, Russia, Malaysia, Belgium, Sweden, Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong of China, Poland, Germany and Japan and a delegation of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. Noguchi Noboru, delegate from the UNESCO, and Yuri Kolosov, vice-chairman of the Russian Filmmakers Union, arrived here as honorary guests of the festival.
They were greeted at the airport by Jo Chan Gu, vice-minister of culture who is vice-chairman of the organizing committee of the festival, and other officials concerned.

Kim Yong Nam meets Chinese delegation

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had a friendly talk with the delegation of the national committee of the Chinese people's political consultative conference headed by its vice-chairman Zhou Tienong at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Tuesday. Zhou said that china and the DPRK are neighbors linked by the same mountain and river and the friendship between the two countries was forged by the preceding leaders.
    Kim Jong Il's visit to China and Jiang Zemin's visit to the DPRK marked important occasions in boosting the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations, he said.
    Noting that his visit to the DPRK offered him an opportunity to know better about the successes the Korean people have made in socialist construction under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, he wished the DPRK prosperity.
    Present there were Jo Gyu Il, director of the secretariat of the central committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, other officials concerned and Chinese charge d'affaires Tian Baozhen.

Kim Jong Il enjoys art performance of servicemen

    Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il on Monday appreciated a performance given by the art squad of KPA unit no. 762 that took part in the 29th art festival of servicemen. Seeing the performance were KPA generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and other general officers of the KPA.
    Among the audience were secretaries of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea Kim Kuk Thae, Jong Ha Chol, Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yong Sun.
    The art squad members put on the stage colorful numbers carrying the ardent reverence of the Korean army and people for Kim Jong Il. Among them were chorus "Please Receive Our Salute", dialogue and poem "With The Spirit Of Mt. Paektu", a male vocal solo "General Is Son Of Guerrillas", tale and chorus "We Believe In You Ss In Heaven" and chorus "Army Of Mt. Paektu Is Ready To Go Into Action".
    Kim Jong Il extended thanks to them, noting with great satisfaction that they successfully gave the performance of high militancy and strong appeal, fully reflecting the policies of the WPK and life and sentiments of the servicemen.
    Art activities are very instrumental in the ideological education of servicemen, he said, advancing highly important tasks that would serve as guidelines in enhancing the role of the art squads.