Maritime sports training center to be built

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- A maritime sports training center will be built in picturesque Songdowon on the east coast of Korea. The modern center will perfectly blend with the landscape of the Songdowon International Children's Camp. It will have physical training halls, a room for the dissemination of science and technology, a photo studio, a clinic, apparatus rooms, a sauna, a dining hall, lodging quarters for sportspersons and other facilities.
    A major structural project is making headway in the wake of the completion of the foundation work.
    When completed, the center will actively contribute to the development of maritime sports in the country.

Full-length novel "With Rifle In Hand" published

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The Literature and Art Publishing House recently brought out full-length novel "With Rifle In Hand" written by Song Sang Won, part of the cycle of novels "Immortal Guidance" created by the April 15 writing group. Having the period of the "arduous march" after President Kim Il Sung's demise for a setting, the novel impressively tells about the great leadership of Kim Jong Il and the immortal exploits he performed by carrying forward the revolutionary cause of the president with his army-based revolutionary leadership.
    It recalls that Kim Jong Il inspected a post under pine trees on the New Year's day, beginning the history of army-based revolutionary leadership, encouraged servicemen to complete the first stage construction project of the Anbyon Youth Power Station with the ideological and moral might of the people's army, shattering the enemies' wild ambition to destroy the DPRK and creating a new spirit of the era, and led the drive to open a turning phase of the Korean revolution guided by the spirit.
    It is of great significance as it fully represents the army-based leadership and politics of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Wreaths laid before bust and statues of Kim Jong Suk

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the bust of Kim Jong Suk, anti-Japanese war woman hero, at the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt. Taesong on Sunday on the occasion of her 53rd death anniversary. Seen standing there was a wreath sent by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
    KPA guards of honour lined up on either side of the bust.
    Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Kim Yong Nam, Kim Il Chol, Ri Ul Sol, Jon Pyong Ho, Han Song Ryong, Kim Chol Man, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and other senior officials of the party, the state and the army, leading officials of the party, armed forces, power organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicemen, working people, school youth and children in the city.
    Overseas Koreans visiting the socialist homeland were also present there.
    Amid the wreath-laying music wreaths were laid in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and the DPRK cabinet.
    Also laid there were wreaths in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, working people's organizations, ministries, national institutions, KPA units, scientific, educational, cultural and art and press organs, the joint national organization of the Korean Children's Union organizations, the party and power organs, factories and farms in the city, delegations and visiting groups of overseas Koreans and bouquets.
    Written on ribbons of the wreaths were letters "The Revolutionary Exploits Of Anti-Japanese War Woman Hero Comrade Kim Jong Suk Will Be Immortal".
    The participants observed a moment's silence, remembering the revolutionary life and immortal revolutionary feats of Kim Jong Suk who devoted her noble life to the sacred cause of the country's liberation and people's freedom and happiness. That day floral baskets were laid before her statues in Kim Jong Suk county, Hoeryong city, Kim Jong Suk Navy University and Kim Jong Suk General Military Academy.

Thorough-going investigation into GIs' murder urged

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The all-people measure committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, schoolgirls killed by the U.S. armored car reportedly called a press conference in front of the U.S. Forces' unit in Phaju on September 18 at which it demanded a thorough-going investigation into the GIs' murder. Its participants cited new material evidence, categorically refuting the assertion of the U.S. military authorities and the police that the U.S. armored car was at a standstill at the time the incident took place.
    Asserting that there was a road for military operation but U.S. Forces drove the armoured car into the road in the village and a prompt rescue might save them from deaths, the participants called for a thorough joint probe into the truth behind the case.
    That morning over 20 bereaved families paid a protest visit to the chief of the Phaju police office and demanded the South Korean authorities and the U.S. military authorities conduct a joint on-the-spot investigation into the murder together with bereaved families, civic organizations and media organs.

S. Korean military's intention to assist in U.S. war against Iraq opposed

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Several organizations in South Korea strongly denounced the Defense Ministry of South Korea there for examining the "plan to assist the U.S." in its moves to attack Iraq, according to a news report. The reunification solidarity for the implementation of the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and peace on the Korean Peninsula in a commentary demanded the withdrawal of the plan, noting that the assistance to the U.S. "anti-peace war" aimed to carry out its strategy to dominate the world in utter disregard of global peace should never be allowed.
    The solidarity called a press conference in front of the building of the ministry on Sept. 18 at which it declared that the solidarity is "opposed not only to the military support for U.S. attack on Iraq but to any form of assistance to it".
    The permanent co-representatives of the solidarity for implementing the south-north joint declaration in a commentary released on Sept. 17 said that the ministry's announcement that the ministry would examine the South Korean participation in the war against Iraq for the South Korea-U.S. alliance not only goes against the general trend of the international community towards peace but will bring only damage to the people as it is an anachronistic assertion threatening their interests.
    The Eastern Seoul District Federation of University Student Councils released a statement on the same day. The statement accused the U.S. of seeking through its war against Iraq to aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula and tighten its grip on South Korea and maintain its unchallenged domination over northeast Asia. It urged the South Korean authorities to drop their humiliating and servile military diplomatic policy towards the U.S.
    The south headquarters of the national alliance of youth and students for the country's reunification in a statement issued on Sept. 18 strongly demanded the South Korean authorities retract their sycophantic plan to support the U.S. in its war against Iraq, noting that the military moves staged by the U.S. on the Korean Peninsula prove that the war against Iraq may spill over straight into the Korean Peninsula.

All people urged to firmly arm themselves with WPK's idea, line and policies

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls on all the officials, party members and other working people to firmly arm themselves with the idea, line and policies of the Workers' Party of Korea. It goes on:
    The WPK's idea, line and policies are the most revolutionary and scientific guidelines. It is the historical review of the Korean revolution that only when the people advance along the road indicated by the WPK, can they build a powerful nation and achieve the cause of national reunification.
    The immoral Juche idea fathered by President Kim Il Sung is an eternal guiding idea of the workers' party and revolution in Korea. The eternal prosperity of Kim Il Sung's Korea and the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche are guaranteed only when the people advance under the uplifted revolutionary banner of the Juche idea.
    Kim Jong Il's army-based idea serves as a powerful weapon in the anti-imperialist struggle in our era and a banner for all victories. All the officials, party members and other working people should resolutely defend the idea and apply it to the letter.
    If they are to arm themselves with the idea, line and policies of the WPK at present it is important for them to deeply study Kim Jong Il's works.
    All of them should handle all the issues arising in the revolution and construction including the work of building the party, army and power and economic and cultural construction guided by the WPK's idea, line and policies, and carry out everything as intended by him and the way he does.

ITF president elected

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- First vice-chairman of the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission of the DPRK Jang Ung who is a member of the International Olympic Committee was elected president of the International Taekwon-do Federation and secretary general of the International Martial Arts Games Committee Jong Jae Hun a member of the ITF advisory council to fill the vacancy. The above decisions were made at the ITF special congress here on Sept. 22.
    The congress proposed agenda items such as carrying out the last words of Choe Hong Hui, the election of the president of the ITF and the approval of the decisions by the ITF advisory council.
    Present at the congress were ITF vice-presidents Ri Ki Ha and Yuri Galashnikov and Pak Si Ung, chairman of the ITF advisory council Leong Wai Meng and chairman of the Korean Taekwon-do Committee Hwang Pong Yong and others.
    Members of the delegations and delegates of national Taekwon-do associations from 46 countries and regions were also present there.
    That day the participants visited the grave of Choe Hong Hui in the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery together with officials concerned to honour his memory on the occasion of the 100th day since his death. They placed wreaths in the name of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the cabinet of the DPRK, the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, the secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the International Taekwon-do Federation, the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, the Korean Taekwon-do Committee, the Korean Committee for Aiding Overseas Koreans, the Russian Taekwon-do Federation and the Ukrainian Taekwon-do Federation and flowers and observed a moment's silence in memory of him.
    They also held a memorial service for him at the People's Palace of Culture.

Scientific institute of vegetables

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Scientific Institute of Vegetables is making a research, dissemination and exchange of species and cultivation technology of vegetables. In recent years the institute made valuable achievements including the establishment of the first filial generation system in vegetable breeding.
    The institute was founded in June Juche 48 (1959).
    Tens of holders of academic degrees at the institute bred hundred and scores of new species of vegetables and studied and completed more than 100 new cases of vegetable cultivation technology for over 40 years.
    They published more than 400 scientific books, treatises and materials including "handbook of vegetables" and "collection of treatises of scientific research into vegetables."
    The institute has laboratories and branches related to leaf vegetables, seasoning vegetables and preservation of genetic resources.
    It had scientific and technological exchanges and technological cooperation with China, Thailand, Guinea, Nepal and other countries on over 70 occasions.
    It is playing an important role in research and development of vegetables in the Asia-Pacific region in relation with the UNDP, the FAO and in cooperation with institutes of different countries. Last year the institute was admitted into the ISHS, the ISTA and the FIS.

New scientific films released

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- New scientific films are now on show in the DPRK. Some of them are conducive to putting the national economy on a scientific basis and raising the scientific and technological knowledge of the working people.
    "New coal prospecting method" shows a method of searching for coal resources by measuring the strength of geomagnetic field, not by the method of drilling.
    "Rock drill with no compressed air" introduces the technical composition of electric magnetic rock drill which can accelerate the tunneling speed while cutting down the electricity use.
    The film gives a scientific explanation that this rock drill can give collieries and mines bigger economic profit.
    Another film "Let us plant more trees of good species" (part 3) shows the ecological features, the method of planting and the economic effectiveness of poplar tree, yellow weeping willow tree and thin needle pine-nut tree.
    There are also "How to operate computer", a teaching material for middle school students, and other films dealing with the common scientific and technological knowledge.

Immortal Juche idea

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Human history is the history of the people's struggle for independence. The Juche idea newly clarifies the essence of the social movement centering on the popular masses for the first time in history.
    Only when the essence of the social movement is studied by focussing on the popular masses' its subject, can the law governing the development of the social movement be understood overall and the social development stepped up purposefully and consciously.
    The Juche idea, on the basis of the independent nature of the masses, expounds the principle that the socio-historical movement is the movement to realize the independence of the masses.
    The socio-historical movement is the struggle for their independence because independence is their intrinsic nature.
    Defending independence is the absolute demand and basic right of the popular masses that no one is entitled to deprive them of.
    Therefore, they do not allow their independence to be infringed upon and shackled.
    That is why they wage a ceaseless struggle in all fields of social development to defend and realize independence. So, the socio-historical movement is the struggle for their independence.
    The struggle for independence takes place in all spheres of social reform, natural transformation and human remoulding in regular order on a full scale and on an international scale.
    Maintaining independent stand is needed in the revolution and construction from the principle that the socio-historical movement is the struggle for the masses' independence.
    The clarification of the principle provides a firm guideline for the popular masses to carve out history and their destiny independently as masters.

South Korean moviedom warned

    Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- It is intolerable that some South Korean film-makers are producing and screening unsavory movies getting on the nerves of the DPRK and fostering inter-Korean confrontation and continue making even films defiling the system in the DPRK. This cannot be construed otherwise than an act of cooling the hard-won atmosphere of reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south and a serious matter that may adversely affect the favorably developing inter-Korean relations. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary condemning the anti-DPRK moves of the South Korean moviedom.
    It goes on:
    Such improper behavior of the South Korean moviedom is a treacherous act of violating the basic spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration which reflects the desire and will of all the Koreans for reunification.
    The north has never made any film critical of the south side.
    The South Korean moviedom should not make anachronistic films fostering distrust and confrontation among compatriots at the instigation of the moribund ultra-right conservative forces and hell-bent on money-making but create art works conducive to the reconciliation, unity and reunification of the nation in the spirit of the joint declaration.
    It is the firm will of the Korean nation to achieve its independent reunification. whoever goes against it can never escape from rejection and denunciation by the nation.
    The north warns the South Korean moviedom against playing into the hands of the ultra-right conservative forces.
    The South Korean authorities should seriously think over the unceasing happenings which may adversely affect the inter-Korean relations in South Korea and take responsible measures to stop the production and screening of films provoking the north.

First batch of DPRK sports delegates to Asiad leaves

Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The first batch of DPRK sports delegates left here today to participate in the 14th Asian Games to be held in Pusan. Sportspersons of the north will participate in international games to be held in South Korea for the first time in the history of national split. This would mark a significant opportunity in achieving the reconciliation and unity between the north and the south and bringing earlier the day of the reunification of the country.
They were seen off at the airport by secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee Kim Jung Rin, vice-premier of the cabinet Kwak Pom Gi, first secretary of the central committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League Kim Kyong Ho, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee Ryang Man Gil, officials concerned, sportspersons and working people in the city.

Russian artistes here

Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) --The state academy ensemble of the Ministry of Interior of Russia led by its head V. P. Eliseyev arrived here today. It was met at the airport by officials concerned and the Russian Ambassador to the DPRK.

Greetings to President of Guinea-Bissau

Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on Sept. 19 sent a message of greetings to Kumba Ialla, President of Guinea-Bissau, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the proclamation of its Republic. Kim Yong Nam wished the president and people of Guinea-Bissau greater success in the work for national unity and the economic development of the country and expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger.

Greetings to President of Mali

Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, on Sept. 19 sent a message of greetings to Amadou Toumani Toure, President of Mali, on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the proclamation of its Republic. Kim Yong Nam sincerely wished the president new success in his responsible work for the development of the country and expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the interests of the two peoples.

Basic agreement on dev. and man. of Sinuiju Spe. Administrative Region signed

Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- A basic agreement on development and management of the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region was signed here today between the DPRK Committee for Promotion of External Economic Cooperation and the Holland Euro-Asia International Import and Export Trade Company. Present at the signing ceremony were chairman of the committee Kim Yong Sul, vice-chairman of the State Planning Commission Jo Yong Nam, chairman of the North Phyongan Provincial People's Committee Pak Kyong Sam and other officials concerned and president of the company Bin Yang and his party.
The agreement was inked by Kim Yong Sul and Bin Yang.