Russian diplomats visit Taedonggang Beer Factory
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Andrei Karlov and staff members of the Russian embassy here visited the Taedonggang Beer Factory in Pyongyang on Tuesday on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and the 57th anniversary of the WPK.
Being briefed on the modern factory with a big production capacity, they looked round various production processes.
At the end of the visit, the Russian Ambassador in the visitor's book wrote that he hoped the workers of the factory would achieve fresh success in production.
Kim Yong Nam greets Ugandan President
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Oct. 1 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Ugandan Independence.
Expressing belief that the good friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would grow stronger in the interests of the two peoples, the message sincerely wished the president and the people of Uganda greater success in their work for peace, stability and prosperity of the country.
Book on WPK published in Italy
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The organization of Italian dialectical materialist atheists published book "On the Occasion of the 57th Founding Anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea" on October 1.
The book says that President Kim Il Sung founded the Workers' Party of Korea and General Secretary Kim Jong Il has developed the WPK into an invincible iron-willed party.
The Korean people call the WPK a mother party and Kim Jong Il is glorifying the WPK as the party of Kim Il Sung, stresses the book.
The book was distributed among political parties, organizations and public figures of Italy.
Society for study of DPRK inaugurated in Russia
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- An inaugural ceremony of the society for the study of the DPRK was held at Asia-Africa College under Moscow National University of Russia on September 28.
Present at the ceremony were teachers and students of the college.
Addressing the ceremony, Pavel Leshakov, assistant professor at the college, said that world attention is focusing on the DPRK and its international prestige is remarkably increasing. Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean people have made great achievements in building a powerful socialist nation by applying the Juche idea, he stressed.
He expressed belief that the society would help students learn much more from the Juche idea, politics, economy and culture of the DPRK.
Chairman and vice-chairman of the society were elected at the ceremony.
A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the ceremony.
Most reasonable solution to issue of Korean reunification
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo (DFRK) set forth by President Kim Il Sung in his report to the 6th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on October 10, Juche 69 (1980) is the most fair and realistic proposal for national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a by-lined article.
It goes on:
This proposal enabled the Korean nation to dynamically push ahead with the movement for national reunification with a clear goal and opened a bright prospect of the country's reunification.
The proposal is aimed to establish a federal republic through the establishment of a unified national government under which the north and the south exercise regional autonomy on condition that they tolerate each other's ideas and social systems.
This is the only proposal for reunification acceptable to anyone and in full line with the common interests of the nation.
It was one more immortal feat performed by the president in the history of the movement for national reunification that he put forward the proposal for reunification in conformity with the desire, will and interests of the Korean nation, opening a bright prospect of accomplishing the cause of reunification.
By setting forth this proposal for founding a unified state by federal formula he clarified the whole picture of this state.
As leader Kim Jong Il is steering the cause of reunification to victory under the uplifted banner of national independence, the president's last instructions for national reunification will surely be materialized.
Production processes computerized
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Computers and it have been introduced in production and management in electricity, metal, machinery and other economic sectors of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. As a result, the production and economic performance have been put on a scientific basis and profits increased in economic management.
The Suphung Power Station, one of the country's main electricity producers, has established an electricity production monitoring system and the electricity amount predicting system to keep the power production going on a high level and operate the generating equipment on the basis of predicted daily change of water level.
This year the power station has produced 20 million more Kwh than the corresponding period of last year.
The Chongjin steel works has completed the system of intensively monitoring and separately operating the ball ore production processes to put the material combination and supply and the production on a scientific basis and boost the ball ore output.
The Sungri Motor Complex has computerized the moulding and foundry processes and the Munphyong and Phyongbuk smelteries refineries have also introduced computers in main production processes and developed scores of effective software to raise the zinc smelting rate.
Garment factories under the ministry of light industry have developed dress-designing and automatic embroidery programs to make real profits in economic management.
The computerization of production processes and economic management has also been accelerated by the Tanchon Magnesia Factory, Ponghwa Chemical Factory, Sunchon Pharmaceutical Factory, Kanggye Youth Power Station and many other industrial establishments.
WPK, guide of Korean people
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- October 10 is the 57th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
The WPK was founded in 1945 on the basis of the Down-With-Imperialism Union, which was founded by President Kim Il Sung in Juche 15 (1926). Over the past 57 years the WPK has successfully led the revolution and construction without any mistake or deviation in shaping policies.
After the country's liberation in 1945, the WPK set up the Juche-oriented people's government on the basis of the experience gained in building power organs during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. In reliance on the government based on the worker-peasant alliance and dependent on the united front of the popular masses, it has successfully discharged its historic mission of realizing the independence of the popular masses in the long period of the Korean revolution.
The WPK enforced the agrarian reform, nationalization of major industries and other democratic reforms and successfully completed the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolutionary tasks in a short span of time following its foundation.
When the Korean revolution entered a new stage of its development in 1955, the WPK set forth the line to accelerate socialist revolution in real earnest and encouraged the people to turn out in the struggle for its implementation.
With the agricultural cooperativization and the socialist transformation of the old production relations (private businesses) successfully carried out within 4 or 5 years, the advantageous socialist system was established on this land and the popular masses were liberated from the exploitation and oppression once and for all.
The WPK defined the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, as main tasks of revolution to be fulfilled in the socialist society and provided a firm guarantee for moving up the complete victory of socialism by pushing ahead with the revolutions.
In recent years, it, under Kim Jong Il's army-based revolutionary leadership, has smashed the enemies' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and overcome severe economic difficulties, defending the sovereignty and dignity of the country and fully demonstrating the might of ideological and military power.
The Korean people entrust their future and destiny fully to the WPK, the banner of all victory and glory.
Normalization of DPRK-Japan relations called for
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- It is the pressing demand of the times and the common desire of the two peoples to normalize the DPRK-Japan relations and develop the good-neighborly relations between the two countries, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
The article goes on:
It is the wish of the Korean people to see the DPRK and Japan to be on good terms as near and close countries, not near yet distant countries and this is also the hope of the Japanese people.
If the two countries fail to end the hostile ties and remain in the abnormal relationship, it is only their people who will suffer from this.
The termination of the abnormal relations and the establishment of new good-neighborly relations between the two countries are in line not only with the interests of the peoples of the DPRK and Japan but with the desire of the people in the rest of the world in the 21st century.
The DPRK has developed the friendly relations with different countries advocating independence, pursuant to its foreign policy whose idea is independence, peace and friendship, and consistently maintained the stand to have and develop the good-neighborly relations with the capitalist countries that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK.
Even those countries, which had kept the DPRK at arm's length and had been hostile to it, are opting to improve the relations with it.
It is natural and positive for the DPRK and Japan to swim with the trend of the times.
The DPRK-Japan Pyongyang declaration serves as a legal framework and key to warm the relations between the two countries. If the two countries remain true to the spirit and agreed points of the declaration, a radical change will take place and a new page will be recorded in the history of the relations between the DPRK and Japan.
Credentials to Kim Yong Nam from Chilean Ambassador
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, received credentials from Benny Pollach, new Chilean Ambassador to the DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall today.
Present there was Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of foreign affairs.
After receiving the credentials, the president had a talk with the ambassador.
Paek Nam Sun meets Chilean Ambassador
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Foreign minister Paek Nam Sun today met and conversed with Benny Pollach, new Chilean Ambassador to the DPRK, who paid a courtesy call on him today.
Kim Jong Il gives field guidance to Taehongdan county
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to Taehongdan county on Tuesday.
He went round the monument to the victorious battle in Musan area newly erected in Sinsadong of Taehongdan.
Looking round the statue of President Kim Il Sung and group sculptures of anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, he noted with great satisfaction that the grand monument of eternal value has been depicted successfully.
The president was a peerlessly great man who achieved the historic liberation of the country through a long journey of bloody battles for the freedom and liberation of the people, he said. The president's glorious revolutionary feats will shine forever with the homeland to eternally prosper.
Then he visited the Hongam farm of Taehongdan county where he acquainted himself in detail with the potato farming.
If efforts are concentrated on the potato farming and a scientific farming method is introduced as what has been done in the county, it will be possible to increase the potato yield several times at once, he noted. All the units should pay deep attention to the potato farming of Taehongdan style whose advantages have been proved in practice.
He went round the seed potato store, the farm implement store, the youth school and a room for disseminating agricultural science and technology of workteam no. 2 of the Changphyong farm of Taehongdan county.
He said that the potato farming should be put on a scientific basis in order to steadily increase the potato yield as is the case with all crops.
Going round various research rooms of the potato institute of the county, he got familiar in detail with the researches into potato cultivation.
He said that what is most important for raising the potato yield is to bring about a radical turn in seed selection.
He was accompanied by officers of WPK and the Korean People's Army.
Kim Jong Il inspects Mubong workers' district
Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il on Tuesday gave field guidance to Mubong workers' district, Samjiyon county.
The appearance of the district has undergone a complete change thanks to the devoted labour of the members of the north Hamgyong provincial unit of the party propaganda workers shock brigade in recent years.
Going round the newly built kindergarten, he noted with great satisfaction that it has been built qualitatively and equipped with modern educational facilities.
He visited the new houses to which the families of workers Jang Myong Ju and Nam Chun Ho have moved.
He learned about the profession, work and life of the masters of the houses, ages and school years of their children and all other details with paternal care and showed deep solicitude for them.
He gave field guidance to the newly-built Mubong Middle School.
After getting familiar with the construction of the school, he visited the third-year class of the middle course having a lesson in history.
He met with teachers and set forth highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines in teaching and education, saying that the teachers should train all the pupils to be reserves of the Korean revolution with ample knowledge, high morality and strong body with high pride and sense of responsibility that they are revolutionaries in charge of important educational work on which hinge the rise and fall of the country.
He was accompanied by officers of the WPK and the Korean People's Army.