Kim Jong Il sees performance given by air force command ensemble
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il Wednesday saw a performance given by the ensemble of the KPA air force command.
Put on the stage were chorus "General is Son of Guerrillas," song accompanied by five accordions "Song of Airman," dance "We are Women's Flying Corps of General," solo accompanied by Pangchang "Army-People Arirang," poem recitation and chorus "Song of Comradeship" and other colorful numbers.
Through its performance, the ensemble successfully represented the invincible might of the KPA and the firm faith and will of its soldiers to devotedly defend the headquarters of revolution and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms.
Greatly satisfied with the splendid performance given by the ensemble as artistes of the revolutionary army, Kim Jong Il highly praised its successes made in its dynamic revolutionary and militant art activities instilling into servicemen faith in sure victory, optimism and fighting spirit and valor to wipe out the enemy.
Underlining the great importance of the art propaganda activities very instrumental in the ideological education of soldiers, he set forth important tasks that would serve as guidelines in raising the role of the ensemble.
Also enjoying the performance were secretaries Jong Ha Chol, Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam, and first vice department directors Ri Yong Chol, Jang Song Thaek and Choe Chun Hwang of the WPK Central Committee and KPA generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and KPA servicepersons.
Kim Jong Il gives field guidance to units
pyongyang, october 17 (kcna) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Wednesday visited the Anbyon Youth Power Station no. 2 and the fish farm managed by Pak In Chol.
He first inspected the newly-built Anbyon Youth Power Station no.2.
He noted with great satisfaction that this station, which produces a lot of electricity by using the water flowing down from the Anbyon Youth Power Station, has been built most qualitatively by people in Kangwon Province under a rational design.
Determined to build a powerful nation at an early date, young builders and other working people in the province have finished the construction of such a big modern power station by themselves in the revolutionary spirit of fortitude and self-reliance, he said, adding: this is a world-startling great edifice in the new century when a history of fresh changes is created. He highly estimated their feats.
He urged the province to concentrate efforts on the construction of the Wonsan Power Station now under way so as to finish it in the shortest possible time, and took detailed measures for this.
Then, he went to the fish farm managed by Pak In Chol.
Going round terraced fish breeding ponds which depend on water flowing down from a deep mountain valley, he acquainted himself in detail with the expansion project of the farm and its fish breeding conditions.
He said that President Kim Il Sung's wish in his lifetime to supply more fish to the people can be realized in the near future if all the sectors and units continue directing big efforts to pisciculture. And he advanced tasks that would serve as guidelines in conducting a vigorous mass drive for pisciculture.
Accompanying him were officers of CC of WPK and government.
Protest rally held in S. Korea
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- The all-people measure committee for Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, schoolgirls, killed by U.S. armored car reportedly held a rally on Oct. 9 to protest against the crooked investigation into GIs' violence upon an ex-assemblyman and the crackdown upon the committee.
The ralliers expressed anger at the fact that bowing to the U.S. Forces' pressure, the police issued warrants of arrest and summons against members of the committee and even walked away a guiltless student.
They urged a halt to the wrong investigation into the violence upon an "ex-assemblyman" and the crackdown upon members of the committee, the release of student song tae won and the punishment of GI killers.
Ugandan President supports Korean reunification
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- I hope for earlier reunification of Korea, said Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni when meeting with DPRK Ambassador to his country Kim Pong Gi on Oct. 10.
In his lifetime President Kim Il Sung gave assistance to Uganda on many occasions and Kim Jong Il has paid deep attention to the development of friendly relations between the two countries, Museveni noted, expressing profound gratitude for it.
Saying that Uganda values the friendly and cooperative relations with the DPRK, he affirmed his will to strive to expand the economic and technological cooperation between the two countries on the principle of South-South Cooperation.
Inter-Korean women's rally for reunification opens
Kosong, October 16 (KCNA) -- A rally of women from the north and the south for the implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and peace was opened at Mt. Kumgang resort on Wednesday.
It was the first of its kind since the division of the nation.
Present at the rally were delegates of the Korean Democratic Women's Union and the Korean Women's Association and delegates of women of other organizations and various domains and women from all walks of life in the north.
The rally was attended by delegates of the South Korean Council of Women's Organizations, the South Korean Federation of Women's Organizations, the Women's Society for Peace and the Anti-U.S. Women's Society, Women's Organizations of the Reunification Solidarity for the Implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and Peace on the Korean Peninsula, the People's Council for National Reconciliation and Cooperation and seven orders.
Among the attendants were Korean women delegates from Japan, China, Australia and other countries and regions.
Many members of visiting groups of the south side were present there as observers.
Introduced at the opening ceremony were messages of greetings and silk banners sent to the rally by different organizations in the north and the south and overseas.
Delegates from the north and the south and abroad in their congratulatory speeches called on all the Koreans to join in the grand march for reconciliation, unity and reunification of the nation, bearing in mind the great proposition of the June 15 joint declaration "by our nation itself."
A seminar of women for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and peace took place at the end of the opening ceremony.
Speakers at the seminar called upon all the women at home and abroad to unite as one and advance together under the banner of the joint declaration, transcending the difference in the political views, religious beliefs and isms.
The joint declaration is a peace declaration reflecting the desire of the nation who want to live in peace free from war, they noted, calling on all the Korean women at home and abroad to turn out as one in the grand march for defending peace from war, prompted by their awareness that mothers devote themselves to the future of their sons and daughters and by the patriotic spirit.
An embroidery and art exhibition was held as part of the rally.
Women delegates from the north and the south and abroad had amusement games.
A reception was given in honor of the participants in the rally in the evening.
The rally goes on.
Senior Chinese officials meet DPRK delegation
Beijing, October 16 (KCNA) -- Li Peng, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, met and had a friendly talk with the visiting delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea led by Yang Hyong Sop, vice-President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, at the Great Hall of the People Wednesday.
Warmly welcoming the delegation's visit to China, Li Peng said that the Chinese party and government greatly set store by the friendly and cooperative relations between China and the DPRK.
He expressed belief that the Korean people, under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, would achieve greater success in the economic construction, the inter-Korean relations and foreign relations.
On the same day, vice-president of the PRC Hu Jintao also met and had a friendly talk with the delegation.
The vice-president stressed that the two visits paid by Kim Jong Il to China in recent years and Jiang Zemin's Korea visit deepened the understanding and trust between the two countries and gave a strong impetus to boosting the bilateral cooperation.
Noting that developing the Sino-DPRK friendly and cooperative relations is in favour of the security and progress in the two countries and peace on the Korean Peninsula and in the basic interests of the two peoples, Hu said that the Chinese party and government have maintained the unshakable stand to strengthen and develop the Sino-DPRK friendly and cooperative relations.
Congratulating the Korean people on their fresh achievements made in the economic construction, the cause of peaceful reunification and the diplomatic field, he expressed belief that under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the Workers' Party of Korea the Korean people would achieve fresh success in the building of a powerful socialist nation.
Vice-president Yang Hyong Sop met and had a friendly talk with Dai Bingguo, head of the international liaison department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, who paid a courtesy call on him on the same day.
KCNA calls for pooling nation's efforts
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- The desire for inter-Korean exchange, cooperation, unity and reunification is running higher than ever before on the Korean Peninsula.
This was clearly manifested in the 14th Asian Games in Pusan shortly ago.
It was by no means fortuitous that the South Korean media vied with each other to give a wide coverage to the scenes showing national unity, saying that "Pusan Asian Games offer a good opportunity to restore the homogeneity of the nation," "cheering groups of the south and the north are united as one" and "spirit of one nation has been displayed."
When players of the north and the south jointly entered the stadium in the same uniforms with a large Korean Peninsula flag in their van, the people from all walks of life from the north and the south and abroad warmly welcomed the praiseworthy sons and daughters of the nation with compatriotic feelings.
Their touching and enthusiastic cheers during every match clearly proved that the nation stands above ideology and system and the blood of the Korean nation, which boasts of a long history spanning 5,000 years, is thicker than water.
It is an unshakable stand and will of the Korean nation to relink the severed blood ties of the nation and demonstrate the dignity and might of the nation with one history, one culture and one language in a reunified land.
That is why the Korean people in the north and the south and abroad have exerted incessant efforts to open the door of reunification by their concerted efforts for the last several decades since the country was divided by foreign forces.
Visits of politicians, men of culture and sportspersons and reunions of separated families and relatives took place recently between the north and the south in the wake of multi-faceted inter-Korean negotiations and ground-breaking ceremonies were held to reconnect the eastern and western coastal railway and road links. These are a shining fruition of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and a product of the Korean people's desire and efforts to preserve the blood ties of the nation in a reunified country.
The reality goes to prove that it is more urgent and vital than ever before for the Korean nation to pool its will, wisdom and strength.
The 70 million Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should demonstrate the homogeneity and advantages of the nation, deeply aware of the true meaning of the great proposition "by our nation itself" and achieve greater success in the efforts to accomplish the cause of reunification.
Down-With-Imperialism Union
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- The Down-With- Imperialism Union (DIU) is the historical root of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Resolved to organize a vanguard of the revolution to wage the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle with a proper platform, depending on the popular masses, President Kim Il Sung formed the DIU in Huadian on October 17, Juche 15 (1926).
The formation of the DIU, a new-type revolutionary organization, opened up a new era in which the Korean revolution could advance on the principle of independence, separated from those infected with flunkeyism and dogmatism.
Under the wise leadership of the president the DIU conducted positive activities to bring up many workers, peasants, youth and students as revolutionaries of the new generation. It also made a great contribution to laying mass foundation of the revolution and developing the Korean revolution as a whole.
It was recast as the anti-imperialist youth league in August 1927 as required by the developing revolution. Later, the Young Communist League of Korea (YCLK) was formed with the elite of the DIU.
The society for rallying comrades, the first party organization and the origin of the Workers' Party of Korea, was inaugurated in Kalun in early July 1930 with revolutionaries trained in the YCLK.
The first party organization inherited the program and rules of the DIU without any modifications.
The revolutionaries of the new generation brought up by the DIU were active as the backbone in the WPK foundation and the program and the principles of independence set forth by the DIU served as the basic program of the WPK and its principles of party building and its activities.