Kim Jong Il sends wreath to bier of woman writer
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Thursday sent a wreath to the bier of Sin Jin Sun, alternate member of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-chairperson of the C.C., the General Federation of the Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, expressing deep condolences over her death.
A gifted writer and a woman social activist, Sin Jin Sun died of cerebral infarction at the age of 85 on October 30, Juche 91 (2002).
The WPK Central Committee issued an obituary of Sin Jin Sun.
U.S. espionage flights in October
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist warhawks made over 200 espionage flights against the DPRK in October, according to military sources.
Mobilized for the espionage were strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes of different missions including U-2, RC-135, E-3 and RC-12.
These planes took off U.S. air force bases in South Korea, Japan and other areas overseas and made shuttle flights in the sky over the area along the military demarcation line to spy on the forefrontal areas of the DPRK and its depth.
The cases of espionage by U-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane, RC-135 strategic reconnaissance plane and E-3 commanding plane numbered over 30.
20 more U.S. espionage flights were committed in October than September.
They were timed to coincide with the military moves escalated by the U.S. administration to stifle the DPRK by force of arms under the pretext of a "nuclear issue".
Defending army-based policy called for
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- South Korean ultra-right conservatives and some hack papers such as Chosun Ilbo are getting more zealous in their anti-reunification actions, taking advantage of the U.S. hostile policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK and stop the process of Korea's reunification.
They echoed the outcries made by the U.S. calling on the DPRK to scrap its "nuclear weapons program" under the pretext of the DPRK's nuclear issue, thus glaringly revealing their sycophantic and traitorous aim to stifle compatriots in cooperation with outside forces.
Such behavior can never be tolerated as it is little short of calling on the DPRK to drop its arms and submit to the U.S.
The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula raised by the U.S. and its followers is a product of the constant threats the U.S. has posed to the DPRK for nearly half a century by pursuing a hostile policy toward it according to its strategy for world domination after massively deploying nuclear weapons in South Korea and in its vicinity.
This reckless nuclear threat is most seriously jeopardizing the Korean nation's sovereignty and right to existence and creating such a grave situation on the Korean peninsula where a nuclear war may break out any moment.
If the U.S. and anti-reunification elements in South Korea continue to pursue the hostile policy toward the DPRK, a nuclear war will become a reality on the Korean Peninsula and then the Korean nation is bound to be exterminated.
However, ultra-right conservatives of South Korea are calling for cooperation with outside forces and repeating the U.S. assertion that Pyongyang should dismantle its "nuclear weapons program first" in a bid to attain their sinister political goal to win the presidential election. We can not but brand them as a group of traitors who are utterly indifferent to the nation's destiny.
The obtaining situation urges the Korean nation to hold higher the banner of army-based policy so as to defend the dignity, security and the interests of the nation.
Only by upholding the army-based policy can the country and the nation carve out their destiny, defend them and ensure the co-existence, common prosperity and the common interests of the north and south of Korea.
How to approach the army-based policy is a touchstone which distinguishes patriotism from treachery.
Under the present situation where the north and south of Korea are exposed to a serious threat from the U.S. all the Koreans who are truly concerned about the destiny of the nation are called upon to support the patriotic army-based policy as it guarantees peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.
Meeting of active secretaries of KPA company youth league primary org.s
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting of active secretaries of primary organizations of the youth league of the companies of the Korean People's Army was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Oct. 30 and 31.
The meeting reviewed the achievements and experience gained in the work to strengthen the primary organizations of the youth league of the companies over the last decade since the meeting of the chairmen of primary organizations of the League of Socialist Working Youth of the companies of the KPA and discussed the measures to improve and strengthen the youth work of the KPA to meet the requirements of the era of the army-based policy.
"On improving and strengthening the youth work of the people's army to meet the requirements of the era of the army-based policy", a letter sent by supreme commander Kim Jong Il to the participants in the meeting, was conveyed by Jo Myong Rok, director of the general political department of the KPA, at the meeting.
In the letter Kim Jong Il clarified from a new angle the essence of the Juche-based youth movement of the army and the position and role of the young soldiers and comprehensively indicated the tasks and ways of improving and strengthening the youth work of the KPA to meet the requirements of the era of the army-based policy.
The letter called upon the youth league organizations to successfully train all the young soldiers as human bombs devotedly defending the headquarters of the Korean revolution at the head of the people, young heroes and heroines in the era of the army-based policy.
The historic letter serves as a great programme of the youth movement of the army that would be guidelines in more firmly building up the youth league organizations of the KPA to be the young vanguard remaining intensely loyal to the Workers' Party of Korea and the leader. It also serves as an immortal militant banner encouraging the young soldiers to glorify their youth together with rifles, deeply conscious of the mission they have assumed before the times as a main force in the era of the army-based policy.
O Song Il, first secretary of the KPA Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, made a report at the meeting, which was followed by speeches.
The reporter and speakers referred to the tasks facing the youth league organizations and officials in charge of the youth work in the KPA to more thoroughly carry out the idea and policies of the party on the youth movement as required by the era of the army-based policy, deeply conscious of the noble mission they have assumed for the party and the revolution.
NDFSK accuses U.S. of its nuclear racket
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) released a statement on Wednesday as regards the unilateral and arrogant attitude taken by the United States over the nuclear issue.
The Bush administration has so far pulled up the DPRK, asserting that it breached the 1994 Geneva Agreement. Not content with this, it is escalating its pressure upon the DPRK, impertinently claiming that dialogue will be possible only after the latter's scrapping of its nuclear weapons program, the statement noted, and said:
The United States is hellbent on the nuclear racket against the north of Korea, misleading public opinion. Such moves are intended to shift the blame for the breach of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework on to the DPRK. Through this the U.S. seeks to hold in check the favourably developing inter-Korean relations and DPRK-Japan relations, break the framework of stability, friendship and cooperation in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia and, furthermore, find a pretext to justify its possible nuclear war against the DPRK.
A solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula at present is to conclude a non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S., as proposed by the former.
The conclusion of the treaty, not such argument about "dialogue after the scrapping of the nuclear program", is the best choice and way for improving the DPRK-U.S. relations and solving the problem of the Korean Peninsula.
The U.S. should stop its reckless nuclear racket against the DPRK at once and accept the latter's proposal for the conclusion of the treaty immediately and unconditionally.
Ri Hoe Chang, a pro-U.S. flunkeyist traitor chiming in with Bush's brigandish anti-DPRK nuclear smear campaign, should not act rashly but quit the political arena.
The NDFSK and patriotic people in South Korea will wage a more vigorous and nationwide anti-U.S. struggle to smash the U.S. moves for stifling the DPRK and establish sovereignty throughout Korea. If the U.S. unleashes a war against the north at last, they, together with the brothers and sisters in the north, will drive out the aggressors and achieve the historic cause of national liberation.
Reception given by DPRK government to mark Cambodian king's birthday
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday gave a reception to mark the 80th birthday of Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk.
Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, addressing the reception, said that the king is a national hero of the Cambodian people and an ardent patriot who has devoted all his life to the defence of the independence and sovereignty of Cambodia and the national reconciliation and unity of the Khmer nation.
He said the friendly relations between the two countries have steadily grown in scope and strength. He vowed to work hard to boost the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung and the noble intention of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
He hoped that the government and people of Cambodia, true to the lofty intention of the king, would register greater success in the efforts to build new Cambodia, independent, peaceful and prosperous.
Cambodian charge d' affaires to the DPRK Kim San In his reply said that the close friendly relations between the two countries were provided by the president and the king, which have grown stronger under the care of Kim Jong Il.
The Cambodian people warmly hail the historic and signal events taking place in Korea, he said, adding: We will as ever fully support the efforts of the Korean people for the nation's prosperity, the defence of the country and national reunification under the banner of the Juche idea which was founded by the president and is being developed and enriched by Kim Jong Il.
He said the Cambodian people would always remember the DPRK's continued material and moral support for them. He reiterated deep thanks for this.
Kim Jong Il sends many autographs
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- More than 10 years have passed since Kim Jong Il sent an autographic letter to party members of the Second Cell of Department No. 5 of the Korean Central News Agency on November 1, Juche 79 (1990).
At the beginning of the 1990s they presented him with a letter reflecting their will to hold aloft the red flag under the leadership of him who was safeguarding the destiny of socialism and the happiness of the people in face of grave difficulties lying in the way of the Korean revolution.
Kim Jong Il read their letter carrying the pledge of faith to believe in the Workers' Party of Korea and follow it to the last, come what may, and trusted and honored them by sending them his autographic letter, calling them his comrades.
He has since then read letters from the first generation of the revolution, kindergartners, servicepersons, workers, farmers, intellectuals, school youth and children, officials and people of other social standings before sending his autographs to them.
These autographs make people keenly feel that the leader, endowed with loving care and trust in people, is a great comrade and father who shares will and heart with them and makes sure that the whole country forms a harmonious whole.
Preservation of patriotic traditions of anti-Japanese war called for
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls for preserving and glorifying the patriotic traditions of the anti-Japanese war established by President Kim Il Sung.
The patriotic traditions represent traditions of Juche with which the Korean people shape the destiny of the country and the nation their own way on their own efforts, the traditions of the struggle for independence against imperialism with which they fight with arms against the imperialists who try to trample down the sovereignty of the nation, in a do-or-die spirit and traditions which combine the love of the country with the love for the people and the nation, the editorial says, and goes on:
The traditions prove very instrumental in winning one victory after another in an acute confrontation with the imperialists as well as in the building of a powerful socialist nation.
It is the fixed faith and will of Kim Jong Il to preserve and glorify them century after century.
To remain loyal to his army-based leadership provides a sure guarantee for preserving and glorifying them. To remain true to the army-based policy is a full manifestation of patriotism.
The patriotic traditions of the glorious anti-Japanese war established by the president making a long journey of the bloody anti-Japanese war will shine long thanks to the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il.
New electronic dictionary
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The Central Scientific and Technological Information Agency of the DPRK has made a new multilingual dictionary of science and technology.
The computer dictionary helps one read scientific and technical information in Korean, English, German, French, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
It contains more than three million vocabularies of 18 scientific and technical sectors ranging from such fundamental science as mathematics, physics and chemistry to such applied science as electronics, electric engineering, information and mechanical engineering.
It also includes a large number of modern scientific and technical vocabularies.
The dictionary is popular among scientists as it is very convenient for use.
Tanchon Magnesia Factory
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The Tanchon Magnesia Factory in Tanchon city, South Hamgyong Province, has boosted the production by updating the production facilities.
It has recently reconditioned major facilities for mixing cokes and heavy oil for calcination and 20 odd kilns and introduced a method of gradational charge.
The factory, one of the country's leading magnesia clinker producers, exports large quantities of high-grade magnesia clinkers to other countries every year. Its products are popular in foreign markets.
It has concentrated on enhancing the capacity of kilns and establishing the direct raw-material-transporting system.
It reshaped the old shaft kilns into a several dozen cubic metres kilns and built the may 25 workshop, august 23 workshop and 110-m rotary kiln workshop.
In recent years it has built a pressurized shaft kiln and production facilities related with it.
The factory covering some 1,733,000 square metres, has scores of workshops including the magnesia clinker, light-burnt magnesia and light-burnt magnesia fertilizer workshops, supply base and cultural and welfare establishments.
It also has an institute of refractory materials and a college of technology.
U.S. urged to accept DPRK's offer
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The United States should not insist on its absurd assertion but honestly accept the just proposal of the DPRK for the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty between the two countries, urges Rodong Sinmun Friday in a signed commentary.
How the U.S. approaches the DPRK's proposal is a touchstone that shows whether it has a will to guarantee peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and find a solution to the nuclear issue or not, the commentary notes, and continues:
The situation on the peninsula is leading to an unpredictable serious phase.
The Korean Peninsula is recognized as the world's biggest hotspot.
The U.S. has rounded off all preparations for a surprise preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK by staging without let-up such dangerous nuclear war exercises as the joint military exercise "Team Spirit", a preliminary nuclear war and a test nuclear war.
The U.S. is spreading misinformation that the DPRK is breaching the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF). But it is not the DPRK but the U.S. which has violated the AF.
All facts go to prove that concluding a non-aggression treaty is the best way and a master key to bridging over the present situation.
There is no reason for the U.S. not to conclude the treaty if it has no will to attack the DPRK.
Congratulations to President-elect of Brazil
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a congratulatory message to Luiz Anacio Lula Da Silva on Oct. 28 on his election as President of Brazil.
He in the message sincerely wished the president success in his work for social justice and progress, believing that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries would develop on good terms on a new stage.
Talks between DPRK and Russian railway ministers
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- Talks between Kim Yong Sam, Minister of Railways of the DPRK, and Gennadi Fadeyev, Minister of Railway Transport of Russia, were held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Friday.
At the talks both sides exchanged views on linking railways between the two countries.
The talks proceeded in a friendly atmosphere.
Present at the talks were Kim Ryong Gang, vice-Minister of Railways, and other officials concerned and the Russian Minister's Party including vice-Minister of Railway Transport Vladimir Sazonov.